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Bills Introduced

Child Care
H. Con. Res. 115—-Sen. Bernard Sanders (I-VT) / Education and the Workforce (04/26/01)—A concurrent resolution supporting the goals and ideas of a National Child Care Worthy Wage Day.

Crime
H.R. 1595—-Rep. James F. Sensenbrenner (R-WI) / Armed Services, Judiciary (04/26/01)—A bill to prohibit the execution of a woman while she is pregnant.

Education
S. 745—-Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) / Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (04/06/01)—A bill to promote better nutrition among school-children participating in the school breakfast and school lunch programs.

S. 747—-Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) / Judiciary (04/06/01)—A bill to make grants to local educational agencies to carry out school violence prevention and school safety activities in secondary schools.

S. 748—-Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) / Judiciary (04/06/01)—A bill to make schools safer by waiving the local matching requirement under the Community Policing program for the placement of law enforcement officers in local schools.

H.R. 1546—-Rep. Robert E. Andrews (D-NJ) / Education and the Workforce (04/24/01)—A bill to allow states to spend certain funds to establish and maintain peer mediation programs.

H.R. 1549—-Rep. Robert E. Andrews (D-NJ) / Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce (04/24/01)—A bill to establish a demonstration program to provide comprehensive health assessments for students.

H.R. 1557—-Rep. J. Gresham Barrett (R-SC) / Education and the Workforce (04/24/01)—A bill to permit local educational agencies to use funds made available under the innovative education program to support certain community service programs.

H.R. 1570—-Rep. Major R. Owens (D-NY) / Education and the Workforce (04/24/01)—A bill to provide up-to-date school library media resources and well-trained, professionally certified school library media specialists for elementary and secondary schools, and for other purposes.

S. Con. Res. 33—-Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) / Judiciary (04/24/01)—A concurrent resolution supporting a National Charter Schools Week.

H. Res. 124—-Rep. Ander Crenshaw (R-FL) / Education and the Workforce (04/26/01)—A resolution recognizing the importance of children in the United States and supporting the goals and ideas of American Youth Day.

H.R. 1614—-Rep. Joseph M. Hoeffel (D-PA) / Education and the Workforce (04/26/01)—A bill to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, to reauthorize and make improvements to that Act, and for other purposes.

H.R. 1622—-Rep. George Miller (D-CA) / Education and the Workforce (04/26/01)—A bill to reduce the costs of Federal student loans to students and their families, and for other purposes.

H.R. 1623—-Rep. Charles W. Pickering (R-MS) / Resources (04/26/01)—A bill to provide for the preservation and restoration of historic buildings at historically women’s public colleges or universities.

Health
S. 724—-Sen. Christopher Bond (R-MO) / Finance (04/06/01)—A bill to provide for coverage of pregnancy-related assistance for targeted low-income pregnant women.

H.R. 1608—-Rep. Vernon J. Ehlers (R-MI) / Judiciary (04/26/01)—A bill to prohibit human cloning.

H.R. 1624—-Rep. Deborah Pryce (R-OH) / Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means (04/26/01)—A bill to provide for coverage under Medicare of all oral anticancer drugs.

H.R. 1641—-Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-NY) / Energy and Commerce (04/26/01)—A bill to require states that provide Medicaid prescription drug coverage to cover drugs medically necessary to treat obesity.

H.R. 1644—-Rep. Dave Weldon (R-FL) / Energy and Commerce, Judiciary (04/26/01)—A bill to prohibit human cloning.

S. 790—-Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) / Judiciary (04/26/01)—A bill to prohibit human cloning.

International
H.R. 1567—-Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) / Financial Services (04/24/01)—A bill to encourage the provision of multilateral debt cancellation for countries eligible to be considered for assistance under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative or heavily affected by HIV/AIDS, and for other purposes.

Miscellaneous
S. 792—-Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) / Commerce, Science, and Transportation (04/26/01)—A bill to prohibit the targeted marketing to minors of adult-rated media as an unfair or deceptive practice, and for other purposes.

Retirement
S. 742—-Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) / Finance (04/06/01)—A bill to provide for pension reform.

Tax Policy
S. 763—-Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) / Finance (04/24/01)—A bill to allow tax-free expenditures from education individual retirement accounts for elementary and secondary school expenses, to increase the maximum annual amount of contributions to such accounts, and for other such purposes.

H.R. 1590—-Rep. Jim Ramstad (R-MN) / Ways and Means (04/25/01)—A bill to allow up to $500 of health benefits and dependent care assistance in flexible spending accounts and similar arrangements to be carried forward to the succeeding taxable year or to be included in gross income upon termination of such accounts and arrangements.

H.R. 1611—-Rep. Elton Gallegly (R-CA) / Ways and Means (04/26/01)—A bill to eliminate the marriage penalty with regard to income limits for the individual retirement accounts deduction for active participants in pension plans.

H.R. 1618—-Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) / Ways and Means (04/26/01)—A bill to allow an individual who is entitled to receive child support a refundable credit equal to the amount of unpaid child support and to increase the tax liability of the individual required to pay such support by the amount of the unpaid child support.

Violence Against Women
S. Res. 72—-Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) / Judiciary (04/24/01)—A resolution designating the month of April as “National Sexual Assault Awareness Month.”

Welfare
S. 770—-Rep. Sander M. Levin (D-MI) / Finance (04/24/01)—A bill to allow up to 24 months of vocational educational training to be counted as a work activity under the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program.