LITERATURE

Bills and resolutions

Children and youth: improve access to books in early learning and other child care programs and establish special postage stamps to fund child literacy programs (see H.R. 126), H56 [7JA]

———provide vouchers for the purchase of educational books for children participating in the WIC program (see H.R. 2795), H7169 [18JY]

Copyrights: allow abandoned copyrighted works to enter the public domain after a certain period (see H.R. 2601), H5928 [25JN]

———encourage development and distribution of creative works by enhancing enforcement of copyright laws (see H.R. 2752), H7019 [16JY]

Hurston, Zora Neale: tribute (see H. Con. Res. 64), H1465 [27FE]

Kirk, Russell A.: anniversary of book ``The Conservative Mind—From Burke to Eliot'' (see H. Res. 408), H9812 [21OC]

National Cowboy Poetry Week: designate (see S. Res. 108), S4957 [8AP]

National Endowment for the Arts: repeal State grant limitations (see H.R. 1490), H2471 [27MR]

Read Across America Day: designate (see S. Res. 69), S2920 [27FE]

Taxation: adjust capital gains treatment of art and collectibles and provide a deduction for charitable contributions of literary, musical, artistic, or scholarly compositions created by the donor (see S. 242), S1736 [29JA] (see S. 1792), S13377 [28OC]

———allow deduction equal to fair market value for charitable contributions of literary, musical, artistic, or scholarly compositions created by the donor (see S. 287), S1871 [4FE] (see H.R. 806), H701 [13FE]

———designate overpayments and contributions to the U.S. Library Trust Fund (see H.R. 190), H58 [7JA]

Excerpts

``Lament of Mary, Queen of Scots on the Approach of Spring,'' Robert Browning, S4238 [21MR]

``Master of the Senate,'' Robert Caro, S14581-S14583 [12NO]

``Paradise Lost,'' John Milton, S4239 [21MR]

Poems

``Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight,'' Vachel Lindsay, S4082 [20MR]

``Angel in the Whirlwind,'' Representative Owens, H2122 [19MR]

``Armed With a Conscience,'' Daniel Colvin, E2255 [6NO]

``Building of the Ship,'' Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, S4101 [20MR]

``God Give Us Men!'' Josiah G. Holland, S4505 [27MR]

``High Flight,'' John Gillespie Magee, Jr., S1923 [5FE]

``It Is the Solider,'' Charles M. Province, H1969 [19MR]

``Light of Other Days,'' Thomas Moore, S8319 [20JN]

``Municipal Gallery Revisted,'' William Butler Yeats, S5166 [10AP]

``Now I Sit Me Down in School'', H8012 [5SE]

``O Ship of State,'' Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, S8710 [26JN], S11628 [17SE]

``On September 11,'' Danita Harris, E1781 [11SE]

``Remember,'' Christina Rossetti, S1914 [5FE]

``Shock and Awe,'' Representative Owens, E1036 [21MY]

``Singing—Poems,'' C.K. Williams, E2439 [23NO]

``Some Time at Eve,'' Elizabeth Clark Hardy, S4887 [7AP]

``We Are Fanatics for Peace,'' Representative Owens, E679 [3AP]

``West Virginia, How I Love You'', S8319 [20JN]

Remarks in House

Children and youth: provide vouchers for the purchase of educational books for children participating in the WIC program (H.R. 2795), E1531 [18JY]

Copyrights: encourage development and distribution of creative works by enhancing enforcement of copyright laws (H.R. 2752), E1506 [18JY]

``Cubans in America—A Vibrant History of a People in Exile'': tribute to book, E232 [13FE]

Hispanic Heritage Month: observance, E1972 [2OC]

Hurston, Zora Neale: tribute (H. Con. Res. 64), E341 [27FE]

Kirk, Russell A.: anniversary of book ``The Conservative Mind—From Burke to Eliot'' (H. Res. 408), E2127 [24OC]

Library of Congress: anniversary, H229 [29JA]

McCormick, John: Scripps Howard Foundation Walker Stone Award for Editorial Writing recipient, E1212 [11JN]

National Bible Week: observance, E2265 [6NO]

Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation, Inc.: anniversary, E1997 [8OC]

Taxation: allow deduction equal to fair market value for charitable contributions of literary, musical, artistic, or scholarly compositions created by the donor (H.R. 806), E242 [13FE]

Williams, C.K.: National Book Selection Committee National Book Award in Poetry recipient, E2439 [23NO]

Remarks in Senate

Library of Congress: National Book Festival celebration, S12361 [2OC]

National Bible Week: observance, S13906 [4NO]

National Cowboy Poetry Week: designate (S. Res. 108), S4974 [8AP], S5393 [11AP]

Read Across America Day: designate (S. Res. 69), S2989 [27FE]

Taxation: adjust capital gains treatment of art and collectibles and provide a deduction for charitable contributions of literary, musical, artistic, or scholarly compositions created by the donor (S. 242), S1747 [29JA]

———allow deduction equal to fair market value for charitable contributions of literary, musical, artistic, or scholarly compositions created by the donor (S. 287), S1889, S1890 [4FE], S5014 [9AP]

Reports filed

National Cowboy Poetry Week: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. Res. 108), S5340 [11AP]

Texts of

S. 242, Art and Collectibles Capital Gains Tax Treatment Parity Act, S1748 [29JA]

S. Res. 69, Read Across America Day, S2979, S2990 [27FE]

S. Res. 108, National Cowboy Poetry Week, S4974 [8AP], S5394 [11AP]