McCARTHY, KAREN (a Representative from Missouri)
Bills and resolutions cosponsored
Airports: modify terminal buildings to accommodate explosive detection systems for screening checked baggage (see H.R. 5135), H4766 [16JY]
American Battlefield Protection Act: establish a battlefield acquisition grant program (see H.R. 5125), H6926 [1OC]
American Zoo and Aquarium Association: tribute (see H. Con. Res. 408), H3230 [5JN]
Animals: increase the availability of drugs for minor species and rare diseases in all animals (see H.R. 1956), H1533 [23AP]
———prohibit interstate commerce relative to exotic animals (see H.R. 3464), H2164 [7MY]
Aviation: provide assistance to certain airline industry workers who have lost their jobs (see H.R. 5593), H7738 [9OC]
Buck, John F. (Jack): tribute (see H. Res. 455), H3859 [24JN]
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: authorize grants for mosquito control programs to prevent mosquito-borne diseases (see H.R. 4793), H6061 [4SE]
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), H2735 [21MY]
Children and youth: enhance operation of the AMBER Alert communications plan to expedite the recovery of abducted children (see H.R. 5326), H6059 [4SE]
CPSC: amend flammability standards for children's sleepwear (see H.R. 4896), H3563 [13JN]
Crime: prohibit unauthorized placement of a writing on or inside a consumer product (see H.R. 2621), H2945 [22MY]
Cuba: grant waiver to allow Cuban nationals to play professional baseball in the U.S. (see H.R. 26), H4498 [10JY]
Dept. of Agriculture: clarify authority to establish performance standards for the reduction of pathogens in meat and poultry processed by establishments receiving inspection services (see H.R. 3956), H2105 [3MY]
Dept. of Commerce: make grants to States for advertising that promotes travel and tourism (see H.R. 3321), H781 [7MR]
Dept. of HHS: expand and intensify research programs concerning elder falls (see H.R. 3695), H2945 [22MY]
———support research on ovarian cancer screening tests and encourage coverage of effective techniques by health care programs and plans (see H. Con. Res. 385), H2608 [16MY]
Dept. of HUD: assist States, tribal governments, and Native Hawaiian organizations with land use planning to promote improved quality of life, regionalism, sustainable economic development, and environmental stewardship (see H.R. 1433), H2108 [6MY]
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: distribution chain of prescription drugs (see H.R. 68), H4425 [9JY]
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]
———provide assistance for redevelopment of brownfield sites (see H.R. 4894), H4873 [17JY]
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), H3669 [18JN]
EPA: establish greenhouse gas inventory, registry, and information system (see H.R. 4611), H2662 [20MY]
FCC: allocate spectrum for the enhancement of wireless services and invest wireless spectrum auction proceeds for military and educational digital era preparedness (see H.R. 4641), H5998 [26JY]
———eliminate deadlines for spectrum auctions of spectrum previously allocated to television broadcasting (see H.R. 4560), H1618 [24AP]
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), H5087 [22JY]
———ensure one-half of leave for birth, adoption, or foster placement of a child shall be leave with pay (see H.R. 3915), H1484 [18AP]
———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), H3161 [4JN]
———treatment of retirement benefits for assistant U.S. attorneys (see H.R. 1090), H3774 [20JN]
Financial Accounting Standards Board: develop standards of financial accounting and reporting relative to the treatment of stock options (see H.R. 5147), H4932 [18JY]
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), H1769 [30AP]
Fish and fishing: protect certain areas of the seabed by establishing a maximum diameter size limit on rockhopper, roller, and all other groundgear used on bottom trawls (see H.R. 4003), H3825 [21JN]
Flag—U.S.: provide Capitol-flown flags to the families of deceased law enforcement officers, firefighters, emergency medical technicians, and other rescue workers (see H.R. 3968), H1091 [20MR]
Forest Service: protection of certain roadless areas (see H.R. 4865), H3228 [5JN]
