LEWIS, RON (a Representative from Kentucky)

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Abortion: prohibit partial-birth abortions (see H.R. 3660), H454 [15FE]

Agriculture: increase maximum amount of marketing loan gains and loan deficiency payments that an agricultural producer may receive during the crop year (see H.R. 4894), H7366 [7SE]

Armed Forces: declare the American GI as the ``Person of the Century'' for the 20th century (see H. Con. Res. 282), H2013 [10AP]

———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]

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

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: protect infants who are born alive (see H.R. 4292), H7128 [26JY]

Clark, William: posthumous promotion to the grade of captain in the Army (see H.R. 3621), H340 [10FE]

Computers: prohibit gambling on the Internet (see H.R. 3125), H3474 [19MY]

Contracts: allow choice of arbitration as a means of settling disputes (see H.R. 534), H997 [14MR]

———ensure public accountability, efficient delivery of services, reasonable cost savings, and prevention of unwarranted expenses (see H.R. 3766), H2341 [13AP]

Courts: legal definition of human life relative to presence of brain wave activity and spontaneous cardiac activity (see H. Con. Res. 305), H2341 [13AP]

Crime: provide incentives for States to enact mandatory minimum sentences for certain firearms offenses (see H.R. 4051), H1764 [4AP]

Dept. of Defense: protect citizen soldiers (see H.R. 4669), H11195 [25OC]

Dept. of Energy: extend public comment period on proposed rules on clothes washers, air conditioners, and heat pumps (see H.R. 5613), H11879 [13NO]

Dept. of Justice: establish Bureau of Immigration Services and the Bureau of Immigration Enforcement (see H.R. 3918), H4485 [14JN]

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), H2607 [4MY]

Drug abuse: combat methamphetamine production and abuse (see H.R. 2613), H2905 [10MY]

Drugs: combat manufacture, traffic, import, and export of methamphetamine (see H.R. 4248), H2341 [13AP]

Ecology and environment: establish standards for cleanup of dry cleaning solvents (see H.R. 2726), H2239 [12AP]

El Salvador: commission of war crimes against U.S. Army pilots David H. Pickett and Earnest Dawson, Jr. (see H. Con. Res. 181), H1764 [4AP]

Elementary and Secondary Education Act: reauthorize Impact Aid Program (see H.R. 3616), H575 [29FE]

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), H7212 [27JY]

Fair Debt Collection Practices Act: reduce the cost of credit (see H.R. 2544), H3813 [24MY]

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), H219 [7FE]

Firearms: protect and enforce the right to obtain and use firearms for security, self-defense, and other legitimate purposes (see H.R. 347), H3813 [24MY]

Gambling: prohibit gambling on high school and college sports and the Olympic games (see H.R. 3575), H2607 [4MY]

GAO: require report to Congress on agency regulatory actions (see H.R. 4744), H5956 [12JY]

Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction: compliance (see H. Con. Res. 293), H1405 [23MR]

Health care facilities: exempt physician office laboratories from clinical laboratory requirements (see H.R. 528), H50 [27JA]

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), H5843 [11JY]

``In God We Trust'': support national motto (see H. Res. 551), H6471 [18JY]

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), H10257 [18OC]

Lumber industry: promote open and competitive trade of softwood lumber between the U.S. and Canada (see H. Con. Res. 252), H2607 [4MY]

Medicaid: State funding for disproportionate share hospitals (see H.R. 3698), H922 [9MR]

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

Medicare: expand and make permanent the demonstration project for military retirees and dependents (see H.R. 1413), H7281 [6SE]

———improve the manner in which new medical technologies are made available to beneficiaries (see H.R. 4395), H7366 [7SE]

———increase payment amount and establish an annual payment review process for renal dialysis services (see H.R. 5152), H7501 [12SE]

———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), H2012 [10AP]

———revise the calculation of base payment rates for the prospective payment system for home health services (see H.R. 5163), H7652 [14SE]

Morgan Station, Paducah, KY: designate (see H.R. 5143), H7503 [12SE]

National School Lunch Act: ensure an adequate level of commodity purchases under the school lunch program (see H.R. 3614), H1285 [22MR]

NIH: experimental program to stimulate competitive research (see H.R. 4280), H2337 [13AP]

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative: periodically revise retaliation lists of goods of countries that fail to comply with the rulings of the World Trade Organization (see H.R. 2991), H1406 [23MR]

