ROEMER, TIM (a Representative from Indiana)

Amendments

Dept. of Defense: authorizing military activities appropriations and prescribing personnel strengths (H.R. 1119), H3865 [17JN]

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 2264), H7134 [10SE]

Legislative branch of the Government: making appropriations (H.R. 2209), H5665 [23JY], H5890 [28JY]

NASA: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 1275), H1796 [23AP], H1835, H1844 [24AP]

Articles and editorials

Conservative Case Against School Choice, Timothy Lamer, Washington (DC) Post, H9825 [31OC]

On China, Weak Admonitions Are Better Than No Talks at All, LaPorte (IN) Herald-Argus, E2350 [13NO]

Priority on Safety Is Keeping More Children in Foster Care, Peter T. Kilborn, New York (NY) Times, H2019 [30AP]

School Choice—No Closed Book on Right Flank, Gerald F. Seib, Wall Street Journal, H9825 [31OC]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Abortion: prohibit partial-birth abortions (see H.R. 929), H766 [5MR]

Alaska: designate certain lands as wilderness (see H.R. 900), H1611 [16AP]

Andrew Jacobs, Jr., U.S. Post Office Building, Indianapolis, IN: designate (see H.R. 1057), H1112 [18MR]

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

———reform process and enforce the bipartisan balanced budget agreement (see H.R. 2003), H5664 [23JY]

China, People's Republic of: political reform (see H.R. 2095), H4835 [26JN]

Computers: use, sale, and export of encryption products for privacy and security (see H.R. 695), H3070 [20MY]

Copyrights: amend laws relative to certain exemptions (see H.R. 789), H7830 [24SE]

Dept. of Education: grants to States to provide support services to participants in adult education programs (see H.R. 1336), H1541 [15AP]

Dept. of Energy: consolidate Office of Fossil Energy and Office of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (see H.R. 1806), H3567 [5JN]

Dept. of the Treasury: incorporate certain features in the redesign of the U.S. currency to make it readily accessible to the visually impaired (see H.R. 2067), H8727 [8OC]

Diseases: issue special postage stamps to fund breast cancer research (see H.R. 407), H5487 [17JY]

———research programs for Parkinson's disease (see H.R. 1260), H1795 [23AP]

Ecology and environment: State certification of voluntary cleanup programs for low and medium priority sites (see H.R. 1206), H6918 [4SE]

Edison, Thomas A.: mint coins in commemoration of sesquicentennial of birth (see H.R. 678), H6706 [31JY]

Education: establish State infrastructure banks for education (see H.R. 1822), H3567 [5JN]

———improve and expand charter schools (see H.R. 2616), H8728 [8OC]

———State adoption of challenging academic standards in core curricula (see H. Res. 299), H9865 [31OC]

EPA: establish loan program to States for cleanup of brownfield sites that have private investment potential (see H.R. 1462), H6918 [4SE]

———prohibit establishment of new standards for ozone or particulate matter before existing standards have been attained (see H.R. 1984), H5297 [15JY]

FAA: foreign repair station rules (see H.R. 145), H3476 [4JN]

Families and domestic relations: promote the adoption of children in foster care (see H.R. 867), H1289 [21MR]

Federal Employees Health Benefits Program: improve sanctions against providers and provide coverage for the FDIC and Federal Reserve Board (see H.R. 1836), H6798 [3SE]

Flag—U.S.: constitutional amendment to prohibit desecration (see H.J. Res. 54), H588 [13FE]

Food stamps: modify certain eligibility disqualifications (see H.R. 1507), H8161 [29SE]

Foreign trade: substitute the term ``normal trade relations'' in lieu of ``most-favored-nation treatment'' (see H.R. 2022), H4338 [24JN]

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

Health: permit individuals to continue health plan coverage during participation in approved clinical studies (see H.R. 1069), H5021 [9JY]

———prohibit restriction of certain medical communications between health care providers and their patients (see H.R. 586), H1340 [8AP]

———require health plans to provide coverage for a minimum hospital stay for certain breast cancer treatments (see H.R. 135), H2091 [30AP]

———standardize relationships between group health plans and health insurers relative to enrollees, health professionals, and providers (see H.R. 1415), H4647 [25JN]

Insurance: coverage and treatment of emergency services under health plans (see H.R. 815), H9730 [29OC]

———coverage of minimum hospital stays and reconstructive surgery relative to breast cancer and of second opinions for any cancer diagnosis (see H.R. 616), H4913 [8JY]

———prohibit use of genetic information in determining coverage or premiums (see H.R. 306), H5132 [10JY]

Iran: impose sanctions on foreign persons who transfer items contributing to efforts to acquire, develop, or produce ballistic missiles (see H.R. 2709), H9615 [28OC]

IRS: restructure (see H.R. 2292), H8929 [21OC]

Israel: anniversary of reunification of Jerusalem (see H. Con. Res. 60), H1439 [10AP]

John T. Myers Post Office Building, Terre Haute, IN: designate (see H.R. 1058), H1112 [18MR]

Larry Doby Post Office, Paterson, NJ: designate (see H.R. 2116), H5491 [21JY]

