LYNCH, STEPHEN F. (a Representative from Massachusetts)

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Africa: develop strategy to protect civilians, facilitate humanitarian operations, reduce violence, and move toward sustainable peace in regions of Chad, Central African Republic, and Sudan (see H. Res. 1011), H1772 [14MR]

Agriculture: ensure the humane slaughter of nonambulatory livestock (see H.R. 661), H8128 [15SE]

Animals: prohibit certain conduct relative to the use of horses for human consumption (see H.R. 6598), H8128 [15SE]

Armed Forces: commend military support groups for efforts to support servicemen and their families (see H. Res. 1200), H8020 [10SE]

———ensure fair treatment of members discharged early due to being the only surviving child in a family in which an immediate family member was killed, MIA, or disabled in the line of duty (see H.R. 5825), H2442 [16AP]

———ensure that Reserve members who have served on active duty or performed certain active service receive credit in determining eligibility for early receipt of non-regular service retired pay (see H.R. 4930), H1772 [14MR]

———establish a program of educational assistance for members who have served after September 11, 2001 (see H.R. 5740), H3050 [5MY]

———lift restrictions on certain benefits for military technicians and repeal prohibition against overtime pay for National Guard technicians (see H.R. 6438), H8128 [15SE]

———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), H10132 [26SE]

———prohibit increases in fees for military health care (see H.R. 579), H2947 [30AP]

Boston Celtics (basketball team): tribute (see H. Con. Res. 376), H5864 [23JN]

Boy Scouts: mint coins in commemoration of centennial of establishment (see H.R. 5872), H2552 [22AP]

Children and youth: promote youth financial education (see H.R. 4335), H3050 [5MY]

Civil Rights Act: mint coins in commemoration of semicentennial of enactment (see H.R. 2040), H1074 [26FE]

Credit: provide for enhanced disclosure under an open end credit plan (see H.R. 5244), H811 [7FE]

Dept. of Education: award grants to establish pediatric early literacy programs for health care providers and facilities (see H.R. 4449), H1342 [5MR]

———create a demonstration project to fund additional secondary school counselors in certain troubled schools to reduce dropout rates (see H.R. 3439), H3109 [6MY]

Dept. of HHS: develop an antimicrobial resistance research strategic plan (see H.R. 3697), H6407 [10JY]

———reauthorize and improve the National Health Service Corps (see H.R. 4205), H2151 [9AP]

Dept. of HUD: make loans to States to acquire foreclosed housing and grants to States for related costs (see H.R. 5818), H2441 [16AP]

Dept. of Justice: extend authorization of the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program (see H.R. 6045), H6089 [25JN]

———making supplemental appropriations for Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program (Byrne/JAG Grant Program) (see H.R. 5180), H1032 [25FE]

Dink, Hrant: condemn murder of Turkish journalist (see H. Res. 102), H480 [28JA]

Economy: encourage recipients of rebate checks from the economic stimulus package to purchase American-made goods and services from American-owned companies (see H. Res. 977), H3778 [13MY]

Education: improve early education (see H.R. 3289), H6177 [26JN]

———recognize achievements of high school valedictorians, promote importance of encouraging intellectual growth, and reward academic excellence of all high school students (see H. Res. 1229), H5798 [20JN]

Elementary and Secondary Education Act: academic content standards for physical education (see H.R. 3257), H6407 [10JY]

Family and Medical Leave Act: clarify eligibility requirements relative to airline flight crews (see H.R. 2744), H622 [6FE]

Federal employees: improve teleworking in executive agencies by developing telework program that allows employees to telework at least 20 percent of hours worked in every 2 administrative workweeks (see H.R. 4106), H1221 [4MR]

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]

FHA: create a voluntary program that provides mortgage refinancing assistance to allow families to stay in their homes, protect neighborhoods, and help stabilize the housing market (see H.R. 5830), H2485 [17AP]

Financial Literacy Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 1079), H2659 [23AP]

Fish and Wildlife Act: establish additional prohibitions on shooting wildlife from aircraft (see H.R. 3663), H295 [16JA]

Food: prohibit use of nonambulatory livestock for human food and require the publishing of names of retailers and school districts that have purchased meat, poultry, or egg products subject to voluntary recall (see H.R. 5762), H8128 [15SE]

Foreign aid: modernize foreign assistance strategy to promote national and global security, democracy, and economic opportunity (see H. Res. 1268), H5328 [11JN]

Health: establish a pathway for the licensure of biosimilar biological products (see H.R. 5629), H1701 [13MR]

