ROGERS, HAROLD (a Representative from Kentucky)

Amendments

Dept. of Transportation and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 2299), H3572 [26JN]

Appointments

Conferee: H.R. 2216, supplemental appropriations, H3979 [12JY]

———H.R. 2311, energy and water development appropriations, H5857 [20SE]

———H.R. 2500, Depts. of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies appropriations, H5959 [24SE]

Articles and editorials

Beyond the Call of Duty, Joe Creason, Louisville (KY) Courier-Journal, E131 [7FE]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Agriculture: prohibit products containing dry ultra-filtered milk or casein from being labeled domestic natural cheese (see H.R. 1016), H4009 [12JY]

———require labeling of country of origin of imported perishable agricultural commodities (see H.R. 1605), H8338 [16NO]

Boy Scouts: tribute (see H. Con. Res. 33), H2680 [23MY]

Coal: develop and implement advanced clean coal technology programs and provide tax incentives to encourage the retrofitting, repowering, or replacement of coal-based electricity generating facilities (see H.R. 2323), H3618 [26JN]

Coal miners: issue commemorative postage stamp (see H. Con. Res. 245), H10910 [19DE]

Congressional Gold Medal: award posthumously to passengers and crew of United Airlines flight 93 in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Somerset County, PA (see H.R. 2917), H8843 [4DE]

Crime: mandatory minimum sentencing for online child molesters (see H.R. 2817), H10966 [20DE]

Dept. of Labor: impose limitations on the wage that an employer is required to pay an H-2A nonimmigrant agricultural worker (see H.R. 2457), H8564 [28NO]

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

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: clarify compensation standards for Persian Gulf Conflict veterans suffering from certain undiagnosed illnesses (see H.R. 612), H4014 [16JY]

Diseases: expand research activities relative to Duchenne muscular dystrophy (see H.R. 717), H1605 [25AP]

Education: give gifted and talented students the opportunity to develop their capabilities (see H.R. 490), H1605 [25AP]

———improve and refocus civic education (see H.R. 611), H1605 [25AP]

———increase amount of loan forgiveness for teachers (see H.R. 650), H8181 [14NO]

Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Act: designate Federal agencies responsible for implementation (see H.R. 1534), H1718 [1MY]

English language: reaffirm as official language of U.S., establish uniform English language rule for naturalization, and avoid misconstructions of English language texts of U.S. laws (see H.R. 1984), H8564 [28NO]

Flag—U.S.: constitutional amendment to prohibit desecration (see H.J. Res. 36), H876 [13MR]

Foreign trade: amend trade laws to address import crises (see H.R. 1988), H5928 [21SE]

Health: protection of enrollees in managed care plans and HMO's (see H.R. 2315), H3618 [26JN]

———sustain access to vital emergency medical services in rural areas (see H.R. 1353), H10910 [19DE]

Health care professionals: alleviate nursing profession shortage by improving educational programs and partnerships and supporting additional training (see H.R. 1436), H6422 [5OC]

Housing: provide affordability and ensure a competitive North American market for softwood lumber (see H. Con. Res. 45), H6781 [12OC]

INS: replace with the Agency for Immigration Affairs (see H.R. 3231), H8249 [15NO]

Intermountain Dairy Compact: congressional consent (see H.R. 1827), H2147 [14MY]

Law enforcement: limit access to body armor by violent felons and facilitate the donation of Federal surplus body armor to State and local law enforcement agencies (see H.R. 1007), H5704 [14SE]

Law enforcement officers: exempt from State laws prohibiting the carrying of concealed handguns (see H.R. 218), H8181 [14NO]

Medicaid: delay changes in regulations that modify upper payment limit for non-State government-owned or operated hospitals (see H.R. 3360), H10910 [19DE]

———extend certain modifications to disproportionate share hospital allotments (see H.R. 854), H5125 [1AU]

Medicare: designate certain diabetes educators as certified providers for purposes of outpatient diabetes education services (see H.R. 1645), H5704 [14SE]

———increase the payment amount for inpatient hospital services and freeze the reduction in payments to hospitals for indirect costs of medical education (see H.R. 1556), H6260 [3OC]

———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), H3465 [21JN]

———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]

———standardize payment amounts for inpatient hospital services (see H.R. 1609), H4353 [19JY]

National Day of Remembrance: designate (see H. Con. Res. 230), H5928 [21SE]

National Writing Project: improve (see H.R. 1192), H4009 [12JY]

Northeast Interstate Dairy Compact: reauthorize (see H.R. 1827), H2147 [14MY]

Pacific Northwest Dairy Compact: congressional consent (see H.R. 1827), H2147 [14MY]

Patriotism: mint coins in commemoration of the Spirit of America and to establish the Victims of September 11th Fund (see H.R. 3244), H7909 [7NO]

