McHUGH, JOHN M. (a Representative from New York)

Amendments

Arnold C. D'Amico Station, South Euclid, OH: designate (H.R. 4853), H9863 [12OC]

Dept. of the Treasury, Postal Service, Executive Office of the President, and independent agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4871), H6689 [20JY]

Appointments

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

Articles and editorials

Moynihan Applauds as Medicare ``Backs Off'' Payment Reductions, Alan Emory, Watertown (NY) Daily Times, E1588 [25SE]

Payment Change May Spell End of Outpatient Chemotherapy, Alan Emory, Watertown (NY) Daily Times, E1588 [25SE]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Agriculture: establish an educational program to improve the risk management skills of agricultural producers (see H.R. 4018), H1477 [28MR]

———grants to assist value-added agricultural businesses (see H.R. 3996), H3869 [25MY]

———increase maximum amount of marketing loan gains and loan deficiency payments that an agricultural producer may receive during the crop year (see H.R. 4894, 4895), H7871 [19SE]

———prohibit products containing dry ultra-filtered milk or casein from being labeled domestic natural cheese (see H.R. 4652), H4484 [14JN]

American Folklife Center: collect video and audio recordings of personal histories and testimonials of U.S. war veterans (see H.R. 5212), H8736 [3OC]

Armed Forces: restore health care coverage to retired members of the uniformed services (see H.R. 3573), H575 [29FE]

Aviation: provide basic consumer protection standards and enhance competition between airlines (see H.R. 780), H921 [9MR]

Capital punishment: reduce the risk that innocent persons may be executed (see H.R. 4167), H2341 [13AP]

CERCLA: exempt small businesses from certain liability (see H.R. 5175), H8062 [25SE]

Children and youth: authorize grants for the prevention of alcoholic beverage consumption by underage individuals (see H.R. 3430), H8469 [28SE]

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

———provide for a national media campaign to reduce and prevent underage drinking (see H.R. 5137), H9635 [10OC]

Coast Guard: anniversary (see H. Con. Res. 372), H6600 [19JY]

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), H5843 [11JY]

Consumers: require disclosure of terms of rental-purchase agreements (see H.R. 1634), H5169 [26JN]

Contracts: ensure public accountability, efficient delivery of services, reasonable cost savings, and prevention of unwarranted expenses (see H.R. 3766), H2607 [4MY]

Dairy Farmer Viability Commission: establish (see H.R. 5356), H8617 [2OC]

Dept. of Agriculture: agricultural trade programs funding (see H.R. 3593), H1477 [28MR]

———ensure milk producers receive a fair price for milk marketed for domestic consumption and establish a National Milk Pricing Board (see H.R. 5052), H7871 [19SE]

———make grants to assist low and moderate income individuals to finance construction, refurbishing, and servicing of household water well systems in rural areas (see H.R. 3910), H1629 [30MR]

Dept. of Energy: create an oil reserve for use when fuel oil prices rise sharply because of anticompetitive activity, shortage, or extreme winter weather (see H.R. 3608), H278 [9FE]

———draw down and sale of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve relative to anticompetitive activities (see H.R. 3543), H90 [31JA]

———draw down of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (see H. Con. Res. 273), H7652 [14SE]

Dept. of Justice: provide grants to organizations to find missing adults (see H.R. 2780), H455 [15FE]

Dept. of Labor: establish Normal Trade Relations for China Transitional Adjustment Assistance Program (see H.R. 4649), H6599 [19JY]

Dept. of State: provide appropriate training and materials to all executive branch employees involved in responding to issues related to human rights, ethnic cleansing, and genocide (see H. Res. 398), H3926 [6JN]

Dept. of the Treasury: instruct the IMF to oppose loans to countries restricting oil production to the detriment of the U.S. economy (see H.R. 4102), H7932 [20SE]

Dept. of Transportation: establish a grant program for providing assistance to emergency response organizations (see H.R. 3155), H278 [9FE]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: ensure compensation rates for the service-connected loss of a breast due to a mastectomy are comparable to rates for the loss of use of a creative organ (see H.R. 3998), H1118 [16MR]

———reaffirm and clarify duty of the Secretary to administer laws which assist claimants for benefits (see H.R. 4864), H6600 [19JY]

Drugs: establish grants for drug treatment alternatives to prison programs administered by State or local prosecutors (see H.R. 4493), H8406 [27SE]

