FRIST, BILL (a Senator from Tennessee)
Amendments
American Museum of Science and Energy: designate (H.R. 4940), S11150, S11190 [26OC]
Budget: reconciliation of the concurrent resolution and elimination of the marriage tax penalty (H.R. 4810), S6811, S6865 [14JY]
———setting forth the Federal budget for 2001-2005 (S. Con. Res. 101), S2123 [4AP], S2262 [5AP], S2364, S2370 [6AP]
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 (S. 2311), S4583 [6JN]
Dept. of Commerce: Office of Space Commercialization funding (H.R. 2607), S10555 [13OC]
Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (S. 2549), S4753, S4867 [8JN], S6282 [30JN], S6451 [11JY]
———making appropriations (H.R. 4576), S4957 [12JN], S5007 [13JN]
Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4577), S5698, S5706 [22JN], S5715 [23JN], S5781, S5816 [26JN], S5933 [27JN], S5990, S6000 [28JN], S6067, S6152 [29JN]
Diseases: establish an international trust fund to combat the AIDS epidemic (H.R. 3519), S7694 [26JY]
Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, National Weather Service and related agencies, and U.S. Fire Administration: authorizing appropriations (S. 1639), S10724 [18OC]
FAA: Office of the Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation funding (H.R. 2607), S10555 [13OC]
Foreign operations, export financing, and related programs: making appropriations (S. 2522), S5520, S5563, S5570 [21JN], S5686 [22JN]
Health: minority health programs (S. 1880), S11151 [26OC]
Next Generation Internet Act: reauthorize (S. 2046), S8992 [21SE]
Public buildings: placement of automatic external defibrillators to assist individuals who experience cardiac arrest and protections from civil liability relative to emergency use of the devices (H.R. 2498), S11138 [26OC]
Public Health Service Act: provide certain children's health services (H.R. 4365), S9048 [22SE]
Space policy: encourage the development of a commercial space industry (H.R. 2607), S10555 [13OC]
U.S. Fire Administration: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 1550), S10726 [18OC]
Zimbabwe: restrict assistance until certain conditions are satisfied and support democratic and economic transition (S. 2677), S5751 [23JN]
Articles and editorials
Joe B. Wyatt, Vanderbilt University Chancellor, 1982-2000, Vanderbilt Register (publication), S2858
Bills and resolutions cosponsored
Alcoholic beverages: enforcement of State laws in Federal court relative to interstate transportation of liquor (see S. 577), S3615 [8MY]
Armed Forces: restore health care coverage to retired members of the uniformed services (see S. 2003), S635 [10FE]
Arts Education Month: designate (see S. Res. 128), S636 [10FE]
CERCLA: promote cleanup and reuse of brownfields, provide financial assistance for brownfields revitalization, and enhance State response programs (see S. 2700), S7690 [26JY]
Children and youth: recognize the rights of grandparents in cases of abduction of children by family members to foreign countries (see S. 2710), S4922 [9JN]
Clark, Wesley K.: award Congressional Gold Medal (see S. 2824), S6121 [29JN]
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 S. 2311), S1883 [29MR]
Coverdell, Paul: tribute (see S. Res. 338), S7160 [18JY]
Curtis, Carl T.: tribute (see S. Res. 246), S86 [26JA]
DEA: funding to assist State and local efforts to clean up methamphetamine laboratories (see S. Res. 291), S2728 [13AP]
Dept. of Energy: establish compensation programs for employees sustaining beryllium and radiation-related injury, illness, or death (see S. 2519), S3691 [9MY]
Dept. of State: provide rewards for information relative to serious violations of international law in Rwanda (see S. 2460), S4691 [7JN]
Disasters: expand Federal program of hazard mitigation, relief, and insurance against the risk of catastrophic natural disasters (see S. 1361), S1240 [7MR]
Diseases: create incentives for private sector research to develop vaccines against widespread diseases and ensure that such vaccines are affordable and widely distributed (see S. 2132), S1024 [1MR]
Education: provide grants to local educational agencies to initiate and improve physical education programs (see S. 1159), S10260 [11OC]
Education for All Handicapped Children Act: anniversary (see S. Con. Res. 135), S8501 [13SE]
