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5/2/2012--Introduced.Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013 - Makes appropriations for FY2013 for the Departments of Commerce and Justice (DOJ), science-related programs, and related agencies. Department of Commerce Appropriations Act, 2013 - Makes appropriations for 2013 for the Department of Commerce for various agencies and programs, including transfers of funds. Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2013 - Makes appropriations for FY2013 for DOJ for various agencies and programs, including transfers of funds. Makes appropriations for FY2013 for: (1) the Office of Science and Technology Policy; (2) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), including for the Office of Inspector General; and (3) the National Science Foundation (NSF), including for the Office of the National Science Board and the Office of Inspector General. Makes appropriations for FY2013 for: (1) the Commission on Civil Rights, (2) the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), (3) the International Trade Commission (ITC), (4) the Legal Services Corporation, (5) the Marine Mammal Commission, (6) the Office of the United States Trade Representative, and (7) the State Justice Institute. Specifies certain uses and limits on or prohibitions against the use of funds appropriated by this Act. Rescinds certain unobligated balances.

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9/8/2011--Reported to House amended. Securing American Jobs Through Exports Act of 2011 - (Sec. 3) Amends the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to extend the termination of functions date for the Bank to September 30, 2015. (Sec. 4) Sets forth limitations on outstanding loans, guarantees, and insurance for: (1) FY2012, (2) FY2013, and (3) FY2014 and subsequent years. (Sec. 5) Requires the Bank to establish, and review as appropriate, financing guidelines to ensure that the Bank enables U.S. companies to contribute to a stronger national economy by maintaining or increasing the employment of U.S. workers through the export of goods and services. (Sec. 6) Requires the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to conduct a study and report to Congress regarding the methodology used by the Bank to calculate the effects of its financing on the creation and maintenance of employment in the United States, if there is more accurate methodology to calculate such effects, and if so, make recommendations concerning such a more accurate methodology. (Sec. 7) Requires GAO to perform biennial audits of bank transactions. (Sec. 8) Authorizes the Bank to use a specified amount of its surplus each fiscal year for information technology system updates. Limits the aggregate amount for such activities for all fiscal years to $20 million. (Sec. 9) Requires the Bank to: (1) monitor default rates at least quarterly, and (2) report to Congress if the total default rate equals or exceeds 2%. (Sec. 10) Expresses the sense of Congress that the Bank should establish an independent mechanism to investigate and report on allegations by affected parties of the Bank's failure to follow its own policies and procedures. (Sec. 11) Extends through September 30, 2015: (1) the termination date of the Sub-Saharan Africa advisory committee, and (2) Bank authority to provide financing for the export of nonlethal defense articles and defense services whose primary end use is for civilian purposes. (Sec. 13) Revises the list of Marxist-Leninist countries ineligible for Bank assistance. (Sec. 14) Requires the Bank to examine its current products, programs, and policies and report to Congress on whether the Bank adequately meets the needs of small business exporters. (Sec. 15) Requires the Bank to categorize in its annual report each loan and long-term guarantee according to specified purposes. (Sec. 16) Requires the Bank, before final consideration by the Board of Directors of a transaction exceeding $75 million, to publish specified information on its website that neither discloses confidential or proprietary business information nor jeopardizes U.S. jobs by supplying information which could be used to compete with U.S. companies. (Sec. 17) Provides for textile industry representation on the Bank Advisory Committee. Directs the Committee to consider ways to promote textile industry financing and determine ways to support: (1) U.S exports of textile components or inputs, and (2) the promotion of U.S. jobs that are critical to textile component and input manufacture. (Sec. 18) Requires the Bank to conduct a study of the extent to which Bank products are available and used by U.S. manufacturers that export U.S.-manufactured goods used as components in global textile and apparel supply chains. (Sec. 19) Prohibits Bank financing for persons that engage in certain sanctionable activities with respect to Iran.

