GRANGER, KAY (a Representative from Texas)

Appointments

Conferee: H.R. 2299, Dept. of Transportation and related agencies appropriations, H7549 [31OC]

———H.R. 2904, Dept. of Defense appropriations for military construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure, H6102 [2OC]

———H.R. 3061, Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies appropriations, H7942 [8NO]

Mexico-U.S. Interparliamentary Group, H1944 [8MY]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Afghanistan: provide educational and health care assistance to women and children (see H.R. 3330), H8565 [28NO]

———provide for the removal from power of the Taliban regime (see H.R. 3088), H7217 [23OC]

Armed Forces: restore health care coverage to retired members of the uniformed services (see H.R. 179), H507 [28FE]

Capitol Police: tribute (see H. Con. Res. 250), H7530 [30OC]

Cesar E. Chavez Post Office Building, Dallas, TX: designate (see H.R. 1715), H2680 [23MY]

Commission for the Comprehensive Study of Privacy Protection: establish (see H.R. 583), H323 [13FE]

Computers: regulate the transmission of unsolicited commercial electronic mail (see H.R. 718), H955 [15MR]

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), H9239 [11DE]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: clarify compensation standards for Persian Gulf Conflict veterans suffering from certain undiagnosed illnesses (see H.R. 612), H4949 [31JY]

Diseases: expand research activities relative to Duchenne muscular dystrophy (see H.R. 717), H398 [14FE]

———extend issuance of special postage stamps to fund breast cancer research (see H.R. 2725), H5333 [2AU]

Earnhardt, Dale: tribute (see H. Res. 57), H442 [27FE]

Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: make tax benefits permanent (see H.R. 2316), H5126 [1AU]

Education: close the achievement gap by raising the achievement levels of the lowest performing students (see H.R. 1), H1488 [4AP]

———establish and expand programs relating to science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (see H.R. 100, 101), H224 [7FE]

Employment: provide compensatory time for all employees (see H.R. 1982), H2709 [24MY]

Energy Policy and Conservation Act: eliminate certain plumbing supply regulations (see H.R. 1479), H1486 (see H.R. 1479), H1496 [4AP]

EPA: establish position of Deputy Administrator for Science and Technology (see H.R. 64), H2571 [22MY]

FDA: grant authority to regulate tobacco (see H.R. 2180), H3201 [14JN]

Federal agencies and departments: review of efficiency and need for certain agencies (see H.R. 2373), H3802 [28JN]

Federal Prison Industries: eliminate Federal agency requirement to purchase products and require commercial competition for Federal contracts (see H.R. 1577), H2185 [15MY]

Financial institutions: prohibit financial holding companies and national banks from engaging, directly or indirectly, in real estate brokerage or real estate management activities (see H.R. 3424), H10910 [19DE]

Flag—U.S.: constitutional amendment to prohibit desecration (see H.J. Res. 36), H3619 [26JN]

Foreign trade: extend trade authorities procedures with respect to reciprocal trade agreements (see H.R. 2149), H3806 [28JN]

Government: preserve open competition and neutrality towards the labor relations of Federal Government contractors on Federal and federally funded construction projects (see H.R. 2055), H3069 [12JN]

Information services: deregulate Internet and high speed data services (see H.R. 1542), H1861 [2MY]

Insurance: prohibit use of genetic information in determining coverage or premiums (see H.R. 602), H1346 [29MR]

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), H5339 [2AU]

Law enforcement officers: exempt from State laws prohibiting the carrying of concealed handguns (see H.R. 218), H6380 [4OC]

———tribute for efforts in battling the use and production of methamphetamine (see H. Res. 114), H2335 [17MY]

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), H8732 [29NO]

Motor vehicles: provide for greater fairness in the motor vehicle franchise contract arbitration process (see H.R. 1296), H1925 [3MY]

National Center for Social Work Research: establish (see H.R. 663), H395 [14FE]

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

National Fallen Firefighters Memorial: commemorate fallen firefighters by lowering the U.S. flag to half-staff during the memorial service in Emmitsburg, MD (see H.J. Res. 42), H3519 [25JN]

National Importance of Health Care Coverage Month: designate (see H. Con. Res. 271), H8248 [15NO]

