WELDON, DAVE (a Representative from Florida)

Amendments

Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (H.R. 4205), H3280 [17MY]

Dept. of the Interior and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4578), H4338 [13JN], H4578 [15JN]

Appointments

Conferee: H.R. 1654, NASA appropriations, H3145 [16MY]

Articles and editorials

On a Wing and a Prayer, Rick Reilly, Sports Illustrated (publication), H1024 [15MR]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

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

American Merchant Marine Memorial Wall of Honor: make grants to construct an addition (see H.R. 1865), H7211 [27JY]

Armed Forces: restore health care coverage to retired members of the uniformed services (see H.R. 2966), H48 [27JA] (see H.R. 3573), H373 [14FE]

Arthur (Pappy) Kennedy Post Office Building, Orlando, FL: designate (see H.R. 4399), H8200 [26SE]

Capital punishment: prohibit the execution of pregnant women (see H.R. 4888), H6778 [24JY]

Children and youth: protect infants who are born alive (see H.R. 4292), H5241 [27JN]

Clean Air Act: methyl bromide phaseout schedule (see H.R. 4215), H2607 [4MY]

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

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), H5655 [29JN]

Contracts: allow choice of arbitration as a means of settling disputes (see H.R. 534), H7723 [18SE]

Courts: give U.S. district courts jurisdiction over competing State custody determinations (see H.R. 5456), H9899 [12OC]

———legal definition of human life relative to presence of brain wave activity and spontaneous cardiac activity (see H. Con. Res. 305), H2239 [12AP]

Crime: constitutional amendment on protection of victims' rights (see H.J. Res. 64), H2512 [3MY]

Cuba: assist internal opposition and further help the Cuban people to regain their freedom (see H.R. 4537), H3813 [24MY]

Dept. of Agriculture: agricultural trade programs funding (see H.R. 3593), H2512 [3MY]

Dept. of Justice: provide State and local authorities access to information relative to criminal background checks on port employees and prospective employees (see H.R. 318), H574 [29FE]

Diseases: distribution of information on the human papillomavirus (see H.R. 3248), H1077 [15MR]

Drugs: distribution of prescription drugs (see H.R. 4301), H12045 [7DE]

Eddie Mae Steward Post Office Building, Jacksonville, FL: designate (see H.R. 4400), H8200 [26SE]

Education: establish and expand programs relating to science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (see H.R. 4271, 4272), H7281 [6SE]

———tribute to home educators and home schooled students (see H. Res. 578), H8062 [25SE]

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

Energy Policy and Conservation Act: eliminate certain plumbing supply regulations (see H.R. 623), H165 [1FE]

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

Fair Labor Standards Act: clarify treatment of stock options (see H.R. 4182), H2341 [13AP]

FCC: follow normal rulemaking procedures in establishing additional requirements for noncommercial educational television broadcasters (see H.R. 3525), H511 [16FE]

FDA: clarify certain responsibilities relative to importation of drugs into the U.S. (see H.R. 3240), H2905 [10MY]

———establish restrictions relative to the qualifications of physicians prescribing the abortion drug known as RU-486 (see H.R. 5385), H10036 [17OC]

———grant authority to regulate tobacco (see H.R. 4207), H2013 [10AP]

Federal employees: establish program under which current and former employees may obtain long-term care insurance (see H.R. 4040), H2013 [10AP]

———treatment of Government physicians' comparability allowances as basic pay for retirement purposes (see H.R. 207), H454 [15FE]

Firearms: prohibit funding to give or withhold a preference to a seller of firearms or ammunition relative to an agreement on enhanced safety of handguns and pistols (see H.R. 4257), H3474 [19MY]

Foreign policy: defend fundamental human rights to family, conscience, and life in international negotiations (see H. Res. 521), H4174 [9JN]

Friedman, Milton: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 4672), H4590 [15JN]

Gambling: prohibit gambling on high school and college sports and the Olympic games (see H.R. 3575), H1163 [21MR]

Gonzalez, Henry B.: tribute (see H. Con. Res. 445), H12095 [14DE]

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

———separation of powers between Congress and the President (see H.R. 2655), H50 [27JA]

Health: assure coverage of emergency services under group health plans and health insurance (see H.R. 904), H757 [8MR]

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), H2771 [9MY]

International law: protect U.S. military personnel and other U.S. officials from criminal prosecution by an international court to which the U.S. is not a party (see H.R. 4654), H5085 [23JN]

Law enforcement: authorize appropriations for the prosecution of obscenity cases (see H.R. 4710), H6599 [19JY]

