COYNE, WILLIAM J. (a Representative from Pennsylvania)
Articles and editorials
James William Smith-Betsill, School Basketball Star, Activist and Public Servant, Paul Zeise, E1040
Bills and resolutions cosponsored
Animal Welfare Act: strengthen enforcement of animal fighting provisions (see H.R. 5268), H6061 [4SE]
Animals: ensure use of certain antibiotic drugs in agriculture does not compromise human health by contributing to the development of antibiotic resistance (see H.R. 3804), H3514 [12JN]
———improve enforcement of the Animal Welfare Act as it applies to commercial dog breeders (see H.R. 3058), H141 [5FE]
Capitol Building and Grounds: tribute to District of Columbia National Guard, National Guard Bureau, and Dept. of Defense for assistance to Capitol Police and Congress after terrorist and anthrax attacks (see H. Con. Res. 378), H1533 [23AP]
———tribute to District of Columbia National Guard and Capitol Police for increased security after terrorist and anthrax attacks (see H. Con. Res. 371), H1339 [16AP]
Children and youth: improve academic and social outcomes for students by providing productive activities during after-school hours (see H.R. 1822), H1154 [9AP]
China, People's Republic of: human rights violations in Tibet (see H. Res. 410), H3928 [25JN]
———persecution of Falun Gong practitioners (see H. Con. Res. 447), H7172 [7OC]
Community development: enhance availability of capital and credit for citizens and communities and ensure that community reinvestment keeps pace as financial service providers become affiliated (see H.R. 865), H655 [4MR]
———increase the expertise and capacity of community-based organizations involved in economic development activities and key community development programs (see H.R. 3974), H4425 [9JY]
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), H1769 [30AP]
Dept. of Energy: authorizing appropriations for the Office of Science (see H.R. 5270), H7172 [7OC]
Dept. of HHS: establish an Office on Men's Health (see H.R. 632), H7894 [10OC]
Dept. of Justice: establish an Office of Children's Services (see H.R. 1904), H833 [12MR]
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 the Treasury: establish a commemorative quarter dollar coin program for the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands, and the Virgin Islands (see H.R. 4005), H1002 [19MR]
Dept. of Veterans Affairs: suspend authority to increase copayment for medication furnished on an outpatient basis for treatment of service-connected disabilities (see H.R. 2820), H907 [13MR]
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), H8023 [16OC]
Ecology and environment: ensure recovery of biological diversity, strengthen protection of wildlife, and provide certain assurances to local governments and individuals relative to economic development efforts (see H.R. 4579), H1619 [24AP]
———provide assistance for redevelopment of brownfield sites (see H.R. 4894), H3514 [12JN]
Education: 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), H651 [28FE]
Federal employees: ensure parity between the compensation of members of the Armed Forces and civilian employees (see H. Con. Res. 42), H1003 [19MR]
———ensure that those activated by the National Guard or Reserves shall receive pay equal to the basic pay such individual would otherwise be receiving (see H.R. 3337), H562 [26FE]
———treatment of retirement benefits for assistant U.S. attorneys (see H.R. 1090), H201 [6FE]
Firefighters: authorize grants to States or communities to assist fire departments in meeting staffing standards (see H.R. 3185), H201 [6FE]
Foreign policy: ensure that the Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative substantially increases resources available for human development and poverty reduction in countries eligible for assistance (see H.R. 4524), H2165 [7MY]
Forest Service: protection of certain roadless areas (see H.R. 4865), H3454 [11JN]
Forests: ban clearcutting and logging on certain Federal lands to strengthen protection of native biodiversity (see H.R. 5279), H5995 [26JY]
Fort Presque Isle National Historic Site: establish (see H.R. 4681), H2235 [8MY]
Health: provide grants for public access defibrillation programs and public access defibrillation demonstration projects (see H.R. 3462), H2471 [14MY]
———provide programs for the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of stroke (see H.R. 3431), H1155 [9AP]
