COBURN, TOM A. (a Representative from Oklahoma)

Amendments

Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs: making appropriations (H.R. 4461), H3524 [22MY], H5657 [29JN], H5693, H5705 [10JY]

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

Dept. of the Treasury, Postal Service, Executive Office of the President, and independent agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4871), H6692 [20JY]

Foreign operations, export financing, and related programs: making appropriations (H.R. 4811), H5957 [12JY]

Health: application of antitrust laws to labor negotiations by groups of health care professionals with HMO's (H.R. 1304), H5644 [29JN]

Housing: expand homeownership (H.R. 1776), H1902, H1907 [6AP]

Articles and editorials

Coburn—Down for the Count, Tulsa (OK) World, H1997 [10AP]

Why the High Cost of Prescription Drugs Is a Problem We Can't Afford To Ignore, Wall Street Journal, H5309 [28JN]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

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

African Americans: acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in U.S. history (see H. Con. Res. 356), H4674 [19JN]

———relief from Federal tax liability arising from the resolution of discrimination claims by farmers against the Dept. of Agriculture (see H.R. 2233), H2655 [8MY]

Armed Forces: restore health care coverage to retired members of the uniformed services (see H.R. 3573), H1764 [4AP]

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: allow projected on-budget surplus to be used for tax cuts (see H.R. 1016), H922 [9MR]

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

———ensure on-budget surplus is used to reduce the public debt (see H.R. 3695), H510 [16FE]

Census: limit penalties for refusing or neglecting to answer decennial census questions beyond those necessary for enumeration of the population (see H.R. 4154), H2123 [11AP]

Commission for the Comprehensive Study of Privacy Protection: establish (see H.R. 4049), H1163 [21MR]

Computers: prohibit gambling on the Internet (see H.R. 3125), H2340 [13AP]

Congressional Research Service: make certain publications and congressional documents available to the public on the Internet (see H.R. 4582), H3924 [6JN]

Contracts: allow choice of arbitration as a means of settling disputes (see H.R. 534), H7932 [20SE]

Courts: provide a civil action for a minor injured by exposure to explicit sexual or violent material (see H.R. 5045), H7723 [18SE]

Crime: constitutional amendment on protection of victims' rights (see H.J. Res. 64), H1589 [29MR]

Cuba: lift travel restrictions (see H.R. 4471), H5169 [26JN]

Dept. of Defense: Navy Theater-Wide Missile Defense system and Theater High-Altitude Area Defense system testing program development (see H.R. 2596), H2340 [13AP]

———terminate the practice of euthanizing military working dogs at the end of their working life and facilitate the adoption of such dogs (see H.R. 5314), H9505 [6OC]

Diseases: extend issuance of special postage stamps to fund breast cancer research (see H.R. 4069), H1404 [23MR]

———increase testing of pregnant women and newborn infants for HIV infection (see H.R. 4426), H2966 [11MY]

———international tuberculosis control (see H.R. 4057), H1284 [22MR]

———issue special postage stamps to fund prostate cancer research (see H.R. 2562), H574 [29FE]

Drugs: enhance competition for prescription drugs by increasing enforcement of existing antitrust laws relative to brand name and generic drugs (see H.R. 5235), H7932 [20SE]

Education: establish and expand programs relating to science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (see H.R. 4271, 4272), H6599 [19JY]

———importance of music education (see H. Con. Res. 266), H1164 [21MR]

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

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 Labor Standards Act: amend (see H.R. 5026), H7871 [19SE]

FCC: clarify service obligations of noncommercial educational broadcast stations (see H.R. 4201), H2771 [9MY]

———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), H342 [10FE]

FDA: facilitate the importation into the U.S. of certain approved drugs (see H.R. 1885), H5737 [10JY]

———restrict authority to issue clinical holds on investigational drugs or to deny patients expanded access to such drugs (see H.R. 3677), H647 [6MR]

Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: provide greater access to affordable pharmaceuticals (see H.R. 5247), H7990 [21SE]

Financial institutions: allow payment of Financing Corporation interest obligations from excess deposit insurance fund reserves (see H.R. 4082), H1852 [5AP]

———encourage a strong community-based banking system (see H.R. 1354), 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), H3813 [24MY]

Food Quality Protection Act: establish certain requirements (see H.R. 1592), H4783 [20JN]

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

GAO: conduct a comprehensive fraud audit of the Dept. of Education (see H.R. 4079), H1405 [23MR]

