FORTUNO, LUIS (a Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico)

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Abortion: ensure that women seeking an abortion are fully informed relative to pain experienced by the unborn child (see H.R. 356), H195 [25JA]

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), H9044 [20OC]

———improve the readiness of State defense forces and increase military coordination for homeland security between States and the Dept. of Defense (see H.R. 3401), H6327 [21JY]

———increase death gratuity (see H.R. 292), H197 [25JA]

———provide for payment of Combat-Related Special Compensation to certain members retired for disability who were awarded the Purple Heart (see H.R. 995), H2103 [14AP]

———provide postal benefits for personal correspondence and certain parcels sent to members serving on active military duty abroad (see H.R. 923), H8846 [17OC]

———tribute to dedication and commitment of employers of the members of the National Guard and other Reserve components who have been mobilized during the Global War on Terrorism (see H. Res. 302), H9103 [25OC]

Asia: commend support to victims of earthquake that struck South Asia (see H. Res. 561), H11881 [15DE]

Aviation: ensure inspection of cargo carried on passenger aircraft (see H.R. 4373), H11110 [6DE]

Bipartisan Commission on Medicaid: establish (see H.R. 985), H1779 [5AP]

Braille, Louis: mint commemorative coins (see H.R. 2872), H7743 [7SE]

Capitol Building and Grounds: permit placement of statues honoring a citizen of each U.S. territory in National Statuary Hall (see H.R. 4070), H8918 [18OC]

Caribbean-American Heritage Month: establish (see H. Con. Res. 71), H4188 [7JN]

Children and youth: improve the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Program (see H.R. 1355), H1851 [8AP]

———provide for programs and activities on the prevention of underage drinking (see H.R. 864), H718 [16FE]

Clean Air Act: require all gasoline sold for use in motor vehicles to contain a certain percentage of renewable fuel (see H.R. 4357), H11880 [15DE]

Coast Guard: tribute to response to Hurricane Katrina and provide temporary relief to certain persons affected by such hurricane relative to certain laws administered by the Coast Guard (see H.R. 4508), H11503 [13DE]

Coastal zones: develop and maintain an integrated system of ocean and Great Lakes coastal observations (see H.R. 1584), H1895 [12AP]

Colleges and universities: expand and enhance post-baccalaureate opportunities at Hispanic-serving institutions (see H.R. 761), H582 [10FE]

Commission To Study the Potential Creation of a National Museum of the American Latino Community: establish (see H.R. 2134), H8919 [18OC]

Courts: clarify that persons may bring private rights of actions against foreign states for certain terrorist acts (see H.R. 865), H718 [16FE]

———ensure judicial decisions on the meaning of U.S. laws are not based on foreign judgments, laws, or pronouncements unless they inform an understanding of the original meaning of the laws (see H. Res. 97), H630 [15FE]

———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), H413 [8FE]

Crime: provide penalties for trafficking in counterfeit marks (see H.R. 32), H1025 [8MR]

Cuba: call for release of political prisoners, legalize political parties and free elections, urge European Union to reexamine policy, and support a U.N. resolution on ending human rights violations (see H. Res. 388), H7566 [28JY]

———express support to the organizers and participants of the historic meeting of the Assembly to Promote the Civil Society in Cuba (see H. Res. 193), H2474 [21AP]

Dept. of Defense: establish techniques used in U.S. Army Field Manual on Intelligence Interrogation as the standard for interrogation of detainees and prohibit torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment of enemy POW (see H.R. 3985), H8986 [19OC]

Dept. of Education: establish a Family Education Reimbursement Account Program to assist hurricane displaced students (see H.R. 4097), H9042 [20OC]

Dept. of Homeland Security: extend requirement for prescreening of air passengers to international flights that overfly the U.S. (see H.R. 3337), H11504 [13DE]

———notify passengers when they are flying on an aircraft carrying unscreened cargo (see H.R. 4353), H11110 [6DE]

———verify security measures under the Customer Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) and the Free and Secure Trade (FAST) programs (see H.R. 4374), H11110 [6DE]

Dept. of Justice: establish a national sex offender registration database (see H.R. 95), H236 [26JA]

Dept. of the Interior: authorize Western States to select public lands within their borders in lieu of receiving payment for the sale of public lands lying within said States (see H.R. 3463), H9426 [28OC]

