HERGER, WALLY (a Representative from California)
Appointments
Conferee: H.R. 2646, Farm Security Act, H777 [7MR]
Bills and resolutions cosponsored
Armed Forces: restore the tax-exempt status of death gratuity payments (see H.R. 3973), H3775 [20JN]
Budget: constitutional amendment to require balanced (see H.J. Res. 86), H1283 [11AP]
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), H1200 [10AP]
Center for International Human Rights: establish (see H.R. 5528), H9036 [19NO]
Charity Accountability Board: establish (see H.R. 3192), H141 [5FE]
Computers: penalties for individuals who use false or misleading domain names to attract children to Internet sites not appropriate for children (see H.R. 4658), H2472 [14MY]
Congress: require the posting of the Ten Commandments in the House and Senate Chambers (see H. Con. Res. 315), H1484 [18AP]
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: prohibit unauthorized placement of a writing on or inside a consumer product (see H.R. 2621), H2945 [22MY]
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 Homeland Security: establish (see H.R. 5005), H3859 [24JN]
Drugs: address the problem of pseudoephedrine smuggling into the U.S. from Canada (see H. Con. Res. 317), H562 [26FE]
———adjust penalties for powder cocaine and crack cocaine offenses (see H.R. 4026), H3721 [19JN]
———respond to the illegal production, distribution, and use of methamphetamines (see H.R. 3782), H523 [14FE]
Education Land Grant Act: require the Dept. of Agriculture to pay costs of environmental reviews relative to conveyances (see H.R. 3802), H3454 [11JN]
Endangered Species Act: authorize Federal agencies to promptly respond to health and safety emergencies (see H.R. 3259), H634 [27FE]
———improve protection of habitats (see H.R. 3707), H932 [14MR]
———provide a public right-to-know for landowners in implementing (see H.R. 3706), H932 [14MR]
———require the Dept. of the Interior to use the best sound science available in implementing (see H.R. 3705), H932 [14MR] (see H.R. 4840), H3775 [20JN]
FDA: uniform food safety warning notification requirements (see H.R. 2649), H6693 [25SE]
Financial institutions: prohibit financial holding companies and national banks from engaging, directly or indirectly, in real estate brokerage or real estate management activities (see H.R. 3424), H37 [23JA]
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]
Forests: authorize Regional Foresters to exempt tree-thinning projects from laws that give rise to legal action that delay or prevent such projects (see H.R. 5309), H5996 [26JY]
Francis Dayle `Chick' Hearn Post Office, Encino, CA: designate (see H.R. 5340), H6419 [19SE]
FTC: regulation of unfair or deceptive practices by sports agents in the signing of contracts with student athletes (see H.R. 4701), H3161 [4JN]
Health: reauthorize health centers program and National Health Service Corps (see H.R. 3450), H367 [13FE]
House Rules: prohibit access to classified information by Members who do not have the required security clearance (see H. Res. 265), H285 [12FE]
Immigration: oppose granting of amnesty to individuals who are in the U.S., or its territories, illegally (see H. Con. Res. 350), H1091 [20MR]
———secure borders against terrorists, drug traffickers, and other illegal aliens, remove illegal and criminal aliens, reduce fraud, and reform the legal immigration system (see H.R. 5013), H8023 [16OC]
ITC: conduct an expedited review of temporary safeguards on imports of certain steel products (see H. Con. Res. 507), H9128 [22NO]
James V. Hansen Federal Building, Ogden, UT: designate (see H.R. 5611), H7893 [10OC]
Joe Skeen Federal Building, Roswell, NM: designate (see H.R. 5427), H6778 [26SE]
Labor unions: protect the free choice of individual employees relative to participation in labor organizations (see H.R. 1109), H1769 [30AP]
Land use: improve relationships between Federal land managers and gateway communities to support compatible land management of both Federal and adjacent lands (see H.R. 4622), H6060 [4SE]
Law enforcement: provide grants for law enforcement training and equipment to combat methamphetamine labs (see H.R. 4027), H1410 [17AP]
Los Angeles National Cemetery: designate the Bob Hope Veterans Chapel (see H.R. 4592), H2608 [16MY]
Medicare: clarify right of beneficiaries to enter into private contracts with physicians and other health care professionals for services not payable under Medicare (see H.R. 4702), H2355 [9MY]
Nat King Cole Post Office, Los Angeles, CA: designate (see H.R. 4797), H2943 [22MY]
Natrona County, WY: transfer certain public lands to the Corp. of the Presiding Bishop (see H.R. 4103), H1153 [9AP]
Norman Shumway Post Office Building, Stockton, CA: designate (see H.R. 5465), H6692 [25SE]
Oakland Athletics (baseball team): tribute (see H. Res. 530), H6303 [17SE]
Pledge of Allegiance: circuit court decision on inclusion of phrase ``under God'' (see H. Con. Res. 430), H4069 [26JN] (see H. Res. 459), H4326 [27JN]
Pornography: support vigorous enforcement of Federal obscenity laws (see H. Con. Res. 445), H6927 [1OC]
Public lands: establish time limits for completion of wilderness studies on Federal lands (see H.R. 4620), H2512 [15MY]
———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), H906 [13MR]
Public welfare programs: reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see H.R. 4700), H2355 [9MY] (see H.R. 4737), H2511 [15MY]
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]
Ronald C. Packard Post Office Building, Oceanside, CA: designate (see H.R. 4794), H2943 [22MY]
Schools: prohibit funding to any State or local educational agency that distributes or provides postcoital emergency contraception (see H.R. 3805), H1484 [18AP]
Social Security: improve patient safety (see H.R. 4889), H3826 [21JN]
———provide additional safeguards for certain beneficiaries with representative payees (see H.R. 4070), H1089 [20MR]
