RURAL AREAS related term(s) Agriculture; Suburban areas

Amendments

Agriculture: continue certain programs (H.R. 2419), consideration of conference report (H. Res. 1189), H3797 [14MY]

Dept. of Agriculture: reform the single family housing loan guarantee program (S. 2008), S1713 [6MR]

Dept. of the Interior: provide a loan to the White Mountain Apache Tribe for use in planning, engineering, and designing a certain water system project (S. 3128), S9552 [25SE]

Medicare/Medicaid: extend expiring provisions to improve beneficiary access to preventive and mental health services, enhance low-income benefit programs, and maintain access to care in rural areas (S. 3101), S5634, S5635 [12JN]

Television: make digital television transition and public safety funds available sooner to low-power rural stations and translators (S. 2607), S5913, S5915 [19JN]

Appointments

Conferees: H.R. 2419, Farm, Nutrition, and Bioenergy Act, H2123 [9AP]

———H.R. 2419, Food and Energy Security Act, S609 [4FE]

Articles and editorials

Farm Bill Glitch Stalls House, S5185 [5JN]

For House Democratic Leaders, Rural Counties Are Not a Priority, H10064 [26SE]

Pasture of Plenty—You Thought You Knew How Bad the Farm Bill Was, S4745 [22MY]

Slap at Schoolchildren, H3792 [14MY]

Society We Live In, S4960 [3JN]

Bills and resolutions

Agriculture: continue certain programs (see H.R. 6124), H4829 [22MY]

———continue certain programs (H.R. 2419), consideration of conference report (see H. Res. 1189), H3775 [13MY]

———provide disaster assistance to agricultural producers for crop losses (see S. 3644), S10004 [27SE] (see H.R. 7196), H10300 [27SE]

Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs: making appropriations (see S. 3289), S6972 [21JY]

Appropriations: making emergency supplemental appropriations for job creation and preservation, infrastructure investments, and economic and energy assistance (see S. 3604), S9657 [26SE]

Aviation: restore air service to communities served by an airport that recently received scheduled air transportation but no longer receives such service (see H.R. 7156), H10131 [26SE]

Children and youth: establish a pilot program to help communities establish and improve rural after-school programs (see S. 3545), S9280 [23SE]

Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (House): investigate inaccuracies in the process and enrollment of the conference report on H.R. 2419, Food, Conservation, and Energy Act (see H. Res. 1221), H4468 [22MY]

Communications Act: permit universal service support to schools to be used for enhanced emergency notification services (see H.R. 5806), H2355 [15AP]

———reform collection and distribution of universal service support provisions (see H.R. 6356), H6009 [24JN]

Davis-Bacon Act: apply to rural development loan and loan guarantee programs (see H.R. 6267), H5407 [12JN]

Dental Health Improvement Act: reauthorize (see S. 3067), S4793 [22MY]

Dept. of Agriculture: expand Rural Energy for America Program to include schools in rural areas (see S. 3709), S10742 [20NO]

Dept. of Education: provide grants to rural local educational agencies to purchase new school buses (see S. 3590), S9492 [25SE]

———provide temporary financial relief for rural school districts adversely impacted by the current energy crisis (see S. 3353), S7629 [29JY]

Dept. of Justice: reauthorize the Crime-Free Rural States Grants program (see S. 3726), S10881 [10DE]

Dept. of Labor: make grants for the establishment of information technology centers in rural areas (see H.R. 5727), H2069 [8AP]

Dept. of the Interior: provide a loan to the White Mountain Apache Tribe for use in planning, engineering, and designing a certain water system project (see S. 3128), S5592 [12JN] (see H.R. 6754), H7787 [31JY]

———provide financial assistance to the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water Authority for the planning, design, and construction of the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water System (see S. 2814), S2435 [3AP] (see H.R. 5710), H2011 [3AP]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: require pilot program on the use of community-based organizations to ensure that veterans receive the care and benefits they need (see S. 2796), S2345 [2AP]

Farm Security and Rural Investment Act: temporarily extend programs (see S. 2903), S3401 [24AP] (see H.R. 5813), H2441 [16AP] (see H.R. 6051), H3884 [14MY]

Financial institutions: authorize a grant program to provide for expanded access to mainstream financial institutions (see S. 3410), S7905 [31JY]

Food, Conservation, and Energy Act: reinsert trade title contained in conference report (see H.J. Res. 88), H4831 [22MY]

———technical corrections (see H.R. 6981), H8577 [22SE]

Foreign aid: authorize appropriations to provide assistance to foreign countries to promote food security, stimulate rural economies, and improve emergency response to food crises (see S. 3529), S9204 [22SE]

