CENTRAL AMERICA

Bills and resolutions

Army: close the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (see H.R. 3368), H7397 [4NO]

Honduras: limit assistance pending certification that the Government of Honduras has settled all outstanding expropriation claims brought by U.S. companies (see H.R. 2200), H4277 [15JN]

Nicaragua: support democratic aspirations and call attention to the deterioration of constitutional order (see S. Res. 344), S8376 [6DE]

U.S.-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement: approve and implement (see S. 1643), S6049 [3OC] (see H.R. 3079), H6505 [3OC]

———approve and implement (H.R. 3079), consideration (see H. Res. 425), H6671 [6OC]

———ratification (see S. Res. 20), S127 [25JA]

Letters

Trade agreements with Colombia, the Republic of Korea, and Panama: Douglas J. McCarron, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, E1898 [21OC]

———James P. Hoffa, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, E1832 [12OC]

———Leo W. Gerard, United Steelworkers of America (organization), H6822 [12OC]

———Mark H. Ayers, AFL-CIO, H6823 [12OC]

———R. Thomas Buffenbarger, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, E1899 [21OC]

———Thomas A. Barthold, Committee on Taxation (Joint), E1808 [7OC]

———William Samuel, AFL-CIO, H6821 [12OC]

Messages

U.S.-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement: President Obama, S6048 [3OC], H6484 [3OC]

Remarks in House

Appropriations: revised allocation of spending authority to Committee on Ways and Means (House), H6779 [11OC]

Inter American Foundation: funding, E300 [18FE]

InterReligious Task Force on Central America: anniversary, E1172 [23JN]

U.S.-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement: approve and implement (H.R. 3079), H6742, H6744-H6758, H6768-H6771 [11OC], H6789, H6794, H6795, H6804-H6813, H6818 [12OC], H6862, H6864, H6866 [13OC], H6961 [14OC], E1826, E1830, E1832, E1834, E1836, E1837, E1838, E1839, E1841 [12OC], E1845, E1846, E1853 [13OC], E1872, E1878, E1883 [14OC], E1906, E1917 [24OC]

———approve and implement (H.R. 3079), consideration (H. Res. 425), H6710-H6722 [11OC]

———ratification, H5027, H5081, H5083 [14JY], H5168 [19JY], H6141 [14SE]

———require improvement of labor rights and security for workers before approval and implementation, E1845 [13OC]

Remarks in Senate

Guatemala: human rights violations, S2039 [31MR]

Nicaragua: support democratic aspirations and call attention to the deterioration of constitutional order (S. Res. 344), S8766 [17DE]

Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control: release of ``Responding to Violence in Central America'' report, S5895 [22SE]

U.S.-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement: approve and implement (H.R. 3079), S6278, S6287 [6OC], S6359, S6372, S6383 [11OC], S6398-S6407, S6412-S6452 [12OC], S6489, S6498-S6502 [13OC]

———approve and implement (H.R. 3079), unanimous-consent agreement, S6351 [6OC]

———approve and implement (S. 1643), S6013 [3OC], S6067 [4OC], S6148, S6156 [5OC]

———ratification (S. Res. 20), S84 [25JA], S3086 [18MY], S3146-S3148 [19MY], S3386 [26MY], S3511-S3515, S3567 [7JN], S3714 [13JN], S3791 [15JN], S4776 [21JY], S5474 [9SE], S5704 [16SE]

Reports filed

Consideration of H.R. 3079, U.S.-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement Implementation Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 425) (H. Rept. 112-240), H6671 [6OC], H6781 [11OC]

U.S.-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement Implementation Act: Committee on Finance (Senate) (S. 1643), S6390 [11OC]

———Committee on Ways and Means (House) (H.R. 3079) (H. Rept. 112-238), H6671 [6OC]

Resolutions by organizations

Trade agreements with Colombia, the Republic of Korea, and Panama: League of United Latin American Citizens, H6822 [12OC]

Tables

Budget aggregates, H6779 [11OC], H7158 [27OC]

Proven reserves of the major oil-producing countries, as of end 2002: CIA, H4554 [24JN]

Revised allocation of spending authority to Committee on Ways and Means (House), H6779 [11OC]

Texts of

H. Res. 425, consideration of H.R. 3079, U.S.-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement Implementation Act, H6710 [11OC]

H.R. 3079, U.S.-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement Implementation Act, H6745-H6754 [11OC]

S. Res. 20, U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement, U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement, and U.S.-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement ratification, S243 [25JA]

S. Res. 344, support democratic aspirations and call attention to the deterioration of constitutional order in Nicaragua, S8377 [6DE]