BUSINESS see also Corporations; Industry; Small Business

Addresses

Airline Deregulation: William R. Howard for Piedmont Airlines, 21826 [1AU]

America Already Sports a (Bad) Industrial Policy: Lee A. Iacocca (excerpts), 14557 [30MY]

America's Economic ``Valleys of Decision'': Robert J. Buckley, 3675-3677 [28FE]

America's Industrial Future: Lee A. Iacocca, 16456-16459 [14JN]

———Owen Bieber, 16459-16461 [14JN]

AT&T Bell Laboratories a Key Player in Telecommunications Industry: Ian M. Ross, 6317 [21MR]

Basic Materials Industries in Transition: Representative McNulty, 4855 [7MR]

Business Community's Role in the Politics of Spending Cuts: Owen B. Butler, 3325 [23FE]

Business Thrives Only in a Thriving Community, Alexander F. Giacco, 6470 [22MR]

Copper in Crisis: J. Hugh Liedtke, 21772 [1AU]

CPSC Recognition Day: Nancy H. Steorts, 16666, 16668 [15JN]

Economic Policies: Sec. of the Treasury Regan, 11322 [8MY]

Employee Ownership and Better Labor-Management Relations: Representative Long, National Labor-Management Conference, 20363-20366 [29JN]

Foreign Policy Challenge to Congress—Charting America's Trade Strategy: Representative Roth, 14347 [24MY]

Free Trade, Fair Trade or No Trade: Gerald L. Lynch, 20377-20379 [29JN]

High Technology—State of Mind: Kenneth M. Nelson, 1142 [31JA]

Institute for Certifying Secretaries, District of Columbia Chapter: Representative Ottinger, 28148 [1OC]

International Brotherhood of Teamsters: Jackie Presser, 9782 [24AP]

Japan in Change—Other Side of the Story: Yoshio Okawara, 12859 [17MY]

Japan Trade Threatens World Economies: Representative Dingell, 12347 [15MY]

Megacorporate World of Ronald Reagan: Ralph Nader, 20698 [24JY]

National Industrial Policy: John R. Opel, 14763 [31MY]

Nicaraguan Private Enterprise Says ``Enough'': Nicaraguan Private Enterprise Council, 20336, 20337 [29JN]

Product Liability—Moral Obligations of Corporations: Miles W. Lord, 20741, 20742 [24JY]

Reagan Administration's Position on Consumer Issues: Representative Dingell, 3037 [22FE]

Retail Industry Trade Action Coalition: Bill Andres (excerpt), 20314 [29JN]

Summit of Years Four Score: Samuel Ullman, 11462 [8MY]

Swimming Upstream—A Bold and Challenging Course: Richard P. Simmons, 4206-4209 [1MR]

Toward the Summit—An American Businessman's View of International Trade and Economic Issues: Lee Morgan, 14761, 14762 [31MY]

U.S.—A Debtor Nation: Senator Chiles, 17870 [21JN]

Unmortgaging the Future—Alternative to Reagonomics and Reaganism: Representative Eagleton, 9989 [25AP]

World Trade System: Representative Gibbons, 15785 [11JN]

Advertisements

Deficit Reduction Tax Act: American Council of Life Insurance, 8553 [10AP]

Sometimes it really does take an act of Congress, 16676 [15JN]

Amendments

Credit cards: treatment of sales transactions (S. 2336), 3647, 3654, 3673 [28FE]

Defense procurement: limit use of set-aside for small businesses, 16554 [14JN]

Deficit Reduction Tax Act: enact (H.R. 2163), 8094-8249 [5AP], 8366, 8400, 8436, 8437 [9AP], 8554, 8557, 8561, 8596, 8599-8605 [10AP], 8661, 8673, 8675-8678, 8682, 8689, 8690, 8697, 8699-8703, 8712, 8716, 8719-8722, 8724-8725, 8778, 8782-8786 [11AP], 9087, 9098, 9101, 9108, 9111, 9115, 9119, 9122, 9125-9128, 9131, 9136, 9142, 9147, 9149, 9154, 9155, 9157, 9161, 9162, 9169, 9170-9173, 9174, 9176, 9179-9183, 9188, 9190, 9194, 9198, 9204-9206, 9208, 9211, 9213, 9215, 9216, 9219, 9222, 9314-9333, 9335-9338 [12AP], 9668-9671, 9681 [24AP], 9826, 9890 [25AP], 10145, 10146 [26AP], 32047, 32048 [11OC]

Depository institution holding companies: authorize certain securities activities (S. 2851), 22553, 22644 [7AU], 23348, 23349, 23350, 23351 [9AU], 24400-24404 [6SE], 24782 [11SE], 24960, 24963, 24967, 24968, 24980-24983, 24985, 25001, 25002, 25019-25060 [12SE], 25282, 25287, 25292, 25313, 25314, 25372-25381 [13SE]

Equal Access to Justice Act: reauthorize (H.R. 5479), 29222, 29276 [3OC], 30150 [4OC], 31406 [10OC]

Export Administration Act: amend (S. 979), 3177, 3178 [23FE], 3392-3395, 3398, 3400-3403, 3406, 3410, 3411, 3414, 3416, 3461-3463 [27FE], 3616, 3620, 3628, 3641, 3671, 3672 [28FE], 3728, 3729, 3768, 3777, 3781, 3787, 3790, 3828, 3829, 3835 [29FE], 4056, 4063, 4064, 4068, 4069, 4071, 4073, 4082, 4103, 4105, 4107, 4113, 4119, 4132, 4133, 4136, 4187-4192 [1MR]

Generalized System of Preferences: renew authority (S. 1718), 9333 [12AP]

Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway: authorize an extended navigation season (H.R. 3678), 6919 [28MR], 14518 [30MY], 14690-14731 [31MY], 16314 [13JN], 16743, 16771 [15JN], 16886 [18JN], 18038 [22JN], 18979-18988 [26JN], 19173-19177 [27JN], 19938, 19939, 19941, 19944-19949, 19986 [28JN], 20235, 20256, 20259, 20275, 20295 [29JN]

Insider Trading Sanctions Act: enact (S. 910), 20107, 20146 [29JN]

Magnetron tubes: duty (H.R. 3398), 3178 [23FE]

National Productivity and Innovation Act: enact (S. 1841), 21609, 21631 [31JY]

Power resources: repeal commercial and apartment conservation service (H.R. 5946), 30622, 30690 [5OC]

Product Liability Act: enact (S. 44), 23352 [9AU]

Small Business Act: amend (H.R. 3020), 4703 [6MR]

———amend (H.R. 6013), 25649, 25669 [17SE]

Small Business and Federal Procurement Competition Enhancement Act: enact (S. 2489), 22572, 22577-22579, 22584, 22586, 22645, 22648 [7AU]

Small Business Investment Act: amend (H.R. 6013), 25649, 25669 [17SE]

Trademarks: clarify circumstances for abandonment (S. 1990), 29187-29197 [3OC]

Analyses

Amend Law Implementing the Patent Cooperation Treaty (S. 3085), 31248 [10OC]

Civilian Agency Multiyear Contracting Act (S. 2300), 2506 [9FE]

Conservation Service Reform Act (S. 2872), 21187-21189 [26JY]

Effects of Hypothetical Increases in Steel Prices on the Producer Price Index for Intermediate Materials: Library of Congress, 10484-10485 [1MY]

Employee Stock Ownership Act (H.R. 5095), 5093 [8MR]

Fair Trade in Steel Act (S. 2380), 4170 [1MR]

Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway Navigation Season, H.R. 3678, Cost Overrun Amendment, 19874-19937 [28JN]

Insider Trading Sanctions Act (S. 910), 20109 [29JN]

Limitations on Foreign Ownership of National Television Networks, 2482 [9FE]

Multiemployer Pension Plan—Termination Insurance Reform Act (S. 2329), 2920 [22FE]

Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act Amendments (H.R. 3867), 11783 [10MY]

Pharmaceutical Export Amendments (S. 2878), 21202 [26JY]

Public Participation in Procurement Policymaking Act (S. 2675), 12442-12445 [16MY]

6th Street Festival Marketplace: Richmond, VA, Renaissance Board, 10907 [3MY]

Treatment of Credit Card Sales Transactions (S. 2336), 3151, 3193 [23FE]

Uniform Margin Requirement Act (H.R. 5250), 6784 [27MR]

Uniform Patent Policy and Procedure Relative to Inventions Developed With Federal Assistance (provisions of S. 2171 added to H.R. 6163), 31286 [10OC]

Uniform Patent Procedures Act (H.R. 4964), 3573 [28FE]

Appointments

Conferee: H.R. 6013, Small Business Act amendments, 27317 [26SE]

———S. 979, Export Administration Act amendments, 5173 [12MR], 6869 [28MR]

———S. 1323, Small Business Act amendments, 11755 [10MY]

———S. 1429, Small Business Development Center Improvement Act, 13519 [23MY]

———S. 1841, National Productivity and Innovation Act, 23456 [9AU]

Articles and editorials

Abrogating Trade Contracts, 6936 [28MR]

Acid Rain—Plain Talk, 6951 [28MR]

After Cancer, Trouble on the Job?, 32575 [12OC]

Aid Cuts Put a Strain on Corporate Donors—Stretched by Demand, Budgets Are Losing Their ``Give'', 16615 [14JN]

All Nations Can Win the Technology Race, 26923 [25SE]

American Can Meets in a School and Students Liven Things Up, 14137 [24MY]

Ansin Warms Up the Business Climate, 4194 [1MR]

Anti-Competition Bill, 9754 [24AP]

AP Parts Co. Plant Shuts After Mass Protest Turns Violent, 15866 [12JN]

AP Parts Restarts Talks, 15867 [12JN]

Appalachians, Lost in the Big City, 24153 [10AU]

Auto Club Gears Rates to Safety, 30237 [4OC]

Auto Club Plan—Insurer To Base Cost on Car Safety Ratings, 30237 [4OC]

Auto Content Bill Bound To Backfire, 2860 [22FE]

Auto Makers Find Quotas Addicting, 18701 [26JN]

Automakers' Suppliers Urged To Move to Foreign Plants, 3585 [28FE]

Baltimore's Boomtowns Still Have a Long Road Ahead, 11072 [3MY]

Banking Regulation Reform (excerpt), 24742 [11SE]

Banking's Busting Out All Over, 1743 [2FE]

Bankrupt on Bankruptcy, 8280 [5AP]

Bankruptcy Reform Cannot Wait Till After November 6, 3294 [23FE]

Besieged Workers Say They're Thankful for Jobs, 15867 [12JN]

``Best 100''—Firms That Offer Workers the Right Stuff, 11065 [3MY]

Bill Nourse of Brookemeade Hardware & Supply—The Nuts and Bolts of Politics, 14958 [5JN]

Bill to Hurt Consumers, 22864 [8AU]

Breaking the Banks, 6914 [28MR]

British Enterprise Zones—A Look at 2 Years Experience, 26385 [20SE]

Brock—Auto Import Quotas To End, 10631 [2MY]

Can Detroit Live Without Quotas?, 18701-18703 [26JN]

Canada Found To Violate World Trade Rules, 4268 [2MR]

Case for Free Trade Still Hasn't Been Made, 21212 [26JY]

Caution—Too Much Antitrust Could Harm the Economy's Health, 23644 [10AU]

Challenge to Labor—Workers Must Use Political Arena To Protect Their Rights, 935 [30JA]

Charlotte Business Booming—First Quarter Sets Record for Jobs, 14564 [30MY]

Checkoffs on State Income Taxes Produce Some Big Contributions—And Headaches, 9594 [12AP]

Chemical Cleanup Has Become a Model Project, 436 [25JA]

Chinese Immigrant Emerges as Boston's Top Benefactor, 12945 [18MY]

Christian Faith and a Microchip World, 9050 [11AP]

Chrysler Discovers Adam Smith, 3977 [29FE]

Codelco Could Raise Copper Output by One-Third if Annual Growth Rate Reached or Exceeded 1.5% Over Decade, 12332 [15MY]

Combating Garment Sweatshops Is an Almost Futile Task, 4523 [5MR]

Commonsense on Mexico, 12738 [17MY]

Companies Rate Export-Import Bank, 23363 [9AU]

Congressional Consensus on Aiding Nation's Cities, 1958 [6FE]

Congressman's Plan Not Well Conceived, 6914 [28MR]

Conrail Plan Drawn Up by Shipper—Carriers Allowed Access to Some Marts, Retaining Competition, 8618 [10AP]

Conrail's Profits Rise, Don't Rush Into Selling It, 1371 [1FE]

Contract Award by Asian Bank Prompts Questions, 13460 [22MY]

Contractor of Year Credits His Workers, 17192 [19JN]

Cooper Realty Ignores Advice, Then Sleeps Easy, 21816 [1AU]

Copper Prices' Sudden Drop Has Shaken Hopes by U.S. Producers for a Recovery, 12333 [15MY]

Corporations Help in Finding Homes for Hard-to-Place Children, 2923 [22FE]

Costs of Political Benefits, 12110 [14MY]

Credit Cards—Who Pays?, 3652 [28FE]

``Crowding Out'' Isn't Far Down the Road, 10440 [1MY]

Curb Asked on Trade to Soviets, 3766 [29FE]

Customs Says Textiles Pose Serious Problem, 21383 [27JY]

Dade Capitalist Brings Holiday Joy to Chinese, 2612 [9FE]

Deep-Sixing Debate, 21361 [26JY]

Deindustrialization Is Disinformation, 15493 [7JN]

Denny Griswold, Apostle of PR for 40 Years, 18451 [22JN]

Denver's Warren Village—How Neighbors Are Helping Neighbors Get Off Welfare, 5390 [13MR]

Dial M for Murk, 2378 [8FE]

Dining Out Is Pastime, 30257 [4OC]

Do Not Give Conrail Away, 10604 [1MY]

Dollar Is Unlikely To Weaken Soon, 11068 [3MY]

Don't Close the Door, 23183 [8AU]

Don't Fear Job Loss, 23183 [8AU]

Don't Give Away Pension Surpluses, 32543 [12OC]

DOT Effort To Break Up Conrail, 8621 [10AP]

Doublethink Deal, 1161 [31JA]

Drawing Limits on Liability, 9076 [12AP]

Economic Gain Is ``Lopsided,'' Experts Warn, 5085 [8MR]

Economic Impact—Reagan Waits, Red Ink Flows, 5084 [8MR]

Economic Recovery Tax Act—Fairness, 16034 [13JN]

Economics of Self-Pity, 3798 [29FE]

Economists Warn of Trade Imbalance, 27401 [27SE]

Engineering and the National Science Foundation, 1156 [31JA]

Enterprise Zones, 11071 [3MY]

Enterprise Zones Deserve a Test, 12346 [15MY]

Enterprise Zones—Creating a Climate for Growth, 2831 [21FE]

Excessive Corporation Tax Breaks One Big Reason for the Deficits (excerpt), 24153 [10AU]

Excitement in a Double Dose at Berry, 18600 [25JN]

Executive of the Year—William A. Andres, 2930-2933 [22FE]

Exports—That Sinking Feeling, 18560 [25JN]

Face the Inevitable in Copper, 22337 [3AU]

Fair License To Operate, 13984 [23MY]

Fashioning an Industrial Relief Act, 18699 [26JN]

FAST Help, 14937 [5JN]

FCC Probes Charges That Cable-TV Firms Face Improper Fees, 5087 [8MR]

Feeding the Poor Helps Feed Profits of Agribusiness, 1715-1717 [2FE]

Feldstein Is Trying To Avoid Past, 3968 [29FE]

Figures Put Travel on Top, 10717 [2MY]

Firms Finding Caribbean Very Hospitable Waters, 31279 [10OC]

Florio Says Environmental Regulations Benefit Business, 2814 [21FE]

For Sale Sign on Conrail Starts Attracting Serious Bidders, 9041 [11AP]

Founder of Matrix, Inc., Wins SBA Annual Award, 11790 [10MY]

400 Days With a Lemon From the New Chrysler Corp., 438-439 [25JA]

FTC Says Copper Quotas Costly to Consumers, 22338 [3AU]

Futures Trade Here Has Worldly Impact, 3526 [27FE]

Gaining Europe's Respect, 15993 [12JN]

General Motors' Pact With Toyota Is a Cover for Surrender—Collusion Course, 9552-9554 [12AP]

Get the Freemont Line Rolling, 2363 [8FE]

Gimme Shelter, 9593 [12AP]

Give Us the Quota Cure, 18697 [26JN]

GM and EEOC Name CSFA To Conduct Program, 16999 [18JN]