Education: increase amount of loan forgiveness for teachers (see H.R. 3880), H1406 [23MR] (see H.R. 5034), H7207 [27JY]

———provide grants to local educational agencies to initiate and improve physical education programs (see H.R. 4536), H8406 [27SE]

———support teachers (see H. Res. 492), H2655 [8MY]

Elementary and Secondary Education Act: reauthorize Impact Aid Program (see H.R. 3616), H340 [10FE]

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]

———reauthorize Clean Lakes Program (see H.R. 2328), H1077 [15MR]

———reauthorize the Great Lakes Program (see H.R. 3670), H1589 [29MR]

———require discharges from combined storm and sanitary sewers conform to the combined sewer overflow control policy (see H.R. 828), H3172 [16MY]

Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor: establish (see H.R. 5375), H8735 [3OC]

Europe: authorize assistance to southeastern European countries, but only democratization aid to Serbia and Montenegro, and require equitable burdensharing in the region (see H.R. 4053), H1284 [22MR]

Families and domestic relations: limit the effects of domestic violence on the lives of children (see H.R. 3315), H90 [31JA]

FCC: prohibit from establishing rules authorizing the operation of new, low power FM radio stations (see H.R. 3439), H50 [27JA]

FDA: restrict authority to issue clinical holds on investigational drugs or to deny patients expanded access to such drugs (see H.R. 3677), H509 [16FE]

Federal employees: establish program under which current and former employees may obtain long-term care insurance (see H.R. 4040), H1589 [29MR]

———reduce contributions to CSRS and FERS (see H.R. 2631), H455 [15FE]

Federal Prison Industries: eliminate Federal agency requirement to purchase products and require commercial competition for Federal contracts (see H.R. 2551), H511 [16FE]

Federal Water Pollution Control Act: improve implementation (see H.R. 4502), H3869 [25MY]

FEMA: make grants to fire departments for the acquisition of thermal imaging cameras (see H.R. 1839), H50 [27JA]

Foreign policy: reduce, suspend, or terminate certain assistance to countries engaged in oil price fixing to the detriment of the U.S. economy (see H.R. 3822), H998 [14MR]

GAO: require report to Congress on agency regulatory actions (see H.R. 3669), H2770 [9MY]

Government: prohibit the acquisition of products produced by forced labor (see H. Con. Res. 308), H5956 [12JY]

———review, reform, and terminate unnecessary and inequitable Federal payments, benefits, services, and tax advantages (see H.R. 3221), H255 [8FE]

Great Lakes: moratorium on export of bulk fresh water until certain conditions are met (see H.R. 2973), H922 [9MR]

———prohibit vessels from discharging ballast water that contains nonindigenous aquatic species and treat such water, and its sediments, using the most effective and efficient methods available (see H.R. 4191), H2607 [4MY]

Health: enhance the Nation's capacity to address public health threats and emergencies (see H.R. 4964), H7871 [19SE]

Health care facilities: require Federal authorities to provide information in medical records, seized from a medical practice to that practice, in order to continue patient care (see H.R. 4689), H4591 [15JN]

Health care professionals: provide for the availability to the public of information reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank (see H.R. 5122), H7997 [22SE]

Higgins, Andrew Jackson and family: award Congressional Gold Medals (see H.R. 4384), H3926 [6JN]

Higgins Industries: award Congressional Gold Medal to World War II-era employees (see H.R. 4384), H3926 [6JN]

Housing: expand protections for especially vulnerable consumers against abusive mortgage lending practices and streamline the framework regulating mortgage originations (see H.R. 4213), H3173 [16MY]

Immigration: arrival and departure requirements for Canadian citizens relative to automated entry and exit control systems (see H.R. 4489), H3412 [18MY]

———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 H.R. 4548), H4337 [13JN]

Information services: deregulate Internet and high speed data services (see H.R. 2420), H3869 [25MY]

Insurance: require health plans to cover treatment of a minor child's congenital or developmental deformity or disorder due to trauma, infection, tumor, or disease (see H.R. 49), H1476 [28MR]

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]

Italian-American Heritage Month: observance (see H. Res. 347), H50 [27JA]

Korean War: anniversary (see H.J. Res. 86), H165 [1FE]

Korean War Veterans Association, Inc.: grant Federal charter (see H.R. 1671), H7723 [18SE]

Law enforcement officers: clarify procedures and conditions for the award of matching grants for the purchase of armor vests (see H.R. 4033), H1407 [23MR]

