27. H.R. 4, welfare reauthorization. Amendment to continue current law provisions that require welfare recipients to work 30 hours per week and require states to have at least half of the families in their caseloads working, and allow legal immigrants to receive assistance, give states a poverty reduction bonus, provide annual funding increases for inflation, and increase mandatory child care funding to $20 billion over five years. No. Failed 124-300. 2/13/03.

28. H.R. 4. Amendment as a substitute to maintain the 30-hour-per-week work requirement for welfare recipients but require that 24 of those hours be in certain core activities, and give states greater flexibility to provide job training and education to recipients, allow legal immigrants to receive benefits, and increase child care funding by $11 billion over the next five years. No. Failed 197-225. 2/13/03.

29. H.R. 4. Motion to recommit the bill to the House Ways and Means Committee with instructions to report it back with language that would provide additional funding for child care programs. No. Failed 197-221. 2/13/03.

30. H.R. 4. On passage of the bill to reauthorize and improve the program of block grants to states for temporary assistance for needy families and improve access to quality child care, including the renewal of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant program at $16.6 billion through FY 2008, increasing the work requirements for individuals receiving assistance from 30 to 40 hours per week, requiring states to increase the number of recipient families working from the current level of 50 percent to 70 percent or more in 2008, and providing an additional $1 billion in mandatory state child care grants. Yes. Passed 230-192. 2/13/03.

37. H.R. 534, Human Cloning Prohibition Act. Substitute amendment to prohibit human cloning for reproduction but allow the cloning of embryos for medical research purposes. No. Failed 174-231. 2/27/03.

38. H.R. 534. Motion to recommit the bill to the House Judiciary Committee with instructions to add language to exempt from the ban on imports of cloned embryos those products related to use in various medical treatments. No. Failed 164-237. 2/27/03.

39. H.R. 534. On passage of the bill to provide a ban on human cloning by prohibiting the use of somatic cell nuclear transfer techniques to create human embryos for both "therapeutic" (research) and reproductive cloning and provide penalties for violation of the ban of up to 10 years in prison and fines of at least $1 million. Yes. Passed 241-155. 2/27/03.

47. H.R. 13, to reauthorize the federal library and museums program under the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which is responsible for providing federal grants to libraries and museums, including provisions to double the minimum state allotment for libraries from $340,000 to $680,000. Yes. Passed 416-2. 3/6/03.

56. H.R. 659, to provide authority for the Department of Housing and Urban Development to determine the eligibility of certain hospitals in non-certificate-of-need states to qualify for federal mortgage insurance. Yes. Passed 419-0, under suspension of rules. 3/12/03.

57. H.R. 389, to authorize state and local grants from the Department of Health and Human Services to set up clearinghouses of information to increase public access to defibrillators in schools. Yes. Passed 415-0, under suspension of rules. 3/12/03.

58. H.R. 342, to authorize state and local grants from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to set up and run mosquito control programs. Yes. Passed 416-9, under suspension of rules. 3/12/03.

59. H.R. 399, to authorize $5 million annually through FY 2008 for travel expenses for qualifying individuals who make an organ donation and authorize funding for state organ donor promotion and public awareness programs designed to increase the rate of organ donation. Yes. Passed 425-3, under suspension of rules. 3/12/03.

60. H.R. 663, Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act to allow the Department of Health and Human Services to set up and certify patient safety organizations to collect and analyze voluntarily provided confidential information reporting on medical mistakes by health care providers and provide penalties for improper disclosure of confidential data and for employers who retaliate against employees who provide information on medical errors. Yes. Passed 418-6, under suspension of rules. 3/12/03.

92. H.R. 1463, Smallpox Emergency Personnel Protection Act of 2003 establishing a compensation fund for health care, public safety and emergency workers who become ill or die from smallpox vaccinations. Yes. Failed 184-206, under suspension of rules. 3/31/03.

96. H.R. 1412, to grant authority to the Education Department to waive or modify any statutory or regulatory provision applicable to federal student financial aid programs to assist students whose lives are disrupted by being called to serve in the U.S. armed forces during war or other military operations or national emergencies. Yes. Passed 421-1, under suspension of rules. 4/1/03.

150. H.R. 1350, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) reauthorization. Amendment to mandate that a General Accounting Office review of the IDEA include recommendations to reduce paperwork requirements for teachers and require a GAO report on the review every two years after the bill’s enactment. Yes. Passed 413-0. 4/30/03.

