MEEHAN, PATRICK (a Representative from Pennsylvania)

Amendments

Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (H.R. 4310), H3063 [17MY]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

American Education Week: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 811), H6397 [15NO]

Armed Forces: protect child custody arrangements for parents who are members (see H.R. 4201), H2289 [27AP]

Business and industry: list employers that relocate call centers overseas, make such companies ineligible for Federal grants and loans, and require call center employees to disclose their physical location (see H.R. 3596), H727 [14FE]

Committee To Investigate and Report on the Attack on the American Consulate in Benghazi, Libya (House, Select): establish (see H. Res. 824), H6622 [4DE]

Conservation of energy: promote efficient energy use in the Federal and private sectors (see H.R. 4017), H3481 [5JN]

Crime: enhance penalties for possession or financial facilitation of access to child pornography and require Internet service providers to assist child pornography and exploitation investigations (see H.R. 6063), H4654 [29JN]

——— increase penalties for stealing, transporting, and storing stolen prescription drugs (see H.R. 4223), H1427 [20MR]

Dept. of Commerce: enable concrete masonry products manufacturers and importers to carry out coordinated program of research, education, and promotion to improve, maintain, and develop markets (see H.R. 3395), H3105 [17MY]

Dept. of Education: establish an awards program recognizing excellence exhibited by public school system employees providing services to students in pre-kindergarten through higher education (see H.R. 1704), H79 [18JA]

——— reauthorize Impact Aid Program (see H.R. 1342), H966 [27FE]

——— support State and local accountability for public education and inform parents of their schools’ performance (see H.R. 3989), H1916 [17AP]

Dept. of HHS: establish a Tick-Borne Diseases Advisory Committee (see H.R. 2557), H1134 [1MR]

——— establish permanent national surveillance systems for multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, and other neurological diseases and disorders (see H.R. 2595), H2569 [9MY]

——— provide for the participation of optometrists in the National Health Service Corps scholarship and loan repayment programs (see H.R. 1195), H2288 [27AP]

——— provide for the participation of physical therapists in the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program (see H.R. 1426), H7264 [18DE]

Dept. of Transportation: prohibit provision of grants or funds to State or local governments for any program to check helmet usage or create checkpoints for motorcycle riders (see H.R. 904), H3807 [19JN]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: clarify presumptions relating to exposure of certain veterans who served in the vicinity of Vietnam (see H.R. 3612), H376 [1FE]

Diseases: require a Federal commitment to Alzheimer’s disease research to advance breakthrough treatments for people with the disease (see H.R. 1897), H2072 [24AP]

Education: develop 21st century readiness initiatives that assist students in acquiring skills to think critically and solve problems, communicate, collaborate with others, and create and innovate (see H.R. 2536), H79 [18JA]

——— increase assessment accuracy to better measure student achievement and provide States with greater flexibility on assessment design (see H.R. 507), H79 [18JA]

——— increase Pell Grants for the children of fallen police officers, firefighters, and other public safety officers (see H.R. 6281), H5704 [2AU]

FDA: allow fast track approval of certain orphan drugs (see H.R. 3737), H2212 [26AP]

——— create a pathway for premarket notification and review of laboratory-developed tests (see H.R. 3207), H966 [27FE]

——— improve humanitarian device regulation (see H.R. 3211), H159 [24JA]

——— improve priority review voucher incentive program for expedited review of treatments for tropical and rare pediatric diseases (see H.R. 3059), H159 [24JA]

Financial institutions: enhance ability of community banks to foster economic growth and serve their communities, boost small businesses, and increase individual savings (see H.R. 1697), H2211 [26AP]

——— improve examination of depository institutions (see H.R. 3461), H182 [25JA]

——— limit fee disclosure requirement for an automatic teller machine to the screen of that machine (see H.R. 4367), H3703 [12JN]

Foreign Claims Settlement Commission: receive and determine validity and amount of claims for loss of wages and other property of those plaintiffs in the case Bruce D. Abbott et al. v. Libya (see H.R. 3713), H159 [24JA]

Foreign trade: apply countervailing duties to nonmarket economy countries (see H.R. 4105), H1154 [5MR]