———ensure confidentiality of personnel records or personal information (see H.R. 3694), H998 [14MR]

———exempt from State laws prohibiting the carrying of concealed handguns (see H.R. 218), H1852 [5AP]

Library of Congress: bicentennial (see H. Con. Res. 269), H1078 [15MR]

Medicaid: assure preservation of safety net hospitals through maintenance of Disproportionate Share Hospital Program (see H.R. 3710), H572 [29FE]

———coverage of community-based attendant services (see H.R. 4416), H7366 [7SE]

———establish a new prospective payment system for federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics (see H.R. 2341), H3925 [6JN]

———provide families and disabled children with the opportunity to purchase coverage (see H.R. 4825), H7652 [14SE]

———provide public access to quality medical imaging procedures and radiation therapy procedures (see H.R. 5274), H8061 [25SE]

———waive disproportionate share hospital designation for certain rural hospitals relative to obstetrician requirements (see H.R. 4793), H5737 [10JY]

Medicare: coverage of ambulance services to certain rural outpatient facilities (see H.R. 4549), H3867 [25MY]

———coverage of outpatient prescription drugs (see H.R. 5151), H8062 [25SE]

———coverage of screening mammography, pap smears, and pelvic exams (see H.R. 4330), H3474 [19MY]

———coverage of vision rehabilitation services (see H.R. 2870), H5955 [12JY]

———eliminate reduction in payment rates to home health agencies for home health services (see H.R. 4219), H1957 [6AP]

———increase payment amount and establish an annual payment review process for renal dialysis services (see H.R. 5152), H9900 [12OC]

———limit penalty for late enrollment (see H.R. 914), H5435 [28JN]

———provide attending physicians greater authority in determining whether a beneficiary is eligible for hospice care (see H.R. 5222), H7932 [20SE]

———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), H10809 [24OC]

———revise inflation update factor used in making payments to prospective payment system hospitals (see H.R. 3580), H511 [16FE]

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

Motor vehicles: prohibit operation with drugs or alcohol in the body of the driver at a land border port of entry (see H.R. 4329), H2339 [13AP]

National Association of Letter Carriers: tribute to food drive efforts (see H. Res. 452), H3523 [22MY]

National Guard: extend to military technicians certain provisions concerning separation and retirement benefits of Army Reserve and Air Force Reserve military technicians (see H.R. 4361), H4592 [15JN]

National Historical Publications and Records Commission: authorizing appropriations (see H.R. 4110), H1587 [29MR]

National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Engineering: establish (see H.R. 1795), H7211 [27JY]

New York: conveyance of Governors Island (see H.R. 5242), H8469 [28SE]

Occupational Safety and Health Act: require changes in the bloodborne pathogens standard (see H.R. 5178), H7992 [21SE]

———waive applicability to employment performed in an employee's residence (see H.R. 3530), H165 [1FE]

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

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]

———support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 259), H4485 [14JN]

Political campaigns: require sponsors of certain election-related communications to provide information regarding their identities and sources of funds (see H.R. 4621), H4220 [12JN]

Pope John Paul II: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 3544), H3049 [15MY]

Poverty: establish a commission to study and make recommendations on marginal tax rates for the working poor (see H.R. 3839), H8200 [26SE]

Public utilities: facilitate competition in electric power industry (see H.R. 4971), H7933 [20SE]

Railroads: modernize financing of railroad retirement system and provide enhanced benefits to employees and beneficiaries (see H.R. 4844), H6719 [20JY]

———preserve, rehabilitate, and improve certain railroad tracks and bridges using funds collected through the diesel fuel tax (see H.R. 4746), H5168 [26JN]

———protection of train employees (see H.R. 3091), H90 [31JA]

Reagan, Ronald and Nancy: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 3591), H757 [8MR]

Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument: establish (see H.R. 3676), H5656 [29JN]

Schools: improve security with the placement and use of metal detectors (see H.R. 4108), H2123 [11AP]

———provide grants for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training in public schools (see H.R. 4506), H9505 [6OC]

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

Smithsonian Institution: mint coins in commemoration of the National Museum of the American Indian (see H.R. 4259), H7991 [21SE]

Social Security: computation system for benefits relative to spouses' and surviving spouses' Government pensions (see H.R. 1217), H574 [29FE]

———eliminate benefit penalties to individuals receiving pensions from noncovered employment (see H.R. 742), H454 [15FE]

