MEGHAN DOUGHERTY

Include homelessness among the conditions for a hate crime in an anti-violence effort

Increase funding for nutrition programs, the Emergency Food and Shelter program and LIHEAP, extend UI and provide more aid to states for Medicaid; pass a second stimulus measure which includes temporary increase in the federal Medicaid match

Expand eligibility for the refundable Child Tax Credit to families with earnings of $8500; Support adding $3.12 billion in supplemental FY 2008 funding for LIHEAP

Pass the Mental Health Parity Act after reconciling HR 1424 and S 558

Encourage Senators to repeal the cuts made to Child Support Enforcement as part of the Deficit Reduction Act in the upcoming stimulus package

Prohibit the use of shackles or restraints on pregnant women in the standards of governing ICE detention practices

Oppose HR 6842 and HR 6691, the Second Amendment Enforcement Act, and allow DC to create more common sense gun regulations

Make a one minute speech about domestic violence on the floor of the House in preparation for Domestic Violence Awareness Month; pass the House and Senate bills to improve support for children and youth in foster care in one vehicle to be signed into law

Override the President's Veto of the Farm Bill; Cosponsor S. 803, the Child Support Protection Act of 2007

Support Section 702 of S. 2739, the Consolidated Natural Resources Act of 2008 to reform immigration in the CNMI; Oppose the SAVE Act, H.R. 4088; Cosponsor the Strengthening Communities through English and Integration Act; Support H.R. 5950, the Detainee Basic Medical Care Act of 2008; Support H.R. 5882 to recapture family and employment based visas left unused between 1992 and 2007 due to processing delays and bureaucratic issues; Support H.R. 1176, the Child Citizens Protection Act; Do not expand the family detention program

Oppose the New Employee Verification Act of 2008, H.R. 5515

Support H.R. 3014, the Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2008; Pass the ADA Restoration Act of 2007, H.R. 3195, S. 1881

Seeking full funding for VAWA and VOCA; Restore VAWA and VOCA to FY 2006 levels; Appropriate funds within T-HUD for Section 8 vouchers, Section 811 and 202, as well as CDBG; Pass a second economic stimulus package that will enforce child support, create youth employment programs, repair/maintain schools, extend UI benefits and Medicaid moratoria, increase funding for Head Start, LIHEAP, Medicaid Programs and Nutrition Assistance: the Food Stamp Program, WIC, and TEFAP

Support and Cosponsor H.R. 2593, the Borderlands Conservation and Security Act of 2007; Enact an immediate moratorium on border wall construction due to its environmental effects; Support the "International Climate Change Adaptation and National Security Program" in S. 3036, Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2008; Codify S. 1139, the National Landscape Conservation System; End filibuster and have a productive debate about global warming solutions

Make comprehensive health reform the earliest and top domestic priority for the 111th Congress; Reauthorize the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, H.R. 1328

Increase the Child Tax Credit for Working Poor Families, H.R. 6049; Support H.R. 6274, the Alternative Minimum Tax Relief Act of 2008

Support S. 381 and H.R. 662 to create a Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Latin Americans of Japanese Descent Act to investigate the deportation of Japenese Latin Americans during World War II

Attach S. 2819, Economic Recovery in Health Care, to the FY 08 supplemental appropriations bill or legislation fixing Medicare physician fees; Enact moratoria on 7 Medicaid regulations; Maintain the protections of all Medicaid regulations passed on 5/22/08 by the House

Support DHN FY'09 budget priorities and request an increase in domestic discretionary funding; Include the highest possible domestic discretionary funding in the Final Budget Resolution; Include the House's higher FY '09 spending level and the Senate's higher FY '10 spending level in the Final Budget Resolution; Weigh in with your colleagues on the Appropriations Committees about the need to fund housing programs

Support the Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2007; Support the Healthy Families Act; Support the ADA Restoration Act of 2007; Support the passage of the Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act

Support Economic Stimulus that will benefit the poor; Support an Economic Stimulus package that includes Unemployment Insurance, Food Stamps, tax rebates, aid to states and local governments, infrastructure repair or maintenance, and home energy assistance

Do not support the SAVE Act; End the delay of naturalization processing and oppose fee increases; Reform the November 2007 directive for ICE on detaining and paroling asylum seekers; Do not sign the Discharge Petition for the SAVE Act; Do not support the New Employee Verification Act