TIBERI, PATRICK J. (a Representative from Ohio)

Appointments

National Council on the Arts, H5355 [28JN]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Aviation: provide liability protection to nonprofit volunteer pilot organizations flying for public benefit and to the pilots and staff of such organizations (see H.R. 1871), H7673 [6SE]

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: establish a grant program to provide comprehensive eye examinations (see H.R. 2238), H7645 [2SE]

———establish a grant program to provide follow-up treatment for children identified with a vision disorder (see H.R. 2328), H9556 [2NO]

———promote greater public awareness of effective runaway youth prevention programs and the need for safe and productive alternatives, resources, and supports for homeless youth (see H. Res. 484), H9103 [25OC]

———revise the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration program (see H.R. 1505), H2473 [21AP]

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

Community development: increase the expertise and capacity of community-based organizations involved in economic development activities and key community development programs (see H.R. 2683), H4140 [26MY]

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

———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]

———provide fair and efficient judicial consideration of personal injury and wrongful death claims due to asbestos or silica exposure and ensure fair compensation for harm caused by asbestos or silica exposure (see H.R. 1957), H2734 [28AP]

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), H5963 [18JY]

———prohibit taking minors across State lines to avoid State laws requiring parental notification of abortions (see H.R. 748), H581 [10FE]

———reduce violent gang crime and protect law-abiding citizens and communities from violent criminals (see H.R. 1279), H3056 [5MY]

Cuba: facilitate sale of U.S. agricultural products (see H.R. 719), H1371 [10MR]

———lift travel restrictions (see H.R. 1814), H2548 [26AP]

Day of Commemoration of the Great Upheaval: support goals (see H. Res. 294), H6329 [21JY]

Dept. of Education: promote installation of fire alarm detection systems or other fire prevention technologies in public and private college and university housing and dormitories (see H.R. 4460), H11880 [15DE]

Dept. of HHS: reauthorize Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education Program (see H.R. 1246), H4985 [22JN]

Dept. of HUD: exclude amounts received as a military basic housing allowance from consideration as income for purposes of eligibility for federally assisted low-income housing programs (see H.R. 3186), H5602 [30JN]

———facilitate the cleanup and economic redevelopment of brownfields (see H.R. 280), H3696 [19MY]

Dept. of the Treasury: repeal authority to enter into private tax collection contracts (see H.R. 1621), H1969 [13AP]

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), H10503 [16NO]

Diseases: establish an Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Registry (see H.R. 4033), H11880 [15DE]

———issue commemorative postage stamp to promote public awareness of Down syndrome (see H. Con. Res. 42), H9696 [4NO]

———support goal of eliminating suffering and death due to cancer (see H. Con. Res. 210), H8163 [20SE]

District of Columbia: restore right to keep and bear arms (see H.R. 1288), H2739 [28AP]

Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: make repeal of estate taxes permanent (see H.R. 8), H1729 (see H.R. 8), H1735 [20MR]

Education: provide enhanced Pell Grants for State Scholars (see H.R. 511), H347 [2FE]

———tribute to Catholic schools (see H. Res. 23), H80 [4JA]

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), H1265 [9MR]

Ethiopia: urge holding of orderly, peaceful, and free and fair national elections and authorize assistance for election-related activities (see H.R. 935), H3056 [5MY]

FAA: relax maximum age requirements for certain pilots (see H.R. 65), H3695 [19MY]

Fair Credit Reporting Act: provide for secure financial data (see H.R. 3997), H9277 [26OC]

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]

———withdraw approved application for the drug known as RU-486 and review process by which the FDA approved such drug (see H.R. 1079), H981 [3MR]

Federal employees: provide a real estate stock index investment option under the Thrift Savings Plan (see H.R. 1578), H12050 [16DE]

Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: regulate noncorrective contact lenses as medical devices (see H.R. 371), H413 [8FE]

Federal Prison Industries, Inc.: eliminate Federal agency requirement to purchase products and require commercial competition for Federal contracts (see H.R. 2965), H4721 [17JN]

Federal Youth Development Council: establish to improve the administration and coordination of Federal youth programs (see H.R. 856), H5638 [11JY]

