COLLINS, SUSAN M. (a Senator from Maine)

Amendments

Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs: making appropriations (H.R. 2997), S8683 [3AU], S8767 [4AU]

Appropriations: making supplemental appropriations for economic stimulus (H.R. 1), S1449 [3FE], S1907 [7FE]

———making supplemental appropriations for military and stabilization activities in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, and pandemic influenza response (H.R. 2346), S5739 [20MY], S5822 [21MY]

Budget: setting forth the Federal budget for 2009-2014 (S. Con. Res. 13), S4031, S4091, S4092, S4097, S4099 [31MR], S4122, S4144, S4201, S4203, S4211, S4212, S4219 [1AP], S4262, S4271 [2AP]

Credit: prevent mortgage foreclosures and enhance mortgage credit availability (S. 896), S5130 [5MY]

———provide for enhanced disclosure under an open end credit plan (H.R. 627), S5426, S5444, S5447 [13MY], S5471, S5503, S5533 [14MY]

Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (S. 1390), S7482, S7484, S7491, S7495, S7500 [14JY], S7642 [16JY], S7707 [20JY], S7782, S7795 [21JY], S7902, S7924, S7932 [22JY], S7949, S8040 [23JY]

———improve organization and procedures for the acquisition of major weapons systems (S. 454), S5216, S5242, S5244 [6MY]

Dept. of Homeland Security: making appropriations (H.R. 2892), S7319 [9JY]

Dept. of the Interior, environment, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 2996), S9642, S9687 [22SE]

Economy: ensure Federal investment in the automobile industry is temporary and require a GAO study on time it may take General Motors Corp., and Chrysler LLC to return to solvency (S. Res. 175), S7270, S7271 [8JY]

Energy and water development: making appropriations (H.R. 3183), S8253, S8284 [29JY]

FDA: provide with certain authority to regulate tobacco products (H.R. 1256), S6128 [3JN], S6187 [4JN], S6279, S6285, S6290, S6295, S6305 [8JN]

Health: national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (H.R. 3590), S12424, S12425 [4DE], S12644 [7DE], S12726 [8DE], S12822, S12829 [9DE], S12916, S12917 [10DE], S13199 [14DE], S13268 [15DE], S13399 [17DE], S13466 [18DE]

Jews: condemn all forms of anti-Semitism and reaffirm support for the mandate of the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism (S. Con. Res. 11), S7716 [20JY]

Science, Depts. of Justice and Commerce, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 2847), S10226 [7OC], S10374 [13OC]

Social Security: extend and improve the State Children's Health Insurance Program (H.R. 2), S999 [28JA], S1058 [29JA]

Taxation: modify the first-time homebuyers credit for Armed Forces members and certain other Federal employees (H.R. 3590), S12424, S12425 [4DE], S12644 [7DE], S12726 [8DE], S12822, S12829 [9DE], S12916, S12917 [10DE], S13199 [14DE], S13268 [15DE], S13399 [17DE], S13466 [18DE]

Travel and tourism: establish a nonprofit corporation to communicate U.S. entry policies and otherwise promote leisure, business, and scholarly travel to the U.S. (S. 1023), S6664 [16JN], S6722 [17JN], S6890, S6892 [22JN]

Appointments

Canada-U.S. Interparliamentary Group, S5168 [5MY]

Conferee: H.R. 2346, supplemental appropriations for military and stabilization activities in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, and pandemic influenza response, S5804 [21MY]

———H.R. 2647, Dept. of Defense appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction, S8024 [23JY]

———H.R. 2996, Dept. of the Interior, environment, and related agencies appropriations, S9812 [24SE]

———H.R. 2997, agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs appropriations, S8730 [4AU]

———H.R. 3082, Depts. of Defense, Veterans Affairs, and related agencies appropriations for military construction and veterans' services, S11411 [17NO]

———H.R. 3288, Depts. of Transportation and HUD and related agencies appropriations, S9541 [17SE]

———S. 454, Weapon Systems Acquisition Reform Act, S5495 [14MY]

Articles and editorials

Senate Bill Fails Small Business, Stephanie Cathcart, Small Business News (Internet site), S11868 [20NO]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Afghanistan: commend the Five Million Afghan Women Campaign, ensure full participation of women in elections, and encourage U.S. support for women's awareness of governance and political participation (see S. Res. 251), S9078 [7AU]

———express that the Shi'ite Personal Status Law violates the fundamental human rights of women and should be repealed (see S. Con. Res. 19), S4670 [23AP]

———promote empowerment of women (see S. 229), S7555 [15JY]

Afterschool Alliance (organization): support goals and ideals of Lights on Afterschool! event (see S. Res. 318), S10702 [22OC]

American Legion Day: designate (see S. Res. 260), S9264 [10SE]

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: provide enhanced State and local oversight of activities conducted pursuant to such Act (see S. 1064), S5555 [18MY]

American Society of Mechanical Engineers: anniversary of codes and standards development (see S. Res. 179), S6545 [11JN]

Animals: ensure that all dogs and cats used by research facilities are obtained legally (see S. 1834), S10635 [21OC]

———prohibit certain conduct relative to the use of horses for human consumption (see S. 727), S3897 [26MR]

Armed Forces: enhance benefits for survivors of certain former members with a history of post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury and enhance access to mental health counseling (see S. 772), S4515 [21AP]

———exclude combat pay from income for purposes of determining eligibility for child nutrition programs and the special supplemental nutrition program under WIC (see S. 581), S3552 [19MR]

———express condolences for soldiers killed and wounded at Fort Hood, TX (see S. Res. 344), S11253 [6NO]

