STATES related term(s) Federal Aid Programs

Addresses

Massachusetts State Senate Swearing In: Steven A. Baddour, E97 [6FE]

Amendments

Arizona: authorize the Dept. of Agriculture to exchange certain land with the Yavapai Ranch Limited Partnership (H.R. 5513), H8894 [14NO]

Children and youth: enhance operation of the AMBER Alert communications plan to expedite the recovery of abducted children (S. 2896), S8436 [10SE]

Commission on Voting Rights and Procedures: establish (S. 565), S713, S714, S726, S727, S747, S786, S787, S788, S789, S790 [13FE], S798, S809, S813, S821, S823, S827, S832, S834, S835, S836, S837, S838, S865, S866, S867, S868, S869, S870, S871, S872, S873, S874, S875, S876 [14FE], S881, S909, S975 [15FE], S988, S989, S993, S994, S1005, S1006 [25FE], S1142, S1143, S1147, S1148, S1166, S1167, S1169, S1170, S1172, S1188, S1193, S1194, S1217, S1218, S1220 [26FE], S1229, S1258, S1259 [27FE], S1370, S1371, S1372, S1373, S1374, S1375 [28FE], S1397 [1MR], S1425, S1426, S1427 [4MR], S2466, S2467, S2468, S2469, S2471, S2475, S2476, S2499, S2500, S2501, S2502, S2503 [10AP], S2516, S2598 [11AP]

Courts: expand Federal diversity jurisdiction to allow consideration of certain interstate class actions and provide additional protections to plaintiff class members (H.R. 2341), H857, H859, H861, H863, H866, H868, H869, H874, H877, H879, H880 [13MR]

———expand Federal diversity jurisdiction to allow consideration of certain interstate class actions and provide additional protections to plaintiff class members (H.R. 2341), consideration (H. Res. 367), H845 [13MR]

Crime: provide Federal assistance to States and local jurisdictions to prosecute hate crimes (S. 625), S5257 [7JN], S5272, S5289, S5292, S5293, S5294 [10JN], S5385, S5386 [11JN]

Dept. of the Interior: provide assistance through States to eligible weed management entities to control or eradicate harmful, nonnative weeds (S. 198), S11599, S11639 [19NO]

District of Columbia College Access Act: permit certain high school graduates who graduated prior to 1998 to participate in the tuition assistance program (H.R. 1499), S1953 [14MR]

Fire prevention: encourage Federal land management agencies to reduce forest fuels that place national resources at high risk of catastrophic wildfire, and prepare a National Prescribed Fire Strategy (H. Con. Res. 352), H5038 [22JY]

Information services: deregulate Internet and high speed data services (H.R. 1542), H594, H597, H607 [27FE]

Motor vehicles: prohibit States from requiring a license or fee relative to motor vehicles providing interstate pre-arranged ground transportation service (H.R. 2546), S10745 [17OC], H8083 [12NO]

National Sea Grant College Program Act: reauthorize (H.R. 3389), S10394, S10397 [10OC], H3602 [17JN], H3689, H3690 [19JN], H8064 [12NO]

National security: provide for the sharing of homeland security information by Federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies with State and local entities (H.R. 4598), H3945 [26JN]

Public welfare programs: reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (H.R. 4700), H2472, H2473 [14MY]

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (H.R. 4737), H2497 [15MY], H2567 [16MY]

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (H.R. 4737), complete congressional action (H. Res. 525)—consideration (H. Res. 527), H6382 [19SE]

Voting: establish a grant program to provide assistance to States for modernizing and enhancing voting procedures and administration (H.R. 3295), S2598 [11AP]

Analyses

Exempt State and Local Political Committees From Certain Notification and Reporting Requirements Applicable to Political Organizations (H.R. 5596), S10781 [17OC]

Federal Reformulated Fuels Act (S. 950): EPA, S482-S484 [7FE]

Impact of Alternative and Replacement Fuel Use on Oil Prices: David L. Greene, Dept. of Energy, S3133 [23AP]

———Dept. of Energy, S3133 [23AP]

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program Block Grants to States Reauthorization and Improvement (S. 2052), S2276 [21MR]

Appointments

Conferees: H.R. 3295, Equal Protection of Voting Rights Act, S3789 [1MY]

———H.R. 3295, Help America Vote Act, H2599 [16MY]

Articles and editorials

Abortion Clinic Blocks Mother From Daughter Inside—Girl Was 16—Granite Police Say Law Gives No Voice to Parents of Minors, H1349 [17AP]

Activists Have To Share Blame, E1524 [9SE]

Audit Finds Lapses in Maryland Child Care—Contact Lost With Children; One Placed With Offender, E1501 [5SE]

Can California Avoid the Next Energy Mess?, S2509 [11AP]

Children in Peril, E1938 [17OC]

Cleaning Up Elections, S10513 [16OC]

Critical Vote on Nuclear Waste, S6481 [9JY]

Crossroads in Nuclear Waste Storage, S6482 [9JY]

D.C. Speeds Group Home Change—Move Follows New Report of Assaults on Boys, E1525 [9SE]

Decision 2000/America Waits—A Modern Democracy That Can't Count Votes, S1183-S1185 [26FE]

Don't Penalize Children for Parents Going to Work, E912 [24MY]

Double Take in Ballot Probe—Voters With Same Name and Birthday Expose N.Y. System, S1384 [1MR]

Electoral Repair Work, S990 [25FE]

Enact Balloting Reforms, but Only if Money's Attached, S10513 [16OC]

Enron Forced Up California Energy Prices, Documents Show, S3943 [7MY]

Federal Election Reform, Finally—Florida's Problems Helped Congress Resolve Differences, S10514 [16OC]

Felons and Voting Rights, S802 [14FE]

*598 Soft Money, Hard Money, Strong Parties, E263-E269 [6MR]

5 New Mexicans Make Top-100 Hispanic List, S10669 [17OC]

Fixing Democracy's Machinery, S10513 [16OC]

Fixing the Vote, S1381, S1383 [1MR]

Foster-Care Tragedy Worthy of Dickens, E1304 [18JY]

Friends Bid Farewell to Community Leader, E1381 [25JY]

Further Delay Not an Option—Yucca Mountain Now Officially Declared Best Nuclear Waste Site, E132 [12FE]

Getting Over It, S10514 [16OC]

Good Reason To Cooperate, E699 [3MY]

Got Stimulus? Broadband Bill Would Beef Up Frail Economy, H592 [27FE]

Grim Tales Arise From Foster Care, E1778 [8OC]

Helping Mend Troubled Families—Agency's Innovative Program Keeps Kids at Home or Nearby, E1684 [30SE]

Highway Robbery—Corn Is for Eating, Not for Driving, S2515 [11AP]

How Safe Is It?, E1269 [16JY]

In Santa Fe, It's Time To Paint the Plants, S6643 [11JY]

It's Like the Sahara, S6644 [11JY]

Keep the Lights on, S2435 [10AP]

Lawsuit To Target Rules for Foster Care by Relatives, E1636 [23SE]

Make Enron Pirates Answer, E754 [8MY]

Marijuana Today—Setting the Record Straight, E1545 [11SE]

Matter of Money . . ., H1740 [30AP]

Memo Shows Enron Role in Power Crisis, S3944 [7MY]

Memos Show Possible Ethanol Price-Fixing, S3344 [25AP]

More Subsidy Money Going to Fewer Farms—Skewed Program Draws Senate Scrutiny, H67-H69 [24JA]

Nearly Two Years Later, Voting System Is Reformed, S10514 [16OC]

Not the People's Choice, S3425-S3427 [25AP]

Nuclear Dump Site Will Leak, Scientists Say, H2197 [8MY]

Papers Show That Enron Manipulated Calif. Crisis, S3945 [7MY]

Parched Pinons Under Deadly Attack, S7427 [26JY]

Score One for Sen. Dodd, S10512 [16OC]

Senate Democrats Aim for Compromises To Save Bill Overhauling Voting System, S1380 [1MR]

Should Dogs Vote?, S1384 [1MR]

Spaniel Makes Senate Appearance in Support of Bond's Reform Efforts, S1385 [1MR]

State Child-Welfare Payroll Includes Employees Who Have Criminal Pasts, E1599 [18SE]

States' Budgetary Shortfalls Deepen, S7331 [25JY]

Tearful Apology in Boy's Death; County—A $1-Million Payout Is OK'd—Molina, Moved by a Mother's Plea, Vows Answers in Foster Care Case, E1569 [12SE]

This Clean Air Looks Dirty, S2514 [11AP]

Upgrading the Way We Vote, S10513 [16OC]

Vote for Fairness—Disenfranchising Ex-Felons Was Unnecessary, S801 [14FE]

Vote for Voting Reforms, S1384 [1MR]

Voter Fraud Wanders Off the Reservation, S10494 [16OC]

Voting for Progress—Congressional Negotiators Agree on Election Reform, S10514 [16OC]

Voting Rights Too Long Denied, S801 [14FE]

Welfare—Not the Fed's Job, H2561 [16MY]

Yucca Mountain Must Meet Rigorous Standards, S6488 [9JY]

Bills and resolutions

Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund: appropriate State and tribal shares (see H. Con. Res. 425), H3927 [25JN]

Alaska: improve rural mail service (see H.R. 5324), H6059 [4SE]

Animals: encourage research regarding the causes of chronic wasting disease and methods to control its spread, monitor the incidence of the disease, and support State efforts to control the disease (see S. 2560), S4839 [23MY]

———provide for testing of chronic wasting disease and other infectious diseases in deer and elk and establish the Interagency Task Force on Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (see S. 3090), S10359 [10OC] (see H.R. 5608), H7892 [10OC]

Arizona: authorize the Dept. of Agriculture to exchange certain land (see H.R. 5283), H5995 [26JY]

———authorize the Dept. of Agriculture to exchange certain land with the Yavapai Ranch Limited Partnership (see H.R. 5513), H6926 [1OC]

Bankruptcy: limit the value of real and personal property that debtors may exempt under State and local law (see S. 2996), S9116 [24SE]

Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor: authorizing appropriations (see S. 2033), S2076 [19MR]

California: provide companies with oil, gas, and mineral leases, on the Outer Continental Shelf, with credits of equal value for energy production in the Gulf of Mexico (see S. 1952), S853 [14FE]

Capital punishment: allow post-conviction DNA testing, improve performance of lawyers and judges handling State capital criminal cases, and ensure quality of defense counsel in Federal capital cases (see S. 2739), S6947 [17JY]

———ensure that indigent defendants in State courts receive adequate legal representation (see S. 2442), S3842 [2MY]

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: congressional disapproval of rule that lowers the Medicaid upper payment limit for non-State owned or operated hospitals (see S.J. Res. 37), S4330 [14MY] (see H.J. Res. 92), H2471 [14MY]

Chesapeake Bay: make grants to eligible institutions to develop, demonstrate, or disseminate information on practices, methods, or techniques relating to environmental education and training in the watershed (see S. 2675), S6013 [25JN]

———provide assistance for nutrient removal practices to States in the watershed (see H.R. 4666), H2163 [7MY]

Children and youth: access of disadvantaged children to dental services (see H.R. 5098), H4552 [11JY]

———assist law enforcement in efforts to recover missing children and clarify standards for State sex offender registration programs (see S. 3140), S10676 [17OC]

———enhance operation of the AMBER Alert communications plan to expedite the recovery of abducted children (see S. 2896), S8092 [3SE] (see H.R. 5317, 5326), H6059 [4SE]

———establish a Community Corps (see S. 2392), S3505 [29AP]

———meet mental health and substance abuse treatment needs of incarcerated children and youth (see S. 1965), S1208 [26FE]

———permit requirement of parental consent relative to purchase of prescription drugs or devices for minors (see H.R. 4783), H2734 [21MY]

———prevent child abuse, neglect, and abandonment and family violence (see S. 2998), S9116 [24SE] (see H.R. 3839), H686 [5MR]

Civil Rights Act: apply burden shifting rule to cases involving discrimination in State and local programs which receive Federal funding (see H.R. 4124), H1153 [9AP]

Clean Air Act: permit the sale, in certain States, of gasoline from other regions relative to supplies and prices (see H.R. 3946), H832 [12MR]

———reduce powerplant pollution through expansion of cap and trade programs and an alternative regulatory classification for units subject to such programs (see S. 2815), S7469 [29JY] (see H.R. 5266), H5994 [26JY]

Coastal Zone Management Act: authorize the acquisition of coastal areas to ensure their protection from conversion or development (see S. 2608), S5366 [11JN]

Colleges and universities: provide grants to States to establish partnerships among colleges and universities and surrounding communities to reduce underage and binge drinking and illicit drug use by students (see S. 3167), S11079 [14NO]

Community development: provide grant funding for additional empowerment zones and enterprise communities (see S. 2692), S6250 [27JN]

Computers: encourage use of web-based enrollment systems in the State Children's Health Insurance Program (see H.R. 5233), H5790 [25JY]

Congressional Gold Medal: award posthumously to responders to the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center and Pentagon, and to United Airlines Flight 93 passengers, and mint coins recognizing the heroic efforts (see H.R. 5138), H4766 [16JY]

Corps of Engineers: establish a research and demonstration program to control salt cedar and other non-native phreatophytes (see S. 2868), S7900 [1AU]

Courts: convert certain temporary judgeships to permanent judgeships and extend a certain judgeship (see H.R. 3619), H36 [23JA]

Crime: abolish Federal statute of limitations for sex offenses and assist States in reducing backlog of cases awaiting DNA analysis (see S. 2090), S2577 [11AP]

———foster local collaborations to ensure effective and efficient use of resources within the criminal and juvenile justice systems in dealing with mentally ill offenders (see S. 3147), S10677 [17OC] (see H.R. 5701), H8041 [24OC]

———prohibit taking minors across State lines to avoid State laws requiring parental notification of abortions (H.R. 476), consideration (see H. Res. 388), H1333 [16AP]

———provide all prisoners with an opportunity to present exculpatory DNA evidence (see S. 2441), S3842 [2MY]

———provide Federal assistance to States and local jurisdictions to prosecute hate crimes (H.R. 1343), consideration (see H. Res. 519), H6129 [9SE]

Dept. of Commerce: prohibit pelagic longline fishing in the exclusive economic zone off the coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington (see H.R. 4618), H1768 [30AP]

Dept. of Defense: establish at least one Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team in each State (see S. 2908), S8300 [5SE]

———use of facilities as polling places for Federal, State, and local elections (see H.R. 5575), H7303 [8OC]

Dept. of Education: make grants to States to establish antibullying programs (see H.R. 4774), H2661 [20MY]

Dept. of HHS: make grants to promote innovative outreach and enrollment efforts under State Children's Health Insurance Program (see H.R. 4764), H2607 [16MY]

Dept. of Homeland Security: require report on effectiveness of information sharing between Dept. of Homeland Security, FBI, and State and local law enforcement authorities (see S. 2956), S8753 [18SE]

Dept. of HUD: provide for renewal of project-based assisted housing contracts at reimbursement levels that are sufficient to sustain operations (see H.R. 3737), H365 [13FE]

Dept. of Justice: establish a racial profiling education and awareness program and assist State and local law enforcement agencies in implementing such programs (see S. 2114), S2578 [11AP]

———provide funds to northern border States to reimburse county and municipal governments for costs associated with certain criminal activities (see H.R. 5697), H8035 [21OC]

Dept. of the Interior: authorize States to establish hunting seasons for double-crested cormorants (see H.R. 3727), H284 [12FE]

———conduct study of the Rathdrum Prairie/Spokane Valley Aquifer (see H.R. 4609), H1673 [25AP]

Dept. of Transportation: use of Highway Trust Fund to encourage States to require law enforcement officers to impound motor vehicles of those charged with driving intoxicated (see H. Res. 511), H5997 [26JY]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: assume responsibility for certain employment services for veterans and establish competitive grants program through which employment services are provided (see H.R. 4879), H3291 [6JN]

———establish an office to coordinate disaster preparedness strategies with other Federal agencies, and State and local governments (see S. 2186), S2829 [17AP] (see H.R. 4559), H1618 [24AP]

———exclude monetary benefits paid to veterans by States and municipalities from consideration as income for purposes of pension benefits (see H.R. 3771), H523 [14FE]

———improve allocation of health care resources to different geographic regions in the U.S. (see H.R. 5675), H8022 [16OC]

———increase amounts available to State approving agencies to evaluate the qualifications of educational institutions to provide courses under department-administered education programs (see H.R. 3731), H365 [13FE]

———provide grants to States for programs to financially assist veterans who experience certain emergencies (see H.R. 5112), H4574 [12JY]

Disabled: advance commitment to community integration by ensuring a stable, quality direct support workforce for individuals with developmental disablities (see S. Con. Res. 151), S10223 [9OC]

———importance of recruiting and retaining direct support professionals to ensure the proper care of individuals with developmental disabilities (see H. Con. Res. 477), H6558 [24SE]

Disasters: modify terms of the community disaster loan program (see S. 3055), S9901 [3OC]

District of Columbia: authorize Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency to provide for interstate supervision of offenders on parole, probation, and supervised release (see H.R. 5515), H6926 [1OC]