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

Health: emphasize the importance of organ, tissue, bone marrow, and blood donation, and support National Donor Day (see H. Con. Res. 247), H254 [8FE]

———minority health programs (see H.R. 3250), H3869 [25MY]

———minority health programs, cosponsorship withdrawn (see H.R. 3250), H7003 [25JY]

———protection of enrollees in managed care plans and HMO's (see H.R. 5628), H11842 [3NO]

Helsinki Final Act: anniversary (see H.J. Res. 100), H7003 [25JY]

House of Representatives: allow en bloc offsetting amendments to appropriation bills in order to reduce spending and the public debt (see H.R. 5580), H11206 [26OC]

``In God We Trust'': support national motto (see H. Res. 551), H6052 [13JY]

Individuals With Disabilities Education Act: authorizing appropriations (see H.R. 4090), H1589 [29MR]

Information services: deregulate Internet and high speed data services (see H.R. 2420), H1077 [15MR]

INS: provide for direct payment of information fees by foreign students under the Coordinated Interagency Partnership Regulating International Students Program (see H.R. 3732), H1285 [22MR]

Iraq: provide citizens access to U.S. food and medicines (see H.R. 3825), H3309 [17MY]

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), H2771 [9MY]

Marshall Islands: name the Army missile range at Kwajalein Atoll for former President Ronald Reagan (see H.R. 3554), H455 [15FE]

Medicare: waive waiting period for coverage and provide coverage of drugs for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (see H.R. 353), H3813 [24MY]

Mitchell, George J.: urge the awarding of the Nobel Prize for Northern Ireland peace efforts (see H. Con. Res. 242), H455 [15FE]

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

Native Americans: amend laws relative to the lands of the Muscogee-Creek, Seminole, Cherokee, Chickasawa and Choctaw Nations, historically referred to as the Five Civilized Tribes (see H.R. 5308), H9901 [12OC]

Occupational Safety and Health Act: waive applicability to employment performed in an employee's residence (see H.R. 3530), H48 [27JA]

O'Connor, John Cardinal: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 3557), H89 [31JA]

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), H7365 [7SE]

Panama Canal: U.S. control relative to treaties (see H.J. Res. 77), H5169 [26JN]

Postal Service: delivery of mail to a commercial mail receiving agency (see H.J. Res. 55), H641 [2MR]

———issue a semipostal in order to afford the public a convenient way to contribute to funding for the establishment of the World War II Memorial (see H.R. 4492), H5169 [26JN]

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]

Schools: promote the use of proven academic and classroom-management solutions for problems of behavior, attention, and learning in school children (see H. Res. 459), H1763 [4AP]

———provide grants for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training in public schools (see H.R. 4506), H3474 [19MY]

Smithsonian Institution: mint coins in commemoration of the National Museum of the American Indian (see H.R. 4259), H3813 [24MY]

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), H2411 [2MY]

———include additional information in account statements (see H.R. 5028), H7871 [19SE]

———modify reporting requirements (see H.R. 3578), H757 [8MR]

———protect Social Security and Medicare surpluses through strengthened budgetary enforcement mechanisms (see H.R. 3859), H756 [8MR]

———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 individuals a refundable credit for the purchase of private health insurance and provide for a report on State health insurance safety-net programs (see H.R. 2362), H455 [15FE]

———allow individuals to designate refunds to provide catastrophic health coverage to individuals who do not otherwise have health coverage (see H.R. 2433), H11813 [2NO]

———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), H6599 [19JY]

———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), H1589 [29MR]

———exclude from self-employment earnings certain payments under the Conservation Reserve Program (see H.R. 4064), H2239 [12AP]

———incentives to ensure timely and equitable access to the Internet over current and future generations of broadband capability (see H.R. 4728), H8736 [3OC]

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

———repeal excise tax on telephone use and other communications services (see H.R. 3916), H2122 [11AP]

———repeal information reporting requirement imposed on educational institutions and certain other trades and businesses relative to the Hope Scholarship and Lifetime Learning Credits (see H.R. 1389), H219 [7FE]

———repeal modification of capital gains tax payments relative to small businesses sold on the installment sales method (see H.R. 3594), H758 [8MR]

———temporarily suspend and permanently repeal increases in motor fuel taxes (see H.R. 4111), H1587 [29MR] (see H.R. 4776), H5435 [28JN]

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

———treatment of certain farmland sold with a principal residence (see H.R. 4421), H3413 [18MY]

