Business
H. Con. Res. 429—-Rep. Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY) / Education and the Workforce, Financial Services (06/13/06)—A concurrent resolution recognizing the low presence of minorities in the financial services industry and minorities and women in upper level positions of management, and expressing the sense of the Congress that active measures should be taken to increase the demographic diversity of the financial services industry.
Child Protection
S. 3499—-Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) / Judiciary (06/13/06)—A bill to protect youth from exploitation by adults using the Internet.
Crime
H.R. 5610—-Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) / Judiciary (06/14/06)—A bill to prevent sex offenders from using immigration laws to bring innocent, unsuspecting victims into the United States.
Family Support
S. 3525—-Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) / Finance (06/15/06)—A bill to improve outcomes for children in families affected by methamphetamine abuse and addiction, to reauthorize the promoting safe and stable families program.
Health
H.R. 5598—-Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D-IL) / Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce (06/13/06)—A bill to prohibit departments, agencies, and other instrumentalities of the federal government from providing assistance to an entity for the development of course material or the provision of instruction on human development and sexuality, if such material or instruction will include medically inaccurate information.
S. Res. 508—-Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE) / Judiciary (06/13/06)—A resolution designating October 20, 2006 as “National Mammography Day.”
S. 3524—-Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) / Finance (06/15/06)—An original bill to improve health care provided to Indians under Medicare, Medicaid, and State Children’s Health Insurance Programs.
International
S. Res. 511—-Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) / Foreign Relations (06/13/06)—A resolution commending and supporting Radio Al Mahaba, the first and only radio station for the women of Iraq.
Labor
H.R. 5625—-Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) / Administration, Education and the Workforce, Government Reform (06/15/06)—A bill to expand the scope of the Family and Medical Leave Act.
S. 3534—-Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY) / Read for the first time (06/16/06)—A bill to provide for a YouthBuild program.
Reproductive Health
S. 3529—-Rep. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (06/15/06)—A bill to ensure that new mothers and their families are educated about postpartum depression, screened for symptoms, and provided with essential services, and to increase research at the National Institutes of Health on postpartum depression.
Tax Policy
S. 3528—-Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) / Finance (06/15/05)—A bill to provide higher education assistance for nontraditional students.
S. 3523—-Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) / Finance (06/15/06)—A bill to provide that the Tax Court may review claims for equitable innocent spouse relief and to suspend the running on the period of limitations while such claims are pending.
