HUTCHINSON, Y. TIM (a Senator from Arkansas)

Amendments

Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs: making appropriations (H.R. 4461), S7367, S7405 [20JY]

Budget: setting forth the Federal budget for 2001-2005 (S. Con. Res. 101), S2122, S2123 [4AP], S2368, S2370 [6AP], S2387, S2415, S2440, S2442 [7AP]

Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (S. 2549), S4525, S4579 [6JN], S4711, S4713 [7JN], S4753, S4867 [8JN], S5076, S5078, S5081, S5122, S5127 [14JN], S5329, S5366 [19JN]

Dept. of the Interior and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4578), S6481 [11JY], S6506 [12JY]

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4577), S5590, S5591, S5698, S5706 [22JN], S5715 [23JN], S5816 [26JN], S5933 [27JN], S5990 [28JN]

Elementary and Secondary Education Act: extend programs and activities (S. 2), S3774, S3775 [9MY]

Health: minority health programs (S. 1880), S11151 [26OC]

Pensions: reform (H.R. 1102), S10807 [19OC]

Public buildings: placement of automatic external defibrillators to assist individuals who experience cardiac arrest and protections from civil liability relative to emergency use of the devices (H.R. 2498), S11138 [26OC]

Public Health Service Act: provide certain children's health services (H.R. 4365), S9048 [22SE]

Taxation: phase-out and repeal estate and gift taxes (H.R. 8), S6710 [13JY]

Appointments

Committee To Escort the President, H29 [27JA]

Conferee: S. 2549, Dept. of Defense appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction, S6598 [13JY]

———S. 3041, District of Columbia appropriations, S9397 [27SE]

NATO Parliamentary Assembly, S10266 [11OC]

Articles and editorials

Government's Flawed Pursuit of Microsoft, Mike Huckabee, Dallas (TX) Morning News, S4572 [6JN]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Agriculture: increase maximum amount of marketing loan gains and loan deficiency payments that an agricultural producer may receive during the crop year (see S. 3049), S9478 [28SE]

Alcoholic beverages: enforcement of State laws in Federal court relative to interstate transportation of liquor (see S. 577), S821 [24FE]

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service: improve administration of bird collection and management activities (see S. 2329), S1986 [30MR]

Armed Forces: improve TRICARE program and extend and improve certain demonstration programs under the Defense Health Program (see S. 2087), S741 [23FE] (see S. 2486), S3192 [1MY]

———tribute to Marines who lost their lives in V-22 Osprey aircraft accident in Marana, AZ (see S. Res. 310), S4297 [23MY]

Army: coverage of overhead costs of unused arsenal capacity when not producing Army supplies (see S. 1396), S216 [1FE]

Bankruptcy: amend laws (see S. 3046), S8585 [14SE]

CERCLA: promote cleanup and reuse of brownfields, provide financial assistance for brownfields revitalization, and enhance State response programs (see S. 2700), S6027 [28JN]

Children and youth: protect infants who are born alive (see S. 3127), S9381 [27SE]

China, People's Republic of: support U.N. resolution condemning human rights violations (see S. Res. 271), S1612 [22MR]

China, Republic of: high-level visits by Taiwanese officials to the U.S. (see S. Con. Res. 140), S9466 [28SE]

Coastal zones: use of offshore oil and gas revenues to fund State and local conservation programs of coastal States (see S. 2123), S1997 [30MR]

Cole (U.S.S.): terrorist attack on Navy destroyer in Yemen (see S. Res. 378, 379), S10716 [18OC]

Commission for the Comprehensive Study of Privacy Protection: establish (see S. 3040), S8501 [13SE]

Courts: awarding of attorneys' fees to private parties who prevail in litigation against the Federal Government (see S. 2907), S7448 [21JY]

———simplify and expedite access to Federal courts for injured parties whose rights and privileges have been deprived by final actions of State or Federal agencies (see S. 1028), S3923 [11MY]

Coverdell, Paul: tribute (see S. Res. 338), S7160 [18JY]

Crime: provide incentives for States to enact mandatory minimum sentences for certain firearms offenses (see S. 2390), S2526 [11AP]

Curtis, Carl T.: tribute (see S. Res. 246), S86 [26JA]

Dept. of Agriculture: provide assistance for the rehabilitation of watershed dams built for flood protection and water resource projects (see S. 1762), S2353 [6AP]

Disasters: expand Federal program of hazard mitigation, relief, and insurance against the risk of catastrophic natural disasters (see S. 1361), S3331 [3MY]

