SMITH, LAMAR S. (a Representative from Texas)

Appointments

Committee on Economics (Joint), H1693 [1MY]

Conferee: H.R. 333, Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act, H4954 [31JY]

———S. 1438, Dept. of Defense appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction, H7097 [17OC]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Adams Memorial Foundation: authorize establishment of a commemorative work in the District of Columbia to honor John Adams and family (see H.R. 1668), H3151 [13JN]

Armed Forces: restore health care coverage to retired members of the uniformed services (see H.R. 179), H112 [30JA]

Boy Scouts: tribute (see H. Con. Res. 33), H1117 [22MR]

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

Community service: provide incentives for communities and individuals to serve the poor and others in need and enhance ability of low-income individuals to build assets (see H.R. 7), H2571 [22MY]

Computers: encourage expansion of electronic commerce (see H. Con. Res. 132), H3714 [27JN]

———prohibit unsolicited commercial electronic mail (see H.R. 1017), H927 [14MR]

Congress: specify source of constitutional authority for the enactment of legislation (see H.R. 175), H254 [8FE]

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]

Courts: expand Federal diversity jurisdiction to allow consideration of certain interstate class actions and provide additional protections to plaintiff class members (see H.R. 2341), H5406 [5SE]

Crime: clerical and technical corrections to laws (see H.R. 2137), H3066 [12JN]

———prohibit taking minors across State lines to avoid State laws requiring parental notification of abortions (see H.R. 476), H221 [7FE]

———protect unborn victims of violence (see H.R. 503), H325 [13FE]

Dept. of Commerce: establish certain procedures for exports of commercial satellites and related items (see H.R. 1707), H3260 [19JN]

Dept. of Energy: authorize appropriations for environmental research and development, scientific and energy research, development, and demonstration, and commercial application of energy technology bioenergy programs (see H.R. 2358), H3802 [28JN]

———University Nuclear Science and Engineering Programs funding (see H.R. 2126), H3714 [27JN]

Dept. of HHS: require certification for possession of dangerous biological agents and toxins by research facilities (see H.R. 3306), H8843 [4DE]

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

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

———increased support and funding to combat juvenile diabetes (see H. Con. Res. 36), H399 [14FE]

Eldon B. Mahon U.S. Courthouse, Fort Worth, TX: designate (see H.R. 1801), H2281 [16MY]

Elementary and Secondary Education Act: eliminate the funding limitation applicable to grants for special alternative instructional programs (see H.R. 637), H1061 [21MR]

Employment: minimum wage and overtime exemptions for certain employees (see H.R. 2070), H3713 [27JN]

———provide for work authorization for nonimmigrant spouses of intracompany transferees and reduce the time they must be continuously employed before applying for admission to the U.S. (see H.R. 2278), H3464 [21JN]

Federal employees: establish an exchange program between the Government and the private sector to improve information technology management (see H.R. 2678), H8181 [14NO]

Financial institutions: encourage a strong community-based banking system (see H.R. 1220), H1490 [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]

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

Foreign trade: export controls on certain high-speed computers (see H.R. 1553), H2148 [14MY]

Gambling: expand and modernize the prohibition against interstate gambling (see H.R. 3215), H7717 [1NO]

———prohibit gambling on high school and college sports and the Olympic games (see H.R. 1110), H1011 [20MR]

Government: accountability of Federal agencies for violations of antidiscrimination and whistleblower protection laws (see H.R. 169), H623 [1MR]

Higher Education Act: remove limits on Internet course offerings, modify treatment of non-standard term programs, and clarify incentive compensation requirements (see H.R. 1992), H3260 [19JN]

House Rules: provide that the gift rule covers Members-elect (see H. Res. 73), H507 [28FE]

Information services: deregulate Internet and high speed data services (see H.R. 1542, 1542), H3207 [18JN]

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

Labor unions: protect the free choice of individual employees relative to participation in labor organizations (see H.R. 1109), H3260 [19JN]

Languages: repeal Executive order on providing access to Federal programs and activities for persons with limited English proficiency (see H.R. 969), H1061 [21MR]

Law enforcement: improve security at U.S. borders (see H.R. 3229), H8339 [16NO]

———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), H1061 [21MR]

Medicare: 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), H10910 [19DE]

———standardize payment amounts for inpatient hospital services (see H.R. 1609), H4428 [23JY]

Members of Congress: treatment of gifts to Members-elect (see H.R. 787), H506 [28FE]

Motor vehicles: prohibit operation with drugs or alcohol in the body of the driver at a land border port of entry (see H.R. 2155), H3149 [13JN]

———provide for greater fairness in the motor vehicle franchise contract arbitration process (see H.R. 1296), H1558 [24AP]

National Commission on Marginal Tax Rates for the Working Poor: establish (see H.R. 1687), H1860 [2MY]

National Day of Reconciliation: designate (see H. Con. Res. 184), H5340 [2AU]

National objectives: promote national unity and family renewal (see H. Con. Res. 124), H1924 [3MY]

NSF: anniversary (see H. Con. Res. 108), H2023 [8MY]

———identify opportunities to collaborate with other Federal agencies on increasing the utilization of existing technologies and developing new research areas to detect, prevent, and respond to terrorism (see H.R. 3344), H8343 [19NO]

Patent and Trademark Office: authorizing appropriations (see H.R. 2047), H4780 [27JY]

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

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]

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), H1294 [28MR]

Research: computer and network security research and development and research fellowship programs funding (see H.R. 3394), H8842 [4DE]

Science: prohibit the cloning of humans (see H.R. 1644), H1926 [3MY]

Seguin, Juan N.: issue commemorative postage stamp (see H. Res. 186), H4010 [12JY]

