HOCHUL, KATHLEEN C. (a Representative from New York)

Amendments

Dept. of the Interior, environment, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 2584), H5466 [25JY]

Outer Continental Shelf: monitor activities relative to air pollution (H.R. 2021), H4409 [22JN]

Appointments

Committee to escort the President into the House chamber, H6005 [8SE]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

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]

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

Budget Control Act: protect Social Security and SSI programs from budget cuts (see H.R. 2723), H6626 [5OC]

Business and industry: establish a pilot program to facilitate education and training programs in the field of advanced manufacturing (see H.R. 1716), H7892 [18NO]

Capitol Building and Grounds: designate a room of the Capitol Visitor Center as the ``Gabriel Zimmerman Meeting Room'' (see H. Res. 364), H5399 [22JY]

Children and youth: require State child welfare agencies to promptly report information on missing or abducted children to law enforcement authorities (see H.R. 3741), H10014 [20DE]

Civil rights: improve remedies for discrimination in the payment of wages based on sex (see H.R. 1519), H6855 [12OC]

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), H7399 [4NO]

Corporal Steven Blaine Riccione Post Office, Geneva, NY: designate (see H.R. 2244), H4363 [21JN]

Crime: prohibit possession, transfer, or use of fraudulent travel documents and require recurring training for transportation security officers (see H.R. 2431), H4671 [6JY]

Defense of Marriage Act: repeal and ensure respect for State regulation of marriage (see H.R. 1116), H4794 [8JY]

Defense Task Force on Sexual Assault in the Military Services: implement recommendations (see H.R. 1529), H8967 [14DE]

Dept. of Defense: take steps necessary to exhume and transfer remains of deceased Armed Forces members buried in Tripoli, Libya (see H.R. 1497), H5581 [26JY]

Dept. of HHS: establish permanent national surveillance systems for multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, and other neurological diseases and disorders (see H.R. 2595), H7892 [18NO]

———provide for the participation of optometrists in the National Health Service Corps scholarship and loan repayment programs (see H.R. 1195), H6921 [13OC]

Dept. of Homeland Security: modify requirements for the visa waiver program (see H.R. 959), H5019 [13JY]

———prohibit the procurement of certain items unless they are domestically grown, reprocessed, reused, or produced (see H.R. 679), H6782 [11OC]

Dept. of State: direct payment of passport fees (see H.R. 2177), H4186 [14JN]

Diseases: expand research and awareness activities relative to scleroderma (see H.R. 1672), H9432 [15DE]

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

Elections: constitutional amendment on contributions and expenditures intended to affect elections (see H.J. Res. 8), H9432 [15DE]

Foreign countries: take action against certain judgment-evading foreign states and state-owned corporations of such states (see H.R. 1798), H6415 [22SE]

Foreign trade: clarify that countervailing duties may be imposed to address subsidies relative to a fundamentally undervalued foreign currency (see H.R. 639), H5019 [13JY]

Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund: ensure that amounts credited are used for harbor maintenance (see H.R. 104), H10016 [20DE]

Horne, Lena Calhoun: award Congressional Gold Medal posthumously (see H.R. 1815), H5581 [26JY]

Immigration: create a special class of H-2A workers who may be admitted to work as sheepherders or dairy workers (see H.R. 3024), H6413 [22SE]

———permanently authorize EB-5 regional center program (see H.R. 2972), H9928 [16DE]

———provide a special rule for the period of admission of certain nonimmigrants employed as sheepherders, goat herders, or dairy farmers (see H.R. 3232), H6976 [14OC]

Insurance: 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), H6551 [4OC]

Iran: strengthen sanctions to compel Iran to abandon its pursuit of nuclear weapons and other threatening activities (see H.R. 1905), H5919 [16AU]

John J. Cook Post Office, East Rockaway, NY: designate (see H.R. 2079), H3987 [2JN]

Judge, Mychal: award Congressional Gold Medal posthumously (see H.R. 2580), H6506 [3OC]

LIHEAP: revise formula for allocating funding to States (see H.R. 3574), H8187 [6DE]

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), H4674 [6JY]

NAFTA: reinstate certain customs fees exemption (see H.R. 3529), H9929 [16DE]

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

National Clandestine Service of the CIA NCS Officer Gregg David Wenzel Memorial Post Office, Monroe, NY: designate (see H.R. 3593), H8260 [7DE]

National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month: designate (see H. Res. 407), H6271 [20SE]

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), H4577 [24JN]

———ensure continuation of 6-day mail delivery service (see H. Res. 137), H6552 [4OC]

Public debt: increase statutory limit (see H.R. 2663), H5734 [28JY]

Real estate: proposed settlement between Dept. of Justice, State attorneys general, and mortgage services relative to mortgage fraud and the economic crisis (see H. Con. Res. 85), H10017 [20DE]

Robert H. Jackson U.S. Courthouse, Buffalo, NY: designate (see H.R. 3556), H8124 [2DE]

Safe Drinking Water Act: amend relative to consumer confidence reports by community water systems (see H.R. 1340), H9928 [16DE]

SBA: establish and carry out a direct lending program for small business concerns (see H.R. 3007), H7069 [25OC]

———reform the HUBZone program for small business concerns (see H.R. 2131), H7399 [4NO]

Schools: address and take action to prevent bullying and harassment of students (see H.R. 1648), H7399 [4NO]

———end discrimination based on actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity in public schools (see H.R. 998), H6344 [21SE]

Sergeant Angel Mendez Post Office, Staten Island, NY: designate (see H.R. 2422), H4671 [6JY]

