REHBERG, DENNIS R. (a Representative from Montana)

Amendments

Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs: making appropriations (H.R. 2744), H4189 [7JN], H4238 [8JN]

Appointments

Conferee: H.R. 2419, energy and water development appropriations, H9110 [26OC]

———H.R. 2528, Depts. of Defense, Veterans Affairs, and related agencies appropriations for military construction, quality of life functions, and veterans' services, H9568 [3NO]

———H.R. 3057, foreign operations, export financing, and related programs appropriations, H9330 [27OC]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Agriculture: implement a mandatory program for country of origin labeling for meat and produce (see H.R. 4365), H10908 [17NO]

Amtrak: authorizing appropriations (see H.R. 1630), H2739 [28AP]

Armed Forces: 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. 772), H10502 [16NO]

Bankruptcy: amend laws (see H.R. 685), H798 [17FE]

BLM: provide permanent funding for the payment in lieu of taxes program (see H.R. 2337), H3695 [19MY]

Budget: reform Federal budget procedures, impose spending safeguards, combat waste, fraud, and abuse, and account for accurate Government agency costs (see H.R. 2290), H4985 [22JN]

Congress: disapprove rule submitted by the Dept. of Agriculture relating to risk zones for introduction of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) (see H.J. Res. 23), H1697 [17MR]

Courts: clarify jurisdiction of Federal courts over certain cases and controversies involving the Pledge of Allegiance (see H.R. 2389), H3434 [17MY]

Cuba: clarify allowable payment terms for sales of agricultural commodities and products (see H.R. 1339), H1970 [13AP]

———lift travel restrictions (see H.R. 1814), H2979 [4MY]

Dallas, TX: eliminate certain restrictions on air transportation to and from Love Field (see H.R. 2646), H4723 [17JN]

———eliminate certain restrictions on air transportation to and from Love Field, cosponsorship withdrawn (see H.R. 2646), H4803 [20JN]

Dept. of Agriculture: designate a disaster liaison to assist State and local employees with responding to a federally declared disaster area (see H.R. 3969), H9556 [2NO]

———establish the National Drought Council (see H.R. 1386), H1692 [17MR]

Dept. of Defense: postpone certain closures and realignments of military installations (see H.R. 2427), H4297 [8JN]

Dept. of the Interior: develop a cadastre of Federal real property to assist with land management, conservation, and development and identify land that no longer needs to be federally owned (see H.R. 1370), H2103 [14AP]

———make full payment to each unit of general local government in which entitlement land is located (see H.R. 1469), H3695 [19MY]

Dept. of the Navy: redesignate as the Dept. of the Navy and Marine Corps (see H.R. 34), H584 [10FE]

Dept. of the Treasury: repeal authority to enter into private tax collection contracts (see H.R. 1621), H4486 [14JN]

Disasters: improve ability of Depts. of Agriculture and the Interior to promptly implement recovery treatments in response to catastrophic events affecting forest lands (see H.R. 4200), H9554 [2NO]

District of Columbia: restore right to keep and bear arms (see H.R. 1288), H4561 [15JN]

Drugs: respond to the illegal production, distribution, and use of methamphetamines (see H.R. 13), H1622 [16MR]

Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: make repeal of estate taxes permanent (see H.R. 8), H1025 [8MR]

Employment: protect volunteer firefighters and emergency medical services personnel responding to national emergencies from termination or demotion in their places of employment (see H.R. 3949), H9556 [2NO]

Endangered Species Act: provide greater results conserving and recovering listed species (see H.R. 3824), H8342 [22SE]

———reform process for designating critical habitat (see H.R. 1299), H1507 [15MR]

English language: reaffirm as official language of U.S., establish uniform English language rule for naturalization, and avoid misconstructions of English language texts of U.S. laws (see H.R. 997), H1510 [15MR]

FAA: repeal local participation in Essential Air Service Program (see H.R. 1119), H7814 [8SE]

