MEEKS, GREGORY W. (a Representative from New York)

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Africa: recognize the importance of inheritance rights of women (see H. Con. Res. 421), H5454 [24JY]

African Union: formation (see H. Res. 490), H4872 [17JY]

Agriculture: provide emergency agriculture assistance (see H.R. 5383), H6927 [1OC]

Airports: modify terminal buildings to accommodate explosive detection systems for screening checked baggage (see H.R. 5135), H4873 [17JY]

Alfonse M. D'Amato U.S. Courthouse, Central Islip, NY: designate (see H.R. 4006), H1002 [19MR]

Ali, Muhammad: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 4590), H1672 [25AP]

Aviation: amend certain laws relative to airport project streamlining (see H.R. 4481), H2945 [22MY]

Barry, John: recognize as first flag officer of the U.S. Navy (see H.J. Res. 6), H285 [12FE]

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), H650 [28FE]

Canada: condolences relative to military personnel killed by U.S. friendly fire while participating in military training exercises in Afghanistan (see H. Res. 412), H2105 [3MY]

Center for International Human Rights: establish (see H.R. 5528), H7929 [15OC]

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), H3860 [24JN]

Charity Accountability Board: establish (see H.R. 3192), H3825 [21JN]

Children and youth: increase the availability and quality of child care for disabled children (see H.R. 2787), H688 [5MR]

China, People's Republic of: persecution of Falun Gong practitioners (see H. Con. Res. 447), H6130 [9SE]

China, Republic of: ensure that future is resolved peacefully through a democratic mechanism with the express consent of the Taiwanese people and free from outside threats (see H. Con. Res. 221), H4873 [17JY]

Civil War: posthumously proclaim soldiers of Asian descent who fought in the Civil War to be honorary U.S. citizens (see H.J. Res. 125), H9024 [14NO]

Commission To Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans: establish (see H.R. 40), H1283 [11AP]

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), H5453 [24JY]

Congo, Democratic Republic of the: express sympathy to people who were tragically affected by the eruption of Nyiragongo volcano and support an increase in the amount of U.S. assistance (see H. Con. Res. 304), H285 [12FE]

———support transition to democracy and an end to the plunder of its natural resources (see H. Con. Res. 410), H4606 [15JY]

Congress: authorize printing of a volume of transcripts from the special joint meeting in New York, NY, and a collection of Congressional Record statements relative to the terrorist attacks (see H. Con. Res. 487), H6983 [2OC]

Corporations: review, reform, and terminate unnecessary and inequitable Federal subsidies (see H.R. 4630), H2018 [1MY]

Cuba: grant waiver to allow Cuban nationals to play professional baseball in the U.S. (see H.R. 26), H4498 [10JY]

Democracy: strengthen democratic institutions and promote good governance overseas by contributing to the development of professional legislative staff (see H.R. 4973), H3774 [20JN]

Dept. of Commerce: make grants to States for advertising that promotes travel and tourism (see H.R. 3321), H1284 [11AP]

Dept. of HHS: establish an Office on Men's Health (see H.R. 632), H561 [26FE]

———support research on ovarian cancer screening tests and encourage coverage of effective techniques by health care programs and plans (see H. Con. Res. 385), H2735 [21MY]

Dept. of HUD: reauthorize the HOPE VI Program for revitalization of severely distressed public housing (see H.R. 5499), H6783 [30SE]

Dept. of Justice: establish a national DNA database for sex offenders and those who commit violent crimes against children (see H.R. 5262), H5994 [26JY]

Dept. of the Interior: conduct a theme study on the peopling of America (see H.R. 2420), H3562 [13JN]

———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]

Dept. of the Treasury: anniversary of copper-plated zinc penny (see H. Con. Res. 433), H4325 [27JN]

Developing countries: increase assistance for the poorest people in developing countries under microenterprise assistance programs (see H.R. 4073), H1410 [17AP]

Education: provide educational opportunities for all students in State public school systems (see H.R. 5346), H6129 [9SE]

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), H1675 [25AP]

FDA: uniform food safety warning notification requirements (see H.R. 2649), H2019 [1MY]

Financial institutions: identification of hidden assets that have been stolen or misappropriated from foreign countries by corrupt foreign political figures (see H.R. 4711), H4326 [27JN]

———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), H634 [27FE]

Fire prevention: reduce threat of wildfires in the wildland-urban interface, support community and private wildfire control efforts, and return receipts generated from hazardous fuels reduction projects to the Treasury (see H.R. 5358), H6419 [19SE]

Fish and fishing: recover depleted fish stocks and promote the long-term sustainability of marine fisheries (see H.R. 2570), H5453 [24JY]

