GRIJALVA, RAUL M. (a Representative from Arizona)

Amendments

Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage Area: establish (H.R. 324), H9853 [23SE]

Articles and editorials

Get Involved To Protect Property Rights, Harold Maxwell, NDFB.org (Internet site), H9849 [23SE]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Adult Education and Family Literacy Week: designate (see H. Res. 707), H9443 [10SE]

African Americans: tribute to Medal of Honor recipients and contributions of Armed Forces members (see H. Res. 185), H4841 [27AP]

Agreement Between the U.S. and Iraq on the Withdrawal of U.S. Forces From Iraq and the Organization of Their Activities During Their Temporary Presence in Iraq: express that agreement is advisory and not legally binding (see H. Res. 72), H382 [15JA]

Agriculture: ensure the humane slaughter of nonambulatory cattle (see H.R. 4356), H15499 [16DE]

AID: establish the Health Technology Program (see H.R. 3560), H12045 [28OC]

Albert Armendariz, Sr., U.S. Courthouse, El Paso, TX: designate (see H.R. 2053), H4841 [27AP]

American Dental Association: anniversary (see H. Res. 204), H2925 [3MR]

American Education Week: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 879), H13267 [18NO]

Animals: improve management and long-term health of wild free-roaming horses and burros (see H.R. 1018), H1517 [12FE]

———issue a Multinational Species Conservation Funds Semipostal Stamp (see H.R. 1454), H13002 [16NO]

———prohibit certain conduct relative to the use of horses for human consumption (see H.R. 503), H323 [14JA]

———prohibit conducting of invasive research on great apes (see H.R. 1326), H3146 [10MR]

———treat nonhuman primates as prohibited wildlife species under certain regulations governing illegal trade or possession of wildlife (see H.R. 80), H1520 [12FE]

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: preserve the Arctic coastal plain as wilderness (see H.R. 39), H7740 [7JY]

Arizona: resolve water rights claims of the White Mountain Apache Tribe (see H.R. 1065), H11167 [8OC]

Armed Forces: allow for certiorari review of certain cases denied relief or review by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (see H.R. 569), H380 [15JA]

———anniversary of activation of Army Reserve Echo Co., 100th Battalion, 442d Infantry Regiment in the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam (see H. Con. Res. 199), H12365 [4NO]

———authorize members to designate anyone as the person authorized to direct disposition of the remains of the member if the member dies while on active duty (see H.R. 1633), H5063 [30AP]

———enhance readiness by replacing current ``Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' policy concerning homosexuality with a policy of nondiscrimination on the basis of sexual orientation (see H.R. 1283), H2924 [3MR]

———improve and enhance substance use disorder programs for members (see H.R. 3420), H9205 [30JY]

———improve diagnosis and treatment of traumatic brain injury in members and former members and expand Depts. of Defense and Veterans Affairs telehealth and telemental health programs (see H.R. 667), H1080 [9FE]

———lift restrictions on certain benefits for military technicians and repeal prohibition against overtime pay for National Guard technicians (see H.R. 3336), H8809 [24JY]

———mint coins in commemoration of the establishment of the Medal of Honor (see H.R. 1209), H4583 [21AP]

———prohibit increase of members serving in Afghanistan (see H.R. 3699), H10455 [1OC]

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

———prohibit retaliatory personnel actions against members who testify about their sexual orientation in a congressional hearing or regarding the policy on homosexuality in the Armed Forces (see H.R. 4180), H13466 [2DE]

———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]

———reduce sexual assault and domestic violence involving members and their families and partners (see H.R. 840), H921 [3FE]

———require the use of only human-based methods for training members in the treatment of severe combat and chemical and biological injuries (see H.R. 4269), H14743 [10DE]

Army: close the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (see H.R. 2567), H6009 [21MY]

Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month: observance (see H. Res. 435), H5581 [13MY]

ATF: authorize additional resources to identify and eliminate illicit sources of firearms smuggled into Mexico for use by drug traffickers (see H.R. 1448), H3337 [11MR]

Aviation: allow additional flights beyond the perimeter restriction applicable to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (see H.R. 1941), H5097 [4MY]

Bankruptcy: amend laws relative to modification of certain mortgages on principal residences (see H.R. 200), H325 [14JA] (see H.R. 225), H68 [7JA]

Bass, Karen: tribute (see H. Res. 49), H326 [14JA]

Binghamton, NY: express condolences for victims of shootings at the American Civic Association and gratitude to responders to the shootings, and commend services of the American Civic Association (see H. Res. 340), H4581 [21AP]

Birds: provide financial resources for the conservation programs of countries whose activities directly or indirectly affect cranes (see H.R. 388), H159 [9JA]

Black History Month: observance (see H. Res. 83), H1080 [9FE] (see H. Res. 185), H4841 [27AP]

Border Patrol: impose requirements on searches of laptop computers and other similar devices (see H.R. 1726), H4061 [26MR]

Budget: require that Federal children's programs be separately displayed and analyzed (see H.R. 3772), H11165 [8OC]

Business and industry: prohibit employers from carrying life insurance policies on their rank and file employees (see H.R. 3669), H11740 [23OC]

Buy American Act: increase requirement for American-made content and tighten waiver provisions (see H.R. 4351), H15499 [16DE]

Campus Fire Safety Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 167), H9343 [8SE]

Caribbean-American Heritage Month: observance (see H. Con. Res. 127), H6016 [21MY]

Census: provide that no information regarding U.S. citizenship or immigration status may be elicited (see H.R. 3855), H11582 [21OC]

Central America: mourn loss of life caused by a landslide in Guatemala and an earthquake in Costa Rica and assist affected people and communities (see H. Res. 76), H1046 [4FE]

CERCLA: authorize appropriations for brownfields site assessment and cleanup (see H.R. 4188), H13466 [2DE]

Cherry, IL: anniversary of Great Cherry Mine Disaster (see H. Res. 752), H10000 [25SE]

Chesapeake Bay: improve and reauthorize the EPA Chesapeake Bay Program (see H.R. 3852), H13387 [1DE]

———reduce pollution resulting from impervious surfaces within the Chesapeake Bay watershed (see H.R. 3265), H9207 [30JY]

Children and youth: establish or expand and operate programs using a network of public and private community entities to provide mentoring for children in foster care (see H.R. 4317), H14981 [15DE]

———improve health and well-being of maltreated infants and toddlers through the creation of a National Court Teams Resource Center (see H.R. 3474), H9277 [31JY]

———provide assistance to adolescents and young adults with serious mental disorders as they transition to adulthood (see H.R. 2691), H6973 [17JN]

———provide for evidence-based and promising practices related to juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity prevention and intervention (see H.R. 1064), H1604 [13FE]

———recognize importance of the School Breakfast Program and its overall positive effect on low-income children and encourage States to strengthen school breakfast programs (see H. Res. 210), H2980 [4MR]

———support goals and ideals of the National School Lunch Program (see H. Res. 362), H4733 [23AP]

———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), H3053 [5MR]

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]

Chisholm, Shirley: anniversary of election to the House of Representatives (see H. Res. 36), H196 [13JA]

Chula Vista, CA: tribute to Chula Vista Park View Little League baseball team (see H. Res. 725), H9396 [9SE]

Cinco de Mayo: observance (see H. Res. 230), H3145 [10MR]

Citizens' Commission on Educational Equity: establish (see H.R. 1758), H4062 [26MR]

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

———issue commemorative postage stamp honoring civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner, and the ``Freedom Summer'' of 1964 (see H. Con. Res. 166), H8355 [17JY]

Claims: determine the merits of claims brought by survivors and descendants of victims of the Tulsa, OK, Race Riot of 1921 who were denied that determination (see H.R. 1843), H4396 [1AP]

Clothing industry: improve accuracy of fur products labeling (see H.R. 2480), H7947 [9JY]

Coastal zones: establish a national integrated system of ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes observing systems (see H.R. 367), H158 [9JA]

Colleges and universities: create jobs through the hiring of new faculty and counselors at community colleges (see H.R. 4196), H13629 (see H.R. 4196), H14373 [8DE]

———permit States to determine residency standards for higher education purposes and cancel removal and adjust status of certain long-term resident alien students (see H.R. 1751), H4251 [31MR]

Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month: observance (see H. Con. Res. 60), H3836 [24MR]

Columbia River: ensure salmon and steelhead preservation, maintain reasonably priced and reliable power, and study the impact of dams on endangered salmon and steelhead (see H.R. 3503), H9278 [31JY]

Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Latin Americans of Japanese Descent: establish (see H.R. 42), H3641 [18MR]

Commission on Wartime Treatment of European Americans: establish (see H.R. 1425), H3145 [10MR]

Commission on Wartime Treatment of Jewish Refugees: establish (see H.R. 1425), H3145 [10MR]

Community service: reauthorize and reform national service laws (see H.R. 1388), H3104 [9MR]

Congress: prohibit securities and commodities trading based on nonpublic information relating to Congress and require additional reporting of securities transaction by Members and employees (see H.R. 682), H3706 [19MR]

Conservation of energy: establish national energy and environmental building retrofit policies for both residential and commercial buildings (see H.R. 1778), H14827 [11DE]

———incorporate smart grid capability into Energy Star Program, reduce peak electric demand, reauthorize energy efficiency public information program to include smart grid information (see H.R. 1774), H6307 [8JN]

Consumers: establish additional payday loan disclosure requirements and other protections (see H.R. 1214), H3105 [9MR]

———establish additional payday loan disclosure requirements and other protections, cosponsorship withdrawn (see H.R. 1214), H4585 [21AP]

———protect from price-gouging of gasoline and other fuels (see H.R. 2129), H4839 [27AP]

Contracts: authorize use of Federal supply schedules for the acquisition of environmentally preferable ``green'' commodities and services and other related items by State and local governments (see H.R. 1766), H8586 [22JY]

———establish fair procedures for arbitration clauses (see H.R. 1020), H7705 [26JN] (see H.R. 1237), H2874 [26FE]

———require companies submitting offers to the Government for Federal contracts to include subcontracting agreements with the offers (see H.R. 4134), H13352 [19NO]

Controlled Substances Act: exclude industrial hemp from the definition of marijuana (see H.R. 1866), H4518 [2AP]

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women: ratification (see H. Res. 22), H163 [9JA]

Coordinated Environmental Public Health Network: establish (see H.R. 3426), H9206 [30JY]

Coral Reef Conservation Act: reauthorize (see H.R. 860), H1042 [4FE]

Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary: expand boundaries (see H.R. 223), H325 [14JA]

Corp. for National and Community Service: establish a Semester of Service grant program (see H.R. 1152), H2631 [24FE]

———establish Encore Service programs, Encore Fellowship programs, and Silver Scholarship programs (see H.R. 1151), H2631 [24FE]

———establish Summer of Service grant programs (see H.R. 1153), H2631 [24FE]

———improve educational awards provided for national service (see H.R. 1154), H2631 [24FE]

Correctional institutions: provide for an effective HIV/AIDS program in Federal prisons (see H.R. 1429), H3438 [16MR]

