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

Amendments

Appropriations: making emergency supplemental appropriations for job creation and preservation, infrastructure investments, and economic and energy assistance (H.R. 7110), H10080 [26SE]

———making emergency supplemental appropriations for job creation and preservation, infrastructure investments, and economic and energy assistance (H.R. 7110), consideration (H. Res. 1507), H10067 [26SE]

Immigration: extend SSI for refugees, asylees, and certain other humanitarian immigrants and collect unemployment compensation debts resulting from fraud (H.R. 2608), S8004, S8066, S8067 [1AU], H8298 [17SE]

Medicare/Medicaid: extend expiring provisions to improve beneficiary access to preventive and mental health services, enhance low-income benefit programs, and maintain access to care in rural areas (S. 3101), S5634, S5635 [12JN]

Unemployment: provide for emergency unemployment compensation program (H.R. 5749), H5348 [12JN]

———provide for emergency unemployment compensation program (H.R. 5749), consideration (H. Res. 1265), H5341 [12JN]

———provide for emergency unemployment compensation program (H.R. 6867), S10757 [20NO]

Articles and editorials

Mortgage Fable, H10293 [27SE]

Bills and resolutions

Appropriations: making emergency supplemental appropriations for job creation and preservation, infrastructure investments, and economic and energy assistance (see S. 3604), S9657 [26SE] (see S. 3689), S10578 [17NO] (see H.R. 7110), H10129 [26SE]

Child Care and Development Block Grant Act: provide safe and affordable child care for low income children and working families (see S. 3620), S9657 [26SE]

Children and youth: examine and improve the child welfare workforce (see S. 2944), S3594 [30AP]

———improve outcomes for vulnerable children by investing in families, improving accountability in the child welfare system, and finding safe, stable, and permanent homes for foster children (see H.R. 5466), H994 [14FE]

———improve vaccination rates (see S. 2911), S3401 [24AP]

———prohibit preexisting condition exclusions for children in group health plans and health insurance coverage in the group and individual markets (see S. 3115), S5524 [11JN]

———provide assistance to adolescents and young adults with serious mental disorders as they transition to adulthood (see S. 3195), S6158 [25JN] (see H.R. 6375), H6089 [25JN]

———provide States with incentives, flexibility, and resources to develop child welfare services that focus on improving circumstances of children (see S. 2900), S3257 [22AP]

———provide vouchers for the purchase of educational books for children participating in the WIC program (see H.R. 6175), H4973 [4JN]

Dept. of Agriculture: require an immediate adjustment of the thrifty food plan to increase the benefits provided under the supplemental nutrition assistance program (see H.R. 6354), H6009 [24JN]

Dept. of HHS: establish a drug discount program for individuals without prescription drug coverage (see H.R. 6619), H7164 [24JY]

Dept. of HUD: extend existing and expiring agreements under the Moving to Work program (see H.R. 6099), H4321 [20MY]

———require the Real Estate Assessment Center to improve inspections of public housing and federally assisted multifamily housing (see H.R. 6803), H7807 [1AU]

Economy: provide for emergency unemployment compensation program and authorize loans to automobile manufacturers and component suppliers (see S. 3688), S10578 [17NO]

———reform health care, Social Security, tax code for individuals and small businesses, and the budget process (see H.R. 6110), H4453 [21MY]

Families and domestic relations: allow children in foster care to be placed with their parents in residential family treatment centers that provide safe environments for treating addiction and promoting healthy parenting (see S. 3173), S5941 [20JN]

———connect and support relative caregivers, improve outcomes for children in foster care, provide for tribal foster care and adoption access, and improve incentives for adoption (see H.R. 6893), H8127 [15SE]

———ensure State support and retention of foster parents and award grants to improve foster care, kinship care, and adoptive parents (see S. 3492), S8855 [16SE]

———extend adoption incentives program, authorize States to establish a relative guardianship program, and promote adoption of children with special needs (see S. 3038), S4487 [20MY]

———provide emergency assistance for families receiving aid under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program and for low-income working families (see S. 2968), S3699 [1MY]

