NEAL, RICHARD E. (a Representative from Massachusetts)
Articles and editorials
City Celebrates 375 Years of History, Innovation, G. Michael Dobbs, Springfield (MA) Reminder, E966
Bills and resolutions cosponsored
Afghanistan: commend efforts of U.S. Armed Forces, reassess U.S. mission, and redirect funding to strengthen homeland security, create jobs, and reduce the Federal deficit and debt (see H. Res. 331), H4575 [24JN]
———require the President to transmit a plan with timeframe and completion date and reports with status updates on the transition of U.S. military and security operations to the Government of Afghanistan (see H.R. 1735), H3305 [13MY]
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), H6344 [21SE]
Animal Welfare Act: provide further protection for puppies (see H.R. 835), H6782 [11OC]
Animals: prohibit conducting of invasive research on great apes (see H.R. 1513), H6855 [12OC]
———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), H6782 [11OC]
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), H1770 [11MR]
Armed Forces: designate the Honor and Remember Flag as an official symbol to recognize and honor members who died in the line of duty (see H.R. 546), H1908 [16MR]
———improve prevention and response to sexual assaults (see H.R. 3435), H8126 [2DE]
Boston Bruins (hockey team): tribute (see H. Res. 318), H4364 [21JN]
Capitol Building and Grounds: designate a room of the Capitol Visitor Center as the ``Gabriel Zimmerman Meeting Room'' (see H. Res. 364), H7929 [29NO]
Children and youth: promote minimum State requirements for prevention and treatment of concussions caused by participation in school sports (see H.R. 469), H4278 [15JN]
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]
Commission To Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities: establish (see H.R. 3653), H8880 [13DE]
Committee on Job Creation (Joint, Select): establish (see H.R. 2835), H5936 [2SE] (see H.R. 2835), H5938 [6SE]
Committee on POW and MIA Affairs (House, Select): establish (see H. Res. 111), H1797 [14MR]
Crime: prohibit attendance of an animal fighting venture (see H.R. 2492), H6988 [21OC]
Defense of Marriage Act: repeal and ensure respect for State regulation of marriage (see H.R. 1116), H5019 [13JY]
Dept. of Education: award grants to establish pediatric early literacy programs for health care providers and facilities (see H.R. 820), H1250 (see H.R. 820), H1362 [18FE]
———improve academic content standards for physical education (see H.R. 1057), H2667 [13AP]
Dept. of HHS: establish and implement a Pancreatic Cancer Initiative (see H.R. 733), H1770 [11MR]
———reauthorize support for graduate medical education programs in children's hospitals (see H.R. 1852), H3870 (see H.R. 1852), H3911 [1JN]
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), H3646 (see H.R. 1288), H3684 [25MY]
Dept. of the Interior: study suitability and feasibility of inclusion of land and waters in the greater Salem Sound and Salem, MA, area in the Salem Maritime National Historic Site (see H.R. 1500), H2603 [12AP]
Dept. of the Navy: redesignate as the Dept. of the Navy and Marine Corps (see H.R. 24), H2917 [15AP]
Dept. of Transportation: establish national tunnel inspection standards for proper safety evaluation of all highway tunnels (see H.R. 2254), H4364 [21JN]
Dept. of Veterans Affairs: prevent from prohibiting use of dogs on Dept. property (see H.R. 1154), H1982 [17MR]
Diseases: establish a National Acquired Bone Marrow Failure Disease Registry and authorize research on acquired bone marrow failure diseases (see H.R. 640), H6010 [8SE]
Economy: provide incentives for the creation of jobs and extend and reform certain tax provisions and Federal programs (see H.R. 3743), H10014 [20DE]
Education: assist States in establishing a universal prekindergarten program (see H.R. 555), H550 [8FE]
Foreign trade: clarify that countervailing duties may be imposed to address subsidies relative to a fundamentally undervalued foreign currency (see H.R. 639), H680 [10FE]
———prevent importation of merchandise into the U.S. in a manner that evades antidumping and countervailing duty orders (see H.R. 3057), H7069 [25OC]
Forest Service: protect certain roadless areas (see H.R. 3465), H7829 [17NO]
Health care facilities: protect interests of residents of intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded in certain class action lawsuits and Dept. of Justice actions (see H.R. 2032), H4460 [22JN]
Horne, Lena Calhoun: award Congressional Gold Medal posthumously (see H.R. 1815), H3281 [12MY]
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), 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]
Japan: express condolences to families of victims and survivors of earthquake and tsunami, commend response efforts, and support international relief efforts (see H. Res. 172), H1842 [15MR]