———require facilities holding Federal prisoners under a Federal contract to make certain information available to the public (see H.R. 2450), H14877 [14DE]

Courts: clarify availability of Federal habeas corpus relief for a person who is sentenced to death though actually innocent (see H.R. 3986), H13467 [2DE]

———enhance retirement benefits of administrative law judges (see H.R. 2850), H6743 [12JN]

———restrict protective orders and sealing of cases, and allow disclosure of discovery information in civil actions to ensure disclosures relevant to public health or safety (see H.R. 1508), H5485 [12MY]

———strengthen enforcement of spousal court-ordered property distributions (see H.R. 610), H486 [22JA]

Credit: establish a national consumer credit usury rate (see H.R. 1608), H6415 [9JN]

———exclude from consumer credit reports medical debt that has been in collection and has been fully paid or settled (see H.R. 3421), H10070 [29SE]

———prohibit creditors from discriminating on account of sexual orientation or gender identity when extending credit (see H.R. 4376), H15500 [16DE]

———prohibit use of consumer credit checks against prospective and current employees for the purpose of making adverse employment decisions (see H.R. 3149), H7946 [9JY]

———provide for enhanced disclosure under an open end credit plan (see H.R. 627), H484 [22JA]

———require mortgage servicers of single family homes to notify mortgagors of possible eligibility for Federal mortgage assistance (see H.R. 2181), H8303 [16JY]

Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure (Credit CARD) Act: establish an earlier effective date for various consumer protections (see H.R. 3639), H11582 [21OC]

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

———establish limits on certain fees for accounts under open end consumer credit plans (see H.R. 3977), H12141 [29OC]

Crime: provide better protection against cyberbullying (see H.R. 1966), H4522 [2AP]

———provide Federal assistance to States, local jurisdictions, and Indian tribes to prosecute hate crimes (see H.R. 1913), H4688 [22AP]

Cuba: facilitate export of U.S. agricultural products, remove impediments to export of medical devices and medicines, allow travel by U.S. citizens, and establish an agricultural export promotion program (see H.R. 1531), H6904 [16JN]

———lift trade embargo (see H.R. 1530), H6904 [16JN] (see H.R. 2272), H7446 [25JN]

———lift travel restrictions (see H.R. 874), H4129 [30MR] (see H.R. 1528), H6904 [16JN]

Dams: further allocate and expand availability of hydroelectric power generated at Hoover Dam (see H.R. 4349), H15499 [16DE]

Defense of Marriage Act: repeal and ensure respect for State regulation of marriage (see H.R. 3567), H9548 [15SE]

Dept. of Agriculture: improve access to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program by reducing administrative requirements and award grants to establish a Beyond the Soup Kitchen Pilot Program (see H.R. 176), H34 [6JA]

———make grants to establish community gardens (see H.R. 3225), H8184 [15JY]

Dept. of Commerce: anniversary of Minority Business Development Agency (see H. Res. 215), H3528 [17MR]

———establish a National Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Program (see H.R. 3650), H11869 [27OC]

———establish NOAA and a National Climate Enterprise (see H.R. 2685), H6154 [3JN]

———make grants to coastal States for surveys of coastal and Federal waters to identify areas suitable for exploration, development, and production of renewable energy (see H.R. 1690), H5097 [4MY]

———make grants to promote community greening initiatives (see H.R. 2222), H8495 [21JY]

Dept. of Defense: adopt a screening program to detect mental health injuries acquired during deployment in support of a contingency operation and ultimately to reduce suicide among veterans (see H.R. 1308), H5308 [6MY]

———develop a comprehensive strategy to increase the investigation and prosecution of sexual assault and rape cases in the military (see H. Con. Res. 28), H1608 [13FE]

———establish medical surveillance system identifying Armed Forces members exposed to chemical hazards from waste disposal in Iraq and Afghanistan and prohibit disposal producing toxic levels (see H.R. 2419), H7250 [24JN]

———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), H1080 [9FE]

———submit a report to Congress outlining the exit strategy for U.S. forces from Afghanistan (see H.R. 2404), H5663 [14MY]

Dept. of Education: allow certain Armed Forces members who served on active duty to be eligible to participate in the Troops-to-Teachers Program (see H.R. 3943), H13002 [16NO]

———allow State and local educational agencies and schools to make greater use of positive behavior supports and other early intervening services (see H.R. 2597), H6307 [8JN]

———award grants for support of full-service community schools (see H.R. 3545), H9396 [9SE]

———award grants to establish pediatric early literacy programs for health care providers and facilities (see H.R. 1526), H9342 [8SE]

———establish a comprehensive literacy program (see H.R. 4037), H13387 [1DE]

———establish a pilot program to award grants to State and local educational agencies to develop financial literacy programs in elementary and secondary schools (see H.R. 3037), H11167 [8OC]

———establish and administer an awards program recognizing excellence exhibited by public school system employees providing services to students in pre-kindergarten through higher education (see H.R. 2377), H6904 [16JN]

———establish the Grants for College Access and Completion Program (see H.R. 3259), H13069 [17NO]

———establish the Honorable Stephanie Tubbs Jones Fire Suppression Demonstration Incentive Program to promote installation of fire sprinkler systems in student housing and dormitories (see H.R. 2136), H10457 [1OC]

———make grants and low-interest loans to local educational agencies for the construction, modernization, or repair of public educational facilities (see H.R. 2187), H5060 [30AP]

———make grants to support early college high schools and other dual enrollment programs (see H.R. 1578), H9207 [30JY]

———provide grants to support professional development and extracurricular activities to improve international education and foreign language in elementary and secondary schools (see H.R. 3359), H8959 [28JY]

———reauthorize Impact Aid Program (see H.R. 2280), H10520 [6OC]

Dept. of Energy: establish National Home Energy Savings Revolving Fund (see H.R. 1573), H3526 [17MR]

———provide grants to State and local educational agencies for EnergySmart schools and Energy Star programs (see H.R. 579), H381 [15JA]

Dept. of HHS: authorize a grant to a qualified youth-serving organization for recruiting and preparing students for careers and volunteer opportunities as health care professionals (see H.R. 2946), H9962 [24SE]

———authorize grants for treatment and support services for Alzheimer's disease patients and their families (see H.R. 4123), H13352 [19NO]

———develop a policy for managing the risk of food allergy and anaphylaxis in schools and early childhood education programs, and establish school-based food allergy management grants (see H.R. 1378), H3077 [6MR]

———establish a grant program to provide supportive services in permanent supportive housing for chronically homeless individuals (see H.R. 3636), H9899 [23SE]

———improve pain care research, education, access, and outreach (see H.R. 756), H2980 [4MR]

———make grants to eligible States to reduce the student-to-school nurse ratio in elementary and secondary schools and kindergarten (see H.R. 2730), H6264 [4JN]

———provide for the participation of optometrists in the National Health Service Corps scholarship and loan repayment programs (see H.R. 1884), H5485 [12MY]

———provide for the participation of physical therapists in the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program (see H.R. 988), H2875 [26FE]

———reauthorize special diabetes programs for type I diabetes and Indians (see H.R. 3668), H12142 [29OC]

———require certain standards and enforcement provisions to prevent child abuse and neglect in residential programs (see H.R. 911), H1079 [9FE]

———revise and extend projects relating to children and violence to provide access to school-based comprehensive mental health programs (see H.R. 2531), H12588 [6NO]

Dept. of Homeland Security: conduct a survey to determine the level of compliance with national consensus standards and any barriers to achieving compliance with such standards (see H.R. 1499), H3438 [16MR]

———develop and implement a mitigation plan to address the ecological impacts of border security measures and activities (see H.R. 3629), H9806 [22SE]

———establish Gulf Coast Civic Works Commission (see H.R. 2269), H8708 [23JY]

———establish Office of Tribal Government Homeland Security (see H.R. 1697), H3834 [24MR]

———provide for ceremonies on or near Independence Day to administer oaths of allegiance to legal immigrants whose applications for citizenship have been approved (see H.R. 2363), H5484 [12MY]

———secure domestic sources of radiological materials that could be used to make a radiological dispersion device against access by terrorists (see H.R. 2070), H7706 [26JN]

Dept. of HUD: authorize funds to prevent housing discrimination through the use of nationwide testing and increase funds for the Fair Housing Initiatives Program (see H.R. 476), H1080 [9FE]

———establish grant programs to encourage energy-efficient economic development and green job training and creation in metropolitan areas and establish Metro Area Green Institute (see H.R. 330), H8410 [20JY]

———provide Federal grants to urban areas for the rehabilitation of critically needed recreational areas and facilities and development of improved recreation programs (see H.R. 3734), H13387 [1DE]

———reauthorize Community Development Block Grant Program (see H.R. 1270), H2924 [3MR]

Dept. of Justice: acquire data on crimes that manifest evidence of prejudice based on gender (see H.R. 823), H921 [3FE]

———authorize grants for programs that provide support services to exonerees (see H.R. 2095), H5063 [30AP]

———award grants to eligible entities to prevent or alleviate community violence by providing education, mentoring, and counseling services to children, adolescents, teachers, families, and community leaders (see H.R. 2616), H6011 [21MY]

———enhance the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Program (see H.R. 1139), H2602 [23FE]

———establish pilot program to identify and eliminate unjustified racial and ethnic disparities in the administration of justice (see H.R. 1412), H3145 [10MR]

———make competitive grants to eligible State, tribal, and local prosecutors to establish and maintain certain protection and witness assistance programs (see H.R. 1741), H4735 [23AP]

———make grants to improve the ability of State and local governments to prevent the abduction of children by family members (see H.R. 1978), H4523 [2AP]

———reauthorize the Missing Alzheimer's Disease Patient Alert Program (see H.R. 908), H1080 [9FE]

———reduce and prevent teen dating violence (see H.R. 789), H3835 [24MR]

———safeguard the Crime Victims Fund (see H.R. 483), H195 [13JA]

Dept. of Labor: establish a safe patient handling and injury prevention standard to reduce injuries to patients, direct-care registered nurses, and other health care workers (see H.R. 2381), H8185 [15JY]

———establish the New Economy Grant Program (see H.R. 4290), H14826 [11DE]

———make grants to States, local governments, and Indian tribes to create employment opportunities for unemployed and underemployed residents in distressed communities (see H.R. 4268), H14742 [10DE]

———permit establishment of Job Corps centers in territories (see H.R. 3181), H8008 [10JY]

———prescribe regulations requiring employers with more than one establishment and not fewer than 500 employees to report work-related deaths, injuries, and illnesses (see H.R. 2113), H8708 [23JY]

———provide effective career training and technical education programs, address barriers resulting from family responsibilities, and encourage entrance into nontraditional occupations (see H.R. 2074), H13466 [2DE]

Dept. of Peace: establish (see H.R. 808), H920 [3FE]

Dept. of State: authorize the Gandhi-King Scholarly Exchange Initiative focusing on peace and nonviolence in global conflict resolution (see H.R. 3328), H11298 [13OC]