Fair Labor Standards Act: clarify treatment of stock options (see S. 2323), S2249 [5AP]
FCC: prohibit from establishing rules authorizing the operation of new, low power FM radio stations (see S. 2068), S3031 [27AP]
Financial institutions: allow payment of Financing Corporation interest obligations from excess deposit insurance fund reserves (see S. 2293), S2354 [6AP]
Food: improve safety of imported foods (see S. 2480), S3023 [27AP]
Health: reduce accidental injury and death resulting from medical mistakes and reduce medication-related errors (see S. 2738), S5240 [15JN]
Ibanez, Manuel L.: appointment as citizen regent of Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents (see S.J. Res. 42), S930 [29FE]
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 S. 1814), S2636 [12AP]
Law enforcement: allow post-conviction DNA tests and facilitate the exchange by law enforcement agencies of DNA identification information on felony offenders (see S. 3130), S9466 [28SE]
———improve the quality and credibility of forensic science services for criminal justice purposes (see S. 3045), S8585 [14SE]
Medicaid: coverage of breast and cervical cancer treatment services for certain women screened under federally funded programs (see S. 662), S4854 [8JN]
———establish a prospective payment system for federally-qualified health centers and rural health clinics (see S. 1277), S8593 [14SE]
———provide families and disabled children with the opportunity to purchase coverage (see S. 2274), S7077 [17JY]
Medicare: coverage of outpatient prescription drugs (see S. 3016, 3017), S8197 [7SE]
———eliminate reduction in payment rates to home health agencies for home health services (see S. 2365), S4322 [23MY]
———graduate medical education payments (see S. 2394), S4208 [18MY]
———increase payment amount for renal dialysis services (see S. 3038), S8413 [12SE]
———make more competitive and efficient and provide for a prescription drug benefit (see S. 2807), S6015 [28JN]
———revise inflation update factor used in making payments to prospective payment system hospitals (see S. 2018), S8593 [14SE]
Mexico: elections (see S. Res. 335), S6678 [13JY]
Middle East: prohibit U.S. assistance to the Palestinian Authority if a Palestinian State is declared unilaterally (see S. 2938), S11258 [27OC]
Motor vehicles: improve safety of car seats for children (see S. 2070), S4322 [23MY]
National Airborne Day: designate (see S. Res. 301), S7246 [19JY]
National Heart Failure Awareness Week: designate (see S. Res. 256), S613 [10FE]
National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week: designate (see S. Res. 342), S8594 [14SE]
National Mammography Day: designate (see S. Res. 353), S8413 [12SE]
National Safe Place Week: designate (see S. Res. 258), S1242 [7MR]
NIH: biomedical research funding (see S. Res. 253), S381 [7FE]
Older Americans Act: extend authorization, establish National Family Caregiver Support Program, modernize aging programs and services, and address need to engage in life course planning (see S. 1536), S8593 [14SE]
Pope John Paul II: award Congressional Gold Medal (see S. 2453), S2728 [13AP]
Reagan, Ronald and Nancy: award Congressional Gold Medal (see S. 2459), S5912 [27JN]
Riddick, Floyd M.: tribute (see S. Res. 245), S86 [26JA]
Sierra Leone: condemn crimes and human rights abuses and ensure those responsible for such acts are held accountable (see S. Res. 315), S4460 [25MY]
Smithsonian Institution: construct a base facility structure for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Submillimeter Array located in Hilo, HI (see S. 2498), S3258 [2MY]
———mint coins in commemoration of the National Museum of the American Indian (see S. 2217), S6576 [12JY]
Social Security: extend availability of State Children's Health Insurance Program allotments (see S. 2434), S3031 [27AP]
Spoon, Alan G.: appointment as citizen regent of Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents (see S.J. Res. 40), S930 [29FE]
Tariff: reliquidate certain entries (see S. 2176), S1118 [2MR]
Taxation: change basis for determination of refinery limitation on oil depletion deduction (see S. 162), S690 [22FE]
———clarify treatment under the tax-exempt bond rules of pre-payments for certain commodities (see S. 3145), S11607 [5DE]
