JENKINS, WILLIAM L. (a Representative from Tennessee)
Bills and resolutions cosponsored
Abortion: prohibit partial-birth abortions (see H.R. 4965), H4575 [12JY]
Armed Forces: authorize use against Iraq (see H.J. Res. 114), H7304 [8OC]
———reduce the age for receipt of military retired pay for non-regular service (see H.R. 3831), H1484 [18AP]
———restore the tax-exempt status of death gratuity payments (see H.R. 3973), H3721 [19JN]
Aviation: develop technologies that will enable future aircraft with significantly lower noise, emissions, and fuel consumption and reinvigorate basic and applied research in aeronautics and aviation (see H.R. 4653), H5453 [24JY]
Budget: constitutional amendment to require balanced (see H.J. Res. 86), H1283 [11AP]
Capitol Building and Grounds: 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]
Children and youth: prevent child abduction (see H.R. 5422), H6927 [1OC]
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Awareness Month: designate (see H. Con. Res. 197), H7172 [7OC]
Community service: provide incentives for communities and individuals to serve the poor and others in need and enhance ability of low-income individuals to build assets (H.R. 7), complete congressional action (see H. Res. 539), H6418 [19SE]
Consumers: require disclosure of terms of rental-purchase agreements (see H.R. 1701), H4326 [27JN]
Crime: disapprove certain sentencing guideline amendments (see H.R. 4689), H2354 [9MY]
———prevent trafficking in child pornography, condemn activities relating to sexually explicit visual depictions of minors, and prevent the use of child pornography to facilitate crimes against children (see H.R. 4623), H1769 [30AP]
Dept. of Homeland Security: establish (see H.R. 5005), H3859 [24JN]
Dept. of Veterans Affairs: improve judicial review of administrative decisions (see H.R. 4018), H2608 [16MY]
———preserve and protect historic buildings (see H.R. 5202), H6130 [9SE]
———provide guaranteed adequate level of funding for veterans health care (see H.R. 5250), H7895 [10OC]
———suspend authority to increase copayment for medication furnished on an outpatient basis for treatment of service-connected disabilities (see H.R. 2820), H907 [13MR]
Disabled: enhance and further research into paralysis and improve rehabilitation and quality of life for persons living with paralysis and other physical disabilities (see H.R. 5458), H8023 [16OC]
Diseases: blood cancer research, information, and education funding (see H.R. 2629), H1484 [18AP]
Drugs: distribution chain of prescription drugs (see H.R. 68), H561 [26FE]
FCC: establish a Rural Issues Advisory Board (see H.R. 5602), H7892 [10OC]
Federal employees: treatment of retirement benefits for assistant U.S. attorneys (see H.R. 1090), H1674 [25AP]
Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act: amend relative to firefighter assistance (see H.R. 4548), H4069 [26JN]
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: amend relative to the development of products for rare diseases (see H.R. 4014), H4425 [9JY]
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: provide grants for public access defibrillation programs and public access defibrillation demonstration projects (see H.R. 3462), H2101 [2MY]
———provide programs for the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of stroke (see H.R. 3431), H2101 [2MY]
House of Representatives: encourage each State to examine its statutes, practices, and procedures governing appointment and election of new Members in the event of a catastrophe (see H. Res. 559), H6777 [26SE]
Immigration: 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), H6777 [26SE]
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), H6418 [19SE]
Labor unions: protect the free choice of individual employees relative to participation in labor organizations (see H.R. 1109), H1338 [16AP]
Medicare: coverage of home health services (see H.R. 2071), H6777 [26SE]
———coverage of medical nutrition therapy services for beneficiaries with cardiovascular diseases (see H.R. 2117), H524 [14FE]
———coverage of oral anticancer drugs (see H.R. 1624), H2100 [2MY]
———establish minimum geographic cost-of-practice index value for physicians' services (see H.R. 3569), H562 [26FE]
———improve patient access to, and utilization of, the colorectal cancer screening benefit (see H.R. 3710), H2511 [15MY]
