LITERATURE

Articles and editorials

Author Gone, but Words Live On, Eudora Welty Remembered, S8114 [24JY]

`Grand Lady' Admired for Pure Voice, S8114 [24JY]

Life's an Open Book? Crack It, E1733 [25SE]

Meskis a Readers' Champion, E1631 [11SE]

Victor Strings Word To Compute Life x 13, E1734 [25SE]

Bills and resolutions

Capitol Building and Grounds: authorizing use of Grounds for National Book Festival (see S. Con. Res. 41), S5439 [22MY]

———authorizing use of Grounds for the National Book Festival (see H. Con. Res. 134), H2184 [15MY]

Children and youth: improve access to books (see H.R. 116), H59 [6JA]

———provide vouchers for the purchase of educational books for children participating in the WIC program (see H.R. 1849), H2183 [15MY]

Drucker, Peter F.: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 1879), H2280 [16MY]

Hughes, Langston: issue commemorative postage stamp (see H. Con. Res. 205), H4862 [30JY]

Hurston, Zora Neale: issue commemorative postage stamp (see H. Res. 208), H4634 [25JY]

National Endowment for the Arts: repeal State grant limitations (see H.R. 137), H60 [6JA]

National Endowment for the Humanities: rename the Regional Humanities Initiative in honor of Eudora Welty (see S. Res. 156), S8911 [3AU]

Taxation: adjust capital gains treatment of art and collectibles and provide a deduction for charitable contributions of literary, musical, artistic, or scholarly compositions created by the donor (see S. 638), S3052 [28MR]

———allow deduction equal to fair market value for charitable contributions of literary, musical, artistic, or scholarly compositions created by the donor (see S. 694), S3436 [4AP] (see H.R. 1598), H1657 [26AP]

———designate overpayments and contributions to the U.S. Library Trust Fund (see H.R. 378), H165 [31JA]

Essays

Philo-Semitism in the Work of the Polish Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz—He Pays Tribute to Jewish Literature: Emanuel Rackman and Stephen Wagner, E1856 [12OC]

Excerpts

``American Spirit in the New Millennium,'' Ron Morgan, E2250 [11DE]

Letters

Artist-Museum Partnership Act: Ben Cameron, Theatre Communications Group, Inc., S3445 [4AP]

———Maxwell L. Anderson, Whitney Museum of American Art, S3444 [4AP]

———Millicent Hall Gaudieri, Association of Art Museum Directors, S3445 [4AP]

———Peter C. Marzio, Houston, TX, Museum of Fine Arts, S3445 [4AP]

Lists

Books on political corruption and campaign contributions, S2866 [26MR]

Poems

``Again Rejoicing Nature Sees,'' Robert Burns, S2552 [20MR]

``America for Me,'' Henry Van Dyke, S3973 [26AP]

``As One Whole,'' Robin Engelke, E2367 [20DE]

``Building of the Ship,'' Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, S3972 [26AP], S7155 [29JN]

``Crossing the Bar,'' Alfred (Lord) Tennyson, S3971 [26AP]

``Guy in the Glass,'' Dale Wimbrow, S1106 [7FE]

``Heritage,'' Rudyard Kipling, S3973 [26AP]

``I Saw Them Tearing a Building Down'', S3973 [26AP]

``I Wandered,'' William Wordsworth, S2552 [20MR]

``Invictus,'' William E. Henley, S3972 [26AP]

``Irish Blessing'', H343 [14FE]

``Isles of Greece,'' George G. Byron (Lord), H985 [20MR]

``Lamentations,'' Aaron Espy, H3633 [27JN]

``Life's Mirror,'' Madeline Bridges, S8875 [3AU]

``Lindsay Trumpet Still Sounds,'' Representative Owens, E121 [6FE]

``Looking Up at Him'', S3971 [26AP]

``Man Comes a Pilgrim'', S3971 [26AP]

``No Man Is an Island,'' John Donne, S44 [5JA]

``Old Man Going a Lone Highway,'' Will Dromgoole, S3971 [26AP]

``Republic From the `Building of the Ship','' Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, S10820 [18OC]

``Right to Labor in Joy,'' Edwin Markham, S3972 [26AP]

``Road Not Taken,'' Robert Frost, S3971 [26AP]

``Scent of Roses,'' Thomas Moore, S3972 [26AP]

``Take Your Seats,'' Jacquelyn C.C. Mendiola, E1819 [5OC]

``Thanksgiving Prayer,'' Kathryn Kay, S12052 [27NO]

