HEALTH related term(s) Diseases

Addresses

Cardiovascular Risk and Kidney Disease: George Bakris, E2186 [7DE]

Economy and Education National Objectives: Senator Edwards, S9478-S9480 [22SE]

Amendments

Children and youth: provide children with increased access to food and nutrition assistance, simplify program operations and improve program management, and reauthorize child nutrition programs (S. 2507), S7326 [23JN]

China, Republic of: participation in WHO (S. 2092), S5021 [6MY]

Dept. of HHS: expand and intensify research programs concerning elder falls (S. 1217), S11508 [18NO]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: simplify and improve pay provisions for physicians and dentists and authorize alternate work schedules and executive pay for nurses (S. 2484), S10454, S10461 [5OC]

Disabled: improve access to assistive technologies (H.R. 4278), S10169 [30SE], H9012 [8OC]

Drugs: clarify definition of anabolic steroids and provide for research and education activities relative to steroids (S. 2195), S10602, S10606 [6OC]

———provide compensation for injuries resulting from smallpox countermeasures, provide protection against chemical or radiological agents, increase distribution of vaccines, and improve vaccine injury compensation (S. 15), S5767 [19MY]

Federal employees: establish programs to make supplemental dental and vision benefits available to Federal employees, retirees, and dependents, and expand OPM contracting authority (S. 2657), S11694, S11811 [20NO]

Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: technical corrections relative to amendments made by the Medical Device User Fee and Modernization Act (S. 1881), S2821 [12MR]

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]

Individuals With Disabilities Education Act: reauthorize (S. 1248), S5327, S5328, S5334, S5345, S5348, S5356, S5377, S5378, S5380 [12MY], S5394, S5406, S5484 [13MY]

Insurance: promote health care coverage parity for individuals participating in legal recreational or transportation activities (S. 423), S11839 [20NO]

Medicaid: provide families of disabled children with the opportunity to purchase coverage (S. 622), S4946, S4949, S5005 [6MY]

National Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month: support goals and ideals (S. Con. Res. 113), S11321, S11329, S11330 [11OC]

National Visiting Nurse Association Week: designate (S. Con. Res. 8), S11018, S11110 [10OC]

Oceans: establish an interagency research program to improve understanding of the role of the oceans and human health and a similar program at NOAA (S. 1218), S3099, S3110 [24MR]

OPM: study and present options under which dental and vision benefits could be made available to Federal employees, retirees, and other appropriate individuals (H.R. 3751), H4600 [21JN]

Safety: improve patient safety and reduce incidence of medical errors (S. 720), S8776 [22JY]

Small business: improve access and choice relative to employee health care (H.R. 4281), H2976 [13MY]

Taxation: treatment of unused nontaxable benefits under cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements (H.R. 4279), H2844 [12MY]

———treatment of unused nontaxable benefits under cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements (H.R. 4279), consideration (H. Res. 638), H2829 [12MY]

Veterans: improve and enhance education, housing, employment, medical, and other benefits and improve and extend certain authorities relative to the administration of benefits (S. 2486), S10869, S10880 [8OC]

Analyses

Dept. of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel Enhancement Act (S. 2482), S6286 [1JN]

Oceans and Human Health Act (S. 1218), S3114 [24MR]

Appointments

Commission on Systemic Interoperability, S1606 [25FE], S3729 [5AP], S10276 [1OC], H7819 [29SE], H7948 [4OC], H10224 [20NO]

Conferees: H.R. 663, Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act, S8633 [22JY]

———H.R. 1350, Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act, S11232 [11OC], H9020 [8OC]

Veterans' Disability Benefits Commission, S61 [21JA], H5405 [9JY]

Articles and editorials

AIDS Reduces African Life Expectancy to 33, S8270 [16JY]

Biotech's Benefits, E1022 [3JN]

Bush Manipulates Science Data To Pursue His Ideological Goals, E440 [24MR]

Cancer Doctor, Survivor To Join Lance Armstrong on Tour, S8113-S8115 [14JY]

Confidentiality for Foster Children Is Broken, E1876 [11OC]

Crisis in Haiti, S1512 [24FE]

Deliriously Dumbfounding Drug Discount Cards, E909 [19MY]

Did Investments Affect Medical Malpractice Premiums?, S1479-S1481 [24FE]

Discount Card Doubt, Complicated System—Choosing One of 73 Plans Is a Hassle, Seniors Say, E1015 [2JN]

Doctors Can't Prove Thinning Ranks, H2862 [12MY]

Early Tests for U.S. in Its Global Fight on AIDS, H5843-H5845 [15JY]

FDA's Indecision on `Morning After' Pill Stirs Concern, S3443 [31MR]

First, Do No Harm, S8632 [22JY]

Fixed-Dose Mixtures of Generic AIDS Drugs Prove Effective, H5842 [15JY]

Give America's Disabled the Technology They Need, S10188 [30SE]

Global Concern—A Population Crisis Still Looms, E67 [28JA]

Grief and an Evening Vigil in a Michigan Small Town, H7306 [21SE]

Haiti's New Hope, E269 [2MR]

Health Care's Brewing Storm, E654 [27AP]

Hour of the Gunmen in Haiti, S1513 [24FE]

Hughes Defends Remarks on Abortion Rights March, E685 [28AP]

If Not Now, When?, E682 [28AP]

Intercepting Bioterrorism, H5737 [14JY]

Is Kaiser the Future of American Health Care?, E2048 [18NO]

Lasting Wounds of War, S4467 [28AP]

Law Limits Alternative Treatment for Addicts, S6624 [8JN]

Lead Pipes Unsatisfactory, H5103 [25JN]

Liability Crisis Ends Century of Deliveries, S9693 [27SE]

Life in Science Rewarded, S11628 [19NO]

Making Progress, H10013 [19NO]

March Is About More Than Abortion, S4682 [29AP]

Medical Costs Eat at Social Security, S9158 [14SE]

Medicare ``Bug,'' Thousands Fail To Pay Premiums, H4741 [22JN]

Medicare Drug Discount Cards Explained—Sort of, H2779 [11MY]

Morning After/FDA Contrived Excuse To Deny Women Contraception, H5604 [13JY]

Morning-After Pill—Politics Stall `Plan B', H5603 [13JY]

Morning-After Roadblock, H5604 [13JY]

New Plans, H5603 [13JY]

No Help for Haiti, S1513 [24FE]

Now Can We Talk About Health Care?, S4089-S4092 [19AP]

On Haiti, U.S. Can't Wait, S1512 [24FE]

OSHA Withdraws More Rules Than It Makes, Reviews Find, E1814 [6OC]

Plan B Scrapped—Facts Lose Out, Again, H5604 [13JY]

Plan B Stall, H5603 [13JY]

Politics of Contraception, H5605 [13JY]

Potomac Water and Lead Pipe, H5103 [25JN]

President and Women, H5603 [13JY]

Pro-Lifers Set Sights on New Congress, H10919 [6DE]

Ranks of Area's `Invisible' Poor Are Increasing—More Ohio, Michigan Residents Are Living on the Edge Than Ever, H8135 [5OC]

Remembering Chernobyl, E710 [29AP]

Running a Hospital Like a Factory, in a Good Way, S1471 [24FE]

Senate's Chance on Drug Costs, S10412 [5OC]

Seniors Blast Medicare Prescription Plan, S679 [6FE]

Set the Right Priorities in Haiti; Our Opinion—It's Time for Washington To Take a More Active Role, S1512 [24FE]

73 Options for Medicare Plan Fuel Chaos, Not Prescription, S5243, S5374 [12MY]

Shielding the Drug Industry, S10411 [5OC]

Specter Says Frist's Asbestos Plan Is `Counterproductive', S4112 [20AP]

Tests Confirm Sarin in Iraqi Artillery Shell, S5763 [19MY]

Too Many Children Are Hungry. Time for Lunch, H5755 [14JY]

Trade Agreement May Undercut Importing of Inexpensive Drugs, S8197 [15JY], H5662, H5709-H5711 [14JY]

U.S. Rule on AIDS Drugs Criticized, S8111 [14JY]

Vt. Woman Wins $7.4M Lawsuit, S3762 [6AP]

With More Than 600 Lobbyists, There's Little Chance on Drug Prices, E291 [3MR]

Wrong To Limit Contraception Pill, H5604 [13JY]

``Yes'' to Drugs From Canada, E810 [11MY]

Bills and resolutions

Abortion: ensure that women seeking an abortion are fully informed relative to pain experienced by the unborn child (see S. 2466), S5949 [20MY] (see H.R. 4420), H3437 (see H.R. 4420), H3537 [20MY]

———prohibit interference by the government with a woman's right to choose to bear a child or terminate a pregnancy (see S. 2020), S184 [22JA] (see H.R. 3719), H88 [21JA]

———protect lives of born and unborn persons (see S. 2190), S2543 [10MR]

Agriculture: ensure an abundant and affordable supply of fruits and vegetables and other specialty crops by enhancing competitiveness of U.S.-grown specialty crops (see S. 2902), S10568 [6OC]

———establish an interagency task force on biotechnology, improve nutrition, and increase crop productivity and agricultural sustainability while ensuring food and environmental safety (see H.R. 4651), H4892 [23JN]

———restore the application date for country of origin labeling (see S. 2451), S5949 [20MY]

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), H1229 [17MR]

Animals: provide better protection against bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) and other prion diseases (see S. 2007), S52 [20JA] (see H.R. 3714), H88 [21JA]

Armed Forces: clarify requirements relative to predeployment and postdeployment medical exams of certain members (see H.R. 4346), H2917 [12MY]

———enhance and improve benefits for members of the National Guard and Reserves who serve extended periods on active duty (see S. 2068), S1285 [12FE] (see S. 2791), S9075 [10SE] (see H.R. 5354), H9184 [9OC]

———identify members exposed to depleted uranium during military service and provide health testing of such members (see H.R. 4463), H3439 (see H.R. 4463), H3539 [20MY]

———improve certain compensation, health care, and education benefits for individuals who serve on active duty in a reserve component of the uniformed services (see H.R. 4753), H5150 [25JN]

———improve medical readiness (see S. 2430), S5607 [18MY]

———improve the Transition Assistance Program provided for members being discharged, released from active duty, or retiring (see S. 2427), S5535 [17MY]

———prohibit requirement of anthrax and smallpox immunizations without members' consent and correct records of those previously punished for refusing such vaccines (see H.R. 5166), H7863 [29SE]

———recognize the sacrifices of members killed or injured in combat, establish a tracking system to notify family members of wounded personnel, and modernize combat medics' equipment (see S. 2516), S6734 [14JN]

———reimburse members retired for combat-related disability for travel to military treatment facilities for medical care (see H.R. 4180), H2264 [21AP]

———restore health care coverage to retired members of the uniformed services (see S. 2065), S1017 [11FE]

———revise age and service requirements for receipt of military retired pay for non-regular service and improve health care for reservists and their families by making TRICARE benefits permanent (see S. 2035), S320 [28JA]

Athens, GA: establish a Dept. of Veterans Affairs Community-Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC) for veterans on the grounds of the Navy Supply Corps School (see H.R. 5303), H9047 [8OC]

Budget: constitutional amendment on ensuring certain trust funds are outside the U.S. budget (see H.J. Res. 88), H244 [28JA]

Cemeteries and funerals: establish consumer protections for funeral service contracts, and improve funeral home, cemetery, and crematory inspection systems (see S. 3023), S11799 [20NO]

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: conduct minority health programs (see H.R. 4072), H1739 [30MR]

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

———provide direct congressional access to the Office of the Chief Actuary (see S. 2076), S1285 [12FE]

———require repayment of appropriated funds that are illegaly disbursed for political purposes (see S. 2473), S6087 [21MY] (see H.R. 4458), H3439 (see H.R. 4458), H3539 [20MY]

Chemicals: prohibit the manufacture, processing, or distribution in commerce of pentabrominated diphenyl ethers and octabrominated diphenyl ethers (see H.R. 4076), H1739 [30MR]

Children and youth: access of disadvantaged children to dental services (see H.R. 4622), H4580 [18JN]

———coordinate Federal policies and activities to prevent childhood obesity and establish grants for State childhood obesity prevention and control (see S. 2894), S10436 [5OC]

———create team nutrition networks to promote the nutritional health of school children (see S. 2183), S2440 [9MR]

———encourage school-based programs to reduce and prevent childhood obesity, promote increased physical activity, and improve nutritional choices (see S. 2551), S7104 [21JN] (see H.R. 4941), H6702 [22JY]

———ensure access to food and nutrition assistance, improve children's nutritional health, and simplify and restore integrity of child nutrition programs (see H.R. 3873), H752 [2MR]

———establish a grant program to provide comprehensive eye examinations (see S. 2749), S8688 [22JY]

———issue a semipostal stamp in order to provide funding for childhood drinking prevention and education programs (see S. 2676), S8229 [15JY]

———modify the rules for redistribution and extended availability of funding for the State Children's Health Insurance Program (see H.R. 4936), H6702 [22JY]

———promote better health for young people through Federal matching awards for physical education programs (see S. 2150), S1933 [1MR]

———promote better nutrition among school children participating in school breakfast and lunch programs (see H.R. 4519), H3784 [4JN]

———provide children with increased access to food and nutrition assistance, simplify program operations and improve program management, and reauthorize child nutrition programs (see S. 2507, 2507), S6499 [7JN]

———provide for a program of screenings and education relative to children with sudden cardiac arrhythmia syndromes (see H.R. 4335), H2815 [11MY]

———provide for programs and activities on the prevention of underage drinking (see S. 2718), S8687 [22JY] (see H.R. 4888), H6556 [21JY]

———reauthorize certain school lunch and child nutrition programs (see S. 2241), S3214 [26MR]

———recognize importance of distribution of food in schools to hungry or malnourished children around the world (see S. Con. Res. 114), S6451 [3JN] (see H. Con. Res. 422), H3015 [13MY]

———reduce adolescent pregnancy, HIV rates, and other sexually transmitted diseases (see H.R. 4182), H2265 [21AP]

———support planning, implementation, and evaluation of organized activities involving statewide youth suicide early intervention and prevention strategies (see S. 2175), S2301 [8MR] (see S. 2634), S7828 [8JY] (see H.R. 4557), H3963 [14JN] (see H.R. 4799), H5470 [9JY]

———tribute to efforts to improve the dental health of disadvantaged children (see H. Res. 518), H392 [4FE]

China, Republic of: participation in WHO (see S. 2092), S1286 [12FE] (see H.R. 3793), H434 [10FE] (see H.R. 4019), H1483 [24MR]

Clinton, William J.: express wishes for a speedy recovery from heart surgery and acknowledge the importance of further research, funding, and education about heart disease (see H. Con. Res. 490), H7073 [13SE]

Coal: clarify that certain coal industry health benefits may not be modified or terminated (see S. 3004), S11496 [18NO] (see H.R. 5383), H9999 [18NO]

Colleges and universities: require entering students who will reside in on-campus housing to have received meningococcal vaccinations (see H.R. 4080), H1789 [31MR]

Congress: establish an expedited procedure for congressional consideration of health care reform legislation (see S. 2576), S7434 [24JN]

Contracts: prohibit the award of a Federal contract unless the contractor agrees to offer their employees certain health insurance benefits (see H.R. 4028), H1483 [24MR]

Conversations Before the Crisis Week: designate (see S. Res. 391), S7435 [24JN]

Coordinated Environmental Health Network: establish (see S. 2953), S10845 [8OC] (see H.R. 5335), H9049 [8OC]

Courts: provide fair and efficient judicial consideration of personal injury and wrongful death claims due to asbestos exposure and ensure fair compensation for harm caused by asbestos exposure (see S. 2290), S3919 [7AP]

Crime: protect civil rights of victims of gender-motivated violence and create employer liability for negligent conduct resulting in gender-motivated crimes on employer-controlled premises (see H.R. 3703), H35 [20JA]

Death and dying: improve access to information about end of life care options and legal rights, promote advance care planning and decisionmaking, and engage health care providers in preparation of advance directives (see S. 2545), S6997 [17JN]

Defibrillation programs: tribute to community organization of public access defibrillation programs (see S. Con. Res. 143), S10846 [8OC]

Denton, TX: authorize a Dept. of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic (see H.R. 4326), H2815 [11MY]

Dept. of Agriculture: use the Agricultural Research Service to conduct research on the risks of the transfer of prions that cause transmissable spongiform encephalopathies between animal species (see H.R. 4001), H1322 [18MR]

Dept. of Defense: carry out a program to provide a support system for members of the Armed Forces who incur severe disabilities (see S. 2956), S10846 [8OC] (see S. 3002), S11496 [18NO] (see H.R. 5057), H6997 [9SE]

———permit funding for abortions of pregnancies resulting from rape and incest (see S. 2166), S2223 [4MR]

———reform the TRICARE program to make reimbursement rates and cost-sharing requirements the same as those offered under certain plans provided under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (see H.R. 5152), H7735 [28SE]

———require emergency contraception to be included on the uniform formulary of pharmaceutical agents of the pharmacy benefits program (see H.R. 4976), H6704 [22JY]

Dept. of Education: make grants to establish drug-free school demonstration programs (see H.R. 3720), H88 [21JA]

———provide student loan forgiveness to graduates who enter into certain public service (see H.R. 5270), H8857 [7OC]

Dept. of Energy: improve efficiency of Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program (see H.R. 4298), H2657 [5MY]

Dept. of HHS: clarify and ensure that certain authority is used solely to promote the objectives of the Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Programs (see S. 2222), S2859 [22MR] (see H.R. 4935), H6702 [22JY]

———conduct and support research using certain human pluripotent stem cells (see H.R. 4531), H3872 [9JN]

———conduct research on indicators of child well-being (see S. 2213), S2778 [12MR]

———develop health advisories to provide notice and education on effects of mercury exposure and require posting or availability at seafood businesses where the potential for mercury exposure exists (see H.R. 4762), H5195 [6JY]

———establish a retinoblastoma public awareness and prevention program (see H.R. 4872), H6127 [20JY]

———establish an Internet website designed to allow consumers to compare prices for covered outpatient drugs sold by retail pharmacies that participate in the Medicaid program (see S. 2597), S7435 [24JN] (see H.R. 4681), H4926 (see H.R. 4681), H5070 [24JN]

———establish grant programs for education and outreach on newborn screening and coordinated followup care once newborn screening has been conducted (see H.R. 4493), H3719 [2JN]

———expand the National Practitioner Data Bank (see S. 2341), S4300 [22AP] (see H.R. 4211), H2372 [22AP]

———give grant preference to States that require schools to allow students to self-administer medication for asthma or anaphylaxis (see S. 2815), S9386 [20SE]

———increase planning and funding for health promotion programs (see S. 2798), S9220 [14SE]

———promulgate regulations for the reimportation of prescription drugs (see S. 2137), S1683 [26FE]

———reauthorize and extend the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome prevention and services program (see S. 2741), S8688 [22JY]

———reauthorize Healthy Start Program (see H.R. 4905), H6701 [22JY]

Dept. of Justice: establish a Federal register of cases of child abuse or neglect (see H.R. 5219), H8167 [5OC]

Dept. of Labor: provide coverage under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program for atomic weapons facilities employees during periods of residual contamination (see S. 2139), S1683 [26FE] (see H.R. 3864), H699 [26FE]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: carry out a demonstration project on priorities in scheduling of appointments of veterans for health care (see S. 2063), S792 [10FE] (see H.R. 3812), H515 [11FE]

———carry out a program of outreach to veterans of World War II and the Korean War on the nature and availability of benefits for veterans (see S. 2776), S8861 [7SE]

———clarify that per diem payments for the care of veterans in State homes shall not be used to offset Medicaid payments (see S. 2196), S2717 [11MR] (see S. 2327), S4225 [21AP]

———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]

———establish a pilot program to improve recruitment and retention of nurses (see H.R. 4231), H2482 [28AP]

———establish a program to assist States in hiring and retaining nurses at State veterans homes (see H.R. 4020), H1483 [24MR]

———establish certain conditions before implementing any Capital Asset Realignment for Enhanced Services (CARES) Commission recommendation that reduces veterans medical services (see H.R. 4399), H3391 [19MY]

———establish presumption of service connection for certain diseases and disabilities of veterans who were exposed to carbon tetrachloride (see H.R. 4179), H2199 [20AP]

———furnish care for newborn children of women veterans receiving maternity care (see S. 2417), S5472 [13MY]

———provide permanent authority for counseling and treatment program for veterans who experienced sexual trauma or harassment while in military service (see H.R. 3849), H698 [26FE]

———restrict the performance of eye surgery at a facility, or under a contract with the Dept., to only licensed medical doctors and licensed doctors of osteopathy (see S. 2743), S8688 [22JY]

———simplify and improve pay provisions for physicians and dentists and authorize alternate work schedules and executive pay for nurses (see S. 2484), S6274 [1JN]

———treat injury or death sustained from participation in a medical research program in same manner as an injury incurred from military service (see H.R. 4621), H4580 [18JN]

Depts. of Agriculture, Education, HHS, and Transportation: making appropriations (see H.R. 4422), H3437 (see H.R. 4422), H3537 [20MY]

———making appropriations (H.R. 4422), consideration (see H. Res. 787), H7442 [22SE]

Developing countries: establish a network of pediatric centers in certain developing countries to provide treatment and care for children with HIV/AIDS (see H.R. 4191), H2265 [21AP]

Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act: authorize appropriations to fully enforce and implement such Act and its amendments (see H.R. 4747), H5150 [25JN] (see H.R. 4760), H5195 [6JY]

Disabled: improve access to assistive technologies (see S. 2595), S7435 [24JN] (see H.R. 4278), H2656 [5MY]

Disasters: authorize the President to carry out a program for the protection of the health and safety of community members, volunteers, and workers in a disaster area (see H.R. 5329), H9049 [8OC]

Diseases: enhance research, training, and health information dissemination on urologic diseases (see S. 2361), S4692 [29AP]

———establish a program of grants for detection and control of colorectal cancer (see H.R. 4093), H1790 [31MR]

———establish comprehensive, integrated, and culturally appropriate HIV prevention strategy emphasizing the needs of women and girls for each country provided assistance to combat HIV/AIDS (see H.R. 4792), H5470 [9JY]

———fund breakthroughs in Alzheimer's disease research while providing more help to caregivers and increasing public education about prevention (see S. 2533), S6881 [16JN] (see H.R. 4595), H4286 [16JN]

———improve quality of care for cancer patients (see S. 2771), S8688 [22JY]

———increase Alzheimer's disease research funding and promote public awareness and risk reduction relative to Alzheimer's disease with particular emphasis in Hispanic populations (see H.R. 5339), H9049 [8OC]

———increase awareness and education about hepatitis C (see H. Res. 633), H2728 [6MY]

———increase public awareness of eating disorders and expand research for treatment and cures (see H. Res. 531), H574 [24FE]

———issue commemorative postage stamp to promote public awareness of, and increased research relating to, Chrohn's Disease (see H. Con. Res. 455), H4391 (see H. Con. Res. 455), H4507 [17JN]

———promote initiatives to develop an HIV vaccine (see S. Res. 398), S7580 [6JY]

———provide prostate cancer patients with meaningful access to information on treatment options (see S. Res. 389), S7311 [23JN] (see H. Con. Res. 405), H2153 [2AP] (see H. Res. 669), H3872 [9JN]

———reauthorize and extend certain programs to provide coordinated services and research relative to children and families with HIV/AIDS (see S. 2892), S10436 [5OC]

Drug abuse: assist States in establishing, maintaining, and improving systems to reduce the diversion and abuse of prescription drugs (see S. 2288), S3791 [6AP]

Drugs: clarify definition of anabolic steroids and provide for research and education activities relative to steroids (see S. 2195), S2716 [11MR]

———combat methamphetamine abuse (see S. 2934), S10703 [7OC]

———develop and require dissemination of a meta-analysis of scientific data on the safety and health risks of marijuana and the clinically-proven effectiveness of medical marijuana (see H.R. 5429), H10926 [6DE]

———eliminate price cap applicable to purchase of influenza vaccines and establish a tax credit to encourage vaccine production capacity (see S. 2997), S11496 [18NO]

———establish an electronic system for practitioner monitoring of the dispensing of certain controlled substances (see S. 3013), S11640 [19NO]

———establish certain restrictions on drugs containing isotretinoin, including the drug marketed as Accutane (see H.R. 4598), H4286 [16JN]

———increase penalties for anabolic steroid offenses near sports facilities (see H.R. 3866), H707 [1MR]

———lift the patient limitation on prescribing drug addiction treatments by medical practitioners in group practices (see S. 2897), S10436 [5OC] (see S. 2976), S11305 [11OC]

———protect the public from unsafe importation of prescription drugs and from counterfeit prescription drugs (see S. 2493), S6348 [2JN] (see H.R. 4923), H6701 [22JY]

———provide an affirmative defense for medical use of marijuana in Federal criminal trials occuring in States with medical marijuana use laws (see S. 2989), S11429 [17NO]

———require agreements regarding the wholesale price of brand-name prescription drugs as a condition of the allowance of certain tax deductions and credits (see H.R. 4899), H6700 [22JY]

———respond to the illegal production, distribution, and use of methamphetamines (see S. 2869), S10061 [30SE] (see H.R. 5188), H7944 [30SE]

Education: expand access to preventive health care services and education programs that reduce unintended pregnancy, infection with sexually transmitted disease, and number of abortions (see S. 2336), S4300 [22AP] (see H.R. 4192), H2265 [21AP]

———increase faculty in palliative care medicine at accredited allopathic and osteopathic medical schools and promote development of careers as academic palliative specialists who emphasize teaching (see S. 2984), S11377 [16NO]

Employment: eliminate tax subsidies for outsourcing of jobs and provide assistance and improve the health care tax credit for certain displaced workers (see S. 2531), S6881 [16JN]

———provide for paid sick leave in order to address the health needs of individuals and family members (see S. 2520), S6803 [15JN] (see H.R. 4575), H4170 [15JN]

Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act: include certain former nuclear weapons program workers in the Special Exposure Cohort under the compensation program (see S. 2047), S370 [2FE] (see H.R. 4388), H3229 [18MY]

Extension Living Well Week: designate (see S. Con. Res. 105), S5078 [10MY]

Families and domestic relations: improve the lives of working families by providing assistance and encouraging the establishment of family-friendly workplaces (see H.R. 3780), H392 [4FE]

Family and Medical Leave Act: eliminate an hours of service requirement for benefits (see H.R. 4720), H5149 [25JN]

FDA: prohibit price gouging during a shortage of a covered vaccine (see H.R. 5404), H10078 [19NO]

———prohibit the approval of any drug that infringes the right to life (see H.R. 4013), H1369 [23MR]

———provide with certain authority to regulate tobacco products (see S. 2461), S5949 [20MY] (see S. 2974), S11090 [10OC] (see H.R. 4433), H3438 (see H.R. 4433), H3538 [20MY]

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

———review decision process to disapprove commercial distribution of the emergency-contraceptive drug Plan B as an over-the-counter drug (see H.R. 4377), H3093 [17MY]

Federal employees: allow time off from work to donate blood (see H.R. 4963), H6703 [22JY]

———cover services provided to injured workers by physician assistants and nurse practitioners (see H.R. 5063), H7072 [13SE]

———establish programs to make supplemental dental and vision benefits available to Federal employees, retirees, and dependents, and expand OPM contracting authority (see S. 2657), S8118 [14JY] (see H.R. 4844), H5908 [15JY] (see H.R. 5295), H9047 [8OC]

———increase amount of additional compensation payable to an employee who is disabled and requires the services of an attendant (see H.R. 5174), H7863 [29SE]

———provide continued health benefits coverage for certain Federal employees (see S. 2409), S5227 [11MY]

———repeal law making reemployed annuitants ineligible for physicians comparability allowances, and special pay for physicians and dentists (see H.R. 4999), H6704 [22JY]

Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: establish requirements to allow sale of prescription drugs over the Internet (see S. 2464), S5949 [20MY] (see H.R. 3880), H830 [3MR]

———reduce human exposure to mercury through vaccines (see H.R. 4169), H2153 [2AP]

Federal Meat Inspection Act: help ensure a healthy food supply (see H.R. 4121), H2019 [1AP]

Firefighters: provide financial assistance to improve the health and safety of firefighters, promote use of life saving technologies, and achieve greater equity for departments serving large jurisdictions (see S. 2411), S5227 [11MY]

Food: enhance the safety of beef by requiring testing of cattle for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) at the time of slaughter (see H.R. 3705), H35 [20JA]

———ensure consumers receive information about the nutritional content of restaurant food and vending machine food (see S. 2108), S1518 [24FE]

———promote food safety and protect the animal feed supply from bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) (see S. 2051), S649 [5FE]

