McHUGH, JOHN M. (a Representative from New York)

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Alcoholic beverages: tribute to American craft brewers (see H. Res. 753), H1682 [6AP]

Animals: ensure that all dogs and cats used by research facilities are obtained legally (see H.R. 5229), H4521 [22JN]

Armed Forces: prohibit certain demonstrations at cemeteries under the control of the National Cemetery Administration and at Arlington National Cemetery (see H.R. 5037), H2339 [9MY]

Bankruptcy: amend laws relative to avoidable preferences and venue for proceedings to avoid preferences (see H.R. 4296), H1681 [6AP]

Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary Commission: extend (see H.R. 4586), H1320 [29MR]

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), H509 [1MR]

Captain George A. Wood Post Office Building, Utica, NY: designate (see H.R. 4962), H1321 [29MR]

CERCLA: provide that manure is not considered a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant (see H.R. 4341), H1563 [5AP]

Children and youth: establish a grant program to provide comprehensive eye examinations (see H.R. 2238), H2502 [10MY]

———reauthorize permanently the use of penalty and franked mail in efforts to locate and recover missing children (see H.R. 4416), H2174 [4MY]

Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities: anniversary (see H. Con. Res. 343), H332 [15FE]

Crime: increase the maximum penalty for telemarketing fraud targeting senior citizens (see H.R. 4987), H4795 [28JN]

D. Mallory Stephens Post Office, Patterson, NY: designate (see H.R. 5685), H4554 [26JN]

Dept. of Agriculture: reauthorize the Renewable Energy Systems and Energy Efficiency Improvements Program and increase CCC funding for the program (see H.R. 4897), H1743 [25AP]

Dept. of HHS: authorize appropriations for the health centers program (see H.R. 5201), H1851 [26AP]

Dept. of Homeland Security: implement Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative and other registered traveler programs (see H.R. 5536), H3423 [6JN]

———improve ``NEXUS'' and ``FAST'' registered traveler programs (see H.R. 5286), H2706 (see H.R. 5286), H2758 [17MY]

Disasters: provide for low-interest disaster loans when a small business concern is affected by a small-scale disaster (see H.R. 5334), H3643 [8JN]

Diseases: extend preventive-health and research programs for prostate cancer (see H.R. 2945), H4220 [19JN]

Ecology and environment: provide assistance for redevelopment of brownfield sites (see H.R. 1237), H3308 (see H.R. 1237), H3361 [25MY]

Education: expand quality programs of early childhood home visitation (see H.R. 3628), H509 [1MR]

Employment: protect volunteer firefighters and emergency medical services personnel responding to national emergencies from termination or demotion in their places of employment (see H.R. 3949), H2102 [3MY]

FAA: modify bargaining requirements for proposed changes to the personnel management system (see H.R. 5449), H3425 [6JN]

———replace Administrator's arbitrary authority to impose wages and working conditions with neutral binding arbitration in the case of an impasse in labor-management negotiations (see H.R. 4755), H332 [15FE]

Fair Credit Reporting Act: provide for secure financial data (see H.R. 3997), H1320 [29MR]

Federal aid programs: require data relative to Federal financial assistance to be available for public access in a searchable and user friendly form (see H.R. 5060), H1853 [26AP]

Housing: modernize and update the National Housing Act and enable the FHA to use risk-based pricing to more effectively reach underserved borrowers (see H.R. 5121), H2962 [19MY]

Immigration: permanently authorize waivers of foreign country residence requirements for certain international medical graduates (see H.R. 4997), H4328 [20JN]

Insurance: allow employees of federally-qualified health centers to obtain health coverage (see H.R. 4980), H3424 [6JN]

Investments: establish and provide for treatment of individual development accounts (see H.R. 4751), H646 [7MR]

Irish-American Heritage Month: designate (see H. Res. 733), H1130 [16MR]

Jacob Fletcher Post Office Building, Babylon, NY: designate (see H.R. 5664), H4423 [21JN]

Libya: condition Dept. of State recognition of government representatives on fulfillment of financial obligations to Pan Am Flight 103 victims' families and other cases involving victims of terrorism (see H. Res. 838), H4521 [22JN]

LIHEAP: funding (see H.R. 4793), H451 [28FE]

Long Island Sound Stewardship Initiative: establish (see H.R. 5160), H2586 [11MY]

Major George Quamo Post Office Building, Averill Park, NY: designate (see H.R. 5708), H4795 [28JN]

Medicaid: 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), H3497 [7JN]

Medicare: coverage of more frequent hemodialysis treatments (see H.R. 3096), H1917 [27AP]

———coverage of respiratory therapists under home health service plans (see H.R. 964), H1130 [16MR]

———eliminate prescription drug late enrollment penalty (see H.R. 5399), H3227 [24MY]

———extend annual coordinated election period for prescription drug plans (see H.R. 4715), H390 [16FE]

———extend certain payment methodologies provided for rural health care providers (see H.R. 5118), H1677 [6AP]

———improve benefits for beneficiaries with kidney disease (see H.R. 1298), H1196 [28MR]

———improve payments made by prescription drug plans and Medicare Advantage-Prescription Drug plans to pharmacies for covered drugs (see H.R. 5166), H1744 [25AP]

———require the sponsor of a prescription drug plan or an organization offering a Medicare Advantage-Prescription Drug plan to promptly pay submitted claims (see H.R. 5182), H2175 [4MY]

———restore certain treatment of ownership of oxygen equipment (see H.R. 5513), H4220 [19JN]

Middle East: promote the development of democratic institutions in areas under the administrative control of the Palestinian Authority (see H.R. 4681), H1130 [16MR]

