PRYCE, DEBORAH (a Representative from Ohio)

Appointments

Committee To Escort the President, H340 [2FE]

Committee To Escort the Speaker-Elect to the Chair, H3 [4JA]

Committee To Escort Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko Into the House Chamber, H1784 [6AP]

Conferee: S. 467, Terrorism Risk Insurance Extension Act, H11183 [7DE]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Agriculture: establish a voluntary program for country of origin labeling of meat (see H.R. 2068), H6381 [22JY]

American Jewish History Month: observance (see H. Con. Res. 315), H11654 [14DE]

Americans With Disabilities Act: anniversary (see H. Res. 378), H6431 [25JY]

Amo Houghton Bypass: designate a segment of Interstate 86 near Corning, NY (see H.R. 795), H586 [14FE]

Armstrong, Lance: tribute (see H. Res. 390), H7566 [28JY]

Bank for International Settlements (organization): establish committee to develop uniform U.S. positions on issues before the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and review capital standards accord (see H.R. 1226), H1368 [10MR]

Bankruptcy: amend laws (see H.R. 685), H521 [9FE]

Braille, Louis: mint commemorative coins (see H.R. 2872), H8644 [29SE]

Capitol Building and Grounds: acceptance by Committee on the Library (Joint) of a bust of Sojourner Truth and display of the bust in the Capitol rotunda (see H.R. 4510), H12290 [18DE]

Children and youth: improve the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Program (see H.R. 2423), H3696 [19MY]

Courts: amend procedures that apply to consideration of interstate class actions to assure fairer outcomes for class members and defendants (see H.R. 516), H348 [2FE]

———prevent frivolous lawsuits against manufacturers, distributors, or sellers of food or non-alcoholic beverage products that comply with applicable statutory and regulatory requirements (see H.R. 554), H350 [2FE]

Dept. of HHS: establish Offices of Women's Health (see H.R. 949), H794 [17FE]

———reauthorize Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education Program (see H.R. 1246), H1370 [10MR]

Dept. of Justice: authorizing appropriations (see H.R. 3402), H7566 [28JY]

Disasters: express sympathy and pledge support for victims of the earthquake and tsunami that struck areas of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Africa (see H. Res. 12), H79 [4JA]

———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), H10503 [16NO]

Diseases: address fertility issues facing cancer survivors (see H. Con. Res. 174), H4296 [8JN]

———support goal of eliminating suffering and death due to cancer (see H. Con. Res. 210), H5963 [18JY]

Drugs: respond to the illegal production, distribution, and use of methamphetamines (see H.R. 3889), H10227 [15NO]

Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: make permanent enhanced educational savings provisions for qualified tuition programs (see H.R. 2386), H4723 [17JN]

———make repeal of estate taxes permanent (see H.R. 8), H790 [17FE]

Fair Credit Reporting Act: provide for secure financial data (see H.R. 3997), H8733 [6OC]

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

———provide with certain authority to regulate tobacco products (see H.R. 1376), H1691 [17MR]

Federal employees: provide a real estate stock index investment option under the Thrift Savings Plan (see H.R. 1578), H1894 [12AP]

Federal Prison Industries, Inc.: eliminate Federal agency requirement to purchase products and require commercial competition for Federal contracts (see H.R. 2965), H5604 [30JN]

Financial institutions: reform the Federal deposit insurance system (see H.R. 1185), H1263 [9MR]

Financial Literacy Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 148), H1510 [15MR]

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

Foreign aid: ensure protection of beneficiaries of U.S. humanitarian assistance (see H.R. 912), H792 [17FE]

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

Health: authorize a demonstration grant program to provide patient navigator services to reduce barriers and improve health care outcomes (see H.R. 1812), H2476 [25AP]

———provide for arthritis research and public health (see H.R. 583), H7814 [8SE]

Iran: hold current regime accountable for its threatening behavior and support a transition to democracy (see H.R. 282), H5741 [12JY]

Iraq: commend for conducting free elections, express gratitude to U.S. Armed Forces and their families, and reaffirm U.S. mission (see H. Res. 60), H286 [1FE]

———encourage Transitional National Assembly to adopt a constitution that grants and protects women's equal rights under the law (see H. Res. 383), H6937 [27JY]

