THOMAS, CRAIG (a Senator from Wyoming)
Amendments
Agriculture: continue certain programs (S. 1731), S587 [11FE]
Commission on Voting Rights and Procedures: establish (S. 565), S866 [14FE], S1218 [26FE], S1372 [28FE], S2476, S2503 [10AP]
Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (S. 2514), S5869, S5870 [20JN]
Dept. of Energy: enhance national laboratory mission areas through technology transfer and partnerships (S. 517), S1622, S1632, S1635, S1682, S1683, S1684 [7MR], S1835, S1836, S1837, S1838, S1863, S1864, S1865 [13MR], S1872, S1941 [14MR], S3073, S3082 [22AP], S3147 [23AP], S3328 [24AP], S3390, S3397 [25AP]
Dept. of Homeland Security: establish (H.R. 5005), S8302 [5SE], S8575 [12SE], S8784 [18SE]
Dept. of the Interior and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 5093), S8420, S8471 [10SE], S8674 [17SE]
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: provide greater access to affordable pharmaceuticals (S. 812), S6963 [17JY]
Taxation: treatment of adoption expenses (H.R. 622), S239 [29JA], S275 [4FE], S357 [5FE]
Voting: protect voting rights (S. 565), S866 [14FE], S1218 [26FE], S1372 [28FE], S2476, S2503 [10AP]
Appointments
Conferee: H.R. 4, Energy Policy Act, S3789 [1MY]
Articles and editorials
My Journey With a Brain Tumor, Adrienne McMillan Burns, S4059
Bills and resolutions cosponsored
Agriculture: provide emergency agriculture assistance (see S. 2830), S7744 [31JY]
Aviation: establish a program for Federal flight deck officers (see S. 2554), S5286 [10JN]
———require background checks of alien flight school applicants regardless of weight of the aircraft for which they seek training and require report on the effectiveness of the requirement (see S. 2642), S5696 [18JN]
Children and youth: commend students who participated in the U.S. Senate Youth Program (see S. Res. 208), S1352 [28FE]
Congressional Gold Medal: award posthumously to passengers and crew of United Airlines flight 93 in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Somerset County, PA (see S. 2924), S8506 [11SE]
Dept. of Homeland Security: establish (see S. 2794), S7902 [1AU]
Endangered Species Act: require greater weight be given to scientific or commercial data that is empirical or has been field-tested or peer-reviewed (see S. 1912), S1352 [28FE]
Firearms: protect manufacturers and sellers in the firearms and ammunition industry from restrictions on interstate or foreign commerce (see S. 2268), S4493 [16MY]
———protect right to keep and bear arms (see S. 1996), S1675 [7MR]
Greek Independence Day—A National Day of Celebration of Greek and American Democracy: designate (see S. Res. 214), S1421 [4MR]
Health: reduce the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery system (see S. 2793), S10118 [8OC]
Health care professionals: improve access to physicians in medically underserved areas by extending and increasing foreign country residency requirement waivers for foreign medical graduates (see S. 2674), S8755 [18SE]
Labor unions: encourage mediation to resolve dispute between the Pacific Maritime Association and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (see S. Res. 333), S10041 [7OC]
Medicare: extend authorization for appropriations for certain rural grants (see S. 2135), S2723 [16AP]
———improve Medicare Incentive Payment Program (see S. 2529), S4492 [16MY]
Memorial Day: recognize the sacrifice and dedication of the Armed Forces and civilian national security agencies (see S. Res. 278), S4840 [23MY]
National Correctional Officers and Employees Week: designate (see S. Res. 255), S3560 [30AP]
National 4-H Youth Development Program Week: designate (see S. Con. Res. 143), S8918 [19SE]
National Medical Services Week: designate (see S. Con. Res. 112), S4568 [20MY]
Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center for Community Building, St. Paul, MN: authorize construction grant (see S. 3156), S11079 [14NO]
Peace Officers Memorial Day: designate (see S. Res. 221), S1676 [7MR]
Pledge of Allegiance: circuit court decision on inclusion of phrase ``under God'' (see S. Res. 292), S6127 [26JN]
———reaffirm reference to ``one Nation under God'' (see S. 2690), S6250 [27JN]
Public welfare programs: 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]
Put the Brakes on Fatalities Day: designate (see S. Res. 266), S6014 [25JN]
Roads and highways: reduce delays in development of highway and transit projects (see S. 3031), S10678 [17OC]
Science: prohibit the cloning of humans (see S. 1899), S2675 [15AP]
Sec. of the Navy: redesignate as the Sec. of the Navy and Marine Corps (see S. 2718), S8674 [17SE]