Going After the Gains on Restricted Stock, 9177 [12AP]

Going Soft on Steel, 21211 [26JY]

Golden Antidote to High Interest, 20463 [29JN]

Grenada Was a Soviet Dagger Aimed at U.S. Interests, 6488 [22MR], 6560 [26MR]

Growing Furor Over Pay of Top Executives, 15141 [6JN]

Hard Work, Planning Have Paid Off for Casa Grande, 12361 [15MY]

Heating Oil Supplies May Never Be ``Normal'' Again, 4555 [5MR]

Heralded Recovery Hasn't Reached Us, 2809 [21FE]

High Tech in Florida, 3055 [22FE]

High Tech—Low Cost, 3297 [23FE]

High-Technology Firm Triple-Crown Winner, 17195 [19JN]

How Business Is Joining the Fight Against Functional Illiteracy, 9676 [24AP]

How Has Japan Overtaken America? Fault, Says One Expert, Lies not in Our Cars, but in Ourselves, 2181 [7FE]

How Industrial Policy Works, 2610 [9FE]

How One Man Made a Million, 14361 [24MY]

How One State Is Wooing High-Tech, 25957 [18SE]

How Peru Got a Free Market Without Really Trying, 18458 [22JN]

How TV Reported the Recovery, 4857 [7MR]

How We Harm Our Advanced Industries, 5087 [8MR]

Idaho Falls Businessman Receives ISU Accolade, 2726 [21FE]

Imports Called Most Dangerous, 30236 [4OC]

In This New Age of Entrepreneurs, We're Number One Again, 10591-10592 [1MY], 10792-10794 [2MY]

In Tough Avionics Business Delco-Milwaukee Guides Way Through the Skies, 25198 [12SE]

Industrial Policy Urged for GOP, 13982 [23MY]

Industrial Policy—Not if, but How, 2797 [21FE]

Industrial Renaissance—Producing a Competitive Future in America, 501 [26JA]

Inflation Is Key to Surplus Debate, 5749 [15MR]

Innovative Enough?, 1234 [1FE]

Is Business So Secure in a PAC's Americana?, 8616 [10AP]

Japan a Success Story for America, Too, 21720 [31JY]

Japan Problem Isn't Beef; It's High-Tech Trade, 11457 [8MY]

Japanese Divided on the Decontrol of Beef Imports, 2852 [22FE]

Japanese Import Policies (excerpt), 2845 [22FE]

Job Center Remodeling Plans Nearing Completion, 11950 [10MY]

Job Corps Gets Students Into Work Force, 11950 [10MY]

Justice Is Dead Wrong, 4886 [8MR]

Kemmons Wilson—Dreaming New Dreams After Holiday Inns, 20622 [24JY]

Lessons of Lloyd's, 16316 [13JN]

Let's Have Lunch, 5638 [15MR]

Liability for Exposure to Hazardous Waste (excerpt), 23512 [9AU]

Like Its Cattle, Japan Pampers Beef Raisers, 2849 [22FE]

Look at the Mini-Mills, Steel's Future Lies in the Marketplace, Not Protectionism, 21211 [26JY]

Make Product Liability Fairer, 10817 [3MY]

Making Bread—Family Is the Key to Flowers Recipe, 15231 [6JN]

Man To Remember, 500 [26JA]

Managing Our Way to Economic Decline, 502-507 [26JA]

Massachusetts Factory Has the Wright Stuff, 16799 [15JN]

Merger Moratorium Not the Answer, 9996 [25AP]

Military's Revolving Door With Business, 19665 [28JN]

Minnesota Meddling, 6915 [28MR]

Minority Firms Get Smaller Share of U.S. Contracts Under Reagan, 9359 [12AP]

Modest Proposal for Efficient Charitable Giving, 1394 [1FE]

Money at Risk—Financial Institutions Are Showing the Strain of a Decade of Turmoil, 24246-24248 [5SE], 24378-24380 [6SE]

Most Bank Mergers Follow Trouble; Merrill's Chairman Says He Hasn't Any, 11785 [10MY]

Nation's High-Tech Engine Fueled by Venture Capital, 15208 [6JN]

Needless Seaway Plans, 6948 [28MR]

New Britain Cites Urban-Zone Gains, 9955 [25AP]

New England Lobbyist Touts High Tech Legislation, 5118 [12MR]

New Tax Act Paying Off, 2829 [21FE]

New York State Gets Contracts From Taiwan, 4935 [8MR]

New York State To Ask High Court To Overturn Regional Banking Laws, 24378 [6SE]

NIOSH Investigating Two Problem Pregnacy Clusters, 11676 [9MY]

No Quota for Steel Imports, 18697 [26JN]

Not All Jobs Are Counted—Rates Exclude Those Who Have Quit Looking, 2638 [9FE]

Now More Taxes From Rich, 9572 [12AP]

Oil Mergers—A Special Warning?, 6473 [22MR]

Opportunity for Growth, 4839 [7MR]

Origins of the Reagan Revolution, 16631 [14JN]

Overpopulation Is Not the Third World's Worst Threat, 22303 [2AU]

Pennzoil Chief—Oil Giants Play Monopoly With Real Money, 1953 [6FE]

Perfect Spheres—The First Product From Space, 1470 [2FE]

Phantom Jobless, 25402 [13SE]

Plastic Credit for Uncle, 3652 [28FE]

Political Opportunity Seen for Small Business Owners, 14959 [5JN]

Potato Skins Prove Instant Success, 12877 [17MY]

Product Liability Laws Need Uniformity, 1804 [3FE]

Product Liability's Confusion and Cost, 19210 [27JN]

Profile—Judy Cameron, Success in the Graphics Business, 17976 [21JN]

Proposed Constitutional Amendment To Guarantee Employment Opportunity, 3703 [28FE]

Protecting Intellectual Property, 19699 [28JN]

Protecting the West's Technological Edge, 3298 [23FE]

Protection for the Inner City, 26627 [24SE]

Push for Productivity, 2696 [21FE]

Put Away Content Bill, 14153 [24MY]

Putting Fairness Back Into Takeovers, 15247 [6JN]

Quick Solution to Budget Deficits, 2653 [9FE]

Reagan Raises New Obstacle to House Bill on Immigration, 27754 [28SE]

Reagan White House Gives Business a Bad Name, 7547 [3AP]

Reaganomics—An Economic Comparison, 6493 [26MR]

Recognizing a Commitment, 9909 [25AP]

Renaissance of a City—From Despair to Vitality, 7259 [30MR]

Riding It Off—Tax Breaks in the Fast Lane, 6475-6477 [22MR]

Rising Rates Threaten Savings Banks, 30638 [5OC]

Role of Government in a Major Restructuring of Financial Institutions, 24993-24996 [12SE]

Ruling May Dampen ATM's Future, 21806 [1AU]

Sampson Stamp—Brothers Have Made Definite Mark on Community, 15558 [8JN]

Sanctions Against South Africa, 3738 [29FE]

Savings and Loan Industry Is Threatened by Rising Interest Rates; Mutuals Hit Hardest, 30637 [5OC]

SBA Picks Founder of Mentor, 9791 [24AP]

School That Teaches Real Life, 4851 [7MR]

School-Business Project, 8614 [10AP]

Self-Help Renovators Are Efficient, but They Still Need U.S. Cash, 18996 [26JN]

Senate GOP Blocks Rights Amendment, 15977 [12JN]

Senate's Banking Compromise, 29914 [4OC]

Shelter Group—Employing a Range of Solutions, 4196 [1MR]

Sherman Act and Cities, 30752 [5OC]

6\1/2\-Year Boycott of Nestle Is Ended as Firm Adopts Baby-Formula Code, 700 [27JA]

Sizing Each Slice of the Surplus Pie, 32543 [12OC]

Skeptics Are Wrong—Antipoverty Programs Do Work, 11491 [8MY]

Small-Car Buyer Returns, to the Cheers of U.S. Automakers, 6788 [27MR]

Social Importance of Corporate Profits, 2939 [22FE]

Some Employers Weed Out Illegal Aliens, 24185 [10AU]

States and the Reindustrialization of America, 31089-31092 [9OC]

States Expand Enterprise Zones Despite Lack of Federal Incentives, 21744 [31JY], 21825 [1AU]

Steel Import Limit Favored, 25704 [18SE]

Steel Industry May Be Forging Its Own Demise, 18696 [26JN]

Steel Needs Cooperation Not Trade Restrictions, 18698 [26JN]

Steel Workers Make Area Proud, 5551 [14MR]

Strong Dollar Overseas Hurting U.S. Business, 27399 [27SE]

Suddenly, a New Trade War Looms—An ITC Ruling on Steel Heightens Protectionism as a Campaign Issue, 21210 [26JY]

Suing the Manufacturer, 10817 [3MY]

Superfund Not the Way To Regulate Underground Tanks, 23515 [9AU]

Sweatshops, 4525 [5MR]

System in Bankruptcy, 8280 [5AP]

Taiwan Adopts Anti-Dump Law, 21362 [26JY]

Taiwan Purchases Coal Plant Gear During U.S. Trip, 4935 [8MR]

Tax Code Is Impeding Small Business Growth, 14753 [31MY]

Tax Cuts Aren't Working as Promised, 10258 [26AP]

Tax-Exempt Bonds—Study in Politics, 3023 [22FE]

Teens Say the Minimum Is Already Bare—East County Is Against Reagan Bid To Cut Pay, 15768 [11JN]

Thank You, John Waller, 1670 [2FE]

Third World Countries Offer Opportunity for U.S. Farm Export Growth, 7875 [4AP]

Those ``Obscene'' Salaries, 11459 [8MY]

Threats to Retirement, 5748 [15MR]

Time Has Come, 11452 [8MY]

Toledo Strikers, Police Clash, 15866 [12JN]

TRAC Bill Frames Debate on Trade, 6905 [28MR]

Trade Ruling May Raise Metal Prices, 22338 [3AU]

U.S. High Tech Drained Away by the Soviets, 7168 [29MR]

U.S. Must Discipline Health-Care Market, 11953 [10MY]

U.S. Said To Set Deadline for Progress in Trade Talks With Japan, 4884 [8MR]

U.S. Shoes—From Riches to Rags, 13473 [23MY]

U.S. Should Look Within, Not Abroad, for Cause of Its Steel Industry Ills, 21212 [26JY]

Under Flat Tax Plan, Rich Would Make Out Like Bandits, 2657 [9FE]

Uniform Laws Sensible, 2564 [9FE]

Uniform Product Liability Law Needed at Federal Level, 2142 [7FE]

Union, Management, Share Responsibility—Toledo Finds a Way To Help Teachers, 3052 [22FE]

Very Interesting, 6500 [26MR]

Voodoo Economics Hits Vets, 3302 [23FE]

Walgreen Co., Opens 1,000th Drug Store September 6, 1984, 24331 [5SE]

What Interests the Public and What Interests the Public Interests, 6500-6503 [26MR]

What Price Home Taping?, 7617 [3AP]

What Recovery?, 30726 [5OC]

White House Tightens Textiles Import Rules, Adds Customs Agents, 21751 [1AU]

Why Tax Lobbyists Never Mention Japan, 30250 [4OC]

Why There's No Welfare Fat Left To Trim, 9776-9777 [24AP]

Will Tax Reform Deform High-Tech?, 30739 [5OC]

Winter Navigation—Billion-Dollar Boondoggle?, 10789 [2MY]

Winter Seaway Navigation, 6915 [28MR]

Winter Shipping Far Too Risky, 6914 [28MR]

Women Still Have Far To Go To Reach Equality, 1157 [31JA]

Would Industrial Policy Help Small Business?, 6497 [26MR]

Wylie Calls for Early 1985 Hearings, Action on Banking Bill, 29914 [4OC]

Bills and resolutions

Aged: one-time tax exclusion of gain on sale of property used in a trade or business (see H.R. 5289)

Antitrust actions: contribution of damages attributable to an agreement by two or more persons to fix, maintain, or stabilize prices (see S. 3060; H.R. 6424)

Antitrust law: sellers of agricultural products (see H.R. 5264)

Appliances: consumer information program to enhance energy efficiency (see S. 2631; H.R. 5582)

Automated teller machines: codify rulings and interpretations of the Comptroller of the Currency which led to national bank participation (see S. 2898)

Bankruptcy: protection for shopping centers and tenants (see H.R. 5187)

———rejection of collective bargaining agreements (see S. 2462)

Bankruptcy Act: continue transition provisions (see S. 2776)

Banks and banking: codify rulings and interpretations of the Comptroller of the Currency with respect to shared automated teller machines (see S. 2898)

———insurance and payment protection for depositors (see H.R. 5738, 5739)

———regulation of exercise of fiduciary powers (see H.R. 5696)

Business Expense Deductions Act: introduction (see H.R. 5381)

Business records: admissibility in U.S. courts of those kept in foreign countries (see H.R. 5406)

Capital gains: relief for certain insolvent taxpayers (see S. 3095)

Clubs: disallow business tax deduction for entertainment and travel-related lodging in private clubs that practice discrimination (see H.R. 5381)

Collective bargaining: plant closing decisions as mandatory subject (see H.R. 6258)

Collective bargaining agreements: amend bankruptcy law (see S. 2462)

———clarify circumstances for rejection (see H.R. 4908)

Commercial and apartment conservation service: increase flexibility for States and utilities (see H.R. 5628)

———repeal (see S. 2872; H.R. 5946)

Commercialization of launch vehicles: budget waiver for consideration of H.R. 3942 (see S. Res. 464)

Communications: promote expansion of international trade (see S. 2618)

Competition: unlawful sale of goods below cost and compensation for private parties injured by such action (see H.R. 5237)

Consumer products: information program to enhance energy efficiency (see S. 2631; H.R. 5582)

Corporate Community Investment and Jobs Preservation Act: enact (see H.R. 5374)

Corporate mergers: restrict dividends-received deduction by the extend to which the purchase was debt financed (see S. 2447)

———restrictions on purchase of equity class of a company stock (see S. 2448)

Corporations: discouraging establishment of large lines of credit which may be used for certain acquisitions (see H. Res. 585)

———prohibit acquisitions of corporate control except by means of tender offers for all outstanding shares (see S. 2783)

———prohibit purchase of own shares at a price above existing market price from any person holding more than 3% of shares and has held them for less than 2 years (see S. 2754)

———require stockholder approval for certain repurchases (see S. 2779)

Counterfeit goods or services: FTC authority to initiate seizure actions (see H.R. 5929)

Courts: admissibility of business records located in foreign countries (see H.R. 5919)

———civil penalties for false claims and statements (see H.R. 5509)

Credit cards: extension of surcharge prohibition (see S. 2335)

———permanent ban on surcharges (see S. 2673; H.R. 5026)

———price differences in sales transactions (see S. 2336)

Credit guarantors: disallow avoidance of transfers in payment of debts evidenced by certain notes (see H.R. 5148)

Credit transactions: preempt State usury ceilings on business, agriculture, and consumer loans (see H.R. 5679)

Crime: extend Federal housing insurance program (see S. 2563; H.R. 5539)

Crude oil and petroleum products: establish independent corporation to buy and sell (see H.R. 5385)

Debt owed the U.S.: authorize contracts retaining private counsel to furnish legal services (see H.R. 6218)

Defense contracts: standards for Government's rights to technical data (see H.R. 5073)

Depository institution holding companies: authorize certain securities activities (see S. 2851)

Depository institutions: assure continued viability (see H.R. 5793)

Dept. of Defense: administrative remedy for false claims and other fraudulent acts (see S. 3044)

Drug industry: facilitate export of new products not yet approved for domestic market (see S. 2878)

Duties: refund of deposit or payment made before liquidation as a result of manifest clerical error (see H.R. 5535)

Economic Growth Zone Act: enact (see H.R. 5874)

Education: funding levels for Federal foreign language and exchange programs (see S. Con. Res. 95)

———grants for partnership in research in new technology (see S. 3082)

Employee stockownership plans: tax incentives (see H.R. 4929)

Employee-owned enterprises: loans to employee groups to fund studies to investigate reorganization or new incorporation of existing business (see H.R. 6371)

Enterprise zones: incentives for business relocation (see S. 2914)

———tax incentives (see H.R. 6373)

Executive departments: accelerate collection and deposit of payments (see H.R. 5355)

———increase public participation in formulation of procurement policies (see S. 2675)

Federal Home Loan Bank Board: delay effective date of regulations on equity securities by federally insured savings and loan associations (see H. Con. Res. 363)

Financial institutions: implementation of FRS's recommended definition and purpose (see H.R. 5734)

