PARKER, MIKE (a Representative from Mississippi)

Appointments

Committee on Public Works and Transportation (H. Res. 39), 244 [19JA]

Committee on Veterans' Affairs (H. Res. 39), 244 [19JA]

Bills and resolutions introduced by

Margaret Walker Alexander National African-American Research Center: establish (see H.R. 3252), 20204 [12SE]

Bills and resolutions introduced by, as cosponsor

Advertising: farmer-to-consumer billboards (see H.R. 2932), 20442 [14SE]

———mailing of sexually oriented material (see H.R. 1210), 20774 [19SE]

Aeronautics: national aviation policy (see H. Con. Res. 162), 13845 [28JN]

———prohibit smoking on certain scheduled passenger flights (see H.R. 160), 5515 [5AP]

Agriculture: financial assistance for commercialization of research (see H.R. 1505), 7436 [25AP]

———soybeans producers' nationally coordinated program (see H.R. 2209), 21217 [21SE]

Air Force: aircraft use for hurricane research data (see H. Con. Res. 102), 7755 [2MY]

Air pollution: clean air standards (see H.R. 3030), 16563 [27JY]

Aliens: special immigrant status for honorable Armed Forces service (see H.R. 1286), 11243 [7JN]

American Battle Monuments Commission: appointment of enlisted members of the Armed Forces (see H.R. 1414), 9651 [18MY]

———exempt certain officers from grade limitations (see H.R. 1734), 10243 [25MY]

Arlington National Cemetery, VA: unmarked burial of cremated remains (see H.R. 88), 21004 [20SE]

Armed Forces: tax treatment of certain deductions of National Guard and Reserve personnel (see H.R. 1875), 8074 [3MY]

Atlanta, GA: designate the Elbert P. Tuttle Court of Appeals Building (see H.R. 801), 9408 [16MY]

Banks and banking: extend period for issuing mortgage bonds and credit certificates (see H.R. 1200), 4202 [15MR]

Bastille Day: commemorate bicentennial (see H. Con. Res. 43), 9483 [17MY]

Brick Township, NJ: designate the James J. Howard Veterans' Outpatient Clinic (see H.R. 2557), 12936 [22JN]

Budget: biennial cycle (see H.R. 786), 5895 [10AP]

———constitutional amendment to require balanced (see H.J. Res. 268), 8915 [11MY]

———improve financial management information (see H.R. 2669), 12180 [15JN]

———reform process (see H.R. 1957, 3464), 11243 [7JN], 24234 [12OC]

———use of current spending levels in preparation for each new fiscal year (see H.R. 1613), 12810 [21JN]

Bureau of the Census: exclude certain wages earned in temporary positions in determining income for veterans' benefits (see H.R. 2856), 20403 [13SE]

———exclude wages from temporary positions from Social Security earnings test determinations (see H.R. 2857), 20403 [13SE]

Cape Canaveral, FL: America in Space National Historical Park (see H.R. 2944), 19782 [7SE]

Centers for Metal Casting Competitiveness Research: establish (see H.R. 1243), 8208 [4MY]

Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner Day: designate (see H. Con. Res. 141), 12494 [20JN]

Coast Guard: bicentennial (see H.J. Res. 265), 15437 [20JY]

Coast Guard Auxiliary Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 111), 11301 [8JN]

Coins and coinage: modernize (see H.R. 505), 8208 [4MY]

Colleges: information on student-athlete graduation relative to Federal financing (see H.R. 1454), 20403 [13SE]

Committee on Children, Youth, and Families (Select): establish (see H. Res. 33), 2555 [22FE]

Community Foundation Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 425), 26345 [26OC]

Computers: penalties for interfering with operations by use of hidden commands (see H.R. 55), 16565 [27JY]

Correctional Alternatives Act: enact (see H.R. 2374), 12181 [15JN]

Country Music Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 401), 20442 [14SE]

Court of Veterans Appeals: retirement and survivor benefit program for judges (see H.R. 2727), 16565 [27JY]

Crime and criminals: modify the penalties for certain kidnappings of children (see H.R. 2086), 22068 [27SE]

Crime Victims Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 208), 5895 [10AP]

Day care: mortgage financing for residential small centers (see H.R. 2330), 11452 [12JN]

Daytona Beach, FL: designate William V. Chappell, Jr., Veterans' Outpatient Clinic (see H.R. 2594), 21590 [26SE]

