FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT

Addresses

Job Security of Women Following Child Birth or Serious Illness: President Bush, 22845 [3AU]

Amendments

Employment: entitle family leave involving a birth, adoption, or serious health condition with protection of benefits (H.R. 770), 9885 [9MY], 9967, 9973, 9974, 9987 [10MY], 13897-13899 [13JN]

Articles and editorials

Acts and Reactions, 14181 [14JN]

All-American Bill, 12103 [23MY], 14189 [14JN]

Basic Right of Families, 14185 [14JN]

Benefits of Family Leave, 14189 [14JN]

Big Numbers Needed on Vote for Families, 14187 [14JN]

Bush and ``Family Values''—Just Talk?, 14194 [14JN]

Bush Drops Ball on Family Leave, 14188 [14JN]

Bush Should Rethink Opposition to Mandatory Parent Leave Bill, 14180 [14JN]

Bush Should Sign Bill Into Law, 14185 [14JN]

Bush Snubs Family Needs, 14179 [14JN]

Bush's Chance To Be Pro-Family, 14178 [14JN]

Bush's Veto of Bill Threatens Family Values, 14180 [14JN]

Caring Shouldn't End Careers, 14191 [14JN]

Cheap Security for U.S. Workers, 14188 [14JN]

Choice No Parent Should Face, 14187 [14JN]

Compassionate Leave, 14184 [14JN]

Dead Leaves, 14179 [14JN]

Employers Need Prompting, 14186 [14JN]

Equal Opportunity to Leave, 14183 [14JN]

Even If the President Doesn't Know, It's a New World of Work, Mom, 14178 [14JN]

Family Bill Should Be Ok'd, 14187 [14JN]

Family Emergency Bill Will Face Veto, 14186 [14JN]

Family Leave, 14190 [14JN]

Family Leave Act—Senate, Bush Should Follow House Lead, 14181 [14JN]

Family Leave Bill, 14194 [14JN]

Family Leave Bill Makes Sense, 10310 [14MY], 14195 [14JN]

Family Leave Bill Needed for Child Care, 14189 [14JN]

Family Leave Bill Recognized Needs of Parents, 14179 [14JN]

Family Leave Bill Worthwhile, 14184 [14JN]

Family Leave Concept Is an Idea Whose Time Seems to Have Come, 14182 [14JN]

Family Leave Is Common Sense, 14193 [14JN]

Family Leave Is Fair, 14193 [14JN]

Family Leave Is Good, 14186 [14JN]

Family Leave Needed, 14190 [14JN]

Family Leave Only Practical Choice, 14191 [14JN]

Family Leave—It's Good Business, 19127 [25JY]

Family Leave—The President's Opposition Is Inexplicable, 14178 [14JN]

Family Unit Must Be Healthy, 14186 [14JN]

Finding Time for Parenting, 14181 [14JN]

For Family Values, 14191 [14JN]

For Family's Sake, 14194 [14JN]

Forked Tongue Strikes Again, 14192 [14JN]

Help Working Moms, 14183 [14JN]

Join the Real World in Family Leave Policy, 14192 [14JN]

Kinder, Gentler, Bunk, 14191 [14JN]

Kinder, Gentler President Gives Families Short Shrift, 14182 [14JN]

Modest Parental Leave Bill, 14185 [14JN]

Mother's Day Beef—Women Deserve Fair Retirement Benefits Treatment, 14182 [14JN]

Nation Needs Parental Leave, 14195 [14JN]

Parental Leave Is ProFamily, 14183 [14JN]

Parental Leave Meets Many Needs, 14180 [14JN]

Parental Leave Stand Just More of the Same, 14180 [14JN]

Parental Leave—There's No Call to Melt Before Veto Threat, 14183 [14JN]

Parental-Leave Standoff, 14188 [14JN]

Power of the Changing Work Force, 10310 [14MY]

Pro-Family Bush Snubs Real Family Law, 14190 [14JN]

Senate, Bush Should Pass Family-Leave Bill, 14186 [14JN]

Senate's Three Pieces of Unfinished Business, 14193 [14JN]

Small Business Owners Won't Compromise on Parental Leave, 5020 [22MR]

Time To Be a Parent, 14189, 14194 [14JN]

