WHITFIELD, ED (a Representative from Kentucky)

Amendments

Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (H.R. 4205), H3373 [18MY]

Depts. of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4690), H5038 [22JN]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund: allocate accruing interest to cover health care costs for certain miners (see H.R. 4144), H2239 [12AP]

Agriculture: 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), H6778 [24JY]

Animals: prohibit importation, sale, or manufacturing of products made with dog or cat fur (see H.R. 1622), H3172 [16MY]

Armed Forces: declare the American GI as the ``Person of the Century'' for the 20th century (see H. Con. Res. 282), H2013 [10AP]

———improve Montgomery GI Bill benefits by improving and expanding educational assistance programs (see H.R. 1071), H647 [6MR]

———restore health care coverage to retired members of the uniformed services (see H.R. 3573), H219 [7FE]

Clean Air Act: methyl bromide phaseout schedule (see H.R. 4215), H6355 [17JY]

Coast Guard: anniversary (see H. Con. Res. 372), H6354 [17JY]

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), H6052 [13JY]

Computers: prohibit gambling on the Internet (see H.R. 3125), H2905 [10MY]

Contracts: allow choice of arbitration as a means of settling disputes (see H.R. 534), H574 [29FE]

Courts: legal definition of human life relative to presence of brain wave activity and spontaneous cardiac activity (see H. Con. Res. 305), H2341 [13AP]

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

Dept. of Justice: establish Bureau of Immigration Services and the Bureau of Immigration Enforcement (see H.R. 3918), H4485 [14JN]

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

Dept. of Transportation: Congestion Mitigation Air Quality Improvement Program emission standards (see H.R. 2788), H342 [10FE]

———prohibit action to finalize, implement, or enforce a rule relative to the hours of service of drivers for motor carriers (see H.R. 4511), H8200 [26SE]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: assist claimants for benefits in developing claims and clarify the burden of proof for such claims (see H.R. 3193), H647 [6MR]

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

Disabled: improve service systems for individuals with developmental disabilities (see H.R. 4920), H7003 [25JY]

Drug abuse: combat methamphetamine production and abuse (see H.R. 2613), H3172 [16MY]

Drugs: distribution of prescription drugs (see H.R. 4301), H3413 [18MY]

———penalties for operating methamphetamine laboratories and increased funding to combat methamphetamine production, trafficking, and abuse (see H.R. 2987), H3813 [24MY]

Ecology and environment: establish standards for cleanup of dry cleaning solvents (see H.R. 2726), H2239 [12AP]

Education: establish and expand programs relating to science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (see H.R. 4271, 4272), H7281 [6SE]

Elementary and Secondary Education Act: extend programs and activities (see H.R. 4508), H4592 [15JN]

———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]

FCC: clarify service obligations of noncommercial educational broadcast stations (see H.R. 4201), H2607 [4MY]

———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), H48 [27JA]

FDA: uniform food safety warning notification requirements (see H.R. 2129), H1477 [28MR]

Federal employees: establish program under which current and former employees may obtain long-term care insurance (see H.R. 1111), H50 [27JA]

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), H4121 [8JN]

Immigration: ensure no alien is removed, denied benefits, or otherwise deprived of liberty, based on evidence that is kept secret from the alien (see H.R. 2121), H6052 [13JY]

INS: provide for direct payment of information fees by foreign students under the Coordinated Interagency Partnership Regulating International Students Program (see H.R. 3732), H1589 [29MR]

Insurance: coverage of long-term care services (see H. Con. Res. 412), H8406 [27SE]

Lumber industry: promote open and competitive trade of softwood lumber between the U.S. and Canada (see H. Con. Res. 252), H2341 [13AP]

Medicaid: assure preservation of safety net hospitals through maintenance of Disproportionate Share Hospital Program (see H.R. 3710), H922 [9MR]

———provide families and disabled children with the opportunity to purchase coverage (see H.R. 4825), H7503 [12SE]

Medicare: coverage of outpatient prescription drugs (see H.R. 4149), H3869 [25MY]

———eliminate reduction in payment rates to home health agencies for home health services (see H.R. 4219), H5241 [27JN]

———expand coverage of certain self-injected biologicals (see H.R. 2892), H3172 [16MY]

Mental health: issue commemorative postage stamp to raise autism awareness (see H. Res. 458), H5956 [12JY]

Merchant marine industry: tribute to service and sacrifice during periods of war (see H. Con. Res. 327), H4036 [7JN]

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

National Law Enforcement Museum: establish (see H.R. 2710), H7281 [6SE]

National School Lunch Act: ensure an adequate level of commodity purchases under the school lunch program (see H.R. 3614), H632 [1MR]

Occupational Safety and Health Act: establish peer review of standards (see H.R. 2639), H6052 [13JY]

Olympic games: mint commemorative coins to support the 2002 Salt Lake Olympic Winter Games and U.S. Olympic Committee programs (see H.R. 3679), H2905 [10MY]

OSHA: require public comment, and a sound scientific basis, for proposed ergonomics regulations (see H. Con. Res. 260), H631 [1MR]

Postal Service: amend pay policies and schedules and fringe benefit programs for postmasters (see H.R. 3842), H998 [14MR]

Product safety: promote new and revised toxicological tests that protect human, animal, and environmental health while reducing need for animal testing (see H.R. 4281), H2771 [9MY]

Public safety officers: eligibility of certain emergency management and civil defense personnel for public safety officer death benefits (see H.R. 2588), H5955 [12JY]

Racial relations: recognize the significant contribution the Birmingham Pledge has made in fostering racial harmony and reconciliation (see H.J. Res. 102), H4818 [21JN]

Railroads: modernize financing of railroad retirement system and provide enhanced benefits to employees and beneficiaries (see H.R. 4844), H6471 [18JY]

