DEAL, NATHAN (a Representative from Georgia)

Appointments

Paul Coverdell funeral attendees, H6721 [24JY]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Abortion: prohibit partial-birth abortions (see H.R. 3660), H1163 [21MR]

Agriculture: require country of origin labeling of peanuts and peanut products (see H.R. 3263), H6599 [19JY]

Animals: prohibit import, export, sale, or possession of bear viscera (see H.R. 2166), H10473 [19OC]

———provide for a system of sanctuaries for chimpanzees that are no longer needed in research conducted by the Public Health Service (see H.R. 3514), H10036 [17OC]

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

Boy Scouts: tribute (see H. Con. Res. 384), H7503 [12SE]

Budget: include certain projected cuts in the budget of each department or agency of the Government within the President's annual budget submission (see H.R. 3564), H998 [14MR]

Carter, Jimmy and Rosalyn: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 4289), H2337 [13AP]

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

Citizenship: confer U.S. citizenship automatically and retroactively to foreign-born children adopted by U.S. citizens (see H.R. 2883), H7502 [12SE]

Clean Air Act: exempt mass transit projects from certain conformity requirements (see H.R. 3583), H2607 [4MY]

———methyl bromide phaseout schedule (see H.R. 4215), H2607 [4MY]

Colleges and universities: preservation and restoration of historic buildings at historically women's public colleges or universities (see H.R. 4503), H7871 [19SE]

Commission To Study the Structure and Reauthorization of the FCC: establish (see H.R. 5570), H11206 [26OC]

Contracts: allow choice of arbitration as a means of settling disputes (see H.R. 534), H6470 [18JY]

Courts: legal definition of human life relative to presence of brain wave activity and spontaneous cardiac activity (see H. Con. Res. 305), H3649 [23MY]

Dept. of Energy: extend public comment period on proposed rules on clothes washers, air conditioners, and heat pumps (see H.R. 5613), H11813 [2NO]

Dept. of Justice: establish Bureau of Immigration Services and the Bureau of Immigration Enforcement (see H.R. 3918), H3926 [6JN]

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

Disasters: creation of protection funds by property and casualty insurance companies for the payment of policyholders' claims arising from future catastrophic events (see H.R. 2749), H1477 [28MR]

Diseases: expand research activities relative to lupus (see H.R. 762), H50 [27JA]

———increased support and funding to combat juvenile diabetes (see H. Con. Res. 321), H6471 [18JY]

———reduce burden of diabetes among children and youth (see H.R. 4594), H9767 [11OC]

Drugs: distribution of prescription drugs (see H.R. 4301), H10473 [19OC]

Education: establish and expand programs relating to science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (see H.R. 4271, 4272), H3173 [16MY]

———qualify public defenders for student loan forgiveness under the Federal Perkins Loan Program (see H.R. 4290), H2337 [13AP]

———support teachers (see H. Res. 492), H2606 [4MY]

EPA: repeal rule on water quality standards total maximum daily load program (see H.J. Res. 105), H6470 [18JY]

Families and domestic relations: grants to carry out certain activities promoting adoption counseling (see H.R. 2511), H1958 [6AP]

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]

———prevent imposition of spectrum caps on future Commercial and Mobile Radio Services auctions (see H.R. 4758), H5169 [26JN]

———prohibit from establishing rules authorizing the operation of new, low power FM radio stations (see H.R. 3439), H342 [10FE]

———terminate E-Rate Program (see H.R. 692), H7723 [18SE]

Federal Deposit Insurance Act: require periodic cost-of-living adjustments to the maximum amount of deposit insurance available (see H.R. 4467), H3813 [24MY]

Federal firefighters: make mandatory separation age match requirement for Federal law enforcement officers (see H.R. 460), H3412 [18MY]

Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: clinically superior modifications to previously approved or licensed drugs (see H.R. 4242), H6599 [19JY]

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

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), H3309 [17MY]

Food Security Act: authorize enrollment of land in the Wetlands Reserve Program (see H.R. 2066), H1958 [6AP]

———expand conservation reserve (see H.R. 408), H2340 [13AP]

Foreign aid: prohibit certain defense services to countries ineligible for international military education, training assistance, or arms transfers (see H.R. 1063), H2905 [10MY]

Foreign policy: reduce, suspend, or terminate certain assistance to countries engaged in oil price fixing to the detriment of the U.S. economy (see H.R. 3822), H1078 [15MR]

Foreign trade: require that imported agricultural products be subject to the same sanitary or phytosanitary measures as domestic products (see H.R. 3552), H757 [8MR]

