PITTENGER, ROBERT (a Representative from North Carolina)

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Armed Forces: award Congressional Gold Medal to the 65th Infantry Regiment known as the Borinqueneers (see H.R. 1726), H1592 [4FE]

——— exempt retired pay of certain disabled veterans from full working-age military retiree cost-of-living adjustment and prevent adverse impact of such adjustment on Survivor Benefit Plan annuities (see H.R. 3789), H73 [8JA]

——— restore full working-age military retiree cost-of-living adjustment (see H.R. 3787), H136 [9JA]

Chief Joseph E. White, Jr., Post Office Building, Rich Square, NC: designate (see H.R. 5142), H6398 [17JY]

Children and youth: bolster U.S. diplomacy and assistance aimed at ensuring children have permanent, safe, nurturing, and loving families and strengthen intercountry adoption to the U.S. and around the world (see H.R. 4143), H3448 [6MY]

——— extend, enhance, and revise certain laws on collection, use, and disclosure of personal information of children and establish additional protections (see H.R. 3481), H1659 [5FE]

——— prevent and address sex trafficking of youth in foster care (see H.R. 4058), H2803 [1AP]

——— prevent and address sex trafficking of youth in foster care, extend and improve adoption incentives, and improve international child support recovery (see H.R. 4980), H6746 [23JY]

China: urge respect for freedom of assembly, expression, and religion, all human rights and the rule of law, and stop censoring discussion of 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations and their violent suppression (see H. Res. 599), H4836 [27MY]

Colleges and universities: ensure appropriate spending of taxpayer funds on student aid, access to information to make informed choices about postsecondary education, and oppose Federal rating system (see H. Res. 614), H6217 [14JY]

Consumers: preclude law firms and licensed attorneys from the definition of a debt collector when taking certain actions (see H.R. 2892), H2746 [27MR]

Courts: prohibit recovery of damages in certain wrongful birth and wrongful life civil actions (see H.R. 4698), H4783 [21MY]

Credit: clarify Federal law relative to reporting positive consumer credit information to consumer reporting agencies by public utility or telecommunications companies (see H.R. 2538), H2065 [27FE]

Crime: provide a penalty for knowingly selling advertising that offers certain commercial sex acts (see H.R. 4225), H2803 [1AP]

——— provide justice for victims of human trafficking (see H.R. 3530), H1659 [5FE]

——— stop exploitation through human trafficking (see H.R. 3610), H2854 [2AP]

Dept. of Education: expand higher education opportunities by allowing States to develop their own systems of accrediting educational institutions, curricula, programs, and courses (see H.R. 4612), H6297 [15JY]

——— provide grants to State educational agencies and institutions of higher education to strengthen elementary and secondary computer science education (see H.R. 2536), H6815 [24JY]

Dept. of HHS: award competitive grants to public and private entities to provide qualified sexual risk avoidance education to youth and their parents (see H.R. 718), H2001 [26FE]

Dept. of HUD: prohibit Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac contributions to the Housing Trust Fund and Capital Market Fund while in conservatorship or receivership (see H.R. 3901), H1240 [16JA]

Dept. of State: prioritize fight against human trafficking according to congressional intent in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act without increasing the size of the Federal Government (see H.R. 2283), H1659 [5FE]

Dept. of the Treasury: allow reliance on State examinations for certain financial institutions in order to assist immigrant communities in making remittances to their countries of origin (see H.R. 1694), H2065 [27FE] (see H.R. 4386), H2913 [3AP]

Dept. of Transportation: delay implementation of regulation changing the hours-of-service rule for commercial truck drivers pending a GAO assessment of such regulation (see H.R. 3413), H3448 [6MY]

——— designate the corridor between Raleigh, NC, and Norfolk, VA, as an interstate highway (see H.R. 4829), H6860 [25JY]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: include the cost of applying to an institution of higher learning as part of the benefits provided under the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Program (see H.R. 4793), H8669 [4DE]

Depts. of Defense and Veterans Affairs: evaluate mental health care and suicide prevention programs, review discharge or separation of certain individuals, and require a loan repayment pilot program for psychiatrists (see H.R. 5059), H7996 [14NO]

Developing countries: provide assistance to support the rights of women and girls (see H.R. 3398), H1772 [11FE]

Economy: create jobs by revising Federal labor laws, decreasing regulatory burdens, providing comprehensive energy reform, and streamlining access to investment capital (see H.R. 4304), H2855 [2AP]

Education: support State authority and flexibility in establishing student academic standards and denounce the President’s coercion of States into adopting the Common Core State Standards (see H. Res. 476), H2962 [4AP]

Edward ‘Ed’ James O’Neal Dept. of Veterans Affairs Clinic, Hamlet, NC: designate (see H.R. 5265), H7125 [30JY]

FCC: prohibit regulation of certain network management practices of broadband Internet access service providers (see H.R. 4070), H2002 [26FE]

Federal agencies and departments: ensure functionality and security of new Federal websites that collect personally identifiable information (see H.R. 3635), H1432 [27JA]

