To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the 60-month limitation period on the allowance of a deduction of interest on loans for higher education expenses.
2001-08-13: See H.R.1836.
Pell Grant Full Funding Act
2001-03-29: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
Fairness to Local Contractors Act
2001-07-21: Unfavorable Executive Comment Received from DOD.
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that an individual who leaves employment because of sexual harassment or loss of child care will, for purposes of determining such individual's eligibility for unemployment compensation, be treated as having left such employment for good cause.
2001-03-13: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
Work for Real Wages Act
2001-02-13: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
To amend the Social Security Act to further extend health care coverage under the Medicare Program.
2001-03-14: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
National Eye Institute Authorization Act of 2001
2001-03-14: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
To amend title 10, United States Code, to prescribe alternative payment mechanisms for the payment of annual enrollment fees under the TRICARE program of the military health care system.
2001-03-01: Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
To direct the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and feasibility of including certain lands along the southeastern coast of Maui, Hawaii, in the National Park System.
2001-02-27: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
To amend title 38, United States Code, to revise the effective date for certain awards of dependency and indemnity compensation made by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to survivors of veterans who died during the Vietnam era or later, and for other purposes.
2001-03-20: Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide for treatment of severe spinal cord injury equivalent to the treatment of blindness in determining whether earnings derived from services demonstrate an ability to engage in substantial gainful activity.
2001-02-27: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to make grants to local educational agencies for the recruitment, training, and hiring of 100,000 individuals to serve as school-based resource staff.
2001-03-22: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
Ovarian Cancer Research and Information Amendments of 2001
2001-02-14: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit the use of soft money to influence any campaign for election for Federal office.
2001-01-30: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
To amend title 10, United States Code, to extend eligilibity to use the military health care system and commissary stores to an unremarried former spouse of a member of the uniformed services if the member performed at least 20 years of service which is creditable in determining the member's eligibility for retired pay and the former spouse was married to the member for a period of at least 17 years during those years of service.
2001-03-15: Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
To amend title 38, United States Code, to revise the effective date for an award of disability compensation by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs under section 1151 of such title for persons disabled by treatment or vocational rehabilitiation.
2001-03-20: Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 620 Jacaranda Street in Lanai City, Hawaii, as the "Goro Hokama Post Office Building".
2001-04-12: Became Public Law No: 107-6.
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to assure that immigrants do not have to wait longer for an immigrant visa as a result of a reclassification from family second preference to family first preference because of the naturalization of a parent or spouse.
2001-03-12: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E335)
To amend title 38, United States Code, to revise the eligibility criteria for presumption of service-connection of certain diseases and disabilities for veterans exposed to ionizing radiation during military service.
2001-03-20: Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.