Government regulations: provide for presentation and expedited consideration by Congress of the recommendations in the Federal Regulatory Reform Report prepared by the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (see H.R. 5720), H2645 [10MY]

Health: make the provision of technical services for medical imaging examinations and radiation therapy treatments safer, more accurate, and less costly (see H.R. 2104), H2134 [25AP]

Insurance: allow enforcement of State disclosure laws and access to courts for covered Holocaust-era insurance policy claims (see H.R. 890), H4157 [27JN]

——— preserve consumer and employer access to licensed independent insurance producers (see H.R. 1206), H182 [25JA]

——— require health plans to cover treatment of a minor child’s congenital or developmental deformity or disorder due to trauma, infection, tumor, or disease (see H.R. 1955), H2211 [26AP]

Iran: condemn continued persecution, imprisonment, and sentencing of Youcef Nadarkhani on the charge of apostasy (see H. Res. 556), H1101 [29FE]

——— condemn President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the leaders of Iran for addressing the U.N. on Yom Kippur (see H. Con. Res. 139), H6276 [21SE]

——— express importance of preventing acquisition of nuclear weapons capability and continue economic and diplomatic pressure to secure nonproliferation agreement (see H. Res. 568), H1848 [16AP]

——— provide for a comprehensive strategy to counter growing presence and hostile activity in the Western Hemisphere (see H.R. 3783), H77 [18JA]

Israel: reaffirm strategic relationship with the U.S., direct the President to submit reports on U.S. actions to enhance this relationship, and assist in the defense of Israel (see H.R. 4133), H1847 [16AP]

Law enforcement officers: allow screening entities to submit, receive, and screen criminal history record information for searches on private security officers (see H.R. 4112), H1100 [29FE]

March of Dimes Foundation: mint coins in recognition and celebration (see H.R. 3187), H3578 [6JN]

Medicaid: require coverage of optometrists (see H.R. 1219), H2288 [27AP]

Medicare: create incentives for innovative diagnostics by improving process for determining payment rates for new tests (see H.R. 6446), H7264 [18DE]

——— ensure continued access of beneficiaries to diagnostic imaging services (see H.R. 3269), H187 [27JA]

——— establish a market pricing program for durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies (DMEPOS) (see H.R. 6490), H7585 [2JA]

——— exempt blood glucose self-testing equipment and supplies furnished by small retail community pharmacies from competitive acquisition programs (see H.R. 1936), H159 [24JA]

——— extended coverage of immunosuppressive drugs for kidney transplant patients and other renal dialysis provisions (see H.R. 2969), H2288 [27AP]

——— include screening computed tomography colonography as a colorectal screening test (see H.R. 4165), H2289 [27AP]

——— provide coverage of services of qualified respiratory therapists performed under the general supervision of a physician (see H.R. 941), H2072 [24AP]

——— provide for coverage of home infusion drug therapy (see H.R. 2195), H2288 [27AP]

——— repeal competitive acquisition program for durable medical equipment and prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies (DMEPOS) in a budget neutral manner (see H.R. 1041), H512 [6FE]

——— repeal outpatient rehabilitation therapy caps (see H.R. 1546), H694 [9FE]

——— strengthen and protect hospice programs (see H.R. 3506), H2072 [24AP]

——— waive coinsurance for colorectal cancer screening tests, regardless of whether therapeutic intervention is required during the screening (see H.R. 4120), H2212 [26AP]

Medicare/Medicaid: curb waste, fraud, and abuse (see H.R. 3399), H3707 [15JN]

Mining and mineral resources: issue postage stamp in commemoration of coal miners (see H. Res. 743), H5327 [26JY]

National Eagle Scout Day: designate (see H. Res. 716), H4604 [28JN]

National Heritage Area Program: authorize (see H.R. 4099), H1016 [28FE]

National Sarcoma Awareness Month: designate (see H. Res. 722), H5131 [23JY]

Office of the Director of National Intelligence: allow elements of the intelligence community to share cyber threat intelligence with private-sector cybersecurity entities (see H.R. 3523), H727 [14FE]

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: protect rights of conscience relative to requirements for coverage of specific items and services (see H.R. 1179), H512 [6FE]

