JOHNSON, JAY W. (a Representative from Wisconsin)

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Airlines: provide protection for airline employees who provide certain air safety information (see H.R. 915), H10172 [6NO]

Budget: reform process and enforce the bipartisan balanced budget agreement (see H.R. 2003), H5487 [17JY]

Business and industry: maintain standards for ``Made in USA'' label (see H. Con. Res. 80), H7119 [9SE]

Children and youth: support local reading programs for children (see H.R. 1516), H2155 [1MY]

Civil rights: provide improved remedies for discrimination in the payment of wages based on sex (see H.R. 2023), H4836 [26JN]

Computers: restore freedom of speech to the Internet and protect children from unsuitable online material (see H.R. 774), H3476 [4JN]

Credit unions: clarify laws relative to field of membership of Federal credit unions (see H.R. 1151), H5177 [11JY]

Crime: national policy to control juvenile crime and violence (see H.R. 1699), H3169 [21MY]

Dept. of Agriculture: establish temporary emergency minimum milk prices (see H. Res. 224), H7118 [9SE]

Dept. of Transportation: study existing ferry operations in the U.S. and provide financial assistance for the development of ferry operations (see H.R. 1630), H3797 [12JN]

Diseases: payments to individuals with blood-clotting disorders who contracted HIV due to contaminated blood products (see H.R. 1023), H6798 [3SE]

Douglas Applegate Post Office, Steubenville, OH: designate (see H.R. 2129), H5665 [23JY]

Ecology and environment: assist local governments and encourage State voluntary response programs relative to remediating brownfield sites (see H.R. 1120), H1185 [19MR]

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 2248), H7008 [8SE]

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

Employment: prohibit discrimination on the basis of affectional or sexual orientation (see H.R. 1858), H7008 [8SE]

FAA: foreign repair station rules (see H.R. 145), H1892 [24AP]

Federal employees: delays in retirement cost-of-living adjustments (see H. Con. Res. 13), H1795 [23AP]

Federal firefighters: hourly and overtime pay rates and pay equity with other civil service employees and public sector firefighters (see H.R. 1166), H2874 [16MY]

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

Great Irish Potato Famine: honor memory of victims (see H. Con. Res. 159), H7911 [25SE]

Great Lakes: implementation of strategic plan for restoration of fisheries and other natural resources (see H.R. 1481), H1988 [29AP]

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

———revise and extend bone marrow donation and transplantation program (see H.R. 2202), H10421 [8NO]

———standardize relationships between group health plans and health insurers relative to enrollees, health professionals, and providers (see H.R. 1415), H6798 [3SE]

Insurance: coverage of reconstructive breast surgery resulting from mastectomies (see H.R. 164), H10421 [8NO]

Interstate commerce: allow any State, territory, or possession to bring Federal court action relative to transportation of alcoholic beverages (see H.R. 1063), H10956 [13NO]

IRS: restructure (see H.R. 2292), H9801 [30OC]

Law enforcement officers: collective bargaining rights for public safety officers employed by States or local governments (see H.R. 1173), H3204 [22MY]

Medal of Honor: issue commemorative postage stamp in recognition of recipients (see H. Con. Res. 200), H10955 [13NO]

Medicare: reform (see H.R. 1165), H10421 [8NO]

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

National Cheese Exchange: CFTC regulation of cash markets relative to use as a reference price for commodities (see H.R. 645), H393 [6FE]

———reduce effect on the milk marketing orders' basic formula price (see H.R. 646), H393 [6FE]

Northeast Interstate Dairy Compact: repeal consent of Congress (see H.R. 438), H153 [9JA]

Political campaigns: ethics reform and contribution limits (see H.R. 2183), H5485 [17JY]

Privacy: protection of Social Security numbers and other personal information (see H.R. 1813), H6918 [4SE]

Railroads: modify the guaranteed minimum benefit for widows and widowers relative to conversion from spouse to widow or widower annuity (see H. Con. Res. 52), H3170 [21MY]

