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  <title>Open Congress : Major Bill Actions in Counseling</title>
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  <updated>2008-10-06T20:00:00Z</updated>
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    <title>Bill Enacted: H.R.6893 Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-10-06:/action/176801</id>
    <updated>2008-10-06T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend parts B and E of title IV of the Social Security Act to connect and support relative caregivers, improve outcomes for children in foster care, provide for tribal foster care and adoption access, improve incentives for adoption, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;October 06, 2008: Became Public Law No: 110-351.    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Bill Signed by President: H.R.6893 Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h6893/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-10-06:/action/176791</id>
    <updated>2008-10-06T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend parts B and E of title IV of the Social Security Act to connect and support relative caregivers, improve outcomes for children in foster care, provide for tribal foster care and adoption access, improve incentives for adoption, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;October 06, 2008: Signed by President.    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Bill Sent To President: H.R.6893 Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h6893/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-09-25:/action/174307</id>
    <updated>2008-09-25T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend parts B and E of title IV of the Social Security Act to connect and support relative caregivers, improve outcomes for children in foster care, provide for tribal foster care and adoption access, improve incentives for adoption, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;September 25, 2008: Presented to President.    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Bill Sent To President: H.R.6893 Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h6893/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-09-21:/action/172808</id>
    <updated>2008-09-21T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend parts B and E of title IV of the Social Security Act to connect and support relative caregivers, improve outcomes for children in foster care, provide for tribal foster care and adoption access, improve incentives for adoption, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;September 21, 2008: Cleared for White House.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.6893 Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h6893/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-09-14:/action/171327</id>
    <updated>2008-09-14T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend parts B and E of title IV of the Social Security Act to connect and support relative caregivers, improve outcomes for children in foster care, provide for tribal foster care and adoption access, improve incentives for adoption, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: S.3397 First Responders Support Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s3397/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-30:/action/170360</id>
    <updated>2008-07-30T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide adequate benefits for public safety officers injured or killed in the line of duty, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Signed by President: H.R.3221 Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h3221/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-29:/action/168016</id>
    <updated>2008-07-29T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to provide needed housing reform and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 29, 2008: Signed by President.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Enacted: H.R.3221 Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h3221/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-29:/action/168017</id>
    <updated>2008-07-29T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to provide needed housing reform and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 29, 2008: Became Public Law No: 110-289.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Sent To President: H.R.3221 Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h3221/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-28:/action/167619</id>
    <updated>2008-07-28T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to provide needed housing reform and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 28, 2008: Presented to President.    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Bill Sent To President: H.R.3221 Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h3221/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-25:/action/167618</id>
    <updated>2008-07-25T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to provide needed housing reform and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 25, 2008: Cleared for White House.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.3262 SBA Women's Business Programs Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s3262/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-13:/action/166083</id>
    <updated>2008-07-13T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to reauthorize the women's entrepreneurial development programs of the Small Business Administration, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.6445 Veterans' Health Care Policy Enhancement Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h6445/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-08:/action/165639</id>
    <updated>2008-07-08T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend title 38, United States Code, to prohibit the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from collecting certain copayments from veterans who are catastrophically disabled, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.3176 Disaster Recovery Substance Abuse Mental Health Treatment Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s3176/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-06-22:/action/164667</id>
    <updated>2008-06-22T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to authorize the President to provide mental health and substance abuse services.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.6268 HONOR Warriors Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h6268/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-06-11:/action/160207</id>
    <updated>2008-06-11T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To improve and enhance the mental health care benefits available to members of the Armed Forces and veterans, to enhance counseling and other benefits available to survivors of members of the Armed Forces and veterans, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: S.3008 HONOR Warriors Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s3008/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-05-11:/action/156871</id>
    <updated>2008-05-11T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to improve and enhance the mental health care benefits available to members of the Armed Forces and veterans, to enhance counseling and other benefits available to survivors of members of the Armed Forces and veterans, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.2992 Armed Forces Housing Security Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s2992/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-05-06:/action/156496</id>
    <updated>2008-05-06T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to enhance housing loan authorities for veterans and to otherwise assist veterans and members of the Armed Forces in avoiding the foreclosure of their homes, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5966 To target housing counseling funding based upon levels of residential mortgage foreclosures and delinquencies.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5966/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-05-04:/action/156090</id>
    <updated>2008-05-04T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To target housing counseling funding based upon levels of residential mortgage foreclosures and delinquencies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.2963 A bill to improve and enhance the mental health care benefits available to members of the Armed Forces and veterans, to enhance counseling and other benefits available to survivors of members of the Armed Forces and veterans, and for other purposes.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s2963/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-04-30:/action/152233</id>
    <updated>2008-04-30T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to improve and enhance the mental health care benefits available to members of the Armed Forces and veterans, to enhance counseling and other benefits available to survivors of members of the Armed Forces and veterans, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5857 Homeownership Protection and Housing Market Stabilization Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5857/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-04-21:/action/150665</id>
    <updated>2008-04-21T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To establish licensing and registration requirements for residential mortgage originators, improve mortgage disclosures, create an Office of Housing Counseling, to provide incentives to facilitate loan modifications, reform the regulation of the Government Sponsored Enterprises, modernize the Federal Housing Administration, improve home ownership for veterans, reform appraisal activities, and combat mortgage fraud, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5830 FHA Housing Stabilization and Homeownership Retention Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5830/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-04-16:/action/150499</id>
    <updated>2008-04-16T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To create a voluntary FHA program that provides mortgage refinancing assistance to allow families to stay in their homes, protect neighborhoods, and help stabilize the housing market.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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