RURAL AREAS related term(s) Agriculture; Suburban areas

Amendments

Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs: making appropriations (H.R. 4766), H5402 [8JY], H5471 [9JY], H5536, H5537 [12JY], H5552, H5554, H5559, H5560, H5561, H5562, H5564, H5566, H5567, H5582, H5583, H5584, H5585, H5587, H5589, H5595, H5598, H5599, H5600, H5602, H5606, H5607, H5655 [13JY]

Bankruptcy: extend reenactment period for chapter 12 of the bankruptcy code relative to family farmers (S. 1920), H157, H210, H211, H216 [28JA]

Health care professionals: improve access to physicians in medically underserved areas by extending and increasing foreign country residency requirement waivers for foreign medical graduates (S. 2302), S11271 [11OC]

Appointments

National Commission of Small Community Air Service, S2752 [11MR]

Articles and editorials

For Development, Draw on N.C.'s Arts, E1868 [11OC]

Mr. President—Welcome to Beckley, E1417 [19JY]

Risky Business—Growth of Private Fire Crews Worries Forest Officials. Some Fear Training and Safety Are Compromised by Burgeoning Use of Contract Firefighters, S5231 [11MY]

SEC Chief Pans Bankruptcy Adviser Change, H220 [28JA]

Bills and resolutions

Agriculture: promote use of anaerobic digesters by agricultural producers and rural small businesses to produce renewable energy and improve environmental quality (see S. 2583), S7434 [24JN] (see H.R. 4696), H4927 (see H.R. 4696), H5070 [24JN]

———provide crop and livestock disaster assistance to agricultural producers (see S. 2592), S7435 [24JN] (see H.R. 4705), H4927 (see H.R. 4705), H5071 [24JN]

———provide emergency agriculture assistance (see S. 2456), S5949 [20MY] (see H.R. 4874), H6127 [20JY] (see H.R. 5203), H8038 [4OC] (see H.R. 5226), H8407 [6OC]

Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs: instruct conferees to appropriations legislation relative to the Conservation Security Program and treatment of agricultural disaster assistance (see S. Res. 465), S11305 [11OC]

———making appropriations (see S. 2803), S9220 [14SE] (see H.R. 4766), H5330 [7JY]

———making appropriations (H.R. 4766), consideration (see H. Res. 710), H5401 [8JY]

———making appropriations (H.R. 4766), request Senate to return bill to the House of Representatives (see H. Res. 719), H5908 [15JY]

Bankruptcy: extend reenactment period for chapter 12 of the bankruptcy code relative to family farmers (see S. 2864), S9936 [29SE] (see H.R. 5167), H7863 [29SE]

———extend reenactment period for chapter 12 of the bankruptcy code relative to family farmers (S. 1920), consideration (see H. Res. 503), H127 [27JA]

———permanently reenact chapter 12 of the bankruptcy code relative to family farmers (see H.R. 5195), H7944 [30SE]

Bastrop, LA: conveyance of certain Federal land to establish and operate a regional emergency services training center for firefighters, police, and EMS personnel serving certain rural communities (see H.R. 4918), H6701 [22JY]

Computers: encourage broadband technology deployment to rural areas (see S. 2577, 2578), S7434 [24JN]

Dept. of Education: extend the same level of increased flexibility to all rural local educational agencies under Title I, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (see H.R. 4833), H5793 [14JY]

Dept. of Homeland Security: authorize use of certain grants to pay costs associated with participation of part-time or volunteer first responders in terrorism response training courses (see S. 3005), S11496 [18NO] (see H.R. 5392), H9999 [18NO]

Dept. of the Interior: establish a water supply enhancement demonstration program that includes desalination (see H.R. 4835), H5793 [14JY]

———establish rural water supply program for certain rural residents and conduct appraisal and feasibility studies and establish guidelines for rural water projects (see S. 2218), S2859 [22MR]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: enter into contracts with community health care providers to improve access to health care for veterans in highly rural areas (see H.R. 3777), H392 [4FE]

