PASTOR, ED (a Representative from Arizona)
Appointments
Mexico-U.S. Interparliamentary Group, H2591 [16MY]
Bills and resolutions cosponsored
Airports: modify terminal buildings to accommodate explosive detection systems for screening checked baggage (see H.R. 5135), H4766 [16JY]
Apache County, AZ: approve settlement of water rights claims of the Zuni Indian Tribe (see H.R. 5163), H4931 [18JY]
Armed Forces: provide that military retired pay, for non-regular service, be paid without regard to age (see H.R. 4676), H4498 [10JY]
———reduce the age for receipt of military retired pay for non-regular service (see H.R. 3831), H1410 [17AP]
Aviation: amend certain laws relative to airport project streamlining (see H.R. 4481), H2472 [14MY]
———recognize heroism and courage of airline flight attendants (see H. Con. Res. 401), H3230 [5JN]
Capital punishment: temporary moratorium on carrying out the death penalty to allow those convicted to have a reasonable opportunity to present new evidence of innocence (see H.R. 321), H907 [13MR]
Carrier, Willis H.: tribute to anniversary of invention of modern air-conditioning (see H. Con. Res. 413), H3860 [24JN]
Children and youth: access of disadvantaged children to dental services (see H.R. 3659), H1284 [11AP]
———improve academic and social outcomes for students by providing productive activities during after-school hours (see H.R. 1822), H1769 [30AP]
———provide access to early care and education so the families can work and children can receive quality custodial care (see H.R. 3524), H781 [7MR]
Colleges and universities: permit States to determine residency standards for higher education purposes and cancel removal and adjust status of certain long-term resident alien students (see H.R. 1918), H5195 [23JY]
———recognize contributions of Hispanic-serving institutions (see H. Res. 561), H6777 [26SE]
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), H3230 [5JN]
Consumers: protect from predatory mortgage lending practices (see H.R. 1051), H1003 [19MR]
Contraceptives: establish a public education and awareness program relative to emergency contraception (see H.R. 3887), H1338 [16AP]
Courts: establish domestic violence court systems from amounts available for grants to combat violence against women (see H.R. 4091), H1152 [9AP]
———waive certain defenses to legal claims brought by workers participating in the Bracero Program (see H.R. 4918), H3513 [12JN]
Crime: make grants to train sexual assault nurse examiners and other personnel handling sexual assault cases, establish minimum standards for forensic evidence collection, and carry out crime scene DNA analysis (see H.R. 2874), H2019 [1MY]
———prohibit the sale or rental of adult video games to minors (see H.R. 4645), H3292 [6JN]
———provide grants for public information campaigns to educate racial and ethnic minorities about domestic violence (see H.R. 4089), H1152 [9AP]
Cruz, Roberto: tribute (see H. Res. 576), H7738 [9OC] (see H. Res. 612), H8732 [13NO]
Cuba: grant waiver to allow Cuban nationals to play professional baseball in the U.S. (see H.R. 26), H4498 [10JY]
Cultural Competence Commission: establish (see H.R. 5265), H5994 [26JY]
Darley, Felix O.C.: issue commemorative postage stamp (see H. Con. Res. 216), H285 [12FE]
Dept. of Commerce: make grants to States for advertising that promotes travel and tourism (see H.R. 3321), H2356 [9MY]
Dept. of Defense: expand program which allows State and local law enforcement agencies to procure certain equipment to include counter-terrorism equipment (see H.R. 3025), H1155 [9AP]
Dept. of Energy: authorizing appropriations for the Office of Science (see H.R. 5270), H9025 [14NO]
Dept. of Justice: establish a national DNA database for sex offenders and those who commit violent crimes against children (see H.R. 5262), H5994 [26JY]
———establish an Office of Children's Services (see H.R. 1904), H737 [6MR]
Dept. of Veterans Affairs: improve judicial review of administrative decisions (see H.R. 4018), H1410 [17AP]
———make motor vehicle reimbursement rates for veterans comparable to reimbursement rates for Federal employees (see H.R. 551), H8732 [13NO]
———provide guaranteed adequate level of funding for veterans health care (see H.R. 5250), H7895 [10OC]
Developing countries: increase assistance for the poorest people in developing countries under microenterprise assistance programs (see H.R. 4073), H2356 [9MY]
———reauthorize microenterprise assistance programs and expand sustainable poverty-focused microenterprise programs by implementing improved poverty measurement methods (see H.R. 4209), H1283 [11AP]
Diseases: increase activities carried out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and NIH relative to diabetes in minority populations (see H.R. 2232), H4350 [8JY]
Drugs: distribution chain of prescription drugs (see H.R. 68), H5997 [26JY]
Education: provide educational opportunities for all students in State public school systems (see H.R. 5346), H6304 [17SE]
