BARTLETT, ROSCOE G. (a Representative from Maryland)

Amendments

Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (H.R. 4310), H3017, H3093 [17MY]

Appointments

Conferee: H.R. 4310, Dept. of Defense appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction, H6782 [13DE]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Abortion: ensure that women seeking an abortion receive an ultrasound and the opportunity to review the ultrasound before giving informed consent to receive an abortion (see H.R. 3805), H114 [23JA]

——— prohibit certain abortion-related discrimination in government activities (see H.R. 361), H1391 [19MR]

——— prohibit Federal assistance for telemedicine abortions and ban interstate abortions using telemedicine technology (see H.R. 5731), H2645 [10MY]

——— protect pain-capable unborn children in the District of Columbia (see H.R. 3803), H513 [6FE]

Afridi, Shakeel: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 4069), H901 [16FE]

Agriculture: provide for a uniform national standard for the housing and treatment of egg-laying hens (see H.R. 3798), H1210 [6MR]

Armed Forces: commend, make permanent, oppose proposals to diminish national security role of, and recognize the National Guard as the foundation of the Operational Reserve (see H. Con. Res. 129), H3808 [19JN]

——— provide for certain requirements relative to retirement, adoption, care, and recognition of military working dogs (see H.R. 4103), H5009 [18JY]

Aviation: establish an air travelers’ bill of rights (see H.R. 6449), H6230 [20SE]

Boys & Girls Clubs of America: tribute (see H. Res. 774), H6152 [19SE]

Bureau of the Census: make participation in the American Community Survey voluntary, except with respect to certain basic questions (see H.R. 931), H5078 [19JY]

Chesapeake Bay: provide for continued conservation efforts in the Chesapeake Bay watershed (see H.R. 6068), H4654 [29JN]

——— support efforts to reduce pollution of the watershed (see H.R. 4153), H2033 [19AP]

China: prevent repatriation of North Korean refugees and allow diplomatic access to, and application for asylum by, such refugees (see H. Con. Res. 109), H5079 [19JY]

Commission To Accelerate the End of Breast Cancer: establish (see H.R. 3067), H2569 [9MY]

Congress: approve permit for the Keystone XL Pipeline (see H.R. 3811), H476 [3FE]

——— prohibit securities and commodities trading based on nonpublic information relating to Congress and require additional reporting of securities transactions by Members and employees (see H.R. 1148), H512 [6FE]

——— require each bill enacted be limited to only one subject (see H.R. 3806), H5328 [26JY]

Consumers: require disclosure of terms of rental-purchase agreements (see H.R. 1588), H2033 [19AP]

Courts: prevent misuse of foreign law in Federal courts (see H.R. 973), H1978 [18AP]

Credit: prohibit Federal agencies from guaranteeing, making, or insuring a mortgage secured by a residence in a jurisdiction that has used eminent domain to take a residential mortgage (see H.R. 6397), H6234 [20SE]

Crime: provide penalties for transporting minors in foreign commerce for the purposes of female genital mutilation (see H.R. 2221), H5292 [25JY]

Defense Production Act: clarify interpretation does not allow confiscation of personal property or forced conscription into the Armed Forces, unwilling labor, or relinquishing of goods or services without compensation (see H. Con. Res. 110), H1642 [27MR]

Dept. of Education: allow States to enter into performance agreements and combine certain Federal funds to improve academic achievement (see H.R. 2514), H1391 [19MR]

Dept. of HHS: exempt employers from taxes, penalties, or suits for failure to offer insurance coverage for certain women’s preventive services on the basis of religious belief or moral conviction (see H.R. 6097), H5631 [1AU]

——— implement the National Pediatric Acquired Brain Injury Plan (see H.R. 2600), H5766 [10SE]

——— limit copayment, coinsurance, or other cost-sharing requirements applicable to prescription drugs in a specialty drug tier to the amount applicable to drugs in a non-preferred brand drug tree (see H.R. 4209), H2034 [19AP]

Dept. of Labor: prohibit finalization of certain proposed child labor rules relative to family farming (see H.R. 4157), H2212 [26AP]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: clarify presumptions relating to exposure of certain veterans who served in the vicinity of Vietnam (see H.R. 3612), H5526 [31JY]

——— expand the definition of homeless veteran for purposes of benefits (see H.R. 4287), H3267 [30MY]

Diseases: extend Postal Service authority to issue a semipostal to raise funds for breast cancer research (see H.R. 466), H1915 [17AP]

Drugs: address critical drug shortages (see H.R. 3839), H1741 [28MR]

EPA: prohibit awarding any grant, contract, cooperative agreement, or financial assistance under the Clean Air Act for any program, project, or activity to occur outside the U.S. (see H.R. 4255), H1742 [28MR]

Families and domestic relations: constitutional amendment on parental rights (see H.J. Res. 110), H3808 [19JN]

FDA: allow fast track approval of certain orphan drugs (see H.R. 3737), H1017 [28FE]

——— improve capacity to prevent drug shortages (see H.R. 2245), H1741 [28MR]

Federal agencies and departments: consolidate duplicative and overlapping Government programs (see H.R. 6729), H7565 [1JA]

