PETERSON, JOHN E. (a Representative from Pennsylvania)
Bills and resolutions cosponsored
Abortion: prohibit partial-birth abortions (see H.R. 4965), H4575 [12JY]
Agriculture: provide emergency agriculture assistance (see H.R. 5383), H8023 [16OC]
Animals: establish a national research program on chronic wasting disease (see H.R. 4795), H3514 [12JN]
Armed Forces: authorize use against Iraq (see H.J. Res. 114), H7304 [8OC]
———provide for a Korea Defense Service Medal to be issued to members who participated in Korea after the Korean War (see H.R. 1935), H1154 [9AP]
Breast Cancer Awareness Month: support (see H. Con. Res. 502), H7738 [9OC]
Budget: constitutional amendment to require balanced (see H.J. Res. 86), H1283 [11AP]
Children and youth: provide for a national media campaign to reduce and prevent underage drinking (see H.R. 1509), H7929 [15OC]
Customs Service: tribute to World Trade Center offices for efforts during and in the aftermath of terrorist attack (see H. Res. 385), H1200 [10AP]
Davis-Bacon Act: amend to increase specified contract amounts (see H.R. 2094), H3562 [13JN]
Dept. of Agriculture: take actions to promptly address the risk of fire and insect infestation on National Forest System lands (see H.R. 5214), H5789 [25JY]
District of Columbia: scholarship vouchers to provide school choice (see H.R. 5033), H4932 [18JY]
Drugs: address the problem of pseudoephedrine smuggling into the U.S. from Canada (see H. Con. Res. 317), H688 [5MR]
———respond to the illegal production, distribution, and use of methamphetamines (see H.R. 3782), H523 [14FE]
Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: make tax benefits permanent (see H.R. 2316), H3161 [4JN]
Endangered Species Act: authorize Federal agencies to promptly respond to health and safety emergencies (see H.R. 3259), H634 [27FE]
———require the Dept. of the Interior to give greater weight to scientific or commercial data that is empirical or has been field-tested or peer-reviewed (see H.R. 2829), H1284 [11AP]
EPA: prohibit from issuing or renewing certain national pollutant discharge elimination system permits (see H.R. 5554), H8023 [16OC]
FDA: uniform food safety warning notification requirements (see H.R. 2649), H2019 [1MY]
Fire prevention: allow Depts. of Agriculture and the Interior to enter into agreements with Federal agencies to acquire goods and services relative to improving or using the wildfire fighting capability of those agencies (see H.R. 5185), H6130 [9SE]
———improve capacity to address wildfire prone conditions, establish fire management contracting authorities review process, and authorize appropriations for hazardous fuel reduction projects (see H.R. 5319), H6059 [4SE]
———reduce catastrophic wildfire threats to communities and the environment (see H.R. 5376), H6560 [24SE]
Firefighters: expedite process by which military aircraft may be used to fight wildfires (see H.R. 5102), H5087 [22JY]
———facilitate reciprocal agreements with foreign countries for the sharing of personnel to fight wildfires (see H.R. 5017), H4326 [27JN]
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 Presque Isle National Historic Site: establish (see H.R. 4681), H2235 [8MY]
FTC: regulation of unfair or deceptive practices by sports agents in the signing of contracts with student athletes (see H.R. 4701), H5998 [26JY]
Health: reduce the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery system (see H.R. 4600), H4498 [10JY]
Herbert Arlene Post Office Building, Philadelphia, PA: designate (see H.R. 3738), H365 [13FE]
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]
Human rights: condemn the practice of execution by stoning (see H. Con. Res. 351), H6230 [11SE]
Immigration: 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]
Immigration and Nationality Act: amend relative to loss of nationality for treason or terrorism against the U.S. (see H.R. 5440), H6558 [24SE]
James R. Merry Post Office Building, Linesville, PA: designate (see H.R. 5586), H7737 [9OC] (see H.R. 5707), H8545 [12NO]
Joe Skeen Federal Building, Roswell, NM: designate (see H.R. 5427), H6418 [19SE]
Market Integrity Commission: establish to study issues relating to the governance of corporations in interstate and foreign commerce (see H.R. 5050), H4325 [27JN]
Medicare: coverage of more frequent hemodialysis treatments (see H.R. 1759), H284 [12FE]
National Farmers Union: anniversary (see H. Con. Res. 462), H6778 [26SE]
National forests: establish a user fee system for occupancy and use of lands and facilities by organizational camps that serve youth and disabled adults (see H.R. 5316), H6419 [19SE]
National Visiting Nurse Associations Week: establish (see H. Con. Res. 509), H7894 [10OC]
OMB: provide that certain adjustments made to align highway spending with revenues have no force or effect (see H.R. 3900), H780 [7MR]