District of Columbia College Access Act: permit certain high school graduates who graduated prior to 1998 to participate in the tuition assistance program (H.R. 1499), concur with Senate amendment with an amendment (see H. Res. 364), H833 [12MR]

Drugs: respond to the illegal production, distribution, and use of methamphetamines (see S. 2763), S7104 [19JY]

Ecology and environment: provide assistance for redevelopment of brownfield sites (see H.R. 4894), H3291 [6JN]

Economy: establish certain road and highway safety programs to encourage economic growth (see S. 3011), S9426 [26SE]

Education: assist States in establishing a universal prekindergarten program (see H.R. 3912), H780 [7MR]

———establish State infrastructure banks for education (see S. 2195), S2950 [18AP]

———improve early learning opportunities and promote school preparedness (see S. 2566), S4839 [23MY]

———provide educational opportunities for all students in State public school systems (see S. 2912), S8300 [5SE] (see H.R. 5346), H6129 [9SE]

———provide grants for school renovations (see S. 2698), S6250 [27JN]

———reduce paperwork for special education teachers and make mediation mandatory for all legal disputes relative to individualized education programs (see S. 2653), S5851 [20JN]

Elections: constitutional amendment to regulate campaign expenditures and contribution limits (see S.J. Res. 33), S1421 [4MR]

Elementary and Secondary Education Act: permit certain States and local educational agencies to obtain waivers of student testing requirements (see S. 2954), S8753 [18SE]

EPA: enforcement of Agreement Concerning the Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Waste Between the U.S. and Canada relative to importation of municipal solid waste (see S. 2792), S7372 [25JY] (see H.R. 5244), H5993 [26JY]

———establish greenhouse gas inventory, registry, and information system (see H.R. 4611), H1673 [25AP]

Families and domestic relations: address domestic and sexual violence in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Programs (see H.R. 4655), H2100 [2MY]

———constitutional amendment relative to definition of marriage (see H.J. Res. 93), H2511 [15MY]

———improve collection of child support arrears in interstate cases (see H.R. 5061), H4325 [27JN]

FCC: treat private land use rules as State or local regulations for purposes of certain Federal regulations (see H.R. 4720), H2470 [14MY]

Federal aid programs: reform administrative funding of unemployment and employment service programs and improve State administration and flexibility of such programs (see H.R. 5418), H6417 [19SE]

Federal employees: allow periods of certain service performed as an employee under certain cooperative Federal-State programs to be creditable for purposes of civil service retirement (see H.R. 5337), H6084 [5SE]

Federal-State relations: establish a Federal Liaison on Homeland Security in each State to provide coordination between the Dept. of Homeland Security and State and local first responders (see S. 2746), S6947 [17JY]

———restore Federal remedies for violations of intellectual property rights by States (see S. 2031), S2076 [19MR]

———reduce catastrophic wildfire threats to communities and the environment (see H.R. 5376), H6250 [12SE]

Firearms: assist State and local governments in conducting community gun buy back programs (see H.R. 4674), H2164 [7MY]

———improve the national instant criminal background check system (see S. 2826), S7579 [30JY]

———prohibit gunrunning and provide mandatory minimum penalties for crimes related to gunrunning (see S. 2091), S2577 [11AP]

Floods: disaster assistance for the Guadalupe River valley (see H.R. 5114), H4574 [12JY]

Florida: authorize the Dept. of Agriculture to sell or exchange certain national forest lands (see S. 2652), S5851 [20JN] (see S. 3115), S10571 [16OC] (see H.R. 4977), H3774 [20JN]

Forest Service: establish a program to expand and strengthen cooperative efforts to restore and protect forests in the Chesapeake Bay watershed (see S. 3023), S9714 [1OC]

Forests: authorize Regional Foresters to exempt tree-thinning projects from laws that give rise to legal action that delay or prevent such projects (see H.R. 5309), H5996 [26JY]

Fort Hood, TX: convey certain land for a State-run veterans cemetery (see H.R. 4040), H1088 [20MR]

Georgia: protect marine species (see S. 2627), S5584 [14JN]

Government regulations: establish standards for programs for the issuance of drivers' licenses and identification cards (see H.R. 4633), H2018 [1MY]

Hawaii: congressional consent to certain amendments enacted by the State legislature to the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act (see H.J. Res. 115), H6983 [2OC]

———remove restrictions on land exchanges between the National Park Service and the Dept. of Hawaiian Home Lands (see H.R. 4724), H2470 [14MY]

Hazardous substances: approve Yucca Mountain, NV, as nuclear waste disposal site (see S.J. Res. 34), S2413 [9AP] (see H.J. Res. 87), H1283 [11AP]

Health: authorize formulation of State and regional emergency telehealth network testbeds and a telehealth task force within the Dept. of Defense (see S. 2748), S6947 [17JY]

———modify the rules for redistribution and extended availability of funding for the State Children's Health Insurance Program (see S. 2860), S7899 [1AU]

———provide for cooperative governing of health insurance policies and provide assistance to promote establishment of qualified high risk pools and incentives to encourage health coverage for employees and individuals (see H.R. 4170), H1281 [11AP]

———provide grants to States to provide access to affordable health insurance for certain child care providers and staff (see H.R. 5674), H8022 [16OC]

———support Federal and State funded in-home care for the elderly (see H. Res. 503), H5790 [25JY]

High Plains Aquifer: conduct hydrogeologic characterization, mapping, modeling, and monitoring program (see S. 2773), S7226 [23JY] (see H.R. 5486), H6776 [26SE]

History: support the celebration of the anniversary of the Grand Excursion of 1854 (see H. Con. Res. 455), H5997 [26JY]

Home Investment Partnerships Act: repeal limitations on the funding percentages of the operating budgets of organizations receiving assistance (see H.R. 3963), H907 [13MR]

———support certain housing proposals including the downpayment assistance initiative (see S. 2584), S5041 [5JN] (see H.R. 4446), H1337 [16AP]

Homeless: direct Federal aid to projects and programs that will prevent, and end, homelessness and ensure accountability through performance evaluations (see S. 2573), S4839 [23MY]

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: improve voucher rental assistance housing program (see S. 2721), S6649 [11JY]

———promote the production of affordable low-income housing (see S. 2967), S8918 [19SE]

Immigration: extend and modify reimbursement of State and local funds expended for emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens (see S. 3013), S9426 [26SE]

———limit validity of driver's licenses and State identification cards issued to nonimmigrant aliens to expiration date of nonimmigrant visas (see H.R. 5322), H6059 [4SE]

———prohibit Federal agencies from accepting State identification documents issued to nonimmigrant aliens that expire after the expiration of the aliens' nonimmigrant visas (see H.R. 4043), H1088 [20MR]

Individuals With Disabilities Education Act: ensure full funding and allow States to reform special education programs to increase parental choice and reduce paperwork (see S. 2883), S7900 [1AU]

———establish a method to provide outcome-based funding increases to States (see H.R. 5001), H3825 [21JN]

———reduce paperwork for special education teachers (see H.R. 5591), H7737 [9OC]

Information services: deregulate Internet and high speed data services (H.R. 1542), consideration (see H. Res. 350), H560 [26FE]

Insurance: extend Federal funding for operation of State high risk health insurance pools (see H.R. 5471), H6775 [26SE]

———provide incentives to apply certain waivers to use Federal funds to provide affordable employer-based health insurance coverage for uninsured small business workers (see H.R. 4021), H1087 [20MR]

———repeal law allowing for the redomestication of mutual insurance companies (see H.R. 4505), H1482 [18AP]

———require coverage of hair prostheses under Federal health programs for individuals with scalp hair loss as a result of alopecia areata (see H.R. 5106), H4552 [11JY]

John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor: authorizing appropriations (see H.R. 4004), H1002 [19MR]

Joint Federal and State Navigable Waters Commission for Alaska: establish (see S. 2587), S5041 [5JN] (see H.R. 4587), H1619 [24AP]

Kentucky: permit the operation of a separate retirement system for certain public employees under Social Security (see S. 1929), S586 [11FE] (see H.R. 3852), H687 [5MR]

Law enforcement: allow use of Community Oriented Policing Services funds for State and local intelligence officers (see H.R. 5307), H5996 [26JY]

———assess backlog in DNA analysis of rape kit samples and improve investigation and prosecution of sexual assault cases with DNA evidence (see S. 2513), S4330 [14MY] (see H.R. 4746), H2511 [15MY] (see H.R. 5394), H6303 [17SE]

———establish a Community Oriented Policing Services anti-methamphetamine grant program (see S. 2030), S2076 [19MR]

———make local governments eligible to apply for and receive grants under the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act (see H.R. 4480), H1410 [17AP]

———provide additional resources to States to eliminate the backlog of unanalyzed rape kits and ensure timely analysis of rape kits (see S. 2318), S3435 [25AP] (see H.R. 3961), H906 [13MR]

———provide grants to States to establish sexual assault response team programs (see H.R. 5514), H6926 [1OC]

———provide incentives for State laws mandating the reporting of child abuse by certain individuals (see H.R. 5313), H5996 [26JY]

Law enforcement officers: exempt from State laws prohibiting the carrying of concealed handguns (see S. 2480), S4064 [8MY]

———permit reviews of criminal records of applicants for private security officer employment (see S. 2238), S3303 [24AP]

LIHEAP: address the needs of low-income households in States with high needs for cooling assistance by adjusting a hold harmless provision (see H.R. 4898), H3291 [6JN]

Louisiana: anniversary of oil and gas industry (see H. Con. Res. 330), H366 [13FE]

———provide economic disaster assistance to rice producers (see S. 2976), S8918 [19SE] (see H.R. 5446), H6558 [24SE]

Medicaid: allow payment for dialysis, chemotherapy, pregnancy-related services, communicable diseases testing and treatment, and other emergency care to certain aliens (see S. 2449), S3843 [2MY]

———allow States to enter into drug rebate agreements to make prescription drugs available to individuals who are not otherwise eligible for medical assistance (see S. 2536), S4623 [21MY]

———apply the disproportionate share hospital payment transition rule to public hospitals (see S. 2391), S3505 [29AP]

———increase Federal Medical Assistance Percentage to States (see S. 2110), S2577 [11AP] (see S. 2221), S3014 [22AP] (see S. 2570), S4839 [23MY]

———permit additional States to enter into long-term care partnerships in order to promote the use of long-term care insurance (see S. 2199), S2950 [18AP]

———provide States with the option of covering intensive community mental health treatment (see S. 2072), S2326 [22MR]

———reimbursement of nursing facilities located on an Indian reservation in South Dakota and owned or operated by an Indian tribe or tribal organization (see S. 2738), S6947 [17JY]

———require drug manufacturers to pay rebates to State drug discount programs to participate in Medicaid drug rebate agreements and increase rebate payments to State Medicaid programs (see S. 3142), S10676 [17OC]

Medicare: geographically adjust the amount of premiums based on the use of health care items and services in the State in which the beneficiary resides (see S. 2605), S5285 [10JN]

Medicare/Medicaid: improve access to long-term care services (see S. 2655), S5851 [20JN]

———improve advance directive requirements to ensure compliance with individual health care decisions (see S. 2857), S7899 [1AU]

Minnesota: encourage the use of medical savings accounts by certain current and retired public employees (see H.R. 5415), H6417 [19SE]

Motor vehicles: assess the advisability of requiring each State to use the SSA Death Master File in issuing drivers' licenses to individuals (see H.R. 5284), H5995 [26JY]

———improve security of State-issued driver's licenses (see S. 3107), S10359 [10OC]

———permit individuals to operate commercial motor vehicles within State borders after meeting minimum standards (see S. 2503), S4199 [10MY]

———urge States to include a question about highway-rail grade crossings safety in their driver's license exams (see H. Con. Res. 506), H7303 [8OC]

National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicaid: establish (see H.R. 4961), H3720 [19JN]

National Endowment for the Arts: repeal State grant limitations (see H.R. 3689), H201 [6FE]

National Guard Challenge Program: revise matching funds requirements for participating States (see H.R. 4595), H1673 [25AP]

National Park Service: enhance the Recreation Fee Demonstration Program (see S. 2473), S4064 [8MY]

National Sea Grant College Program Act: reauthorize (see S. 2428), S3560 [30AP]

———reauthorize (H.R. 3389), consideration (see H. Res. 446), H3667 [18JN]

National security: encourage the development of regional comprehensive emergency preparedness and coordination plans (see H.R. 5461), H6692 [25SE] (see H.R. 5483), H6776 [26SE]

———make grants to State and local governments in order to prepare for and respond to terrorist threats (see S. 2077), S2412 [9AP]

———provide for homeland security block grants (see S. 2038), S2183 [20MR] (see H.R. 4059), H1089 [20MR]

———provide for the sharing of homeland security information by Federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies with State and local entities (see S. 2887), S7900 [1AU] (see H.R. 3825), H650 [28FE] (see H.R. 4598), H1673 [25AP]

———provide for the sharing of homeland security information by Federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies with State and local entities (H.R. 4598), consideration (see H. Res. 458), H3927 [25JN]

New Jersey: restrict ocean dumping at the Historic Area Remediation Site to dumping of dredged material that does not exceed certain polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB's) levels (see S. 2725), S6649 [11JY] (see H.R. 5092), H4552 [11JY]

———status of EPA and Corps of Engineers memorandum of agreement relative to Historic Area Remediation Site ocean sediment polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB's) levels (see H.R. 5470), H6775 [26SE]

New York: recognize effects of terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and express the commitment of the House of Representatives to rebuild (see H. Res. 338), H104 [29JA]

Public Health Service Act: add requirements regarding trauma care (see S. 3048), S9901 [3OC]

Public welfare programs: address barriers to employment as a work activity under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see S. 2610), S5366 [11JN] (see H.R. 5344), H6129 [9SE]

———ensure fair treatment and due process protections for enhanced data collection and reporting requirements under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see S. 2878), S7900 [1AU]

———exclude child care from the determining limits on assistance under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see S. 2070), S2326 [22MR]

———expand educational opportunities for recipients of assistance under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see H.R. 3730), H284 [12FE]

———ignore certain time limits for assistance under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program for recipients in States experiencing significant increases in unemployment (see S. 2669), S5956 [24JN]

———improve access to adequate and affordable housing under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see S. 2116), S2578 [11AP]

———improve provision of education and job training under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see S. 2548), S4703 [22MY]

———measure the self-sufficiency of families leaving programs providing temporary assistance and provide an incentive to help move families toward self-sufficiency (see H.R. 3667), H104 [29JA]

———permit States to create a program that allows individuals to obtain post-secondary or vocational education under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see S. 2552), S4703 [22MY]

———promote financial education under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program and allow such education to count as a work activity under that program (see S. 2628), S5632 [17JN]

———promote secure and healthy families under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see S. 2876), S7900 [1AU]

———provide grants for transitional jobs programs under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see S. 2631), S5696 [18JN]

———provide racial equity and fair treatment under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see H.R. 4669), H2164 [7MY]

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see S. 2052), S2260 [21MR] (see S. 2524), S4387 [15MY] (see H.R. 4090), H1152 [9AP] (see H.R. 4210), H1283 [11AP] (see H.R. 4700), H2355 [9MY] (see H.R. 4735), H2471 [14MY] (see H.R. 4737), H2511 [15MY]

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (H.R. 4735), consideration (see H. Res. 421), H2469 [14MY]

———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]

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (H.R. 4737), consideration (see H. Res. 422), H2511 [15MY]

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (H.R. 4737), consideration (H. Res. 422), same-day consideration (see H. Res. 420), H2469 [14MY]

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program and improve access to quality child care (see S. 2648), S5772 [19JN]

———reauthorize and improve the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Programs operated by Indian tribes (see S. 2484), S4064 [8MY]

———reauthorize and reform block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see H.R. 3625), H78 [24JA]

———reauthorize block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see H.R. 5467), H6692 [25SE]

———reauthorize Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program work-related provisions and Child Care and Development Block Grants (see H.R. 4092), H1152 [9AP]

———replace caseload reduction credit with employment credit under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see S. 2058), S2261 [21MR] (see H.R. 4057), H1088 [20MR]

———require a comprehensive strategic plan for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see S. 2624), S5584 [14JN]

———temporarily extend waivers granted to States under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see H.R. 5757), H9024 [14NO]

Real property: preserve Federal sovereignty of certain public lands and preserve certain State and private property rights (see S. 2575), S4967 [4JN]

Roads and highways: establish program to make allocations to States for projects to expand 2-lane highways in rural areas to 4-lane highways (see S. 2906), S8300 [5SE]

———identify a route as the Southwest Passage Initiative for Regional and Interstate Transportation (see S. 1986), S1536 [5MR]

———identify a route as the Southwest Passage Initiative for Regional and Interstate Transportation Corridor (see H.R. 4615), H1674 [25AP]

———identify certain routes as part of the Heartland Expressway High Priority Corridor (see S. 2979), S8918 [19SE]

Rural areas: establish demonstration programs to address the shortages of health care professionals (see H.R. 5113), H4574 [12JY]

———promote and improve access to health care services (see S. 2390), S3505 [29AP]

