CUELLAR, HENRY (a Representative from Texas)

Amendments

Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (H.R. 1960), H3527 [13JN]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Armed Forces: award Congressional Gold Medal to the 65th Infantry Regiment known as the Borinqueneers (see H.R. 1726), H5476 [10SE]

——— provide for the continuance of pay and allowances for members, including Reserve components during any period of lapsed appropriations (see H.R. 3026), H5397 [2AU]

Budget: constitutional amendment to require balanced (see H.J. Res. 4), H32 [3JA]

Bureau of Customs and Border Protection: reform the Border Patrol agent pay schedule (see H.R. 3463), H7153 [15NO]

Business and industry: accelerate research, development, and innovation in advanced manufacturing to improve competitiveness (see H.R. 1421), H2840 [21MY]

C.W. Bill Young Dept. of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bay Pines, FL: designate (see H.R. 3302), H6674 [22OC]

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: improve operations of recovery auditors under the Medicare Integrity Program to increase transparency and accuracy in audits conducted by contractors (see H.R. 1250), H5834 [25SE]

Children and youth: provide for programs and activities with respect to the prevention of underage drinking (see H.R. 498), H628 [25FE]

Citrus Disease Research and Development Trust Fund: establish (see H.R. 853), H700 [27FE]

Civil rights: award a Congressional Gold Medal to Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley honoring the 50th anniversary of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing (see H.R. 360), H599 [15FE]

——— improve remedies for discrimination in the payment of wages based on sex (see H.R. 377), H1993 [12AP]

Clean Air Act: remove requirement for dealer certification of new light-duty motor vehicles (see H.R. 724), H3990 [20JN]

Committee on POW and MIA Affairs (House, Select): establish (see H. Res. 231), H6958 [30OC]

Dept. of Defense: declare the attack at Fort Hood, TX, a terrorist attack and ensure victims of such attack and their families receive the same honors and benefits as those killed or wounded in overseas combat zones (see H.R. 3111), H5587 [17SE]

Dept. of Education: make grants for pilot programs at institutions of higher education that support the use of open textbooks to achieve savings for students (see H.R. 3538), H7312 [20NO]

Dept. of HHS: increase number of permanent faculty in palliative care at allopathic and osteopathic medical schools, nursing schools, and other programs, and promote education in palliative care and hospice (see H.R. 1339), H5513 [11SE]

——— prohibit replacement of existing coding system for disease and diagnosis classifications in implementing Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) standards (see H.R. 1701), H3016 [3JN]

——— provide for the participation of optometrists in the National Health Service Corps scholarship and loan repayment programs (see H.R. 920), H5548 [12SE]

——— revise and extend projects relating to children and violence to provide access to school-based comprehensive mental health programs (see H.R. 628), H5403 [2AU]

Dept. of Homeland Security: accept additional documentation when considering the application for veterans status of an individual who performed service as a coastwise merchant seaman during World War II (see H.R. 1288), H3990 [20JN]

——— develop a comprehensive strategy to gain and maintain operational control of the international borders of the U.S. (see H.R. 1417), H1959 [11AP]

——— incorporate into design and construction of reconfigured and new ports of entry certain concerns relative to border location-dependent businesses (see H.R. 2213), H2964 [24MY]

——— provide emergency funding for port of entry personnel and infrastructure (see H.R. 3753), H8108 [12DE]

Dept. of State: require report on water sharing with Mexico (see H.R. 2307), H3592 [13JN]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: designate one U.S. city each year as an ‘‘American World War II City’’ (see H.R. 864), H1721 [20MR]

——— ensure South Texas Veterans Affairs Health Care Center in Harlingen, TX, includes a full-service inpatient health care facility (see H.R. 552), H411 [6FE]

Doolittle Tokyo Raiders: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 1209), H1959 [11AP]

EPA: amend the renewable fuel program to allow domestic alternative fuel to be used to satisfy a portion of the required applicable volume of renewable fuel (see H.R. 1959), H2602 [14MY]

——— eliminate certain requirements under the renewable fuel program and prohibit approval of gasoline that contains greater than a certain percentage of ethanol (see H.R. 1462), H1908 [10AP]

——— require congressional review of certain rules (see H.R. 2916), H5342 [1AU]

Fair Labor Standards Act: provide specific limited exemption for insurance claim adjustment work after a major disaster from overtime pay requirements (see H.R. 3179), H6677 [22OC]

Federal agencies and departments: repeal prohibition on the procurement and acquisition of alternative fuels (see H.R. 2478), H4037 [25JN]

Federal employees: provide for the compensation of furloughed employees (see H.R. 3223), H6103 [1OC]

