HR 923 · 109th Congress 2005–2007, ended

Supply Our Soldiers Act of 2005

Introduced Feb 17, 2005 Originated House Sponsor Vito Fossella R-NY

Latest action · Nov 3, 2005 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 147.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedFeb 17, 2005
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Supply Our Soldiers Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Defense to provide for a program under which postal benefits are provided to a member of the Armed Forces who is on active duty and who is either: (1) serving in Iraq or Afghanistan; or (2) hospitalized at a military medical facility as a result of such service. Provides the postal benefits in the form of coupons or other evidence of credit (vouchers) to use for postal-free mailings. Limits: (1) the weight of the mail and parcels authorized for the program; (2) a member to one voucher per month; and (3) the program duration to one year after the date of implementing regulations.

Authorizes appropriations.

Cosponsors 133

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 17, 2005 to Nov 3, 2005; 4 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-NY	Edolphus Towns	Original	Feb 17, 2005
R-NY	Peter T. King	Original	Feb 17, 2005
D-WI	Ron Kind	Original	Feb 17, 2005
R-WI	Thomas E. Petri	Original	Feb 17, 2005
D-CA	Bob Filner		Mar 1, 2005
D-MN	James L. Oberstar		Mar 1, 2005
D-NJ	Robert E. Andrews		Mar 1, 2005
D-NY	Carolyn McCarthy		Mar 2, 2005
R-VA	Virgil H. Goode Jr.		Mar 2, 2005
D-MA	Barney Frank		Mar 10, 2005
R-LA	Rodney Alexander		Mar 10, 2005
D-TN	Bart Gordon		Mar 16, 2005
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel		Mar 16, 2005
D-MA	Martin T. Meehan		Mar 17, 2005
R-VA	Thelma D. Drake		Mar 17, 2005
D-NC	Bob Etheridge		Apr 5, 2005
D-HI	Ed Case		Apr 5, 2005
R-FL	Ginny Brown-Waite		Apr 5, 2005
R-FL	Ileana Ros-Lehtinen		Apr 5, 2005
D-NY	Major R. Owens		Apr 5, 2005
D-HI	Neil Abercrombie		Apr 5, 2005
D-VA	Rick Boucher		Apr 6, 2005
D-MO	Emanuel Cleaver		Apr 8, 2005
D-NJ	Frank Pallone, Jr.		Apr 8, 2005
D-SC	John M. Spratt, Jr.		Apr 8, 2005
D-IN	Peter J. Visclosky		Apr 8, 2005
D-WI	Tammy Baldwin		Apr 8, 2005
D-TX	Charles A. Gonzalez		Apr 12, 2005
D-IL	Daniel Lipinski		Apr 13, 2005
D-MA	John F. Tierney		Apr 13, 2005
I-VT	Bernard Sanders		Apr 19, 2005
R-KY	Ed Whitfield		Apr 19, 2005
R-TX	K. Michael Conaway		Apr 19, 2005
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch		Apr 19, 2005
R-NC	Walter B. Jones		Apr 19, 2005
D-WA	Jay Inslee		Apr 26, 2005
R-NY	John E. Sweeney		Apr 26, 2005
R-AL	Mike Rogers		Apr 26, 2005
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio		Apr 26, 2005
R-OR	Greg Walden		Apr 27, 2005
R-TX	John R. Carter		Apr 27, 2005
R-IN	Dan Burton		Apr 28, 2005
R-TX	Ron Paul		May 2, 2005
R-MO	Kenny C. Hulshof		May 5, 2005
D-NY	Timothy H. Bishop		May 5, 2005
R-AR	John Boozman		May 17, 2005
D-NM	Tom Udall		May 17, 2005
R-VA	Frank R. Wolf		May 19, 2005
D-MI	Dale E. Kildee		May 24, 2005
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings		Jun 7, 2005
D-NY	Michael R. McNulty		Jun 7, 2005
D-MO	Russ Carnahan		Jun 7, 2005
R-WV	Shelley Moore Capito		Jun 7, 2005
D-PA	Tim Holden		Jun 7, 2005
R-CA	Darrell Issa		Jun 13, 2005
R-IN	Mark E. Souder		Jun 16, 2005
R-GA	Charles W. Norwood		Jun 17, 2005
R-IL	John Shimkus		Jun 20, 2005
D-IN	Julia Carson		Jun 22, 2005
R-TN	Marsha Blackburn		Jun 22, 2005
D-IL	Rahm Emanuel		Jun 22, 2005
D-IL	Danny K. Davis		Jun 23, 2005
D-TX	Al Green		Jun 24, 2005
D-GU	Madeleine Z. Bordallo		Jun 24, 2005
R-FL	Katherine Harris		Jun 28, 2005
R-FL	Mark Foley		Jun 30, 2005
D-CA	Sam Farr		Jul 11, 2005
R-TX	John Abney Culberson		Jul 14, 2005
D-FL	Jim Davis		Jul 18, 2005
R-TX	Michael T. McCaul		Jul 18, 2005
D-OH	Tim Ryan		Jul 19, 2005
R-PA	Melissa A. Hart		Jul 21, 2005
R-ID	C. L. (Butch) Otter		Jul 22, 2005
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		Jul 26, 2005
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Sep 6, 2005
D-MI	John Conyers, Jr.		Sep 6, 2005
D-MI	Sander M. Levin		Sep 6, 2005
R-CO	Thomas G. Tancredo		Sep 12, 2005
D-MD	Chris Van Hollen		Sep 13, 2005
R-IL	Ray LaHood		Sep 13, 2005
R-LA	Charles W. Boustany, Jr.		Sep 15, 2005
R-SC	Joe Wilson		Sep 20, 2005
R-MI	Thaddeus G. McCotter		Sep 20, 2005
D-NV	Shelley Berkley		Sep 21, 2005
D-SD	Stephanie Herseth Sandlin		Sep 21, 2005
D-ME	Michael H. Michaud		Sep 22, 2005
D-FL	Robert Wexler		Sep 26, 2005
R-NC	Virginia Foxx		Sep 26, 2005
D-NY	Brian Higgins		Sep 28, 2005
R-PA	Charles W. Dent		Sep 28, 2005
R-NY	John M. McHugh		Sep 28, 2005
R-VA	Tom Davis		Sep 28, 2005
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney		Sep 29, 2005
D-VI	Donna M. Christensen		Sep 29, 2005
R-TN	John J. Duncan, Jr.		Sep 29, 2005
R-ID	Michael K. Simpson		Sep 29, 2005
R-PA	Todd Russell Platts		Sep 29, 2005
D-CA	Tom Lantos		Sep 29, 2005
R-PA	Curt Weldon		Oct 3, 2005
R-NY	James T. Walsh		Oct 3, 2005
R-OH	Jean Schmidt		Oct 3, 2005
D-TX	Chet Edwards		Oct 6, 2005
R-NV	Jon C. Porter		Oct 6, 2005
D-NY	Joseph Crowley		Oct 6, 2005
R-CT	Rob Simmons		Oct 6, 2005
R-MI	Peter Hoekstra		Oct 7, 2005
D-NY	Jose E. Serrano		Oct 17, 2005
R-PR	Luis G. Fortuno		Oct 17, 2005
R-PA	Bill Shuster		Oct 18, 2005
D-TN	Harold E. Ford Jr.		Oct 19, 2005
R-FL	Jeff Miller		Oct 19, 2005
R-TX	Kenny Marchant		Oct 19, 2005
R-TX	Ralph M. Hall		Oct 19, 2005
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.		Oct 19, 2005
D-VA	James P. Moran		Oct 20, 2005
D-CA	Juanita Millender-McDonald		Oct 20, 2005
D-AR	Marion Berry		Oct 20, 2005
D-WV	Nick J. Rahall II		Oct 20, 2005
R-NY	Sherwood Boehlert		Oct 20, 2005
R-NY	Thomas M. Reynolds		Oct 20, 2005
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff		Oct 26, 2005
D-MD	C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger		Oct 26, 2005
R-AZ	J. D. Hayworth		Oct 26, 2005
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky		Oct 26, 2005
R-AZ	John B. Shadegg		Oct 26, 2005
R-NY	John R. "Randy" Kuhl Jr.		Oct 26, 2005
R-GA	Nathan Deal		Oct 26, 2005
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva		Oct 26, 2005
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer		Oct 28, 2005
R-AZ	Trent Franks		Oct 28, 2005
R-KY	Geoff Davis		Nov 1, 2005
D-TN	Lincoln Davis		Nov 1, 2005
D-NY	Anthony D. Weiner		Nov 3, 2005

