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House Bills
| Ratings | Number | Sponsor | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR392 | Jason Chaffetz (R-UT-3) & Kevin Yoder (RINO-KS-31) | "fairness" for cheap, young, pliant, easily intimidated low-skilled STEM foreign labor with flexible ethics wanting to convert from guest-worker to PLR/green card status, i.e. Unfairness to Highly-Skilled USA Citizens Act of 2018 |
| HR657 | Sean P. Duffy (R-WI-7) | prohibit actions against employees upholding constitutional law |
| HR670 | Zoe Lofgren (D-CA-19) | national green card limits; minimum pay requirement for cheap, young, pliant, low-skilled H-1B guest-workers with flexible ethics; impair background investigation of visa applicants; all H-1B applicants approved should be at least in DoL level 4 (top of 4); lacks effective operational skill level definition or test; until F (student) visa numbers are reduced by at least 75% of 2010 numbers, OPT should be suspended and when re-started with term of OPT internship/employment of 3 months or less; delete sections 9 & 10 |
| HR726 | Doug Lamborn of CO | de-fund NPR |
| HR727 | Doug Lamborn of CO | de-fund CPB |
| HR739 | Adriano Espaillat (D-NY-13) | unconstitutionally prohibit executive and DHS from faithfully defending USA states against invasion |
| HR858 | Luis J. Correa (D-CA-46) | encouraging criminality & illegal alien invasion |
| HR861 | Thomas Massie (R-KY-4) | eliminate EPA |
| HR899 | Thomas Massie (R-KY-4) | eliminate Department of Educationism |
 | HR1076 | Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY-9) | keep the crony socialist draining of tax-victim earnings and crony socialist subsidies to corrupt, oath-breaking officials who engage inlagrant mal-feasance and non-feasance and obstruction of justice to encourage invaders and visa violators who carry out additional initiations of force and fraud |
 | HR1164 | Doug Lamborn (R-CO-5) | Taylor Force act, end funding of PLO/Fatah... until they stop subsidizing terrorists and their families |
| HR1278 | Adriano Espaillat (D-NY-13) | "ghost guns" to violate the right to own and carry arms and discourage USA industry |
| HR1303 | Bill Pascrell ii (D-NJ-9) | mild reforms to H-1B & L-1 visa programs (missing is prohibition against displacement of USA worker through contract with bodyshop, should require DoL level 4 skills, should require print advertisement of positions at least 4" x 4" in at least 3 publications with at least 200K circulation based s at least 800 miles apart for at least 30 days) |
| HR1313 | Thomas Massie of KY | authorizes employers to require racist, eugenics...DNA testing under phony "wellness program" cover |
| HR1430 | Lamar Smith (R?-TX-21) | openness & honesty in research and regulation WRT EPA |
| HR1436 | Jim Jordan (R-OH-4) | repeal hateful odious unconstitutional national socialist ObummerDoesn'tCare |
| HR1485 | Elise M. Stefanik (R-NY-21) | expand unconstitutional Pell grants to students who take additional terms/semesters/quarters to get a credential |
| HR1510 | David Rouzer (R-NC-7) | phase out Dept. of Educationism |
| HR1705 | Derek Kilmer (D-WA-6) | prohibit knowledge-transfer requirement from USA citizen workers being dumped to cheap, young, pliant, low-skilled H-1B guest-workers and/or off-shore workers with flexible ethics |
| HR1878 | Nydia M. Velazquez (D-NY-7) | prohibit hiring freeze from loading up the unconstitutional SBA as a deep-state shelter for swamp-monsters |
 | HR2233 | Mo Brooks (R-AL-5) | H-1B, L, V visa reforms; green card lottery termination (a little too much legalese detail tweaking and weasely waivering and exempting; minimum pay for H-1B limits exemption still too low; no skill-level requirements) |
| HR2291 | Sean P. Duffy (R-WI-7) | expand unconstitutional national socialist Medicare |
| HR2431 | Raul Labrador (R-ID-1) | the "Michael Davis ii and Danny Oliver in honor of state and local law enforcement |
| HR2497 | Trent Franks (R-AZ-8) | end USA tax-victim subsidizing Palestinian terrorists |
| HR2520 | Marsha Blackburn (R-TN-7) | BROWSER: extremely weak on-line privacy options requirement |
| HR2563 | Al Lawson (D-FL-5) | unconstitutional SBA's entrepreneurial education (nice sentiment; improper funding) |
