COUGHLIN, LAWRENCE (a Representative from Pennsylvania)
Amendments offered by, to
Appropriations: making supplemental (H.R. 3959), 27148 [4OC]
Atlantic City railroad line, Atlantic City, N.J.: matching funds (H.R. 3329), 16831 [22JN]
Dept. of Transportation and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 3329), 16831 [22JN]
Energy and water development: make appropriations (H.R. 3132), 14001 [25MY]
Jobs: providing for productive (H.R. 1718), 3620 [2MR]
Appointments
Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control (Select), 2576 [22FE]
Conferee: H.R. 1718, emergency supplemental appropriations, 6080 [18MR]
———H.R. 3069, supplemental appropriations, 18877 [13JY]
———H.R. 3133, Dept. of HUD and independent agencies' appropriations, 16805 [22JN]
———H.R. 3329, Dept. of Transportation and related agencies appropriations, 19567 [18JY]
———H.R. 3415, District of Columbia appropriations, 25081 [21SE]
———H.R. 3959, making supplemental appropriations, 30935 [4NO]
Articles and editorials
Clinch River and Corporate Welfarism, Smith Hempstone, Washington (D.C.) Times, 22388
Double Standard at Clinch River? Washington (D.C.) Post, 22387
Los Angeles Subway Plan, Peter Gordon, Wall Street Journal (excerpt), 16847 [22JN]
Uncle Sugar, Caught in the Clinch, Los Angeles (Calif.) Times, 22387
Bills and resolutions introduced by
Computer-related crime: provide for penalties (see H.R. 4301), 30886 [3NO]
Courts: limit the insanity defense (see H.R. 2890), 11105 [4MY]
Interest and dividends: repeal withholding of tax (see H.R. 1442), 2194 [15FE]
Bills and resolutions introduced by, as cosponsor
American Businesswomen's Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 101), 16092 [16JN]
Andrei Sakharov Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 178), 11623 [10MY]
Armed Forces: authorize appointment of citizens of Northern Mariana Islands as officers (see H.R. 915), 257 [25JA]
———chiropractic care (see H.R. 31), 23929 [13SE]
Bail Reform Act: setting pretrial release conditions to permit pretrial detention of certain offenders (see H.R. 1098), 1187 [31JA]
Baltic Freedom Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 201), 13620 [24MY]
Broadcast stations: procedures for renewal and transfer of licenses (see H.R. 2382), 26945 [3OC]
Budget: amend Constitution relating to Federal procedures (see H.J. Res. 243), 17813 [28JN], 19175 [14JY]
———amend provisions relative to President's (see H.R. 1244), 1582 [3FE]
Child abuse: extend and improve certain acts (see H.R. 1904), 10820 [3MY]
Children: protect against sexual exploitation (see H.R. 3635), 31526 [8NO]
Clean Air Act: control sources of sulfur dioxides and nitrogen oxides to reduce acid deposition (see H.R. 3400), 34222 [18NO]
Communications Act: provide national policy regarding cable television (see H.R. 4103), 34223 [18NO]
Crime: fraudulent or illegal use of computers (see H.R. 1092), 30018 [31OC]
Dept. of Defense: promote cost savings and efficiency by independent contract study of major expenditures (see H.R. 1146), 26203 [28SE]
Dept. of Trade and Commerce: designate (see H.R. 1202), 2591 [22FE]
Drug Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act: amend (see H.R. 4028), 26535 [29SE]
Educational opportunity: sense of Congress to maintain guidelines to insure equal rights (see H. Res. 190), 21518 [28JY]
Emergency Medicine Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 325), 24218 [14SE]
Employee Retirement Income Security Act: provide protection to women under private pension plans (see H.R. 2100), 23930 [13SE]
Employment: sense of Congress for funding community service programs for senior citizens (see H. Con. Res. 43), 3989 [3MR]
Enterprise Zone Employment and Development Act: enact (see H.R. 1955), 4233 [8MR]
Equal rights for men and women: amend Constitution (see H.J. Res. 1), 5250 [15MR]
Ethiopian Jews: expressing the concern of Congress regarding the plight (see H. Con. Res. 107), 24219 [14SE]
Executive departments: make regulations more cost effective (see H.R. 220), 18337 [30JN]
Federal employees: make regulations more cost effective (see H.R. 3939), 33191 [16NO]
Federal Water Pollution Control Act: provide for renewal of quality of Nation's waters (see H.R. 3282), 23255 [4AU]
Feltsman, Vladimir: Soviet Union should allow freedom to travel to U.S. (see H. Con. Res. 177), 30887 [3NO]
Firearms: limit availability of handgun bullets capable of penetrating certain body armor (see H.R. 953), 18337 [30JN]
———strengthen mandatory penalty for use in Federal felonies (see H.R. 2193), 6392 [21MR]
GSA: take action to improve management of Federal procurement programs (see H.R. 898), 7425 [24MR]
Ireland, Northern: end conflict and achieve unity of Irish people (see H.J. Res. 207), 11483 [9MY]
Louisiana World Exposition: strike medals to commemorate (see H.R. 3321), 18337 [30JN]
Lupus Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 260), 21016 [26JY]
