POMEROY, EARL (a Representative from North Dakota)

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

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 H.R. 3242), H633 [25FE]

———expedite implementation of country of origin labeling requirements for certain agricultural commodities (see H.R. 3993), H1370 [23MR]

———provide emergency agriculture assistance (see H.R. 5203), H8038 [4OC]

Amtrak: anniversary of Empire Builder rail line (see H. Con. Res. 442), H4392 (see H. Con. Res. 442), H4507 [17JN]

Animal Welfare Act: strengthen enforcement of animal fighting provisions (see H.R. 1532), H633 [25FE]

Armed Forces: commend regular and reserve components, express concern for safety and security, and ensure that reserve components are provided the same equipment as regular components (see H. Con. Res. 335), H128 [27JA]

———increase death gratuity (see H.R. 5055), H7575 [23SE]

———reimburse members who participated in the Rest and Recuperation Leave program for travel expenses incurred before the program was expanded to include domestic travel (see H.R. 3731), H127 [27JA]

Budget: extend discretionary spending caps and pay-go for direct spending (see H.R. 3995), H1321 [18MR]

Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA): renegotiate provisions on access to U.S. sugar markets and prevent inclusion of sugar as an element of negotiations in free trade agreements (see H. Res. 510), H435 [10FE]

Chavez, Cesar E.: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 4082), H1789 [31MR]

Columbia (space shuttle): award Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to crew (see H.R. 525), H244 [28JA]

Courts: give U.S. district courts jurisdiction over competing State custody determinations (see H.R. 3941), H1070 [11MR]

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

Dept. of Education: making supplemental appropriations (see H.R. 4769), H5654 [13JY]

Dept. of Justice: establish a national sex offender registration database (see H.R. 3929), H1010 [10MR]

———make grants to improve ability of State and local governments to prevent abduction of children by family members (see H.R. 3965), H2816 [11MY]

Dept. of State: establish an Office of Intercountry Adoptions and reform U.S. laws governing intercountry adoptions (see H.R. 3896), H871 [4MR]

Dept. of the Treasury: extend Terrorism Risk Insurance Program (see H.R. 4772), H5654 [13JY]

District of Columbia: restore right to keep and bear arms (see H.R. 3193), H7234 [15SE]

Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: repeal sunset on expansion of the adoption credit and adoption assistance programs (see H.R. 1057), H1593 [25MR]

Education: authorize local educational agencies in rural areas to obtain a limited waiver of certain requirements relative to the employment of highly qualified teachers (see H.R. 3781), H927 [9MR]

———provide access and equity in higher education (see H.R. 4102), H5331 [7JY]

———recognize contributions of military-impacted schools, teachers, adminstration, and staff for their role in the education of military children (see H. Res. 598), H2406 [27AP]

Employment: extend trade adjustment assistance to service workers (see H.R. 3881), H1791 [31MR]

FCC: disapprove ruling on media ownership rules (see H.J. Res. 72), H2374 [22AP]

Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: establish requirements to allow sale of prescription drugs over the Internet (see H.R. 3880), H2549 [4MY]

Flag—U.S.: request that the flag flown over the Capitol should be lowered to half-mast one day each month in honor of U.S. citizens killed in military action (see H. Con. Res. 400), H3230 [18MY]

Foreign aid: provide assistance for developing countries to promote quality and universal basic education (S. 2862) (see H.R. 5177), H8859 [7OC]

Foreign trade: address foreign private and joint public-private market access barriers that harm U.S. trade and address foreign governments which fail to cooperate with certain investigations (see H.R. 2737), H434 [10FE]

Fort Clatsop National Memorial: redesignate as the Lewis and Clark National Historical Park and include in the park sites in Washington and Oregon (see H.R. 3819), H574 [24FE]

Health care professionals: improve access to physicians in medically underserved areas by extending and increasing foreign country residency requirement waivers for foreign medical graduates (see H.R. 4453), H7945 [30SE]

Insurance: require health plans to cover treatment of a minor child's congenital or developmental deformity or disorder due to trauma, infection, tumor, or disease (see H.R. 296), H3873 [9JN]