———eliminate earnings test for retirement age individuals (see H.R. 5), H510 [16FE]

———improve the payment system for representation of claimants (see H.R. 4633), H12045 [7DE]

States: permit individuals to operate commercial motor vehicles within State borders after meeting minimum standards (see H.R. 3219), H2607 [4MY]

Taxation: allow a refundable credit to certain low-income members of the uniformed services (see H.R. 1055), H1588 [29MR]

———allow an investment credit by farmers for value-added agricultural property (see H.R. 4497), H3869 [25MY]

———allow credit for elementary and secondary school teachers who provide classroom materials (see H.R. 4025), H7723 [18SE]

———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), H3049 [15MY]

———allow deduction equal to fair market value for charitable contributions of literary, musical, artistic, or scholarly compositions created by the donor (see H.R. 3249), H1629 [30MR]

———allow tax credit to holders of qualified bonds issued by an intercity passenger rail carrier (see H.R. 3700), H922 [9MR]

———establish individual development accounts to allow those with limited means to accumulate assets, access education, own homes and businesses, and achieve economic self-sufficiency (see H.R. 4106), H7503 [12SE]

———exclude from gross income gain from the sale of securities which are used to pay for higher education expenses (see H.R. 4993), H7205 [27JY]

———expand incentives for the construction and renovation of public schools (see H.R. 4094), H1476 [28MR]

———incentives to encourage domestic production of oil and gas and respond to surging foreign oil imports (see H.R. 1116), H5843 [11JY]

———incentives to ensure timely and equitable access to the Internet over current and future generations of broadband capability (see H.R. 4728), H6719 [20JY]

———increase annual limitation on nondeductible contributions and adjust for inflation the amount of deductible contributions to individual retirement accounts (see H.R. 1322), H2340 [13AP]

———phase-out and repeal estate and gift taxes (see H.R. 8), H1629 [30MR]

———prohibit the use of Presidential Election Campaign Fund for Presidential nominating conventions (see H.R. 5146), H7723 [18SE]

———provide incentives for production, sale, and use of highly fuel-efficient, advanced-technology motor vehicles (see H.R. 4270), H4592 [15JN]

———provide incentives to reduce energy consumption (see H.R. 5345), H8736 [3OC]

———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), H5737 [10JY]

———recycling and remanufacturing equipment credit (see H.R. 2953), H8469 [28SE]

———repeal excise tax on telephone use and other communications services (see H.R. 3916), H2607 [4MY]

———repeal increases in motor fuel taxes (see H.R. 3844), H922 [9MR]

———repeal modification of capital gains tax payments relative to small businesses sold on the installment sales method (see H.R. 3594), H254 [8FE]

———temporarily suspend and permanently repeal increases in motor fuel taxes (see H.R. 4776), H5737 [10JY]

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

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

———treatment of computers provided to employees for personal use (see H.R. 4274), H7723 [18SE]

———treatment of contributions of computers to schools and public libraries (see H.R. 2308), H2512 [3MY]

Telephones: regulate interstate commerce in the use of mobile telephones and strengthen and clarify prohibitions on electronic eavesdropping (see H.R. 3489), H2607 [4MY]

Television: ensure local service to small, rural markets by satellite providers (see H.R. 3615), H339 [10FE]

Theodore Roosevelt U.S. Courthouse, Islip, NY: designate (see H.R. 5267), H8062 [25SE]

Tobacco products: prohibit the importation of bidi cigarettes (see H.R. 3628), H3649 [23MY]

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: eliminate administrative waste, fraud, and abuse in fish and wildlife restoration projects funded by excise taxes on hunting and fishing equipment (see H.R. 3671), H998 [14MR]

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

———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), H11207 [26OC]

———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), H6052 [13JY]

Veterans Health Administration: improve personnel system (see H.R. 4759), H6355 [17JY]

Vietnam Veterans Memorial: authorize design and construction of a temporary education center (see H.R. 5268), H12532 [15DE]

Volunteer firefighters: remove civil liability barriers surrounding donating fire equipment to volunteer fire companies (see H.R. 4736), H7281 [6SE]

Water pollution: exempt discharges from certain silviculture activities from permit requirements of the national pollutant discharge elimination system (see H.R. 3625), H3413 [18MY]

World Trade Organization: establish a commission to review dispute settlement reports (see H.R. 4706), H5737 [10JY]

———file complaint against oil-producing countries for violating trade rules prohibiting quantitative limitations on import or export of resources or products across borders (see H. Con. Res. 276), H5241 [27JN]