Dept. of the Treasury: establish a commemorative quarter dollar coin program for the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands, and the Virgin Islands (see H.R. 3885), H8341 [22SE]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: allow veterans enrolled in the health system the option of receiving covered health services through non-departmental facilities (see H.R. 4277), H10145 [9NO]

———authorize departmental police officers to execute State or local arrest warrants on Dept. property within the jurisdiction of the issuing body (see H.R. 926), H2103 [14AP]

———repeal the offset from surviving spouse annuities under the military Survivor Benefit Plan for amounts paid as dependency and indemnity compensation (see H.R. 808), H1969 [13AP]

Developing countries: provide assistance to improve the health of newborns, children, and mothers (see H.R. 4222), H9962 [7NO]

Disasters: establish special rules relative to certain disaster assistance provided for Hurricanes Katrina and Rita (see H.R. 4438), H11109 [6DE]

———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]

———mourn the loss of life caused by floods and mudslides in Central America and Mexico and provide assistance to affected people (see H. Con. Res. 280), H9362 [27OC]

Diseases: authorize grants to provide treatment for diabetes within minority communities (see H.R. 3641), H11110 [6DE]

———issue commemorative postage stamp to promote public awareness of Down syndrome (see H. Con. Res. 42), H11110 [6DE]

Drugs: respond to the illegal production, distribution, and use of methamphetamines (see H.R. 13), H1371 [10MR] (see H.R. 314), H524 [9FE]

Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: make repeal of estate taxes permanent (see H.R. 8), H790 [17FE]

Education: increase maximum Pell Grant amount (see H.R. 133), H197 [25JA]

———strengthen and expand scientific and technological education capabilities of associate-degree-granting colleges through partnerships with bachelor-degree-granting institutions (see H.R. 226), H413 [8FE]

Elementary and Secondary Education Act: amend Impact Aid Program relative to delivery of payments to local educational agencies (see H.R. 390), H848 [1MR]

Endangered Species Act: provide greater results conserving and recovering listed species (see H.R. 3824), H8389 [27SE]

FAA: relax maximum age requirements for certain pilots (see H.R. 65), H4802 [20JN]

Families and domestic relations: require certain family planning projects and programs provide pamphlets containing adoption center contact information (see H.R. 69), H524 [9FE]

Federal employees: require Government credit card bills to be made available to the public (see H.R. 4089), H8985 [19OC]

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: improve attorney accountability (see H.R. 420), H235 [26JA]

FHA: remove limitation on the number of reverse mortgages that may be insured (see H.R. 2892), H11504 [13DE]

Flag—U.S.: ensure that the right of an individual to display the U.S. flag on residential property not be abridged (see H.R. 42), H412 [8FE]

Gold Star Mothers Day: support goals and ideals (see H.J. Res. 61), H8163 [20SE]

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

Gulf Coast States: encourage the adoption of comprehensive, modern, and uniform statewide building codes by Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama (see H. Con. Res. 285), H9696 [4NO]

Head Start Program: provide greater accountability for Head Start agencies (see H.R. 778), H1847 [6AP]

———reauthorize and improve the school readiness of disadvantaged children (see H.R. 2123), H3436 [17MY]

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), H10038 [8NO]

———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. 534), H349 [2FE]

Higher Education Act: amend and extend (see H.R. 609), H1417 [14MR]

———enhance international education programs (see H.R. 509), H1896 [12AP]

———ensure graduate opportunities in postsecondary education (see H.R. 510), H1896 [12AP]

Hire a Veteran Week: designate (see H. Con. Res. 125), H1845 [6AP]

Hispanic Americans: tribute to veterans (see H. Con. Res. 323), H12049 [16DE]

Hurricanes: ensure that emergency appropriation funds for hurricane assistance relief are used only for individuals in affected areas (see H.R. 4081), H9473 [1NO]

———provide additional funds to local educational agencies for elementary and secondary students displaced by Hurricane Katrina (see H.R. 3748), H8089 [15SE]

Individuals With Disabilities Education Act: anniversary (see H. Con. Res. 288), H9555 [2NO]

———authorizing appropriations (see H.R. 3145), H9696 [4NO]

Insurance: coverage of minimum hospital stays for mastectomies, lumpectomies, and lymph node dissection relative to breast cancer and coverage for secondary consultations (see H.R. 1849), H8847 [17OC]

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), H9277 [26OC]

