ROBERTS, PAT (a Representative from Kansas)

Amendments offered by, to

Legislative branch: making appropriations (H.R. 2506), H3978 [5JN]

Appointments

Conferee: H.R. 707, CFTC appropriations, H7202 [2OC]

———H.R. 2508, International Cooperation Act, H6646 [17SE]

House Commission on Congressional Mailing Standards, H3711 [30MY]

Bills and resolutions introduced by

Agricultural Reconciliation Act: improve effectiveness (see H.R. 3330, H6538 [12SE])

Elections: campaign ethics reform and contribution limits (see H.R. 922, H991 [6FE])

Financial institutions: check cashing procedures at the Sergeant at Arms Bank of the House of Representatives (see H. Res. 224, H6720 [23SE])

Health: air transport of rural victims of medical emergencies (see H.R. 2234, H2810 [7MY])

Health care professionals: improve certain training programs (see H.R. 2483, H3709 [29MY])

———increase payments for certain graduate medical education costs (see H.R. 2484, H3709 [29MY])

House of Representatives: abolish the franking privilege and establish a spending allowance for postage (see H.R. 771, H839 [31JA])

———voter registration lists (see H. Res. 276, H9700 [12NO])

Kansas: study of frontier cavalry forts (see H.R. 2337, H3036 [14MY])

Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program: Cedar Bluff unit water service and repayment contracts (see H.R. 923, H991 [6FE])

Railroads: improve rural and short line services (see H.R. 1425, H1758 [13MR])

Resolution Trust Corp.: acquisition of certain property from institutions under conservatorship (see H.R. 2079, H2536 [24AP])

Roads and highways: 65-mile-per-hour speed limit demonstration project availability (see H.R. 2529, H3854 [4JN])

Rural areas: air transport of victims of medical emergencies (see H.R. 1158, H1279 [27FE])

Taxation: treatment of certain estate tax benefits relative to rentals within families (see H.R. 2214, H2768 [2MY])

Bills and resolutions introduced by, as cosponsor

Abortion: availability of services under federally funded programs (see H.R. 1490, H2783 [6MY])

Agricultural Act: amend (see H.R. 980, H1417 [5MR])

———clarify status of certain refunds (see H.R. 2189, H2685 [1MY])

Agriculture: calculation of certain wheat deficiency payments (see H.R. 523, H487 [12JA])

———prevention of crimes against farmers, researchers, and other livestock-related professions (see H.R. 2407, H3279 [20MY])

Air Force Association: establish a memorial in the District of Columbia area (see H.R. 3627, H11894 [26NO])

Albert Einstein Congressional Fellowship Program: establish (see H. Res. 208, H6138 [30JY])

American Magazine Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 253, H5451 [15JY])

Appropriations: constitutional amendment on line-item veto (see H.J. Res. 5, H1671 [12MR])

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: lease lands for oil and gas exploration and development (see H.R. 759, H824 [30JA])

Armed Forces: Bronze Star to Navy and Marine Corps personnel who served in the defense of Corregidor Island in the Philippines (see H.J. Res. 367, H11289 [25NO])

———eligibility for military medical and dental care of certain minors under legal custody of members (see H.R. 2134, H2601 [30AP])

———retention of certain information in personnel files on missing or deceased members (see H.R. 1730, H2177 [11AP])

Basketball Centennial Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 372, H11115 [23NO])

Bicentennial of the District of Columbia Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 356, H11893 [26NO])

Boats: fees for recreational vessels (see H.R. 534, H6798 [24SE])

Boy Scouts of America: anniversary (see H.J. Res. 207, H4016 [5JN])

Budget: constitutional amendment to require balanced (see H.J. Res. 248, H2901 [8MY]; H.J. Res. 290, H5298 [9JY])

———Presidential power to reduce authority (see H.R. 78, H1025 [19FE])

———reform process (see H.R. 298, H78 [4JA])

Capitol Police: civilian support positions for functions relative to the House of Representatives (see H. Res. 199, H5744 [23JY])

Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation: establish (see H.R. 500, H1025 [19FE])

Civil Rights Act: free speech rights of college students (see H.R. 1380, H2399 [22AP])

Coins: mint in commemoration of James Madison (see H.R. 2673, H4611 [18JN])

———mint in commemoration of the Bill of Rights (see H.R. 2673, H4611 [18JN])

Coins and coinage: mint in commemoration of the quincentenary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus (see H.R. 500, H1025 [19FE])

Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act: waive application to certain farm vehicles (see H.R. 1516, H2137 [10AP])

Committee on the Organization of Congress (Joint): establish (see H. Con. Res. 192, H7649 [8OC])

