MILLER, GARY G. (a Representative from California)

Amendments

Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (H.R. 4205), H3281 [17MY]

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4577), H3929 [6JN], H4267 [13JN]

Foreign policy: reduce, suspend, or terminate certain assistance to countries engaged in oil price fixing to the detriment of the U.S. economy (H.R. 3822), H1167 [21MR], H1235 [22MR]

Housing: expand homeownership (H.R. 1776), H1936 [6AP]

Appointments

Bruce F. Vento funeral attendees, H9861 [12OC]

Julian C. Dixon funeral attendees, H12081 [13DE]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Abortion: prohibit partial-birth abortions (see H.R. 3660), H632 [1MR]

American Folklife Center: collect video and audio recordings of personal histories and testimonials of U.S. war veterans (see H.R. 5212), H7870 [19SE]

Armed Forces: restore health care coverage to retired members of the uniformed services (see H.R. 2966), H48 [27JA]

Aviation: prohibit employment of certain individuals in positions affecting air transportation security (see H.R. 4529), H3812 [24MY]

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]

———tribute (see H. Con. Res. 384), H7503 [12SE]

Budget: constitutional amendment to require balanced budget and greater accountability in the enactment of tax legislation (see H.J. Res. 53), H2341 [13AP]

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

———provide for reconciliation of the concurrent resolution to reduce the public debt and to decrease the statutory debt limit (see H.R. 4601), H4220 [12JN] (see H.R. 5173), H7650 [14SE]

Capital punishment: prohibit the execution of pregnant women (see H.R. 4888), H6778 [24JY]

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

Children and youth: improve academic and social outcomes for students by providing productive activities during after-school hours (see H.R. 3235), H1764 [4AP]

———protect infants who are born alive (see H.R. 4292), H5955 [12JY]

China, Republic of: elections (see H. Con. Res. 272), H1120 [16MR]

———U.N. participation (see H. Con. Res. 390), H7578 [13SE]

Clinton, President: address issues of neighborhood crime prevention, community policing and reduction of school crime (see H. Res. 561), H7003 [25JY]

Cole (U.S.S.): terrorist attack on Navy destroyer in Yemen (see H. Con. Res. 441), H12022 [6DE]

Computers: regulate the transmission of unsolicited commercial electronic mail (see H.R. 3113), H1163 [21MR]

Courts: legal definition of human life relative to presence of brain wave activity and spontaneous cardiac activity (see H. Con. Res. 305), H3474 [19MY]

Credit unions: clarify definition of a member business loan relative to religious organization based credit unions (see H.R. 4701), H7128 [26JY]

Crime: improve information on, and protections against, child sexual abuse (see H.R. 2382), H209 [2FE]

———life imprisonment for repeat offenders who commit sex offenses against children (see H.R. 4047), H1163 [21MR]

———prevent the entry by false pretenses to certain restricted areas and prevent misuse of genuine and counterfeit police badges (see H.R. 4827), H5954 [12JY]

Dept. of the Interior: collect and maintain information on public memorials commemorating military conflicts and service of individuals in the Armed Forces (see H. Con. Res. 345), H4592 [15JN]

Dept. of Transportation: prohibit action to finalize, implement, or enforce a rule relative to the hours of service of drivers for motor carriers (see H.R. 4511), H3474 [19MY]

Diamond Valley Lake: establish interpretive center and museum to ensure protection and interpretation of paleontology discoveries and develop a trail system for the lake (see H.R. 4187), H1851 [5AP]

Diseases: increase public awareness of tuberous sclerosis (see H. Con. Res. 337), H11446 [27OC]

Drugs: combat manufacture, traffic, import, and export of methamphetamine (see H.R. 4248), H2238 [12AP]

———facilitate environmental cleanup caused by the manufacture of methamphetamines and impose new monetary fines for the manufacture and trafficking of methamphetamines (see H.R. 5589), H11445 [27OC]

Education: assist local educational agencies in financing and establishing alternative education systems (see H.R. 3873), H2341 [13AP]

———support teachers (see H. Res. 492), H2771 [9MY]

———tribute to home educators and home schooled students (see H. Res. 578), H7651 [14SE]

