HOOLEY, DARLENE (a Representative from Oregon)

Appointments

Conferee: H.R. 3210, Terrorism Risk Protection Act, H5962 [26JY]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Armed Forces: provide for a Korea Defense Service Medal to be issued to members who participated in Korea after the Korean War (see H.R. 1935), H2356 [9MY]

———provide that military retired pay, for non-regular service, be paid without regard to age (see H.R. 4676), H2946 [22MY]

———reduce the age for receipt of military retired pay for non-regular service (see H.R. 3831), H1155 [9AP]

———require congressional authority to authorize use against Iraq (see H.J. Res. 109), H5996 [26JY]

Breast Cancer Awareness Month: support (see H. Con. Res. 502), H8024 [16OC]

Business and industry: provide for enhanced corporate responsibility under securities laws (see H.R. 4083), H1688 [29AP]

Capital Construction Fund: provide for qualified withdrawals for fishermen leaving the industry and for the rollover to individual retirement plans (see H.R. 3898), H780 [7MR]

Children and youth: enhance operation of the AMBER Alert communications plan to expedite the recovery of abducted children (see H.R. 5326), H6059 [4SE]

———establish an international infant and child nutrition and education program (see H.R. 1700), H79 [24JA]

Children's Development Commission (Kiddie Mac): establish (see H.R. 5291), H5995 [26JY]

China, People's Republic of: persecution of Falun Gong practitioners (see H. Con. Res. 447), H8733 [13NO]

Civil Air Patrol: anniversary (see H. Con. Res. 311), H285 [12FE]

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), H2608 [16MY]

Consumers: protect from the adverse consequences of incomplete and inaccurate consumer credit reports (see H.R. 1176), H2608 [16MY]

Corp. for National and Community Service: reauthorize and reform national service laws (see H.R. 4854), H3563 [13JN]

Corporations: prohibit certain expatriated corporations from being eligible for the award of Federal contracts (see H.R. 4831), H3826 [21JN]

Crime: make grants to train sexual assault nurse examiners and other personnel handling sexual assault cases, establish minimum standards for forensic evidence collection, and carry out crime scene DNA analysis (see H.R. 2874), H2471 [14MY]

Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act: expiration (see H.R. 5616), H7893 [10OC]

Dept. of Agriculture: sudden oak death syndrome research, monitoring, and treatment funding (see H.R. 2144), H4553 [11JY]

Dept. of Commerce: establish and appoint members of a Marine Protected Areas Advisory Committee (see H.R. 5595), H7738 [9OC]

Dept. of Defense: develop inventory of sites within former military ranges containing unexploded ordnance or other abandoned munitions that pose health or safety threats and improve public awareness of such sites (see H.R. 2605), H2608 [16MY]

Dept. of HUD: insure mortgages for acquisition, construction, or substantial rehabilitation of child care and development facilities (see H.R. 5291), H5995 [26JY]

Dept. of National Homeland Security: establish (see H.R. 4660), H2165 [7MY]

Dept. of the Interior: implement final rule to phase out snowmobile use in Yellowstone National Park, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Memorial Parkway, and Grand Teton National Park, and snowplane use in Grand Teton National Park (see H.R. 5044), H4324 [27JN]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: improve judicial review of administrative decisions (see H.R. 4018), H2472 [14MY]

———provide guaranteed adequate level of funding for veterans health care (see H.R. 5250), H6777 [26SE]

Diseases: expand research on inflammatory bowel disease (see H.R. 5031), H8035 [21OC]

Douglas County, OR: conveyance of certain BLM lands (see H.R. 4601), H3721 [19JN]

Drugs: address the problem of pseudoephedrine smuggling into the U.S. from Canada (see H. Con. Res. 317), H562 [26FE]

Education: increase student loan forgiveness to teachers in mathematics, science, and special education (see H.R. 3957), H1091 [20MR]

———provide grants for training of realtime court reporters and closed captioners to meet the requirements for closed captioning set forth in the Telecommunications Act (see H.R. 2527), H1284 [11AP]