Iran: urge compliance with International Atomic Energy Agency resolutions on nuclear weapons program and call for international cooperation with such compliance (see H. Con. Res. 332), H1323 [18MR]

Iron and steel industry: reinstate safeguards on imports of certain steel products (see H.R. 3699), H1117 [16MR]

King, Martin Luther, Jr., and Coretta Scott: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 2680), H7234 [15SE]

Labor unions: establish efficient system to enable employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations and provide for mandatory injunctions for unfair labor practices during organizing efforts (see H.R. 3619), H633 [25FE]

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

Lobbyists: require certain coalitions and associations to disclose lobbying activities (see H.R. 4937, 4938), H6702 [22JY]

Medicaid: include podiatrists as physicians for purposes of covering physicians services (see H.R. 2959), H2483 [28AP]

Medicare: clarify payment for clinical laboratory tests furnished by critical access hospitals (see H.R. 4257), H2491 [30AP]

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

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

———provide for negotiation of fair prices for prescription drugs (see H.R. 3672), H576 [24FE]

———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), H5909 [15JY]

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: authorize development of research centers focusing on environmental factors related to the etiology of breast cancer (see H.R. 1746), H4928 (see H.R. 1746), H5071 [24JN]

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 (see H.R. 3441), H1117 [16MR]

Native Americans: regulate Indian tribal governments under the same rules and procedures that apply to Federal, State, and local government employers relative to establishment and maintenance of employee benefit plans (see H.R. 3605), H1593 [25MR]

Nguyen Van Ly, Thaddeus: call for release by Vietnam (see H. Con. Res. 378), H2658 [5MY]

No Child Left Behind Act: improve (see H.R. 4434), H8859 [7OC]

Postal Service: reform postal laws (see H.R. 4341), H3441 (see H.R. 4341), H3541 [20MY]

Public safety officers: collective bargaining rights for public safety officers employed by States or local governments (see H.R. 814), H1116 [16MR]

Radio: ensure the availability of spectrum to amateur radio operators (see H.R. 713), H6706 [22JY]

Shipping industry: suspend temporarily new shipper bonding privileges (see H.R. 5211), H10080 [19NO]

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

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

Sudan: declare genocide in Darfur (see H. Con. Res. 467), H6557 [21JY]

Taxation: provide relief for middle income taxpayers (see H.R. 4997), H6704 [22JY]

———treat payments under the Conservation Reserve Program as rentals from real estate (see H.R. 4073), H1739 [30MR]

———treatment of certain expenses of rural letter carriers relative to the business use of a personal vehicle (see H.R. 2265), H2199 [20AP]

———treatment of certain qualified mortgages held by a real estate mortgage investement company or a grantor trust (see H.R. 4113), H2018 [1AP]

———treatment of individual retirement accounts relative to charitable contributions (see H.R. 4488), H3719 [2JN]

Television: prohibit broadcast of violent programming during designated time period in which children are likely to be watching unless it is rated for content or blockable by electronic means (see H.R. 3914), H2154 [2AP]

Trade Act: amend to provide trade adjustment assistance for communities (see H.R. 2308), H434 [10FE]

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

Veterans: increase the minimum Survivor Benefit Plan basic annuity for certain surviving spouses and provide for a one-year open season under that plan (see H.R. 3763), H1323 [18MR]

———increase the minimum Survivor Benefit Plan basic annuity for certain surviving spouses and provide for an open season under that plan (see H.R. 548), H2199 [20AP]

———recognize military service of certain Philippine nationals during World War II and allow receipt of Dept. of Veterans Affairs benefits (see H.R. 677), H5908 [15JY]

YMCA: clarify tax status of retirement fund (see H.R. 5365), H9745 [16NO]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Agriculture: provide crop and livestock disaster assistance to agricultural producers (see H.R. 4705), H4927 (see H.R. 4705), H5071 [24JN]

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

Education: reauthorize and revise the Child Care Access Means Parents in School Program (CCAMPIS) (see H.R. 4296), H2657 [5MY]