Federal firefighters: provide that hours worked by Federal firefighters under a qualified trade-of-time arrangement shall be excluded for overtime pay (see H.R. 1141), H1861 [9AP]

Food industry: improve and clarify certain disclosure requirements for restaurants, similar retail food establishments, and vending machines (see H.R. 1249), H1629 [19MR]

Health: create a patient-centered quality of care initiative for seriously ill patients (see H.R. 1666), H5513 [11SE]

——— prevent establishment of Federal health care provider standards of care in medical malpractice cases (see H.R. 1473), H1909 [10AP]

Hispanic Heritage Month: observance (see H. Res. 363), H5922 [27SE]

House of Representatives: encourage Speaker to immediately request a conference and appoint conferees to complete fiscal year 2014 budget resolution with the Senate (see H. Res. 174), H2247 [23AP]

Immigration: provide for special immigrant status for certain spouses and children of employees of the U.S. Government abroad killed in the line of duty (see H.R. 1781), H2391 [26AP]

——— reform (see H.R. 15), H6173 [2OC]

Iran: impose additional human rights and economic and financial sanctions to compel Iran to abandon its pursuit of nuclear weapons (see H.R. 850), H2803 [20MY]

Israel: strengthen strategic alliance with the U.S. (see H.R. 938), H2570 [9MY]

Juneteenth Independence Day: observance (see H. Res. 268), H3687 [17JN]

Local Radio Freedom Act: support (see H. Con. Res. 16), H1431 [14MR]

Mandela, Nelson R.: tribute (see H. Res. 434), H7689 [11DE]

Medicaid: require coverage of optometrists (see H.R. 855), H5513 [11SE]

Medicare: extend Medicare-dependent hospital (MDH) program and increase payments under the Medicare low-volume hospital program (see H.R. 1787), H6053 [30SE]

——— reform sustainable growth rate payment system for physicians (see H.R. 2810), H5176 [30JY]

Medicare/Medicaid: delay implementation schedule of the reductions of disproportionate share hospital payments (see H.R. 1920), H3688 [17JN]

Members of Congress: prohibit receipt of pay after October 1 of any fiscal year in which a concurrent budget resolution and regular appropriations bills have not been approved (see H.R. 310), H176 [18JA]

——— provide that Members shall be paid last whenever the U.S. cannot satisfy obligations in a timely manner because public debt ceiling has been reached (see H.R. 1884), H2533 [8MY]

National Park Service: mint coins in commemoration of anniversary (see H.R. 627), H2396 [26AP]

National security: enhance safety of U.S. ports of entry (see H.R. 583), H413 [6FE]

NIH: provide for a pediatric research initiative through use of funds saved by terminating taxpayer financing of Presidential election campaigns and party conventions (see H.R. 2019), H3357 [12JN]

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. 624), H2027 [15AP]

Paul Brown U.S. Courthouse, Sherman, TX: designate (see H.R. 185), H818 [28FE]

Pensions: provide an election for funding parity for charity-sponsored pensions (see H.R. 2134), H5477 [10SE]

Political campaigns: provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, and other entities (see H.R. 148), H32 [3JA]

Pope Francis: congratulate on election and recognize inspirational statements and actions (see H. Res. 440), H8113 [12DE]

Postal Service: ensure continuation of 6-day mail delivery service (see H. Res. 30), H629 [25FE]

Power resources: require approval of construction, operation, or maintenance of oil or natural gas pipelines or electric transmission facilities at U.S. borders for import or export (see H.R. 3301), H6674 [22OC]

Puerto Rico: set forth the process to be admitted as a State (see H.R. 2000), H3216 [5JN]

Refuse disposal: encourage recovery and beneficial use of coal ash and establish requirements for management and disposal of coal ash that are protective of human health and the environment (see H.R. 2218), H3014 [3JN]

Sabin Vaccine Institute: anniversary (see H. Res. 114), H1396 [13MR]

San Antonio Missions National Historical Park: expand boundary and conduct a study of potential land acquisitions (see H.R. 885), H814 [28FE]

Sergeant William Moody Post Office Building, Burleson, TX: designate (see H.R. 3060), H5399 [2AU]

States: constitutional amendment allowing States to call a limited convention solely for the purposes of considering whether to propose a specific amendment to the Constitution (see H.J. Res. 52), H5050 [24JY]

——— recognize authority to regulate oil and gas operations and promote American energy security, development, and job creation (see H.R. 2728), H4724 [18JY]

Taxation: allow qualified scholarship funding corporations to access tax-exempt financing for alternative private student loans (see H.R. 2573), H4173 [28JN]

——— establish ABLE accounts to pay for qualified disability expenses of family members with disabilities (see H.R. 647), H3760 [18JN]

——— extend and modify the American Opportunity Tax Credit (see H.R. 1738), H2350 [25AP]

