GREENWOOD, JAMES C. (a Representative from Pennsylvania)

Articles and editorials

Global Concern—A Population Crisis Still Looms, Werner Fornos, International Herald Tribune (publication), E67 [28JA]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Abortion: prohibit interference by the government with a woman's right to choose to bear a child or terminate a pregnancy (see H.R. 3719), H88 [21JA]

Animals: assist in conservation of marine turtles and nesting habitats in foreign countries (see H.R. 3378), H516 [11FE]

———prohibit interstate commerce relative to captive animals (see H.R. 5242), H8856 [7OC]

Armed Forces: rectify deficiencies in military postal system to ensure that members overseas can receive and send mail in a timely manner, including election ballots, in time for 2004 elections (see H. Res. 608), H2550 [4MY]

Aznar, Jose M.: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 2131), H304 [3FE]

Barry, John: recognize as first flag officer of the U.S. Navy (see H.J. Res. 62), H1740 [30MR]

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]

Business and industry: coordinate Federal manufacturing research and development, strengthen manufacturing innovation and education programs, and expand outreach programs for small and medium-sized manufacturers (see H.R. 3598), H1593 [25MR]

———permit biomedical research corporations to engage in certain equity financings without incurring limitations on net operating loss carryforwards and certain built-in losses (see H.R. 2968), H2658 [5MY]

Center for Scientific and Technical Assessment: establish (see H.R. 4670), H4893 [23JN]

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), H1323 [18MR]

———provide assistance for orphans and other vulnerable children in developing countries (see H.R. 4061), H2374 [22AP]

Civil Rights Act: anniversary (see H. Res. 676), H4766 [22JN]

Climate: conduct scientific research on abrupt climate change, establish a market-driven system of greenhouse gas tradeable allowances, ensure benefits to consumers from such trading, and reduce dependence upon foreign oil (see H.R. 4067), H1739 [30MR]

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

Committee on POW and MIA Affairs (House, Select): establish (see H. Res. 103), H927 [9MR]

Computers: protect Internet users from unknowing transmission of their personally identifiable information through spyware programs (see H.R. 2929), H2658 [5MY]

Courts: ensure Federal Tort Claims Act protections for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and give U.S. district courts jurisdiction over competing State custody determinations (see H.R. 4347), H2917 [12MY]

Crime: expand protections against the misuse of public safety officer uniforms (see H.R. 3815), H3720 [2JN]

———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), H5984 [19JY]

Dept. of Defense: authorize the acceptance of donated frequent traveler miles, credits, and tickets for use by deployed members of the Armed Forces and their families (see H.R. 4130), H2919 [12MY]

Dept. of Education: provide grants to establish sustainability centers to develop and implement integrated environmental, economic, and social programs at institutions of higher education (see H.R. 4664), H4893 [23JN]

Dept. of HHS: reauthorize Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education Payment Program (see H.R. 4578), H4170 [15JN]

Dept. of Justice: authorize export of certain narcotic drugs and nonnarcotic controlled substances to a country for subsequent export from that country to another country, if certain conditions are met (see H.R. 4882), H6556 [21JY]

———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), H6756 [7SE]

Dept. of State: make grants to American-sponsored schools in Arab and other predominantly Muslim countries to provide merit-based scholarships for needy children to attend such schools (see H.R. 4303), H4928 (see H.R. 4303), H5072 [24JN]

Dept. of the Treasury: extend Terrorism Risk Insurance Program (see H.R. 4634), H5151 [25JN]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: 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), H1230 [17MR]

Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: repeal sunset on expansion of the adoption credit and adoption assistance programs (see H.R. 1057), H2549 [4MY]

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]

Endangered species: protect the remaining herd of wild and genetically pure American Buffalo (see H.R. 3446), H3440 (see H.R. 3446), H3540 [20MY]

Federal employees: treatment of retirement benefits for assistant U.S. attorneys (see H.R. 2260), H2491 [30AP]

Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act: reauthorize Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program (see H.R. 4107), H2728 [6MY]

Financial institutions: provide regulatory relief and improve productivity for insured depository institutions (H.R. 1375), consideration (see H. Res. 566), H5072 [24JN]