Federal aid programs: use poverty line determined for Alaska for all States and the District of Columbia for school lunch and supplemental nutrition assistance (food stamps) programs (see H.R. 7085), H9973 [25SE]

Food: require semiannual indexing of mandatory Federal food assistance programs (see S. 3614), S9657 [26SE]

Food stamps: decrease period of benefit ineligibility of certain adults during their unemployment (see S. 3497), S8855 [16SE] (see H.R. 6651), H7627 [30JY]

———repeal denial of eligibility of ex-offenders (see H.R. 5802), H2355 [15AP]

Medicaid: clarify authority of States to use funds as the non-Federal share of expenditures for certain regional medical centers (see H.R. 5657), H1821 [31MR]

———disapprove rule on optional State plan case management services (see S.J. Res. 30), S2133 [13MR] (see H.J. Res. 78), H1701 [13MR]

———establish a State plan option to provide an all-inclusive program of care for children medically fragile or with one or more chronic conditions that impedes their ability to function (see S. 3631), S9657 [26SE] (see H.R. 7130), H10130 [26SE]

———extend certain moratoria and impose additional moratoria on certain regulations (see H.R. 5613), H1700 [13MR]

———improve rehabilitation services and case management and targeted case management services (see S. 3611), S9657 [26SE]

———improve the State plan amendment option for providing home and community-based services (see S. 3327), S7278 [24JY] (see H.R. 7212), H10331 [28SE]

———include all public clinics for the distribution of pediatric vaccines (see H.R. 4990), H294 [16JA]

———provide a temporary increase of the Federal medical assistance percentage (see S. 2620), S815 [8FE] (see H.R. 5268), H811 [7FE]

———provide additional funds for the Qualifying Individual (QI) program (see S. 3549), S9281 [23SE] (see S. 3560), S9415 [24SE] (see H.R. 7077), H9972 [25SE]

———provide an option for States to cover a children's program of all-inclusive coordinated care (ChiPACC) (see H.R. 6931), H8396 [17SE]

———require asset verification through access to information held by financial institutions to reduce fraud and abuse (see S. 2845), S2945 [10AP] (see H.R. 5757), H2223 [10AP]

———temporarily delay application of proposed changes to payment rules for case management and targeted case management services (see S. 2578), S492 [30JA] (see H.R. 5173), H555 [29JA]

Medicare: improve provision of telehealth services (see S. 2812), S2435 [3AP] (see H.R. 6163), H4830 [22MY]

———replace the prescription drug benefit with a revised and simplified program for all beneficiaries (see H.R. 6800), H7807 [1AU]

Medicare/Medicaid: amend qualifications of the director of food services of a skilled nursing facility (see H.R. 7139), H10130 [26SE]

———extend expiring provisions (see S. 3236), S6504 [9JY]

———preserve access to health care (see S. 3656), S10176 [30SE] (see H.R. 7241), H10699 [2OC]

———prevent reduction in physician fee schedule, advance value based purchasing, electronic health records, and electronic prescribing, and maintain and improve access to care in rural areas (see S. 3118), S5524 [11JN]

———promote use of advance directives (see H.R. 5702), H2011 [3AP]

———reduce cost-sharing for certain dual eligible populations under the prescription drug benefit (see H.R. 5604), H1700 [13MR]

National Hunger Awareness Day: designate (see S. Res. 558), S4028 [12MY]

Native Americans: improve health care under Medicare, Medicaid, and State Children's Health Insurance Programs (see S. 2532), S93 [22JA]

Poverty: provide for an improved method to measure poverty to enable a better assessment of the effects of certain programs (see S. 3636), S9658 [26SE] (see H.R. 6941), H8475 [18SE]

Public housing: train and employ residents in home-based health services in order to provide Medicaid-covered home-based health services to elderly and disabled residents (see H.R. 6033), H3776 [13MY]

Social Security: allow certain youths who became inmates of public institutions to re-enroll in Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program upon release (see H.R. 6621), H7164 [24JY]

———disapprove final rule imposing crowd-out strategies on States that expand income eligibility level for children under the State Children's Health Insurance Program (see S.J. Res. 44), S6937 [17JY]