Education for All Handicapped Children Act: anniversary (see H. Con. Res. 399), H7577 [13SE]

Egypt: limit assistance under the Foreign Military Financing Program (see H.R. 4233), H2512 [3MY]

FDA: establish restrictions relative to the qualifications of physicians prescribing the abortion drug known as RU-486 (see H.R. 5385), H9635 [10OC]

Federal Employees Health Benefits Program: coverage of acupuncturist services (see H.R. 1890), H90 [31JA]

Federal Water Pollution Control Act: improve implementation (see H.R. 4502), H7503 [12SE]

Food Quality Protection Act: establish certain requirements (see H.R. 1592), H3309 [17MY]

Foreign policy: defend fundamental human rights to family, conscience, and life in international negotiations (see H. Res. 521), H4485 [14JN]

Friedman, Milton: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 4672), H8200 [26SE]

GAO: require report to Congress on agency regulatory actions (see H.R. 3669), H4592 [15JN]

George E. Brown, Jr., U.S. Courthouse, Riverside, CA: designate (see H.R. 5110), H9505 [6OC]

Housing: expand protections for especially vulnerable consumers against abusive mortgage lending practices and streamline the framework regulating mortgage originations (see H.R. 4213), H2412 [2MY]

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 H.R. 4548), H7652 [14SE]

———Federal reimbursement for indirect costs of incarcerating illegal aliens and for emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens (see H.R. 4282), H4036 [7JN]

``In God We Trust'': support national motto (see H. Res. 551), H6355 [17JY]

Information services: deregulate Internet and high speed data services (see H.R. 2420), H1285 [22MR]

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]

Law enforcement: authorize appropriations for the prosecution of obscenity cases (see H.R. 4710), H6355 [17JY]

Lumber industry: promote open and competitive trade of softwood lumber between the U.S. and Canada (see H. Con. Res. 252), H2967 [11MY]

Matthew `Mack' Robinson Post Office Building, Pasadena, CA: designate (see H.R. 4157), H5036 [22JN]

Medicaid: exempt disabled individuals from being required to enroll with a managed care entity (see H.R. 797), H4591 [15JN]

Medicare: coverage of acupuncturist services (see H.R. 1890), H90 [31JA]

———improve review procedures (see H.R. 2356), H7002 [25JY]

———improve the manner in which new medical technologies are made available to beneficiaries (see H.R. 4395), H6777 [24JY]

———provide more equitable payments for direct graduate medical education (see H.R. 5005), H7992 [21SE]

Middle East: condemn current level of violence between Israelis and Palestinians (see H. Con. Res. 426), H10473 [19OC]

———prohibit U.S. assistance to the Palestinian Authority if a Palestinian state is declared unilaterally (see H.R. 4976), H7578 [13SE]

Montgomery, G.V. (Sonny): name an honorary room in the House of Representatives wing of the Capitol (see H. Res. 491), H3050 [15MY]

National Apprenticeship Act: ensure that applications relating to apprenticeship programs are processed in a fair and timely manner (see H.R. 4781), H5435 [28JN]

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

NLRB: inflation adjustments to the mandatory jurisdiction thresholds (see H.R. 1620), H1674 [3AP]

Olympic games: mint commemorative coins to support the 2002 Salt Lake Olympic Winter Games and U.S. Olympic Committee programs (see H.R. 3679), H7211 [27JY]

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

Panama Canal: negotiate renewed presence of U.S. Armed Forces and review contract bidding process for lease of port facilities by People's Republic of China (see H. Con. Res. 186), H511 [16FE]

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

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), H2337 [13AP]

Public debt: allow individuals to designate a portion of their income tax return for deficit reduction (see H.R. 5349), H8551 [29SE]

Public Health Service: permit family planning projects to offer adoption services (see H.R. 2485), H2512 [3MY]

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

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

Social Security: include additional information in account statements (see H.R. 5028), H7207 [27JY]

Taxation: allow credit for elementary and secondary school teachers who provide classroom materials (see H.R. 4025), H1119 [16MR]

———allow small business employers a credit for certain expenses for long-term training of employees in highly skilled small business trades (see H.R. 1824), H1629 [30MR]

