PRICE, DAVID E. (a Representative from North Carolina)
Articles and editorials
Pathfinder for Raleigh, Raleigh (NC) News and Observer, H4476 [10JY]
Bills and resolutions cosponsored
Agriculture: provide emergency agriculture assistance (see H.R. 5383), H8023 [16OC]
Animal Welfare Act: strengthen enforcement of animal fighting provisions (see H.R. 5268), H6304 [17SE]
Budget: extend pay-as-you-go requirement (see H.R. 5502), H8051 [31OC]
Children and youth: establish national policy on youth development (see H.R. 17), H1674 [25AP]
———provide access to early care and education so the families can work and children can receive quality custodial care (see H.R. 3524), H2471 [14MY]
China, People's Republic of: persecution of Falun Gong practitioners (see H. Con. Res. 447), H8733 [13NO]
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), H3601 [17JN]
Computers: amend copyright laws relative to royalty fees for webcasting (see H.R. 5285), H6473 [23SE]
Consumers: protect from predatory mortgage lending practices (see H.R. 1051), H524 [14FE]
Contracts: require Federal agencies to follow certain procedures relative to the bundling of procurement contract requirements (see H.R. 1324), H3859 [24JN]
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women: ratification (see H. Res. 18), H3293 [6JN]
Credit: protect consumers from payday lenders demanding exorbitant interest rates and participating in other unfair practices (see H.R. 1319), H9128 [22NO]
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), H6172 [10SE]
Customs Service: tribute to World Trade Center offices for efforts during and in the aftermath of terrorist attack (see H. Res. 385), H1200 [10AP]
Dept. of Commerce: make grants to States for advertising that promotes travel and tourism (see H.R. 3321), H1284 [11AP]
Dept. of Energy: authorizing appropriations for the Office of Science (see H.R. 5270), H6374 [18SE]
Dept. of HUD: permit public housing agencies to transfer unused low-income rental assistance amounts to the HOME Program or for eligible Capital Fund public housing activities (see H.R. 4205), H3161 [4JN]
———reauthorize the HOPE VI Program for revitalization of severely distressed public housing (see H.R. 5499), H6783 [30SE]
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 (see H.R. 5044), H4324 [27JN]
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]
Disabled: enhance and further research into paralysis and improve rehabilitation and quality of life for persons living with paralysis and other physical disabilities (see H.R. 5458), H9025 [14NO]
Disasters: reduce impacts of hurricanes, tornadoes, and related natural hazards through a program of research and development and technology transfer (see H.R. 3592), H4498 [10JY]
Diseases: blood cancer research, information, and education funding (see H.R. 2629), H105 [29JA]
———increase public awareness of Scleroderma (see H. Con. Res. 320), H3454 [11JN]
———international tuberculosis control (see H.R. 1168), H1201 [10AP]
———provide compassionate payments to individuals who contracted HIV from a contaminated blood transfusion (see H.R. 5299), H6419 [19SE]
Education: authorize appropriations and establish advisory committee to help implement the Advanced Technological Education Program and strengthen technological education at associate-degree granting colleges (see H.R. 4680), H2234 [8MY]
———improve access to printed instructional materials used by blind or other print-disabled persons in elementary and secondary schools (see H.R. 4582), H6060 [4SE]
———provide educational opportunities for all students in State public school systems (see H.R. 5346), H6304 [17SE]
———provide for teacher technology training (see H.R. 1703), H367 [13FE]
———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), H3514 [12JN]
FCC: treat private land use rules as State or local regulations for purposes of certain Federal regulations (see H.R. 4720), H4606 [15JY]
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), H834 [12MR]
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: amend relative to the development of products for rare diseases (see H.R. 4014), H3454 [11JN]
