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| H R 1 | Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 | |
| H R 2 | Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 | |
| H R 3 | Reserved.
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| H R 4 | To reauthorize and improve the program of block grants to States for temporary assistance for needy families, improve access to quality child care, and for other purposes.
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| H R 5 | To improve patient access to health care services and provide improved medical care by reducing the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery system.
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| H R 6 | Energy Policy Act of 2003 | |
| H R 7 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for charitable contributions by individuals and businesses, and for other purposes.
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| H R 8 | To make the repeal of the estate tax permanent.
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| H R 9 | Reserved.
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| H R 10 | To provide for reform of the intelligence community, terrorism prevention and prosecution, border security, and international cooperation and coordination, and for other purposes.
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| H R 11 | To extend the national flood insurance program.
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| H R 12 | To make changes to the Higher Education Act of 1965 incorporating the results of the FED UP Initiative, and for other purposes.
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| H R 13 | To reauthorize the Museum and Library Services Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 14 | To amend the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to make improvements to and reauthorize programs under that Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 15 | To provide a program of national health insurance, and for other purposes.
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| H R 16 | To authorize salary adjustments for Justices and judges of the United States for fiscal year 2003.
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| H R 17 | To provide economic security for America's workers.
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| H R 18 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish additional provisions to combat waste, fraud, and abuse within the Medicare Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 19 | To provide for a program of temporary enhanced unemployment benefits.
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| H R 20 | To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize appropriations for State water pollution control revolving funds, and for other purposes.
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| H R 21 | To prevent the use of certain bank instruments for unlawful Internet gambling, and for other purposes.
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| H R 22 | To simplify certain provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and to establish a uniform pass-thru regime.
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| H R 23 | To amend the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to authorize communities to use community development block grant funds for construction of tornado-safe shelters in manufactured home parks.
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| H R 24 | To require ballistics testing of firearms manufactured in or imported into the United States, and to provide for the compilation, use, and availability of ballistics information for the purpose of curbing the use of firearms in crime.
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| H R 25 | To promote freedom, fairness, and economic opportunity by repealing the income tax and other taxes, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, and enacting a national sales tax to be administered primarily by the States.
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| H R 26 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to revise and improve payments to providers of services under the Medicare Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 27 | To amend the United States Housing Act of 1937 to exempt small public housing agencies from the requirement of preparing an annual public housing agency plan.
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| H R 28 | To amend section 501 of the American Homeownership and Economic Opportunity Act of 2000 to provide for the establishment of the Lands Title Report Commission for Indian trust lands.
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| H R 29 | To convert a temporary judgeship for the district of Nebraska to a permanent judgeship, and for other purposes.
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| H R 30 | To amend the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 to authorize the Secretary of the Army to pay the non-Federal share for managing recreation facilities and natural resources to water resource development projects if the non-Federal interest has agreed to reimburse the Secretary, and for other purposes.
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| H R 31 | To nullify the recent pay increase and to eliminate automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress.
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| H R 32 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a higher purchase price limitation applicable to mortgage subsidy bonds based on median family income.
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| H R 33 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish a minimum geographic cost-of-practice index value for physicians' services furnished under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 34 | To authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007 for the Department of Energy Office of Science, to ensure that the United States is the world leader in key scientific fields by restoring a healthy balance of science funding, to ensure maximum utilization of the national user facilities, and to secure the Nation's supply of scientists for the 21st century, and for other purposes.
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| H R 35 | To amend the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to clarify the Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 36 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide that remarriage of the surviving spouse of a deceased veteran after age 55 shall not result in termination of dependency and indemnity compensation otherwise payable to that surviving spouse.
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| H R 37 | To elevate the Environmental Protection Agency to Cabinet-level status and redesignate such agency as the Department of Environmental Protection.
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| H R 38 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a voluntary outpatient prescription drug benefit program.
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| H R 39 | To establish and implement a competitive oil and gas leasing program that will result in an environmentally sound and job creating program for the exploration, development, and production of the oil and gas resources of the Coastal Plain, and for other purposes.
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| H R 40 | To acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to examine the institution of slavery, subsequently de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African-Americans, and the impact of these forces on living African-Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies, and for other purposes.
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| H R 41 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to specify the update for payments under the Medicare physician fee schedule for 2003.
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| H R 42 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 reduce individual capital gains rates.
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| H R 43 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the alternative minimum tax on corporations and individuals.
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| H R 44 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide reduced capital gain rates for qualified economic stimulus gain and to index the basis of assets of individuals for purposes of determining gains and losses.
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| H R 45 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the double taxation of corporate profits.
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| H R 46 | To require the Secretary of the Treasury to submit a study of tax depreciation recovery periods.
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| H R 47 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to restore fairness to immigration law, and for other purposes.
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| H R 48 | To develop and deploy technologies to defeat Internet jamming and censorship.
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| H R 49 | To permanently extend the moratorium enacted by the Internet Tax Freedom Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 50 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to eliminate the double taxation of dividends.
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| H R 51 | To repeal the Federal death tax, including the estate and gift taxes and the tax on generation-skipping transfers.
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| H R 52 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the "luxury tax" on beer, enacted in the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990, which doubled previous excise levels.
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| H R 53 | To improve health care choice by providing for the tax deductibility of medical expenses by individuals.
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| H R 54 | To establish a grant program that provides incentives for States to enact mandatory minimum sentences for certain firearms offenses, and for other purposes.
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| H R 55 | To provide authority to control exports, and for other purposes.
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| H R 56 | To make the Federal employees health benefits program available to individuals age 55 to 65 who would not otherwise have health insurance, and for other purposes.
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| H R 57 | To make the repeal of the estate tax permanent.
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| H R 58 | To restore health care coverage to retired members of the uniformed services.
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| H R 59 | To amend the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to permit States to use administrative funds to pay costs relating to the processing, transporting, and distributing to eligible recipient agencies of donated wild game.
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| H R 60 | To amend the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 to require Federal agencies to impose certain requirements on recipients of awards for scientific and engineering research.
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| H R 61 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that the percentage of completion method of accounting shall be required to be used with respect to contracts for the manufacture of property if no payments are required to be made before the completion of the manufacture of such property.
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| H R 62 | To establish the Medicare Eligible Military Retiree Health Care Consensus Task Force.
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| H R 63 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide for an improved benefit computation formula for workers affected by the changes in benefit computation rules enacted in the Social Security Amendments of 1977 who attain age 65 during the 10-year period after 1981 and before 1992 (and related beneficiaries) and to provide prospectively for increases in their benefits accordingly.
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| H R 64 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow penalty-free distributions from qualified retirement plans on account of the death or disability of the participant's spouse.
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| H R 65 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a refundable credit to military retirees for premiums paid for coverage under Medicare part B.
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| H R 66 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a refundable credit to certain senior citizens for premiums paid for coverage under Medicare Part B.
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| H R 67 | To provide temporary legal exemptions for certain land management activities of the Federal land management agencies undertaken in federally declared disaster areas.
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| H R 68 | To ensure the efficient allocation of telephone numbers.
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| H R 69 | To require the Federal Trade Commission to prescribe regulations to protect the privacy of personal information collected from and about individuals who are not covered by the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 on the Internet, to provide greater individual control over the collection and use of that information, and for other purposes.
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| H R 70 | To regulate the use by interactive computer services of Social Security account numbers and related personally identifiable information.
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| H R 71 | To require customer consent to the provision of wireless call location information.
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| H R 72 | To prohibit a State from imposing a discriminatory commuter tax on nonresidents, and for other purposes.
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| H R 73 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish a comprehensive program for testing and treatment of veterans for the Hepatitis C virus.
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| H R 74 | To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain land in the lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, Nevada, to the Secretary of the Interior, in trust for the Washoe Indian Tribe of Nevada and California.
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| H R 75 | To amend the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to preserve and strengthen the Social Security program through the creation of personal Social Security guarantee accounts ensuring full benefits for all workers and their families, restoring long-term Social Security solvency, to make certain benefit improvements, and for other purposes.
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| H R 76 | To prevent children's access to firearms.
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| H R 77 | To provide for the establishment of a task force within the Bureau of Justice Statistics to gather information about, study, and report to the Congress regarding, incidents of abandonment of infant children.
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| H R 78 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require hospitals reimbursed under the Medicare system to establish and implement security procedures to reduce the likelihood of infant patient abduction and baby switching, including procedures for identifying all infant patients in the hospital in a manner that ensures that it will be evident if infants are missing from the hospital.
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| H R 79 | To require the Secretary of Education to conduct a study and submit to Congress a report on methods for identifying and treating children with dyslexia in kindergarten through third grade.
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| H R 80 | To enhance Federal enforcement of hate crimes, and for other purposes.
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| H R 81 | To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to mental health services for children, adolescents and their families.
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| H R 82 | To increase the numerical limitation on the number of asylees whose status may be adjusted to that of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence.
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| H R 83 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to the record of admission for permanent residence in the case of certain aliens.
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| H R 84 | To assist aliens who were transplanted to the United States as children in continuing their education and otherwise integrating into American society.
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| H R 85 | To expand the class of beneficiaries who may apply for adjustment of status under section 245(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act by extending the deadline for classification petition and labor certification filings.
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| H R 86 | To provide for the collection of data on traffic stops.
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| H R 87 | To modify the requirements applicable to the admission into the United States of H-1C nonimmigrant registered nurses, and for other purposes.
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| H R 88 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to modify the requirements for a child born abroad and out of wedlock to acquire citizenship based on the citizenship of the child's father, and for other purposes.
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| H R 89 | To create a separate DNA database for violent predators against children, and for other purposes.
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| H R 90 | To establish the Cultural Competence Commission.
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| H R 91 | To name the Department of Veterans Affairs in Houston, Texas, as the "Michael E. DeBakey Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center".
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| H R 92 | To provide emergency disaster assistance to agricultural producers to respond to severe crop losses incurred in 2001 and 2002.
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| H R 93 | To amend the National Labor Relations Act to require the arbitration of initial contract negotiation disputes, and for other purposes.
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| H R 94 | To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to provide for the use of unexpended universal service funds in low-income schools, and for other purposes.
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| H R 95 | To make amounts provided under the Operation Safe Home and New Approach Anti-Drug programs available for use for providing law enforcement officers to patrol and provide security for housing assisted by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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| H R 96 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to ensure the integrity of the Social Security trust funds by requiring the Managing Trustee to invest the annual surplus of such trust funds in marketable interest-bearing obligations of the United States and certificates of deposit in depository institutions insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and to protect such trust funds from the public debt limit.
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| H R 97 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to allow workers who attain age 65 after 1981 and before 1992 to choose either lump sum payments over four years totalling $5,000 or an improved benefit computation formula under a new 10-year rule governing the transition to the changes in benefit computation rules enacted in the Social Security Amendments of 1977, and for other purposes.
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| H R 98 | To amend the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to provide a 50 percent discount in flood insurance rates for the first 5 years that certain low-cost properties are included in flood hazard zones.
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| H R 99 | To designate "God Bless America" as the national hymn of the United States.
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| H R 100 | To restate, clarify, and revise the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940.
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| H R 101 | To provide Capitol-flown flags to the families of deceased law enforcement officers.
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| H R 102 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to permit expansion of medical residency training programs in geriatric medicine and to provide for reimbursement of care coordination and assessment services provided under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 103 | To provide that no more than 50 percent of funding made available under the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 for any fiscal year be provided for home heating purposes.
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| H R 104 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to eliminate the 24-month waiting period for disabled individuals to become eligible for Medicare benefits.
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| H R 105 | To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to establish a program to provide Federal grants to first responders to enhance their ability to respond to incidents of terrorism, including incidents involving weapons of mass destruction, and for other purposes.
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| H R 106 | To prohibit discrimination in contracting on federally funded projects on the basis of certain labor policies of potential contractors.
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| H R 107 | To amend the Federal Trade Commission Act to provide that the advertising or sale of a mislabeled copy-protected music disc is an unfair method of competition and an unfair and deceptive act or practice, and for other purposes.
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| H R 108 | To amend the Education Land Grant Act to require the Secretary of Agriculture to pay the costs of environmental reviews with respect to conveyances under that Act.
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| H R 109 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit for residential solar energy property.
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| H R 110 | To require Congress and the President to fulfill their constitutional duty to take personal responsibility for Federal laws.
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| H R 111 | To amend the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 and the Revised Statutes of the United States to prohibit financial holding companies and national banks from engaging, directly or indirectly, in real estate brokerage or real estate management activities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 112 | To amend title 28, United States Code, to provide for an additional place of holding court in the District of Colorado.
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| H R 113 | To establish the HARS-specific PCB effects level, expressed in a certain Memorandum of Agreement issued by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Corps of Engineers, as a final criterion.
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| H R 114 | To require that the Secretary of the Interior conduct a study to identify sites and resources, to recommend alternatives for commemorating and interpreting the Cold War, and for other purposes.
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| H R 115 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to improve airport security by using biometric security badges, and for other purposes.
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| H R 116 | To authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to construct, lease, or modify major medical facilities at the site of the former Fitzsimons Army Medical Center, Aurora, Colorado.
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| H R 117 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend to civilian employees of the Department of Defense serving in combat zones the tax treatment allowed to members of the Armed Forces serving in combat zones.
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| H R 118 | To overrule United States v. Fior D'Italia, Inc.
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| H R 119 | To require the Secretary of the Interior to establish a program to provide assistance through States to eligible weed management entities to control or eradicate harmful, nonnative weeds on public and private land.
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| H R 120 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit against income tax for contributions for scholarships to attend elementary and secondary schools, for upgrading elementary and secondary school facilities, and for expenses related to technology for elementary and secondary schools.
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| H R 121 | To amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to require local educational agencies and schools to implement integrated pest management systems to minimize the use of pesticides in schools and to provide parents, guardians, and employees with notice of the use of pesticides in schools, and for other purposes.
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| H R 122 | To amend section 227 of the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit the use of the text, graphic, or image messaging systems of wireless telephone systems to transmit unsolicited commercial messages.
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| H R 123 | To repeal the provision of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 that requires the reduction of a claimant's compensation by the amount of any collateral source compensation payments the claimant is entitled to receive, and for other purposes.
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| H R 124 | To provide for the mandatory licensing and registration of handguns.
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| H R 125 | To reestablish the Office of Technology Assessment.
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| H R 126 | To establish a program to promote child literacy by making books available through early learning and other child care programs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 127 | To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to preserve all budget surpluses until legislation is enacted significantly extending the solvency of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds.
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| H R 128 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage under the Medicare Program of oral drugs to treat low blood calcium levels or elevated parathyroid hormone levels for patients with end stage renal disease.
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| H R 129 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make higher education more affordable by providing a tax deduction for higher education expenses, and for other purposes.
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| H R 130 | To provide for a Biofuels Feedstocks Energy Reserve, and to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to make and guarantee loans for the production, distribution, development, and storage of biofuels.
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| H R 131 | To prevent fraud and deception in network recreational games.
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| H R 132 | To create Federal advertising procurement opportunities for minority business concerns, and for other purposes.
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| H R 133 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the 1993 increase in income taxes on Social Security benefits.
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| H R 134 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to permit Kentucky to operate a separate retirement system for certain public employees.
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| H R 135 | To establish the "Twenty-First Century Water Commission" to study and develop recommendations for a comprehensive water strategy to address future water needs.
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| H R 136 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a tax credit for farmers' investments in value-added agriculture.
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| H R 137 | To provide job creation and assistance, and for other purposes.
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| H R 138 | To bridge the digital divide in rural areas.
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| H R 139 | To make the repeal of the estate tax permanent.
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| H R 140 | To eliminate the Federal quota and price support programs for tobacco, to compensate quota holders and active producers for the loss of tobacco quota asset value, to establish a permanent advisory board to determine and describe the physical characteristics of United States farm-produced tobacco and unmanufactured imported tobacco, and for other purposes.
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| H R 141 | To establish the SouthEast Crescent Authority, and for other purposes.
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| H R 142 | To amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the Prado Basin Natural Treatment System Project, to authorize the Secretary to carry out a program to assist agencies in projects to construct regional brine lines in California, and to authorize the Secretary to participate in the Lower Chino Dairy Area desalination demonstration and reclamation project.
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| H R 143 | To prohibit the importation of dangerous firearms that have been modified to avoid the ban on semiautomatic assault weapons.
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| H R 144 | To control the sale of gun kits.
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| H R 145 | To designate the Federal building located at 290 Broadway in New York, New York, as the "Ted Weiss Federal Building".
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| H R 146 | To eliminate a limitation with respect to the collection of tolls for use of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, New York.
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| H R 147 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from the gross estate the value of certain works of artistic property created by the decedent.
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| H R 148 | To provide that Community Development Block Grant funds relating to the recovery of New York City from the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks shall not be subject to Federal taxation.
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| H R 149 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to deny any deduction for direct-to-consumer advertisements of prescription drugs.
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| H R 150 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for regional cost of living adjustments.
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| H R 151 | To elevate the position of Director of the Indian Health Service within the Department of Health and Human Services to Assist Secretary for Indian Health, and for other purposes.
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| H R 152 | To adjust the status of certain aliens with longstanding ties to the United States to that of an alien lawfully admitted to permanent residence, and for other purposes.
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| H R 153 | To restore the second amendment rights of all Americans.
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| H R 154 | To exclude certain properties from the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System.
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| H R 155 | To support the domestic shrimping industry by eliminating taxpayer subsidies for certain competitors, and for other purposes.
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| H R 156 | To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require persons conducting Federal election polls by telephone to disclose certain information to respondents and the Federal Election Commission.
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| H R 157 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a credit and a deduction for small political contributions.
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| H R 158 | To make the repeal of the estate tax permanent.
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| H R 159 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income gain on the sale or exchange of certain farmland the use of which is restricted in perpetuity to use as farmland.
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| H R 160 | To provide emergency disaster assistance to agricultural producers.
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| H R 161 | To designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 10 East Commerce Street in Youngstown, Ohio, as the "Nathaniel R. Jones Federal Building and United States Courthouse".
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| H R 162 | To amend the Temporary Extended Unemployment Act of 2002 to provide for additional weeks of benefits to exhaustees, and to provide for a temporary extension of the temporary extended unemployment program.
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| H R 163 | To provide for the common defense by requiring that all young persons in the United States, including women, perform a period of military service or a period of civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, and for other purposes.
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| H R 164 | To provide for the retention of the name of Mount McKinley.
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| H R 165 | To prohibit the Secretary of the Treasury from using surplus funds to make any investment in securities, other than government and municipal securities.
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| H R 166 | To repeal limitations under the Home Investment Partnerships Act on the percentage of the operating budget of an organization receiving assistance under such Act that may be funded under such Act.
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| H R 167 | To take certain steps toward recognition by the United States of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
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| H R 168 | To permit States to place supplemental guide signs relating to veterans cemeteries on Federal-aid highways.
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| H R 169 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to allow the sworn affidavit of a veteran who served in combat during the Korean War or an earlier conflict to be accepted as proof of service-connection of a disease or injury alleged to have been incurred or aggravated by such service.
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| H R 170 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to simplify and reduce the capital gain rates for all taxpayers and to exclude from gross income 55 percent of the dividends received by individuals, and for other purposes.
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| H R 171 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the provision that limited the interest deduction on refinanced home mortgage indebtedness to the amount of the indebtedness being refinanced.
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| H R 172 | To amend title XVI of the Social Security Act to provide that annuities paid by States to blind veterans shall be disregarded in determining supplemental security income benefits.
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| H R 173 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to increase the level of earnings under which no individual who is blind is determined to have demonstrated an ability to engage in substantial gainful activity for purposes of determining disability.
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| H R 174 | To provide for the conveyance of certain real property by the Administrator of General Services.
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| H R 175 | To abolish the Advanced Technology Program.
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| H R 176 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow amounts elected for reimbursement of medical care expenses under a health flexible spending arrangement that are unused during a plan year to be carried over for such use for subsequent plan years.
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| H R 177 | To strengthen and protect Social Security.
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| H R 178 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to give a deduction to corporations for dividends paid and to exclude dividends from gross income.
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| H R 179 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the depreciation benefits available to small businesses, and for other purposes.
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| H R 180 | To reform Federal budget procedures to restrain congressional spending, foster greater oversight of the budget, account for accurate Government agency costs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 181 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow all taxpayers who maintain households with dependents a credit for dependents.
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| H R 182 | To make permanent the authority to waive restrictions on use of funds for threat reduction in States of the former Soviet Union and for a chemical weapons destruction facility in Russia.
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| H R 183 | To permit members of the House of Representatives to donate used computer equipment to public elementary and secondary schools designated by the members.
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| H R 184 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to ensure that veterans of the United States Armed Forces are eligible for discretionary relief from detention, deportation, exclusion, and removal, and for other purposes.
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| H R 185 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a business credit relating to the use of clean-fuel vehicles by businesses within areas designated as nonattainment areas under the Clean Air Act.
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| H R 186 | To amend the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the egg, meat, and poultry inspection laws to ensure that consumers receive notification regarding food products produced from crops, livestock, or poultry raised on land on which sewage sludge was applied.
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| H R 187 | To amend the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 2000 to allow for the financing of agricultural sales to Cuba.
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| H R 188 | To lift the trade embargo on Cuba, and for other purposes.
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| H R 189 | To waive certain prohibitions with respect to nationals of Cuba coming to the United States to play organized professional baseball.
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| H R 190 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for designation of overpayments and contributions to the United States Library Trust Fund, and for other purposes.
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| H R 191 | To direct the Secretary of Transportation to carry out a project to establish a greenway for purposes of environmental preservation along the portion of State Route 11 proposed for construction between Salem and Waterford, Connecticut.
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| H R 192 | To amend the Microenterprise for Self-Reliance Act of 2000 and the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to increase assistance for the poorest people in developing countries under microenterprise assistance programs under those Acts, and for other purposes.
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| H R 193 | To amend section 922 of chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to protect the rights of citizens under the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
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| H R 194 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act with respect to reform of payment for drugs and biologicals under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 195 | To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to nonprofit tax-exempt organizations for the purchase of ultrasound equipment to provide free examinations to pregnant women needing such services, and for other purposes.
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| H R 196 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to establish a memorial to slavery, in the District of Columbia.
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| H R 197 | To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a national cemetery for veterans in the Jacksonville, Florida, metropolitan area.
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| H R 198 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a deduction for amounts paid for health insurance and prescription drug costs of individuals.
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| H R 199 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the 2 percent excise tax on the net investment income of tax-exempt foundations.
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| H R 200 | To revise various provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
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| H R 201 | To extend the time period prior to the need for workers for the filing of applications for temporary labor certification in the processing of alien labor certification applications.
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| H R 202 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for an inflation adjustment of the base amounts used in determining the amount of Social Security benefits included in gross income.
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| H R 203 | To reduce acid deposition under the Clean Air Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 204 | To prohibit United States voluntary and assessed contributions to the United Nations if the United Nations imposes any tax or fee on United States persons or continues to develop or promote proposals for such taxes or fees.
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| H R 205 | To amend the Small Business Act to direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to establish a program to provide regulatory compliance assistance to small business concerns, and for other purposes.
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| H R 206 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide that an individual's entitlement to any benefit thereunder shall continue through the month of his or her death (without affecting any other person's entitlement to benefits for that month) and that such individual's benefit shall be payable for such month only to the extent proportionate to the number of days in such month preceding the date of such individual's death.
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| H R 207 | To amend the Controlled Substances Act with respect to the placing of certain substances on the schedules of controlled substances, and for other purposes.
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| H R 208 | To amend the Social Security Act with respect to the employment of persons with criminal backgrounds by long-term care providers.
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| H R 209 | To extend the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002.
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| H R 210 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to accelerate the individual income tax rate cuts made by the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 and to make permanent all tax cuts made by that Act.
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| H R 211 | To require the Consumer Product Safety Commission to ban toys which in size, shape, or overall appearance resemble real handguns.
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| H R 212 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to deny the exemption from income tax for social clubs found to be practicing prohibited discrimination.
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| H R 213 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to designate educational empowerment zones in certain low-income areas and to give a tax incentive to attract teachers to work in such areas.
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| H R 214 | To amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Fair Housing Act to prohibit discrimination on the basis of affectional or sexual orientation, and for other purposes.
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| H R 215 | To extend the national flood insurance program.
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| H R 216 | To establish as a unit of Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, the Moccasin Bend National Archeological District.
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| H R 217 | To ensure that a Federal employee who takes leave without pay in order to perform service as a member of the uniformed services or member of the National Guard shall continue to receive pay in an amount which, when taken together with the pay and allowances such individual is receiving for such service, will be no less than the basic pay such individual would then be receiving if no interruption in employment had occurred.
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| H R 218 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to exempt qualified current and former law enforcement officers from State laws prohibiting the carrying of concealed handguns.
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| H R 219 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to ensure the integrity of the Social Security trust funds by requiring the Managing Trustee to invest the annual surplus of such trust funds in marketable interest-bearing obligations of the United States and certificates of deposit in depository institutions insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and to protect such trust funds from the public debt limit.
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| H R 220 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to protect the integrity and confidentiality of Social Security account numbers issued under such title, to prohibit the establishment in the Federal Government of any uniform national identifying number, and to prohibit Federal agencies from imposing standards for identification of individuals on other agencies or persons.
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| H R 221 | To prevent handgun violence and illegal commerce in handguns.
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| H R 222 | To establish the T'uf Shur Bien Preservation Trust Area in the Cibola National Forest, and for other purposes.
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| H R 223 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the current 30 percent bonus depreciation to 50 percent for 5 years.
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| H R 224 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the amount that small businesses may expense under section 179 to $75,000.
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| H R 225 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals to exclude dividend income.
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| H R 226 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals to exclude dividend income.
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| H R 227 | To eliminate the termination date on authority for schools with low default rates to make single disbursements of student loans.
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| H R 228 | To provide for additional benefits under the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002.
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| H R 229 | For the relief of Ashley Ross Fuller.
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| H R 230 | For the relief of Gao Zhan.
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| H R 231 | For the relief of Sharif Kesbeh, Asmaa Sharif Kesbeh, Batool Kesbeh, Noor Sharif Kesbeh, Alaa Kesbeh, Sondos Kesbeh, Hadeel Kesbeh, and Mohanned Kesbeh.
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| H R 232 | For the relief of Kuan-Fan Hsieh.
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| H R 233 | For the relief of Akintomide Apara.
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| H R 234 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit human cloning.
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| H R 235 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to protect the religious free exercise and free speech rights of churches and other houses of worship.
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| H R 236 | To provide for adequate and equitable educational opportunities for students in State public school systems, and for other purposes.
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| H R 237 | To repeal certain amendments to the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.
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| H R 238 | To provide for Federal energy research, development, demonstration, and commercial application activities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 239 | To facilitate the provision of assistance by the Department of Housing and Urban Development for the cleanup and economic redevelopment of brownfields.
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| H R 240 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to require Department of Veterans Affairs pharmacies to dispense medications to veterans for prescriptions written by private health-care practitioners in the case of veterans who, after having made an appointment to see a Department of Veterans Affairs physician to obtain such a prescription, have been waiting for longer than 30 days, and for other purposes.
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| H R 241 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to repeal the two-year limitation on the payment of accrued benefits that are due and unpaid by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs upon the death of a veteran or other beneficiary under laws administered by the Secretary.
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| H R 242 | To make technical corrections in patent law.
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| H R 243 | To amend title 23, United States Code, relating to the use of high occupancy vehicle lanes by hybrid vehicles.
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| H R 244 | To amend the Clean Air Act to permit the exclusive application of California State regulations regarding reformulated gas in certain areas within the State.
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| H R 245 | To replace the existing Federal price support and quota programs for tobacco with price support and quota programs designed to assist the actual producers of tobacco, to compensate quota holders for the loss of tobacco quota asset value, to provide assistance for active tobacco producers, including those producers who forgo obtaining a tobacco production license, during the transition of the new programs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 246 | Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2003, and for other purposes.
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| H R 247 | Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2003, and for other purposes.
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| H R 248 | To amend the Public Health Service Act and the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to strike unrelated provisions concerning changes to the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program and liability for vaccine manufacturers.
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| H R 249 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide an exception to the nine-month duration of marriage requirement for widows and widowers in cases in which the marriage was postponed by legal impediments to the marriage caused by State restrictions on divorce from a prior spouse institutionalized due to mental incompetence or similar incapacity.
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| H R 250 | To amend the Peace Corps Act to promote global acceptance of the principles of international peace and nonviolent coexistence among peoples of diverse cultures and systems of government, and for other purposes.
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| H R 251 | To protect small businesses from increased tariffs and other retaliatory actions taken by the United States during a trade dispute.
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| H R 252 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the period for filing for a credit or refund of individual income taxes to 7 years.
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| H R 253 | To amend the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to reduce losses to properties for which repetitive flood insurance claim payments have been made.
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| H R 254 | To authorize the President of the United States to agree to certain amendments to the Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the United Mexican States concerning the establishment of a Border Environment Cooperation Commission and a North American Development Bank, and for other purposes.
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| H R 255 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to grant an easement to facilitate access to the Lewis and Clark Interpretative Center in Nebraska City, Nebraska.
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| H R 256 | To provide for premium assistance for COBRA continuation coverage for certain individuals and to permit States to provide temporary Medicaid coverage for certain uninsured employees.
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| H R 257 | To provide emergency disaster assistance to agricultural producers that incurred 2002 crop losses due to damaging weather or related condition and to provide emergency disaster assistance to livestock producers in counties that received a primary disaster designation by the Secretary of Agriculture in calendar year 2001 or 2002, and for other purposes.
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| H R 258 | To ensure continuity for the design of the 5-cent coin, establish the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee, and for other purposes.
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| H R 259 | To secure the Federal voting rights of persons who have been released from incarceration.
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| H R 260 | To extend Brady background checks to gun shows, and for other purposes.
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| H R 261 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow residents of States with no income tax a deduction for State and local sales taxes.
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| H R 262 | To allow a custodial parent a bad debt deduction for unpaid child support payments, and to require a parent who is chronically delinquent in child support to include the amount of the unpaid obligation in gross income.
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| H R 263 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve access to medical services for veterans seeking treatment at Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinics with exceptionally long waiting periods.
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| H R 264 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide for payment of lump-sum death payments upon the death of a spouse.
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| H R 265 | To provide for an adjustment of the boundaries of Mount Rainier National Park, and for other purposes.
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| H R 266 | To establish the National Invasive Species Council, and for other purposes.
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| H R 267 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an incentive to ensure that all Americans gain timely and equitable access to the Internet over current and future generations of broadband capability.
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| H R 268 | To authorize appropriations for the United States Weather Research Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 269 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restructure and replace the income tax system of the United States to meet national priorities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 270 | To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to replace with a more equitable formula the current formula, known as the Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation (VERA), for the allocation of funds appropriated to the Department of Veterans Affairs for medical care to different geographic regions of the Nation, and for other purposes.
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| H R 271 | To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to modify the formula, known as the Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation (VERA) system, for the allocation of funds appropriated to the Department of Veterans Affairs for medical care to different geographic regions of the Nation, and for other purposes.
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| H R 272 | To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain land to Lander County, Nevada, and the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain land to Eureka County, Nevada, for continued use as cemeteries.
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| H R 273 | To provide for the eradication and control of nutria in Maryland and Louisiana.
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| H R 274 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire the property in Cecil County, Maryland, known as Garrett Island for inclusion in the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge.
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| H R 275 | To amend the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 to require improved disclosure of corporate charitable contributions, and for other purposes.
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| H R 276 | To repeal section 658 of Public Law 104-208, commonly referred to as the Lautenberg amendment.
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| H R 277 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Defense to assign members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, under certain circumstances and subject to certain conditions, to assist the Department of Homeland Security in the performance of border protection functions.
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| H R 278 | To terminate the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
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| H R 279 | To amend the Small Business Act to include drought in the definition of disaster for purposes of the disaster loan program administered by the Small Business Administration.
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| H R 280 | To establish certain National Heritage Areas, and for other purposes.
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| H R 281 | To designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 200 West 2nd Street in Dayton, Ohio, as the "Tony Hall Federal Building and United States Courthouse".
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| H R 282 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit for contributions for the benefit of elementary and secondary schools.
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| H R 283 | To establish the Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Advisory Board.
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| H R 284 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the required use of certain principal repayments on mortgage subsidy bond financings to redeem bonds, to modify the purchase price limitation under mortgage subsidy bond rules based on median family income, and for other purposes.
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| H R 285 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to simplify certain rules relating to the taxation of United States businesses operating abroad, and for other purposes.
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| H R 286 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify the treatment of incentive stock options and employee stock purchase plans.
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| H R 287 | To prohibit the exportation of natural gas from the United States to Mexico for use in electric energy generation units near the United States border that do not comply with air quality control requirements that provide air quality protection that is at least equivalent to the protection provided by requirements applicable in the United States.
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| H R 288 | To amend title 23, United States Code, to establish programs to enhance roadway safety and improve transportation efficiency in the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 289 | To expand the boundaries of the Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Complex and the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge.
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| H R 290 | To expand research regarding inflammatory bowel disease, and for other purposes.
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| H R 291 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to increase the mandatory minimum penalties provided for possessing, brandishing, or discharging a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence or drug trafficking crime.
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| H R 292 | To amend title 4, United States Code, to add National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day to the list of days on which the flag should especially be displayed.
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| H R 293 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit taking a child hostage in order to evade arrest.
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| H R 294 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the automobile assistance program for disabled veterans.
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| H R 295 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require group health plans to provide coverage for reconstructive surgery following mastectomy, consistent with the Women's Health and Cancer Rights Act of 1998.
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| H R 296 | To amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require that group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans provide coverage for treatment of a minor child's congenital or developmental deformity or disorder due to trauma, infection, tumor, or disease.
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| H R 297 | To require any amounts remaining in a Member's Representational Allowance at the end of a fiscal year to be deposited in the Treasury and used for deficit reduction or to reduce the Federal debt.
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| H R 298 | To posthumously award congressional gold medals to government workers and others who responded to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and perished and to people aboard United Airlines Flight 93 who helped resist the hijackers and caused the plane to crash, to require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of the Spirit of America, recognizing the tragic events of September 11, 2001, and for other purposes.
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| H R 299 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 80 Killian Road in Massapequa, New York, as the "Gerard A. Fiorenza Post Office Building".
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| H R 300 | To provide that Executive Order 13166 shall have no force or effect, and to prohibit the use of funds for certain purposes.
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| H R 301 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to eliminate the tax on the net capital gain of taxpayers other than corporations.
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| H R 302 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives and job training grants for communities affected by the migration of businesses and jobs to Canada or Mexico as a result of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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| H R 303 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to permit retired members of the Armed Forces who have a service-connected disability to receive both military retired pay by reason of their years of military service and disability compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs for their disability.
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| H R 304 | To authorize the President to award the Medal of Honor posthumously to Henry Johnson for acts of valor during World War I.
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| H R 305 | To establish the Kate Mullany National Historic Site in the State of New York, and for other purposes.
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| H R 306 | To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to provide procedures for claims relating to drinking water.
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| H R 307 | To provide emergency disaster assistance to agricultural producers to respond to severe crop losses and livestock losses incurred in 2001 and 2002, and for other purposes.
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| H R 308 | To provide for the resolution of certain labor issues relating to the merger of the Metro-North Railroad and the Long Island Rail Road.
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| H R 309 | To direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of increasing the capacity of water storage, increasing power generation, improving water supply reliability and quality, improving water management efficiency, and improving ecosystem function and flood control on the San Joaquin River through the construction of a reservoir at Temperance Flat and other reasonable measures.
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| H R 310 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an exclusion for gain from the sale of farmland which is similar to the exclusion from gain on the sale of a principal residence.
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| H R 311 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a 10 percent maximum capital gains tax for individuals.
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| H R 312 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a dividends paid deduction.
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| H R 313 | To modify requirements relating to allocation of interest that accrues to the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund.
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| H R 314 | To amend the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act to exempt mortgage servicers from certain requirements of the Act with respect to federally related mortgage loans secured by a first lien, and for other purposes.
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| H R 315 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to remove the requirement of a mandatory beginning date for distributions from individual retirement plans.
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| H R 316 | To eliminate certain restrictions on the availability of credits under title III of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 for the use of biodiesel fuel, and for other purposes.
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| H R 317 | To amend the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991, relating to a rural access project in Mt. Vernon, Illinois.
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| H R 318 | To amend title 23, United States Code, to require consideration under the congestion mitigation and air quality improvement program of the extent to which a proposed project or program reduces sulfur or atmospheric carbon emissions, to make renewable fuel projects eligible under that program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 319 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to eliminate the 15 percent reduction in payment rates under the prospective payment system for home health services under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 320 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow expanded penalty-free withdrawals from certain retirement plans during periods of unemployment for any employee of an air carrier or of a manufacturer of aircraft or parts or components of aircraft.
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| H R 321 | To establish limits on medical malpractice claims, and for other purposes.
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| H R 322 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to assure coverage for legal immigrant children and pregnant women under the Medicaid Program and the State children's health insurance program (SCHIP).
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| H R 323 | To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to provide for joint trusteeship of single-employer pension plans.
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| H R 324 | To restore the consent of Congress to the Northeast Interstate Dairy Compact and to grant the consent of Congress to the Southern Dairy Compact, a Pacific Northwest Dairy Compact, and an Intermountain Dairy Compact.
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| H R 325 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a nonrefundable tax credit against income tax for individuals who purchase a residential safe storage device for the safe storage of firearms.
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| H R 326 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to eliminate the double taxation of dividends.
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| H R 327 | To authorize the President to award the Medal of Honor posthumously to Garlin Murl Conner for acts of valor during World War II.
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| H R 328 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to extend modifications to DSH allotments provided under the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000.
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| H R 329 | To improve mathematics and science instruction in elementary and secondary schools by authorizing the Secretary of Education to make grants for regional workshops designed to permit educators to share successful strategies for such instruction.
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| H R 330 | To extend indemnification authority under section 170 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, and for other purposes.
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| H R 331 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide that military retired pay for nonregular service shall be paid without regard to the age of a person otherwise eligible for such retired pay, rather than commencing when an otherwise eligible person attains age 60.
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| H R 332 | To direct the Secretary of the Interior to study certain sites in the historic district of Beaufort, South Carolina, relating to the Reconstruction Era to assess the suitability and feasibility of designating the study area as a unit of the National Park System.
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| H R 333 | To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize grants for institutions of higher education serving Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
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| H R 334 | For the relief of Nancy B. Wilson.
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| H R 335 | For the relief of Jaya Gulab Tolani and Hitesh Gulab Tolani.
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| H R 336 | To repeal the sunset of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 with respect to the expansion of the adoption credit and adoption assistance programs.
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| H R 337 | To extend certain hydro-electric licenses in the State of Alaska.
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| H R 338 | To amend title 5, United States Code, to require that agencies, in promulgating rules, take into consideration the impact of such rules on the privacy of individuals, and for other purposes.
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| H R 339 | To prevent legislative and regulatory functions from being usurped by civil liability actions brought or continued against food manufacturers, marketers, distributors, advertisers, sellers, and trade associations for claims of injury relating to a person's weight gain, obesity, or any health condition associated with weight gain or obesity.
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| H R 340 | To require the Federal Communications Commission to allocate additional spectrum for unlicensed use by wireless broadband devices, and for other purposes.
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| H R 341 | To provide economic disaster assistance to producers of the 2002 crop of rice in the State of Louisiana.
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| H R 342 | To authorize grants through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for mosquito control programs to prevent mosquito-borne diseases, and for other purposes.
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| H R 343 | To amend title 11 of the United States Code to protect family farmers and family fishermen.
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| H R 344 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prohibit the use of public funds for political party conventions.
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| H R 345 | To amend the Controlled Substances Act and the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act with respect to penalties for powder cocaine and crack cocaine offenses.
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| H R 346 | To amend the Federal Trade Commission Act to increase civil penalties for violations involving certain proscribed acts or practices that exploit popular reaction to an emergency or major disaster declared by the President, and to authorize the Federal Trade Commission to seek civil penalties for such violations in actions brought under section 13 of that Act.
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| H R 347 | To provide additional authority to the Office of Ombudsman of the Environmental Protection Agency.
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| H R 348 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide improved benefits for veterans who are former prisoners of war.
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| H R 349 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a tax credit to employers for the value of the service not performed during the period employees are performing service as members of the Ready Reserve or the National Guard.
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| H R 350 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide to employers a tax credit for compensation paid during the period employees are performing service as members of the Ready Reserve or the National Guard.
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| H R 351 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide a maximum term of supervised release of life for sex offenders.
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| H R 352 | To amend the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to provide enhanced penalties for crimes of violence against children under age 13.
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| H R 353 | To direct the Secretary of the Interior to dispose of all public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management that have been identified for disposal under the Federal land use planning process.
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| H R 354 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow drug manufacturers a credit against income tax if they certify that the price of a drug in the United States market is not greater than its price in the Canadian or Mexican market.
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| H R 355 | To provide wage parity for certain Department of Defense prevailing rate employees in Alabama.
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| H R 356 | To nullify the effect of certain provisions of various Executive orders.
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| H R 357 | To prohibit civil liability actions from being brought or continued against manufacturers, distributors, dealers, or importers of firearms or ammunition for damages resulting from the misuse of their products by others.
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| H R 358 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to enact into law eligibility requirements for burial in Arlington National Cemetery, and for other purposes.
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| H R 359 | To amend title XVIII to revise the payment methodology under the Medicare Program for extra-depth shoes with inserts or custom molded shoes with inserts for individuals with diabetes.
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| H R 360 | To amend title 40, United States Code, to designate certain counties and a city as part of the Appalachian region.
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| H R 361 | To designate certain conduct by sports agents relating to the signing of contracts with student athletes as unfair and deceptive acts or practices to be regulated by the Federal Trade Commission.
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| H R 362 | To enhance the operation of the AMBER Alert communications network in order to facilitate the recovery of abducted children, to provide for enhanced notification on highways of alerts and information on such children, and for other purposes.
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| H R 363 | To require the Federal Communications Commission to allocate additional spectrum for unlicensed use by wireless broadband devices, and for other purposes.
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| H R 364 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to require criminal background checks on drivers providing Medicaid medical assistance transportation services.
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| H R 365 | To recruit and retain more qualified individuals to teach in Tribal Colleges or Universities.
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| H R 366 | To authorize former Federal employees who receive voluntary separation incentive payments under the Department of Agriculture program to accept subsequent employment with the Federal Government, without loss of their payments, when such employment is directly related to fighting forest fires.
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| H R 367 | To allow North Koreans to apply for refugee status or asylum.
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| H R 368 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for equitable reimbursement rates under the Medicare Program to Medicare+Choice organizations.
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| H R 369 | To waive time limitations specified by law in order to allow the Medal of Honor to be awarded to Gary Lee McKiddy, of Miamisburg, Ohio, for acts of valor while a helicopter crew chief and door gunner with the 1st Cavalry Division during the Vietnam War.
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| H R 370 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for expanding, intensifying, and coordinating activities with respect to research on autoimmune diseases in women.
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| H R 371 | To establish the National Center on Liver Disease Research, and for other purposes.
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| H R 372 | To provide for a pilot program to be conducted by the Department of Veterans Affairs to assess the benefits of providing for pharmacies of the Department of Veterans Affairs to fill prescriptions for drugs and medicines written by private physicians.
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| H R 373 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a program of research regarding the risks posed by the presence of dioxin, synthetic fibers, and other additives in feminine hygiene products, and to establish a program for the collection and analysis of data on toxic shock syndrome.
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| H R 374 | To amend the Hate Crime Statistics Act to require the Attorney General to acquire data about crimes that manifest evidence of prejudice based on gender.
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| H R 375 | To declare, under the authority of Congress under Article I, section 8 of the Constitution to "provide and maintain a Navy", a national policy for the naval force structure required in order to "provide for the common defense" of the United States throughout the 21st century.
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| H R 376 | To provide emergency livestock assistance and emergency crop loss assistance to agricultural producers who suffered 2001 or 2002 crop year losses.
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| H R 377 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the replacement period from 2 to 5 years for livestock sold on account of drought, flood, or other weather-related conditions.
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| H R 378 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the 1993 income tax increase on Social Security benefits, and for other purposes.
