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108hr4610ih | (2) Research
(A) Types of research
In carrying out this subsection, the Secretary shall encourage research that focus on genetics, on the development of biomarkers, and on pharmacological and other therapies. (B) Priority
In awarding planning grants or contracts under paragraph (1), the Director of NIH may give prio... |
108hr4610ih | Such authorization shall be in addition to any authorization of appropriations under any other provision of law to carry out juvenile arthritis activities or other arthritis-related research. 320B. Surveillance and research regarding juvenile arthritis
(a) In general
The Secretary, acting through the Director of the ... |
108hr4610ih | (c) Coordination with NIH
The Secretary shall ensure that epidemiological and other types of information obtained under subsection (a) is made available to the National Institutes of Health. |
108hr4610ih | (d) Creation of a National Juvenile Arthritis Patient Registry
The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and in collaboration with a national voluntary health organization with experience serving the juvenile arthritis population as well as the full spectrum of arthri... |
108hr4610ih | 6. Investment in tomorrow’s pediatric rheumatologists
(a) In general
Part Q of title III of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 280h et seq. ) is amended by adding at the end the following: 399AA. |
108hr4610ih | Investment in tomorrow’s pediatric rheumatologists
(a) Enhanced support
In order to ensure an adequate future supply of pediatric rheumatologists, the Secretary, in consultation with the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, shall support activities that provide for— (1) an increase in th... |
108hr4610ih | (b) Authorization
There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal years 2005 through 2009 to carry out this section.. (b) Pediatric loan repayment program
Part Q of title III of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 280h et seq. ), as amended by subsection (a), is further ... |
108hr4610ih | Pediatric rheumatology loan repayment program
(a) In general
The Secretary, in consultation with the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, may establish a pediatric rheumatology loan repayment program. (b) Program administration
Through the program established under subsection (a), the S... |
108hr4610ih | 000 of the principal and interest of the educational loans of such professionals; and (2) in addition to making payments under paragraph (1) on behalf of an individual, make payments to the individual for the purpose of providing reimbursement for tax liability resulting from the payments made under paragraph (1), in a... |
108hr4610ih | (c) Funding
(1) In general
For the purpose of carrying out this section, the Secretary may reserve, from amounts appropriated for the Health Resources and Services Administration for the fiscal year involved, such amounts as the Secretary determines to be appropriate. (2) Availability of funds
Amounts made available... |
108hr4610ih | Investment in tomorrow’s pediatric rheumatologists
(a) Enhanced support
In order to ensure an adequate future supply of pediatric rheumatologists, the Secretary, in consultation with the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, shall support activities that provide for— (1) an increase in th... |
108hr4610ih | (b) Authorization
There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal years 2005 through 2009 to carry out this section. 399BB. Pediatric rheumatology loan repayment program
(a) In general
The Secretary, in consultation with the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services ... |
108hr4610ih | the Secretary shall— (1) enter into contracts with qualified health professionals who are pediatric rheumatologists under which— (A) such professionals agree to provide health care in an area with a shortage of pediatric rheumatologists; and (B) the Federal Government agrees to repay, for each year of such service, not... |
108hr4610ih | in an amount equal to 39 percent of the total amount of the payments made for the taxable year involved. (c) Funding
(1) In general
For the purpose of carrying out this section, the Secretary may reserve, from amounts appropriated for the Health Resources and Services Administration for the fiscal year involved, such... |
108hr4610ih | Career development awards in pediatric rheumatology
Part G of title IV of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 288 et seq. ) is amended— (1) by redesignating section 487F (as added by Public Law 106–505 ), as section 487G; (2) by inserting after section 487G (as so redesignated) the following: 487H. |
108hr4610ih | Career development awards in pediatric rheumatology
(a) In general
The Secretary, in consultation with the Director of NIH, may establish a program to increase the number of career development awards for health professionals who intend to build careers in clinical and translational research relating to pediatric rheu... |
108hr4610ih | Career development awards in pediatric rheumatology
(a) In general
The Secretary, in consultation with the Director of NIH, may establish a program to increase the number of career development awards for health professionals who intend to build careers in clinical and translational research relating to pediatric rheu... |
