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Climate Justice Grants Act [HB-2442]
[Environmental ]
[Climate Change ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Community Development ]
[Public Health ]
To require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to carry out a grant program for projects and activities to address climate justice concerns of environmental justice communities, and for other purposes.
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To award three Congressional Gold Medals to the law enforcement officers and those who protected American cities during the Black Lives Matter (BLM) riots beginning on May 26, 2020. [HB-2446]
[Crime ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Public Safety ]
To award three Congressional Gold Medals to the law enforcement officers and those who protected American cities during the Black Lives Matter (BLM) riots beginning on May 26, 2020.
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Voices for Environmental Justice Act [HB-2431]
[Environmental ]
[Air Quality ]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Public Health ]
[Grants ]
To authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to award grants to entities to enable such entities to participate in decisions impacting the health and safety of their communities in connection with the release of certain hazardous air pollutants and the permitting of solid waste disposal facilities and hazardous waste facilities, and for other purposes.
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Protection from Cumulative Emissions and Underenforcement of Environmental Law Act of 2021 [HB-2397]
[Environmental ]
[Air Quality ]
[Climate Change ]
[Public Health ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
To advance environmental justice by addressing cumulative impacts and underenforcement, and for other purposes.
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Environmental Justice Act of 2021 [HB-2434]
[Environmental ]
[Public Health ]
[Air Quality ]
[Water ]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
To require Federal agencies to address environmental justice, to require consideration of cumulative impacts in certain permitting decisions, and for other purposes.
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Climate Justice Act of 2021 [HB-2394]
[Climate Change ]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Science ]
[Economic Development ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Public Health ]
To provide for the establishment of a Climate Justice Working Group to help guide the Nation's just and equitable transition towards a clean, climate-resilient, zero-emission economy, and for other purposes.
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Peace and Tolerance in Palestinian Education Act [HB-2374]
[International ]
[Human Rights ]
[Education ]
To require the Secretary of State to submit annual reports reviewing the educational material used by the Palestinian Authority, and for other purposes.
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ACRE Act Agriculture Civil Rights and Equality Act [HB-2349]
[Agriculture ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
To provide for equal protection of the law and to prohibit discrimination and preferential treatment on the basis of race, color, national origin, or sex in the administration of programs of the Department of Agriculture, and for other purposes.
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Teaching Asian Pacific American History Act [HB-2283]
[Education ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Arts and Culture ]
To authorize the Secretary of Education to award grants to eligible entities to carry out educational programs that include the history of peoples of Asian and Pacific Islander descent in the settling and founding of America, the social, economic, and political environments that led to the development of discriminatory laws targeting Asians and Pacific Islanders and their relation to current events, and the impact and contributions of Asian Americans to the development and enhancement of American life, United States history, literature, the economy,
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Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act of 2021 [HB-2222]
[Immigration ]
[Human Rights ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
To provide standards for facilities at which aliens in the custody of the Department of Homeland Security are detained, and for other purposes.
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Acknowledging that the United States Supreme Court's decisions in the Insular Cases and the "territorial incorporation doctrine" are contrary to the text and history of the United States Constitution, rest on racial views and stereotypes from the era of Plessy v. Ferguson that have long been rejected, are contrary to our Nation's most basic constitutional and democratic principles, and should be rejected as having no place in United States constitutional law. [HR-279]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Human Rights ]
Acknowledging that the United States Supreme Court's decisions in the Insular Cases and the "territorial incorporation doctrine" are contrary to the text and history of the United States Constitution, rest on racial views and stereotypes from the era of Plessy v. Ferguson that have long been rejected, are contrary to our Nation's most basic constitutional and democratic principles, and should be rejected as having no place in United States constitutional law.
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Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act of 2021 [HB-2238]
[Environmental ]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Animals ]
[Water ]
[Food ]
To amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to reduce the production and use of certain single-use plastic products and packaging, to improve the responsibility of producers in the design, collection, reuse, recycling, and disposal of their consumer products and packaging, to prevent pollution from consumer products and packaging from entering into animal and human food chains and waterways, and for other purposes.
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Fair Pay Act of 2021 [HB-2243]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to prohibit discrimination in the payment of wages on account of sex, race, or national origin, and for other purposes.
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Jeanette Acosta Invest in Women’s Health Act of 2021 [HB-2216]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
To provide women with increased access to preventive and life-saving cancer screening.
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Willie O’Ree Congressional Gold Medal Act [HB-2249]
[Sports ]
[Arts and Culture ]
[Recreation ]
To award a Congressional Gold Medal to Willie O'Ree, in recognition of his extraordinary contributions and commitment to hockey, inclusion, and recreational opportunity.
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Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley Congressional Gold Medal Act of 2021 [HB-2252]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Human Rights ]
To award posthumously the Congressional Gold Medal to Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley.
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Native American Language Resource Center Act of 2021 [HB-2271]
[Native American Affairs ]
[Education ]
[Arts and Culture ]
To establish a Native American language resource center in furtherance of the policy set forth in the Native American Languages Act.
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Condemning the horrific shootings in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 16, 2021, and reaffirming the House of Representative’s commitment to combating hate, bigotry, and violence against the Asian-American and Pacific Islander community. [HR-275]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Human Rights ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
Condemning the horrific shootings in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 16, 2021, and reaffirming the House of Representative’s commitment to combating hate, bigotry, and violence against the Asian-American and Pacific Islander community.
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Taiwan Relations Reinforcement Act of 2021 [S.1054]
[International ]
[National Security ]
[Trade ]
A bill to support United States policy toward Taiwan.
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Israel Relations Normalization Act of 2021 Strengthening Reporting of Actions Taken Against the Normalization of Relations with Israel Act of 2021 [S.1061]
[International ]
[Human Rights ]
A bill to encourage the normalization of relations with Israel, and for other purposes.