———credit for health insurance costs (see S. 2320), S1884 [29MR]
———increase amount of low-income housing credits allocated in each State and index amounts for inflation (see S. 1017), S1996 [30MR]
———modify restrictions on refinancing of certain bonds issued to local governments to finance governmental services (see S. 1446), S9201 [25SE]
———permit consolidation of life insurance companies with other companies (see S. 1933), S1421 [9MR]
———provide incentives for renewal of distressed communities and empowerment zone development, increase the number of empowerment zones, and encourage investment in new markets (see S. 3152), S10154 [10OC]
———repeal modification of capital gains tax payments relative to small businesses sold on the installment sales method (see S. 2005), S292 [2FE]
Telephones: regulate interstate commerce in the use of mobile telephones (see S. 1755), S2439 [7AP]
United Mine Workers of America: restore stability and equity to the financing of the Combined Benefit Fund (see S. 2729), S7399 [20JY]
Widnall, Sheila E.: appointment as citizen regent of Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents (see S.J. Res. 41), S930 [29FE]
Women: reauthorize Federal programs to prevent violence against women (see S. 2787), S10424 [12OC]
World War II: support Day of Honor 2000 to honor and recognize the service of minority veterans (see S.J. Res. 44), S2772 [13AP]
Bills and resolutions introduced
Children and youth: improve health and safety of children receiving child care outside the home (see S. 2236), S1392 [9MR]
Education: establish programs to recruit, retain, and retrain teachers and provide loan forgiveness to entice students into teaching (see S. 2276), S1596 [22MR]
———strengthen math and science training to prepare students to enter the information technology workforce (see S. 2067), S613 [10FE]
FDA: grant authority to regulate tobacco (see S. 2566), S4014 [16MY]
Foreign aid: make development assistance contingent on biannual certification of economic freedom in beneficiary countries (see S. 2861), S6677 [13JY]
Health: enhance the Nation's capacity to address public health threats and emergencies (see S. 2731), S5106 [14JN]
———revise and extend organ procurement and transplantation programs (see S. 2366), S2233 [5AP]
National Commission on Space: establish (see S. 2988), S7840 [27JY]
Next Generation Internet Act: reauthorize (see S. 2046), S538 [9FE]
Public Health Service Act: provide certain children's health services (see S. 2868), S6678 [13JY]
Smithsonian Institution: rename the National Museum of American Art (see S. 3201), S10412 [12OC]
Telephones: prohibit telemarketers from interfering with a consumer's caller identification service (see S. 2029), S328 [3FE]
TVA: ensure the fair and equitable treatment of customers in the event of restructuring of the electric utility industry (see S. 2570), S4014 [16MY]
Water: authorize studies on water supply management and development (see S. 2368), S2347 [6AP]
Women: improve health and reduce health care costs for low-income and uninsured women by expanding existing screening and preventive health programs (see S. 2635), S4460 [25MY]
Zimbabwe: restrict assistance until certain conditions are satisfied and support democratic and economic transition (see S. 2677), S4564 [6JN]
Cloture motions
Bankruptcy: amend laws (H.R. 2415), conference report, S11378 [30OC], S11450 [1NO], S11553 [5DE]
Crime: constitutional amendment on protection of victims' rights (S.J. Res. 3), S2696 [13AP]
———constitutional amendment on protection of victims' rights (S.J. Res. 3), motion to proceed, S2835 [25AP]
Foreign policy: authorize trade and investment policy relative to sub-Saharan Africa (H.R. 434), conference report, S3788 [10MY], S3860 [11MY]
Taxation: eliminate marriage tax penalty by adjusting income tax rate brackets and standard deduction amounts (H.R. 6), S2699 [13AP]
Letters
Children's Day Care Health and Safety Improvement Act: Adele Robinson, National Association for the Education of Young Children, S1410 [9MR]
———Donald E. Cook, American Academy of Pediatrics, S1410 [9MR]
———Marian Wright Edelman, Children's Defense Fund (organization), S1410 [9MR]