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| H R 379 | To facilitate a Forest Service land exchange that will eliminate a private in-holding in the Sierra National Forest in the State of California and provide for the permanent enjoyment by the Boy Scouts of America of a parcel of National Forest System land currently used under a special use permit, and for other purposes.
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| H R 380 | To provide full funding for the payment in lieu of taxes program for the next five fiscal years, to protect local jurisdictions against the loss of property tax revenues when private lands are acquired by a Federal land management agency, and for other purposes.
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| H R 381 | To provide for the retrocession of the District of Columbia to the State of Maryland, and for other purposes.
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| H R 382 | To authorize States to prohibit or impose certain limitations on the receipt of foreign municipal solid waste, and for other purposes.
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| H R 383 | To amend the Federal Credit Union Act with respect to the limitations on member business loans.
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| H R 384 | To require Congress to specify the source of authority under the United States Constitution for the enactment of laws, and for other purposes.
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| H R 385 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit against income tax for contributions to charitable organizations which provide scholarships for children to attend elementary and secondary schools.
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| H R 386 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the issuance of tax-exempt bonds by Indian tribal governments, and for other purposes.
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| H R 387 | To authorize the Regional Foresters to exempt tree-thinning projects, which are necessary to prevent the occurrence of wildfire likely to cause extreme harm to the forest ecosystem, from laws that give rise to legal causes of action that delay or prevent such projects.
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| H R 388 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax credits for Indian investment and employment, and for other purposes.
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| H R 389 | To authorize the use of certain grant funds to establish an information clearinghouse that provides information to increase public access to defibrillation in schools.
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| H R 390 | To authorize emergency supplemental assistance to combat the growing humanitarian crisis in sub-Saharan Africa.
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| H R 391 | To preserve and protect the free choice of individual employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, or to refrain from such activities.
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| H R 392 | For the relief of Natasha Oligovna Russo and Anya Oligovna.
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| H R 393 | For the relief of Alejandra Arias Garcia.
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| H R 394 | To restore the Federal civil remedy for crimes of violence motivated by gender.
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| H R 395 | To authorize the Federal Trade Commission to collect fees for the implementation and enforcement of a "do-not-call" registry, and for other purposes.
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| H R 396 | To provide assistance to the unemployed, tax relief for average Americans, fiscal assistance to state and local governments, and jobs and security through infrastructure investment, and for other purposes.
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| H R 397 | To reinstate and extend the deadline for commencement of construction of a hydroelectric project in the State of Illinois.
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| H R 398 | To revise and extend the Birth Defects Prevention Act of 1998.
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| H R 399 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to promote organ donation.
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| H R 400 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Transportation to require automobile manufacturers to provide automatic door locks and interior-opening trunk locks on new passenger cars manufactured after 2005.
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| H R 401 | To create an office within the Department of Justice to undertake certain specific steps to ensure that all American citizens harmed by terrorism overseas receive equal treatment by the United States government regardless of the terrorists' country of origin or residence, and to ensure that all terrorists involved in such attacks are pursued, prosecuted, and punished with equal vigor, regardless of the terrorists' country of origin or residence.
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| H R 402 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the incentives for the environmental cleanup of certain contaminated industrial sites designated as brownfields.
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| H R 403 | To amend the Social Security Act to require that anticipated child support be held in trust on the sale or refinancing of certain real property of an obligated parent.
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| H R 404 | To amend the Controlled Substances Act to provide penalties for open air drug markets, and for other purposes.
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| H R 405 | To provide that a person who brings a product liability action in a Federal or State court for injuries sustained from a product that is not in compliance with a voluntary or mandatory standard issued by the Consumer Product Safety Commission may recover treble damages, and for other purposes.
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| H R 406 | To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to use unobligated funds from a housing demonstration program in the State of North Carolina to make grants under section 504 of the Housing Act of 1949 in such State.
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| H R 407 | To repeal the sunset of the provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001.
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| H R 408 | To provide for expansion of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
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| H R 409 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the Indian employment credit and the depreciation rules for property used predominantly within an Indian reservation.
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| H R 410 | To provide for the issuance of bonds to construct and modernize Indian schools and to provide a credit against Federal income tax for holders of such bonds.
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| H R 411 | To direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to carry out certain authorities under an agreement with Canada respecting the importation of municipal solid waste, and for other purposes.
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| H R 412 | To enhance the operation of the AMBER Alert communications network in order to facilitate the recovery of abducted children, to provide for enhanced notification on highways of alerts and information on such children, and for other purposes.
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| H R 413 | To require the Surface Transportation Board to consider certain issues when deciding whether to authorize the construction of a railroad line.
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| H R 414 | To deem the nondisclosure of employer-owned life insurance coverage of employees an unfair trade practice under the Federal Trade Commission Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 415 | To establish a commission to make recommendations on the appropriate size of membership of the House of Representatives and the method by which Members are elected.
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| H R 416 | To require the Secretary of Education to provide assistance to the immediate family of a teacher or other school employee killed in an act of violence while performing school duties.
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| H R 417 | To revoke a Public Land Order with respect to certain lands erroneously included in the Cibola National Wildlife Refuge, California.
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| H R 418 | To authorize certain States to prohibit the importation of solid waste from other States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 419 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit against income tax to holders of bonds issued to finance land and water reclamation of abandoned mine land areas.
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| H R 420 | To establish a user fee system that provides for an equitable return to the Federal Government for the occupancy and use of National Forest System lands and facilities by organizational camps that serve the youth and disabled adults of America, and for other purposes.
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| H R 421 | To reauthorize the United States Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution, and for other purposes.
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| H R 422 | To authorize the Pyramid of Remembrance Foundation to establish a memorial in the District of Columbia or its environs to soldiers who have lost their lives during peacekeeping operations, humanitarian efforts, training, terrorist attacks, or covert operations.
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| H R 423 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the 1993 increase in taxes on Social Security benefits.
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| H R 424 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the inclusion in gross income of Social Security benefits.
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| H R 425 | To enable the residents of the Bayshore Manor assisted living facility in Key West, Florida, to continue to receive supplemental security income benefits under title XVI of the Social Security Act.
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| H R 426 | To prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from requiring digital television tuners in television receivers.
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| H R 427 | To amend the Clean Air Act to permit the sale in certain States of gasoline from other regions, and for other purposes.
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| H R 428 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make the credit for increasing research activities permanent.
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| H R 429 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that the graduated income tax rates that apply to principal campaign committees of candidates for Congress shall apply to all comparable committees of candidates for State and local offices.
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| H R 430 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the amount of capital losses that may offset ordinary income.
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| H R 431 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the Indian employment credit and the depreciation rules for property used predominantly within an Indian reservation.
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| H R 432 | To amend chapters 83 and 84 of title 5, United States Code, to provide for the indexation of deferred annuities; to provide that a survivor annuity be provided to the widow or widower of a former employee who dies after separating from Government service with title to a deferred annuity under the Civil Service Retirement System but before establishing a valid claim therefor, and for other purposes.
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| H R 433 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a minimum credit against the alternative minimum tax where stock acquired pursuant to an incentive stock option is sold or exchanged at a loss.
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| H R 434 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the 1993 income tax increase on Social Security benefits.
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| H R 435 | For the relief of Robert and Verda Shatusky.
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| H R 436 | To suspend the phasein of additional tax reductions under the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 while the United States is in a state of war or on high military alert.
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| H R 437 | To direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study of Coltsville in the State of Connecticut for potential inclusion in the National Park System.
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| H R 438 | To increase the amount of student loans that may be forgiven for teachers in mathematics, science, and special education.
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| H R 439 | To create a system of background checks for certain workers who enter people's homes, and for other purposes.
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| H R 440 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to adjust the status of certain aliens with longstanding ties to the United States to that of an alien lawfully admitted to permanent residence, to promote family unity, to improve national security, to modify provisions of such Act affecting removal of aliens from the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 441 | To amend Public Law 107-10 to authorize a United States plan to endorse and obtain observer status for Taiwan at the annual summit of the World Health Assembly in May 2003 in Geneva, Switzerland, and for other purposes.
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| H R 442 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the Hope Scholarship Credit to cover fees, books, supplies, and equipment and to exempt Federal Pell Grants and Federal supplemental educational opportunity grants from reducing expenses taken into account for the Hope Scholarship Credit.
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| H R 443 | To amend part E of title IV of the Social Security Act to provide equitable access for foster care and adoption services for Indian children in tribal areas.
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| H R 444 | To amend the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to establish a Personal Reemployment Accounts grant program to assist Americans in returning to work; to reauthorize title II of the Higher Education Act of 1965; to amend title VII of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to ensure graduate opportunities in postsecondary education.
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| H R 445 | To authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make grants to States to supplement State assistance for the preservation of affordable housing for low-income families.
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| H R 446 | To establish an Emergency Malpractice Liability Insurance Commission.
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| H R 447 | To establish an Office of Health Care Competition within the Department of Health and Human Services to administer the National Practitioner Data Base and to collect and make available to the public more information on medical malpractice insurance under that Data Base.
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| H R 448 | To modify the antitrust exemption applicable to the business of insurance.
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| H R 449 | To amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to permit the use of unexpended allotments under the State children's health care program for an additional fiscal year, and for other purposes.
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| H R 450 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives to small businesses to provide health insurance to their employees.
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| H R 451 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the at-risk rules for publicly traded nonrecourse debt.
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| H R 452 | To direct the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to designate New Jersey Task Force 1 as part of the National Urban Search and Rescue System.
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| H R 453 | To amend the Federal Deposit Insurance Act with respect to municipal deposits.
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| H R 454 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide to employers a tax credit for compensation paid during the period employees are performing service as members of the Ready Reserve or the National Guard.
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| H R 455 | To require the Secretary of Agriculture to use the Department of Agriculture's preferred Option 1B as the price structure for Class I fluid milk under Federal milk marketing orders, to provide emergency market loss payments to dairy producers for any calendar year quarter in which the national average price for Class III milk under Federal milk marketing orders is less than a target price of $11.50 per hundredweight, and for other purposes.
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| H R 456 | To amend title 18 of the United States Code to provide life imprisonment for repeat offenders who commit sex offenses against children.
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| H R 457 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income gain on the sale of a family farming business to a family member.
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| H R 458 | To provide for the use and distribution of certain funds awarded to the Gila River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, and for other purposes.
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| H R 459 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide economic stimulus.
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| H R 460 | To establish Institutes to conduct research on the prevention of, and restoration from, wildfires in forest and woodland ecosystems of the interior West.
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| H R 461 | To amend the National Trails System Act to extend the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail.
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| H R 462 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to temporarily exclude long-term capital gain from the gross income of individuals.
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| H R 463 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the research credit, to increase the rates of the alternative incremental credit, and to provide an alternative simplified credit for qualified research expenses.
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| H R 464 | To provide relief to teachers, administrators, and related services providers from an excessive paperwork burden, and to reduce time spent by teachers on non-instructional activities, as required under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
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| H R 465 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow allocation of small ethanol producer credit to patrons of cooperative, and for other purposes.
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| H R 466 | To amend the Federal Law Enforcement Pay Reform Act of 1990 to adjust the percentage differentials payable to Federal law enforcement officers in certain high-cost areas, and for other purposes.
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| H R 467 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require that foods containing spices, flavoring, or coloring derived from meat, poultry, other animal products (including insects), or known allergens bear labeling stating that fact and their names.
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| H R 468 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act relating to freshness dates on food.
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| H R 469 | To provide an enhanced penalty for threatening to kill, injure, or intimidate an individual, or to cause property damage, by means of fire or an explosive on school property.
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| H R 470 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to repeal the 7-year restriction on eligibility for widow's and widower's insurance benefits based on disability.
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| H R 471 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to eliminate the two-year waiting period for divorced spouse's benefits following the divorce.
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| H R 472 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide for full benefits for disabled widows and widowers without regard to age.
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| H R 473 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to credit prospectively individuals serving as caregivers of dependent relatives with deemed wages for up to five years of such service.
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| H R 474 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide for increases in widow's and widower's insurance benefits by reason of delayed retirement.
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| H R 475 | To reestablish the Office of Noise Abatement and Control in the Environmental Protection Agency, and for other purposes.
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| H R 476 | To provide that service of the members of the organization known as the United States Cadet Nurse Corps during World War II constituted active military service for purposes of laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
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| H R 477 | To extend Federal recognition to the Duwamish Tribe, and for other purposes.
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| H R 478 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the rules for involuntary conversions of livestock sold on account of weather-related conditions.
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| H R 479 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize Army arsenals to undertake to fulfill orders or contracts for articles or services in advance of the receipt of payment under certain circumstances.
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| H R 480 | To redesignate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 747 Broadway in Albany, New York, as the "United States Postal Service Henry Johnson Annex".
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| H R 481 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to grant the State of New York authority to allow tandem trailers to use Interstate Route 787 between the New York State Thruway and Church Street in Albany, New York.
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| H R 482 | To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to sell or exchange certain land in the State of Florida, and for other purposes.
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| H R 483 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide involuntary conversion tax relief for producers forced to sell livestock due to weather-related conditions or Federal land management agency policy or action, and for other purposes.
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| H R 484 | To make certain amendments to the Homeland Security Act of 2002.
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| H R 485 | To provide for a Federal program to stabilize medical malpractice insurance premiums.
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| H R 486 | To require the Food and Drug Administration to establish restrictions regarding the qualifications of physicians to prescribe the abortion drug commonly known as RU-486.
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| H R 487 | To repeal the Military Selective Service Act.
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| H R 488 | To limit the issuance of student and diversity immigrant visas to aliens who are nationals of Saudi Arabia, countries that support terrorism, or countries not cooperating fully with United States antiterrorism efforts.
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| H R 489 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide prospectively that wages earned, and self-employment income derived, by individuals who are not citizens or nationals of the United States shall not be credited for coverage under the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program under such title, and to provide the President with authority to enter into agreements with other nations taking into account such limitation on crediting of wages and self-employment income.
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| H R 490 | To improve access to printed instructional materials used by blind or other persons with print disabilities in elementary and secondary schools, and for other purposes.
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| H R 491 | To amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to clarify the adjustments to be made in determining export price and constructed export price.
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| H R 492 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the standard mileage rate for charitable purposes to the standard mileage rate established by the Secretary of the Treasury for business purposes.
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| H R 493 | To repeal the sunset on the increased assistance pursuant to the dependent care tax credit provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 and to make the credit refundable.
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| H R 494 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a full deduction for meals and lodging in connection with medical care.
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| H R 495 | To approve the settlement of the water rights claims of the Zuni Indian Tribe in Apache County, Arizona, and for other purposes.
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| H R 496 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals to defer recognition of reinvested capital gains distributions from regulated investment companies.
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| H R 497 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to suspend all motor fuel taxes for six months, and to permanently repeal the 4.3-cent per gallon increases in motor fuel taxes enacted in 1993.
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| H R 498 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow employees of county and local governments and of schools to maintain medical savings accounts.
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| H R 499 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a refundable credit against income tax for tuition expenses incurred for each qualifying child of the taxpayer in attending public or private elementary or secondary school.
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| H R 500 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a permanent increase in payment amounts under the Medicare Program for home health services furnished in rural areas.
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| H R 501 | To establish a student loan forgiveness program for nurses.
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| H R 502 | To require identification that may be used in obtaining Federal public benefits to meet restrictions ensuring that it is secure and verifiable.
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| H R 503 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit for the production of oil and gas from domestic marginal wells and to extend the credit for alternative fuels.
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| H R 504 | To provide for the reclamation of abandoned hardrock mines, and for other purposes.
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| H R 505 | To establish the Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area in the State of New Mexico, and for other purposes.
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| H R 506 | To provide for the protection of archaeological sites in the Galisteo Basin in New Mexico, and for other purposes.
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| H R 507 | To declare that the United States holds certain public domain lands in trust for the Pueblos of San Ildefonso and Santa Clara.
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| H R 508 | To provide that, in establishing wage schedules for certain prevailing rate employees with respect to whom the Government is currently experiencing recruitment and retention problems, rates of pay for comparable positions in the nearest, most similar wage area shall be taken into account.
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| H R 509 | For the relief of Lindita Idrizi Heath.
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| H R 510 | For the relief of certain aliens who were aboard the Golden Venture.
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| H R 511 | To make certain adjustments to be boundaries of the Mount Naomi Wilderness Area, and for other purposes.
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| H R 512 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct an education and administrative center at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge in Box Elder County, Utah.
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| H R 513 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to endorse prescription drug discount cards for use by Medicare beneficiaries.
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| H R 514 | To provide for the conveyance of a small parcel of Bureau of Land Management land in Douglas County, Oregon, to the county to improve management of and recreational access to the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area, and for other purposes.
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| H R 515 | To amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to permit the use of unexpended allotments under the State children's health care program through fiscal year 2006.
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| H R 516 | To amend the General Education Provisions Act to clarify the definition of a student regarding family educational and privacy rights.
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| H R 517 | To direct the Commandant of the Coast Guard to convey 2 Coast Guard cutters.
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| H R 518 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase portability among retirement plans.
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| H R 519 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study of the San Gabriel River Watershed, and for other purposes.
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| H R 520 | For the relief of Mohamed Abshir Musse, Mariam Musse Gul, Abdullahi Mohamed Abshir, and Madina Mohamed Abshir.
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| H R 521 | To establish the Steel Industry National Historic Site in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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| H R 522 | To reform the Federal deposit insurance system, and for other purposes.
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| H R 523 | To amend the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 to identify a route that passes through the State of Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Kansas, as a high priority corridor on the National Highway System.
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| H R 524 | To establish the Crossroads of the American Revolution National Heritage Area in the State of New Jersey, and for other purposes.
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| H R 525 | To authorize the President to posthumously award a gold medal on behalf of the Congress to the seven members of the crew of the space shuttle Columbia in recognition of their outstanding and enduring contributions to the Nation.
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| H R 526 | To direct certain Federal agencies to issue rules that coordinate with the establishment by the Federal Trade Commission of a list of telephone numbers of consumers who do not want to receive telephone calls for telemarketing purposes.
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| H R 527 | To provide Capitol-flown flags to the immediate family of fire fighters, law enforcement officers, emergency medical technicians, and other rescue workers who are killed in the line of duty.
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| H R 528 | To authorize the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations treatment) to the products of Armenia.
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| H R 529 | To reinstate and transfer a hydroelectric license under the Federal Power Act to permit the immediate redevelopment of a hydroelectric project located in the State of New York, and for other purposes.
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| H R 530 | For the relief of Tanya Andrea Goudeau.
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| H R 531 | To amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to extend the availability of allotments for fiscal years 1998 through 2001 under the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
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| H R 532 | To revise the boundaries of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in the State of California, to restore and extend the term of the advisory commission for the recreation area, and for other purposes.
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| H R 533 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for health benefits and certain other benefits to be furnished by the Department of Veterans Affairs to any individual who has spina bifida and is the natural child of a veteran who, while in military service, was exposed to a herbicide agent.
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| H R 534 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit human cloning.
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| H R 535 | To provide access to welfare tools to help Americans get back to work.
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| H R 536 | To amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to provide for coverage under that Act of employees of States and political subdivisions of States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 537 | To authorize the grant program for elimination of the nationwide backlog in analyses of DNA samples at the level necessary to completely eliminate the backlog and obtain a DNA sample from every person convicted of a qualifying offense.
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| H R 538 | To amend the Federal Rules of Evidence to establish a parent-child privilege.
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| H R 539 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for the admission to the United States for permanent residence without numerical limitation of spouses of permanent resident aliens.
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| H R 540 | To amend title 9, United States Code, to allow employees the right to accept or reject the use of arbitration to resolve an employment controversy.
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| H R 541 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for employee benefits for work site employees of certain corporations operating on a cooperative basis.
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| H R 542 | To repeal the reservation of mineral rights made by the United States when certain lands in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, were conveyed by Public Law 102-562.
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| H R 543 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide special rules for the determining the amount allowed as a deduction for a charitable contribution of apparently wholesome food which is inventory.
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| H R 544 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow employers a tax credit for hiring displaced homemakers.
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| H R 545 | To provide for the establishment of a scientific basis for new firefighting technology standards, improve coordination among Federal, State, and local fire officials in training for and responding to terrorist attacks and other national emergencies, and for other purposes.
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| H R 546 | To revise the boundary of the Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park in the State of Hawaii, and for other purposes.
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| H R 547 | To expand the Federal tax refund intercept program to cover children who are not minors.
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| H R 548 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to increase the minimum Survivor Benefit Plan basic annuity for surviving spouses age 62 and older, to provide for a one-year open season under that plan, and for other purposes.
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| H R 549 | To suspend temporarily the duty on certain power weaving textile machinery.
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| H R 550 | To suspend temporarily the duty on certain ink-jet textile printing machinery.
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| H R 551 | To suspend temporarily the duty on certain other textile printing machinery.
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| H R 552 | To suspend temporarily the duty on certain textile machinery.
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| H R 553 | To suspend temporarily the duty on Chemical RH water-based (iron toluene sulfanate).
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| H R 554 | To suspend temporarily the duty on Chemical NR Ethanol-based (iron toluene sulfanate).
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| H R 555 | To suspend temporarily the duty on tantalum capacitor ink.
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| H R 556 | To suspend temporarily the duty on certain manufacturing equipment.
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| H R 557 | To suspend temporarily the duty on certain manufacturing equipment.
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| H R 558 | To suspend temporarily the duty on certain manufacturing equipment.
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| H R 559 | To suspend temporarily the duty on certain manufacturing equipment.
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| H R 560 | To suspend temporarily the duty on certain manufacturing equipment.
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| H R 561 | To suspend temporarily the duty on certain manufacturing equipment.
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| H R 562 | To suspend temporarily the duty on thermal release plastic film.
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| H R 563 | To suspend temporarily the duty on certain formulated silver paints and pastes to coat tantalum anodes colloidal precious metals.
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| H R 564 | To suspend temporarily the duty on polymer masking material for aluminum capacitors (UPICOAT).
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| H R 565 | To provide emergency assistance to certain small business concerns that have suffered substantial economic injury from drought.
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| H R 566 | To amend the impact aid program under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to clarify the formula used to compute payments to local educational agencies with respect to eligible federally connected children.
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| H R 567 | To direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study of the suitability and feasibility of establishing the Northern Neck National Heritage Area in Virginia, and for other purposes.
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| H R 568 | To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide assistance for nutrient removal technologies to States in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
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| H R 569 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish procedures for determining payment amounts for new clinical diagnostic laboratory tests for which payment is made under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 570 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a 5-year extension of the credit for electricity produced from wind.
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| H R 571 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a shorter recovery period for the depreciation of certain restaurant buildings.
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| H R 572 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the limitation on capital losses applicable to individuals.
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| H R 573 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt certain sightseeing flights from taxes on air transportation.
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| H R 574 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat gold, silver, and platinum, in either coin or bar form, in the same manner as stocks and bonds for purposes of the maximum capital gains rate for individuals.
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| H R 575 | To expedite the process by which the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture may utilize military aircraft to fight wildfires, and for other purposes.
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| H R 576 | To provide for the transfer to the Secretary of Energy of title to, and full responsibility for the possession, transportation, and disposal of, radioactive waste associated with the West Valley Demonstration Project, and for other purposes.
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| H R 577 | To amend chapter 89 of title 5, United States Code, to increase the Government contribution for Federal employee health insurance.
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| H R 578 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the 4.3-cent motor fuel excise taxes on railroads and inland waterway transportation which remain in the general fund of the Treasury.
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| H R 579 | To implement equal protection under the 14th article of amendment to the Constitution for the right to life of each born and preborn human person from the moment of fertilization.
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| H R 580 | To direct the Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations requiring turbojet aircraft of air carriers to be equipped with missile defense systems, and for other purposes.
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| H R 581 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide that certain sexual crimes against children are predicate crimes for the interception of communications, and for other purposes.
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| H R 582 | To amend the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, to provide the Secretary of Agriculture with administrative authority to investigate live poultry dealers, and for other purposes.
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| H R 583 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals a refundable credit against income tax for the purchase of private health insurance, and to establish State health insurance safety-net programs.
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| H R 584 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow penalty-free withdrawals from individual retirement plans for adoption expenses.
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| H R 585 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a windfall profit tax on crude oil and products thereof.
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| H R 586 | To enable the United States to maintain its leadership in aeronautics and aviation by instituting an initiative to develop technologies that will enable future aircraft with significantly lower noise, emissions, and fuel consumption; to reinvigorate basic and applied research in aeronautics and aviation, and for other purposes.
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| H R 587 | To amend title 40, United States Code, to add Ashtabula, Mahoning, and Trumbull Counties, Ohio, to the Appalachian region.
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| H R 588 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage under the Medicare Program of immunosuppressive drugs for Medicare beneficiaries who receive an organ transplant without regard to when the transplant was received.
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| H R 589 | To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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| H R 590 | To direct the Secretary of the Army to convey the remaining water supply storage allocation in Rathbun Lake, Iowa, to the Rathbun Regional Water Association.
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| H R 591 | To authorize the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America to establish a memorial on Federal land in the District of Columbia to honor the victims of the Ukrainian famine-genocide of 1932-1933.
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| H R 592 | To expand aviation capacity.
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| H R 593 | To correct certain inequities in the second round of designation of empowerment zones and enterprise communities.
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| H R 594 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to repeal the Government pension offset and windfall elimination provisions.
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| H R 595 | To provide compensation for certain World War II veterans who survived the Bataan Death March and were held as prisoners of war by the Japanese.
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| H R 596 | To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to exclude from preemption State causes of action to enforce determinations under group health plans based on medical necessity.
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| H R 597 | To amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to protect consumers in managed care plans and other health coverage.
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| H R 598 | To establish a commission to study the establishment of a national education museum and archive for the United States.
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| H R 599 | To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to provide grants to improve the infrastructure of elementary and secondary schools.
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| H R 600 | To require disclosure of the sale of securities by insiders of issuers of the securities to be made available to the Commission and to the public in electronic form before the transaction is conducted, and for other purposes.
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| H R 601 | To direct the Architect of the Capitol to enter into a contract to revise the statue commemorating women's suffrage located in the rotunda of the United States Capitol to include a likeness of Sojourner Truth.
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| H R 602 | To provide compensation for the families of noncombatants killed in United States military actions in Afghanistan after September 11, 2001.
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| H R 603 | To provide for adjustment of immigration status for certain aliens granted temporary protected status in the United States because of conditions in Montserrat.
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| H R 604 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for legal permanent resident status for certain undocumented or nonimmigrant aliens.
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| H R 605 | To provide for permanent resident status for any alien orphan physically present in the United States who is less than 12 years of age and to provide for deferred enforced departure status for any alien physically present in the United States who is the natural and legal parent of a child born in the United States who is less than 18 years of age.
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| H R 606 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to provide that individuals who are eligible to join the Armed Forces of the United States are also eligible to be security screening personnel.
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| H R 607 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide more revenue for the Social Security system by imposing a tax on certain unearned income and to provide tax relief for more than 80,000,000 individuals and families who pay more in Social Security taxes than income taxes by reducing the rate of the old age, survivors, and disability insurance Social Security payroll tax.
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| H R 608 | To provide for prices of pharmaceutical products that are fair to the producer and the consumer, and for other purposes.
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| H R 609 | To accord honorary citizenship to the alien victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against the United States and to provide for the granting of permanent resident status to the alien spouses and children of certain victims of such attacks.
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| H R 610 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reinstate the taxes funding the Hazardous Substance Superfund and the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund and to extend the taxes funding the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund.
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| H R 611 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit against income tax for amounts contributed to charitable organizations which provide elementary or secondary school scholarships and for contributions of, and for, instructional materials and materials for extracurricular activities.
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| H R 612 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals a credit against income tax for tuition and related expenses for public and nonpublic elementary and secondary education.
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| H R 613 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a tax credit for elementary and secondary school teachers.
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| H R 614 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit against income tax to professional school personnel in grades K-12.
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| H R 615 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the Hope Scholarship Credit to be used for elementary and secondary expenses.
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| H R 616 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 with respect to the purchase of prescription drugs by individuals who have attained retirement age, and to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to the importation of prescription drugs and the sale of such drugs through Internet sites.
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| H R 617 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to remove the sunset and numerical limitation on Medicare participation in Medicare+Choice medical savings account (MSA) plans.
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| H R 618 | To establish a commission to study and make recommendations on marginal tax rates for the working poor.
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| H R 619 | To direct the Secretary of Transportation to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of constructing a highway in California connecting State Route 130 in Santa Clara County with Interstate Route 5 in San Joaquin County, and to determine the feasibility of constructing a fixed guideway system along the right-of-way of the highway.
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| H R 620 | An act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide supplemental funding and other services that are necessary to assist certain local school districts in the State of California in providing educational services for students attending schools located within Yosemite National Park, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to adjust the boundaries of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and for other purposes.
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| H R 621 | To amend the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940 to prohibit discrimination in the rental of housing to members of the Armed Forces.
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| H R 622 | To provide for the exchange of certain lands in the Coconino and Tonto National Forests in Arizona, and for other purposes.
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| H R 623 | To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to the shortage of medical laboratory personnel.
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| H R 624 | To amend part A of title IV of the Social Security Act to include efforts to address barriers to employment as a work activity under the temporary assistance to needy families program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 625 | To expand the purposes of the program of block grants to States for temporary assistance for needy families to include poverty reduction, and to make grants available under the program for that purpose.
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| H R 626 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that corporate tax benefits from stock option compensation expenses are allowed only to the extent such expenses are included in a corporation's financial statements.
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| H R 627 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to suspend for five years the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to increase the copayment amount in effect for medication furnished by the Secretary on an outpatient basis for the treatment of non-service-connected disabilities and to provide an increase in the maximum annual rates of pension payable to surviving spouses of veterans of a period of war, and for other purposes.
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| H R 628 | To prohibit the Secretary of Defense from purchasing certain steel or equipment, products, or systems made with steel that is not melted and poured in the United States.
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| H R 629 | To amend the Emergency Steel Loan Guarantee Act of 1999 to prohibit steel companies receiving loan guarantees from investing the loan proceeds in foreign steel companies and using the loan proceeds to import steel products from foreign countries that are subject to certain trade remedies.
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| H R 630 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to provide an apportionment to a primary airport that falls below 10,000 passenger boardings in a calendar year as a result of the discontinuance of air carrier service at the airport, and for other purposes.
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| H R 631 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide a presumption of service connection for injuries classified as cold weather injuries which occur in veterans who while engaged in military operations had sustained exposure to cold weather.
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| H R 632 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide that the rate of reimbursement for motor vehicle travel under the beneficiary travel program of the Department of Veterans Affairs shall be the same as the rate for private vehicle reimbursement for Federal employees.
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| H R 633 | To name the Department of Veterans Affairs medical facility in Iron Mountain, Michigan, as the "Oscar G. Johnson Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Facility".
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| H R 634 | To provide Medicare beneficiaries with access to prescription drugs at Federal Supply Schedule prices.
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| H R 635 | To assure that enrollment in any Medicare prescription drug program is voluntary.
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| H R 636 | To repeal the provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act and the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act that limit private securities actions, and for other purposes.
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| H R 637 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to limit the misuse of Social Security numbers, to establish criminal penalties for such misuse, and for other purposes.
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| H R 638 | To clarify the authority of the Secretary of Defense to respond to environmental emergencies.
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| H R 639 | To amend the Act of March 3, 1875, to permit the State of Colorado to use land held in trust by the State as open space, and for other purposes.
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| H R 640 | To designate as wilderness certain lands within the Rocky Mountain National Park in the State of Colorado.
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| H R 641 | To amend the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to permit Federal laboratories to aid surrounding communities in improving their efforts in science education.
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| H R 642 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that certain deductions of school bus owner-operators shall be allowable in computing adjusted gross income.
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| H R 643 | To urge reforms of the Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative, and for other purposes.
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| H R 644 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat spaceports like airports under the exempt facility bond rules.
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| H R 645 | To amend title 36, United States Code, to designate the square dance as the national folk dance.
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| H R 646 | To expand the boundaries of the Fort Donelson National Battlefield to authorize the acquisition and interpretation of lands associated with the campaign that resulted in the capture of the fort in 1862, and for other purposes.
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| H R 647 | To increase the amount of student loan forgiveness and loan cancellation available to qualified teachers, and for other purposes.
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| H R 648 | To protect the right to obtain firearms for security, and to use firearms in defense of self, family, or home, and to provide for the enforcement of such right.
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| H R 649 | For the relief of Web's Construction Company, Incorporated.
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| H R 650 | To amend the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 to provide for homeowners to recover treble damages from mortgage escrow servicers for failures by such servicers to make timely payments from escrow accounts for homeowners insurance, taxes, or other charges, and for other purposes.
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| H R 651 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow married individuals who are legally separated and living apart to exclude from gross income the income from United States savings bonds used to pay higher education tuition and fees.
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| H R 652 | To assure that the American people have large areas of land in healthy natural condition throughout the country to maximize wildland recreational opportunities for people, maximize habitat protection for native wildlife and natural plant communities, and to contribute to a preservation of water for use by downstream metropolitan communities and other users, through the establishment of a National Forest Ecosystem Protection Program composed of lands within existing wilderness areas and adjacent primitive areas, and for other purposes.
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| H R 653 | To establish a Fund for Environmental Priorities to be funded by a portion of the consumer savings resulting from retail electricity choice, and for other purposes.
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| H R 654 | To require the head of each Federal agency in the Department of the Interior to consider whether actions of the agency have any disparate impact on any member of a racial, ethnic, or religious minority.
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| H R 655 | To bar Federal agencies from accepting for any identification-related purpose a State-issued driver's license, or other comparable identification document, unless the State requires a license or comparable document issued to a nonimmigrant alien to expire upon the expiration of the alien's authorized period of stay in the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 656 | To establish the National Commission on Youth Crime and School Violence.
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| H R 657 | To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to augment the emergency authority of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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| H R 658 | To provide for the protection of investors, increase confidence in the capital markets system, and fully implement the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 by streamlining the hiring process for certain employment positions in the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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| H R 659 | To amend section 242 of the National Housing Act regarding the requirements for mortgage insurance under such Act for hospitals.
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| H R 660 | To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to improve access and choice for entrepreneurs with small businesses with respect to medical care for their employees.
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| H R 661 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit financial institutions to determine their interest expense deduction without regard to tax-exempt bonds issued to provide certain small loans for health care or educational purposes.
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| H R 662 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve tax equity for military personnel, and for other purposes.
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| H R 663 | To amend title IX of the Public Health Service Act to provide for the improvement of patient safety and to reduce the incidence of events that adversely affect patient safety, and for other purposes.
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| H R 664 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve benefits for Filipino veterans of World War II and surviving spouses of such veterans, and for other purposes.
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| H R 665 | To express the policy of the United States regarding the United States relationship with Native Hawaiians and to provide a process for the recognition by the United States of the Native Hawaiian governing entity, and for other purposes.
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| H R 666 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income of individual taxpayers discharges of indebtedness attributable to certain forgiven residential mortgage obligations.
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| H R 667 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an inflation adjustment of the dollar limitation on the exclusion of gain on the sale of a principal residence.
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| H R 668 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow credits against income tax for an owner of a radio broadcasting station which donates the license and other assets of such station to a nonprofit corporation for purposes of supporting nonprofit fine arts and performing arts organizations, and for other purposes.
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| H R 669 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the sale or rental of adult video games to minors.
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| H R 670 | To amend the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to provide for identification, mitigation, and purchase of properties insured under the national flood insurance program that suffer repetitive losses.
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| H R 671 | To reauthorize and revise the Renewable Energy Production Incentive program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 672 | To rename the Guam South Elementary/Middle School of the Department of Defense Domestic Dependents Elementary and Secondary Schools System in honor of Navy Commander William "Willie" McCool, who was the pilot of the Space Shuttle Columbia when it was tragically lost on February 1, 2003.
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| H R 673 | To amend the Clean Air Act regarding the conformity of transportation projects to implementation plans, and for other purposes.
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| H R 674 | To authorize the President to present a gold medal on behalf of the Congress to the Choctaw Code Talkers in recognition of their contributions to the Nation, and for other purposes.
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| H R 675 | To amend titles XI and XIX of the Social Security Act to remove the cap on Medicaid payments for Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa and to adjust the Medicaid statutory matching rate for those territories.
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| H R 676 | To provide for comprehensive health insurance coverage for all United States residents, and for other purposes.
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| H R 677 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to deem certain service in the organized military forces of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines and the Philippine Scouts to have been active service for purposes of benefits under programs administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
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| H R 678 | To amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to provide for comprehensive community and economic development in the distressed Southern Black Belt and Mississippi Delta region while leveraging existing efforts, entities, and resources.
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| H R 679 | To prohibit certain late term abortions.
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| H R 680 | To provide tax relief and assistance for the families of the heroes of the Space Shuttle Columbia, and for other purposes.
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| H R 681 | To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit an authorized committee of a winning candidate for election for Federal office which received a personal loan from the candidate from making any repayment on the loan after the date on which the candidate begins serving in such office.
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| H R 682 | To amend the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 to provide for additional weeks of benefits to exhaustees; to modify the AIUR trigger used in determining eligibility for second-tier benefits; and to provide for an extension of the temporary extended unemployment program.
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| H R 683 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the special allowance for depreciation for certain property acquired after September 10, 2001, from 30 percent to 100 percent, and for other purposes.
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| H R 684 | To provide scholarships for District of Columbia elementary and secondary students, and for other purposes.
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| H R 685 | To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to repeal the provisions prohibiting persons convicted of drug offenses from receiving student financial assistance.
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| H R 686 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to accelerate the scheduled increases in eligibility for individual retirement plans and to eliminate the marriage penalty in determining such eligibility.
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| H R 687 | To prohibit the Federal Government from accepting a form of identification issued by a foreign government, except for a passport that is accepted for such a purpose on the date of enactment of this Act.
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| H R 688 | To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a study of the effectiveness of silver-based biocides as an alternative treatment to preserve wood.
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| H R 689 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow residents of States with no income tax a deduction for State and local sales taxes.
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| H R 690 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage under the Medicaid Program of organ transplant procedures as an emergency medical procedure for certain alien children.
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| H R 691 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow corporations to claim a charitable deduction for the donation of services related to contributions of computer technology or equipment.
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| H R 692 | To provide for racial equity and fair treatment under the program of block grants to States for temporary assistance for needy families.
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| H R 693 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income certain death gratuity payments to members of the uniformed services.
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| H R 694 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an interest-free source of capital to cover the costs of installing residential solar energy equipment.
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| H R 695 | To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to make a grant to support research to develop enhanced methods for the long-term control and suppression of the invasive plant species tamarisk in the Colorado River watershed in western Colorado and eastern Utah.
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| H R 696 | To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to restrict the disqualification of students for drug offenses to those students who committed offenses while receiving student financial aid.
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| H R 697 | To amend the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 to designate a high priority corridor in California.
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| H R 698 | To provide for and approve settlement of certain land claims of the Wyandotte Nation, and for other purposes.
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| H R 699 | To direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a comprehensive study of the Rathdrum Prairie/Spokane Valley Aquifer, located in Idaho and Washington.
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| H R 700 | To amend the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure to require written opinions in certain cases, and for other purposes.
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| H R 701 | To restore to the original owners certain lands that the Federal Government took for military purposes in 1940.
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| H R 702 | To amend title 23, United States Code, to increase the Federal share for certain safety and other projects on energy impacted highways.
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| H R 703 | To provide for the use of COPS funds for State and local intelligence officers, and for other purposes.
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| H R 704 | To direct the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a joint special resources study to evaluate the suitability and feasibility of establishing the area known as the Rim of the Valley Corridor as a unit of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area in the State of California, and for other purposes.
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| H R 705 | To suspend temporarily the duty on certain table tennis tables.
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| H R 706 | To amend part A of title IV of the Social Security Act to promote secure and healthy families under the temporary assistance to needy families program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 707 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to permit direct payment under the Medicare Program for clinical social worker services provided to residents of skilled nursing facilities.
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| H R 708 | To require the conveyance of certain National Forest System lands in Mendocino National Forest, California, to provide for the use of the proceeds from such conveyance for National Forest purposes, and for other purposes.
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| H R 709 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to require Department of Veterans Affairs pharmacies to dispense medications to veterans for prescriptions written by private practitioners, and for other purposes.
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| H R 710 | For the relief of Mrs. Florence Narusewicz of Erie, Pennsylvania.
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| H R 711 | For the relief of Johanna Bell.
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| H R 712 | For the relief of Richi James Lesley.
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| H R 713 | To ensure the availability of spectrum to amateur radio operators.
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| H R 714 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand S corporation eligibility for banks, and for other purposes.
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| H R 715 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a United States independent film and television production wage credit.
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| H R 716 | To establish grants to provide health services for improved nutrition, increased physical activity, obesity prevention, and for other purposes.
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| H R 717 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the incentives for the construction and renovation of public schools.
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| H R 718 | To prohibit an individual from knowingly opening, maintaining, managing, controlling, renting, leasing, making available for use, or profiting from any place for the purpose of manufacturing, distributing, or using any controlled substance, and for other purposes.
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| H R 719 | To amend the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, to make it unlawful for a packer to own, feed, or control livestock intended for slaughter.
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| H R 720 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a deduction for State and local sales taxes in lieu of State and local income taxes.
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| H R 721 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage under the Medicare Program of cholesterol and other blood lipid screening tests.
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| H R 722 | To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to include additional information in Social Security account statements.
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| H R 723 | To except spouses and children of Philippine servicemen in the United States Navy from bars to admission and relief under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
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| H R 724 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require that manufacturers of dietary supplements register with the Food and Drug Administration, to require the submission to such Administration of reports on adverse experiences regarding such supplements, and for other purposes.
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| H R 725 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to establish labeling and advertising requirements for dietary supplements containing ephedrine alkaloids, to prohibit sales of such supplements to individuals under the age of 18, and for other purposes.
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| H R 726 | To require licenses for the sale, purchase, and distribution of certain chemicals that are precursors to chemical weapons, and for other purposes.
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| H R 727 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to include sports utility vehicles in the limitation on the depreciation of certain luxury automobiles.
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| H R 728 | To amend title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 to require, as a precondition to commencing a civil action with respect to a place of public accommodation or a commercial facility, that an opportunity be provided to correct alleged violations.
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| H R 729 | To direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to carry out a 3-year pilot program to assist law enforcement officers purchasing homes in locally designated at-risk areas.
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| H R 730 | To require a housing impact analysis of any new rule of a Federal agency that has an economic impact of $100,000,000 or more.
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| H R 731 | To render all enrolled members of the Tohono O'odham Nation citizens of the United States as of the date of their enrollment and to recognize the valid membership credential of the Tohono O'odham Nation as the legal equivalent of a certificate of citizenship or a State-issued birth certificate for all Federal purposes.
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| H R 732 | To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to make volunteer members of the Civil Air Patrol eligible for Public Safety Officer death benefits.
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| H R 733 | A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire the McLoughlin House in Oregon City, Oregon, for inclusion in Fort Vancouver Historic Site, and for other purposes.
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| H R 734 | To provide loan forgiveness to social workers who work for child protective agencies.
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| H R 735 | To amend chapter 83 of title 5, United States Code, to reform the funding of benefits under the Civil Service Retirement System for employees of the United States Postal Service, and for other purposes.
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| H R 736 | To amend the Public Health Service Act and Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to require that group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans provide coverage for annual screening mammography for women 40 years of age or older if the coverage or plans include coverage for diagnostic mammography.
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| H R 737 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prevent corporate expatriation to avoid United States income taxes.
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| H R 738 | To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify that fill material cannot be comprised of waste.
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| H R 739 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the unrelated business income limitation on investment in certain debt-financed properties.
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| H R 740 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage new school construction through the creation of a new class of bond.
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| H R 741 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the deduction for health insurance costs of self-employed individuals to be allowed in computing self-employment taxes.
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| H R 742 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to reduce the age for receipt of military retired pay for non-regular service from 60 to 55.
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| H R 743 | To amend the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide additional safeguards for Social Security and Supplemental Security Income beneficiaries with representative payees, to enhance program protections, and for other purposes.
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| H R 744 | To direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study of the suitability and feasibility of establishing the Southern Campaign of the Revolution Heritage Area in South Carolina, and for other purposes.