Forests: ban clearcutting and logging on certain Federal lands to strengthen protection of native biodiversity (see H.R. 5279), H5995 [26JY]
FTC: regulation of unfair or deceptive practices by sports agents in the signing of contracts with student athletes (see H.R. 4701), H6061 [4SE]
Hampton, Lionel: tribute (see H. Con. Res. 363), H1090 [20MR]
Head Start Act: ensure that every eligible child has the tools to learn to read (see H.R. 1201), H3601 [17JN]
Health: coverage of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and alternative treatments for hormone replacement therapy (see H.R. 5204), H6061 [4SE]
———improve patient safety and reduce incidence of medical errors (see H.R. 5478), H6776 [26SE]
Health care facilities: establish a health information technology grant program and a Medical Information Technology Advisory Board (see H.R. 3292), H833 [12MR]
Height, Dorothy I.: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 4531), H6303 [17SE]
Housing: simplify the downpayment requirements for FHA mortgage insurance for single family homebuyers (see H.R. 858), H3601 [17JN]
Insurance: coverage of colorectal cancer screening (see H.R. 1520), H284 [12FE]
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), H2512 [15MY]
James V. Hansen Federal Building, Ogden, UT: designate (see H.R. 5611), H7893 [10OC]
Law enforcement officers: ensure accountability, guarantee due process, establish standards for internal investigations and hearings, and require enactment of relevant State laws (see H.R. 1626), H907 [13MR]
Lobbyists: require certain coalitions and associations to disclose lobbying activities (see H.R. 5526, 5527), H6982 [2OC]
Mammography Quality Standards Act: reauthorize (see H.R. 4888), H3291 [6JN]
Medicaid: delay changes in regulations that modify upper payment limit for non-State government-owned or operated hospitals (see H.R. 3360), H4605 [15JY]
———extend certain modifications to disproportionate share hospital allotments (see H.R. 854), H7303 [8OC]
———State funding for disproportionate share hospitals (see H.R. 1604), H4605 [15JY]
Medicare: coverage for rehabilitation services provided by State vocational rehabilitation agencies to older, blind individuals (see H.R. 2674), H367 [13FE]
———coverage of oral anticancer drugs (see H.R. 1624), H1620 [24AP]
———coverage of pharmacist services (see H.R. 2799), H6777 [26SE]
———establish voluntary outpatient prescription drug coverage program and modernize and reform payments and the regulatory structure (see H.R. 5019), H4068 [26JN]
———reduce work hours and increase supervision of resident-physicians to ensure the safety of both patients and resident-physicians (see H.R. 3236), H5998 [26JY]
———reimbursement for chiropractic services (see H.R. 902), H6777 [26SE]
Mining and mineral resources: modify requirements applicable to locatable minerals on public domain lands (see H.R. 4748), H4606 [15JY]
Motor vehicles: provide for greater fairness in the motor vehicle franchise contract arbitration process (see H.R. 1296), H6171 [10SE]
Museum and Library Services Act: reauthorize (see H.R. 3784), H932 [14MR]
National and Community Service Act: establish the Right of Passage Community Service Program (see H.R. 4803), H3721 [19JN]
National Drought Council: establish (see H.R. 4754), H6129 [9SE]
National Farmers Union: anniversary (see H. Con. Res. 462), H6927 [1OC]
National Organ Donor Registry: establish (see H.R. 5124), H6777 [26SE]
National Sarcoidosis Awareness Day: establish (see H. Con. Res. 429), H4069 [26JN]
National security: allow individuals to designate a portion of their income tax return for homeland security and establish an Office of Homeland Security within the Executive Office of the President (see H.R. 3639), H201 [6FE]
Nobel Prize: recognition of Jimmy Carter for peace (see H. Res. 588), H7929 [15OC]
Patriotism: mint coins in commemoration of the Spirit of America and to establish the Victims of September 11th Fund (see H.R. 3244), H1155 [9AP]
Pentagon Renovation Program: tribute to efforts in reconstructing the portion of the Pentagon destroyed in terrorist attack (see H. Res. 368), H907 [13MR]
Power resources: eliminate certain restrictions on the availability of credits for the use of biodiesel fuel (see H.R. 4160), H1200 [10AP]