Fisk Jubilee Singers (musical group): issue commemorative postage stamp (see H. Res. 225), H285 [12FE]

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]

Haiti: end embargo and certain restrictions on humanitarian and development assistance (see H. Con. Res. 382), H1483 [18AP]

Health: emphasize the importance of bone marrow donation and support National Marrow Donor Program and National Marrow Awareness Month (see H. Res. 563), H6777 [26SE]

———establish grants to improve nutrition, increase physical activity, and prevent obesity (see H.R. 5412), H6417 [19SE]

———national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (see H. Con. Res. 99), H937 [18MR]

———reauthorize health centers program and National Health Service Corps (see H.R. 3450), H1284 [11AP]

———reduce adolescent pregnancy, HIV rates, and other sexually transmitted diseases (see H.R. 3469), H1674 [25AP]

Health care facilities: establish a program to provide screenings and treatment for cancer to minority and other populations served by health centers (see H.R. 3336), H562 [26FE]

Health care professionals: permit criminal background checks for nursing facility and home health agency personnel involved in indirect patient care (see H.R. 4872), H4069 [26JN]

Height, Dorothy I.: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 4531), H6303 [17SE]

Houston, Charles H.: issue commemorative postage stamp (see H. Con. Res. 438), H4553 [11JY]

Insurance: guarantee comprehensive health care coverage for all children (see H.R. 1733), H2735 [21MY]

———modify antitrust exemption for medical malpractice insurance, address current health care provider issues, and reform medical malpractice litigation process and insurance market (see H.R. 5253), H5993 [26JY]

Iron and steel industry: provide certain safeguards relative to the domestic steel industry (see H.R. 808), H561 [26FE]

———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), H3514 [12JN]

Jimmie Lee Jackson Post Office Building, Marion, AL: designate (see H.R. 3849), H3514 [12JN]

John A. (Jack) Shea Post Office Building, Lake Placid, NY: designate (see H.R. 3797), H3297 [10JN]

Korea, Democratic People's Republic of: treatment of refugees detained in the People's Republic of China and returned to face torture, imprisonment, and execution (see H. Con. Res. 213), H2512 [15MY]

Kosovo: independence (see H. Res. 467), H6374 [18SE]

Law enforcement officers: adjust percentage differentials payable to Federal law enforcement officers in certain high-cost areas (see H.R. 3794), H1155 [9AP]

Medicaid: permit States the option to provide coverage for low-income individuals infected with HIV (see H.R. 2063), H6777 [26SE]

Medicare: coverage of oral anticancer drugs (see H.R. 1624), H1620 [24AP]

———establish voluntary outpatient prescription drug coverage program and modernize and reform payments and the regulatory structure (see H.R. 5019), H4068 [26JN]

———improve outpatient vision services (see H.R. 2484), H562 [26FE]

———make the social HMO a permanent option under Medicare+Choice program (see H.R. 2953), H1410 [17AP]

———provide coverage for kidney disease education services (see H.R. 3770), H1484 [18AP]

———reduce work hours and increase supervision of resident-physicians to ensure the safety of both patients and resident-physicians (see H.R. 3236), H562 [26FE]

Mental health: provide for equal insurance coverage of benefits unless comparable limitations are imposed on medical and surgical benefits (see H.R. 4066), H1202 [10AP]

Middle East: condemn hostilities between Israel and the Palestinians and encourage peace initiatives (see H. Res. 394), H1484 [18AP]

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the U.S.: establish (see H.R. 4777), H3073 [24MY]

National Epilepsy Month: designate (see H. Res. 484), H4605 [15JY]

National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week: designate (see H. Res. 518), H6129 [9SE]

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: authorize development of research centers focusing on environmental factors related to women's health and disease prevention (see H.R. 183), H561 [26FE]

National Sea Grant College Program Act: reauthorize (see H.R. 3389), H227 [7FE]

New York, NY: compensate public schools for operating and education-related expenses, including mental health and counseling services, resulting from terrorist attack (see H.R. 4663), H2108 [6MY]

———foster economic development through involvement of small businesses in procurements relative to the improvement and reconstruction of the area damaged by terrorist attacks (see H.R. 4960), H3668 [18JN]

———provide a temporary waiver from certain transportation planning requirements for certain areas where the planning offices and resources have been destroyed by acts of terrorism (see H.R. 3880), H736 [6MR]

———tribute to workers for their rescue, recovery, and clean-up efforts at the site of the World Trade Center and the Fresh Kills Landfill (see H. Res. 492), H5087 [22JY]

Peace Parks Foundation: efforts to facilitate the establishment and development of transfrontier conservation efforts in southern Africa (see H. Con. Res. 287), H4767 [16JY]

