FEDERAL AID PROGRAMS

Addresses

Beirut Memorial Services: Lynn Smith Derbyshire, S11482 [18NO]

Amendments

Business and industry: coordinate Federal manufacturing research and development, strengthen manufacturing innovation and education programs, and expand outreach programs for small and medium-sized manufacturers (H.R. 3598), H5449, H5451, H5453, H5454, H5455 [9JY]

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]

Disabled: improve access to assistive technologies (H.R. 4278), S10169 [30SE], H9012 [8OC]

Disasters: making emergency supplemental appropriations for relief for States impacted by hurricanes and tropical storms (H.R. 5212), H8169 [5OC], H8304, H8307, H8409 [6OC]

———making emergency supplemental appropriations for relief for States impacted by hurricanes and tropical storms (H.R. 5212), consideration (H. Res. 819), H8285 [6OC]

District of Columbia College Access Act: permanently authorize the public school and private school tuition assistance programs (H.R. 4012), S11848, S11855 [24NO], H10914 [6DE]

Economic Development Administration: reauthorize and improve (S. 1134), S10504, S10595 [6OC]

Individuals With Disabilities Education Act: reauthorize (S. 1248), S5327, S5328, S5334, S5345, S5348, S5356, S5377, S5378, S5380 [12MY], S5394, S5406, S5484 [13MY]

Lincoln County, NV: establish wilderness areas, promote conservation, improve public land, and provide for high quality development (H.R. 4593), S11111 [10OC], H9820 [17NO]

National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program: reauthorize (H.R. 2608), S10602 [6OC], H9020 [8OC]

Philadelphia, PA: provide financial assistance to rehabilitate Benjamin Franklin National Memorial and develop exhibit to commemorate 300th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin (S. 1852), S11173 [10OC]

Public welfare programs: reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (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]

SBA: establish funding priorities for women's business centers (S. 2267), S4716, S4721 [29AP]

Small business: improve results and accountability of microenterprise development assistance programs (H.R. 3818), H10214 [20NO]

Social Security: provide additional safeguards for certain beneficiaries with representative payees (H.R. 743), H443 [11FE]

———provide additional safeguards for certain beneficiaries with representative payees (H.R. 743), consideration of Senate amendment (H. Res. 520), H442 [11FE]

Veterans: improve and enhance education, housing, employment, medical, and other benefits and improve and extend certain authorities relative to the administration of benefits (S. 2486), S10869, S10880 [8OC]

Workforce Investment Act: establish a Personal Reemployment Accounts grant program to assist Americans in returning to work (H.R. 444), consideration (H. Res. 656), H3616 [2JN]

Appointments

Conferees: H.R. 1350, Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act, S11232 [11OC], H9020 [8OC]

Articles and editorials

Awaiting Ivan in the Big Uneasy—New Orleans Girds for Major Damage, S9259 [15SE]

Charity Reopens Bible, H330 [4FE]

Election Fix Stymied by Delays, Computer Doubts, Confidence Gap, H1349 [23MR]

Exhausting Federal Compassion, S351 [2FE]

Give America's Disabled the Technology They Need, S10188 [30SE]

Help, Not Hinder, E1098 [14JN]

Highway Bill, E1753 [30SE]

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

Jobless Count Skips Millions, S1556 [25FE]

Making Progress, H10013 [19NO]

Midwest Farmers May Lose Out With Disaster Aid, S10904 [9OC]

Putting Parents in Charge, S5512-S5514 [17MY]

Student Loan Scandal, E1731 [29SE]

Sweet and Sour Subsidies, E190 [24FE]

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

Wait for Housing Repairs Ending, H7552 [23SE]

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

Agriculture: establish regional dairy marketing areas to stabilize the price of milk and support the income of dairy producers (see S. 2525), S6881 [16JN] (see H.R. 4597), H4286 [16JN]

———provide crop and livestock disaster assistance to agricultural producers (see S. 2592), S7435 [24JN] (see H.R. 4705), H4927 (see H.R. 4705), H5071 [24JN]

———provide emergency agriculture assistance (see S. 2456), S5949 [20MY] (see H.R. 4874), H6127 [20JY] (see H.R. 5203), H8038 [4OC] (see H.R. 5226), H8407 [6OC]

———support specialty crop producers and production and improve the program of value-added agricultural product market development grants by routing the grant funds through State departments of agriculture (see H.R. 4800), H5470 [9JY]

Appropriations: making emergency supplemental appropriations for wildland firefighting costs (see H.R. 4419), H3437 (see H.R. 4419), H3537 [20MY]

Armed Forces: allow active duty personnel to withdraw an election not to participate in the program of educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill (see H.R. 4468), H3439 (see H.R. 4468), H3539 [20MY]

———allow certain active-duty personnel to elect to become eligible for educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill (see S. 2561), S7311 [23JN]

———allow members and reservists to transfer certain educational assistance entitlement to dependents (see H.R. 5257), H8857 [7OC]

———assist with the transition of members from combat zones to noncombat zones and veterans from active service to civilian life (see H.R. 5332), H9049 [8OC]

———eliminate reductions of basic pay for eligibility for basic educational assistance for veterans under the Montgomery GI Bill (see H.R. 4711), H4927 (see H.R. 4711), H5071 [24JN]

———enhance the Montgomery GI Bill benefits for certain individuals who have served after September 11, 2001 (see S. 2849), S9722 [27SE] (see H.R. 5349), H9049 [8OC]

———entitle educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill for members of the Selected Reserve who aggregate a certain amount of active duty service (see S. 2099), S1457 [23FE] (see H.R. 4367), H3015 [13MY]

———establish a program of financial assistance to enable more members of the National Guard of the District of Columbia to attend institutions of higher education (see H.R. 4000), H1322 [18MR]

———increase rates of educational assistance for members of the Selected Reserve (see S. 2100), S1457 [23FE] (see S. 2184), S2440 [9MR] (see H.R. 4188), H2265 [21AP]

———provide for a new program of educational assistance for certain members of Reserve components who perform active service (see H.R. 5081), H7233 [15SE]

———provide grants to States for undergraduate tuition assistance for members of the Selected Reserve at public colleges and universities (see H.R. 4788), H5402 [8JY]

Army: provide Federal assistance for environmental infrastructure projects in northern and northeastern Kentucky (see H.R. 4645), H4765 [22JN]

Benjamin Franklin National Memorial: restore (see H.R. 3753), H303 [3FE]

Budget: require the President to include estimated unfunded liabilities of all Federal programs in annual budget submissions (see H.R. 4074), H1739 [30MR]

Business and industry: coordinate Federal manufacturing research and development, strengthen manufacturing innovation and education programs, and expand outreach programs for small and medium-sized manufacturers (H.R. 3598), consideration (see H. Res. 706), H5330 [7JY]

———make certain companies that have outsourced jobs during the previous five years ineligible for the receipt of Federal grants, contracts, loan guarantees, and other Federal funding (see H.R. 3911), H871 [4MR]

———prohibit business enterprises that lay-off a greater percentage of their U.S. workers than workers in other countries from receiving any Federal assistance (see H.R. 3888), H830 [3MR]

CCC: limit transfer of certain funds between conservation programs for technical assistance for the programs (see S. 2856), S9812 [28SE]

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: provide direct congressional access to the Office of the Chief Actuary (see S. 2076), S1285 [12FE]

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

———encourage savings, promote financial literacy, and expand opportunities for young adults by establishing KIDS Accounts (see S. 2751), S8688 [22JY] (see H.R. 4939), H6702 [22JY]

———ensure access to food and nutrition assistance, improve children's nutritional health, and simplify and restore integrity of child nutrition programs (see H.R. 3873), H752 [2MR]

———establish a grant program to provide comprehensive eye examinations (see S. 2749), S8688 [22JY]

———establish kinship navigator programs and establish kinship guardianship assistance payments for children (see S. 2706), S8548 [21JY]

———issue a semipostal stamp in order to provide funding for childhood drinking prevention and education programs (see S. 2676), S8229 [15JY]

———promote better health for young people through Federal matching awards for physical education programs (see S. 2150), S1933 [1MR]

———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 for programs and activities on the prevention of underage drinking (see S. 2718), S8687 [22JY] (see H.R. 4888), H6556 [21JY]

———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]

———support and evaluate before-school activities that advance student academic achievement and encourage establishment of, and increase participation in school breakfast programs (see H.R. 3904), H871 [4MR]

Children's Development Commission (Kiddie Mac): establish (see H.R. 5265), H8857 [7OC]

Civil rights: restore, reaffirm, and reconcile legal rights under civil rights statutes (see S. 2088), S1286 [12FE] (see H.R. 3809), H514 [11FE]

Coal: clarify that certain coal industry health benefits may not be modified or terminated (see S. 3004), S11496 [18NO] (see H.R. 5383), H9999 [18NO]

Colleges and universities: ensure graduate opportunities in postsecondary education (see S. 2729), S8687 [22JY]

———provide higher education assistance for nontraditional students (see S. 2360), S4692 [29AP]

Corporate Subsidy Reform Commission: establish (see H.R. 3762), H303 [3FE]

Correctional institutions: encourage successful reentry of incarcerated persons into the community after release (see H.R. 5075), H7137 [14SE]

Dept. of Agriculture: expand the Agricultural Management Assistance Program to include Hawaii (see H.R. 5106), H7328 [21SE]

———modify and improve funding structure of the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (see H.R. 4189), H2265 [21AP]

———offer farmers supplemental crop insurance based on area yield and loss plan of insurance (see H.R. 4702), H4927 (see H.R. 4702), H5071 [24JN]

———provide financial assistance for the construction, improvement, and rehabilitation of farmers markets (see H.R. 4858), H5983 [19JY]

———Seniors Farmers' Market Nutrition Program funding reform (see H.R. 4446), H3438 (see H.R. 4446), H3538 [20MY]

Dept. of Commerce: delegate to the Under Sec. of Commerce for International Trade the functions relating to trade adjustment assistance for firms (see H.R. 3949), H1071 [11MR]

———establish position of Assistant Sec. of Commerce for Job Retention and Creation (see H.R. 4089), H1790 [31MR]

Dept. of Defense: carry out a program to provide a support system for members of the Armed Forces who incur severe disabilities (see S. 2956), S10846 [8OC] (see S. 3002), S11496 [18NO] (see H.R. 5057), H6997 [9SE]

Dept. of Education: improve the Child Care Access Means Parents in School Program (CCAMPIS) (see S. 2887), S10436 [5OC]

———make grants to States to establish screening programs for certain children to prevent reading failure (see H.R. 4261), H2547 [4MY]

———provide student loan forgiveness to graduates who enter into certain public service (see H.R. 5270), H8857 [7OC]

———strengthen and expand the Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) to facilitate the transition of low-income high school students into post-secondary education (see H.R. 3948), H1071 [11MR] (see H.R. 3988), H1229 [17MR]

Dept. of HHS: 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]

———give grant preference to States that require schools to allow students to self-administer medication for asthma or anaphylaxis (see S. 2815), S9386 [20SE]

———reauthorize Healthy Start Program (see H.R. 4905), H6701 [22JY]

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

Dept. of Homeland Security: award grants to public transportation agencies to improve security (see S. 2453), S5949 [20MY] (see S. 2884), S10261 [1OC]

———award research and equipment grants, provide tax credit for employers hiring workers to replace employees receiving first responder training, and provide school-based mental health training (see S. 2459), S5949 [20MY] (see H.R. 5159), H7735 [28SE]

———establish a first responder and terrorism preparedness grant information hotline (see S. 2171), S2223 [4MR] (see S. 2239), S3180 [25MR] (see S. 2632), S7828 [8JY]

———make grants to Amtrak, other rail carriers, and providers of mass transportation to improve rail and mass transportation system security (see S. 2276), S3567 [1AP]

———make grants to first responders (see H.R. 5430), H11057 [7DE]

Dept. of HUD: insure mortgages for acquisition, construction, or substantial rehabilitation of child care and development facilities (see H.R. 5265), H8857 [7OC]

———make grants to States for affordable housing for low-income persons (see S. 2692), S8474 [20JY]

———provide assistance for privately owned low- and moderate-income housing with expiring Federal subsidies to prevent displacement of low- and moderate-income tenants (see H.R. 4679), H4926 (see H.R. 4679), H5070 [24JN]

———provide tenant-based rental housing vouchers for certain residents of federally assisted housing (see H.R. 4353), H2917 [12MY]

———reform and improve certain housing programs (see H.R. 4436), H3438 (see H.R. 4436), H3538 [20MY]

———reform and improve section 8 housing vouchers program (see H.R. 4441), H3438 (see H.R. 4441), H3538 [20MY]

Dept. of Justice: award grants under a homeland security overtime program to reimburse law enforcement agencies for past overtime expenditures and waive matching funds requirement for such grants (see H.R. 4153), H2152 [2AP]

———reauthorize grant program for reentry of offenders into the community and establish a task force on Federal programs and activities relating to the reentry of offenders into the community (see S. 2789), S9075 [10SE] (see S. 2923), S10703 [7OC] (see H.R. 4676), H4893 [23JN]

Dept. of the Interior: assist in the planning, design, and construction of the Tumalo Irrigation District Water Conservation Project in Deschutes County, OR (see S. 2750), S8688 [22JY]

———provide financial assistance to the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water Authority for the planning, design, and construction of the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water System (see S. 2513), S6673 [9JN] (see H.R. 4623), H4580 [18JN]

