SMALL BUSINESS see also Business

Addresses

Commemorative Envelope: Representative Mitchell, 11195 [7MY]

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

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

Veteran Advocate of the Year Award: Andrew H. Farris, 17200 [19JN]

Advertisements

Members of Congress—don't hurt homeowners, renters, farmers, and small business! National Association of Realtors, 26652 [25SE]

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

Amendments

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

Deficit Reduction Tax Act: enact (H.R. 2163), 9668-9671 [24AP]

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

Procurement opportunities: improve (H.R. 4209), 29966 [4OC]

Small Business Act: amend (H.R. 2133), 11912 [10MY]

———amend (H.R. 3020), 4703 [6MR], 5120 [12MR], 5251 [13MR], 5494, 5495, 5496, 5502, 5504, 5507, 5515 [14MR], 5601, 5603, 5608 [15MR]

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

Small Business and Federal Procurement Competition Enhancement Act: enact (H.R. 4209), 29966 [4OC]

———enact (S. 2489), 22572, 22577-22579, 22584, 22586, 22645, 22648 [7AU]

Small Business Computer Crime Prevention Act: enact (H.R. 3075), 19074 [27JN]

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

Analyses

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

Appointments

Conferee: H.R. 3020, Small Business Investment Act amendments, 5618 [15MR]

———H.R. 6013, Small Business Investment Act amendments, 27317 [26SE]

———S. 1323, Small Business Investment Act amendments, 5618 [15MR], 11755 [10MY]

———S. 1429, Small Business Development Center Improvement Act, 12046 [14MY], 13519 [23MY]

Articles and editorials

Age of Electronic Convenience Spawning Inventive Thieves, 14187 [24MY]

Anti-Competition Bill, 9754 [24AP]

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

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

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

Ethical Questions Arise From Computers Biting Into Privacy, 14191 [24MY]

Farmers and Traders, 21077 [25JY]

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

Hackers Ignore Consequences of Their High-Tech Joy Rides, 14189 [24MY]

High Tech in Florida, 3055 [22FE]

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

How Industrial Policy Works, 2610 [9FE]

Innovative Enough?, 1234 [1FE]

Kemp-Kasten Tax Law a Must, 16890 [18JN]

Let's Have Lunch, 5638 [15MR]

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

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

New Class of Criminal Sends FBI Into Computer Classes, 14188 [24MY]

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

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

Potato Skins Prove Instant Success, 12877 [17MY]

Protection for the Inner City, 26627 [24SE]

Right on the Money—Tennessee LDD Puts Loan Program to Use, 5462 [14MR]

SBA Picks Founder of Mentor, 9791 [24AP]

Security Is Often an Afterthought, 14190 [24MY]

Senator Dan Quayle—Indiana's Youngest Senator Ever Is a Staunch Ally of Small Business, 32435 [12OC]

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

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

Thank You, John Waller, 1670 [2FE]

Thieves Are Finding a Place on Cutting Edge of Technology, 14188 [24MY]

Time Has Come, 11452 [8MY]

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

Bills and resolutions

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

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

Corp. for Small Business Investment: transfer of certain SBA functions (see S. 2686; H.R. 5687)

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

Corps of Engineers: increase competition for construction contracts (see S. 2724)

Dept. of Commerce: establish trade remedy assistance office (see S. 2963)

Development center program: improvement (see H.R. 5334)

Equal Access to Justice Act: amend (see H.R. 5059)

Federal procurement: competitive bidding on spare parts (see S. 2434)

———contracts with percentage of goods and services from socially and economically disadvantaged firms (see H.R. 5767)

Fish and fisheries: disaster loans (see H.R. 4660)

Foreign trade: relief (see H.R. 6372)

———tax treatment of corporations (see H.R. 4741)

FRS: board representation (see S. Res. 349)

Government procurement: enhance competition (see S. 2489)

``Handbook for Small Businesses'': printing of revised edition (see S. Con. Res. 140)

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)

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

SBA: operation of secondary market for loans guaranteed (see S. 2375)

