DUNCAN, JOHN J., JR. (a Representative from Tennessee)
Appointments
Conferee: H.R. 4546, Dept. of Defense appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction, H5607 [25JY]
Articles and editorials
Evangelist, Christian Radio Host of Answerline, Dies of Heart Attack, Sherri Gardner Howell, Knoxville (TN) News-Sentinel, E1747
Maryville Man Recalls Handy Link to Lincoln, Adele McKenzie, Maryville (TN) Times, E1543
Volunteer, Former Chamber Official, Householder Dies of Cancer at 74, Maryville (TN) Times, E1677
Bills and resolutions cosponsored
American Battlefield Protection Act: establish a battlefield acquisition grant program (see H.R. 5125), H4605 [15JY]
Appropriations: constitutional amendment on line-item veto (see H.J. Res. 23), H3161 [4JN]
Armed Forces: authorize a voluntary leave sharing program (see H.R. 4119), H1484 [18AP]
———restore the tax-exempt status of death gratuity payments (see H.R. 3973), H3514 [12JN]
Aviation: amend certain laws relative to airport project streamlining (see H.R. 4481), H1482 [18AP]
———require background checks for pilot and flight service training applicants (see H.R. 2957), H3161 [4JN]
Budget: constitutional amendment to require balanced (see H.J. Res. 86), H1283 [11AP]
———extend discretionary spending caps (see H.R. 4767), H3562 [13JN]
Center for International Human Rights: establish (see H.R. 5528), H8023 [16OC]
Community service: provide incentives for communities and individuals to serve the poor and others in need and enhance ability of low-income individuals to build assets (H.R. 7), complete congressional action (see H. Res. 539), H6418 [19SE]
Computers: provide greater cybersecurity (see H.R. 3482), H1620 [24AP]
Crime: supervised release of life for offenders who commit sex offenses against children (see H.R. 4679), H3775 [20JN]
Dept. of Agriculture: take actions to promptly address the risk of fire and insect infestation on National Forest System lands (see H.R. 5214), H5789 [25JY]
Dept. of the Treasury: anniversary of copper-plated zinc penny (see H. Con. Res. 433), H6230 [11SE]
Dept. of Veterans Affairs: provide benefits to children of Vietnam-era veterans for diseases associated with parental exposure to a herbicide agent (see H.R. 1541), H3562 [13JN]
Diseases: 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), H4873 [17JY]
District of Columbia: establish certain legal waivers for physicians who provide assistance in the National Capital Area during any period in which a public health emergency is in effect (see H.R. 4634), H2018 [1MY]
———repeal law banning firearms (see H.R. 4642), H3562 [13JN]
Drugs: adjust penalties for powder cocaine and crack cocaine offenses (see H.R. 4026), H3161 [4JN]
Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: make marriage penalty relief provisions permanent (see H.R. 4019), H3454 [11JN]
Endangered Species Act: authorize Federal agencies to promptly respond to health and safety emergencies (see H.R. 3259), H634 [27FE]
———require the Dept. of the Interior to give greater weight to scientific or commercial data that is empirical or has been field-tested or peer-reviewed (see H.R. 2829), H524 [14FE]
Executive Office of the President: ensure that requests or petitions for executive clemency are treated as lobbying contacts (see H.R. 5131), H4765 [16JY]
Fair Credit Reporting Act: exempt certain communications from the definition of consumer reports (see H.R. 1543), H2356 [9MY]
Fair Labor Standards Act: ensure protection for employees of traveling sales crews (see H.R. 3070), H907 [13MR]
FCC: treat private land use rules as State or local regulations for purposes of certain Federal regulations (see H.R. 4720), H3860 [24JN]
FDA: uniform food safety warning notification requirements (see H.R. 2649), H5998 [26JY]
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: provide greater access to affordable pharmaceuticals (see H.R. 1862), H2945 [22MY]
Fire prevention: improve capacity to address wildfire prone conditions, establish fire management contracting authorities review process, and authorize appropriations for hazardous fuel reduction projects (see H.R. 5319), H6059 [4SE]
———reduce catastrophic wildfire threats to communities and the environment (see H.R. 5376), H6420 [19SE]
Firefighters: facilitate reciprocal agreements with foreign countries for the sharing of personnel to fight wildfires (see H.R. 5017), H4326 [27JN]
———provide mortgage assistance (see H.R. 3358), H4498 [10JY]
Foreign trade: respond to serious injury currently being experienced by the U.S. textile and apparel industry (see H.J. Res. 105), H4553 [11JY]
FTC: regulation of unfair or deceptive practices by sports agents in the signing of contracts with student athletes (see H.R. 4701), H3038 [23MY]
Health: application of antitrust laws to labor negotiations by groups of health care professionals with HMO's (see H.R. 3897), H937 [18MR]