Health care professionals: expand training, improve recruitment and retention, and increase incentives for those serving rural and urban underserved areas (see S. 3708), S10659 [19NO] (see H.R. 7302), H10856 [20NO]

———increase number of dentists serving health professional shortage areas (see H.R. 6613), H7164 [24JY]

———provide incentives to foreign-born physicians to practice in rural and medically underserved communities (see S. 2672), S1271 [27FE] (see H.R. 5707), H2011 [3AP]

Higher Education Act: improve participation in higher education of, and increase opportunities in employment for, residents of rural areas (see S. 2580), S492 [30JA]

House of Representatives: provide funding for select committee established to investigate vote on motion to recommit H.R. 3161, agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs appropriations (see H. Res. 1148), H2759 [24AP]

Housing: expedite transfer of ownership of rural multifamily housing projects with loans made or insured under the Housing Act so that such projects are rehabilitated and used for affordable housing (see S. 3363), S7780 [30JY]

Medicare: expand Rural Hospital Flexibility Program to increase the delivery of mental health services to veterans (see S. 3095), S5204 [5JN]

———extend and revise incentive payments for physician scarcity areas (see H.R. 6386), H6174 [26JN]

———improve access to health care for beneficiaries in rural areas (see S. 2786), S2133 [13MR]

———improve the provision of items and services to beneficiaries in rural areas (see H.R. 5953), H3018 [1MY]

———reduce inequitable disparities in physician payments in rural areas and revise the practice expense geographic adjustment (see S. 3318), S7148 [23JY]

———remove cap on disproportionate share adjustment percentages for certain rural hospitals (see S. 2853), S2977 [14AP]

———revise timeframe for recognition of certain designations in certifying rural health clinics (see S. 3367), S7780 [30JY]

Medicare/Medicaid: extend expiring provisions to improve beneficiary access to preventive and mental health services, enhance low-income benefit programs, and maintain access to care in rural areas (see S. 3101), S5366 [6JN] (see H.R. 6212), H5110 [9JN] (see H.R. 6331), H5796 [20JN]

———prevent reduction in physician fee schedule, advance value based purchasing, electronic health records, and electronic prescribing, and maintain and improve access to care in rural areas (see S. 3118), S5524 [11JN]

Public Health Service Act: reauthorize the National Health Service Corps Program (see H.R. 6351), H5864 [23JN]

Roads and highways: improve economic opportunity and development in rural States through highway investment (see S. 3672), S10324 [1OC]

———improve highway transportation in the U.S., including rural and metropolitan areas (see S. 3673), S10324 [1OC]

Safe Drinking Water Act: reauthorize provision of technical assistance to small public water systems (see H.R. 6313), H5728 [19JN]

SBA: improve access to technology by and increase entrepreneurship among small businesses located in rural communities (see S. 3342), S7526 [26JY]

States: provide for secure rural schools and counties and enhanced authority for coastal and ocean resources (see H.R. 6779), H7806 [1AU]

Taxation: allow dyed diesel to be sold in rural areas for use in highway vehicles (see H.R. 6634), H7306 [29JY]

———allow tax-exempt bond financing for fixed-wing emergency medical aircraft (see H.R. 6546), H6726 [17JY]

———allow veterans a deduction for certain travel expenses to Dept. of Veterans Affairs medical centers for examinations or treatments relating to service-connected disabilities (see H.R. 5737), H2149 [9AP]

———exempt renewable energy projects receiving Rural Energy for America Program grants from production tax credit offsets (see H.R. 6672), H7628 [30JY]

———extend certain expiring provisions and provide individual income tax relief (see H.R. 7202), H10330 [28SE]

———extend certain expiring provisions and provide individual income tax relief (H.R. 7202), consideration (see H. Res. 1516), H10330 [28SE]

Telecommunications: improve access to broadband service in rural and underserved areas (see H.R. 5682), H1973 [2AP]

———improve effectiveness of rural health care support (see S. 3491), S8855 [16SE]

———require accurate transmission of voice communications network traffic identification information to allow for accurate billing (see S. 2919), S3402 [24AP]

———require eligible carriers receiving universal service support to offer automatic roaming services to technically compatible carriers (see H.R. 7000), H9083 [23SE]

———support growth through deregulation, additional broadband deployment, commercial use of spectrum, high-speed data transmission, and intellectual property protection (see H. Res. 1457), H8396 [17SE]

Television: make digital television transition and public safety funds available sooner to low-power rural stations and translators (see S. 2607), S784 [7FE] (see H.R. 5696), H2010 [3AP]