———encourage use of certified health information technology by providers in Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (see H.R. 7191), H10300 [27SE]

———expand coverage options under the State Children's Health Insurance Program through premium assistance (see H.R. 6963), H8476 [18SE]

———extend funding for the State Children's Health Insurance Program (see H.R. 6788), H7806 [1AU]

———increase Social Services Block Grant funding to provide gasoline subsidies to certain low-income individuals (see H.R. 6561), H6824 [22JY]

———nullify effectiveness of a guidance letter proposing rules relative to the Federal-State financial partnerships under Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (see H.R. 5998), H3402 [8MY]

———place a general eligibility ceiling of the poverty level on gross income for eligibility for benefits under Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program (see H.R. 5961), H3050 [5MY]

———preserve access to Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program during an economic downturn (see S. 2819), S2435 [3AP]

———promote tobacco use cessation under Medicare, Medicaid, and the maternal and child health program (see S. 3206), S6285 [26JN] (see H.R. 6393), H6174 [26JN]

———provide monthly benefits for certain uninsured children living without parents (see H.R. 6607), H7164 [24JY]

———reauthorize State Children's Health Insurance Program and limit income eligibility expansions under that program until the lowest income eligible individuals are enrolled (see S. 2936), S3507 [29AP]

———remove inmate limitations on Medicaid, Medicare, SSI, and State Children's Health Insurance Program benefits for persons in custody pending disposition of charges (see H.R. 5698), H2010 [3AP]

———report on access to primary care and efforts to avoid displacement of private coverage under the State Children's Health Insurance Program and urge use of surveys to measure physician access (see H.R. 6506), H6673 [16JY]

———require States to help alien children in the child welfare system apply for all forms of immigration relief (see H.R. 6649), H7307 [29JY]

Taxation: allow a continuous levy on payments to Medicaid providers and suppliers (see S. 2843), S2945 [10AP] (see H.R. 5764), H2223 [10AP]

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program: expand educational opportunities for recipients of benefits (see S. 3417), S7905 [31JY]

———extend and expand the number of States qualifying for supplemental grants (see S. 2820), S2435 [3AP]

———increase limit on vocational education training to be counted as work activity (see H.R. 6657), H7627 [30JY]

———require States to implement a drug testing program for and recipients of assistance (see S. 3361), S7629 [29JY]

———require States to implement a drug testing program for applicants and recipients of assistance (see S. 3540), S9280 [23SE]

Unemployment: provide for a targeted extended unemployment compensation program (see H.R. 5688), H2010 [3AP]

———provide for emergency unemployment compensation program (see S. 2544), S94 [22JA] (see S. 3507), S8948 [17SE] (see H.R. 4934), H23 [15JA] (see H.R. 5749), H2150 [9AP] (see H.R. 6867), H8018 [10SE]

———provide for emergency unemployment compensation program (H.R. 5749), consideration (see H. Res. 1265), H5327 [11JN]

Cloture motions

Unemployment: provide for emergency unemployment compensation program (H.R. 6867), motion to proceed, S10627 [19NO], S10701 [20NO]

Letters

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services directive to States relative to coverage of children under the State Children's Health Insurance Program: several health care organizations, S5687 [17JN]

Emergency Extended Unemployment Compensation Act: Donald L. Carcieri and Brad Henry, National Governors Association, H5271 [11JN]

Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act: Conference of Chief Justices and Conference of State Court Administrators, H8316 [17SE]

———Ruth Kagi, National Conference of State Legislatures, H8316 [17SE]

———several organizations, H8315 [17SE]

Illinois unemployment compensation laws: Joseph P. Mueller, Illinois Dept. of Employment Security, H5354 [12JN]

Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act: Peter R. Orszag, CBO, S5562 [12JN]

Medicare Telehealth Improvement Act: David A. Kakmia, Michigan Association of Community Mental Health Boards, S2439 [3AP]

———Jonathan D. Linkous, American Telemedicine Association, S2438 [3AP]

———Linda Rosenberg, National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare, S2438 [3AP]

———several organizations, S2438 [3AP]

Oregon unemployment compensation laws: Tom Byerley, Oregon Employment Dept., H5335 [12JN]

