Employment
S. Res. 445—Rep. Donald Beyer, Jr. (D-VA)/Education and the Workforce (9/28/15)—A resolution that corporations should commit to utilizing the benefits of gender diversity in boards of directors and other senior management positions.
Family Support
S. 2110—Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA)/Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (9/30/15)—A bill to provide for greater spousal protection under defined contribution plans, and for other purposes.
H.R. 3657—Rep. Theodore Deutch (D-FL)/Agriculture (9/30/15)—A bill to require that supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits be calculated with reference to the cost of the low-cost food plan as determined by the secretary of Agriculture, and for other purposes.
Health
H.R. 3652—Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR)/Energy and Commerce (9/30/15)—A bill to expand programs with respect to women’s health.
H.R. 3658—Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY)/Energy and Commerce (9/30/15)—A bill to provide grants to better understand and reduce gestational diabetes, and for other purposes.
S. Res. 458—Rep. Kristi Noem (R-SD)/Energy and Commerce (10/1/15)—A resolution celebrating 25 years of success from the Office of Research on Women’s Health at the National Institutes of Health.
International
S. Res. 447-Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ)/Foreign Affairs; Judiciary (9/29/15)—A resolution calling upon the president to use the United States’ voice and vote in the United Nations Security Council to condemn the ongoing sexual violence against women and children from Yezidi, Christian, Shabak, and other religious communities by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants as crimes against humanity, to prosecute all perpetrators and those complicit in these crimes, and to support other United Nations member states prosecuting these perpetrators and those complicit.
Small Business
S. 2126—Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA)/Small Business and Entrepreneurship (10/1/15)—A bill to reauthorize the women’s business center program of the Small Business Administration, and for other purposes.
Violence Against Women
H.R. 3679—Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-FL)/Ways and Means (10/1/15)—A bill to provide that the Social Security Administration pay fees associated with obtaining a birth certificate or state identification card for purposes of obtaining a replacement social security card for certain victims of domestic violence, and for other purposes.
