MURTHA, JOHN P. (a Representative from Pennsylvania)

Amendments

Dept. of Defense: making appropriations (H.R. 3326), H9080 [30JY]

Appointments

Conferee: H.R. 2346, supplemental appropriations for military and stabilization activities in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, and pandemic influenza response, H6551 [11JN]

Articles and editorials

Children in the Field, David Rogers, E845 [1AP]

Despite Listing, Donors Don't Work for Firm Being Probed, S7971 [23JY]

Ex-Air Force Employee Pleads Guilty in Case Tied to Murtha Earmark, S7969 [23JY]

Ex-Defense Contractor CEO Enters Fraud Guilty Plea, S7971 [23JY]

Inquiries Focus on Subcommittee Ties, S7970 [23JY]

Second Contractor Pleads Guilty in Earmark Probe, S7970 [23JY]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Air pollution: accelerate development and early deployment of systems for the capture and storage of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel electric generation facilities (see H.R. 1689), H3833 [24MR]

American Kennel Club: anniversary (see H. Con. Res. 160), H9207 [30JY]

Animals: ensure that all dogs and cats used by research facilities are obtained legally (see H.R. 3907), H12457 [5NO]

———prohibit certain conduct relative to the use of horses for human consumption (see H.R. 503), H527 [26JA]

Armed Forces: mint coins in commemoration of the establishment of the Medal of Honor (see H.R. 1209), H3527 [17MR]

———prohibit increases in fees for military health care (see H.R. 816), H4583 [21AP]

———provide vouchers for postal benefits for personal correspondence and small parcels to members serving or hospitalized overseas, and make such vouchers transferable (see H.R. 707), H780 [28JA]

Army: expand retroactive eligibility of the Army Combat Action Badge to include members who participated in combat during which they engaged the enemy on or after December 7, 1941 (see H.R. 82), H3055 [5MR]

Boy Scouts of America Day: designate (see H. Res. 356), H4733 [23AP]

Bureau of Prisons: establish an Oleoresin Capsicum Spray Pilot Program (see H.R. 1990), H5667 [14MY]

Children and youth: help keep students safe on school-run, overnight, off-premises field trips (see H.R. 729), H6619 [11JN]

———provide for evidence-based and promising practices related to juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity prevention and intervention (see H.R. 1064), H6619 [11JN]

———update the national school nutrition standards for foods and beverages sold outside of school meals to conform to current nutrition science (see H.R. 1324), H3438 [16MR]

China: support detained human rights activists Huang Qi and Tan Zuoren relative to investigation of the role poor construction and corruption played in death of children in school collapses during Sichuan earthquake (see H. Res. 877), H12141 [29OC]

Civil rights: improve remedies for discrimination in the payment of wages based on sex (see H.R. 12), H28 [6JA]

Civil War—U.S.: mint coins to recognize and commemorate the 1863 invasion of Pennsylvania, the Battle of Gettysburg and President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (see H.R. 2123), H5712 [18MY] (see H.R. 3712), H10456 [1OC]

Clothing industry: improve accuracy of fur products labeling (see H.R. 2480), H11516 [20OC]

Committee on POW and MIA Affairs (House, Select): establish (see H. Res. 111), H2632 [24FE]

Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act: exempt off-highway vehicles from certain lead prohibitions (see H.R. 1587), H4064 [26MR]

Contracts: establish fair procedures for arbitration clauses (see H.R. 1020), H7705 [26JN]

Correctional institutions: require facilities holding Federal prisoners under a Federal contract to make certain information available to the public (see H.R. 2450), H5713 [18MY]

Credit cards: establish a national usury rate for consumer accounts under open end consumer credit plans (see H.R. 4300), H14826 [11DE]

Crime: combat organized crime involving the illegal acquisition of retail goods for the purpose of selling those goods through physical and online retail marketplaces (see H.R. 1173), H6307 [8JN]

———provide for more effective enforcement of prohibition on interstate shipment of stolen property (see H.R. 1166), H6307 [8JN]

Cuba: lift travel restrictions (see H.R. 874), H5400 [7MY]

Dedication Day: honor Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (see H. Res. 736), H10521 [6OC]

Dept. of Defense: establish searchable database of names and citations of members of the Armed Forces and civilians awarded the Medal of Honor or other medals authorized for the military (see H.R. 666), H493 [23JA]

Dept. of HHS: establish and implement a Pancreatic Cancer Initiative (see H.R. 745), H4397 [1AP]

