LATHAM, TOM (a Representative from Iowa)

Appointments

Conferee: H.R. 2360, Dept. of Homeland Security appropriations, H8406 [28SE]

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

———H.R. 2744, agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs appropriations, H9011 [20OC]

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), H630 [15FE]

Agriculture: establish a voluntary program for country of origin labeling of meat (see H.R. 2068), H2975 [4MY]

Armed Forces: enhance the Montgomery GI Bill benefits for certain individuals who have served after September 11, 2001 (see H.R. 786), H4802 [20JN]

———reduce the age for receipt of military retired pay for non-regular service (see H.R. 783), H4722 [17JN]

Birds: promote conservation of migratory waterfowl and offset or prevent the loss of wetlands and other habitat essential to the preservation of such waterfowl (see H.R. 4315), H12051 [16DE]

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: extend compliance threshold used to determine eligibility of hospitals for designation as an inpatient rehabilitation facility (see H.R. 3373), H8163 [20SE]

Computers: prevent the use of certain bank instruments, credit cards, and fund transfers for unlawful Internet gambling (see H.R. 4411), H11034 [18NO]

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

———provide protections of habeas corpus for certain incapacitated individuals whose life is in jeopardy (see H.R. 1151), H1372 [10MR]

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

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

Dept. of Defense: require notice of exceptions to certain requirements to procure items made in the U.S. (see H.R. 1239), H1970 [13AP]

Dept. of HHS: develop a policy for managing the risk of food allergy and anaphylaxis in schools (see H.R. 4063), H10146 [9NO]

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), H4722 [17JN]

Discrimination: prohibit on the basis of genetic information relative to insurance and employment (see H.R. 1227), H7861 [13SE]

Diseases: support efforts to increase childhood cancer awareness (see H. Res. 323), H6329 [21JY]

———support goal of eliminating suffering and death due to cancer (see H. Con. Res. 210), H9696 [4NO]

District of Columbia: restore right to keep and bear arms (see H.R. 1288), H9362 [27OC]

Drugs: respond to the illegal production, distribution, and use of methamphetamines (see H.R. 13), H236 [26JA]

Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: make repeal of estate taxes permanent (see H.R. 8), H1895 [12AP]

FAA: designate certain functions performed at flight service stations as inherently governmental functions (see H.R. 1474), H1897 [12AP]

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

Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: reduce human exposure to mercury through vaccines (see H.R. 881), H1896 [12AP]

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 Water Pollution Control Act: affirm that a permit is not required in certain circumstances (see H.R. 1749), H8919 [18OC]

Financial institutions: enhance ability of community banks to foster economic growth and serve their communities (see H.R. 2061), H4656 [16JN]

Firearms: prohibit lawsuits against weapons manufacturers, distributors, dealers, or importers (see H.R. 800), H1896 [12AP]

Flag—U.S.: constitutional amendment to prohibit desecration (see H.J. Res. 10), H989 [7MR]

Gold Star Mothers Day: support goals and ideals (see H.J. Res. 61), H7614 [29JY]

Health: analyze and improve dietary eating patterns and food intake, physical activity level, food security, dietary exposure, and nutritional status and reauthorize nutrition monitoring programs (see H.R. 2844), H4355 [9JN]

———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), H524 [9FE]

———provide for expansion of Federal programs to prevent and manage vision loss (see H.R. 2671), H8644 [29SE]

Housing: modernize the manufactured housing loan insurance program (see H.R. 2803), H10157 [10NO]

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

Labor unions: protect the free choice of individual employees relative to participation in labor organizations (see H.R. 500), H2648 [27AP]

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

———provide for research on and standards for remediation of closed methamphetamine production laboratories (see H.R. 798), H627 [15FE]

Medicaid: include podiatrists as physicians for purposes of covering physicians services (see H.R. 699), H4722 [17JN]

———provide funding to States to enable them to increase the wages paid to targeted direct support professionals in providing services to individuals with disabilities (see H.R. 1264), H10145 [9NO]

Medicare: coverage of medical nutrition therapy services (see H.R. 1582), H3695 [19MY]

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

———extend and improve protections for sole community hospitals (see H.R. 2961), H8644 [29SE]

———improve benefits for beneficiaries with kidney disease (see H.R. 1298), H5963 [18JY]

———reform the physician payment update system through repeal of the sustainable growth rate payment update system (see H.R. 2356), H4723 [17JN]

———repeal outpatient rehabilitation therapy caps (see H.R. 916), H8248 [21SE]

Mexico: convey sympathy to families of young women murdered in Chihuahua and encourage increased U.S. involvement in bringing an end to these crimes (see H. Con. Res. 90), H5915 [14JY]

National Advisory Council on Medical Rehabilitation: establish (see H.R. 3373), H8163 [20SE]

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: authorize development of research centers focusing on environmental factors related to the etiology of breast cancer (see H.R. 2231), H4074 [25MY]

National Labor Relations Act: ensure the right of employees to a secret-ballot election conducted by the NLRB (see H.R. 874), H11655 [14DE]

National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Week: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 483), H11881 [15DE]

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]

Palestinians: provide that Hamas and other terrorist organizations should not participate in elections held by the Palestinian Authority (see H. Res. 575), H11111 [6DE]

Postal Service: reform postal laws (see H.R. 22), H2880 [3MY]

