Rep. Earl Pomeroy

Recent Activity

• Jan. 18 Cosponsored HR4462: To accelerate the income tax benefits for charitable cash contributions for the relief of victims of the earthquake in Haiti.

• Dec. 15 Sponsored HR4396: To amend the Clean Air Act to provide that greenhouse gases are not subject to the Act, and for other purposes.

• Dec. 10 Cosponsored HR4109: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the low income housing credit to be carried back 5 years, and for other purposes.

• Dec. 01 Sponsored HR4184: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the qualified tuition deduction.

• Sponsored HR4185: To amend the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt certain employment as a member of a local governing board, commission, or committee from Social Security tax coverage.

• Sponsored HR4186: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend for 2 years the treatment of certain farming business machinery and equipment as 5-year property for purposes of depreciation.

• Nov. 30 Cosponsored HR4067: To authorize interest-bearing transaction accounts at depository institutions, and for other purposes.

• Cosponsored HRES940: Recognizing and honoring the National Guard on the occasion of its 373rd anniversary.

• Cosponsored HCONRES204: Expressing continued support for employee stock ownership plans.

• Nov. 18 Sponsored HR4154: Permanent Estate Tax Relief for Families, Farmers, and Small Businesses Act of 2009

• Nov. 17 Cosponsored HRES914: Supporting the observance of National Diabetes Month.

• Nov. 15 Sponsored HR4070: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the incentives for the production of biodiesel.

• Cosponsored HRES111: Establishing a Select Committee on POW and MIA Affairs.

• Nov. 03 Cosponsored HR3926: To direct the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to jointly conduct a study on the incidence of breast cancer among members of the Armed Forces and veterans.

• Nov. 01 Cosponsored HR949: To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the collective bargaining rights and procedures for review of adverse actions of certain employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

• Oct. 28 Cosponsored HR1835: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage alternative energy investments and job creation.

• Cosponsored HRES877: Expressing support for Chinese human rights activists Huang Qi and Tan Zuoren for engaging in peaceful expression as they seek answers and justice for the parents whose children were killed in the Sichuan earthquake of May 12, 2008.

• Oct. 26 Sponsored HR3936: To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow time for pensions to fund benefit obligations in light of economic circumstances in the financial markets of 2008, and for other purposes…

• Oct. 25 Cosponsored HR3916: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend and modify the section 45 credit for refined coal from steel industry fuel, and for other purposes.

• Oct. 21 Cosponsored HR3918: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a tax credit for qualified distributed thermal energy storage property, and for other purposes.