GORDON, BART (a Representative from Tennessee)

Appointments

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

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

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

American Folklife Center: collect video and audio recordings of personal histories and testimonials of U.S. war veterans (see H.R. 5212), H7870 [19SE]

American Museum of Science and Energy: designate (see H.R. 4940), H6777 [24JY]

Armed Forces: restore health care coverage to retired members of the uniformed services (see H.R. 3573), H1588 [29MR]

Children and youth: acquisition, construction, and improvement of child care facilities or equipment (see H.R. 3610), H4817 [21JN]

———improve health and safety of children receiving child care outside the home (see H.R. 4750), H6600 [19JY]

———protect students from commercial exploitation (see H.R. 2915), H922 [9MR]

Civil liberties: religious accommodations in the workplace (see H.R. 4237), H6355 [17JY]

Clinton, President: address issues of neighborhood crime prevention, community policing and reduction of school crime (see H. Res. 561), H6718 [20JY]

Contracts: ensure public accountability, efficient delivery of services, reasonable cost savings, and prevention of unwarranted expenses (see H.R. 3766), H3813 [24MY]

Dept. of Agriculture: agricultural trade programs funding (see H.R. 3593), H1675 [3AP]

Dept. of Commerce: establish an Office of Community Economic Adjustment to coordinate the Federal response in regions and communities experiencing economic distress (see H.R. 4711), H4816 [21JN]

Dept. of Defense: adjustment of composite theoretical performance levels of high performance computers (see H.R. 3680), H3869 [25MY]

Dept. of Energy: establish compensation programs for employees sustaining beryllium and radiation-related injury, illness, or death (see H.R. 4398), H2769 [9MY] (see H.R. 5189), H7651 [14SE]

Dept. of Justice: establish the Violence Against Women Office (see H.R. 4848), H7282 [6SE]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: assist claimants for benefits in developing claims and clarify the burden of proof for such claims (see H.R. 3193), H50 [27JA]

Diseases: expand research activities relative to lupus (see H.R. 762), H6599 [19JY]

———extend issuance of special postage stamps to fund breast cancer research (see H.R. 4069), H3173 [16MY]

Drugs: distribution of prescription drugs (see H.R. 4301), H3926 [6JN]

Education: establish and expand programs relating to science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (see H.R. 4271, 4272), H5737 [10JY]

———modernize public schools, reduce class size, increase access to technology, enhance school safety, improve teacher quality, and strengthen accountability for academic results (see H.R. 4346), H3869 [25MY]

———school construction and infrastructure improvements funding (see H.R. 3705), H998 [14MR]

Families and domestic relations: recognize and enhance public awareness of the social problem of child abuse and neglect (see H. Con. Res. 76), H373 [14FE]

FCC: follow normal rulemaking procedures in establishing additional requirements for noncommercial educational television broadcasters (see H.R. 3525), H48 [27JA]

———prohibit from establishing rules authorizing the operation of new, low power FM radio stations (see H.R. 3439), H2012 [10AP]

FDA: uniform food safety warning notification requirements (see H.R. 2129), H3925 [6JN]

Federal employees: treatment of retirement benefits for assistant U.S. attorneys (see H.R. 583), H3925 [6JN]

Financial institutions: allow payment of Financing Corporation interest obligations from excess deposit insurance fund reserves (see H.R. 4082), H3474 [19MY]

Gambling: prohibit gambling on high school and college sports and the Olympic games (see H.R. 3575), H922 [9MR]

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]

Higgins, Andrew Jackson and family: award Congressional Gold Medals (see H.R. 4384), H4485 [14JN]

Higgins Industries: award Congressional Gold Medal to World War II-era employees (see H.R. 4384), H4485 [14JN]

Homeless: improve programs for veterans (see H.R. 5311), H9768 [11OC]

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), H4675 [19JN]

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]

James H. Quillen U.S. Courthouse, Greeneville, TN: designate (see H.R. 4608), H4120 [8JN]

Lakes: require Federal agencies to enhance recreational experiences for the public (see H.R. 4299), H8200 [26SE]

Law enforcement officers: clarify procedures and conditions for the award of matching grants for the purchase of armor vests (see H.R. 4033), H1629 [30MR]

