KILPATRICK, CAROLYN C. (a Representative from Michigan)
Bills and resolutions cosponsored
Africa: recognize the importance of inheritance rights of women (see H. Con. Res. 421), H3668 [18JN]
Agriculture: provide emergency agriculture assistance (see H.R. 5383), H7304 [8OC]
———respond to surge of coffee imports (see H. Res. 604), H8732 [13NO]
Airports: modify terminal buildings to accommodate explosive detection systems for screening checked baggage (see H.R. 5135), H4766 [16JY]
Ali, Muhammad: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 4590), H1672 [25AP]
Animal Welfare Act: strengthen enforcement of animal fighting provisions (see H.R. 5268), H6983 [2OC]
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), H1769 [30AP]
Armstrong, Lance: tribute (see H. Res. 548), H6559 [24SE]
Arts and humanities: application of antitrust laws to certain negotiations of freelance writers and artists for the sale of their written and graphic material to publishers (see H.R. 4643), H3775 [20JN]
Boggs, Lindy: tribute (see H. Con. Res. 439), H5087 [22JY]
Business and industry: enhance regulation of public auditors, improve corporate governance and overhaul corporate disclosure made pursuant to the securities laws (see H.R. 3818), H1155 [9AP]
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]
Cemeteries and funerals: urge maintenance of flags placed on the grave sites of U.S. veterans on Memorial Day (see H. Res. 120), H105 [29JA]
Center for International Human Rights: establish (see H.R. 5528), H7738 [9OC]
Children and youth: provide access to early care and education so the families can work and children can receive quality custodial care (see H.R. 3524), H655 [4MR]
Civil liberties: protect day laborers from unfair labor practices (see H.R. 2755), H79 [24JA]
Colleges and universities: permit States to determine residency standards for higher education purposes and cancel removal and adjust status of certain long-term resident alien students (see H.R. 1918), H6419 [19SE]
———provide for fire sprinkler systems in public and private college and university housing and dormitories (see H.R. 2145), H5998 [26JY]
Commission To Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans: establish (see H.R. 40), H1532 [23AP]
Community development: increase the expertise and capacity of community-based organizations involved in economic development activities and key community development programs (see H.R. 3974), H1156 [9AP]
Computers: establish a program to transfer surplus computers of Federal agencies to schools and nonprofit community-based educational organizations (see H.R. 4785), H6061 [4SE]
Consumers: protect from predatory mortgage lending practices (see H.R. 3807), H1155 [9AP]
Contraceptives: establish a public education and awareness program relative to emergency contraception (see H.R. 3887), H1338 [16AP]
Courts: establish domestic violence court systems from amounts available for grants to combat violence against women (see H.R. 4091), H1152 [9AP]
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), H1284 [11AP]
———prosecute persons who alter or destroy evidence in certain investigations or who defraud investors, prohibit certain debts from being discharged in bankruptcy, and protect whistleblowers from retaliation (see H.R. 4098), H1202 [10AP]
———provide grants for public information campaigns to educate racial and ethnic minorities about domestic violence (see H.R. 4089), H1152 [9AP]
Customs Service: establish a joint U.S.-Canada customs inspection project (see H.R. 4703), H3514 [12JN]
Davis, Sammy, Jr.: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 3628), H834 [12MR]
Dept. of HHS: establish an Office on Men's Health (see H.R. 632), H141 [5FE]
———support research on ovarian cancer screening tests and encourage coverage of effective techniques by health care programs and plans (see H. Con. Res. 385), H2946 [22MY]
Dept. of HUD: reauthorize the HOPE VI Program for revitalization of severely distressed public housing (see H.R. 5499), H7304 [8OC]
Dept. of Veterans Affairs: suspend authority to increase copayment for medication furnished on an outpatient basis for treatment of service-connected disabilities (see H.R. 2820), H1769 [30AP]
Diseases: increase activities carried out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and NIH relative to diabetes in minority populations (see H.R. 2232), H5453 [24JY]
Domestic violence: encourage States and localities to implement gun confiscation policies, reform stalking laws, create integrated domestic violence courts, and hire additional personnel for entering protection orders (see H.R. 3595), H4350 [8JY]