———constitutional amendment to require a two-thirds majority on the passage of legislation increasing taxes (see H.J. Res. 94), H1957 [6AP]

———cost-of-living adjustment for unified estate and gift tax credit (see H.R. 2349), H1163 [21MR]

———extend filing period for credits or refunds (see H.R. 4204), H3649 [23MY]

———increase gift tax exclusion (see H.R. 927), H1284 [22MR]

———make permanent the moratorium on the taxation of Internet and interactive computer service commerce (see H.R. 3252), H255 [8FE]

———remove mandatory withdrawal requirements for individual retirement accounts (see H.R. 252), H2512 [3MY]

———repeal excise tax on telephone use and other communications services (see H.R. 3916), H997 [14MR]

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

———treatment of computers provided to employees for personal use (see H.R. 4274), H3413 [18MY]

———treatment of information technology job training expenses (see H.R. 5004), H8201 [26SE]

———treatment of tax-exempt bond financing of certain electrical output facilities (see H.R. 721), H90 [31JA]

Telecommunications: State and local government regulation of citizens band radio equipment (see H.R. 2346), H7002 [25JY]

Turkey: claim of sovereignty over islands and islets in the Aegean Sea (see H. Con. Res. 340), H5956 [12JY]

21st Century Community Learning Centers Act: expand after-school activities and services (see H.R. 5227), H7932 [20SE]

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), H2341 [13AP]

Vietnam Veterans Memorial: authorize design and construction of a temporary education center (see H.R. 5268), H9011 [5OC]

Voting: prohibit States from determining that a ballot submitted by an absent uniformed services voter was improperly or fraudulently cast unless the State finds clear and convincing evidence of fraud (see H.R. 5642), H12045 [7DE]

Water pollution: exempt discharges from certain silviculture activities from permit requirements of the national pollutant discharge elimination system (see H.R. 3625), H3173 [16MY]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Dept. of the Interior: participate in Inland Empire regional water recycling and Lower Chino Dairy Area desalination demonstration and reclamation projects and aid construction of California regional brine lines (see H.R. 4531), H3812 [24MY]

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]

Letters

Death Tax Elimination Act: Todd M. Kolber, H4156 [9JN]

Estate taxes: Todd M. Kolber, H1313 [23MR]

Remarks

American Trucking Associations, Inc.: tribute for contribution to the Toys for Tots Foundation, E2130 [5DE]

Appropriations: making continuing (H.J. Res. 122), H11724 [1NO]

Budget: provide for reconciliation of the concurrent resolution to reduce the public debt and to decrease the statutory debt limit (H.R. 4601), E1098 [23JN]

———setting forth the Federal budget for 2001-2005 (H. Con. Res. 290), H1312, H1369 [23MR]

California: anniversary of statehood, H7558 [13SE]

CERCLA: reauthorize and reform Superfund program and promote brownfields redevelopment, H5174 [27JN]

Children and youth: collection and dissemination of statistics on the number of newborn babies abandoned in public places (H. Res. 465), H2024 [11AP]

Coastal zones: use of offshore oil and gas revenues to fund State and local conservation programs of coastal States (H.R. 701), H2836 [10MY]

Computers: protection from unsolicited and unwanted e-mail, H3057 [16MY]

———regulate the transmission of unsolicited commercial electronic mail (H.R. 3113), H6373 [18JY]

Courts: clarification of jurisdiction over private property takings and land use disputes (H.R. 2372), H1091 [16MR]

Dept. of Energy: report on all possible means to increase domestic oil production without harming the environment, H1235, H1236 [22MR]

Dept. of HUD: establish consensus committee for development, revision, and interpretation of safety standards for manufactured home construction (S. 1452), H10689 [24OC]

———modify eligibility requirements for Public and Assisted Housing Drug Elimination Program grants, H1936, H1937 [6AP]

Dept. of Justice: prosecution for distribution of illegal pornography, H1769 [5AP]

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4577), H4267, H4268 [13JN], H11724 [1NO]

Diamond Bar, CA: Carl H. Lorbeer Middle School recipient of Dept. of Education Blue Ribbon Schools award, E1019 [15JN]