Mays, Benjamin E.: award Presidential Medal of Freedom (see H. Res. 17), 4158 [7MR]
McDonald, Larry: award special congressional gold medal (see H.R. 3866), 29069 [24OC]
Military installations: contracting out firefighting and base security functions (see H.R. 2324), 9288 [20AP]
Ministers: tax treatment (see H.R. 1905), 18916 [13JY]
Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 278), 25721 [26SE]
National Alzheimer's Disease Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 179), 21752 [29JY]
National Atomic Veterans' Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 210), 16092 [16JN]
National Children's Liver Disease Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 234), 11180 [5MY]
National Congregate and Meals on Wheels Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 386), 30336 [1NO]
National Correctional Officers Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 295), 22328 [2AU]
National Cystic Fibrosis Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 270), 23738 [12SE]
National Diabetes Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 307), 24218 [14SE]
National Drug Abuse Education Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 215), 24727 [19SE]
National Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 324), 33191 [16NO]
National Home Health Care Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 268), 21016 [26JY]
National Mental Health Counselors Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 102), 5085 [14MR]
National Mental Health Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 186), 7742 [7AP]
National Paralyzed Veterans Recognition Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 258), 14883 [8JN]
National Parkinson's Disease Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 160), 8772 [18AP]
National Physical Fitness and Sports Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 140), 6394 [21MR]
National Port Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 173), 17194 [23JN]
National Respiratory Therapy Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 227), 15154 [9JN]
National Reye's Syndrome Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 49), 16673 [21JN]
Olympics: tax designation for contributions to U.S. Olympic Committee (see H.R. 1984), 7605 [5AP]
Patent law: restore term of grant which prevents the marketing of a product (see H.R. 3502), 18336 [30JN]
Penn, William and Hanna C.: grant posthumously full rights of citizenship (see H.J. Res. 233), 18234 [29JN]
Powerplants: improve regulation of civilian nuclear and provide for safe operation (see H.R. 3277), 21518 [28JY]
Public Health Service Act: sense of Congress respecting the administration (see H. Con. Res. 93), 12252 [12MY]
Scharansky, Anatoly: Soviet Union should allow to emigrate (see H. Res. 67), 5834 [16MR]
Small business: aid in creation and expansion through tax reform (see H.R. 1600), 2850 [23FE]
Social security: require each State to enforce mandatory wage withholding for child support payments (see H.R. 3354), 24819 [20SE]
Social Security Act: provide a monthly insurance benefit in which a recipient dies (see H.R. 951), 3250 [1MR]
———provide benefits for aliens after they have been admitted lawfully into the U.S. (see H.R. 950), 378 [26JA]
———remove limitations on amount of outside income (see H.R. 786), 2196 [15FE]
Soviet Union: sense of Congress concerning certain international agreements on human rights (see H. Con. Res. 63), 5834 [16MR]
Steel: implement certain relief measures to remedy import injury (see H. Con. Res. 137), 18234 [29JN]
———sense of Congress on United States Steel Corp. and British Steel Corp. on importation (see H. Con. Res. 170), 33586 [17NO]
Tariff: provide for rates of duty on imported roses consistent with those maintained by EEC (see H.R. 1146), 26203 [28SE]
Taxation: adjustment of income brackets to prevent inflation-caused increases (see H. Con. Res. 85), 5250 [15MR]
———allow deduction for real estate taxes imposed on tenants (see H.R. 3184), 19586 [18JY]
———allow employers credit for hiring displaced homemakers (see H.R. 2127), 23255 [4AU]
———dependent care services (see H.R. 1991), 23930 [13SE]
———increase maximum deductions to $2,500 for contributions to retirement savings allowing compensation for spouses (see H.R. 765), 23255 [4AU]
———make permanent deductions for charitable contributions by nonitemizers (see H.R. 1315), 9619 [25AP]
———provide credit against income paid by individuals who are not residents of local government area (see H.R. 2153), 14430 [3JN]
———provide that a spouse having less than $250 of compensation shall not be disqualified from having an individual retirement account (see H.R. 2468), 23255 [4AU]
———provide that zero bracket amount for heads of households shall be the same for joint returns (see H.R. 2126), 23255 [4AU]
———reduce the holding period required for long-term capital gain or loss treatment (see H.R. 2225), 16898 [22JN]