Foreign sales corporations: qualification requirements (see H.R. 6104)

Foreign trade: improve and expedite relief procedures (see H.R. 6372)

Franchisors: restrictions on operation of new market premises (see H.R. 5536)

Government contractors: statutory guidelines concerning award (see S. 2841)

Government procurement: increase public participation in formulation of policies (see S. 2675)

———revise procedures for soliciting and evaluating bids and proposals (see H.R. 5184)

Hazardous substances: penalty for business entities for nondisclosure of concealed dangers in certain products and practices (see H.R. 6350)

Housing: extend Federal crime insurance program (see S. 2563; H.R. 5539)

Housing and Community Development Act: urban development action grants (see H.R. 6156)

Independent Banking Preservation Act: enact (see H.R. 5793)

Industrial counterfeiting: deny preferential tariff treatment to certain countries (see H.R. 5324)

``Industrial Policy Movement in the U.S.—Is It the Answer?'': printing of additional copies (see S. Res. 425)

Interest: 10% limit on loans exceeding $300 (see H.R. 6083)

Joint research and development programs: modify application of antitrust law with respect to mergers (see H.R. 5830)

Layoffs: advance notice by employer and relocation options and assistance (see H.R. 6411, 6412)

Life insurance companies: prevention from taking undue advantage of fresh-start provisions of Tax Reform Act relative to policyholder dividends (see H.R. 6312)

Liquidation: refund of excess duties deposited or paid as a result of manifest clerical error (see H.R. 5535)

Lobbying: management of disclosure program (see S. 2390)

———policy on use of Federal funds by contractors and grantees (see S. 2251)

Management Week in America (see S.J. Res. 276; H.J. Res. 494)

Manufacturers: protection of consumers and dealers from unfair price discrimination in sales to fleet purchasers (see S. 2770)

Mergers: require community impact statements (see H.R. 5374)

Minority investment funds: nonrecognition of gain on sales and exchanges of capital assets (see H.R. 5096)

Monetary instrument transactions: improve enforcement provisions relating to records and reports (see H.R. 6025)

Motor vehicles: protection of consumers and dealers from unfair price discrimination in sale by manufacturers (see H.R. 5305)

National Commission on Industrial Policy: recommendations on revitalization of essential industries (see H.R. 5828)

National Commission on Women's Small Business Ownership: establish (see S. 2848)

National High-Tech Week (see S.J. Res. 316)

National Industrial Revitalization Board: loans to industries for modernization or expansion (see H.R. 5827)

National Productivity Improvement Week (see S.J. Res. 354; H.J. Res. 647)

National Quality Month (see S.J. Res. 304)

Patent Cooperation Treaty: amend laws implementing (see S. 3085)

Patents: increase effectiveness of laws (see H.R. 6286)

———restore term of grant in case of certain products prevented from being marketed during regulatory review period (see H.R. 6034)

Plant closings: advance notice to facilitate economic readjustment of communities (see H.R. 5829)

Power resources: extend tax credit for investments in certain classes of energy property (see H.R. 6419)

———reform commercial and apartment conservation service (see H.R. 5467)

Price fixing: contribution of damages attributable to an agreement by two or more persons to maintain or stabilize prices (see H.R. 6424)

Prices: unlawful sale of goods below cost and compensation for private parties injured by such action (see H.R. 5237)

Private activity bonds: repeal limitation on aggregate face amount (see S. 2893; H.R. 6032)

Private foundations: estimated payments for investment income tax (see H.R. 6388)

Product warranties: availability of spare parts (see H.R. 5108)

Retirement accounts: acquisition and disposal of tangible investment assets (see H.R. 6253)

Securities: require stockholder approval for certain repurchases (see S. 2779)

Securities Exchange Act: amend (see S. 2782, 2783, 2784, 2785)

Shopping centers and tenants: bankruptcy protection (see H.R. 5187)

Small business: elective consumed income tax system (see H.R. 6376)

———enhance competition in Government procurement (see S. 2489)

———improvement of development center program (see H.R. 5334)

Solar energy: tax credit for certain installations (see H.R. 6416)

Sports: clarify application of antitrust laws to professional leagues (see S. Res. 462)

State venture capital and royalty finance corporations (see H.R. 4718)

State-chartered savings and loan associations: rights to engage in activities and make investments authorized under State law (see H.R. 6330)

States: prohibiting worldwide combined unitary tax method (see S. 3061)

Surety bonds: reciprocal insurance exchanges to act as sureties for persons required or permitted to provide (see H.R. 6061)

Targeted jobs credit: additional 5 days for certification request by employer (see S. 2450)

Tax shelters: disallow certain incentives (see S. 2319)

Taxation: corporate income from foreign affiliates (see H.R. 6146)

———elective consumed income tax system (see S. 3090)

———eliminate most credits, deductions, and exclusions (see S. 2600; H.R. 5533)

———employment protection agreements with executives if control of company changes (see S. 2323)

———extend credit for investments in certain classes of energy property (see H.R. 6419)

———first-year capital cost recovery system (see H.R. 6436)

———flat rate system (see H.R. 5711)

———generation-skipping transfers (see H.R. 6260, 6261)

———imputed interest rates (see S. 3032; H.R. 6306)

———incentive stock options (see S. 3089; H.R. 6421)

———integration of corporate and personal income taxes (see H.R. 6436)

———one-time exclusion of gain on sale of property used in a trade or business by elderly (see H.R. 5289)

———real estate investment trusts (see H.R. 6236)

———rollover of gain on stocks sold to employees (see H.R. 5095)

Tax-exempt organizations: estimated payments for unrelated business tax (see H.R. 6388)

Technology: grants for university/business partnership in research (see S. 3082)

Trade laws: improve (see S. 2952)

Trademarks: clarify circumstances under which they may be canceled or abandoned (see H.R. 6285)

———strengthen laws against counterfeiting (see H.R. 5532)

U.S.-Mexico Joint Development Bank: establish (see H.R. 5664)

Unemployment: employer-employee committees to facilitate transfer to new employment opportunities (see H.R. 6411, 6412)

Urban areas: industrial development action grants to improve U.S. competitiveness (see H.R. 6355)

Worker's Freedom of Choice Act: introduction (see S. 2533)

Books

``From Major Jordan's Diary'', George R. Jordan (1952 excerpt), 3755-3760 [29FE]

``Human Side of Enterprise'', Douglas MacGregor (excerpt), 22228 [2AU]

``Soviet Economic Development and American Business'', Saul G. Bron (1930 excerpt), 3752-3754 [29FE]

Broadcasts

Shoe imports: Maine Broadcasting Systems, 12194 [15MY]

Uniform product liability laws: WRJN-Radio (Racine, WI), 2565 [9FE]

Brochures

Incentives to Attract U.S. Business Investments (sundry excerpts), 23069 [9AU]

Citations

DePaul University College of Commerce Award for Outstanding Contributions to American Business: Representative Rostenkowski, 16766 [15JN]

Cloture motions

Depository institution holding companies: authorize certain securities activities (S. 2851), 24386 [6SE], 24715 [10SE], 24765 [11SE], 25284 [13SE]

Colloquies

Uniform patent policy and procedure relative to inventions developed with Federal assistance: Senators DeConcini and Dole, 31287, 31288 [10OC]

Comments

CBO Fair Trade in Steel Act Statement Response: American Iron & Steel Institute, 21551-21553 [30JY]

Court decisions

Bank merger, 24760 [11SE]

Entry of imported goods bearing recorded trademark: U.S. Court of International Trade, 29242-29247 [3OC]

Interstate commerce: Benjamin N. Cardozo (1949 excerpt), 24242 [5SE]

———John Marshall (1824 excerpt), 24243 [5SE]

———Supreme Court, 25660, 25661 [17SE]

Monsanto v. Spray Rite (vertical price fixing): Supreme Court, 7005 [29MR]

Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision regarding sex discrimination in insurance rates, 30745 [5OC]

Decisions

Order approving Bank of New England Corp. merger: Federal Reserve Board, 24753-24759 [11SE]

Declarations

Policy of U.S. Business & Industrial Council, 23373-23378 [9AU]

Descriptions

Economic Growth Zone Act (H.R. 5874), 16767 [15JN]

Enterprise Zone Act (S. 2914), 22692 [8AU]

Planning for future competition, 7080 [29MR]

Small Business Consumed Income Tax Act (S. 3090), 32031 [11OC]

Documents

Prompt Pay Legislation Proposal, 15865 [12JN]

Review of D'Amato Amendments to S. 2851, Financial Services Competitive Equity Act, 24702-24705 [10SE]

Examples

Financial institutions delayed funds disclosure statement, 24962 [12SE]

Financial institutions delayed funds policy statement, 24962 [12SE]

Explanations

Amend law implementing the Patent Cooperation Treaty (S. 3085), 31248 [10OC]

Banking Convenience Act (S. 2898), 21805 [1AU]

Employee stock ownership plan provisions of H.R. 2163, 12697 [17MY]

Generalized System of Preferences amendment (S. 1718), 9334 [12AP]

National Training Incentives Act, 9516 [12AP]

Pharmaceutical export amendments (S. 2878), 21198-21202 [26JY]

Small Business and Federal Procurement Competition Enhancement Act procurement center representatives, 22582 [7AU]

Factsheets

Amendments to Procurement Regulations (S. 2434), 5746 [15MR]

SBA Pollution Control Loan Program, 2795 [21FE]

Small Business Innovation Research Program: NSF, 16320 [13JN]

Too Much Room at the Inn, 22064 [1AU]

History

Bottle Baby Campaign—Decade of Action—Chronology—Infant Formula Controversy, 939 [30JA]

Glass-Steagall Act (securities activities of commercial banks), 24709 [10SE]

Interviews

Export jobs, import welfare: June M. Collier with USA Today, 12631 [17MY]

U.S.-U.S.S.R. detente: Charles Levinson with Our Generation (Canadian publication), 3763-3765 [29FE]

Letters

Antitrust action enforcement: Dept. of Justice, 21608 [31JY]

Appointment of Edward Toles to Bankruptcy Court, northern district of Illinois (sundry), 2637 [9FE]

Auto domestic content legislation: Iowa Corn Growers Association, 969 [31JA]

———Sec. of Commerce Baldrige, 9671 [24AP]

Bank-financed mergers: FRS, 16993 [18JN]

———Representative Hamilton, 16993 [18JN]

Bilateral textile trade agreement negotiations with the People's Republic of China: Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, 21752 [1AU]

Comerica, Inc., divestiture: FRS, 24966 [12SE]

———Senator Riegle, 24966 [12SE]

Competition in cable television systems: Justus Dobesh, 6065 [20MR]

Copper import quotas: several Senators (sundry), 25385 [13SE]

Corporate sales of securities: T. Boone Pickens, Jr., 25306 [13SE]

Cost estimate on the Financial Services Competitive Equity Act (S. 2851): CBO, 22339 [3AU]

Credit card sales transactions: sundry, 3648 [28FE]

Credit card surcharges: American Express Co., 9226 [12AP]

———Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, 9227 [12AP]

———Comptroller of the Currency Conover, 9229 [12AP]

———Consumer Federation of America, 9231 [12AP]

———FTC, 9230 [12AP]

———National Retail Merchants Association, 9227, 9232 [12AP]

———sundry, 9229 [12AP]

Defense spending: Business Executives for National Security, Inc., 4798 [7MR]

Delete authorization of extended navigation season on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway (H.R. 3678): Canadian Embassy, 6800 [27MR]

Depository institution holding companies securities activities: California banking and insurance officials (excerpt), 25326 [13SE]

———Coca-Cola Co., 25337 [13SE]

———Conference of State Bank Supervisors (excerpt), 25321 [13SE]

———National Governors' Association (excerpts), 25320, 25321 [13SE]

Economic Recovery Tax Act: CBO, 16034 [13JN]

Expansion of U.S. trade markets: Sec. of Commerce Baldrige, 4266 [2MR]

———William E. Brock III, 4266 [2MR]

Export trade contracts sanctity: National Grange, 4126 [1MR]

———Sec. of Commerce Baldrige, 4122, 4128 [1MR]

Fair Practices in Automotive Products Act (S. 707): Coalition Against Domestic Content Legislation, 12376, 12380 [16MY]

———National Grange, 12380 [16MY]

———National Institute of Economics and Law, 12374-12376 [16MY]

Fair Trade in Steel Act (H.R. 5081): Leonard Jed, 20466 [29JN]

Fair Trade in Steel Act (S. 2380): Sec. of Commerce Baldrige and Trade Representative Brock, 8017 [5AP]

Federal Home Loan Bank Board regulation on retroactive mutual-to-stock conversion, 30636 [5OC]

Federal policies and the timber industry: Andrew C. Sigler for Champion International Corp., 12946 [18MY]

Federal spending and interest rates: Barbara Boswell, 27598 [27SE]

Financial Services Competitive Equity Act (S. 2851): National Governors' Association, 24705 [10SE]

———Sec. of the Treasury Regan, 24705 [10SE]

Footwear industry and foreign competition: sundry Representatives, 14736 [31MY]

———William H. Ryan of Haverhill, MA, 14736 [31MY]

Impact of imports on U.S. auto industry: Chrysler Corp., 416 [25JA]

———Essex Specialty Products, Inc., 416 [25JA]

———James Griffith, 416 [25JA]

———Lee A. Iacocca, 6453 [22MR]

Impact of the Administration's tax policies on business and the consumer: Walter S. Mason, Jr., 22064 [1AU]

Importation of textile products: several Senators (sundry), 25757 [18SE]

International double taxation (sundry), 30649 [5OC]

It would be uniform, all right—uniformly unfair: Consumers Union, 22864 [8AU]

Japanese agricultural trade policy: Yoshiaki Iwao, 2845 [22FE]

Japanese trade barriers to import of U.S. lumber products: Senator Baucus, 12949 [18MY]

———William E. Brock III, 12949 [18MY]

Job Training Partnership Act: Franklin/Hampshire Employment and Training Consortium, 25210 [12SE]

Labor union violence at AP Parts Co.: Daniel E. Gardner, 15868 [12JN]

Merck & Co., Inc., employment standards award, Dept. of Labor, 1303 [1FE]

Missile development and military decisionmaking: Dept. of the Air Force, 10254 [26AP]

Moratorium on offshore oil and gas drilling: businesses and associations in opposition, 26709 [25SE]

Multifiber agreement: President Reagan (sundry), 26243 [20SE]

OMB revised rules regarding lobbying and related activities: Select Committee on Aging, 335 [24JA]

Omnibus water projects (H.R. 3678): Director of the OMB David Stockman, 18616 [25JN]

Pollution control bond program: SBA, 25669 [17SE]

Product Liability Act (S. 44): ABA, 22865, 22866 [8AU]

———Consumer Federation of America, 22864 [8AU]

———Consumers Union, 22863 [8AU]

———Senator Riegle, 29253 [3OC]

Prompt payment of bills by Government agencies: Kenton Pattie, 15863 [12JN]

Proposed export of bulletproof vests to Syria: Sec. of Commerce Baldrige (excerpt), 5031 [8MR]

Public housing: National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials, 1153 [31JA]

Refusal of Dept. of Commerce grant: Navajo Forest Products Industries, 1749 [2FE]

———Wood Moulding & Millwork Producers, 1749 [2FE]

Response to SBA loan program legislation (sundry), 11315, 11317 [8MY]

Result of targeting Dept. of Defense contracts to distressed areas: President Reagan (excerpt), 14646 [31MY]

SBA pollution control loan program: Committee on Small Business, 2795 [21FE]

Small Business and Federal Procurement Competition Enhancement Act: sundry business leaders, 22574 [7AU]

Small Business Innovation Research Program: NSF, 16320 [13JN]

Steel import quotas: Senator Boschwitz, 15277 [7JN]

———Senator Byrd, 15280 [7JN]

Taiwan's policy toward foreign imports: Albert Benik, 21362 [26JY]

Tax Reform Act (H.R. 4170): Committee on Ways and Means, 8624 [10AP], 8829 [11AP]

———New York State Comptroller, 8624 [10AP]

Tax treatment of foreign-earned income: M. W. Kellogg Co., 8675 [11AP]

———National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, 8675 [11AP]

———U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 8675 [11AP]

Telephone access charge: John Sloan, Jr., for the National Federation of Independent Business, Inc., 10720 [2MY]

———several Members of Congress, 10720 [2MY]

Transmittal of Reciprocal Tariff Reduction Acceleration Act: William E. Brock III, 12719 [17MY]

U.S. and the European Community economic relations: Roy Denman, 4547 [5MR]