151. H.R. 1350. Amendment to allow federal funds to design, develop, and initially implement parental choice programs for students with disabilities and allow the use of federal funds with state funds at the selected public or private school. Yes. Failed 182-240. 4/30/03.

152. H.R. 1350. Amendment to allow school districts the option of offering parents of disabled children in private schools a certificate to be used for their child’s specific special education needs. Yes. Failed 176-247. 4/30/03.

153. H.R. 1350. Amendment to redefine "specific learning disability" as a disorder due to a medically detectable and diagnosable psychological condition relying on physical and scientific evidence. No. Failed 54-367. 4/30/03.

154. H.R. 1350. On passage of the bill to reauthorize the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to improve education results for children with special needs and authorize federal per pupil spending for special education equal to 40 percent of the average cost of educating a student in the U.S. Yes. Passed 251-171. 4/30/03.

173. H.R. 1261, Workforce Reinvestment and Adult Education Act. Amendment to require one-stop career centers and training programs to meet the needs of local employers as criteria for certification and for eligibility for federal funds. Yes. Passed 423-0. 5/8/03.

174. H.R. 1261. Motion to recommit the bill to the Education and the Workforce Committee with instructions to amend it to provide direct spending for 26 weeks of income support for unemployed workers who have exhausted their regular unemployment benefits and another 13 weeks of support for workers who have exhausted their federal extended unemployment benefits. No. Failed 202-223. 5/8/03.

175. H.R. 1261. On passage of the bill to reauthorize the Workforce Investment Act, consolidating services for adult education, dislocated workers and state-administered employment into a single block grant and authorize $3.1 billion in FY 2003 for the combined program; authorize $1.25 billion in FY 2004 for youth job training programs and provide more resources to out-of-school youth; place emphasis on reading, writing and math skills in adult education, and allow faith-based providers of job training activities to use religious as a factor in hiring decisions. Yes. Passed 220-204. 5/8/03.

187. H.R. 1000, Pension Security Act. Substitute amendment to impose the same pension rules on executives that apply to non-executives and modify several existing laws related to special executive pension plans; require a company that switches to a cash-balance pension plan to give workers the choice of remaining in their existing plan; require that executive compensation packages must be approved by the board of directors and subject to additional disclosure requirements, and impose an excise tax on “golden parachute” packages of departing executives. No. Failed 193-236. 5/14/03.

188. H.R. 1000. Motion to recommit the bill to the Education and the Workforce Committee with instructions to add language that would provide additional investment protections to workers whose companies choose to convert to a cash-balance pension plan. No. Failed 202-226. 5/14/03.

189. H.R. 1000. On passage of the bill to increase employees’ control over their pension funds and give them more information about their retirement investments; allow employees the option to sell their company stock three years after receiving it in their 401(k) plan (a three-year rolling diversification option) or allow workers to sell their company stock within three years of service for the company (a three-year diversification cliff); and require employers to provide employees quarterly statements about their pension plans and provide access to professional investment advice with strong fiduciary and disclosure safeguards to ensure that advice provided to employees is solely in the employee’s best interest. Yes. Passed 271-157. 5/14/03.

203. H.R. 1170, to require states that receive any federal education funds to develop and implement procedures to prohibit school personnel from requiring a child to obtain a prescription for a controlled substance in order to attend school. Yes. Passed 425-1, under suspension of rules. 5/21/03.

261. H.R. 2350, to extend through September 30, 2003, the 1996 welfare law’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant program. Yes. Passed 406-6, under suspension of rules. 6/11/03.

328. H.R. 2596, to create a tax deduction for contributions to either of two new medical savings accounts and allow tax-free withdrawals for medical expenses and allow some unused health benefits in cafeteria plans and flexible spending accounts to be rolled over or deposited into the health savings accounts. Yes. Passed 237-191. 6/26/03.

330. H.R. 1, Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act. Substitute amendment to establish a prescription drug benefit under Medicare, provide that beneficiaries pay a $25 monthly premium and a $100 yearly deductible, and provide that the plan cover 80 percent of all drug expenses up to $2,000 after the deductible has been paid with Medicare covering all drug expenditures above that level. No. Failed 175-255. 6/26/03.

331. H.R. 1. Motion to recommit the bill to the Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce committees with instructions to report it back after striking the text and substituting language that would provide a prescription drug benefit under Medicare and make changes in the Medicare payment for rural providers while keeping the total 10-year cost of the program within the $400 billion cap set in the FY 2004 budget resolution. No. Failed 208-223. 6/26/03.