Law enforcement: make improvements to the national sex offender registration program (see H.R. 3132), H6432 [25JY]

Life Insurance Awareness Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Con. Res. 181), H4722 [17JN]

Medicaid: include podiatrists as physicians for purposes of covering physicians services (see H.R. 699), H7564 [28JY]

Mental health: combat autism through research, screening, intervention, and education (see H.R. 2421), H8847 [17OC]

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute: expand, intensify, and coordinate pulmonary hypertension research activities (see H.R. 3005), H6381 [22JY]

National Tartan Day: support establishment (see H. Res. 41), H413 [8FE]

Native Americans: acknowledgment of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina (see H.R. 21), H797 [17FE]

News media: maintain free flow of information to the public by providing conditions for the federally compelled disclosure of information by persons connected with the news media (see H.R. 3323), H7744 [7SE]

NIH: conduct and support research for the derivation and use of human pluripotent stem cells by means that will not create or harm human embryos (see H.R. 3144), H5600 [30JN]

———conduct and support research on animals to develop techniques for the derivation of stem cells from embryos that do not harm the embryos (see H.R. 2574), H4356 [9JN]

O'Connor, Sandra Day: tribute (see H. Res. 357), H5916 [14JY]

Parks, Rosa: issue commemorative postage stamp (see H.R. 4343), H11220 [7DE]

Privacy: protect consumers by requiring reasonable security policies and procedures to protect computerized data containing personal information and require data breach notification (see H.R. 4127), H9102 [25OC]

Project GRAD USA (organization): authorize (see H.R. 1282), H1416 [14MR]

Radio: preserve local radio broadcast emergency and other services and require the FCC to conduct rulemaking for that purpose (see H.R. 998), H8102 [19SE]

Real estate: protect private property rights by limiting the power of eminent domain (see H.R. 3135), H5963 [18JY]

Russia: protect intellectual property rights (see H. Con. Res. 230), H9642 [3NO]

Small business: improve access and choice relative to employee health care (see H.R. 525), H348 [2FE]

Social Security: repeal Government pension offset and windfall elimination provisions (see H.R. 147), H9555 [2NO]

Taxation: allow a credit to holders of qualified bonds issued to finance certain energy projects (see H.R. 2794), H4896 [21JN]

———allow an investment tax credit for the purchase of trucks with new diesel engine technologies (see H.R. 3301), H9641 [3NO]

———allow individuals to defer recognition of reinvested capital gains distributions from regulated investment companies (see H.R. 2121), H9276 [26OC]

———authorize States, localities, the District of Columbia, territories, and possessions of the U.S. to provide certain tax incentives to any person for economic development purposes (see H.R. 2471), H4144 [26MY]

———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), H848 [1MR]

———provide a credit to promote homeownership and community development (see H.R. 1549), H1893 [12AP]

———provide incentives for charitable contributions by individuals and businesses (see H.R. 3908), H8644 [29SE]

———provide tax incentives for the remediation of contaminated sites (see H.R. 4480), H11326 [8DE]

———repeal excise tax on telephone use and other communications services (see H.R. 1898), H7949 [14SE]

———treat regional income tax collection agencies as States for purposes of confidentiality and disclosure requirements relating to tax returns and return information (see H.R. 3452), H8810 [7OC]

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

———treatment of beer (see H.R. 1306), H2739 [28AP]

———treatment of certain expenses of elementary and secondary school teachers (see H.R. 2989), H4801 [20JN]

Telephones: facilitate nationwide availability of 2-1-1 telephone service for information and referral on health and human services (see H.R. 896), H5176 [24JN]

Terrorism Risk Insurance Act: extend applicability (see H.R. 4314), H10161 [14NO]

Tony Hall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Dayton, OH: designate (see H.R. 548), H350 [2FE]

Veterans Educate Today's Students (VETS) Day: support goals (see H. Con. Res. 173), H4142 [26MY]

Violence Against Women Act: reauthorize (see H.R. 2876), H4485 [14JN]

World War II: tribute to Tuskegee Airmen (see H. Con. Res. 26), H287 [1FE]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Committee on Rules (House): majority party appointments (see H. Res. 6), H79 [4JA]