Cloture motions

Medicare/Medicaid: extend expiring provisions to improve beneficiary access to preventive and mental health services, enhance low-income benefit programs, and maintain access to care in rural areas (H.R. 6331), motion to proceed, S6224, S6231 [26JN], S6489 [9JY]

———extend expiring provisions to improve beneficiary access to preventive and mental health services, enhance low-income benefit programs, and maintain access to care in rural areas (S. 3101), motion to proceed, S5431 [10JN], S5564 [12JN]

Conference reports

Food, Conservation, and Energy Act (H.R. 2419), H3409-H3700 [13MY]

Letters

Agriculture disaster assistance: Wallace Ellender IV, American Sugar Cane League, S9975 [27SE]

Food, Conservation, and Energy Act: several agricultural, conservation, and nutrition organizations, S4227 [15MY]

Health Professions and Primary Care Reinvestment Act: American Dental Education Association and American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, S10673 [19NO]

———Harrison C. Spencer, Association of Schools of Public Health, S10673 [19NO]

———John S. Findley, American Dental Association, S10673 [19NO]

———Lisa V. Rubenstein, Society of General Internal Medicine, S10674 [19NO]

———Michael D. Parkinson, American College of Preventive Medicine, S10672 [19NO]

———Rose M. Yuhos, National Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Organization, S10674 [19NO]

———several health care organizations, S10672 [19NO]

———Wanda D. Lipscomb, National Council for Diversity in the Health Professions, S10674 [19NO]

———Wayne Harris, Association of Minority Health Professions Schools, Inc., S10673 [19NO]

———William F. Leinweber, American Academy of Physician Assistants, S10672 [19NO]

Improving Access to Mainstream Financial Institutions Act: Dan Mica, Credit Union National Association, Inc., S9638 [26SE]

———Dennis K. Tanimoto, Hawaii Credit Union League, S7970 [31JY]

———Fred R. Becker, Jr., National Association of Federal Credit Unions, S7970 [31JY]

———Larissa Meinecke, Hawai'i Alliance for Community-Based Economic Development, S7971 [31JY]

———Robin Puanani Danner, Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement, S7970 [31JY]

Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act: Peter R. Orszag, CBO, S5562 [12JN]

Public Land Communities Transition Assistance Act: Representative DeFazio, H4926 [4JN]

Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act reauthorization: Diane Shust and Randall Moody, National Education Association, H10000 [26SE]

———Robert E. Douglas, National Forest Counties and Schools Coalition, H9899 [25SE]

Lists

House staff working on H.R. 2419, Food, Conservation, and Energy Act, H3811 [14MY]

Organizations supporting H.R. 6331, Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act, S6142 [25JN], S6229 [26JN]

Memorandums

Food, Conservation, and Energy Act: Lorraine C. Miller, Clerk of the House of Representatives, S5185 [5JN]

———Representative Blunt, S5185 [5JN]

Messages

Veto of H.R. 2419, Food, Conservation, and Energy Act: President Bush, S4713 [22MY], H4402 [21MY]

Veto of H.R. 6124, Food, Conservation, and Energy Act: President Bush, S5739 [18JN], H5535 [18JN]

Veto of H.R. 6331, Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act: President Bush, S6705 [15JY], H6520 [15JY]

Motions

Agriculture: continue certain programs (H.R. 2419), H2119 [9AP], H2828, H2830 [29AP], H2922, H2924 [30AP], H2992, H2995 [1MY], H3044 [5MY], H3063, H3064, H3092, H3103 [6MY], H3153, H3154, H3177 [7MY], H3311, H3312, H3317 [8MY]

———continue certain programs (H.R. 2419), conference report, S4160 [14MY], S4227 [15MY], H3821 [14MY]

Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (House): investigate inaccuracies in the process and enrollment of the conference report on H.R. 2419, Food, Conservation, and Energy Act (H. Res. 1221), H4469 [22MY]

Remarks in House

Abington, PA: anniversary of Briar Bush Nature Center, E1393 [8JY]

Agriculture: continue certain programs (H.R. 2419), H922 [13FE], H1976 [3AP], H2075, H2119 [9AP], H2361, H2362 [16AP]

———continue certain programs (H.R. 2419), conference report, H3701, H3756, H3767 [13MY], H3779, H3782, H3783, H3801-H3822, H3862 [14MY], H3889 [15MY], H4289 [20MY], H4462-H4465 [22MY], E930, E933, E945 [15MY], E953, E955, E957 [16MY], E994 [21MY], E1024, E1033 [22MY], E1059 [23MY]