332. H.R. 1. On passage of the bill to provide a voluntary prescription drug benefit under the Medicare program beginning in 2006 with coverage provided by private insurers; provide that Medicare beneficiaries could receive drug coverage through either a preferred provider option or through the traditional fee-for-service plan paired with a government-approved private insurance plan; allow a $250 annual deductible with the plan paying 80 percent of annual drug costs from $251 to $2,000 and private insurers covering all drug costs once out-of-pocket expenses reach $3,500, with higher-income seniors required to pay greater out-of-pocket costs before catastrophic coverage would go into effect, and provide lower premiums and co-payments for low-income individuals. Yes. Passed 216-215. 6/26/03.

339. H.R. 2211, Ready to Teach Act. Amendment to add language to ensure that teachers are able to understand scientifically based research and its applicability; require partnership grant applications to contain a certification from the partner local educational agency stating that it will “directly benefit” from the proposed grant activities; ensure that partnership grant funds are used only to supplement, not supplant, other federal, state, and local funds that would otherwise be used for teacher preparation activities, and require states to include average raw score data in their accountability reports. Yes. Passed 416-4. 7/9/03.

340. H.R. 2211. On passage of the bill to reauthorize through FY 2008 grant programs aimed at improving the quality, preparation and recruitment of teachers; provide for teacher quality state grants, school and business or nonprofit partnership grants, and recruitment grants, impose additional accountability and reporting requirements to measure the effectiveness of grant-funded programs, and establish teaching “centers of excellence” at colleges that serve minorities. Yes. Passed 404-17. 7/9/03.

343. H.R. 438. On passage of the bill to increase from $5,000 to $17,500 the amount in student loans that could be forgiven for math, science and special education teachers who serve low-income students; provide loan forgiveness to reading teachers who have obtained a separate state credential in reading; require teachers to be “highly qualified” as defined in the 2001 education reauthorization law and work in a Title I school in which more than 40 percent of its students come from families below the poverty line, and accelerate the timetable for forgiveness to allow a teacher to have a portion of his or her loans forgiven after only two years of service. Yes. Passed 417-7. 7/9/03.

349. H.R. 2660, FY 2004 Labor-HHS-Education appropriations. Amendment to block the use of funds for the Labor Department’s Mine Safety and Health Administration to finalize a proposed rule on allowable dust levels in mines and repromulgate the rule to improve the dust sampling and compliance regulatory program. No. Failed 210-212. 7/10/03.

350. H.R. 2660. Amendment to prohibit the Department of Education from penalizing a school for failing to meet the requirements of the 2001 elementary and secondary education law unless that school receives federal aid at the full authorized level under the law. No. Failed 199-223. 7/10/03.

351. H.R. 2660. Amendment to prohibit the use of funds by the Labor Department to implement a proposed regulation to allow employers to reclassify some employees as “executive, administrative or professional” employees exempt from overtime pay. No. Failed 210-213. 7/10/03.

352. H.R. 2660. Amendment to prohibit the National Institutes of Health from further funding four specific grants titled: “Mood Arousal and Sexual Risk Taking,” “Study on Sexual Habits of Older Men,” “Study on San Francisco’s Asian Prostitutes/Masseuses,” and Study on American Indian Transgender Research.” Yes. Failed 210-212. 7/10/03.

353. H.R. 2660. On passage of the bill to provide $470 billion in FY 2004 appropriations for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and related agencies. Yes. Passed 215-208. 7/10/03.

359. H.R. 1. Motion to instruct House conferees on the Medicare prescription drug legislation to insist on Senate-passed language that would provide a federal “fallback” plan in regions that have fewer than two qualified private insurance bidders for prescription drug coverage and to reject House-passed language that would allow private insurers to compete with standard Medicare coverage of hospital and doctor services beginning in 2010. No. Failed 191-221. 7/14/03.

373. H.R. 2122, to authorize $5.6 billion over 10 years for the Department of Health and Human Services to carry out Project BioShield, to enhance research, development, procurement and use of biomedical countermeasures to combat a bioterrorism attack. Yes. Passed 421-2. 7/16/03.

441. H.R. 2210, Head Start reauthorization. Amendment to strike a provision to allow religious organizations operating Head Start programs to consider religion as a factor when making employment decisions. No. Failed 199-231. 7/24/03.

