Category: Equality before the law

Bills

109th Congress

Bill	Title
H CON RES 175	Acknowledging African descendants of the transatlantic slave trade in all of the Americas with an emphasis on descendants in Latin America and the Caribbean, recognizing the injustices suffered by these African descendants, and recommending that the United States and the international community work to improve the situation of Afro-descendant communities in Latin America and the Caribbean.
H RES 228	Honoring the contributions of Vietnamese Americans to American society over the past three decades.
H RES 383	Encouraging the Transitional National Assembly of Iraq to adopt a constitution that grants women equal rights under the law and to work to protect such rights.

108th Congress

Bill	Title
H R 1587	To promote freedom and democracy in Vietnam.

107th Congress

Bill	Title
H R 4775	Making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002, and for other purposes.

106th Congress

Bill	Title
H CON RES 295	Relating to continuing human rights violations and political oppression in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam 25 years after the fall of South Vietnam to Communist forces.
H R 2415	To enhance security of United States missions and personnel overseas, to authorize appropriations for the Department of State for fiscal year 2000, and for other purposes.
H R 434	An act to authorize a new trade and investment policy for sub-Sahara Africa, expand trade benefits to the countries in the Caribbean Basin, renew the generalized system of preferences, and reauthorize the trade adjustment assistance programs.
H R 4444	To authorize extension of nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations treatment) to the People's Republic of China, and to establish a framework for relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China.

104th Congress

Bill	Title
H CON RES 102	Concerning the emancipation of the Iranian Baha'i community.

103rd Congress

Bill	Title
H R 1133	To combat violence and crimes against women.
H R 3351	To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to allow grants for the purpose of developing alternative methods of punishment for young offenders to traditional forms of incarceration and probation.
H R 3355	To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to allow grants to increase police presence, to expand and improve cooperative efforts between law enforcement agencies and members of the community to address crime and disorder problems, and otherwise to enhance public safety.
H R 4092	To control and prevent crime.
S 1607	A bill to control and prevent crime.

102nd Congress

Bill	Title
H R 3371	To control and prevent crime.
S 1241	A bill to control and reduce violent crime.
S 1745	A bill to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to strengthen and improve Federal civil rights laws, to provide for damages in cases of intentional employment discrimination, to clarify provisions regarding disparate impact actions, and for other purposes.