BLUM, ROD (a Representative from Iowa)

Amendments

Corps of Engineers: improve rivers and harbors and provide for the conservation and development of water and related resources (H.R. 5303), H5988 [27SE]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Animals: outlaw the practice of animal crushing and production or distribution of any videos depicting such acts (see H.R. 2293), H1045 [29FE]

Appropriations: eliminate unauthorized spending on Federal programs (see H.R. 4730), H1637 [12AP]

Armed Forces: provide permanent appropriations for death gratuities and related survivor benefits for survivors of deceased members in the event of lapsed appropriations (see H.R. 250), H3564 [8JN]

Aviation: include training for certain employees of air carriers to combat human trafficking (see H.R. 4430), H1001 [26FE]

Budget: constitutional amendment to require balanced (see H.J. Res. 55), H776 [11FE]

Committee on POW and MIA Affairs (House, Select): establish (see H. Res. 590), H1767 [15AP]

Congress: require each bill enacted be limited to only one subject (see H.R. 4335), H101 [6JA]

Courts: reform sentencing laws (see H.R. 3713), H4660 [11JY]

Dept. of HHS: establish a National Diabetes Clinical Care Commission (see H.R. 1192), H2845 [18MY]

——— expand and improve childhood cancer treatments, research, surveillance, and quality of life for survivors (see H.R. 3381), H1924 [21AP]

——— increase number of permanent faculty in palliative care at allopathic and osteopathic health care professional schools, and other programs, and promote education in palliative care and hospice (see H.R. 3119), H1600 [11AP]

——— provide for systematic data collection and analysis and epidemiological research regarding multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, and other neurological diseases (see H.R. 292), H2428 [16MY]

——— provide for the participation of physical therapists in the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program (see H.R. 2342), H4660 [11JY]

——— reauthorize and modernize the Community Services Block Grant Program (see H.R. 1655), H1802 [18AP]

——— revise operations of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (see H.R. 1151), H4660 [11JY]

Dept. of Homeland Security: require U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to take into custody certain aliens who have been charged with a crime that resulted in the death or serious injury of another person (see H.R. 5619), H4550 [7JY] (see H.R. 5646), H4661 [11JY]

Dept. of HUD: prohibit implementation of Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule (see H.R. 1995), H1000 [26FE]

Dept. of Justice: reauthorize Missing Alzheimer’s Disease Patient Alert Program and promote initiatives to reduce risk of injury and death from wandering characteristics of some children with autism (see H.R. 4919), H1853 [19AP]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: carry out pilot program to provide service dogs to certain veterans with severe post-traumatic stress disorder (see H.R. 4764), H1766 [15AP]

——— clarify presumptions relating to exposure of certain veterans who served in the vicinity of Vietnam (see H.R. 969), H1464 [17MR]

——— establish a national center for diagnosis, treatment, and research of health conditions of descendants of veterans exposed to toxic substances during military service (see H.R. 1769), H2067 [27AP]

——— improve the Veterans Crisis Line (see H.R. 5392), H4661 [11JY]

——— provide certain employees of Members of Congress and certain State or local government employees with access to case-tracking information (see H.R. 5166), H3297 [26MY]

——— require in-patient psychiatric care for any veteran enrolled in the VA health care system requesting such care (see H.R. 6108), H5799 [21SE]

——— require voice mail for certain departmental telephone lines (see H.R. 4477), H590 [4FE]

Depts. of Veterans Affairs and Labor: provide information to veterans and Armed Forces members about articulation agreements between institutions of higher learning (see H.R. 5047), H3705 [10JN]

District of Columbia: reauthorize funding for public schools, charter schools, and the Opportunity Scholarship Program providing private school vouchers (see H.R. 4901), H1633 [12AP]

Drugs: prevent regulatory oversight from disrupting ability of emergency medical personnel to administer certain controlled substances (see H.R. 4365), H1997 [26AP]

EPA: exclude vehicles used solely for competition from certain provisions of the Clean Air Act (see H.R. 4715), H1766 [15AP]

——— facilitate efficient State implementation of ground-level ozone standards (see H.R. 4775), H1997 [26AP]

FAA: issue regulations on secondary cockpit barriers (see H.R. 911), H567 [3FE]