Drugs: use of marijuana for medicinal purposes (see H.R. 2592), H3229 [5JN]
Education: authorize appropriations and establish advisory committee to help implement the Advanced Technological Education Program and strengthen technological education at associate-degree granting colleges (see H.R. 4680), H3514 [12JN]
———establish a pilot program to encourage certification of teachers in low-income, low-performing public elementary and secondary schools by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (see H.R. 4599), H6060 [4SE]
———establishment of a commission on technology and education (see H. Res. 295), H5454 [24JY]
———provide educational opportunities for all students in State public school systems (see H.R. 5346), H6129 [9SE]
———provide for the purchase of textbooks and establishment of the Textbook Recycling Program (see H.R. 4951), H4554 [11JY]
ERISA: joint trusteeship of single-employer pension plans (see H.R. 5529), H8035 [21OC]
Families and domestic relations: provide coverage of domestic violence screening and treatment under Maternal and Child Health Program, Medicaid, and Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (see H.R. 4032), H1410 [17AP]
Family and Medical Leave Act: eliminate an hours of service requirement for benefits (see H.R. 2328), H1201 [10AP]
Federal aid programs: provide housing assistance to domestic violence victims (see H.R. 3752), H366 [13FE]
Federal employees: ensure one-half of leave for birth, adoption, or foster placement of a child shall be leave with pay (see H.R. 3915), H780 [7MR]
———provide that service performed by an air traffic controller who is transferred to a supervisory or staff position continue to be treated as controller service for retirement purposes (see H.R. 4760), H3161 [4JN]
Firearms: regulation of transfers at gun shows (see H.R. 4034), H1088 [20MR]
Fisk Jubilee Singers (musical group): issue commemorative postage stamp (see H. Res. 225), H79 [24JA]
Forest Service: protection of certain roadless areas (see H.R. 4865), H3228 [5JN]
Forests: eliminate commercial logging on public lands and facilitate the economic recovery and diversification of communities dependent on the Federal logging program (see H.R. 1494), H3721 [19JN]
Greece: capture of members of November 17 terrorist group (see H. Con. Res. 479), H7304 [8OC]
Haiti: end embargo and certain restrictions on humanitarian and development assistance (see H. Con. Res. 382), H1483 [18AP]
Harwell, Ernie: tribute (see H. Res. 565), H7019 [3OC]
Hazardous substances: protect human health from toxic mold (see H.R. 5040), H4324 [27JN]
Health: coverage of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and alternative treatments for hormone replacement therapy (see H.R. 5204), H6061 [4SE]
———national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (see H. Con. Res. 99), H110 [4FE]
———treatment of women with bleeding disorders (see H. Con. Res. 380), H1490 [22AP]
Height, Dorothy I.: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 4531), H6303 [17SE]
Higher Education Act: repeal provisions prohibiting persons convicted of drug offenses from receiving student financial assistance (see H.R. 786), H2164 [7MY]
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), H3601 [17JN]
Housing: provide affordable housing for families that are headed by grandparents and other relatives of children (see H.R. 4033), H2101 [2MY]
Human rights: condemn the practice of execution by stoning (see H. Con. Res. 351), H1003 [19MR]
Immigration: establish nonimmigrant classes for border commuter students (see H.R. 4967), H4350 [8JY]
———provide a mechanism for U.S. citizens, and lawful permanent residents, to sponsor their permanent partners for U.S. residence (see H.R. 690), H5997 [26JY]
International Women's Day: observance (see H. Con. Res. 344), H781 [7MR]
Iraq: support U.N. efforts to assure Iraq's compliance with Security Council resolutions and advance peace and security in the Persian Gulf region (see H. Con. Res. 473), H6418 [19SE]
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), H2099 [2MY]
Joe Skeen Federal Building, Roswell, NM: designate (see H.R. 5427), H6418 [19SE]
King, Martin Luther, Jr.: mint coins in commemoration (see H.R. 1184), H4326 [27JN]
Law enforcement: community policing programs (see H.R. 2009), H1090 [20MR]
Law enforcement officers: adjust percentage differentials payable to Federal law enforcement officers in certain high-cost areas (see H.R. 3794), H3825 [21JN]