Georgia: Federal recognition of the Lower Muscogee-Creek Indian Tribe (see H.R. 4730), H7212 [27JY]

Government: separation of powers between Congress and the President (see H.R. 2655), H4336 [13JN]

Harry S Truman Federal Building, Washington, DC: designate (see H.R. 3639), H647 [6MR]

Henry McNeal Turner Post Office, Macon, GA: designate (see H.R. 3454), H4817 [21JN]

Housing: expand protections for especially vulnerable consumers against abusive mortgage lending practices and streamline the framework regulating mortgage originations (see H.R. 4213), H7373 [11SE]

Individuals With Disabilities Education Act: authorizing appropriations (see H.R. 4055), H1284 [22MR]

Indonesia: prohibit military assistance relative to free elections and human rights conditions in East Timor (see H.R. 4357), H2906 [10MY]

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), H7652 [14SE]

International law: protect U.S. military personnel and other U.S. officials from criminal prosecution by an international court to which the U.S. is not a party (see H.R. 4654), H6719 [20JY]

Korean War: anniversary (see H.J. Res. 86), H165 [1FE]

Lawrence Patton McDonald Federal Building, Rome, GA: designate (see H.R. 4787), H5654 [29JN]

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

———State funding for disproportionate share hospitals (see H.R. 3698), H2341 [13AP]

———waive disproportionate share hospital designation for certain rural hospitals relative to obstetrician requirements (see H.R. 4793), H5654 [29JN]

Medicare: coverage for surgical first assisting services of certified registered nurse first assistants (see H.R. 3911), H996 [14MR]

———expand and make permanent the demonstration project for military retirees and dependents (see H.R. 1413), H1958 [6AP]

———expand coverage of certain self-injected biologicals (see H.R. 2892), H6052 [13JY]

———facilitate use of private contracts (see H.R. 2867), H1406 [23MR]

———preserve essential rural hospitals (see H.R. 5220), H9767 [11OC]

———revise inflation update factor used in making payments to prospective payment system hospitals (see H.R. 3580), H2340 [13AP]

———waive waiting period for coverage and provide coverage of drugs for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (see H.R. 353), H2606 [4MY]

Migratory Bird Treaty Act: restore certain penalties (see H.R. 4296), H2338 [13AP]

National Environmental Education Act: redesignate in honor of John H. Chafee, establish the John H. Chafee Memorial Fellowship Program, and extend programs (see H.R. 4745), H5168 [26JN]

National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Engineering: establish (see H.R. 1795), H209 [2FE]

National School Lunch Act: ensure an adequate level of commodity purchases under the school lunch program (see H.R. 3614), H998 [14MR]

Occupational Safety and Health Act: waive applicability to employment performed in an employee's residence (see H.R. 3518), H5843 [11JY]

Olympic games: mint commemorative coins to support the 2002 Salt Lake Olympic Winter Games and U.S. Olympic Committee programs (see H.R. 3679), H509 [16FE]

Panama Canal: U.S. control relative to treaties (see H.J. Res. 77), H50 [27JA]

Peace Corps: designate a fellowship program promoting the work of returning volunteers in underserved American communities as the Paul D. Coverdell Fellows Program (see H.R. 5135), H7365 [7SE]

———redesignate the Peace Corps World Wise Schools Program as the Paul D. Coverdell World Wise Schools Program (see H.R. 5357), H8617 [2OC]

Petroleum: support increase in world crude oil supplies (see H. Con. Res. 284), H1077 [15MR]

Postal Service: amend pay policies and schedules and fringe benefit programs for postmasters (see H.R. 3842), H1120 [16MR]

———issue a semipostal in order to afford the public a convenient way to contribute to funding for the establishment of the World War II Memorial (see H.R. 4492), H5436 [28JN]

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), H4220 [12JN]

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

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

Rural areas: provide funds for automatic external defibrillators and the training of individuals in advanced cardiac life support (see H.R. 4953), H7002 [25JY]

Ruth Harris Coleman Post Office, Odum, GA: designate (see H.R. 5229), H7932 [20SE]

Samuel P. Roberts Post Office Building, Carrollton, GA: designate (see H.R. 4786), H5654 [29JN]

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), H7366 [7SE]

Social Security: computation system for benefits relative to spouses' and surviving spouses' Government pensions (see H.R. 1217), H5656 [29JN]

States: permit funding of prescription drugs for minors relative to parental consent (see H.R. 3302), H7723 [18SE]