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Oversight and Government Reform Committee	Referred Feb 17, 2005Markup Sep 29, 2005Reported Nov 3, 2005

Actions 6

Everything that happened, newest first.

Nov 3, 2005Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Government Reform. H. Rept. 109-268.
Nov 3, 2005Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 147.
Sep 29, 2005Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Sep 29, 2005Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Feb 17, 2005Introduced in House

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Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Committee report

H. Rept. 109-268

Congressional Budget Office cost estimates 2

Oct 14, 2005H.R. 923, Supply Our Soldiers Act of 2005<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Government Reform on September 29, 2005</p>
Oct 14, 2005H.R. 923, Supply Our Soldiers Act of 2005Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Government Reform on September 29, 2005

CRS reports 1

Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.

Cite it 1

Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.

Product	Title	Kind	Published
R40550	Sending Mail to Members of the Armed Forces at Reduced or Free Postage: An Overview Archived	Report	May 27, 2011

Titles 3

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To amend title 39, United States Code, to provide for free mailing privileges for personal correspondence and parcels sent by family members from within the United States to members of the Armed Forces serving on active duty in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Short Titles as Introduced: Mailing Support to Troops Act of 2005
Short Titles as Reported to House: Supply Our Soldiers Act of 2005

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security.

Text 2

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Nov 3, 2005Reported in House
Feb 17, 2005Introduced in House

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