INCOME related term(s) Economy; Pensions; Securities

Addresses

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

Amendments

Armed Forces: increase death gratuity and exclude from gross income for tax purposes (H.R. 3365), S13805, S13807 [3NO], S13945 [4NO], H10367 [5NO]

Community service: provide incentives for communities and individuals to serve those in need, improve public disclosure by certain organizations, and enhance ability of low-income individuals to build assets (S. 476), S4975 [8AP], S5094 [9AP]

Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: make repeal of estate taxes permanent (H.R. 8), H5502 [18JN]

———make repeal of estate taxes permanent (H.R. 8), consideration (H. Res. 281), H5482 [18JN]

Employment: 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]

IRS: protect taxpayers and ensure accountability (H.R. 1528), H5409 [16JN], H5522 [18JN], H5563 [19JN]

Pensions: change the 30-year treasury bond rate to a composite corporate rate (H.R. 3108), H9251 [7OC], H9294 [8OC]

———provide additional protection to participants in individual account plans and promote investment advice (H.R. 1000), H4013, H4014 [13MY], H4073 [14MY]

———provide additional protection to participants in individual account plans and promote investment advice (H.R. 1000), consideration (H. Res. 230), H4039 [14MY]

Postal Service: reform funding of Civil Service Retirement System benefits for employees (H.R. 735), H2587 [1AP], H2908 [8AP]

———reform funding of Civil Service Retirement System benefits for employees (S. 380), S4724, S4727 [2AP]

Public safety officers: ensure that officers who suffer a fatal heart attack or stroke while on duty shall be presumed to have died in the line of duty for purposes of survivor benefits (S. 459), S16052 [25NO], H12300 [21NO]

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]

Social Security: provide additional safeguards for certain beneficiaries with representative payees (H.R. 743), S16142, S16159 [9DE], H2652 [2AP]

———provide additional safeguards for certain beneficiaries with representative payees (H.R. 743), consideration (H. Res. 168), H2594 [2AP]

Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act: restate, clarify, and revise (H.R. 100), H12868 [8DE]

Taxation: extend certain expiring provisions of the Internal Revenue Code (H.R. 3521), H11832 [20NO]

———provide incentives for charitable contributions by individuals and businesses (H.R. 7), H8308, H8326 [17SE]

———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]

———treatment of the sale of a principal residence, and death gratuity payments, by a member of the uniformed services (H.R. 1307), S4532 [27MR]

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]

Veterans: modify and improve certain benefits (H.R. 2297), S15198 [19NO], H11705 [20NO]

Analyses

Filipino Veterans' Benefits Act (S. 1213), S7552 [9JN]

Increase Penalties Relating to Conspiracy, Mail Fraud, Wire Fraud, and ERISA Violations, S5326-S5331 [11AP]

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

Veterans Programs Improvement Act (S. 1133), S7037 [22MY]

Appointments

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

Social Security Advisory Board, S12418 [2OC]

Articles and editorials

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]

Called-Up Reservist Take Big Hit in Wallet—Families Struggle on Military Salary, S4476 [27MR]

Changes at VA Vex Advocates for Homeless, H2158 [20MR]

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

Children Left Behind, H4990 [5JN]

Demand, but No Capital, at Nonprofit Hospitals, S77 [7JA]

Drawing Lines for Dollars—Scientists Get Federal and Private Funding Under One Roof. Why Can't Legal Aid Lawyers?, S6599 [19MY]

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

Estate Tax Compromise Sought—House Set To Pass Repeal, but Supporters Know Senate Votes Aren't There, H5496 [18JN]

Even Luckier Duckies, S7226 [3JN], H4963 [4JN]

Faust in Texas II, S5244 [10AP]

Fighting Over Overtime, S12215 [1OC]

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

House GOP Responds to Senate Child Credit Bill—$82 Billion Plan Offers Breaks for Military Families, H5192 [11JN]

Hunger Has a New Face, H8324 [17SE]

It Reeks of Politics, S216 [13JA]

It's Wrong To Tie Patriotism to Massive Tax Cut, S4419 [26MR]

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

Knights in Golden Armour, S5242 [10AP]

Middle Class Tax Share Set To Rise—Studies Say Burden of Rich To Decline, H4992 [5JN]

Military Widows Lose Chunk of Benefits at 62, S2475 [13FE]

Morales, Friend Indicted in Texas Tobacco Case—Former AG Has Denied Wrongdoing; Federal Charges Include Tax Evasion, S5243 [10AP]

Most Dangerous Indiscretion—The Legal, Economic, and Political Legacy of the Governments' Tobacco Litigation, S5242 [10AP]

Mr. Rehnquist's Pleas, S4840 [3AP]

Mugging the Needy, E659 [3AP]

No More Than 30%, S1760 [30JA]

110 Economists Back Bush Tax Plan—3 Nobel Laureates Join Group Urging Congress' Support, S1653 [28JA]

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

Poor Held Hostage for Tax Cuts, H4990 [5JN]

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]

Study—Military Kids Slighted on Tax Credit—Parents Earn Too Little To Qualify for the Provision, H5014 [5JN]

Tax Lunacy, S7108 [23MY]

Tax Plan That Will Pay Few Dividends, S216 [13JA]

Tax Wealthy To Pay for Iraq War—Test Patriotism's Deeper Meaning, S11462 [15SE]

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

U.S. Corporate Tax and the Global Economy, E2099 [20OC]

Washington's Weak Dollar Policy, S7108 [23MY]

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

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

White House Takes Opposing Views on Charities, S6599 [19MY]

Why This Tax Loophole for Losers Should End, S8567 [25JN]

Bills and resolutions

Afghanistan: provide compensation for families of noncombatants killed in U.S. military actions (see H.R. 602), H321 [5FE]

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

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

———provide protections for farmers and ranchers that may be harmed economically by genetically engineered seeds, plants, or animals and ensure fairness in dealings with certain biotech companies (see H.R. 2918), H7782 [25JY]

Alabama: provide wage parity for certain Dept. of Defense prevailing rate employees (see H.R. 355), H170 [27JA]

Alaska: authorize payment of burial and family relocation expenses after death of certain Federal employees (see S. 1364), S8725 [26JN]

Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act: provide for equitable allotment of lands to Alaskan Natives who are veterans (see H.R. 951), H1395 [26FE]

Appropriations: constitutional amendment to require Members of Congress and the President to forfeit certain compensation until all appropriations bills are enacted (see H.J. Res. 53), H3408 [12AP]

Armed Forces: alleviate delay in payment of the Selected Reserve reenlistment bonus to members who are mobilized (see S. 705), S4376 [25MR] (see S. 711), S4434 [26MR] (see H.R. 1792), H3352 [11AP]

———allow a participant in the military Survivor Benefit Plan to designate a new beneficiary upon the death of the original designated beneficiary (see H.R. 3216), H9129 [1OC]

———allow receipt of special pay by qualified dental officers while undergoing dental internship or residency training (see H.R. 2287), H4786 [2JN]

———amend requirements relative to granting posthumous citizenship through death while on active-duty service to allow immigration benefits for surviving family members (see H.R. 1685), H3051 [9AP]

———change requirements for naturalization through service, extend naturalization benefits to Ready Reserve members, and extend posthumous benefits to surviving spouses, children, and parents (see S. 922), S5343 [11AP] (see H.R. 1814), H3353 [11AP]

———combat zone tax exclusions for bomber support crews on the island of Diego Garcia (see S. 234), S1736 [29JA]

———eligibility for aviation incentive pay and hazardous duty pay for Reserve members who perform inactive-duty training (see H.R. 1728), H3301 [10AP]

———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]

———ensure military pay increases are comparable to private sector pay growth as measured by the Employment Cost Index (see H.R. 1885), H3570 [30AP]

———ensure no reductions in rates of special pay and allowances for members serving in a combat zone in Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom (see H.R. 3149), H8490 [23SE]

———ensure tax-exempt status and other benefits afforded under Operation Enduring Freedom are afforded to personnel stationed in Israel (see H.R. 1326), H1953 [18MR] (see H.R. 1393), H2269 [20MR]

———ensure tax-exempt status for members, or their spouses, serving in Iraq during Operation Enduring Freedom (see H.R. 1795), H3352 [11AP]

———expand eligibility for command responsibility pay to commanders of the National Guard and Reserves (see S. 757), S4629 [1AP]

———forgive certain overpayments of retired pay to deceased retired members after death (see H.R. 2944), H7783 [25JY]

———grant limited TRICARE program eligibility for members of the Ready Reserve and provide financial support for continuation of health insurance for mobilized members of Reserve components (see S. 852), S5173 [10AP] (see H.R. 2176), H4368 [20MY]

———improve benefits and protections provided for regular and Reserve members deployed or mobilized in the interests of national security (see S. 806), S4897 [7AP]

———improve benefits for members, veterans, and their dependents and survivors (see H.R. 2569), H5813 [24JN]

———improve benefits for members of the uniformed services and veterans (see S. 19), S35 [7JA]

———improve process for adjusting rates of pay (see S. 945), S5483 [29AP]

———increase amount of death gratuity paid upon death during active duty (see S. 704), S4376 [25MR]

———increase death gratuity and exclude from gross income for tax purposes (see H.R. 3019), H8016 [5SE] (see H.R. 3365), H9811 [21OC]

———increase dependency and indemnity compensation payable to a surviving spouse of a member in any case in which there are dependent children (see H.R. 1750), H3303 [10AP]

———increase military retired pay for officers by reason of being credited with extraordinary heroism on the same basis as applies to enlisted members (see H.R. 3280), H9376 [8OC]

———increase rate of basic pay for the uniformed services (see H.R. 3050), H8081 [9SE]

———increase rate of basic pay for the uniformed services and pay one-time bonus to members who served or serve in a combat zone in Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom (see H.R. 3031), H8016 [5SE]

———increase the rate of imminent danger special pay and the amount of the family separation allowance (see S. 737), S4512 [27MR]

———make permanent increase in rate of hostile fire and imminent danger special pay and the amount of the family separation allowance (see S. 1615), S11478 [15SE]

———make temporary adjustments in basic housing allowances in response to increases in military housing costs (see H.R. 1324), H1953 [18MR]

———pay one-time bonus to members who served or serve in a combat zone in Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom (see H.R. 3051), H8081 [9SE]

———payment of a monthly stipend to the surviving parents of members who die during a period of war (see H.R. 2098), H4130 [14MY]

———provide automatic naturalization for noncitizen members ordered to serve in a combat zone and extend immigration benefits to the surviving family of members granted posthumous citizenship through death (see H.R. 1850), H3451 [29AP]

———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 dislocation allowance to retired members and those on temporary disability retired list moving from their last duty station to designated home (see H.R. 995), H1462 [27FE]

———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 for reimbursement of air fare costs incurred by members for domestic travel while on leave from deployment overseas in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom (see S. 1675), S12137 [29SE] (see H.R. 3197), H9032 [30SE]

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

———provide Survivor Benefit Plan annuities for surviving spouses of Reserves not eligible for retirement who die from a cause incurred or aggravated while on inactive-duty training (see S. 706), S4376 [25MR] (see S. 712), S4434 [26MR]

———provide that military retired pay, for non-regular service, be paid without regard to age (see H.R. 331), H138 [8JA]

———reduce the age for receipt of military retired pay for non-regular service (see S. 1035), S5995 [9MY] (see H.R. 742), H461 [12FE]

———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]

———restore the tax-exempt status of death gratuity payments (see H.R. 693), H391 [11FE]

———revise age and service requirements for receipt of military retired pay for non-regular service (see S. 445), S2701 [25FE] (see S. 1859), S14804 [12NO] (see H.R. 2398), H5173 [10JN]

———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]

———revise rules on retirement payments to former spouses (see H.R. 1111), H1678 [6MR]

———satisfy judgments against retired members for abusing a child through garnishment of military retired pay (see H.R. 1444), H2400 [26MR]

———treat military service performed at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station and certain peacekeeping missions in Africa in the same manner as if such services were performed in a combat zone (see S. 398), S2457 [13FE]

———tribute to businesses and business owners for support of our troops and their families (see H. Res. 201), H3354 [11AP]

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]

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

Bankruptcy: extend reenactment period for chapter 12 of the bankruptcy code relative to family farmers (see S. 1323), S8439 [24JN] (see S. 1920), S15407 [21NO] (see H.R. 2302), H4875 [3JN] (see H.R. 2465), H5365 [12JN] (see H.R. 3540, 3542), H11700 [20NO]

———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]

———increase amount of claims for income given priority in bankruptcy and provide cash payments to retirees to compensate for lost health benefits resulting from the bankruptcy of their former employer (see S. 1970), S15975 [25NO]

———permanently reenact chapter 12 of the bankruptcy code relative to family farmers (see S. 2004), S16120 [9DE]

———protect family farmers and family fishermen (see H.R. 343), H169 [27JA]

———provide for avoidance of certain transfers, and alternate prosecution of certain actions, relative to certain retirement benefits (see S. 1343), S8725 [26JN] (see H.R. 2609), H6261 [26JN]

Barbados: override income tax treaty (see H.R. 3121), H8381 [17SE]

Bennington, Rita: provide for special application of certain tax laws relative to the sale of a principal residence following Hurricane Iniki (see S. 72), S36 [7JA]

Bretton Woods Agreement Act: sunset (see H.R. 2780), H7085 [17JY]

Budget: public disclosure on treatment of Social Security trust funds (see H.R. 855), H704 [13FE]

Business and industry: permit biomedical research corporations to engage in certain equity financings without incurring limitations on net operating loss carryforwards and certain built-in losses (see S. 1773), S13053 [22OC] (see H.R. 2968), H7784 [25JY]

———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]

Capital Construction Fund: provide for qualified withdrawals for fishermen leaving the industry and for the rollover to individual retirement plans (see S. 1193), S7476 [5JN] (see H.R. 2360), H5043 [5JN]

Children and youth: 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 Air Patrol: make volunteer members eligible for public safety officer death benefits (see S. 693), S4325 [24MR] (see H.R. 732), H460 [12FE]

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]

Claims: allow victims of terrorist attacks to receive certain compensation regardless of any collateral source compensation they may be eligible to receive (see S. 638), S3881 [18MR] (see H.R. 123), H56 [7JA]

———extend deadline for victims of terrorist attacks to file claims to receive certain compensation (see S. 1602), S11245 [9SE] (see H.R. 3084), H8282 [16SE] (see H.R. 3116), H8380 [17SE]

Colleges and universities: ensure that all college students and families have the tools and resources to adequately save for, finance, and repay postsecondary and post-baccalaureate expenses (see H.R. 3618), H12308 [21NO]

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

Community service: provide incentives for communities and individuals to serve those in need, improve public disclosure by certain organizations, and enhance ability of low-income individuals to build assets (see S. 256), S1812 (see S. 272), S1813 [30JA] (see S. 476), S2920 [27FE]

Computers: extend suspension of certain copyright payments to be made by noncommercial webcasters (see H.R. 2255), H4736 [22MY]

Copyrights: replace copyright arbitration royalty panels with a Copyright Royalty Judge (see H.R. 1417), H2310 [25MR]

Courts: adjust salaries for Supreme Court Justices and Federal judges (see S. 101), S37 [7JA] (see S. 1871), S14965 [17NO] (see H.R. 16), H52 [7JA] (see H.R. 3349), H9738 [20OC]

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

———increase annual salaries of justices and judges (see S. 1023), S5859 [7MY] (see H.R. 2118), H4203 [15MY]

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

———provide a period of open enrollment for annuity program for survivors of certain judicial officials (see S. 455), S2839 [26FE]

———provide greater fairness in legal fees payable in civil diversity litigation after an offer of settlement (see S. 1836), S14176 [6NO]

———require receipt of normal average wage or salary for Federal jurors during service (see H.R. 1959), H3682 [6MY]

———restore cost-of-living adjustments from previous years and improve benefits system for the Federal judiciary, and implement procedures to instill public confidence in Federal courts (see S. 787), S4824 [3AP] (see S. 1100), S6853 [21MY]

Credit: protect consumers from payday lenders demanding exorbitant interest rates and participating in other unfair practices (see H.R. 2407), H5173 [10JN]

Crime: prohibit pyramid promotional schemes (see H.R. 1220), H1810 [12MR]

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]

———establish a counter-cyclical income support program for dairy producers (see H.R. 1990), H3683 [6MY]

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

Dept. of the Treasury: study tax depreciation recovery periods (see H.R. 46), H53 [7JA]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: allow claimants for benefits to pay fees for attorney services during any stage of the claims process (see H.R. 3492), H11358 [17NO]

———allow for substitution of parties in claims for benefits when the applicant for such benefits dies while the claim is pending (see H.R. 1681), H3051 [9AP]

———allow payment of certain benefits to begin effective the day in which hospitalization or treatment begins (see H.R. 3344), H9738 [20OC]

———enhance certain veterans programs and improve administration of such programs (see S. 1133), S6978 [22MY]

———extend payment of disability benefits through the date of the beneficiary's death (see H.R. 1666), H2938 [8AP]

———improve outreach programs to more fully inform veterans of available benefits (see S. 1199), S7476 [5JN] (see H.R. 3612), H12308 [21NO]

———improve procedures for adjudication of claims for benefits (see H.R. 3392), H10129 [29OC]

———prohibit additional daily interest charges following prepayment in full of guaranteed housing loans (see H.R. 3413), H10236 [30OC]

———provide service-connected disability benefits for persons disabled by treatment or vocational rehabilitation provided by the Dept., and for survivors of persons dying from such treatment (see H.R. 843), H703 [13FE]

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

———reduce backlog of benefit claims (see S. 1186), S7381 [4JN] (see H.R. 1264), H1900 [13MR]

———repeal limitation on payment of accrued benefits upon death of beneficiary and allow substitution of parties in pending benefit claims when applicant dies (see S. 1188), S7476 [5JN]

———repeal limitation on the payment of accrued benefits that are due, and unpaid, upon the death of a veteran or other beneficiary (see H.R. 241), H134 [8JA]

———repeal the offset from surviving spouse annuities under the military Survivor Benefit Plan for amounts paid as dependency and indemnity compensation (see H.R. 1726), H3301 [10AP]

———suspend authority to increase drug copayment for treatment of non-service-connected disabilities and increase pension rates for certain surviving spouses (see H.R. 627), H322 [5FE]

Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act: extend period for temporary mortgage and rental payments program (see H.R. 1986), H3682 [6MY]

———reauthorize temporary mortgage and rental payments program (see H.R. 827), H702 [13FE]

Diseases: protect health of individuals receiving smallpox vaccine and provide compensation to and access to care for individuals sustaining injury as a result of smallpox vaccination (see H.R. 865), H704 [13FE]

———provide compassionate payments to individuals who contracted HIV from a contaminated blood transfusion (see S. 1536), S10618 [31JY] (see H.R. 2837), H7454 [23JY]

———provide gratuity to veterans, their spouses, and children who contract HIV or AIDS from a blood transfusion relative to a service-connected disability (see S. 1509), S10617 [31JY]

District of Columbia: permit City Council to impose a tax on income of professional baseball players earned within the District of Columbia (see H.R. 1450), H2401 [26MR]

———provide full voting representation in Congress (see S. 617), S3730 [13MR] (see H.R. 1285), H1901 [13MR]

Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: accelerate and make child tax credit provisions permanent (see S. 92), S37 [7JA]

———accelerate and make lowest tax bracket permanent (see S. 94), S37 [7JA]

———accelerate individual income tax rate cuts and make all tax cuts permanent (see H.R. 210), H59 [7JA]

———freeze and repeal portions of the tax reduction and apply savings to a comprehensive Medicare outpatient prescription drug benefit (see H.R. 2514), H5551 [18JN]

———increase and repeal sunset imposed on modifications to the child tax credit provisions (see H.R. 2007), H3761 [7MY]

———make individual income tax rate reductions permanent (see H.R. 861), H704 [13FE]

———make marriage penalty relief provisions permanent (see S. 120), S132 [9JA]

———make pension and individual retirement arrangement provisions permanent (see S. 95), S37 [7JA]

———make repeal of estate taxes permanent (see H.R. 8), H5364 [12JN] (see H.R. 57), H53 (see H.R. 139), H56 (see H.R. 158), H57 [7JA]

———make repeal of estate taxes permanent (H.R. 8), consideration (see H. Res. 281), H5467 [17JN]

———make tax benefits permanent (see H.R. 1612), H2820 [3AP]

———repeal sunset on expansion of the adoption credit and adoption assistance programs (see S. 1931), S15573 [22NO] (see H.R. 336), H169 [27JA] (see H.R. 1057), H1514 [4MR]

———repeal sunset on increase of dependent care tax credit and make the credit refundable (see H.R. 493), H244 [29JA]

———repeal sunset provisions (see S. 96), S37 [7JA] (see H.R. 407), H217 [28JA]

———suspend phase-in of additional tax reductions while the U.S. is in a state of war or on high military alert (see H.R. 436), H241 [29JA]

Economy: require Commissioner of Labor Statistics to develop methodology for measuring cost-of-living in each State, and require Comptroller General to ascertain impact on certain Federal benefits (see H.R. 3640), H12309 [21NO]

Education: assist local educational agencies in providing financial incentives to attract teachers to rural and high-poverty areas (see H.R. 2811), H7225 [21JY]

———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]

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

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]

Electric power: prohibit fraudulent recording of revenue from round trip sales of electric power (see H.R. 1255), H1811 [12MR]

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

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

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

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

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

———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]

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

———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]

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

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

———require equitable funding of pension plans maintained by corporations which also maintain executive pension plans (see H.R. 2078), H4011 [13MY]

Fair Labor Standards Act: require payment of at least the minimum wage to certain drivers for all hours worked as a condition of exempting such drivers from overtime requirements (see H.R. 3174), H8905 [24SE]

Families and domestic relations: denial of passports to noncustodial parents subject to State arrest warrants in cases of nonpayment of child support (see H.R. 1847), H3451 [29AP]

———require anticipated child support be held in trust on the sale or refinancing of certain real property of an obligated parent (see H.R. 403), H217 [28JA]

Family and Medical Leave Act: clarify (see S. 320), S1977 [5FE] (see H.R. 35), H53 [7JA]

