FRIST, BILL (a Senator from Tennessee)

Amendments

American Museum of Science and Energy: designate (H.R. 4940), S11150, S11190 [26OC]

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), S2123 [4AP], S2262 [5AP], S2364, S2370 [6AP]

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 (S. 2311), S4583 [6JN]

Dept. of Commerce: Office of Space Commercialization funding (H.R. 2607), S10555 [13OC]

Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (S. 2549), S4753, S4867 [8JN], S6282 [30JN], S6451 [11JY]

———making appropriations (H.R. 4576), S4957 [12JN], S5007 [13JN]

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4577), S5698, S5706 [22JN], S5715 [23JN], S5781, S5816 [26JN], S5933 [27JN], S5990, S6000 [28JN], S6067, S6152 [29JN]

Diseases: establish an international trust fund to combat the AIDS epidemic (H.R. 3519), S7694 [26JY]

Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, National Weather Service and related agencies, and U.S. Fire Administration: authorizing appropriations (S. 1639), S10724 [18OC]

FAA: Office of the Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation funding (H.R. 2607), S10555 [13OC]

Foreign operations, export financing, and related programs: making appropriations (S. 2522), S5520, S5563, S5570 [21JN], S5686 [22JN]

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

Next Generation Internet Act: reauthorize (S. 2046), S8992 [21SE]

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]

Space policy: encourage the development of a commercial space industry (H.R. 2607), S10555 [13OC]

U.S. Fire Administration: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 1550), S10726 [18OC]

Zimbabwe: restrict assistance until certain conditions are satisfied and support democratic and economic transition (S. 2677), S5751 [23JN]

Articles and editorials

Joe B. Wyatt, Vanderbilt University Chancellor, 1982-2000, Vanderbilt Register (publication), S2858 [25AP]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Alcoholic beverages: enforcement of State laws in Federal court relative to interstate transportation of liquor (see S. 577), S3615 [8MY]

Armed Forces: restore health care coverage to retired members of the uniformed services (see S. 2003), S635 [10FE]

Arts Education Month: designate (see S. Res. 128), S636 [10FE]

CERCLA: promote cleanup and reuse of brownfields, provide financial assistance for brownfields revitalization, and enhance State response programs (see S. 2700), S7690 [26JY]

Children and youth: recognize the rights of grandparents in cases of abduction of children by family members to foreign countries (see S. 2710), S4922 [9JN]

Clark, Wesley K.: award Congressional Gold Medal (see S. 2824), S6121 [29JN]

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 S. 2311), S1883 [29MR]

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

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

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

Dept. of Energy: establish compensation programs for employees sustaining beryllium and radiation-related injury, illness, or death (see S. 2519), S3691 [9MY]

Dept. of State: provide rewards for information relative to serious violations of international law in Rwanda (see S. 2460), S4691 [7JN]

Disasters: expand Federal program of hazard mitigation, relief, and insurance against the risk of catastrophic natural disasters (see S. 1361), S1240 [7MR]

Diseases: create incentives for private sector research to develop vaccines against widespread diseases and ensure that such vaccines are affordable and widely distributed (see S. 2132), S1024 [1MR]

Education: provide grants to local educational agencies to initiate and improve physical education programs (see S. 1159), S10260 [11OC]

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

Fair Labor Standards Act: clarify treatment of stock options (see S. 2323), S2249 [5AP]

FCC: prohibit from establishing rules authorizing the operation of new, low power FM radio stations (see S. 2068), S3031 [27AP]

Financial institutions: allow payment of Financing Corporation interest obligations from excess deposit insurance fund reserves (see S. 2293), S2354 [6AP]

Food: improve safety of imported foods (see S. 2480), S3023 [27AP]

Health: reduce accidental injury and death resulting from medical mistakes and reduce medication-related errors (see S. 2738), S5240 [15JN]

Ibanez, Manuel L.: appointment as citizen regent of Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents (see S.J. Res. 42), S930 [29FE]

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), S2636 [12AP]

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. 3045), S8585 [14SE]

Medicaid: coverage of breast and cervical cancer treatment services for certain women screened under federally funded programs (see S. 662), S4854 [8JN]

———establish a prospective payment system for federally-qualified health centers and rural health clinics (see S. 1277), S8593 [14SE]

———provide families and disabled children with the opportunity to purchase coverage (see S. 2274), S7077 [17JY]

