Representative Lois Capps (D-CA-23)

Representative Lois Capps (D-CA-23)
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H.R.2994 Lois Capps 56 Cosponsors 45 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.R.7013 Lois Capps 2 Cosponsors 5 points	Short-term Analog Flash and Emergency Readiness Act To require the Federal Communications Commission to provide for a short term extension of the analog television broadcasting authority so that essential public safety announcements and digital television transition information may be provided for a short time during the transition to digital television broadcasting. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, September 23, 2008
H.R.3323 Lois Capps 0 Cosponsors 40 points	Goleta Water Distribution System Conveyance Act of 2007 To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey a water distribution system to the Goleta Water District, and for other purposes. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders on Tuesday, September 16, 2008
H.R.1737 Lois Capps 0 Cosponsors 30 points	City of Oxnard Water Recycling and Desalination Act of 2007 To amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the design, planning, and construction of permanent facilities for the GREAT project to reclaim, reuse, and treat impaired waters in the area of Oxnard, California. Senate committee/subcommittee actions on Thursday, September 11, 2008
H.R.6569 Lois Capps 2 Cosponsors 5 points	Public Health Emergency Response Act of 2008 To amend the Public Health Service Act to ensure that victims of public health emergencies have meaningful and immediate access to medically necessary health care services. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, July 22, 2008

H.R.276 Lois Capps 0 Cosponsors 13 points	Piedras Blancas Historic Light Station Outstanding Natural Area Act of 2007 To designate the Piedras Blancas Light Station and the surrounding public land as an Outstanding Natural Area to be administered as a part of the National Landscape Conservation System, and for other purposes. Senate floor actions on Wednesday, June 11, 2008
H.R.5878 Lois Capps 6 Cosponsors 5 points	Troops to Nurse Teachers Act of 2008 To authorize programs to increase the number of nurses within the Armed Forces through assistance for service as nurse faculty or education as nurses, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Wednesday, May 7, 2008
H.R.1198 Lois Capps 60 Cosponsors 30 points	Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Act of 2007 To amend the Public Health Service Act regarding early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of hearing loss. Referred to Senate committee on Wednesday, April 9, 2008
H.RES.1022 Lois Capps 15 Cosponsors 1 points	Reducing maternal mortality both at home and abroad. Referred to House committee on Wednesday, March 5, 2008
H.R.5452 Lois Capps 9 Cosponsors 5 points	Coastal State Renewable Energy Promotion Act of 2008 To amend the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to authorize grants to coastal States to support State efforts to initiate and complete surveys of coastal State waters and Federal waters adjacent to a State's coastal zone to identify potential areas suitable or unsuitable for the exploration, development, and production of renewable energy, and for other purposes. House committee/subcommittee actions on Thursday, February 28, 2008
H.R.5453 Lois Capps 10 Cosponsors 5 points	Coastal State Climate Change Planning Act of 2008 To amend the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to authorize assistance to coastal states to develop coastal climate change adaptation plans pursuant to approved management programs approved under section 306, to minimize contributions to climate change, and for other purposes. House committee/subcommittee actions on Thursday, February 28, 2008
H.RES.972 Lois Capps 77 Cosponsors 5 points	Supporting the goals and ideals of American Heart Month and National Wear Red Day. Passed/agreed to in House on Thursday, February 14, 2008
H.RES.335 Lois Capps 81 Cosponsors 5 points	Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to lung cancer as a public health priority and the recommendations of the Lung Cancer Progress Review Group of the National Cancer Institute. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, November 13, 2007
H.R.4138 Lois Capps 39 Cosponsors 5 points	Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act of 2007 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to impose minimum nurse staffing ratios in Medicare participating hospitals, and for other purposes. Referred to House committee on Friday, November 9, 2007
H.R.4105 Lois Capps 99 Cosponsors 5 points	Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor Program Moratorium Act of 2007 To impose a moratorium on the use of recovery audit contractors under the Medicare Integrity Program. Referred to House committee on Wednesday, November 7, 2007
H.R.2918 Lois Capps 25 Cosponsors 5 points	California Ocean and Coastal Protection Act To permanently prohibit oil and gas leasing off the coast of the State of California, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Thursday, July 5, 2007
H.RES.433 Lois Capps 20 Cosponsors 1 points	Supporting the goals and ideals of National Peripheral Arterial Disease Awareness Month. Referred to House subcommittee on Wednesday, May 23, 2007