Medicaid: establish a demonstration grant program to assist States in providing subsidies for group health insurance premiums for low-income, Medicaid-eligible individuals (see H.R. 1903), H1283 [11AP]
———extend certain modifications to disproportionate share hospital allotments (see H.R. 854), H5087 [22JY]
———provide families of disabled children with the opportunity to purchase coverage (see H.R. 600), H3037 [23MY]
Medicare: coverage of oral anticancer drugs (see H.R. 1624), H6256 [13SE]
———establish voluntary outpatient prescription drug coverage program and modernize and reform payments and the regulatory structure (see H.R. 5019), H4068 [26JN]
———extend a temporary increase in payment for skilled nursing facility services (see H.R. 5411), H7895 [10OC]
———increase reimbursement for screening mammography services and funding for additional radiology residents and radiologic technologists (see H.R. 1354), H833 [12MR]
———reduce work hours and increase supervision of resident-physicians to ensure the safety of both patients and resident-physicians (see H.R. 3236), H79 [24JA]
Mental health: increase number of well-trained mental health service professionals (including those based in schools) providing clinical mental health care to children and adolescents (see H.R. 5078), H5087 [22JY]
———provide for equal insurance coverage of benefits unless comparable limitations are imposed on medical and surgical benefits (see H.R. 4066), H1156 [9AP]
Motor vehicles: provide for greater fairness in the motor vehicle franchise contract arbitration process (see H.R. 1296), H4326 [27JN]
National Center for Social Work Research: establish (see H.R. 3814), H1155 [9AP]
National Day of Silence: support goals and ideals (see H. Con. Res. 346), H1003 [19MR]
National Drought Council: establish (see H.R. 4754), H3230 [5JN]
National Epilepsy Month: designate (see H. Res. 484), H4605 [15JY]
National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week: designate (see H. Res. 518), H6129 [9SE]
NIH: uterine fibroid research funding (see H.R. 1672), H5997 [26JY]
Nobel Prize: recognition of Jimmy Carter for peace (see H. Res. 588), H7929 [15OC]
Nuclear weapons: encourage end to the threat of nuclear destruction (see H.J. Res. 97), H8054 [4NO]
Older Americans Act: authorizing appropriations for supportive services to older individuals who reside in naturally occurring retirement communities (see H.R. 5134), H4766 [16JY]
OMB: provide that certain adjustments made to align highway spending with revenues have no force or effect (see H.R. 3900), H780 [7MR]
Paderewski, Ignacy J.: tribute and anniversary of the return of his remains to Poland (see H. Res. 564), H6927 [1OC]
Power resources: prohibit unethical acts, increase penalties for certain illegal acts, provide for audit trails and transparency in electric and natural gas markets, and expand FERC authority to order refunds of certain rates (see H.R. 5614), H7893 [10OC]
Public Health Service Act: amend to provide services for the prevention of family violence (see H.R. 4916), H3721 [19JN]
Public safety officers: ensure that officers who suffer a fatal heart attack or stroke while on duty shall be presumed to have died in the line of duty for purposes of survivor benefits (see H.R. 5334), H7172 [7OC]
Public welfare programs: address barriers to employment as a work activity under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see H.R. 5344), H6129 [9SE]
———provide access to tools to stimulate employment (see H.R. 4236), H2019 [1MY]
———provide racial equity and fair treatment under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see H.R. 4669), H2164 [7MY]
———reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see H.R. 3113), H141 [5FE]
Refugees: eliminate sexual exploitation (see H. Con. Res. 349), H3826 [21JN]
SBA: conduct a pilot program to raise awareness about telecommuting among small business employers (see H.R. 1035), H5791 [25JY]
Senior citizens: establish a consumer price index for elderly consumers to compute cost-of-living increases for Social Security and Medicare benefits (see H.R. 2035), H4350 [8JY]
———modify the eligibility criteria for supplemental foods provided under the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (see H.R. 5107), H4606 [15JY]
Sewage disposal: sewer overflow control grants appropriations (see H.R. 5183), H5194 [23JY]
Social Security: improve benefits for aged survivors, disabled survivors, and divorced spouses (see H.R. 4671), H2164 [7MY]