SSI Extension for Elderly and Disabled Refugees Act: several organizations, H8301-H8303 [17SE]

Unemployment benefits extension: Donald L. Carcieri and Brad Henry, National Governors Association, H3946 [15MY]

———Phillip Frye and Steve Conway, National Conference of State Legislatures, H3946 [15MY]

Lists

Organizations supporting H.R. 6331, Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act, S6142 [25JN], S6229 [26JN]

Messages

Veto of H.R. 6331, Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act: President Bush, S6705 [15JY], H6520 [15JY]

Motions

Unemployment: provide for emergency unemployment compensation program (H.R. 5749), H5347, H5359 [12JN]

———provide for emergency unemployment compensation program (H.R. 6867), S10627 [19NO]

Remarks in House

Appropriations: making emergency supplemental appropriations for job creation and preservation, infrastructure investments, and economic and energy assistance (H.R. 7110), H10050-H10058, H10075-H10088 [26SE], E2117, E2130, E2137 [28SE], E2167 [30SE]

———making emergency supplemental appropriations for job creation and preservation, infrastructure investments, and economic and energy assistance (H.R. 7110), earmark declaration, E2198 [2OC]

———making emergency supplemental appropriations for job creation and preservation, infrastructure investments, and economic and energy assistance (S. 3604), H10288-H10295 [27SE]

Children and youth: improve outcomes for vulnerable children by investing in families, improving accountability in the child welfare system, and finding safe, stable, and permanent homes for foster children, E849 [7MY]

———provide assistance to adolescents and young adults with serious mental disorders as they transition to adulthood (H.R. 6375), E1353 [25JN]

———provide vouchers for the purchase of educational books for children participating in the WIC program (H.R. 6175), E1139 [4JN]

———tribute to public child welfare agencies, nonprofit organizations, and private entities providing services for foster children (H. Res. 789), H3717-H3719 [13MY]

Congress: accomplishments of the 110th Congress, H435 [23JA]

Economy: reform health care, Social Security, tax code for individuals and small businesses, and the budget process (H.R. 6110), H4329 [21MY]

Families and domestic relations: connect and support relative caregivers, improve outcomes for children in foster care, provide for tribal foster care and adoption access, and improve incentives for adoption (H.R. 6893), H8304-H8319, H8320 [17SE], E1820 [17SE], E2047 [27SE], E2230 [3OC]

Federal aid programs: impact of increasing food costs on school meal programs, H6237 [9JY]

Great Britain: domestic policy granting welfare benefits to British Muslims with multiple wives, E303 [5MR]

Head Start Program: funding, H2256-H2263 [14AP], H2358 [16AP], E618, E620 [15AP]

Health: abstinence education program funding, E2072 [27SE]

Immigration: extend SSI for refugees, asylees, and certain other humanitarian immigrants and collect unemployment compensation debts resulting from fraud (H.R. 2608), Senate amendments, H8298-H8304 [17SE]

Medicaid: extend certain moratoria and impose additional moratoria on certain regulations, H4043 [15MY]

———extend certain moratoria and impose additional moratoria on certain regulations (H.R. 5613), H2502-H2508 [22AP], H2558 [23AP], E691, E693, E696, E698, E703, E706, E709 [23AP], E730 [24AP], E744 [25AP], E985 [21MY]

———increase price transparency of hospital information and provide for additional research on consumer information on charges and out-of-pocket costs (H.R. 1666), H602 [6FE]

———provide a temporary increase of the Federal medical assistance percentage, H10053, H10055 [26SE]

———provide a temporary increase of the Federal medical assistance percentage (H.R. 5268), E185 [13FE]

———provide additional funds for the Qualifying Individual (QI) program (S. 3560), H10170-H10176 [27SE]

———provide an option for States to cover a children's program of all-inclusive coordinated care (ChiPACC) (H.R. 6931), E1824 [17SE]

———restore disproportionate share hospital (DHS) payments to Hawaii and Tennessee, H5914 [24JN]

Medicare: reform the prescription drug program, H601 [6FE]