John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park: establish (see H.R. 3191), H6920 [13OC]
Matthew A. Pucino Post Office, Sagamore Beach, MA: designate (see H.R. 2062), H3805 [31MY]
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]
———improve access to, and increase utilization of, bone mass measurement benefits (see H.R. 2020), H6415 [22SE]
———modify designation of accreditation organizations for orthotics and prosthetics, apply accreditation and licensure requirements and modify payment methodology for such devices (see H.R. 1958), H3408 [24MY]
———preserve access to ambulance services (see H.R. 1005), H1723 [10MR]
———provide beneficiaries greater choice with regard to accessing hearing health services and benefits (see H.R. 2140), H4794 [8JY]
———repeal outpatient rehabilitation therapy caps (see H.R. 1546), H4529 [23JN]
———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), H3759 [26MY]
Medicare/Medicaid: clarify application of electronic health record payment incentives in cases of multi-campus hospitals (see H.R. 2500), H4945 [12JY]
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 Museum of the American People: support formation of a bipartisan Presidential commission to study establishment (see H. Con. Res. 63), H5966 [7SE]
National Oilheat Research Alliance Act: reauthorize (see H.R. 1756), H6011 [8SE]
National Teacher Appreciation Week: observance (see H. Res. 227), H2918 [15AP]
Native Americans: provide for the recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina (see H.R. 27), H1040 (see H.R. 27), H1071 [16FE]
Officer John Maguire Post Office Building, Woburn, MA: designate (see H.R. 2640), H5488 [25JY]
Peace Corps Commemorative Foundation: authorize establishment of a commemorative work in the District of Columbia (see H.R. 854), H2535 [7AP]
Pensions: reduce administrative burdens and encourage retirement plan formation and retention (see H.R. 3561), H8135 [5DE]
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), H5127 [15JY]
———ensure continuation of 6-day mail delivery service (see H. Res. 137), H6183 [14SE]
Public debt: increase statutory limit (see H.R. 2663), H5660 [27JY]
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), H6098 [12SE]
Salem, MA: recognize as birthplace of the National Guard (see H.R. 1339), H2266 [1AP]
Schools: address and take action to prevent bullying and harassment of students (see H.R. 1648), H2912 [15AP]
———end discrimination based on actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity in public schools (see H.R. 998), H1723 [10MR]
Shuttlesworth, Fred L.: tribute (see H. Res. 432), H6853 [12OC]
Social Security: expand permissive exclusion from participation in Federal health care programs to individuals and entities affiliated with sanctioned entities (see H.R. 675), H723 [11FE]
Taxation: allow certain Puerto Rico corporations to elect to be treated as domestic corporations (see H.R. 3020), H7831 [17NO]
———clarify domestic production activities deduction rules relating to allowance deduction by U.S. contract manufacturers (see H.R. 2780), H5885 [1AU]
———clarify that bonus depreciation is not a cost allocated to a contract under the percentage of completion method for long-term contracts (see H.R. 3366), H7397 [4NO]
———create jobs through infrastructure investment (see H.R. 992), H1722 [10MR]
———encourage natural gas vehicle investments and job creation (see H.R. 1380), H5399 [22JY]
———expand availability of employee stock ownership plans in S corporations (see H.R. 1244), H5127 [15JY]
———expand rehabilitation credit (see H.R. 2479), H7929 [29NO]
———extend and expand tax relief for national disasters (see H.R. 2718), H5882 [1AU]
———extend and modify the railroad track maintenance credit (see H.R. 721), H1666 [9MR]
———extend look-through treatment of payments between related controlled foreign corporations (see H.R. 2735), H7333 [3NO]
———extend the new markets tax credit (see H.R. 2655), H5579 [26JY]
———extend the qualifying therapeutic discovery project credit (see H.R. 1988), H7999 [30NO]
———extend the research credit and increase and make permanent the alternative simplified research credit (see H.R. 942), H3758 [26MY]
———make permanent and expand the temporary minimum credit rate for the low-income housing tax credit program (see H.R. 3661), H8965 [14DE]
———make permanent the special rule for contributions of qualified conservation contributions (see H.R. 1964), H3408 [24MY]
———modify rules relative to loans made from a qualified employer retirement plan (see H.R. 3287), H7206 [1NO]
———modify the work opportunity credit (see H.R. 2082), H7333 [3NO]
———permanently extend the 15-year recovery period for qualified leasehold improvement property, restaurant property, and retail improvement property (see H.R. 1265), H2106 [30MR]
———permanently extend the subpart F exemption for active financing income (see H.R. 749), H1039 (see H.R. 749), H1070 [16FE]
