Expressing the sense of the House that a Contract with America should restore American competitiveness.
Latest action · Sep 19, 2014 Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
Progress
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- IntroducedSep 18, 2014
- Agreed to in HouseNot reached
Summary
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that a Contract with America should include a roadmap to restore American competitiveness by:
- simplifying the corporate tax structure with lower statutory rates and no loopholes;
- taxing overseas profits earned by American multinational companies only where they are earned;
- easing the immigration of highly skilled individuals;
- responsibly developing America's shale-gas and oil reserves;
- aggressively addressing distortions and abuses in the international trading system;
- improving American logistics, communications, and energy infrastructure;
- simplifying and streamlining federal regulation; and
- creating a sustainable federal budget, including entitlement reform.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 19, 2014Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
- Sep 18, 2014Introduced in House
- Sep 18, 2014Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Natural Resources, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Economics and Public Finance.
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Budget deficits and national debt
- Budget process
- Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
- Corporate finance and management
- Economics and Public Finance
- Foreign and international corporations
- Immigration status and procedures
- Income tax rates
- Infrastructure development
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- Oil and gas
- Poverty and welfare assistance
- Social security and elderly assistance
- Tax reform and tax simplification
- Taxation of foreign income
- Trade restrictions
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 18, 2014Introduced in House
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