Child Protection
H.R. 3716—-Rep. James T. Walsh (R-NY) / Energy and Commerce (10/01/07)—A bill to amend the Consumer Product Safety Act to require independent safety certification of children’s products, to increase the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s inspection capability for imported products, and to prohibit hazardous imports based on manufacturing site, and for other purposes.
H.R. 3743—-Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-CA) / Energy and Commerce (10/03/07)—A bill to declare certain children’s products containing lead to be banned hazardous substances.
S. 2132—-Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) / Commerce, Science, and Transportation (10/03/07)—A bill to prohibit the introduction or delivery for introduction into interstate commerce of children’s products that contain lead, and for other purposes.
Education
H.R. 3746—-Rep. Howard McKeon (R-CA) / Education and Labor (10/04/07)—A bill to amend and extend the Higher Education Act of 1965.
H.R. 3760—-Rep. Carolyn C. Kilpatrick (D-MI) / Education and Labor (10/04/07)—A bill to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to enable local educational agencies to use amounts received from the Fund for the Improvement of Education for innovative programs to increase learning in nutrition and exercise.
S. 2143—-Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI) / Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (10/04/07)—A bill to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to establish a program to improve the health and education of children through grants to expand school breakfast programs, and for other purposes.
Employment
S. 2148—-Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-HI) / Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (10/04/07)—A bill to provide for greater diversity within, and to improve policy direction and oversight of, the Senior Executive Service.
Financial Literacy
H.R. 3740—-Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy (D-RI) / Ways and Means (10/03/07)—A bill to encourage savings, promote financial literacy, and expand opportunities for young adults by establishing KIDS Accounts.
Health
H. Res. 700—-Rep. Mary Bono (R-CA) / Oversight and Government Reform (10/02/07)—A resolution supporting the We Don’t Serve Teens campaign.
H.R. 3719—-Rep. Kathy Castor (D-FL) / Energy and Commerce (10/02/07)—A bill to prohibit implementation of a guidance letter proposing rules relating to the federal-state financial partnerships under Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.
S. Res. 343—-Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE) / Considered and passed (10/02/07)—A resolution designating October 19, 2007, as “National Mammography Day.”
S. 2152—-Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) / Read for the first time (10/04/07)—A bill to amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to reauthorize the State Children’s Health Insurance Program through fiscal year 2012, and for other purposes.
International
H. Res. 705—-Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) / Foreign Affairs (10/02/07)—A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Chinese Communist Party should be condemned for engaging in coercive abortion practices, and for other purposes.
S. 2135—-Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) / Judiciary (10/03/07)—A bill to prohibit the recruitment or use of child soldiers, to designate persons who recruit or use child soldiers as inadmissible aliens, to allow the deportation of persons who recruit or use child soldiers, and for other purposes.
Miscellaneous
H. Res. 707—-Rep. Alcee L. Hastings (D-FL) / Oversight and Government Reform (10/02/07)—A resolution honoring the 50th anniversary of Althea Gibson’s championship at Wimbledon and Forest Hills, and honoring the life and legacy of a teacher, daughter, and internationally acclaimed athlete who defied the boundaries of race, class, and gender.
Tax Policy
H.R. 3758—-Rep. John Hall (D-NY) / Ways and Means (10/04/07)—A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the alternative minimum tax by increasing the exemption amounts and adjusting them for inflation and by making permanent law the allowance of the dependent care credit, the child credit, and the adoption credit against such tax.
