RURAL AREAS see also Agriculture

Amendments

Dept. of Agriculture, rural development, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 5743), 15106, 15112, 15115, 15120, 15121 [6JN], 16589 [14JN], 23258-23263, 23292, 23295, 23299, 23308, 23310, 23342, 23343, 23348, 23352 [9AU], 23689, 23691, 23694, 23695, 23701, 23705, 23707, 23873, 23874 [10AU]

Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund Self-Sufficiency Act: enact (H.R. 3050), 3351 [27FE], 3589 [28FE], 3941 [29FE], 4006, 4008, 4015, 4018 [1MR]

———enact (S. 1300), 27530 [27SE]

Analyses

Small Community Air Service Improvement Act (S. 2840), 20122 [29JN]

Appointments

Conferees: H.R. 5743, Dept. of Agriculture, rural development, and related agencies appropriations, 23715 [10AU], 26056 [19SE]

Articles and editorials

Courtland Milloy—Consequences, 12696 [17MY]

LPTV Thrives in Alaksa, 21516 [30JY]

Power Play on the Potomac, 31308 [10OC]

Recovery? What Recovery?, 6546-6550 [26MR]

Subsidizing Rural Phones, 32 [23JA]

Bills and resolutions

Aeronautics: user fee for customs services at certain small airports (see S. 2495)

Alaska: pilot project for food stamp program (see H.R. 5181)

Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act: limit maximum interest rate applicable to loans (see H.R. 5769)

Development programs: making appropriations (see H.R. 5743)

Hazardous substances: cleanup of disposal sites (see H.R. 4915)

Hospitals: swing-bed program (see H.R. 5111)

Medicare: application of swing-bed provision to smaller hospitals (see H.R. 5718)

———hospital prospective payment system for inpatient services (see H.R. 5006)

———permanent waiver for 24-hour nursing requirement for certain rural hospitals (see H.R. 5273, 5274)

———single prospective payment rate for hospitals (see H.R. 5255)

Migrant and community health centers: assistance programs (see H.R. 5559, 5602)

National Flood Insurance Act: permit participating communities to exempt certain property from land use and control measures (see H.R. 6016)

Rural Development Act: limit maximum interest rate applicable to loans (see H.R. 5769)

Rural Development Administration: establish (see H.R. 5024)

Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund: financial integrity (see S. 2646; H.R. 4943, 5816)

Letters

Amtrak service to Arkadelphia, AR: W. Graham Claytor, Jr., 21522 [30JY]

Financial integrity of the Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund (Dear Colleague), 11263-11264 [8MY]

National Health Service Corps assignments: Paul J. Brayer, 11747 [10MY]

———Susan C. Gorondy, 11746 [10MY]

``Power Play on the Potomac'' response: Bob Bergland for REA, 24595 [7SE]

Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund Self-Sufficiency Act (S. 1300): CBO, 14961 [5JN]

———Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, 14960 [5JN], 24596 [7SE]

———Eldon L. Ricker, Rideta Electric Cooperative, Inc., 3895 [29FE]

———several Senators, 23233 [9AU]

———(sundry), 4008 [1MR], 30644, 30645 [5OC], 31306, 31307 [10OC]

Memorials of legislature

Alaska, 13079 [21MY], 15611 [11JN]

Iowa, 10875 [3MY]

Pennsylvania, 14689 [31MY], 16157 [13JN]

Motions

Dept. of Agriculture, rural development, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 5743), objection to consideration of budget waiver, 22118 [2AU], 22509, 22511 [6AU], 22721 [8AU]

Petitions

Rural electric and telephone revolving fund: Mor Gran Sou Electric Cooperative, Inc., 13078 [21MY]

Questions and answers

REA revolving fund, 4026 [1MR]

Regulations

Urban development action grants standards: Federal Register, 8555, 8557 [10AP]

Remarks in House

Alaska: food stamp pilot program for rural areas (H.R. 5181), 5870 [19MR]

Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act: amend (H.R. 5854), 16619 [14JN]

Economic recovery: status, 23580 [9AU]

Emergency readiness plans: paperwork requirements, 23450 [9AU]

Farmers: economic plight, 24291 [5SE]

Flood control: procedures for selecting project areas, 20296 [29JN]

Health care: cost, 9414 [12AP]

———prospective payment regulations, 22537 [6AU]

Housing and Community Development Technical Amendments Act: enact (S. 2819), permission to file conference report, 27318 [26SE]

Housing and Urban-Rural Recovery Act: amend (S. 2819), 25099 [12SE]

Libraries: improve services, 1064 [31JA]

Low-income housing: allocation of funds (H.R. 5327), 14794 [4JN], 15508 [7JN]

Medicare: extend waiver of 24-hour nursing requirement for certain hospitals (H.R. 5274), 7651 [3AP]

———make permanent waiver of 24-hour nursing requirement for certain hospitals (H.R. 5273), 7651 [3AP]

———payment guidelines of certain hospitals (H.R. 5006), 4037 [1MR]

———rural hospital status under prospective payment system, 6578 [27MR]

———single prospective reimbursement rate for hospitals (H.R. 5255), 6902 [28MR]

Railroad service, 1980 [7FE]

———improve ICC regulation (H.R. 5731), 14232 [24MY]