Iran: hold current regime accountable for its threatening behavior and support a transition to democracy (see H.R. 282), H7564 [28JY]

Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act: enhance the notification of democratic rights of union members (see H.R. 1073, 1074), H1970 [13AP]

———provide for civil monetary penalties in certain cases (see H.R. 1075), H1970 [13AP]

Law enforcement: make improvements to the national sex offender registration program (see H.R. 3860), H8810 [7OC]

Medicare: extend implementation of prescription drug program (see H.R. 3940), H9962 [7NO]

Mental health: combat autism through research, screening, intervention, and education (see H.R. 2421), H7613 [29JY]

Missing Children's Assistance Act: extend applicability to individuals determined to have a mental capacity less than 18 years of age (see H.R. 528), H413 [8FE]

Motor vehicles: protect the rights of consumers to diagnose, service, and repair their motor vehicles (see H.R. 2048), H5177 [24JN]

National Campus Safety Awareness Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 15), H4723 [17JN]

National Domestic Violence Awareness Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Con. Res. 209), H5914 [14JY]

National Guard Youth Challenge Program: increase maximum Federal share of costs for State programs (see H.R. 669), H1847 [6AP]

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute: expand, intensify, and coordinate pulmonary hypertension research activities (see H.R. 3005), H8089 [15SE]

National Latino AIDS Awareness Day: observance (see H. Con. Res. 262), H8734 [6OC]

National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Week: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 483), H11505 [13DE]

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. 581), H1264 [9MR] (see H.R. 3323), H8348 [26SE]

Nicaragua: support democracy efforts (see H. Con. Res. 252), H8736 [6OC]

Northern Mariana Islands: convey certain submerged lands (see H.R. 4255), H10038 [8NO]

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

Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission: increase membership to improve efficiency (see H.R. 740), H1025 [8MR]

———provide for adjudicative flexibility relative to employer filing of notice of contest following the issuance of a citation by OSHA (see H.R. 739), H1025 [8MR]

———provide for judicial deference to conclusions of law determined by the Commission relative to an issued order (see H.R. 741), H1025 [8MR]

OSHA: provide for the award of attorney's fees and costs to small employers when they prevail in litigation prompted by the issuance of OSHA citations (see H.R. 742), H1025 [8MR]

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]

Pledge of Allegiance: support recitation in public schools and urge the Supreme Court to uphold constitutionality (see H. Con. Res. 253), H8387 [27SE]

Political campaigns: terminate system of public financing of Presidential elections (see H.R. 3960), H8810 [7OC]

Postal Service: extend procedures for closing or consolidation of post offices to the relocation or construction of post offices (see H.R. 1006), H1026 [8MR]

Radio: ensure the availability of spectrum to amateur radio operators (see H.R. 691), H7743 [7SE]

Ronald Wilson Reagan Exclusive Economic Zone of the U.S: designate (see H.R. 2112), H8735 [6OC]

Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act: reauthorize (see H.R. 517), H2102 [14AP]

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

Social Security: provide certain benefits to individuals who served in the U.S. merchant marine during World War II (see H.R. 23), H196 [25JA]

———repeal Government pension offset and windfall elimination provisions (see H.R. 147), H6651 [26JY]

Supreme Court: encourage finding the use of the Pledge of Allegiance in schools to be consistent with the Constitution (see H. Con. Res. 245), H8163 [20SE]

Taxation: allow a deduction for contributions to individual investment accounts (see H.R. 339), H1778 [5AP]

———allow tax credits for certain elementary and secondary school expenses and contributions to charitable school-tuition organizations (see H.R. 404), H1896 [12AP]

———extend alternative minimum tax relief and index such relief for inflation (see H.R. 4096), H9042 [20OC]

———provide a checkoff for a World Trade Center Memorial Fund (see H.R. 1095), H982 [3MR]

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

———provide a tax credit to businesses whose employees teach at community colleges (see H.R. 577), H631 [15FE]

———provide certain hurricane-related tax relief (see H.R. 4323), H10503 [16NO]

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

———provide tax credit for elementary and secondary school teachers (see H.R. 402), H1896 [12AP]

———repeal estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes (see H.R. 64), H196 [25JA]

Telecommunications: promote deployment of competitive video services and eliminate redundant and unnecessary regulation (see H.R. 3146), H8810 [7OC]

Transportation: Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs funding (see H.R. 3), H520 [9FE]

