SCHWARTZ, ALLYSON Y. (a Representative from Pennsylvania)

Addresses

Reading of U.S. Constitution, H60 [6JA]

Appointments

Committee to escort Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into the House Chamber, H3348 [24MY]

Committee to escort Republic of Korea President Lee Myung-bak into the House Chamber, H6882 [13OC]

Conferee: H.R. 3630, Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act, H10025 [23DE]

House Democracy Partnership, H527 [8FE]

NATO Parliamentary Assembly, H1189 [17FE]

Articles and editorials

Seniors, Life's Calling You, Send Your RSVP, Stu Bykofsky, Philadelphia (PA) Daily News, E386 [1MR]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Agriculture: authorize voluntary grazing permit retirement on certain Federal lands where livestock grazing is impractical (see H.R. 3432), H7626 [15NO]

American Legion: provide for an additional power under its Federal charter to provide guidance and leadership to individual departments and posts, but not control of activities of such entities (see H.R. 2369), H4795 [8JY]

Animal Welfare Act: provide further protection for puppies (see H.R. 835), H8728 [12DE]

Animals: prohibit shipping, transporting, moving, delivering, receiving, possessing, purchasing, selling, or donation of horses and other equines to be slaughtered for human consumption (see H.R. 2966), H8881 [13DE]

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: preserve the Arctic coastal plain as wilderness (see H.R. 139), H8135 [5DE]

Arlington National Cemetery: provide a memorial marker on Chaplains Hill to honor the memory of Jewish chaplains who died while on active duty in the Armed Forces (see H. Con. Res. 12), H554 [8FE]

Armed Forces: appropriate funds to ensure prompt payment of death gratuity payments upon the death of members when a funding gap caused by the failure to enact interim or full-year appropriations for the Armed Forces occurs (see H.R. 1469), H2570 [8AP]

———improve prevention and response to sexual assaults (see H.R. 3435), H10017 [20DE]

bin Laden, Osama: tribute to President Obama and military and intelligence agencies for successful completion of the operation that led to death in Pakistan (see H. Res. 240), H3063 [4MY]

Bureau of Prisons: establish an Oleoresin Capsicum Spray Pilot Program (see H.R. 1175), H7830 [17NO]

Capitol Building and Grounds: designate a room of the Capitol Visitor Center as the ``Gabriel Zimmerman Meeting Room'' (see H. Res. 364), H5489 [25JY]

Civil rights: improve remedies for discrimination in the payment of wages based on sex (see H.R. 1519), H2664 [13AP]

———prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity (see H.R. 1397), H2410 [6AP]

Civil War—U.S.: sesquicentennial (see H. Res. 207), H5087 [14JY]

Committee on POW and MIA Affairs (House, Select): establish (see H. Res. 111), H7161 [27OC]

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. 1148), H8262 [7DE]

Consumers: clarify that a video tape service provider may obtain a consumer's informed, written consent on an ongoing basis and that consent may be obtained through the Internet (see H.R. 2471), H7069 [25OC]

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women: ratification (see H. Res. 20), H42 [5JA]

Crime: prohibit attendance of an animal fighting venture (see H.R. 2492), H8967 [14DE]

Defense of Marriage Act: repeal and ensure respect for State regulation of marriage (see H.R. 1116), H7399 [4NO]

Dept. of HHS: establish direct care registered nurse-to-patient staffing ratio requirements in hospitals (see H.R. 2187), H7579 [14NO]

———provide grants to States to establish maternal mortality review committees on pregnancy-related deaths (see H.R. 894), H5581 [26JY]

———reauthorize support for graduate medical education programs in children's hospitals (see H.R. 1852), H3344 [23MY]

Dept. of Homeland Security: accept additional documentation when considering application for veterans status of an individual who performed service in the merchant marines during World War II (see H.R. 1288), H6415 [22SE]

Dept. of the Interior: establish a program to build on and help coordinate funding for restoration and protection efforts of the Delaware River Basin region (see H.R. 2325), H4526 [23JN]

Dept. of the Navy: redesignate as the Dept. of the Navy and Marine Corps (see H.R. 24), H4577 [24JN]

Dept. of Transportation: carry out a program to improve roadway safety infrastructure in all States to enhance the safety of older drivers and pedestrians (see H.R. 1776), H4794 [8JY]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: designate one U.S. city each year as an ``American World War II City'' (see H.R. 2717), H8125 [2DE]

Developing countries: protect girls through prevention of child marriage (see H.R. 3357), H7330 [3NO]