Federal Prison Industries, Inc.: require competition for contracts, provide an adjustment period to phasing out mandatory source status, and improve inmate access to reintegration opportunities (see H.R. 3634), H1808 [29MR]

Firearms: update certain procedures applicable to commerce in firearms and remove certain Federal restrictions on interstate firearms transactions (see H.R. 58), H1391 [19MR]

Gospel Music Heritage Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 119), H6062 [14SE]

Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund: ensure that amounts credited are used for harbor maintenance (see H.R. 104), H27 [17JA]

Health: make the provision of technical services for medical imaging examinations and radiation therapy treatments safer, more accurate, and less costly (see H.R. 2104), H1101 [29FE]

——— provide for incentives to encourage health insurance coverage (see H.R. 3000), H2288 [27AP]

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), H4157 [27JN]

Horse Protection Act: designate additional unlawful acts, strengthen penalties for violations, and improve Dept. of Agriculture enforcement (see H.R. 6388), H6152 [19SE]

Insurance: allow enforcement of State disclosure laws and access to courts for covered Holocaust-era insurance policy claims (see H.R. 890), H571 [7FE]

——— preserve consumer and employer access to licensed independent insurance producers (see H.R. 1206), H1846 [16AP]

Iran: express importance of preventing acquisition of nuclear weapons capability and continue economic and diplomatic pressure to secure nonproliferation agreement (see H. Res. 568), H1572 [26MR]

——— provide for a comprehensive strategy to counter growing presence and hostile activity in the Western Hemisphere (see H.R. 3783), H6152 [19SE]

Israel: independence anniversary (see H. Con. Res. 115), H1805 [29MR]

——— reaffirm strategic relationship with the U.S., direct the President to submit reports on U.S. actions to enhance this relationship, and assist in the defense of Israel (see H.R. 4133), H1978 [18AP]

——— recognize Jerusalem as capital and support relocation of U.S. Embassy (see H.R. 1006), H2072 [24AP]

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of: develop a strategy for assisting stateless children (see H.R. 1464), H4064 [26JN]

March of Dimes Foundation: mint coins in recognition and celebration (see H.R. 3187), H2569 [9MY]

Medicaid: require coverage of optometrists (see H.R. 1219), H1846 [16AP]

Medicare: ensure continued access of beneficiaries to diagnostic imaging services (see H.R. 3269), H1543 [22MR]

——— ensure more timely access to home health services for beneficiaries (see H.R. 2267), H3733 [18JN]

——— provide coverage of services of qualified respiratory therapists performed under the general supervision of a physician (see H.R. 941), H1273 [7MR]

——— provide for payment for services of qualified radiologist assistants (see H.R. 3032), H5631 [1AU]

——— recognize attending physician assistants as attending physicians to serve hospice patients (see H.R. 3831), H441 [2FE]

——— repeal outpatient rehabilitation therapy caps (see H.R. 1546), H4656 [29JN]

——— strengthen and protect hospice programs (see H.R. 3506), H1741 [28MR]

——— waive coinsurance for colorectal cancer screening tests, regardless of whether therapeutic intervention is required during the screening (see H.R. 4120), H1808 [29MR]

Members of Congress: eliminate automatic salary adjustments (see H.R. 6722), H7566 [1JA]

Middle East: support right of Israel to annex Judea and Samaria if the Palestinian Authority continues to press for unilateral Palestinian statehood at the U.N. (see H. Res. 394), H2040 [23AP]

Mining and mineral resources: issue postage stamp in commemoration of coal miners (see H. Res. 743), H5327 [26JY]

Multinational Species Conservation Funds Semipostal Stamp Act: reauthorize (see H.R. 3510), H4908 [17JY]

National Foster Care Month: recognize goals and ideals (see H. Res. 659), H2812 [16MY]

Nicklaus, Jack: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 4040), H1498 [21MR]

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency: create a charter for Federal Financial Services and Credit Companies (see H.R. 1909), H1154 [5MR]

Office of the Director of National Intelligence: allow elements of the intelligence community to share cyber threat intelligence with private-sector cybersecurity entities (see H.R. 3523), H1807 [29MR]

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: ensure coverage offered under multi-State qualified health plans offered in exchanges is consistent with the Federal abortion funding ban (see H.R. 4971), H2267 [27AP]

——— express that health insurance mandate violates the clause of the Constitution requiring that bills for raising revenue originate in the House of Representatives (see H. Res. 735), H5078 [19JY]

——— provide that the individual mandate shall not be construed as a tax (see H.R. 6334), H5706 [2AU]

——— repeal annual fee on health insurance providers (see H.R. 1370), H2329 [7MY]

Pro Football Hall of Fame: mint coins in recognition and celebration (see H.R. 4104), H2447 [8MY]

Public lands: release certain wilderness study areas from continued management as de facto wilderness areas and release certain inventoried National Forest System roadless areas from certain land use restrictions (see H.R. 1581), H1846 [16AP]

Public welfare programs: provide information on total spending on means-tested welfare programs, provide additional work requirements, and provide overall spending limit on means-tested welfare programs (see H.R. 1167), H1391 [19MR]

