Representative Edolphus Towns (D-NY-10)

Representative Edolphus Towns (D-NY-10)
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418 points	1176 points	51 points	77.8% points	.175 points

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N.Y.'s Towns set to chair oversight committee

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New York's Rep. Towns set to chair oversight committee

Monday, December 29, 2008 | 12:30 AM CST

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Towns To Lead House Oversight Committee

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H.RES.1394 Edolphus Towns 7 Cosponsors 1 points	Applauding organizations that engage in the prevention of domestic violence and provide outreach and support services for victims. Referred to House committee on Thursday, July 31, 2008
H.R.6654 Edolphus Towns 40 Cosponsors 5 points	Increased Student Achievement Through Increased Student Support Act To increase the recruitment and retention of school counselors, school social workers, and school psychologists by low-income local educational agencies. Referred to House committee on Wednesday, July 30, 2008
H.R.5669 Edolphus Towns 34 Cosponsors 30 points	Poison Center Support, Enhancement, and Awareness Act of 2008 To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the poison center national toll-free number, national media campaign, and grant program to provide assistance for poison prevention, sustain the funding of poison centers, and enhance the public health of people of the United States. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, June 5, 2008
H.R.6044 Edolphus Towns 2 Cosponsors 5 points	To authorize appropriations for the Federal Trade Commission for certain international technical assistance activities. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, May 13, 2008
H.R.5937 Edolphus Towns 4 Cosponsors 45 points	To facilitate the preservation of certain affordable housing dwelling units. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, May 8, 2008