H.R.2051 Lois Capps 10 Cosponsors 5 points	Hass Avocado Quality Assurance Act of 2007 To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to provide for the application of mandatory minimum maturity standards applicable to all domestic and imported Hass avocados. Referred to House subcommittee on Friday, May 4, 2007
H.R.1014 Lois Capps 211 Cosponsors 5 points	Heart Disease Education, Analysis Research, and Treatment for Women Act To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the Public Health Service Act to improve the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of heart disease, stroke, and other cardiovascular diseases in women. House committee/subcommittee actions on Tuesday, May 1, 2007
H.R.2029 Lois Capps 0 Cosponsors 5 points	To facilitate the restoration of the native ecosystem on Santa Rosa Island within Channel Islands National Park, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Monday, April 30, 2007
H.R.477 Lois Capps 86 Cosponsors 10 points	Stroke Treatment and Ongoing Prevention Act To amend the Public Health Service Act to strengthen education, prevention, and treatment programs relating to stroke, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate committee on Wednesday, March 28, 2007
H.R.1078 Lois Capps 113 Cosponsors 5 points	Comprehensive Cancer Care Improvement Act of 2007 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of comprehensive cancer care planning under the Medicare Program and to improve the care furnished to individuals diagnosed with cancer by establishing a Medicare hospice care demonstration program and grants programs for cancer palliative care and symptom management programs, provider education, and related research. Referred to House subcommittee on Wednesday, March 7, 2007
H.R.1279 Lois Capps 123 Cosponsors 5 points	Direct Support Professionals Fairness and Security Act of 2007 To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide funds to States to enable them to increase the wages paid to targeted direct support professionals in providing services to individuals with disabilities under the Medicaid Program. Referred to House subcommittee on Monday, March 5, 2007
H.R.1142 Lois Capps 133 Cosponsors 5 points	Federal Firefighters Fairness Act of 2007 To amend title 5, United States Code, to create a presumption that disability of a Federal employee in fire protection activities caused by certain conditions is presumed to result from the performance of such employee's duty. Referred to House committee on Friday, February 16, 2007
H.R.665 Lois Capps 1 Cosponsors 5 points	To amend the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 to expand the county organized health insuring organizations authorized to enroll Medicaid beneficiaries. Referred to House subcommittee on Friday, February 2, 2007
H.RES.70 Lois Capps 1 Cosponsors 5 points	Congratulating the University of California at Santa Barbara men's soccer team, the 2006 National Collegiate Athletic Association Champions. Passed/agreed to in House on Monday, January 29, 2007

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H.R.948 Ed Markey 32 Cosponsors 3 points	Social Security Number Protection Act of 2007 To strengthen the authority of the Federal Government to protect individuals from certain acts and practices in the sale and purchase of Social Security numbers and Social Security account numbers, and for other purposes. House Committee on Ways and Means Granted an extension for further consideration... on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.R.1907 Jim Saxton 26 Cosponsors 15 points	Coastal and Estuarine Land Protection Act To authorize the acquisition of land and interests in land from willing sellers to improve the conservation of, and to enhance the ecological values and functions of, coastal and estuarine areas to benefit both the environment and the economies of coastal communities, and for other purposes. Read twice on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.R.3036 John Sarbanes 64 Cosponsors 0 points	No Child Left Inside Act of 2007 To reauthorize and enhance the National Environmental Education Act, and for other purposes. 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.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.CON.RES.378 Barbara Cubin 55 Cosponsors 0 points	Expressing support for designation of September 6, 2008, as Louisa Swain Day. Passed/agreed to in Senate on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.R.7241 Eliot Engel 9 Cosponsors 3 points	To preserve access to healthcare under the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Referred to House committee on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.RES.1272 Mary Fallin 21 Cosponsors 0 points	Honoring and recognizing Alice Mary Robertson who, while a Member of Congress, became the first woman to preside over the floor of the House of Representatives. Passed/agreed to in House 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.1187 Lynn Woolsey 51 Cosponsors 0 points	Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries Boundary Modification and Protection Act To expand the boundaries of the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary and the Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary, and for other purposes. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders 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.6568 Kevin Brady 23 Cosponsors 15 points	Tom Lantos Pulmonary Hypertension Research and Education Act of 2008 To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to encourage research and carry out an educational campaign with respect to pulmonary hypertension, and for other purposes. Received in the Senate on Friday, September 26, 2008
