SHERWOOD, DON (a Representative from Pennsylvania)

Amendments

Energy and water development: making appropriations (H.R. 4733), H5269 [27JN]

Foreign policy: reduce, suspend, or terminate certain assistance to countries engaged in oil price fixing to the detriment of the U.S. economy (H.R. 3822), H1167 [21MR]

Appointments

Conferee: S. 835, Estuary Habitat and Chesapeake Bay Restoration Act, H8766 [4OC]

Herbert H. Bateman funeral attendees, H7631 [14SE]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

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

Agriculture: enhance dairy markets through dairy product mandatory reporting (see H.R. 5495), H10256 [18OC]

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

Armed Forces: restore health care coverage to retired members of the uniformed services (see H.R. 2966, 3573), H342 [10FE]

CERCLA: exempt small businesses from certain liability (see H.R. 5175), H7651 [14SE]

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]

Computers: improve Internet security and protect against cyberterrorism (see H. Con. Res. 285), H1477 [28MR]

Dairy Farmer Viability Commission: establish (see H.R. 5356), H9505 [6OC]

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]

Dept. of Transportation: establish a grant program for providing assistance to emergency response organizations (see H.R. 3155), H342 [10FE]

———prohibit action to finalize, implement, or enforce a rule relative to the hours of service of drivers for motor carriers (see H.R. 4511), H4675 [19JN]

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

Emergency services: authorizing appropriations for State and local emergency responders (see H.R. 4128), H1588 [29MR] (see H.R. 4146), H1628 [30MR]

EPA: ensure changes to the rule on water quality standards total maximum daily load program are subjected to public and congressional review (see H.R. 4922), H6776 [24JY]

Federal Deposit Insurance Act: require periodic cost-of-living adjustments to the maximum amount of deposit insurance available (see H.R. 4467), H7871 [19SE]

Foreign trade: amend trade laws to address import crises (see H.R. 1505), H511 [16FE]

———eliminate disincentives to fair trade conditions (see H.R. 842), H7502 [12SE]

George Atlee Goodling Post Office Building, York, PA: designate (see H.R. 5210), H7870 [19SE]

Gertrude A. Barber Post Office Building, Erie, PA: designate (see H.R. 4625), H4173 [9JN]

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]

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), H10036 [17OC]

Joseph F. Smith Post Office Building, Philadelphia, PA: designate (see H.R. 4554), H3867 [25MY]

Medicaid: State funding for disproportionate share hospitals (see H.R. 3698), H5656 [29JN]

———waive disproportionate share hospital designation for certain rural hospitals relative to obstetrician requirements (see H.R. 4793), H5654 [29JN]

Medicare: coverage of vision rehabilitation services (see H.R. 2870), H6599 [19JY]

———improve methodology for the calculation of Medicare+Choice program payment rates (see H.R. 4951), H7002 [25JY]

———increase the percentage of bad hospital debt that is reimbursable (see H.R. 4878), H8469 [28SE]

———revise inflation update factor used in making payments to prospective payment system hospitals (see H.R. 3580), H1285 [22MR]

Memorial Day: proclaim a nationwide moment of remembrance (see H. Con. Res. 302), H3474 [19MY]

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

———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), H7003 [25JY]

Pope, Edmond: demand release from Russian prison for humanitarian reasons (see H. Con. Res. 364), H6052 [13JY] (see H. Con. Res. 404), H7871 [19SE]

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), H4817 [21JN]

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), H757 [8MR]

Robert S. Walker Post Office, Millersville, PA: designate (see H.R. 5418), H9504 [6OC]

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), H4485 [14JN]

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

———improve benefit computation formula for certain workers affected by changes in benefit computation rules (see H.R. 1771), H8469 [28SE]

Taxation: allow an income tax credit to holders of bonds issued to finance land and water reclamation for the anthracite region of Pennsylvania (see H.R. 4314), H2338 [13AP]

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

———exclude from gross income payments made under Dept. of Defense programs for the repayment of student loans of members of the Armed Forces (see H.R. 3663), H1589 [29MR]

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

———reduce the per dose tax on vaccines (see H.R. 1337), H9767 [11OC]

———treatment of adoption expenses (see H.R. 531), H6470 [18JY]

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

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: eliminate administrative waste, fraud, and abuse in fish and wildlife restoration projects funded by excise taxes on hunting and fishing equipment (see H.R. 3671), H1629 [30MR]

Vatican City: U.N. status of the Holy See (see H. Con. Res. 253), H510 [16FE]

Veterans: increase minimum Survivor Benefit Plan basic annuity for surviving spouses age 62 and older (see H.R. 2000), H1406 [23MR]

———permit concurrent receipt of military retired pay with service-connected disability benefits (see H.R. 303), H6599 [19JY]

