TIBERI, PATRICK J. (a Representative from Ohio)

Appointments

Conferee: H.R. 3108, Pension Funding Equity Act, H835 [4MR]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

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), H2267 [21AP]

Animal Welfare Act: improve care and treatment standards for certain dogs (see H.R. 3484), H90 [21JA]

Anti-Slavery Day: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 524), H701 [26FE]

Aviation: provide for recruiting, training, and deputizing persons for the Federal flight deck officer program (see H.R. 4126), H2406 [27AP]

———provide liability protection to nonprofit volunteer pilot organizations flying for public benefit and to the pilots and staff of such organizations (see H.R. 1084), H2406 [27AP]

Basilone, John: issue commemorative postage stamp (see H. Con. Res. 218), H4894 [23JN]

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), H2266 [21AP]

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

Dept. of HHS: reauthorize Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education Payment Program (see H.R. 4578), H6128 [20JY]

Dept. of the Treasury: extend Terrorism Insurance Program (see H.R. 4634), H5072 [24JN]

———extend Terrorism Risk Insurance Program (see H.R. 4634), H4928 [24JN]

Dept. of Transportation: include tax treatment of gasohol when computing estimated tax payments attributed to highway users (see H.R. 5170), H7863 [29SE]

Diseases: issue commemorative postage stamp to promote public awareness of Down syndrome (see H. Con. Res. 247), H5195 [6JY]

District of Columbia: restore right to keep and bear arms (see H.R. 3193), H4392 (see H.R. 3193), H4507 [17JN]

Ecology and environment: create the Federal crime of eco-terrorism (see H.R. 3307), H633 [25FE]

Education: increase student loan forgiveness to highly-qualified teachers in mathematics, science, and special education, and for reading specialists (see H.R. 4410), H3437 (see H.R. 4410), H3537 [20MY]

———provide enhanced Pell Grants for State Scholars (see H.R. 3894), H2019 [1AP]

———tribute to Catholic schools (see H. Res. 492), H35 [20JA]

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]

Ellis Island Immigration Museum: designate the Bob Hope Memorial Library (see H.R. 4668), H6707 [22JY]

Fair Debt Collection Practices Act: technical corrections (see H.R. 3066), H700 [26FE]

FCC: ruling in response to complaints regarding broadcast of program material containing indecent language (see H. Res. 482), H90 [21JA]

FDA: provide with certain authority to regulate tobacco products (see H.R. 4433), H6128 [20JY]

———uniform food safety warning notification requirements (see H.R. 2699), H752 [2MR]

Financial institutions: exempt attorneys from privacy provisions of the law repealing restrictions on the affiliation of banks, securities firms, and insurance companies (see H.R. 781), H2918 [12MY]

Financial Literacy Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 578), H1741 [30MR]

Foreign policy: prohibit U.S. contributions to the U.N. or Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development relative to proposals to impose taxes or fees on U.S. citizens (see H.R. 1206), H2154 [2AP]

Freedom of religion: safeguard religious liberties (see H.R. 3190), H37 [20JA]

Health: increase supply of pancreatic islet cells for research and coordinate efforts and information on transplantation (see H.R. 3858), H872 [4MR]

Higher Education Act: reauthorize provisions relative to teacher preparation (see H.R. 4409), H3437 (see H.R. 4409), H3537 [20MY]

Homeless: establish grant program to address the goal of ending chronic homelessness (see H.R. 4057), H1739 [30MR]

Housing: combat unfair and deceptive practices in the high-cost mortgage market, establish a consumer mortgage protection board, and establish licensing and minimum standards for mortgage brokers (see H.R. 833), H3016 [13MY]

Interstate commerce: prohibit transport of horses for the purpose of slaughter or horse flesh for human consumption (see H.R. 857), H700 [26FE]

Iran: express sympathy for victims of earthquake in Bam (see H. Res. 526), H701 [26FE]

———human rights violations (see H. Res. 140), H576 [24FE]

