LUCAS, FRANK D. (a Representative from Oklahoma)

Amendments

Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs: making appropriations (H.R. 4766), H5471 [9JY], H5582, H5583 [13JY]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Agriculture: provide emergency agriculture assistance (see H.R. 5203), H8168 [5OC] (see H.R. 5226), H8407 [6OC]

Budget: reform Federal budget procedures, impose spending safeguards, combat waste, fraud, and abuse, and account for accurate Government agency costs (see H.R. 3800), H2154 [2AP]

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

Dept. of the Treasury: extend Terrorism Risk Insurance Program (see H.R. 4634), H6900 [8SE]

District of Columbia: restore right to keep and bear arms (see H.R. 3193), H700 [26FE]

Elections: assert that terrorists will never cause the date of a Presidential election to be postponed and that no individual or agency will have the authority to postpone a Presidential election (see H. Res. 728), H6127 [20JY]

Families and domestic relations: clarify definition of marriage (see H.R. 4892), H6700 [22JY]

———constitutional amendment relative to definition of marriage (see H.J. Res. 56), H5331 [7JY] (see H.J. Res. 106), H7945 [30SE]

Francis C. Goodpaster Post Office Building, Vinita, OK: designate (see H.R. 4782), H7329 [21SE]

Immigration: enhance Federal, State, and local enforcement of immigration laws (see H.R. 2671), H1370 [23MR]

Labor unions: protect the free choice of individual employees relative to participation in labor organizations (see H.R. 391), H304 [3FE]

Life Insurance Awareness Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Con. Res. 461), H4765 [22JN]

Medicare: extend increase in payment rates for home health services in rural areas (see H.R. 4902), H6700 [22JY]

National Guard Challenge Program: rename and revise matching funds requirements for participating States (see H.R. 4217), H2728 [6MY]

NSF: establish a National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program (see H.R. 3980), H2374 [22AP]

Radio: preserve local radio broadcast emergency and other services and require the FCC to conduct rulemaking for that purpose (see H.R. 4026), H7245 [17SE]

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

States: authorize Dept. of Agriculture and CCC to enter into memorandums of understanding with States regarding the collection of approved State commodity assessments from proceeds of marketing assistance loans (see H.R. 4620), H7443 [22SE]

Taxation: provide collegiate housing and infrastructure grants (see H.R. 1523), H7575 [23SE]

———provide that the credit for producing fuel from a nonconventional source shall apply to gas produced onshore from certain formations (see H.R. 5090), H7233 [15SE]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Dept. of Agriculture: modify and improve funding structure of the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (see H.R. 4189), H2265 [21AP]

Taxation: allow low-income housing credit without regard to whether moderate rehabilitation assistance is provided for a building (see H.R. 4289), H2657 [5MY]

Letters

Limit transfer of certain CCC funds between conservation programs for technical assistance for the programs: several agricultural organizations, H10907 [6DE]

———several conservation and sportsmen's organizations, H10908 [6DE]

———several organizations, H10908 [6DE]

Remarks

Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs: making appropriations (H.R. 4766), H5582, H5583 [13JY]

CCC: limit transfer of certain funds between conservation programs for technical assistance for the programs (S. 2856), H10907 [6DE]

Dept. of Agriculture: Conservation Reserve Program and Wetlands Reserve Program technical assistance funding, H5582, H5583 [13JY]

———Environmental Quality Incentives Program, Farmland Protection Program, Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program, and Grassland Reserves Program funding, H5582, H5583 [13JY]

FAA: promote development of commercial space transportation and authorize appropriations for the Office of the Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation (H.R. 3752), H837 [4MR]

Native Americans: reaffirm inherent sovereign rights of the Osage Tribe to determine its membership and form of government (H.R. 2912), H3563 [1JN]

Remarks in House relative to

Leave of absence: granted, H390 [4FE], H2404 [27AP], H6751 [7SE], H6994 [9SE]

Tributes

Von Tungeln, Henry Jo, E357 [11MR]