———replace the prescription drug benefit with a revised and simplified program for all beneficiaries (H.R. 6800), H10688 [2OC], E1695 [1AU]

———extend expiring provisions to improve beneficiary access to preventive and mental health services, enhance low-income benefit programs, and maintain access to care in rural areas (H.R. 6331), H5876-H5916 [24JN], H6013, H6015 [25JN], H6092, H6150 [26JN], H6235, H6237 [9JY], H6479 [15JY], H7127 [24JY], H10171 [27SE], E1346, E1352, E1354 [25JN], E1401 [8JY], E1417, E1419 [9JY], E1473, E1477 [16JY], E1490 [17JY]

Social Security: combine coverage of children and pregnant woman under Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program into a new All Healthy Children Program (H.R. 1688), H2045 [8AP]

———ensure that individuals receiving disability insurance benefits obtain enough additional Federal assistance to subsist, H6546 [15JY]

———extend and improve children's health insurance program and improve beneficiary protections under Medicare, Medicaid, and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (H.R. 3162), H7127 [24JY]

———extend and improve the State Children's Health Insurance Program, H2249 [14AP], H6495 [15JY]

———extend and improve the State Children's Health Insurance Program (H.R. 3963), H6332 [9JY]

———extend and improve the State Children's Health Insurance Program (H.R. 3963), veto, H267 [16JA], H378 [22JA], H391, H392, H394, H395-H407, H434, H436, H439, H440 [23JA], H2865 [30AP], E83, E84 [28JA]

———extend provisions under Medicare, Medicaid, and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (S. 2499), H395, H398, H400, H401, H404, H405 [23JA]

———increase Social Services Block Grant funding to provide gasoline subsidies to certain low-income individuals (H.R. 6561), H7333 [30JY]

———reauthorize State Children's Health Insurance Program (H.R. 3864), H396 [23JA]

———remove inmate limitations on Medicaid, Medicare, SSI, and State Children's Health Insurance Program benefits for persons in custody pending disposition of charges (H.R. 5698), E507 [4AP]

———require States to help alien children in the child welfare system apply for all forms of immigration relief (H.R. 6649), E1603 [30JY]

SSI: eliminate the unfair and disadvantageous treatment of cash military compensation other than basic pay, H4170 [20MY]

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program: allow funds provided to States to be used for alternative-to-abortion services (H.R. 4852), H387 [22JA]

———provide for pass through of all child support collected on behalf of families receiving assistance, H4994 [5JN]

Unemployment: modify requirements to qualify for emergency benefits, target benefits to States with high unemployment rates and subsidize transportation expenses for individuals returning to work, H5359, H5360 [12JN]

———provide for a targeted extended unemployment compensation program, H2556 [23AP]

———provide for emergency unemployment compensation program, H494, H495, H496 [29JA], H3896, H3897, H3937, H3944, H3946, H3949, H3952 [15MY], H5115, H5117 [10JN], H5584, H5614, H5667-H5670 [19JN], H6015 [25JN], E1307 [20JN]

———provide for emergency unemployment compensation program (H.R. 5749), H5219, H5220, H5221, H5267-H5276, H5301, H5324 [11JN], H5345-H5361 [12JN], H5487, H5489 [18JN], H6235 [9JY], E1207 [11JN], E1306, E1308 [20JN]

———provide for emergency unemployment compensation program (H.R. 5749), consideration (H. Res. 1265), H5333-H5342 [12JN]

———provide for emergency unemployment compensation program (H.R. 5749), motion to recommit, H5359, H5360 [12JN]

———provide for emergency unemployment compensation program (H.R. 6867), H10808-H10814 [3OC], E2229 [3OC], E2256 [19NO]

West Haven, CT: anniversary of Head Start Program, E2387 [3JA]

Remarks in Senate

Appropriations: making emergency supplemental appropriations for job creation and preservation, infrastructure investments, and economic and energy assistance (H.R. 7110), S10602 [17NO]

———making emergency supplemental appropriations for job creation and preservation, infrastructure investments, and economic and energy assistance (S. 3604), S9560-S9564, S9601, S9602 [26SE], S9894, S9958, S9995 [27SE]