Taxation: accurately codify the depreciable life of semiconductor manufacturing equipment (see H.R. 1848), H2388 [21MY]

———allow distilled spirits wholesalers a credit for their cost of carrying Federal excise taxes prior to the sale of the product bearing the tax (see H.R. 1987), H4724 [26JY]

———allow qualified technological equipment and computer software to be expensed (see H.R. 1411), H3358 [20JN]

———clarify application of the excise tax imposed on bows and arrows (see H.R. 2001), H2710 [24MY]

———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), H1489 [4AP]

———eligibility of veterans for mortgage revenue bond financing (see H.R. 959), H5927 [21SE]

———encourage the development of a cost effective commercial space transportation industry (see H.R. 2177), H3261 [19JN]

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

———exempt State and local political committees from certain notification and reporting requirements applicable to political organizations (see H.R. 527), H508 [28FE]

———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), H109 [30JA]

———permanently extend research credit (see H.R. 1329), H1925 [3MY]

———provide relief for payment of asbestos-related claims (see H.R. 1412), H1861 [2MY]

———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 treatment of incentive stock options to change the taxable event from the exercise of the stock option to the stock sale (see H.R. 1487, 1487), H3207 [18JN] (see H.R. 2794), H6137 [2OC]

———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), H167 [31JA]

———repeal tax increase on Social Security benefits (see H.R. 122), H2889 [5JN]

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

Terrorism: combat (see H.R. 2975), H6702 [11OC]

———improve the ability of the U.S. to prepare for and respond to a biological threat or attack (see H.R. 3448), H9239 [11DE]

———tribute to first responders injured or killed following attacks at the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Somerset County, PA, and recognize first responders to previous domestic attacks (see H. Con. Res. 233), H5926 [21SE]

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), H224 [7FE]

Vietnam Veterans Memorial: authorize design and construction of a temporary education center (see H.R. 510), H828 [8MR]

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), H2890 [5JN]

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), H3068 [12JN]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Antitrust policy: notification requirements exemptions (see H.R. 2819), H5337 [2AU]

Computers: provide greater cybersecurity (see H.R. 3482), H10066 [13DE]

Crime: amend laws relative to false communications about certain criminal violations (see H.R. 3209), H7717 [1NO]

———promote accountability for violent and repeat juvenile offenders (see H.R. 863), H647 [6MR]

———treatment of the interception of electronic communications (see H.R. 2915), H5925 [21SE]

Dept. of Agriculture: provide loans to develop broadband services in rural areas (see H.R. 2139), H3067 [12JN]

Education: make permanent the favorable treatment of need-based educational aid under antitrust laws (see H.R. 768), H505 [28FE]

———provide grants to develop initiatives and disseminate information about character education (see H.R. 613), H393 [14FE]

National Character Counts Week: designate (see H. Con. Res. 204), H4862 [30JY]

Public safety officers: establish a national medal for those who act with extraordinary valor above and beyond the call of duty (see H.R. 802), H507 [28FE]

Schools: recognize right of students in public schools for silent prayer or meditation, encourage recitation of Pledge of Allegiance, and prevent discrimination based on religious character or speech (see H.J. Res. 54), H3465 [21JN]

Terrorism: implement International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings and International Convention of the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism to defend against terrorist acts (see H.R. 3275), H8034 [9NO]

Prayers

World Trade Center Disaster—My Prayer for My Brother: Laura Matthews, Spirituality.com (Internet site), E1649 [14SE]

Remarks

Adams Memorial Foundation: authorize establishment of a commemorative work in the District of Columbia to honor John Adams and family (H.R. 1668), H3478 [25JN]

Armed Forces: authorize use against those responsible for hijacking and crashing of commercial aircraft into the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Somerset County, PA (H.J. Res. 64), H5654 [14SE]

Community service: provide incentives for communities and individuals to serve the poor and others in need and enhance ability of low-income individuals to build assets (H.R. 7), consideration (H. Res. 196), H4228 [19JY]

Crime: amend laws relative to false communications about certain criminal violations (H.R. 3209), H9191 [11DE]

———promote accountability for violent and repeat juvenile offenders (H.R. 863), H6812 [16OC]

Depts. of Veterans Affairs and HUD, and sundry independent agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 2620), H4678 [26JY]

Education: close the achievement gap by raising the achievement levels of the lowest performing students (H.R. 1), E475 [28MR]

———make permanent the favorable treatment of need-based educational aid under antitrust laws (H.R. 768), H1361 [3AP]

———make permanent the favorable treatment of need-based educational aid under antitrust laws (H.R. 768), Senate amendment, H7732 [6NO]

———provide grants to develop initiatives and disseminate information about character education (H.R. 613), H328 [14FE], E475 [28MR]

Immigration: continue classification of certain aliens as children throughout the immigration process (H.R. 1209), H2902 [6JN]

NASA: funding, H4678 [26JY]

National Character Counts Week: designate (H. Con. Res. 204), H5936 [24SE]

National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day: observance (S. Con. Res. 44), H8370 [27NO]

Patent and Trademark Office: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 2047), H7730 [6NO]

Public safety officers: establish a national medal for those who act with extraordinary valor above and beyond the call of duty (H.R. 802), H1067 [22MR]

Science: allow the cloning of certain human tissues for research purposes, H4919 [31JY]

———prohibit the cloning of humans (H.R. 2505), H4919 [31JY]

Taxation: extend the moratorium on the taxation of Internet and interactive computer service commerce (H.R. 1552), H6807 [16OC]

Terrorism: condemn and respond to hijacking and crashing of commercial aircraft into the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Somerset County, PA (H.J. Res. 61), H5574 [11SE]

———deter and punish terrorist acts and enhance law enforcement investigatory tools (H.R. 2975), H6760 [12OC]