JEFFERSON, WILLIAM J. (a Representative from Louisiana)

Appointments

Julian C. Dixon funeral attendees, H12081 [13DE]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Africa: HIV/AIDS prevention programs funding for sub-Saharan Africa (see H.R. 2765), H50 [27JA]

African Americans: acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in U.S. history (see H. Con. Res. 356), H4674 [19JN]

American Folklife Center: collect video and audio recordings of personal histories and testimonials of U.S. war veterans (see H.R. 5212), H7870 [19SE]

Armed Forces: restore health care coverage to retired members of the uniformed services (see H.R. 3573), H1477 [28MR]

Armstrong, Lance: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 5258), H9011 [5OC]

Aviation: enhance competition between airlines and improve consumers' access to airline industry information (see H.R. 908), H11813 [2NO]

Booker T. Washington Leadership Institute: provide support (see H.R. 3440), H4174 [9JN]

Bureau of Justice Statistics: establish a task force to gather information about, study, and report on incidents of abandonment of infant children (see H.R. 4222), H3413 [18MY]

Capital punishment: reduce the risk that innocent persons may be executed (see H.R. 4167), H7366 [7SE]

Carter, Jimmy and Rosalyn: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 4289), H2337 [13AP]

Children and youth: assist State and local prosecutors, and law enforcement agencies, with implementation of juvenile justice witness assistance programs (see H.R. 3132), H757 [8MR]

———increase the availability, affordability, and quality of child care and improve support services for families with young children (see H.R. 4206), H3309 [17MY]

China, Republic of: elections (see H. Con. Res. 272), H921 [9MR]

———ensure that future is resolved peacefully through a democratic mechanism and with the express consent of the Taiwanese people (see H. Res. 659), H11445 [27OC]

———U.N. participation (see H. Con. Res. 390), H7280 [6SE]

Civil rights: improve remedies for discrimination in the payment of wages based on sex (see H.R. 2397), H455 [15FE]

Comprehensive AIDS Resources Act: revise and extend programs to provide access to health care and support services to individuals and families with HIV and AIDS (see H.R. 4807), H5956 [12JY]

Consumers: protect from predatory mortgage lending practices (see H.R. 3901), H1764 [4AP]

Contracts: allow choice of arbitration as a means of settling disputes (see H.R. 534), H3925 [6JN]

———ensure public accountability, efficient delivery of services, reasonable cost savings, and prevention of unwarranted expenses (see H.R. 3766), H2013 [10AP]

———require wages paid under Federal contracts to be above local poverty line (see H.R. 4353), H2410 [2MY]

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women: ratification (see H. Res. 107), H633 [1MR]

Crime: increase penalties for hate crimes (see H. Con. Res. 347), H4035 [7JN]

Cuba: exception to trade embargo for food, medicines and medical supplies, instruments, or equipment (see H.R. 230), H3049 [15MY]

———lift travel restrictions (see H.R. 4471), H3926 [6JN]

Customs Service: detention and searches of travelers (see H.R. 4001), H4174 [9JN]

Dept. of Agriculture: support exchange programs whereby African-American farmers and other agricultural specialists share technical knowledge with African farmers to improve farming in Africa (see H.R. 4378), H2605 [4MY]

Dept. of Commerce: establish an Office of Community Economic Adjustment to coordinate the Federal response in regions and communities experiencing economic distress (see H.R. 4711), H4816 [21JN]

Diseases: authorizing appropriations for international HIV/AIDS control efforts (see H.R. 4140), H3523 [22MY]

———create incentives for private sector research to develop vaccines against widespread diseases and ensure that such vaccines are affordable and widely distributed (see H.R. 3812), H631 [1MR]

———extend issuance of special postage stamps to fund breast cancer research (see H.R. 4069), H1477 [28MR]

———increased support and funding to combat juvenile diabetes (see H. Con. Res. 321), H4675 [19JN]

Domestic Volunteer Service Act: establish National Youth Technology Corps Program (see H.R. 2934), H922 [9MR]

Education: ensure fairness and accuracy of student standardized tests and require the use of additional student performance measures for evaluations (see H.R. 4333), H10036 [17OC]