———making emergency supplemental appropriations for job creation and preservation, infrastructure investments, and economic and energy assistance (S. 3604), motion to proceed, S9574-S9577 [26SE]

———making emergency supplemental appropriations for job creation and preservation, infrastructure investments, and economic and energy assistance (S. 3604), unanimous-consent agreement, S9574 [26SE]

———making emergency supplemental appropriations for job creation and preservation, infrastructure investments, and economic and energy assistance (S. 3689), S10602 [17NO], S10607, S10609, S10615-S10620 [19NO]

———making emergency supplemental appropriations for job creation and preservation, infrastructure investments, and economic and energy assistance (S. 3689), unanimous-consent request, S10625, S10626 [19NO]

Child Care and Development Block Grant Act: provide safe and affordable child care for low income children and working families (S. 3620), S9685 [26SE]

Children and youth: examine and improve the child welfare workforce (S. 2944), S3598 [30AP]

———improve vaccination rates (S. 2911), S3405 [24AP]

———provide assistance to adolescents and young adults with serious mental disorders as they transition to adulthood (S. 3195), S6167 [25JN], S6306 [26JN]

———provide disadvantaged children with dental services, S1116 [25FE], S5010 [4JN]

Economy: provide for emergency unemployment compensation program and authorize loans to automobile manufacturers and component suppliers (S. 3688), S10602 [17NO]

———ensure State support and retention of foster parents and award grants to improve foster care, kinship care, and adoptive parents (S. 3492), S10302 [1OC]

———extend adoption incentives program, authorize States to establish a relative guardianship program, and promote adoption of children with special needs (S. 3038), S9262 [23SE]

Food: require semiannual indexing of mandatory Federal food assistance programs (S. 3614), S9680 [26SE]

Head Start Program: reauthorize (H.R. 1429), S3139 [17AP]

———tribute, S3173 [18AP]

Immigration: extend SSI for refugees, asylees, and certain other humanitarian immigrants and collect unemployment compensation debts resulting from fraud (H.R. 2608), S8003, S8004 [1AU]

Medicaid: extend certain moratoria and impose additional moratoria on certain regulations, S4721-S4725, S4729-S4732 [22MY]

———extend certain moratoria and impose additional moratoria on certain regulations (H.R. 5613), S3051 [16AP], S3412 [24AP], S3415 [28AP], S3478 [29AP]

———extend certain moratoria and impose additional moratoria on certain regulations (H.R. 5613), unanimous-consent request, S3495 [29AP]

———improve the State plan amendment option for providing home and community-based services (S. 3327), S7291-S7299 [24JY]

———provide additional funds for the Qualifying Individual (QI) program (S. 3560), S9459 [25SE], S9638 [26SE]

———restore disproportionate share hospital (DHS) payments to Hawaii and Tennessee, S6228 [26JN], S6482 [9JY], S6709 [15JY]

———temporarily delay application of proposed changes to payment rules for case management and targeted case management services, S1005, S1008-S1010, S1041 [14FE]

Medicare: improve provision of telehealth services (S. 2812), S2437-S2439 [3AP]

Medicare/Medicaid: establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund for the expansion of background check pilot program for nursing facility and other long-term care facility employees, S1991 [12MR], S2061 [13MR]

———extend expiring provisions (S. 3236), S6510 [9JY], S6583 [11JY]

———extend expiring provisions to improve beneficiary access to preventive and mental health services, enhance low-income benefit programs, and maintain access to care in rural areas (H.R. 6331), motion to proceed, S6183, S6200-S6202, S6219, S6220, S6222, S6225-S6231 [26JN], S6310, S6311 [27JN], S6349 [7JY], S6378, S6379, S6420-S6424 [8JY], S6476-S6490, S6494 [9JY]

———extend expiring provisions to improve beneficiary access to preventive and mental health services, enhance low-income benefit programs, and maintain access to care in rural areas (S. 3101), motion to proceed, S5467, S5506-S5509, S5512, S5514-S5516, S5530 [11JN], S5539, S5546-S5551, S5553-S5564, S5576-S5578 [12JN]

