NEAL, RICHARD E. (a Representative from Massachusetts)

Amendments

Pensions: reform (H.R. 1102), H6513 [19JY]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

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

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

Animal Welfare Act: regulate the personal possession of certain wild animals and prohibit the transport or possession of certain wild animals for purposes of hunting them (see H.R. 5057), H7208 [27JY]

Animals: prohibit import, export, sale, or possession of bear viscera (see H.R. 2166), H8469 [28SE]

———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), H2411 [2MY]

Armed Forces: improve Montgomery GI Bill benefits by improving and expanding educational assistance programs (see H.R. 1071), H373 [14FE]

———restore health care coverage to retired members of the uniformed services (see H.R. 2966), H48 [27JA] (see H.R. 3573), H219 [7FE]

BLS: develop methodology for measuring the cost of living in each State and require GAO study to determine effect on Federal benefits (see H.R. 5437), H9634 [10OC]

Burma: recognize anniversary of free and fair elections and improve democratic and human rights (see H. Con. Res. 328), H5085 [23JN]

Children and youth: improve health and safety of children receiving child care outside the home (see H.R. 4750), H5956 [12JY]

———increase the availability, affordability, and quality of child care and improve support services for families with young children (see H.R. 4206), H1956 [6AP]

———provide State grants to improve child care (see H.R. 2175), H574 [29FE]

Civil rights: improve remedies for discrimination in the payment of wages based on sex (see H.R. 2397), H1477 [28MR]

———prohibit discrimination in the payment of wages based on sex, race, or national origin (see H.R. 1271), H2512 [3MY]

Clark, William: posthumous promotion to the grade of captain in the Army (see H.R. 3621), H632 [1MR]

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]

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), H6600 [19JY]

Contracts: ensure public accountability, efficient delivery of services, reasonable cost savings, and prevention of unwarranted expenses (see H.R. 3766), H1477 [28MR]

Cuba: lift travel restrictions (see H.R. 4471), H5169 [26JN]

Customs Service: detention and searches of travelers (see H.R. 4001), H5084 [23JN]

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]

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), H373 [14FE]

———require report on readiness of heating oil and propane industries to respond to rises in prices due to anticompetitive activity, shortage, or extreme winter weather (see H.R. 3662), H633 [1MR]

Dept. of Justice: provide grants to organizations to find missing adults (see H.R. 2780), H455 [15FE]

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: establish presumption of service connection for cold weather injuries received during military operations (see H.R. 4760), H6719 [20JY]

Diseases: address problems associated with polycystic kidney disease (see H. Res. 537), H5657 [29JN]

———extend issuance of special postage stamps to fund breast cancer research (see H.R. 4069), H1589 [29MR]

———international tuberculosis control (see H.R. 4057), H1284 [22MR]

Ecology and environment: ensure recovery of biological diversity, strengthen protection of wildlife, and provide certain assurances to local governments and individuals relative to economic development efforts (see H.R. 960), H48 [27JA]

Education: improve and refocus civic education (see H.R. 3195), H575 [29FE]

Fair Labor Standards Act: prohibit issuance of a certificate for subminimum wages for individuals with impaired vision (see H.R. 3540), H212 [3FE]

FCC: prohibit from establishing rules authorizing the operation of new, low power FM radio stations (see H.R. 3439), H511 [16FE]

Federal employees: treatment of retirement benefits for assistant U.S. attorneys (see H.R. 583), H632 [1MR]

Food: require labels on food that contains, or is produced with, a genetically engineered material (see H.R. 3377), H632 [1MR]

Foreign countries: human rights violations against homosexuals, bisexuals, and transgendered individuals (see H. Con. Res. 259), H1852 [5AP]

Foreign policy: provide bilateral debt relief and improve the provision of multilateral debt relief (see H.R. 1095), H2411 [2MY]

Gambling: prohibit gambling on high school and college sports and the Olympic games (see H.R. 3575), H511 [16FE]

Harry S Truman Federal Building, Washington, DC: designate (see H.R. 3639), H575 [29FE]

Health: minority health programs (see H.R. 3250), H4174 [9JN]

Higgins, Andrew Jackson and family: award Congressional Gold Medals (see H.R. 4384), H4036 [7JN]

Higgins Industries: award Congressional Gold Medal to World War II-era employees (see H.R. 4384), H4036 [7JN]

Human rights: expedite the declassification of certain documents relating to human rights abuses in Guatemala and Honduras and other regions (see H.R. 1625), H757 [8MR]

