CHAFEE, LINCOLN D. (a Senator from Rhode Island)

Amendments

Appropriations: making continuing (H.J. Res. 2), S1049, S1091 [16JA], S1156 [17JA], S1200, S1245, S1296 [21JA]

———making supplemental appropriations for ongoing military operations and reconstruction efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan (S. 1689), S12260, S12301 [1OC], S12389 [2OC], S12713 [16OC], S12794 [17OC]

Budget: setting forth the Federal budget for 2003-2013 (S. Con. Res. 23), S3855, S3905, S3907 [18MR], S4199, S4212, S4214 [20MR], S4358, S4363, S4377, S4392 [25MR]

Dept. of Defense: making appropriations (H.R. 2658), S9354 [14JY], S9562, S9602 [17JY]

Dept. of State: authorizing appropriations (S. 925), S9095, S9156 [9JY]

Depts. of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies: making appropriations (S. 1585), S14452 [11NO]

Depts. of Veterans Affairs and HUD, and sundry independent agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 2861), S14845 [12NO]

Ecology and environment: manage risk of potential climate change through reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases (S. 139), S13523 [29OC]

Medicare: reform and provide prescription drug coverage (S. 1), S8582 [25JN], S8675 [26JN]

Peace Corps: authorizing appropriations (S. 925), S9095, S9156 [9JY]

Power resources: enhance energy conservation, research, and development and provide for security and diversity in the energy supply (S. 14), S7702, S7737 [11JN], S10712 [31JY]

Taxation: provide incentives for economic recovery (S. 1054), S6338 [14MY], S6438 [15MY]

Appointments

Acting President pro tempore, S9665 [22JY]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Agriculture: ensure the humane slaughter of nonambulatory livestock (see S. 1298), S15287 [20NO]

Air pollution: establish a national uniform multiple air pollutant regulatory program for the electric generating sector (see S. 843), S5059 [9AP]

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: preserve the Arctic coastal plain as wilderness (see S. 543), S3163 [5MR]

Armed Forces: support members engaging in military action in Iraq and President Bush for his efforts as Commander in Chief (see S. Res. 95), S4166 [20MR]

Assault weapons: reauthorize ban on production of assault weapons and large capacity ammunition feeding devices (see S. 1034), S5950 [8MY]

China, Republic of: participation in WHO (see S. 243), S1736 [29JA]

Coastal Zone Management Act: authorize the acquisition of coastal areas to ensure their protection from conversion or development (see S. 861), S5173 [10AP]

Colombia: eligibility of nationals for temporary protected status (see S. 986), S12376 [2OC]

Columbia (space shuttle): tribute to crew (see S. Res. 41), S1870 [4FE] (see S. Res. 45), S1977 [5FE]

Contraceptives: require equitable coverage of drugs, devices, and services under health insurance plans (see S. 1396), S9303 [11JY]

Courts: amend procedures that apply to consideration of interstate class actions to assure fairer outcomes for class members and defendants (see S. 274), S1870 [4FE]

———expand Federal diversity jurisdiction to allow consideration of certain interstate class actions and provide additional protections to plaintiff class members (see S. 1751), S12737 [16OC]

Crime: provide Federal assistance to States and local jurisdictions to prosecute hate crimes (see S. 966), S5650 [1MY]

Cuba: lift travel restrictions (see S. 950), S5541 [30AP]

Dept. of Agriculture: organic food standards relative to livestock and dairy production (see S. 457), S3411 [10MR]

———prohibit use of certain conservation funding to provide technical assistance under the Conservation Reserve Program (see S. 1766), S13803 [3NO]

Dept. of Commerce: establish the Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance within the International Trade Administration (see S. 1120), S7542 [9JN]

Dept. of the Interior: anniversary of National Wildlife Refuge System (see S. Res. 87), S3730 [13MR]

———implement final rule to phase out snowmobile use in Yellowstone National Park, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Memorial Parkway, and Grand Teton National Park, and snowplane use in Grand Teton National Park (see S. 965), S5650 [1MY]

Disabled: coordinate efforts in collecting and analyzing data on the incidence and prevalence of developmental disabilities (see S. 1226), S7981 [17JN]

Diseases: expand research on inflammatory bowel disease (see S. 491), S8726 [26JN]

Employment: prohibit discrimination on the basis of affectional or sexual orientation (see S. 1705), S12376 [2OC]

FEMA: extend the National Flood Insurance Program (see S. 122), S132 [9JA]

