HALL, RALPH M. (a Representative from Texas)
Articles and editorials
Growing Spare Parts for People in Space?—NASA Device Revolutionizes Cell Culturing, Kathy Sawyer, Washington (DC) Post, E3954
Bills and resolutions introduced by
Employment: valuation of stock received by certain employees relative to performance of services as employees (see H.R. 2480, H3709 [29MY])
Space policy: biomedical research (see H.R. 3922, H11288 [25NO])
———development of commercial space activities (see H.R. 3848, H10841 [21NO])
Bills and resolutions introduced by, as cosponsor
African Americans: capital financing for historically black colleges and universities (see H.R. 1503, H6386 [2AU])
Air Force Association: establish a memorial in the District of Columbia area (see H.R. 3627, H11892 [26NO])
Arab countries: recognition of Israel (see H. Con. Res. 88, H1760 [13MR])
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: lease lands for oil and gas exploration and development (see H.R. 759, H824 [30JA])
Armed Forces: establish a commemorative medal for members serving in a combat zone during the Persian Gulf conflict (see H.R. 1107, H2086 [22MR])
Arts and humanities: recognition of ``An Artistic Discovery,'' the congressional high school art competition (see H. Res. 201, H7200 [1OC])
Basketball Centennial Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 372, H11115 [23NO])
Big Brothers/Big Sisters Appreciation Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 199, H2188 [15AP])
Big Thicket National Preserve: increase size (see H.R. 1592, H6940 [26SE])
Boats: fees for recreational vessels (see H.R. 534, H2470 [23AP])
Boy Scouts of America: anniversary (see H.J. Res. 207, H4438 [12JN])
Budget: constitutional amendment to require balanced (see H.J. Res. 143, H2376 [17AP]; H.J. Res. 248, H2901 [8MY]; H.J. Res. 290, H5298 [9JY])
———Presidential power to reduce authority (see H.R. 78, H2108 [9AP])
Buy American Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 299, H6139 [30JY])
Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act: waive application to certain farm vehicles (see H.R. 1516, H6138 [30JY])
Commodore John Barry Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 166, H5910 [25JY])
Communications: improve allocation and assignment to the electromagnetic spectrum (see H.R. 531, H512 [15JA])
Country Music Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 305, H6318 [1AU])
Crime Prevention Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 303, H5746 [23JY])
Dept. of Defense: reduce budget (see H. Res. 233, H8189 [22OC])
Diseases: reauthorizing research programs on Alzheimer's disease (see H.R. 3082, H10544 [19NO])
District of Columbia: approval of Assault Weapon Manufacturing Strict Liability Act (see H.J. Res. 79, H855 [4FE])
Drug abuse: use of certain grants for treatment of intravenous drug abuse (see H.R. 2235, H2810 [7MY])
Dutch-American Heritage Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 177, H5665 [22JY])
Education: improve counseling services for elementary school students (see H.R. 840, H8787 [30OC])
———promote the teaching of civics and character values in elementary and secondary schools (see H.R. 2125, H2570 [29AP])
Edwards, Ralph: relief (see H.R. 1918, H2769 [2MY])
Elections: constitutional amendment relative to contributions and expenditures of congressional, Presidential, State, and local (see H.J. Res. 224, H11115 [23NO])
Emergency Medical Services Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 109, H1915 [20MR])
Executive departments: options for shared services in Depts. of Veterans Affairs and HHS (see H. Con. Res. 146, H2811 [7MY])
FAA: publish flight charts for visual flight routes (see H.R. 3243, H6382 [2AU])
FCC: prevent the loss of existing spectrum to the amateur radio service (see H.R. 73, H1474 [7MR])
Federal employees: allow time off from duty to serve as bone marrow donors (see H.R. 658, H3495 [22MY])
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: amend relative to bottled water (see H.R. 3545, H9144 [4NO])
FERC: jurisdiction over sale of natural gas for motor vehicle fuel (see H.R. 1089, H1417 [5MR])
Financial institutions: limit liability on holdings in violation of certain environmental laws (see H.R. 1450, H1774 [14MR])
Flag—U.S.: constitutional amendment to prohibit desecration (see H.J. Res. 83, H892 [5FE])
Food: remove certain pesticides from supply and establish EPA negligible risk standard (see H.R. 3216, H7200 [1OC])
Foreign policy: recommittal to U.S. support of universal human rights and democracy (see H. Res. 284, H10843 [21NO])
Government: elimination of waste (see H.R. 3816, H10543 [19NO])
Guam, Commonwealth of: establish (see H.R. 98, H3624 [23MY])
Health: access to telecommunications systems used to provide medical information to rural care providers (see H.R. 2232, H2810 [7MY])
———air transport of rural victims of medical emergencies (see H.R. 2234, H3710 [29MY])
———analysis of urban and rural area statistics (see H.R. 2238, H2811 [7MY])
———reauthorize and expand area health education centers (see H.R. 3312, H6455 [11SE])
———reduce infant mortality by improving services to pregnant women in rural areas (see H.R. 2229, H2810 [7MY])
———rural medical education projects (see H.R. 2233, H2810 [7MY]; H.R. 2236, H2810 [7MY]
