NUNES, DEVIN (a Representative from California)

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Abortion: require parental notification and intervention for minors seeking an abortion (see H.R. 1489), H6603 [10JY]

Agriculture: ensure an abundant and affordable supply of fruits and vegetables and other specialty crops by enhancing competitiveness of U.S.-grown specialty crops (see H.R. 3242), H9213 [2OC]

Air pollution: application of California State regulations relative to reformulated gasoline in certain areas (see H.R. 244), H134 [8JA]

Animals: prohibit the intentional feeding of bears on Federal lands (see H.R. 1472), H4788 [2JN]

———prohibit the intentional feeding of bears on Federal lands, cosponsorship withdrawn (see H.R. 1472), H5469 [17JN]

Armed Forces: exempt certain members from requirement to pay subsistence charges while hospitalized (see H.R. 2998), H8083 [9SE]

Armenia: normal trade relations status (see H.R. 528), H5468 [17JN]

Aznar, Jose M.: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 2131), H11702 [20NO]

Blair, Tony: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 1511), H3763 [7MY]

Bob Hope Post Office Building, Burbank, CA: designate (see H.R. 3011), H8382 [17SE]

Bush, President: renegotiate extradition treaty with Mexico so possibility of capital punishment or life imprisonment will not interfere with the extradition of criminal suspects (see H. Con. Res. 93), H4978 [4JN]

California: establish additional permanent Federal judgeships for the eastern district (see H.R. 3486), H11149 [12NO]

———tribute to firefighters and other public servants who responded to the outbreak of wildfires in Southern California (see H. Res. 425), H10341 [4NO]

California Missions Foundation: support efforts to restore and repair Spanish colonial and mission-era missions in California and to preserve artworks and artifacts of these missions (see H.R. 1446), H2400 [26MR]

Civil War—U.S.: posthumously proclaim soldiers of Asian descent who fought in the Civil War to be honorary U.S. citizens (see H.J. Res. 45), H4132 [14MY]

Clean Air Act: modify certain provisions relative to methyl bromide (see H.R. 3403), H12922 [8DE]

Colleges and universities: expand and enhance post-baccalaureate opportunities at Hispanic-serving institutions (see H.R. 2238), H4735 [22MY]

———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. 1684), H3051 [9AP]

Columbia Memorial Space Science Learning Center: establish (see H.J. Res. 57), H4737 [22MY]

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: reaffirm support and commemorate anniversary of Genocide Convention Implementation Act (see H. Res. 193), H3304 [10AP]

Courts: modify jurisdiction of Federal courts, inferior to the Supreme Court, over certain cases and controversies involving the Pledge of Allegiance (see H.R. 2028), H3856 [8MY]

Crime: prohibit the sale or rental of adult video games to minors (see H.R. 669), H5045 [5JN]

———protect unborn victims of violence (see H.R. 1997), H4206 [15MY]

Cruz, Celia: mint coins in commemoration (see H.R. 3109), H8380 [17SE]

Dept. of Agriculture: designate a disaster liason to assist State and local employees with responding to a federally declared disaster area (see H.R. 3157), H9738 [20OC]

Dept. of the Interior: implement water supply technology and infrastructure programs aimed at increasing and diversifying domestic water resources (see H.R. 2828), H7453 [23JY]

Diseases: extend issuance of special postage stamps to fund breast cancer research (see H.R. 1385), H8017 [5SE]

———increase public awareness of scleroderma (see H. Con. Res. 30), H9132 [1OC]

———issue commemorative postage stamp to promote public awareness of Down syndrome (see H. Con. Res. 247), H9479 [15OC]

District of Columbia: restore right to keep and bear arms (see H.R. 3193), H12311 [21NO]

Drugs: respond to the illegal production, distribution, and use of methamphetamines (see H.R. 834), H703 [13FE]

Ecology and environment: create the Federal crime of eco-terrorism (see H.R. 3307), H9613 [16OC]

Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: make repeal of estate taxes permanent (see H.R. 8), H5364 [12JN] (see H.R. 57), H4738 [22MY]

Education: clarify existing Federal law relative to the treatment of students privately educated at home under State law (see H.R. 2732), H7840 [3SE]

———establish academies for teachers and students of American history and civics and a national alliance of teachers of American history and civics (see H.R. 1078), H6869 [15JY]

———expand opportunities for postsecondary education (see H.R. 3039), H8081 [9SE]

———increase student loan forgiveness to teachers in mathematics, science, and special education (see H.R. 438), H5814 [24JN]

Endangered Species Act: reform process for designating critical habitat (see H.R. 2933), H7782 [25JY]

———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. 1662), H3454 [29AP]

Federal Prison Industries, Inc.: eliminate Federal agency requirement to purchase products and require commercial competition for Federal contracts (see H.R. 1829), H3407 [12AP]

FERC: provide for alternative conditions and alternative fishways in hydroelectric dam licenses (see H.R. 1013), H9819 [24OC]

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. 111), H1642 [5MR]

Fire prevention: improve capacity to plan and conduct hazardous fuels reduction projects and enhance efforts to protect watersheds and address threats to forest and rangeland health (see H.R. 1904), H3634 [1MY]