108hr4610ih | General accounting office study of arthritis and the workplace
(a) Study and report
Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct a study on the economic impact of arthritis in the workplace, and submit a report to the appropriate committees... |
108hr5167ih | 1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Protection of Family Farmers Act of 2004. 2. Eighteen-month extension of period for which chapter 12 of title 11, United States Code, is reenacted
(a) Amendments
Section 149 of title I of division C of Public Law 105–277 ( 11 U.S.C. |
108hr5167ih | 1201 note) is amended— (1) by striking January 1, 2004 each place it appears and inserting July 1, 2005 ; and (2) in subsection (a)— (A) by striking June 30, 2003 and inserting December 31, 2003 ; and (B) by striking July 1, 2003 and inserting January 1, 2004. (b) Effective date
The amendments made by subsection (a) t... |
108hr4517ih | 1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the United States Refinery Revitalization Act of 2004. 2. Findings
The Congress finds the following: (1) It serves the national interest to increase refinery capacity for gasoline, heating oil, diesel fuel, and jet fuel wherever located within the United States, to bring more s... |
108hr4517ih | (2) United States demand for refined petroleum products, such as gasoline and heating oil, currently exceeds our domestic capacity to produce them. By 2025, United States gasoline consumption is projected to rise from 8,900,000 barrels per day to 13,300,000 barrels per day. Diesel fuel and home heating oil are becoming... |
108hr4517ih | (3) The refinery industry is operating at nearly 100 percent of capacity during the peak gasoline consumption season and is producing record levels of needed products at other times. The excess demand has recently been met by increased imports. The United States currently is importing 7 percent of its refined petroleum... |
108hr4517ih | Almost 25 percent of our Nation’s refining capacity is controlled by foreign ownership. Easily restored capacity at idled refineries amounted to 539,000 barrels a day in 2002, or 3.3 percent of the total operating capacity. No new refineries have been built in the United States since 1976. Most refineries are located o... |
108hr4517ih | (5) Refiners have met growing demand by increasing the use of existing equipment and increasing the efficiency and capacity of existing plants. But refining capacity has begun to lag behind peak summer demand. (6) Heavy industry and manufacturing jobs have closed or relocated due to barriers to investment, burdensome r... |
108hr4517ih | (8) Required procedures for Federal, State, and local regulatory approvals need to be streamlined to ensure that increased refinery capacity can be developed and operated in a safe, timely, and cost-effective manner. 3. |
108hr4517ih | Designation of Refinery Revitalization Zones
The Secretary of Energy shall designate as a Refinery Revitalization Zone any area— (1) that— (A) has experienced mass layoffs at manufacturing facilities, as determined by the Secretary of Labor; or (B) contains an idle refinery; and (2) that has an unemployment rate of at... |
108hr4517ih | Compliance with all environmental regulations required
The best available control technology, as appropriate, shall be employed on all refineries located within a Refinery Revitalization Zone to comply with all applicable Federal, State, and local environmental regulations. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to wa... |
108hr4517ih | Coordination and expeditious review of permitting process
(a) Department of Energy lead agency
Upon request of an applicant for a Federal authorization related to the siting and operation of a refinery facility within a Refinery Revitalization Zone, the Department of Energy shall be the lead agency for coordinating a... |
108hr4517ih | To the maximum extent practicable under applicable Federal law, the Secretary of Energy shall coordinate this Federal authorization and review process with any Indian Tribes and State and local agencies responsible for conducting any separate permitting and environmental reviews of the facility, to ensure timely and ef... |
108hr4517ih | (b) Authority to set deadlines
As lead agency, the Department of Energy, in consultation with agencies responsible for Federal authorizations and, as appropriate, with Indian Tribes and State or local agencies willing to coordinate their own separate permitting and environmental reviews with the Federal authorization ... |
108hr4517ih | The Secretary of Energy shall ensure that once an application has been submitted with such data as the Secretary considers necessary, all permit decisions and related environmental reviews under all applicable Federal laws shall be completed within 6 months or, where circumstances require otherwise, as soon thereafter ... |
108hr4517ih | The Secretary of Energy also shall provide an expeditious preapplication mechanism for prospective applicants to confer with the agencies involved to have each such agency determine and communicate to the prospective applicant within 60 days after the prospective applicant submits a request for the information concerni... |
108hr4517ih | (c) Consolidated environmental review and record of decision
As lead agency, the Department of Energy, in consultation with the affected agencies, shall prepare a single environmental review document, which shall be used as the basis for all decisions on the proposed project under Federal law. The document may be an e... |
