GREEN, MARK (a Representative from Wisconsin)
Articles and editorials
New Laos Policy Urged, Washington (DC) Times, E2214
Bills and resolutions cosponsored
Abortion: prohibit partial-birth abortions (see H.R. 3660), H454 [15FE]
Agriculture: provide tax and regulatory relief for farmers and improve competitiveness of U.S. commodities and products in global markets (see H.R. 4885), H7129 [26JY]
———repeal peanut quotas, reduce peanut loan rates, and require the Dept. of Agriculture to purchase peanuts for nutrition programs (see H.R. 2571), H3049 [15MY]
American Folklife Center: collect video and audio recordings of personal histories and testimonials of U.S. war veterans (see H.R. 5212), H7870 [19SE]
Animals: prohibit import, export, sale, or possession of bear viscera (see H.R. 2166), H9011 [5OC]
———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), H9011 [5OC]
Armed Forces: improve Montgomery GI Bill benefits by improving and expanding educational assistance programs (see H.R. 1182), H8736 [3OC]
———restore health care coverage to retired members of the uniformed services (see H.R. 3573), H219 [7FE]
Armstrong, Lance: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 5258), H9901 [12OC]
Belarus: human rights violations and democracy efforts (see H. Con. Res. 304), H2341 [13AP]
Birds: prohibit interstate movement of live birds, for the purpose of fighting, to States in which animal fighting is lawful (see H.R. 1275), H9635 [10OC]
Budget: 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), H4120 [8JN] (see H.R. 4866), H6354 [17JY] (see H.R. 5173), H7650 [14SE]
Capitol Building and Grounds: establish a task force to recommend an appropriate recognition for the slave laborers who worked on the construction of the U.S. Capitol (see H. Con. Res. 368), H6355 [17JY]
Census: limit penalties for refusing or neglecting to answer decennial census questions beyond those necessary for enumeration of the population (see H.R. 4154), H1958 [6AP]
Children and youth: protect infants who are born alive (see H.R. 4292), H7281 [6SE]
Commission for the Comprehensive Study of Privacy Protection: establish (see H.R. 4049), H2512 [3MY]
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), H6355 [17JY]
Computers: prevent the use of certain bank instruments for Internet gambling (see H.R. 4419), H5037 [22JN]
Congress: make certain information available to the public on the Internet (see H.R. 654), H1588 [29MR]
Congressional Research Service: make certain publications and congressional documents available to the public on the Internet (see H.R. 4582), H6471 [18JY]
Courts: legal definition of human life relative to presence of brain wave activity and spontaneous cardiac activity (see H. Con. Res. 305), H2239 [12AP]
Crime: mandatory minimum sentencing for online child molesters (see H.R. 4076), H1764 [4AP]
Dept. of Agriculture: agricultural trade programs funding (see H.R. 3593), H1163 [21MR]
———regulate loans to certain processors of sugarcane and sugar beets (see H.R. 1850), H3172 [16MY]
Dept. of Defense: protect citizen soldiers (see H.R. 4669), H7503 [12SE]
Dept. of Justice: establish the Violence Against Women Office (see H.R. 4848), H7366 [7SE]
Dept. of the Interior: authorize States to establish hunting seasons for double-crested cormorants (see H.R. 3118), H7578 [13SE]
———National Park Service snowmobile regulations (see H.R. 4560), H4036 [7JN]
Dept. of the Treasury: retire publicly held debt each fiscal year (see H.R. 4505), H7212 [27JY]
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), H4337 [13JN]
Drug abuse: combat methamphetamine production and abuse (see H.R. 2613), H3649 [23MY]
Education: establish and expand programs relating to science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (see H.R. 4271), H3413 [18MY]
———increase amount of loan forgiveness for teachers (see H.R. 3880), H1764 [4AP]
———tribute to home educators and home schooled students (see H. Res. 578), H7651 [14SE]
EPA: ensure changes to the rule on water quality standards total maximum daily load program are subjected to public and congressional review (see H.R. 4922), H6776 [24JY]
