WATT, MELVIN L. (a Representative from North Carolina)

Amendments

Budget: setting forth the Federal budget for 2006-2010 (H. Con. Res. 95), H1641 [17MR]

Flag—U.S.: constitutional amendment to prohibit desecration (H.J. Res. 10), H4919 [22JN]

Real estate: protect private property rights by limiting the power of eminent domain (H.R. 4128), H9600 [3NO]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

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

Army: conduct thorough review of cases of individuals convicted of court-martial arising from a disturbance at Fort Lawton, WA, on August 14, 1944 (see H.R. 3174), H5601 [30JN]

Ava Gardner Post Office, Smithfield, NC: designate (see H.R. 3439), H6650 [26JY]

Bankruptcy: limit exemption for asset protection trusts (see H.R. 1278), H1416 [14MR]

———provide relief relative to disaster-related debts incurred by victims of Hurricane Katrina and other natural disasters (see H.R. 3697), H7812 [8SE]

Bipartisan Commission on Medicaid: establish (see H.R. 985), H796 [17FE]

Braille, Louis: mint commemorative coins (see H.R. 2872), H12050 [16DE]

Breast Cancer Awareness Month: observance (see H. Con. Res. 228), H8343 [22SE]

Business and industry: prohibit price gouging during certain disasters and emergencies (see H.R. 3681), H7862 [13SE]

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), H12051 [16DE]

Caribbean-American Heritage Month: establish (see H. Con. Res. 71), H796 [17FE]

Chavez, Cesar E.: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 1365), H2473 [21AP]

———tribute (see H.J. Res. 12), H3557 [18MY]

Chen Shui-bian: U.S. visit (see H. Con. Res. 237), H7862 [13SE]

Children and youth: establish a grant program to provide comprehensive eye examinations (see H.R. 2238), H3695 [19MY]

———provide assistance for orphans and other vulnerable children in developing countries (see H.R. 1409), H7949 [14SE]

Chisholm, Shirley: award Congressional Gold Medal posthumously (see H.R. 188), H353 [2FE]

———issue commemorative postage stamp (see H. Con. Res. 58), H587 [14FE]

———tribute (see H. Res. 21), H79 [4JA]

Civil rights: recognize contributions of the ``Greensboro Four'' (see H. Con. Res. 25), H196 [25JA]

Climate: request documents from the President on the anticipated effects of climate change on coastal regions of the U.S. (see H. Res. 515), H9276 [26OC]

Clinton, William J.: tribute (see H. Res. 329), H5964 [18JY]

Cochran, Johnnie, Jr.: tribute (see H. Res. 185), H1778 [5AP]

Colleges and universities: provide for fire sprinkler systems in public and private college and university housing and dormitories (see H.R. 128), H2472 [21AP]

Commission To Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans: establish (see H.R. 40), H72 [4JA]

Consumers: protect from predatory mortgage lending practices (see H.R. 1994), H11880 [15DE]

Credit: impose restrictions on high-cost mortgages, revise fees and charges on certain loans, prohibit unfair or deceptive practices by mortgage brokers and creditors, and provide counseling about predatory lenders (see H.R. 1182), H1263 [9MR]

Davis, Ossie: tribute (see H. Res. 69), H412 [8FE]

Davis-Bacon Act: reinstate application of the wage requirements to Federal contracts in areas affected by Hurricane Katrina (see H.R. 3763), H8389 [27SE]

Dept. of Education: recruit, select, train, and support a national teachers corps in underserved communities (see H.R. 3334), H11110 [6DE]

Dept. of Homeland Security: provide certain information relating to the reapportionment of airport screeners (see H. Res. 463), H8387 [27SE]

Dept. of HUD: maintain Community Development Block Grant Program administration (see H. Con. Res. 108), H2881 [3MY]

———reauthorize the HOPE VI Program for revitalization of severely distressed public housing (see H.R. 3888), H8341 [22SE]

———reauthorize the Public Housing Drug Elimination Program (see H.R. 790), H798 [17FE]

Dept. of Justice: reauthorize grant program for reentry of offenders into the community and establish a task force on Federal programs and activities relating to the reentry of offenders into the community (see H.R. 1704), H9276 [26OC]

Developing countries: make access to safe water and sanitation a specific policy objective of U.S. foreign assistance programs (see H.R. 1973), H9362 [27OC]

Discrimination: condemn existence of racially restrictive covenants in housing documents and urge States to adopt legislation similar to that which was enacted in California to address the issue (see H. Res. 259), H4356 [9JN]