Railway Labor Act: applicability to U.S. air carriers and flight crews during operations outside the U.S. (see H.R. 991), H1795 [23AP]

Ships and vessels: support requirements that vessels operating between U.S. ports be built, owned, and operated by U.S. citizens (see H. Con. Res. 65), H2590 [13MY]

Sinatra, Francis A.: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 279), H1707 [17AP]

Sports: eliminate professional league rules prohibiting public ownership of teams (see H.R. 590), H1262 [20MR]

———eliminate professional league rules prohibiting public ownership of teams, cosponsorship withdrawn (see H.R. 590), H2590 [13MY]

Taxation: restore the deduction for two-earner married couples (see H.R. 2593), H10172 [6NO]

———treatment of contributions of computer technology and equipment to elementary or secondary schools (see H.R. 1478), H3924 [18JN]

———treatment of estate tax for family farms and small businesses (see H.R. 1845), H5401 [16JY]

———treatment of family-owned businesses relative to estate tax (see H.R. 1583), H3865 [17JN]

Taxpayer Relief Act: repeal provisions that terminate the tax-exempt status of the Teacher's Insurance Annuity Association College Retirement Equities Fund (see H.R. 2527), H10421 [8NO]

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), H156 [9JA]

Utah: designate certain lands as wilderness (see H.R. 1500), H9502 [23OC]

Veterans: determination of active military service for certain merchant mariners who served during World War II (see H.R. 1126), H10421 [8NO]

———reinstate eligibility for dependency and indemnity compensation for certain surviving spouses (see H.R. 2004), H10768 [12NO]

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

Bills and resolutions introduced

Food industry: ensure that all persons who benefit from the dairy promotion and research program contribute to the cost of the program (see H.R. 2139), H5131 [10JY]

Law enforcement: require better reporting of unidentified persons (see H.R. 2850), H10171 [6NO]

Essays: Voice of Democracy

Van Eperen, Jessica, E1797 [18SE]

Pledge of Allegiance

House of Representatives, H2933 [20MY]

Remarks

BIA: prohibit recognition of new Indian trust lands until binding agreements are reached by tribes on State and local sales taxes, H5227 [15JY]

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

Coast Guard: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 2204), H8893 [21OC]

———funding for the operation and maintenance of the Mackinaw (ice-breaking cutter), H8893 [21OC]

Dept. of the Interior and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 2107), H5227 [15JY]

Douglas Applegate Post Office, Steubenville, OH: designate (H.R. 2129), H8855 [21OC]

Foreign operations, export financing, and related programs: making appropriations (H.R. 2159), H6397 [30JY]

Great Lakes: zebra mussel infestation research funding, H3879 [18JN]

Green Bay Packers (football team): tribute, H2934 [20MY]

National Dairy Promotion and Research Board: payment of assessment by dairy product importers at the same rate as domestic producers, H5564 [22JY]

National Sea Grant College Program: reauthorization (H.R. 437), H3879 [18JN]

Paraguay: continuation of adoption cases filed by U.S. citizens prior to moratorium on international adoptions, H6397 [30JY]

Political campaigns: ethics reform and contribution limits (H.R. 2183), H7187 [10SE]

Taxation: rates, H5047 [10JY]

Veterans: exclude certain income from consideration for determining rent paid for federally assisted housing (H.R. 2820), E2385 [13NO]

Votes: position on missed, H5892 [28JY]

WNAM-Radio (Neenah, WI): anniversary, E1018 [22MY]

Remarks in House relative to

Special order: granted, H5566 [22JY]

Tributes

Capps, Walter H., H9789 [30OC]

Frigo, Leo, H2426 [8MY]

Johnson, Charles L., E1831 [24SE]

Lombardi, Vince, E1614 [1AU]

Murphy, Virgil, E1853 [25SE]

Rose, S. Timothy, E2115 [29OC]

Van Eperen, Jessica, E1797 [18SE]