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SB2895 - Adoption Tax Credit Refundability Act of 2023
Robert P. Casey, Kevin Cramer, Sherrod Brown
Last updated about 1 year ago
29 Co-Sponsors
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a refundable adoption tax credit.
STATUS
Introduced
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SB2773 - Ban Congressional Stock Trading Act
Thomas Jonathan Ossoff, Mark Kelly, Raphael G. Warnock
Last updated about 1 year ago
9 Co-Sponsors
A bill to amend chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to require Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children to place certain assets into blind trusts, and for other purposes.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2776 - Disarm Hate Act
Robert P. Casey, Tammy Baldwin, Richard Blumenthal
Last updated about 1 year ago
24 Co-Sponsors
A bill to prevent a person who has been convicted of a misdemeanor hate crime, or received an enhanced sentence for a misdemeanor because of hate or bias in its commission, from obtaining a firearm.
STATUS
Introduced
SR24 - A resolution supporting the observation of "National Girls & Women in Sports Day" on February 1, 2023, to raise awareness of and celebrate the achievements of girls and women in sports.
Shelley Moore Capito, Patty Murray, Maria Cantwell
Last updated over 1 year ago
12 Co-Sponsors
STATUS
Introduced
SB226 - ESP Family Leave Act
Tammy Duckworth, Christopher A. Coons, Ben Ray Lujan
Last updated over 1 year ago
8 Co-Sponsors
A bill to establish eligibility requirements for education support professionals and school support staff under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, and for other purposes.
STATUS
Introduced
SB38 - Veteran Entrepreneurship Training Act of 2023
Tammy Duckworth, Joni Ernst
Last updated over 1 year ago
2 Co-Sponsors
A bill to amend the Small Business Act to codify the Boots to Business Program, and for other purposes.
STATUS
Introduced
SB14 - Age 21 Act
Richard Blumenthal, Cory A. Booker, Benjamin L. Cardin
Last updated over 1 year ago
24 Co-Sponsors
A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the purchase of certain firearms by individuals under 21 years of age, and for other purposes.
STATUS
Introduced
SB25 - Assault Weapons Ban of 2023
Tammy Baldwin, Michael F. Bennet, Richard Blumenthal
Last updated over 1 year ago
45 Co-Sponsors
A bill to regulate assault weapons, to ensure that the right to keep and bear arms is not unlimited, and for other purposes.
STATUS
Introduced
SB40 - Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act
Cory A. Booker, Richard Durbin, Edward J. Markey
Last updated over 1 year ago
24 Co-Sponsors
A bill to address the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to study and consider a national apology and proposal for reparations for the institution of slavery, its subsequent de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African Americans, and the impact of these forces on living African Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies, and for other purposes.
STATUS
Introduced
SB51 - Washington, D.C. Admission Act
Thomas R. Carper, Chris Van Hollen, Tammy Baldwin
Last updated over 1 year ago
46 Co-Sponsors
A bill to provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union.
STATUS
Introduced
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Senator from US Congress district SD-IL
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US Senate
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Tammy Duckworth was born in Bangkok, Thailand. Her father was a veteran of World War II and Vietnam. Duckworth joined the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps while in graduate school. She became a helicopter pilot and was deployed to Iraq in 2004. In November 2004, Duckworth's helicopter was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. She lost both legs and partial use of one arm. Duckworth received a Purple Heart. She underwent rehabilitation at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. In 2006, Duckworth ran for Congress as a Democrat in Illinois but lost. She later served as Assistant Secretary for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs from 2009-2011.read less
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