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Bills Introduced

Child Care
S. 2660 —-Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) / Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (06/20/02)—A bill to increase the number of children participating in the summer food service program.

S. 2657 —-Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (06/20/02)—A bill to amend the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to provide for opportunity passports and other assistance for youth in foster care and youth aging out of foster care.

S. 2658 —-Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (06/20/02)—A bill to give more youth aging out of foster care the opportunity to participate in national service programs, and for other purposes.

Health
S. 2625 —-Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL) / Finance (06/14/02)—A bill to provide coverage of outpatient prescription drugs under Medicare.

S. 2626 —-Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (06/14/02)—A bill to protect the public health by providing the Food and Drug Administration with certain authority to regulate tobacco products.

H.R. 4946 —-Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ) / Ways and Means (06/17/02)—A bill to provide health care incentives related to long-term care.

H.R. 4954 —-Rep. Nancy L. Johnson (R-CT) / Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means (06/18/02)—A bill to provide for a voluntary program for prescription drug coverage under Medicare, to modernize and reform payments and the regulatory structure of Medicare, and for other purposes.

H.R. 4959 —-Rep. Mike Ross (D-AR) / Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce (06/18/02)—A bill to require health insurance coverage for certain reconstructive surgery.

S. 2638 —-Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (06/18/02)—A bill to provide health benefits for workers and their families.

S. 2638 —-Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (06/18/02)—A bill to encourage health care facilities, group health plans, and health insurance issuers to reduce administrative costs, and to improve access, convenience, quality, and safety, and for other purposes.

H.R. 4963 —-Rep. Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD) / Energy and Commerce (06/19/02)—A bill to provide for the expansion and coordination of activities of the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with respect to research and programs on cancer survivorship, and for other purposes.

S. 2655 —-Sen. John Rockefeller (D-WV) / Finance (06/20/02)—A bill to improve access to long-term care services under Medicare and Medicaid.

International
H. Con. Res. 421 —-Rep. Eva M. Clayton (D-NC) / International Relations (06/18/02)—A concurrent resolution recognizing the importance of inheritance rights of women in Africa.

S. 2647 —-Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) / Foreign Relations (06/19/02)—A bill to require that activities carried out by the United States in Afghanistan relating to governance, reconstruction and development, and refugee relief and assistance will support the basic human rights of women and women’s participation and leadership in these areas.

S. 2649 —-Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (06/19/02)—A bill to provide assistance to combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic in developing foreign countries.

Reproductive Health
H.R. 4965 —-Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH) / Judiciary (06/19/02)—A bill to prohibit the procedure commonly known as partial-birth abortion.

Tax Policy
S. 2643 —-Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) / Finance (06/19/02)—A bill to repeal the sunset of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 with respect to the expansion of the adoption credit and adoption assistance programs.

Welfare
S. 2624 —-Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) / Finance (06/14/02)—A bill to require a comprehensive strategic plan for the state Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program.

S. 2628 —-Sen. Jon Corzine (D-NJ) / Finance (06/17/02)—A bill to require a state to promote financial education under the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program and to allow financial education to count as a work activity under that program.

S. 2631 —-Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) / Finance (06/18/02)—A bill to amend the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program to provide grants for transitional jobs programs, and for other purposes.

S. 2648 —-Sen. Tim Hutchinson (R-AR) / Finance (06/19/02)—A bill to reauthorize and improve the program of block grants to states for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, improve access to quality child care, and for other purposes.