Committees of the House: majority party appointments (see H. Res. 48), H236 [26JA]

Crime: combat unlawful commercial sex activities by targeting demand, prohibit operation of sex tours, and protect children and assist State and local law enforcement relative to such activities (see H.R. 2012), H2737 [28AP]

Diseases: support efforts to increase childhood cancer awareness (see H. Res. 323), H4561 [15JN]

Fair Credit Reporting Act: provide for secure financial data (see H.R. 3375), H6326 [21JY]

GSA: conveyance of certain real property (see H.R. 1429), H1693 [17MR]

Haas, Karen L.: election as the Clerk of the House of Representatives (see H. Res. 580), H11071 [6DE]

Health: improve palliative and end-of-life care provided to children with life-threatening conditions (see H.R. 963), H795 [17FE]

Homeless: establish a grant program to provide supportive services in permanent supportive housing for chronically homeless individuals (see H.R. 1471), H1777 [5AP]

House of Representatives: election of officers (see H. Res. 1), H79 [4JA]

Public welfare programs: reauthorize and improve block grants to States for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (see H.R. 240), H136 [6JA]

Remarks

Blunt, Representative: acknowledgement as majority whip of the House of Representatives, H6 [4JA]

Budget: reconciliation of the concurrent resolution (H.R. 4241), consideration (H. Res. 560), H10544 [17NO]

Columbus, OH: tribute to Lima Co., 3d Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, E2079 [7OC]

Committee on Rules (House): majority party appointments (H. Res. 6), H31 [4JA]

Committees of the House: majority party appointments (H. Res. 48), H200 [26JA]

Congress: counting of electoral votes for President and Vice President, H86 [6JA]

———objection to counting of Ohio electoral votes for President and Vice President, H86 [6JA]

DeLay, Representative: acknowledgement as majority leader of the House of Representatives, H6 [4JA]

Dept. of Justice: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 3402), H12125 [17DE]

———authorizing appropriations (H.R. 3402), consideration (H. Res. 462), H8403 [28SE]

Durbin, Senator: characterization of treatment and condition of detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, H4987 [23JN]

EPA: encourage domestic production and sales of efficient hybrid and advanced diesel vehicles, E757 [26AP]

Foreign aid: ensure protection of beneficiaries of U.S. humanitarian assistance (H.R. 912), H858 [2MR]

FTC: protect privacy of electric consumers, H2427 [21AP]

Haas, Karen L.: election as the Clerk of the House of Representatives (H. Res. 580), H11071 [6DE]

Hastert, Representative: nomination to be Speaker of the House, H2 [4JA]

Health: authorize a demonstration grant program to provide patient navigator services to reduce barriers and improve health care outcomes (H.R. 1812), E1271 [17JN]

House of Representatives: election of officers (H. Res. 1), H6 [4JA]

Housing: reform the regulation of the housing-related Government-sponsored enterprises (H.R. 1461), H9129 [26OC]

Postal Service: reform postal laws (H.R. 22), consideration (H. Res. 380), E1634 [27JY]

Power resources: enhance energy conservation, research, and development and provide for security and diversity in the energy supply (H.R. 6), H2427 [21AP], E757 [26AP]

Supreme Court: disapprove Kelo v. New London, CT, decision on allowing local government seizure of private property, H5481 [30JN]

Terrorism Risk Insurance Act: extend applicability (S. 467), Senate amendment, H12137 [17DE]

Tony Hall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Dayton, OH: designate (H.R. 548), E195 [9FE]

Trafficking Victims Protection Act: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 972), H11576 [14DE]

Violence Against Women Act: reauthorize, H8403 [28SE], H12125 [17DE]

Votes: correction, E2199 [27OC]

———position on missed, E2220 [28OC]

Women: establish an appropriate day for commemoration of the women suffragists who fought for and won the right of women to vote in the U.S. (H.J. Res. 59), E1641 [27JY]

Women in Government Relations, Inc.: anniversary, E2532 [14DE]

Tributes

Fowler, Tillie K., H867 [2MR], H1007 [8MR]

Kovach, Liz, E1236 [15JN]

Lehman, Kathryn, H2780 [3MY]