Food industry: require FDA premarket review and oversight of all genetically engineered foods (see S. 2546), S6997 [17JN]

Food Safety Administration: establish (see S. 2910), S10702 [7OC] (see H.R. 5259), H8857 [7OC]

Foreign aid: establish centers for the treatment of obstetric fistula in developing countries (see H.R. 4848), H5908 [15JY]

Government: establish a Federal Interagency Committee on Emergency Medical Services and an advisory council made up of non-Federal representatives of the emergency medical services community (see S. 2351), S4428 [27AP] (see H.R. 4831), H5792 [14JY]

Government regulations: establish system independent of the FDA to review health claims relative to the benefits of foods and dietary supplements (see H.R. 4004), H1322 [18MR]

Haiti: U.S. policy relative to political uprising and humanitarian crisis (see H. Con. Res. 370), H632 [25FE]

Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Act: reauthorize (see S. 3014), S11640 [19NO]

Hazardous substances: prepare comprehensive strategy for international negotiations to reduce global mercury use to levels sufficient to protect public health and the environment (see S. Res. 453), S10703 [7OC]

———prohibit discrimination relative to exposure (see H.R. 4215), H2372 [22AP]

———reduce quantity of mercury in the environment (see H.R. 4260), H2547 [4MY]

Health care facilities: authorize grants to hospitals for measurement-based strategies to improve the quality and efficiency of health care (see H.R. 4127), H2151 [2AP]

———establish direct care registered nurse-to-patient staffing ratio requirements in hospitals (see H.R. 4316), H2727 [6MY]

———limit liability of hospitals and emergency departments for noneconomic and punitive damages when providing uncompensated care (see H.R. 4993), H6704 [22JY]

Health care professionals: authorize capitation grants to increase the number of nursing faculty and students (see H.R. 5324), H9048 [8OC]

———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]

———improve dental services in underserved areas (see S. 2740), S8688 [22JY]

———improve training and retention (see S. 2739), S8688 [22JY]

———protect certain health care providers against legal liability for certain emergency and related care provided to uninsured individuals (see H.R. 4992), H6704 [22JY]

———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] (see H.R. 4016), H1369 [23MR]

Higher Education Act: provide funds for campus mental and behavioral health service centers (see S. 2215), S2778 [12MR]

Homeless: establish a grant program to provide supportive services in permanent supportive housing for chronically homeless individuals (see S. 2937), S10703 [7OC] (see H.R. 4866), H6127 [20JY]

———establish grant program to address the goal of ending chronic homelessness (see S. 2829), S9525 [22SE] (see H.R. 4057), H1739 [30MR]

Immigration: continue Federal reimbursement of emergency health services furnished to illegal aliens through foreign aid funds (see H.R. 4360), H3015 [13MY]

———permit alien children receiving medical treatment in the U.S. to be classified as immediate relatives to avoid extreme hardship to themselves or their immediate relative alien parents (see H.R. 5058), H6997 [9SE]

India: provide assistance to combat HIV/AIDS (see S. 2203), S2717 [11MR] (see H.R. 4449), H3439 (see H.R. 4449), H3538 [20MY]

———recognize anniversary of chemical plant accident in Bhopal and ensure provision of environmental and medical rehabilitation of the affected area by Union Carbide Corp. (see H. Con. Res. 503), H7864 [29SE]

Individuals With Disabilities Education Act: allow preference in distribution of grants to agencies and organizations that provide training to regular education personnel to meet needs of disabled children (see H.R. 5258), H8857 [7OC]

———authorizing appropriations (see H.R. 3802), H514 [11FE]

———reauthorize (H.R. 1350), consideration of conference report (see H. Res. 858), H9999 [18NO]

———reauthorize (H.R. 1350), corrections in enrollment (see H. Con. Res. 524), H10079 [19NO]

Influenza: address shortage of vaccine (see S. 2968), S10846 [8OC] (see H.R. 5409), H10078 [19NO]

———conduct vaccine awareness campaign, ensure sufficient vaccine supply, prepare for pandemic or epidemic, and encourage vaccine production capacity (see S. 2038), S320 [28JA] (see H.R. 3758), H303 [3FE]

———ensure an adequate supply and distribution of vaccine (see S. 2959), S10846 [8OC]

———provide for emergency distributions of vaccine (see H.R. 5243), H8856 [7OC]

Insurance: coverage of bone mass measurements (see H.R. 4154), H2152 [2AP]

———coverage of colorectal cancer screening (see S. 2265), S3455 [31MR] (see H.R. 4097), H1790 [31MR]

———coverage of hearing aids under group and individual health plans and the Federal employees' health benefits program (see H.R. 4241), H2483 [28AP]

———extend Federal funding for operation of State high risk health insurance pools (see S. 2283), S3631 [5AP]

———extend period for COBRA coverage for recipients of trade adjustment assistance (see S. 2226), S2996 [23MR]

———extend period for COBRA coverage for victims of terrorist attacks (see S. 2837), S9611 [23SE]

———improve access to health care services and provide improved medical care by reducing the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery system (see H.R. 4280), H2656 [5MY]

———improve access to health care services and provide improved medical care by reducing the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery system (H.R. 4280), consideration (see H. Res. 638), H2815 [11MY]

———improve access to health care services by reducing the burden the liability system places in the delivery of emergency, trauma, and obstetrical services (see S. 2207), S2777 [12MR]

———improve access to health insurance and Medicare benefits for individuals aged 55 to 65 and allow tax credits for payment of such premiums (see H.R. 4357), H2918 [12MY]

———increase insurance coverage by requiring employers to offer health insurance with greater Government assistance and by expanding current safety net programs (see H.R. 5218), H8167 [5OC]

———make antitrust laws apply to negotiations between groups of independent pharmacies and health plans and health insurance issuers in the same manner as collective bargaining by labor organizations (see H.R. 5278), H8858 [7OC]

———protection of enrollees in managed care plans and HMO's (see S. 2083), S1286 [12FE] (see H.R. 4628), H4646 [21JN]

———protection of enrollees in managed care plans and HMO's (H.R. 4628), consideration (see H. Res. 773), H7138 [14SE]

———provide every individual with the opportunity to purchase health insurance that is at least equivalent to the insurance available to Members of Congress at the same or lower rates (see S. Res. 358), S5372 [12MY]

———require group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans to provide prompt payment for health benefits claims (see S. 2308), S4024 [8AP]

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 S. 2519), S6803 [15JN] (see H.R. 4671), H4893 [23JN]

Libya: review legal actions taken against several Bulgarian medical workers (see H. Res. 733), H6127 [20JY]

Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act: extend (see H.R. 5180), H7863 [29SE]

———modify termination date for mandatory price reporting (see S. 2965), S10846 [8OC]

Major League Baseball: adopt drug-testing policy that deters players from using anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing substances that create a competitive advantage or pose a serious health risk (see S. Res. 335), S4024 [8AP]

Mammography Quality Standards Act: reauthorize (see H.R. 4555), H3963 [14JN]

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]

———extend Federal-State cost-sharing program to assist low-income Medicare beneficiaries with health care costs (see S. 2618), S7750 [7JY] (see H.R. 5160), H7735 [28SE] (see H.R. 5189), H7944 [30SE]

———include podiatrists as physicians for purposes of covering physicians services (see S. 2174), S2301 [8MR]

———permit additional States to enter into long-term care partnerships in order to promote the use of long-term care insurance (see S. 2077), S1285 [12FE]

———permit children administered a vaccine at a public health clinic or Indian clinic to be eligible for the pediatric vaccine distribution program (see S. 2272), S3567 [1AP]

———permit local public agencies to act as enrollment brokers (see H.R. 3895), H871 [4MR]

———permit States the option to provide coverage for low-income individuals infected with HIV (see H.R. 3859), H699 [26FE]

———prohibit payments to States for redispensing prescription drugs (see S. 2950), S10845 [8OC]

———provide complete reimbursement for medical assistance provided to Native Hawaiians by federally qualified health centers or Native Hawaiian health care systems (see S. 2098), S1457 [23FE]

———require fair billing for hospital services provided to uninsured patients as a condition of Medicaid funding for a hospital (see H.R. 4092), H1790 [31MR]

———require staff working with developmentally disabled individuals to call emergency services in the event of a life-threatening situation (see H.R. 5320), H9048 [8OC]

Medicare: adjust the amount of payment under the physician fee schedule for cancer drug administration services (see S. 2587), S7435 [24JN]

———allow beneficiaries to purchase multiple prescription drug discount cards and to receive a refund of the enrollment fee if prices or the formulary used by the card sponsor changes (see S. 2530), S6881 [16JN]

———clarify payment for clinical laboratory tests furnished by critical access hospitals (see S. 2426), S5535 [17MY] (see H.R. 4257), H2491 [30AP]

———clarify right of beneficiaries to enter into private contracts with physicians and other health care professionals for services not payable under Medicare (see H.R. 4822), H5653 [13JY]

———condition the payment of employer prescription drug subsidies on the maintenance of current prescription drug benefits (see H.R. 4978), H6704 [22JY]

———contain costs of prescription drug program (see S. 2130), S1683 [26FE] (see H.R. 3854), H699 [26FE]

———coverage of clinical pharmacist practitioner services (see H.R. 4724), H5149 [25JN]

———coverage of respiratory therapists under home health service plans (see S. 2707), S8548 [21JY]

———coverage of screening pap smears and pelvic exams (see H.R. 5048), H6996 [9SE]

———coverage of screening ultrasound for abdominal aortic aneurysms (see S. 2553), S7104 [21JN]

———deliver a meaningful benefit and lower prescription drug prices (see S. 2257), S3366 [30MR] (see S. 2652), S8118 [14JY] (see H.R. 3767), H392 [4FE]

———deliver a meaningful benefit and lower prescription drug prices (H.R. 3767), consideration (see H. Res. 696), H4927 (see H. Res. 696), H5071 [24JN]

———eliminate coverage gap and HMO subsidies and repeal health savings accounts (see S. 2629), S7828 [8JY] (see S. 2725), S8687 [22JY]

———eliminate privatization and reduce excessive payments to health maintenance organizations and other private sector insurance plans (see S. 2300), S3919 [7AP]

———eliminate reductions in payments to hospitals for the indirect costs of medical education (see S. 2876), S10061 [30SE]

———ensure that every beneficiary has access to a Medicare administered prescription drug plan option (see S. 2487), S6348 [2JN]

———ensure that prescription drug discount card sponsors pass along discounts to beneficiaries (see S. 2234), S3180 [25MR]

———establish a hospice demonstration and grant program for beneficiaries (see S. 2983), S11377 [16NO]

———establish demonstration program to offset costs of electronic prescribing systems of health care providers (see H.R. 4805), H5470 [9JY]

———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]

———extend minimum deadlines for filing claims relative to adjustments from secondary payor status to primary payor status (see S. 2929), S10703 [7OC] (see H.R. 5309), H9048 [8OC]

———freeze increases in monthly premiums (see H.R. 5095), H7233 [15SE]

———impose a moratorium on payments for inpatient hospital services in additional long-term care hospital beds (see H.R. 3790), H434 [10FE]

———impose conditions on Federal reimbursement of emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens (see H.R. 3722), H88 [21JA]

———improve access to diabetes self-management training by designated certified diabetes educators (see S. 2431), S5607 [18MY]

———improve accountability in the Medicare Advantage and prescription drug programs (see H.R. 4903), H6701 [22JY]

———improve benefits for beneficiaries with kidney disease (see S. 2614), S7750 [7JY] (see H.R. 4927), H6702 [22JY]

———improve coordination of prescription drug coverage under retiree plans and State pharmaceutical assistance programs with Medicare drug benefits (see S. 2339), S4300 [22AP] (see H.R. 4195), H2371 [22AP]

———improve quality of care in skilled nursing facilities through development of quality measures and changes in reimbursement (see H.R. 5403), H10078 [19NO]

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

———increase Federal oversight of the Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and revoke its unique ability to accredit hospitals (see S. 2698), S8474 [20JY] (see H.R. 4877), H6127 [20JY]

———make improvements in competitive acquisition programs for certain items and services (see S. 2911), S10702 [7OC]

———modernize by ensuring that appropriate preventive services are covered (see S. 2535), S6997 [17JN] (see H.R. 4898), H6700 [22JY]

———permit negotiation of fair prices for, and allow the reimportation of, prescription drugs (see S. 2053), S689 [6FE]

———permit the Dept. of HHS to enter into direct negotiations to promote the best prices for beneficiaries (see H.R. 3707), H35 [20JA]

———preserve access to cancer care (see H.R. 5144), H7574 [23SE]

———prohibit operation of comparative cost adjustment (CCA) program in Arkansas (see S. 2123), S1586 [25FE]

———prohibit operation of comparative cost adjustment (CCA) program in California (see S. 2116), S1586 [25FE] (see H.R. 3964), H1071 [11MR]

———prohibit operation of comparative cost adjustment (CCA) program in Connecticut (see S. 2119), S1586 [25FE] (see H.R. 3905), H871 [4MR]

———prohibit operation of comparative cost adjustment (CCA) program in Florida (see S. 2118), S1586 [25FE] (see H.R. 3876), H752 [2MR]

———prohibit operation of comparative cost adjustment (CCA) program in Hawaii (see S. 2122), S1586 [25FE]

———prohibit operation of comparative cost adjustment (CCA) program in Massachusetts (see S. 2124), S1586 [25FE]

———prohibit operation of comparative cost adjustment (CCA) program in Michigan (see S. 2113), S1586 [25FE] (see H.R. 3835), H632 [25FE]

———prohibit operation of comparative cost adjustment (CCA) program in Nevada (see S. 2121), S1586 [25FE]

———prohibit operation of comparative cost adjustment (CCA) program in New Jersey (see S. 2117), S1586 [25FE] (see H.R. 3841), H632 [25FE]

———prohibit operation of comparative cost adjustment (CCA) program in New Mexico (see S. 2114), S1586 [25FE] (see H.R. 3844), H632 [25FE]

———prohibit operation of comparative cost adjustment (CCA) program in New York (see S. 2111), S1586 [25FE] (see H.R. 3842), H632 [25FE]

———prohibit operation of comparative cost adjustment (CCA) program in North Carolina (see S. 2126), S1586 [25FE]

———prohibit operation of comparative cost adjustment (CCA) program in Oregon (see S. 2120), S1586 [25FE]

———prohibit operation of comparative cost adjustment (CCA) program in Pennsylvania (see H.R. 3836), H632 [25FE]

———prohibit operation of comparative cost adjustment (CCA) program in Rhode Island (see S. 2125), S1586 [25FE] (see H.R. 4672), H4893 [23JN]

———prohibit operation of comparative cost adjustment (CCA) program in South Dakota (see S. 2115), S1586 [25FE]

———prohibit operation of comparative cost adjustment (CCA) program in Texas (see H.R. 3861), H699 [26FE]

———prohibit operation of comparative cost adjustment (CCA) program in the District of Columbia (see H.R. 4336), H2815 [11MY]

———provide additional beneficiary protections (see H.R. 3702), H35 [20JA]

———provide automatic enrollment and eligibility for certain low-income beneficiaries for subsidies under the Medicare transitional and permanent prescription drug programs (see H.R. 4437), H3438 (see H.R. 4437), H3538 [20MY]

———provide beneficiaries access to information on the quality of care provided by skilled nursing facilities and provide incentives for such facilities to improve the quality of care (see S. 2988), S11429 [17NO]

———provide beneficiaries with access to geriatric assessments and chronic care management (see S. 2593), S7435 [24JN] (see H.R. 4689), H4926 (see H.R. 4689), H5070 [24JN]

———provide coverage of screening ultrasound for abdominal aortic aneurysms (see H.R. 4626), H4646 [21JN]

———provide for fairness in the calculation of disportionate share hospital payments for hospitals in Puerto Rico (see S. 2260), S3367 [30MR]

———provide for negotiation of fair prices for prescription drugs (see S. 2714), S8548 [21JY]

———provide for the automatic enrollment of Medicaid beneficiaries for prescription drug benefits (see S. 2413), S5371 [12MY] (see S. 2694), S8474 [20JY]

———provide for the offering of a Federal national prescription drug discount card program (see H.R. 4919), H6701 [22JY]

———provide for the use of qualified family caregivers in the provision of home health aide services and amend the Family and Medical Leave Act (see H.R. 4095), H1790 [31MR]

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

———provide incentives for the furnishing of quality care under Medicare Advantage plans and by end stage renal disease providers and facilities (see S. 2562), S7311 [23JN]

———provide incentives linking quality to payment for skilled nursing facilities and establish a Long-Term Care Financing Commission (see H.R. 5393), H10078 [19NO]

———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]

———provide whistleblower protection to employees of clinical laboratories (see H.R. 5311), H9048 [8OC]

———reduce part B premium through elimination of certain overpayments to Medicare Advantage organizations (see S. 2906), S10568 [6OC]

———reimbursement for certain midwife services (see S. 2492), S6348 [2JN]

———reimbursement of enrollees in the PPO Demonstration Project for expenses inappropriately incurred relative to coverage through out-of-network providers (see H.R. 5400), H10078 [19NO]

———repeal reduction in payment for certain items of durable medical equipment (see H.R. 4491), H3719 [2JN] (see H.R. 5331), H9049 [8OC]

———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]

———require providers to disclose staffing and performance data (see H.R. 4374), H3093 [17MY]

———require the negotiation and disclosure of the lowest possible prices for prescription drugs (see H.R. 4321), H2733 [10MY]

———simplify prescription drug discount card program (see S. 2512), S6628 [8JN]

———stabilize amount of part B premium (see S. 2780), S8963 [8SE] (see H.R. 5175), H7863 [29SE]

———waive waiting period for coverage of certain disabled individuals (see S. 2566), S7311 [23JN] (see H.R. 5156), H7735 [28SE]

———waive waiting period for coverage of individuals disabled with distant stage cancer (see H.R. 5116), H7329 [21SE]

Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act: eliminate overpayments to health maintenance organizations and other private plans (see H.R. 4304), H2727 [6MY]

———eliminate the comparative cost adjustment program (see H.R. 3711), H35 [20JA]

———improve (see S. 2343), S4300 [22AP]

———provide certain documents to the House of Representatives relative to cost estimates and analyses (see H. Res. 776), H7234 [15SE]

Medicare/Medicaid: require automatic fire sprinkler systems in all nursing facilities (see H.R. 4967), H6703 [22JY]

Melanoma Day: support goals and ideals (see H. Con. Res. 492), H7137 [14SE]

Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Con. Res. 492), H7137 [14SE]

Members of Congress: ensure that prescription drug coverage for Members is not better than coverage for Medicare beneficiaries (see S. 2678), S8277 [16JY]

Mental health: authorizing appropriations for diversion courts (see S. 2107), S1518 [24FE] (see H.R. 3924), H926 [9MR]

———increase awareness of autism spectrum disorder, support programs for research and improved treatment, and improve training for health care professionals (see S. Res. 317), S2543 [10MR] (see H. Res. 605), H2372 [22AP]

———prohibit use of Federal funds for any universal or mandatory mental health screening program (see H.R. 5236), H8408 [6OC]

———provide for research on, and services for individuals with, post-abortion depression and psychosis (see H.R. 4543), H3872 [9JN]

Mining and mineral resources: reauthorize collection of reclamation fees, revise abandoned mine reclamation program, promote remining, and authorize Office of Surface Mining to collect black lung excise tax (see S. 2049), S541 [3FE] (see H.R. 3778), H392 [4FE]

Minorities: reduce health care disparities and improve health care quality of minorities by improving data collection, providing performance incentives, and expanding programs seeking to eliminate health disparities (see H.R. 5338), H9049 [8OC]

Mosquito Abatement for Safety and Health Act: technical corrections (see S. 2388), S4911 [5MY]

Museums: provide a site for construction of a national health museum (see H.R. 5164), H7863 [29SE]

National Asbestos Awareness Day: designate (see S. Res. 448), S10568 [6OC]

National Better Hearing and Speech Month: support goals and ideals (see S. Res. 366), S5950 [20MY]

National Breast Cancer Awareness Month: authorize the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, MO, to be illuminated by pink lights in commemoration (see S. 2895), S10436 [5OC] (see H.R. 5307), H9048 [8OC]

———observance (see H. Con. Res. 504), H7864 [29SE]

National Celiac Awareness Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Con. Res. 435), H3439 (see H. Con. Res. 435), H3539 [20MY]

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

National Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Week: designate (see S. Res. 457), S11090 [10OC]

National Commission on Digestive Diseases: establish (see H.R. 3756), H303 [3FE]

National Community Health Center Week: establish (see H. Res. 646), H3229 [18MY]

National Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month: designate (see S. Res. 298), S1017 [11FE]

National Donor Day: designate (see S. Res. 305), S1457 [23FE]

———emphasize the importance of organ, tissue, bone marrow, and blood donation (see H. Con. Res. 362), H515 [11FE]

National Eating Disorders Awareness Week: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 506), H244 [28JA]

National Farm Safety and Health Week: support goals and purposes (see H. Con. Res. 494), H7329 [21SE]

National Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Day: designate (see S. Res. 390), S7311 [23JN]

National Health Center Week: designate (see S. Res. 357), S5372 [12MY]

National Health Corps Loan Repayment Program: count fellowship training in geriatric medicine or psychiatry as obligated service (see S. 2075), S1285 [12FE]

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute: expand, intensify, and coordinate pulmonary hypertension research activities (see S. 2922), S10702 [7OC]

National Institute for Biomedical Research and Development: establish (see H.R. 5155), H7735 [28SE]

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health: long-term health monitoring of firefighters in disaster areas (see S. 2660), S8229 [15JY]

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development: establish a program on children and the media to study the role and impact of electronic media in the development of children (see S. 2447), S5799 [19MY]

National Long-Term Care Residents' Rights Week: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 755), H6756 [7SE] (see H. Res. 772), H7137 [14SE]

National Mammography Day: designate (see S. Res. 407), S8229 [15JY]

National objectives: establish grants to improve nutrition, increase physical activity, and prevent obesity (see S. 2399), S5078 [10MY]

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

———improve quality, efficiency, standards, and technology of health care (see H.R. 4880), H6555 [21JY]

———policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (see S. 2570), S7311 [23JN] (see H.R. 4325), H2815 [11MY] (see H.R. 4964), H6703 [22JY]

———reorient the nation's health care system towards prevention, wellness, and self care (see S. 2558), S7174 [22JN]

National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 808), H7864 [29SE]

National Patient Safety Awareness Week: designate (see S. Res. 320), S2778 [12MR]

National Prematurity Awareness Month: support goals and ideals (see S. Res. 476), S11640 [19NO]

National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month: designate (see S. Res. 418), S8689 [22JY]

National Safety Month: designate (see S. Res. 331), S3632 [5AP]

National School Lunch Act: improve summer food service program for children (see H.R. 3930), H1011 [10MR]

———provide automatic eligibility for free school lunch and breakfast programs to children whose parents are enlisted active-duty personnel (see H.R. 5229), H8407 [6OC]

National security: expedite development of medical countermeasures to treat or prevent disease caused by infectious disease agents or toxins that may pose a significant public health threat (see H.R. 4258), H2547 [4MY]

National Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day: establish (see H. Con. Res. 480), H6705 [22JY]

National Time Out Day: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 682), H4580 [18JN]

———support goals and ideas (see S. Res. 469), S11377 [16NO]

National Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month: support goals and ideals (see S. Con. Res. 113), S6087 [21MY] (see H. Con. Res. 430), H3229 [18MY]

National Volunteer Blood Donor Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Con. Res. 493), H7137 [14SE]

Native Americans: require State approval of new gambling facilities, develop minimum Federal standards for Indian gaming, and establish commission to report on living standards on Indian lands (see H.R. 3745), H244 [28JA]

NCAA: affirm commitment to discouraging alcohol use among underage students by ending alcohol advertising during radio and television broadcasts of sporting events (see H. Res. 575), H1483 [24MR]

New York, NY: provide health services for individuals assisting with the response to terrorist attacks (see H.R. 4974), H6703 [22JY]

NIH: Autoimmune Diseases Research Plan funding (see H. Res. 610), H2483 [28AP]

———conduct and support research using human embryonic stem cells (see H.R. 4812), H5536 [12JY]

NIH Police: establish (see S. 2574), S7434 [24JN]

Nuclear weapons: protect public health and safety if testing of nuclear weapons by the U.S. is resumed (see S. 2777), S8861 [7SE] (see H.R. 3921), H926 [9MR]

Nursing homes: establish a loan repayment program for nurse practitioners and physician assistants in underserved homes, and establish a mentoring program for training administrators (see H.R. 5322), H9048 [8OC]

Nutrition: authorize grants for the integration of innovative curricula on nutrition in medical education (see H.R. 5350), H9050 [8OC]

Occupational Safety and Health Act: expand coverage, increase protections for whistleblowers, and increase penalties for violators (see S. 2371), S4692 [29AP]

———improve safety and health of working environments (see S. 2719), S8687 [22JY]

———modify certain provisions relative to causing death in the workplace (see H.R. 4270), H2548 [4MY]

———suspend from Federal procurement and nonprocurement activities persons that have not paid fines resulting from violations that caused a death in the workplace (see H.R. 4385), H3229 [18MY]

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative: prohibit use of funds to negotiate data exclusivity provisions for certain pharmaceutical products (see S. 2944), S10845 [8OC]

Older Americans Act: amend to provide information and outreach for the prevention of osteoporosis (see H.R. 3803), H514 [11FE]

OPM: administer a national health program to offer Federal employee health benefits plans to individuals who are not Federal employees (see S. 2161), S2105 [3MR] (see S. 2163), S2223 [4MR] (see S. 2630), S7828 [8JY] (see H.R. 4498), H3780 [3JN]

———study and present options under which dental and vision benefits could be made available to Federal employees, retirees, and other appropriate individuals (see H.R. 3751), H250 [30JA]

Organ donation: promote (see H.R. 3926), H1010 [10MR]

Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 641), H2918 [12MY]

Pharmaceuticals: importation of prescription drugs (see S. 2307), S4024 [8AP] (see S. 2328), S4225 [21AP] (see H.R. 3710), H35 [20JA]

———permit importation of prescription drugs from Canada and certain other countries (see H.R. 4790), H5470 [9JY]

———standardize certification of Internet pharmacies and prohibit certain advertising activities and the use of certain bank instruments for purchases associated with illegal Internet pharmacies (see H.R. 4612), H4579 [18JN]

Privacy: amend the Federal Rules of Evidence to create an explicit privilege to preserve medical privacy (see S. 2827), S9524 [22SE] (see H.R. 5126), H7442 [22SE]

———ensure protection of personally identifiable information outsourced abroad through increased disclosure, compliance with U.S. privacy standards, and accountability (see S. 2472), S5950 [20MY] (see S. 2481), S6274 [1JN]

Product safety: increase public availability of information on clinical trials to determine the safety and effectiveness of drugs, biological products, and devices (see H.R. 5252), H8857 [7OC]

Public Health Service Act: expand the clinical trials drug data bank (see S. 2933), S10703 [7OC]

Puerto Rico: authorize construction of a Dept. of Veterans Affairs medical center at a site that would best serve the needs of both veterans and Dept. of Defense medical beneficiaries (see H.R. 3898), H871 [4MR]

Radioactive substances: carry out activites to bring to market effective medical countermeasures to radiation from a nuclear or radiological attack (see H.R. 5000), H6705 [22JY]

Red Ribbon Week: support goals (see S. Res. 455), S11090 [10OC] (see H. Res. 841), H8859 [7OC]

Research: authorize use of Federal funds for research on human embryonic stem cells irrespective of date derived (see H.R. 3960), H1071 [11MR]

———expand research information regarding multidisciplinary research projects and epidemiological studies (see H.R. 5213), H8167 [5OC]

———increase supply of pancreatic islet cells for research and coordinate efforts and information on transplantation (see S. 2158), S1999 [2MR] (see H.R. 3858), H699 [26FE]

———provide clinical research support grants, clinical research infrastructure grants, and a demonstration program on partnerships in clinical research (see S. 2924), S10703 [7OC] (see H.R. 4779), H5401 [8JY]

———provide for arthritis research and public health (see S. 2338), S4300 [22AP] (see H.R. 4610), H4391 (see H.R. 4610), H4506 [17JN]

———provide for embryonic stem cell research (see H.R. 4682), H4926 (see H.R. 4682), H5070 [24JN]

Rotary International: issue commemorative stamp to honor centennial anniversary and efforts to eradicate polio (see S. Con. Res. 111), S5535 [17MY] (see H. Con. Res. 375), H700 [26FE]

Senate: authorize Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper to ascertain and settle claims relative to ricin exposure in Senate complex (see S. Res. 329), S3605 [2AP]

