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  <title>Open Congress : Major Bill Actions in Child care</title>
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  <updated>2009-01-26T19:00:00Z</updated>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.336 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-26:/action/182553</id>
    <updated>2009-01-26T19:00:00Z</updated>
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An original bill making supplemental appropriations for job preservation and creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency and science, assistance to the unemployed, and State and local fiscal stabilization, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.702 PRE-K Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h702/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-26:/action/182440</id>
    <updated>2009-01-26T19:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to improve early education.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.605 Pregnant Women Support Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h605/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-15:/action/181814</id>
    <updated>2009-01-15T19:00:00Z</updated>
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To provide for programs that reduce the need for abortion, help women bear healthy children, and support new parents.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.270 Pregnant Women Support Act</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-14:/action/181770</id>
    <updated>2009-01-14T19:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to provide for programs that reduce the need for abortion, help women bear healthy children, and support new parents.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.252 Veterans Health Care Authorization Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s252/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-14:/action/181728</id>
    <updated>2009-01-14T19:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to enhance the capacity of the Department of Veterans Affairs to recruit and retain nurses and other critical health-care professionals, to improve the provision of health care veterans, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.244 Education Begins at Home Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s244/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-13:/action/181511</id>
    <updated>2009-01-13T19:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to expand programs of early childhood home visitation that increase school readiness, child abuse and neglect prevention, and early identification of developmental and health delays, including potential mental health concerns, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.460 Right Start Child Care and Education Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h460/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-12:/action/180964</id>
    <updated>2009-01-12T19:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the credit for employers establishing workplace child care facilities, to increase the child care credit to encourage greater use of quality child care services, to provide incentives for students to earn child care-related degrees and to work in child care facilities, and to increase the exclusion for employer-provided dependent care assistance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.208 Mynisha's Law</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s208/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-11:/action/180398</id>
    <updated>2009-01-11T19:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to provide Federal coordination and assistance in preventing gang violence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.210 Right Start Child Care and Education Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s210/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-11:/action/180402</id>
    <updated>2009-01-11T19:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the credit for employers establishing workplace child care facilities, to increase the child care credit to encourage greater use of quality child care services, to provide incentives for students to earn child care-related degrees and to work in child care facilities, and to increase the exclusion for employer-provided dependent care assistance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.330 MEGA</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h330/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-07:/action/179883</id>
    <updated>2009-01-07T19:00:00Z</updated>
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To establish grant programs to encourage energy-efficient economic development and green job training and creation, and to establish the Metro Area Green Institute to produce and disseminate best practice information to economic and workforce development initiatives undertaken by metropolitan communities nationally.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.293 Homeless Women Veterans and Homeless Veterans with Children Reintegration Grant Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h293/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-07:/action/179785</id>
    <updated>2009-01-07T19:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Labor to carry out a grant program to provide reintegration services through programs and facilities that emphasize services for homeless women veterans and homeless veterans with children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.163 Child Protection Improvements Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s163/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-06:/action/179734</id>
    <updated>2009-01-06T19:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to amend the National Child Protection Act of 1993 to establish a permanent background check system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.21 Prevention First Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s21/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/179227</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to reduce unintended pregnancy, reduce abortions, and improve access to women's health care.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.2 Middle Class Opportunity Act of 2009</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s2/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-05:/action/179225</id>
    <updated>2009-01-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to improve the lives of middle class families and provide them with greater opportunity to achieve the American dream.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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