Law enforcement: establish matching grant program to help local governments purchase armor vests for officers (see H.R. 2829), H10172 [6NO]

Line Item Veto Act: eliminate the requirement that a budget deficit must exist in order for the President to use the line-item veto authority (see H.R. 2424), H7118 [9SE]

``Little Rock Nine'': award Congressional Gold Medals (see H.R. 2560), H8633 [7OC]

Medicare: allow beneficiaries to enter into private contracts for services (see H.R. 2497), H10956 [13NO]

———improve health services to rural areas (see H.R. 1248), H1339 [8AP]

Millennium Society: coordinate activities to commemorate the second millennium and endow an international cross-cultural scholarship fund (see H.R. 1519), H2155 [1MY]

Motor vehicles: titling and registration requirements relative to salvage, nonrepairable, and rebuilt vehicles (see H.R. 1839), H6707 [31JY]

National cemeteries: penalties for theft and malicious vandalism (see H.R. 1532), H2253 [6MY]

Native Americans: reform negotiation process of Tribal-State gaming compacts and gaming participation laws (see H.R. 334), H150 [9JA]

NIST: improve computer security (see H.R. 1903), H6707 [31JY]

Nonprofit organizations: authorize transfer to States of surplus personal property for donation (see H.R. 680), H590 [13FE]

Princess Diana (Wales): condolences on death in car accident in Paris (see H. Res. 219), H6917 [4SE]

Public Health Service: extend breast cancer research programs (see H.R. 1070), H5021 [9JY]

Railroads: improve safety at grade crossings (see H.R. 650), H393 [6FE]

Robert F. Kennedy Dept. of Justice Building, Washington, DC: designate (see H.R. 1383), H3204 [22MY]

Roosevelt, Theodore: posthumous awarding of Medal of Honor (see H.R. 2263), H5825 [25JY]

Securities: limit the conduct of securities class actions under State law (see H.R. 1689), H3169 [21MY]

Sinatra, Francis A.: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 279), H804 [6MR]

Social Security: earnings test for blind individuals (see H.R. 612), H6706 [31JY]

Solid waste: State control over disposal of out-of-State solid waste (see H.R. 1358), H1703 [17AP]

Taxation: employer credits for expenses of providing dependent care services to employees (see H.R. 988), H803 [6MR]

———require burden of proof to be on the Dept. of the Treasury in all tax cases (see H.R. 367), H8928 [21OC]

Transportation: reauthorize highway construction and surface transportation funding (see H.R. 674), H452 [11FE]

Weapons: restrict the use of funds for new deployments of antipersonnel landmines (see H.R. 2459), H8320 [2OC]

Women: celebrate and continue accomplishments of Title IX provisions relative to equity in women's educational and athletic opportunities (see H. Con. Res. 103), H4837 [26JN]

Bills and resolutions introduced

House of Representatives: require that excess amounts from Members' official allowances be applied to deficit reduction (see H.R. 80), H69 [7JA], H141 [9JA]

Robert K. Rodibaugh U.S. Bankruptcy Courthouse, South Bend, IN: designate (see H.R. 81), H69 [7JA], H141 [9JA]

Space policy: space station program funding (see H.R. 1423), H1794 [23AP]

Letters

Zebra mussel infestation research funding: Committee on Science (House), H3874 [18JN]

Pledge of Allegiance

House of Representatives, H1621 [17AP]

Poems

``Gang Violence,'' Christina Drake, E2159 [31OC]

Remarks

Abortion: prohibit partial-birth abortions except in cases that threaten the life or physical health of the mother, H8652 [8OC]

———prohibit partial-birth abortions (H.R. 1122), H1206 [20MR]

———prohibit partial-birth abortions (H.R. 1122), Senate amendments, H8652 [8OC]

Andrew Jacobs, Jr., U.S. Post Office Building, Indianapolis, IN: designate (H.R. 1057), H3814 [17JN]

Appropriations: making emergency supplemental for disaster relief and overseas peacekeeping operations (H.R. 1469), H2717, H2724 [15MY]

———making emergency supplemental for disaster relief and overseas peacekeeping operations (H.R. 1469), consideration (H. Res. 146), H2603, H2607 [14MY]

Benteler Automotive Corp.: Honda of America Manufacturing Co. Quality Award recipient, E1235 [17JN]

Budget: reconciliation of the concurrent resolution (H.R. 2014), H5928 [29JY]

———reconciliation of the concurrent resolution (H.R. 2014), conference report, H6305 [30JY], H6639 [31JY]

———reconciliation of the concurrent resolution (H.R. 2014), motion to instruct conferees, H5047 [10JY]

———reconciliation of the concurrent resolution (H.R. 2015), H4554 [25JN]

———reconciliation of the concurrent resolution (H.R. 2015), conference report, H6305, H6327 [30JY]

———setting forth the Federal budget for 1998-2002 (H. Con. Res. 84), H3000, H3046 [20MY]

Capps, Walter H.: tribute (H. Res. 286), H9623 [29OC]

Children and youth: WIC Program funding, H1621 [17AP]

China, People's Republic of: most-favored-nation status (H.J. Res. 79), H4254 [24JN]