———prohibit on the basis of genetic information relative to insurance and employment (see H.R. 1227), H2880 [3MY]

District of Columbia: provide full voting representation in Congress (see H.R. 398), H7861 [13SE]

Ecology and environment: enforce certain environmental laws, expand the definition of environmental justice, and direct each Federal agency to establish an Environmental Justice Office (see H.R. 1648), H7564 [28JY]

Education: constitutional amendment on the right to a quality public education (see H.J. Res. 29), H941 [2MR]

———establish a national teaching fellowship program to encourage individuals to enter, and remain, in the field of teaching at public schools (see H.R. 1801), H2471 [21AP]

———provide adequate and equitable educational opportunities for students in State public school systems (see H.R. 2178), H3054 [5MY]

Federal employees: amend the definition of a law enforcement officer to include certain positions relative to retirement benefits (see H.R. 1002), H3056 [5MY]

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

Floyd Lupton Post Office, Belhaven, NC: designate (see H.R. 2326), H3332 [16MY]

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: exempt bookstores and libraries from orders requiring the production of any tangible things for certain foreign intelligence investigations (see H.R. 1157), H2880 [3MY]

Forest Service: protection of certain roadless areas (see H.R. 3563), H7558 [28JY]

Garner, NC: anniversary (see H. Res. 206), H1895 [12AP]

Gibbons, Pasqualine J.: correct the unfair passing over for promotion to grade of technical sergeant during World War II (see H. Res. 204), H1895 [12AP] (see H. Res. 257), H2977 [4MY]

Health: constitutional amendment on the right to high quality health care (see H.J. Res. 30), H941 [2MR]

———provide for embryonic stem cell research (see H.R. 810), H798 [17FE]

———provide for uterine fibroid research and education (see H.R. 3034), H4984 [22JN]

———reduce adolescent pregnancy, HIV rates, and other sexually transmitted diseases (see H.R. 2553), H10910 [17NO]

Help America Vote Act: require a voter-verified paper record, improve provisional balloting, and impose additional requirements (see H.R. 939), H2394 [20AP]

High Point, NC: express support for the International Home Furnishings Market (see H. Res. 203), H1895 [12AP]

Higher Education Act: repeal provisions prohibiting persons convicted of drug offenses from receiving student financial assistance (see H.R. 1184), H1263 [9MR]

History: anniversary of ratification of constitutional amendment on abolition of slavery (see H. Res. 196), H1846 [6AP]

Horseracing: recognize contributions of Jimmy Winkfield and other African American jockeys and trainers to the sport of horseracing and the history of the Kentucky Derby (see H. Res. 231), H2979 [4MY]

House Democracy Assistance Commission: establish (see H. Res. 135), H1026 [8MR]

House Rules: amend procedures of Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (House) (see H. Res. 131), H1026 [8MR]

Hurricanes: establish an independent commission to examine the Federal, State, and local response to Hurricane Katrina and make immediate corrective measures to improve such responses in the future (see H.R. 3764), H8644 [29SE]

———provide student loan forgiveness to the surviving spouses and parents of the victims of Hurricane Katrina (see H.R. 3802), H8087 [15SE]

Immigration: comprehensively reform immigration law and better protect immigrant victims of violence (see H.R. 2092), H10145 [9NO]

Independent Commission on the Investigation of Detainee Abuses: establish (see H.R. 3003), H4895 [21JN]

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), H2549 [26AP]

International economic relations: provide for cancellation of debts owed to international financial institutions by poor countries (see H.R. 1130), H7564 [28JY]

Iraq: declare U.S. policy to not maintain a long-term or permanent military presence (see H. Con. Res. 197), H5603 [30JN]

———develop and implement a plan for withdrawal of Armed Forces (see H.J. Res. 70), H11221 [7DE]

Johnson, John A. (Jack): pardon posthumously (see H. Con. Res. 24), H2395 [20AP]

Juneteenth Independence Day: observance (see H. Con. Res. 160), H3694 [19MY]

Law enforcement officers: issue commemorative postage stamp for officers killed in the line of duty (see H. Con. Res. 85), H3557 [18MY]

Little Rock, AR: mint coins in commemoration of the anniversary of the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School (see H.R. 358), H584 [10FE]

Marshall, Thurgood: award Congressional Gold Medal posthumously (see H.R. 657), H1896 [12AP]

Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence: anniversary (see H. Con. Res. 148), H3113 [10MY]

