ENZI, MICHAEL B. (a Senator from Wyoming)
Addresses
Lovell, WY, Veterans Memorial Center Dedication: Ed Boenisch, S6352 [8JY]
———James A. Lovell, Jr., S6352 [8JY]
Terrorist Attacks Anniversary: Joseph V. Reed, U.N., S11311
Amendments
Agriculture: continue certain programs (S. 1731), S426 [6FE], S533 [8FE], S578, S590 [11FE], S612, S667 [12FE]
Andean Trade Preference Act: extend and expand (H.R. 3009), S3844 [2MY], S4080 [8MY], S4520, S4539 [17MY], S4639 [21MY]
Appropriations: making supplemental appropriations for further recovery from and response to terrorist attacks (H.R. 4775), S5090, S5099 [5JN], S5241 [6JN]
Business and industry: improve financial reporting and independent audits and accounting services, create a Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, and improve SEC resources and oversight (S. 2673), S6552, S6580 [10JY], S6625, S6663, S6665, S6674, S6677 [11JY], S6712, S6714 [12JY]
Commission on Voting Rights and Procedures: establish (S. 565), S866, S872 [14FE], S988, S1005 [25FE], S1372 [28FE]
Crime: prevent identity theft and mitigate the harm to victimized individuals (S. 1742), S11120 [14NO]
Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (S. 2514), S6042 [25JN], S6149 [26JN]
Dept. of Energy: enhance national laboratory mission areas through technology transfer and partnerships (S. 517), S1684 [7MR], S1838, S1865 [13MR]
Dept. of Homeland Security: establish (H.R. 5005), S8778 [18SE], S8981 [20SE], S9117, S9141 [24SE], S9443, S9444 [26SE], S9597 [30SE], S9913, S9914 [3OC], S11089 [14NO]
Dept. of the Interior and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 5093), S8222 [4SE], S8408, S8468 [10SE], S8674, S8687 [17SE]
Education: improve Federal research, statistics, evaluation, information, and dissemination (H.R. 3801), S10459 [15OC]
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: provide greater access to affordable pharmaceuticals (S. 812), S7284, S7316 [24JY], S7580, S7590, S7591 [30JY]
Health: reauthorize health centers program and National Health Service Corps and establish Healthy Communities Access Program to coordinate services for uninsured and underinsured (S. 1533), S2741 [16AP]
Taxation: treatment of adoption expenses (H.R. 622), S105 [24JA], S128, S144 [25JA], S288, S289, S292 [4FE], S357 [5FE]
Voting: protect voting rights (S. 565), S866, S872 [14FE], S988, S1005 [25FE], S1372 [28FE]
Appointments
Conferee: H.R. 3210, Terrorism Risk Protection Act, S7332 [25JY]
———H.R. 3763, Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act, S6898 [17JY]
President's Export Council, S8013 [1AU]
Bills and resolutions cosponsored
Agriculture: provide emergency livestock assistance and assistance for control of grasshoppers and Mormon crickets (see S. 2768), S7164 [22JY]
———provide greater fairness in livestock and poultry contract arbitration process (see S. 2943), S8673 [17SE]
Armed Forces: provide for a Korea Defense Service Medal to be issued to members who participated in Korea after the Korean War (see S. 999), S4199 [10MY]
Aviation: establish a program for Federal flight deck officers (see S. 2554), S5286 [10JN]
———require background checks of alien flight school applicants regardless of weight of the aircraft for which they seek training and require report on the effectiveness of the requirement (see S. 2642), S6574 [10JY]
Capital punishment: allow post-conviction DNA testing, improve performance of lawyers and judges handling State capital criminal cases, and ensure quality of defense counsel in Federal capital cases (see S. 2739), S8385 [9SE]
Children's Memorial Flag Day: designate (see S. Res. 109), S1005 [25FE]
Congressional Gold Medal: award posthumously to passengers and crew of United Airlines flight 93 in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Somerset County, PA (see S. 2924), S8506 [11SE]
Crime: prevent identity theft and mitigate the harm to victimized individuals (see S. 1742), S3436 [25AP]
Dept. of HHS: expand and intensify research programs concerning elder falls (see S. 1922), S488 [7FE]
Dept. of Homeland Security: establish (see S. 2794), S7902 [1AU]
Dept. of State: enhance U.S. diplomacy in predominantly Muslim countries (see S. 2458), S4493 [16MY]
Fair Labor Standards Act: ensure protection for child employees of traveling sales crews (see S. 2549), S4703 [22MY]
FCC: facilitate the ability of certain spectrum auction winners to pursue alternative measures to meet the public needs of wireless telecommunications consumers (see S. 2869), S8301 [5SE]
———require parity in regulatory treatment of broadband services providers and broadband access services providers (see S. 2430), S6128 [26JN]