———establish certain standards for adjudication of U.S. passport applications (see H.R. 2812), H6538 [10JN]

———provide assistance to eradicate trafficking in children in eligible countries through implementation of Child Protection Compacts (see H.R. 2737), H9342 [8SE]

Dept. of the Interior: authorize Indian tribes to enter into certain leases without prior express approval (see H.R. 2523), H7838 [8JY]

———designate certain lands in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming as wilderness, wild and scenic rivers, wildland recovery areas, and biological connecting corridors (see H.R. 980), H1246 [11FE]

———establish and operate a visitor facility for the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument (see H.R. 3511), H11298 [13OC]

———permanently prohibit oil and gas leasing off the coast of Mendocino, Humboldt, and Del Norte Counties in California (see H.R. 204), H6076 [2JN]

———plan, design, and construct a new school at Third Mesa, AZ, on the Hopi Indian Reservation (see H.R. 1122), H2601 [23FE]

———reaffirm authority to take land into trust for Indian tribes (see H.R. 3742), H11168 [8OC]

———support an international park between Big Bend National Park and certain protected areas of the Coahuila and Chihuahua States across the border in Mexico (see H. Res. 695), H9343 [8SE]

Dept. of the Navy: redesignate as the Dept. of the Navy and Marine Corps (see H.R. 24), H6014 [21MY]

Dept. of the Treasury: anniversary of Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (see H. Res. 967), H14827 [11DE]

———extend certain economic recovery payments that benefit senior citizens (see H.R. 3810), H11582 [21OC]

———restrict use of Troubled Asset Relief Program funds for domestic purposes (see H.R. 1761), H8185 [15JY]

Dept. of Transportation: conduct a program to demonstrate the use of asphalt produced with an asphalt binder made from biomass in highway construction projects (see H.R. 1167), H3146 [10MR]

———make grants for certain streetcar projects (see H.R. 2163), H6015 [21MY]

———modify authority to make grants for new fixed guideway capital projects (see H.R. 2164), H6015 [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 H.R. 734), H1607 [13FE]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: assign a higher priority status for hospital care and medical services provided to certain veterans who are Medal of Honor recipients (see H.R. 1197), H2835 [25FE]

———authorize construction of a full service veterans hospital in far South Texas (see H.R. 1232), H3835 [24MR]

———clarify presumptions relating to exposure of certain veterans who served in the vicinity of Vietnam (see H.R. 2254), H13386 [1DE]

———conduct a pilot project to test feasibility and advisability of expanding the scope of certain qualifying work-study activities (see H.R. 1037), H1518 [12FE]

———establish position of Director of Physician Assistant Services within the Office of the Under Sec. of Veterans Affairs for Health (see H.R. 1302), H2979 [4MR]

———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), H4582 [21AP]

———increase payments to certain veterans for certain travel expenses (see H.R. 4073), H13267 [18NO]

———prohibit collection of certain copayments from catastrophically disabled veterans (see H.R. 1335), H4525 [2AP]

———provide two-fiscal year budget authority for certain medical care accounts (see H.R. 1016), H4583 [21AP]

———provide wartime disability compensation for certain veterans with Parkinson's disease (see H.R. 1428), H7741 [7JY]

———repeal requirement for reduction of survivor annuities under the Survivor Benefit Plan to offset the receipt of veterans' dependency and indemnity compensation (see H.R. 775), H779 [28JA]

Developing countries: prevent speculation and profiteering in the defaulted debt of certain poor countries (see H.R. 2932), H8960 [28JY]

———protect girls through prevention of child marriage (see H.R. 2103), H5401 [7MY]

———provide assistance to improve the health of newborns, children, and mothers (see H.R. 1410), H3144 [10MR]

———provide debt relief to developing countries that take action to protect forests and coral reefs and associated coastal marine ecosystems (see H.R. 52), H1607 [13FE]

Disabled: enhance early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of hearing loss (see H.R. 1246), H2981 [4MR]

———ensure individuals with disabilities have access to emerging Internet protocol-based communications and video programming technologies (see H.R. 3101), H11111 [7OC]

———protect the interests of each resident of intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded in class action lawsuits on behalf of such resident (see H.R. 1255), H3338 [11MR]

———protect the interests of each resident of intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded in class action lawsuits on behalf of such resident, cosponsorship withdrawn (see H.R. 1255), H4585 [21AP]

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), H27 [6JA]

Diseases: address the lack of adequate housing as a barrier to effective HIV prevention, treatment, and care, and commit to providing adequate funding for developing housing as a response to the AIDS pandemic (see H. Con. Res. 137), H6075 [2JN]

———catalyze change in the care and treatment of diabetes (see H.R. 1402), H4688 [22AP]

———continue research into causes, treatment, education, and an eventual cure for diabetes, commend those involved, and support designation of Latino Diabetes Awareness Month (see H. Res. 69), H382 [15JA]

———encourage continued investment to complete development of an HIV/AIDS vaccine (see H. Res. 906), H13001 [16NO]

———encourage State and local public health departments and all health care providers to adhere to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines relative to H1N1 influenza (see H. Res. 932), H13521 [3DE]

———establish a grant program to provide screenings for glaucoma to individuals determined to be at high risk for glaucoma (see H.R. 186), H91 [8JA]

———establish Centers for Disease Control and Prevention national screening program and allow States to provide medical assistance for individuals with colorectal cancer or polyps (see H.R. 1189), H4525 [2AP]

———expand research, prevention, and awareness activities relative to pulmonary fibrosis (see H.R. 1079), H15503 [16DE]

———fund breakthroughs in Alzheimer's disease research while providing more help to caregivers and increasing public education about prevention (see H.R. 3286), H11298 [13OC]

———identify causes and cure, expand data collection, and study access to and quality of care for people with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis (see H.R. 930), H1156 [10FE]

———improve and enhance research and programs on childhood cancer survivorship (see H.R. 2109), H5170 [5MY]

———increase Alzheimer's disease research funding and promote public awareness and risk reduction relative to Alzheimer's disease with particular emphasis in Hispanic populations (see H.R. 2987), H7085 [19JN]

———increase awareness of risks of breast cancer in young women and provide support for young women diagnosed with breast cancer (see H.R. 1740), H4525 [2AP]

———increase support and funding to combat juvenile diabetes (see H. Res. 35), H12588 [6NO]

———provide for an evidence-based strategy for voluntary screening for HIV/AIDS and other common sexually transmitted infections (see H.R. 4140), H13353 [19NO]

———provide for arthritis research and public health (see H.R. 1210), H4525 [2AP]

———reauthorize and enhance programs to increase awareness and knowledge with respect to gynecologic cancers (see H.R. 2941), H7022 [18JN]

District of Columbia: establish Office of the District Attorney and head with a locally elected and independent district attorney (see H.R. 4009), H12365 [4NO]

Drugs: address sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine (see H.R. 1459), H3399 [12MR] (see H.R. 3245), H8302 [16JY]

———allow for medicinal use of marijuana in accordance with State laws (see H.R. 2835), H6618 [11JN]

———concentrate Federal resources aimed at the prosecution of drug offenses on major offenses (see H.R. 1466), H3528 [17MR]

———provide an affirmative defense for medical use of marijuana in accordance with the laws of the States (see H.R. 3939), H11868 [27OC]

———reduce deaths occurring from overdoses (see H.R. 2855), H6743 [12JN]

———target cocaine kingpins and address sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine (see H.R. 265), H922 [3FE]

Early Detection Month: designate (see H. Con. Res. 158), H9731 [17SE]

Ecology and environment: reduce global greenhouse gas emissions resulting from land conversion and deforestation in developing countries and provide incentives to increase forest carbon stocks (see H.R. 1790), H6076 [2JN]

———require compliance by defense-related agencies with all environmental laws (see H.R. 672), H2603 [23FE]

Education: encourage and support parent, family, and community involvement in schools, provide needed services and supports to children, and ensure that schools are centers of communities (see H.R. 3343), H12142 [29OC]

———encourage teaching of U.S. Constitution to high school students in their senior year (see H. Res. 686), H9283 [31JY]

———express support for efforts to increase financial literacy in the U.S. and recognizing the work of John Hope Bryant to raise awareness about the importance of financial and economic literacy (see H. Res. 65), H1046 [4FE]

———improve and expand geographic literacy among students by improving professional development programs for teachers offered through institutions of higher education (see H.R. 1240), H2981 [4MR]

———improve calculation, reporting, and accountability for high school graduation rates (see H.R. 1569), H3526 [17MR]

———improve early education (see H.R. 702), H601 [27JA]

———increase access to adult education to provide for economic growth (see H.R. 3238), H9550 [15SE]

———provide grants through participation in National Board for Professional Teaching Standards to recruit, support, and retain highly qualified and effective teachers (see H.R. 2755), H6305 [8JN]

———recognize achievements of high school valedictorians, promote importance of encouraging intellectual growth, and reward academic excellence of all high school students (see H. Res. 586), H7446 [25JN]

———stimulate collaboration with respect to, and provide for coordination and coherence of, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education initiatives (see H.R. 2710), H6263 [4JN]

Election Assistance Commission: establish a Vote by Mail grant program (see H.R. 1604), H3702 [19MR]

Elementary and Secondary Education Act: authorizing appropriations (see H.R. 1102), H1606 [13FE]

———establish a grant program for automated external defibrillators in schools (see H.R. 1380), H3077 [6MR]

———improve academic content standards for physical education (see H.R. 1585), H4840 [27AP]

———include family therapists on the list of professionals recognized to provide public school mental health services (see H.R. 1710), H4025 [25MR]

———promote environmental education (see H.R. 2054), H4686 [22AP]

———reauthorize programs to enhance education through technology (see H.R. 558), H5062 [30AP]

———strengthen mentoring programs (see H.R. 913), H2836 [25FE]

Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act: strike provision relative to modification of reporting frequency (see H.R. 776), H779 [28JA]

Employment: allow Americans to earn paid sick time to address their own health needs and the health needs of their families (see H.R. 2460), H5711 [18MY]

———authorize a capitalization of self-sustainable social services grant program to provide workforce development opportunities and training to people with barriers to employment (see H.R. 4299), H14826 [11DE]

———prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity (see H.R. 3017), H7249 [24JN]

———provide for a paid family and medical leave insurance program (see H.R. 1723), H4584 [21AP]

———provide for paid sick leave in order to address the health needs of individuals and family members (see H.R. 4092), H13521 [3DE]

———provide paid sick leave to employees who are recommended by their employer or public health authorities to stay home when they have symptoms of a contagious disease that may put others at risk (see H.R. 3991), H12365 [4NO]

Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act: expand individuals eligible for compensation, enhance provision of information to claimants, and improve compensation procedures (see H.R. 1828), H9207 [30JY]

EPA: establish a hazardous waste electronic manifest system (see H.R. 3106), H8708 [23JY]

———establish water system adaptation partnerships (see H.R. 2969), H9207 [30JY]

———implement integrated pest management systems to minimize pesticide use in schools and provide parents and employees with notices of such use (see H.R. 4159), H13385 [1DE]