Water pollution: exempt discharges from certain silviculture activities from permit requirements of the national pollutant discharge elimination system (see H.R. 3625), H2905 [10MY]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Medicare: increase payment rates to Medicare+Choice organizations to correct inequities in rural and urban areas (see H.R. 5288), H8061 [25SE]

Petroleum: address recent price increase in heating oil and other petroleum distillates (see H. Con. Res. 287), H1119 [16MR]

Designated Speaker pro tempore

House of Representatives, H5739 [11JY]

Letters

Probilof Islands Transition Act: Representative Don Young, Committee on Resources (House), H5094 [26JN]

Motions

Lackawanna Heritage Valley American Heritage Area: establish (H.R. 940), H7944 [21SE]

Remarks

Alaska: complete the orderly withdrawal of NOAA from the civil administration of the Pribilof Islands (H.R. 3417), H5092, H5094 [26JN]

Atlantic Striped Bass Conservation Act: reauthorize (H.R. 4408), H5097 [26JN]

Aviation: allow families of international airline disaster victims a fair jury trial to receive just compensation for their loss, H1009 [15MR]

Birds: establish a conservation program for neotropical migratory birds (S. 148), H5095, H5096 [26JN]

Bureau of Reclamation: conveyance of property to Greater Yuma Port Authority for an international port of entry (H.R. 3023), H5098, H5099 [26JN]

Carlsbad Irrigation District: convey certain real property within the Carlsbad project in New Mexico (S. 291), H3885, H3886 [6JN]

Coastal Barrier Resources System: technical corrections to map system (H.R. 4435), H3887 [6JN]

Dept. of Agriculture: provide assistance for the rehabilitation of watershed dams built for flood protection and water resource projects (H.R. 728), H6079 [17JY]

Dept. of Energy: draw down of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, H7937 [21SE]

———extend Strategic Petroleum Reserve, H5269, H5273 [27JN]

———purchase of oil from marginal domestic wells, H5269, H5271, H5273 [27JN]

Dept. of the Interior and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4578), H4472, H4473 [14JN]

Energy and water development: making appropriations (H.R. 4733), H5269, H5271, H5273 [27JN]

FAA: reauthorizing programs (H.R. 1000), consideration of conference report (H. Res. 438), H1009 [15MR]

Fish and fishing: eliminate the wasteful and unsportsmanlike practice of shark finning (H.R. 3535), H3882 [6JN]

Foreign policy: reduce, suspend, or terminate certain assistance to countries engaged in oil price fixing to the detriment of the U.S. economy (H.R. 3822), H1225 [22MR]

Forest Service: watershed improvement and fish and wildlife protection programs funding through reductions in Timber Sales Management Program, H4472, H4473 [14JN]

Fort Pierre, SD: authorize construction of Wakpa Sica Reconciliation Place (H.R. 5528), H11327, H11348 [26OC]

Hawaii: conduct a study to determine ways of restoring the natural wetlands conditions in the Kealia Pond National Wildlife Refuge (H.R. 3176), H3888 [6JN]

Hawley, PA: tribute to Jewish Fellowship of Hemlock Farms, E538 [11AP]

Lackawanna Heritage Valley American Heritage Area: establish (H.R. 940), H7944, H7947, H7949 [21SE]

———establish (H.R. 940), consideration of Senate amendments (H. Res. 583), H7944 [21SE]

Medicare: improve payments under the Medicare+Choice program, H6606 [20JY]

———make more competitive and efficient and provide for a prescription drug benefit (H.R. 4680), H7978, H7979, H7980 [21SE]

Middle East: Israeli/Palestinian peace initiatives, H6475 [19JY]

Minimum wage: level (H.R. 3846), H897 [9MR]

Minnesota: lease or transfer of certain land owned by the Lower Sioux Indian Community (H.R. 2484), H521 [29FE]

Native Americans: reduce Federal oversight over contracts and choice of counsel, and require disclosure of tribal governments' sovereign immunity in contracts (S. 613), H520 [29FE]

O'Connor, John Cardinal: award Congressional Gold Medal (H.R. 3557), H383 [15FE], H2594 [4MY]

———tribute (H. Con. Res. 317), H2594 [4MY]

Petroleum: economic impact of increasing oil prices, H5271 [27JN]

———Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve funding, H5269, H5271, H5273 [27JN]

Power resources: national energy policy, H5271 [27JN]

Rural areas: impact of Federal public policy changes on economic expansion, H8602 [2OC]

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: eliminate administrative waste, fraud, and abuse in fish and wildlife restoration projects funded by excise taxes on hunting and fishing equipment (H.R. 3671), H1810 [5AP]

Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation and Drainage District: convey certain works, facilities, and titles of the Gila Project (S. 356), H3886, H3887 [6JN]

Wilson Creek: designate as a component of the Wild and Scenic Rivers System (H.R. 1749), H519 [29FE]

Remarks in House relative to

Leave of absence: granted, H2965 [11MY]

Tributes

McDade, Joseph M., E451 [30MR]