LUCAS, FRANK D. (a Representative from Oklahoma)

Amendments

Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs: making appropriations (H.R. 2330), H3715 [27JN], H3889 [11JY]

Depts. of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 2500), H4091 [17JY]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Armed Forces: restore health care coverage to retired members of the uniformed services (see H.R. 179), H443 [27FE]

Budget: establish 2-year cycle (see H.R. 981), H4113 [17JY]

Commission for the Comprehensive Study of Privacy Protection: establish (see H.R. 583), H323 [13FE]

Crime: amend laws relative to bail bond forfeitures (see H.R. 2929), H7529 [30OC]

Cuba: assist internal opposition and further help the Cuban people to regain their freedom (see H.R. 1271), H1294 [28MR]

Dept. of the Interior: establish the Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home National Historic Site (see H.R. 400), H1116 [22MR]

Dept. of Transportation: establish a grant program for the rehabilitation, preservation, or improvement of railroad track (see H.R. 1020), H2334 [17MY]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: clarify compensation standards for Persian Gulf Conflict veterans suffering from certain undiagnosed illnesses (see H.R. 612), H412 [26FE]

Diseases: expand research activities relative to Duchenne muscular dystrophy (see H.R. 717), H1489 [4AP]

———international tuberculosis control (see H.R. 1168), H4863 [30JY]

Federal Prison Industries: eliminate Federal agency requirement to purchase products and require commercial competition for Federal contracts (see H.R. 1577), H3806 [28JN]

Firearms: protect manufacturers and sellers in the firearms and ammunition industry from restrictions on interstate or foreign commerce (see H.R. 2037), H2847 [25MY]

Flag—U.S.: constitutional amendment to prohibit desecration (see H.J. Res. 36), H1664 [27AP]

Health: sustain access to vital emergency medical services in rural areas (see H.R. 1353), H5339 [2AU]

Homeless: improve programs for veterans (see H.R. 936), H825 [8MR]

Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge: designate the Richard J. Guadagno Headquarters and Visitors Center (see H.R. 3334), H8337 [16NO]

Insurance: ensure the continued financial capacity of insurers to provide coverage for risks from terrorism (see H.R. 3210), H7717 [1NO]

Intermountain Dairy Compact: congressional consent (see H.R. 1827), H2571 [22MY]

Law enforcement officers: exempt from State laws prohibiting the carrying of concealed handguns (see H.R. 218), H4949 [31JY]

———tribute for efforts in battling the use and production of methamphetamine (see H. Res. 114), H1487 (see H. Res. 114), H1499 [4AP]

Medicare: coverage of oral anticancer drugs (see H.R. 1624), H2142 [10MY]

———eliminate reduction in payment rates under the prospective payment system for home health services and increase payments for such services in rural areas (see H.R. 975), H1191 [27MR]

———provide guidance to health care providers attempting to properly submit claims and target truly fraudulent activity for enforcement of billing regulations rather than inadvertent errors (see H.R. 868), H1489 [4AP]

———specify the update for physician fee schedule payments and conduct a study on replacing the use of the sustainable growth rate as a factor in such update (see H.R. 3351), H10355 [18DE]

National 4-H Program Centennial Initiative: funding (see H.R. 1388), H1558 [24AP]

National Guard: civilian youth opportunities program funding (see H.R. 2515), H7529 [30OC]

Native Americans: clarify citizenship eligibility for certain members of the Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona (see H.R. 2348), H7529 [30OC]

———improve services and facilities of Federal Indian health programs and encourage maximum participation of Indians in such programs (see H.R. 1662), H1715 [1MY]

Northeast Interstate Dairy Compact: reauthorize (see H.R. 1827), H2571 [22MY]

Pacific Northwest Dairy Compact: congressional consent (see H.R. 1827), H2571 [22MY]

Pensions: reform (see H.R. 10), H927 [14MR]

Postal Service: amend pay policies and schedules and fringe benefit programs for postmasters (see H.R. 250), H1190 [27MR]

———protection of post offices (see H. Con. Res. 181), H3805 [28JN]

Power resources: establish and implement competitive, environmentally sound, and job creating oil and gas leasing program for the Coastal Plain (see H.R. 39), H254 [8FE]

Railroads: modernize financing of railroad retirement system and provide enhanced benefits to employees and beneficiaries (see H.R. 1140), H1346 [29MR]

Reagan, Ronald: tribute (see H.J. Res. 7), H166 [31JA]

Schools: allow display of the words ``God Bless America'' in public schools (see H. Con. Res. 248), H6780 [12OC]

Social Security: computation system for benefits relative to spouses' or surviving spouses' Government pensions (see H.R. 664), H1410 [3AP]

———earnings test for blind individuals (see H.R. 498), H400 [14FE]

