Abortion
S. 2593—-Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) / Judiciary (04/06/06)—A bill to protect, consistent with Roe v. Wade, a woman’s freedom to choose to bear a child or terminate a pregnancy.
Child Protection
S. Res. 439—-Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-CT) / Considered and passed (04/07/06)—A resolution designating the third week of April 2006 as “National Shaken Baby Syndrome Awareness Week.”
Child Welfare
S. 2504—-Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) / Finance (04/04/06)—A bill to eliminate child poverty.
Family Support
H. Res. 763—-Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA) / Government Reform (04/05/06)—A resolution supporting the goals and ideals of a National Children and Families Day, in order to encourage adults in the United States to support and listen to children and to help children throughout the nation achieve their hopes and dreams.
Health
H.R. 5087—-Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) / Government Reform (04/04/06)—A bill to increase the maximum age up to which a dependent child may be afforded health coverage.
S. 2510—-Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) / Finance (04/05/06)—A bill to establish a national health program administered by the Office of Personnel Management to offer health benefits plans to individuals who are not federal employees.
International
H. Res. 759—-Rep. Lane Evans (D-IL) / International Relations (04/04/06)—A resolution expressing the sense of the House that the Government of Japan should formally acknowledge and accept responsibility for its sexual enslavement of young women, known to the world as “comfort women,” during its colonial occupation of Asia and the Pacific Islands from the 1930s through the duration of World War II.
Miscellaneous
S. 2592—-Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) / Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (04/06/06)—A bill to improve the nutrition and health of schoolchildren by updating the definition of “food of minimal nutritional value” to conform to current nutrition science and to protect the federal investment in the national school lunch and breakfast programs.
Reproductive Health
S. 2508—-Rep. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (04/05/06)—A bill to authorize grants to carry out projects to provide education on preventing teen pregnancies.
Small Business
S. 2588—-Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) / Finance (04/05/06)—A bill to provide for the certification of programs to provide uninsured employees of small businesses access to health coverage.
S.2607 —-Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) / Small Business (04/07/06)—A bill to establish a 4-year small business health insurance information pilot program.
Tax Policy
S. 2494—-Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT) / Finance (04/03/06)—A bill to allow a deduction for the payment of premiums for high deductible health plans and to allow a credit for certain employment taxes paid with respect to premiums for high deductible health plans and contributions to health savings accounts.
H.R. 5081—-Rep. John Carter (R-TX) / Ways and Means (04/04/06)—A bill to make employers of spouses of military personnel eligible for the work opportunity credit.
S. 2549—-Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) / Finance (04/05/06)—A bill to expand the use of health savings accounts for the payment of health insurance premiums for high deductible health plans purchased in the individual market.
Violence Against Women
H. Res. 765—-Rep. Dave Weldon (R-FL) / Government Reform (04/05/06)—A resolution supporting the goals and ideals of National Campus Safety Awareness Month.
S. Res. 426—-Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) / Judiciary (04/05/06)—A resolution supporting the goals and ideals of National Campus Safety Awareness Month.
