Mark Pocan

Expressing support for the designation of May 5, 2023, as the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to require that supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits be calculated using the value of the low-cost food plan, and for other purposes.

Expressing support for the designation of May 4, 2023, as a National Day of Reason and recognizing the central importance of reason in the betterment of humanity.

To amend title 5, United States Code, to establish Workers’ Memorial Day as a Federal holiday.

To designate as wilderness certain Federal portions of the red rock canyons of the Colorado Plateau and the Great Basin Deserts in the State of Utah for the benefit of present and future generations of people in the United States.

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that it is important to maintain cash as a robust and viable payment option.

Promoting and supporting the goals and ideals of the Fair Housing Act and recognizing April 2023 as Fair Housing Month, which includes bringing attention to the discrimination faced by everyday Americans in the United States in housing and housing-related transactions on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, familial status, disability, and religion.

To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase criminal and civil penalties related to child labor, to require the Secretary of Labor to annually report to Congress on child labor violations, and for other purposes.

To amend title 9 of the United States Code with respect to arbitration.

To ensure that the Department of Defense achieves a clean audit opinion on its financial statements, and for other purposes.

To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit a Federal firearms licensee from selling or delivering certain semiautomatic centerfire rifles or semiautomatic centerfire shotguns to a person under 21 years of age, with exceptions for active duty military personnel and full-time law enforcement officers, and for other purposes.

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for public health research and investment into understanding and eliminating structural racism and police violence.

To amend title 13, United States Code, to provide that individuals in prison shall, for the purposes of a decennial census, be attributed to the last usual place of residence before incarceration, and for other purposes.

To amend the Act of August 16, 1937 (commonly referred to as the National Apprenticeship Act), to expand the national apprenticeship system to include apprenticeships, youth apprenticeships, and pre-apprenticeships registered under such Act and to promote the furtherance of labor standards necessary to safeguard the welfare of apprentices, and for other purposes.

To ensure that contractors of the Department of Agriculture comply with certain labor laws, and for other purposes.

Expressing support for the staff of this Nation’s public, school, academic, and special libraries and the essential services they provide to our communities, recognizing the need for funding commensurate with the broad scope of social services and community supports provided by libraries, preserving the right of all citizens to freely access information and resources in their communities, supporting a strong union voice for library workers, and defending the civil rights of library staff.

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

To direct the United States to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and convert nuclear weapons industry resources and personnel to purposes relating to addressing the climate crisis, and for other purposes.

To prohibit disinformation in the advertising of abortion services, and for other purposes.

To provide standards for facilities at which aliens in the custody of the Department of Homeland Security are detained, and for other purposes.