SPENCE, FLOYD (a Representative from South Carolina)

Articles and editorials

From One Small Seed . . . . A Super Bowl Sunday Charity Started by Columbia Youth Quickly Went National, Margaret N. O'Shea, Sandlapper (publication), E1085 [13JN]

Gracious Giving—South Carolina Is High on the Generosity Index, Reba Hull Campbell, Columbia Metropolitan Magazine, E1084 [13JN]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Armed Forces: provide for a Korea Defense Service Medal to be issued to members who participated in Korea after the Korean War (see H.R. 1935), H2570 [22MY]

———restore health care coverage to retired members of the uniformed services (see H.R. 179), H224 [7FE]

———revise rules on retirement payments to former spouses (see H.R. 1983, 1983), H3207 [18JN]

Army: prohibit the purchasing, issuing, or wearing of berets as standard headgear until certification that the ammunition shortfall has been eliminated (see H.R. 1770), H2571 [22MY]

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

Children and youth: protect infants who are born alive (see H.R. 2175), H3619 [26JN]

China, People's Republic of: withdraw normal trade relations status (see H.R. 1467), H1485 (see H.R. 1467), H1495 [4AP]

Community development: provide and assure continuation of grant funding for additional empowerment zones and enterprise communities and correct certain inequities in the program (see H.R. 2637), H4634 [25JY]

Crime: provide incentives for States to enact mandatory minimum sentences for certain firearms offenses (see H.R. 534), H2082 [9MY]

Dept. of HHS: establish an Office on Men's Health (see H.R. 632), H394 [14FE]

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

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: authorize construction projects for the purpose of improving, renovating, and updating VA patient care facilities (see H.R. 811), H828 [8MR]

Diseases: international tuberculosis control (see H.R. 1168), H1925 [3MY]

Education: increase amount of loan forgiveness for teachers (see H.R. 650), H395 [14FE]

English language: declare as official language of U.S. (see H.R. 280), H1410 [3AP]

FERC: hydroelectric projects licensing reform (see H.R. 1832), H3068 [12JN]

Firearms: protect and enforce the right to obtain and use firearms for security, self-defense, and other legitimate purposes (see H.R. 31), H1410 [3AP]

Flag—U.S.: constitutional amendment to prohibit desecration (see H.J. Res. 36), H2680 [23MY]

Government regulations: require peer review of scientific support data (see H.R. 281), H1060 [21MR]

Health: assure coverage of emergency services under group health plans and health insurance (see H.R. 1674), H1859 [2MY]

———authorize grants to carry out organ recovery rate improvement programs in eligible hospitals (see H.R. 953), H826 [8MR]

Insurance: require health plans to cover treatment of a minor child's congenital or developmental deformity or disorder due to trauma, infection, tumor, or disease (see H.R. 792), H1489 [4AP]

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

Iran and Libya Sanctions Act: extend authorities (see H.R. 1954), H2677 [23MY]

Labor unions: protect the free choice of individual employees relative to participation in labor organizations (see H.R. 1109), H1011 [20MR]

Languages: repeal Executive order on providing access to Federal programs and activities for persons with limited English proficiency (see H.R. 969), H1116 [22MR]

Law enforcement officers: exempt from State laws prohibiting the carrying of concealed handguns (see H.R. 218), H3067 [12JN]

Medicare: coverage of oral anticancer drugs (see H.R. 1624), H2571 [22MY]

———designate certain diabetes educators as certified providers for purposes of outpatient diabetes education services (see H.R. 1645), H3713 [27JN]

———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), H1717 [1MY]

———standardize payment amounts for inpatient hospital services (see H.R. 1609), H2281 [16MY]

Merchant marine industry: tribute to service and sacrifice (see H. Con. Res. 109), H2335 [17MY]

Monuments and memorials: expedite construction of the World War II memorial in the District of Columbia (see H.R. 1696), H1923 [3MY]

National Coast Guard Museum: establish (see H.R. 850), H623 [1MR]

NATO: recommend the integration of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania (see H. Con. Res. 116), H2956 [6JN]

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

Outer Continental Shelf: use of oil and gas production royalties to establish a fund for outdoor conservation and recreation needs (see H.R. 701), H3863 [10JY]