Rotary International: commend efforts to prevent and eradicate polio (see H. Res. 704), H6307 [12OC]

Syria: strengthen sanctions, enhance multilateral commitment to address threatening policies, and establish a program to support a transition to a democratically-elected government (see H.R. 2106), H2329 [7MY]

Tariff: footwear (see H.R. 2697), H6304 [9OC]

Taxation: extend exclusion from gross income of discharges of qualified principal residence indebtedness (see H.R. 4250), H6234 [20SE]

——— increase participation in medical flexible spending arrangements (see H.R. 1004), H1741 [28MR]

——— make members of health care sharing ministries eligible to establish health savings accounts (see H.R. 3728), H1101 [29FE]

——— prohibit the use of public funds for political party conventions and return previously distributed funds for deficit reduction (see H.R. 5912), H3660 [7JN]

——— provide collegiate housing and infrastructure grants (see H.R. 1327), H2072 [24AP]

——— repeal certain tax increases enacted as part of health care reform (see H.R. 6088), H4869 [13JY]

——— repeal the individual and employer health insurance mandates (see H.R. 6048), H4603 [28JN]

——— require individuals to provide their Social Security number in order to claim the refundable portion of the child tax credit (see H.R. 1956), H2647 [10MY]

Telephones: permit informational calls to mobile telephone numbers (see H.R. 3035), H2134 [25AP]

Tobacco products: clarify FDA jurisdiction over certain tobacco products and protect jobs and small businesses involved in the sale, manufacturing, and distribution of cigars (see H.R. 1639), H1209 [6MR]

Tubman, Harriet: establish the Harriet Tubman National Historical Park in Auburn, NY, and the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park in Caroline, Dorchester, and Talbot Counties, MD (see H.R. 4007), H692 [9FE]

U.N.: terminate funding if the U.S. agrees to any treaty that threatens U.S. sovereignty or infringes on U.S. constitutional rights, such as the right to keep and bear arms (see H.R. 3594), H5009 [18JY]

Voting: require jurisdictions using electronic voting machines for Federal elections to deposit certain technical data at NIST and allow access to such data to analyze for accuracy and reliability (see H.R. 6246), H5628 [1AU]

World War II: award Congressional Gold Medal to the First Special Service Force (see H.R. 3767), H3808 [19JN]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Homeless: urge public and private institutions to continue to work to eliminate homelessness and recognize efforts of those who work to assist the homeless (see H. Res. 806), H6300 [2OC]

National security: promote civil defense and power generation (see H. Res. 762), H5707 [2AU]

Designated Speaker pro tempore

House of Representatives, H3165 [22MY]

Lists

Organizations supporting Bartlett amendment on project labor agreement status in construction contracts to H.R. 4310, Dept. of Defense appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction, E841• [17MY]

Pledge of Allegiance 

House of Representatives, H3165 [22MY]

Remarks

Antietam National Battlefield: anniversary of Memorial Illumination, H2015 [19AP]

Congressional Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Expo and Forum: tribute, H3814 [20JN]

Cumberland, MD: Bel Air Elementary School recipient of Dept. of Education Blue Ribbon Schools award, H3108 [18MY]

Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (H.R. 4310), H2693 [15MY], H2789 [16MY], H3017, H3019, H3021, H3093, H3094 [17MY]

——— authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (H.R. 4310), conference report, H7386 [20DE]

——— clarify that direct use solar energy is considered a renewable energy source, H3093 [17MY]

——— prohibit discrimination based on project labor agreement status in awarding of construction contracts, H3017, H3019 [17MY]

——— V–22 Osprey funding, H3021 [17MY]

Economy: impact of Government regulations, H210 [31JA]

Eldersburg, MD: Oklahoma Road Middle School School recipient of Dept. of Education Blue Ribbon Schools award, H3108 [18MY]

Frederick, MD: anniversary of Great Frederick Fair, H2335 [8MY]

Frederick County, MD: anniversary, H2824 [17MY]

Hagerstown, MD: tribute to Cumberland Valley Athletic Club annual JFK 50 mile run, E1615• [21SE]

House of Representatives: appreciation of opportunity to serve, H7350–H7353 [19DE]

Marine Corps: report on transfer of certain BLM land to the Marine Corps for expansion of Twentynine Palms, CA, Ground Air Combat Center, H3094 [17MY]

Motor vehicles: effects of increase of corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards on vehicle pricing and safety, H210 [31JA]

Newtown, CT: condemn shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, express condolences for victims, and commend school personnel and first responders who responded to shootings, H7350 [19DE]

Power resources: analysis of oil supplies and usage, H210 [31JA], H563–H566 [7FE], H680–H683 [9FE], H935–H938 [17FE]

——— increase fossil fuel productivity, accelerate transition to renewable fuels, and collaborate with allies to establish project to address issue of peak oil, H7352 [19DE]

——— national energy policy, H680–H683 [9FE]

Taxation: repeal income tax, abolish the IRS, and institute a national retail sales tax (H.R. 25), H1967 [18AP]

Remarks in House relative to

Tribute, E1988 [21DE]

Tributes

Williams, Gary, E161• [8FE]