Schools: prohibit funding to any State or local educational agency that distributes or provides postcoital emergency contraception (see H.R. 3805), H633 [27FE]

Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act: modify full payment amount available to States (see S. 2864), S7900 [1AU]

Securities: allow Federal enforcement actions based on State enforcement actions against microcap securities fraud and broaden SEC regulation of rogue brokers (see S. 1985), S1536 [5MR]

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 S. Res. 264), S4064 [8MY] (see H. Res. 515), H5997 [26JY]

SMART Research and Development Compact: congressional consent (see H.R. 5473), H6775 [26SE]

Social Security: computation system for benefits relative to spouses' or surviving spouses' Government pensions (H.R. 664), consideration (see H. Res. 493), H4931 [18JY]

———disregard State annuities paid to blind veterans in the determination of SSI benefits (see S. 2775), S7226 [23JY]

———expand dental coverage and community oral health services under State Children's Health Insurance Program and Medicaid (see H.R. 5191), H5194 [23JY]

———extend availability of allotments under the State Children's Health Insurance Program (see S. 3180), S11736 [20NO] (see H.R. 5740), H9023 [14NO]

———improve coverage of certain pregnant women, infants, and children under State Children's Health Insurance Program and Medicaid (see H.R. 3675), H140 [5FE] (see H.R. 3729), H284 [12FE]

———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 S. 2819), S7579 [30JY] (see S. 3092), S10359 [10OC] (see H.R. 5656, 5662), H8021 [16OC]

———permit States the option of covering certain legal aliens under Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (see H.R. 5067), H4350 [8JY]

Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act: ensure coverage of National Guard troops mobilized for support services in the aftermath of terrorist attacks (see H.R. 4017), H1087 [20MR]

Solid waste: limit receipt of out-of-State municipal solid waste (see S. 2034), S2076 [19MR]

———State control over disposal of out-of-State solid waste (see H.R. 5159), H4930 [18JY]

South Dakota: convey certain lands acquired for the Blunt Reservoir and Pierre Canal features of the Oahe Irrigation Project to certain State agencies for wildlife habitat mitigation and provide conditional purchase options (see H.R. 5687), H8022 [16OC]

Southeastern States: provide a framework for coordinating Federal, State, and local efforts to meet the special needs of the Southeast Crescent Region (see H.R. 3618), H36 [23JA]

Southwest Regional Border Authority: establish (see S. 2522), S4387 [15MY] (see H.R. 4847), H3036 [23MY]

Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act: increase incentives for States and Indian tribes to achieve reclamation priorities relative to coal mining (see H.R. 4802), H2943 [22MY]

Taxation: allow residents of States with no income tax a deduction for State and local sales taxes (see H.R. 4487), H1482 [18AP]

———clarify eligibility of certain expenses for low-income housing credit (see S. 2006), S1782 [12MR]

———exempt State and local political committees from certain notification and reporting requirements applicable to political organizations (see S. 2078), S2413 [9AP] (see H.R. 3993), H1002 [19MR] (see H.R. 4180), H1282 [11AP] (see H.R. 5596), H7892 [10OC]

———include high-speed Internet capability as a criteria for selecting a project for the low-income housing credit (see S. 2479), S4064 [8MY]

———preempt local taxation of satellite digital audio radio services and determine State authority for taxation of such services (see H.R. 4869), H3229 [5JN]

———promote State historic tax credits (see H.R. 4933), H3561 [13JN]

———provide a refundable credit for State and local real and personal property taxes paid by individuals (see H.R. 5290), H5995 [26JY]

———provide an exemption from local taxation for direct-to-subscriber satellite service providers (see H.R. 5429), H6473 [23SE]

———regional cost of living adjustments (see H.R. 4394), H1336 [16AP]

———treat Indian tribes the same as State governments relative to gambling (see H.R. 4887), H3291 [6JN]

———treatment of home-based service workers (see S. 2129), S2675 [15AP]

Telecommunications: preserve State and local authority to regulate placement, construction, and modification of broadcast transmission facilities (see S. 3102), S10359 [10OC] (see H.R. 5632), H7894 [10OC]

———preserve State and local authority to regulate placement, construction, and modification of personal wireless services facilities (see S. 3103), S10359 [10OC] (see H.R. 5631), H7894 [10OC]

Tobacco products: prevent sale of tobacco products to minors and the circumvention of State tobacco taxes by means of electronic sales (see H.R. 5724), H8731 [13NO]

Tourist trade: encourage people to rediscover attractions in the States in which they live (see H. Con. Res. 342), H737 [6MR]

Transportation: empower States with authority for most taxing and spending for highway programs and mass transit programs (see S. 2861), S7899 [1AU]

———increase investments in rural areas (see S. 3134), S10676 [17OC]

———prohibit States from imposing a discriminatory commuter tax on nonresidents (see H.R. 5742), H9023 [14NO]

———provide incentives to States for development of traffic safety programs to reduce crashes related to driver fatigue and sleep deprivation (see H.R. 5543), H7018 [3OC]

Unemployment: provide a Federal payment, or reimbursement, to States for special unemployment assistance to individuals participating in qualified worker training programs (see H.R. 4994), H3825 [21JN]

Uniform Time Act: modify State exemption provisions for advancement of time (see H.R. 4126), H1199 [10AP]

Utah: exchange certain lands (see S. 2745), S6947 [17JY] (see H.R. 4968), H3720 [19JN]

Voting: establish a grant program to provide assistance to States for modernizing and enhancing voting procedures and administration (H.R. 3295), resolve disagreements between Senate and House of Representatives (see H. Con. Res. 508), H7894 [10OC]

———require States to permit individuals to register to vote in an election for Federal office on the date of the election (see S. 2226), S3165 [23AP]

Washington metropolitan area: tribute to law enforcement officials involved in sniper shooting spree investigation and express condolences to the snipers' victims and their families (see H. Con. Res. 515), H8545 [12NO] (see H. Res. 610), H8732 [13NO]

Water: authorize appropriations for State water pollution control revolving funds (see H.R. 3792), H561 [26FE] (see H.R. 3930), H832 [12MR]

———improve financial and environmental sustainability of water programs (see S. 1961), S897 [15FE] (see S. 2813), S7469 [29JY]

———provide assistance to States to support testing of private wells in areas of suspected contamination to limit or prevent human exposure to contaminated groundwater (see S. 3127), S10676 [17OC]

Western Electric Coordinating Council: study the feasibility and desirability of the formation of regional transmission organizations (see H.R. 5245), H5993 [26JY]

Wild and Scenic Rivers System: ensure congressional involvement in the process of States designating rivers as wild, scenic, or recreational (see H.R. 4808), H2943 [22MY]

Briefs

Assessing the Impact of a Ban on Soft Money—Party Soft Money Spending in the 2000 Elections: Ray La Raja and Elizabeth Jarvis-Shean, Institute of Governmental Studies and Citizens Research Foundation, E261-E263 [6MR]

Cloture motions

Commission on Voting Rights and Procedures: establish (S. 565), S1241 [27FE], S1386 [1MR], S1417 [4MR]

Crime: provide Federal assistance to States and local jurisdictions to prosecute hate crimes (S. 625), S5246 [7JN], S5335 [11JN]

Conference reports

Dept. of Defense Appropriations for Military Construction, Family Housing, and Base Realignment and Closure (H.R. 5011), H7345-H7375 [9OC]

Help America Vote Act (H.R. 3295), H7247-H7268 [8OC]

Cost Estimates

Federal Reformulated Fuels Act (S. 950): CBO (Private Sector Mandates), S484 [7FE]

Descriptions

Exempt State and Local Political Committees From Certain Notification and Reporting Requirements Applicable to Political Organizations (H.R. 5596), H8011 [16OC]

Excerpts

Closing the Achievement Gap—Using the Environment as an Integrating Context for Learning: Gerald A. Lieberman and Linda L. Hoody, State Education and Environment Roundtable (organization), S6016 [25JN]

Factsheets

EIA Study—National Renewable Energy Standard of 20% Is Easily Affordable: Union of Concerned Scientists, S2167 [20MR]

Letters

Advance Planning and Compassionate Care Act: Galen Miller, National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, S7924 [1AU]

———Karen Orloff Kaplan, Partnership for Caring, Inc., S7924 [1AU]

———Robert D. Evans, ABA, S7925 [1AU]

Amtrak funding: David Solow, Southern California Regional Rail Authority, S6124 [26JN]

———Senators Feinstein and Boxer, S6123 [26JN]

———Thomas P. Walters, North San Diego County, CA, Transit Development Board, S6124 [26JN]

Approve Yucca Mountain, NV, as nuclear waste disposal site: Edward C. Sullivan, AFL-CIO, H2196 [8MY]

———Thomas A. Vilsack, Governor of Iowa, S6474 [9JY]

———U.S. Conference of Mayors, S6472 [9JY]

Child Care and Development Block Grant funding: several State legislators, S3501 [29AP]

Clarify waiver authority granted to local workforce investment boards under the Workforce Investment Act: Kay G. Hoch and Robert Knight, National Association of Workforce Boards, H2544 [16MY]

Class Action Fairness Act: Joan Claybrook and Frank Clemente, Public Citizen (organization), H848 [13MR]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs Reorganization Act: Anthony J. Principi, Sec. of Veterans Affairs, S2839 [17AP]

Early Care and Education Act: Barry Zuckerman, Boston University, S4858 [23MY]

———Carol H. Rasco, Reading Is Fundamental, Inc., S4857 [23MY]

———Charles E.M. Kolb, Committee for Economic Development, S4856 [23MY]

———Dorothy S. Strickland, Rutgers University, S4857 [23MY]

———Edward Zigler, Yale University, S4856 [23MY]

———Elizabeth J. Noyes, American Academy of Pediatrics, S4854 [23MY]

———Faith Wohl, Child Care Action Campaign (organization), S4855 [23MY]

———Frank Moore, Child Care Consortium, S4857 [23MY]

———Karen W. Ponder, North Carolina Partnership for Children, S4855 [23MY]

———Marie-Louise Ramsdale, First Steps (organization), S4858 [23MY]

———Marta T. Rosa, Child Care Resource Center, Inc., S4857 [23MY]

———Marta T. Rosa and Yasmina Vinci, National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies, S4854 [23MY]

———Richard Robinson, Scholastic Inc., S4855 [23MY]

———Rob Reiner, California Children and Families Commission and I Am Your Child Foundation, S4856 [23MY]

———Susan S. Stepleton, Parents as Teachers National Center (organization), S4855 [23MY]

Electric power transmission system reliability organization: Elizabeth A. Moler, Exelon Corp., S1881 [14MR]

———John A. Anderson, Electricity Consumers Resource Council, S1880 [14MR]

———Lynne H. Church, Electric Power Supply Association, S1881 [14MR]

———Michael Kergin, S1878 [14MR]

———P.R.H. Landrieu, Mid-Atlantic Area Council, S1880 [14MR]

———Phillip G. Harris, PJM Interconnection, LLC, S1881 [14MR]

End Gridlock at Our Nation's Critical Airports Act: Representative Jackson, H4632 [15JY]

Enron Corp., involvement in manipulation of California energy crisis: Senator Feinstein, S3938 [7MY]

Equal Protection of Voting Rights Act: Andrew J. Imparato, American Association of People With Disabilities, S722 [13FE]

———Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins, League of Women Voters, S724 [13FE]

———Cathy Cox, Georgia Sec. of State, S724 [13FE]

———Dean Heller, Nevada Sec. of State, S724 [13FE]

———Hilary O. Shelton, NAACP, S721 [13FE]

———James Gashel, National Federation of the Blind, S722 [13FE]

———Joan Claybrook and Frank Clemente, Public Citizen (organization), S723 [13FE]

———Kirsten A. Nyrop, United Cerebal Palsy Association, S722 [13FE]

———League of Women Voters, S1381 [1MR]

———National Commission on Federal Election Reform, S723 [13FE]

———National Hispanic Leadership Agenda (organization), S1381 [1MR]

———Ralph G. Neas and Stephanie Foster, People for the American Way (organization), S722 [13FE]

———Rebekah Harriman, Common Cause in Connecticut (organization), S723 [13FE]

———Susan Bysiewicz, Connecticut Sec. of State, S724 [13FE]

———William D. Novelli, AARP, S1380 [1MR]

———William Samuel, AFL-CIO, S721 [13FE]

Federal Reformulated Fuels Act: Christine Todd Whitman, EPA, S482 [7FE]

Federal voting rights for certain qualified persons who have served their criminal sentences: Melvin D. Miner, Jr., S800 [14FE]

FEMA waiver of match payments required by local communities for Federal homeland security assistance: several Representatives, H1014 [20MR]

Grant program to eliminate the nationwide backlog of DNA analyses and obtain a DNA sample from every person convicted of a qualifying offense: several Representatives, H6748 [26SE]

Grants to States for fuel-inefficient motor vehicle retirement programs: Robert L. Redding, Jr., Automotive Service Association, S1846 [13MR]

Help America Vote Act: Alan Reuther, UAW, H7840 [10OC]

———Angela Z. Monson and Martin R. Stephens, National Conference of State Legislatures, S10417 [15OC], H7838 [10OC]

———Bernadette Franks-Ongoy, National Association of Protection & Advocacy Systems, S10416 [15OC], H7841 [10OC]

———Brook Thompson, National Association of State Election Directors, S10417 [15OC], H7840 [10OC]

———Christopher Hansen, AARP, S10416 [15OC]

———Dan Gwadosky, National Association of Secretaries of State, S10417 [15OC], H7839 [10OC]

———Dorothy I. Height and Wade Henderson, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, S10503 [16OC]

———Douglas K. Vollmer, Paralyzed Veterans of America (organization), S10415 [15OC]

———Hilary O. Shelton, NAACP, S10415 [15OC], H7840 [10OC]

———James Gashel, National Federation of the Blind, S10415 [15OC], H7839 [10OC]

———Larry E. Naake, National Association of Counties, S10417 [15OC], H7839 [10OC]

———Laura W. Murphy and LaShawn Y. Warren, ACLU, S10502 [16OC]

———Patricia Sandusky, United Cerebral Palsy Association, S10416 [15OC], H7841 [10OC]

———Paul W. Schroeder, American Foundation for the Blind, S10416 [15OC], H7841 [10OC]

———R. Doug Lewis, Election Center (organization), H7839 [10OC]

———Ralph G. Neas and Stephenie Foster, People for the American Way (organization), S10503 [16OC]

———Raul Yzaguirre, National Council of La Raza, S10501 [16OC]

———William Samuel, AFL-CIO, S10415 [15OC], H7840 [10OC]

High Plains Aquifer Hydrogeologic Characterization, Mapping, Modeling and Monitoring Act: M. Lee Allison, Kansas Geological Survey, S7230 [23JY]

Housing Voucher Improvement Act: George Caruso, National Affordable Housing Management Association, S6653 [11JY]

———several organizations, S6652 [11JY]

———Sunia Zaterman, Council of Large Public Housing Authorities, S6653 [11JY]

Impact of potential Amtrak shutdown on local commuter rail service: David Solow, Southern California Regional Rail Authority, S6123 [26JN]

Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Act: Dept. of Justice, S5274 [10JN]

Medicaid reimbursements to States: Carolyn Markey, Visiting Nurse Associations of America, S7293 [24JY]

———Paul E. Patton and Dirk Kempthorne, National Governors Association, S7296 [24JY]

———Tommy G. Thompson, Sec. of HHS, S7333 [25JY]

Medicare reimbursement rates in certain Pennsylvania counties: Berwick Hospital Center, S6568 [10JY]

———C. Richard Hartman, Community Medical Center Health Systems (business), S6349 [8JY]

———Conrad W. Schintz, Geisinger Health System (business), S6348 [8JY]

———James E. May, Mercy Health Partners (business), S6350 [8JY]

———Michael J. Clifford, Wayne Memorial Hospital, S6351 [8JY]

———Thomas L. Heron, Marian Community Hospital, S6568 [10JY]

———Tyler Memorial Hospital, S6569 [10JY]

———William J. Schoen, Allied Services (business), S6350 [8JY]

———William R. Host and Michael D. Scherneck, Wyoming Valley Health Care System (business), S6350 [8JY]

Microcap Fraud Prevention Act: Joseph P. Borg, North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc., S1538 [5MR]

Motor vehicle renewable fuel content requirements: Association of California Water Agencies, American Water Works Association, and Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies, S3347 [25AP]

———Mary J. Hutzler, Dept. of Energy, S3136 [23AP]

Permit Kentucky to operate a separate retirement system for certain public employees under Social Security: Anthony J. Cobaugh, Jefferson County, KY, Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No. 14, S588 [11FE]

———David James, Louisville, KY, Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 6, S588 [11FE]

———Michael J. (Howdy) Kurtsinger, Louisville, KY, Professional Fire Fighters Union Local 345, S588 [11FE]

———Patrick L. Doyle, Kentucky Division of Social Security, S588 [11FE]

———T. Kevin Flanery, Kentucky Sec. of Finance and Administration, S589 [11FE]

Personal Responsibility, Work, and Family Promotion Act: Representative Thomas, Committee on Ways and Means (House), and Representative Boehner, Committee on Education and the Workforce (House), H2595 [16MY]

