MORAN, JERRY (a Representative from Kansas)

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Abortion: prohibit partial-birth abortions (see H.R. 929), H1019 [13MR]

Agriculture: control wheat and barley diseases caused by Fusarium Graminearum and related fungi (see H.R. 2168), H7119 [9SE]

———make regulatory correction relative to methyl bromide under the Montreal Protocol (see H.R. 2609), H9039 [22OC]

Budget: constitutional amendment to require balanced (see H.J. Res. 1), H154 [9JA]

———reform process (see H.R. 1372), H1704 [17AP]

China, People's Republic of: impose certain sanctions (see H.R. 2011), H8300 [1OC]

Computers: prohibit gambling on the Internet (see H.R. 2380), H8438 [6OC]

———use, sale, and export of encryption products for privacy and security (see H.R. 695), H5132 [10JY]

Copyrights: amend laws relative to certain exemptions (see H.R. 789), H1340 [8AP]

Courts: access relative to Federal agency actions and State laws (see H.R. 1534), H7730 [23SE]

Death and dying: prohibit Federal funding for assisted suicide, euthanasia, or mercy killing (see H.R. 1003), H1262 [20MR]

Dept. of Agriculture: conduct census of agriculture (see H.R. 2366), H6705 [31JY]

———extend contracts under the Conservation Reserve Program (see H.R. 1342), H1989 [29AP]

Dept. of Energy: abolish (see H.R. 1577), H2445 [8MY]

Dept. of HHS: prohibit payments to hospitals for reducing the number of residents in graduate medical education programs (see H.R. 2600), H8299 [1OC]

Education: Impact Aid Program technical corrections (see H.R. 1312), H1439 [10AP]

Energy Policy Act: take into account newly developed renewable energy-based fuels and equalize alternative fuel vehicle acquisition incentives (see H.R. 2568), H8300 [1OC]

EPA: prohibit establishment of new standards for ozone or particulate matter before existing standards have been attained (see H.R. 1863, 1984), H5401 [16JY], H5664 [23JY]

Flag—U.S.: constitutional amendment to prohibit desecration (see H.J. Res. 54), H805 [6MR]

Food: inspection requirements relative to interstate distribution of State-inspected meat and poultry (see H.R. 2103), H9730 [29OC]

Foreign trade: European Union obligations relative to U.S. meat and pork exporting facilities (see H.R. 723), H1262 [20MR]

———identify countries that deny market access for U.S. agricultural products (see H.R. 2596), H10172 [6NO]

Government regulations: analyze impact and improve congressional deliberation of proposed Federal private sector mandates (see H.R. 1010), H9502 [23OC]

Haskell Indian Nations University: enhance administrative authority of college president (see H.R. 1337), H1541 [15AP]

Hazardous substances: nuclear waste disposal (see H.R. 1270), H2590 [13MY]

———transportation regulations relative to agriculture (see H.R. 1619), H4913 [8JY]

Health: develop and implement research strategies to prevent birth defects (see H.R. 1114), H10956 [13NO]

———expand research activities relative to lupus (see H.R. 1111), H2254 [6MY]

———expand research activities relative to lupus, cosponsorship withdrawn (see H.R. 1111), H2785 [15MY]

Hope, Bob: confer honorary Armed Forces veteran status (see H.J. Res. 75), H2090 [30AP]

International Air Transportation Competition Act: amend (see H.R. 737), H523 [12FE]

IRS: restructure (see H.R. 2292), H8320 [2OC]

Medicare: allow beneficiaries to enter into private contracts for services (see H.R. 2497), H8161 [29SE]

———improve preventive care benefits (see H.R. 15), H2680 [14MY]

———reimbursement for services provided to eligible veterans by certain Dept. of Veterans Affairs facilities (see H.R. 1362), H1703 [17AP]

Mother Teresa: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 1650), H2873 [16MY]

Public lands: uniform management of livestock grazing (see H.R. 2493), H7599 [18SE]

Real property: preserve Federal sovereignty of certain public lands and preserve certain State and private property rights (see H.R. 901), H1795 [23AP]

Robert J. Dole U.S. Courthouse, Kansas City, KS: designate (see H.R. 2177), H5401 [16JY]