———include service after September 11, 2001, as service qualifying for the determination of a reduced eligibility age for receipt of non-regular service retired pay (see S. 831), S4445 [20AP]

———mint coins in commemoration of the establishment of the Medal of Honor (see S. 883), S10991 [2NO]

———provide for continuity of TRICARE Standard coverage for certain members of the retired Reserve (see S. 731), S5907 [1JN]

———provide for treatment of autism under TRICARE (see S. 1169), S6030 [3JN]

Aung San Suu Kyi: call for release by Burmese Government (see S. Res. 160), S5820 [21MY]

Automated Defibrillation in Adam's Memory (ADAM) Act: reauthorize (see S. 1164), S5943 [2JN]

Baker, Richard A.: designate as Historian Emeritus of the Senate (see S. Res. 230), S8272 [29JY]

Bellmon, Henry: tribute (see S. Res. 293), S9930 [29SE]

Bipartisan Task Force for Responsible Fiscal Action: establish (see S. 2853), S13383 [17DE]

Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act: approve renewal of import restrictions (see S.J. Res. 17), S6721 [17JN]

Business and industry: strengthen American manufacturing through improved industrial energy efficiency (see S. 661), S3550 [19MR]

Byrd, Senator: tribute (see S. Res. 354), S11492 [18NO]

Campus Fire Safety Month: designate (see S. Res. 40), S2229 [12FE]

Canada: urge end to commercial hunt for seals (see S. Res. 84), S3658 [24MR]

Cassidy, Chris: tribute (see S. Res. 222), S8039 [23JY]

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: establish a grant program to provide vision care to children (see S. 259), S598 [15JA]

Children's Dental Health Month: support (see S. Con. Res. 8), S2474 [25FE]

Clothing industry: improve accuracy of fur products labeling (see S. 1076), S8865 [5AU]

Coastal zones: authorize the acquisition of coastal areas to ensure their protection from conversion or development (see S. 170), S211 [8JA]

———develop coastal and ocean observation system, improve warnings of natural hazards, enhance homeland security, support maritime operations, and improve coastal and marine resource management (see S. 171), S211 [8JA]

Congressional Award Act: reauthorize (see S. 2865), S12909 [10DE]

Congressional Research Service: provide Internet access to certain publications (see S. Res. 118), S4891 [29AP]

Contracts: provide personal jurisdiction in causes of action against U.S. contractors performing abroad relative to Armed Forces members or civilians performing work for the U.S. in connection with contractor activities (see S. 2782), S11430 [17NO]

CPSC: promulgate final consumer product safety rule banning novelty lighters (see S. 723), S3897 [26MR]

Credit cards: prevent abuse of Government credit cards (see S. 942), S4963 [30AP]

Crime: provide Federal assistance to States, local jurisdictions, and Indian tribes to prosecute hate crimes (see S. 909), S4806 [28AP]

Cuba: lift travel restrictions (see S. 428), S5820 [21MY]

Dept. of Agriculture: establish a carbon incentives program to achieve supplemental greenhouse gas emission reductions on private forest land (see S. 1576), S8765 [4AU]

———provide assistance to Haiti to end deforestation and restore the extent of tropical forest cover previously in existence (see S. 1183), S6721 [17JN]

Dept. of Defense: assist local communities with closed and active military bases (see S. 590), S4514 [21AP]

———improve organization and procedures for the acquisition of major weapons systems (see S. 454), S4755 [27AP]

Dept. of Education: award grants to establish pediatric early literacy programs for health care providers and facilities (see S. 1345), S6993 [24JN]

———reauthorize District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program for vouchers to provide school choice (see S. 1552), S8557 [30JY]

Dept. of Energy: provide a voucher or coupon to a consumer who trades in an inefficient vehicle and purchases a more efficient vehicle (see S. 247), S388 [14JA]

Dept. of HHS: establish a grant program to improve mental and behavioral health services on college campuses and develop a campaign to educate campus communities about mental health (see S. 682), S3657 [24MR]

———establish the Tick-Borne Diseases Advisory Committee (see S. 1352), S7070 [25JN]

———provide for the participation of physical therapists in the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program (see S. 1057), S5822 [21MY]

Dept. of Homeland Security: study emergency communications (see S. 1755), S10162 [6OC]

Dept. of Labor: disapprove rule relative to financial disclosure and transparency by labor union management (see S.J. Res. 24), S13458 [18DE]

Dept. of the Interior: establish a pilot program to provide for the preservation and rehabilitation of historic lighthouses (see S. 715), S3897 [26MR]

Dept. of the Treasury: improve authority of Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (see S. 383), S1542 [4FE]

———repeal authority to extend the Troubled Asset Relief Program (see S. 2787), S12009 [30NO]

Dept. of Transportation: establish voucher program for consumers to trade in a high polluting vehicle and purchase a more fuel efficient vehicle (see S. 1200), S6255 [8JN]

———reauthorize and improve the Safe Routes to School Program (see S. 1156), S5820 [21MY]

———study and establish a motor vehicle safety standard that provides for a means of alerting blind and other pedestrians of motor vehicle operation (see S. 841), S8995 [6AU]

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 S. 663), S3550 [19MR]

———expand and improve health care services available to women veterans, especially those serving in Iraq and Afghanistan (see S. 597), S3113 [16MR]

———provide two-fiscal year budget authority for certain medical care accounts (see S. 423), S4574 [22AP]

———repeal requirement for reduction of survivor annuities under the Survivor Benefit Plan to offset the receipt of veterans' dependency and indemnity compensation (see S. 535), S4807 [28AP]

Developing countries: increase U.S. financial and programmatic contributions to promote economic opportunities for women (see S. 1425), S7317 [9JY]