Promote water conservation on agricultural land: Deb Callahan, League of Conservation Voters, S530 [8FE]

———several environmental and conservation organizations, S530, S531 [8FE]

Provide assistance to States and nonprofit organizations to preserve suburban open space and contain suburban sprawl: James J. Espy, Maine Coast Heritage Trust (organization), S698 [13FE]

———Jennifer Melville, Trust for Public Lands (organization), S698 [13FE]

———Kent Wommack, Nature Conservancy (organization), S698 [13FE]

———Larry A. Kotchman, National Association of State Foresters, S697 [13FE]

———Sally Stockwell, Maine Audubon Society, S698 [13FE]

———W. Kent Olson, Friends of Acadia (organization), S698 [13FE]

Provide consumer protections and reliability in the provision of electric power: several organizations, S3242 [24AP]

———Steve Johnson, Washington Public Utility Districts Association, S3243 [24AP]

———Tony Ponticelli, National Alliance for Fair Competition, S3242 [24AP]

Provide sufficient State funding to meet certain election technology and administration requirements: Olene S. Walker, S1167 [26FE]

———Ron Thornburgh, Larry Naake, and William Pound, S1167 [26FE]

Puerto Rican compliance with certain provisions of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program: Manuel Mirabal, National Hispanic Leadership Agenda (organization), E819 [16MY]

Renewable electric energy generation standards: Alan H. Richardson, American Public Power Association, S2046 [19MR]

———Lila A. Jaber, Florida Public Service Commission, S2059, S2060 [19MR], S2171 [20MR]

———Michael E. Baroody, National Association of Manufacturers, S2046 [19MR]

———Paul Oakley, Coalition for Affordable and Reliable Energy, S2195 [21MR]

———Robert K. Johnson, Electric Consumers' Alliance, S2195 [21MR]

———several businesses and trade associations, S2046, S2047 [19MR], S2170 [20MR]

Renewable motor vehicle fuels standards: Bob Holden, John Hoeven, and Mike Johanns, Governors' Ethanol Coalition, S1809, S1820 [13MR]

Sharing of homeland security information by Federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies with State and local entities: Ben Hinson, American Ambulance Association, H5858 [26JY]

———William J. Johnson, National Association of Police Organizations, Inc., H5858 [26JY]

Strike Conservation Reserve Program water conservation program: Bob Stallman, American Farm Bureau Federation, S471 [7FE]

Study effects of hydraulic fracturing on underground drinking water sources: Carl M. Smith, Dept. of Energy, S1634 [7MR]

———Carol M. Browner, EPA, S1633 [7MR]

———Michel J. Paque, Ground Water Protection Council, S1637 [7MR]

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program: Janet Schalansky, Kansas Dept. of Social and Rehabilitation Services, H2557 [16MY]

Lists

Amendments to S. 565, Equal Protection of Voting Rights Act, S839 [14FE]

American Ambulance Association Stars of Life award recipients, E741 [8MY]

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Council for Advancement and Support of Education Professor of the Year award State recipients, S11566 [19NO]

Companies negatively impacted by lack of tax credit for producing electricity from wind, S1238 [27FE]

Congressional staff involved in H.R. 3295, Help America Vote Act, S9952 [4OC]

Cosponsors of S. 2896, National AMBER Alert Network Act, S8439 [10SE]

Organizations opposed to H.R. 4737, Personal Responsibility, Work, and Family Promotion Act, H2542 [16MY]

Organizations opposed to Yucca Mountain, NV, as nuclear waste disposal site, S6456 [9JY]

Organizations supporting H.R. 3113, block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program reauthorization and improvement, H1280 [11AP]

Organizations supporting H.R. 3295, Help America Vote Act, S10494, S10512 [16OC]

Persons available to answer questions on S. 2566, Early Care and Education Act, S4859 [23MY]

State breakdown of supporters of Campaign of Conscience Peace Pledge, E434 [21MR]

States defining waste-to-energy systems as a renewable energy source, S3287 [24AP]

Supporters of Cantwell amendment to S. 517, national energy policy legislation, on consumer protections and reliability in the provision of electric power, S3242, S3250 [24AP]

Supporters of S. 2566, Early Care and Education Act, S4854 [23MY]

Memorandums

Child Custody Protection Act: Laurence H. Tribe, Harvard University, and Peter J. Rubin, Georgetown University, H1359-H1362 [17AP]

Due Process Review of Punitive Damage Awards, S5658 [18JN]

Enron Corp., Involvement in Manipulation of California Energy Crisis: Brobeck, Phelger & Harrison LLP, S3939 [7MY]

———Christian Yoder and Stephen Hall, Stoel Rives LLP, S3940-S3942 [7MY]

Ethanol Auction Bids: Douglas Vind, Regent International (business), S3141 [23AP]

———Douglas Vind, Western Ethanol Co. LLC, S3140 [23AP]

———Douglas Vind, Western Petroleum Importers Inc., S3141 [23AP]

———Jeffrey Tuite, ED & F Man Alcohols (business), S3141 [23AP]

———Richard Vind, Regent International (business), S3141, S3142 [23AP]

Medicare Reimbursement Rates in Certain Pennsylvania Counties: Bernard C. Rudegeair, Greater Hazleton Health Alliance, S6348 [8JY]

———Robert J. Spinelli, Bloomsburg Hospital, S6351 [8JY]

———William Roe, Moses Taylor Healthcare System (business), S6349 [8JY]

State Statutes Which Permit Courts To Replace Prosecutors, S5658 [18JN]

Motions

Commission on Voting Rights and Procedures: establish (S. 565), S1228 [27FE]

Courts: expand Federal diversity jurisdiction to allow consideration of certain interstate class actions and provide additional protections to plaintiff class members (H.R. 2341), H884 [13MR]

Crime: prohibit taking minors across State lines to avoid State laws requiring parental notification of abortions (H.R. 476), H1369 [17AP]

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 5320), complete congressional action to implement No Child Left Behind Act, H6955 [2OC]

Information services: deregulate Internet and high speed data services (H.R. 1542), H606 [27FE]

Medicaid: extend certain modifications to disproportionate share hospital allotments (H.R. 854), complete congressional action, H7002 [3OC]

Public welfare programs: reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (H.R. 4737), H2592 [16MY]

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (H.R. 4737), consideration (H. Res. 422), H2498 [15MY]

Voting: establish a grant program to provide assistance to States for modernizing and enhancing voting procedures and administration (H.R. 3295), H2596 [16MY], H3633 [18JN], H3677 [19JN], H4022 [26JN], H4337 [8JY], H4388 [9JY], H6286 [17SE], H6342 [18SE], H6532 [24SE], H6682 [25SE], H6948 [2OC]

Papers

Soft Money Spending by State Parties—Where Does It Really Go? Ray La Raja and Karen Pogoda, Institute of Governmental Studies and Citizens Research Foundation, E269-E273 [6MR]

Poems

``Road Not Taken,'' Robert Frost, S6490 [9JY]

Press releases

Circuit Attorney Announces Charges Against Vote Fraud Offenders: Jennifer M. Joyce, Office of the St. Louis, MO, Circuit Attorney, S2473 [10AP]

Election Reform Legislation in U.S. Congress—League Cautions—Legislation Is a Gamble, Implementation Key: League of Women Voters, S10501 [16OC]

Former Presidents Ford and Carter Welcome the Agreement Reached by Congress on Election Reform Legislation: National Commission on Federal Election Reform, S10415 [15OC], H7838 [10OC]

Proclamations

Tribute to Richard H. Finan: Representative Ney, E2027 [14NO]

Proposals

Complete congressional action on H.R. 854, Medicaid Safety Net Hospital Continued Preservation Act, H6961 [2OC], H7001 [3OC]

Complete congressional action on H.R. 5320, Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies appropriations to implement No Child Left Behind Act, H6780 [30SE], H6954, H6959 [2OC]

Regulations

Voting System Accuracy Requirements: FEC, H7841 [10OC]

Remarks in House

Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund: appropriate State and tribal shares (H. Con. Res. 425), H6877, H6878 [1OC]

American Ambulance Association: tribute to Stars of Life award recipients, H2393 [14MY], E741 [8MY], E795 [14MY]

Amtrak: funding, H3724 [20JN], H3778, H3819 [21JN], H4028, H4033-H4039 [26JN], H4500 [11JY], H5227 [23JY], E1186 [28JN]

Arizona: authorize the Dept. of Agriculture to exchange certain land with the Yavapai Ranch Limited Partnership (H.R. 5513), H8890-H8898 [14NO]

Birds: prohibit interstate movement of live birds, for the purpose of fighting, to States in which animal fighting is lawful, H1670 [25AP], H1678 [29AP], H2002 [1MY]

Broward County, FL: National Association of Counties Achievement Award recipient, E1373 [25JY]

Bureau of Reclamation: anniversary, E818 [16MY]

California: opposition to offshore drilling, H3425 [11JN]

Children and youth: access of disadvantaged children to dental services (H.R. 5098), E1240 [11JY]

———enhance operation of the AMBER Alert communications plan to expedite the recovery of abducted children (H.R. 5317), H6063 [5SE]

———enhance operation of the AMBER Alert communications plan to expedite the recovery of abducted children (H.R. 5326), E1749 [4OC], E1809 [9OC], E1849 [11OC]

———prevent child abuse, neglect, and abandonment and family violence (H.R. 3839), H1502-H1514 [23AP], E255 [5MR], E612 [23AP]

———reform child welfare systems, E1937 [17OC]

———reform foster care systems, E1304 [18JY], E1501 [5SE], E1525 [9SE], E1569 [12SE], E1599 [18SE], E1636 [23SE], E1684 [30SE], E1778 [8OC]

Clean Air Act: permit the sale, in certain States, of gasoline from other regions relative to supplies and prices (H.R. 3946), E322 [12MR]

Colorado: encourage tourism, H4342 [8JY], E1092 [19JN]

———use of State inmate population to provide disaster relief, E1696 [30SE]

Commission on Native American Policy: establish, H4795-H4802 [17JY]

Community development: promote livable communities initiatives, H3437 [11JN]

Computers: encourage use of web-based enrollment systems in the State Children's Health Insurance Program (H.R. 5233), E1398 [25JY]

Constitution—U.S.: history and explanation of ``separation of church and state'', H4659-H4664 [15JY]

Consumers: make ownership cost limitations in New York, Ohio, and Nebraska law the minimum standard of protection for rental-purchase agreements, and establish a national standard on cash prices, H6322, H6327, H6333-H6336 [18SE]

———prohibit preemption of State laws that regulate rental-purchase agreements as a form of consumer credit, H6319, H6321-H6329, H6339, H6340 [18SE]

Courts: disclosure of plaintiff attorney's fees in certain class action lawsuits, H864-H866 [13MR]

———ensure that class actions which are refused certification by a Federal court are remanded to the State court from which it was removed, H877-H879 [13MR]

———jurisdiction over certain class actions brought by local prosecutors or private attorneys general, H866-H868 [13MR]

———prohibit any knowing participant in a conspiracy to commit an act of terrorism from having a class action removed to Federal court, H884 [13MR]

———prohibit moving class action claims to district court if records or documents have been knowingly altered, destroyed, or misrepresented, H874-H877 [13MR]

———treatment of discovery orders in class action lawsuits when a party to the order withholds or destroys material, H861-H863 [13MR]

———treatment of foreign corporations that acquire domestic corporations in corporate repatriation transactions relative to State jurisdiction in class action lawsuits, H869-H871 [13MR]

Crime: exempt adult siblings, grandparents, and religious persons from prohibition on taking minors across State lines to avoid State laws requiring parental notification of abortions, H1370-H1372 [17AP]

———foster local collaborations to ensure effective and efficient use of resources within the criminal and juvenile justice systems in dealing with mentally ill offenders (H.R. 5701), E1955 [24OC]

———prohibit taking minors across State lines to avoid State laws requiring parental notification of abortions (H.R. 476), H1345, H1351 [17AP], E582, E584, E587 [18AP], E655 [29AP]

———prohibit taking minors across State lines to avoid State laws requiring parental notification of abortions (H.R. 476), consideration (H. Res. 388), H1345-H1351 [17AP]

———prohibit taking minors across State lines to avoid State laws requiring parental notification of abortions (H.R. 476), motion to recommit, H1370-H1372 [17AP]

———provide Federal assistance to States and local jurisdictions to prosecute hate crimes (H.R. 1343), H217-H219 [7FE], H717 [6MR], H1075, H1078 [20MR], H1308 [16AP], E124 [8FE], E153 [14FE], E402, E433 [21MR], E1662 [26SE]

Crowley County Heritage Society: tribute, E816 [16MY]

Customs Service: inspection of trash coming into Michigan from Canada, H5250, H5251 [23JY], E1340 [24JY], E1400 [25JY]

Dept. of Commerce: prohibit pelagic longline fishing in the exclusive economic zone off the coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington (H.R. 4618), E661 [30AP]

Dept. of Defense: establish a Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team in each State, H5602-H5607 [25JY]

———establish at least one Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team in each State and at least one such team under the direction of the National Guard Bureau, E2058 [15NO]

Dept. of HHS: make grants to promote innovative outreach and enrollment efforts under State Children's Health Insurance Program (H.R. 4764), E847 [17MY]

Dept. of Homeland Security: establish Office for State and Local Government Coordination, H5702, H5703 [25JY]

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 (H.R. 1433), H1494 [23AP]

Dept. of Justice: deputizing of State and local law enforcement officials to perform immigration office functions, E699 [3MY]

Dept. of the Interior: conduct study of the Rathdrum Prairie/Spokane Valley Aquifer (H.R. 4609), H4330, H4331, H4335 [8JY]

Dept. of the Treasury: produce certain security documents at the request of foreign governments or States or any political subdivision thereof, on a reimbursable basis (H.R. 2509), H958-H960 [19MR]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: conduct Stand Down event outreach programs and establish a pilot program that will provide for an annual Stand Down event in each State (H.R. 3271), E1442 [29JY]

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 5320), complete congressional action to implement No Child Left Behind Act, H6954, H6959 [2OC]

Drought: disaster assistance to Kansas, E1226 [10JY]

———disaster assistance to South Dakota, H4398 [9JY]

Drugs: use of marijuana for medicinal purposes, E1545 [11SE]

Economy: national objectives priority assignments, H6159 [10SE]

Education: close the achievement gap by raising the achievement levels of the lowest performing students (H.R. 1), H3207 [5JN]

———close the achievement gap by raising the achievement levels of the lowest performing students (H.R. 1), conference report, H2213 [8MY], E1561 [12SE]

———funding, H1740 [30AP], H2916 [22MY]

Enron Corp.: involvement in manipulation of California energy crisis, E754 [8MY]

FCC: enforcement authority over telephone companies that violate telecommunications laws, H571 [27FE]

———prohibit Bell Operating Cos., from bundling long distance voice services with high speed data services, H590 [27FE]

Federal aid programs: recognize importance of programs designed to be safety nets, H63-H70 [24JA]

FEMA: waiver of match payments required by local communities for Federal homeland security assistance, H1013 [20MR]

Firearms: assist State and local governments in conducting community gun buy back programs (H.R. 4674), H2213 [8MY], E730 [7MY]

Forest Service: wildfire management and fire hazard prevention practices, H3854-H3856 [24JN], H4416 [9JY], H4502 [11JY], H6073 [5SE], H6132 [10SE], E1524 [9SE]

Frederick, MD: display of Ten Commandments in city-owned park, H4659 [15JY]

Gambling: expand and modernize the prohibition against interstate gambling (H.R. 3215), permission to file report, H8014 [16OC]

Hawaii: remove restrictions on land exchanges between the National Park Service and the Dept. of Hawaiian Home Lands (H.R. 4724), E798 [14MY]

Hazardous substances: approve Yucca Mountain, NV, as nuclear waste disposal site (H.J. Res. 87), H1160 [10AP], H1293 [16AP], H1343 [17AP], H1495, H1496 [23AP], H1677 [29AP], H1691 [30AP], H1772 [1MY], H2112, H2114 [7MY], H2168, H2169, H2170, H2180-H2205 [8MY], E715 [3MY], E757, E766, E768, E770, E774 [10MY], E806 [15MY]

———designate Yucca Mountain, NV, as nuclear waste disposal site, H41 [24JA], H113 [5FE], H204 [7FE], H660 [5MR], H689 [6MR], H910 [14MR], E132 [12FE]

———effect of approval of Yucca Mountain, NV, as nuclear waste disposal site on local drinking water, H1691 [30AP]

———impact of unfunded mandates on State and local governments relative to approval of Yucca Mountain, NV, as nuclear waste disposal site, H2180-H2183 [8MY]

———Nevada Governor's veto of Yucca Mountain, NV, as nuclear waste disposal site, H1095 [9AP]

Head Start Program: anniversary, E603 [23AP]

Health: limit medical malpractice claims, H4567 [12JY]

———support Federal and State funded in-home care for the elderly (H. Res. 503), E1369 [25JY]

Help America Vote Act: compliance deadlines, H3677-H3681 [19JN]

Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-Cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act: ensure the preservation of State patient liability protections, H6741, H6742 [26SE]

Hillman, Mark: National Republican Legislator Association Legislator of the Year award recipient, E151 [14FE]

Home Investment Partnerships Act: support certain housing proposals including the downpayment assistance initiative (H.R. 4446), E544 [16AP]

———encourage each State to examine its statutes, practices, and procedures governing appointment and election of new Members in the event of a catastrophe (H. Res. 559), unanimous-consent agreement, H6769 [26SE]

Individuals With Disabilities Education Act: establish a method to provide outcome-based funding increases to States (H.R. 5001), E1121 [21JN]

———reduce paperwork for special education teachers (H.R. 5591), E1807 [9OC]

Information services: deregulate Internet and high speed data services (H.R. 1542), H575-H609 [27FE], E237, E241 [28FE], E260 [5MR], E283 [6MR], E300 [7MR]

———deregulate Internet and high speed data services (H.R. 1542), consideration (H. Res. 350), H568-H574 [27FE]

———deregulate Internet and high speed data services (H.R. 1542), corrections in engrossment, H608 [27FE]

———deregulate Internet and high speed data services (H.R. 1542), motion to recommit, H603-H607 [27FE]

———deregulate Internet and high speed data services (H.R. 1542), unanimous-consent request, H601, H602 [27FE]

———protect competition in Internet and high speed data services by preserving certain FCC and State regulations affecting competitive local exchange carriers, H568, H570-H573, H579, H582-H594, H601-H607 [27FE]

Insurance: protect ownership rights of policyholders in mutual life insurance companies, E560 [17AP]

———require coverage of hair prostheses under Federal health programs for individuals with scalp hair loss as a result of alopecia areata (H.R. 5106), E1236 [11JY]

Judicial Conference of the U.S.: require report on class action settlements in Federal courts be submitted to Congress, H880-H882 [13MR]

Law enforcement: allow use of Community Oriented Policing Services funds for State and local intelligence officers (H.R. 5307), E1444 [29JY]

Medicaid: congressional disapproval of rule that lowers the upper payment limit for non-State owned or operated hospitals, H4571 [12JY]

———extend certain modifications to disproportionate share hospital allotments (H.R. 854), E1928 [17OC]

———extend certain modifications to disproportionate share hospital allotments (H.R. 854), complete congressional action, H7001 [3OC]

———require States that provide prescription drug coverage to cover drugs that treat obesity (H.R. 1641), H268 [12FE]

Medicare: treatment of certain counties relative to reimbursement rates, H2911 [22MY], H2976, H3027, H3028, H3029 [23MY], H5222 [23JY], H6732 [26SE], E911, E931, E937 [24MY]

———treatment of certain New York counties relative to reimbursement rates, H3023 [23MY]

Missouri: anniversary of 1927 flood, E584 [18AP]

———tribute to northwest Missouri school districts recognized as most improved by Missouri Dept. of Elementary and Secondary Education, E651 [29AP]

Monuments and memorials: prohibit extension or establishment of any national monument without an express act of Congress, H1195 [10AP]

———prohibit extension or establishment of any national monument without an express act of Congress (H.R. 2114), H3541 [13JN], H3725 [20JN]

Motor vehicles: assess the advisability of requiring each State to use the SSA Death Master File in issuing drivers' licenses to individuals (H.R. 5284), H5879 [26JY]

———prohibit States from requiring a license or fee relative to motor vehicles providing interstate pre-arranged ground transportation service (H.R. 2546), H8083-H8085 [12NO]

National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicaid: establish (H.R. 4961), E1107 [20JN]

National Sea Grant College Program Act: ensure equal access for minority and economically disadvantaged students, H3690-H3692 [19JN]

———reauthorize (H.R. 3389), H3683-H3693 [19JN], E1137 [24JN]

———reauthorize (H.R. 3389), consideration (H. Res. 446), H3681-H3683 [19JN]

———reauthorize (H.R. 3389), Senate amendment, H8064-H8067 [12NO], E2035 [14NO]

National security: provide for the sharing of homeland security information by Federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies with State and local entities, H5443, H5444 [24JY], H5858-H5861 [26JY]

———provide for the sharing of homeland security information by Federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies with State and local entities (H.R. 4598), H3936-H3948 [26JN], E843 [17MY]

———provide for the sharing of homeland security information by Federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies with State and local entities (H.R. 4598), consideration (H. Res. 458), H3934-H3936 [26JN]

———require the President to prescribe procedures which determine whether, how, and to what extent, information provided by whistleblowers should be disseminated, H3946, H3947 [26JN]

Native Americans: require State approval of new gambling facilities, develop minimum Federal standards for Indian gaming, and establish commission to report on living standards on Indian lands (H.R. 2244), H4712 [16JY]

New Hampshire-Vermont Interstate School Compact: congressional consent to certain amendments (H.R. 3180), H3886-H3888 [25JN]

New Jersey: restrict ocean dumping at the Historic Area Remediation Site to dumping of dredged material that does not exceed certain polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB's) levels (H.R. 5092), H4523 [11JY]

Nuclear energy: transportation of spent nuclear fuel, H2192-H2202 [8MY], E1269 [16JY]

Ohio: anniversary of State flag, E1067 [14JN]

Pennsylvania: anniversary of Registers of Wills & Clerks of Orphans' Court, E1238 [11JY]

Pharmaceuticals: provide access and choice for use of generic drugs under State Medicaid programs, H539 [26FE]

Political campaigns: prohibit soft money expenditures by State, district, or local political party committees, H444-H448 [13FE]

Polly Klaas Foundation: tribute, E1809 [9OC]

Public welfare programs: address barriers to employment as a work activity under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program, E1519 [5SE]

———expand educational opportunities for recipients of assistance under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program, H2580 [16MY], E747 [8MY]

———expand vocational educational opportunities for recipients of assistance under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program, H2496 [15MY]

———impact of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program reauthorization on Oregon, E1038 [13JN]

———increase work requirement, H2495, H2496 [15MY]

———increase work requirements, H2542, H2549 [16MY]

———provide transportation to places of employment under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program, H1691 [30AP]

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (H.R. 3113), H144, H145, H146 [6FE], H1275-H1280 [11AP], E106 [6FE], E110, E118 [7FE]

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (H.R. 4090), H1159, H1160, H1161, H1162 [10AP], H1344, H1384, H1389-H1396 [17AP], H1414, H1415 [18AP], H1622, H1623, H1624, H1625 [25AP], H1691, H1750-H1757 [30AP], H1773, H1999-H2002 [1MY], H2170 [8MY], E482 [10AP], E637, E638 [26AP], E747 [8MY]

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (H.R. 4210), H1625 [25AP]

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (H.R. 4700), H2391, H2430 [14MY]

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (H.R. 4737), H2475, H2476, H2477, H2478, H2479, H2500-H2502 [15MY], H2514-H2594, H2600 [16MY], E819 [16MY], E842 [17MY], E857, E860, E862 [20MY], E893 [23MY], E912, E932 [24MY], E977 [6JN], E983, E984 [7JN], E1038 [13JN]

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (H.R. 4737), complete congressional action (H. Res. 525), H6307 [18SE], H6384-H6393 [19SE]

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (H.R. 4737), consideration (H. Res. 422), H2491-H2499 [15MY]

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (H.R. 4737), consideration (H. Res. 422), same-day consideration (H. Res. 420), H2484-H2491 [15MY]

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (H.R. 4737), corrections in engrossment, H2594 [16MY]

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (H.R. 4737), motion to recommit, H2592, H2593 [16MY]

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (H.R. 4737), unanimous-consent request, H2499 [15MY]

———reauthorize and reform block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (H.R. 3625), E23, E24 [24JA]

———reauthorize Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program work-related provisions and Child Care and Development Block Grants (H.R. 4092), H2114 [7MY], H2170 [8MY], E470 [9AP], E638 [26AP], E747 [8MY]

———State option to elect a food stamp block grant in lieu of a regular program, H2494, H2496, H2497, H2502 [15MY], H2589 [16MY]

———temporarily extend waivers granted to States under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (H.R. 5757), E2074 [15NO]

Puerto Rico: compliance with certain provisions of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program, E819 [16MY]

Region 10 (organization): anniversary, E629 [26AP]

Religion: defend the Ten Commandments, H646 [28FE]

Roads and highways: identify certain routes as part of the Ports-to-Plains High Priority Corridor (S. 1646), H7964 [16OC]

Social Security: extend State Children's Health Insurance Program coverage to low-income pregnant women and their unborn children, E109 [7FE]

———permit qualifying States to use unspent State Children's Health Insurance Program allotments to expand health coverage under that program or for Medicaid expenditures, H7955 [16OC]

———permit qualifying States to use unspent State Children's Health Insurance Program allotments to expand health coverage under that program or for Medicaid expenditures (H.R. 5656), E1911 [17OC]

———permit States the option of covering certain legal aliens under Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (H.R. 5067), E1300 [18JY]

Solid waste: State and local control over the flow of municipal solid waste, E1340 [24JY]

South Carolina Policy Council: tribute, H2170 [8MY]

Statewide Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey (organization): tribute, E1816 [11OC]

Taxation: allow tax credit for contributions to local agencies and organizations for scholarships to attend elementary and secondary schools, upgrading school facilities, and certain technology expenses, H1611-H1617 [24AP], H2010-H2016 [1MY], H2220-H2227 [8MY], H2506, H2507 [15MY], H3442-H3449 [11JN], H3510-H3512 [12JN]

———exempt State and local political committees from certain notification and reporting requirements applicable to political organizations, H1127-H1131 [9AP], H1160 [10AP], E481 [10AP], E504 [11AP]

———exempt State and local political committees from certain notification and reporting requirements applicable to political organizations (H.R. 5596), H8010-H8013 [16OC]

Telecommunications: require Bell Operating Cos., to submit a statement on proposed Internet and high speed data services to the Dept. of Justice prior to offering services to a region, H573 [27FE]

Telecommunications Act: interpretation of savings clause relative to antitrust laws, H573 [27FE]

Terrorism: allow offering of indemnity to companies that sell anti-terrorism technology and services to Federal, State, and local governments, H5657 [25JY], H5824, H5830-H5836 [26JY], E1467 [29JY]

———liability protections to companies that sell anti-terrorism technology and services to Federal, State, and local governments, E2079 [15NO]

Texas Independence Day: observance, H668 [5MR]

Tornadoes: disaster assistance to La Plata, MD, H5226 [23JY]

———tribute to recovery efforts in La Plata, MD, E1359 [25JY]

Typhoons: disaster assistance to Guam, H4572 [12JY]

Uniform Time Act: modify State exemption provisions for advancement of time (H.R. 4126), H1191 [10AP]

Utah: exchange certain lands (H.R. 4968), H6862-H6864 [1OC]

Utah-Nevada Boundary Compact: congressional consent (H.R. 2054), H3395-H3399 [11JN]

Voting: direct NIST to develop standards to ensure accuracy and validation of the voting process and provide grants to States to improve voting methods and voter education campaigns, H7842, H7849 [10OC], E1862 [11OC]

———establish a grant program to provide assistance to States for modernizing and enhancing voting procedures and administration (H.R. 3295), H6885 [1OC]

———establish a grant program to provide assistance to States for modernizing and enhancing voting procedures and administration (H.R. 3295), conference report, H7836-H7854 [10OC], E1861, E1862 [11OC]

———establish a grant program to provide assistance to States for modernizing and enhancing voting procedures and administration (H.R. 3295), conference report—unanimous-consent agreement, H7377 [9OC]

———establish a grant program to provide assistance to States for modernizing and enhancing voting procedures and administration (H.R. 3295), motion to instruct conferees, H2596-H2599 [16MY], H3633 [18JN], H3677-H3681 [19JN], H4022 [26JN], H4337 [8JY], H4388-H4392 [9JY], H6342-H6348 [18SE], H6682-H6685 [25SE], H6948-H6951 [2OC], E1635 [23SE]

———establish a grant program to provide assistance to States for modernizing and enhancing voting procedures and administration (H.R. 3295), resolve disagreements between Senate and House of Representatives (H. Con. Res. 508), H7854 [10OC]

———establish a program to provide funds to State and local governments to replace punch card voting systems, H2596-H2599 [16MY]

Washington: Wine Enthusiast (publication) Wine Region of the Year award recipient, H1416 [18AP]

Water: authorize appropriations for State water pollution control revolving funds (H.R. 3930), E1956 [24OC]

Week of the Young Child: observance, E603 [23AP]

Western States: Federal land management, H997-H1000 [19MR]

———importance of dams and water storage, H621-H625 [27FE], H821-H823 [12MR], H996 [19MR], H1762-H1767 [30AP], H3153 [4JN]

———tribute to firefighters for efforts in fighting wildfires, H3613 [18JN], H3854 [24JN], H4062 [26JN]

———tribute to firefighters killed in the line of duty while fighting wildfires, E1500 [5SE]

Workforce Investment Act: clarify waiver authority granted to local workforce investment boards, H2544, H2545 [16MY]

Remarks in Senate

Advisory Committee on Electronic Voting and the Electoral Process: establish, S2468 [10AP]

Agriculture: permit States to purchase certain pesticides sold in Canada (S. 532), S7030 [18JY]

———promote sustainable groundwater management of the southern Ogallala Aquifer, S685 [13FE]

———provide emergency agriculture assistance, S6433 [9JY]

Alaska: facilitate construction of the Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System, S1961, S1962 [15MR], S2235 [21MR]

———political affiliation during pursuit of statehood, S2635 [12AP]

———prohibit issuance of permits to construct a natural gas pipeline offshore via the Beaufort Sea, S1555-S1560, S1580-S1590 [6MR]

———protect jurisdiction over in-State distribution of natural gas and provide workforce training associated with natural gas pipeline construction, S1587 [6MR]

Amtrak: funding, S5821-S5823 [20JN], S5887-S5890 [21JN], S5924, S5939-S5941 [24JN], S5972, S5995 [25JN], S6122 [26JN], S6229 [27JN]

———provide for testing of chronic wasting disease and other infectious diseases in deer and elk and establish the Interagency Task Force on Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (S. 3090), S10361 [10OC], S10655 [17OC]

Bankruptcy: limit homestead property exemption, S2938 [18AP]

———limit the value of real and personal property that debtors may exempt under State and local law (S. 2996), S9122 [24SE]

Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor: authorizing appropriations (S. 2033), S2082 [19MR]

California: prohibit oil and gas leasing activities on certain portions of the Outer Continental Shelf, S8416 [10SE]

———provide companies with oil, gas, and mineral leases, on the Outer Continental Shelf, with credits of equal value for energy production in the Gulf of Mexico, S3408, S3409 [25AP]

———provide companies with oil, gas, and mineral leases, on the Outer Continental Shelf, with credits of equal value for energy production in the Gulf of Mexico (S. 1952), S859 [14FE], S896 [15FE]

———ensure that defendants in capital cases have adequate counsel and allow those convicted to have a reasonable opportunity to present new evidence of innocence (S. 486), S889-S891 [15FE], S2478 [10AP], S11247 [18NO]

———ensure that indigent defendants in State courts receive adequate legal representation (S. 2442), S3859-S3865 [2MY]

———exonerations based on postconviction DNA testing, S889-S891 [15FE], S2478 [10AP]

———temporary moratorium until a national commission reviews the justice, fairness, and due process of the administration of the death penalty (S. 233), S2478 [10AP], S2630 [12AP], S2692-S2694 [16AP], S5845 [20JN]

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: congressional disapproval of rule that lowers the Medicaid upper payment limit for non-State owned or operated hospitals (S.J. Res. 37), S4333 [14MY]

CERCLA: promote cleanup and reuse of brownfields, provide financial assistance for brownfields revitalization, and enhance State response programs (S. 350), S11556, S11557 [19NO]

Chemicals: improve Federal safety regulations relative to processing of reactive chemicals, S10665 [17OC]

———provide assistance for nutrient removal practices to States in the watershed, S684 [13FE], S4010-S4012, S4019, S4020 [8MY]

Children and youth: assist law enforcement in efforts to recover missing children and clarify standards for State sex offender registration programs (S. 3140), S10709 [17OC]

———enhance operation of the AMBER Alert communications plan to expedite the recovery of abducted children (S. 2896), S8094, S8095 [3SE], S8436-S8441 [10SE]

———establish a Community Corps (S. 2392), S3510 [29AP], S3556 [30AP]

———meet mental health and substance abuse treatment needs of incarcerated children and youth (S. 1965), S1210 [26FE]

———prevent child abuse, neglect, and abandonment and family violence (S. 2998), S9123-S9135 [24SE], S10635 [17OC]

Clean Air Act: allow State Governors to waive oxygen content requirement for reformulated gasoline, assist States in cleaning up leaking underground storage tanks, and phase out methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE), S1695 [8MR], S2320 [22MR], S3409 [25AP], S5443-S5446 [12JN]

———allow State Governors to waive oxygen content requirement for reformulated gasoline, assist States in cleaning up leaking underground storage tanks, and phase out methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE) (S. 950), S482 [7FE]