———provide revised standards for quality assurance in screening and evaluation of gynecologic cytology preparations (see H.R. 1237), H1702 [13MR]

Health care providers: authorize grants to States to establish and implement programs for registering pharmaceutical technicians (see H.R. 5491), H1073 [26FE]

House of Representatives: establish the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission (see H. Res. 1451), H8478 [18SE]

India: condemn terrorist attacks in Mumbai, urge Pakistan to investigate possible connection to groups based in Pakistan, and bolster U.S. counterterrorism cooperation with India (see H. Res. 1532), H10976 [10DE]

Insurance: allow employees of federally-qualified health centers to obtain health coverage (see H.R. 1518), H2151 [9AP]

———require disclosure of Holocaust-era policies by insurers and establish a Federal cause of action for claims arising out of a covered policy (see H.R. 1746), H6473 [14JY]

Israel: recognize independence anniversary and reaffirm bonds of close friendship and cooperation with the U.S. (see H. Con. Res. 322), H2554 [22AP]

Lance Corporal Eric Paul Valdepenas Post Office Building, Seekonk, MA: designate (see H.R. 6874), H8048 [11SE]

LIHEAP: funding (see H.R. 6427), H8397 [17SE]

Local Radio Freedom Act: support (see H. Con. Res. 244), H5730 [19JN]

Medicaid: extend certain moratoria and impose additional moratoria on certain regulations (see H.R. 5613), H2071 [8AP]

———permit States the option to provide coverage for low-income individuals infected with HIV (see H.R. 3326), H7853 [8SE]

———provide a temporary increase of the Federal medical assistance percentage (see H.R. 5268), H7058 [23JY]

———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. 1279), H2070 [8AP]

Medicare: delay phase out of the hospice budget neutrality adjustment factor (see H.R. 6873), H10642 [29SE]

———establish a hospice care demonstration program and grants programs for cancer palliative care and symptom management programs (see H.R. 1078), H7853 [8SE]

———provide coverage for cardiac rehabilitation and pulmonary rehabilitation services (see H.R. 552), H1973 [2AP]

Middle East: require the President to seek to institute a regional diplomatic plan (see H.R. 3797), H2070 [8AP]

Minute Man National Historical Park: expand boundary to include Barrett's Farm (see H.R. 5853), H5045 [5JN]

Money: prohibit the Dept. of the Treasury and the FRS from proposing, prescribing, or implementing any regulation relative to monetary transactions (see H.R. 5767), H5730 [19JN]

National Affordable Housing Act: improve program for supportive housing for persons with disabilities (see H.R. 5772), H5482 [17JN]

National Better Hearing and Speech Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Con. Res. 352), H6408 [10JY]

National Consumer Protection Week: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 973), H1184 [28FE]

National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 369), H3187 [7MY]

National Public Health Week: observance (see H. Res. 1081), H2016 [4AP]

National STD Awareness Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 1131), H2553 [22AP]

National Teacher Day: establish (see H. Res. 952), H557 [29JA]

National Women's Health Week: support goals and ideals (see H. Con. Res. 331), H3020 [1MY]

Native Americans: require issuance of medals to recognize the dedication and valor of Native American Code Talkers (see H.R. 4544), H1973 [2AP]

New York Giants (football team): tribute (see H. Res. 960), H815 [7FE]

Palestinians: condemn ongoing rocket attacks on Israeli civilians (see H. Res. 951), H1155 [27FE]

Palladio, Andrea: anniversary of birth (see H. Con. Res. 407), H7788 [31JY]

Palmer, Arnold: tribute (see H. Res. 1152), H3187 [7MY]

Paul, Alice: award Congressional Gold Medal posthumously (see H.R. 406), H1445 [10MR]

Pittsburgh, PA: anniversary (see H. Res. 1000), H6408 [10JY]

Pittsfield, MA: recognize as home to the earliest known reference to the word ``baseball'' and as the birthplace of college baseball (see H. Res. 1050), H1702 [13MR]

Power resources: encourage energy efficiency and conservation and development of renewable energy sources for housing and other buildings, and create sustainable communities (see H.R. 6078), H5581 [18JN]

———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]

———prohibit issuance of oil or natural gas leases in any marine national monument or national marine sanctuary or in Georges Bank fishing area (see H.R. 7051), H9975 [25SE]

Public Health Service Act: revise and expand the drug discount program to improve provision of discounts on drug purchases for certain safety net providers (see H.R. 2606), H7853 [8SE]

Public Service Recognition Week: observance (see H. Res. 1073), H2152 [9AP]

Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act: define environmental intervention blood lead level (see H.R. 3397), H3408 [12MY]

Russert, Timothy J., Jr.: tribute (see H. Res. 1275), H5481 [17JN]

Ships and vessels: recognize role played by Landing Ship Tanks (LST) in conflicts since World War II and the Navy and Coast Guard veterans who served on such ships (see H. Res. 1316), H6408 [10JY]

Sudan: condemn ongoing sales of arms to belligerents and call for the cessation of such sales and expansion of U.N. embargo on arms sales to Sudan (see H. Res. 1462), H10845 [19NO]

———urge international community to provide the U.N.-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur region with tactical and utility helicopters (see H. Res. 1245), H6343 [9JY]

Tariff: footwear (see H.R. 3934), H622 [6FE]

Taxation: allow a nonrefundable credit for mentoring and housing young adults (see H.R. 5660), H7854 [8SE]

———allow taxpayers to designate a portion of their income tax payment to provide assistance to homeless veterans (see H.R. 5823), H4833 [22MY]

———establish financial security accounts for the care of family members with disabilities (see H.R. 2370), H5797 [20JN]

———exclude from income and employment taxes real property tax abatements for seniors and disabled individuals in exchange for services (see H.R. 5484), H6407 [10JY]

———extend exclusion from gross income for employer-provided health coverage to certain employee designated beneficiaries (see H.R. 1820), H8128 [15SE]

———restore, make permanent, and increase amount of exclusion from gross income for amounts received under qualified group legal services plans (see H.R. 1840), H3109 [6MY]

———treat automatic fire sprinkler systems as 5-year property for purposes of depreciation (see H.R. 1742), H2355 [15AP]

Tobacco products: deter smuggling into the U.S. (see H.R. 5689), H2010 [3AP]

Tourist trade: establish a nonprofit corporation to communicate U.S. entry policies and otherwise promote tourist, business, and scholarly travel to the U.S. (see H.R. 3232), H1702 [13MR]

Treaties and agreements: review existing trade agreements, renegotiate such agreements based on the reviews, set terms for future agreements, and strengthen congressional trade policymaking (see H.R. 6180), H4973 [4JN]

Tubman, Harriet: designate national day of remembrance (see H. Con. Res. 310), H1341 [5MR]

U.N.: provide support to the U.N. Population Fund to carry out activities to save women's lives, limit incidence of abortion and maternal mortality associated with unsafe abortion, and promote access to family planning (see H.R. 2604), H622 [6FE]

Veterans: honor sacrifices and contributions made by disabled American veterans (see H. Con. Res. 336), H2852 [29AP]

Water pollution: reduce water pollution from recreational vessels (see H.R. 2550), H1889 [1AP]

William `Bill' Clay Post Office Building, St. Louis, MO: designate (see H.R. 5395), H1418 [6MR]

Workers Memorial Day: observance (see H. Res. 1141), H2658 [23AP] (see H. Res. 1154), H2855 [29AP]

World Refugee Day: observance (see H. Res. 1290), H6578 [15JY]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Credit cards: limit amount of interchange fee imposed on sale of motor vehicle fuel (see H.R. 6620), H7164 [24JY]

Dept. of the Interior: provide an annual grant to facilitate an ironworking training program for Native Americans (see H.R. 6685), H7784 [31JY]

Rocky Marciano Post Office Building, Brockton, MA: designate (see H.R. 5528), H1220 [4MR]

Remarks

Amtrak: reauthorize (H.R. 6003), H5229 [11JN]

Armenia: anniversary of genocide, E723 [24AP]

Housing: provide needed housing reform, H7001 [23JY]

Jasmin, Michelle: VSA arts (organization) Green Light Competition Award of Excellence recipient, E2358 [10DE]

National Affordable Housing Act: improve program for supportive housing for persons with disabilities (H.R. 5772), H8362 [17SE]

Power resources: promote energy independence and security (H.R. 3221), Senate amendment, H7001 [23JY]

Rocky Marciano Post Office Building, Brockton, MA: designate (H.R. 5528), H2562 [23AP]

Transportation Security Administration: enhance security against terrorist attacks and other security threats to rail and mass transit lines, H5229 [11JN]

Veterans: honor sacrifices and contributions made by disabled American veterans (H. Con. Res. 336), H5152 [10JN]

Remarks in House relative to

Special order: granted, H8566 [22SE], H8718 [23SE], H10696 [2OC]

Tributes

Walsh, John J., Jr., E703 [23AP]