HILLEARY, VAN (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
Brave Little Girl—Halie Jacobs, 7, Defies Dark, Dogs To Help Mom, Ann Bullard, Shelbyville (TN) Times Gazette, E1430
Bills and resolutions cosponsored
Abortion: prohibit partial-birth abortions (see H.R. 4965), H3775 [20JN]
Armed Forces: authorize use against Iraq (see H.J. Res. 114), H7304 [8OC]
———expand eligibility for participation by members of the Selected Reserve and their dependents in the TRICARE program (see H.R. 2332), H524 [14FE]
———reduce the age for receipt of military retired pay for non-regular service (see H.R. 3831), H1620 [24AP]
———restore the tax-exempt status of death gratuity payments (see H.R. 3973), H2356 [9MY]
Aviation: establish a program for Federal flight deck officers (see H.R. 4635), H2945 [22MY]
Breast Cancer Awareness Month: support (see H. Con. Res. 502), H7930 [15OC]
Budget: constitutional amendment to require balanced (see H.J. Res. 86), H1283 [11AP]
Credit unions: expand access of Federal credit union members to money order and check cashing services (see H.R. 4612), H2101 [2MY]
Crime: prohibit unauthorized placement of a writing on or inside a consumer product (see H.R. 2621), H2945 [22MY]
Dept. of Agriculture: eliminate quota and price support programs for tobacco, compensate quota holders and producers for lost value, and establish an advisory board to assess characteristics of domestic and imported tobacco (see H.R. 3940), H1620 [24AP]
Dept. of the Treasury: anniversary of copper-plated zinc penny (see H. Con. Res. 433), H4325 [27JN]
Dept. of Veterans Affairs: improve judicial review of administrative decisions (see H.R. 4018), H5087 [22JY]
———suspend authority to increase copayment for medication furnished on an outpatient basis for treatment of service-connected disabilities (see H.R. 2820), H1533 [23AP]
Drugs: distribution chain of prescription drugs (see H.R. 68), H4069 [26JN]
———respond to the illegal production, distribution, and use of methamphetamines (see H.R. 3782), H3928 [25JN]
Education: increase amount of student loan forgiveness available to qualified teachers, with an emphasis on special education teachers (see H.R. 5091), H4552 [11JY]
———increase student loan forgiveness to teachers in mathematics, science, and special education (see H.R. 3957), H906 [13MR]
English language: declare as official language of U.S. (see H.R. 3333), H4498 [10JY]
Families and domestic relations: seek to reduce the financial penalties against marriage within the welfare system and support married couples in forming and sustaining healthy, loving, and productive marriages (see H. Con. Res. 316), H201 [6FE]
Federal agencies and departments: review of efficiency and need for certain agencies (see H.R. 2373), H2101 [2MY]
Federal employees: treatment of retirement benefits for assistant U.S. attorneys (see H.R. 1090), H2356 [9MY]
Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act: amend relative to firefighter assistance (see H.R. 4548), H6926 [1OC]
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), H1769 [30AP]
Foreign trade: respond to serious injury currently being experienced by the U.S. textile and apparel industry (see H.J. Res. 105), H4553 [11JY]
Freedom of religion: constitutional amendment on protection (see H.J. Res. 81), H79 [24JA]
FTC: regulation of unfair or deceptive practices by sports agents in the signing of contracts with student athletes (see H.R. 4701), H5998 [26JY]
General Education Provisions Act: clarify definition of a student relative to family educational and privacy rights (see H.R. 5331), H7172 [7OC]
Government: require all agencies which are authorized to grant official time to any of their employees to furnish the same annual reports currently being furnished by the SSA (see H.R. 4907), H3514 [12JN]
Health: expand applicability of laws preventing governmental discrimination against health care entities who refuse to perform or provide training in performing abortions (see H.R. 4691), H3293 [6JN]
