JENKINS, WILLIAM L. (a Representative from Tennessee)

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Abortion: prohibit partial-birth abortions (see H.R. 3660), H454 [15FE]

American Museum of Science and Energy: designate (see H.R. 4940), H6777 [24JY]

Armed Forces: improve pay for certain enlisted members (see H.R. 4313), H4036 [7JN]

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

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

Aviation: ensure general aviation aircraft access to Federal land and to the airspace over that land (see H.R. 3661), H454 [15FE]

Boy Scouts: tribute (see H. Con. Res. 384), H7503 [12SE]

Contracts: allow choice of arbitration as a means of settling disputes (see H.R. 534), H574 [29FE]

Courts: clarification of jurisdiction over private property takings and land use disputes (see H.R. 2372), H165 [1FE]

———legal definition of human life relative to presence of brain wave activity and spontaneous cardiac activity (see H. Con. Res. 305), H2341 [13AP]

DEA: funding to assist State and local efforts to clean up methamphetamine laboratories (see H.R. 4468), H3172 [16MY]

Dept. of Defense: participation of certain Medicare-eligible individuals in pharmacy programs (see H.R. 3697), H1406 [23MR]

Dept. of Energy: establish compensation for employees sustaining beryllium and radiation-related injury, illness, or death (see H.R. 4398), H3050 [15MY]

———establish compensation programs for employees sustaining beryllium and radiation-related injury, illness, or death (see H.R. 5189), H7651 [14SE]

———extend public comment period on proposed rules on clothes washers, air conditioners, and heat pumps (see H.R. 5613), H11781 [1NO]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: establish presumption of service connection for cold weather injuries received during military operations (see H.R. 4760), H5956 [12JY]

———motor vehicle reimbursement rates for veterans traveling to VA health care facilities (see H.R. 4716), H4817 [21JN]

Diseases: expand research activities relative to lupus (see H.R. 762), H2770 [9MY]

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

———support teachers (see H. Res. 492), H2606 [4MY]

English language: declare as official language of U.S. (see H.R. 123), H341 [10FE]

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

Federal Water Pollution Control Act: improve implementation (see H.R. 4502), H4121 [8JN]

FEMA: make grants to fire departments to improve public safety against fire and fire-related hazards (see H.R. 1168), H50 [27JA]

Firearms: protect and enforce the right to obtain and use firearms for security, self-defense, and other legitimate purposes (see H.R. 347), H574 [29FE]

Government regulations: technical corrections in copyright laws (see H.R. 5107), H7503 [12SE]

Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction: compliance (see H. Con. Res. 293), H1405 [23MR]

Immigration: establish a system of registries for temporary agricultural workers and streamline the procedures for the admission, and extension of stay, for nonimmigrant agricultural workers (see H.R. 4548), H7652 [14SE]

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), H7652 [14SE]

Korean War: anniversary (see H.J. Res. 86), H165 [1FE]

Korean War Veterans Association, Inc.: grant Federal charter (see H.R. 1671), H7281 [6SE]

Law enforcement officers: clarify procedures and conditions for the award of matching grants for the purchase of armor vests (see H.R. 4033), H2411 [2MY]

Library of Congress: establish the National Recording Registry (see H.R. 4846), H6051 [13JY]

Medicare: coverage of medically necessary pancreas transplantation procedures (see H.R. 4495), H11621 [30OC]

———coverage of screening pap smears and pelvic exams (see H.R. 4571), H8200 [26SE]

———eliminate reduction in payment rates to home health agencies for home health services (see H.R. 4219), H6355 [17JY]

———expand and make permanent the demonstration project for military retirees and dependents (see H.R. 1413), H1413 [27MR]

———expand coverage of certain self-injected biologicals (see H.R. 2892), H6599 [19JY]

———revise inflation update factor used in making payments to prospective payment system hospitals (see H.R. 3580), H1764 [4AP]

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), H922 [9MR]

Pensions: reform (see H.R. 1102), H2411 [2MY]

Postal Service: 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), H3813 [24MY]

Radio: ensure the availability of spectrum to amateur radio operators (see H.R. 783), H632 [1MR]

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), H5656 [29JN]

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), H7871 [19SE]

Social Security: eliminate earnings test for retirement age individuals (see H.R. 5), H510 [16FE]

———level of benefit payment in the month of the beneficiary's death (see H.R. 287), H11716 [31OC]

———provide targeted payment relief for hospitals that serve primarily Medicare and Medicaid patients that have been disproportionately impacted by certain payment reductions (see H.R. 4624), H4173 [9JN]

Taxation: change basis for determination of refinery limitation on oil depletion deduction (see H.R. 870), H511 [16FE]

———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]

———exclude from self-employment earnings certain payments under the Conservation Reserve Program (see H.R. 4064), H2341 [13AP]

———increase annual limitation on nondeductible contributions and adjust for inflation the amount of deductible contributions to individual retirement accounts (see H.R. 1322), H2606 [4MY]

———increase unified estate and gift tax credit and provide for inflation adjustment (see H.R. 4112), H1587 [29MR]

———provide tax relief for health insurance and medical care expenses and establish more options for obtaining quality health care (see H.R. 4925), H6776 [24JY]

———treatment of certain farm rental income and all payments under the environmental conservation acreage reserve program (see H.R. 4260), H2238 [12AP]

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

Television: ensure local service to small, rural markets by satellite providers (see H.R. 3615), H339 [10FE]

Tennessee (U.S.S.): tribute for accomplishments during World War II (see H. Con. Res. 421), H10257 [18OC]

Tobacco products: provide export promotion assistance (see H.R. 5382), H9901 [12OC]

Veterans: change effective date for paid-up coverage under the Survivor Benefit Plan (see H.R. 601), H997 [14MR]

———increase minimum Survivor Benefit Plan basic annuity for surviving spouses age 62 and older (see H.R. 2000), H922 [9MR]

———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]

———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), H7280 [6SE]

Veterans Health Administration: improve personnel system (see H.R. 4759), H5657 [29JN] (see H.R. 5109), H7503 [12SE]

Water pollution: exempt discharges from certain silviculture activities from permit requirements of the national pollutant discharge elimination system (see H.R. 3625), H2770 [9MY]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Budget: constitutional amendment to require balanced (see H.J. Res. 91), H1119 [16MR]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: release reversionary interest in certain real property previously conveyed to Tennessee (see H.R. 3713), H572 [29FE]

Families and domestic relations: child abuse and neglect prevention (H.R. 764), corrections in enrollment (see H. Con. Res. 245), H165 [1FE]

James H. Quillen U.S. Courthouse, Greeneville, TN: designate (see H.R. 4608), H4120 [8JN]

Tariff: DEMT (see H.R. 3714), H572 [29FE]

Remarks

Bateman, Herbert H.: tribute (H. Res. 573), H7440 [12SE]

Families and domestic relations: child abuse and neglect prevention (H.R. 764), Senate amendment, H121, H122 [1FE]

James H. Quillen U.S. Courthouse, Greeneville, TN: designate (H.R. 4608), H5195 [27JN]

Votes: position on missed, H1987 [10AP], E538 [11AP], E1210 [11JY], E1347, E1386 [27JY], E1411 [6SE]

Remarks in House relative to

Leave of absence: granted, H6772 [24JY]

Tributes

Barrett, Representative Bill, E2071 [2NO]