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2007

• Children’s Health Care at Stake; Help Congress Override the President’s Veto!
  (10/10/07)
• Please Urge Lawmakers to Co-Sponsor the Keeping Families Together Act
  February 12 , 2007

2005

• Proposed Federal Regulations Endanger Students with Disabilities (8/30/05)
• Take action to End Juvenile Injustice in California (1/26/05)
• Help Keep Ohio Families Together (1/26/05)

2004

• Legislative Update: Bills to Prevent Custody Relinquishment for Mental Health Services Await New Congress (12/20/04)
• Legislative Update: President Signs IDEA Reauthorization (12/20/04)
• Take action: Prospects Uncertain for Children's Mental Health Bills (9/14/04)
• Take action: Help Support Youth Suicide Prevention (7/9/04)
• Tell Lawmakers to Co-Sponsor the Keeping Families Together Act (7/7/04)
• Urge House Passage of the Family Opportunity Act (5/7/04)
• Help Prevent Youth Suicide (3/24/04)
• Bazelon Mental Health Policy Reporter: 2004 Preview (1/22/04)

2003

• Legislative Update: First Session of 108th Congress Adjourns with Little Achieved (12/19/03)
• Bazelon Center Statement on The Keeping Families Together Act (10/2/03)
• Legislative Update: Mental Health Bills Await Fall Consideration (8/13/03)
• Senate Set to Debate IDEA; Advocacy Needed to Keep Protections Dropped by the House (7/9/03)
• Urgent Update on Proposals to Turn Medicaid into a Block Grant: Governors' Task Force Fails to Back White House Proposals (5/13/03)
• Fight Bush’s Assault on Medicaid (5/6/03)
• House Committee Weakens Special Education Law; Tell Lawmakers to Reject a Bad IDEA (4/25/03)
• Mental Health Parity Bills Reintroduced; Grassroots Support Needed (3/7/03)
• Bush Medicaid Proposal Threatens Access to Healthcare (2/20/03)

2002

• 107th Congress Leaves Unfinished Business (12/18/02)
• Few Legislative Days Remain Before Elections (8/20/02)
• Family Opportunity Act Passes Senate Finance Committee (7/22/02)
• Fast Track Sought for Mental Health Parity Bill (2/20/02)
• Pressure to Pass Family Opportunity Act (2/20/02)

2001

• Some Losses, A Few Gains As Congress Ends Session (12/21/01)
• Action Needed as Congress Takes Up Two Consensus Bills (10/16/01)
• National Call-In Day To Protect Education Rights Of Children With Disabilities (8/8/01)
• Support Needed For Mental Health Parity Bill (6/12/01)
• Safeguards For Students With Disabilities Targeted (5/24/01)
• Comments Needed On Seclusion And Restraint Rules To Protect Children (3/2/01)
• Family Opportunity Act Re-Introduced (2/28/01)
• House Bill Calls For Parity of Mental Health And Substance Abuse Coverage (2/26/01)
• 106th Congress Produced New Programs, Mental Health Funding (1/18/01)

2000

• 2000 SAMHSA Reauthorization (10/17/00)
• Family Opportunity Act Introduced in Senate (4/7/00)

1999

• Lawmakers Prepare for Final Stretch of First Session of 106th Congress (9/15/99)
• Senators To Consider House-Passed Foster Care Independence Act (6/25/99)