———reauthorize health centers program and National Health Service Corps (see H.R. 3450), H562 [26FE]
Herbert Arlene Post Office Building, Philadelphia, PA: designate (see H.R. 3738), H785 [11MR]
Human rights: condemn the practice of execution by stoning (see H. Con. Res. 351), H2165 [7MY]
Immigration: provide a mechanism for U.S. citizens, and lawful permanent residents, to sponsor their permanent partners for U.S. residence (see H.R. 690), H1283 [11AP]
Iraq: support U.N. efforts to assure Iraq's compliance with Security Council resolutions and advance peace and security in the Persian Gulf region (see H. Con. Res. 473), H6927 [1OC]
Iron and steel industry: remedy certain injurious effects of steel imports by protecting benefits of steelworkers and retirees and strengthening the U.S. steel industry (see H.R. 4646), H2099 [2MY]
James R. Merry Post Office Building, Linesville, PA: designate (see H.R. 5586), H7737 [9OC] (see H.R. 5707), H8545 [12NO]
James V. Hansen Federal Building, Ogden, UT: designate (see H.R. 5611), H7893 [10OC]
Lobbyists: require certain coalitions and associations to disclose lobbying activities (see H.R. 5526, 5527), H6982 [2OC]
Medicaid: increase Federal medical assistance percentage to help States finance increases in enrollment (see H.R. 3414), H4553 [11JY]
———provide the disabled and elderly with equal access to community-based attendant services (see H.R. 3612), H1201 [10AP]
Medicare: allow beneficiaries direct access to physical therapists without a physician referral (see H.R. 3363), H2662 [20MY]
———coverage of bone mass measurements for all individuals at clinical risk for osteoporosis (see H.R. 595), H4069 [26JN]
———coverage of cholesterol and blood lipid screening (see H.R. 3278), H2945 [22MY]
———establish voluntary outpatient prescription drug coverage program and modernize and reform payments and the regulatory structure (see H.R. 5019), H4068 [26JN]
———expand and improve coverage of mental health services (see H.R. 1522), H1410 [17AP]
———extend a temporary increase in payment for skilled nursing facility services (see H.R. 5411), H7895 [10OC]
———repeal outpatient rehabilitation therapy caps (see H.R. 3834), H2472 [14MY]
Mental health: provide for equal insurance coverage of benefits unless comparable limitations are imposed on medical and surgical benefits (see H.R. 4066), H1156 [9AP]
New York, NY: tribute to Harlem Little League All-Stars baseball team (see H. Con. Res. 468), H6420 [19SE]
Patriotism: mint coins in commemoration of the Spirit of America and to establish the Victims of September 11th Fund (see H.R. 3244), H1090 [20MR]
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), H7304 [8OC]
Public welfare programs: address barriers to employment as a work activity under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see H.R. 5344), H6129 [9SE]
———reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see H.R. 3113), H1338 [16AP]
———reauthorize and reform block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see H.R. 3625), H1484 [18AP]
Rev. Leon Sullivan Post Office Building, Philadelphia, PA: designate (see H.R. 3739), H785 [11MR]
Robert A. Borski Post Office Building, Philadelphia, PA: designate (see H.R. 5280), H6061 [4SE]
Senior citizens: establish a consumer price index for elderly consumers to compute cost-of-living increases for Social Security and Medicare benefits (see H.R. 2035), H3928 [25JN]
Sewage disposal: sewer overflow control grants appropriations (see H.R. 5183), H5194 [23JY]
SMART Research and Development Compact: congressional consent (see H.R. 5473), H6775 [26SE]
Social Security: enhance privacy protections for individuals and prevent fraudulent misuse of account numbers (see H.R. 2036), H36 [23JA]
———improve benefits for aged survivors, disabled survivors, and divorced spouses (see H.R. 4671), H2356 [9MY]
———permit States the option of coverage of legal immigrants under the Medicaid Program and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (see H.R. 1143), H4574 [12JY]
Somerset County, PA: tribute to rescue of coal miners (see H. Con. Res. 459), H6374 [18SE]
Taxation: allow a U.S. independent film and television production wage credit (see H.R. 3131), H141 [5FE]