———sundry Members of Congress, 4547 [5MR]

U.S. beef exports to Japan: Bonnie Kuraoka, 9243 [12AP]

———Embassy of Japan, 9242 [12AP]

———U.S. Trade Representative Brock, 9242 [12AP]

U.S. trade deficit at all-time high: National Association of Manufacturers, 24345 [5SE]

Wage discrimination: Gloria Martin, 30257 [4OC]

Winter navigation on the Great Lakes: Areawide Water Quality Board, 943 [30JA]

———Fort Gratiot, MI, 943 [30JA]

———Michigan Wildlife Habitat Foundation, 943 [30JA]

———Port Huron, MI, 943 [30JA]

Lists

Coalition for State Prompt Pay members, 15865 [12JN]

Cosponsors of H.R. 4124, Comprehensive Trade Law Reform Act, 6632 [27MR]

———S. 2914, Enterprise Zone Act, 22691 [8AU]

Deficit Reduction Tax Act (H.R. 2163): amendments, 9182 [12AP]

Export Administration Act amendments (S. 979): Boren amendment supporters, 6103 [21MR]

Members of the Handicapped Committee of Southwestern Connecticut, 9671 [24AP]

National Education for Business Week sponsoring organizations, 9611 [12AP]

Organizations supporting expansion of U.S. trade markets, 4264 [2MR]

Participants in the 4th annual National Advisory Council on Small Business meeting, 5944 [20MR]

Participating private sector initiatives program for El Salvador, 14035 [23MY]

Publication in opposition to Fair Practices in Automotive Products Act, 12374 [16MY]

Salary of executives in largest U.S. companies in 1983, 15141 [6JN]

Senate Productivity Award recipients, 27419 [27SE]

Small business issues conference recommendations, 30893-30899 [9OC]

Supporters of Federal crime insurance program, 26627 [24SE]

Trade Reform Action Coalition members, 25736 [18SE]

U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service district office directory, 30255 [4OC]

U.S. companies which have negotiated Soviet trade agreements, 3762-3763 [29FE]

Memorandums

Labor Standards for U.S. Employers in South Africa Under H.R. 3231: Library of Congress, 5149-5151 [12MR]

Output and Employment Effects of U.S. Steel Import Quotas: Library of Congress, 15622-15624 [11JN]

Regulations Regarding Worker Safety and Health at Adolph Coors Co., 10602 [1MY]

Memorials of legislature

California, 30205 [4OC]

Colorado, 12598 [16MY], 13080 [21MY]

Hawaii, 6650 [27MR], 10773 [2MY]

Pennsylvania, 8424 [9AP], 16157 [13JN], 16770 [15JN], 21388 [27JY]

West Virginia, 4172 [1MR]

Messages

No-Fault Mechanism for Compensation of Railroad Employees: William H. Taft (1912), 9356 [12AP]

State of Small Business: President Reagan, 5841 [19MR], 5985 [20MR]

Motions

Depository institution holding companies: authorize certain securities activities (S. 2851), proceed to consideration, 24706 [10SE]

Newsletters

Caribbean Basin Promotion Center opportunities (excerpts), 31277 [10OC]

For 10 STECEL unionists, a four-year prison nightmare: Labor Campaign for Jailed Salvadoran Unionists, 30233 [4OC]

Obituaries

Aurelio Peccei, 6182 [21MR]

Papers

American Century of Technological Advances: Odetics, Inc., 9589 [12AP]

Case of Retaining Capital Gains Tax Treatment on Timber: David Jackson, 12947 [18MY]

Federalist Papers (No. 22): Alexander Hamilton (excerpt on interstate commerce), 24243 [5SE]

Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Seaway Winter Navigation—Canadian Position, 6800 [27MR]

Regulatory Reform—Laboratory of Democracy: Charles L. Kennedy, 16798 [15JN]

Specialty Steel—A Description of an Industry: Dallas R. Blevins and Nathan E. McMinn, 22823-22825 [8AU]

What Is America Up Against?: Dan Dickinson, 6923 [28MR]

Petitions

Alaska mills relief: Alaska Chamber of Commerce, 881 [30JA]

Bankruptcy Act: National Institute of Municipal Law Officers, 10344 [30AP]

Cable Telecommunication Act (S. 66): Fort Gratiot, MI, Charter Township Board, 944 [30JA]

California Escrow Association anniversary observance, 30769 [5OC]

Consumer protection: Southern Health Association, 23323 [9AU]

Winter navigation on the Great Lakes: Port Huron, MI, City Council, 943 [30JA]

———St. Clair County, MI, Board of Commissioners, 944 [30JA]

Poems

``Crafted With Pride in America'': Mrs. Johnnie Busick, 2158 [7FE]

Polls of opinion

National industrial policy: Harris poll, 6496 [26MR]

Voters in 9 industrial States on trade issues, 20920-20922 [25JY]

Press releases

Administration's fair trade program: American Iron & Steel Institute, 25809 [18SE]

Bank mergers: Federal Reserve Board, 24753 [11SE]

Proposals

Increasing research and improving the Nation's economic vitality, 31245 [10OC]

Questions and answers

Product Liability Act (S. 44): ABA response to Senator Hollings, 22867 [8AU]

We've got to attack high interest rates, Willard Butcher, 31111 [9OC]

Remarks in House

Acid rain: proposed effects, 22288 [2AU]

Acquisitions: prohibit hostile takeover activity (H.R. 5137), 5529 [14MR]

Adolph Coors Co.: regulations regarding worker safety and health, 10602 [1MY]

Adult Education Act: reauthorize, 6941 [28MR]

Age Discrimination in Employment Act: amend (H.R. 5387), 8269 [5AP]

Agriculture: U.S. export policies in developing countries, 7874 [4AP]

AID: disbursement of development assistance funds to economically and socially disadvantaged businesses, 11603 [9MY]

Air Travelers Security Act: enact (H.R. 2053), 3306 [23FE]

Airline passengers: consumer protection (H.R. 5230), 6482 [22MR]

American companies: corporate income tax law, 32593 [14NO]

American Footwear Act: enact (H.R. 5791), 16324 [13JN]

American Property Rights Protection Act: enact (H.R. 5634), 11917 [10MY]

American working women: tribute, 3326 [23FE]

Antipoverty programs: effectiveness, 11491 [8MY]

Antitrust Reform Act: enact (H.R. 6424), 31110 [9OC]

Auto and oil industry mergers: investigate (H.R. 5153), 7579 [3AP]

Auto repair industry: effects of mandated auto emission control system warranties on competition, 3700 [28FE]

Automobile industry: executive bonuses, 10918 [3MY]

———joint ventures, 2797 [21FE]

Automobile manufacturers: criminal sanctions for withholding information regarding defects (H.R. 5614), 11450 [8MY]

Automobiles: eliminate fleet sale discounts (H.R. 1415), 7650 [3AP]

———eliminate fleet sale discounts (H.R. 5305), 7650 [3AP]

Bank Bribery and Fraud Act: enact (H.R. 5588), 11073 [3MY]

Bank holding companies: redefine, 14334 [24MY]

Banking loopholes: issues, 26638 [24SE]

Bankruptcy: clarify circumstances under which a collective bargaining agreement may be rejected (H.R. 4908), 2989 [22FE], 3696 [28FE], 5806, 5814 [15MR], 6057 [20MR]

———reform issues, 3294 [23FE]

Bankruptcy Act: continue transition provisions (H.R. 5545), 10201 [30AP]

———continue transition provisions (S. 2776), 17228 [20JN]

Basic Industries Merger, Acquisition, and Joint Venture Study and Moratorium Act: enact (H.R. 5153), 5801 [15MR]

Bay City, MI: tribute to Gougeon Bros., Inc., 23194 [8AU]

Blind persons: improve opportunities, 734 [30JA]

Budget: effects of deficit on private borrowers, 15191 [6JN]

———impact of deficit on interest rates, 15359 [7JN]

Business and Professional Business Women's Week: observance, 30770 [5OC]

Business Expense Deductions Act: enact (H.R. 5381), 8295 [5AP]

Butler, PA: Armco's Electrical Steel Division committee to fight steel imports, 3025 [22FE]

Cable Telecommunications Act: enact (H.R. 4103), 4854 [7MR], 5087 [8MR]

California Escrow Association: anniversary observance, 30769 [5OC]

Cancer survivors: prohibit employment-based discrimination against (H.R. 5849), 32575 [12OC]

Carson, CA: anniversary of Watson Land Co., 30267 [4OC]

Cash transactions: discounts, 3582 [28FE]

Catalog and mail-order sales: foreign or U.S. labeling requirement, 24452, 24453 [6SE]

Charitable organizations: increase corporate contributions through shareholder dividends (H.R. 4708), 1393 [1FE]

Coin Operated Phonorecord Player Copyright Act: enact (H.R. 3858), 2635 [9FE]

Columbia-Snake Customs District: establish (H.R. 5625), 11469 [8MY]

Competitive Warranty Act: enact, 18464 [22JN]

Comprehensive Trade Law Reform Act: enact (H.R. 4124), 6631, 6632 [27MR], 6904-6906 [28MR]

Consumed Income Tax Act: enact (H.R. 6376), 30313 [5OC]

Consumer education: promote, 19439 [27JN]

Consumer leasing: disclosure requirements, 9054 [11AP]

Consumer protection: administration policy, 5804, 5805 [15MR]

Copper industry: foreign competition, 17001 [18JN]

Corporate acquisitions: methods of negotiation, 15247 [6JN]

Corporate Community Investment and Jobs Preservation Act: introduction (H.R. 5374), 7998 [5AP]

Corporate Criminal Liability Act: enact (H.R. 6350), 28827 [2OC]

Corporate foreign source income: State taxation guidelines (H.R. 6146), 24156 [10AU]

Corporate mergers and acquisitions: financing (H.R. 5979), 20396 [29JN]

———tax treatment (H.R. 3137), 9381 [12AP], 12844 [17MY]

Corporations: consolidated tax returns (H.R. 6073), 22316 [2AU]

———executive salaries, 8344 [9AP], 10726 [2MY]

———hostile takeovers (H.R. 5972), 19979 [28JN]

———minimum tax, 11961 [10MY]

———permit injunctive relief from harmful defensive management tactics in takeover situations (H.R. 5695), 13443 [22MY]

———prohibit acquisition of control except by means of tender offers for all outstanding shares (H.R. 5694), 13443 [22MY]

———taxation of domestic established in foreign countries (H.R. 4816), 2635 [9FE]

Courts: admissibility of business records located in foreign countries (H.R. 5919), 21494 [30JY], 23171 [8AU]

Credit card surcharges: small business position, 9976 [25AP]

Credit cards: economic impact of fraudulent use, 9021 [11AP]

———extend ban on surcharges, 306 [24JA], 757 [30JA]

———extend ban on surcharges (H.R. 5026), 7521-7525 [3AP]

———extension of surcharge prohibition (S. 2335), 3872 [29FE]

———extension of surcharge prohibition (S. 2336), 3582 [28FE]

Crude oil and petroleum products: establish an independent corporation to buy and sell (H.R. 5999), 20318 [29JN]

Dairy industry: allow antitrust suits against agricultural cooperatives (H.R. 5804), 15767 [11JN]

Deficit Reduction Tax Act: insurance provisions (H.R. 2163), 8841-8845 [11AP]

Democratic policies: comparison, 24662 [10SE]

DePaul University College of Commerce Award for Outstanding Contributions to American Business: congratulations to recipient Representative Rostenkowski, 16766 [15JN]

Dept. of Defense: spare parts procurement policies reform, 17080 [19JN]

Dept. of Defense: targeting nonstrategic procurement contracts to distressed areas, 14642 [31MY]

Displaced workers: tax incentives for retraining, 8795 [11AP]

Domestic industries: governmental protective tariffs, 12109 [14MY]

———merger guidelines, 20737 [24JY]

Domestic Petroleum Company Acquisition Act: enact (H.R. 5042), 4710 [6MR]

Economic Development Administration: funding, 14579 [31MY]

Economic Growth Zone Act: introduction (H.R. 5874), 16766 [15JN]

Economic recovery: status, 31340 [10OC]

El Salvador: proposed private sector initiatives program, 14035 [23MY]

Emergency Petroleum Industries Stability Act: enact (H.R. 5175), 6074 [20MR]

Employee awards: taxation (H.R. 5261), 6791 [27MR]

Employee Stock Ownership Improvement Act: enact (H.R. 5095), 5089 [8MR], 9616 [12AP]

Employee stock ownership plans: tax law, 21077 [25JY]

Employees: exploitation, 4523 [5MR]

Employment opportunity: constitutional amendment to guarantee (H.J. Res. 202), 3703 [28FE]

Energy property: energy tax credit (H.R. 6419), 30366 [5OC]

Energy tax credits: extend renewable business and residential, 30282 [4OC]

Enterprise Zone Employment and Development Act: enact, 11071 [3MY]

———enact (H.R. 1955), 2616 [9FE], 2830 [21FE], 13985 [23MY]

Enterprise zone program: proposed, 9955 [25AP]

Equal Access to Justice Act: amend (H.R. 5479), 24825-24830 [11SE], 31406 [10OC]

———reauthorize (H.R. 5479), concurring in Senate amendment to title, 30159 [4OC]

———reauthorize (H.R. 5479), Senate amendment, 30150 [4OC]

European Community: imposition of tariffs on imports, 4224 [1MR]

Eximbank: support activities, 3066 [22FE]

Export Administration Act: amend (H.R. 3231), 9554 [12AP]

Fair Competition Act: enact (H.R. 5237), 6792 [27MR]

Fair Tax Act: enact, 15077 [6JN]

Fair Trade in Steel Act: enact (H.R. 4352), 2660 [9FE], 3025 [22FE]

Family farms and businesses: estate tax provisions (H.R. 5070), 5081 [8MR]

FCC: economic effects of access charge, 15488 [7JN]

Federal debt: role of foreign investment, 5179 [12MR]

Federal deficit, 30269 [4OC]

Federal procurement: promote competition (H.R. 2133), 11454-11457 [8MY]

Ferroalloy industry: import relief, 8795 [11AP]

Financial institutions: review deregulation and amalgamation (H.R. 4506), 1743 [2FE]

———subject to same regulations as broker-dealers (H.R. 5696), 13443 [22MY]

Financial services: moratorium on ``non-bank bank'' applications, 11968 [10MY]

Flat tax: proposed, 2657 [9FE]

Florida: tribute to the small business innovative research program, 3054 [22FE]

Footwear industry: foreign competition, 13982, 14001 [23MY]

Foreign countries: authorizing creation of U.S. companies, 23100 [8AU]

Foreign income: tax treatment of U.S. income labeled, 6338 [22MR]

Foreign investment: tax deduction, 6960 [29MR]

Foreign sales corporation program, 23100 [8AU], 23195 [8AU]

Foreign trade: trade practices of foreign companies doing business in U.S., 5104 [8MR]

———U.S. trade deficit, 24344 [5SE]

Freight transportation: regulation of railroad holding companies, 8290 [5AP]

FTC: termination of line of business program, 10613 [1MY]

Generalized system of preferences: link benefits to protection of U.S. patents and copyrights, 8587 [10AP]

———link benefits to protection of U.S. patents and copyrights (H.R. 5324), 7631 [3AP]

Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway: authorize an extended navigation season (H.R. 3678), 6799 [27MR], 6913-6916 [28MR], 6948 [28MR], 10789 [2MY], 16741 [15JN], 16866-16881 [18JN], 18479 [25JN], 19867 [28JN], 20235-20259, 20269 [29JN], 20270 [29JN]-20299 [29JN], 24324 [5SE], 26753-26759 [25SE]

———extended navigation season (H.R. 3678), technical corrections, 20299 [29JN]

Hazardous substances: damage liability from waste, 23512 [9AU]

Home computers: income tax deduction (H.R. 2531), 11452 [8MY]

Home heating oil: regional price differences, 3976 [29FE]

Home taping: impact on copyright holders, 7617 [3AP]

Homebuilders: preserve current tax treatment of mortgage-backed builder bond transactions (H. Con. Res. 253), 1960 [6FE], 10604 [1MY]

Honda of America: anniversary in the U.S., 20382 [29JN]

Hostile Takeover Act: introduction (H.R. 5137), 5529 [14MR]

Hotels, motels, restaurants, and apartments: exempt from minimum wage and overtime compensation requirements (H.R. 5949), 19456 [27JN]

Imports: economic impact, 14409 [30MY]

Incentive stock options: tax treatment (H.R. 6421), 30347 [5OC]