H.R.7122 John Olver 12 Cosponsors 3 points	To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to require State Medicaid plans to continue to cover non-emergency transportation to medically necessary services. Referred to House committee on Friday, September 26, 2008
H.R.1532 Gene Green 58 Cosponsors 0 points	Comprehensive Tuberculosis Elimination Act of 2007 To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to making progress toward the goal of eliminating tuberculosis, and for other purposes. Received in the Senate on Thursday, September 25, 2008
H.R.758 Rosa DeLauro 222 Cosponsors 0 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.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.6045 Peter Visclosky 170 Cosponsors 12 points	Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Act of 2008 To amend title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to extend the authorization of the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program through fiscal year 2012. House floor actions on Thursday, September 25, 2008
H.R.7065 Bill Pascrell 3 Cosponsors 3 points	Health Workforce Investment Act of 2008 To amend the Public Health Service Act to address health workforce shortages. Referred to House committee on Thursday, September 25, 2008
H.R.7090 Anna Eshoo 70 Cosponsors 3 points	Act to Save America's Forests To amend the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 and related laws to strengthen the protection of native biodiversity and ban clearcutting on Federal land, to designate certain Federal land as Ancient forests, roadless areas, watershed protection areas, and special areas where logging and other intrusive activities are prohibited, to transfer administrative jurisdiction of Giant Sequoia National Monument to the National Park Service, to consider areas for inclusion in the National Park System, and for other purposes. Referred to House committee on Thursday, September 25, 2008
H.R.1464 Tom Udall 88 Cosponsors 0 points	Great Cats and Rare Canids Act of 2007 To assist in the conservation of rare felids and rare canids by supporting and providing financial resources for the conservation programs of nations within the range of rare felid and rare canid populations and projects of persons with demonstrated expertise in the conservation of rare felid and rare canid populations. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders on Wednesday, September 24, 2008
H.R.1497 Earl Blumenauer 67 Cosponsors 0 points	Legal Timber Protection Act To amend the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to extend its protections to plants illegally harvested outside of the United States, and for other purposes. Placed on the Union Calendar on Wednesday, September 24, 2008
H.CON.RES.426 Maxine Waters 52 Cosponsors 0 points	Recognizing the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Minority AIDS Initiative. Referred to House committee on Wednesday, September 24, 2008
H.R.2831 George Miller 92 Cosponsors 33 points	Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2007 To amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990, and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to clarify that a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice that is unlawful under such Acts occurs each time compensation is paid pursuant to the discriminatory compensation decision or other practice, and for other purposes. Senate committee/subcommittee actions on Tuesday, September 23, 2008
H.CON.RES.424 Maxine Waters 28 Cosponsors 0 points	Calling on the Attorney General to protect the right to vote of every person in the United States by promptly and thoroughly investigating complaints of violations of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, and the Help America Vote Act of 2002. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, September 23, 2008
H.RES.1227 Carolyn Maloney 39 Cosponsors 0 points	Condemning sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and calling on the international community to take immediate actions to respond to the violence. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, September 23, 2008
H.RES.1381 Lucille Roybal-Allard 113 Cosponsors 0 points	Resolution expressing the sense of the House that there should be an increased public and private commitment prioritizing prevention and public health for all people in the United States. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, September 23, 2008
H.RES.1435 Paul Hodes 42 Cosponsors 3 points	Recognizing the 70th anniversary of the 1938 occurrence of Kristallnacht, The Night of Broken Glass. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, September 23, 2008
H.R.3114 Louise Slaughter 80 Cosponsors 0 points	National Women's Rights History Project Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to establish a commemorative trail in connection with the Women's Rights National Historical Park to link properties that are historically and thematically associated with the struggle for women's suffrage, and for other purposes. House committee/subcommittee actions on Thursday, September 11, 2008
H.R.2964 Eddie Bernice Johnson 25 Cosponsors 0 points	Captive Primate Safety Act To amend the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to treat nonhuman primates as prohibited wildlife species under that Act, to make corrections in the provisions relating to captive wildlife offenses under that Act, and for other purposes. Read twice on Friday, August 1, 2008