———protect girls through prevention of child marriage (see S. 987), S5283 [7MY]

Diseases: fund breakthroughs in Alzheimer's disease research while providing more help to caregivers and increasing public education about prevention (see S. 1492), S7868 [22JY]

———provide for arthritis research and public health (see S. 984), S5329 [11MY]

Ecology and environment: address harmful algal blooms and hypoxia through research, forecasting and monitoring, and mitigation and control while helping communities detect, control, and mitigate such events (see S. 952), S5329 [11MY]

Education: improve and expand geographic literacy among students by improving professional development programs for teachers offered through institutions of higher education (see S. 749), S4515 [21AP]

Elementary and Secondary Education Act: amend small rural school achievement program and the rural and low-income school program (see S. 1052), S5501 [14MY]

———improve academic content standards for physical education (see S. 634), S4756 [27AP]

———promote environmental education (see S. 866), S4573 [22AP]

Emergency Management Assistance Compact: authorize appropriations for grants to participating States (see S. 1288), S6804 [18JN]

Employment: prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity (see S. 1584), S8864 [5AU]

———protect volunteer firefighters and emergency medical services personnel responding to national emergencies or disasters from termination or demotion in their places of employment (see S. 1025), S5371 [12MY]

Endangered Species Day: designate (see S. Res. 121), S4964 [30AP]

EPA: award grants for electronic device recycling research, development, and demonstration projects (see S. 1397), S7194 [7JY]

———conduct study on black carbon emissions (see S. 849), S5233 [6MY]

Executive Office of the President: establish the Office of the National Alzheimer's Project (see S. 1555), S8631 [31JY]

Explosives: limit use of cluster munitions (see S. 416), S2366 [23FE]

FAA: implement certain NTSB recommendations to establish national standards on flight requirements for pilots (see S. 1284), S8039 [23JY]

———prescribe regulations to ensure that crewmembers on air carriers have proper qualifications and experience (see S. 1744), S10736 [26OC]

Family and Medical Leave Act: clarify eligibility requirements relative to airline flight crews (see S. 1422), S7317 [9JY]

FDA: provide with certain authority to regulate tobacco products (see S. 982), S5128 [5MY]

Federal employees: clarify disclosures of information protected from prohibited personnel practices and require a statement of nondisclosure policies (see S. 372), S1432 [3FE]

———modify computation for part-time service under the Civil Service Retirement System (see S. 469), S3987 [30MR]

———provide benefits to domestic partners (see S. 1102), S5700 [20MY]

———provide for transportation of the dependents, remains, and effects of certain Federal employees who die while or as a result of performing official duties (see S. 2884), S13251 [15DE]

Federal firefighters: establish presumptive disability benefits for certain diseases and disabilities (see S. 599), S3113 [16MR]

Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: preserve effectiveness of medically important antibiotics used in treatment of human and animal diseases (see S. 619), S11291 [9NO]

Financial institutions: advance the ability of credit unions to promote small business growth and economic development opportunities (see S. 2919), S13698 [21DE]

———authorize regulation of credit default swaps and other swap agreements (see S. 961), S5065 [4MY]

Fish and fishing: improve conservation of sharks (see S. 850), S9372 [15SE]

Flag—U.S.: constitutional amendment to prohibit desecration (see S.J. Res. 15), S6582 [15JN]

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. 384), S3610 [23MR]

———strengthen capacity, transparency, and accountability of U.S. foreign assistance programs to effectively adapt and respond to new challenges (see S. 1524), S13320 [16DE]

Global Youth Service Days: designate (see S. Res. 105), S4445 [20AP]

Government: improve transparency of information technology (IT) investments, require greater accountability for cost overruns, improve agency IT management, and reward excellence in IT acquisition (see S. 920), S4807 [28AP]

GSA: extend authority for relocation expenses test programs for Federal employees (see S. 1825), S10635 [21OC]

Guinea: condemn assault of women and killing of political protesters, support inquiry into, and prosecution for, violence, and consider punitive measures against officials found to be complicit (see S. Res. 345), S11290 [9NO]

Hansen, Clifford P.: tribute (see S. Res. 315), S10635 [21OC]

Hate Crime Statistics Act: include crimes against the homeless (see S. 1765), S10318 [8OC]

Hawkins, Paula: tribute (see S. Res. 370), S12413 [4DE]

Hazardous substances: certify that the Yucca Mountain site remains the designated site for development of a repository for disposal of high-level radioactive waste (see S. 861), S4573 [22AP]

Health: ensure provision of health care coverage for uninsured individuals through State health care initiatives that expand coverage and access and improve quality and efficiency in the health care system (see S. 698), S3784 [25MR]

———establish nationwide health insurance purchasing pool for small businesses and the self-employed to offer a choice of health plans and make health coverage more affordable and accessible (see S. 979), S5503 [14MY]

———expand access to preventive health care services that help reduce unintended pregnancy, reduce the number of abortions, and improve access to women's health care (see S. 21), S3898 [26MR]

———improve access to emergency medical services and provide additional Medicare physician payments for such services (see S. 468), S4514 [21AP]

———improve emergency medical services for children (see S. 408), S4514 [21AP]

———improve palliative and end-of-life care provided to patients with life-threatening conditions (see S. 1150), S5819 [21MY]

———promote development of health care cooperatives to help businesses pool the health care purchasing power of employers (see S. 1165), S5943 [2JN]

———provide for the licensure of biosimilar and interchangeable biological products (see S. 726), S3897 [26MR]

Health care facilities: expand pilot program for national and State background checks on direct patient access employees of long-term care facilities or providers (see S. 631), S3368 [18MR]