Dept. of Transportation: establish a pilot program to provide grants to facilitate the use of natural gas buses at public airports (see H.R. 3833), H632 [25FE]

———Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs funding (see H.R. 3994), H1321 [18MR]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: carry out a program of outreach to veterans of World War II and the Korean War on the nature and availability of benefits for veterans (see S. 2776), S8861 [7SE]

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

———increase maximum amount of available home loan guaranty (see S. 2522), S6803 [15JN] (see H.R. 4345), H2917 [12MY]

———provide additional safeguards for benefit recipients who have fiduciaries for receipt and management of benefit payments (see H.R. 4032), H1592 [25MR]

———require an annual plan on outreach activities (see S. 2638), S7938 [12JY]

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]

Disabled: improve access to assistive technologies (see S. 2595), S7435 [24JN] (see H.R. 4278), H2656 [5MY]

———resolve structural indebtedness of the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund (see S. 2366), S4692 [29AP]

Disasters: making emergency supplemental appropriations for relief for States impacted by hurricanes and tropical storms (see H.R. 5005), H6755 [7SE] (see H.R. 5072), H7137 [14SE] (see H.R. 5212), H8167 [5OC] (see H.R. 5227), H8407 [6OC]

———making emergency supplemental appropriations for relief for States impacted by hurricanes and tropical storms (H.R. 5212), consideration (see H. Res. 819), H8167 [5OC]

———provide assistance for areas that experience a disaster that results in major damage to or destruction of homes (see H.R. 4506), H3780 [3JN]

———provide funds to make disaster assistance available for all customarily eligible agricultural producers as emergency spending and not funded by cuts in certain other agricultural legislation (see S. Res. 454), S10986 [9OC]

Diseases: establish a program of grants for detection and control of colorectal cancer (see H.R. 4093), H1790 [31MR]

———fund breakthroughs in Alzheimer's disease research while providing more help to caregivers and increasing public education about prevention (see S. 2533), S6881 [16JN] (see H.R. 4595), H4286 [16JN]

District of Columbia: establish an annual Federal infrastructure support contribution (see H.R. 4269), H2548 [4MY]

District of Columbia College Access Act: permanently authorize the public school and private school tuition assistance programs (see S. 2347), S4373 [26AP] (see H.R. 4012), H1369 [23MR]

Drugs: improve provision of discounts on drug purchases for certain safety net providers (see H.R. 4161), H2153 [2AP]

Education: access to, and affordability of, higher education (see S. 2795), S9130 [13SE]

———ensure that the Direct Loan Program is a competitive alternative to the Federal Family Education Loan Program for schools and students (see H.R. 4370), H3093 [17MY]

———establish or expand prekindergarten early learning programs (see H.R. 4497), H3780 [3JN]

———expand Parents as Teachers programs and other programs of early childhood home visitation (see S. 2412), S5371 [12MY]

———improve college access and opportunity by reforming Pell Grants and student loan programs (see H.R. 4283), H2657 [5MY]

———improve elementary and secondary education (see S. 2794), S9130 [13SE]

———include hold-harmless provisions for local educational agencies that no longer meet the minimum eligibility criteria for targeted and finance incentive grants (see H.R. 5092), H7233 [15SE]

———increase student loan forgiveness to highly-qualified teachers in mathematics, science, and special education, and for reading specialists (see H.R. 4410), H3437 (see H.R. 4410), H3537 [20MY]

———prevent abuse of special allowance subsidies under the Federal Family Education Loan Program (see S. 2861), S9936 [29SE] (see H.R. 5113), H7329 [21SE]

———provide access and equity in higher education (see H.R. 4102), H2018 [1AP]

———provide additional assistance to Federal Pell Grants recipients who are pursuing programs of study in engineering, mathematics, science, or foreign languages (see S. 2462), S5949 [20MY]

———provide enhanced Pell Grants for State Scholars (see S. 2206), S2717 [11MR] (see H.R. 3894), H871 [4MR]

———provide for refinancing of consolidated student loans (see S. 2198), S2717 [11MR]

———provide grants to rural local educational agencies to purchase new school buses (see S. 2732), S8687 [22JY]

———provide grants to States to establish Kindergarten Plus programs (see S. 2654), S8118 [14JY]

Elementary and Secondary Education Act: ensure that the total amount of certain funds awarded to a State for fiscal year 2004 is not less than the total awarded in fiscal year 2003 (see H.R. 4314), H2727 [6MY]

Employment: eliminate tax subsidies for outsourcing of jobs and provide assistance and improve the health care tax credit for certain displaced workers (see S. 2531), S6881 [16JN]

———extend trade adjustment assistance to service workers (see S. 2143), S1891 [27FE] (see S. 2157), S1999 [2MR] (see H.R. 3881), H830 [3MR] (see H.R. 3957), H1071 [11MR] (see H.R. 4090), H1790 [31MR]

———extend trade adjustment assistance to service workers and to certain communities (see H.R. 5030), H6898 [8SE]

Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act: include certain former nuclear weapons program workers in the Special Exposure Cohort under the compensation program (see S. 2047), S370 [2FE] (see H.R. 4388), H3229 [18MY]

EPA: provide remedial actions and other assistance to affected residents near the Wauconda Sand and Gravel Superfund Site (see H.R. 5387), H9999 [18NO]

Executive Office of the President: establish the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (see H.R. 4909), H6701 [22JY]

FAA: repeal local participation in Essential Air Service Program (see H.R. 3721), H88 [21JA]

Families and domestic relations: establish programs using public, private, and faith-based organizations to recruit and train foster and adoptive parents and provide support services to foster families (see H.R. 4431), H3438 (see H.R. 4431), H3538 [20MY]

———improve the lives of working families by providing assistance and encouraging the establishment of family-friendly workplaces (see H.R. 3780), H392 [4FE]

Farm Credit Act: extend support to the commercial fishing industry (see H.R. 4210), H2371 [22AP]

Farm Security and Rural Investment Act: extend contracts for national dairy market loss payments (see S. 2609), S7580 [6JY] (see H.R. 3990), H1229 [17MR]

Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act: reauthorize Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program (see H.R. 4107), H2018 [1AP]

Federal Water Pollution Control Act: reauthorize programs to improve the quality of coastal recreation waters (see H.R. 4922), H6701 [22JY]

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

FEMA: make grants to fire departments for the acquisition of thermal imaging cameras (see H.R. 4643), H4765 [22JN]

Firefighters: provide financial assistance to improve the health and safety of firefighters, promote use of life saving technologies, and achieve greater equity for departments serving large jurisdictions (see S. 2411), S5227 [11MY]

Foreign aid: require Federal funds for development of humanitarian assistance programs to be made available to foreign countries through the activities of U.S. entities controlled by naturalized citizens or legal aliens (see H.R. 4452), H3439 (see H.R. 4452), H3538 [20MY]

Foreign trade: include shifts in production, for purposes of trade adjustment assistance, to countries to which the U.S. has extended permanent normal trade relations (see S. 2230), S3096 [24MR]

Great Lakes: establish a grant program to support coastal and water quality restoration activities in bordering States (see S. 2337), S4300 [22AP]

Health: coordinate Federal policies and activities to prevent childhood obesity and establish grants for State childhood obesity prevention and control (see S. 2894), S10436 [5OC]

———increase insurance coverage by requiring employers to offer health insurance with greater Government assistance and by expanding current safety net programs (see H.R. 5218), H8167 [5OC]

———modify the rules for redistribution and extended availability of funding for the State Children's Health Insurance Program (see H.R. 4936), H6702 [22JY]

———national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (see H.R. 4964), H6703 [22JY]

———reduce health care disparities and improve health care quality of minorities by improving data collection, providing performance incentives, and expanding programs seeking to eliminate health disparities (see H.R. 5338), H9049 [8OC]

———reorient the nation's health care system towards prevention, wellness, and self care (see S. 2558), S7174 [22JN]

Health care facilities: authorize grants to hospitals for measurement-based strategies to improve the quality and efficiency of health care (see H.R. 4127), H2151 [2AP]

Health care professionals: authorize capitation grants to increase the number of nursing faculty and students (see H.R. 5324), H9048 [8OC]

———establish a scholarship and loan repayment program for public health preparedness workforce development to eliminate critical public health preparedness workforce shortages (see S. 2613), S7750 [7JY]

———improve dental services in underserved areas (see S. 2740), S8688 [22JY]

———provide for education and training of allied health professionals in exchange for a service commitment at a facility with critical shortages of allied health professionals (see S. 2491), S6348 [2JN] (see H.R. 4016), H1369 [23MR]

Higher Education Act: establish a scholarship program to encourage and support students who have contributed substantial public services (see S. 2888), S10436 [5OC]

———expand college access and increase college persistence and simplify the process of applying for student assistance (see S. 2477), S6087 [21MY]

———extend loan forgiveness for certain loans to certified or licensed teachers (see H.R. 4465), H3439 (see H.R. 4465), H3539 [20MY]

Homeless: establish a grant program to provide supportive services in permanent supportive housing for chronically homeless individuals (see S. 2937), S10703 [7OC] (see H.R. 4866), H6127 [20JY]

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

Housing: allow borrowers under the rural single family housing guaranteed loan program to finance the amount of the guarantee fee (see H.R. 4521), H3820 [8JN]

———clarify calculation of per-unit costs payable under expiring contributions contracts for tenant-based rental assistance that are renewed (see S. 2467), S5949 [20MY] (see H.R. 4263), H2548 [4MY]

———ensure that certain areas are eligible for rural housing assistance (see H.R. 3817), H574 [24FE]

———expand homeownership in States having high housing costs (see H.R. 4110), H2018 [1AP]

———facilitate self-help housing homeownership opportunities (see H.R. 4363), H3015 [13MY]

———prohibit funding to provide section 8 housing voucher assistance to certain students at institutions of higher education (see S. 2690), S8473 [20JY]

Immigration: continue Federal reimbursement of emergency health services furnished to illegal aliens through foreign aid funds (see H.R. 4360), H3015 [13MY]

———provide for earned adjustment to reward work, reunify families, establish a temporary worker program that protects workers, and strengthen national security (see S. 2381), S4837 [4MY] (see H.R. 4262), H2547 [4MY]

Individuals With Disabilities Education Act: allow preference in distribution of grants to agencies and organizations that provide training to regular education personnel to meet needs of disabled children (see H.R. 5258), H8857 [7OC]

———authorizing appropriations (see H.R. 3802), H514 [11FE]

———reauthorize (H.R. 1350), consideration of conference report (see H. Res. 858), H9999 [18NO]

———reauthorize (H.R. 1350), corrections in enrollment (see H. Con. Res. 524), H10079 [19NO]

Insurance: extend period for COBRA coverage for recipients of trade adjustment assistance (see S. 2226), S2996 [23MR]

———extend period for COBRA coverage for victims of terrorist attacks (see S. 2837), S9611 [23SE]

Lincoln County, NV: establish wilderness areas, promote conservation, improve public land, and provide for high quality development (see S. 2532), S6881 [16JN] (see H.R. 4593), H4286 [16JN]

Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act: reauthorize (see S. 2949), S10845 [8OC]

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]

———extend State fiscal relief (see S. 2671), S8229 [15JY] (see H.R. 4961), H6703 [22JY]

———permit additional States to enter into long-term care partnerships in order to promote the use of long-term care insurance (see S. 2077), S1285 [12FE]

———permit children administered a vaccine at a public health clinic or Indian clinic to be eligible for the pediatric vaccine distribution program (see S. 2272), S3567 [1AP]

Medicare: clarify payment for clinical laboratory tests furnished by critical access hospitals (see S. 2426), S5535 [17MY] (see H.R. 4257), H2491 [30AP]

———expand the rural community hospital demonstration program to include outpatient services (see S. 2284), S3791 [6AP]

———impose conditions on Federal reimbursement of emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens (see H.R. 3722), H88 [21JA]

———improve accountability in the Medicare Advantage and prescription drug programs (see H.R. 4903), H6701 [22JY]

———improve coordination of prescription drug coverage under retiree plans and State pharmaceutical assistance programs with Medicare drug benefits (see S. 2339), S4300 [22AP] (see H.R. 4195), H2371 [22AP]

———negotiate for lower prices for prescription drugs, eliminate gap in coverage of prescription drug benefits, and promulgate regulations for the reimportation of prescription drugs (see H.R. 4512), H3780 [3JN]

———negotiate lower prescription drug prices, eliminate gap in drug benefits coverage, reduce medical errors, increase use of technology, and increase services in primary and preventive care by non-physician providers (see S. 2766), S8688 [22JY]

———preserve access to cancer care (see H.R. 5144), H7574 [23SE]

———provide payments to ambulance suppliers for the full cost of furnishing such services and to rural ambulance providers and suppliers for cost of serving areas with low population density (see S. 3011), S11639 [19NO] (see H.R. 5415), H10079 [19NO]

Mental health: authorizing appropriations for diversion courts (see S. 2107), S1518 [24FE] (see H.R. 3924), H926 [9MR]

Merchant marine industry: provide a monthly monetary benefit to certain individuals who served in the U.S. merchant marine during World War II (see H.R. 3729), H127 [27JA]

National Affordable Housing Trust Fund: establish to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing for low-income families (H.R. 1102), consideration (see H. Res. 748), H6705 [22JY]