108hr4517ih | (d) Appeals
In the event any agency has denied a Federal authorization required for a refinery facility within a Refinery Revitalization Zone, or has failed to act by the deadline established by the Secretary pursuant to this section for deciding whether to issue the authorization, the applicant or any State in which ... |
108hr4517ih | In making a decision under this subsection, the Secretary shall comply with applicable requirements of Federal law, including any requirements of the Clean Air Act, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, th... |
108hr4517ih | (e) Conforming regulations and memoranda of understanding
Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Energy shall issue any regulations necessary to implement this section. Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary and the heads of all Federal... |
108hr4517ih | The head of each Federal agency with authority to issue a Federal authorization shall designate a senior official responsible for, and dedicate sufficient other staff and resources to ensure, full implementation of the Department of Energy regulations and any Memoranda under this subsection. Interested Indian Tribes an... |
108hr4517ih | the Solid Waste Disposal Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act, the National Historic Preservation Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969) in order to site, construct, upgrade, or operate a refinery facility within a Refinery Revitalization Zone, including such permits, special use authorizations, certi... |
108hr4517ih | and (3) the term refinery facility means any facility designed and operated to refine raw crude oil into gasoline, heating oil, diesel fuel, or jet fuel by any chemical or physical process, including distillation, fluid catalytic cracking, hydrocracking, coking, alkylation, etherification, polymerization, catalytic ref... |
108hr4163ih | 1. Increased membership of certain combined Farm Service Agency county committees
Section 8(b)(5)(B) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act ( 16 U.S.C. |
108hr4163ih | 590h(b)(5)(B) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (vi) Membership of combined farm service agency county committees
Notwithstanding the numerical limitations of clause (ii), a county committee that results from the combination or consolidation of county, area, or local committees representing 3 or more co... |
108hr5236ih | 1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Let Parents Raise Their Kids Act of 2004. 2. Findings
The Congress finds as follows: (1) The United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) issued findings and recommendation against screening for suicide that corroborate those of the Canadian Preventive Services Tas... |
108hr5236ih | There is limited evidence on the accuracy of screening tools to identify suicide risk in the primary care setting, including tools to identify those at high risk.. (2) The 1999 Surgeon General’s report on mental health admitted the serious conflicts in the medical literature regarding the definitions of mental health a... |
108hr5236ih | (3) The Surgeon General’s report also says, The diagnosis of mental disorders is often believed to be more difficult than diagnosis of somatic or general medical disorders since there is no definitive laboratory test or abnormality in brain tissue that can identify the illness.. (4) Accurate mental health diagnosis of ... |
108hr5236ih | Adult criteria for illness can be difficult to apply to children and adolescents, when the signs and symptoms of mental disorders are often also the characteristics of normal development.. (5) Authors of the bible of psychiatric diagnosis, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, admit that the diagnostic criteria for me... |
108hr5236ih | (American Psychiatric Association Committee on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM–IV 1994), pp. 1162-1163). (6) Because of the subjectivity of psychiatric diagnosis, it is all too easy for a psychiatrist to label a person’s disagreement with the psychiatrist’s political beliefs a mental disorder. (7) At least o... |
108hr5236ih | (8) Despite many statements in the popular press and by groups promoting the psychiatric labeling and medication of children, that ADD/ADHD is due to a chemical imbalance in the brain, the 1998 National Institutes of Health Consensus Conference said, … further research is necessary to firmly establish ADHD as a brain d... |
108hr5236ih | … Finally, after years of clinical research and experience with ADHD, our knowledge about the cause or causes of ADHD remains speculative.. (9) There has been a precipitous increase in the prescription rates of psychiatric drugs in children: (A) A 300-percent increase in psychotropic drug use in 2 to 4 year old childre... |
108hr5236ih | (C) More money was spent on psychiatric drugs for children than on antibiotics or asthma medication (Medco Trends, 2004). (10) A September 2004 Food and Drug Administration hearing found that more than two-thirds of studies of antidepressants given to depressed children showed that they were no more effective than plac... |
108hr5236ih | The lack of effectiveness of antidepressants has been known by the Food and Drug Administration since at least 2000 when, according to the Food and Drug Administration Background Comments on Pediatric Depression, Robert Temple of the Food and Drug Administration Office of Drug Evaluation acknowledged the preponderance ... |
