SCOTT, ROBERT C. (a Representative from Virginia)
Amendments
Crime: life imprisonment for repeat offenders who commit sex offenses against children (H.R. 2146), H918, H920, H933 [14MR]
Appointments
Conferee: H.R. 2215, Dept. of Justice appropriations, H172 [6FE]
Patsy T. Mink funeral attendees, H7006 [3OC]
Bills and resolutions cosponsored
Abortion: prohibit certain late-term abortions (see H.R. 2702), H4425 [9JY]
Africa: recognize the importance of inheritance rights of women (see H. Con. Res. 421), H3668 [18JN]
Ali, Muhammad: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 4590), H1672 [25AP]
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]
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), H2165 [7MY]
Bush, President: address issues of neighborhood crime prevention and community policing and support Federal participation in National Night Out (see H. Res. 437), H4606 [15JY]
Capitol Building and Grounds: 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]
Chesapeake Bay: provide assistance for nutrient removal practices to States in the watershed (see H.R. 4666), H2163 [7MY]
Children and youth: enhance operation of the AMBER Alert communications plan to expedite the recovery of abducted children (see H.R. 5326), H6130 [9SE]
Coin Design Advisory Committee: establish (see H.R. 5075), H4554 [11JY]
Coins: ensure continuity for the design of the 5-cent coin (see H.R. 5075), H4554 [11JY]
———specify that the reverse of the 5-cent piece shall bear an image of Monticello (see H.R. 4903), H3453 [11JN]
Colleges and universities: recognize contributions of historically Black colleges and universities (see H. Res. 523), H6304 [17SE]
Corporations: prohibit certain expatriated corporations from being eligible for the award of Federal contracts (see H.R. 4831), H5998 [26JY]
———prohibit from making loans to their officers, directors, and principal shareholders (see H.R. 5048), H4575 [12JY]
———review, reform, and terminate unnecessary and inequitable Federal subsidies (see H.R. 4630), H2018 [1MY]
Correctional institutions: analyze the incidence and effects of prison rape and provide information, resources, recommendations, and funding to protect individuals from such offenses (see H.R. 4943), H3562 [13JN]
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), H4326 [27JN]
———prosecute persons who alter or destroy evidence in investigations or defraud investors, prohibit certain debts from being discharged in bankruptcy, and protect whistleblowers (see H.R. 4098), H4605 [15JY]
Cuba: grant waiver to allow Cuban nationals to play professional baseball in the U.S. (see H.R. 26), H4498 [10JY]
Dept. of Defense: prioritize transfer of excess personal property to the Forest Service Federal Excess Personal Property Program in order to be loaned to rural fire departments (see H.R. 5421), H6418 [19SE]
Dept. of HHS: 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]
District of Columbia: provide full voting representation in Congress and exempt residents from paying Federal income taxes until such voting representation takes effect (see H.R. 1193), H2945 [22MY]
Ecology and environment: provide assistance for redevelopment of brownfield sites (see H.R. 4894), H3860 [24JN]
Education: provide educational opportunities for all students in State public school systems (see H.R. 5346), H6304 [17SE]
Employment: prohibit discrimination on the basis of affectional or sexual orientation (see H.R. 2692), H5087 [22JY]
ERISA: improve Dept. of Labor enforcement of requirements relating to pension participation, vesting, benefit accrual, and funding (see H.R. 4778), H3860 [24JN]
Fair Credit Reporting Act: ensure that the statute of limitations for actions on identity theft doesn't start until the consumer discovers the problem (see H.R. 3368), H4553 [11JY]
FCC: facilitate the ability of certain spectrum auction winners to pursue alternative measures to meet the public needs of wireless telecommunications consumers (see H.R. 4738), H6419 [19SE]
Federal employees: amend the definition of a law enforcement officer to include certain positions relative to retirement benefits (see H.R. 1841), H6693 [25SE]
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]
George Washington Birthplace National Monument: revise boundaries (see H.R. 3449), H4326 [27JN]
Haiti: end embargo and certain restrictions on humanitarian and development assistance (see H. Con. Res. 382), H1483 [18AP]
Health: 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]
Individuals With Disabilities Education Act: amend to improve early intervention programs for infants and toddlers with disabilities (see H.R. 5076), H4424 [9JY]
Insurance: guarantee comprehensive health care coverage for all children (see H.R. 1733), H3721 [19JN]
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), H6304 [17SE]