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: improve the national instant criminal background check system (see H.R. 4757), H6130 [9SE]
———require criminal background checks for sale, offer for sale, transfer, or exchange of firearms at certain events and provide additional resources for gun crime enforcement (see H.R. 2377), H105 [29JA]
Firefighters: authorize grants to States or communities to assist fire departments in meeting staffing standards (see H.R. 3185), H285 [12FE]
Food: recognize significance of bread in American history, culture, and daily diet (see H. Con. Res. 466), H8023 [16OC]
———require foods containing known allergens to bear labeling that states that fact and the names of the allergens (see H.R. 4704), H5998 [26JY] (see H.R. 5747), H9023 [14NO]
Foreign policy: ensure that the Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative substantially increases resources available for human development and poverty reduction in countries eligible for assistance (see H.R. 4524), H6060 [4SE]
Foreign trade: respond to serious injury currently being experienced by the U.S. textile and apparel industry (see H.J. Res. 105), H4553 [11JY]
Forest Service: protection of certain roadless areas (see H.R. 4865), H3228 [5JN]
FTC: regulation of unfair or deceptive practices by sports agents in the signing of contracts with student athletes (see H.R. 4701), H4605 [15JY]
Government: support use of fair trade certified coffee (see H. Res. 491), H8546 [12NO]
Health: authorize grants to carry out organ recovery rate improvement programs in eligible hospitals (see H.R. 4086), H4498 [10JY]
———reauthorize health centers program and National Health Service Corps (see H.R. 3450), H142 [5FE]
———reduce adolescent pregnancy, HIV rates, and other sexually transmitted diseases (see H.R. 3469), H1674 [25AP]
Health care professionals: permit criminal background checks for nursing facility and home health agency personnel involved in indirect patient care (see H.R. 4872), H6061 [4SE]
Height, Dorothy I.: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 4531), H6303 [17SE]
Housing: provide affordability and ensure a competitive North American market for softwood lumber (see H. Con. Res. 454), H9025 [14NO]
———provide for one percent FHA mortgage loan downpayments for teachers and public safety officers to purchase homes within employing jurisdictions (see H.R. 674), H3928 [25JN]
Human rights: condemn the practice of execution by stoning (see H. Con. Res. 351), H8023 [16OC]
Insurance: coverage of colorectal cancer screening (see H.R. 1520), H6085 [5SE]
———establish a Federal program to provide reinsurance to improve the availability of homeowners' insurance (see H.R. 4025), H6251 [12SE]
James V. Hansen Federal Building, Ogden, UT: designate (see H.R. 5611), H7893 [10OC]
Law enforcement: community policing programs (see H.R. 2009), H1201 [10AP]
Law enforcement officers: collective bargaining rights for public safety officers employed by States or local governments (see H.R. 1475), H4605 [15JY]
———provide grants to agencies to ensure due process in cases which could lead to dismissal, demotion, suspension, or transfer (see H.R. 1212), H1283 [11AP]
Medicaid: provide the disabled and elderly with equal access to community-based attendant services (see H.R. 3612), H3668 [18JN]
Medicare: allow beneficiaries direct access to physical therapists without a physician referral (see H.R. 3363), H781 [7MR]
———coverage of marriage and family therapist services (see H.R. 3899), H6172 [10SE]
———coverage of more frequent hemodialysis treatments (see H.R. 1759), H1769 [30AP]
———eliminate discriminatory copayment rates for outpatient psychiatric services (see H.R. 599), H5194 [23JY]
———increase payments for ambulance services in rural areas, determine rural areas based on population density, and require the use of recent data in determining payment adjustments (see H.R. 3545), H7894 [10OC]
———increase reimbursement for screening mammography services and funding for additional radiology residents and radiologic technologists (see H.R. 1354), H105 [29JA]
———pay ambulance suppliers the full costs of providing such services (see H.R. 3109), H6229 [11SE]