Commodore John Barry Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 166, H6194 [31JY])

Conservation of energy: regional energy efficient lighting education centers (see H.R. 3285, H9493 [6NO])

Country Music Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 305, H5595 [17JY])

Courts: standards for product liability actions (see H.R. 3030, H5908 [25JY])

Dept. of Education: establish an Office of Community Colleges (see H.R. 1048, H6456 [11SE])

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, H8663 [29OC])

Education: improve (see H.R. 2460, H3623 [23MY])

Education Day, U.S.A.: designate (see H.J. Res. 104, H994 [6FE])

Edwards, Ralph: relief (see H.R. 1918, H2769 [2MY])

Elections: campaign ethics reform and contribution limits (see H.R. 3770, H10268 [14NO])

Export Enhancement Program: restore effectiveness (see H.R. 805, H889 [5FE])

FAA: publish flight charts for visual flight routes (see H.R. 3243, H6382 [2AU])

Fair Labor Standards Act: clarify application (see H.R. 1237, H2180 [11AP])

FCC: prevent the loss of existing spectrum to the amateur radio service (see H.R. 73, H5596 [17JY])

Federal employees: honoraria (see H.R. 414, H506 [14JA])

Federal-State Pesticide Regulation Partnership Act: enact (see H.R. 3850, H10841 [21NO])

Financial institutions: improve the qualified thrift lender test (see H.R. 1718, H2769 [2MY])

———limit liability on holdings in violation of certain environmental laws (see H.R. 1450, H1774 [14MR])

Firearms: mandatory minimum sentences for unlawful possession by convicted felons and illegal drug users (see H.R. 1719, H2177 [11AP])

Flag—U.S.: display by U.S. citizens in support of Armed Forces in the Persian Gulf (see H. Con. Res. 44, H605 [18JA])

Food: remove certain pesticides from supply and establish EPA negligible risk standard (see H.R. 3216, H6381 [2AU])

Foreign trade: import of meat products from the EEC relative to the removal of certain trade barriers (see H.R. 3454, H8496 [24OC])

Gambling: regulation of greyhound racing industry (see H.R. 423, H6385 [2AU])

GATT: oilseeds panel ruling against the EEC (see H. Res. 257, H8335 [23OC])

Geography Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 201, H7726 [9OC])

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, H10723 [20NO])

Government regulation: procedures for assessment of impact on seizure of private property (see H.R. 1572, H2014 [21MR])

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])

———assess paperwork burden imposed on providers and beneficiaries of health care services (see H.R. 2625, H5342 [10JY])

———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])

Health care professionals: excessive physician regulations under medicare (see H.R. 2695, H5651 [18JY])

———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])

Infant Mortality Awareness Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 194, H2181 [11AP])

International Air Transportation Competition Act: amend (see H.R. 858, H988 [6FE])

Korean War Veterans Remembrance Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 255, H4945 [24JN])

Labor: repeal Davis-Bacon Act (see H.R. 1755, H2178 [11AP])

Language and languages: recognize English as official U.S. language (see H.R. 123, H57 [3JA])

Medicare: establish Comprehensive Preventive Health Program (see H.R. 1746, H2178 [11AP])

Members of Congress: deny annuity benefits relative to individuals convicted of a felony (see H.R. 1077, H1759 [13MR])

Mental Illness Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 156, H6318 [1AU])

Middle East: demonstrations of community support for troops in the Persian Gulf (see H.J. Res. 174, H1457 [6MR])

———success of multinational military action against Iraq (see H. Res. 95, H1326 [28FE])

National Accessible Housing Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 326, H8497 [24OC])

National Alzheimer's Disease Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 198, H7815 [11OC])

National Arbor Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 66, H1579 [11MR])

National Campus Crime and Security Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 142, H4867 [20JN])

National Education First Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 197, H2181 [11AP])

National Employ the Older Worker Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 133, H1282 [27FE])

National Family Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 23, H4284 [11JN])

National Firefighters Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 189, H4868 [20JN])

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, H1081 [20FE])

National Girls and Women in Sports Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 30, H782 [29JA])

National Historically Black Colleges Week: designate (see H.R. 102, H1457 [6MR])

National Home Care Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 175, H5342 [10JY])

National Hospice Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 153, H6799 [24SE])

National Hunting and Fishing Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 225, H2374 [17AP])

National Huntington's Disease Awareness Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 56, H1476 [7MR])

National Military Families Recognition Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 215, H5818 [24JY])

National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 218, H2179 [11AP])

National Parks Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 276, H6194 [31JY])

National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 72, H1456 [6MR])

National Philanthropy Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 140, H6194 [31JY])