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| H R 745 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for patient protection by limiting the number of mandatory overtime hours a nurse may be required to work in certain providers of services to which payments are made under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 746 | To prohibit the Federal Government from entering into contracts with companies that do not include certifications for certain financial reports required under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
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| H R 747 | To improve the Telecommunications Development Fund.
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| H R 748 | To require the Council on Environmental Quality to conduct a study on urban sprawl and smart growth, and to ensure the consideration by Federal agencies of urban sprawl in the preparation of their environmental reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.
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| H R 749 | To direct the Secretary of the Interior to establish the Cooperative Landscape Conservation Program.
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| H R 750 | To provide for a study of options for protecting the open space characteristics of certain lands in and adjacent to the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests in Colorado, and for other purposes.
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| H R 751 | To authorize increased fines for improper use of vehicles that results in damage to public lands or national forests, and for other purposes.
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| H R 752 | To prohibit oil and gas drilling in Finger Lakes National Forest in New York.
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| H R 753 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to provide assistance for the construction of certain air traffic control towers.
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| H R 754 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to remove the 20 percent inpatient limitation under the Medicare Program on the proportion of hospice care that certain rural hospice programs may provide.
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| H R 755 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish a minimum geographic cost-of-practice index value for physicians' services furnished under the Medicare Program of 1.
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| H R 756 | To protect children from exploitive child modeling, and for other purposes.
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| H R 757 | To require prescription drug manufacturers, packers, and distributors to disclose certain gifts provided in connection with detailing, promotional, or other marketing activities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 758 | To allow all businesses to make up to 24 transfers each month from interest-bearing transaction accounts to other transaction accounts, to require the payment of interest on reserves held for depository institutions at Federal reserve banks, and for other purposes.
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| H R 759 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to accelerate the elimination of the marriage penalty in the standard deduction and in the 15-percent income tax rate bracket.
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| H R 760 | Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 | |
| H R 761 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide adapted housing assistance to disabled members of the Armed Forces who remain on active duty pending medical separation.
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| H R 762 | To amend the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 and the Mineral Leasing Act to clarify the method by which the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture determine the fair market value of certain rights-of-way granted, issued, or renewed under these Acts.
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| H R 763 | To provide for the disposition of United States Government uranium inventories.
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| H R 764 | To appropriate funds for grants by the Office for Domestic Preparedness of the Department of Homeland Security.
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| H R 765 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to allow cargo pilots to participate in the Federal flight deck officer program.
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| H R 766 | To provide for a National Nanotechnology Research and Development Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 767 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage investing of foreign earnings within the United States for productive business purposes.
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| H R 768 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a broadband Internet access tax credit.
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| H R 769 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the expensing of broadband Internet access expenditures, and for other purposes.
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| H R 770 | To preserve the Arctic coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, as wilderness in recognition of its extraordinary natural ecosystems and for the permanent good of present and future generations of Americans.
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| H R 771 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand bonus depreciation to expensing for 18 months.
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| H R 772 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that foreign base company shipping income shall include only income from aircraft and income from certain vessels transporting petroleum and related products.
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| H R 773 | To amend section 5318 of title 31, United States Code, to authorize financial institutions to accept matricula consular issued in the United States as a valid form of identification.
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| H R 774 | To amend the Electronic Fund Transfer Act to prohibit any operator of an automated teller machine that displays any paid advertising from imposing any fee on a consumer for the use of that machine, and for other purposes.
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| H R 775 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the diversity immigrant program.
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| H R 776 | To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to require ballistics testing of all firearms manufactured and all firearms in custody of Federal agencies.
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| H R 777 | To authorize grants to States to fund arrangements between local police departments and public accommodations to have the accommodations serve as emergency domestic violence shelters.
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| H R 778 | To recognize the birthdays of Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
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| H R 779 | To allow certain individuals of Japanese ancestry who were brought forcibly to the United States from countries in Latin America during World War II and were interned in the United States to be provided restitution under the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, and for other purposes.
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| H R 780 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide for the implementation of the program under section 804 of such Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 781 | To amend the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to exempt attorneys from the privacy provisions of that Act.
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| H R 782 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make inapplicable the 10 percent additional tax on early distributions from certain pension plans of public safety employees.
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| H R 783 | To authorize the Secretary of Transportation to carry out a project to widen Interstate Route 35 East in Denton County, Texas.
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| H R 784 | To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize appropriations for sewer overflow control grants.
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| H R 785 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the above-the-line deduction for teacher classroom supplies and to expand such deduction to include qualified professional development expenses.
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| H R 786 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the occupational taxes relating to distilled spirits, wine, and beer.
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| H R 787 | To amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act with respect to reform of Federal survey and certification process of nursing facilities under the Medicare and Medicaid Programs.
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| H R 788 | To revise the boundary of the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in the States of Utah and Arizona.
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| H R 789 | To expand the eligibility of individuals to qualify for loan forgiveness for teachers in order to provide additional incentives for teachers currently employed or seeking employment in economically depressed rural areas, Territories, and Indian Reservations.
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| H R 790 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide credits for individuals and businesses for the installation of certain wind energy property.
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| H R 791 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow distilled spirits wholesalers a credit against income tax for their cost of carrying Federal excise taxes prior to the sale of the product bearing the tax.
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| H R 792 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to authorize physical therapists to evaluate and treat medicare beneficiaries without a requirement for a physician referral, and for other purposes.
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| H R 793 | To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to authorized the Secretary of the Interior to grant easements and rights-of-way on the Outer Continental Shelf for activities otherwise authorized by that Act.
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| H R 794 | To amend the Mineral Leasing Act to provide for the development of Federal coal resources.
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| H R 795 | To require the Secretary of Energy to develop a plan to decrease the threat resulting from the theft or diversion of highly enriched uranium.
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| H R 796 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of expanded nursing facility and in-home services for dependent individuals under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 797 | To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit the use of any contribution made to a candidate for election for Federal office, or any donation made to an individual as support for the individual's activities as the holder of a Federal office, for the payment of a salary to the candidate or individual or to any member of the immediate family of the candidate or individual.
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| H R 798 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the inclusion in gross income of unemployment compensation.
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| H R 799 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for the production of motor vehicles powered by alternative fuels.
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| H R 800 | To provide for the withholding of United States contributions to any United Nations commission, organization, or affiliated agency that is chaired or presided over by a country that has repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism, and for other purposes.
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| H R 801 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to the cloning of humans, and for other purposes.
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| H R 802 | To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require medically accurate factual information in any course material or instruction on human development and sexuality.
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| H R 803 | To amend title XVI of the Social Security Act to clarify that the value of certain funeral and burial arrangements are not to be considered available resources under the supplemental security income program.
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| H R 804 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and modify the credit for electricity produced from biomass, and for other purposes.
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| H R 805 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify that certain settlement funds established under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 are beneficially owned by the United States and are not subject to tax.
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| H R 806 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that a deduction equal to fair market value shall be allowed for charitable contributions of literary, musical, artistic, or scholarly compositions created by the donor.
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| H R 807 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify the amount of the charitable deduction allowable for contributions of food inventory, and for other purposes.
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| H R 808 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the provision taxing policyholder dividends of mutual life insurance companies and to repeal the policyholders surplus account provisions.
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| H R 809 | To prohibit certain abortions.
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| H R 810 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide regulatory relief and contracting flexibility under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 811 | To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make demonstration grants to promote the well-being and educational achievement of children through school-based health programs.
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| H R 812 | To guarantee the right of individuals to receive Social Security benefits under title II of the Social Security Act in full with an accurate annual cost-of-living adjustment.
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| H R 813 | To rescind the Department of Veterans Affairs memorandum of July 18, 2002, in which Directors of health service networks in the Department of Veterans Affairs are directed to ensure that no marketing activities to enroll new veterans occur within their networks.
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| H R 814 | To provide collective bargaining rights for public safety officers employed by States or their political subdivisions.
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| H R 815 | To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a study with respect to aneurysms, and for other purposes.
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| H R 816 | To provide certain temporary increases in the Federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) under the Medicaid Program to help States finance increases in enrollment due to rising unemployment and to prevent reductions in health insurance coverage due to State budget crises.
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| H R 817 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for enhanced reimbursement under the Medicare Program for screening and diagnostic mammography services, and for other purposes.
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| H R 818 | To amend the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to further protect customers of financial institutions whose identities are stolen from the financial institution, and for other purposes.
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| H R 819 | To amend the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 to extend and modify the reimbursement of State and local funds expended for emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens.
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| H R 820 | To amend title 39, United States Code, to prevent certain types of mail matter from being sent by a Member of the House of Representatives as part of a mass mailing.
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| H R 821 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the manufacture or importation, or transfer by a licensed firearms dealer, of a pistol that does not have a chamber load indicator and, in the case of a semiautomatic pistol that has a detachable magazine, a mechanism that prevents the pistol from being fired when the magazine is not attached.
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| H R 822 | To enhance ecosystem protection and the range of outdoor opportunities protected by law in the Skykomish River valley of the State of Washington by designating certain lower-elevation Federal lands as wilderness, and for other purposes.
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| H R 823 | To amend the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to provide full funding for assistance for education of all children with disabilities.
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| H R 824 | To authorize the National Science Foundation to carry out research projects to develop and assess novel uses of high-performance computer networks for use in science, mathematics, and technology education in elementary and secondary schools.
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| H R 825 | To redesignate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 7401 West 100th Place in Bridgeview, Illinois, as the "Michael J. Healy Post Office Building".
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| H R 826 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the tax incentives for higher education.
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| H R 827 | To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to reauthorize the temporary mortgage and rental payments program.
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| H R 828 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to allow certain applicants for approval of a generic drug to be eligible for a 180-day period of protection from competition, and for other purposes.
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| H R 829 | To amend the Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Act to increase the amount of loss or damage coverage, in the aggregate and for single exhibitions, authorized by such Act.
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| H R 830 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to protect and preserve access of Medicare beneficiaries to health care in rural areas.
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| H R 831 | To provide for and approve the settlement of certain land claims of the Bay Mills Indian Community.
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| H R 832 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide a mechanism for United States citizens and lawful permanent residents to sponsor their permanent partners for residence in the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 833 | To combat unfair and deceptive practices in the high-cost mortgage market, establish a consumer mortgage protection board, and establish licensing and minimum standards for mortgage brokers, and for other purposes.
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| H R 834 | To respond to the illegal production, distribution, and use of methamphetamines in the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 835 | To provide for enhanced collaborative forest stewardship management within the Clearwater and Nez Perce National Forests in Idaho, and for other purposes.
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| H R 836 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to restore the avenues for relief from removal that existed for aliens lawfully admitted for permanent residence prior to the enactment of the enactment of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996.
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| H R 837 | To amend the Clean Air Act to eliminate methyl tertiary butyl ether from the United States fuel supply, to increase production and use of renewable fuel, and to increase the Nation's energy independence, and for other purposes.
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| H R 838 | To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide greater academic freedom for institutions of higher education, and for other purposes.
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| H R 839 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow an income tax credit for the provision of homeownership and community development, and for other purposes.
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| H R 840 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow for the expansion of areas designated as renewal communities based on 2000 census data.
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| H R 841 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve access to Medicare+Choice plans for special needs Medicare beneficiaries by allowing plans to target enrollment to special needs beneficiaries.
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| H R 842 | To provide for the conveyance of certain Federal lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management in Maricopa County, Arizona, in exchange for private lands located in Yavapai County, Arizona, and for other purposes.
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| H R 843 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide full service-connected disability benefits for persons disabled by treatment or vocational rehabilitation provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs and for survivors of persons dying from such treatment.
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| H R 844 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the establishment of a National Center for Social Work Research.
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| H R 845 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from the gross income of interest on bank loans made to churches and religious organizations.
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| H R 846 | To provide for research on, and services for individuals with, postpartum depression and psychosis.
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| H R 847 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to the importation of prescription drugs from Canada.
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| H R 848 | To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require that group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans provide for prompt payment for health benefits claims.
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| H R 849 | To authorize the Regional Foresters to exempt tree-thinning projects, which are necessary to prevent the occurrence of wildfire likely to cause extreme harm to the forest ecosystem, from laws that give rise to legal causes of action that delay or prevent such projects.
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| H R 850 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide special compensation for former prisoners of war, and for other purposes.
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| H R 851 | To assess the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the entry of the People's Republic of China into the World Trade Organization on American jobs, the environment, and worker rights.
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| H R 852 | To authorize the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to develop multidisciplinary research centers regarding women's health and disease prevention and conduct and coordinate a research program on hormone disruption, and for other purposes.
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| H R 853 | To establish the position of Northern Border Coordinator in the Department of Homeland Security.
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| H R 854 | To provide for the promotion of democracy, human rights, and rule of law in the Republic of Belarus and for the consolidation and strengthening of Belarus sovereignty and independence.
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| H R 855 | To encourage Members of Congress and the executive branch to be honest with the public about true on-budget circumstances, to exclude the Social Security trust funds and the Medicare hospital insurance trust fund from the annual Federal budget baseline, to prohibit Social Security and Medicare hospital insurance trust funds surpluses to be used as offsets for tax cuts or spending increases, and to exclude the Social Security trust funds and the Medicare hospital insurance trust fund from official budget surplus/deficit pronouncements.
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| H R 856 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to revise a repayment contract with the Tom Green County Water Control and Improvement District No. 1, San Angelo project, Texas, and for other purposes.
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| H R 857 | To prevent the slaughter of horses in and from the United States for human consumption by prohibiting the slaughter of horses for human consumption and by prohibiting the trade and transport of horseflesh and live horses intended for human consumption, and for other purposes.
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| H R 858 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to establish penalties for aggravated identity theft, and for other purposes.
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| H R 859 | To repeal the prohibition on the payment of interest on demand deposits, and for other purposes.
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| H R 860 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the 1993 increase in income taxes on Social Security benefits.
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| H R 861 | To provide that the individual income tax rate reductions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 shall be permanent.
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| H R 862 | To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to protect Social Security beneficiaries against any reduction in benefits.
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| H R 863 | To amend the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to provide increased authority for school personnel to discipline children with disabilities who engage in certain dangerous behavior.
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| H R 864 | To authorize appropriations for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to achieve full funding in fiscal year 2004 and fiscal year 2005, and for other purposes.
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| H R 865 | To protect the health and safety of individuals receiving smallpox vaccinations and to provide compensation and assured access to care for individuals injured by the vaccine, and for other purposes.
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| H R 866 | To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to enhance the security of wastewater treatment works.
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| H R 867 | For the relief of Durreshahwar Durreshahwar, Nida Hasan, Asna Hasan, Anum Hasan, and Iqra Hasan.
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| H R 868 | To amend section 527 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 to require that certain claims for expropriation by the Government of Nicaragua meet certain requirements for purposes of the prohibition on foreign assistance to that government.
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| H R 869 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the deduction for host families of foreign exchange and other students from $50 per month to $200 per month.
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| H R 870 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the treatment of certain motor vehicle dealer transitional assistance.
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| H R 871 | To amend the National Highway System Designation Act of 1995 concerning the applicability of hours of service requirements to drivers operating commercial motor vehicles transporting agricultural commodities and farm supplies.
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| H R 872 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify that church employees are eligible for the exclusion for qualified tuition reduction programs of charitable educational organizations.
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| H R 873 | To amend title V of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to raise awareness of eating disorders and to create educational programs concerning the same, and for other purposes.
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| H R 874 | To establish a program, coordinated by the National Transportation Safety Board, of assistance to families of passengers involved in rail passenger accidents.
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| H R 875 | To direct the Secretary of Transportation to make grants for security improvements to over-the-road bus operations, and for other purposes.
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| H R 876 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a credit against income tax for expenditures for the maintenance of railroad tracks of Class II and Class III railroads.
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| H R 877 | To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to improve patient safety.
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| H R 878 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a special rule for members of the uniformed services and Foreign Service in determining the exclusion of gain from the sale of a principal residence and to restore the tax exempt status of death gratuity payments to members of the uniformed services, and for other purposes.
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| H R 879 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for certain servicemembers to become eligible for educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill.
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| H R 880 | To amend title 46, United States Code, to accelerate to 2007 the application of the requirement that a tanker that carries oil in bulk as cargo must be equipped with a double hull, and for other purposes.
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| H R 881 | To disapprove certain sentencing guideline amendments.
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| H R 882 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the qualified small issue bond provisions.
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| H R 883 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to adjust the fee for collecting specimens for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 884 | To provide for the use and distribution of the funds awarded to the Western Shoshone identifiable group under Indian Claims Commission Docket Numbers 326-A-1, 326-A-3, and 326-K, and for other purposes.
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| H R 885 | To provide for adjustments to the Central Arizona Project in Arizona, to authorize the Gila River Indian Community water rights settlement, to reauthorize and amend the Southern Arizona Water Rights Settlement Act of 1982, and for other purposes.
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| H R 886 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the payment of dependency and indemnity compensation to the survivors of former prisoners of war who died on or before September 30, 1999, under the same eligibility conditions as apply to payment of dependency and indemnity compensation to the survivors of former prisoners of war who die after that date.
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| H R 887 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide that the reductions in Social Security benefits which are required in the case of spouses and surviving spouses who are also receiving certain Government pensions shall be equal to the amount by which the total amount of the combined monthly benefit (before reduction) and monthly pension exceeds $2,000.
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| H R 888 | To authorize the disinterment from the Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial in Luxembourg of the remains of Private Ray A. Morgan, who died in combat in January 1945 in the Battle of the Bulge, and to authorize the transfer of his remains to the custody of his next of kin.
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| H R 889 | To eliminate the backlog in performing DNA analyses of DNA samples collected from convicted child sex offenders, and for other purposes.
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| H R 890 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for a more equitable geographic allocation of funds appropriated to the Department of Veterans Affairs for medical care.
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| H R 891 | To establish a task force to evaluate and make recommendations with respect to the security of sealed sources of radioactive materials, and for other purposes.
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| H R 892 | To authorize the Secretary of the Army to carry out a project for flood damage reduction and ecosystem restoration for the American River, Sacramento, California, and for other purposes.
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| H R 893 | To provide student loan forgiveness to the surviving spouses of the victims of the September 11, 2001, tragedies.
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| H R 894 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institutes of Health to expand and intensify research regarding Diamond-Blackfan Anemia.
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| H R 895 | To provide for the construction and renovation of child care facilities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 896 | To provide for substantial reductions in the price of prescription drugs for Medicare beneficiaries and for women diagnosed with breast cancer.
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| H R 897 | To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the route of the Mississippi River from its headwaters in the State of Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico for study for potential addition to the National Trails System as a national scenic trail, national historic trail, or both, and for other purposes.
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| H R 898 | To provide for the recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, and for other purposes.
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| H R 899 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to require persons to obtain a State license before receiving a handgun or handgun ammunition.
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| H R 900 | To provide incentive funds to States that have in effect a certain law.
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| H R 901 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct a bridge on Federal land west of and adjacent to Folsom Dam in California, and for other purposes.
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| H R 902 | To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain parcels of National Forest System land in the State of Idaho, to use the proceeds for the acquisition, construction, or rehabilitation of facilities in the Panhandle National Forest in the State of Idaho, and for other purposes.
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| H R 903 | To provide for the conveyance by the Secretary of Agriculture of the Sandpoint Federal Building and adjacent land in Sandpoint, Idaho, and for other purposes.
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| H R 904 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to establish a program to inventory, evaluate, document, and assist efforts to preserve surviving United States Life-Saving Service stations.
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| H R 905 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to simplify the application of self-employment tax in the case of family farming businesses.
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| H R 906 | To amend title 23, United States Code, to improve roadway safety for motor vehicles, bicycles, and pedestrians and workers in proximity to vehicle traffic.
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| H R 907 | To direct the Secretary of the Interior to complete a special resource study of the national significance, suitability, and feasibility of establishing Highway 49 in California, known as the "Golden Chain Highway", as a National Heritage Corridor.
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| H R 908 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to specify that imprisonment for reentering the United States after removal subsequent to a conviction for a felony shall be under circumstances that stress strenuous work and sparse living conditions, if the alien is convicted of another felony after the reentry.
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| H R 909 | To amend title 35, United States Code, to direct the Director of the Patent and Trademark Office to adjust fees charged by the Office so that the fees collected in any fiscal year will equal, to the greatest extent practicable, the amount appropriated to the Office for that fiscal year.
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| H R 910 | To provide for the distribution to coastal States and counties of revenues collected under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.
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| H R 911 | To authorize the establishment of a memorial to victims who died as a result of terrorist acts against the United States or its people, at home or abroad.
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| H R 912 | To authorize the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to establish an awards program in honor of Charles "Pete" Conrad, astronaut and space scientist, for recognizing the discoveries made by amateur astronomers of asteroids with near-Earth orbit trajectories.
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| H R 913 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for the ownership and control of corporations by employees.
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| H R 914 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives for investing in companies involved in space-related activities.
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| H R 915 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide a national standard in accordance with which nonresidents of a State may carry certain concealed firearms in the State, and to exempt qualified current and former law enforcement officers from State laws prohibiting the carrying of concealed handguns.
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| H R 916 | To prohibit the expenditure of Federal funds to conduct or support research on the cloning of humans, and to express the sense of the Congress that other countries should establish substantially equivalent restrictions.
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| H R 917 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1830 South Lake Drive in Lexington, South Carolina, as the "Floyd Spence Post Office Building".
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| H R 918 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize a demonstration grant program to provide patient navigator services to reduce barriers and improve health care outcomes, and for other purposes.
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| H R 919 | To ensure that a public safety officer who suffers a fatal heart attack or stroke while on duty shall be presumed to have died in the line of duty for purposes of public safety officer survivor benefits.
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| H R 920 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to promote careers in nursing and diversity in the nursing workforce.
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| H R 921 | To require amounts remaining in Members' representational allowances at the end of a fiscal year to be used for deficit reduction or to reduce the Federal debt, and for other purposes.
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| H R 922 | To amend the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 to provide for the liquidation of blocked assets of terrorists and terrorist organizations in order to reimburse the Treasury for the compensation of claimants.
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| H R 923 | To amend the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to allow certain premier certified lenders to elect to maintain an alternative loss reserve.
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| H R 924 | To direct the Secretary of the Interior to replace the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as the Federal agency responsible for the administration, protection, and preservation of Midway Atoll, and for other purposes.
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| H R 925 | To redesignate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1859 South Ashland Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, as the "Cesar Chavez Post Office".
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| H R 926 | To amend the General Education Provisions Act to prohibit Federal education funding for elementary or secondary schools that provide access to emergency postcoital contraception.
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| H R 927 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for Farm and Ranch Risk Management Accounts, and for other purposes.
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| H R 928 | To suspend temporarily the duty on Cerium Sulfide.
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| H R 929 | To suspend temporarily the duty on 1,8 Dichloroanthraquinone.
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| H R 930 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the incentives for the construction and renovation of public schools.
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| H R 931 | To amend title 4, United States Code, to declare English as the official language of the Government of the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 932 | To amend the impact aid program under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to improve the delivery of payments under the program to local educational agencies.
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| H R 933 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2004 through 2010 to carry out the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program.
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| H R 934 | To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to expand the loan forgiveness and loan cancellation programs for teachers, to provide loan forgiveness and loan cancellation programs for nurses, and for other purposes.
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| H R 935 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the exclusion from gross income for employer-provided health coverage for employees' spouses and dependent children to coverage provided to other eligible designated beneficiaries of employees.
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| H R 936 | To leave no child behind.
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| H R 937 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for improvements in access to services in rural hospitals and critical access hospitals.
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| H R 938 | To prohibit Federal payments to any individual, business, institution, or organization that engages in human cloning.
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| H R 939 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to punish persons who use false or misleading domain names to attract children to Internet sites not appropriate for children.
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| H R 940 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that the foreign tax credit not be redetermined with respect to refunds of unlawful foreign taxes to taxpayers who successfully challenge those taxes.
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| H R 941 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the expeditious coverage of new medical technology under the Medicare Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 942 | To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide student loan borrowers with a choice of lender for loan consolidation.
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| H R 943 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit against income tax for the purchase of hearing aids.
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| H R 944 | To ensure that amounts in the Victims of Crime Fund are fully obligated.
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| H R 945 | To exercise authority under article I, section 8, clause 3 of the Constitution of the United States to clearly establish jurisdictional boundaries over the commercial transactions of digital goods and services conducted through the Internet, and to foster stability and certainty over the treatment of such transactions.
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| H R 946 | To effect a moratorium on immigration.
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| H R 947 | To authorize local educational agencies to prohibit the transfer of students under section 1116 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to schools that are at or above capacity, and for other purposes.
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| H R 948 | To amend title 23, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Transportation to carry out a grant program for providing financial assistance for local rail line relocation projects, and for other purposes.
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| H R 949 | To prohibit certain transfers or assignments of franchises, and to prohibit certain fixing or maintaining of motor fuel prices, under the Petroleum Marketing Practices Act.
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| H R 950 | To expand Alaska Native contracting of Federal land management functions and activities and to promote hiring of Alaska Natives by the Federal Government within the State of Alaska, and for other purposes.
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| H R 951 | To amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to provide for equitable allotment of lands to Alaska Native veterans.
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| H R 952 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a charitable contribution deduction for certain expenses incurred by whaling captains in support of Native Alaskan subsistence whaling.
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| H R 953 | To provide for equal coverage of mental health benefits with respect to health insurance coverage unless comparable limitations are imposed on medical and surgical benefits.
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| H R 954 | To confirm Federal recognition of the Miami Nation of Indiana.
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| H R 955 | To amend the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2003, to reinstate the requirement that a farm, in order to be certified as an organic farm with respect to livestock produced on the farm, feed the livestock with organically produced feed.
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| H R 956 | To amend the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to allow employees to take, as additional leave, parental invlovement leave to participate in or attend their children's and grandchildren's educational and extracurricular activities and to clarify that leave may be taken for routine medical needs and to assist elderly relatives, and for other purposes.
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| H R 957 | To enhance investor confidence by providing investors with easy online access to complete information about securities firms and their brokers.
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| H R 958 | To authorize certain hydrographic services programs, to name a cove in Alaska in honor of the late Able Bodied Seaman Eric Steiner Koss, and for other purposes.
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| H R 959 | To improve the conservation and management of coastal and ocean resources by authorizing National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration oceanographic programs.
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| H R 960 | To amend part C of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to consolidate and restate the Federal laws relating to the social health maintenance organization projects, to make such projects permanent, to require the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission to conduct a study on ways to expand such projects, and for other purposes.
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| H R 961 | To promote Department of the Interior efforts to provide a scientific basis for the management of sediment and nutrient loss in the Upper Mississippi River Basin, and for other purposes.
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| H R 962 | To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify the jurisdiction of the United States over waters of the United States.
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| H R 963 | To redesignate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2777 Logan Avenue in San Diego, California, as the "Cesar E. Chavez Post Office".
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| H R 964 | To amend the Federal Power Act to provide the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission with authority to order certain refunds of electric rates, and for other purposes.
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| H R 965 | To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for an increase in the Federal minimum wage.
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| H R 966 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to reinstate the vocational training program of the Department of Veterans Affairs for certain low-income veterans in receipt of pension from that Department.
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| H R 967 | To extend for 3 additional years a temporary increase in payment for skilled nursing facility services under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 968 | To amend title 23, United States Code, to provide incentives to States for the development of traffic safety programs to reduce crashes related to driver fatigue and sleep deprivation.
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| H R 969 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage under the Medicare Program of infertility treatment services for individuals entitled to health insurance benefits under that program by reason of a disability.
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| H R 970 | To provide competitive grants for training court reporters and realtime writers to meet requirements for closed captioning under the Telecommunications Act of 1996, and for other purposes.
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| H R 971 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude $100 of interest from gross income and to raise the threshhold for reporting interest paid to $100.
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| H R 972 | To clarify the effective date of the modification of treatment for retirement annuity purposes of part-time service before April 7, 1986, of certain Department of Veterans Affairs health-care professionals.
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| H R 973 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore and make permanent the exclusion from gross income for amounts received under qualified group legal services plans and to increase the maximum amount of the exclusion.
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| H R 974 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide capital gain treatment under section 631(b) of such Code for outright sales of timber by landowners.
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| H R 975 | To amend title 11 of the United States Code, and for other purposes.
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| H R 976 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide that the waiting period for disability insurance benefits shall not be applicable in the case of a disabled individual suffering from a terminal illness.
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| H R 977 | To amend the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to provide death and disability benefits for aerial firefighters who work on a contract basis for the Forest Service or an agency of the Department of the Interior and suffer death or disability in the line of duty, and for other purposes.
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| H R 978 | To amend chapter 84 of title 5, United States Code, to provide that certain Federal annuity computations are adjusted by 1 percentage point relating to periods of receiving disability payments, and for other purposes.
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| H R 979 | To provide additional protections for National Forest System lands in Alaska through the designation of wilderness areas, wilderness study areas, Land Use Designation II management areas, restoration areas, special management areas, and additional components of the national wild and scenic rivers system.
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| H R 980 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to expand Medicare coverage of certain self-injected biologicals.
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| H R 981 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 141 Erie Street in Linesville, Pennsylvania, as the "James R. Merry Post Office".
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| H R 982 | To clarify the tax treatment of bonds and other obligations issued by the Government of American Samoa.
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| H R 983 | To amend part C of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to consolidate and restate the Federal laws relating to the social health maintenance organization projects, to make such projects permanent, to require the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission to conduct a study on ways to expand such projects, and for other purposes.
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| H R 984 | To improve the conservation and management of coastal and ocean resources by reenacting and clarifying provisions of a reorganization plan authorizing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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| H R 985 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 111 West Washington Street in Bowling Green, Ohio, as the "Delbert L. Latta Post Office Building".
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| H R 986 | To replace the existing Federal tobacco program with a federally chartered corporation to ensure the stability of the price and supply of domestically produced tobacco, to compensate quota holders for the loss of tobacco quota asset value, to provide transition assistance for active tobacco producers, to increase the competitiveness of domestically produced tobacco, and for other purposes.
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| H R 987 | To amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to ensure congressional involvement in the process by which a river that is designated as a wild, scenic, or recreational river by an act of the legislature of the State or States through which the river flows may be included in the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, and for other purposes.
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| H R 988 | To provide compensation to individuals who are injured by an escaped prescribed fire and to amend the tort procedure provisions of title 28, United States Code, relating to claims for such fires, and for other purposes.
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| H R 989 | To require the issuance of regulations pursuant to the National Invasive Species Act of 1996 to assure, to the maximum extent practicable, that vessels entering the Great Lakes do not discharge ballast water that introduces or spreads nonindigenous aquatic species and treat such ballast water and its sediments through the most effective and efficient techniques available, and for other purposes.
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| H R 990 | To amend title 18 of the United States Code to provide for reciprocity in regard to the manner in which nonresidents of a State may carry certain concealed firearms in that State.
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| H R 991 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the renewable resources production tax credit to include additional forms of renewable energy, and to expand the investment tax credit to include equipment used to produce electricity from renewable resources.
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| H R 992 | To amend the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 to inform union members of their rights.
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| H R 993 | To provide for civil monetary penalties in certain cases.
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| H R 994 | To enhance notification to union members of their rights under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959.
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| H R 995 | To amend title 37, United States Code, to provide a dislocation allowance under section 407 of such title to retired members of the uniformed services, including members placed on the temporary disability retired list, moving from their last duty station to their designated home.
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| H R 996 | To amend the Consumer Credit Protection Act to assure meaningful disclosures of the terms of rental-purchase agreements, including disclosures of all costs to consumers under such agreements, to provide certain substantive rights to consumers under such agreements, and for other purposes.
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| H R 997 | To declare English as the official language of the United States, to establish a uniform English language rule for naturalization, and to avoid mis-constructions of the English language texts of the laws of the United States, pursuant to Congress' powers to provide for the general welfare of the United States and to establish a uniform rule of naturalization under article I, section 8, of the Constitution.
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| H R 998 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to require Department of Veterans Affairs pharmacies to dispense medications to veterans for prescriptions written by private practitioners, and for other purposes.
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| H R 999 | To amend the Clean Air Act to reduce air pollution through expansion of cap and trade programs, to provide an alternative regulatory classification for units subject to the cap and trade program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1000 | To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide additional protections to participants and beneficiaries in individual account plans from excessive investment in employer securities and to promote the provision of retirement investment advice to workers managing their retirement income assets.
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| H R 1001 | To amend the Iran Nonproliferation Act of 2000 to allow extraordinary payments in connection with the International Space Station to be made to the Russian Aviation and Space Agency for safety and maintenance purposes during any period in which the United States Space Shuttle fleet is grounded, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1002 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to enhance research, training, and health information dissemination with respect to urologic diseases, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1003 | To expand the enforcement options under the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to include the imposition of civil money penalties, and to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to expand enforcement options to include such penalties with respect to meat and poultry.
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| H R 1004 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for payment under the Medicare Program for more frequent hemodialysis treatments.
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| H R 1005 | To provide permanent funding for the payment in lieu of taxes program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1006 | To amend the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to further the conservation of certain wildlife species.
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| H R 1007 | To provide for homeland security block grants.
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| H R 1008 | To amend the National Highway System Designation Act of 1995 relating to the maximum hours of service for operators of ground water well drilling rigs.
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| H R 1009 | To require Federal law enforcement agencies to expunge voidable arrest records, to provide incentive funds to States that have in effect a system for expunging such records, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1010 | To amend title 46, United States Code, to require inspection of cargo destined for the United States.
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| H R 1011 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a 10-year extension of the credit for producing electricity from wind.
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| H R 1012 | To establish the Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1013 | To amend the Federal Power Act to provide for alternative conditions and alternative fishways in hydroelectric dam licenses, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1014 | To require Federal land managers to support, and to communicate, coordinate, and cooperate with, designated gateway communities, to improve the ability of gateway communities to participate in Federal land management planning conducted by the Forest Service and agencies of the Department of the Interior, and to respond to the impacts of the public use of the Federal lands administered by these agencies, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1015 | To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall.
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| H R 1016 | To require the Secretary of the Treasury to redesign the $1 coin to commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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| H R 1017 | To authorize the President to award a gold medal on behalf of the Congress to Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. in recognition of his outstanding and enduring contributions to the Nation.
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| H R 1018 | To designate the building located at 1 Federal Plaza in New York, New York, as the "James L. Watson United States Court of International Trade Building".
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| H R 1019 | To promote the freedom of information in Vietnam.
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| H R 1020 | To amend the Clean Air Act requirements relating to gasoline to prevent future supply shortages and price spikes in the gasoline market, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1021 | To amend the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 to assist the neediest of senior citizens by modifying the eligibility criteria for supplemental foods provided under the commodity supplemental food program to take into account the extraordinarily high out-of-pocket medical expenses that senior citizens pay, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1022 | To provide assistance for the development of indoor disease prevention and health promotion centers in urban and rural areas throughout the United States.
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| H R 1023 | To prohibit, through the period ending on December 31, 2007, any Department of Defense participation in any international aviation trade exhibition (known as an "air show") to be held in France.
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| H R 1024 | To establish in the National Marine Fisheries Service a pelagic longline highly migratory species bycatch and mortality reduction research program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1025 | To amend the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to establish the National Estuarine Reserve System, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1026 | To amend the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to reauthorize coastal services, training, education, and technical support programs of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to establish a performance evaluation system for such administration, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1027 | To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act relating to marine sanitation devices.
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| H R 1028 | To amend the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to authorize grants to coastal States under that Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1029 | To authorize the President to detain an enemy combatant who is a United States person or resident who is a member of al Qaeda or knowingly cooperated with members of al Qaeda, to guarantee timely access to judicial review to challenge the basis for a detention, to permit the detainee access to counsel, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1030 | To reduce overpayments of subsidies in Department of Housing and Urban Development housing assistance programs by providing for more accurate verification of employment and income of participants in such programs.
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| H R 1031 | To expand certain preferential trade treatment for Haiti.
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| H R 1032 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for special treatment for certain drugs and biologicals under the prospective payment system for hospital outpatient department services under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 1033 | To amend chapter 3 of title 28, United States Code, to divide the Ninth Judicial Circuit of the United States into two circuits, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1034 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of sites associated with the life of Cesar Estrada Chavez and the farm labor movement.
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| H R 1035 | To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to reduce restrictions on media ownership, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1036 | Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act | |
| H R 1037 | To prevent terrorists and money launderers from establishing accounts for illegal money transfers through the use of false Social Security numbers or taxpayer identification numbers, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1038 | To increase the penalties to be imposed for a violation of fire regulations applicable to the public lands, National Park System lands, or National Forest System lands when the violation results in damage to public or private property, to specify the purpose for which collected fines may be used, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1039 | To prohibit certain discriminatory pricing policies in wholesale motor fuel sales, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1040 | To establish a living wage, jobs for all policy for all peoples in the United States and its territories, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1041 | To direct the Secretary of Energy to develop and implement a strategy for research, development, demonstration, and commercial application of distributed power hybrid energy systems, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1042 | To authorize collaborative forest restoration and wildland fire hazard mitigation projects on National Forest System lands and other public and private lands, to improve the implementation of the National Fire Plan, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1043 | To grant a Federal charter to Korean War Veterans Association, Incorporated.
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| H R 1044 | To establish the Commission on Medical Malpractice Insurance.
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| H R 1045 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of outpatient prescription drugs under part B of the Medicare Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1046 | To assess the extent of the backlog in DNA analysis of rape kit samples, and to improve investigation and prosecution of sexual assault cases with DNA evidence.
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| H R 1047 | To amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to modify temporarily certain rates of duty, to make other technical amendments to the trade laws, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1048 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the amount of assistance for certain disabled veterans for specially adapted housing and automobile and adaptive equipment.
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| H R 1049 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to allow the arming of pilots of cargo aircraft, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1050 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the age limit for the child tax credit.
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| H R 1051 | To amend the National Trails System Act to require the Secretary of the Interior to update the feasibility and suitability studies of four national historic trails, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1052 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the transportation fringe benefit to bicycle commuters.
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| H R 1053 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a 7-year recovery period for depreciation of potato storage facilities.
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| H R 1054 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage and accelerate the nationwide production, retail sale, and consumer use of new motor vehicles that are powered by fuel cell technology, hybrid technology, battery electric technology, alternative fuels, or other advanced motor vehicle technologies, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1055 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1901 West Evans Street in Florence, South Carolina, as the "Dr. Roswell N. Beck Post Office Building".
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| H R 1056 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income amounts paid on behalf of Federal employees under Federal student loan repayment programs.
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| H R 1057 | To repeal the sunset of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 with respect to the expansion of the adoption credit and adoption assistance programs.
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| H R 1058 | To provide for an exchange of certain private property in Colorado and certain Federal property in Utah.
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| H R 1059 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide increased access to military commissary stores for members of the Ready Reserve, persons who would be eligible for military retired pay (but for the fact that they are under 60 years of age), and their dependents.
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| H R 1060 | To provide for an exchange of lands with the United Water Conservation District of California to eliminate private inholdings in the Los Padres National Forest, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1061 | To remove a restriction on the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to enter into agreements with any Federal agency to acquire goods and services directly related to improving or using the wildfire fighting capability of those agencies.
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| H R 1062 | To require the Secretary of the Interior to make reimbursement for certain damages incurred as a result of bonding regulations adopted by the Bureau of Land Management on February 28, 1997, and subsequently determined to be in violation of Federal law.
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| H R 1063 | To limit the age restrictions imposed by the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration for the issuance or renewal of certain airman certificates, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1064 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to authorize Bureau of Prison personnel to carry firearms off duty.
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| H R 1065 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to allow the Commissioner of Social Security reasonable discretion in applying the 10-year marriage requirement for entitlement of divorced spouses to spousal benefits in cases in which the divorce is in whole or in part the result of severe spousal or child abuse.
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| H R 1066 | To amend title 17, United States Code, to safeguard the rights and expectations of consumers who lawfully obtain digital entertainment.
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| H R 1067 | To provide for the establishment of a memorial at the site in Alaqua, Florida, of the accidental bombing of a home by an aircraft of the United States Army Air Corps on August 11, 1944, which killed Alfred Cosson, James Cosson, James Cosson, Jr., and Winnie Lee Cosson and wounded five other family members.
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| H R 1068 | To increase the supply of pancreatic islet cells for research, to provide better coordination of Federal efforts and information on islet cell transplantation, to collect the data necessary to move islet cell transplantation from an experimental procedure to a standard therapy, and to provide for a demonstration project on Medicare coverage of pancreatic islet cell transplantation for beneficiaries with type 1 diabetes who have end-stage renal disease.
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| H R 1069 | To establish the Freedom's Way National Heritage Area in the States of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1070 | To amend title 49, United States Code, relating to improving transportation and security of household goods, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1071 | To establish the Southwest Regional Border Authority.
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| H R 1072 | To prohibit post-conflict assistance for Iraq from being expended with any French firm.
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| H R 1073 | To repeal section 801 of the Revenue Act of 1916.
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| H R 1074 | To extend the deadline for commencement of construction of a project in Connecticut, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1075 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to dietary supplements containing natural or synthetic ephedrine group alkaloids, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1076 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow an additional advance refunding of bonds originally issued to finance governmental facilities used for essential governmental functions.
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| H R 1077 | To reauthorize the HOPE VI program for revitalization of severely distressed public housing, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1078 | To establish academies for teachers and students of American history and civics and a national alliance of teachers of American history and civics, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1079 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase expensing for small business and to allow small business to elect to determine the deduction for depreciation on a neutral cost recovery basis for property otherwise eligible to be expensed.
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| H R 1080 | To amend the Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance Prevention and Control Act of 1990 to reauthorize and improve that Act.
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| H R 1081 | To establish marine and freshwater research, development, and demonstration programs to support efforts to prevent, control, and eradicate invasive species, as well as to educate citizens and stakeholders and restore ecosystems.
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| H R 1082 | To designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 46 East Ohio Street in Indianapolis, Indiana, as the "Birch Bayh Federal Building and United States Courthouse".
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| H R 1083 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a program to assist family caregivers in accessing affordable and high-quality respite care, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1084 | To provide liability protection to nonprofit volunteer pilot organizations flying for public benefit and to the pilots and staff of such organizations.
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| H R 1085 | To make certain workforce authorities available to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1086 | To encourage the development and promulgation of voluntary consensus standards by providing relief under the antitrust laws to standards development organizations with respect to conduct engaged in for the purpose of developing voluntary consensus standards, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1087 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow taxpayers to designate that part or all of any income tax refund be paid over for use in medical research conducted through the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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| H R 1088 | To enhance the capacity of organizations working in the United States-Mexico border region to develop affordable housing and infrastructure and to foster economic opportunity in the colonias.
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| H R 1089 | To direct the Secretary of Transportation to offer federally financed, interest-free loans to public schools, municipalities, and local governments for the purchase of hybrid electric or other high-efficiency vehicles, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1090 | To require that ten percent of the motor vehicles purchased by Executive agencies be hybrid electric vehicles or high-efficiency vehicles.
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| H R 1091 | To amend the Agricultural Reconciliation Act of 1993 to make leaf tobacco an eligible commodity for the Market Access Program.
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| H R 1092 | To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to sell certain parcels of Federal land in Carson City and Douglas County, Nevada.
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| H R 1093 | To authorize the presentation of gold medals on behalf of Congress to Native Americans who served as Code Talkers during foreign conflicts in which the United States was involved during the 20th Century in recognition of their service to the Nation.
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| H R 1094 | To authorize appropriations for part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to achieve full funding for part B of that Act by 2008.
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| H R 1095 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to reauthorize the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program.
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| H R 1096 | To authorize appropriations for border and transportation security personnel and technology, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1097 | To ensure that proper planning is undertaken to secure the preservation and recovery of the salmon and steelhead of the Columbia River basin and the maintenance of reasonably priced, reliable power, to direct the Secretary of Commerce to seek scientific analysis of Federal efforts to restore salmon and steelhead listed under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1098 | To provide that, if an individual is expelled from Congress, any Member service previously rendered by that individual shall be noncreditable for purposes of determining eligibility for or the amount of any benefits which might otherwise be payable out of the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund based on the service of that individual, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1099 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the $25,000 offset for individuals under the passive loss rules to apply to investments in wind energy facilities.