National Health Corps Loan Repayment Program: count fellowship training in geriatric medicine or psychiatry as obligated service (see S. 2075), S1285 [12FE]

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

Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act: clarify certain loan guarantee authority (see S. 2571), S7311 [23JN] (see H.R. 4471), H3604 [1JN]

Native Americans: establish grant programs for the development of telecommunications capacities in Indian country (see S. 2382), S4837 [4MY]

———improve housing programs (see H.R. 5221), H8167 [5OC]

New Mexico: provide assistance for development of comprehensive State water plans (see S. 2460), S5949 [20MY]

Power resources: provide loan guarantees for renewable energy projects using biomass material (see H.R. 4297), H2657 [5MY]

Prince Edward County, VA: make tuition grants available to eligible former students denied an education when the public schools closed rather than comply with Supreme Court Brown v. Board of Education decision (see H. Con. Res. 451), H4286 [16JN]

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]

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

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (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]

Research: enhance Federal investment in research and development, and the development of innovative technologies (see S. 3022), S11799 [20NO]

Roads and highways: extend certain Highway Trust Fund highway, safety, and transit programs pending reauthorization of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (see S. 2822), S9441 [21SE] (see H.R. 3783), H433 [10FE] (see H.R. 3850), H698 [26FE] (see H.R. 4219), H2405 [27AP] (see H.R. 4635), H4765 [22JN] (see H.R. 4864), H6126 [20JY] (see H.R. 4916), H6701 [22JY] (see H.R. 5183, 5184), H7863 [29SE]

———extend certain Highway Trust Fund highway, safety, and transit programs pending reauthorization of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (H.R. 3783), consideration—same-day consideration (see H. Res. 536), H631 [25FE]

———extend certain Highway Trust Fund highway, safety, and transit programs pending reauthorization of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (H.R. 4916), consideration—same-day consideration (see H. Res. 740), H6555 [21JY]

———extend certain Highway Trust Fund highway, safety, and transit programs pending reauthorization of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (H.R. 5183), consideration (see H. Res. 811), H7943 [30SE]

———extend certain Highway Trust Fund highway, safety, and transit programs pending reauthorization of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (H.R. 5183), consideration—same-day consideration (see H. Res. 807), H7863 [29SE]

SBA: establish funding priorities for women's business centers (see S. 2267), S3456 [31MR] (see H.R. 4376), H3093 [17MY]

———improve loan programs (see S. 2193), S2543 [10MR]

———increase amount to be reserved for women's business center programs sustainability grants (see S. 2266), S3455 [31MR]

———reauthorize loan programs (see S. 2821), S9441 [21SE] (see H.R. 5108), H7328 [21SE]

Schools: expand use of technology and information management systems in administration of school lunch and breakfast programs (see H.R. 3869), H752 [2MR]

Small business: extend redesignation period for certain HUBZones in States with persistently high unemployment (see H.R. 4695), H4927 (see H.R. 4695), H5070 [24JN]

———improve results and accountability of microenterprise development assistance programs (see S. 3027), S11799 [20NO] (see H.R. 3818), H574 [24FE]

———promote growth (see S. 2946), S10845 [8OC]

———provide emergency relief to small businesses and farms affected by significant increases in the prices of electricity, heating oil, natural gas, propane, and kerosene (see H.R. 5408), H10078 [19NO]

Small Business Act: reauthorize certain loan programs (see S. 2915), S10702 [7OC]

Social Security: enhance privacy protections for individuals and prevent fraudulent misuse of account numbers (see S. 2801), S9220 [14SE]

———expand Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program to include parents of low-income families (see H.R. 4350), H2917 [12MY]

———improve the administration of unemployment taxes and benefits (see S. 2662), S8229 [15JY]

———modify the rules on availability and method of redistribution of unexpended State Children's Health Insurance Program allotments (see S. 2759), S8688 [22JY]

———permit qualifying States to use unspent State Children's Health Insurance Program allotments for Medicaid expenditures (see H.R. 3840), H632 [25FE] (see H.R. 4692), H4926 (see H.R. 4692), H5070 [24JN]

———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]

———provide additional safeguards for certain beneficiaries with representative payees (H.R. 743), consideration of Senate amendment (see H. Res. 520), H433 [10FE]

———provide modest adjustments necessary to restore the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program to long-term actuarial balance (see H.R. 5179), H7863 [29SE]

———reject privatization proposals (see S. Res. 432), S9525 [22SE]

———require waivers of waiting period for benefits based on disability in the case of terminally ill beneficiaries (see H.R. 5034), H6899 [8SE]

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

States: authorize Dept. of Agriculture and CCC to enter into memorandums of understanding with States regarding the collection of approved State commodity assessments from proceeds of marketing assistance loans (see S. 2866), S9936 [29SE] (see H.R. 4620), H4579 [18JN]

Taxation: exclude from gross income certain hazard mitigation assistance (see S. 2886), S10366 [4OC] (see H.R. 5206), H8038 [4OC]

———provide additional protections for recipients of the earned income tax credit (see S. 2947), S10845 [8OC] (see H.R. 5340), H9049 [8OC]

———repeal rate cuts for the top tax bracket and apply savings to the educational grant and loan programs (see S. 2423), S5472 [13MY]

———repeal sunset of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act and repeal scheduled reductions in tax benefits provided by the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (see H.R. 3773), H392 [4FE]

Tobacco products: prohibit the anticipated extreme reduction in the national marketing quotas for flue-cured and burley tobacco (see H.R. 4960), H6703 [22JY]

———terminate Federal tobacco quota and price support programs and compensate tobacco quota holders and active tobacco producers adversely affected by termination of such programs (see H.R. 4033), H1592 [25MR]

U.S. Fire Administration: provide assistance to firefighting task forces (see S. 3010), S11639 [19NO]

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]

Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act: extend period for which an individual may elect to continue employer-sponsored health care coverage (see H.R. 4659), H4893 [23JN]

———require employers to post a notice of applicable rights and duties (see H.R. 4477), H3719 [2JN]

Veterans: extend and enhance benefits under the Montgomery GI Bill and improve housing benefits (see S. 2534), S6881 [16JN]

———improve and enhance education, housing, employment, medical, and other benefits and improve and extend certain authorities relative to the administration of benefits (see S. 2486), S6274 [1JN]

———improve post-traumatic stress disorder treatment for veterans and members of the Armed Forces (see H.R. 5244), H8856 [7OC]

———improve post-traumatic stress disorder treatment for veterans of service in Afghanistan and Iraq and the war on terror (see H.R. 4798), H5470 [9JY]

———improve provision of health care, rehabilitation, and related services to veterans suffering from trauma relating to a blast injury (see S. 2524), S6881 [16JN]

———increase maximum amount of available home loan guaranty (see H.R. 4065), H1739 [30MR]

———make improvements to certain life insurance programs for veterans with service-connected disabilities (see H.R. 4229), H2482 [28AP]

———provide for payment of stipends to veterans who pursue doctoral degrees in science or technology (see H.R. 5023), H6755 [7SE]

Virginia: include Nelson and Franklin Counties as part of the Appalachian region (see H.R. 3772), H392 [4FE]

Vocational and Technical Education Act: strengthen and improve programs (see S. 2650), S8030 [13JY] (see S. 2686), S8423 [19JY] (see H.R. 4496), H3780 [3JN]

Weather: extend benefits of the weatherization assistance program to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (see H.R. 3852, 3852), H699 [26FE]

Workforce Investment Act: establish a Personal Reemployment Accounts grant program to assist Americans in returning to work (see H.R. 4444), H3438 (see H.R. 4444), H3538 [20MY]

———establish a Personal Reemployment Accounts grant program to assist Americans in returning to work (H.R. 444), consideration (see H. Res. 656), H3604 [1JN]

Chronologies

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

Cloture motions

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

Conference reports

Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act (H.R. 1350), H9895-H9959 [17NO]

Excerpts

Help America Vote Act, H1350 [23MR]

Explanations

Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations (H.R. 4818): SBA Loan Programs Reauthorization, S11751-S11757 [20NO], H10196-H10202 [20NO]

Veterans' Benefits Improvements Act (S. 2486), S10884-S10891 [8OC]

Hearings

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

Letters

Assistive Technology Act: Deborah Buck, National Association of Assistive Technology Act Programs, S10362 [4OC]

———George Jesien, Association of University Centers on Disabilities, S10362 [4OC]

———Jennifer Dexter, Easter Seals, Inc., S10189 [30SE]

———Kathron Compton, Society for Human Resource Management, S10189 [30SE]

———Laura Ruby, Microsoft Corp., S10188 [30SE]

———Maureen Fitzgerald and Curtis L. Decker, National Association of Protection and Advocacy Systems, S10362 [4OC]

———Steve Eidelman, The Arc of the U.S. (organization), S10189 [30SE]

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]

Dept. of Agriculture Milk Income Loss Contract Program extension: several State Governors, S11762 [20NO]

Dept. of Commerce Emergency Steel Loan Guarantee Program funding: Anthony H. Gamboa, GAO, S144-S146 [22JA]

———Senator Byrd, S144 [22JA]

Dept. of Education participation in the National Children's Study: Christina Metzler, American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc., S5346 [12MY]

———Deborah A. Ziegler, Council for Exceptional Children, S5346 [12MY]

———E. Clarke Ross, Children & Adults With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (organization), S5347 [12MY]

———William F. Davis and Nathan Diament, Coalition for Equity in Special Education, S5346 [12MY]

Dept. of HUD section 8 housing vouchers programs funding: several organizations, E457 [26MR]

Disaster relief for States impacted by hurricanes and tropical storms: Senator Bill Nelson, S11194 [11OC]

Extend certain Highway Trust Fund highway, safety, and transit programs pending reauthorization of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century: Tom Cochran, U.S. Conference of Mayors, S9448 [21SE]

Financial assistance to State and local governments that continue to pay employees who serve on active duty in a Reserve component of the uniformed services: Barry Kasinitz, International Association of Fire Fighters, S11198 [11OC]

———Craig R. Benson, Governor of New Hampshire, S11198 [11OC]

———F.C. Rockholm, Roseville, CA, City Council, S11198 [11OC]

———Gus Morrison, Fremont, CA, City Council, S11198 [11OC]

———Marty Blum, Santa Barbara, CA, City Council, S11198 [11OC]

———Sacramento, CA, employee, S11197 [11OC]

———Stephen C. Padilla, Chula Vista, CA, City Council, S11198 [11OC]

Impose conditions on Federal reimbursement of emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens: Catherine K. Douglas, PEACH, Inc., H3038 [17MY]

———Melinda K. Lewis, El Centro, Inc., E920 [19MY]

———Michael D. Maves, AMA, H3037 [17MY]

———Representative Barton, Committee on Energy and Commerce (House), E906 [19MY]

———Representative Thomas, Committee on Ways and Means (House), E906 [19MY]

———Ron Pollack, FamiliesUSA (organization), H3037 [17MY]

———several health organizations, H3037, H3039 [17MY]

Individuals With Disabilities Education Act funding: Carolyn Wright, S5406 [13MY]

———Cathie Davis, S5406 [13MY]

———Denice Cronin, S5406 [13MY]

———Lyssa Bookman, S5405 [13MY]

Limit transfer of certain CCC funds between conservation programs for technical assistance for the programs: several agricultural organizations, H10906, H10907 [6DE]

———several conservation and sportsmen's organizations, H10908 [6DE]

———several organizations, H10906, H10908 [6DE]

McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program funding: several Representatives, H102 [27JA], H5486 [12JY]

National Dairy Equity Act: Dale Cole, Maine Dairy Industry Association, S7052 [18JN]

National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program reauthorization: Representative Boehlert, Committee on Science (House), H9024 [8OC]

———Representative Don Young, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (House), H9024 [8OC]

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]

Provide funds to make disaster assistance available for all customarily eligible agricultural producers as emergency spending: several agricultural organizations, S10905 [9OC]

———several conservation and sportsmen's organizations, S10905 [9OC]

———several organizations, S10905 [9OC]

Reform formula used to allocate Federal highway funds to States by considering interstate truck traffic and weather statistics: Senators Specter and Santorum, S522 [3FE]

Research, disease control, wellness, and tobacco cessation and preventative health efforts funding through an increase in cigarette and other tobacco excise taxes: several health organizations, S2645 [11MR]

Temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program, S4983 [6MY]

Veterans' Benefits Improvements Act: Al Mansell, National Association of Realtors, E1992 [16NO]

———Representative Christopher H. Smith, Committee on Veterans' Affairs (House), H9766 [17NO]

———Representative Sensenbrenner, Committee on the Judiciary (House), H9766 [17NO]

Lists

Nebraska critical access hospitals offering certain laboratory services, S5537 [17MY]

Organizations supporting S. 2491, Allied Health Reinvestment Act, S6360 [2JN]

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 H.R. 918, Patient Navigator Outreach, and Chronic Disease Prevention Act, E1844 [8OC]

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

Motions

Business and industry: coordinate Federal manufacturing research and development, strengthen manufacturing innovation and education programs, and expand outreach programs for small and medium-sized manufacturers (H.R. 3598), H5460 [9JY]

Individuals With Disabilities Education Act: reauthorize (S. 1248), S5345 [12MY]

Roads and highways: extend certain Highway Trust Fund highway, safety, and transit programs pending reauthorization of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (H.R. 5183), H7884 [30SE]

