SULLIVAN, JOHN (a Representative from Oklahoma)

Amendments

World Cup: tribute to U.S. men's soccer team (H. Res. 445), H4027 [26JN]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Abortion: prohibit partial-birth abortions (see H.R. 4965), H3775 [20JN]

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), H2356 [9MY]

Aviation: prohibit flights by foreign air carriers in the U.S. unless there is an international agreement and U.S. carriers have been given a chance to provide equivalent service (see H.R. 5720), H8731 [13NO]

Budget: constitutional amendment to require balanced (see H.J. Res. 86), H1283 [11AP]

Children and youth: enhance operation of the AMBER Alert communications plan to expedite the recovery of abducted children (see H.R. 5317), H6419 [19SE]

Computers: establish Internet domain for children that will promote positive experiences, provide safe online environment, and prevent exposure to harmful material (see H.R. 3833), H782 [7MR]

Congress: affirming commitment to preserving U.S. sovereignty and the integrity of its border (see H. Con. Res. 220), H3775 [20JN]

Courts: expand Federal diversity jurisdiction to allow consideration of certain interstate class actions and provide additional protections to plaintiff class members (see H.R. 2341), H781 [7MR]

———modify jurisdiction of Federal courts, inferior to the Supreme Court, over certain cases and controversies involving the Pledge of Allegiance (see H.R. 5064), H4554 [11JY]

Crime: 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), H2945 [22MY]

———prohibit taking minors across State lines to avoid State laws requiring parental notification of abortions (see H.R. 476), H1003 [19MR]

Dept. of the Interior: replace the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as the Federal agency responsible for the administration, protection, and preservation of Midway Atoll (see H.R. 4784), H3230 [5JN]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: provide guaranteed adequate level of funding for veterans health care (see H.R. 5250), H7895 [10OC]

Diseases: eliminate tuberculosis (see H.R. 1167), H2608 [16MY]

———expand and coordinate activities of NIH and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention relative to cancer survivorship research and programs (see H.R. 4963), H4069 [26JN]

Education: establish a student loan forgiveness program for nurses (see H.R. 5636), H8035 [21OC]

Employment: provide compensatory time for all employees (see H.R. 1982), H6060 [4SE]

Executive Office of the President: ensure that requests or petitions for executive clemency are treated as lobbying contacts (see H.R. 5131), H4765 [16JY]

Families and domestic relations: seek to reduce the financial penalties against marriage within the welfare system and support married couples in forming and sustaining healthy, loving, and productive marriages (see H. Con. Res. 316), H1156 [9AP]

Federal agencies and departments: review of efficiency and need for certain agencies (see H.R. 2373), H2735 [21MY]

Federal employees: treatment of retirement benefits for assistant U.S. attorneys (see H.R. 1090), H6060 [4SE]

Federal firefighters: establish presumptive disability benefits for certain diseases and disabilities (see H.R. 2163), H1338 [16AP]

Financial institutions: prohibit financial holding companies and national banks from engaging, directly or indirectly, in real estate brokerage or real estate management activities (see H.R. 3424), H2662 [20MY]

Firearms: protect and enforce the right to obtain and use firearms for security, self-defense, and other legitimate purposes (see H.R. 31), H4931 [18JY]

———protect manufacturers and sellers in the firearms and ammunition industry from restrictions on interstate or foreign commerce (see H.R. 2037), H1201 [10AP]

———protect right to keep and bear arms (see H.R. 1460), H3859 [24JN]

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), H6251 [12SE]

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), H1533 [23AP]

FTC: regulation of unfair or deceptive practices by sports agents in the signing of contracts with student athletes (see H.R. 4701), H3161 [4JN]

Government: expand types of Federal agencies that are required to prepare audited financial statements (see H.R. 4685), H4326 [27JN]

———reduce improper payments by Federal agencies (see H.R. 4878), H3669 [18JN]

Health: 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), H6172 [10SE]

———provide programs for the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of stroke (see H.R. 3431), H7738 [9OC]

Higher Education Act: incorporate results from the Fed Up Initiative which identifies outdated or burdensome regulations (see H.R. 4866), H3454 [11JN]

Home Investment Partnerships Act: support certain housing proposals including the downpayment assistance initiative (see H.R. 4446), H1337 [16AP]

Immigration: establish a temporary moratorium on visas for certain aliens (see H.R. 4010), H1620 [24AP]

