In the Matter of Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.
- Last Action
- 3/19/2021
Actions
- 2021-02-02Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change.
- 2021-01-11Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.
- 2021-01-11Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.
- 2021-01-11Introduced in House
- 2021-01-11Introduced in House
CRS Summary
As of 2021-01-11 (00)
Women and Climate Change Act of 2021
This bill addresses climate change and its effects on women and girls.
Specifically, the bill establishes the Federal Interagency Working Group on Women and Climate Change within the Department of State. The bill outlines the functions of the working group, including the coordination of agencies' policies and activities relating to combating the effects of climate change on women and improving the government's response to and strategy for climate change.
In addition, the Office of Global Women's Issues of the State Department must submit a strategy to prevent and respond to the effects of climate change on women.
Cosponsors (20)
- Val Demings (D-FL)
- Gwen Moore (D-WI)
- JANICE SCHAKOWSKY (D-IL)
- Ro Khanna (D-CA)
- Nanette Barragan (D-CA)
- NYDIA VELAZQUEZ (D-NY)
- Gerald Connolly (D-VA)
- Jimmy Panetta (D-CA)
- Pramila Jayapal (D-WA)
- Adriano Espaillat (D-NY)
- Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO)
- ELEANOR NORTON (D-DC)
- André Carson (D-IN)
- Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA)
- Grace Meng (D-NY)
- Yvette Clarke (D-NY)
- CAROLYN MALONEY (D-NY)
- Susan Wild (D-PA)
- Tom Malinowski (D-NJ)
- BRAD SHERMAN (D-CA)
Subjects
- Air quality
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Congressional oversight
- Crimes against women
- Department of State
- Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
- Ecology
- Economic development
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Food assistance and relief
- Human rights
- Infrastructure development
- International organizations and cooperation
- Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
- Racial and ethnic relations
- Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
- United Nations
- Urban and suburban affairs and development
- Women's education
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