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Encouraging employers who employ members of the National Guard and Reserve components of the Armed Forces to provide a pay differential benefit and an extension of employee benefits to such members while they serve on active duty, and commending employers who already provide such benefits.

Bill: 108-hconres-193
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Henry E., Jr. [R-SC-1]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces reserves
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional tributes
Employee benefit plans
Labor and Employment
National Guard
Salaries

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Encourages employers who employ members of the National Guard or reserves to provide a pay differential benefit and an extension of employee benefits while such members serve on active duty, and commends employers who already provide such benefits.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
Supporting the goals and ideals of "National Epilepsy Awareness Month" and urging funding for epilepsy research and service programs.

Bill: 108-hconres-194
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Corrine [D-FL-3]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Access to health care
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Congress
Congressional tributes
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Epilepsy
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Medical research
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Research centers
Science, Technology, Communications
Special months

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Supports the goals and ideals of a National Epilepsy Awareness Month. Urges: (1) an increase in Federal funding for epilepsy research programs at the National Institutes of Health and at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and (2) that initial funding be provided to the Department of Health and Human Services to create demonstration projects to serve people with epilepsy who may lack access to adequate medical care.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
Expressing the sense of Congress that a minute of silence should be observed annually at 11:00 a.m. on Veterans Day, November 11, in honor of the veterans of all United States wars and to memorialize those members of the Armed Forces who gave their lives in the defense of the United States.

Bill: 108-hconres-195
Sponsor: Rep. Clay, Wm. Lacy [D-MO-1]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Commemorations
Government Operations and Politics
Signs and symbols
Veterans Day
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Expresses the sense of Congress that a minute of silence should be observed annually at 11: 00 a.m. on Veterans Day, November 11, in honor of the veterans of all U.S. wars and to memorialize those members of the Armed Forces who gave their lives in the defense of the United States.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: On motion to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H8391)
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H8391)
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H. Con. Res. 195.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H8391-8392)
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Mr. Smith (NJ) moved to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States should provide assistance for women and women's organizations in Iraq in order to strengthen and stabilize the emerging Iraqi democracy.

Bill: 108-hconres-196
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Eddie Bernice [D-TX-30]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Access to health care
Agricultural assistance
Agriculture and Food
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Democracy
Economic assistance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Higher education
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Labor and Employment
Middle East and North Africa
Women
Women in government
Women in public life
Women's education
Women's employment
Women's health
Women's organizations
Women's rights

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President, acting through appropriate Federal agencies, should provide assistance for women and women's organizations in Iraq in order to strengthen and stabilize emerging Iraqi democracy, including through the protection of the rights of Iraqi women and their families, the revitalization of the agricultural sector, the restoration of the healthcare system, increased educational opportunities for women and girls, and increased employment opportunities for women in order to afford full participation by women in all aspects of public life, including government.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
Expressing the sense of Congress regarding housing affordability and urging fair and expeditious review by international trade panels to ensure a competitive North American market for softwood lumber.

Bill: 108-hconres-197
Sponsor: Rep. Kolbe, Jim [R-AZ-8]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Canada
Commerce
Countervailing duties
Customs unions
Dumping
Free trade
International Affairs
International agencies
Latin America
Law
Lumber trade
Mexico
Nontariff trade barriers
Tariff
Trade agreements
Trade negotiations

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the Secretary of Commerce and the United States Trade Representative should work to support a fair and expeditious review and assure that no delays occur in resolving current disputes before the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and World Trade Organization (WTO) trade dispute panels involving the imposition of special duties on imported softwood lumber from Canada; (2) U.S. antidumping and countervailing duties are a rules-based system that should proceed to conclusion in WTO and NAFTA trade dispute panels; (3) the President should continue discussions with Canada to promote open trade between the two countries on softwood lumber free of trade restraints that harm consumers; and (4) the President should consult with all interested parties, including consumers, in future discussions regarding such trade.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
Expressing the sense of the Congress that a commemorative postage stamp should be issued in honor of Helen Hayes.

Bill: 108-hconres-198
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Entertainers
Government Operations and Politics
Postage stamps
Theater
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Calls for the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee to recommend, and the Postal Service to issue, a commemorative postage stamp in honor of Helen Hayes.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
Recognizing and affirming the efforts of the Great Lakes Governors and Premiers in developing a common standard for decisions relating to withdrawal of water from the Great Lakes and urging that management authority over the Great Lakes should remain vested with the Governors and Premiers.

Bill: 108-hconres-199
Sponsor: Rep. Rogers, Mike J. [R-MI-8]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Canada
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional tributes
Exports
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign leaders
Government Operations and Politics
Governors
Great Lakes
Illinois
Indiana
Michigan
Minnesota
New York State
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Standards
Treaties
Water Resources Development
Water allocation (Policy)
Water conservation
Water use
Wisconsin

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Recognizes and affirms the efforts of the Governors of the Great Lakes States of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin and the Premiers of the Canadian Provinces of Ontario and Quebec in developing a common standard for decisions relating to the withdrawal of water from the Great Lakes. Urges that the management authority over such waters should remain vested with such Governors and Premiers.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
Recognizing Gonzalo and Felicitas Mendez for ending segregation in schools in Orange County, California, and for setting the precedent for the historic Brown v. Board of Education case, which ended segregation in schools across the United States.