———apply look-thru rules for purposes of the foreign tax credit limitation to dividends from foreign corporations not controlled by a domestic corporation (see H.R. 4810), H3514 [12JN]
———exempt State and local political committees from certain notification and reporting requirements applicable to political organizations (see H.R. 4180), H1282 [11AP]
———extension of the credit for producing electricity from wind (see H.R. 876), H284 [12FE]
———impose excise tax on sales of stock by corporate insiders occurring when the company prevents employees from selling stock in pension plans and ensure more accurate reporting of corporate liabilities (see H.R. 3622), H78 [24JA]
———incentives to ensure timely and equitable access to the Internet over current and future generations of broadband capability (see H.R. 267), H5791 [25JY]
———prevent corporations from avoiding the U.S. income tax by reincorporating in a foreign country (see H.R. 3884), H3859 [24JN]
———prevent corporations from exploiting tax treaties to evade U.S. income tax (see H.R. 4993), H3824 [21JN]
———provide that ancestors or lineal descendants of members of the Armed Forces shall be taken into account in determining tax-exempt status of veterans' organizations (see H.R. 1754), H687 [5MR]
———treatment of executive perks and retirement benefits relative to stock options, undisclosed benefits, and deferred compensation (see H.R. 5432), H6558 [24SE]
Terrorism: anniversary of terrorist attacks (see H. Con. Res. 464), H6229 [11SE]
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), H367 [13FE]
Turkey: end restrictions on freedoms and human rights of the enclaved people of Cyprus (see H. Con. Res. 269), H142 [5FE]
Unemployment: provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program (see H.R. 5491), H6776 [26SE]
Unitas, Johnny: tribute (see H. Res. 538), H6418 [19SE]
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), H6420 [19SE]
Victor J. Saracini Dept. of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic, Horsham, PA: designate (see H.R. 5367), H6228 [11SE]
William V. Cibotti Post Office Building, Philadelphia, PA: designate (see H.R. 3740), H785 [11MR]
Women: reduce health care costs and promote improved health by providing supplemental grants for preventive health services (see H.R. 633), H3229 [5JN]
Bills and resolutions introduced
Goronja, Olivera: relief (see H.R. 4829), H2945 [22MY]
Tariff: APEC 1745 (see H.R. 4277), H1334 [16AP]
———Bayowet FT-248 (see H.R. 4276), H1334 [16AP]
———Baytron C-R (see H.R. 4271), H1334 [16AP]
———Baytron M (see H.R. 4263), H1334 [16AP]
———Baytron P (see H.R. 4264), H1334 [16AP]
———DEMT (see H.R. 4267), H1334 [16AP]
———11-aminoundecanoic acid (see H.R. 4273), H1334 [16AP]
———iminodisuccinate (see H.R. 4269), H1334 [16AP]
———ion-exchange resin (see H.R. 4265), H1334 [16AP]
———Mesamoll (see H.R. 4270), H1334 [16AP]
———ortho-phenyl phenol (OPP) (see H.R. 4272), H1334 [16AP]
———PHBA (phydroxybenzoic acid) (see H.R. 4268), H1334 [16AP]
———phenylisocyanate (see H.R. 4275), H1334 [16AP]
———p-phenylphenol (see H.R. 4278), H1334 [16AP]
———thionyl chloride (see H.R. 4266), H1334 [16AP]
———Vulkalent E/C (see H.R. 4274), H1334 [16AP]
Remarks
Alcoa Foundation: anniversary, E2014
Armed Forces: authorize use against Iraq (H.J. Res. 114), H7244 [8OC]
Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: make tax benefits permanent, H1451
Greek Independence Day—A National Day of Celebration of Greek and American Democracy: observance, H980
Pennsylvania: tribute to School Performance Network, E2138
Pittsburgh, PA: anniversary of Afro-American Music Institute, E2059
———anniversary of Church of the Epiphany, E1360
———dedication of new building at McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, E1743
———tribute to Bloomfield Citizens Council award recipients, E664
Pittsburgh Pirates (baseball team): tribute to employees, E1564
Social Security: budget treatment of trust funds, H1451
Taxation: exclusion from gross income for foster care payments relative to certain nongovernmental placement agencies (H.R. 586), H1451
University of Pittsburgh: tribute to Kuntu Repertory Theatre, E2057
Withers, James S.: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Community Health Leadership Award recipient, E1628
Remarks in House relative to
Tribute, E2135 [22NO]
Tributes
Elliott, Gwendolyn J., E663
Smith-Betsill, James W., E1039