SKELTON, IKE (a Representative from Missouri)

Addresses

Memorial Service for Victims Killed in Terrorist Attack on the Pentagon: Donald H. Rumsfeld. Sec. of Defense, E1899 [16OC]

Military History and the Battlefield of the Future: by, E1072-E1074 [12JN]

Wentworth Military Academy Commencement: by, E1022 [6JN]

Amendments

Appropriations: making supplemental appropriations (H.R. 2216), H3307, H3359 [20JN]

Appointments

Conferee: H.R. 2883, intelligence services appropriations, H8849 [5DE]

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

Harry S Truman Scholarship Foundation, H977 [20MR]

Norman Sisisky funeral attendees, H1349 [30MR]

Articles and editorials

Americans Under Attack, Jefferson City (MO) News Tribune, E1730 [25SE]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Armed Forces: continue payment of servicemen and women who have been deployed for an extended period of time (see H.R. 3164), H8339 [16NO]

———improve Montgomery GI Bill benefits by improving and expanding educational assistance programs (see H.R. 320), H162 [31JA]

———increase basic pay (see H.R. 244), H224 [7FE]

Aviation: ensure fair resolution of labor integration issues relative to airline mergers (see H.R. 2989), H6136 [2OC]

Children and youth: protect infants who are born alive (see H.R. 2175), H3714 [27JN]

Children's Vision Awareness Day: designate (see H. Res. 226), H5338 [2AU]

China, People's Republic of: prohibit payment of any claim for reimbursement of costs associated with the Navy reconnaissance plane forced to make an emergency landing (see H.R. 2507), H4111 [17JY]

Civil rights: improve remedies for discrimination in the payment of wages based on sex (see H.R. 781), H2334 [17MY]

Colleges and universities: disclosure of fire safety standards and measures with respect to campus buildings (see H.R. 471), H221 [7FE]

Computers: regulate the transmission of unsolicited commercial electronic mail (see H.R. 718), H628 [5MR]

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), H9082 [10DE]

Consumers: require disclosure of terms of rental-purchase agreements (see H.R. 1701), H2281 [16MY]

Crime: prohibit taking minors across State lines to avoid State laws requiring parental notification of abortions (see H.R. 476), H650 [6MR]

———provide Federal assistance to States and local jurisdictions to prosecute hate crimes (see H.R. 1343), H1407 [3AP]

Cuba: assist internal opposition and further help the Cuban people to regain their freedom (see H.R. 1271), H3713 [27JN]

Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (see H.R. 2586), H4427 [23JY]

———award the Purple Heart to civilian employees who are killed or wounded by a terrorist attack (see H.R. 2886), H5615 [13SE]

———making emergency supplemental appropriations (see H.R. 576), H322 [13FE] (see H.R. 1173), H1191 [27MR]

———review military service records to determine if certain Jewish war veterans should be awarded the Medal of Honor (see H.R. 606), H2281 [16MY]

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 HHS: establish an Office on Men's Health (see H.R. 632), H394 [14FE]

Dept. of Transportation: require consideration of sulfur or carbon emissions reductions and make renewable fuel projects eligible under the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program (see H.R. 2088), H8181 [14NO]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: furnish headstones or markers for the marked graves of certain individuals (see H.R. 1351), H1408 [3AP]

———improve outreach program to more fully inform veterans of available benefits (see H.R. 511), H222 [7FE]

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]

Ecuador: condemn kidnapping and murder of individuals by terrorists and support U.S. efforts to combat such terrorism (see H. Con. Res. 89), H1295 [28MR]

EPA: increase communication and cooperation with small communities relative to environmental regulations (see H.R. 187), H400 [14FE]

———reinstate revised drinking water standards for arsenic (see H.R. 1413), H1482 (see H.R. 1413), H1492 [4AP]

———revise drinking water standards for arsenic and provide grants to small public drinking water systems to assist in meeting these standards (see H.R. 1252), H5339 [2AU]

