HERGER, WALLY (a Representative from California)

Amendments

Depts. of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 2500), H4019 [16JY], H4149 [18JY]

Articles and editorials

MD., VA. Foster-Care Adoptions Up—Rise in Funding, Change in Federal Law Credited for Increase, Michael E. Ruane, Washington (DC) Post, H8092 [13NO]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Agriculture: require labeling of country of origin of imported perishable agricultural commodities (see H.R. 1121), H3068 [12JN]

Air pollution: application of California State regulations relative to reformulated gasoline in certain areas (see H.R. 2270), H3464 [21JN]

Americans With Disabilities Act: require that any civil action against a place of public accommodation or commercial facility allow an opportunity for alleged violations to be corrected (see H.R. 914), H6702 [11OC]

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

Augustus F. Hawkins Post Office Building, Los Angeles, CA: designate (see H.R. 2578), H5340 [2AU]

Aviation: ensure general aviation aircraft access to Federal land and to the airspace over that land (see H.R. 1363), H1408 [3AP]

BLM: provide permanent funding for the payment in lieu of taxes program (see H.R. 1811), H3203 [14JN]

Budget: establish 2-year cycle (see H.R. 981), H875 [13MR]

Clean Air Act: prohibit the use of certain fuel additives including methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE) in reformulated gasoline (see H.R. 1695), H1923 [3MY]

Computers: establish Internet domain for children that will promote positive experiences, provide safe online environment, and prevent exposure to harmful material (see H.R. 2417), H3961 [11JY]

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]

Congressman Julian C. Dixon Post Office Building, Los Angeles, CA: designate (see H.R. 2454), H5340 [2AU]

Credit unions: clarify definition of a member business loan relative to religious organization based credit unions (see H.R. 164), H61 [6JA]

———limitations on certain member business loans (see H.R. 760), H828 [8MR]

Crime: condemn violence directed at Sikhs in the aftermath of hijacking and crashing of commercial aircraft into the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Somerset County, PA (see H. Res. 255), H6380 [4OC]

———establish Federal criminal penalties and civil remedies for certain violent, threatening, obstructive and destructive conduct that is intended to injure, intimidate, or interfere with plant or animal enterprises (see H.R. 2795), H8133 [13NO]

———provide incentives for States to enact mandatory minimum sentences for certain firearms offenses (see H.R. 534), H1061 [21MR]

Dept. of Agriculture: agricultural trade programs funding (see H.R. 98), H3618 [26JN]

Dept. of Defense: develop inventory of sites within former military ranges containing unexploded ordnance or other abandoned munitions that pose health or safety threats and improve public awareness of such sites (see H.R. 2605), H4539 [24JY]

Dept. of Education: provide specific waiver authority to respond to conditions in the national emergency declared by the President (see H.R. 3086), H6700 [11OC]

Dept. of Labor: congressional disapproval of ergonomic regulations (see H.J. Res. 35), H740 [7MR]

———impose limitations on the wage that an employer is required to pay an H-2A nonimmigrant agricultural worker (see H.R. 2457), H4780 [27JY]

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), H1557 [24AP]

———prohibit action to finalize, implement, or enforce a rule relative to the hours of service of drivers for motor carriers (see H.R. 1008), H876 [13MR]

Disasters: creation of protection funds by property and casualty insurance companies for the payment of policyholders' claims arising from future catastrophic events (see H.R. 785), H506 [28FE]

———improve ability of individuals and local, State, and Federal agencies to prevent natural floods (see H.R. 1100), H1010 [20MR]

Drugs: extend and modify the Drug-Free Communities Support Program and authorize a National Community Antidrug Coalition Institute (see H.R. 2291), H3465 [21JN]

Earthquakes: provide incentives to encourage private sector efforts to reduce earthquake losses and establish a national disaster mitigation program (see H.R. 1669), H1715 [1MY]

Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: make tax benefits permanent (see H.R. 2316), H3807 [28JN]

Ecuador: condemn kidnapping and murder of individuals by terrorists and support U.S. efforts to combat such terrorism (see H. Con. Res. 89), H3807 [28JN]

Education: allow home school students who are eligible for enrollment in the overseas defense dependents' education system to use auxiliary services of system schools (see H.R. 830), H622 [1MR]

———spending of a greater percentage of Federal tax dollars on children's classrooms (see H.R. 1944), H2570 [22MY]

Employment: exclude employer contributions to health care expenditure accounts from gross income for tax purposes and clarify applicability of ERISA to plans employing such accounts (see H.R. 2658), H4723 [26JY]

Endangered Species Act: require the Dept. of the Interior to give greater weight to scientific or commercial data that is empirical or has been field-tested or peer-reviewed (see H.R. 2829), H5338 [2AU]

