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The McKinney–Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 1987 is a United States federal law that provides federal money for homeless shelter programs. [1] [2] It was the first significant federal legislative response to homelessness, [3] and was passed by the 100th United States Congress and signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on July 22, 1987. [4]
The 1987 McKinney–Vento Homeless Assistance Act mandates equal opportunity to a free public education to homeless students. This act is supposed to break down the barriers homeless students have to receiving an education. These barriers include residency restriction, medical record verification, and transportation issues. [157]
Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users; Solomon–Lautenberg amendment; Space Launch Liability Indemnification Extension Act; Staggers Rail Act; Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act; Surface Transportation Assistance Act
It funds the departments of Justice, Commerce, Agriculture, Transportation and many other parts of the government, after leaders split federal funding into two packages. It passed the House on ...
In the United States, the federal transportation bill refers to any of a number of multi-year funding bills for surface transportation programs. These have included: Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act, 1987; Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA), 1991; The National Highway System Designation Act (NHS ...
Vento introduced the first bill in the US Congress to grant honorary U.S. citizenship to Laotian and Hmong veterans who served in the "U.S. Secret Army" in Laos during the Vietnam War. The legislation, the Hmong Veterans' Naturalization Act of 2000 was passed by the House and Senate following his death and signed into law by President Bill Clinton.
Obama voted against the Military Commissions Act of 2006 [117] and later voted to restore habeas corpus to those detained by the U.S. (which had been stripped by the Military Commissions Act). [118] He has advocated closing the Guantanamo Bay detention camp , but has not supported two specific bills that would have done so. [ 119 ]
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