LEWIS, RON (a Representative from Kentucky)

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Abortion: ensure that women seeking an abortion are fully informed relative to pain experienced by the unborn child (see H.R. 4420), H7945 [30SE]

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

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), H1594 [25MR]

Annan, Kofi A.: call for resignation as Secretary General of the U.N. due to allegations of fraud and mismanagement of the U.N. Oil for Food Program (see H. Res. 869), H11057 [7DE]

Armed Forces: eligibility for aviation incentive pay and hazardous duty pay for Reserve members who perform inactive-duty training (see H.R. 1728), H5793 [14JY]

———restore health care coverage to retired members of the uniformed services (see H.R. 3474), H3605 [1JN]

Birds: mint coins celebrating recovery and restoration of the American bald eagle and noting the importance of the designation of the American bald eagle as an endangered species (see H.R. 4116), H2155 [2AP]

Children and youth: improve protections of children and hold States accountable for the orderly and timely placement of children across State lines (see H.R. 4504), H3780 [3JN]

———provide States with incentives, flexibility, and funds to develop welfare services that meet needs of children and families and enhance prospects for safe and permanent living arrangements (see H.R. 4856), H5982 [19JY]

Columbia (space shuttle): award Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to crew (see H.R. 525), H2154 [2AP]

Committee on Administrative Procedures (Joint): establish (see H.R. 3356), H2728 [6MY]

Congress: require the posting of the Ten Commandments in the Capitol (see H. Con. Res. 310), H2200 [20AP]

Contracts: require certain Federal service contractors to participate in a pilot program for employment eligibility confirmation (see H.R. 4064), H2728 [6MY]

Courts: ensure judicial decisions on the meaning of U.S. laws are not based on foreign judgments, laws, or pronouncements unless they inform an understanding of the original meaning of the laws (see H. Res. 568), H1229 [17MR]

———limit Federal court jurisdiction over questions under the Defense of Marriage Act (see H.R. 3313), H5471 [9JY]

———limit jurisdiction of Federal courts in certain cases and promote federalism (see H.R. 3799), H2406 [27AP]

———provide greater fairness in legal fees payable in civil diversity litigation after an offer of settlement (see H.R. 4430), H3438 (see H.R. 4430), H3538 [20MY]

Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: repeal sunset on expansion of the adoption credit and adoption assistance programs (see H.R. 1057), H5331 [7JY]

Education: 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]

Elections: assert that terrorists will never cause the date of a Presidential election to be postponed and that no individual or agency will have the authority to postpone a Presidential election (see H. Res. 728), H6127 [20JY]

Endangered Species Act: require the Dept. of the Interior to give greater weight to scientific or commercial data that is empirical or has been field-tested or peer-reviewed (see H.R. 1662), H1593 [25MR]

Extension Living Well Week: designate (see H. Con. Res. 416), H2657 [5MY]

Families and domestic relations: constitutional amendment relative to definition of marriage (see H.J. Res. 106), H7945 [30SE]

FCC: provide for punishment of certain profane broadcasts (see H.R. 3687), H516 [11FE]

———ruling in response to complaints regarding broadcast of program material containing indecent language (see H. Res. 482), H516 [11FE]

FDA: uniform food safety warning notification requirements (see H.R. 2699), H1593 [25MR]

Federal employees: amend the definition of a law enforcement officer to include certain positions relative to retirement benefits (see H.R. 2442), H575 [24FE]

———ensure parity between the compensation of members of the Armed Forces and civilian employees (see H. Res. 581), H1643 [29MR]

Government: establish a commission to conduct a comprehensive review of Federal agencies and programs, and to recommend the elimination or realignment of duplicative, wasteful, or outdated functions (see H.R. 3213), H396 [6FE]

Health: 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 H.R. 4831), H5792 [14JY]

Immigration: simplify the process for admitting temporary alien agricultural workers and increase access to such workers (see H.R. 3604), H633 [25FE]

Labor unions: protect the free choice of individual employees relative to participation in labor organizations (see H.R. 391), H2483 [28AP]

Laos: urgent need for freedom, democratic reform, and international monitoring of elections, human rights, and religious liberty (see H. Res. 402), H435 [10FE]

Lyon, Matthew: issue commemorative postage stamp (see H. Con. Res. 369), H5654 [13JY]

Medicaid: include podiatrists as physicians for purposes of covering physicians services (see H.R. 2959), H2728 [6MY]

Medicare: provide coverage of screening ultrasound for abdominal aortic aneurysms (see H.R. 4626), H8168 [5OC]

National Day of the Horse: establish (see H. Con. Res. 507), H7944 [30SE]

National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record: provide an amnesty period during which veterans and their families can register certain firearms (see H.R. 3807), H514 [11FE]

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), H1740 [30MR]

Political campaigns: repeal disclosure requirement for certain electioneering communication disbursements and prohibit making such disbursements by corporations and labor organizations (see H.R. 3801), H2200 [20AP]

Postal Service: reform postal laws (see H.R. 4341), H2917 [12MY]

Radio: ensure the availability of spectrum to amateur radio operators (see H.R. 713), H2373 [22AP]

———preserve local radio broadcast emergency and other services and require the FCC to conduct rulemaking for that purpose (see H.R. 4026), H2019 [1AP]