Law enforcement officers: clarify procedures and conditions for the award of matching grants for the purchase of armor vests (see H.R. 4033), H6719 [20JY]

Marjory Williams Scrivens Post Office, Miami, FL: designate (see H.R. 5068), H7208 [27JY]

Medicaid: exempt disabled individuals from being required to enroll with a managed care entity (see H.R. 797), H2606 [4MY]

———State funding for disproportionate share hospitals (see H.R. 3698), H4817 [21JN]

Medicare: coverage of glaucoma detection services (see H.R. 2620), H8736 [3OC]

———coverage of medically appropriate actinic keratoses treatment and removal (see H. Con. Res. 341), H8617 [2OC]

———revise inflation update factor used in making payments to prospective payment system hospitals (see H.R. 3580), H2012 [10AP]

Mental health: issue commemorative postage stamp to raise autism awareness (see H. Res. 458), H1959 [6AP]

Middle East: condemn current level of violence between Israelis and Palestinians (see H. Con. Res. 426), H10257 [18OC]

Occupational Safety and Health Act: waive applicability to employment performed in an employee's residence (see H.R. 3530), H511 [16FE]

Ohio: constitutionality of State motto (see H. Res. 494), H2967 [11MY]

Olympic games: mint commemorative coins to support the 2002 Salt Lake Olympic Winter Games and U.S. Olympic Committee programs (see H.R. 3679), H509 [16FE]

Pensions: reform (see H.R. 1102), H3049 [15MY]

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

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

Public Health Service Act: provide certain children's health services (see H.R. 3301), H2340 [13AP]

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

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), H7723 [18SE]

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

Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act: rename as the ``McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act'' (see H.R. 5417), H9768 [11OC]

Sudan: increase diplomatic efforts to encourage peace process in ongoing civil war and facilitate relief efforts (see H.R. 2906), H2607 [4MY]

Taxation: allow a refundable credit for health insurance costs (see H.R. 4113), H4336 [13JN]

———allow a refundable credit to individuals who donate their organs at death (see H.R. 4048), H1163 [21MR]

———allow an exclusion from gross income for certain amounts of capital gains distributions from regulated investment companies (see H.R. 4723), H7503 [12SE]

———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), H5955 [12JY]

———allow penalty-free withdrawals from individual retirement plans for adoption expenses and expand and extend permanently the exclusion allowed for employer adoption assistance programs (see H.R. 2282), H632 [1MR]

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

———eliminate the temporary increase in unemployment tax (see H.R. 1975), H342 [10FE]

———encourage stronger mathematics and science programs at elementary and secondary schools (see H.R. 4273), H7281 [6SE]

———exclude income derived from the manufacture of products, and provision of services, in outer space (see H.R. 3898), H921 [9MR]

———exclusion from gross income for foster care payments relative to certain nongovernmental placement agencies (see H.R. 1194), H454 [15FE]

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

———partial exclusion from gross income for dividends and interest received by individuals (see H.R. 1891), H7128 [26JY]

———permit certain individuals to make catch-up contributions under individual retirement plans (see H.R. 4546), H5956 [12JY]

———provide a shorter recovery period for depreciation of certain restaurant buildings (see H.R. 2894), H7211 [27JY]

———provide a shorter recovery period for the depreciation of certain leasehold improvements (see H.R. 844), H3869 [25MY]

———reduce motor fuel taxes (see H.R. 4006), H1958 [6AP]

———repeal excise tax on telephone use and other communications services (see H.R. 3916), H1164 [21MR]

———repeal modification of capital gains tax payments relative to small businesses sold on the installment sales method (see H.R. 3594), H455 [15FE]

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

———treatment of computers provided to employees for personal use (see H.R. 4274), H3413 [18MY]

———treatment of small businesses (see H.R. 2087), H511 [16FE]

———treatment of Social Security benefits (see H.R. 688), H6354 [17JY]

———treatment of the sale of a principal residence by a member of the uniformed services or Foreign Service (see H.R. 865), H7365 [7SE]

———treatment of unused benefits under cafeteria plans that allow flexible spending accounts for out-of-pocket medical expenses (see H.R. 3034), H455 [15FE]

Trucking industry: support freeze on longer combination vehicles and current Federal limitations on truck size and weight (see H. Con. Res. 306), H4818 [21JN]

U.S.: reaffirm as a republic (see H. Con. Res. 443), H12095 [14DE]

U.S. Submarine Force: anniversary (see H. Res. 397), H575 [29FE]