———mitigate the effects of black carbon emissions domestically and globally (see H.R. 1760), H5097 [4MY]

ERISA: provide emergency protection for retiree health benefits (see H.R. 1322), H4583 [21AP]

———provide special reporting and disclosure rules for individual retirement account plans and provide a minimum investment option requirement for such plans (see H.R. 1984), H4579 [21AP]

Executive departments: congressional disapproval of rule submitted by the Depts. of the Interior and Commerce relative to interagency cooperation under the Endangered Species Act (see H.J. Res. 18), H381 [15JA]

Explosives: limit use of cluster munitions (see H.R. 981), H1607 [13FE]

F.E. Warren AFB, WY: transfer ownership of two bells taken from the town of Balangiga on the island of Samar, Philippines to the people of the Philippines (see H. Con. Res. 30), H1159 [10FE]

Fair Labor Standards Act: establish a base minimum wage for tipped employees (see H.R. 2570), H6009 [21MY]

———strengthen child labor provisions (see H.R. 3564), H11869 [27OC]

Families and domestic relations: encourage development and implementation of a comprehensive, global strategy for preservation and reunification of families and provision of permanent parental care for orphans (see H.R. 3070), H8708 [23JY]

———improve the lives of working families by providing medical, child care, and educational assistance and encouraging the establishment of family-friendly workplaces (see H.R. 3047), H7445 [25JN]

———prohibit discrimination in adoption or foster care placements based on sexual orientation, gender identification, or marital status of any prospective adoptive or foster parent (see H.R. 3827), H11582 [21OC]

———support efforts of States to provide partial or full wage replacement for parents and other employees to spend time with a new infant or adopted child (see H.R. 2339), H6307 [8JN]

Family and Medical Leave Act: allow leave to address domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking and their effects, and include domestic partners (see H.R. 2515), H8410 [20JY]

———allow leave to care for a same-sex spouse, domestic partner, parent-in-law, adult child, sibling, or grandparent with a serious health condition (see H.R. 2132), H11298 [13OC]

———clarify eligibility requirements relative to airline flight crews (see H.R. 912), H1079 [9FE]

———nullify certain regulations, restore prior regulations, and direct the Dept. of Labor to revise certain additional regulations (see H.R. 2161), H4998 [29AP]

Family Violence Prevention and Services Act: reauthorize (see H.R. 4116), H13467 [2DE]

FDA: provide with certain authority to regulate tobacco products (see H.R. 1256), H2923 [3MR]

Federal employees: ensure that 4 of the 12 weeks of parental leave made available to a Federal employee shall be paid leave (see H.R. 626), H2980 [4MR]

———make unused sick leave creditable under the Federal Employees' Retirement System (see H.R. 958), H2980 [4MR]

———provide benefits to domestic partners (see H.R. 2517), H5890 [20MY]

———provide coverage of acupuncturist services under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (see H.R. 646), H485 [22JA]

———require health benefits coverage for infertility treatment (see H.R. 697), H526 [26JA]

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

Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: preserve ability to file State product liability lawsuits relative to defective medical devices (see H.R. 1346), H3054 [5MR]

———preserve effectiveness of medically important antibiotics used in treatment of human and animal diseases (see H.R. 1549), H3525 [17MR]

Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act: reauthorize (see H.R. 3339), H9808 [22SE]

Federal Water Pollution Control Act: clarify that fill material cannot be comprised of waste (see H.R. 1310), H2979 [4MR]

———modify provisions relative to beach monitoring (see H.R. 2093), H5097 [4MY]

FEMA: waive the cost-share requirement under the Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response grant program for certain grants (see H.R. 2759), H7447 [25JN]

Financial institutions: enhance availability of services, update community reinvestment requirements, and ensure such requirements keep pace as service providers become affiliates (see H.R. 1479), H5400 [7MY]

———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), H32 [6JA]

———return a sense of fairness and accountability to the deposit insurance premium assessment process (see H.R. 2897), H12288 [3NO]

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

Fire prevention: provide a supplemental funding source for catastrophic emergency wildland fire suppression activities and develop a cohesive wildland fire management strategy (see H.R. 1404), H3144 [10MR]

Firearms: establish background check procedures for gun shows (see H.R. 2324), H7086 [19JN]

Fish and fishing: improve conservation of sharks (see H.R. 81), H31 [6JA]

———strengthen enforcement mechanisms to stop illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing (see H.R. 1080), H3056 [5MR]

Fish and Wildlife Act: establish additional prohibitions on shooting wildlife from aircraft (see H.R. 3381), H9055 [29JY]

Food: extend food labeling requirements to enable customers to make informed choices about nutritional content of standard menu items in large chain restaurants (see H.R. 2426), H5665 [14MY]

Food Safety Administration: establish (see H.R. 875), H1042 [4FE]

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 H.R. 3077), H7703 [26JN]

———provide, on an annual basis, an amount equal to at least 1 percent of U.S. gross domestic product for nonmilitary foreign assistance programs (see H. Con. Res. 63), H3528 [17MR]

Foreign policy: condemn use of child soldiers in hostilities around the world and find remedies to end this practice (see H. Con. Res. 20), H4735 [23AP]

———ensure that U.S. policy reflects appropriate understanding and sensitivity on human rights, ethnic cleansing, and genocide documented in U.S. record on the Armenian Genocide (see H. Res. 252), H3527 [17MR]

Forest Service: protect certain roadless areas (see H.R. 3692), H10455 [1OC]

Franklin, John Hope: tribute (see H. Res. 301), H4526 [2AP]

FRS: reform manner in which GAO audits the FRS Board of Governors and the manner in which such audits are reported (see H.R. 1207), H6155 [3JN]

Fuller, Millard: tribute (see H. Res. 385), H5062 [30AP]

Gambling: delay compliance date for certain regulations relative to prohibition on funding of unlawful Internet gambling (see H.R. 2266), H6744 [12JN]

———provide for Dept. of the Treasury licensing of Internet gambling, consumer protections, and enforcement of the tax code (see H.R. 2267), H6744 [12JN]

GAO: reaffirm and clarify authority to audit and evaluate the programs, activities, and financial transactions of the intelligence community (see H.R. 1008), H3105 [9MR]

Global Youth Service Days: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 353), H4687 [22AP]

Gospel Music Heritage Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 12), H8356 [17JY]

Government: ensure efficient performance of agency functions (see H.R. 2736), H6264 [4JN]

———prohibit from awarding contracts, grants, or other agreements to, providing any other Federal funds to, or engaging in activities that promote certain companies convicted of felonies (see H.R. 3679), H10407 [30SE]

Government regulations: make certain regulations have no force or effect (see H.R. 570), H380 [15JA]

Guam War Claims Review Commission: implement recommendations (see H.R. 44), H29 [6JA]

Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary: expand boundaries (see H.R. 223), H325 [14JA]

Haiti: make nationals eligible for temporary protected status (see H.R. 144), H33 [6JA]

———provide for professional exchanges with Haiti (see H.R. 417), H13520 [3DE]

———support temporary protected status for nationals currently residing in the U.S. (see H. Con. Res. 165), H8355 [17JY]

Hawaii: anniversary of statehood (see H. Res. 593), H8101 [14JY]

Hazardous substances: enhance public awareness of potential health effects posed by mercury (see H. Res. 648), H8100 [14JY]

———phase out use of mercury in manufacture of chlorine and caustic soda (see H.R. 2065), H4731 [23AP] (see H.R. 2190), H5060 [30AP]

———require that mercury emissions from electric utility steam generating units be subject to maximum achievable control technology (MACT) standards for hazardous air pollutants (see H.R. 821), H921 [3FE]

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]

———ensure victims of public health emergencies have meaningful and immediate access to medically necessary health care services (see H.R. 2231), H5095 [4MY]

———establish a registry to ensure that certain individuals who may have been exposed to formaldehyde have an opportunity to register and receive medical treatment (see H.R. 1661), H6266 [4JN]

———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 H.R. 463), H194 [13JA]

———improve access to emergency medical services and provide additional Medicare physician payments for such services (see H.R. 1188), H4915 [28AP]

———integrate long-term care strategies into a comprehensive health care reform agenda (see H. Res. 271), H3705 [19MR]

———national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (see H.R. 676), H525 [26JA]

———permit Federal funding for syringe exchange programs to reduce transmission of bloodborne pathogens, including HIV and viral hepatitis (see H.R. 179), H34 [6JA]

———provide for embryonic stem cell research (see H.R. 873), H3105 [9MR]

———provide for the licensure of biosimilar and interchangeable biological products (see H.R. 1427), H4583 [21AP]

———reduce adolescent pregnancy, HIV rates, and other sexually transmitted diseases (see H.R. 1551), H3525 [17MR]

———require individual and group health insurance coverage and group health plans and Federal employees health benefit plans to provide coverage for routine HIV screening (see H.R. 2137), H5063 [30AP]

———support efforts to reduce infant mortality (see H. Res. 260), H3707 [19MR]

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. 936), H1156 [10FE]

———recognize value, benefits, and importance of community health centers (see H. Con. Res. 144), H6973 [17JN]

———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: encourage safe patient handling to reduce injuries to patients, direct-care registered nurses, and other health care workers (see H. Res. 510), H9397 [9SE]

———establish and carry out a pediatric specialty loan repayment program (see H.R. 4273), H14743 [10DE]

Higher Education Act: amend (see H.R. 3221), H8184 [15JY]

———forgive certain loans for servicemembers who withdraw from an institution of higher education as a result of service in the uniformed services (see H.R. 2561), H6904 [16JN]

———repeal provisions prohibiting persons convicted of drug offenses from receiving student financial assistance (see H.R. 3295), H8585 [22JY]

Hispanic Heritage Month: observance (see H. Res. 783), H10069 [29SE]

Historic buildings and sites: mint coins in commemoration of the battlefields of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 (see H.R. 2001), H11167 [8OC]

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), H7947 [9JY]

Homosexuality: address health disparities experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals and eliminate barriers in accessing quality health care (see H.R. 3001), H7447 [25JN]

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), H8008 [10JY]

———condemn violence and call for return of duly elected President (see H. Res. 620), H8496 [21JY]

Horne, Lena: tribute (see H. Con. Res. 67), H9207 [30JY]

House of Representatives: permit donation of used computer equipment to public schools (see H.R. 181), H2875 [26FE]

Housing: require all newly constructed, federally assisted single-family houses and town houses meet minimum standards of visitability for the disabled (see H.R. 1408), H6807 [15JN]

Howard University School of Law: anniversary (see H. Res. 684), H8959 [28JY]

Human rights: express that the U.S. should become an international human rights leader by ratifying and implementing certain core international conventions (see H. Res. 416), H5399 [7MY]

Hunger: address global hunger and improve food security through development and implementation of a comprehensive governmentwide global hunger reduction strategy (see H.R. 2817), H12142 [29OC]

Hunting and trapping: prohibit body-gripping traps in National Wildlife Refuge System (see H.R. 3710), H10456 [1OC]