———increase the payment amount for inpatient hospital services and freeze the reduction in payments to hospitals for indirect costs of medical education (see H.R. 1556), H1154 [9AP]
———repeal outpatient rehabilitation therapy caps (see H.R. 3834), H2608 [16MY]
Museum and Library Services Act: reauthorize (see H.R. 3784), H561 [26FE]
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: authorize development of research centers focusing on environmental factors related to the etiology of breast cancer (see H.R. 1723), H2100 [2MY]
Pensions: provide additional protection to participants in individual account plans, promote investment advice, and prohibit certain insider trades of securities (H.R. 3762), complete congressional action (see H. Res. 540), H6419 [19SE]
Pentagon Renovation Program: tribute to efforts in reconstructing the portion of the Pentagon destroyed in terrorist attack (see H. Res. 368), H907 [13MR]
Pledge of Allegiance: circuit court decision on inclusion of phrase ``under God'' (see H. Res. 459), H4326 [27JN]
Pornography: constitutional amendment on real and virtual child pornography (see H.J. Res. 106), H4872 [17JY]
———support vigorous enforcement of Federal obscenity laws (see H. Con. Res. 445), H7738 [9OC]
Public welfare programs: reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (H.R. 4737), complete congressional action (see H. Res. 525), H6303 [17SE]
Robert J. Dole Dept. of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Wichita, KS: designate (see H.R. 4608), H2356 [9MY]
Small business: improve access and choice relative to employee health care (see H.R. 1774), H3292 [6JN]
Social Security: choice of benefit payment method for certain workers affected by changes in benefit computation rules (see H.R. 97), H5087 [22JY]
———repeal Government pension offset and windfall elimination provisions (see H.R. 2638), H79 [24JA]
States: permit individuals to operate commercial motor vehicles within State borders after meeting minimum standards (see H.R. 2466), H1284 [11AP]
Taxation: allow an exclusion from gross income for certain amounts of capital gains distributions from regulated investment companies (see H.R. 168), H4326 [27JN]
———allow distilled spirits wholesalers a credit for their cost of carrying Federal excise taxes prior to the sale of the product bearing the tax (see H.R. 1987), H1283 [11AP]
———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), H2356 [9MY]
———constitutional amendment on tax limitations (see H.J. Res. 96), H3291 [6JN]
———improve retirement income by taxing annuities and certain life insurance payments at capital gains rates (see H.R. 3320), H2945 [22MY]
———make repeal of estate taxes permanent (H.R. 2143), complete congressional action (see H. Res. 524), H6303 [17SE]
———provide for an enhanced deduction for qualified residence interest on acquisition indebtedness for heritage homes (see H.R. 5165), H4931 [18JY]
———repeal tax increase on Social Security benefits (see H.R. 122), H2511 [15MY]
———treatment of damages and back pay received on account of, and expenses incurred in asserting any claim of employment discrimination (see H.R. 840), H3825 [21JN]
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]
Veterans: improve benefits for former POWs (see H.R. 3430), H2511 [15MY]
———increase the minimum Survivor Benefit Plan basic annuity for certain surviving spouses (see H.R. 5403), H6373 [18SE]
Bills and resolutions introduced
Dept. of the Treasury: anniversary of copper-plated zinc penny (see H. Con. Res. 433), H4325 [27JN]
Tariff: palmitic acid (see H.R. 4509), H1482 [18AP]
———t-butyl acrylate (see H.R. 4506), H1482 [18AP]
———tetrakis ((2,4-di-tert-butylphenyl)4,4-biphenylenediphosphonite) (see H.R. 4508), H1482 [18AP]
———2,4-xylidine (see H.R. 4507), H1482 [18AP]
Hymns
``When Sudden Terror Tears Apart,'' Carl P. Daw, Jr., E683
Remarks
Armed Forces: authorize use against Iraq (H.J. Res. 114), H7379 [9OC]
Bankruptcy: amend laws (H.R. 333), consideration of conference report (H. Res. 606), H8750, H8754
———nondischargeability of debts incurred as a result of abortion clinic protests, H8750, H8754
Great Smoky Mountains National Park: issue right-of-way permits for natural gas pipelines (H.R. 3380), H4332 [8JY]
Terrorism: condemn and respond to hijacking and crashing of commercial aircraft into the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Somerset County, PA, E683
Votes: position on missed, E576
Songs
``Freedom Didn't Fall,'' Jerry White, E683