Abortion
S. 1241—-Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)/Judiciary (6/21/11)—A bill to prohibit taking minors across state lines in circumvention of laws requiring the involvement of parents in abortion decisions.
H.R. 2299—-Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL)/Judiciary (6/22/11)—A bill to prohibit taking minors across state lines in circumvention of laws requiring the involvement of parents in abortion decisions.
Child Protection
S. 1234—-Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA)/Finance (6/20/11)—A bill to reauthorize grants to assist children affected by methamphetamine or other substance abuse under the promoting safe and stable families program.
Education
S. 1269—-Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME)/Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (6/23/11)—A bill to require the secretary of Education to collect information from coeducational secondary schools on such schools’ athletic programs, and for other purposes.
H.R. 2331—-Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY)/Education and the Workforce (6/23/11)—A bill to assist states in making voluntary high quality universal prekindergarten programs available to three- to five-year-olds for at least one year preceding kindergarten.
Employment
S. 1252—-Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)/ Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (6/22/11)—A bill to promote the economic self-sufficiency of low-income women through their increased participation in high-wage, high-demand occupations.
H.R. 2315—-Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO)/Education and the Workforce (6/23/11)—A bill to promote the economic self-sufficiency of low-income women through their increased participation in high-wage, high-demand occupations where they currently represent 25 percent or less of the workforce.
H.R. 2364—-Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY)/Education and the Workforce, House Administration, Oversight and Government Reform (6/24/11)—A bill to permit leave to care for a domestic partner, parent-in-law, adult child, sibling, grandchild, or grandparent who has a serious health condition, and for other purposes.
Family Support
H.R. 2346—-Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA)/ Education and the Workforce, Oversight and Government Reform, House Administration, and Ways and Means (6/23/11)—A bill to improve the lives of working families by providing family and medical need assistance, child care assistance, in-school and afterschool assistance, family care assistance, and encouraging the establishment of family-friendly workplaces.
Health
H.R. 2276—-Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)/Judiciary, Energy and Commerce (6/22/11)—A bill to require the director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office to conduct a study on effective ways to provide confirming genetic diagnostic test activity where gene patents and exclusive licensing exist, and for other purposes.
H.R. 2332—-Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY)/Energy and Commerce (6/23/11)—A bill to establish a program of research regarding the risks posed by the presence of dioxin, synthetic fibers, and other additives in feminine hygiene products, and to establish a program for the collection and analysis of data on toxic shock syndrome.
H.R. 2359—-Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL)/Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce (6/24/11)—A bill to ensure the safe use of cosmetics, and for other purposes.
H.R. 2376—-Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO)/Energy and Commerce (6/24/11)—A bill to provide for human stem cell research, including human embryonic stem cell research, and for other purposes.
H. Res. 334—-Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA)/Energy and Commerce (6/24/11)—A resolution supporting the goals and ideals of National HIV Testing Day.International
S. 1259—-Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL)/Foreign Relations (6/22/11)—A bill to amend the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act to prohibit the provision of peacekeeping operations assistance to governments of countries that recruit and use child soldiers.
S. Res. 216—-Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA)/Foreign Relations (6/23/11)—A resolution encouraging women’s political participation in Saudi Arabia.
H.R. 2337—-Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX)/Foreign Affairs (6/23/11)—A bill to require sexual assault risk-reduction and response training, the development of sexual assault protocol and guidelines, the establishment of victims advocates, the establishment of a Sexual Assault Advisory Council, and for other purposes.
Judiciary
S.J. Res. 21—-Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ)/ Judiciary (6/22/11)—A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to equal rights for men and women.
H.J. Res. 69—-Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY)/Judiciary (6/22/11)—A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to equal rights for men and women.
Veterans
H.R. 2355—-Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MO)/Veterans’ Affairs, Armed Services (6/24/11)—A bill to exclude individuals who have been convicted of committing certain sex offenses from receiving certain burial-related benefits and funeral honors that are otherwise available to certain veterans, members of the armed forces, and related individuals, and for other purposes.