Health care facilities: exempt from antitrust laws, certain activities entered into by hospitals in low population areas (see H.R. 2406, H3279 [20MY])
Health care professionals: incentives for physicians to practice in rural areas (see H.R. 2230, H2810 [7MY])
———increase number of individuals serving in clinical laboratories serving rural areas (see H.R. 2405, H3279 [20MY])
———requirements relative to training in family medicine (see H.R. 2231, H2810 [7MY])
Hunger: ensure adequate diet for all Americans (see H.R. 1202, H1324 [28FE])
Income: treatment of telephone and electric cooperative pension plans (see H.R. 2031, H3806 [3JN])
Infant Mortality Awareness Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 194, H2181 [11AP])
Japan: operation and regulation of capital and securities markets (see H.R. 3283, H11892 [26NO])
Language and languages: recognize English as official U.S. language (see H.R. 123, H1914 [20MR])
Lyme Disease Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 138, H2263 [16AP])
Medicaid: Federal payments relative to State expenditures made from revenues derived from provider-specific taxes (see H.R. 3595, H8120 [21OC])
———regulations relative to certain contributions, taxes, and transfers toward State expenditures (see H.R. 3550, H8189 [22OC])
Medicare: due process protections to institutions subject to State certifications (see H.R. 2240, H2811 [7MY])
Members of Congress: pay rate adjustments (see H.R. 811, H1456 [6MR])
Mental Illness Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 156, H6318 [1AU])
Motion pictures: observe anniversary of moviemaking and the contributions of the American Film Institute (see H. Con. Res. 161, H7726 [9OC])
Motor vehicles: national safety belt and motorcycle helmet use requirements (see H.R. 1782, H3625 [23MY])
NASA: authorizing appropriations (see H.R. 1988, H2467 [23AP])
National Accessible Housing Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 326, H10269 [14NO])
National Agriculture Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 272, H10932 [22NO])
National Alzheimer's Disease Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 198, H7649 [8OC])
National Biomedical Research Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 316, H6676 [17SE])
National Campus Crime and Security Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 142, H5910 [25JY])
National DARE Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 217, H5451 [15JY])
National Defense Reserve Fleet: disposal of certain vessels (see H.R. 3512, H9144 [4NO])
National Desert Storm Reservists Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 231, H2603 [30AP])
National Down Syndrome Awareness Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 228, H4016 [5JN])
National Family Caregivers Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 125, H6387 [2AU])
National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 87, H1081 [20FE])
National Foster Care Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 154, H2376 [17AP])
National Historically Black Colleges Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 102, H5515 [16JY])
National Home Care Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 175, H7381 [3OC])
National Hospice Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 153, H5433 [11JY])
National Huntington's Disease Awareness Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 56, H2770 [2MY])
National Job Skills Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 291, H11289 [25NO])
National parks: restrict concessionaire contracts (see H.R. 542, H993 [6FE])
National Philanthropy Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 140, H6194 [31JY])
National POW/MIA Recognition Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 233, H6318 [1AU])
National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 284, H7314 [2OC])
National Radon Action Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 67, H6721 [23SE])
National Red Ribbon Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 312, H8102 [17OC])
National Red Ribbon Week for a Drug-Free America: designate (see H.J. Res. 340, H7815 [11OC])
National Senior Citizens Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 181, H3710 [29MY])
National Tourism Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 103, H2087 [22MR])
National Trauma Awareness Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 300, H8189 [22OC])
National Visiting Nurse Associations Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 212, H6458 [11SE])
Nuclear energy: standardize plant designs and improve the licensing and regulatory process (see H.R. 1184, H3371 [21MY])
Paine, Thomas: establish monument in the District of Columbia (see H.R. 1628, H7981 [16OC])
Pensions: civil service retirement credit relative to work performed under certain Federal-State cooperative programs (see H.R. 1653, H2085 [22MR])
Pharmaceuticals: penalties for illegal activities relative to the approval of abbreviated drug applications (see H.R. 2454, H3622 [23MY])
Polish American Heritage Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 227, H5515 [16JY])
President's Committee on Mental Retardation: anniversary (see H.J. Res. 307, H7726 [9OC])
