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Olympia Snowe on Families & Children
Republican Sr Senator (ME)
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Barred husbands from canceling wives' pensions
There was a time in America when society accepted deadbeat dads, and child support was considered a woman's problem; when a husband could cancel his wife's pension without her knowledge; when economic equality pertained only to equality among men;
when women's health was a page missing from America's medical textbooks and women were excluded from clinical medical trials.We set out to change this, and we did. We developed the Women's Health Equity Act. I wrote legislation that created an
Office of Women's Health Research at the National Institutes of Health. We accomplished tremendous advances for women. We did not allow our differing views on abortion or our partisan affiliations to get in the way.
We didn't agree on everything, but we shared a common vision. We made a difference, there is no doubt about it.
Source: Nine and Counting, by Catherine Whitney, p.124-125
, Jul 25, 2000
Voted NO on killing restrictions on violent videos to minors.
Vote to kill an amendment that would prohibit the distribution of violent video programming to the public during hours when children are reasonably likely to comprise a substantial portion of the audience. Voting YES would kill the amendment proposing the new restrictions. Voting NO would suport the amendment proposing the new restrictions.
Reference:
Bill S.254
; vote number 1999-114
on May 13, 1999
Rated 50% by the Christian Coalition: mixed voting record on Family Values.
Snowe scores 50% by the Christian Coalition on family issues
The Christian Coalition was founded in 1989 by Dr. Pat Robertson to give Christians a voice in government. We represent millions of people of faith and enable them to have a strong, unified voice in the conversation we call democracy.
Our Five-Fold Mission: - Represent the pro-family point of view before local councils, school boards, state legislatures, and Congress
- Speak out in the public arena and in the media
- Train leaders for effective social and political action
- Inform pro-family voters about timely issues and legislation
- Protest anti-Christian bigotry and defend the rights of people of faith.
Our ratings are based on the votes the organization considered most important; the numbers reflect the percentage of time the representative voted the organization's preferred position.
Source: CC website 03n-CC on Dec 31, 2003
Call for a White House Conference on Children and Youth.
Snowe co-sponsored calling for a White House Conference on Children and Youth
The White House Conference on Children and Youth in 2010 Act - Directs the President to call a White House Conference on Children and Youth in 2010 to: (1) encourage improvements in each state and local child welfare system; and (2) develop recommendations for actions to implement express policy regarding federal, state, and local programs. The Congress finds the following:
- In 2005 there were over 3,000,000 reports of child abuse and neglect, and only 60% of the children from the substantiated reports received follow-up services and 20% were placed in foster care as a result of an investigation.
- Almost 500,000 children and youth were in foster care at the end of 2004 and nearly 800,000 spent at least some time in foster care throughout the year.
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There is an over-representation of certain populations, including Native Americans and African-Americans, in the child welfare system.
- The State courts make key decisions in the lives of children involved in the child welfare system, including decisions of whether children have been victims of child abuse, whether parental rights should be terminated, and whether children should be reunified with their families, adopted, or placed in other settings.
Source: Conference on Children and Youth in 2010 Act (S2771/HR5461) 08-S2771 on Mar 13, 2008
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