H.R.5942 Edolphus Towns 20 Cosponsors 5 points	National Trauma Center Stabilization Act of 2008 To ensure the continued and future availability of lifesaving trauma health care in the United States and to prevent further trauma center closures and downgrades by assisting trauma centers with uncompensated care costs, core mission services, emergency needs, and information technology. Referred to House subcommittee on Monday, May 5, 2008
H.R.5852 Edolphus Towns 23 Cosponsors 5 points	Great Ape Protection Act To prohibit the conducting of invasive research on great apes, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Thursday, April 17, 2008
H.R.5734 Edolphus Towns 51 Cosponsors 5 points	Pedestrian Safety Enhancement Act of 2008 To direct the Secretary of Transportation to study and establish a motor vehicle safety standard that provides for a means of alerting blind and other pedestrians of motor vehicle operation. Referred to House subcommittee on Wednesday, April 9, 2008
H.R.5447 Edolphus Towns 56 Cosponsors 5 points	Dorothy I. Height and Whitney M. Young, Jr. Social Work Reinvestment Act To establish the Social Work Reinvestment Commission to provide independent counsel to Congress on policy issues associated with the recruitment, retention, research, and reinvestment in the profession of social work. Referred to House committee on Thursday, February 14, 2008
H.R.5471 Edolphus Towns 1 Cosponsors 5 points	To require the Consumer Product Safety Commission to prescribe rules requiring distinctive markings on toy and look-alike firearms. Referred to House subcommittee on Thursday, February 14, 2008
H.R.4251 Edolphus Towns 10 Cosponsors 5 points	Flu Vaccine Availability Act of 2008 To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a demonstration project for administering influenza vaccine to elementary and middle school students in qualified low-income schools, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Tuesday, February 5, 2008
H.R.4453 Edolphus Towns 13 Cosponsors 5 points	Underage Drinking Prevention Act of 2007 To establish a grant to increase enforcement of laws to prohibit underage drinking through social sources, to improve reporting of Federal underage drinking data, to establish grants to increase parental involvement in school-based efforts to reduce underage drinking, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Tuesday, February 5, 2008
H.R.4352 Edolphus Towns 0 Cosponsors 5 points	To provide $30,000,000 in funding to the Department of Education to provide assistance to public school districts for the prevention of drug resistant infections. Referred to House subcommittee on Tuesday, December 11, 2007
H.R.4194 Edolphus Towns 6 Cosponsors 5 points	Underage Drinking Prevention Act of 2007 To establish a grant to increase enforcement of laws to prohibit underage drinking through social sources, to improve reporting of Federal underage drinking data, to establish grants to increase parental involvement in school-based efforts to reduce underage drinking, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Thursday, November 15, 2007
H.R.4200 Edolphus Towns 4 Cosponsors 5 points	To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a tax credit for medical research related to developing qualified infectious disease products. Referred to House committee on Thursday, November 15, 2007
H.R.694 Edolphus Towns 34 Cosponsors 30 points	Minority Serving Institution Digital and Wireless Technology Opportunity Act of 2007 To establish a digital and wireless network technology program, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, October 4, 2007
H.R.3267 Edolphus Towns 1 Cosponsors 5 points	Healthy Start Reauthorization Act of 2007 To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to the Healthy Start Initiative. Referred to House subcommittee on Tuesday, July 31, 2007
H.R.3011 Edolphus Towns 2 Cosponsors 5 points	To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure adequate payment amounts for drugs and biologicals under part B of the Medicare Program. Referred to House subcommittee on Thursday, July 12, 2007
H.R.1903 Edolphus Towns 8 Cosponsors 5 points	Post-Prostate Cancer Treatment Equity Act of 2007 To amend the Public Health Service Act and Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to require that group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans provide coverage for reconstructive prosthetic urology surgery if they provide coverage for prostate cancer treatment. Referred to House subcommittee on Monday, July 9, 2007
H.RES.255 Edolphus Towns 6 Cosponsors 1 points	Congratulating the Florida A&M University "Marching 100" Band for all of its accomplishments, including its performance in the Super Bowl XLI halftime show. Referred to House subcommittee on Monday, July 9, 2007
H.RES.279 Edolphus Towns 0 Cosponsors 1 points	Congratulating East New York Transit Technical High School of Brooklyn, New York, on winning the 2006-2007 PSAL New York City Boys Basketball Championship. Referred to House subcommittee on Monday, July 9, 2007
H.RES.280 Edolphus Towns 0 Cosponsors 1 points	Congratulating Thomas Jefferson High School on winning the 2006-2007 PSAL New York City A-League Girls Basketball Championship. Referred to House subcommittee on Monday, July 9, 2007
H.R.2870 Edolphus Towns 10 Cosponsors 5 points	Healthy Schools Act of 2007 To amend titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to ensure payment under Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) for covered items and services furnished by school-based health clinics. Referred to House subcommittee on Tuesday, June 26, 2007
H.R.2770 Edolphus Towns 3 Cosponsors 5 points	To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure more appropriate payment amounts for drugs and biologicals under part B of the Medicare Program by excluding customary prompt pay discounts extended to wholesalers from the manufacturer's average sales price. Referred to House subcommittee on Tuesday, June 19, 2007
