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House approves nine more suspension bills
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09/11/12 07:04 PM ET
After a long day of mostly non-controversial debate, the House approved nine more suspension bills, all by voice vote, on issues ranging from education for veterans, easing bag-checking rules for planes arriving in the U.S., setting up U.S. manufacturing goals, and pushing Vietnam to improve its human rights regime.
The House has now knocked out most of the suspension bills it has to deal with this week, and on Wednesday was likely to take up a bill reauthorizing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
By voice vote, the House approved:
H.R. 6028, the No-Hassle Flying Act, allowing some bags to avoid double-screening from planes entering the United States,
S. 710, the Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest Establishment Act, requiring the EPA to set up a hazardous waste electronic manifest system,
H.R. 6131, to extend the Undertaking Spam, Spyware, And Fraud Enforcement With Enforcers beyond Borders Act of 2006,
H.R. 5865, the American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act, requiring a new manufacturing competitiveness board to set out manufacturing goals for the United States,
H.R. 1410, the Vietnam Human Rights Act, limiting non-humanitarian human rights assistance to Vietnam due to human rights abuses in that country,
H.R. 1464, the North Korean Refugee Adoption Act, requiring the development of a strategy for adopting North Korean children,
H.Res. 484, calling on the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to respect basic human rights and cease abusing vague national security provisions such as articles 79 and 88 of the Vietnamese penal code which are often the pretext to arrest and detain citizens who peacefully advocate for religious and political freedom, and
S.Con.Res. 17, a concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that Taiwan should be accorded observer status in the International Civil Aviation Organization.
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