Pensions: reform (see H.R. 10), H1190 [27MR]

Postal Service: amend pay policies and schedules and fringe benefit programs for postmasters (see H.R. 250), H1925 [3MY]

———protection of post offices (see H. Con. Res. 181), H5928 [21SE]

Public Health Service Act: amend relative to pharmacy health professions programs (see H.R. 2173), H8248 [15NO]

Railroads: modernize financing of railroad retirement system and provide enhanced benefits to employees and beneficiaries (see H.R. 1140), H1489 [4AP]

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

Religion: eliminate the effect on the expression of religion by State and local officials that results from the threat that potential litigants may seek damages and attorney's fees (see H.R. 1273), H2334 [17MY]

Science: prohibit the cloning of humans (see H.R. 1644), H4009 [12JY]

Securities: issue War Bonds in response to the acts of terrorism perpetrated against the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Somerset County, PA (see H.R. 2899), H5928 [21SE]

Shelton, Henry H.: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 2751), H8564 [28NO]

Small business: improve access and choice relative to employee health care (see H.R. 1774), H2849 [25MY]

Social Security: computation system for benefits relative to spouses' or surviving spouses' Government pensions (see H.R. 664), H5406 [5SE]

———modify the deadline for compliance with certain regulations providing for the electronic exchange of health information (see H.R. 1975), H4009 [12JY]

Southern Dairy Compact: congressional consent (see H.R. 1827), H2147 [14MY]

Taxation: allow a deduction for State tuition program expenses and prohibit exclusion of distributions used for education expenses from gross income (see H.R. 475), H2712 [24MY]

———allow Farm and Ranch Risk Management Accounts (see H.R. 662), H1605 [25AP]

———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), H10055 [12DE]

———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), H2712 [24MY]

———change certain threshold and other tests to decrease the amount of farm labor wages subject to Social Security and Medicare taxes (see H.R. 1079), H2680 [23MY]

———clarify the exemption from tax for small property and casualty insurance companies (see H.R. 1908), H5616 [13SE]

———credit for rehabilitating historic homes or purchasing newly rehabilitated historic homes for use as principal residence (see H.R. 1172), H1717 [1MY]

———exclude from gross income payments made to tobacco quota and allotment holders and tobacco growers pursuant to the settlement agreement between a State and tobacco product manufacturers (see H.R. 769), H505 [28FE]

———exclusion from gross income for foster care payments relative to certain nongovernmental placement agencies (see H.R. 586), H2184 [15MY]

———exclusion of gain from the sale of farmland (see H.R. 294), H2848 [25MY]

———increase maximum annual contribution allowable to education individual retirement accounts (see H.R. 676), H2849 [25MY]

———provide relief for payment of asbestos-related claims (see H.R. 1412), H4541 [24JY]

———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]

———reduce the per dose tax on vaccines (see H.R. 921), H5616 [13SE]

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

———repeal limits on the deduction for interest on education loans and increase income threshold for the phase out of such deduction (see H.R. 436), H1605 [25AP]

———treatment of adoption expenses (see H.R. 622), H2148 [14MY]

———treatment of beer (see H.R. 1305), H2281 [16MY]

———treatment of computers and Internet access provided to employees for personal use (see H.R. 1835), H5928 [21SE]

———treatment of distilled spirits (see H.R. 2023), H2847 [25MY]

———treatment of expenses in connection with services as a member of a Reserve component of the Armed Forces (see H.R. 968), H3150 [13JN]

———treatment of flexible spending arrangements relative to long-term care insurance (see H.R. 831), H8564 [28NO]

———treatment of income from land sold to a government agency or a nonprofit organization for conservation purposes (see H.R. 2290), H6380 [4OC]

———treatment of loan payments received under the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program (see H.R. 1401), H4113 [17JY]

———treatment of the sale of a principal residence by a member of the uniformed services or Foreign Service (see H.R. 1596), H4009 [12JY]

Terrorism: issue commemorative postage stamp to assist families of victims of attacks at the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Somerset County, PA (see H.R. 2907), H6422 [5OC]

———tribute to passengers and crew of United Airlines flight 93 in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Somerset County, PA (see H. Con. Res. 232), H6781 [12OC]

Tobacco products: provide export promotion assistance (see H.R. 2591), H4428 [23JY]

Veterans: increase educational benefits under the Montgomery GI Bill (see H.R. 1291), H1605 [25AP]

———permit concurrent receipt of military retired pay with service-connected disability benefits (see H.R. 303), H1556 [24AP]

Volunteer firefighters: remove civil liability barriers surrounding donating fire equipment to volunteer fire companies (see H.R. 1919), H5406 [5SE]