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 S. 677), S545 [8FE]
———exclude from gross income loan payments received under the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program (see S. 2654), S5851 [20JN]
———transfer all excise taxes imposed on alcohol fuels to the Highway Trust Fund (see S. 2678), S6013 [25JN]
———treatment of depreciation of wireless telecommunications equipment (see S. 640), S286 [4FE]
Telephones: prohibit telemarketers from interfering with a consumer's caller identification service (see S. 722), S488 [7FE]
Teno Roncalio Post Office Building, Rock Springs, WY: designate (see S. 1970), S1251 [27FE]
Transportation: improve transit service in rural areas, small urban areas, and for the elderly and disabled (see S. 2884), S7900 [1AU]
Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century: provide highway infrastructure investment at the guaranteed funding level (see S. 1917), S587 [11FE]
Wellstone, Paul D.: tribute (see S. Res. 354), S10800 [28OC]
Bills and resolutions introduced
Medicare: establish a subvention demonstration project for veterans (see S. 2233), S3165 [23AP]
National Park Service: enhance the Recreation Fee Demonstration Program (see S. 2473), S4064 [8MY]
Tariff: acrylic fiber tow (see S. 2106), S2577 [11AP]
Taxation: provide involuntary conversion tax relief for producers forced to sell livestock due to weather-related conditions or Federal land management agency policy or action (see S. 2762), S7104 [19JY]
Cloture motions
Andean Trade Preference Act: extend and expand (H.R. 3009), S4125 [9MY]
Armed Forces: authorize use against Iraq (S.J. Res. 45), S10107 [8OC], S10242 [10OC]
Clifton, Richard R.: nomination to be circuit judge, S6964 [17JY], S7016 [18JY]
Dept. of Homeland Security: establish (H.R. 5005), S10875 [13NO], S11169 [15NO], S11373 [19NO]
Gibbons, Julia Smith: nomination to be circuit judge, S7322 [24JY], S7391 [26JY]
Taxation: treatment of adoption expenses (H.R. 622), S280 [4FE], S392 [6FE]
Letters
National energy policy: J. Eldon Yates, Vietnam Veterans Institute, S1572 [6MR]
———Joseph Satriano, Catholic War Veterans (organization), S1573 [6MR]
———Richard A. Jones, AMVETS, S1573 [6MR]
———Richard J. Santos, American Legion, S1573 [6MR]
———Robert E. Wallace, VFW, S1572 [6MR]
Promote public-private competition for Dept. of Defense contracts and procurement: Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr., OMB, S5983 [25JN]
Motions
Dept. of Energy: enhance national laboratory mission areas through technology transfer and partnerships (S. 517), S1896 [14MR]
Privilege of the floor
Perkins, Nancy, S1616 [6MR]
Ripley, Steve, S1953 [14MR]
Remarks
Agriculture: continue certain programs (H.R. 2646), conference report, S3931 [7MY]
———continue certain programs (S. 1731), S52 [24JA], S416 [6FE], S474 [7FE], S601, S604, S626 [12FE]
———provide emergency agriculture assistance, S8402 [10SE]
Andean Trade Preference Act: extend and expand (H.R. 3009), S3891 [6MY], S4291 [14MY]
———extend and expand (H.R. 3009), motion to proceed, S3481 [29AP]
Appropriations: legislative process, S9182 [25SE], S9655 [1OC]
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: oil and gas exploration, S2880 [18AP], S2994 [22AP]
Armed Forces: authorize use against Iraq (S.J. Res. 45), S10057 [8OC]
Aviation: establish a program for Federal flight deck officers, S8267 [5SE]
———improve security by allowing pilots to have guns in the cockpit, S8267 [5SE]
Brain Tumor Action Week: observance, S4059
Budget: allocation of funds, S261 [4FE]
Commission on Voting Rights and Procedures: establish (S. 565), S1341 [28FE]
Congress: legislative priorities, S8339 [9SE]
Conservation Reserve Program: strike water conservation program, S474 [7FE], S604 [12FE]
Dept. of Agriculture: restrict use of Environmental Quality Incentive Program funds for confined livestock feeding operations, S416 [6FE], S626 [12FE]
Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (S. 2514), S5935, S5938 [24JN], S5983 [25JN]
———promote public-private competition for contracts and procurement, S5935, S5938 [24JN], S5983 [25JN]
Dept. of Energy: enhance national laboratory mission areas through technology transfer and partnerships (S. 517), S1196 [26FE], S1572, S1573 [6MR], S1838 [13MR], S1873, S1878, S1882, S1896 [14MR], S2376 [9AP], S2434, S2437, S2449 [10AP], S2880 [18AP], S2994 [22AP], S3245 [24AP]
Dept. of Homeland Security: establish (H.R. 5005), S8267 [5SE], S11243 [18NO]
———establish (H.R. 5005), motion to proceed, S8069 [3SE]