108hr5236ih | The Surgeon General’s report said of stimulant medication like Ritalin, However, psychostimulants do not appear to achieve long-term changes in outcomes such as peer relationships, social or academic skills, or school achievement.. (11) The Food and Drug Administration finally acknowledged in September 2004, that the n... |
108hr5236ih | The Food and Drug Administration had over 2000 reports of completed suicides from 1987 to 1995 for the drug Prozac alone, which by the agency’s own calculations represent but a fraction of the suicides. Prozac is the only such drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in children. |
108hr5236ih | (12) Other possible side effects of psychiatric medication used in children include mania, violence, dependence, weight gain, and insomnia from the newer antidepressants; cardiac toxicity including lethal arrhythmias from the older antidepressants; growth suppression, psychosis, and violence from stimulants; and diabet... |
108hr5236ih | Across the country, Patricia Weathers, the Carroll Family, the Johnston Family, and the Salazar Family were all charged or threatened with child abuse charges for refusing or taking their children off of psychiatric medications. (14) The United States Supreme Court in Pierce versus Society of Sisters (268 U.S. 510 (192... |
108hr5236ih | (16) Federal funds should never be used to support programs that could lead to the increased over-medication of children, the stigmatization of children and adults as mentally disturbed based on their political or other beliefs, or the violation of the liberty and privacy of Americans by subjecting them to invasive men... |
108hr5236ih | Prohibition against Federal funding of universal or mandatory mental health screening
(a) Universal or mandatory mental health screening program
No Federal funds may be used to establish or implement any universal or mandatory mental health screening program. |
108hr5236ih | (b) Refusal to consent as basis of a charge of child abuse or education neglect
No Federal education funds may be paid to any local educational agency or other instrument of government that uses the refusal of a parent or legal guardian to provide express, written, voluntary, informed consent to mental health screenin... |
108hr5236ih | the term universal or mandatory mental health screening program — (1) means any mental health screening program in which a set of individuals (other than members of the Armed Forces or individuals serving a sentence resulting from conviction for a criminal offense) is automatically screened without regard to whether th... |
108hr5236ih | and (B) any student mental health screening program that allows mental health screening of individuals under 18 years of age without the express, written, voluntary, informed consent of the parent or legal guardian of the individual involved. |
108hr5125ih | 1. Findings
The Congress makes the following findings: (1) On July 22, 2004, the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States released its report that made 41 recommendations for the President and Congress to implement. (2) On August 21, 2004, the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United... |
108hr5125ih | (3) Since issuing the final report and since the formal termination of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States, individual members of the Commission have been testifying frequently before Congress on their recommendations and have been traveling the country promoting their recommendations. (4)... |
108hr5125ih | (5) Some aspects of the September 11th terrorist attacks upon the United States still need to be investigated. (6) With an extension, the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States will have the opportunity to complete their investigations into those aspects, including the emergency personnel respons... |
108hr5125ih | 101 note; 116 Stat. 2413) is amended to read as follows: (c) Termination
The Commission, and all the authorities of this title, shall terminate on the date that is the earlier of— (1) the date on which the chairman and vice chairman of the Commission determine that the Commission has done all it can to assist Congress... |
108hr5125ih | (b) Additional functions after submittal of final report
Section 604(a) of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003 ( Public Law 107–306 ; 6 U.S.C. 101 note; 116 Stat. 2409) is amended— (1) by striking and at the end of paragraph (2); (2) by changing the period at the end of paragraph (3) to a semicolon... |
108hr5125ih | and (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraphs: (4) serve as a resource to the President and Congress with respect to the findings and recommendations of the Commission contained in the final report submitted pursuant to section 610(b) and to monitor the progress of the President and Congress in implementing... |
108hr5125ih | 6 U.S.C. 101 note; 116 Stat. 2408) is amended— (1) by striking and at the end of paragraph (4); (2) by changing the period at the end of paragraph (5) to a semicolon; and (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraphs: (6) to serve as a resource to the President and Congress, and to monitor the implementation of... |
108hr5125ih | and local emergency communication and coordination. (d) Additional funding