442. H.R. 2210. Substitute amendment to reauthorize the Head Start program through FY 2008 but not allow religious organizations operating Head Start programs to consider religion as a factor when making employment decisions and not set up an eight-state demonstration program. No. Failed 200-229. 7/24/03.

443. H.R. 2210. Motion to recommit the bill to the Education and the Workforce Committee with instructions to report it back with an amendment to add language to increase funding for Native American, migrant and seasonal Head Start programs. No. Failed 203-227. 7/24/03.

444. H.R. 2210. On passage of the bill to reauthorize the Head Start program through FY 2008 and set up a pilot program to allow eight states to coordinate their state preschool programs with Head Start. Yes. Passed 217-216. 7/24/03.

445. H.R. 2427, Pharmaceutical Market Access Act to require the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to establish a program that would allow the importation of FDA-approved prescription drugs from FDA-approved facilities in 25 countries. Yes. Passed 243-186. 7/24/03.

451. H.R. 2861, FY 2004 VA-HUD appropriations. Amendment to strike a provision that blocks funding authorized under the Department of Veterans Affairs Emergency Preparedness Act for new medical emergency preparedness centers designed to counter adverse health effects stemming from terrorist attacks using chemical, biological and other weapons of mass destruction. No. Passed 347-77. 7/25/03.

452. H.R. 2861. Amendment to reduce AmeriCorps operations funding by $12 million and increase veterans’ medical and prosthetic research by $5 million. No. Failed 154-264. 7/25/03.

453. H.R. 2861. Amendment to increase funding for Section 8 housing vouchers by $150 million and offset the cost by cutting HUD's Working Capital Fund management and administration account. No. Passed 217-208. 7/25/03.

454. H.R. 2861. Amendment to increase funding for the Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund hazardous substance cleanup program by $115 million and offset the cost by reducing NASA's Prometheus fission program funding. No. Failed 114-309. 7/25/03.

455. H.R. 2861. Amendment to increase funding for HUD’s homeless assistance program by $83 million and offset the cost by reducing HUD’s Working Capital Account. No. Failed 192-232. 7/25/03.

456. H.R. 2861. On passage of the bill to provide $122.7 billion in FY 2004 appropriations for the departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development and for related agencies including the Environmental Protection Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and National Science Foundation. Yes. Passed 316-109. 7/25/03.

502. H.R. 1. Motion to instruct House conferees to reject the provision in the House bill that requires, beginning in 2010, the traditional Medicare program to compete against private plans of offer doctor and hospital coverage and to agree to the provision in the Senate bill that provides for a government-run plan if there are not at least two private plans in a geographical area. No. Failed 189-220. 9/10/03.

510. H.R. 1. Motion to instruct House conferees to accept provisions in the Senate bill to increase funding to rural hospitals, provide guaranteed prescription drug coverage through a Medicare fallback option in areas where private drug plans are not available and reject provisions in the House bill that would cut hospital inflation increases. No. Failed 202-213. 9/23/03.

522. H.R. 1. Motion to instruct House conferees to accept provisions in the Senate bill to increase funding to rural hospitals, provide guaranteed prescription drug coverage through a Medicare fallback option in areas where private drug plans are not available and reject provisions in the House bill that would cut hospital inflation increases. No. Failed 199-220. 9/25/03.

524. H.R. 1. Motion to instruct House conferees to accept provisions in the Senate bill to increase funding to rural hospitals, provide guaranteed prescription drug coverage through a Medicare fallback option in areas where private drug plans are not available and reject provisions in the House bill that would cut hospital inflation increases. No. Failed 202-205. 9/30/03.

528. H.R. 1. Motion to instruct House conferees to accept provisions in the Senate bill to increase funding to rural hospitals, provide guaranteed prescription drug coverage through a Medicare fallback option in areas where private drug plans are not available and reject provisions in the House bill that would cut hospital inflation increases. No. Failed 208-215. 10/1/03.

531. H.R. 2660. Motion to instruct House conferees to agree to the Senate provision to prohibit funds in the bill from being used to promulgate or implement any regulation to take away eligibility for overtime for any worker. No. Passed 221-203. 10/2/03.

533. H.R. 1. Motion to instruct House conferees to reject provisions of the House bill relating to the creation of tax-favored health savings accounts for individuals to pay for qualified health care expenses. No. Failed 181-214. 10/7/03.

