HOOLEY, DARLENE (a Representative from Oregon)
Bills and resolutions cosponsored
AMA: recognize contributions of African-American doctors on the occasion of apology to the National Medical Association for racial prejudices and wrongdoings (see H. Con. Res. 403), H7787 [31JY]
American Heart Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 972), H870 [12FE]
Armed Forces: establish a program of educational assistance for members who have served after September 11, 2001 (see H.R. 5740), H2150 [9AP]
———mint coins in commemoration of the establishment of the U.S. Army and direct proceeds from sales of such coins to the establishment of the National Museum of the U.S. Army (see H.R. 5714), H10300 [27SE]
———mint coins in commemoration of the U.S. Army Infantry and the establishment of the National Infantry Museum and Soldier Center (see H.R. 3229), H350 [17JA]
Baytown, TX: anniversary (see H. Res. 934), H872 [12FE]
Bush, President: remove authority to waive certain provisions of defense authorization legislation (see H.R. 5167), H555 [29JA]
Challenger (space shuttle): anniversary of crash (see H. Res. 943), H479 [28JA]
Children and youth: ensure that dependent students who take a medically necessary leave of absence do not lose health insurance coverage (see H.R. 2851), H2443 [16AP]
———revise and extend programs to support planning, implementation, and evaluation of organized activities involving statewide youth suicide early intervention and prevention strategies (see H.R. 2511), H4975 [4JN]
Civil Rights Act: mint coins in commemoration of semicentennial of enactment (see H.R. 2040), H1031 [25FE]
Communications Act: reform universal service provisions (see H.R. 2054), H1341 [5MR]
Continental Congress: anniversary of meeting in Nassau Hall, Princeton, NJ (see H. Con. Res. 351), H7059 [23JY]
Dept. of Defense: implement a pain care initiative (see H.R. 5465), H994 [14FE]
Dept. of Education: make grants and low-interest loans to local educational agencies for the construction, modernization, or repair of public educational facilities (see H.R. 3021), H1074 [26FE]
———make grants for energy efficiency improvements and renewable energy improvements at public school facilities (see H.R. 5401), H870 [12FE]
Dept. of Energy: provide grants to State and local educational agencies for EnergySmart schools and Energy Star programs (see H.R. 3197), H871 [12FE]
Dept. of HHS: conduct activities to rapidly advance treatments for spinal muscular atrophy, neuromuscular disease, and other pediatric diseases (see H.R. 3334), H2948 [30AP]
———develop a policy for managing the risk of food allergy and anaphylaxis in schools and establish school-based food allergy management grants (see H.R. 2063), H390 [22JA]
Dept. of the Interior: establish production incentive fee for lands leased for oil or natural gas on which production is not occurring and use fees for energy efficiency and renewable energy projects (see H.R. 6256), H5865 [23JN]
Dept. of the Treasury: permit transfer of funds to restore the Highway Trust Fund (see H.R. 6532), H6825 [22JY]
Diseases: establish national screening program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and allow States to provide medical assistance for individuals with colorectal cancer or colorectal polyps (see H.R. 1738), H5797 [20JN]
———provide for research with respect to various forms of muscular dystrophy (see H.R. 5265), H6674 [16JY]
Economy: encourage recipients of rebate checks from the economic stimulus package to invest in renewable energy and energy-efficient products and services (see H. Res. 987), H2152 [9AP]
Education: improve early education (see H.R. 3289), H5408 [12JN]
Elementary and Secondary Education Act: academic content standards for physical education (see H.R. 3257), H622 [6FE]
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: preserve ability to file State product liability lawsuits relative to defective medical devices (see H.R. 6381), H6173 [26JN]
Fish and fishing: establish a Federal grant program to provide increased health care coverage to and access for uninsured and underinsured workers and families in the commercial fishing industry (see H.R. 5404), H2948 [30AP]
Health: address the costly obesity epidemic by identifying opportunities to increase access to and promotion of nutrition, physical activity, and health care in legislation (see H. Res. 1244), H6010 [24JN]
———establish grants to improve nutrition, increase physical activity, and prevent obesity and eating disorders (see H.R. 2677), H6010 [24JN]
———improve pain care research, education, access, and outreach (see H.R. 2994), H295 [16JA]