Medicare: coverage of outpatient prescription drugs (see S. 3016, 3017), S8197 [7SE]

———eliminate reduction in payment rates to home health agencies for home health services (see S. 2365), S4322 [23MY]

———graduate medical education payments (see S. 2394), S4208 [18MY]

———increase payment amount for renal dialysis services (see S. 3038), S8413 [12SE]

———make more competitive and efficient and provide for a prescription drug benefit (see S. 2807), S6015 [28JN]

———revise inflation update factor used in making payments to prospective payment system hospitals (see S. 2018), S8593 [14SE]

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

Middle East: prohibit U.S. assistance to the Palestinian Authority if a Palestinian State is declared unilaterally (see S. 2938), S11258 [27OC]

Motor vehicles: improve safety of car seats for children (see S. 2070), S4322 [23MY]

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

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

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

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

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

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), S8593 [14SE]

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

Reagan, Ronald and Nancy: award Congressional Gold Medal (see S. 2459), S5912 [27JN]

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

Sierra Leone: condemn crimes and human rights abuses and ensure those responsible for such acts are held accountable (see S. Res. 315), S4460 [25MY]

Smithsonian Institution: construct a base facility structure for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Submillimeter Array located in Hilo, HI (see S. 2498), S3258 [2MY]

———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), S3031 [27AP]

Spoon, Alan G.: appointment as citizen regent of Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents (see S.J. Res. 40), S930 [29FE]

Tariff: reliquidate certain entries (see S. 2176), S1118 [2MR]

Taxation: change basis for determination of refinery limitation on oil depletion deduction (see S. 162), S690 [22FE]

———clarify treatment under the tax-exempt bond rules of pre-payments for certain commodities (see S. 3145), S11607 [5DE]

———credit for health insurance costs (see S. 2320), S1884 [29MR]

———increase amount of low-income housing credits allocated in each State and index amounts for inflation (see S. 1017), S1996 [30MR]

———modify restrictions on refinancing of certain bonds issued to local governments to finance governmental services (see S. 1446), S9201 [25SE]

———permit consolidation of life insurance companies with other companies (see S. 1933), S1421 [9MR]

———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), S10154 [10OC]

———repeal modification of capital gains tax payments relative to small businesses sold on the installment sales method (see S. 2005), S292 [2FE]

Telephones: regulate interstate commerce in the use of mobile telephones (see S. 1755), S2439 [7AP]

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

Widnall, Sheila E.: appointment as citizen regent of Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents (see S.J. Res. 41), S930 [29FE]

Women: reauthorize Federal programs to prevent violence against women (see S. 2787), S10424 [12OC]

World War II: support Day of Honor 2000 to honor and recognize the service of minority veterans (see S.J. Res. 44), S2772 [13AP]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Children and youth: improve health and safety of children receiving child care outside the home (see S. 2236), S1392 [9MR]

Education: establish programs to recruit, retain, and retrain teachers and provide loan forgiveness to entice students into teaching (see S. 2276), S1596 [22MR]

———strengthen math and science training to prepare students to enter the information technology workforce (see S. 2067), S613 [10FE]

FDA: grant authority to regulate tobacco (see S. 2566), S4014 [16MY]

Foreign aid: make development assistance contingent on biannual certification of economic freedom in beneficiary countries (see S. 2861), S6677 [13JY]

Health: enhance the Nation's capacity to address public health threats and emergencies (see S. 2731), S5106 [14JN]

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

National Commission on Space: establish (see S. 2988), S7840 [27JY]

Next Generation Internet Act: reauthorize (see S. 2046), S538 [9FE]

Public Health Service Act: provide certain children's health services (see S. 2868), S6678 [13JY]

Smithsonian Institution: rename the National Museum of American Art (see S. 3201), S10412 [12OC]

Telephones: prohibit telemarketers from interfering with a consumer's caller identification service (see S. 2029), S328 [3FE]

TVA: ensure the fair and equitable treatment of customers in the event of restructuring of the electric utility industry (see S. 2570), S4014 [16MY]

Water: authorize studies on water supply management and development (see S. 2368), S2347 [6AP]

Women: improve health and reduce health care costs for low-income and uninsured women by expanding existing screening and preventive health programs (see S. 2635), S4460 [25MY]

Zimbabwe: restrict assistance until certain conditions are satisfied and support democratic and economic transition (see S. 2677), S4564 [6JN]