Immigration: allow U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents to sponsor their permanent partners for U.S. residence (see H.R. 1024), H1517 [12FE]

———compensate States for incarcerating undocumented aliens charged with a felony or two or more misdemeanors (see H.R. 1314), H2979 [4MR]

———eliminate the ``widow penalty'' by allowing petitions for legal permanent residency by noncitizen surviving spouses of U.S. citizens to be adjudicated (see H.R. 1870), H4518 [2AP]

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

———improve agricultural job opportunities, benefits, and security for aliens in the U.S. (see H.R. 2414), H5664 [14MY]

———permit certain Mexican children, and accompanying adults, to obtain a waiver of the documentation requirements otherwise required to enter the U.S. as a temporary visitor (see H.R. 937), H2603 [23FE]

———provide discretionary authority to an immigration judge to determine that an alien parent of a U.S. citizen child should not be ordered removed from the U.S. (see H.R. 182), H1159 [10FE]

———provide for naturalization of certain high school graduates (see H.R. 2681), H8356 [17JY]

———provide nonimmigrant spouses and children of nonimmigrant aliens who died in terrorist attacks on the U.S. an opportunity to adjust their status (see H.R. 3290), H8584 [22JY]

———reform (see H.R. 4321), H14981 [15DE]

———reform detention procedures (see H.R. 1215), H3749 [23MR]

Immigration and Nationality Act: promote family unity (see H.R. 2709), H6263 [4JN]

———restore certain provisions relative to the definition of aggravated felony (see H.R. 938), H3078 [6MR]

Independent Commission on the 2004 Coup d'Etat in the Republic of Haiti: establish (see H.R. 331), H2836 [25FE]

Indian Health Care Improvement Act: revise and extend (see H.R. 2708), H6263 [4JN]

Individuals With Disabilities Education Act: authorizing appropriations (see H.R. 1102), H1606 [13FE]

———permit prevailing party in actions or proceedings brought to enforce the Act to be awarded expert witness fees and certain other expenses (see H.R. 2740), H10520 [6OC]

Information technology: provide grants to community colleges to improve accessibility of computer labs and training for those seeking to improve computer literacy and information technology skills (see H.R. 2060), H6076 [2JN]

Insurance: cover screening mammography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for women over 40 and for women at high risk for breast cancer if diagnostic mammography is covered (see H.R. 995), H1247 [11FE]

———extend temporarily the period of COBRA continuation health coverage (see H.R. 3966), H12365 [4NO]

———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]

———require health plans to cover treatment of a minor child's congenital or developmental deformity or disorder due to trauma, infection, tumor, or disease (see H.R. 1339), H3053 [5MR]

Intelligence services: enhance transparency and accountability within the intelligence community for activities performed under Federal contracts (see H.R. 963), H1158 [10FE]

International Conference on Population and Development: provide for continued support of the Program of Action (see H. Res. 947), H13520 [3DE]

International Criminal Court: support U.N. Security Council referrals of certain situations to the Court, cooperate with investigations and prosecutions, and participate in Assembly of States Parties (see H. Con. Res. 97), H4523 [2AP]

International Day for the Abolition of Slavery: observance (see H. Res. 929), H13354 [19NO]

International Renewable Energy Agency: encourage U.S. membership (see H. Res. 177), H1607 [13FE]

International Women's Day: support goals (see H. Res. 194), H2874 [26FE]

Iran: authorize State and local governments to direct divestiture from, and prevent investment in, companies with certain investments in Iran's energy sector (see H.R. 1327), H11167 [8OC]

———expand economic sanctions against Iran to include importation of refined petroleum (see H.R. 2194), H11111 [7OC]

———negotiate an ``Incidents at Sea Agreement'' (see H. Con. Res. 94), H7741 [7JY]

Johnson, Jim: tribute (see H. Res. 693), H9808 [22SE]

Juneteenth Independence Day: observance (see H. Res. 546), H6806 [15JN]

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]

``Laramie Project—10 Years Later'': tribute to participants in epilogue to play in remembrance of Matthew Shepard (see H. Res. 777), H11168 [8OC]

Laurinburg Normal Industrial Institute: tribute (see H. Res. 660), H10458 [1OC]

Law enforcement: reduce the rape kit forensic analysis backlog (see H.R. 4114), H13351 [19NO]

Lincoln, Abraham: bicentennial of birth (see H. Res. 139), H1080 [9FE]

LSC: meet special needs of eligible clients, provide for technology grants, and improve corporate practices (see H.R. 3764), H13521 [3DE]

Madagascar: condemn illegal extraction of natural resources (see H. Res. 839), H11869 [27OC]

Marine mammals: establish a research program to provide for the recovery of the southern sea otter (see H.R. 556), H6014 [21MY]

Martin Luther King, Jr., Day: observance (see H. Res. 73), H387 [16JA]

———recognize and encourage participation in community service (see H. Res. 43), H196 [13JA]

Medicaid: extend drug rebate program to enrollees of managed care organizations (see H.R. 904), H2632 [24FE]

———extend the period of temporary increase of the Federal medical assistance percentage (see H.R. 4263), H14742 [10DE]

———permit States the option to provide coverage for low-income individuals infected with HIV (see H.R. 1616), H6415 [9JN]

———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. 868), H11581 [21OC]

———provide the disabled and elderly with equal access to community-based attendant services (see H.R. 1670), H4027 [25MR]

———remove exclusion from medical assistance of items and services for patients in mental institutions (see H.R. 619), H442 [21JA]

———restore and protect access to discount drug prices for university-based and safety-net clinics (see H.R. 398), H526 [26JA]

———waive requirement for proof of citizenship during first year of life for children born in the U.S. to Medicaid-eligible mothers (see H.R. 180), H34 [6JA]

Medicare: allow beneficiaries direct access to physical therapists without a physician referral (see H.R. 1829), H4250 [31MR]

———eliminate disparities in breast cancer treatment through development of a uniform set of treatment performance measures for a quality reporting system and value-based purchasing system (see H.R. 2279), H5306 [6MY]

———establish a hospice care demonstration program and grant programs for cancer palliative care and symptom management programs (see H.R. 1844), H8708 [23JY]

———expedite application and qualification process of low-income individuals obtaining subsidized prescription drug coverage (see H.R. 2700), H6263 [4JN]

———improve access of beneficiaries to intravenous immune globulins (IVIG) (see H.R. 2002), H4580 [21AP]

———improve access to, and increase utilization of, bone mass measurement benefits (see H.R. 1894), H4519 [2AP]

———include costs incurred by certain agencies, health centers, or drug assistance programs toward the out-of-pocket threshold of the prescription drug program (see H.R. 2777), H6414 [9JN]

———make permanent the program of Federal reimbursement of emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens (see H.R. 1386), H3642 [18MR]

———permit physical therapy services to be furnished to individuals under the care of a dentist (see H.R. 1430), H4915 [28AP]

———phase-out waiting period for coverage of disabled individuals and waive waiting period for people with life-threatening illnesses (see H.R. 1708), H4688 [22AP]

———provide beneficiaries greater choice with regard to accessing hearing health services and benefits (see H.R. 3024), H9491 [14SE]

———provide comprehensive cancer patient treatment education and conduct research to improve cancer symptom management (see H.R. 1927), H4584 [21AP]

———provide coverage for the shingles vaccine (see H.R. 1038), H1518 [12FE]

———provide coverage of acupuncturist services (see H.R. 646), H485 [22JA]

———provide coverage of services of qualified respiratory therapists performed under the general supervision of a physician (see H.R. 1077), H3706 [19MR]

———provide coverage of substitute adult day care services (see H.R. 3043), H11581 [21OC]

———provide for consolidated coverage of home infusion drug therapy (see H.R. 574), H2875 [26FE]

———provide payment to hospitals for costs of expanded advanced practice nurse training programs (see H.R. 3185), H11868 [27OC]

———recognize certain certified diabetes educators as certified providers for purposes of outpatient diabetes self-management training services (see H.R. 2425), H12141 [29OC]

———reimburse certain midwife services (see H.R. 1101), H6076 [2JN]

———repeal competitive acquisition program for durable medical equipment and prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies (DMEPOS) in a budget neutral manner (see H.R. 3790), H14744 [10DE]

———repeal outpatient rehabilitation therapy caps (see H.R. 43), H2632 [24FE]

———restore State authority to waive the 35-mile rule for designating critical access hospitals (see H.R. 2692), H6154 [3JN]

Medicare/Medicaid: establish prescription drug outreach demonstration program for certain eligible individuals with mental disabilities (see H.R. 2390), H6539 [10JN]

Mental health: encourage State and local governments to use block grant funds to provide housing and financial counseling to individuals prior to release from inpatient or residential institutions (see H.R. 766), H11167 [8OC]

———increase recruitment and retention of school counselors, social workers, and psychologists by low-income local educational agencies (see H.R. 1361), H3054 [5MR]

Mental Health America (organization): anniversary (see H. Res. 160), H1521 [12FE]

Mental Health Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 437), H5666 [14MY]

Mesothelioma Awareness Day: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 771), H9961 [24SE]

Mexico: express condolences to families of victims of ABC Daycare Center fire, commend those who risked their lives to rescue children from the fire, and acknowledge importance of fire codes and sprinkler systems (see H. Res. 598), H8026 [13JY]

———support efforts to combat drug trafficking (see H. Res. 258), H4027 [25MR]

Middle East: commend efforts to teach the history of both Israelis and Palestinians to students in Israel and the West Bank to foster mutual understanding, respect, and tolerance (see H. Res. 511), H8708 [23JY]

Migratory Bird Treaty Act: provide penalties and enforcement for intentionally taking protected avian species (see H.R. 2062), H4731 [23AP]

Mining and mineral resources: modify requirements applicable to locatable minerals on public domain lands (see H.R. 699), H601 [27JA]

Minorities: improve health of minority individuals (see H.R. 3090), H7704 [26JN]

Mitchell, George J.: support appointment as Special Envoy for Middle East Peace (see H. Res. 130), H1045 [4FE]

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

Motor vehicles: recognize contributions of dealerships and provide closed dealerships an opportunity to obtain a franchise when manufacturers seek partners to open future dealerships (see H. Res. 713), H15504 [16DE]

Motown Records (business): anniversary (see H. Con. Res. 50), H1520 [12FE]

Music and dance: anniversary of recording of album ``Kind of Blue'' and reaffirm jazz as a national treasure (see H. Res. 894), H12456 [5NO]

NAACP: anniversary (see H. Con. Res. 35), H779 [28JA]

NAFTA: agree to amendment expanding authority of the Border Environment Cooperation Commission and the North American Development Bank relative to infrastructure in the border region (see H.R. 3252), H8355 [17JY]

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 Academy of Engineering: provide study on improving the accuracy of the collection of oil, condensate, and natural gas royalties from Federal and Indian land leases (see H.R. 1462), H3399 [12MR]

National Academy of Sciences: evaluate certain Federal regulations for potential harmful impacts on public health and the environment and direct Federal agencies to reverse those harmful impacts (see H.R. 585), H381 [15JA]

