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- 2262 Rayburn House Office Building
- Washington, D.C. 20515
- Phone: (202) 225-2531
- Fax: (202)225-5688
- email him
Committees:
Committees:
- EDUCATION & THE WORKFORCE(Subs: Health, Employment, Labor & Pensions; Higher Education & Workforce Training (Ranking Member));
- FINANCIAL SERVICES (Subs: Capital Markets & Government Sponsored Enterprises; Financial Institutions & Consumer Credit)
Global Action Record:
Global Action Record:
- 2003 - HR 1298 - AIDS, TB, Malaria - Yea
- 2003 - HR 192 - Microcredit - passed voice vote
- 2003 - signed Global Fund sign-on letter
- 2005 - HR 1409 - Orphans & vulnerable children - Yea
- 2006 - Brown Amendment +$10m for TB - passed by voice vote
- 2007 - HR 1302 - Global Poverty Act - cosponsor
- 2007 - HR 1429 - Improving Head Start Act - cosponsor - Yea/Yea
- 2007 - HR 1532 - Comprehensive Tuberculosis Elimination Act - cosponsor
- 2007 - HR 1567 - Stop TB Now Act - cosponsor
- 2007 - HR 1567 - Stop TB Now Act - passed in House - unanimous consent
- 2007 - HR 2092 - Education for All Act - cosponsor
- 2007 - HR 2266 - United Stated Commitment to Global Child Survival - cosponsor
- 2007 - Payne Amendment +$50m for TB - passed by voice vote
- 2007 - staffer (Pedro Ramos) attended XDR-TB briefing
- 2007 - NAY on failed LHHS amendment to reduce funding for Global Fund
- 2007 - signed Payne letter requesting Senate TB funding level of $200m
- 2008 - HR 1532 - Comprehensive Tuberculosis Elimination Act - passed into law - unanimous consent
- into law - Yea
- 2008 - HR 5501 - Tom Lantos & Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Reauthorization Act - passed - Yea / not voting on Senate version
- 2008/07/11 - signed Payne letter requesting $550m for global TB programs
- 2010 - HR 2000 - Muhammad Yunus Gold medal - cosponsor
- 02/01/2010 - signed letter to Treasury Secretary Geithner about debt cancellation for Haiti
- 2012/03/15 - signed Conyers letter to administration in support of Jeff Sachs for World Bank President
- 2012/09/13 - signed Schakowsky letter to Sec. of State Clinton to support $125m in FY13 to Global Partnership for Education
- 2012 - joined TB Elimination Caucus
- 2013/06/19 - HR 1947 Farm Bill Royce Amdt. - failed - allowed for aid to purchase "local" food aid instead of shipping from U.S. farms - Nay
- 2013/07/30 - HRes 254 – Global maternal and child nutrition – cosponsor
- 2013/10/16 - HR 60 - To award a Congressional Gold Medal to Malala Yousafzai - cosponsor
- 2014/03/27 - signed Engel, Young, Green $243M Domestic TB letter
- 2014/05/21 - signed Schakowsky Global Partnership for Education $250 million / 2 year pledge letter to administration
- 2015/06/12 - Trade Adjustment Assistance - Nay / 2015/06/12 Trade Promotion Authority - Yea /
- 2015/07/31- signed Reichert/Lee/McCollum/McCaul letter to Pres. Obama urging maternal & child health funding in FY17 budget
U.S. Action Record:
U.S. Action Record:
2007 - HR 2 - Fair Minimum Wage Act - Yea
- 2007 - HR 976 - SCHIP - Yea / Yea after veto / Yea after rewrite
- 2007 - HR 1514 - Savings for Working Families Act - cosponsor
- 2007 - HR 2419 - Farm, Nutrition, and Bioenergy Act - Yea
- 2007 - HR 3014 - Health Equity and Accountability Act- cosponsor
- 2007 - HR 3162 - Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act - Yea
- 2007 - Congressional Budget w/ increased domestic discretionary spending - Yea
- 2007 - LHHS approp. 11/6-Yea 11/15-Yea
- 2008 - HR 976 - SCHIP - failed 1/23 not voting
- 2008 - HR 2419 - Farm Bill - passed/veto override/revote - Yea/Yea/Yea
- 2008 - HR 5140 - Economic Stimulus - (passed; signed into law) - Yea
- 2008 - HR 6049 - Renewable Energy and Job Creation Act (extends Child Tax Credit) - Yea
- 2008 - HR 6331 - Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act - yea / yea after veto
- 2008 - HR 6867 - Unemployment Compensation Extension Act - Yea
- 2009 - HR 1 - American Recovery and Reinvestment Act - Yea
- 2009 - HR 2 - Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act - cosponsor - Yea
- 2009 - HR 4154 - Permanent Estate Tax Relief for Families, Farmers & Small Businesses Act - Yea
- 2009 - S.Con.Res.13 - Congressional Budget Resolution - Yea
- 2010 - HR 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Health Act - Yea
- 2010 - S 3307 - Healthy Hungry Free Kids Act of 2010 -Yea
- 2010 - HR 4853 - Middle Class Tax Relief Act of 2010 - Yea/Yea
- 2012/03/14 - signed Kildee/Platts Head Start/child care letter
- 2013/06/20 - HR 1947 Farm Bill - failed - would have cut SNAP- Nay
- 2013/09/19 - HR 3102 Nutrition Reform and Work Opportunity Act (cuts SNAP $39b)- Nay
- 2014//01/29 - HR 2642 - Agriculture Act of 2014 = Farm Bill (cuts SNAP $8.6b) - Yea
- 2014/07/25 - HR 4935 - Child Tax Credit Improvement Act (extends CTC to higher-incomes families but fails to address expiring benefits to low-income families) - Nay
- 2015/12/17 - HR 2029 - Omnibus tax bill including permanent extension or critical EITC/CTC provisions - Yea
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