Enhance the Nation's capacity to address public health threats and emergencies: Dyann F. Wirth, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, S11311 [28OC]
———Gail H. Cassell, American Society for Microbiology, S11311 [28OC]
———Jean-Pierre Garnier, SmithKline Beecham (business), S11312 [28OC]
———Jordan J. Cohen, Association of American Medical Colleges, S11310 [28OC]
———Ronald L. Cada, Association of Public Laboratories, S11311 [28OC]
———several medical and health organizations, S11310 [28OC]
———Stephanie B.C. Bailey, National Association of County and City Health Officials, S11311 [28OC]
———William J. Martone, National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, S11311 [28OC]
Improve health and reduce health care costs for low-income and uninsured women by expanding existing screening and preventive health programs: Diane L. Balma, Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, S4464 [25MY]
———Phyllis Greenberger and Roberta Biegel, Society for Women's Health Research, S4464 [25MY]
———Sandra C. Raymond, National Osteoporosis Foundation, S4464 [25MY]
Motions
Taxation: eliminate marriage tax penalty by adjusting income tax rate brackets and standard deduction amounts (H.R. 6), S2965 [27AP]
Pledge of Allegiance
Senate, S5583 [22JN]
Remarks
Africa: HIV/AIDS prevention programs funding for sub-Saharan Africa, S7620 [26JY]
Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs: making appropriations (H.R. 4461), S7201 [19JY]
Appropriations: making continuing (H.J. Res. 110), unanimous-consent agreement, S9842 [4OC]
Arts Education Month: designate (S. Res. 128), S1156 [2MR]
Budget: ensure Medicare coverage of prescription drugs prior to consideration of any tax cuts, S2149 [5AP]
———ensure solvency of Social Security and Medicare, S2149 [5AP]
———setting forth the Federal budget for 2001-2005 (S. Con. Res. 101), S2149 [5AP]
Capitol Building and Grounds: use of rotunda for Presidential inauguration ceremonies (S. Con. Res. 90), S1152 [2MR]
Children and youth: improve health and safety of children receiving child care outside the home (S. 2236), S1408 [9MR]
Clifford P. Hansen Federal Courthouse, Jackson, WY: designate (S. 1794), S1155 [2MR]
Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies (Joint): establish (S. Con. Res. 89), S1152 [2MR]
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 (S. 2311), S1891 [29MR], S10035 [5OC]
Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (S. 2549), S4793, S4805 [8JN]
Dept. of Education: Interagency Education Research Initiative funding, S6001 [28JN], S6047 [29JN]
Dept. of the Interior and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4578), conference report, S9842 [4OC]
Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4577), S5640 [22JN], S6001 [28JN], S6047, S6069, S6084, S6087, S6091 [29JN]
Diseases: authorize additional assistance to countries with large populations having HIV/AIDS and authorize assistance for tuberculosis prevention, treatment, control, and elimination, S7620 [26JY]
———establish an international trust fund to combat the AIDS epidemic (H.R. 3519), S7620 [26JY]
———expand research activities relative to lupus, S11308 [28OC]
———increase public awareness, encourage regular testing and examinations, and extend research programs for prostate cancer, S11308 [28OC]
Drugs: allow importation of prescription drugs into the U.S. by pharmacists and wholesalers for resale, S7201 [19JY]
Education: establish programs to recruit, retain, and retrain teachers and provide loan forgiveness to entice students into teaching (S. 2276), S1609 [22MR]
———improve teacher quality, S3649 [9MY]
———strengthen math and science training to prepare students to enter the information technology workforce (S. 2067), S625 [10FE]
Education Flexibility Partnership Demonstration Act: allow State participation in activities (S. 271), S853 [28FE]
Elementary and Secondary Education Act: extend programs and activities (S. 2), S3157, S3176 [1MY], S3293 [3MY], S3649 [9MY]
FAA: reauthorizing programs (H.R. 1000), permission to file conference report, S1153 [2MR]
FDA: grant authority to regulate tobacco (S. 2566), S4016 [16MY]
Flag—U.S.: constitutional amendment to prohibit desecration (S.J. Res. 14), S2098 [4AP]
