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  <title>Open Congress : Major Bill Actions in Mortality</title>
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  <updated>2008-07-21T00:00:00Z</updated>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.Res.616 A resolution reducing maternal mortality both at home and abroad.</title>
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    <updated>2008-07-21T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A resolution reducing maternal mortality both at home and abroad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.2988 Accelerating Cures Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s2988/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-05-07:/action/156528</id>
    <updated>2008-05-07T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to enhance public and private research efforts to develop new tools and therapies that prevent, detect, and cure diseases.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.2731 Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s2731/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-03-07:/action/147007</id>
    <updated>2008-03-07T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2009 through 2013 to provide assistance to foreign countries to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.Res.1022 Reducing maternal mortality both at home and abroad.</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-03-05:/action/146649</id>
    <updated>2008-03-05T00:00:00Z</updated>
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Reducing maternal mortality both at home and abroad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.4652 Environmental Justice Access and Implementation Act of 2007</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-12-13:/action/140254</id>
    <updated>2007-12-13T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To direct each Federal agency to establish an Environmental Justice Office, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.4331 Attacking Viral Influenza Across Nations Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h4331/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-12-06:/action/138817</id>
    <updated>2007-12-06T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to preparation for an influenza pandemic, including an avian influenza pandemic, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.3904 Family Asthma Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h3904/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-10-18:/action/132814</id>
    <updated>2007-10-18T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Public Health Service Act with regard to research on asthma, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.2175 Family Asthma Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s2175/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-10-17:/action/132671</id>
    <updated>2007-10-17T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act with regard to research on asthma, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1998 International Child Marriage Prevention and Protection Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s1998/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-08-03:/action/127024</id>
    <updated>2007-08-03T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to reduce child marriage, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.2464 Wakefield Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h2464/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-05-23:/action/121723</id>
    <updated>2007-05-23T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide a means for continued improvement in emergency medical services for children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1415 Cancer Screening, Treatment, and Survivorship Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s1415/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-05-16:/action/112665</id>
    <updated>2007-05-16T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act and the Social Security Act to improve screening and treatment of cancers, provide for survivorship services, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.2353 Cancer Screening, Treatment, and Survivorship Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h2353/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-05-16:/action/112618</id>
    <updated>2007-05-16T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Public Health Service Act and the Social Security Act to improve screening and treatment of cancers, provide for survivorship services, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.Res.335 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to lung cancer as a public health priority and the recommendations of the Lung Cancer Progress Review Group of the National Cancer Institute.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-hr335/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-04-24:/action/109561</id>
    <updated>2007-04-24T00:00:00Z</updated>
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Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to lung cancer as a public health priority and the recommendations of the Lung Cancer Progress Review Group of the National Cancer Institute.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Enacted: H.R.1132 National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program Reauthorization Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h1132/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-04-20:/action/109189</id>
    <updated>2007-04-20T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide waivers relating to grants for preventive health measures with respect to breast and cervical cancers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;April 20, 2007: Became Public Law No: 110-18.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Signed by President: H.R.1132 National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program Reauthorization Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h1132/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-04-20:/action/109188</id>
    <updated>2007-04-20T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide waivers relating to grants for preventive health measures with respect to breast and cervical cancers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;April 20, 2007: Signed by President.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Sent To President: H.R.1132 National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program Reauthorization Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h1132/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-04-19:/action/109187</id>
    <updated>2007-04-19T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide waivers relating to grants for preventive health measures with respect to breast and cervical cancers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;April 19, 2007: Presented to President.    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Bill Sent To President: H.R.1132 National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program Reauthorization Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h1132/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-03-29:/action/109185</id>
    <updated>2007-03-29T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide waivers relating to grants for preventive health measures with respect to breast and cervical cancers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;March 29, 2007: Cleared for White House.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.884 Family-Based Meth Treatment Access Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s884/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-03-14:/action/96546</id>
    <updated>2007-03-14T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act regarding residential treatment programs for pregnant and parenting women, a program to reduce substance abuse among nonviolent offenders, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1391 Vaccines for the Future Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h1391/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-03-07:/action/95527</id>
    <updated>2007-03-07T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To accelerate efforts to develop vaccines for diseases primarily affecting developing countries, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.Res.87 A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the President should declare lung cancer a public health priority and should implement a comprehensive interagency program to reduce the lung cancer mortality rate by at least 50 percent by 2015.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-sr87/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-02-27:/action/94504</id>
    <updated>2007-02-27T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the President should declare lung cancer a public health priority and should implement a comprehensive interagency program to reduce the lung cancer mortality rate by at least 50 percent by 2015.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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