BALINT, BECCA (a Representative from Vermont)

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Armed Forces: provide limited authority to use to suppress insurrection or rebellion and quell domestic violence (see H.R. 4076), H1923 [30JA]

——— remove from unauthorized hostilities against Venezuela (see H. Con. Res. 68), H253 [8JA]

Commission on Equity and Reconciliation in the Uniformed Services: establish (see H.R. 7238), H1912 [23JA]

Congress: restore and affirm constitutional prerogative and responsibility under article I of Constitution (see H.R. 5249), H2229 [17FE]

Consumers: reinstate energy improvement tax credits, incentivize energy efficiency, assist low-income households with energy bills, crack down on price gouging, and ensure high-consumption facilities pay their own costs (see H.R. 7977), H2596 [18MR]

Dept. of Agriculture: modify limitations on amounts of farm ownership loans and operating loans (see H.R. 1991), H1922 [30JA]

Dept. of Education: ensure that graduate and professional students have same annual and aggregate limits for Federal Direct Unsubsidized Loans (see H.R. 6574), H2259 [23FE]

——— prohibit and prevent seclusion, mechanical restraint, chemical restraint, and dangerous restraints that restrict breathing, and prevent and reduce use of physical restraint in schools (see H.R. 6617), H2370 [3MR]

——— provide for long-term improvement of public school facilities (see H.R. 7340), H2120 [10FE]

Dept. of HHS: authorize loan repayment program for mental health professionals (see H.R. 6672), H2422 [4MR]

——— ensure that Federally-qualified health centers are not required to pay more than 340B ceiling price for covered outpatient drugs at time of purchase (see H.R. 7391), H2040 [5FE]

——— improve access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to reduce transmission of HIV (see H.R. 7853), H2471 [5MR]

Dept. of Labor: ensure that certain caregiving employees are no longer exempted from overtime and minimum wage protections (see H.R. 7917), H2482 [12MR]

Dept. of State: submit report on emerging threats posed to Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania (see H.R. 5543), H949 [20JA]

Dept. of Transportation: establish program to provide grants to eligible recipients for eligible operating support costs of public transportation and associated capital improvements (see H.R. 3449), H135 [7JA]

——— produce and distribute national public safety messaging campaign on dangers of illegal passing of school buses (see H.R. 2348), H2677 [24MR]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: disapprove rule entitled ‘‘Reproductive Health Services’’ (see H.J. Res. 144), H2298 [24FE]

Elections: improve procedures and requirements relative to election mail (see H.R. 4915), H2712 [25MR]

Employment: allow employees to earn paid sick time to address their health needs, health needs of their families, or to seek assistance relative to domestic violence, stalking, or sexual assault (see H.R. 7531), H2217 [12FE]

Family Violence Prevention and Services Act: make improvements (see H.R. 7333), H2259 [23FE]

Federal agencies and departments: impose limits on excepting positions from competitive service and transferring positions (see H.R. 492), H1976 [3FE]

Federal employees: calculate cost-of-living adjustments for retirees under Federal Employee Retirement System in same way as those for retirees under Civil Service Retirement System (see H.R. 491), H1976 [3FE]

Firearms: issue extreme risk protection orders to allow family or law enforcement to petition to have firearms temporarily removed from person who may present danger to others or themselves (see H.R. 7599), H2228 [17FE]

——— modernize business of selling firearms and address gun trafficking through regulation of Federal firearms licensees (see H.R. 2618), H2032 [4FE]

Foreign policy: prohibit action to, or use of Federal funds to, invade NATO countries and territories (see H.R. 7016), H1923 [30JA]

Health: prevent cost-sharing requirements for prenatal, childbirth, neonatal, perinatal, or postpartum health care (see H.R. 3762), H2677 [24MR]

HIV Is Not a Crime Awareness Day: designate (see H. Res. 1084), H2371 [3MR]

House Rules: require that individual elected by special election shall have oath of office administered and be seated not later than five legislative days after special election results are certified (see H.R. 7101), H919 [15JA]

Insurance: apply additional payments, discounts, and other financial assistance towards cost-sharing requirements of health insurance plans (see H.R. 6423), H2677 [24MR]