———extend provisions to improve access to preventive and mental health services, enhance low-income benefit programs, and maintain access to care in rural areas (H.R. 6331), unanimous-consent agreement, S6451 [9JY]

———preserve access to health care (S. 3656), S10456-S10458 [2OC]

———preserve access to health care (S. 3656), unanimous-consent request, S10623-S10625 [19NO]

———prevent physician fee schedule reduction, advance value based purchasing, electronic health records, and electronic prescribing, maintain and improve care access in rural areas (S. 3118), unanimous-consent request, S5710 [18JN], S6420-S6424 [8JY]

———require background checks for nursing facility and other long-term care facility employees (S. 1577), S10466 [2OC]

National Hunger Awareness Day: designate (S. Res. 558), S4045 [12MY], S5436, S5437 [10JN]

National School Lunch Act: make permanent the summer food service pilot project for rural areas of Pennsylvania and apply it to rural areas of every State (S. 1755), S7742 [30JY]

Social Security: codify the unborn child rule allowing States to provide prenatal care to unborn children and their mothers under the State Children's Health Insurance Program, S1989 [12MR], S2082, S2084 [13MR]

———disapprove final rule imposing crowd-out strategies on States that expand income eligibility level for children under the State Children's Health Insurance Program (S.J. Res. 44), S6942-S6944 [17JY]

———expand Federal benefit eligibility for children in foster care who have attained a certain age (S. 1512), S4174 [14MY]

———extend and improve children's health insurance program and improve beneficiary protections under Medicare, Medicaid, and the State Children's Health Insurance Program, S1849-S1851, S1854 [11MR]

———extend and improve the State Children's Health Insurance Program, S3462 [29AP]

———extend and improve the State Children's Health Insurance Program (H.R. 3963), veto, S197 [23JA]

———extend provisions under Medicare, Medicaid, and the State Children's Health Insurance Program, S1981-S1983 [12MR]

———facilitate coverage of pregnant women under the State Children's Health Insurance Program, S2082 [13MR]

———preserve access to Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program during an economic downturn (S. 2819), S2445 [3AP], S6265 [26JN]

———promote tobacco use cessation under Medicare, Medicaid, and the maternal and child health program (S. 3206), S6290 [26JN]

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program: extend and expand the number of States qualifying for supplemental grants, S6228 [26JN]

———extend and expand the number of States qualifying for supplemental grants (S. 2820), S2448, S2449 [3AP]

Unemployment: provide for emergency unemployment compensation program, S418 [29JA], S516, S518, S524-S526 [31JA], S596 [4FE], S616, S619, S627, S631, S633, S635 [5FE], S679, S681-S683, S702, S716-S725 [6FE], S762, S764, S771 [7FE], S2323, S2327 [2AP], S3677-S3679 [1MY], S4474 [20MY], S4561, S4586 [21MY], S5384 [9JN], S6264, S6265 [26JN]

———provide for emergency unemployment compensation program (H.R. 5749), S5638 [12JN], S5675-S5677, S5683, S5684, S5686 [17JN]

———provide for emergency unemployment compensation program (H.R. 5749), unanimous-consent request, S5669, S5670 [17JN]

———provide for emergency unemployment compensation program (H.R. 6867), S10538, S10602 [17NO], S10701, S10702 [20NO]

———provide for emergency unemployment compensation program (H.R. 6867), motion to proceed, S10627 [19NO], S10685-S10687, S10701 [20NO]

———provide for emergency unemployment compensation program (H.R. 6867), motion to proceed—unanimous-consent agreement, S10700 [20NO]

———provide for emergency unemployment compensation program (S. 2544), S108 [22JA], S202 [23JA]

———provide for emergency unemployment compensation program (S. 3507), S10401, S10406, S10427 [2OC]

———provide for emergency unemployment compensation program (S. 3507), unanimous-consent agreement, S9220 [22SE]

———provide for emergency unemployment compensation program (S. 3507), unanimous-consent request, S10418 [2OC]

Reports filed

Consideration of H.R. 5749, Emergency Extended Unemployment Compensation Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 1265) (H. Rept. 110-710), H5327 [11JN]