———improve coverage of certain pregnant women, infants, and children under State Children's Health Insurance Program and Medicaid (see H.R. 3675), H737 [6MR]
———protect trust funds by ensuring the Government repays its debts to the trust funds (see H.R. 5252), H7303 [8OC]
———reject proposals to partially or completely substitute private saving accounts for benefits provided through Social Security (see H.R. 4780), H4498 [10JY]
———repeal Government pension offset and windfall elimination provisions (see H.R. 2638), H2101 [2MY]
Somerset County, PA: tribute to rescue of coal miners (see H. Con. Res. 459), H6374 [18SE]
States: address domestic and sexual violence in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Programs (see H.R. 4655), H2946 [22MY]
Taxation: expand the Hope Scholarship credit for certain expenses and exempt certain Federal education grants when taking expenses into account (see H.R. 2219), H5791 [25JY]
———prevent corporations from avoiding the U.S. income tax by reincorporating in a foreign country (see H.R. 3884), H5087 [22JY]
———prevent corporations from exploiting tax treaties to evade U.S. income tax (see H.R. 4993), H3824 [21JN]
———provide an increased low-income housing credit for property located adjacent to qualified census tracts (see H.R. 4194), H3562 [13JN]
———reinstate Superfund and oil spill excise taxes and extend leaking underground storage tank taxes (see H.R. 4060), H1089 [20MR]
———treatment of beer (see H.R. 1305), H1003 [19MR]
———treatment of damages and back pay received on account of, and expenses incurred in asserting any claim of employment discrimination (see H.R. 840), H3562 [13JN]
Terrorism: anniversary of terrorist attacks (see H. Con. Res. 464), H6229 [11SE]
Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund: tribute (see H. Res. 581), H7894 [10OC]
Tibet: recognize authorities who are currently exiled in Dharamsala, India, as the legitimate representatives of Tibet (see H. Res. 357), H687 [5MR]
Trade Act: amend to consolidate and improve trade adjustment assistance programs and provide community-based economic development assistance for trade-affected communities (see H.R. 3670), H285 [12FE]
Ukrainian American Veterans, Inc.: grant Federal charter (see H.R. 818), H5453 [24JY]
Ukrainian Congress Committee of America: authorize the establishment of a memorial on Federal land in the District of Columbia to honor the victims of the Ukrainian famine-genocide of 1932-1933 (see H.R. 5289), H5995 [26JY]
Unemployment: modernize benefit system (see H.R. 4373), H3161 [4JN]
———provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program (see H.R. 5491), H8035 [21OC]
Veterans: permit concurrent receipt of military retired pay with service-connected disability benefits (see H.R. 303), H3668 [18JN]
Voting: secure the Federal voting rights of persons who have been released from incarceration (see H.R. 5510), H6926 [1OC]
Water: establish marine and freshwater research, development, and demonstration programs to control and eradicate invasive species, educate the public, and restore ecosystems (see H.R. 5395), H6373 [18SE]
———establish national ballast water management program to prevent introduction of invasive species and improve prevention and treatment research and technology (see H.R. 5396), H6373 [18SE]
Williams, Serena: tribute (see H. Res. 94), H4873 [17JY]
Williams, Venus: tribute (see H. Res. 94), H4873 [17JY]
Women: recognize the importance of sports in fostering leadership ability and success (see H. Res. 485), H4605 [15JY]
———support participation of women throughout the world in a week of workshops, forums, and other events to speak up for world peace (see H. Con. Res. 290), H105 [29JA]
Bills and resolutions introduced
Advertising: create Federal advertising procurement opportunities for minority business concerns (see H.R. 5766), H9128 [22NO]
Computers: prevent fraud and deception in network recreational games (see H.R. 4652), H2100 [2MY]
Detroit Red Wings (hockey team): tribute (see H. Res. 452), H3774 [20JN]
Law enforcement: provide grants to States to establish sexual assault response team programs (see H.R. 5514), H6926 [1OC]
Medicare: coverage of outpatient prescription drugs (see H. Con. Res. 328), H366 [13FE]
National Sarcoidosis Awareness Day: establish (see H. Con. Res. 429), H4069 [26JN]
Remarks
Andean Trade Preference Act: extend and expand (H.R. 3009), conference report, H5984
Appropriations: making supplemental appropriations for further recovery from and response to terrorist attacks (H.R. 4775), H2915 [22MY], H3031
Armed Forces: authorize use against Iraq (H.J. Res. 114), H7313 [9OC], H7742 [10OC]