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: amend relative to new animal drugs (see S. 1346), S2413 [9AP]
Financial institutions: merge bank and savings association deposit insurance funds and reform the Federal deposit insurance system (see S. 1945), S852 [14FE]
Firearms: protect manufacturers and sellers in the firearms and ammunition industry from restrictions on interstate or foreign commerce (see S. 2268), S3954 [7MY]
———protect right to keep and bear arms (see S. 1996), S1675 [7MR]
Flags: require display of the POW/MIA flag at the World War II memorial, the Korean War Veterans Memorial, and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (see S. 1226), S9426 [26SE]
Government: establish a commission to conduct a comprehensive review of Federal agencies and programs, and to recommend the elimination or realignment of duplicative, wasteful, or outdated functions (see S. 2488), S4145 [9MY]
Health: prohibit health insurance and employment discrimination on the basis of genetic information (see S. 1995), S1599 [6MR]
———support research to more fully develop the field of health promotion and disease prevention and develop strategies to integrate health and lifestyle improvement programs into national policy (see S. Con. Res. 11), S9427 [26SE]
Higher Education Act: technical amendments (see S. 2932), S8565 [12SE]
History: recognize historical significance of the 100th anniversary of Korean immigration to the U.S. (see S. Res. 185), S4891 [3JN]
Housing: simplify the downpayment requirements for FHA mortgage insurance for single family homebuyers (see S. 2239), S8300 [5SE]
Johnny Michael Spann Patriot Trusts: encourage establishment (see S. 3073), S10117 [8OC]
Medicare: improve disproportionate share payments to hospitals serving vulnerable populations (see S. 2854), S7899 [1AU]
Memorial Day: recognize the sacrifice and dedication of the Armed Forces and civilian national security agencies (see S. Res. 278), S4840 [23MY]
National Airborne Day: designate (see S. Res. 242), S7227 [23JY]
National Children's Memorial Day: designate (see S. Res. 109), S1005 [25FE]
National Donor Day: designate (see S. Res. 210), S853 [14FE]
National Drought Council: establish (see S. 2528), S6708 [12JY]
National Safe Place Week: designate (see S. Res. 215), S1421 [4MR] (see S. Res. 218), S1676 [7MR]
Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center for Community Building, St. Paul, MN: authorize construction grant (see S. 3156), S11079 [14NO]
Pensions: provide additional protection to participants in individual account plans, promote investment advice, and prohibit certain insider trades of securities (see S. 1969), S1252 [27FE]
Pledge of Allegiance: circuit court decision on inclusion of phrase ``under God'' (see S. Res. 292), S6127 [26JN]
———reaffirm reference to ``one Nation under God'' (see S. 2690), S6250 [27JN]
Public Health Service: promote organ donation (see S. 1949), S852 [14FE]
Public Health Service Act: add requirements regarding trauma care (see S. 3048), S9901 [3OC]
Public welfare programs: reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program and improve access to quality child care (see S. 2648), S5902 [21JN]
Read Across America Day: designate (see S. Res. 211), S1252 [27FE]
Roads and highways: reduce delays in development of highway and transit projects (see S. 3031), S10678 [17OC]
SBA: establish a pilot program to provide regulatory compliance assistance to small businesses (see S. 2455), S6251 [27JN]
Science: prohibit the cloning of humans (see S. 1899), S1706 [8MR]
Small business: provide emergency assistance to non-farm small business concerns that have suffered economic harm from the effects of drought (see S. 2734), S7034 [18JY]
Tariff: acrylic fiber tow (see S. 2106), S2577 [11AP]
Taxation: allow full deduction of costs incurred in the preparation of an individual tax return (see S. 2429), S3560 [30AP]
———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 S. 677), S425 [6FE]
———clarify treatment of incentive stock options and employee stock purchases (see S. 1383), S3626 [1MY]
———provide involuntary conversion tax relief for producers forced to sell livestock due to weather-related conditions or Federal land management agency policy or action (see S. 2762), S7104 [19JY]
———transfer all excise taxes imposed on alcohol fuels to the Highway Trust Fund (see S. 2678), S6013 [25JN]
Transportation: improve transit service in rural areas, small urban areas, and for the elderly and disabled (see S. 2884), S7900 [1AU]
Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century: provide highway infrastructure investment at the guaranteed funding level (see S. 1917), S661 [12FE]