Cloture motions

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

Crime: constitutional amendment on protection of victims' rights (S.J. Res. 3), S2696 [13AP]

———constitutional amendment on protection of victims' rights (S.J. Res. 3), motion to proceed, S2835 [25AP]

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

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

Letters

Children's Day Care Health and Safety Improvement Act: Adele Robinson, National Association for the Education of Young Children, S1410 [9MR]

———Donald E. Cook, American Academy of Pediatrics, S1410 [9MR]

———Marian Wright Edelman, Children's Defense Fund (organization), S1410 [9MR]

Enhance the Nation's capacity to address public health threats and emergencies: Dyann F. Wirth, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, S11311 [28OC]

———Gail H. Cassell, American Society for Microbiology, S11311 [28OC]

———Jean-Pierre Garnier, SmithKline Beecham (business), S11312 [28OC]

———Jordan J. Cohen, Association of American Medical Colleges, S11310 [28OC]

———Ronald L. Cada, Association of Public Laboratories, S11311 [28OC]

———several medical and health organizations, S11310 [28OC]

———Stephanie B.C. Bailey, National Association of County and City Health Officials, S11311 [28OC]

———William J. Martone, National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, S11311 [28OC]

Improve health and reduce health care costs for low-income and uninsured women by expanding existing screening and preventive health programs: Diane L. Balma, Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, S4464 [25MY]

———Phyllis Greenberger and Roberta Biegel, Society for Women's Health Research, S4464 [25MY]

———Sandra C. Raymond, National Osteoporosis Foundation, S4464 [25MY]

Motions

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

Pledge of Allegiance

Senate, S5583 [22JN]

Remarks

Africa: HIV/AIDS prevention programs funding for sub-Saharan Africa, S7620 [26JY]

Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs: making appropriations (H.R. 4461), S7201 [19JY]

Appropriations: making continuing (H.J. Res. 110), unanimous-consent agreement, S9842 [4OC]

Arts Education Month: designate (S. Res. 128), S1156 [2MR]

Budget: ensure Medicare coverage of prescription drugs prior to consideration of any tax cuts, S2149 [5AP]

———ensure solvency of Social Security and Medicare, S2149 [5AP]

———setting forth the Federal budget for 2001-2005 (S. Con. Res. 101), S2149 [5AP]

Capitol Building and Grounds: use of rotunda for Presidential inauguration ceremonies (S. Con. Res. 90), S1152 [2MR]

Children and youth: improve health and safety of children receiving child care outside the home (S. 2236), S1408 [9MR]

Clifford P. Hansen Federal Courthouse, Jackson, WY: designate (S. 1794), S1155 [2MR]

Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies (Joint): establish (S. Con. Res. 89), S1152 [2MR]

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 (S. 2311), S1891 [29MR], S10035 [5OC]

Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (S. 2549), S4793, S4805 [8JN]

Dept. of Education: Interagency Education Research Initiative funding, S6001 [28JN], S6047 [29JN]

Dept. of the Interior and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4578), conference report, S9842 [4OC]

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4577), S5640 [22JN], S6001 [28JN], S6047, S6069, S6084, S6087, S6091 [29JN]

Diseases: authorize additional assistance to countries with large populations having HIV/AIDS and authorize assistance for tuberculosis prevention, treatment, control, and elimination, S7620 [26JY]

———establish an international trust fund to combat the AIDS epidemic (H.R. 3519), S7620 [26JY]

———expand research activities relative to lupus, S11308 [28OC]

———increase public awareness, encourage regular testing and examinations, and extend research programs for prostate cancer, S11308 [28OC]

Drugs: allow importation of prescription drugs into the U.S. by pharmacists and wholesalers for resale, S7201 [19JY]

Education: establish programs to recruit, retain, and retrain teachers and provide loan forgiveness to entice students into teaching (S. 2276), S1609 [22MR]

———improve teacher quality, S3649 [9MY]

———strengthen math and science training to prepare students to enter the information technology workforce (S. 2067), S625 [10FE]

Education Flexibility Partnership Demonstration Act: allow State participation in activities (S. 271), S853 [28FE]

Elementary and Secondary Education Act: extend programs and activities (S. 2), S3157, S3176 [1MY], S3293 [3MY], S3649 [9MY]

FAA: reauthorizing programs (H.R. 1000), permission to file conference report, S1153 [2MR]

FDA: grant authority to regulate tobacco (S. 2566), S4016 [16MY]