———payments to hospitals that have graduate medical education programs in critical need specialty areas (see H.R. 1928), H5453 [24JY]
———repeal outpatient rehabilitation therapy caps (see H.R. 3834), H1284 [11AP]
———standardize payment amounts for inpatient hospital services (see H.R. 1609), H1674 [25AP]
Mental health: increase number of well-trained mental health service professionals providing clinical mental health care to children and adolescents (see H.R. 5078), H6130 [9SE]
———provide for equal insurance coverage of benefits unless comparable limitations are imposed on medical and surgical benefits (see H.R. 4066), H1338 [16AP]
Minimum wage: level (see H.R. 4799), H3669 [18JN]
Minorities: reduce the impact of predatory lending on minorities (see H.R. 1053), H524 [14FE]
Motor vehicles: protect the rights of consumers to diagnose, service, and repair their motor vehicles (see H.R. 2735), H6060 [4SE]
Museum and Library Services Act: reauthorize (see H.R. 3784), H1155 [9AP]
National and Community Service Act: establish the Right of Passage Community Service Program (see H.R. 4803), H2943 [22MY]
National Center for Social Work Research: establish (see H.R. 3814), H1155 [9AP]
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the U.S.: establish (see H.R. 4777), H4326 [27JN]
National Community Health Center Week: establish (see H. Con. Res. 418), H3562 [13JN]
National Drought Council: establish (see H.R. 4754), H4873 [17JY]
National Epilepsy Month: designate (see H. Res. 484), H5087 [22JY]
National Sea Grant College Program Act: reauthorize (see H.R. 3389), H1091 [20MR]
National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program: amend (see H.R. 3741), H4350 [8JY]
NIH: establish Office of Rare Diseases (see H.R. 4013), H3514 [12JN]
Nobel Prize: recognition of Jimmy Carter for peace (see H. Res. 588), H8042 [24OC]
Northeastern North Carolina Heritage Area: feasibility study (see H.R. 5274), H9036 [19NO]
OMB: provide that certain adjustments made to align highway spending with revenues have no force or effect (see H.R. 3900), H780 [7MR]
Presidential Records Act: establish procedures for the consideration of claims of constitutionality based privilege against disclosure of Presidential records (see H.R. 4187), H2472 [14MY]
Public Health Service Act: establish scholarship and loan repayment programs in veterinarian shortage areas (see H.R. 1943), H3514 [12JN]
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), H7304 [8OC]
Public welfare programs: reauthorize and reform block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see H.R. 3625), H1484 [18AP]
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: permit the collection of demographic information in connection with small business loan applications (see H.R. 3372), H4766 [16JY]
———provide emergency assistance to certain small business concerns that have suffered economic harm from drought (see H.R. 5197), H5452 [24JY]
———provide for public access to information on the availability of insurance for small businesses (see H.R. 3339), H4872 [17JY]
Social Security: improve benefits for aged survivors, disabled survivors, and divorced spouses (see H.R. 4671), H2472 [14MY]
———provide greater equity and efficiency to the SSA payment system for claimant representation (see H.R. 3332), H833 [12MR]
Southeastern States: provide a framework for coordinating Federal, State, and local efforts to meet the special needs of the Southeast Crescent Region (see H.R. 3618), H367 [13FE]
States: permit individuals to operate commercial motor vehicles within State borders after meeting minimum standards (see H.R. 2466), H1769 [30AP]
Taxation: allow minimum credit against alternative minimum tax where stock acquired pursuant to incentive stock options is sold or exchanged at a loss (see H.R. 5398), H8733 [13NO]
———clarify exemption from the self-employment tax for termination payments received by former life insurance salesmen (see H.R. 1134), H2164 [7MY]
———exempt deduction for charitable contributions from the phase-out of itemized deductions (see H.R. 776), H651 [28FE]
