GRAMM, PHIL (a Senator from Texas)

Amendments

Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs: making appropriations (H.R. 4461), S7348, S7403 [20JY]

Budget: reconciliation of the concurrent resolution and elimination of the marriage tax penalty (H.R. 4810), S6811, S6865 [14JY]

———setting forth the Federal budget for 2001-2005 (S. Con. Res. 101), S2278, S2354, S2355, S2357 [6AP]

Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (S. 2549), S4751, S4865 [8JN], S5079, S5124 [14JN]

Dept. of HUD: establish consensus committee for development, revision, and interpretation of safety standards for manufactured home construction (S. 1452), S3552, S3563 [4MY]

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4577), S6030 [28JN]

Export Administration Act: increase penalties for violations (H.R. 5239), S10261, S10266 [11OC]

Taxation: treatment of education individual retirement accounts relative to elementary and secondary school expenses (S. 1134), S873 [28FE]

Television: authorize loan guarantees to facilitate access to local television broadcast signals in unserved and underserved areas (S. 2097), S1934, S1965, S2002, S2003 [30MR]

Appointments

Conferee: S. 761, Millennium Digital Commerce Act, S1846 [29MR]

Articles and editorials

Laying Down the Burden of Race, Ward Connerly, American Enterprise (publication), S4558-S4560 [6JN]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Aviation: allow families of international airline disaster victims a fair jury trial to receive just compensation for their loss (see S. 2035), S381 [7FE]

Business and industry: recovery of attorneys' fees by small businesses and labor organizations who prevail in proceedings brought by NLRB or OSHA (see S. 1158), S1185 [6MR]

Children's Internet Safety Month: designate (see S. Res. 294), S8026 [5SE]

China, People's Republic of: permanent normal trade relations upon accession to the World Trade Organization (see S. 2277), S2119 [4AP]

Commodity Exchange Act: reauthorize and amend to promote legal certainty, enhance competition, and reduce systemic risk in markets for futures and over-the-counter derivatives (see S. 2697), S4820 [8JN] (see S. 3283), S11917 [15DE]

Courts: appointment of additional Federal district judges (see S. 2730), S5273 [15JN]

———reform class action lawsuit process (see S. 353), S5562 [21JN]

———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), S1127 [2MR]

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

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

Daniel Patrick Moynihan U.S. Courthouse, New York, NY: designate (see S. 2370), S2347 [6AP]

Dept. of Justice: reform process by which the Office of the Pardon Attorney investigates and reviews potential exercises of executive clemency (see S. 2042), S1029 [1MR]

Diseases: extend issuance of special postage stamps to fund breast cancer research (see S. 2386), S3616 [8MY]

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), S2466 [10AP]

FCC: prohibit from establishing rules authorizing the operation of new, low power FM radio stations (see S. 2068), S1241 [7MR]

FHA: require partial rebates of mortgage insurance premiums to certain mortgagors upon payment of their FHA-insured mortgages (see S. 2914), S7542 [25JY]

Foreign trade: improve procedures for restricting imports of archaeological and ethnological material (see S. 1696), S871 [28FE]

Galveston Hurricane National Remembrance Day: designate (see S. Con. Res. 134), S8105 [6SE]

Gambling: prohibit gambling on high school and college sports and the Olympic games (see S. 2021), S551 [9FE]

Government regulations: review and limit the issuance of certain regulations relative to Federal contractors (see S. 2986), S9963 [5OC]

Housing: expand homeownership (see S. 3274), S11575 [5DE]

Immigration: increase number of temporary visas for skilled workers and expand education and training opportunities for U.S. students and workers (see S. 2045), S538 [9FE]

———increase State Criminal Alien Assistance Program funding and provide Federal reimbursement for treatment of illegal aliens (see S. 1709), S4576 [6JN]

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

Law enforcement: improve the quality and credibility of forensic science services for criminal justice purposes (see S. 3045), S10091 [6OC]

Medicaid: apply aggregate upper payment limits to non-State publicly owned or operated facilities (see S. 3187), S10628 [17OC]

Medicare: coverage of outpatient prescription drugs (see S. 3016), S8197 [7SE]

Memorial Day: proclaim a nationwide moment of remembrance (see S. Con. Res. 100), S4489 [25MY]

Mexico: adherence to treaties regulating the flow of raw sewage into U.S. waters (see S. Con. Res. 157), S11423 [31OC]

———elections (see S. Res. 335), S6678 [13JY]

———grant a temporary waiver of requirements relative to foreign aid certification of drug enforcement efforts (see S. 3021), S8506 [13SE] (see S. Res. 366), S9861 [4OC]