———permit individuals to operate commercial motor vehicles within State borders after meeting minimum standards (see H.R. 3219), H2239 [12AP]

Taxation: 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), H757 [8MR]

———allow tax credit to holders of qualified bonds issued by an intercity passenger rail carrier (see H.R. 3700), H7211 [27JY]

———clarify the child credit allowance, the personal exemptions deduction, and the earned income credit for missing children (see H.R. 5117), H7366 [7SE]

———clarify treatment under the tax-exempt bond rules of pre-payments for certain commodities and mineral production payments (see H.R. 5259), H11207 [26OC]

———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), H3173 [16MY]

———incentives to ensure timely and equitable access to the Internet over current and future generations of broadband capability (see H.R. 4728), H11813 [2NO]

———increase State cap on private activity bonds (see H.R. 864), H922 [9MR]

———modify the low-income housing credit (see H.R. 175), H1406 [23MR]

———provide a shorter recovery period for the depreciation of certain leasehold improvements (see H.R. 844), H1119 [16MR]

———reduce motor fuel taxes (see H.R. 3849), H931 [13MR] (see H.R. 4006), H1118 [16MR]

———repeal excise tax on telephone use and other communications services (see H.R. 3916), H1852 [5AP]

———repeal increases in motor fuel taxes (see H.R. 3844), H1120 [16MR]

———repeal modification of capital gains tax payments relative to small businesses sold on the installment sales method (see H.R. 3594), H254 [8FE]

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

———treatment of beer (see H.R. 1366), H3172 [16MY]

———treatment of computers provided to employees for personal use (see H.R. 4274), H10809 [24OC]

———treatment of estate taxes on value of certain property restricted to use as farmland (see H.R. 4101), H1476 [28MR]

———treatment of flexible spending arrangements relative to long-term care insurance (see H.R. 3872), H4174 [9JN]

———treatment of gross income gain on the sale or exchange of certain property restricted to use as farmland (see H.R. 4100), H1476 [28MR]

Telecommunications: limit FCC authority to review and impose conditions on certain mergers and transactions (see H.R. 4019), H1118 [16MR]

———promote deployment of advanced services and competition by relieving unnecessary burdens on the two percent local exchange carriers (see H.R. 3850), H1413 [27MR]

Telephones: regulate interstate commerce in the use of mobile telephones and strengthen and clarify prohibitions on electronic eavesdropping (see H.R. 3489), H2607 [4MY]

Television: ensure local service to small, rural markets by satellite providers (see H.R. 3615), H1958 [6AP]

Veterans Health Administration: improve personnel system (see H.R. 5109), H7578 [13SE]

Vietnam Veterans Memorial: place a plaque to honor those veterans who died after their service, but as a direct result of that service (see H.R. 3293), H997 [14MR]

Volunteer firefighters: remove civil liability barriers surrounding donating fire equipment to volunteer fire companies (see H.R. 4736), H7281 [6SE]

Voting: establish uniform poll closing time for Presidential elections (see H.R. 5678), H12532 [15DE]

Water pollution: exempt discharges from certain silviculture activities from permit requirements of the national pollutant discharge elimination system (see H.R. 3625), H2512 [3MY]

Women: reauthorize Federal programs to prevent violence against women (see H.R. 1248), H3412 [18MY]

Bills and resolutions introduced

FCC: fulfill support requirements for universal service for high cost areas (see H.R. 5294), H8199 [26SE]

Lake Sidney Lanier: allow property owners to maintain existing residences that are inadvertently in violation of a Corps of Engineers flood control easement (see H.R. 4060), H1284 [22MR]

Lakes: require Federal agencies to enhance recreational experiences for the public (see H.R. 4299), H2338 [13AP]

Medicaid: State requirements for financial recovery from an individual's estate relative to any medical assistance under a State health plan (see H.R. 3912), H996 [14MR]

Social Security: eliminate the waiting period in the disability insurance program (see H.R. 5412), H9504 [6OC]

Pledge of Allegiance

House of Representatives, H3175 [17MY]

Remarks

Coverdell, Paul: tribute (H. Res. 558), H6542 [19JY]

Depts. of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4690), H5158 [26JN]

INS: Quick Response Team funding, H5158 [26JN]

Medicare: make more competitive and efficient and provide for a prescription drug benefit (H.R. 4680), H5364 [28JN]

Telecommunications: promote deployment of advanced services and competition by relieving unnecessary burdens on the two percent local exchange carriers (H.R. 3850), H8685 [3OC]

Tributes

Coverdell, Senator, H6425 [18JY]