Diseases: ensure access to, and education about, screening and treatment services for breast cancer (see H. Res. 234), H3162 [10MY]

———require a Federal commitment to Alzheimer's disease research to advance breakthrough treatments for people with the disease (see H.R. 1897), H4578 [24JN]

Economy: provide incentives for the creation of jobs and extend and reform certain tax provisions and Federal programs (see H.R. 3743), H10014 [20DE]

Employment: allow Americans to earn paid sick time to address their own health needs and the health needs of their families (see H.R. 1876), H3278 [12MY]

———promote economic self-sufficiency of low-income women through increased participation in high-wage, high-demand occupations (see H.R. 2315), H4526 [23JN]

EPA: award grants to water system owners or operators to increase resiliency or adaptability to any ongoing or forecasted changes to hydrologic conditions (see H.R. 2738), H5883 [1AU]

FAA: extend Airport Improvement Program authority (see H.R. 2644), H5782 [29JY]

FDA: improve capacity to prevent drug shortages (see H.R. 2245), H8728 [12DE]

Firearms: ensure that individuals who should be prohibited from buying a firearm are listed in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System and require a background check for every firearm sale (see H.R. 1781), H6233 [15SE]

———prohibit transfer or possession of large capacity ammunition feeding devices (see H.R. 308), H1252 (see H.R. 308), H1364 [18FE]

Foreign Claims Settlement Commission: receive and determine validity and amount of claims for loss of wages and other property of those plaintiffs in the case Bruce D. Abbott et al. v. Libya (see H.R. 3713), H10027 [23DE]

Foreign policy: 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. 304), H4186 [14JN]

Foreign trade: clarify that countervailing duties may be imposed to address subsidies relative to a fundamentally undervalued foreign currency (see H.R. 639), H6506 [3OC]

Forest Service: protect certain roadless areas (see H.R. 3465), H7829 [17NO]

Georgia (country): initiate negotiations to enter into a free trade agreement (see H. Res. 374), H5580 [26JY]

Government: prohibit Members of Congress and the President from receiving pay during Government shutdowns (see H.R. 819), H2572 [8AP]

Health: enhance and further research of prevention and treatment of eating disorders and improve access to treatment (see H.R. 1448), H2667 [13AP]

———make the provision of technical services for medical imaging examinations and radiation therapy treatments safer, more accurate, and less costly (see H.R. 2104), H4076 [13JN]

Horne, Lena Calhoun: award Congressional Gold Medal posthumously (see H.R. 1815), H4279 [15JN]

Insurance: allow enforcement of State disclosure laws and access to courts for covered Holocaust-era insurance policy claims (see H.R. 890), H3646 (see H.R. 890), H3684 [25MY]

———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. 111), H37 [5JA]

Iran: strengthen sanctions to compel Iran to abandon its pursuit of nuclear weapons and other threatening activities (see H.R. 1905), H3759 [26MY]

Korean War: call for repatriation of POW/MIA and abductees (see H. Res. 376), H7579 [14NO]

Lebanon: ensure that U.S. taxpayer dollars are not used to fund terrorist entities in Lebanon (see H.R. 2215), H4946 [12JY]

Lions Clubs: mint coins in commemoration of centennial of establishment (see H.R. 2139), H4035 [3JN]

Local Radio Freedom Act: support (see H. Con. Res. 21), H5127 [15JY]

Medicaid: require coverage of optometrists (see H.R. 1219), H5781 [29JY]

Medicare: ensure continued access of beneficiaries to diagnostic imaging services (see H.R. 3269), H7831 [17NO]

———ensure more timely access to home health services for beneficiaries (see H.R. 2267), H4364 [21JN]

———establish smart card pilot program (see H.R. 2925), H6458 [23SE]

———exclude customary prompt pay discounts from manufacturers to wholesalers from the average sales price for drugs and biologicals (see H.R. 905), H3758 [26MY]

———improve access to, and increase utilization of, bone mass measurement benefits (see H.R. 2020), H3754 [26MY]

———promote medication therapy management under the part D prescription drug program (see H.R. 891), H7257 [2NO]

———provide for patient protection by establishing safe nurse staffing levels at certain Medicare providers (see H.R. 876), H6182 [14SE]

———provide for treatment of clinical psychologists as physicians for purposes of furnishing clinical psychologist services (see H.R. 831), H3000 [3MY]

———repeal outpatient rehabilitation therapy caps (see H.R. 1546), H4577 [24JN]

