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  <title>Open Congress : Major Bill Actions in Health programs administration and funding</title>
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  <updated>2013-05-13T20:00:00Z</updated>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.7 No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-h7/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2013-05-13:/action/358576</id>
    <updated>2013-05-13T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To prohibit taxpayer funded abortions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1915 Gestational Diabetes Act of 2013</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-h1915/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2013-05-08:/action/358454</id>
    <updated>2013-05-08T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To provide grants to better understand and reduce gestational diabetes, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: S.907 Gestational Diabetes Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-s907/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2013-05-07:/action/357968</id>
    <updated>2013-05-07T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to provide grants to better understand and reduce gestational diabetes, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.908 Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia Diagnosis and Treatment Act of 2013</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-s908/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2013-05-07:/action/357962</id>
    <updated>2013-05-07T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to improve the diagnosis and treatment of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1857 Student-to-School Nurse Ratio Improvement Act of 2013</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-h1857/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2013-05-06:/action/357794</id>
    <updated>2013-05-06T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To make demonstration grants to eligible local educational agencies for the purpose of reducing the student-to school nurse ratio in public elementary schools and secondary schools.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.865 Accelerating the End of Breast Cancer Act of 2013</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-s865/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2013-05-05:/action/357685</id>
    <updated>2013-05-05T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to provide for the establishment of a Commission to Accelerate the End of Breast Cancer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1724 Kids First Research Act of 2013</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-h1724/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-24:/action/356809</id>
    <updated>2013-04-24T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To eliminate taxpayer financing of presidential campaigns and party conventions and reprogram savings to provide for a 10-year pediatric research initiative through the Common Fund administered by the National Institutes of Health, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.Res.119 A resolution supporting the goals and ideals of World Malaria Day.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-sr119/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-24:/action/356932</id>
    <updated>2013-04-24T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A resolution supporting the goals and ideals of World Malaria Day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.852 Veterans' Health Promotion Act of 2013</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-s852/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-24:/action/356824</id>
    <updated>2013-04-24T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to improve health care furnished by the Department of Veterans Affairs by increasing access to complementary and alternative medicine and other approaches to wellness and preventive care, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1701 Cutting Costly Codes Act of 2013</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-h1701/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-23:/action/356552</id>
    <updated>2013-04-23T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services replacing ICD-9 with ICD-10 in implementing the HIPAA code set standards.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1717 Medicare DMEPOS Market Pricing Program Act of 2013</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-h1717/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-23:/action/356427</id>
    <updated>2013-04-23T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish a market pricing program for durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies (DMEPOS) under part B of the Medicare program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.Con.Res.35 Supporting the goals and ideals of World Malaria Day.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-hc35/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-22:/action/356371</id>
    <updated>2013-04-22T20:00:00Z</updated>
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Supporting the goals and ideals of World Malaria Day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1666 Patient Centered Quality Care for Life Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-h1666/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-22:/action/356261</id>
    <updated>2013-04-22T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To create a patient-centered quality of care initiative for seriously ill patients through the establishment of a stakeholder strategic summit, quality of life education and awareness initiative, health care workforce training, an advisory committee, and palliative care focused research, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.Res.104 A resolution supporting the goals and ideals of National Youth HIV &amp; AIDS Awareness Day.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-sr104/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-21:/action/356192</id>
    <updated>2013-04-21T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A resolution supporting the goals and ideals of National Youth HIV &amp; AIDS Awareness Day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1661 Improving Cancer Treatment Education Act of 2013</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-h1661/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-18:/action/356108</id>
    <updated>2013-04-18T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide comprehensive cancer patient treatment education under the Medicare program and to provide for research to improve cancer symptom management.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1657 To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to improve the supplemental nutrition assistance program.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-h1657/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-17:/action/356070</id>
    <updated>2013-04-17T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to improve the supplemental nutrition assistance program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1619 Making Investments Now for Dementia Act of 2013</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-h1619/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-17:/action/355855</id>
    <updated>2013-04-17T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To authorize the issuance of United States bonds to fund Alzheimer's research.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1617 Emergency Jobs to Restore the American Dream Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-h1617/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-17:/action/355892</id>
    <updated>2013-04-17T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To create an emergency jobs program that will fund 2,242,000 positions during fiscal years 2014 and 2015.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1616 Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2013</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-h1616/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-17:/action/355945</id>
    <updated>2013-04-17T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To promote energy savings in residential and commercial buildings and industry, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.762 A bill to amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to improve the supplemental nutrition assistance program.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-s762/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-17:/action/355960</id>
    <updated>2013-04-17T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to improve the supplemental nutrition assistance program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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