Federal firefighters: establish presumptive disability benefits for certain diseases and disabilities (see H.R. 2163), H4010 [12JY]

Firearms: protect manufacturers and sellers in the firearms and ammunition industry from restrictions on interstate or foreign commerce (see H.R. 2037), H3713 [27JN]

Firefighters: provide mortgage assistance (see H.R. 3358), H8563 [28NO]

Fish and fishing: establish a fisheries habitat protection, restoration, and enhancement program (see H.R. 325), H3960 [11JY]

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

———encourage displaying of the flag in response to hijacking and crashing of aircraft into the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Somerset County, PA (see H. Con. Res. 224), H5592 [11SE] (see H. Con. Res. 225), H5616 [13SE]

Health: protection of enrollees in managed care plans and HMO's (see H.R. 526), H2142 [10MY]

Health care professionals: alleviate nursing profession shortage by improving educational programs and partnerships and supporting additional training (see H.R. 1436), H7852 [6NO]

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]

Homeless: improve programs for veterans (see H.R. 936), H1013 [20MR]

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

Individuals With Disabilities Education Act: authorizing appropriations (see H.R. 737), H4949 [31JY]

Insurance: prohibit use of genetic information in determining coverage or premiums (see H.R. 602), H324 [13FE]

———provide equitable coverage of mental health, substance abuse, and chemical dependency treatment services under group and individual health coverage (see H.R. 162), H8564 [28NO]

———require health plans to provide coverage for a minimum hospital stay for certain breast cancer treatments (see H.R. 536), H444 [27FE]

Intermountain Dairy Compact: congressional consent (see H.R. 1827), H2147 [14MY]

Iran and Libya Sanctions Act: extend authorities (see H.R. 1954), H2677 [23MY]

Iron and steel industry: provide certain safeguards relative to the domestic steel industry (see H.R. 808), H2082 [9MY]

Law enforcement: establish national prerelease warrant check system (see H.R. 362), H164 [31JA]

Law enforcement officers: exempt from State laws prohibiting the carrying of concealed handguns (see H.R. 218), H3067 [12JN]

———increase amount paid to families of public safety officers killed in the line of duty (see H.R. 1744), H5927 [21SE]

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), H4216 [18JY]

Medicaid: delay changes in regulations that modify upper payment limit for non-State government-owned or operated hospitals (see H.R. 3360), H9078 [6DE]

———increase Federal medical assistance percentage to help States finance increases in enrollment (see H.R. 3414), H9078 [6DE]

Medicare: coverage of medical nutrition therapy services for beneficiaries with cardiovascular diseases (see H.R. 2117), H2997 [7JN]

———expand coverage of certain self-injected biologicals (see H.R. 1089), H959 [19MR]

———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), H1717 [1MY]

Monuments and memorials: expedite construction of the World War II memorial in the District of Columbia (see H.R. 1696), H1923 [3MY]

National 4-H Program Centennial Initiative: funding (see H.R. 1388), H1558 [24AP]

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 Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: authorize development of research centers focusing on environmental factors related to the etiology of breast cancer (see H.R. 1723), H2281 [16MY]

Norman Sisisky Post Office Building, Petersburg, VA: designate (see H.R. 2910), H6458 [9OC]

Northeast Interstate Dairy Compact: reauthorize (see H.R. 1827), H2147 [14MY]

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]

Pacific Northwest Dairy Compact: congressional consent (see H.R. 1827), H2147 [14MY]

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

Postal Service: amend pay policies and schedules and fringe benefit programs for postmasters (see H.R. 250), H108 [30JA]

———protection of post offices (see H. Con. Res. 181), H3805 [28JN]

Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor: award to officers killed, injured, or involved in rescue efforts in the aftermath of terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Somerset County, PA (see H. Con. Res. 243), H6421 [5OC]

R.A. Bloch Cancer Foundation, Inc.: tribute (see H. Res. 35), H254 [8FE]