———reduce powerplant pollution through expansion of cap and trade programs and an alternative regulatory classification for units subject to such programs (S. 2815), S7472 [29JY]

Coastal Zone Management Act: authorize the acquisition of coastal areas to ensure their protection from conversion or development (S. 2608), S5369, S5370 [11JN]

Commission on Voting Rights and Procedures: establish (S. 565), S709-S729 [13FE], S797-S830, S832-S840 [14FE], S879-S881, S975 [15FE], S987-S991, S993, S994 [25FE], S1142, S1166-S1196 [26FE], S1223-S1232, S1233, S1236, S1241, S1249 [27FE], S1328-S1332, S1341, S1343 [28FE], S1379-S1387, S1390, S1402-S1405 [1MR], S1412, S1414-S1417 [4MR], S2465-S2477 [10AP], S2516-S2556 [11AP], S9684 [1OC]

———establish (S. 565), unanimous-consent agreement, S1402 [1MR], S2318 [22MR], S2503 [10AP]

———establish (S. 565), vitiation of action, S2599 [11AP]

Community development: provide grant funding for additional empowerment zones and enterprise communities (S. 2692), S6253 [27JN]

Conservation Reserve Program: promote water conservation on agricultural land, S528-S533, S540 [8FE], S604, S608, S609, S611 [12FE], S694, S695 [13FE]

———strike water conservation program, S469-S476 [7FE], S604, S605, S608 [12FE]

Corps of Engineers: establish a research and demonstration program to control salt cedar and other non-native phreatophytes (S. 2868), S7938 [1AU]

Crime: abolish Federal statute of limitations for sex offenses and assist States in reducing backlog of cases awaiting DNA analysis (S. 2090), S2579 [11AP]

———allow for possibility of death penalty in the prosecution of hate crimes, S5267-S5269, S5272-S5276 [10JN], S5327-S5330 [11JN]

———foster local collaborations to ensure effective and efficient use of resources within the criminal and juvenile justice systems in dealing with mentally ill offenders (S. 3147), S10711-S10716 [17OC]

———provide all prisoners with an opportunity to present exculpatory DNA evidence (S. 2441), S3859-S3865 [2MY]

———provide Federal assistance to States and local jurisdictions to prosecute hate crimes, S1391 [1MR]

———provide Federal assistance to States and local jurisdictions to prosecute hate crimes (S. 625), S22 [23JA], S134 [25JA], S174 [28JA], S223 [29JA], S281 [4FE], S342 [5FE], S424 [6FE], S480 [7FE], S542 [8FE], S586 [11FE], S653 [12FE], S731 [13FE], S850 [14FE], S897 [15FE], S998 [25FE], S1198 [26FE], S1249 [27FE], S1346 [28FE], S1419 [4MR], S1534 [5MR], S1595 [6MR], S1672 [7MR], S1702, S1704 [8MR], S1727 [11MR], S1776 [12MR], S1852 [13MR], S1929 [14MR], S1971 [15MR], S2070 [19MR], S2176 [20MR], S2243 [21MR], S2322 [22MR], S2481 [10AP], S2573 [11AP], S2630 [12AP], S2671 [15AP], S2720 [16AP], S2824 [17AP], S2939 [18AP], S3013 [22AP], S3161 [23AP], S3296 [24AP], S3427 [25AP], S3466 [26AP], S3501 [29AP], S3557 [30AP], S3622 [1MY], S3835 [2MY], S3898 [6MY], S3948 [7MY], S4057 [8MY], S4140 [9MY], S4269 [13MY], S4327 [14MY], S4382 [15MY], S4487 [16MY], S4525, S4526, S4533 [17MY], S4615 [21MY], S4697 [22MY], S4832 [23MY], S4883 [3JN], S4963 [4JN], S5033 [5JN], S5200 [6JN], S5246-S5248, S5251 [7JN], S5267-S5276, S5316 [10JN], S5325-S5337 [11JN], S5446, S5447 [12JN], S5530 [13JN], S5583 [14JN], S5629 [17JN], S5689 [18JN], S5767 [19JN], S5844 [20JN], S5895 [21JN], S5951 [24JN], S6009 [25JN], S6124 [26JN], S6236 [27JN], S6316 [28JN], S6354 [8JY], S6496 [9JY], S6568 [10JY], S6644 [11JY], S6706 [12JY], S6804 [15JY], S6861 [16JY], S6943 [17JY], S7029 [18JY], S7101 [19JY], S7159 [22JY], S7222 [23JY], S7306 [24JY], S7369 [25JY], S7422 [26JY], S7464 [29JY], S7572 [30JY], S7736 [31JY], S7865 [1AU], S8079 [3SE], S8195 [4SE], S8292 [5SE], S8369 [9SE], S8447 [10SE], S8505 [11SE], S8557 [12SE], S8617 [13SE], S8667 [17SE], S8747 [18SE], S8915 [19SE], S8979 [20SE], S9030 [23SE], S9110 [24SE], S9226 [25SE], S9414 [26SE], S9592 [30SE], S9707 [1OC], S9840 [2OC], S9898 [3OC], S9979 [4OC], S10037 [7OC], S10111 [8OC], S10218 [9OC], S10347 [10OC], S10434 [15OC], S10564 [16OC], S10653 [17OC], S10835 [12NO], S10879 [13NO], S11062 [14NO], S11204 [15NO], S11308 [18NO], S11551 [19NO], S11715 [20NO]

———provide Federal assistance to States and local jurisdictions to prosecute hate crimes (S. 625), unanimous-consent agreement, S4818 [23MY], S5195 [6JN]

———provide Federal assistance to States and local jurisdictions to prosecute hate crimes (S. 625), unanimous-consent request, S3454 [25AP], S4525 [17MY]

Dept. of Commerce: 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 (S. 975), S3517 [30AP]

Dept. of Defense: establish at least one Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team in each State (S. 2908), S8305 [5SE]

Dept. of Energy: allow vehicle fleet administrators to choose between alternative fuel or hybrid vehicles, S2198 [21MR]

———assist States and regional organizations in identifying and developing areas with energy resource potential, S2450 [10AP]

———submission of energy self-sufficiency plans, S1885-S1889 [14MR]

Dept. of HHS: State Children's Health Insurance Program expansion and funding, S10539 [16OC]

———State developmental disabilities councils funding, S5183 [6JN]

Dept. of Homeland Security: establish a risk-based program that prioritizes and allocates Federal, State, and local resources for combating terrorism, S11450 [19NO]

———require report on effectiveness of information sharing between Dept. of Homeland Security, FBI, and State and local law enforcement authorities (S. 2956), S8758 [18SE]

Dept. of Justice: establish a racial profiling education and awareness program and assist State and local law enforcement agencies in implementing such programs (S. 2114), S2584 [11AP]

———require a report on the effectiveness of State Justice Institute operations (H.R. 2048), S3976 [7MY]

———status of tobacco industry lawsuit relative to health risks and marketing and manufacturing practices, S1925 [14MR]

———study the adequacy of existing electoral fraud statutes and penalties, S2468 [10AP]

Dept. of the Interior: planning, construction, operation, and maintenance of several water systems in Montana (S. 934), S4509 [16MY]

———provide assistance through States to eligible weed management entities to control or eradicate harmful, nonnative weeds (S. 198), S11639-S11641 [19NO]

Dept. of Transportation: establish policy linking immigration status with issuance of drivers' licenses, S5192 [6JN]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: establish an office to coordinate disaster preparedness strategies with other Federal agencies, and State and local governments (S. 2186), S2839 [17AP]

Disasters: extend deadline for submission of State recommendations of local governments to receive assistance of predisaster hazard mitigation and to provide additional repair assistance to individuals (S. 1632), S10472 [15OC]

———relief funding, S6634-S6636 [11JY]

District of Columbia College Access Act: permit certain high school graduates who graduated prior to 1998 to participate in the tuition assistance program (H.R. 1499), S1953 [14MR]

Drought: disaster assistance to New Mexico, S6643 [11JY], S7427 [26JY]

———disaster assistance to North Carolina, S7030 [18JY]

Drugs: respond to the illegal production, distribution, and use of methamphetamines (S. 2763), S7107-S7109 [19JY]

Economy: establish certain road and highway safety programs to encourage economic growth (S. 3011), S9430 [26SE]

———establish certain road and highway safety programs to encourage economic growth (S. 3011), star print, S9859 [2OC]

Education: close the achievement gap by raising the achievement levels of the lowest performing students (H.R. 1), S2910 [18AP]

———close the achievement gap by raising the achievement levels of the lowest performing students (H.R. 1), conference report, S5651 [18JN], S8150-S8152 [4SE]

———emergency summer school funding, S4997-S5004 [5JN], S5192 [6JN]

———establish State infrastructure banks for education (S. 2195), S2910, S2954 [18AP]

———funding, S3484 [29AP], S5341-S5343 [11JN]

———improve early learning opportunities and promote school preparedness (S. 2566), S4853-S4861 [23MY]

———provide educational opportunities for all students in State public school systems (S. 2912), S8307 [5SE]

———provide grants for school renovations (S. 2698), S6260 [27JN]

———reduce paperwork for special education teachers and make mediation mandatory for all legal disputes relative to individualized education programs (S. 2653), S5853 [20JN]

Elections: permit use of Social Security numbers for voter registration and election administration, S809-S811, S829, S830 [14FE]

Electric power: establish State renewable electric energy generation standards, S2043-S2069 [19MR], S2162-S2174 [20MR], S2194, S2195 [21MR], S2717 [16AP]

———exempt retail electric suppliers in States that have or initiate renewable energy programs from renewable electric energy generation standards, S2225-S2229 [21MR]

———provide consumer protections and reliability in the provision of electric power, S2430-S2438, S2448-S2450 [10AP], S2631 [12AP], S2672 [15AP], S3241-S3251 [24AP]

Elementary and Secondary Education Act: permit certain States and local educational agencies to obtain waivers of student testing requirements (S. 2954), S8756 [18SE]

Employment: dislocated worker assistance programs funding, S7268 [24JY]

———workforce training programs funding, S7266, S7281 [24JY]

Enron Corp.: involvement in manipulation of California energy crisis, S3938-S3946 [7MY]

EPA: enforcement of Agreement Concerning the Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Waste Between the U.S. and Canada relative to importation of municipal solid waste (S. 2792), S7374 [25JY]

FBI: impact on State and local law enforcement resulting from shifting of criminal investigation agents to terrorism-related duties, S4946 [4JN]

———prohibit destruction of records from the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, S2942 [18AP]

———restore Federal remedies for violations of intellectual property rights by States (S. 2031), S2078-S2082 [19MR]

———role of the Federal Government, S5323-S5325 [11JN]

FEMA: GAO report on hazard mitigation programs, S10436 [15OC]

FERC: hydroelectric power projects licensing reform, S3252-S3255 [24AP]

Fire prevention: encourage Federal land management agencies to reduce forest fuels that place national resources at high risk of catastrophic wildfire, S6522 [10JY], S8532 [12SE]

———encourage Federal land management agencies to reduce forest fuels that place national resources at high risk of catastrophic wildfire, and prepare a National Prescribed Fire Strategy, S3158 [23AP]

Firearms: improve the national instant criminal background check system (S. 2826), S7583-S7585 [30JY], S11561 [19NO]

———prohibit gunrunning and provide mandatory minimum penalties for crimes related to gunrunning (S. 2091), S2580 [11AP]

Fish and fishing: efforts to rehabilitate salmon stocks in the Pacific Northwest, S4044 [8MY]

Floods: disaster assistance to Louisiana, S9561-S9563 [30SE], S9834 [2OC]

———disaster assistance to Midwestern States, S5187 [6JN]

———disaster assistance to Minnesota, S7243, S7244 [24JY]

Florida: authorize the Dept. of Agriculture to sell or exchange certain national forest lands (S. 2652), S5853 [20JN]

———failure of Legislature to continue support for election reform, S1337 [28FE]

———voting equipment problems in primary election, S8441 [10SE]

Forest Service: establish a program to expand and strengthen cooperative efforts to restore and protect forests in the Chesapeake Bay watershed (S. 3023), S9719 [1OC]

Georgia: protect marine species (S. 2627), S5597 [14JN]

Hawaii: political affiliation during pursuit of statehood, S2635 [12AP]

Hazardous substances: approve Yucca Mountain, NV, as nuclear waste disposal site (H.J. Res. 87), S6490 [9JY]

———approve Yucca Mountain, NV, as nuclear waste disposal site (S.J. Res. 34), S2403, S2416 [9AP], S2787 [17AP], S5396 [12JN], S5528 [13JN], S5725 [19JN], S5797-S5799 [20JN], S5883, S5886, S5893 [21JN], S5985, S5986 [25JN], S6053-S6056 [26JN]

———approve Yucca Mountain, NV, as nuclear waste disposal site (S.J. Res. 34), motion to proceed, S6444-S6491 [9JY]

———approve Yucca Mountain, NV, as nuclear waste disposal site (S.J. Res. 34), unanimous-consent request, S5985 [25JN]

———designate Yucca Mountain, NV, as nuclear waste disposal site, S840 [14FE]

Health: authorize formulation of State and regional emergency telehealth network testbeds and a telehealth task force within the Dept. of Defense (S. 2748), S6957 [17JY]

———limit medical malpractice claims, S7359 [25JY], S8369 [9SE]

———modify the rules for redistribution and extended availability of funding for the State Children's Health Insurance Program (S. 2860), S7926-S7929 [1AU]

High Plains Aquifer: conduct hydrogeologic characterization, mapping, modeling, and monitoring program (S. 2773), S7228 [23JY]

Home Investment Partnerships Act: support certain housing proposals including the downpayment assistance initiative (S. 2584), S5049 [5JN]

Homeless: direct Federal aid to projects and programs that will prevent, and end, homelessness and ensure accountability through performance evaluations (S. 2573), S4865 [23MY]

House of Representatives: constitutional amendment on appointment and election of new Members if a significant number of Members can no longer serve due to a national emergency (S.J. Res. 30), S22 [23JA]

Housing: improve voucher rental assistance housing program (S. 2721), S6651 [11JY]

———promote the production of affordable low-income housing (S. 2967), S8920 [19SE]

Idaho: tribute to National Guard, S2483 [10AP]

Illinois: Governor's Commission on Capital Punishment report, S2692-S2694 [16AP]

Immigration: extend and modify reimbursement of State and local funds expended for emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens (S. 3013), S9432 [26SE]

Individuals With Disabilities Education Act: ensure full funding and allow States to reform special education programs to increase parental choice and reduce paperwork (S. 2883), S7949 [1AU]

Information services: deregulate Internet and high speed data services (H.R. 1542), S995 [25FE]

Joint Federal and State Navigable Waters Commission for Alaska: establish (S. 2587), S5051 [5JN]

Kentucky: permit the operation of a separate retirement system for certain public employees under Social Security (S. 1929), S587 [11FE]

Law enforcement: assess backlog in DNA analysis of rape kit samples and improve investigation and prosecution of sexual assault cases with DNA evidence (S. 2513), S4331-S4333 [14MY], S8577, S8580 [12SE]

———community policing programs, S5921 [24JN]

———community policing programs (S. 924), S8915 [19SE]

———establish a Community Oriented Policing Services anti-methamphetamine grant program (S. 2030), S2078 [19MR]

———prohibit racial profiling (S. 989), S1249 [27FE]

Law enforcement officers: exempt from State laws prohibiting the carrying of concealed handguns (S. 2480), S4073 [8MY]

———permit reviews of criminal records of applicants for private security officer employment (S. 2238), S3306 [24AP]

Medicaid: allow payment for dialysis, chemotherapy, pregnancy-related services, communicable diseases testing and treatment, and other emergency care to certain aliens (S. 2449), S3872 [2MY]

———allow States to enter into drug rebate agreements to make prescription drugs available to individuals who are not otherwise eligible for medical assistance (S. 2536), S4626 [21MY]

———clarify authority to enter into drug rebate agreements with manufacturers in order to provide prescription drug coverage to individuals not covered by Medicaid, S6978-S6982, S7010-S7016 [18JY]

———delay changes in regulations that modify upper payment limit for non-State government-owned or operated hospitals, S270 [4FE]

———increase Federal matching contributions to State programs, S164 [28JA], S204-S207, S216-S219 [29JA], S266 [4FE], S335 [5FE]

———increase Federal Medical Assistance Percentage to States, S5111-S5113 [6JN], S7285-S7299 [24JY], S7328-S7336 [25JY]

———increase Federal Medical Assistance Percentage to States (S. 2110), S2582, S2583 [11AP]

———increase Federal Medical Assistance Percentage to States (S. 2221), S3018 [22AP]

———increase Federal Medical Assistance Percentage to States (S. 2570), S4863, S4864 [23MY]

———permit additional States to enter into long-term care partnerships in order to promote the use of long-term care insurance (S. 2199), S2956 [18AP]

———provide States with the option of covering intensive community mental health treatment (S. 2072), S2330 [22MR]

———reimbursement of nursing facilities located on an Indian reservation in South Dakota and owned or operated by an Indian tribe or tribal organization (S. 2738), S6949, S6950 [17JY]

