CLAY, WILLIAM (BILL) (a Representative from Missouri)

Appointments

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

Articles and editorials

Civil Rights Pioneer, Mr. Earl Nance, Sr., St. Louis (MO) Post-Dispatch, E567 [13AP]

Pastor and Political Activist Earl Nance, Sr., Dies at 89, Paul Harris, St. Louis (MO) Post-Dispatch, E566 [13AP]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Africa: HIV/AIDS prevention programs funding for sub-Saharan Africa (see H.R. 2765), H50 [27JA]

African Americans: acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in U.S. history (see H. Con. Res. 356), H5436 [28JN]

Agriculture: improve representation and accountability of Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act committees and access to and service of Dept. of Agriculture programs (see H.R. 4675), H4590 [15JN]

Birds: prohibit interstate movement of live birds, for the purpose of fighting, to States in which animal fighting is lawful (see H.R. 1275), H1674 [3AP]

Capital punishment: temporary moratorium to ensure that defendants have adequate counsel and to allow those convicted to have a reasonable opportunity to present new evidence of innocence (see H.R. 3623), H340 [10FE] (see H.R. 4162), H1762 [4AP]

Children and youth: improve health and safety of children receiving child care outside the home (see H.R. 4750), H5956 [12JY]

Coastal zones: use of offshore oil and gas revenues to fund State and local conservation programs of coastal States (see H.R. 701), H510 [16FE]

Commission To Study Reparation Proposals for African Americans: establish (see H.R. 40), H2340 [13AP]

Community development: increase capital available to communities for economic and community development projects (see H.R. 4822), H7281 [6SE]

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), H7003 [25JY]

Contracts: ensure public accountability, efficient delivery of services, reasonable cost savings, and prevention of unwarranted expenses (see H.R. 3766), H6599 [19JY]

———require wages paid under Federal contracts to be above local poverty line (see H.R. 4353), H2410 [2MY]

Crime: increase research of link between violence against animals and violence against humans (see H. Con. Res. 338), H3868 [25MY]

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

Dept. of Agriculture: discipline members of certain county and area committees who discriminate against farmers, ranchers, or others, on the basis of race, sex, national origin, marital status, religion, age, or handicap (see H.R. 4687), H4591 [15JN]

———support exchange programs whereby African-American farmers and other agricultural specialists share technical knowledge with African farmers to improve farming in Africa (see H.R. 4378), H2605 [4MY]

Dept. of Commerce: establish an Office of Community Economic Adjustment to coordinate the Federal response in regions and communities experiencing economic distress (see H.R. 4711), H4816 [21JN]

Dept. of Labor: establish Office of Pension Participant Advocacy (see H.R. 4820), H5842 [11JY]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: make pay adjustments for nurses and certain other health-care professionals in the same manner as Federal employees and allow locality pay adjustments for those employees (see H.R. 1216), H5955 [12JY]

Drugs: concentrate Federal resources on the prosecution of major drug offenses (see H.R. 1681), H997 [14MR]

Education: provide grants to eligible consortia to provide professional development to superintendents and principals and prospects for such positions (see H.R. 4487), H3308 [17MY]

———provide greater access to high quality distance education programs (see H.R. 3542), H342 [10FE]

EEOC: require mediation of certain employee claims (see H.R. 4593), H4592 [15JN]

Employment: require U.S. nationals employing more than 20 persons in a foreign country to implement a corporate code of conduct relative to the employment of those persons (see H.R. 4596), H5241 [27JN]

ERISA: improve the retirement security of American families (see H.R. 5549), H11194 [25OC]

Federal employees: extend civil service retirement options to IRS revenue officers, INS inspectors, and certain other Federal law enforcement officers (see H.R. 1228), H3649 [23MY]

———provide benefits to domestic partners (see H.R. 2859), H7128 [26JY]

Firearms: ban manufacture of handguns that cannot be personalized, require report on commercial feasibility of personalizing firearms, and provide grants to improve firearms safety (see H.R. 2025), H1123 [20MR]

———improve safety of handguns (see H.R. 1512), H2340 [13AP]

———prevent children from having access to firearms (see H.R. 3987), H2341 [13AP]

Flags: display of the Confederate flag (see H. Res. 466), H1958 [6AP]

Food: require labels on food that contains, or is produced with, a genetically engineered material (see H.R. 3377), H165 [1FE]

Frederick Douglass Gardens, Inc.: establish a memorial in the District of Columbia or its environs (see H.R. 5331), H8468 [28SE]