Jimmie Lee Jackson Post Office Building, Marion, AL: designate (see H.R. 3849), H3514 [12JN]
Joe Skeen Federal Building, Roswell, NM: designate (see H.R. 5427), H6418 [19SE]
Law enforcement: prevent and punish counterfeiting and copyright piracy of intellectual property (see H.R. 5057), H4325 [27JN]
Medicaid: increase Federal medical assistance percentage to help States finance increases in enrollment (see H.R. 3414), H6303 [17SE]
Medicare: establish voluntary outpatient prescription drug coverage program and modernize and reform payments and the regulatory structure (see H.R. 5019), H4068 [26JN]
———increase the payment amount for inpatient hospital services and freeze the reduction in payments to hospitals for indirect costs of medical education (see H.R. 1556), H2511 [15MY]
———standardize payment amounts for inpatient hospital services (see H.R. 1609), H2471 [14MY]
Mental health: provide for equal insurance coverage of benefits unless comparable limitations are imposed on medical and surgical benefits (see H.R. 4066), H2512 [15MY]
Mink, Patsy T.: honorary renaming of Title IX prohibiting gender discrimination in educational and athletic programs (see H.J. Res. 113), H6983 [2OC]
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the U.S.: establish (see H.R. 4777), H3038 [23MY]
National 4-H Youth Development Program Week: observance (see H. Con. Res. 472), H6418 [19SE]
National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week: designate (see H. Res. 518), H6129 [9SE]
National Sarcoidosis Awareness Day: establish (see H. Con. Res. 429), H4425 [9JY]
National Sea Grant College Program Act: reauthorize (see H.R. 3389), H1155 [9AP]
Navy: declare a national policy for naval force structure (see H.R. 5196), H6130 [9SE]
Navy League of the U.S.: anniversary (see H. Con. Res. 416), H3514 [12JN]
Northeastern North Carolina Heritage Area: feasibility study (see H.R. 5274), H5995 [26JY]
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: address barriers to employment as a work activity under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see H.R. 5344), H6129 [9SE]
———reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see H.R. 3113), H634 [27FE]
Refugees: eliminate sexual exploitation (see H. Con. Res. 349), H4069 [26JN]
Reverend James Joseph Reeb Post Office Building, Selma, AL: designate (see H.R. 3850), H3514 [12JN]
Russia: ban on importation of U.S. poultry (see H. Con. Res. 400), H2662 [20MY]
SBA: establish position of Small and Disadvantaged Business Ombudsman for Procurement (see H.R. 5314), H5996 [26JY]
Senior citizens: modify the eligibility criteria for supplemental foods provided under the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (see H.R. 5107), H5791 [25JY]
Small business: recognize role in national defense and encourage government purchase of innovative technologies and services from small businesses to help in homeland defense and the fight against terrorism (see H. Res. 515), H5997 [26JY]
Social Security: credit prospectively individuals serving as caregivers of dependent relatives with deemed wages for up to five years of such service (see H.R. 4743), H3825 [21JN]
———improve benefits for aged survivors, disabled survivors, and divorced spouses (see H.R. 4671), H2356 [9MY]
———reject proposals to partially or completely substitute private saving accounts for benefits provided through Social Security (see H.R. 4780), H4326 [27JN]
———restrict application of windfall elimination provisions to certain individuals (see H.R. 1073), H4425 [9JY]
Taxation: 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]
Terrorism: authorize use of military tribunals in cases arising out of acts of international terrorism committed in the U.S. (see H.R. 4035), H1088 [20MR]
Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund: tribute (see H. Res. 581), H7894 [10OC]
Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century: provide highway infrastructure investment at the guaranteed funding level (see H.R. 3694), H781 [7MR]
Veterans: improve benefits for World War II Filipino veterans and their surviving spouses (see H.R. 4904), H3453 [11JN]
Veterans Day: issue annual commemorative postage stamp (see H. Res. 429), H6927 [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), H4767 [16JY]
Williams, Venus: tribute (see H. Res. 94), H4767 [16JY]
Women: constitutional amendment to ensure equal rights (see H.J. Res. 40), H4326 [27JN]
———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]
Bills and resolutions introduced
Virginia: convert a temporary Federal district judgeship to a permanent judgeship (see H.R. 4068), H1089 [20MR]
Remarks
Abortion: prohibit partial-birth abortions (H.R. 4965), consideration (H. Res. 498), H5350 [24JY]
Amtrak: funding, H4035 [26JN]
Appropriations: legislative process, H6970 [2OC]
Armed Forces: authorize use against Iraq (H.J. Res. 114), H7718 [9OC]