Medicare: geographically adjust the amount of premiums based on the use of health care items and services in the State in which the beneficiary resides (S. 2605), S5286 [10JN]

———reduce geographic disparities in payment rates, S8246-S8249 [5SE]

———treatment of certain counties relative to reimbursement rates, S5187, S5188 [6JN], S6347-S6351 [8JY], S6568 [10JY]

Medicare/Medicaid: improve access to long-term care services (S. 2655), S5856 [20JN]

———improve advance directive requirements to ensure compliance with individual health care decisions (S. 2857), S7920-S7926 [1AU]

Minnesota: importance of State Fair, S8154 [4SE]

Missouri River: water resource management, S6346 [8JY]

Motor vehicles: EPA treatment of State petitions to waive renewable fuel content requirements, S2508-S2511, S2558-S2560 [11AP]

———improve security of State-issued driver's licenses (S. 3107), S10385-S10388 [10OC], S10560 [16OC]

———permit individuals to operate commercial motor vehicles within State borders after meeting minimum standards (H.R. 2466), S4199 [10MY]

———prohibit States from requiring a license or fee relative to motor vehicles providing interstate pre-arranged ground transportation service (H.R. 2546), S10745, S10746 [17OC], S11555 [19NO]

———provide grants to States for fuel-inefficient motor vehicle retirement programs, S1838-S1842, S1845, S1846 [13MR]

———renewable fuel content requirements, S2511-S2516, S2561, S2562, S2565, S2569-S2571 [11AP], S2894-S2898, S2904-S2906, S2908 [18AP], S3112, S3122-S3142 [23AP], S3294 [24AP], S3343-S3354, S3391, S3410 [25AP]

National Guard: tribute to Counter Drug States Plan Program, S7880 [1AU]

National Park Service: enhance the Recreation Fee Demonstration Program (S. 2473), S4066 [8MY], S4661 [22MY]

National Sea Grant College Program Act: reauthorize (H.R. 3389), S10397 [10OC]

———reauthorize (S. 2428), S3570 [30AP]

National security: establish Federal standards for State issued driver's license and identification cards, S1387 [1MR]

———make grants to State and local governments in order to prepare for and respond to terrorist threats (S. 2077), S2414 [9AP]

———provide for the sharing of homeland security information by Federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies with State and local entities (S. 2887), S7953 [1AU]

New Hampshire-Vermont Interstate School Compact: congressional consent to certain amendments (H.R. 3180), S11793 [20NO]

New Jersey: court case relative to appearance of Democratic Party Senate candidate on ballot, S9837-S9839 [2OC]

New Mexico: tribute to Hispanic Americans, S10668 [17OC]

North Dakota: voting procedures, S840 [14FE]

Oregon: anniversary, S845 [14FE]

Political campaigns: prohibit soft money expenditures by State, district, or local political party committees, S2138 [20MR]

———prohibit State candidates from spending non-Federal money on advertisements that mention Federal candidates, S2142 [20MR]

Power resources: allow State Governors to waive certain Federal renewable energy requirements if they would adversely impact electric power customers, S2231 [21MR]

———clarify definition of ``repowering and cofiring increment'' to ensure proper credit is given for renewable energy generation, S2233, S2234 [21MR]

———Federal compensation for coastal States impacted by the production of energy, S1888, S1889 [14MR], S2607 [12AP]

———streamline siting process for energy pipelines and transmission lines, S2602 [11AP]

Public Health Service Act: add requirements regarding trauma care (S. 3048), S9909 [3OC]

Public Service Recognition Week: observance, S3838 [2MY]

Public utilities: establish an organization to ensure the reliability of the electric power transmission system, S1873-S1882, S1884, S1890, S1895-S1897 [14MR]

Public welfare programs: address barriers to employment as a work activity under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (S. 2610), S5371 [11JN]

———exclude child care from the determining limits on assistance under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (S. 2070), S2329 [22MR], S3501 [29AP]

———improve access to adequate and affordable housing under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (S. 2116), S2587 [11AP]

———improve provision of education and job training under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (S. 2548), S4720 [22MY]

———permit States to create a program that allows individuals to obtain post-secondary or vocational education under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (S. 2552), S4725 [22MY]

———promote financial education under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program and allow such education to count as a work activity under that program (S. 2628), S5633 [17JN]

———promote secure and healthy families under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (S. 2876), S7941 [1AU]

———provide grants for transitional jobs programs under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (S. 2631), S5699 [18JN]

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program, S7844 [1AU]

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (S. 2052), S2275 [21MR]

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program and improve access to quality child care (S. 2648), S5778, S5779 [19JN]

———reauthorize and improve the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Programs operated by Indian tribes (S. 2484), S4075 [8MY]

———replace caseload reduction credit with employment credit under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (S. 2058), S2283 [21MR]

Real property: preserve Federal sovereignty of certain public lands and preserve certain State and private property rights (S. 2575), S4969 [4JN]

Roads and highways: establish program to make allocations to States for projects to expand 2-lane highways in rural areas to 4-lane highways (S. 2906), S8303 [5SE]

———identify a route as the Southwest Passage Initiative for Regional and Interstate Transportation Corridor (S. 1986), S1538 [5MR]

———identify certain routes as part of the Ports-to-Plains High Priority Corridor (S. 1646), S6173 [26JN]

Rural areas: promote and improve access to health care services (S. 1030), S8667 [17SE]

Safe Drinking Water Act: study effects of hydraulic fracturing on underground drinking water sources, S1633-S1637, S1642 [7MR]

Securities: allow Federal enforcement actions based on State enforcement actions against microcap securities fraud and broaden SEC regulation of rogue brokers (S. 1985), S1537 [5MR]

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 (S. Res. 264), S4078 [8MY], S4191 [10MY], S6432 [8JY]

Social Security: extend availability of allotments under the State Children's Health Insurance Program (S. 3180), S11278 [18NO], S11738 [20NO]

———extend availability of allotments under the State Children's Health Insurance Program (S. 3180), unanimous-consent request, S11664 [20NO]

———permit qualifying States to use unspent State Children's Health Insurance Program allotments to expand health coverage under that program or for Medicaid expenditures (S. 2819), S7580 [30JY]

———permit qualifying States to use unspent State Children's Health Insurance Program allotments to expand health coverage under that program or for Medicaid expenditures (S. 3092), S10367 [10OC]

———restore Social Services Block Grant funding and the ability of States to transfer Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds to such block grant (S. 501), S2406 [9AP]

Solid waste: allow States to use municipal solid waste as a renewable energy source, S2235 [21MR]

———limit receipt of out-of-State municipal solid waste (S. 2034), S2083 [19MR], S2175 [20MR]

———modify definitions of biomass and renewable energy to exclude municipal solid waste, S3149 [23AP], S3285-S3287 [24AP], S3415 [25AP]

South Dakota: tribute to citizens participating in the war on terrorism, S1962 [15MR]

———tribute to National Guard and Reserve forces, S1597 [6MR]

Southwest Regional Border Authority: establish (S. 2522), S4397 [15MY]

St. Louis, MO: voting irregularities, S718-S721 [13FE]

States: allow Governors to waive certain Federal renewable energy requirements if they would adversely impact electric power customers-S2233 [21MR]

Suburban areas: provide assistance to States and nonprofit organizations to preserve suburban open space and contain suburban sprawl, S697 [13FE]

Taxation: clarify eligibility of certain expenses for low-income housing credit (S. 2006), S1783-S1785 [12MR]

———exempt State and local political committees from certain notification and reporting requirements applicable to political organizations (H.R. 5596), S10779-S10781 [17OC]

———exempt State and local political committees from certain notification and reporting requirements applicable to political organizations (S. 2078), S2415 [9AP]

———include high-speed Internet capability as a criteria for selecting a project for the low-income housing credit (S. 2479), S4071-S4073 [8MY]

———prohibit States from imposing tax on income earned within that State by nonresidents, S209 [29JA]

———treatment of home-based service workers (S. 2129), S2678 [15AP]

Telecommunications: preserve State and local authority to regulate placement, construction, and modification of broadcast transmission facilities (S. 3102), S10380-S10383 [10OC]

———preserve State and local authority to regulate placement, construction, and modification of personal wireless services facilities (S. 3103), S10380-S10383 [10OC]

Terrorism: allow offering of indemnity to companies that sell anti-terrorism technology and services to Federal, State, and local governments, S9369 [26SE]

———establish procedures for civil actions and limit liability for punitive damages relative to acts of terrorism, S5481-S5488, S5492, S5493 [13JN], S5657-S5659, S5668 [18JN], S11525-S11529 [19NO]

———liability protections to companies that sell anti-terrorism technology and services to Federal, State, and local governments, S11405, S11419 [19NO]

Texas Independence Day: observance, S1412 [4MR]

Transportation: empower States with authority for most taxing and spending for highway programs and mass transit programs (S. 2861), S7929 [1AU]

———increase investments in rural areas (S. 3134), S10696 [17OC]

Treaties and agreements: ensure equitable treatment of foreign and domestic investors under investor-State dispute settlement processes relative to compliance with local, State, and Federal regulations, S4267, S4268 [13MY], S4297, S4298 [14MY], S4593-S4605 [21MY]

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: release of National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation, S9899 [3OC]

Utah: exchange certain lands (H.R. 4968), S10395 [10OC]

———exchange certain lands (S. 2745), S6956 [17JY]

Vermont: anniversary of Vermont Small Business Development Center, S485 [7FE]

———provisional and affidavit voting system, S2518, S2519 [11AP]

Voting: application of existing criminal statutes to voting rights cases, S990 [25FE]

———clarify ability of election officials to remove registrants from official list of voters due to change of residence, S826, S833, S834 [14FE]

———eliminate mail notification requirements for provisional ballots and replace with a free access system, S2468, S2469, S2472 [10AP], S2542 [11AP]

———eliminate special treatment of punch card voting systems under voting system standards, S813-S820 [14FE]

———ensure security and confidentiality of information on the free access system relative to determining final disposition of votes, S1147 [26FE]

———ensure voting rights for disabled individuals, S713 [13FE]

———establish a grant program to provide assistance to States for modernizing and enhancing voting procedures and administration (H.R. 3295), S8441 [10SE], S9951-S9955 [4OC]

———establish a grant program to provide assistance to States for modernizing and enhancing voting procedures and administration (H.R. 3295), conference report, S10412-S10424 [15OC], S10488-S10516 [16OC], S10606 [17OC]

———establish a grant program to provide assistance to States for modernizing and enhancing voting procedures and administration (H.R. 3295), insert S. 565 language in lieu, S2543 [11AP]

———establish a grant program to provide assistance to States for modernizing and enhancing voting procedures and administration (H.R. 3295), unanimous-consent agreement, S2543 [11AP]

———establish a residual ballot performance benchmark, S834 [14FE], S1170 [26FE], S2470, S2472, S2473 [10AP], S2543 [11AP]

———guarantee States a portion of grant program funds allocated for modernizing and enhancing voting procedures and administration, S988, S989 [25FE]

———hold Federal elections over the first weekend in November, S10420 [15OC]

———implement significant election administration reforms, S8, S10 [23JA]

———implementation of new election technologies and electronic voting systems, S2476, S2477 [10AP]

———permit States to coordinate computerized statewide voter registration list with Federal records relative to death and identity, S2475, S2476 [10AP]

———permit the use of a signature, or personal mark, to verify the identity of voters who register by mail in States with federally-certified low levels of voter fraud, S1229-S1232 [27FE], S1329 [28FE]

———permit voter information contained in a written affirmation to be used to verify eligibility of voter under a provisional voting system, S2471 [10AP]

———provide construction grants to ensure access for disabled individuals, S2521 [11AP]

———provide funding for protection and advocacy agencies to focus on voting access for persons with disabilities, S1143-S1149 [26FE], S1390 [1MR]

———provide sufficient funding to States to meet certain election technology and administration requirements, S1166, S1167 [26FE]

———require States and localities to mail voter registration form to individuals who cast provisional ballots that were not counted, S728 [13FE]

———require that States and local election officials maintain adequate security measures to protect computerized statewide voter registration lists, S2471 [10AP]

———secure Federal voting rights for certain qualified persons who have served their criminal sentences, S799-S809 [14FE]

———specify how lever voting systems may meet the multilingual materials requirement, S728 [13FE]

———statewide interactive voter registration lists, S2520, S2521 [11AP]

———study elimination of postage on absentee ballots, S1148 [26FE]

———treatment of absentee and mail-in ballots, S726 [13FE], S2521, S2522 [11AP]

———voter fraud, S2472 [10AP]

Water: improve financial and environmental sustainability of water programs (S. 1961), S907 [15FE], S1347 [28FE]

———improve financial and environmental sustainability of water programs (S. 2813), S7470, S7471 [29JY]

———provide assistance to States to support testing of private wells in areas of suspected contamination to limit or prevent human exposure to contaminated groundwater (S. 3127), S10678 [17OC]

West Virginia: anniversary of statehood, S5841, S5842 [20JN]

Western States: Federal land management, S3157 [23AP]

———tribute to firefighters for efforts in fighting wildfires, S5919 [24JN]

Wildlife refuges: effects of offshore drilling for oil and natural gas, S1520, S1521 [5MR]

Reports

Congressional Delegation Trip to Central Asia, S1963 [15MR]

Reports filed

Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund State and Tribal Share Appropriations: Committee on Resources (House) (H. Con. Res. 425) (H. Rept. 107-556), H4424 [9JY]

Approve Yucca Mountain, NV, as Nuclear Waste Disposal Site: Committee on Energy and Commerce (House) (H.J. Res. 87) (H. Rept. 107-425), H2018 [1MY]

Aviation Delay Prevention Act: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (Senate) (S. 633) (S. Rept. 107-162), S5534 [13JN]

Blunt Reservoir and Pierre Canal Land Conveyance Act: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (Senate) (S. 1028) (S. Rept. 107-253), S8383 [9SE]

Brownfield Site Redevelopment Assistance Act: Committee on Environment and Public Works (Senate) (S. 1079) (S. Rept. 107-244), S8091 [3SE]

Child Custody Protection Act: Committee on the Judiciary (House) (H.R. 476) (H. Rept. 107-397), H1281 [11AP]

Class Action Fairness Act: Committee on the Judiciary (House) (H.R. 2341) (H. Rept. 107-370), H906 [13MR]

Coastal and Estuarine Land Protection Act: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (Senate) (S. 2608) (S. Rept. 107-296), S9901 [3OC]

Combatting Illegal Gambling Reform and Modernization Act: Committee on the Judiciary (House) (H.R. 3215) (H. Rept. 107-591), H4930 [18JY], H8021 [16OC]

Community Character Act: Committee on Environment and Public Works (Senate) (S. 975) (S. Rept. 107-290), S8753 [18SE]

Consideration of H. Res. 525, Complete Congressional Action on H.R. 4737, Personal Responsibility, Work, and Family Promotion Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 527) (H. Rept. 107-660), H6302 [17SE]

Consideration of H.R. 476, Child Custody Protection Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 388) (H. Rept. 107-411), H1333 [16AP]

Consideration of H.R. 1542, Internet Freedom and Broadband Deployment Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 350) (H. Rept. 107-361), H560 [26FE]

Consideration of H.R. 2341, Class Action Fairness Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 367) (H. Rept. 107-375), H832 [12MR]

Consideration of H.R. 3389, National Sea Grant College Program Act Reauthorization: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 446) (H. Rept. 107-514), H3667 [18JN]

Consideration of H.R. 4598, Homeland Security Information Sharing Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 458) (H. Rept. 107-535), H3927 [25JN]

Consideration of H.R. 4735, Personal Responsibility, Work, and Family Promotion Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 421) (H. Rept. 107-465), H2469 [14MY]

Consideration of H.R. 4737, Personal Responsibility, Work, and Family Promotion Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 422) (H. Rept. 107-466), H2511 [15MY]

Dept. of the Interior Study of the Rathdrum Prairie/Spokane Valley Aquifer: Committee on Resources (House) (H.R. 4609) (H. Rept. 107-492), H3228 [5JN]

Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 1291), S5850 [20JN]

DNA Sexual Assault Justice Act: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 2513), S7033 [18JY]

———Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 2513) (S. Rept. 107-334), S10843 [12NO]

Encourage Land Management Agencies To Reduce Forest Fuels That Place National Resources at High Risk of Wildfire, and Prepare a National Prescribed Fire Strategy: Committee on Resources (House) (H. Con. Res. 352) (H. Rept. 107-502), H3452 [11JN]

Federal-Utah State Trust Lands Consolidation Act: Committee on Resources (House) (H.R. 4968) (H. Rept. 107-709), H6925 [1OC]

Florida National Forest Land Management Act: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (Senate) (S. 2652), S10115 [8OC]

Harmful Nonnative Weed Control Act: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (Senate) (S. 198) (S. Rept. 107-281), S8671 [17SE]

———Committee on Resources (House) (H.R. 1462) (H. Rept. 107-451), H2354 [9MY]

Help America Vote Act: Committee of Conference (H.R. 3295) (H. Rept. 107-730), H7302 [8OC]

High Plains Aquifer Hydrogeologic Characterization, Mapping, Modeling and Monitoring Act: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (Senate) (S. 2773), S10115 [8OC]