World War II: recognition of American civilian POW (see H. Res. 51), H7723 [18SE]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Laslo, Andrija: relief (see H.R. 3654), H373 [14FE]

Medicare: increase access to health care for beneficiaries through telemedicine (see H.R. 4771), H5240 [27JN]

Postal Service: grant authority to issue semipostals (see H.R. 4437), H2966 [11MY]

Letters

Extend issuance of special postage stamps to fund breast cancer research: Brendon Fisher, H6070 [17JY]

———Paige Fisher, H6070 [17JY]

Remarks

Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Post Office Building, Derry, NH: designate (H.R. 4517), H6386, H6387 [18JY]

Alfred Rascon Post Office Building, Fulton, MD: designate (H.R. 4430), H6382 [18JY]

Armed Forces: protection of commissary benefits, H3198 [17MY]

Arnold C. D'Amico Station, South Euclid, OH: designate (H.R. 4853), H9862, H9863 [12OC]

Arthur (Pappy) Kennedy Post Office Building, Orlando, FL: designate (H.R. 4399), H11354 [26OC]

Barbara F. Vucanovich Post Office Building, Reno, NV: designate (H.R. 4169), H5808, H5809 [11JY]

Business and industry: authorize reimbursement payments to employers for employee portable skills training (H.R. 4216), H8682 [3OC]

Captain Colin P. Kelly, Jr. Post Office, Madison, FL: designate (H.R. 1666), H1137, H1138 [21MR]

Coastal zones: use of offshore oil and gas revenues to fund State and local conservation programs of coastal States (H.R. 701), H2896, H2897, H2898 [10MY]

Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (H.R. 4205), H3198 [17MY]

Diseases: extend issuance of special postage stamps to fund breast cancer research, H6068, H6069, H6071 [17JY]

Eddie Mae Steward Post Office Building, Jacksonville, FL: designate (H.R. 4400), H11354 [26OC]

Frederick L. Dewberry, Jr., Post Office Building, Baltimore, MD: designate (H.R. 4451), H8019 [25SE]

Henry W. McGee Post Office Building, Chicago, IL: designate (H.R. 3909), H5809, H5811 [11JY]

Immigration: arrival and departure requirements for Canadian citizens relative to automated entry and exit control systems (H.R. 4489), H3574 [23MY]

J.L. Dawkins Post Office Building, Fayetteville, NC: designate (H.R. 4658), H5806, H5808 [11JY]

Joel T. Broyhill Postal Building, Merrifield, VA: designate (H.R. 3699), H942, H943 [14MR]

John Brademas Post Office, South Bend, IN: designate (H.R. 2938), H4720, H4722 [20JN]

Joseph F. Smith Post Office Building, Philadelphia, PA: designate (H.R. 4554), H6387, H6388 [18JY]

Joseph L. Fisher Post Office, Arlington, VA: designate (H.R. 3701), H944, H945 [14MR]

Lance Corporal Harold Gomez Post Office, East Chicago, IN: designate (S. 1295), H8278, H8279 [27SE]

Land and Water Conservation Fund: prohibit States from acquiring land if a local government has disapproved the acquisition, H2896, H2897, H2898 [10MY]

Matthew `Mack' Robinson Post Office Building, Pasadena, CA: designate (H.R. 4157), H6384, H6385, H6386 [18JY]

Postage and stamps: modify rates relative to reduced-rate mail matter (S. 2686), H9801 [11OC]

Postal Service: grant authority to issue semipostals (H.R. 4437), H6068, H6069, H6071 [17JY]

Robert S. Walker Post Office, Millersville, PA: designate (S. 3194), H11352, H11353 [26OC]

Ronald W. Reagan Post Office Building, Melbourne, FL: designate (H.R. 5309), H11351 [26OC]

Samuel H. Lacy, Sr., Post Office Building, Baltimore, MD: designate (H.R. 4447), H5811, H5812 [11JY]

Vicki Coceano Post Office Building, Miramar City, FL: designate (H.R. 3985), H6071, H6072 [17JY]

Votes: position on missed, H3595 [23MY]

Remarks in House relative to

Leave of absence: granted, H1403 [23MR], H2604 [4MY]

Special order: granted, H754 [8MR]

Tributes

Brick, Cary R., H953 [14MR]

Emory, Alan, E1587 [25SE]

Obleman, Michael R., E880 [25MY]