Adoption
H. Res. 959—-Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI) / Ways and Means (07/27/06)—A resolution recognizing and supporting the success of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 in increasing adoption and the efforts the Act has spurred including National Adoption Day and National Adoption Month, and encouraging adoption throughout the year.
Child Care
H.R. 5992—-Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT) / Education and the Workforce (07/28/06)—A bill to establish demonstration projects to provide at-home infant care benefits.
Child Safety
H.R. 5919—-Rep. William O. Lipinski (D-IL) / Energy and Commerce (07/27/06)—A bill to empower parents to protect children from increasing depictions of indecent material on television.
H.R. 5944—-Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) / Judiciary (07/27/06)—A bill to protect our children from child pornographers.
Child Support
H.R. 5977—-Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett (R-MD) / Judiciary, Ways and Means (07/28/06)—A bill to provide for the denial of family classification petitions filed by an individual who owes child support arrearages.
Health
S. 3743—-Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (07/26/06)—A bill to improve newborn screening activities.
H. Res. 961—-Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) / Energy and Commerce (07/27/06)—A resolution encouraging the establishment of programs to increase public awareness of vision disorders in children.
H.R. 5938—-Rep. Nita M. Lowey (D-NY) / Energy and Commerce (07/27/06)—A bill to reduce childhood obesity.
S. 3756—-Rep. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) / Environment and Public Works (07/27/06)—A bill to study and improve the air quality inside school buses.
S. Res. 544—-Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) / Considered and passed (07/28/06)—A resolution designating September 20, 2006, as “National Attention Deficit Disorder Awareness Day”.
International
H.R. 5966—-Rep. Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ) / International Relations (07/28/06)—A bill to end the use of child soldiers in hostilities around the world.
Miscellaneous
H. Con. Res. 464—-Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) / Education and the Workforce (07/28/06)—Concurrent resolution recognizing and honoring the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Lambda Theta Nu Sorority, Incorporated, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter sorority established for Latina college women on the West Coast.
Violence Against Women
H. Res. 944—-Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) / Education and the Workforce (07/25/06)—A resolution supporting the goals and ideals of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month and expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress should raise awareness of domestic violence in the U.S. and its devastating effects on families and communities.
H. Res. 970—-Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) / International Relations (07/28/06)—A resolution denouncing the practices of female genital mutilation, domestic violence, “honor” killings, acid burning, dowry deaths, and other gender-based persecutions and expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that participation, protection, recognition, and independence of women is crucial to achieving a just, moral, and honorable society.