Fire prevention: establish comprehensive fire safety standards for upholstered furniture, mattresses, bedclothing, and candles (see S. 1798), S13660 [30OC]

Firearms: improve the national instant criminal background check system (see S. 1706), S12376 [2OC]

———regulation of transfers at gun shows (see S. 1807), S13711 [31OC]

Forest Service: protection of certain roadless areas (see S. 1200), S7476 [5JN]

FTC: ratify authority for implementation and enforcement of a ``do-not-call'' registry relative to telemarketing firms (see S. 1655), S11988 [25SE]

Government: extend and strengthen procedures to maintain fiscal accountability and responsibility (see S. 90), S203 [10JA]

Haiti: duty-free treatment of certain apparel articles relative to certification of market, political, and social reforms (see S. 489), S2920 [27FE]

Hazardous substances: reduce quantity of mercury in the environment by limiting use of mercury fever thermometers and improving collection, recycling and disposal of mercury (see S. 616), S3730 [13MR]

Health: increase supply of pancreatic islet cells for research, coordinate efforts on transplantation, make transplantation a standard therapy, and provide Medicare coverage of certain transplantations (see S. 518), S4824 [3AP]

Height, Dorothy I.: award Congressional Gold Medal (see S. 1266), S14452 [11NO]

Human rights: support the drafting and adoption of a thematic convention on the human rights and dignity of persons with disabilities by the U.N. General Assembly (see S. Con. Res. 52), S7619 [10JN]

Immigration: adjust status of certain foreign agricultural workers, reform H-2A worker program, provide a stable, legal agricultural workforce, and extend basic legal protections and better working conditions to more workers (see S. 1645), S15062 [18NO]

Individuals With Disabilities Education Act: authorizing appropriations (see S. 939), S5483 [29AP]

Jamestown, VA: mint coins in commemoration of settlement anniversary (see S. 976), S13803 [3NO]

King, Martin Luther, Jr.: mint coins in commemoration (see S. 377), S2340 [12FE]

King, Martin Luther, Jr., and Coretta Scott: award Congressional Gold Medal (see S. 1368), S9120 [9JY]

Law enforcement officers: adjust percentage differentials payable to Federal law enforcement officers in certain high-cost areas (see S. 985), S9906 [24JY]

Liberia: adjust immigration status of certain nationals (see S. 656), S8301 [20JN]

Marine Corps: mint coins in commemoration of anniversary (see S. 894), S13660 [30OC]

Marine mammals: reaffirm opposition to commercial and lethal scientific whaling and provide protection for, and conservation of, the world's whale populations to prevent trade in whale meat (see S. Con. Res. 55), S7832 [12JN]

Marshall, John: mint coins in commemoration (see S. 1531), S11187 [8SE]

Medicaid: coverage of primary and secondary preventative medical strategies for children and adults with sickle cell disease (see S. 874), S10141 [29JY]

———extend the transitional medical assistance program (see S. 883), S5174 [10AP]

———provide families of disabled children with the opportunity to purchase coverage (see S. 622), S3730 [13MR]

Medicare: coverage of oral anticancer drugs (see S. 1037), S5995 [9MY]

———enhance access of beneficiaries who live in medically underserved areas to critical primary and preventive health care benefits and improve the Medicare+Choice program (see S. 654), S6707 [20MY]

———expand coverage of certain self-injected biologicals (see S. 465), S10619 [31JY]

———extend eligibility periods for geriatric graduate medical education, expand medical residency training programs in geriatric medicine, and provide reimbursement of care coordination and assessment services (see S. 387), S4824 [3AP]

———improve patient access to, and utilization of, the colorectal cancer screening benefit (see S. 740), S4898 [7AP]

Mental health: provide for equal insurance coverage of benefits unless comparable limitations are imposed on medical and surgical benefits (see S. 486), S2920 [27FE]

Middle East: Israeli/Palestinian peace initiatives (see S. Res. 276), S15976 [25NO]

Motor vehicles: increase fuel economy standards for light trucks, sport utility vehicles (SUVs), and the Federal fleet, and increase weight limit of vehicles subject to fuel economy standards (see S. 255), S7876 [13JN]

Moynihan, Daniel Patrick: tribute (see S. Res. 99), S4434 [26MR]

Museum and Library Services Act: reauthorize (see S. 238), S1813 [30JA] (see S. 888), S5543 [30AP]

National Affordable Housing Trust Fund: establish to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing for low-income families (see S. 1411), S9414 [15JY]

National Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Week: designate (see S. Res. 243), S12607 [15OC]

National security: provide for homeland security grant coordination and simplification (see S. 1245), S8896 [7JY]

Ogilvie, Mary Jane Jenkins: tribute (see S. Res. 110), S4957 [8AP]

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe: encourage action against escalation of anti-Semitic violence and manifestations of xenophobia and discrimination against ethnic and religious minorities (see S. Con. Res. 7), S3732 [13MR]

Pledge of Allegiance: circuit court decision on inclusion of phrase ``under God'' (see S. Res. 71), S3086 [4MR]

Roads and highways: extend certain Highway Trust Fund highway, safety, and transit programs pending reauthorization of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (see S. 1640), S11753 [22SE]

Russia: normal trade relations status (see S. 580), S4824 [3AP]

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

Smithsonian Institution: establish National Museum of African American History and Culture (see S. 1157), S7135 [23MY]

Social Security: earnings test for blind individuals (see S. 750), S4629 [1AP]

———extend availability of allotments under the State Children's Health Insurance Program (see S. 312), S1977 [5FE]

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

———permit qualifying States to use unspent State Children's Health Insurance Program allotments for Medicaid expenditures (see S. 1976), S15975 [25NO]

———permit States the option of covering certain legal aliens under Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (see S. 845), S5059 [9AP]

Taxation: accelerate increase in refundability of the child tax credit (see S. 1162), S7237 [3JN]

———allow deduction equal to fair market value for charitable contributions of literary, musical, artistic, or scholarly compositions created by the donor (see S. 287), S4512 [27MR]

———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), S9244 [10JY]

———encourage and accelerate production, sale, and use of new motor vehicles powered by alternative fuels or other advanced motor vehicle technologies (see S. 505), S3086 [4MR]

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

———extend financing of the Superfund program by reinstating certain excise taxes (see S. 173), S848 [15JA]

———extension of the credit for producing electricity from wind (see S. 395), S2457 [13FE]

———modify treatment of qualified small issue bonds (see S. 756), S13134 [23OC]

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

———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 incentives to reduce energy consumption (see S. 507), S3254 [6MR]

———repeal foreign sales corporation/extraterritorial income (FSC/ETI) tax program and replace with corporate rate deduction for domestic manufacturers (see S. 1637), S13054 [22OC]

———repeal motor fuel excise taxes which remain in the general fund of the Treasury on railroads and inland waterway transportation (see S. 251), S8126 [18JN]

———suspend a portion of reduction in highest income tax rate and use such revenue to make supplemental appropriations for security and stabilization of Iraq (see S. 1634), S12278 [1OC]

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

———treatment of bonds originally issued to finance governmental facilities used for essential governmental functions (see S. 271), S4512 [27MR]

Television: preserve localism, promote diversity in programming, encourage competition, and prevent excessive concentration of ownership of broadcast stations (see S. 1046), S10971 [2SE]

Terrorism: anniversary of terrorist attacks (see S. Res. 224), S11416 [11SE]

Thurmond, Strom: tribute (see S. Res. 191), S8862 [27JN]

Tick-Borne Disorders Advisory Committee: establish (see S. 1527), S10618 [31JY]

Veterans: permit concurrent receipt of military retired pay with service-connected disability benefits (see S. 392), S4325 [24MR]

Bills and resolutions introduced

EPA: authorize use of funds made available for nonpoint source management programs for projects and activities relating to the development and implementation of phase II of the storm water program (see S. 1716), S12448 [3OC]

Hazardous substances: implement certain conventions dealing with organic pollutants, chemicals, and pesticides (see S. 1486), S10140 [29JY]

Medicaid: allow States to expand family planning coverage to certain women (see S. 1429), S9592 [17JY]

———extend certain modifications to disproportionate share hospital allotments (see S. 652), S3881 [18MR]

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: authorize development of research centers focusing on environmental factors related to the etiology of breast cancer (see S. 983), S5651 [1MY]

Rhode Island: deauthorize portions of a Federal channel in Pawtuxet Cove (see S. 1251), S7831 [12JN]

Solid Waste Disposal Act: require compliance with leak detection and prevention standards for underground storage tanks and provide funding for cleanup of sites contaminated by methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE) (see S. 195), S1144 [17JA]

Taxation: expand Federal tax refund intercept program for parents delinquent on child support to cover children who are not minors (see S. 1437), S9708 [22JY]