Federal-State relations: require Federal agencies to look at a person’s legal residence when determining marital status and ensure respect for State regulation of marriage (see H.R. 3829), H134 [9JA]

Financial institutions: clarify application of certain leverage and risk-based capital requirements (see H.R. 4510), H3941 [7MY]

——— modify exemptions for small creditors and mortgage loan servicers (see H.R. 4521), H3448 [6MY]

——— specify when bank holding companies may be subject to certain enhanced supervision (see H.R. 4060), H2486 [14MR]

Financial Stability Oversight Council: hold open meetings, comply with requirements of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, and provide additional improvements to the Council (see H.R. 4387), H2962 [4AP]

——— place a moratorium on authority to make financial stability determinations (see H.R. 4881), H5398 [17JN]

Foreign aid: ensure the provision of foreign assistance does not contribute to human trafficking and combat human trafficking by requiring greater transparency in recruitment of foreign workers (see H.R. 3344), H2199 [5MR]

——— provide assistance for treatment of hydrocephalus in children in developing countries, train health care providers in innovative methods to treat and cure hydrocephalus, and fund related research (see H.R. 3525), H2435 [13MR]

Freedom of speech: reaffirm commitment to constitutional protection (see H. Res. 621), H5365 [12JN]

FRS: apply the requirements of the Federal Advisory Committee Act to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (see H.R. 4262), H5065 [30MY]

Health: develop and disseminate clinical practice guidelines and establish right of removal to Federal courts for defendants in medical malpractice actions involving Federal payors (see H.R. 4106), H4830 [22MY]

Health Care Compact: grant congressional consent (see H.J. Res. 110), H3294 [29AP]

Human rights: identify strategies to prevent children from becoming victims of trafficking, review trafficking prevention efforts, and improve trafficking victims’ assistance grants (see H.R. 5135), H6397 [17JY]

——— provide protections for sexually exploited and trafficked girls in the U.S. and create criminal or civil penalties for anyone who buys or sells a child through a system of child trafficking (see H. Res. 387), H1481 [28JA]

Immigration: establish a rule of construction clarifying the limitations on executive authority to provide certain forms of immigration relief (see H.R. 5759), H8273 [2DE]

——— expedite removal of unaccompanied alien children, implement tough ‘‘credible fear’’ standards, reduce asylum fraud, protect communities from gangs, and provide Border Patrol access to Federal lands (see H.R. 5137), H6657 [22JY]

——— expedite removal of unaccompanied alien children who are not victims of a severe form of human trafficking and who do not have a fear of returning to their country of nationality or last residence (see H.R. 5053), H6656 [22JY]

——— prevent expansion of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and prohibit granting amnesty and work permits to illegal aliens (see H.R. 5160), H7190 [31JY]

——— prohibit funding for granting deferred action or other immigration relief to aliens not lawfully present in the U.S. (see H.R. 5768), H8366 [3DE]

Jason Crisp Forest Service Building, Nebo, NC: designate (see H.R. 4360), H2801 [1AP]

Local Radio Freedom Act: support (see H. Con. Res. 16), H2962 [4AP]

Meadowlark Lemon Post Office, Wilmington, NC: designate (see H.R. 5245), H7619 [16SE]

Members of Congress: prohibit Members who retire before age 62 from receiving a cost-of-living increase prior to reaching retirement age (see H.R. 3787), H136 [9JA]

——— reduce a portion of salaries for failure to adopt a concurrent budget resolution which does not provide for a balanced budget (see H.R. 522), H2065 [27FE]

Mental health: make available needed psychiatric, psychological, and supportive services for individuals diagnosed with mental illness and families in mental health crisis (see H.R. 3717), H7676 [17SE]

Mexico: call for release of Andrew P. Tahmooressi (see H. Res. 620), H7940 [12NO]

Middle East: prevent Hezbollah and associated entities from gaining access to international financial and other institutions (see H.R. 4411), H3365 [30AP]

Muslim Brotherhood (organization): designate as terrorist organization and impose sanctions against persons who knowingly provide material support or resources (see H.R. 5194), H7456 [11SE]

National Commission on the Structure of the Army: establish (see H.R. 3930), H1881 [21FE]

National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month: designate (see H. Res. 697), H7190 [31JY]

Nicklaus, Jack: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 2203), H3198 [10AP]

Palestinian Authority: suspend foreign aid and designate as a terrorist organization pending dissolution of unity Government with Hamas (terrorist organization) and recognition of Israel’s right to exist (see H. Res. 622), H5363 [12JN]

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: exempt emergency services volunteers from employer health insurance mandate (see H.R. 3685), H136 [9JA]

——— exempt emergency services volunteers from individual health insurance mandate (see H.R. 3979), H1545 [3FE]

——— provide that the individual health insurance mandate not apply until the employer health insurance mandate is enforced without exceptions (see H.R. 4064), H2066 [27FE]

——— repeal provisions relative to annual period for disenrollment from Medicare Advantage plans to elect to receive original Medicare fee-for-service benefits (see H.R. 2453), H5819 [26JN]

