BENTSEN, KEN (a Representative from Texas)
Appointments
Conferee: H.R. 3210, Terrorism Risk Protection Act, H5962 [26JY]
Bills and resolutions cosponsored
Armed Forces: restore the tax-exempt status of death gratuity payments (see H.R. 3973), H3775 [20JN]
Armstrong, Lance: tribute (see H. Res. 548), H6559 [24SE]
Aviation: amend certain laws relative to airport project streamlining (see H.R. 4481), H3292 [6JN]
———develop technologies that will enable future aircraft with significantly lower noise, emissions, and fuel consumption and reinvigorate basic and applied research in aeronautics and aviation (see H.R. 4653), H4605 [15JY]
Beaches: assure that recreation benefits are accorded the same weight as hurricane, storm damage, and environmental restoration benefits (see H.R. 3842), H1620 [24AP]
Breast Cancer Awareness Month: support (see H. Con. Res. 502), H7930 [15OC]
Budget: extend pay-as-you-go requirement (see H.R. 5502), H8023 [16OC]
Business and industry: ensure project labor agreements are permitted in certain circumstances (see H.R. 1360), H907 [13MR]
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: authorize grants for mosquito control programs to prevent mosquito-borne diseases (see H.R. 4793), H6061 [4SE]
Children and youth: improve access to books (see H.R. 116), H6060 [4SE]
Community development: increase the expertise and capacity of community-based organizations involved in economic development activities and key community development programs (see H.R. 3974), H3669 [18JN]
Contraceptives: establish a public education and awareness program relative to emergency contraception (see H.R. 3887), H1620 [24AP]
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women: ratification (see H. Res. 18), H3293 [6JN]
Corporations: prohibit certain expatriated corporations from being eligible for the award of Federal contracts (see H.R. 4831), H3826 [21JN]
Courts: establish domestic violence court systems from amounts available for grants to combat violence against women (see H.R. 4091), H8733 [13NO]
Crime: provide grants for public information campaigns to educate racial and ethnic minorities about domestic violence (see H.R. 4089), H8733 [13NO]
Dept. of Energy: authorizing appropriations for the Office of Science (see H.R. 5270), H7172 [7OC]
Dept. of HHS: support research on ovarian cancer screening tests and encourage coverage of effective techniques by health care programs and plans (see H. Con. Res. 385), H4873 [17JY]
Dept. of Justice: establish an Office of Children's Services (see H.R. 1904), H1533 [23AP]
Dept. of the Interior: implement final rule to phase out snowmobile use in Yellowstone National Park, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Memorial Parkway, and Grand Teton National Park, and snowplane use in Grand Teton National Park (see H.R. 5044), H4498 [10JY]
Developing countries: increase assistance for the poorest people in developing countries under microenterprise assistance programs (see H.R. 4073), H2356 [9MY]
———reauthorize microenterprise assistance programs and expand sustainable poverty-focused microenterprise programs by implementing improved poverty measurement methods (see H.R. 4209), H1484 [18AP]
Diseases: blood cancer research, information, and education funding (see H.R. 2629), H524 [14FE]
———expand and coordinate activities of NIH and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention relative to cancer survivorship research and programs (see H.R. 4963), H6061 [4SE]
———expand research on inflammatory bowel disease (see H.R. 5031), H8733 [13NO]
Dr. Caesar A.W. Clark, Sr. Post Office Building, Dallas, TX: designate (see H.R. 3775), H1201 [10AP]
Employment: provide for private-sector-led Community Workforce Partnerships (see H.R. 4104), H1153 [9AP]
Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative: reform (see H.R. 1642), H2164 [7MY]
ERISA: improve Dept. of Labor enforcement of requirements relating to participation, vesting, benefit accrual, and funding (see H.R. 4778), H2946 [22MY]
Europe: condemn rise in anti-Semitism (see H. Res. 393), H4351 [8JY]
Federal employees: treatment of retirement benefits for assistant U.S. attorneys (see H.R. 1090), H2945 [22MY]
Firefighters: authorize grants to States or communities to assist fire departments in meeting staffing standards (see H.R. 3185), H655 [4MR]
———provide mortgage assistance (see H.R. 3358), H2608 [16MY]
