MASCARA, FRANK (a Representative from Pennsylvania)
Bills and resolutions cosponsored
American Road and Transportation Builders Association: anniversary (see H. Con. Res. 442), H5195 [23JY]
Amtrak: make loan guarantees (see H.R. 5024), H4068 [26JN]
Animals: prohibit import, export, sale, or possession of bear viscera (see H.R. 397), H366 [13FE]
Aviation: assist employees separated from employment due to reductions in service by air carriers and airport closures caused by terrorist actions, security measures, or a military conflict with Iraq (see H.R. 5678), H8022 [16OC]
———establish a program for Federal flight deck officers (see H.R. 4635), H2356 [9MY]
Business and industry: allow a grace period for payment of bills by consumers whose mail service has been disrupted due to a national emergency (see H.R. 3891), H779 [7MR]
———enhance regulation of public auditors, improve corporate governance and overhaul corporate disclosure made pursuant to the securities laws (see H.R. 3818), H782 [7MR]
Capitol Building and Grounds: display artwork in the Capitol and the House office buildings which represent the contributions of women to American society (see H. Res. 106), H7172 [7OC]
Carter, Jimmy and Rosalynn: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 399), H105 [29JA]
Children and youth: enhance operation of the AMBER Alert communications plan to expedite the recovery of abducted children (see H.R. 5326), H6304 [17SE]
———improve academic and social outcomes for students by providing productive activities during after-school hours (see H.R. 1822), H1410 [17AP]
Computers: establish a program to transfer surplus computers of Federal agencies to schools and nonprofit community-based educational organizations (see H.R. 4785), H5195 [23JY]
Crime: make grants to train sexual assault nurse examiners and other personnel handling sexual assault cases, establish minimum standards for forensic evidence collection, and carry out crime scene DNA analysis (see H.R. 2874), H3514 [12JN]
Dept. of Defense: equitable retirement for military Reserve technicians covered under FERS or CSRS (see H.R. 2012), H1154 [9AP]
Dept. of Education: establish a competitive demonstration grant program to provide funds for local educational agencies to experiment with ways to alleviate the substitute teacher shortage (see H.R. 3688), H907 [13MR]
Dept. of HHS: establish an Office on Men's Health (see H.R. 632), H7894 [10OC]
———support research on ovarian cancer screening tests and encourage coverage of effective techniques by health care programs and plans (see H. Con. Res. 385), H2512 [15MY]
Dept. of Veterans Affairs: suspend authority to increase copayment for medication furnished on an outpatient basis for treatment of service-connected disabilities (see H.R. 2820), H1338 [16AP]
Education: establishment of a commission on technology and education (see H. Res. 295), H524 [14FE]
———provide educational opportunities for all students in State public school systems (see H.R. 5346), H6304 [17SE]
Families and domestic relations: provide coverage of domestic violence screening and treatment under Maternal and Child Health Program, Medicaid, and Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (see H.R. 4032), H3161 [4JN]
FDA: grant authority to regulate tobacco (see H.R. 1097), H2019 [1MY]
Federal employees: ensure parity between the compensation of members of the Armed Forces and civilian employees (see H. Con. Res. 42), H738 [6MR]
———ensure that those activated by the National Guard or Reserves shall receive pay equal to the basic pay such individual would otherwise be receiving (see H.R. 3337), H105 [29JA]
———increase the Government contribution for Federal employee health insurance (see H.R. 1307), H737 [6MR]
———treatment of retirement benefits for assistant U.S. attorneys (see H.R. 1090), H3453 [11JN]
FEMA: make grants to fire departments for the acquisition of thermal imaging cameras (see H.R. 827), H2608 [16MY]
Financial institutions: exempt attorneys from privacy provisions of the law repealing restrictions on the affiliation of banks, securities firms, and insurance companies (see H.R. 5457), H6692 [25SE]
