LaTOURETTE, STEVE C. (a Representative from Ohio)
Affidavits
Representative Traficant's trial on charges of corruption and racketeering: Scott D. Grodi, H5377 [24JY]
Amendments
Appropriations: making supplemental appropriations for further recovery from and response to terrorist attacks (H.R. 4775), H2946 [22MY]
Articles and editorials
D.C. Speaks—To Credit Union Advocate, Service Record Says It All, Nicole Duran, American Banker (publication), E839
Traficant Juror Changes His Mind—Now Convinced Conviction Was Wrong, Sabrina Eaton and John Caniglia, Cleveland (OH) Plain Dealer, H5376 [24JY]
Bills and resolutions cosponsored
Abortion: prohibit partial-birth abortions (see H.R. 4965), H4575 [12JY]
Agriculture: provide emergency agriculture assistance (see H.R. 5383), H6420 [19SE]
Animals: ensure that all dogs and cats used by research facilities are obtained legally (see H.R. 4039), H1202 [10AP]
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), H3453 [11JN]
———reduce the age for receipt of military retired pay for non-regular service (see H.R. 3831), H1284 [11AP]
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), H6419 [19SE]
———establish a program for Federal flight deck officers (see H.R. 4635), H2101 [2MY]
Budget: constitutional amendment to require balanced (see H.J. Res. 86), H1283 [11AP]
Business and industry: protect investors by improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures pursuant to securities laws (see H.R. 3763), H523 [14FE]
Capitol Building and Grounds: use of the rotunda for a ceremony to honor victims of the Holocaust (see H. Con. Res. 325), H284 [12FE]
Center for International Human Rights: establish (see H.R. 5528), H7738 [9OC]
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: congressional disapproval of rule that lowers the Medicaid upper payment limit for non-State owned or operated hospitals (see H.J. Res. 92), H3038 [23MY]
Charity Accountability Board: establish (see H.R. 3192), H141 [5FE]
Children and youth: enhance operation of the AMBER Alert communications plan to expedite the recovery of abducted children (see H.R. 5317), H6304 [17SE]
———provide access to early care and education so the families can work and children can receive quality custodial care (see H.R. 3524), H781 [7MR]
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Awareness Month: designate (see H. Con. Res. 197), H738 [6MR]
Clarence Miller Post Office Building, Lancaster, OH: designate (see H.R. 4755), H2607 [16MY]
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]
Computers: amend copyright laws relative to royalty fees for webcasting (see H.R. 5285), H6256 [13SE]
———establish a program to transfer surplus computers of Federal agencies to schools and nonprofit community-based educational organizations (see H.R. 4785), H2734 [21MY]
Consumers: require disclosure of terms of rental-purchase agreements (see H.R. 1701), H2608 [16MY]
Credit unions: expand access of Federal credit union members to money order and check cashing services (see H.R. 4612), H2101 [2MY]
Delbert L. Latta Federal Building, Bowling Green, OH: designate (see H.R. 5439), H6927 [1OC]
Dept. of Defense: prohibit purchase of certain steel or equipment, products, or systems made with steel that is not melted and poured in the U.S. (see H.R. 4161), H1200 [10AP]
Dept. of HHS: award grants to associate degree schools of nursing and professional nursing organizations to improve nursing education (see H.R. 4665), H4425 [9JY]
Dept. of Transportation: authorize construction of a plaza adjacent to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (see H.R. 5012), H3927 [25JN]
Dept. of Veterans Affairs: improve judicial review of administrative decisions (see H.R. 4018), H1338 [16AP]
———provide guaranteed adequate level of funding for veterans health care (see H.R. 5250), H6693 [25SE]
———suspend authority to increase copayment for medication furnished on an outpatient basis for treatment of service-connected disabilities (see H.R. 2820), H907 [13MR]
Diseases: expand and coordinate activities of NIH and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention relative to cancer survivorship research and programs (see H.R. 4963), H6374 [18SE]