Senior citizens: establish a consumer price index for elderly consumers to compute cost-of-living increases for Social Security and Medicare benefits (see S. 2930), S10703 [7OC]

———establish regional consumer price indices to compute cost-of-living increases for Social Security and Medicare benefits (see H.R. 4054), H1643 [29MR]

Small business: certify programs to provide health coverage to uninsured employees (see S. 2544), S6997 [17JN]

———improve access and choice relative to employee health care (see H.R. 4281), H2656 [5MY]

———improve access and choice relative to employee health care (H.R. 4281), consideration (see H. Res. 638), H2815 [11MY]

Social Security: constitutional amendment relative to maintenance of a system of social insurance (see H.J. Res. 85), H35 [20JA]

———ensure full and free competition in the medical device and hospital supply industries (see S. 2880), S10261 [1OC]

———expand Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program to include parents of low-income families (see H.R. 4350), H2917 [12MY]

———make all uninsured children eligible for the State Children's Health Insurance Program and simplify enrollment and renewal procedures for Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (see S. 2420), S5472 [13MY]

———modify the rules on availability and method of redistribution of unexpended State Children's Health Insurance Program allotments (see S. 2759), S8688 [22JY]

———permit qualifying States to use unspent State Children's Health Insurance Program allotments for Medicaid expenditures (see H.R. 3840), H632 [25FE] (see H.R. 4692), H4926 (see H.R. 4692), H5070 [24JN]

———permit States the option of covering certain legal aliens under Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (see S. 2685), S8423 [19JY] (see S. 2704), S8548 [21JY]

———prohibit approval of certain waivers to provide coverage of childless adults under the State Children's Health Insurance Program (see H.R. 4142), H2152 [2AP]

———promote smoking cessation under Medicare, Medicaid, and the Maternal and Child Health Program (see S. 2730), S8687 [22JY]

———require waivers of waiting period for benefits based on disability in the case of terminally ill beneficiaries (see H.R. 5034), H6899 [8SE]

States: establish prescription drug monitoring programs, impose requirements on Internet pharmacies, require manufacturers to implement chain-of-custody procedures, and restrict exemption on importation of certain drugs (see H.R. 3870), H752 [2MR]

———provide grants for developing trauma care systems (see H.R. 3999), H1322 [18MR]

———streamline enrollment processes for Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program through better linkages with programs providing nutrition and related assistance to low-income families (see H.R. 4031), H1592 [25MR]

Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act: make technical changes and resolve certain issues beneficial to coal miners (see H.R. 4529), H3872 [9JN] (see H.R. 4549), H3963 [14JN]

———make technical changes and resolve certain issues beneficial to coal miners (H.R. 4529), consideration (see H. Res. 672), H3963 [14JN]

———reauthorize and reform the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Program (see S. 2211), S2778 [12MR] (see H.R. 3796), H514 [11FE]

Taxation: allow a deduction for expenses paid in connection with the donation of an organ (see H.R. 4042), H1592 [25MR]

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

———allow a deduction for qualified long-term care insurance premiums, use of such insurance under cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements, and a credit for individuals with long-term care needs (see H.R. 4432), H3438 (see H.R. 4432), H3538 [20MY]

———allow a deduction for qualified long-term care insurance premiums and a credit for individuals who care for those with long-term care needs (see H.R. 5110), H7328 [21SE]

———allow a deduction from gross income for the donation of blood (see H.R. 5317), H9048 [8OC]

———allow a nonrefundable tax credit for elder care expenses (see S. 2072), S1285 [12FE] (see H.R. 5215), H8167 [5OC]

———allow a refundable credit for the purchase of private health insurance (see S. 2893), S10436 [5OC]

———allow a tax credit for the purchase of hearing aids (see S. 2055), S721 [9FE]

———allow carryforward of certain unused benefits in cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements for dependent care assistance (see H.R. 4372), H3093 [17MY]

———allow credit for medical expenses for dependents (see H.R. 4025), H1483 [24MR]

———allow full deductibility of health insurance costs of individuals (see H.R. 5074), H7137 [14SE]

———allow individuals a refundable and advanceable credit for health insurance costs (see H.R. 3748), H244 [28JA]

———allow self-employed individuals to deduct health insurance costs in computing self-employment taxes (see S. 2433), S5607 [18MY]

———allow small employers a tax credit for costs paid or incurred for employee health insurance expenses (see S. 2359), S4493 [28AP]

———deductions for home health care, day care, and respite care for households with an Alzheimer's disease patient (see S. 2029), S247 [26JA]

———impose an excise tax on the termination of retiree prescription drug coverage (see H.R. 4845), H5908 [15JY]

———improve the health coverage tax credit (see S. 2935), S10703 [7OC]

———increase credit allowed for basic research (see H.R. 4767), H5330 [7JY]

———increase exclusion from gross income of an employee for dependent care assistance relative to dependent care services provided during a taxable year and adjust such amount each year for inflation (see H.R. 4379), H3229 [18MY]

———provide a refundable credit for health insurance costs (see H.R. 4886), H6556 [21JY]

———provide a small business health tax credit (see S. 2245), S3214 [26MR]

———provide incentives to encourage small business health plans (see H.R. 5355), H9184 [9OC]

———provide subsidies to encourage small employers to offer affordable health coverage to their employees through qualfied health pooling arrangements (see H.R. 4356), H2918 [12MY]

———provide that distributions from certain retirement plans are not included in gross income if used to pay long-term care insurance premiums (see S. 2918), S10702 [7OC] (see H.R. 4502), H3780 [3JN]

———provide that medical expenses of a child with special needs is allowable as a medical expense deduction without regard to the adjusted gross income threshold (see H.R. 4653), H4892 [23JN]

———repeal tax increase on Social Security benefits (see H.R. 3868), H752 [2MR]

———repeal threshold on the deduction for medical expenses and allow that deduction to taxpayers whether or not they itemize deductions (see H.R. 3704), H35 [20JA]

———treatment of certain gifts and benefits provided to physicians by prescription drug manufacturers (see H.R. 3865), H699 [26FE]

———treatment of unused nontaxable benefits under cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements (see H.R. 4007), H1322 [18MR] (see H.R. 4279), H2656 [5MY]

———treatment of unused nontaxable benefits under cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements (H.R. 4279), consideration (see H. Res. 638), H2815 [11MY]

Technology: improve the quality and efficiency of health care delivery through improvements in health care information technology (see S. 2710), S8548 [21JY] (see S. 2907), S10568 [6OC]

———modernize the health care system through the use of information technology and reduce costs, improve quality, and provide a new focus on prevention with respect to health care (see S. 2421), S5472 [13MY]

———recognize contributions of environmental systems and the technicians who install and maintain them (see H. Res. 548), H752 [2MR]

Telecommunications: strengthen telehealth programs (see S. 2325), S4225 [21AP]

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

———provide equitable treatment of residents relative to transitional assistance and low-income subsidies under the Medicare prescription drug benefit program (see H.R. 4781), H5401 [8JY]

Tick-Borne Disorders Advisory Committee: establish (see H.R. 4334), H2815 [11MY]

Tinnitus Awareness Week: support goals and ideals (see S. Con. Res. 108), S5372 [12MY] (see H. Con. Res. 381), H1011 [10MR]

Treaties and agreements: oppose inclusion in future free trade agreements provisions that would negatively impact the implementation of legislation authorizing the importation of prescription drugs (see H. Res. 758), H6899 [8SE]

U.N.: provide a voluntary U.S. contribution to the U.N. Population Fund for the prevention, remedy, and repair of obstetric fistula (see H.R. 3810), H515 [11FE]

U.S. Military Cancer Institute: establish (see S. 2097), S1457 [23FE] (see H.R. 4273), H2548 [4MY]

Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act: extend period for which an individual may elect to continue employer-sponsored health care coverage (see H.R. 4659), H4893 [23JN]

Veterans: codify certain additional diseases as establishing a presumption of service-connection when occurring in veterans exposed to ionizing radiation during active duty (see H.R. 4172), H2198 [20AP]

———extend eligibility of veterans who served in recent hostilities for hospital care, medical services, and nursing home care for any illness (see H.R. 4438), H3438 (see H.R. 4438), H3538 [20MY]

———improve and enhance education, housing, employment, medical, and other benefits and improve and extend certain authorities relative to the administration of benefits (see S. 2486), S6274 [1JN]

———improve post-traumatic stress disorder treatment for veterans and members of the Armed Forces (see H.R. 5244), H8856 [7OC]

———improve post-traumatic stress disorder treatment for veterans of service in Afghanistan and Iraq and the war on terror (see H.R. 4798), H5470 [9JY]

———improve provision of health care, rehabilitation, and related services to veterans suffering from trauma relating to a blast injury (see S. 2524), S6881 [16JN]

———permit concurrent receipt of military retired pay with service-connected disability benefits (see H.R. 3730), H127 [27JA] (see H.R. 3738), H243 [28JA]

———permit eligible veterans to receive direct access to chiropractic care (see H.R. 4051), H1643 [29MR]

———revise eligibility criteria for presumption of service-connection of certain diseases and disabilities for veterans exposed to ionizing radiation during military service (see H.R. 5137), H7574 [23SE]

Water: allow small public water systems to request exemption from national primary drinking water requirements for a naturally occurring contaminant (see H.R. 4717), H5149 [25JN]

———exempt nonprofit small public water systems from certain drinking water standards relating to naturally occurring contaminants (see S. 2717), S8687 [22JY]

Women: improve access to health care services and provide improved medical care by reducing the excessive burden the liability system places on the delivery of obstetrical and gynecological services (see S. 2061), S792 [10FE]

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

———provide for educational activities and research relative to women's pelvic floor health through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and NIH (see H.R. 4979), H6704 [22JY]

World Summit on Sustainable Development: affirm U.S. commitment to improve worldwide access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation services (see H. Res. 782), H7329 [21SE]

Cloture motions

Courts: provide fair and efficient judicial consideration of personal injury and wrongful death claims due to asbestos exposure and ensure fair compensation for harm caused by asbestos exposure (S. 2290), motion to proceed, S4144 [20AP], S4257 [22AP]

Insurance: improve access to health care services by reducing the burden the liability system places in the delivery of emergency, trauma, and obstetrical services (S. 2207), motion to proceed, S3599 [2AP], S3894 [7AP]

Women: improve access to health care services and provide improved medical care by reducing the excessive burden the liability system places on the delivery of obstetrical and gynecological services (S. 2061), S1401 [12FE]

———improve access to health care services and provide improved medical care by reducing the excessive burden the liability system places on the delivery of obstetrical and gynecological services (S. 2061), motion to proceed, S1506 [24FE]

Conference reports

Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act (H.R. 1350), H9895-H9959 [17NO]

Cost Estimates

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

Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution (FAIR) Act (S. 2290): CBO, S4134 [20AP], S4259 [22AP]

Improved Nutrition and Physical Activity (IMPACT) Act (S. 1172): CBO, S3094 [24MR]

Indian Health Care Improvement Act revision and extension (S. 556): CBO, S12053-S12055 [8DE]

Mammography Quality Standards Act reauthorization (S. 1879): CBO, S3093 [24MR]

Court documents

Earline Cook v. Several Entities Involved in Selling Certain Dietary Supplements, H977-H979 [10MR]

Declarations

International Conference on Population and Development Program of Action Principles and Objectives: Population Institute and Population 2005 (organization), E1053 [4JN]

Descriptions

Senior Elder Care Relief and Empowerment (SECURE) Act (S. 2072), S1291 [12FE]

Explanations

Veterans' Benefits Improvements Act (S. 2486), S10884-S10891 [8OC]

Factsheets

Affordability in Medicare Premiums Act (S. 2906), S10580 [6OC]

Evidence on Job Creation, Wages, and Health Insurance, H852 [4MR]

Training Requirements for Optometrists and Ophthalmologists, E2097 [20NO]

Letters

Abortion issue: J. Leon Holmes, S7556 [6JY]

Access to obstetrical and gynecological services relative to medical liability system: Ben Alvarez, S1481 [24FE]

———Debbie Risteen, S1484 [24FE]

Advance Directives Improvement and Education Act: Karen Orloff Kaplan, Last Acts Partnership (organization), S7018 [17JN]

Allow local government provision of nonemergency and preventive health services to non-qualified immigrants: Larry Naake, National Association of Counties, S3358 [30MR]

———Michael D. Place, Catholic Health Association of the U.S., S3359 [30MR]

Applicability of laws preventing governmental discrimination against health care entities who refuse to perform abortions or make referrals regarding abortion services: several Senators, S11722 [20NO]

Assistive Technology Act: Deborah Buck, National Association of Assistive Technology Act Programs, S10362 [4OC]

———George Jesien, Association of University Centers on Disabilities, S10362 [4OC]

———Jennifer Dexter, Easter Seals, Inc., S10189 [30SE]

———Kathron Compton, Society for Human Resource Management, S10189 [30SE]

———Laura Ruby, Microsoft Corp., S10188 [30SE]

———Maureen Fitzgerald and Curtis L. Decker, National Association of Protection and Advocacy Systems, S10362 [4OC]

———Steve Eidelman, The Arc of the U.S. (organization), S10189 [30SE]

Characterization of remarks by Karen Hughes on terrorism and abortion: several Representatives, E685 [28AP]

Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act: Represenative Boehner, Committee on Education and the Workforce (House), H4931 [24JN]

———Representative Goodlatte, Committee on Agriculture (House), H4931 [24JN]

Clinical trials drug data bank expansion: Diane E. Dorman, National Organization for Rare Disorders, Inc., S10729 [7OC]

———Janell Mayo Duncan, Consumers Union, S10729 [7OC]

———Mark Isaac, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, S10729 [7OC]

———Richard Sarles, American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, S10729 [7OC]

Commission on Politicization of Science in the Regulatory Process: Deb Callahan, League of Conservation Voters, Inc., H3142 [18MY]

———Elizabeth A. Cavendish, NARAL Pro-Choice America (organization), H3148 [18MY]

———Gloria Feldt, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., H3148 [18MY]

Confronting Methamphetamine Act: Chuck Canterbury, Fraternal Order of Police, S10733 [7OC]

———Chuck Wexler, Police Executive Research Forum, S10733 [7OC]

———Karen Freeman-Wilson, National Association of Drug Court Professionals, S10732 [7OC]

———Richard D. Van Wagenen, Governor of Washington's Methamphetamine Coordinating Committee, S10733 [7OC]

———Terree Schmidt-Whelan, Pierce County, WA, Alliance and Methamephetamine Initiative, S10733 [7OC]

Constitutional amendment on ensuring certain trust funds are outside the U.S. budget: George A. Smith, TREA Senior Citizens League, E477 [30MR]

Dept. of Education participation in the National Children's Study: Christina Metzler, American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc., S5346 [12MY]

———Deborah A. Ziegler, Council for Exceptional Children, S5346 [12MY]

———E. Clarke Ross, Children & Adults With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (organization), S5347 [12MY]

———William F. Davis and Nathan Diament, Coalition for Equity in Special Education, S5346 [12MY]

Dept. of Labor coverage under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program for atomic weapons facilities employees: Alan M. Varela, New Mexico Workers' Compensation Administration, S6843 [16JN]

———James Conrad, Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation, S6842 [16JN]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs demonstration project on priorities in scheduling of appointments of veterans for health care: Alan W. Bowers, DAV, S808 [10FE]

———Richard A. Jones, AMVETS, S809 [10FE]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel Enhancement Act: Anthony J. Principi, Sec. of Veterans Affairs, S6282-S6285 [1JN]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs Nurse Recruitment and Retention Act: Jonathan B. Perlin, Dept. of Veterans Affairs, H7799 [29SE]

Early Attention to Nutrition (EATN) Act: Margo G. Wootan, Center for Science in the Public Interest, S2445 [9MR]

———Ronald E. Smith, American Dietetic Association, S2445 [9MR]

Embryonic stem cell research funding: William H. Kooistra, S9606 [23SE]

Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program special cohort rule: several Senators, S1693 [26FE]

Enforce Federal laws prohibiting the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes: Arthur T. Dean, Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America, H5304 [7JY], H5613 [13JY]

———Betty S. Sembler, Drug-Free America Foundation, H5305 [7JY]

———Chuck Canterbury, Fraternal Order of Police, H5304 [7JY]

———Ronald E. Brooks, National Narcotic Officers' Associations' Coalition, H5305 [7JY]

———Stephen J. Pasierb, Partnership for a Drug-Free America (organization), H5304 [7JY]

———William E. Moschella, Dept. of Justice, H5305 [7JY]

EPA clean water and drinking water State revolving funds funding: Charles Lyons, National League of Cities, S2661 [11MR]

———Deb Callahan, League of Conservation Voters, S2660 [11MR]

———Raymond J. Poupore, National Heavy & Highway Alliance, S2661 [11MR]

———Robbi Savage, Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control Administrators, S2660 [11MR]

———several organizations, S2661 [11MR]

———several water organizations, S2660 [11MR]

Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution (FAIR) Act: Anne M. Ferrazzi, W.D. Hilton, Jr., and Mark A. Peterson, Fuller-Austin Asbestos Settlement Trust, S4133 [20AP]

———Cathleen C. Amdor, S4202 [21AP]

———Jennifer L. Biggs, American Academy of Actuaries, S4079 [19AP]

FDA authority to regulate tobacco products: Andrew Carter, Ohio Children's Hospital Association, S10936 [9OC], S11022 [10OC]

———John F. Scruggs, Altria Group, Inc., S11207 [11OC]

———John L. Kirkwood, American Lung Association, S10936 [9OC], S11023 [10OC]

———M. Cass Wheeler, American Heart Association, S10937 [9OC], S11023 [10OC]

———Matthew L. Myers, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (organization), S10937 [9OC], S11022 [10OC]

———several individuals, S10939, S10940 [9OC]

———Sharon I.S. Rounds, American Thoracic Society, S10936 [9OC], S11023 [10OC]

———Steven C. Parrish, Altria Group, Inc., S11207 [11OC]

FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research funding through reductions in FDA Office of the Chief Counsel funding: several former FDA Chief Counsels, S8657 [22JY], E1505 [22JY]

Importation of prescription drugs: Tommy G. Thompson, Sec. of HHS, S8213 [15JY]

Impose conditions on Federal reimbursement of emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens: Catherine K. Douglas, PEACH, Inc., H3038 [17MY]

———Melinda K. Lewis, El Centro, Inc., E920 [19MY]

———Michael D. Maves, AMA, H3037 [17MY]

———Representative Barton, Committee on Energy and Commerce (House), E906 [19MY]

———Representative Thomas, Committee on Ways and Means (House), E906 [19MY]

———Ron Pollack, FamiliesUSA (organization), H3037 [17MY]

———several health organizations, H3037, H3039 [17MY]

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]

Individuals With Disabilities Education Act funding: Carolyn Wright, S5406 [13MY]

———Cathie Davis, S5406 [13MY]

———Denice Cronin, S5406 [13MY]

———Lyssa Bookman, S5405 [13MY]

Make all uninsured children eligible for the State Children's Health Insurance Program and simplify enrollment and renewal procedures: Deborah Dietrick, Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs, S5479 [13MY]

McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program funding: several Representatives, H102 [27JA], H5486 [12JY]

Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program funding: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California, H1448 [24MR]

Medicaid coverage of primary and secondary preventative medical strategies for children and adults with sickle cell disease: several Senators, S11193 [11OC]

Medical Devices Technical Corrections Act: Representatives C.W. Bill Young and Bonilla, Committee on Appropriations (House), H892 [9MR]

Medicare Assurance of Rx Transitional Assistance Act: several Senators, S5374 [12MY]

Medicare Early Access Act: Leadership Council of Aging Organizations, E827 [12MY]

Medicare Preventive Services Coverage Act: Ben F. Massey, Jr., American Physical Therapy Association, S7001 [17JN]

———Emily R. Wilson, Emergency Department Practice Management Association, S7002 [17JN]

———George Isham, HealthPartners, Inc., S7002 [17JN]

———Georges C. Benjamin, American Public Health Association, S7001 [17JN]

———James C. Martin, American Academy of Family Physicians, S7001 [17JN]

———John M. Clymer, Partnership for Prevention (organization), S7002 [17JN]

———Matthew L. Myers, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (organization), S7002 [17JN]

———Michael M. Faenza, National Mental Health Association, S7003 [17JN]

———Mike Barry, American College of Preventive Medicine, S7001 [17JN]

———Ronald E. Smith, American Dietetic Association, S7001 [17JN]

———Ronald F. Pollack, Families USA (organization), S7001 [17JN]

———Stephen Bennett, United Cerebral Palsy (organization), S7003 [17JN]

———Susan Greco, Deafness Research Foundation, S7002 [17JN]

National Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Day: President Bush, S8981 [9SE]

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health long-term health monitoring of firefighters in disaster areas: Afrack Vargas, California State Firefighters' Association, Inc., S8231 [15JY]

———Harold A. Schaitberger, International Association of Fire Fighters, S8231 [15JY]

———Philip C. Stittleburg, National Volunteer Fire Council, S8231 [15JY]

New York City Watershed Protection Program reauthorization: Representatives Dingell and Solis, Committee on Energy and Commerce (House), H2601 [5MY]

OSHA hazard communications standards and material data safety sheets: Ron Hayes, S8701 [22JY]

Permit Dept. of Defense funding for abortions of pregnancies resulting from rape and incest: Brian E. Dixon, Population Connection (organization), S2229 [4MR]

———Kate Michelman, NARAL Pro-Choice America (organization), S2230 [4MR]

Pregnancy and Trauma Care Access Protection Act: James Hurley, American Academy of Actuaries, S3757 [6AP]

———Laurence E. Stempel, S3758 [6AP]

Project BioShield Act: Representative Barton, Committee on Energy and Commerce (House), H5730 [14JY]

———Representative Thomas, Committee on Ways and Means (House), H5729 [14JY]

Provide coordinated services and research relative to children and families with HIV/AIDS: Ivy Turnbull and David C. Harvey, AIDS Alliance for Children, Youth and Families, S10441 [5OC]

———Mark Isaac, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, S10441 [5OC]

———Mitchell Warren, AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition, S10442 [5OC]

Provide FDA with certain authority to regulate tobacco products: Allison R. Shulman, National Association of Convenience Stores, S8175 [15JY]

———American Conservative Union, S8175 [15JY]

———Association of National Advertisers, American Association of Advertising Agencies, and American Advertising Federation, S8175 [15JY]

———Scott Ramminger, American Wholesale Marketers Association, S8177 [15JY]

Reduce the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery system: Darryl A. Beehler, American Osteopathic Association, S1939 [1MR]

———E. Randy Eckert, College of American Pathologists, S1938 [1MR]

———Michael D. Maves, AMA, S1939 [1MR]

———Ralph W. Hale, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, S1938 [1MR]

———Thomas R. Russell, American College of Surgeons, S1938 [1MR]

Research, disease control, wellness, and tobacco cessation and preventative health efforts funding through an increase in cigarette and other tobacco excise taxes: several health organizations, S2645 [11MR]

Research Review Act: Representative Barton, Committee on Energy and Commerce (House), E2007 [16NO]

———Representative Thomas, Committee on Ways and Means (House), E2007 [16NO]

Scheduling substances under the Controlled Substances Act: Karen P. Tandy, DEA, S10609 [6OC]

SCHIP Expansion Act: Carden Johnston, American Academy of Pediatrics, S6729 [14JN]

———Emil Parker, Children's Defense Fund (organization), S5531 [17MY]

———Lawrence A. McAndrews, National Association of Children's Hospitals, S6729 [14JN]

———Sharon Daly, Catholic Charities USA (organization), S5531 [17MY]

Senior citizens' participation in health savings accounts: David Bergstrom, Minnesota State Retirement System, H7205 [15SE], H7278 [21SE]

———Mary Most Vanek, Public Employees Retirement Association of Minnesota, H7205 [15SE], H7278 [21SE]

———Richard M. Nelson, Minneapolis Police Relief Association, H7205 [15SE], H7278 [21SE]

———Sue Mauren, Minnesota Teamsters Public & Law Enforcement Employees Union, H7206 [15SE], H7278 [21SE]

———Walter C. Schirmer, Minneapolis Firefighters' Relief Association, H7205 [15SE], H7278 [21SE]

Small Business Health Fairness Act: Douglas Holtz-Eakin, CBO, H2973 [13MY]

———Karen Bender, American Academy of Actuaries, H2972 [13MY]

Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act: Representative Goodlatte, Committee on Agriculture (House), H8379 [6OC]

———Representative Thomas, Committee on Ways and Means (House), H8379 [6OC]

Support planning, implementation, and evaluation of organized activities involving statewide youth suicide early intervention and prevention strategies: Meredith Jessup, S9021 [9SE]

Taxpayer Abuse Prevention Act: several consumer organizations, S10850 [8OC]

Tribute to Ronald and Nancy Reagan's leadership in the war on drugs: several organizations, E1170 [18JN]

TRICARE military health benefits for Reservists and Guardsmen: James D. Staton, Air Force Sergeants Association, S6315 [2JN]

———Lani Burnett, Reserve Enlisted Association, S6315 [2JN]

———Richard C. Alexander, National Guard Association of the U.S., S6315 [2JN]

———Robert A. McIntosh, Reserve Officers Association, S6315 [2JN]

U.S. policy relative to political uprising and humanitarian crisis in Haiti: J. Edward Fox, AID, S2219 [4MR]

———Representative Jackson Lee, H543 [24FE]

———Representative Lee, H540 [24FE]

———Senators Leahy and Dodd, S2219 [4MR]

———several Representatives, H540 [24FE]

Veterans' Benefits Improvements Act: Al Mansell, National Association of Realtors, E1992 [16NO]

———Representative Christopher H. Smith, Committee on Veterans' Affairs (House), H9766 [17NO]

———Representative Sensenbrenner, Committee on the Judiciary (House), H9766 [17NO]

Lists

Changes to S. 1125, Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution (FAIR) Act, S2175 [3MR]

Cities benefiting from Dept. of HHS Community Access Program, H6822 [8SE]

DEA arrests of physicians, H5295 [7JY]

Examples of NIH research that can not be funded under S. Con. Res. 95, setting forth the Federal budget for 2005-2009, S2670 [11MR]

Groups supporting the conference report on H.R. 1, Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, H4743 [22JN]

Important dates concerning S. 1125, Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution (FAIR) Act, S3990 [8AP]

Indoor Recreation of Orleans County (organization) Board of Directors, E1382 [15JY]

Military benefits proposals, H2223 [21AP]

Nebraska critical access hospitals offering certain laboratory services, S5537 [17MY]

Organizations opposing H.R. 4281, Small Business Health Fairness Act, H2961-H2966 [13MY]

Organizations supporting H.R. 4281, Small Business Health Fairness Act, H2980 [13MY]

Organizations supporting S. 486, Mental Health Equitable Treatment Act, S5732 [19MY]

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

Senate staff assisting in efforts on Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program coverage for atomic weapons facilities employees during periods of residual contamination, S10950 [9OC]

STOP Stroke Act Coalition, H3895 [14JN]

Supporters of DeWine/Kennedy amendment to H.R. 4520, Jumpstart Our Business Strength (JOBS) Act, to provide the FDA with certain authority to regulate tobacco products, S8177 [15JY]

Supporters of H.R. 918, Patient Navigator Outreach, and Chronic Disease Prevention Act, E1844 [8OC]

Supporters of S. 2061, Healthy Mothers and Healthy Babies Access to Care Act, S1500 [24FE]

Supporters of S. 2507, Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act, H4933 [24JN]

Memorandums

Dept. of Defense Clarification of Duties and Activities of Vaccine Healthcare Centers Network: James B. Peake, Dept. of the Army, S6865 [16JN]

Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution (FAIR) Act: Edward R. Becker, S2987 [23MR]

Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution (FAIR) Act (S. 2290): Edward R. Becker, S5454 [13MY]

Messages

National Drug Control Strategy: President Bush, H713 [2MR]

Motions

China, Republic of: participation in WHO (H.R. 4019), H2215 [21AP]

Individuals With Disabilities Education Act: reauthorize (S. 1248), S5345 [12MY]

Insurance: improve access to health care services and provide improved medical care by reducing the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery system (H.R. 4280), H2869 [12MY]

Small business: improve access and choice relative to employee health care (H.R. 4281), H2984 [13MY]

Taxation: treatment of unused nontaxable benefits under cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements (H.R. 4279), H2850 [12MY]

Press releases

New Study Finds Increased Multivitamin Use by the Elderly Could Save Medicare $1.6 Billion: Lewin Group (consulting firm), S11619 [19NO]

Small Business Health Fairness Act: American Academy of Actuaries, H2971 [13MY]