Reagan, Ronald and Nancy: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 3591), H253 [8FE]

Rivers: economic development assistance for the lower Mississippi Delta region (see H.R. 2911), H6052 [13JY]

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

Smith, Andrew J.: award Medal of Honor (see H.R. 2858), H1764 [4AP]

Smithsonian Institution: mint coins in commemoration of the National Museum of the American Indian (see H.R. 4259), H4337 [13JN]

Social Security: make corrections in Medicare, Medicaid, and State Children's Health Insurance Program relative to the Balanced Budget Act (see H.R. 5291), H10036 [17OC]

———remove limitations on outside income while receiving benefits (see H.R. 519), H921 [9MR]

States: permit funding of prescription drugs for minors relative to parental consent (see H.R. 3302), H7365 [7SE]

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), H5955 [12JY]

———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), H7281 [6SE]

———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. 4214, 4245), H3309 [17MY]

———increase annual limitation on nondeductible contributions and adjust for inflation the amount of deductible contributions to individual retirement accounts (see H.R. 1322), H1588 [29MR]

———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), H3173 [16MY]

———repeal modification of capital gains tax payments relative to small businesses sold on the installment sales method (see H.R. 3594), H511 [16FE]

———restore deductions for expenses relative to services performed by military reservists (see H.R. 4328), H5084 [23JN]

———temporarily suspend and permanently repeal increases in motor fuel taxes (see H.R. 4776), H5657 [29JN]

———terminate Internal Revenue Code (see H.R. 1041), H1284 [22MR] (see H.R. 4199), H1956 [6AP]

———treatment of computers provided to employees for personal use (see H.R. 4274), H3173 [16MY]

Tobacco products: provide export promotion assistance (see H.R. 5382), H8799 [4OC]

———provide for a more restrictive tariff-rate quota on imports (see H.R. 5381), H8799 [4OC]

Trucking industry: support freeze on longer combination vehicles and current Federal limitations on truck size and weight (see H. Con. Res. 306), H11621 [30OC]

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), H2771 [9MY]

Veterans: change effective date for paid-up coverage under the Survivor Benefit Plan (see H.R. 601), H7578 [13SE]

———increase minimum Survivor Benefit Plan basic annuity for surviving spouses age 62 and older (see H.R. 2000), H922 [9MR]

———repeal computation system that reduces annuity for surviving spouses at age 62 relative to Social Security offset (see H.R. 363), H7723 [18SE]

Veterans Health Administration: improve personnel system (see H.R. 4759), H6777 [24JY] (see H.R. 5109), H7503 [12SE]

Water pollution: exempt discharges from certain silviculture activities from permit requirements of the national pollutant discharge elimination system (see H.R. 3625), H2770 [9MY]

Women: reauthorize Federal programs to prevent violence against women (see H.R. 1248), H4817 [21JN]

Bills and resolutions introduced

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

Immigration: prohibit H-2A workers from bringing lawsuits against employers, except in the State in which the employer resides, or has its principal place of business (see H.R. 4344), H2339 [13AP]

Medicaid: State funding for disproportionate share hospitals (see H.R. 3698), H510 [16FE]

Morgan Station, Paducah, KY: designate (see H.R. 5143), H7365 [7SE]

Tariff: n-heptaldehyde (see H.R. 3763), H573 [29FE]

———n-heptanoic acid (see H.R. 3764), H573 [29FE]

———undecylenic acid (see H.R. 3762), H573 [29FE]

Tim Lee Carter Post Office Building, Tompkinsville, KY: designate (see H.R. 5144), H7365 [7SE]

Remarks

Appropriations: making emergency supplemental appropriations (H.R. 3908), E464 [30MR]

Budget: establish 2-year cycle, H3123 [16MY]

———improve and strengthen budget process (H.R. 853), H3123 [16MY]

Calhoun, KY: tribute to Calhoun Elementary School, E619 [3MY]

Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (H.R. 4205), H3374, H3377 [18MY]

———authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (H.R. 4205), consideration of conference report (H. Res. 616), H9646 [11OC]

Dept. of Energy: establish compensation programs for employees sustaining beryllium and radiation-related injury, illness, or death, H3374, H3377 [18MY], H9646 [11OC]

Dept. of Justice: transfer of appropriations from other Federal departments and agencies to fund litigation against tobacco industry, H4636 [19JN]

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4577), motion to instruct conferees, H11499 [29OC]

Depts. of Veterans Affairs and HUD, and sundry independent agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4635), H4636 [19JN]

Drug abuse: combat methamphetamine production and abuse, E464 [30MR]

Hartford, KY: tribute to Ohio County High School for participation in We the People . . . The Citizen and the Constitution competition, E877 [25MY]

Health: national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (H.R. 2990), motion to instruct conferees, H134 [1FE]

———protection of enrollees in managed care plans and HMO's, H134 [1FE]

———revise and extend organ procurement and transplantation programs (H.R. 2418), E504 [6AP]

———use of ``seriousness of condition'' as the determining factor for organ donor recipients, E504 [6AP]

Jackson, Alicia: Prudential Insurance Co., of America Spirit of Community Award recipient for Kentucky, E273 [9MR]

Kentucky: tribute to telecommunications companies for providing high-speed Internet access to local communities, H1001 [15MR]

Medicare: require HMO's participating in the Medicare+Choice program to commit to 3-year contracts, H11499 [29OC]

National Groundhog Job Shadow Day: observance, E68 [3FE]

Social Security: ensure solvency, H2596 [4MY]

Telecommunications Act: anniversary, H1001 [15MR]

Votes: position on missed, E977 [12JN]

Remarks in House relative to

Special order: granted, H2510 [3MY]

Tributes

Capps, Fred, E975 [12JN]