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Bills Introduced

Adoption
S. 550—-Sen. Thomas Daschle (D-SD) / Finance (03/15/01)—A bill to provide equitable access for foster care and adoption services for Indian children in tribal areas.

Child Safety
H.R. 1086—-Rep. Ellen O. Tauscher (D-CA) / Energy and Commerce (03/15/01)—A bill to provide for infant crib safety.

S. 538—-Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) / Commerce, Science, and Transportation (03/15/01)—A bill to provide for infant crib safety.

Education
H.R. 976—-Rep. David Vitter (R-LA) / Education and the Workforce (03/13/01)—A bill to authorize appropriations for the Individuals with Disabilities Act to achieve full funding in FY2001 and FY2003.

H.R. 1026—-Rep. David Wu (D-OR) / Education and the Workforce (03/14/01)—A bill to reduce class size through the use of fully qualified teachers.

H.R. 1076—-Rep. Nancy L. Johnson (R-CT) / Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means (03/15/01)—A bill to expand the incentives for the construction and renovation of public schools.

S. 553—-Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-MN) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (03/15/01)—A bill to help establish and enhance early childhood family education programs.

Health
H. Res. 87—-Rep. Michael E. Capuano (D-MA) / Energy and Commerce (03/13/01)—A resolution to express the sense of the House that the federal investment in programs that provide health care services to uninsured and low-income individuals in medically underserved areas be increased in order to double access to care over the next 5 years.

H.R. 1011—-Rep. Heather Wilson (R-NM) / Energy and Commerce (03/13/01)—A bill to provide public access to quality medical imaging procedures and radiation therapy procedures.

S. 518—-Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (03/13/01)—A bill to provide for the training of health professions students with respect to the identification and referral of victims of domestic violence.

S. 535—-Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) / Indian Affairs (03/14/01)—A bill to clarify that Indian women with breast or cervical cancer who are eligible for health services provided under a medical care program of the Indian Health Service or of a tribal organization are included in the optional Medicaid eligibility category of breast or cervical cancer patients added by the Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment Act of 2000.

H.R. 1064—-Rep. Robert E. Andrews (D-NJ) / Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce (03/15/01)—A bill to require that group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans provide coverage for annual screening mammography for any class of covered individuals if the coverage or plans include coverage for diagnostic mammography for such class and to provide for coverage of annual screening mammography under Medicaid.

S. 543—-Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (03/15/01)—A bill to provide for equal coverage of mental health benefits with respect to health insurance coverage unless comparable limitations are imposed on medical and surgical benefits.

S. 554—-Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) / Finance (03/15/01)—A bill to expand Medicare coverage of certain self-injected biologicals.

Retirement
H.R. 10—-Rep. Rob Portman (R-OH) / Ways and Means (03/14/01)—A bill to provide for pension reform.

Tax Policy
S. 516—-Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) / Finance (03/12/01)—A bill to provide a credit against income tax for higher education loan interest payments.

H.R. 1072—-Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) / Ways and Means (03/15/01)—A bill to provide a credit against income tax for higher education loan interest payments.

H.R. 6—-Rep. Jerry Weller (R-IL) / Ways and Means (03/15/01)—A bill to reduce the marriage penalty by providing for adjustments to the standard deduction, 15-percent rate bracket, and earned income credit and to allow the nonrefundable personal credits against regular and minimum tax liability.