National Physical Fitness and Sports Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 120, H2570 [29AP])

National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 284, H7382 [3OC])

National Sarcoidosis Awareness Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 309, H5650 [18JY])

National School Breakfast Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 98, H1281 [27FE])

National Tax Freedom Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 220, H2261 [16AP])

National Trauma Awareness Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 300, H9581 [7NO])

National Visiting Nurse Associations Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 212, H5050 [25JN])

National Walk For Health and Fitness Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 170, H2087 [22MR])

National Women in Agriculture Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 293, H5340 [10JY])

Older Americans Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 51, H2783 [6MY])

Paine, Thomas: establish monument in the District of Columbia (see H.R. 1628, H5432 [11JY])

Pensions: civil service retirement credit relative to work performed under certain Federal-State cooperative programs (see H.R. 1653, H2085 [22MR])

Pesticides: coordinate and synchronize data requirements (see H.R. 3882, H10930 [22NO])

Polish American Heritage Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 227, H5342 [10JY])

Postal Service: establish commission to investigate (see H. Res. 194, H5911 [25JY])

Power resources: encourage energy conservation among farmers, ranchers, forest industry, and utilizers of wood (see H.R. 1418, H1757 [13MR])

Public Health Service: establish a Substance Abuse Treatment Corps (see H.R. 2027, H2469 [23AP])

Public lands: domestic livestock grazing fees (see H.R. 1292, H1455 [6MR])

Real property: compensate owners for diminution of value resulting from Federal action (see H.R. 2185, H3625 [23MY])

———tax treatment under the limitations on losses from passive activities (see H.R. 1414, H1757 [13MR])

Recycling: State opportunities for citizens' participation (see H.R. 945, H1417 [5MR])

Retired Enlisted Association, Inc.: grant charter (see H.R. 1509, H1912 [20MR])

Rural Small Business Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 108, H891 [5FE])

Schwarzkopf, H. Norman, Jr.: award a Congressional Gold Medal and produce bronze duplicates for public sale (see H.R. 1296, H1671 [12MR])

Small business: health benefit plans (see H.R. 2453, H3622 [23MY])

Social Security: earnings test for retirement age individuals (see H.R. 967, H1023 [19FE])

———remove limitation on amount of outside income individuals may earn while receiving benefits (see H.R. 249, H196 [10JA])

Solid waste: State regulation (see H.R. 2072, H3625 [23MY])

Soviet Union: economic assistance (see H.R. 3546, H7800 [10OC])

Sports: authorize minting of coins commemorating 1994 World Cup and provide a financial legacy to youth and amateur soccer (see H.R. 2801, H5515 [16JY])

States: regulation of surface transportation rates by certain motor and air carriers (see H.R. 3221, H7314 [2OC])

———taxation of domestic and foreign corporations (see H.R. 2913, H5513 [16JY])

———taxation of nonresidents pension income (see H.R. 431, H2470 [23AP]; H.R. 1655, H2470 [23AP]

Taxation: application of employer Social Security taxes to employees' cash tips (see H.R. 1472, H4098 [6JN])

———capital gains (see H.R. 3128, H6192 [31JY])

———clarify that customer based, market share, and any similar intangible items are amortizable (see H.R. 1456, H2137 [10AP])

———deductions for decommissioning costs of nuclear powerplants (see H.R. 2012, H2468 [23AP])

———Federal treatment of State and local government bonds (see H. Res. 139, H2602 [30AP])

———financing infrastructure (see H.R. 686, H1138 [21FE])

———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, H1414 [5MR]; H.R. 1248, H7801 [10OC])

———increase amount of the exemption for children under age 18 (see H.R. 1277, H2953 [9MY])

———individual retirement accounts (see H.R. 77, H1025 [19FE])

———private retirement incentive employer matching plans (see H.R. 2294, H4550 [13JN])

———rate on child's income spent on education (see H.R. 86, H386 [11JA])

———repeal excise tax on luxury items (see H.R. 2598, H4284 [11JN]; H.R. 2604, H4550 [13JN])

———repeal luxury tax on aircraft (see H.R. 2581, H4098 [6JN])

———small issue bonds (see H.R. 602, H1138 [21FE]; H.R. 1186, H9493 [6NO])

———targeted jobs credit (see H.R. 565, H3280 [20MY])

———treatment of charitable contributions of appreciated property (see H.R. 1557, H6317 [1AU])

———treatment of deduction for interest paid on debt secured by a first or second home (see H. Con. Res. 8, H782 [29JA])

———treatment of long-term care insurance and accelerated death benefits (see H.R. 1693, H4284 [11JN])

