INFLATION see also Economic Conditions

Addresses

Deficit—Challenge and Risk, Senator Dole, 31703 [9NO]

Fiscal and Monetary Policies, Representative Kemp, 16675-16677 [21JN]

Future of the American Economy, Martin Feldstein (sundry), 10079-10085 [27AP]

How the Dollar Stole Christmas, 275 [25JA]

Looking Toward the Summit—International Trade Issues at Williamsburg, Lee L. Morgan, Caterpillar Tractor Co., 20906 [26JY]

Amendments

Public debt limit: temporary increase (H.R. 2990), 12739 [18MY]

Articles and editorials

Area's Economy Perking Up, 18581 [12JY]

Audit Says Farmers Home Administration Is Too Lenient, Borrowers Say It's Too Harsh, 9769 [26AP]

Budget Deficits (excerpt), 11889 [11MY]

Budget Solution, 24206 [14SE]

Budget Update, 29776 [28OC]

Congress Spends Bucks, but Passes Budget Buck, 18373 [30JN]

Does Prosperity Cause Inflation?, 12010 [11MY]

Federal Deficit (excerpt), 28533 [20OC]

Flat-Tax Lab—The Isle of Man, 2124 [14FE]

Growing Storm Over Interest Rates, 18666 [12JY]

Impossible Rates, Unfair Advantage, 1107 [31JA]

Indexing—Repeal Will Hurt Workers of America, 8690 [14AP]

Inflationary Tax Cuts?, 13625 [24MY]

Leave Tax Index Well Enough Alone, 2123 [14FE]

Looking Up, 13230 [19MY]

Money Bulge Isn't Inflationary, 11124 [4MY]

Mortgage Assistance Loans (excerpt), 12466 [17MY]

Peso Crisis Plagues Texas Border Towns, 23390 [4AU]

Private Borrowing and the Federal Deficit, 24208 [14SE]

Regan, Reagan, and the Reality Deficit, 24896 [20SE]

Stockman Is Still Cooking the Numbers—Now He Wants Us To Believe Reagan Is Fair, 18667 [12JY]

Tax Cut Heralds New Fiscal Year, 23383 [4AU]

Tax Cuts—The Lower the Incomes, the Better It Looks, 12686 [17MY]

West Virginia's ``Almost Heaven'' Becomes a Nightmare, 12539-12540 [17MY]

What Really Does the Crowding Out, 24207 [14SE]

Bills and resolutions

Federal Reserve System: promote reduction of interest rates (see S. Con. Res. 25)

Gift tax (see H.R. 543)

Health Care Cost Control Act: enact (see H.R. 3261)

Interest rates: reduce (see S. Con. Res. 25)

Savings bonds: protect series E from inflation (see H.R. 1835)

Broadcasts

Tax indexing—keeping a promise, KFWB-Radio (Los Angeles, Calif.), 9075 [19AP]

Letters

Sunset provisions for mortgage revenue bonds (sundry), 799, 801 [26JA]

Memorials of legislature

Farmers Home Administration interest credit programs: Georgia, 8634 [14AP]

Federal Reserve Act: Idaho, 11106 [4MY], 13481 [24MY]

———Virginia, 8219 [12AP]

Monetary policies: North Dakota, 8635 [14AP]

Mortgage Subsidy Bond Tax Act: Virginia, 8219 [12AP]

Messages

Economic Recovery Program and Proposed Legislation To Reduce Unemployment: President Reagan (H. Doc. 98-30), 5040 [11MR]

Economic Report, President Reagan (PM 8), 1384 [2FE]

Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee, President Reagan, 7597 [5AP]

Petitions

Economy: Homestead, Fla., 18234 [29JN]

Polls of opinion

Kentucky: First District, 18424 [30JN]

By Representative Albosta, 14650 [7JN]

Remarks in House

Alternative budget proposal, 19165 [14JY], 19590 [18JY]

Budget: alternative proposal, 15713 [14JN], 20246 [21JY], 20659 [25JY]

———compromise on proposals, 12714, 12715 [18MY]

———convene a bipartisan summit conference to prepare a plan to reduce deficits (H.J. Res. 375), 26105 [28SE]

———deficit, 34023, 34165 [18NO]

———deficit spending, 25077-25079, 25155-25176 [21SE], 25379-25380 [22SE], 29962 [31OC]