National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 910), H13267 [18NO]

National Archives and Records Administration: make grants to States for the preservation and dissemination of historical records (see H.R. 2256), H6415 [9JN]

National Asian American and Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 439), H5666 [14MY]

National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month: designate (see H. Res. 407), H5307 [6MY]

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

National Chemistry Week: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 793), H10457 [1OC]

National Child Awareness Month: designate (see H. Res. 438), H5666 [14MY]

National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month: designate (see H. Res. 996), H15508 [23DE]

National Clinicians HIV/AIDS Testing and Awareness Day: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 592), H7705 [26JN]

National Commission on Presidential War Powers and Civil Liberties: establish (see H.R. 104), H382 [15JA]

National Commission on State Workers' Compensation Laws: establish (see H.R. 635), H4999 [29AP]

National Commission To Study Employment and Economic Insecurity: establish (see H.R. 2078), H4732 [23AP]

National Community College Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 338), H4581 [21AP]

National Community Gardening Awareness Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 649), H9397 [9SE]

National Crime Victims' Rights Week: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 109), H1608 [13FE]

National Day of Remembrance for Homicide Victims: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 757), H9738 [21SE]

National Day of Silence: support goals and ideals (see H. Con. Res. 92), H4397 [1AP]

National Day on Writing: recognize and support (see H. Res. 524), H6414 [9JN]

National Diabetes Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 914), H13356 [19NO]

National Early Educator Worthy Wage Day: support goals and ideals (see H. Con. Res. 99), H4584 [21AP]

National Girls and Women in Sports Day: designate (see H. Res. 95), H602 [27JA]

———support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 114), H922 [3FE]

National Healthy Schools Day: designate (see H. Res. 370), H4840 [27AP]

National Immunization Awareness Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 709), H9280 [31JY]

National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities: designate (see H.R. 2778), H7706 [26JN]

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: authorize development of multidisciplinary research centers focusing on women's health and disease prevention (see H.R. 4161), H13385 [1DE]

———authorize development of research program on hormone disruption (see H.R. 4160), H13385 [1DE]

———conduct research program on endocrine disruption and reduce exposure to chemicals that undermine development of children before they are born (see H.R. 4190), H13519 [3DE]

National Kids' Philanthropy Day: designate (see H. Res. 452), H8586 [22JY]

National Labor History Month: designate (see H. Con. Res. 205), H11790 [26OC]

National Labor Relations Act: apply protections to teaching and research assistants (see H.R. 1461), H3399 [12MR]

National Library Week: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 336), H4581 [21AP]

National Memory Screening Day: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 910), H13267 [18NO]

National Mentoring Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 41), H162 [9JA]

National Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day: designate (see H. Res. 787), H10408 [30SE]

National Nurses Week: recognize (see H. Res. 192), H4841 [27AP]

National Nutrition Month: designate (see H. Res. 274), H4027 [25MR]

National Physical Education and Sport Week: recognize (see H. Res. 503), H6265 [4JN]

National Principals Month: designate (see H. Res. 811), H11111 [7OC]

National Safe Place Week: observance (see H. Res. 217), H3402 [12MR]

National School Lunch Act: expand access to healthy afterschool meals for school children in working families (see H.R. 3321), H12142 [29OC]

———increase number of children eligible for free school meals (see H.R. 3705), H10456 [1OC]

National School Psychology Week: designate (see H. Res. 700), H11582 [21OC]

National security: call for adoption of smart security platform for the 21st century (see H. Res. 363), H7948 [9JY]

———enhance safety of U.S. ports of entry (see H.R. 1655), H3705 [19MR]

———establish reasonable procedural protections for the use of national security letters (see H.R. 1800), H4129 [30MR]

National STD Awareness Month: designate (see H. Con. Res. 107), H5097 [4MY]

National Teacher Day: establish (see H. Res. 403), H5169 [5MY]

National Travel and Tourism Week: designate (see H. Con. Res. 105), H5308 [6MY]

National Women's Health Week: support goals and ideals (see H. Con. Res. 120), H5307 [6MY]

National Women's History Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 211), H3106 [9MR]

National Work and Family Month: designate (see H. Res. 768), H10071 [29SE]

Native Americans: acknowledge history of official depredations and ill-conceived policies by the U.S. regarding Indian Tribes and offer apology to all Native Peoples on behalf of the U.S. (see H.J. Res. 46), H5061 [30AP]

———extend Federal recognition to the Chickahominy, Chickahominy-Eastern Division, Mattaponi, Upper Mattaponi, Rappahannock, Monacan, and Nansemond Tribes (see H.R. 1385), H3104 [9MR]

———improve prosecution of, and response to, crimes in Indian country (see H.R. 1924), H4521 [2AP]

———protect Indian arts and crafts through the improvement of applicable criminal proceedings (see H.R. 725), H9397 [9SE]

———provide for the recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina (see H.R. 31), H442 [21JA]

NeighborWorks America (organization): provide funding for mortgage foreclosure mitigation activities (see H.R. 1848), H4396 [1AP]

New York, NY: anniversary of Stonewall gay-rights riots (see H. Res. 433), H5713 [18MY]

———extend and improve protections and services to individuals directly impacted by the terrorist attack (see H.R. 847), H2980 [4MR]

———tribute to New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture for educating Americans about the African-American migration (see H. Con. Res. 42), H11384 [14OC]

New York Yankees (baseball team): tribute (see H. Res. 893), H12456 [5NO]

Newman, Paul: tribute (see H. Res. 18), H71 [7JA]

NIH: establish a pediatric research consortia (see H.R. 758), H778 [28JA]

———expand, intensify, and coordinate research and other activities relative to primary lateral sclerosis (see H.R. 804), H3056 [5MR]

NOAA: establish education and watershed programs which advance environmental literacy, including preparedness and adaptability for the likely impacts of climate change in coastal watershed regions (see H.R. 3644), H10520 [6OC]

———establish Salmon Stronghold Partnership program (see H.R. 2055), H6266 [4JN]

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

Northern Mariana Islands: convey certain submerged lands (see H.R. 934), H7023 [18JN]

Nowruz: observance of Iranian New Year (see H. Res. 267), H3705 [19MR]

NSF: establish a global warming education program (see H.R. 1926), H4521 [2AP]

Nuclear weapons: recognize nonproliferation options for nuclear understanding to keep everyone safe (NO NUKES) (see H. Res. 333), H7948 [9JY]

———reduce number and accessibility and prevent proliferation, and direct a portion of the resulting savings towards child survival, hunger and universal education (see H. Res. 278), H8410 [20JY]

Oceans: establish a national ocean policy, strengthen NOAA, and establish a national and regional ocean governance structure (see H.R. 21), H196 [13JA]

OSHA: revise regulations to increase worker safety on construction sites and to protect child trespassers from unforeseen dangers (see H.R. 3094), H9550 [15SE]

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

Paul, Alice: award Congressional Gold Medal posthumously (see H.R. 406), H160 [9JA]

Peace Corps: issue semipostal stamp (see H.R. 336), H922 [3FE]

———provide continued funding and increase readjustment allowance for returning volunteers (see H.R. 1066), H3056 [5MR]

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]

Pell, Claiborne: tribute (see H. Res. 50), H195 [13JA]

Peru: cease hostile activity against indigenous peoples and engage in dialogue to address ongoing political conflict between state authorities and indigenous peoples (see H. Res. 574), H8010 [10JY]

Philippines: express condolences to the citizens and support for Philippine Government in aftermath of devastating tropical storms (see H. Res. 800), H10519 [6OC]

Political campaigns: reform financing of House of Representatives elections (see H.R. 1826), H8586 [22JY] (see H.R. 2056), H6076 [2JN]

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), H2886 [2MR]

———discontinue practice of contracting out mail delivery services (see H. Res. 101), H780 [28JA]

———modify procedures for closure or consolidation of post offices (see H.R. 658), H485 [22JA]

Poverty: express that the U.S. has a moral responsibility to meet the needs of the impoverished, disadvantaged, or otherwise in poverty (see H. Con. Res. 102), H4581 [21AP]

———prepare young people in disadvantaged situations for a competitive future (see H.R. 3982), H12197 [2NO]

Power resources: establish a program to provide for workforce training and education at community colleges in sustainable energy (see H.R. 3731), H10519 [6OC]

———provide for a program of wind energy research, development, and demonstration (see H.R. 3165), H9282 [31JY]

Prague Conference on Holocaust Era Assets: support goals and objectives (see H. Con. Res. 89), H4688 [22AP]

Privacy: establish limitations on use of whole-body imaging technology for aircraft passenger screening (see H.R. 2027), H5170 [5MY]

Product safety: ban use of bisphenol A in food and beverage containers (see H.R. 1523), H3706 [19MR]

———establish a comprehensive process to inform consumers about food and product recalls (see H.R. 3076), H8586 [22JY]

———require household cleaning products and similar products bear a label that contains a complete and accurate list of ingredients (see H.R. 3057), H9900 [23SE]

Public buildings: prohibit smoking in or near Federal buildings (see H.R. 4131), H13521 [3DE]

Public lands: designate certain portions of the red rock canyons of the Colorado Plateau and the Basin and Range Deserts in Utah as wilderness (see H.R. 1925), H4521 [2AP]

Public safety officers: authorize Federal payment to first responders for costs associated with providing emergency services at international borders (see H.R. 670), H2603 [23FE]

———provide collective bargaining rights for State or local government employees (see H.R. 413), H10408 [30SE]

Public utilities: establish a Federal renewable electricity standard for certain electric utilities (see H.R. 890), H5169 [5MY]

———establish an energy efficiency resource standard for retail electricity and natural gas distributors (see H.R. 889), H6014 [21MY]

———provide additional authority and definitions to public utility contracts (see H.R. 175), H1607 [13FE]

Puerto Rico: provide for a federally sanctioned self-determination process (see H.R. 2499), H9900 [23SE]

———repeal limitation on authorized uses of former bombardment area on Culebra and prohibition on Federal Government responsibility for decontamination of the area (see H.R. 1958), H6076 [2JN]

Radioactive substances: prohibit importation of certain low-level radioactive waste into the U.S. (see H.R. 515), H486 [22JA]

Read Across America Day: designate (see H. Res. 146), H2603 [23FE]

Red Cross Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 311), H4398 [1AP]

Refuse disposal: require refund value for certain beverage containers and provide resources for State pollution prevention and recycling programs (see H.R. 2046), H11516 [20OC]

Renewable energy: include algae-based biofuel in the renewable fuel program and include such fuels in the cellulosic biofuel producer tax credit (see H.R. 3460), H12365 [4NO]

———provide support to develop career and technical education programs of study and facilities (see H.R. 1775), H6307 [8JN]

Rialto, CA: tribute to Eisenhower High School boys' basketball team (see H. Res. 321), H4689 [22AP]

Riverside County, CA: authorize water rights settlement with the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians (see H.R. 4285), H14826 [11DE]

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

Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act: authorize the use of grant funds for gang prevention (see H.R. 1589), H3640 [18MR]