H.R.2694 Edolphus Towns 50 Cosponsors 5 points	Motor Vehicle Owners Right to Repair Act of 2007 To protect the rights of consumers to diagnose, service, maintain, and repair their motor vehicles, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Wednesday, June 13, 2007
H.R.964 Edolphus Towns 41 Cosponsors 10 points	Securely Protect Yourself Against Cyber Trespass Act To protect users of the Internet from unknowing transmission of their personally identifiable information through spyware programs, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, June 7, 2007
H.R.2552 Edolphus Towns 26 Cosponsors 5 points	Hepatitis C Epidemic Control and Prevention Act of 2007 To amend the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish, promote, and support a comprehensive prevention, research, and medical management referral program for hepatitis C virus infection. Referred to House subcommittee on Thursday, May 24, 2007
H.R.425 Edolphus Towns 0 Cosponsors 5 points	To amend chapter 81 of title 5, United States Code, to authorize the use of clinical social workers to conduct evaluations to determine work-related emotional and mental illnesses. Referred to House subcommittee on Wednesday, May 9, 2007
H.R.1870 Edolphus Towns 8 Cosponsors 5 points	Contractor Tax Enforcement Act To amend title 31, United States Code, to prohibit delinquent Federal debtors from being eligible to enter into Federal contracts, and for other purposes. House committee/subcommittee actions on Wednesday, May 9, 2007
H.R.1846 Edolphus Towns 11 Cosponsors 5 points	Medicare Access to Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Services Improvement Act of 2007 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide improved access to physical medicine and rehabilitation services under part B of the Medicare Program, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Tuesday, April 10, 2007
H.R.429 Edolphus Towns 0 Cosponsors 10 points	To designate the United States courthouse located at 225 Cadman Plaza East, Brooklyn, New York, as the "Hugh L. Carey United States Courthouse". Referred to Senate committee on Wednesday, March 14, 2007
H.R.1178 Edolphus Towns 8 Cosponsors 5 points	Physician Assistants Continuity of Care Act of 2007 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to permit a physician assistant, when delegated by a physician, to order or provide post-hospital extended care services, home health services, and hospice care under the Medicare Program. Referred to House subcommittee on Wednesday, March 7, 2007
H.R.864 Edolphus Towns 41 Cosponsors 5 points	Midwifery Care Access and Reimbursement Equity Act of 2007 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for reimbursement of certified midwife services and to provide for more equitable reimbursement rates for certified nurse-midwife services. Referred to House subcommittee on Tuesday, February 20, 2007
H.R.1107 Edolphus Towns 23 Cosponsors 5 points	Dietary Supplement and Healthy Meal Replacement Tax Parity Act of 2007 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat expenses for certain meal replacement and dietary supplement products that qualify for FDA-approved health claims as expenses for medical care. Referred to House committee on Thursday, February 15, 2007
H.R.820 Edolphus Towns 8 Cosponsors 5 points	Seniors Mental Health Access Improvement Act of 2007 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the coverage of marriage and family therapist services under part B of the Medicare Program, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Wednesday, February 7, 2007
H.R.426 Edolphus Towns 0 Cosponsors 5 points	Medicaid Obesity Treatment Act of 2007 To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to require States that provide Medicaid prescription drug coverage to cover drugs medically necessary to treat obesity. Referred to House subcommittee on Friday, February 2, 2007
H.R.427 Edolphus Towns 0 Cosponsors 5 points	Legal Immigrant Health Restoration Act of 2007 To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to assure coverage for legal immigrant children and pregnant women under the Medicaid Program and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Referred to House subcommittee on Friday, February 2, 2007
H.R.428 Edolphus Towns 2 Cosponsors 5 points	To require the Consumer Product Safety Commission to ban toys which in size, shape, or overall appearance resemble real handguns. Referred to House subcommittee on Friday, February 2, 2007
H.R.572 Edolphus Towns 0 Cosponsors 5 points	Comprehensive Immigration Reform Commission Act of 2007 To establish the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Commission. Referred to House subcommittee on Friday, February 2, 2007
H.R.789 Edolphus Towns 4 Cosponsors 5 points	Office of Men's Health Act of 2007 To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish an Office of Men's Health, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Friday, February 2, 2007
H.R.693 Edolphus Towns 63 Cosponsors 5 points	Restroom Gender Parity in Federal Buildings Act of 2007 To amend title 40, United States Code, to require restroom gender parity in Federal buildings. Referred to House subcommittee on Thursday, January 25, 2007
H.R.431 Edolphus Towns 0 Cosponsors 5 points	To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make residents of Puerto Rico eligible for the refundable portion of the child tax credit. Referred to House committee on Thursday, January 11, 2007
H.R.430 Edolphus Towns 0 Cosponsors 24 points	To designate the United States bankruptcy courthouse located at 271 Cadman Plaza East in Brooklyn, New York, as the 'Conrad B. Duberstein United States Bankruptcy Courthouse'. Became Public Law No: 110-262 on Saturday, June 6, 1970
H.R.3179 Edolphus Towns 7 Cosponsors 100 points	Local Preparedness Acquisition Act To amend title 40, United States Code, to authorize the use of Federal supply schedules for the acquisition of law enforcement, security, and certain other related items by State and local governments. Became Public Law No: 110-248 on Saturday, June 6, 1970

