PUBLIC WELFARE PROGRAMS related term(s) Federal Aid Programs; Food Stamps

Amendments

Children and youth: provide children with increased access to food and nutrition assistance, simplify program operations and improve program management, and reauthorize child nutrition programs (S. 2507), S7326 [23JN]

Medicaid: provide families of disabled children with the opportunity to purchase coverage (S. 622), S4946, S4949, S5005 [6MY]

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program: reauthorize and improve block grants to States (H.R. 4), S2454 [9MR], S3219, S3260, S3300, S3310, S3312 [29MR], S3336, S3371, S3372, S3376, S3377, S3379 [30MR], S3463, S3464, S3465, S3467, S3468, S3470, S3471, S3472, S3477, S3478, S3479, S3482, S3483, S3484, S3485, S3486, S3488, S3489, S3490, S3491, S3492, S3493, S3494 [31MR], S3590, S3591 [1AP]

Articles and editorials

Charity Reopens Bible, H330 [4FE]

Exhausting Federal Compassion, S351 [2FE]

Food-Stamp Calls Routed to India—Firm That Runs Part of the Virginia Program Outsourced Call Center, H1574 [25MR]

Jobless; Benefits Are Running Out, S1556 [25FE]

Jobless Count Skips Millions, S1556 [25FE]

Private Contractors May Handle Food Stamps, H1575 [25MR]

There's More Welfare To Reform, S3536 [1AP]

Welfare Reform Works, Yet Pols Seek Rollback in N.Y.C. and U.S., S3536 [1AP]

Work—The Key to Welfare, S3537 [1AP]

Bills and resolutions

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: require repayment of appropriated funds that are illegaly disbursed for political purposes (see S. 2473), S6087 [21MY] (see H.R. 4458), H3439 (see H.R. 4458), H3539 [20MY]

Children and youth: access of disadvantaged children to dental services (see H.R. 4622), H4580 [18JN]

———promote better nutrition among school children participating in school breakfast and lunch programs (see H.R. 4519), H3784 [4JN]

———provide children with increased access to food and nutrition assistance, simplify program operations and improve program management, and reauthorize child nutrition programs (see S. 2507), S6499 [7JN]

———provide States with incentives, flexibility, and funds to develop welfare services that meet needs of children and families and enhance prospects for safe and permanent living arrangements (see H.R. 4856), H5982 [19JY]

Dept. of HHS: clarify and ensure that certain authority is used solely to promote the objectives of the Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Programs (see S. 2222), S2859 [22MR] (see H.R. 4935), H6702 [22JY]

———conduct research on indicators of child well-being (see S. 2213), S2778 [12MR]

———establish an Internet website designed to allow consumers to compare prices for covered outpatient drugs sold by retail pharmacies that participate in the Medicaid program (see S. 2597), S7435 [24JN] (see H.R. 4681), H4926 (see H.R. 4681), H5070 [24JN]

———revise minimum allotments under the Projects for Assistance in Transition From Homelessness (PATH) Program (see S. 2713), S8548 [21JY]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: clarify that per diem payments for the care of veterans in State homes shall not be used to offset Medicaid payments (see S. 2196), S2717 [11MR] (see S. 2327), S4225 [21AP]

———extend authority to make grants to expand or modify existing service programs for homeless veterans (see H.R. 4248), H2488 [29AP]

Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act: authorize appropriations to fully enforce and implement such Act and its amendments (see H.R. 4747), H5150 [25JN] (see H.R. 4760), H5195 [6JY]

Families and domestic relations: improve collection of child support (see S. 2194), S2716 [11MR] (see H.R. 4859), H5983 [19JY]

Federal Youth Development Council: establish (see H.R. 4703), H4927 (see H.R. 4703), H5071 [24JN]

Homeless: establish grant program to address the goal of ending chronic homelessness (see S. 2829), S9525 [22SE] (see H.R. 4057), H1739 [30MR]

Medicaid: extend Federal-State cost-sharing program to assist low-income Medicare beneficiaries with health care costs (see S. 2618), S7750 [7JY] (see H.R. 5160), H7735 [28SE] (see H.R. 5189), H7944 [30SE]

———permit local public agencies to act as enrollment brokers (see H.R. 3895), H871 [4MR]

