EMERSON, JO ANN (a Representative from Missouri)
Amendments
Political campaigns: ethics reform and contribution limits (H.R. 2356), H444 [13FE]
Appointments
Congressional Hunger Fellows Program Board of Trustees, H9029 [19NO]
Articles and editorials
September 12th . . . We Knew Everything Would Be All Right, Associated Press (news service), E1575
Bills and resolutions cosponsored
Abortion: prohibit partial-birth abortions (see H.R. 4965), H4498 [10JY]
Africa: recognize the importance of inheritance rights of women (see H. Con. Res. 421), H3668 [18JN]
Agriculture: provide clarification regarding the market name for bison (see H.R. 3783), H524 [14FE]
———provide emergency agriculture assistance (see H.R. 5383), H8023 [16OC]
Boggs, Lindy: tribute (see H. Con. Res. 439), H4606 [15JY]
Buck, John F. (Jack): tribute (see H. Res. 455), H3859 [24JN]
Children and youth: support and evaluate the provision of before-school activities that advance student academic achievement and encourage the establishment of and increase participation in school breakfast programs (see H.R. 4192), H1282 [11AP]
Courts: modify jurisdiction of Federal courts, inferior to the Supreme Court, over certain cases and controversies involving the Pledge of Allegiance (see H.R. 5064), H4873 [17JY]
Crime: establish Federal criminal penalties and civil remedies for certain violent, threatening, obstructive and destructive conduct that is intended to injure, intimidate, or interfere with plant or animal enterprises (see H.R. 2795), H907 [13MR]
Cuba: lift travel restrictions (see H.R. 5022), H4068 [26JN]
Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act: expiration (see H.R. 5616), H7893 [10OC]
Dept. of Agriculture: ensure that agricultural producers and other persons appealing adverse agency decisions receive fair and equitable treatment (see H.R. 3827), H1003 [19MR]
———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 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), H2608 [16MY]
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), H141 [5FE]
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), H6374 [18SE]
Drugs: correct impediments to allowing importation of prescription drugs into the U.S. by pharmacists and wholesalers for resale and by U.S. citizens for personal use (see H.R. 5534), H6982 [2OC]
Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act: amend relative to firefighter assistance (see H.R. 4548), H5791 [25JY]
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: provide greater access to affordable pharmaceuticals (see H.R. 5311), H5996 [26JY]
Health: reauthorize health centers program and National Health Service Corps (see H.R. 3450), H367 [13FE]
———reduce the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery system (see H.R. 4600), H4872 [17JY]
Height, Dorothy I.: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 4531), H6303 [17SE]
Housing: analyze potential impacts of rules proposed by certain agencies (see H.R. 2753), H36 [23JA]
Insurance: establish a Federal program to provide reinsurance to improve the availability of homeowners' insurance (see H.R. 4025), H4605 [15JY]
Law enforcement officers: exclude availability pay for criminal investigators from the limitation on premium pay and modify levels of special pay for Federal officers in certain cities (see H.R. 4763), H6693 [25SE]
Medicare: allow beneficiaries direct access to physical therapists without a physician referral (see H.R. 3363), H2101 [2MY]
———coverage of marriage and family therapist services (see H.R. 3899), H780 [7MR]
———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), H1156 [9AP]
———extend a temporary increase in payment for skilled nursing facility services (see H.R. 5411), H6417 [19SE]
———improve access to services in rural hospitals and critical access hospitals (see H.R. 4515), H2608 [16MY]
———remove inpatient limitation on the proportion of hospice care that certain rural hospice programs may provide (see H.R. 3270), H2101 [2MY]
Medicine Equity and Drug Safety Act: implementation (see H. Res. 478), H4497 [10JY]
OMB: provide that certain adjustments made to align highway spending with revenues have no force or effect (see H.R. 3900), H780 [7MR]
Pharmaceuticals: importation of certain prescription drugs (see H.R. 5186), H5194 [23JY]
Pledge of Allegiance: circuit court decision on inclusion of phrase ``under God'' (see H. Res. 459), H4069 [26JN]
Religion: defend the Ten Commandments (see H.R. 3895), H780 [7MR]
Robert J. Dole Dept. of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Wichita, KS: designate (see H.R. 4608), H2356 [9MY]
Senior citizens: modify the eligibility criteria for supplemental foods provided under the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (see H.R. 5107), H4553 [11JY]
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), H634 [27FE]
———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]
———clarify the exemption from tax for small property and casualty insurance companies (see H.R. 1908), H6060 [4SE]
———constitutional amendment on tax limitations (see H.J. Res. 96), H3291 [6JN]
———provide incentives for the use of biodiesel as a fuel (see H.R. 4843), H3036 [23MY]
———provide tax credit for educational expenses incurred in attending public or private elementary and secondary schools and in homeschooling (see H.R. 257), H4326 [27JN]
———terminate Internal Revenue Code (see H.R. 4716), H2470 [14MY]
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), H562 [26FE]
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), H2608 [16MY]
Veterans: increase the minimum Survivor Benefit Plan basic annuity for certain surviving spouses (see H.R. 5403), H6373 [18SE]
Water: authorize appropriations for State water pollution control revolving funds (see H.R. 3930), H3038 [23MY]
Williams, Serena: tribute (see H. Res. 94), H4767 [16JY]
Williams, Venus: tribute (see H. Res. 94), H4767 [16JY]
Bills and resolutions introduced
Medicare: coverage of outpatient prescription drugs (see H.R. 3626), H78 [24JA]
———coverage of outpatient prescription drugs for low-income beneficiaries and provision of stop-loss protection for outpatient prescription drug expenses (see H.R. 4741), H2511 [15MY]
Remarks
Agriculture: continue certain programs (H.R. 2646), consideration of conference report (H. Res. 403), H2027 [2MY]
———continue certain programs (H.R. 2646), motion to instruct conferees, H1457 [18AP]
———limit price support payments to producers, H2027 [2MY]
Cuba: allow the financing of agricultural sales, H1457 [18AP]
———condition lifting of travel restrictions on certification that Cuba is not developing or providing technology to terrorists for biological weapons and is not providing support or sanctuary to terrorists, H5268 [23JY]
———lift travel restrictions, H5296 [23JY]
Dept. of the Treasury, Postal Service, Executive Office of the President, and independent agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 5120), H5268, H5296 [23JY]
Evans, Winford: Distinguished Service Cross recipient, E746
Hall, Representative Tony P.: nomination to be U.S. Representative to the U.N. Agencies for Food and Agriculture, H5620 [25JY]
Kennett, MO: tribute to H. Byron Masterson Elementary School Kids Are Authors Contest winners, E1575
Missouri: anniversary of 1927 flood, E584
Political campaigns: ethics reform and contribution limits (H.R. 2356), H444, H447 [13FE]
———prohibit soft money expenditures by State, district, or local political party committees, H444, H447 [13FE]
Votes: position on missed, E927
Remarks in House relative to
Leave of absence: granted, H2659 [20MY], H2732 [21MY], H2940 [22MY], H3289 [6JN], H4572 [12JY]
Tributes
Hall, Representative Tony P., H5620 [25JY]