———recognize value, benefits, and importance of community health centers (see S. Con. Res. 25), S8040 [23JY]

Health care professionals: increase number of primary care physicians and primary care providers and improve patient access to primary care services (see S. 1174), S6030 [3JN]

———provide incentives to foreign-born physicians to practice in rural and medically underserved communities (see S. 628), S3368 [18MR]

Homeless Assistance Act: reauthorize (see S. 808), S4310 [2AP]

Housing: protect property and security of homeowners facing foreclosure proceedings (see S. 117), S42 [6JA]

Immigration: extend termination date for the exemption of returning workers from the numerical limitations for temporary workers (see S. 388), S1677 [5FE]

Improper Payments Information Act: amend to prevent improper payments, improve recovery, and hold agencies accountable for improper payments (see S. 1508), S8038 [23JY]

Individuals With Disabilities Education Act: authorizing appropriations (see S. 1652), S9188 [9SE]

Insurance: improve consumer protections for purchasers of long-term care insurance (see S. 1177), S10488 [15OC]

Iran: authorize State and local governments to direct divestiture from, and prevent investment in, companies with certain investments in Iran's energy sector (see S. 1065), S7141 [6JY]

———condemn persecution of Baha'is and continued violation of the International Covenants on Human Rights (see S. Res. 71), S3164 [17MR]

———expand economic sanctions against Iran to include importation of refined petroleum (see S. 908), S4806 [28AP]

Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act: reauthorize and improve (see S. 678), S8197 [28JY]

Kennedy, Edward M.: tribute (see S. Res. 255), S9132 [8SE]

Local Radio Freedom Act: support (see S. Con. Res. 14), S7641 [16JY]

Medicaid: improve the State plan amendment option for providing home and community-based services (see S. 434), S6256 [8JN]

———provide for a demonstration project on reimbursements for stabilization of emergency medical conditions by non-publicly owned or operated institutions for mental diseases (see S. 1130), S5819 [21MY]

———provide the disabled and elderly with equal access to community-based attendant services (see S. 683), S6805 [18JN]

Medicare: clarify intent of counting residents in a nonhospital setting (see S. 1300), S6804 [18JN]

———cover transitional care services to improve the quality and cost effectiveness of care (see S. 1295), S6804 [18JN]

———eliminate in-home restriction for coverage of mobility devices for individuals with long-term needs (see S. 1186), S6185 [4JN]

———establish Independence at Home Chronic Care Coordination Demonstration Project (see S. 1131), S6651 [16JN]

———improve access to, and increase utilization of, bone mass measurement benefits (see S. 769), S6994 [24JN]

———improve access to health care for beneficiaries in rural areas (see S. 318), S4891 [29AP]

———improve the provision of services to beneficiaries in rural areas (see S. 712), S3897 [26MR]

———phase-out waiting period for coverage of disabled individuals and waive waiting period for people with life-threatening illnesses (see S. 700), S3784 [25MR]

———preserve access to ambulance services (see S. 1066), S7141 [6JY]

———protect and preserve access of beneficiaries in rural areas to health care providers (see S. 1157), S6187 [4JN]

———provide beneficiaries with access to geriatric assessments and chronic care management and coordination services (see S. 1004), S5281 [7MY]

———provide continued coverage for immunosuppressive drugs furnished to beneficiaries that have received a kidney transplant and whose coverage would otherwise expire (see S. 565), S6031 [3JN]

———provide flexibility in the manner in which beds are counted for purposes of critical access hospital designation and exempt beds provided for veterans from certain limitations (see S. 307), S4891 [29AP]

———provide for consolidated coverage of home infusion drug therapy (see S. 254), S5502 [14MY]

———reduce coverage gap in prescription drug coverage through savings resulting from negotiation of prescription drug prices (see S. 266), S598 [15JA]

———reduce fraud (see S. 975), S5127 [5MY]

———reimburse certain midwife services (see S. 662), S3550 [19MR]

———repeal outpatient rehabilitation therapy caps (see S. 46), S40 [6JA]

Medicare/Medicaid: reduce cost-sharing for certain dual eligible populations under the prescription drug benefit (see S. 534), S2828 [5MR]

Mental health: increase number of well-trained mental health service professionals providing clinical mental health care to children and adolescents (see S. 999), S5281 [7MY]

Military Officers Association of America: grant Federal charter (see S. 832), S4445 [20AP]

Motor vehicles: require a large majority of automobiles manufactured or sold in the U.S. to operate on fuel mixtures containing 85 percent ethanol or methanol, or biodiesel (see S. 835), S4445 [20AP]

———restore economic rights of automobile dealers (see S. 1304), S8632 [31JY]

National Adoption Day: support goals and ideals (see S. Res. 291), S9930 [29SE]

National Adoption Month: support goals and ideals (see S. Res. 291), S9930 [29SE]

National Archives and Records Administration: anniversary (see S. Res. 197), S6845 [19JN]

National Atrial Fibrillation Awareness Month: designate (see S. Res. 220), S7869 [22JY] (see S. Res. 262), S9295 [11SE]

National Boating Day: observance (see S. Res. 199), S7073 [25JN]

National Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Week: designate (see S. Res. 306), S10162 [6OC]

National Cybersecurity Awareness Month: support goals and ideals (see S. Res. 285), S9840 [24SE]

National Direct Support Professionals Recognition Week: designate (see S. Res. 228), S8272 [29JY]

National Domestic Violence Awareness Month: support goals and ideals (see S. Res. 317), S10635 [21OC] (see S. Res. 327), S10851 [28OC]

National Estuaries Day: designate (see S. Res. 247), S8994 [6AU]