Social Security: provide additional safeguards for certain beneficiaries with representative payees (H.R. 743), H456 [11FE]

Workforce Investment Act: establish a Personal Reemployment Accounts grant program to assist Americans in returning to work (H.R. 444), H3738 [3JN]

Petitions and memorials

American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials: extend certain Highway Trust Fund highway, safety, and transit programs pending reauthorization of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century, S9448 [21SE]

Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations: extend certain Highway Trust Fund highway, safety, and transit programs pending reauthorization of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century, S9449 [21SE]

Press releases

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

Proclamations

Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority Early Federal Loan Repayment: Los Angeles, CA, Long Beach, CA, and Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority, S4994 [6MY]

Remarks in House

Agriculture: price supports, H3366 [19MY]

———price supports for sugar, E190 [24FE]

———price supports for tobacco, H4299, H4302, H4397-H4399, H4403, H4404, H4407, H4432 [17JN]

———provide crop and livestock disaster assistance to agricultural producers, H7186 [14SE], H7404 [22SE], H8304-H8307 [6OC], E1561 [8SE]

———unlimited price supports for farmers using commodity certificates, H5611 [13JY]

Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority: tribute to early Federal loan repayment, E777 [6MY], E806 [11MY]

Appropriations: making emergency supplemental appropriations for wildland firefighting costs (H.R. 4419), E957 [21MY]

———require matching of funds spent for Iraq reconstruction efforts be spent for domestic priorities, H2243 [21AP], H3936 [14JN]

Armed Forces: entitle educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill for members of the Selected Reserve who aggregate a certain amount of active duty service (H.R. 4367), E859 [14MY]

———health benefits funding, H3516 [20MY], H4725 [22JN]

———increase rates of educational assistance for members of the Selected Reserve (H.R. 4188), E586 [21AP]

———mental health benefits funding, H3425, H3426, H3445 [20MY]

Budget: across-the-board funding reductions, H5958 [19JY]

———allocation of funds, H3716, H3717 [2JN]

———impose an entitlement cap to limit increases in total direct spending to increases in inflation and growth in a given program's beneficiary population, H4984-H4986 [24JN]

———improve forecasting for entitlement spending programs, H4997 [24JN]

Business and industry: coordinate Federal manufacturing research and development, strengthen manufacturing innovation and education programs, and expand outreach programs for small and medium-sized manufacturers (H.R. 3598), H5440-H5462 [9JY]

———coordinate Federal manufacturing research and development, strengthen manufacturing innovation and education programs, and expand outreach programs for small and medium-sized manufacturers (H.R. 3598), recommit, H5460 [9JY]

———prohibit business enterprises that lay-off a greater percentage of their U.S. workers than workers in other countries from receiving any Federal assistance (H.R. 3888), H2724 [6MY]

CCC: limit transfer of certain funds between conservation programs for technical assistance for the programs (S. 2856), H10906-H10909 [6DE]

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

———encourage savings, promote financial literacy, and expand opportunities for young adults by establishing KIDS Accounts (H.R. 4939), E1499 [22JY]

———ensure access to food and nutrition assistance, improve children's nutritional health, and simplify and restore integrity of child nutrition programs (H.R. 3873), H1395-H1413 [24MR], H1687, H1688 [30MR], H3695 [2JN], E458 [26MR], E471 [29MR], E477 [30MR]

———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 health insurance for uninsured children, H2818 [12MY]

———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]

Children's Development Commission (Kiddie Mac): establish (H.R. 5265), E1856 [10OC]

Coal: clarify that certain coal industry health benefits may not be modified or terminated (H.R. 5383), E2068 [18NO]

Colleges and universities: authorize grants for institutions of higher education serving Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans (H.R. 333), H2789 [11MY]

———job-training grants for community colleges, E93 [3FE]

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]

Correctional institutions: encourage successful reentry of incarcerated persons into the community after release (H.R. 5075), E1618 [14SE], E2190 [7DE]

Dept. of Agriculture: McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program funding, H101 [27JA], H254 [3FE], H400 [10FE], H843 [4MR], H1040 [11MR], H1279 [18MR], H5485 [12JY], H5918 [19JY]

———Milk Income Loss Contract Program extension, H9172, H9173 [9OC]

———prohibit Federal funding for buyout of tobacco producers or quota holders, H5589-H5595 [13JY], E1388 [15JY], E1393 [16JY], E1426 [20JY]

———prohibit the purchase of chickens treated with fluoroquinolone for school nutrition programs, H5582, H5583 [13JY]

———require WIC program to purchase baby formula only from certified vendors, H3695 [2JN]

———require WIC to purchase baby formula from certified vendors, H4936 [24JN]

Dept. of Commerce: increase funding and permit flexibility in determining Federal cost-share of Manufacturing Extension Partnership centers, H5455-H5458 [9JY]

———prohibit use of funds for general re-competition of Manufacturing Extension Partnership centers, H5451-H5453 [9JY]

———re-orient current Technology Administration, Under Sec. of Technology, and Office of Technology Policy toward manufacturing and competitiveness issues, H5453, H5454 [9JY]

———require that auditing of Manufacturing Extension Partnership centers meet OMB requirements and that there be public financial disclosures, H5455 [9JY]

Dept. of Defense: carry out a program to provide a support system for members of the Armed Forces who incur severe disabilities (H.R. 5057), E1592 [10SE], E1961 [11OC]

———closing of Pentagon child care center and expansion and acceleration of planning and construction of a new center at Fort Myer, VA, H6666 [22JY]

Dept. of Education: combat waste, fraud, and abuse in Pell Grants, H3696 [2JN]

———make grants to States to establish screening programs for certain children to prevent reading failure (H.R. 4261), E736 [4MY]

Dept. of HHS: Community Services Block Grant Program funding, H6817 [8SE], H6978 [9SE]

———give grant preference to States that require schools to allow students to self-administer medication for asthma or anaphylaxis (H.R. 2023), H2630 [5MY], H8074-H8079 [5OC], E748 [5MY]

———reauthorize Healthy Start Program (H.R. 4905), E1509 [22JY]

———senior citizen meal programs funding, H6833 [8SE]

———Social Services Block Grant Program funding, H6978 [9SE]

Dept. of Homeland Security: first responders funding, H4559 [18JN], H6762 [8SE]

Dept. of HUD: insure mortgages for acquisition, construction, or substantial rehabilitation of child care and development facilities (H.R. 5265), E1856 [10OC]

———section 8 housing vouchers programs funding, H3600 [1JN], E315 [8MR], E456 [26MR], E912 [19MY], E1098 [14JN]

Dept. of Justice: disbursement of local law enforcement grants to Puerto Rico, H1683 [30MR]

———ex-offender reentry programs funding, H5276, H5277 [7JY]

———reauthorize grant program for reentry of offenders into the community and establish a task force on Federal programs and activities relating to the reentry of offenders into the community (H.R. 4676), H6540 [21JY]

Dept. of the Interior: proposed competitive formula for capital improvement grants for U.S. territories based on financial management and accountability criteria, H4445, H4446 [17JN]

———provide financial assistance to the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water Authority for the planning, design, and construction of the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water System (H.R. 4623), E1179 [18JN]

Dept. of Transportation: priority consideration of the Interstate 49 corridor under the National Corridor Infrastructure Improvement Program, H1991 [1AP]

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]

———improve educational assistance programs for apprenticeship or other on-job training (H.R. 1716), H2766 [11MY]

———increase maximum amount of available home loan guaranty (H.R. 4345), H4818-H4821 [23JN]

———provide additional safeguards for benefit recipients who have fiduciaries for receipt and management of benefit payments, E1881 [11OC]

———provide additional safeguards for benefit recipients who have fiduciaries for receipt and management of benefit payments (H.R. 4032), E457 [26MR]

———Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Task Force report, E1466 [22JY]

Disabled: improve access to assistive technologies, E757 [5MY]

———improve access to assistive technologies (H.R. 4278), H3913-H3920 [14JN], H9011, H9019 [8OC], E1126, E1131 [15JN]

Disasters: assistance for States impacted by hurricanes and tropical storms, H7238 [17SE]

———include drought in definition of disaster, H2778 [11MY]

———making emergency supplemental appropriations for relief for States impacted by hurricanes and tropical storms, H9120-H9125 [9OC]

———making emergency supplemental appropriations for relief for States impacted by hurricanes and tropical storms (H.R. 5005), H6717, H6726-H6731 [7SE], H6760 [8SE], H7047-H7052 [13SE], H7217 [15SE], E1561 [8SE]

———making emergency supplemental appropriations for relief for States impacted by hurricanes and tropical storms (H.R. 5072), H7217 [15SE]

———making emergency supplemental appropriations for relief for States impacted by hurricanes and tropical storms (H.R. 5212), H8175, H8287-H8311 [6OC]

———making emergency supplemental appropriations for relief for States impacted by hurricanes and tropical storms (H.R. 5212), consideration (H. Res. 819), H8278-H8287 [6OC]

———provide assistance for areas that experience a disaster that results in major damage to or destruction of homes (H.R. 4506), E1045 [4JN]

Diseases: fund breakthroughs in Alzheimer's disease research while providing more help to caregivers and increasing public education about prevention (H.R. 4595), E1143 [16JN], E1152 [18JN]

District of Columbia: establish an annual Federal infrastructure support contribution (H.R. 4269), E733 [4MY]

District of Columbia College Access Act: permanently authorize the public school and private school tuition assistance programs, H8208 [6OC]

———permanently authorize the public school and private school tuition assistance programs (H.R. 4012), H5781-H5783 [14JY], H10914, H10915 [6DE]

Domestic violence: research health impact and prevention and provide training and Federal coverage for health care professionals to identify and treat families experiencing family violence (H.R. 1267), E354 [11MR]

Drought: disaster assistance to Colorado, H7868 [30SE]

Economic Development Administration: reauthorize and improve (S. 1134), H8344-H8349 [6OC], E1857 [10OC], E1879 [11OC]

Education: access to, and affordability of, higher education, H2528-H2535 [4MY]

———assessment of options for parental choice in education system, H1310-H1317 [18MR]

———improve college access and opportunity by reforming Pell Grants and student loan programs, H3233 [19MY], E755 [5MY]

———include hold-harmless provisions for local educational agencies that no longer meet the minimum eligibility criteria for targeted and finance incentive grants (H.R. 5092), E1646 [15SE]

———increase student loan forgiveness to highly-qualified teachers in mathematics, science, and special education, and for reading specialists (H.R. 4410), H3706 [2JN]

———increase student loan forgiveness to teachers in mathematics, science, and special education (H.R. 438), H8325 [6OC]

———national policy to improve system, H2551, H2555 [5MY]

———Pell Grants and Perkins Loans funding, H2297 [22AP]

———Pell Grants funding, H1581 [25MR]

———prevent abuse of special allowance subsidies under the Federal Family Education Loan Program (H.R. 5113), H8323 [6OC], E1667 [21SE], E1730 [29SE]

———student financial aid programs, H3184, H3185 [18MY]

———student financial aid programs funding, H1581 [25MR], H6121 [20JY]

———voucher program to provide school choice, H1311 [18MR]

Elementary and Secondary Education Act: amend the poverty threshold calculation provisions used to determine school district eligibility for certain Title I funds, H6852 [8SE]

Employment: extend trade adjustment assistance to service workers (H.R. 3881), H1630-H1636 [29MR]

Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act: include certain former nuclear weapons program workers in the Special Exposure Cohort under the compensation program (H.R. 4388), E897 [18MY]

FAA: Essential Air Service Program funding, E1196 [21JN]

Families and domestic relations: establish programs using public, private, and faith-based organizations to recruit and train foster and adoptive parents and provide support services to foster families (H.R. 4431), E2126 [20NO]

———improve the lives of working families by providing assistance and encouraging the establishment of family-friendly workplaces (H.R. 3780), H420 [10FE], H7543 [23SE]

Farm Credit Act: extend support to the commercial fishing industry (H.R. 4210), E620 [22AP]

Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act: reauthorize Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program (H.R. 4107), H2924 [13MY]

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

Floods: disaster assistance to Ohio, H7052 [13SE]

———disaster assistance to West Virginia, H3864 [9JN]

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

———issuance through electronic benefits transfer, H4731 [22JN]

Health: increase insurance coverage by requiring employers to offer health insurance with greater Government assistance and by expanding current safety net programs (H.R. 5218), E2028 [18NO]

———national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (H.R. 4964), E1475 [22JY]

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

———provide individuals of health disparity populations prevention, detection, treatment, and follow-up care services, H5540 [13JY]

———provide individuals of health disparity populations prevention, detection, treatment, and follow-up care services for cancer and chronic diseases, and patient navigators to assist in receiving such services (H.R. 918), H8064-H8069 [5OC], E610 [22AP]

Help America Vote Act: funding, H6733 [7SE], E404 [18MR]

———implementation, H1349 [23MR], H7319-H7323 [21SE]

Home Investment Partnerships Act: provide downpayment assistance (H.R. 1276), H6759 [8SE]

Homosexuality: impact of recognizing same-sex marriage on certain governmental programs and their available funds, H3476 [20MY]

Housing: ensure proper management of housing-related Government-sponsored enterprises while protecting affordable housing loans in the secondary market, H1277 [18MR]

———facilitate self-help housing homeownership opportunities (H.R. 4363), H4588-H4590 [21JN], E1277 [25JN]

