Family Issues – Page 277 – DearColleague.us

Help Families with Small Children Sit Together on Flights

As airlines change policies and increase fees for a variety of basic services, it is becoming more difficult for families with small children to sit together on commercial flights. There are increasing reports of parents being separated from their children when they arrive to board an aircraft. Often the only “recourse” is to rely on another passenger to voluntarily change seats. This inconvenience for everyone involved is complicated by the fact that a passenger might have to vacate a seat for which they paid a premium in order to allow a parent to sit next to their child.

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON GUN VIOLENCE IN AMERICA – FEBRUARY 2, 2016 AT 9 AM IN HVC-200

Please join me for a roundtable discussion on gun violence in America taking place on Tuesday, February 2nd from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM in HVC-200. The discussion will focus primarily on what steps can be taken to reduce gun violence following the Obama Administration’s gun control Executive Orders.

Cosponsor H.R. 605, the Medicare Home Infusion Site of Care Act (v. 2)

As we continue to work to ensure that Medicare best serves the needs of Medicare beneficiaries, it is clear that Medicare’s coverage of home infusion therapy must be changed.

CALL FOR ORIGINALS: Right to Rent Act (v. 2)

While we have made great strides since the foreclosure crisis, steps must be taken to ensure families are protected in future or ongoing hard times. The Right to Rent Act (HR. 2580 – 113th) is an alternative to having underwater homes vacated when homeowners are faced with foreclosure; instead it provides relief by allowing middle-income homeowners to stay in their homes at a fair market rent.

POSTPONED: Improving Serious Illness and End-of-Life Care: Opportunities for Congressional Action (v. 2)

By now you should have received an invitation to a briefing entitled, Improving Serious Illness and End-of-Life Care: Opportunities for Congressional Action. The briefing is co-hosted by The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC) and will be held on Monday, January 25th from 3:30-5:00 pm in Room 485 of the Russell Senate Office Building.

POSTPONED: Gender-Based Violence and the Workplace Briefing, 1/25

Due to anticipated inclement weather, the briefing Gender-Based Violence and the Workplace, scheduled for January 25, 2016 at 11:00 am, is postponed.

Briefing on Gender-Based Violence and the Workplace, 1/26/16, 11:00 a.m.

By now, you should have received an invitation to a briefing on Gender-Based Violence and the Workplace hosted by Futures Without Violence, Jewish Women International, Legal Momentum, National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, National Latin@ Network: Casa de Esperanza, National Network to End Domestic Violence, and the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence/Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence.

Briefing: Ending Family Homelessness in America

By now, you should have received an invitation to attend a briefing on the importance of housing services in the fight to end family homelessness. The briefing, sponsored by the Bassuk Center on Homeless and Vulnerable Children and Youth in cooperation with the Congressional Homelessness Caucus, will highlight a new Bassuk Center report on the importance of these critical services.

Improving Serious Illness and End-of-Life Care: Opportunities for Congressional Action

Join the Bipartisan Congressional Cancer Prevention Caucus (v. 2)

The National Cancer Institute estimates that more than 1.6 million Americans will receive a cancer diagnosis this year and approximately 589,430 people will die from this devastating disease. We invite you to help in our efforts to stop this staggering trend by joining the first ever bipartisan Congressional Cancer Prevention Caucus.