2006-07-28 H.R. 5970: Estate Tax and Extension of Tax Relief Act of 2006 2006-07-28 H.R. 5970: Estate Tax and Extension of Tax Relief Act of 2006 Medical care Income tax Military pay Tax exclusion Tax exemption Minimum tax Natural gas Petroleum Environmental protection Fines (Penalties) Government paperwork Accounting Floods Budgets Business Congress Congressional reporting requirements Depreciation and amortization Executive departments Fees Government information Government trust funds Indians Minorities Taxation Economic policy Agricultural labor Agriculture Aid to dependent children Children Collection of accounts Education Elementary and secondary education Emergency management Energy Families Hazardous substances Health policy Higher education Indian lands Infrastructure Job training Labor Law Minimum wages Natural resources Science policy Technology Veterans Welfare Welfare recipients Whistle blowing Finance Licenses Electric utilities Indexing (Economic policy) State and local government Curricula Teacher education Mississippi Research and development tax credit Awards, medals, prizes District of Columbia Government employees Medicine Telecommunication Department of the Treasury Rural affairs Trusts and trustees Veterans' benefits Refuse and refuse disposal Solid wastes Tax incentives Teaching materials Criminal justice Ships Armed forces Defense policy Humanities Employee health benefits Employment Building construction Water resources Louisiana Tax returns Affordable housing Housing Rural economic development Actions and defenses Cost of living adjustments Pensions Home ownership Rental housing Insurance premiums Tax rates Sunset legislation Telephone Construction costs New York State Sewage treatment Water pollution Water treatment plants Music Hospitals Conflict of interests Gift tax Mental health services Student loan funds Vaccines Liens Food Federal-Indian relations Earnings Lumber trade Tax deductions Travel costs Teachers Bonds Transportation Urban affairs Urban economic development Puerto Rico Legal fees Tax credits Capital gains tax Timber sales Charitable contributions Hurricanes Marine transportation Oils and fats Rescue work Survivors' benefits Waterways Earned income tax credit Food stamps Married people Tax refunds Consent decrees Mine wastes Virus diseases State taxation Withholding tax Airports Mass rapid transit Infrastructure (Economics) Terrorism American Samoa Marine terminals New York City Railroad engineering Transportation engineering Judicial review Estate tax Reclamation of land Mine safety Bank accounts Railroad employees Congregate housing Mortgage guaranty insurance Intelligence activities Foreign tax credit Alternative energy sources Coal Retiree health benefits Liability for environmental damages Biomass energy Strip mining Intelligence community staff Employee stock options Judicial officers Port authorities Hazardous wastes Local taxation College costs Sales tax Scientific instruments and apparatus Aviation fuels Undercover operations Miners Computers Tax evasion Depletion allowances Diesel motor Alcohol as fuel Alabama Wind power Refuse as fuel Restaurants Inheritance tax Coke industry Tipping Alcohol tax Community facilities Agribusiness Medical savings accounts Telemedicine Agricultural wastes Local employees State employees Cash welfare block grants School buildings Brownfields Distance education Education of the disadvantaged Road construction Energy crops Broadband Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Business travel Mining equipment Hurricane aftermath legislation vote H.R. 5970: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the unified credit against the estate tax to an exclusion equivalent of $5,000,000, to repeal the sunset provision for the estate and generation-skipping taxes, and to extend expiring provisions, and for other purposes. Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, and Resources, 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. 2006-07-28 Referred to House Ways and Means 2006-07-28 Referred to House Energy and Commerce 2006-07-28 Referred to House Education and the Workforce 2006-07-28 Referred to House Resources 2006-07-28 Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 966 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 5970 and H.R. 4. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit. Measure will be considered read. Bill is closed to amendments. The resolution provides for consideration of both H.R. 5970 and H.R. 4, in the House. 2006-07-28T19:38:00-04:00 Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 966. 2006-07-28T23:44:00-04:00 Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 5970 and H.R. 4. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit. Measure will be considered read. Bill is closed to amendments. The resolution provides for consideration of both H.R. 5970 and H.R. 4, in the House. 2006-07-28T23:44:00-04:00 DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on H.R. 5970. 2006-07-28T23:44:00-04:00 DEBATE - The House continued with debate on H.R. 5970. 2006-07-29T00:01:00-04:00 The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule. (consideration: CR 7/28/2005 H6201) 2006-07-29T01:00:00-04:00 Mr. Miller, George moved to recommit with instructions to Education and Labor. (consideration: CR 7/28/2005 H6201-6220; text: CR 7/28/2005 H6201-6219) 2006-07-29T01:00:00-04:00 DEBATE - The House proceeded with ten minutes of debate on the George Miller (CA) motion to recommit with instructions. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the bill to be reported back to the House with an amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of a complete new text entitled Fair Minimum Wage and Extension of Tax Relief Act. 2006-07-29T01:01:00-04:00 The previous question on the motion to recommit with instructions was ordered without objection. (consideration: CR 7/28/2005 H6219) 2006-07-29T01:08:00-04:00 On motion to recommit with instructions Failed by recorded vote: 190 - 220 (Roll no. 424). (consideration: CR 7/28/2005 H6219-6220) 2006-07-29T01:30:00-04:00 pass On passage Passed by recorded vote: 230 - 180, 1 Present (Roll no. 425). (text: CR 7/28/2005 H6171-6189) 2006-07-29T01:41:00-04:00 Received in the Senate, deemed read the first time on July 28 (Legislative Day July 26) 2006 pursuant to the order of July 28. 2006-07-31 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 562. 2006-07-31 Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate by Unanimous Consent. 2006-08-02 Cloture motion on the motion to proceed presented in Senate. 2006-08-02 Motion to proceed to consideration of measure withdrawn in Senate. 2006-08-02 Cloture on the motion to proceed not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 56 - 42. Record Vote Number: 229. 2006-08-03 Motion by Senator Frist to reconsider the vote by which the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 5970 was not agreed to (Roll Call No. 229) entered in Senate. 2006-08-03 H.R. 5421: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore the estate tax and repeal the carryover basis rule, to increase the estate and gift tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $5,000,000, and to reduce the rate of the estate and gifts taxes to the generally applicable capital gains income tax rate. (109th Congress) H.R. 5421: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore the estate tax and repeal the carryover basis rule, to increase the estate and gift tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $5,000,000, and to reduce the rate of the estate and gifts taxes to the generally applicable capital gains income tax rate. H.Res. 966: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5970) to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the unified credit against the estate tax to an exclusion equivalent of $5,000,000, to repeal the sunset provision for the estate and generation-skipping taxes, and to extend expiring provisions, and for other purposes; and consideration of the bill (H.R. 4) to provide economic security for all Americans, and for other purposes. (109th Congress) H.Res. 966: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5970) to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the unified credit against the estate tax to an exclusion equivalent of $5,000,000, to repeal the sunset provision for the estate and generation-skipping taxes, and to extend expiring provisions, and for other purposes; and consideration of the bill (H.R. 4) to provide economic security for all Americans, and for other purposes. S. 3829: Tax Relief and Minimum Wage Act of 2006 (109th Congress) S. 3829: Tax Relief and Minimum Wage Act of 2006 H.R. 3883: Timber Tax Act of 2005 (109th Congress) H.R. 3883: Timber Tax Act of 2005 S. 3626: Estate Tax Relief and Reform Act of 2006 (109th Congress) S. 3626: Estate Tax Relief and Reform Act of 2006 S. 1791: Timber Tax Act of 2005 (109th Congress) S. 1791: Timber Tax Act of 2005 109 H.R. 5970: Estate Tax and Extension of Tax Relief Act of 2006 (109th Congress) 5970 h Estate Tax and Extension of Tax Relief Act of 2006 Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act Amendments of 2006 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the unified credit against the estate tax to an exclusion equivalent of $5,000,000, to repeal the sunset provision for the estate and generation-skipping taxes, and to extend expiring provisions, and for other purposes. HouseBill LegislativeAction VoteAction ShortTitle OfficialTitle