Railroads: modernize financing of railroad retirement system and provide enhanced benefits to employees and beneficiaries (see H.R. 1140), H1191 [27MR]

Robert F. Kennedy Dept. of Justice Building, Washington, DC: designate (see H.R. 2815), H5337 [2AU]

Rural areas: promote and improve access to health care services (see H.R. 2157), H3149 [13JN]

Schools: provide grants for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training in public schools (see H.R. 630), H1410 [3AP]

Science: prohibit the cloning of humans (see H.R. 1644), H2185 [15MY]

Shelton, Henry H.: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 2751), H8564 [28NO]

Small business: provide emergency relief to small businesses affected by significant increases in the prices of heating oil, natural gas, propane, and kerosene (see H.R. 1010), H3619 [26JN]

Smithsonian Institution: establish National Museum of African American History and Culture (see H.R. 1718), H4113 [17JY]

Social Security: computation system for benefits relative to spouses' or surviving spouses' Government pensions (see H.R. 664), H1116 [22MR]

———earnings test for blind individuals (see H.R. 498), H741 [7MR]

———level of benefit payment in the month of the beneficiary's death (see H.R. 1464), H1485 (see H.R. 1464), H1495 [4AP]

Southern Dairy Compact: congressional consent (see H.R. 1827), H2147 [14MY]

Sports: encourage more revenue sharing among Major League Baseball teams as an alternative to team eliminations (see H. Res. 326), H10966 [20DE]

States: permit individuals to operate commercial motor vehicles within State borders after meeting minimum standards (see H.R. 2466), H8564 [28NO]

Taxation: allow tax credit to businesses who employ members of the military Reserves and a comparable credit to self-employed military Reserve participants (see H.R. 394), H2022 [8MY]

———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), H6380 [4OC]

———encourage patronage of the hospitality, restaurant, and entertainment industries of New York, NY (see H.R. 2940), H6138 [2OC]

———exclusion of gain from the sale of farmland (see H.R. 294), H110 [30JA]

———expand incentives for construction and renovation of public schools (see H.R. 1076), H1116 [22MR]

———facilitate electric cooperative participation in a competitive electric power industry (see H.R. 1601), H2023 [8MY]

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

———increase limitation on contributions to individual retirement accounts (see H.R. 1026), H928 [14MR]

———repeal limits on the deduction for interest on education loans and increase income threshold for the phase out of such deduction (see H.R. 436), H1660 [26AP]

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

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

———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), H5925 [21SE]

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

———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), H6260 [3OC]

Trade Adjustment Assistance Program: reauthorize (see H.R. 85), H3465 [21JN]

Transportation: provide assistance for the construction of certain air traffic control towers (see H.R. 1979), H5488 [10SE]

Turkey: express appreciation for participation in military response to terrorist attacks (see H. Con. Res. 265), H8843 [4DE]

Unemployment: expand coverage options for unemployed workers to receive and pay for COBRA health insurance benefits and provide for a program of enhanced unemployment coverage (see H.R. 3471), H10910 [19DE]

Veterans: increase educational benefits under the Montgomery GI Bill (see H.R. 1291), H1411 [3AP]

———permit concurrent receipt of military retired pay with service-connected disability benefits (see H.R. 303), H2184 [15MY]

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), H6458 [9OC]

Yugoslavia: commend transfer of Slobodan Milosevic and other alleged war criminals to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and provide aid to support economic and democratic reforms (see H. Res. 200), H5126 [1AU]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Armed Forces: increase basic pay (see H.R. 2494), H4009 [12JY] (see H.R. 2494), H4013 [16JY]

National security: develop and implement a strategy for homeland security (see H.R. 1292), H1343 [29MR]

Navy: tribute to crew of reconnaissance plane that made emergency landing in the People's Republic of China (see H. Con. Res. 106), H1605 [25AP]

Motions

Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (S. 1438), H7096 [17OC]

