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107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. CON. RES. 228

Expressing the sense of the Congress that the children who lost one or 
   both parents or a guardian in the September 11, 2001, World Trade 
Center and Pentagon tragedies (including the aircraft crash in Somerset 
County, Pennsylvania) should be provided with all necessary assistance, 
    services, and benefits and urging the heads of Federal agencies 
  responsible for providing such assistance, services and benefits to 
   give the highest possible priority to providing such assistance, 
                services and benefits to those children.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 14, 2001

  Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas (for herself, Mr. Gilman, Mr. Meeks of New 
York, Mrs. Kelly, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Ms. Ros-Lehtinen, Mr. Neal 
of Massachusetts, Ms. Millender-McDonald, Ms. Woolsey, and Mr. Brady of 
    Texas) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
Expressing the sense of the Congress that the children who lost one or 
   both parents or a guardian in the September 11, 2001, World Trade 
Center and Pentagon tragedies (including the aircraft crash in Somerset 
County, Pennsylvania) should be provided with all necessary assistance, 
    services, and benefits and urging the heads of Federal agencies 
  responsible for providing such assistance, services and benefits to 
   give the highest possible priority to providing such assistance, 
                services and benefits to those children.

    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That (a) it is the sense of the Congress that the children who lost one 
or both parents or a guardian in the September 11, 2001, World Trade 
Center and Pentagon tragedies (including the aircraft crash in Somerset 
County, Pennsylvania) should be provided with such immediate 
assistance, services, and benefits as necessary for their well-being, 
including--
            (1) foster care assistance;
            (2) adoption assistance;
            (3) medical, nutritional, and psychological care; and
            (4) such additional care or services as may be necessary.
    (b) Congress urges the head of each Federal agency responsible for 
providing assistance, services and benefits referred to in subsection 
(a) to--
            (1) put the highest possible priority on the provision of 
        such assistance, services, and benefits to children described 
        in that subsection in order to expedite the provision of needed 
        assistance, services, and benefits to those children; and
            (2) to the maximum extent possible, to take such steps as 
        necessary to ensure that such assistance, services and benefits 
        are provided, in the case of any such child, within 60 days of 
        the date of the determination of the death of the child's 
        parent or guardian.
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