Rep. Tim Holden

Recent Activity

• Jan. 26 Cosponsored HR4547: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 119 Station Road in Cheyney, Pennsylvania, as the "Captain Luther H. Smith, U.S. Army Air Forces Post Office".

• Jan. 18 Cosponsored HRES1015: Congratulating the Penn State women's volleyball team on winning the 2009 NCAA Division I National Championship.

• Cosponsored HR4466: To amend section 1502 of title 5, United States Code, to permit law enforcement officers to be candidates for sheriff, and for other purposes.

• Dec. 15 Cosponsored HR4393: To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to reduce the matching requirement for participants in the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program.

• Dec. 14 Cosponsored HRES971: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding guidelines for breast cancer screening for women ages 40 to 49.

• Cosponsored HRES975: Recognizing the potential for a national fresh food financing initiative to provide an effective and economically sustainable solution to the problem of limited access to healthy foods in underserved urban, suburban, and rural low-income communit…

• Dec. 10 Cosponsored HR4199: To ensure patient choice in pharmacies by regulating pharmacy benefit managers and to establish a program to improve access to prescription drugs for certain individuals.

• Dec. 01 Cosponsored HR4187: To amend the Water Resources Development Act of 1996 to make modifications to the Chesapeake Bay environmental restoration and protection program.

• Cosponsored HRES942: Commending the Real Salt Lake soccer club for winning the 2009 Major League Soccer Cup.

• Nov. 30 Cosponsored HRES940: Recognizing and honoring the National Guard on the occasion of its 373rd anniversary.

• Cosponsored HR3402: To establish a minimum funding level for programs under the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 for fiscal years 2010 to 2014 that ensures a reasonable growth in victim programs without jeopardizing the long-term sustainability of the Crime Victims Fund…

• Nov. 18 Cosponsored HR4117: To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act to clarify that the delivery of milk to a handler under a Federal milk marketing order occurs when the raw milk is received at the producer's farm, and the producer may not be charged for transportation-re…

• Cosponsored HR4070: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the incentives for the production of biodiesel.

• Cosponsored HR3916: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend and modify the section 45 credit for refined coal from steel industry fuel, and for other purposes.

• Nov. 17 Cosponsored HR2142: To require the review of Government programs at least once every 5 years for purposes of assessing their performance and improving their operations, and to establish the Performance Improvement Council.

• Nov. 16 Cosponsored HR4088: To ensure that the members of the Armed Forces and civilian employees of the Department of Defense who were killed or wounded in the shootings at Fort Hood are treated in the same manner as members who are killed or wounded in combat zones or civ…

• Nov. 15 Cosponsored HR3837: To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to provide for clarification on the use of funds relating to certain homeland security grants, and for other purposes.

• Nov. 05 Cosponsored HRES892: Recognizing the 20th anniversary of the remarkable events leading to the end of the Cold War and the creation of a Europe, whole, free, and at peace.

• Cosponsored HR930: To strengthen the Nation's research efforts to identify the causes and cure of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, expand psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis data collection, and study access to and quality of care for people with psoriasis and psor…

• Nov. 03 Cosponsored HR3926: To direct the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to jointly conduct a study on the incidence of breast cancer among members of the Armed Forces and veterans.