ROUKEMA, MARGE (a Representative from New Jersey)

Amendments

FCC: prohibit from establishing rules authorizing the operation of new, low power FM radio stations (H.R. 3439), H2240 [12AP]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Agriculture: prohibit products containing dry ultra-filtered milk or casein from being labeled domestic natural cheese (see H.R. 4652), H4484 [14JN]

Air pollution: reduce emissions from electric powerplants (see H.R. 2900), H2340 [13AP]

Alaska: designate certain lands as wilderness (see H.R. 1239), H7365 [7SE]

American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association: tribute to individuals who are being awarded the Medal for Military Service (see H. Con. Res. 283), H6355 [17JY]

Animals: provide for a system of sanctuaries for chimpanzees that are no longer needed in research conducted by the Public Health Service (see H.R. 3514), H9635 [10OC]

Armed Forces: declare the American GI as the ``Person of the Century'' for the 20th century (see H. Con. Res. 282), H2013 [10AP]

———maintain programs and procedures for accounting of military personnel unaccounted for from previous and future conflicts (see H. Con. Res. 311), H4337 [13JN]

———restore health care coverage to retired members of the uniformed services (see H.R. 3573), H2340 [13AP]

Armenia: provide all U.S. records relative to the Armenian genocide to the Committee on International Relations (House), the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum library, and the Armenian Genocide Museum (see H. Res. 155), H3050 [15MY]

Budget: establish 2-year cycle (see H.R. 2985), H219 [7FE]

Charities: reform tax treatment of certain anti-poverty contributions and distributions from individual retirement accounts, and prohibit religious discrimination in the allocation of Government assistance funds (see H.R. 1607), H757 [8MR]

Children and youth: establish national policy on youth development (see H.R. 5250), H7990 [21SE]

———provide for a national media campaign to reduce and prevent underage drinking (see H.R. 5137), H9011 [5OC]

———recognize importance and support goals and ideas of National Youth Day (see H. Con. Res. 375), H6778 [24JY]

Coastal zones: use of offshore oil and gas revenues to fund State and local conservation programs of coastal States (see H.R. 701), H510 [16FE]

Colleges and universities: disclosure of fire safety standards and measures with respect to campus buildings (see H.R. 3895), H921 [9MR]

Commission for the Comprehensive Study of Privacy Protection: establish (see H.R. 4049), H4336 [13JN]

Computers: prevent the use of certain bank instruments for Internet gambling (see H.R. 4419), H2905 [10MY]

Contracts: allow choice of arbitration as a means of settling disputes (see H.R. 534), H7578 [13SE]

Crime: combat international money laundering (see H.R. 3886), H920 [9MR]

———combat money laundering (see H.R. 4695), H4783 [20JN]

Dept. of Energy: create an oil reserve for use when fuel oil prices rise sharply because of anticompetitive activity, shortage, or extreme winter weather (see H.R. 3608), H575 [29FE]

———study causes of home heating fuel price spikes in the Northeast and create a heating oil reserve (see H.R. 3641), H632 [1MR]

Dept. of State: provide appropriate training and materials to all executive branch employees involved in responding to issues related to human rights, ethnic cleansing, and genocide (see H. Res. 398), H2512 [3MY]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: improve outreach program to more fully inform veterans of available benefits (see H.R. 3256), H3474 [19MY]

———require notification and allow local law enforcement agencies to investigate crimes and search for missing patients at VA medical facilities (see H.R. 374), H2122 [11AP]

Diseases: efforts to combat fibromyalgia (see H. Res. 237), H455 [15FE]

———increased support and funding to combat juvenile diabetes (see H. Con. Res. 321), H6778 [24JY]

Drugs: distribution of prescription drugs (see H.R. 4301), H10473 [19OC]

Ecology and environment: study health effects of ingesting methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE), research methods for removal from water supplies, and require public water systems to monitor for its presence (see H.R. 3536), H998 [14MR]