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), H7932 [20SE]

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

Individuals With Disabilities Education Act: use of local funds to provide additional funding for Elementary and Secondary Education Act programs (see H.R. 5096), H7366 [7SE]

Information services: deregulate Internet and high speed data services (see H.R. 2420), H1285 [22MR]

Insurance: require group and individual health insurance plans to provide coverage of cancer screening (see H.R. 1285), H2012 [10AP]

Iran: emancipation of the Bahai community (see H. Con. Res. 257), H573 [29FE]

Iron and steel industry: provide relief from injury caused by steel imports and request the ITC to commence an expedited investigation for positive adjustment (see H. Res. 635), H10257 [18OC]

Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A.: issue commemorative postage stamp (see H. Con. Res. 398), H7992 [21SE]

King, Martin Luther, Jr.: mint coins in commemoration (see H.R. 3633), H2411 [2MY]

Korean War Veterans Association, Inc.: grant Federal charter (see H.R. 1671), H8200 [26SE]

Library of Congress: bicentennial (see H. Con. Res. 269), H1078 [15MR]

Lumber industry: promote open and competitive trade of softwood lumber between the U.S. and Canada (see H. Con. Res. 252), H510 [16FE]

Medicaid: assure preservation of safety net hospitals through maintenance of Disproportionate Share Hospital Program (see H.R. 3710), H1477 [28MR]

———establish a new prospective payment system for federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics (see H.R. 2341), H3925 [6JN]

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. 4149), H5737 [10JY] (see H.R. 4607), H5037 [22JN] (see H.R. 4770), H5240 [27JN]

———graduate medical education payments (see H.R. 4239), H2122 [11AP]

———improve the manner in which new medical technologies are made available to beneficiaries (see H.R. 4395), H7503 [12SE]

———payments made under the prospective payment system for home health services (see H.R. 4727), H6600 [19JY]

———prevent sudden disruption of beneficiary enrollment in Medicare+Choice plans (see H.R. 141), H4035 [7JN]

———protect right of beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare+Choice plans to receive services at any skilled nursing facility (see H.R. 3004), H2340 [13AP]

———revise inflation update factor used in making payments to prospective payment system hospitals (see H.R. 3580), H931 [13MR]

National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Engineering: establish (see H.R. 1795), H2122 [11AP]

National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific: add certain identifying information to markers on graves containing the remains of certain unknowns who died in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (see H.R. 3806), H2122 [11AP]

NIH: establish Office of Autoimmune Diseases (see H.R. 2573), H1163 [21MR]

———expansion, intensification, and coordination of autism research activities (see H.R. 997), H219 [7FE]

Northern Mariana Islands: prohibit use of the ``Made in USA'' label on products and deny such products duty-free and quota-free treatment (see H.R. 1621), H2411 [2MY]

O'Connor, John Cardinal: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 3557), H89 [31JA]

Olympic games: mint commemorative coins to support the 2002 Salt Lake Olympic Winter Games and U.S. Olympic Committee programs (see H.R. 3679), H2905 [10MY]

Petroleum: ensure that petroleum importers, refiners, and wholesalers accumulate minimally adequate supplies of home heating oil to meet reasonably foreseeable needs in the Northeast (see H.R. 3807), H631 [1MR]

Pope John Paul II: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 3544), H1120 [16MR]

Postal Service: amend pay policies and schedules and fringe benefit programs for postmasters (see H.R. 3842), H2341 [13AP]

———issue a semipostal in order to afford the public a convenient way to contribute to funding for the establishment of the World War II Memorial (see H.R. 4492), H4485 [14JN]

Public buildings: placement of automatic external defibrillators to assist individuals who experience cardiac arrest and protections from civil liability relative to emergency use of the devices (see H.R. 2498), H455 [15FE]

Public Health Service Act: provide certain children's health services (see H.R. 3301), H455 [15FE]

Public utilities: facilitate competition in electric power industry (see H.R. 4971), H7128 [26JY]

Public welfare programs: repeal certain restrictions on food stamp eligibility and increase Federal support for emergency food assistance programs (see H.R. 3192), H1120 [16MR]

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

Research: continuation of Federal research and development programs funding in a fiscally sustainable way (see H.R. 3161), H2122 [11AP]

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]

Social Security: create a grant program to promote joint activities between Federal, State, and local child welfare and alcohol and drug abuse prevention and treatment agencies (see H.R. 5081), H7209 [27JY]

———eliminate earnings test for retirement age individuals (see H.R. 5), H574 [29FE]

