JOHNSON, NANCY L. (a Representative from Connecticut)
Bills and resolutions cosponsored
Africa: recognize the importance of inheritance rights of women (see H. Con. Res. 421), H3668 [18JN]
Alaska: provide additional protections for National Forest System lands (see H.R. 2908), H634 [27FE]
Armstrong, Lance: tribute (see H. Res. 548), H6559 [24SE]
Boggs, Lindy: tribute (see H. Con. Res. 439), H5087 [22JY]
Capital punishment: ensure that defendants in capital cases have adequate counsel and allow those convicted to have a reasonable opportunity to present new evidence of innocence (see H.R. 912), H284 [12FE]
Center for International Human Rights: establish (see H.R. 5528), H7929 [15OC]
Charity Accountability Board: establish (see H.R. 3192), H105 [29JA]
Children and youth: enhance operation of the AMBER Alert communications plan to expedite the recovery of abducted children (see H.R. 5326), H6130 [9SE]
———protect from exploitive child modeling (see H.R. 4667), H2235 [8MY]
Connecticut: exempt milk hauling vehicles from Interstate System weight limitations (see H.R. 4925), H3513 [12JN]
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women: ratification (see H. Res. 18), H3293 [6JN]
Courts: expand Federal diversity jurisdiction to allow consideration of certain interstate class actions and provide additional protections to plaintiff class members (see H.R. 2341), H524 [14FE]
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), H6419 [19SE]
———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]
Dart, Justin W., Jr.: award Congressional Gold Medal posthumously (see H.R. 5188), H5194 [23JY]
Dept. of HHS: award grants to associate degree schools of nursing and professional nursing organizations to improve nursing education (see H.R. 4665), H6060 [4SE]
———establish an Office on Men's Health (see H.R. 632), H5791 [25JY]
Dept. of Homeland Security: establish (see H.R. 5005), H3859 [24JN]
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]
Drugs: regulate receipt of donated prescription drug samples by charitable health care entities (see H.R. 2740), H1155 [9AP]
Ecology and environment: ensure recovery of biological diversity, strengthen protection of wildlife, and provide certain assurances to local governments and individuals relative to economic development efforts (see H.R. 4579), H1619 [24AP]
Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: make marriage penalty relief provisions permanent (see H.R. 4019), H3454 [11JN]
EPA: establish greenhouse gas inventory, registry, and information system (see H.R. 4611), H2662 [20MY]
Federal employees: amend the definition of a law enforcement officer to include certain positions relative to retirement benefits (see H.R. 1841), H3668 [18JN]
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: amend relative to the development of products for rare diseases (see H.R. 4014), H1533 [23AP]
———improve regulation of medical devices (see H.R. 3580), H2471 [14MY]
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service: exert best efforts to avert Major League Baseball strike, lockout, or any coercive conduct that interferes with playing of games (see H. Con. Res. 444), H4872 [17JY]
Federal Water Pollution Control Act: clarify that fill material cannot be comprised of waste (see H.R. 4683), H3230 [5JN]
FEMA: make grants to fire departments for the acquisition of thermal imaging cameras (see H.R. 827), H1154 [9AP]
Financial Accounting Standards Board: develop standards of financial accounting and reporting relative to the treatment of stock options (see H.R. 5147), H4872 [17JY]
Forest Service: protection of certain roadless areas (see H.R. 4865), H3228 [5JN]
Government National Mortgage Association: authorize the guarantee of conventional mortgage-backed securities (see H.R. 3206), H1003 [19MR]
Health: establish a program to assist family caregivers in accessing affordable and high-quality respite care (see H.R. 5241), H6560 [24SE]
———reauthorize health centers program and National Health Service Corps (see H.R. 3450), H142 [5FE]
———reduce the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery system (see H.R. 4600), H4872 [17JY]
Highlands Stewardship Area: establish (see H.R. 5146), H4872 [17JY]
Home Investment Partnerships Act: support certain housing proposals including the downpayment assistance initiative (see H.R. 4446), H1337 [16AP]
Hospitals: provide emergency contraceptives to women who are survivors of sexual assault (see H.R. 4113), H3454 [11JN]
Housing: amend and extend certain laws relating to housing and community opportunity (see H.R. 3995), H1769 [30AP]