Education: establish and expand programs relating to science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (see H.R. 4271, 4272), H2336 [13AP]

———importance of music education (see H. Con. Res. 266), H647 [6MR]

Education for All Handicapped Children Act: anniversary (see H. Con. Res. 399), H7577 [13SE]

Elementary and Secondary Education Act: allow States and local school districts flexibility in allocating Federal funds (see H.R. 4141), H1628 [30MR]

Families and domestic relations: increase child support money to families leaving welfare, improve assignment, distribution and collection of certain child support, and promote marriage (see H.R. 4469, 4678), H6599 [19JY]

———issue special postage stamps to fund domestic violence programs (see H.R. 4659), H5657 [29JN]

FDA: grant authority to regulate tobacco (see H.R. 4207), H1956 [6AP]

FDIC: strengthen the special examination authority in order to protect the Bank Insurance Fund and the Savings Association Insurance Fund (see H.R. 3374), H255 [8FE]

FHA: provide for the cancellation of mortgage insurance for mortgages on single family homes (see H.R. 5338), H11195 [25OC]

———require partial rebates of mortgage insurance premiums to certain mortgagors upon payment of their FHA-insured mortgages (see H.R. 4795), H7212 [27JY]

Financial institutions: allow payment of Financing Corporation interest obligations from excess deposit insurance fund reserves (see H.R. 4082), H1477 [28MR]

Firearms: applicability of domestic violence-related possession prohibitions to convictions that predate enactment of such prohibitions (see H.R. 59), H574 [29FE]

Forests: ban clearcutting and logging on certain Federal lands to strengthen protection of native biodiversity (see H.R. 2512), H8552 [29SE]

———eliminate commercial logging on public lands and facilitate the economic recovery and diversification of communities dependent on the Federal logging program (see H.R. 1396), H8469 [28SE]

Frank R. Lautenberg Post Office and Courthouse, Newark, NJ: designate (see H.R. 4975), H7128 [26JY]

GAO: require report to Congress on agency regulatory actions (see H.R. 3669), H2770 [9MY]

Gonzalez, Henry B.: tribute (see H. Con. Res. 445), H12095 [14DE]

Health: provide programs for the treatment of mental illness (see H.R. 5091), H7209 [27JY]

———recognize success of lay person CPR training in increasing the rate of survival of cardiac arrest and support efforts to enhance public awareness of the need for such training (see H. Con. Res. 139), H50 [27JA]

Health Care Financing Administration: consider current systems that provide better, more cost-effective emergency transport before promulgating any final rule on emergency medical services (see H. Con. Res. 320), H2770 [9MY]

Immigration: provide refugee status to foreign nationals who assist in the return of POW/MIA (see H.R. 1926), H3925 [6JN]

Insurance: make the same health insurance options afforded to executive and judicial branch employees available to Federal annuitants, legislative branch employees, and Armed Forces members and retirees (see H.R. 4277), H6355 [17JY]

———require health plans to cover treatment of a minor child's congenital or developmental deformity or disorder due to trauma, infection, tumor, or disease (see H.R. 49), H50 [27JA]

Israel: commend redeployment from southern Lebanon (see H. Con. Res. 331), H3814 [24MY]

Korean War: anniversary (see H.J. Res. 86), H511 [16FE]

Law enforcement officers: clarify procedures and conditions for the award of matching grants for the purchase of armor vests (see H.R. 4033), H1164 [21MR]

———exempt from State laws prohibiting the carrying of concealed handguns (see H.R. 218), H510 [16FE]

Lumber industry: promote open and competitive trade of softwood lumber between the U.S. and Canada (see H. Con. Res. 252), H998 [14MR]

Medicaid: provide families and disabled children with the opportunity to purchase coverage (see H.R. 4825), H8736 [3OC]

Medicare: eliminate reduction in payment rates to home health agencies for home health services (see H.R. 4219), H9635 [10OC]

———expand coverage of certain self-injected biologicals (see H.R. 2892), H4174 [9JN]

