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Bills Introduced

Child Protection
S. Res. 226—-Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (06/07/07)—A resolution recognizing the month of November as “National Homeless Youth Awareness Month.”

H.R. 2637—-Rep. Lynn C. Woolsey (D-CA) / Education and Labor (06/08/07)—A bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act, with respect to civil penalties for child labor violations.

Education
S. 1557—-Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-CT) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (06/06/07)—A bill to improve 21st Century Community Learning Centers.

H.R. 2616—-Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT) / Education and Labor (06/07/07)—A bill to promote public-private partnerships to strengthen investment in early childhood development for children from birth to entry into kindergarten in order to ensure healthy development and school readiness for all children.

S. 1573—-Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-CT) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (06/07/07)—A bill to promote public-private partnerships to strengthen investment in early childhood development for children from birth to entry into kindergarten in order to ensure healthy development and school readiness for all children.

 

Health
H.R. 2581—-Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) / Energy and Commerce (06/06/07)—A bill to permit states to expand coverage for children between 19 and 25 years of age under Medicaid and under the State Child Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).

H.R. 2584—-Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) / Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means (06/06/07)—A bill to alleviate critical shortages of physicians in the fields of family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, emergency medicine, general surgery, and obstetrics-gynecology.

H.R. 2589—-Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) / Energy and Commerce (06/06/07)—A bill to reauthorize and amend the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act and the Pediatric Research Equity Act.

S. 1560—-Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-CT) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (06/06/07)—A bill to improve the quality and availability of mental health services for children and adolescents.

H. Res. 470—-Rep. Deborah Pryce (R-OH) / Energy and Commerce (06/07/07)—A resolution supporting efforts to increase childhood cancer awareness, treatment, and research.

S. 1564—-Sen. Bernard Sanders (I-VT) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (06/07/07)—A bill to provide health insurance coverage for children and pregnant and post-partum women throughout the United States by combining the children and pregnant women health coverage under Medicaid and SCHIP into a new All Healthy Children Program.

S. 1572—-Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (06/07/07)—A bill to increase the number of well-trained mental health service professionals (including those based in schools) providing clinical mental health care to children and adolescents.

 

International
S. 1553—-Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) / Foreign Relations (06/06/07)—A bill to provide additional assistance to combat HIV/AIDS among young people.

H.R. 2604—-Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-NY) / Foreign Affairs (06/07/07)—A bill to provide financial and other support to the United Nations Population Fund to carry out activities to save women’s lives, limit the incidence of abortion and maternal mortality associated with unsafe abortion, promote universal access to safe and reliable family planning, and assist women, children, and men in developing countries to live better lives.

H.R. 2620—-Rep. Jim Marshall (D-GA) / Foreign Affairs (06/07/07)—A bill to end the use of child soldiers in hostilities around the world.

 

Judiciary
H.R. 2597—-Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) / Judiciary (06/06/07)—A bill to provide that human life shall be deemed to exist from conception.

 

Miscellaneous
H. Res. 466—-Rep. Robert A. Brady (D-PA) / Oversight and Government Reform (06/06/07)—A resolution honoring and recognizing the achievements of Barbara Hillary, the first African-American woman on record to reach the North Pole.

 

Reproductive Health
H.R. 2560—-Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) / Energy and Commerce (06/05/07)—A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit human cloning.

H.R. 2564—-Rep. Dave Weldon (R-FL) / Judiciary (06/05/07)—A bill to amend title 18 of the United States Code to prohibit human cloning.

 

Tax Policy
H.R. 2582—-Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite (R-FL) / Ways and Means (06/06/07)—A bill to allow a deduction for qualified long-term care services in computing adjusted gross income.