Consideration of H.R. 7110, Job Creation and Unemployment Relief Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 1507) (H. Rept. 110-891), H10129 [26SE]

Emergency Extended Unemployment Compensation Act: Committee on Ways and Means (House) (H.R. 5749) (H. Rept. 110-607), H2758 [24AP]

Improved Adoption Incentives and Relative Guardianship Support Act: Committee on Finance (Senate) (S. 3038) (S. Rept. 110-467), S8853 [16SE]

Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Indian Health Care Improvement Act: Committee on Finance (Senate) (S. 2532) (S. Rept. 110-255), S93 [22JA]

Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention Act: Committee on Finance (Senate) (S. 1577) (S. Rept. 110-474), S9203 [22SE]

Protecting the Medicaid Safety Net Act: Committee on Energy and Commerce (House) (H.R. 5613) (H. Rept. 110-600), H2551 [22AP]

Rulings of the Chair

Children and youth: tribute to public child welfare agencies, nonprofit organizations, and private entities providing services for foster children (H. Res. 789), H3719 [13MY]

Unemployment: provide for emergency unemployment compensation program (H.R. 5749), H5347 [12JN]

Statements

Economic Rescue Principles, Common Sense Plan To Have Wall Street Fund the Recovery, Not Taxpayers: Several Representatives, H10294 [27SE]

Emergency Extended Unemployment Compensation Act: Executive Office of the President, H5269 [11JN], H5338 [12JN]

Tables

Congress has extended benefits for hard-hit States in every other recession of the last 25 years, S10427 [2OC]

Congressionally directed spending items in S. 3689, emergency supplemental appropriations for job creation and preservation, infrastructure investments, and economic and energy assistance, S10620 [19NO]

Texts of

H. Res. 789, tribute to public child welfare agencies, nonprofit organizations, and private entities providing services for foster children, H3717 [13MY]

H. Res. 1265, consideration of H.R. 5749, Emergency Extended Unemployment Compensation Act, H5333 [12JN]

H. Res. 1507, consideration of H.R. 7110, Job Creation and Unemployment Relief Act, H10059 [26SE]

H.R. 2608, SSI Extension for Elderly and Disabled Refugees Act, H8298 [17SE]

H.R. 5613, Protecting the Medicaid Safety Net Act, H2502-H2504 [22AP]

H.R. 5749, Emergency Extended Unemployment Compensation Act, H5267 [11JN], H5345-H5347, H5348 [12JN]

H.R. 6331, Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act, H5876-H5904 [24JN]

H.R. 6867, Unemployment Compensation Extension Act, H10808 [3OC]

H.R. 6893, Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act, H8304-H8313 [17SE]

H.R. 7110, Job Creation and Unemployment Relief Act, H10075-H10080 [26SE]

S. 2819, Economic Recovery in Health Care Act, S2446-S2448 [3AP]

S. 3173, Keeping Families Safe Act, S5941 [20JN]

S. 3195, Healthy Transition Act, S6168 [25JN]

S. 3206, Medicare, Medicaid, and MCH Tobacco Cessation Promotion Act, S6291 [26JN]

S. 3236, Medicare and Medicaid Extension Act, S6506-S6509 [9JY]

S. 3327, Empowered at Home Act, S7292-S7298 [24JY]

S. 3507, Unemployment Compensation Extension Act, S8951 [17SE]

S. 3560, QI Program Supplemental Funding Act, S9460 [25SE], H10170 [27SE]

S. 3604, Economic Recovery Act, S9660-S9668 [26SE]

S. 3614, National Hunger Relief Act, S9681 [26SE]

S. 3688, Unemployment Compensation Extension Act, S10584-S10586 [17NO]

S. 3689, emergency supplemental appropriations for job creation and preservation, infrastructure investments, and economic and energy assistance, S10586-S10599 [17NO]

S. Res. 558, National Hunger Awareness Day, S4032, S4045 [12MY]

S.J. Res. 30, disapprove Medicaid rule on optional State plan case management services, S2163 [13MR]

S.J. Res. 44, disapprove final rule imposing crowd-out strategies on States that expand income eligibility level for children under the State Children's Health Insurance Program, S6943 [17JY]