ITC: conduct an expedited review of temporary safeguards on imports of certain steel products (see H. Con. Res. 507), H8042 [24OC]
Joe Skeen Federal Building, Roswell, NM: designate (see H.R. 5427), H6418 [19SE]
Law enforcement officers: exempt from State laws prohibiting the carrying of concealed handguns (see H.R. 218), H3229 [5JN]
Market Integrity Commission: establish to study issues relating to the governance of corporations in interstate and foreign commerce (see H.R. 5050), H4325 [27JN]
Mental health: provide for equal insurance coverage of benefits unless comparable limitations are imposed on medical and surgical benefits (see H.R. 4066), H6060 [4SE]
NIH: establish Office of Rare Diseases (see H.R. 4013), H1620 [24AP]
Pledge of Allegiance: circuit court decision on inclusion of phrase ``under God'' (see H. Res. 459), H4326 [27JN]
Postal Service: amend pay policies and schedules and fringe benefit programs for postmasters (see H.R. 250), H687 [5MR]
Public welfare programs: reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see H.R. 4090), H1152 [9AP]
———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]
Social Security: provide miscellaneous enhancements in benefits for women (see H.R. 4069), H1410 [17AP]
———repeal Government pension offset and windfall elimination provisions (see H.R. 2638), H1201 [10AP]
Tariff: reform the production incentive certificate program for watch and jewelry producers in the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa (see H.R. 4179), H1282 [11AP]
Taxation: allow a U.S. independent film and television production wage credit (see H.R. 3131), H3037 [23MY]
———allow tax credit to businesses who employ members of the military Reserves and a comparable credit to self-employed military Reserve participants (see H.R. 394), H2019 [1MY]
———clarify treatment of incentive stock options and employee stock purchases (see H.R. 2695), H688 [5MR]
———exclude benefits from income, employment taxes, and wage withholding property tax rebates, provided to volunteer firefighters and emergency medical responders (see H.R. 5416), H6417 [19SE]
———expand depreciation benefits available to small businesses for new business investment and equipment (see H.R. 4470), H1409 [17AP]
———improve and simplify compliance with internal revenue laws (see H.R. 5095), H4552 [11JY]
———incentives to ensure timely and equitable access to the Internet over current and future generations of broadband capability (see H.R. 267), H4498 [10JY]
———modify unrelated business income limitation on investment in certain debt-financed properties (see H.R. 4706), H2355 [9MY]
———prevent corporations from avoiding the U.S. income tax by reincorporating in a foreign country (see H.R. 3884), H1003 [19MR]
———provide that no organization providing support to terrorists shall be qualified for tax-exempt status (see H.R. 5603), H7892 [10OC]
———treat nominally foreign corporations created through inversion transactions as domestic corporations (see H.R. 3857), H834 [12MR]
———treatment of certain CERCLA settlement funds (see H.R. 3530), H1155 [9AP]
———treatment of income from land sold to a government agency or a nonprofit organization for conservation purposes (see H.R. 2290), H1338 [16AP]
Terrorism: improve antiterrorism efforts (see H.R. 4864), H4350 [8JY]
Tick-Borne Disorders Advisory Committee: establish (see H.R. 2118), H8545 [12NO]
University of Connecticut: tribute to women's basketball team (see H. Res. 401), H1769 [30AP]
Veterans: increase the minimum Survivor Benefit Plan basic annuity for certain surviving spouses (see H.R. 5403), H6373 [18SE]
Vietnamese Conflict: require a study on the eligibility requirements for inclusion of veterans' names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and an alternative means to honor ineligible veterans (see H.R. 3443), H688 [5MR]
YMCA: clarify tax status of retirement fund (see H.R. 5277), H6172 [10SE]
Bills and resolutions introduced
Connecticut River: implement cultural heritage, conservation, and recreational activities in the watershed area of Connecticut and Massachusetts (see H.R. 4721), H2470 [14MY]
Dept. of Veterans Affairs: dispense medications to veterans for prescriptions written by private practitioners (see H.R. 5286), H5995 [26JY]
———make a grant to Connecticut for the alteration of a certain State veterans' home and hospital building (see H.R. 3938), H832 [12MR]
FTC: establish a list of consumers who request not to receive telephone sales calls (see H.R. 3911), H780 [7MR]
Major League Baseball: implement a mandatory steroid testing program (see H. Res. 496), H5086 [22JY]
