CHRISTENSEN, DONNA M. (a Delegate from the Virgin Islands)

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.: anniversary (see H. Con. Res. 384), H1679 [6AP]

Armed Forces: prohibit increases in fees for military health care (see H.R. 4949), H972 [14MR]

Baltimore, MD: anniversary of Port of Baltimore (see H. Res. 870), H4135 [15JN]

Budget: reallocate certain defense and energy programs funds to other domestic priorities (see H.R. 4898), H1453 [4AP]

Campus Fire Safety Month: establish (see H. Res. 295), H4220 [19JN]

Childhood Stroke Awareness Day: designate (see H. Res. 693), H389 [16FE]

Civil rights: improve remedies for discrimination in the payment of wages based on sex (see H.R. 1687), H1742 [25AP]

Classified information: request Executive Office of the President to transmit documents relative to electronic surveillance without search warrants on individuals in the U.S. (see H. Res. 641), H156 [1FE]

Clinton, William J.: tribute (see H. Res. 901), H5047 [11JY]

CPSC: establish a consumer product safety standard for each durable infant or toddler product (see H.R. 4896), H645 [7MR]

Credit: ban abusive credit practices, enhance consumer disclosures and protect underage consumers (see H.R. 5383), H2585 [11MY]

Dalai Lama: award a Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 4562), H1917 [27AP]

Dept. of Defense: establish procedures for consideration of applications for award of the Purple Heart to certain POW (see H.R. 2369), H274 [14FE]

Dept. of Education: urge withdrawal of changes contained in the ``Additional Clarification of Intercollegiate Athletics Policy—Three-Part Test-Part Three'' that harm Title IX (see H. Res. 735), H2962 [19MY]

Dept. of HHS: establish an Office of Men's Health (see H.R. 5624), H4424 [21JN]

———establish position of HIV/AIDS Emergency Response Coordinator to coordinate services for individuals displaced by Huricanes Katrina or Rita (see H.R. 4633), H2641 [16MY]

Dept. of Homeland Security: establish a Directorate of Emergency Management (see H.R. 5351), H2584 [11MY]

Dept. of HUD: reauthorize the HOPE VI Program for revitalization of severely distressed public housing (see H.R. 5347), H2502 [10MY]

Dept. of the Interior: conduct special resource study of sites associated with Cesar E. Chavez and the farm labor movement to determine appropriate methods for their preservation and interpretation (see H.R. 5047), H1319 [29MR]

———make the National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass available at a discount to certain veterans (see H.R. 5452), H3425 [6JN]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: provide free credit monitoring and credit reports for veterans and others affected by the theft of veterans' personal data and ensure notification of such thefts (see H.R. 5455), H3309 (see H.R. 5455), H3362 [25MY] (see H.R. 5588), H4680 [27JN]

———recalculate retirement annuities for certain health care professionals performing part-time services (see H.R. 4298), H451 [28FE]

Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act: ensure State and local emergency preparedness operational plans address the needs of individuals with pets or service animals during a disaster or emergency (see H.R. 3858), H26 [31JA]

Diseases: establish comprehensive and integrated HIV prevention strategy emphasizing the needs of women and girls in countries for which assistance is provided to combat HIV/AIDS (see H.R. 5674), H4520 [22JN]

———increase Federal commitment to supporting the development of innovative advanced imaging technologies for prostate cancer detection and treatment (see H. Res. 863), H3787 [12JN]

Education: ensure Pell Grant eligibility for any student whose parent or guardian died as a result of military service in Iraq or Afghanistan after September 11, 2001 (see H.R. 5733), H4915 [29JN]

———tribute to Catholic schools (see H. Res. 657), H24 [31JA]

FAA: 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), H1453 [4AP]

Family and Medical Leave Act: eliminate an hours of service requirement for benefits (see H.R. 5364), H2584 [11MY]

Federal Financial Management Improvement Act: amend to require the head of an Agency to be reconfirmed by the Senate unless the Agency is found to be in compliance with the requirements of such Act (see H.R. 5315), H4220 [19JN]

FEMA: establish requirements for appointment of Director (see H.R. 4840), H508 [1MR]

Foreign policy: request the President and direct the Dept. of State to transmit documents relating to strategies and plans either designed to cause regime change in or for use of military force against Iran (see H. Res. 846), H4328 [20JN]

Guyana: independence anniversary (see H. Res. 792), H1980 [2MY]

Haiti: authorize assistance to fund scholarships for talented disadvantaged students to continue their education in the U.S. and to return to Haiti to contribute to the development of their country (see H.R. 5091), H2833 (see H.R. 5091), H2890 [18MY]

———commend people for holding democratic elections and congratulate President Rene G. Preval on his victory (see H. Con. Res. 353), H869 [9MR]

———urge multilateral financial institutions to immediately cancel debts under the Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative and the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (see H. Res. 888), H4958 [10JY]

Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act: amend (see H.R. 3658), H973 [14MR]

Health: encourage enactment of compehensive health care reform legislation (see H. Con. Res. 410), H2961 [19MY]

———provide grants to promote positive health behaviors in women (see H.R. 4469), H2706 (see H.R. 4469), H2758 [17MY]

Health care providers: increase physician manpower in the areas of primary care, psychiatric care, and emergency medicine in federally designated physician shortage areas (see H.R. 5770), H5127 [12JY]

House Rules: require committees to hold hearings upon issuance of certain reports from an Inspector General or Comptroller General (see H. Res. 841), H4190 [16JN]

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), H4917 [29JN]

Hurricanes: call upon the President to meet with a joint session of Congress to discuss the plan for post-Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts (see H. Con. Res. 356), H874 [13MR]

———restore health care-related services in areas affected by Hurricane Katrina (see H.R. 4858), H564 [2MR]

Intelligence services: reiterate that certain statutes are the exclusive means by which domestic electronic surveillance may be conducted (see H.R. 5371), H3309 (see H.R. 5371), H3362 [25MY]

Iran: human rights violations of Bahais (see H. Con. Res. 415), H4134 [15JN]

Kazakhstan: recognize anniversary of the closure of the world's second largest nuclear test site and efforts on the nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction (see H. Res. 905), H4916 [29JN]

Library of Congress: grant employees competitive status for appointment and extend to displaced employees career-transition assistance comparable to that granted to certain other Federal employees (see H.R. 5328), H3309 (see H.R. 5328), H3362 [25MY]

Mahoney, Mary E.: tribute (see H. Con. Res. 386), H1679 [6AP]

Minorities: recognize and take active measures to increase the low presence of minorities and women in upper level positions of management in the financial services industry (see H. Con. Res. 429), H3908 [13JN]

Music and dance: recognize the African American Spiritual as a national treasure (see H. Res. 790), H3788 [12JN]

NASCAR-Historically Black Colleges and Universities Consortium: tribute (see H. Res. 677), H273 [14FE]

National Archives and Records Administration: establish database to preserve servitude, emancipation, and post-Civil War reconstruction records and provide grants to establish similar State and local databases (see H.R. 5216), H1915 [27AP]

National Clean Beaches Week: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 760), H3309 (see H. Res. 760), H3362 [25MY]

National Guard: commend members, fully fund equipment needs, and request consultation by the Dept. of Defense with Congress and the States prior to proposing force structure changes (see H. Res. 665), H275 [14FE]

National High School Mock Trial Championship, Inc.: call on Board of Directors to accommodate students of all religious faiths (see H. Res. 600), H1744 [25AP]

National HIV Testing Day: support goals and ideals (see H. Con. Res. 433), H4520 [22JN]

National security: improve maritime and cargo security through enhanced layered defenses (see H.R. 4954), H1853 [26AP]

———provide for the regulation of certain chemical facilities (see H.R. 5695), H4794 [28JN]

———support efforts to track terrorist financing under existing law and express concern over disclosure of classified information on methods by which terrorists are traced (see H. Res. 900), H4916 [29JN]

National Tourism Week: observance (see H. Res. 729), H1129 [16MR]

Parks, Gordon R.A.: tribute (see H. Res. 720), H867 [9MR]

Patent and Trademark Office: conform certain filing provisions (see H.R. 5120), H4680 [27JN]

Public Health Service Act: provide waivers relating to grants for preventive health measures with respect to breast and cervical cancers (see H.R. 5472), H3909 [13JN]

Puerto Rico: self-determination (see H.R. 4963), H1059 [15MR]

Salvadoran-American Day (El Dia del Salvadoreno): support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 721), H867 [9MR]

Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act: reauthorize (see H.R. 517), H1196 [28MR]

Simpson-Miller, Portia: tribute (see H. Res. 727), H973 [14MR]

Smith, Damu A.I.: tribute (see H. Res. 827), H2961 [19MY]

Taxation: creation of a new class of bonds for new school construction (see H.R. 4945), H972 [14MR]

———repeal certain tax breaks and invest those monies in programs to assist the working poor and alleviate poverty (see H. Con. Res. 282), H869 [9MR]

Taylor, Charles E.: tribute (see H. Res. 726), H973 [14MR]

Transportation: increase rail and public transportation security (see H.R. 5714), H4914 [29JN]

Veterans: encourage States to establish programs to award high school diplomas to veterans who left school to serve in the Armed Forces during a time of war (see H. Res. 661), H25 [31JA]

———expand and enhance educational assistance for survivors and dependents (see H.R. 4361), H509 [1MR]

———expand and make permanent the benefit for governmental markers for marked graves of veterans at private cemeteries (see H.R. 5499), H3425 [6JN]

Veterans' Right To Know Commission: establish (see H.R. 4259), H2962 [19MY]