———national policy to increase Federal commitment prioritizing disease prevention and public health (see H. Res. 1381), H8276 [16SE]
———national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (see H.R. 6444), H6341 [9JY]
———require group and individual insurer coverage of individuals participating in approved cancer clinical trials (see H.R. 2676), H2443 [16AP]
Health care facilities: assist trauma centers with uncompensated care costs, core mission services, emergency needs, and information technology to prevent further closures and downgrades (see H.R. 5942), H6734 [21JY]
Honore, Russell L.: tribute (see H. Res. 944), H479 [28JA]
Lloyd, Earl: tribute (see H. Con. Res. 286), H995 [14FE]
Louisa Swain Day: designate (see H. Con. Res. 378), H7059 [23JY]
Major Arthur Chin Post Office Building, Beaverton, OR: designate (see H.R. 5220), H557 [29JA]
Medicaid: extend certain moratoria and impose additional moratoria on certain regulations (see H.R. 5613), H2071 [8AP]
———provide a temporary increase of the Federal medical assistance percentage (see H.R. 5268), H8397 [17SE]
———temporarily delay application of proposed changes to payment rules for case management and targeted case management services (see H.R. 5173), H943 [13FE]
Medicare: ensure access to recreational therapy in inpatient rehabilitation facilities, inpatient psychiatric facilities, and skilled nursing facilities (see H.R. 4248), H871 [12FE]
———provide coverage for consultations regarding orders for life sustaining treatment and provide grants for development and expansion of programs for such orders (see H.R. 7181), H10299 [27SE]
———provide coverage for the shingles vaccine (see H.R. 5877), H2657 [23AP]
Medicare/Medicaid: promote use of advance directives (see H.R. 5702), H2011 [3AP]
Mondavi, Robert G.: tribute (see H. Con. Res. 365), H5216 [10JN]
MRSA Awareness Month: designate (see H. Res. 988), H994 [14FE]
National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month: designate (see H. Res. 1191), H3886 [14MY]
National Brain Tumor Awareness Month: establish (see H. Res. 1124), H2855 [29AP]
National Data Privacy Day: designate (see H. Res. 1411), H8128 [15SE]
National Engineers Week: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 917), H559 [29JA]
National Estate Planning Awareness Week: designate (see H. Res. 732), H6178 [26JN] (see H. Res. 1499), H9974 [25SE]
National Funeral Director and Mortician Recognition Day: designate (see H. Res. 892), H1075 [26FE]
National Guard Youth Challenge Day: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 1202), H4976 [4JN]
National Internet Safety Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 1260), H5214 [10JN]
National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month: establish (see H. Con. Res. 134), H4061 [15MY]
National Missing Children's Day: observance (see H. Res. 1142), H2658 [23AP]
National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 369), H3187 [7MY]
National Park Service: establish a National Park Centennial Fund (see H.R. 3094), H5482 [17JN]
National Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Con. Res. 393), H8578 [22SE]
National Wear Red Day: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 972), H870 [12FE]
National Women's Health Week: support goals and ideals (see H. Con. Res. 331), H2486 [17AP]
National Women's History Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 1021), H1220 [4MR]
Native Americans: require issuance of medals to recognize the dedication and valor of Native American Code Talkers (see H.R. 4544), H8019 [10SE]
Natural gas: restore State and local participation in the siting, construction, expansion, and operation of liquefied natural gas terminals (see H.R. 2042), H2151 [9AP]
New York Giants (football team): tribute (see H. Res. 960), H815 [7FE]
Oregon: designate certain lands as wilderness (see H.R. 6290), H5579 [18JN]
Oregon Caves National Monument: modify boundary and designate certain rivers and creeks as components of the Wild and Scenic River System (see H.R. 6291), H5579 [18JN]
Oregon National Guard Youth Challenge Program: tribute (see H. Res. 1321), H6229 [8JY]
Paul, Alice: award Congressional Gold Medal posthumously (see H.R. 406), H1973 [2AP]
Petroleum: establish an interagency working group to identify factors that affect pricing of crude oil and refined petroleum products and make appropriate recommendations (see H.R. 6238), H5327 [11JN]
Power resources: prevent excessive speculation in derivatives markets for certain energy commodities by limiting participation to those capable of producing or taking delivery of the commodities (see H.R. 6264), H5797 [20JN]