Independent Banking Preservation Act: enact (H.R. 5793), 15224 [6JN]

Individual retirement accounts: taxation issues, 20554 [23JY]

Individual training account: voluntary contributions (H.R. 4832), 6960 [29MR]

Industrial Debate Policy (study): Institute for Contemporary Studies, 12833 [17MY]

Industrial development bonds: tax issues, 3023 [22FE]

Industrial policy, 12833 [17MY]

———increase foreign competitiveness (H.R. 4360), 15985, 15993 [12JN]

———small business contributions, 2610 [9FE]

Industrial States: impact of economic plight, 12492 [16MY]

Industrial trade workshops: exchange of information, 22301 [2AU]

Interest Rate Deregulation Act: enact (H.R. 5679), 12862 [17MY]

Interest rates: impact of high, 20542 [23JY]

———increase, 18735 [27JN]

International trade: unfair practices, 6906 [28MR]

International Trade Tax Act: enact (H.R. 4741), 1763 [2FE]

Interstate construction funds: allocation to States, 3302 [23FE]

Israel: implement free trade zone (H.R. 5377), 31711 [10OC]

Japan: agreement to internationalize yen, 14408 [30MY]

———agricultural imports, 6959 [29MR]

———unfair competition, 14408 [30MY]

Jobs and Income Act: enact (H.R. 5707), 14030 [23MY]

Joint Research and Development Act: enact (H.R. 5041), 10252 [26AP]

Joseph Coors Co.: exemptions to OSHA noise regulations, 21745 [31JY]

Kansas City, MO: Neighborhood Housing Services' revitalization projects, 31100 [9OC]

Lifeline Services Telephone Act: enact (H.R. 4814), 2661 [9FE]

Luxury cars: treatment as business expenses, 6336 [22MR]

Maryland: designate Women Business Owners Day, 6071 [20MR]

Mergers: adoption of new guidelines, 18466 [22JN]

———economic impact, 7549-7558 [3AP], 7579 [3AP]

Mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures: investigate and prohibit certain (H.R. 5153), 7579 [3AP]

Michigan: cleanup of Bofors Chemical Co., 436 [25JA]

Minority Enterprise Development Week: observance, 31720 [10OC], 32568 [12OC]

Minority Enterprise Week: observance, 26932 [25SE]

Minority Investment Tax Act: enact (H.R. 5096), 5075 [8MR]

Mortgage revenue bonds: reauthorize issuance (H.R. 4170), 2795 [21FE]

Multilateral development institutions: U.S. participation, 13460 [22MY]

Multiple Sector Health Care Strategy Act: enact (H.R. 6383), 30247 [4OC]

Nader, Ralph: consumer protection activities, 32590 [12OC]

National dividend plan: implement (H.R. 3961), 2653 [9FE]

National Education for Business Week: observance, 9611 [12AP]

National Engineers Week: observance, 2173 [7FE]

National Entrepreneurship Act: enact (H.R. 4718), 6567 [26MR]

National High Technology Week: designate (H.J. Res. 453), 9589 [12AP]

National industrial policy: central strategic planning, 6495-6500 [26MR]

National industrial strategy: proposed, 13981 [23MY]

National Industries, Inc.: urged to move to foreign country to increase profit, 3585 [28FE]

National Productivity and Innovation Act: enact (S. 1841), 23453 [9AU], 23958 [10AU]

———enact (S. 1841), appointment of conferees, 23456 [9AU]

———enact (S. 1841), conference report, 28110 [1OC], 28115 [4OC]

———enact (S. 1841), permission to file conference report, 26359 [20SE]

National Quality Month: observance, 28117 [1OC]

National Secretaries Day: observance, 10020 [25AP]

National Small Business Week: observance, 11685 [9MY]

National television networks: alien ownership restrictions (H.R. 4840), 2434 [9FE]

National Training Incentives Act: enact, 6871 [28MR]

———introduction, 9516 [12AP]

New Economic Recovery Act: introduction (H.R. 5506), 9972 [25AP]

New England Council, Inc.: role in promoting technology legislation, 5118 [12MR]

Nicaragua: mining harbors (H.J. Res. 539), 8627 [10AP]

No-Fault Multiemployer Plan Termination Insurance Reform Act: enact (H.R. 4834), 2643 [9FE]

Northeast and Midwest States: decline of industrial economic base, 25957 [18SE]

Ohio: international trade workshops, 22301 [2AU]

Oil and gas industries: tax reform, 16332 [13JN]

Oil and steel industry mergers: investigate impact, 5489 [14MR], 5639 [15MR]

Oil companies: establish independent oil trading corporation (H.R. 4904), 4555 [5MR]

———FTC regulations on mergers, 11959 [10MY]

———impose certain requirements relative to acquisitions (H.R. 5452), 9561 [12AP]

———windfall profits tax rate, 8861 [11AP]

Oil company mergers: investigate impact, 5639 [15MR], 6187 [21MR], 6338 [22MR], 10501 [1MY]

Oil trading corporation: establish independent, 2829 [21FE]

OSHA: alleged favoritism toward Adolph Coors Co., 9517 [12AP]

PAC's: newspaper editorial support, 10022 [25AP]

Petroleum Marketing Practices Act: amend (H.R. 3750), 14567 [30MY]

———amend (H.R. 5023), 4535 [5MR]

Phantom Tax Reform Act: enact, 3303 [23FE]

Plant closings: recent research, 11452 [8MY]

Private foundations: estimated tax payments (H.R. 6388), 30312 [5OC]

Productivity: growth, 2401 [9FE], 31340 [10OC]

Professional Sports Team Community Protection Act: enact (H.R. 5430), 9037 [11AP]

Property seller financing: restore previous (H.R. 6021), 21366 [26JY]

Pyron, Charles O.: tribute, 7647 [3AP]

Reagan, President: unemployment statistics, 22080 [1AU]

Real estate syndications, 4036 [1MR]

Renewable Energy Incentive Act: enact (H.R. 6419), 30366 [5OC]

Republican policies: comparison, 24662 [10SE]

Retail Industry Trade Action Coalition: formation, 20314 [29JN]

Retirement Equity Act: enact (H.R. 4280), 8616 [10AP]

SBA: funding, 14586 [31MY]

———improve guaranteed loan program (H.R. 4773), laid on table, 2162 [7FE], 18486 [25JN], 18487 [26JN]

———improve guaranteed loan program (S. 2375), 18483-18487 [25JN]

———pollution control loan program, 2795 [21FE]

———Service Corps of Retired Executives anniversary observance, 13984 [23MY], 15264 [6JN]

Seller financing: proposed modifications (H.R. 6021), 22081 [1AU]

Semiconductor Chip Protection Act: enact (H.R. 1028), 935 [30JA]

Shoe industry: foreign competition, 14407, 14408, 14409 [30MY], 14546, 14550, 14568, 14569, 14570 [30MY], 14736, 14740, 14754, 14758, 14772, 14775 [31MY], 15255 [6JN], 15361, 15364, 15367 [7JN], 15513, 15523 [7JN], 15767 [11JN], 17625 [20JN]

Small business: Federal assistance, 7888 [4AP]

———Federal procurements, 9754 [24AP]

———survey on economic trends, 14020 [23MY]

———tax reform (H.R. 6376), 30313 [5OC]

Small Business Act: amend (H.R. 2133), 6566 [26MR], 9754 [24AP]

———amend (H.R. 3020), 2795 [21FE]

———amend (H.R. 6013), appointment of conferees, 27317 [26SE]

———amend (H.R. 6347), 28168 [1OC]

Small Business Consumed Income Tax Act: enact, 30223 [4OC]

Small Business Development Center Improvement Act: enact (S. 1429), conference report, 23017 [8AU]

———enact (S. 1429), consideration of conference report, 22371 [6AU]

Small Business Innovation Research Program: research and development projects, 16319 [13JN]

Small Business Investment Act: amend (H.R. 6013), appointment of conferees, 27317 [26SE]

Small Business Secondary Market Improvement Act: enact, 19002 [26JN]

Small Business Week: observance, 11478 [8MY], 11930 [10MY]

Solar energy: business and residential tax credits (H.R. 6416), 30740 [5OC]

Space: administration policy on commerical use, 22076 [1AU]

———business opportunities, 1469 [2FE]

Space commercialization: tax issues, 20465 [29JN]

Spare parts: availability for consumer goods (H.R. 5108), 5396 [13MR]

———contract competition, 6493 [26MR]

———increase competition (H.R. 4209), 12987 [22MY]

State of small business: President Reagan's report, 5985 [20MR]

Steel industry: implications of wholesale protectionism, 21070 [25JY]

———initiatives for competitiveness, 15470, 15471 [11JN]

———modernization, 15470 [7JN]

———policy, 23624 [9AU]

Systems and Applied Sciences Corp.: tribute, 4730 [6MR]

Takeovers: public and shareholders' right to know, 17724 [21JN]

Targeted Jobs Tax Credit Act: extend (H.R. 5094), 9057 [11AP]

Tariffs: governmental protection of domestic industries, 12109 [14MY]

Tax forms: checkoff to charities provision, 9594 [12AP]

Tax loopholes: deductions, 14870 [4JN]

Tax reform, 4972 [8MR]

Tax Reform Act: enact (H.R. 4170), 12361 [15MY]

Tax Status of Space Act: enact (H.R. 5975), 21503 [30JY]

Taxation: census income estimates, 22314 [2AU]

———interest credited on deposit or account shall not be included in income (H.R. 4872), 2799 [21FE]

———reform, 4972 [8MR]

Tax-exempt organizations: estimated tax payments (H.R. 6388), 30312 [5OC]

Technology industry: impact of growth, 1234 [1FE]

Telecommunication properties: ownership by minorities, 32579 [12OC]

Telephone access charges: proposed for businesses, 10189 [26AP], 10269 [26AP]

Texaco-Getty oil merger: FTC ruling (H.R. 5750), 24177 [10AU]

Trade adjustment assistance: program funding, 14579 [31MY]

Trade imbalance: impact, 1061 [31JA]

Trade Remedies Reform Act: enact (H.R. 4784), 21320 [27JY]

Trademark Counterfeiting Act: enact (H.R. 6071), 24656 [10SE], 24661 [12SE]

Trademark system: preserve (H.R. 6163), 31721 [10OC]

Tyler, TX: Trane Co. recipient of Ed C. Burris Award by the Texas Association of Business, 9054 [11AP]

U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service: strengthen, 30255 [4OC]

U.S. technology: illegal export, 5030 [8MR], 5198 [13MR]

Umbrella frames: duty-free, 13980 [23MY]

Underground storage tanks: regulation, 23514 [9AU]

Unemployment: issues, 12851 [17MY]

———retraining proposals (H.R. 4801), 2663 [9FE]

Unemployment Reduction and Retraining Act: enact (H.R. 4787), 2380 [8FE]

Uniform Margin Requirement Act: enact (H.R. 5250), 6783, 6786 [27MR]

Uniform Patent Procedures Act: enact, 3978 [29FE]

———introduction (H.R. 4964), 3572 [28FE]

Unrelated business income tax: estimated tax payments (H.R. 6388), 30312 [5OC]

Urban development action grant program: job programs, 24161 [10AU]

Washington County, OR: local new-growth electronics industries, 29649 [3OC]

Weirton Steel: employee-owned company, 480 [26JA]

———tribute, 8276 [5AP]

White House: ethical embarrassments, 7547 [3AP]

White House Conference on Small Business Authorization Act: enact (H.R. 5298), 8316 [12AP]

Women: promote equal rights, 9613 [12AP]

World Trade Week: observance, 13989 [23MY]

Youth Incentive Employment Act: enact (H.R. 5017), 4847-4849 [7MR]

Remarks in Senate

Abernathy, William J.: tribute, 500 [26JA]

Agricultural embargoes: economic impact, 240 [24JA]

Aliens: proposed FBI employment discrimination enforcement unit, 27754 [28SE]

Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp.: corporate success, 4206 [1MR]

American Can Co.: tribute, 14137 [24MY]

American Commercial Lines: relating to acquisition by CSX Corp. (S. Con. Res. 148), 29177 [3OC]

Andres, William A.: named Executive of the Year, 2929 [22FE]

Ansin, Ron: tribute, 4194 [1MR]

Antiboycott enforcement: Dept. of Commerce jurisdiction, 3392, 3393 [27FE]

———judicial review for civil violations, 3395-3397 [27FE]

Antitrust policy: vertical price fixing agreements, 7005 [29MR]

Asbestos-related diseases: compensation system, 9356-9357 [12AP]

Auto industry: impact of imports, 416 [25JA], 968 [31JA], 3799 [29FE], 6452 [22MR], 10630 [2MY], 12372-12381 [16MY], 12631 [17MY], 12900 [18MY], 18701 [26JN], 19694 [28JN]

Automated Manufacturing Conference and Exhibition: commend efforts of South Carolina as sponsor, 2727 [21FE]

Automobiles: limit business tax deductions (S. 2231), 882 [30JA]

———limit business tax deductions (S. 2232), 883 [30JA]

Avon Products, Inc.: opening of office complex in Rye, NY, 20487 [23JY]

Bank mergers: application of title X of S. 2851, Financial Services Competitive Equity Act, 24701, 24705 [10SE], 24740 [11SE]

Banking Convenience Act: introduction (S. 2898), 21804-21807 [1AU]

Bankruptcy Act: continue transition provisions (S. 2776), 17159 [19JN]

Banks and banking: codify rulings and interpretations of the Comptroller General with respect to shared automated teller machines, 21804-21807 [1AU]

Barth, William: Accountant Advocate of the Year award recipient, 11506 [9MY]

Berry, Allen D., Jr.: tribute, 2546 [9FE], 7511 [3AP], 18600 [25JN]

Beverage containers: tax treatment of refundable deposits (S. 2691), 12934 [18MY]

Bing, Dave: selected SBA Minority Small Business Person of the Year, 28439 [2OC]

Budget deficit: implement Grace Commission recommendations, 12138 [15MY]

Bullock, William C.: tribute, 11785 [10MY]

Business profits: use to improve services, 2939 [22FE]

Canada: agricultural exports, 6383 [22MR], 26246 [20SE]

———tax treatment of advertising (S. 2386), 4290 [2MR]

Capital gains: relief for certain insolvent taxpayers (S. 3095), 32034 [11OC]

Caribbean Basin Promotion Center: achievements, 31276 [10OC]

CCC: provisions governing storage of agricultural commodities (S. 2453), 5935 [20MR]

Chipper knife steel: duty (S. 2288), 2491 [9FE]

Civilian Agency Multiyear Contracting Act: enact (S. 2300), 13521-13523 [23MY]

———introduction (S. 2300), 2504 [9FE]

Civilian procurement: allow multiyear contracts, 2504 [9FE]

Collier, June M.: tribute, 12631 [17MY]

Commercial space activities: tax and customs treatment (S. 3013), 26491 [21SE]

Commercial Space Launch Act: introduction (S. 2931), 23326 [9AU]

Comprehensive Trade Law Reform Act: enact (S. 2139), 1801 [3FE]

Computers: copyright protection of software industry in rental or leasing of programs for commercial purposes (S. 3074), 30580 [5OC], 32082 [11OC]

Connecticut: conference on promotion of employment for disabled, 9671 [24AP]

Conservation Service Reform Act: introduction (S. 2872), 21182 [26JY]

Consumer products: encourage use and improvement of energy efficient appliances (S. 2631), 10884 [3MY]

Contract poultry growers: promote prompt payments from processors (S. 2997), 25617 [17SE]

Cooper, Irby: tribute, 21816 [1AU]

Copper: disapprove Presidential action with respect to trade relief (S. Con. Res. 143), 25622 [17SE]

———duty, 3155 [23FE]

———establish certain import quotas (S. 2696), 13258 [22MY]

———impact of imports, 17195 [19JN]

———impose import quotas on certain articles (S. 2999), 25619 [17SE]

———U.S. import quotas, 21771 [1AU], 22337 [3AU], 24959 [12SE], 25385 [13SE], 25728-25730 [18SE], 26016-26018 [19SE]

Copper Environmental Equalization Act: introduction (S. 2340), 3155 [23FE]

Corp. for Small Business Investment: establish (S. 2686), 12723 [17MY], 13303 [22MY]

Corporate Distribution Tax Reform Act: introduction (S. 2447), 5884-5887 [20MR]

Corporate executives: impose excise tax on certain benefits, 2910 [22FE]

CPSC: recognition day ceremony, 16666 [15JN]

Credit cards: extension of surcharge prohibition, 8656 [11AP]

———extension of surcharge prohibition (S. 2335), 3655 [28FE]