Medicaid: provide public access to quality medical imaging procedures and radiation therapy procedures (see H.R. 1426), H12050 [16DE]

Mental health: provide for equal insurance coverage of benefits unless comparable limitations are imposed on medical and surgical benefits (see H.R. 1402), H7613 [29JY]

———provide for research on, and services for individuals with, postpartum depression and psychosis (see H.R. 1940), H2647 [27AP]

Mexico: condemn printing and distribution of racist postage stamps and urge to immediately cease printing and distributing the stamps and recall stamps on the market (see H. Res. 347), H5742 [12JY]

Miller, Doris: waive certain time limitations to allow the posthumous award of the Medal of Honor for actions while a member of the Navy during World War II (see H.R. 708), H522 [9FE]

Minimum wage: level (see H.R. 2429), H3555 [18MY]

Minorities: improve health of minority individuals (see H.R. 3561), H7558 [28JY]

Motley, Constance Baker: tribute (see H. Con. Res. 271), H9043 [20OC]

National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day: support goals and ideals (see H. Con. Res. 30), H235 [26JA]

National Brain Injury Awareness Month: support (see H. Con. Res. 99), H1509 [15MR]

National Flood Insurance Program: strengthen, encourage participation, and provide certain owners of properties not located in flood hazard zones a one-time opportunity to purchase coverage (see H.R. 3922), H10161 [14NO]

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

National Nurses Week: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 245), H2648 [27AP]

National Passport Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 327), H7566 [28JY]

National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Week: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 483), H11655 [14DE]

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

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

Parks, Rosa: authorize remains to lie in honor in the Capitol rotunda (see H. Con. Res. 286), H9425 [28OC]

———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), H9275 [26OC]

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

Paul, Alice: award Congressional Gold Medal posthumously (see H.R. 311), H798 [17FE]

Peace Corps: issuance of special postage stamps (see H.R. 560), H6432 [25JY]

Philadelphia Coalition: tribute (see H. Res. 362), H5914 [14JY]

Pope John Paul II: tribute (see H. Res. 183), H1848 [6AP]

Poverty: improve lives of persons living in extreme poverty (see H. Con. Res. 234), H7862 [13SE]

Privacy: protect and enhance consumer privacy (see H.R. 3140), H5599 [30JN]

Public housing: repeal requirements for residents to engage in community service and complete economic self-sufficiency programs (see H.R. 1018), H4985 [22JN]

Public lands: designate certain national parks, wild and scenic rivers, and wilderness areas in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming (see H.R. 1204), H4656 [16JN]

Rosa Parks Federal Building, Detroit, MI: designate (see H.R. 2967), H4721 [17JN]

San Francisco, CA: mint coins in commemoration of the San Francisco Old Mint (see H.R. 1953), H7564 [28JY]

Social Security: expand dental coverage and community oral health services under State Children's Health Insurance Program and Medicaid (see H.R. 594), H8809 [7OC]

SouthEast Crescent Authority: establish (see H.R. 20), H1622 [16MR]

Sudan: impose sanctions against perpetrators of crimes against humanity in Darfur (see H.R. 1424), H2473 [21AP]

Tariff Act: marking of imported home furniture (see H.R. 445), H8248 [21SE]

Taxation: allow a deduction for premiums on mortgage insurance (see H.R. 3098), H7815 [8SE]

———allow individuals to defer recognition of reinvested capital gains distributions from regulated investment companies (see H.R. 2121), H8644 [29SE]

———establish a Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund to receive tax payments of taxpayers conscientiously opposed to war, ensure that such revenue is used for non-military purposes, and improve revenue collection (see H.R. 2631), H4072 [25MY]

———treatment of beer (see H.R. 1306), H3894 [24MY]

Telephones: facilitate nationwide availability of 2-1-1 telephone service for information and referral on health and human services (see H.R. 896), H7743 [7SE]

Tuskegee Airmen: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 1259), H5603 [30JN]

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

University of North Carolina: tribute to men's basketball team (see H. Res. 198), H1846 [6AP]

Violence Against Women Act: reauthorize (see H.R. 3171), H5601 [30JN]

Virginia Fire Chiefs Association, Inc.: anniversary (see H. Res. 80), H523 [9FE]

Voting: constitutional amendment on the right to vote (see H.J. Res. 28), H941 [2MR]

———establish election day as a legal public holiday (see H.R. 63), H73 [4JA]