Fair Labor Standards Act: clarify treatment of stock options (see H.R. 4182), H2512 [3MY]
False Claims Act: eliminate minimum fines (see H.R. 4142), H1628 [30MR]
Families and domestic relations: grants to carry out certain activities promoting adoption counseling (see H.R. 2511), H2411 [2MY]
FCC: clarify service obligations of noncommercial educational broadcast stations (see H.R. 4201), H4121 [8JN]
———follow normal rulemaking procedures in establishing additional requirements for noncommercial educational television broadcasters (see H.R. 3525), H165 [1FE]
FDA: establish restrictions relative to the qualifications of physicians prescribing the abortion drug known as RU-486 (see H.R. 5385), H8799 [4OC]
———uniform food safety warning notification requirements (see H.R. 2129), H209 [2FE]
Federal Water Pollution Control Act: improve implementation (see H.R. 4502), H4121 [8JN]
FHA: require partial rebates of mortgage insurance premiums to certain mortgagors upon payment of their FHA-insured mortgages (see H.R. 4795), H7212 [27JY]
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]
Foreign policy: defend fundamental human rights to family, conscience, and life in international negotiations (see H. Res. 521), H4485 [14JN]
———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), H998 [14MR]
Forests: establish mandatory procedures to be followed in advance of the permanent closure of any forest road (see H.R. 1523), H342 [10FE]
Frederick Douglass Gardens, Inc.: establish a memorial in the District of Columbia or its environs (see H.R. 5331), H8468 [28SE]
Friedman, Milton: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 4672), H4590 [15JN]
Gambling: prohibit gambling on high school and college sports and the Olympic games (see H.R. 3575), H2411 [2MY]
GAO: conduct a comprehensive fraud audit of the Dept. of Education (see H.R. 4079), H1405 [23MR]
Great Lakes: prohibit vessels from discharging ballast water that contains nonindigenous aquatic species and treat such water, and its sediments, using the most effective and efficient methods available (see H.R. 4191), H6052 [13JY]
Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction: compliance (see H. Con. Res. 293), H1405 [23MR]
Housing: expand protections for especially vulnerable consumers against abusive mortgage lending practices and streamline the framework regulating mortgage originations (see H.R. 4213), H2906 [10MY]
Hunting and trapping: recognize hunting heritage and provide opportunities for continued hunting on public lands (see H.R. 4790), H5654 [29JN]
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), H4122 [8JN]
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]
King, Martin Luther, Jr.: mint coins in commemoration (see H.R. 3633), H2607 [4MY]
Korean War: anniversary (see H.J. Res. 86), H165 [1FE]
Korean War Veterans Association, Inc.: grant Federal charter (see H.R. 1671), H7502 [12SE]
Law enforcement: facilitate exchange and collection of DNA identification information from violent offenders (see H.R. 4640), H4592 [15JN]
Law enforcement officers: collective bargaining rights for public safety officers employed by States or local governments (see H.R. 1093), H7002 [25JY]
Les Aspin Post Office Building, Janesville, WI: designate (see H.R. 4241), H2122 [11AP]
Marshall Islands: name the Army missile range at Kwajalein Atoll for former President Ronald Reagan (see H.R. 3554), H455 [15FE]
Medicaid: coverage of breast and cervical cancer treatment services for certain women screened under federally funded programs (see H.R. 1070), H2512 [3MY]
Medicare: coverage of medical nutrition therapy services (see H.R. 1187), H1077 [15MR]
———eliminate budget neutrality adjustment factor used in calculating blended capitation rate for Medicare+Choice organizations (see H.R. 406), H1406 [23MR]
———expand and make permanent the demonstration project for military retirees and dependents (see H.R. 1413), H8406 [27SE]
———revise inflation update factor used in making payments to prospective payment system hospitals (see H.R. 3580), H4121 [8JN]