Foreign policy: negotiations with Mexico and Canada relative to the North American Development Bank and the Border Environmental Cooperation Commission (see H. Res. 355), H687 [5MR]
Forest Service: protection of certain roadless areas (see H.R. 4865), H3228 [5JN]
FTC: deem the nondisclosure of employer-owned life insurance coverage of employees an unfair trade practice (see H.R. 4551), H1688 [29AP]
Health: emphasize the importance of bone marrow donation and support National Marrow Donor Program and National Marrow Awareness Month (see H. Res. 563), H6777 [26SE]
———provide individuals of health disparity populations prevention, detection, treatment, and follow-up care services for cancer and chronic diseases, and patient navigators to assist in receiving such services (see H.R. 5187), H5194 [23JY]
———provide programs for the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of stroke (see H.R. 3431), H1155 [9AP]
———require insurance coverage of bone mass measurements and inform women concerning reproductive and post-menopausal health care choices (see H.R. 1683), H6060 [4SE]
Immigration: cancellation of removal for certain aliens (see H.R. 1452), H2608 [16MY]
Insurance: coverage of colorectal cancer screening (see H.R. 1520), H141 [5FE]
———coverage of screening mammography (see H.R. 1064), H687 [5MR]
———require health plans to cover treatment of a minor child's congenital or developmental deformity or disorder due to trauma, infection, tumor, or disease (see H.R. 792), H1769 [30AP]
Israel: express solidarity in the fight against terrorism (see H. Res. 392), H2101 [2MY]
Joe Skeen Federal Building, Roswell, NM: designate (see H.R. 5427), H6418 [19SE]
King, Martin Luther, Jr.: mint coins in commemoration (see H.R. 1184), H1003 [19MR]
Law enforcement: community policing programs (see H.R. 2009), H1201 [10AP]
Law enforcement officers: adjust percentage differentials payable to Federal law enforcement officers in certain high-cost areas (see H.R. 3794), H2945 [22MY]
———ensure accountability, guarantee due process, establish standards for internal investigations and hearings, and require enactment of relevant State laws (see H.R. 1626), H687 [5MR]
Mammography Quality Standards Act: reauthorize (see H.R. 4888), H3563 [13JN]
Medicare: coverage of adult day care services (see H.R. 3585), H3721 [19JN]
———coverage of bone mass measurements for all individuals at clinical risk for osteoporosis (see H.R. 595), H3037 [23MY]
———coverage of medical nutrition therapy services for beneficiaries with cardiovascular diseases (see H.R. 2117), H1484 [18AP]
———coverage of medically necessary pancreas transplantation procedures (see H.R. 1361), H561 [26FE]
———provide more equitable payments for direct graduate medical education (see H.R. 1517), H932 [14MR]
———repeal outpatient rehabilitation therapy caps (see H.R. 3834), H7172 [7OC]
Mental health: provide for equal insurance coverage of benefits unless comparable limitations are imposed on medical and surgical benefits (see H.R. 4066), H3038 [23MY]
Mexico: treaty obligations relative to use of the Colorado, Rio Grande, and Tijuana Rivers (see H. Con. Res. 494), H6926 [1OC]
Michael E. DeBakey Dept. of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX: designate (see H.R. 5655), H8021 [16OC]
Museum and Library Services Act: reauthorize (see H.R. 3784), H1155 [9AP]
National Center for Social Work Research: establish (see H.R. 3814), H4574 [12JY]
National Center on Liver Disease Research: establish (see H.R. 5047), H6061 [4SE]
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the U.S.: establish (see H.R. 4777), H2735 [21MY]
National Epilepsy Month: designate (see H. Res. 484), H6061 [4SE]
National Organ Donor Registry: establish (see H.R. 5124), H6130 [9SE]
National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program: amend (see H.R. 3741), H3669 [18JN]
Presidential Records Act: establish procedures for the consideration of claims of constitutionality based privilege against disclosure of Presidential records (see H.R. 4187), H1282 [11AP]
Public safety officers: ensure that officers who suffer a fatal heart attack or stroke while on duty shall be presumed to have died in the line of duty for purposes of survivor benefits (see H.R. 5334), H6927 [1OC]
Public welfare programs: reauthorize and reform block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see H.R. 3625), H1284 [11AP]
