Requires the President to designate not less than three closed military installations or portions thereof that are appropriate for siting a refinery for gasoline or other fuel. Designates the Department of Energy as the lead agency for coordinating applicable federal refinery authorizations and related environmental reviews with respect to a de...

To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to establish a procedure for authorizing certain acquisitions of foreign intelligence, and for other purposes.

This bill includes emergency funding for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and allocates funding for pressing domestic issues. The domestic issues include an expansion of veterans' education benefits that can be transferred to spouses or children, as well as 13 weeks of unemployment insurance with the requirement that individuals must hav...

Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to: (1) increase the amount guaranteed to each state under the pre-disaster mitigation program; (2) require other financial assistance under the program to be awarded on a competitive basis; and (3) authorize appropriations for the program through FY2011.

5/22/2008--Introduced. Condemns post-election violence in Zimbabwe and calls for a peaceful resolution to the current political crisis.

Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), acting through the National Cancer Institute, to establish special programs of research excellence in the area of pediatric cancers. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop a grant mechanism for the establishment of R...

This bill challenges the United States to achieve 50 percent energy independence in ten years and 100 percent energy independence in 20 years.

Provisions of this bill include:

Double CAFE standards to 70 MPG while keeping vehicles affordable
- Cut home and business energy usage in half
- Make solar power work at the s...

Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act of 2008 - Allows federal employees to substitute any available paid leave for any leave without pay available for either the birth of a child or placement of a child with the employee for either adoption or foster care.

The bill provides four administrative weeks of paid parental leave in conne...

 - Authorizes appropriations for Amtrak for FY2009-FY2013. Authorizes Amtrak to contract for the operation of an intercity rail service or route not included in the national rail passenger transportation system.

Among the provisions of this bill are:

 a Northeast Corridor state-of-good-repair plan

authorization fo...

Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008 - Authorizes appropriations for Amtrak for FY2009-FY2013. Authorizes Amtrak to contract for the operation of an intercity rail service or route not included in the national rail passenger transportation system.

Provides for: (1) a Northeast Corridor state-of-good-repair plan; Auth...

A bill to amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to extend expiring provisions under the Medicare program, to improve beneficiary access to preventive and mental health services, to enhance low-income benefit programs, and to maintain access to care in rural areas, including pharmacy access, and for other purposes.

This bill extends unemployment benefits for an extra 13 weeks.  For recipients in states with an unemployment rate exceeding 6%, another 13 weeks would be added for a total of 26 weeks.