McCRERY, JIM (a Representative from Louisiana)

Appointments

Conferee: H.R. 3550, Transportation Equity Act—A Legacy for Users, H3747 [3JN]

———H.R. 4520, Jumpstart Our Business Strength (JOBS) Act, H7777 [29SE]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

African Growth and Opportunity Act: extend and modify certain trade benefits (see H.R. 4103), H2658 [5MY]

Atchafalaya National Heritage Area: establish (see H.R. 5348), H9049 [8OC]

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), H3720 [2JN]

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]

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]

Immigration: simplify the process for admitting temporary alien agricultural workers and increase access to such workers (see H.R. 3604), H2549 [4MY]

Insurance: provide for cooperative governing of individual health insurance coverage offered in interstate commerce (see H.R. 4662), H7443 [22SE]

Iran: urge compliance with International Atomic Energy Agency resolutions on nuclear weapons program and call for international cooperation with such compliance (see H. Con. Res. 332), H831 [3MR]

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

Louisiana State University: tribute to football team (see H. Res. 496), H89 [21JA]

National Guard Challenge Program: rename and revise matching funds requirements for participating States (see H.R. 4217), H2372 [22AP]

Radio: ensure the availability of spectrum to amateur radio operators (see H.R. 713), H7329 [21SE]

Shipping industry: suspend temporarily new shipper bonding privileges (see H.R. 5211), H8167 [5OC]

Southern University and A&M College: tribute to football team (see H. Res. 496), H89 [21JA]

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

Taxation: modify the rehabilitation credit and the low-income housing credit (see H.R. 5378), H9962 [17NO]

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

World Trade Organization: resolve disparate treatment of direct and indirect taxes (see H. Res. 705), H5536 [12JY]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Medicare: provide equity in the calculation of disproportionate share hospital payments for hospitals in Puerto Rico (see H.R. 4871), H6127 [20JY]

Shreveport, LA: ensure that a former Federal building is no longer known as the Joe Waggoner Federal Building (see H.R. 5362), H9745 [16NO]

Taxation: treatment of unused nontaxable benefits under cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements (see H.R. 4279), H2656 [5MY]

Remarks

Employment: impact of the outsourcing of jobs to foreign countries on the economy, H4398 [17JN], H8720 [7OC]

Louisiana State University: tribute to football team (H. Res. 496), H480 [11FE]

National Primary Immune Deficiency Diseases Awareness Week: observance, E594 [21AP]

Power resources: enhance energy conservation, research, and development and provide for security and diversity in the energy supply (H.R. 4503), H4122, H4123 [15JN]

Southern University and A&M College: tribute to football team (H. Res. 496), H480 [11FE]

Taxation: end certain abusive tax practices and provide tax relief and simplification (H.R. 1308), conference report, H7534 [23SE]

———remove impediments to make manufacturing, service, and high-technology businesses more competitive and productive (H.R. 4520), H4398 [17JN]

———remove impediments to make manufacturing, service, and high-technology businesses more competitive and productive (H.R. 4520), conference report, H8720 [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, H4398 [17JN]

———treatment of unused nontaxable benefits under cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements (H.R. 4279), H2838, H2839, H2841, H2842, H2843, H2844, H2846, H2849 [12MY]

Transportation: Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs funding (H.R. 3550), H1803, H1805 [1AP]

Tributes

Kilgore, Merle, E1278 [25JN]