National Peace Officers Memorial Day: designate (see H. Res. 116), H1926 [3MY]

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

Railroads: modernize financing of railroad retirement system and provide enhanced benefits to employees and beneficiaries (see H.R. 1140), H1558 [24AP]

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

Small business: improve access and choice relative to employee health care (see H.R. 1774), H3358 [20JN]

Smithsonian Institution: establish National Museum of African American History and Culture (see H.R. 1718), H3713 [27JN]

Social Security: earnings test for blind individuals (see H.R. 498), H508 [28FE]

Taxation: allow a deduction for State tuition program expenses and prohibit exclusion of distributions used for education expenses from gross income (see H.R. 475), H221 [7FE]

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

———encourage stronger mathematics and science programs at elementary and secondary schools (see H.R. 102), H224 [7FE]

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

———full deduction of health insurance costs for self-employed individuals (see H.R. 154), H167 [31JA]

———incentives to ensure timely and equitable access to the Internet over current and future generations of broadband capability (see H.R. 267), H109 [30JA]

———increase limitation on contributions to individual retirement accounts (see H.R. 12), H111 [30JA]

———increase maximum annual contribution allowable to education individual retirement accounts (see H.R. 676), H396 [14FE]

———provide additional retirement savings opportunities for small employers and self-employed individuals (see H.R. 738), H1346 [29MR]

———provide relief for payment of asbestos-related claims (see H.R. 1412), H3806 [28JN]

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

———provide tax relief for health insurance and medical care expenses, establish more options for obtaining quality health care, and expand insurance coverage to the uninsured (see H.R. 2250), H3357 [20JN]

———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]

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

———treatment of beer (see H.R. 1305), H1344 [29MR]

Terrorism: improve Federal efforts to prepare for, and respond to, terrorist attacks (see H. Res. 52), H399 [14FE]

———issue commemorative postage stamp to assist families of victims of attacks at the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Somerset County, PA (see H.R. 2907), H5928 [21SE]

———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: permit concurrent receipt of military retired pay with service-connected disability benefits (see H.R. 303), H624 [1MR]

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), H3806 [28JN]

———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), H112 [30JA]

Walsh, John: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 911), H739 [7MR]

``Women in Congress, 1870-1989'': authorizing printing (see H. Con. Res. 66), H955 [15MR]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Armed Forces: make temporary adjustments in basic housing allowances in response to increases in military housing costs (see H.R. 3411), H8948 [5DE]

———reform computation of retired pay for members with hazardous duty experience, study benefits for employers of National Guard or Reserve members, and assess military youth programs expansion (see H.R. 3410), H8948 [5DE]

Comanche Code Talkers: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 3512), H10355 [18DE]

Eldon B. Mahon U.S. Courthouse, Fort Worth, TX: designate (see H.R. 1801), H2140 [10MY]

Insurance: require group health plans to provide coverage of pediatric care (see H.R. 2342), H3712 [27JN]

———require health plans to provide adequate access to services provided by obstetrician-gynecologists (see H.R. 2314), H3618 [26JN]

National Commission on Youth Crime and School Violence: establish (see H.R. 537), H253 [8FE]

Taxation: incentives for education (see H.R. 538), H253 [8FE]

Pledge of Allegiance

House of Representatives, H653 [7MR], H1413 [4AP], H2337 [21MY]

Remarks

Budget: revising and setting forth the Federal budget for 2001-2011 (H. Con. Res. 83), H1160 [27MR]

———treatment of any budget surpluses, H655 [7MR], H1160 [27MR]

Earnhardt, Dale: tribute (H. Res. 57), H421 [27FE]

Eldon B. Mahon U.S. Courthouse, Fort Worth, TX: designate (H.R. 1801), H2341 [21MY], E784 [10MY]

National Child Abuse Prevention Month: observance, H1414 [4AP]

SkiHi Enterprises, Ltd.: anniversary, E1268 [29JN]

Taxation: rates (H.R. 3), H655 [7MR]

Votes: position on missed, H2542 [22MY]

Tributes

Aikman, Troy, E1227 [27JN]

Cannon, Charles C., Jr., E1352 [18JY]

Justin, John, Jr., E264 [1MR]