FBI: provide adequate whistleblower protections (see H.R. 5790), H5006 [14JY]

Federal agencies and departments: establish a moratorium on significant midnight rules between a Presidential election and the inauguration when the President is not serving a consecutive term (see H.R. 4612), H948 [25FE]

——— require all fines, fees, penalties, or proceeds from a settlement to be transferred to the Treasury and subjected to the appropriations process (see H.R. 5499), H3965 [16JN]

——— require publication of information relative to pending agency regulatory actions (see H.R. 5226), H2429 [16MY]

Health care professionals: protect certain sports medicine professionals who provide certain medical services in a secondary State (see H.R. 921), H2428 [16MY]

Information technology: provide the public with access to the laws of the U.S. (see H.R. 4006), H3705 [10JN]

Insurance: clarify treatment of pediatric dental coverage in the individual and group markets outside exchanges established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (see H.R. 3463), H1000 [26FE]

——— facilitate prompt and efficient adjusting of claims in the case of natural and other disasters and losses and encourage licensing of claims adjusters (see H.R. 2998), H1345 [14MR]

——— provide an exception from certain group health plan requirements for qualified small employer health reimbursement arrangements (see H.R. 5447), H3969 [16JN]

Iran: prohibit cash payments (see H.R. 5931), H5256 [9SE]

IRS: nullify proposed regulations that would eliminate valuation discounts on liquidation of an interest relative to estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes (see H.R. 6100), H6180 [14NO]

Israel: support expeditious consideration and finalization of long-term memorandum of understanding on U.S. military assistance to Israel (see H. Res. 729), H4055 [21JN]

ITC: establish a process for submission and consideration of petitions for temporary duty suspensions and reductions (see H.R. 4923), H1679 [13AP]

Manufacturing Day: designate (see H. Con. Res. 155), H5523 [15SE]

Medicare: allow physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and clinical nurse specialists to supervise cardiac, intensive cardiac, and pulmonary rehabilitation programs (see H.R. 3355), H2845 [18MY]

——— clarify policy relative to physician supervision of therapeutic hospital outpatient services (see H.R. 1611), H1766 [15AP]

——— enable hospital-based nursing programs that are affiliated with a hospital to maintain payments to hospitals for the costs of such programs (see H.R. 1784), H3704 [10JN]

——— ensure more timely access to home health services for beneficiaries (see H.R. 1342), H818 [12FE]

——— improve patient access to durable medical equipment (see H.R. 5210), H2340 [12MY]

——— improve process whereby administrative contractors issue local coverage determinations (see H.R. 5721), H5256 [9SE]

——— prohibit prescription drug plan sponsors and Medicare Advantage prescription drug organizations from retroactively reducing payment on clean claims submitted by pharmacies (see H.R. 5951), H5222 [8SE]

——— provide for coverage of continuous glucose monitoring systems (CGMS) (see H.R. 1427), H6179 [14NO]

——— remove enrollment restriction on certain physicians and practitioners prescribing covered outpatient drugs under the prescription drug program (see H.R. 4062), H4660 [11JY]

——— repeal outpatient rehabilitation therapy caps (see H.R. 775), H1117 [2MR]

——— waive coinsurance for colorectal cancer screening tests, regardless of whether therapeutic intervention is required during the screening (see H.R. 1220), H2428 [16MY]

Members of Congress: constitutional amendment on equal application of the laws that apply to all U.S. citizens to Senators and Representatives (see H.J. Res. 89), H1896 [20AP]

Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame: mint coins in commemoration of anniversary (see H.R. 4592), H4054 [21JN]

Nancy Reagan Memorial Park, Arlington County, VA: designate (see H.R. 5457), H3753 [13JN]

National Small Business Week: observance (see H. Res. 713), H2149 [29AP]

National Strategic Agenda: establish and include goals of job creation, balanced budget, securing Medicare and Social Security, and energy security (see H. Res. 207), H497 [2FE]

Office of the Special Inspector General for Monitoring the Affordable Care Act: establish (see H.R. 2400), H1146 [3MR]

OMB: issue a directive on management of software licenses (see H.R. 4904), H1681 [13AP]