———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), H781 [7MR]
———require medically accurate and objective factual information as part of any sex education course (see H.R. 5668), H8022 [16OC]
El Paso, TX: establish a national immigration museum (see H.R. 2162), H524 [14FE]
Employment: establish an Adult Job Corps demonstration program for the U.S.-Mexico border area (see H.R. 5208), H5452 [24JY]
ERISA: provide for improved disclosure, diversification, account access, and accountability under individual account plans (see H.R. 3657), H104 [29JA]
FDA: grant authority to regulate tobacco (see H.R. 1097), H284 [12FE]
———uniform food safety warning notification requirements (see H.R. 2649), H833 [12MR]
Federal employees: ensure that those activated by the National Guard or Reserves shall receive pay equal to the basic pay such individual would otherwise be receiving (see H.R. 3337), H142 [5FE]
———provide benefits to domestic partners (see H.R. 638), H2945 [22MY]
Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act: amend relative to firefighter assistance (see H.R. 4548), H6251 [12SE]
Federal firefighters: establish presumptive disability benefits for certain diseases and disabilities (see H.R. 2163), H1154 [9AP]
Firefighters: authorize grants to States or communities to assist fire departments in meeting staffing standards (see H.R. 3185), H1201 [10AP]
Fisk Jubilee Singers (musical group): issue commemorative postage stamp (see H. Res. 225), H105 [29JA]
Forest Service: protection of certain roadless areas (see H.R. 4865), H3228 [5JN]
Gila River Indian Community: adjust the Central Arizona Project to authorize water rights settlement and amend the Southern Arizona Water Rights Settlement Act (see H.R. 5443), H6558 [24SE]
———provide for binding arbitration clauses in leases and contracts relative to reservation lands (see H.R. 3985), H937 [18MR]
Government: enhance security and efficiency of immigration, visa, border patrol, and naturalization functions (see H.R. 5073), H4424 [9JY]
Health: national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (see H. Con. Res. 99), H4767 [16JY]
———provide grants for public access defibrillation programs and public access defibrillation demonstration projects (see H.R. 3462), H285 [12FE]
———provide individuals of health disparity populations prevention, detection, treatment, and follow-up care services for cancer and chronic diseases, and patient navigators to assist in receiving such services (see H.R. 5187), H5194 [23JY]
———provide programs for the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of stroke (see H.R. 3431), H285 [12FE]
———reduce adolescent pregnancy, HIV rates, and other sexually transmitted diseases (see H.R. 3469), H1674 [25AP]
Height, Dorothy I.: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 4531), H6303 [17SE]
Hispanic Americans: provide programs and activities to improve health (see H.R. 5449), H6693 [25SE]
History: recognize historical significance of the 100th anniversary of Korean immigration to the U.S. (see H. Con. Res. 297), H6420 [19SE]
———tribute to Braceros foreign guest laborers who worked in the U.S. from 1942-1964 (see H. Res. 522), H6778 [26SE]
Housing: provide affordable housing for families that are headed by grandparents and other relatives of children (see H.R. 4033), H5453 [24JY]
Human rights: condemn the practice of execution by stoning (see H. Con. Res. 351), H8042 [24OC]
Immigration: assess aliens' immigration status relative to eligibility to serve in the Armed Forces and to be employed in airport security, and permit naturalization through certain active-duty military service (see H.R. 3959), H1003 [19MR] (see H.R. 4058), H1088 [20MR]
———change requirements for naturalization to citizenship through service in the Armed Forces (see H.R. 4575), H3038 [23MY]
———establish nonimmigrant classes for border commuter students (see H.R. 4967), H3720 [19JN]
———protection of battered immigrant families (see H.R. 3828), H2235 [8MY]
———provide permanent resident status for certain long-term resident workers and college-bound students and modify the worldwide level of family-sponsored immigrants in order to promote family unification (see H.R. 5600), H7892 [10OC]
Insurance: coverage of colorectal cancer screening (see H.R. 1520), H561 [26FE]
———require health plans to provide coverage for a minimum hospital stay for certain breast cancer treatments (see H.R. 536), H3514 [12JN]
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), H2735 [21MY]
James V. Hansen Federal Building, Ogden, UT: designate (see H.R. 5611), H7893 [10OC]
Law enforcement officers: adjust percentage differentials payable to Federal law enforcement officers in certain high-cost areas (see H.R. 3794), H3562 [13JN]
———exclude availability pay for criminal investigators from the limitation on premium pay and modify levels of special pay for Federal officers in certain cities (see H.R. 4763), H7738 [9OC]
Medicaid: extend certain modifications to disproportionate share hospital allotments (see H.R. 854), H1289 [15AP]
