Child Protection
S. Res. 112—-Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-CT) / Considered and passed (04/15/05)—A resolution designating the third week of April in 2005 as “National Shaken Baby Syndrome Awareness Week.”
Discrimination
H.R. 1687—-Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT) / Education and the Workforce (04/19/05)—A bill to provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex.
H.R. 1697—-Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) / Education and the Workforce (04/19/05)—A bill to prohibit discrimination in the payment of wages on account of sex, race, or national origin.
S. 840—-Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (04/19/05)—A bill to prohibit discrimination in the payment of wages on account of sex, race, or national origin.
S. 841—-Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (04/19/05)—A bill to provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex.
Education
H.R. 1681—-Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-NC) / Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means (04/19/05)—A bill to improve education for all students.
H.R. 1764—-Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD) / Education and the Workforce (04/21/05)—A bill to authorize the Secretary of Education to make grants to states to establish statewide screening programs for children who are 5 to 7 years of age to prevent reading failure.
Family Support
H.R. 1754—-Rep. Robert E. Andrews (D-NJ) / Ways and Means (04/21/05)—A bill to ensure that interest accrues on overdue child support payments.
H.R. 1755—-Rep. Robert E. Andrews (D-NJ) / Ways and Means (04/21/05)—A bill to require that anticipated child support be held in trust on the sale or refinancing of certain real property of an obligated parent.
Health
S. 874—-Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) / Read for the first time (04/21/05)—A bill to establish a national health program administered by the Office of Personnel Management to offer health benefits plans to individuals who are not federal employees.
S. 876—-Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) / Judiciary (04/21/05)—A bill to prohibit human cloning and protect stem cell research.
Miscellaneous
H.R. 1682—-Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD) / Ways and Means (04/19/05)—A bill to update the supplemental security income program, and to increase incentives for working, saving, and pursuing an education.
Reproductive Health
H.R. 1709—-Rep. Louise McIntosh Slaughter (D-NY) / Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means (04/19/05)—A bill to expand access to preventive health care services that help reduce unintended pregnancy, reduce the number of abortions, and improve access to women’s health care.
S. 839—-Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) / Read for the first time (04/19/05)—A bill to repeal the law that prevents doctors from providing women with information and referrals concerning their reproductive health options.
S. 844—-Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) / Read for the first time (04/19/05)—A bill to expand access to preventive health care services that help reduce unintended pregnancy, reduce the number of abortions, and improve access to women’s health care.
Retirement
H.R. 1767—-Rep. Harold E. Ford (D-TN) / Ways and Means (04/21/05)—A bill to encourage savings, promote financial literacy, and expand opportunities for young adults by establishing KIDS Accounts.
S. 868—-Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) / Finance (04/21/05)—A bill to encourage savings, promote financial literacy, and expand opportunities for young adults by establishing KIDS Accounts.
Social Security
H.R. 1776—-Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) / Budget, Rules, Ways and Means (04/21/05)—A bill to reform Social Security by establishing a Personal Social Security Savings Program and to provide new limitations on the federal budget.
H.R. 1800—-Rep. Thomas E. Petri (R-WI) / Ways and Means (04/21/05)—A bill to provide for the establishment and maintenance of personal Social Security investment accounts under the Social Security system.
Tax Policy
S. 835—-Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) / Finance (04/18/05)—A bill to allow a nonrefundable tax credit for elder care expenses.
H.R. 1803—-Rep. Edward R. Royce (R-CA) / Ways and Means (04/21/05)—A bill to allow amounts in a health flexible spending arrangement that are unused during a plan year to be carried over to subsequent plan years or deposited into certain health or retirement plans.