``Trees,'' Joyce Kilmer, S3972 [26AP]

``Turn Back to God,'' Ethel A. Smith, S10284 [4OC]

``Twas Battered and Scarred'', S14047 [20DE]

``United We Stand,'' Brittni N. Bates, E1689 [21SE]

``Wanted,'' J.G. Holland, S10821 [18OC]

``Workman to the Gods,'' Edwin Markham, S3972 [26AP]

``Year's at the Spring,'' Robert Browning, S2553 [20MR]

Proclamations

Tribute to Ellen Ratner: Representative Ney, E1605 [6SE]

Questions and answers

Nomination of Michael Hammond to be National Endowment for the Arts Chairperson: Senator Kennedy with Michael Hammond, S14048 [20DE]

Remarks in House

Bush, Laura Welch: tribute for efforts relative to the National Book Festival, H5476 [10SE]

Capitol Building and Grounds: authorizing use of Grounds for National Book Festival (S. Con. Res. 41), H3280, H3281 [20JN]

Dept. of Education: Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) Program funding, E1202 [26JN]

DeYoung, C. Coco: tribute to book ``Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt'', E1839 [10OC]

District of Columbia: tribute to Coca Cola Co., First Book (nonprofit organization), and Scholastic Inc., for book signing event at Union Station, H8185 [15NO]

Dunn, Stephen: recipient of Pulitzer Prize for poetry, E814 [16MY]

Grade, Inna Hecker: relief (H.R. 2971), E1856 [12OC]

Howard University: Dept. of English observance of Heart's Day, E141 [8FE]

Kilian, Helen: VSA arts (organization) Playwright Discovery Award recipient, E1750 [28SE]

Levin, Jeff: tribute to publication of book ``God, Faith, and Health—Exploring the Spirituality—Healing Connection'', E999 [5JN]

Literacy: tribute to reading initiative programs, H7533 [31OC]

Mansfield, MO: anniversary of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Library, E1211 [26JN]

Meskis, Joyce: National Council of Teachers of English National Intellectual Freedom Award recipient, E1630 [11SE]

Morgan, Ron: tribute to book ``The American Spirit in the New Millennium'', E2250 [11DE]

National Bible Week: observance, E2090 [15NO]

National Library Legislative Day: observance, H1701 [1MY]

Neal, Steve: tribute to book ``Harry & Ike, The Partnership That Remade the Postwar World'', E2113 [16NO]

San Antonio, TX: tribute to donation of children's books by Southwestern Bell Communications Telephone Pioneers (organization), E402 [20MR]

Taxation: allow deduction equal to fair market value for charitable contributions of literary, musical, artistic, or scholarly compositions created by the donor (H.R. 1598), E641 [26AP]

Remarks in Senate

Capitol Building and Grounds: authorizing use of Grounds for National Book Festival (S. Con. Res. 41), S5483 [22MY]

Children and youth: improve access to books and other reading materials and resources, S4195 [3MY]

First Book (organization): tribute for distribution of books to disadvantaged children in Massachusetts, S2574 [20MR]

National Bible Week: observance, S11999 [16NO]

National Endowment for the Humanities: rename the Regional Humanities Initiative in honor of Eudora Welty (S. Res. 156), S8975 [3AU]

National Library Week: observance, S3273 [2AP]

National Poetry Month: observance, S3971-S3973 [26AP]

Taxation: adjust capital gains treatment of art and collectibles and provide a deduction for charitable contributions of literary, musical, artistic, or scholarly compositions created by the donor (S. 638), S3056 [28MR]

———allow deduction equal to fair market value for charitable contributions of literary, musical, artistic, or scholarly compositions created by the donor, S5496 [23MY]

———allow deduction equal to fair market value for charitable contributions of literary, musical, artistic, or scholarly compositions created by the donor (S. 694), S3444, S3445 [4AP]

World Intellectual Property Day: observance, S3981 [26AP]

Texts of

S. 638, Art and Collectibles Capital Gains Tax Treatment Parity Act, S3057 [28MR]

S. Con. Res. 41, use of Capitol Grounds for National Book Festival, S5469 [22MY], H3280 [20JN]

S. Res. 156, rename the National Endowment for the Humanities Regional Humanities Initiative in honor of Eudora Welty, S8975 [3AU]

Tributes

Welty, Eudora, S8113, S8114 [24JY], H4409 [23JY], E1398, E1399 [23JY], E1415 [24JY]