Saudi Arabia: disapprove issuance of a letter of offer relative to a certain proposed sale of defense articles and defense services to Saudi Arabia (see H.J. Res. 76), H352 [18JA]
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. 1783), H6342 [9JY]
Social Security: ensure certain disability determinations on the basis of SSA hearings are made on a timely basis and monitor number of disability determinations under reconsideration (see H.R. 6485), H7629 [30JY]
———nullify effectiveness of a guidance letter proposing rules relative to the Federal-State financial partnerships under Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (see H.R. 5998), H3402 [8MY]
———provide equitable access for foster care and adoption services for Indian children in tribal areas (see H.R. 4688), H3020 [1MY]
———provide for direct payment of attorney fees and costs to attorney representing prevailing party in certain Social Security Disability Insurance and SSI claims (see H.R. 5833), H2554 [22AP]
SSI: clarify that the value of certain funeral and burial arrangements are not to be considered available resources (see H.R. 1629), H995 [14FE]
Surface Transportation Board: consider impact of certain railroad transactions on local communities (see H.R. 6707), H7785 [31JY]
Surveyors: recognize contribution to society (see H. Con. Res. 223), H7308 [29JY]
Taxation: make permanent the rate reduction for qualified timber gains (see H.R. 6896), H8578 [22SE]
Tay-Sachs Awareness Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 1333), H7956 [9SE]
Technology: authorize activities for support of nanotechnology research and development (see H.R. 5940), H3017 [1MY]
Television: mandate satellite carriage of qualified noncommercial educational television stations (see H.R. 4221), H295 [16JA]
Tobacco products: deter smuggling into the U.S. (see H.R. 5689), H2010 [3AP]
Transportation: establish Green Transportation Infrastructure Research and Technology Transfer Centers (see H.R. 5161), H623 [6FE]
Waipio, HI: tribute to Waipio Little League Baseball team (see H. Res. 1436), H8478 [18SE]
Women: reduce maternal mortality (see H. Res. 1022), H3110 [6MY]
World Glaucoma Day: observance (see H. Res. 981), H2071 [8AP]
World War II: award Congressional Gold Medal to POW at Bataan (see H.R. 5315), H2070 [8AP]
Bills and resolutions introduced
Alice Norris Post Office Building, Oregon City, OR: designate (see H.R. 6584), H7057 [23JY]
CPSC: promulgate final consumer product safety rule banning novelty lighters (see H.R. 6488), H6472 [14JY]
Drugs: establish a drug-free workplace information clearinghouse, support residential treatment programs for pregnant and parenting women, and improve prevention and treatment of methamphetamine addiction (see H.R. 6901), H8127 [15SE]
Helen Berg Post Office Building, Corvallis, OR: designate (see H.R. 6585), H7057 [23JY]
Judie Hammerstad Post Office Building, Lake Oswego, OR: designate (see H.R. 6489), H6472 [14JY]
National Healthy Schools Day: designate (see H. Res. 1056), H1771 [14MR]
Sue Miller Post Office Building, Salem, OR: designate (see H.R. 6586), H7057 [23JY]
Vera Katz Post Office, Portland, OR: designate (see H.R. 6904), H8127 [15SE]
World War II: compensate Armed Forces members, U.S. civilian employees, or their surviving spouses who, as POWs, performed slave labor for Japan or Japanese corporations (see H.R. 6497), H6576 [15JY]
Designated Speaker pro tempore
House of Representatives, H1185 [3MR]
Pledge of Allegiance
House of Representatives, H1185 [3MR]
Poems
``Even After All This Time,'' Hafiz (Persian poet), E1288
Remarks
Diseases: increase Federal commitment to supporting the development of innovative advanced imaging technologies for prostate cancer detection and treatment (H. Res. 353), H5942, H5943, H5944 [24JN]
Drugs: establish a drug-free workplace information clearinghouse, support residential treatment programs for pregnant and parenting women, and improve prevention and treatment of methamphetamine addiction (H.R. 6901), H8679 [23SE]
Health: support further research and activities to increase public awareness, professional education, diagnosis, and treatment of Dandy-Walker syndrome and hydrocephalus (H. Con. Res. 163), H5940, H5942 [24JN]
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), H4924 [4JN]
Resignations
Committee on Science and Technology (House), H5126 [10JN]
Tributes
Boss, Kevin, H562 [6FE]
Johnston, Bryan, E1288
Kohlberg, Jerome, Jr., H6347 [10JY]
Murdock, Deborah, E799