———continue certain programs (H.R. 2419), consideration of conference report (H. Res. 1189), H3784-H3799 [14MY], E938, E941 [15MY]

———continue certain programs (H.R. 2419), motion to instruct conferees, H2119-H2121 [9AP], H2828, H2830 [29AP], H2922, H2924-H2930 [30AP], H2992-H2999 [1MY], H3044 [5MY], H3064, H3103-H3106 [6MY], H3153, H3177-H3181 [7MY], H3311-H3319 [8MY]

———continue certain programs (H.R. 2419), veto, H4402-H4415 [21MY]

———continue certain programs (H.R. 6124), H4462-H4465, H4469-H4655 [22MY], H5117 [10JN]

———continue certain programs (H.R. 6124), veto, H5535-H5537 [18JN], E1332, E1334 [24JN]

———prohibit the establishment of a permanent agriculture disaster assistance program, H3103-H3106 [6MY]

———provide producers on a farm with greater flexibility in selecting the crops to be planted on the base acres of the farm (H.R. 1371), E945 [15MY]

———remove unfunded mandates contained within certain agriculture programs, H3784-H3786 [14MY]

Appalachian Regional Development Act: reauthorize and improve (S. 496), H6489-H6493 [15JY]

Appropriations: making emergency supplemental appropriations for job creation and preservation, infrastructure investments, and economic and energy assistance (S. 3604), H10288-H10295 [27SE]

Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (House): investigate inaccuracies in the process and enrollment of the conference report on H.R. 2419, Food, Conservation, and Energy Act (H. Res. 1221), H4468 [22MY]

Democratic Party: national agenda, H4158 [20MY]

Dept. of Agriculture: Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) Program funding, H4289 [20MY], H4405 [21MY], H4649-H4651 [22MY]

———conservation programs funding, H2995-H2999 [1MY]

———Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program funding, H3819 [14MY]

Dept. of the Interior: provide a loan to the White Mountain Apache Tribe for use in planning, engineering, and designing a certain water system project (S. 3128), H10609 [29SE]

———provide financial assistance to the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water Authority for the planning, design, and construction of the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water System (H.R. 5710), H5428-H5430 [17JN], E505 [4AP]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: allow veterans in highly rural areas to receive covered health services through outside providers, H9380, H9381 [24SE]

———allow veterans in highly rural areas to receive covered health services through outside providers (H.R. 1527), H7656 [31JY], H7903, H7907 [9SE], E1760 [10SE]

Farm, Nutrition, and Bioenergy Act: prohibit any provision which may result in an increase in taxes, H2119, H2120 [9AP]

———require use of most recent CBO baseline estimates when determining compliance with pay-as-you-go requirement, H2992-H2995 [1MY]

Farm Security and Rural Investment Act: temporarily extend programs (H.R. 5813), H2361, H2362 [16AP]

———temporarily extend programs (H.R. 6051), H3823 [14MY]

———temporarily extend programs (S. 2903), H2737 [24AP]

———temporarily extend programs (S. 2903), unanimous-consent request, H2720 [24AP]

Food, Conservation, and Energy Act: prohibit funding for earmarks, H3786-H3789 [14MY]

———require use of most recent CBO baseline estimates when determining compliance with pay-as-you-go requirement, H3789 [14MY]

Higher Education Act: improve participation in higher education of, and increase opportunities in employment for, residents of rural areas, H650, H657 [7FE], H7667, H7671 [31JY]

House of Representatives: investigation by select committee of events surrounding vote on motion to recommit H.R. 3161, agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs appropriations, E732 [24AP], E2031 [26SE]

———provide funding for select committee established to investigate vote on motion to recommit H.R. 3161, agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs appropriations (H. Res. 1148), H2737 [24AP]

Housing: expedite transfer of ownership of rural multifamily housing projects with loans made or insured under the Housing Act so that such projects are rehabilitated and used for affordable housing (H.R. 3873), H410-H412 [23JA]

Lexington, TN: tribute to American Legion Old Hickory Auxiliary Unit 77, E1327 [24JN]

Medicare: protect and preserve access of beneficiaries in rural areas to health care providers, H5914 [24JN], H6202 [8JY]

Medicare/Medicaid: extend expiring provisions to improve beneficiary access to preventive and mental health services, enhance low-income benefit programs, and maintain access to care in rural areas (H.R. 6212), H5181 [10JN], H7132 [24JY]