Dept. of the Interior: implement final rule to phase out snowmobile use in Yellowstone National Park, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Memorial Parkway, and Grand Teton National Park, and snowplane use in Grand Teton National Park (S. 2697), S6729-S6731 [15JY]
Dept. of the Interior and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 5093), S8339 [9SE], S8402, S8420 [10SE]
Economy: national objectives priority assignments, S9182 [25SE]
Electric power: provide consumer protections and reliability in the provision of electric power, S2434, S2449 [10AP], S3245 [24AP]
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: provide greater access to affordable pharmaceuticals (S. 812), S6971 [18JY], S7180 [23JY]
Federal-State relations: role of the Federal Government, S5323-S5325 [11JN]
FMC Corp.: tribute to National and International Mine Rescue Contest winners, S8749 [18SE]
Foreign trade: national objectives priority assignments, S1341 [28FE]
Government: procure from the private sector the goods and services necessary to operate and manage certain agencies, S1726 [11MR]
Hazardous substances: approve Yucca Mountain, NV, as nuclear waste disposal site (S.J. Res. 34), motion to proceed, S6457 [9JY]
Health: provide for health care liability reform, S7448 [29JY]
Medicare: coverage of outpatient prescription drugs, S6814 [16JY], S7180 [23JY]
———establish a subvention demonstration project for veterans (S. 2233), S3171 [23AP], S4251 [13MY]
———establish voluntary outpatient prescription drug coverage program and modernize and reform payments and the regulatory structure, S7180 [23JY]
———extend authorization for appropriations for certain rural grants (S. 2135), S2727
———improve Medicare Incentive Payment Program (S. 2529), S4503 [16MY]
National 4-H Youth Development Program Week: designate (S. Con. Res. 143), S9784 [2OC]
National Park Service: enhance the Recreation Fee Demonstration Program (S. 2473), S4066 [8MY], S4661 [22MY]
———snowmobile regulations, S2479 [10AP]
National security: develop and implement a strategy for homeland security, S5262 [10JN]
O'Brien, Terrence L.: nomination to be circuit judge, S2661, S2663 [15AP]
Packers and Stockyards Act: prohibit packers from owning, feeding, or controlling livestock intended for slaughter, S601 [12FE]
Power resources: national energy policy, S52 [24JA], S1196 [26FE], S1572, S1573 [6MR], S1838 [13MR], S1873, S1878, S1882, S1896 [14MR], S2376 [9AP], S2434, S2437, S2449 [10AP], S2880 [18AP], S2994 [22AP], S3245 [24AP], S5567 [14JN], S6813 [16JY]
Public lands: national parks management, S4661 [22MY]
Public utilities: establish an organization to ensure the reliability of the electric power transmission system, S1873, S1878, S1882, S1896 [14MR]
Republican Party: national agenda, S4292 [14MY]
Senate: legislative priorities, S9003 [23SE], S9563 [30SE], S10402 [15OC]
———legislative program, S193 [29JA], S4292 [14MY], S9655 [1OC]
Social Security: allow coverage of pregnancy-related assistance for targeted low-income pregnant women under State Children's Health Insurance Program and Medicaid (S. 724), unanimous-consent request, S10059 [8OC]
Somerset County, PA: tribute to rescue of coal miners, S8749 [18SE]
Taxation: exclude from gross income loan payments received under the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program (S. 2654), S5855 [20JN]
———extension of the credit for producing electricity from wind (S. 94), unanimous-consent request, S1340 [28FE]
———modify limitations on qualified issue bonds for manufacturing facilities, S275 [4FE]
———provide incentives for economic recovery, S51 [24JA], S275 [4FE]
———rates, S2995 [22AP], S4294 [14MY]
———reform laws and filing procedures, S2995 [22AP]
———transfer of excise taxes imposed on gasoline and alcohol based fuels to the Highway Trust Fund, S4292 [14MY]
———treatment of adoption expenses (H.R. 622), S275 [4FE]
Terrorism: anniversary of terrorist attacks, S8479 [11SE]
Treaties and agreements: extend trade negotiating and trade agreement implementing authority, S3481-S3483 [29AP], S3592-S3594 [1MY], S3891 [6MY], S4291 [14MY]
———extend trade negotiating and trade agreement implementing authority (H.R. 3005), S1341 [28FE]
Voting: protect voting rights (S. 565), S1341 [28FE]
Yellowstone National Park: provide an independent and comprehensive management, operational and financial review, S8420 [10SE]
Remarks in Senate relative to
University of Wyoming: Distinguished Alumni Award recipient, S10567 [16OC]
Texts of
S. 2473, Recreational Fee Authority Act, S4067 [8MY]
Tributes
Cosma, Nick, S9031
Kunsman, Dan, S5362
Naatz, Dan, S1391 [1MR]