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

Essays: Voice of Democracy

Sherman, Joanna, E226 [25FE]

Motions

Budget: setting forth the Federal budget for 2005-2009 (S. Con. Res. 95), H2876 [12MY]

Remarks

Agricultural Adjustment Act: remove requirement that processors be members of an agency administering a marketing order applicable to pears (H.R. 2984), H8132 [5OC]

Budget: convert current nonbinding resolution into joint budget resolution that if signed by the President would have the force of law, H5000 [24JN]

———debt limit, H1765 [31MR]

———establish budget protection accounts allowing Congress to reduce spending and redirect it towards tax cuts or deficit reduction, H5003 [24JN]

———establish discretionary spending limits and pay-as-you-go requirement for mandatory spending (H.R. 4663), H4966, H5000, H5003, H5009, H5042, H5043, H5060 [24JN]

———reform Federal budget procedures, impose spending safeguards, combat waste, fraud, and abuse, and account for accurate Government agency costs, H5042, H5043, H5060 [24JN]

———reinstate pay-as-you-go requirement, H2876, H2877, H2878, H2879, H2880, H2882 [12MY]

———setting forth the Federal budget for 2005-2009 (S. Con. Res. 95), H1765 [31MR]

———setting forth the Federal budget for 2005-2009 (S. Con. Res. 95), motion to instruct conferees, H2776 [11MY], H2876, H2877, H2878, H2879, H2880, H2882 [12MY]

Courts: modify jurisdiction of Federal courts, inferior to the Supreme Court, over certain cases and controversies involving the Pledge of Allegiance (H.R. 2028), H7469 [23SE]

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 5006), E1688 [22SE]

Depts. of Transportation and the Treasury, and independent agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 5025), H7134 [14SE], E1754 [30SE]

Disasters: making emergency supplemental appropriations for relief for States impacted by hurricanes and tropical storms (H.R. 5212), consideration (H. Res. 819), H8283 [6OC]

Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: repeal sunset on expansion of the adoption credit and adoption assistance programs (H.R. 1057), H7378, H7379 [22SE]

FAA: Air Traffic Collegiate Training Initiative Program funding, H7134 [14SE]

Forest Service: ensure that dependents of employees stationed in Puerto Rico receive a high-quality elementary and secondary education (H.R. 5042), H8138 [5OC]

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), H9859 [17NO]

Hunger: encourage support of U.S. hunger relief organizations (H. Res. 261), H8133 [5OC]

Hunting and trapping: commend Hunters for the Hungry programs and efforts of such programs to decrease hunger and help feed those in need (H. Res. 481), H8136 [5OC]

Members of Congress: deny cost-of-living adjustments, E1754 [30SE]

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

Pensions: change the 30-year treasury bond rate to a composite corporate rate (H.R. 3108), conference report, H2128 [2AP]

Small business: improve access and choice relative to employee health care (H.R. 4281), H2970 [13MY]

Taxation: allow seniors with Social Security and pension income to file income tax form 1040S without regard to amount of interest or taxable income (H.R. 4109), H3652, H3653 [2JN]

———extend alternative minimum tax relief and index such relief for inflation (H.R. 4227), H2582 [5MY]

———modify taxation of arrow components (H.R. 5394), H10916 [6DE]

———repeal income tax, abolish the IRS, and institute a national retail sales tax (H.R. 4168), H7379 [22SE]

———restructure ethanol tax incentive from an excise tax exemption to an excise tax credit, H1805 [1AP]

———waive early withdrawal penalty for distributions from qualified retirement plans to individuals called to active duty for an extended period (H.R. 1779), H2219 [21AP]

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

U.S.-Australia Free Trade Agreement: implementation (H.R. 4759), H5707 [14JY]

YMCA: clarify tax status of retirement fund (H.R. 5365), H10043, H10044 [19NO]

Remarks in House relative to

Special order: granted, H1009 [10MR], H1787 [31MR]

Tributes

Reagan, Ronald, E1122 [15JN]