Energy Policy and Conservation Act: eliminate certain plumbing supply regulations (see H.R. 1479), H1661 [26AP]

Federal Water Pollution Control Act: amend relative to wetlands mitigation banking (see H.R. 1474), H1486 (see H.R. 1474), H1495 [4AP]

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

Fish and fishing: efforts to rehabilitate salmon stocks in the Pacific Northwest (see H.R. 1157), H1060 [21MR]

Flag—U.S.: constitutional amendment to prohibit desecration (see H.J. Res. 36), H3359 [20JN]

Foreign policy: recognize important relationship between the U.S. and the Philippines (see H. Con. Res. 273), H8949 [5DE]

Foreign trade: extend trade authorities procedures with respect to reciprocal trade agreements (see H.R. 2149), H3149 [13JN]

Forest Service: Recreational Fee Demonstration Program termination (see H.R. 1139), H1059 [21MR]

Gambling: expand and modernize the prohibition against interstate gambling (see H.R. 3215), H8339 [16NO]

———protect amateur athletics and combat illegal sports gambling (see H.R. 641), H1116 [22MR]

Hector G. Godinez Post Office Building, Santa Ana, CA: designate (see H.R. 1366), H1558 [24AP]

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

Individuals With Disabilities Education Act: authorizing appropriations (see H.R. 835), H622 [1MR]

Klamath Basin: authorize refunds of amounts collected from Klamath Project irrigation and drainage districts for operation and maintenance of transferred and reserved water works (see H.R. 2828), H5338 [2AU]

———respond to economic disaster threatening certain farmers and communities resulting from denial of irrigation water for the Klamath Project (see H.R. 2827), H5338 [2AU]

Law enforcement officers: exempt from State laws prohibiting the carrying of concealed handguns (see H.R. 218), H4352 [19JY]

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

Medal of Honor: increase rate of special pension for recipients, authorize recipients to be furnished an additional medal for display purposes, and increase criminal penalties associated with misuse or fraud (see H.R. 2561), H6056 [25SE]

Medicare: improve payments and regulation under the Medicare+Choice program (see H.R. 3584), H10964 [20DE]

———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]

Monuments and memorials: prohibit extension or establishment of any national monument without an express act of Congress (see H.R. 2114), H2997 [7JN]

National Day of Reconciliation: designate (see H. Con. Res. 184), H6057 [25SE]

Pensions: provide retirement investment advice to workers managing their retirement income assets (see H.R. 2269), H7852 [6NO]

———reform (see H.R. 10), H927 [14MR]

Peru: congratulate President-elect Alejandro Toledo on his election, congratulate the people for the return of democracy, and express sympathy for earthquake victims (see H. Res. 181), H3712 [27JN]

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

Power resources: allow any business or individual in any State experiencing a power emergency to operate any type of power generation available to ensure their economic stability (see H.R. 1874), H2280 [16MY]

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

Public welfare programs: authorize State use of funds provided under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program to support infant safe haven programs (see H.R. 2018), H4863 [30JY]

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

Rural areas: promote and improve access to health care services (see H.R. 2157), H3359 [20JN]

Safe Drinking Water Act: provide grants to small public drinking water systems (see H.R. 1178), H8248 [15NO]

Santee, CA: shooting of students at Santana High School (see H. Con. Res. 57), H827 [8MR]

Science: prohibit the cloning of humans (see H.R. 1644), H2680 [23MY]

Small business: improve access and choice relative to employee health care (see H.R. 1774), H2081 [9MY]

Social Security: ensure solvency (see H. Con. Res. 214), H5338 [2AU]

———include additional information in account statements (see H.R. 634), H741 [7MR]

———modify reporting requirements (see H.R. 930), H828 [8MR]

Taxation: accelerate repeal of estate and generation-skipping transfer taxes and reduction in gift taxes (see H.R. 2631), H5340 [2AU]

———allow advanced applied technology equipment to be expensed and reduce the depreciation recovery periods for certain other property (see H.R. 2485), H7960 [8NO]

———allow deduction for charitable contributions to individuals who do not itemize other deductions (see H.R. 777), H505 [28FE]

———allow Farm and Ranch Risk Management Accounts (see H.R. 662), H1410 [3AP]

———clarify that personal service corporations may continue to use the cash method of accounting (see H.R. 1317), H1344 [29MR]

———clarify treatment of incentive stock options and employee stock purchases (see H.R. 2695), H7960 [8NO]

———eligibility of veterans for mortgage revenue bond financing (see H.R. 959), H826 [8MR]

———exclude from gross income discharges of indebtedness attributable to certain forgiven residential mortgage obligations (see H.R. 13), H2334 [17MY]

