PICKLE, J.J. (a Representative from Texas)
Appointments
Conferee: H.R. 2950, Surface Transportation Efficiency Act, H9470 [6NO]
Articles and editorials
Byars Receives Recognition Plaque—20 Years as Weather Observer, E3961
Competition and Sematech, Washington (DC) Post, E3705
Complex Maze at DHS Even Awes Spokesman, Mike Ward, Austin (TX) American Statesman, E2254
Cris Aldrete, GI Generation Deserve Thanks, Arnold Garcia, Jr., Austin (TX) American-Statesman, E3202
IRS Proposes New Money Laundering Regulations, Carolyn Skorneck, Associated Press, H4207 [10JN]
IRS Targets Ill-Gotten Gains—Bank Drafts, Traveler's Checks, Money Orders Redefined as Cash, New York (NY) Newsday, H4207 [10JN]
North Dakota Ratifies Pay Amendment, Jill Schramm, Minot (ND) News, E4220
Richards To Testify on Medicaid Funding, Bruce Hight, American Statesman (publication), H10525 [19NO]
Seeing Endless Possibilities for Plastic—Nalle Intrigued by Material's Potential, Kim Tyson, Austin (TX) American-Statesman, E1701
3,000 Celebrate Feminist Struggle—Leaders of Women's Movement Cheered at UT Conference, Brenda J. Breaux, Austin (TX) American-Statesman, E1215
United States Can't Afford To Lose Technological Edge, William Spencer, Dallas (TX) News, E706
When Blanco's Old Courthouse Was Sold, the Residents Rallied To Buy It Back, David Dillon, Dallas (TX) News, E701
Bills and resolutions introduced by
Medicare: improve administration (see H.R. 3837, H10841 [21NO])
Tariff: metallized or foil balloons (see H.R. 1811, H2260 [16AP])
Taxation: codifying the depreciable life of semiconductor manufacturing equipment (see H.R. 3273, H6384 [2AU])
———individual retirement accounts (see H.R. 1406, H1669 [12MR])
———protection of taxpayers' rights (see H.R. 3838, H10841 [21NO])
Tom Miller Dam, Austin, TX: designate (see H.R. 1810, H2260 [16AP])
Bills and resolutions introduced by, as cosponsor
Agriculture: prevention of crimes against farmers, researchers, and other livestock-related professions (see H.R. 2407, H3856 [4JN])
Air Force Association: establish a memorial in the District of Columbia area (see H.R. 3627, H10842 [21NO])
American Magazine Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 253, H6318 [1AU])
Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 173, H2376 [17AP])
Basketball Centennial Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 372, H11115 [23NO])
Budget: constitutional amendment to require balanced (see H.J. Res. 290, H5298 [9JY])
Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act: repeal provisions exempting certain articles from duty-free treatment (see H.R. 1283, H1454 [6MR])
Coins: mint commemorative coin for 200th anniversary of White House (see H.R. 3337, H10932 [22NO])
Commodore John Barry Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 166, H5910 [25JY])
Country Music Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 305, H6540 [12SE])
Customs Service: settlement of certain claims against law enforcement officers (see H.R. 2731, H9493 [6NO])
Dept. of the Treasury: borrowing by Government-related corporations (see H.R. 3365, H6690 [19SE])
Education: improve counseling services for elementary school students (see H.R. 840, H7313 [2OC])
Education Day, U.S.A.: designate (see H.J. Res. 104, H1282 [27FE])
Emergency Medical Services Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 109, H1081 [20FE])
Equal rights: constitutional amendment to ensure (see H.J. Res. 1, H606 [18JA])
FAA: publish flight charts for visual flight routes (see H.R. 3243, H6382 [2AU])
Federal employees: age requirements for Federal law enforcement officers and fire fighters (see H.R. 961, H1670 [12MR])
———tribute for contributions to Persian Gulf Conflict (see H. Con. Res. 147, H6388 [2AU])
———voluntary participation in the political process (see H.R. 20, H1670 [12MR])
Foreign policy: recommittal to U.S. support of universal human rights and democracy (see H. Res. 284, H10365 [18NO])
Franklin, Benjamin: mint coins in commemoration (see H.R. 2448, H3856 [4JN])
Girl Scouts of the United States of America 80th Anniversary Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 343, H10545 [19NO])
Government: elimination of waste (see H.R. 3816, H10543 [19NO])
Health: reauthorize and expand area health education centers (see H.R. 3312, H6455 [11SE])
Health care professionals: inform individuals about risks and complications associated with breast implant surgery (see H.R. 3783, H10280 [15NO])
Infant Mortality Awareness Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 194, H2181 [11AP])
IRS: time extension for certain acts for individuals performing services under Operation Desert Shield (see H.R. 4, H53 [3JA])
Medicaid: Federal payments relative to State expenditures made from revenues derived from provider-specific taxes (see H.R. 3595, H8496 [24OC])
Medicare: coverage for colerectal screening examinations and certain immunizations (see H.R. 2565, H4097 [6JN])
———home care and extended care services coverages (see H.R. 1200, H2375 [17AP])
———payment for interpretation of electrocardiograms (see H.R. 3373, H6941 [26SE])