———permanent ban on surcharges (S. 2673), 12175 [15MY]

———treatment of sales transactions (S. 2336), 3150, 3192 [23FE], 3643-3654 [28FE], 9226-9232 [12AP]

———treatment of sales transactions (S. 2336), pass H.R. 4278 in lieu, 3654 [28FE]

———treatment of sales transactions (S. 2336), unanimous-consent agreement, 3643 [28FE]

Crime insurance program: extend (S. 2563), 8768 [11AP]

Customs Service: interpretation of regulation relating to gray market goods, 29241 [3OC]

Dart, Justin: tribute, 2948 [22FE]

Defense contracts: target high unemployment areas, 17165 [19JN]

Defense industrial base: FEMA information, 28284 [2OC]

Deficit Reduction Tax Act: enact (H.R. 2163), 8364-8421 [9AP], 8544-8580 [10AP], 8673-8729 [11AP], 9087-9169, 9170-9226, 9232-9239 [12AP], 9681-9695 [24AP], 9826-9833 [25AP], 10051, 10052 [26AP], 11214 [8MY], 15356 [7JN]

———enact (H.R. 2163), cloture motion procedure, 8353 [9AP]

———enact (H.R. 2163), debate procedure, 9639-9642 [24AP]

———insurance provisions (H.R. 2163), 8404-8409 [9AP], 8548-8553, 8557-8559 [10AP]

Depository institution holding companies: authorize certain securities activities (S. 2851), 22339 [3AU], 22550-22554 [7AU], 24238-24249 [5SE], 24367-24385, 24404-24405 [6SE], 24701, 24705 [10SE], 24744-24765 [11SE], 24960-24970, 24979-25003 [12SE], 25282, 25292-25358 [13SE], 25659-25661 [17SE], 29913, 29914 [4OC]

———authorize certain securities activities (S. 2851), authorizing printing, 23814 [10AU]

———authorize certain securities activities (S. 2851), cloture motion, 24386 [6SE], 24765 [11SE], 25284 [13SE]

———authorize certain securities activities (S. 2851), debate procedure, 24189 [5SE], 25276 [13SE]

———authorize certain securities activities (S. 2851), proceed to consideration, 24706-24716 [10SE], 24740-24744 [11SE]

———authorize certain securities activities (S. 2851), proceed to consideration—cloture motion, 24715 [10SE]

———authorize certain securities activities (S. 2851), proceed to consideration—unanimous-consent agreement, 24716 [10SE]

Dept. of Defense: establish an Office of the Competition Advocate General, 22584 [7AU]

Dept. of Justice: impact of antitrust policies on steel industry, 4884 [8MR]

Diesel-electric locomotives: extend energy conservation investment tax credit (S. 3057), 29164 [3OC]

Domestic petroleum companies: prevent acquisitions (S. 2277), 2266 [8FE]

Drug industry: facilitate export of new products not yet approved for domestic market (S. 2878), 21196, 21227 [26JY]

Economy: recovery, 4876 [8MR]

Employee stock ownership plans: regulations governing holdings (S. 2306), 2520 [9FE]

Enterprise Zone Act: enact (S. 2914), 22691, 22699-22701, 22825 [8AU], 23315 [9AU]

Enterprise zones: administration policy, 11322 [8MY]

———State initiatives, 21825 [1AU]

Equal Access to Justice Act: reauthorize (H.R. 5479), 29276-29282 [3OC]

———reauthorize (H.R. 5479), House amendments, 31976 [11OC]

———reauthorize (S. 919), indefinitely postponed, 29282 [3OC]

Executive departments: minority participation in procurement contracts, 9359 [12AP]

———prompt payment of bills, 2948 [22FE], 15862 [12JN]

Eximbank: survey of performance, 23363 [9AU]

Export Administration Act: amend (H.R. 4956), 3717 [29FE]

———amend (S. 979), 1560 [2FE], 3139 [23FE], 3380-3422 [27FE], 3605, 3616-3643 [28FE], 3728-3797 [29FE], 4056-4152 [1MR], 9358 [12AP], 28833 [3OC]

———amend (S. 979), appointment of conferees, 5173 [12MR], 6869 [28MR]

———amend (S. 979), House amendments, 5163 [12MR]

———extension of authorities (S. 2478), 10384 [30AP]

Export licenses: delegation of authority, 4136 [1MR]

Export trade contracts: sanctity, 4119-4131 [1MR]

Exports: expansion of U.S. market, 4263 [2MR]

———issue of contract sancity, 10384 [30AP]

———private sector initiatives to increase, 4602-4604 [6MR]

———strengthen controls (S. 2342), 3170 [23FE]

Fair and Simple Tax Act: introduction (S. 2600), 10127 [26AP]

———introduction (S. 2600; H.R. 5533), 16890 [18JN]

Fair Practices in Automotive Products Act: enact (S. 707), 8605 [10AP], 9671 [24AP], 12372-12381 [16MY]

Fair Trade in Steel Act: enact (S. 2380), 4165-4173 [1MR], 8017 [5AP], 15271 [7JN], 15280 [7JN], 15795 [12JN], 16675 [15JN], 19693 [28JN], 20162 [29JN], 1823 [1AU], 25705 [18SE]

Federal crime insurance: extend program, 26627 [24SE]

Federal Home Loan Bank Board: regulation on retroactive mutual-to-stock conversion, 30635 [5OC]

Federal Prison Industries: formation of business advisory council, 26294 [20SE]

Federalist Papers (No. 22): Alexander Hamilton (excerpt on interstate commerce), 25660 [17SE]

Ferroalloy industry: impact of imports, 11504 [9MY]

Financial institutions: make commercial banks eligible for capital assistance, 25282-25287 [13SE]

Financial Services Competitive Equity Act (S. 2851): authorizing printing, 23814 [10AU]

Flat rate tax: reform proposals, 14937 [5JN]

Food stamps: tax credit for hiring recipients (S. 2431), 5740 [15MR]

Foreign entity leasing: tax status, 8698-8699 [11AP]

Foreign trade: establish commission to resolve U.S.-Canadian disputes, 675 [27JA]

———U.S. policy, 5469 [14MR]

Foreign-earned income: tax status, 8605 [10AP], 8673-8674 [11AP]

Fresh water: prohibit exportation (S. 2239), 1037 [31JA]

General Dynamics Corp.: Dept. of Defense award recipient, 12467 [16MY]

Golden parachute payments: tax treatment (S. 2323), 2910 [22FE]

Government: amend procurement regulations (S. 2434), 5745 [15MR]

———purchase of goods and services from private sector (S. 1746), 225 [24JA]

Government borrowing: effects on private sector investments, 30774 [9OC]

Government contracts: bidding procedures, 10331, 10336-10338 [30AP]

———limit employment of certain former Federal employees (S. 2830), 19664, 19665 [28JN]

Griswold, Stephen L.: tribute, 4196 [1MR]

Gulf States Paper Corp.: anniversary, 12741, 12742 [17MY]

Hammond, Robert: named Idaho Businessman of the Year, 2726 [21FE]

Heiner, Lawrence E.: Business Leader of the Year award recipient, 9909 [25AP]

Howard, William R.: tribute, 21826 [1AU]

ICC: number of Commissioners, 29016 [3OC]

Imports: impact of auto domestic content provisions, 968 [31JA], 2837, 2859 [22FE], 12372-12381 [16MY], 14153 [24MY]

Imputed interest rates: effects on construction industry, 30777 [9OC]

Industrial development bonds: expansion of use, 7448 [3AP]

———repeal tax cap (S. 2893), 21622 [31JY]

Industrial policy: issues, 13295 [22MY]

Infant Formula Action Coalition: efforts to gain manufacturer compliance to infant formula code, 699 [27JA]

Insider Trading Sanctions Act: enact (S. 910), 20105-20109 [29JN]

———enact (S. 910), H.R. 559 passed in lieu, 20109 [29JN]

Intellectual Property and Fair Trade Act: enact (S. 2549), 19698 [28JN]

———introduction (S. 2549), 8587 [10AP]

Intellectual property rights: protection, 25611 [17SE]

International Executive Service Corps: tribute, 27952 [1OC]

International trade: U.S. policy, 185 [24JA]

Iron and steel: U.S. import quotas, 22823 [8AU]

ITC: clarify scope of certain determinations (S. 2845), 20129-20130 [29JN], 20473 [23JY], 25593-25600 [17SE], 25724-25727 [18SE], 26023-26024 [19SE], 26227 [20SE]

Japan: agricultural imports, 2837, 2844-2852 [22FE], 3468 [27FE], 3719 [29FE], 9241 [12AP]

Jobs tax credit: extend period for notification of hiring of eligible workers (S. 2450), 5933 [20MR]

Kendricks, James L.: tribute, 27164 [26SE]

Keycom Electronic Publishing: videotex service, 8659 [11AP]

Labor Productivity Assistance Act: introduction (S. 2530), 7729 [4AP]

Labor unions: incidents of violence, 15865 [12JN]

Lumber industry: impact of Federal policies, 12946-12950 [18MY]

Machine tool industry: impact of imports, 26249-26251 [20SE]

Magnetron tubes: duty (H.R. 3398), 3178 [23FE]

Major League Baseball Community Protection Act: enact (S. 2050), 904 [30JA]

Malt beverage products: territorial licenses provisions, 28294-28296 [2OC]

Management Week in America: designate (S.J. Res. 276), 9307 [12AP]

Manufacturing industries: impact of foreign country relocations, 12631 [17MY]

Manufacturing Sciences and Technology Research and Development Act: enact (S. 1286), 15570 [8JN]

McCormick Co.: tribute, 10488 [1MY]

Merck & Co., Inc.: award recipient, 1303 [1FE]

Mexico: U.S. trade policy, 12738 [17MY]

Minority Enterprise Development Week: observance, 30632 [5OC], 31991 [11OC]

Minority Telecommunications Ownership Tax Act: enact (S. 2987), 25016 [12SE]

Multiemployer Pension Plan—Termination Insurance Reform Act: introduction (S. 2329), 2920 [22FE]

Multilateral trade agreements: relating to negotiations (S. Res. 463), 28407 [2OC]

National Advisory Council on Small Business: annual meeting, 5943 [20MR]

National Commission on Women's Small Business Ownership: establish (S. 2848), 20130 [29JN]

National Employ the Older Worker Week: observance, 5151 [12MR]

National Fisheries Marketing Council: establish, 10179 [26AP]

National High-Tech Week: designate (S.J. Res. 316), 17185 [19JN], 23775 [10AU]

National Hosiery Week: observance, 21823 [1AU]

National Neighborhood Housing Services Week: designate (S.J. Res. 313), 16671 [15JN]

National Productivity and Innovation Act: enact (S. 1841), 20159 [29JN], 21601 [31JY], 22873 [8AU], 23643 [10AU]

———enact (S. 1841), conference report, 26938-26942 [26SE]

———enact (S. 1841), time-limitation agreement, 21601 [31JY]

National Productivity Improvement Week: designate (S.J. Res. 354), 26038 [19SE], 28927 [3OC]

National Quality Month (S.J. Res. 304), 15046 [6JN], 25665 [17SE]

National Small Business Week in Michigan: observance, 10180 [26AP]

National television networks: limit foreign ownership (S. 2282), 2481 [9FE]

National Tourism Week: designate (S.J. Res. 335), 20895, 20901 [25JY], 23777 [10AU]

———observance, 14109, 14135, 14150, 14153 [24MY]

Nourse, Bill: tribute to small business activist, 14958 [5JN]

Office of the Competition Advocate General: establish, 15587-15590 [8JN]

Panic of 1984, 16029 [13JN]

Patent Cooperation Treaty: amend law implementing (S. 3085), 31247 [10OC]

Patents: uniform policy and procedure relative to inventions developed with Federal assistance (provisions of S. 2171 added to H.R. 6163), 31286 [10OC]

Peccei, Aurelio: tribute, 6181 [21MR]

Pension Plan Reversion Moratorium Act: enact (S. 2435), referred, 5951 [20MR]

———introduction (S. 2435), 5746-5748 [15MR]

Pensions: modify regulations governing multiemployer plans, 2920 [22FE]

Perishable agricultural commodities: impose a trust on commodities and sales proceeds (H.R. 3867), 9360 [12AP], 11782-11783 [10MY]

Phillips County, AR: industrial development efforts, 5480 [14MR]

Plywood: duty (S. 2983), 24775 [11SE]

Potash industry: predatory trade practices, 7005 [29MR]

Powell, William A.: tribute, 12744 [17MY]

Power resources: repeal commercial and apartment conservation service (H.R. 5946), 30685, 30690 [5OC]

Pratt & Whitney Aircraft: commercial airliner engine contract, 4205 [1MR]

Preston Trucking Co.: tribute, 10487 [1MY]

Price fixing: equity in settlement of claims (S. 3060), 29166 [3OC]

Product liability: adopt uniform standards, 1804 [3FE], 2564 [9FE], 9074-9076 [12AP], 10817 [3MY], 19209 [27JN]

Product Liability Act: enact (S. 44), 9074-9076 [12AP], 19209 [27JN], 19713 [28JN], 20028 [29JN], 22656 [7AU], 22863 [8AU], 26693 [25SE], 29247 [3OC]

Prompt Payment Act: implementation, 22491 [6AU]

Public Participation in Procurement Policymaking Act: introduction (S. 2675), 12440 [16MY]

Puerto Rico: clarify definition of certain products for tax purposes (S. 2246), 1324 [1FE]

Rail carriers: insure competition (S. 2417), 5341 [13MR]

Real estate: imputed interest rates on sale or exchange of certain real property (S. 3032), 27504 [27SE]

Reciprocal Tariff Reduction Acceleration Act: introduction (S. 2680), 12719 [17MY]

Research: grants for university/business partnership programs (S. 3082), 31244 [10OC]

Richards, Roy: named Copper Man of the Year, 2738 [21FE]

Richmond, VA: groundbreaking for 6th Street Festival Marketplace, 10907 [3MY]

Sampson, Bernard J., and Harold: tribute, 15558 [8JN]

SBA: improve guaranteed loan program (S. 2375), 3819-3821 [29FE], 4193 [1MR], 11315 [8MY], 17897-17900 [21JN], 21208 [26JY]

———increase ceiling on combined loans for business and development companies (S. 2069), 14192-14194 [24MY]

———increase funding levels for minority and handicapped programs, 25667 [17SE]

———loan program success, 5461 [14MR]

———pollution control bond program, 25669 [17SE], 29053 [3OC]

Securities: minimum holding requirement for directors of certain corporations (S. 2797), 19378 [27JN]

Securities Exchange Act: amend (S. 2448), 5884-5887 [20MR]

Self-employed taxpayers: tax treatment of health insurance premiums (S. 2353), 12742 [17MY]

SELF-Tax Plan Act: enact (S. 1040), 15859-15862 [12JN]

Service Corps of Retired Executives: anniversary, 25068 [12SE], 25386 [13SE], 27172 [26SE], 27591 [27SE]

Service industries: regulatory restrictions in foreign countries, 31279 [10OC]

Shoe industry: impact of imports, 900 [30JA], 11972 [11MY], 12194 [15MY], 13470-13475 [23MY], 15006, 15073 [6JN], 23634 [10AU], 25594-25600 [17SE]

———import relief, 20473 [23JY]

Small business: contract opportunities with executive departments, 22577 [7AU]

———national issues conference recommendations, 30893 [9OC]

———priority issues, 16676 [15JN]

Small Business Act: amend (H.R. 6013), 25667-25680 [17SE]

———amend (H.R. 6013), held at desk, 21643 [31JY]

———amend (S. 1323), appointment of conferees, 11755 [10MY]

———amend (S. 1323), House amendments, 11749, 11755 [10MY]

Small Business and Federal Procurement Competition Enhancement Act: enact (H.R. 4209), appointment of conferees, 22952 [8AU]

———enact (S. 2489), 22566, 22572-22590 [7AU], 23357 [9AU]

———enact (S. 2489), H.R. 4209 passed in lieu, 22615 [7AU]

———enact (S. 2489), indefinitely postponed, 22622 [7AU]

———enact (S. 2489), unanimous-consent agreement, 22527 [6AU], 22590 [7AU]

Small Business Competition Enhancement Act: enact (S. 2489), referral, 12006 [11MY], 15628 [11JN]

———introduction (S. 2489), 7077-7083 [29MR]

Small Business Development Center Improvement Act: enact (S. 1429), appointment of conferees, 13519 [23MY]

———enact (S. 1429), conference report, 22528-22531 [6AU]