Hunger: efforts to reduce hunger, H101 [27JA], H1279 [18MR]

———food bank funding, H3950 [14JN]

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]

Immigration: effects of multiculturalism and immigration on U.S. culture, H2062-H2064 [1AP], H3065-H3071 [17MY], H3952-H3955 [14JN], H4159-H4164 [15JN]

———provide for earned adjustment to reward work, reunify families, establish a temporary worker program that protects workers, and strengthen national security (H.R. 4262), H2791 [11MY], H4537 [18JN], E745 [5MY], E1663 [21SE]

Individuals With Disabilities Education Act: allow preference in distribution of grants to agencies and organizations that provide training to regular education personnel to meet needs of disabled children (H.R. 5258), E1853 [10OC]

———funding, H422 [10FE]

———provide that State or local education agencies may be awarded attorney's fees in special education court cases deemed frivolous or unreasonable by the court, H10021 [19NO]

———reauthorize (H.R. 1350), conference report, H10010-H10022 [19NO], E2103, E2126, E2129 [20NO], E2183 [7DE]

———reauthorize (H.R. 1350), consideration of conference report (H. Res. 858), H10006-H10010 [19NO]

———reauthorize (H.R. 1350), corrections in enrollment (H. Con. Res. 524), H10022 [19NO]

LIHEAP: funding, H6829-H6832 [8SE], H10089, H10090 [20NO], E1618 [14SE]

Lincoln County, NV: establish wilderness areas, promote conservation, improve public land, and provide for high quality development (H.R. 4593), H7958-H7965 [4OC], E1863 [10OC]

———establish wilderness areas, promote conservation, improve public land, and provide for high quality development (H.R. 4593), Senate amendment, H9820-H9826 [17NO]

Manufacturing Technology Competitiveness Act (H.R. 3598): consideration (H. Res. 706), H5335-H5341 [8JY]

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

Medicare: impose conditions on Federal reimbursement of emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens (H.R. 3722), H82-H87 [21JA], H2907-H2911 [12MY], H2998, H2999 [13MY], H3019, H3022, H3033-H3044, H3065-H3071 [17MY], H3097, H3098, H3099 [18MY], E889, E891, E894 [18MY], E906, E913, E917, E920 [19MY]

———improve coordination of prescription drug coverage under retiree plans and State pharmaceutical assistance programs with Medicare drug benefits (H.R. 4195), E636 [22AP]

———prohibit Federal reimbursement of emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens, H6939-H6941 [9SE]

Merchant marine industry: provide a monthly monetary benefit to certain individuals who served in the U.S. merchant marine during World War II (H.R. 3729), H115 [27JA], H2768 [11MY]

National Affordable Housing Trust Fund: establish to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing for low-income families (H.R. 1102), consideration (H. Res. 748), H7549-H7555 [23SE]

National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program: reauthorize (H.R. 2608), H9020, H9024 [8OC], E1959 [11OC]

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

Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act: clarify certain loan guarantee authority (H.R. 4471), H4587, H4588 [21JN], E1227 [24JN]

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

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

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

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (H.R. 4589), H4665-H4669 [22JN]

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (H.R. 5149), H7786-H7790 [29SE]

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (S. 2231), H1683-H1686 [30MR]

Roads and highways: extend certain Highway Trust Fund highway, safety, and transit programs pending reauthorization of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century, H7078 [14SE]

———extend certain Highway Trust Fund highway, safety, and transit programs pending reauthorization of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (H.R. 3783), H465-H473 [11FE], E197 [24FE], E259 [26FE]

———extend certain Highway Trust Fund highway, safety, and transit programs pending reauthorization of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (H.R. 3850), H687, H688 [26FE]

———extend certain Highway Trust Fund highway, safety, and transit programs pending reauthorization of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (H.R. 4219), H2411-H2419 [28AP]

———extend certain Highway Trust Fund highway, safety, and transit programs pending reauthorization of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (H.R. 4635), H4778-H4785 [23JN]

———extend certain Highway Trust Fund highway, safety, and transit programs pending reauthorization of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (H.R. 4864), E1457 [21JY]

———extend certain Highway Trust Fund highway, safety, and transit programs pending reauthorization of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (H.R. 4916), H6680, H6681 [22JY]

———extend certain Highway Trust Fund highway, safety, and transit programs pending reauthorization of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (H.R. 5183), H7874-H7887 [30SE], E1753 [30SE]

———extend certain Highway Trust Fund highway, safety, and transit programs pending reauthorization of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (H.R. 5183), consideration (H. Res. 811), H7869-H7874 [30SE]

———extend certain Highway Trust Fund highway, safety, and transit programs pending reauthorization of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (H.R. 5183), consideration—same-day consideration (H. Res. 807), H7868, H7869 [30SE]

———extend certain Highway Trust Fund highway, safety, and transit programs pending reauthorization of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (H.R. 5183), corrections in engrossment, H7898 [30SE]

———extend certain Highway Trust Fund highway, safety, and transit programs pending reauthorization of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (H.R. 5183), motion to recommit, H7884-H7886 [30SE]

Safe Drinking Water Act: reauthorize, H2601-H2604 [5MY], E959 [21MY]

Saginaw, MI: Aleda E. Lutz Veterans Medical Center funding, E903 [18MY]

SBA: Microloan Program funding, H5293, H5294 [7JY]

———reauthorize loan programs, H10196 [20NO]

———Women's Business Centers funding, H5321 [7JY]

Schools: expand use of technology and information management systems in administration of school lunch and breakfast programs, H1408 [24MR], H4936 [24JN]

———expand use of technology and information management systems in administration of school lunch and breakfast programs (H.R. 3869), H712 [2MR]

Small business: improve results and accountability of microenterprise development assistance programs (H.R. 3818), H10211-H10217 [20NO]

———provide emergency relief to small businesses and farms affected by significant increases in the prices of electricity, heating oil, natural gas, propane, and kerosene (H.R. 5408), E2111 [20NO]

Social Security: expand Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program to include parents of low-income families (H.R. 4350), E843 [14MY]

———improve the administration of unemployment taxes and benefits (H.R. 3463), H5669-H5672 [14JY]

———prevent convicted fugitive felons and parole or probation violators from collecting checks, H457 [11FE]

———provide additional safeguards for certain beneficiaries with representative payees (H.R. 743), Senate amendment, H443-H465 [11FE]

———provide additional safeguards for certain beneficiaries with representative payees (H.R. 743), consideration of Senate amendment (H. Res. 520), H438-H443 [11FE]

———solvency, H670, H671 [26FE], H864-H868 [4MR], H1328 [23MR], H1375, H1458 [24MR], H1503 [25MR], H1733-H1737 [30MR], H1763 [31MR], H2194 [20AP], H2247-H2250, H2253 [21AP], H2471-H2475 [28AP], H2717 [6MY], H3176-H3180 [18MY], H6885-H6889 [8SE], H8143 [5OC], E230 [25FE]

States: allow receipt of toll credits for any local, State, or private funds contributed to a toll project that exceeds the minimum nonfederal threshold requirements for a Federal match, H1986-H1988 [1AP]

———authorize Dept. of Agriculture and CCC to enter into memorandums of understanding with States regarding the collection of approved State commodity assessments from proceeds of marketing assistance loans (H.R. 4620), H8110 [5OC]

Taxation: allow a refundable credit for the purchase of private health insurance and establish State health insurance safety-net programs (H.R. 583), H2897 [12MY]

———repeal sunset of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act and repeal scheduled reductions in tax benefits provided by the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (H.R. 3773), E725 [4MY]

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program: treatment of individuals with drug felony convictions, E476 [30MR]

Terrorism: increase criminal penalties relative to terrorist murders and deny Federal benefits to terrorists, H8874, H8875 [8OC], E1967 [11OC]

———increase criminal penalties relative to terrorist murders and deny Federal benefits to terrorists (H.R. 2934), H7105 [14SE]

Tobacco products: eliminate quotas and price supports, provide transition assistance for producers, protect markets, quality, and availability, and establish a trust fund to finance such actions (H.R. 3160), H495 [11FE], H2922 [13MY]

———terminate Federal tobacco quota and price support programs and compensate tobacco quota holders and active tobacco producers adversely affected by termination of such programs, H7582 [28SE], H8715-H8719, H8723 [7OC], E1909 [11OC], E2182 [7DE]

———terminate Federal tobacco quota and price support programs and compensate tobacco quota holders and active tobacco producers adversely affected by termination of such programs (H.R. 4033), H5333 [8JY]

Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century: reauthorize, H414 [10FE]

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: study the water needs of the Klamath River Basin relative to how much, and when, water is needed, H4242 [16JN], H4456, H4457 [17JN]

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]

Uniform Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act: require employers to post a notice of applicable rights and duties (H.R. 4477), H6821 [8SE], H8389 [6OC]

Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act: extend period for which an individual may elect to continue employer-sponsored health care coverage (H.R. 4659), E1228 [24JN]

Veterans: benefits funding, H1356 [23MR], H1456 [24MR], H1556, H1557 [25MR], H3171-H3176 [18MY], H3600 [1JN], H3716 [2JN], H3951 [14JN], H4650, H4732 [22JN], H4882-H4886 [23JN], H4896 [24JN], H5073 [25JN], H7046 [13SE], H7565 [23SE], H8172 [6OC], E902 [18MY], E1237 [25JN], E1698 [24SE]

———health care, disability compensation, and retirement pay funding, H834 [4MR]

———improve and enhance education, housing, employment, medical, and other benefits and improve and extend certain authorities relative to the administration of benefits (S. 2486), H9749-H9772 [17NO], E1992 [16NO], E2058 [18NO], E2074 [20NO]

———improve post-traumatic stress disorder treatment for veterans of service in Afghanistan and Iraq and the war on terror, E1965 [11OC]

———improve provision of health care, rehabilitation, and related services to veterans, H4746-H4751 [22JN]

———increase educational benefits under the Montgomery GI Bill, H2766 [11MY]

———make improvements to certain life insurance programs for veterans with service-connected disabilities (H.R. 4229), E739 [4MY]

———provide long-term physical and mental health care for combat veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and their families, H2527 [4MY]

———provide mental health services for veterans returning from combat and their families, H4701, H4707, H4708 [22JN], E1223 [24JN]

———recognize military service of certain Philippine nationals during World War II and allow receipt of Dept. of Veterans Affairs benefits (H.R. 677), H2789 [11MY]

Violence Against Women Act: funding, H5379 [8JY]

Vocational and Technical Education Act: strengthen and improve programs (H.R. 4496), E1021 [3JN]

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

Workforce Investment Act: establish a Personal Reemployment Accounts grant program to assist Americans in returning to work (H.R. 444), H3607, H3609, H3706 [2JN], H3725-H3740 [3JN], E1062 [8JN], E1103 [14JN]

———establish a Personal Reemployment Accounts grant program to assist Americans in returning to work (H.R. 444), consideration (H. Res. 656), H3611-H3617 [2JN]

———establish a Personal Reemployment Accounts grant program to assist Americans in returning to work (H.R. 444), motion to recommit, H3738, H3739 [3JN]

Remarks in Senate

Agriculture: establish regional dairy marketing areas to stabilize the price of milk and support the income of dairy producers (S. 2525), S6888 [16JN], S7052 [18JN]

———provide crop and livestock disaster assistance to agricultural producers, S8839, S8840, S8846 [7SE], S9185-S9193, S9200 [14SE], S9657, S9668 [24SE], S9807 [28SE], S9909 [29SE], S10620 [7OC], S10780 [8OC], S11233 [11OC]

———provide crop and livestock disaster assistance to agricultural producers (S. 2592), S7421, S7453 [24JN]

Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority: tribute to early Federal loan repayment, S4993 [6MY]

Armed Forces: allow certain active-duty personnel to elect to become eligible for educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill (S. 2561), S7313 [23JN]

———enhance the Montgomery GI Bill benefits for certain individuals who have served after September 11, 2001 (S. 2849), S9723 [27SE]

———preclude additional military pay from being counted as income when determining eligibility for certain Federal benefits, S7290 [23JN]

———provide financial assistance to State and local governments that continue to pay employees who serve on active duty in a Reserve component of the uniformed services, S11195-S11198 [11OC]

Assets for Independence Act: revise and extend (S. 1786), S1402, S1412 [12FE]

Budget: increase Pell Grant funding through closing of certain tax loopholes, S2635-S2638, S2647 [11MR]

———reduce level of tax cuts and apply savings to law enforcement programs, S2611-S2615, S2643, S2687 [11MR]

Burlington, VT: North Street Revitalization Project funding through the Transportation and Community and System Preservation Program, S1232 [12FE]

Bush, President: evaluation of administration, S8495-S8498 [21JY]

CCC: limit transfer of certain funds between conservation programs for technical assistance for the programs (S. 2856), S9816 [28SE], S11331 [11OC]

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: provide direct congressional access to the Office of the Chief Actuary (S. 2076), S1292 [12FE]

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

Children and youth: encourage savings, promote financial literacy, and expand opportunities for young adults by establishing KIDS Accounts (S. 2751), S8736 [22JY]

———establish a grant program to provide comprehensive eye examinations (S. 2749), S8735 [22JY]

———establish kinship navigator programs and establish kinship guardianship assistance payments for children (S. 2706), S8557 [21JY]

