DUNN, JENNIFER (a Representative from Washington)
Articles and editorials
Animals and Research Part 1—Unlocking the Secrets of Genetic Disease Through Animal Research, Joseph W. Eschbach, Seattle (WA) Post-Intelligencer, E744
Animals and Research Part 2—Animals Benefit From Research, Patrick R. Gavin, Seattle (WA) Post-Intelligencer, E745
Businesswomen in the Mainstream, Economic Reform Today (publication), E193
Bills and resolutions cosponsored
Armed Forces: restore health care coverage to retired members of the uniformed services (see H.R. 2966), H48 [27JA] (see H.R. 3573), H511 [16FE]
Budget: provide for reconciliation of the concurrent resolution to reduce the public debt and to decrease the statutory debt limit (see H.R. 4601), H4120 [8JN] (see H.R. 5173), H7650 [14SE]
Children and youth: recognize importance and support goals and ideas of National Youth Day (see H. Con. Res. 375), H6470 [18JY]
China, Republic of: congratulations on elections and reaffirmation of U.S. commitment to security and democracy (see H. Con. Res. 292), H1407 [23MR]
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]
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), H6719 [20JY]
Courts: give U.S. district courts jurisdiction over competing State custody determinations (see H.R. 5456), H9899 [12OC]
Croatia: elections (see H. Con. Res. 251), H2412 [2MY]
Cuba: assist internal opposition and further help the Cuban people to regain their freedom (see H.R. 4537), H3813 [24MY]
DEA: funding to assist State and local efforts to clean up methamphetamine laboratories (see H.R. 4468), H3474 [19MY]
Dept. of Defense: adjustment of composite theoretical performance levels of high performance computers (see H.R. 3680), H633 [1MR]
Dept. of Veterans Affairs: reaffirm and clarify duty of the Secretary to administer laws which assist claimants for benefits (see H.R. 4864), H6354 [17JY]
Diseases: create incentives for private sector research to develop vaccines against widespread diseases and ensure that such vaccines are affordable and widely distributed (see H.R. 3812), H7503 [12SE]
———extend issuance of special postage stamps to fund breast cancer research (see H.R. 4069), H1404 [23MR]
Drugs: combat manufacture, traffic, import, and export of methamphetamine (see H.R. 4248), H2238 [12AP]
Education: establish and expand programs relating to science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (see H.R. 4271, 4272), H5436 [28JN]
———improve and refocus civic education (see H.R. 3195), H373 [14FE]
Fair Labor Standards Act: clarify treatment of stock options (see H.R. 4182), H2341 [13AP]
Families and domestic relations: issue special postage stamps to fund domestic violence programs (see H.R. 4659), H4484 [14JN]
Family and Medical Leave Act: improve implementation and clarify definition of ``serious medical condition'' (see H.R. 4499), H3473 [19MY]
FCC: follow normal rulemaking procedures in establishing additional requirements for noncommercial educational television broadcasters (see H.R. 3525), H165 [1FE]
———prohibit from establishing rules authorizing the operation of new, low power FM radio stations (see H.R. 3439), H1477 [28MR]
FDA: uniform food safety warning notification requirements (see H.R. 2129), H3474 [19MY]
Federal Water Pollution Control Act: improve implementation (see H.R. 4502), H3474 [19MY]
Financial institutions: promote openness, transparency, and efficiency in international government procurement through capacity building and third-party procurement monitoring (see H.R. 3116), H997 [14MR]
Fire prevention: development of a strategy by Federal land management agencies to reduce forest fuels that place natural resources at a high risk of catastrophic wildfire (see H. Con. Res. 406), H7996 [22SE]
GAO: require report to Congress on agency regulatory actions (see H.R. 3669), H3173 [16MY]
Glacier National Park: Going-to-the-Sun Road rehabilitation funding (see H.R. 4521), H3649 [23MY]
Housing: expand protections for especially vulnerable consumers against abusive mortgage lending practices and streamline the framework regulating mortgage originations (see H.R. 4213), H3813 [24MY]
Immigration: promote a fairer and more efficient means for using highly skilled workers and improve collection and use of H-1B nonimmigrant fees (see H.R. 3983), H1076 [15MR]
Insurance: require health plans to cover treatment of a minor child's congenital or developmental deformity or disorder due to trauma, infection, tumor, or disease (see H.R. 49), H1629 [30MR]
Korean War: anniversary (see H.J. Res. 86), H511 [16FE]
Law enforcement officers: clarify procedures and conditions for the award of matching grants for the purchase of armor vests (see H.R. 4033), H5036 [22JN]
Marshall Islands: name the Army missile range at Kwajalein Atoll for former President Ronald Reagan (see H.R. 3554), H455 [15FE]
Medicare: coverage of screening pap smears and pelvic exams (see H.R. 4571), H7212 [27JY]
———ensure adequacy of digital mammography payments (see H.R. 5172), H7933 [20SE]
