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Health Force, Resilience Force, and Jobs To Fight COVID–19 Act of 2021 [S.32]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Disaster Relief ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Economic Development ]
A bill to provide for the establishment of a standing Health Force and a Resilience Force to respond to public health emergencies and meet public health needs.
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Jobs to Fight COVID–19 Act of 2021 [HB-352]
[Healthcare ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Health ]
[Economic Development ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Public Safety ]
To establish an initiative for national testing, contact tracing, and pandemic response, and for other purposes.
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Expressing the support of the House of Representatives for the naming of new or undedicated facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs after women veterans and minority veterans in order to reflect the diversity of all who have served in the Armed Forces of the United States. [HR-50]
[Veterans ]
[Military ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
Expressing the support of the House of Representatives for the naming of new or undedicated facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs after women veterans and minority veterans in order to reflect the diversity of all who have served in the Armed Forces of the United States.
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Homeland Security Acquisition Professional Career Program Act [HB-367]
[National Security ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Defense ]
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish an acquisition professional career program, and for other purposes.
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STEM Opportunities Act [HB-204]
[Science ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
To direct the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to carry out programs and activities to ensure that Federal science agencies and institutions of higher education receiving Federal research and development funding are fully engaging their entire talent pool, and for other purposes.
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Supporting Early-Career Researchers Act [HB-144]
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[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
To forestall the loss of research talent by establishing a temporary early career research fellowship program.
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Blue Collar to Green Collar Jobs Development Act of 2021 [HB-156]
[Energy ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Climate Change ]
[Economic Development ]
To amend title II of the Department of Energy Organization Act to reauthorize an office within the Department of Energy, to direct the Secretary of Energy to establish and carry out a comprehensive, nationwide energy-related industries jobs program, and for other purposes.
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Emergency Economic and Workforce System Resiliency Act [S.5068]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Economic Development ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Unemployment ]
A bill to direct the Secretary of Labor to award formula and competitive grants for layoff aversion activities, and for other purposes.
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Honoring the 50th anniversary of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. [HR-1263]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Economic Development ]
[Community Development ]
This resolution honors the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and reaffirms the commitment of the House of Representatives to working alongside the center and others to advance ideas and policies that promote, uplift, and enrich the Black community and all of America.
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Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to the principles that should guide the national artificial intelligence strategy of the United States. [HR-1250]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Artificial Intelligence ]
[Science ]
[National Security ]
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to the principles that should guide the national artificial intelligence strategy of the United States.
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CAREER Act Cutting Administrative Red-tape for Education and Employment Reinvestment Act [S.3151]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Economic Development ]
CAREER Act Cutting Administrative Red-tape for Education and Employment Reinvestment Act
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American Innovation and Competitiveness Act [S.3084]
[Science ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Education ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Artificial Intelligence ]
[Manufacturing ]
[Small Business ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
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American Innovation and Competitiveness Act This bill calls on the National Science Foundation (NSF) to maintain the intellectual merit and broader impacts criteria as the basis for evaluating grant proposals in the merit review process. The NSF shall issue and periodically update policy guidance for both NSF staff and other NSF merit review process participants, emphasizing the importance of transparency and accountability of the outcomes made through such process. The bill renames the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research as the
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Department of State Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2017 [S.2937]
[International ]
[Human Rights ]
[National Security ]
[Cybersecurity ]
Department of State Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2017 This bill directs the Department of State to: (1) submit to Congress a U.S. strategy and implementing plan for combating sexual exploitation and abuse in U.N. peacekeeping operations, and (2) designate a country as a "peacekeeping abuse country of concern" if indications are that personnel from its U.N. peacekeeping contingent have engaged in acts of sexual exploitation. The State Department may withhold specified assistance from a foreign security unit that has engaged in such acts. The Government
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SBIR and STTR Reauthorization and Improvement Act of 2016 [S.2812]
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[Technology and Innovation ]
[Small Business ]
[Defense ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
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[Cybersecurity ]
[Artificial Intelligence ]
[Aerospace ]
[Manufacturing ]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
SBIR and STTR Reauthorization and Improvement Act of 2016 TITLE I--REAUTHORIZATION OF PROGRAMS (Sec. 101) This bill amends the Small Business Act to reauthorize and make permanent the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. TITLE II--ENHANCED SMALL BUSINESS ACCESS TO FEDERAL INNOVATION INVESTMENTS (Sec. 201) The bill specifies budget amounts for the Department of Defense (DOD) (for extramural expenditures and those for research, development, test, and evaluation) and other federal agencies
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Firefighter Cancer Registry Act [S.2799]
[Public Health ]
[Healthcare ]
[Science ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Firefighter Cancer Registry Act This bill requires the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop and maintain a voluntary patient registry to monitor, collect, and make available epidemiological information related to cancer incidence and trends among firefighters. The CDC should seek to include specified information in the registry, including the number and types of fire incidents attended by an individual. To collect information for the registry, the CDC may incorporate questions into existing public health surveys, questionnaires,
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STEM Opportunities Act of 2016 [S.2784]
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[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Disabilities ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Human Rights ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
STEM Opportunities Act of 2016 This bill directs the Office of Science and Technology Policy to establish a STEM Inclusion Interagency Working Group which shall focus on the creation of a more diverse and inclusive STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) workforce. The National Science Foundation (NSF) shall strengthen the goals and activities of the ADVANCE (Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers) program to focus on increasing the recruitment, retention, and success of
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Manufacturing Extension Partnership Improvement Act of 2016 [S.2779]
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[Small Business ]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Economic Development ]
[Science ]
[Education ]
[Budget and Spending ]
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Manufacturing Extension Partnership Improvement Act of 2016 This bill amends the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act to direct the Department of Commerce, through the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), to convert the current program for creation and support of regional centers for the transfer of manufacturing technology into one for creation and support of manufacturing extension centers for the transfer of manufacturing technology and best business practices, to be known as the Hollings Manufacturing Extension
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Women and Minorities in STEM Booster Act of 2016 [S.2710]
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[Education ]
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[Grants ]
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[Technology and Innovation ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Human Services ]
Women and Minorities in STEM Booster Act of 2016 This bill requires the National Science Foundation to award competitive grants to enable eligible entities to carry out the activities specified below in order to increase the participation of women and underrepresented minorities in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). An eligible entity that receives a grant shall use grant funds to carry out one or more of the following activities designed to increase the participation of women or minorities underrepresented in
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Recreation Not Red-Tape Act [S.2706]
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[Recreation ]
[Veterans ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Economic Development ]
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Recreation Not Red-Tape Act This bill amends the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act to require the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Forest Service to adopt a consistent and uniform special recreation permitting process with respect to outfitters and guides. The Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) shall sell National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Passes entrance and recreation fees through federal websites. Interior and USDA should: work with the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans
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Rebuild America Act of 2015 [S.268]
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[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Energy ]
[Telecommunications ]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Water ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
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Rebuild America Act of 2015 Reduces the non-federal share of the cost of any activity funded by this Act by 50% of what it was before enactment of this Act. Appropriates funds for FY2015-FY2022 to the Highway Trust Fund to improve roads, bridges, and other U.S. transportation infrastructure. Appropriates funds for FY2015-FY2019: (1) for intercity high-speed rail service, (2) to provide credit assistance for surface transportation projects of national and regional significance, (3) to implement airport improvement and noise compatibility projects
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