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| H R 1100 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify that certain options offered by tax-exempt organizations are not includible in gross income under section 457(f).
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| H R 1101 | To amend title 5, United States Code, to create a presumption that disability of a Federal employee in fire protection activities caused by certain conditions is presumed to result from the performance of such employee's duty.
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| H R 1102 | To establish the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund in the Treasury of the United States to provide for the development, rehabilitation, and preservation of decent, safe, and affordable housing for low-income families.
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| H R 1103 | To improve air cargo security.
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| H R 1104 | To prevent child abduction, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1105 | To designate as wilderness, wild and scenic rivers, national park and preserve study areas, wild land recovery areas, and biological connecting corridors certain public lands in the States of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1106 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain facilities to the Fremont-Madison Irrigation District in the State of Idaho.
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| H R 1107 | To reauthorize funding for maintenance of public roads used by school buses serving certain Indian reservations.
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| H R 1108 | To require the Secretary of the Treasury to direct the United States Executive Director at the Inter-American Development Bank to use the voice, vote, and influence of the United States to urge the immediate resumption of lending to Haiti.
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| H R 1109 | To establish a Financial Markets Oversight Commission in order to combine the functions of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission in a single independent regulatory commission, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1110 | To extend Federal funding for operation of State high risk health insurance pools.
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| H R 1111 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to revise the rules relating to the court-ordered apportionment of the retired pay of members of the uniformed services to former spouses, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1112 | To amend title 28 of the United States Code to authorize the appointment of additional bankruptcy judges, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1113 | To authorize an exchange of land at Fort Frederica National Monument, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1114 | To establish legal standards and procedures for the fair, prompt, inexpensive, and efficient resolution of personal injury claims arising out of asbestos exposure, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1115 | To amend the procedures that apply to consideration of interstate class actions to assure fairer outcomes for class members and defendants, to outlaw certain practices that provide inadequate settlements for class members, to assure that attorneys do not receive a disproportionate amount of settlements at the expense of class members, to provide for clearer and simpler information in class action settlement notices, to assure prompt consideration of interstate class actions, to amend title 28, United States Code, to allow the application of the principles of Federal diversity jurisdiction to interstate class actions, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1116 | To reform the medical malpractice insurance business, to provide for Federal alternative medical malpractice insurance, and to limit frivolous lawsuits.
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| H R 1117 | To improve health care choice by providing for the tax deductibility of medical expenses by individuals.
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| H R 1118 | To establish the SAFER Firefighter Grant Program.
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| H R 1119 | To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide compensatory time for employees in the private sector.
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| H R 1120 | To ensure and foster continued patient safety and quality of care by clarifying the application of the antitrust laws to negotiations between groups of health care professional and health plans and health care insurance issuers.
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| H R 1121 | To limit the period of validity of driver's licenses and State identification cards issued to nonimmigrant aliens to the period of validity of nonimmigrant visas.
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| H R 1122 | To amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to provide funding for the clean up of MTBE contamination from underground storage tanks, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1123 | To authorize States to regulate the receipt and disposal of out-of-State municipal solid waste.
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| H R 1124 | To reduce the cost of medical malpractice insurance, to enhance patient access to medical care, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1125 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to repeal the Medicare outpatient rehabilitation therapy caps.
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| H R 1126 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the expense treatment for small businesses and to reduce the depreciation recovery period for restaurant buildings and franchise operations, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1127 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of the Army to establish a combat artillery medal.
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| H R 1128 | To name the Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic in Horsham, Pennsylvania, as the "Victor J. Saracini Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic".
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| H R 1129 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for installment reporting of certain gain from the sale of an interest in a service business.
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| H R 1130 | To require the Secretary of the Interior to implement the final rule to phase out snowmobile use in Yellowstone National Park, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Memorial Parkway, and Grand Teton National Park, and snowplane use in Grand Teton National Park.
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| H R 1131 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and expand the enhanced deduction for charitable contributions of computers to provide greater public access to computers, including access by the poor.
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| H R 1132 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a credit to promote homeownership among low-income individuals.
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| H R 1133 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a temporary exclusion for members of reserve components of the Armed Forces and Department of Defense civilian employees serving in a combat zone and to extend the exclusion for serving in a combat zone to Department of Defense civilian employees.
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| H R 1134 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the work opportunity credit and welfare-to-work credit.
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| H R 1135 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide increased incentives for business investments in low-income communities and small businesses.
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| H R 1136 | To amend title 36, United States Code, to repeal the Federal Charter for Retired Enlisted Association, Incorporated.
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| H R 1137 | To exempt small trailer manufacturers from enhanced early warning reporting requirements under the Transportation Recall Enhancement, Accountability, and Documentation (TREAD) Act.
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| H R 1138 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for Alzheimer's disease research and demonstration grants.
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| H R 1139 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify the treatment of frequent flyer mileage awards.
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| H R 1140 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to stimulate economic development by enhancing the availability and benefits of small issue bonds.
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| H R 1141 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a deduction to individuals for credit card interest.
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| H R 1142 | To establish a commercial truck highway safety demonstration program in the State of Maine, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1143 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to permit States to expand Medicaid eligibility to uninsured, poor adults.
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| H R 1144 | To provide, with respect to diabetes in minority populations, for an increase in the extent of activities carried out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health.
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| H R 1145 | To provide additional appropriations for the fiscal year 2003 for the Peace Corps.
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| H R 1146 | To end membership of the United States in the United Nations.
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| H R 1147 | To improve the safety of firearms.
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| H R 1148 | To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to carry out activities to assess and reduce the vulnerabilities of public transportation systems.
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| H R 1149 | To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to carry out programs regarding the prevention and management of asthma, allergies, and related respiratory problems, to establish a tax credit regarding pest control and indoor air quality and climate control services for multifamily residential housing in low-income communities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1150 | To direct the Secretary of Transportation to make grants to Orange County, California, for intercounty express bus service, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1151 | To provide that transit pass transportation fringe benefits be made available to all qualified Federal employees in the National Capital Region; to allow passenger carriers which are owned or leased by the Government to be used to transport Government employees between their place of employment and mass transit facilities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1152 | To increase the cap on qualified small issue bonds.
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| H R 1153 | To accelerate the wilderness designation process by establishing a timetable for the completion of wilderness studies on Federal lands, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1154 | To provide that the International Criminal Court is not valid with respect to the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1155 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income amounts received on account of claims based on certain unlawful discrimination and to allow income averaging for backpay and frontpay awards received on account of such claims, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1156 | To amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to increase the ceiling on the Federal share of the costs of phase I of the Orange County, California, Regional Water Reclamation Project.
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| H R 1157 | To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to exempt bookstores and libraries from orders requiring the production of any tangible things for certain foreign intelligence investigations, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1158 | To modify the antitrust exemption applicable to the business of medical malpractice insurance, to address current issues for health care providers, to reform medical malpractice litigation by making available alternative dispute resolution methods, requiring plaintiffs to submit affidavits of merit before proceeding, and enabling judgments to be satisfied through periodic payments, to reform the medical malpractice insurance market, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1159 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify the treatment for foreign tax credit limitation purposes of certain transfers of intangible property.
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| H R 1160 | To impose tariff-rate quotas on certain casein and milk protein concentrates.
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| H R 1161 | To prevent trafficking in child pornography and obscenity, to proscribe pandering and solicitation relating to visual depictions of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct, to prevent the use of child pornography and obscenity to facilitate crimes against children, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1162 | To amend the Internal Revenue Service Code of 1986 to allow a deduction for certain distributions from a controlled foreign corporation to encourage companies to invest in worker hiring and training, infrastructure investments, capital investments, financial stabilization of the company, and research and development.
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| H R 1163 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income certain interest amounts received by individuals.
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| H R 1164 | To extend the deadlines under part I of the Federal Power Act for commencement of construction of two hydro-electric projects in the State of New York.
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| H R 1165 | To establish a grant and fee program through the Environmental Protection Agency to encourage and promote the recycling of used computers and to promote the development of a national infrastructure for the recycling of used computers, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1166 | To amend the Small Business Act to expand and improve the assistance provided by Small Business Development Centers to Indian tribe members, Native Alaskans, and Native Hawaiians.
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| H R 1167 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to permit remarried surviving spouses of veterans to be eligible for burial in a national cemetery.
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| H R 1168 | To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide deferments and interest payments for borrowers of student loans who are called to active duty.
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| H R 1169 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the performance of certain tax collection services by contractors.
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| H R 1170 | To protect children and their parents from being coerced into administering a controlled substance in order to attend school, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1171 | To provide grants to law enforcement agencies to use iris scanning technology to conduct background checks on individuals who want to purchase guns.
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| H R 1172 | To amend titles 10 and 14, United States Code, to provide for the use of gold in the metal content of the Medal of Honor.
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| H R 1173 | To provide for the award of a gold medal on behalf of Congress to Arnold Palmer in recognition of his service to the Nation in promoting excellence and good sportsmanship in golf.
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| H R 1174 | To provide for the award of a gold medal on behalf of the Congress to Tiger Woods, in recognition of his service to the Nation in promoting excellence and good sportsmanship, and in breaking barriers with grace and dignity by showing that golf is a sport for all people.
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| H R 1175 | To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to extend the discretionary spending limits through fiscal year 2008, to extend paygo for direct spending, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1176 | To amend the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991, relating to the I-35 High Priority Corridor from Laredo, Texas, to Duluth, Minnesota.
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| H R 1177 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide additional choice regarding unused health benefits in cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements.
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| H R 1178 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit against income tax for medical malpractice liability insurance premiums, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1179 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to permit an individual to operate a commercial motor vehicle solely within the borders of a State if the individual meets certain minimum standards prescribed by the State, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1180 | To promote the use of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1181 | To amend the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933 to ensure that promoting recreation is treated as a primary purpose in the operation of dams and reservoirs under the possession and control of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
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| H R 1182 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to exclude brachytherapy devices from the prospective payment system for outpatient hospital services under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 1183 | To promote the Sensible Development of Renewable Energy in the Waters of the Coastal Zone, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1184 | To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to increase certain criminal penalties, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1185 | To clarify the tax status of the Young Men's Christian Association retirement fund.
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| H R 1186 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for proration of the heavy vehicle use tax between successive purchasers of the same vehicle.
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| H R 1187 | To impose a retroactive, 2-year moratorium on inclusion of unemployment compensation in gross income.
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| H R 1188 | To amend titles XI and XIX of the Social Security Act to provide for American Samoa treatment under the Medicaid Program similar to that provided to States.
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| H R 1189 | To increase the waiver requirement for certain local matching requirements for grants provided to American Samoa, Guam, the Virgin Islands, or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1190 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to extend the eligibility for housing loans guaranteed by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs under the Native American Housing Loan Pilot Program to veterans who are married to Native Americans.
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| H R 1191 | To provide a grant program for gifted and talented students, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1192 | To provide for livable wages for Federal Government workers and workers hired under Federal contracts.
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| H R 1193 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide permanent authority for certain chaplain-led family support programs of the Department of Defense.
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| H R 1194 | To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to enable Federal agencies responsible for the preservation of threatened species and endangered species to rescue and relocate members of any of those species that would be taken in the course of certain reconstruction, maintenance, or repair of Federal or non-Federal manmade flood control levees.
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| H R 1195 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to carry out a demonstration program under the Medicare Program to examine the clinical and cost effectiveness of providing medical adult day care center services to Medicare beneficiaries.
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| H R 1196 | To provide a United States voluntary contribution to the United Nations Population Fund.
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| H R 1197 | To direct the Consumer Product Safety Commission to promulgate a consumer products safety standard that requires manufacturers of certain consumer products to establish and maintain a system for providing notification of recalls of such products to consumers who first purchase such a product.
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| H R 1198 | To amend the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 to prohibit the selection for closure or adverse realignment under such law any military installation used for undergraduate pilot training.
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| H R 1199 | To amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to provide for a voluntary Medicare prescription medicine benefit, to provide greater access to affordable pharmaceuticals, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1200 | To provide for health care for every American and to control the cost and enhance the quality of the health care system.
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| H R 1201 | To posthumously revoke the naturalization of Eriberto Mederos.
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| H R 1202 | To provide for a period of quiet reflection at the opening of certain schools on every school day.
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| H R 1203 | To provide for the annual audit of the White County Bridge Commission, for the New Harmony Bridge over the Wabash River, Indiana and Illinois, for the filling of vacancies in the membership thereof, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1204 | To amend the National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 1966 to establish requirements for the award of concessions in the National Wildlife Refuge System, to provide for maintenance and repair of properties located in the System by concessionaires authorized to use such properties, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1205 | To amend the Social Security Act to guarantee comprehensive health care coverage for all children born after 2004.
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| H R 1206 | To prohibit United States voluntary and assessed contributions to the United Nations or the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development if the United Nations or the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development imposes any tax or fee on United States persons, continues to develop or promote proposals for such taxes or fees, or attempts to implement or impose a policy that would enable foreign governments to tax income earned inside the borders of the United States.
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| H R 1207 | To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to withhold Federal student financial assistance from students who have engaged in hazing, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1208 | To authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2004 and 2005 for United States contributions to the International Fund for Ireland, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1209 | To extend the authority for the construction of a memorial to Martin Luther King, Jr., in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1210 | To provide for the establishment of the Holocaust Insurance Registry by the Archivist of the United States and to require certain disclosures by insurers to the Secretary of Commerce.
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| H R 1211 | To amend title 31, United States Code, to provide Federal aid and economic stimulus through a one-time revenue grant to the States and their local governments.
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| H R 1212 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the amount of basic educational assistance for veterans under the Montgomery GI Bill, and to eliminate reductions of basic pay for eligibility for such assistance.
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| H R 1213 | To facilitate the production and generation of coal-based power.
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| H R 1214 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide public access to quality medical imaging procedures and radiation therapy procedures.
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| H R 1215 | To amend title 31, United States Code, to require the provision of a written prompt payment policy to each subcontractor under a Federal contract and to require a clause in each subcontract under a Federal contract that outlines the provisions of the prompt payment statute and other related information.
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| H R 1216 | To amend the Small Business Act to increase the minimum Government-wide goal for procurement contracts awarded to small business concerns.
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| H R 1217 | To amend the Small Business Act to provide a penalty for the failure by a Federal contractor to subcontract with small businesses as described in its subcontracting plan, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1218 | To require contractors with the Federal Government to possess a satisfactory record of integrity and business ethics.
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| H R 1219 | To limit frivolous medical malpractice lawsuits, to reform the medical malpractice insurance business in order to reduce the cost of medical malpractice insurance, to enhance patient access to medical care, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1220 | To prohibit pyramid promotional schemes, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1221 | To provide for the stabilization of prices for gasoline, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1222 | To permit a special amortization deduction for intangible assets acquired from eligible small businesses to take account of the actual economic useful life of such assets and to encourage growth in industries for which intangible assets are an important source of revenue.
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| H R 1223 | To create a commission on Internet gambling licensing and regulation.
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| H R 1224 | To authorize the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations treatment) to the products of the Russian Federation, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1225 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to expand coverage of medical nutrition therapy services under the Medicare Program for beneficiaries with cardiovascular disease.
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| H R 1226 | To authorize the Secretary of Transportation to conduct activities to improve worldwide traffic safety, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1227 | To provide for the periodic review of the efficiency and public need for Federal agencies, to establish a Commission for the purpose of reviewing the efficiency and public need of such agencies, and to provide for the abolishment of agencies for which a public need does not exist.
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| H R 1228 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to reduce the work hours and increase the supervision of resident-physicians to ensure the safety of patients and resident-physicians themselves.
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| H R 1229 | To require assurances that certain family planning service projects and programs will provide pamphlets containing the contact information of adoption centers.
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| H R 1230 | To provide an environmentally sound process for the expeditious consideration and approval of a high-voltage electricity transmission line right-of-way through the Trabuco Ranger District of the Cleveland National Forest in the State of California and adjacent lands under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service.
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| H R 1231 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow Federal civilian and military retirees to pay health insurance premiums on a pretax basis and to allow a deduction for TRICARE supplemental premiums.
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| H R 1232 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to shorten the recovery period for the depreciation of certain property.
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| H R 1233 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the alternative minimum tax.
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| H R 1234 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage investment in high productivity property, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1235 | To provide for the management of critical habitat of endangered species and threatened species on military installations in a manner compatible with the demands of military readiness, to ensure that the application of other resource laws on military installations is compatible with military readiness, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1236 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals a refundable credit against income tax for the purchase of private health insurance.
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| H R 1237 | To amend part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to improve early intervention programs for infants and toddlers with disabilities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1238 | To authorize the Attorney General to carry out a program, known as the Northern Border Prosecution Initiative, to provide funds to northern border States to reimburse county and municipal governments for costs associated with certain criminal activities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1239 | To provide for emergency unemployment compensation.
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| H R 1240 | To provide grants to eligible consortia to provide professional development to superintendents, principals, and to prospective superintendents and principals.
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| H R 1241 | To authorize additional appropriations to the National Institutes of Health for research on the early detection of and the reduction of mortality rates attributed to breast cancer.
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| H R 1242 | To establish a program to provide child care through public-private partnerships.
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| H R 1243 | To assure equitable treatment in health care coverage of prescription drugs under group health plans, health insurance coverage, Medicare and Medicaid managed care arrangements, Medigap insurance coverage, and health plans under the Federal employees' health benefits program (FEHBP).
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| H R 1244 | To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that service performed by an air traffic controller who is transferred or promoted to a supervisory or staff position continue to be treated as controller service for retirement purposes.
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| H R 1245 | To amend the Clean Air Act to establish an inventory, registry, and information system of United States greenhouse gas emissions to inform the public and private sectors concerning, and encourage voluntary reductions in, greenhouse gas emissions.
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| H R 1246 | To authorize the Secretary of Education to make grants to eligible schools to assist such schools to discontinue use of a derogatory or discriminatory name or depiction as a team name, mascot, or nickname, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1247 | To ensure and foster continued patient safety and quality of care by exempting health care professionals from the Federal antitrust laws in their negotiations with health plans and health insurance issuers.
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| H R 1248 | To amend titles 23 and 49, United States Code, relating to motor vehicle weight and width limitations.
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| H R 1249 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals a credit against income tax for the cost of insurance against negative outcomes from surgery, including against malpractice of a physician.
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| H R 1250 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the exemption from the self-employment tax for certain termination payments received by former insurance sales agents.
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| H R 1251 | To establish a congressional commemorative medal for organ donors and their families.
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| H R 1252 | To terminate the e-rate program of the Federal Communications Commission that requires providers of telecommunications and information services to provide such services for schools and libraries at a discounted rate.
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| H R 1253 | To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to establish special requirements for determining whether the Preble's meadow jumping mouse is an endangered species or threatened species.
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| H R 1254 | To amend the Federal Power Act to provide for market transparency in wholesale sales of electric energy, to prohibit round trip trading of electricity, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1255 | To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to prohibit the fradulent recording of revenue from round trip sales of electric power.
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| H R 1256 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the annual placement of memorials honoring the service in the Armed Forces of veterans who, at the time of death, were homeless or indigent.
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| H R 1257 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to make permanent the authority for qualifying members of the Selected Reserve to have access to home loans guaranteed by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and to provide for uniformity in fees charged qualifying members of the Selected Reserve and active duty veterans for such home loans.
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| H R 1258 | To repeal the statutory authority for the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (the successor institution to the United States Army School of the Americas) in the Department of Defense, to provide for the establishment of a joint congressional task force to conduct an assessment of the kind of education and training that is appropriate for the Department of Defense to provide to military personnel of Latin American nations, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1259 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow businesses to expense qualified security devices.
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| H R 1260 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to establish a program of fees relating to animal drugs.
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| H R 1261 | To enhance the workforce investment system of the Nation by strengthening one-stop career centers, providing for more effective governance arrangements, promoting access to a more comprehensive array of employment, training, and related services, establishing a targeted approach to serving youth, and improving performance accountability, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1262 | To implement or enhance consistent AMBER Alert plans throughout the country.
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| H R 1263 | To require that certain procedures are followed in Federal buildings when a child is reported missing.
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| H R 1264 | To provide for reduction in the backlog of claims for benefits pending with the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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| H R 1265 | To provide, upon the request of a qualifying person, for the removal of the remains of any United States servicemember or other person interred in an American Battle Monuments Commission cemetery located in France or Belgium and for the transportation of such remains to a location in the United States for reinterment.
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| H R 1266 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the credit for the production of fuel from nonconventional sources and the credit for the production of electricity to include landfill gas.
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| H R 1267 | To amend the Public Health Service Act, the Social Security Act, and chapter 89 of title 5, United States Code, to provide research on the health impact and prevention of family violence; to provide training for health care professionals, behavioral and public health staff, and community health centers regarding identification and treatment for families experiencing family violence; and to provide coverage for domestic violence identification and treatment under the Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant Program, the Medicaid Program, the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, and the Community Health Centers Program.
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| H R 1268 | To amend the Toxic Substances Control Act, the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and the Public Buildings Act of 1959 to protect human health from toxic mold, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1269 | To provide for research, development, and demonstration on coal and related technologies, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1270 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify the status of employee leasing organizations and to promote and protect the interests of employee leasing organizations, their customers, and workers.
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| H R 1271 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives to introduce new technologies to reduce energy consumption in buildings.
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| H R 1272 | To prohibit fraudulent, manipulative, or deceptive acts in electric and natural gas markets, to provide for audit trails and transparency in those markets, to increase penalties for illegal acts under the Federal Power Act and Natural Gas Act, to reexamine certain exemptions under the Federal Power Act and the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, to expand the authority of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to order refunds of unjust and discriminatory rates, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1273 | To designate a United States courthouse to be constructed in Fresno, California, as the "Robert E. Coyle United States Courthouse".
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| H R 1274 | To direct the Administrator of General Services to convey to Fresno County, California, the existing Federal courthouse in that county.
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| H R 1275 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to change the requirements for naturalization to citizenship through service in the Armed Forces of the United States.
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| H R 1276 | To provide downpayment assistance under the HOME Investment Partnerships Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1277 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a deduction for ground rent paid on land on which a qualified residence of a taxpayer is located and which is allotted or Indian-owned land.
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| H R 1278 | To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to extend the discretionary spending caps and the pay-as-you-go requirement, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1279 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives for the use of biodiesel as a fuel.
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| H R 1280 | To reauthorize the Defense Production Act of 1950, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1281 | To amend the Professional Boxing Safety Act of 1996, and to establish the United States Boxing Administration.
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| H R 1282 | To authorize the Secretary of Energy to cooperate in the international magnetic fusion burning plasma experiment, or alternatively to develop a plan for a domestic burning plasma experiment, for the purpose of accelerating the scientific understanding and development of fusion as a long term energy source.
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| H R 1283 | To protect automobile consumers by requiring complete disclosure and warranty of any add-ons included with the sale of new automobiles.
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| H R 1284 | To amend the Reclamation Projects Authorization and Adjustment Act of 1992 to increase the Federal share of the costs of the San Gabriel Basin demonstration project.
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| H R 1285 | To provide for full voting representation in Congress for the citizens of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1286 | To prohibit the commercial harvesting of Atlantic striped bass in the coastal waters and the exclusive economic zone.
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| H R 1287 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make health care coverage more accessible and affordable.
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| H R 1288 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage under the Medicare Program of all oral anticancer drugs.
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| H R 1289 | To establish the National Parks Institute at the University of California, Merced, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1290 | To authorize the President to establish military tribunals to try the terrorists responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1291 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to include State high risk pool insurance programs in the list of covered entities that receive reductions in the prices charged for prescription drugs under the prescription drug pricing agreements under section 340B of that Act.
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| H R 1292 | To encourage the development and integrated use by the public and private sectors of remote sensing and other geospatial information, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1293 | To authorize the Small Business Administration and the Department of Agriculture to assist farmers and ranchers seeking to develop and implement agricultural innovation plans in order to increase their profitability in ways that provide environmental benefits, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1294 | To amend title VI of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to establish a Federal renewable energy portfolio standard for certain retail electric utilities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1295 | To provide for coverage of diabetic foot sore apparatus as items of durable medical equipment under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 1296 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the dollar limitation on the deduction of interest on education loans.
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| H R 1297 | To require the construction at Arlington National Cemetery of a memorial to the crew of the Columbia Orbiter.
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| H R 1298 | To provide assistance to foreign countries to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1299 | To amend the Spark M. Matsunaga Hydrogen Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 1990, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1300 | To amend the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act to identify and register certain Central Americans residing in the United States.
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| H R 1301 | To amend the title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide payment to Medicare ambulance suppliers of the full costs of providing such services, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1302 | To make improvements in the operation and administration of the Federal courts, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1303 | To amend the E-Government Act of 2002 with respect to rulemaking authority of the Judicial Conference.
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| H R 1304 | To make college debt more affordable, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1305 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the tax on beer to its pre-1991 level.
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| H R 1306 | To provide student loan forgiveness to Americans employed in service to the public, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1307 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a special rule for members of the uniformed services in determining the exclusion of gain from the sale of a principal residence and to restore the tax exempt status of death gratuity payments to members of the uniformed services, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1308 | An act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax relief for working families, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1309 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide improved prescription drug benefits for veterans.
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| H R 1310 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify certain provisions relating to the treatment of forestry activities.
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| H R 1311 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to support the Federal Excess Personal Property program of the Forest Service by making it a priority of the Department of Defense to transfer to the Forest Service excess personal property of the Department that is suitable to be loaned under the program to rural fire departments.
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| H R 1312 | To make East Kern Airport District in Mojave, California, eligible for airport security improvement assistance from the Transportation Security Administration, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1313 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore the deduction for the travel expenses of a taxpayer's spouse who accompanies the taxpayer on business travel.
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| H R 1314 | To amend the Public Health Service Act and Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to require that group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans provide coverage for annual screening mammography for any class of covered individuals if the coverage or plans include coverage for diagnostic mammography for such class and to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of annual screening mammography under the Medicaid Program.
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| H R 1315 | To direct the Secretary of Transportation to establish a pilot grant program to provide assistance for the capital and startup costs of streetcar development and revitalization.
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| H R 1316 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the expansion, intensification, and coordination of the activities of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute with respect to research on pulmonary hypertension.
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| H R 1317 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify the excise tax exemptions for aerial applicators of fertilizers or other substances.
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| H R 1318 | To name the Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic in Sunnyside, Queens, New York, as the "Thomas P. Noonan, Jr., Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic".
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| H R 1319 | To amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require that group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans provide coverage for second opinions.
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| H R 1320 | To amend the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Organization Act to facilitate the reallocation of spectrum from governmental to commercial users.
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| H R 1321 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to limit the penalty for late enrollment under the Medicare Program to 10 percent and twice the period of no enrollment.
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| H R 1322 | To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to provide emergency protection for retiree health benefits.
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| H R 1323 | To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require institutions of higher education to preserve the educational status and financial resources of military personnel called to active duty.
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| H R 1324 | To amend title 37, United States Code, to provide the Secretary of Defense with the authority to make temporary, emergency adjustments in the rates of the basic allowance for housing for members of the uniformed services in response to a sudden increase in housing costs in a military housing area in the United States.
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| H R 1325 | To provide for the inclusion of hazardous duty pay and diving pay in the computation of military retired pay for members of the armed forces with extensive hazardous duty experience, to require a study on the need for a tax credit for businesses that employ members of the National Guard and Reserve, and to require a study on the expansion of the Junior ROTC and similar military programs for young people.
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| H R 1326 | To ensure that tax-exempt status and other benefits afforded under Operation Enduring Freedom are also provided to United States Armed Forces personnel in Israel.
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| H R 1327 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt certain activities at the State level from the denial of the deduction for lobbying expenditures.
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| H R 1328 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to extend the period over which an individual must make payment to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to become entitled to educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill, to prospectively permit any servicemember to withdraw an election not to enroll under the Montgomery GI Bill, and to provide for certain servicemembers to become eligible for educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill.
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| H R 1329 | To amend the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act to clarify the exemption for recreational vessel support employees, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1330 | To amend the Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act to authorize the Federal Trade Commission to issue new rules to establish a requirement that telemarketers shall not make any calls during the hours of 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
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| H R 1331 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and modify the credit for producing fuel from a nonconventional source.
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| H R 1332 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow for an energy efficient appliance credit.
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| H R 1333 | To clarify the citizenship eligibility for certain members of the Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1334 | To amend the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 to provide assistance to communities for the redevelopment of brownfield sites.
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| H R 1335 | To establish a program to provide funds for deployment of fuel cell and hydrogen infrastructure at National Parks, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1336 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a deduction for premiums on mortgage insurance, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1337 | To encourage the development of hydroelectric projects, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1338 | To amend the Federal Power Act to provide for Federal and State coordination of permitting for electric transmission facilities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1339 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that the deduction for depreciation shall be computed on a neutral cost recovery basis.
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| H R 1340 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to expand and improve coverage of mental health services under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 1341 | To prospectively repeal section 210 of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1342 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to increase the floor for treatment as an extremely low DSH State to 3 percent in fiscal year 2003.
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| H R 1343 | To establish an energy program for the United States that unlocks the potential of renewable energy and energy efficiency, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1344 | For the relief of Pamela S. Konkel.
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| H R 1345 | To provide compensation to members of the reserve components who suffer discrepancies between their military and nonmilitary compensation as a result of being ordered to serve on active duty for a period of more than 30 days, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1346 | To amend the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act to provide an additional function of the Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy relating to encouraging Federal procurement policies that enhance energy efficiency.
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| H R 1347 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to repeal the requirement that for former prisoners of war to be eligible for Department of Veterans Affairs dental benefits they must have been interned for a specified minimum period of time.
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| H R 1348 | To assure quality and best value with respect to Federal construction projects by prohibiting the practice known as bid shopping.
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| H R 1349 | To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.
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| H R 1350 | To reauthorize the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1351 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to increase payments under the Medicare Program to Puerto Rico hospitals.
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| H R 1352 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow taxpayers to designate that part or all of any income tax refund be paid over for use in biomedical research conducted through the National Institutes of Health.
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| H R 1353 | To authorize the Port Passenger Accelerated Service System (PortPASS) as a permanent program for land border inspection under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
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| H R 1354 | To amend section 19 of title 3, United States Code, to include the Secretary of Homeland Security on the list of presidential successors.
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| H R 1355 | To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to clarify that a prohibition on contracting by the Secretary of Homeland Security with foreign incorporated entities applies to contracting with subsidiaries of such entities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1356 | To encourage the availability and use of motor vehicles that have improved fuel efficiency, in order to reduce the need to import oil into the United States.
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| H R 1357 | To establish a program to assist homeowners experiencing unavoidable, temporary difficulty making payments on mortgages insured under the National Housing Act.
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| H R 1358 | To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to require the Secretary of State to include in the annual Department of State's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices information on the nature and extent of the promotion of violence and hatred in the curriculum of schools in foreign countries, including the promotion of anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, and racism.
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| H R 1359 | To increase the number of well-trained mental health service professionals (including those based in schools) providing clinical mental health care to children and adolescents, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1360 | To amend certain provisions of title 39, United States Code, relating to transportation of mail.
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| H R 1361 | To direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study to determine the national significance of the Miami Circle site in the State of Florida as well as the suitability and feasibility of its inclusion in the National Park System as part of Biscayne National Park, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1362 | To provide enhanced Federal enforcement and assistance in preventing and prosecuting crimes of violence against children.
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| H R 1363 | To prohibit institutions of higher education from unfairly imposing sanctions on student athletes.
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| H R 1364 | To authorize a national memorial at, or proximate to, the World Trade Center site to commemorate the tragic events of September 11, 2001, to establish the World Trade Center Memorial Advisory Board, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1365 | To establish the United States Commission on an Open Society with Security.
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| H R 1366 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to provide relief to the airline industry, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1367 | To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a loan repayment program regarding the provision of veterinary services in shortage situations, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1368 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 7554 Pacific Avenue in Stockton, California, as the "Norman D. Shumway Post Office Building".
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| H R 1369 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow an above-the-line deduction for overnight travel expenses of national guard and reserve members.
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| H R 1370 | To provide for expansion of electricity transmission networks in order to support competitive electricity markets, to ensure reliability of electric service, to modernize regulation and for other purposes.
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| H R 1371 | For the relief of Kuan-Wei Liang and Chun-Mei Hsu-Liang.
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| H R 1372 | To direct the Securities and Exchange Commission to require enhanced disclosures of employee stock options, and to require a study on the economic impact of broad-based employee stock option plans, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1373 | To provide options to States to innovate and improve the education of children with disabilities by expanding the choices for students and parents under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
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| H R 1374 | To amend chapter 1606 of title 10, United States Code, to increase the amount of basic educational assistance for members of the Selected Reserve, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1375 | To provide regulatory relief and improve productivity for insured depository institutions, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1376 | To improve the Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative.
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| H R 1377 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to enhance the access of Medicare beneficiaries who live in medically underserved areas to critical primary and preventive health care benefits, to improve the Medicare+Choice program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1378 | To amend part E of title IV of the Social Security Act to increase payments to States for expenditures for short term training of staff of certain child welfare agencies.
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| H R 1379 | To freeze the price of gasoline pending analysis by the Secretary of Energy of fluctuations in such price.
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| H R 1380 | To suspend the excise tax on aviation fuel used in commercial aviation during the period of hostilities with Iraq.
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| H R 1381 | To amend the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 and title 5, United States Code, to allow leave for individuals who provide living organ donations.
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| H R 1382 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve the regulatory operation of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA).
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| H R 1383 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax relief for the conversion of cooperative housing corporations into condominiums.
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| H R 1384 | To amend the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 to eliminate a limitation on benefits.
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| H R 1385 | To extend the provision of title 39, United States Code, under which the United States Postal Service is authorized to issue a special postage stamp to benefit breast cancer research.
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| H R 1386 | To amend part D of title III of the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants and loan guarantees for health centers to enable the centers to fund capital needs projects, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1387 | To amend the Small Business Act to direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to establish a vocational and technical entrepreneurship development program.
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| H R 1388 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage under the Medicare Program for surgical first assisting services of certified registered nurse first assistants.
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| H R 1389 | To enhance the ability of first responders to respond to incidents of terrorism and for certain other purposes.
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| H R 1390 | To establish a pilot program to encourage certification of teachers in low-income, low-performing public elementary and secondary schools by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1391 | To extend the deadline under the Federal Power Act for commencement of construction of the Mt. Hope Waterpower project (FERC Project No. 9401), and for other purposes.
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| H R 1392 | To require inspection of all cargo on commercial trucks and vessels entering the United States.
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| H R 1393 | To ensure that tax-exempt status and other benefits afforded under Operation Enduring Freedom are also provided to United States Armed Forces personnel in Israel.
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| H R 1394 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to authorize programs and activities to promote intermodal transportation of passengers, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1395 | To provide for the establishment of research, development, demonstration, and commercial application programs for fuel cell and hydrogen production, delivery, and storage technologies for transportation and stationary applications.
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| H R 1396 | To allocate spectrum for the enhancement of wireless telecommunications, and to invest wireless spectrum auction proceeds for the military preparedness and educational preparedness of the United States for the digital era, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1397 | To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to ensure that employees are not improperly disqualified from benefits under pension plans and welfare plans based on the misclassification or reclassification of their status.
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| H R 1398 | To amend the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to fully fund 40 percent of the average per pupil expenditure for programs under part B of that Act.
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| H R 1399 | To revise the boundary of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park and Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area in the State of Colorado, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1400 | To provide for substantial reductions in the price of prescription drugs for Medicare beneficiaries.
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| H R 1401 | To support the establishment or expansion and operation of programs using a network of public and private community entities to provide mentoring for children in foster care.
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| H R 1402 | To designate the United States courthouse located at the corner of Seventh Street and East Jackson Street in Brownsville, Texas, as the 'Reynaldo G. Garza and Filemon B. Vela United States Courthouse'.
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| H R 1403 | To remove the exemption with respect to Pakistan from the prohibition on assistance to a country whose elected head of government was deposed by decree or military coup.
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| H R 1404 | To direct the Secretary of Defense to present a ribbon of appropriate design to all persons who, while a member of the Armed Forces serving on active duty, were exposed to ionizing radiation as a result of participation in a test of atomic weapons.
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| H R 1405 | To disqualify certain persons from receiving Federal funds.
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| H R 1406 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to permit additional States to enter into long-term care partnerships under the Medicaid Program in order to promote the use of long-term care insurance.
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| H R 1407 | To amend title 40, United States Code, to enhance security at executive and judicial branch facilities by requiring locksmiths who provide locksmith services at such a facility to be credentialed, which includes undergoing a criminal history background check.
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| H R 1408 | To provide for the consideration of a petition for Federal Recognition of the Lumbee Indians of Robeson and adjoining counties, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1409 | To provide for a Federal land exchange for the environmental, educational, and cultural benefit of the American public and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1410 | To amend chapter 81 of title 5, United States Code, to authorize the use of clinical social workers to conduct evaluations to determine work-related emotional and mental illnesses.
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| H R 1411 | To amend the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940 to extend from three months to twelve months the period after release of a member of the Armed Forces from active duty during which the member is protected from mortgage foreclosure under that Act.
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| H R 1412 | To provide the Secretary of Education with specific waiver authority to respond to a war or other military operation or national emergency.
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| H R 1413 | To provide benefits for certain individuals with injuries resulting from administration of a smallpox vaccine, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1414 | To facilitate the establishment of a United Nations civilian police corps for international peace operations to maintain the rule of law and promote peace and stability in post-conflict situations.
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| H R 1415 | To implement effective measures to stop trade in conflict diamonds, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1416 | To make technical corrections to the Homeland Security Act of 2002.
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| H R 1417 | To amend title 17, United States Code, to replace copyright arbitration royalty panels with Copyright Royalty Judges.
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| H R 1418 | To exclude certain veterans' compensation and pension amounts from consideration as adjusted income for purposes of determining the amount of rent paid by a family for a dwelling unit assisted under the United States Housing Act of 1937.
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| H R 1419 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt from income tax the gain from the sale of a business closely held by an individual who has attained age 62, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1420 | To amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to require public availability of an accounting of all funds used, or required to be used, for response to a release of a hazardous substance or pollutant or contaminant.
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| H R 1421 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the treatment of Indian tribal governments as State governments for purposes of issuing tax-exempt governmental bonds, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1422 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve patient access to, and utilization of, the colorectal cancer screening benefit under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 1423 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the energy credit to include investment in property which produces energy from certain renewable sources and expenditures for cool roofing, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1424 | To extend the possession tax credit with respect to American Samoa an additional 10 years.
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| H R 1425 | To provide for the expedited and increased assignment of spectrum for public safety purposes.
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| H R 1426 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a deduction for ground rent paid on land on which a qualified residence of a taxpayer is located and which is allotted or Indian-owned land.
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| H R 1427 | To establish the criteria and mechanisms for the designation of certain areas in the United States containing nationally important natural, historic, and cultural resources and recreational and educational opportunities that are geographically assembled and thematically related as areas that provide unique frameworks for understanding the great and diverse character of the United States and the development of communities and their surroundings as national heritage areas, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1428 | To authorize 36 additional bankruptcy judgeships, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1429 | To protect tenants in public housing and housing assisted under the rental assistance program under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 who are victims from eviction by reason of criminal activity.
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| H R 1430 | To amend the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to permit leave to care for a domestic partner, parent-in-law, adult child, sibling, or grandparent if the domestic partner, parent-in-law, adult child, sibling, or grandparent has a serious health condition, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1431 | To repeal the requirements under the United States Housing Act of 1937 for residents of public housing to engage in community service and to complete economic self-sufficiency programs.
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| H R 1432 | To authorize the Secretary of State to enter into negotiations with representatives of the Government of Cuba to establish cooperation between the United States and Cuba on illicit narcotics control efforts.
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| H R 1433 | To secure the Federal voting rights of certain qualified ex-offenders who have served their sentences.
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| H R 1434 | To permit expungement of records of certain nonviolent criminal offenses.
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| H R 1435 | To amend the Controlled Substances Act and the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to eliminate certain mandatory minimum penalties relating to crack cocaine offenses.
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| H R 1436 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to enhance energy conservation, research, and development and to provide for security and diversity in the energy supply for the American people.
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| H R 1437 | To improve the United States Code.
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| H R 1438 | To authorize a State to temporarily extend a waiver granted with respect to the State program of aid to families with dependent children.
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| H R 1439 | For the relief of Kadiatou Diallo, Laouratou Diallo, Ibrahima Diallo, Abdoul Diallo, and Mamadou Bobo Diallo.
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| H R 1440 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that aliens who commit acts of torture, extrajudicial killings, or other specified atrocities abroad are inadmissible and removable and to establish within the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice an Office of Special Investigations having responsibilities under that Act with respect to all alien participants in war crimes, genocide, and the commission of acts of torture and extrajudicial killings abroad.
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| H R 1441 | To require the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development and the Secretary of Defense to give a preference for American companies in the award of contracts to provide assistance for Iraq, and to require the use of CDMA technology in any such contract for the provision of commercial mobile wireless communication service.
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| H R 1442 | To authorize the design and construction of a visitor center for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
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| H R 1443 | To amend section 251 of the National Housing Act to enable homebuyers to make use of the authority of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to insure hybrid adjustable rate mortgages.
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| H R 1444 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for garnishment of military retired pay to satisfy a judgment against a retired member of the uniformed services for physically, sexually, or emotionally abusing a child.
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| H R 1445 | To designate the western breakwater for the project for navigation, New Haven Harbor, Connecticut, as the "Charles Hervey Townshend Breakwater".
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| H R 1446 | To support the efforts of the California Missions Foundation to restore and repair the Spanish colonial and mission-era missions in the State of California and to preserve the artworks and artifacts of these missions, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1447 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives to increase the sale and use of certain ethanol and biodiesel fuels.
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| H R 1448 | To require that health plans provide coverage for a minimum hospital stay for mastectomies and lymph node dissection for the treatment of breast cancer and coverage for secondary consultations.
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| H R 1449 | To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish a program to provide assistance to enhance the ability of first responders to respond to incidents of terrorism, including incidents involving weapons of mass destruction, and to improve security of infrastructure, and for other purposes including emergency preparedness.
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| H R 1450 | To amend the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to permit the Council of the District of Columbia to impose a tax on the income of professional baseball players which is earned within the District of Columbia.
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| H R 1451 | To prohibit high school and college sports gambling in all States including States where such gambling was permitted prior to 1991.
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| H R 1452 | To provide that the language of the text of United States passports is written in English and Spanish.
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| H R 1453 | To declare the policy of the United States with respect to design and deployment of a missile defense system capable of defending the national territory of the United States against ballistic missile attack.
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| H R 1454 | To establish the policy of the United States with respect to deployment of missile defense systems capable of defending allies of the United States against ballistic missile attack.
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| H R 1455 | To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to make private, nonprofit medical facilities that serve industry specific clients eligible for hazard mitigation and disaster assistance.
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| H R 1456 | To provide for the liquidation or reliquidation of certain entries of pasta.
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| H R 1457 | For the relief of Oleg Rasulyevich Rafikov, Alfia Fanilevna Rafikova, Evgenia Olegovna Rafikova, and Ruslan Khamitovich Yagudin.
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| H R 1458 | To authorize the Secretary of Energy to establish an Advanced Technology Incentives Program to fund the development and deployment of new advanced technologies such as fuel cells, turbines, hybrid, and storage system power technologies.
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| H R 1459 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax credits for making energy efficiency improvements to existing homes and for constructing new energy efficient homes.
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| H R 1460 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve education and entrepreneurship benefits, housing benefits, and certain other benefits for veterans.
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| H R 1461 | To provide for the establishment by the Secretary of Energy of a pilot program and a development and demonstration program for clean fuel school buses, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1462 | To authorize assistance for individuals with disabilities in foreign countries, including victims of warfare and civil strife, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1463 | To provide benefits for certain individuals with injuries resulting from administration of a smallpox vaccine, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1464 | To enhance the security and efficiency of the immigration, refugee and asylum, and naturalization functions of the United States Government.
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| H R 1465 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4832 East Highway 27 in Iron Station, North Carolina, as the "General Charles Gabriel Post Office".
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| H R 1466 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the health insurance costs for family coverage of military reservists called to active duty.
