EMPLOYMENT

Addresses

Affirmative Action: Representative Lee, E1360 [26JN]

Case for Labor Standards in Trade Agreements: Representative Levin, E1363 [26JN]

Depression-Era America: Conrad Black, S8719 [26JN]

Handicapped Americans: Bob Dole, S5001-S5003 [9AP]

Jumping a Stalled Economy: Frederick W. Smith, FedEx Corp., H153-H155 [27JA]

Amendments

Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (organization): anniversary (S. Res. 136), S7196, S7197 [2JN]

Education: enhance the workforce investment system (H.R. 1261), H3789, H3806, H3809, H3810, H3811, H3813, H3814, H3815 [8MY]

———enhance the workforce investment system (H.R. 1261), consideration (H. Res. 221), H3774 [8MY]

———increase student loan forgiveness to teachers in mathematics, science, and special education (H.R. 438), H6383, H6391 [9JY]

GAO: provide for new human capital flexibilities (S. 1522), S15875 [24NO]

Immigration: extend basic pilot employment verification system (S. 1685), S14505, S14843 [12NO]

Laborers' International Union of North America: anniversary (S. Res. 117), S5388, S5394 [11AP]

NASA: make certain workforce authorities available (S. 610), S15845, S15853 [24NO]

National Work and Family Month: designate (S. Res. 210), S11170, S11172 [5SE]

Public Works and Economic Development Act: reauthorize and improve programs (H.R. 2535), H9707 [20OC], H9762 [21OC]

Small business: improve access and choice relative to employee health care (H.R. 660), H5605, H5625 [19JN]

———improve access and choice relative to employee health care (H.R. 660), consideration (H. Res. 283), H5560 [19JN]

Taxation: provide incentives for economic recovery (H.R. 2), S6738, S6739, S6740 [20MY], H3858 [8MY], H3887, H3940 [9MY]

———provide incentives for economic recovery (H.R. 2), consideration of conference report (H. Res. 253), H4715 [22MY]

———provide incentives for economic recovery (H.R. 2), consideration of conference report—same-day consideration (H. Res. 249), H4562 [22MY]

———provide incentives for economic recovery (S. 2), S6031 [12MY]

———provide incentives for economic recovery (S. 1054), S6143 [13MY], S6152, S6154, S6164, S6176, S6178, S6188, S6195, S6197, S6201, S6210, S6214, S6216, S6217, S6239, S6241, S6246, S6266, S6268, S6269, S6270, S6271, S6272, S6274, S6275, S6289, S6290, S6291, S6292, S6293, S6294, S6296, S6298, S6300, S6301, S6316, S6317, S6318, S6320, S6321, S6322, S6323, S6324, S6326, S6329, S6330, S6331, S6333, S6334, S6335, S6337, S6338, S6342, S6343, S6345, S6367, S6384, S6388, S6403 [14MY], S6409, S6422, S6426, S6432, S6434, S6435, S6437, S6438, S6439, S6441, S6442, S6443, S6451, S6452, S6454, S6455, S6456, S6518, S6520, S6522, S6523, S6524, S6525, S6526, S6527, S6528, S6529, S6530, S6531, S6532, S6533, S6548, S6549, S6551, S6552, S6553, S6556, S6562, S6564 [15MY]

———treatment of amounts contributed to medical savings accounts and unused nontaxable benefits under cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements (H.R. 2596), consideration (H. Res. 299), H5963 [26JN]

Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act: extend (S. 23), consideration (H. Res. 14), H72 [8JA]

Unemployment: provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program (H.R. 2185), consideration (H. Res. 248), H4569 [22MY]

———provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program (S. 1839), S16043 [25NO]

Workforce Investment Act: reauthorize (S. 1627), S14861 [12NO]

Analyses

Dept. of State Appropriations (S. 790), S4849-S4856 [3AP]

Jobs and Growth Reconciliation Tax Act (H.R. 2), H3829-H3832 [8MY]

Small Manufacturers Assistance, Recovery, and Trade (SMART) Act (S. 1977), S16029 [25NO]

Veterans Earn and Learn Act (H.R. 1716), E752 [11AP]

Appointments

Conferees: H.R. 2, Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act, S6475 [15MY], H4542 [22MY]

Ticket To Work and Work Incentives Advisory Panel, S9268 [10JY], H3829 [8MY]

Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Advisory Panel, S86 [7JA]

Articles and editorials

Advocates Don't Feel Labor Department Is Ally, S11857 [23SE]

Another Greenspan Social Security Reform?, S3402 [10MR]

Army Reserve Fears Troop Exodus, S12357 [2OC]

Bill Would Close Pay Gap for Active Duty Feds, S14515 [12NO]

Businesses Sore About Medical Leave, S2002 [5FE]

Chatter in the Cave of the Winds, S14668 [12NO]

Cook and the Law, S5705 [5MY]

Defense for the 21st Century, H4548 [22MY]

Economic View; Producing Abroad Is Harming Recovery, S10495 [31JY]

Economy—More Financial Jobs Go Offshore, S5797 [7MY]

Face of Florida's Farmworkers—Driven by Harsh Conditions in Their Homelands, Laborers Travel Far, Only To See New Hardships Here, S11857 [23SE]

Farm Camp ``Unsafe for Human Occupancy'', S11857 [23SE]

Feeble Plan To Save U.S. Manufacturing, E1822 [17SE]

Fields of Despair—Florida Farmhands Reap a Harvest of Poverty, Pain and Exploitation, S11855-S11857 [23SE]

Fighting Over Overtime, S12215 [1OC]

Finding Fraud on Wall St. May Be a Step to Higher Post, H3626 [1MY]

Ford, GM Push Vendors Toward China; `World Price' Frenzy Threatens U.S. Jobs, S10497 [31JY]

Gone With Globalization, E1971 [2OC]

Greenspan Says Tax Cut Without Spending Reductions Could Be Damaging, S5794 [7MY]

I.B.M. Explores Shift of Some Jobs Overseas, S10499 [31JY]

In a Wall St. Hierarchy, Short Shift to Little Guy, H3625 [1MY]

Independent Living's Real Costs, E183-E185 [11FE]

Irrelevant Proposal, H35 [7JA]

Keeping Saddam Hussein in a Box, E151 [6FE]

Labor Dept. Shifts Whistle-Blower View, S1727 [29JA]

Laid-Off Factory Workers Find Jobs Are Drying Up for Good, S10492-S10494 [31JY]

Little to Celebrate for Unemployed, E1798 [16SE]

Mugging the Needy, E659 [3AP]

N.M. Gets Shock at Pump, S3769 [17MR]

New Global Job Shift, S1701-S1703 [29JA]

New Kind of Job Loss, E2153 [28OC]

No New Tax Cuts, S5290 [11AP]

Overhaul Without Oversight, H4550 [22MY]

Pay-Gap Remedy for Military Reserves Appears Doomed, H9015 [30SE]

President's Tax Cut and Its Unspoken Numbers, S2638 [25FE]

Read My Lips, E1257 [13JN]

Some Investors Could Trim Their Tax Bills to Near Zero, H4732 [22MY]

Stubborn Stagnation, S5796 [7MY]

Ten Wall St. Firms Settle With U.S. in Analyst Inquiry—Agree To Pay $1.4 Billion, H3625 [1MY]

There Is a Catch—Jobs, S14294 [10NO]

Too Many Leaps of Faith in Bush Tax-Cut Plan, S264 [14JA]

Triumph of Pettiness, H12829 [8DE]

U.S. Job-Market Slump Is Longest in Decades—Near Term Prospects for Workers Remain Grim Despite Hopeful Forecasts, S211 [13JA]

War's Cost May Dwarf Stimulus Effect, H79 [8JA]

Washington's Wild Ways Choke Recovery, S5796 [7MY]

We Need To Forget ``Free'' Trade, Move Toward ``Fair'' Trade, E1738 [9SE]

What if a Pension Shift Hit Lawmakers, Too?, E447 [12MR]

Where the Good Jobs Are Going; Forget Sweatshops, U.S. Companies Are Now Shifting High-Wage Work Overseas, Especially to India, S10494 [31JY]

Why This Tax Loophole for Losers Should End, S6442 [15MY]

Bills and resolutions

Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund: allocate accruing interest to cover health care costs for certain miners (see H.R. 313), H137 [8JA]

Alaska: improve Federal hiring and contracting of natives (see H.R. 950), H1395 [26FE]

Armed Forces: encourage employers who employ members of the National Guard or Ready Reserve to provide a pay differential benefit and an extension of employee benefits to members on active duty (see H. Con. Res. 193), H4737 [22MY]

———permit Selected Reserve members to use Reserve Montgomery GI Bill education benefits for payment of licensing or certification tests (see H.R. 3018), H8015 [5SE]

———provide compensation to members of the reserve components who suffer discrepancies between their military and nonmilitary compensation as a result of being called to active duty for a certain period (see H.R. 1345), H2130 [19MR]

———provide financial assistance to State and local governments that continue to pay employees who serve on active duty in a reserve component of the uniformed services (see S. 1845), S14451 [11NO]

———provide pay protection for members of the Reserve and National Guard (see S. 442), S2701 [25FE]

———reform computation of retired pay for members with hazardous duty experience, study benefits for employers of National Guard or Reserve members, and assess military youth programs expansion (see H.R. 1325), H1953 [18MR]

———revise certain retired pay eligibility requirements, provide TRICARE eligibility to certain reservists, and allow reservists and their employers a tax credit (see S. 1000), S5771 [6MY] (see H.R. 2168), H4367 [20MY] (see H.R. 2413), H5174 [10JN]

Aviation: assist employees separated from employment due to reductions in service by air carriers and airport closures caused by terrorist actions, security measures, or a military conflict with Iraq (see H.R. 1553), H2702 [2AP]

———improve training requirements for and require certification of cabin crew members (see H.R. 1889), H3570 [30AP]

Bancroft, Robert: permit backpay for overtime incurred in missions flown with DEA (see S. 46), S36 [7JA]

Bankruptcy: include bonuses and other extraordinary or excessive compensation of corporate officers and violators of securities and accounting laws in bankruptcy estates (see S. 832), S5059 [9AP]

Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (organization): anniversary (see S. Res. 136), S5950 [8MY] (see H. Res. 226), H3857 [8MY]

Business and industry: aid dislocated workers and rebuild communities devastated by international trade (see S. 1541), S10618 [31JY]

———allow employees the right to accept or reject arbitration to resolve an employment controversy (see H.R. 540), H318 [5FE]

———eliminate incentives to move operations abroad, enforce antidumping and trade laws, prohibit commerce in products made with child labor, and extend Buy American Act provisions (see S. 592), S3504 [11MR]

———establish a commission to promote employee ownership (see H.R. 1778), H3351 [11AP]

———establish an Assistant Sec. for Manufacturing within the Dept. of Commerce, an Interagency Manufacturing Task Force, and a Small Business Manufacturing Task Force (see S. 1977), S15975 [25NO]

———extend and expand certain trade adjustment assistance programs and reauthorize certain Dept. of Commerce partnership programs (see S. 1884), S15061 [18NO]

———provide for labor recruiter accountability (see H.R. 3530), H11650 [19NO]

———provide for private-sector-led Community Workforce Partnerships (see S. 1965), S15975 [25NO]

———require employees at call centers who initiate or receive telephone calls to disclose physical location of such employees (see S. 1873), S14965 [17NO]

———require mandatory expensing of stock options granted to executive officers (see S. 1890), S15187 [19NO] (see H.R. 3574), H12306 [21NO]

———review accounting treatment and adopt generally accepted accounting principles for the treatment of employee stock options (see S. 181), S1068 [16JA]

Charities: nullify contracting exemption provisions of Executive order on the participation of faith-based organizations in the provision of social services (see H.R. 2605), H5928 [25JN]

Children and youth: establish Child Care Provider Development and Retention Grant Program, Child Care Provider Scholarship Program, and child care provider health benefits program (see S. 1198), S7476 [5JN] (see H.R. 2377), H5044 [5JN]

———provide grants to State child welfare systems, increase Social Security match for private agencies receiving child welfare training funds, and authorize loan forgiveness to child welfare workers (see H.R. 2437), H5266 [11JN]

———provide opportunities to improve the lives of all children and enable them to reach their fullest potential (see S. 448), S2838 [26FE] (see H.R. 936), H1395 [26FE]

Civil liberties: protect day laborers from unfair labor practices (see H.R. 2870), H7616 [24JY]

———religious accommodations in the workplace (see S. 893), S5342 [11AP]

Civil rights: improve remedies for discrimination in the payment of wages based on sex (see S. 76), S36 [7JA] (see H.R. 1688), H3051 [9AP]

———prohibit discrimination in the payment of wages based on sex, race, or national origin (see S. 841), S5059 [9AP] (see H.R. 1695), H3051 [9AP]

———prohibit discrimination on the basis of affectional or sexual orientation (see H.R. 214), H59 [7JA]

———protect (see S. 16), S35 [7JA]

———provide equal access to opportunity in education, business, and employment and support affirmative action programs in securing such equal access (see H. Res. 32), H171 [27JA]

Collective bargaining: clarify the illegality of the use of violence to achieve objectives during a strike (see H.R. 1870), H3452 [29AP]

Colleges and universities: adoption of an Academic Bill of Rights to secure the intellectual independence of faculty members and students and to protect the principle of intellectual diversity (see H. Con. Res. 318), H10236 [30OC]

———improve access through experiential education (see H.R. 3408), H10235 [30OC]

———require agreements with private for-profit organizations for the provision of work-study employment (see H.R. 2390), H5045 [5JN]

Commission on Overtime Regulations: establish (see S. 1611), S11416 [11SE]

Community development: provide grant funding for additional empowerment zones and enterprise communities (see S. 586), S3504 [11MR]

Contracts: prohibit discrimination in awarding Federal contracts on the basis of labor policies (see H.R. 106), H55 [7JA]

———require certain prospective government contractors to employ a certain percentage of their employees in the U.S. (see H.R. 3134), H8381 [17SE]

Correctional institutions: require minimum work week, job training, and life skills preparation for Federal prison inmates and establish a grant program for mandatory drug testing (see S. 672), S4165 [20MR]

Courts: enhance retirement annuities of administrative law judges (see H.R. 2316), H4876 [3JN]

———overrule U.S. v. Fior D'Italia, Inc. (see H.R. 118), H56 [7JA]

———restore the Federal civil rights remedy for victims of gender-motivated violence (see H.R. 394), H217 [28JA]

Davis-Bacon Act: create additional category of construction workers called ``helpers'' (see H.R. 2283), H4786 [2JN]

Dept. of Agriculture: authorize former Federal employees receiving voluntary separation payments to accept subsequent Federal employment related to fighting forest fires (see H.R. 366), H170 [27JA]

Dept. of Commerce: establish an Office of Manufacturing (see S. 592), S3504 [11MR]

———establish position of Assistant Sec. of Commerce for Manufacturing (see S. 1326), S8559 [25JN]

———establish position of Under Sec. of Commerce for Manufacturing (see H.R. 2172), H4367 [20MY]

Dept. of Defense: establish a National Security Personnel System to improve flexibility and management of civilian personnel (see S. 1166), S7188 [2JN]

———promote national security by reforming personnel system, equipment acquisition system, authorization process, and interagency coordination of activities (see S. 927), S5433 [28AP]

———require certain contractors to investigate, assess, and provide fingerprint cards for individuals who work on military installations or facilities (see H.R. 2463), H5365 [12JN]

Dept. of Education: enter into a partnership with a local educational agency to conduct a model school-to-work program (see H.R. 3660), H12918 [8DE]

———establish competitive demonstration grant program to provide funds for local educational agencies to experiment with ways to alleviate the substitute teacher shortage (see H.R. 3008), H7948 [4SE]

———make grants to States to hire additional school-based mental health and student service providers (see H.R. 2284), H4786 [2JN]

Dept. of HHS: collect and disseminate information on quality child care, develop child care training infrastructure, and establish small business child care grant program (see S. 389), S2456 [13FE]

———provide grants to establish summer health career introductory programs for middle and high school students (see S. 1008), S5859 [7MY]

Dept. of HUD: reduce overpayments of housing assistance program subsidies by providing more accurate verification of participant employment and income (see H.R. 1030), H1464 [27FE]

Dept. of Labor: establish a pilot grant program to retrain displaced workers in high technology fields (see H.R. 3368), H9811 [21OC]

———establish an Adult Job Corps demonstration program for the U.S.-Mexico border area (see H.R. 2594), H5814 [24JN]

———impose limitations on the wage that an employer is required to pay an H-2A nonimmigrant agricultural worker (see H.R. 1606), H2820 [3AP]

———provide staffing at military installations overseas to carry out employment counseling under the Transition Assistance Program for persons separating from active duty in the Armed Forces (see H.R. 2285), H4786 [2JN]

———provide temporary mortgage assistance to workers displaced due to international competition (see S. 1597), S11245 [9SE] (see H.R. 3067), H8174 [10SE]

Dept. of Transportation: address loss of manufacturing base and technology jobs through increased Buy American Act compliance levels (see H.R. 3017), H8015 [5SE]

———clarify certain Buy American Act provisions (see H.R. 3682), H12919 [8DE]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: enhance rehabilitative services provided to veterans with mental illnesses (see H.R. 3442), H10456 [5NO]

———improve educational assistance programs for apprenticeship or other on-job training (see H.R. 1716), H3301 [10AP]

———recalculate retirement annuities for certain health care professionals performing part-time services (see H.R. 972), H1461 [27FE]

———repeal 4-year terms specified by law for certain officials (see H.R. 1718), H3301 [10AP]

Discrimination: prohibit on the basis of affectional or sexual orientation (see S. 1705), S12376 [2OC] (see H.R. 3285), H9376 [8OC]

Domestic policy: establish a living wage, and a policy providing jobs for everyone in the U.S. and its territories (see H.R. 1040), H1464 [27FE]

Economic Development Administration: authorize grants to producers of taconite for implementation of new technologies to increase productivity, reduce costs, and improve overall product quality and performance (see S. 1990), S16120 [9DE] (see H.R. 3686), H12919 [8DE]

Economy: constitutional amendment on the right to full employment and balanced growth (see H.J. Res. 35), H1516 [4MR]

———establish a commission to study employment and economic insecurity in the U.S. workforce (see H.R. 3435), H10339 [4NO]

———provide unemployment assistance, tax relief, fiscal assistance to State and local governments, and jobs and security through infrastructure investment (see H.R. 396), H217 [28JA]

Education: amend and improve workforce investment and adult education systems (see H.R. 1992), H3683 [6MY]

———authorize grants to local educational agencies for teacher mentoring programs (see H.R. 1611), H2820 [3AP]

———enable schools to use computer hardware to increase student achievement and prepare students for the workplace (see H.R. 3468), H10977 [6NO]

———encourage lifelong learning by investing in public schools and improving access to and affordability of higher education and job training (see S. 8), S34 [7JA]

———enhance the workforce investment system (see H.R. 1261), H1900 [13MR]

———enhance the workforce investment system (H.R. 1261), consideration (see H. Res. 221), H3760 [7MY]

———establish a national teaching fellowship program to encourage individuals to enter, and remain, in the field of teaching at public schools (see H.R. 1805), H3352 [11AP]

———establish a student loan forgiveness program for nurses (see H.R. 501), H244 [29JA]

———establish a vocational and technical education grant program (see H.R. 2762), H7019 [16JY]

———establish strategic sectoral skills gap assessments, strategic skills gap action plans, and strategic training capacity enhancement seed grants (see S. 1346), S8725 [26JN]

———expand loan forgiveness and loan cancellation programs for teachers and nurses (see H.R. 934), H1395 [26FE]

———expand loan forgiveness for child care providers including preschool teachers (see S. 405), S2457 [13FE]

———expand the eligibility for teacher loan forgiveness to provide additional incentives for teachers in economically depressed rural areas, territories, and Indian reservations (see H.R. 789), H700 [13FE]

———expand the teacher loan forgiveness programs under the guaranteed and direct student loan programs (see H.R. 2678), H6463 [9JY]

———extend student loan forgiveness to Head Start teachers (see S. 140), S203 [10JA] (see H.R. 2291), H4786 [2JN]