Small business innovation research program: success of R. & D. efforts, 238 [24JA]

Small Business Investment Act: amend (H.R. 6013), 25667-25680 [17SE]

Small Business Person of the Year: David P. Ransburg, Illinois, 11220 [8MY]

———Frederic D. Starrett, Jr., Maine, 11547 [9MY]

———Harry E. Dugan, West Virginia, 11223 [8MY]

———Jean Belhumer, Connecticut, 11992 [11MY]

———John M. Walsh, Tennessee, 11302 [8MY]

———Joseph Starita, New Jersey, 18560 [25JN]

———Michael Pierce, Arkansas, 12195 [15MY]

———Ron Oshiro, Hawaii, 17192 [19JN]

———Tom and Lucille Moore, Hawaii, 17194 [19JN]

———William B. Anderson, Rhode Island, 11790 [10MY]

Small Business Week: observance, 11505 [9MY]

South Africa: U.S. trade policy, 3733 [29FE], 4137 [1MR]

Spare parts: procurement policies, 17080 [19JN], 22572-22590 [7AU], 22706 [8AU]

Steel: economic outlook, 21209 [26JY]

———impact of U.S. import quotas on iron ore, 10714 [2MY], 29225 [3OC]

———policies of President Reagan on trade relief, 26053 [19SE]

———response to President Reagan's fair trade program, 25809 [18SE]

———U.S. import quotas, 3797 [29FE], 10484 [1MY], 15271, 15280 [7JN], 15602, 15621 [11JN], 15795 [12JN], 16027 [13JN], 17873 [21JN], 18695 [26JN], 19693 [28JN], 20618 [24JY], 20919 [25JY], 21550 [30JY], 22658 [7AU], 23360 [9AU], 25704-25706 [18SE], 27400, 27401, 27589 [27SE]

Steel Import Stabilization Act: enact (H.R. 6301), 27401 [27SE]

Steel tubes: tariff classification, 5453 [14MR]

Stocks: application of certain restrictions on transfer to employees, 31900 [11OC]

———sales of restricted, 9176, 9235 [12AP]

Sugar industry: impact of import quotas on Latin American economy, 18560 [25JN]

———support program, 18560 [25JN]

Tax reform: proposals, 17869 [21JN]

Tax Reform Act: explanation of provisions affecting the container equipment leasing industry, 28977 [3OC]

Taxation: business development companies (S. 1380), 31930 [11OC]

———economic impact of rate reduction, 16029 [13JN]

———elective consumed income tax system (S. 3090), 32028 [11OC]

———foreign taxes on U.S. technical services (S. 1550), 30649 [5OC]

———incentive stock options (S. 3089), 32027 [11OC]

———repeal certain reporting requirements (S. 2219), 592 [26JA], 1667 [2FE]

Technology: grants for university/business partnership in research (S. 3082), 31244 [10OC]

———industrial transition, 3674 [28FE], 4884 [8MR], 16456 [14JN]

Telecommunications: minority ownership investment credits (S. 2987), 25016 [12SE]

Telecommunications Trade Act: introduction (S. 2618), 10470-10476 [1MY]

Telephones: FCC access charge, 10720 [2MY]

Textile industry: impact of imports, 15602 [11JN], 21382 [27JY], 21751, 21752 [1AU], 25757 [18SE], 26242-26245 [20SE]

———relating to import quotas (S. Res. 466), 29178 [3OC]

Tourism industry: employment opportunities, 20895 [25JY]

———importance to economy, 10717 [2MY]

———international marketing plan, 3836 [29FE]

Trade and Employment in Iron and Steel Industry: Lynn Williams, for the United Steel Workers of America, 20919 [25JY]

Trade barriers: impact, 21217, 21218 [26JY]

Trade contracts: sanctity, 4133-4135 [1MR]

Trademarks: clarify circumstances for abandonment (S. 1990), 28959-28974 [3OC]

U.S. Business & Industrial Council: declaration of policy, 23373 [9AU]

U.S. Trade Representative: authority to respond to export performance requirements, 26227 [20SE]

U.S. Travel and Tourism Administration: funding, 19639 [28JN]

Underwriters Laboratories, Inc.: anniversary tribute, 11220 [8MY]

Unemployment insurance system: prevent increase in State tax rate paid by small businesses (S. 2988), 25017 [12SE]

Waller, John E.: tribute, 1670 [2FE]

Wang, An: tribute, 12945 [18MY]

Weirton Steel Co.,: employee stock ownership plan success, 9245 [12AP]

Wilson, Kemmons: tribute, 20622 [24JY]

Worker's Freedom of Choice Act: introduction (S. 2533), 8084 [5AP]

Workers' rights: investigation of violations, 12900 [18MY]

Youth: employment opportunities, 10912 [3MY]

Youth Incentive Employment Act: introduction (S. 2397), 4903 [8MR]

Reports

Accounting Profession—Perceptions of a Profession: Opinion Research Corp., 19006-19008 [26JN]

Acid Rain: Reider von Paar (excerpts), 22288 [2AU]

Amend Energy Policy and Conservation Act To Facilitate Commerce by the Domestic Renewable Energy Industry and Related Industries: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (H.R. 3169) (S. Rept. 98-508), 15532 [8JN]

Bankruptcy Act: Committee on Rules (H. Res. 490) (H. Rept. 98-698), 9982 [25AP]

Bankruptcy Law Relative to Rejection of Collective Bargaining Agreements: Committee on Rules (H. Rept. 98-626), 6013 [20MR]

Business Records Located in Foreign Countries Admissibility as Evidence: Committee on the Judiciary (H.R. 5919) (H. Rept. 98-907), 21056 [25JY]

Caribbean Basin Region Economic Revitalization Amendments: Committee on Rules (H.R. 2769; H. Res. 543) (H. Rept. 98-879), 19983 [28JN]

Commercialization of Expendable Launch Vehicles and Associated Services: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (H.R. 3942) (S. Rept. 98-646), 29151 [3OC]

———Committee on Science and Technology (H.R. 3942) (H. Rept. 98-816), 14688 [31MY]

Competition in Government Procurement: Committee on Small Business (S. 2489) (S. Rept. 98-523), 16559 [14JN]

Congressional Budget Act Waiver Regarding National Fisheries Marketing Council Establishment: Committee on the Budget (S. 2160; S. Res. 427) (S. Rept. 98-589), 23323 [9AU]

CPSC Authority Relative to Amusement Devices: Committee on Energy and Commerce (H.R. 5790) (H. Rept. 98-1072), 26901 [25SE]

Defense Contracting Policies: GAO (excerpt), 19665 [28JN]

Defense-Oriented Industrial Base: Committee on Armed Services (1980 excerpt), 28285 [2OC]

Depository Institution Holding Companies Authority To Engage in Certain Securities Activities: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (S. 2851) (S. Rept. 98-560), 20479 [23JY]

Domestic Content Legislation: CBO (excerpt), 12378 [16MY]

———Iowa Corn Growers Association, 969 [31JA]

Enhance Competition in Government Procurement (S. 2489): Committee on Armed Services, 15613 [11JN]

Exempt Restaurant Central Kitchen From Federal Inspection Requirements: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (S. 2256) (S. Rept. 98-610), 25773 [18SE]

Financial Bribery and Fraud: Committee on the Judiciary (H.R. 5872) (H. Rept. 98-901), 20702 [24JY]

Firearm Owner's Rights Protection: Committee on the Judiciary (S. 914) (S. Rept. 98-583), 22829 [8AU]

Foreign Taxation of Fees Paid to U.S. Firms for U.S. Services, 30649-30654 [5OC]

Foreign Trade Policy: Republican Senate Conference (excerpt), 12374 [16MY]

Grants for Study of Foreign Languages (H. Res. 440), 2791 [21FE]

Guaranteed Loan Program: SBA (excerpt), 3819, 3821 [29FE]

Honey Producer's National Promotion Program To Expand Markets: Committee on Agriculture (H.R. 5358) (H. Rept. 98-892), 20549 [23JY]

Improve Remedies for Producers Against Unfair Import Competition: Committee on Ways and Means (H.R. 4784) (H. Rept. 98-725), 10570 [1MY]

Improve U.S. Industrial Competitiveness: Committee on Energy and Commerce (H.R. 4360) (H. Rept. 98-697), 15194 [6JN]

Improvement of Small Business Development Center Program: Committee on Small Business (H.R. 5334) (H. Rept. 98-739), 11910 [10MY]

Interest Penalty Payments Under the Prompt Payment Act: OMB, 2948 [22FE]

International Labor Rights: Independent Commission on International Development Issues (excerpt), 23080 [9AU]

International Tourism Marketing Plan: National Governor's Association, 3836-3841 [29FE]

Joint Research and Development Act (H.R. 5041)—Attorney's Fees, 21606 [31JY]

Labor Standards Enforcement in Foreign Countries: Committee on Foreign Affairs (excerpt), 3735 [29FE]

Legal Services for Employees: Committee on Ways and Means (H.R. 5361) (H. Rept. 98-1050), 26589 [24SE]

Major Small Business Issues—98th Congress, 2d Session, 4548-4550 [5MR]

Maritime Program Improvements for Dept. of Transportation and Dept. of Commerce: Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (H.R. 5833) (H. Rept. 98-888), 20549 [23JY]

National Commission on Women's Business Ownership: Committee on Small Business (H.R. 3832) (H. Rept. 98-750), 12321 [15MY]

National Fisheries Marketing Council Establishment: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (S. 2160) (S. Rept. 98-577), 22512 [6AU]

National Policy Regarding Cable Television: Committee on Energy and Commerce (H.R. 4103) (H. Rept. 98-934), 21979 [1AU]

National Productivity and Innovation Act (S. 1841)—Additional Views, 21607 [31JY]

National Safety in the Workplace Week: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 258), 10878 [3MY]

National Tourism Week—May 27-June 2, 1984—Wrap-Up: Dept. of Commerce, 20897 [25JY]

Natural Gas Policy Act Amendment Providing Consumer Price Relief and Improving Natural Gas Industry Markets: Committee on Energy and Commerce (H.R. 4277) (H. Rept. 98-814), 14688 [31MY]

Plant Closings and Relocations: Charles Craypo, 11453 [8MY]

Policy Meeting on Setting U.S.-European Priorities in International Economic Policy: Fowler-McCracken Commission, 13304-13305 [22MY]

Price Differences With Respect to Credit Card Sales Transactions (S. 2336), 3148 [23FE]

Promote Trade and Development: committee of conference (S. 1841) (S. Rept. 98-1044), 26513-26519 [21SE], 26589 [24SE]

———Committee on Small Business (S. 2489), 11979 [11MY]

Protect Purchasers of Used Automobiles From Fraudulent Odometer Modifications: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (S. 1407) (S. Rept. 98-504), 15039 [6JN]

Reforms Available to U.S. Producers Regarding Unfair Import Competition: Committee on Rules (H. Res. 504) (H.R. 4784) (H. Rept. 98-791), 12839 [17MY]

Regulation of Interstate Commerce by Providing for a Uniform Product Liability Law: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (S. 44) (S. Rept. 98-476), 13525 [23MY]

Restrict Sales of Alcoholic Beverages in Interstate Commerce: Committee on Rules (H.R. 3870; H. Res. 516) (S. Rept. 98-824), 15194 [6JN]

Revival of Economic Nationalism: William R. Hawkins, 5469-5472 [14MR]

SBA Guaranteed Loan Program: GAO (excerpt), 3819, 3821 [29FE]

———Committee on Small Business (H.R. 4773) (H. Rept. 98-853), 17728 [21JN]

SBA Pollution Control Bond Program: Library of Congress, 25670-25680 [17SE]

Selected Independent Regulatory Agencies: Advisory Council on Executive Organizations (excerpt), 29279 [3OC]

Service Industries Development Program: Committee on Rules (H.R. 2848; H. Res. 595) (H. Rept. 98-1117), 28143 [1OC]

Small Business Act Amendment: Committee on Small Business (H.R. 6013) (H. Rept. 98-914), 21457 [27JY]

Small Business Development Centers Improvement Act: committee of conference (S. 1429), 22368 [6AU]

Small Business Export Initiatives, State, Local and Private Sector: Committee on Small Business (H. Rept. 98-1036), 25923 [18SE]

Soviet Acquisition of U.S. Technology: CIA (1982 excerpt), 5031 [8MR]

Spare Parts Procurement: Dept. of Defense (excerpt), 22574 [7AU]

Strengthen Laws Against Counterfeiting of Trademarks: Committee on the Judiciary (S. 875) (S. Rept. 98-526), 17851 [21JN]

Tax Cut of 1981: CBO, 16033 [13JN]

Tax Indexing Proposal (excerpt), 30268 [4OC]

Temporary Extension of Credit Card Surcharge Prohibition (S. 2335), 3148 [23FE]

Tenure of Key Procurement Managers in the Military Services: Committee on Armed Services, 22587 [7AU]

Trade Act Amendment Promoting Generalized System of Preferences: Committee on Rules (H.R. 6023; H. Res. 594) (H. Rept. 98-1116), 28143 [1OC]

Trademark Counterfeiting Act Amendment: Committee on the Judiciary (H.R. 6071) (H. Rept. 98-997), 24667 [10SE]

Treaty With Canada Regarding Taxes on Income and Capital: Committee on Foreign Relations (Ex. Rept. 98-22), 13082 [21MY]

Treaty With Denmark for Avoidance of Double Taxation and Evasion Regarding Taxes on Estates, Inheritances, Gifts, and Other Transfer Items: Committee on Foreign Relations (Ex. Rept. 98-26), 14112 [24MY]

———Committee on Foreign Relations (Ex. Rept. 98-23), 13082 [21MY]

Treaty With France Regarding Taxes on Income and Property: Committee on Foreign Relations (Ex. Rept. 98-24), 13082 [21MY]

Treaty With Sweden for Avoidance of Double Taxation and Evasion Regarding Taxes on Estates, Inheritance, and Gifts: Committee on Foreign Relations (Ex. Rept. 98-25), 13082 [21MY]

Trip to Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary: Arnold A. Saltzman, 17974 [21JN]

U.S. Embargoes on Agricultural Exports—Implications for the U.S. Agricultural Industry and U.S. Exports: ITC (excerpt), 241-242 [24JA]

U.S. Participation in International Jute Organization: Committee on Foreign Relations (S. 2764) (S. Rept. 98-603), 25617 [17SE]

U.S. Participation in Office International de la Vigne et du Vin: Committee on Foreign Relations (S. 2583) (S. Rept. 98-602), 25617 [17SE]

Vocational Technical Education Act Amendment: Committee on Rules (S. 2496; H.R. 4164; H. Res. 601) (H. Rept. 98-1131), 29611 [3OC]

White House Conference on Small Business: Committee on Small Business (H. Rept. 98-652), 8005 [5AP]

White Paper on U.S.-Japanese Trade—Fair Trade Policy Needed: U.S. Business and Industrial Council, 4714 [6MR]

Year of the Secretary (S.J. Res. 213), 3149 [23FE]

Reports to constituents

Pease, Donald J., 7641 [3AP]

Resolutions by organizations

Comprehensive trade law reform: National League of Cities, 1801 [3FE]

Federal procurement: National Advisory Council on Small Business, 5943 [20MR]

Japanese agricultural trade: Nebraska Livestock Feeders Association, 2847 [22FE]

Japanese trade barriers to U.S. lumber products: National Forest Products Association, 12948 [18MY]

Payment of unemployment premiums: National Advisory Council on Small Business, 5943 [20MR]

Product liability: National Association of Attorneys General, 20028 [29JN]

Reconvene White House Conference on Small Business: National Advisory Council on Small Business, 5943 [20MR]

Youth opportunity wage program: National Conference of Black Mayors, 10912 [3MY]

Reviews

State banking statutes and legislation concerned with expansion across State lines, 24762-24764 [11SE]

Statements

Accounting Profession: Thomas L. Holton (sundry excerpts), 19006 [26JN]

Adjudicatory and Rulemaking Proceedings of Regulatory Agencies: Franklin D. Roosevelt, 29278 [3OC]

Agreement on Infant Formula Controversy: Douglas A. Johnson, 938 [30JA]

———Joint Statement of INBC and Nestle Co., Inc., 938 [30JA]

———Regina Murphy, 938 [30JA]

Agricultural Trade Policy: Japanese Federation of Economic Organizations (excerpt), 2845 [22FE]

Antipoverty Programs (excerpt): President Reagan, 11491 [8MY]

Award of Expenses of Certain Agencies and Court Proceedings: Elihu Root, 29278 [3OC]