———increase Federal medical assistance percentage to help States finance increases in enrollment (see H.R. 3414), H201 [6FE]
———provide the disabled and elderly with equal access to community-based attendant services (see H.R. 3612), H6085 [5SE]
Medicare: allow beneficiaries direct access to physical therapists without a physician referral (see H.R. 3363), H2101 [2MY]
———coverage of additional hemodialysis treatments for certain patients and increased update in composite rate for dialysis services (see H.R. 2220), H562 [26FE]
———coverage of more frequent hemodialysis treatments (see H.R. 1759), H284 [12FE]
———coverage of oral anticancer drugs (see H.R. 1624), H2471 [14MY]
———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), H1675 [25AP]
———establish voluntary outpatient prescription drug coverage program and modernize and reform payments and the regulatory structure (see H.R. 5019), H4068 [26JN]
———improve fee-for-services reimbursement rates in rural States (see H.R. 2483), H4326 [27JN]
———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]
———pay ambulance suppliers the full costs of providing such services (see H.R. 3109), H2471 [14MY]
———repeal outpatient rehabilitation therapy caps (see H.R. 3834), H2235 [8MY]
———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), H2101 [2MY]
———standardize payment amounts for inpatient hospital services (see H.R. 1609), H1283 [11AP]
Memorial Day: encourage greater recognition (see H. Con. Res. 86), H8546 [12NO]
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]
Mexico: treaty obligations relative to use of the Colorado, Rio Grande, and Tijuana Rivers (see H. Con. Res. 494), H6926 [1OC]
Motor vehicles: protect the rights of consumers to diagnose, service, and repair their motor vehicles (see H.R. 2735), H1769 [30AP]
Nat King Cole Post Office, Los Angeles, CA: designate (see H.R. 4797), H2943 [22MY]
National Affordable Housing Trust Fund: establish to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing for low-income families (see H.R. 2349), H833 [12MR]
National Epilepsy Month: designate (see H. Res. 484), H6304 [17SE]
National Guard: end the prohibition against overtime pay for military technicians (see H.R. 512), H6559 [24SE]
National Guard Challenge Program: revise matching funds requirements for participating States (see H.R. 4595), H6060 [4SE]
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: authorize development of research centers focusing on environmental factors related to the etiology of breast cancer (see H.R. 1723), H2235 [8MY]
OMB: provide that certain adjustments made to align highway spending with revenues have no force or effect (see H.R. 3900), H780 [7MR]
Patriotism: mint coins in commemoration of the Spirit of America and to establish the Victims of September 11th Fund (see H.R. 3244), H79 [24JA]
Pensions: application of catch-up contributions to the Federal Employees Thrift Savings Plan (see H.R. 3354), H105 [29JA]
Postage and stamps: moratorium on postage rate increases for nonprofit organizations and certain other mailers (see H.J. Res. 98), H3826 [21JN]
Poverty: enhance the capacity of organizations working in the U.S.-Mexico border area to develop affordable housing and foster economic opportunity in the colonias (see H.R. 5654), H8021 [16OC]
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), H6927 [1OC]
Public welfare programs: reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see H.R. 3113), H932 [14MR]
Safety: authorize grants to improve security on over-the-road buses (see H.R. 3429), H651 [28FE]
Santiago E. Campos U.S. Courthouse, Santa Fe, NM: designate (see H.R. 5083), H4424 [9JY]
Schools: prohibit the sale of foods with minimal nutritional value in schools participating in Federal meal programs (see H.R. 2129), H1201 [10AP]
Senior citizens: modify the eligibility criteria for supplemental foods provided under the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (see H.R. 5107), H5791 [25JY]
———support programs and activities to prevent perpetrators of fraud from victimizing senior citizens (see H. Res. 443), H4873 [17JY]
Social Security: improve coverage of certain pregnant women, infants, and children under State Children's Health Insurance Program and Medicaid (see H.R. 3675), H1091 [20MR]
———protect trust funds by ensuring the Government repays its debts to the trust funds (see H.R. 5252), H7303 [8OC]
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]
Southwest Regional Border Authority: establish (see H.R. 4847), H3036 [23MY]
States: permit individuals to operate commercial motor vehicles within State borders after meeting minimum standards (see H.R. 2466), H1484 [18AP]
Steinbeck, John: tribute (see H. Con. Res. 336), H688 [5MR]
Taxation: allow tax credit to businesses who employ members of the military Reserves and a comparable credit to self-employed military Reserve participants (see H.R. 394), H2019 [1MY]