———extend student loan forgiveness to school adminstrators in low income areas (see H.R. 2892), H7617 [24JY]

———extend student loan forgiveness to school or public librarians in low income areas (see H.R. 2674), H6463 [9JY]

———increase amount of loan forgiveness for teachers (see H.R. 1751), H3303 [10AP]

———increase amount of student loan forgiveness and cancellation available to qualified teachers (see S. 110), S132 [9JA]

———increase amount of student loan forgiveness and cancellation available to qualified teachers (S. 110) (see H.R. 647), H322 [5FE]

———increase student loan forgiveness to teachers in mathematics, science, and special education (see S. 291), S1871 [4FE] (see H.R. 438), H241 [29JA]

———increase student loan forgiveness to teachers in mathematics, science, and special education (H.R. 438), consideration (see H. Res. 309), H6347 [8JY]

———modify computation of eligibility for Pell Grant Program relative to certain recently unemployed individuals (see S. 1348), S8725 [26JN]

———provide effective training and education programs for displaced homemakers, single parents, and individuals entering nontraditional employment (see H.R. 3259), H9375 [8OC]

———provide for training service and delivery innovation projects (see S. 1347), S8725 [26JN]

———provide grants to eligible consortia to provide professional development to superintendents and principals and prospects for such positions (see H.R. 1240), H1811 [12MR]

———provide loan forgiveness for family law attorneys who represent low-income families or individuals (see S. 407), S2457 [13FE]

———provide loan forgiveness for social workers who work for child protective agencies (see S. 409), S2457 [13FE] (see H.R. 734), H461 [12FE]

———provide personnel preparation, enhanced support and training for beginning special educators, and professional development of special educators, general educators, and early intervention personnel (see S. 608), S3620 [12MR]

———provide student loan forgiveness to teachers who work in tribal colleges or universities (see S. 378), S2341 [12FE] (see H.R. 365), H170 [27JA]

EEOC: require report on use of the Fair Labor Standards Act by public and private sector employers to foster or exacerbate pay inequity (see H.R. 1487), H2471 [27MR]

Elementary and Secondary Education Act: amend relative to rigorous quality standards applicable to paraprofessionals hired prior to enactment of No Child Left Behind Act (see H.R. 2348), H5043 [5JN]

Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act: provide benefits to Dept. of Energy contractors exposed to toxic substances, expand coverage to certain individuals, and reform claimant assistance (see H.R. 1758), H3303 [10AP]

ERISA: ensure employees are not improperly disqualified from pension and welfare benefits based on status misclassification or reclassification (see H.R. 1397), H2269 [20MR]

———exempt from preemption, under State tort actions to recover damages, any employee welfare benefit plan providing disability benefits that fails to provide timely benefits (see H.R. 1876), H3569 [30AP]

———improve disclosure of funding status of single-employer pension plans (see H.R. 3005), H7948 [4SE]

———increase the maximum levels of guaranteed single-employer plan benefits (see H.R. 3623), H12308 [21NO]

———joint trusteeship of single-employer pension plans (see H.R. 323), H137 [8JA]

———provide emergency protection for retiree health benefits (see H.R. 1322), H1953 [18MR]

———provide for prompt compliance with reporting requirements and prompt enforcement of such requirements (see H.R. 2084), H4129 [14MY]

———require Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., to compute the actuarial value of monthly benefits in the form of a life annuity for certain retired airline pilots (see S. 1569), S10906 [1AU]

———require Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., to notify plan participants and beneficiaries of commencement of proceedings to terminate any plan (see S. 744), S4557 [31MR]

Executive departments: ensure that Federal construction contractors abide by State tax, employment, and licensing regulations (see H.R. 3653), H12918 [8DE]

Fair Labor Standards Act: condition minimum wage exemptions for organized camps on compliance with certain safety standards (see H.R. 2145), H4254 [19MY]

———minimum wage and maximum hour requirement exemptions for certain seasonal fireworks employees (see H.R. 2263), H4737 [22MY]

———minimum wage and overtime exemptions for certain computer professionals (see S. 495), S3027 [3MR] (see H.R. 1996), H3683 [6MY]

———minimum wage and overtime exemptions for certain construction engineering and design professionals (see S. 237), S1736 [29JA]

———minimum wage and overtime exemptions for licensed funeral directors and embalmers (see S. 292), S1871 [4FE] (see H.R. 2065), H3973 [9MY]

———permit certain youth to perform certain work with wood (see S. 974), S5650 [1MY] (see H.R. 1943), H3636 [1MY]

———provide compensatory time for private sector employees (see H.R. 1119), H1678 [6MR]

———provide compensatory time opportunities, flexible workplaces, and clarify minimum wage and overtime requirements of private sector employees (see S. 317), S1977 [5FE]

———reform provisions relative to child labor (see H.R. 3139), H8490 [23SE]

Family and Medical Leave Act: allow leave for parental involvement in educational and extracurricular activities, routine medical needs, and assistance to elderly relatives (see H.R. 956), H1460 [27FE]

———allow leave to care for a domestic partner, parent-in-law, adult child, sibling, or grandparent with a serious health condition (see H.R. 1430), H2310 [25MR]

———allow leave to employees whose spouse, son, daughter, or parent is a member of the Armed Forces serving on active duty in support of a contingency operation (see S. 683), S4275 [21MR]

———clarify (see S. 320), S1977 [5FE] (see H.R. 35), H53 [7JA]

———expand (see S. 304), S1976 [5FE]

Federal employees: allow individuals who return to Government service after receiving a refund of retirement contributions to recapture credit for their initial service by repaying such refund (see H.R. 2748), H6868 [15JY]

———authorize the use of clinical social workers to conduct evaluations to determine work-related emotional and mental illnesses (see S. 81), S37 [7JA] (see H.R. 1410), H2270 [20MR]

———clarify that a person who voluntarily separates from the Federal civil service does not remain subject to certain enforcement provisions relative to regulation of political activity (see H.R. 1509), H2514 [31MR]

———clarify the computation of certain civil service retirement system annuities based on part-time service (see H.R. 2191), H4527 [21MY]

———consider pay rates of comparable positions for similar wage areas when revising wage schedules for certain prevailing rate employees (see H.R. 508), H244 [29JA]

———disability annuities for law enforcement officers, firefighters, and the Capitol Police (see H.R. 3117), H8380 [17SE]

———ensure one-half of leave for birth, adoption, or foster placement of a child shall be leave with pay (see H.R. 1934), H3636 [1MY]

———ensure parity between the compensation of members of the Armed Forces and civilian employees (see S. Con. Res. 1), S133 [9JA]

———ensure those activated by National Guard or Reserves receive pay equal to basic pay they would otherwise be receiving (see S. 593), S3504 [11MR] (see H.R. 217), H59 [7JA]

———exclude civilian personnel at naval shipyards from the national security personnel system (see H.R. 3548), H11700 [20NO]

———increase the Government contribution for Federal employee health insurance (see S. 319), S1977 [5FE] (see H.R. 577), H319 [5FE]

———make certain service performed as an employee of a nonappropriated fund instrumentality creditable for retirement purposes (see H.R. 2997), H7838 [3SE]

———provide that service performed by an air traffic controller who is transferred to a supervisory or staff position continue to be treated as controller service for retirement purposes (see H.R. 1244), H1811 [12MR]

Foreign trade: impact on employment of NAFTA and the entry of the People's Republic of China into the World Trade Organization (see H.R. 851), H704 [13FE]

FTC: deem the nondisclosure of employer-owned life insurance coverage of employees an unfair trade practice (see H.R. 414), H217 [28JA]

GAO: provide for new human capital flexibilities (see S. 1522), S10617 [31JY] (see H.R. 2751), H7019 [16JY]

Government: improve flexibility and competitiveness of human resources management in the Federal civil service (see H.R. 1836), H3450 [29AP]

———preserve open competition and neutrality towards the labor relations of Federal contractors on Federal and federally funded construction projects (see H.R. 2269), H4737 [22MY]

———reform Federal employment (see S. 129), S133 [9JA] (see H.R. 1601), H2819 [3AP]

———require wages paid to Federal employees and Federal contract workers be above the local poverty line (see H.R. 1192), H1744 [11MR]

GSA: give preference to high unemployment areas in selecting sites for the construction of public buildings and in leasing space to Federal agencies (see H.R. 3168), H8905 [24SE]

Health: national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (see H.R. 3100), H8283 [16SE]

———promote and facilitate expansion of group health insurance coverage (see H.R. 2321), H4976 [4JN]

———promote the development of health care cooperatives that will help businesses to pool the health care purchasing power of employers (see S. 39), S36 [7JA]

———reduce price of prescription drugs purchased by States for its employees, retirees, and pharmaceutical assistance beneficiaries (see H.R. 3662), H12918 [8DE]

Health care professionals: admission requirements for nonimmigrant nurses (see H.R. 87), H54 [7JA]

———establish demonstration programs to encourage physicians to practice in rural settings (see S. 1868), S14964 [17NO] (see H.R. 3512), H11391 (see H.R. 3512), H11514 [18NO]

———promote careers in nursing and diversity in the nursing workforce (see H.R. 920), H1394 [26FE]

Health Workforce Advisory Commission: establish (see S. 1498), S10265 [30JY]

Higher Education Act: extend loan forgiveness for certain loans to certified or licensed teachers and provide grants that promote teacher certification and licensing (see S. 227), S1668 [28JA]

Hire a Veteran Week: support goals and ideals (see H. Con. Res. 252), H7617 [24JY]

House of Representatives: compensation of certain minority employees (see H. Res. 8), H60 [7JA]

Housing: analyze potential impacts of rules proposed by certain agencies (see H.R. 730), H460 [12FE]

Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride: support goals (see H. Res. 384), H9130 [1OC]

Immigration: account for all illegal aliens by providing incentives to register with the Dept. of Homeland Security and immunity from criminal prosecution for employers of such aliens (see H.R. 3651), H12917 [8DE]

———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 S. 1645), S11832 [23SE] (see H.R. 3142), H8490 [23SE]

———admission policy relative to L-1 intra-company transferee nonimmigrants (see S. 1635), S11648 [17SE] (see H.R. 2702), H6603 [10JY]

———coverage of milk production under the H-2A nonimmigrant worker program (see S. 1924), S15407 [21NO]

———enhance border enforcement, improve homeland security, remove incentives for illegal immigration, and establish a guest worker program (see H.R. 3534), H11650 [19NO]

———establish guest worker programs and adjust status of certain aliens unlawfully present in the U.S. to non-immigrant guest worker (see S. 1387), S9244 [10JY]

———establish two new categories of nonimmigrant workers (see S. 1461), S9959 [25JY] (see H.R. 2899), H7781 [25JY]

———extend basic pilot employment verification system (see S. 1685), S12192 [30SE] (see H.R. 2359), H5043 [5JN]

———extend the special immigrant religious worker program (see S. 1580), S11032 [3SE] (see H.R. 2152), H4254 [19MY]

———extend the time period for the filing of applications for temporary labor certification (see H.R. 201), H59 [7JA]

———moratorium (see H.R. 946), H1395 [26FE]

———prevent an employer from placing a nonimmigrant who is an intracompany transferee with another employer (see H.R. 2154), H4254 [19MY]

———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. 1830), H3408 [12AP] (see H.R. 3271), H9375 [8OC]

———reduce annual income level at which a person petitioning for a family-sponsored immigrant's admission must agree to provide support in certain cases (see H.R. 3136), H8381 [17SE]

———repeal authorities relative to H-1B visas for temporary skilled workers (see H.R. 2688), H6464 [9JY]

Immigration and Nationality Act: amend relative to certain visa programs to prevent unintended U.S. job losses and increase Dept. of Labor monitoring and enforcement authority over such programs (see S. 1452), S9905 [24JY] (see H.R. 2849), H7615 [24JY]

Income: protect rights of employees to receive overtime compensation (see S. 1485), S10140 [29JY] (see H.R. 2665), H6347 [8JY]

Insurance: provide premium assistance for COBRA continuation coverage for certain individuals and permit States to provide temporary Medicaid coverage for certain uninsured individuals (see H.R. 256), H135 [8JA]

International Women's Day: support goals (see H. Con. Res. 57), H1465 [27FE]

Investments: provide protection for investors, increase confidence in the capital markets system, and streamline the hiring process for certain employment positions in the SEC (see S. 496), S3027 [3MR] (see H.R. 658), H389 [11FE]

Iraq: require that Federal contractors involved in post-conflict reconstruction provide a veterans hiring preference (see H.R. 1920), H3635 [1MY]

Iron and steel industry: treat semifinished or slab steel as being in direct competition with taconite pellets for trade remedy purposes and provide assistance for impacted workers (see S. 1989), S16120 [9DE] (see H.R. 3624), H12308 [21NO]

Korea, Republic of: ensure U.S. trade actions relative to semiconductor trade do not result in geopolitical tensions or U.S. job losses (see S. Con. Res. 29), S4376 [25MR] (see H. Con. Res. 124), H2472 [27MR]

Labor unions: establish efficient system to enable employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations and provide for mandatory injunctions for unfair labor practices during organizing efforts (see S. 1925), S15407 [21NO] (see H.R. 3619), H12308 [21NO]

———protect the free choice of individual employees relative to participation in labor organizations (see S. 1765), S12969 [21OC] (see H.R. 391), H171 [27JA]

Laborers' International Union of North America: anniversary (see S. Res. 117), S5174 [10AP] (see H. Res. 186), H3052 [9AP]

Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act: enhance the notification of democratic rights of union members (see H.R. 992, 994), H1462 [27FE]

———provide for civil monetary penalties in certain cases (see H.R. 993), H1462 [27FE]

Languages: improve workforce investment and adult education systems relative to English language training (see S. 1543), S10618 [31JY]

———provide integrated workforce training programs for adults with limited English proficiency (see S. 1690), S12277 [1OC]

Law enforcement officers: permit reviews of criminal records of applicants for private security officer employment (see S. 769), S4702 [2AP] (see S. 1665), S12056 [26SE] (see S. 1743), S12737 [16OC]

———provide grants to agencies to ensure due process in cases which could lead to dismissal, demotion, suspension, or transfer (see S. 1818), S13909 [4NO] (see H.R. 2135), H4204 [15MY]

———report on parity of pay and benefits among Federal law enforcement officers and establish exchange program between Federal and State and local law enforcement employees (see S. 1683), S12192 [30SE] (see H.R. 3205), H9032 [30SE]

Lawyers and attorneys: provide financial assistance to law school graduates who choose to accept employment in a public interest position (see H.R. 2562), H5713 [23JN]

Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act: clarify exemption for recreational vessel support employees (see H.R. 1329), H1953 [18MR]

Medicaid: increase Federal Medical Assistance Percentage to help States finance increases in enrollment (see H.R. 816), H701 [13FE]

Medicare: make permanent the health coverage for certain disabled individuals that go back to work (see H.R. 2840), H7454 [23JY]

———protect patients by limiting the number of mandatory overtime hours a nurse may be required to work by certain service providers (see S. 373), S2340 [12FE] (see S. 991), S5725 [5MY] (see H.R. 745), H461 [12FE]

———require home health agencies to conduct criminal background checks for all applicants for employment as patient care providers (see H.R. 208), H59 [7JA] (see H.R. 1855), H3451 [29AP]

Medicare/Medicaid: establish a national abusive and criminal background check system for patient care workers (see S. 958), S5541 [30AP]

Mental health: provide for equal insurance coverage of benefits unless comparable limitations are imposed on medical and surgical benefits (see S. 486), S2920 [27FE] (see S. 1832), S14176 [6NO] (see H.R. 953), H1459 [27FE]

Minimum wage: level (see S. 20), S35 [7JA] (see S. 224), S1668 [28JA] (see H.R. 965), H1460 [27FE]

NASA: make certain workforce authorities available (see S. 610), S3729 [13MR] (see H.R. 1085), H1640 [5MR]

National Apprenticeship Act: ensure that apprenticeship program applications are processed in a fair and timely manner (see H.R. 1660), H2937 [8AP]

National Child Care Worthy Wage Day: designate (see S. Res. 122), S5484 [29AP]

National Civilian Conservation Corps Day: designate (see S. Res. 46), S1977 [5FE]

National Commission on Marginal Tax Rates for the Working Poor: establish (see H.R. 618), H321 [5FE]

National Labor Relations Act: establish efficient system to enable employees to form or become members of labor organizations (see S. 1513), S10617 [31JY] (see H.R. 3078), H8216 [11SE]

———prevent Government agencies from requiring or prohibiting construction industry employers to enter into agreements with labor organizations (see H.R. 2293), H4786 [2JN]

———protect employer rights (see H.R. 1793), H3352 [11AP]

———require arbitration of initial contract negotiation disputes (see H.R. 93), H55 [7JA]

National security: authorize appropriations for border and transportation security personnel and technology (see S. 539), S3163 [5MR] (see H.R. 1096), H1640 [5MR]

National Weather Service: provide overtime pay for forecasters performing essential services during severe weather events and limit Sunday premium pay to hours of service actually performed (see S. 1339), S8725 [26JN] (see H.R. 1764), H3303 [10AP]

National Work and Family Month: designate (see S. Res. 210), S10619 [31JY]

Native Americans: authorize tribes to coordinate and integrate Federal funding dedicated to the development of communities (see S. 1528), S10618 [31JY]

———expand opportunities for contracting on Federal lands (see S. 288), S1871 [4FE]

———regulate Indian tribal governments under the same rules and procedures that apply to Federal, State, and local government employers relative to establishment and maintenance of employee benefit plans (see H.R. 3605), H12308 [21NO]

New York, NY: anniversary of the Triangle Fire (see H. Con. Res. 115), H2311 [25MR]

NLRB: expand statutory authority relative to employees and labor organizations engaged in or encouraging violent and other potentially injurious conduct (see H.R. 1656), H2863 [7AP]

———inflation adjustments to the mandatory jurisdiction thresholds (see S. 782), S4823 [3AP] (see H.R. 1909), H3634 [1MY]

———protect employee rights (see H.R. 2146), H4254 [19MY]

Nonprofit organizations: increase number of women and minorities on governing boards and encourage Americans to volunteer to serve on the governing boards (see H. Res. 354), H7839 [3SE]

Occupational Safety and Health Act: amend to protect State and local government employees (see H.R. 536), H318 [5FE]

———modify certain provisions relative to causing death in the workplace (see S. 1272), S7980 [17JN]

———provide adjudicative improvement (see H.R. 1583), H2819 [3AP]

Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission: increase membership to improve efficiency (see H.R. 2729), H6867 [15JY]

———provide for adjudicative flexibility relative to employer filing of notice of contest following the issuance of a citation by OSHA (see H.R. 2728), H6867 [15JY]

Organ donation: allow leave for individuals who provide living organ donations (see H.R. 1381), H2268 [20MR]

OSHA: provide for an independent review of citations (see H.R. 2730), H6867 [15JY]

———provide for the award of attorney's fees and costs to small employers when they prevail in litigation prompted by the issuance of OSHA citations (see H.R. 2731), H6867 [15JY]

Pensions: ensure adequate funding of pension plans (see S. 1610), S11416 [11SE]

———exempt elementary and secondary school teachers from Federal age discrimination laws relative to voluntary early retirement incentive plans (see H.R. 1893), H3570 [30AP]

———promote the provision of retirement investment advice to workers managing their retirement income assets (see S. 1698), S12277 [1OC]

———protect employee benefits in defined benefit plans and enforce age discrimination requirements that apply to conversion of pension plans to cash balance plans (see S. 825), S4957 [8AP] (see H.R. 1677), H2938 [8AP]

———protect retirement security of workers by ensuring assets are adequately diversified and providing workers with access to information about their plans (see S. 9), S35 [7JA]

———provide additional protections for participants and beneficiaries under employee pension benefit plans (see H.R. 2101), H4130 [14MY]

———provide information and advice to pension plan participants to assist them in making decisions regarding investment of their pension plan assets (see S. 1892), S15187 [19NO]

———provide special rules for multiemployer or Teamster pension plans relative to termination and funding (see S. 1492), S10265 [30JY] (see H.R. 2910), H7781 [25JY]