———exempt State and local political committees from certain notification and reporting requirements applicable to political organizations (see H.R. 527), H1557 [24AP]

———expand child tax credit (see H.R. 539), H253 [8FE]

———extend filing period for credits or refunds (see H.R. 1336), H1407 [3AP]

———extend the moratorium on the taxation of Internet and interactive computer service commerce (see H.R. 1552), H6458 [9OC]

———facilitate electric cooperative participation in a competitive electric power industry (see H.R. 1601), H1718 [1MY]

———improve electric reliability, enhance transmission infrastructure, and facilitate access to the electric transmission grid (see H.R. 1459), H1861 [2MY]

———incentives to ensure timely and equitable access to the Internet over current and future generations of broadband capability (see H.R. 267), H827 [8MR]

———increase limitation on contributions to individual retirement accounts (see H.R. 12), H25 [3JA]

———make permanent the moratorium on the taxation of Internet and interactive computer service commerce (see H.R. 1675), H6458 [9OC]

———permanently extend research credit and adjust the alternative incremental credit rates (see H.R. 41), H112 [30JA]

———permit churches and other houses of worship to engage in political campaigns (see H.R. 2357), H7718 [1NO]

———permit consolidation of life insurance companies with other companies (see H.R. 909), H739 [7MR]

———promote, protect, and clarify status of professional employer organizations (see H.R. 2807), H6380 [4OC]

———provide a shorter recovery period for the depreciation of certain leasehold improvements (see H.R. 1030), H928 [14MR]

———provide a shorter recovery period for the depreciation of certain restaurant buildings (see H.R. 826), H5488 [10SE]

———provide credits for constructing energy efficient homes or improving existing homes (see H.R. 2147), H4113 [17JY]

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

———provide relief for victims of the terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Somerset County, PA (see H.R. 2884), H5615 [13SE]

———rates (see H.R. 3), H650 [6MR] (see H.R. 1018), H927 [14MR]

———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 alternative minimum tax (see H.R. 437), H4949 [31JY]

———repeal alternative minimum tax treatment of incentive stock options to change the taxable event from the exercise of the stock option to the stock sale (see H.R. 2794), H5456 [6SE]

———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 excise tax on telephone use and other communications services (see H.R. 236), H64 [6JA]

———repeal limitation on the use of foreign tax credits under the alternative minimum tax (see H.R. 1600), H1658 [26AP]

———repeal motor fuel excise taxes which remain in the general fund of the Treasury on railroads and inland waterway transportation (see H.R. 1024), H2142 [10MY]

———repeal tax increase on Social Security benefits (see H.R. 122), H7852 [6NO]

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

———treat certain motor vehicle dealer transitional assistance as an involuntary conversion (see H.R. 2374), H7529 [30OC]

———treatment of active financing income earned overseas by financial services firms (see H.R. 1357), H1408 [3AP]

———treatment of bonds issued to acquire renewable resources on land subject to conservation easement (see H.R. 1711), H1923 [3MY]

———treatment of certain commercial power takeoff vehicles (see H.R. 1438), H3619 [26JN]

———treatment of certain expenses of rural letter carriers relative to the business use of a personal vehicle (see H.R. 2350), H3712 [27JN]

———treatment of crops destroyed by casualty (see H.R. 2354), H3801 [28JN]

———treatment of depreciation of computer equipment (see H.R. 1895, 1895), H3207 [18JN]

———treatment of depreciation of wireless telecommunications equipment (see H.R. 1268), H1717 [1MY]

———treatment of expenses in connection with services as a member of a Reserve component of the Armed Forces (see H.R. 968), H6056 [25SE]

———treatment of forestry activities (see H.R. 1581), H1604 [25AP]

———treatment of individual retirement accounts relative to charitable contributions (see H.R. 774), H505 [28FE]

———treatment of long-term vehicle storage by tax-exempt organizations which conduct county and similar fairs (see H.R. 986), H5971 [24SE]

———treatment of policyholder dividends of mutual life insurance companies and policyholder surplus accounts (see H.R. 661), H395 [14FE]

———treatment of printed wiring boards and printed wiring assembly equipment (see H.R. 1934), H2570 [22MY]

Terrorism: 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), H6138 [2OC]

Transportation: provide assistance for the construction of certain air traffic control towers (see H.R. 1979), H3260 [19JN]

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

Vietnamese Conflict: require a study on the eligibility requirements for inclusion of veterans' names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and an alternative means to honor ineligible veterans (see H.R. 3443), H10910 [19DE]

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

Dept. of the Interior: provide compensation to individuals who are injured by an escaped prescribed fire and amend certain tort procedure provisions relating to claims for such fires (see H.R. 3196), H7591 [31OC]