———include bullying and harassment prevention programs (see H.R. 2262), H5168 [5MY]

Safe Drinking Water Act: repeal exemption for hydraulic fracturing (see H.R. 2766), H9207 [30JY]

Safety: express importance of swimming lessons and recognize danger of drowning among minority children (see H. Res. 57), H195 [13JA]

SBA: ensure fairness and transparency in contracting with small business concerns (see H.R. 2568), H13386 [1DE]

———establish mentorship and assistance programs designed to help minority, veteran-owned, and woman-owned small businesses operate in the construction industry (see H.R. 3771), H11165 [8OC]

Schomburg, Arthur: tribute (see H. Con. Res. 43), H11384 [14OC]

School Social Work Week: designate (see H. Res. 182), H2602 [23FE]

Schools: direct certain coeducational elementary and secondary schools to make information available on equality in athletic programs (see H.R. 2882), H6902 [16JN]

———direct local educational agencies to release secondary school student information to military recruiters only if the student's parent provides written request for the release (see H.R. 1091), H1605 [13FE]

———improve automatic enrollment procedures for the national school lunch and school breakfast programs (see H.R. 4148), H13353 [19NO]

———support high-need middle and high schools in order to improve students' academic achievement, graduation rates, postsecondary readiness, and preparation for citizenry (see H.R. 4122), H13352 [19NO]

Senior citizens: improve research, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, conditions, and injuries and conduct a longitudinal study on aging (see H.R. 1021), H2980 [4MR]

Sewage disposal: ensure that publicly owned treatment plants monitor for and report sewer overflows (see H.R. 753), H2926 [3MR]

Ships and vessels: establish national standards for discharges from cruise vessels (see H.R. 3888), H11580 [21OC]

Social Security: allow choice of benefit payment method relative to computation rule application to workers attaining age 65 in or after 1982 (see H.R. 1067), H3749 [23MR]

———combine coverage of children and pregnant woman under Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program into a new All Healthy Children Program (see H.R. 747), H777 [28JA]

———eliminate waiting period for certain disability benefits in the cases of individuals with disabling burn injuries (see H.R. 723), H1159 [10FE]

———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. 3469), H9276 [31JY]

———ensure prompt access to SSI, disability, and Medicaid benefits for persons released from certain public institutions (see H.R. 2829), H13521 [3DE]

———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), H6014 [21MY]

———provide for treatment of disability rated and certified as total by the Dept. of Veterans Affairs as disability (see H.R. 4054), H12587 [6NO]

———remove limitations on Medicaid, Medicare, SSI, and State Children's Health Insurance Program benefits for persons in custody pending disposition of charges (see H.R. 2209), H5061 [30AP]

———repeal Government pension offset and windfall elimination provisions (see H.R. 235), H69 [7JA]

———revise medical criteria for evaluating disability in a person with Huntington's disease and waive Medicare waiting period for individuals disabled by Huntington's disease (see H.R. 678), H923 [3FE]

Social Work Reinvestment Commission: establish (see H.R. 795), H919 [3FE]

Taxation: allow a credit for qualified conservation contributions which include national scenic trails (see H.R. 1912), H6076 [2JN]

———allow a credit to vehicle fleet operators for purchasing tires made from recycled rubber (see H.R. 1888), H5170 [5MY]

———allow a deduction for qualified long-term care insurance and a credit for individuals who care for those with long-term care needs (see H.R. 897), H1043 [4FE]

———allow a tax credit for the purchase of hearing aids (see H.R. 1646), H3749 [23MR]

———allow deduction equal to fair market value for charitable contributions of literary, musical, artistic, or scholarly compositions created by the donor (see H.R. 1126), H13386 [1DE]

———allow Federal civilian and military retirees to pay health insurance premiums on a pretax basis and allow a deduction for TRICARE supplemental premiums (see H.R. 1203), H2835 [25FE]

———allow Head Start teachers the same above-the-line deduction for supplies as is allowed to elementary and secondary school teachers (see H.R. 1405), H6415 [9JN]

———allow taxpayers to designate a portion of their income tax payment to provide assistance to homeless veterans (see H.R. 147), H442 [21JA]

———create a refundable work-sharing credit that stimulates demand in the private sector labor market and provides employers with an alternative to layoffs (see H.R. 4179), H14877 [14DE]

———deny any deduction for direct-to-consumer advertisements of prescription drugs (see H.R. 2966), H8873 [27JY]

———eligibility of energy efficiency property for energy credit (see H.R. 2016), H6076 [2JN]

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

———establish ABLE accounts to pay for qualified disability expenses of family members with disabilities (see H.R. 1205), H6744 [12JN]

———expand definition of cellulosic biofuel to include algae-based biofuel for purposes of the cellulosic biofuel producer credit and special allowance for plant property (see H.R. 4168), H13467 [2DE]

———extend and modify the railroad track maintenance credit (see H.R. 1132), H11458 [15OC]

———extend deduction for certain expenses of elementary and secondary school teachers (see H.R. 2329), H6077 [2JN]

———extend exclusion from gross income for employer-provided health coverage to certain employee designated beneficiaries (see H.R. 2625), H11458 [15OC]

———extend financing of the Superfund program by reinstating certain excise taxes (see H.R. 564), H3527 [17MR] (see H.R. 832), H8586 [22JY]

———impose a tax on certain securities transactions to fund job creation and deficit reduction (see H.R. 4191), H13519 [3DE]

———increase, make permanent, and index for inflation the deduction for certain elementary and secondary school teacher expenses and modify definition of eligible educator to include preschool educators (see H.R. 3164), H7946 [9JY]

———increase child care credit and credit for establishing workplace child care and provide incentives for students to earn child care-related degrees and to work in child care facilities (see H.R. 460), H1520 [12FE]

———increase exclusion for employer-provided dependent care assistance (see H.R. 2298), H9550 [15SE]

———increase standard mileage rate for charitable purposes to equal the rate for business purposes (see H.R. 345), H1607 [13FE]

———limit extent to which States may tax compensation earned by nonresident telecommuters (see H.R. 2600), H9999 [25SE]

———make equitable the exclusion from gross income of parking and transportation fringe benefits and provide for a common cost-of-living adjustment (see H.R. 891), H3835 [24MR]

———make permanent the 7-year depreciation recovery period for motorsport entertainment complexes (see H.R. 1974), H8708 [23JY]

———make permanent the special rule for contributions of qualified conservation contributions (see H.R. 1831), H5400 [7MY]

———permanently extend and expand deduction for charitable contributions of food inventory (see H.R. 3227), H12142 [29OC]

———provide a credit against tax for expenses paid or incurred in non-clinical research for neglected diseases (see H.R. 3156), H12198 [2NO]

———provide an exclusion from gross income for AmeriCorps educational awards (see H.R. 1596), H3641 [18MR]

———provide collegiate housing and infrastructure grants (see H.R. 1547), H3525 [17MR]

———provide incentives to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the domestic energy supply (see H.R. 1337), H5097 [4MY]

———reduce carbon dioxide emissions by imposing a tax on primary fossil fuels based on their carbon content (see H.R. 594), H6306 [8JN]

———reduce depreciation recovery period for roof systems (see H.R. 426), H8410 [20JY]

———reduce tax on beer (see H.R. 836), H3402 [12MR]

———repeal excise tax on telephone use and other communications services (see H.R. 2203), H6744 [12JN] (see H.R. 3011), H7248 [24JN]

———restrict use of abusive tax shelters and offshore tax havens to inappropriately avoid Federal taxation (see H.R. 1265), H2923 [3MR]

———treat automatic fire sprinkler systems as 5-year property for purposes of depreciation (see H.R. 1194), H2835 [25FE]

———treat Indian tribal governments as States for purposes of determining sources of support of charitable organizations (see H.R. 3085), H9207 [30JY]

Telephones: facilitate nationwide availability of 2-1-1 telephone service for information and referral on health and human services (see H.R. 211), H1607 [13FE]

———restrict any State or local jurisdiction from imposing a new discriminatory tax on cell phone services, providers, or property (see H.R. 1521), H11713 [22OC]

Territories: treat American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands as States for certain criminal justice programs (see H.R. 3353), H12044 [28OC]

Theodore Roosevelt Scholarship Foundation: establish to encourage outstanding graduate students in mission-critical fields to pursue a career in the Federal Government (see H.R. 3510), H11167 [8OC]

Thomas, Helen: tribute (see H. Res. 533), H8026 [13JY]

Tower of Hope (organization): commend efforts to provide assistance dogs to wounded veterans and support goals and ideals of creating a Tower of Hope Day (see H. Res. 291), H8708 [23JY]

Transportation: allow public transit agencies to use Federal transit funds for day-to-day operating expenses (see H.R. 2746), H12457 [5NO]

———ensure that all transportation system users can travel safely and conveniently on and across federally funded streets and highways (see H.R. 1443), H4583 [21AP]

———prohibit transportation of horses in vehicles containing 2 or more levels stacked on top of one another (see H.R. 305), H3055 [5MR]

———support efforts of States and eligible local and regional entities to develop transportation greenhouse gas reduction plans (see H.R. 1329), H5400 [7MY]

———support goals and ideals of a decade of action for road safety to reduce by 50 percent the predicted increase in global road deaths (see H. Con. Res. 74), H8496 [21JY]

Transportation Security Administration: enhance personnel system (see H.R. 1881), H4519 [2AP]

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. (see H.R. 2935), H7251 [24JN]

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]

Truth in Lending Act: extend protections to overdraft protection programs, require consent and enhance information on overdraft protection, and prohibit manipulation to generate overdraft protection fees (see H.R. 1456), H9807 [22SE]

Twenty-First Century Water Commission: establish (see H.R. 135), H1159 [10FE]

U.N.: anniversary of adoption of Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic of Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others (see H. Res. 929), H13354 [19NO]

U.S. Public Service Academy: establish (see H.R. 2102), H6807 [15JN]

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 H.R. 2478), H7250 [24JN]

Unemployment: provide for certain temporary additional unemployment benefits (see H.R. 291), H442 [21JA] (see H.R. 4183), H13466 [2DE]

United Kingdom: observe anniversary of the abolition of the British slave trade (see H. Con. Res. 73), H9207 [30JY]

University of Southern California: tribute to men's tennis team (see H. Res. 514), H6265 [4JN]

Veterans: clarify meaning of ``combat with the enemy'' for purposes of service-connection of disabilities (see H.R. 952), H1157 [10FE]

———create a service corps of veterans called Veterans Engaged for Tomorrow (VET) Corps focused on promoting and improving the service opportunities for veterans and retired members of the military (see H.R. 1401), H3402 [12MR]

———expand authorized concurrent receipt of disability pay from the Depts. of Defense and Veterans Affairs to cover all veterans who have a combat-related disability (see H.R. 593), H381 [15JA]

———issue veterans health care stamp (see H.R. 3942), H12457 [5NO]

———provide housing assistance for very low-income veterans (see H.R. 403), H3748 [23MR]

