The U.S. Congress Votes Database

Category: Poverty

Bills

109th Congress

BillTitle
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 CON RES 408 Commending the Government of Canada for its renewed commitment to the Global War on Terror.
H R 1973 To make access to safe water and sanitation for developing countries a specific policy objective of the United States foreign assistance programs, and for other purposes.
H R 3057 An act making appropriations for the Department of State, foreign operations, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, and for other purposes.
H RES 658 Supporting the goals and ideals of World Water Day.
S RES 193 A resolution expressing sympathy for the people of the United Kingdom in the aftermath of the deadly terrorist attacks on London on July 7, 2005.

108th Congress

BillTitle
H CON RES 299 Honoring Mr. Sargent Shriver for his dedication and service to the United States of America, for his service in the United States Navy, and for his lifetime of work as an ambassador for the poor and powerless citizens of the United States of America, and for other purposes.
H J RES 2 Joint Resolution making consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2003, and for other purposes.
H J RES 73 Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2004, and for other purposes.
H R 1298 To provide assistance to foreign countries to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, and for other purposes.
H R 1350 To reauthorize the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and for other purposes.
H R 1528 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to protect taxpayers and ensure accountability of the Internal Revenue Service.
H R 1559 Making emergency wartime supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2003, and for other purposes.
H R 2691 Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.
H R 2800 Making appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.
H R 3030 To amend the Community Service Block Grant Act to provide for quality improvements.
H R 3873 To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to provide children with access to food and nutrition assistance, to simplify program operations, to improve children's nutritional health, and to restore the integrity of child nutrition programs, and for other purposes.
H R 4520 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to remove impediments in such Code and make our manufacturing, service, and high-technology businesses and workers more competitive and productive both at home and abroad.
H R 4818 Making appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and for other purposes.
S 1072 A bill to authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes.
S 2845 A bill to reform the intelligence community and the intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, and for other purposes.
S 342 A bill to amend the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to make improvements to and reauthorize programs under that Act, and for other purposes.
S 476 An original bill to provide incentives for charitable contributions by individuals and businesses, to improve the public disclosure of activities of exempt organizations, and to enhance the ability of low-income Americans to gain financial security by building assets, and for other purposes
S CON RES 114 A concurrent resolution concerning the importance of the distribution of food in schools to hungry or malnourished children around the world.

107th Congress

BillTitle
H CON RES 102 Relating to efforts to reduce hunger in sub-Saharan Africa.
H R 2506 Making appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002, and for other purposes.
H R 2646 To provide for the continuation of agricultural programs through fiscal year 2007, and for other purposes.
H R 4737 To reauthorize and improve the program of block grants to States for temporary assistance for needy families, improve access to quality child care, and for other purposes.
H R 4775 Making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002, and for other purposes.
S 1731 An original bill to strengthen the safety net for agricultural producers, to enhance resource conservation and rural development, to provide for farm credit, agricultural research, nutrition, and related programs, to ensure consumers abundant food and fiber, and for other purposes.

106th Congress

BillTitle
H R 1501 To provide grants to ensure increased accountability for juvenile offenders.
H R 2488 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce individual income tax rates, to provide marriage penalty relief, to reduce taxes on savings and investments, to provide estate and gift tax relief, to provide incentives for education savings and health care, and for other purposes.
H R 3081 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax benefits for small businesses, to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase the minimum wage, and for other purposes.
H R 3194 Making consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, and for other purposes.
H R 4205 To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2001 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, 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 4811 Making appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, and for other purposes.
S 254 A bill to reduce violent juvenile crime, promote accountability by rehabilitation of juvenile criminals, punish and deter violent gang crime, and for other purposes.

105th Congress

BillTitle
H CON RES 16 Concerning the urgent need to improve the living standards of those South Asians living in the Ganges and the Brahmaputra River Basin.
H R 1432 To authorize a new trade and investment policy for sub-Saharan Africa.
H R 2264 Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.
H R 3494 An act to amend title 18, United States Code, to protect children from sexual abusae and exploitation, and for other purposes.
H R 4274 Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes.
H R 4328 Making omnibus consolidated and emergency appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes.
H R 4579 To provide tax relief for individuals, families, and farming and other small businesses, to provide tax incentives for education, to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes.
H R 629 To grant the consent of the Congress to the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact.
S 1061 An original bill making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.

104th Congress

BillTitle
H R 3610 Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1997, and for other purposes.
H R 3734 To provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 201(a)(1) of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1997.
H R 3755 Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1997, and for other purposes.
H R 4 "An Act to enhance support and work opportunities for families with children, reduce welfare dependence, and control welfare spending".
H R 4278 Making omnibus consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1997, and for other purposes.

103rd Congress

BillTitle
H R 4426 An Act making appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995, and for other purposes.
H R 6 To extend for six years the authorizations of appropriations for the programs under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 and for other purposes.
S 2000 A bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1995 through 1998 to carry out the Head Start Act and the Community Services Block Grant Act, and for other purposes.

102nd Congress

BillTitle
H CON RES 292 Expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to United States participation in the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED).
H R 2508 To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to rewrite the authorities of that Act in order to establish more effective assistance programs and eliminate obsolete and inconsistent provisions, to amend the Arms Export Control Act and to redesignate that Act as the Defense Trade and Export Control Act, to authorize appropriations for foreign assistance programs for fiscal years 1992 and 1993, and for other purposes.
H R 2967 To amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1992 through 1995; to authorize a 1993 National Conference on Aging; to amend the Native Americans Programs Act of 1974 to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1992 through 1995; and for other purposes.
H R 4210 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for increased economic growth and to provide tax relief for families.
H R 4996 To extend the authorities of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and for other purposes.
H R 5368 Making appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1993, and for other purposes.
S 243 A bill to revise and extend the Older Americans Act of 1965, and for other purposes.
S 2532 A bill entitled "Freedom For Russia and Emerging Eurasian Democracies and Open Markets Support Act."
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