———deficits, 25888, 25889 [27SE], 26105 [28SE], 26421, 26499-26524, 26527-26531 [29SE], 26719, 26720, 26722, 26723, 26724, 26725, 26726 [30SE], 26917 [3OC], 27059 [4OC], 28533 [20OC], 28831 [21OC]

———economic impact of deficit, 20853 [26JY]

———economic impact of deficits, 24194-24211 [14SE]

———impact of deficit, 31730 [9NO]

———impact of deficits on interest rates, 31734 [9NO]

———projected deficits, 5875 [17MR]

———proposals, 12714 [18MY]

———reconciliation update, 23217 [4AU]

———reduce deficit, 12466 [17MY], 12713, 12715 [18MY], 13918 [25MY], 14805 [8JN], 15139 [9JN], 15492 [13JN], 24194-24211 [14SE], 30554 [2NO], 30863-30870 [3NO]

———reduce deficits, 28254 [19OC], 28632 [20OC], 29184, 29200 [25OC]

———require balanced, 28632 [20OC]

———responsibility for deficit, 12766 [18MY], 14680 [7JN]

———restore balance to proposed, 14152 [26MY]

Control efforts (H.R. 1742), 3246 [1MR]

Credit controls: authorize Presidential authority to institute (H.R. 1742), 3246 [1MR]

Democratic Party: economic policies, 3538 [2MR], 32456 [14NO]

———proposed budget, 5877, 5878 [17MR], 6082 [18MR], 6322, 6365 [21MR], 6434, 6435, 6436, 6510, 6524 [22MR]

Economic and foreign policy issues: questions constituents are asking, 23707 [12SE]

Economic opportunity: encourage national policy to improve, 7318-7324 [24MR]

Economic recovery: efforts to insure, 3536 [2MR]

———proposals, 5664 [16MR], 7318-7324 [24MR], 9684 [26AP], 12707 [18MY]

———status, 3887 [3MR], 4186, 4231 [8MR], 4486 [9MR], 8753 [18AP], 12464, 12515 [17MY], 15653 [14JN], 16568 [21JN], 20659, 20663 [25JY], 21742 [29JY], 23215 [4AU]

Economics test: past and present situation, 29401 [26OC]

Federal Reserve Board: include agricultural and small business representatives (H.R. 2566), 8699 [14AP]

Federal Reserve System: economic impact of monetary policies, 1221 [1FE]

First concurrent budget resolution, 6320 [21MR]

———Republican amendments proposed during committee markup, 6321 [21MR]

Flat Rate Tax Act: enact (H.R. 1664), 10857 [3MY]

———enact (H.R. 2137), 10857 [3MY]

FRS: economic impact of policies, 4651 [9MR]

Health Care Cost Control Act: introduction (H.R. 3261), 14804 [8JN]

Housing industry: impact of unemployment, 11470 [9MY]

Interest rates: impact of Federal deficit, 20853 [26JY]

———reduce, 5664 [16MR], 5886 [17MR], 29745, 29776 [28OC]

Monetary and fiscal policies: implement improved (H.J. Res. 208), 5886 [17MR]

Mortgage assistance loans: economic result of providing certain, 12466 [17MY]

Ohio: impact of President Reagan's budget proposals, 6371 [21MR]

Poverty: rate increase, 28154 [18OC]

Public debt: ceiling limit, 14152 [26MY]

———increase limit (H.R. 2990), 12706, 12707, 12714, 12715, 12716, 12726-12739 [18MY]

Purchasing power: increased, 4486 [9MR]

Reagan, President: budget deficits, 25888, 25889 [27SE], 26499-26524, 26527-26531 [29SE], 26719, 26720, 26725 [30SE]

———budget proposal, 17668 [28JN]

———budget proposals, 6371-6379 [21MR]

———cooperation with Congress to solve national problems, 12714 [18MY]

———economic policies, 4186 [8MR], 15653 [14JN], 18845 [13JY]

———economic recovery program, 3538 [2MR], 4153 [7MR], 6322 [21MR], 6436 [22MR], 8753 [18AP], 11581 [10MY], 12461, 12464, 12515 [17MY], 12989 [19MY], 14680 [7JN], 18184 [29JN], 18846 [13JY], 20181, 20182 [21JY], 20856 [26JY], 21906 [1AU], 24335 [15SE], 26724 [30SE], 28527 [20OC]

———impact of economic policies on budget deficits, 26421 [29SE]

———standby authority to insure economic recovery, 23705 [12SE]

Recession: recovery predictions, 16710 [21JN]

Savings rate, 23215 [4AU]