Public Health Service Act: amend relative to pharmacy health professions programs (see H.R. 2173), H6559 [24SE]
———amend to provide services for the prevention of family violence (see H.R. 4916), H3721 [19JN]
Public lands: designate certain national parks, wild and scenic rivers, and wilderness areas in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming (see H.R. 488), H6060 [4SE]
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), H6983 [2OC]
Public welfare programs: reauthorize and reform block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see H.R. 3625), H1674 [25AP]
Roads and highways: amend length and weight limitations for vehicles operating on Federal-aid highways (see H.R. 3132), H4326 [27JN]
Rowley, Coleen: tribute (see H. Res. 436), H3292 [6JN]
Senior citizens: modify the eligibility criteria for supplemental foods provided under the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (see H.R. 5107), H4932 [18JY]
Social Security: improve benefits for aged survivors, disabled survivors, and divorced spouses (see H.R. 4671), H2164 [7MY]
———provide miscellaneous enhancements in benefits for women (see H.R. 4069), H2472 [14MY]
———repeal Government pension offset and windfall elimination provisions (see H.R. 2638), H2511 [15MY]
Taxation: allow deduction equal to fair market value for charitable contributions of literary, musical, artistic, or scholarly compositions created by the donor (see H.R. 1598), H2356 [9MY]
———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), H1283 [11AP]
———allow penalty-free withdrawals from individual retirement plans for adoption expenses (see H.R. 3713), H1284 [11AP]
———clarify credit for producing fuel from a nonconventional source (see H.R. 3352), H79 [24JA]
———exclude from gross income discharges of indebtedness attributable to certain forgiven residential mortgage obligations (see H.R. 13), H3562 [13JN]
———expand renewable resources production tax credit to include additional forms of renewable energy and expand investment tax credit to include equipment used to produce electricity from renewable resources (see H.R. 4668), H2608 [16MY]
———prevent corporations from avoiding the U.S. income tax by reincorporating in a foreign country (see H.R. 3884), H2945 [22MY]
———prevent corporations from exploiting tax treaties to evade U.S. income tax (see H.R. 4993), H3824 [21JN]
———provide incentives for the use of biodiesel as a fuel (see H.R. 4843), H3826 [21JN]
Terrorism: anniversary of terrorist attacks (see H. Con. Res. 464), H6229 [11SE]
Tibet: recognize authorities who are currently exiled in Dharamsala, India, as the legitimate representatives of Tibet (see H. Res. 357), H687 [5MR]
Tobacco products: combat illicit trafficking of tobacco products (see H.R. 5264), H5994 [26JY]
———replace existing tobacco program with programs designed to assist producers, compensate quota holders for the loss of quota asset value, and assist producers who forgo obtaining a production license (see H.R. 5035), H6061 [4SE]
Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century: provide highway infrastructure investment at the guaranteed funding level (see H.R. 3694), H781 [7MR]
U.N.: restore a voluntary U.S. contribution to the U.N. Population Fund (see H.R. 3916), H2945 [22MY]
Veterans: increase the minimum Survivor Benefit Plan basic annuity for certain surviving spouses (see H.R. 5403), H6373 [18SE]
Voting: require States to permit individuals to register to vote in an election for Federal office on the date of the election (see H.R. 128), H781 [7MR]
Water: authorize appropriations for State water pollution control revolving funds (see H.R. 3792), H1003 [19MR] (see H.R. 3930), H6251 [12SE]
Williams, Serena: tribute (see H. Res. 94), H4767 [16JY]
Williams, Venus: tribute (see H. Res. 94), H4767 [16JY]
Women: recognize the importance of sports in fostering leadership ability and success (see H. Res. 485), H4605 [15JY]
Wood: prohibit use of arsenic-treated wood in playground equipment, children's products, fences, walkways, decks, and other residential purposes (see H.R. 4707), H2355 [9MY]
Bills and resolutions introduced