———extend benefits to services performed in a combat zone to services performed in the Republic of Korea (see H.R. 3412), H8733 [13NO]
———extend the transportation fringe benefit to bicycle commuters (see H.R. 1265), H1338 [16AP]
———provide for an election to exchange research-related tax benefits for a refundable tax credit, for the recapture of refunds in certain circumstances (see H.R. 2153), H651 [28FE]
———provide incentives for the use of biodiesel as a fuel (see H.R. 4843), H4932 [18JY]
———provide incentives to reduce energy consumption (see H.R. 778), H833 [12MR]
———treatment of beer (see H.R. 1305), H1620 [24AP]
———treatment of forestry activities (see H.R. 1581), H1769 [30AP]
———treatment of Government pensions relative to Social Security benefits (see H.R. 2462), H785 [11MR]
———treatment of individual retirement accounts relative to charitable contributions (see H.R. 774), H651 [28FE]
Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act: extend and expand (see H.R. 5089), H6061 [4SE]
Tobacco products: replace existing tobacco program with programs designed to assist producers, compensate quota holders for the loss of quota asset value, and assist producers who forgo obtaining a production license (see H.R. 5035), H5998 [26JY]
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), H285 [12FE]
Treaties and agreements: importance of Antiballistic Missile Treaty (see H. Res. 313), H6130 [9SE]
U.N.: provide for permanent guidelines for voluntary U.S. contributions to the U.N. Population Fund (see H.R. 5293), H6419 [19SE]
Veterans: increase the minimum Survivor Benefit Plan basic annuity for certain surviving spouses (see H.R. 548), H3453 [11JN] (see H.R. 5403), H6373 [18SE]
Wildlife: prohibit interstate and foreign commerce of certain wild animals for use as pets (see H.R. 5226), H6777 [26SE]
Remarks
Appropriations: legislative process, H6968, H6969 [2OC]
———making continuing (H.J. Res. 111), H6765 [26SE]
———making supplemental appropriations for further recovery from and response to terrorist attacks (H.R. 4775), H2979 [23MY]
Armed Forces: authorize use against Iraq (H.J. Res. 114), H7336 [9OC], H7758 [10OC]
Budget: allocation of funds, H6968, H6969 [2OC]
———reduce preexisting pay-go balances (H.R. 5708), H8788 [14NO]
———setting forth the Federal budget for 2003-2007 (H. Con. Res. 353), H1043, H1044, H1081, H1082, H1083, H1084, H1085 [20MR]
Business and industry: protect investors by improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures pursuant to securities laws (H.R. 3763), conference report, H5471 [25JY]
Carolina Hurricanes (hockey team): tribute, H3675 [19JN]
Coal: develop and implement advanced clean coal technology programs for use in coal-based electricity generating facilities, H4074 [27JN]
Democratic Party: national agenda, H1081, H1082, H1083, H1084, H1085 [20MR]
Detroit Red Wings (hockey team): tribute, H3675 [19JN]
Economy: national objectives priority assignments, H6968, H6969 [2OC]
Education: funding, H6765 [26SE]
EPA: loosening of new source review regulations relative to the installation of pollution-control equipment by large industrial plants, H4074 [27JN]
Girl Scouts: anniversary, E350
Israel: express solidarity in the fight against terrorism (H. Res. 392), consideration (H. Res. 404), H2066 [2MY]
NSF: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 4664), H3191 [5JN]
Political campaigns: ethics reform and contribution limits (H.R. 2356), H426 [13FE]
———require disclosure of funding sources for certain candidate advocacy advertising, H426 [13FE]
Public debt: ceiling, H2979 [23MY]
Social Security: budget treatment of trust funds, H1081 [20MR]
Taxation: rates, H55, H56 [24JA]
Tunisia: independence anniversary, E398
Voting: establish a grant program to provide assistance to States for modernizing and enhancing voting procedures and administration (H.R. 3295), conference report, H7846 [10OC]
Remarks in House relative to
Special order: granted, H4495 [10JY]
Subpoena Notices
North Carolina General Court of Justice, District Court Division, H8048 [31OC]
Tributes
Lightner, Clarence E., H4476, H4477 [10JY]
Meek, Representative, H4397 [9JY]
Wilson, Larry T., E1539