Financial institutions: enhance ability of community banks to foster economic growth and serve their communities (see H.R. 2061), H4143 [26MY]

———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), H1696 [17MR]

Flag—U.S.: constitutional amendment to prohibit desecration (see H.J. Res. 10), H4188 [7JN]

Head Start Program: reauthorize and improve the school readiness of disadvantaged children (see H.R. 2123), H3695 [19MY]

Health: declare adequate pain care research, education, and treatment as national health priorities (see H.R. 1020), H5741 [12JY]

———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. 5), H6432 [25JY] (see H.R. 534), H349 [2FE]

———provide for arthritis research and public health (see H.R. 583), H8089 [15SE]

———provide for expansion of Federal programs to prevent and manage vision loss (see H.R. 2671), H4139 [26MY]

Higher Education Act: extend programs (see H.R. 3784), H8087 [15SE] (see H.R. 4525), H11652 [14DE]

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

Housing: combat unfair and deceptive practices in the high-cost mortgage market, strengthen civil remedies, promote uniform lending and appraisal standards, and establish licensing standards for mortgage brokers (see H.R. 1295), H1506 [15MR]

———modernize the manufactured housing loan insurance program (see H.R. 2803), H9276 [26OC]

Insurance: promote health care coverage parity for individuals participating in legal recreational or transportation activities (see H.R. 2793), H5638 [11JY]

———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. 1000), H1025 [8MR]

Iran: hold current regime accountable for its threatening behavior and support a transition to democracy (see H.R. 282), H3055 [5MY]

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

Medicare: coverage of medical nutrition therapy services (see H.R. 1582), H2395 [20AP]

———ensure access to durable medical equipment (see H.R. 3559), H7815 [8SE]

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

———preserve beneficiary access to community cancer care (see H.R. 4098), H11880 [15DE]

———reform the physician payment update system through repeal of the sustainable growth rate payment update system (see H.R. 2356), H6936 [27JY]

Mental health: combat autism through research, screening, intervention, and education (see H.R. 2421), H8342 [22SE]

National Epidermolysis Bullosa Awareness Week: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 335), H8163 [20SE]

National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record: provide an amnesty period during which veterans and their families can register certain firearms (see H.R. 2088), H2976 [4MY]

National wildlife refuges: provide public access to Navassa Island National Wildlife Refuge and Desecheo National Wildlife Refuge (see H.R. 1183), H1696 [17MR]

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), H5638 [11JY]

———provide a criminal penalty for journalists, who, without disclosure, accept Government payments to promote Government policies (see H.R. 649), H720 [16FE]

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), H12051 [16DE]

Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 276), H7744 [7SE]

Parks, Rosa: direct the Architect of the Capitol to obtain a statue of Rosa Parks and to place the statue in the U.S. Capitol in National Statuary Hall (see H.R. 4145), H10910 [17NO]

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

Pensions: reform funding rules (see H.R. 2830), H4354 [9JN]

Postal Service: reform postal laws (see H.R. 22), H2550 [26AP]

Project GRAD USA (organization): authorize (see H.R. 1282), H2978 [4MY]

Radio: ensure the availability of spectrum to amateur radio operators (see H.R. 691), H3199 [11MY]

———preserve local radio broadcast emergency and other services and require the FCC to conduct rulemaking for that purpose (see H.R. 998), H1847 [6AP]

Science: prohibit the cloning of humans (see H.R. 1357), H2551 [26AP]

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

Social Security: reform proposals relative to coverage of State and local government employees (see H. Con. Res. 43), H5604 [30JN]

Space policy: mint coins in commemoration of the anniversaries of NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (see H.R. 68), H587 [14FE]

Stang, Dorothy: tribute (see H. Con. Res. 89), H1264 [9MR]

States: require certain policies and procedures regarding purchase or acquisition of library and classroom-based reference, instructional, and other print materials for use in elementary schools (see H.R. 2295), H4985 [22JN]

Taxation: allow a tax credit for the purchase of hearing aids (see H.R. 414), H2472 [21AP]

———allow deduction for qualified timber gains (see H.R. 3883), H12050 [16DE]

