Education and Youth Policy - Human Needs Report Archives
2007
Bill Increasing Pell Grants Awaits President's Signature (9/17/07) Senate Enacts Student Lending Bill With Public Service Loan Forgiveness (7/23/07)
2006
GOP Senate Budget Resolution Squeaks Through, 51-49; Floor Action Rejects Some of the Cuts in Human Needs Services (3/17/06) House Cuts $38.8 Billion from Budget; Slashes Health Care, Student Loans, Child Support and Help for People with Disabilities (2/3/06)
2005
House and Senate to Attempt Passing a Final Bill Cutting Aid to Poor (12/9/05) Labor-HHS-Education Bill Must Clear One Last Hurdle (12/9/05) Senate Approves Labor-HHS-Education Spending Bill (10/28/05) Low-Income Programs Threatened with Across-the-Board Cuts (10/14/05) Higher Education Act Extension to Allow Time to Consider Reauthorization (9/30/05) Conservatives Continue to Press for Cuts to Low-Income Services and New Tax Breaks for the Wealthy (9/30/05) Congress Approves Stop-Gap Measure to Keep Government Running (9/30/05) Washington Focuses on Aiding Gulf Coast Families (9/16/05) Reconciliation Delayed: Congress Puts Off Cuts to Medicaid and Food Stamps in Wake of Katrina (9/16/05) Senate Committee Agrees to Labor-HHS-Education Spending Bill (7/22/05) House Approves Labor-HHS-Education Spending Bill (7/1/05) Bill Funding Departments of Labor, HHS, and Education Moves in House (6/17/05) House Cuts Juvenile Justice Programs; Rejects President's Cuts to Community Development (6/17/05) Head Start Bill Moves in House - Without Block Grant (5/20/05) Senate Subcommittee Looks at Early Childhood Programs (4/29/05) Congress Approves a Final Budget Resolution (4/29/05) FY 2006 Budget Resolutions Clear House, Senate Floor (4/1/05) House and Senate Budget Committees Pass Budget Resolutions for FY 2006 (3/11/05) Deep Cuts in President's Budget; Committees Ready to Act (2/25/05)
2004
Congress Passes Massive Spending Bill (11/24/04) Human Needs Legislation Stuck in Gridlock (9/17/04) House Subcommittee Votes on Perkins Grants Reauthorization (7/16/04) Congress Starts Work on Appropriations (7/2/04) Senate Reauthorizes Disability Education Bill (5/21/04) CHN Releases Analysis of President's Budget (3/4/04)
2003
Omnibus Appropriations Bill Moving Forward (11/21/03) Senate Committee Passees Head Start Reauthorization Bill With Some Positive Changes (11/7/03) Senate Introduces Head Start Legislation Without State Block Grant Pilot (10/24/03) Appropriations Update (9/12/03) House Republicans Postpone Vote On Head Start (7/18/03) Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill Passes The House (7/18/03) Head Start Reauthorization Passes House Committee (6/23/03) House Passes IDEA Reauthoirzation Legislation (5/9/03) House Education and Workforce Committee Reauthorizes IDEA (4/14/03)
2002
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Legislation Becomes Law (11/22/02) Many Programs Benefiting Poor Face Reauthorization in 2003 (11/22/02) House Approves Loan Forgiveness Bill for Teachers (10/11/02) House Considers Education Tax-Break Measure (9/13/02) Congressional Debate Over IDEA Continues (7/19/02) Senate HELP Committee Prepares for IDEA Reauthorization (6/7/02)
2001
House and Senate Pass Education Overhaul Bill (12/20/01) Conferees Try to Wrap up Education Overhaul Bill (12/7/01) Congress, Supreme Court Addressing Education (9/28/01) Conference Committee Still Toiling Over Education (9/17/01) ESEA Reauthorization Moves Forward (5/14/01) Education Leads Bush Legislative Agenda (2/2/01)