Roads and highways: amend length and weight limitations for vehicles operating on Federal-aid highways (see H.R. 3132), H5195 [23JY]
Saudi Arabia: support reform of education curriculum (see H. Con. Res. 432), H6085 [5SE]
Social Security: improve benefits for aged survivors, disabled survivors, and divorced spouses (see H.R. 4671), H2164 [7MY]
———improve coverage of certain pregnant women, infants, and children under State Children's Health Insurance Program and Medicaid (see H.R. 3729), H5087 [22JY]
———provide greater equity and efficiency to the SSA payment system for claimant representation (see H.R. 3332), H367 [13FE]
Space policy: institute a series of incremental goals that will facilitate the scientific exploration of the solar system and aid in the search for life elsewhere in the universe (see H.R. 4742), H2511 [15MY]
States: permit individuals to operate commercial motor vehicles within State borders after meeting minimum standards (see H.R. 2466), H1769 [30AP]
Stem Cell Research Board: establish (see H.R. 4011), H6060 [4SE]
Taxation: allow Federal civilian and military retirees to pay health insurance premiums on a pretax basis and allow a deduction for TRICARE supplemental premiums (see H.R. 2125), H36 [23JA]
———allow individuals to designate a portion of their income tax refunds for use by the Dept. of HHS to improve the health of minorities and women (see H.R. 4937), H6419 [19SE]
———exempt State and local political committees from certain notification and reporting requirements applicable to political organizations (see H.R. 4180), H1282 [11AP]
———extend the transportation fringe benefit to bicycle commuters (see H.R. 1265), H6129 [9SE]
———make the additional tax on early distributions from certain pension plans inapplicable for public safety employees (see H.R. 4796), H2943 [22MY]
Tobacco products: combat illicit trafficking of tobacco products (see H.R. 5264), H5994 [26JY]
Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century: provide highway infrastructure investment at the guaranteed funding level (see H.R. 3694), H562 [26FE]
U.N.: provide for permanent guidelines for voluntary U.S. contributions to the U.N. Population Fund (see H.R. 5293), H6251 [12SE]
———restore a voluntary U.S. contribution to the U.N. Population Fund (see H.R. 3916), H1484 [18AP]
Veterans: increase the minimum Survivor Benefit Plan basic annuity for certain surviving spouses (see H.R. 5403), H6373 [18SE]
Veterans Day: issue annual commemorative postage stamp (see H. Res. 429), H5998 [26JY]
Violence Against Women Act: expand legal assistance to victims of dating violence (see H.R. 3193), H8023 [16OC]
Bills and resolutions introduced
Business and industry: require disclosure of insider sales of stock of publicly held companies be filed electronically (see H.R. 3769), H523 [14FE]
Jim Fonteno Post Office Building, Pasadena, TX: designate (see H.R. 4717), H2470 [14MY]
Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight: provide funding in the same manner as other financial institutions' regulatory agencies (see H.R. 5696), H8035 [21OC]
Pensions: prohibit knowing misrepresentations by fiduciaries of 401(k) plans which may induce participants to act contrary to their best interests and protect claims based on such misrepresentations (see H.R. 3623), H78 [24JA]
Social Security: permit qualifying States to use unspent State Children's Health Insurance Program allotments to expand health coverage under that program or for Medicaid expenditures (see H.R. 5656), H8021 [16OC]
Trade Act: amend to consolidate and improve trade adjustment assistance programs and provide community-based economic development assistance for trade-affected communities (see H.R. 3670), H110 [4FE]
Pledge of Allegiance
House of Representatives, H8031 [21OC], H9028 [19NO]
Poems
``You Asked Me To Show My Patriotism,'' Ryan C. Lewis, E2036
Remarks
Abortion: prohibit partial-birth abortions (H.R. 4965), E1385
Agriculture: continue certain programs (H.R. 2646), conference report, H2052
American Heart Month: observance, E168
Andean Trade Preference Act: extend and expand (H.R. 3009), conference report, H5973 [26JY]
———extend and expand (H.R. 3009), consideration of Senate amendment with an amendment (H. Res. 450), H3957, H3958 [26JN]
Appropriations: legislative process, H6969 [2OC]
———making continuing (H.J. Res. 111), H6766 [26SE]
———making supplemental appropriations for further recovery from and response to terrorist attacks (H.R. 4775), H2988 [23MY]