Time to be a Parent, 9955 [10MY]

Time-Out for Toddlers, 14189 [14JN]

Unpaid Leave—It's About Time, 14195 [14JN]

Unpaid-Leave Proposal Deserves Administration Support, 14182 [14JN]

Veto Threat—Parental Leave Isn't a Monster, 14181 [14JN]

We Should Protect Our Families by Law, 14184 [14JN]

Work Leave Bill Makes Sense, 14188 [14JN]

Working Americans Deserve Leave Time, 14193 [14JN]

Bills and resolutions

Enact (see S. 2973)

Cloture motions

Employment: entitle family leave involving a birth, adoption, or serious health condition with protection of benefits (H.R. 770), 13864 [13JN]

Letters

Provisions: Elizabeth H. Dole, Sec. of Labor, 13868 [13JN], 14203 [14JN]

———Harry Sullivan, 9887 [9MY]

———National Committee To Preserve Socical Security and Medicare, 8560 [27AP]

Lists

Organizations supporting H.R. 770, 14196 [14JN]

Messages

Veto: President Bush, 16681 [10JY]

Motions

Employment: entitle family leave involving a birth, adoption, or serious health condition with protection of benefits (H.R. 770), recommit, 9987 [10MY]

Remarks in House

Business: impact, 9823, 9826 [9MY]

Employment: entitle family leave involving a birth, adoption, or serious health condition with protection of benefits (H.R. 770), 2886, 2887, 2889, 2890, 2891 [28FE], 4257, 4262 [13MR], 4325 [14MR], 4416, 4418 [15MR], 4740 [21MR], 5020 [22MR], 7663 [20AP], 8123 [24AP], 8314, 8329, 8333 [25AP], 8560, 8574 [27AP], 9206 [2MY], 9496 [7MY], 9640, 9641, 9642, 9643, 9644, 9677-9679 [8MY], 9823, 9825, 9826, 9827, 9830, 9877 [9MY], 9889 [10MY]-9894 [9MY], 9946-9991 [10MY], 15746, 15747, 15748 [27JN], 16589 [28JN], 35977 [26OC]

———entitle family leave involving a birth, adoption, or serious health condition with protection of benefits (H.R. 770), conference report, 9985 [14MY], 9986 [17MY], 10310 [14MY], 10582 [15MY]

———entitle family leave involving a birth, adoption, or serious health condition with protection of benefits (H.R. 770), consideration (H. Res. 388), 9868-9876 [9MY]

———entitle family leave involving a birth, adoption, or serious health condition with protection of benefits (H.R. 770), veto, 16681 [10JY], 18819, 18821 [24JY], 19117, 19118, 19119, 19122, 19123, 19124, 19125 [25JY], 19142 [26JY]-19143 [25JY], 21692 [1AU]

Enact (H.R. 770), debate procedures, 9496 [7MY]

Remarks in Senate

Employment: entitle family leave involving a birth, adoption, or serious health condition with protection of benefits (H.R. 770), 14135-14207 [14JN], 15107 [21JN]

———entitle family leave involving a birth, adoption, or serious health condition with protection of benefits (H.R. 770), motion to proceed, 13863-13871 [13JN], 14177-14204 [14JN]

———entitle family leave involving a birth, adoption, or serious health condition with protection of benefits (H.R. 770), unanimous-consent agreement, 14172-14177 [14JN]

———entitle family leave involving a birth, adoption, or serious health condition with protection of benefits (H.R. 770), veto, 14204 [14JN], 19587 [26JY]

Enact (S. 2973), 22845 [3AU]

Reports filed

Consideration H.R. 770: Committee on Rules (H. Res. 388) (H. Rept. 101-479), 9685 [8MY]

Statements

Provisions: President Bush, 15107 [21JN]

———Representative Hyde, 15108 [21JN]

———Representative Roukema, 15107 [21JN]

———Senator Dodd, 15108 [21JN]

Summaries

Provisions (H.R. 770), 19134 [25JY]

Texts of

H. Res. 388, consideration of H.R. 770, to entitle employees to family leave involving a birth, adoption, or serious health condition with protection of benefits, 9868 [9MY]

S. 2973, provisions, 22846-22851 [3AU]