Medicare/Medicaid: waive certain nurse aide training requirements (see H.R. 4547), H5085 [23JN]
Mental health: issue commemorative postage stamp to raise autism awareness (see H. Res. 458), H4036 [7JN]
Mexico: adopt measures to support a peaceful resolution of the conflict and to protect human rights in Chiapas (see H. Con. Res. 238), H7212 [27JY]
National Guard: extend to military technicians certain provisions concerning separation and retirement benefits of Army Reserve and Air Force Reserve military technicians (see H.R. 4361), H4592 [15JN]
———provide more equitable civil service retirement and retention provisions for technicians (see H.R. 5342), H8468 [28SE]
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: authorize development of research centers focusing on environmental factors related to the etiology of breast cancer (see H.R. 3433), H3172 [16MY]
National Law Enforcement Museum: establish (see H.R. 2710), H7281 [6SE]
National Trails System Act: require compensation of property owners when certain railbanked trails are developed for public use (see H.R. 4086), H1405 [23MR]
Occupational Safety and Health Act: waive applicability to employment performed in an employee's residence (see H.R. 3518), H2512 [3MY]
O'Connor, John Cardinal: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 3557), H342 [10FE]
Office of the U.S. Trade Representative: establish a Chief Agricultural Negotiator (see H.R. 3173), H1764 [4AP]
Ohio: constitutionality of State motto (see H. Res. 494), H2967 [11MY]
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]
OSHA: require public comment, and a sound scientific basis, for proposed ergonomics regulations (see H. Con. Res. 260), H631 [1MR]
Petroleum: establish a Midwest Clean Air Gasoline Reserve (see H.R. 4784), H5654 [29JN]
———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), H2122 [11AP]
Pope John Paul II: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 3544), H998 [14MR]
Postal Service: amend pay policies and schedules and fringe benefit programs for postmasters (see H.R. 3842), H3813 [24MY]
Public debt: allow individuals to designate a portion of their income tax return for deficit reduction (see H.R. 5349), H8551 [29SE]
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]
Smithsonian Institution: mint coins in commemoration of the National Museum of the American Indian (see H.R. 4259), H7578 [13SE]
Social Security: earnings test for blind individuals (see H.R. 1601), H342 [10FE]
———eliminate earnings test for retirement age individuals (see H.R. 5), H574 [29FE]
———extend availability of State Children's Health Insurance Program allotments (see H.R. 4393), H7652 [14SE]
———include additional information in account statements (see H.R. 5028), H7207 [27JY]
———modify reporting requirements (see H.R. 3578), H757 [8MR]
States: permit funding of prescription drugs for minors relative to parental consent (see H.R. 3302), H7211 [27JY]
Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act: rename as the ``McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act'' (see H.R. 5417), H9768 [11OC]
Taxation: allow deduction for charitable contributions to individuals who do not itemize other deductions (see H.R. 1310), H3049 [15MY]
———clarify the child credit allowance, the personal exemptions deduction, and the earned income credit for missing children (see H.R. 5117), H7503 [12SE]
———constitutional amendment to require a two-thirds majority on the passage of legislation increasing taxes (see H.J. Res. 94), H1957 [6AP]
———exclude from gross income payments made under Dept. of Defense programs for the repayment of student loans of members of the Armed Forces (see H.R. 4214), H1957 [6AP]
———exclude from self-employment earnings certain payments under the Conservation Reserve Program (see H.R. 4064), H2906 [10MY]
———exempt State and local political committees from certain notification and reporting requirements applicable to political organizations (see H.R. 5265), H8406 [27SE]
———increase annual limitation on nondeductible contributions and adjust for inflation the amount of deductible contributions to individual retirement accounts (see H.R. 1322), H2012 [10AP]
