109. H.R. 1055, to name a post office in Florence, South Carolina, after Dr. Roswell N. Beck, who served at the forefront of the civil rights movement in South Carolina. Yes. Passed 383-0, under suspension of rules. 4/7/03.

111. H.R. 1368, to name a post office in Stockton, California, after former Rep. Norman Shumway, who served in the House from 1979-91. Yes. Passed 380-0, under suspension of rules. 4/7/03.

115. S. 380, to alter the formula used to determine the size of annual payments made by the Postal Service to the Civil Service Retirement System by modeling funding of its obligation after its funding of the Federal Employee Retirement System and provide that the resulting savings be used to lower the Postal Service’s debt to the U.S. Treasury and delay the next postal rate increase. Yes. Passed 424-0. 4/8/03.

159. H.R. 1596, to name a post office in St. Louis, Missouri, after Thomas Michael Gaffney, a former postal employee and manager. Yes. Passed 405-0, under suspension of rules 5/6/03.

160. H.R. 1625, to name a post office in Clifton, New Jersey, after Robert P. Hammer, a former Clifton city manager. Yes. Passed 405-0, under suspension of rules. 5/6/03.

161. H.R. 1740, to name a post office in Dallas, Texas, after Caesar A.W. Clark Sr., a pastor, community and civil rights leader. Yes. Passed 405-0, under suspension of rules. 5/6/03.

162. H.R. 1609, to name a post office in Brookfield, Missiour, after Donald Davis, a former Navy admiral. Yes. Passed 423-0, under suspension of rules. 5/7/03.

183. H.R. 281, to name a post office in Dayton, Ohio, after former Rep. Tony P. Hall, who represented Ohio in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1979-2002. Yes. Passed 407-0, under suspension of rules. 5/13/03.

193. H.R. 1018, to name the U.S. Court of International Trade Building in New York City after the late James L. Watson, the senior judge of the U.S. Court of International Trade. Yes. Passed 380-0, under suspension of rules. 5/19/03.

229. H.R. 1465, to name a post office in Iron Station, North Carolina, after General Charles Gabriel, the 11th chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force. Yes. Passed 371-0, under suspension of rules. 6/2/03.

232. S. 763, to name a federal building and U.S. courthouse in Indianapolis, Indiana, after former Sen. Birch Evan Bayh, who served Indiana in the U.S. Senate from 1963-1981. Yes. Failed 235-179, under suspension of rules (2/3 vote required). 6/3/03.

249. H.R. 1610, to name a post office in Marceline, Missouri, after Walter Elias Disney, a pioneer and innovator of the modern film technique of animation, the founder of Disneyland and Disney World theme parks and creator of Mickey Mouse. Yes. Passed 384-0, under suspension of rules. 6/9/03.

251. S. 763, to name the federal building and U.S. courthouse in Indianapolis, Indiana, after former Sen. Birch Evan Bayh, who served Indiana in the U.S. Senate from 1963-1981. Yes. Passed 383-0, under suspension of rules. 6/9/03.

276. H.R. 2254, to name a post office in Boulder City, Nevada, after Bruce Woodbury, who served as a member of the Clark County (NV) Commission for 21 years, and as chairman of the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada for 11 years. Yes. Passed 369-0, under suspension of rules. 6/16/03.

278. S. 703, to name the National Park Service Midwest Regional Headquarters Building under construction in Omaha, Nebraska, after Carl T. Curtis, who served Nebraska in Congress for 40 years, 24 in the Senate and 16 in the House, with his combined service in Congress longer than any other Nebraskan. Yes. Passed 378-0, under suspension of rules. 6/16/03.

307. H.R. 2555, FY 2004 homeland security appropriations. Amendment to increase the appropriation for the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection by transferring $5 million from Homeland Security Department administration funds with the funds to be used to reduce the backlog of applicants for a program that allows low-risk commuters to use dedicated commuter lanes to expedite their crossing at the U.S.-Mexico border. No. Failed 149-274. 6/24/03.

309. H.R. 2555. Amendment to prohibit the use of funds to assist state or local governments that have restrictions on exchanging information with the Bureau of Immigration and Customs on an individual’s citizenship or immigration status. No. Failed 102-322. 6/24/03.

310. H.R. 2555. On passage of the bill to provide $30.4 billion in FY 2004 appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security and $5 billion in advanced appropriations for Project Bioshield, to encourage commercial development and production of medical countermeasures against bioterrorism. Yes. Passed 425-2. 6/24/03.

311. H.R. 1416, to make changes to the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to clarify that the secretary of Defense has authority over the Coast Guard in times of war, and that the secretary of Transportation is responsible for a report on war risk insurance for air carriers, and clarify the transfer of some of the attorney general’s authority over immigration and naturalization to the secretary of Homeland Security. Yes. Passed 415-0. 6/24/03.

336. H.R. 1761, to name a post office in Wichita, Kansas, after former Rep. Garner E. Shriver, who served the 4th District of Kansas in the U.S. House from 1961-77. Yes. Passed 415-0, under suspension of rules. 7/8/03.

461. H.R. 2309, to name a post office in Signal Hill, California, after Rep. Stephen Horn, who served from 1993 to 2003 in the U.S. House of Representatives. Yes. Passed 395-1, under suspension of rules. 9/3/03.

494. H.R. 2555. Motion to instruct House conferees to insist on inclusion of the highest possible level of funding for homeland security, preparedness and disaster response programs within the Homeland Security appropriations bill and to insist on House language that would prohibit the use of funds for any aviation cargo security plan that allows the transporting of unscreened or uninspected cargo on passenger planes. Yes. Passed 347-74. 9/10/03.

505. S. 678, to include postmasters and postmaster organizations in the process for the development and planning of certain U.S. Postal Service policies, schedules, and programs. Yes. Passed 426-0, under suspension of rules. 9/16/03.

514. H.R. 2555. Motion to recommit the conference report to the conference committee with instructions to include provisions to provide the highest possible level of funding for homeland security, preparedness and disaster response programs within the bill and prohibit the use of funds for any aviation cargo security plan that allows the transporting of unscreened or uninspected cargo on passenger planes. No. Failed 198-226. 9/24/03.

515. H.R. 2555. To adopt the conference report to the bill to provide $30.4 billion in FY 2004 appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security and related agencies. Yes. Passed 417-8. 9/24/03.

627. H.R. 3300, to name the post office building in Strongsville, Ohio, after Walter F. Ehrnfelt Jr., who served as mayor of Strongsville for 25 years and died on May 25, 2003. Yes. Passed 410-0, under suspension of rules. 11/18/03.

632. H.R. 1274, to direct the General Services administrator to convey to Fresno County, California, the existing federal courthouse in Fresno and provide that the conveyance will take place after the completion of a new courthouse and that the courthouse remain in use as a public building and courthouse. Yes. Passed 421-0, under suspension of rules. 11/18/03.

636. H.R. 3491, to authorize the Smithsonian Institution to plan and construct a National Museum of African American History and Culture. Yes. Passed 409-9, under suspension of rules. 11/19/03.