———extend retroactive eligibility dates for educational assistance to the surviving spouse and dependent children of officers killed in the line of duty (see H.R. 2059), H1588 [29MR]

Libraries: provide up-to-date school library media resources and professionally certified school library media specialists for elementary and secondary schools (see H.R. 3008), H1958 [6AP]

Medicaid: assure preservation of safety net hospitals through maintenance of Disproportionate Share Hospital Program (see H.R. 3710), H2341 [13AP]

———establish a new prospective payment system for federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics (see H.R. 2341), H8469 [28SE]

———State funding for disproportionate share hospitals (see H.R. 3698), H2512 [3MY]

Medicare: coverage of outpatient prescription drugs (see H.R. 4607), H4120 [8JN]

———eliminate reduction in the market basket percentage under the prospective payment system for payments to small rural hospitals (see H.R. 4996), H8201 [26SE]

———establish a special payment rate for psychiatric hospital services (see H.R. 4702), H7281 [6SE]

———graduate medical education payments (see H.R. 4239), H4784 [20JN]

———improve Medicare-dependent, small rural hospital program (see H.R. 4997), H8201 [26SE]

———provide for equity in the amount of disproportionate share payment adjustments between urban and rural hospitals (see H.R. 4995), H8201 [26SE]

———revise inflation update factor used in making payments to prospective payment system hospitals (see H.R. 3580), H2340 [13AP]

Mental health: provide for treatment parity (see H.R. 2593), H3869 [25MY]

Motor vehicles: require reports relative to defects in foreign products (see H.R. 5164), H7577 [13SE]

National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Engineering: establish (see H.R. 1795), H6470 [18JY]

National Law Enforcement Museum: establish (see H.R. 2710), H4675 [19JN]

NIH: improve and expand clinical research programs (see H.R. 1798), H3869 [25MY]

Northern Mariana Islands: prohibit use of the ``Made in USA'' label on products and deny such products duty-free and quota-free treatment (see H.R. 1621), H3172 [16MY]

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), H7652 [14SE] (see H. Con. Res. 404), H7871 [19SE]

Postal Service: amend pay policies and schedules and fringe benefit programs for postmasters (see H.R. 3842), H1477 [28MR]

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), H7003 [25JY]

Research: continuation of Federal research and development programs funding in a fiscally sustainable way (see H.R. 3161), H3925 [6JN]

Rivers: economic development assistance for the lower Mississippi Delta region (see H.R. 2911), H1674 [3AP]

SBA: conduct a pilot program to raise awareness about telecommuting among small business employers (see H.R. 3500), H2340 [13AP]

Schools: provide grants for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training in public schools (see H.R. 4506), H8469 [28SE]

Schulz, Charles M.: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 3642), H341 [10FE]

Social Security: choice of benefit payment method relative to computation rule application to workers attaining age 65 in or after 1982 (see H.R. 148), H1674 [3AP]

———improve computation system for certain workers who attain age 65 (see H.R. 538), H1629 [30MR]

———make corrections in Medicare, Medicaid, and State Children's Health Insurance Program relative to the Balanced Budget Act (see H.R. 5291), H8199 [26SE]

Taxation: 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), H7003 [25JY]

———avoid duplicate reporting of information on political activities of certain State and local political organizations (see H.R. 5277), H11207 [26OC]

———clarify the child credit allowance, the personal exemptions deduction, and the earned income credit for missing children (see H.R. 5117), H7503 [12SE]

———encourage stronger mathematics and science programs at elementary and secondary schools (see H.R. 4273), H5737 [10JY]

———ensure that income averaging for farmers does not increase a farmer's liability for the alternative minimum tax (see H.R. 5040), H8617 [2OC]

———exclude from self-employment earnings certain payments under the Conservation Reserve Program (see H.R. 4064), H3050 [15MY]

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

———exclusion of gain from the sale of farmland (see H.R. 1503), H8617 [2OC]

———expand incentives for the construction and renovation of public schools (see H.R. 4094), H2607 [4MY]

———incentives to ensure timely and equitable access to the Internet over current and future generations of broadband capability (see H.R. 4728), H10473 [19OC]

———prevent evasion of excise taxes on cigarettes (see H.R. 4598), H5843 [11JY]