———expand (see S. 304), S1976 [5FE]

FCC: limit reimbursement of travel expenses of members and employees (see H.R. 2670), H6348 [8JY]

Federal courts: improve operation and administration (see H.R. 1302), H1952 [18MR]

Federal employees: adjust certain Federal annuity computations relative to periods of receiving disability payments (see S. 481), S2920 [27FE] (see H.R. 978), H1461 [27FE]

———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]

———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]

———establish a precious metals investment option in the Thrift Savings Fund (see H.R. 3101), H8283 [16SE]

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

———provide special pay for board certified Federal employees employed in health science positions (see S. 953), S5541 [30AP]

———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]

———reform the Senior Executive Service and adjust the rates of pay of certain positions (see S. 768), S4702 [2AP] (see H.R. 1602), H2819 [3AP]

———treatment of retirement benefits for assistant U.S. attorneys (see H.R. 2260), H4736 [22MY]

Financial institutions: exclude from gross income certain interest amounts received by individuals (see H.R. 1163), H1681 [6MR]

———repeal prohibition on payment of interest on demand deposits (see H.R. 859), H704 [13FE]

Financial Planning Week: support goals and ideals (see H. Con. Res. 176), H3974 [9MY]

Firefighters: provide death and disability benefits to certain contracted aerial firefighters who suffer death or disability in the line of duty (see S. 989), S5725 [5MY] (see H.R. 977), H1461 [27FE]

———provide portal-to-portal compensation for wildland firefighters (see H.R. 2963), H7784 [25JY]

Food Security Act: strengthen payment limitations for commodity payments and benefits (see S. 667), S3993 [19MR]

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

Health: tax treatment of certain medical savings accounts and provide for medical freedom accounts under the Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program (see H.R. 2114), H4203 [15MY]

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

House Rules: permit employing office to pay an additional salary to a House employee who is on active duty in a military Reserve component (see H. Res. 223), H3762 [7MY]

Housing: expand homeownership in States having high housing costs (see H.R. 3507), H11391 (see H.R. 3507), H11514 [18NO]

Immigration: make aliens ineligible to receive visas and exclude aliens from admission into the U.S. for nonpayment of child support (see S. 1609), S11416 [11SE]

———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]

Indian Health Service: require compensation of certain technical medical employees for time during which they are required to be on-call (see H.R. 2996), H7838 [3SE]

IRS: establish an earned income credit public awareness campaign (see H.R. 2756), H7019 [16JY]

———protect taxpayers and ensure accountability (see H.R. 1528), H2585 [1AP]

———protect taxpayers and ensure accountability (H.R. 1528), consideration (see H. Res. 282), H5467 [17JN]

———require abatement of interest on erroneous tax refund checks without regard to the size of the refund (see H.R. 1756), H3303 [10AP]

Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: extend the 50-percent bonus depreciation (see H.R. 2895), H7617 [24JY]

———make marriage penalty relief provisions permanent (see S. 1196), S7476 [5JN] (see H.R. 2446), H5364 [12JN]

———make reduction in capital gains rates for individuals permanent (see H.R. 2635), H6262 [26JN]

———make the treatment of dividend income as capital gains permanent (see H.R. 2332), H4977 [4JN]

———permanently extend the 50-percent bonus depreciation (see H.R. 2855), H7615 [24JY]

Klamath River: establish water conservation and habitat restoration programs and provide emergency disaster assistance to those suffering economic harm from the Klamath River basin fish kill (see H.R. 1760), H3303 [10AP]

Law enforcement officers: adjust certain U.S. Park Police and Secret Service pension benefits as a result of the conversion to a new salary schedule (see H.R. 2060), H3973 [9MY]

———adjust percentage differentials payable to Federal law enforcement officers in certain high-cost areas (see S. 985), S5651 [1MY] (see H.R. 466), H243 [29JA]

———exclude availability pay for criminal investigators from the limitation on premium pay and modify levels of special pay for Federal officers in certain areas (see H.R. 1676), H2938 [8AP]

———extend the same Federal benefits to officers serving private institutions of higher education and rail carriers that apply to officers serving units of State and local government (see H.R. 3523), H11650 [19NO]

———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]

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

Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act: revise and extend (see S. 1786), S13377 [28OC]

Medicaid: coverage of disabled children and individuals who became disabled as children without regard to income or assets (see H.R. 2320), H4976 [4JN]

———establish a demonstration grant program to assist States in providing subsidies for group health insurance premiums for low-income, Medicaid-eligible individuals (see H.R. 2947), H7783 [25JY]

———increase the personal needs allowance for institutionalized individuals (see H.R. 1757), H3303 [10AP]

Medicare: accelerate reduction on the amount of beneficiary copayment liability for outpatient services (see S. 1017), S5859 [7MY] (see H.R. 1635), H2821 [3AP]

———eliminate geographic physician work adjustment factor, provide incentives to attract educators and clinical practitioners to underserved areas, and revise certain wage adjustments for skilled nursing facilities (see S. 36), S35 [7JA]

———establish a voluntary program to limit maximum out-of-pocket expenditures for beneficiaries (see H.R. 2199), H4528 [21MY]

———establish uniform physician fee schedule payments (see S. 1135), S6978 [22MY]

———limit the deduction of premiums from Social Security benefits payments only for months in which coverage is provided (see H.R. 3434), H10339 [4NO]

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

———specify the update for physician fee schedule payments (see H.R. 41), H53 [7JA]

Members of Congress: eliminate automatic salary adjustments (see S. 48), S36 [7JA] (see H.R. 1696), H3051 [9AP]

———modify law providing a permanent appropriation for compensation (see H.R. 1881), H3570 [30AP]

———nullify recent pay increases and eliminate automatic salary adjustments (see H.R. 31), H52 [7JA]

———provide that adjustments in rates of pay may not exceed cost-of-living increases in certain Social Security benefits (see H.R. 3114), H8380 [17SE]

———render previous service of individuals expelled from Congress as noncreditable for purposes of determining eligibility for retirement and disability benefits (see H.R. 1098), H1640 [5MR]

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

Minnesota: encourage the use of medical savings accounts by certain current and retired public employees (see S. 729), S4512 [27MR] (see H.R. 1670), H2938 [8AP]

NASA: provide eligibility for astronauts for Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance (see S. 334), S2119 [10FE]

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

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

National Guard: extend period of eligibility for survivors' and dependents' education benefits for members who are involuntarily ordered to full-time duty (see H.R. 2164), H4367 [20MY]

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]

National School Lunch Act: phase out reduced price lunches and breakfasts by phasing in an increase in the income eligibility guidelines for free lunches and breakfasts (see S. 1549), S10618 [31JY] (see H.R. 3441), H10456 [5NO]

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]

Native Americans: distribute judgment funds to the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Reservation (see S. 428), S2594 [24FE]

———payment of amounts owed to Indian tribes and individual Indian money account holders (see S. 1540), S10618 [31JY]

———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]

Pensions: allow for alienation of benefits to satisfy court judgments, decrees, or orders requiring restitution for embezzlement of State or local government funds (see H.R. 2222), H4734 [22MY]

———change the 30-year treasury bond rate to a composite corporate rate (see H.R. 3108), H8380 [17SE]

———change the 30-year treasury bond rate to a composite corporate rate and establish a commission on defined benefit plans (see S. 1550), S10618 [31JY]

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

———exclude the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund from the Federal budget (see H.R. 2323), H4976 [4JN]

———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 protection to participants in individual account plans and promote investment advice (see H.R. 1000), H1462 [27FE]

———provide additional protection to participants in individual account plans and promote investment advice (H.R. 1000), consideration (see H. Res. 230), H4010 [13MY]

———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 funding requirements for certain pension plans maintained by commercial passenger air carriers (see H.R. 2719), H6706 [14JY]

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

Political campaigns: prohibit use of contributions or donations made to candidates or office holders for the payment of their salary or for payment to any member of their immediate family (see H.R. 797), H701 [13FE]

Postal Service: reform funding of Civil Service Retirement System benefits for employees (see S. 380), S2341 [12FE] (see H.R. 735), H461 [12FE]

POW: eligibility of surviving spouses of certain former POW to receive dependency and indemnity compensation (see S. 938), S5483 [29AP] (see H.R. 886), H1332 [25FE]

———provide special compensation for former POW (see S. 1239), S7718 [11JN]

———provide special compensation for former POWs (see H.R. 850), H704 [13FE]

Public safety officers: ensure that officers who suffer a fatal heart attack or stroke while on duty shall be presumed to have died in the line of duty for purposes of survivor benefits (see S. 459), S2839 [26FE] (see H.R. 919), H1394 [26FE]

———include private firefighters and rescue squad and ambulance crew members for certain benefits (see H.R. 1475), H2471 [27MR]

———permit military service performed by District of Columbia police officers, firemen, and certain Federal law enforcement officers to count toward retirement calculation (see H.R. 3054), H8174 [10SE]

———provide benefits to those who die or become disabled as a result of certain injuries (see H.R. 1960), H3682 [6MY]

Public welfare programs: provide access to tools to stimulate employment (see H.R. 535), H318 [5FE]

Puerto Rico: eligibility of residents for the earned income tax credit, the refundable portion of the child tax credit, and SSI benefits (see S. 1658), S11988 [25SE]

Railroad Retirement Act: eliminate a limitation on benefits (see H.R. 1384), H2269 [20MR]

Roads and highways: 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]

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]

Securities: permit church pension plans to be invested in collective trusts (see H.R. 1533), H2585 [1AP]

———repeal certain laws that limit private securities actions (see H.R. 636), H322 [5FE]

Senior citizens: establish a consumer price index for elderly consumers to compute cost-of-living increases for Social Security and Medicare benefits (see H.R. 2262), H4736 [22MY]

———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: 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]

Social Security: allow certain remarried widows, widowers, and surviving divorced spouses to become or remain entitled to widow's or widower's insurance benefits (see H.R. 2583), H5814 [24JN]

———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]

———authorize payments under Federal retirement systems to trusts set up for disabled dependents of Federal employees (see S. 776), S4823 [3AP]

———authorize waivers of certain waiting periods for benefits based on disability in cases in which such waiting period would cause undue hardship to terminally ill beneficiaries (see H.R. 2598), H5928 [25JN]

———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]

———computation system for benefits relative to spouses' or surviving spouses' Government pensions (see S. 363), S2187 [11FE] (see H.R. 887), H1332 [25FE]

———create individual accounts ensuring full benefits for all workers and their families, give Americans ownership of their retirement, and restore long-term solvency (see H.R. 3177), H8949 [25SE]

———create personal guarantee accounts ensuring full benefits for all workers and their families, restore long-term solvency, and make certain benefit improvements (see H.R. 75), H54 [7JA]

———credit prospectively individuals serving as caregivers of dependent relatives with deemed wages for up to five years of such service (see H.R. 473), H243 [29JA]

———disregard State annuities paid to blind veterans in the determination of SSI benefits (see H.R. 172), H57 [7JA]

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

———effects of reform proposals on women (see H. Res. 174), H2821 [3AP]

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

———eliminate reconsideration as an intervening step between initial benefit entitlement decisions and subsequent hearings on the record on such decisions (see H.R. 3169), H8905 [24SE]

———eliminate waiting period for divorced spouse's benefits following the divorce (see H.R. 471), H243 [29JA]

———exception to marriage requirements for spousal benefits for divorced spouses in which the divorce is a result of severe spousal or child abuse (see H.R. 1065), H1515 [4MR]

———exception to marriage requirements for widows and widowers relative to State restrictions on divorce from a prior spouse institutionalized due to mental incompetence (see H.R. 249), H135 [8JA]

———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]

———exempt from windfall elimination provisions individuals who are entitled to retired pay based on a certain period of service as a member of a uniformed service (see H.R. 2611), H6261 [26JN]

———guarantee the right of individuals to receive certain benefits in full with an accurate annual cost-of-living adjustment (see H.R. 812), H701 [13FE]

———honor commitments (see H. Con. Res. 258), H7617 [24JY]

———improve the administration of unemployment taxes and benefits (see H.R. 3463), H10977 [6NO]

———include additional information in account statements (see S. 368), S2340 [12FE] (see H.R. 722), H460 [12FE]

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

———increase lump-sum death benefit and allow payment of such benefit to legal representative of the deceased's estate in the absence of a surviving spouse or child (see H.R. 2013), H3761 [7MY]

———invest trust funds in marketable interest-bearing securities and insured certificates of deposit, and protect trust funds from public debt limit (see H.R. 96), H55 (see H.R. 219), H59 [7JA]

———oppose reduction of annual cost-of-living adjustments (see S. Res. 155), S7135 [23MY]

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

———preserve all budget surpluses until legislation is enacted to strengthen and protect Social Security and Medicare trust funds (see H.R. 127), H56 [7JA]

———protect beneficiaries against any reduction in benefits (see H.R. 862), H704 [13FE]

———provide additional safeguards for certain beneficiaries with representative payees (see S. 439), S2701 [25FE] (see H.R. 743), H461 [12FE]

———provide additional safeguards for certain beneficiaries with representative payees (H.R. 743), consideration (see H. Res. 168), H2585 [1AP]

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

———provide full benefits for disabled widows and widowers regardless of age (see H.R. 472), H243 [29JA]

———reduce the age at which an eligible individual may be paid widow's or widower's insurance benefits (see H.R. 1923), H3635 [1MY]

———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]

———repeal eligibility restrictions on widow's and widower's insurance benefits based on disability (see H.R. 470), H243 [29JA]

———repeal Government pension offset and windfall elimination provisions (see S. 349), S2187 [11FE] (see H.R. 594), H320 [5FE]

———restrict application of windfall elimination provisions to individuals whose benefits exceed certain levels (see S. 1011), S5859 [7MY] (see H.R. 2011), H3761 [7MY]

———strengthen and protect (see H.R. 177), H58 [7JA]

———waive certain waiting periods for disability and Medicare benefits in the case of a terminally ill, disabled individual (see H.R. 3382), H9981 [28OC]

Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act: restate, clarify, and revise (see S. 792), S4897 [7AP] (see S. 1136), S6978 [22MY] (see H.R. 100), H55 [7JA]

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: authorize extension to American Samoa (see H.R. 3065), H8174 [10SE]

———clarify that the value of certain funeral and burial arrangements are not to be considered available resources (see S. 166), S848 [15JA] (see H.R. 803), H701 [13FE]

———eliminate the unfair and disadvantageous treatment of cash military compensation other than basic pay (see H.R. 2791), H7169 [18JY]

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

Tax Reform Action Commission: establish (see H.R. 3215), H9129 [1OC]

Taxation: accelerate elimination of the marriage penalty (see H.R. 759), H698 [13FE]

———accelerate increase in refundability of the child tax credit (see S. 1162), S7188 [2JN] (see S. 1173), S7234 (see S. 1174), S7235 [3JN] (see S. 1434), S9638 [21JY] (see H.R. 2325), H4976 [4JN] (see H.R. 2392), H5088 [9JN]

———accelerate increase in the child tax credit and expand refundability of such credit (see S. 962), S5541 [30AP] (see H.R. 2324), H4976 [4JN]

———accelerate scheduled increases in eligibility for individual retirement plans and eliminate the marriage penalty in determining such eligibility (see H.R. 686), H390 [11FE]

———allow a credit for contributions of real property interests for conservation purposes (see H.R. 1607), H2820 [3AP]

———allow a credit for contributions to congressional candidates (see S. 804), S4897 [7AP]

———allow a deduction for credit card interest (see H.R. 1141), H1680 [6MR]

———allow a deduction for ground rent paid on land on which a qualified residence is located and which is allotted or Indian-owned land (see H.R. 1277), H1901 [13MR]

———allow a deduction for premiums on mortgage insurance (see S. 846), S5059 [9AP] (see H.R. 1336), H1954 [18MR]

———allow a deduction for start-up and organizational expenditures in order to spur entrepreneurship (see H.R. 1808), H3353 [11AP]

———allow a deduction for State and local sales taxes in lieu of State and local income taxes (see S. 1436), S9638 [21JY] (see H.R. 720), H460 [12FE]

———allow a deduction for State and local sales taxes in lieu of State and local income taxes and allow the State and local income tax deduction against the alternative minimum tax (see S. 467), S2919 [27FE]

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

———allow a first time homebuyer credit for the purchase of principal residences in rural areas (see H.R. 1913), H3635 [1MY]

———allow a full deduction for meals and lodging in connection with medical care (see H.R. 494), H244 [29JA]

———allow a lump sum contribution to Coverdell education savings accounts whenever the contribution limit is increased (see H.R. 3230), H9213 [2OC]

———allow a married couple who operates an unincorporated business as co-owners to file separate returns for purposes of the self-employment tax (see H.R. 1640), H2821 [3AP]

———allow a recovery period for depreciation of motorsport entertainment complexes (see S. 1524), S10618 [31JY] (see H.R. 2900), H7781 [25JY]

———allow a refundable credit for expenditures for renewable energy property (see H.R. 3138), H8400 [18SE]

———allow a refundable credit for the purchase of private health insurance (see H.R. 1236), H1810 [12MR]

———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 tax credit for certain energy-efficient property (see S. 758), S4629 [1AP] (see H.R. 2113), H4203 [15MY]

———allow a tax credit for the purchase of hearing aids (see H.R. 943), H1395 [26FE] (see H.R. 3103), H8283 [16SE]

———allow a U.S. independent film and television production wage credit (see S. 1613), S11416 [11SE] (see H.R. 715), H460 [12FE]

———allow an income tax credit to holders of bonds issued to finance land and water reclamation of abandoned mine land areas (see H.R. 419), H218 [28JA]

———allow Armed Forces Reserve members a deduction for contributions to savings accounts which may be used when the members are called to active duty (see S. 803), S4897 [7AP]

———allow certain deductions for school bus owner-operators (see H.R. 642), H322 [5FE]

———allow certain State and local tax debt to be collected through the reduction of Federal tax refunds (see H.R. 2958), H7783 [25JY]

———allow credit for insurance costs against negative outcomes from surgery and malpractice of a physician (see H.R. 1249), H1811 [12MR]

———allow credits for dependents within a household (see H.R. 181), H58 [7JA]

———allow deduction for charitable contributions to individuals who do not itemize other deductions (see H.R. 2067), H3973 [9MY] (see H.R. 2229), H4735 [22MY]

———allow deduction to corporations for dividends paid (see H.R. 312), H137 [8JA]

———allow deduction to corporations for dividends paid and exclusion of dividends for individuals (see H.R. 178), H58 [7JA]

———allow designation of income tax refunds for use in NIH biomedical research programs (see H.R. 1352), H2131 [19MR]

———allow disclosure of taxpayer identity information through mass communications to notify persons entitled to tax refunds (see H.R. 1557), H2702 [2AP]

———allow drug manufacturers a tax credit if they certify that the price of a drug in the U.S. is not greater than its price in Canada or Mexico (see H.R. 354), H170 [27JA]

———allow exclusion of tax-exempt bonds issued for health care or educational purposes in determination of interest expenses of financial institutions (see H.R. 661), H389 [11FE]

———allow expanded penalty-free withdrawals from certain retirement plans for unemployed employees of air carriers or manufacturers of aircrafts or aircraft parts or components (see H.R. 320), H137 [8JA]

———allow Farm and Ranch Risk Management Accounts (see H.R. 927), H1394 [26FE]

———allow Federal civilian and military retirees to pay health insurance premiums on a pretax basis and allow a deduction for TRICARE supplemental premiums (see S. 623), S3730 [13MR] (see H.R. 1231), H1810 [12MR]

———allow increase in the minimum credit against alternative minimum tax where stock acquired pursuant to incentive stock options is sold or exchanged at a loss (see S. 503), S3086 [4MR]

———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 individuals receiving unemployment compensation to be eligible for a refundable, advanceable credit for health insurance costs (see S. 1693), S12277 [1OC]

———allow individuals to defer recognition of reinvested capital gains distributions from regulated investment companies (see H.R. 496), H244 [29JA] (see H.R. 1989), H3682 [6MY]

———allow individuals to designate refunds to provide catastrophic health coverage to individuals who do not otherwise have health coverage (see S. 713), S4434 [26MR] (see S. 928), S5433 [28AP] (see H.R. 1608), H2820 [3AP]

———allow investment of certain coins in individual retirement accounts and other individually directed pension plan accounts (see S. 935), S5483 [29AP] (see H.R. 1820), H3353 [11AP]

———allow legally separated individuals to exclude U.S. savings bond income from gross income if used to pay higher education expenses (see H.R. 651), H327 [7FE]

———allow Medicare beneficiaries a refundable credit for purchase of outpatient prescription drugs (see S. 142), S230 [13JA] (see S. 951), S5541 [30AP]

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

———allow refundable credit for amounts paid for products and counseling designed to assist individuals to cease using tobacco products (see H.R. 2876), H7616 [24JY]

———allow residents of States with no income tax a deduction for State and local sales taxes (see H.R. 261), H135 [8JA] (see H.R. 689), H390 [11FE]

———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 for contributions for scholarships to attend elementary and secondary schools, upgrading school facilities, and certain technology expenses (see H.R. 120), H56 [7JA]

———allow tax credit for contributions for the benefit of elementary and secondary schools (see H.R. 282), H136 [8JA]

———allow tax credit for contributions to charitable organizations which provide scholarships for children to attend elementary and secondary schools (see H.R. 385), H171 [27JA] (see H.R. 2347), H5043 [5JN]

———allow tax credits for certain elementary and secondary school expenses and contributions to charitable school-tuition organizations (see H.R. 611), H321 [5FE]

———allow taxpayers to designate income tax refunds for use in medical research conducted through the Dept. of Veterans Affairs (see H.R. 1087), H1640 [5MR]

———allow taxpayers to designate part, or all, of any income tax refund to support reservists and National Guard members (see S. 1898), S15286 [20NO]

———allow use of principal repayments to issue additional mortgages and modify price limitations under the mortgage revenue bond program and change income limit for housing credit program (see S. 595), S3504 [11MR] (see H.R. 284), H136 [8JA]

———application of excise tax to excessive attorney fees for legal judgments, settlements, or agreements that operate as a tax (see S. 887), S5174 [10AP]