Proclamations

Tribute to William F. Emlich: Representative Ney, E1061 [8JN]

Questions and answers

Importation of prescription drugs (S. 2307), S4045 [8AP]

Remarks in House

Abortion: ensure that women seeking an abortion are fully informed relative to pain experienced by the unborn child (H.R. 4420), H3497 [20MY]

———pro choice versus right to life, H2236-H2240 [21AP], E43 [23JA], E1213 [22JN]

———prohibit partial-birth abortions, H1793, H2045 [1AP], H2236-H2240 [21AP]

Adventist Health (nonprofit organization): tribute to Project Intellicare, E2040 [18NO]

Agriculture: ensure an abundant and affordable supply of fruits and vegetables and other specialty crops by enhancing competitiveness of U.S.-grown specialty crops (H.R. 3242), H8377-H8382 [6OC], E1957 [11OC]

———prohibit funding to promote the sale or export of tobacco or tobacco products, H4299, H4302, H4397-H4399, H4403, H4404, H4407, H4432 [17JN]

Alaska AIDS Assistance Association: tribute to ``Connecting to Care'' initiative, E1462 [22JY]

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 (H. Res. 567), H7974-H7976 [4OC], E1815 [6OC]

———observance of Give Kids a Smile! National Children's Dental Access Day, E120 [4FE], E126 [6FE]

American Heart Association: tribute to ``Go Red for Women'' campaign to raise awareness about heart disease among women, E88 [3FE], E176 [12FE]

American Legacy Foundation: anniversary, E311, E312 [4MR], E485 [30MR], E495 [31MR], E570 [20AP]

American Lung Association: anniversary, E386 [16MR], E423 [23MR], E575 [21AP], E806 [11MY], E892, E903 [18MY], E1011 [2JN]

AmeriChoice Corp.: anniversary of provision of health services in Brooklyn, NY, E991 [2JN]

Anniston, AL: observance of Kids Day America, E668 [27AP]

Appropriations: require matching of funds spent for Iraq reconstruction efforts be spent for domestic priorities, H2243 [21AP]

Ardmore, PA: anniversary of Volunteer Medical Services Corps, E1809 [6OC]

Arinzeh, Treena Livingston: Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers recipient, E1704 [24SE]

Armed Forces: clarify requirements relative to predeployment and postdeployment medical exams of certain members (H.R. 4346), H2821 [12MY]

———enhance and improve benefits for members of the National Guard and Reserves, H3272 [19MY]

———enhance and improve benefits for members of the National Guard and Reserves who serve extended periods on active duty, H9786 [17NO]

———ensure receipt of quality medical care and adequate action relative to medical issues, H711 [2MR]

———grant limited TRICARE program eligibility for members of the Ready Reserve and provide financial support for continuation of health insurance for mobilized members of Reserve components, H8996, H8997 [8OC]

———health benefits funding, H3516 [20MY], H4725 [22JN]

———improve the Transition Assistance Program provided for members being discharged, released from active duty, or retiring, H4701 [22JN]

———mental health benefits funding, H3425, H3426, H3445 [20MY]

———performance of abortions at overseas military medical facilities, H3350-H3354 [19MY]

———prohibit requirement of anthrax and smallpox immunizations without members' consent and correct records of those previously punished for refusing such vaccines (H.R. 5166), E1752 [30SE]

———restore health care coverage to retired members of the uniformed services (H.R. 3474), E210 [24FE], E343 [11MR]

———survivors benefits program improvements funding, H8997, H9003 [8OC]

———TRICARE military health benefits for Reservists and Guardsmen, H2223 [21AP]

Asphalt Green (organization): tribute, E589 [21AP]

Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Hospital inclusion in U.S. News & World Report (publication) ``America's Best Hospitals'' list, E1351 [9JY]

Bankruptcy: nondischargeability of debts incurred as a result of abortion clinic protests, H145, H146, H213 [28JA], E84 [30JA]

Bat for the Cure (nonprofit organization): tribute, E2195 [7DE], E2211 [20DE]

Bay City, MI: tribute to Bay Area Women's Center, E1767 [1OC]

———tribute to Bay Regional Emergency Medical Services, E803 [11MY]

Bentley, Judy: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Community Health Leadership Award recipient, E1121 [15JN]

Bone and Joint Decade National Awareness Week: observance, E1922 [11OC]

Borchard, John W., Jr.: St. John's Regional Medical Center and St. Johns Pleasant Valley Hospital Catherine McAuley Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, E823 [12MY]

Border Binational Health Week: observance, E1952 [11OC]

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.: EPA Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award recipient, E1339 [9JY]

Broome, Jack: St. John's Regional Medical Center and St. Johns Pleasant Valley Hospital Catherine McAuley Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, E823 [12MY]

Budget: allocation of funds, H1079 [16MR], H3716 [2JN], H3725 [3JN]

———constitutional amendment on ensuring certain trust funds are outside the U.S. budget (H.J. Res. 88), E477 [30MR]

———evaluation of Bush administration proposals, H898 [9MR], H1045-H1051 [11MR], E363 [11MR]

———improve forecasting for entitlement spending programs, H4997 [24JN]

Bush, President: evaluation of administration, H5796 [15JY], H6123, H6124 [20JY], H6999 [13SE], H7079 [14SE], H7823 [29SE]

Business and industry: costs of providing employee benefits and employment taxes relative to the status of manufacturing jobs, H1745 [31MR], H2891-H2893 [12MY]

California: court ruling requiring Catholic charities to cover birth control in employees' health insurance plans, H756 [3MR]

Camp Lejeune, NC: cleanup of drinking water, H2603 [5MY], E827 [12MY]

Carothers, Carol: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Community Health Leadership Award recipient, E1122 [15JN]

Catholic Relief Services (organization): tribute to McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program funding to provide food and education services to children in Benin, H843 [4MR]

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: health care block grant funding through reductions in departmental management funding, H6839 [8SE]

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: withhold implementation of 75 percent rule relative to hospital inpatient rehabilitation care pending independent assessment by medical experts, H6836, H6837 [8SE], H6977 [9SE]

Century Council (nonprofit organization): tribute to cooperation with Nickelodeon (television network) on underage drinking education program, H7738 [29SE]

———tribute to efforts to combat underage drinking, E881 [17MY]

Cervical Cancer Screening Month: observance, E660 [27AP]

Child Abuse Prevention Month: observance, H2339 [22AP]

Children and youth: abstinence education program funding, H6979 [9SE]

———access of disadvantaged children to dental services (H.R. 4622), E1203 [22JN]

———ensure access to food and nutrition assistance, improve children's nutritional health, and simplify and restore integrity of child nutrition programs (H.R. 3873), H1395-H1413 [24MR], H1687, H1688 [30MR], H3695 [2JN], E458 [26MR], E471 [29MR], E477 [30MR]

———establish programs to promote increased consumption of milk in schools and to improve the nutrition and health of children, H1409 [24MR]

———establish programs to promote increased consumption of milk in schools and to improve the nutrition and health of children (H.R. 3250), H4935 [24JN]

———improve ability of the child welfare system to prevent and respond to child abuse and place children in safe, loving, and permanent homes (H.R. 1534), E929 [21MY]

———improve certain nutritional programs (H.R. 2626), H4935 [24JN], E471 [29MR]

———improve palliative and end-of-life care provided to children with life-threatening conditions (H.R. 3127), E2097 [20NO]

———improve school breakfast program, H4931 [24JN]

———increase in childhood obesity, H938 [10MR]

———provide children with increased access to food and nutrition assistance, simplify program operations and improve program management, and reauthorize child nutrition programs (S. 2507), H4930-H4936 [24JN], E1286, E1287 [25JN], E1328 [8JY]

———provide health insurance for uninsured children, H2818 [12MY]

———reauthorize certain school lunch and child nutrition programs (S. 2241), H1686-H1688 [30MR]

———recognize importance of distribution of food in schools to hungry or malnourished children around the world (S. Con. Res. 114), H5752-H5757 [14JY], E1407 [16JY], E1432 [20JY], E1445 [21JY]

———study link between child vaccinations and autism, H415 [10FE], H1615 [29MR], H4564-H4568 [18JN]

———support planning, implementation, and evaluation of organized activities involving statewide youth suicide early intervention and prevention strategies (H.R. 4557), E1155 [18JN]

———support planning, implementation, and evaluation of organized activities involving statewide youth suicide early intervention and prevention strategies (H.R. 4799), H5515 [12JY]

———support planning, implementation, and evaluation of organized activities involving statewide youth suicide early intervention and prevention strategies (S. 2634), H6865-H6874 [8SE], E1573 [9SE], E1584, E1585 [10SE], E1721 [29SE]

China, Republic of: participation in WHO (H.R. 4019), H2215-H2217 [21AP]

———participation in WHO (S. 2092), H3457 [20MY]

Class Act Group, Inc.: tribute to efforts to restore health care coverage to retired members of the uniformed services, E210 [24FE]

Cleveland, OH: anniversary of La Providencia Family Center, E1603 [13SE]

Coal: clarify that certain coal industry health benefits may not be modified or terminated (H.R. 5383), E2068 [18NO]

Commission on Politicization of Science in the Regulatory Process: establish, H3141, H3145-H3151, H3156-H3160 [18MY], E997 [2JN]

Community Blood Services (organization): tribute, E254 [26FE]

Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Act: AIDS Drug Assistance Program funding, E1548 [8SE]

Congress: effects of various legislation on employment and the economy, H2995 [13MY]

Congressional Human Rights Caucus: international disability rights, E527 [2AP], E679 [28AP], E751 [5MY], E813 [11MY], E897 [18MY], E993 [2JN]

Connecticut: tribute to organizations providing international humanitarian assistance, E2143 [24NO]

Coordinated Environmental Health Network: establish (H.R. 5335), E1902 [11OC]

Corps of Engineers: District of Columbia lead pipe replacement funding, H5102, H5103 [25JN]

Courts: allow civil action against food manufacturers or sellers who negligently violate Federal or State statues causing injury relative to a person's weight gain, obesity, or related health condition, H961-H964 [10MR]

———exclude manufacturers or sellers of meat from downed animals from protection against frivolous lawsuits against manufacturers, distributors, or sellers of food or non-alcoholic beverage products, H964-H968 [10MR]

———permit civil actions alleging that products claiming to assist in weight loss caused heart disease or other complications, H974-H977 [10MR]

———require proper labeling of genetically altered food to qualify for immunity from frivolous lawsuits against manufacturers, distributors, or sellers of food or non-alcoholic beverage products, H959-H961 [10MR]

———ruling on privacy issues concerning the Dept. of Justice's demands for medical records from university hospitals, H930 [10MR]

Cover the Uninsured Week: observance, H2737, H2741 [11MY], H2818, H2899-H2907 [12MY], H2922 [13MY], E864 [14MY], E905 [19MY]

Cuba: lift restrictions on licensing of experimental pharmaceuticals, E1444 [21JY]

———prohibit funding to implement U.S. sanctions on private sales of agriculture commodities, medicine, or medical supplies, H7336, H7337, H7340 [22SE]

CureSearch (organization): tribute to efforts to prevent and treat childhood cancers, E1931 [11OC]

Defibrillation programs: tribute to community organization of public access defibrillation programs (H. Con. Res. 250), H8089-H8091 [5OC]

DeMaio, Marlene: U.S. Medicine, Inc., Frank Brown Berry Prize in Federal Healthcare recipient, E1447 [21JY]

Democratic Party: national agenda, H7331, H7332, H7335 [22SE], H7449 [23SE]

Dept. of Agriculture: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Low Path Avian Influenza Program funding, E1398 [16JY]

———establish and enforce performance standards and sanitation requirements for reduction of pathogens in meat and poultry (H.R. 2203), H939 [10MR]

———exemption for organic products from promotion assessments, H5588, H5589 [13JY]

———Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program funding, E378 [16MR]

———McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program funding, H101 [27JA], H254 [3FE], H400 [10FE], H843 [4MR], H1040 [11MR], H1279 [18MR], H5485 [12JY], H5918 [19JY]

———prohibit the purchase of chickens treated with fluoroquinolone for school nutrition programs, H5582, H5583 [13JY]

Dept. of Defense: carry out a program to provide a support system for members of the Armed Forces who incur severe disabilities (H.R. 5057), E1592 [10SE], E1961 [11OC]

———Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compenstion Program Act improvements, H3427-H3429 [20MY]

———military pay and benefits funding, H1426 [24MR]

Dept. of HHS: alteration of report on health disparities, H1777 [31MR]

———clarify and ensure that certain authority is used solely to promote the objectives of the Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Programs (H.R. 4935), E1467, E1506 [22JY]

———Community Access Program funding, H6811, H6822, H6823 [8SE]

———give grant preference to States that require schools to allow students to self-administer medication for asthma or anaphylaxis (H.R. 2023), H2630 [5MY], H8074-H8079 [5OC], E748 [5MY]

———information technology funding, H6820 [8SE]

———investigation into allegation of firing threats relative to disclosure of cost of Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, H1219-H1225 [17MR], H1231, H1232, H1233 [18MR], H1613 [29MR], H2500, H2526 [4MY], H3588 [1JN], H5201 [7JY], H5541 [13JY], H5658 [14JY]

———Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program funding, H1448 [24MR], H1557 [25MR]

———Office of the Sec. funding, H6941, H6942 [9SE]

———prohibit funds for National Institute of Mental Health study of college students dorm rooms, web pages, and what makes a meaningful day, H6947-H6951 [9SE]

———promulgate regulations for the reimportation of prescription drugs, H6622, H6623 [22JY], H7078 [14SE]

———promulgate regulations for the reimportation of prescription drugs (H.R. 2427), H5168 [6JY]

———reauthorize Healthy Start Program (H.R. 4905), E1509 [22JY]

———senior citizen meal programs funding, H6833 [8SE]

———Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Access to Recovery grant program funding, H6945, H6946 [9SE]

———VERB program funding to increase childhood activity in order to reduce obesity, H6811, H6813 [8SE]

Dept. of Labor: provide coverage under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program for atomic weapons facilities employees during periods of residual contamination (H.R. 3864), E258 [26FE]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: authorize construction, leasing, or modification of major medical facilities at the site of the former Fitzsimons Army Medical Center, Aurora, CO, H9787 [17NO]

———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]

———establish a pilot program to improve recruitment and retention of nurses (H.R. 4231), H7797-H7802 [29SE], E701 [28AP]

———establish a program to assist States in hiring and retaining nurses at State veterans homes (H.R. 4020), E442 [24MR]

———prescription drug discounts for veterans, H3586, H3587 [1JN]

———provide permanent authority for counseling and treatment program for veterans who experienced sexual trauma or harassment while in military service (H.R. 3849), E243 [26FE]

———reduce backlog of benefit claims made by troops returning from Afghanistan and Iraq, H8003 [4OC]

———restrict the performance of eye surgery at a facility, or under a contract with the Dept., to only licensed medical doctors and licensed doctors of optometry, E2176 [7DE]

———restrict the performance of eye surgery at a facility, or under a contract with the Dept., to only licensed medical doctors and licensed doctors of osteopathy, E2097 [20NO]

———simplify and improve pay provisions for physicians and dentists and authorize alternate work schedules and executive pay for nurses (S. 2484), H9787-H9793 [17NO], E2058 [18NO], E2074 [20NO]

———tribute to the administration of benefits, E1947 [11OC]

Developing countries: establish a network of pediatric centers in certain developing countries to provide treatment and care for children with HIV/AIDS, H5818 [15JY]

Disabled: improve access to assistive technologies, E757 [5MY]

———improve access to assistive technologies (H.R. 4278), H3913-H3920 [14JN], H9011, H9019 [8OC], E1126, E1131 [15JN]

Disasters: authorize the President to carry out a program for the protection of the health and safety of community members, volunteers, and workers in a disaster area (H.R. 5329), E1928 [11OC]

Discrimination: expand applicability of laws preventing governmental discrimination against health care entities who refuse to perform abortions or make referrals regarding abortion services, H10089-H10096, H10203 [20NO], H10904, H10919 [6DE], E2139 [24NO], E2159 [6DE], E2167 [7DE]

———expand applicability of laws preventing governmental discrimination against health care entities who refuse to perform or provide training in performing abortions, H6816, H6817 [8SE], H6978 [9SE]

Diseases: address the international HIV/AIDS pandemic, H5391 [8JY], H5821, H5822 [15JY], H7555 [23SE]

———AIDS epidemic, H2245 [21AP]

———Alzheimer's disease research funding, H4177 [16JN]

———anniversary of Salk polio vaccine field trials, E615 [22AP], E646 [26AP]

———establish comprehensive, integrated, and culturally appropriate HIV prevention strategy emphasizing the needs of women and girls for each country provided assistance to combat HIV/AIDS (H.R. 4792), H6539 [21JY], E1342 [9JY]

———establish programs for patients with fatal chronic illnesses, H6964 [9SE]

———extend issuance of special postage stamps to fund breast cancer research (H.R. 1385), H104-H109 [27JA], E64 [28JA], E94 [3FE], E132 [10FE]

———fund breakthroughs in Alzheimer's disease research while providing more help to caregivers and increasing public education about prevention (H.R. 4595), E1143 [16JN], E1152 [18JN]

———hepatitis C research funding, H6817, H6826-H6828 [8SE]

———increase awareness and education about hepatitis C (H. Res. 633), E778 [6MY]

———lupus research and outreach funding, H6817, H6823-H6825 [8SE]

———prostate cancer research and early detection funding, E2195 [7DE]

———provide individuals of health disparity populations prevention, detection, treatment, and follow-up care services, H5540 [13JY]

———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 (H.R. 918), H8064-H8069 [5OC], E610 [22AP]

———provide prostate cancer patients with meaningful access to information on treatment options (H. Con. Res. 405), E1260 [25JN]

———provide prostate cancer patients with meaningful access to information on treatment options (H. Res. 669), H3896, H3897 [14JN]

———raise awareness of Cushing's syndrome, E622 [22AP]

———tuberculosis drug access funding, H5891 [15JY]

Dolata, Cynthia: Central Valley Coalition of Nursing Organizations RN of the Year award recipient, E725 [4MY]

Domestic policy: national objectives priority assignments, H2922, H2924 [13MY]

Domestic violence: research health impact and prevention and provide training and Federal coverage for health care professionals to identify and treat families experiencing family violence (H.R. 1267), E354 [11MR]

Drug abuse: national drug control policy, H76-H82 [21JA], H772-H778 [3MR], H2048-H2054 [1AP], H5227, H5228 [7JY]

Drugs: clarify definition of anabolic steroids and provide for research and education activities relative to steroids (S. 2195), H9010 [8OC]

———discrepancy in prescription drug prices between U.S. and foreign countries, H1624-H1630 [29MR]

———enforce Federal laws prohibiting the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes, H5300-H5306 [7JY], H5612 [13JY]

———establish an electronic system for practitioner monitoring of the dispensing of certain controlled substances (H.R. 3015), H8069-H8073 [5OC], E1875, E1925 [11OC]

———establish certain restrictions on drugs containing isotretinoin, including the drug marketed as Accutane, H11043 [7DE]

———establish certain restrictions on drugs containing isotretinoin, including the drug marketed as Accutane (H.R. 4598), H7821 [29SE], H7940 [30SE], H9992 [18NO], H10003 [19NO], E1364 [14JY], E1465 [22JY]

———increase penalties for anabolic steroid offenses near sports facilities (H.R. 3866), H3660-H3665 [2JN]

———prohibit prosecution of physicians for prescribing certain controlled substances for pain relief or management, H5294-H5297 [7JY]

———provide compensation for injuries resulting from smallpox countermeasures, provide protection against chemical or radiological agents, increase distribution of vaccines, and improve vaccine injury compensation (S. 15), H5581 [13JY], H5721-H5741 [14JY], E1399, E1402 [16JY]

———reductions in prescription drug prices, H2895 [12MY], H3608, H3610 [2JN], E291 [3MR], E367 [16MR], E616 [22AP], E682 [28AP]

———respond to the illegal production, distribution, and use of methamphetamines, H5227, H5239 [7JY]

———safety of vaccines containing mercury and thimerosal, H415 [10FE], H1615 [29MR]

DTE Energy Co.: Fermi 2 Nuclear Power Plant recipient of Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration Michigan Star award, E1412 [19JY]

Eapen, Jacob: Medical Board of California Physician Recognition Award recipient, E153 [10FE]

Economy: evaluation of Bush administration, H8862 [8OC], H9707, H9709 [16NO], E1771 [1OC]

———national objectives priority assignments, H16, H17 [20JA], H3711-H3717 [2JN], H5187-H5192 [6JY], H6905 [9SE], H7035 [13SE]

eco/Springfield, LLC: OSHA Safety and Health Achievement Recognition Program participant, E978 [2JN]

Education: expand access to preventive health care services and education programs that reduce unintended pregnancy, infection with sexually transmitted disease, and number of abortions (H.R. 4192), E580 [21AP]

———expand loan forgiveness and loan cancellation programs for teachers and nurses (H.R. 934), E737 [4MY]

Edwards, Senator: selection as Democratic Vice Presidential candidate, H5391 [8JY]

Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program: improve, H8987, H9001, H9005 [8OC], E1967 [11OC]

Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act: include certain former nuclear weapons program workers in the Special Exposure Cohort under the compensation program (H.R. 4388), E897 [18MY]

Families and domestic relations: improve the lives of working families by providing assistance and encouraging the establishment of family-friendly workplaces (H.R. 3780), H420 [10FE], H7543 [23SE]

———tribute to embryo adoption programs, H7335 [22SE], H9054 [9OC]

Fansler Foundation: anniversary, E544 [20AP]

Farrell, Mary: Central Valley Coalition of Nursing Organizations RN of the Year award recipient, E726 [4MY]

FDA: Center for Drug Evaluation and Research funding through reductions in Office of the Chief Counsel funding, H5598, H5599 [13JY], E1505 [22JY]

———prohibit funding to restrict prescription use of any contraceptive determined to be safe and effective, H5602-H5606 [13JY], E1414 [19JY]

———provide with certain authority to regulate tobacco products, H7582 [28SE]

Federal employees: establish programs to make supplemental dental and vision benefits available to Federal employees, retirees, and dependents, and expand OPM contracting authority (H.R. 5295), H9033-H9037 [8OC], E1966 [11OC]

———establish programs to make supplemental dental and vision benefits available to Federal employees, retirees, and dependents, and expand OPM contracting authority (S. 2657), H10910-H10914 [6DE]

———repeal law making reemployed annuitants ineligible for physicians comparability allowances, and special pay for physicians and dentists (H.R. 4999), E1484 [22JY]

Federal Employees Health Benefits Program: expand eligibility to include non-Government employees at their own expense, H2818 [12MY]

Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: technical corrections relative to amendments made by the Medical Device User Fee and Modernization Act (H.R. 3493), H109-H112 [27JA], E70 [28JA], E116 [4FE]

———technical corrections relative to amendments made by the Medical Device User Fee and Modernization Act (S. 1881), H890-H892 [9MR], E357 [11MR]

Figueroa, Raymond: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Community Health Leadership Award recipient, E1171 [18JN]

Filipino Veterans Action Day: observance, E447 [24MR]

Food: enhance the safety of beef by requiring testing of cattle for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) at the time of slaughter, H904 [9MR]

———ensure that consumers receive information about the nutritional content of restaurant foods (H.R. 3444), H936 [10MR]

———reassessment of labeling laws, E1926 [11OC]

———require foods containing known allergens to bear labeling that states that fact and the names of the allergens (H.R. 3684), E1496, E1507 [22JY]

Foreign aid: deny funding to groups that do not explicitly oppose prostitution and sex trafficking, H5357, H5358 [8JY]

Fort Gillem, GA: dedication of U.S. Army Reserve Center, E94 [3FE]

Friedreich's Ataxia Awareness Day: observance, E838 [12MY]

FTC: provide Independent Physician Associations guidance and time to ameliorate any arrangement that could violate antitrust laws prior to any enforcement action, H5321 [7JY]

Garden City, MI: anniversary of Garden City Hospital Center for Counseling, E836 [12MY]

Giles, Allen: Central Valley Coalition of Nursing Organizations RN of the Year award recipient, E723 [4MY]

Girls, Inc., of Alameda County: tribute to Girls Research Project, E101 [3FE]

Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (organization): designate certain funding as an emergency requirement, H5841-H5845 [15JY]

Gloucester City, NJ: tribute to Mary Ethel Costello School Open Access Learning Center, E1924 [11OC]

Government regulations: establish system independent of the FDA to review health claims relative to the benefits of foods and dietary supplements (H.R. 4004), E391 [17MR]

Hackettstown, NJ: tribute to Hackettstown Community Hospital, E2126 [20NO]

Haiti: U.S. policy relative to political uprising and humanitarian crisis, H531, H532, H537, H539-H543 [24FE], H621-H630 [25FE], H636, H637 [26FE], H728, H732, H742-H749 [2MR], H757, H809-H814 [3MR], H999, H1001 [10MR], H2356-H2361 [22AP], H2635 [5MY], E260 [26FE], E269 [2MR], E404 [18MR]

———U.S. policy relative to political uprising and humanitarian crisis (H. Con. Res. 370), H613 [25FE]

Hallmark, Coy J.: Huntsville, AL, Arthritis Foundation Humanitarian Award recipient, E1767 [1OC]

Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Act: reauthorize (H.R. 1856), H5215-H5218 [7JY]

———reauthorize (S. 3014), H10209-H10211 [20NO]

Hayward, CA: tribute to Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center, E735 [4MY]

Health care facilities: tribute to community health centers, E1873 [11OC]

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]

Healthy Vision Month: observance, E749, E754, E755, E762 [5MY], E793 [7MY]

Hemophilia Association of the Capital Area: anniversary, E1162 [18JN]

Hess, Byran: Colorado Rural Health Center Rural Healthcare Excellence Award recipient, E1811 [6OC]

Higher Education Act: provide funds for campus mental and behavioral health service centers (H.R. 3593), H6872 [8SE]

Hispanic Americans: impact of Bush administration economic policies, E1111 [14JN]

Hopewell, Philip C.: American Lung Association Edward Livingston Trudeau Medal recipient, E817 [12MY]

Hornberger, J. Carl: Stanislaus Medical Society John Darroch Memorial Award for Physician of the Year recipient, E803 [11MY]

House of Representatives: expansion of dental and vision care health insurance benefits for Members and employees, H5345 [8JY]

———30-Something Caucus efforts to involve young adults in government, H3180-H3185 [18MY], H3955-H3960 [14JN]

Houston, TX: tribute to St. Joseph's Hospital, H2787 [11MY]

———tribute to Texas Medical Center, E1358 [12JY]

Hughes, Karen: characterization of remarks on terrorism and abortion, H2409 [28AP], H2522 [4MY]

Hunger: efforts to reduce hunger, H101 [27JA], H1279 [18MR]

———encourage support of U.S. hunger relief organizations (H. Res. 261), H8133-H8136 [5OC], E1864 [10OC]

Immigration: impact of illegal immigration on health care facilities, E1101 [14JN]

———national policy, H82-H87 [21JA]

India: recognize anniversary of chemical plant accident in Bhopal and ensure provision of environmental and medical rehabilitation of the affected area by Union Carbide Corp. (H. Con. Res. 503), E1746 [30SE]

Individuals With Disabilities Education Act: allow preference in distribution of grants to agencies and organizations that provide training to regular education personnel to meet needs of disabled children (H.R. 5258), E1853 [10OC]

———funding, H422 [10FE]

———provide that State or local education agencies may be awarded attorney's fees in special education court cases deemed frivolous or unreasonable by the court, H10021 [19NO]

———reauthorize (H.R. 1350), conference report, H10010-H10022 [19NO], E2103, E2126, E2129 [20NO], E2183 [7DE]

———reauthorize (H.R. 1350), consideration of conference report (H. Res. 858), H10006-H10010 [19NO]

———reauthorize (H.R. 1350), corrections in enrollment (H. Con. Res. 524), H10022 [19NO]

Influenza: conduct vaccine awareness campaign, ensure sufficient vaccine supply, prepare for pandemic or epidemic, and encourage vaccine production capacity, H10204 [20NO]

———conduct vaccine awareness campaign, ensure sufficient vaccine supply, prepare for pandemic or epidemic, and encourage vaccine production capacity (H.R. 3758), E105 [3FE]

Institute of Medicine of the National Academies: alteration of report on health disparities, H487 [11FE]

Insurance: coverage of colorectal cancer screening, E494 [31MR]

———encourage private health insurance companies to take a proactive role in promoting healthy lifestyles (H. Con. Res. 34), H8042, H8091-H8094 [5OC]

———health savings accounts, H7302 [21SE]