Florida State University: tribute to football team (S. Res. 265), S1153 [2MR]
Foreign aid: make development assistance contingent on biannual certification of economic freedom in beneficiary countries (S. 2861), S6672 [13JY]
Health: create a national voluntary reporting system to continually reduce medical errors and improve patient safety (S. 2743), S5270
———enhance the Nation's capacity to address public health threats and emergencies, S11307, S11314 [28OC]
———enhance the Nation's capacity to address public health threats and emergencies (S. 2731), S5115 [14JN]
———minority health programs (S. 1880), S11189 [26OC]
———prohibit health insurance and employment discrimination on the basis of genetic information, S6069 [29JN]
———protection of enrollees in managed care plans and HMO's, S4793, S4805 [8JN], S6084, S6087, S6091 [29JN]
Lithuania: independence anniversary (S. Con. Res. 91), S1156 [2MR]
Medicare: coverage of outpatient prescription drugs, S5640 [22JN], S8272, S8273 [8SE], S8569 [14SE]
———increase payment amount and establish an annual payment review process for renal dialysis services (S. 3038), S8420 [12SE]
———make more competitive and efficient and provide for a prescription drug benefit (S. 2807), S6020
Memphis, TN: tribute to Police Dept., S9689 [3OC]
Million Mom March: tribute to event supporting gun control legislation, S4184 [18MY]
National Commission on Space: establish (S. 2988), S7905 [27JY]
Next Generation Internet Act: reauthorize (S. 2046), S545 [9FE]
NIH: support modernization and construction of biomedical and behavioral research facilities and laboratory instrumentation, S11307 [28OC]
Older Americans Act: National Family Caregiver Support Program funding, S11090 [26OC]
———reauthorize (H.R. 782), S11090 [26OC]
———Senior Community Service Employment Program funding, S11090 [26OC]
Public buildings: placement of automatic external defibrillators to assist individuals who experience cardiac arrest and protections from civil liability relative to emergency use of the devices (H.R. 2498), S11307, S11314 [28OC]
Public Health Service Act: provide certain children's health services (H.R. 4365), S9094 [22SE], S9839 [4OC], S10051 [6OC]
———provide certain children's health services (S. 2868), S6682 [13JY]
Science: increase Federal technology research and development funding, S3505 [4MY]
Senate: legislative program, S1157 [2MR]
Sierra Leone: condemn crimes and human rights abuses and ensure those responsible for such acts are held accountable (S. Res. 315), S4500 [25MY]
Social Security: eliminate earnings test for retirement age individuals (H.R. 5), placed on calendar, S1155 [2MR]
Sudan: condemn Government for genocide in southern Sudan, support for terrorism, and human rights violations, S1151 [2MR], S1381 [9MR]
———increase diplomatic efforts to encourage peace process in ongoing civil war and facilitate relief efforts (S. 1453), S1151 [2MR], S1381 [9MR]
Taxation: credit for health insurance costs (S. 2320), S1904
———institute a Federal fuels tax holiday (S. 2808), S6185 [30JN]
———treatment of education individual retirement accounts relative to elementary and secondary school expenses (S. 1134), S853 [28FE]
Telecommunications: promote competition and privatization in satellite communications (S. 376), conference report, S1155 [2MR]
Thanksgiving Day: designate as a day to ``Give Thanks, Give Life'' and to discuss organ and tissue donation with other family members, S11308 [28OC]
Women: improve health and reduce health care costs for low-income and uninsured women by expanding existing screening and preventive health programs (S. 2635), S4463
Zimbabwe: restrict assistance until certain conditions are satisfied and support democratic and economic transition (S. 2677), S4573
Summaries
Public Health Improvement Act (H.R. 2498), S11308-S11310 [28OC]
Public Health Service Act Children's Health Services (S. 2868), S6683-S6685 [13JY]
Texts of
S. 2236, Children's Day Care Health and Safety Improvement Act, S1409 [9MR]
S. 2366, organ procurement and transplantation programs revision and extension, S2245
S. 2570, ensure the fair and equitable treatment of TVA customers in the event of restructuring of the electric utility industry, S4021
Tributes
Coverdell, Paul, S7175 [19JY]
Wyatt, Joe B., S2858