———reform (see H.R. 1776), H3351 [11AP]

———require plan administrators that provide access to automobile insurance to submit certain information on such insurance to the FTC (see H.R. 1842), H3451 [29AP]

Postal Service: include postmasters and postmasters organizations in the process for the development and planning of certain policies, schedules, and programs (see S. 678), S4166 [20MR] (see H.R. 2249), H4736 [22MY]

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 S. 532), S3162 [5MR] (see H.R. 1088), H1640 [5MR]

———ensure improved access to employment opportunities for low-income people (see H.R. 2298), H4787 [2JN]

Power resources: establish and implement competitive, environmentally sound, and job creating oil and gas leasing program for the Coastal Plain (see H.R. 39), H53 [7JA]

Public Health Service Act: amend relative to the shortage of medical laboratory personnel (see H.R. 623), H321 [5FE]

Public housing: repeal requirements for residents to engage in community service and complete economic self-sufficiency programs (see H.R. 1431), H2311 [25MR]

Public welfare programs: address barriers to employment as a work activity under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see S. 316), S1977 [5FE] (see H.R. 624), H321 [5FE]

———allow States to treat certain disabled and individuals caring for disabled persons as participating in work activities under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see S. 1523), S10617 [31JY]

———ignore certain time limits for assistance under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program for recipients in States experiencing significant increases in unemployment (see S. 574), S3369 [7MR]

———improve provision of education and job training under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see S. 262), S1813 [30JA]

———increase limit on vocational education training to be counted as work activity under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see S. 327), S2051 [6FE]

———permit States to create a program that allows individuals to obtain post-secondary or vocational education under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see S. 603), S3620 [12MR]

———promote financial education under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program and allow such education to count as a work activity under that program (see S. 813), S4957 [8AP]

———promote secure and healthy families under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see H.R. 706), H391 [11FE]

———provide access to tools to stimulate employment (see H.R. 535), H318 [5FE]

———provide grants for transitional jobs programs under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see S. 786), S4824 [3AP] (see H.R. 3560), H11701 [20NO]

———reauthorize and improve the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Programs operated by Indian tribes (see S. 751), S4629 [1AP] (see H.R. 2770), H7085 [17JY]

Public Works and Economic Development Act: reauthorize and improve programs (see H.R. 2454), H5365 [12JN] (see H.R. 2535), H5662 [19JN]

Puxico, MO: transfer control of the Mingo Job Corps Center from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to the Forest Service (see S. 1814), S13802 [3NO] (see H.R. 3433), H10339 [4NO]

Railroads: improve quality of life and safety of persons living and working near railroad tracks (see H.R. 3418), H10236 [30OC]

———resolve certain labor issues relative to merger of Metro-North Railroad and Long Island Rail Road (see H.R. 308), H137 [8JA]

Roads and highways: improve roadway safety for motor vehicles, bicycles, and pedestrians and workers in proximity to vehicle traffic (see H.R. 906), H1333 [25FE]

———permit voluntary compliance with certain laws relating to the rate of wage paid to laborers and mechanics employed on Federal-aid highway projects (see H.R. 2672), H6463 [9JY]

Rural areas: provide job creation and assistance (see H.R. 137), H56 [7JA]

Safety: create a system of background checks for certain workers who enter people's homes (see H.R. 439), H241 [29JA]

SBA: increase amount to be reserved for women's business center programs sustainability grants (see S. 1247), S7831 [12JN]

———raise awareness about telework among small business employers and encourage such employers to offer telework options to employees (see H.R. 2788), H7085 [17JY]

SEC: require enhanced disclosures of employee stock options and require study on economic impact of broad-based employee stock option plans (see S. 979), S5650 [1MY] (see H.R. 1372), H2268 [20MR]

Senate Rules: prohibit employment discrimination based on sexual orientation (see S. Res. 74), S3163 [5MR]

Senior citizens: establish grant program to provide financial and retirement education programs to reduce financial abuse and fraud among mid-life and older individuals (see S. 386), S2456 [13FE]

Small business: analyze potential impacts of rules proposed by certain agencies (see H.R. 2345), H5042 [5JN]

———certify programs to provide health coverage to uninsured employees (see S. 906), S5343 [11AP]

———establish a temporary loan program and a temporary vocational development program for small businesses owned and controlled by veterans (see H.R. 3483), H11133 [7NO]

———improve access and choice relative to employee health care (see S. 545), S3252 [6MR] (see H.R. 660), H389 [11FE]

———improve access and choice relative to employee health care (H.R. 660), consideration (see H. Res. 283), H5550 [18JN]

———improve calculation of the Federal subsidy rate with respect to certain small business loans (see S. 141), S203 [10JA]

Social Security: allow diversion of percentage of payroll tax payments into personal investment plans and extend the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Program (see S. 1878), S15061 [18NO]

———allow waiver of old-age insurance benefits, provide tax deductions based on the value of such benefits, and ensure that certain Trust Fund investments bear interest at the prevailing private sector rate (see H.R. 3279), H9376 [8OC]

———choice of benefit payment method relative to computation rule application to workers attaining age 65 in or after 1982 (see S. 1418), S9496 [16JY] (see H.R. 97), H55 [7JA]

———earnings test for blind individuals (see S. 750), S4629 [1AP] (see H.R. 173), H57 [7JA]

———eliminate earnings test for retirement age individuals (see H.R. 2311), H4876 [3JN]

———exclude from creditable wages income earned by aliens for services illegally performed in the U.S. or derived from an illegal trade or business (see H.R. 1631), H2821 [3AP]

———improve benefit computation formula for certain workers affected by changes in benefit computation rules (see H.R. 63), H54 [7JA]

———increase in widow's and widower's insurance benefits relative to delayed retirement (see H.R. 474), H243 [29JA]

———increase payments to States for expenditures for short term training of certain child welfare agencies staff (see H.R. 1378), H2268 [20MR]

———phase out taxation of benefits (see S. 1026), S5950 [8MY]

———provide for personal retirement savings accounts, increase individual control over retirement income, protect surpluses, and reform certain benefits (see H.R. 3055), H8174 [10SE]

———reform relative to State and local government employees (see H. Con. Res. 25), H244 [29JA]

———remove limitations on the amount of outside income which an individual may earn while receiving certain benefits (see H.R. 3098), H8283 [16SE]

Southwest Regional Border Authority: establish (see S. 458), S2839 [26FE] (see H.R. 1071), H1515 [4MR]

Sports: require sports franchises to make all games available for local television broadcasting in order to be subject to certain presumptions relative to the sale or exchange of a sports franchise (see H.R. 2745), H6868 [15JY]

SSI: increase incentives for working, saving, and pursuing an education (see H.R. 2187), H4527 [21MY]

States: improve temporary Federal fiscal assistance programs (see H.R. 3415), H10236 [30OC]

Taxation: allow a business credit for donations for vocational educational purposes (see H.R. 2763), H7019 [16JY]

———allow a deduction for certain distributions from a controlled foreign corporation to encourage personnel and economic investments by companies (see H.R. 1162), H1681 [6MR]

———allow a deduction from work-related expenses of disabled individuals (see H.R. 1693), H3051 [9AP]

———allow a refundable credit for the purchase of private health insurance and establish State health insurance safety-net programs (see S. 1570), S10906 [1AU] (see H.R. 583), H319 [5FE]

———allow a refundable tax credit for health insurance costs for COBRA continuation coverage (see H.R. 2891), H7616 [24JY]

———allow businesses to qualify as renewal community businesses if such businesses employ residents of certain nearby areas (see H.R. 3669), H12918 [8DE]

———allow businesses to qualify as renewal community businesses if such businesses employ residents of certain other renewal communities (see S. 903), S5342 [11AP]

———allow employees of county and local governments and schools to maintain medical savings accounts (see H.R. 498), H244 [29JA]

———allow individuals a refundable credit for health insurance costs and allow employees who elect not to participate in employer subsidized health plans an exclusion from gross income (see H.R. 3423), H10236 [30OC]

———allow penalty-free withdrawals from individual retirement plans for adoption expenses (see H.R. 584), H320 [5FE]

———allow small business employers a credit for certain expenses for long-term training of employees in highly skilled small business trades (see S. 1625), S11648 [17SE]

———allow small employers a tax credit for costs paid or incurred for employee health insurance expenses (see S. 53), S36 (see S. 86), S37 [7JA]

———allow tax credit to businesses who employ members of the National Guard or Ready Reserve (see H.R. 349), H169 (see H.R. 350), H170 [27JA] (see H.R. 454), H242 [29JA]

———change calculation and simplify administration of the earned income tax credit (see H.R. 1782), H3351 [11AP]

———change certain threshold and other tests to decrease the amount of farm labor wages subject to Social Security and Medicare taxes (see H.R. 2097), H4130 [14MY]

———clarify exemption from the self-employment tax for termination payments received by former life insurance salesmen (see H.R. 1250), H1811 [12MR] (see H.R. 2509), H5551 [18JN]

———clarify rules for determining whether certain agent-drivers and commission-drivers are employees (see H.R. 1649), H2863 [7AP]

———clarify that church employees are eligible for the exclusion for qualified tuition reduction programs of charitable educational organizations (see H.R. 872), H1331 [25FE]

———clarify treatment of incentive stock options and employee stock purchases (see S. 206), S1479 [23JA] (see S. 697), S4325 [24MR] (see H.R. 286), H136 [8JA]

———deny employers a deduction for payments of excessive compensation (see H.R. 2888), H7616 [24JY]

———employer credit for hiring new employees (see H.R. 3608), H12308 [21NO]

———employer credit for the hiring of displaced homemakers (see H.R. 544), H318 [5FE]

———enhance the portability of retirement benefits (see H.R. 518), H268 [31JA]

———ensure employees retain hospital insurance tax exemption relative to consolidation of a political subdivision with the State (see H.R. 2105), H4130 [14MY]

———equalize employer-provided parking and transit benefits and allow Federal agencies to offer transit and parking benefits in tandem to assist with costs of parking at transit facilities (see S. 661), S3993 [19MR] (see H.R. 2614), H6261 [26JN]

———exclude certain severance payments from gross income for employees who are laid off (see H.R. 2064), H3973 [9MY]

———expand areas designated as renewal communities based on new census data (see S. 400), S2457 [13FE] (see H.R. 840), H703 [13FE]

———expand availability of the refundable tax credit to the health insurance costs paid by former employers (see H.R. 3601), H12307 [21NO]

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

———expand special depreciation allowance (see S. 879), S5174 [10AP]

———expand the tip tax credit to employers of cosmetologists and promote tax compliance in the cosmetology sector (see H.R. 2133), H4204 [15MY]

———expand work opportunity credit to include trade adjustment assistance as a targeted group (see S. 1662), S11989 [25SE] (see H.R. 3678), H12919 [8DE]

———expand workplace health incentives by equalizing the tax consequences of employee athletic facility use (see S. 1491), S10265 [30JY] (see H.R. 1818), H3353 [11AP]

———extend certain expiring provisions of the Internal Revenue Code (see S. 1896), S15187 [19NO]

———extend exclusion from gross income for employer-provided health coverage to certain designated beneficiaries of employee's (see H.R. 935), H1395 [26FE]

———extend exclusion from gross income for employer-provided health coverage to designated plan beneficiaries of employees (see S. 1702), S12376 [2OC]

———extend the transportation fringe benefit to bicycle commuters (see S. 1093), S6853 [21MY] (see H.R. 1052), H1514 [4MR]

———improve portability of retirement savings and expand pension coverage and savings opportunities (see S. 1912), S15406 [21NO]

———improve tax equity for military personnel (see S. 289), S1871 [4FE] (see S. 351), S2187 [11FE] (see H.R. 662), H389 [11FE]

———increase the bonus depreciation (see H.R. 223), H59 [7JA]

———increase the work opportunity credit and the welfare-to-work credit (see H.R. 1134), H1679 [6MR]

———make the additional tax on early distributions from certain pension plans inapplicable in the case of hardship of certain employees due to facility closures or employers in bankruptcy (see H.R. 2545), H5662 [19JN]

———modify the work opportunity credit and the welfare-to-work credit (see S. 1180), S7381 [4JN] (see H.R. 2047), H3973 [9MY]

———permanently extend the Indian employment credit and the depreciation rules for property used predominantly within an Indian reservation (see H.R. 409), H217 [28JA]

———permit the deduction of health insurance costs of self-employed individuals to be allowed in computing self-employment taxes (see H.R. 741), H461 [12FE] (see H.R. 1873), H3569 [30AP]

———promote, protect, and clarify status of professional employer organizations (see S. 1269), S7926 [16JN] (see H.R. 2178), H4527 [21MY]

———provide a credit for offering employer-based health insurance coverage and establish health plan purchasing pools (see S. 1901), S15287 [20NO]

———provide a rebate to individuals for payroll taxes and provide employers with an income tax credit for payroll taxes paid during the payroll tax holiday period (see S. 911), S5343 [11AP]

———provide a refundable credit to small businesses for the costs of qualified health insurance (see H.R. 3607), H12308 [21NO]

———provide for a temporary ex-offender low-income housing credit to encourage the provision of housing, job training, and other essential services to ex-offenders (see H.R. 2166), H4367 [20MY]

———provide for employee benefits for work site employees of certain corporations operating on a cooperative basis (see H.R. 541), H318 [5FE]

———provide for employer liability for Social Security taxes on unreported tips paid to an employee after the IRS establishes the amount of tips received (see H.R. 2034), H3856 [8MY]

———provide incentives and job training grants for communities affected by migration of businesses and jobs to Canada or Mexico as a result of NAFTA (see H.R. 302), H137 [8JA]

———provide incentives for economic recovery (see S. 2), S2919 [27FE] (see S. 414), S2522 [14FE] (see S. 1054), S6070 [13MY] (see H.R. 2), H1459 [27FE]

———provide incentives for economic recovery (H.R. 2), consideration (see H. Res. 227), H3855 [8MY]

———provide incentives for economic recovery (H.R. 2), consideration of conference report (see H. Res. 253), H4733 [22MY]

———provide incentives for economic recovery (H.R. 2), consideration of conference report—same-day consideration (see H. Res. 249), H4527 [21MY]

———provide incentives for manufacturing businesses (see S. 1885), S15061 [18NO]

———provide incentives for the ownership and control of corporations by employees (see H.R. 913), H1333 [25FE]

———provide incentives to encourage small business health plans (see H.R. 1936, 1937), H3636 [1MY]

———provide incentives to small businesses to provide health insurance to their employees (see H.R. 450), H242 [29JA]

———provide procedural fairness in application of controlled group provisions to employers who contribute to multiemployer pension plans and engage in bona fide corporate transactions (see S. 1857), S14804 [12NO]

———provide tax credits for Indian investment and employment (see H.R. 388), H171 [27JA]

———provide tax relief for farmers and fishermen (see S. 665), S3993 [19MR]

———provide tax relief for military personnel and their employers and offset such relief by preventing tax avoidance through renouncing U.S. citizenship (see S. Res. 257), S13802 [3NO]

———rebuild America through job creation (see H.R. 2046), H3973 [9MY]

———remove impediments to make manufacturing, service, and high-technology businesses more competitive and productive (see H.R. 2896), H7781 [25JY]

———repeal benefits relative to company-owned life insurance (see H.R. 2127), H4203 [15MY]

———repeal exclusion for extraterritorial income and provide a deduction relating to income attributable to U.S. production activities (see S. 1688), S12193 [30SE]

———repeal extraterritorial income exclusion and simplify rules for U.S. businesses operating abroad (see S. 1475), S10045 [28JY]

———repeal occupational taxes on manufacturers, distributors, and sellers of beer, wine, and distilled spirits (see S. 374), S2340 [12FE] (see H.R. 786), H700 [13FE]

———repeal tax increase on Social Security benefits (see S. 514), S3162 [5MR] (see S. 767), S4702 [2AP] (see H.R. 133), H56 [7JA] (see H.R. 378), H171 [27JA] (see H.R. 423), H218 [28JA] (see H.R. 860), H704 [13FE]

———repeal tax increase on Social Security benefits and increase the distribution age for certain retirement plans (see H.R. 2439), H5266 [11JN]

———restore standards for determining employee status of technical workers (see H.R. 1488), H2471 [27MR]

———treat contracted firefighters with local governments as employees of such governments for pension plan purposes (see H.R. 1884), H3570 [30AP]

———treat payments under the Conservation Reserve Program as rentals from real estate (see S. 1316), S8439 [24JN]

———treatment of amounts contributed to medical savings accounts and unused nontaxable benefits under cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements (see H.R. 2351), H5043 [5JN] (see H.R. 2596), H5928 [25JN]

———treatment of amounts contributed to medical savings accounts and unused nontaxable benefits under cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements (H.R. 2596), consideration (see H. Res. 299), H5928 [25JN]

———treatment of amounts received as damages on account of age discrimination (see H.R. 2140), H4204 [15MY]

———treatment of businesses who employ military reservists, and self-employed military reservists (see S. 1595), S11245 [9SE] (see H.R. 2399), H5173 [10JN]

———treatment of capital gains, interest and dividends, and repeal tax increase on Social Security benefits (see H.R. 1780), H3351 [11AP]

———treatment of certain compensation options offered by tax-exempt organizations (see H.R. 1100), H1640 [5MR]

———treatment of certain expenses for disabled workers (see S. 1560), S10906 [1AU]

———treatment of certain postsecondary educational benefits provided by an employer to children of employees (see S. 1096), S6853 [21MY]

———treatment of damages and back pay received on account of, and expenses incurred in asserting any claim of employment discrimination (see S. 557), S3252 [6MR] (see H.R. 1155), H1680 [6MR]

———treatment of employee leasing organizations (see H.R. 1270), H1900 [13MR]

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

———treatment of expenses of members of a military Reserve, businesses who employ members of the military Reserves, and self-employed military Reserve participants (see S. 202), S1368 [22JA] (see S. 393), S2457 [13FE] (see H.R. 1504), H2472 [27MR]

———treatment of health insurance premiums (see S. 637), S3881 [18MR]

———treatment of old-age, survivors, and disability insurance taxes paid by employees and self-employed individuals (see S. 397), S2457 [13FE]

———treatment of unused nontaxable benefits under cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements (see S. 1450), S9904 [24JY] (see H.R. 176), H57 [7JA] (see H.R. 1177), H1743 [11MR]

———update optional methods for computing self-employment net earnings (see H.R. 2747), H6868 [15JY]

———waive early withdrawal penalty for distributions from qualified retirement plans to certain unemployed individuals who have attained age 50 (see H.R. 2784), H7085 [17JY]

Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act: extend (see S. 23), S35 [7JA] (see H.R. 209, 228), H59 [7JA]

———extend (S. 23), consideration (see H. Res. 14), H51 [7JA]

———provide for an alternative trigger for second-tier benefits (see H.R. 2111), H4130 [14MY]

Tourist trade: establish a pilot program for the promotion of travel and tourism in the U.S. through international broadcasting (see H.R. 2002), H3760 [7MY]

Trade Act: amend to provide trade adjustment assistance for communities (see S. 1110), S6978 [22MY] (see H.R. 2308), H4875 [3JN]

———amend to provide trade readjustment and development enhancement for communities (see S. 1299), S8232 [19JN]

———amend trade adjustment assistance program to establish a demonstration project to provide self-employment training and assistance to eligible adversely affected workers (see H.R. 1807), H3353 [11AP]

Tradeswomen: tribute (see S. Res. 162), S7541 [9JN]

Transportation: prohibit States from imposing a discriminatory commuter tax on nonresidents (see H.R. 72), H54 [7JA]

———provide that individuals who are eligible to join the Armed Forces are also eligible to be security screening personnel (see H.R. 606), H321 [5FE]

———reform border and corridor programs to alleviate NAFTA-related congestion (see S. 1099), S6853 [21MY]

Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century: make certain amendments relative to Indian tribes and provide training and technical assistance to Native Americans interested in commercial vehicle driving careers (see S. 281), S1870 [4FE]

U.S. Airways, Inc.: pension plan restructuring (see S. 119), S132 [9JA]

U.S. Employee Ownership Bank: establish (see H.R. 2969), H7784 [25JY]