Flag—U.S.: constitutional amendment to prohibit desecration (S.J. Res. 14), S2098 [4AP]

Florida State University: tribute to football team (S. Res. 265), S1153 [2MR]

Foreign aid: make development assistance contingent on biannual certification of economic freedom in beneficiary countries (S. 2861), S6672 [13JY]

Health: create a national voluntary reporting system to continually reduce medical errors and improve patient safety (S. 2743), S5270 [15JN]

———enhance the Nation's capacity to address public health threats and emergencies, S11307, S11314 [28OC]

———enhance the Nation's capacity to address public health threats and emergencies (S. 2731), S5115 [14JN]

———minority health programs (S. 1880), S11189 [26OC]

———prohibit health insurance and employment discrimination on the basis of genetic information, S6069 [29JN]

———protection of enrollees in managed care plans and HMO's, S4793, S4805 [8JN], S6084, S6087, S6091 [29JN]

Lithuania: independence anniversary (S. Con. Res. 91), S1156 [2MR]

Medicare: coverage of outpatient prescription drugs, S5640 [22JN], S8272, S8273 [8SE], S8569 [14SE]

———increase payment amount and establish an annual payment review process for renal dialysis services (S. 3038), S8420 [12SE]

———make more competitive and efficient and provide for a prescription drug benefit (S. 2807), S6020 [28JN]

———reform, S8272, S8273 [8SE]

Memphis, TN: tribute to Police Dept., S9689 [3OC]

Million Mom March: tribute to event supporting gun control legislation, S4184 [18MY]

National Commission on Space: establish (S. 2988), S7905 [27JY]

Next Generation Internet Act: reauthorize (S. 2046), S545 [9FE]

NIH: support modernization and construction of biomedical and behavioral research facilities and laboratory instrumentation, S11307 [28OC]

Older Americans Act: National Family Caregiver Support Program funding, S11090 [26OC]

———reauthorize (H.R. 782), S11090 [26OC]

———Senior Community Service Employment Program funding, S11090 [26OC]

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), S11307, S11314 [28OC]

Public Health Service Act: provide certain children's health services (H.R. 4365), S9094 [22SE], S9839 [4OC], S10051 [6OC]

———provide certain children's health services (S. 2868), S6682 [13JY]

Science: increase Federal technology research and development funding, S3505 [4MY]

Senate: legislative program, S1157 [2MR]

Sierra Leone: condemn crimes and human rights abuses and ensure those responsible for such acts are held accountable (S. Res. 315), S4500 [25MY]

Social Security: eliminate earnings test for retirement age individuals (H.R. 5), placed on calendar, S1155 [2MR]

Sudan: condemn Government for genocide in southern Sudan, support for terrorism, and human rights violations, S1151 [2MR], S1381 [9MR]

———increase diplomatic efforts to encourage peace process in ongoing civil war and facilitate relief efforts (S. 1453), S1151 [2MR], S1381 [9MR]

Taxation: credit for health insurance costs (S. 2320), S1904 [29MR]

———institute a Federal fuels tax holiday (S. 2808), S6185 [30JN]

———treatment of education individual retirement accounts relative to elementary and secondary school expenses (S. 1134), S853 [28FE]

Telecommunications: promote competition and privatization in satellite communications (S. 376), conference report, S1155 [2MR]

Thanksgiving Day: designate as a day to ``Give Thanks, Give Life'' and to discuss organ and tissue donation with other family members, S11308 [28OC]

Women: improve health and reduce health care costs for low-income and uninsured women by expanding existing screening and preventive health programs (S. 2635), S4463 [25MY]

Zimbabwe: restrict assistance until certain conditions are satisfied and support democratic and economic transition (S. 2677), S4573 [6JN], S5753 [23JN]

Summaries

Public Health Improvement Act (H.R. 2498), S11308-S11310 [28OC]

Public Health Service Act Children's Health Services (S. 2868), S6683-S6685 [13JY]

Texts of

S. 2236, Children's Day Care Health and Safety Improvement Act, S1409 [9MR]

S. 2366, organ procurement and transplantation programs revision and extension, S2245-S2248 [5AP]

S. 2570, ensure the fair and equitable treatment of TVA customers in the event of restructuring of the electric utility industry, S4021-S4023 [16MY]

Tributes

Coverdell, Paul, S7175 [19JY]

Wyatt, Joe B., S2858 [25AP]