STUPAK, BART (a Representative from Michigan)
Articles and editorials
How Neighbors Can Help Thwart Terrorism, Senators Biden and Specter, E1442
Bills and resolutions cosponsored
Abortion: prohibit partial-birth abortions (see H.R. 4965), H3720 [19JN]
Animals: 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 H.R. 5608), H8042 [24OC]
Armed Forces: provide for a Korea Defense Service Medal to be issued to members who participated in Korea after the Korean War (see H.R. 1935), H1769 [30AP]
———reduce the age for receipt of military retired pay for non-regular service (see H.R. 3831), H6060 [4SE]
Aviation: provide liability protection to nonprofit volunteer pilot organizations flying for public benefit and to the pilots and staff of such organizations (see H.R. 5518), H8733 [13NO]
Budget: extend pay-as-you-go requirement (see H.R. 5502), H8051 [31OC]
Business and industry: enhance regulation of public auditors, improve corporate governance and overhaul corporate disclosure made pursuant to the securities laws (see H.R. 3818), H650 [28FE]
———express support for U.S. forestry, lumber, wood, paper, and allied product industries and encourage protection from unfair trade practices of the People's Republic of China (see H. Res. 557), H6927 [1OC]
Capitol Building and Grounds: design and construct monument to commemorate contributions of minority women to women's suffrage and the participation of women in public life (see H. Con. Res. 169), H1202 [10AP]
Children and youth: access of disadvantaged children to dental services (see H.R. 3659), H2608 [16MY]
———enhance operation of the AMBER Alert communications plan to expedite the recovery of abducted children (see H.R. 5326), H6059 [4SE]
Community development: increase the expertise and capacity of community-based organizations involved in economic development activities and key community development programs (see H.R. 3974), H6060 [4SE]
Corporations: review, reform, and terminate unnecessary and inequitable Federal subsidies (see H.R. 4630), H4350 [8JY]
Courts: appoint Assistant U.S. Attorney for each judicial district to prosecute firearms offenses (see H.R. 2537), H524 [14FE]
Crime: eliminate the securities fraud exception from the civil remedy for racketeering violations (see H.R. 3644), H103 [29JA]
———prevent trafficking in child pornography, condemn activities relating to sexually explicit visual depictions of minors, and prevent the use of child pornography to facilitate crimes against children (see H.R. 4623), H3721 [19JN]
Cuba: grant waiver to allow Cuban nationals to play professional baseball in the U.S. (see H.R. 26), H4498 [10JY]
Customs Service: establish a joint U.S.-Canada customs inspection project (see H.R. 4703), H3514 [12JN]
Dept. of Defense: prioritize transfer of excess personal property to the Forest Service Federal Excess Personal Property Program in order to be loaned to rural fire departments (see H.R. 5421), H9128 [22NO]
Dept. of HHS: establish an Office on Men's Health (see H.R. 632), H4872 [17JY]
———establish the Office of Health Care Competition to administer the National Practitioner Data Bank and to collect and make public more information on medical malpractice insurance (see H.R. 5435), H8546 [12NO]
Dept. of Justice: appoint an independent counsel on matters relating to Enron Corp. (see H. Con. Res. 333), H4498 [10JY]
Dept. of the Interior: authorize States to establish hunting seasons for double-crested cormorants (see H.R. 3727), H284 [12FE]
———establish a national research program on chronic wasting disease (see H.R. 4740), H3038 [23MY]
Dept. of Veterans Affairs: exclude monetary benefits paid to veterans by States and municipalities from consideration as income for purposes of pension benefits (see H.R. 3771), H2101 [2MY]
———improve judicial review of administrative decisions (see H.R. 4018), H3601 [17JN]
———provide benefits to children of Vietnam-era veterans for diseases associated with parental exposure to a herbicide agent (see H.R. 1541), H3292 [6JN]
———provide guaranteed adequate level of funding for veterans health care (see H.R. 5250), H6926 [1OC]
———recalculate retirement annuities for certain health care professionals performing part-time services (see H.R. 4972), H4069 [26JN]
Detroit Red Wings (hockey team): tribute (see H. Res. 452), H3774 [20JN]
Domestic violence: encourage States and localities to implement gun confiscation policies, reform stalking laws, create integrated domestic violence courts, and hire additional personnel for entering protection orders (see H.R. 3595), H3562 [13JN]