Firearms: permit States to provide reciprocal treatment for carrying of certain concealed firearms by nonresidents (see H.R. 950), H651 [28FE]
Fort Presque Isle National Historic Site: establish (see H.R. 4681), H2235 [8MY]
Freedom of religion: constitutional amendment on protection (see H.J. Res. 81), H79 [24JA]
Health: emphasize the importance of bone marrow donation and support National Marrow Donor Program and National Marrow Awareness Month (see H. Res. 563), H6777 [26SE]
———reauthorize health centers program and National Health Service Corps (see H.R. 3450), H367 [13FE]
———sustain access to vital emergency medical services in rural areas (see H.R. 1353), H1338 [16AP]
Herbert Arlene Post Office Building, Philadelphia, PA: designate (see H.R. 3738), H365 [13FE]
Iron and steel industry: remedy certain injurious effects of steel imports by protecting benefits of steelworkers and retirees and strengthening the U.S. steel industry (see H.R. 4646), H2099 [2MY]
James R. Merry Post Office Building, Linesville, PA: designate (see H.R. 5586), H7737 [9OC] (see H.R. 5707), H8545 [12NO]
King, Martin Luther, Jr.: mint coins in commemoration (see H.R. 1184), H4425 [9JY]
Law enforcement: community policing programs (see H.R. 2009), H1201 [10AP]
Law enforcement officers: collective bargaining rights for public safety officers employed by States or local governments (see H.R. 1475), H1769 [30AP]
Medicaid: delay changes in regulations that modify upper payment limit for non-State government-owned or operated hospitals (see H.R. 3360), H1284 [11AP]
———extend certain modifications to disproportionate share hospital allotments (see H.R. 854), H1289 [15AP]
———increase Federal medical assistance percentage to help States finance increases in enrollment (see H.R. 3414), H6303 [17SE]
———provide the disabled and elderly with equal access to community-based attendant services (see H.R. 3612), H737 [6MR]
Medicare: coverage of marriage and family therapist services (see H.R. 3899), H1003 [19MR]
———coverage of oral anticancer drugs (see H.R. 1624), H2471 [14MY]
———establish minimum geographic cost-of-practice index value for physicians' services (see H.R. 3569), H1338 [16AP]
———establish voluntary outpatient prescription drug coverage program and modernize and reform payments and the regulatory structure (see H.R. 5019), H4068 [26JN]
———pay ambulance suppliers the full costs of providing such services (see H.R. 3109), H1410 [17AP]
———protect patients by limiting the number of mandatory overtime hours a nurse may be required to work by certain service providers (see H.R. 3238), H833 [12MR]
———specify the update for physician fee schedule payments and conduct a study on replacing the use of the sustainable growth rate as a factor in such update (see H.R. 3351), H105 [29JA]
Meucci, Antonio: tribute (see H. Res. 269), H2357 [9MY]
Motor vehicles: provide for greater fairness in the motor vehicle franchise contract arbitration process (see H.R. 1296), H79 [24JA]
National Affordable Housing Trust Fund: establish to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing for low-income families (see H.R. 2349), H1201 [10AP]
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: authorize development of research centers focusing on environmental factors related to the etiology of breast cancer (see H.R. 1723), H2100 [2MY]
National security: provide grants to local first responder agencies to combat terrorism and be a part of homeland defense (see H.R. 3435), H1338 [16AP]
NIH: breast cancer early detection and mortality rate reduction research funding (see H.R. 3989), H1284 [11AP]
Older Americans Act: authorizing appropriations for supportive services to older individuals who reside in naturally occurring retirement communities (see H.R. 5134), H4766 [16JY]
Pensions: exclude the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund from the Federal budget (see H.R. 572), H932 [14MR]