———increase unified estate and gift tax credit and provide for inflation adjustment (see H.R. 4112), H1587 [29MR]
———permit certain individuals to make catch-up contributions under individual retirement plans (see H.R. 4546), H3867 [25MY]
———prevent companies from reinsuring income in Bermuda or other tax havens to avoid paying U.S. income tax (see H.R. 4192), H6471 [18JY]
———prohibit certain allocations of S corporation stock held by an employee stock ownership plan (see H.R. 3082), H4817 [21JN]
———provide a higher purchase price limitation applicable to mortgage subsidy bonds based on median family income (see H.R. 4552), H7652 [14SE]
———provide that ancestors or lineal descendants of members of the Armed Forces shall be taken into account in determining tax-exempt status of veterans' organizations (see H.R. 4434), H3869 [25MY]
———repeal excise tax on telephone use and other communications services (see H.R. 3916), H2770 [9MY]
———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. 4199), H1956 [6AP]
———treatment of adoption expenses (see H.R. 531), H7365 [7SE]
———treatment of beer (see H.R. 1366), H2340 [13AP]
———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]
———treatment of computers provided to employees for personal use (see H.R. 4274), H2967 [11MY]
———treatment of contributions of computers to schools and public libraries (see H.R. 2308), H2512 [3MY]
———treatment of individual retirement accounts relative to charitable contributions (see H.R. 1311), H1077 [15MR]
Telecommunications: promote deployment of advanced services and competition by relieving unnecessary burdens on the two percent local exchange carriers (see H.R. 3850), H1078 [15MR]
Veterans: pay special compensation to certain severely disabled military retirees (see H.R. 44), H8406 [27SE]
———permit concurrent receipt of military retired pay with service-connected disability benefits (see H.R. 65), H8406 [27SE]
Water pollution: exempt discharges from certain silviculture activities from permit requirements of the national pollutant discharge elimination system (see H.R. 3625), H2905 [10MY]
Women: reauthorize Federal programs to prevent violence against women (see H.R. 1248), H4591 [15JN]
Bills and resolutions introduced
CBO: analyze impact of proposed Federal private sector mandates (see H.R. 4698), H4783 [20JN]
Committee for Review of Administrative Rules (Joint): establish (see H.R. 3592), H254 [8FE]
Crime: life imprisonment for repeat offenders who commit sex offenses against children (see H.R. 4047), H1163 [21MR]
———penalties for the placing of sexual explicit photographs on the Internet without the permission of the persons photographed (see H.R. 5462), H9900 [12OC]
———prevent identity fraud (see H.R. 5299), H8199 [26SE]
Ferber, Edna: issue commemorative postage stamp (see H. Res. 619), H9635 [10OC]
House of Representatives: direct the posting of all lobbying registrations and reports, filed with the Clerk, on the official public Internet site (see H. Res. 462), H1852 [5AP]
Native Americans: improve American Indian Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (see H.R. 3629), H340 [10FE]
Taxation: provide that income averaging for farmers shall be applied by taking into account negative taxable income during the base period years (see H.R. 4381), H2605 [4MY]
Letters
Appointment of an Ambassador to Laos: by, E2082
Forest Service road construction, public access, and timber management policies relative to roadless areas initiative: Brian Swearingen, H11997 [5DE]
———David S. Majewski, Florence County, WI, Forestry and Parks Agency, H11998 [5DE]
———Edward Piontek, Jr., Forest Sawmill, Inc., H11997 [5DE]
———Kevin King, H11998 [5DE]
———Richard Connor, Jr., Pine River Transport, Ltd., H11998 [5DE]
———Richard Krawze, Goodman Forest Industries, Ltd., H11998 [5DE]
Remarks
Abortion: prohibit partial-birth abortions (H.R. 3660), H1786 [5AP]
Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs: making appropriations (H.R. 4461), H5555 [29JN]
Appropriations: making emergency supplemental appropriations (H.R. 3908), H1609 [30MR]