———issue a semipostal stamp in order to provide funding for childhood drinking prevention and education programs (S. 2676), S8239 [15JY]

———promote better health for young people through Federal matching awards for physical education programs (S. 2150), S1935 [1MR]

———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]

———provide for programs and activities on the prevention of underage drinking (S. 2718), S8692-S8696 [22JY]

Civil rights: restore, reaffirm, and reconcile legal rights under civil rights statutes (S. 2088), S1296, S1308 [12FE]

Coal: clarify that certain coal industry health benefits may not be modified or terminated (S. 3004), S11499 [18NO]

Colleges and universities: improve quality, affordability, diversity, and accessibility to qualified students (S. 1793), S9323 [15SE]

———provide higher education assistance for nontraditional students (S. 2360), S4694-S4696 [29AP]

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]

Community Services Block Grant Act: revise and extend (S. 1786), S1402, S1412 [12FE]

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

———McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program funding, S10820 [8OC]

———Milk Income Loss Contract Program extension, S11289 [11OC], S11760, S11762 [20NO]

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

———specialty crops funding, S7247 [23JN]

Dept. of Commerce: Emergency Steel Loan Guarantee Program funding, S143-S146 [22JA], S11286 [11OC]

Dept. of Defense: carry out a program to provide a support system for members of the Armed Forces who incur severe disabilities (S. 2956), S10855 [8OC]

———expand Mentor-Protege program to include service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses and qualified HUBZone small businesses, S6066 [21MY]

Dept. of Education: improve the Child Care Access Means Parents in School Program (CCAMPIS) (S. 2887), S10437-S10439 [5OC], S10563 [6OC]

———require participation in the National Children's Study, S5345-S5348 [12MY]

Dept. of HHS: 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]

———give grant preference to States that require schools to allow students to self-administer medication for asthma or anaphylaxis (H.R. 2023), S11326 [11OC]

———give grant preference to States that require schools to allow students to self-administer medication for asthma or anaphylaxis (S. 2815), S9388, S9389 [20SE]

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

Dept. of Homeland Security: allocate formula-based grants to State and local governments based on an assessment of threats and vulnerabilities, S9171-S9176, S9182 [14SE]

———allocation of homeland security block grant funds to high-threat urban areas and U.S. seaports, S8941-S8945 [8SE]

———award grants to public transportation agencies to improve security, S10212, S10213 [1OC]

———award grants to public transportation agencies to improve security (S. 2884), S10285, S10286 [1OC]

———award research and equipment grants, provide tax credit for employers hiring workers to replace employees receiving first responder training, and provide school-based mental health training (S. 2459), S5956-S5958 [20MY]

———eligibility of Amtrak and other inter-city passenger rail carriers and freight rail operations for grants to improve rail security, S9187, S9188 [14SE]

———ensure that Under Sec. for Emergency Preparedness and Response participates in Threat-Based Homeland Security Grant Program process for non-law enforcement related grants, S9805 [28SE]

———establish a first responder and terrorism preparedness grant information hotline (S. 2171), S2233 [4MR]

———establish a first responder and terrorism preparedness grant information hotline (S. 2632), S7867 [8JY], S7900 [9JY]

———first responders funding through reductions in tax cuts, S8996-S9003 [9SE]

———increase grants to Amtrak, other rail carriers, and providers of mass transportation to improve rail and mass transportation system security, S9204, S9205 [14SE]

———increase Urban Area Security Initiative funding to ensure that high-threat, high-density urban areas receive resources commensurate with the threat level, S9172-S9176 [14SE]

———make grants to Amtrak, other rail carriers, and providers of mass transportation to improve rail and mass transportation system security (S. 2276), S3582 [1AP]

———State Homeland Security Grant Program funding, S9110 [13SE]

Dept. of HUD: make grants to States for affordable housing for low-income persons (S. 2692), S8477 [20JY]

———provide temporary mortgage assistance to workers displaced due to international competition, S4821 [4MY]

———section 8 housing vouchers programs funding, S4368 [26AP], S5041 [7MY], S5222 [11MY], S5944 [20MY]

Dept. of Justice: reauthorize grant program for reentry of offenders into the community and establish a task force on Federal programs and activities relating to the reentry of offenders into the community (S. 2789), S9077 [10SE]

———reauthorize grant program for reentry of offenders into the community and establish a task force on Federal programs and activities relating to the reentry of offenders into the community (S. 2923), S10717-S10725 [7OC]

Dept. of Labor: provide temporary mortgage assistance to workers displaced due to international competition, S3091 [24MR]

Dept. of the Interior: provide financial assistance to the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water Authority for the planning, design, and construction of the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water System (S. 2513), S6674 [9JN]

Dept. of Transportation: extend Federal Aid Highway Program, S1883, S1884 [27FE]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: carry out a program of outreach to veterans of World War II and the Korean War on the nature and availability of benefits for veterans (S. 2776), S8915 [7SE]

———increase maximum amount of available home loan guaranty (S. 2522), S6807 [15JN]

———require an annual plan on outreach activities (S. 2638), S7939 [12JY]

Disabled: improve access to assistive technologies (H.R. 4278), S10186-S10192 [30SE], S10362 [4OC]

———improve access to assistive technologies (S. 2595), S7461-S7474 [24JN]

Disasters: develop a plan to address weather-related natural disasters that impact farmers, ranchers, and rural communities, S4446 [28AP]

———making emergency supplemental appropriations for relief for States impacted by hurricanes and tropical storms, S9102-S9104 [13SE], S9178, S9179 [14SE], S9657 [24SE], S9807 [28SE], S11225-S11227 [11OC]

———making emergency supplemental appropriations for relief for States impacted by hurricanes and tropical storms (H.R. 5005), S8816, S8817, S8819, S8820, S8831, S8839, S8840, S8846 [7SE], S8937-S8939, S8957 [8SE], S9257-S9260 [15SE]

———provide emergency agricultural disaster assistance to Florida relative to the impact of tropical storms and hurricanes, S9202-S9204 [14SE]

———provide funds to make disaster assistance available for all customarily eligible agricultural producers as emergency spending and not funded by cuts in certain other agricultural legislation, S11032 [10OC]

———provide funds to make disaster assistance available for all customarily eligible agricultural producers as emergency spending and not funded by cuts in certain other agricultural legislation (S. Res. 454), S10901-S10906, S10926, S10932 [9OC], S11050-S11052 [10OC], S11278-S11280 [11OC]

Diseases: fund breakthroughs in Alzheimer's disease research while providing more help to caregivers and increasing public education about prevention (S. 2533), S6901, S6902 [16JN], S9380 [20SE]

———provide gratuity to veterans, their spouses, and children who contract HIV or AIDS from a blood transfusion relative to a service-connected disability, S11677 [20NO]

District of Columbia College Access Act: permanently authorize the public school and private school tuition assistance programs (H.R. 4012), S11847, S11848 [24NO]

———permanently authorize the public school and private school tuition assistance programs (S. 2347), S4376 [26AP]

Economic Development Administration: reauthorize and improve (S. 1134), S10422 [5OC], S10504-S10512 [6OC]

Economy: national objectives priority assignments, S8433 [20JY]

Education: access to, and affordability of, higher education, S4936 [6MY], S10396 [5OC]

———access to, and affordability of, higher education (S. 2795), S9137-S9140 [13SE]

———improve elementary and secondary education (S. 2794), S9133 [13SE]

———increase basic Pell Grant amounts for nontraditional college students, S2663 [11MR]

———increase maximum amount of Pell Grants through offsets in other non-education Government programs, S2648, S2649 [11MR]

———Pell Grants for Kids Program funding, S5510-S5514 [17MY]

———Pell Grants funding, S4208-S4212 [21AP]

———prevent abuse of special allowance subsidies under the Federal Family Education Loan Program (S. 2861), S10057 [30SE], S10920 [9OC]

———provide additional assistance to Federal Pell Grants recipients who are pursuing programs of study in engineering, mathematics, science, or foreign languages (S. 2462), S5980-S5983 [20MY]

———provide for refinancing of consolidated student loans (S. 2198), S2722 [11MR]

———provide grants to rural local educational agencies to purchase new school buses (S. 2732), S8711 [22JY]

———provide grants to States to establish Kindergarten Plus programs (S. 2654), S8127 [14JY]

———student financial aid programs funding, S2678 [11MR]

Employment: eliminate tax subsidies for outsourcing of jobs, S10410 [5OC], S11029 [10OC]

———eliminate tax subsidies for outsourcing of jobs and provide assistance and improve the health care tax credit for certain displaced workers (S. 2531), S6894 [16JN]

———extend trade adjustment assistance to service workers, S4679 [29AP], S4753-S4760 [3MY], S4812-S4821 [4MY]

———extend trade adjustment assistance to service workers (S. 2143), S1892 [27FE]

———extend trade adjustment assistance to service workers (S. 2157), S2003 [2MR], S3758-S3760 [6AP]

Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act: include certain former nuclear weapons program workers in the Special Exposure Cohort under the compensation program, S6971 [17JN], S7219-S7221 [23JN]

———include certain former nuclear weapons program workers in the Special Exposure Cohort under the compensation program (S. 2047), S375 [2FE], S6913-S6915 [17JN]

EPA: prohibit awarding of grant funds to nonprofit environmental groups that engage in political activity, S10346-S10349 [4OC]

Family and domestic relations: Federal assistance for child care and elderly care, S6827 [16JN]

Farm Security and Rural Investment Act: extend contracts for national dairy market loss payments (S. 2609), S7582 [6JY]

Federal Highway Administration: Emergency Relief Program funding, S11224 [11OC]

FEMA: restore maximum contributions to Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, S9015, S9016 [9SE]

Firefighters: provide financial assistance to improve the health and safety of firefighters, promote use of life saving technologies, and achieve greater equity for departments serving large jurisdictions, S6978, S6982-S6984 [17JN]

———provide financial assistance to improve the health and safety of firefighters, promote use of life saving technologies, and achieve greater equity for departments serving large jurisdictions (S. 2411), S5232-S5236 [11MY], S5366 [12MY]

Floods: disaster assistance to Glenville, DE, S9210 [14SE]

———disaster assistance to Pennsylvania, S11047 [10OC]

Florida: FEMA funding to localities for debris removal as a result of hurricanes and tropical storms, S10397 [5OC]

Frenchburg, KY: anniversary of Job Corps Center, S6445 [3JN]

Great Lakes: establish a grant program to support coastal and water quality restoration activities in bordering States (S. 2337), S4315 [22AP]

Health: coordinate Federal policies and activities to prevent childhood obesity and establish grants for State childhood obesity prevention and control (S. 2894), S10443 [5OC]

———reorient the nation's health care system towards prevention, wellness, and self care (S. 2558), S7183-S7189 [22JN], S9066-S9068 [10SE], S11710-S11713 [20NO]

Health care professionals: establish a scholarship and loan repayment program for public health preparedness workforce development to eliminate critical public health preparedness workforce shortages (S. 2613), S7752 [7JY]

———improve dental services in underserved areas (S. 2740), S8720 [22JY]

———provide for education and training of allied health professionals in exchange for a service commitment at a facility with critical shortages of allied health professionals (S. 2491), S6358 [2JN], S6625 [8JN]

Help America Vote Act: funding, S2694 [11MR]

Higher Education Act: establish a scholarship program to encourage and support students who have contributed substantial public services (S. 2888), S10439 [5OC]

———expand college access and increase college persistence and simplify the process of applying for student assistance (S. 2477), S6099 [21MY]

Home Investment Partnerships Act: provide downpayment assistance (H.R. 1276), S962 [11FE]

Homeless: establish a grant program to provide supportive services in permanent supportive housing for chronically homeless individuals (S. 2937), S10739-S10742 [7OC]

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

Housing: facilitate self-help housing homeownership opportunities (H.R. 4363), S8140 [14JY], S8402 [16JY]

Hurricanes: disaster assistance to Florida National Guard facilities, S9283 [15SE]

Immigration: provide for earned adjustment to reward work, reunify families, establish a temporary worker program that protects workers, and strengthen national security (S. 2381), S4842 [4MY]

Individuals With Disabilities Education Act: ensure blind and print-disabled students receive instructional materials in a timely manner, S11656 [19NO]

———ensure that children with disabilities who are homeless or are wards of the State have access to special education services, S5353-S5355 [12MY]

———funding, S2677, S2678 [11MR]

———provide that State or local education agencies may be awarded attorney's fees in special education court cases deemed frivolous or unreasonable by the court, S5348-S5352 [12MY], S11654, S11655 [19NO]

———reauthorize (H.R. 1350), S5451 [13MY], S5529 [17MY], S6251 [21MY], S9468 [21SE]

———reauthorize (H.R. 1350), conference report, S11543-S11548, S11553, S11653-S11660 [19NO], S11669, S11675, S11769, S11776 [20NO], S11850 [24NO]

———reauthorize (H.R. 1350), corrections in enrollment (H. Con. Res. 524), S11660 [19NO]

———reauthorize (H.R. 1350), insert S. 1248 language in lieu, S5411 [13MY]

———reauthorize (H.R. 1350), unanimous-consent agreement, S9468 [21SE]

———reauthorize (S. 1248), S5241, S5250-S5360 [12MY], S5393, S5394-S5452 [13MY], S8091 [14JY]

———require special education teachers to be fully State-certified, S11655 [19NO]