| HR2577 | Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ-9) | selling green cards for very small "investments" (baby EB-5), with no requirement to employ USA citizens, with little over-sight and huge incentives for abuse |
| HR2579 | Patrick J. Tiberi (RINO-OH-12) & Mitch McConnell (RINO-KY) | an unconstitutional socialist illfare abomination turned into a visa/immigration law perversion abomination in the senate |
| HR2581 | Lou Barletta (R-PA-11) | verify citizenship and identity of applicants for tax credits |
| HR2717 | Erik Paulsen (R-MN-3) | worsen already dysfunctional USA job markets by worsening flooding with cheap, young, pliant, low-skilled foreign new-grads with flexible ethics |
| HR2723 | David P. Roe (R-TN-1) | requiring secret-ballot election when employer merges, etc.; clarifying right of individual union member to withhold funding candidates & causes with whom/which he disagrees |
| HR2826 | Raul Labrador (R-ID-1) | refugee program integrity restoration act |
| HR2855 | Al Lawson (D-FL-5) | perpetuate the unconstitutional Socialist Insecurity Abomination, a little longer, impairing the economy and making job markets more dysfunctional, while draining earners and violating citizens' privacy |
| HR2885 | David G. Reichert (R-WA-8) | Congressional Gold Medal for air-ambulance crews |
| HR2909 | Thomas Massie (R-KY-4) | reciprocity in respect for constitutionally unnecessary concealed carry "permits" with DC |
| HR3003 | Bob Goodlatte (R-VA-6) | no sanctuary for illegal aliens who commit additional crimes; floor vote (GovTrack) floor vote (house.congress.gov) |
| HR3004 | Bob Goodlatte (R-VA-6) | no sanctuary for illegal aliens who commit additional crimes, and re-invaders; floor vote on HR3004 (GovTrack) floor vote (house.congress.gov) |
| HR3316 | Jacky Rosen (D-NV-3) | disingenuous scam to sucker more girls/women to pursue STEM careers while continuing to encourage age discrimination, drive down compensation, and displace USA citizen STEM professionals by cheap, young, pliant, low-skilled OPT and guest-workers with flexible ethics |
| HR3341 | Blake Farenthold (R-TX-27) | allow only corrupt government operatives violate your privacy and 5th amendment right by spoofing cellular-phone drop-points/towers and minutely tracking your phone's location |
| HR3358 | Tom Cole (R-OK-4) | DoL, HHS, DoEdu expropriations (way too much crony socialism for unconstitutional activities) |
| HR3364 | Edward R. Royce (R-CA-39) | adds Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to their Qods Force to penalties for support of terrorism |
| HR3409 | Marsha Blackburn (R-TN-7) | anti-pyramid-scheme promotion |
| HR3440 | Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA-40) | NIGHTMARE act of 2018 |
| HR3548 | Michael T. McCaul (R-TX-10) | weak, short-sighted baby-step in the direction of border security... that has already been assigned by the RINO losership to numerous committees with apparent intent to bury it |
| HR3647 | Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX-18) | reprehensible immigration law perversion (there are a few sections that are good) |
| HR3697 | Barbara Comstock (R-VA-10) | criminal gangster removal |
| HR4051 | Adriano Espaillat (D-NY-13) | (STOP) federal grants for local governments to install bollards in high-pedestrian-traffic areas to defend against vehicular homicide terrorism |
| HR4760 | Bob Goodlatte (R-VA-6) | "Securing USA's Future" (SAFA): very slightly restricts family unification chain-immigration while maintaining vastly excessive numbers; eliminate diversity visa lottery; vastly expands already extremely excessive guest-work visas for cheap, young, pliant low-skilled labor; still allows waiver of interviews of visa applicants; implicit polygraph of DHS employees but not visa applicants; zero reform of H-1B, L-1 |
| HR4796 | Will Hurd (R-TX-23) | massive blanket amnesty for NIGHTMARE illegal aliens; let states determine legality of residency for tuition & fee & subsidy purposes; delay fencing/walling borders; re-define border security to mean non-security, grants to states; add a trifling number of immigration judges and USA-tax-victim-subsidized immigration lawyers for illegal alines; indoctrination of immigration judges and appeals board members to make sure the criminal illegal alien always wins; subsidies to Latin America |
| HR5340 | Steve Stivers (R-OH-15) | tweaking patent review & challenge process; restoration of patent as property right |