———apply an excise tax to excessive attorneys' fees for legal judgments, settlements, or agreements that operate as a tax (see H.R. 1926), H3635 [1MY]

———apply graduated income tax rates for principal campaign committees of congressional candidates to comparable committees of candidates for State and local offices (see H.R. 2368), H5044 [5JN]

———apply look-thru rules for purposes of the foreign tax credit limitation to dividends from foreign corporations not controlled by a domestic corporation (see S. 914), S5343 [11AP]

———assist individuals who have lost their 401(k) savings to make additional retirement savings through individual retirement account contributions (see S. 629), S3803 [17MR] (see H.R. 2240), H4735 [22MY]

———assist low-income taxpayers in preparing and filing tax returns and increase protections against certain refund anticipation loan providers (see S. 685), S4275 [21MR]

———capital gains rates (see H.R. 2081), H4011 [13MY]

———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]

———change deadline for filing income tax returns (see H.R. 1725), H3301 [10AP]

———clarify eligibility of certain expenses for low-income housing credit (see S. 1119), S6978 [22MY] (see H.R. 1928), H3635 [1MY]

———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 that personal service corporations may continue to use the cash method of accounting (see H.R. 2814), H7329 [22JY]

———clarify treatment of certain tax attributes for companies whose debt is cancelled in a bankruptcy proceeding (see S. 1331), S8559 [25JN]

———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]

———compute the deduction for depreciation of certain property on a neutral cost recovery basis (see H.R. 1339), H1954 [18MR]

———constitutional amendment on progressive taxation (see H.J. Res. 34), H1516 [4MR]

———constitutional amendment on tax limitations (see H.J. Res. 50), H3304 [10AP] (see H.J. Res. 54), H3408 [12AP]

———constitutional amendment to abolish Federal income tax (see H.J. Res. 61), H5814 [24JN]

———cover over to a possession of the U.S. whose income tax laws mirror the refundable portions of the child tax credit and earned income tax credit (see H.R. 2186), H4527 [21MY]

———deny any deduction for certain fines, penalties, and other amounts (see S. 936), S5483 [29AP]

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

———designate educational empowerment zones in certain low-income areas and give a tax incentive to attract teachers to work in such areas (see H.R. 213), H59 [7JA]

———disallow benefits claimed to arise from corporate transactions without substantial economic substance (see H.R. 1555), H2702 [2AP]

———eliminate double taxation of dividends (see H.R. 50), H53 [7JA] (see H.R. 326), H138 [8JA]

———eliminate estate taxes (see S. 13), S2522 [14FE]

———eliminate marriage penalty in contribution rules for Roth individual retirement accounts (see H.R. 3606), H12308 [21NO]

———eliminate marriage penalty in the computation of the income tax on Social Security benefits (see H.R. 2072), H4010 [13MY]

———eliminate noncorporate capital gains tax (see H.R. 301), H137 [8JA]

———encourage contributions of capital gain real property for conservation purposes (see S. 701), S4375 [25MR]

———encourage investing of foreign earnings within the U.S. for productive business purposes (see S. 596), S3504 [11MR] (see H.R. 767), H699 [13FE]

———end certain abusive tax practices and provide tax protections and simplification (see H.R. 1661), H2937 [8AP]

———end certain abusive tax practices and provide tax relief and simplification (H.R. 1308), agree to conference report that increases child tax credit refundability and include military pay in such credit (see S. Res. 200), S9959 [25JY]

———enhance charitable contribution deductions for book donations and literacy (see S. 680), S4166 [20MR]

———enhance economic future of Native Americans (see S. 1542), S10618 [31JY]

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

———ensure dividend and interest income of individuals not be taxed at rates in excess of the maximum capital gains rate (see S. 26), S35 [7JA]

———ensure dividend income of individuals not be taxed at rates in excess of the maximum capital gains rate (see S. 25), S35 [7JA]

———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 benefits from income, employment taxes, and wage withholding property tax rebates, provided to volunteer firefighters and emergency medical responders (see S. 1512), S10617 [31JY] (see H.R. 1859), H3451 [29AP]

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

———exclude dividends received by individuals from gross income (see S. 24), S35 [7JA] (see H.R. 225, 226), H59 [7JA]

———exclude from estate taxes certain works of artistic property created by the decedent (see H.R. 147), H57 [7JA]

———exclude from gross income a percentage of lifetime annuity payments (see H.R. 2458), H5365 [12JN]

———exclude from gross income certain interest amounts received by individuals (see H.R. 1163), H1681 [6MR]

———exclude from gross income discharges of indebtedness attributable to certain forgiven residential mortgage obligations (see H.R. 666), H389 [11FE]

———exclude from gross income interest received on loans secured by agricultural real property (see S. 1263), S7876 [13JN]

———exclude from income $100 of interest and raise threshold for reporting interest paid (see H.R. 971), H1461 [27FE]

———exclude from income taxation all compensation received for active duty as a member of the Armed Forces (see H.R. 1687), H3051 [9AP]

———exclude from unrelated business taxable income the gain or loss on the sale or exchange of certain brownfield sites (see S. 1936), S15812 [24NO] (see H.R. 3527), H11650 [19NO]

———exclude qualified national service educational awards from gross income (see H.R. 2860), H7615 [24JY]

———exclude working capital in applying the accumulated earnings tax (see H.R. 2822), H7329 [22JY]

———exclusion from gross income for family-to-family sale of farm businesses (see H.R. 457), H242 [29JA]

———exempt deduction for charitable contributions from the phase-out of itemized deductions (see H.R. 2231), H4735 [22MY]

———exempt small manufacturers from the firearms excise tax (see S. 396), S2457 [13FE]

———exempt the natural aging process in the determination of the production period for distilled spirits (see S. 1681), S12192 [30SE]

———expand availability of the refundable tax credit for health insurance costs of certain displaced steelworkers and extend the steel import licensing and monitoring program (see S. 1018), S5859 [7MY] (see H.R. 1999), H3760 [7MY]

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

———expand combat zone tax exclusion for members of the Armed Forces to include transit period to such zones and to include commissioned officers (see S. 394), S2457 [13FE] (see S. 721), S4434 [26MR]

———expand depreciation benefits available to small businesses for new business investment and equipment (see S. 158), S288 [14JA] (see H.R. 179), H58 [7JA]

———expand energy credit to include investment in property which produces energy from renewable sources and expenditures for cool roofing (see H.R. 1423), H2310 [25MR]

———expand Federal tax refund intercept program for parents delinquent on child support to cover children who are not minors (see S. 1437), S9708 [22JY] (see H.R. 547), H318 [5FE]

———expand income averaging to include the trade or business of fishing (see S. 1831), S14176 [6NO]

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

———expand the dependent care tax credit, accelerate the child tax credit, and promote dependent care assistance programs (see S. 388), S2456 [13FE]

———expand the expense treatment for small businesses and provide a shorter recovery period for depreciation of certain restaurant buildings (see H.R. 1126), H1679 [6MR]

———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 and modify credit for producing fuel from a nonconventional source (see H.R. 1331), H1953 [18MR]

———extend certain expiring provisions of the Internal Revenue Code (see S. 1896), S15187 [19NO] (see H.R. 3521), H11650 [19NO]

———extend credits to assist in the purchase of fishing safety equipment (see S. 487), S2920 [27FE] (see H.R. 2973), H7784 [25JY]

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

———extend filing period for credits or refunds (see H.R. 252), H135 [8JA]

———extend possession tax credit for an additional period to American Samoa (see H.R. 1424), H2310 [25MR]

———extend special carryback of certain net operating losses to losses for additional years (see S. 1494), S10265 [30JY] (see H.R. 2448), H5365 [12JN]

———extend temporary repeal of estate taxes pending enactment of a permanent repeal (see S.J. Res. 20), S13134 [23OC] (see S.J. Res. 21), S13209 [24OC]

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

———first-time homebuyers tax credit (see S. 1175), S7235 [3JN]

———impose a tax on certain unearned income and provide tax relief by reducing the rate of the Social Security payroll tax (see H.R. 607), H321 [5FE]

———impose flat tax only on individual taxable earned income and business taxable income (see S. 907), S5343 [11AP]

———impose moratorium on inclusion in gross income of unemployment compensation (see H.R. 1187), H1744 [11MR]

———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]

———include high-speed Internet capability as a criteria for selecting a project for the low-income housing credit (see S. 305), S1976 [5FE]

———include sports utility vehicles in the limitation on the depreciation of certain luxury automobiles (see S. 265), S1813 [30JA] (see H.R. 727), H460 [12FE]

———inclusion of income only from aircraft and certain vessels transporting petroleum and related products in foreign base company shipping income (see S. 1361), S8725 [26JN] (see H.R. 772), H699 [13FE]

———increase age limit for the child tax credit (see H.R. 1050), H1514 [4MR]

———increase age of dependents for determination of credit for expenses for household and dependent care services necessary for gainful employment (see H.R. 3666), H12918 [8DE]

———increase and enhance the Hope Scholarship Credit and repeal the Lifetime Learning Credit (see H.R. 3251), H9281 [7OC]

———increase and modify the exclusion for qualified small business stock and reduce the depreciation recovery period for certain restaurant buildings (see S. 106), S132 [9JA]

———increase deduction for teacher classroom supplies and expand to include qualified professional development expenses (see S. 695), S4325 [24MR] (see H.R. 785), H700 [13FE]

———increase exclusion equivalent of the unified credit allowed against the estate tax and modify the estate tax rate schedule (see H.R. 2477), H5407 [16JN]

———increase expensing for small business and allow small business to compute the deduction for depreciation of certain property on a neutral cost recovery basis (see H.R. 1079), H1639 [5MR]

———increase expensing limits of small businesses for new business investment and equipment (see H.R. 224), H59 [7JA]

———increase limitation on contributions to simple retirement accounts (see H.R. 2375), H5044 [5JN]

———increase refundability of child tax credit, clarify eligibility of Armed Forces pay for such credit, and accelerate marriage penalty relief in earned income tax credit (see H.R. 2286), H4786 [2JN]

———increase standard mileage rate for charitable purposes to equal the rate for business purposes (see H.R. 492), H244 [29JA]

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

———increase the deduction for host families of foreign exchange and other students (see H.R. 869), H1331 [25FE]

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

———increase transparency of corporate tax accounting, liability and strategies, facilitate analysis of financial statements, discourage abusive tax sheltering activities, and restore investor confidence (see H.R. 1556), H2702 [2AP]

———inflation adjustment of the dollar limitation on the exclusion of gain on the sale of a principal residence (see H.R. 667), H390 [11FE]

———installment reporting of certain gain from the sale of an interest in service business (see H.R. 1129), H1679 [6MR]

———issuance of tax-exempt bonds by Indian tribal governments (see H.R. 386), H171 [27JA]

———make alternative minimum tax exemption increase permanent (see S. 102), S37 [7JA]

———make the additional tax on early distributions from certain pension plans inapplicable for public safety employees (see S. 748), S4557 [31MR] (see H.R. 782), H700 [13FE]

———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]

———make the first-time homebuyer credit for the District of Columbia permanent (see H.R. 1952), H3641 [5MY]

———modify at-risk rules for publicly traded nonrecourse debt (see H.R. 451), H242 [29JA]

———modify credit for holders of qualified zone academy bonds (see S. 1500), S10265 [30JY]

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

———permanent repeal of estate tax on family-owned businesses and farms (see S. 34), S35 [7JA] (see H.R. 2513), H5551 [18JN]

———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 a special amortization deduction for intangible assets acquired from eligible small businesses and encourage growth in industries for which intangible assets are an important source of revenue (see S. 1371), S9049 [8JY] (see H.R. 1222), H1810 [12MR]

———permit cooperatives to pay dividends on preferred stock without reducing patronage dividends (see S. 785), S4824 [3AP] (see H.R. 1671), H2938 [8AP]

———prevent corporations from avoiding the U.S. income tax by reincorporating in a foreign country (see S. 384), S2341 [12FE] (see H.R. 737), H461 [12FE]

———prevent corporations from exploiting tax treaties to evade U.S. income tax and prevent manipulation of transfer prices by deflection of income to tax havens (see H.R. 2184), H4527 [21MY]

———prevent the continued use of renouncing U.S. citizenship as a device for avoiding U.S. taxes (see S. 260), S1813 [30JA]

———prohibit the implementation of discriminatory precertification requirements for the earned income tax credit (see H.R. 1894), H3570 [30AP]

———prohibit treatment of certain games of chance as an unrelated trade or business expense (see H.R. 3073), H8175 [10SE]

———promote simplification and fairness in the administration and collection of sales and use taxes (see S. 1736), S12607 [15OC] (see H.R. 3184), H8949 [25SE]

———prorate the heavy vehicle use tax between successive purchasers of the same vehicle in one taxable period (see H.R. 1186), H1744 [11MR]

———provide a checkoff for a Breast and Prostate Cancer Research Fund (see H.R. 1692), H3051 [9AP]

———provide a credit and a deduction for small political contributions (see H.R. 157), H57 [7JA]

———provide a credit for charitable contributions to fight poverty (see H.R. 1672), H2938 [8AP]

———provide a credit for energy-efficient appliances (see S. 361), S2187 [11FE] (see H.R. 1332), H1953 [18MR]

———provide a credit for marginal oil and natural gas well production and allow for expensing of geological and geophysical expenditures and delay rental payments (see S. 696), S4325 [24MR]

———provide a credit for teachers and principals who work in certain low income schools (see H.R. 1643), H2821 [3AP]

———provide a credit to promote homeownership among low-income individuals (see H.R. 1132), H1679 [6MR]

———provide a credit to promote homeownership and community development (see S. 198), S1245 [21JA] (see S. 875), S5173 [10AP] (see H.R. 839), H703 [13FE]

———provide a higher purchase price limitation applicable to mortgage subsidy bonds based on median family income (see H.R. 32), H52 [7JA]

———provide a minimum credit for stay-at-home parents, allow the dependent care credit to be taken against the minimum tax, and allow a carryforward of any unused dependent care credit (see S. 1253), S7831 [12JN]

———provide a nonrefundable credit for individuals who purchase a residential safe storage device for firearms (see H.R. 325), H138 [8JA]

———provide a one-time increase in the amount excludable from the sale of a principal residence by taxpayers of a certain age (see H.R. 1922), H3635 [1MY]

———provide a partially refundable tax credit to family caregivers (see S. 1214), S7540 [9JN]

———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 a shorter recovery period for the depreciation of certain leasehold improvements (see S. 576), S3369 [7MR] (see H.R. 1634), H2821 [3AP]

———provide a shorter recovery period for the depreciation of certain restaurant buildings (see S. 973), S5650 [1MY] (see H.R. 571), H319 [5FE]

———provide a special depreciation allowance for property acquired during a certain period (see H.R. 683), H390 [11FE]

———provide a tax credit for property owners who remove lead-based paint hazards (see S. 1228), S7619 [10JN] (see H.R. 3107), H8380 [17SE]

———provide a temporary exclusion for Armed Forces Reserve members and Dept. of Defense civilian employees serving in a combat zone (see H.R. 1133), H1679 [6MR]

———provide a uniform definition of a qualifying child (see S. 755), S4629 [1AP] (see H.R. 2718), H6706 [14JY]

———provide an additional personal exemption for certain dependents with long-term care needs (see H.R. 2697), H6602 [10JY]

———provide an exclusion for gain from the sale of farmland to encourage the continued use of property for farming (see S. 1464), S9959 [25JY] (see H.R. 2978), H7784 [25JY]

———provide an increased low-income housing credit for property located adjacent to qualified census tracts (see S. 497), S3027 [3MR] (see H.R. 2372), H5044 [5JN]

———provide collegiate housing and infrastructure grants (see S. 1246), S7831 [12JN] (see H.R. 1523), H2514 [31MR]

———provide corporate income tax rate reductions (see H.R. 3343), H9738 [20OC]

———provide credits for constructing energy efficient homes or improving existing homes (see H.R. 1459), H2470 [27MR]

———provide fairness in tax collection procedures, improve administrative efficiency and confidentiality, and reform penalty and interest provisions (see S. 882), S5174 [10AP]

———provide for a tax deferral on gain from the sale of certain telecommunications businesses or tax incentives to promote ownership diversity (see S. 267), S1813 [30JA] (see H.R. 2044), H3972 [9MY]

———provide for an enhanced deduction for qualified residence interest on acquisition indebtedness for heritage homes (see H.R. 2785), H7085 [17JY]

———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 for equitable treatment of civilian employees of the Dept. of Defense serving in combat zones and members of the Armed Forces serving in combat zones (see H.R. 117), H56 [7JA]

———provide incentives for charitable contributions by individuals and businesses (see H.R. 7), H3760 [7MY]

———provide incentives for charitable contributions by individuals and businesses (H.R. 7), consideration (see H. Res. 370), H8282 [16SE]

———provide incentives for economic recovery (see S. 2), S2919 [27FE] (see S. 135), S133 [9JA] (see S. 414), S2522 [14FE] (see S. 1054), S6070 [13MY] (see H.R. 2), H1459 [27FE] (see H.R. 459), H242 [29JA]

———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 new technologies to reduce energy consumption in buildings (see H.R. 1271), H1900 [13MR]

———provide incentives to encourage diversity of ownership of telecommunications businesses (see H.R. 2604), H5928 [25JN]

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

———provide incentives to reduce energy consumption (see S. 507), S3086 [4MR]

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

———provide income tax credit to long-term caregivers (see S. 1031), S5950 [8MY]

———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 credit for educational expenses incurred in attending public or private elementary and secondary schools (see H.R. 499), H244 [29JA] (see H.R. 612), H321 [5FE]

———provide tax credit for elementary and secondary school personnel (see H.R. 614), H321 [5FE]

———provide tax credit for elementary and secondary school teachers (see H.R. 613), H321 [5FE]

———provide tax credit to teachers in rural or high unemployment areas or who achieve National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification (see S. 857), S5173 [10AP] (see H.R. 3338), H9687 [17OC]

———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]

———provide tax relief for the conversion of cooperative housing corporations into condominiums (see S. 58), S36 [7JA] (see H.R. 1383), H2268 [20MR]

———provide that the foreign tax credit not be redetermined relative to refunds of unlawful foreign taxes to taxpayers who successfully challenge those taxes (see H.R. 940), H1395 [26FE]

———reduce capital gains rates (see H.R. 311), H137 [8JA]

———reduce capital gains rates and allow exclusion of dividends for individuals (see H.R. 170), H57 [7JA]

———reduce capital gains rates and index the basis of certain assets (see H.R. 44), H53 [7JA]

———reduce corporate refunds by fines and penalties imposed for improper accounting or reporting practices or financial misstatements (see H.R. 2836), H7454 [23JY]

———reduce estate and gift tax rates (see H.R. 2502), H5551 [18JN]

———reduce estate and gift tax rates, increase exclusion equivalent and establish inflation adjustment for the unified credit, and increase gift tax exclusion (see H.R. 2480), H5407 [16JN]

———reduce estate tax rates and increase exclusion equivalent and establish inflation adjustment for the unified credit (see H.R. 2481), H5407 [16JN] (see H.R. 2682), H6464 [9JY]

———reduce holding period relative to determination whether horses are certain business assets (see S. 1759), S12888 [20OC]

———reduce individual capital gains rates (see H.R. 42), H53 [7JA]

———reduce the individual maximum rate of tax on certain unrecaptured gain (see H.R. 1514), H2514 [31MR]

———reform Internal Revenue Code (see H. Con. Res. 141), H2938 [8AP]

———regional cost of living adjustments for tax rate tables (see H.R. 150), H57 [7JA]

———reinstate Superfund and oil spill excise taxes and extend leaking underground storage tank taxes (see H.R. 610), H321 [5FE]

———remove the requirement of a mandatory beginning date for distributions from individual retirement accounts (see H.R. 315), H137 [8JA]

———remove the requirement of a mandatory beginning date for distributions from individual retirement accounts and elective deferrals under qualified cash or deferred arrangements (see H.R. 2340), H4977 [4JN]

———repeal alternative minimum tax (see H.R. 43), H53 [7JA] (see H.R. 1233), H1810 [12MR]

———repeal corporate income tax and estate and gift taxes, impose flat tax on earned income of individuals, and provide amnesty for tax liability from prior taxable years (see H.R. 1789), H3351 [11AP]

———repeal dollar limitation on contributions to funeral trusts (see H.R. 1727), H3301 [10AP]

———repeal double taxation of corporate profits (see H.R. 45), H53 [7JA]

———repeal estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes (see H.R. 51), H53 [7JA]

———repeal estate and generation-skipping transfer taxes (see S. 169), S848 [15JA]

———repeal excise tax on the net investment income of tax-exempt foundations (see H.R. 199), H58 [7JA]

———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 income tax, abolish the IRS, and institute a national retail sales tax (see S. 1493), S10265 [30JY] (see H.R. 25), H52 [7JA]

———repeal Internal Revenue Code and replace with a flat tax (see S. 1040), S6029 [12MY] (see H.R. 1783), H3351 [11AP] (see H.R. 3060), H8174 [10SE]

———repeal limits on the deduction for interest on education loans and make deduction permanent (see H.R. 3465), H10977 [6NO]

———repeal limits on the deduction of interest on education loans (see H.R. 1296), H1902 [13MR] (see H.R. 3384), H9981 [28OC]

———repeal percentage depletion allowance for certain hardrock mines (see S. 44), S36 [7JA]

———repeal provisions that limit the interest deduction on refinanced home mortgage indebtedness to the amount of the indebtedness being refinanced (see H.R. 171), H57 [7JA]

———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]

———repeal the inclusion in gross income of unemployment compensation (see H.R. 798), H701 [13FE]

———repeal the medicine and drugs limitation on the deduction for medical care (see H.R. 3596), H12307 [21NO]

———repeal the mid-quarter convention for depreciable property (see H.R. 1535), H2585 [1AP]

———replace recapture bond provisions of low-income housing tax credit program (see H.R. 3610), H12308 [21NO]

———replace the earned income tax credit, child tax credit, and the deduction for dependents with a simplified family tax credit (see H.R. 3655), H12918 [8DE]