Tuskegee Airmen: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 1259), H9276 [26OC]

Ukraine: normal trade relations status (see H.R. 885), H8089 [15SE]

Veterans: change effective date for paid-up coverage under the Survivor Benefit Plan (see H.R. 968), H1896 [12AP]

———mint coins in commemoration of veterans who became disabled for life while serving in the Armed Forces (see H.R. 1951), H10910 [17NO]

Veterans' Right To Know Commission: establish (see H.R. 4259), H11110 [6DE]

Vocational and Technical Education Act: strengthen and improve programs (see H.R. 366), H1622 [16MR]

Volunteer firefighters: remove civil liability barriers surrounding donating fire equipment to volunteer fire companies (see H.R. 1088), H1622 [16MR]

Workforce Investment Act: strengthen career centers, provide effective governance arrangements, promote access to employment, training, and youth services, and improve performance accountability (see H.R. 27), H412 [8FE]

World War II: tribute to Tuskegee Airmen (see H. Con. Res. 26), H196 [25JA]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Caetani, Laura Maldonado: relief (see H.R. 1673), H2102 [14AP]

Caribbean National Forest: redesignate as the El Yunque National Forest (see H.R. 4111), H9043 [20OC]

Community development: establish a National Enterprise Zone system to promote prosperity in economically depressed areas (see H.R. 2182), H3054 [5MY]

Dept. of Agriculture: acquire and manage lands in Puerto Rico to protect critical aquifers, watersheds, and the tropical forests of the Karst Region (see H.R. 1644), H2100 [14AP]

Dr. Jose Celso Barbosa Post Office Building, Bayamon, PR: designate (see H.R. 3440), H6650 [26JY]

Medicare: increase inpatient hosptial payments to hospitals in Puerto Rico (see H.R. 1729), H2393 [20AP]

———permit Puerto Rico to qualify for Federal reimbursement of emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens (see H.R. 4206), H9555 [2NO]

———provide equity in the calculation of disproportionate share hospital payments for hospitals in Puerto Rico (see H.R. 4207), H9555 [2NO]

Miguel Angel Garcia Mendez Post Office Building, Mayaguez, PR: designate (see H.R. 4368), H10908 [17NO]

Puerto Rico: designate certain National Forest System lands as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System (see H.R. 539), H349 [2FE]

———make funds generated in Caribbean National Forest available to Dept. of Agriculture for land acquisition to protect the surrounding buffer zone (see H.R. 3365), H6204 [20JY]

Taxation: allow the deductibility of manufacturing income attributable to domestic production activities in Puerto Rico (see H.R. 2181), H3054 [5MY]

———treatment of variable contracts issued by life insurance companies subject to the laws of Puerto Rico (see H.R. 2180), H3054 [5MY]

Venezuela: uphold human rights and civil liberties (see H. Con. Res. 224), H7561 [28JY]

Remarks

Hawaii: authorize certain water reclamation projects and modify the water resources study (S. 264), H7830, H7831 [13SE]

Mystic, CT: anniversary of Mystic Seaport—the Museum of America and the Sea (H. Con. Res. 152), H5196 [27JN]

OSHA: provide for the award of attorney's fees and costs to small employers when they prevail in litigation prompted by the issuance of OSHA citations (H.R. 742), H5700 [12JY]

Puerto Rico: designate certain National Forest System lands as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System (H.R. 539), H7828, H7829 [13SE], E160 [2FE]

———political status relative to anniversary of Congress granting U.S. citizenship, H918 [2MR]

———voting rights of residents who are U.S. citizens, H2787 [3MY]

Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site: convey certain property to be held in trust (H.R. 481), H5200 [27JN]

Transportation: Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs funding (H.R. 3), H1047 [9MR]

Wind Cave National Park: revise boundaries (S. 276), H7829, H7830 [13SE]

Workforce Investment Act: prohibit faith-based organizations receiving Federal funds from discriminating in hiring practices, H909 [2MR]

———strengthen career centers, provide effective governance arrangements, promote access to employment, training, and youth services, and improve performance accountability (H.R. 27), H877, H909 [2MR]

Remarks in House relative to

Special order: granted, H842 [1MR], H2877 [3MY], H6428 [25JY]

Tributes

Barbosa, Jose C., E1635 [27JY]

Laguerre, Enrique, E1259 [17JN]