———secondary market for guaranteed portions (see H.R. 4773)

Service stations: protection in cases involving withdrawals of branded marketing and withdrawals due to mergers (see H.R. 5750)

Small Business Act: amend (see H.R. 6013)

———limit maximum interest rate applicable to loans (see H.R. 5769)

Spare parts: competitive bidding (see S. 2434)

Taxation (see H.R. 4633)

———elective consumed income tax system (see S. 3090; H.R. 6376)

———prohibit imputed interest rates on sale or exchange of certain real property (see S. 2822)

Unemployment tax: relief for certain States (see S. 2988)

———effect of Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act's 1985 increase (see H.R. 6112)

White House Conference on Small Business: convening (see S. 2487; H.R. 5298)

Citations

De Paul Univeristy College of Commerce Award for Outstanding Contributions to American Business: Representative Rostenkowski, 16766 [15JN]

Descriptions

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

Planning for future competition, 7080 [29MR]

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

Documents

Prompt Pay Legislation Proposal, 15865 [12JN]

Explanations

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]

Letters

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

Dept. of Defense computerized data capability regarding spare parts: Harvey S. Gordon and Mary A. Gilleece, 22577 [7AU]

———Senators Levin and Bingaman, 22577 [7AU]

Family farming: Roger Drevlow, 30764 [5OC]

Illinois Conference on Small Business: George H. Ryan, 20768 [25JY]

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

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

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]

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

Rights of the blind vendors in the Randolph-Sheppard program: National Federation of the Blind, 23172 [8AU]

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]

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

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

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

Underground storage tanks: SBA, 23516 [9AU]

Lists

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

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

National issues conference recommendations, 30893-30899 [9OC]

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

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

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

Memorials of legislature

California, 30205 [4OC]

Colorado, 15612 [11JN]

Massachusetts, 10877 [3MY]

Virginia, 11119 [7MY]

Messages

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

Motion

Small Business Act: amend (H.R. 3020), substitute S. 1323, 5613 [15MR]

Remarks in House

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

Agricultural Patent Reform Act: enact (H.R. 5529), 10260 [26AP]

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

Bankruptcy: clarify circumstances under which a collective bargaining agreement may be rejected in a chapter 11 bankruptcy case (H.R. 4908), 2989 [22FE], 3696 [28FE], 5806, 5814 [15MR], 6057 [20MR]

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

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

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

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

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, 14671 [31MY]

Dept. of Defense procurement contracts: small business opportunities, 7768 [4AP]

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

Economic recovery: contribution of small business, 7905 [5AP]

———status, 6338 [22MR]

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

———extend (S. 919), 4863 [7MR]

———reauthorize (H.R. 5479), 31406 [10OC]

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

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

Expansion loans, 5214 [13MR]

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

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

Federal assistance: need to increase, 7888 [4AP]

Federal contracts: procurement, 9754 [24AP], 11906 [10MY]

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

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

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

Handbook for Small Business: authorizing printing, 30315 [5OC]

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

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

Immigration Reform and Control Act: exempt small employers from penalties concerning employer sanctions, 15940 [12JN]

Industrial policy: small business contributions, 2610 [9FE]

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

Loans: State or local government involvement in lending process, 5212 [13MR]

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

Mergers: economic impact, 7549-7558 [3AP], 7579 [3AP]

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

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

Motion Designs, Inc.: tribute, 11026 [3MY]

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

National Federation of Independent Business: survey on economic trends, 14020 [23MY]

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

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

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

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

Nonphysical disaster loan program, 5213, 5216 [13MR]

Oil industry: economic impact of mergers, 5489 [14MR], 5639 [15MR], 6187 [21MR], 6338 [22MR], 10501 [1MY]

Peerless Instruments, Inc.: tribute, 11194 [7MY]

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

Procurement contracts, 14671 [31MY]

Procurement opportunities: improve (H.R. 4092), 83 [23JA]

———improve (H.R. 4209), 12983 [21MY], 12988 [5JN], 28626-28635 [2OC]