——— extend and modify the railroad track maintenance credit (see H.R. 721), H4309 [9JY]

——— permanently extend lower threshold for refundable portion of child tax credit and adjust credit for inflation (see H.R. 769), H594 [15FE]

——— prevent certain discriminatory taxation of natural gas pipeline property (see H.R. 2877), H5260 [31JY]

——— provide a deduction for purchase of secure gun storage or safety device for the securing of firearms (see H.R. 1883), H2533 [8MY]

——— rename the section of the Internal Revenue Code known as the spousal individual retirement account as the Kay Bailey Hutchison Spousal IRA (see H.R. 2289), H4040 [25JN]

——— repeal phasedown of the credit percentage for the dependent care credit (see H.R. 1978), H2959 [23MY]

Telephones: restrict any State or local jurisdiction from imposing a new discriminatory tax on cell phone services, providers, or property (see H.R. 2309), H3286 [11JN]

Violence Against Women Act: reauthorize (see H.R. 11), H504 [13FE]

World War II: award Congressional Gold Medal to members of the Civil Air Patrol (see H.R. 755), H594 [15FE]

——— award Congressional Gold Medal to Monuments Men in recognition of their role in preservation, protection, and restitution of monuments, works of art, and articles of cultural importance (see H.R. 3658), H8136 [26DE]

——— award Congressional Gold Medal to the First Special Service Force (see H.R. 324), H1720 [20MR]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Federal agencies and departments: establish Federal customer service standards and improve service provided by Federal agencies (see H.R. 1660), H2164 [19AP]

Foreign trade: allow public-private partnerships to fund additional staffing and alternative financing for infrastructure improvements at land border ports of entry (see H.R. 1108), H1394 [13MR]

Bills and resolutions relative to

House of Representatives: dismiss contest of Texas’ Twenty-Eighth Congressional District election (see H. Res. 127), H1631 [19MR]

Constitutional authority statements

Federal agencies and departments: establish Federal customer service standards and improve service provided by Federal agencies (H.R. 1660), H2164 [19AP]

Foreign trade: allow public-private partnerships to fund additional staffing and alternative financing for infrastructure improvements at land border ports of entry (H.R. 1108), H1396 [13MR]

Remarks

Agriculture: reauthorize certain programs (H.R. 1947), H3726 [18JN]

Azerbaijan: democracy efforts, E192• [26FE]

Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (H.R. 1960), H3531 [13JN]

——— consult with Dept. of Homeland Security and FAA to develop plans for joint testing and evaluation of unmanned aircraft equipment and systems, H3531 [13JN]

Dept. of Homeland Security: making appropriations (H.R. 2217), H3127 [5JN]

Dept. of the Interior: provide for proper Federal management and oversight of transboundary hydrocarbon reservoirs of the Outer Continental Shelf (H.R. 1613), H4001 [25JN]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: eliminate backlog of benefit claims and delays in receipt of medical care, H3054 [4JN]

Depts. of Defense, Veterans Affairs, and related agencies: making appropriations for military construction and veterans’ services (H.R. 2216), H3054 [4JN]

Federal agencies and departments: establish Federal customer service standards and improve service provided by Federal agencies (H.R. 1660), H5208 [31JY]

Navarro, Monica: San Antonio Association of Hispanic Journalists Henry Guerra Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Journalism recipient, E1335• [18SE]

San Antonio Missions National Historical Park: expand boundary and conduct a study of potential land acquisitions (H.R. 885), H2998 [3JN]

States: recognize authority to regulate oil and gas operations and promote American energy security, development, and job creation (H.R. 2728), H7283 [20NO]

Remarks in House relative to

House of Representatives: dismiss contest of Texas’ Twenty-Eighth Congressional District election (H. Res. 127), H1590 [19MR], E343 [20MR]

Reports filed

Dismiss Contest of Texas’ Twenty-Eighth Congressional District Election: Committee on House Administration (House) (H. Res. 127) (H. Rept. 113–22), H1629 [19MR]

Texts of

H. Res. 127, dismiss contest of Texas’ Twenty-Eighth Congressional District election, H1590 [19MR]

Tributes

Aguilar, David V., E415• [10AP]

Garcia Barrios de Garza, Carmen, E1499• [11OC]

Garza, Eugenio, Jr., E1647• [13NO]

Gonzalez, Yvonne (Bonnie), E1584• [28OC]

Hastings, Daniel B., Jr., E483• [17AP]

Perez, Lilia, E1356• [20SE]

Piña, Nifa Treviño, E606• [7MY]

Saenz, Abraham, Jr., E1495• [11OC]

Timoshenkov, Miguel, E1050• [11JY]

Vera, Maria Luisa, E1380• [26SE]