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  <title>Open Congress : Major Bill Actions in Youth employment</title>
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  <updated>2008-07-29T00:00:00Z</updated>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.Res.630 A resolution recognizing the importance of connecting foster youth to the workforce through internship programs, and encouraging employers to increase employment of former foster youth.</title>
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    <updated>2008-07-29T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A resolution recognizing the importance of connecting foster youth to the workforce through internship programs, and encouraging employers to increase employment of former foster youth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.Res.1332 Recognizing the importance of connecting foster youth to the workforce through internship programs, and encouraging employers to increase employment of former foster youth.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-hr1332/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-10:/action/165844</id>
    <updated>2008-07-10T00:00:00Z</updated>
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Recognizing the importance of connecting foster youth to the workforce through internship programs, and encouraging employers to increase employment of former foster youth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.3119 Commercial Truck Fuel Savings Demonstration Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s3119/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-06-12:/action/160169</id>
    <updated>2008-06-12T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to stimulate the economy by encouraging energy efficiency, infrastructure and workforce investment, and homeownership retention, and by amending the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide certain business tax relief and incentives, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.2755 Summer Jobs Stimulus Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s2755/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-03-13:/action/147525</id>
    <updated>2008-03-13T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to provide funding for summer youth jobs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.2648 Earned Income Tax Credit Enhancement Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s2648/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-02-14:/action/145856</id>
    <updated>2008-02-14T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to amend the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to improve programs carried out through youth opportunity grants, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5444 Job Investment and Economic Stimulus Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5444/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-02-14:/action/145867</id>
    <updated>2008-02-14T00:00:00Z</updated>
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Making supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2008 for summer youth employment activities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5178 Youth Reentry Improvement Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5178/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-01-29:/action/144205</id>
    <updated>2008-01-29T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To enhance public safety by improving the reintegration of youth offenders into the families and communities to which they are returning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.2451 First Step Forward Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s2451/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-12-11:/action/139617</id>
    <updated>2007-12-11T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to enhance public safety by improving the reintegration of youth offenders into the families and communities to which they are returning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Vetoed: H.R.3043 Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h3043/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-11-13:/action/136537</id>
    <updated>2007-11-13T00:00:00Z</updated>
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Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;November 13, 2007: Vetoed by President.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Sent To President: H.R.3043 Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h3043/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-11-08:/action/136123</id>
    <updated>2007-11-08T00:00:00Z</updated>
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Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;November 08, 2007: Presented to President.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Sent To President: H.R.3043 Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h3043/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-11-08:/action/136122</id>
    <updated>2007-11-08T00:00:00Z</updated>
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Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;November 08, 2007: Cleared for White House.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.3747 Workforce Investment Improvement Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h3747/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-10-04:/action/131640</id>
    <updated>2007-10-04T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To enhance the workforce investment system of the Nation by strengthening one-stop career centers, providing for more effective governance arrangements, promoting access to a more comprehensive array of employment and training, integrating existing employment and training programs to avoid duplication and overlap, establishing a targeted approach to serving youth, and improving performance accountability, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.3547 Gang Prevention, Intervention, and Suppression Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h3547/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-09-17:/action/129243</id>
    <updated>2007-09-17T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To increase and enhance law enforcement resources committed to investigation and prosecution of violent gangs, to deter and punish violent gang crime, to protect law-abiding citizens and communities from violent criminals, to revise and enhance criminal penalties for violent crimes, to expand and improve gang prevention programs, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.3409 Runaway and Homeless Youth Act Reauthorization of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h3409/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-08-03:/action/127381</id>
    <updated>2007-08-03T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To create the conditions, structures, and supports needed to ensure permanency for the Nation's unaccompanied youth, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.3043 Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h3043/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-07-13:/action/122550</id>
    <updated>2007-07-13T00:00:00Z</updated>
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Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.3028 Child Soldier Prevention Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h3028/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-07-12:/action/122383</id>
    <updated>2007-07-12T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To end the use of child soldiers in hostilities around the world, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1696 Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s1696/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-06-26:/action/119984</id>
    <updated>2007-06-26T00:00:00Z</updated>
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An original bill making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.2643 Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h2643/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-06-11:/action/117788</id>
    <updated>2007-06-11T00:00:00Z</updated>
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Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.2620 Child Soldier Prevention Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h2620/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-06-07:/action/117572</id>
    <updated>2007-06-07T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To end the use of child soldiers in hostilities around the world, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1175 Child Soldier Prevention Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s1175/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-04-19:/action/109164</id>
    <updated>2007-04-19T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to end the use of child soldiers in hostilities around the world, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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