Poems

``American Promise,'' Sarah Beth Soendker, E2018 [6NO]

Remarks

Anson Implement Co.: anniversary, E112 [6FE]

Appropriations: making supplemental appropriations (H.R. 2216), H3308, H3309, H3310 [20JN]

———making supplemental appropriations (H.R. 2216), consideration (H. Res. 171), H3285 [20JN]

Armed Forces: assignment of personnel to assist the INS and Customs Service with border control activities, H6021 [25SE]

———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), H5644 [14SE]

———improve pay, health care, and family housing for active duty personnel, H353 [14FE]

Budget: revising and setting forth the Federal budget for 2001-2011 (H. Con. Res. 83), H1206 [28MR]

Curry, David: Missouri Economic Development Council District 4 Volunteer of the Year award recipient, E1361 [18JY]

D-Day: anniversary, H2931 [6JN]

Dept. of Defense: antiterrorism initiatives funding, H6026 [25SE]

———authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (H.R. 2586), H5765, H5768, H5776, H5777, H5778, H5779, H5849, H5853, H5854 [20SE], H6018, H6019, H6021, H6026 [25SE]

———authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (S. 1438), H10073 [13DE]

———authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (S. 1438), motion to instruct conferees, H7096 [17OC]

———B-2 stealth bomber funding, H5777, H5853, H5854 [20SE]

———civilian participation in military activities, H835 [13MR]

———creation of medal to recognize civilian employees killed or wounded as a result of hostile action, H6019 [25SE]

———emergency supplemental appropriations, H1277 [28MR]

———funding, H280 [13FE], H1089 [22MR], H1206 [28MR], H2837 [25MY], H3285, H3308, H3309, H3310 [20JN]

———improve living conditions on military installations, H5768 [20SE]

———making supplemental appropriations, H2255 [16MY]

Ecuador: condemn kidnapping and murder of individuals by terrorists and support U.S. efforts to combat such terrorism (H. Con. Res. 89), H5318 [2AU]

Flag—U.S.: encourage displaying of the flag in response to hijacking and crashing of aircraft into the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Somerset County, PA (H. Con. Res. 225), H5595, H5597 [13SE]

Foreign countries: tribute for support following the hijacking and crashing of commercial aircraft into the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Somerset County, PA, H9322 [12DE]

Fort Leonard Wood, MO: Army National Community Relations Award recipient, E149 [12FE]

Houston, TX: tribute to recovery efforts following Tropical Storm Allison (H. Res. 166), H3531 [26JN]

Kosovo: presence of U.S. Armed Forces for peacekeeping purposes, H415 [27FE]

Kuwait: accidental bombing by Naval aircraft during training exercises, H835 [13MR]

Lexington, MO: anniversary of Elks Lodge 749, E1732 [25SE]

———tribute to Riley's Irish Pub, E2044 [8NO]

Malta Bend, MO: anniversary of Yokum Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church, E509 [3AP]

Missouri: tribute to National Guard 1107th Aviation Classification and Repair Activities Depot, E1335 [16JY]

Monuments and memorials: expedite construction of the World War II memorial in the District of Columbia (H.R. 1696), H2394 [22MY]

National Guard: tribute to continued commitment of combat units deployed in support of Army operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina (H. Con. Res. 154), H3221 [19JN]

National security: military readiness of U.S. forces, H190 [6FE], H280 [13FE], H5391 [5SE]

———national missile defense system, H1669 [1MY], H6026 [25SE]

Navy: shipbuilding funding, H1463 [4AP]

———tribute to crew of reconnaissance plane that made emergency landing in the People's Republic of China (H. Con. Res. 106), H1652 [26AP]

———U.S.S. Harry S Truman and U.S.S. Jefferson City recipients of the Navy and International Food Service Executives Association Captain Edward F. Ney Memorial Awards, E209 [26FE]

