Children
S. 416—-Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC)/Foreign Relations (2/28/11)—A bill to develop a strategy for assisting stateless children from North Korea, and for other purposes.
S. 420—-Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA)/Finance (2/28/11)—A bill to support the establishment or expansion and operation of programs using a network of public and private community entities to provide mentoring for children in foster care.
Education
H.R. 889—-Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX)/Science, Space, and Technology (3/2/11)—A bill to provide for fulfilling the potential of women in academic science and engineering, and for other purposes.
H.R. 907—-Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY)/Education and the Workforce (3/3/11)—A bill to provide vouchers for the purchase of educational books for infants and children participating in the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children under that Act.
Health
S. 438—-Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)/Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (3/2/11)—A bill to improve women’s health by prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of heart disease, stroke, and other cardiovascular diseases in women.
S. 481—-Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA)/Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (3/3/11)—A bill to enhance and further research into the prevention and treatment of eating disorders, to improve access to treatment of eating disorders, and for other purposes.
H.R. 894—-Rep. John Conyers (D-MI)/Energy and Commerce (3/3/11)—A bill to provide grants to states to establish state maternal mortality review committees on pregnancy-related deaths occurring within such states; to develop definitions of severe maternal morbidity and data collection protocols; and to eliminate disparities in maternal health outcomes.
International
S. Res. 90—-Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)/Considered and agreed to (3/3/11)—A resolution supporting the goals of “International Women’s Day” and recognizing this year’s centennial anniversary of International Women’s Day.
Military
S. Con. Res. 8—-Sen. Barbara Boxer/Considered and agreed to (2/28/11)—A concurrent resolution recognizing women serving in the United States Armed Forces; considered and agreed to.
H. Con. Res. 24—-Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA)/Armed Services (3/3/11)—A concurrent resolution recognizing women serving in the United States Armed Forces.
Miscellaneous
H. Con. Res. 26—-Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA)/Oversight and Government Reform (3/3/11)—A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that the United States Postal Service should issue a commemorative postage stamp honoring former Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D-NY), and that the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee should recommend to the Postmaster General that such a stamp be issued.
H. Res. 144—-Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA)/House Administration (3/3/11)—A resolution acknowledging the 42nd anniversary of the election of Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm, the first African-American woman in Congress.
Tax Policy
H.R. 879—-Rep. Dean Heller (R-NV)/Ways and Means (3/2/11)—A bill to allow refunds of federal motor fuel excise taxes on fuels used in mobile mammography vehicles.
