MORAN, JERRY (a Representative from Kansas)

Amendments

Dept. of the Treasury, Postal Service, Executive Office of the President, and independent agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4871), H6600 [19JY], H6699 [20JY]

Appointments

Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission, H1138 [21MR]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Agriculture: grants to assist value-added agricultural businesses (see H.R. 3996), H5955 [12JY]

———provide a variant of loan deficiency payments to producers who are otherwise eligible for such payments, but who elect to use acreage planted with the eligible commodity for the grazing of livestock (see H.R. 2772), H1406 [23MR]

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. 4268), H2336 [13AP]

———restore health care coverage to retired members of the uniformed services (see H.R. 3573), H255 [8FE]

Aviation: ensure general aviation aircraft access to Federal land and to the airspace over that land (see H.R. 3661), H2122 [11AP]

Clean Air Act: methyl bromide phaseout schedule (see H.R. 4215), H2341 [13AP]

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

Cuba: lift travel restrictions (see H.R. 4471), H3172 [16MY]

DEA: funding to assist State and local efforts to clean up methamphetamine laboratories (see H.R. 4468), H3172 [16MY]

Education for All Handicapped Children Act: anniversary (see H. Con. Res. 399), H8062 [25SE]

Employment: clarify overtime exemption for emergency medical services personnel (see H.R. 4405), H2770 [9MY]

FCC: 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), H90 [31JA]

FDA: uniform food safety warning notification requirements (see H.R. 2129), H3474 [19MY]

Federal Deposit Insurance Act: require periodic cost-of-living adjustments to the maximum amount of deposit insurance available (see H.R. 4467), H4817 [21JN]

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

Financial institutions: allow payment of Financing Corporation interest obligations from excess deposit insurance fund reserves (see H.R. 4082), H3173 [16MY]

Food: remove intrastate distribution restrictions on State-inspected meat and poultry (see H.R. 1617), H574 [29FE]

Individuals With Disabilities Education Act: authorizing appropriations (see H.R. 4090), H1405 [23MR]

Iran: emancipation of the Bahai community (see H. Con. Res. 257), H5085 [23JN]

Korean War: anniversary (see H.J. Res. 86), H575 [29FE]

Law enforcement: improve the quality and credibility of forensic science services for criminal justice purposes (see H.R. 2340), H373 [14FE]

Medicaid: establish a new prospective payment system for federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics (see H.R. 2341), H8469 [28SE]

———provide families and disabled children with the opportunity to purchase coverage (see H.R. 4825), H8201 [26SE]

Medicare: coverage of medical nutrition therapy services (see H.R. 1187), H9900 [12OC]

———eliminate reduction in the market basket percentage under the prospective payment system for payments to small rural hospitals (see H.R. 4996), H7991 [21SE]

———improve Medicare-dependent, small rural hospital program (see H.R. 4997), H7992 [21SE]

———increase access to health care for beneficiaries through telehealth services (see H.R. 4841), H5955 [12JY]

———protect right of beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare+Choice plans to receive services at any skilled nursing facility (see H.R. 3004), H2607 [4MY]

———provide for equity in the amount of disproportionate share payment adjustments between urban and rural hospitals (see H.R. 4995), H7991 [21SE]

———reimbursement for chiropractic services (see H.R. 1046), H3649 [23MY]

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

———revise the calculation of base payment rates for the prospective payment system for home health services (see H.R. 5163), H9505 [6OC]

———waive waiting period for coverage and provide coverage of drugs for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (see H.R. 353), H3523 [22MY]

National Take Your Kids To Vote Day: support (see H. Con. Res. 389), H7210 [27JY]

National Trails System Act: require compensation of property owners when certain railbanked trails are developed for public use (see H.R. 4086), H2239 [12AP]

National Weather Service: provide overtime pay for forecasters performing essential services during severe weather events and limit Sunday premium pay to hours of service actually performed (see H.R. 826), H632 [1MR]

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]

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]

Petroleum: prohibit use of methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE), provide flexibility within the EPA's oxygenate requirements, and promote the use of renewable ethanol (see H.R. 4011), H2411 [2MY]

Pope, Edmond: demand release from Russian prison for humanitarian reasons (see H. Con. Res. 364), H5956 [12JY] (see H. Con. Res. 404), H7871 [19SE]

Postal Service: amend pay policies and schedules and fringe benefit programs for postmasters (see H.R. 3842), H1958 [6AP]

Power resources: simplify Federal oil and gas revenue distributions (see H.R. 4340), H5955 [12JY]

R.A. Bloch Cancer Foundation, Inc.: tribute (see H. Res. 517), H4035 [7JN]

Radio: ensure the availability of spectrum to amateur radio operators (see H.R. 783), H6599 [19JY]

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

Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument: establish (see H.R. 3676), H5436 [28JN]