Eaton, Matt: Montclair, CA, Chamber of Commerce Annual Achievement Award recipient, E1374 [27JY]

Education: national policy to improve system, H10817 [25OC]

Elledge, Robert E.: Purple Heart award recipient, H1682 [4AP], E495 [5AP]

FAA: reauthorizing programs (H.R. 1000), conference report, H1019 [15MR]

Fondario, Gabe: Montclair, CA, Fire Dept. Employee of the Year award recipient, E26 [31JA]

Foreign policy: reduce, suspend, or terminate certain assistance to countries engaged in oil price fixing to the detriment of the U.S. economy (H.R. 3822), H1235, H1236 [22MR]

Germany: anniversary of reunification, E1666 [4OC]

Housing: expand homeownership (H.R. 1776), H1936, H1937 [6AP]

Income: increase minimum wage and provide tax benefits for small businesses (H.R. 3081), H863 [9MR]

Individuals With Disabilities Education Act: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 4055), H2414 [3MY]

———funding through reductions in Ready-to-Learn television program, H4267, H4268 [13JN]

Jackson, Steve: Montclair, CA, Fire Department Employee of the Year award recipient, E28 [31JA]

Joseph Ileto Post Office, Chino Hills, CA: designate (H.R. 3189), E89 [8FE]

Montclair, CA: tribute to Por La Vida Program, E619 [3MY]

National security: military readiness of U.S. forces, H2660 [9MY]

Olympic games: tribute to California's 41st Congressional District participants, E1457 [13SE]

Political ethics: truthfulness in Presidential campaigns, H8815 [5OC]

San Bernardino County, CA: anniversary of Inland Empire Utilities Agency, E2024 [30OC]

San Gabriel, CA: funding and implementation of a long-term solution to groundwater contamination and water supply problems (H.R. 910), H1425 [28MR]

Taxation: extend the moratorium on the taxation of Internet and interactive computer service commerce (H.R. 3709), H2797 [10MY]

———phase-out and repeal estate and gift taxes (H.R. 8), H4156 [9JN]

———phase-out and repeal estate and gift taxes (H.R. 8), veto, H7333 [7SE]

———provide incentives for renewal of distressed communities and empowerment zone development, increase the number of empowerment zones, and encourage investment in new markets (H.R. 4923), H6838 [25JY]

———rates, H1312 [23MR]

United Parcel Service of America, Inc.: Forbes (publication) Company of the Year Award recipient, E26 [31JA]

Upland, CA: tribute to Public Housing Authority for administration of Section 8 Public Housing Program, H6605 [20JY]

———tribute to Upland Christian School, E1203 [11JY]

Vietnam Veterans Memorial: place a plaque to honor those veterans who died after their service, but as a direct result of that service (H.R. 3293), H2667 [9MY]

Votes: position on missed, E210 [1MR], E279 [9MR], E389 [22MR], E1663 [4OC]

World War II: tribute to Armed Forces personnel killed in aviation accident in Queensland, Austrialia, E1183 [30JN]

Remarks in House relative to

Leave of absence: granted, H553 [29FE]

Tributes

Anderson, Arnold D., E647 [4MY]

Brairton, Cary J., E1377 [27JY]

Cruse, Stanley M., E875 [25MY]

Cruz, Mario, E1240 [14JY]

Dae Woong Chung, E1626 [28SE]

Decker, David C., E1870 [19OC]

Fuller, Jeffrey, E148 [15FE]

Grams, Al, E1017 [15JN]

Krpan, Donald J., E1320 [26JY]

Lewis, Goldy S., E1273 [19JY]

Loney, Robert, E1428 [7SE]

McPherson, Donna, E2065 [2NO]

Poole, Susan E., E2067 [2NO]

Rose, Brian, E1378 [27JY]

Snyder, Robert, E1164 [30JN]

Stumpf, Liz, E1406 [6SE]

Sullivan, Kevin, E1077 [22JN]

Thalman, Kristine, E310 [14MR]

Warhurst, Donelda, E1406 [6SE]

Whitney, George, E498 [5AP]

Woods, Mel, E29 [31JA]