Minimum wage: level (see H.R. 3413), H4917 [29JN]

National Children and Families Day: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 763), H2175 [4MY]

National Crime Victims' Rights Week: support goals and ideals (see H. Con. Res. 378), H1744 [25AP]

National security: limit foreign control of investments in certain U.S. critical infrastructure (see H.R. 4959), H972 [14MR]

———prepare and strengthen biodefenses against deliberate, accidental, and natural outbreaks of illness (see H.R. 5533), H3423 [6JN]

National Shaken Baby Syndrome Awareness Week: designate (see H. Res. 779), H2103 [3MY]

Nelson, Byron: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 4902), H1197 [28MR]

New Windsor, NY: recognize and support effort of New York to develop the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor (see H. Con. Res. 419), H3425 [6JN]

NLRB: establish deadlines to render decisions (see H.R. 5310), H2174 [4MY]

Older Americans Act: authorizing appropriations (see H.R. 5293), H3643 [8JN]

Outer Continental Shelf: provide for exploration, development, and production activities for mineral resources (see H.R. 4761), H566 [2MR] (see H.R. 4761), H1917 [27AP]

Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 745), H1981 [2MY]

Peace Officers Memorial Day: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 788), H2339 [9MY]

Power resources: increase the renewable fuel content of gasoline and require Federal agencies to use ethanol and biodiesel in government vehicles (see H.R. 4573), H3138 [23MY]

Public Health Service Act: amend relative to early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of hearing loss (see H.R. 5250), H1916 [27AP]

Ronald Bucca Post Office, Tuckahoe, NY: designate (see H.R. 4995), H1128 [16MR]

Safety: establish a day to bring awareness to the issue of missing persons (see H. Res. 189), H4918 [29JN]

———establish a permanent grant program to improve public safety communications and the interoperability of emergency communications equipment (see H.R. 1323), H155 [1FE]

School Bus Safety Week: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 498), H2834 (see H. Res. 498), H2891 [18MY]

Senior citizens: ensure adequate public-private infrastructure and resolve to prevent, detect, treat, intervene in, and prosecute elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation (see H.R. 4993), H1128 [16MR]

Ships and vessels: require exchange of ballast water or alternative ballast water management methods prior to entry into any port within the Great Lakes (see H.R. 4771), H387 [16FE]

Small business: provide support for small business concerns (see H.R. 5058), H2962 [19MY]

Small Business Investment Act: reauthorize and expand the New Markets Venture Capital Program (see H.R. 4303), H566 [2MR]

Social Security: continuation of benefit payment through the month of the beneficiary's death (see H.R. 5189), H4220 [19JN]

St. Patrick's Day: support goals and ideals (see H. Con. Res. 364), H1129 [16MR]

Taxation: allow a credit for qualified expenditures paid or incurred to replace certain wood stoves (see H.R. 3928), H3497 [7JN]

———allow a tax credit for the purchase of idling reduction systems for diesel-powered on-highway vehicles (see H.R. 4672), H274 [14FE]

———extend the investment tax credit relative to solar energy property and qualified fuel cell property (see H.R. 5206), H2586 [11MY]

———limit development or implementation of a return-free tax system (see H.R. 5114), H1676 [6AP]

———make geothermal heat pump systems eligible for the energy credit (see H.R. 3164), H1130 [16MR]

———make permanent the moratorium on the taxation of Internet and interactive computer service commerce (see H.R. 4862), H564 [2MR]

———provide a credit to physicians who provide charity care (see H.R. 3614), H1563 [5AP]

———provide a refundable credit for certain home energy costs (see H.R. 4729), H224 [8FE]

———provide individuals relief from the alternative minimum tax (see H.R. 5590), H3907 [13JN]

———repeal increase in the age of minor children whose unearned income is taxed as if parent's income (see H.R. 5463), H3309 (see H.R. 5463), H3362 [25MY]

Tick-Borne Diseases Advisory Committee: establish (see H.R. 3427), H1980 [2MY]

Tisch, Preston R. (Bob): tribute (see H. Res. 605), H1321 [29MR]

Tuskegee Airmen: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 1259), H25 [31JA]

Voting Rights Act: amend (see H.R. 9), H2705 (see H.R. 9), H2757 [17MY]

Wasserstein, Wendy: tribute (see H. Res. 719), H1131 [16MR]

Water: authorize appropriations for State water pollution control revolving funds (see H.R. 2684), H1130 [16MR]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Hudson-Fulton-Champlain 400th Commemoration Commission: establish (see H.R. 5501), H3307 (see H.R. 5501), H3359 [25MY]

Taxation: increase credits for certain alternative motor vehicles assembled in the U.S. (see H.R. 5239), H1916 [27AP]

———reduce Federal excise tax on highway motor fuels when the weekly U.S. retail gasoline price, regular grade, is over a certain dollar amount per gallon (see H.R. 5240), H1916 [27AP]

Designated Speaker pro tempore

House of Representatives, H3365 [6JN]

Remarks

Congress: provide transparency and integrity in the earmark process, H3930 [14JN]

Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities and prescribing personnel strengths (H.R. 5122), H2373 [10MY]

Depts. of Transportation, the Treasury, and HUD, the Judiciary, District of Columbia, and independent agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 5576), H3930 [14JN]

Intelligence services: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 5020), H1789 [26AP]

Terrorism: commend those who have taken part, and declare that the U.S. will prevail, in the Global War on Terror and complete mission to create a sovereign and free Iraq (H. Res. 861), H4047, H4085 [15JN]

Remarks in House relative to

Leave of absence: granted, H3639 [8JN]