———improve access to health care services and provide improved medical care by reducing the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery system, H2298 [22AP], H2383 [27AP]

———improve access to health care services and provide improved medical care by reducing the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery system (H.R. 4280), H2853-H2874 [12MY], H2923, H2996 [13MY], H3023 [17MY], H3098 [18MY], E840 [12MY], E845, E867 [14MY], E878 [17MY]

———improve access to health care services and provide improved medical care by reducing the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery system (H.R. 4280), consideration (H. Res. 638), H2822-H2829 [12MY]

———improve access to health care services by reducing the burden the liability system places in the delivery of emergency, trauma, and obstetrical services, H2538 [4MY], H2896, H2906 [12MY]

———improve access to health insurance and Medicare benefits for individuals aged 55 to 65 and allow tax credits for payment of such premiums (H.R. 4357), E826 [12MY], E843 [14MY]

———increase in premiums, H7587 [28SE]

———increase insurance coverage by requiring employers to offer health insurance with greater Government assistance and by expanding current safety net programs (H.R. 5218), E2028 [18NO]

———medical savings accounts, H114 [27JA], H2894 [12MY]

———protect State-mandated coverage of breast cancer screening, pregnancy and childbirth, well child care, and obstetric and gynocological services, H2984-H2986 [13MY]

———reduce the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery system (H.R. 5), H114 [27JA], H482 [11FE], H1068 [11MR], H1486 [25MR], H2539 [4MY], H2735, H2737 [11MY], H5474, H5523, H5524 [12JY], H5658, H5784 [14JY]

———reform the medical malpractice insurance business, H10059-H10064 [19NO]

———reform the medical malpractice insurance business, limit frivolous lawsuits, and enhance patient access to medical care, H2866, H2872 [12MY]

International AIDS Society: international views on U.S. efforts in combatting the HIV/AIDS pandemic, H6539 [21JY]

International Conference on Population and Development: endorsement of Program of Action by the Population Institute and Population 2005 (organization), E1053 [4JN]

Jackson Laboratory (organization): tribute, E1169 [18JN]

Joshua Foundation: tribute, E1544 [8SE]

Kaiser Permanente (health maintenance organization): tribute, E2048 [18NO]

Kerry, Senator: characterization of remarks supporting research using embryonic stem cells, H4649 [22JN]

Kolodny, Edwin H.: ROFEH International (nonprofit organization) and New England Chassidic Center honoree, E1616 [14SE]

Lancaster, PA: tribute to Continuing Care Retirement Centers for signing a pledge to participate in ``Quality First'' campaign, E1622 [15SE]

Laurence, Miller W., Jr.: Corney Creek Hall of Fame inductee, E925 [20MY]

Level Cross, NC: tribute to Victory Junction Gang Camp, E1186 [18JN]

Levy, Richard M.: Varian Medical Systems, Inc., AeA Medal of Achievement award recipient, E1686 [22SE]

Libya: condolences to children suffering from AIDS and their families, E2101 [20NO]

———review legal actions taken against several Bulgarian medical workers, E2101 [20NO]

Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act: modify termination date for mandatory price reporting (S. 2965), H9869, H9870 [17NO]

Louisville, KY: tribute to Jewish Hospital Medical Center East, E1958 [11OC]

Lupus Foundation of America: tribute to Arkansas chapter, E736 [4MY]

Lupus International (organization): tribute, E177 [12FE], E2138 [24NO]

Madison, WI: Population Connection (organization) Kid-Friendly Cities Report Card designation, E1224 [24JN]

Major League Baseball: adopt drug-testing policy that deters players from using anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing substances that create a competitive advantage or pose a serious health risk, H3662-H3664 [2JN]

Mammography Quality Standards Act: reauthorize (H.R. 4555), H8079, H8080 [5OC]

MARO Employment and Training Association: anniversary, E1064 [8JN]

Mastin, Gwendolyn: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Community Health Leadership Award recipient, E1178 [18JN]

Maxwell, Norva: Visiting Nurse Associations of America Clinician of the Year award recipient, E657 [27AP]

Medicaid: additional funding for certain territories, H6840, H6843 [8SE], H6954, H6955, H6958 [9SE], E1608 [13SE]

———allow States to expand coverage to uninsured, poor adults (H.R. 1143), H2906 [12MY]

———extend Federal-State cost-sharing program to assist low-income Medicare beneficiaries with health care costs (S. 2618), H10053, H10054 [19NO]

———funding, H1456, H1457 [24MR], H1531-H1534 [25MR]

———provide American Samoa with treatment similar to that provided to States (H.R. 1188), E1608 [13SE]

———provide families of disabled children with the opportunity to purchase coverage (H.R. 1811), E1150 [18JN]

Medical Library Association: tribute to E-Reach Project, E919 [19MY]

Medical Society of Virginia: tribute to White Coat Day march, E111 [4FE]

Medicare: adjust the amount of payment under the physician fee schedule for cancer drug administration services, H7035 [13SE]

———advertising campaign designed to build public support for the new Medicare drug law, H1203, H1219-H1223 [17MR], H3587 [1JN]

———assess cost of antiobesity treatment programs before extending coverage to beneficiaries, H6855, H6856 [8SE]

———assure that enrollment in any prescription drug program is voluntary, H834 [4MR], H915, H916 [9MR]

———coverage of bone mass measurements for all individuals at clinical risk for osteoporosis (H.R. 2151), E1142 [16JN]

———deliver a meaningful benefit and lower prescription drug prices (H.R. 3767), H5540, H5541, H5545, H5546 [13JY]

———deliver a meaningful benefit and lower prescription drug prices (H.R. 3767), consideration (H. Res. 696), H5921 [19JY]

———establish a prescription drug discount card endorsement program, H834 [4MR], H915 [9MR], H1376 [24MR]

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

———funding, H1530-H1534 [25MR], H1763 [31MR]

———health savings accounts, H1487 [25MR]

———impose a moratorium on payments for inpatient hospital services in additional long-term care hospital beds (H.R. 3790), E135 [10FE]

———impose conditions on Federal reimbursement of emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens (H.R. 3722), H82-H87 [21JA], H2907-H2911 [12MY], H2998, H2999 [13MY], H3019, H3022, H3033-H3044, H3065-H3071 [17MY], H3097, H3098, H3099 [18MY], E889, E891, E894 [18MY], E906, E913, E917, E920 [19MY]

———improve benefits for beneficiaries with kidney disease (H.R. 4927), E1501 [22JY]

———improve coordination of prescription drug coverage under retiree plans and State pharmaceutical assistance programs with Medicare drug benefits (H.R. 4195), E636 [22AP]

———inclusion of health savings accounts, H992 [10MR], H1121 [17MR]

———increase Federal oversight of the Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and revoke its unique ability to accredit hospitals (H.R. 4877), E1436 [21JY]

———increase in premiums, H6716, H6732 [7SE], H6760, H6763 [8SE], H6904, H6905, H6986 [9SE], H7038, H7041-H7044 [13SE], H7185, H7187 [14SE], H7219 [15SE], H7253, H7305 [21SE], H7332 [22SE], H7547 [23SE], H7718-H7724 [28SE]

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

———medical savings accounts, H368 [4FE], H1101 [16MR], H2735 [11MY], H2906 [12MY], H3405 [20MY]

———permit negotiation of fair prices for, and allow the reimportation of, prescription drugs, H485 [11FE], H534 [24FE], H3610 [2JN], H3945, H3946 [14JN]

———prescription drug discount card program implementation, H1745 [31MR], H2493, H2494, H2495, H2500, H2521, H2535-H2538 [4MY], H2554, H2636-H2642 [5MY], H2660, H2702 [6MY], H2779, H2780, H2781 [11MY], H2819, H2820, H2821 [12MY], H3098 [18MY], H3232, H3233, H3234, H3235, H3236 [19MY], H3543, H3544, H3568, H3573, H3574, H3575, H3577-H3589, H3597, H3599 [1JN], H3608, H3609, H3610 [2JN], H3723, H3724, H3725, H3754 [3JN], H5203 [7JY], H5990, H5991 [20JY], H6446 [21JY], H7419 [22SE], H8004-H8009 [4OC], E909 [19MY], E960 [21MY], E1015 [2JN]

———prohibit Federal reimbursement of emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens, H6939-H6941 [9SE]

———prohibit operation of comparative cost adjustment (CCA) program in California (H.R. 3964), E359 [11MR]

———prohibit operation of comparative cost adjustment (CCA) program in Florida (H.R. 3876), E272 [2MR]

———prohibit operation of comparative cost adjustment (CCA) program in New Mexico (H.R. 3844), E229 [25FE]

———prohibit operation of comparative cost adjustment (CCA) program in the District of Columbia (H.R. 4336), E811 [11MY]

———prohibit use of funds for administrative costs of premium collections relative to rate increases, H6944, H6945 [9SE]

———provide access to audiologists (H.R. 2821), H3236 [19MY]

———provide additional beneficiary protections (H.R. 3702), E31 [21JA]

———provide automatic enrollment and eligibility for certain low-income beneficiaries for subsidies under the Medicare transitional and permanent prescription drug programs (H.R. 4437), H3573 [1JN], H3754 [3JN]

———provide beneficiaries with access to geriatric assessments and chronic care management (H.R. 4689), E1245 [25JN]

———provide for negotiation of fair prices for prescription drugs, H484 [11FE], H2701 [6MY]

———provide prescription drugs to certain individuals through use of a lottery, H5074 [25JN]

———provide research funding on outcomes of health care items and services including the comparative clinical effectiveness of prescription drugs, H6838, H6839 [8SE]

———provide whistleblower protection to employees of clinical laboratories (H.R. 5311), E1944 [11OC]

———reform, H899 [9MR], H1066-H1069 [11MR]

———reform and provide prescription drug coverage (H.R. 1), conference report, H6 [20JA], H62 [21JA], H104, H120-H124 [27JA], H131, H226 [28JA], H252, H281, H283-H291 [3FE], H424-H431 [10FE], H482, H484 [11FE], H713 [2MR], H834 [4MR], H913-H919, H923, H924 [9MR], H1096, H1098, H1110-H1114 [16MR], H1121, H1203, H1219-H1225 [17MR], H1233 [18MR], H1330 [23MR], H1374, H1376 [24MR], H1487 [25MR], H1598, H1613, H1616 [29MR], H1648, H1650, H1714, H1715 [30MR], H1745, H1761, H1762 [31MR], H1794, H1795 [1AP], H2065 [2AP], H2175, H2192 [20AP], H2230, H2240 [21AP], H2298, H2300 [22AP], H2383 [27AP], H2493, H2494, H2495, H2535-H2540 [4MY], H2552, H2636-H2642 [5MY], H2660 [6MY], H2819, H2820, H2821, H2895 [12MY], H2991 [13MY], H3098 [18MY], H3236 [19MY], H3405 [20MY], H3567 [1JN], H3608, H3696 [2JN], H3725 [3JN], H4178 [16JN], H4738-H4745 [22JN], H5990, H5991 [20JY], H6734 [7SE], H7306 [21SE], H7547 [23SE], H7718-H7724 [28SE], H8004-H8009 [4OC], H8862 [8OC], H10899 [6DE], E34 [21JA], E295 [3MR], E960 [21MY], E1038 [4JN]

———reimbursement of enrollees in the PPO Demonstration Project for expenses inappropriately incurred relative to coverage through out-of-network providers (H.R. 5400), E2115 [20NO]

———repeal outpatient rehabilitation therapy caps, H916 [9MR]

———require the negotiation and disclosure of the lowest possible prices for prescription drugs, H5921 [19JY]

Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act: investigation into allegations of the withholding of information relative to disclosure of cost of implementation, H7822 [29SE]

Medicare/Medicaid: require automatic fire sprinkler systems in all nursing facilities (H.R. 4967), E1495 [22JY]

Mehran, Alex: Contra Costa County, CA, AFL-CIO Corporate Leader of the Year award recipient, E1623 [15SE]

Mendocino Coast Clinics, Inc.: anniversary, E1221 [23JN]

Mental health: increase awareness of autism spectrum disorder, support programs for research and improved treatment, and improve training for health care professionals (H. Res. 605), H2593-H2598 [5MY], E777, E783 [6MY], E798 [10MY], E896 [18MY]

———prohibit funds to create or implement a new screening program, H6943, H6944 [9SE]

———prohibit use of Federal funds for any universal or mandatory mental health screening program (H.R. 5236), E1828 [7OC]

———protect children and their parents from being coerced into administering psychotropic medication in order to attend school (H.R. 1170), H6875 [8SE]

———provide for equal insurance coverage of benefits unless comparable limitations are imposed on medical and surgical benefits (H.R. 953), H8174, H8243, H8244 [6OC], H8642 [7OC]

Mental Illness Awareness Week: observance, H8642 [7OC], E1886 [11OC]

Mexico: tribute to Chiapas Mission for Sight (organization), H6539 [21JY]

Milewski, Bob: March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation Alexander Macomb ``Man of the Year'' award recipient, E1744 [30SE]

Minorities: improve health of minority individuals, H1505 [25MR], H6814-H6817 [8SE]

———improve health of minority individuals (H.R. 3459), H2818 [12MY], H8068 [5OC], E632 [22AP]

Moses and Aaron Foundation: tribute to Special Fund for Children, E1491 [22JY]

Mosquito Abatement for Safety and Health Act: funding, H6965 [9SE]

National Assisted Living Week: observance, E1522 [8SE]

National Breast Cancer Awareness Month: authorize the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, MO, to be illuminated by pink lights in commemoration (S. 2895), H9008 [8OC]

National Community Health Center Week: establish (H. Res. 646), H5478-H5480 [12JY], E1364 [14JY]

National Cover the Uninsured Week: observance, H2779, H2809-H2812 [11MY]

National Day To Prevent Teen Pregnancy: observance, H2555 [5MY], E767 [6MY]

National Diabetes Awareness Month: observance, E2094 [20NO]

National Eating Disorders Awareness Week: support goals and ideals (H. Res. 506), E69 [28JA]

National Farm Safety and Health Week: support goals and purposes (H. Con. Res. 494), H7390, H7391 [22SE]

National HIV Testing Day: observance, E1205 [22JN]

National Homecare and Hospice Month: observance, E2086, E2097, E2106, E2107 [20NO]

National Latino AIDS Awareness Day: observance, E1851 [10OC]

National Long-Term Care Residents' Rights Week: support goals and ideals (H. Res. 772), H7359 [22SE]

National Men's Health Week: observance, E1142 [16JN]

National Minority Cancer Awareness Week: observance, E594 [21AP], E610, E620, E632, E638 [22AP]

National Nurse Anesthetists Week: observance, E70 [28JA]

National Nurses Week: observance, E628 [22AP]

National objectives: policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures, H40, H65 [21JA], H2736, H2740, H2741, H2806-H2812 [11MY], H2819, H2820, H2893-H2898, H2900-H2907 [12MY], H2922 [13MY], H3168 [18MY], H3233, H3234 [19MY], H7079, H7187 [14SE], H8042, H8043, H8141, H8143, H8159 [5OC], H10091 [20NO], E654 [27AP], E864 [14MY], E1441 [21JY]

———policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (H.R. 1200), H853 [4MR]

———policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (H.R. 4964), E1475 [22JY]

National Primary Immune Deficiency Diseases Awareness Week: observance, E567, E571 [20AP], E584, E594 [21AP], E608, E614 [22AP]

National Professional Social Work Month: observance, H1764 [31MR]

National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month: designate (S. Res. 418), E1735 [29SE]

National School Lunch Act: improve summer food service program for children (H.R. 3930), E339 [11MR]

———phase out reduced price lunches and breakfasts by phasing in an increase in the income eligibility guidelines for free lunches and breakfasts (H.R. 3441), H1687 [30MR]

National security: expedite development of medical countermeasures to treat or prevent disease caused by infectious disease agents or toxins that may pose a significant public health threat (H.R. 4258), H5738 [14JY]

National Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day: establish (H. Con. Res. 480), H8063, H8064 [5OC], E1822, E1828 [7OC]

National Time Out Day: support goals and ideals (H. Res. 682), E1181 [18JN]

National Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month: support goals and ideals (H. Con. Res. 430), H9870-H9872 [17NO], E937 [21MY]

National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program: amend, H10189 [20NO]

National Visiting Nurse Association Week: designate (S. Con. Res. 8), H10055 [19NO]

Native Americans: improve health care, H6690 [22JY]

———improve services and facilities of Federal Indian health programs and encourage maximum participation of Indians in such programs (H.R. 2440), E2092 [20NO]

NCAA: affirm commitment to discouraging alcohol use among underage students by ending alcohol advertising during radio and television broadcasts of sporting events (H. Res. 575), H1613 [29MR], H2520 [4MY]

New Hampshire: tribute to Rx New Hampshire program for efforts to make affordable prescription drugs available to residents, E1806 [6OC]

New Jersey Blood Services (nonprofit organization): anniversary, E1976 [16NO], E2011 [17NO]

New York, NY: EPA report on air quality relative to collapse of World Trade Center, H2527 [4MY]

———reauthorize the New York City Watershed Protection Program (H.R. 2771), H2600-H2605 [5MY]

———renaming of Coler-Goldwater Special Hospital and Nursing Facility's Rehabilitative Medicine Dept., as the Hank Carter Rehabilitation Center, E460 [26MR]

New York Blood Center: anniversary, E968 [1JN]

Nightingales (nurses organization): tribute to anti-tobacco web site, E1662 [21SE]

NIH: provide for Alzheimer's disease research and demonstration grants, H3794, H3795 [8JN], H3868 [9JN]

———public availability of scientific journal articles supported by NIH funding, H6833 [8SE]

Nobel Prize: recognition of Linda Buck for physiology or medicine, E1919 [11OC]

Noriea, Dorothy: Louisiana Breast Cancer Task Force Board Member of the Year award recipient, E669 [27AP]

Norristown, PA: tribute to Montgomery Hospital nurses, E628 [22AP]

Nuclear weapons: protect public health and safety if testing of nuclear weapons by the U.S. is resumed (H.R. 3921), H898 [9MR]

Nutrition: promote improved nutrition for needy Americans by incorporating more fruits, vegetables, and juice products into Federal nutrition programs (H.R. 2592), H1411 [24MR]

Oakland, CA: anniversary of Asian Community Mental Health Services (organization), E1602 [13SE]

———tribute to Children's Hospital & Research Center, E1686 [22SE]

Obesity: address epidemic, E378 [16MR]

Occupational Safety and Health Act: modify certain provisions relative to causing death in the workplace (H.R. 4270), H3123, H3129 [18MY]

Occupational Therapy Month: observance, E680 [28AP]

Oncology Nursing Society: tribute, E686 [28AP]

OPM: prohibit use of funds to allow Federal employees to enroll in any high-deductible health plan that does not require at least 3 consecutive years of enrollment, H7277-H7279 [21SE]

———prohibit use of funds to allow the offering or administering health savings accounts or health reimbursement accounts as part of the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, H7203-H7207 [15SE]

———study and present options under which dental and vision benefits could be made available to Federal employees, retirees, and other appropriate individuals (H.R. 3751), H4599, H4600 [21JN], E528 [2AP], E1966 [11OC]

Organ donation: promote (H.R. 3926), H1335-H1339 [23MR], E439, E447 [24MR]

Orleans County, VT: tribute to Indoor Recreation of Orleans County (organization), E1381 [15JY]

OSF Saint Francis Medical Center: anniversary of Life Flight program, E1029 [4JN]

OSHA: enforcement of workplace safety regulations, E1813 [6OC]

Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month: observance, E960 [21MY]

Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month: support goals and ideals (H. Res. 641), H9690, H9691 [16NO]

Parma, OH: tribute to Westside Veterans Center, E1246 [25JN]

Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act: court ruling on constitutionality, H3608 [2JN], H6876 [8SE]

Partners of the Americas (organization): anniversary, E1831 [7OC]

Patient Services, Inc.: tribute, E905 [19MY]

Peace Corps: promote global acceptance of the principles of international peace and nonviolent coexistence among peoples of diverse cultures and systems of government, E436 [24MR]

Pequannock, NJ: anniversary of Chilton Memorial Hospital, E35 [21JA]

Permedion, Inc.: tribute, E1471 [22JY]

Peterson, Bob: Texas Optometric Association Optometrist of the Year award recipient, E890 [18MY]

———University of Houston's College of Optometry William D. Pittman Leadership Award recipient, E890 [18MY]

Pharmaceuticals: address issue of oxycodone prescription drug abuse, H599 [25FE]

———congressional inquiry on addictiveness, safety, and effectiveness of certain pain medications, E831 [12MY]

———effect of law enforcement efforts on legitimate prescriptions for relief of chronic pain, E177 [12FE]

———importation of prescription drugs, H918 [9MR], H2191 [20AP], H2230 [21AP], H2521 [4MY], H2701 [6MY], H2991 [13MY], H3056 [17MY], H3378 [19MY], H3586, H3587, H3588 [1JN], H5615 [13JY], H5658, H5662-H5668, H5698-H5719 [14JY], E367 [16MR], E810 [11MY], E1885 [11OC]

———importation of prescription drugs (S. 2328), E1516 [22JY]

———pediatric vaccine manufacturer liability protection, H10189 [20NO]

———permit commercial importation of prescription drugs from Canada, E291 [3MR]

———reductions in prescription drug prices, H2540 [4MY]

Philadelphia, PA: anniversary of Chestnut Hill Hospital, E1769 [1OC]

———anniversary of Fox Chase Cancer Center, E123 [6FE]

Population: impact of international population growth, E67 [28JA]

Postal Service: funding, E120 [4FE]

Privacy: prohibit the establishment of any uniform national health care identifying number or health information database (H.R. 1699), H8072 [5OC]

———restore certain standards to protect the privacy of individually identifiable health information, H930 [10MR]

Product safety: increase public availability of information on clinical trials to determine the safety and effectiveness of drugs, biological products, and devices (H.R. 5252), E1882 [11OC]

Public Health Service Act: authorize grants for the integration of innovative curricula on nutrition in medical education (H.R. 5350), E1922 [11OC]

Public welfare programs: allow States and localities to provide primary and preventive care to all individuals (H.R. 3273), E889 [18MY]

R.A. Bloch Cancer Foundation, Inc.: tribute (H. Res. 376), E1525 [8SE]

Republican Party: anniversary of legislative majority in the House of Representatives, H7334 [22SE]

———national agenda, E927 [20MY]

Research: embryonic stem cell research funding, H3875 [14JN], H4140 [15JN], H4177 [16JN], H5132, H5133 [25JN], H6825 [8SE], H6955 [9SE], H7222-H7224 [15SE], H7332, H7335 [22SE], H9054 [9OC]

———expand research information regarding multidisciplinary research projects and epidemiological studies (H.R. 5213), H8255-H8257 [6OC]

———increase supply of pancreatic islet cells for research and coordinate efforts and information on transplantation (H.R. 3858), H8073, H8074 [5OC], E1926 [11OC]

———provide clinical research support grants, clinical research infrastructure grants, and a demonstration program on partnerships in clinical research (H.R. 4779), E1346 [9JY]

———provide for arthritis research and public health (H.R. 4610), E1156, E1157 [18JN]

Riverside County, CA: anniversary of Western Municipal Water District, E566 [20AP]

Roselli, Sal: Contra Costa County, CA, AFL-CIO Labor Leader of the Year award recipient, E1621 [15SE]

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of the U.S.: anniversary, E682 [28AP]

Safe Drinking Water Act: reauthorize, H2601-H2604 [5MY], E959 [21MY]

Safety: improve patient safety and reduce incidence of medical errors (H.R. 663), E845 [14MY]

Saginaw, MI: Aleda E. Lutz Veterans Medical Center funding, E903 [18MY]

San Diego, CA: tribute to Sharp HealthCare (company) Women's Health Symposium, E193 [24FE]

San Jose, CA: anniversary of Yu-Ai-Kai Japanese American Community Senior Service, E1543 [8SE]

Sayre, Blaine: American Academy of Pediatrics Local Hero in Community Pediatrics Award recipient, E1350 [9JY]

Schools: disseminate information on irradiated foods used in school lunch programs and ensure that school districts, parents, and students retain option of traditional, non-irradiated foods (H.R. 3120), H4932 [24JN]

———require mandatory physical education, H938 [10MR]

Schreiber, Nancy: Central Valley Coalition of Nursing Organizations RN of the Year award recipient, E724 [4MY]

Science: benefits of biotechnology, E1022 [3JN]

———prohibit the cloning of humans while protecting stem cell research (S. 303), H3861 [9JN]

Senate: investigation of ricin mailed to Senate office, E120 [4FE]

Senior citizens: promote elder justice (H.R. 2490), H7360 [22SE]

Small business: costs of providing employee health care, H1101 [16MR]

———improve access and choice relative to employee health care, E761 [5MY]

———improve access and choice relative to employee health care (H.R. 660), H114 [27JA], H2735, H2737 [11MY], H2820, H2895 [12MY], H2923 [13MY]

———improve access and choice relative to employee health care (H.R. 4281), H2818 [12MY], H2951-H2986 [13MY], E876 [17MY], E891 [18MY]

———improve access and choice relative to employee health care (H.R. 4281), consideration (H. Res. 638), H2822-H2829 [12MY]

———improve access and choice relative to employee health care (H.R. 4281), motion to recommit, H2984-H2986 [13MY]

Smith, C. David: Florida Family Physician of the Year award recipient, E822 [12MY]

Social Security: evaluation of Bush administration proposals, H6732 [7SE]

———expand Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program to include parents of low-income families (H.R. 4350), E843 [14MY]

———permit States to cover certain low-income youth with an enhanced matching rate under State Children's Health Insurance Program and Medicaid (H.R. 3192), H3182 [18MY]

———reform, H6540-H6544 [21JY]

———solvency, H864-H868 [4MR], H1503 [25MR], H8143 [5OC], E230 [25FE]

Spina Bifida Awareness Month: observance, E1907, E1919 [11OC]

States: streamline enrollment processes for Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program through better linkages with programs providing nutrition and related assistance to low-income families (H.R. 4031), H1717 [30MR], E486 [30MR]

Stroke: strengthen programs for stroke education, prevention, and treatment (H.R. 3658), H3893-H3896 [14JN], E1116 [15JN], E1135 [16JN]

Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act: make technical changes and resolve certain issues beneficial to coal miners (H.R. 4529), consideration (H. Res. 672), H3968-H3973 [15JN]

———reauthorize and reform the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Program, E1778 [1OC]

Taxation: allow a deduction for expenses paid in connection with the donation of an organ (H.R. 4042), E456 [26MR]

———allow a deduction for qualified long-term care insurance premiums, use of such insurance under cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements, and a credit for individuals with long-term care needs (H.R. 4432), E959 [21MY]

———allow a deduction for qualified long-term care insurance premiums and a credit for individuals who care for those with long-term care needs (H.R. 5110), E1670 [21SE]

———allow a deduction from gross income for the donation of blood (H.R. 5317), E1911 [11OC]

———allow a refundable credit for the purchase of private health insurance and establish State health insurance safety-net programs (H.R. 583), H2897 [12MY]

———allow a refundable credit for the purchase of private health insurance (H.R. 1236), H114 [27JA], H368 [4FE]

———allow a tax credit for the purchase of hearing aids (H.R. 3103), H3236 [19MY]

———allow carryforward of certain unused benefits in cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements for dependent care assistance (H.R. 4372), H4663-H4665 [22JN]

———allow credit for medical expenses for dependents (H.R. 4025), E444 [24MR]

———provide incentives to employers that offer retiree health benefits, H5989 [20JY]

———provide subsidies to encourage small employers to offer affordable health coverage to their employees through qualfied health pooling arrangements (H.R. 4356), H2975 [13MY], E843 [14MY]

———provide that distributions from certain retirement plans are not included in gross income if used to pay long-term care insurance premiums (H.R. 4502), E1029 [4JN]

———repeal tax increase on Social Security benefits (H.R. 434), H709 [2MR]

———treatment of certain gifts and benefits provided to physicians by prescription drug manufacturers (H.R. 3865), E251 [26FE]

———treatment of unused nontaxable benefits under cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements, H2896 [12MY]

———treatment of unused nontaxable benefits under cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements (H.R. 4279), H2838-H2853 [12MY], E869 [14MY]

———treatment of unused nontaxable benefits under cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements (H.R. 4279), consideration (H. Res. 638), H2822-H2829 [12MY]

———treatment of unused nontaxable benefits under cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements (H.R. 4279), motion to recommit, H2850, H2851 [12MY]

Taylor-Huff, Dixie: American Health Care Association Joe Warner Patient Advocacy Award recipient, E279 [2MR]

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program: treatment of individuals with drug felony convictions, E476 [30MR]