Taxation: allow an exclusion from gross income for certain amounts of capital gains distributions from regulated investment companies (see H.R. 168), H4931 [18JY]
———allow minimum credit against alternative minimum tax where stock acquired pursuant to incentive stock options is sold or exchanged at a loss (see H.R. 5398), H6373 [18SE]
———allow the use of completed contract method of accounting in the case of certain long-term naval vessel construction contracts (see H.R. 2189), H781 [7MR]
———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), H4574 [12JY]
———apply excise tax to hepatitis A vaccines (see H.R. 4553), H1532 [23AP]
———clarify that the parsonage allowance exclusion is limited to the fair rental value of the property (see H.R. 4156), H1200 [10AP]
———decrease the floor for the deduction for medical care (see H.R. 4001), H3825 [21JN]
———eliminate double taxation of dividends (see H.R. 5323), H6560 [24SE]
———expand renewable resources production tax credit to include additional forms of renewable energy and expand investment tax credit to include equipment used to produce electricity from renewable resources (see H.R. 4668), H5791 [25JY]
———extend foreign tax credit carryforward (see H.R. 4958), H4498 [10JY]
———improve retirement income by taxing annuities and certain life insurance payments at capital gains rates (see H.R. 3320), H4931 [18JY]
———terminate Internal Revenue Code (see H.R. 4716), H2470 [14MY]
———treatment of certain reinvested gains by S corporations (see H.R. 4675), H2164 [7MY]
———treatment of deposits and similar amounts received by a tour operator for a tour arranged by such operator (see H.R. 2618), H1284 [11AP]
———treatment of elementary and secondary education expenses (see H.R. 5193), H5194 [23JY]
———treatment of unrelated business taxable income (see H.R. 4488), H2019 [1MY]
———treatment of unused nontaxable benefits under cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements (see H.R. 3105), H3775 [20JN]
Unemployment: provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program (see H.R. 5587), H7737 [9OC]
Veterans: honor and commend the Lao Veterans of America, Inc., Laotian and Hmong veterans of the Vietnam War, and their families, for their historic contributions to the U.S. (see H. Con. Res. 406), H5087 [22JY]
Wilderness areas: provide for expedited decisions on study areas, and that lands designated as study areas, shall be used in accordance with the Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act (see H.R. 4589), H2101 [2MY]
Bills and resolutions introduced
Public welfare programs: reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see H.R. 4090), H1152 [9AP]
Tariff: aluminum tris (o-ethyl phosphonate) (see H.R. 4150), H1200 [10AP]
———N1-[(6-chloro-3-pyridyl)methyl]-N2-cyano-N1-methylacetamidin (see H.R. 4149), H1200 [10AP]
Taxation: expand depreciation benefits available to small businesses for new business investment and equipment (see H.R. 4470), H1409 [17AP]
———installment reporting of certain gain from the sale of an interest in service business (see H.R. 4651), H2100 [2MY]
———provide for employer liability for Social Security taxes on unreported tips paid to an employee after the IRS establishes the amount of tips received (see H.R. 5445), H6558 [24SE]
Wild and Scenic Rivers System: ensure congressional involvement in the process of States designating rivers as wild, scenic, or recreational (see H.R. 4808), H2943 [22MY]
Remarks
Appropriations: making continuing (H.J. Res. 111), H6763 [26SE]
———making supplemental appropriations for further recovery from and response to terrorist attacks (H.R. 4775), H3018 [23MY]
Armed Forces: authorize use against Iraq (H.J. Res. 114), H7732
Dept. of the Interior and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 5093), H4834 [17JY]
Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: make marriage penalty relief provisions permanent (H.R. 4019), H3526 [13JN]
Fire prevention: encourage Federal land management agencies to reduce forest fuels that place national resources at high risk of catastrophic wildfire, and prepare a National Prescribed Fire Strategy (H. Con. Res. 352), H5038 [22JY]
Klamath Basin: prohibit the renewal of certain agricultural leases permitting the growing of alfafa or row crops, H4834 [17JY]
———respond to economic disaster threatening certain farmers and communities resulting from denial of irrigation water for the Klamath Project, H219 [7FE]
Point of order, H4905 [18JY]
Public debt: ceiling, H3018 [23MY]
Public welfare programs: reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (H.R. 4090), H1773 [1MY]
———reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (H.R. 4737), H2536, H2584 [16MY]
———reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (H.R. 4737), complete congressional action (H. Res. 525), H6385 [19SE]
Social Security: provide additional safeguards for certain beneficiaries with representative payees (H.R. 4070), H3897 [25JN]
Taxation: expand depreciation benefits available to small businesses for new business investment and equipment (H.R. 4470), E562
———installment reporting of certain gain from the sale of an interest in service business (H.R. 4651), E693
———permit churches and other houses of worship to engage in political campaigns (H.R. 2357), H6912, H6913 [1OC]
———provide for employer liability for Social Security taxes on unreported tips paid to an employee after the IRS establishes the amount of tips received (H.R. 5445), E1641
———treatment of the sale of a principal residence, and death gratuity payments, by a member of the uniformed services (H.R. 5063), concur with Senate amendments with an amendment, H8799 [14NO]
Unemployment: provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program, H8799 [14NO]
Votes: position on missed, H6139
Remarks in House relative to