———require child support delinquent parents to include their unpaid obligation in gross income and allow custodial parents a deduction for unpaid child support (see S. 127), S132 [9JA] (see H.R. 262), H135 [8JA]

———restore applicability of estate tax to estates over a certain amount and a maximum rate, and deposit revenues from estate tax into Social Security trust funds (see H.R. 2532), H5662 [19JN]

———restore deduction for travel expenses of a taxpayer's spouse who accompanies the taxpayer on business travel (see S. 1408), S9414 [15JY] (see H.R. 1313), H1953 [18MR]

———restore estate tax and repeal carryover basis rule, increase estate and gift tax unified credit, and reduce rate of estate and gifts taxes to the generally applicable capital gains rates (see H.R. 2610), H6261 [26JN]

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

———restructure and replace the income tax system to meet national priorities (see H.R. 269), H135 [8JA]

———simplify application of self-employment tax in the case of family farming businesses (see H.R. 905), H1333 [25FE]

———simplify certain Internal Revenue Code provisions relative to individuals and small businesses (see H.R. 22), H52 [7JA]

———simplify certain rules governing the taxation of U.S. businesses operating abroad (see H.R. 285), H136 [8JA]

———simplify Internal Revenue Code through revenue neutral proposals (see H.R. 1939), H3636 [1MY]

———suspend future reductions of the highest income tax rate if there is a Federal on-budget deficit (see S. 126), S132 [9JA]

———temporarily exclude long-term capital gain from the gross income of individuals (see H.R. 462), H242 [29JA]

———terminate Internal Revenue Code (see H.R. 278), H136 [8JA]

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

———treat distributions from publicly traded partnerships as qualifying income of regulated investment companies (see S. 752), S4629 [1AP] (see H.R. 1536), H2585 [1AP]

———treat Indian tribes the same as State governments relative to gambling (see H.R. 2675), H6463 [9JY]

———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 paid on behalf of Federal employees under Federal student loan repayment programs (see S. 512), S3086 [4MR] (see H.R. 1056), H1514 [4MR]

———treatment of amounts received under qualified group legal services plans (see S. 1556), S10906 [1AU] (see H.R. 973), H1461 [27FE] (see H.R. 1549), H2586 [1AP] (see H.R. 2031), H3856 [8MY]

———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 capital losses by individuals (see H.R. 572), H319 [5FE]

———treatment of capital to cover installation costs of residential solar energy equipment (see H.R. 694), H391 [11FE]

———treatment of certain Armed Forces enlistment, accession, reenlistment, and retention bonuses (see H.R. 1518), H2514 [31MR]

———treatment of certain CERCLA settlement funds (see H.R. 805), H701 [13FE]

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

———treatment of certain compensation received by members of the Armed Forces serving in South Korea (see H.R. 1581), H2819 [3AP]

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

———treatment of certain expenses in connection with determination, collection, or refund of any tax (see H.R. 1781), H3351 [11AP]

———treatment of certain expenses of elementary and secondary school teachers (see H.R. 3025), H8016 [5SE]

———treatment of certain expenses of rural letter carriers relative to the business use of a personal vehicle (see S. 1333), S8559 [25JN] (see H.R. 2265), H4737 [22MY]

———treatment of certain hospital support organizations as qualified organizations for determining acquisition indebtedness (see S. 97), S37 [7JA]

———treatment of certain motor vehicle dealer transitional assistance (see S. 1305), S8300 [20JN] (see H.R. 870), H1331 [25FE]

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

———treatment of certain stipends paid from a State program to volunteer workers who have attained age 60 (see H.R. 2104), H4130 [14MY]

———treatment of certain tax attributes for taxpayers who file consolidated returns (see H.R. 2706), H6603 [10JY]

———treatment of certain transfers of intangible property for foreign tax credit limitation purposes (see H.R. 1159), H1680 [6MR]

———treatment of Community Development Block Grant funds relative to recovery of New York, NY, after terrorist attacks (see H.R. 148), H57 [7JA]

———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 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 Federal funds used for relief and revitalization of New York, NY, after terrorist attacks (see H.R. 1620), H2820 [3AP]

———treatment of foods and supplements for dietary use, and medical foods as medical expenses (see H.R. 2627), H6262 [26JN]

———treatment of foreign investments through U.S. regulated investment companies (see H.R. 1669), H2938 [8AP]

———treatment of frequent flyer mileage awards (see H.R. 1139), H1679 [6MR]

———treatment of gain from the sale of a business closely held by an individual who has attained age 62 (see H.R. 1419), H2310 [25MR]

———treatment of gain from the sale of farmland (see H.R. 310), H137 [8JA]

———treatment of gold, silver, and platinum in the same manner as stocks and bonds for purposes of maximum capital gains rates (see S. 611), S3729 [13MR] (see H.R. 574), H319 [5FE]

———treatment of gross income gain on the sale or exchange of certain property restricted to use as farmland (see H.R. 159), H57 [7JA]

———treatment of ground rent paid on land on which a qualified residence is located and which is allotted or Indian-owned land (see H.R. 1426), H2310 [25MR]

———treatment of health care subsidy payments made to employers on behalf of volunteer firefighters (see H.R. 3375), H9981 [28OC]

———treatment of higher education expenses (see H.R. 129), H56 [7JA] (see H.R. 826), H702 [13FE] (see H.R. 1304), H1952 [18MR]

———treatment of income earned by individuals who are not citizens or U.S. nationals relative to coverage under the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program (see H.R. 489), H243 [29JA]

———treatment of income from land sold to a government agency or a nonprofit organization for conservation purposes (see H.R. 2964), H7784 [25JY]

———treatment of individual investment accounts (see H.R. 3397), H10129 [29OC]

———treatment of individual retirement accounts relative to charitable contributions (see S. 209), S1479 [23JA] (see S. 283), S1871 [4FE] (see H.R. 2230), H4735 [22MY]

———treatment of interest paid in certain situations where the debt is guaranteed by a related foreign person (see S. 1894), S15187 [19NO]

———treatment of land rented on a net cash basis to any member of the decedent's family (see H.R. 2251), H4736 [22MY]

———treatment of legal fees awarded or received in connection with nonphysical personal injury cases (see H.R. 3580), H12307 [21NO]

———treatment of medical expenses (see H.R. 53), H53 [7JA] (see H.R. 1117), H1678 [6MR]

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

———treatment of overnight travel expenses of National Guard and Reserve members (see H.R. 1369), H2132 [19MR]

———treatment of political organizations (see S. 1059), S6255 [14MY]

———treatment of private activity bonds for water and sewage facilities (see H.R. 3410), H10235 [30OC]

———treatment of real estate investment trusts (see S. 1568), S10906 [1AU] (see H.R. 1890), H3570 [30AP]

———treatment of roof systems (see S. 1679), S12192 [30SE] (see H.R. 3310), H9613 [16OC]

———treatment of small businesses (see S. 842), S5059 [9AP]

———treatment of social clubs found to be practicing prohibited discrimination (see H.R. 212), H59 [7JA]

———treatment of Social Security and certain railroad retirement benefits (see H.R. 2346), H5043 [5JN]

———treatment of Social Security benefits (see H.R. 424), H218 [28JA] (see H.R. 1897), H3570 [30AP]

———treatment of tax-exempt interest relative to Social Security benefits and income determination (see H.R. 202), H59 [7JA]

———treatment of the sale of a principal residence, and death gratuity payments, by a member of the uniformed services (see H.R. 878), H1331 [25FE] (see H.R. 1307), H1952 [18MR]

———treatment of the sale of a principal residence, and death gratuity payments, by a member of the uniformed services (H.R. 878), consideration (see H. Res. 126), H1639 [5MR]

———treatment of the sale of a principal residence by, and death gratuity payments to, a member of the uniformed services (see H.R. 1664), H2937 [8AP]

———treatment of the sale of a principal residence by a member of the uniformed services or Foreign Service (see S. 284), S1871 [4FE]

———treatment of unrelated business taxable income (see H.R. 1912), H3635 [1MY]

———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]

———waive early withdrawal penalty for distributions from qualified retirement plans to individuals called to active duty for an extended period (see H.R. 1779), H3351 [11AP]

Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act: establish an alternative trigger for determining if an extended benefit period is in effect for a State for purposes of certain benefits (see S. 1870), S14965 [17NO] (see H.R. 3487), H11159 [14NO]

———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]

Terrorism: compensate victims of attacks on U.S. embassies in East Africa and the U.S.S. Cole on the same basis as victims of attacks on World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Somerset County, PA (see S. 1728), S12533 [14OC]

———increase criminal penalties relative to terrorist murders and deny Federal benefits to terrorists (see H.R. 2934), H7783 [25JY]

———liquidate certain blocked assets of terrorists and terrorist organizations for the compensation of terrorism victims (see H.R. 922), H1394 [26FE]

———provide benefits to U.S. victims of international terrorism (see S. 1275), S7980 [17JN]

———provide compensation for victims of 1993 World Trade Center bombing (see S. 549), S3252 [6MR]

———provide compensation to victims of terrorist-related laboratory-confirmed anthrax infection in the U.S. during the period between September 13, 2001, and November 30, 2001 (see S. 1740), S12737 [16OC]

Tobacco products: eliminate quotas and price supports, provide transition assistance for producers, protect markets, quality, and availability, and establish a trust fund to finance such actions (see H.R. 3160), H8904 [24SE]

———replace existing tobacco program with a federally chartered corporation, compensate quota holders, provide transition assistance for producers and increase competitiveness of domestically produced tobacco (see H.R. 986), H1462 [27FE]

———replace existing tobacco program with programs designed to assist producers, compensate quota holders for the loss of quota asset value, and assist producers who forgo obtaining a production license (see H.R. 245), H134 [8JA]

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

Tubman, Harriet Ross: payment of pension for Army services as a nurse and a scout during the Civil War (see H. Con. Res. 7), H60 [7JA]

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

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: authorize additional compensation for a service-connected disability rated totally disabling for whom a family member dependent on the veteran for support provides care (see H.R. 2380), H5044 [5JN]

———change effective date for paid-up coverage under the Survivor Benefit Plan (see H.R. 1653), H2863 [7AP]

———clarify prohibition on assignment of veterans benefits to agreements regarding future receipt of compensation and educate veterans on available legitimate financial services (see S. 257), S1812 [30JA] (see H.R. 2975), H7784 [25JY]

———continuation of dependency and indemnity compensation for the surviving spouse of a veteran if such spouse remarries after a certain age (see H.R. 36), H53 [7JA]

———enhance cooperation and the sharing of resources between the Dept. of Veterans Affairs and the Dept. of Defense relative to veterans' benefits programs (see H.R. 1911), H3635 [1MY]

———exclude certain income from consideration for determining rent paid for federally assisted housing (see H.R. 1418), H2310 [25MR]

———exclude proceeds of life insurance from consideration as income for purposes of determining veterans' pension benefits (see H.R. 2163), H4367 [20MY]

———extend to additional military retirees with service-connected disabilities the special compensation authority provided for certain retirees with combat-related disabilities (see H.R. 2701), H6602 [10JY]

———improve benefits for former POWs (see S. 517), S3162 [5MR] (see H.R. 348), H169 [27JA]

———improve benefits for World War II Filipino veterans and their survivors (see S. 1213), S7540 [9JN]

———increase burial benefits for certain veterans buried in private or State-owned cemeteries (see H.R. 2066), H3973 [9MY]

———increase burial benefits for veterans and provide for inflation adjustment (see S. 1124), S6978 [22MY]

———increase rates of disability compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and dependency and indemnity compensation for survivors of certain disabled veterans (see S. 1131), S6978 [22MY] (see H.R. 1683), H3051 [9AP]

———increase the minimum Survivor Benefit Plan basic annuity for certain surviving spouses (see S. 401), S2457 [13FE] (see S. 451), S2839 [26FE] (see S. 585), S3410 [10MR]

———increase the minimum Survivor Benefit Plan basic annuity for certain surviving spouses and provide for an open season under that plan (see S. 1916), S15406 [21NO] (see H.R. 548), H318 [5FE]

———make certain improvements to the National Service Life Insurance and U.S. Government Life Insurance programs (see H.R. 1554), H2702 [2AP]

———modify and improve certain benefits (see H.R. 2297), H4787 [2JN]

———modify calculation of back pay for members of the Navy or Marine Corps who were approved for promotion while interned as POW during World War II (see S. 1057), S6255 [14MY] (see H.R. 2992), H7838 [3SE]

———permit concurrent receipt of military retired pay with service-connected disability benefits (see S. 392), S2456 [13FE] (see H.R. 303), H137 [8JA]

———permit concurrent receipt of military retired pay with service-connected disability benefits (H.R. 303), consideration (see H. Res. 251), H4738 [22MY]

———provide benefits to merchant mariners who served during a period of war (see H.R. 2593), H5814 [24JN]

———provide that remarriage of the surviving spouse of a veteran after a certain age will not result in termination of dependency and indemnity compensation (see S. 249), S1812 [30JA]

———repeal computation system that reduces annuity for surviving spouses at age 62 relative to Social Security offset (see H.R. 1592), H2819 [3AP]

Women: 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]

Conference reports

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

Descriptions

Small Business Expensing Improvement Act (S. 158), S300 [14JA]

Tax Administration Good Government Act (S. 882), S5228-S5232 [10AP]

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

Essays

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

Explanations

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

Social Security Protection Act (H.R. 743): Managers Amendment, S16180-S16182 [9DE]

Veterans Benefits Act (H.R. 2297), S15133-S15139 [19NO], H11716-H11722 [20NO]

Factsheets

Child Tax Credit Refundability: Committee on Ways and Means (House), H4994, H5017 [5JN]

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

Letters

Benefits for Victims of International Terrorism Act: Paul V. Kelly, Dept. of State, S8001 [17JN]

Cash balance pension conversion: several Members of Congress, S1792 [30JA]

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]

Combat imminent danger pay and family separation allowance reduction proposals: Representative Ruppersberger, H7996 [5SE]

Death Tax Repeal Permanency Act: David J. Frederickson, National Farmers Union, H5508 [18JN]

———National Automobile Dealers Association, E1306 [19JN]

Delta Air Lines, Inc., executive compensation: Leo F. Mullins, Delta Air Lines, H2805 [3AP]

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]

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]

Filipino Veterans' Benefits Act: Anthony J. Principi, Sec. of Veterans Affairs, S7551 [9JN]

First-Time Homebuyers' Tax Credit Act: Chris Stinebert, Manufactured Housing Institute, S7253 [3JN]

———Dwight Fettig, Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., S7253 [3JN]

———Floyd E. Stoner, American Bankers Association, S7253 [3JN]

———John Taylor, National Community Reinvestment Coalition, S7252 [3JN]

———Judy Kennedy, National Association of Affordable Housing Lenders, S7253 [3JN]

———Mary M. Fowlie, Standard Federal Bank, S7252 [3JN]

———Raul Yzaguirre, National Council of La Raza, S7253 [3JN]

———Robert R. Davis, America's Community Bankers (organization), S7254 [3JN]

———Roy O. Priest, National Congress for Community Economic Development, S7252 [3JN]

———Russell Sossamon, National American Indian Housing Council, S7254 [3JN]

———Thomas Bledsoe, Housing Partnership Network, S7252 [3JN]

———Tom Jones, Habitat for Humanity International, S7251 [3JN]

———William R. Daley, Federal National Mortgage Association, S7253 [3JN]

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

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

Imapct of budget proposals on veterans: Representative Spratt, Committee on the Budget (House), H2157 [20MR]

———several veterans organizations, H2157 [20MR]

———Steve A. Robertson, American Legion, H2157 [20MR]

Impact of budget proposals on veterans: Edward R. Heath, Sr., DAV, H2548 [1AP]

———Joseph L. Fox, Sr., Paralyzed Veterans of America (organization), H2548 [1AP]

———Ronald F. Conley, American Legion, Ray C. Sisk, VFW and Edward R. Heath, Sr., DAV, H2548 [1AP]

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]

Medicare reimbursement payments to physicians: Amy M. Lang and Daryl L. Figa, H9466 [15OC]

Military Pay Comparability Act: Military Coalition, E831 [1MY]

Naturalization requirements through Armed Forces service, naturalization benefits extension to Ready Reserve members, and posthumous benefits extension to surviving spouses, children, and parents: Dilia DeGrego, S7281 [4JN]

Pension Security Act: Representative Boehner, Committee on Education and the Workforce (House), H4060 [14MY]

———Representative Thomas, Committee on Ways and Means (House), H4060 [14MY]

Prohibit funding for implementing IRS regulations allowing the conversion of defined benefit pension plans into cash balance plans: Michael W. Naylor, AARP, S13091 [23OC]

Prohibit personal loans to corporate directors or chief officers: Senators Collins and Levin, Committee on Governmental Affairs (Senate), S2179 [11FE]

Provide compassionate payments to individuals who contracted HIV from a contaminated blood transfusion: Sandra Grissom, S10668 [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]

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]

Servicemembers Civil Relief Act: Representative Christopher H. Smith, Committee on Veterans' Affairs (House), H3699 [7MY]

———Representative Oxley, Committee on Financial Services (House), H3699 [7MY]

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

Social Security Protection Act: Anthony Pezza, National Council of Social Security Management Associations, Inc., H2650 [2AP]

———Anthony W. Batts, Long Beach, CA, Police Dept., H1543 [5MR]

———Consortium for Citizens With Disabilities, H1542 [5MR], H2651 [2AP]

———David Certner, AARP, H1541 [5MR], H2650 [2AP]

———James M. Horvath, Chartiers Township, PA, Police Dept., H1543 [5MR]

———John V. Mintz, Brecknock Township, PA, Police Dept., H1543 [5MR]

———Nancy G. Shor, National Organization of Social Security Claimants' Representatives, H1542 [5MR], H2651 [2AP]

———Paul Yost, Milton, PA, Police Dept., H1544 [5MR]

———Richard C. Birkel, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, H1542 [5MR]

———Richard H. James, Borough of Churchill, PA, Police Dept., H1543 [5MR]

———Ronald G. Bernoski, Association of Administrative Law Judges, H1543 [5MR], H2651 [2AP]

———Thomas A. Schatz, Council for Citizens Against Government Waste, H2650 [2AP]

———Warren C. Evans, Wayne County, MI, Office of the Sheriff, H1543 [5MR]

Social Security system: Stephen C. Goss, SSA, S3937-S3939 [19MR]

Tax treatment of certain CERCLA settlement funds: Robert E. Fabrican, EPA, E240 [13FE]

Teacher classroom supplies tax deduction increase and expansion to include qualified professional development expenses: Diane Shust and Randall Moody, National Education Association, S6216 [14MY]

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

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

Tribute to Boeing Guard and Reserve Network: Rudy F. de Leon, Boeing Co., S4677 [2AP]

TRICARE program eligibility for members of the Ready Reserve and their families: John F. Kane, Adjutants General Association of the U.S., S6662 [20MY]

———Military Coalition, S6662 [20MY]

———Richard C. Alexander, National Guard Association of the U.S., S6661 [20MY]

Veterans benefits funding: Dwight Radcliff, U.S. Veterans Initiative, Inc., H2575 [1AP]

———John Keaveney, New Directions, Inc., H2576 [1AP]

———Shad Meshad, National Veterans Foundation, H2576 [1AP]

Veterans Burial Benefits Improvement Act: Joseph L. Barnes, Fleet Reserve Association, S7011 [22MY]

———Raymond G. Boland, National Association of State Directors of Veterans Affairs, Inc., S7011 [22MY]

———several veterans organizations, S7011 [22MY]

———William A. Isokait, National Funeral Directors Association, S7011 [22MY]

Veterans Programs Improvement Act: Anthony J. Principi, Sec. of Veterans Affairs, S7033-S7037 [22MY]

Lists

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

North Dakota organizations that have endorsed the charitable individual retirement account rollover, S4946 [8AP]

Organizations supporting H.R. 743, Social Security Protection Act, H1541 [5MR]

Projected State shares of tobacco settlement payments under the Intermediate Sanctions Compensatory Revenue Adjustment (ISCRAA) Act, S5240 [10AP]

Supporters of Mikulski amendment on providing tax credit for individuals serving as caregivers of dependent relatives to S. Con. Res. 23, setting forth the Federal budget for 2003-2013, S4066 [20MR]

Motions

Community service: provide incentives for communities and individuals to serve those in need, improve public disclosure by certain organizations, and enhance ability of low-income individuals to build assets (S. 476), S5011 [9AP]

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

IRS: protect taxpayers and ensure accountability (H.R. 1528), H5595 [19JN]

Pensions: provide additional protection to participants in individual account plans and promote investment advice (H.R. 1000), H4089 [14MY]

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

Social Security: provide additional safeguards for certain beneficiaries with representative payees (H.R. 743), H2667 [2AP]

Taxation: accelerate increase in refundability of the child tax credit (S. 1162), S9089, S9090 [9JY]

———provide incentives for charitable contributions by individuals and businesses (H.R. 7), H8346 [17SE]

———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

``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]

Remarks in House

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

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

Alabama: proposed changes in State tax rates, H5658 [19JN]

Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act: provide for equitable allotment of lands to Alaskan Natives who are veterans (H.R. 951), E301 [27FE]

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

Armed Forces: alleviate delay in payment of the Selected Reserve reenlistment bonus to members who are mobilized (H.R. 1792), E777 [12AP]

———allow receipt of special pay by qualified dental officers while undergoing dental internship or residency training (H.R. 2287), E1101 [2JN]

———ensure military pay increases are comparable to private sector pay growth as measured by the Employment Cost Index (H.R. 1885), E830 [1MY]

———forgive certain overpayments of retired pay to deceased retired members after death (H.R. 2944), E1642 [25JY]

———impact of budget proposals on military families, H1912 [18MR]

———improve benefits for members, veterans, and their dependents and survivors (H.R. 2569), H9096 [1OC], H10452-H10454 [5NO], H10544, H10546 [6NO]

———increase death gratuity and exclude from gross income for tax purposes (H.R. 3019), H9972 [28OC], E2154 [28OC]

———increase death gratuity and exclude from gross income for tax purposes (H.R. 3365), H9967, H9971, H9972, H9973, H9974, H9977 [28OC], H10058-H10062 [29OC], E2154 [28OC], E2184 [31OC]

