FITZGERALD, PETER (a Senator from Illinois)
Amendments
Agriculture: continue certain programs (S. 1731), S498 [7FE]
Andean Trade Preference Act: extend and expand (H.R. 3009), S3882 [2MY]
Appropriations: making supplemental appropriations for further recovery from and response to terrorist attacks (H.R. 4775), S5091 [5JN]
Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (S. 2514), S5785 [19JN], S5838, S5876 [20JN], S6137 [26JN]
Dept. of Energy: enhance national laboratory mission areas through technology transfer and partnerships (S. 517), S1685 [7MR], S1974 [15MR], S2038, S2077 [19MR], S2296 [21MR], S2633 [12AP], S3036, S3074 [22AP], S3148 [23AP], S3360 [25AP]
Dept. of Homeland Security: establish (H.R. 5005), S8983 [20SE]
Insurance: ensure the continued financial capacity of insurers to provide coverage for risks from terrorism (S. 2600), S5636 [17JN]
Taxation: provide incentives for economic recovery (H.R. 3529), S11060, S11136 [14NO]
———treatment of adoption expenses (H.R. 622), S104 [24JA], S212 [29JA], S361, S379 [5FE]
Articles and editorials
Bears Play, Public Pays, Andrew Martin, Liam Ford, and Laurie Cohen, Chicago (IL) Tribune, S3006 [22AP]
Daley to City Workers—Pick Unpaid Days or Layoffs, Fran Spielman, Chicago (IL) Sun-Times, S3008 [22AP]
Bills and resolutions cosponsored
Agriculture: prohibit transfer or marketing of nonambulatory livestock (see S. 267), S2578 [11AP]
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), S6319 [28JN]
Children and youth: enhance operation of the AMBER Alert communications plan to expedite the recovery of abducted children (see S. 2896), S8202 [4SE]
Children's Internet Safety Month: designate (see S. Res. 338), S10572 [16OC]
Coal miners: issue commemorative postage stamp (see S. Con. Res. 77), S4624 [21MY]
Computers: establish Internet domain for children that will promote positive experiences, provide safe online environment, and prevent exposure to harmful material (see S. 2537), S4704 [22MY]
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]
CPSC: amend flammability standards for children's sleepwear (see S. 2188), S6868 [16JY]
———promulgate fire safety standards for cigarettes (see S. 2317), S5773 [19JN]
Diseases: collect data on benign brain-related tumors through the national program of cancer registries (see S. 2558), S4839 [23MY]
Education: promote child literacy by making books available through early learning and other child care programs (see S. 2445), S11080 [14NO]
Family History Month: designate (see S. Res. 330), S8981 [20SE]
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), S9426 [26SE]
Firefighters: support goals and ideas of a day of tribute to all who have died in the line of duty and recognize importance of National Fallen Firefighters Foundation in assisting family members (see S. Con. Res. 142), S9902 [3OC]
Food: permit States to use administrative funds to pay costs relating to the processing, transporting, and distributing of donated wild game to eligible food distribution agencies (S. 1683) (see S. 1683), S3165 [23AP]
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]
Greek Independence Day—A National Day of Celebration of Greek and American Democracy: designate (see S. Res. 214), S1421 [4MR]
Health: ensure guaranteed renewability of individual health insurance coverage regardless of health status-related factors (see S. 3119), S10571 [16OC]
Immigration: provide refugee status to foreign nationals who assist in the return of POW/MIA (see S. 1339), S5366 [11JN]
Insurance: coverage of colorectal cancer screening (see S. 710), S10677 [17OC]
Lumber industry: promote open and competitive trade of softwood lumber between the U.S. and Canada (see S. Con. Res. 135), S8301 [5SE]
Marine mammals: reaffirm opposition to commercial and lethal scientific whaling and provide protection for, and conservation of, the world's whale populations to prevent trade in whale meat (see S. Res. 267), S4330 [14MY]
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), S6809 [15JY]
National Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Week: designate (see S. Res. 270), S8301 [5SE]
National Epilepsy Awareness Month: designate (see S. Res. 322), S8300 [5SE]
National 4-H Youth Development Program Week: designate (see S. Con. Res. 143), S8918 [19SE]
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: authorize development of research centers focusing on environmental factors related to the etiology of breast cancer (see S. 830), S10040 [7OC]
National Mammography Day: designate (see S. Res. 326), S8565 [12SE]
National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month: designate (see S. Res. 325), S8565 [12SE]
National Railroad Hall of Fame, Inc.: support efforts to construct a National Railroad Hall of Fame (see S. Res. 301), S6498 [9JY]
National Runaway Prevention Month: designate (see S. Res. 339), S11575 [19NO]
NATO: endorse further enlargement (see S. 1572), S2485 [10AP]
Paderewski, Ignacy J.: tribute and anniversary of the return of his remains to Poland (see S. Res. 296), S6319 [28JN]
Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center for Community Building, St. Paul, MN: authorize construction grant (see S. 3156), S11079 [14NO]
Pledge of Allegiance: circuit court decision on inclusion of phrase ``under God'' (see S. Res. 292), S6127 [26JN]
Power resources: encourage production of biobased energy products (see S. 1960), S897 [15FE]
———provide regulatory oversight over energy and metals trading markets (see S. 2724), S6649 [11JY]
Science: prohibit the cloning of humans (see S. 1899), S853 [14FE]
Senior citizens: establish grant program to provide financial and retirement education programs to reduce financial abuse and fraud among mid-life and older individuals (see S. 2982), S8918 [19SE]
Taxation: allow corporate tax benefits from stock option compensation expenses only to the extent that such expenses are included in a corporation's financial statements (see S. 1940), S732 [13FE]
———treatment of damages and back pay received on account of, and expenses incurred in asserting any claim of employment discrimination (see S. 917), S9902 [3OC]
Water: establish national ballast water management program to prevent introduction of invasive species and improve prevention and treatment research and technology (see S. 2964), S8754 [18SE]
———provide assistance to States to support testing of private wells in areas of suspected contamination to limit or prevent human exposure to contaminated groundwater (see S. 3127), S10676 [17OC]
Wellstone, Paul D.: tribute (see S. Res. 354), S10800 [28OC]
Year of the Blues: designate (see S. Res. 316), S8457 [10SE]
Bills and resolutions introduced
Business and industry: require investment advisers to make prominent public disclosures of ties with companies being analyzed by them (see S. 1895), S100 [24JA]
Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: make permanent the exclusion of reparations received by Holocaust survivors or their heirs or estates (see S. 2577), S4967 [4JN]
FERC: reinstate license and extend deadline for commencement of construction for the Carlyle Hydroelectric Project in Illinois (see S. 2872), S7900 [1AU]
Government: expand types of Federal agencies that are required to prepare audited financial statements (see S. 2644), S5772 [19JN]
Greece: return of the Parthenon Marbles (see S. Con. Res. 127), S6319 [28JN]
Cloture motions
Dept. of Homeland Security: establish (H.R. 5005), motion to proceed, S7766 [31JY], S8036 [3SE]
Insurance: ensure the continued financial capacity of insurers to provide coverage for risks from terrorism (S. 2600), S5625 [17JN]
Remarks
Agriculture: continue certain programs (S. 1731), S452 [7FE]
Andean Trade Preference Act: extend and expand (H.R. 3009), S4809 [23MY]
Armed Forces: authorize use against Iraq (S.J. Res. 45), S10341 [10OC]
Chicago, IL: expand aviation capacity (S. 2039), unanimous-consent request, S6234 [27JN]
———O'Hare International Airport competitive bidding requirements for contracts and concessions, S3006-S3009 [22AP]
Dept. of Agriculture: strengthen limitations on commodity payments and benefits and use resulting savings to improve certain programs, S452 [7FE]
Dept. of Energy: enhance national laboratory mission areas through technology transfer and partnerships (S. 517), S1653 [7MR], S2028 [19MR], S2429 [10AP], S3148, S3149 [23AP], S3285, S3287 [24AP]
Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: make permanent the exclusion of reparations received by Holocaust survivors or their heirs or estates (H.R. 4823), S11797 [20NO]
———make permanent the exclusion of reparations received by Holocaust survivors or their heirs or estates (S. 2577), S4972 [4JN], S11796, S11797 [20NO]
FERC: reinstate license and extend deadline for commencement of construction for the Carlyle Hydroelectric Project in Illinois (S. 2872), S7940 [1AU]
Girl Scouts: anniversary, S2177 [20MR]
Government: expand types of Federal agencies that are required to prepare audited financial statements (S. 2644), S10219 [9OC]
Motor vehicles: improve safety of car restraints and booster seats for children (H.R. 5504), S11205 [15NO]
National 4-H Youth Development Program Week: designate (S. Con. Res. 143), S10039 [7OC]
Power resources: national energy policy, S1653 [7MR], S2028 [19MR], S2429 [10AP], S3148, S3149 [23AP], S3285, S3287 [24AP]
———provide regulatory oversight over energy and metals trading markets, S2429 [10AP]
———provide regulatory oversight over energy trading markets, S1653 [7MR], S2028 [19MR]
Solid waste: modify definitions of biomass and renewable energy to exclude municipal solid waste, S3149 [23AP], S3285, S3287 [24AP]
Treaties and agreements: extend trade negotiating and trade agreement implementing authority, S4809 [23MY]
Unemployment: provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program, S11699 [20NO]
Texts of
S. 1895, Independent Investment Advisers Act, S101 [24JA]
S. 2577, Holocaust Restitution Tax Fairness Act, S4972 [4JN]
S. 2644, Accountability of Tax Dollars Act, S5774 [19JN]
S. 2872, reinstate license and extend deadline for commencement of construction for the Carlyle Hydroelectric Project in Illinois, S7940 [1AU]
Tributes
Paddock, Stuart R., S3499
Scudder, James A., S1327 [28FE]