———improve (H.R. 4209), amending Senate amendment (H. Res. 599), 28619 [2OC]

Productivity: growth, 2401 [9FE]

Public Works and Economic Development Act: amend (H.R. 10), 11917 [10MY]

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

Real estate syndications, 4036 [1MR]

Rural areas: loans to businesses which have been impacted by payment-in-kind program, 5217 [13MR]

SBA: disaster assistance program, 5211 [13MR]

———funding, 14586 [31MY]

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

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

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

———pollution control guarantee financing programs, 5214 [13MR]

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

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

Small Business Act: amend (H.R. 2133), 5535 [14MR], 6566 [26MR], 9754 [24AP], 11906 [10MY]

———amend (H.R. 3020), 2795 [21FE], 4530 [5MR], 4825 [7MR], 5208-5219 [13MR], 5490, 5494-5518 [14MR], 5601-5618 [15MR], 5816 [15MR]

———amend (H.R. 3020), S. 1323 passed in lieu, 5618 [15MR]

———amend (H.R. 3020), technical corrections, 5618 [15MR]

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

———amend (H.R. 6347), 28168 [1OC]

———amend (S. 1323; H.R. 3020), appointment of conferees, 5618 [15MR]

Small Business and Federal Procurement Competition Enhancement Act: enact (H.R. 4209), 28626-28635 [2OC]

Small Business Competitive Procurement Act: enact (H.R. 4092), 10186 [26AP]

Small Business Computer Crime Prevention Act: enact (H.R. 3075), 19074 [27JN]

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

Small Business Development Center Improvement Act: enact (H.R. 5334), 12043 [14MY]

———enact (H.R. 5334), S. 1429 passed in lieu, 12046 [14MY]

———enact (H.R. 5334), substitute S. 1429, 12045 [15MY], 12046 [14MY]

———enact (S. 1429), conference report, 22371 [6AU], 23017 [8AU]

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, 11954, 11958, 11965, 11967 [10MY]

Small business: President Reagan's report, 5985 [20MR]

Taxation: reform, 4972 [8MR]

———reform (H.R. 6376), 30313 [5OC]

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

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

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

Trade Remedies Reform Act: enact (H.R. 4784), 21076 [25JY]

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

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

Underground storage tanks: regulation, 23514 [9AU]

Unemployment tax rate: impact of increase on small business (H.R. 6112), 28030 [1OC]

Uniform Patent Procedures Act: introduction (H.R. 4964), 3572 [28FE]

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

Vietnam veterans loan program: funds, 5215 [13MR]

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

West coast fishing industry: economic injury disaster loans (H.R. 4660), 447, 492 [26JA]

White House Conference on Small Business Authorization Act: enact (H.R. 5298), 8314 [9AP], 8316 [12AP]

Remarks in Senate

Barth, William D.: Accountant Advocate of the Year award recipient, 11506 [9MY]

———tribute, 7511 [3AP]

Bing, Dave: selected SBA Minority Small Business Person of the Year, 28439 [2OC]

Corp. for Small Business Investment: establish (S. 2686), 12723 [17MY], 13303 [22MY]

Corps of Engineers: increase competition for construction contracts (S. 2724, 14947 [5JN]

Defense contracts: target high unemployment areas, 17165 [19JN]

Dept. of Commerce: establish Trade Remedy Assistance Office (S. 2963), 23849 [10AU]

Dept. of Defense: computerized data capability regarding spare parts, 22577 [7AU]

———establish an Office of the Competition Advocate General, 22584 [7AU]

DuBois, Barbara L.: tribute, 30903 [9OC], 32056 [11OC]

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: contract opportunities, 22577 [7AU]

———minority participation in procurement contracts, 9359 [12AP]

Federal crime insurance: extend program, 26627 [24SE]

Federal Reserve Board: Board of Governors membership, 4107-4112 [1MR]

Government: amend procurement regulations (S. 2434), 5745 [15MR]

Government agencies: prompt payment of bills, 15862 [12JN]