Financial Literacy Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 578), H1593 [25MR]

Foreign trade: application of countervailing duties to nonmarket economy countries (see H.R. 3716), H2373 [22AP]

France: condemn policy prohibiting religious articles and symbols in schools and respect the freedom of all to practice their religious faith without state interference (see H. Res. 528), H4171 [15JN]

Great Lakes: provide for environmental restoration (see H.R. 2720), H515 [11FE]

Greece: tribute to Government and people for successful completion of 2004 Summer Olympic games (see H. Res. 774), H7330 [21SE]

Health: expand access to preventive health care services and education programs that reduce unintended pregnancy, infection with sexually transmitted disease, and number of abortions (see H.R. 4192), H2265 [21AP]

———provide for arthritis research and public health (see H.R. 4610), H7329 [21SE]

———provide for embryonic stem cell research (see H.R. 4682), H4926 (see H.R. 4682), H5070 [24JN]

———provide individuals of health disparity populations prevention, detection, treatment, and follow-up care services for cancer and chronic diseases, and patient navigators to assist in receiving such services (see H.R. 918), H5793 [14JY]

———reduce adolescent pregnancy, HIV rates, and other sexually transmitted diseases (see H.R. 4182), H2265 [21AP]

Homeless: establish grant program to address the goal of ending chronic homelessness (see H.R. 4057), H3017 [13MY]

Housing: facilitate self-help housing homeownership opportunities (see H.R. 4363), H3720 [2JN]

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), H3605 [1JN]

International Women's Day: support goals (see H. Con. Res. 57), H927 [9MR]

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), H435 [10FE]

King, Martin Luther, Jr., and Coretta Scott: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 2680), H8038 [4OC]

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), H2406 [27AP]

Law enforcement officers: ensure accountability, guarantee due process, establish standards for internal investigations and hearings, and require enactment of relevant State laws (see H.R. 2967), H6756 [7SE]

March for Women's Lives: commend marchers and recognize individual rights relative to fertility, sexuality, and reproduction (see H. Res. 603), H2372 [22AP]

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]

McDermott, Ignatius: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 3148), H4580 [18JN]

Medicare: establish demonstration program to offset costs of electronic prescribing systems of health care providers (see H.R. 4805), H5470 [9JY]

———improve patient access to, and utilization of, the colorectal cancer screening benefit (see H.R. 1422), H4766 [22JN]

———provide equity in the calculation of disproportionate share hospital payments for hospitals in Puerto Rico (see H.R. 4871), H6127 [20JY]

———repeal reduction in payment for certain items of durable medical equipment (see H.R. 4491), H9745 [16NO]

Mental health: increase awareness of autism spectrum disorder, support programs for research and improved treatment, and improve training for health care professionals (see H. Res. 605), H2484 [28AP]

———issue commemorative postage stamp to raise autism awareness (see H. Res. 60), H831 [3MR]

Mining and mineral resources: 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), H1323 [18MR]

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

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

National security: establish a pilot program to provide for ocean and coastal observations, and enhance security at U.S. ports (see H.R. 5001), H6705 [22JY]

Natural resources: provide fellowships for graduate and postgraduate students in natural resource- or wildlife-related advanced degree programs to provide expertise to Federal agencies and Congress (see H.R. 5145), H7574 [23SE]

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

Political campaigns: clarify disclosure requirements of identifying information within campaign communications which are printed, made through the Internet, and through prerecorded telephone calls (see H.R. 4985), H7945 [30SE]

Pornography: support vigorous enforcement of Federal obscenity laws (see H. Con. Res. 298), H633 [25FE]

Rotary International: issue commemorative stamp to honor centennial anniversary and efforts to eradicate polio (see H. Con. Res. 375), H1370 [23MR]

SBA: modify the women's business center program (see H.R. 4853), H6128 [20JY]

Schools: direct certain coeducational elementary and secondary schools to make information available on equality in athletic programs (see H.R. 4994), H6756 [7SE]

Small business: improve access and choice relative to employee health care (see H.R. 4281), H2816 [11MY]