Decade of the Brain: designate (see H.J. Res. 174), 13279 [23JN]

Dept. of Defense: additional authority to inspector general (see H.R. 2361), 11819 [14JN]

———establish auditors general (see H.R. 2362), 11819 [14JN]

———prohibit certain employees from working for contractors for a certain period after leaving the department (see H.R. 2462), 12181 [15JN]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: improve programs for the recruitment and retention of health-care personnel (see H.R. 901), 1745 [7FE]

———postsecondary education assistance for certain students in health professions (see H.R. 3199), 25917 [25OC]

———recruitment and retention of nurses (see H.R. 1199), 12935 [22JN]

Drug abuse: enhance efforts in fighting the war against (see H.R. 90), 19557 [6SE]

Drug Free America Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 228), 5945 [11AP]

Earth Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 338), 16429 [26JY]

Earthquakes: improve effort to reduce hazards (see H.R. 3533), 29605 [16NO]

Eastern Airlines: restoration of full operations (see H. Res. 141), 8916 [11MY]

Economic conditions: funding for public works and economic development in depressed areas (see H.R. 2015), 6805 [17AP]

Education: Federal funding for special education (see H. Con. Res. 85), 10162 [24MY]

Elections: series of seven Presidential primaries (see H.R. 1371), 18672 [3AU]

Enterprise Zone Improvements Act: enact (see H.R. 6), 7649 [1MY]

FAA: foreign repair station rules (see H.R. 145), 13846 [28JN]

Fair Housing Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 216), 7545 [26AP]

FCC: compatibility standards for mobile radio systems for public safety (see H.R. 1072), 14076 [11JY]

Federal employees: allow periods of certain service under Federal-State cooperative programs to be creditable toward civil service retirement (see H.R. 3129), 31245 [21NO]

———coverage under retirement system (see H.R. 2538), 16429 [26JY]

———extend certain civil service retirement provisions to INS, Customs Service, and IRS law enforcement officers (see H.R. 1083), 11301 [8JN]

———participation in political process (see H.R. 20), 5274 [23MR]

———Social Security Government pension offset (see H.R. 2538), 16429 [26JY]

———treatment of income for garnishment and legal processes (see H.R. 2418), 25615 [24OC]

Firefighters: bill of rights (see H.R. 3587), 31245 [21NO]

———lump-sum disability payment (see H.R. 2870), 19782 [7SE]

Fish and fisheries: cease drift-net fishing in the South Pacific (see H. Con. Res. 214), 25239 [19OC]

———prohibit importation of shrimp from country not requiring use of turtle excluder devices (see H.R. 2620), 14076 [11JY]

Flight Attendant Safety Professionals' Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 186), 7437 [25AP]

Foreign Ownership Disclosure Act: enact (see H.R. 5), 8073 [3MY]

Franklin, Benjamin: commemorative coin (see H.R. 3587), 31245 [21NO]

General Aviation Standards Act: enact (see H.R. 1307), 12935 [22JN]

Geography Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 142), 21217 [21SE]

Ghost Squadron of the Confederate Air Force: designate as U.S. Ambassador for the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of World War II (see H.J. Res. 285), 24235 [12OC]

Graduate and Professional Student Awareness Weekend: designate (see H.J. Res. 77), 3102 [1MR]

Guam: establish as a Commonwealth (see H.R. 98), 31244 [21NO]

Gulfport, MS: Larkin I. Smith General Mail Facility (see H.R. 3644), 28595 [13NO]

Handicapped: tax credits for small businesses for costs of public accommodations for the disabled (see H.R. 3500), 26345 [26OC]

Hazardous substances: transportation in crude oil pipelines (see H.R. 2417), 10790 [5JN]

Head Start Program: expansion (see H.R. 2217), 8711 [9MY]

Health: improve emergency medical services and trauma care (see H.R. 1602), 7755 [2MY]

———permit certain emergency personnel to conduct pre-incident planning activities (see H.R. 2186), 13846 [28JN]

Higgins, William R.: execution in Lebanon (see H. Con. Res. 190), 19331 [4AU]

High School ROTC Recognition Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 123), 7649 [1MY]

Holidays: commission to advise President on proposals for national observances (see H.R. 746), 26344 [26OC]

House of Representatives: amend rules relative to resolutions making continuing appropriations (see H. Res. 18), 28846 [14NO]