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

Political campaigns: ethics reform and contribution limits (see H.R. 1444), H1484 (see H.R. 1444), H1494 [4AP]

———increase penalties for making or accepting contributions in the name of another and prohibit foreign nationals from making any campaign-related disbursements (see H.R. 1019), H1411 [3AP] (see H.R. 2252), H3357 [20JN]

Railroads: modernize financing of railroad retirement system and provide enhanced benefits to employees and beneficiaries (see H.R. 1140), H2184 [15MY]

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), H3960 [11JY]

Social Security: computation system for benefits relative to spouses' or surviving spouses' Government pensions (see H.R. 664), H1861 [2MY]

———earnings test for blind individuals (see H.R. 498), H741 [7MR]

———include additional information in account statements (see H.R. 634), H394 [14FE]

———restrict application of windfall elimination provisions to certain individuals (see H.R. 1073), H1717 [1MY]

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

Spruance, Raymond A.: promote posthumously to the grade of Fleet Admiral of the U.S. Navy (see H.R. 2492), H4008 [12JY]

Taxation: allow a refundable credit to individuals who donate their organs at death (see H.R. 1872), H2890 [5JN]

———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), H508 [28FE]

———allow the use of completed contract method of accounting in the case of certain long-term naval vessel construction contracts (see H.R. 2189), H3202 [14JN]

———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), H2849 [25MY]

———constitutional amendment to require a two-thirds majority on the passage of legislation increasing taxes (see H.J. Res. 41), H1115 [22MR]

———credit for rehabilitating historic homes or purchasing newly rehabilitated historic homes for use as principal residence (see H.R. 1172), H3806 [28JN]

———improve electric reliability, enhance transmission infrastructure, and facilitate access to the electric transmission grid (see H.R. 1459), H2956 [6JN]

———provide a refundable credit for education and training of developmentally disabled children (see H.R. 2339), H3712 [27JN]

———provide relief for payment of asbestos-related claims (see H.R. 1412), H1482 (see H.R. 1412), H1492 [4AP]

———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]

———repeal tax increase on Social Security benefits (see H.R. 122), H1717 [1MY]

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

———treatment of certain commercial power takeoff vehicles (see H.R. 1438), H3203 [14JN]

———treatment of flexible spending arrangements relative to long-term care insurance (see H.R. 831), H4009 [12JY]

Veterans: change effective date for paid-up coverage under the Survivor Benefit Plan (see H.R. 699), H1861 [2MY]

———improve educational assistance programs, expand transition assistance and outreach programs, increase burial benefits, and provide family coverage under Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance (see H.R. 801), H828 [8MR]

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

———increase rates of disability compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and dependency and indemnity compensation for survivors of certain disabled veterans (see H.R. 2361), H3802 [28JN]

———increase the minimum Survivor Benefit Plan basic annuity for certain surviving spouses (see H.R. 548), H1925 [3MY]

———issue commemorative postage stamp honoring Purple Heart recipients (see H. Con. Res. 104), H1487 (see H. Con. Res. 104), H1499 [4AP]

———permit concurrent receipt of military retired pay with service-connected disability benefits (see H.R. 65, 303), H443 [27FE]

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. 159), H1929 [7MY]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Armed Forces: authorize the award of a Cold War service medal to members who served honorably during the Cold War era (see H.R. 2165), H3150 [13JN]

Remarks

China, People's Republic of: improve human rights situation before Olympic games are held in Beijing (H. Con. Res. 73), H3811 [10JY]

Columbia, SC: tribute to Spring Valley Presbyterian Church Souper Bowl of Caring fundraiser, E1084 [13JN]

Dept. of State: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 1646), H2118 [10MY]

International law: protect U.S. military personnel and other U.S. officials from criminal prosecution by an international court to which the U.S. is not a party, H2118 [10MY]

Sisisky, Norman: tribute (H. Res. 107), H1337 [29MR]

South Carolina: tribute to citizens for charitable giving, E1084 [13JN]

Votes: position on missed, E1059 [7JN]

Tributes

Christman, Daniel W., H1828 [2MY]

Powell, Chessye Baughman, E1090 [13JN]