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H.R.4131 Laura Richardson 70 Cosponsors 7 points	To designate a portion of California State Route 91 located in Los Angeles County, California, as the "Juanita Millender-McDonald Highway". Presented to President on Friday, October 10, 2008
H.R.160 Rush Holt 21 Cosponsors 0 points	Revolutionary War and War of 1812 Battlefield Protection Act To amend the American Battlefield Protection Act of 1996 to establish a battlefield acquisition grant program for the acquisition and protection of nationally significant battlefields and associated sites of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.R.2933 Gary Miller 106 Cosponsors 0 points	Civil War Battlefield Preservation Act of 2007 To amend the American Battlefield Protection Act of 1996 to extend the authorization for that Act, and for other purposes. Read twice on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.R.2994 Lois Capps 56 Cosponsors 0 points	National Pain Care Policy Act of 2007 To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to pain care. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.CON.RES.255 Mike Ferguson 59 Cosponsors 0 points	Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the United States commitment to preservation of religious and cultural sites and condemning instances where sites are desecrated. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, October 2, 2008

H.R.5443 Ed Royce 51 Cosponsors 0 points	United States-Republic of Korea Defense Cooperation Improvement Act of 2008 To improve defense cooperation between the Republic of Korea and the United States. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.R.6357 John Dingell 12 Cosponsors 3 points	To amend the Public Health Service Act to promote the adoption of health information technology, and for other purposes. House Committee on Ways and Means Granted an extension for further consideration... on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.R.642 Stephanie Jones 101 Cosponsors 0 points	College Fire Prevention Act To establish the Honorable Stephanie Tubbs Jones Fire Suppression Demonstration Incentive Program within the Department of Education to promote installation of fire sprinkler systems, or other fire suppression or prevention technologies, in qualified student housing and dormitories, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.R.5772 Chris Murphy 17 Cosponsors 0 points	Frank Melville Supportive Housing Investment Act of 2008 To amend section 811 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to improve the program under such section for supportive housing for persons with disabilities. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.CON.RES.214 Peter King 39 Cosponsors 0 points	Expressing the sense of Congress that the President should grant a posthumous pardon to John Arthur "Jack" Johnson for the 1913 racially motivated conviction of Johnson, which diminished his athletic, cultural, and historic significance, and tarnished his reputation. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.CON.RES.360 Barbara Lee 56 Cosponsors 0 points	Recognizing the important social and economic contributions and accomplishments of the New Deal to our Nation on the 75th anniversary of legislation establishing the initial New Deal social and public works programs. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.R.6598 John Conyers 119 Cosponsors 0 points	Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act of 2008 To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit certain conduct relating to the use of horses for human consumption. House Committee on Agriculture Granted an extension for further consideration en... on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.R.3402 Eliot Engel 14 Cosponsors 18 points	Calling Card Consumer Protection Act To require accurate and reasonable disclosure of the terms and conditions of prepaid telephone calling cards and services. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.CON.RES.405 Stephanie Herseth Sandlin 30 Cosponsors 0 points	Recognizing the first full week of April as "National Workplace Wellness Week". Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.R.6694 Al Green 28 Cosponsors 0 points	FHA Seller-Financed Downpayment Reform and Risk-Based Pricing Authorization Act of 2008 To revise the requirements for seller-financed downpayments for mortgages for single-family housing insured by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under title II of the National Housing Act and to authorize risk-based insurance premiums for certain mortgagors under such mortgages. Placed on the Union Calendar on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.R.1424 Patrick Kennedy 270 Cosponsors 27 points	Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2007 A bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes. Passed/agreed to in Senate on Wednesday, October 1, 2008