Gonzalez-Brotons, Elian: reunite with father (see H. Con. Res. 240), H166 [1FE]

Harry S Truman Federal Building, Washington, DC: designate (see H.R. 3639), H575 [29FE]

Health: minority health programs (see H.R. 3250), H2967 [11MY]

———prohibit health insurance and employment discrimination on the basis of genetic information (see H.R. 2457), H8617 [2OC]

———revise and extend organ procurement and transplantation programs (see H.R. 3885), H1852 [5AP]

Higgins, Andrew Jackson and family: award Congressional Gold Medals (see H.R. 4384), H6471 [18JY]

Higgins Industries: award Congressional Gold Medal to World War II-era employees (see H.R. 4384), H6471 [18JY]

Higher Education Act: technical amendments (see H.R. 4504), H3474 [19MY]

Human rights: condemn use of children as soldiers (see H. Con. Res. 348), H4485 [14JN]

Immigration: provide permanent resident status for certain alien orphans physically present in the U.S. and provide for deferred enforced departure status for alien parents of certain children born in the U.S. (see H.R. 4359), H7211 [27JY]

Information services: deregulate Internet and high speed data services (see H.R. 2420), H511 [16FE]

Insurance: make the same health insurance options afforded to executive and judicial branch employees available to Federal annuitants, legislative branch employees, and Armed Forces members and retirees (see H.R. 4277), H4337 [13JN]

Iraq: provide citizens access to U.S. food and medicines (see H.R. 3825), H3926 [6JN]

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 officers: clarify procedures and conditions for the award of matching grants for the purchase of armor vests (see H.R. 4033), H1477 [28MR]

Lumber industry: promote open and competitive trade of softwood lumber between the U.S. and Canada (see H. Con. Res. 252), H510 [16FE]

Medicaid: remove the cap on payments for Puerto Rico and certain other territories and adjust the statutory matching rate (see H.R. 5126), H8406 [27SE]

Medicare: coverage of outpatient prescription drugs (see H.R. 4770), H5240 [27JN]

———payments made under the prospective payment system for home health services (see H.R. 4727), H7003 [25JY]

Mental health: recognize the importance of mental health awareness, mental disorders, and early detection of mental illnesses (see H. Con. Res. 243), H342 [10FE]

Middle Passage National Monument: establish (see H.R. 4581), H3924 [6JN]

National Archives and Records Administration: transfer the master versions of the photographic works of Griffith J. Davis to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (see H.R. 4756), H7212 [27JY]

National Center for Social Work Research: establish (see H.R. 3214), H1120 [16MR]

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), H339 [10FE]

Occupational Safety and Health Act: require changes in the bloodborne pathogens standard (see H.R. 5178), H7872 [19SE]

OSHA: issue regulations to eliminate or minimize the significant risk of needlestick injury to health care workers (see H.R. 1899), H1119 [16MR]

Postal Service: amend pay policies and schedules and fringe benefit programs for postmasters (see H.R. 3842), H2122 [11AP]

Public welfare programs: repeal certain restrictions on food stamp eligibility and increase Federal support for emergency food assistance programs (see H.R. 3192), H2967 [11MY]

Racial relations: recognize the significant contribution the Birmingham Pledge has made in fostering racial harmony and reconciliation (see H.J. Res. 102), H5657 [29JN]

Railroads: modernize financing of railroad retirement system and provide enhanced benefits to employees and beneficiaries (see H.R. 4844), H7129 [26JY]

Rivers: reduce sediment and nutrient loss in the Upper Mississippi River Basin (see H.R. 4013), H2341 [13AP]

Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act: provide comprehensive technical assistance and implement highly effective prevention programs (see H.R. 3413), H2239 [12AP]

Schools: establish a partnership to rebuild and modernize school facilities (see H.R. 2955), H1285 [22MR]

Taxation: 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), H7365 [7SE]

———exclusion of employer-provided educational assistance (see H.R. 2265), H342 [10FE]

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

———provide retirement security and pension reform (see H.R. 5546), H11194 [25OC]

———reduce tax benefits for foreign corporations (see H.R. 4133), H1628 [30MR]

———require certain political organizations to report information to the FEC (see H.R. 4168), H2967 [11MY]

Trucking industry: support freeze on longer combination vehicles and current Federal limitations on truck size and weight (see H. Con. Res. 306), H3649 [23MY]