———expand and make permanent the demonstration project for military retirees and dependents (see H.R. 1413), H4591 [15JN]
———improve the manner in which new medical technologies are made available to beneficiaries (see H.R. 4395), H4592 [15JN]
———provide more equitable payments for direct graduate medical education (see H.R. 5005), H8406 [27SE]
———revise inflation update factor used in making payments to prospective payment system hospitals (see H.R. 3580), H3869 [25MY]
National forests: return of fair and reasonable fees for use and occupancy of land under the recreation residence program (see H.R. 3327), H511 [16FE]
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]
OSHA: require public comment, and a sound scientific basis, for proposed ergonomics regulations (see H. Con. Res. 260), H758 [8MR]
Pensions: provide retirement investment advice to workers managing their retirement income assets (see H.R. 4747), H6719 [20JY]
Pipelines: improve safety (see H.R. 3558), H90 [31JA]
———improve safety and environmental protection (see H.R. 4849), H6051 [13JY]
Pope, Edmond: demand release from Russian prison for humanitarian reasons (see H. Con. Res. 364), H5956 [12JY] (see H. Con. Res. 404), H7871 [19SE]
Pope John Paul II: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 3544), H3049 [15MY]
Public utilities: facilitate competition in electric power industry (see H.R. 4971), H7578 [13SE]
Railroads: modernize financing of railroad retirement system and provide enhanced benefits to employees and beneficiaries (see H.R. 4844), H6719 [20JY]
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]
Ships and vessels: revitalize international competitiveness of U.S.-flag merchant marine (see H.R. 3225), H2122 [11AP]
Social Security: extend availability of State Children's Health Insurance Program allotments (see H.R. 4393), H2654 [8MY]
Tariff: steam or other vapor generating boilers used in nuclear facilities (see H.R. 3875), H4174 [9JN]
Taxation: allow credit against income tax for research to develop vaccines against widespread diseases and ensure that such vaccines are affordable and widely distributed (see H.R. 5219), H7932 [20SE]
———allow tax credit to holders of qualified bonds issued by an intercity passenger rail carrier (see H.R. 3700), H4174 [9JN]
———clarify that personal service corporations may continue to use the cash method of accounting (see H.R. 4383), H4174 [9JN]
———clarify the child credit allowance, the personal exemptions deduction, and the earned income credit for missing children (see H.R. 5117), H7933 [20SE]
———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), H5436 [28JN]
———ensure that income averaging for farmers does not increase a farmer's liability for the alternative minimum tax (see H.R. 5040), H7207 [27JY]
———exclusion from gross income for foster care payments relative to certain nongovernmental placement agencies (see H.R. 1194), H5169 [26JN]
———extension of the credit for producing electricity from certain renewable resources to include landfill gas (see H.R. 3466), H8062 [25SE]
———incentives to ensure timely and equitable access to the Internet over current and future generations of broadband capability (see H.R. 4728), H7652 [14SE]
———prevent evasion of excise taxes on cigarettes (see H.R. 4598), H6052 [13JY]
———prohibit certain allocations of S corporation stock held by an employee stock ownership plan (see H.R. 3082), H7211 [27JY]
———provide a higher purchase price limitation applicable to mortgage subsidy bonds based on median family income (see H.R. 4552), H4175 [9JN]
———provide for increased fairness to taxpayers (see H.R. 4163), H1762 [4AP]
———provide relief for payment of asbestos-related claims (see H.R. 4543), H4592 [15JN]
———recycling and remanufacturing equipment credit (see H.R. 2953), H4174 [9JN]
———repeal excise tax on telephone use and other communications services (see H.R. 3916), H997 [14MR]
———repeal modification of capital gains tax payments relative to small businesses sold on the installment sales method (see H.R. 3594), H254 [8FE]
———repeal the targeted area limitation on the expense deduction for environmental remediation costs and extend the termination date of such deduction (see H.R. 4003), H1118 [16MR]
———terminate Internal Revenue Code (see H.R. 4199), H1956 [6AP]
———treatment of certain expenses of rural letter carriers relative to the business use of a personal vehicle (see H.R. 4715), H4817 [21JN]
———treatment of certain franchise operation property (see H.R. 2451), H1764 [4AP]
———treatment of charitable donation of food by businesses and farmers (see H.R. 1325), H342 [10FE]
———treatment of computers and computer equipment (see H.R. 4279), H2337 [13AP]
———treatment of computers provided to employees for personal use (see H.R. 4274), H3173 [16MY]
———treatment of depreciation of wireless telecommunications equipment (see H.R. 5486), H10256 [18OC]
———treatment of individual retirement accounts relative to charitable contributions (see H.R. 1311), H2340 [13AP]