Budget: setting forth the Federal budget for 2001-2005 (H. Con. Res. 290), H1315, H1359 [23MR]
———setting forth the Federal budget for 2001-2005 (H. Con. Res. 290), consideration of conference report (H. Res. 474), H2245 [13AP]
Business and industry: establish a statute of repose for durable goods (H.R. 2005), consideration (H. Res. 412), H172 [2FE]
Colombia: drug interdiction assistance, H6022
———eliminate all drug interdiction and counter-drug military assistance funding in emergency supplemental appropriations, H1609 [30MR]
Crime: encourage States to incarcerate individuals convicted of murder, rape, or child molestation (H.R. 894), H5754 [11JY]
———life imprisonment for repeat offenders who commit sex offenses against children (H.R. 4047), H6940, H6941 [25JY]
Dept. of HUD: establish a pilot program to assist law enforcement officers purchasing homes in locally-designated high-crime areas, E1910
———establish a pilot program to provide homeownership assistance to disabled families, E1910
———establish consensus committee for development, revision, and interpretation of safety standards for manufactured home construction (S. 1452), E1910
———Public Housing Operating Fund funding, H4748 [20JN]
Dept. of Justice: provide assistance to State and local forensic laboratories in analyzing DNA samples from convicted offenders, H5046 [23JN]
Dept. of State: investigation into abduction of Houa Ly and Michael Vang in Laos, E2214
Dept. of the Interior and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4578), H4499 [15JN], E1041
Depts. of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4690), H5046 [23JN]
Depts. of Veterans Affairs and HUD, and sundry independent agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4635), H4748 [20JN], H4865 [21JN]
EPA: dredging of contaminated sediments, H4865 [21JN]
Florence, WI: tribute to Food, Fun, and Fitness Summer Program, E454
Foreign operations, export financing, and related programs: making appropriations (H.R. 4811), H6022
Forest Service: road construction, public access, and timber management policies relative to roadless areas initiative, H11997 [5DE]
———roads moratorium relative to access to public forests, H4499 [15JN]
Health: provide grants to States or private sector institutions to foster organ donor programs, H1715 [4AP]
———revise and extend organ procurement and transplantation programs (H.R. 2418), H1692, H1715 [4AP]
Heritage Hill Foundation: anniversary, E1507
Housing: expand homeownership, E1910
———expand homeownership (H.R. 1776), H1860, H1899, H1914 [6AP]
———strike increase in median household income relative to housing assistance eligibility through community development block grant funds, H1914 [6AP]
Kosovo: prohibit emergency supplemental appropriations for U.S. Armed Forces except to bring troops and equipment back to the U.S., H1609 [30MR]
Laos: support democracy and human rights, E2214
Lowney, Garrett: tribute for participation in Olympic games, E1626
Native Americans: improve American Indian Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (H.R. 3629), H2366 [2MY]
Social Security: budget treatment of trust funds, H247 [8FE]
Taxation: eliminate marriage tax penalty by adjusting income tax rate brackets and standard deduction amounts (H.R. 6), H263 [9FE]
———provide that income averaging for farmers shall be applied by taking into account negative taxable income during the base period years, H5555 [29JN]
———terminate Internal Revenue Code (H.R. 4199), consideration (H. Res. 473), H2263 [13AP]
Votes: position on missed, H4087
Remarks in House relative to
Special order: granted, H12016 [5DE]
Reports
Federal Activities in Wisconsin Forestry: L.F. Kneipp, Forest Service, E1043
Historical Development of the Nicolet National Forest: J. Terry Moore, E1044
Resolutions by organizations
Protection, access, and use of National Forests: Chequamegon and Nicolet National Forest employees, E1042
———Forest County, WI, Board of Supervisors, E1042
———Oconto County, WI, Board of Supervisors, E1042
———Oneida County, WI, Board of Supervisors, E1042
———Vilas County, WI, Board of Supervisors, E1042