———extend expiring provisions to improve beneficiary access to preventive and mental health services, enhance low-income benefit programs, and maintain access to care in rural areas (H.R. 6331), H5876-H5916 [24JN], H6013, H6015 [25JN], H6092, H6150 [26JN], H6235, H6237 [9JY], H6479 [15JY], H7127 [24JY], H10171 [27SE], E1346, E1352, E1354 [25JN], E1401 [8JY], E1417, E1419 [9JY], E1473, E1477 [16JY], E1490 [17JY]

———extend expiring provisions to improve beneficiary access to preventive and mental health services, enhance low-income benefit programs, and maintain access to care in rural areas (H.R. 6331), veto, H6494, H6521-H6531 [15JY], E1480 [16JY]

Napa County, CA: anniversary of Napa Valley Agricultural Preserve, E934 [15MY]

National objectives: preservation of social and religious values and constitutional rights, H2273 [15AP]

Ohio: tribute to Treadway Creek Trail, E958 [16MY]

Petroleum: gasoline price levels, H6492 [15JY]

Platte County, MO: Prairie Creek Greenway designated as a National Recreation Trail, E1718 [8SE]

Power resources: enhance energy security of the U.S. by promoting biofuels, H5117 [10JN]

Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act: make payments to local governments in which entitlement land is located and provide transitional payments to entities previously entitled to payments (H.R. 3058), H2557 [23AP], H2662 [24AP], H2865 [30AP], H2953, H2991 [1MY], H3057 [6MY], H3191 [8MY], H3780 [14MY], H3890 [15MY], H4158 [20MY], H4326 [21MY], H4861 [3JN], H4919-H4927 [4JN], E1158 [5JN]

———reauthorize, H9890-H9893, H9899-H9904, H9939-H9947 [25SE], H9997, H10000, H10002, H10004, H10054, H10063-H10067, H10082 [26SE]

Taxation: allow tax-exempt bond financing for fixed-wing emergency medical aircraft (H.R. 6546), E1496 [17JY]

———extend certain expiring provisions and provide individual income tax relief (H.R. 7202), consideration (H. Res. 1516), H10309-H10316 [28SE]

———extend new markets tax credit, E1462 [15JY]

Teach for America, Inc.: funding, H773-H775 [7FE]

Television: make digital television transition and public safety funds available sooner to low-power rural stations and translators (S. 2607), H6306-H6309 [9JY], E1550 [24JY]

Transportation: provide funding to restore school bus services cut back due to increasing fuel prices giving preference to rural and suburban areas that cover larger distances, H6141, H6142 [26JN]

Western Wayne County Conservation Club: anniversary, E1393 [8JY]

Wisconsin: anniversary of addition of Mindoro Cut to National Register of Historic Places, E1339 [25JN]

Remarks in Senate

Agriculture: continue certain programs (H.R. 2419), S481-S483 [30JA], S2335 [2AP], S3416 [28AP], S3578 [30AP], S3990-S3992 [12MY]

———continue certain programs (H.R. 2419), conference report, S4123, S4125, S4152, S4172, S4203-S4210 [14MY], S4212-S4243 [15MY], S4477 [20MY], S5185-S5187 [5JN]

———continue certain programs (H.R. 2419), conference report—unanimous-consent agreement, S4150 [14MY], S4743 [22MY]

———continue certain programs (H.R. 2419), veto, S4585 [21MY], S4713, S4743-S4756 [22MY]

———continue certain programs (H.R. 6124), S5021 [4JN], S5182-S5188 [5JN], S5436, S5437 [10JN]

———continue certain programs (H.R. 6124), unanimous-consent agreement, S5020 [4JN]

———continue certain programs (H.R. 6124), veto, S5739-S5741 [18JN]

———continue certain programs (H.R. 6124), veto—unanimous-consent agreement, S5739 [18JN]

———create livestock industry disaster assistance program, S4242 [15MY]

———extend and improve agricultural programs (S. 2228), S4171 [14MY]

———price supports for milk, S4172 [14MY]

———provide disaster assistance to agricultural producers for crop losses (S. 3644), S9901-S9906, S9973-S9975 [27SE]

———provide disaster assistance to agricultural producers for crop losses (S. 3644), unanimous-consent request, S10418 [2OC]

———strengthen limitations on payments and benefits to farmers and use savings to improve nutrition programs, S1852 [11MR]

Appalachian Regional Development Act: reauthorize and improve, S7545 [28JY], S7888 [31JY]

———reauthorize and improve (S. 496), House amendment, S9872 [26SE]

Appropriations: making emergency supplemental appropriations for job creation and preservation, infrastructure investments, and economic and energy assistance (S. 3604), S9560-S9564, S9601, S9602 [26SE], S9894, S9958, S9995 [27SE]