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| H R 1467 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to impose a 2-year moratorium on the imposition of passenger and air carrier security fees, to reimburse the airline industry for homeland security costs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1468 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the depreciation of natural gas pipelines, equipment, and infrastructure assets to be 10-year property.
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| H R 1469 | To amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require that group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans permit enrollees direct access to services of obstetrical and gynecological physician services directly and without a referral.
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| H R 1470 | To reduce health care costs and promote improved health by providing supplemental grants for additional preventive health services for women.
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| H R 1471 | To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to allow public water systems to avoid filtration requirements, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1472 | To require the adoption and enforcement of regulations to prohibit the intentional feeding of bears on Federal public lands in order to end the hunting practice known as "bear baiting" and reduce the number of dangerous interactions between people and bears.
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| H R 1473 | To amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to provide disclosures of credit-based insurance scoring information by insurers and credit reporting agencies, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1474 | To facilitate check truncation by authorizing substitute checks, to foster innovation in the check collection system without mandating receipt of checks in electronic form, and to improve the overall efficiency of the Nation's payments system, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1475 | To amend title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to include private firefighters and rescue squad and ambulance crew members for certain benefits.
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| H R 1476 | To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a national cemetery for veterans in the Colorado Springs, Colorado, metropolitan area.
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| H R 1477 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of qualified acupuncturist services under part B of the Medicare Program, and to amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for coverage of such services under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program.
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| H R 1478 | To provide that private land use rules be treated as State or local regulation for purposes of certain Federal Communications Commission regulations.
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| H R 1479 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the use of completed contract method of accounting in the case of certain long-term naval vessel construction contracts.
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| H R 1480 | To increase the expertise and capacity of community-based organizations involved in economic development activities and key community development programs.
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| H R 1481 | To extend the moratorium enacted by the Internet Tax Freedom Act.
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| H R 1482 | To authorize assistance for women and girls in Afghanistan, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1483 | To require certain studies regarding the health effects of exposure to depleted uranium munitions, to require the cleanup and mitigation of depleted uranium contamination at sites of depleted uranium munition use and production in the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1484 | To provide for the implementation of air quality programs developed in accordance with an Intergovernmental Agreement between the Southern Ute Indian Tribe and the State of Colorado concerning Air Quality Control on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1485 | To provide additional appropriations for the fiscal year 2003 for the MTCT-Plus Initiative at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.
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| H R 1486 | To direct the Secretary of Education to conduct a study of the rate at which Native Americans and students who reside in American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam drop out of secondary schools in the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1487 | To direct the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to prepare a report about how the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 has been used by public and private sector employers to foster or exacerbate pay inequity.
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| H R 1488 | To restore the standards used for determining whether technical workers are not employees as in effect before the Tax Reform Act of 1986.
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| H R 1489 | To provide for parental notification and intervention in the case of a minor seeking an abortion.
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| H R 1490 | To repeal the per-State limitation applicable to grants made by the National Endowment for the Arts from funds made available for fiscal year 2003.
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| H R 1491 | To authorize programs and activities to improve energy use related to transportation and infrastructure facilities.
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| H R 1492 | To amend the Federal Credit Union Act to provide expanded access for persons in the field of membership of a Federal credit union to money order and check cashing services.
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| H R 1493 | To revoke an Executive Order relating to procedures for the consideration of claims of constitutionally based privilege against disclosure of Presidential records.
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| H R 1494 | To provide for certain deposits and countervailing duties to be imposed on imports of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) semiconductors produced by Hynix Semiconductor if certain affirmative determinations are made under subtitle A of title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930.
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| H R 1495 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to safeguard public health and provide to consumers food that is safe, unadulterated, and honestly presented.
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| H R 1496 | To establish a comprehensive program to ensure the safety of food products intended for human consumption which are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration.
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| H R 1497 | To reauthorize title I of the Sikes Act.
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| H R 1498 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that the tax on recognized built-in gain of an S corporation shall not apply to amounts reinvested in the business.
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| H R 1499 | To require health insurance coverage for certain reconstructive surgery.
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| H R 1500 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize veterans to select the appraiser for housing loans for which they apply that are to be guaranteed by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
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| H R 1501 | To designate certain public lands in Humboldt, Del Norte, Mendocino, Lake, Napa, and Yolo Counties in the State of California as wilderness, to designate certain segments of the Black Butte River in Mendocino County, California as a wild or scenic river, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1502 | To amend the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to provide that certain funds treated as local funds under that Act shall be used to provide additional funding for programs under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
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| H R 1503 | To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require institutions of higher education to preserve the educational status and financial resources of military personnel called to active duty.
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| H R 1504 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow as a deduction in determining adjusted gross income the deduction for expenses in connection with services as a member of a reserve component of the Armed Forces of the United States, to allow employers a credit against income tax with respect to employees who participate in the military reserve components, and to allow a comparable credit for participating reserve component self-employed individuals, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1505 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2127 Beatties Ford Road in Charlotte, North Carolina, as the "Jim Richardson Post Office".
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| H R 1506 | For the relief of Laura Maldonado Caetani.
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| H R 1507 | To waive the time limitation specified by law for the award of certain military decorations in order to allow the award of the Congressional Medal of Honor to Steve Piniaha of Sparta, New Jersey, for acts of valor while a member of the Army during World War II.
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| H R 1508 | To treat the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November in the same manner as November 11 for purposes of Federal employment, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1509 | To make clear that a person who voluntarily separates from the Federal civil service does not remain subject to the enforcement provisions of subchapter III of chapter 73 of title 5, United States Code, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1510 | To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require States to permit individuals to register to vote at polling places on the date of an election, to cast ballots at designated polling places prior to the date of an election, and to obtain absentee ballots for an election for any reason, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1511 | To award a congressional gold medal to Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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| H R 1512 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that certain bonds issued by local governments in connection with delinquent real property taxes may be treated as tax exempt.
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| H R 1513 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit against income tax for taxpayers owning certain commercial power takeoff vehicles.
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| H R 1514 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce for individuals the maximum rate of tax on unrecaptured section 1250 gain from 25 percent to 20 percent.
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| H R 1515 | To provide for reimbursement for unreimbursed costs of emergency medical care for aliens paroled into the United States for medical reasons.
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| H R 1516 | An act to provide for the establishment by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs of additional cemeteries in the National Cemetery Administration.
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| H R 1517 | To amend the Land and Water Conservation Fund to limit the use of funds available from the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to use for maintenance.
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| H R 1518 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income any enlistment, accession, reenlistment, or retention bonus paid to a member of the Armed Forces.
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| H R 1519 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to reauthorize the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program.
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| H R 1520 | To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the historic transportation routes in the States of Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, and Ohio that led to the forks of the Ohio River in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for study for potential addition to the National Trails System.
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| H R 1521 | To provide for additional lands to be included within the boundary of the Johnstown Flood National Memorial in the State of Pennsylvania, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1522 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income loan payments received under the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program established in the Public Health Service Act.
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| H R 1523 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for collegiate housing and infrastructure grants.
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| H R 1524 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to establish a commemorative trail in connection with the Women's Rights National Historical Park to link properties that are historically and thematically associated with the struggle for women's suffrage, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1525 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Reclamation, to conduct a feasibility study of the Tualatin River Basin in Oregon.
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| H R 1526 | For the relief of Charmaine Bieda.
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| H R 1527 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to authorize appropriations for the National Transportation Safety Board for fiscal years 2003 through 2006, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1528 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to protect taxpayers and ensure accountability of the Internal Revenue Service.
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| H R 1529 | To amend title 11 of the United States Code with respect to the dismissal of certain involuntary cases.
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| H R 1530 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify the exemption from tax for small property and casualty insurance companies.
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| H R 1531 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to enhance energy conservation and to provide for reliability and diversity in the energy supply for the American people, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1532 | To amend the Animal Welfare Act to strengthen enforcement of provisions relating to animal fighting, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1533 | To amend the securities laws to permit church pension plans to be invested in collective trusts.
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| H R 1534 | To improve the ability of the child welfare system to prevent and respond to child abuse and place children in safe, loving, and permanent homes.
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| H R 1535 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the mid-quarter convention for depreciable property.
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| H R 1536 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat distributions from publicly traded partnerships as qualifying income of regulated investment companies, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1537 | To amend the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to clarify that restrictions on baiting of migratory game birds do not prohibit the taking of a migratory game bird on or over manipulated re-growth of a harvested rice crop.
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| H R 1538 | To posthumously award congressional gold medals to government workers and others who responded to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and perished and to people aboard United Airlines Flight 93 who helped resist the hijackers and caused the plane to crash, to require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of the Spirit of America, recognizing the tragic events of September 11, 2001, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1539 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to limit the hospital ownership exception to physician self-referral restrictions to interests purchased on terms generally available to the public.
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| H R 1540 | To ensure greater accountability by licensed firearms dealers.
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| H R 1541 | To amend title 13, United States Code, to provide for a just apportionment of Representatives in Congress for all States.
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| H R 1542 | To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to modify the terms of the community disaster loan program, to authorize assistance under that program for losses related to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1543 | To amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to exempt certain communications from the definition of consumer report, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1544 | To amend the Bank Protection Act of 1968 and the Federal Credit Union Act to require enhanced security measures at depository institutions and automated teller machines sufficient to provide surveillance pictures which can be used effectively as evidence in criminal prosecutions, to amend title 28, United States Code, to require the Federal Bureau of Investigation to make technical recommendations with regard to such security measures, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1545 | To prohibit Federal officials from paying any Federal funds to any individual or entity that performs partial-birth abortions.
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| H R 1546 | To provide that the inferior courts of the United States do not have jurisdiction to hear abortion-related cases.
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| H R 1547 | To restore first amendment protections of religion and religious speech.
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| H R 1548 | To prohibit any Federal official from expending any Federal funds for any population control or population planning program or any family planning activity.
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| H R 1549 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore and make permanent the exclusion from gross income for amounts received under qualified group legal services plans and to increase the maximum amount of the exclusion.
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| H R 1550 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants to improve the commercial value of forest biomass for electric energy, useful heat, transportation fuels, petroleum-based product substitutes, and other commercial purposes.
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| H R 1551 | To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to ensure the safety of meals served under the school lunch program and the school breakfast program.
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| H R 1552 | To establish a Federal program to provide reinsurance to improve the availability of homeowners' insurance.
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| H R 1553 | To provide for additional temporary extended unemployment compensation for certain displaced workers.
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| H R 1554 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to make certain improvements to the National Service Life Insurance and United States Government Life Insurance programs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1555 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to curb tax abuses by disallowing tax benefits claimed to arise from transactions without substantial economic substance, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1556 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require greater transparency of corporate tax accounting measures, to facilitate analysis of financial statements, to permit inspection of true corporate tax liability and understand the tax strategies undertaken by corporations, to discourage abusive tax sheltering activities, and to restore investor confidence in publicly traded corporations.
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| H R 1557 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the Secretary of the Treasury to disclose taxpayer identity information through mass communications to notify persons entitled to tax refunds.
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| H R 1558 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a married couple conducting an unincorporated trade or business to elect out of partnership status.
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| H R 1559 | Making emergency wartime supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2003, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1560 | To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize appropriations for State water pollution control revolving funds, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1561 | To amend title 35, United States Code, with respect to patent fees, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1562 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to enhance the authority of the Department of Veterans Affairs to recover costs of medical care furnished to veterans and other persons by the Department from third parties that provide health insurance coverage to such veterans and other persons.
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| H R 1563 | To require engine coolant and antifreeze to contain a bittering agent so as to render it unpalatable.
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| H R 1564 | To provide for the full funding of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1565 | To establish a National Center for Military Deployment Health Research in the Department of Health and Human Services to provide an independent means for the conduct and coordination of research into issues relating to the deployment of members of the Armed Forces overseas, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1566 | To replace the existing Federal price support and quota programs for flue-cured and burley tobacco with a licensing program designed to assist the actual producers of flue-cured and burley tobacco, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1567 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to deny citizenship at birth to children born in the United States of parents who are not citizens or permanent resident aliens.
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| H R 1568 | To amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a prescription drug benefit with a high deductible at no additional premium and access to discount prices on drugs and to provide for the operation of such benefit without a deductible for certain low-income Medicare beneficiaries.
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| H R 1569 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located on Kinderkamack Road in Emerson, New Jersey, as the "Gary Albero Post Office Building".
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| H R 1570 | To accelerate natural gas exploration, development, and production from oil and gas wells drilled to deep depths on existing lease tracts on the Outer Continental Shelf, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1571 | To amend title 13, United States Code, to provide that the term of office of the Director of the Census shall be 5 years; to provide that the Director of the Census report directly to the Secretary of Commerce, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1572 | To designate the United States courthouse located at 100 North
Palafox Street in Pensacola, Florida, as the "Winston E. Arnow United States Courthouse".
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| H R 1573 | To amend the Truth in Lending Act to require credit card issuers to mail monthly statements at least 30 days before the due date of the next payment, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1574 | To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to require, as a condition on the receipt of direct payments or counter-cyclical payments under such Act for rice produced by tenants and sharecroppers in Texas, that the producers on the farm agree to retain the rice cropland in production for the next crop year.
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| H R 1575 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide assistance with elementary and secondary educational costs to parents of children with disabilities.
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| H R 1576 | To amend the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to establish a method to provide outcome-based funding increases to States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1577 | To designate the visitor center in Organ Pipe National Monument in Arizona as the "Kris Eggle Visitor Center", and for other purposes.
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| H R 1578 | To promote and coordinate global change research, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1579 | To authorize the vessel STAD AMSTERDAM to carry certain persons who are not directly and substantially connected with the operation, navigation, ownership, or business of the vessel.
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| H R 1580 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for national standardized payment amounts for inpatient hospital services furnished under the Medicare Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1581 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an exclusion from gross income for certain compensation received by members of the Armed Forces serving in South Korea.
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| H R 1582 | To equitably distribute universal service support throughout rural America, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1583 | To amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to provide for adjudicative improvement, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1584 | To implement effective measures to stop trade in conflict diamonds, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1585 | To establish an office to oversee research compliance and assurance within the Veterans Health Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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| H R 1586 | To provide for the fair and efficient judicial consideration of personal injury and wrongful death claims arising out of asbestos exposure, to ensure that individuals who suffer impairment, now or in the future, from illnesses caused by exposure to asbestos receive compensation for their injuries, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1587 | To promote freedom and democracy in Vietnam.
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| H R 1588 | To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2004 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1589 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide grants for the preservation of historic courthouses.
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| H R 1590 | To enhance United States leadership and the functioning of international organizations and multilateral institutions.
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| H R 1591 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to provide a credit toward the non-Federal share of projects carried out under the airport improvement program to an owner or operator of an airport that is utilized to respond to a disaster or emergency.
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| H R 1592 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to repeal the two-tier annuity computation system applicable to annuities for surviving spouses under the Survivor Benefit Plan for retired members of the Armed Forces so that there is no reduction in such an annuity when the beneficiary becomes 62 years of age.
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| H R 1593 | To improve homeland security, prevent tax increases, support education and health care, and strengthen the economy.
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| H R 1594 | To direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study of the suitability and feasibility of establishing the St. Croix National Heritage Area in St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1595 | To further cooperation and support among Federal land managers and designated gateway communities where the results of such cooperation and support are likely to be mutually beneficial, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1596 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2318 Woodson Road in St. Louis, Missouri, as the "Timothy Michael Gaffney Post Office Building".
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| H R 1597 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to classify qualified rental office furniture as 5-year property for purposes of depreciation.
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| H R 1598 | To amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in projects within the San Diego Creek Watershed, California, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1599 | To amend the Office of National Drug Control Policy Act Reauthorization Act of 1998 to ensure that adequate funding is provided for certain high intensity drug trafficking areas.
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| H R 1600 | To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to reserve funds to provide special training, technical assistance, and professional development to eligible entities implementing Even Start programs and to the staff of such programs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1601 | To provide for reform relating to Federal employment, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1602 | To provide for reform of the Senior Executive Service, adjustment in the rates of pay of certain positions, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1603 | To amend the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) to streamline the financial disclosure process for executive branch employees.
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| H R 1604 | To amend Public Law 105-295 to increase the amount of funds authorized to be appropriated for construction of temperature control devices.
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| H R 1605 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to require phased increases in the fuel efficiency standards applicable to light trucks; to require fuel economy standards for automobiles up to 10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight; to increase the fuel economy of the Federal fleet of vehicles, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1606 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to impose a limitation on the wage that the Secretary of Labor may require an employer to pay an alien who is an H-2A nonimmigrant agricultural worker.
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| H R 1607 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit for contributions of real property interests for conservation purposes.
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| H R 1608 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals to designate any portion of a refund for use by the Secretary of Health and Human Services in providing catastrophic health coverage to individuals who do not otherwise have health coverage.
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| H R 1609 | To redesignate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 201 West Boston Street in Brookfield, Missouri, as the "Admiral Donald Davis Post Office Building".
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| H R 1610 | To redesignate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 120 East Ritchie Avenue in Marceline, Missouri, as the "Walt Disney Post Office Building".
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| H R 1611 | To authorize grants to local educational agencies for teacher mentoring programs.
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| H R 1612 | To make permanent the tax benefits enacted by the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001.
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| H R 1613 | To establish a demonstration incentive program within the Department of Education to promote installation of fire sprinkler systems, or other fire suppression or prevention technologies, in qualified student housing and dormitories, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1614 | To reauthorize the HOPE VI program for revitalization of severely distressed public housing and to provide financial assistance under such program for main street revitalization or redevelopment projects in smaller communities to support the development of affordable housing for low-income families in connection with such projects, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1615 | To amend title 36, United States Code, to grant a Federal charter to the Ukrainian American Veterans, Incorporated.
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| H R 1616 | To authorize the exchange of certain lands within the Martin Luther King, Junior, National Historic Site for lands owned by the City of Atlanta, Georgia, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1617 | To establish and provide for funding for a National Rail Infrastructure Program.
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| H R 1618 | To establish the Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area in the State of Georgia, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1619 | To provide for a test census of Americans residing abroad, and to require that such individuals be included in the 2010 decennial census.
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| H R 1620 | To provide that Federal funds for the relief and revitalization of New York City after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack shall not be subject to Federal taxation.
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| H R 1621 | To provide environmentally sound, expedited procedures for the planning and implementation of hazardous fuels reduction activities for wild-fire prone National Forest System lands and lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1622 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act and otherwise revise the Medicare Program to reform the method of paying for covered drugs, drug administration services, and chemotherapy support services.
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| H R 1623 | To amend title 44, United States Code, to direct the Archivist of the United States to maintain an inventory of all gifts received from domestic sources for the President, the Executive Residence at the White House, or a Presidential archival depository.
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| H R 1624 | To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to improve the enforcement and compliance programs.
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| H R 1625 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1114 Main Avenue in Clifton, New Jersey, as the "Robert P. Hammer Post Office Building".
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| H R 1626 | To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to ensure equity for all full-service television broadcasters and ensure the benefits of local programming for communities served by class A television broadcast stations by providing cable carriage rights for qualified class A television stations, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1627 | To repeal the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, to enact the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1999, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1628 | To award a congressional gold medal to Chief Phillip Martin of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians.
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| H R 1629 | To clarify that the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument does not include within its boundaries any privately owned property, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1630 | To revise the boundary of the Petrified Forest National Park in the State of Arizona, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1631 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to exclude from creditable wages and self-employment income wages earned for services by aliens illegally performed in the United States and self-employment income derived from a trade or business illegally conducted in the United States.
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| H R 1632 | To create a national commission, modeled after the successful Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission, to establish a timely, independent, and fair process for realigning or closing outdated, ineffective, or inefficient executive agencies.
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| H R 1633 | To amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to encourage the use of web-based enrollment systems in the State children's health insurance program (SCHIP).
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| H R 1634 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a shorter recovery period for the depreciation of certain leasehold improvements.
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| H R 1635 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a complete transition period for the reduction of Medicare beneficiary copayment for hospital outpatient department services furnished under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 1636 | To protect and enhance consumer privacy, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1637 | To authorize the Secretary of the Army to convey certain land at Fort Campbell, Kentucky and Tennessee, for the purpose of realigning and upgrading United States Highway 79 from a 2-lane highway to a 4-lane highway.
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| H R 1638 | To amend the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 to repeal the authorized 2005 round of closures and realignments of military installations.
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| H R 1639 | To provide a means of resolving claims regarding the continued existence of rights-of-way under former section 2477 of the Revised Statutes, which was repealed by the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976.
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| H R 1640 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a married couple who operates an unincorporated business as co-owners to file separate returns for purposes of the self-employment tax, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1641 | To require increased safety testing of 15-passenger vans, ensure the compliance of 15-passenger vans used as schoolbuses with motor vehicle safety standards applicable to schoolbuses, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1642 | To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require the Federal Communications Commission to monitor complaints regarding the quality of wireless telephone service.
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| H R 1643 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a tax credit for teachers and principals who work in certain low income schools.
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| H R 1644 | To enhance energy conservation and research and development, to provide for security and diversity in the energy supply for the American people, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1645 | To establish a research, development, and demonstration program in genetics, protein science, and computational biology of microbes and plants to support the energy and environmental mission of the Department of Energy.
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| H R 1646 | To amend the Uniform Time Act of 1966 to modify the State exemption provisions for advancement of time.
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| H R 1647 | To assist in the conservation of cranes by supporting and providing, through projects of persons and organizations with expertise in crane conservation, financial resources for the conservation programs of countries the activities of which directly or indirectly affect cranes.
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| H R 1648 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain water distribution systems of the Cachuma Project, California, to the Carpinteria Valley Water District and the Montecito Water District.
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| H R 1649 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Social Security Act to clarify rules for determining whether certain agent-drivers and commission-drivers are employees.
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| H R 1650 | To ensure regulatory equity between and among all dairy farmers and handlers, including producers also acting as handlers, for sales of packaged fluid milk into certain non-federally regulated milk marketing areas from federally regulated areas and to apply minimum milk price requirements to certain handlers of Class I milk products in the Arizona-Las Vegas marketing area under certain circumstances.
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| H R 1651 | To provide for the exchange of land within the Sierra National Forest, California, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1652 | To provide extended unemployment benefits to displaced workers, and to make other improvements in the unemployment insurance system.
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| H R 1653 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to change the effective date for paid-up coverage under the military Survivor Benefit Plan from October 1, 2008, to October 1, 2003.
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| H R 1654 | To amend chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, to require congressional approval of proposed rules considered by the Congress to be significant rules.
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| H R 1655 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the coverage of marriage and family therapist services under part B of the Medicare Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1656 | To amend the National Labor Relations Act to provide the National Labor Relations Board with expanded statutory authority with respect to employees and labor organizations engaged in or encouraging violent and other potentially injurious conduct.
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| H R 1657 | To provide funding for programs at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences regarding breast cancer in younger women, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1658 | To amend the Railroad Right-of-Way Conveyance Validation Act to validate additional conveyances of certain lands in the State of California that form part of the right-of-way granted by the United States to facilitate the construction of the transcontinental railway, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1659 | To ensure regulatory equity between and among all dairy farmers and handlers, including producers also acting as handlers, for sales of packaged fluid milk into certain non-federally regulated milk marketing areas from federally regulated areas.
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| H R 1660 | To amend the National Apprenticeship Act to provide that applications relating to apprenticeship programs are processed in a fair and timely manner, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1661 | To provide balanced taxpayer protections in tax administrations, including elimination of abusive tax strategies, simplification of the earned income tax credit, and taxpayer protections.
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| H R 1662 | To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to require the Secretary of the Interior to give greater weight to scientific or commercial data that is empirical or has been field-tested or peer-reviewed, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1663 | To protect home buyers from predatory lending practices.
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| H R 1664 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a special rule for members of the uniformed services in determining the exclusion of gain from the sale of a principal residence and to restore the tax exempt status of death gratuity payments to members of the uniformed services, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1665 | To modify certain water resources projects for the Apalachicola, Chattahoochee, and Flint Rivers, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.
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| H R 1666 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide that discontinuance of veterans' disability compensation upon the death of a veteran shall be effective as of the date of death of the veteran rather than the last day of the month preceding the veteran's death.
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| H R 1667 | To provide an additional opportunity for administrative or judicial relief for socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers who were discriminated against by the Department of Agriculture in farm credit and benefit programs.
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| H R 1668 | To designate the United States courthouse located at 101 North Fifth Street in Muskogee, Oklahoma, as the "Ed Edmondson United States Courthouse".
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| H R 1669 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax treatment for foreign investment through a United States regulated investment company comparable to the tax treatment for direct foreign investment and investment through a foreign mutual fund.
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| H R 1670 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish a pilot program to encourage the use of medical savings accounts by public employees of the State of Minnesota and political jurisdictions thereof.
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| H R 1671 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit cooperatives to pay dividends on preferred stock without reducing patronage dividends.
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| H R 1672 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a credit for charitable contributions to fight poverty.
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| H R 1673 | To establish a Department of Peace.
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| H R 1674 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that the vaccine excise tax shall apply to any vaccine against hepatitis A.
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| H R 1675 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to protect and preserve access of Medicare beneficiaries to health care provided by hospitals in rural areas, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1676 | To amend chapter 55 of title 5, United States Code, to exclude availability pay for Federal criminal investigators from the limitation on premium pay; to modify levels of special pay adjustments for Federal law enforcement officers in certain areas, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1677 | To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to protect pension benefits of employees in defined benefit plans and to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to enforce the age discrimination requirements of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
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| H R 1678 | To amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to false communications about certain criminal violations, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1679 | To repeal the so-called Forest Service Appeals Reform Act and to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to develop an administrative appeals process for the Forest Service in the same manner as other Federal land management agencies.
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| H R 1680 | To prohibit after 2008 the introduction into interstate commerce of mercury intended for use in a dental filling, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1681 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to allow for substitution of parties in the case of a claim for benefits provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs when the applicant for such benefits dies while the claim is pending, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1682 | To amend title 36, United States Code, to grant a Federal charter to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation, Inc.
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| H R 1683 | To increase, effective as of December 1, 2003, the rates of disability compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for survivors of certain service-connected disabled veterans, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1684 | To amend the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to permit States to determine state residency for higher education purposes and to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to cancel the removal and adjust the status of certain alien college-bound students who are long-term U.S. residents.
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| H R 1685 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act relating to posthumous citizenship through death while on active-duty service during periods of military hostilities to eliminate the prohibition on immigration benefits for surviving family members and to provide such benefits for spouses and children.
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| H R 1686 | To reward the hard work and risk of individuals who choose to live in and help preserve America's small, rural towns, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1687 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from income taxation all compensation received for active service as a member of the Armed Forces of the United States.
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| H R 1688 | To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1689 | To amend titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to permit States the option of coverage of legal immigrants under the Medicaid Program and the State children's health insurance program (SCHIP).
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| H R 1690 | To protect diverse and structurally complex areas of the seafloor in the United States exclusive economic zone by establishing a maximum diameter size limit on rockhopper, roller, and all other groundgear used on bottom trawls, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1691 | To expedite the granting of posthumous citizenship to members of the United States Armed Forces.
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| H R 1692 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish and provide a checkoff for a Breast and Prostate Cancer Research Fund, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1693 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a deduction for the work-related expenses of handicapped individuals.
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| H R 1694 | To establish an America Rx program to establish fairer pricing for prescription drugs for individuals without access to prescription drugs at discounted prices.
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| H R 1695 | To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to prohibit discrimination in the payment of wages on account of sex, race, or national origin, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1696 | To repeal the provision of law that provides automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress.
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| H R 1697 | To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to permanently prohibit the conduct of offshore drilling on the outer Continental Shelf in the Mid-Atlantic and North Atlantic planning areas.
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| H R 1698 | To lift the trade embargo on Cuba, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1699 | To repeal sections 1173(b) and 1177(a)(1) of the Social Security Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1700 | To provide assistance to train teachers of children with autism spectrum disorders, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1701 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 167 East 124th Street in New York, New York, as the "Tito Puente Post Office Building".
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| H R 1702 | To designate the Federal building which is to be constructed at 799 First Avenue in New York, New York, as the "Ronald H. Brown United States Mission to the United Nations Building".
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| H R 1703 | To preserve certain actions in Federal court brought by members of the United States Armed Forces held as prisoners of war by Japan during World War II against Japanese nationals seeking compensation for mistreatment or failure to pay wages in connection with labor performed in Japan to the benefit of the Japanese nationals, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1704 | To amend the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 to provide for transitional housing assistance grants for child victims of domestic violence.
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| H R 1705 | To expand and improve the use of DNA analysis in criminal investigations, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1706 | To provide for the effective punishment of online child molesters, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1707 | To provide for the analysis of the incidence and effects of prison rape in Federal, State, and local institutions and to provide information, resources, recommendations, and funding to protect individuals from prison rape.
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| H R 1708 | To extend the authorization of the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program.
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| H R 1709 | To restore standards to protect the privacy of individually identifiable health information that were weakened by the August 2002 modifications, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1710 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to restore the full market basket percentage increase applied to payments to hospitals for inpatient hospital services furnished to Medicare beneficiaries, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1711 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to ensure that functions relating to the air traffic control system are carried out directly by the United States Government.
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| H R 1712 | To amend the Small Business Act to establish a development program for small business concerns owned and controlled by qualified service-disabled veterans, to reauthorize the programs of the National Veterans Business Development Corporation, to establish a Government-wide procurement goal for small business concerns owned and controlled by veterans, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1713 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve benefits under the Montgomery GI Bill by establishing an enhanced educational assistance program, by increasing the amount of basic educational assistance, by repealing the requirement for reduction in pay for participation in the program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1714 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act relating to naturalization through service in the Armed Forces of the United States.
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| H R 1715 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to enhance the authority of the Department of Veterans Affairs to recover from third parties costs of medical care furnished to veterans and other persons by the Department.
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| H R 1716 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve educational assistance programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs for apprenticeship or other on-job training, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1717 | To amend the Controlled Substances Act to provide an affirmative defense for the medical use of marijuana in accordance with the laws of the various States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1718 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to repeal the four-year terms specified by law for certain officials of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1719 | To promote enhanced nonproliferation cooperation between the United States and the Russian Federation and foster various other actions that will increase the national security of the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1720 | To authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out construction projects for the purpose of improving, renovating, establishing, and updating patient care facilities at Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1721 | To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to provide for debt relief to developing countries who take action to protect critical coral reef habitats.
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| H R 1722 | To promote the development of affordable, quality rental housing in rural areas for low-income households.
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| H R 1723 | To designate certain National Forest System lands in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1724 | To require institutions of higher education to make full refunds of tuitions and fees paid by members of the Armed Forces and National Guard called to active duty or active service during a war or national emergency.
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| H R 1725 | To change the deadline for income tax returns for calendar year taxpayers from the 15th of April to the first Monday in November.
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| H R 1726 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to repeal the offset from surviving spouse annuities under the military Survivor Benefit Plan for amounts paid by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs as dependency and indemnity compensation.
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| H R 1727 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the dollar limitation on contributions to funeral trusts.
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| H R 1728 | To amend title 37, United States Code, to ensure equal treatment for members of reserve components who perform inactive-duty training in determining their entitlement for aviation incentive pay and hazardous duty pay.
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| H R 1729 | To amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to require consumer reporting agencies to notify consumers when negative information is added to the consumer's file at such agency, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1730 | To impose certain limitations on the receipt of out-of-State municipal solid waste, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1731 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to establish penalties for aggravated identity theft, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1732 | To amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the Williamson County, Texas, Water Recycling and Reuse Project, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1733 | To amend XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to provide for a voluntary Medicare prescription medicine benefit, to provide greater access to affordable pharmaceuticals, to provide for substantial reductions in the cost of prescription drugs made available to Medicare beneficiaries, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to disallow deductions for direct-to-consumer advertisement of prescription drugs, to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide greater access to affordable pharmeceuticals and preserving access to safe affordable Canadian medicines, to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit campaign contributions by chief executive officers of pharmeceutical companies, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1734 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish an Office of Men's Health.
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| H R 1735 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the maximum amount of a home loan guarantee available to a veteran.
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| H R 1736 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to include primary and secondary preventative medical strategies for children and adults with Sickle Cell Disease as medical assistance under the Medicaid Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1737 | To provide for the fair and efficient judicial consideration of personal injury and wrongful death claims arising out of asbestos exposure, to ensure that individuals who suffer harm, now or in the future, from illnesses caused by exposure to asbestos receive compensation for their injuries, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1738 | To require payments to State and local governments for infrastructure and social services needs in the same amount as the amount of relief and reconstruction funds provided to Iraq.
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| H R 1739 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to increase payments under the Medicare Program to Puerto Rico hospitals.
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| H R 1740 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1502 East Kiest Boulevard in Dallas, Texas, as the "Dr. Caesar A.W. Clark, Sr. Post Office Building".
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| H R 1741 | To redesignate the position of the Secretary of the Navy as the Secretary of the Navy and Marine Corps.
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| H R 1742 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 with respect to the eligibility of veterans for mortgage bond financing, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1743 | To allow applications for the preferred provider organization (PPO) demonstration project under the Medicare+Choice program.
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| H R 1744 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to revise and simplify the transitional medical assistance (TMA) program.
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| H R 1745 | To express the sense of the Congress that funding should be made available from the Highway Trust Fund to encourage States to require law enforcement officers to impound motor vehicles of those charged with driving while intoxicated, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1746 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to make grants for the development and operation of research centers regarding environmental factors that may be related to the etiology of breast cancer.
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| H R 1747 | To amend the Truth in Lending Act to provide for enhanced information regarding credit card balance payment terms and conditions, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1748 | To amend the Equal Credit Opportunity Act to permit the collection of demographic information in connection with small business loan applications with the applicant's consent, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1749 | To promote health care coverage parity for individuals participating in legal recreational activities or legal transportation activities.
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| H R 1750 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for an increase of $250 per month in the rate of monthly dependency and indemnity compensation (DIC) payable to a surviving spouse of a member of the Armed Forces who dies on active duty or as a result of a service-connected disability in any case in which there are dependent children.
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| H R 1751 | To expand the teacher loan forgiveness programs under the Federal Family Education Loan and Federal Direct Loan programs.
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| H R 1752 | To provide for the purchase of textbooks and the establishment of the Textbook Recycling Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1753 | To provide for equitable compensation of the Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation in settlement of claims of the Tribe concerning the contribution of the Tribe to the production of hydropower by the Grand Coulee Dam, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1754 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income amounts received on the sale of animals which are raised and sold as part of an educational program.
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| H R 1755 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit taking minors across State lines in circumvention of laws requiring the involvement of parents in abortion decisions.
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| H R 1756 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require the abatement of interest on erroneous refund checks without regard to the size of the refund.
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| H R 1757 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to increase the personal needs allowance applied to institutionalized individuals under the Medicaid Program.
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| H R 1758 | To amend the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 to improve the program of benefits for contractor employees of the Department of Energy who were exposed to toxic substances at Department of Energy facilities, to provide coverage under subtitle B of that Act for certain additional individuals and illnesses, to establish an ombudsman, to make technical corrections, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1759 | To establish the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area in the State of North Carolina, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1760 | To establish water conservation and habitat restoration programs in the Klamath River basin and to provide emergency disaster assistance to fishermen, Indian tribes, small businesses, and others that suffer economic harm from the devastating effects of the Klamath River basin fish kill of 2002.
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| H R 1761 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 9350 East Corporate Hill Drive in Wichita, Kansas, as the "Garner E. Shriver Post Office Building".
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| H R 1762 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for preservation and protection of historic buildings under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1763 | To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to facilitate an increase in programming and content on radio that is locally and independently produced, to facilitate competition in radio programming, radio advertising, and concerts, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1764 | To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for appropriate overtime pay for National Weather Service employees who perform essential services during severe weather events.
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| H R 1765 | To provide for the analysis of the incidence and effects of prison rape in Federal, State, and local institutions and to provide information, resources, recommendations, and funding to protect individuals from prison rape.
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| H R 1766 | To make permanent the provisions of the Fair Credit Reporting Act and amend the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to establish a national uniform privacy standard for financial institutions.
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| H R 1767 | To amend title 23, United States Code, to empower State and local authorities with tools to eliminate congestion on the Interstate System.
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| H R 1768 | To amend title 28, United States Code, to allow a judge to whom a case is transferred to retain jurisdiction over certain multidistrict litigation cases for trial, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1769 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to comply with the World Trade Organization rulings on the FSC/ETI benefit in a manner that preserves jobs and production activities in the United States.
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| H R 1770 | To provide benefits and other compensation for certain individuals with injuries resulting from administration of smallpox countermeasures, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1771 | To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit knowingly misinforming the relative of a member of the Armed Forces of the United States that such member is deceased, injured, or missing due to an event associated with their military service.
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| H R 1772 | To improve small business advocacy, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1773 | To amend the Spark M. Matsunaga Hydrogen Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 1990, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1774 | To provide for the establishment at the Department of Energy of a program for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and infrastructure, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1775 | To amend title 36, United States Code, to designate the oak tree as the national tree of the United States.
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| H R 1776 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make today's retirement savings opportunities permanent, to expand and improve retirement savings vehicles, to extend pension coverage through regulatory simplification and small business incentives, to enhance fairness and pension portability, to revitalize defined benefit plans, to provide additional defined contribution plan protections, to assist individuals in preserving their income throughout retirement, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1777 | To provide for the establishment at the Department of Energy of a program for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and infrastructure, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1778 | To establish a commission on employee ownership.
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| H R 1779 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow penalty-free withdrawals from retirement plans during the period that a military reservist or national guardsman is called to active duty for an extended period, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1780 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to eliminate the tax on the net capital gain of taxpayers other than corporations, to exclude interest and dividends from gross income, and to repeal the 1993 income tax increase on Social Security benefits.
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| H R 1781 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow an above-the-line deduction for certain expenses in connection with the determination, collection, or refund of any tax.
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| H R 1782 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to change the calculation and simplify the administration of the earned income tax credit.
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| H R 1783 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide taxpayers a flat tax alternative to the current income tax system.
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| H R 1784 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to update the renal dialysis composite rate.
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| H R 1785 | To require the Secretary of the Treasury to redesign $1 Federal reserve notes so as to incorporate the preamble to the Constitution of the United States, a list describing the Articles of the Constitution, and a list describing the Amendments to the Constitution, on the reverse side of such notes.
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| H R 1786 | To provide grants to assist State and local prosecutors and law enforcement agencies with implementing juvenile and young adult witness assistance programs that minimize additional trauma to the witness and improve the chances of successful criminal prosecution or legal action.
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| H R 1787 | To remove civil liability barriers that discourage the donation of fire equipment to volunteer fire companies.
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| H R 1788 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to extend the minimum Medicare deadlines for filing claims to take into account delay in processing adjustments from secondary payor status to primary payor status.
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| H R 1789 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the income taxation of corporations, to impose a 10 percent tax on the earned income (and only the earned income) of individuals, to repeal the estate and gift taxes, to provide amnesty for all tax liability for prior taxable years, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1790 | To provide for the equitable treatment of rural communities in the distribution of Federal disaster assistance, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1791 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an election for a special tax treatment of certain S corporation conversions.
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| H R 1792 | To amend title 37, United States Code, to alleviate delay in the payment of the Selected Reserve reenlistment bonus to members of Selected Reserve who are mobilized.
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| H R 1793 | To amend the National Labor Relations Act to protect employer rights.
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| H R 1794 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct and rehabilitate Federal water supply lines associated with Folsom Dam in California, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1795 | To provide that the income tax shall not apply for taxable years during which the taxpayer, or either spouse of a married couple, is serving in the war in Iraq.
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| H R 1796 | To designate certain Federal land in the State of Utah as wilderness, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1797 | To ensure that exports of Alaskan North Slope crude oil are prohibited.
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| H R 1798 | To establish the Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area in the State of Connecticut and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1799 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to waive the requirement of 2 years of marriage for a spouse to self-petition to be an immediate relative in the case of spouses of citizens killed in service in the Armed Forces and to prohibit any fees relating to posthumous citizenship for aliens killed while on active duty service during periods of military hostilities.
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| H R 1800 | To end the use of conventional steel-jawed leghold traps on animals in the United States.
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| H R 1801 | To accord honorary citizenship to the alien victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against the United States and to provide for the granting of citizenship to the alien spouses and children of certain victims of such attacks.
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| H R 1802 | To amend the Federal Unemployment Tax Act and the Social Security Act to modernize the unemployment insurance system, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1803 | To authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security to make grants to reimburse State and local governments and Indian tribes for certain costs relating to the mobilization of Reserves who are first responder personnel of such governments or tribes.
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| H R 1804 | To raise revenue and reduce large and increasing Federal budget deficits due to the cost of the war in Iraq.
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| H R 1805 | To establish a national teaching fellowship program to encourage individuals to enter and remain in the field of teaching at public schools.
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| H R 1806 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to change the requirements for naturalization to citizenship through service in the Armed Forces of the United States.
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| H R 1807 | To amend the trade adjustment assistance program under the Trade Act of 1974 to establish a demonstration project to provide self-employment training and assistance to eligible adversely affected workers.
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| H R 1808 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow an immediate deduction for start-up and organizational expenditures in order to spur entrepreneurship.
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| H R 1809 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire Fern Lake and the surrounding watershed in the States of Kentucky and Tennessee for addition to Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1810 | To require door delivery of mail sent to persons residing in senior communities.
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| H R 1811 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide families of disabled children with the opportunity to purchase coverage under the Medicaid Program for such children, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1812 | To establish a public education and awareness program relating to emergency contraception.
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| H R 1813 | To amend the Torture Victims Relief Act of 1998 to authorize appropriations to provide assistance for domestic and foreign centers and programs for the treatment of victims of torture, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1814 | To change the requirements for naturalization through service in the Armed Forces of the United States, to extend naturalization benefits to members of the Ready Reserve of a reserve component of the Armed Forces, to extend posthumous benefits to surviving spouses, children, and parents, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1815 | To amend title 23, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Transportation to carry out a grant program for providing financial assistance for rail line relocation projects, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1816 | To amend the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to ensure homeowners are provided adequate notice of flood map changes and a fair opportunity to appeal such changes.
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| H R 1817 | To authorize the Secretary of the Army to carry out a dredging project to increase the depth of Menominee Harbor, Menomiee River, Michigan and Wisconsin, from 24 feet to 26 feet.
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| H R 1818 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand workplace health incentives by equalizing the tax consequences of employee athletic facility use.
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| H R 1819 | To provide assistance for poison prevention and to stabilize the funding of regional poison control centers.
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| H R 1820 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow certain coins to be acquired by individual retirement accounts and other individually directed pension plan accounts, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1821 | To award a congressional gold medal to Dr. Dorothy Height in recognition of her many contributions to the Nation.
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| H R 1822 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3751 West 6th Street in Los Angeles, California, as the "Dosan Ahn Chang Ho Post Office".
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| H R 1823 | To prohibit United States assistance for the Palestinian Authority and for programs, projects, and activities in the West Bank and Gaza.
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| H R 1824 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to classify automatic fire sprinkler systems as 5-year property for purposes of depreciation.
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| H R 1825 | For the relief of Frank Redendo.
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| H R 1826 | For the relief of Thomas J. Sansone, Jr.
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| H R 1827 | To authorize the Secretary of Transportation to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel M/T MISS LINDA.
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| H R 1828 | Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2003 | |
| H R 1829 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to require Federal Prison Industries to compete for its contracts minimizing its unfair competition with private sector firms and their non-inmate workers and empowering Federal agencies to get the best value for taxpayers' dollars, to provide a five-year period during which Federal Prison Industries adjusts to obtaining inmate work opportunities through other than its mandatory source status, to enhance inmate access to remedial and vocational opportunities and other rehabilitative opportunities to better prepare inmates for a successful return to society, to authorize alternative inmate work opportunities in support of non-profit organizations, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1830 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for permanent resident status for certain long-term resident workers and college-bound students, to modify the worldwide level of family-sponsored immigrants in order to promote family unification, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1831 | To extend the grace period for personal watercraft use in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.
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| H R 1832 | To name the Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic located in New London, Connecticut, as the "John P. McGuirk Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic".
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| H R 1833 | To reduce temporarily the duty on certain articles of natural cork.
