NETHERCUTT, GEORGE R., JR. (a Representative from Washington)
Amendments
Aviation: establish a program for Federal flight deck officers (H.R. 4635), H4427 [9JY]
Transportation: provide assistance for the construction of certain air traffic control towers (H.R. 1979), H3747 [20JN]
Appointments
Conferee: H.R. 5010, Dept. of Defense appropriations, H6138 [10SE]
Bills and resolutions cosponsored
Animals: increase the availability of drugs for minor species and rare diseases in all animals (see H.R. 1956), H1338 [16AP]
Bankruptcy: treatment of certain claims or interests (see H.R. 4696), H5998 [26JY]
Budget: constitutional amendment to require balanced (see H.J. Res. 86), H1283 [11AP]
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]
Chicago, IL: expand aviation capacity (see H.R. 3479), H737 [6MR]
China, People's Republic of: anniversary of inauguration of Sino-American relations and commend President Bush for advancing such relations (see H. Con. Res. 365), H1090 [20MR]
Community development: provide and assure continuation of grant funding for additional empowerment zones and enterprise communities and correct certain inequities in the program (see H.R. 2637), H2471 [14MY]
Computers: amend copyright laws relative to royalty fees for webcasting (see H.R. 5285), H5995 [26JY]
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), H687 [5MR]
Cuba: lift travel restrictions (see H.R. 5022), H4068 [26JN]
Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act: expiration (see H.R. 5616), H7893 [10OC]
Dept. of Agriculture: take actions to promptly address the risk of fire and insect infestation on National Forest System lands (see H.R. 5214), H5998 [26JY]
Developing countries: increase assistance for the poorest people in developing countries under microenterprise assistance programs (see H.R. 4073), H2164 [7MY]
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]
———prevent and cure diabetes and promote and improve the care of diabetic individuals within minority populations (see H.R. 5482), H6776 [26SE]
Drugs: address the problem of pseudoephedrine smuggling into the U.S. from Canada (see H. Con. Res. 317), H688 [5MR]
———respond to the illegal production, distribution, and use of methamphetamines (see H.R. 3782), H523 [14FE]
Federal agencies and departments: review of efficiency and need for certain agencies (see H.R. 2373), H3825 [21JN]
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), H2945 [22MY]
———treatment of retirement benefits for assistant U.S. attorneys (see H.R. 1090), H3859 [24JN]
Financial institutions: reform the Federal deposit insurance system (see H.R. 3717), H834 [12MR]
Food: recognize significance of bread in American history, culture, and daily diet (see H. Con. Res. 466), H6927 [1OC]
Forest Service: provide for an independent investigation of firefighter deaths caused by wildfire entrapment or burnover (see H.R. 3971), H931 [14MR]
Government regulations: technical corrections in patent laws (see H.R. 5119), H6693 [25SE]
Health: provide programs for the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of stroke (see H.R. 3431), H5998 [26JY]
———reauthorize health centers program and National Health Service Corps (see H.R. 3450), H1155 [9AP]
Immigration: oppose granting of amnesty to individuals who are in the U.S., or its territories, illegally (see H. Con. Res. 350), H1202 [10AP]
———secure borders against terrorists, drug traffickers, and other illegal aliens, remove illegal and criminal aliens, reduce fraud, and reform the legal immigration system (see H.R. 5013), H6130 [9SE]
Insurance: coverage of colorectal cancer screening (see H.R. 1520), H6085 [5SE]
James V. Hansen Federal Building, Ogden, UT: designate (see H.R. 5611), H7893 [10OC]
Joe Skeen Federal Building, Roswell, NM: designate (see H.R. 5427), H6778 [26SE]
Law enforcement: provide grants for law enforcement training and equipment to combat methamphetamine labs (see H.R. 4027), H1201 [10AP]
Medicare: coverage of more frequent hemodialysis treatments (see H.R. 1759), H1201 [10AP]
———eliminate reduction in payment rates under the prospective payment system for home health services and increase payments for such services in rural areas (see H.R. 975), H1532 [23AP]
———establish minimum geographic cost-of-practice index value for physicians' services (see H.R. 3569), H367 [13FE]
———reimbursement for services provided to eligible veterans by certain Dept. of Veterans Affairs facilities (see H.R. 1911), H833 [12MR]
