ACEVEDO-VILA, ANIBAL (a Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico)

Appointments

Committee To Escort President Vicente Fox of Mexico Into the House Chamber, H5410 [6SE]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Antitrust policy: make technical corrections to laws (see H.R. 809), H621 [1MR]

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: preserve the Arctic coastal plain as wilderness (see H.R. 770), H877 [13MR]

Armed Forces: provide retirees all benefits promised to them upon enlistment (see H.R. 51), H8343 [19NO]

———restore health care coverage to retired members of the uniformed services (see H.R. 179), H929 [14MR]

Aviation: impose temporary moratorium on certain airline mergers and acquisitions (see H.R. 761), H1489 [4AP]

Capital punishment: ensure that defendants in capital cases have adequate counsel and allow those convicted to have a reasonable opportunity to present new evidence of innocence (see H.R. 912), H3260 [19JN]

Chavez, Cesar E.: commemorate birthday (see H. Res. 105), H1295 [28MR]

Children and youth: improve academic and social outcomes for students by providing productive activities during after-school hours (see H.R. 1429), H1483 (see H.R. 1429), H1493 [4AP]

———provide for a national media campaign to reduce and prevent underage drinking (see H.R. 1509), H5339 [2AU]

Civil rights: improve remedies for discrimination in the payment of wages based on sex (see H.R. 781), H5339 [2AU]

Colleges and universities: increase funding and decrease matching requirement for historically black colleges and universities (see H.R. 1606), H6702 [11OC]

Community development: enhance availability of capital and credit for citizens and communities and ensure that community reinvestment keeps pace as financial service providers become affiliated (see H.R. 865), H648 [6MR]

Congress: hold joint session in New York, NY (see H. Con. Res. 249, 249), H9078 [6DE]

Congressional Gold Medal: award posthumously to officers, emergency personnel, and governmental employees who responded to the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center (see H.R. 3054), H8133 [13NO]

Contracts: require Federal agencies to follow certain procedures relative to the bundling of procurement contract requirements (see H.R. 1324), H1558 [24AP]

Credit: allow any consumer to receive a free credit report annually from any consumer reporting agency (see H.R. 2031), H2847 [25MY]

Credit cards: protect consumers from unreasonable credit card fees or interest rates (see H.R. 2032), H2847 [25MY]

Crime: provide Federal assistance to States and local jurisdictions to prosecute hate crimes (see H.R. 1343), H3713 [27JN]

Dept. of Defense: require all defense-related agencies of the U.S. to fully comply with Federal and State environmental laws (see H.R. 2154), H3864 [10JY]

Dept. of HUD: evaluate and reduce lead-based paint hazards at public elementary schools and licensed child day-care facilities (see H.R. 2034), H2847 [25MY]

———grants to States to supplement assistance for the preservation of affordable housing for low-income families (see H.R. 425), H2956 [6JN]

———increase mortgage loan limits for multifamily housing mortgage insurance (see H.R. 1629), H2849 [25MY]

Dept. of the Interior: conduct a special resource study of sites associated with the life of Cesar E. Chavez and the farm labor movement to determine appropriate methods for their preservation and interpretation (see H.R. 2966), H6380 [4OC]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: clarify compensation standards for Persian Gulf Conflict veterans suffering from certain undiagnosed illnesses (see H.R. 612), H1121 [26MR]

———suspend authority to increase copayment for medication furnished on an outpatient basis for treatment of service-connected disabilities (see H.R. 2820), H8248 [15NO]

Ecology and environment: assessment, cleanup, and redevelopment of brownfield sites (see H.R. 2064), H3069 [12JN]

Education: improve quality and raise student achievement by strengthening accountability, raising teaching standards, rewarding success, and providing better information to parents (see H.R. 340), H827 [8MR]

El Paso, TX: establish a national immigration museum (see H.R. 2162, 2162), H9078 [6DE]

Electronic Fund Transfer Act: require additional disclosures relative to exchange rates in transfers involving international transactions (see H.R. 1306), H1344 [29MR]

Employment: prohibit discrimination on the basis of affectional or sexual orientation (see H.R. 2692), H4948 [31JY]

Fair Labor Standards Act: reform provisions relative to child labor (see H.R. 2239), H3259 [19JN]

Federal contracts: ensure public accountability, efficient delivery of services, reasonable cost savings, and prevention of unwarranted expenses (see H.R. 721), H1489 [4AP]

Finger Lakes National Forest: prohibit oil and natural gas drilling (see H.R. 3460, 3460), H9239 [11DE]

Fish and fishing: recover depleted fish stocks and promote the long-term sustainability of marine fisheries (see H.R. 2570), H4352 [19JY]