Drugs: establish an electronic system for practitioner monitoring of the dispensing of certain controlled substances (see H.R. 5503), H6783 [30SE]
Education: provide grants for training of realtime court reporters and closed captioners to meet the requirements for closed captioning set forth in the Telecommunications Act (see H.R. 2527), H3775 [20JN]
Emergency Malpractice Liability Insurance Commission: establish (see H.R. 5434), H8546 [12NO]
ERISA: provide for improved disclosure, diversification, account access, and accountability under individual account plans (see H.R. 3657), H104 [29JA]
Families and domestic relations: provide coverage of domestic violence screening and treatment under Maternal and Child Health Program, Medicaid, and Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (see H.R. 4032), H1156 [9AP]
FCC: eliminate deadlines for spectrum auctions of spectrum previously allocated to television broadcasting (see H.R. 4560), H1618 [24AP]
———facilitate the ability of certain spectrum auction winners to pursue alternative measures to meet the public needs of wireless telecommunications consumers (see H.R. 4738), H4767 [16JY]
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: amend relative to the development of products for rare diseases (see H.R. 4014), H1338 [16AP]
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 (see H. Con. Res. 352), H932 [14MR]
Firefighters: authorize grants to States or communities to assist fire departments in meeting staffing standards (see H.R. 3185), H1201 [10AP]
———establish the SAFER Firefighter Grant Program (see H.R. 3992), H7929 [15OC]
Foreign policy: impose sanctions on the PLO, or the Palestinian Authority, if the President determines that these entities have not complied with certain commitments (see H.R. 1795), H524 [14FE]
FTC: deem the nondisclosure of employer-owned life insurance coverage of employees an unfair trade practice (see H.R. 4551), H2108 [6MY]
Harwell, Ernie: tribute (see H. Res. 565), H7304 [8OC]
Health: authorize grants to carry out organ recovery rate improvement programs in eligible hospitals (see H.R. 4086), H5998 [26JY]
———expand applicability of laws preventing governmental discrimination against health care entities who refuse to perform or provide training in performing abortions (see H.R. 4691), H2354 [9MY]
———national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (see H. Con. Res. 99), H1289 [15AP]
Health care professionals: provide programs to improve nurse retention, the nursing workplace, and the quality of care (see H.R. 4654), H2356 [9MY]
Human rights: condemn the practice of execution by stoning (see H. Con. Res. 351), H7895 [10OC]
Immigration: establish nonimmigrant classes for border commuter students (see H.R. 4967), H4498 [10JY]
———oppose granting of amnesty to individuals who are in the U.S., or its territories, illegally (see H. Con. Res. 350), H1284 [11AP]
———reaffirm historic treatment of part-time commuter students from Canada and Mexico as temporary visitors for purposes of entry into the U.S. (see H.R. 5288), H5995 [26JY]
Insurance: guarantee comprehensive health care coverage for all children (see H.R. 1733), H6060 [4SE]
———modify antitrust exemption for the insurance industry (see H.R. 5437), H8546 [12NO]
Iron and steel industry: remedy certain injurious effects of steel imports by protecting benefits of steelworkers and retirees and strengthening the U.S. steel industry (see H.R. 4646), H2099 [2MY]
Israel: express solidarity in the fight against terrorism (see H. Res. 392), H2101 [2MY]
King, Martin Luther, Jr. and Coretta Scott: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 2723), H36 [23JA]
Law enforcement officers: adjust percentage differentials payable to Federal law enforcement officers in certain high-cost areas (see H.R. 3794), H1155 [9AP]
Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act: clarify exemption for recreational vessel support employees (see H.R. 4811), H3293 [6JN]
Medicaid: delay changes in regulations that modify upper payment limit for non-State government-owned or operated hospitals (see H.R. 3360), H367 [13FE]
———improve access to advanced practice nurses (see H.R. 3594), H285 [12FE]
———increase Federal medical assistance payment percentage for nursing facilities with a high proportion of Medicaid patients (see H.R. 3565), H142 [5FE]
Medicare: coverage of medical nutrition therapy services for beneficiaries with cardiovascular diseases (see H.R. 2117), H1484 [18AP]
———coverage of outpatient prescription drugs (see H.R. 3626), H781 [7MR]
———coverage of paramedic intercept ambulance support services (see H.R. 5511), H7929 [15OC]