———making emergency supplemental appropriations for job creation and preservation, infrastructure investments, and economic and energy assistance (S. 3604), motion to proceed, S9574-S9577 [26SE]

———making emergency supplemental appropriations for job creation and preservation, infrastructure investments, and economic and energy assistance (S. 3604), unanimous-consent agreement, S9574 [26SE]

Aviation: improve air service in small and rural communities, S3657-S3659 [1MY]

Budget: allocation of funds to programs serving rural areas, S1016 [14FE]

Dental Health Improvement Act: reauthorize (S. 3067), S4803 [22MY]

Dept. of Agriculture: Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) Program funding, S4744 [22MY]

———expand Rural Energy for America Program to include schools in rural areas (S. 3709), S10745 [20NO]

———provide a mechanism for the determination of claims of claimants who met the class criteria in a civil action relative to racial discrimination but who were denied that determination, S4233 [15MY]

Dept. of Education: provide grants to rural local educational agencies to purchase new school buses (S. 3590), S9502 [25SE]

Dept. of Homeland Security: agriculture and food security and inspections jurisdiction, S4236 [15MY]

Dept. of Justice: reauthorize the Crime-Free Rural States Grants program (S. 3726), S10881 [10DE]

Dept. of the Interior: provide a loan to the White Mountain Apache Tribe for use in planning, engineering, and designing a certain water system project (S. 3128), S5626 [12JN], S9552 [25SE]

———provide financial assistance to the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water Authority for the planning, design, and construction of the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water System (S. 2814), S2439 [3AP]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: require pilot program on the use of community-based organizations to ensure that veterans receive the care and benefits they need (S. 2796), S2356 [2AP]

Education: conduct 1 or more higher education and career readiness demonstration projects for rural, low-income students (H.R. 3661), unanimous-consent request, S6176, S6177 [26JN]

Electric power: rural electric cooperatives emissions of greenhouse gas allowances, S5020 [4JN]

Farm Security and Rural Investment Act: temporarily extend programs (H.R. 5813), S3105-S3107 [17AP]

———temporarily extend programs (H.R. 6051), S4202 [14MY]

———temporarily extend programs (S. 2903), S3340-S3342 [24AP]

Financial institutions: authorize a grant program to provide for expanded access to mainstream financial institutions (S. 3410), S7968 [31JY], S9638 [26SE]

Foreign aid: authorize appropriations to provide assistance to foreign countries to promote food security, stimulate rural economies, and improve emergency response to food crises (S. 3529), S9206 [22SE]

Health care professionals: expand training, improve recruitment and retention, and increase incentives for those serving rural and urban underserved areas (S. 3708), S10671 [19NO]

———provide incentives to foreign-born physicians to practice in rural and medically underserved communities (S. 2672), S1272 [27FE]

Horizon Health Care, Inc.: anniversary, S8178 [9SE]

Maple Mount, KY: anniversary of Mount St. Joseph Conference and Retreat Center, S2120 [13MR]

Medicare: expand Rural Hospital Flexibility Program to increase the delivery of mental health services to veterans (S. 3095), S5215 [5JN]

———improve access to health care for beneficiaries in rural areas (S. 2786), S2159 [13MR]

———improve fairness and reduce regional inequities in reimbursement payments to providers, S6311 [27JN]

———protect and preserve access of beneficiaries in rural areas to health care providers, S5569 [12JN]

———protect and preserve access of beneficiaries in rural areas to health care providers (S. 1605), S5561 [12JN]

———reduce inequitable disparities in physician payments in rural areas and revise the practice expense geographic adjustment (S. 3318), S7156 [23JY]

———revise timeframe for recognition of certain designations in certifying rural health clinics, S9478 [25SE]

———revise timeframe for recognition of certain designations in certifying rural health clinics (S. 3367), S7785 [30JY]

Medicare/Medicaid: extend expiring provisions to improve beneficiary access to preventive and mental health services, enhance low-income benefit programs, and maintain access to care in rural areas (H.R. 6331), S6004, S6006 [24JN], S6097, S6142, S6143 [25JN], S6212 [26JN], S6713 [15JY]

———extend expiring provisions to improve beneficiary access to preventive and mental health services, enhance low-income benefit programs, and maintain access to care in rural areas (H.R. 6331), motion to proceed, S6183, S6200-S6202, S6219, S6220, S6222, S6225-S6231 [26JN], S6310, S6311 [27JN], S6349 [7JY], S6378, S6379, S6420-S6424 [8JY], S6476-S6490, S6494 [9JY]