Telecommunications: research, design, and manufacturing of equipment (see H.R. 1523, H8496 [24OC])

Television: local regulation of cable programming and signal distribution (see H.R. 3380, H8102 [17OC])

Vermont Bicentennial Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 132, H1024 [19FE])

Veterans: disability compensation for service-connected disabilities (see H.R. 3, H53 [3JA])

———service pensions for World War I veterans (see H.R. 1918, H2769 [2MY])

Wetlands: conservation and management (see H.R. 1330, H3710 [29MY])

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])

———establish in the District of Columbia a memorial to veterans (see H.R. 1624, H4187 [7JN])

———issue 50th anniversary commemorative coin (see H.R. 1623, H4186 [7JN])

Essays: Voice of Democracy

Nancy Letourneau, E2635 [22JY]

Remarks by, on

Agricultural Reconciliation Act: improve effectiveness (H.R. 3330), H6510 [12SE]

Albert Einstein Congressional Fellowship Program: establish (H. Res. 208), H6250, H6251 [1AU]

Capitol Police: civilian support positions for functions relative to the House of Representatives (H. Res. 199), H6252, H6253 [1AU]

China, People's Republic of: most-favored-nation status, consideration of H.J. Res. 263, H.R. 2212, H. Con. Res. 174 (H. Res. 189), H5313 [10JY]

Committee on Standards of Official Conduct: review of operation of House bank (H. Res. 236), H7410 [3OC]

Congress: franking privileges funding, H3970, H3971 [5JN]

Dept. of the Interior: making appropriations (H.R. 2686), H4917 [24JN]

———making appropriations (H.R. 2686), waiving certain points of order during consideration (H. Res. 179), H4903 [24JN]

Economic assistance: require countries receiving cash aid to to be encouraged to purchase U.S. agricultural products and employ U.S. flag vessels, H4351 [12JN]

Elections: campaign ethics reform and contribution limits (H.R. 3750), H11133 [25NO]

———campaign ethics reform and contribution limits (H.R. 3750), consideration (H. Res. 299), H11127 [25NO]

Financial institutions: check cashing procedures at the Sergeant at Arms Bank of the House of Representatives (H. Res. 224), H6694 [23SE]

———discrimination against minorities in lending, H8951 [1NO]

———recapitalize the Federal deposit insurance fund and reform the regulatory and service systems (H.R. 6), H8951 [1NO]

———recapitalize the Federal deposit insurance fund and reform the regulatory and service systems (H.R. 6), consideration (H. Res. 266), H8803, H8804 [31OC]

Flint Hills Prairie National Monument: establish (H.R. 2369), H7836, H7844, H7846 [15OC]

Foreign aid: improve and authorize appropriations for military assistance programs (H.R. 2508), H4351 [12JN]

Fort Hays State University: tribute to women's NAIA basketball team, E1127 [22MR]

GAO: budget, H3994 [5JN]

Health: national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures, H7730 [10OC]

Hexagon, Inc.: comedy and musical revue in support of charitable organizations, E933 [14MR]

Legislative branch: making appropriations (H.R. 2506), H3970, H3971, H3978, H3994 [5JN]

Middle East: military action to enforce U.N. Security Council resolution against Iraq, H276 [11JA]

National Farm Safety Week: observance, E3095 [19SE]

Public lands: grazing fees, H4917 [24JN]

Railroads: improve rural and short line services (H.R. 1425), E931 [14MR]

Resolution Trust Corp.: funding (H.R. 1315), H1593 [12MR]

Roads and highways: 65-mile-per-hour speed limit demonstration project availability (H.R. 2529), E2046 [5JN]

Rural areas: access to and delivery of health services, H6273 [1AU]

———air transport of victims of medical emergencies (H.R. 1158), E681 [28FE]

Remarks in House relative to

Congressional Record: revise and extend remarks, H1756 [13MR], H3853 [4JN], H6683 [19SE]

Special order: granted, H6537 [12SE]

Summaries

Agricultural Reconciliation Act Effectiveness Improvement (H.R. 3330), H6511 [12SE]

Testimonies

Committee on House Administration: Campaign Finance Reform, D563 [9MY]

Committee on Rules: Campaign Ethics Reform and Contribution Limits (H.R. 3750), D1508 [23NO]

———Financial Institutions Safety and Choice Act (H.R. 6), D1331 [29OC]

Committee on the Budget (House): Budget Proposals, D294 [13MR]

———Rural Health Care Needs, D1206 [3OC]

Tributes

Erickson, Curtis, E2001 [4JN]

Letourneau, Nancy, E2635 [22JY]