———secure borders against terrorists, drug traffickers, and other illegal aliens, remove illegal and criminal aliens, reduce fraud, and reform the legal immigration system (see H.R. 5013), H5998 [26JY]

Individuals With Disabilities Education Act: authorizing appropriations (see H.R. 835), H1532 [23AP]

James V. Hansen Federal Building, Ogden, UT: designate (see H.R. 5611), H7893 [10OC]

Joe Skeen Federal Building, Roswell, NM: designate (see H.R. 5427), H6418 [19SE]

Law enforcement officers: collective bargaining rights for public safety officers employed by States or local governments (see H.R. 1475), H1154 [9AP]

———exempt from State laws prohibiting the carrying of concealed handguns (see H.R. 218), H833 [12MR]

Medicare: eliminate reduction in payment rates under the prospective payment system for home health services and increase payments for such services in rural areas (see H.R. 975), H1201 [10AP]

———establish voluntary outpatient prescription drug coverage program and modernize and reform payments and the regulatory structure (see H.R. 4954), H3721 [19JN]

———increase the payment amount for inpatient hospital services and freeze the reduction in payments to hospitals for indirect costs of medical education (see H.R. 1556), H1338 [16AP]

———repeal outpatient rehabilitation therapy caps (see H.R. 3834), H7738 [9OC]

———specify the update for physician fee schedule payments and conduct a study on replacing the use of the sustainable growth rate as a factor in such update (see H.R. 3351), H1155 [9AP]

———standardize payment amounts for inpatient hospital services (see H.R. 1609), H1283 [11AP]

Mental health: provide for equal insurance coverage of benefits unless comparable limitations are imposed on medical and surgical benefits (see H.R. 4066), H1338 [16AP]

National Fragile X Research Day: observance (see H. Res. 398), H1674 [25AP]

National security: provide for the sharing of homeland security information by Federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies with State and local entities (see H.R. 3825), H1284 [11AP] (see H.R. 4598), H1673 [25AP]

National Stem Cell Donor Bank: establish to preserve donation of qualifying human stem cells and to conduct and support research using such cells (see H.R. 2096), H6374 [18SE]

Oklahoma: settle certain claims of Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Nations to the Arkansas Riverbed (see H.R. 3534), H3453 [11JN]

Pensions: provide additional protection to participants in individual account plans, promote investment advice, and prohibit certain insider trades of securities (H.R. 3762), complete congressional action (see H. Res. 540), H6419 [19SE]

Pipelines: improve safey (see H.R. 3609), H2608 [16MY]

PLO: impose certain travel and diplomatic sanctions on officials in the U.S., seize assets in the U.S., and require a report on any acts of terrorism until a peace plan is implemented (see H.R. 4693), H3562 [13JN]

Pornography: constitutional amendment on real and virtual child pornography (see H.J. Res. 106), H4872 [17JY]

———support vigorous enforcement of Federal obscenity laws (see H. Con. Res. 445), H5194 [23JY]

Religion: defend the Ten Commandments (see H.R. 3895), H5791 [25JY]

Schools: prohibit funding to any State or local educational agency that distributes or provides postcoital emergency contraception (see H.R. 3805), H1155 [9AP]

Small business: improve access and choice relative to employee health care (see H.R. 1774), H3825 [21JN]

Social Security: eliminate benefit penalties to individuals receiving pensions from noncovered employment (see H.R. 848), H1338 [16AP]

———repeal Government pension offset and windfall elimination provisions (see H.R. 2638), H6060 [4SE]

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), H3454 [11JN]

Taxation: allow use of principal repayments to issue additional mortgages and modify price limitations under the mortgage revenue bond program and change income limit for housing credit program (see H.R. 951), H2356 [9MY]

———constitutional amendment on tax limitations (see H.J. Res. 96), H3454 [11JN]

———permit churches and other houses of worship to engage in political campaigns (see H.R. 2357), H2608 [16MY]

———provide credits for the installation of certain wind energy property (see H.R. 2322), H1003 [19MR]

———repeal tax increase on Social Security benefits (see H.R. 122), H6374 [18SE]

———simplify Internal Revenue Code (see H.R. 5166), H5791 [25JY]

———terminate Internal Revenue Code (see H.R. 2714), H2356 [9MY] (see H.R. 4716), H2470 [14MY]

———treatment of beer, wine, and distilled spirits (see H.R. 984), H4574 [12JY]

———treatment of unused nontaxable benefits under cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements (see H.R. 4804), H3293 [6JN]