National FFA Organization: anniversary of membership of women (see S. Res. 319), S10635 [21OC]

National Learn and Serve Challenge: support goals (see S. Con. Res. 46), S10217 [7OC]

National Mentoring Month: designate (see S. Res. 380), S13458 [18DE] (see S. Res. 383), S13698 [21DE]

National MPS Awareness Day: designate (see S. Res. 143), S5372 [12MY]

National Oilheat Research Alliance Act: reauthorize (see S. 1672), S9654 [22SE]

National Principals Month: designate (see S. Res. 329), S10924 [29OC]

National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month: designate (see S. Res. 277), S9589 [21SE]

National School Counseling Week: designate (see S. Res. 16), S652 [16JA] (see S. Res. 381), S13458 [18DE]

National School Psychology Week: designate (see S. Res. 210), S7414 [13JY]

National security: prevent proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and prepare for attacks using such weapons (see S. 1649), S9132 [8SE]

National Work and Family Month: designate (see S. Res. 296), S10062 [1OC]

Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act: reauthorize (see S. 690), S6939 [23JN]

Passports: require Depts. of Homeland Security and State to accept passport cards for air travel (see S. 321), S2691 [3MR]

Pell, Claiborne: tribute (see S. Res. 8), S43 [6JA]

Pharmaceuticals: importation of prescription drugs (see S. 525), S2766 [4MR] (see S. 1232), S6452 [10JN]

———prohibit brand name drug companies from compensating generic drug companies to delay the entry of a generic drug into the market (see S. 369), S5372 [12MY]

Power resources: ensure parity between the temporary duty imposed on ethanol and tax credits provided on ethanol (see S. 622), S3163 [17MR]

———establish a program to regulate the entry of fossil carbon into commerce, promote clean energy jobs and economic growth, and avoid dangerous climate interference (see S. 2877), S13033 [11DE]

Public documents: enhance citizen access to Government information and services by establishing that Government documents issued to the public must be written clearly (see S. 574), S4064 [31MR]

Public safety officers: provide collective bargaining rights for State or local government employees (see S. 1611), S8993 [6AU]

Public Service Recognition Week: observance (see S. Res. 87), S3898 [26MR]

Public welfare programs: ensure State support and retention of foster parents and award grants to improve foster care, kinship care, and adoptive parents (see S. 410), S2144 [11FE]

Read Across America Day: designate (see S. Res. 52), S2365 [23FE]

Renewable energy: promote development and use of marine renewable energy technologies (see S. 923), S5373 [12MY]

Russell Senate Office Building: designate the Kennedy Caucus Room (see S. Res. 264), S9326 [14SE]

SBA: repeal the America's Recovery Capital Loan Program (see S. 2777), S13033 [11DE]

Senate: require candidates to file designations, statements, and reports in electronic form (see S. 482), S5944 [2JN]

Senior citizens: attract and retain trained health care professionals and direct care workers dedicated to providing quality care to the growing population of older Americans (see S. 750), S4062 [31MR]

———ensure adequate public-private infrastructure and resolve to prevent, detect, treat, intervene in, and prosecute elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation (see S. 795), S6939 [23JN]

Sewage disposal: authorize appropriations for sewer overflow control grants (see S. 936), S5373 [12MY]

Social Security: repeal Government pension offset and windfall elimination provisions (see S. 484), S2474 [25FE]

SSI: clarify that the value of certain funeral and burial arrangements are not to be considered available resources (see S. 427), S4172 [1AP]

Tariff: footwear (see S. 730), S3897 [26MR]

———impose tariff-rate quotas on certain casein and milk protein concentrates (see S. 1542), S9188 [9SE]

Taxation: allow carryback of certain net operating losses (see S. 823), S5066 [4MY]

———allow Federal civilian and military retirees to pay health insurance premiums on a pretax basis and allow a deduction for TRICARE supplemental premiums (see S. 491), S2558 [26FE]

———allow long-term care insurance to be offered under cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements and provide additional consumer protections for long-term care insurance (see S. 702), S3785 [25MR]

———eliminate reduction in credit rate for certain facilities producing electricity from renewable resources (see S. 1030), S5435 [13MY]

———establish and provide for the treatment of Individual Development Accounts (see S. 985), S5232 [6MY]

———exclude from income amounts received from certain unlawful discrimination claims and allow income averaging for backpay and frontpay awards from such claims (see S. 1360), S7070 [25JN]

———expand credit for renewable electricity production to include electricity produced from biomass for on-site use and modify credit period for producing electricity from open-loop biomass (see S. 870), S5329 [11MY]

———extend and modify the railroad track maintenance credit (see S. 461), S7071 [25JN]

———make permanent the special rule for contributions of qualified conservation contributions (see S. 812), S4448 [20AP]

———modify the term ``5-year property'' to include certain marine renewable energy projects (see S. 922), S5373 [12MY]

———permit the IRS to set the standard mileage rate deduction for charitable use of an automobile and exclude charitable mileage reimbursements from gross income (see S. 243), S3369 [18MR]

———provide an energy investment credit for energy storage property connected to the grid (see S. 1091), S6888 [22JN]

———provide collegiate housing and infrastructure grants (see S. 781), S7869 [22JY]

———remove cell phones from list of eligible depreciable property (see S. 144), S5372 [12MY]

———repeal sunset of adoption credit expansion and adoption assistance programs and allow credit to be claimed in the year expenses are incurred, regardless of when the adoption becomes final (see S. 2816), S11972 [21NO]

———repeal withholding tax on Federal, State and local government contracts (see S. 292), S12618 [7DE]

———require the manufacturers' excise tax on recreational equipment be paid quarterly (see S. 632), S9133 [8SE]

