Child Care
H.R. 2377—-Rep. George Miller (D-CA) / Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce (06/05/03)—A bill to establish the Child Care Provider Development and Retention Grant Program, the Child Care Provider Scholarship Program, and a program of child care provider health benefits coverage, and for other purposes.
S. 1198—-Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-CT) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (06/05/03)—A bill to establish the Child Care Provider Development and Retention Grant Program, the Child Care Provider Scholarship Program, and a program of child care provider health benefits coverage, and for other purposes.
Child Support
H.R. 2300—-Rep. Lynn C. Woolsey (D-CA) / Ways and Means (06/02/03)—A bill to improve the collection of child support arrears in interstate cases.
Crime
H. Con. Res. 204—-Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) / Energy and Commerce, Judiciary (06/03/03)—A concurrent resolution supporting the Million Mom March against gun violence and accepting the challenge to reduce by 5,000 the number of lives lost to gun violence by the year 2005, by instituting and supporting policies that will further that goal.
Education
H.R. 2284—-Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) / Education and the Workforce (06/02/03)—A bill to direct the Secretary of Education to make grants to states for assistance in hiring additional school-based mental health and student service providers.
H.R. 2291 —-Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT) / Education and the Workforce (06/02/03)—A bill to extend loan forgiveness for certain loans to Head Start teachers.
S. 1181 —-Sen. Jon Corzine (D-NJ) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (06/04/03)—A bill to promote youth financial education.
H.R. 2348—-Rep. John J. Duncan (R-TN) / Education and the Workforce (06/05/03)—A bill to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 regarding the rigorous standard of quality applicable to paraprofessionals hired before the date of enactment of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, and for other purposes.
H.R. 2363—-Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT) / Agriculture, Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Government Reform, Ways and Means (06/05/03)—A bill to improve early learning opportunities and promote preparedness by increasing the availability of Head Start programs, to increase the availability and affordability of quality child care, to reduce child hunger and encourage healthy eating habits, to facilitate parental involvement, and for other purposes.
H.R. 2366—-Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-NC) / Education and the Workforce (06/05/03)—A bill to suspend certain amendments made by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 if the federal government fails to fully fund such amendments.
S. 1189—-Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (06/05/03)—A bill to ensure an appropriate balance between resources and accountability under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
Health
S. 1142—-Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) / Finance (05/23/03)—A bill to provide disadvantaged children with access to dental services.
S. 1143 —-Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (05/23/03)—A bill to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish, promote, and support a comprehensive prevention, research, and medical management referral program for hepatitis C virus infection.
S. 1159 —-Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) / Finance (05/23/03)—A bill to provide for programs and activities to improve the health of Hispanic individuals.
H.R. 2290 —-Rep. Robert E. Andrews (D-NJ) / Ways and Means (06/02/03)—A bill to provide monthly benefits for certain uninsured children living without parents.
H.R. 2292 —-Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD) / Energy and Commerce (06/02/03)—A bill to establish a program for promoting good health, disease prevention, and wellness and for the prevention of secondary conditions for persons with disabilities, and for other purposes.
S. 1172 —-Sen. Bill Frist (R-TN) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (06/03/03)—A bill to establish grants to provide health services for improved nutrition, increased physical activity, obesity prevention, and for other purposes.
H. Con. Res. 206 —-Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) / Energy and Commerce (06/04/03)—A concurrent resolution supporting the National Marrow Donor Program and other bone marrow donor programs and encouraging Americans to learn about the importance of bone marrow donation.
H.R. 2320—-Rep. Robert E. Andrews (D-NJ) / Energy and Commerce (06/04/03)—A bill to require Medicaid coverage of disabled children, and individuals who became disabled as children, without regard to income or assets.
S. 1187—-Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) / Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (06/04/03)—A bill to require that ready-to-eat meat or poultry products that are not produced under a scientifically validated program to address Listeria monocytogenes be required to bear a label advising pregnant women and other at-risk consumers of the recommendations of the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration regarding consumption of ready-to-eat products, and for other purposes.
S. 1201—-Rep. J. Gresham Barrett (R-SC) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (06/05/03)—A bill to promote healthy lifestyles and prevent unhealthy, risky behaviors among teenage youth.
Housing
S. 1205—-Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) / Indian Affairs (06/05/03)—A bill to provide discounted housing for teachers and other staff in rural areas of States with a population less than 1,000,000 and with a high population of Native Americans or Alaska Natives.
Miscellaneous
H.Con. Res. 210—-Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) / Armed Services (06/05/03)—A concurrent resolution honoring Army Specialist Shoshana Nyree Johnson, former prisoner of war in Iraq.
H.Res. 261—-Rep. Frank R. Wolf (R-VA) / Agriculture (06/05/03)—A resolution expressing the support of the House of Representatives for the efforts of organizations such as Second Harvest to provide emergency food assistance to hungry people in the United States, and encouraging all Americans to provide volunteer services and other support for local anti-hunger advocacy efforts and hunger relief charities, including food banks, food rescue organizations, food pantries, soup kitchens, and emergency shelters.
Small Business
S. 1154—-Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) / Small Business (05/23/03)—A bill to provide for the reauthorization of programs administered by the Small Business Administration that assist small business concerns owned and controlled by women, and for other purposes.
Tax Policy
H.R. 2286—-Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) / Ways and Means (06/02/03)—A bill to increase partial refundability of the child tax credit, to provide that pay received by members of the Armed Forces while serving in Iraq or other combat zones will be taken into account in determining eligibility for partial refundability of the child tax credit, to accelerate marriage penalty relief in the earned income tax credit, and for other purposes.
S. 1162—-Sen. Blanche Lambert Lincoln (D-AR) / (06/02/03)—A bill to accelerate the increase in the refundability of the child tax credit, and for other purposes.
S. 1173—-Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) / Finance (06/03/03)—A bill to accelerate the increase in the refundability of the child tax credit.
S. 1174—-Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) / (06/03/03)—A bill to accelerate the increase in the refundability of the child tax credit, and for other purposes.
H.R. 2324—-Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) / Ways and Means (06/04/03)—A bill to accelerate the increase in the child tax credit and to expand the refundability of such credit, and for other purposes.
H.R. 2325—-Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT) / Ways and Means (06/04/03)—A bill to accelerate the increase in the refundability of the child tax credit, and for other purposes.
H.R. 2347—-Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) / Ways and Means (06/05/03)—A bill to provide for a credit that is dependent on enactment of state qualified scholarship tax credits and that is allowed against the federal income tax for charitable contributions to education investment organizations that provide assistance for elementary and secondary education.
S. 1196—-Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) / Finance (06/05/03)—A bill to eliminate the marriage penalty permanently in 2003.
Welfare
S. 1180—-Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) / Finance (06/04/03)—A bill to modify the work opportunity credit and the welfare-to-work credit.
H.R. 2350—-Rep. Wally Herger (R-CA) / Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means (06/05/03)—A bill to reauthorize the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant program through fiscal year 2003, and for other purposes.
