National Priorities Act of 2007
Latest action · Mar 8, 2007 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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.
- IntroducedMar 8, 2007
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
National Priorities Act of 2007 - Rescinds after 2008 income tax reductions enacted under the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 and the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 for taxpayers with gross incomes in 2008 of over $400,000.
Reduces funding for the Department of Defense by $60 billion in FY2008. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make reductions by eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse, and weapon systems and other programs determined to be no longer a national security priority. Exempts from such reductions the needs of military personnel, including pay increases and health care.
Dedicates increases in revenues resulting from this Act to: (1) various programs for health care, education, energy conservation, and affordable housing; (2) increasing the earned income credit; and (3) reducing the federal deficit.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Finance Committee | Referred Mar 8, 2007 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 8, 2007Introduced in Senate
- Mar 8, 2007Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2910-2913)
- Mar 8, 2007Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S2910–S2913 | Bernard Sanders I-VT | Mar 8, 2007 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to expand the middle class, reduce the gap between the rich and the poor, keep our promises to veterans, lower the poverty rate, and reduce the Federal deficit by repealing tax breaks for the wealthiest one percent and eliminating unnecessary Cold War era defense spending, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- National Priorities Act of 2007
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Taxation.
- Affordable housing
- Alternative energy sources
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Block grants
- Budget deficits
- Community health services
- Congress
- Day care
- Defense budgets
- Dental care
- Disabled
- Earned income tax credit
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Elementary and secondary education
- Energy
- Energy conservation
- Energy efficiency
- Families
- Federal aid to child health services
- Federal aid to education
- Federal aid to health facilities
- Federal aid to housing
- Federal aid to transportation
- Government trust funds
- Health
- Health insurance
- Higher education
- Highspeed ground transportation
- Housing and Community Development
- Income tax
- Job creation
- Labor and Employment
- Mass rapid transit
- Medically uninsured
- Poor children
- Preschool education
- Rental housing
- Residential rehabilitation
- Scholarships
- Social Welfare
- Special education
- Sunset legislation
- Tax rates
- Taxation
- Transportation and Public Works
- Veterans' medical care
- Waste in government spending
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 8, 2007Introduced in Senate
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