———revise inflation update factor used in making payments to prospective payment system hospitals (see H.R. 3580), H3523 [22MY]

———waive waiting period for coverage and provide coverage of drugs for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (see H.R. 353), H90 [31JA]

Middle East: condemn current level of violence between Israelis and Palestinians (see H. Con. Res. 426), H9900 [12OC]

———U.S. policy on U.N. Security Council resolution condemning current level of violence between the Israelis and Palestinians (see H. Res. 623), H9767 [11OC]

Motor vehicles: require reports relative to defects in foreign products (see H.R. 5164), H8617 [2OC]

National Environmental Education Act: redesignate in honor of John H. Chafee, establish the John H. Chafee Memorial Fellowship Program, and extend programs (see H.R. 4745), H5168 [26JN]

Occupational Safety and Health Act: require changes in the bloodborne pathogens standard (see H.R. 5178), H7723 [18SE]

O'Connor, John Cardinal: tribute (see H. Con. Res. 317), H2606 [4MY]

Olympic games: mint commemorative coins to support the 2002 Salt Lake Olympic Winter Games and U.S. Olympic Committee programs (see H.R. 3679), H7365 [7SE]

Political campaigns: prohibition against political fundraising activities in Federal buildings (see H.R. 4845), H7003 [25JY]

Pope John Paul II: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 3544), H3649 [23MY]

Public Health Service Act: provide certain children's health services (see H.R. 3301), H922 [9MR]

Public lands: designate certain national parks, wild and scenic rivers, and wilderness areas in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming (see H.R. 488), H8406 [27SE]

Public utilities: establish programs for electric energy conservation and efficiency, renewable energy, and universal and affordable service (see H.R. 2569), H2340 [13AP]

Railroads: modernize financing of railroad retirement system and provide enhanced benefits to employees and beneficiaries (see H.R. 4844), H7003 [25JY]

Reagan, Ronald and Nancy: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 3591), H253 [8FE]

Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument: establish (see H.R. 3676), H5084 [23JN]

Schools: promote the use of proven academic and classroom-management solutions for problems of behavior, attention, and learning in school children (see H. Res. 459), H1763 [4AP]

Smithsonian Institution: mint coins in commemoration of the National Museum of the American Indian (see H.R. 4259), H8062 [25SE]

Social Security: earnings test for blind individuals (see H.R. 1601), H209 [2FE]

———eliminate earnings test for retirement age individuals (see H.R. 5), H454 [15FE]

———restrict application of windfall elimination provisions to certain individuals (see H.R. 860), H574 [29FE]

Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act: rename as the ``McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act'' (see H.R. 5417), H9504 [6OC]

Taxation: allow credit for elementary and secondary school teachers who provide classroom materials (see H.R. 4025), H8617 [2OC]

———allow deduction for charitable contributions to individuals who do not itemize other deductions (see H.R. 1310), H2012 [10AP]

———allow tax credit to holders of qualified bonds issued by an intercity passenger rail carrier (see H.R. 3700), H5737 [10JY]

———constitutional amendment to require a two-thirds majority on the passage of legislation increasing taxes (see H.J. Res. 94), H1957 [6AP]

———encourage stronger mathematics and science programs at elementary and secondary schools (see H.R. 4273), H2336 [13AP]

———increase annual limitation on nondeductible contributions and adjust for inflation the amount of deductible contributions to individual retirement accounts (see H.R. 1322), H4484 [14JN]

———repeal excise tax on telephone use and other communications services (see H.R. 3916), H3474 [19MY]

———repeal modification of capital gains tax payments relative to small businesses sold on the installment sales method (see H.R. 3594), H575 [29FE]

———terminate Internal Revenue Code (see H.R. 4199), H1956 [6AP]

———treatment of adoption expenses (see H.R. 531), H3172 [16MY]

Trucking industry: support freeze on longer combination vehicles and current Federal limitations on truck size and weight (see H. Con. Res. 306), H7003 [25JY]