———visit by President to the U.S., E2350 [13NO]

Corp. for National and Community Service: funding, H5283, H5284 [15JY]

Crime: national policy to control juvenile crime and violence (H.R. 3), H2366 [8MY]

Dept. of Energy: extension of Electric and Magnetic Fields Research and Public Information Dissemination Program (H.R. 363), H1945 [29AP]

Dept. of HUD: Manufactured Housing Program staffing levels, H2557, H2558 [13MY]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: medical, prosthetic, and Gulf War Syndrome research funding, H5283, H5284 [15JY]

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 2264), H7134, H7135, H7140 [10SE]

Depts. of Veterans Affairs and HUD, and sundry independent agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 2158), H5283, H5284 [15JY], H5323 [16JY]

———making appropriations (H.R. 2158), consideration (H. Res. 184), H5249 [15JY]

———making appropriations (H.R. 2158), consideration of conference report (H. Res. 261), H8668 [8OC]

District of Columbia: making appropriations (H.R. 2607), H8794 [9OC]

———scholarship vouchers to provide school choice, H8794 [9OC]

Education: charter schools funding through rescissions in Technology Literacy Challenge Grant Program funding, H7134, H7135, H7140 [10SE]

———distribution of vocational education funding relative to income and population density, H5431 [17JY]

———improve and expand charter schools (H.R. 2616), consideration (H. Res. 288), H9825, H9829, H9830 [31OC]

———improve the reading and literacy skills of children and families (H.R. 2614), H10394 [8NO]

———vocational education funding (H.R. 1853), H5431 [17JY], H5529 [22JY]

———voucher program to provide school choice (H.R. 2746), consideration (H. Res. 288), H9825, H9829, H9830 [31OC]

Employment: consolidate Federal job training programs (H.R. 1385), H2805 [16MY]

Eximbank: reauthorization (H.R. 1370), H8195 [30SE]

Families and domestic relations: promote the adoption of children in foster care (H.R. 867), H2018 [30AP]

Flag—U.S.: constitutional amendment to prohibit desecration (H.J. Res. 54), H3742 [12JN]

Foreign aid: international family planning programs restrictions relative to abortion (H.R. 581), H563 [13FE]

Foreign trade: establish negotiating objectives and fast-track procedures for future trade agreements (H.R. 2621), E2346 [13NO]

Goshen, IN: anniversary of Greencroft Senior Citizen Center, E1639 [3SE]

Health: improve health care services for women, H1966 [29AP]

House of Representatives: require that excess amounts from Members' official allowances be applied to deficit reduction, H5891 [28JY]

House Rules: same-day consideration of certain resolutions (H. Res. 201), H6305 [30JY]

Housing: deregulate public housing and rental assistance programs and increase community control over such programs (H.R. 2), H2557, H2558 [13MY]

Indiana Optometric Association: anniversary, E659 [15AP]

John T. Myers Post Office Building, Terre Haute, IN: designate (H.R. 1058), H3816 [17JN]

Legislative branch of the Government: making appropriations (H.R. 2209), H5891 [28JY]

Members of Congress: constitutional amendment to limit terms (H.J. Res. 2), H482, H494 [12FE]

Mother Teresa: condolences on death (H. Res. 227), H7252 [11SE]

NASA: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 1275), H1823, H1835, H1841, H1844, H1845 [24AP]

———Human Space Flight Program funding, H5323 [16JY]

National Chemistry Week: observance, E2218 [7NO]

National Commission on the Cost of Higher Education: establish, H2724 [15MY]

National Sea Grant College Program: reauthorization (H.R. 437), H3873 [18JN]

Parliamentary inquiry, H5323 [16JY]

Robert K. Rodibaugh U.S. Bankruptcy Courthouse, South Bend, IN: designate (H.R. 81), E1198 [12JN]

Space policy: Russian participation in space station program, H1844, H1845 [24AP]

———space station program funding, H1823, H1835, H1841 [24AP], H5249 [15JY], H8668 [8OC]

Taxation: rates, H5047 [10JY], H5928 [29JY]

———treatment of education individual retirement accounts relative to elementary and secondary school expenses (H.R. 2646), H9061 [23OC]

———treatment of higher education expenses, H6639 [31JY]

Turner, Ray L.: Indiana School Social Worker of the Year award recipient, E1016 [22MY]

Votes: position on missed, E227 [12FE]

White House Conference on Early Childhood Development and Learning: convene, H1621 [17AP]

WIC: funding, H1966 [29AP], H2355 [8MY], H2603, H2607, H2613 [14MY], H2685, H2717 [15MY]

Remarks in House relative to

Leave of absence: granted, H10951 [13NO]

Special order: granted, H278 [4FE], H1986 [29AP], H2676 [14MY]

Resolutions by organizations

Tribute to Indiana Optometric Association: Indiana General Assembly, E659 [15AP]

Tributes

Bremer, Jim, E1805 [18SE]

Deguch, Paul, E1674 [5SE]

Drake, Christina, E2159 [31OC]

Hickey, William A., E713 [21AP]

Mother Teresa, E1688 [8SE]