Fair Credit Reporting Act: exempt certain communications from the definition of consumer reports (see H.R. 1543), H687 [5MR]

Fair Labor Standards Act: clarify that Christmas tree farming is agriculture (see H.R. 3486), H3928 [25JN]

Federal aid programs: provide housing assistance to domestic violence victims (see H.R. 3752), H366 [13FE]

Federal employees: amend the definition of a law enforcement officer to include certain positions relative to retirement benefits (see H.R. 1841), H6693 [25SE]

———ensure that those activated by the National Guard or Reserves shall receive pay equal to the basic pay such individual would otherwise be receiving (see H.R. 3337), H2945 [22MY]

———improve prevailing rate pay systems for wage grade Federal employees (see H.R. 1262), H2511 [15MY]

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), H834 [12MR]

Forest Service: protection of certain roadless areas (see H.R. 4865), H3228 [5JN]

Government National Mortgage Association: repeal increase in guarantee fee for mortgage-backed securities (see H.R. 3926), H1003 [19MR]

Health: provide grants for public access defibrillation programs and public access defibrillation demonstration projects (see H.R. 3462), H1155 [9AP]

———reauthorize health centers program and National Health Service Corps (see H.R. 3450), H2164 [7MY]

———reduce adolescent pregnancy, HIV rates, and other sexually transmitted diseases (see H.R. 3469), H6060 [4SE]

Height, Dorothy I.: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 4531), H6303 [17SE]

Immigration: eligibility of certain aliens suffering from domestic abuse for Federal aid programs (see H.R. 2258), H687 [5MR]

Insurance: require health plans to cover treatment of a minor child's congenital or developmental deformity or disorder due to trauma, infection, tumor, or disease (see H.R. 792), H1338 [16AP]

Iron and steel industry: remedy certain injurious effects of steel imports by protecting benefits of steelworkers and retirees and strengthening the U.S. steel industry (see H.R. 4646), H2735 [21MY]

Joe Skeen Federal Building, Roswell, NM: designate (see H.R. 5427), H6418 [19SE]

Law enforcement: provide grants for law enforcement training and equipment to combat methamphetamine labs (see H.R. 4027), H3292 [6JN]

Law enforcement officers: adjust percentage differentials payable to Federal law enforcement officers in certain high-cost areas (see H.R. 3794), H561 [26FE]

———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), H6926 [1OC]

———exempt from State laws prohibiting the carrying of concealed handguns (see H.R. 218), H3229 [5JN]

Medicaid: increase Federal medical assistance percentage to help States finance increases in enrollment (see H.R. 3414), H1155 [9AP]

———provide public access to quality medical imaging procedures and radiation therapy procedures (see H.R. 1011), H937 [18MR]

Medicare: clarify definition of homebound relative to home health services (see H.R. 1490), H6060 [4SE]

———coverage of chronic disease prescription drugs and disease management services (see H.R. 5219), H5790 [25JY]

———coverage of medical nutrition therapy services for beneficiaries with cardiovascular diseases (see H.R. 2117), H5791 [25JY]

———extend a temporary increase in payment for skilled nursing facility services (see H.R. 5411), H7895 [10OC]

———improve payments and regulation under the Medicare+Choice program (see H.R. 3584), H6060 [4SE]

———pay ambulance suppliers the full costs of providing such services (see H.R. 3109), H1201 [10AP]

———reform the physician payment update system through repeal of the sustainable growth rate payment update system (see H.R. 3882), H2101 [2MY]

———reimbursement for services provided to eligible veterans by certain Dept. of Veterans Affairs facilities (see H.R. 4939), H3826 [21JN]

Mental health: provide for equal insurance coverage of benefits unless comparable limitations are imposed on medical and surgical benefits (see H.R. 4066), H2945 [22MY]

National Day of Appreciation for Emergency Response and Rescue Workers: designate (see H. Res. 259), H231 [8FE]

