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  <title>Open Congress : Major Bill Actions in Aging</title>
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  <updated>2009-10-29T10:05:00Z</updated>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.3962 Affordable Health Care for America Act</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-10-29:/action/213367</id>
    <updated>2009-10-29T10:05:00Z</updated>
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To provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.3962 Affordable Health Care for America Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3962/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-10-29:/action/214159</id>
    <updated>2009-10-29T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1796 America's Healthy Future Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1796/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-10-19:/action/211717</id>
    <updated>2009-10-19T22:39:00Z</updated>
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An original bill to provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1796 America's Healthy Future Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1796/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-10-19:/action/211735</id>
    <updated>2009-10-19T00:00:00Z</updated>
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An original bill to provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.3617 Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2009</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-09-22:/action/209138</id>
    <updated>2009-09-22T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To provide an extension of Federal-aid highway, highway safety, motor carrier safety, transit, and other programs funded out of the Highway Trust Fund pending enactment of a multiyear law reauthorizing such programs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.Res.276 A resolution designating September 22, 2009, as &quot;National Falls Prevention Awareness Day&quot;.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-sr276/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-09-21:/action/208984</id>
    <updated>2009-09-21T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A resolution designating September 22, 2009, as &quot;National Falls Prevention Awareness Day&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1679 Affordable Health Choices Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1679/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-09-17:/action/208741</id>
    <updated>2009-09-17T00:00:00Z</updated>
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An original bill to make quality, affordable health care available to all Americans, reduce costs, improve health care quality, enhance disease prevention, and strengthen the health care workforce.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1604 Americans Giving care to Elders (AGE) Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1604/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-08-06:/action/206699</id>
    <updated>2009-08-06T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an income tax credit for eldercare expenses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1555 Office of the National Alzheimer's Project Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1555/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-07-31:/action/206013</id>
    <updated>2009-07-31T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to establish the Office of the National Alzheimer's Project.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1548 Access to America's Orthopaedic Services Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1548/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-07-30:/action/205694</id>
    <updated>2009-07-30T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to improve research, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, conditions, and injuries, to conduct a longitudinal study on aging, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.Con.Res.37 A concurrent resolution supporting the goals and ideals of senior caregiving and affordability.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-sc37/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-07-28:/action/205103</id>
    <updated>2009-07-28T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A concurrent resolution supporting the goals and ideals of senior caregiving and affordability.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1522 Outpatient Mental Health Modernization Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1522/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-07-28:/action/205094</id>
    <updated>2009-07-28T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to stabilize and modernize the provision of partial hospitalization services under the Medicare program, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.3355 Older Driver and Pedestrian Safety and Roadway Enhancement Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3355/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-07-27:/action/204781</id>
    <updated>2009-07-27T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To direct the Secretary of Transportation to carry out a program to improve roadway safety infrastructure in all States to enhance the safety of older drivers and pedestrians, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1492 Alzheimer's Breakthrough Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1492/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-07-22:/action/204084</id>
    <updated>2009-07-22T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to fund breakthroughs in Alzheimer's disease research while providing more help to caregivers and increasing public education about prevention.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.3293 Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3293/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-07-22:/action/204195</id>
    <updated>2009-07-22T00:00:00Z</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, 2010, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.3286 Alzheimer's Breakthrough Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3286/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-07-22:/action/204098</id>
    <updated>2009-07-22T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Public Health Service Act to fund breakthroughs in Alzheimer's disease research while providing more help to caregivers and increasing public education about prevention.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.3191 Positive Aging Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3191/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-07-13:/action/202837</id>
    <updated>2009-07-13T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for integration of mental health services and mental health treatment outreach teams, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1403 Strengthen Social Work Training Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1403/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-07-07:/action/201764</id>
    <updated>2009-07-07T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to amend title VII of the Public Health Service Act to ensure that social work students or social work schools are eligible for support under certain programs that would assist individuals in pursuing health careers or for grants for training projects in geriatrics, and to establish a social work training program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.3098 Caring for an Aging America Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3098/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-26:/action/201404</id>
    <updated>2009-06-26T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Public Health Service Act to attract and retain trained health care professionals and direct care workers dedicated to providing quality care to the growing population of older Americans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.3109 Health Access and Health Professions Supply Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3109/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-26:/action/201447</id>
    <updated>2009-06-26T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To improve access to health care services in rural, frontier, and urban underserved areas in the United States by addressing the supply of health professionals and the distribution of health professionals to areas of need.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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