BARTON, JOE (a Representative from Texas)

Appointments

Conferee: H.R. 4205, Dept. of Defense appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction, H7134 [27JY]

Mexico-U.S. Interparliamentary Group, H2596 [4MY]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

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

Armed Forces: improve access to treatment facilities, provide Medicare reimbursement, and permit enrollment in Federal Employees Health Benefits Program for veterans and their dependents (see H.R. 4124), H1764 [4AP]

Census: limit penalties for refusing or neglecting to answer decennial census questions beyond those necessary for enumeration of the population (see H.R. 4154), H1852 [5AP]

Children and youth: encourage communities to implement the Amber Plan to expedite the recovery of abducted children (see H. Res. 605), H8617 [2OC]

China, Republic of: participation in the World Health Organization (see H.R. 4004), H3049 [15MY]

———U.N. participation (see H. Con. Res. 390), H7652 [14SE]

Cole (U.S.S.): terrorist attack on Navy destroyer in Yemen (see H. Con. Res. 441), H12022 [6DE]

Courts: establish legal standards and procedures for the fair, prompt, inexpensive, and efficient resolution of asbestos exposure personal injury claims (see H.R. 1283), H511 [16FE]

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

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

Dept. of Energy: assess effectiveness of policy and site performance in the areas of safeguards and security and cyber security (see H.R. 3906), H996 [14MR]

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

———external regulation of nuclear safety and occupational safety and health at facilities (see H.R. 3907), H996 [14MR]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: furnish headstones or markers for the marked graves of certain individuals (see H.R. 1387), H1477 [28MR]

Diseases: increased support and funding to combat juvenile diabetes (see H. Con. Res. 321), H4036 [7JN]

Education: establish and expand programs relating to science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (see H.R. 4271, 4272), H3813 [24MY]

FCC: follow normal rulemaking procedures in establishing additional requirements for noncommercial educational television broadcasters (see H.R. 3525), H647 [6MR]

FDA: restrict authority to issue clinical holds on investigational drugs or to deny patients expanded access to such drugs (see H.R. 3677), H509 [16FE]

———uniform food safety warning notification requirements (see H.R. 2129), H2411 [2MY]

Food Quality Protection Act: establish certain requirements (see H.R. 1592), H5036 [22JN]

Government: accountability of Federal agencies for violations of antidiscrimination and whistleblower protection laws (see H.R. 5516), H11781 [1NO]

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), H7871 [19SE]

Medicare: coverage of glaucoma detection services (see H.R. 2620), H7723 [18SE]

———coverage of outpatient prescription drugs (see H.R. 4149), H4220 [12JN]

———facilitate use of private contracts (see H.R. 2867), H1119 [16MR]

———improve the manner in which new medical technologies are made available to beneficiaries (see H.R. 4395), H7366 [7SE]

———revise the calculation of base payment rates for the prospective payment system for home health services (see H.R. 5163), H7652 [14SE]

Mexico: elections (see H. Res. 544), H6053 [13JY]

———grant a temporary waiver of requirements relative to foreign aid certification of drug enforcement efforts (see H.R. 5155), H8469 [28SE]

National Environmental Education Act: redesignate in honor of John H. Chafee, establish the John H. Chafee Memorial Fellowship Program, and extend programs (see H.R. 4745), H7871 [19SE]

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), H1406 [23MR]

Power resources: establish and implement competitive, environmentally sound, and job creating oil and gas leasing program for the Coastal Plain (see H.R. 2250), H2340 [13AP]

Public debt: allow individuals to designate a portion of their income tax return for deficit reduction (see H.R. 5349), H8551 [29SE]

Railroads: modernize financing of railroad retirement system and provide enhanced benefits to employees and beneficiaries (see H.R. 4844), H6600 [19JY]

Social Security: extend availability of State Children's Health Insurance Program allotments (see H.R. 4393), H7652 [14SE]

———provide for personalized retirement security through personal retirement savings accounts and increase individual control over retirement income (see H.R. 4839), H5955 [12JY]

Taxation: allow a credit for conversion of heating oil to natural gas or to a renewable energy source (see H.R. 4958), H7002 [25JY]