———extend expiring provisions to improve beneficiary access to preventive and mental health services, enhance low-income benefit programs, and maintain access to care in rural areas (H.R. 6331), unanimous-consent agreement, S6223 [26JN]

———extend expiring provisions to improve beneficiary access to preventive and mental health services, enhance low-income benefit programs, and maintain access to care in rural areas (H.R. 6331), unanimous-consent request, S6232-S6234 [26JN]

———extend expiring provisions to improve beneficiary access to preventive and mental health services, enhance low-income benefit programs, and maintain access to care in rural areas (H.R. 6331), veto, S6698, S6702, S6705-S6710 [15JY]

———extend expiring provisions to improve beneficiary access to preventive and mental health services, enhance low-income benefit programs, and maintain access to care in rural areas (S. 3101), S5376 [6JN], S5377 [9JN], S6320 [27JN]

———extend expiring provisions to improve beneficiary access to preventive and mental health services, enhance low-income benefit programs, and maintain access to care in rural areas (S. 3101), motion to proceed, S5467, S5506-S5509, S5512, S5514-S5516, S5530 [11JN], S5539, S5546-S5551, S5553-S5564, S5576-S5578 [12JN]

———extend expiring provisions to improve beneficiary access to preventive and mental health services, enhance low-income benefit programs, and maintain access to care in rural areas (S. 3101), unanimous-consent request, S5431 [10JN], S5710 [18JN], S5794 [19JN]

———extend provisions to improve access to preventive and mental health services, enhance low-income benefit programs, and maintain access to care in rural areas (H.R. 6331), unanimous-consent agreement, S6451 [9JY]

———prevent physician fee schedule reduction, advance value based purchasing, electronic health records, and electronic prescribing, maintain and improve care access in rural areas (S. 3118), unanimous-consent request, S5710 [18JN], S6420-S6424 [8JY]

———prevent reduction in physician fee schedule, advance value based purchasing, electronic health records, and electronic prescribing, and maintain and improve access to care in rural areas (S. 3118), S5526, S5530 [11JN], S5535, S5546-S5548, S5550, S5554, S5560, S5562, S5569, S5577 [12JN]

National School Lunch Act: make permanent the summer food service pilot project for rural areas of Pennsylvania and apply it to rural areas of every State (S. 1755), S7742 [30JY]

Petroleum: economic impact of increasing oil prices, S7732-S7734 [30JY]

Power resources: enhance energy security of the U.S. by promoting biofuels, S4219 [15MY]

Real estate: limit Federal regulation of public and private lands and protect private property rights, S4960 [3JN]

Reid, Senator: report on trip home, S15 [22JA]

SBA: improve access to technology by and increase entrepreneurship among small businesses located in rural communities (S. 3342), S7528-S7530 [26JY]

Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act: funding, S7735 [30JY]

———reauthorize, S703 [6FE], S4561 [21MY], S6103, S6114 [25JN], S8520 [15SE], S9244, S9252, S9261 [23SE]

Taxation: extend new markets tax credit, S8165 [9SE]

Telecommunications: require accurate transmission of voice communications network traffic identification information to allow for accurate billing (S. 2919), S3408 [24AP]

Television: make digital television transition and public safety funds available sooner to low-power rural stations and translators (S. 2607), S790 [7FE], S5915 [19JN]

Wanblee, SD: commemoration of the Missouri River reaching the Pine Ridge Reservation, S7900 [31JY]

Water: rural water infrastructure funding, S635 [5FE]

Reports filed

Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA, and Related Agencies Programs Appropriations: Committee on Appropriations (Senate) (S. 3289) (S. Rept. 110-426), S6971 [21JY]

Community Broadband Act: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (Senate) (S. 1853) (S. Rept. 110-330), S3254 [22AP]

Consideration of Conference Report on H.R. 2419, Food, Conservation, and Energy Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 1189) (H. Rept. 110-629), H3775 [13MY]

Consideration of H.R. 7201, Energy Improvement and Extension Act and H.R. 7202, Temporary Tax Relief Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 1516) (H. Rept. 110-902), H10330 [28SE]

Eastern New Mexico Rural Water System Authorization Act: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (Senate) (S. 2814) (S. Rept. 110-373), S5656 [16JN]

Food, Conservation, and Energy Act: Committee of Conference (H.R. 2419) (H. Rept. 110-627), H3775 [13MY]

Improve Sanitation in Rural and Native Villages in Alaska: Committee on Environment and Public Works (Senate) (S. 199) (S. Rept. 110-476), S9203 [22SE]