———increase death gratuity and exclude from gross income for tax purposes (H.R. 3365), Senate amendments, H10367-H10373 [5NO]

———increase dependency and indemnity compensation payable to a surviving spouse of a member in any case in which there are dependent children (H.R. 1750), E764 [11AP]

———increase pay and benefits for active and reserve military personnel in Iraq, H9597-H9599 [16OC], H9647 [17OC]

———increase the rate of imminent danger special pay and the amount of the family separation allowance, H8167-H8171, H8177, H8178 [10SE]

———pay one-time bonus to members who served or serve in a combat zone in Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom, H9487 [16OC], H9622, H9623 [17OC]

———pay one-time bonus to members who served or serve in a combat zone in Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom (H.R. 3051), H8959, H9002 [30SE], H9079 [1OC]

———provide automatic naturalization for noncitizen members ordered to serve in a combat zone and extend immigration benefits to the surviving family of members granted posthumous citizenship through death (H.R. 1850), E814 [30AP]

———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]

———provide dislocation allowance to retired members and those on temporary disability retired list moving from their last duty station to designated home (H.R. 995), E332 [27FE]

———restore the tax-exempt status of death gratuity payments (H.R. 693), H6585 [10JY], H7230 [22JY], H8019 [9SE], H8260 [16SE], H8405 [23SE], H8891 [24SE], H8938 [25SE], H9076 [1OC], H9788 [21OC]

———tribute to businesses and business owners for support of our troops and their families (H. Res. 201), H4892-H4895, H4902, H4920 [4JN], E1174 [9JN], E1189 [10JN], E1198 [11JN]

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: extend reenactment period for chapter 12 of the bankruptcy code relative to family farmers (H.R. 2465), H5673-H5675 [23JN]

———extend reenactment period for chapter 12 of the bankruptcy code relative to family farmers (H.R. 3542), E2366 [21NO]

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

———provide for avoidance of certain transfers, and alternate prosecution of certain actions, relative to certain retirement benefits (H.R. 2609), E1377 [27JN]

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

———treatment of alimony and child support payments, H2097, H2098 [19MR]

Bretton Woods Agreement Act: sunset (H.R. 2780), E1520 [18JY]

California: anniversary of Proposition 13 lowering and capping property tax rates, E1204 [11JN]

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

Chesterfield County, VA: tribute to efforts to assist military reservists called to active duty, E1662 [25JY]

Children and youth: 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]

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]

Civil rights: 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]

Claims: extend deadline for victims of terrorist attacks to file claims to receive certain compensation (H.R. 3084), E1794 [16SE]

Coast Guard: pension funding, H2159 [20MR]

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

Courts: adjust salaries for Supreme Court Justices and Federal judges (H.R. 16), H106-H109 [8JA]

———adjust salaries for Supreme Court Justices and Federal judges (H.R. 3349), H10348, H10349 [5NO]

———increase annual salaries of justices and judges (H.R. 2118), E979 [15MY]

Credit: protect consumers from payday lenders demanding exorbitant interest rates and participating in other unfair practices (H.R. 2407), E1193 [10JN]

Delta Air Lines, Inc.: actions of Chief Executive Officer Leo F. Mullins relative to executive compensation, H2805 [3AP]

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]

Dept. of Education: collect all grant repayments and redirect funds to low-income and historically low-achieving school districts, H6371 [9JY]

Dept. of Labor: 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 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: allow payment of certain benefits to begin effective the day in which hospitalization or treatment begins (H.R. 3344), E2097 [20OC]

———reduce backlog of benefit claims (H.R. 1264), H11004 [7NO]

———repeal limitation on the payment of accrued benefits that are due, and unpaid, upon the death of a veteran or other beneficiary (H.R. 241), E51 [8JA]

———repeal the offset from surviving spouse annuities under the military Survivor Benefit Plan for amounts paid as dependency and indemnity compensation (H.R. 1726), H5256 [11JN]

Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act: reauthorize temporary mortgage and rental payments program (H.R. 827), E243 [13FE]

Diseases: protect health of individuals receiving smallpox vaccine and provide compensation to and access to care for individuals sustaining injury as a result of smallpox vaccination (H.R. 865), E267, E268 [13FE]

———provide compassionate payments to individuals who contracted HIV from a contaminated blood transfusion (H.R. 2837), E1581 [24JY]

District of Columbia: domestic partner benefits funding, H7963 [5SE]

———provide full voting representation in Congress (H.R. 1285), H1879 [13MR], E466 [13MR]

———reductions in Social Security annuities for certain public safety officers, H7989, H7990 [5SE]

Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: make repeal of estate taxes permanent, H64 [8JA]

———make repeal of estate taxes permanent (H.R. 57), H1442 [27FE]

———make repeal of estate taxes permanent (H.R. 8), H5448 [17JN], H5472, H5473, H5492-H5514 [18JN], H5701-H5705 [23JN], E1306 [19JN], E1313 [20JN], E1357, E1358 [26JN]

———make repeal of estate taxes permanent (H.R. 8), consideration (H. Res. 281), H5475-H5491 [18JN]

———suspend phase-in of additional tax reductions while the U.S. is in a state of war or on high military alert (H.R. 436), E101 [29JA]

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

———national objectives priority assignments, H2563-H2567 [1AP], H2915 [8AP], H7024 [17JY]

Education: 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]

———investment in education individual retirement accounts, H1620 [5MR]

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

Employment: 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]

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

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

———increase need-based funding to local workforce development boards, H3814, H3815 [8MY]

———provide assistance to women for nontraditional job training, H3772 [8MY]

———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]

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

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

———require equitable funding of pension plans maintained by corporations which also maintain executive pension plans (H.R. 2078), H4084 [14MY], E939 [13MY]

Family and Medical Leave Act: clarify (H.R. 35), H25 [7JA]

FCC: limit reimbursement of travel expenses of members and employees, H7262, H7263 [22JY]

Federal employees: adjust certain Federal annuity computations relative to periods of receiving disability payments (H.R. 978), H8097, H8098 [10SE]

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

———establish a precious metals investment option in the Thrift Savings Fund (H.R. 3101), E1812 [16SE]

———impact of metropolitan statistical area boundary revisions on locality pay, H7920 [4SE]

———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]

Financial institutions: exclude from gross income certain interest amounts received by individuals (H.R. 1163), H2314 [26MR]

Financial Planning Week: support goals and ideals (H. Con. Res. 176), H10247 [4NO], E2239 [5NO]

Firefighters: provide death and disability benefits to certain contracted aerial firefighters who suffer death or disability in the line of duty (H.R. 977), E328 [27FE]

Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (organization): limit top salary levels of administrators to that of the Vice President of the U.S., H3602 [1MY]

Government: 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]

Health: tax treatment of certain medical savings accounts and provide for medical freedom accounts under the Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program (H.R. 2114), H5554, H5649 [19JN], H5692 [23JN]

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

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

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

———establish an earned income credit public awareness campaign (H.R. 2756), E1494 [17JY]

———protect taxpayers and ensure accountability (H.R. 1528), H5472, H5514-H5535 [18JN], H5562-H5597 [19JN], E1312 [20JN], E1324 [23JN], E1361 [26JN]

———protect taxpayers and ensure accountability (H.R. 1528), consideration (H. Res. 282), H5474, H5475 [18JN]

———protect taxpayers and ensure accountability (H.R. 1528), motion to recommit, H5595, H5596 [19JN]

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

Klamath Basin: prohibit the renewal of certain agricultural leases permitting the growing of alfalfa or row crops, H7043-H7047 [17JY]

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]

Medicaid: expand coverage for uninsured children, H2462 [27MR]

Medicare: accelerate reduction on the amount of beneficiary copayment liability for outpatient services (H.R. 1635), E670 [3AP]

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

———establish a voluntary program to limit maximum out-of-pocket expenditures for beneficiaries (H.R. 2199), E1030 [21MY]

———improve reimbursement payments to physicians, H9258 [7OC], H9466 [15OC], H11198 [17NO], H11493-H11500 [18NO], H11598-H11605, H11637, H11639 [19NO], H11845-H11853 [20NO]

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

Members of Congress: deny cost-of-living adjustments, H7848 [4SE], E1714, E1725 [5SE], E1761 [10SE], E1855 [23SE]

Minimum wage: level, H10331 [4NO]

———level (H.R. 965), E333 [27FE]

Minnesota: encourage the use of medical savings accounts by certain current and retired public employees (H.R. 1670), H2867 [8AP]

NASA: prohibit voluntary separation incentive payments funding unless Administrator certifies that such payments will not result in loss of skilled workers, H7699 [25JY]

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

National Guard: clarify that the weapons of mass destruction team be classified as a first responder to domestic terrorism and qualify for hostile fire and imminent danger pay, H4587 [22MY]

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

Pensions: allow for alienation of benefits to satisfy court judgments, decrees, or orders requiring restitution for embezzlement of State or local government funds (H.R. 2222), E1071 [23MY]

———change 30-year treasury bond rate to a fixed rate for calculation of the maximum cap on benefits under small business defined benefit plans, E2070 [17OC]

———change the 30-year treasury bond rate to a composite corporate rate, H11830, H11831 [20NO]

———change the 30-year treasury bond rate to a composite corporate rate (H.R. 3108), H9250 [7OC], H9293-H9302 [8OC], E1839 [17SE], E2070 [17OC]

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

———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 additional protection to participants in individual account plans and promote investment advice (H.R. 1000), H3978 [13MY], H4021, H4040-H4092 [14MY], E338, E339 [27FE], E975, E980 [15MY]

———provide additional protection to participants in individual account plans and promote investment advice (H.R. 1000), consideration (H. Res. 230), H4035-H4040 [14MY]

———provide additional protection to participants in individual account plans and promote investment advice (H.R. 1000), motion to recommit, H4090 [14MY]

———provide special funding requirements for certain pension plans maintained by commercial passenger air carriers, H11829, H11831 [20NO]

———reform (H.R. 1776), H9300 [8OC]

Postal Service: reform funding of Civil Service Retirement System benefits for employees (H.R. 735), H2444 [27MR], E229 [13FE]

———reform funding of Civil Service Retirement System benefits for employees (H.R. 735), unanimous-consent agreement, H2555 [1AP]

———reform funding of Civil Service Retirement System benefits for employees (S. 380), H2836 [7AP], H2901-H2909 [8AP], E728 [10AP]

Public safety officers: ensure that officers who suffer a fatal heart attack or stroke while on duty shall be presumed to have died in the line of duty for purposes of survivor benefits (H.R. 919), H1522 [5MR], H4022 [14MY], H8065 [9SE], H9110 [1OC], E309 [27FE]

———ensure that officers who suffer a fatal heart attack or stroke while on duty shall be presumed to have died in the line of duty for purposes of survivor benefits (S. 459), H12299 [21NO]

———permit military service performed by District of Columbia police officers, firemen, and certain Federal law enforcement officers to count toward retirement calculation (H.R. 3054), H9320-H9322 [8OC]

Public welfare programs: reform, H395 [12FE]

Republican Party: national agenda, H5412 [17JN]

Securities: permit church pension plans to be invested in collective trusts (H.R. 1533), H2558 [1AP], H7808 [3SE]

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

———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]

Social Security: budget treatment of trust funds, H1361 [26FE], H1804, H1805 [12MR], H1885-H1888, H1892 [13MR], H2113, H2114, H2116 [19MR], H3294, H3295 [10AP], H4335 [20MY], H5073, H5075 [9JN], H7213-H7216 [21JY], H8272, H8275, H8276 [16SE], H9475 [15OC]

———create personal guarantee accounts ensuring full benefits for all workers and their families, restore long-term solvency, and make certain benefit improvements (H.R. 75), H2593 [2AP], E16 [8JA]

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

———invest trust funds in marketable interest-bearing securities and insured certificates of deposit, and protect trust funds from public debt limit (H.R. 219), H2652 [2AP], E1 [8JA]

———provide additional safeguards for certain beneficiaries with representative payees (H.R. 743), H1493 [4MR], H1519, H1521, H1524-H1550 [5MR], H2625 [2AP], E229, E230 [13FE], E390 [7MR]

———provide additional safeguards for certain beneficiaries with representative payees (H.R. 743), consideration (H. Res. 168), H2591-H2603 [2AP]

———provide additional safeguards for certain beneficiaries with representative payees (H.R. 743), motion to recommit, H2667 [2AP]

———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]

———reduce the age at which an eligible individual may be paid widow's or widower's insurance benefits (H.R. 1923), H5033 [5JN], E895 [9MY]

———reform, H7213-H7216 [21JY]

———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, H1519, H1544-H1549 [5MR], H2592-H2603, H2642-H2652, H2661-H2668 [2AP], H6370 [9JY]

———solvency, H4259 [20MY], H9265-H9267 [7OC]

Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act: restate, clarify, and revise (H.R. 100), H3688-H3700, H3712 [7MY], H12868-H12878 [8DE], E14 [8JA], E915 [9MY]

SSI: eliminate the unfair and disadvantageous treatment of cash military compensation other than basic pay (H.R. 2791), E1537 [18JY]

Taxation: accelerate elimination of the marriage penalty, H4757 [2JN], H4791 [3JN], H5048 [9JN]

———accelerate increase in refundability of the child tax credit, H4757-H4761 [2JN], H4792, H4793, H4795, H4796, H4797, H4845-H4847, H4850-H4857, H4860, H4861 [3JN], H4881, H4882, H4883, H4915, H4954, H4956-H4964 [4JN], H4983, H4984, H4985, H5033 [5JN], H5063-H5067, H5071, H5074 [9JN]

———accelerate increase in refundability of the child tax credit (H.R. 2325), H5096 [10JN], E1164 [5JN]

———allow a deduction for premiums on mortgage insurance (H.R. 1336), E505 [18MR]

———allow a deduction for State and local sales taxes in lieu of State and local income taxes, H4720 [22MY]

———allow a married couple who operates an unincorporated business as co-owners to file separate returns for purposes of the self-employment tax (H.R. 1640), E673 [3AP]

———allow a recovery period for depreciation of motorsport entertainment complexes (H.R. 2900), E1629 [25JY]

———allow a refundable credit for the purchase of private health insurance (H.R. 1236), H5649 [19JN]

———allow a tax credit for certain energy-efficient property (H.R. 2113), E974 [15MY]

———allow certain State and local tax debt to be collected through the reduction of Federal tax refunds (H.R. 2958), E1636, E1658 [25JY]

———allow credit for insurance costs against negative outcomes from surgery and malpractice of a physician (H.R. 1249), H1859 [13MR], E437 [12MR]

———allow credits for dependents within a household (H.R. 181), H1520 [5MR]

———allow deduction to corporations for dividends paid (H.R. 312), E44 [8JA]

———allow drug manufacturers a tax credit if they certify that the price of a drug in the U.S. is not greater than its price in Canada or Mexico (H.R. 354), amendment process, H675 [13FE]

———allow Federal civilian and military retirees to pay health insurance premiums on a pretax basis and allow a deduction for TRICARE supplemental premiums, H6177 [26JN]

———allow individuals to defer recognition of reinvested capital gains distributions from regulated investment companies (H.R. 1989), E877 [6MY]

———allow residents of States with no income tax a deduction for State and local sales taxes (H.R. 261), E59 [8JA]

———allow residents of States with no income tax a deduction for State and local sales taxes (H.R. 689), E194 [12FE]

———allow tax credits for certain elementary and secondary school expenses and contributions to charitable school-tuition organizations (H.R. 611), E159 [6FE], E1927 [30SE]

———allow use of principal repayments to issue additional mortgages and modify price limitations under the mortgage revenue bond program and change income limit for housing credit program (H.R. 284), E46, E48 [8JA]

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

———apply graduated income tax rates for principal campaign committees of congressional candidates to comparable committees of candidates for State and local offices (H.R. 2368), E1153 [5JN]

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

———change deadline for filing income tax returns (H.R. 1725), H8288 [17SE]

———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]

———constitutional amendment to abolish personal income, estate, and gift taxes and to prohibit the Government from engaging in business in competition with its citizens (H.J. Res. 15), E79 [28JA]

———eliminate double taxation of dividends, H65 [8JA], H1284 [25FE], H1441 [27FE], H1964 [19MR], H4225 [19MY]

———eliminate noncorporate capital gains tax (H.R. 301), E44 [8JA]

———end abusive tax sheltering activities by corporations, H8317, H8320, H8322, H8323 [17SE]

———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]

———exclude dividends received by individuals from gross income (H.R. 225), H397 [12FE], H1816 [13MR]

———exclude from gross income a percentage of lifetime annuity payments (H.R. 2458), E1246 [13JN]

———exclude from gross income certain interest amounts received by individuals (H.R. 1163), H2314 [26MR]

———expand availability of the refundable tax credit for health insurance costs of certain displaced workers, H5595, H5596 [19JN]

———expand depreciation benefits available to small businesses for new business investment and equipment (H.R. 179), E28 [8JA]

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

———extend certain expiring provisions of the Internal Revenue Code (H.R. 3521), H11762-H11833 [20NO]

———extend credits to assist in the purchase of fishing safety equipment (H.R. 2973), E1654 [25JY]

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

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

———increase refundability of child tax credit, clarify eligibility of Armed Forces pay for such credit, and accelerate marriage penalty relief in earned income tax credit, H5091, H5093, H5096, H5098, H5099, H5130-H5134, H5160 [10JN], H5179, H5191-H5197, H5243, H5246, H5247, H5253 [11JN], H5270, H5317-H5342, H5346 [12JN], H5432-H5437, H5441, H5445 [17JN], H5477-H5491 [18JN], H5555, H5557-H5562, H5590, H5591, H5594 [19JN], H5686, H5690 [23JN], H5822, H5910 [25JN], H6468 [10JY], H6826-H6834 [15JY], H6985-H6990 [16JY], H7107-H7112 [17JY], H7158, H7162 [18JY], H7320-H7326 [22JY], H7444-H7449 [23JY], H7621, H7622-H7630 [25JY], H7931-H7936 [4SE], H7996-H8001 [5SE], H8178-H8182 [10SE], H8354, H8359-H8361 [17SE], H8930-H8935 [25SE], H9067-H9073 [1OC], H9346-H9349 [8OC], H9784-H9787 [21OC], H10434-H10438 [5NO], E1202, E1211 [11JN], E1263 [16JN], E1280 [17JN], E1293 [18JN]

———increase refundability of child tax credit, clarify eligibility of Armed Forces pay for such credit, and accelerate marriage penalty relief in earned income tax credit (H.R. 2286), H4859 [3JN], H4986-H4996, H5012-H5020, H5032, H5040 [5JN], H5057-H5061 [9JN], H5092, H5094, H5098, H5161 [10JN], H5178 [11JN], E1100 [2JN], E1168 [5JN]

———increase refundability of child tax credit, clarify eligibility of Armed Forces pay for such credit, and accelerate marriage penalty relief in earned income tax credit (H.R. 2286), unanimous-consent request, H4803, H4811 [3JN]

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

———installment reporting of certain gain from the sale of an interest in service business (H.R. 1129), E404 [7MR]

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

———permit cooperatives to pay dividends on preferred stock without reducing patronage dividends (H.R. 1671), E701 [8AP]

———prevent corporations from avoiding the U.S. income tax by reincorporating in a foreign country, H1975 [19MR], H3101 [10AP], H4852 [3JN]

———prevent corporations from avoiding the U.S. income tax by reincorporating in a foreign country (H.R. 737), H1522 [5MR]

———prohibit the implementation of discriminatory precertification requirements for the earned income tax credit (H.R. 1894), E872 [6MY]

———provide a credit and a deduction for small political contributions (H.R. 157), E9 [8JA]

———provide a credit to promote homeownership and community development (H.R. 839), H9044 [1OC]

———provide a one-time increase in the amount excludable from the sale of a principal residence by taxpayers of a certain age (H.R. 1922), H5033 [5JN], E895 [9MY]

———provide collegiate housing and infrastructure grants (H.R. 1523), E624 [31MR]

———provide corporate income tax rate reductions (H.R. 3343), E2098 [20OC]

———provide credits for constructing energy efficient homes or improving existing homes, H3080 [10AP], H11386 [18NO]

———provide for a tax deferral on gain from the sale of certain telecommunications businesses or tax incentives to promote ownership diversity (H.R. 2044), E917 [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 charitable contributions by individuals and businesses (H.R. 7), H8304-H8356 [17SE], E1865 [23SE], E1911 [29SE], E2336 [19NO]

———provide incentives for charitable contributions by individuals and businesses (H.R. 7), consideration (H. Res. 370), H8301-H8304 [17SE]

———provide incentives for charitable contributions by individuals and businesses (H.R. 7), motion to recommit, H8354, H8355 [17SE]

———provide incentives for economic recovery, H36 [7JA], H65, H66, H127-H132 [8JA], H156, H160-H165 [27JA], H198-H204 [28JA], 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], E145, 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]

———provide incentives for new technologies to reduce energy consumption in buildings (H.R. 1271), E470, E472 [13MR]

———provide incentives to encourage diversity of ownership of telecommunications businesses (H.R. 2604), E1357 [26JN]

———provide tax credit for educational expenses incurred in attending public or private elementary and secondary schools (H.R. 499), E113 [29JA]

———provide tax credit for educational expenses incurred in attending public or private elementary and secondary schools (H.R. 612), E155 [6FE], E1927 [30SE]

———provide tax credit for elementary and secondary school personnel (H.R. 614), H2652 [2AP], E156 [6FE]

———provide tax credit for elementary and secondary school teachers (H.R. 613), H2652 [2AP], E156 [6FE]

———rates, H65 [8JA], H173 [28JA], H1608 [5MR], H1733-H1735 [11MR], H1752, H1754, H1779, H1800, H1806 [12MR], H1891 [13MR], H1940, H1943, H1944 [18MR], H2113-H2117 [19MR], H2141, H2142, H2143, H2210, H2221, H2223, H2251-H2262 [20MR], H3409, H3410 [29AP], H5195 [11JN], H6500, H6501, H6502, H6503, H6506, H6507 [10JY], H7814 [3SE], H8089 [10SE], H9038 [1OC], H10462 [6NO]