Section 611 of such Act ( 6 U.S.C. 101 note; 116 Stat. 2413) is amended_ (1) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d); and (2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following new subsection (c): (c) Authorization of appropriations for ... |
108hr5125ih | 000 for each of fiscal years 2005 through 2007 to the Commission for purposes of the activities of the Commission under this title. (e) Effective date
The amendments made by this section shall take effect July 24, 2004. |
108hr4169ih | 1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Mercury-Free Vaccines Act of 2004. 2. Findings
The Congress finds as follows: (1) In July 1999, the Public Health Service and the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a joint statement, which was later endorsed by the American Academy of Family Physicians, proclaiming: [Th... |
108hr4169ih | and the US FDA which examined the use of thimerosal-containing vaccines produced or sold in European countries. (2) In July 2000, the Public Health Service, the Advisory Commission on Immunization Practices, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Academy of Family Physicians issued a joint statement, prov... |
108hr4169ih | 2) the progress in removal which has been made to date is substantial, 3) the discussions between the Food and Drug Administration and the vaccine manufacturers in removing thimerosal are ongoing, and 4) the public concern about the use of mercury of any sort remains high. Based on information from the FDA and manufact... |
108hr4169ih | at least two vaccine products each for Hep B, Hib, and DTaP) by the first quarter of 2001.. (3) The Institute of Medicine’s Immunization Review Committee concluded that significant reasons existed for continued public health attention to concerns about thimerosal exposure and neurodevelopmental disorders and recommende... |
108hr4169ih | (5) Considerable progress has been made in reducing mercury exposures from childhood vaccines, yet 5 years after the July 1999 statement, thimerosal remains in several nonroutinely administered childhood vaccines. (6) There is no law or regulation to prohibit the reintroduction of thimerosal into any products from whic... |
108hr4169ih | (8) Cumulative exposures to mercury, a neurotoxin, are known to cause harm, particularly in young children and pregnant women. (9) Taking steps to reduce mercury exposures through vaccines is an important way to reduce direct exposures to mercury and mercury compounds. 3. Banned mercury-containing vaccines
(a) Prohibi... |
108hr4169ih | 351 ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (h) If it is a banned mercury-containing vaccine under section 351B of the Public Health Service Act.. (b) Amendment to PHSA
Title III of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 241 et seq. ) is amended by inserting after section 351A the following: 351B. |
108hr4169ih | Banned mercury-containing vaccines
(a) In general
For purposes of section 501(h) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and subject to subsection (b), a vaccine is a banned mercury-containing vaccine under this section if— (1) 1 dose of the vaccine contains 1 or more micrograms of mercury in any form; or (2) th... |
108hr4169ih | (b) Public health emergency exception
(1) Exception
Subsection (h) of section 501 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act shall not apply to a vaccine during the effective period of a declaration issued by the Secretary for such vaccine under this section. (2) Declaration
The Secretary may issue a declaration co... |
108hr4169ih | (3) Limitation
The Secretary— (A) shall specify in any declaration under this section the beginning and ending dates of the effective period of the declaration; and (B) may not specify any such effective period that exceeds 12 months. (4) Renewals
At the end of the effective period of any declaration under this secti... |
108hr4169ih | (c) Effective dates
(1) Mercury-containing vaccines
In the case of a vaccine described in subsection (a)(1), the amendments made by this section apply only to vaccines introduced, or delivered for introduction, into interstate commerce on or after the following: (A) July 1, 2004, if the vaccine is an influenza vaccin... |
108hr4169ih | (C) January 1, 2006, in the case of any vaccine not described in subparagraph (A) or (B). (2) Thimerosal-containing vaccines
In the case of a vaccine that is not described in subsection (a)(1), but is described in subsection (a)(2), the amendments made by this section apply only to vaccines introduced, or delivered fo... |
108hr4169ih | Banned mercury-containing vaccines
(a) In general
For purposes of section 501(h) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and subject to subsection (b), a vaccine is a banned mercury-containing vaccine under this section if— (1) 1 dose of the vaccine contains 1 or more micrograms of mercury in any form; or (2) th... |
108hr4169ih | (b) Public health emergency exception
(1) Exception
Subsection (h) of section 501 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act shall not apply to a vaccine during the effective period of a declaration issued by the Secretary for such vaccine under this section. (2) Declaration
The Secretary may issue a declaration co... |
108hr4169ih | (3) Limitation
The Secretary— (A) shall specify in any declaration under this section the beginning and ending dates of the effective period of the declaration; and (B) may not specify any such effective period that exceeds 12 months. (4) Renewals