———modernize public schools, reduce class size, increase access to technology, enhance school safety, improve teacher quality, and strengthen accountability for academic results (see H.R. 4346), H2409 [2MY]

———provide grants to eligible consortia to provide professional development to superintendents and principals and prospects for such positions (see H.R. 4487), H3308 [17MY]

———raise awareness, and create educational programs, concerning eating disorders (see H.R. 3928), H1406 [23MR]

Families and domestic relations: importance of families eating together (see H. Con. Res. 343), H3926 [6JN]

———simplify and improve rules governing the distribution of child support collected by States (see H.R. 3824), H641 [2MR]

Federal employees: treatment of retirement benefits for assistant U.S. attorneys (see H.R. 583), H3172 [16MY]

Federal-State relations: clarify primacy of State and local regulation of fees and surcharges imposed by operators of automatic teller machines (see H.R. 3494), H48 [27JA]

Financial institutions: ensure consumer privacy when establishing a framework for the affiliation of banks, securities firms, and other financial service providers (see H.R. 3320), H2239 [12AP]

———establish a program to promote access to financial services for low- and moderate-income individuals (see H.R. 4490), H3412 [18MY]

Firearms: improve safety of handguns (see H.R. 515), H1477 [28MR]

Frederick Douglass Gardens, Inc.: establish a memorial in the District of Columbia or its environs (see H.R. 5331), H8468 [28SE]

Gonzalez-Brotons, Elian: reunite with father (see H. Con. Res. 240), H90 [31JA]

Health: development of microbicides to prevent the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases (see H.R. 3891), H3413 [18MY]

———increase public awareness of the dangers of pediatric cancer (see H. Con. Res. 115), H1120 [16MR]

———minority health programs (see H.R. 3250), H575 [29FE]

———prohibit health insurance and employment discrimination on the basis of genetic information (see H.R. 2457), H5240 [27JN]

Health care facilities: modify qualifications for community mental health centers and postpone application of Medicare prospective payment system to partial hospitalization services (see H.R. 5055), H7282 [6SE]

Health Care Financing Administration: revise performance standards and certification process for organ procurement organizations (see H.R. 4152), H2512 [3MY] (see H.R. 4592), H4175 [9JN]

Immigration: ensure no alien is removed, denied benefits, or otherwise deprived of liberty, based on evidence that is kept secret from the alien (see H.R. 2121), H8200 [26SE]

———improve and permanently authorize the Visa Waiver Pilot Program (see H.R. 3767), H1675 [3AP]

———promote a fairer and more efficient means for using highly skilled workers and improve collection and use of H-1B nonimmigrant fees (see H.R. 3983), H6777 [24JY]

———protection of battered immigrant women (see H.R. 3083), H5955 [12JY]

Insurance: guarantee comprehensive health care coverage for all children (see H.R. 4390), H5169 [26JN]

Iraq: provide citizens access to U.S. food and medicines (see H.R. 3825), H1852 [5AP]

King, Martin Luther, Jr.: mint coins in commemoration (see H.R. 3633), H8617 [2OC]

Medicaid: assure preservation of safety net hospitals through maintenance of Disproportionate Share Hospital Program (see H.R. 3710), H1163 [21MR]

———remove the cap on payments for Puerto Rico and certain other territories and adjust the statutory matching rate (see H.R. 5126), H8406 [27SE]

Medicare: assure quality of care to beneficiaries and reduce the incidence of medical errors (see H.R. 5404), H9011 [5OC]

———coverage of outpatient prescription drugs (see H.R. 1495), H1674 [3AP] (see H.R. 4770), H5240 [27JN]

———eliminate reduction in payment rates to home health agencies for home health services (see H.R. 4219), H1957 [6AP]

———expand coverage of certain self-injected biologicals (see H.R. 2892), H5240 [27JN]

———graduate medical education payments (see H.R. 4239), H5436 [28JN]

———improve the manner in which new medical technologies are made available to beneficiaries (see H.R. 4395), H5737 [10JY]