Foreign aid: provide debt relief to developing countries with coral reef preservation and management programs (see H.R. 2272), H3519 [25JN]

Health: improve access to health care services for uninsured and low-income individuals in medically under served areas (see H. Res. 87), H1347 [29MR]

———protection of enrollees in managed care plans and HMO's (see H.R. 526), H3519 [25JN]

Higgins, Andrew Jackson: posthumous awarding of Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 2078), H2955 [6JN]

Higgins Industries: award Congressional Gold Medal to World War II-era employees (see H.R. 2078), H2955 [6JN]

Higher Education Act: authorizing appropriations (see H.R. 1162), H1112 [22MR]

``Hispanic Americans in Congress'': authorizing printing (see H. Con. Res. 90), H1345 [29MR]

Huerta, Dolores: tribute for commitment to the improvement of working conditions for children, women, and farm worker families (see H. Con. Res. 177), H3807 [28JN]

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

Immigration and Nationality Act: revise various provisions (see H.R. 500), H5339 [2AU]

Information services: deregulate Internet and high speed data services (see H.R. 1542), H3068 [12JN]

Infrastructure: invest funds to restore the economy and to enhance security of transportation and environmental facilities (see H.R. 3166, 3166), H8843 [4DE]

King, Martin Luther, Jr. and Coretta Scott: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 2723), H8338 [16NO]

LIHEAP: encourage the release of funds to individuals affected by the terrorist attacks (see H. Res. 300, 300), H8843 [4DE]

Medicaid: clarify that Native American women eligible for coverage under Indian health plans are eligible for optional breast and cervical cancer coverage (see H.R. 1383), H8248 [15NO]

———remove the cap on payments for Puerto Rico and certain other territories and adjust the statutory matching rate (see H.R. 48), H26 [3JA]

Medicare: coverage of inpatient hospital services in Puerto Rico (see H.R. 1656), H1715 [1MY]

———reimbursement for chiropractic services (see H.R. 902, 902), H10067 [13DE]

———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, 3351), H8843 [4DE]

Minimum wage: level (see H.R. 665), H396 [14FE]

National Affordable Housing Trust Fund: establish to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing for low-income families (see H.R. 2349), H6137 [2OC]

National Coast Guard Museum: establish (see H.R. 850), H2998 [7JN]

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

National security: develop local emergency response plans that provide a defined and unified response to terrorist attacks and other catastrophes (see H.R. 3161), H7333 [25OC]

Native Americans: clarify citizenship eligibility for certain members of the Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona (see H.R. 2348), H5340 [2AU]

———establish programs to improve energy development on Indian lands (see H.R. 2412), H3864 [10JY]

Nuclear weapons: suspend use, sale, development, production, testing, and export of depleted uranium munitions pending the outcome of certain studies of the health effects of such munitions (see H.R. 3155), H7127 [17OC]

OMB: require explanation for omission of any insular area from treatment as part of the U.S., in issued statements (see H.R. 2428), H3805 [28JN]

Outer Continental Shelf: use of oil and gas production royalties to establish a fund for outdoor conservation and recreation needs (see H.R. 701), H1489 [4AP]

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]

Postal Service: amend pay policies and schedules and fringe benefit programs for postmasters (see H.R. 250), H443 [27FE]

Public Health Service Act: prohibit discrimination relative to exposure to hazardous substances (see H.R. 1540), H5928 [21SE]

Railroads: provide for the financing of high-speed rail infrastructure (see H.R. 2950), H6781 [12OC]

Safe Drinking Water Act: provide grants to small public drinking water systems (see H.R. 1178), H2387 [21MY]

SBA: authorize loans to small businesses and certain other businesses that suffered substantial economic injury as a result of terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Somerset County, PA (see H.R. 3011), H6259 [3OC] (see H.R. 3308), H8248 [15NO]

———require submission of certain disagreements to the OMB for resolution and establish a minimum period for the solicitation of offers for a bundled contract (see H.R. 2867), H5455 [6SE]

Social Security: earnings test for blind individuals (see H.R. 498), H222 [7FE]

States: adopt and enforce standards that prohibit the use of racial profiling in the enforcement of laws regulating the use of Federal-aid highways (see H.R. 1907), H2333 [17MY]

Taxation: allow a credit to holders of qualified bonds issued by Amtrak (see H.R. 2329), H3711 [27JN]

———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), H1121 [26MR]

———incentives to ensure timely and equitable access to the Internet over current and future generations of broadband capability (see H.R. 267), H1346 [29MR]