———treatment of computers provided to employees for personal use (see H.R. 4274), H2967 [11MY]

Telecommunications: promote deployment of advanced services and competition by relieving unnecessary burdens on the two percent local exchange carriers (see H.R. 3850), H2341 [13AP]

Telephones: regulate interstate commerce in the use of mobile telephones and strengthen and clarify prohibitions on electronic eavesdropping (see H.R. 3489), H3049 [15MY]

Turkey: call for the release of certain Kurdish members of the Parliament from prison, and for the recognition of full cultural and language rights for the Kurdish people (see H. Res. 461), H4220 [12JN]

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

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), H2239 [12AP]

Water pollution: exempt discharges from certain silviculture activities from permit requirements of the national pollutant discharge elimination system (see H.R. 3625), H2341 [13AP]

World Trade Organization: withdraw U.S. membership and funding (see H.J. Res. 90), H1477 [28MR]

Bills and resolutions introduced

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]

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

Diseases: prohibit Federal funding of HIV testing unless individuals are informed of the results (see H.R. 5615), H11781 [1NO]

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

Medicare: waive waiting period for coverage of individuals disabled with AIDS and provide coverage of drugs used for treatment (see H.R. 4557), H3867 [25MY]

Oklahoma: clarify the Federal relationship between the Shawnee Tribe and Cherokee Nation (see H.R. 5207), H7870 [19SE]

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

Factsheets

Do Condoms Protect Against HPV Infection? National Cancer Institute, American Cancer Society, and NIH, H8640 [3OC]

Letters

Prevention of prenatal HIV transmission: Guthrie S. Birkhead, New York Dept. of Health, H6975 [25JY]

San Francisco, CA, funding under Comprehensive AIDS Resources Act programs to provide access to health care and support services to individuals and families with HIV and AIDS: Janet Heinrich, GAO, H8833 [5OC]

Motions

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4577), H7817 [19SE]

Press releases

FTC Charges Drug Manufacturers With Stifling Competition in Two Prescription Drug Markets: FTC, H5309 [28JN]

House To Decide Whether Americans Should Be Told the Truth About the Most Common STD, Human Papilloma Virus: Medical Institute on Human Papilloma Virus, H2692 [9MY]

Remarks

Abortion: prohibit partial-birth abortions (H.R. 3660), H1785 [5AP]

———prohibit partial-birth abortions (H.R. 3660), consideration (H. Res. 457), H1775, H1776, H1777 [5AP]

Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs: making appropriations (H.R. 4461), H5545 [29JN], H5693, H5697, H5705, H5706, H5707 [10JY]

Appropriations: making emergency supplemental appropriations, H5599, H5604 [29JN]

———making emergency supplemental appropriations (H.R. 3908), H1507 [29MR]

Budget: allocation of funds, H11509 [29OC]

———setting forth the Federal budget for 2001-2005 (H. Con. Res. 290), H1381 [23MR]

Capital punishment: prohibit the execution of pregnant women (H.R. 4888), H6795 [25JY]

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 (H.R. 4807), H6962, H6970, H6974, H6975, H6977, H6978 [25JY]

———revise and extend programs to provide access to health care and support services to individuals and families with HIV and AIDS (S. 2311), H8818, H8832, H8839 [5OC]

Dept. of Agriculture: special research grants funding, H5545 [29JN]

Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (H.R. 4205), H3383 [18MY]

———make certain improvements to the military health care system, H1381 [23MR]

———making appropriations for military construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure (H.R. 4425), conference report, H5599, H5604 [29JN]

Dept. of HUD: offer discounts on foreclosed homes to teachers and public safety officers, H1904 [6AP]

Dept. of the Interior and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4578), H4447 [14JN]

Dept. of the Treasury, Postal Service, Executive Office of the President, and independent agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4871), H6661, H6662, H6692, H6693 [20JY]

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4577), H4230 [13JN], H7688 [18SE]

———making appropriations (H.R. 4577), consideration (H. Res. 518), H4048 [8JN]

———making appropriations (H.R. 4577), motion to instruct conferees, H7817, H7818, H7819, H7820, H7821, H7824 [19SE]

Depts. of Veterans Affairs and HUD, and sundry independent agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4635), H4844, H4845 [21JN]

Diseases: establish an international trust fund to combat the AIDS epidemic (H.R. 3519), H3021 [15MY]

