HOLDEN, TIM (a Representative from Pennsylvania)

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Afghanistan: protect archeological or ethnological materials (see H.R. 4641), H4765 [22JN]

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), H7073 [13SE]

———provide emergency agriculture assistance (see H.R. 5203), H8168 [5OC]

Armed Forces: clarify requirements relative to predeployment and postdeployment medical exams of certain members (see H.R. 4346), H3230 [18MY]

———enhance and improve benefits for members of the National Guard and Reserves who serve extended periods on active duty (see H.R. 5354), H9184 [9OC]

———entitle educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill for members of the Selected Reserve who aggregate a certain amount of active duty service (see H.R. 4367), H8859 [7OC]

———provide compensation to members of the reserve components who suffer discrepancies between their military and nonmilitary compensation as a result of being called to active duty for a certain period (see H.R. 1345), H36 [20JA]

Aviation: clarify importance of utilizing biometric technology to improve aviation and airport security (see H.R. 4914), H6701 [22JY]

Bankruptcy: extend reenactment period for chapter 12 of the bankruptcy code relative to family farmers (see H.R. 5167), H7863 [29SE]

———permanently reenact chapter 12 of the bankruptcy code relative to family farmers (see H.R. 5195), H8039 [4OC]

Benjamin Franklin National Memorial: restore (see H.R. 3753), H303 [3FE]

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), H3017 [13MY]

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

Bush, President: address issues of neighborhood crime prevention and community policing and support Federal participation in National Night Out (see H. Res. 722, 722), H6756 [7SE]

Business and industry: implement steps to secure the manufacturing economic base, protect jobs, and help grow the domestic manufacturing sector (see H.R. 4177), H2199 [20AP]

———prohibit business enterprises that lay-off a greater percentage of their U.S. workers than workers in other countries from receiving any Federal assistance (see H.R. 3888), H830 [3MR]

Children and youth: establish a grant program to provide comprehensive eye examinations (see H.R. 2173), H5195 [6JY]

Coal miners: issue commemorative postage stamp (see H. Con. Res. 459), H4894 [23JN]

Crime: foster local collaborations to ensure effective and efficient use of resources within the criminal and juvenile justice systems in dealing with mentally ill offenders (see H.R. 2387), H2483 [28AP]

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

Dept. of Agriculture: provide for a greater number of members on certain combined Farm Service Agency county committees (see H.R. 4163), H2153 [2AP]

Dept. of HHS: establish, promote, and support a comprehensive prevention, research, and medical management referral program for hepatitis C virus infection (see H.R. 3539), H633 [25FE]

Dept. of Homeland Security: make grants to first responders (see H.R. 3266), H4580 [18JN]

Dept. of Justice: make grants to improve ability of State and local governments to prevent abduction of children by family members (see H.R. 3965), H3605 [1JN]

Dept. of State: require annual reports on acts of anti-Semitism around the world (see H.R. 4214), H5331 [7JY]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: extend authority to guarantee hybrid adjustable rate mortgages for construction or purchase of homes by veterans (see H.R. 4616), H7329 [21SE]

———improve educational assistance programs for apprenticeship or other on-job training (see H.R. 1716), H3963 [14JN]

———provide additional safeguards for benefit recipients who have fiduciaries for receipt and management of benefit payments (see H.R. 4032), H1592 [25MR]

———provide specially adapted housing assistance to veterans with service-connected disabilities due to loss, or loss of use of both upper extremities that precludes use of the arms at and below the elbows (see H.R. 2612), H1322 [18MR]

———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 H.R. 3473), H2816 [11MY]

———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, cosponsorship withdrawn (see H.R. 3473), H3441 (see H.R. 3473), H3541 [20MY]

Diseases: fund breakthroughs in Alzheimer's disease research while providing more help to caregivers and increasing public education about prevention (see H.R. 4595), H4647 [21JN]

———issue commemorative postage stamp to promote public awareness of Down syndrome (see H. Con. Res. 247), H393 [4FE]

———prohibit interference by certain education grant recipients with a student's treatment of his or her diabetes (see H.R. 3178), H245 [28JA]

District of Columbia: provide full voting representation in Congress (see H.R. 1285), H1484 [24MR]

Education: provide access and assistance to increase college attendance and completion by part-time students (see H.R. 3968), H1370 [23MR]

Employment: extend trade adjustment assistance to service workers (see H.R. 3881), H830 [3MR]

Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act: reauthorize Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program (see H.R. 4107), H3017 [13MY]

Financial institutions: ease credit union regulatory burdens, advance credit union efforts to promote economic growth, and modernize credit union capital standards (see H.R. 3579), H701 [26FE]

Health: protection of enrollees in managed care plans and HMO's (see H.R. 4628), H4646 [21JN]

———provide for arthritis research and public health (see H.R. 4610), H5195 [6JY]

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

———strengthen programs for stroke education, prevention, and treatment (see H.R. 3658), H128 [27JA]

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

Help America Vote Act: require a voter-verified permanent record or hardcopy (see H.R. 2239), H6997 [9SE]

Housing: facilitate self-help housing homeownership opportunities (see H.R. 4363), H3606 [1JN]

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), H1117 [16MR]

Iraq: establish reporting requirements for funds made available for military operations or reconstruction (see H.R. 4467), H3439 (see H.R. 4467), H3539 [20MY]