Education for All Handicapped Children Act: anniversary (see S. Con. Res. 135), S8501 [13SE]

Election Administration Commission: establish (see S. 1), S11917 [15DE]

EPA: repeal rule on water quality standards total maximum daily load program (see S.J. Res. 50), S7072 [17JY]

Fair Labor Standards Act: clarify treatment of stock options (see S. 2323), S1884 [29MR]

FCC: follow normal rulemaking procedures in establishing additional requirements for noncommercial educational television broadcasters (see S. 2010), S160 [31JA]

———prohibit from establishing rules authorizing the operation of new, low power FM radio stations (see S. 2068), S1467 [20MR]

FDA: uniform food safety warning notification requirements (see S. 1155), S2771 [13AP]

Financial institutions: allow payment of Financing Corporation interest obligations from excess deposit insurance fund reserves (see S. 2293), S3031 [27AP]

Frederick Douglass Gardens, Inc.: establish a memorial in the District of Columbia or its environs (see S. 3147), S10092 [6OC]

Freedom of religion: protect religious liberty (see S. 2869), S6678 [13JY]

Health: improve access to health care services for uninsured and low-income individuals in medically under served areas (see S. Res. 260), S799 [24FE]

———revise and extend organ procurement and transplantation programs (see S. 2366), S2233 [5AP]

Health Care Financing Administration: revise performance standards and certification process for organ procurement organizations (see S. 2235), S1392 [9MR] (see S. 2625), S4379 [24MY]

Helsinki Final Act: anniversary (see S.J. Res. 48), S4820 [8JN]

Higher Education Act: improve integrity of Federal student loan programs relative to students at foreign institutions (see S. 3143), S9605 [2OC]

Housing: encourage Senate participation in and support of activities to provide decent homes for U.S. citizens (see S. Res. 319), S4922 [9JN]

———expand homeownership (see S. 1333), S3948 [15MY]

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 S. 1814), S11643 [6DE]

Individuals With Disabilities Education Act: authorizing appropriations (see S. 2341), S2772 [13AP]

Korean War: anniversary (see S.J. Res. 39), S1030 [1MR]

Labor unions: protect the free choice of individual employees relative to participation in labor organizations (see S. 424), S1524 [21MR]

Law enforcement: allow post-conviction DNA tests and facilitate the exchange by law enforcement agencies of DNA identification information on felony offenders (see S. 3130), S9466 [28SE]

———improve the quality and credibility of forensic science services for criminal justice purposes (see S. 1196), S1525 [21MR] (see S. 3045), S8585 [14SE]

Lexington (U.S.S.): naming of the last vessel of the Nimitz class of aircraft carriers (see S. Con. Res. 84), S1827 [28MR]

Magen David Adom Society: membership and recognition of the Red Shield of David by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (see S. Res. 343), S8116 [6SE]

Marshall Islands: name the Army missile range at Kwajalein Atoll for former President Ronald Reagan (see S. 2281), S1750 [27MR]

Medicaid: provide families and disabled children with the opportunity to purchase coverage (see S. 2274), S6026 [28JN]

Medicare: coverage of outpatient prescription drugs (see S. 2836), S6257 [30JN]

———eliminate reduction in payment rates to home health agencies for home health services (see S. 2365), S2233 [5AP]

———make more competitive and efficient and provide for a prescription drug benefit (see S. 2807), S6691 [13JY]

———revise inflation update factor used in making payments to prospective payment system hospitals (see S. 2018), S2118 [4AP]

———revise payments for certain physician pathology services (see S. 3055), S8585 [14SE]

National Airborne Day: designate (see S. Res. 301), S7165 [18JY]

National Correctional Officers and Employees Week: designate (see S. Res. 248), S3545 [4MY]

National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week: designate (see S. Res. 342), S8594 [14SE]

National Military Appreciation Month: designate (see S. 1419), S8024 [5SE]

National Safe Place Week: designate (see S. Res. 258), S1422 [9MR]

National Veterans Awareness Week: designate (see S. Res. 304), S6260 [30JN]

National Writing Project: improve (see S. 514), S7482 [24JY]

NIH: biomedical research funding (see S. Res. 253), S381 [7FE]

Older Americans Act: extend authorization, establish National Family Caregiver Support Program, modernize aging programs and services, and address need to engage in life course planning (see S. 1536), S9758 [3OC]

Petroleum: support increase in world crude oil supplies (see S. Res. 263), S867 [28FE]

Pope John Paul II: award Congressional Gold Medal (see S. 2453), S2728 [13AP]