Insurance: extend period for COBRA coverage for recipients of trade adjustment assistance (S. 2226), S3001 [23MR]

———extend period for COBRA coverage for victims of terrorist attacks (S. 2837), S9615 [23SE], S9670 [24SE]

LIHEAP: funding, S2656 [11MR]

Lincoln County, NV: establish wilderness areas, promote conservation, improve public land, and provide for high quality development (H.R. 4593), S11183 [10OC]

———establish wilderness areas, promote conservation, improve public land, and provide for high quality development (S. 2532), S6898-S6901 [16JN]

Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act: reauthorize (S. 2949), S10824, S10878 [8OC], S11008 [9OC]

———revise and extend (S. 1786), S1402, S1412 [12FE]

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]

———extend State fiscal relief (S. 2671), S8233, S8234 [15JY]

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

———permit children administered a vaccine at a public health clinic or Indian clinic to be eligible for the pediatric vaccine distribution program (S. 2272), S3571 [1AP]

———restore disproportionate share hospital allotment for Hawaii, S5488 [14MY]

Medicare: clarify payment for clinical laboratory tests furnished by critical access hospitals (S. 2426), S5536 [17MY]

———expand the rural community hospital demonstration program to include outpatient services (S. 2284), S3792 [6AP]

———improve coordination of prescription drug coverage under retiree plans and State pharmaceutical assistance programs with Medicare drug benefits (S. 2339), S4317 [22AP]

———negotiate lower prescription drug prices, eliminate gap in drug benefits coverage, reduce medical errors, increase use of technology, and increase services in primary and preventive care by non-physician providers (S. 2766), S8754 [22JY]

Mental health: authorizing appropriations for diversion courts (S. 2107), S1522 [24FE]

———provide assistance to train teachers for children with autism spectrum disorders, S5359 [12MY]

National Affordable Housing Act: raise minimum State allocation (S. 1851), S107 [21JA]

National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program: reauthorize (H.R. 2608), S10611, S10612 [6OC]

National Health Corps Loan Repayment Program: count fellowship training in geriatric medicine or psychiatry as obligated service (S. 2075), S1291 [12FE]

Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act: clarify certain loan guarantee authority (H.R. 4471), S11251 [11OC]

———clarify certain loan guarantee authority (S. 2571), S11251 [11OC]

Native Americans: establish grant programs for the development of telecommunications capacities in Indian country (S. 2382), S4842 [4MY]

———Federal aid programs funding, S4626 [29AP], S5038 [7MY]

New Mexico: provide assistance for development of comprehensive State water plans (S. 2460), S5961 [20MY], S9353 [15SE]

Philadelphia, PA: marine cargo terminal construction funding, S16 [20JA]

———provide financial assistance to rehabilitate Benjamin Franklin National Memorial and develop exhibit to commemorate 300th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin (S. 1852), S11173 [10OC]

Public welfare programs: allow financial literacy training to count towards work requirement, S3446 [31MR]

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

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

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (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-S3442, S3446-S3448 [31MR], S3523, S3529-S3538, S3556 [1AP], S3599 [2AP], S9763, S9764 [28SE]

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (H.R. 4), unanimous-consent agreement, S3120 [25MR]

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

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (H.R. 4589), S7200 [22JN]

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (H.R. 5149), S10180-S10183 [30SE], S10820 [8OC]

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (S. 2231), S3120 [25MR]

Roads and highways: extend certain Highway Trust Fund highway, safety, and transit programs pending reauthorization of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (H.R. 3783), S1529 [24FE], S1608 [25FE]

———extend certain Highway Trust Fund highway, safety, and transit programs pending reauthorization of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (H.R. 3850), S1853-S1857, S1883, S1884 [27FE]

———extend certain Highway Trust Fund highway, safety, and transit programs pending reauthorization of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (H.R. 3850), unanimous-consent request, S1854 [27FE]

———extend certain Highway Trust Fund highway, safety, and transit programs pending reauthorization of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (H.R. 4219), S4633, S4634, S4656, S4657, S4717 [29AP]

———extend certain Highway Trust Fund highway, safety, and transit programs pending reauthorization of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (H.R. 4635), S7347 [23JN]

———extend certain Highway Trust Fund highway, safety, and transit programs pending reauthorization of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (H.R. 4916), S8790, S8791 [22JY]

———extend certain Highway Trust Fund highway, safety, and transit programs pending reauthorization of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (H.R. 5183), S10183-S10185 [30SE]

———extend certain Highway Trust Fund highway, safety, and transit programs pending reauthorization of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (S. 2822), S9447 [21SE]

———reform formula used to allocate Federal highway funds to States by considering interstate truck traffic and weather statistics, S520 [3FE], S1227-S1229 [12FE]

Rural areas: economic development programs funding, S5385 [13MY]

SBA: establish funding priorities for women's business centers (S. 2267), S3461 [31MR], S4719-S4721 [29AP]

———improve loan programs (S. 2193), S2559 [10MR], S3595 [1AP]

———increase amount to be reserved for women's business center programs sustainability grants (S. 2266), S3461 [31MR]

———reauthorize loan programs, S11749-S11751, S11789 [20NO]

———reauthorize loan programs (S. 2821), S9447 [21SE]

Small business: improve results and accountability of microenterprise development assistance programs (H.R. 3818), S12018 [8DE]

———improve results and accountability of microenterprise development assistance programs (S. 3027), S11836 [20NO]

Social Security: enhance privacy protections for individuals and prevent fraudulent misuse of account numbers (S. 2801), S9224 [14SE]

———extend availability of allotments under the State Children's Health Insurance Program, S10180-S10183 [30SE]

———improve the administration of unemployment taxes and benefits (H.R. 3463), S8804 [22JY]

———modify the rules on availability and method of redistribution of unexpended State Children's Health Insurance Program allotments (S. 2759), S8749-S8751 [22JY], S10259 [1OC], S10361 [4OC]

———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]

———prevent unspent State Children's Health Insurance Program funds from reverting to the Treasury rather than being used to provide coverage for low-income children, S2656 [11MR]

———reject privatization proposals (S. Res. 432), S9534 [22SE]

———solvency, S1873-S1877 [27FE], S2269 [8MR], S3051 [24MR]

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

States: authorize Dept. of Agriculture and CCC to enter into memorandums of understanding with States regarding the collection of approved State commodity assessments from proceeds of marketing assistance loans (H.R. 4620), S11876 [7DE]

———authorize Dept. of Agriculture and CCC to enter into memorandums of understanding with States regarding the collection of approved State commodity assessments from proceeds of marketing assistance loans (S. 2866), S9909, S9955, S9986 [29SE], S10185 [30SE], S11839 [20NO]

Taxation: exclude from gross income certain hazard mitigation assistance (H.R. 5206), S11797 [20NO]

———exclude from gross income certain hazard mitigation assistance (S. 2886), S10368 [4OC], S11797 [20NO]

———provide additional protections for recipients of the earned income tax credit (S. 2947), S10848 [8OC]

Terrorism: assist States and communities in preparing for and responding to threats to agriculture (S. 427), S1675 [26FE], S9027 [9SE], S12044 [8DE]

———compensation and access to legal action for families of Marine Corps members killed in 1983 bombing in Beirut, Lebanon, S11482 [18NO]

———enhance the ability of first responders to respond to incidents of terrorism, S2767 [12MR]

Tobacco products: eliminate price supports and compensate quota holders, tobacco producers, and tobacco-dependent communities, S8151-S8178, S8217, S8219 [15JY]

———increase funding for research, disease control, wellness, and tobacco cessation and preventative health efforts through an increase in cigarette and other tobacco excise taxes, S2621-S2623, S2645 [11MR]

———terminate Federal tobacco quota and price support programs and compensate tobacco quota holders and active tobacco producers adversely affected by termination of such programs, S10793 [8OC], S10959, S10977 [9OC], S11019 [10OC], S11219 [11OC]

Transportation: provide new infrastructure funding through Federal bonding to empower States and local governments to complete significant infrastructure projects across all modes of transportation, S978-S982 [11FE]

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]

Veterans: benefits funding, S6749 [15JN], S7160, S7161 [22JN], S7289 [23JN], S7358 [24JN], S9868 [29SE], S10403 [5OC]

———extend and enhance benefits under the Montgomery GI Bill and improve housing benefits (S. 2534), S6902 [16JN]

———improve and enhance certain benefits for survivors of veterans, S6952-S6954 [17JN]

———improve and enhance education, housing, employment, medical, and other benefits and improve and extend certain authorities relative to the administration of benefits (S. 2486), S6288 [1JN], S10880-S10892 [8OC], S11195 [11OC], S11885 [7DE]

———improve post-traumatic stress disorder treatment for veterans of service in Afghanistan and Iraq and the war on terror, S8822 [7SE]

———improve provision of health care, rehabilitation, and related services to veterans suffering from trauma relating to a blast injury (S. 2524), S6886 [16JN]

Veterans Day: observance, S11423 [17NO]

Vocational and Technical Education Act: strengthen and improve programs (S. 2650), S8105 [14JY]

———strengthen and improve programs (S. 2686), S8425, S8426 [19JY], S8469 [20JY]

Voting: establish a grant program to provide assistance to States for modernizing and enhancing voting procedures and administration, S12042 [8DE]

Workforce Investment Act: reauthorize (S. 1627), S3627 [5AP], S8091 [14JY], S8931 [8SE]

Reports

Federal Laws in Which Marital Status Is a Factor in Determining Benefits, Rights, and Privileges: Dayna K. Shah, GAO, H3476-H3492 [20MY]

Grants Management at the EPA—A New Culture Required To Cure a History of Problems, S10423-S10428 [5OC]

Political Activity of Environmental Groups and Their Supporting Foundations, S10349-S10351 [4OC]

Reports filed

Asthmatic Schoolchildren's Treatment and Health Management Act: Committee on Energy and Commerce (House) (H.R. 2023) (H. Rept. 108-606), H5792 [14JY]

———Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (Senate) (S. 2815) (S. Rept. 108-394), S10845 [8OC]

Benjamin Franklin National Memorial Rehabilitation Assistance and Develop Exhibit To Commemorate Anniversary of Birth of Benjamin Franklin: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (Senate) (S. 1852) (S. Rept. 108-364), S9812 [28SE]

Career and Technical Education Improvement Act: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (Senate) (S. 2686) (S. Rept. 108-384), S10365 [4OC]

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

Child Nutrition Improvement and Integrity Act: Committee on Education and the Workforce (House) (H.R. 3873) (H. Rept. 108-445), H1369 [23MR]

Consideration of Conference Report on H.R. 1350, Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 858) (H. Rept. 108-781), H9999 [18NO]

Consideration of H.R. 444, Back to Work Incentive Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 656) (H. Rept. 108-518), H3604 [1JN]

Consideration of H.R. 3598, Manufacturing Technology Competitiveness Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 706) (H. Rept. 108-589), H5330 [7JY]

Consideration of H.R. 5183, Surface Transportation Extension Act Part V: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 811) (H. Rept. 108-710), H7943 [30SE]

Consideration of H.R. 5212, Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Relief for States Impacted by Hurricanes and Tropical Storms: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 819) (H. Rept. 108-735), H8167 [5OC]

Consideration of Senate Amendment to H.R. 743, Social Security Protection Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 520) (H. Rept. 108-417), H433 [10FE]

Dept. of Homeland Security Grants to Public Transportation Agencies to Improve Security: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (Senate), S5949 [20MY]

District of Columbia College Access Act: Committee on Government Reform (House) (H.R. 4012) (H. Rept. 108-527), H3820 [8JN]

———Committee on Governmental Affairs (Senate) (S. 2347) (S. Rept. 108-349), S9385 [20SE]

District of Columbia College Access Act Permanent Authorization of Public School and Private School Tuition Assistance Programs: Committee on Governmental Affairs (Senate) (H.R. 4012), S8686 [22JY]

Economic Development Administration Reauthorization and Improvement: Committee on Environment and Public Works (Senate) (S. 1134) (S. Rept. 108-382), S10261 [1OC]

Emergency Preparedness and Response Act: Committee on Environment and Public Works (Senate) (S. 930) (S. Rept. 108-227), S1586 [25FE]

Faster and Smarter Funding for First Responders Act: Committee on Energy and Commerce (House) (H.R. 3266) (H. Rept. 108-460), H3962 [14JN]

———Committee on Homeland Security (House, Select) (H.R. 3266) (H. Rept. 108-460), H2151 [2AP]

———Committee on the Judiciary (House) (H.R. 3266) (H. Rept. 108-460), H4646 [21JN]

———Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (House) (H.R. 3266) (H. Rept. 108-460), H4646 [21JN]

Financing Homes for Rural Americans Act: Committee on Transportation (House) (H.R. 4521) (H. Rept. 108-775), H9744 [16NO]

Helping Hands for Homeownership Act: Committee on Financial Services (House) (H.R. 4363) (H. Rept. 108-546), H4285 [16JN]

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

Homeownership Opportunities for Native Americans Act: Committee on Financial Services (House) (H.R. 4471) (H. Rept. 108-550), H4390, H4506 [17JN]

Improving Access to Assistive Technology for Individuals With Disabilities Act: Committee on Education and the Workforce (House) (H.R. 4278) (H. Rept. 108-514), H3604 [1JN]

Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act: Committee of Conference (H.R. 1350) (H. Rept. 108-779), H9962 [17NO]