Vietnam Veterans Memorial: authorize design and construction of a temporary education center (see S. 281), S7309 [24JY]
Wellstone, Paul D.: tribute (see S. Res. 354), S10800 [28OC]
White House Commission on National Military Appreciation Month: establish (see S. 1785), S7164 [22JY]
Bills and resolutions introduced
Agriculture: provide emergency livestock assistance (see S. 2834), S7899 [1AU]
Business and industry: review accounting treatment and adopt generally accepted accounting principles for the treatment of employee stock options (see S. 2760), S7103 [19JY]
Dept. of Veterans Affairs: establish a national cemetery for veterans in the Cheyenne, WY, area (see S. 3020), S9714 [1OC]
Endangered Species Act: require Federal assumption of all costs relative to implementation and compliance (see S. 2604), S5285 [10JN]
Orr, Sammie Martine: relief (see S. 2464), S3953 [7MY]
Packers and Stockyards Act: prohibit use of certain anti-competitive forward contracts (see S. 2021), S1974 [15MR]
Public lands: designate certain forest lands at risk for catastrophic wildfires as emergency mitigation areas and authorize the use of alternative arrangements in those areas (see S. 2811), S7430 [26JY]
Teno Roncalio Post Office Building, Rock Springs, WY: designate (see S. 1970), S1251 [27FE]
Cloture motions
Clifton, Richard R.: nomination to be circuit judge, S6964 [17JY], S7016 [18JY]
Insurance: ensure the continued financial capacity of insurers to provide coverage for risks from terrorism (S. 2600), S5625 [17JN]
Excerpts
``Fire on the Mountain,'' John N. Maclean, S8703 [18SE]
Legislation on the safety of the reimportation of prescription drugs, S6927 [17JY]
Letters
Emergency agriculture assistance: Nancy Tarver, Tarver Heart X Ranch (business), S11547 [19NO]
Packers and Stockyards Act prohibition on the use of certain anti-competitive forward contracts: Joseph W. Luter III, Smithfield Foods, Inc., S1977 [15MR]
Regulatory oversight over energy trading markets: Harvey L. Pitt, SEC, S1776 [12MR]
Stock Option Fairness and Accountability Act: several Senators, S7104 [19JY]
Motions
Business and industry: improve financial reporting and independent audits and accounting services, create a Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, and improve SEC resources and oversight (S. 2673), S6619 [11JY]
Privilege of the floor
Laird, Joe, S6810 [15JY]
Remarks
Afghanistan: establish a pilot emergency relief program to provide live lambs, S612, S625 [12FE]
Agriculture: continue certain programs (H.R. 2646), conference report, S3919 [7MY]
———continue certain programs (S. 1731), S412 [6FE], S475 [7FE], S578, S579 [11FE], S607, S612, S625 [12FE]
———emergency agriculture assistance funding offset through payment limitations, S8408 [10SE]
———Livestock Assistance Program funding, S79 [24JA], S578, S579 [11FE], S625 [12FE], S5182 [6JN]
———provide emergency agriculture assistance, S79 [24JA], S607 [12FE], S8397 [10SE]
———provide emergency agriculture assistance (S. 3099), S11547, S11548 [19NO]
———treatment of livestock and meat products relative to trade negotiating and trade agreement implementing authority, S4800 [23MY]
Andean Trade Preference Act: extend and expand (H.R. 3009), S4522 [17MY], S4800 [23MY]
———extend and expand (H.R. 3009), conference report, S7837 [1AU]
———extend and expand (H.R. 3009), unanimous-consent request, S6513 [9JY]
Appropriations: legislative process, S9820 [2OC]
———making supplemental appropriations for further recovery from and response to terrorist attacks (H.R. 4775), S5182 [6JN]
Armed Forces: authorize use against Iraq (S.J. Res. 45), S10206 [9OC]
Business and industry: improve financial reporting and independent audits and accounting services, create a Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, and improve SEC resources and oversight (S. 2673), S6337 [8JY], S6554 [10JY], S6614, S6615, S6619, S6636 [11JY], S6743, S6749, S6774 [15JY]
———protect investors by improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures pursuant to securities laws (H.R. 3763), conference report, S7354 [25JY]
———require publicly traded companies to record and treat stock options as expenses in income statements, S6636-S6640 [11JY]
———review accounting treatment and adopt generally accepted accounting principles for the treatment of employee stock options (S. 2760), S7104, S7105 [19JY]
Climate: global warming, S850 [14FE]
Commission on Voting Rights and Procedures: establish (S. 565), S2521 [11AP]
Conservation Reserve Program: strike water conservation program, S475 [7FE]
Corporations: require certain officers of companies in bankruptcy to return bonuses, incentive- or equity-based compensation, and stock sale profits received prior to a required restatement of earnings, S6743 [15JY]