Education: authorize local educational agencies in rural areas to obtain a limited waiver of certain requirements relative to the employment of highly qualified teachers (see S. 2164), S2223 [4MR] (see H.R. 3781), H396 [6FE]

———provide grants to rural local educational agencies to purchase new school buses (see S. 2732), S8687 [22JY]

FAA: repeal local participation in Essential Air Service Program (see H.R. 3721), H88 [21JA]

Farm Security and Rural Investment Act: increase loan rate for safflower (see S. 2251), S3294 [29MR]

Firefighters: promote wildland firefighter safety (see S. 2410), S5227 [11MY]

Health: improve health care for minority and underserved populations (see S. 2091), S1286 [12FE] (see S. 2217), S2778 [12MR] (see S. 2594), S7435 [24JN]

Health care professionals: improve access to physicians in medically underserved areas by extending and increasing foreign country residency requirement waivers for foreign medical graduates (see S. 2302), S3919 [7AP] (see H.R. 4156), H2153 [2AP] (see H.R. 4453), H3439 (see H.R. 4453), H3538 [20MY]

———provide for education and training of allied health professionals in exchange for a service commitment at a facility with critical shortages of allied health professionals (see S. 2491), S6348 [2JN]

Housing: allow borrowers under the rural single family housing guaranteed loan program to finance the amount of the guarantee fee (see H.R. 4521), H3820 [8JN]

———ensure that certain areas are eligible for rural housing assistance (see H.R. 3817), H574 [24FE]

Immigration: increase availability of H-2B nonimmigrant visas for rural border areas (see S. 2616), S7750 [7JY]

Law enforcement: promote rural safety and improve rural law enforcement (see H.R. 4276), H2656 [5MY]

Medicaid: ensure the provision of services under the Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) to frail elders living in rural areas (see S. 2369), S4692 [29AP]

Medicare: expand the rural community hospital demonstration program to include outpatient services (see S. 2284), S3791 [6AP]

———extend increase in payment rates for home health services in rural areas (see S. 2659), S8228 [15JY] (see H.R. 4902), H6700 [22JY]

———improve the provision of items and services to beneficiaries in rural areas (see S. 2135), S1683 [26FE]

———provide geographic equity in fee-for-service reimbursement for providers (see H.R. 3935), H1011 [10MR]

———provide payments to ambulance suppliers for the full cost of furnishing such services and to rural ambulance providers and suppliers for cost of serving areas with low population density (see S. 3011), S11639 [19NO] (see H.R. 5415), H10079 [19NO]

———require Medicare Advantage organizations to pay for critical access hospital services and rural health clinic services at a greater percentage than regular Medicare payment rates (see H.R. 4687), H4926 (see H.R. 4687), H5070 [24JN]

National Center for Social Work Research: establish (see H.R. 3887), H830 [3MR]

Packers and Stockyards Act: prohibit use of certain anti-competitive forward contracts (see H.R. 4006), H1322 [18MR]

Roads and highways: extend a certain high priority corridor in Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming (see S. 2756), S8688 [22JY]

Safety: improve safety of rural roads (see H.R. 3743), H244 [28JA]

Taxation: exclude from gross income interest received on loans secured by agricultural real property (see H.R. 4295), H2657 [5MY]

———extend work opportunity tax credit relative to hiring of workers in rural areas (see H.R. 4945), H6703 [22JY]

Television: ensure carriage of direct broadcast satellite television signals by satellite carriers to consumers in rural areas (see S. 2644), S8030 [13JY]

Territories: amend treatment of certain territories under the Rural Health Care Program relative to telemedicine and telehealth services (see H.R. 3750), H250 [30JA]

U.S.-Australia Free Trade Agreement: implementation (see S. 2610), S7580 [6JY]

U.S.-Morocco Free Trade Agreement: implementation (see S. 2677), S8229 [15JY]

Cloture motions

Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs: making appropriations (H.R. 2673), conference report, S20 [20JA], S156 [22JA]

Cost Estimates

Access to Rural Physicians Improvement Act (H.R. 4453): CBO, E1976 [16NO]

