Valerie P. Foushee

Recognizing the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in higher education.

To remove linguistic barriers to participation in Gun Violence Prevention Strategies.

To protect our Social Security system and improve benefits for current and future generations.

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives to support the rights of youth in the foster care system.

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish a refundable child tax credit with monthly advance payment.

To grow and diversify the perinatal workforce, and for other purposes.

To address mental health issues for youth, particularly youth of color, and for other purposes.

To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize lawful permanent resident status for certain college graduates who entered the United States as children, and for other purposes.

To establish an improved Medicare for All national health insurance program.

To authorize appropriations for data collection, surveillance, and research on maternal health outcomes during public health emergencies, and for other purposes.

To protect Moms and babies against climate change, and for other purposes.

To direct the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to implement the Perinatal Care Alternative Payment Model Demonstration Project to test various payment models with respect to maternity care provided to pregnant and postpartum individuals, and for other purposes.

To end the shackling of pregnant individuals, and for other purposes.

To end preventable maternal mortality, severe maternal morbidity, and maternal health disparities in the United States, and for other purposes.

To establish a program to make grants for the establishment of prison libraries.

Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal.

To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish direct care registered nurse-to-patient staffing ratio requirements in hospitals, and for other purposes.

To protect a person’s ability to determine whether to continue or end a pregnancy, and to protect a health care provider’s ability to provide abortion services.

To direct the Department of Energy and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to conduct collaborative research in order to advance numerical weather and climate prediction in the United States, and for other purposes.

To provide for Department of Energy and Department of Agriculture joint research and development activities, and for other purposes.