DUNN, JENNIFER (a Representative from Washington)

Articles and editorials

Catherine May, Political Pioneer and Mentor to Women, Dies, Leah Beth Ward, Yakima (WA) Herald-Republic, H3742 [3JN]

Catherine May Bedell, First Washington Congresswoman, Dead at 90, Associated Press (news service), H3742 [3JN]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

African Growth and Opportunity Act: extend and modify certain trade benefits (see H.R. 4103), H2018 [1AP]

Agreement on Government Support for Civil Aircraft With the European Union: urge withdrawal and file a consultation request with the World Trade Organization on adverse effects on U.S. commercial aviation (see H. Con. Res. 509), H8038 [4OC]

American Dental Association: commend Give Kids a Smile program, emphasize need to improve access to dental care for children, and thank dentists for volunteering time to provide needed dental care (see H. Res. 567), H1594 [25MR]

Birds: mint coins celebrating recovery and restoration of the American bald eagle and noting the importance of the designation of the American bald eagle as an endangered species (see H.R. 4116), H2155 [2AP]

Budget: reform Federal budget procedures, impose spending safeguards, combat waste, fraud, and abuse, and account for accurate Government agency costs (see H.R. 3800), H2373 [22AP]

Business and industry: require mandatory expensing of stock options granted to executive officers (see H.R. 3574), H4928 (see H.R. 3574), H5071 [24JN]

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: expand the risk pools that qualify for high risk pool grants (see H.R. 5157), H7735 [28SE]

Columbia (space shuttle): award Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to crew (see H.R. 525), H2154 [2AP]

Dept. of HHS: reauthorize Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education Payment Program (see H.R. 4578), H4170 [15JN]

Dept. of Homeland Security: authorizing appropriations (see H.R. 4852), H5982 [19JY]

Employment: extend trade adjustment assistance to service workers (see H.R. 4090), H1790 [31MR]

Fort Clatsop National Memorial: redesignate as the Lewis and Clark National Historical Park and include in the park sites in Washington and Oregon (see H.R. 3819), H574 [24FE]

Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail: designate (see H.R. 4944), H6702 [22JY]

Immigration and Nationality Act: improve process for verifying an individual's eligibility for employment (see H.R. 4306), H4766 [22JN]

Indonesia: tribute to successful completion of elections for national, provincial, and regional parliamentary representatives, and praise growing friendship with the U.S. (see H. Res. 666), H5196 [6JY]

Insurance: require health plans to cover treatment of a minor child's congenital or developmental deformity or disorder due to trauma, infection, tumor, or disease (see H.R. 296), H3605 [1JN]

Investments: provide for enhanced retirement security in the form of an Individual Investment Program (see H.R. 4895), H6700 [22JY]

Iraq: provide education and health care for, and protect human rights of, women and children, and enhance political participation, economic empowerment, civil society, and personal security for women (see H.R. 4671), H4893 [23JN]

King, Martin Luther, Jr., and Coretta Scott: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 2680), H7735 [28SE]

Medicare: provide coverage of screening ultrasound for abdominal aortic aneurysms (see H.R. 4626), H4894 [23JN]

Seattle Storm (basketball team): tribute (see H. Res. 857), H9962 [17NO]

Skykomish River: designate certain Federal lands as wilderness and a portion of such lands for management as a backcountry wilderness management area (see H.R. 5083), H7233 [15SE]

Small business: improve results and accountability of microenterprise development assistance programs (see H.R. 3818), H1117 [16MR]

Social Security: permit qualifying States to use unspent State Children's Health Insurance Program allotments for Medicaid expenditures (see H.R. 3840), H2728 [6MY]

Space policy: mint coins in commemoration of the anniversaries of NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (see H.R. 4881), H6555 [21JY]

Spain: express condolences to families and friends of individuals killed in terrorist bombing in Madrid and express sympathy to individuals injured in those attacks and to the people of Spain (see H. Res. 559), H1072 [11MR]

Suzuki, Ichiro: tribute (see H. Res. 817), H8038 [4OC]

Tariff Act: repeal dumping and subsidy offset (see H.R. 3933), H3441 (see H.R. 3933), H3540 [20MY]

Taxation: allow a deduction for premiums for high deductible health plans required relative to health savings accounts (see H.R. 3901), H871 [4MR]

———allow deduction equal to fair market value for charitable contributions of literary, musical, artistic, or scholarly compositions created by the donor (see H.R. 806), H393 [4FE]

———allow issuance of tax-exempt private activity bonds to finance certain surface transportation facilities (see H.R. 3857), H1117 [16MR]

———make allowance of the deduction of State and local general sales taxes in lieu of State and local income taxes permanent (see H.R. 5384), H9999 [18NO]

———permanently extend the increased standard deduction and certain income tax rate bracket expansions for married taxpayers filing joint returns (see H.R. 4181), H2264 [21AP]

———remove impediments to make manufacturing, service, and high-technology businesses more competitive and productive (see H.R. 4520), H3784 [4JN]

Women: increase awareness and education about heart disease among women (see H. Res. 522), H434 [10FE]

World War II: honor contribution of women, symbolized by ``Rosie the Riveter'', who served on the homefront (see H. Con. Res. 413), H3606 [1JN]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Taxation: exempt certain transportation provided by seaplanes from the excise tax imposed on the transportation of persons by air (see H.R. 3770), H392 [4FE]

Remarks

Air New Zealand, Ltd.: tribute, E1788 [4OC]

Employment: impact of the outsourcing of jobs to foreign countries on the economy, H4395 [17JN]

Iraq: affirm value of liberation of the Iraqi people and commend service of the U.S. Armed Forces and Coalition forces on anniversary of Operation Iraqi Freedom (H. Res. 557), H1178 [17MR]

Mount Rainier National Park: boundary adjustment (H.R. 265), H3561 [1JN]

National security: reform the intelligence community and enhance terrorism prevention and prosecution, border security, and international cooperation and coordination (H.R. 10), H8697 [7OC]

Taxation: remove impediments to make manufacturing, service, and high-technology businesses more competitive and productive (H.R. 4520), H4395 [17JN]

———remove impediments to make manufacturing, service, and high-technology businesses more competitive and productive (H.R. 4520), conference report, H8721 [7OC]

———remove impediments to make manufacturing, service, and high-technology businesses more competitive and productive (H.R. 4520), motion to instruct conferees, H7756 [29SE]

———repeal foreign sales corporation/extraterritorial income (FSC/ETI) tax program and replace with corporate rate deduction for domestic manufacturers, H4395 [17JN]

U.S.-Australia Free Trade Agreement: implementation (H.R. 4759), H5700 [14JY]

U.S.-Morocco Free Trade Agreement: implementation (H.R. 4842), H6638 [22JY]

Votes: position on missed, H61 [21JA], E178 [12FE]

Remarks in House relative to

Leave of absence: granted, H23 [20JA], H87 [21JA]

Tributes

Bedell, Catherine May, H3741, H3743 [3JN]