———prohibit Federal funding of HIV testing unless individuals are informed of the results (H.R. 5615), E2053 [1NO]

FDA: clarify certain responsibilities relative to importation of drugs into the U.S. (H.R. 3240), H5428, H5430, H5432 [28JN]

———prohibit funding for research, development, and approval of any drug for chemical inducement of abortion, H5693 [10JY]

———prohibit funding to prevent importation into the U.S. of certain approved drugs, H5697, H5705, H5706, H5707 [10JY]

Federal employees: reduce contributions to CSRS and FERS, H6692, H6693 [20JY]

Federal Employees Health Benefits Program: coverage of abortion procedures, H6661, H6662 [20JY]

Federal-State relations: reduce State and local costs due to unfunded Federal mandates relative to Medicare Rx 2000 Act, H5302 [28JN]

FEMA: disaster relief funding, H4844, H4845 [21JN]

Foreign operations, export financing, and related programs: making appropriations (H.R. 4811), H6007 [13JY]

Health: application of antitrust laws to labor negotiations by groups of health care professionals with HMO's (H.R. 1304), H5628, H5643, H5645, H5646 [29JN]

———application of antitrust laws to labor negotiations by groups of health care professionals with HMO's (H.R. 1304), consideration (H. Res. 542), H5619 [29JN]

———importance of education, early detection, and treatment in the prevention of breast cancer (H. Res. 278), H8634, H8636, H8637 [3OC]

———protection of enrollees in managed care plans and HMO's, H11513, H11514, H11516, H11518, H11519 [29OC], H11605, H11606, H11607, H11608 [30OC]

———revise and extend organ procurement and transplantation programs (H.R. 2418), H1687 [4AP]

Health Care Financing Administration: reform the regulatory processes used to administer the Medicare program, H7904 [20SE]

Health care professionals: exempt discussions on requiring abortion coverage from collective bargaining negotiations between health care professionals and HMO's, H5619, H5645, H5646 [29JN]

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

Housing: expand homeownership (H.R. 1776), H1900, H1902, H1904, H1905, H1906, H1907, H1908, H1914 [6AP]

———provide for one percent FHA mortgage loan downpayments to purchase homes within employing jurisdictions, H1902, H1904, H1905, H1906, H1907, H1908 [6AP]

———strike increase in median household income relative to housing assistance eligibility through community development block grant funds, H1914 [6AP]

Law enforcement: authorize appropriations for the prosecution of obscenity cases (H.R. 4710), H6943 [25JY]

Macedonia: allocation of foreign aid, H6007 [13JY]

Medicaid: coverage of breast and cervical cancer treatment for certain women and research on relationship between cervical cancer and human papillomavirus (H.R. 4386), H2692 [9MY]

———coverage of breast and cervical cancer treatment for certain women and research on relationship between cervical cancer and human papillomavirus (H.R. 4386), Senate amendment (H. Res. 628), H9844, H9845 [12OC]

Medicare: coverage of outpatient prescription drugs, H2191, H2195, H2197, H2198, H2199 [12AP], H7902, H7904, H7905, H7906, H7907, H7908, H7909 [20SE]

———expand and make permanent the subvention demonstration project for military retirees and dependents, H3383 [18MY]

———make more competitive and efficient and provide for a prescription drug benefit (H.R. 4680), consideration (H. Res. 539), H5302, H5309 [28JN]

———reform, H11514, H11516 [29OC]

Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act: provide additional protections to victims of rape (H.R. 3088), H8585, H8586 [2OC]

Parliamentary inquiry, H5309 [28JN]

Pharmaceuticals: reductions in prescription drug prices, H7908, H7909 [20SE]

Point of order, H4230 [13JN], H4845 [21JN]

Schools: postcoital emergency contraception distribution funding, H7817, H7818, H7819, H7820, H7821, H7824 [19SE]

Social Security: budget treatment of trust funds, H1507 [29MR]

Women: recognize the severity of the issue of cervical health (H. Con. Res. 64), H8638, H8640 [3OC]

Remarks in House relative to

Leave of absence: granted, H2398 [2MY], H3307 [17MY]

Special order: granted, H7720 [18SE], H8459 [28SE], H10806 [24OC]

Reports

Human Immunodeficiency Virus Epidemic: Executive Office of the President, H6970 [25JY]

Statements

HIV Reporting and Partner Notification Programs: Congressional Record (1990), H6976 [25JY]

Tributes

Aulbert, Andrea, H11528 [30OC]