Rural areas: improve health services (see H.R. 1189), H1260 [20MR]

Shipping industry: reform coastwise, intercoastal, and noncontiguous trade shipping laws (see H.R. 1991), H6707 [31JY]

Small business: liability requirements for remediation of dry cleaning solvents (see H.R. 1711), H8161 [29SE]

Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute: enhance administrative authority of college president (see H.R. 1337), H1541 [15AP]

States: permit individuals to operate commercial motor vehicles within State borders after meeting minimum standards (see H.R. 2942), H10957 [13NO]

Taxation: allow married couples to file combined return under which each spouse is taxed using rates applicable to single filers (see H.R. 2456), H7261 [11SE]

———application of the alternative minimum tax to installment sales of farm property (see H.R. 426), H153 [9JA]

———capital gains rates (see H.R. 14), H1112 [18MR]

———eliminate State requirement to pay unemployment compensation on election worker services (see H.R. 961), H3476 [4JN]

———encourage competition and tax fairness and protect the tax base of State and local governments (see H.R. 1168), H1259 [20MR]

———exempt certain small businesses from use of electronic fund transfer system for depository taxes (see H.R. 722), H522 [12FE]

———full deduction of health insurance costs for self-employed individuals (see H.R. 18), H524 [12FE]

———individual retirement accounts (see H.R. 446), H524 [12FE]

———repeal estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes (see H.R. 902), H708 [3MR]

———terminate Internal Revenue Code (see H.R. 2483), H7730 [23SE]

———treatment of self-employment tax relative to certain farm rental income (see H.R. 1261), H10956 [13NO]

Transportation: funding for Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs (see H.R. 2400), H7911 [25SE]

———provide off-budget treatment for certain transportation trust funds (see H.R. 4), H1706 [17AP]

Treaties and agreements: conditions for the U.S. becoming a signatory to any international agreement on greenhouse gas emissions (see H. Res. 211), H9730 [29OC]

Veterans: extend Dept. of Veterans Affairs authority to enter into enhanced-use leases for certain property and rename Court of Veterans Appeals and National Cemetery System (see H.R. 1092), H1289 [21MR]

———revisions of benefits decisions based on clear and unmistakable error (see H.R. 1090), H1262 [20MR]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Dept. of Agriculture: extension of conservation reserve contracts relative to rejection of reenrollment bids (see H.R. 861), H699 [27FE]

IRS: improve access and increase equity for taxpayers (see H.R. 2598), H8299 [1OC]

Land use: require local approval of railroad rights-of-way designations for interim use as trails (see H.R. 2352), H6704 [31JY]

Letters

Capital gains tax rates: Alan E. States, E1506 [24JY]

Remarks

Budget: reconciliation of the concurrent resolution (H.R. 2014), H4619 [25JN]

Dept. of Agriculture: extend contracts under the Conservation Reserve Program (H.R. 1342), H1937 [29AP]

———extension of conservation reserve contracts relative to rejection of reenrollment bids (H.R. 861), E403 [6MR]

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 2264), H7237 [11SE]

IRS: improve access and increase equity for taxpayers (H.R. 2598), H8700 [8OC], E2233 [8NO]

———restructure and reform (H.R. 2676), E2233 [8NO]

Kika de la Garza U.S. Border Station, Pharr, TX: designate (H.R. 994), H7639 [23SE]

Land use: require local approval of railroad rights-of-way designations for interim use as trails (H.R. 2352), E1586 [1AU]

Medicare: ensure that incentives for teaching hospitals to voluntarily reduce the number of medical residents do not adversely affect rural areas, H7237 [11SE]

Public lands: uniform management of livestock grazing (H.R. 2493), H9744 [30OC]

Taxation: capital gains rates, E1506 [24JY]

———rates, H4619 [25JN]

Veterans Day: observance, E2371 [13NO]

Remarks in House relative to

Special order: granted, H8726 [8OC]

Resignations

Committee on International Relations (House), H6709 [1AU]

Tributes

Driscoll, Richard M., E1281 [20JN]

Jeter, Norman W., E1687 [8SE]

Rupp, Dan, E2237 [8NO]