H.R.5477 Adam Schiff 50 Cosponsors 0 points	To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 120 South Del Mar Avenue in San Gabriel, California, as the "Chi Mui Post Office Building". Passed/agreed to in Senate on Friday, August 1, 2008
H.R.3021 Ben Chandler 140 Cosponsors 0 points	21st Century High-Performing Public School Facilities Act To direct the Secretary of Education to make grants to State educational agencies for the modernization, renovation, or repair of public school facilities, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate committee on Friday, August 1, 2008
H.R.6826 Allyson Schwartz 42 Cosponsors 3 points	Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act of 2008 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure more timely access to home health services for Medicare beneficiaries under the Medicare Program. Referred to House committee on Friday, August 1, 2008
H.R.6725 Joseph Crowley 7 Cosponsors 3 points	Oncology Quality Care Improvement Act of 2008 To establish budget neutral demonstration projects to study and improve the quality and cost effectiveness of cancer care services provided to Medicare beneficiaries. Referred to House committee on Thursday, July 31, 2008
H.RES.896 Joe Baca 119 Cosponsors 0 points	Recognizing the need to pursue research into the causes, a treatment, and an eventual cure for primary lateral sclerosis, supporting the goals and ideals of Primary Lateral Sclerosis Awareness Month, and for other purposes. Passed/agreed to in House on Wednesday, July 30, 2008
H.R.6652 Tom Latham 12 Cosponsors 3 points	Nurses' Higher Education and Loan Repayment Act of 2008 To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a graduate degree loan repayment program for nurses who become nursing school faculty members. Referred to House committee on Wednesday, July 30, 2008
H.RES.194 Steve Cohen 119 Cosponsors 0 points	Apologizing for the enslavement and racial segregation of African-Americans. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, July 29, 2008
H.R.6578 Nick Lampson 12 Cosponsors 3 points	Consumer Energy Supply Act of 2008 To provide for the sale of light grade petroleum from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and its replacement with heavy grade petroleum. Failed of passage/not agreed to in House on Thursday, July 24, 2008
H.R.3914 John Dingell 11 Cosponsors 0 points	Protecting Consumers through Proper Forbearance Procedures Act To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to prevent the granting of regulatory forbearance by default. House committee/subcommittee actions on Tuesday, July 22, 2008
H.RES.1202 Tom Davis 66 Cosponsors 3 points	Supporting the goals and ideals of a National Guard Youth Challenge Day. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, July 22, 2008
H.CON.RES.393 Chip Pickering 16 Cosponsors 0 points	Supporting the goals and ideals of "National Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Month". Referred to House committee on Tuesday, July 22, 2008
H.CON.RES.299 Ed Markey 106 Cosponsors 0 points	Supporting the goals and ideals of National Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, July 15, 2008
H.RES.1323 Harry Mitchell 26 Cosponsors 1 points	Commending the Arizona State University softball team for their victory in the 2008 Women's College World Series. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, July 15, 2008
H.CON.RES.236 David Dreier 31 Cosponsors 2 points	Recognizing the close relationship between the United States and the Republic of San Marino. Passed/agreed to in Senate on Friday, July 11, 2008
H.R.4174 Tom Allen 17 Cosponsors 5 points	Federal Ocean Acidification Research And Monitoring Act of 2007 To establish an interagency committee to develop an ocean acidification research and monitoring plan and to establish an ocean acidification program within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Received in the Senate on Thursday, July 10, 2008
H.R.5541 Nick Rahall 56 Cosponsors 0 points	Federal Land Assistance, Management and Enhancement Act To provide a supplemental funding source for catastrophic emergency wildland fire suppression activities on Department of the Interior and National Forest System lands, to require the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to develop a cohesive wildland fire management strategy, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, July 10, 2008
H.RES.1337 Adam Schiff 16 Cosponsors 0 points	Condemning the decision by the Government of Zimbabwe to hold the run-off presidential election on June 27, 2008;. Referred to House committee on Thursday, July 10, 2008
H.R.5741 Madeleine Bordallo 14 Cosponsors 0 points	Shark Conservation Act of 2008 To amend the High Seas Driftnet Fishing Moratorium Protection Act and the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to improve the conservation of sharks. Referred to Senate committee on Wednesday, July 9, 2008
H.RES.1260 Melissa Bean 100 Cosponsors 3 points	Supporting the goals and ideals of "National Internet Safety Month". Passed/agreed to in House on Wednesday, July 9, 2008
H.R.65 Mike McIntyre 216 Cosponsors 0 points	Lumbee Recognition Act To provide for the recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, and for other purposes. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders on Tuesday, July 8, 2008
H.R.3195 Steny Hoyer 253 Cosponsors 0 points	ADA Restoration Act of 2007 To restore the intent and protections of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Read the second time on Friday, June 27, 2008