———reduce capital gains rates (H.R. 311), H123 [8JA]

———reduce individual capital gains rates (H.R. 42), H5501 [18JN]

———reform Internal Revenue Code (H. Con. Res. 141), H3004-H3009 [9AP], E757 [11AP], E777 [12AP]

———repeal double taxation of corporate profits, H1521 [5MR]

———repeal double taxation of corporate profits (H.R. 45), E31 [8JA]

———repeal estate and gift taxes, H5412, H5452 [17JN]

———repeal excise tax on the net investment income of tax-exempt foundations (H.R. 199), E33 [8JA]

———repeal income tax, abolish the IRS, and institute a national retail sales tax (H.R. 25), H6829 [15JY]

———repeal Internal Revenue Code and replace with a flat tax (H.R. 1783), E781 [12AP]

———repeal tax increase on Social Security benefits (H.R. 423), E77 [28JA]

———replace recapture bond provisions of low-income housing tax credit program (H.R. 3610), E2409 [22NO]

———restore applicability of estate tax to estates over a certain amount and a maximum rate, and deposit revenues from estate tax into Social Security trust funds (H.R. 2532), E1347 [25JN]

———restructure and simplify the income tax system to benefit families, H1478 [4MR]

———simplify application of self-employment tax in the case of family farming businesses (H.R. 905), E290 [26FE]

———simplify certain Internal Revenue Code provisions relative to individuals and small businesses (H.R. 22), E29-E31 [8JA]

———simplify certain rules governing the taxation of U.S. businesses operating abroad (H.R. 285), E54 [8JA]

———simplify Internal Revenue Code through revenue neutral proposals (H.R. 1939), E851 [1MY]

———treat distributions from publicly traded partnerships as qualifying income of regulated investment companies (H.R. 1536), E640 [1AP]

———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 CERCLA settlement funds (H.R. 805), E239 [13FE]

———treatment of certain compensation received by members of the Armed Forces serving in South Korea (H.R. 1581), E664 [3AP]

———treatment of certain stipends paid from a State program to volunteer workers who have attained age 60 (H.R. 2104), E947 [14MY]

———treatment of certain transfers of intangible property for foreign tax credit limitation purposes (H.R. 1159), E400 [7MR]

———treatment of Federal funds used for relief and revitalization of New York, NY, after terrorist attacks, H8036, H8037 [9SE]

———treatment of higher education expenses (H.R. 826), E269 [13FE]

———treatment of higher education expenses (H.R. 1304), E485 [18MR]

———treatment of income earned by individuals who are not citizens or U.S. nationals relative to coverage under the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program (H.R. 489), E97 [29JA]

———treatment of small businesses, H4372 [21MY], E1830 [17SE]

———treatment of the sale of a principal residence, and death gratuity payments, by a member of the uniformed services (H.R. 1307), H1964-H1970 [19MR], H5323, H5326 [12JN], H5435 [17JN], H5560 [19JN], H9823, H9973 [28OC], H9986 [29OC], E538 [20MR]

———treatment of the sale of a principal residence, and death gratuity payments, by a member of the uniformed services (H.R. 878), H1618 [5MR], H1652, H1656, H1661 [6MR]

———treatment of the sale of a principal residence, and death gratuity payments, by a member of the uniformed services (H.R. 878), consideration (H. Res. 126), H1652 [6MR]

———treatment of the sale of a principal residence by, and death gratuity payments to, a member of the uniformed services (H.R. 1664), H3000-H3004 [9AP]

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]

Terrorism: liquidate certain blocked assets of terrorists and terrorist organizations for the compensation of terrorism victims (H.R. 922), E302 [27FE]

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]

Veterans: benefits funding, H1939, H1940 [18MR], H2141, H2211, H2218, H2221, H2242, H2255, H2258, H2261 [20MR], H2382-H2388 [26MR], H2517, H2518, H2519, H2520, H2521, H2522, H2547, H2551, H2555, H2556, H2558, H2559, H2561, H2562, H2569-H2576, H2583 [1AP], H2689, H2691, H2692, H2695 [2AP], H2840-H2842 [7AP], H3287, H3289 [10AP], H3620 [1MY], H3959 [9MY], H4814, H4815, H4862 [3JN], H4880, H4954, H4962 [4JN], H5253 [11JN], H10346 [5NO], E586, E589 [26MR], E639, E640 [1AP], E651 [2AP], E724 [10AP], E985 [15MY], E1077 [23MY], E1395 [27JN], E2257, E2261, E2263 [6NO]

———change effective date for paid-up coverage under the Survivor Benefit Plan (H.R. 1653), H5256 [11JN]

———clarify prohibition on assignment of veterans benefits to agreements regarding future receipt of compensation and educate veterans on available legitimate financial services, H11715 [20NO]

———continuation of dependency and indemnity compensation for the surviving spouse of a veteran if such spouse remarries after a certain age, H11715, H11722 [20NO]

———enhance cooperation and the sharing of resources between the Dept. of Veterans Affairs and the Dept. of Defense relative to veterans' benefits programs (H.R. 1911), H3623 [1MY], H4272, H4273, H4276 [20MY], E1043 [21MY]

———impact of budget proposals, H2149, H2151, H2152, H2153, H2157 [20MR]

———increase rates of disability compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and dependency and indemnity compensation for survivors of certain disabled veterans (H.R. 1683), H4273-H4275 [20MY], H4542 [22MY], E723 [10AP], E1082 [23MY]

———increase the minimum Survivor Benefit Plan basic annuity for certain surviving spouses, E1244 [13JN]

———increase the minimum Survivor Benefit Plan basic annuity for certain surviving spouses and provide for an open season under that plan (H.R. 548), H2558 [1AP], H5254-H5257 [11JN], E1253 [13JN]

———make certain improvements to the National Service Life Insurance and U.S. Government Life Insurance programs, H11714 [20NO]

———modify and improve certain benefits (H.R. 2297), H9305-H9312 [8OC], E2039, E2043 [15OC], E2069 [17OC]

———modify and improve certain benefits (H.R. 2297), Senate amendment, H11705-H11722 [20NO], E2432 [23NO], E2462 [25NO]

———modify calculation of back pay for members of the Navy or Marine Corps who were approved for promotion while interned as POW during World War II (H.R. 2992), E1692 [4SE]

———permit concurrent receipt of military retired pay with service-connected disability benefits, H8479 [23SE], H9589, H9590 [16OC], H10994-H11008 [7NO], E2279, E2285 [7NO], E2291 [12NO]

———permit concurrent receipt of military retired pay with service-connected disability benefits (H.R. 303), H5256 [11JN], H7210 [21JY], H9081, H9090-H9096 [1OC], H10348 [5NO], H10460, H10535-H10539, H10544-H10546 [6NO], E1256 [13JN], E1289 [18JN], E1955, E1960 [2OC], E2443 [23NO]

———permit concurrent receipt of military retired pay with service-connected disability benefits (H.R. 303), consideration (H. Res. 251), H5271 [12JN]

———repeal computation system that reduces annuity for surviving spouses at age 62 relative to Social Security offset (H.R. 1592), H5256 [11JN], E685 [3AP]

Women: 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.: 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

Alaska: authorize payment of burial and family relocation expenses after death of certain Federal employees (S. 1364), S8759 [26JN]

Albertson's Inc.: Dept. of Defense National Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Home Front Award recipient, S12732 [16OC]

Armed Forces: alleviate delay in payment of the Selected Reserve reenlistment bonus to members who are mobilized (S. 705), S4381 [25MR]

———alleviate delay in payment of the Selected Reserve reenlistment bonus to members who are mobilized (S. 711), S4475 [27MR], S4647, S4648 [1AP]

———authorize assignment incentive pay to members stationed in the Republic of Korea, S6579 [19MY]

———change requirements for naturalization through service, extend naturalization benefits to Ready Reserve members, and extend posthumous benefits to surviving spouses, children, and parents, S6839 [21MY], S7280-S7283 [4JN]

———change requirements for naturalization through service, extend naturalization benefits to Ready Reserve members, and extend posthumous benefits to surviving spouses, children, and parents (S. 922), S5337, S5380-S5383 [11AP]

———combat zone tax exclusions for bomber support crews on the island of Diego Garcia (S. 234), S1739 [29JA]

———expand eligibility for command responsibility pay to commanders of the National Guard and Reserves (S. 757), S4619 [1AP]

———GAO study of tax treatment of military personnel, S4478-S4480 [27MR]

———grant limited TRICARE program eligibility for members of the Ready Reserve and provide financial support for continuation of health insurance for mobilized members of Reserve components (S. 852), S5177 [10AP]

———improve benefits and protections provided for regular and Reserve members deployed or mobilized in the interests of national security (S. 806), S5333 [11AP]

———improve benefits for members of the uniformed services and veterans (S. 19), S134-S136 [9JA], S8277 [20JN]

———improve process for adjusting rates of pay (S. 945), S5493 [29AP]

———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]

———increase amount of death gratuity paid upon death during active duty, S6579 [19MY]

———increase amount of death gratuity paid upon death during active duty (S. 704), S4381 [25MR], S4620, S4648 [1AP], S13833 [3NO]

———increase combat pay and assistance to families separated due to military activation, S4261 [21MR]

———increase death gratuity and exclude from gross income for tax purposes (H.R. 3365), S13831-S13834 [3NO], S13945 [4NO], S14333 [10NO]

———increase death gratuity and exclude from gross income for tax purposes (H.R. 3365), unanimous-consent request, S13734 [31OC]

———increase the rate of imminent danger special pay and the amount of the family separation allowance, S4404, S4411 [26MR], S4662-S4664, S4676, S4677 [2AP]

———make permanent increase in rate of hostile fire and imminent danger special pay and the amount of the family separation allowance (S. 1615), S11480, S11481 [15SE], S11637 [17SE]

———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]

———provide Survivor Benefit Plan annuities for surviving spouses of Reserves not eligible for retirement who die from a cause incurred or aggravated while on inactive-duty training (S. 706), S4382 [25MR]

———provide Survivor Benefit Plan annuities for surviving spouses of Reserves not eligible for retirement who die from a cause incurred or aggravated while on inactive-duty training (S. 712), S4475 [27MR], S4647, S4648 [1AP]

———reduce the age for receipt of military retired pay for non-regular service, S12523 [14OC], S12574, S12575 [15OC], S12724 [16OC]

———reduce the age for receipt of military retired pay for non-regular service (S. 1035), S5996 [9MY], S14392 [11NO]

———revise age and service requirements for receipt of military retired pay for non-regular service (S. 1859), S14810 [12NO]

———revise age and service requirements for receipt of military retired pay for non-regular service (S. 445), S2710 [25FE]

———treatment of members of the Ready Reserve under the TRICARE and Defense Health Care Programs, S12356, S12357 [2OC], S12521 [14OC]

———TRICARE program eligibility for members of the National Guard, Ready Reserve and their families, S9457-S9459 [16JY]

———TRICARE program eligibility for members of the Ready Reserve and their families, S6588-S6597 [19MY], S6660-S6663 [20MY]

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]

Bankruptcy: extend reenactment period for chapter 12 of the bankruptcy code relative to family farmers (H.R. 2465), S10604, S10847 [31JY], S10897 [1AU]

———extend reenactment period for chapter 12 of the bankruptcy code relative to family farmers (S. 1323), S8442, S8478 [24JN], S8598 [25JN]

———extend reenactment period for chapter 12 of the bankruptcy code relative to family farmers (S. 1920), S16062, S16063 [25NO]

———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]

———increase amount of claims for income given priority in bankruptcy and provide cash payments to retirees to compensate for lost health benefits resulting from the bankruptcy of their former employer (S. 1970), S16014 [25NO]

Blue Ribbon Commission on Comprehensive Tax Reform: establish, S6218-S6220 [14MY], S6422 [15MY]

Budget: reduce level of tax cuts and apply savings to deficit reduction, S4114-S4125 [20MR]

———reduce level of tax cuts and apply savings to enhance the ability of first responders to respond to incidents of terrorism and to deficit reduction, S4349 [25MR]

Business and industry: permit biomedical research corporations to engage in certain equity financings without incurring limitations on net operating loss carryforwards and certain built-in losses (S. 1773), S13055 [22OC]

———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]

Capital Construction Fund: provide for qualified withdrawals for fishermen leaving the industry and for the rollover to individual retirement plans (S. 1193), S7483 [5JN]

Children and youth: 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 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]

Claims: extend deadline for victims of terrorist attacks to file claims to receive certain compensation (S. 1602), S11254 [9SE], S16109 [9DE]

———extend deadline for victims of terrorist attacks to file claims to receive certain compensation (S. 1602), unanimous-consent request, S15951, S15952 [25NO]

Commission on Overtime Regulations: establish (S. 1611), S11419 [11SE]

Community service: provide incentives for communities and individuals to serve those in need, improve public disclosure by certain organizations, and enhance ability of low-income individuals to build assets (S. 272), S1835 [30JA]

———provide incentives for communities and individuals to serve those in need, improve public disclosure by certain organizations, and enhance ability of low-income individuals to build assets (S. 476), S4930-S4949 [8AP], S5007-S5044 [9AP], S5154 [10AP], S12439 [3OC]

———provide incentives to serve those in need, improve public disclosure by certain organizations, and enhance ability of low-income individuals to build assets (S. 476), unanimous-consent agreement, S4870-S4872 [3AP]

Congress: accomplishments of the 108th Congress, S16154-S16157 [9DE]

Corporations: prohibit personal loans to directors or chief officers, S2178 [11FE]

Courts: adjust salaries for Supreme Court Justices and Federal judges, S14302 [10NO]

———adjust salaries for Supreme Court Justices and Federal judges (H.R. 16), S176 [9JA], S182 [10JA], S1842 [30JA]

———adjust salaries for Supreme Court Justices and Federal judges (H.R. 3349), S15509 [21NO]

———adjust salaries for Supreme Court Justices and Federal judges (S. 101), S80 [7JA], S1842, S1843 [30JA]

———increase annual salaries of justices and judges (S. 1023), S5876 [7MY]

———restore cost-of-living adjustments from previous years and improve benefits system for the Federal judiciary, and implement procedures to instill public confidence in Federal courts (S. 1100), S6864 [21MY]

———restore cost-of-living adjustments from previous years and improve benefits system for the Federal judiciary, and implement procedures to instill public confidence in Federal courts (S. 787), S4840 [3AP]

Crime: increase penalties relating to conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud, and ERISA violations, S5325 [11AP]

Democratic Party: national agenda, S14705 [12NO]

Dept. of Agriculture: equitable treatment of popcorn and corn growers for purposes of computing base acreage, S1467 [23JA]

Dept. of Defense: ensure civil service protection for civilian employees, S14428, S14429 [11NO], S14485, S14489 [12NO]

Dept. of HHS: Social Services Block Grant funding, S5015, S5016 [9AP]

Dept. of Labor: establish the Office of Pension Participant Advocacy, S1452 [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]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: enhance certain veterans programs and improve administration of such programs (S. 1133), S7031 [22MY]

———improve outreach programs to more fully inform veterans of available benefits (S. 1199), S7492 [5JN]

Diseases: provide compensation to health care and emergency workers sustaining injury as a result of the smallpox vaccine, S1450 [23JA]

District of Columbia: provide full voting representation in Congress (S. 617), S3734 [13MR]

Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: accelerate estate tax repeal, S3966-S3973 [19MR], S4109 [20MR], S4508 [27MR]

———make marriage penalty relief provisions permanent (S. 120), S154 [9JA]

———make repeal of estate taxes permanent (H.R. 8), S8260 [19JN], S8315 [20JN]

———repeal sunset on expansion of the adoption credit and adoption assistance programs (S. 1931), S15573 [22NO]

———repeal sunset provisions (S. 96), S225 [13JA]

Economy: national objectives priority assignments, S14646, S14653, S14655, S14660 [12NO], S14952-S14960 [17NO]

Education: modify computation of eligibility for Pell Grant Program relative to certain recently unemployed individuals (S. 1348), S8735 [26JN]

Employment: 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]

———minimum wage and overtime exemptions for licensed funeral directors and embalmers (S. 292), S1899 [4FE]

———protect rights of employees to receive overtime compensation (S. 1485), S10151 [29JY]

———provide compensatory time opportunities, flexible workplaces, and clarify minimum wage and overtime requirements of private sector employees (S. 317), S1999 [5FE]

FAA: allow airports increased flexibility in use of Passenger Facility Charge revenues, S7873 [13JN]

Family and Medical Leave Act: anniversary, S1966 [5FE]

———clarify (S. 320), S2005 [5FE]

———expand (S. 304), S1980 [5FE]

Federal employees: adjust certain Federal annuity computations relative to periods of receiving disability payments (H.R. 978), S11424 [11SE]

———adjust certain Federal annuity computations relative to periods of receiving disability payments (S. 481), S2940 [27FE], S10076 [28JY]

———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]

Food Security Act: strengthen payment limitations for commodity payments and benefits (S. 667), S4017, S4018 [19MR]

Immigration: make aliens ineligible to receive visas and exclude aliens from admission into the U.S. for nonpayment of child support (S. 1609), S11417 [11SE]

Insurance: provide health care coverage for qualified caregivers, S6439 [15MY]

Investments: establish individual development accounts for certain individuals and families, S4941 [8AP]

IRS: prohibit funding for implementing regulations allowing the conversion of defined benefit pension plans into cash balance plans, S13089-S13091 [23OC]

———use of private collection companies to collect IRS debt, S6443, S6463 [15MY]

Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: make marriage penalty relief provisions permanent (S. 1196), S7488 [5JN]

Law enforcement officers: adjust percentage differentials payable to Federal law enforcement officers in certain high-cost areas (S. 985), S5676 [1MY]

———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]

Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act: revise and extend (S. 1786), S13378-S13380 [28OC]

LSC: restrictions on legal aid groups that receive both Federal and private funds, S6598 [19MY]

Medicare: eliminate geographic physician work adjustment factor, provide incentives to attract educators and clinical practitioners to underserved areas, and revise certain wage adjustments for skilled nursing facilities (S. 36), S43 [7JA]

———ensure contributions for prescription drug coverage made by beneficiaries' former employers be treated as incurred costs, S8326, S8329 [23JN], S8394, S8410 [24JN]

———establish uniform physician fee schedule payments (S. 1135), S7040, S7041 [22MY]

———extend low-income beneficiary access to quality health care services, S1374 [23JA]

———improve reimbursement payments to physicians, S15399 [21NO]

———income related increase in Medicare premium, S8680 [26JN]

———increase direct subsidy to employers retaining retiree prescription drug coverage plans, S8410-S8412 [24JN]

———provide cost-sharing prescription drug coverage for certain beneficiaries in certain income categories, S8412-S8414 [24JN]

———provide for income-related increase in part B premium for individuals and married couples with incomes exceeding a certain level, S8677, S8678 [26JN]

———Qualifying Individual Program funding, S1408 [23JA]

———stabilize physician fee schedule payments and reform the sustainable growth rate payment update system, S8546 [25JN], S8652 [26JN]

Members of Congress: deny cost-of-living adjustments, S13087-S13089 [23OC]

———eliminate automatic salary adjustments (S. 48), S50 [7JA]

Mexico: provide economic assistance to minimize impact of rural development crisis, S9166-S9169 [10JY]

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]

NASA: provide eligibility for astronauts for Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance (S. 334), S2121 [10FE]

National Child Care Worthy Wage Day: designate (S. Res. 122), S5495 [29AP]

National School Lunch Act: phase out reduced price lunches and breakfasts by phasing in an increase in the income eligibility guidelines for free lunches and breakfasts (S. 1549), S12132 [29SE]

Native Americans: distribute judgment funds to the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Reservation (S. 428), S2600 [24FE]

———payment of amounts owed to Indian tribes and individual Indian money account holders (S. 1540), S10671 [31JY]

Pensions: change the 30-year treasury bond rate to a composite corporate rate and establish a commission on defined benefit plans (S. 1550), S10683 [31JY]

———change the 30-year treasury bond rate to a composite corporate rate (H.R. 3108), unanimous-consent agreement, S16150 [9DE]

———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]

———reform, S2282-S2284 [12FE]

Postal Service: reform funding of Civil Service Retirement System benefits for employees (S. 380), S2363-S2366 [12FE], S4726-S4729 [2AP], S4821 [3AP]

Public safety officers: ensure that officers who suffer a fatal heart attack or stroke while on duty shall be presumed to have died in the line of duty for purposes of survivor benefits (S. 459), S2855 [26FE], S6567, S6568 [15MY], S6612-S6614 [19MY], S15570 [22NO], S16052, S16053 [25NO]

———permit military service performed by District of Columbia police officers, firemen, and certain Federal law enforcement officers to count toward retirement calculation (H.R. 3054), S14462 [11NO]

Public welfare programs: reform, S9671 [22JY]

Puerto Rico: eligibility of residents for the earned income tax credit, the refundable portion of the child tax credit, and SSI benefits (S. 1658), S11999 [25SE]

SBA: transfer unused funds from the loan program for businesses that suffered substantial economic injury as a result of terrorist attacks to 7(a) loan program, S1435 [23JA]

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]

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: improve access and choice relative to employee health care (S. 545), S3255 [6MR], S3667 [13MR], S10877-S10879 [1AU]

Social Security: authorize payments under Federal retirement systems to trusts set up for disabled dependents of Federal employees (S. 776), S4827 [3AP]

———budget treatment of trust funds, S3005-S3007 [3MR], S3376 [10MR], S3946 [19MR], S5269, S5270 [11AP], S5829 [7MY], S6039-S6041 [13MY], S7106-S7110 [23MY], S9578-S9580 [17JY]

———choice of benefit payment method relative to computation rule application to workers attaining age 65 in or after 1982 (S. 1418), S9497 [16JY]

———computation system for benefits relative to spouses' or surviving spouses' Government pensions (S. 363), S2220 [11FE]

———earnings test for blind individuals (S. 750), S4631-S4633 [1AP]

———ensure that trust fund surpluses are not reduced to fund tax cuts on corporate dividends, S6164-S6166, S6171-S6174 [14MY]

———include additional information in account statements (S. 368), S2355 [12FE]

———investment of trust funds in private financial markets, S11739-S11746 [22SE]