Unemployment: ensure former employees of foreign air carriers receive same temporary enhanced unemployment benefits available to certain former employees of domestic air carriers (see H.R. 3405), H10130 [29OC]

———establish an emergency program to provide immediate education assistance for unemployed workers (see H.R. 3276), H9375 [8OC]

———modernize benefit system (see H.R. 1802), H3352 [11AP]

———provide a Federal payment, or reimbursement, to States for special unemployment assistance to individuals participating in qualified worker training programs (see H.R. 3010), H7948 [4SE]

———provide additional weeks of benefits to exhaustees, modify the trigger used in determining eligibility for second-tier benefits, and provide an extension of the temporary extended unemployment program (see H.R. 682), H390 [11FE]

———provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program (see S. 35), S35 [7JA] (see S. 225), S1668 [28JA] (see S. 270), S1813 [30JA] (see S. 923), S5343 [11AP] (see S. 1075), S6507 [15MY] (see S. 1079), S6624 [19MY] (see S. 1839), S14271 [7NO] (see S. 1853), S14804 [12NO] (see S. 1943), S15812 [24NO] (see H.R. 17, 19), H52 (see H.R. 162), H57 [7JA] (see H.R. 1652), H2863 [7AP] (see H.R. 2185, 2188), H4527 [21MY] (see H.R. 3156), H8490 [23SE] (see H.R. 3270), H9375 [8OC] (see H.R. 3295), H9477 [15OC] (see H.R. 3639), H12309 [21NO]

———provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program and improve the unemployment insurance system (see S. 1708), S12376 [2OC] (see H.R. 3244), H9213 [2OC] (see H.R. 3499), H11359 [17NO] (see H.R. 3568), H12306 [21NO]

———provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program (H.R. 17), consideration (see H. Res. 232), H4011 [13MY]

———provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program (H.R. 1652), consideration (see H. Res. 225), H3857 [8MY] (see H. Res. 398), H9477 [15OC]

———provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program (H.R. 2185), consideration (see H. Res. 248), H4527 [21MY]

———provide for emergency unemployment compensation program (see H.R. 1239), H1811 [12MR]

———temporarily allow States to disregard certain look-back requirements for purposes of determining unemployment insurance eligibility (see H.R. 3554), H11701 [20NO]

Veterans: establish development program for disabled veterans' small businesses, reauthorize National Veterans Business Development Corp., programs, and establish procurement goal for veterans' small businesses (see H.R. 1712), H3301 [10AP]

———permit use of education benefits for certain entrepreneurship courses and permit veterans enrolled in certain vocational rehabilitation programs to have self-employment as a vocational goal (see H.R. 1460), H2470 [27MR]

Whistleblowing: include the Dept. of Energy and the NRC as employers for the purposes of whistleblower protection (see S. 1376), S9049 [8JY]

Women: promote economic security and safety of domestic and sexual violence victims (see S. 1801), S13660 [30OC] (see H.R. 3420), H10236 [30OC]

———protect breastfeeding by new mothers (see S. 418), S2522 [14FE] (see H.R. 2790), H7169 [18JY]

———provide comprehensive pension protection (see S. 1617), S11479 [15SE]

Workforce Investment Act: establish a Personal Reemployment Accounts grant program to assist Americans in returning to work (see H.R. 444), H242 [29JA]

———provide for job training grant pilot program (see S. 988), S5725 [5MY]

———reauthorize (see S. 1627), S11648 [17SE]

Conference reports

Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (H.R. 2), H4625-H4706 [22MY]

Cost Estimates

GAO Human Capital Reform Act (S. 1522): CBO, S15400 [21NO]

Descriptions

Fortune (publication) system for choosing the 50 Best Companies for Minorities, E1447 [11JY]

Unemployment Benefits Extension Act (H.R. 1652), H4156 [15MY]

Documents

Reduced Fees on Loans to Small Businesses Adversely Affected by Terrorist Attacks, H357 [11FE]

Essays

Way My Life Is Going Now Is Just Perfect: Mario Argueta, E958 [15MY]

Excerpts

Newspaper articles on election intimidation of minority voters, S338 [15JA]

Explanations

Small Business Health Fairness Act (S. 545), S3263-S3265 [6MR]

Factsheets

U.S. Airways, Inc., Pension Plan Restructuring (S. 119), S118 [9JA]

Letters

Accountant, Compliance, and Enforcement Staffing Act: Representative Oxley, Committee on Financial Services (House), H5423 [17JN]

———Representative Tom Davis, Committee on Government Reform (House), H5423 [17JN]

Agricultural Job Opportunity, Benefits, and Security Act: Clayton Yeutter, S11845 [23SE]

Calculation of Federal subsidy rate with respect to certain small business loans: Leonard R. Ryden, Ryden Heavy Hauling, Inc., H355 [11FE]

———Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr., OMB, H356 [11FE]

Civil service protection for Dept. of Defense civilian employees: Bobby L. Harnage, Sr., American Federation of Government Employees, H4553 [22MY]

———Carol A. Bonosaro and G. Jerry Shaw, Senior Executives Association, H4553 [22MY]

———Charles M. Loveless, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, H4553 [22MY]

———Colleen M. Kelley, National Treasury Employees Union, H4554 [22MY]

———Michael B. Styles, Federal Managers Association, H4552 [22MY]

Clarify that administrative overhead costs for one-stop career development centers will be shared proportionately by all providers: L. Robert McConnell and Michelle Vaughan, National Rehabilitation Association, H3812 [8MY]

———Richard Fuller, Paralyzed Veterans of America, H3813 [8MY]

Dept. of Defense process for granting or renewal of security clearances for defense contractor personnel: Kenneth Delacruz, Metal Trades Council of New London County, H4588 [22MY]

———M.W. Toner, General Dynamics Corp., H4588 [22MY]

Dept. of Labor proposal to implement regulations that negate Fair Labor Standards Act overtime requirements: Dennis Slocumb, International Union of Police Associations, S11202 [9SE]

———William J. Johnson, National Association of Police Organizations, Inc., S11202 [9SE]

Dept. of State appropriations: Paul V. Kelly, Dept. of State, S4856 [3AP]

Employer-sponsored retiree prescription drug coverage plans: several labor unions, S8411 [24JN]

Equity for Reservists Pay Act: Jayson L. Spiegel, Reserve Officers Association of the U.S., E608 [27MR]

———Richard C. Alexander, National Guard Association of the U.S., E608 [27MR]

Health Savings and Affordability Act: Ronald F. Pollack, Families USA (organization), H6001 [26JN]

———William Samuel, AFL-CIO, H6001 [26JN]

Jobs and Growth Reconciliation Tax Act: Thomas Zogg, H3882 [9MY]

Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: several Senators, S6472 [15MY]

———several State and local Government organizations, S6473 [15MY]

Librarian Education and Development Act: Emily Sheketoff, American Library Association, E1431 [9JY]

Nomination of Deborah L. Cook to be circuit judge: Frederick M. Gittes, National Employment Lawyers Association, S5702 [5MY]

Pathways to Independence Act: Consortium for Citizens With Disabilities, S10646 [31JY]

———Lorey H. Freeman, Oregon Law Center, S10647 [31JY]

Provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program, S14298 [10NO], S14717 [12NO]

———Annette M. Copeland, Employment Security Dept. of Washington, H12183 [21NO]

———Bill Gilbertson, S14659 [12NO]

———Laura Perry, S14659 [12NO]

———Marshall Dunlap, S14659 [12NO]

———Ronnie Harper, S14659 [12NO]

Provide tax incentives for economic recovery: Senator Frist, S5313 [11AP]

———Senators Snowe, Breaux, Baucus, and Voinovich, S5313 [11AP]

Remedies for retaliation against corporate whistleblowers: Howard M. Radzely, Dept. of Labor, S1726 [29JA]

———Senator Leahy, S1726 [29JA]

———Senators Leahy and Grassley, S1725, S1726 [29JA]

Repeal tax increase on Social Security benefits: Al Cors, Jr., National Taxpayers Union, S4705 [2AP]

———Charles W. Jarvis, United Seniors Association, S4705 [2AP]

———Grover Norquist, Americans for Tax Reform (organization), S4706 [2AP]

———James L. Martin, 60 Plus Association, S4706 [2AP]

———Mary M. Martin, Seniors Coalition, S4706 [2AP]

Small Business Health Fairness Act: Douglas Holtz-Eakin, CBO, H5634 [19JN]

Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act extension: Barry B. Anderson, CBO, S1325 [22JA]

———Elaine L. Chao, Sec. of Labor, S12 [7JA]

Treatment of trade adjustment assistance health insurance tax credits for workers negatively impacted by trade: several Representatives, H5533 [18JN]

Youth Worker Protection Act: Darlene Adkins, Child Labor Coalition, E1874 [24SE]

———Diane Shust and Randall Moody, National Education Association, E1949 [1OC]

———Julie A. Taylor, United Methodist Church, E1950 [1OC]

———Linda F. Golodner, National Consumers League, E1950 [1OC]

———Patrick J. Schoof, Youth Advocate Program International (organization), E1949 [1OC]

———William Samuel, AFL-CIO, E1874 [24SE]

Lists

Court cases in which Deborah L. Cook ruled in favor of an employee, S5708 [5MY]

Economists' and industry leaders' statements supporting President Bush's tax plan to provide incentives for economic recovery, S3853 [18MR]

Organizations supporting S. 486, Mental Health Equitable Treatment Act, S13200-S13202 [24OC]

Supporters of S. 1645, Agricultural Job Opportunity, Benefits, and Security Act, S11835 [23SE]

Memorandums

Reduced Fees on Loans to Small Businesses Adversely Affected by Terrorist Attacks: Jane Palsgrove Butler, SBA, H356 [11FE]

———Jeanna M. Sclater, SBA, H357 [11FE]

Messages

Economic Report: President Bush, S2117 [10FE], H334 [11FE]

Motions

Education: enhance the workforce investment system (H.R. 1261), H3817 [8MY]

Small business: improve access and choice relative to employee health care (H.R. 660), H5636 [19JN]

Taxation: provide incentives for economic recovery (H.R. 2), H3940, H3954 [9MY], H4534 [22MY]

———provide incentives for economic recovery (S. 1054), S6174 [14MY], S6408, S6410, S6411, S6412, S6414, S6421, S6423, S6424, S6425, S6426, S6428, S6429, S6430, S6431, S6432, S6441, S6443 [15MY]

Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act: extend (S. 23), H86, H88 [8JA]

Unemployment: provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program (H.R. 2185), H4623 [22MY]

Poems

``Corporate Credo 1,'' Representative Owens, E132 [5FE]

``Corporate Credo 2,'' Representative Owens, E132 [5FE]

``Let the Rich Go First,'' Representative Owens, E1509 [18JY]

Press releases

F.O.P. Confident of Satisfactory Resolution on Dept. of Labor Overtime Regulations: National Fraternal Order of Police, S11204 [9SE]

Pro-Trade House Democrats Fight To Keep Worker Assistance in Trade Bill, H5533 [18JN]

Remarks in House

Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund: allocate accruing interest to cover health care costs for certain miners (H.R. 313), E38 [8JA]

African Americans: convening of African American leadership summit, H4188-H4192 [15MY]

Airlines: impose conditions on use of federally provided relief funds, H2797 [3AP]

———prohibit air carriers receiving Federal assistance from reducing services, H8058 [9SE]

Alameda County, CA: anniversary of East Bay Conversion and Reinversion Commission, E160 [6FE]

Alaska: improve Federal hiring and contracting of natives (H.R. 950), E300 [27FE]

Albertsons Corp.: Idaho National Guard and Reserve Employer Support State Chairman Award recipient, E57 [8JA]

Americans With Disabilities Act: anniversary, E1711 [5SE]

Architect of the Capitol: prohibit employing temporary workers for long periods without providing eligibility for employee benefits, H8813 [24SE]

Armed Forces: provide compensation to members of the Reserve components who suffer discrepancies between their military and nonmilitary compensation as a result of being called to active duty for a certain period, H4880 [4JN]

———provide compensation to members of the reserve components who suffer discrepancies between their military and nonmilitary compensation as a result of being called to active duty for a certain period, H9199 [2OC]

———provide compensation to members of the reserve components who suffer discrepancies between their military and nonmilitary compensation as a result of being called to active duty for a certain period (H.R. 1345), E607 [27MR]

AT&T Corp.: layoff of employees by wireless unit, H11519 [19NO]

Aviation: assist employees separated from employment due to reductions in service by air carriers and airport closures caused by terrorist actions, security measures, or a military conflict with Iraq, H2784, H2785 [3AP], H2870-H2872, H2913, H2917 [8AP], E731 [10AP]

———assist employees separated from employment due to reductions in service by air carriers and airport closures caused by terrorist actions, security measures, or a military conflict with Iraq (H.R. 1553), E654 [2AP]

Bankruptcy: prevent corporate abuse and provide greater protection for employees, H1983, H1985 [19MR]

———provide protection for military personnel and unemployed individuals, H1988 [19MR]

Bayaud Industries: tribute for providing employment to disabled persons under the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Program, E1299 [18JN]

Bayaud Industries (nonprofit organization): tribute, E1423 [8JY]

Berean Institute: anniversary, E134 [5FE]

Berkeley, CA: support creation of Ed Roberts Campus facility to support independent living for disabled individuals, E183 [11FE]

Blair, Jayson: controversy relative to sourcing and accuracy of reporting while employed by the New York (NY) Times, H4241 [19MY]

Blount County (TN) Daily Times: tribute to editorials, E1738 [9SE]

Budget: impact of Bush administration proposals on Hispanic Americans, H1476 [4MR]

Burch, Edith: Experience Works, Inc., California Outstanding Older Worker award recipient, E1851 [23SE]

Burns Harbor, IN: anniversary of Millwright Local 1043, E1865 [23SE]

Bush, President: evaluation of economic policies, H10136 [30OC]

———visit to Indiana, H4018 [14MY]

Business and industry: address loss of manufacturing base and technology jobs through application of fairer taxation and reduction of manufacturing regulations, H4259 [20MY]

———address loss of manufacturing base and technology jobs through application of fairer taxation and through math and science education initiatives, H2837 [7AP]

———address loss of manufacturing base and technology jobs through increased Buy American Act compliance levels, H6807 [15JY]

———address loss of manufacturing base and technology jobs through increased research and development, H5092 [10JN]

———impact of companies utilizing foreign labor in low-wage countries on employment levels of U.S. high-tech workers, H4094 [14MY]

———protection of manufacturing and industrial base relative to maintaining a strong defense base, H8290 [17SE]

———provide for labor recruiter accountability (H.R. 3530), E2341 [20NO]

California: anniversary of Sheet Metal Workers' International Association Local Union No. 104, E889 [7MY]

———effects of budget cuts, H3923 [9MY]

Children and youth: establish Child Care Provider Development and Retention Grant Program, Child Care Provider Scholarship Program, and child care provider health benefits program (H.R. 2377), E1162 [5JN]

———extend age for eligibility for certain youth training programs, H3813, H3814 [8MY]

———provide grants to State child welfare systems, increase Social Security match for private agencies receiving child welfare training funds, and authorize loan forgiveness to child welfare workers (H.R. 2437), E1219 [11JN]

———provide opportunities to improve the lives of all children and enable them to reach their fullest potential (H.R. 936), E304 [27FE]

Chinese Daily News (publication): anniversary of workers' vote to select Newspaper Guild of the Communications Workers of America to represent them for collective bargaining, E514 [19MR]

Citizens Financial Group, Inc.: Dept. of Defense National Committee for the Employee Support of the Guard and Reserve Seven Seals award recipient, E2060 [16OC]

———Rhode Island Guard and Reserve Pro Patria award recipient, E2060 [16OC]

Citrus County, FL: tribute to Key Training Center, E1535 [18JY]

Civil liberties: protect day laborers from unfair labor practices (H.R. 2870), E1598 [25JY]

Civil rights: affirmative action policies, H2315 [26MR]

———improve remedies for discrimination in the payment of wages based on sex (H.R. 1688), H2944 [9AP], E722 [10AP]

———prohibit discrimination in the payment of wages based on sex, race, or national origin (H.R. 1695), E722 [10AP]

———provide equal access to opportunity in education, business, and employment and support affirmative action programs in securing such equal access, H1493 [4MR], E362 [4MR]

Committee on Appropriations (House): appropriations allocation revisions to H.R. 2, Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act, H5354 [12JN]

Committee on Education and the Workforce (House): majority party appointments (H. Res. 70), H416 [12FE]

Congress: role of Congress and committee staff, E1983 [7OC]

———staff gym funding, H6427 [9JY], H8810 [24SE]

Cooperative Association of States for Scholarships: funding, H7377 [23JY]

Corporations: economic impact of mismanagement, deception, and violations of public trust, H3624 [1MY], H10332 [4NO], E132 [5FE]

Courts: restore the Federal civil rights remedy for victims of gender-motivated violence (H.R. 394), E84 [28JA]

Dept. of Defense: ensure civil service protection for civilian employees, H4395, H4410, H4411, H4413, H4414, H4416, H4417 [21MY], H4534, H4545-H4550, H4552, H4594, H4595, H4603, H4605, H4607, H4610, H4611 [22MY], H10989, H10996, H10997, H10998 [7NO]

———ensure that defense-related contracts are filled by U.S. defense workers, H4587, H4591 [22MY]

———improve process for granting or renewal of security clearances for defense contractor personnel, H4588 [22MY]

Dept. of Energy: require report to Congress detailing equal employment opportunity practices at national laboratories, H3278, H3279 [10AP]

Dept. of Labor: international child labor inspections funding, H6522, H6523 [10JY]

———prohibit funding to implement regulations that exempt requirements of overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act, E1482 [15JY], E1509 [18JY]

———prohibit funding to implement regulations that negate Fair Labor Standards Act overtime requirements, H6516, H6568-H6573 [10JY], H9155-H9166, H9195 [2OC], H12763, H12764, H12813, H12835, H12837 [8DE], E1975 [3OC], E2556 [15DE]

———provide technical assistance to local boards for accounting and program operation practices and establish a system for States to share information on practical workforce investment activities, H3816 [8MY]

Dept. of State: revision of Office of Ombudsman authorities, H6733 [15JY]

Dept. of the Treasury: prohibit funding to assist in overturning district court ruling on IBM Corp., cash balance pension conversion, H8040-H8043 [9SE], E1774 [11SE]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: improve educational assistance programs for apprenticeship or other on-job training (H.R. 1716), E752 [11AP]

———repeal 4-year terms specified by law for certain officials (H.R. 1718), E756 [11AP]

Disabled: tribute to Javits-Wagner-O'Day Program services for the blind and disabled, E275 [25FE], E305 [27FE], E663 [3AP], E792 [29AP]

———tribute to the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Program, E472 [13MR]

Dislocated worker assistance programs: funding, H6528 [10JY]

Economy: address loss of manufacturing base, H10114-H10117 [29OC]

———establish a commission to study employment and economic insecurity in the U.S. workforce (H.R. 3435), E2220 [4NO]

———impact of unemployment, H12753 [8DE], E2153 [28OC]

———impact of unregulated free trade on division between economic classes, H9795-H9798 [21OC], H10554-H10557 [6NO]

———importance of job creation, H5069-H5076 [9JN], H5178 [11JN], H8192 [10SE], H8998 [30SE]

———national objectives priority assignments, H33-H40 [7JA], H65, H66, H127-H132 [8JA], H153, H156, H160-H165 [27JA], H173 [28JA], H1284, H1311-H1318 [25FE], H1370-H1377 [26FE], H1797-H1802 [12MR], H1938-H1944 [18MR], H2145 [20MR], H2563-H2567 [1AP], H2867, H2915 [8AP], H5069-H5076 [9JN], H6352 [9JY], H7024 [17JY], H7814 [3SE], H7843 [4SE], H7952 [5SE], H8270-H8276 [16SE], H8406 [23SE], H8998, H9025 [30SE], H9038 [1OC], H9259 [7OC], H9691, H9711 [20OC], H9795-H9800 [21OC], H9821, H9969 [28OC], H9986, H9987 [29OC], H10241, H10324-H10330 [4NO], H10553-H10558 [6NO], H10981, H10982 [7NO], H11194 [17NO], H11519 [19NO], E111 [29JA], E1982 [7OC]