Factsheets

Background on Ethiopia, H5884 [15JY]

Letters

Create funding flexibility, increase accountability, and improve performance and efficiency of public transit programs: Dale J. Marsico, Community Transportation Association, S619 [5FE]

———James A. Garner, U.S. Conference of Mayors, S619 [5FE]

———Surface Transportation Policy Project, S619 [5FE]

———William W. Millar, American Public Transportation Association, S619 [5FE]

Family Farmer Bankruptcy Relief Act: several agricultural organizations, S10611 [6OC]

Improve access to physicians in medically underserved areas by extending and increasing foreign country residency requirement waivers for foreign medical graduates: Representative Barton, Committee on Energy and Commerce (House), H9858 [17NO]

———Representative Sensenbrenner, Committee on the Judiciary (House), H9858 [17NO]

Reenactment period extension for chapter 12 of the bankruptcy code relative to family farmers: David J. Frederickson, National Farmers Union, H147, H150 [28JA]

———George Naylor, National Family Farm Coalition, H147 [28JA]

———Mark Smith, Farm Aid (organization), H146 [28JA]

Lists

Organizations supporting S. 2491, Allied Health Reinvestment Act, S6360 [2JN]

Messages

U.S.-Australia Free Trade Agreement: President Bush, S7576 [6JY], H5166 [6JY]

Motions

Bankruptcy: extend reenactment period for chapter 12 of the bankruptcy code relative to family farmers (S. 1920), H216, H219 [28JA]

Remarks in House

Africa: allocate certain agricultural development funds for small-scale irrigation, crop and livestock diversification, and rural infrastructure, H5883-H5886 [15JY]

Agriculture: provide crop and livestock disaster assistance to agricultural producers, H7186 [14SE], H7404 [22SE], H8304-H8307 [6OC], E1561 [8SE]

Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs: making appropriations (H.R. 2673), conference report, H256 [3FE], E65 [28JA]

———making appropriations (H.R. 4766), H5501-H5515 [12JY], H5552-H5615 [13JY], E1380, E1388 [15JY], E1393, E1398, E1405 [16JY], E1411, E1414 [19JY], E1426 [20JY], E1505 [22JY]

———making appropriations (H.R. 4766), consideration (H. Res. 710), H5485-H5488 [12JY]

———making appropriations (H.R. 4766), request Senate to return bill to the House of Representatives (H. Res. 719), H5895 [15JY]

———making appropriations (H.R. 4766), unanimous-consent request, H5546 [13JY]

Bankruptcy: extend reenactment period for chapter 12 of the bankruptcy code relative to family farmers (S. 1920), H148-H218 [28JA], E84 [30JA], E95 [3FE]

———extend reenactment period for chapter 12 of the bankruptcy code relative to family farmers (S. 1920), consideration (H. Res. 503), H143-H148 [28JA]

———extend reenactment period for chapter 12 of the bankruptcy code relative to family farmers (S. 1920), motion to instruct conferees, H219-H222 [28JA]

———extend reenactment period for chapter 12 of the bankruptcy code relative to family farmers (S. 1920), motion to recommit, H217, H218 [28JA]

———extend reenactment period for chapter 12 of the bankruptcy code relative to family farmers (S. 2864), H9011 [8OC]

———permanently reenact chapter 12 of the bankruptcy code relative to family farmers, H212-H216 [28JA]

———protect financially distressed military families and veterans from the means test, H217 [28JA]

California: tribute to Central Valley Common Threads award recipients, E465 [29MR]

Dept. of Agriculture: Environmental Quality Incentives Program, Farmland Protection Program, Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program, and Grassland Reserves Program funding, H5582, H5583 [13JY]

———Farm Service Agency, Natural Resource Conservation Service, and rural development funding through reductions in Common Computing Environment funding, H5554-H5558 [13JY]

———Farmers Market Promotion Program funding, H5600, H5601 [13JY]

———Office of the Inspector General funding, H5567-H5569 [13JY]

———Rural Community Advancement Program funding, H5589 [13JY]