Cuba: allow the financing of agricultural sales, S4522 [17MY]
Dept. of Energy: enhance national laboratory mission areas through technology transfer and partnerships (S. 517), S1775, S1776 [12MR], S2034 [19MR]
Dept. of HHS: certify safety and cost savings relative to commercial importation of prescription drugs from Canada, S6926, S6927 [17JY]
Dept. of Justice: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 2215), conference report, S9702 [1OC]
Dept. of the Interior and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 5093), S8397, S8408 [10SE], S8701, S8707 [18SE]
Dept. of Veterans Affairs: establish a national cemetery for veterans in the Cheyenne, WY, area (S. 3020), S9718 [1OC]
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: provide greater access to affordable pharmaceuticals (S. 812), S6926, S6927 [17JY], S7093 [19JY]
Gorzalka, Chelsie: Prudential Insurance Co., of America Spirit of Community Award recipient for Wyoming, S2719
Green River, WY: tribute to Green River High School for participation in We the People . . . The Citizen and the Constitution competition, S6944
Health: prohibit health insurance and employment discrimination on the basis of genetic information (S. 1995), S1594 [6MR]
Insurance: ensure the continued financial capacity of insurers to provide coverage for risks from terrorism (H.R. 3210), conference report, S11528 [19NO]
J.C. Penney Co., Inc.: anniversary, S2451 [10AP]
Lawyers and attorneys: disclosure of fee arrangements to clients, S6614, S6615, S6619 [11JY]
———professional conduct and ethical responsibilities under Federal securities laws, S6554 [10JY]
Lovell, WY: dedication of Lovell Veterans Memorial Center, S6351 [8JY]
Medicare: establish voluntary outpatient prescription drug coverage program and modernize and reform payments and the regulatory structure, S7093 [19JY]
Motor vehicles: provide for greater fairness in the motor vehicle franchise contract arbitration process, S9702 [1OC]
National forests: implement an emergency hazardous fuels reduction plan, S8701, S8707 [18SE]
O'Brien, Terrence L.: nomination to be circuit judge, S2661 [15AP]
Packers and Stockyards Act: prohibit use of certain anti-competitive forward contracts (S. 2021), S1976-S1978 [15MR]
———revise livestock production contracts, S412 [6FE]
Pharmaceuticals: permit commercial importation of prescription drugs from Canada, S6926, S6927 [17JY]
Poulos, Cory: Prudential Insurance Co., of America Spirit of Community Award finalist for Wyoming, S2719
Power resources: national energy policy, S850 [14FE], S1775, S1776 [12MR], S2034 [19MR]
———provide regulatory oversight over energy trading markets, S1775, S1776 [12MR], S2034 [19MR]
Public lands: designate certain forest lands at risk for catastrophic wildfires as emergency mitigation areas and authorize the use of alternative arrangements in those areas (S. 2811), S7449 [29JY]
Sabec, Mark: Prudential Insurance Co., of America Spirit of Community Award finalist for Wyoming, S2719
Taxation: increase deduction for expensing of certain depreciable assets by small businesses, S128 [25JA]
———provide incentives for economic recovery, S79 [24JA], S128 [25JA], S398 [6FE]
———treatment of adoption expenses (H.R. 622), S79 [24JA], S128 [25JA], S398 [6FE]
Teno Roncalio Post Office Building, Rock Springs, WY: designate (S. 1970), S1252 [27FE]
Terrorism: anniversary of terrorist attacks, S8554 [12SE], S11311
———establish procedures for civil actions and limit liability for punitive damages relative to acts of terrorism, S11528 [19NO]
———implement International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings and International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism to defend against terrorist acts (H.R. 3275), S5572 [14JN]
———implement International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings and International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism to defend against terrorist acts (S. 1770), S5572 [14JN]
Thomas, Senator: University of Wyoming Distinguished Alumni Award recipient, S10567
Treaties and agreements: extend trade negotiating and trade agreement implementing authority, S4522 [17MY], S4800 [23MY], S7837 [1AU]
———limit application of trade authority procedures, S7837 [1AU]
Voting: protect voting rights (S. 565), S2521 [11AP]
———provide construction grants to ensure access for disabled individuals, S2521 [11AP]
Waits, Tabetha: Prudential Insurance Co., of America Spirit of Community Award recipient for Wyoming, S2719
Texts of
S. 3020, establish a national cemetery for veterans in the Cheyenne, WY, area, S9718 [1OC]
Tributes
Brewer, Bill, S10355
Helms, Senator, S9795, S9796 [2OC]
Shaud, John A., S7884