———enhance access of beneficiaries who live in medically underserved areas to critical primary and preventive health care benefits and improve the Medicare+Choice program (see H.R. 4000), H2164 [7MY]
———establish minimum geographic cost-of-practice index value for physicians' services (see H.R. 3569), H834 [12MR]
———establish voluntary outpatient prescription drug coverage program and modernize and reform payments and the regulatory structure (see H.R. 5019), H4068 [26JN]
———expand and improve coverage of mental health services (see H.R. 1522), H231 [8FE]
———improve access to services in rural hospitals and critical access hospitals (see H.R. 4515), H3860 [24JN]
———improve fee-for-services reimbursement rates in rural States (see H.R. 2483), H6129 [9SE]
———improve the telemedicine program and provide grants for the development of telehealth networks (see H.R. 2706), H2019 [1MY]
———limit penalty for late enrollment (see H.R. 1177), H5087 [22JY]
———make permanent hold harmless treatment for small rural hospitals under the prospective payment system and provide a transitional adjustment for certain hospitals in order to limit any decline in payment under that system (see H.R. 2942), H201 [6FE]
———promote access to health care services in rural areas (see H.R. 4112), H2356 [9MY]
———protect patients by limiting the number of mandatory overtime hours a nurse may be required to work by certain service providers (see H.R. 3238), H937 [18MR]
———reimbursement for certain midwife services (see H.R. 3602), H7303 [8OC]
———reimbursement for services provided to eligible veterans by certain Dept. of Veterans Affairs facilities (see H.R. 1911), H6303 [17SE] (see H.R. 4939), H6061 [4SE]
Mental health: provide for equal insurance coverage of benefits unless comparable limitations are imposed on medical and surgical benefits (see H.R. 4066), H2019 [1MY]
National and Community Service Act: establish the Right of Passage Community Service Program (see H.R. 4803), H8045 [28OC]
National Center for Social Work Research: establish (see H.R. 3814), H688 [5MR]
National Commission on Youth Crime and School Violence: establish (see H.R. 537), H3292 [6JN]
National Correctional Officers and Employees Week: designate (see H. Con. Res. 390), H2101 [2MY]
National Farmers Union: anniversary (see H. Con. Res. 462), H7019 [3OC]
National Weather Service: provide overtime pay for forecasters performing essential services during severe weather events and limit Sunday premium pay to hours of service actually performed (see H.R. 2868), H285 [12FE]
NATO: affirm importance, support continued U.S. participation, and ensure that enlargement proceeds in a manner consistent with U.S. interests (see H. Res. 468), H6085 [5SE]
NIH: establish Office of Rare Diseases (see H.R. 4013), H1410 [17AP]
Patriotism: mint coins in commemoration of the Spirit of America and to establish the Victims of September 11th Fund (see H.R. 3244), H105 [29JA]
Peace Officers Memorial Day: designate (see H. Res. 406), H2019 [1MY]
Pentagon Renovation Program: tribute to efforts in reconstructing the portion of the Pentagon destroyed in terrorist attack (see H. Res. 368), H907 [13MR]
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act: withdraw certain benefits from auditors that perform non-audit functions (see H.R. 3617), H562 [26FE]
Public safety officers: ensure that officers who suffer a fatal heart attack or stroke while on duty shall be presumed to have died in the line of duty for purposes of survivor benefits (see H.R. 5334), H7019 [3OC]
Safety: promote safe and ethical clinical trials of drugs, and other test articles, on people overseas (see H.R. 5249), H5993 [26JY]
Senior citizens: establish a consumer price index for elderly consumers to compute cost-of-living increases for Social Security and Medicare benefits (see H.R. 2035), H8035 [21OC]
Sewage disposal: sewer overflow control grants appropriations (see H.R. 5183), H5194 [23JY]
Ships and vessels: establish an assistance program for families of maritime disaster victims (see H.R. 2228), H1155 [9AP]
Social Security: improve coverage of certain pregnant women, infants, and children under State Children's Health Insurance Program and Medicaid (see H.R. 3729), H284 [12FE]
———reject proposals to partially or completely substitute private saving accounts for benefits provided through Social Security (see H.R. 4780), H7895 [10OC]
———repeal Government pension offset and windfall elimination provisions (see H.R. 2638), H5195 [23JY]