FDA: provide for uniform food safety warning notification requirements (see H.R. 4167), H9361 [27OC]

Federal Water Pollution Control Act: affirm that a permit is not required in certain circumstances (see H.R. 1749), H2469 [21AP]

———clarify U.S. jurisdiction over water and wetlands (see H.R. 2658), H10038 [8NO]

FEMA: direct the President to designate a Small State Advocate (see H.R. 2338), H5801 [13JY]

Financial institutions: enhance ability of community banks to foster economic growth and serve their communities (see H.R. 2061), H6328 [21JY]

———prohibit financial holding companies and national banks from engaging, directly or indirectly, in real estate brokerage or real estate management activities (see H.R. 111), H584 [10FE]

Firearms: permit States to provide reciprocal treatment for carrying of certain concealed firearms by nonresidents (see H.R. 1243), H5435 (see H.R. 1243), H5479 [29JN]

———prohibit lawsuits against weapons manufacturers, distributors, dealers, or importers (see H.R. 800), H627 [15FE]

———protect and enforce the right to obtain and use firearms for security, self-defense, and other legitimate purposes (see H.R. 47), H587 [14FE]

Firefighters: recognize and honor contributions throughout U.S. history (see H. Res. 188), H1778 [5AP]

Flag—U.S.: constitutional amendment to prohibit desecration (see H.J. Res. 10), H1510 [15MR]

Gold Star Mothers Day: support goals and ideals (see H.J. Res. 61), H8249 [21SE]

Guam War Claims Review Commission: implement recommendations (see H.R. 1595), H1968 [13AP]

Health: ensure the continued commercial availability of respirators and establish rules governing product liability actions against manufacturers and sellers of respirators (see H.R. 2357), H4985 [22JN]

Health care professionals: establish demonstration programs to address shortages in rural areas (see H.R. 1654), H2739 [28AP]

House of Representatives: constitutional amendment on basing apportionment on number of persons in each State who are U.S. citizens (see H.J. Res. 53), H4985 [22JN]

Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail: designate (see H.R. 383), H524 [9FE]

Immigration: enhance Federal, State, and local enforcement of immigration laws (see H.R. 3137), H9277 [26OC]

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers: provide for continued oversight of the Internet domain name system and ensure physical location within the U.S. (see H. Con. Res. 268), H10039 [8NO]

Iran: hold current regime accountable for its threatening behavior and support a transition to democracy (see H.R. 282), H3113 [10MY]

Japan: impose retaliatory economic measures if U.S. beef imports do not resume immediately (see H.R. 4179), H9425 [28OC] (see H. Res. 137), H984 [3MR]

Law enforcement: make improvements to the national sex offender registration program (see H.R. 3132), H6652 [26JY]

———provide for research on and standards for remediation of closed methamphetamine production laboratories (see H.R. 798), H1779 [5AP]

Law enforcement officers: adjust percentage differentials payable to Federal law enforcement officers in certain high-cost areas (see H.R. 556), H1417 [14MR]

Life Insurance Awareness Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Con. Res. 181), H5915 [14JY]

Medicare: clarify payment for clinical laboratory tests furnished by critical access hospitals (see H.R. 1016), H8388 [27SE]

Members of Congress: reduce rate of pay (see H.R. 4113), H9556 [2NO]

———reduce rate of pay and eliminate automatic salary adjustments (see H.R. 4047), H8919 [18OC]

Motor vehicles: allow an operator of a commercial motor vehicle breaks in a daily tour of duty (see H.R. 623), H631 [15FE]

National Guard Youth Challenge Program: increase maximum Federal share of costs for State programs (see H.R. 669), H7814 [8SE]

National parks and recreation areas: mint coins in commemoration of founding (see H.R. 988), H2738 [28AP]

National Weatherization Day: observance (see H. Res. 410), H7562 [28JY]

Northern Mariana Islands: provide for a nonvoting delegate to the House of Representatives (see H.R. 873), H791 [17FE]