Bill: 108-hconres-200
Sponsor: Rep. Sanchez, Loretta [D-CA-47]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil rights workers
Congress
Congressional tributes
Constitutional law
Desegregation in education
Discrimination in education
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Hispanic Americans
Law
Minorities
Minority education
Secondary education
Supreme Court decisions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Recognizes Gonzalo and Felicitas Mendez, and those who actively supported their efforts, for ending segregation in schools in Orange County, California, and for setting the precedent for Brown v. Board of Education (which ended segregation in U.S. schools and declared the doctrine of "separate but equal" unconstitutional).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
Congratulating the Russian Federation and the citizens of St. Petersburg on the 300th anniversary of the founding of the city.

Bill: 108-hconres-201
Sponsor: Rep. Weldon, Curt [R-PA-7]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Anniversaries
Commemorations
Communism
Congress
Congressional tributes
Dictators
Government Operations and Politics
Russia
Urban affairs
Urban areas

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Congratulates St. Petersburg of the Russian Federation on the 300th anniversary of the city's founding.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
Expressing the sense of Congress in support of a National Oceans Week.

Bill: 108-hconres-202
Sponsor: Rep. Greenwood, James C. [R-PA-8]
Introduced: 2003-06-03 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine resources conservation
Ocean
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Special weeks

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: 
Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the ocean is of paramount importance to the economic future, environmental quality, and national security of the United States; (2) the United States has a responsibility to exercise and promote comprehensive stewardship and understanding of the ocean and the living marine resources it contains; and (3) the President should issue a proclamation calling upon the people of the United States to observe a National Oceans Week with appropriate recognition, programs, ceremonies, and activities to further ocean literacy, education, and exploration.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Introduced in House
Expressing support for a National Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD) Awareness Month.

Bill: 108-hconres-203
Sponsor: Rep. LaTourette, Steven C. [R-OH-14]
Introduced: 2003-06-03 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional tributes
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to research
Health education
Medical research
Medical tests
Muscular diseases
Nervous system diseases
Pain
Physical examinations
Quality of care
Science, Technology, Communications
Skin diseases
Sleep disorders
Surgery
Syndromes
Wounds

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) all Americans should take an active role in combating reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) by recognizing specified symptoms (which often follow an injury or surgery); (2) national and community organizations should be recognized and applauded for their work in promoting RSD awareness and for providing information and support to its sufferers; (3) health care providers should continue to increase their efforts to diagnose the disease in its earliest possible stages to increase the likelihood of remission; and (4) the Government has a responsibility to endeavor to raise awareness about the importance of the early detection and proper treatment of RSD, work to increase research funding so that the causes of, and improved treatment and cure for, RSD may be discovered, and continue to consider ways to improve access to, and the quality of, health care services for detecting and treating RSD.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Introduced in House
Supporting the Million Mom March against gun violence and accepting the challenge to reduce by 5,000 the number of lives lost to gun violence by the year 2005, by instituting and supporting policies that will further that goal.

Bill: 108-hconres-204
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2003-06-03 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child safety
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Death
Families
Firearms
Firearms control
Firearms injuries
Health
Health education
Health warnings
Mothers
Public demonstrations
Public health
Violence

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Recognizes that the number of gun-related deaths and injuries in the United States is unacceptable and amounts to a public health crisis.
Urges the Surgeon General to warn parents of the dangers of keeping a loaded, unlocked firearm in a house with small children or teenagers.
Expresses support for the Million Mom March against gun violence and its call to institute policies that will reduce the number of lives lost to gun violence by 5,000 by 2005.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-06-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Introduced in House
Expressing appreciation to the Government of Kuwait for its medical assistance to Ali Ismaeel Abbas and other children of Iraq and for its additional humanitarian aid, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hconres-205
Sponsor: Rep. Vitter, David [R-LA-1]
Introduced: 2003-06-03 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Burns
Child health
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional tributes
Disabled
Families
Health
Infrastructure
International relief
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Kuwait
Middle East and North Africa
Orphans
Rehabilitation of the disabled
War casualties
War relief
Water Resources Development
Water supply
Wounds

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: 
Expresses gratitude and commends the Government of Kuwait for its magnanimity in receiving Ali Ismaeel Abbas (who suffered severe burns and lost both arms on March 29, 2003), for providing Ali life-saving medical care and undertaking to provide for his long-term recuperation and rehabilitation, and for providing medical assistance, water, and other humanitarian aid to its neighbors.
 
Expresses confidence that such humanitarian action will not only help heal the wounds of Ali, but will also restore comity between Kuwait and Iraq and within the region and deepen the friendship between the Kuwaiti peoples and the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Introduced in House
Supporting the National Marrow Donor Program and other bone marrow donor programs and encouraging Americans to learn about the importance of bone marrow donation.

Bill: 108-hconres-206
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2003-06-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Donation of organs, tissues, etc.
Tissue banks

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Expresses support for the goals and ideals of the National Marrow Donor Program and other bone marrow donor programs.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Expresses support for the goals and ideals of the National Marrow Donor Program and other bone marrow donor programs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2003-11-22
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: On motion to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 423 - 2 (Roll no. 663). (text: CR H12157)
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 423 - 2 (Roll no. 663).(text: CR H12157)
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H12226-12227)
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H. Con. Res. 206.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H12157-12159)
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Mr. Walden (OR) moved to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution.
action_date: 2003-06-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
Supporting the efforts to establish a moderate and tolerant political system in Afghanistan that is protective of the rights and dignity of all communities.

Bill: 108-hconres-207
Sponsor: Rep. Rohrabacher, Dana [R-CA-46]
Introduced: 2003-06-04 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Afghanistan
Democracy
Ethnic relations
Government Operations and Politics
Minorities
South Asia

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: 
Supports the efforts to establish a moderate and tolerant political system in Afghanistan that is protective of the rights and dignity of all communities and which allows for the election of local, regional, and national leaders representative of all communities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House