BOUCHER, RICK (a Representative from Virginia)
Appointments
Conferee: H.R. 4, Securing America's Future Energy (SAFE) Act, H3472 [12JN]
Bills and resolutions cosponsored
Agriculture: provide emergency agriculture assistance (see H.R. 5383), H6927 [1OC]
Armed Forces: provide for a Korea Defense Service Medal to be issued to members who participated in Korea after the Korean War (see H.R. 1935), H1769 [30AP]
———reduce the age for receipt of military retired pay for non-regular service (see H.R. 3831), H1410 [17AP]
———revise rules on retirement payments to former spouses (see H.R. 1983), H2101 [2MY]
Black Lung Benefits Act: ensure benefit equity for eligible survivors (see H.R. 4235), H1484 [18AP]
Bush, President: address issues of neighborhood crime prevention and community policing and support Federal participation in National Night Out (see H. Res. 437), H3775 [20JN]
Children and youth: provide access to early care and education so the families can work and children can receive quality custodial care (see H.R. 3524), H834 [12MR]
Coin Design Advisory Committee: establish (see H.R. 5075), H4424 [9JY]
Coins: ensure continuity for the design of the 5-cent coin (see H.R. 5075), H4424 [9JY]
———specify that the reverse of the 5-cent piece shall bear an image of Monticello (see H.R. 4903), H3453 [11JN]
Colleges and universities: provide for fire sprinkler systems in public and private college and university housing and dormitories (see H.R. 2145), H2945 [22MY]
Computers: amend copyright laws relative to royalty fees for webcasting (see H.R. 5285), H5995 [26JY]
Crime: make grants to train sexual assault nurse examiners and other personnel handling sexual assault cases, establish minimum standards for forensic evidence collection, and carry out crime scene DNA analysis (see H.R. 2874), H3775 [20JN]
Cuba: grant waiver to allow Cuban nationals to play professional baseball in the U.S. (see H.R. 26), H4498 [10JY]
Dept. of Defense: prioritize transfer of excess personal property to the Forest Service Federal Excess Personal Property Program in order to be loaned to rural fire departments (see H.R. 5421), H6418 [19SE]
Dept. of Education: establish a competitive demonstration grant program to provide funds for local educational agencies to experiment with ways to alleviate the substitute teacher shortage (see H.R. 3688), H201 [6FE]
Dept. of Energy: authorizing appropriations for the Office of Science (see H.R. 5270), H6374 [18SE]
Dept. of HHS: establish an Office on Women's Health (see H.R. 1784), H1283 [11AP]
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), H4324 [27JN]
Dept. of Veterans Affairs: improve judicial review of administrative decisions (see H.R. 4018), H4575 [12JY]
Disabled: enhance and further research into paralysis and improve rehabilitation and quality of life for persons living with paralysis and other physical disabilities (see H.R. 5458), H9025 [14NO]
Education: increase the technically trained workforce (see H.R. 3130), H1003 [19MR]
———provide grants for training of realtime court reporters and closed captioners to meet the requirements for closed captioning set forth in the Telecommunications Act (see H.R. 2527), H367 [13FE]
ERISA: provide emergency protection for retiree health benefits (see H.R. 1322), H6419 [19SE]
FCC: eliminate deadlines for spectrum auctions of spectrum previously allocated to television broadcasting (see H.R. 4560), H1618 [24AP]
———facilitate the ability of certain spectrum auction winners to pursue alternative measures to meet the public needs of wireless telecommunications consumers (see H.R. 4738), H2511 [15MY]
———treat private land use rules as State or local regulations for purposes of certain Federal regulations (see H.R. 4720), H3860 [24JN]
Foreign trade: respond to serious injury currently being experienced by the U.S. textile and apparel industry (see H.J. Res. 105), H4553 [11JY]
Forest Service: protection of certain roadless areas (see H.R. 4865), H3228 [5JN]
Forests: ban clearcutting and logging on certain Federal lands to strengthen protection of native biodiversity (see H.R. 5279), H5995 [26JY]
FTC: regulation of unfair or deceptive practices by sports agents in the signing of contracts with student athletes (see H.R. 4701), H6061 [4SE]
Government regulations: require agencies to take into consideration the impact of newly promulgated rules on the privacy of individuals (see H.R. 4561), H3292 [6JN]
Hazardous substances: approve Yucca Mountain, NV, as nuclear waste disposal site (see H.J. Res. 87), H1283 [11AP]
Health: improve patient safety and reduce incidence of medical errors (see H.R. 5478), H6776 [26SE]
———provide grants for public access defibrillation programs and public access defibrillation demonstration projects (see H.R. 3462), H2101 [2MY]
———provide programs for the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of stroke (see H.R. 3431), H6060 [4SE]
———reauthorize health centers program and National Health Service Corps (see H.R. 3450), H1003 [19MR]
Hospitals: provide emergency contraceptives to women who are survivors of sexual assault (see H.R. 4113), H3601 [17JN]
Insurance: coverage of colorectal cancer screening (see H.R. 1520), H3601 [17JN]
———coverage of screening mammography (see H.R. 292), H6085 [5SE]