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| H R 1834 | To authorize the Secretary of Transportation to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade and fisheries for the vessel TRUE BLUE.
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| H R 1835 | To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to limit designation as critical habitat of areas owned or controlled by the Department of Defense, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1836 | To make changes to certain areas of the Federal civil service in order to improve the flexibility and competitiveness of Federal human resources management.
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| H R 1837 | To improve the Federal acquisition workforce and the process for the acquisition of services by the Federal Government, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1838 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to revise the presumptions of service-connection relating to diseases and disabilities of former prisoners of war.
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| H R 1839 | To amend the Act of October 19, 1949, entitled "An Act to assist States in collecting sales and use taxes on cigarettes".
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| H R 1840 | To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize grants for the repair, renovation, alteration, and construction of public elementary and secondary school facilities.
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| H R 1841 | To better assist lower income families to obtain decent, safe, and affordable housing through the conversion of the section 8 housing choice voucher program into a State-administered block grant.
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| H R 1842 | To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to require persons who are plan administrators of employee pension benefit plans or provide administrative services to such plans, and who also provide automobile insurance coverage or provide persons offering such coverage identifying information relating to plan participants or beneficiaries, to submit to the Federal Trade Commission certain information relating to such automobile insurance coverage.
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| H R 1843 | To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require institutions of higher education to notify parents concerning missing person reports about their children, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1844 | To establish State revolving funds for school construction.
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| H R 1845 | To provide grants to States to establish, expand, or enhance prekindergarten programs for children who are not yet enrolled in kindergarten.
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| H R 1846 | To amend the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991 to provide for the collection of data on the availability of credit for women-owned business.
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| H R 1847 | Concerning denial of passports to noncustodial parents subject to State arrest warrants in cases of nonpayment of child support.
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| H R 1848 | To afford students and parents with private civil remedies for the violation of their privacy rights under the General Education Provisions Act.
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| H R 1849 | To require the establishment of programs by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to improve indoor air quality in schools and other buildings.
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| H R 1850 | To provide for automatic naturalization for noncitizen members of the Armed Forces ordered to serve in a combat zone, and to extend immigration benefits to surviving spouses, children, and parents of persons granted posthumous citizenship through death while on active-duty service in the Armed Forces.
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| H R 1851 | To amend the Public Health Service Act and Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to require that group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans provide coverage for annual screening mammography for any class of covered individuals if the coverage or plans include coverage for diagnostic mammography for such class and to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of annual screening mammography under the Medicaid Program.
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| H R 1852 | To assure equitable treatment of fertility and impotence in health care coverage under group health plans, health insurance coverage, and health plans under the Federal employees' health benefits program.
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| H R 1853 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require the preparation of audit reports based upon the financial auditing of Medicare+Choice organizations and to make such reports available to the public.
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| H R 1854 | To amend part C of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to reimburse Medicare+Choice plans located in the same metropolitan statistical area the same payment rate.
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| H R 1855 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require home health agencies participating in the Medicare Program to conduct criminal background checks for all applicants for employment as patient care providers.
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| H R 1856 | To reauthorize the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Act of 1998, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1857 | To authorize assistance to combat the growing HIV/AIDS problem in countries in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean.
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| H R 1858 | To provide a permanent funding level for the Social Services Block Grant, and to authorize States to use 10 percent of their TANF funds to carry out Social Services Block Grant programs.
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| H R 1859 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from income and employment taxes and wage withholding property tax rebates and other benefits provided to volunteer firefighters and emergency medical responders.
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| H R 1860 | To promote primary and secondary health promotion and disease prevention services and activities among the elderly, to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to add preventive health benefits, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1861 | To help protect the public against the threat of chemical attacks.
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| H R 1862 | To establish the Oil Region National Heritage Area.
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| H R 1863 | To declare adequate pain care research, education, and treatment as national public health priorities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1864 | To preserve certain actions in Federal court brought by members of the United States Armed Forces held as prisoners of war by Japan during World War II against Japanese nationals seeking compensation for mistreatment or failure to pay wages in connection with labor performed in Japan to the benefit of the Japanese nationals, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1865 | To authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make grants to States, units of general local government, and nonprofit organizations for counseling and education programs for the prevention of predatory lending and to establish a toll-free telephone number for complaints regarding predatory lending, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1866 | To reinstate and transfer a hydroelectric license under the Federal Power Act to permit the redevelopment of a hydroelectric project located in the State of New York, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1867 | To amend title 44, United States Code, to provide for the suspension of fines under certain circumstances for first-time paperwork violations by small business concerns.
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| H R 1868 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a program to provide screenings and treatment for cancer to minority and other populations served by health centers under section 330 of such Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1869 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and feasibility of designating the International Civil Rights Center and Museum, located in Greensboro, North Carolina, as a unit of the National Park System, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1870 | To amend section 1951 of title 18, United States Code (commonly known as the Hobbs Act), and for other purposes.
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| H R 1871 | To encourage partnerships between community colleges and four-year colleges and universities.
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| H R 1872 | For the relief of the heirs and assigns of Hattie Davis Rogers of the Nez Perce Indian Reservation, Idaho.
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| H R 1873 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that the deduction for the health insurance costs of self-employed individuals be allowed in determining self-employment tax.
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| H R 1874 | To establish a demonstration project to clarify the definition of homebound for purposes of determining eligibility for home health services under the Medicare Program, and to conditionally authorize that clarification.
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| H R 1875 | To strengthen the missile proliferation laws of the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1876 | To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to provide, in the case of an employee welfare benefit plan providing benefits in the event of disability, an exemption from preemption under such title for State tort actions to recover damages arising from the failure of the plan to timely provide such benefits.
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| H R 1877 | To amend chapter 89 of title 5, United States Code, to make available to Federal employees the option of obtaining health benefits coverage for dependent parents.
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| H R 1878 | To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for public funding for House of Representatives elections, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1879 | To direct the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration to issue standards for the use of motorized skate boards.
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| H R 1880 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide certain Medicare beneficiaries living abroad a special Medicare part B enrollment period during which the late enrollment penalty is waived and a special Medigap open enrollment period during which no underwriting is permitted.
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| H R 1881 | To modify the provision of law which provides a permanent appropriation for the compensation of Members of Congress, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1882 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 440 South Orange Blossom Trail in Orlando, Florida, as the "Arthur `Pappy' Kennedy Post Office".
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| H R 1883 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1601-1 Main Street in Jacksonville, Florida, as the "Eddie Mae Steward Post Office".
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| H R 1884 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that certain individuals under contract to perform fire fighting services for a local government shall be treated as employees of such government for pension plan purposes.
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| H R 1885 | To amend title 37, United States Code, to ensure that military pay increases are comparable to private sector pay growth, as measured by the Employment Cost Index.
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| H R 1886 | To amend the Public Health Service Act and Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to require that group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans provide coverage for a minimum hospital stay for mastectomies and lymph node dissections performed for the treatment of breast cancer.
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| H R 1887 | To treat arbitration clauses which are unilaterally imposed on consumers as an unfair and deceptive trade practice and prohibit their use in consumer transactions, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1888 | To require public disclosure of noncompetitive contracting for the reconstruction of the infrastructure of Iraq, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1889 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to improve the training requirements for and require the certification of cabin crew members, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1890 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to simplify certain provisions applicable to real estate investment trusts.
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| H R 1891 | To amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit liability for the effects of emissions, and emission byproducts, resulting from or caused by an act of nature, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1892 | To provide authorizations of appropriations for the global initiative to end the continuing menace of polio.
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| H R 1893 | To amend the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 with respect to voluntary early retirement benefits and medical benefits.
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| H R 1894 | To prohibit the implementation of discriminatory precertification requirements for the earned income tax credit.
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| H R 1895 | To amend Federal crime grant programs relating to domestic violence to encourage States and localities to implement gun confiscation policies, reform stalking laws, create integrated domestic violence courts, and hire additional personnel for entering protection orders, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1896 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for S corporation reform, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1897 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the inclusion in gross income of social security benefits.
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| H R 1898 | To amend the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 to extend energy assistance to households headed by certain senior citizens.
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| H R 1899 | To resolve certain conveyances and provide for alternative land selections under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act related to Cape Fox Corporation and Sealaska Corporation, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1900 | To award a congressional gold medal to Jackie Robinson (posthumously), in recognition of his many contributions to the Nation, and to express the sense of the Congress that there should be a national day in recognition of Jackie Robinson.
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| H R 1901 | To require public disclosure of noncompetitive contracting for the reconstruction of the infrastructure of Iraq, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1902 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve outpatient vision services under part B of the Medicare Program.
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| H R 1903 | To amend the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 to improve the surplus property disposal process for closed or realigned military installations.
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| H R 1904 | Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 | |
| H R 1905 | To clarify the authority of States to establish conditions for insurers to conduct the business of insurance within a State based on provision of information regarding Holocaust era insurance policies of the insurer and to establish a Federal cause of action for claims for payment of such insurance policies, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1906 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to revise the Transition Assistance Program for persons separating from active duty in the Armed Forces to make that program mandatory for all separating members and to provide for the furnishing to such members of information about homelessness.
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| H R 1907 | To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to ensure the availability of funds to provide technical assistance for certain conservation programs of the Department of Agriculture.
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| H R 1908 | To name the health care facility of the Department of Veterans Affairs located at 820 South Damen Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, as the "Jesse Brown Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center".
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| H R 1909 | To amend the National Labor Relations Act to provide for inflation adjustments to the mandatory jurisdiction thresholds of the National Labor Relations Board.
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| H R 1910 | To prohibit discrimination on the basis of genetic information with respect to health insurance.
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| H R 1911 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to enhance cooperation and the sharing of resources between the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense.
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| H R 1912 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the unrelated business taxable income rules.
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| H R 1913 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a first time homebuyer credit for the purchase of principal residences located in rural areas.
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| H R 1914 | To provide for the issuance of a coin to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the Jamestown settlement.
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| H R 1915 | To waive the limitation on the use of funds appropriated for the Homeland Security Grant Program.
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| H R 1916 | To prevent and cure diabetes and to promote and improve the care of individuals with diabetes for the reduction of health disparities within racial and ethnic minority groups, including the African-American, Hispanic American, Asian American and Pacific Islander, and American Indian and Alaskan Native communities.
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| H R 1917 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize military recreational facilities to be used by any veteran with a compensable service-connected disability.
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| H R 1918 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to extend commissary and exchange store privileges to veterans with a service-connected disability rated at 30 percent or more and to the dependents of such veterans.
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| H R 1919 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize transportation on military aircraft on a space-available basis for veterans with a service-connected disability rated 50 percent or more.
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| H R 1920 | To require that contracts entered into by the Federal Government for reconstruction in Iraq include a condition that the contractor, when hiring employees to carry out the contract, provide a preference for the hiring of veterans.
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| H R 1921 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to increase from one month to three months the quantity of supply of certain prescriptions furnished by the Department of Veterans Affairs to veterans with chronic conditions.
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| H R 1922 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a one-time increase in the amount excludable from the sale of a principal residence by taxpayers who have attained age 50.
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| H R 1923 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to reduce from 60 to 55 the age at which an individual who is otherwise eligible may be paid widow's or widower's insurance benefits.
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| H R 1924 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to extend the time limitation for use of eligibility and entitlement for educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill.
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| H R 1925 | To reauthorize programs under the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act and the Missing Children's Assistance Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1926 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to apply an excise tax to excessive attorneys fees for legal judgments, settlements, or agreements that operate as a tax.
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| H R 1927 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to include wireless telecommunications equipment in the definition of qualified technological equipment for purposes of determining the depreciation treatment of such equipment.
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| H R 1928 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify the eligibility of certain expenses for the low-income housing credit.
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| H R 1929 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize formula grants to States to provide access to affordable health insurance for certain child care providers and staff, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1930 | To adjust the immigration status of certain Liberian nationals who were provided refuge in the United States.
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| H R 1931 | To protect the privacy of the individual with respect to the Social Security number and other personal information, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1932 | To designate the diplomacy center of the Department of State as the Colin Powell Center for American Diplomacy and to provide for appropriate museum visitor and educational outreach services at the center.
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| H R 1933 | To reduce unsolicited commercial electronic mail and to protect children from sexually oriented advertisements.
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| H R 1934 | To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that, of the total amount of family leave available to a Federal employee based on the birth of a child or the placement of a child with the employee for adoption or foster care, at least one-half of that time shall be leave with pay.
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| H R 1935 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide housing loan benefits for the purchase of residential cooperative apartment units.
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| H R 1936 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives to encourage small business health plans, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1937 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives to encourage small business health plans, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1938 | To extend Federal recognition to the Chickahominy Indian Tribe, the Chickahominy Indian Tribe-Eastern Division, the Upper Mattaponi Tribe, the Rappahannock Tribe, Inc., the Monacan Indian Nation, and the Nansemond Indian Tribe.
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| H R 1939 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a revenue-neutral simplification of the individual income tax.
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| H R 1940 | To improve the provision of telehealth services under the Medicare Program, to provide grants for the development of telehealth networks, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1941 | To enforce the guarantees of the first, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments to the Constitution of the United States by prohibiting certain devices used to deny the right to participate in certain elections.
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| H R 1942 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives for the use of biodiesel as a fuel.
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| H R 1943 | To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to permit certain youth to perform certain work with wood products, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1944 | To revise eligibility requirements applicable to essential air service subsidies.
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| H R 1945 | To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to provide financial assistance to the States of Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, and Idaho for salmon habitat restoration projects in coastal waters and upland drainages, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1946 | To amend title 35, United States Code, to clarify the applicability of certain provisions relating to railroad cars.
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| H R 1947 | To ensure that members of the Armed Forces who are married and have minor dependents are eligible for military family housing containing more than two bedrooms.
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| H R 1948 | For the relief of Shigeru Yamada.
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| H R 1949 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to reinstate minimum requirements with respect to the sale of vendee loans.
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| H R 1950 | To establish the Millennium Challenge Account to provide increased support for certain developing countries; to authorize the expansion of the Peace Corps; to authorize appropriations for the Department of State for fiscal years 2004 and 2005; and to authorize appropriations under the Arms Export Control Act and the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for security assistance for fiscal years 2004 and 2005.
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| H R 1951 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve patient care and working conditions at the Veterans Health Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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| H R 1952 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that the first-time homebuyer credit for the District of Columbia be made permanent, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1953 | To revise the provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act relating to naturalization through service in the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1954 | To revise the provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act relating to naturalization through service in the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1955 | To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to allow soldiers to serve their country without being disadvantaged financially by Federal student aid programs.
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| H R 1956 | To amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide coverage of certain self-administered intramuscular and subcutaneous drugs under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 1957 | To provide for renewal of project-based assisted housing contracts at reimbursement levels that are sufficient to sustain operations, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1958 | To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the beginning of Korean immigration into the United States.
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| H R 1959 | To amend title 28, United States Code, to provide for individuals serving as Federal jurors to continue to receive their normal average wage or salary during such service.
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| H R 1960 | To provide benefits to public safety officers who die or become disabled as a result of certain injuries.
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| H R 1961 | To provide for the external regulation of nuclear safety and occupational safety and health at the Department of Energy.
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| H R 1962 | To amend the Consumer Product Safety Act to confirm the Consumer Product Safety Commission's jurisdiction over child safety devices for handguns, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1963 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the fair treatment of certain physician pathology services under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 1964 | To assist the States of Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania in conserving priority lands and natural resources in the Highlands region, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1965 | To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to limit the application of that Act with respect to actions on military land or private land and to provide incentives for voluntary habitat maintenance, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1966 | To establish the Millennium Challenge Account and the Millennium Challenge Corporation in order to reduce global poverty through increased economic growth by supporting a new compact for global development.
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| H R 1967 | To suspend temporarily the duty on Allyl Pentaerythritol (APE).
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| H R 1968 | To suspend temporarily the duty on Butyl Ethyl Propanediol (BEPD).
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| H R 1969 | To suspend temporarily the duty on BEPD70L.
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| H R 1970 | To suspend temporarily the duty on Boltorn-1 (Bolt-1).
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| H R 1971 | To suspend temporarily the duty on Boltorn-2 (Bolt-2).
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| H R 1972 | To suspend temporarily the duty on Cyclic TMP Formal (CTF).
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| H R 1973 | To suspend temporarily the duty on DiTMP.
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| H R 1974 | To suspend temporarily the duty on Polyol DPP (DPP).
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| H R 1975 | To suspend temporarily the duty on Hydroxypivalic Acid (HPA).
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| H R 1976 | To suspend temporarily the duty on TMPDE.
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| H R 1977 | To suspend temporarily the duty on TMPME.
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| H R 1978 | To suspend temporarily the duty on TMP Oxetane (TMPO).
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| H R 1979 | To suspend temporarily the duty on TMPO Ethoxylate (TMPOE).
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| H R 1980 | To require government agencies carrying out surface transportation projects to conduct a cost-benefit analysis before procuring architectural, engineering, and related services from a private contractor, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1981 | To reauthorize the public and assisted housing drug elimination program of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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| H R 1982 | To amend title III of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to provide to contracting officers of the civilian agencies the same authorities available to Department of Defense contracting officers to competitively evaluate products offered by Federal Prison Industries, Inc., to assure that such products represent the best value for the taxpayer dollars being expended, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1983 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to facilitate the immigration to the United States of certain aliens born in the Philippines or Japan who were fathered by United States citizens.
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| H R 1984 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve benefits for Filipino veterans of World War II, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1985 | To amend the National Housing Act to increase the maximum mortgage amount limit for FHA-insured mortgages for multifamily housing located in high-cost areas.
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| H R 1986 | To extend the period for temporary mortgage and rental payments under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act from 18 months to 24 months for victims of the terrorist attacks on the United States that occurred on September 11, 2001.
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| H R 1987 | To designate the air traffic control tower at Newark International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, as the "William J. `Whitey' Conrad Air Traffic Control Tower".
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| H R 1988 | To amend the Black Lung Benefits Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1989 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals to defer recognition of reinvested capital gains distributions from regulated investment companies.
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| H R 1990 | To establish a counter-cyclical income support program for dairy producers.
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| H R 1991 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to require a State to charge in-State tuition rates to active-duty members of the Armed Forces domiciled or stationed on active duty in that State and to the dependents of such members.
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| H R 1992 | To amend and improve the workforce investment and adult education systems of the Nation.
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| H R 1993 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish an Office of Correctional Health.
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| H R 1994 | To ensure that the incarceration of inmates is not provided by private contractors or vendors and that persons charged or convicted of an offense against the United States shall be housed in facilities managed and maintained by Federal, State, or local governments.
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| H R 1995 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to make a technical correction in the definition of outpatient speech-language pathology services.
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| H R 1996 | To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to clarify the exemption from the minimum wage and overtime compensation requirements of that Act for certain computer professionals, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1997 | To amend title 18, United States Code, and the Uniform Code of Military Justice to protect unborn children from assault and murder, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1998 | To enhance and further research into paralysis and to improve rehabilitation and the quality of life for persons living with paralysis and other physical disabilities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 1999 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the availability of the refundable tax credit for health insurance costs of eligible individuals and to extend the steel import licensing and monitoring program.
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| H R 2000 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide fiscal relief and program simplification to States, to improve coverage and services to Medicaid beneficiaries, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2001 | To amend title 32, United States Code, to revise the matching funds requirements for States participating in the National Guard Challenge Program and to authorize appropriations for the program for fiscal year 2004 and thereafter.
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| H R 2002 | To establish a pilot program for the promotion of travel and tourism in the United States through United States international broadcasting.
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| H R 2003 | To clarify the criminal intent required to be established to prove a criminal violation for wrongful disclosure of individually identifiable health information.
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| H R 2004 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to increase the number of persons appointed to the military service academies from Guam and the Virgin Islands from nominations made by the Delegate in Congress from Guam and the Delegate in Congress from the Virgin Islands.
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| H R 2005 | To support the public educational programs of the Army Aviation Heritage Foundation, a nonprofit organization incorporated in the State of Georgia, by amending title 32 of the United States Code to authorize the Army Aviation Heritage Foundation to receive National Guard services and assistance.
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| H R 2006 | To provide for the transfer of a Vietnam-era Cessna L-19D Bird Dog aircraft that is excess to the needs of the Department of State to Army Aviation Heritage Foundation.
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| H R 2007 | To increase the amount allowed as a child tax credit and to repeal the sunset imposed on the modifications to the child tax credit made by the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2008 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for expanded coverage of paramedic intercept services under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 2009 | To provide for the recovery, restitution, and protection of the cultural heritage of Iraq.
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| H R 2010 | To protect the voting rights of members of the Armed Services in elections for the Delegate representing American Samoa in the United States House of Representatives, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2011 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to restrict the application of the windfall elimination provision to individuals whose combined monthly income from benefits under such title and other monthly periodic payments exceeds $2,000 and to provide for a graduated implementation of such provision on amounts above such $2,000 amount.
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| H R 2012 | To require the Secretary of Defense to implement fully by September 30, 2004, requirements for additional Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Teams.
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| H R 2013 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to increase to $1,000 the maximum amount of the lump-sum death benefit and to allow for payment of such a benefit, in the absence of an eligible surviving spouse or child, to the legal representative of the estate of the deceased individual.
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| H R 2014 | To prohibit the Department of Homeland Security from procuring certain items unless the items are grown, reprocessed, reused, or produced in the United States.
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| H R 2015 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to require Department of Veterans Affairs pharmacies to dispense medications to veterans enrolled in the health care system of that Department for prescriptions written by private practitioners, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2016 | To provide that the Secretary of Defense may provide public identification of military casualties no sooner than 24 hours after notification of next-of-kin.
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| H R 2017 | To require public disclosure of noncompetitive contracting for the reconstruction of the infrastructure of Iraq, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2018 | To provide the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of Education with increased authority with respect to asthma programs, and to provide for increased funding for such programs.
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| H R 2019 | To extend the existing temporary duty suspension on certain chemical compounds.
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| H R 2020 | To reduce the impacts of hurricanes, tornadoes, and related hazards through a program of research and development and technology transfer, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2021 | To amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans to provide coverage for individuals participating in approved cancer clinical trials.
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| H R 2022 | To extend the registration and reporting requirements of the Federal securities laws to certain housing-related Government-sponsored enterprises, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2023 | To give a preference regarding States that require schools to allow students to self-administer medication to treat that student's asthma or anaphylaxis, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2024 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to require States that provide Medicaid prescription drug coverage to cover drugs medically necessary to treat obesity.
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| H R 2025 | To require providers of wireless telephone services to provide access to the universal emergency telephone number in subterranean subway stations located within their area of coverage.
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| H R 2026 | To grant the consent of the Congress to the SMART Research and Development Compact.
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| H R 2027 | For the relief of Zdanko Lisak.
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| H R 2028 | To amend title 28, United States Code, with respect to the jurisdiction of Federal courts over certain cases and controversies involving the Pledge of Allegiance.
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| H R 2029 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that long-term vehicle storage by tax-exempt organizations which conduct county and similar fairs shall not be treated as an unrelated trade or business.
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| H R 2030 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 120 Baldwin Avenue in Paia, Maui, Hawaii, as the "Patsy Takemoto Mink Post Office Building".
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| H R 2031 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore and make permanent the exclusion from gross income for amounts received under qualified group legal services plans and to increase the maximum amount of the exclusion.
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| H R 2032 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide individuals with disabilities and older Americans with equal access to community-based attendant services and supports, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2033 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to increase the minimum percentage increase under the Medicare+Choice program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2034 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that an employer shall be liable for Social Security taxes on unreported tips paid to an employee only after the Internal Revenue Service establishes the amount of tips received by that employee.
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| H R 2035 | To prevent identity theft, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2036 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide economic incentives for the preservation of open space and conservation of natural resources, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2037 | To affirm the religious freedom of taxpayers who are conscientiously opposed to participation in war, to provide that the income, estate, or gift tax payments of such taxpayers be used for nonmilitary purposes, to create the Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund to receive such tax payments, to improve revenue collection, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2038 | To reauthorize the assault weapons ban, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2039 | To amend section 376 of title 28, United States Code, to allow a period of open enrollment for certain individuals who are elevated to the position of chief judge of a district.
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| H R 2040 | To amend the Irrigation Project Contract Extension Act of 1998 to extend certain contracts between the Bureau of Reclamation and certain irrigation water contractors in the States of Wyoming and Nebraska.
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| H R 2041 | To provide for grants to States for enacting statewide laws regulating public playgrounds consistent with playground safety guidelines established by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
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| H R 2042 | To amend the Clean Air Act to reduce emissions from electric powerplants, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2043 | To establish a mechanism for developing uniform United States positions on issues before the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision at the Bank for International Settlements, to require a review on the most recent recommendation of the Basel Committee for an accord on capital standards, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2044 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a deferral of tax on gain from the sale of telecommunications businesses in specific circumstances or a tax credit and other incentives to promote diversity of ownership in telecommunications businesses.
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| H R 2045 | To defend the Ten Commandments.
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| H R 2046 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to rebuild America through job creation.
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| H R 2047 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the work opportunity credit and the welfare-to-work credit.
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| H R 2048 | To extend the period for reimbursement under the Fishermen's Protective Act of 1967, and to reauthorize the Yukon River Salmon Act of 2000.
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| H R 2049 | To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to testing pregnant women and newborn infants for infection with the human immunodeficiency virus.
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| H R 2050 | To prohibit cooperation with or assistance to any investigation or prosecution under a universal jurisdiction statute.
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| H R 2051 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and feasibility of designating the Wolf House, located in Norfolk, Arkansas, as a unit of the National Park System, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2052 | To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to preserve localism, to foster and promote the diversity of television programming, to foster and promote competition, and to prevent excessive concentration of ownership of the nation's television broadcast stations.
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| H R 2053 | To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to associate degree schools of nursing and professional nursing organizations to improve nursing education, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2054 | To amend the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust Act to provide clarification with respect to the period of time for which funds may be held in the trust established under that Act.
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| H R 2055 | To amend Public Law 89-366 to allow for an adjustment in the number of free roaming horses permitted in Cape Lookout National Seashore.
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| H R 2056 | To amend the Trade Act of 1974 to include certain specialty metals as import-sensitive articles that are ineligible for duty-free treatment under the generalized system of preferences program under title V of that Act.
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| H R 2057 | To provide for a multi-agency cooperative effort to encourage further research regarding the causes of chronic wasting disease and methods to control the further spread of the disease in deer and elk herds, to monitor the incidence of the disease, to support State efforts to control the disease, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2058 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide a grant to the State of New Jersey for the construction of a memorial to the New Jersey victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
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| H R 2059 | To designate Fort Bayard Historic District in the State of New Mexico as a National Historic Landmark, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2060 | To amend the Law Enforcement Pay Equity Act of 2000 to permit certain annuitants of the retirement programs of the United States Park Police and United States Secret Service Uniformed Division to receive the adjustments in pension benefits to which such annuitants would otherwise be entitled as a result of the conversion of members of the United States Park Police and United States Secret Service Uniformed Division to a new salary schedule under the amendments made by such Act.
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| H R 2061 | To make improvements with respect to the Drug-Free Media Campaign Act of 1998 and to authorize such Campaign through fiscal year 2008.
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| H R 2062 | To restore freedom of choice to women in the uniformed services serving outside the United States.
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| H R 2063 | To authorize the use of Cooperative Threat Reduction funds for projects and activities to address proliferation threats outside the states of the former Soviet Union, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2064 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude certain severance payments from gross income for employees who are laid off.
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| H R 2065 | To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt licensed funeral directors and licensed embalmers from the minimum wage and overtime compensation requirements of that Act.
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| H R 2066 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the allowance for burial expenses of certain veterans buried in private or State-owned cemeteries.
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| H R 2067 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a deduction from gross income to individuals who do not itemize deductions.
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| H R 2068 | To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to making progress toward the goal of eliminating tuberculosis, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2069 | To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to provide increased foreign assistance for tuberculosis prevention, treatment, and control, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2070 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to revitalize and improve the Medicare+Choice program.
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| H R 2071 | To allow travel between the United States and Cuba.
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| H R 2072 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to eliminate the marriage penalty in the computation of the income tax on Social Security benefits.
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| H R 2073 | To amend title 32, United States Code, to provide assistance to States for the discharge of homeland security activities by the National Guard, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2074 | To require certain disclosures in connection with any international money transfer, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2075 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1905 West Blue Heron Boulevard in West Palm Beach, Florida, as the "Judge Edward Rodgers Post Office Building".
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| H R 2076 | To further the protection and recognition of veterans' memorials, to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for grants to repair veterans memorials, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2077 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to enhance essential air service.
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| H R 2078 | To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to require equitable funding of pension plans maintained by corporations which also maintain executive pension plans.
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| H R 2079 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with regard to new animal drugs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2080 | To prevent International Monetary Fund loans for Iraq from being used to pay off Iraq's creditors.
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| H R 2081 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce to 5 percent the maximum rate of tax on net capital gain on assets held for more than 5 years.
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| H R 2082 | For the relief of Michael Dvorkin.
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| H R 2083 | For the relief of Geert Botzen.
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| H R 2084 | To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to provide for prompt compliance with annual reporting requirements thereunder and prompt enforcement of such requirements.
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| H R 2085 | To permit an individual to be treated by a health care practitioner with any method of medical treatment such individual requests, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2086 | To reauthorize the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
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| H R 2087 | To establish the Bob Hope American Patriot Award.
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| H R 2088 | To authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2089 | To protect children and their parents from being coerced into administering a controlled substance in order to attend school, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2090 | To limit the redistricting that States may do after an apportionment of Representatives.
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| H R 2091 | To authorize the Secretary of the Army to carry out a project for water supply, Bastrop-Morehouse Parish, Louisiana.
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| H R 2092 | To amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to provide for an expedited antidumping investigation when imports increase materially from new suppliers after an antidumping order has been issued, and to amend the provision relating to adjustments to export price and constructed export price.
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| H R 2093 | To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of the legacy of the Old Man of the Mountain, the symbol of New Hampshire that passed on to its granite roots in the dawn of May, 2003.
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| H R 2094 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore the 80-percent deduction for meal and entertainment expenses.
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| H R 2095 | To amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act and title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to require that group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans provide comprehensive coverage for childhood immunization.
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| H R 2096 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals a deduction for qualified long-term care insurance premiums, use of such insurance under cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements, and a credit for individuals with long-term care needs.
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| H R 2097 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to change certain threshold and other tests in order to decrease the amount of farm labor wages that are subject to Social Security and Medicare taxes, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2098 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the payment of a monthly stipend to the surviving parents (known as "Gold Star parents") of members of the Armed Forces who die during a period of war.
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| H R 2099 | To extend the existing temporary duty suspension on 2,4-Dicumylphenol.
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| H R 2100 | To extend the existing temporary duty suspension on o-Cumyl-octylphenol.
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| H R 2101 | To provide additional protections for participants and beneficiaries under employee pension benefit plans.
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| H R 2102 | To provide a cost-sharing requirement for the construction of the Arkansas Valley Conduit in the State of Colorado.
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| H R 2103 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income the value of certain real property tax reduction vouchers received by senior citizens who provide volunteer services under a State program.
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| H R 2104 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income certain stipends paid as part of a State program under which individuals who have attained age 60 perform essentially volunteer services specified by the program.
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| H R 2105 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify that employees of a political subdivision of a State shall not lose their exemption from the hospital insurance tax by reason of the consolidation of the subdivision with the State.
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| H R 2106 | To permit Members of the House of Representatives to use funds provided in Member's Representational Allowances to obtain POW/MIA flags and distribute them to constituents.
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| H R 2107 | To require full funding of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
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| H R 2108 | To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to expand and extend the eligibility of Hispanic-serving institutions for assistance under title V of that Act.
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| H R 2109 | To authorize reference to the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana, as "America's National World War II Museum".
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| H R 2110 | To give priority funding for DNA Backlog Elimination and Self Defense training, prioritizing for States and municipalities that are in the midst of combating a serial killer.
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| H R 2111 | To extend and to provide for an alternative trigger for second-tier benefits under the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002.
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| H R 2112 | To provide support for North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) peacekeeping within Iraq.
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| H R 2113 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit against income tax for certain energy efficient property placed in service or installed in an existing principal residence or property used by businesses.
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| H R 2114 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand medical savings accounts and to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide for medical freedom accounts under the Medicaid and State children's health insurance programs.
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| H R 2115 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to reauthorize programs for the Federal Aviation Administration, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2116 | To direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to provide relocation and other assistance for residents at the Tar Creek Superfund site.
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| H R 2117 | To amend the Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Act to remove certain competitive advantages granted to the housing-related government-sponsored enterprises relative to other secondary mortgage market enterprises, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2118 | To increase the annual salaries of justices and judges of the United States.
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| H R 2119 | To provide for the conveyance of Federal lands, improvements, equipment, and resource materials at the Oxford Research Station in Granville County, North Carolina, to the State of North Carolina.
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| H R 2120 | To revise the banking and bankruptcy insolvency laws with respect to the termination and netting of financial contracts, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2121 | To amend the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship Act of 1990 to authorize additional appropriations for the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship Program Trust Fund, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2122 | To enhance research, development, procurement, and use of biomedical countermeasures to respond to public health threats affecting national security, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2123 | To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act concerning water pollution resulting from discharges of perchlorate.
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| H R 2124 | To establish a Foster Care Reform Commission to study the foster care crisis in the United States.
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| H R 2125 | To amend the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to create the Rite of Passage Community Service Program.
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| H R 2126 | To recognize the importance of the Veterans' Administration Medical School Assistance and Health Manpower Training Act of 1972 in addressing shortfalls in the number of physicians and other health care professionals employed in the health care system of the Department of Veterans Affairs, to reauthorize the program of grants to medical schools affiliated with the Department, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2127 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal tax benefits relating to company-owned life insurance.
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| H R 2128 | To amend chapter 171 of title 28, United States Code, to allow members of the Armed Forces to sue the United States for damages for certain injuries caused by improper medical care.
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| H R 2129 | To direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resources study regarding the suitability and feasibility of designating certain historic buildings and areas in Taunton, Massachusetts, as a unit of the National Park System, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2130 | To redesignate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 121 Kinderkamack Road in River Edge, New Jersey, as the "New Bridge Landing Post Office".
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| H R 2131 | To award a congressional gold medal to President Jose Maria Aznar of Spain.
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| H R 2132 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to reallocate costs of the Pactola Dam and Reservoir, South Dakota, to reflect increased demands for municipal and industrial and fish and wildlife purposes.
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| H R 2133 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the tip tax credit to employers of cosmetologists and to promote tax compliance in the cosmetology sector.
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| H R 2134 | To amend title 18, United States Code, and the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure with respect to bail bond forfeitures.
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| H R 2135 | To provide grants to law enforcement agencies that ensure that law enforcement officers employed by such agency are afforded due process when involved in a case that may lead to dismissal, demotion, suspension, or transfer.
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| H R 2136 | To amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the use of methyl tertiary butyl ether as a gasoline additive and to repeal the oxygenate requirement for reformulated gasoline, to provide funding for the clean up of underground storage tanks, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2137 | To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 with respect to the release of alien children in custody.
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| H R 2138 | To elevate the Environmental Protection Agency to cabinet-level status and redesignate such agency as the Department of Environmental Protection.
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| H R 2139 | To repeal the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.
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| H R 2140 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income amounts received as damages (including punitive damages) on account of age discrimination.
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| H R 2141 | To modify the requirements applicable to locatable minerals on public domain lands, consistent with the principles of self-initiation of mining claims, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2142 | To amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to repeal the long-term goal for reducing to zero the incidental mortality and serious injury of marine mammals in commercial fishing operations, and to modify the goal of take reduction plans for reducing such takings.
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| H R 2143 | To prevent the use of certain bank instruments for unlawful Internet gambling, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2144 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to make technical corrections and improvements relating to aviation security, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2145 | To condition the minimum-wage-exempt status of organized camps under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 on compliance with certain safety standards, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2146 | To amend the National Labor Relations Act to ensure that certain orders of the National Labor Relations Board are enforced to protect the rights of employees.
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| H R 2147 | To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require States, in awarding subgrants under the State charter school grant program, to give priority to charter schools that will provide a racially integrated educational experience.
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| H R 2148 | To amend title 23, United States Code, to require the allocation of surface transportation program funds for the purchase of recycled materials.
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| H R 2149 | To authorize the Secretary of Transportation to require the use of recycled materials in the construction of Federal-aid highway projects.
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| H R 2150 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make the Hope and Lifetime Learning Credits refundable, and to allow taxpayers to obtain short-term student loans by using the future refund of such credits as collateral for the loans.
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| H R 2151 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to expand coverage of bone mass measurements under part B of the Medicare Program to all individuals at clinical risk for osteoporosis.
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| H R 2152 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend for an additional 5 years the special immigrant religious worker program.
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| H R 2153 | To review, reform, and terminate unnecessary and inequitable Federal subsidies.
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| H R 2154 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to prevent an employer from placing a nonimmigrant who is an intracompany transferee with another employer.
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| H R 2155 | To allow media coverage of court proceedings.
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| H R 2156 | To provide for a temporary increase in the public debt limit.
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| H R 2157 | To provide for uterine fibroid research and education, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2158 | To amend title 11, United States Code, to provide an additional bankruptcy judge for the eastern district of California, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2159 | To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to the participation of the public in governmental decisions regarding the location of group homes established pursuant to the program of block grants for the prevention and treatment of substance abuse.
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| H R 2160 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to increase to 5 years the period during which former Members of Congress may not engage in certain lobbying activities.
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| H R 2161 | To require the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to collect and assess scientific evidence regarding prescription drugs frequently used by Medicare or Medicaid beneficiaries, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2162 | To provide for protection of the flag of the United States.
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| H R 2163 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to exclude the proceeds of life insurance from consideration as income for purposes of determining veterans' pension benefits, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2164 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for an extension in the period of eligibility for survivors' and dependents' education benefits for members of the National Guard who are involuntarily ordered to full-time National Guard duty.
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| H R 2165 | To prohibit the use of Federal funds for double tracking of the Pacific Surfliner corridor through the Historic Mission District and downtown area of San Juan Capistrano and along the coastal beaches of Dana Point and San Clemente.
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| H R 2166 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a temporary ex-offender low-income housing credit to encourage the provision of housing, job training, and other essential services to ex-offenders through a structured living environment designed to assist the ex-offenders in becoming self-sufficient.
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| H R 2167 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to permit the disabled surviving spouse of an individual to elect to retain private health insurance as the primary payor of health insurance benefits under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 2168 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to revise the age and service requirements for eligibility to receive retired pay for non-regular service; to provide TRICARE eligibility for members of the Selected Reserve of the Ready Reserve and their families; to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow employers a credit against income tax with respect to employees who participate in the military reserve components and to allow a comparable credit for participating reserve component self-employed individuals, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2169 | To save taxpayers money, reduce the deficit, cut corporate welfare, protect communities from wildfires, encourage Federal land management agency reform and accountability, and protect and restore America's natural heritage by eliminating the fiscally wasteful and ecologically destructive commercial logging program on Federal public lands, restoring native biodiversity in our Federal public forests, and facilitating the economic recovery and diversification of communities affected by the Federal logging program.
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| H R 2170 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit desecration of Veterans' memorials.
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| H R 2171 | To provide that Federal reserve banks and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System be covered under chapter 71 of title 5, United States Code, relating to labor-management relations.
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| H R 2172 | To establish the position of Under Secretary of Commerce for Manufacturing in the Department of Commerce.
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| H R 2173 | To establish a grant program to provide comprehensive eye examinations to children, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2174 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for any servicemember who did not enroll for the program of educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill an opportunity to enroll for that program.
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| H R 2175 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to enhance beneficiary access in rural areas to quality health care services under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 2176 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide limited TRICARE program eligibility for members of the Ready Reserve of the Armed Forces, to provide financial support for continuation of health insurance for mobilized members of reserve components of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2177 | For the relief of Shwa-Chen Chai.
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| H R 2178 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify the status of professional employer organizations and to promote and protect the interests of professional employer organizations, their customers, and workers.
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| H R 2179 | To enhance the authority of the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate, punish, and deter securities laws violations, and to improve its ability to return funds to defrauded investors, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2180 | To amend titles 23 and 49, United States Code, concerning length and weight limitations for vehicles operating on Federal-aid highways, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2181 | To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to enhance the ability of oilseed producers to use oilseed base acres for the production of fruits and vegetables.
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| H R 2182 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage under part B for medically necessary dental procedures.
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| H R 2183 | To establish a digital and wireless network technology program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2184 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prevent corporations from exploiting tax treaties to evade taxation of United States income and to prevent manipulation of transfer prices by deflection of income to tax havens.
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| H R 2185 | To extend the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002.
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| H R 2186 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to cover over to a possession of the United States whose income tax laws mirror such Code the refundable portions of the child tax credit and earned income tax credit, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2187 | To update the supplemental security income program, and to increase incentives for working, saving, and pursuing an education.
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| H R 2188 | To provide for additional benefits under the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002, to extend the Federal unemployment benefits system, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2189 | To amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to assist homeowners with properties contaminated by leaking underground storage tanks in moving from such properties on a temporary or permanent basis by authorizing the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to guarantee loans to such homeowners.
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| H R 2190 | To expand the use of Capital Construction Funds to expand the United States maritime industry and promote construction by domestic shipbuilders.
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| H R 2191 | To amend section 8339(p) of title 5, United States Code, to clarify the method for computing certain annuities under the Civil Service Retirement System which are based on part-time service, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2192 | To authorize appropriations for the Surface Transportation Board, to enhance railroad competition, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2193 | To provide funding for port security enhancements, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2194 | To reward the hard work and risk of individuals who choose to live in and help preserve America's small, rural towns, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2195 | To provide for additional space and resources for national collections held by the Smithsonian Institution, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2196 | To improve the quality, availability, diversity, personal privacy, and innovation of health care in the United States.
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| H R 2197 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for Department of Defense funding of continuation of health benefits plan coverage for certain Reserves called or ordered to active duty and their dependents, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2198 | To provide funding for student loan repayment for public attorneys.
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| H R 2199 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a voluntary program for limiting maximum out-of-pocket expenditures for beneficiaries under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 2200 | To require Federal agencies to develop and implement policies and practices that promote environmental justice, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2201 | To authorize the establishment of a national database for purposes of identifying, locating, and cataloging the many memorials and permanent tributes to America's veterans.
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| H R 2202 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the ratable inclusion of citrus canker tree payments over a period of 10 years, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2203 | To clarify the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to prescribe performance standards for the reduction of pathogens in meat, meat products, poultry, and poultry products processed by establishments receiving inspection services and to enforce the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) System requirements, sanitation requirements, and the performance standards.
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| H R 2204 | To amend the provisions of titles 5 and 28, United States Code, relating to equal access to justice, award of reasonable costs and fees, and administrative settlement offers, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2205 | To establish within the Smithsonian Institution the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2206 | To designate a Prisoner of War/Missing in Action National Memorial at Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside, California.
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| H R 2207 | To restore the jurisdiction of the Consumer Product Safety Commission over amusement park rides which are at a fixed site, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2208 | To amend title 23, United States Code, relating to the minimum guarantee program.
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| H R 2209 | To require that diesel fuel sold in the United States meet specifications designed to facilitate the widespread introduction of clean diesel vehicles in the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2210 | To reauthorize the Head Start Act to improve the school readiness of disadvantaged children, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2211 | To reauthorize title II of the Higher Education Act of 1965.
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| H R 2212 | To require the Federal Communications Commission to comply with the Administrative Procedures Act and to adhere to the policies and purposes of Communications Act of 1934 favoring diversity of media voices, vigorous economic competition, technological advancement, and promotion of the public interest, convenience, and necessity, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2213 | To study the incidence of downward departures in criminal cases and repeal provisions of the PROTECT Act that do not specifically deal with the prevention of the exploitation of children.
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| H R 2214 | To prevent unsolicited commercial electronic mail.
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| H R 2215 | To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to ensure that sewage treatment plants monitor for and report discharges of raw sewage, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2216 | To provide for greater recognition of Veterans Day each year.
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| H R 2217 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to increase burial benefits for veterans, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2218 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide for the regulation of all contact lenses as medical devices, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2219 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to permit Department of Veterans Affairs pharmacies to dispense medications on prescriptions written by private practitioners to veterans who are currently awaiting their first appointment with the Department for medical care, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2220 | To amend the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century with respect to NAFTA corridor planning and development and coordinated border infrastructure and safety.