Make Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Funds Available Sooner to Low-Power Rural Stations and Translators: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (Senate) (S. 2607) (S. Rept. 110-348), S5447 [10JN]

Northwestern New Mexico Rural Water Projects Act: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (Senate) (S. 1171) (S. Rept. 110-401), S6157 [25JN]

Rural Veterans Access to Care Act: Committee on Veterans' Affairs (House) (H.R. 1527) (H. Rept. 110-817), H7805 [1AU]

Small Community Drinking Water Funding Act: Committee on Environment and Public Works (Senate) (S. 1933) (S. Rept. 110-475), S9203 [22SE]

White Mountain Apache Tribe Rural Water System Loan Authorization Act: Committee on Indian Affairs (Senate) (S. 3128) (S. Rept. 110-502), S9414 [24SE]

Rulings of the Chair

Agriculture: continue certain programs (H.R. 2419), consideration of conference report (H. Res. 1189), H3784, H3785, H3786 [14MY]

Statements

Delay of Report Relative to Investigation of Record Vote of Motion To Recommit for H.R. 3161: Representatives Delahunt and Pence, Committee on Voting Irregularities (House, Select), E1768 [11SE]

Dept. of Homeland Security Agriculture and Food Security and Inspections Jurisdiction, S4237 [15MY]

Summaries

Medicare Rural Health Access Improvement Act, S2161-S2163 [13MR]

Testimonies

Agricultural Disaster Assistance: Jay Hardwick, National Cotton Council, S9976 [27SE]

Texts of

H. Res. 1148, funding for select committee established to investigate vote on motion to recommit H.R. 3161, agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs appropriations, H2737 [24AP]

H. Res. 1189, consideration of conference report on H.R. 2419, Food, Conservation, and Energy Act, H3784 [14MY]

H. Res. 1221, Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (House) investigation of inaccuracies in the process and enrollment of the conference report on H.R. 2419, Food, Conservation, and Energy Act, H4468 [22MY]

H. Res. 1516, consideration of H.R. 7201, Energy Improvement and Extension Act and H.R. 7202, Temporary Tax Relief Act, H10310 [28SE]

H.R. 1527, Rural Veterans Access to Care Act, H7903 [9SE]

H.R. 3058, Public Land Communities Transition Assistance Act, H4919-H4921 [4JN]

H.R. 3873, Section 515 Rural Housing Property Housing Transfer Improvement Act, H410 [23JA]

H.R. 5710, Eastern New Mexico Rural Water System Authorization Act, H5428 [17JN]

H.R. 5813, Farm Security and Rural Investment Act programs temporary extension, H2361 [16AP]

H.R. 6051, Farm Security and Rural Investment Act programs extension, H3823 [14MY]

H.R. 6124, Food, Conservation, and Energy Act, H4469-H4649 [22MY]

H.R. 6331, Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act, H5876-H5904 [24JN]

S. 496, Appalachian Regional Development Act reauthorization and improvement, S9872-S9874 [26SE], H6489 [15JY]

S. 2607, DTV Transition Assistance Act, H6306 [9JY]

S. 2607, make digital television transition and public safety funds available sooner to low-power rural stations and translators, S790 [7FE]

S. 2814, Dept. of the Interior financial assistance to the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water Authority for the planning, design, and construction of the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water System, S2439 [3AP]

S. 2903, Farm Security and Rural Investment Act programs temporary extension, S3342 [24AP], H2721 [24AP]

S. 3095, Relief for Rural Veterans in Crisis Act, S5216 [5JN]

S. 3128, White Mountain Apache Tribe Rural Water System Loan Authorization Act, S5626 [12JN], S9552 [25SE], H10609 [29SE]

S. 3318, Medicare Physician Payment Equity Act, S7157 [23JY]

S. 3342, Rural Small Business Enhancement Act, S7530 [26JY]

S. 3367, revise timeframe for recognition of certain designations in certifying rural health clinics, S7786 [30JY]

S. 3410, Improving Access to Mainstream Financial Institutions Act, S7969 [31JY]

S. 3529, Global Food Security Act, S9207-S9209 [22SE]

S. 3590, Bus Utility and Safety in School Transportation Opportunity and Purchasing Act, S9503 [25SE]

S. 3604, Economic Recovery Act, S9660-S9668 [26SE]

S. 3709, expand Dept. of Agriculture Rural Energy for America Program to include schools in rural areas, S10745 [20NO]

S. 3726, Dept. of Justice Crime-Free Rural States Grants program reauthorization, S10882 [10DE]