Mental Illness Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 156, H3281 [20MY])
Motion pictures: observe anniversary of moviemaking and the contributions of the American Film Institute (see H. Con. Res. 161, H6195 [31JY])
Motor vehicles: national safety belt and motorcycle helmet use requirements (see H.R. 1782, H3625 [23MY])
National American Indian Heritage Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 182, H3038 [14MY])
National Breast Cancer Awareness Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 257, H6691 [19SE])
National Desert Storm Reservists Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 231, H2469 [23AP])
National Down's Syndrome Awareness Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 228, H7863 [15OC])
National Forest System Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 226, H5212 [26JN])
National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 87, H1915 [20MR])
National Foster Care Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 154, H2109 [9AP])
National Hospice Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 153, H6690 [19SE])
National Huntington's Disease Awareness Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 56, H1476 [7MR])
National Minority Organ Donor Encouragement Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 229, H4099 [6JN])
National observances: establish a commission to advise the President (see H.R. 68, H1162 [26FE])
National Recycling Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 169, H2109 [9AP])
National Sarcoidosis Awareness Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 309, H6195 [31JY])
National Scleroderma Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 219, H3710 [29MY])
National Senior Nutrition Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 141, H2109 [9AP])
Paine, Thomas: establish monument in the District of Columbia (see H.R. 1628, H8662 [29OC])
Patents: certain processes (see H.R. 1417, H5341 [10JY])
Pediatric AIDS Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 91, H2262 [16AP])
Pledge of Allegiance: mint coins for 100th anniversary (see H.R. 2385, H4284 [11JN])
Power resources: comprehensive energy security policy (see H.R. 2666, H5342 [10JY])
Public Health Service Act: family planning counseling (see H.R. 392, H3805 [3JN])
Public Pension Equity Restoration Act: enact (see H.R. 1348, H1473 [7MR])
Real property: tax treatment under the limitations on losses from passive activities (see H.R. 1414, H1757 [13MR])
Resolution Trust Corp.: convey Nags Head Woods, NC to a Government agency or qualified organization (see H.R. 2131, H3160 [16MY])
Roads and highways: funding for construction and safety programs (see H.R. 2566, H5596 [17JY])
Schwarzkopf, H. Norman, Jr.: award a Congressional Gold Medal and produce bronze duplicates for public sale (see H.R. 1296, H1671 [12MR])
Social Security: establish as an independent agency (see H.R. 2838, H6387 [2AU])
———payment for physicians' services (see H.R. 3070, H6879 [25SE])
Solid waste: application of certain requirements and sanctions to Federal facilities (see H.R. 2194, H2767 [2MY])
Taxation: capital gains (see H.R. 3741, H9580 [7NO])
———credits for increasing research activities (see H.R. 1618, H2083 [22MR])
———employee stock ownership plans (see H.R. 2410, H3370 [21MY])
———incentives for establishing businesses within closed military bases and hiring displaced employees (see H.R. 3112, H6137 [30JY])
———investment tax credit for vehicles fueled by clean-burning substances (see H.R. 1497, H2538 [24AP])
———research and experimental expenditures (see H.R. 1663, H2107 [9AP])
———simplify the application of earned income credit (see H.R. 3828, H10722 [20NO])
———treatment of charitable contributions of appreciated property (see H.R. 1557, H3805 [3JN])
Transportation: mass transit program funding (see H.R. 1079, H1849 [19MR])
Veterans: disability compensation for service-connected disabilities (see H.R. 3, H53 [3JA])
Women: reproduction rights (see H.R. 25, H11894 [26NO])
Women's History Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 149, H1916 [20MR])
World AIDS Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 376, H10843 [21NO])
World Food Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 230, H6799 [24SE])
World Population Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 261, H7381 [3OC])
World War II: contributions of Federal civilian employees during the attack on Pearl Harbor (see H.J. Res. 368, H11893 [26NO])
———contributions of the people of Guam and Hawaii (see H. Res. 293, H11115 [23NO])
Year of the American Indian: designate (see H.J. Res. 342, H10545 [19NO])
Year of the Gulf of Mexico: designate (see H.J. Res. 327, H7801 [10OC])
Descriptions
Treatment of individual retirement accounts (H.R. 1406), H1650 [12MR]
Letters
Committee on Taxation (Joint) membership, H841 [4FE]
Lists
States that have not yet ratified the congressional compensation amendment to the Constitution, E4220
Remarks by, on