Pentagon Renovation Program: tribute to efforts in reconstructing the portion of the Pentagon destroyed in terrorist attack (see H. Res. 368), H907 [13MR]
Postal Service: protection of post offices (see H. Con. Res. 181), H1688 [29AP]
Public safety officers: ensure that officers who suffer a fatal heart attack or stroke while on duty shall be presumed to have died in the line of duty for purposes of survivor benefits (see H.R. 5334), H6983 [2OC]
Rev. Leon Sullivan Post Office Building, Philadelphia, PA: designate (see H.R. 3739), H365 [13FE]
Robert A. Borski Post Office Building, Philadelphia, PA: designate (see H.R. 5175), H5791 [25JY] (see H.R. 5280), H6061 [4SE]
Roosevelt, Theodore: mint coins in commemoration of the centenary of receiving the Nobel Peace Prize (see H.R. 5573), H7303 [8OC]
Sec. of the Navy: redesignate as the Sec. of the Navy and Marine Corps (see H.R. 3478), H1338 [16AP]
Small business: improve access and choice relative to employee health care (see H.R. 1774), H3825 [21JN]
SMART Research and Development Compact: congressional consent (see H.R. 5473), H6775 [26SE]
Social Security: improve benefit computation formula for certain workers affected by changes in benefit computation rules (see H.R. 80), H1688 [29AP]
———improve benefit computation formula for workers attaining age 65 in or after 1982 (see H.R. 870), H1674 [25AP]
———improve benefits for aged survivors, disabled survivors, and divorced spouses (see H.R. 4671), H2472 [14MY]
———repeal Government pension offset and windfall elimination provisions (see H.R. 2638), H937 [18MR]
Solid waste: limit receipt of out-of-State municipal solid waste (see H.R. 1213), H781 [7MR]
Somerset County, PA: tribute to rescue of coal miners (see H. Con. Res. 459), H6374 [18SE]
Tariff: N-cyclohexylthiophthalimide (see H.R. 3883), H737 [6MR]
Taxation: allow a refundable credit for certain Medicare premiums (see H.R. 82), H2355 [9MY]
———allow Federal civilian and military retirees to pay health insurance premiums on a pretax basis and allow a deduction for TRICARE supplemental premiums (see H.R. 2125), H284 [12FE]
———treatment of health care subsidy payments made to employers on behalf of volunteer firefighters (see H.R. 1651), H1769 [30AP]
———treatment of the sale of a principal residence by a member of the uniformed services or Foreign Service (see H.R. 1596), H3037 [23MY]
Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century: provide highway infrastructure investment at the guaranteed funding level (see H.R. 3694), H226 [7FE]
U.S. Military Academy: bicentennial (see H.J. Res. 83), H1410 [17AP]
Veterans: increase the minimum Survivor Benefit Plan basic annuity for certain surviving spouses (see H.R. 5403), H6373 [18SE]
———provide housing loan benefits for the purchase of residential cooperative apartment units (see H.R. 1808), H1769 [30AP]
Victor J. Saracini Dept. of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic, Horsham, PA: designate (see H.R. 5367), H6228 [11SE]
Water: authorize appropriations for State water pollution control revolving funds (see H.R. 3930), H3038 [23MY]
William V. Cibotti Post Office Building, Philadelphia, PA: designate (see H.R. 3740), H365 [13FE]
Women: constitutional amendment to ensure equal rights (see H.J. Res. 40), H688 [5MR]
Letters
California University of Pennsylvania intermodal transportation terminal funding: by, E284
Remarks
Bush, President: disapproving the action taken under the Trade Act in response to the surge of steel imports (H.J. Res. 84), E770
California University of Pennsylvania: intermodal transportation terminal funding, E284
Iron and steel industry: remedy certain injurious effects of steel imports by protecting benefits of steelworkers and retirees and strengthening the U.S. steel industry (H.R. 4646), E770
Votes: position on missed, E683
Remarks in House relative to
Leave of absence: granted, H930 [14MR], H1767 [30AP], H2016 [1MY], H2467 [14MY], H2659 [20MY], H4601 [15JY], H4762 [16JY], H4870 [17JY], H4929 [18JY], H6125 [9SE], H6226 [11SE], H6301 [17SE], H6556 [24SE], H6923 [1OC], H6981 [2OC]