Outer Continental Shelf: terminate effect of laws prohibiting spending of appropriated funds to conduct oil and natural gas leasing and preleasing activities (see H.R. 4318), H11504 [13DE]

Political campaigns: repeal disclosure requirement for certain electioneering communication disbursements and prohibit making such disbursements by corporations and labor organizations (see H.R. 689), H521 [9FE]

Power resources: expand production and use of renewable fuel and increase energy independence (see H.R. 1608), H2104 [14AP]

Real estate: prohibit economic development assistance to States or localities that use eminent domain to obtain property for private commercial development or fail to pay relocation costs to displaced persons (see H.R. 3405), H7815 [8SE]

Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act: extend authority for drought assistance (see H.R. 2925), H7613 [29JY]

Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act: reauthorize (see H.R. 517), H348 [2FE]

Small business: improve access and choice relative to employee health care (see H.R. 525), H1622 [16MR]

Space policy: mint coins in commemoration of the anniversaries of NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (see H.R. 68), H286 [1FE]

States: authorize organization and service of a militia to help prevent individuals from unlawfully crossing an international border and entering the U.S. anywhere other than a port of entry (see H.R. 3622), H9426 [28OC]

———limit acquisition by the U.S. of land located in States in which 25 percent or more of the land is already owned by the U.S. (see H.R. 1235), H2103 [14AP]

Supreme Court: disapprove Kelo v. New London, CT, decision on allowing local government seizure of private property (see H. Res. 340), H5604 [30JN]

Surface Transportation Board: authorizing appropriations to enhance railroad competition (see H.R. 2047), H2879 [3MY]

Tariff: impose tariff-rate quotas on certain casein and milk protein concentrates (see H.R. 521), H348 [2FE]

———nylon woolpacks used to package wool (see H.R. 1851), H3056 [5MY]

Taxation: allow a credit for owning certain commercial power takeoff vehicles (see H.R. 652), H411 [8FE]

———allow certain modifications to be made to qualified mortgages held by a real estate mortgage investement company or a grantor trust (see H.R. 1010), H1026 [8MR]

———allow deduction for qualified timber gains (see H.R. 3883), H10157 [10NO]

———exclude from gross income a portion of lifetime income payments from annuities and similiar payments of life insurance proceeds at dates later than death (see H.R. 819), H1779 [5AP]

———exclude from gross income employer contributions to college tuition plans and education savings accounts (see H.R. 3585), H7559 [28JY]

———exclusion of gain from the sale of farmland (see H.R. 775), H848 [1MR]

———expand and modernize agricultural bond programs to assist young farmers and ranchers (see H.R. 651), H942 [2MR]

———expand workplace health incentives by equalizing the tax consequences of employee athletic facility use (see H.R. 1634), H4356 [9JN]

———extend credit for electricity produced from certain renewable resources (see H.R. 3338), H6328 [21JY]

———extend deduction for increased expensing for small business (see H.R. 1678), H6107 [19JY]

———increase benefits for parents who stay at home with their children (see H.R. 3080), H6328 [21JY]

———make individual income tax rates for capital gains and dividends permanent (see H.R. 809), H2150 [19AP]

———permanently extend research credit, adjust the alternative incremental credit rates, and provide an alternative simplified credit for qualified research expenses (see H.R. 1736), H5604 [30JN]

———provide a refundable tax credit to public safety volunteers (see H.R. 934), H848 [1MR]

———provide a small agri-biodiesel producer credit and improve the small ethanol producer credit (see H.R. 36), H3113 [10MY]

———provide an exclusion for gain from the sale of farmland to encourage the continued use of property for farming (see H.R. 2034), H3695 [19MY]

———provide collegiate housing and infrastructure grants (see H.R. 1548), H3769 [23MY]

———provide credit to certain agriculture-related businesses for cost of protecting certain chemicals (see H.R. 713), H3056 [5MY]