———permit States the option to provide coverage for low-income individuals infected with HIV (see H.R. 3859), H699 [26FE]

———provide complete reimbursement for medical assistance provided to Native Hawaiians by federally qualified health centers or Native Hawaiian health care systems (see S. 2098), S1457 [23FE]

———require fair billing for hospital services provided to uninsured patients as a condition of Medicaid funding for a hospital (see H.R. 4092), H1790 [31MR]

Medicare: improve benefits for beneficiaries with kidney disease (see S. 2614), S7750 [7JY] (see H.R. 4927), H6702 [22JY]

Medicare/Medicaid: require automatic fire sprinkler systems in all nursing facilities (see H.R. 4967), H6703 [22JY]

National Center for Social Work Research: establish (see H.R. 3887), H830 [3MR]

National School Lunch Act: improve summer food service program for children (see H.R. 3930), H1011 [10MR]

Program Reform Commission: establish (see H.R. 3761), H303 [3FE]

Public housing: provide additional exemptions from the community service requirement for a resident of a public housing project (see H.R. 4737), H5149 [25JN]

———provide that public housing project residents who perform community service shall receive priority consideration for participation in certain economic self-sufficiency programs (see H.R. 4738), H5149 [25JN]

Social Security: authorize payments under Federal retirement systems to trusts set up for disabled dependents of Federal employees (see S. 2418), S5472 [13MY]

———permit States the option of covering certain legal aliens under Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (see S. 2685), S8423 [19JY] (see S. 2704), S8548 [21JY]

———promote smoking cessation under Medicare, Medicaid, and the Maternal and Child Health Program (see S. 2730), S8687 [22JY]

SSI: extend for refugees, asylees, and certain other humanitarian immigrants (see S. 2623), S7827 [8JY] (see H.R. 4035), H1592 [25MR]

Taxation: allow the work opportunity credit, welfare-to-work credit, and research credit against the alternative minimum tax (see H.R. 3977), H1116 [16MR]

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program: exempt preparation for high-skilled, high-demand jobs from participation and time limits (see S. 2256), S3366 [30MR]

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States (see S. 2231), S3180 [25MR] (see H.R. 3848), H698 [26FE] (see H.R. 3897), H871 [4MR] (see H.R. 4589), H4286 [16JN] (see H.R. 5149), H7579 [24SE]

Unemployment: provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program (see S. 2006), S52 [20JA] (see S. 2250), S3294 [29MR] (see H.R. 4684), H4926 (see H.R. 4684), H5070 [24JN]

Chronologies

Legislative actions taken on H.R. 4, Personal Responsibility, Work, and Family Promotion Act, S9765 [28SE]

Cloture motions

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program: reauthorize and improve block grants to States (H.R. 4), S3359 [30MR], S3538 [1AP]

Hearings

Faith-based perspectives on the provision of community services: Committee on Government Reform (House) (excerpts), H333 [4FE]

Letters

Allow local government provision of nonemergency and preventive health services to non-qualified immigrants: Larry Naake, National Association of Counties, S3358 [30MR]

———Michael D. Place, Catholic Health Association of the U.S., S3359 [30MR]

CARE Act: Alliance for Individual Development Account (IDA) Tax Credits, S2949 [23MR]

———Louis Katz, America's Blood Centers (organization), S2950 [23MR]

———Marina L. Weiss, March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, S2950 [23MR]

———Martin R. Stephens, National Conference of State Legislatures, S2949 [23MR]

———Robert Forney, America's Second Harvest (organization), S2950 [23MR]

———Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, Thomas A. DeStefano, and Michael D. Place, S2949 [23MR]

Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act: Represenative Boehner, Committee on Education and the Workforce (House), H4931 [24JN]

———Representative Goodlatte, Committee on Agriculture (House), H4931 [24JN]

Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program funding: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California, H1448 [24MR]

Personal Responsibility and Individual Development for Everyone (PRIDE) Act: several Senators, S3534 [1AP]

Provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program: Kathleen Fontana, S3392 [31MR]

Temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program, S4983 [6MY]

Lists

Organizations supporting Snowe amendment to H.R. 4, Personal Responsibility and Individual Development for Everyone (PRIDE) Act, on child care funding, S3327 [30MR]