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), H3649 [23MY]

Social Security: extend availability of State Children's Health Insurance Program allotments (see H.R. 4393), H3309 [17MY]

———restore Social Services Block Grant funding and the ability of States to transfer Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds to such block grant (see H.R. 4481), H7212 [27JY]

Taxation: allow an investment credit by farmers for value-added agricultural property (see H.R. 4497), H5955 [12JY]

———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), H2411 [2MY]

———expand S corporation eligibility for banks (see H.R. 1586), H7002 [25JY] (see H.R. 1994), H6052 [13JY]

———extend tax credit for production of fuel from a nonconventional source (see H.R. 5401), H9011 [5OC]

———incentives to ensure timely and equitable access to the Internet over current and future generations of broadband capability (see H.R. 4728), H7871 [19SE]

———increase annual limitation on nondeductible contributions and adjust for inflation the amount of deductible contributions to individual retirement accounts (see H.R. 1322), H3649 [23MY]

———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), H3523 [22MY]

———repeal modification of capital gains tax payments relative to small businesses sold on the installment sales method (see H.R. 3594), H575 [29FE]

———terminate Internal Revenue Code (see H.R. 1041), H1629 [30MR] (see H.R. 4199), H1956 [6AP]

———treatment of adoption expenses (see H.R. 531), H454 [15FE]

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

———treatment of certain farmland sold with a principal residence (see H.R. 4421), H3413 [18MY]

Telecommunications: promote deployment of advanced services and competition by relieving unnecessary burdens on the two percent local exchange carriers (see H.R. 3850), H1629 [30MR]

Television: ensure local service to small, rural markets by satellite providers (see H.R. 3615), H511 [16FE]

Vatican City: U.N. status of the Holy See (see H. Con. Res. 253), H2906 [10MY]

Veterans: require employers to give employees who are members of reserve components leave of absence to participate in an honor guard for veterans' funerals (see H.R. 284), H8406 [27SE]

Veterans Health Administration: ensure pay parity between dentists and physicians (see H.R. 2660), H7932 [20SE]

Water pollution: exempt discharges from certain silviculture activities from permit requirements of the national pollutant discharge elimination system (see H.R. 3625), H2905 [10MY]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Dept. of Justice: establish in the Antitrust Division a position with responsibility for agricultural antitrust matters (see H.R. 3689), H510 [16FE]

Taxation: exclude from self-employment earnings certain payments under the Conservation Reserve Program (see H.R. 4064), H1284 [22MR]

———increase unified estate and gift tax credit (see H.R. 5138), H7365 [7SE]

Essays

Our American Heritage and Our Responsibility To Preserve It: Christine Bell, E514 [6AP]

Pledge of Allegiance

House of Representatives, H8743 [4OC]

Remarks

Agriculture: strengthen safety net for agricultural producers and improve efficiency and integrity of the Federal crop insurance program (H.R. 2559), conference report, H3822 [25MY]

Congressional Rural Caucus: reestablishment to address issues impacting rural areas, H955 [14MR]

Cuba: exception to trade embargo for food, medicines and medical supplies, instruments, or equipment, H6700, H6701, H6703 [20JY]

Dept. of the Treasury, Postal Service, Executive Office of the President, and independent agencies: making appropriations, H7149 [27JY]

———making appropriations (H.R. 4871), H6700, H6701, H6703 [20JY]

Drugs: penalties for operating methamphetamine laboratories and increased funding to combat methamphetamine production, trafficking, and abuse, H8254 [27SE]

Individuals With Disabilities Education Act: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 4055), H2451 [3MY]

———funding, H11750 [1NO]

Korean War: anniversary (H.J. Res. 86), H731 [8MR]

Legislative branch of the Government: making appropriations (H.R. 4516), consideration of conference report (H. Res. 565), H7149 [27JY]

Petroleum: dependence on foreign sources, H1143 [21MR]

Public Health Service Act: provide certain children's health services (H.R. 4365), H8254 [27SE]

Taxation: eliminate marriage tax penalty by adjusting income tax rate brackets and standard deduction amounts (H.R. 6), consideration (H. Res. 419), H288 [10FE]

———incentives to encourage domestic production of oil and gas and respond to surging foreign oil imports (H.R. 1116), H1143 [21MR]

Television: ensure local service to small, rural markets by satellite providers (H.R. 3615), H2299 [13AP]

Women: reauthorize Federal programs to prevent violence against women (H.R. 1248), H8099 [26SE]

Remarks in House relative to

Special order: granted, H754 [8MR], H1161 [21MR], H7265 [6SE], H11779 [1NO]

Tributes

Binney, Russell, E1509 [18SE]

Hardenburger, Janice, H7241 [6SE]

Lambert, Lawrence A., Jr., H8744 [4OC]