Child Protection
H.R. 1656—-Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) / Oversight and Government Reform, Transportation and Infrastructure (03/22/07)—A bill to permit access to databases maintained by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for purposes of complying with sex offender registry and notification laws.
Education
S. 915—-Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-NC) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (03/19/07)—A bill to establish a pilot program to provide grants to encourage eligible institutions of higher education to establish and operate pregnant and parenting student services offices for pregnant students, parenting students, prospective parenting students who are anticipating a birth or adoption, and students who are placing or have placed a child for adoption.
H.R. 1623—-Rep. Ruben Hinojosa (D-TX) / Education and Labor (03/21/07)—A bill to improve graduation rates by authorizing the Secretary of Education to make grants to improve adolescent literacy.
H.R. 1630—-Rep. Adam H. Putnam (R-FL) / Education and Labor (03/21/07)—A bill to provide greater accountability for Head Start agencies.
S. 948—-Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (03/21/07)—A bill to authorize funding for the establishment of a program on children and the media within the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to study the role and impact of electronic media in the development of children.
S. 958—-Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (03/22/07)—A bill to establish an adolescent literacy program.
Foster Care
H. Res. 263—-Rep. Dennis Cardoza (D-CA) / Judiciary, Ways and Means (03/23/07)—A resolution recognizing National Foster Care Month as an opportunity for Congress to improve the foster care system throughout the United States.
Health
S. 911—-Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (03/19/07)—A bill to advance medical research and treatments into pediatric cancers, ensure patients and families have access to the current treatments and information regarding pediatric cancers, establish a population-based national childhood cancer database, and promote public awareness of pediatric cancers.
H.R. 1588—-Rep. Barbara Cubin (R-WY) / Energy and Commerce, Energy and Natural Resources, Environment and Public Works, Finance, Financial Services, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Government Reform, Governmental Affairs, Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, House Administration, Indian Affairs, International Relations, Judiciary, Natural Resources, Oversight and Government Reform, Placed on Calendar, Read for the first time, Resources, Rules, Rules and Administration, Science, Small Business, Transportation and Infrastructure, Veterans Affairs, Ways and Means (03/20/07)—A bill to provide for the coverage of marriage and family therapist services and mental health counselor services under Medicare.
S. 921—-Sen. Craig Thomas (R-WY) / Finance (03/20/07)—A bill to provide for the coverage of marriage and family therapist services and mental health counselor services under Medicare.
H.R. 1634—-Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA) / Energy and Commerce (03/21/07)—A bill to establish grant programs to provide for education and outreach on newborn screening and coordinated follow-up care once newborn screening has been conducted
H.R. 1655—-Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) / Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means (03/22/07)—A bill to require that group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans provide coverage for treatment of a minor child’s congenital or developmental deformity or disorder due to trauma, infection, tumor, or disease.
S. 957—-Rep. Richard Burr (R-NC) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (03/22/07)—A bill to provide for the collection and maintenance of amniotic fluid and placental stem cells for the treatment of patients and research.
International
H.R. 1616—-Rep. James P. McGovern (D-MA) / Agriculture, Foreign Affairs (03/21/07)—A bill to reauthorize the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program.
S. 946—-Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) / Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (03/21/07)—A bill to reauthorize the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program.
Military
H. Res. 265—-Rep. James P. Moran (D-VA) / Armed Services (03/23/07)—A resolution honoring military children during “National Month of the Military Child.”
Miscellaneous
H.R. 1617—-Rep. Russ Carnahan (D-MO) / Oversight and Government Reform (03/21/07)—A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 561 Kingsland Avenue in University City, Missouri, as the “Harriett F. Woods Post Office Building.”
H. Res. 262—-Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) / Armed Services (03/22/07)—A resolution honoring Ellen May Tower who, while an United States Army nurse during the Spanish-American War, became the first Army nurse to die on foreign soil.
Reproductive Health
H.R. 1653—-Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) / Energy and Commerce (03/22/07)—A bill to provide for the reduction of adolescent pregnancy, HIV rates, and other sexually transmitted diseases.
S. 972—-Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (03/22/07)—A bill to provide for the reduction of adolescent pregnancy, HIV rates, and other sexually transmitted diseases.
Veterans
H.R. 1589—-Rep. Henry E. Brown (R-SC) / Armed Services (03/20/07)—A bill to repeal the offset from surviving spouse annuities under the military Survivor Benefit Plan for amounts paid by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs as dependency and indemnity compensation and to repeal the optional annuity authority for the dependent children of a member when there is an eligible surviving spouse.