———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. 5324), H8406 [27SE]

States: permit the option of coverage of legal immigrants under the Medicaid Program and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (see H.R. 4707), H8469 [28SE]

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

Tariff: R-core transformers (see H.R. 5491), H10256 [18OC]

Taxation: allow credit to businesses who employ military reservists and a comparable credit to self-employed military reservists, and restore deductions for services performed by military reservists (see H.R. 3915), H7128 [26JY]

———allow distilled spirits wholesalers a credit for their cost of carrying Federal excise taxes prior to the sale of the product bearing the tax (see H.R. 5128), H7364 [7SE]

———allow small employers a tax credit for costs incurred in establishing a qualified employer plan (see H.R. 1021), H574 [29FE]

———allow tax credit to holders of qualified bonds issued by an intercity passenger rail carrier (see H.R. 3700), H3869 [25MY]

———avoid duplicate reporting of information on political activities of certain State and local political organizations (see H.R. 5277), H8061 [25SE]

———exclude reparations received by Holocaust survivors (see H.R. 390), H6354 [17JY]

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

———incentives to ensure timely and equitable access to the Internet over current and future generations of broadband capability (see H.R. 4728), H5036 [22JN]

———prevent companies from reinsuring income in Bermuda or other tax havens to avoid paying U.S. income tax (see H.R. 4192), H1851 [5AP]

———provide a credit for energy efficient appliances (see H.R. 4977), H7373 [11SE]

———provide credits for modifications to inter-city buses required under the Americans With Disabilities Act (see H.R. 3836), H647 [6MR]

———recycling and remanufacturing equipment credit (see H.R. 2953), H3172 [16MY]

———repeal modification of capital gains tax payments relative to small businesses sold on the installment sales method (see H.R. 3594), H758 [8MR]

———repeal the targeted area limitation on the expense deduction for environmental remediation costs and extend the termination date of such deduction (see H.R. 4003), H1118 [16MR]

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

———treatment of adoption expenses (see H.R. 531), H6777 [24JY]

———treatment of certain expenses of rural letter carriers relative to the business use of a personal vehicle (see H.R. 4715), H4817 [21JN]

———treatment of computers provided to employees for personal use (see H.R. 4274), H2336 [13AP]

———treatment of contributions of computers to schools and public libraries (see H.R. 2308), H6354 [17JY]

———treatment of damages and back pay received on account of, and expenses incurred in asserting any claim of employment discrimination (see H.R. 4570), H7212 [27JY]

———treatment of depreciation of wireless telecommunications equipment (see H.R. 5486), H10256 [18OC]

———treatment of income from land sold to a government agency or a nonprofit organization for conservation purposes (see H.R. 2880), H2770 [9MY]

———treatment of policyholder dividends of mutual life insurance companies and policyholder surplus accounts (see H.R. 3905), H931 [13MR]

———treatment of small businesses (see H.R. 3874), H920 [9MR]

Trucking industry: support freeze on longer combination vehicles and current Federal limitations on truck size and weight (see H. Con. Res. 306), H3649 [23MY]

Ukrainian-American Veterans, Inc.: grant Federal charter (see H.R. 3463), H4592 [15JN]

Veterans: health care funding (see H. Con. Res. 225), H922 [9MR]

———issue commemorative postage stamp honoring Purple Heart recipients (see H. Con. Res. 77), H50 [27JA]

———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]

———recognize the importance of veterans to the U.S. and express support for the goals of Veterans Educate Today's Students (VETS) Day (see H. Con. Res. 58), H5956 [12JY]

———require employers to give employees who are members of reserve components leave of absence to participate in an honor guard for veterans' funerals (see H.R. 284), H7871 [19SE]

Vietnam Veterans Memorial: authorize design and construction of a temporary education center (see H.R. 5268), H9011 [5OC]

———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]

World War II: support Day of Honor 2000 to honor and recognize the service of minority veterans (see H.J. Res. 98), H2238 [12AP]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Northern Ireland: peace efforts (see H. Res. 547), H5843 [11JY]

Motions

Pensions: reform (H.R. 1102), H6526 [19JY]

Remarks

Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs: making appropriations (H.R. 4461), H5578 [29JN]

American Heritage Rivers Initiative: funding, H5578 [29JN]

BATF: prohibit procurement preference to firearms manufacturers that enter into agreements with the Federal Government, H6704 [20JY]

Baystate Health Systems (business): American Hospital Association NOVA Award recipient, H2781 [10MY]