———making supplemental appropriations for further recovery from and response to terrorist attacks (H.R. 4775), consideration (H. Res. 428), H2899 [22MY]
Armed Forces: authorize use against Iraq (H.J. Res. 114), H7222 [8OC]
Atlas, Morris: Anti-Defamation League Southwest Region Karen H. Susman Jurisprudence Award recipient, E480
Atlas, Scott: Anti-Defamation League Southwest Region Karen H. Susman Jurisprudence Award recipient, E480
Brauer, Raymond: Houston Society of Plastic Surgeons Distinguished Plastic Surgeon of the Year Award recipient, E819
Brook, Edward M.: State of Israel Bonds (organization) Maimonides Award recipient, E1957
Budget: allocation of funds, H6969 [2OC]
———reduce preexisting pay-go balances (H.R. 5708), H8788 [14NO]
———setting forth the Federal budget for 2003-2007 (H. Con. Res. 353), H1048, H1066
Business and industry: enhance regulation of public auditors, improve corporate governance and overhaul corporate disclosure made pursuant to the securities laws (H.R. 3818), H4481 [10JY]
———protect investors by improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures pursuant to securities laws (H.R. 3763), H1550, H1587 [24AP]
———protect investors by improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures pursuant to securities laws (H.R. 3763), conference report, H5466 [25JY]
———protect investors by improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures pursuant to securities laws (H.R. 3763), consideration (H. Res. 395), H1543 [24AP]
———require disclosure of insider sales of stock of publicly held companies be filed electronically (H.R. 3769), E177
CenterPoint Energy Inc.: La Porte-Bayshore, TX, Chamber of Commerce Industry of the Year Award recipient, E1874
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: authorize grants for mosquito control programs to prevent mosquito-borne diseases (H.R. 4793), H6792
Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (H.R. 4546), conference report, E2081
———making appropriations (H.R. 5010), H4085
———making appropriations (H.R. 5010), conference report, H7810
Dept. of Homeland Security: establish (H.R. 5005), H5883
———establish (H.R. 5710), H8710
Developing countries: increase assistance for the poorest people in developing countries under microenterprise assistance programs (H.R. 4073), H3084
Donnelly, David and Cindy Bishop: DiverseWorks, Inc., honorees, E167
Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: make pension and individual retirement arrangement provisions permanent (H.R. 4931), H3802 [21JN]
———make permanent the exclusion of reparations received by Holocaust survivors or their heirs or estates (H.R. 4823), H3091
Economy: national objectives priority assignments, H6969 [2OC]
Eximbank: prohibit assistance to companies who lay off a greater percentage of U.S. workers than those in foreign countries, H1980 [1MY]
———reauthorize (H.R. 2871), H1786
———reauthorize (S. 1372), conference report, H3176 [5JN]
Fair Debt Collection Practices Act: exempt mortgage servicers from certain requirements relative to Federal mortgage loans secured by a first lien (H.R. 163), H7025 [7OC]
FCC: enforcement authority over telephone companies that violate telecommunications laws, H590
———prohibit Bell Operating Cos., from bundling long distance voice services with high speed data services, H590
Financial institutions: reform the Federal deposit insurance system (H.R. 3717), H2802
Health: expand applicability of laws preventing governmental discrimination against health care entities who refuse to perform or provide training in performing abortions (H.R. 4691), H6582
Hear O'Israel International, Inc.: tribute, E623
House of Representatives: appreciation of opportunity to serve, H9030
Houston, TX: anniversary of DePelchin Children's Center, E549
———anniversary of Goldberg B'nai B'rith Towers, E1948
———anniversary of Good Hope Missionary Baptist Church, E235
———anniversary of New Faith Church, E289
———dedication of stroke center at Texas Medical Center Methodist Hospital, E667
———tribute to Houston Minority Business Council EXPO, E550
———tribute to Seven Acres Jewish Senior Care Services, E792
———tribute to South Post Oak Baptist Church Fountain of Praise, E1461
Indonesia: commemorate independence of East Timor and encourage establishment of diplomatic relations (H. Con. Res. 405), H2744