———extend to Hurricane Katrina evacuees the right to use absentee balloting and registration procedures available to military and overseas voters (see H.R. 3734), H8648 [3OC]

———secure the Federal voting rights of certain qualified ex-offenders who have served their sentences (see H.R. 1300), H1507 [15MR]

Women: constitutional amendment to ensure equal rights (see H.J. Res. 37), H1508 [15MR]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Hurricanes: recover, reclaim, restore and reconstruct lives and communities and reunite families devastated by Hurricane Katrina and address issues of poverty exposed by Hurricane Katrina (see H.R. 4197), H9554 [2NO]

Remarks

Bankruptcy: amend laws (S. 256), H2051 [14AP]

———amend laws (S. 256), consideration (H. Res. 211), H1989 [14AP]

Budget: allocation of funds, H384 [8FE]

———setting forth the Federal budget for 2006-2010 (H. Con. Res. 95), H1573, H1576, H1582 [16MR], H1641, H1644, H1652 [17MR]

Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act: characterization of Democratic amendments contained in the Committee on the Judiciary (House) report (H. Res. 253), H2775 [3MY]

Civil rights: recognize contributions of the ``Greensboro Four'' (H. Con. Res. 25), H595 [15FE]

Congress: counting of electoral votes for President and Vice President, H106 [6JA]

———objection to counting of Ohio electoral votes for President and Vice President, H106 [6JA]

Congressional Black Caucus: budget priorities, H1573, H1576, H1582 [16MR], H1642, H1644, H1652 [17MR]

Courts: amend procedures that apply to consideration of interstate class actions to assure fairer outcomes for class members and defendants (S. 5), H736 [17FE]

———plantiff's pleading requirements relative to lawsuits against manufacturers, distributors, or sellers of food or non-alcoholic beverage products that comply with applicable statutes and regulations, H8931 [19OC]

———preserve State jurisdiction over lawsuits against manufacturers, distributors, or sellers of food or non-alcoholic beverage products, H8929 [19OC]

———prevent frivolous lawsuits against manufacturers, distributors, or sellers of food or non-alcoholic beverage products that comply with applicable statutory and regulatory requirements (H.R. 554), H8926, H8929, H8931 [19OC]

Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities and prescribing personnel strengths (H.R. 1815), conference report, H12208 [18DE]

———extend small disadvantaged business program, H12208 [18DE]

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 3010), H5056, H5058 [23JN]

Disasters: improve preparedness and response plans, H7713 [7SE]

EEOC: prohibit funding for closure or consolidation, H4531 [15JN]

Flag—U.S.: constitutional amendment to prohibit desecration (H.J. Res. 10), H4919, H4921, H4922 [22JN]

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: limit Federal access to library, bookseller, and other personal records for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes, H6231 [21JY]

Hurricanes: relief efforts for States impacted by Hurricane Katrina, H7713 [7SE]

Iraq: call for immediate withdrawal of Armed Forces (H. Res. 571), consideration (H. Res. 572), H10996 [18NO]

Minorities: address disparities in economic status, education, health, and quality of life, H5056 [23JN]

Parks, Rosa: authorize remains to lie in honor in the Capitol rotunda (S. Con. Res. 61), H9400 [28OC]

Poverty: improve lives of persons living in extreme poverty (H. Con. Res. 234), H7936 [14SE]

Real estate: protect private property rights by limiting the power of eminent domain (H.R. 4128), H9600 [3NO]

SBA: modernize and streamline eligibility criteria for participation in the minority-owned small business development 8(a) program, H2585 [27AP]

———small business guarantee loan program funding, H2585 [27AP]

Schiavo, Terri: relief of parents, Robert and Mary Schindler (S. 686), H1722 [20MR]

Science, Depts. of State, Justice, Commerce, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 2862), H4531 [15JN]

Small Business Bill of Rights: establish (H. Res. 22), H2585 [27AP]

Supreme Court: disapprove Kelo v. New London, CT, decision on allowing local government seizure of private property, H9600 [3NO]

Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act: reauthorize and improve (H.R. 3199), H6231 [21JY]

Remarks in House relative to

Special order: granted, H3691 [19MY], H7945 [14SE]

Statements

U.S. Policy on Iraq: Congressional Black Caucus (2002), H10996 [18NO]

———Congressional Black Caucus (2003), H10996 [18NO]

Summaries

Bush Administration FY 2006 Housing Budget—Continuing the Assault on the Most Vulnerable, H385 [8FE]

Tributes

Parks, Rosa, H9263 [26OC], H9400 [28OC]