Turkey: claim of sovereignty over islands and islets in the Aegean Sea (see H. Con. Res. 340), H6355 [17JY]

———compliance with U.N. resolutions relative to Cyprus (see H. Con. Res. 100, 159), H6355 [17JY]

———withdraw armed forces from Cyprus and negotiate for the reunification of Cyprus (see H. Con. Res. 370), H6355 [17JY]

U.N.: promote full equality for Israel (see H.R. 3405), H2340 [13AP]

Utah: designate certain lands as wilderness (see H.R. 1732), H8469 [28SE]

Veterans: establish a comprehensive program for the testing and treatment of the Hepatitis C virus (see H.R. 5132), H7364 [7SE]

———increase minimum Survivor Benefit Plan basic annuity for surviving spouses age 62 and older (see H.R. 2000), H3813 [24MY]

———mint coins in commemoration and use proceeds of surcharges imposed on the sale of such coins to fund the transport of veterans to and from Dept. of Veterans Affairs hospitals (see H.R. 5397), H9010 [5OC]

———permit concurrent receipt of military retired pay with service-connected disability benefits (see H.R. 303), H2340 [13AP]

Vietnam Veterans Memorial: place a plaque to honor those veterans who died after their service, but as a direct result of that service (see H.R. 3293), H1675 [3AP]

Voting: prohibit States from determining that a ballot submitted by an absent uniformed services voter was improperly or fraudulently cast unless the State finds clear and convincing evidence of fraud (see H.R. 5642), H12021 [6DE]

Bills and resolutions introduced

FDIC: merge deposit insurance funds (see H.R. 3899), H921 [9MR]

Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering: support for the task force and the public identification of noncooperative jurisdictions in combating international money laundering (see H. Res. 495), H2606 [4MY]

Financial institutions: repeal authority of the FDIC and the FRS Board of Governors to impose examination fees on State depository institutions (see H.R. 3900), H921 [9MR]

Homeowners Protection Act: technical corrections (see H.R. 3637), H340 [10FE]

Medicare: eliminate discriminatory copayment rates for outpatient psychiatric services (see H.R. 5434), H9634 [10OC]

Tariff: hand-woven wool fabrics (see H.R. 4229), H2121 [11AP]

Remarks

Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs: making appropriations (H.R. 4461), E1211 [11JY]

Armed Forces: declare the American GI as the ``Person of the Century'' for the 20th century (H. Con. Res. 282), H1969 [10AP]

Bankruptcy: revise banking and bankruptcy insolvency laws relative to termination and netting of financial contracts (H.R. 1161), H10698 [24OC]

Bergenfield, NJ: dedication of Jefferson Elementary School Garden of Love, Hope, and Friendship, E791 [19MY]

Ceasefire New Jersey (organization): tribute, E458 [30MR]

China, People's Republic of: permanent normal trade relations upon accession to the World Trade Organization (H.R. 4444), H3688 [24MY]

Commodity Exchange Act: reauthorize and amend to promote legal certainty, enhance competition, and reduce systemic risk in markets for futures and over-the-counter derivatives (H.R. 4541), H10446 [19OC]

Crime: combat international money laundering (H.R. 3886), H4613 [19JN]

Cyprus: anniversary of Turkish occupation, H6365 [18JY]

Dept. of Agriculture: school breakfast programs research funding, E1211 [11JY]

Dept. of HUD: establish consensus committee for development, revision, and interpretation of safety standards for manufactured home construction (S. 1452), H10685 [24OC]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation System funding, H4876 [21JN]

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4577), H4310 [13JN]

Depts. of Veterans Affairs and HUD, and sundry independent agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4635), H4876 [21JN]

Diseases: recognize fragile X as the most common inherited cause of mental retardation, and as a powerful research model for other disorders, and urge increased research funding, H2715 [9MY]