Vatican City: U.N. status of the Holy See (see H. Con. Res. 253), H922 [9MR]

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

Vicki Coceano Post Office Building, Miramar City, FL: designate (see H.R. 3985), H3309 [17MY]

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), H1675 [3AP]

Voting: prohibit States from determining that a ballot submitted by an absent uniformed services voter was improperly or fraudulently cast unless the State finds clear and convincing evidence of fraud (see H.R. 5642), H12085 [13DE]

Water pollution: exempt discharges from certain silviculture activities from permit requirements of the national pollutant discharge elimination system (see H.R. 3625), H2967 [11MY]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Brevard County, FL: mitigate the adverse impacts of shoreline erosion (see H.R. 4775), H5240 [27JN]

Budget: ensure on-budget surplus is used to reduce publicly-held debt and provide tax relief (see H. Res. 490), H2606 [4MY]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: improve inpatient medical care services to veterans in areas remote from VA medical facilities (see H.R. 4575), H3868 [25MY]

Medicare: study anesthesia services and expand service arrangements for certified registered nurse anesthetists (see H.R. 5286), H8061 [25SE]

National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program: amend (see H.R. 5327), H8406 [27SE]

Ronald W. Reagan Post Office Building, Melbourne, FL: designate (see H.R. 5309), H8200 [26SE]

Remarks

Abortion: prohibit partial-birth abortions (H.R. 3660), H1784 [5AP]

Aldrin, Edwin E. (Buzz): award Congressional Gold Medal (H.R. 2815), H4716 [20JN]

Appropriations: making emergency supplemental appropriations (H.R. 3908), H1518 [29MR]

Armstrong, Neil A.: award Congressional Gold Medal (H.R. 2815), H4716 [20JN]

Brevard County, FL: mitigate the adverse impacts of shoreline erosion, H5222 [27JN], H8423 [28SE]

Budget: ensure on-budget surplus is used to reduce publicly-held debt and provide tax relief (H. Res. 490), H2957 [11MY]

———preserve portion of projected surplus to reduce the public debt, H1518 [29MR]

———reconciliation of the concurrent resolution and elimination of the marriage tax penalty (H.R. 4810), H5871 [12JY]

Business and industry: establish a statute of repose for durable goods (H.R. 2005), consideration (H. Res. 412), H172 [2FE]

———involvement of private companies in the trafficking of fetal tissue and body parts, H761 [9MR]

Cape Canaveral, FL: anniversary of first space launch, E404 [23MR]

———anniversary of Naval Ordnance Test Unit, E404 [23MR]

Children and youth: protect infants who are born alive (H.R. 4292), H8156 [26SE]

China, People's Republic of: permanent normal trade relations upon accession to the World Trade Organization (H.R. 4444), H3738 [24MY]

Cocoa Beach, FL: anniversary, E899 [6JN]

Cole (U.S.S.): terrorist attack on Navy destroyer in Yemen, H10463 [19OC]

Collins, Michael: award Congressional Gold Medal (H.R. 2815), H4716 [20JN]

Crime: national policy to control crime and reform court procedures, E1097 [23JN]

———provide incentives for States to enact mandatory minimum sentences for certain firearms offenses (H.R. 4051), H2031 [11AP], H2183 [12AP]

Dept. of HUD: section 8 housing voucher funding through reductions in NASA space station program, H4897 [21JN]

Dept. of Justice: abortion services for women in Federal prison funding, H5025 [22JN]

Dept. of the Interior: prohibit funding for approval of gaming on Indian lands by any means other than tribal-State compacts, H4578, H4581 [15JN]

Dept. of the Interior and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4578), H4578, H4581 [15JN]

Dept. of the Treasury, Postal Service, Executive Office of the President, and independent agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4871), H6661 [20JY]

Dept. of Transportation and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4475), H3426 [19MY]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: improve inpatient medical care services to veterans in areas remote from VA medical facilities, H7962, H7963 [21SE]

———medical research funding through reductions in NASA programs, H4732 [20JN]

———State Extended Care Facilities Construction Grant Program funding through reductions in NASA programs, H4732 [20JN]

Depts. of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4690), H5025 [22JN]

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4577), H4061 [8JN], H4308 [13JN]

———making appropriations (H.R. 4577), conference report, H12496 [15DE]

Depts. of Veterans Affairs and HUD, and sundry independent agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4635), H4732 [20JN], H4897 [21JN]

Education: tribute to Catholic schools (H. Res. 409), H100 [1FE]