| HR5435 | Luke Messer (R-IN-6) | funding USA citizens & legal residents first |
| HR5490 | Elizabeth H. Esty (D-CT-5) | violate civil rights; promote power-madness |
| HR5510 | Al Green (D-TX-9) | encourage criminality & illegal alien invasion by allowing deported criminals to get green cards |
| HR5526 | John Ratcliffe (R-TX-04) | discourage criminality & illegal alien invasion by enhancing sentences for deported criminals who re-invade and commit additional crimes |
| HR5653 | Paul A. Gosar (R-AZ-4) | clarify that all illegal aliens who commit additional crimes are deportable & removable |
| HR6089 | Steve King (R-IA-4) | e-bonding; require visa grantees to post bonds (e.g. to leave by the time temporary visas expire) |
 | HR6136 | Bob Goodlatte (R-VA-6) | RINOs' concessions on top of concessions to opponents of border security, & visa & immigration reform; delays start of construction of border fence/wall another several years; allows phony-baloney sensors & surveillance to baffle the gullible public again since these were already authorized, some purchased, and remain un-used to the point the equipment deteriorated to unusable; specifically allows SecDHS not to deploy; micro-specifies what may be made available to each sector; lots of statute-drafter obfuscation; bio-metric ID but no background investigations; zero student, exchange, guest-work visa reforms |
| HR6417 | Bob Goodlatte (R-VA-6) | "AG & Legal WorkForce act": create yet another guest-work visa for cheap, pliant foreign agricultural/forestry/aquaculture/horse-tending/meat & poultry processing labor; offer USA same depressed working conditions; protect abusers against liability for their abuses; of visa applicants; allow SecDHS to waive deportation & other penalties; perpetuate ObummerDoesn'tCare; lock guest-workers into these kinds of work, discourage them from learning other skills; encourage abusers to conspire to pass around cheap, pliant labor while refusing to consider hiring/employing USA citizens at local competitive compensation; allow abuse of un-corroborated "attestations" & forged documents, & encourage violation of everyone's privacy |
| HR6557 | Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA-48) | patent reforms |
| HR6776 | Kevin Yoder (RINO-KS-03) | DHS expropriations & undermining USA job markets by flooding via LPR/green card |
| HR7059 | Kevin McCarthy (R-CA-23) | prohibit state & local governments interference with immigration law enforcement, withholding federal grants from those which do, standing for law-suits, detention during removal hearing process, bond, re-entry of deported &/or removed aliens, inadmissibility & deportability of gangsters; securing borders |
| HR99999 | jgo of USA | reduce E-3 visas to 500 per year, F visa to 50K per year, H visas to 2K per year, J visas to 3K per year, L visas to 20K per year; and reduce the term of H and L visas to 9 months, terms of J visas to 2 months, terms of E visas to 1 year, and OPT eligibility for F visa holders to 3 months |
Senate Bills
| Ratings | Number | Sponsor | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| S11 | Dean Heller (R-NV) | recognize Jerusalem as capital of Israel and move embassy there |
| S67 | Ted Cruz (R-TX) | designate Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization |
| S68 | Ted Cruz (R-TX) | designate Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization |
| S106 | Ted Cruz (R-TX) | repeal ObummerDoesn'tCare |
| S127 | Jeff Flake (R-AZ) | another amnesty for illegal aliens |
| S180 | Chuck Grassley (R-IA) | mild reforms to H-1B & L-1 visa programs (missing is prohibition against displacement of USA worker through contract with bodyshop, should require DoL level 4 skills, should require print advertisement of positions at least 4" x 4" in at least 3 publications with at least 200K circulation based s at least 800 miles apart for at least 30 days) |
| S281 | Ted Cruz (R-TX) | "fairness" for cheap, young, low-skilled foreign labor with flexible ethics by increasing numbers |
| S323 | Jeff Flake (R-AZ) | universal savings/trust account (the glimmer of a good idea totally botched) |
| S333 | James Lankford (R-OK) | stop law-suit settlement crony socialist slush funds |
| S354 | Tom Cotton (R-AR) | (RAISE) reduce numbers of green cards, eliminate "diversity" lottery, give preference to those fluent in English |