———improve results and accountability of microenterprise development assistance programs (see H.R. 3818), H1072 [11MR]

Solid waste: limit receipt of out-of-State municipal solid waste and direct the EPA to carry out certain authorities under an agreement with Canada on the importation of solid waste (see H.R. 4940), H6702 [22JY]

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

Supreme Court: anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education decision (see H. Con. Res. 414), H2729 [6MY]

Taxation: allow a deduction for premiums on mortgage insurance (see H.R. 1336), H89 [21JA]

———expand incentives for education (see H.R. 3412), H6706 [22JY]

———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]

———provide a credit for expenditures for the maintenance of railroad tracks of certain railroads (see H.R. 876), H89 [21JA]

———provide a credit to promote homeownership and community development (see H.R. 839), H5150 [25JN]

———provide a tax credit for broadband Internet access (see H.R. 768), H515 [11FE]

———provide a tax credit to businesses whose employees teach at community colleges (see H.R. 4983), H6704 [22JY]

———provide parity in reporting requirements for national party committees and unregulated political organizations (see H.R. 4384), H3229 [18MY]

———treatment of certain commercial power takeoff vehicles (see H.R. 1513), H393 [4FE]

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), H88 [21JA]

Telephones: facilitate nationwide availability of 2-1-1 telephone service for information and referral on human services (see H.R. 3111), H4391 (see H.R. 3111), H4507 [17JN]

U.S. Geological Survey: anniversary (see H. Res. 556), H4928 [24JN]

Ukrainian American Veterans, Inc.: grant Federal charter (see H.R. 1615), H304 [3FE]

Veterans: allow certain veterans with service-connected disabilities to travel on military aircraft (see H.R. 1919), H2918 [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), H1643 [29MR]

———recognize military service of certain Philippine nationals during World War II and allow receipt of Dept. of Veterans Affairs benefits (see H.R. 677), H6128 [20JY]

Wilderness Act: anniversary (see H. Res. 746), H6705 [22JY]

Women: establish programs to increase awareness and knowledge of women and health care providers with respect to gynecologic cancers (see H.R. 3438), H7443 [22SE]

World Summit on Sustainable Development: affirm U.S. commitment to improve worldwide access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation services (see H. Res. 782), H7329 [21SE]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Health: improve access to health care services and provide improved medical care by reducing the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery system (see H.R. 4280), H2656 [5MY]

———provide State grants for developing trauma care systems (see H.R. 3999), H1322 [18MR]

Medicare: provide coverage of screening ultrasound for abdominal aortic aneurysms (see H.R. 4626), H4646 [21JN]

NOAA: establish a national ocean policy to set forth missions and to ensure effective interagency coordination and establish a National Oceans Council (see H.R. 4900), H6700 [22JY]

Oceans: protect deep sea corals and sponges (see H.R. 4897), H6700 [22JY]

Remarks

Bucks County, PA: anniversary of Lower Bucks County DAV Chapter #117-PA, E141 [10FE]

Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: technical corrections relative to amendments made by the Medical Device User Fee and Modernization Act (H.R. 3493), H109, H110, H111 [27JA]

———technical corrections relative to amendments made by the Medical Device User Fee and Modernization Act (S. 1881), H890, H891 [9MR]

Foreign operations, export financing, and related programs: making appropriations (H.R. 4818), H5821 [15JY]

Health: improve access to health care services and provide improved medical care by reducing the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery system (H.R. 4280), H2861, H2865 [12MY]

House of Representatives: authorize recess for joint session to receive Spanish President Jose M. Aznar, H112 [27JA]

Medicare: reform and provide prescription drug coverage (H.R. 1), conference report, H4739, H4744 [22JN]

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative: initiate World Trade Organization dispute proceedings against the Ukrainian government, H5821 [15JY]

Pennsylvania State University: anniversary (H. Res. 703), E1300 [7JY]

Population: impact of international population growth, E67 [28JA]

Taiwan Relations Act: anniversary, E549 [20AP]

Tributes

Davis, Jeannette M., E1842 [8OC]