——— repeal annual fee on health insurance providers (see H.R. 1370), H2040 [23AP]

Pro Football Hall of Fame: mint coins in recognition and celebration (see H.R. 4104), H3976 [21JN]

Public safety officers: extend public safety officers’ death benefits to fire police officers (see H.R. 1348), H5711 [2AU]

Safe Drinking Water Act: amend relative to consumer confidence reports by community water systems (see H.R. 1340), H726 [14FE]

Sergeant Leslie H. Sabo, Jr. Post Office Building, Ellwood City, PA: designate (see H.R. 5954), H4656 [29JN]

Small business: increase job creation and economic growth by improving access to public capital markets for emerging growth companies (see H.R. 3606), H115 [23JA]

Social Security: repeal Government pension offset and windfall elimination provisions (see H.R. 1332), H79 [18JA]

Sports: prohibit the use of performance-enhancing drugs in horseracing (see H.R. 1733), H3481 [5JN]

Syria: strengthen sanctions, enhance multilateral commitment to address threatening policies, and establish a program to support a transition to a democratically-elected government (see H.R. 2106), H5766 [10SE]

Taxation: establish ABLE accounts to pay for qualified disability expenses of family members with disabilities (see H.R. 3423), H159 [24JA]

——— expand the tip tax credit to employers of cosmetologists and promote tax compliance in the cosmetology sector (see H.R. 1957), H3105 [17MY]

——— extend exclusion from gross income of discharges of qualified principal residence indebtedness (see H.R. 4336), H6505 [28NO]

——— extend the new markets tax credit (see H.R. 2655), H2072 [24AP]

——— increase, extend, and make permanent the above-the-line deduction for certain elementary and secondary school teacher expenses (see H.R. 1738), H27 [17JA]

——— make employers of spouses of military personnel eligible for the work opportunity credit (see H.R. 687), H5711 [2AU]

——— make permanent and expand the temporary minimum credit rate for the low-income housing tax credit program (see H.R. 3661), H1978 [18AP]

——— permanently extend the 15-year recovery period for qualified leasehold improvement property, restaurant property, and retail improvement property (see H.R. 1265), H802 [15FE]

——— prohibit requirement that taxpayers reconcile amounts relative to reportable payment transactions to amounts related to gross receipts and sales (see H.R. 3877), H950 [24FE]

——— provide collegiate housing and infrastructure grants (see H.R. 1327), H3163 [18MY]

——— repeal estate and generation-skipping taxes (see H.R. 1259), H27 [17JA]

——— support and strengthen tax incentives for retirement savings (see H. Con. Res. 101), H901 [16FE]

Technology: improve laws relative to cybersecurity (see H.R. 3674), H903 [16FE]

Transportation Security Administration: transfer unclaimed money recovered at airport security checkpoints to United Service Organizations, Inc. (USO) (see H.R. 2179), H1306 [8MR]

Veterans: expand eligibility for concurrent receipt of military retired pay or combat-related compensation with service-connected disability benefits and eliminate phase-in period for such benefits (see H.R. 303, 333), H5711 [2AU]

Wallenberg, Raoul: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 3001), H220 [31JA]

World War II: award Congressional Gold Medal to the First Special Service Force (see H.R. 3767), H221 [31JA]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Capitol Building and Grounds: permit use of rotunda for a ceremony to honor victims of the Holocaust (see H. Con. Res. 108), H1390 [19MR]

Dept. of HUD: require section 8 rental assistance recipients to stay current with local taxes and authorize public housing agencies to divert such assistance to pay owners’ tax debts (see H.R. 6203), H5291 [25JY]

Dept. of Labor: carry out a pilot program to provide veterans with access at One-Stop Centers to Internet websites to facilitate online job searches (see H.R. 6401), H5999 [13SE]

Dept. of State: require report on designation of Boko Haram as a foreign terrorist organization (see H.R. 5822), H3103 [17MY]

Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act: provide further clarity for institutions of higher education (see H.R. 5844), H3162 [18MY]

Tariff: captan technical (see H.R. 5445), H2318 [7MY]

——— 11-aminoundecanoic acid (see H.R. 5452), H2319 [7MY]