Power resources: establish and implement competitive, environmentally sound, and job creating oil and gas leasing program for the Coastal Plain (see S. 2214), S1315 [8MR]

Public Health Service Act: provide certain children's health services (see S. 2868), S8769 [19SE]

Reagan, Ronald and Nancy: award Congressional Gold Medal (see S. 2459), S2865 [25AP]

Riddick, Floyd M.: tribute (see S. Res. 245), S86 [26JA]

Rural areas: provide funds for automatic external defibrillators and the training of individuals in advanced cardiac life support (see S. 2528), S3831 [10MY]

Smithsonian Institution: mint coins in commemoration of the National Museum of the American Indian (see S. 2217), S6576 [12JY]

Social Security: eliminate earnings test for retirement age individuals (see S. 2074), S1128 [2MR]

———extend availability of State Children's Health Insurance Program allotments (see S. 2434), S8343 [11SE]

———restore Social Services Block Grant funding and the ability of States to transfer Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds to such block grant (see S. 2585), S4955 [12JN]

States: increase funding for nonpoint source pollution control programs (see S. 2417), S3264 [2MY]

Taxation: designate renewal communities, provide tax credits to investors seeking to provide capital to create new markets in low-income communities, and establish Individual Development Accounts (see S. 2779), S5663 [22JN]

———extend the moratorium on taxation of Internet and interactive computer service commerce and assist States in simplifying their sales and use taxes (see S. 2775), S5663 [22JN]

———incentives to ensure timely and equitable access to the Internet over current and future generations of broadband capability (see S. 2698), S4820 [8JN]

———modify restrictions on refinancing of certain bonds issued to local governments to finance governmental services (see S. 1446), S8864 [20SE]

———provide a tax credit for marginal oil and natural gas well production (see S. 2265), S1914 [29MR]

———provide incentives for renewal of distressed communities and empowerment zone development, increase the number of empowerment zones, and encourage investment in new markets (see S. 3152), S10628 [17OC]

———repeal modification of capital gains tax payments relative to small businesses sold on the installment sales method (see S. 2005), S160 [31JA]

———standards for determining employment status of independent contractors (see S. 344), S3331 [3MY]

———temporary moratorium on certain diesel fuel excise taxes (see S. 2090), S953 [29FE]

———temporary moratorium on certain diesel fuel excise taxes and replacement of lost revenues with budget surplus funds (see S. 2161), S1117 [2MR]

———treatment of beer (see S. 801), S2636 [12AP]

———use of median family income to determine purchase price limitation for mortgage subsidy bonds (see S. 2714), S5027 [13JN]

Television: authorize loan guarantees to facilitate access to local television broadcast signals in unserved and underserved areas (see S. 2097), S799 [24FE]

Veterans: clarify and improve veterans' claims and appellate procedures (see S. 1810), S7245 [19JY]

———develop educational programs on veterans' contributions to the country (see S. Res. 304), S6260 [30JN]

Vietnam Veterans Memorial: authorize design and construction of a temporary education center (see S. 3089), S9864 [4OC]

———place a plaque to honor those veterans who died after their service, but as a direct result of that service (see S. 1921), S3923 [11MY]

Wisconsin (U.S.S.): issue commemorative postage stamp to honor ship and crew (see S. Con. Res. 60), S4025 [16MY]

Women: Federal procurement opportunities for women-owned small businesses (see S. Res. 311), S5468 [20JN]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Agriculture: authorize emergency loans to poultry producers to rebuild chicken houses destroyed by disasters (see S. 2039), S489 [8FE]

Americans With Disabilities Act: require that before filing a civil action against a place of public accommodation or commercial facility, an opportunity is allowed for alleged violations to be corrected (see S. 3122), S9381 [27SE]

DEA: funding to assist State and local efforts to clean up methamphetamine laboratories (see S. Res. 291), S2728 [13AP]

Dept. of Defense: deny educational assistance funds to local educational agencies that deny access to secondary school students for military recruiting purposes (see S. 2397), S2526 [11AP]

Dept. of Education: investigation and audit (see S. 2829), S6121 [29JN]

Dixon, Julian C.: tribute (see S. Res. 387), S11762 [11DE]

FCC: follow normal rulemaking procedures in establishing additional requirements for noncommercial educational television broadcasters (see S. 2215), S1315 [8MR]

FDA: establish restrictions relative to the qualifications of physicians prescribing the abortion drug known as RU-486 (see S. 3157), S9861 [4OC]

Food: educate the public on the use of biotechnology in producing food and support additional scientific research into potential economic and environmental risks and benefits (see S. 2838), S6257 [30JN]