———provide that the credit for producing fuel from a nonconventional source shall apply to gas produced onshore from certain formations (see H.R. 454), H283 [1FE]

———reduce depreciation recovery period for roof systems (see H.R. 1510), H3114 [10MY]

———repeal estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes (see H.R. 64), H413 [8FE]

———repeal excise tax on telephone use and other communications services (see H.R. 1898), H3331 [16MY]

———temporarily suspend Federal excise taxes on highway motor fuels (see H.R. 3683), H7950 [14SE]

———treatment of automatic fire sprinkler systems (see H.R. 1131), H983 [3MR]

Trails: designate the Chisholm Trail and Great Western Trail historic cattle-drive trails for study and for potential addition to the National Trails System (see H.R. 2964), H6205 [20JY]

Trucking industry: postpone enforcement of new rules governing rest periods for truck drivers using sleeper berths (see H.R. 3943), H8810 [7OC]

U.N.: withhold U.S. contributions pending certification of U.N. cooperation in investigation of Oil-for-Food Program (see H.R. 1092), H981 [3MR]

Veterans: mint coins in commemoration of veterans who became disabled for life while serving in the Armed Forces (see H.R. 1951), H10157 [10NO]

Veterans' Right To Know Commission: establish (see H.R. 4259), H10038 [8NO]

Volunteer firefighters: remove civil liability barriers surrounding donating fire equipment to volunteer fire companies (see H.R. 1088), H981 [3MR]

World War II: recognize contributions of the Marine Corps and other units of the Armed Forces on the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima (see H. Res. 119), H797 [17FE]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Dept. of the Treasury: distribution of capital gains from the Crow Tribal Trust Fund (see H.R. 2979), H4722 [17JN]

FERC: allow refurbishment and operation of a small hydroelectric facility in central Montana (see H.R. 1318), H1508 [15MR]

Montana: provide for renovation of runways at Malmstrom AFB and Great Falls International Airport (see H.R. 3620), H7612 [29JY]

Montana Future Farmers of America: anniversary (see H. Res. 157), H1509 [15MR]

Native Americans: authorize the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Reservation to enter into a water rights agreement to meet the needs of the Dry Prairie Rural Water Association, Inc. (see H.R. 2978), H4722 [17JN]

Nuclear weapons: establish U.S. policy on size of land-based intercontinental ballistic missile force (see H.R. 4051), H8808 [7OC]

Paul Kasten Post Office Building, Brockway, MT: designate (see H.R. 2977), H4722 [17JN]

Real estate: protect private property rights by limiting the power of eminent domain (see H.R. 3083), H5361 [28JN]

Tariff Act: amend relative to marking of imported live bovine animals (see H.R. 1802), H2471 [21AP]

Remarks

Agriculture: repeal delay in implementation of country of origin labeling requirements for meat and meat products, H4238, H4241 [8JN]

Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs: making appropriations (H.R. 2744), H4238, H4241 [8JN]

Amtrak: funding, H5389 [29JN]

Bozeman, MT: American Cities Business Journal best small-business market designee, H292 [2FE]

Dept. of Energy: collaboration with private industry to develop near-zero emissions coal powerplant funding, H10061 [9NO]

Depts. of Transportation, the Treasury, and HUD, the Judiciary, District of Columbia, and independent agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 3058), H5389 [29JN]

Endangered Species Act: provide greater results conserving and recovering listed species (H.R. 3824), H8536 [29SE]

Energy and water development: making appropriations (H.R. 2419), conference report, H10061 [9NO]

Paul Kasten Post Office Building, Brockway, MT: designate (H.R. 2977), E1618 [27JY]

Real estate: protect private property rights by limiting the power of eminent domain (H.R. 3083), H5369 [29JN]

Roads and highways: reopening of Beartooth All-American Highway from Red Lodge, MT, to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming (H. Res. 309), H4321, H4322 [9JN]

Tributes

Haas, Richard (Moose), E1478 [13JY]