107th Congress > House > Vote 439

Date: November 15, 2001

Result: 418-0 (Passed)

Clerk session vote number: 443

Vote Subject Matter: Social Welfare / Domestic Social Policy

Sponsor: JACKSON LEE, Sheila (D-TX)

Bill number: HCONRES228

Question: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Agree, As Amended

Description: Expressing the sense of the Congress that the children who lost one or both parents or guardian in the Sept. 11, 2001, tragedies should be provided with all necessary assistance

Bill summary: Put Our Children First Resolution of 2001 - Expresses gratitude to and recognizes Federal, State, and local agencies for their actions to deliver prompt services to the children and families impacted by the events of September 11, 2001. Expresses the sense of Congress that the children who lost one or both parents or a guardian in the World Trade Center and Pentagon tragedies or the aircraft crash in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, should be provided with such immediate assistance, services, and benefits for which they are eligible and which are necessary for their well-being, including foster care or adoption assistance, medical, nutritional, and psychological care, and educational services. Urges each responsible agency to act to provide such assistance, services, and benefits within 60 days of the determination of the death of the child's parents or guardian.

Bill titles: Expressing the sense of the Congress that the children who lost 1 or both parents or a guardian in the September 11, 2001, World Trade Center and Pentagon tragedies (including the aircraft crash in Somerset County, Pennsylvania) should be provided with all necessary assistance, services, and benefits and urging Federal, State or local agencies responsible for providing such assistance, services and benefits to move expeditiously in providing such assistance, services and benefits to those children.; Expressing the sense of the Congress that the children who lost one or both parents or a guardian in the September 11, 2001, World Trade Center and Pentagon tragedies (including the aircraft crash in Somerset County, Pennsylvania) should be provided with all necessary assistance, services, and benefits and urging the heads of Federal agencies responsible for providing such assistance, services and benefits to give the highest possible priority to providing such assistance, services and benefits to those children.

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