RYUN, JIM (a Representative from Kansas)
Amendments
Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (H.R. 4205), H3282 [17MY]
Energy and water development: making appropriations (H.R. 4733), H5278 [27JN]
Bills and resolutions cosponsored
Abortion: prohibit partial-birth abortions (see H.R. 3660), H1675 [3AP]
———provide that the inferior courts do not have jurisdiction to hear partial-birth abortion-related cases (see H.R. 3691), H510 [16FE]
American Folklife Center: collect video and audio recordings of personal histories and testimonials of U.S. war veterans (see H.R. 5212), H7870 [19SE]
Armed Forces: declare the American GI as the ``Person of the Century'' for the 20th century (see H. Con. Res. 282), H2013 [10AP]
Budget: ensure on-budget surplus is used to reduce the public debt (see H.R. 3695), H633 [1MR]
Capital punishment: prohibit the execution of pregnant women (see H.R. 4888), H6778 [24JY]
Children and youth: protect infants who are born alive (see H.R. 4292), H2655 [8MY]
China, People's Republic of: apply certain measures in response to the illegal sale, transfer, or misuse of certain controlled goods, services, or technology (see H.R. 4829), H7212 [27JY]
Citizenship: confer U.S. citizenship automatically and retroactively to foreign-born children adopted by U.S. citizens (see H.R. 2883), H5843 [11JY]
Clean Air Act: methyl bromide phaseout schedule (see H.R. 4215), H8200 [26SE]
Consumers: require disclosure of terms of rental-purchase agreements (see H.R. 1634), H3172 [16MY]
Contracts: allow choice of arbitration as a means of settling disputes (see H.R. 534), H7578 [13SE]
Courts: legal definition of human life relative to presence of brain wave activity and spontaneous cardiac activity (see H. Con. Res. 305), H3649 [23MY]
———provide a civil action for a minor injured by exposure to explicit sexual or violent material (see H.R. 5045), H7723 [18SE]
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: pilot program to establish methamphetamine incident response and training teams for drug emergency areas (see H.R. 3675), H1406 [23MR]
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), H8200 [26SE]
Dept. of Veterans Affairs: assist claimants for benefits in developing claims and clarify the burden of proof for such claims (see H.R. 3193), H1077 [15MR]
Education: support teachers (see H. Res. 492), H2655 [8MY]
———tribute to home educators and home schooled students (see H. Res. 578), H7651 [14SE]
Elementary and Secondary Education Act: reauthorize Impact Aid Program (see H.R. 3616), H575 [29FE]
Fair Labor Standards Act: amend (see H.R. 5026), H7871 [19SE]
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), H511 [16FE]
FDA: establish restrictions relative to the qualifications of physicians prescribing the abortion drug known as RU-486 (see H.R. 5385), H8799 [4OC]
———restrict authority to issue clinical holds on investigational drugs or to deny patients expanded access to such drugs (see H.R. 3677), H509 [16FE]
Federal employees: treatment of retirement benefits for assistant U.S. attorneys (see H.R. 583), H7652 [14SE]
Federal Water Pollution Control Act: improve implementation (see H.R. 4502), H3474 [19MY]
Financial institutions: allow payment of Financing Corporation interest obligations from excess deposit insurance fund reserves (see H.R. 3278), H455 [15FE] (see H.R. 4082), H1405 [23MR]
Foreign policy: defend fundamental human rights to family, conscience, and life in international negotiations (see H. Res. 521), H4485 [14JN]
———establish framework for consideration of unilateral economic sanctions (see H.R. 1244), H1077 [15MR]
———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), H1852 [5AP]
GAO: conduct a comprehensive fraud audit of the Dept. of Education (see H.R. 4079), H3474 [19MY]
Government: separation of powers between Congress and the President (see H.R. 2655), H574 [29FE]
``In God We Trust'': encourage public display of national motto (see H. Res. 548), H6053 [13JY]
———support national motto (see H. Res. 551), H6052 [13JY]
Information services: deregulate Internet and high speed data services (see H.R. 2420), H1077 [15MR]
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), H4675 [19JN]
Law enforcement: authorize appropriations for the prosecution of obscenity cases (see H.R. 4710), H6599 [19JY]
Medicaid: coverage of community-based attendant services (see H.R. 4416), H7128 [26JY]
———provide families and disabled children with the opportunity to purchase coverage (see H.R. 4825), H7652 [14SE]
Medicare: coverage of chiropractic services under Medicare+Choice program (see H. Con. Res. 62), H758 [8MR]
———coverage of medical nutrition therapy services (see H.R. 1187), H1406 [23MR]
———revise inflation update factor used in making payments to prospective payment system hospitals (see H.R. 3580), H7503 [12SE]
National Guard: anniversary of initial activation of personnel for Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm (see H. Res. 549), H6600 [19JY]
Occupational Safety and Health Act: waive applicability to employment performed in an employee's residence (see H.R. 3530), 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]
Panama Canal: negotiate renewed presence of U.S. Armed Forces and review contract bidding process for lease of port facilities by People's Republic of China (see H. Con. Res. 186), H511 [16FE]
Petroleum: 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), H6471 [18JY]
Pope, Edmond: demand release from Russian prison for humanitarian reasons (see H. Con. Res. 364), H5956 [12JY] (see H. Con. Res. 404), H7871 [19SE]