Supporters of S. 2507, Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act, H4933 [24JN]

Press releases

CARE Act: United Jewish Communities (organization), S2948 [23MR]

Remarks in House

Children and youth: access of disadvantaged children to dental services (H.R. 4622), E1203 [22JN]

———improve ability of the child welfare system to prevent and respond to child abuse and place children in safe, loving, and permanent homes (H.R. 1534), E929 [21MY]

———improve certain nutritional programs (H.R. 2626), H4935 [24JN], E471 [29MR]

———improve school breakfast program, H4931 [24JN]

———provide children with increased access to food and nutrition assistance, simplify program operations and improve program management, and reauthorize child nutrition programs (S. 2507), H4930-H4936 [24JN], E1286, E1287 [25JN], E1328 [8JY]

———provide States with incentives, flexibility, and funds to develop welfare services that meet needs of children and families and enhance prospects for safe and permanent living arrangements (H.R. 4856), E1417 [19JY]

Community Services Block Grant Act: prohibit faith-based organizations receiving Federal funds from discriminating in hiring practices, H314-H325, H328-H345 [4FE], E212 [24FE]

———require that organizations offering religious services or activities do so separately from block grant program services, H344 [4FE]

Dept. of Agriculture: Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program funding, E378 [16MR]

———prohibit use of funding to pay for outsourcing of food stamp call center jobs to foreign countries, H5599, H5600 [13JY]

Dept. of HHS: clarify and ensure that certain authority is used solely to promote the objectives of the Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Programs (H.R. 4935), E1467, E1506 [22JY]

———Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program funding, H1448 [24MR], H1557 [25MR]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: extend authority to make grants to expand or modify existing service programs for homeless veterans (H.R. 4248), H8382-H8384 [6OC], E706 [29AP]

———Grant and Per Diem Homeless Veterans Assistance Program funding, H9786, H9787 [17NO]

Federal Youth Development Council: establish (H.R. 4703), H5073 [25JN]

Food stamps: ensure that sponsors of certain legal immigrants are held responsible for food stamp program costs incurred by such immigrants, H5585 [13JY]

Health: allow States and localities to provide primary and preventive care to all individuals (H.R. 3273), E889 [18MY]

———promote improved nutrition for needy Americans by incorporating more fruits, vegetables, and juice products into Federal nutrition programs (H.R. 2592), H1411 [24MR]

Hunting and trapping: commend Hunters for the Hungry programs and efforts of such programs to decrease hunger and help feed those in need (H. Res. 481), H8136, H8137 [5OC]

Medicaid: allow States to expand coverage to uninsured, poor adults (H.R. 1143), H2906 [12MY]

———extend Federal-State cost-sharing program to assist low-income Medicare beneficiaries with health care costs (S. 2618), H10053, H10054 [19NO]

———provide families of disabled children with the opportunity to purchase coverage (H.R. 1811), E1150 [18JN]

Medicare: improve benefits for beneficiaries with kidney disease (H.R. 4927), E1501 [22JY]

Medicare/Medicaid: require automatic fire sprinkler systems in all nursing facilities (H.R. 4967), E1495 [22JY]

National Hunger Awareness Day: observance, H3758 [3JN]

National School Lunch Act: improve summer food service program for children (H.R. 3930), E339 [11MR]

Princeton Township, NJ: anniversary of Princeton Township Affordable Housing Program, E1971 [16NO]

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program: reauthorize and improve block grants to States (H.R. 4), E476 [30MR]

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States (H.R. 4589), H4665-H4669 [22JN]

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States (H.R. 5149), H7786-H7790 [29SE]

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States (S. 2231), H1683-H1686 [30MR]

———treatment of individuals with drug felony convictions, E476 [30MR]

Unemployment: provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program, H5 [20JA], H348-H358, H359-H361, H371 [4FE], H878, H880 [9MR], H1617 [29MR], H1695, H1713, H1716-H1718 [30MR], H2135 [2AP], H2383 [27AP], H2410, H2451, H2466, H2467 [28AP], H2821 [12MY], H2990 [13MY], H3172 [18MY], H3738, H3739 [3JN], H3945 [14JN], E66 [28JA], E126 [6FE], E161 [10FE]