———study issues on access to intravenous immune globulin (IVIG) for beneficiaries in all care settings and establish demonstration project on benefits of coverage to administer IVIG in the home (see H.R. 1845), H5897 [5AU]

Middle East: reaffirm support for a negotiated solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and oppose a unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state (see H. Res. 268), H3759 [26MY]

National Baseball Hall of Fame: mint coins in recognition and celebration (see H.R. 2527), H5084 [14JY]

National Nurses Week: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 83), H2858 [14AP]

New Zealand: express condolences to those affected by earthquake and pledge support in rescue and recovery efforts (see H. Res. 139), H2040 [29MR]

NIH: establish a pediatric research consortia (see H.R. 1080), H1840 [15MR]

Olympia (U.S.S.): mint commemorative coins (see H.R. 3180), H6919 [13OC]

OSHA: authorize and expand the Voluntary Protection Programs to include more small businesses (see H.R. 1511), H8967 [14DE]

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: repeal provisions providing for the Independent Payment Advisory Board (see H.R. 452), H2917 [15AP]

Peace Corps: require sexual assault risk-reduction and response training, develop assault protocol and guidelines, establish victims advocates, and establish a Sexual Assault Advisory Council (see H.R. 2337), H6458 [23SE]

Peace Corps Commemorative Foundation: authorize establishment of a commemorative work in the District of Columbia (see H.R. 854), H1844 [15MR]

Postal Service: amend methodology for calculating the amount of any Postal surplus or supplemental liability under the Civil Service Retirement System (see H.R. 1351), H3758 [26MY]

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. 1916), H4794 [8JY]

———designate lands in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming as wilderness and wild and scenic rivers and establish Northern Rockies Wildlife Habitat and Corridors Information System and Program (see H.R. 3334), H7329 [3NO]

Safe Drinking Water Act: repeal exemption for hydraulic fracturing (see H.R. 1084), H7399 [4NO]

Salem, MA: recognize as birthplace of the National Guard (see H.R. 1339), H9928 [16DE]

Schools: end discrimination based on actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity in public schools (see H.R. 998), H4329 [16JN]

Shuttlesworth, Fred L.: tribute (see H. Res. 432), H6853 [12OC]

Small business: repeal expansion of information reporting requirements for certain payments to corporations (see H.R. 584), H1040 (see H.R. 584), H1071 [16FE]

Social Work Reinvestment Commission: establish (see H.R. 1106), H1842 [15MR]

Taxation: allow a credit for equity investments in high technology and biotechnology small business concerns developing innovative technologies that stimulate private sector job growth (see H.R. 1732), H3061 [4MY]

———allow a tax credit for the purchase of hearing aids (see H.R. 1479), H2603 [12AP]

———expand availability of employee stock ownership plans in S corporations (see H.R. 1244), H4794 [8JY]

———extend and modify the railroad track maintenance credit (see H.R. 721), H5150 [18JY]

———extend credit for electricity produced from certain renewable resources (see H.R. 3307), H8728 [12DE]

———extend funding and expenditure authority of the Airport and Airway Trust Fund (see H.R. 2644), H5782 [29JY]

———extend the new markets tax credit (see H.R. 2655), H6674 [6OC]

———extend the qualifying therapeutic discovery project credit (see H.R. 1988), H3644 (see H.R. 1988), H3682 [25MY]

———extend the work opportunity credit for employers of recently discharged veterans (see H.R. 865), H7332 [3NO]

———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. 2412), H4671 [6JY]

———make permanent the special rule for contributions of qualified conservation contributions (see H.R. 1964), H3408 [24MY]

———permanently extend and modify credit for refined coal from steel industry fuel (see H.R. 2223), H5375 [21JY]

———promote charitable donations of qualified vehicles (see H.R. 860), H6457 [23SE]

———provide for S corporation reform (see H.R. 1478), H7165 [31OC]

———provide incentives for life sciences research (see H.R. 2632), H5488 [25JY]

———provide special rules for investments lost in a fraudulent Ponzi-type scheme (see H.R. 1635), H2912 [15AP]

———provide that the volume cap for private activity bonds shall not apply to bonds for facilities for the furnishing of water and sewage facilities (see H.R. 1802), H3411 [24MY]

———reduce excise tax rate on beer produced domestically by certain small producers (see H.R. 1236), H3062 [4MY]

———repeal fossil fuel subsidies for large oil companies (see H.R. 1689), H2998 [3MY]