———revise and expand the 340B Drug Pricing Program to improve provision of discounts on drug purchases for certain safety net providers (see H.R. 444), H1045 [4FE]

Dept. of Homeland Security: award grants to regional biocontainment laboratories for maintaining surge capacity to be used to respond to acts of bioterrorism or outbreaks of infectious diseases (see H.R. 1150), H4583 [21AP]

Dept. of Justice: enhance the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Program (see H.R. 1139), H3105 [9MR]

Dept. of the Navy: redesignate as the Dept. of the Navy and Marine Corps (see H.R. 24), H3145 [10MR]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: establish the Merchant Mariner Equity Compensation Fund to provide benefits to certain individuals who served in the U.S. merchant marine during World War II (see H.R. 23), H2602 [23FE]

Disasters: express condolences for loss of life and injuries caused by earthquakes and tsunami in American Samoa and Samoa and support relief efforts to survivors (see H. Res. 816), H11166 [8OC]

Discrimination: clarify that a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice that is unlawful occurs each time compensation is paid pursuant to the compensation decision or other practice (see H.R. 11), H91 [8JA]

Diseases: establish a National Acquired Bone Marrow Failure Disease Registry and authorize research on acquired bone marrow failure diseases (see H.R. 1230), H2873 [26FE]

———increase awareness of risks of breast cancer in young women and provide support for young women diagnosed with breast cancer (see H.R. 1740), H4061 [26MR]

———provide for arthritis research and public health (see H.R. 1210), H2873 [26FE]

———reauthorize and enhance programs to increase awareness and knowledge with respect to gynecologic cancers (see H.R. 2941), H7251 [24JN]

Early Detection Month: designate (see H. Con. Res. 158), H11168 [8OC]

Education: encourage teaching of U.S. Constitution to high school students in their senior year (see H. Res. 686), H9207 [30JY]

———increase Pell Grants for the children of fallen public safety officers (see H.R. 959), H4734 [23AP]

FCC: implement recommendations relative to low-power FM radio service (see H.R. 1147), H2981 [4MR]

———prescribe a standard to preclude commercials from being broadcast at louder volumes than the program material they accompany (see H.R. 1084), H7023 [18JN]

FDA: provide with certain authority to regulate tobacco products (see H.R. 1256), H3438 [16MR]

Federal agencies and departments: elevate the Inspector General of certain entities to an Inspector General appointed pursuant to the Inspector General Act (see H.R. 885), H3641 [18MR]

Federal employees: make unused sick leave creditable under the Federal Employees' Retirement System (see H.R. 958), H4583 [21AP]

Federal firefighters: establish presumptive disability benefits for certain diseases and disabilities (see H.R. 948), H1157 [10FE]

Financial institutions: prohibit financial holding companies and national banks from engaging, directly or indirectly, in real estate brokerage or real estate management activities (see H.R. 111), H3145 [10MR]

Financial Literacy Month: designate (see H. Res. 357), H4733 [23AP]

Firearms: establish national standard to allow State concealed handgun carrying licenses to be valid in other States (see H.R. 197), H922 [3FE]

———update certain procedures applicable to commerce in firearms and remove certain Federal restrictions on interstate firearms transactions (see H.R. 1074), H6014 [21MY]

Fish and fishing: conserve U.S. fish and aquatic communities through partnerships that foster fish habitat conservation and improve the quality of life for the people of the U.S. (see H.R. 2565), H9442 [10SE]

Flag—U.S.: constitutional amendment to prohibit desecration (see H.J. Res. 47), H7838 [8JY]

Foreign trade: clarify that fundamental exchange-rate misalignment by any foreign nation is actionable under U.S. countervailing and antidumping duty laws (see H.R. 2378), H6267 [4JN]

Girl Scouts: mint coins in commemoration of centennial of establishment (see H.R. 621), H5667 [14MY]

Health: achieve access to comprehensive primary health care services and reform organization of primary care delivery through Community Health Center and National Health Service Corps programs expansion (see H.R. 1296), H2978 [4MR]

———apply antitrust laws to negotiations between groups of independent pharmacies and health plans and health insurance issuers in the same manner as collective bargaining by labor organizations (see H.R. 1204), H4915 [28AP]

———national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (see H.R. 676), H7947 [9JY]

———promote obesity prevention, including proper nutrition and exercise (see H.R. 3144), H8356 [17JY]