———treatment of policyholder dividends of mutual life insurance companies and policyholder surplus accounts (see H.R. 3905), H1629 [30MR]
United Mine Workers of America: restore stability and equity to the financing of the Combined Benefit Fund (see H.R. 4713), H4817 [21JN]
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]
Water pollution: exempt discharges from certain silviculture activities from permit requirements of the national pollutant discharge elimination system (see H.R. 3625), H3413 [18MY]
William Kenzo Nakamura U.S. Courthouse, Seattle, WA: designate (see H.R. 5302), H8200 [26SE]
Bills and resolutions introduced
China, Republic of: accession to the World Trade Organization (see H. Con. Res. 262), H641 [2MR]
Education: increase use of school resource officers by local educational agencies (see H.R. 3827), H641 [2MR]
House of Representatives: foster a productive and collegial partnership with President-elect George W. Bush (see H. Res. 677), H12532 [15DE]
Medicare: provide for equitable reimbursement rates to Medicare+Choice organizations (see H.R. 4968), H7127 [26JY]
Taxation: allow deduction for charitable contributions to individuals who do not itemize other deductions (see H.R. 4379), H2605 [4MY]
———treat State developmental disabilities endowment programs as tax-exempt organizations (see H.R. 4074), H1405 [23MR]
———treatment of charitable contributions to public charities for use in medical research (see H.R. 4719), H5036 [22JN]
Pledge of Allegiance
House of Representatives, H167 [2FE]
Remarks
Budget: establish 2-year cycle, H3125 [16MY]
———improve and strengthen budget process (H.R. 853), H3125 [16MY]
China, People's Republic of: permanent normal trade relations upon accession to the World Trade Organization (H.R. 4444), H3673 [24MY]
China, Republic of: observance of National Day, E1698
Dept. of Justice: transfer of appropriations from other Federal departments and agencies to fund litigation against tobacco industry, E1062
Depts. of Veterans Affairs and HUD, and sundry independent agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4635), E1062
Disasters: authorize predisaster mitigation programs, streamline the administration of disaster relief, and control the costs of disaster assistance (H.R. 707), H9568 [10OC]
Education: increase use of school resource officers by local educational agencies (H.R. 3827), E222
House of Representatives: foster a productive and collegial partnership with President-elect George W. Bush (H. Res. 677), H12503 [15DE]
Income: increase minimum wage and provide tax benefits for small businesses (H.R. 3081), H844 [9MR]
Medicaid: coverage of breast and cervical cancer treatment services for certain women screened under federally funded programs (H.R. 1070), H2127 [12AP]
Medicare: make more competitive and efficient and provide for a prescription drug benefit (H.R. 4680), H5353 [28JN]
Petroleum: dependence on foreign sources, H1289 [23MR]
———economic impact of increasing oil prices, H1289 [23MR]
Pipelines: improve safety (H.R. 3558), E791
Reagan, Ronald and Nancy: award Congressional Gold Medal, H168 [2FE]
———award Congressional Gold Medal (H.R. 3591), H1654
SBA: improve the certified development company program (H.R. 2614), conference report, H11246 [26OC]
Social Security: eliminate earnings test for retirement age individuals (H.R. 5), H594 [1MR]
———eliminate earnings test for retirement age individuals (H.R. 5), Senate amendment, H1445 [28MR]
———make corrections in Medicare, Medicaid, and State Children's Health Insurance Program relative to the Balanced Budget Act, H11246 [26OC]
Taxation: allow deduction for charitable contributions to individuals who do not itemize other deductions (H. 4379), E633
———eliminate marriage tax penalty by adjusting income tax rate brackets and standard deduction amounts (H.R. 6), H295 [10FE]
———extend the moratorium on the taxation of Internet and interactive computer service commerce (H.R. 3709), H2800
———phase-out and repeal estate and gift taxes (H.R. 8), H3933 [7JN], H4132, H4151 [9JN]
———phase-out and repeal estate and gift taxes (H.R. 8), veto, H7322 [7SE]
———treatment of charitable contributions to public charities for use in medical research (H.R. 4719), E1091
———treatment of education individual retirement accounts relative to elementary and secondary school expenses (H.R. 7), H1482 [29MR]
Votes: position on missed, E1062
Washington Association for Biomedical Research: Research! America (organization) Award for Exceptional Contributions as Volunteer Advocates for Medical Research recipient, E744
William Kenzo Nakamura U.S. Courthouse, Seattle, WA: designate (H.R. 5302), E2036
Women: reauthorize Federal programs to prevent violence against women (H.R. 1248), H8098 [26SE]
———tribute to women-owned businesses, E193
Wood, Patty: Research! America (organization) Award for Exceptional Contributions as Volunteer Advocates for Medical Research recipient, E744