Real property: tax treatment under the limitations on losses from passive activities (see H.R. 1414, H1757 [13MR])
Religious Freedom Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 325, H6601 [16SE])
Roads and highways: funding for construction and safety programs (see H.R. 2566, H6318 [1AU])
Schwarzkopf, H. Norman, Jr.: award a Congressional Gold Medal and produce bronze duplicates for public sale (see H.R. 1296, H1475 [7MR])
Social Security: benefit formula computation rules (see H.R. 917, H990 [6FE])
———earnings test for retirement age individuals (see H.R. 249, H77 [4JA]; H.R. 967, H1023 [19FE])
———payment for physicians' services (see H.R. 3070, H8577 [28OC])
Space policy: continuation of Landsat remote-sensing satellite program (see H.R. 2449, H3622 [23MY])
States: taxation of nonresidents pension income (see H.R. 431, H4098 [6JN])
Taxation: cash or deferred arrangements for employees of tax-exempt organizations (see H.R. 2327, H3035 [14MY])
———codifying the depreciable life of semiconductor manufacturing equipment (see H.R. 3273, H6384 [2AU])
———deductions for decommissioning costs of nuclear powerplants (see H.R. 2012, H2468 [23AP])
———gains and losses of non-exempt farmer cooperatives (see H.R. 2361, H3149 [15MY])
———health insurance costs of self-employed individuals (see H.R. 784, H854 [4FE])
———importation of crude oil and refined petroleum products (see H.R. 706, H1475 [7MR])
———income from frozen Iraqi assets (see H.R. 135, H825 [30JA])
———increase amount of the exemption for children under age 18 (see H.R. 1277, H4437 [12JN])
———individual retirement accounts (see H.R. 1406, H2087 [22MR])
———investment tax credit for vehicles fueled by clean-burning substances (see H.R. 1497, H2394 [18AP])
———passbook savings accounts interest income (see H.R. 4067, H11889 [26NO])
———penalty-free withdrawals from individual retirement accounts for purchase of a first home (see H.R. 1696, H6798 [24SE])
———permanently extend qualified mortgage bonds (see H.R. 1067, H6138 [30JY])
———repeal excise tax on luxury items (see H.R. 2598, H6798 [24SE])
———targeted jobs credit (see H.R. 565, H6539 [12SE])
———treatment of a charitable organization operating an amateur athletic event (see H.R. 2464, H12063 [3JA])
———treatment of amounts received by cooperative telephone companies indirectly from their members (see H.R. 1860, H3280 [20MY])
———treatment of contributions to education savings accounts (see H.R. 34, H2374 [17AP])
Television: access of home satellite antenna users to video programming (see H.R. 3420, H6940 [26SE])
Tourist trade: assist growth of U.S. travel industry (see H.R. 418, H1849 [19MR])
Transportation: establish a national electric vehicle research, demonstration, and commercialization program (see H.R. 1538, H3037 [14MY])
Veterans: disability compensation for service-connected disabilities (see H.R. 3, H512 [15JA])
———grave marker allowance (see H.R. 1992, H8496 [24OC])
———permit acceptance of military retirement pay concurrently with disability compensation (see H.R. 3164, H9493 [6NO])
———service pensions for World War I veterans (see H.R. 1918, H2769 [2MY])
Welk, Lawrence: repeal authority to use appropriations for rural development grants for the restoration of birthplace (see H.R. 772, H1080 [20FE])
Wetlands: conservation and management (see H.R. 1330, H6385 [2AU])
World War II: contributions of Federal civilian employees during the attack on Pearl Harbor (see H.J. Res. 368, H11893 [26NO])
Year of the Gulf of Mexico: designate (see H.J. Res. 327, H7801 [10OC])
Yugoslavia: recognize independence of Croatia and Slovenia (see H. Con. Res. 224, H10724 [20NO])
———U.S. policy (see H. Res. 296, H10931 [22NO])
Remarks by, on
Depts. of Veterans Affairs, HUD, and independent agencies, commissions, corporations, and offices: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 2519), H4044 [6JN]
Middle East: military action to enforce U.N. Security Council resolution against Iraq, H346 [11JA]
NASA: authorizing appropriations, H4044 [6JN]
———authorizing appropriations (H.R. 1988), H2706, H2717, H2719, H2720 [2MY], H9564 [7NO]
———random drug testing for employees, H2723 [2MY]
National Red Ribbon Week for a Drug-Free America: observance, E3731
Power resources: making appropriations for energy and water development (H.R. 2427), H3678, H3680 [29MY], E1975
Research: superconducting supercollider funding, H3678, H3680 [29MY], E1975
Space policy: biomedical research (H.R. 3922), E4061
———development of commercial space activities (H.R. 3848), E3954
———launching of Government satellites, H2717 [2MY]
Space Shuttle Program: anniversary, E1349
Remarks in House relative to
Congressional Record: revise and extend remarks, H2391 [18AP], H11286 [25NO]
Summaries
Commercial Space Competitiveness Act (H.R. 3848), E3970
Testimonies
Committee on Rules: Depts. of Veterans Affairs, HUD, and Independent Agencies Appropriations (H.R. 2519), D699 [5JN]
———NASA Appropriations (H.R. 1988), D507 [30AP]
Committee on the Budget (House): Priorities in Science Funding, D889 [11JY]
Superconducting Supercollider Funding: Leon M. Lederman, H3678-H3680 [29MY]
Tributes
Barringer, Mike, E3155
Kochan, Joey, E3726
Peoples, Clint, E3959
Sapp, Jason, E3731
Williams, Ted, H7163