———oppose reduction of annual cost-of-living adjustments, S7096, S7097 [23MY]

———oppose reduction of annual cost-of-living adjustments (S. Res. 155), S7115 [23MY]

———phase out taxation of benefits (S. 1026), S5952 [8MY]

———provide additional safeguards for certain beneficiaries with representative payees (H.R. 743), S16159-S16196 [9DE]

———provide additional safeguards for certain beneficiaries with representative payees (S. 439), S2707 [25FE]

———provide for personal retirement savings accounts, increase individual control over retirement income, protect surpluses, and reform certain benefits (H.R. 3055), S11746 [22SE]

———redirect proposed tax cut revenues into reserve fund to strengthen trust funds, S3845-S3855 [18MR], S4356 [25MR]

———reform, S3402 [10MR], S3935-S3948 [19MR], S11739-S11746 [22SE]

———repeal Government pension offset and windfall elimination provisions (S. 349), S2209 [11FE]

Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act: restate, clarify, and revise (H.R. 100), insert S. 1136 language in lieu, S15499 [21NO]

———restate, clarify, and revise (S. 1136), S7041 [22MY], S15481-S15499 [21NO]

SSI: clarify that the value of certain funeral and burial arrangements are not to be considered available resources (S. 166), S851 [15JA]

States: ensure that fiscal relief is not compromised to fund tax cuts on corporate dividends, S6458, S6459 [15MY]

Taxation: abolish certain tax cuts, S6438, S6439 [15MY]

———accelerate dividend exclusion and increase in the child tax credit and expand refundability of such credit, S6178-S6180 [14MY], S6410 [15MY]

———accelerate elimination of the marriage penalty, S5288 [11AP]

———accelerate increase in child tax credit, S6246 [14MY], S6428, S6429 [15MY]

———accelerate increase in refundability of the child tax credit, S7216, S7217, S7220-S7226 [3JN], S9827, S9828 [24JY]

———accelerate increase in refundability of the child tax credit (S. 1162), S7189, S7197 [2JN], S7211 [3JN]

———accelerate increase in refundability of the child tax credit (S. 1162), motion to proceed, S9089, S9090, S9094 [9JY]

———accelerate increase in refundability of the child tax credit (S. 1173), S7250 [3JN]

———accelerate increase in refundability of the child tax credit (S. 1174), S7266 [3JN], S7295 [4JN]

———accelerate increase in refundability of the child tax credit (S. 1434), S9664 [21JY], S10987 [2SE]

———accelerate increase in refundability of the child tax credit (S. 1434), unanimous-consent request, S9772 [23JY], S9828 [24JY]

———accelerate increase in the child tax credit and expand refundability of such credit (S. 962), S5608 [30AP]

———accelerate marriage penalty relief for earned income tax credit, S6195 [14MY], S6412 [15MY]

———allow a credit for contributions to congressional candidates (S. 804), S4902 [7AP]

———allow a deduction for premiums on mortgage insurance (S. 846), S5084 [9AP]

———allow a deduction for State and local sales taxes in lieu of State and local income taxes (S. 1436), S9641 [21JY]

———allow a deduction for State and local sales taxes in lieu of State and local income taxes and allow the State and local income tax deduction against the alternative minimum tax (S. 467), S2925 [27FE]

———allow a recovery period for depreciation of motorsport entertainment complexes (S. 1524), S10648 [31JY]

———allow a refundable credit for the purchase of private health insurance and establish State health insurance safety-net programs (S. 1570), S10919 [1AU]

———allow a tax credit for certain energy-efficient property (S. 758), S4640, S4641 [1AP]

———allow Armed Forces Reserve members a deduction for contributions to savings accounts which may be used when the members are called to active duty (S. 803), S5333 [11AP]

———allow Federal civilian and military retirees to pay health insurance premiums on a pretax basis and allow a deduction for TRICARE supplemental premiums (S. 623), S3742 [13MR]

———allow individuals receiving unemployment compensation to be eligible for a refundable, advanceable credit for health insurance costs (S. 1693), S12281 [1OC]

———allow Medicare beneficiaries a refundable credit for purchase of outpatient prescription drugs (S. 951), S5597, S5598 [30AP]

———allow pension plans to replace Treasury bonds with conservative long-term corporate bonds and establish Commission on Defined Benefit Pension Plans, S6436 [15MY]

———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 use of principal repayments to issue additional mortgages and modify price limitations under the mortgage revenue bond program and change income limit for housing credit program (S. 595), S3518 [11MR]

———application of excise tax to excessive attorney fees for legal judgments, settlements, or agreements that operate as a tax (S. 887), S5237-S5248 [10AP]

———apply look-thru rules for purposes of the foreign tax credit limitation to dividends from foreign corporations not controlled by a domestic corporation (S. 914), S5374 [11AP]

———assist individuals who have lost their 401(k) savings to make additional retirement savings through individual retirement account contributions (S. 629), S3805 [17MR]

———assist low-income taxpayers in preparing and filing tax returns and increase protections against certain refund anticipation loan providers (S. 685), S4283-S4286 [21MR]

———capital gains treatment on sale or exchange of land or water interest to nonprofit entities for charitable purposes, S5008-S5012 [9AP]

———clarify eligibility of certain expenses for low-income housing credit (S. 1119), S7003 [22MY]

———clarify rules governing bonus deduction for depreciable business assets, S6458 [15MY]

———clarify treatment of certain tax attributes for companies whose debt is cancelled in a bankruptcy proceeding (S. 1331), S8567 [25JN]

———deny any deduction for certain fines, penalties, and other amounts (S. 936), S5487 [29AP]

———eliminate double taxation of dividends, S3245 [6MR], S3784 [17MR], S4137 [20MR], S4244-S4246 [21MR], S5802 [7MY], S6200, S6223, S6245, S6248 [14MY], S6433, S6440 [15MY], S6950 [22MY]

———eliminate estate taxes (S. 13), S2548 [14FE], S2620 [24FE]

———encourage contributions of capital gain real property for conservation purposes (S. 701), S4380 [25MR]

———encourage investing of foreign earnings within the U.S. for productive business purposes, S6240, S6241 [14MY], S6427, S6428 [15MY]

———encourage investing of foreign earnings within the U.S. for productive business purposes (S. 596), S3519, S3520 [11MR]

———encourage investing of foreign earnings within the U.S. for productive business purposes (S. 596), star print, S3910 [18MR]

———end certain abusive tax practices and provide tax relief and simplification (H.R. 1308), agree to conference report that increases child tax credit refundability and include military pay in such credit (S. Res. 200), S9929, S9931 [25JY]

———enhance charitable contribution deductions for book donations and literacy (S. 680), S4178 [20MR]

———ensure dividend and interest income of individuals not be taxed at rates in excess of the maximum capital gains rate (S. 26), S39 [7JA]

———ensure dividend income of individuals not be taxed at rates in excess of the maximum capital gains rate (S. 25), S39 [7JA]

———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]

———excise tax on excessive attorney fees for certain legal judgments, settlements, or agreements, S6222, S6225 [14MY], S6424, S6461 [15MY]

———exclude benefits from income, employment taxes, and wage withholding property tax rebates, provided to volunteer firefighters and emergency medical responders (S. 1512), S10635 [31JY]

———exclude dividends received by individuals from gross income (S. 24), S39 [7JA]

———exclude from unrelated business taxable income the gain or loss on the sale or exchange of certain brownfield sites (S. 1936), S15813-S15815 [24NO]

———exempt small manufacturers from the firearms excise tax (S. 396), S2471 [13FE]

———exempt the natural aging process in the determination of the production period for distilled spirits (S. 1681), S12194 [30SE]

———expand combat zone tax exclusion for members of the Armed Forces to include transit period to such zones and to include commissioned officers (S. 721), S4475 [27MR], S4618, S4619 [1AP]

———expand depreciation benefits available to small businesses for new business investment and equipment (S. 158), S299 [14JA]

———expand Federal tax refund intercept program for parents delinquent on child support to cover children who are not minors (S. 1437), S9710 [22JY], S16063 [25NO]

———expand refundability of child tax credit, S6188, S6198 [14MY], S6411 [15MY]

———expand special depreciation allowance (S. 879), S5208 [10AP]

———expand the dependent care tax credit, accelerate the child tax credit, and promote dependent care assistance programs (S. 388), S2465 [13FE]

———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 child tax credit provisions of budget resolution, S4412 [26MR]

———extend credits to assist in the purchase of fishing safety equipment (S. 487), S2940 [27FE]

———extend exclusion from gross income for employer-provided health coverage to designated plan beneficiaries of employees (S. 1702), S12378, S12380 [2OC]

———extend special carryback of certain net operating losses to losses for additional years (S. 1494), S10269 [30JY]

———extend temporary repeal of estate taxes pending enactment of a permanent repeal (S.J. Res. 20), S13147 [23OC]

———extend temporary repeal of estate taxes pending enactment of a permanent repeal (S.J. Res. 21), S13229 [24OC], S13323 [27OC]

———extend the transportation fringe benefit to bicycle commuters (S. 1093), S6857 [21MY]

———first-time homebuyers tax credit (S. 1175), S7251, S7254 [3JN]

———impact of sunset provisions on cost forecasts, S7112-S7114 [23MY]

———impose flat tax only on individual taxable earned income and business taxable income (S. 907), S5363-S5365 [11AP]

———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]

———include sports utility vehicles in the limitation on the depreciation of certain luxury automobiles (S. 265), S1828 [30JA]

———inclusion of income only from aircraft and certain vessels transporting petroleum and related products in foreign base company shipping income (S. 1361), S8757 [26JN]

———income forecast depreciation method, S6458 [15MY]

———increase criminal monetary penalty limitation for underpayment or overpayment of tax due to fraud, S6409 [15MY]

———increase deduction for teacher classroom supplies and expand to include qualified professional development expenses, S3798 [17MR], S6216, S6217 [14MY], S6423, S6424 [15MY]

———increase deduction for teacher classroom supplies and expand to include qualified professional development expenses (S. 695), S4328 [24MR]

———increase refundability of child tax credit, clarify eligibility of Armed Forces pay for such credit, and accelerate marriage penalty relief in earned income tax credit, S7420, S7447, S7449-S7456 [5JN], S7512 [9JN], S7970 [17JN], S9744 [23JY]

———limit deduction for charitable contributions of patents, copyrights, trademarks and similar properties, S6456, S6457 [15MY]

———limit phase-in of revenue reducing measures, S6440 [15MY]

———make higher education more affordable, S6241 [14MY], S6426 [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]

———permit cooperatives to pay dividends on preferred stock without reducing patronage dividends (S. 785), S4836, S4837 [3AP]

———preserve the value of the low-income housing credit, S6442 [15MY]

———prevent corporations from avoiding the U.S. income tax by reincorporating in a foreign country, S4338 [25MR], S5287 [11AP], S11895 [24SE]

———prevent corporations from avoiding the U.S. income tax by reincorporating in a foreign country (S. 384), S2520 [14FE]

———prevent the continued use of renouncing U.S. citizenship as a device for avoiding U.S. taxes (S. 260), S1821 [30JA]

———prohibit the implementation of discriminatory precertification requirements for the earned income tax credit, S9931 [25JY]

———promote simplification and fairness in the administration and collection of sales and use taxes (S. 1736), S12620 [15OC]

———provide a credit for energy-efficient appliances (S. 361), S2213-S2216, S2219 [11FE]

———provide a credit for marginal oil and natural gas well production and allow for expensing of geological and geophysical expenditures and delay rental payments (S. 696), S4329 [24MR]

———provide a credit to promote homeownership and community development (S. 198), S1246 [21JA], S8714 [26JN]

———provide a credit to promote homeownership and community development (S. 875), S5201-S5203 [10AP]

———provide a minimum credit for stay-at-home parents, allow the dependent care credit to be taken against the minimum tax, and allow a carryforward of any unused dependent care credit (S. 1253), S7838 [12JN]

———provide a partially refundable tax credit to family caregivers (S. 1214), S7552 [9JN]

———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 a shorter recovery period for the depreciation of certain leasehold improvements (S. 576), S3371 [7MR]

———provide a shorter recovery period for the depreciation of certain restaurant buildings (S. 973), S5665 [1MY]

———provide a tax credit for property owners who remove lead-based paint hazards (S. 1228), S7635 [10JN]

———provide a uniform definition of a qualifying child, S6177 [14MY]

———provide a uniform definition of a qualifying child (S. 755), S4636 [1AP]

———provide an exclusion for gain from the sale of farmland to encourage the continued use of property for farming (S. 1464), S9974 [25JY], S10040 [28JY], S10136 [29JY]

———provide credit for individuals serving as caregivers of dependent relatives, S4065, S4066 [20MR], S4238 [21MR], S6041 [13MY], S6431 [15MY]

———provide fairness in tax collection procedures, improve administrative efficiency and confidentiality, and reform penalty and interest provisions (S. 882), S5210 [10AP]

———provide for a tax deferral on gain from the sale of certain telecommunications businesses or tax incentives to promote ownership diversity (S. 267), S1829 [30JA]

———provide for deficit reduction by delaying the acceleration of income tax reductions, S6439 [15MY]

———provide incentives for charitable contributions by individuals and businesses (H.R. 7), S13829 [3NO], S13897 [4NO]

———provide incentives for charitable contributions by individuals and businesses (H.R. 7), unanimous-consent request, S12562 [14OC], S12822 [17OC], S13061 [22OC], S13419 [28OC], S13734 [31OC], S13830, S13831 [3NO], S13898, S13899 [4NO], S14458 [11NO]

———provide incentives for economic recovery, S96-S100, S106-S112 [9JA], S182-S192 [10JA], S210-S213, S215-S220 [13JA], S264-S267, S275, S281 [14JA], S308-S319, S321-S329, S334-S336 [15JA], S1043, S1044 [16JA], S1134 [17JA], S1218-S1220 [21JA], S1392, S1393 [23JA], S1649-S1655 [28JA], S1697-S1704, S1706-S1712 [29JA], S1760 [30JA], 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], S4367 [25MR], S4398, S4402-S4404, S4418-S4421 [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 to reduce energy consumption (S. 507), S3093, S3094 [4MR]

———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 credit to teachers in rural or high unemployment areas or who achieve National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification (S. 857), S5182 [10AP]

———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]

———provide tax relief for the conversion of cooperative housing corporations into condominiums (S. 58), S59 [7JA]

———rates, S1760 [30JA], S2048 [6FE], S2876 [27FE], S3005-S3007 [3MR], S3053 [4MR], S3376-S3379 [10MR], S4068, S4140 [20MR], S7276 [4JN], S9516, S9578-S9580 [17JY], S10181 [30JY], S11460-S11463 [15SE], S11742, S11744, S11746 [22SE]

———repeal dividend and top rate tax cuts and use savings for Medicare prescription drug program, S6437 [15MY]

———repeal estate and generation-skipping transfer taxes (S. 169), S854 [15JA]

———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 income tax, abolish the IRS, and institute a national retail sales tax (S. 1493), S10269 [30JY]

———repeal Internal Revenue Code and replace with a flat tax, S6176-S6178 [14MY], S6409, S6410 [15MY]

———repeal Internal Revenue Code and replace with a flat tax (S. 1040), S6030 [12MY]

———repeal Internal Revenue Code and replace with a flat tax (S. 1040), star print, S6638 [19MY]

———repeal percentage depletion allowance for certain hardrock mines (S. 44), S48 [7JA]

———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]

———require chief executive officers of corporations to sign tax returns, S5043 [9AP], S6960 [22MY], S7084 [23MY]

———require child support delinquent parents to include their unpaid obligation in gross income and allow custodial parents a deduction for unpaid child support, S6435 [15MY]

———require child support delinquent parents to include their unpaid obligation in gross income and allow custodial parents a deduction for unpaid child support (S. 127), S158 [9JA]

———restore deduction for travel expenses of a taxpayer's spouse who accompanies the taxpayer on business travel (S. 1408), S9421 [15JY]

———sunset certain tax increases, S6432 [15MY]

———suspend future reductions of the highest income tax rate if there is a Federal on-budget deficit (S. 126), S157 [9JA]

———treat distributions from publicly traded partnerships as qualifying income of regulated investment companies (S. 752), S4635 [1AP]

———treat payments under the Conservation Reserve Program as rentals from real estate (S. 1316), S8441 [24JN]

———treatment of amounts received under qualified group legal services plans (S. 1556), S10909 [1AU]

———treatment of bonds issued to nonprofit nursing homes and elderly care facilities, S5016 [9AP]

———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 certain expenses of rural letter carriers relative to the business use of a personal vehicle (S. 1333), S8569 [25JN]

———treatment of certain hospital support organizations as qualified organizations for determining acquisition indebtedness (S. 97), S76 [7JA]

———treatment of certain motor vehicle dealer transitional assistance (S. 1305), S8302, S8303 [20JN]

———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 existing inversions by corporations to avoid the U.S. income tax by reincorporating in a foreign country, S6440 [15MY]

———treatment of gold, silver, and platinum in the same manner as stocks and bonds for purposes of maximum capital gains rates (S. 611), S3732 [13MR]

———treatment of higher education expenses, S4367, S4368 [25MR]

———treatment of income earned while working abroad, S6174, S6175 [14MY], S6434 [15MY]

———treatment of individual retirement accounts relative to charitable contributions, S4945 [8AP]

———treatment of individual retirement accounts relative to charitable contributions (S. 209), S1484 [23JA]

———treatment of individual retirement accounts relative to charitable contributions (S. 283), S1885 [4FE]

———treatment of old-age, survivors, and disability insurance taxes paid by employees and self-employed individuals (S. 397), S2471 [13FE]

———treatment of political organizations (S. 1059), S6260 [14MY]

———treatment of real estate investment trusts (S. 1568), S10917, S10918 [1AU]

———treatment of roof systems (S. 1679), S12194 [30SE]

———treatment of small businesses (S. 842), S5075 [9AP]

———treatment of the sale of a principal residence, and death gratuity payments, by a member of the uniformed services (H.R. 1307), S4472-S4483, S4488, S4490 [27MR]

———treatment of the sale of a principal residence, and death gratuity payments, by a member of the uniformed services (H.R. 1307), unanimous-consent agreement, S4452 [26MR]

———treatment of the sale of a principal residence by, and death gratuity payments to, a member of the uniformed services (H.R. 1664), S15398 [21NO]

———treatment of the sale of a principal residence by a member of the uniformed services or Foreign Service (S. 284), S1885 [4FE]

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]

Terrorism: liquidate certain blocked assets of terrorists and terrorist organizations for the compensation of terrorism victims, S9171-S9173 [10JY]

———provide access to Federal crime victims fund for families of Marine Corps members killed in 1983 bombing in Beirut, Lebanon, S9107 [9JY]

———provide benefits to U.S. victims of international terrorism (S. 1275), S8000 [17JN]

———provide compensation to victims of terrorist-related laboratory-confirmed anthrax infection in the U.S. during the period between September 13, 2001, and November 30, 2001 (S. 1740), S12739-S12741 [16OC]

U.S. Airways, Inc.: pension plan restructuring, S1342-S1346 [22JA]

———pension plan restructuring (S. 119), S117-S120 [9JA]

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]

Veterans: benefits funding, S4241, S4242 [21MR]

———clarify the applicability of the prohibition on assignment of veterans benefits to agreements regarding future receipt of compensation and educate veterans on available legitimate financial services, S13748 [31OC]

———improve benefits for former POWs (S. 517), S4154 [20MR]

———improve benefits for World War II Filipino veterans and their survivors (S. 1213), S7550 [9JN]

———increase burial benefits for veterans and provide for inflation adjustment (S. 1124), S7010 [22MY]

———increase rates of disability compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and dependency and indemnity compensation for survivors of certain disabled veterans (H.R. 1683), S15481 [21NO]

———increase rates of disability compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and dependency and indemnity compensation for survivors of certain disabled veterans (S. 1131), S7029 [22MY]

———increase the minimum Survivor Benefit Plan basic annuity for certain surviving spouses (S. 401), S2474 [13FE]

———increase the minimum Survivor Benefit Plan basic annuity for certain surviving spouses (S. 451), S2842 [26FE]

———modify and improve certain benefits (H.R. 2297), S15133-S15140 [19NO]

———modify calculation of back pay for members of the Navy or Marine Corps who were approved for promotion while interned as POW during World War II (S. 1057), S6259 [14MY]

———permit concurrent receipt of military retired pay with service-connected disability benefits, S4340 [25MR], S6597, S6598 [19MY], S6647 [20MY], S7284-S7286 [4JN], S12577, S12578, S12591 [15OC], S14391, S14392, S14393, S14434, S14435 [11NO], S14792, S14793 [12NO]

———permit concurrent receipt of military retired pay with service-connected disability benefits (S. 392), S2467-S2469 [13FE]

———permit concurrent receipt of military retired pay with service-connected disability benefits (S. 392), unanimous-consent request, S6945 [22MY]

———provide that remarriage of the surviving spouse of a veteran after a certain age will not result in termination of dependency and indemnity compensation (S. 249), S1814 [30JA]

Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA): offer certain participants the option of receiving an educational award or stipend, S14522, S14523 [12NO]

Women: provide comprehensive pension protection (S. 1617), S11482 [15SE]

WorldCom, Inc.: investigation of unethical activities, S7128 [23MY]

Reports

Allow a Married Couple Who Operates an Unincorporated Business as Co-owners To File Separate Tax Returns for Purposes of the Self-Employment Tax: Nina E. Olsen, National Taxpayers Advocate, E674 [3AP]

Social Security and the Unified Budget: Alan Greenspan, National Commission on Social Security Reform (1983), S3005 [3MR]

Reports filed

Adjust Certain Federal Annuity Computations Relative to Periods of Receiving Disability Payments: Committee on Governmental Affairs (Senate) (S. 481) (S. Rept. 108-108), S9638 [21JY], S9708 [22JY]

Armed Forces Tax Fairness Act: Committee on Ways and Means (House) (H.R. 878) (H. Rept. 108-23), H1639 [5MR]

Back to Work Incentive Act: Committee on Education and the Workforce (House) (H.R. 444) (H. Rept. 108-35), H1900 [13MR]