Pope, Edmond: demand release from Russian prison for humanitarian reasons (see H. Con. Res. 364), H7652 [14SE] (see H. Con. Res. 404), H7871 [19SE]

Postal Service: amend pay policies and schedules and fringe benefit programs for postmasters (see H.R. 3842), H3869 [25MY]

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), H6600 [19JY]

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

Rural areas: promote and improve access to health care services (see H.R. 4677), H5037 [22JN]

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), H4174 [9JN]

Taxation: allow deduction for charitable contributions to individuals who do not itemize other deductions (see H.R. 1310), H2012 [10AP]

———constitutional amendment to require a two-thirds majority on the passage of legislation increasing taxes (see H.J. Res. 94), H1957 [6AP]

———establish a commission to review and make recommendations to Congress on reform and simplification of the Internal Revenue Code (see H.R. 5027), H9635 [10OC]

———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), H2606 [4MY]

———prevent evasion of excise taxes on cigarettes (see H.R. 4598), H4035 [7JN]

———provide for increased fairness to taxpayers (see H.R. 4163), H1762 [4AP]

———provide relief for payment of asbestos-related claims (see H.R. 4543), H7212 [27JY]

———reform interest allocation rules (see H.R. 2270), H2512 [3MY]

———repeal excise tax on telephone use and other communications services (see H.R. 3916), H2122 [11AP]

———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), H1407 [23MR]

———restore deductions for expenses relative to services performed by military reservists (see H.R. 4328), H2339 [13AP]

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

———treatment of beer (see H.R. 1366), H4174 [9JN]

———treatment of certain expenses of rural letter carriers relative to the business use of a personal vehicle (see H.R. 4715), H6052 [13JY]

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

———treatment of certain franchise operation property (see H.R. 2451), H2512 [3MY]

———treatment of contributions of computers to schools and public libraries (see H.R. 2308), H7002 [25JY]

———treatment of policyholder dividends of mutual life insurance companies and policyholder surplus accounts (see H.R. 3905), H931 [13MR]

Television: ensure local service to small, rural markets by satellite providers (see H.R. 3615), H339 [10FE]

Tim Lee Carter Post Office Building, Tompkinsville, KY: designate (see H.R. 5144), H7503 [12SE]

Tobacco products: provide export promotion assistance (see H.R. 5382), H8799 [4OC]

———provide for a more restrictive tariff-rate quota on imports (see H.R. 5381), H8799 [4OC]

Turkey: call for the release of certain Kurdish members of the Parliament from prison, and for the recognition of full cultural and language rights for the Kurdish people (see H. Res. 461), H7282 [6SE]

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

Water: authorize appropriations for State water pollution control revolving funds (see H.R. 2720), H7502 [12SE]

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

Bills and resolutions introduced

Kentucky: include additional counties as part of Appalachian region (see H.R. 5230), H7932 [20SE]

Medicare: increase awareness of the availability of cost-sharing assistance to eligible low-income beneficiaries (see H.R. 4797), H5654 [29JN]

Remarks

Abortion: prohibit partial-birth abortions (H.R. 3660), H1796 [5AP]

Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission: establish (H.R. 1451), H230 [8FE]

Budget: reconciliation of the concurrent resolution and elimination of the marriage tax penalty (H.R. 4810), H5873 [12JY]

Dept. of Justice: transfer of appropriations from other Federal departments and agencies to fund litigation against tobacco industry, H4650 [19JN], H5042 [23JN]

Dept. of the Interior: Payment-in-Lieu-of-Taxes Program funding, E1040 [19JN]

Dept. of the Interior and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4578), E1040 [19JN]

Depts. of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4690), H5042 [23JN]

Depts. of Veterans Affairs and HUD, and sundry independent agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4635), H4650 [19JN], H4886 [21JN]

EPA: postpone implementation of air quality standards until issuance of Supreme Court decision, H4886 [21JN]

Medicare: increase awareness of the availability of cost-sharing assistance to eligible low-income beneficiaries (H.R. 4797), E1165 [30JN]

Taxation: eliminate marriage tax penalty by adjusting income tax rate brackets and standard deduction amounts (H.R. 6), H297 [10FE]

———phase-out and repeal estate and gift taxes (H.R. 8), H4138 [9JN]

———repeal tax increase on Social Security benefits (H.R. 4865), H7157 [27JY]

Tributes

Bryant, H.G., Jr., E430 [28MR]