Foreign trade: provide for the reliquidation of certain entries (see H.R. 4463), H1338 [16AP]
Health: encourage private health insurance companies to take a proactive role in promoting healthy lifestyles (see H. Con. Res. 474), H6418 [19SE]
Immigration: expedite security determinations relative to nonimmigrant visa requests for certain artists and entertainers from countries that are state sponsors of international terrorism (see H. Con. Res. 514), H8041 [24OC]
Tariff: alkylketone (see H.R. 4363), H1336 [16AP]
———Bayleton technical (see H.R. 4366), H1336 [16AP]
———beta-cyfluthrin (see H.R. 4364), H1336 [16AP]
———FOE hydroxy (see H.R. 4362), H1336 [16AP]
———imidacloprid pesticides (see H.R. 4361), H1336 [16AP]
———imidacloprid technical (see H.R. 4365), H1336 [16AP]
———methoxy methyl triazolone (see H.R. 4371), H1336 [16AP]
———MKH 6561 isocyanate (see H.R. 4368), H1336 [16AP]
———MKH 6562 isocyanate (see H.R. 4372), H1336 [16AP]
———Nemacur VL (see H.R. 4370), H1336 [16AP]
———propoxur technical (see H.R. 4367), H1336 [16AP]
———propoxy methyl triazolone (see H.R. 4369), H1336 [16AP]
Remarks
Abortion: prohibit partial-birth abortions (H.R. 4965), H5367
Agency for Immigration Affairs: make all employees exempt from civil service hiring and promotion procedures and eliminate certain protections in disciplinary actions, H1660
Amtrak: funding, H4037
Armed Forces: authorize use against Iraq (H.J. Res. 114), H7759 [10OC]
Arts and humanities: National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities funding through reductions in Dept. of the Interior funding, H4807 [17JY]
Calegari, Jack: Western Region of Missouri American Legion Distinguished Legionnaire award recipient, E1235
Computers: suspend Library of Congress determination relative to rates and terms for webcasting (H.R. 5469), H7047 [7OC]
Dept. of HUD: facilitate the cleanup and economic redevelopment of brownfields (H.R. 2941), H3096
Dept. of the Interior and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 5093), H4807 [17JY]
Developing countries: increase assistance for the poorest people in developing countries under microenterprise assistance programs (H.R. 4073), H3083
Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: allow tax relief to continue as scheduled (H. Con. Res. 312), H164
Education: anniversary of Title IX prohibiting gender discrimination in educational and athletic programs, H3707 [19JN]
Harvey A. Jones Engineering Co.: anniversary, E2106
Health: improve men's health through fitness and reduction of obesity (H. Res. 438), H3308
Information services: deregulate Internet and high speed data services (H.R. 1542), H591
———protect competition in Internet and high speed data services by preserving certain FCC and State regulations affecting competitive local exchange carriers, H591
INS: replace with the Agency for Immigration Affairs (H.R. 3231), H1660
Kansas City, KS: tribute to ice storm relief efforts in metropolitan area, E193
Kansas City, MO: rededication of Liberty Memorial, E931
Lions Clubs: observance of Lions Youth Appreciation Day, E933
Medicare: establish voluntary outpatient prescription drug coverage program and modernize and reform payments and the regulatory structure (H.R. 4954), H4286 [27JN]
Mink, Patsy T.: tribute (H. Res. 566), H6901
National Jazz Appreciation Month: observance, E641
Political campaigns: ethics reform and contribution limits (H.R. 2356), H391 [13FE]
Public welfare programs: reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (H.R. 4737), H2550 [16MY]
St. Patrick's Day: observance, E358
Taxation: increase unified estate tax credit, H3261
———make repeal of estate taxes permanent (H.R. 2143), H3261
Television: transition to digital television, E994
Terrorism: anniversary of terrorist attacks (H. Con. Res. 464), H6194
Votes: position on missed, H48
Voting: establish a grant program to provide assistance to States for modernizing and enhancing voting procedures and administration (H.R. 3295), conference report, H7852
Remarks in House relative to
Special order: granted, H4065 [26JN]
Tributes
Bilardo, Vincent J., Jr., E1169
Gibbs, Hilda, E138
McCarthy, Pamela G., E93
McElhiney, Michael, E60
O'Neil, John J. (Buck), E2072
White, Timothy, E1376