——— require group health plans to provide exceptions process for any medication step therapy protocol (see H.R. 5509), H2236 [20FE]

Iran: express support for Iranian people protesting for free and democratic Iran and condemn use of violence to suppress protests (see H. Res. 993), H895 [14JA]

IRS: codify Direct File program (see H.R. 7806), H2420 [4MR]

Israel: prohibit use of U.S.-origin defense articles in West Bank and Gaza unless certain conditions are met (see H.R. 7645), H2257 [23FE]

Medicare: provide coverage for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) furnished by pharmacists (see H.R. 7189), H2033 [4FE]

——— provide coverage of medical nutrition therapy for individuals with eating disorders (see H.R. 2495), H135 [7JA]

——— provide for coverage of blood-based screening tests for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (see H.R. 6130), H949 [20JA]

Medicare/Medicaid: increase access to services provided by advanced practice registered nurses (see H.R. 1317), H2259 [23FE]

National Museum of African American History and Culture: support African American history education programs (see H.R. 7740), H2332 [26FE]

NATO: prohibit actions or expenditure of funds to purchase NATO member country or NATO-protected territory (see H.R. 7088), H949 [20JA]

Noem, Sec. of Homeland Security: impeachment (see H. Res. 996), H893 [14JA]

One Big Beautiful Bill Act: restore certain energy-related provisions as in effect prior to enactment (see H.R. 5862), H2236 [20FE]

Patrick Leahy Lake Champlain Basin Program Foundation: provide for selection of fiscal agent (see H.R. 7560), H2219 [12FE]

Political campaigns: provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, and other entities (see H.R. 7802), H2419 [4MR]

Social Security: exclude from income certain cost of living adjustments for determining eligibility and benefits for disabled individuals for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (see H.R. 6986), H252 [8JA]

SSI: update eligibility (see H.R. 7828), H2470 [5MR]

Technology: repeal Executive order entitled ‘‘Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence’’ (see H.R. 8031), H2627 [20MR]

Transgender Bill of Rights: develop and implement to protect and codify rights of transgender and nonbinary people under law and ensure access to medical care, shelter, safety, and economic security (see H. Res. 1058), H2186 [11FE]

Tucson, AZ: anniversary of shootings at ‘‘Congress on Your Corner’’ event and honor survivors, victims, including former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords for her work to end gun violence (see H. Con. Res. 69), H252 [8JA]

Voting: modify and clarify certain notice and election requirements relative to provision of election materials in certain languages (see H.R. 4917), H2712 [25MR]

——— remove barriers to ability of unhoused individuals to register to vote and vote in Federal elections (see H.R. 4914), H2712 [25MR]

Women: end preventable maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity and close disparities in maternal health outcomes (see H.R. 7973), H2595 [18MR]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Medicare: provide coverage of ambulance services that do not include transportation (see H.R. 7277), H1920 [30JA]

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: establish Mental and Behavioral Health Career Promotion Grant Program (see H.R. 7394), H2040 [5FE]

Constitutional authority and single subject statements

Medicare: provide coverage of ambulance services that do not include transportation (H.R. 7277), H1922 [30JA]

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: establish Mental and Behavioral Health Career Promotion Grant Program (H.R. 7394), H2041 [5FE]

Remarks

Capitol Building and Grounds: anniversary of January 6, 2021, attack on U.S. Capitol, H6 [6JA]

Congress: advance policy priorities that will break gridlock (H.R. 1834), consideration (H. Res. 780), H126 [7JA]

Dept. of Homeland Security: abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, H2019 [4FE]

——— impact of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement immigration raids, H2607 [19MR]

——— U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement funding, H1940 [2FE]

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: enhanced tax credits funding, H126 [7JA]

Trump, President: deployment of Federal agents and/or military personnel to conduct law enforcement operations in U.S. cities, H648 [12JA], H2015, H2019 [4FE]

——— evaluation of administration relative to Venezuela, H803 [14JA]

Tributes

Rahman, Aliya, H2015 [4FE]