CARE Act: Committee on Finance (Senate) (S. 476) (S. Rept. 108-11), S2919 [27FE]

Charitable Giving Act: Committee on Ways and Means (House) (H.R. 7) (H. Rept. 108-270), H8282 [16SE]

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. 7, Charitable Giving Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 370) (H. Rept. 108-273), H8282 [16SE]

Consideration of H.R. 8, Death Tax Repeal Permanency Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 281) (H. Rept. 108-157), H5467 [17JN]

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. 743, Social Security Protection Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 168) (H. Rept. 108-54), H2585 [1AP]

Consideration of H.R. 878, Armed Forces Tax Fairness Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 126) (H. Rept. 108-25), H1639 [5MR]

Consideration of H.R. 1000, Pension Security Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 230) (H. Rept. 108-98), H4010 [13MY]

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. 1528, Taxpayer Protection and IRS Accountability Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 282) (H. Rept. 108-158), H5467 [17JN]

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]

Depts. of Veterans Affairs and Defense Cooperation and Sharing of Resources Relative to Veterans' Benefits Programs: Committee on Veterans Affairs (House) (H.R. 1911) (H. Rept. 108-115), H4254 [19MY]

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]

Health Savings Account Availability Act: Committee on Ways and Means (House) (H.R. 2351) (H. Rept. 108-177), H5927 [25JN]

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]

Justices' and Judges' Annual Salary Increase: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 1023), S8125 [18JN]

Pension Security Act: Committee on Education and the Workforce (House) (H.R. 1000) (H. Rept. 108-43), H1952 [18MR]

Permit Church Pension Plans To Be Invested in Collective Trusts: Committee on Financial Services (House) (H.R. 1533) (H. Rept. 108-248), H7838 [3SE]

Postal Civil Service Retirement System Funding Reform Act: Committee on Government Reform (House) (H.R. 735) (H. Rept. 108-49), H2470 [27MR]

———Committee on Governmental Affairs (Senate) (S. 380), S4628 [1AP]

———Committee on Governmental Affairs (Senate) (S. 380) (S. Rept. 108-35), S4957 [8AP]

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]

Servicemembers Civil Relief Act: Committee on Veterans' Affairs (House) (H.R. 100) (H. Rept. 108-81), H3569 [30AP]

———Committee on Veterans' Affairs (Senate) (S. 1136) (S. Rept. 108-197), S14964 [17NO]

Small Business Health Fairness Act: Committee on Education and the Workforce (House) (H.R. 660) (H. Rept. 108-156), H5407 [16JN]

Social Security Protection Act: Committee on Finance (Senate) (H.R. 743) (S. Rept. 108-176), S13515 [29OC]

———Committee on Ways and Means (House) (H.R. 743) (H. Rept. 108-46), H2277 [24MR]

Taxpayer Protection and IRS Accountability Act: Committee on Ways and Means (House) (H.R. 1528) (H. Rept. 108-61), H2937 [8AP]

Veterans Benefits Act: Committee on Veterans' Affairs (House) (H.R. 2297) (H. Rept. 108-211), H6867 [15JY]

Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act: Committee on Veterans' Affairs (House) (H.R. 1683) (H. Rept. 108-108), H4253 [19MY]

———Committee on Veterans' Affairs (Senate) (S. 1131) (S. Rept. 108-163), S12532 [14OC]

Workforce Reinvestment and Adult Education Act: Committee on Education and the Workforce (House) (H.R. 1261) (H. Rept. 108-82), H3634 [1MY]

Resolutions by organizations

Annual salary increase for justices and judges: Judicial Conference of the U.S., S5876 [7MY]

Results

Vote on Conrad/Kennedy/Johnson amendment on accelerating elimination of the marriage penalty in H.R. 1836, Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (2001), S5288 [11AP]

Rulings of the Chair

Social Security: provide additional safeguards for certain beneficiaries with representative payees (H.R. 743), H1550 [5MR]

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

Cash Balance Pension Conversion: Larry Cutrone, S1791 [30JA]

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]

Pension Security Act: Executive Office of the President, H4069 [14MY]

Research Equals Jobs Growth and Economic Growth: R&D Credit Coalition, S6192 [14MY]

Small Business Provisions of Economic Growth Package: Hector V. Barreto, SBA, E145 [6FE]

Social Security Protection Act: National Conference of State Social Security Administrators, H2650 [2AP]

Teacher Classroom Supplies Tax Deduction Increase and Expansion To Include Qualified Professional Development Expenses: Executive Office of the President, S6217 [14MY]

Summaries

Deployed Service Members Financial Security and Education Act (S. 806), S5333 [11AP]

Family and Medical Leave Expansion Act (S. 304), S1981 [5FE]

Family Time and Workplace Flexibility Act (S. 317), S2002 [5FE]

Leave No Child Behind Act (S. 448), S2841 [26FE]

Medicare Out-of-Pocket Spending Limit Act (H.R. 2199), E1030 [21MY]

Mobilized Reserve Savings Account Act (S. 803), S5333 [11AP]

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]

Social Security Protection Act (H.R. 743), H1534-H1541 [5MR]

Working Families Tax Credit Act (H.R. 2286), H5020 [5JN]

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]

Child tax credit refundability examples, H4994, H5020 [5JN]

Child tax credit/earned income tax credit effect on tax burden, S7451 [5JN]

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]

Individuals benefiting from a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program by State, S6184 [14MY]

Job Creation and Worker Assistance Act impact on a family of four with two minimum wage workers, S7451 [5JN]

Social Security tax rates for 2002 and later, S3942 [19MR]

Social Security trust fund financial operations (2002), S3942 [19MR]

State nominal and real annual budget increases, S6473 [15MY]

Tax relief for working families, S2923 [27FE]

Top Federal tax bracket taxpayers by State, S158 [9JA]

Testimonies

U.S. Airways, Inc., Pension Plan Restructuring: James J. Keightley, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., and William Kilberg, S1343 [22JA]

Texts of

H. Con. Res. 141, reform Internal Revenue Code, H3004 [9AP]

H. Con. Res. 176, support goals and ideals of Financial Planning Week, H10247 [4NO]

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. 168, consideration of H.R. 743, Social Security Protection Act, H2591 [2AP]

H. Res. 201, tribute to businesses and business owners for support of our troops and their families, H4892 [4JN]

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. 230, consideration of H.R. 1000, Pension Security Act, H4035 [14MY]

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. 281, consideration of H.R. 8, Death Tax Repeal Permanency Act, H5475 [18JN]

H. Res. 282, consideration of H.R. 1528, Taxpayer Protection and IRS Accountability Act, H5474 [18JN]

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. 370, consideration of H.R. 7, Charitable Giving Act, H8301 [17SE]

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. 7, Charitable Giving Act, H8304-H8308 [17SE]

H.R. 8, Death Tax Repeal Permanency Act, H5492 [18JN]

H.R. 16, adjust salaries for Supreme Court Justices and Federal judges, H106 [8JA]

H.R. 100, Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, H3688-H3696 [7MY], H12868-H12876 [8DE]

H.R. 660, Small Business Health Fairness Act, H5598, H5605-H5612 [19JN]

H.R. 743, Social Security Protection Act, S16183-S16196 [9DE], H1524-H1533 [5MR], H2625, H2634-H2642 [2AP]

H.R. 978, adjust certain Federal employee annuity computations relative to periods of receiving disability payments, H8097 [10SE]

H.R. 1000, Pension Security Act, H4040, H4050-H4059 [14MY]

H.R. 1261, Workforce Reinvestment and Adult Education Act, H3789-H3806 [8MY]

H.R. 1307, Armed Forces Tax Fairness Act, S4490-S4495 [27MR], H1964-H1966 [19MR]

H.R. 1528, Taxpayer Protection and IRS Accountability Act, H5514, H5522-H5530 [18JN]

H.R. 1533, permit church pension plans to be invested in collective trusts, H7808 [3SE]

H.R. 1664, Armed Forces Tax Fairness Act, H3000-H3002 [9AP]

H.R. 1683, Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act, H4273 [20MY]

H.R. 1911, enhance cooperation and the sharing of resources between the Depts. of Veterans Affairs and Defense relative to veterans' benefits programs, H4272 [20MY]

H.R. 2185, temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program, H4613 [22MY]

H.R. 2297, Veterans Benefits Act, H9305-H9308 [8OC], H11705-H11712 [20NO]

H.R. 2465, Family Farmer Bankruptcy Relief Act, H5673 [23JN]

H.R. 2596, Health Savings and Affordability Act, H5992-H5997 [26JN]

H.R. 3054, District of Columbia Military Retirement Equity Act, H9320 [8OC]

H.R. 3108, Pension Funding Equity Act, H9251 [7OC], H9293, H9294 [8OC]

H.R. 3349, adjust salaries for Supreme Court Justices and Federal judges, H10348 [5NO]

H.R. 3365, Fallen Patriots Tax Relief Act, H10058 [29OC]

H.R. 3365, Military Family Tax Relief Act, H10367-H10369 [5NO]

H.R. 3521, Tax Relief Extension Act, H11762-H11827 [20NO]

S. 23, Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act extension, H75 [8JA]

S. 24, exclude dividends received by individuals from gross income, S40 [7JA]

S. 25, ensure dividend income of individuals not be taxed at rates in excess of the maximum capital gains rate, S40 [7JA]

S. 26, ensure dividend and interest income of individuals not be taxed at rates in excess of the maximum capital gains rate, S41 [7JA]

S. 44, Elimination of Double Subsidies for the Hardrock Mining Industry Act, S49 [7JA]

S. 48, eliminate automatic salary adjustments for Members of Congress, S51 [7JA]

S. 58, provide tax relief for the conversion of cooperative housing corporations into condominiums, S59 [7JA]

S. 97, tax treatment of certain hospital support organizations as qualified organizations for determining acquisition indebtedness, S77 [7JA]

S. 101, adjust salaries for Supreme Court Justices and Federal judges, S80 [7JA], S1843 [30JA]

S. 120, Marriage Penalty Relief Act, S154 [9JA]

S. 158, Small Business Expensing Improvement Act, S300 [14JA]

S. 181, Stock Option Accounting Review Act, S1075 [16JA]

S. 198, New Homestead Economic Opportunity Act, S1246-S1249 [21JA]

S. 209, Charitable IRA Rollover Act, S1484 [23JA]

S. 249, provide that remarriage of the surviving spouse of a veteran after a certain age will not result in termination of dependency and indemnity compensation, S1814 [30JA]

S. 267, Telecommunications Ownership Diversification Act, S1829-S1832 [30JA]

S. 284, tax treatment of the sale of a principal residence by a member of the uniformed services or Foreign Service, S1886 [4FE]

S. 289, Armed Forces Tax Fairness Act, S1892-S1897 [4FE]

S. 292, minimum wage and overtime exemptions for licensed funeral directors and embalmers, S1899 [4FE]

S. 317, Family Time and Workplace Flexibility Act, S1999-S2002 [5FE]

S. 320, Family and Medical Leave Clarification Act, S2006 [5FE]

S. 361, Resource Efficient Appliance Incentives Act, S2218 [11FE]

S. 363, Government Pension Offset Reform Act, S2221 [11FE]

S. 368, Straight Talk on Social Security Act, S2355 [12FE]

S. 380, Postal Civil Service Retirement System Funding Reform Act, S2364 [12FE], S4727-S4729 [2AP], H2902 [8AP]

S. 386, Education for Retirement Security Act, S2463 [13FE]

S. 388, Boost for Child Care Act, S2465 [13FE]

S. 392, Retired Pay Restoration Act, S2468 [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. 394, expand combat zone tax exclusion for members of the Armed Forces to include transit period to such zones and to include commissioned officers, S2470 [13FE]

S. 396, Gunsmith Excise Tax Simplification Act, S2471 [13FE]

S. 397, Payroll Tax Deduction Act, S2472 [13FE]

S. 398, treat military service performed at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station and certain peacekeeping missions in Africa in the same manner as if such services were performed in a combat zone, S2473 [13FE]

S. 401, SBP Benefits Improvement Act, S2475 [13FE]

S. 414, Economic Recovery Act, S2523-S2537 [14FE]

S. 442, Reservists and Guardsmen Pay Protection Act, S2709 [25FE]

S. 445, Reservists Retirement and Retention Act, S2711 [25FE]

S. 459, Hometown Heroes Survivors Benefits Act, S2856 [26FE], S6568 [15MY], S16052 [25NO], H12300 [21NO]

S. 467, State Sales and Income Tax Deduction Fairness Act, S2925 [27FE]

S. 476, CARE Act, S5020-S5043 [9AP]

S. 481, adjust certain Federal annuity computations relative to periods of Federal employees receiving disability payments, S2940 [27FE]

S. 481, adjust certain Federal annuity computations relative to periods of receiving disability payments, S10076 [28JY], S10451 [30JY]

S. 545, Small Business Health Fairness Act, S3256-S3263 [6MR]

S. 585, Military Retiree Survivors Relief Act, S3420 [10MR]

S. 595, Housing Bond and Credit Modernization and Fairness Act, S3518 [11MR]

S. 596, Invest in the U.S.A. Act, S3519 [11MR]

S. 611, Fair Treatment for Precious Metal Investors Act, S3732 [13MR]

S. 623, allow Federal civilian and military retirees to pay health insurance premiums on a pretax basis and allow a deduction for TRICARE supplemental premiums, S3742 [13MR]

S. 629, Catch-Up Lost Retirement Savings Act, S3805 [17MR]

S. 661, Commuter Benefits Equity Act, S3999 [19MR]

S. 665, Tax Empowerment and Relief for Farmers and Fishermen (TERFF) Act, S4006-S4009 [19MR]

S. 667, strengthen payment limitations for commodity payments and benefits under Food Security Act, S4017 [19MR]

S. 680, enhance charitable contribution tax deductions for book donations and literacy, S4178 [20MR]

S. 685, Low Income Taxpayer Protection Act, S4284 [21MR]

S. 704, increase amount of death gratuity paid upon death during active duty in the Armed Forces, S4648 [1AP]

S. 705, alleviate delay in payment of the Selected Reserve reenlistment bonus to members who are mobilized, S4381 [25MR]

S. 706, provide Survivor Benefit Plan annuities for surviving spouses of Reserves not eligible for retirement who die from a cause incurred or aggravated while on inactive-duty training, S4382 [25MR]

S. 711, alleviate delay in payment of the Selected Reserve reenlistment bonus to members who are mobilized, S4440 [26MR], S4648 [1AP]

S. 712, provide Survivor Benefit Plan annuities for surviving spouses of Reserves not eligible for retirement who die from a cause incurred or aggravated while on inactive-duty training, S4440 [26MR], S4648 [1AP]

S. 721, expand combat zone tax exclusion for members of the Armed Forces to include transit period to such zones and to include commissioned officers, S4444 [26MR]

S. 729, Minnesota MSA Empowerment Act, S4520 [27MR]

S. 750, Blind Empowerment Act, S4632 [1AP]

S. 755, Uniform Definition of Child Act, S4637-S4639 [1AP]

S. 758, allow a tax credit for certain energy-efficient property, S4640 [1AP]

S. 767, repeal tax increase on Social Security benefits, S4706 [2AP]

S. 776, authorize payments under Federal retirement systems to Social Security trusts set up for disabled dependents of Federal employees, S4827 [3AP]

S. 785, permit cooperatives to pay dividends on preferred stock without reducing patronage dividends, S4837 [3AP]

S. 787, Fair and Independent Federal Judiciary Act, S4840 [3AP]

S. 804, allow a tax credit for contributions to congressional candidates, S4902 [7AP]

S. 841, Fair Pay Act, S5074 [9AP]

S. 846, Mortgage Insurance Fairness Act, S5085 [9AP]

S. 879, Economic Stimulus Act, S5209 [10AP]

S. 882, Tax Administration Good Government Act, S5211-S5228 [10AP]

S. 887, Intermediate Sanctions Compensatory Revenue Adjustment (ISCRAA) Act, S5240-S5242 [10AP]

S. 907, Flat Tax Act, S5365-S5370 [11AP]

S. 914, apply look-thru rules for purposes of the foreign tax credit limitation to dividends from foreign corporations not controlled by a domestic corporation, S5375 [11AP]

S. 922, Naturalization and Family Protection for Military Members Act, S5381 [11AP]

S. 936, Government Settlement Transparency Act, S5488 [29AP]

S. 945, improve process for adjusting rates of Armed Forces pay, S5493 [29AP]

S. 979, Broad-Based Stock Option Plan Transparency Act, S5671 [1MY]

S. 985, adjust percentage differentials payable to Federal law enforcement officers in certain high-cost areas, S5677 [1MY]

S. 1000, National Guard and Reserves Reform Act for the 21st Century, S5777-S5779 [6MY]

S. 1023, annual salary increase for justices and judges, S5877 [7MY]

S. 1035, reduce the age for receipt of military retired pay for non-regular service, S5997 [9MY]

S. 1057, modify calculation of back pay for members of the Navy or Marine Corps who were approved for promotion while interned as POW during World War II, S6259 [14MY]

S. 1059, tax treatment of political organizations, S6261 [14MY]

S. 1100, Securing Judicial Independence Act, S6864 [21MY]

S. 1119, clarify eligibility of certain expenses for low-income housing tax credit, S7004 [22MY]

S. 1124, Veterans Burial Benefits Improvement Act, S7010 [22MY]

S. 1131, Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act, S7029 [22MY]

S. 1133, Veterans Programs Improvement Act, S7031-S7033 [22MY]

S. 1136, Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, S7042-S7051 [22MY], S15481-S15498 [21NO]

S. 1175, First-Time Homebuyers' Tax Credit Act, S7254 [3JN]

S. 1196, Permanent Marriage Penalty Relief Act, S7489 [5JN]

S. 1199, Veterans Outreach Improvement Act, S7493 [5JN]

S. 1213, Filipino Veterans' Benefits Act, S7550 [9JN]

S. 1214, Family Caregiver Relief Act, S7553 [9JN]

S. 1228, Home Lead Safety Tax Credit Act, S7635 [10JN]

S. 1253, Stay-at-Home Parents' Tax Credit Act, S7839 [12JN]

S. 1263, Rural Economic Investment Act, S7881 [13JN]

S. 1275, Benefits for Victims of International Terrorism Act, S8000 [17JN]

S. 1305, tax treatment of certain motor vehicle dealer transitional assistance, S8303 [20JN]

S. 1316, Conservation Reserve Program Tax Fairness Act, S8441 [24JN]

S. 1323, Family Farmer Bankruptcy Relief Act, S8442 [24JN]

S. 1331, clarify treatment of certain tax attributes for companies whose debt is cancelled in a bankruptcy proceeding, S8567 [25JN]

S. 1333, tax treatment of certain expenses of rural letter carriers relative to the business use of a personal vehicle, S8570 [25JN]

S. 1348, Federal Pell Grant Eligibility Clarification Act, S8737 [26JN]

S. 1361, Restore Access to Foreign Trade (RAFT) Act, S8757 [26JN]

S. 1364, payment of burial and family relocation expenses after death of certain Federal employees in Alaska, S8759 [26JN]

S. 1408, restore tax deduction for travel expenses of a taxpayer's spouse who accompanies the taxpayer on business travel, S9421 [15JY]

S. 1418, Notch Fairness Act, S9498 [16JY]

S. 1437, Child Support Fairness and Tax Refund Interception Act, S9710 [22JY]

S. 1464, Beginning Farmers and Ranchers Tax Incentive Act, S9974 [25JY]

S. 1509, provide gratuity to veterans, their spouses, and children who contract HIV or AIDS from a blood transfusion relative to a service-connected disability, S10631 [31JY]

S. 1512, exclude benefits from income, employment taxes, and wage withholding property tax rebates, provided to volunteer firefighters and emergency medical responders, S10635 [31JY]

S. 1556, Legal Services Benefit Act, S10910 [1AU]

S. 1560, Disabled Workers Empowerment Act, S10911 [1AU]

S. 1570, Fair Care for the Uninsured Act, S10920-S10923 [1AU]

S. 1609, Parental Responsibility Obligations Met Through Immigration System Enforcement (PROMISE) Act, S11418 [11SE]

S. 1610, Defined Benefit Pension Plan Reform Act, S11418 [11SE]

S. 1611, Commission on Overtime Regulations, S11420 [11SE]

S. 1615, make permanent increase in rate of hostile fire and imminent danger special pay and the amount of the family separation allowance, S11481 [15SE]

S. 1658, Puerto Rico Economic Stimulus Act, S12000 [25SE]

S. 1683, Federal Law Enforcement Pay and Benefits Parity Act, S12195 [30SE], S16045 [25NO], H12926 [15DE]

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. 1845, Service to Country Reimbursement Act, S14453 [11NO]

S. 1857, Multiemployer Pension Plan Procedural Fairness Act, S14810 [12NO]

S. 1859, revise age and service requirements for receipt of military retired pay for non-regular service, S14811 [12NO]

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. 1898, Voluntary Support for Reservists and National Guard Members Act, S15288 [20NO]

S. 1912, Retirement Account Portability Act, S15408-S15411 [21NO]

S. 1920, extend reenactment period for chapter 12 of the bankruptcy code relative to family farmers, S16063 [25NO]

S. 1931, repeal Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act sunset on expansion of the adoption credit and adoption assistance programs, S15573 [22NO]

S. 1936, exclude from unrelated business taxable income the gain or loss on the sale or exchange of certain brownfield sites, S15815 [24NO]

S. Con. Res. 1, ensure parity between the compensation of members of the Armed Forces and civilian employees, S174 [9JA]

S. Res. 122, National Child Care Worthy Wage Day, S5495 [29AP]

S. Res. 155, oppose reduction of annual Social Security cost-of-living adjustments, S7115, S7160 [23MY]

S. Res. 162, tribute to tradeswomen, S7555 [9JN]

S. Res. 200, agree to conference report on H.R. 1308, Relief for Working Families Tax Act, that increases child tax credit refundability and include military pay in such credit, S9976 [25JY]

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]

Reservist's Reward—Bankruptcy: CBS Evening News (television program), S14514 [12NO]

U.S. Economic Policy: Kevin Phillips, National Public Radio, S217 [13JA]