National Guard: provide competitive civil service status for technicians who are involuntarily separated other than for cause from National Guard service (see H.R. 349), H3453 [11JN]

National Office for Combating Terrorism: establish (see H.R. 4660), H2165 [7MY]

National Sea Grant College Program Act: reauthorize (see H.R. 3389), H781 [7MR]

NIH: breast cancer early detection and mortality rate reduction research funding (see H.R. 3989), H2512 [15MY]

POW: eligibility of surviving spouses of certain former prisoners to receive dependency and indemnity compensation (see H.R. 2878), H6060 [4SE]

Presidential Records Act: establish procedures for the consideration of claims of constitutionality based privilege against disclosure of Presidential records (see H.R. 4187), H2019 [1MY]

Public Health Service Act: amend relative to pharmacy health professions programs (see H.R. 2173), H227 [7FE]

Senior citizens: modify the eligibility criteria for supplemental foods provided under the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (see H.R. 5107), H5791 [25JY]

Social Security: enhance privacy protections for individuals and prevent fraudulent misuse of account numbers (see H.R. 2036), H36 [23JA]

———improve solvency (see H.R. 3315), H4350 [8JY]

———provide greater equity and efficiency to the SSA payment system for claimant representation (see H.R. 3332), H36 [23JA]

———repeal Government pension offset and windfall elimination provisions (see H.R. 2638), H6303 [17SE]

Solid waste: State and local control over the flow of municipal solid waste (see H.R. 1214), H36 [23JA]

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), H833 [12MR]

———exclude from income taxation all compensation received for active duty as a member of the Armed Forces (see H.R. 4974), H7172 [7OC]

———expand the Hope Scholarship credit for certain expenses and exempt certain Federal education grants when taking expenses into account (see H.R. 2219), H562 [26FE]

———incentives to ensure timely and equitable access to the Internet over current and future generations of broadband capability (see H.R. 267), H6303 [17SE]

———prevent corporations from avoiding the U.S. income tax by reincorporating in a foreign country (see H.R. 3884), H2472 [14MY]

———prevent corporations from exploiting tax treaties to evade U.S. income tax (see H.R. 4993), H3860 [24JN]

———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), H7172 [7OC]

———repeal alternative minimum tax treatment of incentive stock options to change the taxable event from the exercise of the stock option to the stock sale (see H.R. 1487), H2356 [9MY]

———treatment of damages and back pay received on account of, and expenses incurred in asserting any claim of employment discrimination (see H.R. 840), H6983 [2OC]

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), H367 [13FE]

U.N.: provide for permanent guidelines for voluntary U.S. contributions to the U.N. Population Fund (see H.R. 5293), H6061 [4SE]

———restore a voluntary U.S. contribution to the U.N. Population Fund (see H.R. 3916), H2512 [15MY]

Urban areas: allow transit systems in urbanized areas that have recently passed certain population limits to retain flexibility in the use of Federal transit formula grants (see H.R. 5157), H4930 [18JY]

Veterans: improve benefits for former POWs (see H.R. 3430), H6060 [4SE]

———increase the minimum Survivor Benefit Plan basic annuity for certain surviving spouses (see H.R. 5403), H6373 [18SE]

———provide benefits to merchant mariners who served during a period of war (see H.R. 2442), H6777 [26SE]

Veterans Day: issue annual commemorative postage stamp (see H. Res. 429), H5454 [24JY]

Violence Against Women Act: expand legal assistance to victims of dating violence (see H.R. 3193), H6060 [4SE]

Water: authorize appropriations for State water pollution control revolving funds (see H.R. 3930), H6251 [12SE]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Civil Air Patrol: make volunteer members eligible for public safety officer death benefits (see H.R. 3681), H140 [5FE]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: terminate requirement that disability compensation be reduced by payments received under Dept. of Defense separation programs (see H.R. 4842), H3036 [23MY]

Motor vehicles: assess the advisability of requiring each State to use the SSA Death Master File in issuing drivers' licenses to individuals (see H.R. 5284), H5995 [26JY]