Middle East: prohibit U.S. assistance to the Palestinian Authority if a Palestinian State is declared unilaterally (see S. 2938), S8026 [5SE] (see S. 3250), S11131 [26OC]

National Airborne Day: designate (see S. Res. 301), S7246 [19JY]

National Children's Memorial Day: designate (see S. Res. 340), S7923 [27JY]

National Correctional Officers and Employees Week: designate (see S. Res. 248), S692 [22FE]

National Fragile X Awareness Week: designate (see S. Res. 268), S5686 [22JN]

National Guard: tribute to 49th Division of Texas for peacekeeping operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina (see S. Res. 382), S10926 [24OC]

National Heart Failure Awareness Week: designate (see S. Res. 256), S613 [10FE]

National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week: designate (see S. Res. 342), S8215 [7SE]

National Mammography Day: designate (see S. Res. 353), S8413 [12SE]

National Peace Officers Memorial Day: designate (see S. Res. 247), S86 [26JA]

National Responsible Father's Day: designate (see S. Res. 322), S5027 [13JN]

National Rural Development Partnership: authorize (see S. 3175), S9945 [5OC]

National Safe Place Week: designate (see S. Res. 258), S1242 [7MR]

O'Connor, John Cardinal: award Congressional Gold Medal (see S. 2076), S1030 [1MR]

Peace Corps: designate a fellowship program promoting the work of returning volunteers in underserved American communities as the Paul D. Coverdell Fellows Program (see S. 2998), S7840 [27JY]

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 lands: restore stability to payments made to States and counties containing certain Federal lands used for the benefit of public schools, roads, and Federal land managements projects (see S. 1608), S2945 [26AP]

Reagan, Ronald and Nancy: award Congressional Gold Medal (see S. 2459), S5467 [20JN]

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

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

Social Security: extend availability of State Children's Health Insurance Program allotments (see S. 2434), S8593 [14SE]

———treatment under balanced budget constitutional amendment (see S.J. Res. 38), S285 [2FE]

States: increase funding for nonpoint source pollution control programs (see S. 2417), S3031 [27AP]

Taxation: prohibit certain allocations of S corporation stock held by an employee stock ownership plan (see S. 1732), S7921 [27JY]

———provide a tax credit for marginal oil and natural gas well production (see S. 2265), S1512 [21MR]

———repeal excise tax on telephone use and other communications services (see S. 2330), S2872 [25AP]

———treat payments under the Conservation Reserve Program as rentals from real estate (see S. 2344), S3031 [27AP]

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

United Mine Workers of America: restore stability and equity to the financing of the Combined Benefit Fund (see S. 2729), S7399 [20JY]

World War II: support Day of Honor 2000 to honor and recognize the service of minority veterans (see S.J. Res. 44), S2872 [25AP]

Bills and resolutions introduced

National Boll Weevil Eradication Program: ensure all participating States are treated equitably (see S. 2732), S5240 [15JN]

Public utilities: provide for competition in electric power industry and authorize States to recover transition costs (see S. 2886), S7160 [18JY]

SEC: limit collection of certain fees and adjust compensation for employees (see S. 2107), S867 [28FE]

Tax Reform Act: amend (see S. 2104), S799 [24FE]

Taxation: treatment of associations which prepare for, or mitigate, the effects of natural disasters (see S. 2103), S799 [24FE]

———treatment of distributions from publicly traded partnerships (see S. 2949), S7839 [27JY]

Cloture motions

Bankruptcy: amend laws (H.R. 2415), conference report, S11378 [30OC], S11450 [1NO], S11553 [5DE]

Dept. of the Interior and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4578), conference report, S9820 [4OC]

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

Foreign policy: authorize trade and investment policy relative to sub-Saharan Africa (H.R. 434), conference report, S3788 [10MY], S3860 [11MY]

Immigration: increase number of temporary visas for skilled workers and expand education and training opportunities for U.S. students and workers (S. 2045), S8730 [19SE], S9028 [22SE], S9219 [26SE]

———increase number of temporary visas for skilled workers and expand education and training opportunities for U.S. students and workers (S. 2045), motion to proceed, S8619 [15SE]

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), S2699 [13AP]

Letters

Technical Assistance, Trade Promotion, and Anti-Corruption Act: by, Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (Senate), S2551 [11AP]

Motions

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

Remarks

Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs: making appropriations (H.R. 4461), S7345, S7346, S7356, S7361 [20JY]

Appropriations: making emergency supplemental appropriations, S6226, S6227 [30JN]

Armed Forces: restore health care coverage to retired members of the uniformed services, S4632 [7JN]

Budget: comparison between congressional and Clinton administration proposals, S2161, S2162 [5AP]

———enforcement of spending caps on appropriations legislation, S5980, S5981, S5982 [28JN], S6226, S6227 [30JN]

