Child Protection
S. Res. 486—-Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) / Considered and passed (05/22/06)—A resolution designating June 2006 as “National Internet Safety Month.”
S. 2999—-Sen. Mike DeWine (R-OH) / Finance (05/24/06)—A bill to improve protections for children and to hold states accountable for the safe and timely placement of children across state lines.
Child Support
S. 2994—-Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) / Finance (05/24/06)—A bill to provide for the mandatory revocation, in addition to the mandatory denial, of passports of individuals who have a certain level of child support arrearages.
Health
S. Res. 487—-Sen. Russell Feingold (D-WI) / Considered and passed (05/22/06)—A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate with regard to the importance of Women’s Health Week, which promotes awareness of diseases that affect women and which encourages women to take preventive measures to ensure good health.
H. Res. 833—-Rep. Maurice D. Hinchey (D-NY) / Energy and Commerce (05/23/06)—A resolution expressing the sense of the House with regard to the importance of National Women’s Health Week, which promotes awareness of diseases that affect women and which encourages women to take preventive measures to ensure good health.
H.R. 5465—-Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA) / Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means (05/24/06)—A bill to provide for coverage of comprehensive cancer care planning under Medicare and to improve the care furnished to individuals diagnosed with cancer by establishing a Medicare hospice care demonstration program and grants programs for cancer palliative care and symptom management programs, provider education, and related research.
H.R. 5472—-Rep. Sue Wilkins Myrick (R-NC) / Energy and Commerce (05/24/06)—A bill to provide waivers relating to grants for preventive health measures with respect to breast and cervical cancers.
H.R. 5493—-Rep. Barbara Cubin (R-WY) / Energy and Commerce (05/25/06)—A bill regarding residential treatment programs for pregnant and parenting women and a program to reduce substance abuse among nonviolent offenders.
S. 3055—-Sen. Jim Talent (R-MO) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (05/25/06)—A bill regarding residential treatment programs for pregnant and parenting women and a program to reduce substance abuse among nonviolent offenders.
International
H. Res. 844—-Rep. Eliot L. Engel (D-NY) / International Relations (05/25/06)—A resolution congratulating the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative on ten years of significant achievement in the search for an HIV/AIDS vaccine.
Reproductive Health
S. Res. 485—-Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (05/22/06)—A resolution to express the sense of the Senate concerning the value of family planning for American women.
Tax Policy
H.R. 5463—-Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO) / Ways and Means (05/23/06)—A bill to repeal the increase in the age of minor children whose unearned income is taxed as a parent’s income.
H.R. 5473—-Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) / Ways and Means (05/24/06)—A bill to repeal the increase in tax on unearned income of minor children enacted by the Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005.
H.R. 5495—-Rep. Phil English (R-PA) / Ways and Means (05/25/06)—A bill to add human papillomavirus vaccines to the list of taxable vaccines for purposes of the Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund.