Government regulations: review and limit the issuance of certain regulations relative to Federal contractors (see S. 2986), S7840 [27JY]

National Center for Rural Law Enforcement: funding (see S. 3009), S8105 [6SE]

National Safe Television for All-Ages Day: designate (see S. Res. 349), S8197 [7SE]

NLRB: inflation adjustments to the mandatory jurisdiction thresholds (see S. 2676), S4564 [6JN]

States: require use of Federal highway funds for projects in high priority corridors (see S. 2713), S5027 [13JN]

Taxation: terminate Internal Revenue Code (see S. 2450), S2728 [13AP]

Water pollution: exempt discharges from certain silviculture activities from permit requirements of the national pollutant discharge elimination system (see S. 2139), S1117 [2MR]

Cloture motions

China, People's Republic of: permanent normal trade relations upon accession to the World Trade Organization (H.R. 4444), motion to proceed, S7590 [26JY]

Flag—U.S.: constitutional amendment to prohibit desecration (S.J. Res. 14), S1737 [27MR], S1839 [29MR]

Nuclear energy: storage of spent nuclear fuel pending completion of the nuclear waste repository (S. 1287), S463, S464, S469 [8FE]

———storage of spent nuclear fuel pending completion of the nuclear waste repository (S. 1287), motion to proceed, S139 [31JA]

Taxation: eliminate marriage tax penalty by adjusting income tax rate brackets and standard deduction amounts (H.R. 6), S2514 [11AP], S2673, S2674, S2699 [13AP]

———treatment of education individual retirement accounts relative to elementary and secondary school expenses (S. 1134), S775 [24FE]

Essays

National Symbol: Charles Evans Hughes, S1767 [28MR]

Rights and Duties: Calvin Coolidge, S1767 [28MR]

Letters

Performance of abortions at overseas military medical facilities: Edwin F. O'Brien, Archdiocese for the Military Services, U.S.A., S5408 [20JN]

Motions

Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (S. 2549), S5425 [20JN]

Taxation: eliminate marriage tax penalty by adjusting income tax rate brackets and standard deduction amounts (H.R. 6), S2965 [27AP]

Pledge of Allegiance

Senate, S49 [26JA], S8611 [15SE], S10645 [18OC], S11755 [11DE]

Privilege of the floor

Wiley, Amanda, S4717 [7JN]

Wiseman, Tim, S4717 [7JN]

Remarks

Agriculture: authorize emergency loans to poultry producers to rebuild chicken houses destroyed by disasters (S. 2039), S491 [8FE]

Appropriations: making emergency supplemental appropriations, S6670 [13JY]

Arkansas: tribute to WatchDOGS school violence prevention program, S392 [7FE]

Armed Forces: improve TRICARE program and extend and improve certain demonstration programs under the Defense Health Program (S. 2087), S743 [23FE]

———improve TRICARE program and extend and improve certain demonstration programs under the Defense Health Program (S. 2486), S3193 [1MY]

———performance of abortions at overseas military medical facilities, S5407, S5411, S5412, S5415, S5416, S5419, S5421, S5425 [20JN]

———restore health care coverage to retired members of the uniformed services, S4626 [7JN]

Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc.: anniversary, S4290 [23MY]

Bankruptcy: amend laws (S. 3046), S8611 [15SE]

Budget: setting forth the Federal budget for 2001-2005 (S. Con. Res. 101), S2416 [7AP]

Childhood Cancer Awareness Month: observance, S8937 [21SE]

Children and youth: protect infants who are born alive (S. 3127), S9394 [27SE]

China, People's Republic of: permanent normal trade relations upon accession to the World Trade Organization (H.R. 4444), S8612 [15SE]

China, Republic of: assist in enhancement of security (H.R. 1838), S654 [22FE]

Courts: awarding of attorneys' fees to private parties who prevail in litigation against the Federal Government (S. 2907), S7452 [21JY]

Crime: provide incentives for States to enact mandatory minimum sentences for certain firearms offenses (S. 2390), S2611 [12AP]

DEA: funding to assist State and local efforts to clean up methamphetamine laboratories (S. Res. 291), S2775 [13AP]

Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (H.R. 4205), conference report, S10378 [12OC]

———authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (S. 2549), S4532 [6JN], S4626 [7JN], S4785, S4801 [8JN], S5407, S5411, S5412, S5415, S5416, S5419, S5421, S5425 [20JN]

