Rep. Melvin L. Watt

Recent Activity

• Jan. 26 Cosponsored HR4538: To amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to require the inclusion of credit scores with free annual credit reports provided to consumers, and for other purposes.

• Cosponsored HRES1046: Recognizing the significance of Black History Month.

• Dec. 14 Cosponsored HRES905: Recognizing the 70th anniversary of the retirement of Justice Louis D. Brandeis from the United States Supreme Court.

• Dec. 10 Cosponsored HR4283: To prohibit United States attorneys and assistant United States attorneys from acting as or working for corporate monitors for specified periods after their service with the Government terminates.

• Cosponsored HRES967: Recognizing the 15th anniversary of the establishment of the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund and reaffirming the importance of its mission of economic and community development.

• Dec. 09 Cosponsored HR4268: To direct the Secretary of Labor to make grants to States, units of general local government, and Indian tribes for the purpose of creating employment opportunities for unemployed and underemployed residents in distressed communities.

• Dec. 02 Cosponsored HRES944: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives on religious minorities in Iraq.

• Cosponsored HRES946: Recognizing that the rate of unemployment in the United States has reached the level of a national crisis, and for other purposes.

• Dec. 01 Cosponsored HR4178: To amend the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to provide for deposit restricted qualified tuition programs, and for other purposes.

• Nov. 15 Cosponsored HRES864: Congratulating President Obama for winning of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.

• Cosponsored HR3766: To use amounts made available under the Troubled Assets Relief Program of the Secretary of the Treasury for relief for homeowners and affordable rental housing.

• Nov. 06 Cosponsored HR4034: To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of the Army to lease portions of the Airborne and Special Operations Museum facility to the Airborne and Special Operations Museum Foundation to support operation of the Museum.

• Nov. 04 Cosponsored HRES893: Congratulating the 2009 Major League Baseball World Series Champions, the New York Yankees.

• Oct. 26 Cosponsored HRES713: Recognizing the significant contributions of United States automobile dealerships, and expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that in the interest of equity, automobile dealers whose franchises have been terminated through no fault …

• Oct. 21 Cosponsored HR3855: To amend title 13, United States Code, to make clear that each decennial census, as required for the apportionment of Representatives in Congress among the several States, shall tabulate the total number of persons in each State, and to provide t…

• Cosponsored HR3912: To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of the opening of the International Civil Rights Center and Museum.

• Oct. 20 Cosponsored HR1849: Medal of Honor Commemorative Coin Act of 2009

• Cosponsored HR3892: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 101 West Highway 64 Bypass in Roper, North Carolina, as the "E.V. Wilkins Post Office".

• Oct. 19 Sponsored HR3860: To suspend temporarily the duty on Propanenitrile, 3-YY4-Y(substituted)azo?phenyl? (substituted)amino?-.

• Sponsored HR3861: To suspend temporarily the duty on 9,10-Anthracenedione, 1,1'-Y(6-phenyl-1,3,5- triazine-2,4-diyl)diimino?bisY3-acetyl-4-amino-.