REA: making appropriations (H.R. 5743), 15100 [6JN]

Rural Development Reorganization Act: enact (H.R. 5024), 4537 [5MR]

Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund Self-Sufficiency Act: enact (H.R. 3050), 3864, 3882-3895 [29FE], 3995, 4005-4035 [1MR], 4245 [1MR], 4727 [6MR]

———enact (H.R. 3050), authorizing technical corrections, 4035 [1MR]

Rural Housing Assistance Act: enact (H.R. 5327), 14794 [4JN], 15508 [7JN]

Small business loans, 5217 [13MR]

Remarks in Senate

Aeronautics: user fee for customs services at certain small airports (S. 2495), 7099 [29MR]

Alaska: low-power telecommunications system, 21516 [30JY]

Amtrak: service to Arkadelphia, AR, 21522 [30JY]

Dept. of Agriculture, rural development, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 5743), 23248, 23257-23264, 23285-23312, 23359, 23361, 23363, 23365 [9AU], 23648, 23677-23695-23715 [10AU], 28383 [2OC]

———making appropriations (H.R. 5743), appointment of conferees, 23715 [10AU]

———making appropriations (H.R. 5743), objection to consideration, 21784 [1AU]

———making appropriations (H.R. 5743), objection to consideration of budget waiver, 22094-22118 [2AU], 22327-22329 [3AU], 22506-22511 [6AU], 22555 [7AU], 22715, 22722 [8AU]

———making appropriations (H.R. 5743), objection to consideration of budget waiver—cloture motion, 22118 [2AU], 22509, 22511 [6AU], 22721 [8AU]

Electric and telephone facilities: exempt certain from right-of-way rental payments (H.R. 2211), 11743 [10MY], 12191 [15MY]

Enterprise zones: eligibility, 8553, 8557 [10AP], 9097, 9112-9114, 9232 [12AP], 23774 [10AU]

Housing and Urban-Rural Recovery Act: technical corrections (S. 2819), unanimous-consent request, 28840 [3OC]

Job Corps: funding, 12695 [17MY]

National Health Service Corps: authorization (S. 2281), 11744-11748 [10MY]

Postal Service: prohibition from procuring and distributing neighborhood boxes and parcel lockers (S. 2794), 18684 [26JN]

Poverty: economic characterization, 6546 [26MR]

REA: tribute, 24595 [7SE]

Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund: financial integrity (S. 1300), 3189 [23FE], 11262 [8MY], 14960 [5JN], 23233 [9AU], 24595 [7SE], 30642-30644 [5OC], 30888 [9OC], 31305-31319 [10OC], 31813, 31991, 31999, 32084 [11OC]

Rural hospitals: revision of prospective payment classification, 9108, 9225 [12AP]

Small Community Air Service Improvement Act: introduction (S. 2840), 19716 [28JN]

Small towns: revitalization, 29239 [3OC]

VA: utilization of health care facilities in rural areas, 22936, 22943, 22945 [8AU]

Watershed program: funding, 7724 [4AP]

Reports

Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations: Committee on Appropriations (H.R. 5743) (S. Rept. 98-566), 21167 [26JY]

———Committee on Appropriations (H.R. 5743) (H. Rept. 98-809), 14517 [30MY]

———committee of conference (H.R. 5743), 26718-26724 [25SE]

———committee of conference (H.R. 5743) (H. Rept. 98-1071), 26901 [25SE]

Housing and Urban Rural Recovery Act, Technical Corrections: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (S. 2819), 19643 [28JN]

———committee of conference (S. 2819) (H. Rept. 98-1103), 27652 [28SE]

National Community Leadership Week: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 308), 23324 [9AU]

Public Health Service Programs Act Amendments: Committee on Rules (H.R. 5602; H. Res. 536) (H. Rept. 98-864), 18977 [26JN]

Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (S. 1300) (S. Rept. 98-545), 20118 [29JN]

———Committee on Rules (H. Rept. 98-602), 3587 [28FE]

Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund Self-Sufficiency Act: Library of Congress, 4021 [1MR]

Resolutions by organizations

Rural development: National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (sundry), 3189 [23FE]

Rulings of the Chair

Dept. of Agriculture, rural development, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 5743), 15120, 15121 [6JN]

Statements

Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund: National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, 32000 [11OC]

Watershed Program Funding: Nicholas J. Melas, 7724 [4AP]

———Representative O'Brien, 7724 [4AP]

Summaries

Dept. of Agriculture, rural development, and related agencies appropriations (H.R. 5743), 23258 [9AU]

Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund Self-Sufficiency Proposals, 4027 [1MR], 11265 [8MY]

Tables

Dept. of Agriculture, rural development, and related agencies appropriations (H.R. 5743), nondefense discretionary authority, 23709 [10AU]

Revenue allocation of universal telephone service fund, 525 [26JA]

Texts of

H.R. 5255, single prospective medicare reimbursement rate for hospitals, 6903 [28MR]

H.R. 5327, Rural Housing Assistance Act, 14795 [4JN]

H.R. 5743, Dept. of Agriculture, rural development, and related agencies appropriations, 23248-23257 [9AU]

S. 2281, National Health Service Corps authorization, 11744 [10MY]

S. 2495, user fees for customs services at certain small airports, 7099 [29MR]