HOSTETTLER, JOHN N. (a Representative from Indiana)

Amendments

Dept. of Defense: making appropriations (H.R. 4576), H3928 [6JN]

Dept. of the Treasury, Postal Service, Executive Office of the President, and independent agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4871), H6600 [19JY], H6703 [20JY]

Depts. of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4690), H4818 [21JN], H5140 [26JN]

Depts. of Veterans Affairs and HUD, and sundry independent agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4635), H4487 [14JN], H4887, H4897 [21JN]

Foreign operations, export financing, and related programs: making appropriations (H.R. 4811), H5844 [11JY]

Appointments

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

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

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

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

Armed Forces: maintain programs and procedures for accounting of military personnel unaccounted for from previous and future conflicts (see H. Con. Res. 311), H7652 [14SE]

Boy Scouts: prohibit use of Federal funds to discriminate against the Boy Scouts of America on the basis of organizational, associational, or constitutional beliefs (see H.R. 5306), H8200 [26SE]

Budget: ensure on-budget surplus is used to reduce the public debt (see H.R. 3695), H633 [1MR]

Census: limit penalties for refusing or neglecting to answer decennial census questions beyond those necessary for enumeration of the population (see H.R. 4154), H2239 [12AP]

Children and youth: protect infants who are born alive (see H.R. 4292), H2655 [8MY]

Citizenship: confer U.S. citizenship automatically and retroactively to foreign-born children adopted by U.S. citizens (see H.R. 2883), H5843 [11JY]

Clean Air Act: methyl bromide phaseout schedule (see H.R. 4215), H7366 [7SE]

———prohibit the use of certain fuel additives including methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE) in reformulated gasoline (see H.R. 1398), H2012 [10AP]

Coast Guard: anniversary (see H. Con. Res. 372), H6471 [18JY]

Computers: improve Internet security and protect against cyberterrorism (see H. Con. Res. 285), H1764 [4AP]

Contracts: ensure public accountability, efficient delivery of services, reasonable cost savings, and prevention of unwarranted expenses (see H.R. 3766), H2770 [9MY]

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

———provide for equitable treatment of governmental and private plaintiffs in certain civil actions (see H.R. 2597), H6052 [13JY]

Dept. of Defense: deny educational assistance funds to local educational agencies that deny access to secondary school students for military recruiting purposes (see H.R. 4660), H5241 [27JN]

———impose a moratorium on the privatization and outsourcing of certain functions performed by civilian employees (see H.R. 4722), H5036 [22JN]

Dept. of Transportation: prohibit action to finalize, implement, or enforce a rule relative to the hours of service of drivers for motor carriers (see H.R. 4511), H6355 [17JY]

Education: tribute to home educators and home schooled students (see H. Res. 578), H7933 [20SE]

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), H7212 [27JY]

Executive Office of the President: express disapproval regarding Presidential circumvention of congressional legislative authority to set public policy (see H. Res. 463), H1852 [5AP]

Fair Credit Reporting Act: exempt certain investigative reports from the definition of consumer reports (see H.R. 3408), H7652 [14SE]

Fair Debt Collection Practices Act: reduce the cost of credit (see H.R. 2544), H4591 [15JN]

FDA: establish restrictions relative to the qualifications of physicians prescribing the abortion drug known as RU-486 (see H.R. 5385), H8799 [4OC]

Federal employees: extend civil service retirement options to IRS revenue officers, INS inspectors, and certain other Federal law enforcement officers (see H.R. 1228), H3412 [18MY]

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

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

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

Health: expand health care access and choice of coverage through Individual Membership Associations (see H.R. 4119), H7128 [26JY]

———limit medical malpractice claims (see H.R. 5344), H8468 [28SE]

Hoosier Automobile & Truck National Heritage Trail Area: authorize (see H.R. 5518), H10472 [19OC]

``In God We Trust'': encourage public display of national motto (see H. Res. 548), H6053 [13JY]

———support national motto (see H. Res. 551), H6052 [13JY]

Information services: deregulate Internet and high speed data services (see H.R. 2420), H2967 [11MY]

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), H5657 [29JN]

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]

Marshall Islands: name the Army missile range at Kwajalein Atoll for former President Ronald Reagan (see H.R. 3554), H89 [31JA]

Medicare: provide guidance to health care providers attempting to properly submit claims and target truly fraudulent activity for enforcement of billing regulations rather than inadvertent errors (see H.R. 5200), H8469 [28SE]

Mental health: issue commemorative postage stamp to raise autism awareness (see H. Res. 458), H7723 [18SE]

National Trails System Act: require compensation of property owners when certain railbanked trails are developed for public use (see H.R. 4086), H1405 [23MR]

Ohio: constitutionality of State motto (see H. Res. 494), H3474 [19MY]

Olympic games: mint commemorative coins to support the 2002 Salt Lake Olympic Winter Games and U.S. Olympic Committee programs (see H.R. 3679), H4592 [15JN]

Pope, Edmond: demand release from Russian prison for humanitarian reasons (see H. Con. Res. 364), H7652 [14SE] (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]

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

Research: requirements for disclosures relative to transfers of human fetal tissue (see H.R. 3980), H1076 [15MR]

Russia: sale and transfer of Moskit anti-ship missiles (see H.R. 4022), H2013 [10AP]

Smithsonian Institution: mint coins in commemoration of the National Museum of the American Indian (see H.R. 4259), H4174 [9JN]

Social Security: modify reporting requirements (see H.R. 3578), H7932 [20SE]

States: require use of Federal highway funds for projects in high priority corridors (see H.R. 4638), H8200 [26SE]

Taxation: allow a deduction for amounts paid for health insurance and prescription drug costs of individuals (see H.R. 4472), H3172 [16MY]

———allow small business employers a credit for certain expenses for long-term training of employees in highly skilled small business trades (see H.R. 1824), H3413 [18MY]

———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), H1958 (see H.R. 4214), H1957 [6AP]

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

———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]

———repeal adjusted gross income limitations on itemized deductions, personal exemption deduction, and child tax credit and repeal the alternative minimum tax on individuals (see H.R. 3612), H339 [10FE]

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

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

———treatment of individual retirement accounts and 401(k) plans (see H.R. 876), H7723 [18SE]

Veterans: permit concurrent receipt of military retired pay with service-connected disability benefits (see H.R. 303), H6719 [20JY]

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

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), H2238 [12AP]

Remarks

BATF: prohibit procurement preference to firearms manufacturers that enter into agreements with the Federal Government, H6703, H6704 [20JY]

Dept. of HUD: prohibit funding to implement Smith & Wesson (business) gun safety settlement agreement, H4897, H4898, H4899, H4900 [21JN]

———prohibit procurement preference to firearms manufacturers that enter into agreements with the Federal Government, H4887, H4891, H4892 [21JN]

Dept. of Justice: prohibit funding to implement Smith & Wesson (business) gun safety settlement agreement, H5140, H5141, H5142, H5143 [26JN]

Dept. of the Treasury, Postal Service, Executive Office of the President, and independent agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4871), H6703, H6704 [20JY]

Depts. of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4690), H5140, H5141, H5142, H5143 [26JN]

Depts. of Veterans Affairs and HUD, and sundry independent agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4635), H4891, H4892, H4897, H4898, H4899, H4900 [21JN]

Remarks in House relative to

Special order: granted, H11442 [27OC]