Education: allow school districts to form partnerships with universities and businesses for teachers to gain clinical experience in science, mathematics, and technology, H6369 [9JY]

———authorize grants to local educational agencies for teacher mentoring programs, H6379 [9JY]

———clarify that administrative overhead costs for one-stop career development centers will be shared proportionately by all providers, H3812 [8MY]

———enhance the workforce investment system (H.R. 1261), H3766, H3777-H3820 [8MY], E475 [13MR], E925, E926, E927 [9MY], E958, E965 [15MY]

———enhance the workforce investment system (H.R. 1261), amendment process, H3618 [1MY]

———enhance the workforce investment system (H.R. 1261), consideration (H. Res. 221), H3767, H3776 [8MY]

———enhance the workforce investment system (H.R. 1261), corrections in engrossment, H3821 [8MY]

———enhance the workforce investment system (H.R. 1261), motion to recommit, H3817, H3818 [8MY]

———ensure that centers and providers of training services meet specific employment needs of local employers and participants, H3810, H3811 [8MY]

———ensure that teacher-recruitment programs assist individuals in transitioning into teaching from careers outside the field of education, H6369 [9JY]

———establish a national teaching fellowship program to encourage individuals to enter, and remain, in the field of teaching at public schools, H6366 [9JY]

———establish a national teaching fellowship program to encourage individuals to enter, and remain, in the field of teaching at public schools (H.R. 1805), E771 [12AP]

———establish a vocational and technical education grant program (H.R. 2762), E1503 [17JY]

———establish partnerships between educational entities and inner city and rural secondary schools to encourage teaching as a career, H6380, H6381 [9JY]

———expand loan forgiveness and loan cancellation programs for teachers and nurses (H.R. 934), E870 [6MY]

———expand the eligibility for teacher loan forgiveness to provide additional incentives for teachers in economically depressed rural areas, territories, and Indian reservations (H.R. 789), E247 [13FE]

———extend student loan forgiveness to Head Start teachers, H6357-H6363 [9JY]

———extend student loan forgiveness to school or public librarians in low income areas, H6357-H6362 [9JY]

———extend student loan forgiveness to school or public librarians in low income areas (H.R. 2674), E1431 [9JY]

———include administrators of adult education and literacy programs on local workforce investment boards, H3809, H3810 [8MY]

———increase student loan forgiveness to teachers in mathematics, science, and special education (H.R. 438), H5554 [19JN], H6274 [8JY], H6351, H6353, H6383-H6393 [9JY], E110 [29JA], E1458 [11JY]

———increase student loan forgiveness to teachers in mathematics, science, and special education (H.R. 438), consideration (H. Res. 309), H6356-H6363 [9JY]

———provide priority training for single parents, displaced homemakers and pregnant, single women under certain adult training programs, H3815 [8MY]

Employee Benefit Research Institute: anniversary, E1685 [4SE], E1735 [9SE], E1777 [11SE], E1802 [16SE], E1830, E1839 [17SE]

ERISA: provide emergency protection for retiree health benefits (H.R. 1322), H2104 [19MR]

———provide for prompt compliance with reporting requirements and prompt enforcement of such requirements, H4037 [14MY]

Evans, Donald L.: visit to Iraq by Sec. of Commerce, H9288 [8OC]

Executive departments: ensure that Federal construction contractors abide by State tax, employment, and licensing regulations (H.R. 3653), E2530 [8DE]

Fair, Clinton: Upper Peninsula, MI, Labor Hall of Fame inductee, E730 [10AP]

Fair Labor Standards Act: provide compensatory time for private sector employees (H.R. 1119), H4207 [19MY], H4260 [20MY], H5095, H5098 [10JN], E401 [7MR]

———provide compensatory time for private sector employees (H.R. 1119), amendment process, H4756 [2JN]

———reform provisions relative to child labor (H.R. 3139), E1873 [24SE], E1949 [1OC], E2498, E2501 [8DE]

Family and Medical Leave Act: allow leave for parental involvement in educational and extracurricular activities, routine medical needs, and assistance to elderly relatives (H.R. 956), E323 [27FE]

———clarify (H.R. 35), H25 [7JA]

Federal aid programs: increase need-based funding to local workforce development boards, H3814, H3815 [8MY]

Federal employees: clarify that a person who voluntarily separates from the Federal civil service does not remain subject to certain enforcement provisions relative to regulation of political activity (H.R. 1509), E627 [31MR]

———ensure those activated by National Guard or Reserves receive pay equal to basic pay they would otherwise be receiving, H9014 [30SE], H9681 [17OC]

———payment of moving expenses, H1441 [27FE]

———provide that service performed by an air traffic controller who is transferred to a supervisory or staff position continue to be treated as controller service for retirement purposes (H.R. 1244), E448 [12MR]

Foreign trade: economic impact of globalization, E1971 [2OC]

———impact of free-trade agreements, H8228 [16SE], H8289 [17SE], E1822 [17SE]

———U.S. deficit, H2591 [2AP]

Fortune (publication): tribute to businesses named to 50 Best Companies for Minorities list, E1446 [11JY]

Fouquette, Charles R.: John S. Lyons Foundation Fellowship Award recipient, E1809 [16SE]

FTC: deem the nondisclosure of employer-owned life insurance coverage of employees an unfair trade practice (H.R. 414), E76 [28JA]

Government: establish the Human Capital Performance Fund, H4594-H4596 [22MY]

———improve flexibility and competitiveness of human resources management in the Federal civil service (H.R. 1836), E1294 [18JN]

———require wages paid to Federal employees and Federal contract workers be above the local poverty line (H.R. 1192), E421 [11MR]

Guam: effects of proposed tax cuts on revenue, H3646 [6MY]

Head Start Program: prohibit faith-based organizations providing Head Start services from religious discrimination in hiring, H7523, H7526, H7548, H7557-H7561, H7571-H7575, H7583, H7584, H7587, H7590 [24JY], H11560 [19NO]

Hire a Veteran Week: support goals and ideals (H. Con. Res. 252), E1615 [25JY]

House of Representatives: compensation of certain minority employees (H. Res. 8), H20 [7JA]

———legislative priorities, H165 [27JA]

Idaho State University: tribute to English and Professional Development Program partnership with Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, E95 [29JA]

Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride: support goals, H9134, H9135 [2OC], H9220 [7OC], E1930 [30SE], E1965, E1972 [2OC], E1978 [7OC]

———support goals (H. Res. 384), H9036 [1OC], E1964, E1966 [2OC]

Immigration: account for all illegal aliens by providing incentives to register with the Dept. of Homeland Security and immunity from criminal prosecution for employers of such aliens (H.R. 3651), H12753 [8DE]

———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, H9205-H9208 [2OC]

———establish temporary foreign worker program, H6438 [9JY], H6990 [16JY], H7206 [21JY]

———establish two new categories of nonimmigrant workers (H.R. 2899), H7622 [25JY]

———extend basic pilot employment verification system (H.R. 2359), H9893-H9898 [28OC]

———extend basic pilot employment verification system (S. 1685), H11582-H11586 [19NO], E2367, E2372 [21NO], E2389 [22NO]

———extend the special immigrant religious worker program (H.R. 2152), H8291, H8293-H8295 [17SE]

———impact of illegal immigration on employment, H5076-H5081 [9JN], H5537-H5541 [18JN], H6701-H6704 [14JY]

———moratorium, H2560 [1AP]

———moratorium (H.R. 946), H2466 [27MR]

———national policy, H1390-H1393 [26FE], H7001-H7007 [16JY]

———prevent an employer from placing a nonimmigrant who is an intracompany transferee with another employer (H.R. 2154), E996 [19MY]

———prohibit funding for negotiation of trade agreements which create or expand non-immigrant visa categories authorizing temporary entry of professionals into the U.S., H7288, H7289 [22JY]

———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 (H.R. 1830), H4243 [19MY]

———repeal authorities relative to H-1B visas for temporary skilled workers (H.R. 2688), H6701 [14JY]

———Student and Exchange Visitor Information System funding to improve training programs, H2777, H2778 [3AP]

Intelligence services: hiring and retention of minorities in the intelligence community, H5873, H5892-H5894 [25JN]

Inter-American Foundation: funding, H7377 [23JY]

International Brotherhood of Teamsters: anniversary, E1727, E1729 [5SE]

International Women's Day: support goals (H. Con. Res. 57), E317 [27FE]

Investments: provide protection for investors, increase confidence in the capital markets system, and streamline the hiring process for certain employment positions in the SEC (H.R. 658), H5421-H5424 [17JN], E1294 [18JN]

Iraq: payments to employees of Iraqi Government ministries and Government-owned companies who are no longer performing their jobs, H5059 [9JN]

———require that Federal contractors involved in post-conflict reconstruction provide a veterans hiring preference (H.R. 1920), E1175 [9JN]

Iron and steel industry: job loss and bankrupting of companies, H8002 [5SE]

Ironwood, MI: anniversary of AARP chapter #556, E1328 [23JN]

IRS: corporate audit funding through reductions in earned income tax credit precertification compliance funding, H7913-H7918 [4SE], E1723 [5SE]

Jacobson, Xema: John S. Lyons Foundation Labor Leader of the Year award recipient, E1807 [16SE]

Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: impact on Hispanic Americans, H4857 [3JN]

Labor unions: establish efficient system to enable employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations and provide for mandatory injunctions for unfair labor practices during organizing efforts (H.R. 3619), E2421 [22NO]

Laborers' International Union of North America: anniversary, E569 [25MR]

———anniversary (H. Res. 186), H3014, H3015 [9AP]

Law enforcement: improve security at U.S. borders, H126 [8JA], H1507-H1512 [4MR], H1657 [6MR], H1878 [13MR], H1930 [18MR], H2302-H2307 [25MR], H2507 [31MR], H2697-H2701 [2AP], H2838 [7AP], H3442-H3447 [29AP], H4195-H4201 [15MY], H4355-H4360 [20MY], H4513-H4518 [21MY], H4868-H4874 [3JN], H8068-H8071 [9SE], H8266-H8270 [16SE], H8895-H8898 [24SE]

Law enforcement officers: report on parity of pay and benefits among Federal law enforcement officers and establish exchange program between Federal and State and local law enforcement employees (S. 1683), H12864 [8DE]

Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act: clarify exemption for recreational vessel support employees (H.R. 1329), H1961 [19MR]

Medicare: earnings test for beneficiaries relative to prescription drug coverage, H9181-H9187 [2OC], H9219 [7OC]

———make permanent the health coverage for certain disabled individuals that go back to work, E1571 [23JY]

———protect patients by limiting the number of mandatory overtime hours a nurse may be required to work by certain service providers (H.R. 745), E207 [13FE]

Mental health: provide for equal insurance coverage of benefits unless comparable limitations are imposed on medical and surgical benefits (H.R. 953), E312, E319 [27FE]

Mexican American Opportunity Foundation: anniversary, E156 [6FE]

Michigan: anniversary of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council No. 25, E423 [11MR]

Minimum wage: level, H10331 [4NO]

———level (H.R. 965), E333 [27FE]

NAFTA: impact on employment and the economy, H1345, H1348 [26FE], H10484 [6NO]

National Commission on Marginal Tax Rates for the Working Poor: establish (H.R. 618), H278 [5FE], E132 [5FE]

National Disability Employment Awareness Month: observance, E2330 [19NO]

National Labor Relations Act: require arbitration of initial contract negotiation disputes (H.R. 93), E2 [8JA]

National Nanotechnology Research and Development Program: establish Center for Societal, Ethical, Educational, Legal, and Workforce Issues Related to Nanotechnology, H3728-H3732 [7MY]

New York, NY: terrorist attack recovery and rebuilding funding, E590 [26MR]

Nurse Reinvestment Act: funding, H6522 [10JY]

Occupational Safety and Health Act: provide adjudicative improvement (H.R. 1583), E665 [3AP], E1483 [15JY]

Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission: increase membership to improve efficiency (H.R. 2729), E1483 [15JY]

———provide for adjudicative flexibility relative to employer filing of notice of contest following the issuance of a citation by OSHA (H.R. 2728), E1483 [15JY]

Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.: tribute to Henderson, NV, processing and distribution facility, E648 [2AP]

Ohio: observance of Farm Worker Appreciation Day, E1568 [23JY]

———unemployment statistics, E2143 [28OC]

108th Congress: goals, H5 [7JA]

OSHA: provide for an independent review of citations (H.R. 2730), E1483 [15JY]

———provide for the award of attorney's fees and costs to small employers when they prevail in litigation prompted by the issuance of OSHA citations (H.R. 2731), E1483 [15JY]

Pensions: conversion of defined benefit plans to cash balance plans, E446 [12MR]

———exempt elementary and secondary school teachers from Federal age discrimination laws relative to voluntary early retirement incentive plans (H.R. 1893), E828 [1MY]

———protect employee benefits in defined benefit plans and enforce age discrimination requirements that apply to conversion of pension plans to cash balance plans, H4038, H4085 [14MY], H12838 [8DE]

———protect employee benefits in defined benefit plans and enforce age discrimination requirements that apply to conversion of pension plans to cash balance plans (H.R. 1677), E699, E708 [8AP]

———protection of workers whose employers convert from defined benefits to cash balance pension plans, H4090 [14MY]

———provide special rules for multiemployer or Teamster pension plans relative to termination and funding (H.R. 2910), E1659 [25JY]

———reform (H.R. 1776), H9300 [8OC]

Peterslie, Oscar: Experience Works, Inc., Prime Time Awards Program Wisconsin Outstanding Older Worker award recipient, H8370 [17SE]

Portage, IN: tribute to Sheet Metal Workers' International Association Local Union No. 20 awards banquet, E2014 [8OC]

Postal Service: include postmasters and postmasters organizations in the process for the development and planning of certain policies, schedules, and programs (H.R. 2249), H7178 [21JY]

———include postmasters and postmasters organizations in the process for the development and planning of certain policies, schedules, and programs (S. 678), H8239, H8240 [16SE]

Power resources: establish and implement competitive, environmentally sound, and job creating oil and gas leasing program for the Coastal Plain, H3033 [9AP]

Prison Fellowship (organization): tribute, H1697 [11MR]

Public Health Service Act: amend relative to health professions programs regarding the field of nursing, H1374 [26FE]

Public welfare programs: promote secure and healthy families under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (H.R. 706), E180 [11FE]

———provide grants for transitional jobs programs under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (H.R. 3560), E2384 [21NO]

———reform, H395 [12FE]

Public Works and Economic Development Act: reauthorize and improve programs (H.R. 2535), H9759-H9770 [21OC]

———reauthorize and improve programs (H.R. 2535), unanimous-consent agreement, H9707 [20OC]

Religion: exempt religious organizations operating Federal job training programs from religious discrimination laws in hiring, H3770-H3774, H3778-H3789 [8MY], H11559 [19NO], E926, E927 [9MY]

Roads and highways: improve roadway safety for motor vehicles, bicycles, and pedestrians and workers in proximity to vehicle traffic (H.R. 906), E398 [7MR]

San Francisco, CA: tribute to businesses named to Fortune (publication) 100 Best Companies To Work For list, E58 [8JA]

SBA: raise awareness about telework among small business employers and encourage such employers to offer telework options to employees (H.R. 2788), E1514 [18JY]

SBC Telecommunications Inc.: tribute to SPECTRUM employee group efforts to improve workplace environment, E1587 [25JY]

Small business: ensure continuation of existing group health plan coverage, H5636 [19JN]

———establish a temporary loan program and a temporary vocational development program for small businesses owned and controlled by veterans (H.R. 3483), E2275 [7NO]

———improve access and choice relative to employee health care (H.R. 660), H4225 [19MY], H5473 [18JN], H5597-H5638, H5649 [19JN], E1324 [23JN], E1331 [24JN], E1382, E1394 [27JN]

———improve access and choice relative to employee health care (H.R. 660), consideration (H. Res. 283), H5555-H5562 [19JN]

———improve access and choice relative to employee health care (H.R. 660), motion to recommit, H5636 [19JN]

———improve calculation of the Federal subsidy rate with respect to certain small business loans (S. 141), H354-H361 [11FE], E227 [13FE]

Social Security: improve benefit computation formula for certain workers affected by changes in benefit computation rules (H.R. 63), E2 [8JA]

———provide for personal retirement savings accounts, increase individual control over retirement income, protect surpluses, and reform certain benefits, H6323 [8JY]

———provide for personal retirement savings accounts, increase individual control over retirement income, protect surpluses, and reform certain benefits (H.R. 3055), H7822-H7826 [3SE], H7940-H7944 [4SE], H8064 [9SE], H8193 [10SE], H8223 [16SE], H8959 [30SE], H9037 [1OC]

———remove limitations on the amount of outside income which an individual may earn while receiving certain benefits (H.R. 3098), E1810 [16SE]

———repeal Government pension offset and windfall elimination provisions, H2642-H2652, H2661-H2668 [2AP]

Society for Human Resource Management: tribute, E419 [11MR]

Taxation: allow a business credit for donations for vocational educational purposes (H.R. 2763), E1503 [17JY]

———allow a refundable tax credit for health insurance costs for COBRA continuation coverage (H.R. 2891), E1594 [25JY]

———allow targeted tax cuts for investment in the U.S. to create manufacturing jobs, H8289 [17SE]

———application of the earned income tax credit, H3750 [7MY]

———change calculation and simplify administration of the earned income tax credit (H.R. 1782), E778 [12AP]

———clarify exemption from the self-employment tax for termination payments received by former life insurance salesmen (H.R. 1250), E445 [12MR]

———clarify treatment of incentive stock options and employee stock purchases (H.R. 286), E51 [8JA]

———enhance the portability of retirement benefits (H.R. 518), E118 [31JA]

———ensure employees retain hospital insurance tax exemption relative to consolidation of a political subdivision with the State (H.R. 2105), E945 [14MY]

———expand work opportunity credit to include trade adjustment assistance as a targeted group (H.R. 3678), E2504 [8DE]

———extend tax incentives for the District of Columbia, H11830 [20NO]

———extend the transportation fringe benefit to bicycle commuters (H.R. 1052), E363 [4MR]

———increase the bonus depreciation, H3766 [8MY]

———modify the work opportunity credit and the welfare-to-work credit (H.R. 2047), E921 [9MY]

———provide for employer liability for Social Security taxes on unreported tips paid to an employee after the IRS establishes the amount of tips received (H.R. 2034), E905 [9MY]

———provide incentives for economic recovery, H36 [7JA], H65, H66, H127-H132 [8JA], H156 [27JA], H381, H382 [11FE], H1311 [25FE], H1358, H1370, H1373-H1377 [26FE], H1441 [27FE], H1608, H1619-H1621 [5MR], H1752, H1753, H1754 [12MR], H1910, H1931 [18MR], H1964 [19MR], H2147-H2156, H2158, H2168-H2170, H2195-H2203 [20MR], H2299 [25MR], H2373, H2382-H2388 [26MR], H2405, H2457-H2460 [27MR], H2517, H2564-H2567 [1AP], H2692, H2693 [2AP], H2943 [9AP], H3283-H3290, H3292, H3294-H3297 [10AP], H8274, H8275 [16SE], H9287 [8OC], E151 [6FE], E549 [21MR], E588 [26MR], E659 [3AP]

———provide incentives for economic recovery (H.R. 2), H3409, H3410 [29AP], H3456, H3538, H3545-H3552 [30AP], H3574 [1MY], H3643-H3647, H3659, H3660, H3664-H3668 [6MY], H3686, H3687, H3739, H3740, H3742-H3744, H3747-H3755 [7MY], H3765, H3766, H3767, H3829, H3832-H3850 [8MY], H3861, H3862, H3863, H3902-H3956, H3958-H3970 [9MY], H3978, H3998 [13MY], H4022, H4094, H4096-H4098, H4100, H4101, H4107-H4113 [14MY], H4150, H4159 [15MY], H4225, H4246 [19MY], H4325, H4327, H4337-H4342 [20MY], H4372 [21MY], H4532, H4533, H4534 [22MY], E939, E940, E942 [13MY], E951 [14MY], E971 [15MY]