———provide for the licensure of biosimilar and interchangeable biological products (see H.R. 1548), H5892 [20MY]

Health care facilities: tribute to Barnes Jewish Hospital, Henry Ford Medical Center, Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Integris Baptist Hospital for completion of successful 16-person kidney transplant (see H. Res. 664), H12588 [6NO]

Health care professionals: increase number of primary care physicians and primary care providers and improve patient access to primary care services (see H.R. 2350), H5483 [12MY]

Heisman, John W.: tribute (see H. Con. Res. 123), H5484 [12MY]

History: mint coins in commemoration of the bicentennial of the writing of the ``Star-Spangled Banner'' and the War of 1812 (see H.R. 2097), H8009 [10JY]

Honduras: condemn coup d'etat, call for return of duly elected President, suspend nonhumanitarian assistance, ensure fair elections, and support mediation by Costa Rican President, Oscar Arias (see H. Res. 630), H8496 [21JY]

Immigration: exempt children of certain Filipino World War II veterans from numerical limitations on immigrant visas (see H.R. 2412), H6015 [21MY]

———extend termination date for the exemption of returning workers from the numerical limitations for temporary workers (see H.R. 1136), H2836 [25FE]

Insurance: prohibit pre-existing condition exclusions for children in group health plans and health insurance coverage in the group and individual markets (see H.R. 1619), H3703 [19MR]

———require coverage of minimum hospital stays for mastectomies, lumpectomies, and lymph node dissection relative to breast cancer and coverage for secondary consultations (see H.R. 1691), H3834 [24MR]

Irish-American Heritage Month: observance (see H. Res. 254), H3527 [17MR]

Iron and steel industry: require certain Federal agencies to use iron and steel produced in the U.S. in carrying out projects for the construction, alteration, or repair of a public building or public work (see H.R. 595), H381 [15JA]

John Scott Challis, Jr., Post Office, Freedom, PA: designate (see H.R. 987), H1247 [11FE]

Johnson, Jim: tribute (see H. Res. 693), H9671 [16SE]

Kalas, Harry: tribute (see H. Res. 350), H5064 [30AP]

Labor unions: establish efficient system to enable employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations and provide for mandatory injunctions for unfair labor practices during organizing efforts (see H.R. 1409), H3144 [10MR]

Law enforcement: reform the ATF, modernize firearms laws and regulations, and protect the community from criminals (see H.R. 2296), H7741 [7JY]

Medicaid: provide the disabled and elderly with equal access to community-based attendant services (see H.R. 1670), H4130 [30MR]

Medicare: allow beneficiaries direct access to physical therapists without a physician referral (see H.R. 1829), H5097 [4MY]

———deliver a meaningful drug benefit and lower prescription drug prices (see H.R. 684), H1520 [12FE]

———modernize payments for ambulatory surgical centers (see H.R. 2049), H6155 [3JN]

———repeal competitive acquisition program for durable medical equipment and prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies (DMEPOS) in a budget neutral manner (see H.R. 3790), H11297 [13OC]

———repeal outpatient rehabilitation therapy caps (see H.R. 43), H382 [15JA]

Mother's Day: mint coins in commemoration of centennial of establishment (see H.R. 2421), H5664 [14MY]

Motor vehicles: restore economic rights of automobile dealers (see H.R. 2743), H7086 [19JN]

NASA: award Congressional Gold Medal to Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E. (Buzz) Aldrin, Michael Collins, and John Glenn (see H.R. 2245), H8025 [13JY]

National Brain Injury Awareness Month: designate (see H. Con. Res. 40), H1044 [4FE] (see H. Res. 178), H1607 [13FE]

National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record: provide an amnesty period during which veterans and their families can register certain firearms (see H.R. 442), H2886 [2MR]

National Life Insurance Awareness Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 16), H9808 [22SE]

National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 727), H9808 [22SE]

Native Americans: provide for the recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina (see H.R. 31), H780 [28JA]

New Hampshire: recognize State Senate as first statewide legislative body with a majority of women (see H. Res. 159), H9738 [21SE]

Nobel Prize: recognition of President Obama for peace (see H. Res. 864), H13002 [16NO]

Palmer, Arnold: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 1243), H4064 [26MR]

Paul, Alice: award Congressional Gold Medal posthumously (see H.R. 406), H2926 [3MR]