Information services: deregulate Internet and high speed data services (H.R. 1542), H590
INS: replace with the Agency for Immigration Affairs (H.R. 3231), H1641
Insurance: ensure the continued financial capacity of insurers to provide coverage for risks from terrorism (H.R. 3210), conference report, H8805 [14NO]
Israel: express solidarity in the fight against terrorism (H. Res. 392), consideration (H. Res. 404), H2071
———independence anniversary, E588
Jim Fonteno Post Office Building, Pasadena, TX: designate (H.R. 4717), H3620 [18JN]
Kessler, Fred B.: Houston Surgical Society Distinguished Houston Surgeon award recipient, E551
Lower Rio Grande Valley Water Resources Conservation and Improvement Act: authorize additional projects (H.R. 2990), H5007 [22JY]
Mize, Jamie: DiverseWorks, Inc., honoree, E169
National security: improve port and maritime security (H.R. 3983), H3120
Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight: provide funding in the same manner as other financial institutions' regulatory agencies (H.R. 5696), H8033 [21OC]
Oncology Nursing Society: tribute, E555
Parliamentary inquiry, H3958 [26JN]
Pasadena, TX: tribute to Strawberry Festival and participation of Lawrence-Cedarhurst, NY, Fire Dept., in parade, E477
Pensions: prohibit knowing misrepresentations by fiduciaries of 401(k) plans which may induce participants to act contrary to their best interests and protect claims based on such misrepresentations (H.R. 3623), H51 [24JA]
Political campaigns: ethics reform and contribution limits (H.R. 2356), H354
———use of soft money to defray costs of construction or purchase of any office building or facility, H458 [13FE]
Public debt: ceiling, H2988 [23MY]
Public Health Service Act: amend relative to health professions programs regarding the field of nursing (H.R. 3487), Senate amendment, H5058
Public welfare programs: reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (H.R. 4737), H2589
Rohm and Haas Co.: Deer Park, TX, Chamber of Commerce Industry of the Year award recipient, E2078
Schechter, Joyce Proler: Houston, TX, Seven Acres Jewish Geriatric Center Spirit of Life Award recipient, E1949
SEC: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 3764), H3907 [25JN]
Social Security: budget treatment of trust funds, H1066
———permit qualifying States to use unspent State Children's Health Insurance Program allotments to expand health coverage under that program or for Medicaid expenditures (H.R. 5656), E1911
Stevenson, Mollie Taylor, Jr.: National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame inductee, E365
Stevenson, Mollie Taylor, Sr.: National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame inductee, E365
Taxation: provide health care incentives relative to long-term care (H.R. 4946), H5113
———provide incentives for economic recovery, H471 [14FE]
———treatment of adoption expenses (H.R. 622), consideration of Senate amendments with an amendment (H. Res. 347), H471 [14FE]
Terrorism: anniversary of terrorist attacks (H. Con. Res. 464), H6213 [11SE]
———improve the ability of the U.S. to prepare for and respond to a biological threat or attack (H.R. 3448), conference report, H2852 [22MY]
Tidwell, Dan: DiverseWorks, Inc., honoree, E169
Trade Act: amend to consolidate and improve trade adjustment assistance programs and provide community-based economic development assistance for trade-affected communities (H.R. 3670), H3458 [12JN]
Treaties and agreements: extend trade negotiating and trade agreement implementing authority, H3957 [26JN], H5973 [26JY]
Truth in Lending Act: adjust the exempt transactions amount for inflation (H.R. 5507), H7027 [7OC]
Tunisia: independence anniversary, E380
Unemployment: provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program, H471 [14FE]
Remarks in House relative to
Special order: granted, H76 [24JA], H4870 [17JY], H6226 [11SE], H8019 [16OC], H8033 [21OC]
Tribute, H1550 [24AP], H9028 [19NO]
Subpoena Notices
Criminal District Court for Harris County, TX, H8054 [4NO]
Tributes
Bullock, Charles, E858
Caldwell, Kirbyjon H. and Suzette, E1465
Carr, Billie, E1573
Frazier, Skipper L., E1463
Gay, Deotis, E198
Gillon, C.C. Campbell, E1829
Lewis, Ryan C., E2036
Loftis, Jack, E1111
Rosenberg, Yale L., E1733
Sirvello, Tony J., III, E478
Wilford, Dan S., E1584
Williams, Homer D., E836
Williams, Theodore R., Sr., E289
Williams, Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., E1133
Wortham, Jean, E2040