———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), H576 [24FE]

Joe Skeen Federal Building, Roswell, NM: designate (see H.R. 3734), H127 [27JA]

Kenyon College: tribute to men's swimming and diving team (see H. Res. 635), H2733 [10MY]

———tribute to women's swimming and diving team (see H. Res. 634), H2733 [10MY]

Laos: address urgent need for freedom, democratic reform, and international monitoring of elections, human rights, and religious liberty (see H. Res. 402), H1791 [31MR]

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

McDermott, Ignatius: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 3148), H9051 [8OC]

Medicare: preserve access to cancer care (see H.R. 5144), H8039 [4OC]

———repeal reduction in payment for certain items of durable medical equipment (see H.R. 4491), H7234 [15SE]

Mining and mineral resources: reclamation of abandoned hardrock mines (see H.R. 504), H575 [24FE]

National Adoption Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 864), H10079 [19NO]

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]

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), H1791 [31MR]

Nonprofit organizations: provide assistance to high-risk nonprofit organizations to protect against foreign terrorist attacks (see H.R. 4108), H2374 [22AP]

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

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

Social Security: authorize waivers of certain waiting periods for benefits based on disability in cases in which such waiting period would cause undue hardship to terminally ill beneficiaries (see H.R. 2598), H3440 (see H.R. 2598), H3540 [20MY]

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

Taxation: allow a credit for expenditures to remediate contaminated sites (see H.R. 4480), H3719 [2JN]

———allow a recovery period for depreciation of motorsport entertainment complexes (see H.R. 2900), H1791 [31MR]

———expand incentives for education (see H.R. 3412), H1593 [25MR]

———expand the tip tax credit to employers of cosmetologists and promote tax compliance in the cosmetology sector (see H.R. 2133), H89 [21JA]

———increase child tax credit (see H.R. 4359), H3015 [13MY]

———permanently extend certain income tax rate brackets (see H.R. 4275), H2656 [5MY]

———permanently extend the increased standard deduction and certain income tax rate bracket expansions for married taxpayers filing joint returns (see H.R. 4181), H2264 [21AP]

———repeal alternative minimum tax (see H.R. 1233), H244 [28JA]

———repeal sunset of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act and repeal scheduled reductions in tax benefits provided by the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (see H.R. 3773), H1323 [18MR]

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), H304 [3FE]

Tropical Forest Conservation Act: reauthorize (see H.R. 4654), H4892 [23JN]

U.N.: withhold U.S. contributions pending certification of U.N. cooperation in investigation of Oil-for-Food Program (see H.R. 4284), H5793 [14JY]

Veterans: improve benefits for former POWs (see H.R. 348), H5793 [14JY]

———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]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Dept. of HUD: insure zero-downpayment mortgages for one-unit residences (see H.R. 3755), H303 [3FE]

Remarks

Army: tribute to Army Reserve 367th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment Unit for participation in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom, E1418 [19JY]

Butcher, Steve and Nancy: National Restaurant Association Restaurant Neighbor Award finalists, E1908 [11OC]

Columbus, OH: tribute to Brookhaven High School football team, E2184 [7DE]

Delaware, OH: ``Preserve America'' community designation, E295 [3MR]

Healthy Vision Month: observance, E755 [5MY]

Hispanic Heritage Month: observance, E1774 [1OC]

Kenyon College: tribute to men's swimming and diving team (H. Res. 635), H4652, H4653 [22JN]

———tribute to women's swimming and diving team (H. Res. 634), H4650, H4651, H4652 [22JN]

Permedion, Inc.: tribute, E1471 [22JY]

Reagan, Ronald: tribute (H. Res. 664), E1108 [14JN]

Votes: position on missed, E74 [28JA]

Wilson, Blaine: tribute for participation in Olympic games, E1558 [8SE]

Tributes

DeMichael, Misty, E1891 [11OC]

Messerall, Alec, E1097 [14JN]