HULSHOF, KENNY C. (a Representative from Missouri)

Amendments

Energy and water development: making appropriations (H.R. 4733), H5169 [26JN], H5224 [27JN]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Abortion: prohibit partial-birth abortions (see H.R. 3660), H1477 [28MR]

Agriculture: increase maximum amount of marketing loan gains and loan deficiency payments that an agricultural producer may receive during the crop year (see H.R. 4894, 4895), H7129 [26JY]

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

Contracts: allow choice of arbitration as a means of settling disputes (see H.R. 534), H1958 [6AP]

Courts: legal definition of human life relative to presence of brain wave activity and spontaneous cardiac activity (see H. Con. Res. 305), H3649 [23MY]

Crime: lobbying with appropriated funds (see H.R. 4826), H7003 [25JY]

Drugs: combat manufacture, traffic, import, and export of methamphetamine (see H.R. 4248), H2238 [12AP]

English language: declare as official language of U.S. (see H.R. 123), H5656 [29JN]

FCC: follow normal rulemaking procedures in establishing additional requirements for noncommercial educational television broadcasters (see H.R. 3525), H48 [27JA]

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

Federal employees: allow agencies to reimburse for certain adoption expenses (see H.R. 2733), H2340 [13AP]

———establish program under which current and former employees may obtain long-term care insurance (see H.R. 1111), H209 [2FE]

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), H1406 [23MR]

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

House of Representatives: permit payments to reimburse Members, officers, and employees for qualified adoption expenses (see H. Res. 238), H2341 [13AP]

Information services: deregulate Internet and high speed data services (see H.R. 2420), H255 [8FE]

Lumber industry: promote open and competitive trade of softwood lumber between the U.S. and Canada (see H. Con. Res. 252), H633 [1MR]

Medicaid: establish a new prospective payment system for federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics (see H.R. 2341), H7991 [21SE]

Medicare: coverage of medical nutrition therapy services (see H.R. 1187), H757 [8MR]

———increase access to health care for beneficiaries through telehealth services (see H.R. 4841), H7129 [26JY]

———reimbursement for nurse-midwife services and free-standing birth centers (see H.R. 2817), H4336 [13JN]

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

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative: periodically revise retaliation lists of goods of countries that fail to comply with the rulings of the World Trade Organization (see H.R. 2991), H632 [1MR]

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]

Pensions: exclude the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund from the Federal budget (see H.R. 82), H209 [2FE]

Petroleum: prohibit use of methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE), provide flexibility within the EPA's oxygenate requirements, and promote the use of renewable ethanol (see H.R. 4011), H1118 [16MR]

Pope, Edmond: demand release from Russian prison for humanitarian reasons (see H. Con. Res. 364), H5956 [12JY] (see H. Con. Res. 404), H7871 [19SE]

Pope John Paul II: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 3544), H511 [16FE]

Postal Service: amend pay policies and schedules and fringe benefit programs for postmasters (see H.R. 3842), H5955 [12JY]

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

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

Rural areas: promote and improve access to health care services (see H.R. 4677), H4818 [21JN]

Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument: establish (see H.R. 3676), H5436 [28JN]

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), H4174 [9JN]

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

———improve the payment system for representation of claimants (see H.R. 4633), H4174 [9JN]

Taxation: clarify the child credit allowance, the personal exemptions deduction, and the earned income credit for missing children (see H.R. 5117), H7933 [20SE]

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

———exclude from self-employment earnings certain payments under the Conservation Reserve Program (see H.R. 4064), H2122 [11AP]

———permit consolidation of life insurance companies with other companies (see H.R. 2431), H4674 [19JN]

———prohibit certain allocations of S corporation stock held by an employee stock ownership plan (see H.R. 3082), H7128 [26JY]

———provide for increased fairness to taxpayers (see H.R. 4163), H1762 [4AP]

———provide relief for payment of asbestos-related claims (see H.R. 4543), H7212 [27JY]

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

———repeal modification of capital gains tax payments relative to small businesses sold on the installment sales method (see H.R. 3594), H373 [14FE]

———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), H4592 [15JN]

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

———treatment of beer (see H.R. 1366), H2340 [13AP]

———treatment of certain expenses of rural letter carriers relative to the business use of a personal vehicle (see H.R. 4715), H7933 [20SE]

———treatment of certain farmland sold with a principal residence (see H.R. 4421), H3413 [18MY]

———treatment of self-employment tax relative to certain farm rental income (see H.R. 1044), H574 [29FE]

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), H2239 [12AP]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Medicare: improve payments under the outpatient prospective payment system (see H.R. 5003), H7206 [27JY]

Remarks

Columbia, MO: tribute to Columbia Fire Dept.'s relationship with Moers, Germany, Fire Dept., E1031 [15JN]

Crime: enhance Federal enforcement of hate crimes, H7537, H7539 [13SE]

Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (H.R. 4205), motion to instruct conferees, H7537, H7539 [13SE]

Depts. of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4690), H5156 [26JN]

Depts. of Veterans Affairs and HUD, and sundry independent agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4635), H4853 [21JN]

Energy and water development: making appropriations (H.R. 4733), H5224, H5226 [27JN]

———making appropriations (H.R. 4733), veto, H9668 [11OC]

Medicare: make more competitive and efficient and provide for a prescription drug benefit (H.R. 4680), H5350 [28JN]

Mississippi River: Upper Mississippi River Comprehensive Plan funding, H5224, H5226 [27JN]

Missouri: flood buyout and relocation program funding, H4853 [21JN]

Missouri River: Corps of Engineers river management funding, H9668 [11OC]

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative: U.S.-European Union Group on Biotechnology funding relative to agricultural biotechnology products approval process, H5156 [26JN]

Taxation: phase-out and repeal estate and gift taxes (H.R. 8), H4112 [8JN], H4152 [9JN]

———phase-out and repeal estate and gift taxes (H.R. 8), veto, H7323 [7SE]

———treatment of education individual retirement accounts relative to elementary and secondary school expenses (H.R. 7), H1456, H1457, H1458 [28MR]

Votes: position on missed, E1257 [18JY]

Remarks in House relative to

Special order: granted, H3307 [17MY], H3521 [22MY], H3647 [23MY]

Tributes

Spracklin-Noel, Laurie, E823 [24MY]