———provide that ancestors or lineal descendants of members of the Armed Forces shall be taken into account in determining tax-exempt status of veterans' organizations (see H.R. 4434), H7212 [27JY]

———recycling and remanufacturing equipment credit (see H.R. 2953), H1958 [6AP]

———reduce estate and gift tax rates (see H.R. 5315), H10473 [19OC]

———repeal excise tax on telephone use and other communications services (see H.R. 3916), H2411 [2MY]

———repeal modification of capital gains tax payments relative to small businesses sold on the installment sales method (see H.R. 3594), H575 [29FE]

———require certain political organizations to report information to the FEC (see H.R. 3688), H3413 [18MY] (see H.R. 4168), H2607 [4MY]

———treatment of adoption expenses (see H.R. 531), H3172 [16MY]

———treatment of certain farm rental income and all payments under the environmental conservation acreage reserve program (see H.R. 4260), H2238 [12AP]

———treatment of computer contributions (see H.R. 4061), H3050 [15MY]

———treatment of printed wiring boards and printed wiring assembly equipment (see H.R. 1122), H8617 [2OC]

Telecommunications: promote deployment of advanced services and competition by relieving unnecessary burdens on the two percent local exchange carriers (see H.R. 3850), H756 [8MR]

Tennessee (U.S.S.): tribute for accomplishments during World War II (see H. Con. Res. 421), H10257 [18OC]

Utah: transfer certain oil shale reserves to the Ute Indian Tribe and protect the Colorado River by remediating Atlas uranium milling site near Moab, UT (see H.R. 4165), H4121 [8JN]

Veterans: change effective date for paid-up coverage under the Survivor Benefit Plan (see H.R. 601), H8617 [2OC]

———establish a comprehensive program for the testing and treatment of the Hepatitis C virus (see H.R. 5132), H9011 [5OC]

———increase size of the estate an incompetent veteran may have without being subject to suspension of benefits while under institutional care by the Dept. of Veterans Affairs (see H.R. 4935), H7129 [26JY]

———mint coins in commemoration and use proceeds of surcharges imposed on the sale of such coins to fund the transport of veterans to and from Dept. of Veterans Affairs hospitals (see H.R. 5397), H9010 [5OC]

———recognize the importance of veterans to the U.S. and express support for the goals of Veterans Educate Today's Students (VETS) Day (see H. Con. Res. 58), H5843 [11JY]

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]

Women: reauthorize Federal programs to prevent violence against women (see H.R. 1248), H7373 [11SE]

Remarks

American Museum of Science and Energy: designate (H.R. 4940), H10626 [24OC]

Dept. of Commerce: Office of Space Commercialization funding (H.R. 2607), H9950 [17OC]

Drugs: establish grants for drug treatment alternatives to prison programs administered by State or local prosecutors (H.R. 4493), H9954 [17OC]

FAA: Office of the Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation funding (H.R. 2607), H9950 [17OC]

Federal agencies and departments: improve ability to license federally owned inventions (H.R. 209), H9948 [17OC]

Gainesboro, TN: tribute to Jackson County High School girls' basketball team, E398 [23MR]

Lewisburg, TN: anniversary of Greater First Baptist Church, E926 [9JN]

NASA: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 1654), conference report, H7602 [14SE]

Nashville, TN: tribute to Delta Nu Alpha (fraternal organization) National Transportation Week activities, E320 [15MR]

NIST: improve computer security (H.R. 2413), H10609 [24OC]

Space policy: encourage the development of a commercial space industry (H.R. 2607), H9950 [17OC]

Telecommunications: promote deployment of advanced services and competition by relieving unnecessary burdens on the two percent local exchange carriers (H.R. 3850), H8685 [3OC]

Tributes

Bacon, Samuel R., E1057 [20JN]

Bennett, Liz, E190 [29FE]

Brown, Ann, E1486 [14SE]

Canady, Representative, H9954 [17OC]

Dixon, Gene, E82 [8FE]

Miller, John E., E399 [23MR]

Minton, Ray, E528 [11AP]

Painter, John G., E1539 [20SE]

Tune, Adam, E2064 [2NO]

Volpe, Angelo, E683 [9MY]

Walker, James, E1472 [13SE]