Religion: ensure organizations with religious or moral convictions are allowed to provide child welfare services (see H.R. 5285), H7125 [30JY]

SSA: provide payment for fees associated with obtaining birth certificate or State identification card for purposes of obtaining replacement Social Security card for certain victims of domestic violence (see H.R. 5362), H7183 [31JY]

Sudan: condemn charge of apostasy and death sentence of Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag and encourage U.S. efforts to support religious freedom (see H. Res. 601), H5073 [5JN]

Supreme Court: anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education decision (see H. Res. 561), H3413 [2MY]

Taiwan Relations Act: affirm importance (see H. Res. 494), H2962 [4AP]

Taxation: exempt student workers from determination of higher education institutions’ employer health care shared responsibility (see H.R. 5262), H7125 [30JY]

——— make permanent the moratorium on Internet access taxation and multiple and discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce (see H.R. 3086), H2066 [27FE]

——— terminate Internal Revenue Code (see H.R. 352), H8365 [3DE]

Terrorism: designate membership or association with foreign terrorist organizations as renunciation of U.S. citizenship and authorize revocation or denial of passports to individuals affiliated with such organizations (see H.R. 5408), H7456 [11SE]

——— restrict travel to certain countries where terrorist organizations are active to participate in armed conflict or provide support to entities engaged in armed conflict (see H.R. 4223), H7242 [1AU]

Trafficking Victims Protection Act: amend relative to efforts of foreign countries to reduce demand for commercial sex acts under the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking (see H.R. 4703), H5820 [26JN]

U.N.: deny admission to the U.S. any U.N. representative who has engaged in espionage or terrorist activities, or poses a national security threat, against the U.S. (see H.R. 4357), H2915 [3AP]

U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom: reauthorize (see H.R. 4653), H5877 [8JY]

Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act: exempt nonprofit low-income housing providers from certain mortgage, servicing, and appraisal requirements (see H.R. 3529), H2066 [27FE]

Water: prevent finalization by the EPA or Corps of Engineers of proposed guidance on identification of waters protected by the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (see H.R. 5078), H7129 [30JY]

Water for the Poor Act: enhance implementation (see H.R. 2901), H3941 [7MY]

World War I: mint coins in commemoration of centennial (see H.R. 2366), H8033 [17NO]

World War II: award Congressional Gold Medal to members of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) (see H.R. 3544), H6400 [17JY]

——— 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), H2486 [14MR]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Foreign aid: suspend assistance to countries that fail to use INTERPOL’s Stolen and Lost Travel Documents database to determine accuracy of passports of prospective passengers on commercial flights (see H.R. 4448), H3195 [10AP]

FRS: establish a Small Business Advisory Board for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (see H.R. 4383), H2913 [3AP]

Constitutional authority statements

Foreign aid: suspend assistance to countries that fail to use INTERPOL’s Stolen and Lost Travel Documents database to determine accuracy of passports of prospective passengers on commercial flights (H.R. 4448), H3197 [10AP]

FRS: establish a Small Business Advisory Board for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (H.R. 4383), H2914 [3AP]

Designated Speaker pro tempore

House of Representatives, H2857 [3AP], H6219 [15JY]

Letters

GAO: conduct a study on the impact of the requirement that depository institutions maintain certain reserves and Regulation D relative to exemptions from SEC registration requirements (H.R. 3240), H8245 [2DE]

Pledge of Allegiance 

House of Representatives, H3063 [9AP]

Remarks

Abortion: pro choice versus right to life, H459 [15JA]

Appropriations: making continuing (H.J. Res. 124), H7573 [16SE]

Crime: provide justice for victims of human trafficking (H.R. 3530), H4508 [20MY]

Dept. of the Treasury: extend termination date of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program (S. 2244), H8988 [10DE]

Financial Stability Oversight Council: strengthen review authority of regulations issued by Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (H.R. 3193), H2036 [27FE]

FRS: proposed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau mortgage regulations, H30 [8JA]

GAO: conduct a study on the impact of the requirement that depository institutions maintain certain reserves and Regulation D relative to exemptions from SEC registration requirements (H.R. 3240), H188 [14JA], H8245, H8246 [2DE]

Immigration: establish a rule of construction clarifying the limitations on executive authority to provide certain forms of immigration relief (H.R. 5759), H8368 [4DE]

Intelligence services: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 4681), H5036 [30MY]

Journal: question of approval, H7024 [29JY]

Securities: provide end user exemptions for certain derivative sales, H8988 [10DE]

Syria: authorize assistance, including training, equipment, supplies, and sustainment to appropriately vetted Syrian groups to combat threat of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) (terrorist organization), H7573 [16SE]

Votes: position on missed, H6097• [10JY], E700• [7MY], E778• [20MY]

Tributes

Coble, Representative, H7921 [12NO]

Greene, Jeff, H8146 [20NO]

Grier, Will, H3063 [9AP]

King, Nate, H2372 [13MR]

Writebol, Nancy, H7054 [30JY]