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.
2003-02-27: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
Treatment of Children's Deformities Act of 2003
2003-02-21: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
Housing Bond and Credit Modernization and Fairness Act of 2003
2003-01-08: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Gun Show Background Check Act of 2003
2003-03-06: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
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.
2003-07-23: Committee Hearings Held.
Keep Our Promise to America's Military Retirees Act
2003-02-28: Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency Organization.
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.
2003-02-13: Referred to the Subcommittee on Total Force.
Student Bill of Rights
2003-02-21: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
National Naval Force Structure Policy Act
2003-02-04: Referred to the Subcommittee on Projection Forces.
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.
2003-06-17: Became Public Law No: 108-31.
Anti-Gunrunning Act of 2003
2003-03-06: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to provide for joint trusteeship of single-employer pension plans.
2003-02-21: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
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.
2003-01-07: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Retired Pay Restoration Act of 2003
2003-02-20: Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act
2004-06-16: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1146)
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.
2003-10-10: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H9310)
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States regarding the right of citizens of the United States to health care of equal high quality.
2003-05-05: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
Civic Participation and Rehabilitation Act of 2003
2003-03-06: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Secretary of Homeland Security should designate Haiti, Grenada, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, and the Bahamas under section 244 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to make nationals of those countries eligible for temporary protected status under that section.
2004-11-05: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
Internet Access Tax bill
2003-09-18: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 283.