———reductions in prescription drug prices (see H.R. 664), H2012 [10AP]

———require Dept. of HHS study on mortality and adverse outcome rates of patients receiving anesthesia services (see H.R. 632), H1958 [6AP]

———revise inflation update factor used in making payments to prospective payment system hospitals (see H.R. 3580), H3172 [16MY]

———revise the calculation of base payment rates for the prospective payment system for home health services (see H.R. 5163), H7577 [13SE]

Mental health: issue commemorative postage stamp to raise autism awareness (see H. Res. 458), H4592 [15JN]

Middle Passage National Monument: establish (see H.R. 4581), H3924 [6JN]

Mitchell, George J.: urge the awarding of the Nobel Prize for Northern Ireland peace efforts (see H. Con. Res. 242), H7212 [27JY]

Motor vehicles: include air pollution information on fuel economy labels for new automobiles (see H.R. 1976), H3172 [16MY]

Mozambique: support humanitarian assistance (see H. Res. 431), H998 [14MR]

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: authorize development of research centers focusing on environmental factors related to women's health and disease prevention (see H.R. 4634), H7723 [18SE]

National Take Your Kids To Vote Day: support (see H. Con. Res. 389), H7210 [27JY]

Native Americans: treatment of certain income for tribe members, age 50 or older, relative to determining eligibility for means-tested public assistance benefits (see H.R. 4858), H7129 [26JY]

Navajo Code Talkers: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 4527), H8736 [3OC]

Postal Service: amend pay policies and schedules and fringe benefit programs for postmasters (see H.R. 3842), H3309 [17MY]

Public welfare programs: repeal certain restrictions on food stamp eligibility and increase Federal support for emergency food assistance programs (see H.R. 3192), H3649 [23MY]

Puerto Rico: provide wage-based tax credits (see H.R. 2138), H4674 [19JN]

Racial relations: recognize the significant contribution the Birmingham Pledge has made in fostering racial harmony and reconciliation (see H.J. Res. 102), H5657 [29JN]

Railroads: modernize financing of railroad retirement system and provide enhanced benefits to employees and beneficiaries (see H.R. 4844), H6471 [18JY]

Rivers: reduce sediment and nutrient loss in the Upper Mississippi River Basin (see H.R. 4013), H2906 [10MY]

Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act: provide comprehensive technical assistance and implement highly effective prevention programs (see H.R. 3413), H997 [14MR]

Schulz, Charles M.: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 3642), H341 [10FE]

Smithsonian Institution: mint coins in commemoration of the National Museum of the American Indian (see H.R. 4259), H3413 [18MY]

Social Security: enhance privacy protections for individuals, prevent fraudulent misuse of account numbers, and provide additional safeguards for beneficiaries with representative payees (see H.R. 4857), H7212 [27JY]

———make corrections in Medicare, Medicaid, and State Children's Health Insurance Program relative to the Balanced Budget Act (see H.R. 5612), H11955 [4DE]

———restore Social Services Block Grant funding and the ability of States to transfer Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds to such block grant (see H.R. 4481), H7366 [7SE]

Surface Transportation Board: resolve disagreements between mass transit authorities and freight railroads over access to freight track and rights-of-way for fixed guideway transportation (see H.R. 4507), H7212 [27JY]

Tariff: prevent circumvention of the sugar tariff-rate quotas (see H.R. 5423), H9504 [6OC]

Taxation: allow deduction equal to fair market value for charitable contributions of literary, musical, artistic, or scholarly compositions created by the donor (see H.R. 3249), H6719 [20JY]

———allow tax credit to holders of qualified bonds issued by an intercity passenger rail carrier (see H.R. 3700), H572 [29FE]

———avoid duplicate reporting of information on political activities of certain State and local political organizations (see H.R. 5277), H8617 [2OC]

———exclusion from gross income for foster care payments relative to certain nongovernmental placement agencies (see H.R. 1194), H2122 [11AP]

———exclusion of employer-provided educational assistance (see H.R. 2265), H50 [27JA]

———expand incentives for the construction and renovation of public schools (see H.R. 4094), H1476 [28MR]

