Child Protection
H.R. 719—-Rep. Earl Pomeroy (D-ND) / Judiciary (01/30/07)—A bill to require convicted sex offenders to register online identifiers.
S. 431—-Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) / Judiciary (01/30/07)—A bill to require convicted sex offenders to register online identifiers.
Education
H.R. 722—-Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) / Education and Labor (01/30/07)—A bill to increase the maximum Pell Grant.
S. Res. 61—-Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) / Considered and passed (01/31/07)—A resolution designating January 2007 as “National Mentoring Month.”
Health
H.R. 715—-Rep. Lynn C. Woolsey (D-CA) / Energy and Commerce (01/29/07)—A bill to provide funding for programs at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences regarding breast cancer in younger women.
S. 434—-Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) / Finance (01/30/07)—A bill to permit qualifying states to use a portion of their allotments under the State Children’s Health Insurance Program for any fiscal year for certain Medicaid expenditures.
H.R. 758—-Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT) / Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means (01/31/07)—A bill to require that health plans provide coverage for a minimum hospital stay for mastectomies, lumpectomies, and lymph node dissection for the treatment of breast cancer and coverage for secondary consultations.
S. 459—-Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (01/31/07)—A bill to require that health plans provide coverage for a minimum hospital stay for mastectomies, lumpectomies, and lymph node dissection for the treatment of breast cancer and coverage for secondary consultations.
International
H. Res. 121—-Rep. Michael M. Honda (D-CA) / Foreign Affairs (01/31/07)—A resolution expressing the sense of the House that the Government of Japan should formally acknowledge, apologize, and accept historical responsibility in a clear and unequivocal manner for its Imperial Armed Force’s coercion of young women into sexual slavery, known to the world as “comfort women”, during its colonial and wartime occupation of Asia and the Pacific Islands from the 1930s through the duration of World War II.
Judiciary
H.R. 724—-Rep. Dan Burton (R-IN) / Judiciary (01/30/07)—A bill to limit federal court jurisdiction over questions under the Defense of Marriage Act.
Miscellaneous
H.R. 745—-Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) / Judiciary (01/31/07)—A bill to revise the short title of the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006.
S. Res. 68—-Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) / Considered and passed (02/01/07)—A resolution commending the Miss America Organization for its longstanding commitment to quality education and the character of women in the United States.
Tax Policy
H.R. 732—-Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) / Ways and Means (01/30/07)—A bill to reduce from 10 to 5 the number of years of marriage prior to divorce required for a divorced spouse to be eligible for benefits under title II of the Social Security Act.
Veterans
H.R. 704—-Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) / Veterans Affairs (01/29/06)—A bill to reduce from age 57 to age 55 the age after which the remarriage of the surviving spouse of a deceased veteran shall not result in termination of dependency and indemnity compensation otherwise payable to that surviving spouse.
Violence Against Women
H.R. 774—-Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI) / Energy and Commerce (01/31/07)—A bill to extend the program of grants for rape prevention education.