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

———provide equitable treatment of residents relative to transitional assistance and low-income subsidies under the Medicare prescription drug benefit program (H.R. 4781), E1329 [8JY]

Texarkana, AR: opening of Greater Texarkana Peoples' Clinic, E522 [2AP]

Texas: opening of Fisher House for families of hospitalized military personnel, H117 [27JA]

Thomas P. Noonan, Jr., Dept. of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic, Queens, NY: designate (H.R. 1318), H7018-H7020 [13SE]

Trautwein, Janet: National Association of Health Underwriters Gordon Memorial Award recipient, E1537 [8SE]

Tyrone, PA: anniversary of Epworth Manor (health care facility), E2180 [7DE]

U.N.: tribute to World Food Programme 19-Cents-a-Day child hunger and school feeding awareness campaign, H400 [10FE]

U.N. Population Fund: obstetric fistula prevention and treatment funding, H5796, H5800 [15JY]

U.S. Medicine Institute: forum on value of long-term research studies concerning health problems and diseases, E671 [27AP]

Ukraine: anniversary of Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident, E687 [28AP], E710 [29AP]

Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act: extend period for which an individual may elect to continue employer-sponsored health care coverage (H.R. 4659), E1228 [24JN]

United Airlines, Inc.: plan to reduce retiree health benefits, H437 [11FE]

United Cerebral Palsy (organization): anniversary of Central California chapter, E544 [20AP]

———anniversary of Western Pennsylvania chapter, E549 [20AP]

United Food and Commercial Workers (organization): end of supermarket worker strike in California, H730 [2MR]

University of Houston: tribute to Institute for Obesity Prevention and Urban Fitness, E781 [6MY]

Univision Communications, Inc.: tribute to minority health campaign, E1997 [16NO]

Urban Health Plan, Inc.: anniverssary, E1900 [11OC]

Vader, Mary: COPIC Medical Foundation Harold E. Williamson Award recipient, E1142 [16JN]

Vascular Birthmark Foundation: tribute, E263 [1MR]

Veterans: addition of osteoporosis to list of presumed service-connected diseases for former POWs, H6079, H6080 [20JY]

———benefits funding, H1356 [23MR], H1456 [24MR], H1556, H1557 [25MR], H3171-H3176 [18MY], H3600 [1JN], H3716 [2JN], H3951 [14JN], H4650, H4732 [22JN], H4882-H4886 [23JN], H4896 [24JN], H5073 [25JN], H7046 [13SE], H7565 [23SE], H8172 [6OC], E902 [18MY], E1237 [25JN], E1698 [24SE]

———extend eligibility of veterans who served in recent hostilities for hospital care, medical services, and nursing home care for any illness (H.R. 4438), E955 [21MY]

———health care, disability compensation, and retirement pay funding, H834 [4MR]

———health care funding, H844 [4MR], H1000 [10MR], H1425, H1426, H1453, H1454, H1465, H1478-H1482 [24MR], H1504, H1545-H1547, H1583 [25MR], H2338 [22AP], H3171-H3176 [18MY], H3256, H3365, H3368 [19MY], H4749, H4750 [22JN], H4768, H4769 [23JN], E470 [29MR]

———health care funding (H.R. 2318), E343 [11MR]

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

———improve and enhance education, housing, employment, medical, and other benefits and improve and extend certain authorities relative to the administration of benefits (S. 2486), H9749-H9772 [17NO], E1992 [16NO], E2058 [18NO], E2074 [20NO]

———improve post-traumatic stress disorder treatment for veterans of service in Afghanistan and Iraq and the war on terror, E1965 [11OC]

———improve provision of health care, rehabilitation, and related services to veterans, H4746-H4751 [22JN]

———permit concurrent receipt of military retired pay with service-connected disability benefits, H834, H844 [4MR], H4884, H4885 [23JN], E305 [4MR]

———permit concurrent receipt of military retired pay with service-connected disability benefits (H.R. 303), H1197 [17MR]

———permit concurrent receipt of military retired pay with service-connected disability benefits (H.R. 3730), H672 [26FE]

———permit eligible veterans to receive direct access to chiropractic care (H.R. 4051), E489 [31MR]

———permit Reservists to buy military health care through the TRICARE program, H3175 [18MY]

———provide long-term physical and mental health care for combat veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and their families, H2527 [4MY]

———provide mental health services for veterans returning from combat and their families, H4701, H4707, H4708 [22JN], E1223 [24JN]

Vision Problems Action Plan—A National Public Health Strategy: release of report, E762 [5MY]

Waltrip, Darrell: National Multiple Sclerosis Society Mid South Chapter MS Hope Award recipient, H8173 [6OC]

Water: allow small public water systems to request exemption from national primary drinking water requirements for a naturally occurring contaminant (H.R. 4717), E1289 [25JN]

———improve water quality, E614 [22AP]

Wellness Community of the San Francisco East Bay (organization): tribute, E1524 [8SE]

West Branch, MI: anniversary of West Branch Regional Medical Center, E1935 [11OC]

Westport, CT: anniversary of Westport Volunteer Emergency Medical Service, E930 [21MY]

WIC: improve pricing and sales in WIC-only stores, H4932 [24JN]

Wickliff, Kristy: Enhanced 9-1-1 Institute Citizen in Action Award recipient, E188 [24FE]

Women: impact of Bush administration policies, H4734 [22JN]

———improve access to health care services and provide improved medical care by reducing the excessive burden the liability system places on the delivery of obstetrical and gynecological services (S. 2061), H635 [26FE]

———increase awareness and education about heart disease among women (H. Res. 522), H1339-H1341 [23MR]

———programs funding, H2041-H2048 [1AP]

World Magazine: tribute, E731 [4MY]

World Summit on Sustainable Development: affirm U.S. commitment to improve worldwide access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation services (H. Res. 782), H7581 [28SE], E1665 [21SE]

World Vision (organization): tribute to McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program funding to provide food and education services to children in Afghanistan, H1040 [11MR]

Wyner, Daniel M.: ROFEH International (nonprofit organization) and New England Chassidic Center honoree, E1616 [14SE]

Wynnewood, PA: anniversary of Lankenau Hospital, E626 [22AP]

Yolo Health Alliance: anniversary, E407 [18MR]

Young Onset Parkinson's Association: tribute, E572 [20AP]

Remarks in Senate

Abortion: ensure that women seeking an abortion are fully informed relative to pain experienced by the unborn child (S. 2466), S5985 [20MY]

———prohibit interference by the government with a woman's right to choose to bear a child or terminate a pregnancy (S. 2020), S186 [22JA]

———prohibit partial-birth abortions (S. 3), conference report, S4013 [8AP]

———protect lives of born and unborn persons (S. 2190), S2558 [10MR]

Agriculture: ensure an abundant and affordable supply of fruits and vegetables and other specialty crops by enhancing competitiveness of U.S.-grown specialty crops (H.R. 3242), S11879 [7DE]

———ensure an abundant and affordable supply of fruits and vegetables and other specialty crops by enhancing competitiveness of U.S.-grown specialty crops (S. 2902), S10575 [6OC]

———restore the application date for country of origin labeling (S. 2451), S5951 [20MY], S6251 [21MY], S11418 [17NO]

AID: Child Survival and Health Programs Fund funding, S280 [27JA], S2766 [12MR]

Air pollution: effects of powerplant pollution on the environment and public health, S1515-S1517 [24FE]

American Legacy Foundation: anniversary, S2186 [4MR], S2434 [9MR], S3564 [1AP], S5076 [10MY]

American Lung Association: anniversary, S3178 [25MR], S4294 [22AP], S4764 [3MY], S5072, S5073 [10MY]

Animals: investigation into discovery of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) in the U.S., S776 [10FE]

———provide better protection against bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) and other prion diseases (S. 2007), S54 [20JA]

Armed Forces: create a reserve fund for TRICARE benefits, and increase benefit levels under the Montgomery GI Bill for the Selected Reserve through reductions in unobligated Iraqi reconstruction funds, S2493-S2498 [10MR]

———enhance and improve benefits for members of the National Guard and Reserves who serve extended periods on active duty, S6916 [17JN], S8605 [22JY]

———enhance and improve benefits for members of the National Guard and Reserves who serve extended periods on active duty (S. 2068), S1267, S1288 [12FE]

———enhance and improve benefits for members of the National Guard and Reserves who serve extended periods on active duty (S. 2791), S9087 [10SE], S9868 [29SE]

———improve medical readiness, S6979 [17JN]

———improve the Transition Assistance Program provided for members being discharged, released from active duty, or retiring, S7294-S7296 [23JN]

———improve the Transition Assistance Program provided for members being discharged, released from active duty, or retiring (S. 2427), S5537-S5539 [17MY]

———recognize the sacrifices of members killed or injured in combat, establish a tracking system to notify family members of wounded personnel, and modernize combat medics' equipment, S7144, S7145 [22JN]

———recognize the sacrifices of members killed or injured in combat, establish a tracking system to notify family members of wounded personnel, and modernize combat medics' equipment (S. 2516), S6737 [14JN]

———revise age and service requirements for receipt of military retired pay for non-regular service and improve health care for reservists and their families by making TRICARE benefits permanent (S. 2035), S293, S322 [28JA]

———tribute to improved combat casualty care, S6987 [17JN]

———tribute to military medical professionals serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, S4466 [28AP]

———TRICARE military health benefits for Reservists and Guardsmen, S6308-S6316, S6320-S6323 [2JN], S7372 [24JN]

Budget: allocation of funds to Native Americans, S1268 [12FE]

———increase funding for education, veterans, homeland security and other domestic priorities by closing tax loopholes, improving tax enforcement, and reducing levels of tax cuts, S2627-S2629, S2646 [11MR]

———reduce level of tax cuts or close certain tax loopholes and apply savings to Indian Health Service clinical services funding, S2650, S2651 [11MR]

Bush, President: evaluation of administration, S3523-S3525 [1AP], S8495-S8498 [21JY], S10769-S10777 [8OC]

Business and industry: protect patients' access to quality and affordable health care by reducing effects of excessive liability costs (S. 11), S1484 [24FE], S1995 [2MR]

Calvert Alliance Against Substance Abuse, Inc.: tribute, S11367 [16NO]

Cemeteries and funerals: establish consumer protections for funeral service contracts, and improve funeral home, cemetery, and crematory inspection systems (S. 3023), S11800 [20NO]

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: provide direct congressional access to the Office of the Chief Actuary (S. 2076), S1292 [12FE]

———require repayment of appropriated funds that are illegaly disbursed for political purposes (S. 2473), S6088 [21MY]

Child Abuse Prevention Month: observance, S4013 [8AP]

Children and youth: coordinate Federal policies and activities to prevent childhood obesity and establish grants for State childhood obesity prevention and control (S. 2894), S10443 [5OC]

———create team nutrition networks to promote the nutritional health of school children (S. 2183), S2444 [9MR]

———encourage school-based programs to reduce and prevent childhood obesity, promote increased physical activity, and improve nutritional choices (S. 2551), S7106 [21JN], S8273 [16JY]

———establish a grant program to provide comprehensive eye examinations (S. 2749), S8735 [22JY]

———issue a semipostal stamp in order to provide funding for childhood drinking prevention and education programs (S. 2676), S8239 [15JY]

———promote better health for young people through Federal matching awards for physical education programs (S. 2150), S1935 [1MR]

———provide assistance to States and nongovernmental entities to initiate public awareness and outreach campaigns to reduce teenage pregnancies (S. 1956), S4828 [4MY]

———provide children with increased access to food and nutrition assistance, simplify program operations and improve program management, and reauthorize child nutrition programs (S. 2507), S7244-S7249 [23JN], S7419 [24JN]

———provide children with increased access to food and nutrition assistance, simplify program operations and improve program management, and reauthorize child nutrition programs (S. 2507), unanimous-consent request, S7221 [23JN]

———provide for programs and activities on the prevention of underage drinking (S. 2718), S8692-S8696 [22JY]

———reauthorize certain school lunch and child nutrition programs (S. 2241), S3217 [26MR]

———recognize importance of distribution of food in schools to hungry or malnourished children around the world (S. Con. Res. 114), S6465 [3JN]

———support planning, implementation, and evaluation of organized activities involving statewide youth suicide early intervention and prevention strategies (S. 2175), S2305-S2308 [8MR], S7810 [8JY]

———support planning, implementation, and evaluation of organized activities involving statewide youth suicide early intervention and prevention strategies (S. 2634), S7800-S7806, S7810, S7864 [8JY], S7875, S7876 [9JY], S9020-S9023 [9SE], S9072 [10SE]

China, Republic of: participation in WHO (S. 2092), S5021, S5022 [6MY]

Coal: clarify that certain coal industry health benefits may not be modified or terminated (S. 3004), S11499 [18NO]

Coalition for Brain Injury Research: tribute, S5603 [18MY], S8958 [8SE]

Colleges and universities: application of antitrust laws to graduate medical education residency matching programs, S3981, S3985, S3991 [8AP], S5223 [11MY]

Congress: accomplishments of the 108th Congress, S8091 [14JY], S8822 [7SE], S11055-S11060 [10OC], S11336 [16NO]

———establish an expedited procedure for congressional consideration of health care reform legislation (S. 2576), S7443 [24JN]

Conversations Before the Crisis Week: designate (S. Res. 391), S7483 [24JN]

Coordinated Environmental Health Network: establish (S. 2953), S10851 [8OC]

Courts: prohibit civil liability actions against the food industry for damages or injunctive relief for claims of injury resulting from a person's weight gain, obesity, or any related health conditions (S. 1428), S3783 [6AP]

———provide fair and efficient judicial consideration of personal injury and wrongful death claims due to asbestos exposure and ensure fair compensation for harm caused by asbestos exposure, S2412 [9MR], S9398 [21SE]

———provide fair and efficient judicial consideration of personal injury and wrongful death claims due to asbestos exposure and ensure fair compensation for harm caused by asbestos exposure (S. 1125), S1881 [27FE], S2173-S2176 [3MR], S2208, S2209 [4MR], S2987 [23MR], S3628 [5AP], S3989-S3991 [8AP]

———provide fair and efficient judicial consideration of personal injury and wrongful death claims due to asbestos exposure and ensure fair compensation for harm caused by asbestos exposure (S. 2290), S3921-S3924, S3950 [7AP], S3965-S3967, S3989-S3991, S4002-S4005, S4008, S4011, S4059, S4060 [8AP], S4078-S4088 [19AP], S5072 [10MY], S5172 [11MY], S5453 [13MY], S8643 [22JY]

———provide fair and efficient judicial consideration of personal injury and wrongful death claims due to asbestos exposure and ensure fair compensation for harm caused by asbestos exposure (S. 2290), motion to proceed, S4103-S4114, S4122-S4146, S4166-S4169 [20AP], S4184-S4192, S4200-S4204, S4206-S4208, S4212-S4218, S4233 [21AP], S4238-S4241, S4247-S4260, S4286, S4287 [22AP]

———provide fair and efficient judicial consideration of personal injury and wrongful death claims due to asbestos exposure and ensure fair compensation for harm caused by asbestos exposure (S. 2290), unanimous-consent request, S4103 [20AP]

———restore reliability to the medical justice system by fostering alternatives to medical tort litigation (S. 1518), S1432 [23FE]

Cover the Uninsured Week: observance, S5074 [10MY], S5173 [11MY], S5244, S5245, S5364 [12MY], S5384, S5387-S5389 [13MY]

Death and dying: improve access to information about end of life care options and legal rights, promote advance care planning and decisionmaking, and engage health care providers in preparation of advance directives (S. 2545), S7016 [17JN]

Defibrillation programs: tribute to community organization of public access defibrillation programs (S. Con. Res. 143), S10865 [8OC]

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.: tribute to efforts to combat HIV/AIDS, S2774 [12MR]

Democratic Party: national agenda, S8600 [22JY]

Denver, CO: anniversary of Latin American Research and Service Agency, S9216 [14SE]

Dept. of Agriculture: district court decision on prohibition of beef imports from Canada due to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease), S4446 [28AP]

———improve Fruit and Vegetable Program, S7245 [23JN]

———McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program funding, S10820 [8OC]

———prohibition on private testing of cattle for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease), S4445 [28AP]

———school breakfast program funding, S7245, S7246 [23JN]

———use of current technology in developing animal identification methods, S106 [21JA]

Dept. of Defense: Army Peer-Reviewed Breast Cancer Research Program funding, S7386, S7387, S7391 [24JN]

———authorize medical and dental care and disability benefits for service academies cadets and midshipmen and ROTC cadets, S5525-S5527 [17MY], S5601 [18MY]

———carry out a program to provide a support system for members of the Armed Forces who incur severe disabilities (S. 2956), S10855 [8OC]

———clarify duties and activities of Vaccine Healthcare Centers Network, S6864, S6866 [16JN]

———Peer-Reviewed Prostate Cancer Research Program funding, S7515 [25JN]

———permit funding for abortions of pregnancies resulting from rape and incest (S. 2166), S2229 [4MR]

Dept. of Education: require participation in the National Children's Study, S5345-S5348 [12MY]

Dept. of HHS: clarify and ensure that certain authority is used solely to promote the objectives of the Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Programs (S. 2222), S2863-S2865 [22MR]

———conduct research on indicators of child well-being (S. 2213), S2791 [12MR]

———develop uniform standards for the submission of electronic clinical data by long-term care facilities, S11889 [7DE]

———establish an Internet website designed to allow consumers to compare prices for covered outpatient drugs sold by retail pharmacies that participate in the Medicaid program (S. 2597), S7474 [24JN]

———expand and intensify research programs concerning elder falls (S. 1217), S11508-S11510 [18NO]

———expand the National Practitioner Data Bank (S. 2341), S4328 [22AP]

———give grant preference to States that require schools to allow students to self-administer medication for asthma or anaphylaxis (H.R. 2023), S11326 [11OC]

———give grant preference to States that require schools to allow students to self-administer medication for asthma or anaphylaxis (S. 2815), S9388, S9389 [20SE]

———increase planning and funding for health promotion programs (S. 2798), S9222 [14SE]

———investigation into allegation of firing threats relative to disclosure of cost of Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, S3051, S3058-S3060 [24MR], S3319 [30MR], S4784 [4MY], S7118 [22JN]

———promulgate regulations for the reimportation of prescription drugs, S9161-S9164 [14SE], S9540, S9541 [23SE]

———promulgate regulations for the reimportation of prescription drugs (S. 2137), S1702 [26FE], S1897 [27FE]

———reauthorize and extend the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome prevention and services program (S. 2741), S8723 [22JY]

Dept. of Labor: provide coverage under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program for atomic weapons facilities employees during periods of residual contamination, S6837-S6847 [16JN], S10950 [9OC], S11288 [11OC]

———provide coverage under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program for atomic weapons facilities employees during periods of residual contamination (S. 2139), S1693 [26FE]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: carry out a demonstration project on priorities in scheduling of appointments of veterans for health care (S. 2063), S807-S809 [10FE]

———carry out a program of outreach to veterans of World War II and the Korean War on the nature and availability of benefits for veterans (S. 2776), S8915 [7SE]

———clarify that per diem payments for the care of veterans in State homes shall not be used to offset Medicaid payments (S. 2196), S2720 [11MR]

———evaluation of nurse-managed primary care clinics, S9125 [13SE]

———furnish care for newborn children of women veterans receiving maternity care (S. 2417), S5474 [13MY]

———increase veterans medical care funding through closing of certain tax loopholes, S2530 [10MR]

———restrict the performance of eye surgery at a facility, or under a contract with the Dept., to only licensed medical doctors and licensed doctors of osteopathy (S. 2743), S8728 [22JY]

———simplify and improve pay provisions for physicians and dentists and authorize alternate work schedules and executive pay for nurses (S. 2484), S6280 [1JN], S10460-S10467 [5OC], S11886 [7DE]

Developing countries: access to clean water, S11773 [20NO]

Dietary supplements: fully enforce and implement Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act and require Dept. of HHS to develop a plan for mandatory serious adverse event reports, S7077-S7086 [21JN]

———require manufacturers to submit reports on certain serious adverse events before allowing sale on military installations, S7033, S7034 [18JN], S7077-S7086 [21JN]

Disabled: improve access to assistive technologies (H.R. 4278), S10186-S10192 [30SE], S10362 [4OC]

———improve access to assistive technologies (S. 2595), S7461-S7474 [24JN]

Discrimination: expand applicability of laws preventing governmental discrimination against health care entities who refuse to perform abortions or make referrals regarding abortion services, S11718-S11720, S11722, S11724, S11757, S11763, S11764 [20NO]

Diseases: address the international HIV/AIDS pandemic, S2991 [23MR], S3361 [30MR], S7901 [9JY], S8269-S8271 [16JY], S11674 [20NO]

———anniversary of Salk polio vaccine field trials, S4426 [27AP]

———combat polio, S147 [22JA]

———enhance research, training, and health information dissemination on urologic diseases (S. 2361), S4696 [29AP]

———expand assistance to countries seriously affected by HIV/AIDS, S2671-S2673 [11MR]

———fund breakthroughs in Alzheimer's disease research while providing more help to caregivers and increasing public education about prevention (S. 2533), S6901, S6902 [16JN], S9380 [20SE]

———improve defenses against the spread of infectious diseases (S. Res. 208), S9027 [9SE]

———improve quality of care for cancer patients (S. 2771), S8766 [22JY]

———increased support and funding to combat diabetes, S216 [23JA]

———promote initiatives to develop an HIV vaccine (S. Res. 398), S7583 [6JY]

———provide gratuity to veterans, their spouses, and children who contract HIV or AIDS from a blood transfusion relative to a service-connected disability, S11677 [20NO]

———provide prostate cancer patients with meaningful access to information on treatment options (S. Res. 389), S7325 [23JN], S11017, S11018 [10OC]

———reauthorize and extend certain programs to provide coordinated services and research relative to children and families with HIV/AIDS (S. 2892), S10440-S10442 [5OC]

District of Columbia: tribute to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, S10932 [9OC]

Drug abuse: assist States in establishing, maintaining, and improving systems to reduce the diversion and abuse of prescription drugs (S. 2288), S3793 [6AP]

Drugs: clarify definition of anabolic steroids and provide for research and education activities relative to steroids (S. 2195), S10606-S10609 [6OC], S10686 [7OC]

———combat methamphetamine abuse (S. 2934), S10731 [7OC]

———eliminate price cap applicable to purchase of influenza vaccines and establish a tax credit to encourage vaccine production capacity (S. 2997), S11497 [18NO]

———establish an electronic system for practitioner monitoring of the dispensing of certain controlled substances (S. 3013), S11643 [19NO]

———lift the patient limitation on prescribing drug addiction treatments by medical practitioners in group practices (S. 1887), S6490 [7JN], S6624 [8JN]

———lift the patient limitation on prescribing drug addiction treatments by medical practitioners in group practices (S. 2976), S11260, S11261 [11OC]

———protect the public from unsafe importation of prescription drugs and from counterfeit prescription drugs (S. 2493), S6339 [2JN]

———provide an affirmative defense for medical use of marijuana in Federal criminal trials occuring in States with medical marijuana use laws (S. 2989), S11430 [17NO], S11609 [19NO]

———provide compensation for injuries resulting from smallpox countermeasures, provide protection against chemical or radiological agents, increase distribution of vaccines, and improve vaccine injury compensation (S. 15), S5726 [18MY], S5744-S5767 [19MY]

———reductions in prescription drug prices, S6299-S6302 [2JN], S7945 [13JY], S8498 [21JY]

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

Economy: evaluation of Bush administration, S10810 [8OC], S11281 [11OC]

———national objectives priority assignments, S7691-S7697 [7JY], S9059-S9061 [10SE]

Education: expand access to preventive health care services and education programs that reduce unintended pregnancy, infection with sexually transmitted disease, and number of abortions (S. 2336), S4309-S4311 [22AP]

———increase faculty in palliative care medicine at accredited allopathic and osteopathic medical schools and promote development of careers as academic palliative specialists who emphasize teaching (S. 2984), S11381 [16NO]

Employment: eliminate tax subsidies for outsourcing of jobs, S10410 [5OC], S11029 [10OC]

———eliminate tax subsidies for outsourcing of jobs and provide assistance and improve the health care tax credit for certain displaced workers (S. 2531), S6894 [16JN]

———provide for paid sick leave in order to address the health needs of individuals and family members (S. 2520), S11793 [20NO]

Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act: include certain former nuclear weapons program workers in the Special Exposure Cohort under the compensation program, S6971 [17JN], S7219-S7221 [23JN]

———include certain former nuclear weapons program workers in the Special Exposure Cohort under the compensation program (S. 2047), S375 [2FE], S6913-S6915 [17JN]

EPA: clean water and drinking water State revolving funds funding, S2660-S2663 [11MR]

Faith in Action (organization): tribute to volunteer workers, S7163 [22JN]

FDA: approval of postcoital emergency contraception for over-the-counter sales, S3442 [31MR]

———Center for Drug Evaluation and Research funding through reductions in Office of the Chief Counsel funding, S8657 [22JY]

———establish guidelines and review safety of dietary supplements, S3545-S3548 [1AP]

———provide with certain authority to regulate tobacco products, S8151-S8178, S8217, S8219 [15JY], S10934-S10942, S10944, S10959, S10969-S10972, S10977 [9OC], S11021-S11025, S11030, S11034 [10OC], S11205, S11216, S11243, S11244 [11OC]

———provide with certain authority to regulate tobacco products (S. 2461), S5961-S5963, S5979 [20MY]

———provide with certain authority to regulate tobacco products (S. 2974), S11068, S11091 [10OC]

Federal employees: establish programs to make supplemental dental and vision benefits available to Federal employees, retirees, and dependents, and expand OPM contracting authority (S. 2657), S8134 [14JY], S11694 [20NO]

Federal Employees Health Benefits Program: coverage of bone mass measurements (S. 417), S5074 [10MY]

Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: establish requirements to allow sale of prescription drugs over the Internet (S. 2464), S5983-S5985 [20MY]

———technical corrections relative to amendments made by the Medical Device User Fee and Modernization Act (S. 1881), House amendment, S2821, S2822 [12MR]

Firefighters: provide financial assistance to improve the health and safety of firefighters, promote use of life saving technologies, and achieve greater equity for departments serving large jurisdictions, S6978, S6982-S6984 [17JN]

———provide financial assistance to improve the health and safety of firefighters, promote use of life saving technologies, and achieve greater equity for departments serving large jurisdictions (S. 2411), S5232-S5236 [11MY], S5366 [12MY]

Fisher House Foundation, Inc: tribute, S3292 [29MR]

Florida: FEMA funding to localities for debris removal as a result of hurricanes and tropical storms, S10397 [5OC]

Food: ensure consumers receive information about the nutritional content of restaurant food and vending machine food (S. 2108), S1523 [24FE]

Food industry: require FDA premarket review and oversight of all genetically engineered foods (S. 2546), S7019 [17JN]

Food Safety Administration: establish (S. 2910), S10704 [7OC]

Foreign countries: report on congressional delegation trip to Haiti, S6258-S6260 [1JN]

Gainesville, FL: tribute to Malcom Randall VA Medical Center and the University of Florida for cooperation on the Translational Research in Rehabilitation Initiative, S9438 [21SE]

Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (organization): funding, S11674 [20NO]

Gottlieb, Katherine: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation MacArthur Fellow award recipient, S10058 [30SE]

Government: establish a Federal Interagency Committee on Emergency Medical Services and an advisory council made up of non-Federal representatives of the emergency medical services community (S. 2351), S4431, S4432 [27AP]

Haiti: U.S. policy on humanitarian crisis, S7163 [22JN]

———U.S. policy relative to political uprising and humanitarian crisis, S1431 [23FE], S1503-S1505, S1510-S1514 [24FE], S1877-S1881 [27FE], S1905, S1942, S1943 [1MR], S1976-S1978 [2MR], S2023 [3MR], S2180, S2218 [4MR], S3291 [29MR]

Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Act: reauthorize (S. 3014), S11584 [19NO]

Hazardous substances: reduce the health risks posed by asbestos-containing products (S. 1115), S4188 [21AP]

———strengthen capabilities to safely and securely dispose of certain low-level radioactive waste (S. 1045), S1515 [24FE]

Health: attempt to link farm subsidies and obesity, S6340 [2JN]

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]

———improve dental services in underserved areas (S. 2740), S8720 [22JY]

———improve training and retention (S. 2739), S8714 [22JY]

———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]

———provide immediate relief from increased medical malpractice insurance costs by establishing a tax credit and reimbursement of premiums for some doctors and hospitals, S2937 [22MR], S5174, S5175 [11MY]

Higher Education Act: provide funds for campus mental and behavioral health service centers (S. 2215), S2792 [12MR], S7807-S7810 [8JY]