———eliminate benefit penalties to individuals receiving pensions from noncovered employment (see H.R. 848), H1346 [29MR]

———modify the deadline for compliance with certain regulations providing for the electronic exchange of health information (see H.R. 1975), H5406 [5SE]

Southern Dairy Compact: congressional consent (see H.R. 1827), H2571 [22MY]

States: identify certain routes as part of the Ports-to-Plains High Priority Corridor (see H.R. 3522), H10908 [19DE]

Taxation: allow tax credit to businesses who employ members of the military Reserves and a comparable credit to self-employed military Reserve participants (see H.R. 394), H959 [19MR]

———allow use of principal repayments to issue additional mortgages and modify price limitations under the mortgage revenue bond program and change income limit for housing credit program (see H.R. 951), H5406 [5SE]

———credit for rehabilitating historic homes or purchasing newly rehabilitated historic homes for use as principal residence (see H.R. 1172), H5339 [2AU]

———encourage the development of a cost effective commercial space transportation industry (see H.R. 2177), H3201 [14JN]

———enhance domestic oil and gas production (see H.R. 805), H507 [28FE]

———extension of the credit for producing electricity from wind (see H.R. 876), H1295 [28MR]

———incentives to ensure timely and equitable access to the Internet over current and future generations of broadband capability (see H.R. 267), H1556 [24AP]

———permanently extend the Indian employment credit and the depreciation rules for property used predominantly within an Indian reservation (see H.R. 224), H2571 [22MY]

———permit churches and other houses of worship to engage in political campaigns (see H.R. 2357), H7529 [30OC]

———provide additional retirement savings opportunities for small employers and self-employed individuals (see H.R. 738), H1346 [29MR]

———provide credits for the installation of certain wind energy property (see H.R. 2322), H3618 [26JN]

———reduce marriage tax penalty by adjusting the income tax rate brackets, standard deduction amounts, and earned income tax credit and allow nonrefundable credits against certain tax liability (see H.R. 6), H952 [15MR]

———repeal estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes (see H.R. 330), H163 [31JA]

———repeal estate and gift taxes (see H.R. 8), H926 [14MR]

———terminate Internal Revenue Code (see H.R. 2714), H5332 [2AU]

———treat spaceports like airports under exempt facility bond rules (see H.R. 1931), H2569 [22MY]

———treatment of adoption expenses (see H.R. 622), H393 [14FE]

Veterans: increase educational benefits under the Montgomery GI Bill (see H.R. 1291), H1343 [29MR]

———permit concurrent receipt of military retired pay with service-connected disability benefits (see H.R. 303), H325 [13FE]

Volunteer firefighters: remove civil liability barriers surrounding donating fire equipment to volunteer fire companies (see H.R. 1919), H7127 [17OC]

Voting: guarantee the right of military personnel to vote when serving away from home and extend voter registration and absentee ballot protections for such personnel to State and local elections (see H.R. 1377), H3863 [10JY]

———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. 159), H400 [14FE]

Water: authorize appropriations for State water pollution control revolving funds (see H.R. 668), H2184 [15MY]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Dept. of Agriculture: extend and expand conservation programs (see H.R. 2480), H4008 [12JY]

Financial institutions: allow payment of Financing Corporation interest obligations from excess deposit insurance fund reserves (see H.R. 557), H258 [12FE]

Glenn English Customs National Aviation Center, Oklahoma City, OK: designate (see H.R. 1244), H1188 [27MR]

Terrorism: establish a coordinated program of science-based countermeasures to address threats of agricultural bioterrorism (see H.R. 3293), H8181 [14NO]

Remarks

Agriculture: conservation programs funding, H6302, H6303, H6322 [4OC]

———continue certain programs (H.R. 2646), H6171 [3OC], H6302, H6303, H6322, H6352 [4OC]

———respond to the continuing economic crisis adversely affecting agricultural producers (H.R. 2213), H3537 [26JN]

Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs: making appropriations (H.R. 2330), H3889 [11JY]

Dept. of Agriculture: provide assistance for the rehabilitation of watershed dams built for flood protection and water resource projects, H3889 [11JY]

Dept. of Justice: Community Oriented Policing Services methamphetamine production and trafficking prevention funding through reductions in International Broadcasting Operations, H4091 [17JY]

Dept. of the Interior and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 2217), H3406 [21JN]

Depts. of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 2500), H4091 [17JY]

National 4-H Program Centennial Initiative: funding (S. 657), H3479, H3480 [25JN]

Rural areas: rural development programs funding, H6352 [4OC]

Terrorism: establish a coordinated program of science-based countermeasures to address threats of agricultural bioterrorism (H.R. 3293), H8230 [15NO], E2075 [14NO]

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: critical habitat designations, H3406 [21JN]

Remarks in House relative to

Special order: granted, H8246 [15NO]