Child Protection
H.R. 1672—-Rep. Lynn C. Woolsey (D-CA) / Judiciary (04/14/05)—A bill to provide protection and victim services to children abducted by family members.
Education
S. 754—-Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (04/11/05)—A bill to ensure that the federal student loans are delivered as efficiently as possible, so that there is more grant aid for students.
Family Support
H.R. 1573—-Rep. Michael Michaud (D-ME) / Veterans Affairs (04/12/05)—A bill to provide that the increase of $250 per month in the rate of monthly dependency and indemnity compensation (DIC) payable to a surviving spouse of a member of the Armed Forces who dies on active duty or as a result of a service-connected disability shall be paid for so long as there are minor children, rather than only for two years.
H.R. 1589—-Rep. Lynn C. Woolsey (D-CA) / Education and the Workforce, Financial Services, Government Reform, House Administration (04/13/05)—A bill to improve the lives of working families by providing family and medical need assistance, child care assistance, in-school and after-school assistance, family care assistance, and encouraging the establishment of family-friendly workplaces.
H.R. 1667—-Rep. Tom Udall (D-NM) / Education and the Workforce, Government Reform, House Administration (04/14/05)—A bill to provide entitlement to leave to eligible employees whose spouse, son, daughter, or parent is a member of the Armed Forces who is serving on active duty in support of a contingency operation or who is notified of an impending call or order to active duty in support of a contingency operation.
S. 798—-Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (04/14/05)—A bill to provide entitlement to leave to eligible employees whose spouse, son, daughter, or parent is a member of the Armed Forces who is serving on active duty in support of a contingency operation or who is notified of an impending call or order to active duty in support of a contingency operation.
Health
S. 747—-Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) / Finance (04/11/05)—A bill to give states the flexibility to reduce bureaucracy by streamlining enrollment processes for Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Programs through better linkages with programs providing nutrition and related assistance to low-income families.
S. 757—-Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-RI) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (04/11/05)—A bill to authorize the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to make grants for the development and operation of research centers regarding environmental factors that may be related to the etiology of breast cancer.
S. 760—-Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (04/11/05)—A bill to provide a means for continued improvement in emergency medical services for children.
H.R. 1613—-Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy (D-RI) / Energy and Commerce (04/13/05)—A bill to authorize formula grants to states to provide access to affordable health insurance for certain child care providers and staff.
H.R. 1668—-Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-CA) / Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means (04/14/05)—A bill to ensure that every uninsured child in America has health insurance coverage.
S. 784—-Sen. Craig Thomas (R-WY) / Finance (04/14/05)—A bill to provide for the coverage of marriage and family therapist services and mental health counselor services under part B of Medicare.
S. 799—-Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (04/14/05)—A bill to provide for the coordination of federal government policies and activities to prevent obesity in childhood, to provide for state childhood obesity prevention and control, and to establish grant programs to prevent childhood obesity within homes, schools, and communities.
Housing
S. 771—-Sen. Wayne Allard (R-CO) / Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (04/13/05)—A bill to better assist low-income families to obtain decent, safe, and affordable housing as a means of increasing their economic and personal well-being through the conversion of the existing section 8 housing choice voucher program into a flexible voucher program.
Miscellaneous
S. Res. 105—-Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) / Considered and passed (04/12/05)—A resolution designating April 15, 2005, as National Youth Service Day.
H. Res. 212—-Rep. James P. Moran (D-VA) / Armed Services (04/13/05)—A resolution honoring military children during “National Month of the Military Child.”
S.J. Res. 13—-Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) / Judiciary (04/14/05)—A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to marriage.
Reproductive Health
S. 740—-Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) / Finance (04/07/05)—A bill to expand or add coverage of pregnant women under Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Program.
H.R. 1539—-Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) / Energy and Commerce (04/08/05)—A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to the responsibilities of a pharmacy when a pharmacist employed by the pharmacy refuses to fill a valid prescription for a drug on the basis of religious beliefs or moral convictions.
S. 755—-Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (04/11/05)—A bill to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to nonprofit tax-exempt organizations for the purchase of ultrasound equipment to provide free examinations to women needing such services.
S. 778—-Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) / Finance (04/13/05)—A bill to require a pharmacy that receives payments or has contracts under Medicare and Medicaid to ensure that all valid prescriptions are filled without unnecessary delay or interference.
H.R. 1652—-Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) / Energy and Commerce (04/14/05)—A bill to establish certain duties for pharmacies when pharmacists employed by the pharmacies refuse to fill valid prescriptions for drugs or devices on the basis of personal beliefs.
S. 809—-Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (04/14/05)—A bill to establish certain duties for pharmacies when pharmacists employed by the pharmacies refuse to fill valid prescriptions for drugs or devices on the basis of personal beliefs.
Tax Policy
S. 759—-Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) / Judiciary (04/11/05)—A bill to make higher education more affordable.
H.R. 1549—-Rep. Thomas M. Reynolds (R-NY) / Ways and Means (04/12/05)—A bill to allow an income tax credit for the provision of homeownership and community development.
H.R. 1561—-Rep. Harold E. Ford (D-TN) / Ways and Means (04/12/05)—A bill to expand the incentives for adoption and to increase adoptive incentive payments.
H.R. 1597—-Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) / Ways and Means (04/13/05)—A bill to increase the age limit for the child tax credit.
Violence Against Women
S. 792—-Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) / Judiciary (04/14/05)—A bill to establish a national sex offender registration database.