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

Taxation: allow a refundable credit for the cost of passports and other enhanced identification documents required to comply with the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (see H.R. 2178), H4186 [14JN]

———allow the work opportunity credit to small businesses which hire members of the Ready Reserve or National Guard (see H.R. 743), H7332 [3NO]

———exempt certain shipping from harbor maintenance tax (see H.R. 1533), H6233 [15SE]

———extend and modify the railroad track maintenance credit (see H.R. 721), H7399 [4NO]

———extend the qualifying advanced energy project credit (see H.R. 724), H6506 [3OC]

Terrorism: include Western Hemisphere in the National Strategy for Counterterrorism's areas of focus with attention on Iran's growing presence and activity (see H. Res. 429), H6979 [14OC]

Treaties and agreements: enhance reciprocal market access for U.S. domestic producers in the negotiating process of bilateral, regional, and multilateral trade agreements (see H.R. 1749), H6182 [14SE]

U.S. Marshals Service: mint coins in commemoration of anniversary (see H.R. 886), H6467 [29SE]

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

World War II: award Congressional Gold Medal to the Montford Point Marines (see H.R. 2447), H6140 [13SE]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Telecommunications: adopt technology allowing 9-1-1 call centers to receive and respond to emergency text messages (see H.R. 3654), H8880 [13DE]

Constitutional authority statements

Telecommunications: adopt technology allowing 9-1-1 call centers to receive and respond to emergency text messages (H.R. 3654), H8881 [13DE]

Letters

Election of Kathleen C. Hochul to the House of Representatives: Karen L. Haas, Clerk of the House of Representatives, H3829 [1JN]

———Robert A. Brehm and Kimberly Glavin, New York Board of Elections, H3829 [1JN]

Motions

Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs: making appropriations (H.R. 2112), H4312 [16JN]

Commission on Freedom of Information Act Processing Delays: establish (S. 627), H5764 [29JY]

Intelligence services: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 1892), H6033 [9SE]

Oaths of office

House of Representatives, H3830, H3908 [1JN]

Pledge of Allegiance

House of Representatives, H6865 [13OC], H7081 [26OC]

Proclamations

Tribute to Twentieth Century Club of Buffalo: by, E1934 [26OC]

Tribute to W. Douglas Call: by, E1898 [21OC]

Remarks

Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs: making appropriations (H.R. 2112), motion to recommit, H4312 [16JN]

Armed Forces: develop and implement a plan for withdrawal of troops from Iraq, H7082 [26OC]

Azerbaijan: independence anniversary, E2212 [8DE]

Batavia, NY: expansion of Batavia VA Medical Center's Women's Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Residential Treatment Program, E2269 [15DE]

BLM: drilling permit application processing funding, H5466 [25JY]

Budget: cut and cap Federal spending, enact balanced budget constitutional amendment, and increase statutory debt limit, H5764 [29JY]

Buffalo, NY: call for Dept. of Justice investigation of Colgan Air, Inc., commuter plane crash in 2009, H7221 [2NO]

CFTC: funding, H4312 [16JN]

Coast Guard: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 2838), E2090 [17NO]

Commission on Freedom of Information Act Processing Delays: establish (S. 627), H5764 [29JY]

———establish (S. 627), motion to recommit, H5764 [29JY]

Committee on Deficit Reduction (Joint, Select): prioritize deficit reduction from subsidies for large oil companies and corporate use of aircraft before cutting education programs, H5764 [29JY]

Dept. of Labor: allow farmers to submit H-2A applications for temporary guest workers online, H7940 [30NO]

Dept. of the Interior, environment, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 2584), H5466 [25JY]

Economy: importance of job creation, H5976 [8SE], H6104 [13SE]

———provide tax relief for workers and businesses, rebuild and modernize country's infrastructure, and provide pathways back to work for those looking for jobs (H.R. 12), H7004 [24OC], H7082 [26OC], H7336 [4NO]

FAA: implement crew flight time limitations and rest restrictions, H8013 [1DE]

Foreign trade: clarify that countervailing duties may be imposed to address subsidies relative to a fundamentally undervalued foreign currency (H.R. 639), H6865 [13OC]

House of Representatives: appreciation of opportunity to serve, H3830 [1JN]

Intelligence services: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 1892), motion to recommit, H6033 [9SE]

———prioritize funding to counter transnational drug trafficking and drug-related crime at U.S. borders, H6033 [9SE]

Jobs and Energy Permitting Act: require EPA report on how enactment will increase oil and gas production and lower energy prices for consumers, H4409 [22JN]

Medicare: reform, H5499 [26JY]

National Trust for Historic Preservation: tribute to National Preservation Conference in Buffalo, NY, E1881 [14OC]

Outer Continental Shelf: monitor activities relative to air pollution (H.R. 2021), H4409 [22JN]

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: impact of repeal on senior citizen prescription drug rebates, H8201 [7DE]

Petroleum: impact of oil speculators on gasoline prices, H4312 [16JN]

Public debt: increase statutory limit, H5499 [26JY]

Small business: promote strategies for exporting products and services into the global marketplace, H8742 [13DE]

Taxation: create tax credits for employers who hire veterans returning from war and veterans with service-connected disabilities, H7082 [26OC]

U.S. Women's National Soccer Team: tribute, H5168 [19JY], E1362 [19JY]

U.S.-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement: approve and implement (H.R. 3079), H6757 [11OC]

Veterans: provide small business incentives to hire veterans, H7336 [4NO]

Remarks in House relative to

Tribute, H3830 [1JN]