Persian Gulf Conflict: tribute to soldiers killed by Iraqi missile attack during Operation Desert Storm and support for effective theater missile defense programs (H. Con. Res. 39), H427, H428 [27FE]

Scholastic Inc.: Missouri Industry of the Year award recipient, E837 [17MY]

Sisisky, Norman: tribute (H. Res. 107), H1331 [29MR]

Spence, Floyd: tribute (H. Res. 234), H5368 [5SE]

Taxation: rates (H.R. 3), H654 [7MR]

———rates (H.R. 1836), conference report, H2837 [25MY]

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), H5494, H5507 [11SE]

———deter and punish terrorist acts, H6922 [17OC]

———improve Federal efforts to prepare for, and respond to, terrorist attacks, H5776 [20SE]

———making emergency appropriations for disaster and antiterrorism initiatives surrounding the crashing of aircraft into the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Somerset County, PA (H.R. 2888), H5623 [14SE]

Theodore Roosevelt (U.S.S.): observance of Halloween by crew, E2014 [6NO]

Thompson, Marcia: Lexington, MO, Lions Club R-5 School District Teacher of the Year award recipient, E901 [23MY]

Thorn, Deborah L.: Army Drill Sergeant of the Year award recipient, E1227 [27JN]

Tustin, CA: use of former Marine Corps Air Station for education facilities, H5779 [20SE]

Veterans: expand the Survivor Benefit Plan to include dependents of nonretirement-eligible service members who die while on active duty, H7096 [17OC]

———increase educational benefits under the Montgomery GI Bill (H.R. 1291), H3215 [19JN]

Whiteman AFB, MO: tribute to 509th Bomb Wing emergency response team, E1408 [24JY]

Remarks in House relative to

Leave of absence: granted, H654, H738 [7MR], H1478 [4AP]

Special order: granted, H198 [6FE], H319 [13FE], H389 [14FE], H738 [7MR], H1110 [22MR], H1292 [28MR], H1342 [29MR], H1656 [26AP], H1859 [2MY], H2278 [16MY], H2705 [24MY], H2953 [6JN], H4777 [27JY], H10053 [12DE], H10154 [13DE]

Tributes

Brubeck, John, E71 [31JA]

Buckingham, Dale E., E1192 [25JN]

Carroll, Andrew S., E207 [26FE]

Christman, Daniel W., E835 [17MY]

Daniel, Timothy M., E1298 [11JY]

Darnell, Gene, H654 [7MR], E341 [13MR]

Dawson, James C., Jr., E511 [3AP]

Ewing, Lynn M., Jr., E238 [28FE]

Fiora, Edward F., Jr., E437 [22MR]

Fulkerson, Francis M., Jr., E1094 [13JN]

Gaddy, Hershel J., E903 [23MY]

Gruetzemacher, Edward C., E1727 [25SE]

Havens, John D., E1901 [16OC]

Holcombe, Anne, H3788 [28JN]

Hyder, Robert, E2281 [13DE]

Inman, Nicholas W., E674 [1MY]

Jenkins, Gwilym H., Jr., E1319 [12JY]

Lennox, William J., Jr., E1075 [12JN]

Lewis, Dennis R., E1796 [4OC]

Mihalevich, Norma Lea, E113 [6FE]

Morgan, Everett H., E1026 [6JN]

Parrish, Buddy, E456 [27MR]

Raynes, Mary Lou, E631 [25AP]

Saalfeld, Fred, E2156 [28NO]

Sebo, Cindy, H3788 [28JN]

See, E. Edward, E492 [29MR]

Shelton, Henry H., E1799 [4OC]

Sisisky, Norman, H6033 [25SE]

Smith, James L., E73 [31JA]

Soendker, Sarah Beth, E2018 [6NO]

Spence, Floyd, H6033 [25SE]

Staats, Elmer B., E1749 [28SE]

Stallsworth, Vicky, H3788 [28JN]

Wilhoit, Weldon, E1160 [20JN]