LaHOOD, DARIN (a Representative from Illinois)

Appointments

Conferee: H.R. 22, Surface Transportation Reauthorization and Reform Act, H8278 [17NO]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Abortion: protect lives of born and unborn persons (see H.R. 816), H8361 [18NO]

Budget: establish biennial cycle (see H.R. 1610), H7333 [28OC]

Courts: provide Federal jurisdiction for theft of trade secrets (see H.R. 3326), H8646 [30NO]

Dept. of Agriculture: repeal certain changes relative to Standard Reinsurance Agreements with private companies that administer Federal crop insurance (see H.R. 3845), H8282 [17NO]

FEMA: require rulemaking to address considerations in evaluating the need for public and individual disaster assistance (see H.R. 1685), H8414 [19NO]

Health: improve health care coverage under vision and dental plans for certain self-funded, non-Federal Government plans (see H.R. 3323), H9013 [3DE]

Health care professionals: protect certain sports medicine professionals who provide certain medical services in a secondary State (see H.R. 921), H8281 [17NO]

Horse Protection Act: designate additional unlawful acts, strengthen penalties for violations, and improve Dept. of Agriculture enforcement (see H.R. 3268), H9307 [11DE]

Human rights: express that those who commit or support targeted atrocities against Christians and other ethnic and religious minorities are committing ‘‘war crimes’’, ‘‘crimes against humanity’’, and ‘‘genocide’’ (see H. Con. Res. 75), H6837 [6OC]

Lebanon: condemn terrorist attacks in Beirut, offer condolences to families of the victims and to the injured, and support efforts to bring to justice those involved in planning and execution of attacks (see H. Res. 535), H8412 [19NO]

Local Radio Freedom Act: support (see H. Con. Res. 17), H7139 [22OC]

Medicare: provide coverage of an initial comprehensive care plan for beneficiaries newly diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (see H.R. 1559), H8414 [19NO]

——— provide for coverage of continuous glucose monitoring systems (CGMS) (see H.R. 1427), H8241 [16NO]

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. 2646), H9080 [8DE]

New York, NY: reauthorize the World Trade Center Health Program and the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund (see H.R. 1786), H8414 [19NO]

Office of the Special Inspector General for Monitoring the Affordable Care Act: establish (see H.R. 2400), H9271 [10DE]

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: repeal excise tax on high cost employer-sponsored health coverage (see H.R. 2050), H9080 [8DE]

——— repeal the ‘‘Cadillac Tax’’ on certain high-cost health plans (see H.R. 879), H9026 [7DE]

Political campaigns: prohibit acceptance by political committees of online contributions from certain unverified sources (see H.R. 4177), H9308 [11DE]

SSA: prohibit use of determinations to consider an individual to be adjudicated as mentally defective relative to the sale or transfer of firearms (see H.R. 3516), H9307 [11DE]

Taxation: modify energy credit to provide greater incentives for combined heat and power (CHP) and waste heat to power (WHP) energy efficiency technologies (see H.R. 2657), H8281 [17NO]

Certificates of election

House of Representatives, H6110 [17SE]

Letters

Election of Darin LaHood to the House of Representatives: Steven S. Sandvoss, Illinois Board of Elections, H6110 [17SE]

Oaths of office

House of Representatives, H6110, H6134 [17SE]

Remarks

Harlan, Jack C., Jr.: Purple Heart recipient, H8250 [17NO]

House of Representatives: appreciation of opportunity to serve, H6110 [17SE]

Remarks in House relative to

Tribute, H6110 [17SE]

Tributes

Haddad, Tony, E1769• [10DE]

Vernon, James, E1580• [3NO]