———encourage more responsible corporate governance (see H.R. 5088), H5453 [24JY]
———exclude Dept. of Defense student loan repayments by members of the uniformed services from taxable gross income (see H.R. 4555), H4553 [11JY]
———exclude from gross income discharges of indebtedness attributable to certain forgiven residential mortgage obligations (see H.R. 13), H2661 [20MY]
———expand renewable resources production tax credit to include additional forms of renewable energy and expand investment tax credit to include equipment used to produce electricity from renewable resources (see H.R. 4668), H2608 [16MY]
———prevent corporations from avoiding the U.S. income tax by reincorporating in a foreign country (see H.R. 3884), H3562 [13JN]
———prevent corporations from exploiting tax treaties to evade U.S. income tax (see H.R. 4993), H3824 [21JN]
———provide an increased low-income housing credit for property located adjacent to qualified census tracts (see H.R. 4194), H4872 [17JY]
———provide tax and other incentives to maintain a vibrant travel and tourism industry (see H.R. 3550), H227 [7FE]
———treatment of certain franchise operation property (see H.R. 1507), H2356 [9MY]
———treatment of income from land sold to a government agency or a nonprofit organization for conservation purposes (see H.R. 2290), H833 [12MR]
Terrorism: anniversary of terrorist attacks (see H. Con. Res. 464), H6229 [11SE]
U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution: reauthorize (see H.R. 4670), H2356 [9MY]
Veterans: increase the minimum Survivor Benefit Plan basic annuity for certain surviving spouses (see H.R. 5403), H6373 [18SE]
Veterans Day: encourage greater recognition (see H. Con. Res. 86), H8546 [12NO]
———issue annual commemorative postage stamp (see H. Res. 429), H6420 [19SE]
World War II: provide that service in the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps constituted active military service for veteran classification (see H.R. 1724), H6559 [24SE]
Bills and resolutions introduced
Immigration: adjust the status of certain aliens, with longstanding ties to the U.S., to that of an alien lawfully admitted to permanent residence (see H.R. 4999), H3825 [21JN]
Yuma County, AZ: direct the Dept. of the Interior to take certain lands into trust as part of the Cocopah Indian Tribe reservation (see H.R. 5000), H3825 [21JN]
Yuma East Wetlands Project: authorize Dept. of the Interior participation (see H.R. 5753), H9024 [14NO]
Remarks
Airports: extend deadline for installing explosive detection machines for screening checked baggage, H5839 [26JY]
Appropriations: making supplemental appropriations for further recovery from and response to terrorist attacks (H.R. 4775), E937
Arizona Coalition for New Energy Technologies: tribute, E1374
Armed Forces: authorize use against Iraq (H.J. Res. 114), H7375, H7734
Budget: setting forth the Federal budget for 2003-2007 (H. Con. Res. 353), H1071
de Leon, Armando: Valle del Sol (nonprofit organization) Profiles of Success Hispanic Leadership Award recipient, E1499
Dept. of Defense: making appropriations (H.R. 5010), H4085
———ThermoMed Instrument clinical evaluation funding, H4085
Dept. of Homeland Security: establish (H.R. 5005), H5839, H5882
———establish (H.R. 5710), H8710
Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: allow tax relief to continue as scheduled (H. Con. Res. 312), H162
———make tax benefits permanent, H1451
Enron Corp.: economic collapse, H1263
Fimbres, Richard G.: Tucson, AZ, Chamber of Commerce Man of the Year award recipient, E320
Garcia, Lauro and Margarita: Valle del Sol (nonprofit organization) Profiles of Success Hispanic Leadership Award recipient, E1492
Gila River Indian Community: provide for binding arbitration clauses in leases and contracts relative to reservation lands (H.R. 3985), H946
Lopez Foods, Inc.: anniversary, E895
Medicare: coverage of outpatient prescription drugs, H2135 [7MY]
National Importance of Health Care Coverage Month: designate (H. Con. Res. 271), H2135 [7MY]
National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade: anniversary, E570
Pensions: provide additional protection to participants in individual account plans, promote investment advice, and prohibit certain insider trades of securities (H.R. 3762), H1263
Social Security: budget treatment of trust funds, H1451
Taxation: exclusion from gross income for foster care payments relative to certain nongovernmental placement agencies (H.R. 586), H1451
———increase unified estate tax credit, H3271
———make repeal of estate taxes permanent (H.R. 2143), H3271
———provide incentives for economic recovery, H503
———treatment of adoption expenses (H.R. 622), H503
Tumacacori National Historical Park: boundary adjustments (H.R. 2234), H8 [23JA]
Unemployment: provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program, H503
Yuma, AZ: tribute to Cibola High School, E681
Tributes
Coleman, Maiola, E569
Huerta, John L., E321
Huggins, Charles R., E688
Roig, Vincent, E1260
Vega, Jose de Jesus and Maria Luisa, E393