———Rural Utilities Service broadband loan program funding, H5598 [13JY]

Dept. of Homeland Security: Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Hispanic-serving institutions funding for first responder training, H4514-H4516 [18JN], E1192 [21JN]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: enter into contracts with community health care providers to improve access to health care for veterans in highly rural areas (H.R. 3777), H929 [10MR], E355 [11MR]

Drought: impact on Kansas, H7404 [22SE]

Education: assist local educational agencies in providing financial incentives to attract teachers to rural and high-poverty areas (H.R. 2811), E737 [4MY]

FAA: Essential Air Service Program funding, E1196 [21JN]

Health care professionals: improve access to physicians in medically underserved areas by extending and increasing foreign country residency requirement waivers for foreign medical graduates (H.R. 4453), H8237-H8239 [6OC], E1975 [16NO]

———improve access to physicians in medically underserved areas by extending and increasing foreign country residency requirement waivers for foreign medical graduates (S. 2302), H9857-H9862 [17NO], E2045 [18NO]

Lewis & Clark Rural Water System: funding, H5100 [25JN]

Medicare: extend increase in payment rates for home health services in rural areas (H.R. 4902), E2107 [20NO]

———make standardized payment amounts equitable for urban and rural inpatient hospital services, H1374 [24MR]

Moffat County, CO: tribute to Wildland Fire and Fuel Management Plan, E580 [21AP]

MonCre Telephone Cooperative, Inc.: anniversary, E1907 [11OC]

No Child Left Behind Act: funding, H1582, H1585 [25MR]

North Carolina: importance of the arts in community economic development and revitalization, E1868 [11OC]

North Dakota: implement recommendations of the Garrison Unit Tribal Advisory Committee by providing authorization for the construction of a rural health care facility on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (S. 1146), H9844, H9845 [17NO]

Telecommunications: establish broadband service to improve intelligent transportation systems and homeland security, H1813 [1AP]

Territories: amend treatment of certain territories under the Rural Health Care Program relative to telemedicine and telehealth services (H.R. 3750), E79 [30JA]

Tri-States Initiative: funding, H5515 [12JY]

Veterans: improve access to health care for rural veterans (H.R. 2379), H992-H997 [10MR], E343, E349 [11MR]

Remarks in Senate

Agriculture: evaluation of Bush administration, S8141-S8145 [15JY], S9996 [30SE]

———provide crop and livestock disaster assistance to agricultural producers, S8839, S8840, S8846 [7SE], S9185-S9193, S9200 [14SE], S9657, S9668 [24SE], S9807 [28SE], S9909 [29SE], S10620 [7OC], S10780 [8OC], S11233 [11OC]

———provide crop and livestock disaster assistance to agricultural producers (S. 2592), S7421, S7453 [24JN]

Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs: instruct conferees to appropriations legislation relative to the Conservation Security Program and treatment of agricultural disaster assistance (S. Res. 465), S11229, S11278-S11280 [11OC]

———making appropriations (H.R. 2673), conference report, S1 [20JA], S66-S104 [21JA], S128-S157 [22JA], S209, S216, S217 [23JA], S280 [27JA], S363 [2FE]

———making appropriations (H.R. 2673), conference report—unanimous-consent agreement, S104 [21JA]

———making appropriations (H.R. 2673), conference report—unanimous-consent request, S155 [22JA]

———making appropriations (H.R. 4766), unanimous-consent agreement, S8492 [20JY]

Alaska: resolve certain conveyances and provide for alternative land selections relative to Cape Fox Corp. and Sealaska Corp. (S. 1354), S9275 [15SE]

Appropriations: reduce for unrequested, low-priority, unnecessary, and wasteful spending programs, S84-S92 [21JA]

Bankruptcy: extend reenactment period for chapter 12 of the bankruptcy code relative to family farmers (S. 2864), S10611 [6OC]

Bush, President: evaluation of administration, S11287 [11OC]

Dept. of Agriculture: Rural Economic Development Grant and Loan Program funds allocation, S147 [22JA]