———amend rules relative to special interest commemorative legislation (see H. Res. 244), 25240 [19OC]

———inclusion in committee and conference reports of the identity, sponsor, and cost of each provision with 10 or fewer beneficiaries (see H. Res. 172), 11603 [13JN]

Housing: development and preservation of rental housing for low- and moderate-income families (see H.R. 1005), 8208 [4MY]

International Year of Bible Reading: designate (see H.J. Res. 275), 11605 [13JN]

Interstitial Cystitis Awareness Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 291), 28336 [9NO]

Iran: conditions on compensation for downing of Iran Air Flight 655 by U.S.S. Vincennes (see H.R. 3001), 20648 [18SE]

Italian-American Heritage and Culture Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 392), 22876 [3OC]

Jewish Heritage Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 136), 5945 [11AP]

King, Martin Luther, Jr.: monument in Washington, DC (see H.R. 937), 7755 [2MY]

Law enforcement officers: capital punishment for killing certain Federal officers (see H.R. 1197), 12181 [15JN]

———lump-sum disability payment (see H.R. 2870), 19782 [7SE]

Leavenworth, KS: designate the Dwight D. Eisenhower Dept. of Veterans Affairs Medical Center (see H.R. 2987), 21590 [26SE]

Lebanon: U.S. policy (see H. Res. 128), 8209 [4MY]

Little League Baseball: anniversary (see H. Con. Res. 123), 9407 [16MY]

Medicare: payment reductions to hospitals under part A (see H. Con. Res. 40), 5275 [23MR]

Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act: review by Congress (see H. Res. 169), 11603 [13JN]

Memorial Day: date observance (see H.R. 2360), 18189 [2AU]

Mental Illness Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 164), 7545 [26AP]

Merchant marine: inclusion of certain service in civil service retirement system (see H.R. 1436), 13623 [27JN]

Mississippi River Interstate Pollution Phase-Out Compact: congressional consent (see H.R. 510), 2554 [22FE]

Mississippi River National Heritage Corridor: commission to prepare a feasibility report (see H.R. 2174), 7753 [2MY]

Montana Centennial Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 106), 27808 [7NO]

Motor vehicles: investment tax credit for using clean-burning substances (see H.R. 2269), 8708 [9MY]

Mount Rushmore National Memorial: commemorative anniversary coin (see H.R. 1028), 10868 [6JN]

Mount Vernon, MO: designate the Gene Taylor Veterans' Outpatient Clinic (see H.R. 2983), 21590 [26SE]

Narcotics: military assistance to certain law enforcement agencies (see H.R. 108), 11243 [7JN]

NASA: termination liability for the Advanced Solid Rocket Motor Program (see H.R. 2197), 12181 [15JN]

National Adoption Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 278), 15437 [20JY]

National Agriculture Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 117), 3858 [9MR]

National Alcohol and Drug Treatment Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 217), 10243 [25MY]

National Association of Women Veterans, Inc.: recognize (see H.R. 3480), 25917 [25OC]

National Auctioneers Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 78), 2902 [28FE]

National cemeteries: permit burials on weekends and holidays (see H.R. 1823), 21217 [21SE]

National Ceramic Tile Industry Recognition Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 67), 6333 [12AP]

National Check-Up Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 227), 12936 [22JN]

National Children's Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 132), 1747 [7FE]

National Cities Fight Back Against Drugs Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 416), 31245 [21NO]

National D.A.R.E. Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 276), 10870 [6JN]

National Day of Remembrance for Victims of the U.S.S. Iowa: designate (see H.J. Res. 247), 7755 [2MY]

National Day To Commemorate the Bastille Day Bicentennial: designate (see H.J. Res. 298), 12283 [19JN]

National Domestic Violence Awareness Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 320), 20206 [12SE]

National Drunk and Drugged Driving Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 429), 31246 [21NO]

National Family Caregivers Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 282), 12181 [15JN]

National Family Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 126), 9409 [16MY]

National Former POW Recognition Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 364), 21218 [21SE]

National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 94), 5380 [4AP]

National 4-H Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 381), 21500 [25SE]

National Guard: civil service retirement credit for technicians (see H.R. 1400), 8710 [9MY]

National Health Care Food Service Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 141), 22069 [27SE]

National Home Care Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 122), 21004 [20SE]

National Korean War Veterans Recognition Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 130), 14992 [18JY]

National Library Card Sign-Up Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 231), 17097 [31JY]