Public lands: establish time limits for completion of wilderness studies on Federal lands (see H.R. 4620), H2512 [15MY]
Rev. Leon Sullivan Post Office Building, Philadelphia, PA: designate (see H.R. 3739), H365 [13FE]
Robert A. Borski Post Office Building, Philadelphia, PA: designate (see H.R. 5280), H6419 [19SE]
Roosevelt, Theodore: mint coins in commemoration of the centenary of receiving the Nobel Peace Prize (see H.R. 5573), H7303 [8OC]
SBA: authorize loans to small businesses and certain other businesses that suffered substantial economic injury as a result of terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Somerset County, PA (see H.R. 3230), H3161 [4JN]
Secret Service: tribute to New York, NY, field office for efforts during and in the aftermath of terrorist attack on the World Trade Center (see H. Res. 384), H1200 [10AP]
Small business: issue postage stamp in commemoration of small business concerns (see H. Con. Res. 480), H6559 [24SE]
SMART Research and Development Compact: congressional consent (see H.R. 5473), H6775 [26SE]
Social Security: clarify level of benefit payment in the month of the beneficiary's death and increase lump sum death benefits to reflect cost-of-living changes (see H.R. 5404), H6373 [18SE]
Somerset County, PA: tribute to rescue of coal miners (see H. Con. Res. 459), H6374 [18SE]
Taxation: allow Start-up Success Accounts for small businesses (see H.R. 1923), H3292 [6JN]
———clarify the definition of contribution in aid of construction (see H.R. 582), H3160 [4JN]
———constitutional amendment on tax limitations (see H.J. Res. 96), H3291 [6JN]
———provide a shorter recovery period for the depreciation of certain leasehold improvements (see H.R. 1030), H3774 [20JN]
———provide for an election for special tax treatment of certain S corporation conversions (see H.R. 2337), H3229 [5JN]
———recycling and remanufacturing equipment credit (see H.R. 1304), H3161 [4JN]
———repeal the inclusion in gross income of unemployment compensation (see H.R. 2254), H3161 [4JN]
———terminate Internal Revenue Code (see H.R. 2714), H2356 [9MY] (see H.R. 4716), H2470 [14MY]
———treatment of forestry activities (see H.R. 1581), H3928 [25JN]
———treatment of information technology job training expenses (see H.R. 1769), H3161 [4JN]
Terrorism: anniversary of terrorist attacks (see H. Con. Res. 464), H6229 [11SE]
———establish a national clearinghouse for information on incidents of environmental terrorism and establish a program to reduce environmental terrorism (see H.R. 2583), H1090 [20MR]
Thomas E. Burnett, Jr. Post Office Building, Bloomington, MN: designate (see H.R. 5207), H5998 [26JY]
Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century: provide highway infrastructure investment at the guaranteed funding level (see H.R. 3694), H367 [13FE]
U.S. Military Academy: bicentennial (see H.J. Res. 83), H688 [5MR]
Unemployment: provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program (see H.R. 5587), H7895 [10OC]
Victor J. Saracini Dept. of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic, Horsham, PA: designate (see H.R. 5367), H6228 [11SE]
William V. Cibotti Post Office Building, Philadelphia, PA: designate (see H.R. 3740), H365 [13FE]
Bills and resolutions introduced
Angeles National Forest: conveyance of land containing the Mount Wilson Observatory to the Mount Wilson Institute (see H.R. 4952), H3601 [17JN]
Pennsylvania: conveyance of certain National Forest System lands and improvements (see H.R. 4893), H3291 [6JN]
Public lands: limit acquisition by the U.S. of land located in counties in which 50 percent or more of the land is already owned by the U.S. (see H.R. 3962), H906 [13MR]
Tariff: polyamides (see H.R. 4439), H1337 [16AP]
Remarks
Appropriations: making continuing (H.J. Res. 111), H6764 [26SE]
Arts and humanities: National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities funding through reductions in Dept. of the Interior funding, H4808 [17JY]
Bellefonte, PA: tribute to Bellefonte Area High School mock trial team, E993
BLM: funding, H4728 [16JY]
California: prohibit new offshore oil and gas drilling, H4830 [17JY]
Dept. of the Interior and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 5093), H4728 [16JY], H4808, H4830 [17JY]
Health: reduce the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery system (H.R. 4600), consideration (H. Res. 553), H6709 [26SE]
National Visiting Nurse Associations Week: establish (H. Con. Res. 481), E1826
Terrorism: anniversary of terrorist attacks, E1668
Votes: position on missed, H377 [13FE], H3487
Remarks in House relative to
Leave of absence: granted, H3157 [4JN], H3857 [24JN]
Special order: granted, H6691 [25SE], H6981 [2OC]
Tributes
Skeen, Representative, H4728 [16JY]