Supply-side economics: economic impact, 12706 [18MY]

Tax reform: legislative priority, 34910 [18NO]

———proposals, 34023 [18NO]

Taxation: impact of indexing on economy, 8689 [14AP]

———limit reduction, 15492 [13JN]

———proposed increase, 12705, 12707, 12716 [18MY]

Taxpayers Protection Act: enact (H..R. 171), 10857 [3MY]

World economic recovery: monetary and fiscal policies to stimulate (H.J. Res. 208), 5886 [17MR]

Remarks in Senate

Agricultural production: financing, 9768 [26AP]

Budget: providing a balanced, 23046 [4AU]

Consumption tax: proposed, 1107 [31JA]

Economic recovery: role of interest rates, 7940 [12AP]

Economy: recovery, 13504 [24MY]

Farm income: declining, 397 [26JA]

Farmers: battle against inflation, 7251 [24MR]

Housing Finance Opportunity Act: introduction (S. 137), 799-801 [26JA]

Immigration policy, 13853 [25MY]

Interest rates: budget deficit relationship, 24903 [20SE]

———economic recovery (S. Con. Res. 54), 19671 [18JY]

———increase, 18665 [12JY]

Major acquisition programs: cost overruns (S. 421), 1641 [3FE]

Military personnel: pay increase (S. 275), 1115-1117 [31JA]

National Defense Stockpile Copper Acquisition Act: introduction (S. 1544), 17416 [27JN]

New England Interstate Banking Act: introduction (S. 1002), 7802 [7AP]

Railroad retirement system, 1155 [31JA]

Recession: recovery, 24896-24898 [20SE]

Tax indexing: repeal (S. 30), 546 [26JA]

Trade Reorganization Act: introduction (S. 121), 771-777 [26JA]

Reports

Economic Importance of Interest Rates (excerpt), 3920 [3MR]

Inequality of Sacrifice—The Impact of the Reagan Budget on Women, Coalition on Women and the Budget, 6721 [23MR]

Seven Reasons for Saving the Tax Cut, Heritage Foundation, 9556-9558 [21AP]

Reports to constituents

Hamilton, Lee H.: FRS, 18358 [30JN]

Statements

Budget Planning Is on Path of Decreasing Deficits, President Reagan (excerpt), 12706 [18MY]

Democratic Budget Proposal, David Brinkley, 6436 [22MR]

Gains From Disinflation, Martin Feldstein, 13505 [24MY]

Impact of Budget Deficits on the Economy (sundry excerpts), 24199-24203, 24205 [14SE]

Monetary Policy, James Tobin (excerpt), 6715 [23MR]

Outside of Economic Recovery, Beech Aircraft Corp., 15653 [14JN]

Rebuilding the Road to Opportunity, Democratic Caucus (excerpts), 6436 [22MR]

Recovery of the Economy, David A. Stockman, 13507 [24MY]

Scapegoating America, David I. Meiselman, 14185 [26MY]

Tables

Budget deficits for fiscal years 1964-84, 24195 [14SE]

Budget deficits since World War II, 25889 [27SE], 26500 [29SE]

Budget deficits (sundry), 25160-25162 [21SE]

Budget—1984 (sundry), 15714 [14JN]

Democratic budget proposal (selected data), 6524 [22MR]

Effect of first budget resolution for fiscal year 1984, 24195 [14SE]

Federal budget facts, 34165 [18NO]

Percent farm value of retail food costs, 1982, 7251 [24MR]

Testimonies

Federal Reserve Responsibility for Interest Rates and Economic Recovery, Lester C. Thurow (excerpt), 3920 [3MR]

Texts of

H.J. Res. 208, pursue monetary and fiscal policies to stimulate world economic recovery, 5887 [17MR]

H.R. 1664, Flat Rate Tax Act, 10858 [3MY]

H.R. 2137, Flat Rate Tax Act, 10858 [3MY]

H.R. 2566, Federal Reserve Board representation of agricultural and small business representatives, 8700 [14AP]

S. 30, repeal tax indexing, 547 [26JA]

S. 121, Trade Reorganization Act, 773-777 [26JA]

S. 421, major acquisition programs cost overruns, 1642 [3FE]

S. 1002, New England Interstate Banking Act, 7802 [7AP]

S. 1544, National Defense Stockpile Copper Acquisition Act, 17417 [27JN]

S. Con. Res. 54, economic recovery, 19671 [18JY]

S. Con. Res. 73, coordination of Federal fiscal policy, 27256 [5OC]