REPAIR Act of 2007

To provide assistance to Iraqi nationals who supported the United States, and for other purposes.

10/12/2007--Introduced.
Relocation Empowerment and Placement Assistance for Iraqi Refugees Act of 2007 or REPAIR Act of 2007 - Waives visa and related fees relating to special immigrant status for Afghan or Iraqi nationals who worked with the U.S. Chief of Mission or the U.S. Armed Forces as interpreters or translators. Waives numerical limitations with respect to such special immigrants. Expands such category to include persons who:
(1) performed such services with a U.S. contractor; or
(2) performed other services. Makes additional U.S. military officers eligible to recommend such nationals for special immigrant status. Directs the Secretary of State (Secretary) to make every effort to ensure that aliens applying for special immigrant status and visas, and aliens applying for refugee status and visas, may apply and interview within Iraq in Baghdad and Irbil through in-country processing mechanisms. Directs the Secretary and the Secretary of Defense to jointly establish a program to offer federal employment to relocated Iraqi special immigrants as translators, interpreters, and cultural awareness instructors. States that such special immigrants shall be eligible for the same resettlement assistance as refugees. Directs the Secretary to provide such special immigrants with computer literacy and vocational training, English language training, and employment and counseling services. Expresses the sense Congress that the United States should provide an orientation into life in the United States for Iraqi special immigrants and should make all reasonable efforts to provide temporary safe haven for alien applicants who are in imminent danger in Iraq.

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Sponsor

• Rep. Steve Israel [D, NY-2]
• and 10 Co-Sponsors
  • Rep. Joseph Crowley [D, NY-7]
  • Rep. Lloyd Doggett [D, TX-25]
  • Wayne Gilchrest
  • Rep. Alcee Hastings [D, FL-23]
  • Rep. Dennis Moore [D, KS-3]
  • Rep. Jerrold Nadler [D, NY-8]
  • Rep. David Price [D, NC-4]
  • Rep. Dave Reichert [R, WA-8]
  • Rep. Frederick Upton [R, MI-6]
  • Rep. Frank Wolf [R, VA-10]
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Committees

• House Judiciary
• 3 more
  • House Armed Services
  • House Foreign Affairs
  • House Judiciary
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Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to H.R.3824

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Introduced		Voted on by House		Voted on by Senate		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
October 12, 2007

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• Nov 02, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
• Oct 12, 2007: Referred to House Foreign Affairs
• Oct 12, 2007: Referred to House Armed Services
• Oct 12, 2007: Referred to House Judiciary
• Oct 12, 2007: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, and Foreign Affairs, 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.
• Introduced on Oct 12, 2007.

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December 29, 2008 the_reef: Endangered Species Act Attack- PLEASE CALL NOW

Congressman Richard Pombo (R-CA) has introduced a bill in Congress (HR 3824) which would totally gut the Endangered Species Act (ESA). It will undo 30 years of progress that has been made trying to save those on the edge. ...

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December 08, 2008 Le Blog: oh, my goodness!

“The Senate adjourned in 2006 without passing the weakening bill H.R. 3824” (http://wwf.worldwildlife.org/site/PageServer?pagename=can_results_endangered_species) and the ESA has, for now, remained unmolested. In fact, as of ...

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October 17, 2008 PDHblog » League of Conservation Voters Scorecard

On September 29, 2005, Abercrombie and Pombo joined in the majority to pass the “Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act” ( H R 3824). The Environmental Protection Information Center wrote that ...

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