OSHA: repeal interpretive memorandum which revoked the exemption for retail facilities from Process Safety Management (PSM) regulations for anhydrous ammonia (see H.R. 5213), H3915 [15JN]

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: allow for certain third party payments (see H.R. 3742), H5338 [12SE]

Research: establish EUREKA Prize Competitions to accelerate discovery and development of treatments, detection, and care for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia (see H.R. 5073), H5338 [12SE]

Small Business Saturday: observance (see H. Res. 886), H6302 [17NO]

Social Security: improve quality, health outcomes, and value of maternity care under Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Program (see H.R. 4695), H1766 [15AP]

——— provide States with the option of providing services to children with medically complex conditions under Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Program through a care coordination program (see H.R. 546), H4171 [22JN]

——— repeal the windfall elimination provision and protect the retirement of public servants (see H.R. 711), H5096 [6SE]

——— revise medical criteria for evaluating disability in a person with Huntington’s disease and waive Medicare waiting period for individuals disabled by Huntington’s disease (see H.R. 842), H2428 [16MY]

Taxation: allow increased work opportunity credit for employers of recently discharged veterans (see H.R. 4660), H1115 [2MR]

——— allow members of Armed Forces Ready Reserve to make elective deferrals to retirement plans on the basis of their service (see H.R. 4381), H3754 [13JN]

——— expand certain exceptions to private activity bond rules for first-time farmers (see H.R. 5335), H3265 [25MY]

——— extend and reform biodiesel tax incentives (see H.R. 5240), H2385 [13MY]

——— extend tax credit for residential energy efficient property (see H.R. 5167), H4575 [8JY]

——— improve the Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit (see H.R. 3846), H1045 [29FE]

——— increase the alternative simplified research credit (see H.R. 5187), H3754 [13JN]

——— make qualified biogas and manure resource recovery property eligible for the energy credit and permit new clean renewable energy bonds to finance qualified biogas property (see H.R. 5489), H4816 [12JY]

——— permanently extend the railroad track maintenance credit (see H.R. 4626), H5338 [12SE]

——— provide a charitable deduction for service of volunteer firefighters and emergency medical and rescue personnel (see H.R. 343), H1996 [26AP]

——— repeal excise tax on indoor tanning services (see H.R. 2698), H4660 [11JY]

——— treat certain farming business machinery and equipment as 5-year property for purposes of depreciation (see H.R. 4474), H590 [4FE]

Unemployment: require substance abuse risk assessment and targeted drug testing as a condition for receipt of unemployment compensation (see H.R. 2148), H1924 [21AP]

United Kingdom: express continued support for special relationship with the U.S. and urge negotiations for the development of a North Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (NATIP) (see H. Res. 817), H4659 [11JY]

——— promote further commercial and economic cooperation and establish basis for trade agreement negotiations with the U.S. and support continued economic ties with the European Union (see H. Con. Res. 146), H5018 [14JY]

Wiesel, Elie: tribute (see H. Res. 810), H4548 [7JY]

World War II: award a Congressional Gold Medal in honor of Filipino veterans (see H.R. 2737), H5501 [14SE]

——— award a Congressional Gold Medal to the U.S. Merchant Marine of World War II (see H.R. 2992), H1152 [7MR]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Iowa: repeal legislation to confer jurisdiction over offenses committed by or against Indians on the Sac and Fox Indian Reservation to the State (see H.R. 5914), H5022 [18JY]

Members of Congress: reduce rates of pay following a fiscal year in which there is a Federal budget deficit (see H.R. 4476), H590 [4FE]

Office of Special Counsel: reauthorize and modify certain authorities in order to ensure protection of Federal whistleblowers (see H.R. 4639), H999 [26FE]

Sgt. 1st Class Terryl L. Pasker Post Office Building, Cedar Rapids, IA: designate (see H.R. 4605), H892 [24FE]

Taxation: provide for expensing of property used to comply with Federal laws (see H.R. 5818), H5007 [14JY]

Constitutional authority statements

Iowa: repeal legislation to confer jurisdiction over offenses committed by or against Indians on the Sac and Fox Indian Reservation to the State (H.R. 5914), H5023 [18JY]

Members of Congress: reduce rates of pay following a fiscal year in which there is a Federal budget deficit (H.R. 4476), H591 [4FE]