———permit disclosure of certain tax return information for purposes of missing or exploited children investigations (see H.R. 1978), H5019 [13JY]
———prevent corporations from exploiting tax treaties to evade taxation of U.S. income (see H.R. 64), H2917 [15AP]
———promote charitable donations of qualified vehicles (see H.R. 860), H4852 [11JY]
———provide a credit for costs of certain infertility treatments (see H.R. 3522), H7998 [30NO]
———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), H5019 [13JY]
———reduce excise tax rate on beer produced domestically by certain small producers (see H.R. 1236), H2037 [29MR]
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), H8262 [7DE]
———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), H6140 [13SE]
Unemployment: provide additional emergency unemployment compensation (see H.R. 3346), H7330 [3NO]
William T. Trant Post Office Building, Westfield, MA: designate (see H.R. 2767), H5884 [1AU]
Women: constitutional amendment to ensure equal rights (see H.J. Res. 69), H5489 [25JY]
World War I: establish a commission to observe centennial and rededicate certain memorials as the National World War I Memorial and the National World War I Museum and Memorial (see H.R. 938), H2040 [29MR]
World War II: award Congressional Gold Medal to the Montford Point Marines (see H.R. 2447), H6922 [13OC]
Bills and resolutions introduced
Diseases: improve coverage of colorectal cancer screening tests under Medicare and private health insurance (see H.R. 3198), H6920 [13OC]
Taxation: prevent avoidance of tax by insurance companies through reinsurance with non-taxed affiliates (see H.R. 3157), H6853 [12OC]
Constitutional authority statements
Diseases: improve coverage of colorectal cancer screening tests under Medicare and private health insurance (H.R. 3198), H6921 [13OC]
Taxation: prevent avoidance of tax by insurance companies through reinsurance with non-taxed affiliates (H.R. 3157), H6854 [12OC]
Eulogies
Courniotes, Harry: by Richard Sprinthall, E966
Remarks
Appropriations: making for Dept. of Defense and other Federal departments and agencies, rescind unobligated stimulus funds, and reduce discretionary spending (H.R. 1), H1218 [18FE]
Budget: constitutional amendment to require balanced (H.J. Res. 2), H7845 [18NO]
———cut and cap Federal spending, enact balanced budget constitutional amendment, and increase statutory debt limit, H5667, H5709 [28JY]
———cut and cap Federal spending, enact balanced budget constitutional amendment, and increase statutory debt limit (H.R. 2560), H5194 [19JY]
———setting forth the Federal budget for 2012-2021 (H. Con. Res. 34), H2893 [15AP]
Commission on Freedom of Information Act Processing Delays: establish (S. 627), H5667, H5709 [28JY]
Diseases: improve coverage of colorectal cancer screening tests under Medicare and private health insurance (H.R. 3198), E1863
Economy: comparison between policies of past Presidential administrations and the Obama administration, H3768 [31MY]
———impact of Bush administration tax cuts, H5668 [28JY]
———provide incentives for the creation of jobs and extend and reform certain tax provisions and Federal programs (H.R. 3630), H8801 [13DE]
———provide incentives for the creation of jobs and extend and reform certain tax provisions and Federal programs (H.R. 3630), Senate amendments, H9968 [20DE]
Florence, MA: anniversary of Florence Congregation Church, E1675
Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act: health-care related provisions implementation funding, H1218 [18FE]
———repeal health-care related provisions (H.R. 2), H295 [19JA]
Medicare/Medicaid: improve awareness and access to colorectal cancer screening tests, E1833
Monson, MA: anniversary, E632
Patents: clarify calculation of filing period deadline for patent term extension applications, H4489 [23JN]
———reform (H.R. 1249), H4489 [23JN]
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: implementation funding, H1218 [18FE]
———repeal (H.R. 2), H295 [19JA]
Public debt: disapprove the President's exercise of authority to increase the debt limit (H.J. Res. 77), H6160 [14SE]
———increase statutory limit (H.R. 1954), H3768 [31MY]
Small business: repeal expansion of information reporting requirements for certain payments to corporations (H.R. 4), H1539, H1540 [3MR]
Springfield, MA: anniversary, E966
Taxation: extend the new markets tax credit (H.R. 2655), H8970 [15DE]
———prevent avoidance of tax by insurance companies through reinsurance with non-taxed affiliates (H.R. 3157), E1822
———prohibit tax increase on middle class, H1539, H1540 [3MR]
———repeal expansion of information reporting requirements to payments made to corporations, payments for property and other gross proceeds, and rental property expense payments, H1539, H1540 [3MR]
U.S.-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement: approve and implement (H.R. 3079), H6805 [12OC]
Tributes
Courniotes, Harry, E966
Leddy, Ellen, E220