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More Than A Feeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 01:19 AM
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Where can I find the breakdown of the vote on a House Bill?
The bill I want is the job training bill that passed today H.R. 27
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Wilms Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 01:27 AM
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1. Perhaps you can jump off from here
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cosmicdot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 02:42 AM
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2. and/or here ...
Edited on Thu Mar-03-05 02:50 AM by cosmicdot
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/index.asp

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll048.xml

looks like a pretty much party-line split

what have the Republicans done now? what does this do?

another New Deal law they don't like ...

passage repealed the Wagner-Peyser Act of JUNE 6, 1933
http://www.floridajobs.org/pdg/wagner-peyser/default.htm

SUMMARY AS OF:
1/4/2005--Introduced.

Job Training Improvement Act of 2005 - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) to revise requirements and reauthorize appropriations for: (1) WIA title I, workforce investment systems for job training and employment services; and (2) WIA title II, adult basic skills and family literacy education programs (renamed as the Adult Basic Skills and Family Literacy Education Act).

Directs the Secretary of Labor to implement a national demonstration project on personal reemployment accounts (PRAs), through competitive project grants to States or local boards or consortia to provide PRAs to eligible individuals who are likely to exhaust their unemployment compensation.

Revises and reauthorizes workforce investment systems with respect to: (1) State and local planning, allocation, work force investment board membership, and performance accountability; (2) one-stop centers; (3) consolidated funding for adult program activities, including job training, dislocated worker retraining, the employment service system, and reemployment grants; (4) training programs for both out-of-school and in-school youth, including challenge grants; and (5) national job training programs, including the Job Corps and programs for Native Americans, migrant and seasonal farmworkers, and veterans.

Exempts religious organizations, with respect to their employment of individuals of a particular religion, from WIA nondiscrimination requirements.

Repeals Wagner-Peyser Act provisions relating to the U.S. Employment Service.

Revises requirements and reauthorizes appropriations for: (1) vocational rehabilitation services under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; and (2) the Helen Keller National Center Act.
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JohnnyRingo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 03:56 AM
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3. Track your Congressmen here
Edited on Thu Mar-03-05 03:56 AM by JohnnyRingo
Click on Laws and who's supporting them, or get an e-mail everytime your own congressman votes.

http://mygov.governmentguide.com/mygov/index.html
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