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| H R 2221 | To provide for availability of contact lens prescriptions to patients, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2222 | To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code to allow for alienation of benefits to satisfy court judgments, decrees, or orders requiring restitution for embezzlement of State or local government funds.
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| H R 2223 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide adequate coverage for immunosuppressive drugs furnished to beneficiaries under the Medicare Program that have received an organ transplant.
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| H R 2224 | To provide for the payment of claims of United States prisoners of war in the First Gulf War, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2225 | To authorize the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to make grants to local educational agencies to support the purchase or lease and use of vending machines that offer for sale healthy foods and beverages in schools.
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| H R 2226 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to permit reasonable cost reimbursement for emergency room services provided by Federally qualified health centers.
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| H R 2227 | To encourage innovative school-based activities to help reduce and prevent obesity among children, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2228 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit the consolidation of life insurance companies with other companies.
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| H R 2229 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow nonitemizers a deduction for a portion of their charitable contributions.
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| H R 2230 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to waive the income inclusion on a distribution from an individual retirement account to the extent that the distribution is contributed for charitable purposes.
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| H R 2231 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt the deduction for charitable contributions from the phaseout of itemized deductions.
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| H R 2232 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act relating to the distribution chain of prescription drugs.
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| H R 2233 | To provide for the medical use of marijuana in accordance with the laws of the various States.
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| H R 2234 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a credit which is dependent on enactment of State qualified scholarship tax credits and which is allowed against the Federal income tax for charitable contributions to education investment organizations that provide assistance for elementary and secondary education.
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| H R 2235 | To suspend certain nonessential visas, in order to provide temporary workload relief critical to the successful reorganization of the immigration and naturalization functions of the Department of Homeland Security, to ensure that the screening and monitoring of arriving immigrants and nonimmigrants, and the deterrence of entry and settlement by illegal or unauthorized aliens, is sufficient to maintain the integrity of the sovereign borders of the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2236 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide coverage under the Medicare Program for diabetes laboratory diagnostic tests and other services to screen for diabetes.
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| H R 2237 | To establish within the National Park Service the 225th Anniversary of the American Revolution Commemorative program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2238 | To expand and enhance post-baccalaureate opportunities at Hispanic-Serving Institutions, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2239 | To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require a voter-verified permanent record or hardcopy under title III of such Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2240 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to assist individuals who have lost their 401(k) savings to make additional retirement savings through individual retirement account contributions, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2241 | To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to mental health services for elderly individuals.
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| H R 2242 | To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to include Indian tribes among the entities consulted with respect to activities carried out by the Secretary of Homeland Security, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2243 | To provide for the participation of the United States in the thirteenth replenishment of the resources of the International Development Association, the seventh replenishment of the resources of the Asian Development Fund, and the ninth replenishment of the resources of the African Development Fund, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2244 | To prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from issuing oil and gas leases on portions of the Outer Continental Shelf located off the coast of New Jersey.
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| H R 2245 | To amend the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 to limit the non-Federal share of the cost of shore protection projects.
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| H R 2246 | To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to modify treatment categories for qualification as a rehabilitation hospital or unit for purposes of reimbursement under the Medicare prospective payment system for inpatient rehabilitation facilities.
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| H R 2247 | To provide additional punishment for certain crimes against women when the crimes cause an interruption in the normal course of their pregnancies, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2248 | To expand coverage under the Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Act.
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| H R 2249 | To amend chapter 10 of title 39, United States Code, to include postmasters and postmasters' organizations in the process for the development and planning of certain personnel policies, schedules, and programs of the United States Postal Service, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2250 | To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop and implement the READICall emergency alert system.
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| H R 2251 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat as a qualified use for purposes of section 2032A land rented on a net cash basis to any member of the decedent's family.
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| H R 2252 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the taxes on certain alcoholic beverages and to provide additional funds for alcohol abuse prevention programs.
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| H R 2253 | To amend section 211 of the Clean Air Act to prohibit the use of certain fuel additives.
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| H R 2254 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1101 Colorado Street in Boulder City, Nevada, as the "Bruce Woodbury Post Office Building".
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| H R 2255 | To extend the suspension of certain payments to be made by noncommercial webcasters under sections 112 and 114 of title 17, United States Code, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2256 | To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide parity with respect to substance abuse treatment benefits under group health plans and health insurance coverage.
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| H R 2257 | To convey the Lower Yellowstone Irrigation Project, the Savage Unit of the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, and the Intake Irrigation Project to the appurtenant Irrigation Districts.
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| H R 2258 | To provide for programs and activities to improve the health of Hispanic individuals, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2259 | To prohibit funds appropriated for the Export-Import Bank of the United States, any international financial institution, or the North American Development Bank from being used for loans to a country, or for a project or activity in a country, and to prohibit the Overseas Private Investment Corporation from supporting projects in a country, until the government of the country has honored all United States requests to extradite criminals who have committed a crime punishable by life imprisonment or death.
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| H R 2260 | To amend subchapter III of chapter 83 and chapter 84 of title 5, United States Code, to include assistant United States attorneys within the definition of a law enforcement officer, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2261 | To amend the Small Business Act to increase the maximum amount for which a loan can be made under the Microloan Program.
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| H R 2262 | To require the establishment of a Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers to compute cost-of-living increases for Social Security and Medicare benefits under titles II and XVIII of the Social Security Act.
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| H R 2263 | To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide an exemption from minimum wage and maximum hours requirements for certain seasonal fireworks employees.
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| H R 2264 | An act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2004 to carry out the Congo Basin Forest Partnership program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2265 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the treatment of certain expenses of rural letter carriers.
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| H R 2266 | To clarify the intent of Congress with respect to the continued use of established commercial outfitter hunting camps on the Salmon River.
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| H R 2267 | To extend certain trade benefits to countries of the greater Middle East.
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| H R 2268 | To amend titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to expand or add coverage of pregnant women under the Medicaid and State children's health insurance program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2269 | To preserve open competition and Federal Government neutrality towards the labor relations of Federal Government contractors on Federal and federally funded construction projects.
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| H R 2270 | To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to extend the country of origin labeling requirements of such Act to additional agricultural commodities, to provide for the implementation of such requirements to certain covered commodities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2271 | To enable the United States to maintain its leadership in aeronautics and aviation.
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| H R 2272 | To establish a digital and wireless network technology program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2273 | To amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to order the recall of meat and poultry that is adulterated, misbranded, or otherwise unsafe.
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| H R 2274 | To designate the United States courthouse at South Federal Place in Santa Fe, New Mexico, as the "Santiago E. Campos United States Courthouse".
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| H R 2275 | To reinstate the requirement that firearms dealers comply with the Freedom of Information Act by providing information about firearms purchasers.
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| H R 2276 | To provide for the establishment of the National Institutes of Health Police, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2277 | To amend the Toxic Substances Control Act to reduce the health risks posed by asbestos-containing products.
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| H R 2278 | To establish the Kenai Mountains-Turnagain Arm National Heritage Corridor in the State of Alaska, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2279 | For the relief of Mohammed Manir Hossain, Ferdous Ara Manir, and Maish Samiha Manir.
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| H R 2280 | For the relief of Yevgeniya Dobrovolska and Mykola Dobrovolskyy.
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| H R 2281 | For the relief of Asad Mohamed Alkurabi.
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| H R 2282 | To amend the provisions of titles 5 and 28, United States Code, relating to equal access to justice, award of reasonable costs and fees, and administrative settlement offers, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2283 | To provide for the creation of an additional category of laborers or mechanics known as helpers under the Davis-Bacon Act.
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| H R 2284 | To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to make grants to States for assistance in hiring additional school-based mental health and student service providers.
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| H R 2285 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Labor to provide staffing at military installations overseas to carry out employment counseling under the Transition Assistance Program for persons separating from active duty in the Armed Forces.
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| H R 2286 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase partial refundability of the child tax credit, to provide that pay received by members of the Armed Forces while serving in Iraq or other combat zones will be taken into account in determining eligibility for partial refundability of the child tax credit, to accelerate marriage penalty relief in the earned income tax credit, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2287 | To amend title 37, United States Code, to remove the prohibition on the ability of qualified dental officers in the uniformed services to receive additional special pay while undergoing dental internship or residency training.
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| H R 2288 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to require the prorating of Medicaid beneficiary contributions in the case of partial coverage of nursing facility services during a month.
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| H R 2289 | To authorize the Secretary of Transportation to make grants for projects to construct fences or other barriers to prevent public access to tracks and other hazards of fixed guideway systems in residential areas.
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| H R 2290 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide monthly benefits for certain uninsured children living without parents.
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| H R 2291 | To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to extend loan forgiveness for certain loans to Head Start teachers.
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| H R 2292 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a program for promoting good health, disease prevention, and wellness and for the prevention of secondary conditions for persons with disabilities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2293 | To amend the National Labor Relations Act to prevent government agencies from requiring or prohibiting employers in the construction industry to enter into agreements with labor organizations.
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| H R 2294 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to delay the termination of the Veterans' Advisory Committee on Education, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2295 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to improve access to advanced practice nurses under the Medicaid Program.
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| H R 2296 | To prohibit the use of Federal funds for certain amenities and personal comforts in the Federal prison system.
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| H R 2297 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve benefits under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2298 | To amend section 3 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 to ensure improved access to employment opportunities for low-income people.
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| H R 2299 | To authorize assistance through eligible nongovernmental organizations to remove and dispose of unexploded ordnance in agriculturally-valuable lands in developing countries.
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| H R 2300 | To amend part D of title IV of the Social Security Act to improve the collection of child support arrears in interstate cases.
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| H R 2301 | To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to provide for the installation of chemical and biological detection devices in the enclosed passenger boarding stations of each heavy rail transit system in the United States.
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| H R 2302 | To extend for an additional six months the period for which chapter 12 of title 11 of the United States Code is reenacted.
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| H R 2303 | To limit the United States share of assessments for the United Nations regular budget.
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| H R 2304 | To resolve boundary conflicts in the vicinity of the Mark Twain National Forest in Barry and Stone Counties, Missouri, that resulted from private landowner reliance on a subsequent Federal survey, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2305 | To designate certain lands in the State of Colorado as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2306 | To delay the effective date of certain provisions relating to the labeling of ginseng.
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| H R 2307 | To provide for the establishment of new Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities for veterans in the area of Columbus, Ohio, and in south Texas.
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| H R 2308 | To amend the Trade Act of 1974 to provide trade adjustment assistance for communities, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2309 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2300 Redondo Avenue in Long Beach, California, as the "Stephen Horn Post Office Building".
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| H R 2310 | To protect, conserve, and restore native fish, wildlife, and their natural habitats on Federal lands and non-Federal lands through cooperative, incentive-based grants to control, mitigate, and eradicate harmful nonnative species, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2311 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to eliminate the earnings test for individuals who have attained age 62.
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| H R 2312 | To amend the Communications Satellite of 1962 to provide for the orderly dilution of the ownership interest in Inmarsat by former signatories to the Inmarsat Operating Agreement.
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| H R 2313 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow an additional advance refunding of tax-exempt bonds issued for the purchase or maintenance of electric generation, transmission, or distribution assets.
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| H R 2314 | To support business incubation in academic settings, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2315 | To amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to certain prohibitions relating to police badges, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2316 | To enhance the terms of the retirement annuities of administrative law judges.
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| H R 2317 | For the relief of Patricia and Michael Duane, Gregory Hansen, Mary Pimental, Randy Ruiz, Elaine Schlinger, and Gerald Whitaker.
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| H R 2318 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for a assured adequate level of funding for veterans health care.
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| H R 2319 | To include the Secretary of Homeland Security within the order of Presidential succession which applies in the absence of a qualified President and Vice President, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2320 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to require Medicaid coverage of disabled children, and individuals who became disabled as children, without regard to income or assets.
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| H R 2321 | To promote and facilitate expansion of coverage under group health plans, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2322 | To amend the Social Security Act to waive the 24-month waiting period for Medicare coverage of certain disabled individuals who have no health insurance coverage.
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| H R 2323 | To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund be excluded from the budget of the United States Government.
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| H R 2324 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to accelerate the increase in the child tax credit and to expand the refundability of such credit, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2325 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to accelerate the increase in the refundability of the child tax credit, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2326 | To require the conveyance of certain Bureau of Land Management lands in Nye County, Nevada, to Ponderosa Dairy in Amargosa, Nevada.
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| H R 2327 | To amend the National Trails System Act to extend the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail to include additional sites associated with the preparation or return phase of the expedition, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2328 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2001 East Willard Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the "Robert A. Borski Post Office Building".
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| H R 2329 | To provide for global pathogen surveillance and response.
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| H R 2330 | To sanction the ruling Burmese military junta, to strengthen Burma's democratic forces and support and recognize the National League of Democracy as the legitimate representative of the Burmese people, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2331 | To amend the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century to provide from the Highway Trust Fund additional funding for Indian reservation roads, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2332 | To amend the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 to make permanent the treatment of dividend income as capital gains.
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| H R 2333 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act and the Public Health Service Act to improve outpatient health care for Medicare beneficiaries who reside in rural areas, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2334 | To amend the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to establish the Office of the District Attorney for the District of Columbia, headed by a locally elected and independent District Attorney, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2335 | To provide for general revenue sharing and assistance for education for States and their local governments.
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| H R 2336 | To amend the Higher Education Act to establish and strengthen post-secondary programs and courses in the subjects of traditional American history, free institutions, and Western civilization, available to students preparing to teach these subjects, and to other students.
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| H R 2337 | To provide for the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct a pilot program to determine the effectiveness of contracting for the use of private memory care facilities for veterans with Alzheimer's Disease.
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| H R 2338 | To prevent loans for Iraq from the International Monetary Fund or the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development from being used to pay off Iraq's creditors.
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| H R 2339 | To require door delivery of mail sent to persons residing in senior communities.
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| H R 2340 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the required beginning date for distributions from individual retirement plans and for distributions of elective deferrals under qualified cash or deferred arrangements.
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| H R 2341 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage a strong community-based banking system.
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| H R 2342 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to expand Medicare benefits to prevent, delay, and minimize the progression of chronic conditions, and develop national policies on effective chronic condition care, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2343 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to exclude services of certain providers from the skilled nursing facility prospective payment system under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 2344 | To restore Federal remedies for infringements of intellectual property by States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2345 | To amend chapter 6 of title 5, United States Code (commonly known as the Regulatory Flexibility Act), to ensure complete analysis of potential impacts on small entities of rules, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2346 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the inclusion in gross income of Social Security benefits and tier 1 railroad retirement benefits.
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| H R 2347 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a credit which is dependent on enactment of State qualified scholarship tax credits and which is allowed against the Federal income tax for charitable contributions to education investment organizations that provide assistance for elementary and secondary education.
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| H R 2348 | To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 regarding the rigorous standard of quality applicable to paraprofessionals hired before the date of enactment of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2349 | To authorize certain major medical facility projects for the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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| H R 2350 | To reauthorize the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant program through fiscal year 2003, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2351 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a deduction to individuals for amounts contributed to health savings accounts and to provide for the disposition of unused health benefits in cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements.
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| H R 2352 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide eligibility for Department of Veterans Affairs health care for certain Filipino World War II veterans residing in the United States.
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| H R 2353 | To require all newly constructed, federally assisted, single-family houses and town houses to meet minimum standards of visitability for persons with disabilities.
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| H R 2354 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the allowance for burial expenses of certain veterans.
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| H R 2355 | To amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize certain projects in the State of Hawaii and to amend the Hawaii Water Resources Act of 2000 to modify the water resources study.
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| H R 2356 | To require the National Institutes of Health to conduct research, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to conduct studies, on the comparative effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of prescription drugs that account for high levels of expenditures or use by individuals in federally funded health programs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2357 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the appointment of chiropractors in the Veterans Health Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs and to provide eligibility for Department of Veterans Affairs health care for certain Filipino World War II veterans residing in the United States.
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| H R 2358 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage the timely development of a more cost effective United States commercial space transportation industry, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2359 | To extend the basic pilot program for employment eligibility verification, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2360 | To provide for qualified withdrawals from the Capital Construction Fund for fishermen leaving the industry and for the rollover of Capital Construction Funds to individual retirement plans, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2361 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to waive the part B late enrollment penalty for military retirees who enroll by December 31, 2004, and to provide a special part B enrollment period for such retirees.
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| H R 2362 | To amend the Native American Languages Act to provide for the support of Native American language survival schools, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2363 | To improve early learning opportunities and promote preparedness by increasing the availability of Head Start programs, to increase the availability and affordability of quality child care, to reduce child hunger and encourage healthy eating habits, to facilitate parental involvement, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2364 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act in regard to Caribbean-born immigrants.
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| H R 2365 | To amend United States trade laws to address more effectively import crises, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2366 | To suspend certain amendments made by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 if the Federal Government fails to fully fund such amendments.
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| H R 2367 | To provide for the conveyance of certain public lands in and around historic mining townsites in Nevada, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2368 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to tax the campaign committees of candidates for State and local public office in the same manner as campaign committees of candidates for Congress.
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| H R 2369 | To protect inventoried roadless areas in the National Forest System, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2370 | To improve homeland security by providing for national resilience in preparation for, and in the event of, a terrorist attack, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2371 | To provide for the issuance of a semipostal to benefit the Peace Corps.
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| H R 2372 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an increased low-income housing credit for property located immediately adjacent to qualified census tracts.
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| H R 2373 | To authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make grants to nonprofit community organizations for the development of open space on municipally owned vacant lots in urban areas.
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| H R 2374 | To amend the Small Business Act to allow more joint ventures, leader-follow arrangements, and teaming arrangements under the section 8(a) minority business development program.
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| H R 2375 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the contribution limits applicable to simple retirement accounts.
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| H R 2376 | To prevent and respond to terrorism and crime at or through ports.
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| H R 2377 | To establish the Child Care Provider Development and Retention Grant Program, the Child Care Provider Scholarship Program, and a program of child care provider health benefits coverage, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2378 | To reform the safety practices of the railroad industry, to prevent railroad fatalities, injuries, and hazardous materials releases, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2379 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve access to health care for rural veterans, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2380 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize additional compensation to be paid to certain veterans in receipt of compensation for a service-connected disability rated totally disabling for whom a family member dependent on the veteran for support provides care.
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| H R 2381 | To complete construction of the 13-State Appalachian development highway system, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2382 | To amend title 49, United States Code, relating to improving transportation in the national parks.
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| H R 2383 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify the tax treatment of smoking cessation costs.
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| H R 2384 | To amend title 23, United States Code, to provide an exemption from Interstate System weight limitations for milk hauling vehicles in the State of Connecticut.
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| H R 2385 | To amend the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to provide for more equitable allotment of funds to States for centers for independent living.
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| H R 2386 | To amend the Antiquities Act regarding the establishment by the President of certain national monuments and to provide for public participation in the proclamation of national monuments.
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| H R 2387 | To foster local collaborations which will ensure that resources are effectively and efficiently used within the criminal and juvenile justice systems.
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| H R 2388 | To authorize leases for terms not to exceed 99 years on lands held in trust for the Yurok Tribe and the Hopland Band of Pomo Indians.
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| H R 2389 | To assure that the services of a nonemergency department physician are available to hospital patients 24-hours-a-day, seven days a week in all non-Federal hospitals with at least 100 licensed beds.
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| H R 2390 | To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require institutions of higher education to enter into agreements with private for-profit organizations for the provision of work-study employment.
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| H R 2391 | To amend title 35, United States Code, to promote cooperative research involving universities, the public sector, and private enterprises.
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| H R 2392 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to accelerate the increase in the refundability of the child tax credit, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2393 | To provide that unremarried former spouses of retired and career members of the Armed Forces shall be entitled to military health care and commissary and exchange benefits if married for at least 10 years during the member's military service and if the former spouse left the marriage due to domestic violence or unbearable conditions.
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| H R 2394 | To require full funding of part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
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| H R 2395 | To provide suitable alternative grazing arrangements on National Forest System land to persons that hold a grazing permit adversely affected by the standards and guidelines contained in the Record of Decision of the Sierra Nevada Forest Plan Amendment and pertaining to the Willow Flycatcher and the Yosemite Toad.
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| H R 2396 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1210 Highland Avenue in Duarte, California, as the "Francisco A. Martinez Flores Post Office".
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| H R 2397 | To designate a portion of the White Salmon River as a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.
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| H R 2398 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to revise the age and service requirements for eligibility to receive retired pay for non-regular service.
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| H R 2399 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow employers a credit against income tax with respect to employees who participate in the military reserve components and to allow a comparable credit for participating reserve component self-employed individuals.
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| H R 2400 | To amend the Organic Act of Guam for the purposes of clarifying the local judicial structure of Guam.
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| H R 2401 | To amend the Social Security Act to eliminate the five-month waiting period in the disability insurance program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2402 | To expand the number of individuals and families with health insurance coverage, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2403 | To expand the powers of the Attorney General to regulate the manufacture, distribution, and sale of firearms and ammunition, and to expand the jurisdiction of the Attorney General to include firearm products and nonpowder firearms.
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| H R 2404 | To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of the centenary of the bestowal of the Nobel Peace Prize on President Theodore Roosevelt, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2405 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit video voyeurism in the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2406 | To support the domestic shrimping industry by eliminating taxpayer subsidies for certain competitors, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2407 | To amend the Consumer Credit Protection Act and other banking laws to protect consumers who avail themselves of payday loans from usurious interest rates and exorbitant fees, perpetual debt, the use of criminal actions to collect debts, and other unfair practices by payday lenders, to encourage the States to license and closely regulate payday lenders, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2408 | To amend the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 to reauthorize volunteer programs and community partnerships for national wildlife refuges and for other purposes.
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| H R 2409 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to clarify that inpatient drug prices charged to certain public hospitals are included in the best price exemptions for the Medicaid drug rebate program.
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| H R 2410 | To prohibit the importation for sale of foreign-made flags of the United States of America.
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| H R 2411 | To decrease the matching funds requirement and authorize further appropriations for Keweenaw National Historical Park.
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| H R 2412 | To require any amounts appropriated for Members' Representational Allowances for the House of Representatives for a session of Congress that remain after all payments are made from such Allowances for the session to be deposited in the Treasury and used for deficit reduction or to reduce the Federal debt.
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| H R 2413 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to revise the age and service requirements for eligibility to receive retired pay for non-regular service; to provide TRICARE eligibility for members of the Selected Reserve of the Ready Reserve and their families; to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow employers a credit against income tax with respect to employees who participate in the military reserve components and to allow a comparable credit for participating reserve component self-employed individuals, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2414 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the appointment of chiropractors in the Veterans Health Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2415 | For the relief of Zdenko Lisak.
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| H R 2416 | To provide for the protection of paleontological resources on Federal lands, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2417 | To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2004 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2418 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to deny all deductions for business expenses associated with the use of a club that discriminates on the basis of sex, race, or color.
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| H R 2419 | To protect sacred Native American Federal land from significant damage.
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| H R 2420 | To improve transparency relating to the fees and costs that mutual fund investors incur and to improve corporate governance of mutual funds.
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| H R 2421 | To ensure that State and local law enforcement agencies execute warrants for the arrest of nonviolent offenders only during daylight hours and when children are not present, unless overriding circumstances exist.
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| H R 2422 | To authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to guarantee community development loans to the insular areas.
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| H R 2423 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to prohibit physicians and other health care practitioners from charging a membership or other incidental fee (or requiring purchase of other items or services) as a prerequisite for the provision of an item or service to a Medicare beneficiary.
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| H R 2424 | To authorize assistance for the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum and Justice Learning Center.
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| H R 2425 | To provide for the use and distribution of the funds awarded to the Quinault Indian Nation under United States Claims Court Dockets 772-71, 773-71, 774-71, and 775-71, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2426 | To provide benefits to domestic partners of Federal employees.
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| H R 2427 | To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to promulgate regulations for the reimportation of prescription drugs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2428 | To provide for congressional review of regulations relating to military tribunals.
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| H R 2429 | To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to improve the administration and oversight of foreign intelligence surveillance, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2430 | To amend the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act to coordinate and strengthen scientific research and monitoring, and to promote public outreach, education, and awareness, of Chronic Wasting Disease affecting free-ranging populations of deer and elk, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2431 | To establish a National Chronic Wasting Disease Task Force, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2432 | To amend the Paperwork Reduction Act and titles 5 and 31, United States Code, to reform Federal paperwork and regulatory processes.
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| H R 2433 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide veterans who participated in certain Department of Defense chemical and biological warfare testing with health care for their illness without requirement for proof of service-connection.
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| H R 2434 | For the relief of John Castellano.
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| H R 2435 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for compensation to States incarcerating undocumented aliens charged with a felony or two or more misdemeanors.
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| H R 2436 | To conduct a study on the effectiveness of ballistic imaging technology and evaluate its effectiveness as a law enforcement tool.
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| H R 2437 | To provide for grants to State child welfare systems to improve quality standards and outcomes, to increase the match for private agencies receiving training funds under part E of title IV of the Social Security Act, and to authorize the forgiveness of loans made to certain students who become child welfare workers.
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| H R 2438 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 115 West Pine Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, as the "Major Henry A. Commiskey, Sr. Post Office Building".
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| H R 2439 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the 1993 income tax increase on Social Security benefits and to increase the age at which distributions must commence from certain retirement plans from 701/2 to 80.
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| H R 2440 | To improve the implementation of the Federal responsibility for the care and education of Indian people by improving the services and facilities of Federal health programs for Indians and encouraging maximum participation of Indians in such programs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2441 | To establish the Millennium Challenge Account to provide increased support for developing countries that have fostered democracy and the rule of law, invested in their citizens, and promoted economic freedom; to assess the impact and effectiveness of United States economic assistance; to authorize the expansion of the Peace Corps, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2442 | To amend the definition of a law enforcement officer under subchapter III of chapter 83 and chapter 84 of title 5, United States Code, respectively, to ensure the inclusion of certain positions.
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| H R 2443 | A bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2004 and 2005 for the United States Coast Guard, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2444 | To establish certain requirements relating to the provision of services to minors by family planning projects under title X of the Public Health Service Act.
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| H R 2445 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to make permanent the requirement for the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide nursing home care to certain veterans with service-connected disabilities and to expand eligibility for such care to all veterans with compensable service-connected disabilities.
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| H R 2446 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the marriage penalty tax relief enacted by the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003.
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| H R 2447 | To establish a Federal interagency task force to promote the benefits, safety, and potential uses of agricultural biotechnology to improve human and animal nutrition, increase crop productivity, and improve agricultural sustainability while ensuring the safety of food and the environment.
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| H R 2448 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the special 5-year carryback of certain net operating losses to losses for 2003, 2004, and 2005.
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| H R 2449 | To establish a commission to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War.
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| H R 2450 | To provide for the establishment of an independent, Presidentially-appointed investigative Commission in the event of incidents in the Nation's human space flight program that result in loss of crew, passengers, or the spacecraft, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2451 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve geographic equity in the provision of items and services provided to Medicare beneficiaries.
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| H R 2452 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 339 Hicksville Road in Bethpage, New York, as the "Brian C. Hickey Post Office Building".
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| H R 2453 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage under the Medicare Program of substitute adult day care services.
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| H R 2454 | To reauthorize and improve the program authorized by the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965.
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| H R 2455 | To improve air cargo security.
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| H R 2456 | To require increased activities by the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regarding Diamond-Blackfan anemia, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2457 | To authorize funds for an educational center for the Castillo de San Marcos National Monument, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2458 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income a percentage of lifetime annuity payments, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2459 | To establish the United States Consensus Council to provide for a consensus building process in addressing national public policy issues, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2460 | To provide for the conveyance of the reversionary interest of the United States in certain lands to the Clint Independent School District, El Paso County, Texas.
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| H R 2461 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for establishment of a Medicare prescription drug benefit covering costs that exceed a percentage of a beneficiary's income.
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| H R 2462 | To invalidate the actions of the Federal Communications Commission in abrogating the media ownership limitations under the Communications Act of 1934.
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| H R 2463 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to require certain contractors with the Department of Defense to perform background investigations, psychological assessments, and behavioral observations, and provide fingerprint cards, with respect to individuals who perform work on military installations or facilities.
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| H R 2464 | To direct the Secretary of Education to provide grants to promote Holocaust education and awareness.
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| H R 2465 | To extend for six months the period for which chapter 12 of title 11 of the United States Code is reenacted.
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| H R 2466 | To encourage democratic reform in Iran and to strengthen United States policy toward the current Government of Iran.
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| H R 2467 | To extend certain trade benefits to countries of the greater Middle East.
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| H R 2468 | To amend the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century to modify a high priority project in the State of Michigan.
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| H R 2469 | To amend the Social Security Act to modify the Medicare Program.
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| H R 2470 | To require certain actions with respect to the availability of medicines for HIV/AIDS and other diseases in developing countries.
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| H R 2471 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to modify the requirement under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) with respect to medical screening examinations.
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| H R 2472 | To amend the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to provide the District of Columbia with autonomy over its budgets, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2473 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a voluntary program for prescription drug coverage under the Medicare Program, to modernize the Medicare Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2474 | To authorize the Congressional Hunger Center to award Bill Emerson and Mickey Leland Hunger Fellowships for fiscal years 2003 and 2004.
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| H R 2475 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide an enhanced funding process to ensure an adequate level of funding for veterans health care programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs, to establish standards of access to care for veterans seeking health care from the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2476 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of home infusion drug therapies under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 2477 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the exclusion equivalent of the unified credit allowed against the estate tax to $7,500,000 and to modify the estate tax rate schedule.
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| H R 2478 | To reinstate the authority of the Federal Communications Commission and local franchising authorities to regulate the rates for cable television service.
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| H R 2479 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide to the States of Connecticut and Massachusetts technical and financial assistance for management of the Connecticut River in those States.
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| H R 2480 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce estate and gift tax rates to 30 percent, to increase the exclusion equivalent of the unified credit to $10,000,000, and to increase the annual gift tax exclusion to $50,000.
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| H R 2481 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce estate tax rates by 20 percent, to increase the unified credit against estate and gift taxes to the equivalent of a $2,500,000 exclusion and to provide an inflation adjustment of such amount, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2482 | To call for the cancellation of loans made to Iraq by multilateral financial institutions.
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| H R 2483 | To amend the Virgin River Dinosaur Footprint Preserve Act to allow funds available under that Act to be used for preservation, exploration, and preparation of paleontological resources for display, educational outreach, and related construction.
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| H R 2484 | To establish a program to provide assistance to institutions of higher education serving members of Indian tribes.
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| H R 2485 | To limit the applicability of the annual updates to the allowance for State and other taxes in the tables used in the Federal Needs Analysis Methodology for the award year 2004-2005, published in the Federal Register on May 30, 2003.
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| H R 2486 | To provide for the geographic reclassification of a county for purposes of equitable hospital payment rates under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 2487 | For the relief of Esther Karinge.
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| H R 2488 | To provide for the protection of the tropical forests of the Karst Region of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the aquifers and watersheds of this region that constitute a principal water source for much of Puerto Rico, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2489 | To provide for the distribution of judgment funds to the Cowlitz Indian Tribe.
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| H R 2490 | To promote elder justice, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2491 | Entitled the "Greater Access to Affordable Pharmaceuticals Act".
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| H R 2492 | To ensure that recreation benefits are accorded the same weight as hurricane and storm damage reduction benefits and environmental restoration benefits.
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| H R 2493 | To assist local governments in conducting gun buyback programs.
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| H R 2494 | To improve and promote compliance with international intellectual property obligations relating to the Republic of Cuba, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2495 | To amend the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama and Coushatta Indian Tribes of Texas Restoration Act to decrease the requisite blood quantum required for membership in the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo tribe.
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| H R 2496 | To authorize a national museum, including a research center and related visitor facilities, in the city of El Paso, Texas, to commemorate migration at the United States southern border.
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| H R 2497 | To permit commercial importation of prescription drugs from Canada, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2498 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide a prescription benefit program for all Medicare beneficiaries.
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| H R 2499 | To provide economic relief to general aviation small business concerns that have suffered substantial economic injury as a result of the terrorist attacks perpetrated against the United States on September 11, 2001.
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| H R 2500 | To enable the Great Lakes Fishery Commission to investigate effects of migratory birds on sustained productivity of stocks of fish of common concern in the Great Lakes.
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| H R 2501 | To clarify the boundaries of Coastal Barrier Resources System Cape Fear Unit NC-07P.
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| H R 2502 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce estate and gift tax rates, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2503 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that tax attributes shall not be reduced in connection with a discharge of indebtedness in a title 11 case of a company having asbestos-related claims against it.
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| H R 2504 | To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to improve the opportunity for Federal student loan borrowers to consolidate their loans at reasonable interest rates.
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| H R 2505 | To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to permit refinancing of student consolidation loans, increase Pell Grant maximum awards, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2506 | To provide for the establishment of the Kosovar-American Enterprise Fund to promote small business and microcredit lending and housing construction and reconstruction for Kosova.
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| H R 2507 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for a public response to the public health crisis of pain, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2508 | To prohibit the Department of Energy from disposing low-level radioactive waste in certain landfills.
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| H R 2509 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for capital gains treatment for certain termination payments received by former insurance salesmen.
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| H R 2510 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2000 Allston Way in Berkeley, California, as the "Maudelle Shirek Post Office Building".
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| H R 2511 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Defense to provide veterans who have a 100 percent service-connected disability with space-available travel on military aircraft in the same manner and to the same extent as retired members of the Armed Forces.
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| H R 2512 | To establish a realistic, threat-based allocation of grant funds for first responders.
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| H R 2513 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the immediate and permanent repeal of the estate tax on family-owned businesses and farms, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2514 | To freeze and repeal portions of the tax cut enacted in the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 and to apply savings therefrom to a comprehensive Medicare outpatient prescription drug benefit.
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| H R 2515 | To prevent unsolicited commercial electronic mail.
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| H R 2516 | To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to clarify that Christmas tree farming is agriculture under that Act.
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| H R 2517 | To enhance criminal enforcement of the copyright laws, educate the public about the application of copyright law to the Internet, and clarify the authority to seize unauthorized copyrighted works.
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| H R 2518 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for consolidation and improvement of programs to assist homeless veterans, to provide for management by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs of the Military Personnel Records facility of the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, Missouri, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2519 | To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to ensure the humane slaughter of nonambulatory livestock, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2520 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire by donation certain property in Alabama to provide for the protection and preservation of certain rare paleontological resources on that property, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2521 | To require the Comptroller General to conduct a study of the business practices, procedures, accountability, and administration of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers and of the Internet domain name system, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2522 | To amend the Organic Act of Guam to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to reduce, release, or waive amounts owed by the Government of Guam to the United States to offset unreimbursed Compact impact expenses.
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| H R 2523 | To designate the United States courthouse located at 125 Bull Street in Savannah, Georgia, as the "Tomochichi United States Courthouse".
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| H R 2524 | To redesignate the Federal building located at 935 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest in the District of Columbia as the "Federal Bureau of Investigation Building".
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| H R 2525 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to permit certain Mexican children, and accompanying adults, to obtain a waiver of the documentation requirements otherwise required to enter the United States as a temporary visitor.
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| H R 2526 | To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-296) to provide for the protection of voluntarily furnished confidential information, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2527 | To provide for the provision by hospitals of emergency contraceptives to women who are survivors of sexual assault.
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| H R 2528 | To establish the Hudson-Fulton-Champlain 400th Commemoration Commission, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2529 | To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require not less than 75 percent of the amount of individual contributions accepted by Congressional candidates to come from in-State residents, to increase disclosure requirements, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2530 | To authorize grants for community telecommunications infrastructure planning and market development, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2531 | To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act relating to wetlands mitigation banking, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2532 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore the applicability of the estate tax to estates over $3,000,000, to restore the 50-percent maximum rate, and to deposit revenues from the estate tax into Social Security Trust Funds.
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| H R 2533 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 10701 Abercorn Street in Savannah, Georgia, as the "J.C. Lewis, Jr. Post Office Building".
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| H R 2534 | To promote human rights, democracy, and the rule of law by providing a process for executive agencies for declassifying on an expedited basis and disclosing certain documents relating to human rights abuses in countries other than the United States.
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| H R 2535 | To reauthorize and improve the program authorized by the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965.
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| H R 2536 | To make the protection of women and children who are affected by a complex humanitarian emergency a priority of the United States Government, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2537 | To develop and coordinate a national emergency warning system.
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| H R 2538 | To designate the United States courthouse located at 400 North Miami Avenue in Miami, Florida, as the "Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. United States Courthouse".
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| H R 2539 | To provide enhanced Federal enforcement and assistance in preventing and prosecuting crimes of violence against children.
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| H R 2540 | To require the Secretary of Defense to report to Congress regarding the requirements applicable to the inscription of veterans' names on the memorial wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
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| H R 2541 | To amend the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to require public disclosure of information about cases of child abuse or neglect which result in child fatality, near fatality, other serious injury, or felony conviction.
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| H R 2542 | To amend chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, to establish the Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review.
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| H R 2543 | To amend section 504(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to eliminate the 2-year wait out period for grant recipients under the Hispanic-Serving Institutions program.
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| H R 2544 | To improve the quality, availability, diversity, personal privacy, and innovation of health care in the United States.
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| H R 2545 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to waive the 10-percent additional tax on early distributions from section 401(k) plans in the case of hardship of certain employees due to facility closures or employers in bankruptcy.
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| H R 2546 | To amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to require consumer reporting agencies to provide any consumer with a free credit report annually upon the request of the consumer, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2547 | To mandate price stability as the primary goal of the monetary policy of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Open Market Committee.
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| H R 2548 | To amend chapter 5 of subtitle I of title 40, United States Code, to enhance Federal asset management, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2549 | To amend the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act to prohibit creditors from taking action that is adverse to the interests of a consumer with respect to certain payments that are due in or shortly after the period of a disruption of the mail resulting from a national emergency declared under the National Emergencies Act.
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| H R 2550 | To amend the American Servicemembers' Protection Act of 2002 to provide clarification with respect to the eligibility of certain countries for United States military assistance.
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| H R 2551 | To amend the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to provide owners of non-Federal lands with a reliable method of receiving compensation for damages resulting from the spread of wildfire from nearby forested National Forest System lands or Bureau of Land Management lands, when those forested Federal lands are not maintained in the forest health status known as condition class 1.
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| H R 2552 | To improve the manner in which the Corporation for National and Community Service approves, and records obligations relating to, national service positions.
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| H R 2553 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants to provide treatment for diabetes in minority communities.
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| H R 2554 | For the relief of Junior Anthony Francis.
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| H R 2555 | Making appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2556 | To provide low-income parents residing in the District of Columbia, particularly parents of students who attend elementary or secondary schools identified for improvement, corrective action, or restructuring under title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, with expanded opportunities for enrolling their children in higher-performing schools in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2557 | To provide for the conservation and development of water and related resources, to authorize the Secretary of the Army to construct various projects for improvements to rivers and harbors of the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2558 | To amend the Water Resources Development Act of 1976 to allow the Secretary of the Army to extend the period during which the Secretary may provide beach nourishment for a water resources development project.
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| H R 2559 | Making appropriations for military construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2560 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to clarify the scope of chiropractic services that may be furnished under the Medicare Program and that chiropractors are the only health care professionals qualified under that program to furnish those services.
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| H R 2561 | To provide grants to States to establish, expand, or enhance prekindergarten programs for children who are not yet enrolled in kindergarten.
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| H R 2562 | To provide financial assistance to law school graduates who choose to accept employment in a public interest position.
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| H R 2563 | To amend the Head Start Act to provide additional funding for States with increased numbers of children eligible for participation in Head Start programs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2564 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that the harbor maintenance tax is applied to certain ports that import cargo exceeding $100,000,000 in value per year.
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| H R 2565 | To amend section 2119 of title 18, United States Code, to strengthen Federal carjacking law.
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| H R 2566 | To reform the Army Corps of Engineers.
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| H R 2567 | To name the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as the "Paul Wellstone Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center".
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| H R 2568 | To amend title 23, United States Code, to establish a transportation and active living program, a safe routes to school program, and a nonmotorized transportation pilot program.
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| H R 2569 | To improve benefits for members of the Armed Forces and veterans and for their dependents and survivors.
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| H R 2570 | To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to reimburse States for direct expenses and losses incurred by State and local government entities during the effective period of a high threat condition (Code Orange) or severe threat condition (Code Red) declared by the Secretary of Homeland Security, that are in excess of normal operating expenses.
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| H R 2571 | To provide for the financing of high-speed rail infrastructure, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2572 | To authorize appropriations for the benefit of Amtrak for fiscal years 2004 through 2006, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2573 | To amend title 40, United States Code, to make reforms in the management and development of Federal real property.
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| H R 2574 | To abolish the death penalty under Federal law.
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| H R 2575 | To reform the regulation of certain housing-related Government-sponsored enterprises, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2576 | To amend the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940 to enhance the protection of credit ratings of active duty military personnel who are activated for military service.
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| H R 2577 | To require the Comptroller General to conduct a study and submit to Congress a report on price controls of foreign governments on pharmaceuticals.
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| H R 2578 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish a voluntary Medicare outpatient prescription drug discount and security program.
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| H R 2579 | To amend the Trade Act of 1974 to establish procedures for identifying countries that deny market access for agricultural products of the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2580 | To establish the Congaree Swamp National Park in the State of South Carolina, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2581 | To authorize State and local governments to petition the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for enforcement of certain violations of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, and to require the establishment of a manifest system for the interstate transportation of solid waste.
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| H R 2582 | To amend the State eligibility provisions for grants under section 106 of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to ensure that State foster care agencies meet certain requirements if the agencies have knowledge that foster children under the responsibility of the State are missing.
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| H R 2583 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to allow remarried widows, widowers, and surviving divorced spouses to become or remain entitled to widow's or widower's insurance benefits if the prior marriage was for at least 10 years.
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| H R 2584 | To provide for the conveyance to the Utrok Atoll local government of a decommissioned National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ship, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2585 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to permit certain long-term permanent resident aliens to seek cancellation of removal under such Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2586 | To provide for the conveyance of certain National Forest System lands to the towns of Laona and Wabeno, Wisconsin.
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| H R 2587 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to establish a combat badge for helicopter medical evacuation ambulance (Medevac) pilots and crews.
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| H R 2588 | To establish under the Medicare Program under title XVIII of the Social Security Act incentives to health care providers for delivering high-quality, cost-effective health care to Medicare beneficiaries.
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| H R 2589 | To amend title 40, United States Code, to add Nicholas and Robertson Counties, Kentucky, to the Appalachian region.
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| H R 2590 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to permit the admission to the United States of nonimmigrant students and visitors who are the spouses and children of United States permanent resident aliens, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2591 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for Small Business Protection Accounts, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2592 | To promote improved nutrition for needy Americans, including women, infants, children, and students, by revising and enhancing Federal nutrition programs to incorporate a greater role for fruits, vegetables, and 100 percent juice products.
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| H R 2593 | To provide veterans benefits to certain individuals who serve in the United States merchant marine during a period of war.
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| H R 2594 | To establish an Adult Job Corps demonstration program for the United States-Mexico border area.
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| H R 2595 | To restore the operation of the Native American Veteran Housing Loan Program during fiscal year 2003 to the scope of that program as in effect on September 30, 2002.
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| H R 2596 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a deduction to individuals for amounts contributed to health savings security accounts and health savings accounts, to provide for the disposition of unused health benefits in cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2597 | To amend the Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement Act to revise and extend that Act.
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| H R 2598 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to authorize waivers by the Commissioner of Social Security of the 5-month waiting period for entitlement to benefits based on disability in cases in which the Commissioner determines that such waiting period would cause undue hardship to terminally ill beneficiaries.
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| H R 2599 | To direct the Secretary of the Interior to quitclaim to Yuba River Properties certain land in Yuba County, California, so as to extinguish a claim of title asserted by the Department of the Interior.
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| H R 2600 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to simplify the requirements for United States nationals to become citizens.
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| H R 2601 | To amend title 17, United States Code, to allow abandoned copyrighted works to enter the public domain after 50 years.
