Abortion
S. 32—-Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH)/Judiciary (1/22/13)—A bill to prohibit taking minors across state lines in circumvention of laws requiring the involvement of parents in abortion decisions.
H.R. 346—-Rep. Alan Nunnelee (R-MS)/Energy and Commerce (1/22/13)—A bill to amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to ensure that the coverage offered under multi-state qualified health plans offered in exchanges is consistent with the federal abortion funding ban.
S. 135—-Sen. David Vitter (R-LA)/Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (1/24/13)—A bill to prohibit family planning grants from being awarded to any entity that performs abortions, and for other purposes.
S. 137—-Sen. David Vitter (R-LA)/Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (1/24/13)—A bill to prohibit certain abortion-related discrimination in governmental activities.
S. 138—-Sen. David Vitter (R-LA)/Judiciary (1/24/13)—A bill to prohibit discrimination against the unborn on the basis of sex or gender, and for other purposes.
S. 139—-Sen. David Vitter (R-LA)/Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (1/24/13)—A bill to impose admitting privilege requirements with respect to physicians who perform abortions.
S. 142—-Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA)/Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (1/24/13)—A bill to prohibit the expenditure of federal funds for abortions, and for other purposes.
S. 143—-Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA)/Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (1/24/13)—A bill to prohibit discrimination and retaliation against individuals and health care entities that refuse to recommend, refer for, provide coverage for, pay for, provide, perform, assist, or participate in abortions.
S. 154—-Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK)/Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (1/24/13)—A bill to amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to ensure that the coverage offered under multi-state qualified health plans offered in exchanges is consistent with the federal abortion funding ban.
Adoption
H. Res. 24—-Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN)/Foreign Affairs (1/14/13)—A resolution expressing the deep disappointment of the House of Representatives in the enactment by the Russian government of a law ending intercountry adoptions of Russian children by United States citizens and urging the Russian Government to reconsider the law and prioritize the processing of intercountry adoptions involving parentless Russian children who were already matched with United States families before the enactment of the law.
H. Res. 34—-Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ)/Foreign Affairs (1/15/13)—A resolution calling on the United States and Russia to continue cooperation in securing safe and loving homes for unparented children.
Child Care
S. 56—-Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA)/Finance (1/22/13)—A bill to increase the credit for employers establishing workplace child care facilities, to increase the child care credit to encourage greater use of quality child care services, to provide incentives for students to earn child care-related degrees and to work in child care facilities, and to increase the exclusion for employer-provided dependent care assistance.
Employment
S. 84—-Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)/Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (1/23/13)—A bill to provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex, and for other purposes.
H.R. 377—-Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT)/Education and the Workforce (1/23/13)—A bill to provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex, and for other purposes.
Human Trafficking
S. 121—-Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA)/Judiciary (1/23/13)—A bill to establish the United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking to review federal government policy on human trafficking.
International
S. 120—-Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA)/Foreign Relations (1/23/13)—A bill to expand the number of scholarships available to Pakistani women under the Merit and Needs-Based Scholarship Program.
Miscellaneous
H.R. 360—-Rep. Terri Sewell (D-AL)/Financial Services (1/23/13)—A bill to award posthumously a Congressional Gold Medal to Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley, in recognition of the 50th commemoration of the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church where the four little black girls lost their lives, which served as a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement.
S. Res. 13—-Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH)/Judiciary (1/24/13)—A resolution congratulating the members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. for 100 years of service to communities throughout the United States and the world, and commending Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. for its promotion of sisterhood, scholarship, and service.
Military
H.R. 430—-Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA)/Armed Services (1/25/13)—A bill to protect new members of the armed forces who are undergoing basic training from the sexual advances of the members of the armed forces responsible for their instruction.
Reproductive Health
S. 144—-Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA)/Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (1/24/13)—A bill to amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to authorize additional funding for the pregnancy assistance fund.
Tax Policy
S. 91—-Sen. David Vitter (R-LA)/Finance (1/23/13)—A bill to clarify eligibility for the child tax credit.
Veterans
S. 131—-Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA)/Veterans’ Affairs (1/24/13)—A bill to improve the reproductive assistance provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs to severely wounded, ill, or injured veterans and their spouses, and for other purposes.
Violence Against Women
S. 5—-Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV)/Judiciary (1/22/13)—A bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act of 1994.
S. 47—-Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT)/Read the First Time (1/22/13)—A bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act of 1994.
H.R. 11—-Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI)/Judiciary, Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, Financial Services, Natural Resources (1/22/13)—A bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act of 1994.
S. 80—-Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX)/Judiciary (1/23/13)—A bill to amend the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 to provide for Debbie Smith grants for auditing sexual assault evidence backlogs and to establish a Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence Reporting System, and for other purposes.
H.R. 354—-Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX)/Judiciary (1/23/13)—A bill to amend the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 to provide for Debbie Smith grants for auditing sexual assault evidence backlogs and to establish a Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence Reporting System, and for other purposes.
H.R. 393—-Rep. Mike Honda (D-CA)/Judiciary (1/23/13)—A bill to consolidate, improve, and reauthorize programs that support families and victims in the justice system affected by domestic violence.
S. 128—-Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA)/Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (1/24/13)—A bill to improve education and prevention related to campus sexual violence, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking.
S. Res. 14—-Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)/Judiciary (1/24/13)—A resolution raising awareness and encouraging prevention of stalking by designating January 2013 as “National Stalking Awareness Month.”