Firearms: prohibit lawsuits against weapons manufacturers, distributors, dealers, or importers (see H.R. 1036), H1464 [27FE]

Firefighters: provide death and disability benefits to certain contracted aerial firefighters who suffer death or disability in the line of duty (see H.R. 977), H2586 [1AP]

Foreign trade: establish procedures for identifying countries that deny market access for U.S. agricultural products (see H.R. 2579), H5813 [24JN]

Forest Service: facilitate land exchange eliminating a private in-holding in the Sierra National Forest and allow the Boy Scouts permanent use of parcel of land currently under a special use permit (see H.R. 379), H171 [27JA]

———provide suitable grazing arrangements to persons holding grazing permits adversely affected by willow flycatcher and Yosemite toad restrictions (see H.R. 2395), H5088 [9JN]

Francisco A. Martinez Flores Post Office, Duarte, CA: designate (see H.R. 2396), H5088 [9JN]

Franklin, Benjamin: mint coins in commemoration of tercentenary of birth (see H.R. 3204), H12921 [8DE]

Fresno County, CA: GSA conveyance of a U.S. courthouse (see H.R. 1274), H1901 [13MR]

Health: promote improved nutrition for needy Americans by incorporating more fruits, vegetables, and juice products into Federal nutrition programs (see H.R. 2592), H5814 [24JN]

Hmong Veterans' Naturalization Act: extend the deadlines for application and payment of fees (see H.R. 2759), H7950 [4SE]

Home Investment Partnerships Act: provide downpayment assistance (see H.R. 1276), H4012 [13MY]

Immigration: adjust status of certain Colombian and Peruvian nationals (see H.R. 2843), H7615 [24JY]

———adjust status of certain foreign agricultural workers, reform H-2A worker program, provide a stable, legal agricultural workforce, and extend basic legal protections and better working conditions to more workers (see H.R. 3142), H9615 [16OC]

———change requirements for naturalization to citizenship through service in the Armed Forces (see H.R. 1275), H2312 [25MR]

Insurance: promote health care coverage parity for individuals participating in legal recreational or transportation activities (see H.R. 1749), H4205 [15MY]

Iran: urge compliance with International Atomic Energy Agency resolutions on nuclear weapons program and call for international cooperation with such compliance (see H. Con. Res. 307), H10458 [5NO] (see H. Con. Res. 332), H11701 [20NO]

Iraq: encourage France, Germany, and Russia to contribute to the reconstruction of Iraq by forgiving outstanding debt between those countries and Iraq (see H. Res. 198), H9132 [1OC]

J. Stephen Horn Post Office Building, Signal Hill, CA: designate (see H.R. 2309), H6265 [26JN]

James V. Hansen Federal Building, Ogden, UT: designate (see H.R. 3147), H9282 [7OC]

Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: make reduction in capital gains rates for individuals permanent (see H.R. 2635), H8176 [10SE]

Labor unions: protect the free choice of individual employees relative to participation in labor organizations (see H.R. 391), H463 [12FE]

Laos: address urgent need for freedom, democratic reform, and international monitoring of elections, human rights, and religious liberty (see H. Res. 402), H9614 [16OC]

Law enforcement: provide grants for law enforcement training and equipment to combat methamphetamine labs (see H.R. 3092), H8283 [16SE]

Law enforcement officers: adjust percentage differentials payable to Federal law enforcement officers in certain high-cost areas (see H.R. 466), H7020 [16JY]

———exempt from State laws prohibiting the carrying of concealed handguns (see H.R. 218), H11392 (see H.R. 218), H11515 [18NO]

Marshall, John: mint coins in commemoration (see H.R. 2768), H9282 [7OC]

Medicaid: extend certain modifications to disproportionate share hospital allotments (see H.R. 328), H4204 [15MY]

Medicare: improve outpatient health care for beneficiaries in rural areas (see H.R. 2333), H4977 [4JN]

———protect and preserve access of beneficiaries to health care provided by hospitals in rural areas (see H.R. 1675), H3684 [6MY]

———reform and provide prescription drug coverage (see H.R. 1), H5928 [25JN]

Motor vehicles: protect the rights of consumers to diagnose, service, and repair their motor vehicles (see H.R. 2735), H9614 [16OC]

Museum and Library Services Act: reauthorize (see H.R. 13), H463 [12FE]

National School Lunch Act: fruit and vegetable pilot program funding (see H.R. 2832), H7454 [23JY]

Norman D. Shumway Post Office Building, Stockton, CA: designate (see H.R. 1368), H2131 [19MR]

Pledge of Allegiance: circuit court decision on inclusion of phrase ``under God'' (see H. Res. 132), H1681 [6MR]

Pope John Paul II: award Presidential Medal of Freedom (see H. Con. Res. 313), H10978 [6NO]

Public lands: preserve the use and access of pack and saddle stock animals to public lands where there is a historical tradition of such use (see H.R. 2966), H7784 [25JY]

Robert E. Coyle U.S. Courthouse, Fresno, CA: designate (see H.R. 1273), H1901 [13MR]

