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Bills Introduced

Child Care
H.R. 4033—-Rep. Michael E. Capuano (D-MA) / Financial Services (03/20/02)—A bill to provide affordable housing opportunities for families that are headed by grandparents and other relatives of children.

Health
H.R. 3989—-Rep. Nita M. Lowey (D-NY) / Energy and Commerce (03/18/02)—A bill to authorize additional appropriations to the National Institutes of Health for research on the early detection of and the reduction of mortality rates attributed to breast cancer.

H.R. 4000—-Rep. Jerry Weller (R-IL) / Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means (03/19/02)—A bill to enhance the access of Medicare beneficiaries who live in medically underserved areas to critical primary and preventive health care benefits, to improve the Medicare Choice program, and for other purposes.

H.R. 4011—-Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) / Energy and Commerce (03/20/02)—A bill to establish the Stem Cell Research Board to conduct research on the effects of the President’s August 9, 2001, stem cell research directive.

H.R. 4066—-Rep. Marge Roukema (R-NJ) / Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce (03/20/02)—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. 2042—-Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) / Finance (03/21/02)—A bill to expand access to affordable health care and to strengthen the health care safety net and make health care services more available in rural and underserved areas.

International
S. Res. 229—-Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) / (03/20/02)—A resolution condemning the involvement of women in suicide bombings.

Miscellaneous
H. Con. Res. 355—-Rep. Mike Ferguson (R-NJ) / Government Reform (03/18/02)—A concurrent resolution congratulating Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, on its 90th anniversary and wishing the organization continued success in its efforts on behalf of all people.

H. Res. 371—-Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) / Government Reform (03/19/02)—A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding Women’s History Month.

H. Con. Res. 367—-Rep. Sue Wilkins Myrick (R-NC) / Government Reform (03/20/02)—A concurrent resolution honoring the life and work of Susan B. Anthony.

H.R. 4072—-Rep. Louise McIntosh Slaughter (D-NY) / Resources (03/20/02)—A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to establish a commemorative trail in connection with the Women’s Rights National Historical Park to link properties that are historically and thematically associated with the struggle for women’s suffrage.

Tax Policy
H.R. 4019—-Rep. Jerry Weller (R-IL) / Ways and Means (03/20/02)—A bill to provide that the marriage penalty relief provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 shall be permanent.

Violence Against Women
H.R. 4032—-Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA) / Energy and Commerce, Government Reform (03/20/02)—A bill to provide coverage for domestic violence screening and treatment under the maternal and child health block grant program, Medicaid, and the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program.

S. 2055—-Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) / Judiciary (03/21/02)—A bill to make grants to train sexual assault nurse examiners, law enforcement personnel, and first responders in the handling of sexual assault cases, to establish minimum standards for forensic evidence collection kits, and to carry out DNA analyses of samples from crime scenes.

Welfare
S. 2052—-Sen. John Rockefeller (D-WV) / Finance (03/21/02)—A bill to reauthorize and improve the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program.

S. 2058—-Sen. Blanche Lambert Lincoln (D-AR) / Finance (03/21/02)—A bill to replace the caseload reduction credit with an employment credit Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program.