WIC: improve pricing and sales in WIC-only stores, H4932 [24JN]

Remarks in Senate

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: require repayment of appropriated funds that are illegaly disbursed for political purposes (S. 2473), S6088 [21MY]

Child Nutrition Act: provide incentive criteria for reduction of non-response rates in school districts, S7245 [23JN]

Children and youth: child care funding, S3262-S3265, S3275 [29MR], S3323-S3335, S3359 [30MR], S3447 [31MR], S3532 [1AP]

———provide children with increased access to food and nutrition assistance, simplify program operations and improve program management, and reauthorize child nutrition programs (S. 2507), S7244-S7249 [23JN], S7419 [24JN]

———provide children with increased access to food and nutrition assistance, simplify program operations and improve program management, and reauthorize child nutrition programs (S. 2507), unanimous-consent request, S7221 [23JN]

Community service: provide incentives for communities and individuals to serve those in need, improve public disclosure by certain organizations, and enhance ability of low-income individuals to build assets (S. 476), S2948-S2952 [23MR], S6440 [3JN], S9433 [21SE]

Dept. of Agriculture: improve Fruit and Vegetable Program, S7245 [23JN]

———school breakfast program funding, S7245, S7246 [23JN]

Dept. of HHS: clarify and ensure that certain authority is used solely to promote the objectives of the Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Programs (S. 2222), S2863-S2865 [22MR]

———conduct research on indicators of child well-being (S. 2213), S2791 [12MR]

———establish an Internet website designed to allow consumers to compare prices for covered outpatient drugs sold by retail pharmacies that participate in the Medicaid program (S. 2597), S7474 [24JN]

———revise minimum allotments under the Projects for Assistance in Transition From Homelessness (PATH) Program (S. 2713), S8560 [21JY]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: clarify that per diem payments for the care of veterans in State homes shall not be used to offset Medicaid payments (S. 2196), S2720 [11MR]

Families and domestic relations: improve collection of child support, S3358 [30MR]

———improve collection of child support (S. 2194), S2720 [11MR]

Government regulations: allow financial literacy training to count towards work requirement, S3446 [31MR]

Health: address obesity epidemic, S3199 [26MR]

Homeless: establish grant program to address the goal of ending chronic homelessness (S. 2829), S9530 [22SE]

Local government: allow provision of nonemergency and preventive health services to non-qualified immigrants, S3358 [30MR]

Medicaid: allow sharing of information with local educational agencies to verify eligibility for school lunch or breakfast programs, S7246, S7247 [23JN]

———extend Federal-State cost-sharing program to assist low-income Medicare beneficiaries with health care costs (S. 2618), S7754 [7JY], S11390 [16NO]

———increase Federal Medical Assistance Percentage to States, S2623 [11MR]

———provide complete reimbursement for medical assistance provided to Native Hawaiians by federally qualified health centers or Native Hawaiian health care systems (S. 2098), S1460 [23FE]

———provide families of disabled children with the opportunity to purchase coverage (S. 622), S4946-S4951 [6MY]

Medicare: improve benefits for beneficiaries with kidney disease (S. 2614), S7752 [7JY]

National Hunger Awareness Day: observance, S6436, S6440-S6442 [3JN]

Native Americans: Federal aid programs funding, S4626 [29AP], S5038 [7MY]

Social Security: expand or add coverage of pregnant women under State Children's Health Insurance Program and Medicaid (S. 1734), S11370 [16NO]

———permit States the option of covering certain legal aliens under Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (S. 2685), S8424 [19JY]

———permit States the option of covering certain legal aliens under Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (S. 2704), S8574 [21JY], S8792 [22JY]

———promote smoking cessation under Medicare, Medicaid, and the Maternal and Child Health Program (S. 2730), S8709 [22JY]

SSI: extend for refugees, asylees, and certain other humanitarian immigrants (S. 2623), S7836, S7837 [8JY], S8538 [21JY]

Taxation: extend the work opportunity credit and the welfare-to-work credit, S2216 [4MR]

———modify the work opportunity credit and the welfare-to-work credit, S2981 [23MR]

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program: allow States flexibility in implementing alternative programs to assist recipients in achieving self-sufficiency, S3422 [31MR]