Peter J. Ganci, Jr., Post Office Building, Farmingdale, NY: designate (see H.R. 5336), H6084 [5SE]

Public Health Service Act: amend relative to pharmacy health professions programs (see H.R. 2173), H227 [7FE]

Public lands: designate certain national parks, wild and scenic rivers, and wilderness areas in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming (see H.R. 488), H2019 [1MY]

Public welfare programs: reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see H.R. 4210), H8054 [4NO]

Refugees: eliminate sexual exploitation (see H. Con. Res. 349), H3826 [21JN]

Reverend James Joseph Reeb Post Office Building, Selma, AL: designate (see H.R. 3850), H3514 [12JN]

Safety: promote safe and ethical clinical trials of drugs, and other test articles, on people overseas (see H.R. 5249), H5993 [26JY]

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), H2472 [14MY]

———provide miscellaneous enhancements in benefits for women (see H.R. 4069), H2472 [14MY]

Taxation: 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), H833 [12MR]

———prevent corporations from exploiting tax treaties to evade U.S. income tax (see H.R. 4993), H4326 [27JN]

———treatment of Community Development Block Grant funds relative to recovery of New York, NY, after terrorist attacks (see H.R. 5704), H8054 [4NO]

———treatment of distilled spirits (see H.R. 2023), H6256 [13SE]

———treatment of Federal funds used for relief and revitalization of New York, NY, after terrorist attacks (see H.R. 5624), H7929 [15OC]

———treatment of flexible spending arrangements relative to long-term care insurance (see H.R. 4002), H1484 [18AP]

Terrorism: anniversary of terrorist attacks (see H. Con. Res. 464), H6229 [11SE]

Thomas P. Noonan, Jr., Dept. of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic, New York, NY: designate (see H.R. 5717), H8731 [13NO]

Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund: tribute (see H. Res. 581), H7894 [10OC]

Tobacco products: combat illicit trafficking of tobacco products (see H.R. 5264), H5994 [26JY]

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), H2945 [22MY]

Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century: provide highway infrastructure investment at the guaranteed funding level (see H.R. 3694), H367 [13FE]

Women: 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), H1091 [20MR]

World Cup: tribute to soccer tournament and co-hosts, the Republic of Korea and Japan (see H. Con. Res. 394), H2101 [2MY]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Education: restrict the disqualification of students for drug offenses to those students who committed offenses while receiving student financial aid (see H.R. 3777), H523 [14FE]

Legislative branch of the Government: establish program to reimburse employees for costs of graduate school tuition and fees (see H.R. 4554), H1532 [23AP]

Taxation: allow a deduction for credit card interest (see H.R. 3704), H227 [7FE]

———stimulate economic development by enhancing the availability and benefits of small issue bonds (see H.R. 3809), H633 [27FE]

———treatment of frequent flyer mileage awards (see H.R. 4374), H1336 [16AP]

U.N.: support efforts and urge the President to continue working with interested members to formulate a comprehensive international terrorism convention (see H. Con. Res. 321), H227 [7FE]

Remarks

Africa: demarcation of Eritrean and Ethiopian borders, H4524 [11JY]

Agriculture: continue certain programs (H.R. 2646), motion to instruct conferees, H1459 [18AP]

Appropriations: making supplemental appropriations for further recovery from and response to terrorist attacks (H.R. 4775), E936 [24MY]

Armed Forces: authorize use against Iraq (H.J. Res. 114), H7287 [8OC]

Congress: convene special joint meeting in New York, NY, to commemorate anniversary of terrorist attacks (H. Con. Res. 448), H5614 [25JY]

Courts: expand Federal diversity jurisdiction to allow consideration of certain interstate class actions and provide additional protections to plaintiff class members (H.R. 2341), E353 [14MR]

Cuba: allow the financing of agricultural sales, H1459 [18AP]

Information services: deregulate Internet and high speed data services (H.R. 1542), H594 [27FE]

———protect competition in Internet and high speed data services by preserving certain FCC and State regulations affecting competitive local exchange carriers, H594 [27FE]

Malcolm X: attempted sale of personal writings, H911 [14MR]

Political campaigns: ethics reform and contribution limits (H.R. 2356), H428 [13FE], E175 [15FE]

———exempt communications pertaining to civil rights and issues affecting minorities from restrictions on noncandidate campaign expenditures, H428 [13FE]

Public debt: ceiling, E936 [24MY]

Terrorism: anniversary of terrorist attacks (H. Con. Res. 464), H6189 [11SE]

Remarks in House relative to

Special order: granted, H905 [13MR], H930 [14MR], H3771 [20JN], H4495 [10JY], H4550 [11JY]

Tributes

Boykin, Roger, E749 [8MY]