———provide programs for the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of stroke (see H.R. 3431), H7738 [9OC]
Immigration: prohibit Federal agencies from accepting State identification documents issued to nonimmigrant aliens that expire after the expiration of the aliens' nonimmigrant visas (see H.R. 4043), H3230 [5JN]
King, Martin Luther, Jr.: mint coins in commemoration (see H.R. 1184), H2511 [15MY]
Labor unions: protect the free choice of individual employees relative to participation in labor organizations (see H.R. 1109), H3037 [23MY]
Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act: clarify exemption for recreational vessel support employees (see H.R. 4811), H2943 [22MY]
Medicare: improve patient access to, and utilization of, the colorectal cancer screening benefit (see H.R. 3710), H3601 [17JN]
———reduce work hours and increase supervision of resident-physicians to ensure the safety of both patients and resident-physicians (see H.R. 3236), H3453 [11JN]
Museum and Library Services Act: reauthorize (see H.R. 3784), H932 [14MR]
National Archives and Records Administration: maintain an inventory of all gifts received from domestic sources for the President, the Executive Residence at the White House, or a Presidential archival depository (see H.R. 1081), H561 [26FE]
National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program: amend (see H.R. 3741), H365 [13FE]
Native Americans: payment of State and local taxes on the sale of cigarettes and motor fuel by tribal retail enterprises to persons that are not members of the tribe (see H.R. 2726), H1155 [9AP]
Patriotism: mint coins in commemoration of the Spirit of America and to establish the Victims of September 11th Fund (see H.R. 3244), H105 [29JA]
Pensions: provide additional protection to participants in individual account plans, promote investment advice, and prohibit certain insider trades of securities (H.R. 3762), complete congressional action (see H. Res. 540), H6419 [19SE]
———provide new protections under applicable fiduciary rules for participants and beneficiaries under 401(k) plans and provide for vesting of elective deferrals under such plans (see H.R. 3677), H834 [12MR]
Pharmaceuticals: importation of certain prescription drugs (see H.R. 5186), H5194 [23JY]
Pipelines: improve safey (see H.R. 3609), H932 [14MR]
Pledge of Allegiance: circuit court decision on inclusion of phrase ``under God'' (see H. Res. 459), H4326 [27JN]
Public buildings: require that certain procedures are followed in Federal buildings when a child is reported missing (see H.R. 5475), H6776 [26SE]
Public lands: establish time limits for completion of wilderness studies on Federal lands (see H.R. 4620), H4425 [9JY]
———limit acquisition by the U.S. of land located in counties in which 50 percent or more of the land is already owned by the U.S. (see H.R. 3962), H1156 [9AP]
Public welfare programs: reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (H.R. 4737), complete congressional action (see H. Res. 525), H6303 [17SE]
Roads and highways: amend length and weight limitations for vehicles operating on Federal-aid highways (see H.R. 3132), H8023 [16OC]
Selective Service System: oppose reinstating the military draft or implementing any other form of compulsory military service (see H. Con. Res. 368), H2235 [8MY]
Sewage disposal: enhance security of wastewater treatment works (see H.R. 5169), H5086 [22JY]
Social Security: eliminate earnings test for retirement age individuals (see H.R. 1731), H833 [12MR]
———enhance privacy protections for individuals and prevent fraudulent misuse of account numbers (see H.R. 2036), H367 [13FE]
Taxation: 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), H6419 [19SE]
———constitutional amendment on tax limitations (see H.J. Res. 96), H3291 [6JN]
———eliminate double taxation of dividends (see H.R. 5323), H6560 [24SE]
———make repeal of estate taxes permanent (H.R. 2143), complete congressional action (see H. Res. 524), H6303 [17SE]
———prevent corporations from avoiding the U.S. income tax by reincorporating in a foreign country (see H.R. 3884), H737 [6MR]
———provide a credit for employers who allow their employees to participate in volunteer firefighter training (see H.R. 4839), H3563 [13JN]
———provide a credit for police officers and professional firefighters and exclude from income certain benefits received by public safety volunteers (see H.R. 5027), H6229 [11SE]
———provide a nonrefundable tax credit for police officers who purchase armor vests (see H.R. 5026), H6229 [11SE]
———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), H7018 [3OC]
———remove the requirement of a mandatory beginning date for distributions from individual retirement accounts (see H.R. 1368), H7018 [3OC]
———repeal tax increase on Social Security benefits (see H.R. 4789), H3514 [12JN]
