Child Support
H.R. 4644—-Rep. Nancy L. Johnson (R-CT) / Judiciary, Ways and Means (06/22/04)—A bill to make aliens ineligible to receive visas and exclude aliens from admission into the United States for nonpayment of child support.
Civil Rights
S. Res. 385—-Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) / Considered and passed (06/21/04)—A resolution recognizing and honoring the 40th anniversary of congressional passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
S. Res. 386—-Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) / Considered and passed (06/21/04)—A resolution recognizing the 40th anniversary of June 21, 1964, the day civil rights organizers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner gave their lives in the struggle to guarantee the right to vote for every citizen of the United States, and encouraging all Americans to observe the anniversary of the deaths of the 3 men by committing themselves to ensuring equal rights, equal opportunities, and equal justice for all people.
Education
H.R. 4605—-Rep. George Miller (D-CA) / Education and the Workforce (06/17/04)—A bill to provide for review of determinations on whether schools and local educational agencies made adequate yearly progress for the 2002-2003 school year taking into consideration subsequent regulations and guidance applicable to those determinations, and for other purposes.
S. 2542—-Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (06/17/04)—A bill to provide for review of determinations on whether schools and local educational agencies made adequate yearly progress for the 2002-2003 school year taking into consideration subsequent regulations and guidance applicable to those determinations, and for other purposes.
Health
H. Con. Res. 456—-Rep. Mark Udall (D-CO) / Energy and Commerce (06/17/04)—A concurrent resolution recognizing that prevention of suicide is a compelling national priority.
H.R. 4610—-Rep. Charles W. Pickering (R-MS) / Energy and Commerce (06/17/04)—A bill to provide for arthritis research and public health, and for other purposes.
S. 2535—-Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL) / Finance (06/17/04)—A bill to modernize Medicare by ensuring that appropriate preventive services are covered under such program.
S. 2544—-Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) / Finance (06/17/04)—A bill to provide for the certification of programs to provide uninsured employees of small businesses access to health coverage, and for other purposes.
S. Con. Res. 119—-Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-CO) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (06/17/04)—A concurrent resolution recognizing that prevention of suicide is a compelling national priority.
H.R. 4622—-Rep. Michael K. Simpson (R-ID) / Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means (06/18/04)—A bill to provide disadvantaged children with access to dental services.
H.R. 4628—-Rep. John D. Dingell (D-MI) / Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means (06/21/04)—A bill to protect consumers in managed care plans and other health coverage.
S. 2551—-Sen. Bill Frist (R-TN) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (06/21/04)—A bill to reduce and prevent childhood obesity by encouraging schools and school districts to develop and implement local, school-based programs designed to reduce and prevent childhood obesity, promote increased physical activity, and improve nutritional choices.
S. 2558—-Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) / Finance (06/22/04)—A bill to improve the health of Americans and reduce health care costs by reorienting the Nation’s health care system towards prevention, wellness, and self care.
S. 2570—-Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) / Finance (06/23/04)—A bill entitled “The Health Care Assurance Act of 2004.”
International
H.R. 4671—-Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) / International Relations (06/23/04)—A bill to authorize assistance for education and health care for women and children in Iraq during the reconstruction of Iraq and thereafter, to authorize assistance for the enhancement of political participation, economic empowerment, civil society, and personal security for women in Iraq, to state the sense of Congress on the preservation and protection of the human rights of women and children in Iraq, and for other purposes.
Reproductive Health
S. Res. 390—-Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) / Considered and passed (06/23/04)—A resolution designating September 9, 2004, as “National Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Day.”
Tax Policy
H.R. 4653—-Rep. Thomas G. Tancredo (R-CO) / Ways and Means (06/23/04)—A bill to provide that the medical expenses of a child with special needs shall be allowable as a medical expense deduction without regard to the 7.5 percent adjusted gross income threshold.