Homeless: establish a grant program to provide supportive services in permanent supportive housing for chronically homeless individuals (S. 2937), S10739-S10742 [7OC]

———establish grant program to address the goal of ending chronic homelessness (S. 2829), S9530 [22SE]

Hopewell, Philip C.: American Lung Association Edward Livingston Trudeau Medal recipient, S5604 [18MY]

Immigration: national policy, S312 [28JA]

Immune Deficiency Foundation: tribute, S5223 [11MY]

India: provide assistance to combat HIV/AIDS (S. 2203), S2725 [11MR]

Indian Health Care Improvement Act: revise and extend (S. 556), S12052 [8DE]

Indian Health Service: funding, S1268 [12FE], S1617 [26FE], S2652 [11MR], S3967 [8AP], S5037 [7MY]

Individuals With Disabilities Education Act: funding, S2677, S2678 [11MR]

———provide that State or local education agencies may be awarded attorney's fees in special education court cases deemed frivolous or unreasonable by the court, S5348-S5352 [12MY], S11654, S11655 [19NO]

———reauthorize (H.R. 1350), S5451 [13MY], S5529 [17MY], S6251 [21MY], S9468 [21SE]

———reauthorize (H.R. 1350), conference report, S11543-S11548, S11553, S11653-S11660 [19NO], S11669, S11675, S11769, S11776 [20NO], S11850 [24NO]

———reauthorize (H.R. 1350), corrections in enrollment (H. Con. Res. 524), S11660 [19NO]

———reauthorize (H.R. 1350), insert S. 1248 language in lieu, S5411 [13MY]

———reauthorize (H.R. 1350), unanimous-consent agreement, S9468 [21SE]

———reauthorize (S. 1248), S5241, S5250-S5360 [12MY], S5393, S5394-S5452 [13MY], S8091 [14JY]

Influenza: address shortage of vaccine (S. 2968), S10864 [8OC]

———availability of vaccine, S10415 [5OC], S11122-S11124 [10OC]

Insurance: coverage of colorectal cancer screening (S. 2265), S3459, S3460 [31MR]

———extend Federal funding for operation of State high risk health insurance pools (S. 2283), S11386 [16NO], S11444 [18NO]

———extend period for COBRA coverage for recipients of trade adjustment assistance (S. 2226), S3001 [23MR]

———extend period for COBRA coverage for victims of terrorist attacks (S. 2837), S9615 [23SE], S9670 [24SE]

———improve access to affordable health insurance through closing of certain tax loopholes, S2624-S2626, S2645 [11MR]

———improve access to health care services and provide improved medical care by reducing the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery system, S1865-S1867 [27FE], S1937-S1939 [1MR], S3121 [25MR], S3526 [1AP], S4239 [22AP]

———improve access to health care services by reducing the burden the liability system places in the delivery of emergency, trauma, and obstetrical services (S. 2207), S2821 [12MR], S2835 [22MR], S3871, S3905, S3914 [7AP], S4007 [8AP]

———improve access to health care services by reducing the burden the liability system places in the delivery of emergency, trauma, and obstetrical services (S. 2207), motion to proceed, S3609 [2AP], S3738, S3742-S3758, S3760-S3765, S3768, S3778, S3780-S3784 [6AP], S3877-S3884, S3886, S3888-S3891 [7AP], S3968, S4009 [8AP]

———increase in premiums, S9473 [22SE], S10292 [4OC]

———promote health care coverage parity for individuals participating in legal recreational or transportation activities (S. 423), S11839, S11840 [20NO]

———protection of enrollees in managed care plans and HMO's (S. 2083), S1294 [12FE]

———provide every individual with the opportunity to purchase health insurance that is at least equivalent to the insurance available to Members of Congress at the same or lower rates, S9161 [14SE]

———reduce the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery system, S1432, S1437 [23FE], S6912 [17JN], S9099-S9102 [13SE], S9692-S9695 [27SE]

———require group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans to provide prompt payment for health benefits claims (S. 2308), S4046 [8AP]

International Association for Organ Donation: anniversary of first successful liver transplant, S3362 [30MR]

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 (S. 2519), S6805 [15JN]

Korea, Republic of: cloning of humans, S1413 [12FE]

Levister, Ernest C., Jr.: California Medical Association Foundation Robert D. Sparks, M.D., Leadership Award recipient, S1996 [2MR]

Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act: modify termination date for mandatory price reporting (S. 2965), S10879 [8OC]

Louisiana Assisted Living Association: observance of Assisted Living Day, S4018 [8AP]

Major League Baseball: adopt drug-testing policy that deters players from using anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing substances that create a competitive advantage or pose a serious health risk (S. Res. 335), S3996-S3999 [8AP]

Mammography Quality Standards Act: reauthorize (H.R. 4555), S10921 [9OC]

———reauthorize (S. 1879), S105 [21JA], S379 [2FE]

Medicaid: allow sharing of information with local educational agencies to verify eligibility for school lunch or breakfast programs, S7246, S7247 [23JN]

———coverage of primary and secondary preventative medical strategies for children and adults with sickle cell disease, S11054 [10OC]

———coverage of primary and secondary preventative medical strategies for children and adults with sickle cell disease (S. 874), S1508 [24FE]

———extend Federal-State cost-sharing program to assist low-income Medicare beneficiaries with health care costs (S. 2618), S7754 [7JY], S11390 [16NO]

———include podiatrists as physicians for purposes of covering physicians services (S. 2174), S2304, S2305 [8MR]

———increase Federal Medical Assistance Percentage to States, S2623 [11MR]

———permit children administered a vaccine at a public health clinic or Indian clinic to be eligible for the pediatric vaccine distribution program (S. 2272), S3571 [1AP]

———prohibit payments to States for redispensing prescription drugs (S. 2950), S10850 [8OC]

———provide complete reimbursement for medical assistance provided to Native Hawaiians by federally qualified health centers or Native Hawaiian health care systems (S. 2098), S1460 [23FE]

———provide families of disabled children with the opportunity to purchase coverage (S. 622), S4946-S4951 [6MY]

———restore disproportionate share hospital allotment for Hawaii, S5488 [14MY]

Medicare: adjust the amount of payment under the physician fee schedule for cancer drug administration services (S. 2587), S7417, S7445 [24JN]

———advertising campaign designed to build public support for the new Medicare drug law, S625-S627 [5FE], S3051, S3058-S3060 [24MR], S3524 [1AP], S4755 [3MY], S4780, S4786 [4MY], S5934 [20MY]

———allow beneficiaries to purchase multiple prescription drug discount cards and to receive a refund of the enrollment fee if prices or the formulary used by the card sponsor changes (S. 2530), S7037 [18JN]

———clarify payment for clinical laboratory tests furnished by critical access hospitals (S. 2426), S5536 [17MY]

———coverage of bone mass measurements for all individuals at clinical risk for osteoporosis (S. 419), S5074 [10MY]

———coverage of outpatient prescription drugs, S518 [3FE]

———deliver a meaningful benefit and lower prescription drug prices (S. 2652), S8119-S8122, S8140 [14JY], S8268 [15JY]

———eliminate coverage gap and HMO subsidies and repeal health savings accounts (S. 2629), S7867 [8JY], S7900 [9JY]

———eliminate coverage gap and HMO subsidies and repeal health savings accounts (S. 2725), S8707 [22JY]

———eliminate overpayments to regional preferred provider organizations and other Medicare advantage plans and use savings to reduce prescription drug coverage gap, S2682 [11MR]

———eliminate privatization and reduce excessive payments to health maintenance organizations and other private sector insurance plans (S. 2300), S3937 [7AP]

———eliminate reductions in payments to hospitals for the indirect costs of medical education (S. 2876), S10071 [30SE]

———ensure that prescription drug discount card sponsors pass along discounts to beneficiaries (S. 2234), S3185 [25MR], S3319 [30MR]

———establish a hospice demonstration and grant program for beneficiaries (S. 2983), S11381 [16NO]

———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 access to diabetes self-management training by designated certified diabetes educators (S. 2431), S5609 [18MY]

———improve benefits for beneficiaries with kidney disease (S. 2614), S7752 [7JY]

———improve coordination of prescription drug coverage under retiree plans and State pharmaceutical assistance programs with Medicare drug benefits (S. 2339), S4317 [22AP]

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

———increase Federal oversight of the Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and revoke its unique ability to accredit hospitals (S. 2698), S8482, S8483 [20JY]

———increase in premiums, S9158 [14SE], S9409-S9411 [21SE], S9541 [23SE]

———modernize by ensuring that appropriate preventive services are covered (S. 2535), S7000 [17JN]

———permit negotiation of fair prices for, and allow the reimportation of, prescription drugs, S6301 [2JN]

———permit negotiation of fair prices for, and allow the reimportation of, prescription drugs (S. 2053), S628 [5FE], S1276 [12FE]

———permit the Dept. of HHS to negotiate fair prescription drugs prices for beneficiaries, S2398 [9MR]

———prescription drug discount card program implementation, S4387-S4390 [27AP], S4680 [29AP], S4780, S4782, S4784-S4787 [4MY], S4859, S4860 [5MY], S5057 [10MY], S5243, S5246 [12MY], S6253 [1JN], S6301 [2JN], S7945 [13JY], S9487 [22SE]

———prohibit operation of comparative cost adjustment (CCA) program in California (S. 2116), S1591 [25FE]

———prohibit operation of comparative cost adjustment (CCA) program in Hawaii (S. 2122), S1592 [25FE]

———prohibit operation of comparative cost adjustment (CCA) program in Michigan (S. 2113), S1589 [25FE]

———prohibit operation of comparative cost adjustment (CCA) program in Nevada (S. 2121), S1592 [25FE]

———prohibit operation of comparative cost adjustment (CCA) program in New Jersey (S. 2117), S1591 [25FE]

———prohibit operation of comparative cost adjustment (CCA) program in New Mexico (S. 2114), S1589 [25FE]

———provide beneficiaries access to information on the quality of care provided by skilled nursing facilities and provide incentives for such facilities to improve the quality of care (S. 2988), S11430 [17NO]

———provide for fairness in the calculation of disportionate share hospital payments for hospitals in Puerto Rico (S. 2260), S3369 [30MR]

———provide for negotiation of fair prices for prescription drugs (S. 1994), S8191 [15JY]

———provide for negotiation of fair prices for prescription drugs (S. 1999), S105 [21JA]

———provide for negotiation of fair prices for prescription drugs (S. 2714), S8561, S8574 [21JY], S8792 [22JY]

———provide for the automatic enrollment of Medicaid beneficiaries for prescription drug benefits (S. 2413), S5373 [12MY]

———provide for the automatic enrollment of Medicaid beneficiaries for prescription drug benefits (S. 2694), S8479, S8490 [20JY], S8574 [21JY]

———provide incentives for the furnishing of quality care under Medicare Advantage plans and by end stage renal disease providers and facilities (S. 2562), S7313-S7315 [23JN]

———reduce part B premium through elimination of certain overpayments to Medicare Advantage organizations (S. 2906), S10579-S10581 [6OC]

———reform and provide prescription drug coverage (H.R. 1), conference report, S75 [21JA], S341 [2FE], S675-S677, S679, S680 [6FE], S693, S698 [9FE], S763 [10FE], S1414 [12FE], S2761, S2762 [12MR], S3051, S3058-S3060 [24MR], S3319 [30MR], S3524, S3527 [1AP], S3624-S3627 [5AP], S3911, S3952-S3957 [7AP], S4340-S4342 [26AP], S4387-S4390 [27AP], S4631, S4680 [29AP], S4784-S4786 [4MY], S5056-S5058 [10MY], S5243, S5247 [12MY], S5488 [14MY], S8096 [14JY], S8825 [7SE], S9487 [22SE], S9541 [23SE], S10617-S10620 [7OC], S10764-S10767, S10769 [8OC], S10960-S10962, S10981-S10983 [9OC]

———reimbursement for certain midwife services (S. 2492), S6362 [2JN]

———simplify prescription drug discount card program (S. 2512), S6631 [8JN]

———stabilize amount of part B premium (S. 2780), S9161 [14SE], S9409-S9411 [21SE]

———waive waiting period for coverage of certain disabled individuals (S. 2566), S7321 [23JN]

Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act: anniversary, S11770 [20NO]

———improve (S. 2343), S4329 [22AP]

———investigation into allegations of the withholding of information relative to disclosure of cost of implementation, S7118 [22JN], S9541 [23SE]

Members of Congress: ensure that prescription drug coverage for Members is not better than coverage for Medicare beneficiaries (S. 2678), S8400 [16JY], S8427 [19JY]

Mental health: authorizing appropriations for diversion courts (S. 2107), S1522 [24FE]

———provide assistance to train teachers for children with autism spectrum disorders, S5359 [12MY]

———provide for equal insurance coverage of benefits unless comparable limitations are imposed on medical and surgical benefits (S. 486), S599-S601 [5FE], S5730-S5733 [19MY], S5907 [20MY], S10692 [7OC]

———services funding, S2684 [11MR]

———tribute to art therapists dealing with veterans, S10688 [7OC]

Mental Illness Awareness Week: observance, S10692 [7OC]

Mining and mineral resources: reauthorize collection of reclamation fees, revise abandoned mine reclamation program, promote remining, and authorize Office of Surface Mining to collect black lung excise tax (S. 2049), S541 [3FE]

Minorities: health disparities reduction funding, S2657, S2658 [11MR]

———improve health of minority individuals, S3967 [8AP]

———improve health of minority individuals (S. 1833), S3784 [6AP], S4673 [29AP]

Multivitamins: encourage use in prevention of chronic diseases, S11619 [19NO]

National Asbestos Awareness Day: designate (S. Res. 448), S10584 [6OC]

National Better Hearing and Speech Month: support goals and ideals (S. Res. 366), S6044 [20MY]

National Breast Cancer Awareness Month: authorize the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, MO, to be illuminated by pink lights in commemoration (S. 2895), S10459, S10467 [5OC]

———observance, S11288 [11OC]

National Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Week: designate (S. Res. 457), S11012, S11013 [10OC]

National Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month: designate (S. Res. 298), S1019 [11FE], S4060 [8AP]

National Day To Prevent Teen Pregnancy: observance, S4828 [4MY]

National Eye Donor Month: observance, S2709 [11MR]

National Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Day: designate (S. Res. 390), S7346, S7347 [23JN], S8980, S8981 [9SE]

National Health Center Week: designate (S. Res. 357), S5376 [12MY]

National Health Corps Loan Repayment Program: count fellowship training in geriatric medicine or psychiatry as obligated service (S. 2075), S1291 [12FE]

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute: expand, intensify, and coordinate pulmonary hypertension research activities (S. 2922), S10716 [7OC]

———expand and coordinate activities on women's diseases, S8822 [7SE]

National Immunization Week: observance, S4372 [26AP]

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health: long-term health monitoring of firefighters in disaster areas (S. 2660), S8231 [15JY]

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development: establish a program on children and the media to study the role and impact of electronic media in the development of children (S. 2447), S5803-S5806 [19MY]

National Mammography Day: designate (S. Res. 407), S8241 [15JY], S8803 [22JY]

National Minority Cancer Awareness Week: observance, S4373 [26AP], S4673 [29AP]

National objectives: establish grants to improve nutrition, increase physical activity, and prevent obesity (S. 1172), S10388 [5OC]

———establish grants to improve nutrition, increase physical activity, and prevent obesity (S. 2399), S5091, S5094 [10MY]

———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]

———policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures, S105 [21JA], S519 [3FE], S761, S763 [10FE], S2833 [22MR], S3121 [25MR], S3524 [1AP], S4088 [19AP], S5056 [10MY], S5173-S5176 [11MY], S5244-S5250, S5364-S5366 [12MY], S5384, S5387-S5389 [13MY], S5488 [14MY], S5733 [19MY], S7506 [25JN], S8057-S8059 [14JY], S9120 [13SE], S9160-S9164 [14SE], S9273 [15SE], S9542, S9544 [23SE], S9692-S9696 [27SE], S10514-S10516, S10551-S10553 [6OC], S10769 [8OC], S11739 [20NO]

———reduce health care costs and promote improved health by focusing on preventive health services, S4195-S4198 [21AP], S7047-S7050 [18JN]

———reorient the nation's health care system towards prevention, wellness, and self care (S. 2558), S7183-S7189 [22JN], S9066-S9068 [10SE], S11710-S11713 [20NO]

National Patient Safety Awareness Week: designate (S. Res. 320), S2757 [12MR]

National Prematurity Awareness Month: support goals and ideals (S. Res. 476), S11653 [19NO]

National Primary Immune Deficiency Diseases Awareness Week: observance, S4221 [21AP], S4293 [22AP], S4427 [27AP]

National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month: designate (S. Res. 418), S8801 [22JY]

National Public Health Week: observance, S3784 [6AP], S3967, S4005, S4016 [8AP]

National Safety Month: designate (S. Res. 331), S3633 [5AP], S5554 [17MY]

National School Lunch Act: phase out reduced price lunches and breakfasts by phasing in an increase in the income eligibility guidelines for free lunches and breakfasts, S2669 [11MR]

National security: accelerate removal or security of fissile and radioactive materials at vulnerable sites worldwide, S5771, S5774 [19MY]

National Time Out Day: support goals and ideas (S. Res. 469), S11383 [16NO]

National Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month: support goals and ideals (S. Con. Res. 113), S6108 [21MY], S11329 [11OC]

National Visiting Nurse Association Week: designate (S. Con. Res. 8), S11017, S11018 [10OC]

Native Americans: Federal aid programs funding, S4626 [29AP]

Nevada Cancer Institute: tribute, S10292 [4OC]

New York, NY: reauthorize the New York City Watershed Protection Program (H.R. 2771), S5021 [6MY], S5047 [7MY], S10185 [30SE]

NIH: provide for Alzheimer's disease research and demonstration grants, S6599-S6615 [8JN], S6666, S6668 [9JN]

———research funding, S2639, S2670, S2671 [11MR], S11552 [19NO]

NIH Police: establish (S. 2574), S7441 [24JN]

Nobel Prize: recognition of Richard Axel for physiology or medicine, S11628 [19NO]

Nuclear Medicine Week: observance, S10430 [5OC]

Obesity: address epidemic, S3199 [26MR]

Occupational Safety and Health Act: expand coverage, increase protections for whistleblowers, and increase penalties for violators (S. 2371), S4699, S4700 [29AP]

———improve safety and health of working environments (S. 2719), S8696 [22JY]

Oceans: establish an interagency research program to improve understanding of the role of the oceans and human health and a similar program at NOAA (S. 1218), S3110-S3115 [24MR], S3176 [25MR]

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative: prohibit use of funds to negotiate data exclusivity provisions for certain pharmaceutical products (S. 2944), S10847 [8OC]

OPM: administer a national health program to offer Federal employee health benefits plans to individuals who are not Federal employees (S. 2161), S2109 [3MR]

———administer a national health program to offer Federal employee health benefits plans to individuals who are not Federal employees (S. 2163), S2224-S2226 [4MR], S3278 [29MR], S5175 [11MY]

———administer a national health program to offer Federal employee health benefits plans to individuals who are not Federal employees (S. 2630), S7867 [8JY], S7900 [9JY]

Organ donation: promote (H.R. 3926), S3172 [25MR]

Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month: observance, S5074 [10MY]

Paralyzed Veterans of America (organization): support of spinal cord injury research, S4219 [21AP]

Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act: court ruling on constitutionality, S6443 [3JN]

Pfizer, Inc.: tribute to initiative to provide discounts on prescription drugs for the uninsured, S7745 [7JY]

Pharmaceuticals: Bush administration prohibition against using U.S. appropriations to purchase generic drugs to treat worldwide HIV/AIDS patients, S8110 [14JY]

———importation of prescription drugs, S2700 [11MR], S2760, S2761 [12MR], S3524 [1AP], S3741 [6AP], S5053 [10MY], S8096 [14JY], S8179, S8180, S8185, S8191, S8196-S8199, S8207, S8211, S8214 [15JY], S9156-S9158 [14SE], S10961 [9OC], S11551 [19NO]

———importation of prescription drugs (S. 2307), S4042-S4044 [8AP]

———importation of prescription drugs (S. 2328), S4227-S4230 [21AP], S8498 [21JY], S8932 [8SE], S9072 [10SE], S10411, S10412 [5OC]

———permit importation of prescription drugs from Canada and certain other countries (H.R. 4790), S8932 [8SE]

———reductions in prescription drug prices, S5053 [10MY]

Political campaigns: comparison of President Bush and Senator Kerry relative to health care reform, S9542, S9544 [23SE], S10514-S10516, S10551-S10553 [6OC], S10812 [8OC]

Prematurity Awareness Day: observance, S11370 [16NO]

Presidential appointments: nominations placed on the calendar, S11322 [11OC]

Privacy: amend the Federal Rules of Evidence to create an explicit privilege to preserve medical privacy (S. 2827), S9526 [22SE]

———ensure protection of personally identifiable information outsourced abroad through increased disclosure, compliance with U.S. privacy standards, and accountability (S. 2472), S6006, S6009 [20MY]

———ensure protection of personally identifiable information outsourced abroad through increased disclosure, compliance with U.S. privacy standards, and accountability (S. 2481), S6275 [1JN]

Project BioShield: correct budget scoring, S2674, S2675 [11MR]

Project BioShield Act: clarify availability of funds for the purchase of vaccines under contracts in effect prior to enactment, S5766, S5767 [19MY]

Public Health Service Act: expand the clinical trials drug data bank (S. 2933), S10728-S10731 [7OC]

Public welfare programs: allow local government provision of nonemergency and preventive health services to non-qualified immigrants, S3358 [30MR]

Red Ribbon Week: support goals (S. Res. 455), S10829 [8OC], S11012 [10OC]

Research: embryonic stem cell research funding, S9605 [23SE], S11065-S11067 [10OC], S11237, S11238, S11241-S11244, S11274 [11OC]

———establish a national policy permitting utilization of stem cells from in vitro fertilized frozen embryos, S6443 [3JN]

———expand research information regarding multidisciplinary research projects and epidemiological studies (H.R. 5213), S11389 [16NO], S11419 [17NO]

———increase supply of pancreatic islet cells for research and coordinate efforts and information on transplantation (H.R. 3858), S10880 [8OC]

———increase supply of pancreatic islet cells for research and coordinate efforts and information on transplantation (S. 2158), S2005 [2MR]

———provide for arthritis research and public health (S. 2338), S4316 [22AP]

RESOLVE—The National Infertility Association: tribute, S8847 [7SE]

Safety: improve patient safety and reduce incidence of medical errors, S11889 [7DE]

———improve patient safety and reduce incidence of medical errors (H.R. 663), S8092, S8093 [14JY], S8632, S8633 [22JY]

———improve patient safety and reduce incidence of medical errors (H.R. 663), insert S. 720 language in lieu, S8632 [22JY]

———improve patient safety and reduce incidence of medical errors (H.R. 663), unanimous-consent request, S3877, S3878 [7AP], S8092 [14JY]

———improve patient safety and reduce incidence of medical errors (S. 720), S8091 [14JY], S8222 [15JY], S8416-S8418 [19JY], S8627-S8633 [22JY]

Salt Lake City, UT: tribute to Celebration of Life Monument, S4370 [26AP]

Senate: authorize Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper to ascertain and settle claims relative to ricin exposure in Senate complex (S. Res. 329), S3610 [2AP]

———continuation of duties during investigation of ricin mailed to Senate office, S383, S384, S545, S546 [3FE], S549, S555, S556 [4FE], S675 [6FE]

———impact of ricin mailed to Senate office on individuals who were potentially exposed, S384 [3FE]

———investigation of ricin mailed to Senate office, S509, S545, S546 [3FE], S549, S555, S556 [4FE]

———legislative priorities, S8815 [7SE]

Senior citizens: access to oral health care, S10431 [5OC]

———promote elder justice (S. 333), S11888-S11890 [7DE], S12047 [8DE]

Small business: certify programs to provide health coverage to uninsured employees (S. 2544), S7014 [17JN]

Social Security: ensure full and free competition in the medical device and hospital supply industries (S. 2880), S10263 [1OC]

———expand or add coverage of pregnant women under State Children's Health Insurance Program and Medicaid (S. 1734), S11370 [16NO]

———extend availability of allotments under the State Children's Health Insurance Program, S10180-S10183 [30SE]

———make all uninsured children eligible for the State Children's Health Insurance Program and simplify enrollment and renewal procedures for Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (S. 2420), S5477-S5479 [13MY], S5531 [17MY]

———modify the rules on availability and method of redistribution of unexpended State Children's Health Insurance Program allotments (S. 2759), S8749-S8751 [22JY], S10259 [1OC], S10361 [4OC]

———permit States the option of covering certain legal aliens under Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (S. 2685), S8424 [19JY]

———permit States the option of covering certain legal aliens under Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (S. 2704), S8574 [21JY], S8792 [22JY]

———prevent unspent State Children's Health Insurance Program funds from reverting to the Treasury rather than being used to provide coverage for low-income children, S2656 [11MR]

———promote smoking cessation under Medicare, Medicaid, and the Maternal and Child Health Program (S. 2730), S8709 [22JY]

———solvency, S1873-S1877 [27FE], S2269 [8MR], S3051 [24MR]

Spina Bifida Awareness Month: observance, S9808 [28SE], S11289 [11OC]

States: give priority to pedestrian and bicycle facility enhancement projects that include a coordinated physical activity or healthy lifestyles program, S1237 [12FE]

Taxation: allow a nonrefundable tax credit for elder care expenses (S. 2072), S1290 [12FE]

———allow a refundable credit for the purchase of private health insurance (S. 2893), S10442 [5OC]

———allow a tax credit for the purchase of hearing aids (S. 2055), S722 [9FE]

———allow self-employed individuals to deduct health insurance costs in computing self-employment taxes (S. 2433), S5610 [18MY]

———allow small employers a tax credit for costs paid or incurred for employee health insurance expenses (S. 2359), S4502 [28AP]

———extend certain expiring provisions of the Internal Revenue Code (S. 1896), S689 [6FE]

———improve the health coverage tax credit (S. 2935), S10733 [7OC]

———provide a small business health tax credit (S. 2245), S3215 [26MR]

———provide subsidies to encourage small employers to offer affordable health coverage to their employees through qualified health pooling arrangements, S9544 [23SE]

———provide that distributions from certain retirement plans are not included in gross income if used to pay long-term care insurance premiums (S. 2918), S10713 [7OC]

———treatment of continuing care retirement communities, S5890, S5891 [19MY]

Technology: improve the quality and efficiency of health care delivery through improvements in health care information technology (S. 2710), S8656 [22JY]

———improve the quality and efficiency of health care delivery through improvements in health care information technology (S. 2907), S10581 [6OC]

———modernize the health care system through the use of information technology and reduce costs, improve quality, and provide a new focus on prevention with respect to health care (S. 2421), S5479 [13MY]

Terrorism: enhance agricultural biosecurity through increased prevention, preparation, and response planning (S. 430), S1675 [26FE], S9027 [9SE], S12044 [8DE]

Tinnitus Awareness Week: support goals and ideals (S. Con. Res. 108), S5381 [12MY]

Tobacco products: increase funding for research, disease control, wellness, and tobacco cessation and preventative health efforts through an increase in cigarette and other tobacco excise taxes, S2621-S2623, S2645 [11MR]

U.S. Military Cancer Institute: establish (S. 2097), S1460 [23FE]

Uganda: report on congressional delegation trip, S6990 [17JN]

University of North Carolina: National Demonstration Program for Citizen-Soldier Support funding, S7277 [23JN]

Veterans: benefits funding, S6749 [15JN], S7160, S7161 [22JN], S7289 [23JN], S7358 [24JN], S9868 [29SE], S10403 [5OC]

———eliminate phase-in period for concurrent receipt of military retired pay with service-connected disability benefits for the severely disabled, S7040-S7042 [18JN]

———health care funding, S69 [21JA], S1901 [1MR], S2673 [11MR], S3789 [6AP], S7134-S7139, S7147-S7152 [22JN], S11423 [17NO]

———health care funding through reductions in certain tax cuts for upper-income individuals, S2411-S2423 [9MR]

———health care funding through reductions in excess profits and assessment of penalties against certain contractors doing business in Iraq, S2679-S2681 [11MR]

———health care funding through reductions in lawyers' fees relative to the tobacco settlement, S2679-S2681 [11MR]

———improve and enhance education, housing, employment, medical, and other benefits and improve and extend certain authorities relative to the administration of benefits (S. 2486), S6288 [1JN], S10880-S10892 [8OC], S11195 [11OC], S11885 [7DE]