Building Support for Rebuilding America: Lawrence R. Walsh, 32600 [14NO]

Business Management Techniques: William Andres, 2656 [9FE]

Contract Sanctity Provisions of Export Administration Act: New York District Export Council, 10385 [30AP]

Corporate Mergers: Senator Gorton, 3783 [29FE]

Corporations Cannot Commit Treason: Edward Coke, 5031 [8MR]

Credit Card Surcharges: Alfred E. Kahn, 9229 [12AP]

Decline of American Industry: President Reagan (excerpt), 15602 [11JN]

Defense Contracting Policies: Dept. of Defense (excerpt), 19664 [28JN]

———New York Bar Association (excerpt), 19664 [28JN]

Depository Institution Holding Companies Securities Activities: American Bankers Association, 24990-24991 [12SE]

———Arthur F. Burns (excerpt), 25315 [13SE]

———Nelson Peach (excerpts), 25299, 25313 [13SE]

———Paul A. Volcker (excerpts), 25297, 25299, 25311, 25313 [13SE]

———Richard H. Jenrette, Securities Industry Association, 25302 [13SE]

———SEC (excerpts), 25302 [13SE]

———Senator Proxmire, 24376 [6SE]

———Walter S. Madsen (excerpt), 25320 [13SE]

———Walter Wriston (excerpts), 25295, 25299, 25303, 25312 [13SE]

———Winthrop W. Aldrich (excerpts), 25298, 25304, 25312 [13SE]

Drop in Minority Business Share of Federal Procurement Funds: Representative Mitchell, 4549 [5MR]

Economic Update of General Motors Corp.: Roger B. Smith, 2177-2179 [7FE]

Employee Stock Ownership Act (H.R. 5095) (sundry excerpts), 5089 [8MR]

Energy Security—Free Market Solution: Milton R. Copulos, 1755 [2FE]

Export Administration Act Amendments (S. 979): White House, 3382 [27FE]

Export Trade Contracts Sanctity: American Farm Bureau Federation, 4125 [1MR]

Fair Practices in Automotive Products Act (S. 707): National Grange, 12379 [16MY]

Federal Home Loan Bank Board Regulation on Retroactive Mutual-to-Stock Conversion, 30640 [5OC]

Financial Services Competitive Equity Act (S. 2851): sundry, 24708 [10SE]

Foreign Investment in South Africa: Stanley Greenberg, 4137 [1MR]

———Steve Biko, 4137 [1MR]

Harry Howard Hook & Ladder Co. No. 1, Port Chester, NY, 125th Year of Service, 14745 [31MY]

Hispanic Regional Business Conference: Raymond Rodriguez, 11051 [3MY]

Impact of Drug Export Restrictions, 21203 [26JY]

Impact of Imports on Steel Industry: Lynn Williams for the United Steelworkers, 16675 [15JN]

Impact of Imports on U.S. Footwear Industry: Senator Bumpers, 11973 [11MY]

———Wolverine World Wide, Inc., 14409 [30MY]

Impact of Steel Industry Import Relief: Senator Chafee, 23360, 23361 [9AU]

Importance of the Labor Movement in America, Representative Kaptur, 31714 [10OC]

Independent Banking Preservation Act (H.R. 5793): Independent Association of Minnesota, 15224-15226 [6JN]

Industrial Policy: John Opel, 13295 [22MY]

International Telecommunications: Dept. of Commerce, 10476 [1MY]

Interstate Commerce: Daniel Webster, 24243 [5SE]

Labor Standards Enforcement in Foreign Countries: sundry, 3737-3739 [29FE]

Louisiana World's Fair: Cliff Fuselier, 19459 [27JN]

Mamaroneck and Rye Neck Hook & Ladder Co. No. 1, NY, 125th Year of Service, 14756 [31MY]

Managing the Next Decade in the Economy: Jay W. Forrester, 15197-15199 [6JN]

National Industrial Policy: Robert Noyse, 6495 [26MR]

National Tourism Week Observance: President Reagan, 14151 [24MY]

Oil Company Mergers: J. Hugh Liedtke, chairman of Pennzoil Corp., 2266 [8FE]

———Shearson-American Express, 2266 [8FE]

Product Liability Act (S. 44): Senator Riegle, 29251-29253 [3OC]

———Senators Kennedy, Eagleton, and Metzenbaum, 29247, 29251 [3OC]

Product Liability System: Ernest Y. Sevier, for the ABA, 22866 [8AU]

———W. Page Keeton, 22863 [8AU]

Rate of Federal Spending: National Association of Manufacturers, 13375 [22MY]

Reagan Administration Policy on Competitive Procurement, 22584 [7AU]

Settlement Agreement Between OSHA and Joseph Coors Co. Regarding Noise Regulations, 21746 [31JY]

Small Business Representation on the Federal Reserve System (H.R. 2566): Representative Nowak, 638 [26JA]

Socialist Competition: Joseph Stalin, 23082 [9AU]

Steel Import Quotas: CBO (excerpt), 18696 [26JN]

Tax Cut of 1981: James Gwartney, 16037-16042 [13JN]

———Lawrence S. Pratt, 16031 [13JN]

———Richard Rahn, 16035-16037 [13JN]

———Richard Vedder and Lavell Gallaway, 16030 [13JN]

Tax Status of Foreign Entity Leasing: Dept. of the Treasury, 8698 [11AP]

Texaco-Getty Merger: FTC Commissioner Pertschuk, 22291 [2AU]

Trademark Protection: F. Thomas Dunlap, Jr., for Intel Corp., 28970 [3OC]

———Robert C. Lyne, Jr., for Reynolds Aluminum Co., 28969 [3OC]

Travel and Tourism: President Reagan, 20896 [25JY]

U.S. Exports: Nelson Denlinger (excerpt), 4603 [6MR]

———Roger Asendorf (excerpt), 4604 [6MR]

U.S. Intellectual Property Rights: Donald W. Peterson, for the International Anticounterfeiting Coalition, 8588 [10AP]

U.S. Steel Industry: Paul W. Marshall, American Iron and Steel Institute, 16028 [13JN]

Youth Opportunity Wage Program: National Conference of Black Mayors, 10912 [3MY]

Studies

America's Steel Industry—Modernizing To Compete: Library of Congress (excerpt), 21209 [26JY]

Changes in the Work Force: Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service, 1234 [1FE]

Corporate Income—Taxes in the Reagan Years: Citizens for Tax Justice, 32582-32584 [12OC]

Credit Card Surcharges: Federal Reserve Board, 9229 [12AP]

Deposit Insurance—Changing Environment: FDIC, 24381-24383 [6SE]

Effectiveness of Targeting Dept. of Defense Contracts to Distressed Areas: Congressional Research Service (excerpt), 14646 [31MY]

Import Quotas and the Automobile Industry—The Costs of Protectionism: Robert W. Crandall, 19695-19698 [28JN]

New Jobs, Business Expansions Mark State Enterprise Zone Efforts: Sabre Foundation, 23316 [9AU]

Product Liability System: Rand Corp., 22863 [8AU]

Summaries

Bank Expansion Laws and Actions, 24764 [11SE]

Commercial Space Launch Act (S. 2931), 23329 [9AU]

Comprehensive Trade Law Reform Act (H.R. 4124), 6632 [27MR]

Deficit Reduction Tax Act (H.R. 2163), 8370-8391 [9AP]

Increase Small Business Involvement in Federal Contracts (H.R. 2133), 4548 [5MR]

Intellectual Property and Fair Trade Act (S. 2549)-8589-8593 [10AP]

Jobs and Income Act (H.R. 5707), 14031 [23MY]

Multiple Sector Health Care Strategy Act, (H.R. 6383), 30247 [4OC]

Petroleum Marketing Practices Act (H.R. 3750), 14567 [30MY]

Phantom Tax Reform Act, 3305 [23FE]

Provisions Governing CCC Storage of Agricultural Commodities (S. 2453), 5936 [20MR]

Telecommunications Trade Act (S. 2618), 10475 [1MY]

Uniform Patent Policy and Procedure Relative to Inventions Developed With Federal Assistance (provisions of S. 2171 added to H.R. 6163), 31286 [10OC]

Youth Incentive Employment Act (S. 2397), 4907 [8MR]

Tables

Allocation of funds to environmental and damage rehabilitation programs on the Mississippi, 16877 [18JN]

Comparison of average earnings between slow-growth and fast-growth industries, 1234 [1FE]

Domestic content endangered export list, 2838 [22FE]

Employees on nonagricultural payrolls 1963-83, 15603 [11JN]

Foreign steel production, 15278 [7JN]

Impacts on the U.S. carbon and alloy steel industry of changes in major economic factors, 27589 [27SE]

Labor productivity in steel, major industrial nations, 15276 [7JN]

Major American companies paying zero or less in Federal income tax, 32593 [14NO]

Percentage of Americans in poverty, 11491 [8MY]

Prompt pay statutes (sundry), 15863-15864 [12JN]

SELF-Tax Plan Act (S. 1040), 15860, 15862 [12JN]

Summary of major department and agency fiscal year reports under the Prompt Payments Act, 2949 [22FE]

Ten largest corporate mergers, 7557 [3AP]

U.S. imports from Canada of pork products, 6383 [22MR]

Testimonies

Copper Import Protection: Representative McNulty, 12332 [15MY]

Estimates on Economic Recovery: Francesco Cantarrella, 3531 [27FE]

Fair Trade in Steel Act (H.R. 5081): Representative Hillis, 10578 [1MY]

Guaranteed Loan Program: SBA Administrator Sanders (excerpt), 3821 [29FE]

Need for Increased Foreign Language Skills in Business: Richard L. McElheny, 3210 [23FE]

Oil Company Merger Activity: Michael Pertschuk (excerpt), 7556 [3AP]

Targeted Jobs Tax Credit Act (H.R. 5094): Representative Ford, 9058 [11AP]

Texts of

H.R. 3750, Petroleum Marketing Practices Act, 14568 [30MY]

H.R. 4209, Small Business and Federal Procurement Competition Enhancement Act, 22615-22622 [7AU]

H.R. 4278, credit card sales transaction price differential, 3654 [28FE]

H.R. 4770, reauthorize issuance of mortgage revenue bonds, 2165 [7FE]

H.R. 4773, facilitate secondary market for SBA guaranteed loans, 2163 [7FE]

H.R. 4816, taxation of domestic corporations established in foreign countries, 2635 [9FE]

H.R. 5026, extend ban on credit card surcharges, 7521 [3AP]

H.R. 5041, Joint Research and Development Act, 10253 [26AP]

H.R. 5070, estate tax provisions regarding family farms and businesses, 5082 [8MR]

H.R. 5250, Uniform Margin Requirement Act, 6783 [27MR]

H.R. 5324, link generalized system of preferences benefits to protection of U.S. patents and copyrights, 7631 [3AP]

H.R. 5374, Corporate Community Investment and Jobs Preservation Act, 7999 [5AP]

H.R. 5430, Professional Sports Team Community Protection Act, 9037 [11AP]

H.R. 5479, Equal Access to Justice Act, 24825 [11SE], 29276 [3OC]

H.R. 5506, New Economic Recovery Act, 9973 [25AP]

H.R. 5679, Interest Rate Deregulation Act, 12863 [17MY]

H.R. 5919, admissibility in U.S. courts of business records located in foreign countries, 21494 [30JY]

H.R. 6071, Trademark Counterfeiting Act, 24656 [10SE]

H.R. 6301, Steel Import Stabilization Act, 27401 [27SE]

H.R. 6350, Corporate Criminal Liability Act, 28828 [2OC]

H.R. 6416, business and residential solar energy tax credits, 30741 [5OC]

Protection to Business Act (South African law), 3735 [29FE]

S. 910, Insider Trading Sanctions Act, 20105 [29JN]

S. 979, Export Administration Act amendments, 3140-3144 [23FE], 4141-4151 [2MR], 5163 [12MR]

S. 1286, Manufacturing Sciences and Technology Research and Development Act, 15570-15571 [8JN]

S. 1841, National Productivity and Innovation Act, 23454 [9AU]

S. 2231, limit business tax deductions on luxury automobiles, 883 [30JA]

S. 2232, limit business tax deductions on luxury automobiles, 884 [30JA]

S. 2239, prohibitions on exportation of fresh water, 1037 [31JA]

S. 2282, limitation on foreign ownership of national television networks, 2482 [9FE]

S. 2288, eliminate duty on chipper knife steel, 2491 [9FE]

S. 2300, Civilian Agency Multiyear Contracting Act, 2506 [9FE], 13521 [23MY]

S. 2306, regulations governing holdings of employee stock ownership plans, 2520 [9FE]

S. 2323, tax treatment of golden parachute payments, 2910 [22FE]

S. 2335, temporary extension of the credit card surcharge prohibition, 3872 [29FE]

S. 2336, treatment of credit card sales transactions, 3151 [23FE]

S. 2340, Copper Environmental Equalization Act, 3156 [23FE]

S. 2375, improve SBA guaranteed loan program, 3820 [29FE], 18483 [25JN], 17900 [26JN]

S. 2380, Fair Trade in Steel Act, 4167-4170 [1MR]

S. 2397, Youth Incentive Employment Act, 4904-4906 [8MR]

S. 2417, insure competition in rail carrier service, 5341 [13MR]

S. 2435, Pension Plan Reversion Moratorium Act, 5748 [15MR]

S. 2447, Corporate Distribution Tax Reform Act, 5887-5889 [20MR]

S. 2448, Securities Exchange Act amendments, 5889 [20MR]

S. 2489, Small Business and Federal Procurement Competition Enhancement Act, 7078-7080 [29MR], 22566-22572 [7AU]

S. 2530, Labor Productivity Assistance Act, 7729-7731 [4AP]

S. 2533, Worker's Freedom of Choice Act, 8085 [5AP]

S. 2549, Intellectual Property and Fair Trade Act, 8588 [10AP]

S. 2563, extend crime insurance program, 8769 [11AP]

S. 2600, Fair and Simple Tax Act, 10128-10133 [26AP]

S. 2618, Telecommunications Trade Act, 10472 [1MY]

S. 2675, Public Participation in Procurement Policymaking Act, 12441 [16MY]

S. 2680, Reciprocal Tariff Reduction Acceleration Act, 12719 [17MY]

S. 2686, establish Corp. for Small Business Investment, 12725-12729 [17MY]

S. 2691, tax treatment of refundable deposits on beverage containers, 12935 [18MY]

S. 2696, import quotas on copper (S. 2696), 13259 [22MY]

S. 2776, continuation of Bankruptcy Act transition provisions, 17159 [19JN], 17228 [20JN]

S. 2830, limit Government contracting employment of certain former Federal employees, 19665 [28JN]

S. 2851, Financial Services Competitive Equity Act, 25340-25358 [13SE]

S. 2872, Conservation Service Reform Act, 21183-21187 [26JY]

S. 2878, facilitate export of new drug products not yet approved for domestic market, 21197 [26JY]

S. 2893, repeal tax cap on industrial development bonds, 21623 [31JY]

S. 2898, Banking Convenience Act, 21805 [1AU]

S. 2914, Enterprise Zone Act, 22692-22699 [8AU]

S. 2931, Commercial Space Launch Act, 23326-23329 [9AU]

S. 2983, clarify duty on certain types of plywood, 24776 [11SE]

S. 2997, promote prompt payment to poultry growers, 25618 [17SE]

S. 2999, impose import quotas on certain copper articles, 25620 [17SE]

S. 3032, equitable imputed interest rates on sale or exchange of certain real property, 27504 [27SE]

S. 3057, extend energy conservation investment tax credit to diesel-electric locomotives, 29164 [3OC]

S. 3060, equity in settlement of price-fixing claims, 29167 [3OC]

S. 3085, amend law implementing the Patent Cooperation Treaty, 31248 [10OC]

S. 3089, tax treatment of incentive stock options, 32027 [11OC]

S. 3090, Small Business Consumed Income Tax Act, 32029 [11OC]

S. Con. Res. 143, disapprove Presidential action with respect to trade relief for copper industry, 25622 [17SE]

S. Con. Res. 148, relating to acquisition of American Commercial Lines by CSX Corp., 29177 [3OC]

S. Res. 466, relating to import quotas on textiles and apparel, 29178 [3OC]

S.J. Res. 304, National Quality Month, 15046 [6JN], 25665 [17SE]

S.J. Res. 316, National High-Tech Week, 17185 [19JN], 23775 [10AU]

S.J. Res. 335, National Tourism Week, 20896 [25JY], 23777 [10AU]

Small Business Investment Act (excerpt), 25670 [17SE]