LaTOURETTE, STEVEN C. (a Representative from Ohio)
Amendments
Depts. of Transportation, the Treasury, and HUD, the Judiciary, District of Columbia, and independent agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 5576), H3828 [13JN]
Articles and editorials
All-Star for All Time—Hall of Famer Bob Feller Put Up Season for Ages in 1946, Terry Pluto, Akron (OH) Beacon Journal, E1381
Bills and resolutions cosponsored
Armed Forces: prohibit increases in fees for military health care (see H.R. 4949), H2102 [3MY]
———restore health care coverage to retired members of the uniformed services (see H.R. 602), H274 [14FE]
Coast Guard: require a security plan for a maritime facility be resubmitted for approval upon transfer of ownership or operation of such facility (see H.R. 4880), H571 [6MR]
Committees of the House: establish a select committee to oversee, investigate, and maximize the necessarily significant appropriations expended to win the war on terrorism, especially within Afghanistan and Iraq (see H. Res. 589), H333 [15FE]
Computers: establish a program to transfer surplus computers of Federal agencies to schools and nonprofit community-based educational organizations (see H.R. 2521), H451 [28FE]
Crime: provide grants for regional task forces to more effectively investigate and prosecute identity theft and other economic crimes (see H.R. 4244), H646 [7MR]
Dept. of Agriculture: Seniors Farmers' Market Nutrition Program funding reform (see H.R. 131), H4520 [22JN]
Dept. of Justice: establish a national sex offender registration database (see H.R. 95), H645 [7MR]
Dept. of the Treasury: provide for the continued payment of railroad retirement annuities (see H.R. 5074), H1451 [4AP]
Dept. of Veterans Affairs: take certain actions to mitigate effects of the breach of data security (see H.R. 5487), H3306 (see H.R. 5487), H3359 [25MY]
Diseases: establish an Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Registry (see H.R. 4033), H3909 [13JN]
Ecology and environment: provide assistance for redevelopment of brownfield sites (see H.R. 1237), H3308 (see H.R. 1237), H3361 [25MY]
FAA: relax maximum age requirements for certain pilots (see H.R. 65), H2962 [19MY]
FEMA: establish as an independent agency (see H.R. 5316), H2337 [9MY]
Financial Literacy Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 737), H1196 [28MR]
Great Lakes: establish a collaborative protection program (see H.R. 5100), H1562 [5AP]
———implement recommendations of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service contained in the Great Lakes Fishery Resources Restoration Study (see H.R. 4953), H4795 [28JN]
Health: declare adequate pain care research, education, and treatment as national health priorities (see H.R. 1020), H4134 [15JN]
———provide for community projects that will reduce the number of uninsured individuals (see H.R. 5171), H1741 [25AP]
House Rules: reform the ethics process (see H.R. 4988), H1128 [16MR]
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), H2706 (see H.R. 5121), H2758 [17MY]
Immigration: extend termination date for the exemption of returning workers from the numerical limitations for temporary workers (see H.R. 4740), H1197 [28MR]
Insurance: 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), H973 [14MR]
Interstate Highway System: anniversary (see H. Con. Res. 372), H1389 [30MR]
John Paul Hammerschmidt Post Office Building, Harrison, AR: designate (see H.R. 4811), H449 [28FE]
Larry Cox Post Office, Chillicothe, OH: designate (see H.R. 5434), H2961 [19MY]
Lincoln, Abraham: mint coins in commemoration of bicentennial of birth (see H.R. 2808), H3309 (see H.R. 2808), H3361 [25MY]
Medicare: improve patient access to, and utilization of, the colorectal cancer screening benefit (see H.R. 1632), H1980 [2MY]
———improve payments made by prescription drug plans and Medicare Advantage-Prescription Drug plans to pharmacies for covered drugs (see H.R. 5166), H1981 [2MY]
———pay ambulance suppliers the full costs of providing such services (see H.R. 2014), H389 [16FE]
———provide for a budget-neutral two-year moratorium on certain physician payment reductions for imaging services (see H.R. 5704), H4794 [28JN]
Minimum wage: level (see H.R. 3413), H4680 [27JN]
Motor vehicles: limit fees imposed in connection with background checks for the issuance of licenses to operate a motor vehicle transporting a hazardous material (see H.R. 5560), H4134 [15JN]
National Public Works Week: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 837), H3226 [24MY]
National security: ensure while promoting foreign investment and job creation, reform examination process for such investments, and establish Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (see H.R. 5337), H3909 [13JN]
———limit foreign control of investments in certain U.S. critical infrastructure (see H.R. 4959), H972 [14MR]
National Vigil for Lost Promise: support goals and ideals (see H. Con. Res. 422), H3424 [6JN]
Nelson, Byron: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 4902), H1131 [16MR]
NLRB: establish deadlines to render decisions (see H.R. 5310), H2641 [16MY]
Railroad Retirement Act: increase disability earning limitation and index the amount of allowable earnings consistent with increases in the substantial gainful activity dollar amount under the Social Security Act (see H.R. 5483), H3306 (see H.R. 5483), H3359 [25MY]
Tariff Act: allow U.S. manufacturers that use products subject to countervailing or antidumping duty proceedings or use domestic like products to participate in those proceedings (see H.R. 4217), H1743 [25AP]
Taxation: 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), H1742 [25AP]
———allow individuals to defer recognition of reinvested capital gains distributions from regulated investment companies (see H.R. 2121), H2174 [4MY]
———expand tax forgiveness for Armed Forces members who die from wounds, disease, or injury incurred while serving in a combat zone to include prior taxable year (see H.R. 5032), H1321 [29MR]
———make employers of spouses of military personnel eligible for the work opportunity credit (see H.R. 5081), H4328 [20JN]
———repeal dollar limitation on contributions to funeral trusts (see H.R. 3061), H155 [1FE]
Bills and resolutions introduced
FAA: modify bargaining requirements for proposed changes to the personnel management system (see H.R. 5449), H3016 [22MY]
LIHEAP: funding (see H.R. 4793), H388 [16FE]
Poppell, Karen: relief (see H.R. 4878), H565 [2MR]
Public works: State and local capital projects funding (see H.R. 5054), H1389 [30MR]
Taxation: provide a refundable credit for certain home energy costs (see H.R. 4729), H224 [8FE]
Remarks
Altoona, PA: prohibit funding for Juanita Ultra Low Emission Locomotive Demonstration, H3207 [24MY]
Amtrak: funding, H3828 [13JN]
Depts. of Transportation, the Treasury, and HUD, the Judiciary, District of Columbia, and independent agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 5576), H3828 [13JN]
Energy and water development: making appropriations (H.R. 5427), H3207 [24MY]
FAA: modify bargaining requirements for proposed changes to the personnel management system (H.R. 5449), H3394, H3396, H3397, H3398, H3401, H3402 [6JN]
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), H4118
Remarks in House relative to
Leave of absence: granted, H506 [1MR]
Subpoena Notices
Cuyahoga County, OH, Court of Common Pleas, H2874 [18MY]
Tributes
Feller, Bob, E1381
Nowacki, Andy (Ace), H4118