534. H.R. 1. Motion to instruct House conferees to include income thresholds on health coverage. No. Failed 161-234. 10/7/03.

542. H.R. 1. Motion to instruct House conferees to reject provisions of the House bill relating to the creation of tax-favored health savings accounts for individuals to pay for qualified health care expenses. No. Failed 190-218. 10/15/03.

565. H.R. 3288, to make technical corrections to the Social Security Act relating to state qualification for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. Yes. Passed 382-0, under suspension of rules. 10/20/03.

573. H.R. 1. Motion to instruct House conferees to disagree with the portion of the House bill that would require that the traditional Medicare program must compete with private plans to provide Medicare benefits by the year 2010. No. Failed 194-209. 10/28/03.

599. H.R. 1. Motion to instruct House conferees to reject premium support provisions in the House bill which require that by 2010, the traditional Medicare program must compete with private plans to provide Medicare benefits. No. Failed 195-217. 10/30/03.

613. H.R. 2660. Motion to instruct House conferees to insist on the higher Senate level of appropriations to fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. No. Passed 310-101. 11/6/03.

615. H.R. 1. Motion to instruct House conferees to reject provisions in the House bill that require the traditional Medicare program to compete with private plans to provide Medicare benefits by 2010 and reject provisions of the Senate bill that establish an alternative payment system for preferred provider organizations in highly competitive regions and provide that the savings from the rejection of these provisions would be used to increase payments to physicians for Medicare services. No. Failed 197-209. 11/6/03.

619. H.R. 1. Motion to instruct House conferees to reject the House provisions providing premium support and reject the Senate provision providing $6 billion for privatization demonstration projects and shift the funding from those provisions to improving the Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payments and additionally to instruct conferees to insist on a House provision to largely eliminate funding cuts scheduled to go into effect in state DSH payments and to insist on a Senate provision to increase federal allotments for states with low DSH payments. No. Failed 184-207. 11/7/03.

637. H.R. 1. Motion to instruct House conferees to reject provisions in the House bill that require the traditional Medicare program to compete with private plans to provide Medicare benefits by 2010 and reject provisions of the Senate bill that establish an alternative payment system for preferred provider organizations in highly competitive regions and provide that the savings from the rejection of these provisions would be used to increase payments to physicians for Medicare services. No. Failed 203-218. 11/19/03.

644. H.R. 3140, to require contact lens prescribers to provide patients with a copy of their contact lens prescriptions and require contact lens sellers to verify a prescription with the prescriber. Yes. 406-12, under suspension of rules. 11/19/03.

646. S. 286, to reauthorize the programs and activities of the National Center on Birth Defects and Disabilities at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Yes. Passed 415-1, under suspension of rules. 11/20/03.

647. S. 686, to amend the Poison Control Enhancement and Awareness Act to authorize grants to regional poison control centers, a national toll-free number poison control hotline, and a nationwide media campaign to promote poison control center use. Yes. Passed 420-1, under suspension of rules. 11/20/03.

650. H.R. 1. Motion to instruct House conferees to reject provisions in the House bill that require the traditional Medicare program to compete with private plans to provide Medicare benefits by 2010 and reject provisions of the Senate bill that establish an alternative payment system for preferred provider organizations in highly competitive regions and provide that the savings from the rejection of these provisions would be used to increase payments to physicians for Medicare services. No. Failed 201-222. 11/20/03.

651. H.R. 2660. Motion to instruct House conferees to insist on at least $14.2 billion for student financial aid and the highest funding level possible for the Pell Grant program. Yes. Passed 360-64. 11/20/03.

668. H.R. 1. Motion to recommit the conference report to the conference committee with instructions to report it back with provisions to allow the Health and Human Services secretary to negotiate lower drug prices, eliminate premium support, reconsider the issue of prescription drug importation and allow Medicaid to supplement Medicare coverage for the low-income elderly and disabled. No. Failed 211-222. 11/21/03.

669. H.R. 1. To adopt the conference report to the bill to create a prescription drug benefit for Medicare recipients beginning in 2006 and make structural changes to the program allowing beneficiaries to obtain coverage through traditional Medicare or a private health plan; provide for extra subsidies for low-income beneficiaries and increase payments to Medicare providers; provide that beginning in 2007, Medicare Part B premiums would increase for some higher-income recipients, and provide that some persons under age 65 as well as Medicare recipients could establish health-savings accounts to pay for health care services not covered by their insurance policy. Yes. Passed 220-215. 11/21/03.