Reagan, Ronald: redesign the ten dollar bill in commemoration (see H.R. 4528), H4287 [16JN]

Sec. of the Navy: redesignate as the Sec. of the Navy and Marine Corps (see H.R. 1741), H8168 [5OC]

Social Security: repeal the windfall elimination provision and protect the retirement of public servants (see H.R. 4391), H4766 [22JN]

SouthEast Crescent Authority: establish (see H.R. 141), H3229 [18MY]

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

Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act: reauthorize and reform the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Program (see H.R. 3796), H872 [4MR]

Tax Reform Action Commission: establish (see H.R. 3215), H1322 [18MR]

Taxation: allow a recovery period for depreciation of motorsport entertainment complexes (see H.R. 2900), H633 [25FE]

———allow deduction equal to fair market value for charitable contributions of literary, musical, artistic, or scholarly compositions created by the donor (see H.R. 806), H7138 [14SE]

———allow tax credit for contributions to charitable organizations which provide scholarships for children to attend elementary and secondary schools (see H.R. 2347), H1593 [25MR]

———clarify that personal service corporations may continue to use the cash method of accounting (see H.R. 2814), H1370 [23MR]

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

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

———treatment of beer (see H.R. 1305), H2657 [5MY]

———treatment of individual retirement accounts relative to charitable contributions (see H.R. 4488), H8859 [7OC]

———treatment of lifetime income payments from annuities and similiar payments of life insurance proceeds at dates later than death (see H.R. 4849), H7864 [29SE]

Telecommunications: clarify prohibition on junk fax transmissions (see H.R. 4600), H4894 [23JN]

———increase penalties for violations by television and radio broadcasters of the prohibitions against transmission of obscene, indecent, and profane language (see H.R. 3717), H128 [27JA]

Television: provide grants to train court reporters and other individuals to become real-time writers to meet requirements for closed captioning of video programming (see H.R. 970), H2918 [12MY]

Tobacco products: terminate Federal tobacco quota and price support programs and compensate tobacco quota holders and active tobacco producers adversely affected by termination of such programs (see H.R. 4033), H1592 [25MR]

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), H516 [11FE]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Bill Monroe Post Office, Rosine, KY: designate (see H.R. 4968), H6703 [22JY]

Congress: allow vote to reverse Supreme Court decisions on the constitutionality of legislation enacted by Congress (see H.R. 3920), H926 [9MR]

Taxation: exempt the natural aging process in determination of the production period for distilled spirits (see H.R. 3979), H1116 [16MR]

———provide a nonrefundable credit for individuals who purchase a residential safe storage device for firearms (see H.R. 5323), H9048 [8OC]

———provide capital gains tax treatment for certain self-created musical works (see H.R. 3776), H392 [4FE]

———provide credit to certain agriculture-related businesses for cost of protecting certain chemicals (see H.R. 4718), H5149 [25JN]

Remarks

Agriculture: price supports for tobacco, H4299, H4399 [17JN]

———prohibit funding to promote the sale or export of tobacco or tobacco products, H4299, H4399 [17JN]

Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs: making appropriations (H.R. 4766), H5592 [13JY]

Bill Monroe Post Office, Rosine, KY: designate (H.R. 4968), H8272 [6OC], E1507 [22JY]

Bowling Green, KY: tribute to Warren Central High School boy's basketball team, E453 [26MR]

Congress: allow vote to reverse Supreme Court decisions on the constitutionality of legislation enacted by Congress (H.R. 3920), H845 [4MR]

Crime: protect unborn victims of violence (H.R. 1997), H644 [26FE]

Dept. of Agriculture: prohibit Federal funding for buyout of tobacco producers or quota holders, H5592 [13JY]

Homosexuality: Massachusetts Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriages, H845 [4MR]

Louisville, KY: tribute to Louisville Stunners softball team, E1845 [8OC]

Maker's Mark Distillery, Inc.: anniversary, E154 [10FE]

Owensboro, KY: tribute to Owensboro Southern Little League Baseball Team, E2036 [18NO]

———tribute to Owensboro Southern Little League baseball team, E1915 [11OC]

Reagan, Ronald: tribute (H. Res. 664), H3852 [9JN]

———tribute (H.J. Res. 84), H272 [3FE]

Taxation: remove impediments to make manufacturing, service, and high-technology businesses more competitive and productive (H.R. 4520), H4399 [17JN]

———remove impediments to make manufacturing, service, and high-technology businesses more competitive and productive (H.R. 4520), conference report, H8718 [7OC]

———remove impediments to make manufacturing, service, and high-technology businesses more competitive and productive (H.R. 4520), consideration (H. Res. 681), H4299 [17JN]

Tobacco products: terminate Federal tobacco quota and price support programs and compensate tobacco quota holders and active tobacco producers adversely affected by termination of such programs, H8718 [7OC]

Votes: position on missed, E853 [14MY]

World War II: tribute to French veteran outreach ambassadors, E154 [10FE]

Remarks in House relative to

Special order: granted, H125 [27JA], H823 [3MR]

Tributes

Gorin-Smith, Betty J., E1008 [2JN]

Jarrett, Dave, E2125 [20NO]

Natcher, William H., E1706 [24SE]

Tabb, Kenny, E529 [2AP]