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), H5704 [14SE]

World War II: preserve certain Federal court actions relative to Japanese companies compensating former prisoners of war used as slave labor (see H.R. 1198), H5488 [10SE]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Cumberland Gap National Historic Park: authorize acquisition of Fern Lake and the surrounding watershed in Kentucky and Tennessee (see H.R. 2238), H3259 [19JN]

Dept. of Transportation and related agencies: making appropriations (see H.R. 2299), H3518 [25JN]

Conference reports

Dept. of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations (H.R. 2299), H8655-H8730 [29NO]

Remarks

Amtrak Reform Council: funding, H3578 [26JN]

Appropriations: making supplemental appropriations (H.R. 2216), H3338, H3339 [20JN]

Aviation: Federal versus private employment status for aviation security personnel, H7546, H7547, H7548 [31OC]

———preserve the continued viability of the U.S. air transportation system (H.R. 2891), H5689, H5690 [14SE]

———require screening of all property carried in aircraft, H8517, H8518, H8519 [28NO]

Buy American Act: compliance, H3586 [26JN]

California: Southern California transportation projects funding, H3586 [26JN]

Coast Guard: funding, H3567 [26JN]

———port and maritime security and counter-terrorism programs funding, H8537 [28NO]

Corbin, KY: St. Camillus Academy named State Champion by President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, E2277 [13DE]

Dept. of Defense: making appropriations (H.R. 3338), H8517, H8518, H8519, H8537 [28NO]

Dept. of the Interior: construct an education and administrative center at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge in Box Elder County, UT (H.R. 3322), H8854 [5DE]

Dept. of Transportation: establish telephone hotline to allow consumers to register airline-related complaints, H3569 [26JN]

Dept. of Transportation and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 2299), H3550, H3551, H3553, H3554, H3556, H3567, H3569, H3570, H3572, H3578, H3580, H3581, H3582, H3586, H3587 [26JN]

———making appropriations (H.R. 2299), conference report, H8734 [30NO]

———making appropriations (H.R. 2299), consideration (H. Res. 178), H3545, H3547, H3548 [26JN]

———making appropriations (H.R. 2299), consideration of conference report (H. Res. 299), H8735, H8736, H8737 [30NO]

———making appropriations (H.R. 2299), motion to instruct conferees, H7545, H7546, H7547, H7548 [31OC]

Depts. of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 2500), conference report, H8155 [14NO]

Energy and water development: making appropriations (H.R. 2311), conference report, H7603 [1NO]

FAA: address problems of aircraft noise and air traffic congestion in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area, H3553 [26JN]

———Airport Improvement Program funding, H3569 [26JN]

FEMA: funding through reductions in non-defense allocations, H3338, H3339 [20JN]

Florida: high speed rail projects funding, H3581 [26JN]

Houston, TX: light rail project funding, H3580 [26JN]

Mexico: compliance of Mexico-domiciled trucks operating in the U.S. with certain safety and environmental regulations, H3545, H3547, H3548, H3587 [26JN], H8735 [30NO]

National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day: observance (H. Con. Res. 56), E898 [22MY]

New York, NY: mass transit projects funding, H3554 [26JN]

Paintsville, KY: tribute to Central Elementary School for participation in We the People . . . The Citizen and the Constitution competition, E2267 [12DE]

Point of order, H3567, H3569, H3570, H3572 [26JN], H8523 [28NO]

Small Community Air Service Development Pilot Program: funding, H3570 [26JN]

Terrorism: making emergency appropriations for disaster and antiterrorism initiatives surrounding the crashing of aircraft into the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Somerset County, PA, H8517, H8518, H8519 [28NO]

———making emergency appropriations for disaster and antiterrorism initiatives surrounding the crashing of aircraft into the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Somerset County, PA (H.R. 2888), H5624 [14SE]

Transportation: security programs funding, H7545, H7546, H7547, H7548 [31OC]

Votes: position on missed, E898 [22MY]

Waterways: Colgate redevelopment zone ferry terminal and pier project funding, H3556 [26JN]

Williamsburg, KY: install a plaque to honor James H. Early in the Post Office Building (S. 1714), H10363 [19DE]

Reports filed

Dept. of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations: Committee of Conference (H.R. 2299) (H. Rept. 107-308), H8731 [29NO]

———Committee on Appropriations (House) (H.R. 2299) (H. Rept. 107-108), H3518 [25JN]

Tables

Dept. of Transportation and related agencies appropriations (H.R. 2299), H3558-H3563 [26JN]

Tributes

Ledford, Cawood, E1584 [5SE]

Lucas, Opal, E1054 [7JN]

Roberts, Mack, E297 [7MR]

Smith, John M., Jr., E130 [7FE]