Budget: provide for reconciliation of the concurrent resolution to reduce the public debt, decrease the statutory debt limit, and provide for retirement security (H.R. 5203), H7797 [19SE]

———reconciliation of the concurrent resolution and elimination of the marriage tax penalty (H.R. 4810), H5861 [12JY]

China, People's Republic of: permanent normal trade relations upon accession to the World Trade Organization (H.R. 4444), H3674 [24MY]

Dept. of HUD: prohibit procurement preference to firearms manufacturers that enter into agreements with the Federal Government, H4890 [21JN]

Dept. of the Interior: weatherization assistance grants program funding through reductions in fossil energy research and development program, H4548 [15JN]

Dept. of the Interior and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4578), H4548 [15JN]

Dept. of the Treasury, Postal Service, Executive Office of the President, and independent agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4871), H6704 [20JY]

Depts. of Veterans Affairs and HUD, and sundry independent agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4635), H4890 [21JN]

Elms College: tribute to Polish Center of Discovery and Learning, E811 [23MY]

Fiskdale, MA: tribute to Tantasqua Regional Junior High School for recognition by the Corp. for National and Community Service as a National Service-Learning Leaders School, E1267 [19JY]

Income: increase minimum wage and provide tax benefits for small businesses (H.R. 3081), H848 [9MR]

Kline, Susan: Congregation Kodimoh of Springfield, MA, Brotherhood Humanitarian Award recipient, E824 [24MY]

Longmeadow, MA: tribute to Longmeadow High School football team, E78 [8FE], E127 [14FE]

Ludlow, MA: tribute to Ludlow High School boys' soccer team, E79 [8FE], E126 [14FE]

———tribute to Ludlow High School girls' soccer team, E81 [8FE], E125 [14FE]

———tribute to Ludlow Senior High School girls' soccer team, E510 [6AP]

Medicare: coverage of outpatient prescription drugs, H6526, H6527 [19JY]

———make more competitive and efficient and provide for a prescription drug benefit (H.R. 4680), H5355 [28JN]

Northern Ireland: peace efforts (H. Res. 547), H8164 [26SE]

Orbon, Karin M.: American Councils for International Education Awards for Excellence in Teaching exchange program participant, E1854 [19OC]

———Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award recipient, E1854 [19OC]

Pensions: reform, H7797 [19SE]

———reform (H.R. 1102), H6504, H6507, H6512, H6516, H6517, H6522, H6524 [19JY]

———reform (H.R. 1102), motion to recommit, H6526, H6527 [19JY]

Political campaigns: ethics reform and contribution limits, H2064 [11AP]

Real estate: anniversary of law establishing real estate investment trusts, E1491 [14SE]

SBA: improve the certified development company program (H.R. 2614), conference report, H11258 [26OC]

Social Security: eliminate earnings test for retirement age individuals (H.R. 5), H587 [1MR]

Springfield, MA: tribute to High School of Commerce football team, E83 [8FE]

Taxation: constitutional amendment to require a two-thirds majority on the passage of legislation increasing taxes (H.J. Res. 94), H2143 [12AP]

———eliminate marriage tax penalty by adjusting income tax rate brackets and standard deduction amounts (H.R. 6), H301 [10FE]

———phase-out and repeal estate and gift taxes (H.R. 8), H4152 [9JN]

———phase-out and repeal estate and gift taxes (H.R. 8), veto, H7325 [7SE]

———prevent companies from reinsuring income in Bermuda or other tax havens to avoid paying U.S. income tax (H.R. 4192), E504 [6AP]

———provide for increased fairness to taxpayers (H.R. 4163), H2064 [11AP]

———provide incentives for renewal of distressed communities and empowerment zone development, increase the number of empowerment zones, and encourage investment in new markets (H.R. 4923), E1339 [27JY]

———repeal excise tax on telephone use and other communications services (H.R. 3916), H3845 [25MY]

———repeal tax increase on Social Security benefits (H.R. 4865), H7158 [27JY]

———require certain political organizations to report information to the IRS, H2064 [11AP], H3845 [25MY]

Wilbraham, MA: tribute to Minnechaug Regional High School girls' basketball team, E521 [10AP]

World Trade Organization: withdraw U.S. membership and funding (H.J. Res. 90), H4809 [21JN]

Tributes

Anton, Catherine G., E898 [6JN]

Baskin, Leonard, H4125 [9JN]

Casey, Robert P., E963 [9JN]

Pulaski, Casimir, E1709 [6OC]

Sheehan, William G., E710 [11MY]