A bill to realign structures and reallocate resources in the Federal Government, in keeping with the core American belief that families are the best protection for children and the bedrock of any society, to bolster United States diplomacy and assistance targeted at ensuring that every child can grow up in a permanent, safe, nurturing, and loving family, and to strengthen intercountry adoption to the United States and around the world and ensure that it becomes a viable and fully developed option for providing families for children in need, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

H.R. 4143 — A bill to realign structures and reallocate resources in the Federal Government, in keeping with the core American belief that families are the best protection for children and the bedrock of any society, to bolster United States diplomacy and assistance targeted at ensuring that every child can grow up in a permanent, safe, nurturing, and loving family, and to strengthen intercountry adoption to the United States and around the world and ensure that it becomes a viable and fully developed option for providing families for children in need, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

By Ms. GRANGER (for herself, Ms. Bass, Mrs. Bachmann, Mr. Diaz-Balart, Mr. Franks of Arizona, Mr. Olson, Mr. Sensenbrenner, Mr. Wolf, Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Langevin, Mr. Huizenga of Michigan, Mr. Carson of Indiana, Mr. Conaway, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Richmond, Mr. Takano, Mr. Bishop of New York, Ms. Schwartz, Mr. Braley of Iowa, Mr. Doggett, Mrs. Capito, Mrs. Brooks of Indiana, Mr. Israel, Mr. Rokita, Mr. Cohen, Ms. Jackson Lee, Ms. Bonamici, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Nunnelee, Ms. Kuster, Mr. Forbes, and Mr. Murphy of Florida), H2147 [4MR]

Cosponsors added, H2362 [12MR], H2486 [14MR], H2488 [18MR], H2566 [21MR], H2645 [25MR], H2697 [26MR], H3144 [9AP], H3199 [10AP], H3448 [6MY], H4017 [8MY], H4476 [19MY], H4685 [20MY], H5069 [2JN], H5073 [5JN], H5824 [30JN], H5826 [3JY], H6036 [9JY], H6217 [14JY], H6297 [15JY], H6352 [16JY], H6580 [18JY], H6656 [22JY], H6816 [24JY], H7041 [29JY], H7242 [1AU]