——— lambda-cyhalothrin mixtures (see H.R. 5449), H2318 [7MY]

——— methane sulfonyl chloride (see H.R. 5450), H2318 [7MY]

——— methanesulfonic acid (see H.R. 5451), H2319 [7MY]

——— oryzalin (see H.R. 5448), H2318 [7MY]

——— Problad Plus fungicide (see H.R. 5454), H2319 [7MY]

——— rolled glass in sheets (see H.R. 5453), H2319 [7MY]

——— thiophanate methyl (see H.R. 5446), H2318 [7MY]

——— zinc dimethyldithiocarbamate (see H.R. 5447), H2318 [7MY]

Constitutional authority statements

Dept. of HUD: require section 8 rental assistance recipients to stay current with local taxes and authorize public housing agencies to divert such assistance to pay owners’ tax debts (H.R. 6203), H5292 [25JY]

Dept. of Labor: carry out a pilot program to provide veterans with access at One-Stop Centers to Internet websites to facilitate online job searches (H.R. 6401), H6000 [13SE]

Dept. of State: require report on designation of Boko Haram as a foreign terrorist organization (H.R. 5822), H3104 [17MY]

Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act: provide further clarity for institutions of higher education (H.R. 5844), H3163 [18MY]

Tariff: captan technical (H.R. 5445), H2325 [7MY]

——— 11-aminoundecanoic acid (H.R. 5452), H2325 [7MY]

——— lambda-cyhalothrin mixtures (H.R. 5449), H2325 [7MY]

——— methane sulfonyl chloride (H.R. 5450), H2325 [7MY]

——— methanesulfonic acid (H.R. 5451), H2325 [7MY]

——— oryzalin (H.R. 5448), H2325 [7MY]

——— Problad Plus fungicide (H.R. 5454), H2325 [7MY]

——— rolled glass in sheets (H.R. 5453), H2325 [7MY]

——— thiophanate methyl (H.R. 5446), H2325 [7MY]

——— zinc dimethyldithiocarbamate (H.R. 5447), H2325 [7MY]

Remarks

Armed Forces: improve prevention and response to sexual assaults (H.R. 3435), H1216 [7MR]

Blue Star Mothers of America, Inc.: anniversary, E818• [16MY]

Brookhaven, PA: Coebourn Elementary School recipient of Dept. of Education Blue Ribbon Schools award, H2332 [8MY]

Congressional Hockey Caucus: tribute to Lawmakers v. Lobbyists charity hockey game, H1235 [7MR]

Crime: increase penalties for counterfeit drug trafficking (H.R. 3668), H3720 [18JN]

Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (H.R. 4310), H3022, H3064 [17MY]

——— V–22 Osprey funding, H3022 [17MY]

Dept. of Homeland Security: establish Office of Intelligence and Analysis weapons of mass destruction intelligence and information sharing functions and require dissemination of information to relevant entities (H.R. 2764), H3243 [30MY]

Dept. of State: determine whether Boko Haram meets criteria for designation as a foreign terrorist organization, H3064 [17MY]

Devereux Foundation: anniversary, E1665• [28SE]

House of Representatives: find Attorney General Holder in contempt of Congress for refusal to comply with subpoenas issued by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (House) (H. Res. 711), H4403 [28JN]

Hurricanes: making supplemental appropriations for recovery from damage caused by Hurricane Sandy, H7563 [1JA]

Israel: reaffirm relationship with the U.S. and right of self-defense, H6400 [16NO]

Media, PA: Rose Tree Elementary School recipient of Dept. of Education Blue Ribbon Schools award, H2332 [8MY]

National Teacher Day: observance, H2332 [8MY]

Pennsylvania: tribute to 7th Congressional District service academy nominees, H1216 [7MR]

Science, Depts. of Justice and Commerce, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 5326), H2389 [8MY]

Veterans: authorize veterans’ treatment courts and encourage services for veterans through drug courts, H2389 [8MY]

Votes: position on missed, H2345• [8MY]

Tributes

Cronin, Joseph P., Jr., E1402• [3AU]

Schultz, Daniel A., E1292• [19JY]

Sweeney, James J., E489• [29MR]