———treat automatic fire sprinkler systems under certain deduction guidelines and as 15-year property for purposes of depreciation (see H.R. 1792), H6273 [20SE]

Telephones: restrict any State or local jurisdiction from imposing a new discriminatory tax on cell phone services, providers, or property (see H.R. 1002), H1723 [10MR]

Terrorism: award Congressional Gold Medals in honor of the men and women who perished as a result of the terrorist attacks on the U.S. on September 11, 2001 (see H.R. 3421), H7929 [29NO]

———award Fallen Heroes of 9/11 Congressional Medal to memorials established at 3 sites honoring individuals killed in terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 (see H.R. 2864), H5964 [7SE]

Transportation: ensure that new vehicles enable fuel competition so as to reduce the strategic importance of oil to the U.S. (see H.R. 1687), H5127 [15JY]

Trooper Joshua D. Miller Post Office Building, Pittston, PA: designate (see H.R. 2415), H4671 [6JY]

Ukraine: independence anniversary and support for continued political and economic development (see H. Res. 401), H6232 [15SE]

Wallenberg, Raoul: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 3001), H7333 [3NO]

Water pollution: clarify that fill material cannot be comprised of waste (see H.R. 1375), H2327 [5AP]

Women: constitutional amendment to ensure equal rights (see H.J. Res. 69), H4457 [22JN]

———promote potential of women in academic science and engineering (see H.R. 889), H2039 [29MR]

World War II: award Congressional Gold Medal to the Montford Point Marines (see H.R. 2447), H6782 [11OC]

———ensure that U.S. courts provide a forum for claims brought against any railroad arising from the deportation of individuals to Nazi concentration camps (see H.R. 1193), H4366 [21JN]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Dept. of Agriculture: establish a Healthy Food Financing Initiative (see H.R. 3525), H7998 [30NO]

Taxation: provide a credit for employing returning heroes and wounded warriors (see H.R. 3402), H7405 [10NO]

Constitutional authority statements

Dept. of Agriculture: establish a Healthy Food Financing Initiative (H.R. 3525), H7999 [30NO]

Taxation: provide a credit for employing returning heroes and wounded warriors (H.R. 3402), H7406 [10NO]

Remarks

Allen, Barbara: Civic Ventures (organization) Purpose Prize recipient, E211 [11FE]

Appropriations: making for Dept. of Defense and other Federal departments and agencies, rescind unobligated stimulus funds, and reduce discretionary spending (H.R. 1), H1463 [2MR]

Budget: allocation of funds, H1730 [11MR], H2523 [7AP]

———cut and cap Federal spending, enact balanced budget constitutional amendment, and increase statutory debt limit, H5713 [28JY]

———cut and cap Federal spending, enact balanced budget constitutional amendment, and increase statutory debt limit (H.R. 2560), H5188 [19JY]

———setting forth the Federal budget for 2012-2021 (H. Con. Res. 34), H2809 [14AP]

Commission on Freedom of Information Act Processing Delays: establish (S. 627), H5713 [28JY]

Dept. of HHS: convert funding for graduate medical education in qualified teaching health centers from direct appropriations to an authorization of appropriations (H.R. 1216), E950 [25MY]

Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act: repeal health-care related provisions (H.R. 2), H211 [18JA]

House Rules: amend and adopt (H. Res. 5), H23 [5JA]

Huntingdon Valley, PA: anniversary of Huntingdon Valley Fire Co., E970 [27MY]

Medicare: reform, H2524 [7AP], H2611 [13AP], H2809 [14AP]

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: repeal (H.R. 2), H211 [18JA]

Philadelphia, PA: anniversary of Trinity Church Oxford, E582 [31MR]

———tribute to Retired Senior and Volunteer Program (RSVP), E386 [1MR]

Taxation: provide incentives for life sciences research (H.R. 2632), H5677 [28JY]

———repeal withholding tax on Federal, State, and local government contracts (H.R. 674), Senate amendment, H7639 [16NO]

Tucson, AZ: condemn shootings at ``Congress on Your Corner'' event, express condolences to friends and families of victims, commend first responders, and honor service of Representative Giffords (H. Res. 32), H169 [12JA]

Veterans: reduce unemployment by ensuring training and transition assistance and providing incentives to employers for hiring veterans, H7639 [16NO]

Votes: position on missed, H2312 [5AP], H2423 [7AP], H7003 [24OC], E879 [12MY], E1272 [8JY]