———provide incentives for economic recovery (H.R. 2), conference report, H4716-H4732 [22MY], H4742, H4757-H4761 [2JN], H4790, H4791, H4792, H4793, H4795, H4796, H4797, H4843-H4865 [3JN], H4881, H4882, H4883, H4954-H4964 [4JN], H4983, H4984, H4985, H4993, H5033 [5JN], H5048, H5057-H5059, H5063-H5067, H5069-H5076 [9JN], H5092, H5160 [10JN], H5349 [12JN], H5412 [17JN], H5690 [23JN], H10446-H10452 [5NO], H10982, H10990 [7NO], H12106 [21NO], E1089, E1092, E1096, E1100 [2JN], E1108 [3JN], E1257 [13JN]

———provide incentives for economic recovery (H.R. 2), consideration (H. Res. 227), H3864-H3902 [9MY]

———provide incentives for economic recovery (H.R. 2), consideration of conference report (H. Res. 253), H4706-H4715 [22MY]

———provide incentives for economic recovery (H.R. 2), consideration of conference report—same-day consideration (H. Res. 249), H4558-H4564 [22MY]

———provide incentives for economic recovery (H.R. 2), motion to instruct conferees, H4534-H4542 [22MY]

———provide incentives for economic recovery (H.R. 2), motion to recommit, H3953-H3955 [9MY]

———rebuild America through job creation (H.R. 2046), H4562 [22MY]

———remove impediments to make manufacturing, service, and high-technology businesses more competitive and productive (H.R. 2896), H9969 [28OC]

———repeal occupational taxes on manufacturers, distributors, and sellers of beer, wine, and distilled spirits (H.R. 786), E253 [13FE]

———repeal tax increase on Social Security benefits (H.R. 423), E77 [28JA]

———treatment of amounts contributed to medical savings accounts and unused nontaxable benefits under cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements, H9171-H9180 [2OC], H9349-H9354 [8OC], H11872 [20NO]

———treatment of amounts contributed to medical savings accounts and unused nontaxable benefits under cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements (H.R. 2596), H5992-H6006 [26JN]

———treatment of amounts contributed to medical savings accounts and unused nontaxable benefits under cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements (H.R. 2596), consideration (H. Res. 299), H5952-H5973 [26JN]

———treatment of certain expenses for disabled workers, E711 [9AP]

———treatment of employer contributions to college tuition plans and education savings accounts (H.R. 3318), E2067 [16OC]

———treatment of small businesses, E1830 [17SE]

———treatment of trade adjustment assistance health insurance tax credits for workers negatively impacted by trade, H5531-H5535 [18JN], H5562, H5588-H5592 [19JN], E1312 [20JN], E1361 [26JN]

Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act: extend (H.R. 209), E13 [8JA]

———extend (S. 23), H39, H40 [7JA], H63, H64, H65, H75-H92, H127 [8JA], E33 [8JA], E63, E65 [27JA], E107 [29JA]

———extend (S. 23), consideration (H. Res. 14), H66-H74 [8JA]

Transportation: infrastructure funding, H5448 [17JN]

Treaties and agreements: impact of free-trade agreements, H7229, H7230, H7232 [22JY]

Unemployment: establish an emergency program to provide immediate education assistance for unemployed workers (H.R. 3276), E2016 [8OC]

———provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program, H434 [12FE], H3749, H3751 [7MY], H3817, H3818 [8MY], H3978 [13MY], H4022, H4036-H4040, H4096, H4097, H4099, H4100, H4101 [14MY], H4150, H4165 [15MY], H11828, H11832 [20NO], H12182, H12186 [21NO], E926 [9MY], E995 [19MY]

———provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program and improve the unemployment insurance system, H12749, H12752, H12753, H12754-H12758, H12761-H12766, H12835, H12861 [8DE], E2556 [15DE]

———provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program and improve the unemployment insurance system (H.R. 3568), H12862 [8DE]

———provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program (H.R. 17), E63, E65, E68 [27JA]

———provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program (H.R. 1652), H3623 [1MY], H4152-H4157, H4159 [15MY], H4519-H4525 [21MY], H4532 [22MY], H9986, H9987, H9988 [29OC], H10160 [30OC]

———provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program (H.R. 2185), H4613-H4625 [22MY], E1095 [2JN]

———provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program (H.R. 2185), consideration (H. Res. 248), H4564-H4571 [22MY], E1091 [2JN]

———provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program (H.R. 2185), motion to recommit, H4623 [22MY]

———provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program (H.R. 3156), H8940 [25SE]

Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act: tribute to employers of members of the National Guard or Reserves called to active duty that are exceeding minimum requirements, E2399 [22NO]

United Steelworkers of America: support for health care bill of rights, E1688 [4SE]

Veterans: establish development program for disabled veterans' small businesses, reauthorize National Veterans Business Development Corp., programs, and establish procurement goal for veterans' small businesses (H.R. 1712), E746 [11AP]

———permit use of education benefits for certain entrepreneurship courses and permit veterans enrolled in certain vocational rehabilitation programs to have self-employment as a vocational goal, H11715 [20NO], E2432 [23NO]

———permit use of education benefits for certain entrepreneurship courses and permit veterans enrolled in certain vocational rehabilitation programs to have self-employment as a vocational goal (H.R. 1460), H5675-H5679 [23JN], E603 [27MR], E1331 [24JN]

Vocational rehabilitation programs: funding, E925 [9MY]

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.: independent monitoring of labor and employment practices, H12748 [8DE]

Women: promote economic security and safety of domestic and sexual violence victims (H.R. 3420), E2194 [31OC]

———provide assistance for nontraditional job training, H3772 [8MY]

———support women's rights issues, H5460-H5465 [17JN]

Workforce Investment Act: establish a Personal Reemployment Accounts grant program to assist Americans in returning to work (H.R. 444), E107, E108 [29JA]

WorldCom, Inc.: GSA prohibition on receipt of new Federal contracts, H7858 [4SE]

———investigation of unethical activities, H5063, H5064 [9JN]

———reorganization under bankruptcy protection, H4263 [20MY], H5063, H5064 [9JN]

Yale University: labor dispute with dining hall workers and janitors, H8257 [16SE]

Remarks in Senate

Albertson's Inc.: Dept. of Defense National Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Home Front Award recipient, S12732 [16OC]

Armed Forces: improve process for notifying members of the reserve components, their families, employers, and Congress of changes in deployment policies and revise method used in calculating deployment periods, S12682, S12724 [16OC]

———provide compensation to members of the reserve components who suffer discrepancies between their military and nonmilitary compensation as a result of being called to active duty for a certain period, S13430 [29OC]

———provide financial assistance to State and local governments that continue to pay employees who serve on active duty in a reserve component of the uniformed services, S14514, S14515 [12NO]

———provide financial assistance to State and local governments that continue to pay employees who serve on active duty in a reserve component of the uniformed services (S. 1845), S14402, S14452 [11NO]

———provide pay protection for members of the Reserve and National Guard, S6425 [15MY], S14423 [11NO]

———provide pay protection for members of the Reserve and National Guard (S. 442), S2708 [25FE], S4477 [27MR]

Aviation: assist employees separated from employment due to reductions in service by air carriers and airport closures caused by terrorist actions, security measures, or a military conflict with Iraq, S5106 [10AP]

———ensure fair resolution of labor integration issues relative to airline mergers, S4770-S4772 [3AP]

Bankruptcy: include bonuses and other extraordinary or excessive compensation of corporate officers and violators of securities and accounting laws in bankruptcy estates (S. 832), S5068 [9AP]

Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (organization): anniversary (S. Res. 136), S7171 [23MY], S7197 [2JN]

Bush, President: evaluation of economic policies, S13613 [30OC], S14287 [10NO], S15937 [25NO]

———State of the Union Message, S1500-S1509, S1659-S1661 [28JA], S1689-S1692, S1694-S1696 [29JA], S1765-S1770 [30JA]

Business and industry: eliminate incentives to move operations abroad, enforce antidumping and trade laws, prohibit commerce in products made with child labor, and extend Buy American Act provisions (S. 592), S3516 [11MR]

———establish an Assistant Sec. for Manufacturing within the Dept. of Commerce, an Interagency Manufacturing Task Force, and a Small Business Manufacturing Task Force (S. 1977), S16025-S16027 [25NO]

———extend and expand certain trade adjustment assistance programs and reauthorize certain Dept. of Commerce partnership programs (S. 1884), S15068-S15072 [18NO]

———provide for private-sector-led Community Workforce Partnerships (S. 1965), S16007 [25NO]

———remedies for retaliation against corporate whistleblowers, S1725 [29JA]

———require employees at call centers who initiate or receive telephone calls to disclose physical location of such employees (S. 1873), S14965 [17NO]

———require mandatory expensing of stock options granted to executive officers (S. 1890), S15188-S15190 [19NO]

———review accounting treatment and adopt generally accepted accounting principles for the treatment of employee stock options (S. 181), S1074 [16JA]

Buy American Act: compliance, S9519, S9520 [17JY], S12270 [1OC]

Canada: sealing industry subsidies, S9700 [22JY]

Cedar Rapids, IA: anniversary of Workplace Learning Connection project, S13511 [29OC]

Children and youth: establish Child Care Provider Development and Retention Grant Program, Child Care Provider Scholarship Program, and child care provider health benefits program (S. 1198), S7491 [5JN]

———provide opportunities to improve the lives of all children and enable them to reach their fullest potential (S. 448), S2840 [26FE]

Citizens Financial Group, Inc.: tribute to enhanced employee military leave policy, S5722 [5MY]

Civil liberties: religious accommodations in the workplace (S. 893), S5352, S5353 [11AP]

Civil rights: improve remedies for discrimination in the payment of wages based on sex (S. 76), S38 [7JA]

———prohibit discrimination in the payment of wages based on sex, race, or national origin (S. 841), S5073 [9AP]

———protect, S330 [15JA]

———protect (S. 16), S134-S136 [9JA], S337-S339 [15JA]

Coal: mine safety and health benefits for coal miners, S15967 [25NO]

Colleges and universities: promote financial education, S10609 [31JY]

Commission on Overtime Regulations: establish (S. 1611), S11419 [11SE]

Community development: provide grant funding for additional empowerment zones and enterprise communities (S. 586), S3506 [11MR]

Congress: accomplishments of the 108th Congress, S16154-S16157 [9DE]

Correctional institutions: require minimum work week, job training, and life skills preparation for Federal prison inmates and establish a grant program for mandatory drug testing (S. 672), S4169 [20MR]

Democratic Party: national agenda, S14705 [12NO]

Dept. of Commerce: establish an Office of Manufacturing (S. 592), S3516 [11MR]

———establish position of Assistant Sec. of Commerce for Manufacturing (S. 1326), S8551-S8553 [25JN]

Dept. of Defense: ensure civil service protection for civilian employees, S14428, S14429 [11NO], S14485, S14489 [12NO]

———establish a National Security Personnel System to improve flexibility and management of civilian personnel, S6841 [21MY], S6930 [22MY]

———establish a National Security Personnel System to improve flexibility and management of civilian personnel (S. 1166), S7191 [2JN]

Dept. of Education: Hispanic education programs funding, S10992-S11003 [3SE], S11149 [5SE], S11299, S11324-S11327 [10SE]

Dept. of HHS: collect and disseminate information on quality child care, develop child care training infrastructure, and establish small business child care grant program (S. 389), S2465 [13FE], S2714 [25FE]

———provide grants to establish summer health career introductory programs for middle and high school students (S. 1008), S5861 [7MY]

Dept. of Labor: Mass Layoff Statistics program funding, S1449 [23JA]

———prohibit funding to implement regulations that negate Fair Labor Standards Act overtime requirements, S11060-S11062, S11065-S11070, S11075, S11105 [4SE], S11136-S11138, S11141-S11145, S11147-S11149 [5SE], S11174, S11175, S11178, S11179, S11182 [8SE], S11193-S11209, S11213, S11214, S11239 [9SE], S11264-S11269 [10SE], S12213-S12216 [1OC], S12361 [2OC], S15918, S15969 [25NO]

———provide temporary mortgage assistance to workers displaced due to international competition (S. 1597), S11249 [9SE]

———reissuance of a rule relative to ergonomics, S1441 [23JA]

Dept. of State: authorizing appropriations (S. 790), S4843 [3AP]

Discrimination: prohibit on the basis of affectional or sexual orientation, S104 [9JA]

———prohibit on the basis of affectional or sexual orientation (S. 1705), S12382, S12383 [2OC]

Dislocated worker assistance programs: funding, S11335 [10SE]

Domestic policy: provide emergency relief for veterans health care, school construction, health care and transportation needs, and for job creation, S12510-S12514 [14OC]

Earp, Naomi Churchill: nomination to the EEOC, S13509 [29OC]

Economy: address loss of manufacturing base, S14693, S14750 [12NO]

———impact of productivity, S15937 [25NO]

———impact of unemployment, S9313 [14JY], S10960 [2SE], S11193 [9SE], S14287-S14298, S14304-S14310 [10NO], S14633, S14715 [12NO]

———importance of job creation, S14287-S14298, S14304-S14310 [10NO], S14580, S14583, S14586, S14715 [12NO]

———national objectives priority assignments, S21-S23 [7JA], S101, S106-S112 [9JA], S182-S192 [10JA], S215-S220 [13JA], S308-S319, S321-S329, S334-S336 [15JA], S1043, S1044 [16JA], S2271, S2276 [12FE], S2377 [13FE], S2760-S2765 [26FE], S2876-S2883, S2901 [27FE], S3110, S3121 [5MR], S3208 [6MR], S3390 [10MR], S3585 [12MR], S3708-S3710 [13MR], S3768, S3774-S3798, S3811-S3813 [17MR], S4317-S4323 [24MR], S8354-S8356 [23JN], S10890-S10892 [1AU], S11021 [3SE], S11182 [8SE], S12488 [14OC], S12908, S12912-S12914, S12965 [21OC], S13070-S13072 [23OC], S13703 [31OC], S14580, S14583, S14586, S14646, S14653, S14655, S14660, S14738, S14740 [12NO], S14952-S14960 [17NO]

Education: encourage lifelong learning by investing in public schools and improving access to and affordability of higher education and job training (S. 8), S38 [7JA], S134-S136 [9JA]

———enhance the workforce investment system (H.R. 1261), S14920, S14921 [12NO]

———enhance the workforce investment system (H.R. 1261), insert S. 1627 language in lieu, S14919 [12NO]

———establish strategic sectoral skills gap assessments, strategic skills gap action plans, and strategic training capacity enhancement seed grants (S. 1346), S8735 [26JN]

———expand loan forgiveness for child care providers including preschool teachers (S. 405), S2480 [13FE]

———extend student loan forgiveness to Head Start teachers (S. 140), S204, S205 [10JA]

———increase student loan forgiveness to teachers in mathematics, science, and special education (S. 291), S1899 [4FE]

———modify computation of eligibility for Pell Grant Program relative to certain recently unemployed individuals (S. 1348), S8735 [26JN]

———provide for training service and delivery innovation projects (S. 1347), S8735 [26JN]

———provide loan forgiveness for family law attorneys who represent low-income families or individuals (S. 407), S2480 [13FE]

———provide loan forgiveness for social workers who work for child protective agencies (S. 409), S2480 [13FE]

———provide personnel preparation, enhanced support and training for beginning special educators, and professional development of special educators, general educators, and early intervention personnel (S. 608), S3626 [12MR]

———provide student loan forgiveness to teachers who work in tribal colleges or universities (S. 378), S2362 [12FE]

———vocational education programs funding, S4363 [25MR]

ERISA: require Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., to compute the actuarial value of monthly benefits in the form of a life annuity for certain retired airline pilots (S. 1569), S10919 [1AU]

Fair Labor Standards Act: minimum wage and overtime exemptions for licensed funeral directors and embalmers (S. 292), S1899 [4FE]

———permit certain youth to perform certain work with wood (S. 974), S5666 [1MY]

———provide compensatory time opportunities, flexible workplaces, and clarify minimum wage and overtime requirements of private sector employees (S. 317), S1999 [5FE]

Family and Medical Leave Act: allow leave to employees whose spouse, son, daughter, or parent is a member of the Armed Forces serving on active duty in support of a contingency operation, S12592, S12593 [15OC]

———allow leave to employees whose spouse, son, daughter, or parent is a member of the Armed Forces serving on active duty in support of a contingency operation (S. 683), S4280 [21MR]

———anniversary, S1966 [5FE]

———clarify (S. 320), S2005 [5FE]

———expand (S. 304), S1980 [5FE]

Federal employees: authorize the use of clinical social workers to conduct evaluations to determine work-related emotional and mental illnesses (S. 81), S72 [7JA]

———ensure parity between the compensation of members of the Armed Forces and civilian employees (S. Con. Res. 1), S174 [9JA]

———ensure those activated by National Guard or Reserves receive pay equal to basic pay they would otherwise be receiving, S12524 [14OC], S12715 [16OC], S12770 [17OC], S14239 [7NO]

———ensure those activated by National Guard or Reserves receive pay equal to basic pay they would otherwise be receiving (S. 593), S3399 [10MR], S3517 [11MR]

———increase the Government contribution for Federal employee health insurance (S. 319), S2005 [5FE]

Foreign trade: protect U.S. interest in semiconductor manufacturing and trade, S7468-S7471 [5JN]

———U.S. deficit, S14534 [12NO]

GAO: provide for new human capital flexibilities (S. 1522), S15875 [24NO]

General Motors Corp.: tribute to Bowling Green, KY, Corvette assembly plant, S9116 [9JY]

Health: improve employee health care access and choice for small business owners through association health plans, S2278, S2279 [12FE]

———promote the development of health care cooperatives that will help businesses to pool the health care purchasing power of employers (S. 39), S44 [7JA]

———protect retiree health benefits, S13068 [23OC]

Health Workforce Advisory Commission: establish (S. 1498), S10275 [30JY]

Higher Education Act: extend loan forgiveness for certain loans to certified or licensed teachers and provide grants that promote teacher certification and licensing (S. 227), S1680 [28JA]

Immigration: 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 (S. 1645), S11834-S11858 [23SE]

———admission policy relative to L-1 intra-company transferee nonimmigrants (S. 1635), S11686 [17SE]

———coverage of milk production under the H-2A nonimmigrant worker program (S. 1924), S15419 [21NO]

———establish guest worker program, S7922 [16JN]

———establish two new categories of nonimmigrant workers (S. 1461), S9969 [25JY]

———extend basic pilot employment verification system (S. 1685), S14504, S14505 [12NO]

———extend the special immigrant religious worker program (H.R. 2152), S12477 [3OC]

———extend the special immigrant religious worker program (S. 1580), S11034 [3SE]

———U.S. authority to limit duration of L-1 visas for temporary skilled workers, S10101-S10104 [29JY]

Immigration and Nationality Act: amend relative to certain visa programs to prevent unintended U.S. job losses and increase Dept. of Labor monitoring and enforcement authority over such programs (S. 1452), S10574 [31JY]

Income: protect rights of employees to receive overtime compensation (S. 1485), S10151 [29JY]

Insurance: provide health care coverage for qualified caregivers, S6439 [15MY]

International Women's Day: observance, S3406 [10MR], S3499 [11MR]

Investments: establish individual development accounts for certain individuals and families, S4941 [8AP]

———provide protection for investors, increase confidence in the capital markets system, and streamline the hiring process for certain employment positions in the SEC (H.R. 658), S8260 [19JN]

Iraq: development and implementation of programs for women, S12986 [22OC]

IRS: clarify treatment of net operating loss in calculating taxes, S6442, S6443 [15MY]

Ishimaru, Stuart J.: nomination to the EEOC, S13708 [31OC]

Labor unions: establish efficient system to enable employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations and provide for mandatory injunctions for unfair labor practices during organizing efforts (S. 1925), S15805 [24NO]

Laborers' International Union of North America: anniversary (S. Res. 117), S5394 [11AP]

Languages: improve workforce investment and adult education systems relative to English language training (S. 1543), S10671 [31JY]