H.R.2095 Jim Oberstar 94 Cosponsors 0 points	Federal Railroad Safety Improvement Act of 2007 To amend title 49, United States Code, to prevent railroad fatalities, injuries, and hazardous materials releases, to authorize the Federal Railroad Safety Administration, and for other purposes. Cleared for White House on Wednesday, October 1, 2008
H.R.1343 Gene Green 247 Cosponsors 0 points	Health Centers Renewal Act of 2007 To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide additional authorizations of appropriations for the health centers program under section 330 of such Act, and for other purposes. Presented to President on Tuesday, September 30, 2008
H.J.RES.62 Joe Baca 82 Cosponsors 20 points	Native American Heritage Day Act of 2007 To honor the achievements and contributions of Native Americans to the United States, and for other purposes. Presented to President on Tuesday, September 30, 2008
H.R.5265 Eliot Engel 123 Cosponsors 0 points	Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Community Assistance, Research, and Education Amendments of 2008 To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for research with respect to various forms of muscular dystrophy, including Becker, congenital, distal, Duchenne, Emery-Dreifuss facioscapulohumeral, limb-girdle, myotonic, and oculopharyngeal, muscular dystrophies. Presented to President on Tuesday, September 30, 2008
H.R.6199 Eliot Engel 28 Cosponsors 0 points	To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 245 North Main Street in New City, New York, as the "Kenneth Peter Zebrowski Post Office Building". Cleared for White House on Tuesday, September 30, 2008
H.CON.RES.416 Rick Boucher 27 Cosponsors 1 points	Commending Barter Theatre on the occasion of its 75th anniversary. Passed/agreed to in Senate on Tuesday, September 30, 2008
H.R.7219 John McHugh 9 Cosponsors 3 points	Protecting Hospital Outpatient and Community Clinic Services Act of 2008 To impose a moratorium on the implementation of a Medicaid regulation related to the outpatient clinic and hospital facility services definition and upper payment limit. Referred to House committee on Monday, September 29, 2008
H.R.7229 Danny Davis 12 Cosponsors 3 points	Children's Budget Act To amend title 31 of the United States Code to require that Federal children's programs be separately displayed and analyzed in the President's budget. Referred to House committee on Monday, September 29, 2008
H.R.971 Anthony Weiner 189 Cosponsors 0 points	Community Pharmacy Fairness Act of 2007 To ensure and foster continued patient safety and quality of care by making the antitrust laws apply to negotiations between groups of independent pharmacies and health plans and health insurance issuers (including health plans under parts C and D of the Medicare Program) in the same manner as such laws apply to protected activities under the National Labor Relations Act. Placed on the Union Calendar on Sunday, September 28, 2008
H.RES.389 Donald Payne 50 Cosponsors 0 points	Supporting the goals and ideals of Malaria Awareness Day. Passed/agreed to in House on Saturday, September 27, 2008
H.R.923 John Lewis 81 Cosponsors 17 points	Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act To provide for the investigation of certain unsolved civil rights crimes, and for other purposes. Presented to President on Friday, September 26, 2008
H.R.6950 Pete Stark 52 Cosponsors 24 points	Stephanie Tubbs Jones Gift of Life Medal Act of 2008 To establish the Stephanie Tubbs Jones Gift of Life Medal for organ donors and the family of organ donors. Received in the Senate on Friday, September 26, 2008
H.R.7115 Bobby Rush 6 Cosponsors 3 points	CAN DO Act of 2008 To require the Attorney General, through the Office of Justice Programs of the Department of Justice, to establish a 5-year competitive grant program to establish pilot programs to reduce the rate of occurrence of gun-related crimes in high-crime communities. Referred to House committee on Friday, September 26, 2008
H.R.758 Rosa DeLauro 222 Cosponsors 24 points	Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act of 2007 To require that health plans provide coverage for a minimum hospital stay for mastectomies, lumpectomies, and lymph node dissection for the treatment of breast cancer and coverage for secondary consultations. Received in the Senate on Thursday, September 25, 2008
H.R.1943 Maxine Waters 42 Cosponsors 6 points	Stop AIDS in Prison Act of 2007 To provide for an effective HIV/AIDS program in Federal prisons. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders on Thursday, September 25, 2008
H.R.928 Jim Cooper 7 Cosponsors 0 points	Improving Government Accountability Act To amend the Inspector General Act of 1978 to enhance the independence of the Inspectors General, to create a Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, and for other purposes. Resolving differences -- House actions on Thursday, September 25, 2008
H.RES.988 Jim Matheson 88 Cosponsors 4 points	Designating the month of March 2008 as "MRSA Awareness Month". Passed/agreed to in House on Thursday, September 25, 2008
H.R.6198 Emanuel Cleaver 13 Cosponsors 0 points