Aviation: establish a program for Federal flight deck officers (H.R. 4635), H4448
———improve security by allowing pilots to have guns in the cockpit, H4448
Budget: setting forth the Federal budget for 2003-2007 (H. Con. Res. 353), H1008, H1071
Business and industry: protect investors by improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures pursuant to securities laws (H.R. 3763), E643
Computers: prevent fraud and deception in network recreational games (H.R. 4652), E842
Crime: establish that certain sexual crimes against children are predicate crimes for the interception of communications (H.R. 1877), H2680
———life imprisonment for repeat offenders who commit sex offenses against children (H.R. 2146), H916
Customs Service: civil liability of inspectors relative to alleged use of racial and other discriminatory profiling in connection with searches and detentions of individuals, H2868
Customs Service, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, and ITC: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 3129), H2868
Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (H.R. 4546), E825
Dept. of Homeland Security: establish (H.R. 5005), H5649 [25JY]
———establish (H.R. 5710), E2027
Dept. of the Treasury, Postal Service, Executive Office of the President, and independent agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 5120), H5337 [24JY]
Detroit Red Wings (hockey team): tribute, H3610 [18JN]
———tribute (H. Res. 452), H4596
Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: make marriage penalty relief provisions permanent (H.R. 4019), H3527
———make tax benefits permanent, H1427 [18AP]
Education: anniversary of Title IX prohibiting gender discrimination in educational and athletic programs, H3710
———funding, H2916 [22MY]
Enron Corp.: economic collapse, H1263 [11AP]
Eximbank: reauthorize (S. 1372), conference report, H3181
Information services: deregulate Internet and high speed data services (H.R. 1542), H590
———protect competition in Internet and high speed data services by preserving certain FCC and State regulations affecting competitive local exchange carriers, H590
International Women's Day: observance, E301
Israel: express solidarity in the fight against terrorism (H. Res. 392), consideration (H. Res. 404), H2071
Medicare: coverage of outpatient prescription drugs, H1071
———establish voluntary outpatient prescription drug coverage program and modernize and reform payments and the regulatory structure (H.R. 4954), consideration (H. Res. 465), H4170 [27JN]
Minorities: increase homeownership, H3770
National Homeownership Month: observance (H. Con. Res. 415), H3770
National security: national missile defense system, E825
Office of National Drug Control Policy: prohibit use of national media campaign funding for payments to Ogilvy and Mather Corp., H5337 [24JY]
Pensions: provide additional protection to participants in individual account plans, promote investment advice, and prohibit certain insider trades of securities (H.R. 3762), H1263 [11AP]
Public debt: ceiling, H2915 [22MY]
Public welfare programs: reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (H.R. 4737), H2559
Sexual Assault Awareness Month: observance, H1772 [1MY]
Social Security: budget treatment of trust funds, H1008, H1071
Taxation: exclusion from gross income for foster care payments relative to certain nongovernmental placement agencies (H.R. 586), consideration of Senate amendment with an amendment (H. Res. 390), H1427 [18AP]
———increase unified estate tax credit, H3258
———make repeal of estate taxes permanent (H.R. 2143), H3258
———prohibit use of Social Security trust funds to make repeal of marriage taxes permanent, H3527
———provide incentives for economic recovery, H500, H505
———treatment of adoption expenses (H.R. 622), H500, H505
Trade Act: amend to consolidate and improve trade adjustment assistance programs and provide community-based economic development assistance for trade-affected communities, H5984
Treaties and agreements: extend trade negotiating and trade agreement implementing authority, H5984
Unemployment: provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program, H500, H505
Votes: position on missed, H17
Voting: establish a grant program to provide assistance to States for modernizing and enhancing voting procedures and administration (H.R. 3295), conference report, H7847 [10OC]
Remarks in House relative to
Leave of absence: granted, H1531 [23AP], H2659 [20MY], H3157 [4JN], H3596 [17JN], H3857 [24JN], H4348 [8JY], H4601 [15JY], H5084 [22JY]