District of Columbia: scholarship vouchers to provide school choice (see H.R. 5033), H4575 [12JY]
Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: make marriage penalty relief provisions permanent (see H.R. 4019), H3454 [11JN]
Education: improve access to printed instructional materials used by blind or other print-disabled persons in elementary and secondary schools (see H.R. 4582), H1619 [24AP]
Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act: provide benefits to Dept. of Energy contractors exposed to toxic substances, expand coverage to certain individuals, and reform claimant assistance (see H.R. 5493), H6927 [1OC]
Executive Office of the President: ensure that requests or petitions for executive clemency are treated as lobbying contacts (see H.R. 5131), H4765 [16JY]
Fair Debt Collection Practices Act: clarify relative to rules of civil procedure (see H.R. 3533), H1620 [24AP]
———reform relative to liability for noncompliance (see H.R. 2014), H2945 [22MY]
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), H1087 [20MR]
Federal agencies and departments: review of efficiency and need for certain agencies (see H.R. 2373), H7738 [9OC]
Federal Bureau of Investigation Building, Washington, DC: designate (see H.R. 5213), H5789 [25JY]
Federal employees: 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), H562 [26FE]
———make certain service performed as an employee of a nonappropriated fund instrumentality creditable for retirement purposes (see H.R. 2355), H36 [23JA]
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: provide greater access to affordable pharmaceuticals (see H.R. 5311), H6304 [17SE]
Financial institutions: reform the Federal deposit insurance system (see H.R. 3717), H524 [14FE]
Firearms: protect manufacturers and sellers in the firearms and ammunition industry from restrictions on interstate or foreign commerce (see H.R. 2037), H737 [6MR]
Foreign policy: ensure that the Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative substantially increases resources available for human development and poverty reduction in countries eligible for assistance (see H.R. 4524), H2472 [14MY]
Foreign trade: amend trade laws to provide more fairness to U.S. industry (see H.R. 2770), H6777 [26SE]
FTC: amend trade regulation rule on ophthalmic practice to require the release of prescriptions for contact lenses (see H.R. 2663), H2019 [1MY]
Great Lakes: restore and protect (see H. Res. 560), H9025 [14NO]
Health: authorize grants to carry out organ recovery rate improvement programs in eligible hospitals (see H.R. 4086), H2165 [7MY]
———reduce the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery system (see H.R. 4600), H2945 [22MY]
Higher Education Act: repeal provisions prohibiting persons convicted of drug offenses from receiving student financial assistance (see H.R. 786), H1154 [9AP]
Home Investment Partnerships Act: support certain housing proposals including the downpayment assistance initiative (see H.R. 4446), H1337 [16AP]
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]
Housing: amend and extend certain laws relating to housing and community opportunity (see H.R. 3995), H1002 [19MR]
———simplify the downpayment requirements for FHA mortgage insurance for single family homebuyers (see H.R. 3661), H142 [5FE]
Human rights: condemn the practice of execution by stoning (see H. Con. Res. 351), H7172 [7OC]
Insurance: guarantee comprehensive health care coverage for all children (see H.R. 1733), H3721 [19JN]
Interstate commerce: prohibit transport of horses for the purpose of slaughter or horse flesh for human consumption (see H.R. 3781), H834 [12MR]
King, Martin Luther, Jr.: mint coins in commemoration (see H.R. 1184), H4425 [9JY]
Korean War Veterans Association, Inc.: grant Federal charter (see H.R. 952), H8041 [24OC]
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), H1155 [9AP]
Medicare: coverage of medically necessary pancreas transplantation procedures (see H.R. 1361), H561 [26FE]
———coverage of outpatient prescription drugs (see H.R. 3626), H834 [12MR] (see H.R. 3684), H141 [5FE]