———treatment of certain conversions into condominiums (see H.R. 699), 20275 [21JY]
———tuition credit (see H.R. 1730), 3249 [1MR]
Ukraine: commemorate 1933 famine (see H. Con. Res. 111), 28856 [21OC]
VA Medical Center, Altoona, Pa.: name as James E. Van Zandt VA Medical Center (see H.R. 3720), 21751 [29JY]
———name James E. Van Zandt VA Medical Center (see H.R. 4294), 30885 [3NO]
VA Medical Center, Dublin, Ga.: name as Carl Vinson VA Medical Center (see H.R. 4294), 30885 [3NO]
Vietnam-era veterans: coin and sell national medal honoring (see H.R. 1870), 14241 [1JN]
Election
Committee on Appropriations, 134 [6JA]
Letters
Clinch River breeder reactor project funding: by, and 124 other Members of Congress, 25674 [23SE]
Health Research Extension Act (H.R. 2350), Timothy R. Talbot, 20701
Russell A. Parkhouse tribute, by, 9798
Lists
NIH research centers which will lose funding, 20702
Motions offered by
Dept. of Transportation and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 3329), recommit, 16865 [22JN]
Polls of opinion
Pennsylvania: 13th District, 24248
Remarks by, on
American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, 7716 [7AP]
Appropriations: emergency supplemental (H.R. 1718), 3946 [3MR], 7303 [24MR]
———emergency supplemental (H.R. 1718), conference report, 6490, 6491 [22MR]
———making continuing (H.J. Res. 368), 26181 [28SE]
———making supplemental (H.R. 3069), conference report, 21709 [29JY]
———making supplemental (H.R. 3959), 27330 [5OC]
Atlantic City railroad line, Atlantic City, N.J.: matching funds, 16831, 16832 [22JN]
Budget: 4-percent reduction in appropriations, 16865 [22JN]
California: funds for locomotives between San Francisco and San Jose, 16817 [22JN]
Captive Nations Week: 25th anniversary, 20692
Clinch River breeder reactor: funding, 12217 [12MY], 22387
Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control (Select): establish (H. Res. 49), 1873 [8FE]
Congressional Record: revise and extend remarks, 344 [26JA], 1466 [2FE], 16867 [22JN]
Consumer Product Safety Act: extend (H.R. 2668), 18162 [29JN]
Dept. of Energy civilian research and development programs: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 2587), 12217 [12MY]
Dept. of Transportation and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 3329), 16813-16820, 16823, 16825, 16830, 16831, 16832, 16845, 16847, 16855, 16858, 16865, 16867 [22JN], 22692 [3AU]
———making appropriations (H.R. 3329), conference report, 22249, 22252 [2AU]
District of Columbia: making appropriations (H.R. 3415), 18143, 18148 [29JN]
———making appropriations (H.R. 3415), conference report, 26459, 26460 [29SE]
Electric power: costs, 14382
Energy and water development: making appropriations (H.R. 3132), 14569, 14576 [6JN], 17157 [23JN]
Grenada: U.S. military action, 29897
Health Research Extension Act: enact (H.R. 2350), 20629 [25JY]
House: adopting rules (H. Res. 5), 43 [3JA]
Jews: American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, 7716 [7AP]
———free emigration of Soviet, 27114-27116 [4OC]
Jobs: emergency supplemental appropriations (H.R. 1718), 3946 [3MR], 7303 [24MR]
———emergency supplemental appropriations (H.R. 1718), conference report, 6490 [22MR]
Justice Assistance Act: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 2175), 12010
Latin America: U.S. relations, 10415 [28AP]
Los Angeles, Calif.: reduce funds for rail construction, 16845, 16847 [22JN]
Military construction: making appropriations (H.R. 3263), 16618
National Airport, Washington, D.C.: limiting traffic, 16855, 16858 [22JN]
National Small Business Week: observance, 11597
New Jersey: intercity rail link between Philadelphia, Pa., and Atlantic City, N.J. (H.R. 3329), 16830, 16831 [22JN]
Nobel Peace Prize: recipient Lech Walesa, 28254 [19OC]
Norristown, Pa.: rededication of a historic cemetery, 30372
Points of order: reserve, 16044 [16JN]
Quorum: call, 22692 [3AU], 27331 [5OC]
South Korean airliner: Soviet attack, 23845 [13SE], 27114-27116 [4OC]
———Soviet attack (H.J. Res. 353), 24170 [14SE]
Soviet Jews: Call to Conscience Vigil, 1947
Soviet Union: free emigration of Jews, 27114-27116 [4OC]
Water resource development: making appropriations (H.R. 3958), 27328 [5OC], 27628 [6OC]
Remarks in House relative to
Congressional Record: revise and extend remarks, 43 [3JA], 344 [26JA], 1873, 1938 [8FE], 2181 [15FE], 7716 [7AP], 9687 [26AP], 10415 [28AP], 11930 [11MY], 12217 [12MY], 14237 [1JN], 14357 [2JN], 16830, 16831, 16847 [22JN], 18148 [29JN], 20665 [25JY], 22249, 22325 [2AU], 23845 [13SE], 24170, 24216 [14SE], 28254 [19OC], 29406 [26OC], 29781 [28OC], 30334 [1NO]
Special order: granted, 148 [6JA], 377 [26JA]
Reports
Committee on Appropriations, 4709 [10MR]
Foreign Travel Expenditures, 4709 [10MR]
Tributes
Jackson, Henry M., 27366
Lewis, Drew, 345-350 [26JA]
Parkhouse, A. Russell, 9798
Reed, Robert M., 30372
Rosenthal, Benjamin S., 2182 [15FE]
Schweiker, Richard S., 1466, 1468 [2FE]
Walesa, Lech, 28254 [19OC]