Energy and water development: making appropriations (H.R. 4733), H5222 [27JN]

———making appropriations (H.R. 4733), conference report, H8423 [28SE]

Federal employees: establish program under which current and former employees may obtain long-term care insurance (H.R. 4040), H2674 [9MY]

Federal Employees Health Benefits Program: coverage of abortion procedures, H6661 [20JY]

Firearms: gun control, E1097 [23JN]

Foreign aid: international family planning programs restrictions relative to abortion, H5988 [13JY]

Foreign operations, export financing, and related programs: making appropriations (H.R. 4811), H5988 [13JY]

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), H1229 [22MR]

Health: application of antitrust laws to labor negotiations by groups of health care professionals with HMO's (H.R. 1304), H5627, H5643 [29JN]

———application of antitrust laws to labor negotiations by groups of health care professionals with HMO's (H.R. 1304), consideration (H. Res. 542), H5623 [29JN]

Health care professionals: exempt discussions on requiring abortion coverage from collective bargaining negotiations between health care professionals and HMO's, H5623 [29JN]

———negotiation over fees, payments, or reimbursements with health plans, H5643 [29JN]

Income: increase minimum wage and provide tax benefits for small businesses (H.R. 3081), H865 [9MR]

Indian River County, FL: Vero Municipal Airport air traffic control tower funding, H3426 [19MY]

Individuals With Disabilities Education Act: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 4055), H2454 [3MY]

Medicaid: coverage of breast and cervical cancer treatment for certain women and research on relationship between cervical cancer and human papillomavirus (H.R. 4386), H2697 [9MY]

Medicare: coverage of outpatient prescription drugs, H4345 [14JN]

———make more competitive and efficient and provide for a prescription drug benefit (H.R. 4680), E1203 [11JY]

———reform, H12496 [15DE]

NASA: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 1654), conference report, H7603 [14SE]

———design and present an award to the Apollo astronauts (H.R. 2572), H8078 [26SE]

———goals and achievements, H333 [10FE]

National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program: amend (H.R. 5327), E1606 [27SE]

NIH: conduct a study on the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine relative to autism, H4308 [13JN]

Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act: provide additional protections to victims of rape (H.R. 3088), H8583, H8584, H8585, H8587 [2OC]

Parliamentary inquiry, H102 [1FE]

Pensions: reform (H.R. 1102), H6512 [19JY]

Petroleum: economic impact of increasing oil prices, H1838, H1839 [5AP]

Public Health Service Act: provide certain children's health services (H.R. 4365), H8264 [27SE]

Ronald W. Reagan Post Office Building, Melbourne, FL: designate (H.R. 5309), H11352 [26OC]

Social Security: eliminate earnings test for retirement age individuals (H.R. 5), H600 [1MR]

Space policy: importance of space program, H1624 [30MR]

———space station program funding, H1838 [5AP]

Sudan: condemn Government for genocide in southern Sudan, support for terrorism, and human rights violations, H4125 [9JN]

Taxation: eliminate marriage tax penalty by adjusting income tax rate brackets and standard deduction amounts (H.R. 6), H197 [2FE], H305 [10FE]

———make marriage tax penalty relief contingent on Social Security and Medicare solvency certification and public debt elimination, H5871 [12JY]

———phase-out and repeal estate and gift taxes (H.R. 8), H4143 [9JN]

———phase-out and repeal estate and gift taxes (H.R. 8), veto, H7333 [7SE]

———rates, H1838 [5AP]

———repeal excise tax on telephone use and other communications services (H.R. 3916), H3851 [25MY]

———repeal tax increase on Social Security benefits (H.R. 4865), H7163 [27JY]

U.S. Submarine Force: anniversary (H. Res. 397), E404 [23MR]

Vatican City: U.N. status of the Holy See (H. Con. Res. 253), E1228 [13JY]

Veterans Health Administration: improve personnel system (H.R. 5109), H7962 [21SE]

Remarks in House relative to

Leave of absence: granted, H1955 [6AP]

Special order: granted, H983 [14MR], H1627 [30MR], H2236 [12AP], H2334 [13AP], H2647 [8MY], H2768 [9MY], H2965 [11MY], H10469 [19OC], H10806 [24OC]

Tributes

Barden, M. Joseph, E676 [9MY]

Friers, Thomas R., E1969 [28OC], E2114 [4DE]

Kempfer, Ray J., E1005 [14JN]

King, Chip (Biff), H1024 [15MR]

King, Jack, H1024 [15MR]

Owens, Ronald S., H10463 [19OC]