———revise eligibility criteria for presumption of service-connection of certain diseases and disabilities for veterans exposed to ionizing radiation during military service (see H.R. 2573), H8495 [21JY]

Veterans Day: encourage greater recognition (see H. Res. 89), H11714 [22OC]

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

———require States to permit individuals to register to vote in an election for Federal office on the date of the election (see H.R. 3957), H13467 [2DE]

———secure the Federal voting rights of certain qualified ex-offenders who have served their sentences (see H.R. 3335), H8809 [24JY]

Water: require a national primary drinking water regulation for perchlorate (see H.R. 3206), H8099 [14JY]

Water for the Poor Act: enhance implementation (see H.R. 2030), H8809 [24JY]

Water Protection and Reinvestment Fund: establish (see H.R. 3202), H9282 [31JY]

Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day: establish (see H. Res. 203), H2925 [3MR] (see H. Res. 234), H3439 [16MR]

White House Conference on Children and Youth: convene (see H.R. 618), H442 [21JA]

White House Conference on Food and Nutrition: convene (see H.R. 1869), H4735 [23AP]

Wildlife: prevent introduction and establishment of nonnative invasive wildlife species that negatively impact the economy, environment, or human or animal health (see H.R. 669), H525 [26JA]

Women: improve prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of heart disease, stroke, and other cardiovascular diseases in women (see H.R. 1032), H1518 [12FE]

———promote economic security and safety of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking victims (see H.R. 739), H4734 [23AP]

———recognize the disparate impact of climate change on women and the efforts of women globally to address climate change (see H. Con. Res. 98), H10070 [29SE]

Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP): award a Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 2014), H5667 [14MY]

Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act: minimize adverse effects of employment dislocation (see H.R. 3042), H8303 [16JY]

———require notification for mass layoffs that occur at more than one site of an employer and increase penalties for violations (see H.R. 2077), H4732 [23AP]

Workers Memorial Day: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 375), H4915 [28AP]

World AIDS Day: support goals and ideals (see H. Con. Res. 215), H13353 [19NO] (see H. Con. Res. 216), H13385 [1DE]

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), H3706 [19MR]

Yunus, Muhammad: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 2000), H8025 [13JY]

Zamora y Diaz, Pedro P.: tribute (see H. Res. 308), H7024 [18JN]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Animals: conserve global bear populations by prohibiting the importation, exportation, and interstate trade of bear viscera and items or products containing bear viscera (see H.R. 3480), H9277 [31JY]

Arizona: withdraw certain Federal lands and interests in Pima and Santa Cruz Counties from mining and mineral leasing laws (see H.R. 2944), H7022 [18JN]

———withdraw Tusayan Ranger District and BLM-managed Federal land in the vicinity of Kanab Creek and in House Rock Valley from location, entry, and patent under mining laws (see H.R. 644), H485 [22JA]

BLM: establish the National Landscape Conservation System (see H.R. 404), H160 [9JA]

Dept. of Education: provide grants to States to ensure that students complete the middle grades prepared for success in high school and postsecondary endeavors (see H.R. 3006), H7145 [23JN]

Dept. of Justice: exempt transportation, shipment, receipt, or importation of explosive materials for delivery to a federally recognized Indian tribe from certain prohibitions relating to explosives (see H.R. 1333), H3053 [5MR]

Dept. of the Interior: authorize participation in the Avra/Black Wash Reclamation and Riparian Restoration Project (see H.R. 325), H89 [8JA]

———take lands in Yuma County, AZ, into trust as part of the reservation of the Cocopah Indian Tribe (see H.R. 326), H89 [8JA]

Ecology and environment: establish an integrated Federal program to protect, restore, and conserve natural resources in response to the threats of climate change and ocean acidification (see H.R. 2192), H5060 [30AP]

Education: establish dual-language education programs in low-income communities (see H.R. 3753), H11110 [7OC]

———improve literacy and English skills of limited English proficient individuals (see H.R. 1224), H2873 [26FE]

Geronimo (Apache Indian): anniversary of death (see H. Res. 132), H1045 [4FE]

Lower Colorado River: protect water quality and develop and implement a plan for prevention and elimination of pollution and maintenance of a healthy ecosystem (see H.R. 3481), H9277 [31JY]

Morris K. Udall Foundation: provide additional resources for operations and rename as the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation (see H.R. 1035), H1518 [12FE]

———provide additional resources for operations and rename as the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation (H.R. 1035), concur in Senate amendment with an amendment (see H. Res. 806), H11110 [7OC]

National Hispanic-Serving Institutions Week: establish (see H. Res. 737), H9490 [14SE]

National security: establish a border protection strategy and address ecological and environmental impacts of border security infrastructure, measures, and activities (see H.R. 2076), H4732 [23AP]

No Child Left Behind Act: reauthorize and strengthen the Improving Literacy Through School Libraries Program (see H.R. 3928), H11790 [26OC]

Public Lands Corps Act: provide service-learning opportunities on public lands, restore natural, cultural, historic, archeological, recreational, and scenic resources, train new land managers, and promote public service (see H.R. 1612), H3703 [19MR]

Saguaro National Park: study land for potential inclusion or removal from boundary (see H.R. 715), H601 [27JA]

Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage Area: establish (see H.R. 324), H89 [8JA]

Taxation: allow Indian tribal governments to transfer the credit for electricity produced from renewable resources (see H.R. 2982), H7085 [19JN]

Letters

Leadville Mine Drainage Tunnel Remediation Act: Representative Oberstar, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (House), H9294 [8SE]

———Representative Rahall, Committee on Natural Resources (House), H9294 [8SE]

Remarks

American Battlefield Protection Act: establish battlefield acquisition grant program to acquire and protect nationally significant battlefields and associated sites of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 (H.R. 146), Senate amendments, H3977 [25MR]

Animals: improve management and long-term health of wild free-roaming horses and burros (H.R. 1018), H8320 [17JY]

BLM: National Landscape Conservation System funding, H3280 [11MR]

Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge: tribute to staff, E3033 [17DE]

Bureau of Reclamation: remedy problems caused by a collapsed drainage tunnel in Leadville, CO (H.R. 3123), H9294 [8SE]

Chesapeake Bay Initiative Act: limit authorization of the Chesapeake Bay Gateways and Watertrails Network until Federal deficit falls to certain level, H9408 [10SE]

———prohibit permanent authorization of the Chesapeake Bay Gateways and Watertrails Network, H9406, H9407 [10SE]

———provide for continuing authorization of the Chesapeake Bay Gateways and Watertrails Network (H.R. 965), H9402, H9406, H9407 [10SE]

———provide for continuing authorization of the Chesapeake Bay Gateways and Watertrails Network (H.R. 965), motion to recommit, H9408 [10SE]

Community service: reauthorize and reform national service laws (H.R. 1388), Senate amendments, H4185 [31MR]

Congressional Progressive Caucus: national objectives priority assignments, H433, H434, H435, H438 [21JA]

Credit: provide for enhanced disclosure under an open end credit plan (H.R. 627), consideration of Senate amendment (H. Res. 456), H5812 [20MY]

Dept. of the Interior: authorize leasing of a portion of the Dorothy Buell Memorial Visitor Center for use as a visitor center for the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore (H.R. 1287), H9289 [8SE]

———require consultation with the Dept. of Homeland Security when forming land use plans for border regions, H9852 [23SE]

Depts. of the Interior and Agriculture: designate certain wilderness areas, wild and scenic rivers, trails, and national heritage areas, and authorize certain programs and activities, H3977 [25MR]

———designate certain wilderness areas, wild and scenic rivers, trails, and national heritage areas, and authorize certain programs and activities (S. 22), H3280 [11MR]

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 (H.R. 11), H123 [9JA]

Ecology and environment: establish an integrated Federal program to protect, restore, and conserve natural resources in response to the threats of climate change and ocean acidification, H7669 [26JN]

———establish an integrated Federal program to protect, restore, and conserve natural resources in response to the threats of climate change and ocean acidification (H.R. 2192), E1025 [30AP]

Fire prevention: provide a supplemental funding source for catastrophic emergency wildland fire suppression activities and develop a cohesive wildland fire management strategy (H.R. 1404), E799 [26MR]

Firearms: preserve rights granted under second amendment to the Constitution in national parks and national wildlife refuge areas, H5812 [20MY]

Forest Service: grant permanent authority to contract with States to develop `good neighbor' projects to reduce wildfire risks across boundary lines, E799 [26MR]

Geronimo (Apache Indian): anniversary of death, E277 [13FE]

Health: national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (H.R. 3200), H8033 [14JY]

Honolulu, HI: recognize reopening of Hawaiian Hall on the anniversary of Bishop Museum (H. Res. 541), H9295, H9296 [8SE]

Louisiana State University: tribute to baseball team (H. Res. 616), H8832 [27JY]

Mendocino National Forest: provide for an exchange of certain lands (H.R. 1043), H9288 [8SE]

Miami, FL: recognize historical significance of Historic Virginia Key Beach Park (H. Res. 361), H9296, H9297 [8SE]

Molalla River: designate portions as components of the Wild and Scenic Rivers System (H.R. 2781), H13281, H13282, H13283, H13285, H13287, H13288 [19NO]

———impact of designation of portions as components of the Wild and Scenic Rivers System on lumber industry, H13285, H13287 [19NO]

Morris K. Udall Foundation: provide additional resources for operations and rename as the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation (H.R. 1035), H8834, H8835, H8836 [27JY], E258 [12FE]

———provide additional resources for operations and rename as the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation (H.R. 1035), concur in Senate amendment with an amendment (H. Res. 806), H11052, H11055 [7OC]

Ouachita National Forest: convey certain land in Oklahoma to the Indian Nations Council, Inc., of the Boy Scouts (H.R. 310), H9293 [8SE]

Power resources: create clean energy jobs, achieve energy independence, reduce global warming pollution, and transition to a clean energy economy (H.R. 2454), H7669 [26JN]

Public lands: permit the carrying of concealed firearms subject to State laws, H3977 [25MR]

Public Lands Corps Act: provide service-learning opportunities on public lands, restore natural, cultural, historic, archeological, recreational, and scenic resources, train new land managers, and promote public service (H.R. 1612), E716 [19MR]

Roosevelt National Forest: provide for a boundary adjustment and land conveyances to correct effects of an erroneous land survey (H.R. 1858), H9292 [8SE]

Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage Area: establish (H.R. 324), H9289, H9291, H9292 [8SE], H9844, H9846, H9849, H9851 [23SE]

———establish (H.R. 324), motion to recommit, H9852 [23SE]

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp.: tribute to Igor I. Sikorsky Award for Humanitarian Service recipients, E787 [26MR]

Tucson, AZ: tribute to El Rio Community Health Center nursing staff, E1069 [6MY]

Tucson (AZ) Citizen: tribute, E1101 [7MY]

Votes: position on missed, H4415 [2AP], E2351 [23SE]

Tributes

Behan, Maeveen M., E2661 [29OC]

Castro, Raul H., E1381 [11JN]

Chavez, Cesar E., H4185 [31MR]

Peterson, Cele, E595 [9MR]