Topic

Higher education

Bills 12,000 First seen 107th Most recent 119th

12,000 bills on this subject

Filed across 13 Congresses, from the 107th to the 119th, and most in the 110th at 1,512. A subject is a heading the Library of Congress assigns to a bill, and a bill usually carries several, so these are the bills that touch this subject rather than the bills only about it.

Bills by Congress 107th to 119th
12,000 bills across every Congress on file. Showing 6,451–6,480, newest first.
Bill Title Congress Latest action
HRES 1034 Expressing support for the importance of Braille in the lives of blind people. 111th June 23, 2010
HRES 1030 Congratulating Messiah College men's and women's soccer teams on winning the 2009 NCAA Division III national championships. 111th February 23, 2010
HRES 1015 Congratulating the Penn State women's volleyball team on winning the 2009 NCAA Division I National Championship. 111th February 23, 2010
HRES 1007 Commending the University of Alabama for winning the Bowl Championship Series National Championship Game. 111th February 23, 2010
HRES 1004 Congratulating the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine for its 150 years of commitment to advancing science and improving health. 111th February 23, 2010
HRES 1001 Congratulating North Central College on winning the 2009 NCAA Division III men's cross country championship. 111th February 23, 2010
HRES 991 Commending the University of Virginia men's soccer team for winning the 2009 Division I NCAA National Championship. 111th February 23, 2010
HRES 972 Commending University of Alabama Running Back Mark Ingram on winning the 2009 Heisman Trophy. 111th February 23, 2010
HRES 970 Congratulating Flint native, University of Alabama sophomore, and running back Mark Ingram on winning the 2009 Heisman Trophy and honoring both his athletic and academic achievements. 111th February 23, 2010
HRES 969 Congratulating Flint native, University of Alabama Sophmore and running back Mark Ingram on winning the 2009 Heisman Trophy and honoring both his athletic and academic achievements. 111th February 23, 2010
HRES 901 Recognizing November 14, 2009, as the 49th anniversary of the first day of integrated schools in New Orleans, Louisiana. 111th February 3, 2010
HRES 880 Recognizing the efforts of postsecondary institutions offering career and technical education to educate and train workers for positions in high-demand industries. 111th December 8, 2009
HRES 879 Supporting the goals and ideals of American Education Week. 111th June 17, 2010
HRES 854 Recognizing Weber State University for the 120th anniversary of its founding as an institution of higher education. 111th December 8, 2009
HRES 844 Honoring Dr. Earnestine Thomas-Robertson for 31 years of service in Academia at Los Angeles Southwest College (LASC), in the Los Angeles Community College District, the largest community college district in the Nation. 111th December 8, 2009
HRES 838 Welcoming to the United States and to Washington, DC, His All Holiness Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch on his current trip on October 20, 2009, through November 6, 2009. 111th October 28, 2009
HRES 837 Recognizing Kentucky Wesleyan College for over 150 years of service as an institution of higher education. 111th November 16, 2009
HRES 832 Recognizing and congratulating ACT, Inc. on 50 years of service to the Nation. 111th November 16, 2009
HRES 824 Congratulating the Northwestern University Wildcats on winning the 2009 NCAA women's lacrosse championship, and to commend Northwestern University for its pursuit of athletic and academic excellence. 111th November 16, 2009
HRES 822 Expressing support for students to learn about Christopher Columbus. 111th November 16, 2009
HRES 815 Expressing support for recognition of Christopher Columbus and his role in the history of the United States and recognizing the importance of students learning about Christopher Columbus and the heritage and history of the Nation. 111th October 8, 2009
HRES 776 Congratulating the Dartmouth Outing Club of Hanover, New Hampshire, for 100 years of service to the United States and its wilderness. 111th January 19, 2010
HRES 769 Recognizing the benefits of service-learning as a teaching strategy to effectively engage youth in the community and classroom, and expressing support for the goals of the National Learn and Serve Challenge. 111th November 16, 2009
HRES 761 Remembering and commemorating the lives and work of Jesuit Fathers Ignacio Ellacuria, Ignacio Martin-Baro, Segundo Montes, Amando Lopez, Juan Ramon Moreno, Joaquin Lopez y Lopez, and housekeeper Julia Elba Ramos and her daughter Celina Mariset Ramos on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of their deaths at the University of Central America Jose Simeon Canas located in San Salvador, El Salvador on November 16, 1989. 111th October 21, 2009
HRES 747 Congratulating the United States Military Academy at West Point on being named by Forbes magazine as America's Best College for 2009. 111th March 3, 2010
HRES 740 Recognizing the valuable contributions of the extension offices of land-grant universities. 111th June 22, 2010
HRES 737 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that a National Hispanic-Serving Institutions Week should be established. 111th September 14, 2009
HRES 730 Honoring the 100th anniversary of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. 111th October 13, 2009
HRES 700 Expressing support for designation of the week beginning on November 9, 2009, as National School Psychology Week. 111th November 7, 2009
HRES 696 Acknowledging and congratulating Western Wyoming Community College in Southwest Wyoming on the occasion of its 50th anniversary of service to the students and citizens of the State of Wyoming. 111th September 23, 2009

Subjects are the headings the Library of Congress assigns to a bill, not labels written here, so the wording is theirs. Bills are listed newest first by their latest action. A bill carries several subjects, so it appears under each of them. Records come from Congress.gov.