Office of Special Counsel: reauthorize and modify certain authorities in order to ensure protection of Federal whistleblowers (H.R. 4639), H1000 [26FE]

Sgt. 1st Class Terryl L. Pasker Post Office Building, Cedar Rapids, IA: designate (H.R. 4605), H892 [24FE]

Taxation: provide for expensing of property used to comply with Federal laws (H.R. 5818), H5013 [14JY]

Remarks

Amelia Boynton Robinson Post Office Building, Selma, AL: designate (H.R. 4777), H3994, H3995 [21JN]

Barry G. Miller Post Office, Bergen, NY: designate (H.R. 4372), H3993, H3994 [21JN]

Commission To Accelerate the End of Breast Cancer: establish (H.R. 1197), H5817 [22SE]

Corps of Engineers: Cedar River flood risk management project funding, H5988 [27SE]

——— improve rivers and harbors and provide for the conservation and development of water and related resources (H.R. 5303), H5988 [27SE]

Ed Pastor Post Office, Phoenix, AZ: designate (H.R. 4010), H3992, H3993 [21JN]

EPA: repeal regulations concerning sale of E–15 gasoline, E1296• [20SE]

FDA: improve and clarify certain disclosure requirements for restaurants and similar retail food establishments and amend authority to bring certain proceedings (H.R. 2017), H794 [12FE]

Federal agencies and departments: establish a process for the review of rules and sets of rules (H.R. 1155), H72 [6JA]

First Lieutenant Salvatore S. Corma II Post Office Building, Deptford Township, NJ: designate (H.R. 3866), H1777 [18AP]

Harold George Bennett Post Office, Perryville, AR: designate (H.R. 2928), H1778 [18AP]

Health: accelerate discovery, development, and delivery of 21st century lifesaving cures and devices (H.R. 6), E282• [7MR]

Iowa: E–15 Day observance, E1296• [20SE]

ITC: establish a process for submission and consideration of petitions for temporary duty suspensions and reductions (H.R. 4923), H2018 [27AP]

Johnson, Ann: NSF Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching recipient, E1233• [9SE]

Kenneth M. Christy Post Office Building, Aurora, IL: designate (H.R. 4960), H3997, H3998 [21JN]

Mary Eleanora McCoy Post Office Building, Detroit, MI: designate (H.R. 5028), H3991, H3992 [21JN]

Members of Congress: constitutional amendment to limit terms (H.J. Res. 49), H1546, H1547, H1548 [22MR]

——— prohibit use of official funds for airline accommodations which are not coach-class accommodations or for long-term vehicle leases (H.R. 1339), H1548 [22MR]

——— reduce rates of pay following a fiscal year in which there is a Federal budget deficit (H.R. 4476), H1548 [22MR]

——— terminate further retirement benefits, except the right to continue participating in the Thrift Savings Plan (H.R. 584), H1548 [22MR]

Michael Garver Oxley Memorial Post Office Building, Findlay, OH: designate (H.R. 4925), H3996, H3997 [21JN]

National Agriculture Day: observance, E307• [15MR]

National Cereal Day: observance, E329• [17MR]

National FFA Week: observance, E235• [26FE]

National Nurses Week: observance, E703• [16MY]

National Police Week: observance, E732• [18MY]

National School Choice Week: observance, E72• [1FE]

National Teacher Appreciation Week: observance, E704• [16MY]

Office of Special Counsel: reauthorize and modify certain authorities in order to ensure protection of Federal whistleblowers (H.R. 4639), H3990, H3991 [21JN]

Power resources: provide regulatory relief to alternative fuel producers and consumers (H.R. 1944), E1296• [20SE]

Rare Disease Week: observance, E282• [7MR]

Sgt. 1st Class Terryl L. Pasker Post Office Building, Cedar Rapids, IA: designate (H.R. 4605), H1779 [18AP]

Water: disapprove rule submitted by the Corps of Engineers and EPA relative to the definition of ‘‘waters of the U.S.’’ under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (S.J. Res. 22), E54• [25JA]

——— prevent finalization by the EPA or Corps of Engineers of proposed guidance on identification of waters protected by the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (H.R. 1732), E54• [25JA]