| S446 | John Cornyn (R-TX) | reciprocity for constitutionally superfluous "concealed carry permits" |
| S595 | Jeff Flake (R-AZ) | skip fNMR & polygraph tests in interview process for DHS CBP employment (before and as heavily amended when read 2017-09-13) |
| S622 | Jeff Flake (R-AZ) | fair and open competition in federal government contracts |
| S745 | Jeff Flake (R-AZ) | re-authorize "State Criminal Alien Assistance Program" with additional strings & expansions |
| S757 | Jeff Flake (R-AZ) | tie DHS & DoD in knots complying with whims of property owners near USA borders instead of defending borders against invasion |
| S801 | Mike Lee (R-UT) | restore "comp time" -- compensatory time off for over-time worked, at option of employee and with an 80 hour cap |
| S1039 | Jeff Flake (R-AZ) | indemnify state & local governments for reasonable costs of complying with DHS detention requests |
| S1060 | Ted Cruz (R-TX) | strengthen prohibitions on PLO (way too weak; fails to recognize links among PLO/Fatah/Palestinian Authority and Iran) |
| S1338 | John Cornyn (R-TX) | Congressional Gold Medals for air-ambulance crews |
| S1404 | Ted Cruz (R-TX) | force increased exports of natural gas |
| S1552 | Jeff Flake (R-AZ) | allow individuals to designate up to 10% of income taxes extorted be restricted to reducing "public" federal government debt & reducing federal government spending by the same amount |
| S1615 | Lindsey Grahamnesty (R-SC) | NIGHTMARE act of 2017 |
| S1771 | Roy Blunt (R-MO) | DoL, HHS, DoEdu expropriations (way too much crony socialism for unconstitutional activities) |
| S1852 | Thom Tillis (NC) | weak visa/immigration reform, adds yet another "path to citizenship" for NIGHTMARE illegal aliens, no reform of guest-work visas |
| S1872 | John Thune (R-SD) | TSA open-ended privacy violation act |
| S2192 | Chuck Grassley (IA) | extremely weak visa/immigration, border security, does nothing to reform guest-work visas, no border fence/wall |
| S2344 | Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT) & Jeff Flake (RINO-AZ) | I-Squared to worsen flood of cheap, young, pliant, low-skilled STEM labor with flexible ethics, and so depress employment and compensation of USA citizens |
| S3414 | Lindsey Grahamnesty (RINO-SC) | Taylor Force act, end funding of PLO/Fatah... until they stop subsidizing terrorists and their families |
| S3649 senate judiciary committee draft (pdf) | Charles Grassley (RINO-IA) | "First Step" act, "to reduce recidivism" by reducing sentences? |
| S3713 | James M. Inhofe (R-OK) | secure USA borders |
| S99999 | jgo of USA | reduce E-3 visas to 500 per year, F visa to 50K per year, H visas to 2K per year, J visas to 3K per year, L visas to 20K per year and reduce the term of H and L visas to 9 months, terms of J visas to 2 months, terms of E visas to 1 year, and OPT eligibility for F visa holders to 3 months |
House Concurrent Resolutions
| Ratings | Number | Sponsor | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| HConRes1 | John Carter of Mars | blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah |
House Joint Resolutions
| Ratings | Number | Sponsor | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| HJRes18 | Scott Perry (R-PA-4) | amendment requiring each agency's & department's funding be "justified" |
| HJRes20 | Sean P. Duffy (R-WI-7) | amendment to limit Representatives to 3 consecutive terms, and senators to 2 consecutive terms |
| HJRes94 | Steve King (R-IA-4) | repeal income extortion |
House Resolutions
| Ratings | Number | Sponsor | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| HRes1 | Jack Ryan of MD | blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah |
Senate Joint Resolutions
| Ratings | Number | Sponsor | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| SJRes1 | Fergus of Carthage, AR | blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah |
Senate Resolutions
| Ratings | Number | Sponsor | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| SRes216 | Ted Cruz (R-TX) | resolution calling on theocratic Muslim dictatorship of Iran to release USA citizens and LPRs |
| SRes223 | Ted Cruz (R-TX) | recognizing good works of Liu Xiaobo |
Senate Concurrent Resolutions
| Ratings | Number | Sponsor | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| SConRes1 | who | what |
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