Transportation: provide for the streamlining of highway and transit projects (see H.R. 5455), H7738 [9OC]

Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century: provide highway infrastructure investment at the guaranteed funding level (see H.R. 3694), H1284 [11AP]

Veterans: permit concurrent receipt of military retired pay with service-connected disability benefits (see H.R. 303), H833 [12MR]

Veterans Day: issue annual commemorative postage stamp (see H. Res. 429), H5454 [24JY]

Vietnam Veterans Memorial: authorize design and construction of a temporary education center (see H.R. 510), H1090 [20MR]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: make pension and individual retirement arrangement provisions permanent (H.R. 4931), complete congressional action (see H. Res. 544), H6559 [24SE]

Families and domestic relations: support responsible fatherhood and encourage greater involvement of fathers in the lives of their children (see H. Res. 441), H3453 [11JN] (see H. Res. 442), H3514 [12JN]

House Rules: establish a discretionary spending ledger and a mandatory spending ledger (see H. Res. 486), H4605 [15JY]

Robert Wayne Jenkins Station, Tulsa, OK: designate (see H.R. 4851), H3037 [23MY]

Certificates of election

House of Representatives, H564 [27FE], H648 [28FE]

Oaths of office

House of Representatives, H564, H632 [27FE]

Remarks

Abortion: prohibit partial-birth abortions (H.R. 4965), H5359 [24JY]

Armed Forces: authorize use against Iraq (H.J. Res. 114), H7299 [8OC]

———performance of abortions at overseas military medical facilities, H2361 [9MY]

Aviation: establish a program for Federal flight deck officers (H.R. 4635), H4444 [10JY]

———improve security by allowing pilots to have guns in the cockpit, H4444 [10JY]

Buck, John F. (Jack): tribute (H. Res. 455), H4027 [26JN]

Budget: setting forth the Federal budget for 2003-2007 (H. Con. Res. 353), H1051, H1052 [20MR]

Construction industries: tribute to companies who donated labor, funds, and supplies to rebuild the Pentagon's roof (H. Con. Res. 424), H3900, H3902 [25JN]

Crime: prohibit taking minors across State lines to avoid State laws requiring parental notification of abortions (H.R. 476), H1364 [17AP]

Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (H.R. 4546), H2361 [9MY]

Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: make pension and individual retirement arrangement provisions permanent (H.R. 4931), complete congressional action (H. Res. 544), H6680 [25SE]

Families and domestic relations: support responsible fatherhood and encourage greater involvement of fathers in the lives of their children (H. Res. 442), H3488 [12JN]

Frank Sinatra Post Office Building, Hoboken, NJ: designate (H.R. 3034), H3902 [25JN]

Government: reduce improper payments by Federal agencies (H.R. 4878), H4380 [9JY]

House of Representatives: appreciation of opportunity to serve, H565 [27FE]

House Rules: establish a discretionary spending ledger and a mandatory spending ledger (H. Res. 486), E1259 [15JY]

INS: replace with the Agency for Immigration Affairs (H.R. 3231), H1624 [25AP]

Medicare: coverage of outpatient prescription drugs, H2820 [21MY]

———establish voluntary outpatient prescription drug coverage program and modernize and reform payments and the regulatory structure (H.R. 4954), H3653 [18JN], H3934, H4032 [26JN], H4772 [17JY]

Myers, Jim: Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame inductee, E621 [24AP]

Oakland Athletics (baseball team): tribute (H. Res. 530), H6857, H6859 [1OC]

Public welfare programs: reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (H.R. 4090), H1162 [10AP], H1752 [30AP]

———reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (H.R. 4737), H2545 [16MY]

Robert Wayne Jenkins Station, Tulsa, OK: designate (H.R. 4851), H6855, H6856 [1OC]

Social Security: budget treatment of trust funds, H1051, H1052 [20MR]

———extend abstinence education funding under maternal and child health programs, H1752 [30AP]

Taxation: increase unified estate tax credit, H3269 [6JN]

———make repeal of estate taxes permanent (H.R. 2143), H3269 [6JN]

Unitas, Johnny: tribute (H. Res. 538), H6859, H6860, H6861 [1OC]

Votes: position on missed, H2057 [2MY], H6993 [3OC]

World Cup: tribute to U.S. men's soccer team (H. Res. 445), H4025, H4026 [26JN]

Remarks in House relative to

Leave of absence: granted, H2098 [2MY]

Special order: granted, H4065 [26JN]

Tribute, H565 [27FE]