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HB603 - HEAL Act Holocaust Education and Antisemitism Lessons Act
Josh Gottheimer, Michael T. McCaul, Kathy Ellen Manning
Last updated over 1 year ago
181 Co-Sponsors
To require a study on Holocaust education efforts of States, local educational agencies, and public elementary and secondary schools, and for other purposes.
STATUS
Introduced
HB3018 - Federal Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 2023
Lucy McBath, Salud O. Carbajal, Robert Menendez
Last updated over 1 year ago
164 Co-Sponsors
To authorize the issuance of extreme risk protection orders.
STATUS
Introduced
#crime-and-law-enforcement
HB491 - Return Home to Housing Act
Nikema Williams, Claudia Tenney, Sara J. Jacobs
Last updated over 1 year ago
70 Co-Sponsors
To amend title 38, United States Code, to adjust the rate of per diem payments provided by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to grantees that provide services to homeless veterans.
STATUS
Introduced
HB625 - Keep Americans Safe Act
Diana DeGette, Dina Titus, Bradley S. Schneider
Last updated over 1 year ago
166 Co-Sponsors
To regulate large capacity ammunition feeding devices.
STATUS
Introduced
HB3713 - Mental Health Services for Students Act of 2023
Grace F. Napolitano, Brian K. Fitzpatrick, Jesus Garcia
Last updated over 1 year ago
130 Co-Sponsors
To amend the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend projects relating to children and to provide access to school-based comprehensive mental health programs.
STATUS
Introduced
#health
HB5896 - United Negro College Fund, Inc. Congressional Gold Medal Act
Alma S. Adams, Bennie G. Thompson, Terri A. Sewell
Last updated 12 months ago
21 Co-Sponsors
To award a congressional gold medal to the United Negro College Fund, Inc. and the institutions that make up its membership on the occasion of its 80th year of existence.
STATUS
Introduced
HB5302 - Michel O. Maceda Memorial Act
Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon, Mark Green, Maria Elvira Salazar
Last updated about 1 year ago
16 Co-Sponsors
To designate the Air and Marine Operations Marine Unit of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection located at 101 Km 18.5 in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, as the "Michel O. Maceda Marine Unit".
STATUS
Introduced
HB2407 - Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act
Jody C Arrington, Terri A. Sewell, Richard Hudson
Last updated over 1 year ago
309 Co-Sponsors
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for Medicare coverage of multi-cancer early detection screening tests.
STATUS
Introduced
#health
HB2663 - Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act
Joe Courtney, Robert C. Scott, Don Bacon
Last updated over 1 year ago
173 Co-Sponsors
To direct the Secretary of Labor to issue an occupational safety and health standard that requires covered employers within the health care and social service industries to develop and implement a comprehensive workplace violence prevention plan, and for other purposes.
STATUS
Introduced
HB3413 - AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act of 2023
Josh Gottheimer, Thomas H. Kean, Robert Menendez
Last updated over 1 year ago
262 Co-Sponsors
To require the Secretary of Transportation to issue a rule requiring access to AM broadcast stations in motor vehicles, and for other purposes.
STATUS
Introduced
#transportation-and-public-worksBIOGRAPHY
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Representative from US Congress district HD-MS-2
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US House
BIRTH
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Bennie G. Thompson was born in Bolton, Mississippi, on January 28, 1948. He received a B.S. from Tougaloo College in 1968 and a M.S. from Jackson State University in 1970. Thompson taught high school in Bolton from 1968 to 1980. He served as alderman, then mayor of Bolton, from 1973 to 1993. He was a member of the Hinds County Board of Supervisors from 1968 to 1993. Thompson was elected as a Democrat to the 103rd Congress in 1993, and has served in the House since January 3, 1993. He represents Mississippi's 2nd congressional district.read less
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