U.N.: encourage the establishment of a Rapid Deployment Police and Security Force (see H.R. 4453), H4485 [14JN]

Veterans: 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), H11621 [30OC]

Vicki Coceano Post Office Building, Miramar City, FL: designate (see H.R. 3985), H3173 [16MY]

Volunteer workers: extend appropriations for programs under the National and Community Service Act and the Domestic Volunteer Service Act (see H.R. 4740), H5084 [23JN]

Voting Rights Act: clarify intent of Congress (see H.R. 4961), H7127 [26JY]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Education: modernize public schools, reduce class size, increase access to technology, enhance school safety, improve teacher quality, and strengthen accountability for academic results (see H.R. 4346), H2409 [2MY]

———school construction and infrastructure improvements funding (see H.R. 3705), H572 [29FE]

Minorities: establish educational partnerships that enable students attending minority-serving institutions to earn dual degrees and to enter fields that are underrepresented by minorities (see H.R. 4476), H3308 [17MY]

Motions

Minimum wage: level (H.R. 3846), H899 [9MR]

Poems

``Bill Clay—The St. Louis Choice,'' Representative Owens, E2124 [5DE]

Remarks

Budget: setting forth the Federal budget for 2001-2005 (H. Con. Res. 290), H1321 [23MR]

Dept. of Education: funding, H7896 [20SE]

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4577), H4065 [8JN], H4215 [12JN]

———making appropriations (H.R. 4577), conference report, H12499 [15DE]

———making appropriations (H.R. 4577), motion to instruct conferees, H7896 [20SE]

Dixon, Julian C.: tribute (H. Res. 671), H12064 [8DE]

Education: assist local educational agencies in enabling students to meet academic achievement standards, E613 [2MY]

———funding, H12499 [15DE]

———modernize public schools, reduce class size, increase access to technology, enhance school safety, improve teacher quality, and strengthen accountability for academic results (H.R. 4346), E613 [2MY]

———reductions in school class size, H7896 [20SE]

———school construction and infrastructure improvements funding (H.R. 3705), E200 [29FE]

———spending of a greater percentage of Federal tax dollars on children's classrooms (H.R. 2), E613 [2MY]

Elementary and Secondary Education Act: allow States and local school districts flexibility in allocating Federal funds (H.R. 4141), E613 [2MY]

Employment: minimum wage and overtime exemptions for certain employees, H900 [9MR]

Federal-State relations: reduce State and local costs due to unfunded Federal mandates relative to minimum wage levels, H880 [9MR]

Health: national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (H.R. 2990), motion to instruct conferees, H136 [1FE]

———protection of enrollees in managed care plans and HMO's, H136 [1FE]

House of Representatives: appreciation of opportunity to serve, H11430 [27OC]

Income: increase minimum wage and provide tax benefits for small businesses (H.R. 3081), consideration (H. Res. 434), H777 [9MR]

Minimum wage: level, H11263 [26OC]

———level (H.R. 3846), H880, H883, H900 [9MR]

———level (H.R. 3846), consideration (H. Res. 434), H777 [9MR]

Older Americans Act: reauthorize (H.R. 782), H10601 [24OC]

Phoenix, AZ: dedication of Thomasena and Eugene Grisby Art Gallery, E1643 [2OC]

SBA: improve the certified development company program (H.R. 2614), conference report, H11263 [26OC]

St. Croix Island International Historic Site: planning and development of interpretive site for quadricentennial commemoration funding (S. 2485), H11556 [30OC]

Taxation: expand incentives for the construction and renovation of public schools, H11263 [26OC]

———rates, H1321 [23MR]

Remarks in House relative to

Special order: granted, H8797 [4OC], H10254 [18OC], H10806 [24OC]

Tribute, H11411, H11421-H11430, H11431 [27OC], E2039 [31OC], E2124 [5DE]

Summaries

Safe and Successful Schools Act (H.R. 4346), E613 [2MY]

Tributes

Braunstein, Roy, E1057 [20JN]

Gonzalez, Henry B., E2135 [6DE]

Graham, Nigel L., E1495 [14SE]

Grigsby, J. Eugene and Thomasena, E1643 [2OC]

Harris, June L., E2214 [15DE]

Ingram, Catherine Elizabeth, E1495 [14SE]

Nance, Earl, Sr., E566 [13AP]

Reid, Myke, E1018 [15JN]

Robinson, Roscoe, Jr., E503 [6AP]

Weiss, Gail, H10755 [24OC]