Vietnam Veterans Memorial: provide deadline for final approval of visitor center (see H.R. 4882), H644 [7MR]

Voting: secure the Federal voting rights of certain qualified ex-offenders who have served their sentences (see H.R. 663), H1742 [25AP]

Voting Rights Act: amend (see H.R. 9), H1979 [2MY]

Women: improve prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of heart disease, stroke, and other cardiovascular diseases in women (see H.R. 4747), H4958 [10JY]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Medicaid: repeal requirement to provide citizenship or nationality documentation to receive medical assistance (see H.R. 5023), H1195 [28MR]

Medicare: extend initial enrollment period for prescription drug benefits, waive penalties for late enrollment, allow prescription drug plan enrollment changes during the first year of enrollment, and limit drug formulary changes (see H.R. 5263), H1979 [2MY]

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services: incorporate consideration of global warming and sea-level rise into the comprehensive conservation plans for coastal national wildlife refuges (see H. Con. Res. 398), H2101 [3MY]

Press releases

Christensen Urges Managed Health Care Execs To Help Close Disparities Gap: Congressional Black Caucus, E698 [3MY]

Remarks

Budget: allocation of funds, H650 [8MR]

———setting forth the Federal budget for 2007-2011 (H. Con. Res. 376), H2725 [17MY]

C.W. `Bill' Jones Pumping Plant, Byron, CA: designate (H.R. 2383), H651 [8MR]

Caribbean-American Heritage Month: observance, H4382 [21JN]

Coast Guard: Integrated Deepwater System Program funding, H2136 [4MY]

Congressional Black Caucus: budget priorities, H2725 [17MY]

Dept. of HHS: AIDS Drug Assistance Program funding, H3365 [6JN]

Dept. of the Interior: conduct a feasibility study to design and construct a four reservoir intertie system to improve the water supply reliability and water yield of San Vicente, El Capitan, Murray, and Loveland Reservoirs (H.R. 1190), H652 [8MR]

———designate the President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home in Hope, AR, as a National Historic Site and unit of the National Park System (H.R. 4192), H654, H657 [8MR]

———participate in design, planning, and construction of a project to reclaim and reuse wastewater within and outside of the service area of Austin, TX (H.R. 2341), H1689 [25AP]

———transfer ownership of the American River Pump Station Project (H.R. 4204), H2189 [9MY]

Diseases: increase minority awareness of kidney disease, E553 [7AP]

Eisenhower, Dwight D.: approve location of an honorary commemorative work in the District of Columbia (S.J. Res. 28), H1687 [25AP]

FEMA: GAO report on fraud in the receipt of disaster assistance relative to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita relief efforts, H4012 [15JN]

Fish and fishing: reauthorize the Upper Colorado and San Juan River Basin endangered fish recovery implementation programs (S. 1578), H653 [8MR]

Iraq: improve congressional oversight of Iraq war and reconstruction efforts, H1201 [29MR]

King, Coretta Scott: tribute (H. Res. 655), H12 [31JA]

Marshall Islands: commend contributions made to U.S. nuclear testing program, acknowledge first detonation of a hydrogen bomb, and commemorate anniversary of the beginning of U.S. nuclear testing program (H. Res. 692), H1415 [4AP]

Medicare: extend initial enrollment period for prescription drug benefits, waive penalties for late enrollment, allow prescription drug plan enrollment changes during the first year, and limit drug formulary changes (H.R. 5263), H2763 [18MY]

———funding, H650 [8MR]

National Minority Health Month: observance, E553 [7AP]

National security: improve maritime and cargo security through enhanced layered defenses (H.R. 4954), H2136 [4MY]

National Tourism Week: observance (H. Res. 729), H3409 [6JN]

Native Americans: hold certain lands in trust for the Puyallup Tribe (S. 1382), H2192 [9MY]

NIH: funding, H650 [8MR]

Point of order, H654 [8MR]

Rehnquist, William H.: tribute (H.J. Res. 83), H1687 [25AP]

SBA: 7(a) guaranteed loan program funding, H4648 [27JN]

Science, Depts. of State, Justice, Commerce, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 5672), H4648 [27JN]

Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area: establish (H.R. 5311), H2191 [9MY]

Wyoming: extend contract for Glendo Unit of Missouri River Basin Project (S. 592), H1688 [25AP]

Remarks in House relative to

Special order: granted, H506 [1MR], H1676 [6AP], H4403 [21JN]

Tribute, E698 [3MY]

Tributes

Abraham, Gladys A., E968 [26MY]

Bennerson, Gregory, H4373 [21JN]

Bowsky, Yvonne E. Milliner, E966 [26MY]

Hansen, Axel C., E170 [15FE]

Middleton, Sheila C., E1207 [20JN]

Sibilly, Jean J., E1208 [20JN]