2008-09-11T20:00:00Z opencongress.org tag:opencongress.org,2007:/issue_feed/5670 tag:opencongress.org,2008-09-11:/action/171172 2008-09-11T20:00:00Z A bill to amend the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to expand and improve opportunities for service, and for other purposes.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2008-09-10:/action/171127 2008-09-10T20:00:00Z A bill to amend the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to establish Encore Service Programs, Encore Fellowship Programs, and Silver Scholarship Programs, and for other purposes.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-16:/action/166771 2008-07-16T20:00:00Z A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule set forth as requirements contained in the August 17, 2007, letter to State Health Officials from the Director of the Center for Medicaid and State Operations in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the State Health Official Letter 08-003, dated May 7, 2008, from such Center.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2008-05-15:/action/157689 2008-05-15T20:00:00Z Recognizing the 100th birthday of Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th President, designer of the Great Society, politician, educator, and civil rights enforcer.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2008-05-05:/action/156257 2008-05-05T20:00:00Z A concurrent resolution congratulating and saluting Focus: HOPE on its 40th anniversary and for its remarkable commitment and contributions to Detroit, the State of Michigan, and the United States.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2008-04-14:/action/152864 2008-04-14T20:00:00Z Congratulating and saluting Focus: HOPE on its 40th anniversary and for its remarkable commitment and contributions to Detroit, the State of Michigan, and the United States.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2008-04-02:/action/155890 2008-04-02T20:00:00Z Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that a Global Marshall Plan holds the potential to demonstrate the commitment of the United States to peace and prosperity.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2008-04-02:/action/153625 2008-04-02T20:00:00Z To establish a commission to study methods for improving and promoting bilateral renewable energy cooperation between the United States and India, and for other purposes.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2008-03-31:/action/148687 2008-03-31T20:00:00Z A concurrent resolution supporting the goals and ideals of the International Year of Sanitation.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2008-03-13:/action/148003 2008-03-13T20:00:00Z Supporting the goals and ideals of the International Year of Sanitation.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2008-03-09:/action/147109 2008-03-09T20:00:00Z A resolution supporting the goals and ideals of "World Water Day".<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2008-02-13:/action/145856 2008-02-13T19:00:00Z A bill to amend the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to improve programs carried out through youth opportunity grants, and for other purposes.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2007-12-12:/action/140221 2007-12-12T19:00:00Z To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act to provide for the calculation of the minimum wage based on the Federal poverty threshold for a family of 3, as determined by the Census Bureau.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2007-12-10:/action/143745 2007-12-10T19:00:00Z To amend section 435(o) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 regarding the definition of economic hardship.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2007-12-06:/action/139054 2007-12-06T19:00:00Z A bill to require the President to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2007-12-03:/action/138856 2007-12-03T19:00:00Z Supporting the goals and ideals of World AIDS Day.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2007-11-14:/action/136990 2007-11-14T19:00:00Z To accelerate the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States by establishing a market-driven system of greenhouse gas tradeable allowances that will limit greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, reduce dependence upon foreign oil, and ensure benefits to consumers from the trading in such allowances, and for other purposes.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2007-11-14:/action/137260 2007-11-14T19:00:00Z A bill to amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to modify the tariffs on certain footwear.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2007-11-13:/action/137346 2007-11-13T19:00:00Z A resolution remembering and commemorating the lives and work of Maryknoll Sisters Maura Clarke and Ita Ford, Ursuline Sister Dorothy Kazel, and Cleveland Lay Mission Team Member Jean Donovan, who were executed by members of the Armed Forces of El Salvador on December 2, 1980.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2007-11-12:/action/136837 2007-11-12T19:00:00Z Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008, and for other purposes.<br /><br />