Budget: allocation of funds, H6970 [2OC]
Children and youth: prevent child abduction (H.R. 5422), H7051 [7OC]
———prevent child abuse, neglect, and abandonment and family violence (H.R. 3839), H1510 [23AP]
Crime: allow judges discretion to impose life imprisonment for repeat offenders who commit sex offenses against children, H918, H919 [14MR]
———application of mandatory sentencing provisions for repeat sexual offenders who are subject to tribal governments, H920 [14MR]
———disapprove certain sentencing guideline amendments (H.R. 4689), E2070
———establish that certain sexual crimes against children are predicate crimes for the interception of communications (H.R. 1877), H2676, H2680 [21MY]
———life imprisonment for repeat offenders who commit sex offenses against children (H.R. 2146), H914, H915, H918, H919, H920 [14MR]
———prevent trafficking in child pornography, condemn activities relating to sexually explicit visual depictions of minors, and prevent the use of child pornography to facilitate crimes against children (H.R. 4623), H3879, H3883 [25JN]
———prohibit taking minors across State lines to avoid State laws requiring parental notification of abortions (H.R. 476), H1358 [17AP]
———prohibit taking minors across State lines to avoid State laws requiring parental notification of abortions (H.R. 476), consideration (H. Res. 388), H1351 [17AP]
———supervised release of life for offenders who commit sex offenses against children (H.R. 4679), H3871, H3873 [25JN]
———treatment of crimes involving the transportation of persons and sex tourism (H.R. 4477), H3885 [25JN]
Customs Service: civil liability of inspectors relative to alleged use of racial and other discriminatory profiling in connection with searches and detentions of individuals, H2864 [22MY]
Customs Service, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, and ITC: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 3129), H2864 [22MY]
Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (H.R. 4546), H2332 [9MY]
———making appropriations (H.R. 5010), H4085
Dept. of Justice: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 2215), conference report, H6747 [26SE]
Disabled: ensure that individuals with disabilities are able to vote, H4390 [9JY]
Drugs: reduce disparity in penalties for crack and powder cocaine offenses and focus drug sentencing on seriousness of offense and culpability of offender, E2070
Economy: national objectives priority assignments, H6970 [2OC]
Education: improve Federal research, statistics, evaluation, information, and dissemination (H.R. 3801), H1741 [30AP]
Government regulations: require agencies to take into consideration the impact of newly promulgated rules on the privacy of individuals (H.R. 4561), H7032 [7OC]
Health: reduce the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery system (H.R. 4600), consideration (H. Res. 553), H6710 [26SE]
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act: juvenile delinquency prevention and accountability programs funding, H6747 [26SE]
Mink, Patsy T.: tribute (H. Res. 566), H6889 [1OC]
National 4-H Youth Development Program Week: observance (H. Con. Res. 472), H6479 [24SE]
National security: ensure greater security for U.S. seaports (S. 1214), conference report, H8811 [14NO]
———provide for the sharing of homeland security information by Federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies with State and local entities (H.R. 4598), H3942 [26JN]
Pensions: conduct a feasibility study on insurance programs relative to defined contribution plans, H1244 [11AP]
———provide additional protection to participants in individual account plans, promote investment advice, and prohibit certain insider trades of securities (H.R. 3762), H1244 [11AP]
Pledge of Allegiance: circuit court decision on inclusion of phrase ``under God'' (H. Res. 459), H4125, H4126, H4128 [27JN]
———reaffirm reference to ``one Nation under God'' (S. 2690), H7029 [7OC]
Rosenbaum, James M.: assessment of testimony on drug sentencing guidelines before the Committee on the Judiciary (House), E2070
Ships and vessels: tribute to aircraft carriers and their personnel, H2332 [9MY]
Taxation: constitutional amendment on tax limitations (H.J. Res. 96), H3483 [12JN]
———permit churches and other houses of worship to engage in political campaigns (H.R. 2357), H6916 [1OC]
Terrorism: compensate victims of bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa on the same basis as compensation is provided to victims of attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Somerset County, PA (H.R. 3375), H2683 [21MY]
Tom Bliley Post Office Building, Richmond, VA: designate (H.R. 1748), H244 [12FE]
Voting: establish a grant program to provide assistance to States for modernizing and enhancing voting procedures and administration (H.R. 3295), motion to instruct conferees, H4390 [9JY]
Remarks in House relative to