HR 611 · 107th Congress 2001–2003, ended

Education for Democracy Act

Introduced Feb 14, 2001 Originated House Sponsor Dale E. Kildee D-MI

Latest action · Mar 29, 2001 Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedFeb 14, 2001
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Education for Democracy Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to revise and reauthorize provisions for Civic Education.

Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to or contracts with: (1) the Center for Civic Education (CCE) to carry out civic education activities under the We the People... The Citizen and the Constitution program and The Project Citizen program, and under Cooperative Educational Exchange programs; and (2) the National Council on Economic Education (NCEE) to carry out economic education activities under Cooperative Educational Exchange programs.

Revises requirements for CCE implementation of the We the People... The Citizen and the Constitution program and The Project Citizen program.

Sets forth requirements for the Cooperative Educational Exchange programs of civic education by CCE and economic education by NCEE. Makes eligible for such programs Central European countries, an Eastern European country, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and the independent states of the former Soviet Union. Allows such program eligibility also for the Republic of Ireland, the province of Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom, and any developing country as defined under the Education for the Deaf Act.

Amends the Goals 2000: Educate America Act to repeal provisions for an International Education Program.

Cosponsors 86

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 14, 2001 to May 16, 2002; 2 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-CA	George Miller	Original	Feb 14, 2001
R-DE	Michael N. Castle	Original	Feb 14, 2001
I-VT	Bernard Sanders		Mar 7, 2001
D-OR	David Wu		Mar 7, 2001
D-CA	Lynn C. Woolsey		Mar 7, 2001
D-CA	Barbara Lee		Mar 13, 2001
D-CA	Brad Sherman		Mar 13, 2001
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks		Mar 13, 2001
D-IN	Peter J. Visclosky		Mar 13, 2001
D-WI	Ron Kind		Mar 13, 2001
D-NY	Maurice D. Hinchey		Mar 15, 2001
R-OH	Michael G. Oxley		Mar 15, 2001
D-TN	Bob Clement		Mar 20, 2001
R-IN	Dan Burton		Mar 20, 2001
R-KY	Ed Whitfield		Mar 20, 2001
R-TN	Zach Wamp		Mar 20, 2001
D-WA	Brian Baird		Mar 28, 2001
D-MA	Edward J. Markey		Mar 28, 2001
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano		Mar 28, 2001
R-IL	Henry J. Hyde		Mar 28, 2001
D-CA	Howard L. Berman		Mar 28, 2001
D-MI	James A. Barcia		Mar 28, 2001
R-WA	Jennifer Dunn		Mar 28, 2001
D-WA	Jim McDermott		Mar 28, 2001
D-IN	Julia Carson		Mar 28, 2001
D-KY	Ken Lucas		Mar 28, 2001
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard		Mar 28, 2001
D-MA	Michael E. Capuano		Mar 28, 2001
D-CA	Michael M. Honda		Mar 28, 2001
D-CA	Nancy Pelosi		Mar 28, 2001
D-WA	Norman D. Dicks		Mar 28, 2001
D-RI	Patrick J. Kennedy		Mar 28, 2001
D-MA	Richard E. Neal		Mar 28, 2001
R-MD	Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.		Mar 28, 2001
D-NJ	Rush Holt		Mar 28, 2001
R-CA	Stephen Horn		Mar 28, 2001
D-MA	Bill Delahunt		Apr 3, 2001
D-CA	Hilda L. Solis		Apr 3, 2001
D-ME	John Elias Baldacci		Apr 3, 2001
D-TX	Ken Bentsen		Apr 3, 2001
D-CO	Mark Udall		Apr 3, 2001
R-IN	Mike Pence		Apr 3, 2001
R-WI	Thomas E. Petri		Apr 3, 2001
D-CA	Tom Lantos		Apr 3, 2001
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff		Apr 4, 2001
R-OH	David L. Hobson		Apr 4, 2001
R-MO	Kenny C. Hulshof		Apr 4, 2001
D-IL	Rod R. Blagojevich		Apr 4, 2001
D-CA	Susan A. Davis		Apr 4, 2001
D-PA	William J. Coyne		Apr 4, 2001
D-MN	Betty McCollum		Apr 25, 2001
D-NC	Bob Etheridge		Apr 25, 2001
D-CO	Diana DeGette		Apr 25, 2001
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel		Apr 25, 2001
R-KY	Harold Rogers		Apr 25, 2001
D-CA	Henry A. Waxman		Apr 25, 2001
D-WA	Jay Inslee		Apr 25, 2001
D-PA	John P. Murtha		Apr 25, 2001
D-MA	John W. Olver		Apr 25, 2001
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle		Apr 25, 2001
D-AR	Mike Ross		Apr 25, 2001
D-HI	Patsy T. Mink		Apr 25, 2001
R-PA	Phil English		Apr 25, 2001
R-KY	Ron Lewis		Apr 25, 2001
D-OH	Stephanie Tubbs Jones		Apr 25, 2001
R-NE	Doug Bereuter		May 8, 2001
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer		May 8, 2001
D-ND	Earl Pomeroy		May 8, 2001
D-WA	Rick Larsen		May 8, 2001
D-CA	Sam Farr		May 8, 2001
D-NV	Shelley Berkley		May 8, 2001
R-WA	George R. Nethercutt Jr.		May 21, 2001
R-NE	Lee Terry		May 21, 2001
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay		May 21, 2001
D-TN	John S. Tanner		May 24, 2001
D-OH	Sherrod Brown		May 24, 2001
D-FL	Allen Boyd		May 25, 2001
R-WA	Doc Hastings		May 25, 2001
R-NM	Heather Wilson		Jun 12, 2001
D-WI	Tammy Baldwin		Jun 12, 2001
D-TX	Charles W. Stenholm		Jul 19, 2001
D-MI	David E. Bonior		Jul 19, 2001
D-MS	Gene Taylor		Jul 19, 2001
R-NE	Tom Osborne		Jul 19, 2001
D-AR	Vic Snyder		Jul 19, 2001
D-MO	Ike Skelton		May 16, 2002

Committees 2

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Education and Workforce Committee	Referred Feb 14, 2001
	Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee	Referred Mar 29, 2001
House	Foreign Affairs Committee	Referred Feb 14, 2001

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Mar 29, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
Feb 14, 2001Introduced in House
Feb 14, 2001Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To amend part F of the title X of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to improve and refocus civic education, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced: Education for Democracy Act

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.

Text 1

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Feb 14, 2001Introduced in House

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