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States (H.R. 4), S3219, S3256-S3269, S3274-S3278 [29MR], S3320, S3323-S3345, S3347-S3355, S3358, S3359 [30MR], S3407-S3420, S3423, S3427-S3429, S3433, S3434, S3437, S3439-S3442, S3446-S3448 [31MR], S3523, S3529-S3538, S3556 [1AP], S3599 [2AP], S9763, S9764 [28SE]

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States (H.R. 4), unanimous-consent agreement, S3120 [25MR]

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States (H.R. 4), unanimous-consent request, S3531, S3535, S3538 [1AP], S9765, S9766 [28SE]

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States (H.R. 4589), S7200 [22JN]

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States (H.R. 5149), S10180-S10183 [30SE], S10820 [8OC]

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States (S. 2231), S3120 [25MR]

Unemployment: provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program, S15 [20JA], S227, S230 [26JA], S351, S352 [2FE], S626 [5FE], S971-S974, S1007 [11FE], S1441 [23FE], S1539-S1543, S1554-S1556 [25FE], S1641-S1649, S1655 [26FE], S3392, S3427 [31MR], S3555, S3557, S3596 [1AP], S3765 [6AP], S4895, S4898 [5MY], S4982-S4986 [6MY], S5054-S5056 [10MY], S5179 [11MY], S11793 [20NO]

———provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program (S. 2006), S60 [20JA], S123 [21JA], S689 [6FE]

———provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program (S. 2006), unanimous-consent request, S100, S101 [21JA]

———provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program (S. 2250), S3312 [29MR], S3388 [30MR], S3424-S3427 [31MR], S4285 [22AP]

———provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program (S. 2250), unanimous-consent request, S3426 [31MR]

Reports

Medicare Trust Fund Reimbursement Act: Anthony H. Gamboa, GAO, S6089-S6093 [21MY]

Reports filed

Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (Senate) (S. 2507) (S. Rept. 108-279), S6499 [7JN]

Homeless Veterans Assistance Reauthorization Act: Committee on Veterans' Affairs (House) (H.R. 4248) (H. Rept. 108-534), H3872 [9JN]

Statements

CARE Act: Bob Stallman, American Farm Bureau Federation, S2950 [23MR]

Tables

Cumulative extension of unemployment benefits program (1974-2002), S1646 [26FE]

Texts of

H. Res. 481, commend Hunters for the Hungry programs and efforts of such programs to decrease hunger and help feed those in need, H8136 [5OC]

H.R. 4, Personal Responsibility and Individual Development for Everyone (PRIDE) Act, S3219-S3254 [29MR]

H.R. 4248, Homeless Veterans Assistance Act, H8382 [6OC]

H.R. 4589, TANF and Related Programs Continuation Act, H4665 [22JN]

H.R. 5149, Welfare Reform Extension Act, Part VIII, H7786 [29SE]

S. 622, Family Opportunity Act, S4946-S4948 [6MY]

S. 2098, Native Hawaiian Medicaid Coverage Act, S1460 [23FE]

S. 2196, clarify that Dept. of Veterans Affairs per diem payments for the care of veterans in State homes shall not be used to offset Medicaid payments, S2721 [11MR]

S. 2222, Medicaid and CHIP Safety Net Preservation Act, S2864 [22MR]

S. 2231, Welfare Reform Extension Act, H1683 [30MR]

S. 2327, clarify that Dept. of Veterans Affairs per diem payments for the care of veterans in State homes shall not be used to offset Medicaid payments, S4227 [21AP]

S. 2418, authorize Social Security payments under Federal retirement systems to trusts set up for disabled dependents of Federal employees, S5474 [13MY]

S. 2473, Medicare Trust Fund Reimbursement Act, S6089 [21MY]

S. 2507, Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act, S7249-S7265 [23JN], H4936-H4952 [24JN]

S. 2597, Prescription Drug Price Comparison for Savings Act, S7474 [24JN]

S. 2618, extend Federal-State cost-sharing program to assist low-income Medicare beneficiaries with health care costs, S11391 [16NO], H10053 [19NO]

S. 2713, revise minimum allotments under the Projects for Assistance in Transition From Homelessness (PATH) Program, S8560 [21JY]

S. 2829, Samaritan Initiative Act, S9530-S9533 [22SE]