Pediatric Acquired Brain Injury (PABI): recognize as the leading cause of death and disability of children and young adults and endorse the National Pediatric Acquired Brain Injury Plan (see H. Con. Res. 198), H11298 [13OC]

Pennsylvania: tribute to National Guard (see H. Res. 754), H9730 [17SE]

Pharmaceuticals: importation of prescription drugs (see H.R. 1298), H5485 [12MY]

Pittsburgh Penguins (hockey team): tribute (see H. Res. 594), H7705 [26JN]

Pittsburgh Steelers (football team): tribute (see H. Res. 110), H1046 [4FE]

Postal Service: allow payment of share of contributions for annuitants' health benefits out of the Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund (see H.R. 22), H2632 [24FE]

POW: eligibility of surviving spouses of certain former POW to receive dependency and indemnity compensation (see H.R. 819), H1159 [10FE]

Public safety officers: provide collective bargaining rights for State or local government employees (see H.R. 413), H3641 [18MR]

Roads and highways: amend length and weight limitations for vehicles operating on Federal-aid highways (see H.R. 1618), H3703 [19MR]

Senior citizens: establish a consumer price index for elderly consumers to compute cost-of-living increases for Social Security and Medicare benefits (see H.R. 2365), H7706 [26JN]

Social Security: increase maximum level of fees authorized to be charged by representatives relative to claims of entitlement to past-due benefits and require cost-of-living adjustments to such fees (see H.R. 1093), H10070 [29SE]

———repeal Government pension offset and windfall elimination provisions (see H.R. 235), H2875 [26FE]

SSI: clarify that the value of certain funeral and burial arrangements are not to be considered available resources (see H.R. 1352), H10457 [1OC]

Taxation: accelerate locomotive fuel savings and provide incentives for owners to replace high-polluting models with newly-built or newly-remanufactured fuel-efficient and less-polluting models (see H.R. 3947), H12043 [28OC]

———allow taxpayers to designate a portion of their income tax payment to provide assistance to homeless veterans (see H.R. 147), H6155 [3JN]

———establish a temporary surtax to offset the costs of the Afghanistan war (see H.R. 4130), H13352 [19NO]

———extend and modify the railroad track maintenance credit (see H.R. 1132), H7023 [18JN]

———make permanent the special rule for contributions of qualified conservation contributions (see H.R. 1831), H8708 [23JY]

———provide incentives for improving small manufacturers' computer technology (see H.R. 2963), H7838 [8JY]

———require the manufacturers' excise tax on recreational equipment be paid quarterly (see H.R. 510), H3835 [24MR]

Transportation: allow public transit agencies to use Federal transit funds for day-to-day operating expenses (see H.R. 2746), H8009 [10JY]

———provide certain exemptions to drivers of intrastate commercial motor vehicles engaged in agricultural purposes (see H.R. 1220), H12288 [3NO]

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. 3012), H7248 [24JN]

U.S. Preventive Services Task Force: prohibit recommendations from being used to deny health insurance coverage of mammography services and other items or services (see H. Res. 971), H14981 [15DE]

Veterans: clarify meaning of ``combat with the enemy'' for purposes of service-connection of disabilities (see H.R. 952), H5485 [12MY]

Voting: require a voter-verified permanent paper ballot (see H.R. 2894), H7706 [26JN]

Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day: establish (see H. Res. 203), H2925 [3MR]

Women: establish programs to decrease need for abortion, help women bear healthy children, and support new parents (see H.R. 605), H527 [26JA] (see H.R. 2035), H7086 [19JN]

———establish programs to reduce number of unplanned pregnancies, decrease need for abortion, help women bear healthy children, and support new parents (see H.R. 3312), H9282 [31JY]

———improve prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of heart disease, stroke, and other cardiovascular diseases in women (see H.R. 1032), H2886 [2MR]

Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP): award a Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 2014), H5486 [12MY]

World Pneumonia Day: observance (see H. Res. 863), H11739 [23OC]

World War II: award Congressional Gold Medal to the 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442d Regimental Combat Team, U.S. Army (see H.R. 347), H4999 [29AP]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Dept. of Defense: making appropriations (see H.R. 3326), H8808 [24JY]

Taxation: provide for tax preferred savings accounts for individuals under age of 26 (see H.R. 2022), H4685 [22AP]

Explanations

Dept. of Defense Appropriations (H.R. 3326), House Amendment to Senate Amendment, H15042 [16DE]

Motions

Dept. of Defense: making appropriations (H.R. 3326), H15022 [16DE]