Dept. of Homeland Security: authorize use of certain grants to pay costs associated with participation of part-time or volunteer first responders in terrorism response training courses (S. 3005), S11500 [18NO]

Dept. of the Interior: establish rural water supply program for certain rural residents and conduct appraisal and feasibility studies and establish guidelines for rural water projects (S. 2218), S2862 [22MR]

Drugs: respond to the illegal production, distribution, and use of methamphetamines, S2696 [11MR]

Economy: disparities in distribution of wealth and income among the social classes, S5385 [13MY]

Education: authorize local educational agencies in rural areas to obtain a limited waiver of certain requirements relative to the employment of highly qualified teachers (S. 2164), S2226 [4MR]

———provide grants to rural local educational agencies to purchase new school buses (S. 2732), S8711 [22JY]

EPA: approve requests from certain communities to delay compliance with arsenic standards for drinking water, S8671 [22JY]

FCC: consider size of market or viewing or listening audience in issuance of indecency penalties, S7130 [22JN]

Federal aid programs: economic development programs funding, S5385 [13MY]

Firefighters: promote wildland firefighter safety (S. 2410), S5229-S5231 [11MY]

Health: improve health care for minority and underserved populations (S. 2091), S1308, S1413 [12FE]

———improve health care for minority and underserved populations (S. 2217), S2794 [12MR], S4006 [8AP]

———improve health care for minority and underserved populations (S. 2594), S7454 [24JN]

Health care professionals: improve access to physicians in medically underserved areas by extending and increasing foreign country residency requirement waivers for foreign medical graduates (S. 2302), S3944 [7AP], S11271, S11272 [11OC]

———provide for education and training of allied health professionals in exchange for a service commitment at a facility with critical shortages of allied health professionals (S. 2491), S6358 [2JN], S6625 [8JN]

Immigration: increase availability of H-2B nonimmigrant visas for rural border areas (S. 2616), S7753 [7JY]

Medicare: expand the rural community hospital demonstration program to include outpatient services (S. 2284), S3792 [6AP]

———extend increase in payment rates for home health services in rural areas (S. 2659), S8230, S8231 [15JY]

———improve the provision of items and services to beneficiaries in rural areas (S. 2135), S1692 [26FE]

National Telecommunications Cooperative Association: anniversary, S368 [2FE]

No Child Left Behind Act: funding, S4386, S4387 [27AP], S6470-S6472 [4JN], S11287 [11OC]

———Rural Education Achievement Program funding, S2694 [11MR]

Roads and highways: extend a certain high priority corridor in Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming (S. 2756), S8746 [22JY]

Taxation: new markets tax credit and economic substance doctrine, S5205 [11MY]

———treatment of broadband Internet access, S4347, S4348 [26AP]

Transportation: create funding flexibility, increase accountability, and improve performance and efficiency of public transit programs, S616-S624, S631-S642 [5FE]

U.S.-Australia Free Trade Agreement: implementation, S6795-S6797 [15JN], S7426 [24JN]

———implementation (S. 2610), S8093-S8095 [14JY], S8402 [16JY], S8846 [7SE]

U.S.-Morocco Free Trade Agreement: implementation (S. 2677), S8460-S8463, S8465, S8467 [20JY], S8506-S8516, S8532 [21JY]

Reports filed

Access to Rural Physicians Improvement Act: Committee on the Judiciary (House) (H.R. 4453) (H. Rept. 108-730), H8166 [5OC]

Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA, and Related Agencies Programs Appropriations: Committee on Appropriations (House) (H.R. 4766) (H. Rept. 108-584), H5330 [7JY]

———Committee on Appropriations (Senate) (S. 2803) (S. Rept. 108-340), S9220 [14SE]

Consideration of H.R. 4766, Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA, and Related Agencies Programs Appropriations: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 710) (H. Rept. 108-591), H5401 [8JY]

Consideration of S. 1920, Reenactment Period Extension for Chapter 12 of the Bankruptcy Code Relative to Family Farmers: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 503) (H. Rept. 108-407), H127 [27JA]

