http://network.steelews.com NETWORK Education Program Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:21:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 2006 Estate Tax Repeal Permanency Act (H.R. 8) A motion to close debate and move forward to a vote on the a bill which would make permanent the repeal of the estate tax, thereby seriously jeopardizing funds at the federal and state levels for education and other priorities. The motion ... http://network.steelews.com/index.php/candidates/admin/taxation-4/ 2005 Craig Amendment S.A. 375 to AgJOBS H.R. 1268: To provide for the adjustment of status of certain foreign agricultural workers, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to reform the H-2A worker program under that Act, to provide a stable, legal agricultural workforce, to extend basic legal protections and better ... http://network.steelews.com/index.php/candidates/admin/immigration-4/ 2007 Lugar-Lautenberg Farm Ranch Equity Stewardship and Health (FRESH) Amendment (H.R. 2419) This amendment would have reformed the commodity subsidy payment system to provide a more equitable safety net for all U.S. farmers and brought U.S. farm policy into compliance with international trade rules. It would have effectively redirected several billion ... http://network.steelews.com/index.php/candidates/admin/agriculture-2/ 2006 Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)/Funding Distribution (S. 2320) This bill shifted funds from FY 2007 to FY 2006, providing $500 million to be distributed to eligible low-income households for heating and cooling assistance. Another $500 million was placed in a contingency fund for the same purpose. NETWORK supported ... http://network.steelews.com/index.php/candidates/admin/social-safety-net-4/ 2005 FY2006 Budget Amendment: S.Amdt. 173 to S.Con.Res. 18 Vote #56 to increase discretionary health and education funding by $2 billion. Senator McCain: Nay ... http://network.steelews.com/index.php/candidates/admin/budget-priorities-4/ We live in a globalized world in which the "free" market rules created by the developed world regularly result in a race to the bottom-movement of business to places where unfair labor and environmental exploitation go unchecked. U.S. trade, aid, and debt policies and practices should reflect the principles of ... http://network.steelews.com/index.php/issues/cfischer/development-3/ No individual or family should face hunger, homelessness or economic hardship due to pregnancy, old age, injury, disability, unemployment or any other factor. The risk of economic insecurity must be shared communally. The increasing sense of economic insecurity brought on by the rapidly changing global economy highlights the critical importance ... http://network.steelews.com/index.php/issues/cfischer/social-safety-net-3/ In a nation where 12.6 million children go to bed hungry, where 45 million are without healthcare, where the working poor cannot make ends meet, where millions cannot afford necessary prescription drugs, where the future marked by an aging population demands that we strengthen our Social Security and Medicare programs ... http://network.steelews.com/index.php/issues/cfischer/taxation-3/ NETWORK supports an end to unjust U.S. farm subsidies which force small U.S. farmers out of business and millions of Mexican campesinos off their farms. Currently, our agricultural policies promote unsustainable, energy intensive and environmentally destructive farm practices which favor the interests of agricultural corporations over the wellbeing of those ... http://network.steelews.com/index.php/issues/cfischer/agriculture/ As stewards of God's creation and members of one global and intergenerational human family, we have a moral responsibility to reverse the warming of our planet. "Global climate change is about the future of God's creation and the one human family. It is about protecting both the ‘human environment' ... http://network.steelews.com/index.php/issues/cfischer/climate-change-3/