———enhance access of beneficiaries who live in medically underserved areas to critical primary and preventive health care benefits and improve the Medicare+Choice program (see H.R. 4000), H1002 [19MR]
———establish minimum geographic cost-of-practice index value for physicians' services (see H.R. 3569), H142 [5FE]
———provide fair payments under the hospital outpatient department prospective payment system (see H.R. 5234), H6777 [26SE]
———reform the physician payment update system through repeal of the sustainable growth rate payment update system (see H.R. 3882), H1620 [24AP]
Mental health: provide assistance to train teachers of children with autism spectrum disorders (see H.R. 4728), H2470 [14MY]
———provide for equal insurance coverage of benefits unless comparable limitations are imposed on medical and surgical benefits (see H.R. 4066), H1338 [16AP]
Motor vehicles: protect the rights of consumers to diagnose, service, and repair their motor vehicles (see H.R. 2735), H1338 [16AP]
Museum and Library Services Act: reauthorize (see H.R. 3784), H1155 [9AP]
National Archives and Records Administration: maintain an inventory of all gifts received from domestic sources for the President, the Executive Residence at the White House, or a Presidential archival depository (see H.R. 1081), H561 [26FE]
National Aviation Heritage Area: establish (see H.R. 5148), H4872 [17JY]
National Center on Liver Disease Research: establish (see H.R. 5047), H6061 [4SE]
National Sea Grant College Program Act: reauthorize (see H.R. 3389), H688 [5MR]
National security: enhance homeland security and the public property protection capabilities of the Federal Government (see H.R. 4770), H2661 [20MY]
National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program: amend (see H.R. 3741), H524 [14FE]
Pensions: provide additional protection to participants in individual account plans, promote investment advice, and prohibit certain insider trades of securities (see H.R. 3762), H523 [14FE]
———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), H1003 [19MR]
Pipelines: improve safey (see H.R. 3609), H562 [26FE]
Presidential Records Act: establish procedures for the consideration of claims of constitutionality based privilege against disclosure of Presidential records (see H.R. 4187), H1282 [11AP]
Public Health Service Act: amend to provide services for the prevention of family violence (see H.R. 4916), H3513 [12JN]
———establish Nationwide Health Tracking Network (see H.R. 4061), H4872 [17JY]
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]
Retired Enlisted Association, Inc.: repeal Federal charter (see H.R. 3799), H1284 [11AP]
SEC: authorizing appropriations (see H.R. 3764), H523 [14FE]
Sewage disposal: sewer overflow control grants appropriations (see H.R. 5183), H5194 [23JY]
Social Security: provide greater equity and efficiency to the SSA payment system for claimant representation (see H.R. 3332), H932 [14MR]
Syria: halt support for terrorism, end occupation of Lebanon, stop development of weapons of mass destruction, and cease illegal importation of Iraqi oil (see H.R. 4483), H1620 [24AP]
Tariff: impose tariff-rate quotas on certain casein and milk protein concentrates (see H.R. 1786), H6559 [24SE]
Taxation: accelerate repeal of estate and generation-skipping transfer taxes and reduction in gift taxes (see H.R. 2631), H1155 [9AP]
———allow expanded penalty-free withdrawals from certain retirement plans for unemployed employees of air carriers or manufacturers of aircrafts or aircraft parts or components (see H.R. 2968), H36 [23JA]
———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]
———expand the Hope Scholarship credit for certain expenses and exempt certain Federal education grants when taking expenses into account (see H.R. 2219), H833 [12MR]
———incentives to ensure timely and equitable access to the Internet over current and future generations of broadband capability (see H.R. 267), H6129 [9SE]
———make repeal of estate taxes permanent (H.R. 2143), complete congressional action (see H. Res. 524), H6303 [17SE]
———make the additional tax on early distributions from certain pension plans inapplicable for public safety employees (see H.R. 4796), H2943 [22MY]