Financing Homes for Rural Americans Act: Committee on Transportation (House) (H.R. 4521) (H. Rept. 108-775), H9744 [16NO]

Improve Access to Physicians in Medically Underserved Areas by Extending and Increasing Foreign Country Residency Requirement Waivers for Foreign Medical Graduates: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 2302), S10702 [7OC]

Rural Teacher Housing Act: Committee on Indian Affairs (Senate) (S. 1905) (S. Rept. 108-414), S11429 [17NO]

Rural Universal Service Equity Act: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (Senate) (S. 1380), S11639 [19NO]

———Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (Senate) (S. 1380) (S. Rept. 108-422), S11897 [7DE]

Satellite Home Viewer Extension and Rural Consumer Access to Digital Television Act: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (Senate) (S. 2644), S11639 [19NO]

———Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (Senate) (S. 2644) (S. Rept. 108-427), S11897 [7DE]

Three Affiliated Tribes Health Facility Compensation Act: Committee on Resources (House) (S. 1146) (H. Rept. 108-523), H3779 [3JN]

U.S.-Australia Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act: Committee on Finance (Senate) (S. 2610), S8118 [14JY]

———Committee on Finance (Senate) (S. 2610) (S. Rept. 108-316), S8860 [7SE]

U.S.-Morocco Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act: Committee on Finance (Senate) (S. 2677), S8473 [20JY]

———Committee on Finance (Senate) (S. 2677) (S. Rept. 108-317), S8860 [7SE]

Rulings of the Chair

Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs: making appropriations (H.R. 4766), H5560, H5565, H5579, H5582, H5602 [13JY]

Statements

Faircare Act: Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, S7461 [24JN]

———National Conference for Community and Justice, S7461 [24JN]

———National Health Law Program (law firm), S7461 [24JN]

———Out of Many, One Coalition, S7461 [24JN]

———Physicians for Human Rights (organization), S7461 [24JN]

———Progressive Policy Institute, S7461 [24JN]

Food Security, Water, and Agricultural Productivity in Africa: Jacques Diouf, Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N., H5884 [15JY]

Tables

Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs appropriations (H.R. 4766), H5503-H5511 [12JY]

Texts of

H. Res. 503, consideration of S. 1920, reenactment period extension for chapter 12 of the bankruptcy code relative to family farmers, H144 [28JA]

H. Res. 710, consideration of H.R. 4766, agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs appropriations, H5485 [12JY]

H. Res. 719, request Senate to return H.R. 4766, agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs appropriations to the House of Representatives, H5895 [15JY]

H.R. 4453, improve access to physicians in medically underserved areas by extending and increasing foreign country residency requirement waivers for foreign medical graduates, H8237 [6OC]

S. 1146, Three Affiliated Tribes Health Facility Compensation Act, H9844 [17NO]

S. 1920, reenactment period extension for chapter 12 of the bankruptcy code relative to family farmers, H157-H210 [28JA]

S. 2164, Assisting America's Rural Schools Act, S2226 [4MR]

S. 2217, Closing the Health Care Gap Act, S2794-S2802 [12MR]

S. 2302, improve access to physicians in medically underserved areas by extending and increasing foreign country residency requirement waivers for foreign medical graduates, S11271 [11OC], H9857 [17NO]

S. 2491, Allied Health Reinvestment Act, S6360-S6362 [2JN]

S. 2594, Faircare Act, S7455-S7461 [24JN]

S. 2616, Emergency Relief for Rural Borderlands Act, S7753 [7JY]

S. 2677, U.S.-Morocco Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act, S8510-S8516 [21JY]

S. 2732, Bus Utility and Safety in School Transportation Opportunity and Purchasing Act, S8711 [22JY]

S. 2864, Family Farmer Bankruptcy Relief Act, S9955 [29SE], S10611 [6OC], H9011 [8OC]

S. 3005, Rural and Part-Time Firefighter Training Fairness Act, S11500 [18NO]

S. Res. 465, instruct conferees to agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs appropriations legislation relative to the Conservation Security Program and treatment of disaster assistance, S11229, S11280, S11310 [11OC]