Medicare: establish voluntary outpatient prescription drug coverage program and modernize and reform payments and the regulatory structure (see H.R. 4954), H3668 [18JN]
———reform the physician payment update system through repeal of the sustainable growth rate payment update system (see H.R. 3882), H737 [6MR]
Social Security: improve patient safety (see H.R. 4889), H3291 [6JN]
Tariff: bifenazate (see H.R. 4107), H1153 [9AP]
———terrazole (see H.R. 4105), H1153 [9AP]
———2-mercaptoethanol (see H.R. 4106), H1153 [9AP]
Taxation: prevent corporations from avoiding the U.S. income tax by reincorporating in a foreign country (see H.R. 4756), H2607 [16MY]
Remarks
Abortion: prohibit partial-birth abortions (H.R. 4965), H5363 [24JY]
Appropriations: making continuing (H.J. Res. 123), consideration (H. Res. 585), H7952 [16OC]
Armed Forces: authorize use against Iraq (H.J. Res. 114), H7413 [9OC]
Arts and humanities: National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities funding through reductions in Dept. of the Interior funding, H4805 [17JY]
Bristol, CT: anniversary of Indian Rock Nature Preserve, E2015
Burr, Michael: Thomaston, CT, Rotary Club Distinguished Citizen of the Year recipient, E601
Central Connecticut State University: tribute to men's basketball team, E325
Commission on Native American Policy: establish, H4797 [17JY]
Crime: establish that certain sexual crimes against children are predicate crimes for the interception of communications (H.R. 1877), H2677 [21MY]
Customs Service: civil liability of inspectors relative to alleged use of racial and other discriminatory profiling in connection with searches and detentions of individuals, H2866 [22MY]
———Customs Cyber-Smuggling Center funding, H2866 [22MY]
Customs Service, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, and ITC: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 3129), H2866 [22MY]
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 the Interior and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 5093), H4797, H4805 [17JY]
Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: make pension and individual retirement arrangement provisions permanent (H.R. 4931), H3797
Health: expand applicability of laws preventing governmental discrimination against health care entities who refuse to perform or provide training in performing abortions (H.R. 4691), consideration (H. Res. 546), H6570 [25SE]
———reduce the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery system (H.R. 4600), consideration (H. Res. 553), H6707 [26SE]
Information services: deregulate Internet and high speed data services (H.R. 1542), H589
Major League Baseball: implement a mandatory steroid testing program (H. Res. 496), H5049 [22JY]
Medicare: coverage of outpatient prescription drugs, H2817, H2818, H2819 [21MY]
———establish voluntary outpatient prescription drug coverage program and modernize and reform payments and the regulatory structure (H.R. 4954), H4182, H4269, H4274, H4275, H4276, H4277, H4278 [27JN], E1203
———establish voluntary outpatient prescription drug coverage program and modernize and reform payments and the regulatory structure (H.R. 4954), consideration (H. Res. 465), H4174, H4175 [27JN]
———reform the physician payment update system through repeal of the sustainable growth rate payment update system (H.R. 3882), E286
———revise and improve payments to certain health care service providers, H8760 [14NO]
New Britain, CT: anniversary of Congregation Tephereth Israel, E1806
Public welfare programs: reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (H.R. 4737), H2583, 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), H6384, H6385, H6386, H6387 [19SE]
Taxation: provide health care incentives relative to long-term care (H.R. 4946), E1451
———provide incentives for economic recovery, H495 [14FE]
———treatment of adoption expenses (H.R. 622), H495 [14FE]
———treatment of the sale of a principal residence, and death gratuity payments, by a member of the uniformed services (H.R. 5063), consideration of Senate amendments with an amendment (H. Res. 609), H8760 [14NO]
Unemployment: provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program, H495 [14FE]
University of Connecticut: tribute to women's basketball team, E468
———tribute to women's basketball team (H. Res. 401), H1749 [30AP]
Veterans: permit concurrent receipt of military retired pay with service-connected disability benefits, H7857 [10OC]
Votes: correction, H393
Subpoena Notices
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, H2227 [8MY], H2590 [16MY]
Tributes
Belkin, Louise, E1059
Joslyn, Frank, E1059
Werden, Terry, E1059