Families and domestic relations: support efforts encouraging responsible fatherhood and healthy marriages (see H.R. 2893), H5703 [14SE]

Klamath Basin: compensation of persons who were economically harmed as a result of the implementation of the Endangered Species Act (see H.R. 2389), H3803 [28JN]

Public welfare programs: suspend bonus payments to States to reward decreases in illegitimacy ratios under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (see H.R. 2892), H5703 [14SE]

Social Security: extend Promoting Safe and Stable Families and Foster Care Independent Living programs, support mentoring programs for children of incarcerated parents, and assist youths aging out of foster care (see H.R. 2873), H5487 [10SE]

———protect Social Security and Medicare surpluses through strengthened budgetary enforcement mechanisms (see H.R. 2), H252 [8FE]

States: issue vouchers to older individuals for nutrition services (see H.R. 2188), H3202 [14JN]

Taxation: clarify that certain small businesses are permitted to use the cash method of accounting (see H.R. 656), H395 [14FE]

———clarify the definition of contribution in aid of construction (see H.R. 582), H323 [13FE]

———ensure that income averaging for farmers does not increase a farmer's liability for the alternative minimum tax (see H.R. 658), H395 [14FE]

———expand depreciation benefits available to small businesses for new business investment and equipment (see H.R. 657), H395 [14FE]

———extension of the credit for producing electricity from biomass (see H.R. 1657), H1715 [1MY]

———modify the depreciation of property used in the generation of electricity (see H.R. 1802), H2140 [10MY]

———permit cooperatives to pay dividends on preferred stock without reducing patronage dividends (see H.R. 2280), H3464 [21JN]

———treatment of distributions from publicly traded partnerships (see H.R. 1463), H1485 (see H.R. 1463), H1495 [4AP]

Unemployment: repeal Federal surtax (see H.R. 3097), H6701 [11OC]

Remarks

California: energy crisis, H3626 [27JN]

Children and youth: give highest priority to providing assistance, services, and benefits to children who lost parents or guardians in terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Somerset County, PA (H. Con. Res. 228), H8081 [13NO]

Depts. of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 2500), H4149, H4150, H4151 [18JY]

Federal aid programs: provide for emergency unemployment compensation program and emergency health coverage assistance, H7252 [24OC]

Klamath Basin: authorize refunds of amounts collected from Klamath Project irrigation and drainage districts for operation and maintenance of transferred and reserved water works (H.R. 2828), E2131 [27NO]

———compensation of persons who were economically harmed as a result of the implementation of the Endangered Species Act, H4149, H4150, H4151 [18JY]

———compensation of persons who were economically harmed as a result of the implementation of the Endangered Species Act (H.R. 2389), E1279 [29JN]

Oregon: water shortage in the Klamath Basin, H1830 [2MY]

Social Security: extend Promoting Safe and Stable Families and Foster Care Independent Living programs, support mentoring programs for children of incarcerated parents, and assist youths aging out of foster care (H.R. 2873), H8088, H8091, H8093 [13NO]

———protect Social Security and Medicare surpluses through strengthened budgetary enforcement mechanisms (H.R. 2), H270 [13FE]

Taxation: clarify that certain small businesses are permitted to use the cash method of accounting (H.R. 656), E177 [14FE]

———clarify the definition of contribution in aid of construction (H.R. 582), E153 [13FE]

———eligibility of veterans for mortgage revenue bond financing (H.R. 959), E328 [8MR]

———ensure that income averaging for farmers does not increase a farmer's liability for the alternative minimum tax (H.R. 658), E175 [14FE]

———expand depreciation benefits available to small businesses for new business investment and equipment (H.R. 657), E179 [14FE]

———modify the depreciation of property used in the generation of electricity (H.R. 1802), E786 [10MY]

———permit cooperatives to pay dividends on preferred stock without reducing patronage dividends (H.R. 2280), E1184 [21JN]

———phase out estate and gift taxes (H.R. 8), H1438 [4AP]

———provide incentives for economic recovery (H.R. 3090), H7252 [24OC]

———provide incentives for economic recovery (H.R. 3529), H10854 [19DE]

———rates (H.R. 3), H766 [8MR]

———reduce marriage tax penalty by adjusting rate brackets, standard deductions, and the earned income tax credit and increase child credits (H.R. 6), H1306 [29MR]

———treatment of distributions from publicly traded partnerships (H.R. 1463), E566 [5AP]

Treaties and agreements: extend trade negotiating and trade agreement implementing authority (H.R. 3005), H8997 [6DE]

Votes: position on missed, H4895 [31JY]

Remarks in House relative to

Special order: granted, H1713 [1MY], H3616 [26JN]