Upcoming Hearings:

(1) Overcoming Barriers to More Efficient and Effective VA Staffing

(2) Joint Hearing of the House and Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committees to receive the Legislative Presentation of Multiple Veterans Service Organizations (PVA, AMVETS, MOAA, MOPH, IAVA, VVA, BVA and NCOA)

Bills Introduced:

Adoption

H.R. 2068—Rep. James Langevin (D-RI)/Energy and Commerce; Judiciary (4/28/15)—A bill to ensure the safety and well-being of adopted children.

Education

S. 1177—Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN)/Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (4/30/15)—An original bill to ensure that every child achieves.

Family Support

H.R. 2091—Rep. Bruce Poliquin (R-ME)/Financial Services (4/29/15)—A bill to clarify the ability to request consumer reports in certain cases to establish and enforce child support payments and awards.

Health

H.R. 2101—Rep. Jim Cooper (D-CA)/Energy and Commerce (4/29/15)—A bill to provide for expedited review of drugs and biological products to provide safer or more effective treatment for males or females, to enhance the consideration of sex differences in basic and clinical research, and for other purposes.

Immigration

H.R. 2095—Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX)/Judiciary (4/29/15)—A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to promote family unity, and for other purposes.

International

H.R. 2100—Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH)/Foreign Affairs (4/29/15)—A bill to authorize the secretary of State and the administrator of the United States Agency for International Development to provide assistance to support the rights of women and girls in developing countries, and for other purposes.

Miscellaneous

S.1170—Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)/Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (4/30/15)—A bill to extend the authority of the United States Postal Service to issue a semipostal to raise funds for breast cancer research, and for other purposes.

H.R. 2147—Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH)/Financial Services (4/30/15)—A bill to require the secretary of the Treasury to convene a panel of citizens to make a recommendation to the secretary regarding featuring the likeness of a woman on the twenty dollar bill, and for other purposes.

H.R. 2191—Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA)/Oversight and Government Reform, Energy and Commerce, Armed Services (4/30/15)—A bill to extend the authority of the United States Postal Service to issue a semipostal to raise funds for breast cancer research, and for other purposes.

Tax Policy

H.R. 2184—Rep. Linda Sánchez (D-CA)/Ways and Means (4/30/15)—A bill to repeal the phasedown of the credit percentage for the dependent care tax credit.

 Veterans

H.R. 2054—Rep. Corrine Brown (D-FL)/Veterans’ Affairs (4/28/15)—A bill to provide for increased access to Department of Veterans Affairs medical care for women veterans.

Violence Against Women

H.R. 2120—Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ)/Judiciary (4/29/15)—A bill to encourage states to expand the protections offered to victims of sex offenses who are not in a familiar or dating relationship with the perpetrators of such offenses.

S.Res. 230—Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)/Judiciary (4/29/15)—A resolution encouraging state-by-state adoption of a sexual assault survivors’ bill of rights.