National Literacy Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 277), 13279 [23JN]

National Military Families Recognition Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 385), 18671 [3AU]

National Occupational Safety Awareness Week: enact (see H.J. Res. 378), 20775 [19SE]

National Osteoporosis Prevention Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 108), 8209 [4MY]

National POW/MIA Recognition Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 178), 12181 [15JN]

National Quarter Horse Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 345), 14906 [17JY]

National Railroad Passenger Corp.: disposal of untreated waste on tracks (see H.R. 3380), 26590 [31OC]

National Red Ribbon Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 373), 19558 [6SE]

National Respect for the Elderly Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 115), 16203 [25JY]

National Scleroderma Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 274), 11302 [8JN]

National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution Centennial Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 150), 6458 [13AP]

National Stroke Awareness Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 68), 7614 [27AP]

National Women Veterans Recognition Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 35), 5380 [4AP]

National Women's History Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 148), 2902 [28FE]

Obeid, Abdul: extradition from Israel (see H. Con. Res. 183), 18189 [2AU]

Outer Continental Shelf Conservation Cooperation Act: enact (see H.R. 3031), 25239 [19OC]

Partnerships in Education Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 151), 5684 [6AP]

Pepper, Claude: commemorative postage stamp (see H. Con. Res. 149), 16429 [26JY]

Petroleum: excise taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel (see H. Res. 41), 7614 [27AP]

Polish American Heritage Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 347), 13961 [29JN]

Postage stamps: issue peace stamp in conjunction with the Soviet Union (see H.J. Res. 160), 8711 [9MY]

Postal Service: budget treatment (see H.R. 982), 5085 [21MR]

Power resources: tax incentives for oil and natural gas exploration (see H.R. 658, 664), 4033 [13MR], 5085 [21MR]

POW/MIA: return (see H. Con. Res. 92), 8209 [4MY]

Prisons: conversion of closed military installations (see H. Con. Res. 128), 14992 [18JY]

Product safety: require hazardous liquid products to include denatonium benzoate (see H.R. 2715), 18673 [3AU]

Professional Constructors Day: designate (see H.R. 283), 4113 [14MR]

Public utilities: prepayment and refinancing of loans made to rural electrification and telephone systems (see H.R. 3164), 23414 [5OC]

Public works: study local financing practices and more lenient treatment for small issuers of tax-exempt bonds (see H.R. 1867), 6454 [13AP]

Radio: reform broadcast license renewal process (see H.R. 1136), 11243 [7JN]

Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act: amend (see H.R. 2112), 8711 [9MY]

Refugees: status of certain Soviet and Indochinese nationals (see H.R. 2022), 11819 [14JN], 14239 [11JY]

Religious Freedom Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 238), 20648 [18SE]

Research: tax incentive (see H.R. 1416), 19558 [6SE]

Rural areas: business assistance and emergency water project grants (see H.R. 3382), 22292 [28SE]

Rural Hospital Recovery Act: enact (see H.R. 1583), 9408 [16MY]

Saginaw, MI: designate Aleda E. Lutz Dept. of Veterans Affairs Medical Center (see H.R. 2569), 12936 [22JN]

Securities: extend authority to issue tax-exempt small issue bonds (see H. Con. Res. 156), 13847 [28JN]

Shipping industry: oppose consideration of maritime transportation as an area for GATT negotiation (see H. Con. Res. 151), 19334 [4AU]

Smithsonian Institution: National African-American Heritage Memorial Museum (see H.R. 1570), 5170 [22MR]

Social Security: repeal tax on cash tips (see H.R. 446), 21499 [25SE]

Somalia: economic assistance (see H. Con. Res. 207), 22874 [3OC]

Soviet Union: mutual and verifiable restrictions on production of plutonium and uranium (see H.R. 2403), 9648 [18MY]

Statehood: 100th anniversary commemorative coins for certain (see H.R. 1553), 19332 [4AU]

Take Pride in the Flag Day: designate (see H. Res. 189), 13622 [27JN]

Tariff: identification numbers on exported vehicles (see H.R. 2245), 11604 [13JN]

Taxation: credits for employers relative to on-site day care facilities (see H.R. 2148), 10243 [25MY]

———deduction for educational loans (see H.R. 747), 12180 [15JN]

———deduction for health insurance costs of self-employed individuals (see H.R. 2121), 9408 [16MY]