———provide a uniform dollar limitation for transportation fringe benefits excludable from gross income (see H.R. 318, 318), H8949 [5DE]

———provide tax credits to promote home ownership among low-income individuals (see H.R. 2033), H5340 [2AU]

———treatment of amounts received under qualified group legal services plans (see H.R. 1434), H1925 [3MY]

———treatment of investments in Puerto Rico (see H.R. 2550), H4215 [18JY]

Territories: permit duty drawback for articles shipped to the insular possessions of the U.S. (see H.R. 3395, 3395), H8842 [4DE]

Terrorism: bioterrorism preparedness and response funding (see H.R. 3255), H7959 [8NO]

———grant posthumous citizenship to certain lawfully admitted aliens killed or injured due to terrorist attacks on World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Somerset County, PA (see H.R. 2897), H6056 [25SE]

———prevent, prepare for, and respond to threats (see H.R. 3555, 3555), H10963 [20DE]

Travel and Tourism Promotion Bureau: establish (see H.R. 3157), H7127 [17OC]

Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo: establish Presidential commission to determine validity of certain land claims involving the descendants of persons who were Mexican citizens (see H.R. 1823), H2142 [10MY]

Veterans: increase maximum amount of home loan guarantees available to veterans (see H.R. 442), H8248 [15NO]

———permit concurrent receipt of military retired pay with service-connected disability benefits (see H.R. 303), H877 [13MR]

———repeal manifestation period for a presumption of service-connection for respiratory cancers occurring in Vietnam veterans (see H.R. 1587), H2335 [17MY]

Voting: protect voting rights (see H.R. 1170), H3260 [19JN]

Water: authorize appropriations for municipal construction grant program for wastewater treatment (see H.R. 1751), H2021 [8MY]

———authorize appropriations for State water pollution control revolving funds (see H.R. 668), H1061 [21MR] (see H.R. 1750), H2021 [8MY]

Women: constitutional amendment to ensure equal rights (see H.J. Res. 40), H1114 [22MR]

———promote economic security and safety of domestic and sexual violence victims (see H.R. 2670), H4779 [27JY]

Woods, Tiger: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 1425), H4014 [16JY]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Corps of Engineers: reassess allocation of Federal and non-Federal costs for construction of the Cerrillos Dam (see H.R. 3152), H7127 [17OC]

Dept. of Agriculture: acquire and manage lands in Puerto Rico to protect critical aquifers and watersheds (see H.R. 3213), H7717 [1NO]

Dept. of Defense: expand range maintenance program for removal of unexploded ordnance and munitions from certain military training ranges to include underwater portions of live impact areas (see H.R. 3212), H7717 [1NO]

Elementary and Secondary Education Act: amend to ensure fairness (see H.R. 3349), H8420 [27NO]

Puerto Rico: Nutritional Assistance Program funding (see H.R. 3405, 3405), H8948 [5DE]

———permit dependents of Federal employees enrolled in Dept. of Defense schools to continue such enrollment until graduation from secondary school (see H.R. 3233), H7852 [6NO]

Social Security: allocate allotments to territories under the State Children's Health Insurance Program in the same manner as for States (see H.R. 3508, 3508), H10355 [18DE]

Taxation: treatment of distilled spirits in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands (see H.R. 3114), H6780 [12OC]

Weather: extend benefits of the weatherization assistance program to Puerto Rico (see H.R. 3241), H7909 [7NO]

Remarks

Agriculture: continue certain programs (H.R. 2646), H6176, H6187 [3OC]

Andean Trade Preference Act: extend and expand (H.R. 3009), H8297 [16NO]

Committee on Education and the Workforce (House): subcommittee jurisdiction over issues concerning historically Black colleges, Hispanic-serving institutions, and tribal colleges and universities, H511 [1MR]

Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (H.R. 2586), H6039 [25SE]

———authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (H.R. 2586), consideration (H. Res. 246), H6014 [25SE]

Education: close the achievement gap by raising the achievement levels of the lowest performing students (H.R. 1), conference report, H10106 [13DE]

Fish and fishing: tax treatment of tuna imports, H8297 [16NO]

Puerto Rico: education funding, H10106 [13DE]

———Nutritional Assistance Program funding, H6187 [3OC]

———use of tax incentives to promote economic development and business investment, H834 [13MR]

———use of Vieques Island for military operations, H632 [6MR], H1672 [1MY], H6014, H6039 [25SE]

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), H5587 [11SE]

Remarks in House relative to

Special order: granted, H1713 [1MY]

Tributes

Quinones, Denise, H2155 [15MY]

Trinidad, Felix (Tito), H2155 [15MY]