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HCONRES 316 107th Congress House Social Welfare Families Labor and Employment Marriage Welfare eligibility Welfare-to-work

Expressing the sense of the Congress that government policy should seek to reduce the financial penalties against marriage within the welfare system, and should support married couples in forming and…

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Expressing the sense of the Congress that government policy should seek to reduce the financial penalties against marriage within the welfare system, and should support married couples in forming and sustaining healthy, loving, and productive marriages.

Introduced: February 6, 2002 See on congress.gov
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Feb 27, 2002
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H566)
Feb 6, 2002
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Feb 6, 2002
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Expresses the sense of Congress that healthy marriages are highly important to the well-being of children, adults, and society in general, and that government policy should seek to reduce the financial penalties against marriage within the welfare system, and should support couples who choose to marry and assist them in acquiring the knowledge and skills necessary to form and sustain healthy, loving, and productive marriages.
What's happening now February 27, 2002

Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H566)

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 Cosponsors 2
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Boozman, John
Arkansas · Feb 6, 2002
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Wilson, Joe
South Carolina · Feb 6, 2002
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H. Con. Res. 316: Expressing the sense of the Congress that government policy should seek to reduce the financial penalties against marriage within the welfare system, and should support married couples in forming and sustaining healthy, loving, and productive marriages.. 107th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HCONRES-316/
MLA
"H. Con. Res. 316: Expressing the sense of the Congress that government policy should seek to reduce the financial penalties against marriage within the welfare system, and should support married couples in forming and sustaining healthy, loving, and productive marriages.." 107th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HCONRES-316/.
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H. Con. Res. 316, 107th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HCONRES-316/.
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[H. Con. Res. 316: Expressing the sense of the Congress that government policy should seek to reduce the financial penalties against marriage within the welfare system, and should support married couples in forming and sustaining healthy, loving, and productive marriages.](https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HCONRES-316/)
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