———deny deductions for certain aircraft maintenance expenses incurred outside the U.S. (see H.R. 2075), 7614 [27AP]

———deny tax-exempt status of organizations that perform or finance abortions (see H.R. 624), 11243 [7JN]

———distributions from pension or annuity plans relative to acquiring a principal residence (see H.R. 1955), 7614 [27AP]

———exceptions from rules on contributions of assistance (see H.R. 118), 19963 [11SE]

———exclude certain interest (see H.R. 2021), 11604 [13JN]

———oppose Federal excise tax increase (see H. Res. 134), 15437 [20JY]

———passive loss in farming (see H.R. 1086), 7755 [2MY]

———refundable credit to parents with dependents under age 6 (see H.R. 2008), 12936 [22JN]

———repeal nondiscrimination rules relative to employee benefit plans (see H.R. 634), 3101 [1MR]

———restore deductions for certain retirement savings (see H.R. 1499), 11301 [8JN]

———treatment of certain deductions relative to members of Armed Forces Reserve units (see H.R. 1142), 7544 [26AP]

Telephone: prohibit certain practices relative to automatic dialing devices (see H.R. 2131), 8846 [10MY]

Tobacco industry: require cigarette advertisers to include nicotine warning labels (see H.R. 1171), 2900 [28FE]

Tuna: labeling requirements (see H.R. 2926), 15159 [19JY]

U.N.: prohibit U.S. contributions relative to internationally recognized statehood of members (see H.R. 2145), 8846 [10MY]

U.S. flag: constitutional amendment to prohibit desecration (see H.J. Res. 324, 328, 330, 333, 337, 348, 350), 13963 [29JN], 14077 [11JY], 14476 [12JY], 14906 [17JY], 15437 [20JY], 15850 [24JY]

———prohibit desecration (see H.J. Res. 305, 306, 317; H. Res. 185), 13624 [27JN], 14476 [12JY], 14906 [17JY], 19333 [4AU]

———proper display (see H.R. 1295), 3690 [8MR]

United Services Organization: commemorative coins (see H.R. 2761), 15160 [19JY]

Veterans: amend provisions relative to the home loan program (see H.R. 1415), 10503 [1JN]

———benefits (see H.R. 1358), 10242 [25MY]

———dependency and indemnity compensation relative to the remarriage of a surviving spouse of a veteran (see H.R. 475), 12935 [22JN]

———disability compensation (see H.R. 1335), 3856 [9MR]

———education programs (see H.R. 3390), 25917 [25OC]

———readjustment appointments (see H.R. 2486), 15160 [19JY]

———reduce time a surviving spouse must have been married to be eligible for certain dependency and indemnity compensation (see H.R. 1336), 12181 [15JN]

———remove limitation on pensions furnished to persons under long-term hospital care (see H.R. 1334), 12935 [22JN]

Vietnamese Conflict: location of a memorial to women veterans (see H.J. Res. 421), 26369 [27OC]

Weather: tropical cyclone research program (see H.R. 2479), 10159 [24MY]

Wilderness Act: anniversary of National Wilderness Preservation System (see H.J. Res. 163), 15160 [19JY]

World War II: District of Columbia memorial to members of the Armed Forces (see H.R. 2807), 20442 [14SE]

World War II Remembrance Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 221), 7755 [2MY]

Pledge of Allegiance

House of Representatives, 25516 [24OC]

Remarks by, on

Central America: U.S. policy, 17185, 17186 [1AU]

China, People's Republic of: populace efforts toward democracy, 11213 [7JN]

Democracy: protection of individual freedom, 10865 [6JN]

House of Representatives: adjournment, 95 [3JA], 19554 [6SE]

Journal: question of approval, 22769 [3OC]

Margaret Walker Alexander National African-American Research Center: establish (H.R. 3252), 20097 [12SE]

Mississippi River National Heritage Corridor: commission to prepare a feasibility report (H.R. 2174), 8014 [3MY]

Personal explanation, 26565 [1NO]

U.S. flag: Supreme Court ruling on desecration, 13820 [28JN]

Votes: position on missed, 11830 [14JN], 21498 [27SE], 26565 [1NO], 29574, 29896 [19NO]

Reports

Foreign Travel Expenditures, 28008 [8NO]

Tributes

Alexander, Margaret W., 24029 [11OC]

Smith, Larkin I., 20374 [13SE]

Williams, Jim, 6426 [13AP]