Power resources: expand production and use of renewable fuel and increase energy independence (see H.R. 1608), H1968 [13AP] (see H.R. 3081), H5361 [28JN]

Public lands: extend authorization for certain national heritage areas (see H.R. 888), H791 [17FE]

Radio: preserve local radio broadcast emergency and other services and require the FCC to conduct rulemaking for that purpose (see H.R. 998), H1025 [8MR]

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), H7744 [7SE]

———protect private property rights by limiting the power of eminent domain (see H.R. 3135), H5915 [14JY]

Red Ribbon Week: support goals (see H. Res. 485), H8734 [6OC]

SBA: establish a pilot program to provide regulatory compliance assistance to small businesses (see H.R. 230), H942 [2MR]

Science: improve proficiency testing of clinical laboratories (see H.R. 4268), H12050 [16DE]

Small business: improve access and choice relative to employee health care (see H.R. 525), H1847 [6AP]

Space policy: mint coins in commemoration of the anniversaries of NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (see H.R. 68), H984 [3MR]

Taxation: allow a refundable credit for the purchase of private health insurance (see H.R. 2089), H4356 [9JN]

———allow exclusion of tax-exempt bonds issued for health care or educational purposes in determination of interest expenses of financial institutions (see H.R. 1140), H1780 [5AP]

———exclude certain truck tractors from Federal excise tax imposed on heavy trucks and trailers sold at retail (see H.R. 1049), H2103 [14AP]

———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), H2738 [28AP]

———exclude from gross income certain hazard mitigation assistance (see H.R. 380), H942 [2MR]

———expand and modernize agricultural bond programs to assist young farmers and ranchers (see H.R. 651), H411 [8FE]

———extend incentives for the use of biodiesel as a fuel (see H.R. 2498), H4356 [9JN]

———make individual income tax rates for capital gains and dividends permanent (see H.R. 809), H1025 [8MR]

———make permanent the 15-year depreciation recovery period for restaurant property improvements and extend to new restaurant construction (see H.R. 920), H4656 [16JN]

———permit tax-free distribution from governmental retirement plans for payment of health and long-term care insurance premiums for public safety officers (see H.R. 2177), H3054 [5MY]

———provide a credit for energy-efficient appliances (see H.R. 1421), H1693 [17MR]

———provide a small agri-biodiesel producer credit and improve the small ethanol producer credit (see H.R. 36), H3695 [19MY]

———provide an exclusion for gain from the sale of farmland to encourage the continued use of property for farming (see H.R. 2034), H5915 [14JY]

———provide collegiate housing and infrastructure grants (see H.R. 1548), H2649 [27AP]

———regulate certain State taxation of interstate commerce (see H.R. 1956), H6107 [19JY]

———repeal excise tax on telephone use and other communications services (see H.R. 1898), H3769 [23MY]

———treatment of beer (see H.R. 1306), H2473 [21AP]

Universal Service Administration Co.: exempt from Antideficiency Act accounting rules to improve administration of, and prevent increases in, contributions to the Universal Service Fund (see H.R. 2533), H4144 [26MY]

Veterans: expand eligibility for concurrent receipt of military retired pay or combat-related compensation with service-connected disability benefits and eliminate phase-in period for such benefits (see H.R. 303), H4802 [20JN]

Violence Against Women Act: reauthorize (see H.R. 2876), H4985 [22JN]

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), H797 [17FE]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Armed Forces: increase authorized weight allowances for the shipment of baggage and household effects of senior noncommissioned officers (see H.R. 1406), H1693 [17MR]

———revise age and service requirements for receipt of military retired pay for non-regular service and improve health care for reservists and their families by making TRICARE benefits permanent (see H.R. 558), H350 [2FE]

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]

Drugs: provide civil liability for illegal manufacturers and distributors of controlled substances for the harm caused by the use of those controlled substances (see H.R. 2348), H3261 [12MY]

———transfer ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and phenylpropanolamine to schedule V of the schedules of controlled substances (see H.R. 3568), H7559 [28JY]

Extension Living Well Week: designate (see H. Con. Res. 29), H235 [26JA]

National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day: support goals and ideals (see H. Con. Res. 222), H6934 [27JY]

Designated Speaker pro tempore

House of Representatives, H5365 [29JN]

Remarks

Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs: making appropriations (H.R. 2744), H4220, H4245, H4247 [8JN]

———making appropriations (H.R. 2744), conference report, H9392 [28OC]

Dept. of Agriculture: National Animal Disease Laboratory funding, H9392 [28OC]

Dept. of Homeland Security: emergency and disaster preparedness reorganization plan, H8397 [28SE]

———making appropriations (H.R. 2360), conference report, H8697 [6OC]

———making appropriations (H.R. 2360), motion to instruct conferees, H8397 [28SE]

Dept. of State: Andean Counterdrug Initiative funding for Colombia, H5313 [28JN]

Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act: make repeal of estate taxes permanent (H.R. 8), H1938 [13AP]

Energy and water development: making appropriations (H.R. 2419), H3787 [24MY]

———making appropriations (H.R. 2419), conference report, H10062 [9NO]

FDA: ensure autonomy and eliminate conflicts-of-interest relative to drug company fees and advisory panels, H4245, H4247 [8JN]

Foreign operations, export financing, and related programs: making appropriations (H.R. 3057), H5313 [28JN]

Taxation: retain estate tax with an immediate exemption increase and repeal new carryover basis rules, H1938 [13AP]