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12/16/2011--Introduced.Next Generation Television Marketplace Act of 2011 - Repeals provisions of the Communications Act of 1934 concerning: (1) the carriage of distant television stations and significantly viewed signals by satellite carriers, (2) the retransmittal of television signals to eligible state counties in the designated market area of another state by cable operators or satellite carriers, (3) the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) qualified carrier certification process, (4) the designation of cable channels for commercial video programming use, (5) the carriage of local commercial television signals and qualified low power stations by cable operators, (6) the FCC's authority to adopt syndicated exclusivity rules for private home viewing of secondary transmissions by satellite of broadcast station signals, and (7) the requirement that cable systems or other multichannel video programming distributors obtain consent to retransmit a broadcasting station signal. Repeals and revises provisions concerning: (1) the carriage of local television signals by satellite carriers, and (2) the regulation of rates and broadcast signal carriage. Makes several existing requirements concerning the carriage of local television broadcast stations applicable only to qualified noncommercial educational television stations. Repeals federal copyright laws requiring statutory licenses for certain secondary transmissions of distant and local television programming by satellite carriers. Extends exemptions from copyright infringement laws to certain secondary transmissions by cable systems and satellite carriers. Repeals provisions concerning cable system: (1) nonsimultaneous transmission infringement, and (2) statutory licenses for secondary transmissions. Directs the FCC to repeal related FCC rules and eliminate: (1) restrictions on the number of broadcast television stations that a person or entity may own, operate, or control in the same designated market area under the local television multiple ownership rule; (2) the radio-television cross-ownership rule; and (3) limitations on the direct or indirect ownership, operation, or control of a broadcast television station by a person or entity that owns, operates, or controls a daily newspaper under the daily newspaper cross-ownership rule. Requires that this Act take effect on July 1, 2014, subject to the exception that contracts, understandings, and arrangements related to retransmission consent and the distribution of video programming entered into prior to its enactment be provided for under special transitional provisions.

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1/25/2011--Introduced.Patient Choice Restoration Act - Repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. Restores provisions of law amended by such Acts.

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12/16/2011--Introduced.Social Security Fairness Act of 2011 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to repeal: (1) government pension offset requirements applicable to husband's and wife's insurance benefits, widow's and widower's insurance benefits, and mother's and father's insurance benefits with respect to OASDI payments; and (2) windfall elimination requirements with respect to computation of an individual's primary insurance amount.

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3/29/2012--Introduced.National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Defense (DOD) for FY2013 for: (1) procurement, including for aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, and shipbuilding and conversion; (2) the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Fund; (3) purchases under the Defense Production Act of 1950; (4) research, development, test, and evaluation; (5) operation and maintenance; (6) military personnel; (7) Working Capital Funds; (8) the National Defense Sealift Fund; (9) the Joint Urgent Operational Needs Fund; (10) chemical agents and munitions destruction; (11) drug interdiction and counter-drug activities; (12) the Defense Inspector General; (13) the Defense Health Program; (14) the Armed Forces Retirement Home; and (15) overseas contingency operations. Sets forth provisions or requirements concerning: (1) military personnel policy, (2) education and training, (3) military pay and allowances, (4) military health care, (5) acquisition policy and management, and (6) DOD organization and management.

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1/25/2011--Introduced.Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay a specified sum to the Pottawatomi Nation in Canada in settlement and full satisfaction of certain claims. Excludes such payment from the provisions of the Indian Tribal Judgment Funds Use or Distribution Act.

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1/25/2011--Introduced.Military Family-Friendly Employer Award Act - Establishes in the Department of Defense (DOD) an annual award to be known as the Military Family-Friendly Employer Award (Award) for non-federal employers who have developed and implemented workplace flexibility policies and practices: (1) to assist the working spouses and caregivers of members of the Armed Forces who are deployed away from home, and to assist such members upon their return from deployment; and (2) that reflect a deep awareness and commitment in response to the needs of the military family unit. Establishes in DOD a Military Family-Friendly Special Task Force to provide specified assistance in the making of such Awards.

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1/25/2011--Introduced.Reform America's Schools to Educate the Leaders of the Future Act - Expresses the sense of the Senate that Congress should: (1) ensure that all students have equitable access to a high-quality, well-rounded education that prepares them for success; (2) fix No Child Left Behind's accountability system while continuing to focus on the success of all students; (3) provide states and school districts with the resources to turn around failing schools; (4) work with teachers to establish teacher quality assessments and supports; and (5) promote programs that encourage parental and community involvement, and youth development.

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