Interstate commerce: prohibit transport of horses for the purpose of slaughter or horse flesh for human consumption (see H.R. 3781), H3601 [17JN]
Medicaid: delay changes in regulations that modify upper payment limit for non-State government-owned or operated hospitals (see H.R. 3360), H1284 [11AP]
Medicare: coverage for rehabilitation services provided by State vocational rehabilitation agencies to older, blind individuals (see H.R. 2674), H141 [5FE]
———coverage for surgical first assisting services of certified registered nurse first assistants (see H.R. 822), H3453 [11JN]
———coverage of cholesterol and blood lipid screening (see H.R. 3278), H2019 [1MY]
———coverage of oral anticancer drugs (see H.R. 1624), H2100 [2MY]
———coverage of remote monitoring services (see H.R. 3572), H3859 [24JN]
———enhance access of beneficiaries who live in medically underserved areas to critical primary and preventive health care benefits and improve the Medicare+Choice program (see H.R. 4000), H6172 [10SE]
———establish voluntary outpatient prescription drug coverage program and modernize and reform payments and the regulatory structure (see H.R. 5019), H4068 [26JN]
———improve access to services in rural hospitals and critical access hospitals (see H.R. 4515), H1483 [18AP]
———improve patient access to, and utilization of, the colorectal cancer screening benefit (see H.R. 3710), H230 [8FE]
———improve the telemedicine program and provide grants for the development of telehealth networks (see H.R. 2706), H3292 [6JN]
Motor vehicles: provide for greater fairness in the motor vehicle franchise contract arbitration process (see H.R. 1296), H105 [29JA]
National Affordable Housing Trust Fund: establish to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing for low-income families (see H.R. 2349), H36 [23JA]
National Sea Grant College Program Act: reauthorize (see H.R. 3389), H688 [5MR]
Power resources: prohibit unethical acts, increase penalties for certain illegal acts, provide for audit trails and transparency in electric and natural gas markets, and expand FERC authority to order refunds of certain rates (see H.R. 5614), H7893 [10OC]
Privacy: protect and enhance consumer privacy (see H.R. 4678), H2234 [8MY]
Public Health Service Act: establish scholarship and loan repayment programs in veterinarian shortage areas (see H.R. 1943), H1338 [16AP]
Public welfare programs: reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see H.R. 3113), H1284 [11AP]
Social Security: reject proposals to partially or completely substitute private saving accounts for benefits provided through Social Security (see H.R. 4780), H7895 [10OC]
———repeal Government pension offset and windfall elimination provisions (see H.R. 2638), H105 [29JA]
Taxation: allow a U.S. independent film and television production wage credit (see H.R. 3131), H141 [5FE]
———provide an exemption from local taxation for direct-to-subscriber satellite service providers (see H.R. 5429), H6778 [26SE]
———provide credits for the installation of certain wind energy property (see H.R. 2322), H36 [23JA]
Terrorism: anniversary of terrorist attacks (see H. Con. Res. 464), H6229 [11SE]
Tobacco products: replace existing tobacco program with a federally chartered corporation, compensate quota holders, provide transition assistance for producers and increase competitiveness of domestically produced tobacco (see H.R. 4753), H2607 [16MY]
———replace existing tobacco program with programs designed to assist producers, compensate quota holders for the loss of quota asset value, and assist producers who forgo obtaining a production license (see H.R. 5035), H4767 [16JY]
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), H142 [5FE]
Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century: provide highway infrastructure investment at the guaranteed funding level (see H.R. 3694), H834 [12MR]
Virginia: convert a temporary Federal district judgeship to a permanent judgeship (see H.R. 4068), H1089 [20MR]
Bills and resolutions introduced
FTC: classify advertising or sale of a mislabeled copy-protected music disc as an unfair method of competition and an unfair and deceptive act or practice (see H.R. 5544), H7018 [3OC]
Remarks
Bankruptcy: amend laws (H.R. 333), consideration of conference report (H. Res. 606), H8742 [14NO]
Courts: ensure that class actions which are refused certification by a Federal court are remanded to the State court from which it was removed, H879 [13MR]
———expand Federal diversity jurisdiction to allow consideration of certain interstate class actions and provide additional protections to plaintiff class members (H.R. 2341), H848, H879 [13MR]
FTC: classify advertising or sale of a mislabeled copy-protected music disc as an unfair method of competition and an unfair and deceptive act or practice (H.R. 5544), E1760
Hazardous substances: approve Yucca Mountain, NV, as nuclear waste disposal site (H.J. Res. 87), H2184, H2199 [8MY]
Information services: deregulate Internet and high speed data services (H.R. 1542), H575 [27FE], E283
New York, NY: provide a temporary waiver from certain transportation planning requirements for certain areas where the planning offices and resources have been destroyed by acts of terrorism (H.R. 3880), H6143, H6144 [10SE]