———provide programs for the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of stroke (see H.R. 3431), H7738 [9OC]
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), H1202 [10AP]
Medicare: coverage of medical nutrition therapy services for beneficiaries with cardiovascular diseases (see H.R. 2117), H687 [5MR]
———coverage of oral anticancer drugs (see H.R. 1624), H2471 [14MY]
———improve patient access to, and utilization of, the colorectal cancer screening benefit (see H.R. 3710), H3038 [23MY]
National Charter Schools Week: observance (see H. Con. Res. 386), H1674 [25AP]
Pledge of Allegiance: circuit court decision on inclusion of phrase ``under God'' (see H. Con. Res. 430; H. Res. 459), H4069 [26JN]
Religion: defend the Ten Commandments (see H.R. 3895), H780 [7MR]
Schools: prohibit funding to any State or local educational agency that distributes or provides postcoital emergency contraception (see H.R. 3805), H1484 [18AP]
Sec. of the Navy: redesignate as the Sec. of the Navy and Marine Corps (see H.R. 3478), H1484 [18AP]
Social Security: choice of benefit payment method for certain workers affected by changes in benefit computation rules (see H.R. 97), H5087 [22JY]
———computation system for benefits relative to spouses' or surviving spouses' Government pensions (see H.R. 664), H4605 [15JY]
———improve benefit computation formula for workers attaining age 65 in or after 1982 (see H.R. 870), H5453 [24JY]
———restrict application of windfall elimination provisions to certain individuals (see H.R. 1073), H1338 [16AP]
States: permit individuals to operate commercial motor vehicles within State borders after meeting minimum standards (see H.R. 2466), H1338 [16AP]
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), H2019 [1MY]
———allow residents of States with no income tax a deduction for State and local sales taxes (see H.R. 4487), H1482 [18AP]
———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), H3601 [17JN]
———constitutional amendment on tax limitations (see H.J. Res. 96), H3291 [6JN]
———increase deduction for teacher classroom supplies and expand to include qualified professional development expenses (see H.R. 5085), H4767 [16JY]
———provide incentives for the use of biodiesel as a fuel (see H.R. 4843), H4932 [18JY]
———terminate Internal Revenue Code (see H.R. 4716), H2470 [14MY]
———treatment of certain expenses of rural letter carriers relative to the business use of a personal vehicle (see H.R. 2350), H4931 [18JY]
———treatment of elementary and secondary education expenses (see H.R. 5193), H5194 [23JY]
———treatment of forestry activities (see H.R. 1581), H1283 [11AP]
———treatment of the sale of a principal residence by a member of the Armed Forces while on official extended duty (see H.R. 356), H4425 [9JY]
Terrorism: anniversary of terrorist attacks (see H. Con. Res. 464), H6229 [11SE]
Tobacco products: replace existing tobacco program with programs designed to assist producers, compensate quota holders for the loss of quota asset value, and assist producers who forgo obtaining a production license (see H.R. 5035), H4324 [27JN]
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), H2108 [6MY]
Veterans: change effective date for paid-up coverage under the Survivor Benefit Plan (see H.R. 699), H4931 [18JY]
———increase the minimum Survivor Benefit Plan basic annuity for certain surviving spouses (see H.R. 548), H4425 [9JY] (see H.R. 5403), H6373 [18SE]
Bills and resolutions introduced
Pledge of Allegiance: urge the Supreme Court to uphold the constitutionality of recitation (see H. Con. Res. 428), H4068 [26JN]
Remarks
Armed Forces: authorize use against Iraq (H.J. Res. 114), H7786
Budget: setting forth the Federal budget for 2003-2007 (H. Con. Res. 353), H1070
Education: tribute to home schooling, E1021
Lawrence County, TN: tribute to American Legion Auxiliary Unit 146, E804
Tennessee: Family Christian Academy winners of the National Mock Trial Championship, E1021
Tributes
Hirschmann, Susan, H5065
Jacobs, Halie, E1430
Lazar, Harrison B., E1019