———improve post-traumatic stress disorder treatment for veterans of service in Afghanistan and Iraq and the war on terror, S8822 [7SE]

———improve provision of health care, rehabilitation, and related services to veterans suffering from trauma relating to a blast injury (S. 2524), S6886 [16JN]

———permit concurrent receipt of military retired pay with service-connected disability benefits, S1901 [1MR], S7161 [22JN]

Veterans Day: observance, S11423 [17NO]

Voices of Detroit Initiative (organization): tribute, S8959 [8SE]

Women: impact of heart disease, S2759 [12MR]

———improve access to health care services and provide improved medical care by reducing the excessive burden the liability system places on the delivery of obstetrical and gynecological services (S. 2061), S953 [10FE], S1191 [11FE], S1995 [2MR], S3760 [6AP]

———improve access to health care services and provide improved medical care by reducing the excessive burden the liability system places on the delivery of obstetrical and gynecological services (S. 2061), motion to proceed, S1422-S1437, S1441-S1443, S1446 [23FE], S1467-S1506, S1509, S1510 [24FE]

———improve access to health care services and provide improved medical care by reducing the excessive burden the liability system places on the delivery of obstetrical and gynecological services (S. 2061), unanimous-consent request, S1401 [12FE]

———increase awareness and education about heart disease among women, S5223 [11MY]

———lung cancer death rates, S7117 [22JN]

———reduce preterm labor, delivery, and risk of pregnancy-related deaths and complications due to pregnancy, and reduce infant mortality caused by prematurity (S. 1726), S1276 [12FE], S11370 [16NO]

World AIDS Day: observance, S11883, S11884 [7DE]

World Asthma Day: observance, S4825 [4MY]

World Health Day: observance, S3915, S3916 [7AP]

World Heart Day: observance, S9599 [23SE]

Reports

Democracy on Drugs: Common Cause (organization), E1038-E1040 [4JN]

Health Insurance Coverage in the U.S.: Bureau of the Census, H6766 [8SE]

Insider—FDA Can't Protect Public: CBS News, H9993 [18NO]

Medicare Trust Fund Reimbursement Act: Anthony H. Gamboa, GAO, S6089-S6093 [21MY]

What Happens When Traditional Medicare Has To Bid Against Private Plans? An Example of How the House Bill Would Privatize Medicare: Families USA (organization), S1590 [25FE]

Reports filed

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

Allow Federal Civilian and Military Retirees To Pay Health Insurance Premiums on a Pretax Basis and Allow a Tax Deduction for TRICARE Supplemental Premiums: Committee on Government Reform (House) (H.R. 1231) (H. Rept. 108-585), H5330 [7JY]

Anabolic Steroid Control Act: Committee on Energy and Commerce (House) (H.R. 3866) (H. Rept. 108-461), H2405 [27AP]

———Committee on the Judiciary (House) (H.R. 3866) (H. Rept. 108-461), H2151 [2AP]

———Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 2195), S10059 [30SE]

Asthmatic Schoolchildren's Treatment and Health Management Act: Committee on Energy and Commerce (House) (H.R. 2023) (H. Rept. 108-606), H5792 [14JY]

———Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (Senate) (S. 2815) (S. Rept. 108-394), S10845 [8OC]

Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (Senate) (S. 2507) (S. Rept. 108-279), S6499 [7JN]

Child Nutrition Improvement and Integrity Act: Committee on Education and the Workforce (House) (H.R. 3873) (H. Rept. 108-445), H1369 [23MR]

Consideration of Conference Report on H.R. 1350, Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 858) (H. Rept. 108-781), H9999 [18NO]

Consideration of H.R. 4279, Tax Treatment of Unused Nontaxable Benefits Under Cafeteria Plans and Flexible Spending Arrangements: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 638) (H. Rept. 108-484), H2814 [11MY]

Consideration of H.R. 4280, Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-Cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 638) (H. Rept. 108-484), H2814 [11MY]

Consideration of H.R. 4281, Small Business Health Fairness Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 638) (H. Rept. 108-484), H2814 [11MY]

Dept. of HHS Tribal Self-Governance Amendments Act: Committee on Indian Affairs (Senate) (S. 1696) (S. Rept. 108-412), S11377 [16NO]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel Enhancement Act: Committee on Veterans' Affairs (Senate) (S. 2484) (S. Rept. 108-357), S9611 [23SE]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs Nurse Recruitment and Retention Act: Committee on Veterans' Affairs (House) (H.R. 4231) (H. Rept. 108-538), H3872 [9JN]

Elder Fall Prevention Act: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (Senate) (S. 1217) (S. Rept. 108-395), S10845 [8OC]

Elder Justice Act: Committee on Finance (Senate) (S. 333), S9812 [28SE]

Emergency Medical Services Support Act: Committee on Governmenal Affairs (Senate) (S. 2351) (S. Rept. 108-291), S7580 [6JY]

Federal Employee Dental and Vision Benefits Enhancement Act: Committee on Governmental Affairs (Senate) (S. 2657) (S. Rept. 108-393), S10845 [8OC]

Health Care Parity for Legal Transportation and Recreational Activities Act: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (Senate) (S. 423) (S. Rept. 108-390), S10702 [7OC]

Heart Disease Among Women Awareness and Education: Committee on Energy and Commerce (House) (H. Res. 522) (H. Rept. 108-440), H1321 [18MR]

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]

Improve Services and Facilities of Federal Indian Health Programs and Encourage Maximum Participation of Indians in Such Programs: Committee on Resources (House) (H.R. 2440) (H. Rept. 108-791), H10078 [19NO]

Improved Nutrition and Physical Activity (IMPACT) Act: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (Senate) (S. 1172) (S. Rept. 108-245), S2859 [22MR]

Improving Access to Assistive Technology for Individuals With Disabilities Act: Committee on Education and the Workforce (House) (H.R. 4278) (H. Rept. 108-514), H3604 [1JN]

Indian Health Care Improvement Act Revision and Extension: Committee on Indian Affairs (Senate) (S. 556) (S. Rept. 108-411), S11377 [16NO]

Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act: Committee of Conference (H.R. 1350) (H. Rept. 108-779), H9962 [17NO]

Investigation of Certain Allegations Related to Voting on the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act: Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (House) (H. Rept. 108-722), H8037 [4OC]

Lift the Patient Limitation on Prescribing Drug Addiction Treatments by Medical Practitioners in Group Practices: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 1887), S6450 [3JN]

Mammography Quality Standards Act Reauthorization: Committee on Energy and Commerce (House) (H.R. 4555) (H. Rept. 108-694), H7441 [22SE]

Medical Devices Technical Corrections Act: Committee on Energy and Commerce (House) (S. 1881) (H. Rept. 108-433), H926 [9MR]

Mental Health Diversion Courts Appropriations: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 2107), S4687 [29AP]

National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Act: Committee on Energy and Commerce (House) (H.R. 3015) (H. Rept. 108-728), H8166 [5OC]

National Health Center Week: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. Res. 357), S7054 [18JN]

National Mammography Day: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. Res. 407), S8473 [20JY]

National Safety Month: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. Res. 331), S5472 [13MY]

National Uniformity for Food Act: Committee on Energy and Commerce (House) (H.R. 2699) (H. Rept. 108-770), H9047 [8OC]

Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement Act Revision and Extension: Committee on Indian Affairs (Senate) (S. 702) (S. Rept. 108-405), S11377 [16NO]

New York City Watershed Protection Program Reauthorization: Committee on Energy and Commerce (House) (H.R. 2771) (H. Rept. 108-476), H2482 [28AP]

OPM Study and Presentation of Options Under Which Dental and Vision Benefits Could Be Made Available to Federal Employees, Retirees, and Other Appropriate Individuals: Committee on Government Reform (House) (H.R. 3751) (H. Rept. 108-552), H4391, H4506 [17JN]

Pancreatic Islet Cell Transplantation Act: Committee on Energy and Commerce (House) (H.R. 3858) (H. Rept. 108-726), H8166 [5OC]

———Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (Senate) (S. 518) (S. Rept. 108-387), S10702 [7OC]

Patient Navigator Outreach, and Chronic Disease Prevention Act: Committee on Energy and Commerce (House) (H.R. 918) (H. Rept. 108-727), H8166 [5OC]

Provide Continued Health Benefits Coverage for Certain Federal Employees: Committee on Governmental Affairs (Senate) (S. 2409) (S. Rept. 108-410), S11377 [16NO]

Provide Documents to the House of Representatives Relative to Cost Estimates and Analyses of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act: Committee on Energy and Commerce (House) (H. Res. 776) (H. Rept. 108-754), H9047 [8OC]

———Committee on Ways and Means (House) (H. Res. 776) (H. Rept. 108-754), H8856 [7OC]

Republic of China Participation in WHO: Committee on Foreign Relations (Senate) (S. 2092), S4687 [29AP]

Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act: Committee on Agriculture (House) (H.R. 3242) (H. Rept. 108-750), H8407 [6OC]

Stroke Treatment and Ongoing Prevention Act: Committee on Energy and Commerce (House) (H.R. 3658) (H. Rept. 108-453), H1739 [30MR]

Veterans' Benefits Improvements Act: Committee on Veterans' Affairs (Senate) (S. 2486) (S. Rept. 108-352), S9386 [20SE]

Veterans Prescription Drugs Assistance Act: Committee on Veterans' Affairs (Senate) (S. 1153) (S. Rept. 108-419), S11639 [19NO]

Resolutions by organizations

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease): Marathon County, WI, Board of Supervisors, S1677 [26FE]

Statements

Congressional Human Rights Caucus Briefing on International Disability Rights: Eric Rosenthal, Mental Disability Rights International (organization), E993 [2JN]

———Johan Scholvinck, U.N., E813 [11MY]

———Kathy Martinez, E897 [18MY]

———Luis Gallegos, Ecuadoran Representative to the U.N., E751 [5MY]

———Representative Lantos, E527 [2AP]

———Richard L. Thornburgh, E679 [28AP]

DEA Raid Relative to Use of Medical Marijuana: Suzanne Pfeil, Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana, S11431 [17NO]

Elder Justice Act: Mark Shalloway, S11889 [7DE]

———Nick Cox, S11889 [7DE]

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]

Medical Liability Crisis and Access to Care: AMA, S1482 [24FE]

Medicare Prescription Drug Discount Card Program Implementation: National Committee To Preserve Social Security and Medicare, E1105 [14JN]

Patient Centered Healthcare Delivery System: Douglas Eby, S10058 [30SE]

Taking the Long View—Value of Studies Over Time: U.S. Medicine Institute, E671 [27AP]

Tribute to Jacob M. Doub: International Mountain Biking Association, E1829 [7OC]

Veterans' Benefits Improvements Act (S. 2486): Senate Amendments, H9759-H9766 [17NO]

Studies

Small Business Health Fairness Act: Beth Fritchen and Karen Bender, Mercer Risk, Finance & Insurance Consulting, Inc., H2971 [13MY]

Summaries

Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution (FAIR) Act (S. 2290): Changes From S. 1125, S4107-S4111 [20AP]

Importation of Prescription Drugs (S. 2307), S4044 [8AP]

Medicare Early Access Act (H.R. 4357), E827 [12MY]

Native American Living Conditions: Commission on Civil Rights, S1618 [26FE]

Pharmaceutical Market Access and Drug Safety Act (S. 2328), S4228 [21AP]

Tables

Projected health care costs and savings under S. 2558, Healthy Lifestyles and Prevention (HeLP) America Act, S7189 [22JN]

Texts of

H. Con. Res. 34, encourage private health insurance companies to take a proactive role in promoting healthy lifestyles, H8091 [5OC]

H. Con. Res. 250, tribute to community organization of public access defibrillation programs, H8089 [5OC]

H. Con. Res. 430, support goals and ideals of National Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month, H9870 [17NO]

H. Con. Res. 480, National Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day, H8063 [5OC]

H. Con. Res. 494, support goals and purposes of National Farm Safety and Health Week, H7390 [22SE]

H. Con. Res. 524, corrections in enrollment to H.R. 1350, Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act, H10022 [19NO]

H. Res. 261, encourage support of U.S. hunger relief organizations, H8133 [5OC]

H. Res. 522, increase awareness and education about heart disease among women, H1339 [23MR]

H. Res. 567, commend American Dental Association 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, H7975 [4OC]

H. Res. 605, increase awareness of autism spectrum disorder, support programs for research and improved treatment, and improve training for health care professionals, H2593 [5MY]

H. Res. 638, consideration of H.R. 4279, taxation of cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements, H.R. 4280, Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-Cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act, and H.R. 4281, Small Business Health Fairness Act, H2821 [12MY]

H. Res. 641, support goals and ideals of Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month, H9690 [16NO]

H. Res. 646, National Community Health Center Week, H5478 [12JY]

H. Res. 669, provide prostate cancer patients with meaningful access to information on treatment options, H3896 [14JN]

H. Res. 672, consideration of H.R. 4529, Arctic Coastal Plain and Surface Mining Improvement Act, H3968 [15JN]

H. Res. 772, support goals and ideals of National Long-Term Care Residents' Rights Week, H7359 [22SE]

H. Res. 858, consideration of conference report on H.R. 1350, Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act, H10006 [19NO]

H.R. 918, Patient Navigator Outreach, and Chronic Disease Prevention Act, H8064 [5OC]

H.R. 1318, Thomas P. Noonan, Jr., Dept. of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic, Queens, NY, H7018 [13SE]

H.R. 1350, Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act, S5411-S5451 [13MY]

H.R. 1385, special postage stamps to fund breast cancer research issuance extension, H104 [27JA]

H.R. 1856, Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Act reauthorization, H5215 [7JY]

H.R. 2023, Asthmatic Schoolchildren's Treatment and Health Management Act, H8074 [5OC]

H.R. 2771, New York City Watershed Protection Program reauthorization, H2600 [5MY]

H.R. 3015, National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Act, H8069 [5OC]

H.R. 3242, Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act, H8377-H8379 [6OC]

H.R. 3493, Medical Devices Technical Corrections Act, H109 [27JA]

H.R. 3658, Stroke Treatment and Ongoing Prevention Act, H3893 [14JN]

H.R. 3722, impose conditions on Federal reimbursement of emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens, H3033 [17MY]

H.R. 3751, OPM study and presentation of options under which dental and vision benefits could be made available to Federal employees, retirees, and other appropriate individuals, H4599 [21JN]

H.R. 3858, Pancreatic Islet Cell Transplantation Act, H8073 [5OC]

H.R. 3866, Anabolic Steroid Control Act, H3660 [2JN]

H.R. 3873, Child Nutrition Improvement and Integrity Act, H1396-H1405 [24MR]

H.R. 4019, participation of the Republic of China in WHO, H2215 [21AP]

H.R. 4231, Dept. of Veterans Affairs Nurse Recruitment and Retention Act, H7797 [29SE]

H.R. 4278, Assistive Technology Act, H9012-H9019 [8OC]

H.R. 4278, Improving Access to Assistive Technology for Individuals With Disabilities Act, H3913-H3918 [14JN]

H.R. 4279, treatment of unused nontaxable benefits under cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements, H2838 [12MY]

H.R. 4280, Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-Cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act, H2853-H2856 [12MY]

H.R. 4281, Small Business Health Fairness Act, H2951-H2957 [13MY]

H.R. 4372, Working Families Assistance Act, H4663 [22JN]

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]

H.R. 4555, Mammography Quality Standards Act reauthorization, H8079 [5OC]

H.R. 5213, Research Review Act, H8255 [6OC]

H.R. 5295, Federal Employees Dental and Vision Benefits Enhancement Act, H9033-H9036 [8OC]

S. 15, Project BioShield Act, S5744-S5760 [19MY], H5721-H5729 [14JY]

S. 423, HIPAA Recreational Injury Technical Correction Act, S11839 [20NO]

S. 622, Family Opportunity Act, S4946-S4948 [6MY]

S. 720, Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act, S8627-S8631 [22JY]

S. 1217, Keeping Seniors Safe From Falls Act, S11508-S11510 [18NO]

S. 1218, Oceans and Human Health Act, S3110-S3113 [24MR]

S. 1248, Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act, S5250-S5325 [12MY]

S. 1879, Mammography Quality Standards Act reauthorization, S379 [2FE]

S. 1881, Medical Devices Technical Corrections Act, S2821 [12MR], H890 [9MR]

S. 1887, lift the patient limitation on prescribing drug addiction treatments by medical practitioners in group practices, S6490 [7JN]

S. 2047, include certain former nuclear weapons program workers in the Special Exposure Cohort under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act, S376 [2FE]

S. 2049, Abandoned Mine Reclamation Program Extension and Reform Act, S542-S545 [3FE]

S. 2051, Animal Feed Protection Act, S650 [5FE]

S. 2055, Hearing Aid Assistance Tax Credit Act, S723 [9FE]

S. 2063, Dept. of Veterans Affairs demonstration project on priorities in scheduling of appointments of veterans for health care, S808 [10FE]

S. 2072, Senior Elder Care Relief and Empowerment (SECURE) Act, S1290 [12FE]

S. 2075, Geriatricians Loan Forgiveness Act, S1291 [12FE]

S. 2076, Congressional Access to the CMS Chief Actuary Act, S1292 [12FE]

S. 2092, participation of the Republic of China in WHO, S5021 [6MY], H3457 [20MY]

S. 2097, U.S. Military Cancer Institute Act, S1460 [23FE]

S. 2098, Native Hawaiian Medicaid Coverage Act, S1460 [23FE]

S. 2107, mental health diversion courts appropriations, S1523 [24FE]

S. 2114, prohibit operation of Medicare comparative cost adjustment (CCA) program in New Mexico, S1590 [25FE]

S. 2115, prohibit operation of Medicare comparative cost adjustment (CCA) program in South Dakota, S1591 [25FE]

S. 2121, prohibit operation of Medicare comparative cost adjustment (CCA) program in Nevada, S1592 [25FE]

S. 2122, prohibit operation of Medicare comparative cost adjustment (CCA) program in Hawaii, S1593 [25FE]

S. 2139, Residual Radioactive Contamination Compensation Act, S1694 [26FE]

S. 2175, Youth Suicide Early Intervention and Prevention Expansion Act, S2306 [8MR]

S. 2183, Early Attention to Nutrition (EATN) Act, S2444 [9MR]

S. 2195, Anabolic Steroid Control Act, S10606-S10608 [6OC], H9010 [8OC]

S. 2196, clarify that Dept. of Veterans Affairs per diem payments for the care of veterans in State homes shall not be used to offset Medicaid payments, S2721 [11MR]

S. 2203, provide assistance to combat HIV/AIDS in India, S2726 [11MR]

S. 2215, Campus Care and Counseling Act, S2793 [12MR]

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

S. 2222, Medicaid and CHIP Safety Net Preservation Act, S2864 [22MR]

S. 2226, extend period for COBRA coverage for recipients of trade adjustment assistance, S3001 [23MR]

S. 2241, school lunch and child nutrition programs reauthorization, S3217 [26MR], H1686 [30MR]

S. 2245, Small Business Health Tax Credit Act, S3216 [26MR]

S. 2260, Medicare DSH Payments for Puerto Rico Hospitals Fairness Act, S3370 [30MR]

S. 2265, Eliminate Colorectal Cancer Act, S3459 [31MR]

S. 2272, Children's Vaccine Access Act, S3572 [1AP]

S. 2283, State High Risk Pool Funding Extension Act, S11386 [16NO]

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. 2308, Prompt Payment of Health Benefits Claims Act, S4046-S4048 [8AP]

S. 2327, clarify that Dept. of Veterans Affairs per diem payments for the care of veterans in State homes shall not be used to offset Medicaid payments, S4227 [21AP]

S. 2336, Putting Prevention First Act, S4311-S4315 [22AP]

S. 2361, Training and Research in Urology Act, S4696 [29AP]

S. 2399, Healthy Lifestyles Act, S5092-S5094 [10MY]

S. 2413, Medicare Assurance of Rx Transitional Assistance Act, S5375 [12MY]

S. 2417, authorize Dept. of Veterans Affairs to furnish care for newborn children of women veterans receiving maternity care, S5474 [13MY]

S. 2427, Veterans' Enhanced Transition Services Act, S5539-S5541 [17MY]

S. 2447, Children and Media Research Advancement Act, S5805 [19MY]

S. 2451, restore the application date for agricultural country of origin labeling, S5951 [20MY]

S. 2461, Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, S5963-S5979 [20MY]

S. 2472, Increasing Notice of Foreign Outsourcing Act, S6007-S6009 [20MY]

S. 2473, Medicare Trust Fund Reimbursement Act, S6089 [21MY]

S. 2481, Increasing Notice of Foreign Outsourcing Act, S6276-S6278 [1JN]

S. 2484, Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel Enhancement Act, S10463-S10465 [5OC]

S. 2484, Dept. of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel Enhancement Act, S6280-S6282 [1JN], H9787-H9790 [17NO]

S. 2486, Veterans' Benefits Improvements Act, S6289-S6291 [1JN], S10880-S10884 [8OC], H9749-H9758 [17NO]

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

S. 2507, Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act, S7249-S7265 [23JN], H4936-H4952 [24JN]

S. 2519, Iraqi Women and Children's Liberation Act, S6806 [15JN]

S. 2531, Keeping American Jobs at Home Act, S6895-S6898 [16JN]

S. 2544, Health Care Access for Small Businesses Act, S7015 [17JN]

S. 2545, Advance Directives Improvement and Education Act, S7017 [17JN]

S. 2546, Genetically Engineered Foods Act, S7020-S7023 [17JN]

S. 2551, Childhood Obesity Reduction Act, S7107-S7110 [21JN]

S. 2562, Medicare Quality Improvement Act, S7315-S7320 [23JN]

S. 2566, Ending the Medicare Disability Waiting Period Act, S7322 [23JN]

S. 2574, NIH Security Act, S7441 [24JN]

S. 2576, Health Care Reform Expedited Procedures Act, S7445 [24JN]

S. 2587, Ensuring Quality and Access to Cancer Care Act, S7446 [24JN]

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

S. 2595, Improving Access to Assistive Technology for Individuals With Disabilities Act, S7463-S7472 [24JN]

S. 2597, Prescription Drug Price Comparison for Savings Act, S7474 [24JN]

S. 2618, extend Federal-State cost-sharing program to assist low-income Medicare beneficiaries with health care costs, S11391 [16NO], H10053 [19NO]

S. 2634, support planning, implementation, and evaluation of organized activities involving statewide youth suicide early intervention and prevention strategies, S7864-S7867 [8JY], S9083-S9086 [10SE], H6865-H6868 [8SE]

S. 2657, Federal Employee Dental and Vision Benefits Enhancement Act, S11694-S11697 [20NO], H10910-H10912 [6DE]

S. 2676, issue a semipostal stamp in order to provide funding for childhood drinking prevention and education programs, S8239 [15JY]

S. 2694, Medicare Assurance of Rx Transitional Assistance Act, S8481 [20JY]

S. 2714, Medicare Prescription Drug Price Reduction Act, S8561 [21JY]

S. 2718, Sober Truth on Preventing (STOP) Underage Drinking Act, S8692-S8695 [22JY]

S. 2719, Safety Advancement for Employees (SAFE) Act, S8697-S8701 [22JY]

S. 2739, Investing in America's Future Act, S8715-S8720 [22JY]

S. 2740, Dental Health Provider Shortage Act, S8721-S8723 [22JY]

S. 2741, Advancing FASD Research, Prevention, and Services Act, S8723-S8727 [22JY]

S. 2743, Veterans Eye Treatment Safety (VETS) Act, S8728 [22JY]

S. 2759, Children's Health Protection and Improvement Act, S8750 [22JY]

S. 2771, Quality of Care for Individuals With Cancer Act, S8760-S8766 [22JY]

S. 2776, carry out a Dept. of Veterans Affairs program of outreach to veterans of World War II and the Korean War on the nature and availability of benefits for veterans, S8915 [7SE]

S. 2791, National Guard and Reserve Bill of Rights Act, S9078-S9081 [10SE]

S. 2815, Asthmatic Schoolchildren's Treatment and Health Management Act, S9388 [20SE]

S. 2829, Samaritan Initiative Act, S9530-S9533 [22SE]

S. 2880, Medical Device Competition Act, S10264 [1OC]

S. 2895, authorize the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, MO, to be illuminated by pink lights in commemoration of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, S10459 [5OC], H9008 [8OC]

S. 2906, Affordability in Medicare Premiums Act, S10580 [6OC]

S. 2935, TAA Health Coverage Improvement Act, S10735-S10738 [7OC]

S. 2937, Services for Ending Long-Term Homelessness Act, S10739-S10741 [7OC]

S. 2944, prohibit use of funds by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to negotiate data exclusivity provisions for certain pharmaceutical products, S10848 [8OC]

S. 2950, prohibit Medicaid payments to States for redispensing prescription drugs, S10850 [8OC]

S. 2953, Coordinated Environmental Health Network Act, S10852-S10855 [8OC]

S. 2965, modify Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act termination date for mandatory price reporting, H9869 [17NO]

S. 2965, modify termination date for mandatory price reporting under the Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act, S10879 [8OC]

S. 2968, Emergency Flu Response Act, S10861-S10863 [8OC]

S. 2974, Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, S11068-S11084, S11091-S11107 [10OC]

S. 2976, lift the patient limitation on prescribing drug addiction treatments by medical practitioners in group practices, S11261 [11OC]

S. 3014, Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Act reauthorization, S11584-S11586 [19NO], H10210 [20NO]

S. Con. Res. 8, National Visiting Nurse Association Week, S11018 [10OC], H10055 [19NO]

S. Con. Res. 105, Extension Living Well Week, S5095 [10MY]

S. Con. Res. 108, support goals and ideals of Tinnitus Awareness Week, S5377, S5382 [12MY]

S. Con. Res. 111, issue commemorative stamp to honor Rotary International centennial anniversary and efforts to eradicate polio, S5548 [17MY]

S. Con. Res. 113, support goals and ideals of National Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month, S6108 [21MY]

S. Con. Res. 114, recognize importance of distribution of food in schools to hungry or malnourished children around the world, S6458, S6465 [3JN], H5752 [14JY]

S. Con. Res. 143, tribute to community organization of public access defibrillation programs, S10864 [8OC]

S. Res. 298, National Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month, S1019 [11FE], S4060 [8AP]

S. Res. 305, National Donor Day, S1461 [23FE]

S. Res. 317, increase awareness of autism spectrum disorder, support programs for research and improved treatment, and improve training for health care professionals, S2561 [10MR]

S. Res. 320, National Patient Safety Awareness Week, S2757, S2802 [12MR]

S. Res. 329, authorize Senate Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper to ascertain and settle claims relative to ricin exposure in Senate complex, S3605, S3610 [2AP]

S. Res. 331, National Safety Month, S3633 [5AP], S5554 [17MY]

S. Res. 335, adopt drug-testing policy that deters Major League Baseball players from using anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing substances that create a competitive advantage or pose a serious health risk, S3999, S4054 [8AP]

S. Res. 357, National Health Center Week, S5376 [12MY], S7591 [6JY]

S. Res. 358, provide every individual with the opportunity to purchase health insurance that is at least equivalent to the insurance available to Members of Congress at the same or lower rates, S5376 [12MY]

S. Res. 366, National Better Hearing and Speech Month, S6044 [20MY]

S. Res. 389, provide prostate cancer patients with meaningful access to information on treatment options, S7325 [23JN], S11018 [10OC]

S. Res. 390, National Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Day, S7326, S7347 [23JN]

S. Res. 391, Conversations Before the Crisis Week, S7483 [24JN]

S. Res. 398, promote initiatives to develop an HIV vaccine, S7582 [6JY]

S. Res. 407, National Mammography Day, S8241 [15JY], S8803 [22JY]

S. Res. 418, National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, S8769, S8801 [22JY]

S. Res. 448, National Asbestos Awareness Day, S10583 [6OC]

S. Res. 453, prepare comprehensive strategy for international negotiations to reduce global mercury use to levels sufficient to protect public health and the environment, S10748 [7OC]

S. Res. 455, support goals of Red Ribbon Week, S11015, S11107 [10OC]

S. Res. 457, National Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Week, S11015, S11107 [10OC]

S. Res. 469, support goals and ideas of National Time Out Day, S11382 [16NO]

S. Res. 476, support goals and ideals of National Prematurity Awareness Month, S11649, S11653 [19NO]

S. Res 366, support goals and ideals of National Better Hearing and Speech Month, S6010 [20MY]

Transcripts

Analysis—Small Indian Firm Cipla Manufactures Low-Cost Generic AIDS Drugs, but Its Products Face Bans in Many Countries: National Public Radio News Morning Edition (radio show), S8112 [14JY]

Tributes

Clinton, William J., S8822 [7SE]

Reeve, Christopher, S11234 [11OC]