WALDEN, GREG (a Representative from Oregon)

Appointments

Conferee: H.R. 4200, Dept. of Defense appropriations for military activities and prescribing personnel strengths, H7701 [28SE]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

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), H2728 [6MY]

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]

Armed Forces: increase death gratuity (see H.R. 5055), H9184 [9OC]

———restore health care coverage to retired members of the uniformed services (see H.R. 3474), H434 [10FE]

Aznar, Jose M.: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 2131), H304 [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), H4287 [16JN]

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), H1643 [29MR]

———require mandatory expensing of stock options granted to executive officers (see H.R. 3574), H1230 [17MR]

Children and youth: support planning, implementation, and evaluation of organized activities involving statewide youth suicide early intervention and prevention strategies (see H.R. 4799), H5470 [9JY]

Corrie, Rachel: tribute (see H. Con. Res. 111), H1643 [29MR]

Dept. of Agriculture: make the dairy forward pricing program permanent (see H.R. 3308), H6997 [9SE]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: enter into contracts with community health care providers to improve access to health care for veterans in highly rural areas (see H.R. 3777), H392 [4FE]

———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), H304 [3FE]

Diseases: issue commemorative postage stamp to promote public awareness of Down syndrome (see H. Con. Res. 247), H2406 [27AP]

District of Columbia: restore right to keep and bear arms (see H.R. 3193), H2483 [28AP]

Drugs: authorize ``Meth Watch'' program grants (see H.R. 5345), H9184 [9OC]

———eliminate safe-harbor exception for certain packaged pseudoephedrine products used in manufacturing methamphetamine (see H.R. 5347), H9184 [9OC]

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: reform process for designating critical habitat (see H.R. 2933), H5793 [14JY]

FDA: uniform food safety warning notification requirements (see H.R. 2699), H700 [26FE]

Firefighters: provide death and disability benefits to certain contracted aerial firefighters who suffer death or disability in the line of duty (see H.R. 977), H1484 [24MR]

Fort Clatsop National Memorial: redesignate as the Lewis and Clark National Historical Park and include in the park sites in Washington and Oregon (see H.R. 3819), H574 [24FE]

Friends of the Children (organization): funding (see H.R. 4592), H4286 [16JN]

Health: establish grants to improve nutrition, increase physical activity, and prevent obesity (see H.R. 716), H2199 [20AP]

———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), H7864 [29SE]

———strengthen programs for stroke education, prevention, and treatment (see H.R. 3658), H304 [3FE]

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

Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail: designate (see H.R. 4944), H6702 [22JY]

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

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), H4766 [22JN]

Medicare: allow beneficiaries direct access to physical therapists without a physician referral (see H.R. 792), H5471 [9JY]

———clarify payment for clinical laboratory tests furnished by critical access hospitals (see H.R. 4257), H8039 [4OC]

———coverage of respiratory therapists under home health service plans (see H.R. 2905), H2378 [26AP]

National Guard Challenge Program: rename and revise matching funds requirements for participating States (see H.R. 4217), H2372 [22AP]

Native Americans: enter into an agreement or contract with Indian tribes meeting certain criteria to carry out projects to protect Indian forest land (see H.R. 3846), H1011 [10MR]

Northern Mariana Islands: provide for a nonvoting delegate to the House of Representatives (see H.R. 5135), H7574 [23SE]

Radio: preserve local radio broadcast emergency and other services and require the FCC to conduct rulemaking for that purpose (see H.R. 4026), H1643 [29MR]

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), H3781 [3JN]

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 deduction for premiums for high deductible health plans required relative to health savings accounts (see H.R. 3901), H3720 [2JN]

———extend alternative minimum tax relief and index such relief for inflation (see H.R. 4227), H2549 [4MY]

———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]

———provide a shorter recovery period for the depreciation of certain leasehold improvements (see H.R. 1634), H5471 [9JY]

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]

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: change effective date for paid-up coverage under the Survivor Benefit Plan (see H.R. 1653), H1643 [29MR]

———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), H576 [24FE]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Barber, Rex T.: waive certain time limitations to allow the award of the Medal of Honor for actions performed during World War II (see H.R. 3739), H243 [28JA]

Bureau of Reclamation: authorize participation in the rehabilitation of Wallowa Lake Dam in Oregon (see H.R. 3747), H244 [28JA]

Colorado Canyons National Conservation Area: rename as the McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area (see H.R. 4827), H5654 [13JY]

Healthy Forest Youth Conservation Corps: establish to permit young adults to perform projects to prevent fire and suppress fires, and provide disaster relief, on public lands (see H.R. 4838), H5907 [15JY]

Medicare: extend increase in payment rates for home health services in rural areas (see H.R. 4902), H6700 [22JY]

Pharmaceuticals: standardize certification of Internet pharmacies and prohibit certain advertising activities and the use of certain bank instruments for purchases associated with illegal Internet pharmacies (see H.R. 4612), H4579 [18JN]

Remarks

Agricultural Adjustment Act: remove requirement that processors be members of an agency administering a marketing order applicable to pears (H.R. 2984), H8132 [5OC]

Children and youth: support planning, implementation, and evaluation of organized activities involving statewide youth suicide early intervention and prevention strategies (S. 2634), H6870 [8SE]

Courts: divide the ninth judicial circuit into three circuits, H8059 [5OC]

Dept. of the Interior and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4568), H4253 [16JN]

Harry and David Co.: anniversary, E1365 [14JY]

Idaho: establish an additional permanent Federal judgeship (S. 878), H8059 [5OC]

Medicare: extend increase in payment rates for home health services in rural areas (H.R. 4902), E2107 [20NO]

National forests: prohibit funding for implementing Forest Service rules revisions relative to National Forest System Planning for Land and Resource Management Plans, H4253 [16JN]

National Homecare and Hospice Month: observance, E2107 [20NO]

Oregon Institute of Technology: tribute to men's basketball team, E757 [5MY]

Telecommunications: increase penalties for violations by television and radio broadcasters of the prohibitions against transmission of obscene, indecent, and profane language (H.R. 3717), H1023 [11MR]

Tributes

Hannon, Lenn, E234 [25FE]

Lombard, Benjamin, Jr. (Kip), E234 [25FE]