———repeal tax increase on Social Security benefits (see H.R. 122), H1532 [23AP]
———terminate Internal Revenue Code (see H.R. 2714), H1284 [11AP] (see H.R. 4716), H2470 [14MY]
———treatment of beer (see H.R. 1305), H1090 [20MR]
———treatment of income from land sold to a government agency or a nonprofit organization for conservation purposes (see H.R. 2290), H4350 [8JY]
———treatment of Social Security benefits (see H.R. 4790), H6304 [17SE]
———treatment of unused nontaxable benefits under cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements (see H.R. 4804), H3293 [6JN]
Terrorism: anniversary of terrorist attacks (see H. Con. Res. 464), H6229 [11SE]
Thomas, Rex D. (Dave): tribute (see H. Res. 336), H104 [29JA]
Tony Hall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Dayton, OH: designate (see H.R. 5335), H6084 [5SE]
Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century: provide highway infrastructure investment at the guaranteed funding level (see H.R. 3694), H226 [7FE]
U.N.: tribute to President Bush for rescinding approving signature to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court on behalf of the U.S. (see H. Res. 416), H3454 [11JN]
Veterans: provide benefits to merchant mariners who served during a period of war (see H.R. 2442), H2608 [16MY]
Water: authorize appropriations for State water pollution control revolving funds (see H.R. 3792), H738 [6MR] (see H.R. 3930), H3038 [23MY]
———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]
World War II: preserve certain Federal court actions relative to Japanese companies compensating former prisoners of war used as slave labor (see H.R. 1198), H1338 [16AP]
Bills and resolutions introduced
Capitol Building and Grounds: authorizing use of Grounds for National Peace Officers' Memorial Service (see H. Con. Res. 347), H833 [12MR]
———authorizing use of Grounds for Special Olympics torch relay (see H. Con. Res. 354), H937 [18MR]
———authorizing use of Grounds for the National Book Festival (see H. Con. Res. 348), H833 [12MR]
Lisak, Zdanko: relief (see H.R. 4625), H1769 [30AP]
National Safety Forces Appreciation Week: support goals and ideals (see H. Con. Res. 491), H6777 [26SE] (see H. Con. Res. 495), H6983 [2OC]
Designated Speaker pro tempore
House of Representatives, H1621 [25AP], H3671 [19JN]
Motions
Traficant, Representative: expulsion from the House of Representatives (H. Res. 495), H5375 [24JY]
Remarks
Appalachian Regional Development Act: reauthorize (S. 1206), H529, H531, H532 [26FE]
Appropriations: making continuing (H.J. Res. 122), H7831 [10OC]
Armed Forces: authorize use against Iraq (H.J. Res. 114), H7426 [9OC]
Budget: setting forth the Federal budget for 2003-2007 (H. Con. Res. 353), H1064 [20MR]
Bureau of the Census: anniversary (H. Con. Res. 339), H813, H815 [12MR]
Dept. of Homeland Security: establish (H.R. 5005), H5688 [25JY]
———retain Office of National Preparedness functions within FEMA, H5688 [25JY]
Financial institutions: provide regulatory relief to credit unions, E839
Joe Skeen Federal Building, Roswell, NM: designate (H.R. 5427), H7148, H7150 [7OC]
Law enforcement: improve security at U.S. borders (H.R. 3525), corrections in enrollment (S. Con. Res. 106), H2179 [8MY]
National Dam Safety and Security Act: reauthorizing (H.R. 4727), H6065 [5SE]
Santiago E. Campos U.S. Courthouse, Santa Fe, NM: designate (H.R. 5083), H7150, H7151 [7OC]
Sports: recognize the teams and players of the Negro Baseball Leagues for their achievements, dedication, sacrifices, and contributions to baseball and the Nation (H. Con. Res. 337), H6316, H6317 [18SE]
Tony Hall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Dayton, OH: designate (H.R. 5335), H7141, H7142 [7OC]
Traficant, Representative: expulsion from the House of Representatives (H. Res. 495), motion to postpone, H5375, H5379, H5382 [24JY]
Wayne Lyman Morse U.S. Courthouse, Eugene, OR: designate (H.R. 2672), H7151, H7152 [7OC]
Remarks in House relative to
Leave of absence: granted, H1408 [17AP]
Special order: granted, H9018 [14NO]
Tributes
Stanley, Charles I., E1556
Stanton, J. William, E669