Postal Service: amend pay policies and schedules and fringe benefit programs for postmasters (see H.R. 3842), H2607 [4MY]
Power resources: simplify Federal oil and gas revenue distributions (see H.R. 4340), H8200 [26SE]
Public debt: allow individuals to designate a portion of their income tax return for deficit reduction (see H.R. 5349), H8551 [29SE]
R.A. Bloch Cancer Foundation, Inc.: tribute (see H. Res. 517), H4485 [14JN]
Research: requirements for disclosures relative to transfers of human fetal tissue (see H.R. 3980), H1076 [15MR]
Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument: establish (see H.R. 3676), H5436 [28JN]
Schools: promote the use of proven academic and classroom-management solutions for problems of behavior, attention, and learning in school children (see H. Res. 459), H2607 [4MY]
Social Security: include additional information in account statements (see H.R. 5028), H7992 [21SE]
States: permit funding of prescription drugs for minors relative to parental consent (see H.R. 3302), H4817 [21JN]
Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act: rename as the ``McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act'' (see H.R. 5417), H9635 [10OC]
Taxation: allow a refundable credit for health insurance costs (see H.R. 4113), H5656 [29JN]
———allow individuals a refundable credit for the purchase of private health insurance and provide for a report on State health insurance safety-net programs (see H.R. 2362), H632 [1MR]
———constitutional amendment to require a two-thirds majority on the passage of legislation increasing taxes (see H.J. Res. 94), H1957 [6AP]
———exclude from self-employment earnings certain payments under the Conservation Reserve Program (see H.R. 4064), H3813 [24MY]
———exclusion from gross income for foster care payments relative to certain nongovernmental placement agencies (see H.R. 1194), H511 [16FE]
———increase annual limitation on nondeductible contributions and adjust for inflation the amount of deductible contributions to individual retirement accounts (see H.R. 1322), H2905 [10MY]
———repeal modification of capital gains tax payments relative to small businesses sold on the installment sales method (see H.R. 3594), H455 [15FE]
———temporarily suspend and permanently repeal increases in motor fuel taxes (see H.R. 4776), H5737 [10JY]
———terminate Internal Revenue Code (see H.R. 1041), H1284 [22MR] (see H.R. 4199), H1956 [6AP]
———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), H5436 [28JN]
———treatment of gross income gain on the sale or exchange of certain property restricted to use as farmland (see H.R. 4100), H1476 [28MR]
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: eliminate administrative waste, fraud, and abuse in fish and wildlife restoration projects funded by excise taxes on hunting and fishing equipment (see H.R. 3671), H998 [14MR]
Veterans: permit concurrent receipt of military retired pay with service-connected disability benefits (see H.R. 303), H1119 [16MR]
Voting: prohibit States from determining that a ballot submitted by an absent uniformed services voter was improperly or fraudulently cast unless the State finds clear and convincing evidence of fraud (see H.R. 5642), H12021 [6DE]
Water pollution: exempt discharges from certain silviculture activities from permit requirements of the national pollutant discharge elimination system (see H.R. 3625), H2905 [10MY]
Bills and resolutions introduced
National Trails System Act: require compensation of property owners when certain railbanked trails are developed for public use (see H.R. 4086), H1405 [23MR]
Remarks
Abortion: prohibit partial-birth abortions (H.R. 3660), H1782 [5AP]
Appropriations: making emergency supplemental appropriations (H.R. 3908), H1550
Boy Scouts: repeal Federal charter (H.R. 4892), H7452 [12SE]
Budget: provide for reconciliation of the concurrent resolution to reduce the public debt and to decrease the statutory debt limit (H.R. 4601), H4707
———setting forth the Federal budget for 2001-2005 (H. Con. Res. 290), H1309, H1384 [23MR]
Business and industry: involvement of private companies in the trafficking of fetal tissue and body parts, H1081 [16MR]
Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (H.R. 4205), H3287
———funding, H1550
Dept. of Energy: prohibit dual employment at the National Nuclear Security Administration, H5278, H5279 [27JN]
Dept. of Veterans Affairs: establish a national cemetery for veterans in the Fort Riley, KS, area, H3287
Elementary and Secondary Education Act: reauthorize Impact Aid Program, H1309 [23MR]
Energy and water development: making appropriations (H.R. 4733), H5278, H5279 [27JN]
Foreign aid: international family planning programs restrictions relative to abortion, H5989 [13JY]
Foreign operations, export financing, and related programs: making appropriations (H.R. 4811), H5989 [13JY]
Olympic games: support goals and ideals (H. Res. 259), H4651 [19JN]
———support goals and ideals (S. Res. 254), E1428
Taxation: eliminate marriage tax penalty by adjusting income tax rate brackets and standard deduction amounts (H.R. 6), H318
———phase-out and repeal estate and gift taxes (H.R. 8), consideration (H. Res. 519), H4078 [8JN]
Topeka, KS: rededication of Elmer Jackson Bridge, E1713
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: eliminate administrative waste, fraud, and abuse in fish and wildlife restoration projects funded by excise taxes on hunting and fishing equipment (H.R. 3671), H1809 [5AP]
Votes: position on missed, E533