BILL NAME

ORGANIZATION (S)

WEB SITES

 

 

 

A Living Wage, Jobs for All Act

Campaign Against Poverty - Barbara Arms

 

Afterschool Programs

Afterschool Alliance

http://www.afterschoolalliance.org/

Amend Elementary and Secondary Education Act – a legislative proposal to hire 100,000 new teachers over seven years to reduce class sizes

?? No lead group, but National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers are interested

http://www.nea.org/index.html     http://www.aft.org

America's Better Classroom Act

?? No lead group, but National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers are interested

http://www.nea.org/index.html     http://www.aft.org

Andrew Carnegie Public Libraries Act

American Library Association, other library advocacy groups

http://www.ala.org/

 

 

 

Apollo Project (Renewable Energy)

The Apollo Alliance

http://www.apolloalliance.org/

    legislation

 

 

  - currently focused mostly on state

 

 

  - proposal, no bill

 

 

Bringing America Home Act

National Coalition for the Homeless

http://www.nationalhomeless.org/

Brownfields Redevelopment Action Grants

U.S. Conference of Mayors, environmental advocacy groups

http://www.usmayors.org/

Child Care Development Block Grant - proposal to increase

 

 

Expand and Rebuild America's Schools Act

?? No lead group, but National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers are interested

http://www.nea.org/index.html     http://www.aft.org

Fair Wage, Competition, and Investment Act of 2005

??  Ask Debbie Stabenow

 

Increase funding for Youth Conservation Corps

??  Not sure about lead groups, National Youth Employment Coalition

http://www.nyec.org/

Increase funding for YouthBuild

YouthBuild USA, National Conference of Mayors, National Youth Employment Coalition

http://www.youthbuild.org    http://www.usmayors.org/       http://www.nyec.org/

Infrastructure Trust Fund (Rohatyn - CSIS)

Center for Strategic and International Studies

http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_progj/task,view/id,568/

National Affordable Housing Trust Fund

National Housing Trust Fund Campaign, National Low-Income Housing Coalition

http://www.nlihc.org/template/page.cfm?id=40  endorsed by over 5,000 organizations

Rebuilding America's Infrastructure Act

??

http://www.house.gov/list/press/oh14_latourette/bank.html

Right Track Act

?? Ask Ted Kennedy

http://help.senate.gov/Min_press/2006_02_22_a.pdf#search=

%22Right%20Track%20Act%20and%20kennedy%22