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Accomplishments
Legislative Accomplishments
· Education/Children: Education for Homeless Children Act, Math and Science Teacher Training Act included in No Child Left Behind (2000); tougher penalties for club drugs (2000); crack down on internet pedophiles through the "CyberTipline" (1999); others.
· Health: Sponsor, Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act, with 161 cosponsors; secured initial funding to study the incidence of breast cancer in DuPage County.
· Economic/Financial: authored law creating the Financial Literacy and Education Commission (2003); co-founded Financial Literacy Caucus (2005); enacted Church Pension law Reform (2004); ChicagoFIRST Financial Preparedness (2004); Majority Whip, U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement (2003).
· Energy/Technology: oversee all national science labs, including Argonne and Fermi; Supercomputing Revitalization Act (2004); Energy Research and Development Act (2005); co-founded R & D Caucus (2003); authored Genomes to Life (2003).
· Funding to: renovate the old Coast Guard station (2001-05); construct barriers to prevent invasive Asian Carp from entering the Great Lakes (2002-05); widen I-55 south of Weber Road, others.
Paid for by the Judy Biggert for Congress Committee
P.O. Box 637 Hinsdale, IL 60522-0637
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