Floor Action: The Senate is in session this week. The House is in recess.
Women’s Health—On June 17, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee will consider several bills, including S. 3799, the Healthy Start Reauthorization Act, and S. 2339, the Young Women’s Breast Health Education and Awareness Requires Learning Young Act.
Child Care
H.R. 9304— Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-PA)/Education and Workforce (06/11/2026)— A bill to require that juice be the default benefit under certain WIC food packages. Cosponsors: 0 Republicans, 1 Democrat
H.R. 9305—Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-PA)/Education and Workforce (06/11/2026)—To amend the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to set maximum monthly allowances for juice under the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children. Cosponsors: 0 Republicans, 1 Democrat
Child Protection:
H.R. 9195— Rep. Morgan McGarvey (D-KY)/Education and Workforce (06/08/2026)— To promote and ensure delivery of high-quality special education and related services to children and youth who are blind or visually impaired, deaf, hard of hearing, deaf disabled, or deafblind through instructional methodologies meeting their unique language and learning needs, to enhance accountability for the provision of such services, and for other purposes. Cosponsors: 4 Republicans, 25 Democrats
H.R. 9196—Rep. Morgan McGarvey (D-KY)/Education and Workforce (06/08/2026)— A bill to promote and ensure delivery of high-quality special education and related services to children and youth who are deafblind, and for other purposes. Cosponsors: 1 Republican, 1 Democrat
H.R. 9224—Rep. Ryan Mackenzie (R-PA)/Education and Workforce (06/09/2026)—A bill to amend the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to reauthorize and update the Act, and for other purposes. Cosponsors: 1 Republican, 2 Democrats
H.R. 9287—Rep. Morgan McGarvey (D-KY)/Education and Workforce (06/08/2026)— A bill to establish an independent Children’s Commission and position of Commissioner, and for other purposes. Cosponsors: 0 Republicans, 8 Democrats
S. 4763—Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA)/Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (06/11/2026) —A bill to establish an independent Children’s Commission and position of Commissioner, and for other purposes. Cosponsors: 0 Republicans, 4 Democrats
Judiciary
H.R. 9261—Rep. Donald Beyer (D-VA)/ Oversight and Government Reform; Veterans’ Affairs; House Administration (06/11/2026) —A bill to provide paid family and medical leave to Federal employees, and for other purposes. Cosponsors: 1 Republican, 1 Democrat
H.R. 9309— Rep. Nikema Williams (D-GA)/Financial Services (06/11/2026)—A bill to amend the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to expand the Offices of Minority and Women Inclusion to encompass LGBTQI+ inclusion, and for other purposes. Cosponsors: 0 Republicans, 8 Democrats
Military
H.R. 9247— Rep. Erin Houchin (R-IN)/ Veterans’ Affairs (06/10/2026)— A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to ensure that a suicide prevention coordinator is available at each medical center of the Department of Veterans Affairs, including outside the operating hours of such medical center, as needed, to accommodate a request for suicide prevention planning services, and for other purposes. Cosponsors: 0 Republicans, 1 Democrat
Violence Against Women
H.R. 9198—Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC)/Education and Workforce (06/08/2026)—A bill to create a national commission to combat workplace sexual harassment and for other purposes. Cosponsors: 0 Republicans, 0 Democrats