Telephones: facilitate nationwide availability of 2-1-1 telephone service for information and referral on health and human services (see S. 211), S308 [12JA]

Television: establish an assistance program for the construction of digital television translators to fill coverage gaps that are created from the transition from analog to digital signals (see S. 899), S4755 [27AP]

Transportation: provide new infrastructure funding through Federal bonding to empower States and local governments to complete significant infrastructure projects across all modes of transportation (see S. 238), S388 [14JA]

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum: express condolences to family of Stephen T. Johns, commend staff for response to shooting, and condemn acts of anti-Semitism, bigotry, and hatred (see S. Res. 184), S6543 [11JN]

Uganda: develop a strategy to support efforts to protect civilians and eliminate threat posed by the Lord's Resistance Army and authorize funds for relief, reconstruction, and transitional justice (see S. 1067), S12909 [10DE]

Veterans: expand eligibility for concurrent receipt of military retired pay or combat-related compensation with service-connected disability benefits and eliminate phase-in period for such benefits (see S. 546), S4446 [20AP]

———improve lives of veterans and their families and provide them with the opportunity to achieve the American dream (see S. 402), S2079 [10FE]

Water for the Poor Act: enhance implementation (see S. 624), S4447 [20AP]

Wilderness Act: anniversary (see S. Res. 244), S8865 [5AU]

Women: improve prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of heart disease, stroke, and other cardiovascular diseases in women (see S. 422), S2229 [12FE]

Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP): award a Congressional Gold Medal (see S. 614), S3163 [17MR]

Wyeth, Andrew: tribute (see S. Res. 23), S894 [27JA]

Yunus, Muhammad: award Congressional Gold Medal (see S. 846), S7193 [7JY]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Agent Orange Awareness Month: designate (see S. Res. 248), S8994 [6AU]

AID: conduct a pilot program to promote production and use of fuel-efficient stoves engineered to produce less black carbon than traditional stoves (see S. 1396), S7138 [6JY]

Coastal Zone Management Act: establish a grant program to ensure waterfront access for commercial fishermen (see S. 533), S2828 [5MR]

Commodity Exchange Act: clarify treatment of certain commodity futures contracts and financial instruments purchases relative to limits on excessisve speculation established by the CFTC (see S. 1412), S7261 [8JY]

Contracts: establish a Federal acquisition management fellows program (see S. 2901), S13383 [17DE]

Dept. of Energy: carry out a program to support the research, demonstration, and development of commercial applications for offshore wind energy (see S. 2773), S11382 [16NO]

———conduct research, development, and demonstration to make biofuels more compatible with small nonroad engines (see S. 737), S3986 [30MR]

———establish a research, development, demonstration, and commercial application program to promote research of technologies for heavy duty plug-in hybrid vehicles (see S. 679), S3657 [24MR]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: establish position of Director of Physician Assistant Services within the Office of the Under Sec. of Veterans Affairs for Health (see S. 1155), S5820 [21MY]

Energy Assistance Fund: establish to guarantee low-interest loans for purchase and installation of energy efficient property, idling reduction and insulation for trucks, and alternative refueling stations (see S. 855), S4573 [22AP]

EPA: require satisfaction of certain conditions before issuing to producers of mid-level ethanol blends a waiver from certain Clean Air Act requirements (see S. 1666), S9326 [14SE]

Federal Acquisition Institute: improve (see S. 2902), S13383 [17DE]

Federal agencies and departments: establish the Chief Conservation Officers Council to improve energy efficiencies (see S. 1830), S10635 [21OC]

Federal employees: facilitate the part-time reemployment of annuitants (see S. 629), S3368 [18MR]

Financial institutions: create a financial stability council to oversee the financial regulatory activities of the Government (see S. 664), S3609 [23MR]

Fire Prevention Week: support goals and ideals (see S. Res. 300), S10061 [1OC]

GAO: authorize reviews of any credit facility established by the FRS Board of Governors or any Federal reserve bank during the current financial crisis (see S. 1457), S7555 [15JY]

Girl Scouts: mint coins in commemoration of centennial of establishment (see S. 451), S2365 [23FE]

GSA: convey a parcel of real property in the District of Columbia to house a National Women's History Museum (see S. 2129), S10916 [29OC]

Hazardous substances: establish a national mercury monitoring program (see S. 2913), S13458 [18DE]

Jews: condemn all forms of anti-Semitism and reaffirm support for the mandate of the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism (see S. Con. Res. 11), S3551 [19MR]

Law enforcement: grant limited immunity for reports of suspected terrorist activity or suspicious behavior and response (see S. 879), S4669 [23AP]

Maine: establish a commercial truck highway safety demonstration program (see S. 856), S4573 [22AP]

Medicare: ensure more timely access to home health services for beneficiaries (see S. 2814), S11883 [20NO]

———provide a five-year payment increase for home health services furnished in a rural area (see S. 1123), S5819 [21MY]

NOAA: develop a research program that assists understanding of past, assesses present, and predicts future human-induced and natural processes of abrupt climate change (see S. 1667), S9326 [14SE]

Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction: provide additional personnel authorities (see S. 615), S3163 [17MR]

Tariff: alginates (see S. 1961), S10850 [28OC]

———propylene glycol alginates (see S. 1960), S10850 [28OC]

———rayon staple fibers (see S. 1722), S9930 [29SE] (see S. 2191), S10918 [29OC]

———sodium alginate (see S. 1962), S10850 [28OC]

Taxation: provide a business credit against income for the purchase of fishing safety equipment (see S. 532), S2828 [5MR]

Water Resources Development Act: make technical corrections to a provision relating to project deauthorizations (see S. 1014), S5327 [11MY]