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| H R 2602 | To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to make the authority of the Secretary to designate critical habitat discretionary instead of mandatory, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2603 | To impose limitations on the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to claim title or other rights to water absent specific direction of law or to abrogate, injure, or otherwise impair any right to the use of any quantity of water.
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| H R 2604 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives to encourage diversity of ownership of telecommunications businesses, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2605 | To nullify the effect of section 4 of Executive Order 13279.
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| H R 2606 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide prescription drug coverage under the Medicare Program, to make improvements in Medicare payment for rural providers, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2607 | To modify the contract consolidation requirements in the Small Business Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2608 | To reauthorize the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2609 | To amend title 11, United States Code, to provide for the avoidance of certain transfers, and the alternate prosecution of certain actions, relating to certain retirement benefits.
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| H R 2610 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore the estate tax and repeal the carryover basis rule, to increase the estate and gift tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $5,000,000, and to reduce the rate of the estate and gifts taxes to the generally applicable capital gains income tax rate.
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| H R 2611 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to exempt from the windfall elimination provision of such title individuals who are entitled to retired pay based on at least 20 years of service as a member of a uniformed service.
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| H R 2612 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide specially adapted housing assistance to veterans with permanent and total service-connected disabilities due to the loss, or loss of use of both upper extremities such as to preclude use of the arms at and below the elbows.
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| H R 2613 | To amend title 17, United States Code, to exclude from copyright protection works resulting from scientific research substantially funded by the Federal Government.
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| H R 2614 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to equalize the exclusion from gross income of parking and transportation fringe benefits and to provide for a common cost-of-living adjustment.
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| H R 2615 | To provide funding for infrastructure investment to restore the United States economy and to enhance the security of transportation and environmental facilities throughout the United States.
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| H R 2616 | To increase the capabilities of the United States to provide reconstruction assistance to countries or regions impacted by armed conflict, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2617 | To protect American consumers from identity theft and other forms of fraud.
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| H R 2618 | Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2619 | To provide for the expansion of Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge.
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| H R 2620 | To authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2004 and 2005 for the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2621 | To amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to establish requirements for fishing quota systems.
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| H R 2622 | Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 | |
| H R 2623 | To provide for the expansion of the Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge in Bibb County, Alabama.
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| H R 2624 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve the provision of items and services provided to Medicare beneficiaries residing in rural areas.
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| H R 2625 | To establish the Independent Commission on Intelligence about Iraq.
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| H R 2626 | To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to improve certain child nutrition programs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2627 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that amounts paid for foods for special dietary use, dietary supplements, or medical foods shall be treated as medical expenses.
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| H R 2628 | To provide affordable housing opportunities for families that are headed by grandparents and other relatives of children.
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| H R 2629 | To provide for the importation of drugs into the United States from Canada and Mexico, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2630 | To prevent commercial alien smuggling, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2631 | To provide that the actuarial value of the prescription drug benefits offered to Medicare eligible enrollees by a plan under the Federal employees health benefits program shall be at least equal to the actuarial value of the prescription drug benefits offered by such plan to its enrollees generally.
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| H R 2632 | To direct the Secretary of Transportation to issue a regulation requiring the installation of 2 combination cockpit voice recorder and digital flight data recorder systems in each commercial passenger aircraft, currently required to carry each of those recorders, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2633 | To establish methods for preventing identity theft and to amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to protect consumers' sensitive, private health-related information, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2634 | To suspend temporarily the duty on certain steam generators and certain reactor vessel heads for use in nuclear reactors.
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| H R 2635 | To make permanent the reduction in capital gains rates for individuals made by the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003.
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| H R 2636 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to make grants to State and tribal governments to assist State and tribal efforts to manage and control the spread of chronic wasting disease in deer and elk herds, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2637 | To amend the Electronic Fund Transfer Act to require additional disclosures relating to exchange rates in transfers involving international transactions.
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| H R 2638 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the increase in expensing of certain depreciable business assets enacted by the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act 2003.
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| H R 2639 | To expedite procedures for hazardous fuels reduction activities and restoration in wildland fire prone National Forests, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2640 | To provide greater access to affordable pharmaceuticals, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2641 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to implement the Calfed Bay-Delta Program.
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| H R 2642 | To suspend temporarily the duty on Procion Yellow H-EXL.
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| H R 2643 | To suspend temporarily the duty on Procion Crimson H-EXL.
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| H R 2644 | To suspend temporarily the duty on Procion Navy H-EXL.
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| H R 2645 | To suspend temporarily the duty on Dianix Black XF.
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| H R 2646 | To suspend temporarily the duty on Dianix Crimson SF.
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| H R 2647 | To provide for nuclear disarmament and economic conversion in accordance with District of Columbia Initiative Measure Number 37 of 1992.
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| H R 2648 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit the use of proceeds of tax exempt private activity bonds for community and water facility loans guaranteed under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act.
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| H R 2649 | To prohibit the Secretary of Education from making any funds available to a State under any program administered by the Department of Education unless the Secretary determines that the State has in place a criminal information sharing system.
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| H R 2650 | To prohibit the study or implementation of any plan to privatize, divest, or transfer any part of the mission, function, or responsibility of the National Park Service.
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| H R 2651 | To direct the Secretary of Education to make grants to States to establish antibullying programs.
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| H R 2652 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to the sale of prescription drugs through the Internet.
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| H R 2653 | To facilitate acquisition by the Secretary of the Interior of certain mineral rights, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2654 | To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to issue regulations under which the Secretary may authorize use of a decommissioned offshore oil and gas platform for culture of marine organisms, an artificial reef, or scientific research, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2655 | To amend and extend the Irish Peace Process Cultural and Training Program Act of 1998.
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| H R 2656 | To amend the Graton Rancheria Restoration Act to give the Secretary of the Interior discretion regarding taking land into trust.
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| H R 2657 | Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2658 | Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2659 | To require advance notification of Congress regarding any action proposed to be taken by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in the implementation of the Capital Asset Realignment for Enhanced Services initiative of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2660 | Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2661 | To name the Capitol Visitor Center after J. Strom Thurmond.
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| H R 2662 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that certain limousines are not subject to the gas guzzler tax.
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| H R 2663 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and feasibility of designating Castle Nugent Farms located on St. Croix, Virgin Islands, as a unit of the National Park System, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2664 | To provide for Medicare reimbursement for health care services provided to Medicare-eligible veterans in facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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| H R 2665 | To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to protect the rights of employees to receive overtime compensation.
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| H R 2666 | To authorize funds for fiscal year 2004 for research, development, test, and evaluation for a prototype multi-role, long-range sniper system.
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| H R 2667 | To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require the disclosure of certain information by persons conducting phone banks during campaigns for election for Federal office, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2668 | To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to direct the Great Lakes National Program Office of the Environmental Protection Agency to develop, implement, monitor, and report on a series of indicators of water quality and related environmental factors in the Great Lakes.
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| H R 2669 | To provide a model for school districts in the United States using and building on the experience of the District of Columbia in establishing fully accountable public alternatives to traditional public schools.
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| H R 2670 | To limit the reimbursement of travel expenses of the members and employees of the Federal Communications Commission.
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| H R 2671 | To provide for enhanced Federal, State, and local enforcement of the immigration laws of the United States.
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| H R 2672 | To amend title 23, United States Code, to permit voluntary compliance with provisions relating to the rate of wage paid to laborers and mechanics employed on Federal-aid highway projects.
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| H R 2673 | Making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2674 | To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide for student loan forgiveness to encourage individuals to become and remain librarians in low income areas.
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| H R 2675 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat Indian tribes the same as State governments for purposes of chapter 35 of such Code.
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| H R 2676 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide that consensual sexual activity between adults shall not be a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
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| H R 2677 | To amend title 1, United States Code, to eliminate any Federal policy on the definition of marriage.
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| H R 2678 | To expand the teacher loan forgiveness programs under the guaranteed and direct student loan programs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2679 | To amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to make New York a member of the New England Fishery Management Council.
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| H R 2680 | To authorize the President to award a gold medal on behalf of the Congress to Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. (posthumously) and his widow Coretta Scott King in recognition of their contributions to the Nation on behalf of the civil rights movement.
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| H R 2681 | To amend title 23, United States Code, to increase penalties for individuals who operate motor vehicles while intoxicated or under the influence of alcohol.
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| H R 2682 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce estate tax rates by 20 percent, to increase the unified credit against estate and gift taxes to the equivalent of a $3,000,000 exclusion and to provide an inflation adjustment of such amount, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2683 | To provide for disclosure of fire safety standards and measures with respect to campus buildings, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2684 | To provide emergency assistance to producers that have suffered crop losses due to disasters.
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| H R 2685 | To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to reauthorize the Matching Grant Program for School Security.
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| H R 2686 | To ensure the safety of recreational fishermen and other persons who use motor vehicles to access beaches adjacent to the Brigantine Wilderness Area in the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, New Jersey, by providing a narrow transition zone above the mean high tide line where motor vehicles can be safely driven and parked.
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| H R 2687 | To allow beach maintenance and grooming of certain areas.
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| H R 2688 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to repeal authorities relating to H1-B visas for temporary workers.
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| H R 2689 | To establish the Mississippi Gulf Coast National Heritage Area in the State of Mississippi, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2690 | To amend the Native American Languages Act to provide for the support of Native American language survival schools, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2691 | Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2692 | To authorize appropriations for activities under the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 for fiscal years 2004 through 2006, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2693 | To reauthorize the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2694 | To establish a program to transfer surplus computers of Federal agencies to schools and nonprofit community-based educational organizations, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2695 | To designate Pennsylvania State Route 60 and United States Routes 22 and 30 as part of the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2696 | To establish Institutes to demonstrate and promote the use of adaptive ecosystem management to reduce the risk of wildfires, and restore the health of fire-adapted forest and woodland ecosystems of the interior West.
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| H R 2697 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an additional personal exemption for certain dependents with long-term care needs.
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| H R 2698 | To provide for a system of health insurance certificates to increase the number of Americans with health insurance coverage.
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| H R 2699 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide for uniform food safety warning notification requirements, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2700 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to revise the methodology by which payment for orphan drugs and biologicals is made under program prospective payment system for hospital outpatient department services under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 2701 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to extend to additional military retirees with service-connected disabilities the special compensation authority provided for certain retirees with combat-related disabilities.
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| H R 2702 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to the admission of L-1 intra-company transferree nonimmigrants.
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| H R 2703 | To reserve a small percentage of the amounts made available to the Secretary of Agriculture for the farmland protection program to fund challenge grants to encourage the purchase of conservation easements and other interests in land to be held by a State agency, county, or other eligible entity, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2704 | To extend the authorization for the ferry boat discretionary program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2705 | To amend title 39, United States Code, to provide for free mailing privileges for personal correspondence and certain parcels sent from within the United States to members of the Armed Forces serving on active duty abroad who are engaged in military operations involving armed conflict against a hostile foreign force, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2706 | To clarify the treatment of tax attributes under section 108 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 for taxpayers which file consolidated returns.
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| H R 2707 | To provide for an assessment of the extent of the invasion of Salt Cedar and Russian Olive on lands in the Western United States and efforts to date to control such invasion on public and private lands, including tribal lands, to establish a demonstration program to address the invasion of Salt Cedar and Russian Olive, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2708 | To provide for the security of commercial nuclear power plants and facilities designated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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| H R 2709 | To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to replace the Federal Election Commission with the Federal Election Administration, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2710 | To ensure that a flag is furnished to drape the casket of each public safety officer killed in the line of duty.
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| H R 2711 | To permit refinancing of Federal student consolidation loans, and to permit students freedom to select a student loan consolidator.
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| H R 2712 | To authorize the Surface Transportation Board to direct the continued operation of certain commuter rail passenger transportation operations in emergency situations, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2713 | For the relief of Mai Thi Thuy Nuong.
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| H R 2714 | To reauthorize the State Justice Institute.
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| H R 2715 | To provide for necessary improvements to facilities at Yosemite National Park, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2716 | To amend the Compact of Free Association of 1985 to provide for adequate Compact-impact aid.
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| H R 2717 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to establish a program to provide for the voluntary certification of Internet and mail-order pharmacies, to amend such Act to authorize, subject to certain conditions, the importation by individuals of prescription drugs from Canada for personal use, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2718 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a uniform definition of child, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2719 | To provide special funding requirements for certain pension plans maintained by commercial passenger air carriers.
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| H R 2720 | To authorize appropriations for State programs and activities for the restoration of the Great Lakes, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2721 | To amend the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940 to provide certain relief under that Act for members of the reserve components who are attending postsecondary educational institutions when called or ordered to active duty.
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| H R 2722 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to allow additional transit systems greater flexibility with certain mass transportation projects.
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| H R 2723 | To amend title 28, United States Code, to provide for the appointment of additional Federal circuit judges, to divide the Ninth Judicial Circuit of the United States into two circuits, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2724 | To amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to prohibit the use of any information in any consumer report by any credit card issuer that is unrelated to the transactions and experience of the card issuer with the consumer to increase the annual percentage rate applicable to credit extended to the consumer, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2725 | To authorize the Secretary of Transportation to establish a grant program for the rehabilitation, preservation, or improvement of railroad track.
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| H R 2726 | To establish a national rail passenger transportation system, reauthorize Amtrak, improve security and service on Amtrak, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2727 | To require equitable coverage of prescription contraceptive drugs and devices, and contraceptive services under health plans.
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| H R 2728 | To amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to provide for adjudicative flexibility with regard to an employer filing of a notice of contest following the issuance of a citation by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration; to provide for greater efficiency at the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission; to provide for an independent review of citations issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration; to provide for the award of attorney's fees and costs to very small employers when they prevail in litigation prompted by the issuance of citations by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration; and to amend the Paperwork Reduction Act and titles 5 and 31, United States Code, to reform Federal paperwork and regulatory processes.
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| H R 2729 | To amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to provide for greater efficiency at the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission.
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| H R 2730 | To amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to provide for an independent review of citations issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
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| H R 2731 | To amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to provide for the award of attorney's fees and costs to very small employers when they prevail in litigation prompted by the issuance of citations by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
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| H R 2732 | To amend selected statutes to clarify existing Federal law as to the treatment of students privately educated at home under State law.
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| H R 2733 | To amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to bring underground storage tanks into compliance with subtitle I of that Act, to promote cleanup of leaking underground storage tanks, to provide sufficient resources for such compliance and cleanup, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2734 | To authorize appropriations for the civil aviation research and development projects and activities of the Federal Aviation Administration, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2735 | To protect the rights of American consumers to diagnose, service, and repair motor vehicles purchased in the United States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2736 | To amend title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930 with respect to determining certain antidumping calculations for merchandise from former nonmarket economy countries.
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| H R 2737 | To amend the Trade Act of 1974 and the Sherman Act to address foreign private and joint public-private market access barriers that harm United States trade, and to amend the Trade Act of 1974 to address the failure of foreign governments to cooperate in the provision of information relating to certain investigations.
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| H R 2738 | United States-Chile Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act | |
| H R 2739 | United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement | |
| H R 2740 | To amend the National Housing Act to authorize the Government National Mortgage Association to guarantee securities backed by loans guaranteed by the Rural Housing Service under section 538 of the Housing Act of 1949.
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| H R 2741 | To provide for a comprehensive Federal effort relating to early detection of, treatments for, and the prevention of cancer, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2742 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide penalties for armored car robberies.
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| H R 2743 | To require the Comptroller General to prepare statements for bills and resolutions reported by committees of the House of Representatives and the Senate on whether any new entities, programs, or functions authorized by the bills or resolutions are redundant with existing Federal entities, programs, or functions and could be more efficiently performed by an existing Federal entity, program, or function, and to require such statements to accompany reports on legislation.
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| H R 2744 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 514 17th Street in Moline, Illinois, as the "David Bybee Post Office Building".
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| H R 2745 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require a sports franchise to provide for all of the games played by the franchise to be available for local television broadcasting in order to be subject to the presumption that 50 percent of the consideration in the sale or exchange of a sports franchise is allocable to player contracts.
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| H R 2746 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 141 Weston Street in Hartford, Connecticut, as the "Barbara B. Kennelly Post Office Building".
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| H R 2747 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to update the optional methods for computing net earnings from self-employment.
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| H R 2748 | To amend chapter 84 of title 5, United States Code, to allow individuals who return to Government service after receiving a refund of retirement contributions to recapture credit for the service covered by that refund by repaying the amount that was so received, with interest.
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| H R 2749 | To amend section 19 of title 3, United States Code, to allow the President to choose between possible successors in case of the event that, by reason of certain circumstances, there is neither a President nor Vice President to discharge the powers and duties of the office of President, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2750 | To make technical amendments to the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978.
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| H R 2751 | To provide new human capital flexibilities with respect to the GAO, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2752 | To encourage the development and distribution of creative works by enhancing domestic and international enforcement of the copyright laws, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2753 | To direct the Secretary of the Army to convey certain land in Georgia and South Carolina to the counties in which the land is located, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2754 | Making appropriations for energy and water development for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2755 | To authorize the President to issue posthumously to the late William "Billy" Mitchell a commission as major general, United States Army.
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| H R 2756 | To direct the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to establish an earned income credit public awareness campaign to increase public awareness and educate Americans of the earned income credit.
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| H R 2757 | To direct the President to assess the advisability of requiring each State to use the Death Master File of the Social Security Administration in issuing drivers' licenses to individuals.
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| H R 2758 | To redesignate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 101 South Vine Street in Glenwood, Iowa, as the "William J. Scherle Post Office Building".
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| H R 2759 | To amend the Hmong Veterans' Naturalization Act of 2000 to extend the deadlines for application and payment of fees.
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| H R 2760 | To limit United States assistance for Ethiopia and Eritrea if those countries are not in compliance with the terms and conditions of agreements entered into by the two countries to end hostilities and provide for a demarcation of the border between the two countries, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2761 | To amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 and the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 to strengthen security at sensitive nuclear facilities.
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| H R 2762 | To establish a vocational and technical education grant program.
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| H R 2763 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a business credit for donations for vocational educational purposes.
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| H R 2764 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to extend to all members of the Armed Forces eligible for educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill the authority to transfer entitlement to such educational assistance to dependents, and to provide a six month period for enrollment under the Montgomery GI Bill.
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| H R 2765 | Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of said District for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2766 | To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to exchange certain lands in the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests in the State of Colorado.
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| H R 2767 | To improve Federal agency oversight of contracts and assistance and to strengthen accountability of the governmentwide debarment and suspension system.
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| H R 2768 | To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of Chief Justice John Marshall.
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| H R 2769 | To permit commercial importation of prescription drugs from Canada, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2770 | To amend part A of title IV of the Social Security Act to reauthorize and improve the operation of temporary assistance to needy families programs operated by Indian tribes, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2771 | To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to reauthorize the New York City Watershed Protection Program.
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| H R 2772 | To amend the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 to promote the development and use of geothermal resources in the United States.
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| H R 2773 | To protect children from foods that pose a significant choking hazard.
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| H R 2774 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the disclosure to State and local law enforcement agencies of the identity of individuals claiming tax benefits improperly using Social Security numbers of other individuals.
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| H R 2775 | To amend the Hydrographic Services Improvement Act of 1998 to authorize funds to be appropriated for the Great Lakes Water Level Observation Network.
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| H R 2776 | To help ensure general aviation aircraft access to Federal land and to the airspace over that land.
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| H R 2777 | To prohibit the Secretary of the Treasury and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from including any information storage capability on the currency of the United States or imposing any fee or penalty on any person for the holding by such person of currency of the United States, including Federal reserve notes, for any period of time.
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| H R 2778 | To abolish the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal reserve banks, to repeal the Federal Reserve Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2779 | To repeal section 5103 of title 31, United States Code.
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| H R 2780 | To sunset the Bretton Woods Agreements Act.
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| H R 2781 | To provide greater health care freedom for seniors.
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| H R 2782 | To amend title 31, United States Code, to limit the use by the President and the Secretary of the Treasury of the Exchange Stabilization Fund to buy or sell gold without congressional approval, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2783 | To restore Congress' constitutional role in international transactions involving the Exchange Stabilization Fund, and to limit the amount of individual loans or credits that may be provided to a foreign entity through that fund.
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| H R 2784 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow certain individuals who have attained age 50 and who are unemployed to receive distributions from qualified retirement plans without incurring a 10 percent additional tax.
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| H R 2785 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for an enhanced deduction for qualified residence interest on acquisition indebtedness for heritage homes.
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| H R 2786 | To name the Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in the Bronx, New York, as the "James J. Peters Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center".
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| H R 2787 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to eliminate discriminatory copayment rates for outpatient psychiatric services under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 2788 | To direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to conduct a pilot program to raise awareness about telework among small business employers, and to encourage such employers to offer telework options to employees.
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| H R 2789 | To protect the right to obtain firearms for security, and to use firearms in defense of self, family, or home, and to provide for the enforcement of such right.
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| H R 2790 | To amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to protect breastfeeding by new mothers; to provide for a performance standard for breast pumps; and to provide tax incentives to encourage breastfeeding.
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| H R 2791 | To eliminate the unfair and disadvantageous treatment of cash military compensation other than basic pay under the supplemental security income benefits program.
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| H R 2792 | To extend eligibility for refugee status of unmarried sons and daughters of certain Vietnamese refugees.
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| H R 2793 | To provide for and approve the settlement of certain land claims of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians.
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| H R 2794 | To authorize the transfer of the U.S.S. Narwhal to the National Submarine Science Discovery Center in Newport, Kentucky.
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| H R 2795 | To amend the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to provide vouchers for the purchase of educational books for infants and children participating in the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children under that Act.
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| H R 2796 | To amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to prohibit the use of consumer credit history for any insurance purpose and to require the disclosure of consumer reports and the credit scoring procedure in order to prevent inaccuracies and mistakes in consumer credit reports, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2797 | To amend title 32, United States Code, to improve the readiness of State defense forces and to increase military coordination for homeland security between the States and the Department of Defense.
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| H R 2798 | For the relief of Gracekutty Thomas and her son Gladwin Thomas.
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| H R 2799 | Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2800 | Making appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2801 | To establish a digital and wireless network technology program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2802 | To reauthorize the Small Business Act and the Small Business Investment Act of 1958, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2803 | To establish the Office of Housing Finance Oversight in the Department of the Treasury to ensure the financial safety and soundness of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal home loan banks.
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| H R 2804 | To make supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2003 to ensure the inclusion of commonly used pesticides in State source water assessment programs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2805 | To allow the counties of Hawaii, Maui, and Kauai to distribute grant funds received under section 106(d) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2806 | To name the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Prescott, Arizona, as the "Bob Stump Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center".
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| H R 2807 | To establish grant programs to improve the health of border area residents and for bioterrorism preparedness in the border area, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2808 | To require advance notification of Congress regarding any action proposed to be taken by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in the implementation of the Capital Asset Realignment for Enhanced Services initiative of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2809 | To establish a pilot program of Central Asian scholarships for undergraduate and graduate level public policy internships in the United States.
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| H R 2810 | To establish a pilot program of Afghanistan scholarships for undergraduate and graduate level public policy internships in the United States.
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| H R 2811 | To assist local educational agencies in providing financial incentives to attract teachers to teach in rural and high-poverty areas.
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| H R 2812 | To direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to conduct a study of the potentially injurious effects to the environment and human health from imported electrolytic manganese metal that contains selenium.
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| H R 2813 | To provide small businesses certain protections from litigation excesses and to limit the product liability of nonmanufacturer product sellers.
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| H R 2814 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify that qualified personal service corporations may continue to use the cash method of accounting, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2815 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the expensing of environmental remediation costs.
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| H R 2816 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in the management of health care services for veterans to place certain low-income veterans in a higher health-care priority category.
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| H R 2817 | To provide that the actuarial value of the prescription drug benefits of Members of Congress under the Federal employees health benefits program may not exceed the actuarial value of any prescription drug benefit under the Medicare Program.
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| H R 2818 | To award a congressional gold medal to the family of the late Raul Julia.
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| H R 2819 | To establish a program to provide assistance for developing countries of Eurasia and the Middle East.
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| H R 2820 | To extend to the Mayor of the District of Columbia the same authority with respect to the National Guard of the District of Columbia as the Governors of the several States exercise with respect to the National Guard of those States.
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| H R 2821 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for direct access to audiologists for Medicare beneficiaries, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2822 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude working capital in applying the accumulated earnings tax.
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| H R 2823 | To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of veterans who became disabled for life while serving in the Armed Forces of the United States.
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| H R 2824 | To revise and reform the Act commonly called the Jenkins Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2825 | To require the Federal Communications Commission to take actions necessary to ensure expeditious access by consumers to terrestrial digital television services.
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| H R 2826 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1000 Avenida Sanchez Osorio in Carolina, Puerto Rico, as the "Roberto Clemente Walker Post Office Building".
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| H R 2827 | To phase out the incineration of solid waste, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2828 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to implement water supply technology and infrastructure programs aimed at increasing and diversifying domestic water resources.
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| H R 2829 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve compensation benefits for veterans in certain cases of impairment of vision involving both eyes.
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| H R 2830 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify that installment sales treatment shall not fail to apply to property acquired for conservation purposes by a State or local government or certain tax-exempt organizations merely because purchase funds are held in a sinking or similar fund pursuant to State law.
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| H R 2831 | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey the Newlands Project Headquarters and Maintenance Yard Facility to the Truckee-Carson Irrigation District.
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| H R 2832 | To promote improved nutrition for students by expanding the Fruit and Vegetable Pilot Program under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act.
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| H R 2833 | To posthumously award a congressional gold medal to Wilma G. Rudolph.
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| H R 2834 | To provide for a pilot program to be conducted by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs through the establishment of an electronic database to enable healthcare facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Iowa to share patient information with the State of Iowa Veterans Home on patients of both those facilities and that home.
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| H R 2835 | To provide for the remediation of abandoned and inactive hardrock mines in the Upper Animas River Basin in southwestern Colorado.
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| H R 2836 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce corporate refunds by fines and penalties imposed by reason of improper accounting or reporting practices or misstatements of its financial position.
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| H R 2837 | To provide for compassionate payments with regard to individuals who contracted human immunodeficiency virus due to the provision of a contaminated blood transfusion, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2838 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a credit for qualifying clean technology engines.
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| H R 2839 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code to restore equity and complete the transfer of motor fuel excise taxes attributable to motorboat and small engine fuels into the Aquatic Resources Trust Fund, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2840 | To amend the Social Security Act to remove the limitation on the period of Medicare eligibility for disabled workers.
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| H R 2841 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the waiver authority relating to the implementation of machine readable passports and to expand the definition of terrorist activities for purposes of deportation.
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| H R 2842 | For the relief of Shiuyun Holst Zhou.
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| H R 2843 | To adjust the immigration status of certain Colombian and Peruvian nationals who are in the United States.
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| H R 2844 | To require States to hold special elections to fill vacancies in the House of Representatives not later than 45 days after the vacancy is announced by the Speaker of the House of Representatives in extraordinary circumstances.
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| H R 2845 | To amend the Merchant Marine Act, 1920, to allow transportation of merchandise in noncontiguous trade on foreign-flag vessels, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2846 | To amend the Merchant Marine Act, 1920, to allow transportation of merchandise in Hawaiian noncontiguous trade on foreign-flag vessels, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2847 | To amend the Merchant Marine Act, 1920, to allow transportation of certain agricultural goods and livestock in Hawaiian noncontiguous trade on foreign-flag vessels, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2848 | To provide for Federal custody and Federal payment of costs of emergency ambulance and medical services for aliens illegally attempting to enter the United States.
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| H R 2849 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to the H-1B and L-1 visa programs to prevent unintended United States job losses, to increase the monitoring and enforcement authority of the Secretary of Labor over such programs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2850 | To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to provide for the establishment in the Department of Labor of a Small Employer Health Benefits Program.
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| H R 2851 | To amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to improve the affordability of health insurance coverage for small employers.
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| H R 2852 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a National Cord Blood Stem Cell Bank Network to prepare, store, and distribute human umbilical cord blood stem cells for the treatment of patients and to support peer-reviewed research using such cells.
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| H R 2853 | To designate Colombia under section 244 of the Immigration and Nationality Act in order to make nationals of Colombia eligible for temporary protected status under such section.
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| H R 2854 | To amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to extend the availability of allotments for fiscal years 1998 through 2001 under the State Children's Health Insurance Program, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2855 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the 50-percent bonus depreciation added by the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003.
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| H R 2856 | To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to carry out demonstration projects to increase the supply of organs donated for human transplantation.
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| H R 2857 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to authorize the Food and Drug Administration to require certain research into drugs used in pediatric patients.
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| H R 2858 | To prohibit material support for terrorism, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2859 | Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2003.
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| H R 2860 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an exclusion from gross income for qualified national service educational awards.
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| H R 2861 | Making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2862 | To amend the Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act of 1999 to provide residents of States with single network affiliate stations to receive the signals of such stations via satellite, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2863 | To amend title 49, United States Code, relating to responsibility for intermodal equipment compliance with commercial motor vehicle safety requirements, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2864 | To amend title 23, United States Code, to provide increased flexibility to donor States, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2865 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a credit for qualified clean-fuel vehicles which are used in certain ozone nonattainment areas.
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| H R 2866 | To amend title 36, United States Code, to grant a Federal charter to the Sons and Daughters of Pearl Harbor Survivors, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2867 | To reform the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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| H R 2868 | To award a congressional gold medal to Michael Ellis DeBakey, M.D.
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| H R 2869 | To direct the Secretary of the Interior to sell certain public lands subject to mining operations in Eureka, Lander, White Pine, Elko, and Humboldt Counties, Nevada, for the reclamation of abandoned mines in Nevada, to promote and enhance economic development, education, and local government revenues, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2870 | To protect day laborers from unfair labor practices.
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| H R 2871 | To establish a National Drought Council within the Department of Agriculture, to improve national drought preparedness, mitigation, and response efforts, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2872 | To make Federal law apply to antique firearms in the same way it applies to other firearms.
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| H R 2873 | To amend the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1994 to prevent the abuse of inhalants through programs under that Act, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2874 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide improved prescription drug benefits for veterans.
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| H R 2875 | To establish procedures for consideration of applications for award of the Purple Heart medal to veterans who were held as prisoners of war before April 25, 1962.
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| H R 2876 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals a refundable credit for amounts paid for products and counseling designed to assist individuals to cease using tobacco products.
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| H R 2877 | To provide for the revocation of certain exclusions from the safeguard measures imposed by the President on imports of certain steel products.
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| H R 2878 | To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to improve Federal response efforts after a terrorist strike or other major disaster affecting homeland security, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2879 | To repeal the Bipartisan Trade Promotion Authority Act of 2002.
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| H R 2880 | To support the establishment or expansion and operation of programs using a network of public and private community entities to provide mentoring for children in foster care.
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| H R 2881 | To reauthorize the Emergency Steel Loan Guarantee Act of 1999, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2882 | To reduce traffic congestion, promote economic development, and improve the quality of life in the metropolitan Washington region.
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| H R 2883 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a refundable long-term care tax credit, and to provide for programs within the Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Veterans Affairs for patients with fatal chronic illness.
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| H R 2884 | To provide dollars to the classroom.
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| H R 2885 | To prohibit the distribution of peer-to-peer file trading software in interstate commerce.
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| H R 2886 | To amend title 31, United States Code, to improve the financial accountability requirements applicable to the Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2887 | To provide for naturalization through service in a combat zone designated in connection with Operation Iraqi Freedom, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2888 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to deny employers a deduction for payments of excessive compensation.
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| H R 2889 | To direct the Secretary of Commerce to conduct a study of existing and new fishery observer data to effectively map migratory patterns, delineate wintering areas and feeding grounds of Atlantic Striped Bass in the Mid-Atlantic exclusive economic zone, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2890 | To protect the public's ability to fish for sport, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2891 | To make COBRA continuing coverage more affordable for laid-off American workers.
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| H R 2892 | To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide for student loan forgiveness to encourage individuals to become and remain school administrators in low income areas.
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| H R 2893 | To direct the Secretary of Transportation to permit Federal participation in construction projects for the Mackinac Bridge Authority, Michigan.
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| H R 2894 | To establish the Theodore Roosevelt National Wildlife Refuge and the Holt Collier Wildlife Interpretation and Education Center.
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| H R 2895 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend bonus depreciation for 2 years.
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| H R 2896 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to remove impediments in such Code and make our manufacturing, service, and high-technology businesses and workers more competitive and productive both at home and abroad.
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| H R 2897 | To end homelessness in the United States.
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| H R 2898 | To improve homeland security, public safety, and citizen activated emergency response capabilities through the use of enhanced 911 wireless services, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2899 | To establish two new categories of nonimmigrant workers, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2900 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a 7-year recovery period for motorsports entertainment complexes.
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| H R 2901 | To protect human health and the environment from the release of hazardous substances by acts of terrorism.
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| H R 2902 | To establish the Corporate Subsidy Reform Commission to review inequitable Federal subsidies and make recommendations for termination, modification, or retention of such subsidies, and to state the sense of the Congress that the Congress should promptly consider legislation that would make the changes in law necessary to implement the recommendations.
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| H R 2903 | To establish the Program Reform Commission to review unnecessary Federal programs and make recommendations for termination, modification, or retention of such programs, and to state the sense of the Congress that the Congress should promptly consider legislation that would make the changes in law necessary to implement the recommendations.
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| H R 2904 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve the provision of items and services provided to Medicare beneficiaries residing in rural areas.
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| H R 2905 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to recognize the services of respiratory therapists under the plan of care for home health services.
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| H R 2906 | To clarify that federally licensed firerarms dealers may transfer firearms to other federally licensed firearms dealers at places other than the business premises specified on the license of the transferor dealer.
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| H R 2907 | To provide for a land exchange in the State of Arizona between the Secretary of Agriculture and Yavapai Ranch Limited Partnership.
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| H R 2908 | To establish the position of Under Secretary of Commerce for Manufacturing and Technology, require the establishment of a research and implementation program on manufacturing, and promote manufacturing education.
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| H R 2909 | To ensure the continued availability of the Utah Test and Training Range to support the readiness and training needs of the Armed Forces.
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| H R 2910 | To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 to provide special rules for Teamster plans relating to termination and funding.
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| H R 2911 | To direct the Consumer Product Safety Commission to promulgate a consumer product safety standard under section 7(a) of the Consumer Product Safety Act for each durable infant or toddler product, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2912 | To reaffirm the inherent sovereign rights of the Osage Tribe to determine its membership and form of government.
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| H R 2913 | To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 regarding distance education, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2914 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to provide for the establishment of a flexibility incentive grant program.
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| H R 2915 | To provide for a National Health Information Infrastructure and data and communication standards for health Information system interoperability.
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| H R 2916 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the Federal Meat Inspection Act, and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to require that food that contains a genetically engineered material, or that is produced with a genetically engineered material, be labeled accordingly.
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| H R 2917 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to the safety of genetically engineered foods, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2918 | To provide additional protections for farmers and ranchers that may be harmed economically by genetically engineered seeds, plants, or animals, to ensure fairness for farmers and ranchers in their dealings with biotech companies that sell genetically engineered seeds, plants, or animals, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2919 | To assign liability for injury caused by genetically engineered organisms.
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| H R 2920 | To ensure that efforts to address world hunger through the use of genetically engineered animals and crops actually help developing countries and peoples while protecting human health and the environment, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2921 | To prohibit the open-air cultivation of genetically engineered pharmaceutical and industrial crops, to prohibit the use of common human food or animal feed as the host plant for a genetically engineered pharmaceutical or industrial chemical, to establish a tracking system to regulate the growing, handling, transportation, and disposal of pharmaceutical and industrial crops and their byproducts to prevent human, animal, and general environmental exposure to genetically engineered pharmaceutical and industrial crops and their byproducts, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2922 | To amend the Small Business Act to provide additional grants to small business development centers located in high unemployment districts.
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| H R 2923 | To amend title 23, United States Code, to require periodic testing of the competency of drivers over age 79, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2924 | To amend title 49, United States Code, to enhance competition among and between rail carriers in order to ensure efficient rail service and reasonable rail rates, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2925 | To direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study of the suitability and feasibility of establishing the Northeastern North Carolina Heritage Area in North Carolina, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2926 | To provide for interagency planning for preparing for, defending against, and responding to the consequences of terrorist attacks against the Yucca Mountain Project, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2927 | To amend title 23, United States Code, to provide grants and technical assistance to restore orphan highways.
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| H R 2928 | To amend title 49, United States Code, relating to improved consumer protection regulation of the household goods transportation industry, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2929 | To protect users of the Internet from unknowing transmission of their personally identifiable information through spyware programs, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2930 | To authorize the disinterment from the American Ardennes Cemetery at Neuville-en-Condroz, Belgium of the remains of Sergeant Roaul R. Prieto, who died in combat in April 1945, and to authorize the transfer of his remains to his next of kin.
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| H R 2931 | To provide for the expansion of human clinical trials qualifying for the orphan drug credit.
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| H R 2932 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to preserve the effectiveness of medically important antibiotics used in the treatment of human and animal diseases.
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| H R 2933 | To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to reform the process for designating critical habitat under that Act.
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| H R 2934 | To increase criminal penalties relating to terrorist murders, deny Federal benefits to terrorists, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2935 | To provide fairness in voter participation.
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| H R 2936 | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to the sale or trade of prescription drugs that were knowingly caused to be adulterated or misbranded, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2937 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 48 South Broadway in Nyack, New York, as the "John G. Dow Post Office Building".
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| H R 2938 | To amend title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930 to provide that the provisions relating to countervailing duties apply to nonmarket economy countries.
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| H R 2939 | To strengthen and enhance the prevention and prosecution of crimes using weapons of mass destruction, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2940 | To amend titles 23 and 49, United States Code, to promote the integration of local land use planning and transportation planning.
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| H R 2941 | To correct the south boundary of the Colorado River Indian Reservation in Arizona, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2942 | To establish a national clearinghouse for information on incidents of environmental terrorism and to establish a program to reduce environmental terrorism.
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| H R 2943 | To waive, for grants awarded in fiscal years 2004 and 2005, certain restrictions on the hiring or rehiring of career law enforcement officers under the COPS grant program under Part Q of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2944 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for forgiveness of certain overpayments of retired pay paid to deceased retired members of the Armed Forces following death.
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| H R 2945 | To condition the implementation of assessment procedures in connection with the Head Start National Reporting System on Child Outcomes, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2946 | To combat illegal gun trafficking, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2947 | To establish a demonstration grant program to assist States in providing subsidies for group health insurance premiums for low-income, Medicaid-eligible individuals.
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| H R 2948 | To direct the Comptroller General to enter into arrangements with the National Academy of Sciences and the Librarian of Congress for conducting a study on the feasibility and costs of implementing an emergency electronic communications system for Congress to ensure the continuity of the operations of Congress during an emergency, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2949 | To regulate international marriage broker activity in the United States, to provide for certain protections for individuals who utilize the services of international marriage brokers, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2950 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the rate of tax on distilled spirits to its pre-1985 level.
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| H R 2951 | To prohibit the operation of nuclear power plants unless there exists a State and county certified radiological emergency response plan.
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| H R 2952 | To prohibit the application of certain restrictive eligibility requirements to foreign nongovernmental organizations with respect to the provision of assistance under part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
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| H R 2953 | To authorize the Secretary of Education to make grants to educational organizations to carry out educational programs about the Holocaust.
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| H R 2954 | To ensure that the courts of the United States may provide an impartial forum for claims brought by United States citizens and others against any railroad organized as a separate legal entity, arising from the deportation of United States citizens and others to Nazi concentration camps on trains owned or operated by such railroad, and by the heirs and survivors of such persons.
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| H R 2955 | To establish the Rio Grande Outstanding Natural Area in the State of Colorado, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2956 | To begin the process of simplifying the Federal student financial aid process, making it easier and more understandable for students and families to participate in Federal student financial aid programs.
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| H R 2957 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the excise tax on telephone and other communications services.
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| H R 2958 | To amend title 31, United States Code, to allow certain State and local tax debt to be collected through the reduction of Federal tax refunds.
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| H R 2959 | To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to include podiatrists as physicians for purposes of covering physicians services under the Medicaid Program.
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| H R 2960 | To amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the Brownsville Public Utility Board water recycling and desalinization project.
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| H R 2961 | To provide mortgage assistance to firefighters.
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| H R 2962 | To prevent the abuse of the illegal drug commonly called ecstasy.
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| H R 2963 | To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for portal-to-portal compensation for wildland firefighters, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2964 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a tax incentive for land sales for conservation purposes.
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| H R 2965 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to transfer all excise taxes imposed on alcohol fuels to the Highway Trust Fund, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2966 | To preserve the use and access of pack and saddle stock animals on public lands, including wilderness areas, national monuments, and other specifically designated areas, administered by the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, or the Forest Service where there is a historical tradition of such use, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2967 | To amend title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide standards and procedures to guide both State and local law enforcement agencies and law enforcement officers during internal investigations, interrogation of law enforcement officers, and administrative disciplinary hearings, to ensure accountability of law enforcement officers, to guarantee the due process rights of law enforcement officers, and to require States to enact law enforcement discipline, accountability, and due process laws.
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| H R 2968 | To permit biomedical research corporations to engage in certain equity financings without incurring limitations on net operating loss carryforwards and certain built-in losses, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2969 | To provide for the establishment of the United States Employee Ownership Bank, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2970 | To authorize the disinterment from the Lorraine American Cemetery in St. Avold, France, of the remains of Private First Class Alfred J. Laitres, of Island Pond, Vermont, who died in combat in France on December 25, 1944, and to authorize the transfer of his remains to the custody of his next of kin.
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| H R 2971 | To amend the Social Security Act to enhance Social Security account number privacy protections, to prevent fraudulent misuse of the Social Security account number, and to otherwise enhance protection against identity theft, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2972 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for rural development, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2973 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a business credit against income for the purchase of fishing safety equipment.
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| H R 2974 | To prohibit the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security from purchasing equipment containing electronic components that are not manufactured in the United States.
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| H R 2975 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify the applicability of the prohibition on assignment of veterans benefits to agreements regarding future receipt of compensation, pension, or dependency and indemnity compensation, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2976 | To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to transfer certain land within the Ottawa National Forest to the Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2977 | To amend title 23, United States Code, to provide for the installation of baby changing stations at public rest areas along Federal-aid highways.
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| H R 2978 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an exclusion for gain from the sale of farmland to encourage the continued use of the property for farming, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2979 | To amend the Social Security Act to provide grants and flexibility through demonstration projects for States to provide universal, comprehensive, cost-effective systems of health care coverage, with simplified administration.
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| H R 2980 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for reimbursement of certified midwife services and to provide for more equitable reimbursement rates for certified nurse-midwife services.
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| H R 2981 | To provide for reform of management of Indian trust funds and assets under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2982 | To amend the Flood Control Act of 1948 with respect to the Middle Rio Grande Project to authorize programs for water conservation, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2983 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the eligibility of Indian tribal organizations for grants for the establishment of veterans cemeteries on trust lands.
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| H R 2984 | To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act to remove the requirement that processors be members of an agency administering a marketing order applicable to pears.
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| H R 2985 | To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to conduct a review of the proposed project for construction of a remote passenger check-in facility at Los Angeles International Airport, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2986 | To provide for the expansion and coordination of activities of the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with respect to research and programs on cancer survivorship, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2987 | To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to improve the nutrition of students served under child nutrition programs.
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| H R 2988 | For the relief of Silvia Lorenia Parra.
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| H R 2989 | Making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation and Treasury, and independent agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2990 | To establish a Commission to Educate our Nation's Teachers and Students on Financial Literacy Skills.
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| H R 2991 | To amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the Inland Empire regional recycling project and in the Cucamonga County Water District recycling project.
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| H R 2992 | To modify the calculation of back pay for persons who were approved for promotion as members of the Navy and Marine Corps while interned as prisoners of war during World War II to take into account changes in the Consumer Price Index.
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| H R 2993 | To provide for a circulating quarter dollar coin program to honor the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and for other purposes.
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| H R 2994 | To amend the Small Business Act to prohibit the Administrator of the Small Business Administration from selling loans made by the Administrator under the disaster loan program.
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| H R 2995 | To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide that an individual's entitlement to any benefit thereunder shall continue through the month of his or her death (without affecting any other person's entitlement to benefits for that month).
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