[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 152 (Friday, December 12, 2014)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1831]
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         LEGISLATIVE RECORD OF STEVE STOCKMAN IN 104TH CONGRESS

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                          HON. STEVE STOCKMAN

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, December 11, 2014

  Mr. STOCKMAN. Mr. Speaker, as the 113th Congress comes to a close, it 
is my pleasure to note all of the legislative actions that I have taken 
in my tenure in my first term in Congress. In the 104th Congress, I 
introduced the following legislation:
  H.R. 4222--Educational Freedom Act of 1996: This bill sought to amend 
the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit of up to $3,000 per 
student per year for tuition and related expenses at nonpublic 
elementary and secondary schools. Subjects such credit to adjusted 
gross income limits.
  H.R. 4221--Stephen E. LeNoir Malpractice Accountability Act of 1996: 
This bill sought to amend the Federal Tort Claims Act to make the 
United States liable in an action brought by a member of a uniformed 
service for personal injury caused by the provision of health care by a 
health care professional in a uniformed service, except where such 
injuries were sustained during a declared state of war.
  H. Con. Res. 179--To express the sense of the Congress that Buddhist 
monks and civilians and Roman Catholic monks and priest unlawfully 
detained by the government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam should 
be released: This bill called for the Government of the Socialist 
Republic of Vietnam to release all Buddhist monks and civilians and all 
Roman Catholic monks and priests currently being unlawfully detained.
  H.R. 3446--Regulatory Relief and Job Preservation Act of 1996: This 
bill amends the Clean Air Act to repeal the authority of the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to require 
enhanced monitoring and submission of compliance certifications.
  H. Con. Res. 161--Authorizing the use of the Capitol Grounds for the 
Washington for Jesus 1996 prayer rally: This bill sought to permit One 
Nation Under God, Inc., to sponsor a free public event on the Capitol 
Grounds on April 29 and 30, 1996.
  H.R. 2749--Child Protection and Ethics I Education Act of 1995: This 
bill sought to direct the Comptroller General to conduct a study to 
determine whether programs, lectures, texts, or other pedagogical 
materials involving sexuality used by agencies, universities, or 
elementary and secondary schools (institutions) that receive Federal 
funds for educational purposes significantly or particularly rely on 
the scholarship of, directly or indirectly consisting of, or based on 
the studies entitled ``Sexual Behavior in the Human Male'' and ``Sexual 
Behavior in the Human Female'' authored by Alfred Kinsey and his team 
of researchers, published in 1948 and 1953 (Kinsey reports).
  H.R. 2470--Second Amendment Reaffirmation Act of 1995: This bill 
sought to repeal the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act and the 
Assault Weapon Manufacturing Strict Liability Act of 1990.
  H.R. 2469--Wanda Boughton Social Security Original Intent Act of 
1995: This bill sought to amend title II (Old Age, Survivors and 
Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to permit an 
individual entitled to both OASDI and to widow's and widower's 
insurance benefits to receive both without reduction in the amount of 
the widow's or widower's insurance benefit by the amount of the OASDI 
benefit.
  H.J. Res. 107--Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the 
United States regarding congressional pay and pensions: This bill 
sought to require Members of Congress to receive compensation for their 
services or to be reimbursed for expenses incurred with respect to such 
services only from the treasury of the State which they represent in 
Congress in an amount to be determined by an act of the State's 
legislature.
  H.R. 2328--Jeramy's Act: This bill sought to direct the Secretary of 
Transportation to withhold specified percentages of Federal-aid highway 
funds apportioned to States that permit the sale of alcoholic beverages 
to persons who are less than 21 years old.
  H.R. 2250--Community Development Act of 1995: This bill sought to 
amend Federal customs law to require the Secretary of the Treasury to 
promulgate regulations providing for the return of one percent of 
customs duties assessed on a commodity to the port or airport of entry 
that is a public corporation in which the commodity was located at the 
time of assessment.
  H. Res. 210--Providing for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 464) 
to repeal the prohibitions relating to semiautomatic assault weapons 
and large capacity ammunition feeding devices: This bill sought to 
repeal prohibitions on semiautomatic assault weapons and large capacity 
feeding devices.
  H. Res. 199--Amending clause 2 of rule XXII of the Rules of the House 
to prohibit the introduction or consideration of legislation 
designating a building or any other structure in honor of a person who 
is serving or has served as a Member of Congress, a Federal judge, or 
an officer of the executive branch before the date that is 5 years 
after the person has retired from that office: This bill sought to 
amend rule XXII of the Rules of the House of Representatives to 
prohibit the introduction or consideration of legislation designating a 
building in honor of a person who has served as a Member of Congress, a 
Federal judge, or an officer in the executive branch until at least 
five years after the person's retirement from that office.
  H.R. 2087--Sanctity of Life Act of 1995: This bill sought to amend 
the Federal criminal code to declare that the Supreme Court and 
district courts shall not have jurisdiction over any case arising out 
of any statute, ordinance, rule, regulation, or practice on the grounds 
that the statute, ordinance, rule, regulation, or practice protects the 
rights of human persons between conception and birth or prohibits, 
limits, or regulates the performance of abortions or the provision of 
public funds, facilities, personnel, or other assistance for the 
performance of abortions.
  H.R. 1849--Chinese Human Rights Act of 1995: This bill sought to 
amend the Trading with the Enemy Act to define China as an enemy for 
purposes of the export of military products to such country until the 
Congress determines that China does not engage in any significant 
violation of human rights and poses no significant threat to the United 
States. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that a 
person who has been forced to abort a pregnancy or to undergo 
involuntary sterilization, or who has been persecuted for failure or 
refusal to undergo such a procedure, shall be deemed to have been 
persecuted on account of political opinion and entitled to political 
refugee status under such Act.
  H.J. Res. 87--Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the 
United States regarding citizenship in the United States: This bill 
sought to grant U.S. citizenship to only those persons: (1) born to a 
parent who is a U.S. citizen; (2) born within the United States to a 
parent lawfully in and subject to the jurisdiction of the United States 
at the time of that parents' entry into the United States; and (3) 
naturalized according to U.S. law. Sets forth provisions relating to: 
(1) restrictions on services or payments to non-U.S. citizens; (2) 
English language requirement for naturalization; and (3) apportionment 
of Representatives based on number of citizens of each State.
  H.R. 807--Taxpayer Protection Act of 1995: This bill sought to 
prohibit funds appropriated or made available under any law from being 
used for the purpose of any swap, loan, loan guarantee, or grant to 
Mexico until the Congress has affirmatively approved such assistance.

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