Syria: halt support for terrorism, end occupation of Lebanon, stop development of weapons of mass destruction, and cease illegal importation of Iraqi oil (see H.R. 4483), H2165 [7MY]
Taxation: allow penalty-free withdrawals from individual retirement plans for adoption expenses (see H.R. 3713), H781 [7MR]
———clarify credit for producing fuel from a nonconventional source (see H.R. 3352), H142 [5FE]
———ensure that income averaging for farmers does not increase a farmer's liability for the alternative minimum tax (see H.R. 658), H230 [8FE]
———extend benefits to services performed in a combat zone to services performed in response to terrorist attacks (see H.R. 4152), H8546 [12NO]
———increase deduction for teacher classroom supplies and expand to include qualified professional development expenses (see H.R. 5085), H7895 [10OC]
———prevent corporations from avoiding the U.S. income tax by reincorporating in a foreign country (see H.R. 3884), H1155 [9AP]
———prevent corporations from exploiting tax treaties to evade U.S. income tax (see H.R. 4993), H3824 [21JN]
———prohibit treatment of certain games of chance as an unrelated trade or business expense (see H.R. 2237), H634 [27FE]
———provide a credit for teachers and principals who work in certain low income schools (see H.R. 3889), H1201 [10AP]
———provide credits for hiring workers retrained in trade adjustment assistance programs (see H.R. 3768), H1201 [10AP]
———treat Indian tribes the same as State governments relative to gambling (see H.R. 4887), H6374 [18SE]
———treatment of beer (see H.R. 1305), H1484 [18AP]
———treatment of depreciation of potato storage facilities (see H.R. 4718), H6229 [11SE]
———treatment of distilled spirits (see H.R. 2023), H6256 [13SE]
———treatment of Government pensions relative to Social Security benefits (see H.R. 2462), H4931 [18JY]
———treatment of income from land sold to a government agency or a nonprofit organization for conservation purposes (see H.R. 2290), H833 [12MR]
Trade Act: amend to consolidate and improve trade adjustment assistance programs and provide community-based economic development assistance for trade-affected communities (see H.R. 3670), H3775 [20JN]
Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century: provide highway infrastructure investment at the guaranteed funding level (see H.R. 3694), H367 [13FE]
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]
Veterans: improve benefits for former POWs (see H.R. 3430), H4069 [26JN]
———increase the minimum Survivor Benefit Plan basic annuity for certain surviving spouses (see H.R. 5403), H6373 [18SE]
Veterans Day: issue annual commemorative postage stamp (see H. Res. 429), H6927 [1OC]
VFW: amend charter to make members of the Armed Forces who receive special pay for duty subject to hostile fire or imminent danger eligible for membership (see H.R. 3838), H4498 [10JY]
Vietnamese Conflict: require a study on the eligibility requirements for inclusion of veterans' names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and an alternative means to honor ineligible veterans (see H.R. 3443), H201 [6FE]
Water: authorize appropriations for State water pollution control revolving funds (see H.R. 3792), H781 [7MR]
———establish marine and freshwater research, development, and demonstration programs to control and eradicate invasive species, educate the public, and restore ecosystems (see H.R. 5395), H6373 [18SE]
———establish national ballast water management program to prevent introduction of invasive species and improve prevention and treatment research and technology (see H.R. 5396), H6373 [18SE]
Water Resources Development Act: limit the non-Federal share of the cost of shore protection projects (see H.R. 3749), H366 [13FE]
Bills and resolutions introduced
Aviation: provide an apportionment to certain primary airports that had reduced passenger boardings due to the discontinuance of air carrier service (see H.R. 4077), H1089 [20MR]
Bush, President: address issues of neighborhood crime prevention and community policing and support Federal participation in National Night Out (see H. Res. 437), H3292 [6JN]
Dept. of Defense: prohibit purchase of certain steel or equipment, products, or systems made with steel that is not melted and poured in the U.S. (see H.R. 4161), H1200 [10AP]
Great Lakes Fishery Commission: investigate effects of migratory birds on sustained productivity of stocks of fish of common concern in the Great Lakes (see H.R. 5686), H8022 [16OC]
Immigration: extend the time period for the filing of applications for temporary labor certification (see H.R. 5393), H6303 [17SE]
Medicare: assure that enrollment in any prescription drug program is voluntary (see H.R. 5236), H5790 [25JY]