Law enforcement officers: permit reviews of criminal records of applicants for private security officer employment (S. 1743), S14969, S14970 [17NO]

———permit reviews of criminal records of applicants for private security officer employment (S. 769), S4707 [2AP]

———report on parity of pay and benefits among Federal law enforcement officers and establish exchange program between Federal and State and local law enforcement employees (S. 1683), S12195 [30SE], S16045 [25NO]

Mariba, KY: tribute to Frenchburg Job Corps Make a Difference Day program, S13658 [30OC]

Medicare: ensure contributions for prescription drug coverage made by beneficiaries' former employers be treated as incurred costs, S8326, S8329 [23JN], S8394, S8410 [24JN]

———increase direct subsidy to employers retaining retiree prescription drug coverage plans, S8410-S8412 [24JN]

———protect patients by limiting the number of mandatory overtime hours a nurse may be required to work by certain service providers (S. 373), S2358 [12FE]

———protect patients by limiting the number of mandatory overtime hours a nurse may be required to work by certain service providers (S. 991), S5734 [5MY]

Medicare/Medicaid: establish a national abusive and criminal background check system for patient care workers (S. 958), S5602 [30AP]

Mental health: provide for equal insurance coverage of benefits unless comparable limitations are imposed on medical and surgical benefits, S5307 [11AP], S12368 [2OC]

———provide for equal insurance coverage of benefits unless comparable limitations are imposed on medical and surgical benefits (S. 1832), S14220 [6NO], S14282 [7NO]

———provide for equal insurance coverage of benefits unless comparable limitations are imposed on medical and surgical benefits (S. 486), S2971-S2974 [27FE], S13195-S13205 [24OC], S13259 [27OC], S13373 [28OC], S14144, S14145 [6NO]

———provide for equal insurance coverage of benefits unless comparable limitations are imposed on medical and surgical benefits (S. 486), unanimous-consent request, S13199 [24OC]

Michigan: anniversary of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council No. 25, S3501 [11MR]

Minimum wage: level, S2652 [25FE], S9283-S9286, S9288-S9290 [11JY], S12214, S12215 [1OC], S12361 [2OC]

———level (S. 20), S134-S136 [9JA]

———level (S. 224), S1661 [28JA], S1689 [29JA], S14587, S14674, S14679 [12NO]

———level (S. 224), unanimous-consent request, S14557, S14564, S14587, S14599, S14615, S14631, S14647, S14681, S14748 [12NO]

Montgomery County, MD: anniversary of Housing Opportunity Commission's Family Self-Sufficiency Program, S13048 [22OC]

NAFTA: impact on employment and the economy, S1703 [29JA], S2732-S2734 [26FE]

NASA: make certain workforce authorities available, S6840 [21MY]

———make certain workforce authorities available (S. 610), S15853-S15863 [24NO]

———make certain workforce authorities available (S. 610), star print of committee report, S11261 [9SE]

National Child Care Worthy Wage Day: designate (S. Res. 122), S5495 [29AP]

National Civilian Conservation Corps Day: designate (S. Res. 46), S2014 [5FE], S3642 [12MR]

National security: authorize appropriations for border and transportation security personnel and technology (S. 539), S3191-S3194 [5MR]

National Work and Family Month: designate (S. Res. 210), S10689, S10690 [31JY], S11172 [5SE], S11182 [8SE], S11193, S11197 [9SE]

Native Americans: authorize tribes to coordinate and integrate Federal funding dedicated to the development of communities (S. 1528), S10651 [31JY]

———expand opportunities for contracting on Federal lands (S. 288), S1890 [4FE]

Northern Kentucky University: tribute to Metropolitan Education and Training Service Program and dedication of Metropolitan Education and Training Service Center, S11901 [24SE]

Nurse Reinvestment Act: funding, S1450 [23JA], S11004, S11005, S11015 [3SE]

Occupational Safety and Health Act: modify certain provisions relative to causing death in the workplace (S. 1272), S7982 [17JN]

Oregon: tribute to N2K Nursing Shortage Demonstration Project, S2914 [27FE]

Pensions: promote the provision of retirement investment advice to workers managing their retirement income assets (S. 1698), S12289-S12293 [1OC]

———protect employee benefits in defined benefit plans and enforce age discrimination requirements that apply to conversion of pension plans to cash balance plans (S. 825), S4973 [8AP]

———protect retirement security of workers by ensuring assets are adequately diversified and providing workers with access to information about their plans (S. 9), S134-S136 [9JA]

———protection of workers whose employers convert from defined benefits to cash balance pension plans, S1790-S1793 [30JA]

———provide information and advice to pension plan participants to assist them in making decisions regarding investment of their pension plan assets (S. 1892), S15190 [19NO]

———provide special rules for multiemployer or Teamster pension plans relative to termination and funding (S. 1492), S10268 [30JY]

———reform, S2282-S2284 [12FE]

Postal Service: include postmasters and postmasters organizations in the process for the development and planning of certain policies, schedules, and programs (S. 678), S4175 [20MR], S10167, S10168 [29JY]

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 (S. 532), S3187 [5MR]

———prohibit Millennium Challenge assistance funds from being used on projects that could displace U.S. jobs or production, or pose an environmental or health hazard, S9195, S9196 [10JY]

Power resources: impact of establishing a national energy policy on the economy, S7654 [11JN]

Public welfare programs: address barriers to employment as a work activity under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (S. 316), S1996-S1999 [5FE]

———allow States to treat certain disabled and individuals caring for disabled persons as participating in work activities under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (S. 1523), S10645-S10648 [31JY]

———ignore certain time limits for assistance under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program for recipients in States experiencing significant increases in unemployment (S. 574), S3370 [7MR]

———improve provision of education and job training under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (S. 262), S1822 [30JA]

———increase limit on vocational education training to be counted as work activity under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (S. 327), S2053 [6FE]

———permit States to create a program that allows individuals to obtain post-secondary or vocational education under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (S. 603), S3622 [12MR]

———promote financial education under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program and allow such education to count as a work activity under that program (S. 813), S4961 [8AP]

———provide grants for transitional jobs programs under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (S. 786), S4837 [3AP]

———reauthorize and improve the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Programs operated by Indian tribes (S. 751), S4633 [1AP]

———reform, S9671 [22JY]

Puxico, MO: transfer control of the Mingo Job Corps Center from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to the Forest Service (S. 1814), S13804 [3NO]

Republican Party: national agenda, S12913 [21OC]

Robinson, Lillian S.: Experience Works, Inc., Kentucky Outstanding Older Worker award recipient, S13658 [30OC]

SBA: increase amount to be reserved for women's business center programs sustainability grants (S. 1247), S7860 [12JN]

SEC: require enhanced disclosures of employee stock options and require study on economic impact of broad-based employee stock option plans (S. 979), S5644, S5670-S5672 [1MY]

Senate: accomplishments, S7163 [23MY]

———legislative priorities, S8889, S8890 [7JY], S10889 [1AU], S11151-S11154 [5SE]

Senate Rules: prohibit employment discrimination based on sexual orientation (S. Res. 74), S3196, S3197 [5MR]

Senior citizens: establish grant program to provide financial and retirement education programs to reduce financial abuse and fraud among mid-life and older individuals (S. 386), S2462 [13FE], S15401 [21NO]

Small business: certify programs to provide health coverage to uninsured employees (S. 906), S5361 [11AP]

———improve access and choice relative to employee health care (S. 545), S3255 [6MR], S3667 [13MR], S10877-S10879 [1AU]

———improve calculation of the Federal subsidy rate with respect to certain small business loans, S4697 [2AP]

———improve calculation of the Federal subsidy rate with respect to certain small business loans (S. 141), S206, S207 [10JA]

Social Security: choice of benefit payment method relative to computation rule application to workers attaining age 65 in or after 1982 (S. 1418), S9497 [16JY]

———earnings test for blind individuals (S. 750), S4631-S4633 [1AP]

———phase out taxation of benefits (S. 1026), S5952 [8MY]

———provide for personal retirement savings accounts, increase individual control over retirement income, protect surpluses, and reform certain benefits (H.R. 3055), S11746 [22SE]

———reform, S3402 [10MR], S3935-S3948 [19MR], S11739-S11746 [22SE]

Society for Human Resource Management: tribute, S3500 [11MR]

Southwest Regional Border Authority: establish (S. 458), S2849 [26FE], S2884 [27FE]

Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day: observance, S5942 [8MY]

Taxation: abolish certain tax cuts, S6438, S6439 [15MY]

———allow a refundable credit for the purchase of private health insurance and establish State health insurance safety-net programs (S. 1570), S10919 [1AU]

———allow businesses to qualify as renewal community businesses if such businesses employ residents of certain other renewal communities, S6426 [15MY]

———allow businesses to qualify as renewal community businesses if such businesses employ residents of certain other renewal communities (S. 903), S5357 [11AP]

———allow small business employers a credit for certain expenses for long-term training of employees in highly skilled small business trades (S. 1625), S11649 [17SE]

———allow small employers a tax credit for costs paid or incurred for employee health insurance expenses, S6658 [20MY]

———allow small employers a tax credit for costs paid or incurred for employee health insurance expenses (S. 86), S73 [7JA]

———allow tax credit to businesses who employ members of the National Guard or Ready Reserve, S13833 [3NO]

———equalize employer-provided parking and transit benefits and allow Federal agencies to offer transit and parking benefits in tandem to assist with costs of parking at transit facilities (S. 661), S3999 [19MR]

———expand special depreciation allowance (S. 879), S5208 [10AP]

———expand workplace health incentives by equalizing the tax consequences of employee athletic facility use (S. 1491), S10268 [30JY]

———extend certain expiring provisions of the Internal Revenue Code (S. 1896), S15190 [19NO], S15398 [21NO]

———extend exclusion from gross income for employer-provided health coverage to designated plan beneficiaries of employees (S. 1702), S12378, S12380 [2OC]

———extend the transportation fringe benefit to bicycle commuters (S. 1093), S6857 [21MY]

———impact of sunset provisions on cost forecasts, S7112-S7114 [23MY]

———improve portability of retirement savings and expand pension coverage and savings opportunities (S. 1912), S15408 [21NO]

———improve tax equity for military personnel, S6247 [14MY], S12582, S12585 [15OC], S13831-S13834 [3NO]

———improve tax equity for military personnel (S. 289), S1892 [4FE], S3399 [10MR]

———improve tax equity for military personnel (S. 351), S4097, S4102 [20MR], S4477, S4482 [27MR]

———limit phase-in of revenue reducing measures, S6440 [15MY]

———modify the work opportunity credit and the welfare-to-work credit (S. 1180), S7387-S7389 [4JN]

———permanently extend research and development credit, S6191-S6195 [14MY], S6412 [15MY]

———promote, protect, and clarify status of professional employer organizations (S. 1269), S7927 [16JN]

———provide a rebate to individuals for payroll taxes and provide employers with an income tax credit for payroll taxes paid during the payroll tax holiday period (S. 911), S5374 [11AP]

———provide for deficit reduction by delaying the acceleration of income tax reductions, S6439 [15MY]

———provide incentives for economic recovery-S100 [9JA], S182-S192 [10JA], S210-S213 [13JA], S264-S267, S275, S281 [14JA], S308-S319, S321-S329, S334-S336 [15JA], S1043, S1044 [16JA], S1134 [17JA], S2245-S2248, S2282 [12FE], S2637-S2646 [25FE], S2760-S2765, S2783, S2784 [26FE], S2876-S2883 [27FE], S3053 [4MR], S3376-S3379 [10MR], S3774-S3798 [17MR], S3842-S3855 [18MR], S3942, S3943, S3946 [19MR], S4055, S4057, S4060, S4146, S4150 [20MR], S4243-S4248, S4264 [21MR], S4317-S4323 [24MR], S4398, S4402-S4404 [26MR], S5159 [10AP], S5268-S5280, S5284-S5291, S5295-S5315 [11AP], S10890-S10892 [1AU]

———provide incentives for economic recovery (H.R. 2), S6572-S6574 [19MY]

———provide incentives for economic recovery (H.R. 2), conference report, S6950-S6964, S6969 [22MY], S7071-S7089, S7123 [23MY], S7186 [2JN], S7276 [4JN], S7512 [9JN], S7572 [10JN]

———provide incentives for economic recovery (H.R. 2), conference report—unanimous-consent agreement, S6964 [22MY]

———provide incentives for economic recovery (H.R. 2), insert S. 1054 language in lieu, S6474 [15MY]

———provide incentives for economic recovery (H.R. 2), unanimous-consent agreement, S6196 [14MY], S6738 [20MY]

———provide incentives for economic recovery (S. 2), S2922 [27FE], S5514, S5515 [30AP], S5640 [1MY], S5744-S5747 [6MY], S5793-S5798 [7MY], S6014-S6022 [12MY]

———provide incentives for economic recovery (S. 414), S2548 [14FE], S2620 [24FE], S2694 [25FE], S2753, S2834 [26FE], S3112 [5MR], S3439 [11MR]

———provide incentives for economic recovery (S. 414), unanimous-consent request, S2639 [25FE], S2763 [26FE], S3022 [3MR], S3113 [5MR], S3390 [10MR]

———provide incentives for economic recovery (S. 1054), S6039-S6043, S6049, S6051-S6060 [13MY], S6147-S6226, S6233-S6248 [14MY], S6407-S6415, S6421-S6445, S6451-S6475 [15MY]

———provide incentives for economic recovery (S. 1054), unanimous-consent agreement, S6048 [13MY], S6196, S6226, S6405 [14MY]

———provide incentives for manufacturing businesses (S. 1885), S15069-S15072 [18NO]

———provide procedural fairness in application of controlled group provisions to employers who contribute to multiemployer pension plans and engage in bona fide corporate transactions (S. 1857), S14808 [12NO]

———provide tax relief for farmers and fishermen (S. 665), S4005-S4009 [19MR], S4836, S4837 [3AP]

———provide tax relief for military personnel and their employers and offset such relief by preventing tax avoidance through renouncing U.S. citizenship (S. Res. 257), S13833, S13834 [3NO]

———rates, S2048 [6FE]

———repeal exclusion for extraterritorial income and provide a deduction relating to income attributable to U.S. production activities (S. 1688), S12200 [30SE], S14619, S14699 [12NO]

———repeal extraterritorial income exclusion and simplify rules for U.S. businesses operating abroad (S. 1475), S10065-S10067 [28JY]

———repeal occupational taxes on manufacturers, distributors, and sellers of beer, wine, and distilled spirits (S. 374), S2358-S2360 [12FE]

———repeal tax benefits relative to company-owned life insurance, S6441 [15MY]

———repeal tax increase on Social Security benefits, S4356, S4368 [25MR], S6155-S6157, S6159-S6164, S6197, S6198, S6242 [14MY], S6408, S6464 [15MY]

———repeal tax increase on Social Security benefits (S. 514), S3165 [5MR]

———repeal tax increase on Social Security benefits (S. 767), S4705 [2AP]

———sunset certain tax increases, S6432 [15MY]

———treat payments under the Conservation Reserve Program as rentals from real estate (S. 1316), S8441 [24JN]

———treatment of businesses who employ military reservists, and self-employed military reservists (S. 1595), S11248 [9SE], S15403 [21NO]

———treatment of certain expenses for disabled workers (S. 1560), S10911 [1AU]

———treatment of company-owned life insurance, S15886, S15887 [25NO]

———treatment of damages and back pay received on account of, and expenses incurred in asserting any claim of employment discrimination (S. 557), S3316 [6MR]

———treatment of employee welfare benefit plans, S5012 [9AP]

———treatment of health insurance premiums (S. 637), S3883 [18MR]

———treatment of income earned while working abroad, S6174, S6175 [14MY], S6434 [15MY]

———treatment of old-age, survivors, and disability insurance taxes paid by employees and self-employed individuals (S. 397), S2471 [13FE]

Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act: extend, S1222, S1226-S1229 [21JA], S1325-S1327 [22JA]

———extend (S. 23), S9-S20, S23-S26 [7JA], S127 [9JA], S331 [15JA]

Trade Act: amend to consolidate and improve trade adjustment assistance programs and provide community-based economic development assistance for trade-affected communities, S2044 [6FE], S2115 [10FE]

———amend to provide trade adjustment assistance for communities (S. 1110), S6991-S6994 [22MY]

———amend to provide trade readjustment and development enhancement for communities (S. 1299), S8243 [19JN]

Transportation: reform border and corridor programs to alleviate NAFTA-related congestion (S. 1099), S6863 [21MY]

Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century: make certain amendments relative to Indian tribes and provide training and technical assistance to Native Americans interested in commercial vehicle driving careers (S. 281), S1883 [4FE]

Treaties and agreements: impact of free-trade agreements, S9400 [15JY], S9935-S9939, S9943-S9946 [25JY], S10034-S10038 [28JY], S10490-S10502 [31JY], S13840 [4NO]

———inclusion of child labor protections in free trade agreements, S10520 [31JY]

U.S. Airways, Inc.: pension plan restructuring, S1342-S1346 [22JA]

———pension plan restructuring (S. 119), S117-S120 [9JA]

U.S.-Central American Free Trade Agreement: negotiation of environmental cooperation and trade capacity building provisions, S11634 [17SE]

Unemployment: provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program, S4342, S4343 [25MR], S6180-S6191 [14MY], S6410, S6411 [15MY], S7098 [23MY], S9170, S9178-S9181 [10JY], S9931 [25JY], S15806 [24NO], S16084 [9DE]

———provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program and improve the unemployment insurance system (S. 1708), S13476 [29OC]

———provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program (H.R. 2185), S7101, S7109, S7110 [23MY]

———provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program (H.R. 2185), unanimous-consent request, S7101, S7105, S7106 [23MY]

———provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program (S. 225), S1661 [28JA], S1689 [29JA]

———provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program (S. 270), S1834 [30JA]

———provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program (S. 923), S5383-S5385 [11AP]

———provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program (S. 923), unanimous-consent request, S6583, S6584 [19MY], S6912-S6914 [22MY]

———provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program (S. 1079), S6638 [19MY], S6643 [20MY]

———provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program (S. 1079), unanimous-consent request, S6638 [19MY], S6912-S6914 [22MY]

———provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program (S. 1839), S15954 [25NO]

———provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program (S. 1839), unanimous-consent request, S15713, S15714 [24NO], S15956 [25NO]

———provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program (S. 1853), S14550, S14571, S14628, S14658, S14667, S14679, S14785 [12NO], S15178 [19NO]

———provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program (S. 1853), unanimous-consent request, S14538, S14543, S14551, S14642, S14643, S14659, S14668, S14669, S14681, S14699, S14748, S14785, S14786 [12NO], S14993 [18NO], S15178 [19NO], S16083 [9DE]

Vermont Associates for Training and Development, Inc.: anniversary, S15972 [25NO]

Whistleblowing: include the Dept. of Energy and the NRC as employers for the purposes of whistleblower protection (S. 1376), S9057 [8JY]

Women: promote economic security and safety of domestic and sexual violence victims (S. 1801), S13668 [30OC]

———provide comprehensive pension protection (S. 1617), S11482 [15SE]

Work Force Investment Act: workforce training programs funding, S4369 [25MR]

Workforce Investment Act: programs funding, S11057-S11060, S11077 [4SE]

———reauthorize (S. 1627), S11651 [17SE], S14861-S14919 [12NO]

Workforce training programs: funding, S1409-S1411 [23JA], S4144 [20MR]

WorldCom, Inc.: investigation of unethical activities, S7128 [23MY]

Reports

Equal Employment Opportunity Practices at Dept. of Energy Weapons Labs: GAO, H3278 [10AP]

Reports filed

Accountant, Compliance, and Enforcement Staffing Act: Committee on Financial Services (House) (H.R. 658) (H. Rept. 108-63), H2937 [8AP]

American Jobs Creation Act: Committee on Ways and Means (House) (H.R. 2896) (H. Rept. 108-393), H12306 [21NO]

Back to Work Incentive Act: Committee on Education and the Workforce (House) (H.R. 444) (H. Rept. 108-35), H1900 [13MR]

Basic Pilot Extension Act: Committee on the Judiciary (House) (H.R. 2359) (H. Rept. 108-304), H9281 [7OC], H9980 [28OC]