———standardize payment amounts for inpatient hospital services (see H.R. 1609), H833 [12MR]
Motor vehicles: improve safety of car restraints and booster seats for children (see H.R. 5381), H6693 [25SE]
National Take Your Kids To Vote Day: support goals and ideals (see H. Con. Res. 497), H8024 [16OC]
NSF: authorizing appropriations (see H.R. 4664), H2163 [7MY]
OMB: provide that certain adjustments made to align highway spending with revenues have no force or effect (see H.R. 3900), H780 [7MR]
Pentagon Renovation Program: tribute to efforts in reconstructing the portion of the Pentagon destroyed in terrorist attack (see H. Res. 368), H907 [13MR]
Pipelines: improve safey (see H.R. 3609), H932 [14MR]
Pledge of Allegiance: circuit court decision on inclusion of phrase ``under God'' (see H. Res. 459), H4326 [27JN]
Public Health Service Act: amend relative to special diabetes programs for type I diabetes and Native Americans (see H.R. 5738), H9023 [14NO]
Rural areas: establish demonstration programs to address the shortages of health care professionals (see H.R. 5113), H4574 [12JY]
Sid Morrison Post Office Building, Zillah, WA: designate (see H.R. 5116), H5998 [26JY]
Social Security: permit qualifying States to use unspent State Children's Health Insurance Program allotments to expand health coverage under that program or for Medicaid expenditures (see H.R. 5662), H8021 [16OC]
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]
———clarify eligibility of certain expenses for low-income housing credit (see H.R. 3324), H3292 [6JN]
———constitutional amendment on tax limitations (see H.J. Res. 96), H3291 [6JN]
———ensure that income averaging for farmers does not increase a farmer's liability for the alternative minimum tax (see H.R. 658), H141 [5FE]
———exempt certain U.S. international ports from the harbor maintenance tax (see H.R. 5199), H5452 [24JY]
———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]
———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]
———extend benefits to services performed in a combat zone to services performed in the Republic of Korea (see H.R. 3412), H688 [5MR]
———extend the transportation fringe benefit to bicycle commuters (see H.R. 1265), H833 [12MR]
———improve retirement income by taxing annuities and certain life insurance payments at capital gains rates (see H.R. 3320), H4574 [12JY]
———repeal tax increase on Social Security benefits (see H.R. 122), H8023 [16OC]
———terminate Internal Revenue Code (see H.R. 2714), H1484 [18AP] (see H.R. 4716), H2470 [14MY]
———treatment of beer, wine, and distilled spirits (see H.R. 984), H1283 [11AP]
———treatment of charitable contributions to public charities for use in medical research (see H.R. 744), H4350 [8JY]
———treatment of tips (see H.R. 1274), H3229 [5JN]
Terrorism: anniversary of terrorist attacks (see H. Con. Res. 464), H6229 [11SE]
Turkey: commend cooperation in the war against terrorism, economic reforms, and economic partnership meetings (see H. Con. Res. 437), H4425 [9JY]
Bills and resolutions introduced
Corps of Engineers: provide a credit toward the non-Federal share of the cost of the feasibility study for the project for flood control in the vicinity of Sprague, WA (see H.R. 4619), H1768 [30AP]
Dept. of the Interior: conduct study of the Rathdrum Prairie/Spokane Valley Aquifer (see H.R. 4609), H1673 [25AP]
Health: increase supply of pancreatic islet cells for research, coordinate efforts and information on transplantation, and move transplantation from an experimental procedure to a standard therapy (see H.R. 5462), H6692 [25SE]
Native Americans: settlement of claims of the Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation concerning contributions to production of hydropower by the Grand Coulee Dam (see H.R. 4859), H3160 [4JN]
Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act: clarify calculation of payments in lieu of taxes to counties relative to certain county projects funding (see H.R. 5379), H6250 [12SE]
Tariff: RWJ 241947 (see H.R. 4401), H1336 [16AP]
———RWJ 394718 (see H.R. 4402), H1336 [16AP]
———RWJ 394720 (see H.R. 4403), H1336 [16AP]
Motions
Dept. of the Interior and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 5093), H4742 [16JY]
Opinions
Settlement of claims of the Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation concerning contributions to production of hydropower by the Grand Coulee Dam: Lawrence Aschenbrenner, Dept. of the Interior (1976), E957