———reconciliation of the concurrent resolution and elimination of the marriage tax penalty (H.R. 4810), S6809 [14JY]

———setting forth the Federal budget for 2001-2005 (S. Con. Res. 101), S2161, S2162 [5AP], S2278, S2279, S2280, S2284, S2295, S2323 [6AP]

———strike certain provisions on emergency spending designation points of order, S2323 [6AP]

———treatment of any budget surpluses, S10653 [18OC]

China, People's Republic of: apply certain measures in response to the illegal sale, transfer, or misuse of certain controlled goods, services, or technology, S8398 [12SE], S8464 [13SE]

———permanent normal trade relations upon accession to the World Trade Organization (H.R. 4444), S8147 [7SE], S8464 [13SE]

———support transfer of U.S. clean energy technology as part of U.S. foreign assistance program, S8147 [7SE]

Commodity Exchange Act: reauthorize and amend to promote legal certainty, enhance competition, and reduce systemic risk in markets for futures and over-the-counter derivatives, S11866 [15DE]

———reauthorize and amend to promote legal certainty, enhance competition, and reduce systemic risk in markets for futures and over-the-counter derivatives (S. 2697), S4827 [8JN]

———reauthorize and amend to promote legal certainty, enhance competition, and reduce systemic risk in markets for futures and over-the-counter derivatives (S. 3283), S11926 [15DE]

Computers: encourage broadband technology deployment to rural areas, S1963 [30MR]

———encourage expansion of electronic commerce (S. 761), conference report, S5226 [15JN], S5282, S5283 [16JN]

———ensure consumer access to electronic records dealing with the consent granted through an electronic signature, S5283 [16JN]

Congress: accomplishments of the 106th Congress, S11460 [1NO]

Dept. of Agriculture: emergency disaster assistance funding for farmers, S7345, S7346 [20JY]

Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (H.R. 4205), conference report, S10369, S10370, S10372 [12OC]

———authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (S. 2549), S4632 [7JN], S4791, S4805, S4807 [8JN]

———making appropriations for military construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure (H.R. 4425), conference report, S6226, S6227 [30JN]

———making appropriations (H.R. 4576), conference report, S7734, S7736 [27JY]

———reduce appropriations for unrequested, low-priority, unnecessary, and wasteful spending programs, S7734, S7736 [27JY]

Dept. of Justice: create a record of lawful admission for permanent residence for certain aliens, S10652 [18OC]

———handling of investigation of missing nuclear missile technology from Los Alamos National Laboratory, addressing of agency security issues, and determination of accountability for security lapses, S8567 [14SE]

Depts. of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies: making appropriations, S11223 [27OC]

———making appropriations (H.R. 4690), S10652 [18OC]

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4577), S5646 [22JN], S5980, S5981, S5982 [28JN], S6088, S6092 [29JN]

———making appropriations (H.R. 4577), conference report, S11866 [15DE]

Economy: national objectives priority assignments, S11362 [30OC]

Education: funding, S6629 [13JY]

———national policy to improve system, S10971 [25OC], S11076 [26OC]

Elementary and Secondary Education Act: extend programs and activities (S. 2), S9246 [26SE]

Export Administration Act: increase penalties for violations (H.R. 5239), S11365 [30OC]

Financial institutions: authorize loan guarantees to cooperative lending entities to facilitate access to local television broadcast signals in unserved and underserved areas, S1934, S1937, S1939, S1965 [30MR]

Foreign policy: authorize trade and investment policy relative to sub-Saharan Africa (H.R. 434), conference report, S3794 [10MY]

———bilateral debt relief to heavily indebted poor countries, S10650-S10652 [18OC]

———prohibit any agent of the U.S. from pressuring African countries to change or revoke laws aimed at increasing access to HIV/AIDS drugs, S3794 [10MY]

Foreign trade: permanent normal trade relations upon accession to the World Trade Organization (H.R. 4444), unanimous-consent request, S8398 [12SE]

———provide export control authority (S. 1712), S1275 [8MR]

———provide export control authority (S. 1712), unanimous-consent agreement, S1275 [8MR]

Gore, Vice President: economic plan, S11076 [26OC]

Greenspan, Alan: nomination to be FRS Board of Governors Chairman, S258, S265 [2FE]

Health: national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures, S10971 [25OC], S11076 [26OC]

———protection of enrollees in managed care plans and HMO's, S4791, S4805, S4807 [8JN], S6088 [29JN]

Housing: expand homeownership (H.R. 5640), S11681 [7DE]

Immigration: increase number of temporary visas for skilled workers and expand education and training opportunities for U.S. students and workers (S. 2045), S544 [9FE], S9246 [26SE], S9345, S9347, S9358 [27SE]