Motions

Agriculture: continue certain programs (H.R. 2646), H1537 [24AP]

Remarks

Agriculture: continue certain programs (H.R. 2646), motion to instruct conferees, H1516 [23AP], H1538, H1539 [24AP]

———require labeling of country of origin on imported perishable agricultural commodities, H1538, H1539 [24AP]

Armed Forces: authorize use against Iraq (H.J. Res. 114), H7716 [9OC]

———tribute to personnel participating in military action against terrorism, E1055 [14JN]

Budget: setting forth the Federal budget for 2003-2007 (H. Con. Res. 353), H1053 [20MR]

Business and industry: enhance penalties for accounting and auditing improprieties at publicly traded companies (H.R. 5118), H4688 [16JY]

———protect investors by improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures pursuant to securities laws (H.R. 3763), H1551 [24AP]

———protect investors by improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures pursuant to securities laws (H.R. 3763), conference report, H5467 [25JY]

———protect investors by improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures pursuant to securities laws (H.R. 3763), motion to instruct conferees, H4845 [17JY]

Corporations: economic impact of mismanagement, deception, and violations of public trust, H4682 [16JY]

Courts: expand Federal diversity jurisdiction to allow consideration of certain interstate class actions and provide additional protections to plaintiff class members (H.R. 2341), H881 [13MR]

Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (H.R. 4546), motion to instruct conferees, H7857 [10OC]

Dept. of Homeland Security: establish (H.R. 5005), H5879 [26JY]

Dept. of the Interior: acquire the McLoughlin House National Historic Site in Oregon City, OR, and include it as a unit of the National Park System, H6522 [24SE]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: terminate requirement that disability compensation be reduced by payments received under Dept. of Defense separation programs (H.R. 4842), E903, E927 [24MY]

Education: funding, H1053 [20MR]

Enron Corp.: economic collapse, H1551 [24AP]

Eximbank: reauthorize (S. 1372), consideration of conference report (H. Res. 433), H3170 [5JN]

Grand Teton National Park: allow Wyoming to retrieve fair value for State lands placed in trust for school revenue purposes (S. 1105), H6522 [24SE], E1709 [30SE]

Health: national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures, H1053 [20MR]

House of Representatives: legislative program, H1537 [24AP]

Israel: express solidarity in the fight against terrorism (H. Res. 392), consideration (H. Res. 404), H2075 [2MY]

Judicial Conference of the U.S.: require report on class action settlements in Federal courts be submitted to Congress, H881 [13MR]

Medicare: establish voluntary outpatient prescription drug coverage program and modernize and reform payments and the regulatory structure (H.R. 4954), consideration (H. Res. 465), H4171 [27JN]

Motor vehicles: assess the advisability of requiring each State to use the SSA Death Master File in issuing drivers' licenses to individuals (H.R. 5284), H5879 [26JY]

National School Counseling Week: observance, E149 [14FE]

Oregon City, OR: investigation into the disappearance of Miranda Gaddis and Ashley Pond, H836 [13MR], H1008 [20MR], H3167 [5JN], H3676 [19JN]

Political campaigns: ethics reform and contribution limits (H.R. 2356), H391 [13FE]

Salem, OR: tribute to Oregon National Guard 42nd Air Ambulance Company on activation in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, H984 [19MR]

Taxation: prevent corporations from avoiding the U.S. income tax by reincorporating in a foreign country (H.R. 3884), H2477 [15MY]

Trade Act: amend to consolidate and improve trade adjustment assistance programs and provide community-based economic development assistance for trade-affected communities, H3585 [17JN]

Veterans: permit concurrent receipt of military retired pay with service-connected disability benefits, H7857 [10OC]

Remarks in House relative to

Leave of absence: granted, H28 [23JA]

Special order: granted, H1000 [19MR], H3597 [17JN], H3719 [19JN], H5084 [22JY]

Tributes

Fisher, Milton L., E590 [18AP]