FLAKE, FLOYD H. (a Representative from New York)
Bills and resolutions introduced by, as cosponsor
Airlines: require use of child safety restraint systems (see H.R. 1309), H11048 [24SE]
Airlines and airports: provide protection for airline employees who provide certain air safety information (see H.R. 3187), H5754 [30MY]
Alaska: designate certain lands as wilderness (see H.R. 1000), H1325 [27FE]
Armed Forces: discharge of military personnel relative to positive HIV test (see H.R. 2959), H1325 [27FE]
Armenia: anniversary of genocide (see H. Con. Res. 47), H4902 [10MY]
Auburn, CA: prohibit Federal funding for dam construction on American River (see H.R. 2951), H5754 [30MY]
Brown, Ronald H.: tribute (see H. Res. 406), H3649 [18AP]
Business and industry: provide unemployment insurance and leave time to battered women (see H.R. 3837), H10108 [5SE]
———require profit-sharing plans for the provision of Federal contracts or subsidies (see H.R. 2705), H4902 [10MY]
Census: accuracy of decennial census (see H.R. 3558), H5753 [30MY]
CERCLA: clarify liability for certain recycling transactions (see H.R. 820), H2950 [27MR]
Children and youth: establish community-based youth development block grant program (see H.R. 2807), H8030 [18JY]
China, Republic of: tribute on the occasion of first Presidential election (see H. Con. Res. 154), H4801 [9MY]
Churches and synagogues: prohibit insurers from canceling or refusing to renew fire insurance policies (see H.R. 3830), H7779 [17JY]
CIA: investigate involvement in crack cocaine sales to fund Contras (see H. Res. 518), H12175 [28SE]
Coins: establish circulating commemorative coin program commemorating each State (see H.R. 3793), H7474 [11JY]
Computers: provide parental control of child access to online services (see H.R. 3089), H5174 [15MY]
Crime: condemn acts of arson against churches and enhance law enforcement and prosecution of arsonists (see H. Con. Res. 183, 186, 187), H6183 [11JN], H6414 [13JN]
———development and implementation of national financial crimes strategy (see H.R. 3931), H9566 [31JY]
Dept. of Commerce: tribute to employees and business leaders killed in plane crash while on trade mission in Croatia (see H. Res. 406), H3649 [18AP]
Diseases: issue special postage stamps to fund breast cancer research (see H.R. 3401), H5818 [4JN]
———payments to individuals with blood-clotting disorders who contracted human immunodeficiency virus due to contaminated blood products (see H.R. 1023), H4902 [10MY]
———research programs for Parkinson's disease (see H.R. 1462), H6691 [20JN]
Drugs: control access to chemicals used in manufacturing methamphetamine (see H.R. 3067), H4647 [8MY]
Education: allow local jurisdictions flexibility in use of certain funds (see H.R. 3135), H2664 [21MR]
———funding levels for federally assisted education programs (see H. Con. Res. 144), H1225 [1FE]
———national policy to improve system (see H.R. 2834), H5817 [4JN]
———permit financial institutions under the Federal Family Education Loan Program to pay origination fees of borrowers (see H.R. 3863), H9566 [31JY]
EEOC: provide funding and remedies for certain instances of sexual harassment (see H.R. 3646), H9925 [2AU]
Families and domestic relations: provide equal leave benefits for parents who adopt a child or provide foster care (see H.R. 2237), H5288 [16MY]
Financial institutions: increase competition in the financial services sector and merge commercial bank and savings association charters (see H.R. 4182), H11229 [25SE]
Firearms: prohibit possession for persons convicted of a crime involving domestic violence (see H.R. 3455), H10430 [16SE]
Forests: repeal emergency salvage timber sale program (see H.R. 2745), H91 [3JA]
Galesburg, IL: tribute to efforts to construct a National Railroad Hall of Fame (see H. Res. 172), H6415 [13JN]
Health: improve and expand clinical research programs (see H.R. 3587), H6691 [20JN]
———national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (see H.R. 2893), H2558 [20MR]
———prohibit interference between health care providers and their patients (see H.R. 2976), H5647 [29MY]
———require health plans to provide coverage for a minimum hospital stay for mothers and newborn infants following birth (see H.R. 3226), H5288 [16MY]
Higher Education Accumulation Program: establish to allow tax deductible donations (see H.R. 797), H7260 [10JY]
Historic buildings and sites: authorizing appropriations for the preservation and restoration at historically black colleges and universities (see H.R. 1179), H1986 [7MR]
Insurance: coverage and treatment of emergency services under health plans (see H.R. 2011), H7533 [12JY]
International relations: improve awareness, detection, and clearance of antipersonnel landmines and explosive ordnance (see H.R. 3725), H6914 [26JN]
Law enforcement officers: issue postage stamp in commemoration of officers killed in the line of duty (see H. Con. Res. 210), H11396 [26SE]
Liberia: impose sanctions on governments who violate the arms embargo or aid in the civil war, and bring war criminals to justice (see H.R. 4001), H9923 [2AU]
