CARSON, BRAD (a Representative from Oklahoma)

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Armed Forces: increase death gratuity (see H.R. 5055), H7234 [15SE]

———restore health care coverage to retired members of the uniformed services (see H.R. 3474), H5654 [13JY]

Armstrong, Lance: tribute (see H. Res. 761), H7138 [14SE]

Business and industry: prohibit business enterprises that lay-off a greater percentage of their U.S. workers than workers in other countries from receiving any Federal assistance (see H.R. 3888), H876 [8MR]

———require mandatory expensing of stock options granted to executive officers (see H.R. 3574), H753 [2MR]

Children and youth: honor individuals who are mentors and support efforts to recruit more mentors (see H. Res. 491), H35 [20JA]

Crime: provide reliable officers, technology, education, community prosecutors, and training in our neighborhoods (see H.R. 5277), H8858 [7OC]

Dept. of Defense: develop and implement a plan to provide chiropractic health care services and benefits as part of the TRICARE program (see H.R. 3476), H245 [28JA]

Dept. of State: eliminate the diversity immigrant program (see H.R. 775), H2373 [22AP]

———establish an Office of Intercountry Adoptions and reform U.S. laws governing intercountry adoptions (see H.R. 3896), H3605 [1JN]

Diseases: fund breakthroughs in Alzheimer's disease research while providing more help to caregivers and increasing public education about prevention (see H.R. 4595), H6128 [20JY]

Drugs: eliminate safe-harbor exception for certain packaged pseudoephedrine products used in manufacturing methamphetamine (see H.R. 3789), H1370 [23MR]

Education: increase maximum Pell Grant amount (see H. Res. 144), H753 [2MR]

———recognize contributions of military-impacted schools, teachers, adminstration, and staff for their role in the education of military children (see H. Res. 598), H2484 [28AP]

Employment: extend trade adjustment assistance to service workers (see H.R. 3881), H2154 [2AP]

Fish and fishing: ensure continuation of successful fish mitigation programs (see H.R. 4383), H3964 [14JN]

Health: increase supply of pancreatic islet cells for research and coordinate efforts and information on transplantation (see H.R. 3858), H3964 [14JN]

———provide individuals of health disparity populations prevention, detection, treatment, and follow-up care services for cancer and chronic diseases, and patient navigators to assist in receiving such services (see H.R. 918), H7575 [23SE]

Insurance: guarantee comprehensive health care coverage for all children, cosponsorship withdrawn (see H.R. 1205), H4894 [23JN]

Iran: condemn development of means to produce nuclear weapons (see H. Con. Res. 398), H2550 [4MY]

———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), H393 [4FE]

Israel: condemn U.N. General Assembly for requesting the International Court of Justice to rule on legality of the security fence (see H. Con. Res. 390), H1594 [25MR]

———support construction of security fence and condemn U.N. General Assembly for requesting the International Court of Justice to rule on legality of the security fence (see H. Con. Res. 371), H1484 [24MR]

Labor unions: establish efficient system to enable employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations and provide for mandatory injunctions for unfair labor practices during organizing efforts (see H.R. 3619), H245 [28JA]

Law enforcement officers: ensure accountability, guarantee due process, establish standards for internal investigations and hearings, and require enactment of relevant State laws (see H.R. 2967), H575 [24FE]

Medicaid: include podiatrists as physicians for purposes of covering physicians services (see H.R. 2959), H2154 [2AP]

Medicare: clarify payment for clinical laboratory tests furnished by critical access hospitals (see H.R. 4257), H2733 [10MY]

———extend increase in payment rates for home health services in rural areas (see H.R. 4902), H8168 [5OC]

———permit the Dept. of HHS to enter into direct negotiations to promote the best prices for beneficiaries (see H.R. 3707), H2919 [12MY]

———preserve access to cancer care (see H.R. 5144), H8168 [5OC]

Members of Congress: reduce pay following any fiscal year in which there is a Federal deficit (see H.R. 3736), H3720 [2JN]

Merchant marine industry: provide a monthly monetary benefit to certain individuals who served in the U.S. merchant marine during World War II (see H.R. 3729), H8409 [6OC]

Motor vehicles: protect the rights of consumers to diagnose, service, and repair their motor vehicles (see H.R. 2735), H5908 [15JY]

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

Native Americans: reaffirm inherent sovereign rights of the Osage Tribe to determine its membership and form of government (see H.R. 2912), H2019 [1AP]

Nonprofit organizations: provide assistance to high-risk nonprofit organizations to protect against foreign terrorist attacks (see H.R. 4108), H7234 [15SE]

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

Small business: improve results and accountability of microenterprise development assistance programs (see H.R. 3818), H1323 [18MR]

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), H6128 [20JY]

Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act: reauthorize and reform the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Program (see H.R. 3796), H4392 (see H.R. 3796), H4507 [17JN]

Tariff: impose tariff-rate quotas on certain casein and milk protein concentrates (see H.R. 1160), H7245 [17SE]

Taxation: 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 H.R. 284), H393 [4FE]

———encourage the development of a cost effective commercial space transportation industry (see H.R. 2358), H2483 [28AP]

———establish tax credits for climate neutral combustion technologies (see H.R. 4704), H4927 (see H.R. 4704), H5071 [24JN]

———exclude benefits from income, employment taxes, and wage withholding property tax rebates, provided to volunteer firefighters and emergency medical responders (see H.R. 1859), H7329 [21SE]

———provide that the credit for producing fuel from a nonconventional source shall apply to gas produced onshore from certain formations (see H.R. 5090), H7575 [23SE]

———repeal tax increase on Social Security benefits (see H.R. 434), H8859 [7OC]

———treatment of certain expenses of rural letter carriers relative to the business use of a personal vehicle (see H.R. 2265), H7735 [28SE]

U.S.-Thailand Free Trade Agreement: limit Thailand's access to U.S. automobile market to prevent backdoor access by third-country automobile producers to the U.S. market (see H. Con. Res. 366), H1117 [16MR]

Veterans: improve post-traumatic stress disorder treatment for veterans of service in Afghanistan and Iraq and the war on terror (see H.R. 4798), H9745 [16NO]

———repeal computation system that reduces annuity for surviving spouses at age 62 relative to Social Security offset (see H.R. 1592), H927 [9MR]

Bills and resolutions introduced

FDA: regulation of ephedrine alkaloids, including ephedrine and pseudoesphedrine (see H.R. 4395), H3390 [19MY]

Francis C. Goodpaster Post Office Building, Vinita, OK: designate (see H.R. 4782), H5401 [8JY]

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

Medicare: stabilize amount of part B premium (see H.R. 5175), H7863 [29SE]

Oklahoma: designate a segment of the Glover River as a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System (see H.R. 4725), H5149 [25JN]

Ouachita National Forest: adjust boundaries in Oklahoma and Arkansas (see H.R. 4783), H5401 [8JY]

Sitter, Inez: tribute (see H. Con. Res. 511), H8858 [7OC]

Remarks

Dept. of State: eliminate the diversity immigrant program (H.R. 775), E958 [21MY]

District of Columbia: restore right to keep and bear arms (H.R. 3193), H7765 [29SE]

National Museum of the American Indian: opening (S.J. Res. 41), H7299 [21SE]

Transportation: Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs funding (H.R. 3550), H2079 [2AP]

U.S.-Australia Free Trade Agreement: effect on U.S. beef and wheat markets, H5718 [14JY]

———implementation (H.R. 4759), H5718 [14JY]

Votes: position on missed, H3414 [20MY]

Tributes

Guffey, Cliff (C.J.), E275 [2MR]

Rothbaum, Julian, E276 [2MR]