SEC: require enhanced disclosures of employee stock options and require study on economic impact of broad-based employee stock option plans (see H.R. 1372), H11651 [19NO]

Sierra National Forest: land exchange (see H.R. 1651), H2863 [7AP]

Social Security: repeal Government pension offset and windfall elimination provisions (see H.R. 594), H4876 [3JN]

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. 1828), H7618 [24JY]

Tariff: impose tariff-rate quotas on certain casein and milk protein concentrates (see H.R. 1160), H1903 [13MR]

Taxation: allow a deduction for premiums on mortgage insurance (see H.R. 1336), H7949 [4SE]

———allow distilled spirits wholesalers a credit for their cost of carrying Federal excise taxes prior to the sale of the product bearing the tax (see H.R. 791), H4368 [20MY]

———allow Federal civilian and military retirees to pay health insurance premiums on a pretax basis and allow a deduction for TRICARE supplemental premiums (see H.R. 1231), H7839 [3SE]

———eligibility of veterans for mortgage revenue bond financing (see H.R. 1742), H9131 [1OC]

———exclude from income taxation all compensation received for active duty as a member of the Armed Forces (see H.R. 1687), H3454 [29AP]

———expand bonus depreciation to expensing (see H.R. 771), H699 [13FE]

———extend the moratorium on the taxation of Internet and interactive computer service commerce (see H.R. 49), H3052 [9AP]

———permit cooperatives to pay dividends on preferred stock without reducing patronage dividends (see H.R. 1671), H5929 [25JN]

———provide a credit for expenditures for the maintenance of railroad tracks of certain railroads (see H.R. 876), H9377 [8OC]

———provide a credit for qualifying clean technology engines (see H.R. 2838), H7454 [23JY]

———provide a credit to promote homeownership and community development (see H.R. 839), H6603 [10JY]

———treatment of employer contributions to college tuition plans and education savings accounts (see H.R. 3318), H9613 [16OC]

Television: ensure equity among full-service television broadcasters and provide local programming to communities through cable carriage rights for class A television stations (see H.R. 1626), H7020 [16JY]

———preserve localism, promote diversity in programming, encourage competition, and prevent excessive concentration of ownership of broadcast stations (see H.R. 2052), H4740 [22MY]

Terrorism: increase criminal penalties relative to terrorist murders and deny Federal benefits to terrorists (see H.R. 2934), H8284 [16SE]

Trucking industry: hours of service requirements for commercial drivers transporting agricultural commodities and farm supplies (see H.R. 871), H4876 [3JN]

Vietnam Veterans Memorial: authorize design and construction of a visitor center (see H.R. 1442), H3684 [6MY]

———study eligibility requirements for inclusion of veterans' names and alternative means to honor ineligible veterans (see H.R. 2540), H7329 [22JY]

Water: clarify that certain man-made facilities that receive water from Bureau of Reclamation projects are not navigable waters (see H.R. 3400), H10129 [29OC]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Agriculture: ensure regulatory equity among dairy farmers for milk sales in certain non-federally regulated marketing areas (see H.R. 1659), H2937 [8AP]

———ensure regulatory equity among dairy farmers for milk sales in certain non-federally regulated marketing areas and apply minimum price requirements to certain Arizona-Las Vegas marketing area milk handlers (see H.R. 1650), H2863 [7AP]

C.W. `Bill' Jones Pumping Plant, Byron, CA: designate (see H.R. 3467), H10977 [6NO]

Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor (EMTALA) Act: modify requirements relative to medical screening examinations (see H.R. 2471), H5407 [16JN]

San Joaquin River: feasibility of reservoir to increase water storage capacity and power generation and improve water supply reliability and quality, management efficiency, ecosystem function, and flood control (see H.R. 309), H137 [8JA]

Remarks

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: oil and gas exploration, H3253 [10AP]

Armenia: AID funding for Armenian Technology Group to establish Central Diagnostic Laboratory, E2521 [8DE]

Aviation: tribute to China Association for Expedition and the Sino American Aviation Heritage Foundation efforts to recover historic World War II aircraft, E2212 [4NO]

Machado, Fernando C. (Fred): Ag One Foundation Community Salute honoree, E1687 [4SE]

Nagorno-Karabakh: democracy efforts, E345 [3MR]

Poochigian, Charles S.: Armenian National Committee of Central California Man of the Year Award recipient, E621 [31MR]

Power resources: enhance energy conservation, research, and development and provide for security and diversity in the energy supply (H.R. 6), H3253 [10AP]

San Joaquin River: feasibility of reservoir to increase water storage capacity and power generation and improve water supply reliability and quality, management efficiency, ecosystem function, and flood control (H.R. 309), E47 [8JA]

Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Park: centennial of the superintendency of Charles Young and rededication of the Booker T. Washington Tree, E1482 [15JY]

Votes: position on missed, H7056 [17JY]

Tributes

McKeand, Michael, E1689 [4SE]

Thomas, James, E692 [7AP]

Vargas, Rudy, E2232 [5NO]

Watters, Brandon P., E2327 [19NO]