———allow a refundable credit for health insurance costs (see H.R. 4113), H7578 [13SE]

———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), H3813 [24MY]

———increase annual limitation on nondeductible contributions and adjust for inflation the amount of deductible contributions to individual retirement accounts (see H.R. 1322), H2967 [11MY]

———provide relief for payment of asbestos-related claims (see H.R. 4543), H7578 [13SE]

———repeal excise tax on telephone use and other communications services (see H.R. 3916), H1958 [6AP]

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

Voting: establish uniform poll closing time for Presidential elections (see H.R. 5678), H12532 [15DE]

———reaffirm voting rights of members of the uniformed services and their dependents by having the Attorney General take appropriate actions to protect such rights in Florida (see H. Con. Res. 444), H12532 [15DE]

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

Dept. of Energy: ensure continuation of certain authorities through the Assistant Sec. of Energy for Environment, Safety, and Health relative to indemnification and liability dealing with nuclear incidents (see H.R. 4446), H3049 [15MY]

National Nuclear Security Administration: application of environmental protection, safety, and health regulations (see H.R. 4288), H2337 [13AP]

Ships and vessels: temporarily exempt the transport of petroleum and petroleum products between certain ports from restrictions on carriage in coastwise trade (see H.R. 5485), H10256 [18OC]

Remarks

Budget: improve and strengthen budget process (H.R. 853), H3096 [16MY]

Committee on Government Reform (House): release of Minority Staff report on condition of nursing homes in Texas, E2104 [14NO]

Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (H.R. 4205), conference report, H9649 [11OC]

Dept. of Energy: extend Strategic Petroleum Reserve, H5270 [27JN]

———purchase of oil from marginal domestic wells, H5270 [27JN]

———renewable energy research funding through reductions in the Nuclear Energy Research Initiative Program, H5255 [27JN]

Depts. of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies: making appropriations, H11286 [26OC]

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4577), motion to instruct conferees, E2104 [14NO]

Diseases: impact of cancer, H6039, H6040 [13JY]

District of Columbia: making appropriations (H.R. 4942), conference report, H11286 [26OC]

Energy and water development: making appropriations (H.R. 4733), H5255, H5270 [27JN]

Energy Policy and Conservation Act: extend certain programs (H.R. 2884), H2090, H2091, H2092 [11AP]

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), H1222, H1226, H1232, H1233, H1234, H1245 [22MR]

———reduce, suspend, or terminate certain assistance to countries engaged in oil price fixing to the detriment of the U.S. economy (H.R. 3822), consideration (H. Res. 445), H1205 [22MR]

Hazardous substances: designate Yucca Mountain, NV, as nuclear waste disposal site, H1194 [22MR]

Nuclear energy: storage of spent nuclear fuel pending completion of the nuclear waste repository (S. 1287), H1194 [22MR]

Parliamentary inquiry, H11682 [31OC]

Petroleum: impose a civil penalty on any energy-producing company that implements an unreasonable price increase for crude oil, residual fuel oil, or refined petroleum products, H1234 [22MR]

———Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve funding, H5270 [27JN]

Pipelines: improve safety and environmental protection (S. 2438), H9556, H9558 [10OC]

Point of order, H1233 [22MR]

Privacy: protect individuals from certain acts and practices in the sale and purchase of Social Security numbers and Social Security account numbers, H11286 [26OC]

Radioactive substances: remediation of Atlas uranium milling site near Moab, UT, H9649 [11OC]

Strategic Petroleum Reserve: extend and improve, H1233 [22MR]

Taxation: constitutional amendment to require a two-thirds majority on the passage of legislation increasing taxes (H.J. Res. 94), H2144 [12AP]

Texas A&M University: report on causes of the collapse of bonfire structure, H2744 [9MY]

Votes: position on missed, H1621 [30MR], H3317, H3318, H3319, H3320 [18MY]

Remarks in House relative to

Special order: granted, H2647 [8MY]

Tributes

Falkovich, Naum, E1236 [14JY]

Lasch, Ronald, H6039 [13JY]

Samuels, Harold D., E1233 [14JY]