Child Welfare
H.R. 6307—-Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA)/Ways and Means (6/19/08)—A bill to assist children in foster care in developing, or maintaining, connections to family, community, support, health care, and school.
S. 3173—-Sen. John Rockefeller (D-WV)/Finance (6/20/08)—A bill to allow children in foster care to be placed with their parents in residential family treatment centers that provide safe environments for treating addiction and promoting healthy parenting.
Education
H.R. 6314—-Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX)/Science and Technology (6/19/08)—A bill to increase awareness of the existence of and to overcome gender bias in academic science and engineering through research and training.
Employment
S. 3140—-Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA)/Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (6/16/08)—A bill to provide that four of the twelve weeks of parental leave made available to a federal employee shall be paid leave.
S. 3163—-Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI)/Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (6/19/08)—A bill to provide a federal employees program to authorize the use of leave by caregivers for family members of certain individuals performing military service.
Health
S. 3142—-Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL)/Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (6/17/08)—A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to enhance public health activities related to stillbirth and sudden unexpected infant death.