FCC: prohibit from establishing rules authorizing the operation of new, low power FM radio stations (H.R. 3439), H2304 [13AP]

Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering: support for the task force and the public identification of noncooperative jurisdictions in combating international money laundering (H. Res. 495), H4610, H4611, H4613 [19JN]

Financial institutions: repeal the prohibition on the payment of interest on demand deposits (H.R. 4067), E543 [12AP]

Foreign operations, export financing, and related programs: making appropriations (H.R. 4811), H5922 [12JY]

Foreign policy: provide bilateral debt relief to heavily indebted poor countries, H5922 [12JY]

Homeowners Protection Act: technical corrections, E2182 [14DE]

———technical corrections (H.R. 3637), H3578, H3579, H3581 [23MY]

Housing: expand homeownership (H.R. 1776), H1863 [6AP]

———expand homeownership (H.R. 5640), H11992 [5DE], E2182 [14DE]

———private mortgage insurance requirements, H1863 [6AP]

Human rights: combat trafficking in human beings and provide assistance to victims (H.R. 3244), conference report, H9042 [6OC]

Individuals With Disabilities Education Act: funding through reductions in the Office of Education Research and Improvement, H4310 [13JN]

Iran: condemn arrest and detention of Iranian Jews accused of espionage, H3616 [23MY]

Medicare: eliminate discriminatory copayment rates for outpatient psychiatric services (H.R. 5434), E1733 [10OC]

———make more competitive and efficient and provide for a prescription drug benefit (H.R. 4680), H5363 [28JN]

National Charter Schools Week: observance (H. Con. Res. 310), H2374 [2MY]

Newton, NJ: anniversary of Karen Ann Quinlan Hospice, E70 [7FE]

———tribute to Newton Memorial Hospital expansion project, E72 [7FE]

Occupational Safety and Health Act: require changes in the bloodborne pathogens standard (H.R. 5178), H8677 [3OC]

Paramus, NJ: tribute to Church of the Annunciation, E263 [9MR]

Public Health Service Act: provide certain children's health services (H.R. 4365), H2715 [9MY]

Ridgewood, NJ: anniversary of Kurth Cottage of Valley Hospital, E459 [30MR]

Rooney, John E.: New Jersey Conference of Mayors Legislator Award recipient, E542 [12AP]

Scott, Robert A.: Ramapo College Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Raoul Wallenberg Humanitarian Leadership Award recipient, E1717 [6OC]

States: regulate transactions at pawn shops and prohibit the imposition of usurious interest rates on loans to consumers (H. Con. Res. 312), H5179, H5181 [27JN]

Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act: rename as the ``McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act'' (H.R. 5417), H9797 [11OC]

Taxation: eliminate marriage tax penalty by adjusting income tax rate brackets and standard deduction amounts (H.R. 6), H303 [10FE]

———require certain political organizations to report information to the IRS (H.R. 4762), H5287 [27JN]

———terminate Internal Revenue Code (H.R. 4199), H2272 [13AP]

Vietnamese Conflict: recognize end of the Vietnam era and the sacrifice of those who served in Southeast Asia or in support of U.S. interests (H. Con. Res. 228), H1972 [10AP]

Votes: correction, H7532 [13SE]

———position on missed, H5792 [11JY], H11402 [27OC]

Women: reauthorize Federal programs to prevent violence against women, H9042 [6OC]

Remarks in House relative to

Special order: granted, H3647 [23MY], H10469 [19OC]

Texts of

H. Con. Res. 312, regulate transactions at pawn shops and prohibit the imposition of usurious interest rates on loans to consumers, H5180 [27JN]

H.R. 3637, Homeowners Protection Act technical corrections, H3578 [23MY]

Tributes

Cherrey, John A., E27 [31JA]

DeSilva, Richard A., E79 [8FE]

McHose, Allison Littell, E397 [23MR]

Newman, George, E1447 [13SE]

Vento, Bruce F., H9797 [11OC]

Wells, Ray and Betty, E992 [13JN]