———allow Federal civilian and military retirees to pay health insurance premiums on a pretax basis and allow a deduction for TRICARE supplemental premiums (see H.R. 994), H1847 [6AP]

———allow individuals a credit against income tax to offset the high cost of gasoline and diesel fuel prices (see H.R. 3828), H8342 [22SE]

———allow individuals to defer recognition of reinvested capital gains distributions from regulated investment companies (see H.R. 2121), H12168 [17DE]

———expand incentives for education (see H.R. 1380), H8919 [18OC]

———make individual income tax rates for capital gains and dividends permanent (see H.R. 809), H2394 [20AP]

———make permanent the 7-year depreciation recovery period for motorsport entertainment complexes (see H.R. 930), H3695 [19MY]

———make permanent the 15-year depreciation recovery period for restaurant property improvements and extend to new restaurant construction (see H.R. 920), H793 [17FE]

———provide a credit dependent on enactment of State qualified scholarship tax credits and allowed against the Federal income tax for charitable contributions to certain education investment organizations (see H.R. 4400), H11033 [18NO]

———provide a credit for teachers and principals who work in certain low income schools (see H.R. 986), H796 [17FE]

———provide a credit to promote homeownership and community development (see H.R. 1549), H2395 [20AP]

———provide for deductibility of medical expenses by individuals (see H.R. 4625), H12167 [17DE]

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

———regulate certain State taxation of interstate commerce (see H.R. 1956), H2734 [28AP]

———repeal alternative minimum tax (see H.R. 1186), H1696 [17MR]

———repeal estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes (see H.R. 64), H73 [4JA]

———repeal excise tax on telephone use and other communications services (see H.R. 1898), H5915 [14JY]

———repeal tax increase on Social Security benefits (see H.R. 1517), H2473 [21AP]

———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), H8342 [22SE]

———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), H3056 [5MY]

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

Tuskegee Airmen: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 1259), H11655 [14DE]

Workforce Investment Act: provide special rules for disaster relief employment for individuals displaced by Hurricane Katrina (see H.R. 3761), H8163 [20SE]

———strengthen career centers, provide effective governance arrangements, promote access to employment, training, and youth services, and improve performance accountability (see H.R. 27), H72 [4JA]

Year of Languages: designate (see H. Res. 122), H797 [17FE]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Dept. of HUD: insure zero-downpayment mortgages for one-unit residences (see H.R. 3043), H5100 [23JN]

Federal employees: extend certain veterans' preference provisions to individuals who served on active duty in the Armed Forces for a certain period after September 11, 2001, and separated under honorable conditions (see H.R. 2205), H3055 [5MY]

Higher Education Act: enhance international education programs (see H.R. 509), H347 [2FE]

———ensure graduate opportunities in postsecondary education (see H.R. 510), H347 [2FE]

Jaars, Abraham: relief (see H.R. 3783), H7949 [14SE]

Jaars, Delicia: relief (see H.R. 3783), H7949 [14SE]

Jaars, Grant: relief (see H.R. 3783), H7949 [14SE]

Taxation: 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), H3556 [18MY]

YWCA: clarify the status of retirement benefits under certain benefit accrual standards (see H.R. 4428), H11034 [18NO]

Remarks

Columbus, OH: tribute to Lima Co., 3d Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, E2065 [7OC]

Congress: counting of electoral votes for President and Vice President, H115, H126 [6JA]

———objection to counting of Ohio electoral votes for President and Vice President, H115, H126 [6JA]

Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities and prescribing personnel strengths (H.R. 1815), H3923 [25MY]

Hispanic Heritage Month: observance, E1878 [15SE]

Pensions: reform funding rules (H.R. 2830), H11758 [15DE]

Veterans: modify eligibility for Federal hiring preference, H3923 [25MY]

Votes: position on missed, E1333 [24JN], E1611 [27JY]

Remarks in House relative to

Leave of absence: granted, H1021 [8MR]

Tributes

Ashbrook, Albert, E18 [4JA]

Kaitsa, George, E2552 [15DE]

Leonard, Lee, E548 [5AP]

McAfee, Jerry, E1425 [1JY]