TURNER, MICHAEL R. (a Representative from Ohio)

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Advisory Committee on Veterans Business Affairs: extend (see H.R. 5260), H8857 [7OC]

Agriculture: ensure the humane slaughter of nonambulatory livestock (see H.R. 2519), H89 [21JA]

Armed Forces: reduce the age for receipt of military retired pay for non-regular service (see H.R. 742), H927 [9MR]

———restore health care coverage to retired members of the uniformed services (see H.R. 3474), H37 [20JA]

Aviation: provide for recruiting, training, and deputizing persons for the Federal flight deck officer program (see H.R. 4126), H5151 [25JN]

Budget: reform Federal budget procedures, impose spending safeguards, combat waste, fraud, and abuse, and account for accurate Government agency costs (see H.R. 3800), H514 [11FE]

Children and youth: 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), H1370 [23MR]

China, People's Republic of: require Dept. of the Treasury report on exchange rate policies and impose additional tariffs on products based on the rate of currency exchange manipulation (see H.R. 3058), H89 [21JA]

Courts: provide greater fairness in legal fees payable in civil diversity litigation after an offer of settlement (see H.R. 4430), H4392 (see H.R. 4430), H4507 [17JN]

Dept. of HHS: reauthorize Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education Payment Program (see H.R. 4578), H6707 [22JY]

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

Dept. of Justice: reauthorize grant program for reentry of offenders into the community and establish a task force on Federal programs and activities relating to the reentry of offenders into the community (see H.R. 4676), H9963 [17NO]

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

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: authorize entrance into certain major medical facility leases and the transfer of real property subject to certain limitations (see H.R. 4768), H6707 [22JY]

———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), H37 [20JA]

Disabled: enhance and further research into paralysis and improve rehabilitation and quality of life for persons living with paralysis and other physical disabilities (see H.R. 1998), H128 [27JA]

District of Columbia: restore right to keep and bear arms (see H.R. 3193), H5471 [9JY]

Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: repeal sunset on expansion of the adoption credit and adoption assistance programs (see H.R. 1057), H1740 [30MR]

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

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

Health: provide for uterine fibroid research and education (see H.R. 2157), H1370 [23MR]

Insurance: promote health care coverage parity for individuals participating in legal recreational or transportation activities (see H.R. 1749), H1230 [17MR]

Kenyon College: tribute to men's swimming and diving team (see H. Res. 635), H3606 [1JN]

———tribute to women's swimming and diving team (see H. Res. 634), H3606 [1JN]

Law enforcement officers: exempt from State laws prohibiting the carrying of concealed handguns (see H.R. 218), H515 [11FE]

Medicaid: provide public access to quality medical imaging procedures and radiation therapy procedures (see H.R. 1214), H6756 [7SE]

Medicare: allow beneficiaries direct access to physical therapists without a physician referral (see H.R. 792), H1011 [10MR]

———repeal reduction in payment for certain items of durable medical equipment (see H.R. 4491), H9051 [8OC]

Mental health: provide assistance to train teachers for children with autism spectrum disorders (see H.R. 1700), H4287 [16JN]

National Manufacturing Week: support goals (see H. Res. 516), H701 [26FE]

National Trails System Act: clarify Federal authority relative to land acquisition from willing sellers for the majority of trails (see H.R. 3860), H753 [2MR]

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

Reagan, Ronald: tribute (see H.J. Res. 84), H35 [20JA]

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

Taxation: allow employers a tax credit for increasing employment (see H.R. 4307), H2727 [6MY]

———allow use of principal repayments to issue additional mortgages and modify price limitations under the mortgage revenue bond program and change income limit for housing credit program (see H.R. 284), H5908 [15JY]

———encourage businesses to establish hazardous waste remediation reserves (see H.R. 3892), H1594 [25MR]

———exclude from unrelated business taxable income the gain or loss on the sale or exchange of certain brownfield sites (see H.R. 3527), H4171 [15JN]

———modify the rehabilitation credit and the low-income housing credit (see H.R. 5378), H9962 [17NO]

———permanently extend research credit, adjust the alternative incremental credit rates, and provide an alternative simplified credit for qualified research expenses (see H.R. 463), H872 [4MR]

———permanently extend the increased standard deduction and certain income tax rate bracket expansions for married taxpayers filing joint returns (see H.R. 4181), H2406 [27AP]

———permit the deduction of health insurance costs of self-employed individuals to be allowed in computing self-employment taxes (see H.R. 1873), H36 [20JA]

———provide a credit for expenditures for the maintenance of railroad tracks of certain railroads (see H.R. 876), H575 [24FE]

———provide for use of redevelopment bonds for environmental remediation (see H.R. 3891), H1594 [25MR]

———treatment of medical expenses (see H.R. 1117), H575 [24FE]

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), H435 [10FE]

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), H391 [4FE]

Bills and resolutions introduced

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

———clarify treatment of differential wage payments made to employees called to active military duty (see H.R. 5154), H7735 [28SE]

Remarks

Archie Spigner Post Office Building, St. Albans, NY: designate (H.R. 4632), H7013 [13SE]

Armed Forces: 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 [8OC]

Clinton, William J.: tribute (H. Res. 717), H7014, H7015, H7016 [13SE]

Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities and prescribing personnel strengths (H.R. 4200), conference report, H8996 [8OC]

Education: tribute to Catholic schools (H. Res. 492), H43 [21JA]

Iraq: affirm value of liberation of the Iraqi people and commend service of the U.S. Armed Forces and Coalition forces on anniversary of Operation Iraqi Freedom (H. Res. 557), H1160 [17MR]

———assessment of war and reconstruction efforts, H2459 [28AP]

Libya: Muammar Qadhafi's decision to renounce weapons of mass destruction and improve U.S. relations, H1160 [17MR]

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

Votes: position on missed, H1133 [17MR], H4617 [21JN], H7514 [23SE]

Wilmington College: tribute to women's basketball team, E461 [26MR]

World War II: tribute to Tuskegee Airmen (H. Con. Res. 417), E1093 [14JN]

Remarks in House relative to

Special order: granted, H925 [9MR]

Tributes

Smith, John R., E255 [26FE]