Basic Pilot Program Extension and Expansion Act: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 1685), S14176 [6NO]

Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (organization) Anniversary: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. Res. 136), S6977 [22MY]

Civil Service and National Security Personnel Improvement Act: Committee on Government Reform (House) (H.R. 1836) (H. Rept. 108-116), H4254 [19MY]

Coal Accountability and Retired Employee Act for the 21st Century: Committee on Resources (House) (H.R. 313) (H. Rept. 108-328), H9980 [28OC]

Consideration of Conference Report on H.R. 2, Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 253) (H. Rept. 108-129), H4733 [22MY]

Consideration of H.R. 1, Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act and H.R. 2596, Health Savings and Affordability Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 299) (H. Rept. 108-181), H5928 [25JN]

Consideration of H.R. 2, Jobs and Growth Reconciliation Tax Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 227) (H. Rept. 108-95), H3855 [8MY]

Consideration of H.R. 438, Teacher Recruitment and Retention Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 309) (H. Rept. 108-189), H6347 [8JY]

Consideration of H.R. 660, Small Business Health Fairness Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 283) (H. Rept. 108-160), H5550 [18JN]

Consideration of H.R. 1261, Workforce Reinvestment and Adult Education Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 221) (H. Rept. 108-92), H3760 [7MY]

Consideration of H.R. 2185, Temporary Enhanced Unemployment Benefits Program: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 248) (H. Rept. 108-123), H4527 [21MY]

Consideration of S. 23, Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act Extension: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 14) (H. Rept. 108-1), H51 [7JA]

Family Time Flexibility Act: Committee on Education and the Workforce (House) (H.R. 1119) (H. Rept. 108-127), H4733 [22MY]

Federal Law Enforcement Pay and Benefits Parity Act: Committee on Governmental Affairs (Senate) (S. 1683) (S. Rept. 108-207), S15572 [22NO]

GAO Human Capital Reform Act: Committee on Government Reform (House) (H.R. 2751) (H. Rept. 108-380), H11649 [19NO]

———Committee on Governmental Affairs (Senate) (S. 1522), S15405 [21NO]

———Committee on Governmental Affairs (Senate) (S. 1522) (S. Rept. 108-216), S16118 [9DE]

Health Savings Account Availability Act: Committee on Ways and Means (House) (H.R. 2351) (H. Rept. 108-177), H5927 [25JN]

Indian Tribal Surface Transportation Improvement Act: Committee on Indian Affairs (Senate) (S. 281) (S. Rept. 108-150), S11753 [22SE]

Jobs and Growth Reconciliation Tax Act: Committee on Finance (Senate) (S. 2), S5995 [9MY]

———Committee on Ways and Means (House) (H.R. 2) (H. Rept. 108-94), H3855 [8MY]

Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: Committee of Conference (H.R. 2) (H. Rept. 108-126), H4733 [22MY]

———Committee on Finance (Senate) (S. 1054), S6070 [13MY]

Laborers' International Union of North America Anniversary: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. Res. 117), S5172 [10AP]

NASA Flexibility Act: Committee on Science (House) (H.R. 1085) (H. Rept. 108-244), H7837 [3SE]

NASA Workforce Flexibility Act: Committee on Governmental Affairs (Senate) (S. 610) (S. Rept. 108-113), S10045 [28JY]

National Security Personnel System Act: Committee on Governmental Affairs (Senate) (S. 1166), S11161 [5SE]

Postmasters Equity Act: Committee on Governmental Affairs (Senate) (S. 678) (S. Rept. 108-112), S9959 [25JY]

Private Security Officer Employment Authorization Act: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 1743), S13133 [23OC]

Public Works and Economic Development Act Programs Reauthorization and Improvement: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (House) (H.R. 2535) (H. Rept. 108-242), H7790 [29JY]

Religious Workers Act: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 1580), S12375 [2OC]

Same-Day Consideration of Consideration of Conference Report on H.R. 2, Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 249) (H. Rept. 108-124), H4527 [21MY]

Small Business Health Fairness Act: Committee on Education and the Workforce (House) (H.R. 660) (H. Rept. 108-156), H5407 [16JN]

Special Immigrant Religious Worker Program Extension: Committee on the Judiciary (House) (H.R. 2152) (H. Rept. 108-271), H8282 [16SE]

Teacher Recruitment and Retention Act: Committee on Education and the Workforce (House) (H.R. 438) (H. Rept. 108-182), H6261 [26JN]

Veterans Entrepreneurship Act: Committee on Veterans Affairs (House) (H.R. 1460) (H. Rept. 108-142), H5088 [9JN]

Workforce Investment Act Reauthorization: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (Senate) (S. 1627) (S. Rept. 108-187), S14031 [5NO]

Workforce Reinvestment and Adult Education Act: Committee on Education and the Workforce (House) (H.R. 1261) (H. Rept. 108-82), H3634 [1MY]

Rulings of the Chair

Taxation: provide incentives for economic recovery (H.R. 2), H3954 [9MY], H4537 [22MY]

———provide incentives for economic recovery (S. 1054), S6437, S6441 [15MY]

Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act: extend (S. 23), H88 [8JA]

Statements

Civil Service Protection for Dept. of Defense Civilian Employees: G. Jerry Shaw, Senior Executives Association, H4553 [22MY]

Enhanced Employee Military Leave Policy: Citizens Financial Group, Inc., S5722 [5MY]

National Security Aspects of the Global Migration of the U.S. Semiconductor Industry: Senator Lieberman, S7468-S7471 [5JN]

Research Equals Jobs Growth and Economic Growth: R&D Credit Coalition, S6192 [14MY]

Role of Congress and Committee Staff: Lee H. Hamilton, E1683-E1685 [4SE], E1983 [7OC]

Youth Worker Protection Act: Linda F. Golodner, National Consumers League, E2499 [8DE]

———Maggie Carey, E2501 [8DE]

Summaries

Agricultural Job Opportunity, Benefits, and Security Act (S. 1645), S11835-S11844 [23SE]

American Indian Welfare Reform Act (S. 751), S4633-S4635 [1AP]

Continuing Appropriations (H.J. Res. 2), S341-S345 [15JA]

Family and Medical Leave Expansion Act (S. 304), S1981 [5FE]

Family Time and Workplace Flexibility Act (S. 317), S2002 [5FE]

Fiscal Year 2003 Appropriations Reductions, S347 [15JA]

Focus on Committed and Underpaid Staff for Children's Sake (FOCUS) Act (S. 1198), S7491 [5JN]

Health Care Access for Small Businesses Act (S. 906), S5363 [11AP]

Leave No Child Behind Act (S. 448), S2841 [26FE]

Promote Growth & Jobs in the USA (Pro Grow USA) Act (S. 1475), S10067-S10069 [28JY]

Require Mandatory Expensing of Stock Options Granted to Business Executive Officers (S. 1890), S15189 [19NO]

Securing America's Future—The Case for a Strong Manufacturing Base: National Association for Manufacturing, H6807 [15JY]

Surveys

Social Services Block Grant: United Way, S5015 [9AP]

Tables

Average starting salaries for certain jobs following two years of training in a vocational or community college program, S2053 [6FE]

Budget outlook with conference tax cuts, H4711 [22MY]

Budget realities, S5794 [7MY], S7107 [23MY]

Debt to the penny, S1699 [29JA], S3006 [3MR]

Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act final vote (2001), H4964 [4JN]

Estimated revenue effects of Committee on Ways and Means (House) substitute amendment to H.R. 2351, Health Savings Account Availability Act, H9173 [2OC]

Estimated revenue effects of H.R. 2351, Health Savings Account Availability Act, H9173 [2OC]

Estimated revenue effects of H.R. 2596, Health Savings and Affordability Act, H9173 [2OC]

Import percentages of certain products, S10495 [31JY]

Individuals benefiting from a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program by State, S6184 [14MY]

Manufacturing jobs lost by State, H10117 [29OC]

Testimonies

Impact of the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty on Ohio's Coal Dependent Communities: Robert E. Murray, Murray Energy Corp., E1035 [21MY]

U.S. Airways, Inc., Pension Plan Restructuring: James J. Keightley, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., and William Kilberg, S1343 [22JA]

Texts of

H. Res. 8, compensation of certain House of Representatives minority employees, H20 [7JA]

H. Res. 14, consideration of S. 23, Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act extension, H66 [8JA]

H. Res. 70, majority party appointments to the Committee on Education and the Workforce (House), H416 [12FE]

H. Res. 186, Laborers' International Union of North America anniversary, H3015 [9AP]

H. Res. 221, consideration of H.R. 1261, Workforce Reinvestment and Adult Education Act, H3767 [8MY]

H. Res. 227, consideration of H.R. 2, Jobs and Growth Reconciliation Tax Act, H3864 [9MY]

H. Res. 248, consideration of H.R. 2185, temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program, H4564 [22MY]

H. Res. 249, same-day consideration of consideration of conference report on H.R. 2, Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act, H4558 [22MY]

H. Res. 253, consideration of conference report on H.R. 2, Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act, H4706 [22MY]

H. Res. 283, consideration of H.R. 660, Small Business Health Fairness Act, H5555 [19JN]

H. Res. 299, consideration of H.R. 1, Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act and H.R. 2596, Health Savings and Affordability Act, H5952 [26JN]

H. Res. 309, consideration of H.R. 438, Teacher Recruitment and Retention Act, H6356 [9JY]

H.R. 2, Jobs and Growth Reconciliation Tax Act, H3902, H3910-H3913, H3940-H3953 [9MY]

H.R. 2, Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act, S6741-S6786 [20MY]

H.R. 438, Teacher Recruitment and Retention Act, H6383 [9JY]

H.R. 658, Accountant, Compliance, and Enforcement Staffing Act, H5421 [17JN]

H.R. 660, Small Business Health Fairness Act, H5598, H5605-H5612 [19JN]

H.R. 1261, Workforce Reinvestment and Adult Education Act, H3789-H3806 [8MY]

H.R. 1460, Veterans Entrepreneurship and Benefits Improvement Act, H5675 [23JN]

H.R. 2152, extend the special immigrant religious worker program, H8294 [17SE]

H.R. 2185, temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program, H4613 [22MY]

H.R. 2249, Postmasters Equity Act, H7178 [21JY]

H.R. 2359, Basic Pilot Extension Act, H9893 [28OC]

H.R. 2535, Public Works and Economic Development Act programs reauthorization and improvement, H9759-H9762 [21OC]

H.R. 2596, Health Savings and Affordability Act, H5992-H5997 [26JN]

S. 23, Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act extension, H75 [8JA]

S. 81, Clinical Social Workers' Recognition Act, S72 [7JA]

S. 140, Loan Forgiveness for Head Start Teachers Act, S204 [10JA]

S. 141, improve calculation of the Federal subsidy rate with respect to certain small business loans, S207 [10JA], H354 [11FE]

S. 181, Stock Option Accounting Review Act, S1075 [16JA]

S. 262, Education Works Act, S1824 [30JA]

S. 281, Indian Tribal Surface Transportation Improvement Act, S1883 [4FE]

S. 288, Indian Contracting and Federal Land Management Demonstration Project Act, S1890-S1892 [4FE]

S. 289, Armed Forces Tax Fairness Act, S1892-S1897 [4FE]

S. 291, Quality Teacher Recruitment and Retention Act, S1899 [4FE]

S. 292, minimum wage and overtime exemptions for licensed funeral directors and embalmers, S1899 [4FE]

S. 316, Chance To Succeed Act, S1996-S1998 [5FE]

S. 317, Family Time and Workplace Flexibility Act, S1999-S2002 [5FE]

S. 320, Family and Medical Leave Clarification Act, S2006 [5FE]

S. 327, increase limit on vocational education training to be counted as work activity under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program, S2054 [6FE]

S. 374, repeal occupational taxes on manufacturers, distributors, and sellers of beer, wine, and distilled spirits, S2359 [12FE]

S. 378, Tribal Colleges and Universities Teacher Loan Forgiveness Act, S2362 [12FE]

S. 386, Education for Retirement Security Act, S2463 [13FE]

S. 389, Caring for Children Act, S2466 [13FE]

S. 393, tax treatment of expenses of members of a military Reserve, businesses who employ members of the military Reserves, and self-employed military Reserve participants, S2469 [13FE]

S. 397, Payroll Tax Deduction Act, S2472 [13FE]

S. 405, Early Educator Loan Forgiveness Act, S2481 [13FE]

S. 407, provide loan forgiveness for family law attorneys who represent low-income families or individuals, S2483 [13FE]

S. 409, provide loan forgiveness for social workers who work for child protective agencies, S2486 [13FE]

S. 414, Economic Recovery Act, S2523-S2537 [14FE]

S. 442, Reservists and Guardsmen Pay Protection Act, S2709 [25FE]

S. 458, Southwest Regional Border Authority Act, S2850-S2855 [26FE]

S. 486, Mental Health Equitable Treatment Act, S2972 [27FE]

S. 532, Colonias Gateway Initiative Act, S3188 [5MR]

S. 539, Border Infrastructure and Technology Modernization Act, S3192 [5MR]

S. 545, Small Business Health Fairness Act, S3256-S3263 [6MR]

S. 574, Unemployment Protection for Low-Income Families Through TANF (UPLIFT) Act, S3370 [7MR]

S. 586, Round II EZ/EC Flexibility Act, S3507 [11MR]

S. 608, Personnel Excellence for Students With Disabilities Act, S3627-S3631 [12MR]

S. 610, NASA Workforce Flexibility Act, S15853-S15863 [24NO]

S. 661, Commuter Benefits Equity Act, S3999 [19MR]

S. 665, Tax Empowerment and Relief for Farmers and Fishermen (TERFF) Act, S4006-S4009 [19MR]

S. 678, Postmasters Equity Act, S4176 [20MR], S10167 [29JY], H8239 [16SE]

S. 683, Military Families Leave Act, S4281 [21MR]

S. 750, Blind Empowerment Act, S4632 [1AP]

S. 767, repeal tax increase on Social Security benefits, S4706 [2AP]

S. 769, Private Security Officer Employment Authorization Act, S4708 [2AP]

S. 786, Business Links Act, S4838 [3AP]

S. 790, Dept. of State appropriations, S4843-S4849 [3AP]

S. 813, TANF Financial Education Promotion Act, S4961 [8AP]

S. 841, Fair Pay Act, S5074 [9AP]

S. 879, Economic Stimulus Act, S5209 [10AP]

S. 903, Renewal Community Employment Credit Improvement Act, S5357 [11AP]

S. 906, Health Care Access for Small Businesses Act, S5361-S5363 [11AP]

S. 958, Patient Abuse Prevention Act, S5603-S5607 [30AP]

S. 979, Broad-Based Stock Option Plan Transparency Act, S5671 [1MY]

S. 988, Workforce Investment Act job training grant pilot program, S5733 [5MY]

S. 991, Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act, S5734 [5MY]

S. 1000, National Guard and Reserves Reform Act for the 21st Century, S5777-S5779 [6MY]

S. 1008, Dept. of HHS grants to establish summer health career introductory programs for middle and high school students, S5861 [7MY]

S. 1099, reform border and corridor programs to alleviate NAFTA-related congestion, S6863 [21MY]

S. 1166, National Security Personnel System Act, S7191-S7194 [2JN]

S. 1247, Women's Business Centers Preservation Act, S7836, S7861 [12JN]

S. 1269, Professional Employer Organization Workers Benefits Act, S7928-S7931 [16JN]

S. 1272, Wrongful Death Accountability Act, S7983 [17JN]

S. 1316, Conservation Reserve Program Tax Fairness Act, S8441 [24JN]

S. 1326, establish position of Assistant Sec. of Commerce for Manufacturing, S8562 [25JN]

S. 1346, Sectoral Market Assessment for Regional Training Enhancement and Revitalization Act, S8736 [26JN]

S. 1347, provide for training service and delivery innovation projects, S8737 [26JN]

S. 1348, Federal Pell Grant Eligibility Clarification Act, S8737 [26JN]

S. 1418, Notch Fairness Act, S9498 [16JY]

S. 1461, Border Security and Immigration Improvement Act, S9970-S9973 [25JY]

S. 1498, Health Workforce Advisory Commission Act, S10276 [30JY]

S. 1522, GAO Human Capital Reform Act, S15876-S15878 [24NO]

S. 1523, Pathways to Independence Act, S10646 [31JY]

S. 1528, Indian Tribal Development Consolidated Funding Act, S10651-S10653 [31JY]

S. 1560, Disabled Workers Empowerment Act, S10911 [1AU]

S. 1569, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Pilots Equitable Treatment Act, S10919 [1AU]

S. 1570, Fair Care for the Uninsured Act, S10920-S10923 [1AU]

S. 1580, Religious Workers Act, S11034 [3SE]

S. 1597, Homestead Preservation Act, S11250 [9SE]

S. 1610, Defined Benefit Pension Plan Reform Act, S11418 [11SE]

S. 1611, Commission on Overtime Regulations, S11420 [11SE]

S. 1625, Apprenticeship, Training, and Employment Act, S11650 [17SE]

S. 1627, Workforce Investment Act reauthorization, S11651-S11680 [17SE], S14861-S14918 [12NO]

S. 1645, Agricultural Job Opportunity, Benefits, and Security Act, S11845-S11855 [23SE]

S. 1683, Federal Law Enforcement Pay and Benefits Parity Act, S12195 [30SE], S16045 [25NO], H12926 [15DE]

S. 1685, Basic Pilot Program Extension and Expansion Act, S14505 [12NO], H11582 [19NO]

S. 1688, Securing American Factory Employment (SAFE) Act, S12200-S12203 [30SE]

S. 1698, Retirement Security Advice Act, S12290-S12292 [1OC]

S. 1702, Domestic Partner Health Benefits Equity Act, S12378-S12380 [2OC]

S. 1743, Private Security Officer Employment Authorization Act, S14970 [17NO]

S. 1801, Security and Financial Empowerment (SAFE) Act, S13668-S13677 [30OC]

S. 1845, Service to Country Reimbursement Act, S14453 [11NO]

S. 1857, Multiemployer Pension Plan Procedural Fairness Act, S14810 [12NO]

S. 1873, Call Center Consumer's Right To Know Act, S14966 [17NO]

S. 1884, Enhance Domestic Manufacturing and Worker Assistance Act, S15072-S15074 [18NO]

S. 1885, Manufacturing Job Production Act, S15074-S15076 [18NO]

S. 1892, provide information and advice to pension plan participants to assist them in making decisions regarding investment of their pension plan assets, S15190 [19NO]

S. 1896, Tax Relief Extension Act, S15190-S15192 [19NO]

S. 1912, Retirement Account Portability Act, S15408-S15411 [21NO]

S. 1924, Dairy Farm Workers Fairness Act, S15420 [21NO]

S. 1965, Community Workforce Development and Modernization Partnership Act, S16007 [25NO]

S. 1977, Small Manufacturers Assistance, Recovery, and Trade (SMART) Act, S16027-S16029 [25NO]

S. Con. Res. 1, ensure parity between the compensation of members of the Armed Forces and civilian employees, S174 [9JA]

S. Con. Res. 29, ensure U.S. trade actions relative to semiconductor trade with the Republic of Korea do not result in geopolitical tensions or U.S. job losses, S4382 [25MR]

S. Res. 46, National Civilian Conservation Corps Day, S2014 [5FE], S3642 [12MR]

S. Res. 74, prohibit Senate employment discrimination based on sexual orientation, S3196 [5MR]

S. Res. 122, National Child Care Worthy Wage Day, S5495 [29AP]

S. Res. 136, anniversary of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (organization), S7171 [23MY]

S. Res. 136, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (organization) anniversary, S5973 [8MY]

S. Res. 162, tribute to tradeswomen, S7555 [9JN]

S. Res. 210, National Work and Family Month, S10689 [31JY], S11193, S11260 [9SE]

S. Res. 257, provide tax relief for military personnel and their employers and offset such relief by preventing tax avoidance through renouncing U.S. citizenship, S13804, S13834 [3NO]

Transcripts

Press Conference on H.R. 1695, Fair Pay Act and H.R. 1688, Paycheck Fairness Act (excerpt), E722 [10AP]