———provide beneficiaries with access to prescription drugs at Federal Supply Schedule prices (see H.R. 5154), H4872 [17JY]
Securities: repeal certain laws that limit private securities actions (see H.R. 3829), H651 [28FE]
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore: expansion (see H.R. 5562), H7171 [7OC]
Taxation: give priority to reductions in Federal tax refunds for past-due child support payments before any other reductions allowed by law (see H.R. 4899), H3291 [6JN]
Remarks
Appropriations: making supplemental appropriations for further recovery from and response to terrorist attacks (H.R. 4775), E947
Armed Forces: authorize use against Iraq (H.J. Res. 114), H7409 [9OC]
Bay de Noc Community College: anniversary, E1793
Bergland, MI: anniversary, E1132
Bigger, Ralph E., Sr.: Michigan's Upper Peninsula Labor Hall of Fame inductee, E558
Bob Davis Post Office Building, St. Ignace, MI: designate (H.R. 2577), H246 [12FE]
Bush, President: address issues of neighborhood crime prevention and community policing and support Federal participation in National Night Out (H. Res. 437), E1441
———disapproving the action taken under the Trade Act in response to the surge of steel imports (H.J. Res. 84), disposition (H. Res. 414), H2174 [8MY]
Business and industry: enhance penalties for accounting and auditing improprieties at publicly traded companies (H.R. 5118), H4690 [16JY]
Corporations: economic impact of mismanagement, deception, and violations of public trust, H4433 [10JY]
Dept. of Defense: require use of domestic steel, H671 [5MR]
Dept. of Homeland Security: establish (H.R. 5005), Senate amendment, E2143
Dept. of Justice: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 2215), conference report, H6746 [26SE]
Eximbank: reauthorize (S. 1372), conference report, E1007
Finlandia University: tribute to men's basketball team, E298
Health: reduce the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery system (H.R. 4600), consideration (H. Res. 553), H6710 [26SE]
Hermansville, MI: tribute to Thomas St. Onge Vietnam Veterans Museum and Memorial, E1191
Information services: deregulate Internet and high speed data services (H.R. 1542), H593 [27FE]
———protect competition in Internet and high speed data services by preserving certain FCC and State regulations affecting competitive local exchange carriers, H593
Iron and steel industry: respond to the surge of steel imports, H631
Keweenaw National Historic Park: anniversary, E1935
Larsen, Donald O.: Michigan's Upper Peninsula Labor Hall of Fame inductee, E559
Law enforcement: limit access to body armor by violent felons and facilitate the donation of Federal surplus body armor to State and local law enforcement agencies, H6746 [26SE]
Marquette County, MI: tribute to Marquette Area Public School District, E915
Medicare: coverage of outpatient prescription drugs, H3166 [5JN]
———establish voluntary outpatient prescription drug coverage program and modernize and reform payments and the regulatory structure (H.R. 4954), H4282 [27JN]
Motor vehicles: prohibit operation with drugs or alcohol in the body of the driver at a land border port of entry (H.R. 2155), E1881
NATO: recommend integration of Slovak Republic (H. Res. 253), H7121 [7OC]
Pellonpaa, Carl: tribute to anniversary of ``Finland Calling'' (television program), E631
Pharmaceuticals: pediatric vaccine manufacturer liability protection, E2143
Philip E. Ruppe Post Office Building, Lake Linden, MI: designate (H.R. 1374), H1295 [16AP]
Political campaigns: ethics reform and contribution limits (H.R. 2356), H438 [13FE]
———regulation of political action committees' funding of candidate advertisements, H438 [13FE]
Public debt: ceiling, E947
Securities: repeal certain laws that limit private securities actions (H.R. 3829), H4433 [10JY]
Social Security: budget treatment of trust funds, E947
Terrorism: anniversary of terrorist attacks (H. Con. Res. 464), E1594
———improve the ability of the U.S. to prepare for and respond to a biological threat or attack (H.R. 3448), conference report, E930
Traverse City, MI: tribute to Traverse City West Senior High School, E307
Tuisku, Richard: Michigan Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame inductee, E1905
Votes: position on missed, H154 [6FE], H6232, H6233 [12SE]
Remarks in House relative to
Leave of absence: granted, H6226 [11SE]
Special order: granted, H685 [5MR]
Tributes
Beaudoin, Louise, E1903
Benac, Daniel A., E1853
Davis, James S., E1104
Larson, Dennis, E634
Nomellini, Paul J., E1159
Quick, Gary, E1531
Saigh, Fred M., E1934