Homeland Security Information Sharing Act: Committee on the Judiciary (House) (H.R. 4598) (H. Rept. 107-534), H3927 [25JN]

How Can the Federal Government Better Assist State and Local Governments in Preparing for a Biological, Chemical, or Nuclear Attack?: Committee on Government Reform (House) (H. Rept. 107-766), H8041 [24OC]

Identify Certain Routes as Part of the Ports-to-Plains High Priority Corridor: Committee on Environment and Public Works (Senate) (S. 1646) (S. Rept. 107-165), S5771 [19JN]

Innocence Protection Act: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 486) (S. Rept. 107-315), S10570 [16OC]

Joint Federal and State Navigable Waters Commission for Alaska Act: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (Senate) (S. 2587), S10115 [8OC]

Keeping Children and Families Safe Act: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (Senate) (S. 2998) (S. Rept. 107-292), S9594 [30SE]

———Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (House) (H.R. 3839) (H. Rept. 107-403), H1281 [11AP]

Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 2480), S11078 [14NO]

———Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 2480) (S. Rept. 107-345), S11573 [19NO]

Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Act: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 625) (S. Rept. 107-147), S4145 [9MY]

Lower Yellowstone Reclamation Projects Conveyance Act: Committee on Resources (House) (H.R. 2202) (H. Rept. 107-760), H8021 [16OC]

National AMBER Alert Network Act: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 2896), S8300 [5SE]

National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicaid: Committee on Energy and Commerce (House) (H.R. 4961) (H. Rept. 107-544), H4064, H4067 [26JN]

National Monument Fairness Act: Committee on Resources (House) (H.R. 2114) (H. Rept. 107-408), H1288 [15AP]

National Sea Grant College Program Act Reauthorization: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (Senate) (S. 2428) (S. Rept. 107-187), S6249 [27JN]

———Committee on Resources (House) (H.R. 3389) (H. Rept. 107-369), H779 [7MR]

———Committee on Science (House) (H.R. 3389) (H. Rept. 107-369), H1288 [15AP]

New Hampshire-Vermont Interstate School Compact Congressional Consent to Certain Amendments: Committee on the Judiciary (House) (H.R. 3180) (H. Rept. 107-478), H2660 [20MY]

———Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (H.R. 3180), S11078 [14NO]

Older Workers' Rights Restoration Act: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (Senate) (S. 928) (S. Rept. 107-142), S2675 [15AP]

Personal Responsibility, Work, and Family Promotion Act: Committee on Finance (Senate) (H.R. 4737) (S. Rept. 107-221), S7371 [25JY]

———Committee on Ways and Means (House) (H.R. 4090) (H. Rept. 107-460), H2466, H2469 [14MY]

Provide Families of Disabled Children With the Opportunity To Purchase Medicaid Coverage: Committee on Finance (Senate) (S. 321) (S. Rept. 107-265), S8383 [9SE]

Providing Reliable Officers, Technology, Education, Community Prosecutors, and Training in Our Neighborhoods (PROTECTION) Act: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 924), S2577 [11AP]

Real Interstate Driver Equity Act: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (Senate) (H.R. 2546) (S. Rept. 107-237), S7898 [1AU]

Rocky Boy's/North Central Montana Regional Water System Act: Committee on Resources (House) (H.R. 1946) (H. Rept. 107-715), H6981 [2OC]

Same-Day Consideration of H. Res. 422, Consideration of H.R. 4737, Personal Responsibility, Work, and Family Promotion Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 420) (H. Rept. 107-464), H2469 [14MY]

State Criminal Alien Assistance Program Appropriations: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 862), S7033 [18JY]

Underground Storage Tank Compliance Act: Committee on Environment and Public Works (Senate) (S. 1850) (S. Rept. 107-316), S10570 [16OC]

Utah-Nevada Boundary Compact Congressional Consent: Committee on the Judiciary (House) (H.R. 2054) (H. Rept. 107-469), H2606 [16MY]

Water Investment Act: Committee on Environment and Public Works (Senate) (S. 1961) (S. Rept. 107-228), S7469 [29JY]

White House Quadrennial Small Business Summit Act: Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship (Senate) (S. 396) (S. Rept. 107-136), S487 [7FE]

Working Toward Independence Act: Committee on Education and the Workforce (House) (H.R. 4092) (H. Rept. 107-452), H2389 [10MY]

Yucca Mountain, NV, Approval as Nuclear Waste Disposal Site: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (Senate) (S.J. Res. 34) (S. Rept. 107-159), S5285 [10JN]

Resolutions by organizations

Use of State inmate population to provide disaster relief: Colorado House of Representatives, E1696 [30SE]

Rulings of the Chair

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 5320), complete congressional action to implement No Child Left Behind Act, H6954, H6960 [2OC]

Hazardous substances: approve Yucca Mountain, NV, as nuclear waste disposal site (H.J. Res. 87), H2180 [8MY]

Medicaid: extend certain modifications to disproportionate share hospital allotments (H.R. 854), complete congressional action, H7002 [3OC]

Utah-Nevada Boundary Compact: congressional consent (H.R. 2054), H3398 [11JN]

Statements

Construction of Natural Gas Pipeline in Alaska: George N. Ahmaogak, S1581 [6MR]

Early Care and Education Act: Jack P. Shonkoff, S4858 [23MY]

Help America Vote Act: Representative Conyers, S9953 [4OC]

———Representative Corrine Brown, S9953 [4OC]

———Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson, S9952 [4OC]

———Scott Harshbarger, Common Cause (organization), S10416 [15OC], H7840 [10OC]

Texas Independence: William B. Travis, S1412 [4MR]

Summaries

Affordable Housing Expansion Act (S. 2967), S8921 [19SE]

American Indian Welfare Reform Act (S. 2484), S4076 [8MY]

Clear Skies Act (S. 2815), S7472 [29JY]

High Plains Aquifer Hydrogeologic Characterization, Mapping, Modeling and Monitoring Act (S. 2773), S7229 [23JY]

Housing Voucher Improvement Act (S. 2721), S6653-S6655 [11JY]

Intellectual Property Protection Restoration Act (S. 2031), S2081 [19MR]

Keeping Children and Families Safe Act (S. 2998), S9124 [24SE]

National Energy Policy (S. 517): Daschle-Bingaman Substitute Amendment Provisions on Renewable Fuels Standards and MTBE (Methyl Tertiary-Butyl Ether), S2321 [22MR]

Tables

Additional gasoline costs from proposed renewable fuels standards for 2003-2007, S2514 [11AP]

Comparison of State Federal Medicaid assistance percentages and temporary health assistance under several economic stimulus proposals, S205 [29JA]

Cost to States of proposal to provide Medicare coverage of outpatient prescription drugs, S7623 [31JY]

Coverage gap in proposal to provide Medicare coverage of outpatient prescription drugs, S7623 [31JY]

Crashes, fatalities, and injuries on major two-lane highways in New Mexico, S8304 [5SE]

Distribution of transportation revenue aligned budget authority to States, S7274, S7276 [24JY]

Federal land grants to States (1803-1984), S2816 [17AP]

Hate crimes prosecuted by State and local prosecutors where the death penalty was available, S5273 [10JN]

Rural two- and four-lane roads on the national highway system for selected States, S8304 [5SE]

State energy production and consumption, S1888 [14MR]

States losing redirected funding under the highway formula funding program, S7270 [24JY]

Statutorily ineligible designated discretionary projects, S7273 [24JY]

Treatment costs for certain medical ailments in North Dakota, California, New York, and the District of Columbia, S8668 [17SE]

Testimonies

Child Custody Protection Act: Eileen Roberts, H1367 [17AP]

Construction of Natural Gas Pipeline in Alaska: Tony Knowles, Governor of Alaska, S1557 [6MR]

End Gridlock at Our Nation's Critical Airports Act: Representative Jackson, H4635 [15JY]

Texts of

H. Con. Res. 352, encourage Federal land management agencies to reduce forest fuels that place national resources at high risk of catastrophic wildfire, and prepare a National Prescribed Fire Strategy, H5037 [22JY]

H. Con. Res. 425, appropriate Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund State and tribal shares, H6877 [1OC]

H. Con. Res. 508, resolve disagreements between Senate and House of Representatives on H.R. 3295, Help America Vote Act, H7854 [10OC]

H. Res. 350, consideration of H.R. 1542, Internet Freedom and Broadband Deployment Act, H568 [27FE]

H. Res. 364, concur with Senate amendment with an amendment to H.R. 1499, District of Columbia College Access Improvement Act, H810 [12MR]

H. Res. 367, consideration of H.R. 2341, Class Action Fairness Act, H838 [13MR]

H. Res. 388, consideration of H.R. 476, Child Custody Protection Act, H1345 [17AP]

H. Res. 420, same-day consideration of H. Res. 422, consideration of H.R. 4737, Personal Responsibility, Work, and Family Promotion Act, H2484 [15MY]

H. Res. 422, consideration of H.R. 4737, Personal Responsibility, Work, and Family Promotion Act, H2491 [15MY]

H. Res. 446, consideration of H.R. 3389, National Sea Grant College Program Act reauthorization, H3681 [19JN]

H. Res. 458, consideration of H.R. 4598, Homeland Security Information Sharing Act, H3934 [26JN]

H. Res. 525, complete congressional action on H.R. 4737, Personal Responsibility, Work, and Family Promotion Act, H6384 [19SE]

H. Res. 527, consideration of H. Res. 524 and H. Res. 525, complete congressional action on H.R. 2143, Permanent Death Tax Repeal Act, and H.R. 4737, Personal Responsibility, Work, and Family Promotion Act, H6376 [19SE]

H. Res. 559, encourage each State to examine its statutes, practices, and procedures governing appointment and election of new House of Representatives Members in the event of a catastrophe, H6941 [2OC]

H.J. Res. 87, approve Yucca Mountain, NV, as nuclear waste disposal site, H2180 [8MY]

H.R. 476, Child Custody Protection Act, H1351 [17AP]

H.R. 1499, District of Columbia College Access Improvement Act, S1953 [14MR]

H.R. 2054, Utah-Nevada Boundary Compact congressional consent, H3395 [11JN]

H.R. 2341, Class Action Fairness Act, H857-H859 [13MR]

H.R. 2509, Dept. of the Treasury production of certain security documents at the request of foreign governments or States or any political subdivision thereof, on a reimbursable basis, H958 [19MR]

H.R. 2546, Real Interstate Driver Equity Act, S10745 [17OC]

H.R. 3180, congressional consent to certain amendments to the New Hampshire-Vermont Interstate School Compact, H3886 [25JN]

H.R. 3295, Equal Protection of Voting Rights Act, S2544-S2556 [11AP]

H.R. 3389, National Sea Grant College Program Act reauthorization, H3689 [19JN], H8064 [12NO]

H.R. 3731, increase amounts available to State approving agencies to evaluate the qualifications of educational institutions to provide courses under Dept. of Veterans Affairs department-administered education programs, H7124 [7OC]

H.R. 3839, Keeping Children and Families Safe Act, H1502-H1509 [23AP]

H.R. 4609, conduct a Dept. of the Interior study of the Rathdrum Prairie/Spokane Valley Aquifer, H4330 [8JY]

H.R. 4737, Personal Responsibility, Work, and Family Promotion Act, H2517-H2532 [16MY]

H.R. 4968, Federal-Utah State Trust Lands Consolidation Act, H6862 [1OC]

H.R. 5138, True American Heroes Act, H5021-H5023 [22JY]

H.R. 5513, Prescott and San Isabel National Forests Land Exchange Act, H8890, H8894-H8898 [14NO]

H.R. 5596, exempt State and local political committees from certain notification and reporting requirements applicable to political organizations, H8011-H8013 [16OC]

S. 198, Harmful Nonnative Weed Control Act, S11639-S11641 [19NO]

S. 1632, extend deadline for submission of State recommendations of local governments to receive assistance of predisaster hazard mitigation and to provide additional repair assistance to individuals, S10473 [15OC]

S. 1646, identify certain routes as part of the Ports-to-Plains High Priority Corridor, S6173 [26JN], H7964 [16OC]

S. 1961, Water Investment Act, S901-S907 [15FE]

S. 1986, identify a route as the Southwest Passage Initiative for Regional and Interstate Transportation Corridor, S1538 [5MR]

S. 2006, clarify eligibility of certain expenses for low-income housing tax credit, S1784 [12MR]

S. 2030, COPS Anti-Methamphetamine Act, S2078 [19MR]

S. 2031, Intellectual Property Protection Restoration Act, S2080 [19MR]

S. 2033, Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor appropriations, S2082 [19MR]

S. 2034, Municipal Solid Waste Interstate Transportation and Local Authority Act, S2084-S2090 [19MR]

S. 2090, Sexual Assault Prosecution Act, S2579 [11AP]

S. 2091, Gun Kingpin Penalty Act, S2580 [11AP]

S. 2114, Racial Profiling Education and Awareness Act, S2584 [11AP]

S. 2129, tax treatment of home-based service workers, S2679 [15AP]

S. 2186, Dept. of Veterans Affairs Reorganization Act, S2839 [17AP]

S. 2195, Investing for Tomorrow's Schools Act, S2954 [18AP]

S. 2199, Long-Term Care Insurance Partnership Program Act, S2956 [18AP]

S. 2238, Private Security Officer Employment Standards Act, S3307 [24AP]

S. 2428, National Sea Grant College Program Act reauthorization, S3571 [30AP]

S. 2441, Post-Conviction DNA Testing Act, S3868-S3870 [2MY]

S. 2442, Capital Defense Counsel Standards Act, S3870 [2MY]

S. 2449, Federal Responsibility for Immigrant Health Act, S3874 [2MY]

S. 2473, Recreational Fee Authority Act, S4067 [8MY]

S. 2513, DNA Sexual Assault Justice Act, S8577-S8580 [12SE]

S. 2522, Southwest Regional Border Authority Act, S4398-S4402 [15MY]

S. 2536, Rx Flexibility for States Act, S4627 [21MY]

S. 2548, Education Works Act, S4721 [22MY]

S. 2560, Chronic Wasting Disease State Support Act, S4846-S4848 [23MY]

S. 2573, Community Partnership to End Homelessness Act, S4866-S4873 [23MY]

S. 2575, American Land Sovereignty Protection Act, S4970 [4JN]

S. 2584, American Dream Downpayment Act, S5050 [5JN]

S. 2628, TANF Financial Education Promotion Act, S5634 [17JN]

S. 2631, Support, Training, Employment Programs (STEP) Act, S5699-S5704 [18JN]

S. 2655, A First Step to Long-Term Care Act, S5856 [20JN]

S. 2669, Unemployment Protection for Low-Income Families Through TANF (UPLIFT) Act, S5958 [24JN]

S. 2773, High Plains Aquifer Hydrogeologic Characterization, Mapping, Modeling and Monitoring Act, S7228 [23JY]

S. 2815, Clear Skies Act, S7473-S7498 [29JY]

S. 2857, Advance Planning and Compassionate Care Act, S7921-S7924 [1AU]

S. 2860, Children's Health Improvement and Protection Act, S7926 [1AU]

S. 2868, Corps of Engineers research and demonstration program to control salt cedar and other non-native phreatophytes, S7938 [1AU]

S. 2878, Fair Treatment and Due Process Protection Act, S7946-S7949 [1AU]

S. 2906, Rural Four-Lane Highway Safety and Development Act, S8305 [5SE]

S. 2908, Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team Act, S8306 [5SE]

S. 2912, Student Bill of Rights, S8308-S8311 [5SE]

S. 2954, Student Testing Flexibility Act, S8757 [18SE]

S. 2967, Affordable Housing Expansion Act, S8922-S8926 [19SE]

S. 2996, Bankruptcy Abuse Reform Act, S9123 [24SE]

S. 2998, Keeping Children and Families Safe Act, S9125-S9134 [24SE]

S. 3013, Local Emergency Health Services Reimbursement Act, S9432 [26SE]

S. 3090, Comprehensive Wildlife Disease Testing Acceleration Act, S10362 [10OC]

S. 3102, Local Control of Broadcast Towers Act, S10380 [10OC]

S. 3103, Local Control of Cellular Towers Act, S10382 [10OC]

S. 3127, Private Well Testing Assistance Act, S10679 [17OC]

S. 3134, Maximum Economic Growth for America Through Rural Transportation Investment (MEGA Rural) Act, S10697-S10699 [17OC]

S. 3147, Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Act, S10712-S10714 [17OC]

S. 3180, State Children's Health Insurance Program allotments availability extension, S11739 [20NO]

S. Con. Res. 107, encourage Federal land management agencies to reduce forest fuels that place national resources at high risk of catastrophic wildfire, and prepare a National Prescribed Fire Strategy, S3964 [7MY]

S. Con. Res. 151, Direct Support Professional Recognition Resolution, S10225 [9OC]

S. Res. 264, recognize role of small business 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, S4078 [8MY], S6432 [8JY]

S.J. Res. 30, constitutional amendment on appointment and election of new Members to the House of Representatives if a significant number of Members can no longer serve due to a national emergency, S22 [23JA]