Lincoln County Conservation, Recreation, and Development Act: Committee on Resources (House) (H.R. 4593) (H. Rept. 108-720), H8037 [4OC]

Manufacturing Technology Competitiveness Act: Committee on Science (House) (H.R. 3598) (H. Rept. 108-581), H5194 [6JY]

Mental Health Diversion Courts Appropriations: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 2107), S4687 [29AP]

Microenterprise Results and Accountability Act: Committee on International Relations (House) (H.R. 3818) (H. Rept. 108-459), H2151 [2AP]

Minority Serving Institution Digital and Wireless Technology Opportunity Act: Committee on Science (House) (H.R. 2801) (H. Rept. 108-789), H10078 [19NO]

National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (Senate) (H.R. 2608) (S. Rept. 108-385), S10436 [5OC]

Native American Connectivity Act: Committee on Indian Affairs (Senate) (S. 2382) (S. Rept. 108-335), S8861 [7SE]

New Mexico Water Planning Assistance Act: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (Senate) (S. 2460) (S. Rept. 108-326), S8861 [7SE]

Patient Navigator Outreach, and Chronic Disease Prevention Act: Committee on Energy and Commerce (House) (H.R. 918) (H. Rept. 108-727), H8166 [5OC]

Rural Teacher Housing Act: Committee on Indian Affairs (Senate) (S. 1905) (S. Rept. 108-414), S11429 [17NO]

Same-Day Consideration of Consideration of H.R. 3783, Surface Transportation Extension Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 536) (H. Rept. 108-428), H631 [25FE]

Same-Day Consideration of Consideration of H.R. 4916, Surface Transportation Extension Act Part IV: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 740) (H. Rept. 108-630), H6555 [21JY]

Same-Day Consideration of H. Res. 811, Consideration of H.R. 5183, Surface Transportation Extension Act Part V: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 807) (H. Rept. 108-709), H7863 [29SE]

Social Security Number Privacy and Identity Theft Prevention Act: Committee on Ways and Means (House) (H.R. 2971) (H. Rept. 108-685), H7137 [14SE]

Strengthen and Improve Vocational and Technical Education Act Programs: Committee on Education and the Workforce (House) (H.R. 4496) (H. Rept. 108-659), H6755 [7SE]

Terrorist Penalties Enhancement Act: Committee on the Judiciary (House) (H.R. 2934) (H. Rept. 108-588), H5330 [7JY]

Veterans' Benefits Improvements Act: Committee on Veterans' Affairs (Senate) (S. 2486) (S. Rept. 108-352), S9386 [20SE]

Veterans Earn and Learn Act: Committee on Veterans' Affairs (House) (H.R. 1716) (H. Rept. 108-572), H5148 [25JN]

Veterans Prescription Drugs Assistance Act: Committee on Veterans' Affairs (Senate) (S. 1153) (S. Rept. 108-419), S11639 [19NO]

Statements

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

Dept. of HUD Section 8 Housing Vouchers Programs Funding: Consortium for Citizens With Disabilities, E315 [8MR]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Task Force Recommendations: Dorcas R. Hardy, E1466 [22JY]

Educational Opportunity Grants for Needy Elementary and Secondary Students: Daniel Patrick Moynihan, S5512 [17MY]

Protecting the Integrity and Accessibility of Voting in 2004 and Beyond: People for the American Way (organization), H7323 [21SE]

Tobacco Quota Buyout: Senator Dole, S11237 [11OC]

Veterans' Benefits Improvements Act (S. 2486): Senate Amendments, H9759-H9766 [17NO]

Summaries

Kindergarten Plus Act (S. 2654), S8130 [14JY]

Tables

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

Emergency supplemental appropriations for relief for States impacted by hurricanes and tropical storms (H.R. 5212), H8289-H8292 [6OC]

Federal Highway Administration Emergency Relief Program funding requests, S11224 [11OC]

Projected health care costs and savings under S. 2558, Healthy Lifestyles and Prevention (HeLP) America Act, S7189 [22JN]

Texts of

H. Con. Res. 524, corrections in enrollment to H.R. 1350, Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act, H10022 [19NO]

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. Res. 520, consideration of Senate amendment to H.R. 743, Social Security Protection Act, H438 [11FE]

H. Res. 656, consideration of H.R. 444, Back to Work Incentive Act, H3611 [2JN]

H. Res. 706, consideration of H.R. 3598, Manufacturing Technology Competitiveness Act, H5335 [8JY]

H. Res. 807, same-day consideration of H. Res. 811, consideration of H.R. 5183, Surface Transportation Extension Act Part V, H7868 [30SE]

H. Res. 811, consideration of H.R. 5183, Surface Transportation Extension Act Part V, H7869 [30SE]

H. Res. 819, consideration of H.R. 5212, emergency supplemental appropriations for relief for States impacted by hurricanes and tropical storms, H8278 [6OC]

H. Res. 858, consideration of conference report on H.R. 1350, Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act, H10006 [19NO]

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

H.R. 444, Back to Work Incentive Act, H3725-H3729 [3JN]

H.R. 743, Social Security Protection Act, H443-H456 [11FE]

H.R. 918, Patient Navigator Outreach, and Chronic Disease Prevention Act, H8064 [5OC]

H.R. 1350, Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act, S5411-S5451 [13MY]

H.R. 2023, Asthmatic Schoolchildren's Treatment and Health Management Act, H8074 [5OC]

H.R. 2608, National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program reauthorization, H9020-H9023 [8OC]

H.R. 3463, SUTA Dumping Prevention Act, H5669 [14JY]

H.R. 3722, impose conditions on Federal reimbursement of emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens, H3033 [17MY]

H.R. 3783, Surface Transportation Extension Act, H465-H468 [11FE]

H.R. 3818, Microenterprise Results and Accountability Act, H10211, H10214-H10216 [20NO]

H.R. 3850, Surface Transportation Extension Act, H688-H692 [26FE]

H.R. 3873, Child Nutrition Improvement and Integrity Act, H1396-H1405 [24MR]

H.R. 4012, permanently authorize the District of Columbia College Access Act public school and private school tuition assistance programs, H5781 [14JY]

H.R. 4219, Surface Transportation Extension Act Part II, H2412-H2415 [28AP]

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

H.R. 4278, Assistive Technology Act, H9012-H9019 [8OC]

H.R. 4278, Improving Access to Assistive Technology for Individuals With Disabilities Act, H3913-H3918 [14JN]

H.R. 4345, increase maximum amount of available Dept. of Veterans Affairs home loan guaranty, H4818 [23JN]

H.R. 4363, Helping Hands for Homeownership Act, H4588 [21JN]

H.R. 4471, Homeownership Opportunities for Native Americans Act, H4587 [21JN]

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

H.R. 4593, Lincoln County Conservation, Recreation, and Development Act, H9820-H9824 [17NO]

H.R. 4593, Lincoln County Conservation, Recreation, and Development Act and Ojito Wilderness Act, H7959-H7964 [4OC]

H.R. 4620, authorize Dept. of Agriculture and CCC to enter into memorandums of understanding with States regarding the collection of approved State commodity assessments from proceeds of marketing assistance loans, H8110 [5OC]

H.R. 4635, Surface Transportation Extension Act Part III, H4779-H4782 [23JN]

H.R. 4916, Surface Transportation Extension Act Part IV, H6681-H6685 [22JY]

H.R. 5005, emergency supplemental appropriations for relief for States impacted by hurricanes and tropical storms, H6726 [7SE]

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

H.R. 5183, Surface Transportation Extension Act Part V, H7874-H7879 [30SE]

H.R. 5212, emergency supplemental appropriations for relief for States impacted by hurricanes and tropical storms, H8300-H8304 [6OC]

S. 1134, Economic Development Administration reauthorization and improvement, S10504-S10510 [6OC], H8344-H8348 [6OC]

S. 1248, Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act, S5250-S5325 [12MY]

S. 1786, Poverty Reduction and Prevention Act, S1402-S1412 [12FE]

S. 1852, provide financial assistance to rehabilitate Benjamin Franklin National Memorial in Philadelphia, PA, and develop exhibit to commemorate 300th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin, S11173 [10OC]

S. 2047, include certain former nuclear weapons program workers in the Special Exposure Cohort under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act, S376 [2FE]

S. 2075, Geriatricians Loan Forgiveness Act, S1291 [12FE]

S. 2076, Congressional Access to the CMS Chief Actuary Act, S1292 [12FE]

S. 2088, Fairness and Individual Rights Necessary To Ensure a Stronger Society—Civil Rights Act, S1297-S1308 [12FE]

S. 2107, mental health diversion courts appropriations, S1523 [24FE]

S. 2157, Trade Adjustment Assistance Equity for Service Workers Act, S2004 [2MR]

S. 2193, Small Business Loan Revitalization Act, S2560 [10MR]

S. 2226, extend period for COBRA coverage for recipients of trade adjustment assistance, S3001 [23MR]

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

S. 2266, Women's Business Center Safeguard Act, S3461 [31MR]

S. 2267, Women's Sustainability Recovery Act, S3461 [31MR], S4721 [29AP]

S. 2272, Children's Vaccine Access Act, S3572 [1AP]

S. 2347, permanently authorize the public school and private school tuition assistance programs under the District of Columbia College Access Act, S4377 [26AP]

S. 2382, Native American Connectivity Act, S4843 [4MY]

S. 2459, Community Security Act, S5958-S5961 [20MY]

S. 2460, New Mexico Water Planning Assistance Act, S5961 [20MY], S9353 [15SE]

S. 2462, 21st Century Federal Pell Grant Plus Act, S5982 [20MY]

S. 2477, Accessing College Through Comprehensive Early Outreach, State Partnerships, and Simplification Act, S6100-S6105 [21MY]

S. 2486, Veterans' Benefits Improvements Act, S6289-S6291 [1JN], S10880-S10884 [8OC], H9749-H9758 [17NO]

S. 2491, Allied Health Reinvestment Act, S6360-S6362 [2JN]

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

S. 2513, Eastern New Mexico Rural Water System Act, S6674 [9JN]

S. 2522, increase maximum amount of available Dept. of Veterans Affairs home loan guaranty, S6807 [15JN]

S. 2531, Keeping American Jobs at Home Act, S6895-S6898 [16JN]

S. 2534, Montgomery GI Bill for the 21st Century Act, S6904 [16JN]

S. 2561, Montgomery GI Bill Enhancement Act, S7313 [23JN]

S. 2571, Homeownership Opportunities for Native Americans Act, S11251 [11OC]

S. 2595, Improving Access to Assistive Technology for Individuals With Disabilities Act, S7463-S7472 [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. 2638, Veterans Benefits Outreach Act, S7939 [12JY]

S. 2654, Kindergarten Plus Act, S8128-S8130 [14JY]

S. 2676, issue a semipostal stamp in order to provide funding for childhood drinking prevention and education programs, S8239 [15JY]

S. 2692, Affordable Housing Preservation Act, S8478 [20JY]

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

S. 2718, Sober Truth on Preventing (STOP) Underage Drinking Act, S8692-S8695 [22JY]

S. 2732, Bus Utility and Safety in School Transportation Opportunity and Purchasing Act, S8711 [22JY]

S. 2740, Dental Health Provider Shortage Act, S8721-S8723 [22JY]

S. 2759, Children's Health Protection and Improvement Act, S8750 [22JY]

S. 2776, carry out a Dept. of Veterans Affairs program of outreach to veterans of World War II and the Korean War on the nature and availability of benefits for veterans, S8915 [7SE]

S. 2794, No Child Left Behind Improvement Act, S9134-S9137 [13SE]

S. 2795, Higher Education Affordability, Access, and Opportunity Act, S9138-S9140 [13SE]

S. 2801, Social Security Number Privacy and Identity Theft Prevention Act, S9225-S9231 [14SE]

S. 2815, Asthmatic Schoolchildren's Treatment and Health Management Act, S9388 [20SE]

S. 2822, Surface Transportation Extension Act Part VI, S9449-S9453 [21SE]

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

S. 2849, enhance the Montgomery GI Bill benefits for members of the Armed Forces who have served after September 11, 2001, S9724 [27SE]

S. 2856, limit transfer of certain CCC funds between conservation programs for technical assistance for the programs, S9816 [28SE], S11331 [11OC], H10906 [6DE]

S. 2866, Commodity Assessment, Protection, and Reform Act, S9955 [29SE], S11839 [20NO]

S. 2884, Public Transportation Terrorism Prevention Act, S10286 [1OC]

S. 2886, exclude from gross income certain hazard mitigation assistance, S10368 [4OC]

S. 2887, Child Care Access Means Parents in School Program (CCAMPIS) improvement, S10438 [5OC]

S. 2888, Youth Service Scholarship Act, S10439 [5OC]

S. 2923, Enhanced Second Chance Act—Community Safety Through Recidivism Prevention, S10718-S10724 [7OC]

S. 2937, Services for Ending Long-Term Homelessness Act, S10739-S10741 [7OC]

S. 2947, Taxpayer Abuse Prevention Act, S10849 [8OC]

S. 3027, Microenterprise Results and Accountability Act, S11836-S11839 [20NO]

S. Res. 432, reject Social Security privatization proposals, S9534 [22SE]

S. Res. 454, provide funds to make disaster assistance available for all customarily eligible agricultural producers as emergency spending and not funded by cuts in certain other agricultural legislation, S10927, S10990 [9OC], S11280 [11OC]