Abortion
S. 1930—-Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (11/21/03)—A bill to provide that the approved application under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act for the drug commonly known as RU-486 is deemed to have been withdrawn, to provide for the review by the Comptroller General of the United States of the process by which the Food and Drug Administration approved such drug.
Adoption
S. 1934—-Sen. Don Nickles (R-OK) / Judiciary (11/23/03)—A bill to establish an Office of Intercountry Adoptions within the Department of State, and to reform United States laws governing intercountry adoptions.
Child Care
H.R. 3595—-Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT) / Education and the Workforce (11/21/03)—A bill to authorize financial assistance to permit infants to be cared for at home by parents.
Discrimination
H.R. 3636 —-Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL) / Energy and Commerce (11/21/03)—A bill to prohibit health discrimination against individuals and their family members on the basis of genetic information.
Education
H.R. 3590—-Rep. Robert E. Cramer (D-AL) / Ways and Means (11/21/03)—A bill to allow employers a credit against income tax to encourage them to have their employees provide volunteer services that aid science, mathematics, and engineering education in grades K-12.
H.R. 3618 —-Rep. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) / Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means (11/21/03)—A bill to ensure that all college students and their families have the tools and resources to adequately save for, finance, and repay their postsecondary and post-baccalaureate expenses.
S. Res. 272—-Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) / Considered and passed (11/21/03)—A resolution designating the week beginning November 16, 2003, as American Education Week.
S. 1940—-Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (11/24/03)—A bill to reauthorize the Head Start Act.
S. 1968—-Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY) / (11/25/03)—A bill to enhance literacy in finance and economics.
Health
H.R. 3588—-Rep. Donna Christensen (D-VI) / Energy and Commerce (11/21/03)—A bill to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish health empowerment zone programs in communities that disproportionately experience disparities in health status and health care.
H.R. 3593—-Rep. Danny Davis (D-IL) / Education and the Workforce (11/21/03)—A bill to provide funds for campus mental and behavioral health service centers.
H.R. 3628 —-Rep. Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL) / Energy and Commerce (11/21/03)—A bill to facilitate the procurement of safe food by hospitals, nursing homes, schools, and child care facilities.
S. 1926—-Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) / Finance (11/21/03)—A bill to restore Medicare.
S. 1929—-Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) / Considered and passed (11/21/03)—A bill to extend the mental health benefits parity provisions for an additional year.
S. 1935—-Sen. Jon Corzine (D-NJ) / Finance (11/23/03)—A bill to require employers to offer health care coverage for all employees, and to guarantee comprehensive health care coverage for all children born after 2001.
S. 1939—-Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (11/24/03)—A bill to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to ensure that the public is provided adequate notice and education on the effects of exposure to mercury through the development of health advisories and by requiring that such appropriate advisories be posted, or made readily available, at all businesses that sell fresh, frozen, and canned fish and seafood where the potential for mercury exposure exists.
S. 1945—-Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (11/24/03)—A bill to protect consumers in managed care plans and other health coverage.
S. 1950—-Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) / Finance (11/24/03)—A bill to deliver a meaningful benefit and lower prescription drug prices under Medicare.
S. 1974—-Sen. Thomas Daschle (D-SD) / Finance (11/25/03)—A bill to make improvements to the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003.
S. 1976—-Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) / Finance (11/25/03)—A bill to permit qualifying states to use a portion of their allotments under the State Children’s Health Insurance Program for any fiscal year for certain medical expenditures.
International
H. Con. Res. 342 —-Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) / International Relations (11/21/03)—A resolution commending Iraqi women for their participation in Iraqi government and civil society, encouraging the inclusion of Iraqi women in the political and economic life of Iraq, and advocating the protection of Iraqi women’s human rights in the Iraqi Constitution.
Miscellaneous
S. J. Res. 26—-Sen. Wayne Allard (R-CO) / Judiciary (11/25/03)—A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to marriage.
S. Res. 275—-Sen. Don Nickles (R-OK) / Judiciary (11/25/03)—A resolution to affirm the Defense of Marriage Act.
Reproductive Health
S. 1956—-Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (11/25/03)—A bill to provide assistance to states and nongovernmental entities to initiate public awareness and outreach campaigns to reduce teen pregnancies.
Retirement
S. 1912—-Sen. James Jeffords (I-VT) / Finance (11/21/03)—A bill to expand pension coverage and savings opportunities and to provide other pension reforms.
Small Business
S. 1972—-Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) / Finance (11/25/03)—A bill to provide for a tax credit for small employer-based health insurance coverage in states in which such coverage is mandated.
Tax Policy
H.R. 3606—-Rep. Joel Hefley (R-CO) / Ways and Means (11/21/03)—A bill to eliminate the marriage penalty in the contribution rules for Roth IRAs.
H.R. 3607—-Rep. Darlene Hooley (D-OR) / Ways and Means (11/21/03)—A bill to provide a refundable tax credit to small businesses for the costs of qualified health insurance.
S. 1931—-Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) / Finance (11/22/03)—A bill to repeal the sunset of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 with respect to the expansion of the adoption credit and adoption assistance programs.
Violence Against Women
S. 1954—-Sen. Michael K. Crapo (R-ID) / Judiciary (11/25/03)—A bill to amend the Violence Against Women Act of 2000 by expanding the legal assistance for victims of violence grant program to include legal assistance for victims of dating violence.