World Water Day: support goals and ideals (see S. Res. 81), S3609 [23MR]

Wreaths Across America Day: designate (see S. Res. 358), S11883 [20NO]

Certificates of election

Senate, S2 [6JA]

Letters

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: R. Bruce Josten, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, S2023 [9FE]

Grant limited immunity for reports of suspected terrorist activity or suspicious behavior and response: A. Bradford Card, National Troopers Coalition, S4681 [23AP]

———Chuck Canterbury, Fraternal Order of Police, S4682 [23AP]

———David A. Goad, National Sheriffs' Association, S4681 [23AP]

———Matt A. Peskin, National Association of Town Watch, S4681 [23AP]

Maine commercial truck highway safety demonstration program: Anne H. Jordan, Maine Dept. of Public Safety, S9538 [17SE]

———Craig A. Poulin, Maine State Troopers Association, S9539 [17SE]

———John E. Baldacci, Governor of Maine, S9538 [17SE]

———John Runyan, Coalition for Transportation Productivity, S9539 [17SE]

———Patrick J. Fleming, Maine State Police, S9538 [17SE]

———Paul Gaspar, Maine Association of Police, S9539 [17SE]

———Timothy P. Lynch, American Trucking Association, S9539 [17SE]

Nomination of Cass R. Sunstein to be OMB Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Administrator: Bob Stallman, American Farm Bureau Federation, S9169 [9SE]

———Cass R. Sunstein, S9169 [9SE]

———R. Bruce Josten, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, S9169 [9SE]

———Rosario Palmieri, National Association of Manufacturers, S9169 [9SE]

Lists

President Obama's ``czars'', S9795 [24SE]

Oaths of office

Senate, S4 [6JA]

Privilege of the floor

Cho, Eric, S5245 [6MY]

Evans, David, S5245 [6MY]

Remarks

AID: conduct a pilot program to promote production and use of fuel-efficient stoves engineered to produce less black carbon than traditional stoves (S. 1396), S7142 [6JY]

American Lighthouse Foundation, Inc.: funding, S2741 [4MR]

Appropriations: making omnibus appropriations (H.R. 1105), S2741 [4MR]

———making omnibus consolidated appropriations, S13071 [12DE]

———making supplemental appropriations for economic stimulus (H.R. 1), S1842 [6FE], S2021, S2023 [9FE]

———prohibit funding for congressional earmarks for wasteful and parochial pork projects, S2741 [4MR]

Border Partrol: provide additional funding to the Depts. of Homeland Security and Justice to strengthen Federal law enforcement efforts along the southwest border, S4032 [31MR]

Budget: setting forth the Federal budget for 2009-2014 (S. Con. Res. 13), S4032 [31MR]

Caribou, ME: anniversary, S4306 [2AP]

Clinton, Senator: nomination to be Sec. of State, S680 [21JA]

Coast Guard: eliminate the long range maritime radio navigation system (LORAN-C) program, S7247 [8JY]

Coastal Zone Management Act: establish a grant program to ensure waterfront access for commercial fishermen (S. 533), S2832 [5MR]

Contracts: establish a Federal acquisition management fellows program (S. 2901), S13387 [17DE]

CPSC: promulgate final consumer product safety rule banning novelty lighters (S. 723), S3924 [26MR]

Credit: provide for enhanced disclosure under an open end credit plan (H.R. 627), S5426 [13MY]

Crime: address criminal and fraudulent monetary transfers using stored value cards and other electronic devices, S5426 [13MY]

Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (S. 1390), S8022 [23JY]

———impact of change in quantity of units procured on Nunn-McCurdy unit cost breach thresholds relative to acquisition of major weapons systems, S5257 [7MY]

———improve organization and procedures for the acquisition of major weapons systems (S. 454), S5215, S5216, S5217 [6MY], S5257 [7MY]

———improve organization and procedures for the acquisition of major weapons systems (S. 454), conference report, S5684 [20MY]

———making appropriations (H.R. 3326), S10053 [1OC]

———making appropriations (H.R. 3326), House amendment, S13442 [18DE]

———require the application of uniform earned value management standards to measure contract performance and ensure contractors use approved earned value management systems, S5216, S5217 [6MY]

Dept. of Education: District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program funding for vouchers to provide school choice, S13072 [12DE]

Dept. of Energy: carry out a program to support the research, demonstration, and development of commercial applications for offshore wind energy (S. 2773), S11385 [16NO]

———conduct research, development, and demonstration to make biofuels more compatible with small nonroad engines (S. 737), S3993 [30MR]

———establish a research, development, demonstration, and commercial application program to promote research of technologies for heavy duty plug-in hybrid vehicles (S. 679), S3670 [24MR]

Dept. of Homeland Security: making appropriations (H.R. 2892), S7247 [8JY]

Dept. of the Interior, environment, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 2996), S9643 [22SE], S9794, S9795, S9796 [24SE]

Depts. of Transportation and HUD and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 3288), S9537 [17SE]

———making appropriations (H.R. 3288), conference report, S13071 [12DE]

Employment: protect volunteer firefighters and emergency medical services personnel responding to national emergencies or disasters from termination or demotion in their places of employment (S. 1025), S5375 [12MY]

Energy Assistance Fund: establish to guarantee low-interest loans for purchase and installation of energy efficient property, idling reduction and insulation for trucks, and alternative refueling stations (S. 855), S4576 [22AP]

EPA: require satisfaction of certain conditions before issuing to producers of mid-level ethanol blends a waiver from certain Clean Air Act requirements (S. 1666), S9328 [14SE]

