Rep. Nethercutt, George R., Jr. [R-WA-5]

An amendment numbered 11 printed in House Report 108-79 to provide parents in consultation with theIndvidualized Family Service Plan (IFSP) team the ability to decide what setting is appropriate for each child.

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An amendment to express the sense of Congress that the militant organization Al-Faran should (1) release Donald Hutchings and fourwestern Europeans from captivity; (2) cease and desist from all acts of hostage-taking and other violent acts within the state of Jammu and Kashmir in India.

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An amendment to keep in place the fund limitation proposed to be loosened by the Dicks amendment which would subsequently require the Forest Service and BLM to complete a regulatory flexibility analysis as required by law for the Interior Columbia Basin Project.

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An amendment to add a new section outlining use of apportionments to pay the non-federal share of operation costs. Under the provisions of the amendment, both a study and a report to Congress by the Secretary would be required.

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An amendment numbered 11 printed in the Congressional Record to prohibit funds in the bill available for reconstruction efforts in Iraq from being used to procure goods or services from any corporation or other business entity organized under the laws of France, Germany, the Russian Federation, the People's Republic of China, or Syria.

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An amendment to prohibit unilateral economic sanctions against a foreign government, lift current sanctions as they relate to agriculture and medical supplies, and provide for a national security waiver.

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An amendment to prohibit funds in the Act to be used to implement any section added by a previous specified amendment except for activities related to planning and management of national monuments.

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An amendment to increase the amount appropriated for Indian Health Services by $22 million from $2,084,178,000 to $2,106,178,000.

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An amendment expressing the sense of Congress relating to the abduction and detainment of Donald Hutchings of the State of Washington.

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An amendment numbered 6 printed in the Congressional Record to prohibit ESF assistance to the government of any country that is a party to the International Criminal Court and has not signed an Article 98 agreement to to surrender U.S. nationals to the ICC.

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An amendment, printed as amendment No. 9 in the Congressional Record of July 15, 1997, to delete the provisions in the bill that eliminate two provisions within the Farm Service Agency.

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Congratulating the Seattle Storm for winning the 2004 Women's National Basketball Association Championship.

United States · United States Congress · 17 November 2004

Congratulates the Seattle Storm for their remarkable season and for winning the 2004 Women's National Basketball Association Championship.

Shadow Wolves Border Defense Act

United States · United States Congress · 8 October 2004

Shadow Wolves Border Defense Act - Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to transfer to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) all functions of the Customs Patrol Officers unit of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) operating on the Tohono O'odham Indian reservation (commonly known as the Shadow Wolves unit). Authorizes the Secretary to establish within ICE additional Customs Patrol Officer units. Requires such units to enforce the customs laws of the United States on Indian lands by preventing the smuggling of narcotics, weapons of mass destruction, and other contraband. Sets the rate of basic pay for journeymen Customs Patrol Officers in such units.

State High Risk Pool Funding Extension Act of 2004

United States · United States Congress · 8 October 2004

State High Risk Pool Funding Extension Act of 2004 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize funds for States to create and to operate existing high risk health insurance pools. Increases the maximum allowable premium in a qualified high risk pool to 200 percent of the premium for applicable standard risk rates. Defines "standard risk rate" as a rate that: (1) is determined under the State high risk pool by considering the premiums charged by other health insurers in the same market; (2) is established using reasonable actuarial techniques; and (3) reflects anticipated claims experience and expenses. Expands the definition of "qualified high risk pool" to allow a State to meet the requirement to provide all eligible individuals with health insurance coverage by utilizing an acceptable alternative mechanism that includes a high risk pool as a component and: (1) that provides for risk adjustment, risk spreading, or a risk spreading mechanism (among issuers or policies of an issuer) or for some financial subsidization for eligible individuals, including through assistance to participating issuers; or (2) under which each eligible individual is provided a choice of all individual health insurance coverage otherwise available. Amends the formula for appropriating funds to States to operate such pools to give one-half of the funds to eligible States equally and apportion the other half based on the number of uninsured individuals in each State and the number of enrollees in the State's qualified high risk pool. (Currently, all funds are allotted based solely on the number of uninsured individuals in the State.)

Urging the President to withdraw the United States from the 1992 Agreement on Government Support for Civil Aircraft with the European Union and immediately file a consultation request, under the Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes of the World Trade Organization, on the matter of injury to, and adverse effects on, the commercial aviation industry of the United States.

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Urges the President to direct the U.S. Trade Representative to: (1) withdraw the United States from the Agreement on Government Support for Civil Aircraft that was entered into with the European Community in 1992; and (2) immediately file a consultation request, under the Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes of the World Trade Organization (WTO), on the matter of serious injury to the U.S. commercial aviation industry.

Congratulating Ichiro Suzuki for breaking the Major League Baseball record for hits in a single season.

United States · United States Congress · 4 October 2004

Congratulates Ichiro Suzuki for breaking the Major League Baseball record for hits in a single season and recognizes his historic achievements. Requests that the President recognize the accomplishments of Ichiro Suzuki.

Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2004

United States · United States Congress · 4 October 2004

Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2004 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide emergency financial assistance to agricultural producers who have incurred qualifying 2003 or 2004 crop losses due to weather or related conditions. Permits producers with qualifying losses in both years to elect to receive payments in either, but not both, of such years. Makes producers ineligible for crop disaster assistance if they did not: (1) get Federal crop insurance for insurable commodities; and (2) file required paperwork and pay related fees for noninsurable commodities. Sets forth waiver provisions. Reduces payments for amounts received under a specified crop loss program announced in 2004. Directs the Secretary to provide payments to livestock producers who have incurred 2003 or 2004 losses in an emergency-designated county, with discretionary set-asides for the American Indian livestock program. Permits producers with qualifying losses in both years to elect to receive payments in either, but not both, of such years. Directs the Secretary to provide assistance under the tree assistance program to tree farmers who have suffered losses during the 2003-2004 winter.

To permanently reenact chapter 12 of title 11 of the United States Code, relating to family farmers.

United States · United States Congress · 30 September 2004

Reenacts permanently chapter 12 (Adjustments of Debts of a Family Farmer) of the Federal bankruptcy code, as reenacted by division C of the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act 1999.

High Risk Pool Flexibility Act of 2004

United States · United States Congress · 28 September 2004

High Risk Pool Flexibility Act of 2004 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to expand the definition of "qualified high risk pool" for grant purposes to allow a State to meet the requirement to provide all eligible individuals with health insurance coverage by utilizing an acceptable alternative mechanism that includes a high risk pool as a component and: (1) that provides for risk adjustment, risk spreading, or a risk spreading mechanism (among issuers or policies of an issuer) or for some financial subsidization for eligible individuals, including through assistance to participating issuers; or (2) under which each eligible individual is provided a choice of all individual health insurance coverage otherwise available.

Wild Sky Wilderness and Backcountry Wilderness Management Area Act of 2004

United States · United States Congress · 15 September 2004

Wild Sky Wilderness and Backcountry Wilderness Management Area Act of 2004 - Designates specified Federal lands in the State of Washington (the State) as: (1) the Wild Sky Wilderness (the Wilderness); and (2) the Skykomish Backcountry Wilderness Management Area (the Area). Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to manage the Wilderness in accordance with the Wilderness Act and this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to use helicopter access to construct and maintain a joint U.S. Forest Service and Snohomish County repeater site, in compliance with a Forest Service-approved communications site plan, to improve communication for safety, health, and emergency services. Directs the Secretary to: (1) develop a management plan for the Area (but prohibits the Secretary from permitting commercial timber harvest in the Area); (2) establish a trail plain for specified National Forest System lands to develop a system of hiking and equestrian trails in the Wilderness and the Area, and trails adjacent to the Wilderness or the Area; and (3) carry out a land exchange with the Chelan County Public Utility District in the State, subject to specified requirements.

Colville Land Conveyance Act of 2004

United States · United States Congress · 14 September 2004

Colville Land Conveyance Act of 2004 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to convey to Ferry County Public Hospital District No. 1. specified land in Colville National Forest, Washington.

To amend title 10, United States Code, to increase the amount of the military death gratuity from $12,000 to $50,000.

United States · United States Congress · 9 September 2004

Increases the death gratuity payable with respect to members of the Armed Forces from $12,000 to $50,000. Makes this increase applicable to deaths occurring on or after September 11, 2001. Requires the Secretary of Defense to derive funds for payments under this Act in FY 2005 from travel funds for personnel of the Office of the Secretary.

Community Credit Card Bank Act of 2004

United States · United States Congress · 8 September 2004

Community Credit Card Bank Act of 2004 - Amends the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 with respect to exclusion from coverage as a bank of an institution, including one that accepts collateral for extensions of credit by holding deposits under $100,000, and by other means, which: (1) engages only in credit card operations; (2) does not accept demand deposits or deposits that the depositor may withdraw by check or similar means for payment to third parties or others; (3) does not accept any savings or time deposit of less than $100,000; (4) maintains only one office that accepts deposits; and (5) does not engage in the business of making commercial loans. Declares that an institution shall not be treated as engaging in the business of making commercial loans solely on the basis of issuing or servicing commercial credit card accounts that constitute no more than ten percent of their credit card receivables, if: (1) it has total assets of less than $1 million; (2) it was chartered before June 1, 1998; (3) at least 80 percent of its credit card receivables have either been acquired in portfolio purchases from unaffiliated insured depository institutions, or issued through unaffiliated insured depository institutions as agents of such institutions; and (4) it issues or services commercial credit card loans that constitute, in the aggregate, not more than 10 percent of its credit card receivables. (Thus applies the exclusion from coverage by the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 to certain limited purpose credit card banks serving community banks.)

Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail Designation Act of 2004

United States · United States Congress · 22 July 2004

Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail Designation Act of 2004 - Designates the Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail, a trail from Missoula, Montana to the Pacific Ocean, to provide for the public appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the nationally significant natural and cultural features of the Ice Age Floods, and to promote efforts to interpret and educate along the pathways of the floods. Requires the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the National Park Service, to administer the Trail. Allows the Secretary to establish and operate a Trail management office within the vicinity of the Trail. Requires the Secretary to establish and maintain a trail advisory committee to assist the Trail manager and staff with the operation of the Trail. Requires the Secretary to prepare a Cooperative Management and Interpretation Plan for the Trail to: (1) describe strategies for the coordinated development of the Trail; (2) identify potential partnering opportunities to develop interpretative facilities and educational programs; (3) confirm and expand upon the inventory of floods' features contained in a specified National Park Service study; and (4) review and modify the map of the Trail. Allows the Secretary to acquire not more than 25 acres of land for public information and administrative purposes to facilitate the geographic diversity of the Trail.