Korean War: revise requirements for award of the Combat Infantryman Badge and the Combat Medical Badge relative to certain service in Korea (see H.R. 4039), H2658 [5MY]

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

Marine mammals: reaffirm opposition to commercial and lethal scientific whaling and provide protection for, and conservation of, the world's whale populations to prevent trade in whale meat (see H. Res. 727), H5983 [19JY]

Marshall, John: mint coins in commemoration (see H.R. 2768), H37 [20JA]

Marshall, Thurgood: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 4178), H2549 [4MY]

Medicare: permit the Dept. of HHS to enter into direct negotiations to promote the best prices for beneficiaries (see H.R. 3707), H393 [4FE]

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

———repeal reduction in payment for certain items of durable medical equipment (see H.R. 4491), H6756 [7SE]

Medicare/Medicaid: require certain staffing in nursing facilities (see H.R. 3355), H4647 [21JN]

Merchant marine industry: provide a monthly monetary benefit to certain individuals who served in the U.S. merchant marine during World War II (see H.R. 3729), H2919 [12MY]

Mining and mineral resources: modify requirements relating to transfers from the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund (see H.R. 5308), H9048 [8OC]

———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 H.R. 3778), H576 [24FE]

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

National Center on Liver Disease Research: establish (see H.R. 371), H2815 [11MY]

National Correctional Officers and Employees Week: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 621), H2548 [4MY]

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

Nonprofit organizations: provide assistance to high-risk nonprofit organizations to protect against foreign terrorist attacks (see H.R. 4108), H2018 [1AP]

Pennsylvania State University: anniversary (see H. Res. 703), H5195 [6JY]

Petroleum: express to OPEC countries, and non-OPEC countries that participate in the cartel, the position of the U.S. in favor of increasing world crude oil supplies to achieve stable crude oil prices (see H. Res. 611), H3230 [18MY]

Radio: ensure the availability of spectrum to amateur radio operators (see H.R. 713), H1230 [17MR]

Railroads: require information on tank cars containing hazardous materials be available to first reponders (see H.R. 4802), H6707 [22JY]

Research: provide clinical research support grants, clinical research infrastructure grants, and a demonstration program on partnerships in clinical research (see H.R. 4779), H7138 [14SE]

Rural areas: improve safety of rural roads (see H.R. 3743), H244 [28JA]

Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act: include bullying and harassment prevention programs (see H.R. 4776), H6900 [8SE]

Servicemembers Civil Relief Act: improve and make technical corrections (see H.R. 4658), H6128 [20JY]

Shipping industry: suspend temporarily new shipper bonding privileges (see H.R. 5211), H9051 [8OC]

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), H2019 [1AP]

Taxation: amend laws assisting States in the collection of sales and use taxes on cigarettes (see H.R. 2824), H872 [4MR]

———exclude from gross income amounts received as damages, attorney fees, and costs under Federal whistleblower protection laws and allow income averaging for amounts received as lost income (see H.R. 4732), H5149 [25JN]

———expand incentives for education (see H.R. 3412), H5331 [7JY]

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

Telecommunications: increase penalties for violations by television and radio broadcasters of the prohibitions against transmission of obscene, indecent, and profane language (see H.R. 3717), H576 [24FE]

Transportation: responsibility for intermodal equipment compliance with commercial motor vehicle safety requirements (see H.R. 2863), H1072 [11MR]

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

Veterans: improve benefits for former POWs (see H.R. 348), H244 [28JA]

———improve post-traumatic stress disorder treatment for veterans and members of the Armed Forces (see H.R. 5244), H9746 [16NO]

———increase maximum amount of home loan guarantees available to veterans (see H.R. 1735), H2199 [20AP]

———increase rates of disability compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and dependency and indemnity compensation for survivors of certain disabled veterans (see H.R. 4175), H2919 [12MY]

———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), H391 [4FE]

———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]

Remarks

Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs: making appropriations (H.R. 4766), H5583 [13JY]

Association of American Boyers, Inc.: anniversary, E1446 [21JY]

Bankruptcy: extend reenactment period for chapter 12 of the bankruptcy code relative to family farmers (S. 1920), H214 [28JA]

———permanently reenact chapter 12 of the bankruptcy code relative to family farmers, H214 [28JA]

———reform, H214 [28JA]

CCC: limit transfer of certain funds between conservation programs for technical assistance for the programs (S. 2856), H10908 [6DE]

Delaware River: dredging project funding, H5091 [25JN]

Dept. of Agriculture: Conservation Reserve Program and Wetlands Reserve Program technical assistance funding, H5583 [13JY]

———Environmental Quality Incentives Program, Farmland Protection Program, Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program, and Grassland Reserves Program funding, H5583 [13JY]

Energy and water development: making appropriations (H.R. 4614), H5091 [25JN]

Holocaust: remembrance, E640 [22AP]

Pennsylvania State University: anniversary (H. Res. 703), E1349 [9JY]

Reagan, Ronald: tribute (H. Res. 664), H3815 [8JN]

Schuylkill County, PA: anniversary of National Association of Retired Federal Employees chapter 0413, E1593 [10SE]

Technology: maintain information technology research and development funding and adhere to technology-neutral policies supporting market-based innovation and commercialization, E1345 [9JY]

Transportation: Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs funding (H.R. 3550), H1799 [1AP]

Votes: position on missed, H5861 [15JY]

Tributes

Marquette, Robert, E1700 [24SE]

Wirs, Peter J., E493 [31MR]