Executive Office of the President: prohibit funding for administrative expenses for unconfirmed official unless the President certifies the official agrees to testify before and provide information to congressional committees, S9643 [22SE], S9794, S9795, S9796 [24SE]

FDA: provide with certain authority to regulate tobacco products (H.R. 1256), S6245 [8JN]

Federal Acquisition Institute: improve (S. 2902), S13387 [17DE]

Federal agencies and departments: establish the Chief Conservation Officers Council to improve energy efficiencies (S. 1830), S10642 [21OC]

Federal employees: facilitate the part-time reemployment of annuitants, S6245 [8JN]

———facilitate the part-time reemployment of annuitants (S. 629), S3373 [18MR]

———make unused sick leave creditable under the Federal Employees' Retirement System, S6245 [8JN]

Federal firefighters: establish presumptive disability benefits for certain diseases and disabilities (S. 599), S3119 [16MR]

Financial institutions: create a financial stability council to oversee the financial regulatory activities of the Government (S. 664), S3611-S3613 [23MR], S6682 [17JN]

Fire Prevention Week: support goals and ideals (S. Res. 300), S10077 [1OC]

Geithner, Timothy F.: impact of previous self-employment tax errors on suitability to be Sec. of the Treasury, S814 [26JA]

———nomination to be Sec. of the Treasury, S814 [26JA]

Government: improve transparency of information technology (IT) investments, require greater accountability for cost overruns, improve agency IT management, and reward excellence in IT acquisition (S. 920), S4823 [28AP]

Groves, Robert M.: nomination to be Census Director, S7399 [13JY]

GSA: convey a parcel of real property in the District of Columbia to house a National Women's History Museum (S. 2129), S10928 [29OC]

Hazardous substances: establish a national mercury monitoring program (S. 2913), S13460 [18DE]

Health: allow employers to provide a free choice voucher to employees to purchase any plan under the health insurance exchange, S12997 [11DE]

———create an incentive for insurers to maintain lower premium fees, S12997 [11DE]

———national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (H.R. 3590), S12997 [11DE], S13442, S13444 [18DE]

———national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (H.R. 3590), motion to commit, S12494, S12496 [5DE], S13294 [16DE]

———national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (H.R. 3590), motion to proceed, S11867 [20NO]

Jews: condemn all forms of anti-Semitism and reaffirm support for the mandate of the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism (S. Con. Res. 11), S3576 [19MR]

Law enforcement: grant limited immunity for reports of suspected terrorist activity or suspicious behavior and response (S. 879), S4680 [23AP]

Lute, Jane Holl: nomination to be Deputy Sec. of Homeland Security, S4293 [2AP]

Maine: establish a commercial truck highway safety demonstration program, S9537 [17SE], S13072 [12DE]

———establish a commercial truck highway safety demonstration program (S. 856), S4576 [22AP]

Medicaid: impact of increased funding obligations on States, S13442, S13444 [18DE]

Medicare: eliminate cuts to home health services, S12494, S12496 [5DE]

———ensure more timely access to home health services for beneficiaries (S. 2814), S11885 [20NO]

———provide a five-year payment increase for home health services furnished in a rural area (S. 1123), S5825 [21MY]

Napolitano, Janet A.: nomination to be Sec. of Homeland Security, S665 [20JA]

National American City Quality Month: observance, S4748 [27AP]

National security: prevent proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and prepare for attacks using such weapons (S. 1649), S9135 [8SE]

NOAA: develop a research program that assists understanding of past, assesses present, and predicts future human-induced and natural processes of abrupt climate change (S. 1667), S9329 [14SE]

Obama, President: proposal to reform U.S. financial regulatory system, S6682 [17JN]

Orszag, Peter R.: nomination to be OMB Director, S665 [20JA]

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: delay tax increases until health benefits begin, S13294 [16DE]

Power resources: establish a program to regulate the entry of fossil carbon into commerce, promote clean energy jobs and economic growth, and avoid dangerous climate interference (S. 2877), S13036 [11DE]

Raymond, ME: anniversary of Camp Agawam, S8861 [5AU]

Small business: economic impact of increased tax rates, S11868 [20NO]

Social Security: repeal Government pension offset and windfall elimination provisions (S. 484), S2487 [25FE]

Sotomayor, Sonia M.: nomination to be Supreme Court Justice, S8814 [5AU]

Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction: provide additional personnel authorities (S. 615), S3177 [17MR]

Sunstein, Cass R.: nomination to be OMB Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Administrator, S9168 [9SE]

Taxation: modify the first-time homebuyers credit for Armed Forces members and certain other Federal employees (H.R. 3590), S13442 [18DE]

World Water Day: support goals and ideals (S. Res. 81), S3617 [23MR]

Texts of

S. 679, Heavy Duty Hybrid Vehicle Research, Development, and Demonstration Act, S3670 [24MR]

S. 737, Dept. of Energy research, development, and demonstration to make biofuels more compatible with small nonroad engines, S3993 [30MR]

S. 1396, AID pilot program to promote production and use of fuel-efficient stoves engineered to produce less black carbon than traditional stoves, S7143 [6JY]

S. 1666, require EPA satisfaction of certain conditions before issuing to producers of mid-level ethanol blends a waiver from certain Clean Air Act requirements, S9329 [14SE]

S. 1667, Abrupt Climate Change Research Act, S9330 [14SE]

S. 2913, Comprehensive National Mercury Monitoring Act, S13461 [18DE]

Tributes

Coleman, Norm, S7283 [9JY]

Hanington, Dale E., S13189 [14DE]

Kennedy, Edward M., S9224 [10SE]

Martinez, Senator, S9153 [9SE]

Peary, Robert E., S4307 [2AP]