Cloture motions

Committees of the Senate: majority party appointments (S. Res. 18), S286 [14JA]

Estrada, Miguel A.: nomination to be circuit judge, S3070 [4MR], S3455 [11MR], S3693 [13MR], S10076 [28JY], S10203 [30JY]

Owen, Priscilla Richman: nomination to be circuit judge, S5472 [29AP], S5629 [1MY]

Lists

Rhode Island Girl Scout Gold Award recipients, S7375 [4JN]

Rhode Island Girl Scout Silver Award recipients, S7376 [4JN]

Pledge of Allegiance

Senate, S9665 [22JY], S12421 [3OC]

Poems

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

Remarks

Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs: making appropriations (H.R. 2673), S14015 [5NO]

AID: Clean Water for the Americas Partnership funding, S1441 [23JA]

Air pollution: establish a national uniform multiple air pollutant regulatory program for the electric generating sector (S. 843), S5083 [9AP]

Appropriations: making continuing (H.J. Res. 2), S1359 [22JA], S1384, S1441 [23JA], S1510 [28JA]

———making omnibus consolidated appropriations, S1359 [22JA], S1384, S1441 [23JA], S1510 [28JA]

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: oil and gas exploration, S3951, S3952 [19MR]

Budget: setting forth the Federal budget for 2003-2013 (S. Con. Res. 23), S3951, S3952 [19MR]

EPA: authorize use of funds made available for nonpoint source management programs for projects and activities relating to the development and implementation of phase II of the storm water program (S. 1716), S12468 [3OC]

Fire prevention: improve fire safety in nonresidential buildings (H. Con. Res. 85), S3760 [13MR]

Hazardous substances: implement certain conventions dealing with organic pollutants, chemicals, and pesticides (S. 1486), S10151 [29JY]

Health: modify the rules for redistribution and extended availability of funding for the State Children's Health Insurance Program, S1384 [23JA], S1510 [28JA]

———protect patients' access to quality and affordable health care by reducing effects of excessive liability costs (S. 11), motion to proceed, S9235 [10JY]

Medicaid: allow States to expand family planning coverage to certain women (S. 1429), S9596 [17JY]

———extend certain modifications to disproportionate share hospital allotments (S. 652), S3900 [18MR]

Medicare: provide for income-related increase in part B premium for individuals and married couples with incomes exceeding a certain level, S8678 [26JN]

———reform and provide prescription drug coverage (S. 1), S8678 [26JN]

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: authorize development of research centers focusing on environmental factors related to the etiology of breast cancer (S. 983), S5674 [1MY]

Providence, RI: Providence Performing Arts Center funding, S1359 [22JA]

Rhode Island: eliminate avian influenza in poultry, S14015 [5NO]

———tribute to Girl Scout Gold Award recipients, S7375 [4JN]

———tribute to Girl Scout Silver Award recipients, S7375 [4JN]

Rhode Island Council on Residential Programs for Children and Youth: tribute, S11563 [16SE]

Senate: legislative program, S7741 [12JN]

Social Security: extend availability of allotments under the State Children's Health Insurance Program (S. 312), S1991 [5FE]

Solid Waste Disposal Act: require compliance with leak detection and prevention standards for underground storage tanks and provide funding for cleanup of sites contaminated by methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE) (S. 195), S1148 [17JA]

Syria: halt support for terrorism, end occupation of Lebanon, stop development of weapons of mass destruction, and cease illegal importation of Iraqi oil (H.R. 1828), S14415 [11NO]

Taxation: abolish certain tax cuts, S6439 [15MY]

———expand Federal tax refund intercept program for parents delinquent on child support to cover children who are not minors (S. 1437), S9710 [22JY]

———provide incentives for economic recovery (S. 1054), S6439 [15MY]

U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement: implementation (H.R. 2738), S10585 [31JY]

U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement: implementation (H.R. 2739), S10585 [31JY]

Texts of

S. 195, Underground Storage Tank Compliance Act, S1149-S1151 [17JA]

S. 652, Access to Hospitals Act, S3901 [18MR]

S. 983, Breast Cancer and Environmental Research Act, S5674 [1MY]

S. 1429, Family Planning State Empowerment Act, S9597 [17JY]

S. 1437, Child Support Fairness and Tax Refund Interception Act, S9710 [22JY]

Tributes

Billington, Albert W., S15972 [25NO]

Hadley, Judy, S11904 [24SE], S11984 [25SE]

Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, S5166 [10AP]