Remarks
Animals: establish a national research program on chronic wasting disease, H4740 [16JY]
Armed Forces: authorize use against Iraq (H.J. Res. 114), H7390 [9OC], E1929
Arts and humanities: National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities funding through reductions in Dept. of the Interior funding, H4804, H4805, H4810 [17JY]
Aviation: establish a program for Federal flight deck officers (H.R. 4635), H4453 [10JY]
———improve security by allowing pilots to have guns in the cockpit, H4453 [10JY]
———remove cap on number of pilots who may be deputized as Federal flight deck officers and make the program permanent, H4453 [10JY]
BLM: funding, H4735, H4737 [16JY]
———wildfire management funding through reductions in land acquisition funding, H4852, H4853, H4854 [17JY]
Budget: deficit, H4734, H4736 [16JY]
Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests: law enforcement funding, H4740 [16JY]
Cuba: condition lifting of travel restrictions on certification that Cuba is not developing or providing technology to terrorists for biological weapons and is not providing support or sanctuary to terrorists, H5271 [23JY]
———exception to trade embargo for food, medicines and medical supplies, instruments, or equipment, H5300 [23JY]
———lift travel restrictions, H5297 [23JY]
Dept. of Energy: Energy Star Program proposals relative to windows, doors, and skylights, H4741 [16JY]
Dept. of Homeland Security: establish (H.R. 5005), H5877
Dept. of the Interior: conduct study of the Rathdrum Prairie/Spokane Valley Aquifer (H.R. 4609), H4330 [8JY]
Dept. of the Interior and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 5093), H4734, H4735, H4736, H4737, H4738, H4739, H4740, H4741 [16JY], H4804, H4805, H4810, H4837, H4849, H4852, H4853, H4854 [17JY]
———making appropriations (H.R. 5093), consideration (H. Res. 483), H4715 [16JY]
Dept. of the Treasury, Postal Service, Executive Office of the President, and independent agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 5120), H5271, H5297, H5300 [23JY]
Dept. of Transportation: feasibility study on use of Airport Improvement Program funds by small airports to pay non-Federal costs of air traffic control tower operation, H3747 [20JN]
Diseases: increased support and funding to combat juvenile diabetes (H. Con. Res. 36), E1003
Florida: convey Egmont Key to the Florida State Park Service, H4739 [16JY]
Forest Service: allow regional foresters to exempt clearing and thinning projects from citizen lawsuits if foresters certify that a wildfire in the area of the project is likely to cause extreme damage to the ecosystem, H4849 [17JY]
Girl Scouts: anniversary, H929 [14MR]
Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge: visitors center funding, H4741 [16JY]
Hadassah, The Women's Zionist Organization of America, Inc.: anniversary, E461
Hazardous substances: approve Yucca Mountain, NV, as nuclear waste disposal site (H.J. Res. 87), H2201
Health: increase supply of pancreatic islet cells for research, coordinate efforts and information on transplantation, and move transplantation from an experimental procedure to a standard therapy (H.R. 5462), E1660
High Sierra Packers Association: compensation for losses incurred as a result of injunction issued against the Forest Service, H4739 [16JY]
Klamath Basin: prohibit the renewal of certain agricultural leases permitting the growing of alfafa or row crops, H4837 [17JY]
Native Americans: settlement of claims of the Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation concerning contributions to production of hydropower by the Grand Coulee Dam (H.R. 4859), E957
Nuclear energy: transportation of spent nuclear fuel, H2201
Pledge of Allegiance: circuit court decision on inclusion of phrase ``under God'' (H. Res. 459), H4134
Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge: land acquisition, H4739 [16JY]
Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act: clarify calculation of payments in lieu of taxes to counties relative to certain county projects funding (H.R. 5379), E1570
Spokane, WA: restoration of Davenport Hotel, E1327
Terrorism: anniversary of terrorist attacks (H. Con. Res. 464), H6207
Transportation: provide assistance for the construction of certain air traffic control towers (H.R. 1979), H3747 [20JN]
Votes: position on missed, E657
Washington: Wine Enthusiast (publication) Wine Region of the Year award recipient, H1416 [18AP]
Remarks in House relative to