Major League Baseball: mint coins in commemoration of anniversary of league integration (see H.R. 4148), H11047 [24SE]
Medicare: colorectal screening (see H.R. 1046), H5817 [4JN]
Money: use of tactile currency for the blind and visually impaired (see H. Res. 385), H2316 [14MR]
Music and dance: tribute to African-American music (see H. Con. Res. 151), H2123 [12MR]
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging: establish (see H.R. 4196), H11394 [26SE]
National security: threat to U.S. citizens and Government posed by armed militia and paramilitary groups (see H. Con. Res. 206), H9705 [1AU]
NIH: expand programs to research osteoporosis and related bone diseases (see H.R. 3331), H5754 [30MY]
Northern Forest Lands Council: implement recommendations (see H.R. 2421), H3231 [29MR]
Patents: restore the proper term of patent protection (see H.R. 359), H6005 [6JN]
Public buildings: make certain Federal facilities available to organizations for use as temporary homeless shelters (see H.R. 3496), H7154 [9JY]
Public debt: ceiling (see H. Res. 360), H1226 [1FE]
Public Health Service: extend breast cancer research programs (see H.R. 3443), H5754 [30MY]
Public welfare programs: reform relative to domestic violence (see H. Con. Res. 195), H7475 [11JY]
Ralph David Abernathy Memorial Foundation: extend authority to establish memorial (see H.J. Res. 183), H7474 [11JY]
Religion: protect sanctity of religious communications (see H.R. 3571), H6765 [25JN]
Roads and highways: increase number of State participants in the infrastructure bank pilot program (see H.R. 3367), H5288 [16MY]
Ronald H. Brown Federal Building, New York, NY: designate (see H.R. 3560), H8982 [30JY]
Rose Y. Caracappa U.S. Post Office Building, Centereach, NY: designate (see H.R. 3139), H3388 [15AP]
SBA: participation in loans guaranteed under the Export Working Capital Program (see H.R. 2933), H1224 [1FE]
———reauthorize women's business training program (see H.R. 3990), H9923 [2AU]
Selma, AL: recognition of Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church as symbol of the struggle for and achievement of African-American voting rights (see H. Res. 487), H8094 [22JY]
Sierra Leone: elections (see H. Con. Res. 160), H4647 [8MY]
Small business: reform regulatory process (see H.R. 3798), H7533 [12JY]
Taxation: designation of overpayments and contributions to the U.S. Library Trust Fund (see H.R. 2246), H4303 [30AP]
———treatment of educational grants by private foundations (see H.R. 3737), H12175 [28SE]
———treatment of environmental remediation costs in empowerment and enterprise zones (see H.R. 3747), H9706 [1AU]
———treatment of length of service awards for volunteer firefighters and emergency medical service personnel (see H.R. 1893), H4503 [7MY]
———treatment of undergraduate and post-secondary vocational education tuition and fees (see H.R. 2543), H90 [3JA]
———use of individual retirement accounts for post-secondary education or job retraining expenses (see H.R. 4334), H12193 [30SE]
Veterans: reform and improve eligibility for medical care and services (see H.R. 3118, 3119), H4303 [30AP]
Virgin Islands: temporary absence of executive officials and priority payment of certain bonds and other obligations (see H.R. 3634), H6413 [13JN]
———transfer of management authority of Christiansted National Historic Site (see H.R. 3635), H6413 [13JN]
Waterways: disposal of contaminated sediments (see H.R. 3170), H4397 [1MY]
Women: treatment of pensions relative to spouses and former spouses (see H.R. 3511), H9925 [2AU]
Yellowstone Headwaters National Recreation Area: establish within the Gallatin and Custer National Forests (see H.R. 1846), H2123 [12MR]
Remarks by, on
American Revolution: mint coins in commemoration of black revolutionary war patriots (H.R. 1776), H10490, H10492 [17SE]
Coins: establish circulating commemorative coin program commemorating each State (H.R. 3793), H9982 [4SE]
Depts. of Commerce, Justice, and State and the Judiciary: making appropriations (H.R. 3814), H8182
Graham, Billy and Ruth: award Congressional Gold Medal (H.R. 2657), H758, H759, H760 [23JA], H1200 [1FE]
Housing: cap on rent for public and subsidized housing relative to income, H4682 [9MY]
———deregulate public housing and rental assistance programs (H.R. 2406), H4572, H4603 [8MY], H4682 [9MY]
———deregulate public housing and rental assistance programs (H.R. 2406), consideration (H. Res. 426), H4564 [8MY]
———policy to provide safe and affordable housing, H4603 [8MY]
LSC: funding, H8182
Madison, Dolley: mint coins in commemoration of 150th anniversary of death (H.R. 1684), H10482 [17SE]
Major League Baseball: mint coins in commemoration of anniversary of league integration (H.R. 4148), H11050 [25SE]
Minimum wage: level, H3586 [18AP], H3735 [24AP], H4564 [8MY]
Queens, NY: anniversary of Queens Borough Public Library, E1076
Votes: position on missed, H203 [5JA], H3438 [16AP], H8386 [25JY]
Washington, George: mint coins in commemoration of 200th anniversary of death (H.R. 2026), H10484 [17SE]
Remarks in House relative to
Leave of absence: granted, H6913 [26JN]
Special order: granted, H1136 [31JA]
Tribute, E1149 [20JN]