———deny educational assistance funds to local educational agencies that deny access to secondary school students for military recruiting purposes (S. 2397), S2588-S2590 [12AP]

———vaccine acquisition policies, S11367 [30OC]

Dept. of Education: allegations of fiscal mismanagement, S3656 [9MY]

———investigation and audit (S. 2829), S6139 [29JN]

Depts. of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4690), S10217 [11OC]

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4577), S5598, S5640 [22JN], S6089 [29JN]

Diseases: Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy research funding, S8937 [21SE]

———support efforts to increase childhood cancer awareness, treatment, and research, S8937 [21SE]

Dixon, Julian C.: tribute (S. Res. 387), S11755, S11756 [11DE]

Education: assist local educational agencies in enabling students to meet academic achievement standards, S3235 [2MY], S3592 [8MY]

———funding, S6630, S6631 [13JY]

———national policy to improve system, S9565 [2OC]

———reductions in school class size, S3485, S3493 [4MY]

Elementary and Secondary Education Act: extend programs and activities (S. 2), S3152 [1MY], S3235, S3237 [2MY], S3300 [3MY], S3485, S3493 [4MY], S3592 [8MY], S3656 [9MY]

FCC: follow normal rulemaking procedures in establishing additional requirements for noncommercial educational television broadcasters (S. 2215), S1318 [8MR]

Flag—U.S.: constitutional amendment to prohibit desecration (S.J. Res. 14), S1767 [28MR]

Fort Pierre, SD: authorize construction of Wakpa Sica Reconciliation Place (H.R. 5528), S11757 [11DE]

———authorize construction of Wakpa Sica Reconciliation Place (H.R. 5528), corrections in enrollment (S. Con. Res. 161), S11759 [11DE]

Government regulations: review and limit the issuance of certain regulations relative to Federal contractors (S. 2986), S7899 [27JY]

Greenspan, Alan: nomination to be FRS Board of Governors Chairman, S308 [3FE]

Health: improve access to health care services for uninsured and low-income individuals in medically underserved areas, S2416 [7AP]

———national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures, S9565 [2OC]

———protection of enrollees in managed care plans and HMO's, S4801 [8JN], S6089 [29JN]

Higher Education Act: improve integrity of Federal student loan programs relative to students at foreign institutions (S. 3143), S9608 [2OC]

Human rights: combat trafficking in human beings and provide assistance to victims (H.R. 3244), conference report, S10217 [11OC]

Iran: impose sanctions on foreign persons who transfer items contributing to efforts to acquire, develop, or produce ballistic missiles (H.R. 1883), unanimous-consent agreement, S657 [22FE]

Johns Hopkins University: Protection Project funding, S10217 [11OC]

Jonesboro, AR: anniversary of shooting of students and teacher outside Westside Middle School, S1666 [23MR]

Law enforcement: improve the quality and credibility of forensic science services for criminal justice purposes (S. 3045), S8586 [14SE]

Medicare: coverage of outpatient prescription drugs, S9565 [2OC]

National Safe Television for All-Ages Day: designate (S. Res. 349), S8216 [7SE]

Native Americans: provide technical and legal assistance for tribal justice systems and members of Indian tribes (S. 1508), S11756 [11DE]

OSHA: implementation of ergonomic regulations, S5598, S5640 [22JN]

Point of order, S6631 [13JY]

Senate: legislative priorities, S9565 [2OC]

———legislative program, S8611 [15SE], S10645 [18OC], S11756, S11763 [11DE]

Social Security: eliminate earnings test for retirement age individuals (H.R. 5), S1450 [20MR]

Taxation: eliminate marriage tax penalty by adjusting income tax rate brackets and standard deduction amounts (H.R. 6), S2588 [12AP], S2672 [13AP]

———phase-out and repeal estate and gift taxes (H.R. 8), S6600, S6630, S6631 [13JY]

———require certain political organizations to report information to the IRS, S4785 [8JN]

Votes: position on missed, S6828 [14JY]

Water pollution: exempt discharges from certain silviculture activities from permit requirements of the national pollutant discharge elimination system (S. 2139), S1290 [8MR]

Texts of

S. 2676, inflation adjustments to NLRB mandatory jurisdiction thresholds, S4572 [6JN]

S. 2986, Just Opportunities in Bidding Act, S7900 [27JY]

S. 3122, ADA Notification Act, S9389 [27SE]

Tributes

Baggett, Joseph E., S9850 [4OC]

Brotchie, Craig F., S4816 [8JN]

Coverdell, Paul, S7183 [19JY]

Johnson, Charles J., S893 [28FE]