Remarks

Appropriations: making supplemental appropriations for economic stimulus (H.R. 1), H639 [28JA]

———making supplemental appropriations for military and stabilization activities in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, and pandemic influenza response (H.R. 2346), H5617 [14MY]

———making supplemental appropriations for military and stabilization activities in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, and pandemic influenza response (H.R. 2346), motion to recommit, H5631 [14MY]

California University of Pennsylvania: tribute to students, faculty, and staff who have served in Iraq as members of the Armed Forces, E2472 [8OC]

Cambria County, PA: anniversary of Cambria County Association of Township Officials, E2330 [22SE]

Dept. of Defense: advanced research and development programs on fuel cells and batteries, alternative fuels, hybrid energy sources, improved engines, and bio-fuels funding, H639 [28JA]

———facilities rehabilitation, repair, and maintenance funding, H639 [28JA]

———F-22 aircraft program funding, H9034 [29JY], H9080, H9081, H9082, H9130 [30JY]

———making appropriations (H.R. 3326), H9024, H9034 [29JY], H9080, H9081, H9082, H9083, H9085, H9088, H9092, H9093, H9095, H9119 [30JY]

———making appropriations (H.R. 3326), motion to recommit, H9130 [30JY]

———making appropriations (H.R. 3326), Senate amendment, H15007, H15041 [16DE]

———prohibit funding for Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM) Counter Air Defense Future Capabilities, H9092 [30JY]

———prohibit funding for Argon ST, Inc., torpedo defense development, H9093 [30JY]

———prohibit funding for Body Armor Improved Ballistic Protection, Research and Development, H9088 [30JY]

———prohibit funding for Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities Defense account, H9083 [30JY]

———prohibit funding for Kinetic Energy Interceptor program, H9085 [30JY]

———prohibit funding for Model for Green Laboratories and Clean Rooms project, H9119 [30JY]

———prohibit funding for various earmarks, H9095 [30JY]

———report to Congress on use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy, H9083 [30JY]

House Rules: prohibit classification of earmarks as programmatic requests in order to circumvent earmark declaration process, H9083 [30JY]

Indiana University of Pennsylvania: tribute, E2409 [1OC]

Madison, PA: tribute to Hunger Garden, E257 [12FE]

Marhefka, John: D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) (organization) Pennsylvania Officer of the Year award recipient, E2564 [15OC]

Nies, Lindsey: American Red Cross Certificate of Merit award recipient, E2006 [24JY]

Norvelt, PA: anniversary, E1792 [15JY]

Palmer, Arnold: award Congressional Gold Medal (H.R. 1243), H4861 [28AP]

Sgro, Dominic (Mickey): Blair/Bedford County, PA, Central Labor Council Person of the Year Labor Award recipient, E1948 [24JY]

Shanksville, PA: tribute to groundbreaking of Flight 93 National Memorial, E2752 [9NO]

Remarks in House relative to

FAA: prohibit further funds to subsidize or improve the John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria County, PA, Airport, H5979 [21MY]

Remarks in Senate relative to

FAA: prohibit further funds to subsidize or improve the John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria County, PA, Airport, S9407, S9414, S9415 [16SE], S9530, S9533, S9534 [17SE]

Reports filed

Dept. of Defense Appropriations: Committee on Appropriations (House) (H.R. 3326) (H. Rept. 111-230), H8808 [24JY]

Tables

Dept. of Defense appropriations (H.R. 3326), H9025-H9030 [29JY], H15044-H15414 [16DE]

Tributes

Armenti, Angelo, Jr., E2787 [17NO]

Carney, Thomas R., Jr., E1492 [18JN]

Cooper, Rory A., E2019 [27JY], E2339 [23SE]

Gallatin, David S., E715 [19MR]

Hefner, W.G. (Bill), E2219 [9SE]

Hymes, Kirk W., E1610 [26JN]

Leighty, James E., E1349 [9JN]

Leonard, Kevin, Jr., E2033 [28JY]

Leonard, Shawn, E2033 [28JY]

Moyer, Charles E., E2990 [14DE]

Patrick, James, E2508 [13OC]

Peary, Robert E., E863 [2AP]

Rogers, David, E845 [1AP]

Stern, Michael, E916 [21AP]

Vizzini, Charles J., E2449 [6OC]

Wade, Ted, E803 [30MR]

Young, Beverly, E585 [6MR]