At the end of the effective period of any declaration under this secti... |
108hr4169ih | (c) Effective dates
(1) Mercury-containing vaccines
In the case of a vaccine described in subsection (a)(1), the amendments made by this section apply only to vaccines introduced, or delivered for introduction, into interstate commerce on or after the following: (A) July 1, 2004, if the vaccine is an influenza vaccin... |
108hr4169ih | (C) January 1, 2006, in the case of any vaccine not described in subparagraph (A) or (B). (2) Thimerosal-containing vaccines
In the case of a vaccine that is not described in subsection (a)(1), but is described in subsection (a)(2), the amendments made by this section apply only to vaccines introduced, or delivered fo... |
108hr4169ih | 300aa–26 ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (e) Thimerosal content
Not later than 2 months after the date of the enactment of this subsection, the Secretary shall revise the vaccine information materials developed and disseminated under this section to ensure that, in the case of any vaccine described in... |
108hr4169ih | and (3) a recommendation against administration of any thimerosal-containing vaccine to a pregnant woman. 5. Sense of Congress
It is the sense of the Congress that the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should include, in any information disseminated by the Centers to the public or to health ca... |
108hr4169ih | Report to Congress
Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Commissioner of Food and Drugs shall submit a report to the Congress annually on the progress of the Commissioner in removing mercury from vaccines. |
108hr4735ih | 1. Grant to World Food Prize Foundation
(a) Grant authorized
The Secretary of Agriculture may make a grant to the World Food Prize Foundation of Des Moines, Iowa, to assist the Foundation in covering renovation expenses related to its award of the World Food Prize, which honors individuals who make vital contribution... |
108hr5115ih | 1. Findings
Congress finds the following: (1) On July 26, 1805, Constantino Brumidi was born in Rome, Italy of an Italian mother and a Greek father who inspired him with a love of liberty. (2) While Constantino Brumidi’s Greek ancestry stirred his passion for liberty and citizenship, his Italian heritage provided the ... |
108hr5115ih | (3) Constantino Brumidi became a citizen of the United States as soon as he was able, embracing its history, values, and ideals. (4) Beginning in 1855, Constantino Brumidi designed and decorated one House and five Senate committee rooms in the Capitol, as well as the Senate Reception Room, the Office of the Vice Presid... |
108hr5115ih | (5) In 1865 Constantino Brumidi completed in just 11 months his masterpiece, “The Apotheosis of Washington,” in the eye of the Capitol dome. (6) In 1871 Constantino Brumidi created the first tribute to an African American in the Capitol when he placed the figure of Crispus Attucks at the center of his fresco of the Bos... |
108hr5115ih | (7) In 1878 Constantino Brumidi at the age of 72 and in poor health, began work on the Rotunda frieze, which chronicles the history of America. (8) On February 19, 1880, Constantino Brumidi died at the age of 74, four and a half months after slipping and nearly falling from a scaffold while working on the Rotunda friez... |
108hr5115ih | (9) Constantino Brumidi, proud of his artistic accomplishments and devoted to his adopted country, said, “My one ambition and my daily prayer is that I may live long enough to make beautiful the Capitol of the one country on earth in which there is liberty.”. (10) Constantino Brumidi’s life and work exemplify the lives... |
108hr5115ih | Congressional Gold Medal
(a) Presentation authorized
The Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate shall make appropriate arrangements for the presentation, on behalf of Congress, of a gold medal of appropriate design, to the family of Constantino Brumidi, in recognition of t... |
108hr5115ih | (b) Design and striking
For purposes of the presentation referred to in subsection (a), the Secretary of the Treasury (referred to in this Act as the Secretary ) shall strike a gold medal with suitable emblems, devices, and inscriptions to be determined by the Secretary. 3. Duplicate medals
The Secretary may strike a... |
108hr5115ih | Status of medals
(a) National medals
The medals struck under this Act are national medals for purposes of chapter 51 of title 31, United States Code. (b) Numismatic items
For purposes of section 5134 of title 31, Unites States Code, all medals struck under this Act shall be considered to be numismatic items. 5. |
108hr5115ih | Authority to use fund amounts; proceeds of sale
(a) Authority to use fund amounts
There is authorized to be charged against the United States Mint Public Enterprise Fund such amounts as may be necessary to pay for the costs of the medals struck pursuant to this Act. (b) Proceeds of sale
Amounts received from the sal... |
108hr5237ih | 1. Placement of equestrian statue depicting Jacob Hamblin at Forest Service Kaibab Plateau Visitor Center, Jacob Lake, Arizona
(a) Statue authorized
The Secretary of Agriculture shall authorize the Jacob Hamblin Legacy Organization to install a bronze equestrian statue depicting frontiersman, explorer, and missionary... |
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