———remove certain limitations on the eligibility of aliens residing in the U.S. to obtain lawful permanent residency status, S9345, S9347, S9358 [27SE], S11223 [27OC]

Launching Our Communities' Access to Local Television Act: application of Administrative Procedure Act, S1967 [30MR]

———application of copyright and communications laws, S1967 [30MR]

Medicare: coverage of outpatient prescription drugs, S5646 [22JN], S8773-S8776 [20SE]

———make more competitive and efficient and provide for a prescription drug benefit, S8775 [20SE]

———reimbursement levels for free-standing cancer hospitals for outpatient services, S11481 [1NO]

National Affordable Housing Trust Fund: establish to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing for low-income families, S6648 [13JY]

National Boll Weevil Eradication Program: ensure all participating States are treated equitably (S. 2732), S5241 [15JN]

Parliamentary inquiry, S7348 [20JY]

Petroleum: gasoline tax, S2280 [6AP]

Point of order, S1955 [30MR], S5980 [28JN], S7361 [20JY]

Power resources: elimination of internal combustion engine, S2279, S2280, S2284, S2295 [6AP]

SBA: improve the certified development company program (H.R. 2614), conference report, S11221, S11223, S11224 [27OC]

Senate: legislative program, S1925 [30MR]

———procedural constraints on amendment process, S9358 [27SE]

Social Security: budget treatment of trust funds, S2279 [6AP]

———ensure solvency of trust funds, S6657 [13JY]

———increase spousal survivors' benefit and allow women taking leave to care for a child or relative to exempt those years from benefit calculations, S6657 [13JY]

———make corrections in Medicare, Medicaid, and State Children's Health Insurance Program relative to the Balanced Budget Act, S10653 [18OC], S11221, S11224 [27OC]

SSI: funding, S5980, S5981, S5982 [28JN]

Taxation: eliminate marriage tax penalty by adjusting income tax rate brackets and standard deduction amounts, S2278, S2279 [6AP]

———eliminate marriage tax penalty by adjusting income tax rate brackets and standard deduction amounts (H.R. 6), S2566 [12AP]

———increase, expand, and simplify child and dependent care deductions, expand adoption credit for special needs children, and provide incentives for employer-provided child care, S6654, S6655 [13JY]

———phase-out and repeal estate and gift taxes, S2278, S2279 [6AP]

———phase-out and repeal estate and gift taxes (H.R. 8), S6629, S6648, S6654, S6655, S6657 [13JY]

———phase-out and repeal estate and gift taxes (H.R. 8), motion to proceed, S6496 [12JY]

———provide tax credit for families who adopt special needs children, S2609 [12AP]

———rates, S2161 [5AP], S2278, S2279, S2280, S2284 [6AP]

———relief, S11223 [27OC]

Television: authorize loan guarantees for broadcast satellite launch vehicles relative to access to local broadcast signals in unserved and underserved areas, S1953, S1955 [30MR]

———authorize loan guarantees to facilitate access to local television broadcast signals in unserved and underserved areas (S. 2097), S1929, S1934, S1937, S1939, S1953, S1955, S1957, S1963, S1964, S1965, S1967 [30MR]

Reports filed

Competitive Market Supervision Act: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (Senate) (S. 2107) (S. Rept. 106-360), S7542 [25JY]

Congressional Gold Medal Award to Pope John Paul II: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (Senate) (S. 2453) (S. Rept. 106-356), S7477 [24JY]

Congressional Gold Medal Award to Ronald and Nancy Reagan: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (Senate) (S. 2459) (S. Rept. 106-357), S7477 [24JY]

Launching Our Communities' Access to Local Television Act: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (Senate) (S. 2097) (S. Rept. 106-243), S1461 [20MR]

Manufactured Housing Improvement Act: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (Senate) (S. 1452) (S. Rept. 106-274), S2726 [13AP]

Nomination of Alan Greenspan To Be FRS Board of Governors Chairman: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (Senate), S213 [1FE]

Nomination of Jay Johnson To Be Director of the U.S. Mint: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (Senate), S1315 [8MR]

Nomination of Kathryn Shaw to the Council of Economic Advisers: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (Senate), S1315 [8MR]

2002 Winter Olympic Commemorative Coin Act: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (Senate) (S. 2266) (S. Rept. 106-355), S7477 [24JY]

Texts of

S. 2732, Boll Weevil Eradication Equity Act, S5241 [15JN]

Tributes

Connerly, Ward, S4558 [6JN]

Coverdell, Paul, S7177 [19JY]

Gorton, Senator, S11673 [7DE]

Moynihan, Senator, S11459 [1NO]