———modify the depreciation of property used in the generation of electricity (see H.R. 4959), H7002 [25JY]

———permit certain individuals to make catch-up contributions under individual retirement plans (see H.R. 4546), H3867 [25MY]

———prohibit certain allocations of S corporation stock held by an employee stock ownership plan (see H.R. 3082), H4121 [8JN]

———provide credit for electricity produced by certain waste management facilities in U.S. possessions (see H.R. 5226), H7932 [20SE]

———provide relief for payment of asbestos-related claims (see H.R. 4543), H6777 [24JY]

———reduce estate and gift tax rates (see H.R. 5315), H10473 [19OC]

———repeal excise tax on telephone use and other communications services (see H.R. 3916), H2239 [12AP]

———require certain political organizations to report information to the FEC (see H.R. 3688), H3413 [18MY]

———require certain political organizations to report information to the IRS (see H.R. 4168), H1762 [4AP]

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

———treatment of computers provided to employees for personal use (see H.R. 4274), H3926 [6JN]

———treatment of damages and back pay received on account of, and expenses incurred in asserting any claim of employment discrimination (see H.R. 1997), H5084 (see H.R. 4570), H5085 [23JN]

———treatment of part-time employees who are eligible for unemployment compensation (see H.R. 3708), H572 [29FE]

———treatment of policyholder dividends of mutual life insurance companies and policyholder surplus accounts (see H.R. 3905), H1629 [30MR]

U.N.: promote full equality for Israel (see H.R. 3405), H3413 [18MY]

Veterans: 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]

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), H2012 [10AP]

Volunteer workers: extend appropriations for programs under the National and Community Service Act and the Domestic Volunteer Service Act (see H.R. 4740), H5084 [23JN]

Voting Rights Act: clarify intent of Congress (see H.R. 4961), H7127 [26JY]

Water pollution: exempt discharges from certain silviculture activities from permit requirements of the national pollutant discharge elimination system (see H.R. 3625), H3649 [23MY]

Women: protection of reproductive rights (see H.R. 2624), H4484 [14JN]

Woods, Tiger: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 4926), H7652 [14SE]

World War II: support Day of Honor 2000 to honor and recognize the service of minority veterans (see H.J. Res. 98), H2906 [10MY]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Higgins, Andrew Jackson and family: award Congressional Gold Medals (see H.R. 4384), H2605 [4MY]

Higgins Industries: award Congressional Gold Medal to World War II-era employees (see H.R. 4384), H2605 [4MY]

Tariff: fipronil technical (see H.R. 4223), H2012 [10AP]

Taxation: treatment of computer contributions (see H.R. 4061), H1284 [22MR]

Remarks

Dept. of Transportation and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4475), H3444, H3445, H3446, H3447 [19MY]

Higgins, Andrew Jackson and family: award Congressional Gold Medals (H.R. 4384), H2599 [4MY]

Higgins Industries: award Congressional Gold Medal to World War II-era employees (H.R. 4384), H2599 [4MY]

Louisiana: authorize water quality restoration projects for Lake Pontchartrain Basin (H.R. 2957), H2464 [3MY]

Medicare: make more competitive and efficient and provide for a prescription drug benefit (H.R. 4680), H5357 [28JN]

New Orleans, LA: prohibit funding for construction of an additional runway at New Orleans International Airport, H3444, H3445, H3446, H3447 [19MY]

Tariff: fipronil technical (H.R. 4223), E523 [10AP]

Taxation: repeal excise tax on telephone use and other communications services (H.R. 3916), consideration (H. Res. 511), H3832 [25MY]

———terminate Internal Revenue Code (H.R. 4199), H2274 [13AP]

———treatment of computer contributions (H.R. 4061), H1248 [22MR]

Vietnam: make trade relations with the U.S. contingent upon free emigration and improved human rights conditions (H.J. Res. 99), H7012, H7018 [26JY]

Remarks in House relative to

Leave of absence: granted, H3918 [6JN], H4587 [15JN], H7363 [7SE], H11877 [13NO]

Special order: granted, H1282 [22MR], H2604 [4MY]