Austin, TX: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ecological field office appropriations, H4963 [25JN]
Blanco, TX: preservation of community history, E701
Business and industry: encourage joint ventures between private industry and Government, E3705
Columbus Day: observance, E3381
Commission on Defense Base Closure and Realignment: disapprove recommendations (H.J. Res. 308), H6027 [30JY]
CompuADD Corp.: community support for troops in the Persian Gulf, E577
Congressional Record: revise and extend remarks, H11029 [23NO]
Constitution: ratification of congressional compensation amendment, E4220
Dept. of Commerce: authorizing appropriations for the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Technology Administration (H.R. 1989), H5477, H5478 [16JY]
Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military functions and to prescribe military personnel levels (H.R. 2100), conference report, H10379 [18NO]
———high-technology research, E706
———making appropriations for military construction (H.R. 2426), H3718 [30MY]
Dept. of the Interior: making appropriations (H.R. 2686), H4963 [25JN]
Dept. of the Treasury: borrowing by Government-related corporations (H.R. 3365), H11029 [23NO]
Dept. of the Treasury, Postal Service, Executive Office of the President, and independent agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 2622), H4596 [18JN]
Eastern European countries: termination of application of certain provisions of the Trade Act to the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic and Hungary (H.R. 1724), consideration of Senate amendment (H. Res. 287), H10650 [20NO]
Executive departments: overpayments, E2886
Financial institutions: improve supervision and regulation of FNMA, Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., Student Loan Marketing Association, and Farm Credit System (H.R. 2900), H6817 [25SE]
———increase enforcement actions against money laundering (H.R. 26), H4206 [10JN]
———least-cost resolution of insured depository institutions (H.R. 2094), H10242 [14NO]
Foreign policy: recommittal to U.S. support of universal human rights and democracy (H. Res. 284), H11222 [25NO]
Foreign trade: procedures for implementing trade agreements (H. Res. 101), H3542 [23MY]
House of Representatives: annual serving of Texas venison chili, H11121 [25NO]
Housing: regulation of financial programs for Government-sponsored enterprises, H6817 [25SE]
Iraq: Dept. of the Treasury tracking of arms procurement and financial network, H2268 [17AP]
IRS: inspection of tax returns of high-income taxpayers, H4596 [18JN]
———time extension for certain acts for individuals performing services under Operation Desert Shield (H.R. 4), H669 [23JA]
Medicaid: Federal payments relative to State expenditures made from revenues derived from provider-specific taxes (H.R. 3595), H10525 [19NO]
Medicare: improve administration (H.R. 3837), H10725-H10727 [21NO]
Middle East: community support for troops in the Persian Gulf, E577
———congressional approval of military action to enforce U.N. Security Council resolution against Iraq pending failure of economic sanctions (H. Con. Res. 33), H329 [11JA]
———military action to enforce U.N. Security Council resolution against Iraq, H329 [11JA]
———military action to enforce U.N. Security Council resolution against Iraq (H.J. Res. 77), H474 [12JA]
Point of order, H5483, H5484 [16JY]
Resolution Trust Corp.: funding (H.R. 1315), H1647 [12MR]
Rockefeller, Laurence S.: award Congressional Gold Medal, H7150, H7151 [1OC]
Small business: loan funding to support research, development on, and demonstration of commercial feasibility of advanced technologies and products in certain fields, H5477, H5478 [16JY]
Taxation: individual retirement accounts (H.R. 1406), H1650 [12MR], H1762 [14MR]
———protection of taxpayers' rights (H.R. 3838), H10725-H10727 [21NO], H11814 [26NO]
Transportation: establish a national comprehensive surface transportation system (H.R. 2950), H8255 [23OC]
Unemployment: emergency compensation, H10650 [20NO]
———emergency compensation (H.R. 3575), H10220 [14NO]
University of Texas: tribute to men's and women's swim teams, H3723 [30MY]
Veterans: housing and memorial affairs programs (H.R. 232), H905 [6FE]
Weapons: electric gun technology, H10379 [18NO]
Remarks in House relative to
Special order: granted, H888 [5FE], H1667 [12MR], H7197 [1OC]
Statements
Awarding of Congressional Gold Medal to Laurence S. Rockefeller: Laurence S. Rockefeller, H7151 [1OC]
———President Bush, H7150 [1OC]
IRS Budget: Fred T. Goldberg, IRS, H4597-H4599 [18JN]
Tribute to John W. McHorse: Parker McCollough, E4212 [26NO]
Testimonies
Committee on Rules: Resolution Trust Corp. Funding (H.R. 1315), D255 [7MR]
Committee on Science, Space, and Technology: Semiconductors—Role of Consortia, D953 [23JY]
Tributes
Aldrete, Cristobal, E3202
Byars, Roy, E3961
Criss, Pericles, E698
Ferguson, Thomas C., E571
Hancock, Lottie B., H898 [6FE]
Ikard, Frank, H2606
Johnson, Lady Bird (Claudia Alta), H2019 [22MR]
McHorse, John W., E4212
Nalle, George, Jr., E1701
Schiltz, Art, E1967
Whitten, Representative, H9157 [5NO]
Woods, Bill, E2254