———require child support delinquent parents to include their unpaid obligation in gross income, and allow custodial parents a deduction for unpaid child support (see H.R. 5130), H4765 [16JY]
———restore deductibility for meals and entertainment expenses (see H.R. 3083), H737 [6MR]
———restore deduction for travel expenses of a taxpayer's spouse who accompanies the taxpayer on business travel (see H.R. 563), H737 [6MR]
———terminate Internal Revenue Code (see H.R. 2714), H1284 [11AP] (see H.R. 4716), H2470 [14MY]
———treatment of forestry activities (see H.R. 1581), H561 [26FE]
———treatment of sale of certain animals associated with educational programs (see H.R. 1599), H7929 [15OC]
———treatment of Social Security benefits (see H.R. 4790), H3514 [12JN]
———treatment of tips (see H.R. 1274), H3668 [18JN]
Terrorism: anniversary of terrorist attacks (see H. Con. Res. 464), H6229 [11SE]
Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century: provide highway infrastructure investment at the guaranteed funding level (see H.R. 3694), H226 [7FE]
Twenty-First Century Water Policy Commission: establish (see H.R. 3561), H3514 [12JN]
U.N.: rescind approving signature to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court on behalf of the U.S. and take necessary steps to prevent establishment of that Court (see H.R. 4169), H1281 [11AP]
———tribute to President Bush for rescinding approving signature to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court on behalf of the U.S. (see H. Res. 416), H2355 [9MY]
Veterans: increase the minimum Survivor Benefit Plan basic annuity for certain surviving spouses (see H.R. 5403), H6373 [18SE]
Volunteer firefighters: remove civil liability barriers surrounding donating fire equipment to volunteer fire companies (see H.R. 1919), H2164 [7MY]
Water: provide for conservation and development of water resources and authorize Dept. of the Army construction and improvement projects for rivers and harbors (see H.R. 5428), H6473 [23SE]
Bills and resolutions introduced
Dept. of the Interior: replace the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as the Federal agency responsible for the administration, protection, and preservation of Midway Atoll (see H.R. 4784), H2734 [21MY]
Public lands: exchange of certain private property in Colorado and certain Federal property in Utah (see H.R. 4996), H3825 [21JN] (see H.R. 5318), H6059 [4SE]
Tennessee: authorize construction of replacement lock at Chickamauga Lock and Dam (see H.R. 5546), H7018 [3OC]
Water: authorize appropriations for State water pollution control revolving funds (see H.R. 3930), H832 [12MR]
Pledge of Allegiance
House of Representatives, H943 [19MR]
Remarks
Afghanistan: classification and treatment of detainees being held at the U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, H41 [24JA]
Aviation: amend certain laws relative to airport project streamlining (H.R. 4481), H4364 [9JY]
———establish a program for Federal flight deck officers (H.R. 4635), consideration (H. Res. 472), H4438 [10JY]
———improve security by allowing pilots to have guns in the cockpit, H4438 [10JY]
Colleges and universities: encourage political diversity in selecting commencement speakers and faculty, H718 [6MR]
Dept. of Homeland Security: establish (H.R. 5005), H4567 [12JY], H4877 [18JY], H5461 [25JY]
Dept. of Justice: actions relative to investigation into imprisonment of Joseph Salvati, H609 [27FE], H647 [28FE]
EPA: make grants for remediation of sediment contamination in areas of concern and authorize assistance for research and development of innovative technologies for such purposes (H.R. 1070), H6009, H6011 [4SE], H8079, H8081, H8082 [12NO], E2007
Foreign trade: national objectives priority assignments, H1189 [10AP]
———U.S. deficit, H1189 [10AP]
Forest Service: wildfire management and fire hazard prevention practices, H6073 [5SE]
Government: limiting of growth, H4400 [9JY]
House of Representatives: authorize recess for joint session to receive Australian Prime Minister John Howard, H3204 [5JN]
INS: investigation of approval and issuance of student visas for suspected terrorists, H911 [14MR]
———reform, H911 [14MR]
Iraq: U.S. policy, H3205 [5JN], H4360 [9JY]
National Radiologic Technology Week: observance, E1641
Petroleum: gasoline price levels, H1997 [1MY]
Presidents of the U.S.: require disclosure of funding sources and amounts relative to creation of a Presidential archival depository (H.R. 577), H117, H118 [5FE]
Sewage disposal: enhance security of wastewater treatment works (H.R. 5169), H7022, H7023, H7024 [7OC]
Taxation: make repeal of estate taxes permanent (H.R. 2143), H3250, H3251 [6JN]
Remarks in House relative to
Special order: granted, H632 [27FE], H648 [28FE], H735 [6MR], H1198 [10AP], H2016 [1MY], H3227 [5JN], H4422 [9JY], H6083 [5SE]
Tributes
Burpee, Claude, E1543
Cannon, Juanita, E1098
Householder, Barbara Ann, E1677
Mendelsohn, Joseph F., H943 [19MR]
Prince, Matthew, E1747