Government contracts: bidding procedures, 10331, 10336-10338 [30AP]

``Handbook for Small Business'': authorize printing (S. Con. Res. 140), 25019 [12SE]

Illinois Conference on Small Business: tribute, 20768 [25JY]

Labor Productivity Assistance Act: introduction (S. 2530), 7729 [4AP]

Minority Enterprise Development Week: observance, 32056, 32058 [11OC]

National Advisory Council on Small Business: annual meeting, 5943 [20MR]

National Commission on Women's Small Business Ownership: establish (S. 2848), 20130 [29JN]

National issues conference: recommendations, 30893 [9OC]

National Small Business Week in Michigan: observance, 10180 [26AP]

Nourse, Bill: tribute to small business activist, 14958 [5JN]

Poitier, Brack: tribute, 32058 [11OC]

Powell, William A.: tribute, 12744 [17MY]

Priority issues, 16676 [15JN]

Procurement opportunities: improve (H.R. 4209), 29965-29979 [4OC]

Real estate: imputed interest rates on sale or exchange of certain real property, 26652 [25SE]

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]

Self-employed taxpayers: tax treatment of health insurance premiums (S. 2353), 12742 [17MY]

Service Corps of Retired Executives: anniversary, 27172 [26SE]

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), 29965-29979 [4OC]

———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, 15628 [11JN]

———introduction (S. 2489), 7077-7083 [29MR]

———introduction (S. 2489), referred to committee, 12006 [11MY]

Small Business Computer Crime Prevention Act: enact (H.R. 3075), 14184-14192 [24MY], 19687 [28JN], 20160 [29JN]

———enact (H.R. 3075), House amendments, 19344 [27JN]

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]

Spare parts: procurement policies, 17080 [19JN], 22572-22590 [7AU], 22706 [8AU]

Taxation: elective consumed income tax system (S. 3090), 32028 [11OC]

———repeal certain reporting requirements (S. 2219), 592 [26JA], 1667 [2FE]

Telephones: FCC access charge, 10720 [2MY]

Trade Remedy Assistance Office: establish, 25608 [17SE], 25724-25727 [18SE]

Travelers Insurance Companies: Small Business Development Award recipient, 8012 [5AP]

U.S. Travel and Tourism Administration: funding, 19639 [28JN]

Unemployment: prevent increase in State tax rate paid by small businesses (S. 2988), 25017 [12SE]

Unemployment tax rate: impact of increase on small business (H.R. 6112), 32129, 32130 [11OC]

———impact of increase on small business (H.R. 6112), debate procedure, 31945 [11OC]

———impact of increase on small business (H.R. 6112), unanimous-consent agreement, 32128 [11OC]

———impact of increase on small business (H.R. 6112), unanimous-consent request, 28840 [3OC]

Waller, John E.: tribute, 1670 [2FE]

White House Conference on Small Business: convene (H.R. 5298), 8730-8732 [11AP]

———convene (S. 2487), 6852-6854 [28MR], 10723 [2MY]

———convene (S. 2487), indefinitely postponed, 8743 [11AP]

Reports

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]

Conference: S. 1429, Small Business Development Center Improvement Act, 22368 [6AU]

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]

Development Loan Funds: Committee on Small Business (S. 2069) (S. Rept. 98-452), 12440 [16MY]

Establishment of Small Business Computer Crime and Security Task Force: Committee on Small Business (H.R. 3075) (S. Rept. 98-438), 11757 [10MY]

Exempt Restaurant Central Kitchen From Federal Inspection Requirements: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (S. 2256) (S. Rept. 98-610), 25773 [18SE]

Export Initiatives, State, Local and Private Sector: Committee on Small Business (H. Rept. 98-1036), 25923 [18SE]

Extension of Development Center Program: Committee of Conference on S. 1429, 22473 [6AU]

Firearm Owner's Rights Protection: Committee on the Judiciary (S. 914) (S. Rept. 98-583), 22829 [8AU]

Government Sole Source Procurements, Dept. of Defense (excerpt), 28632 [2OC]

Guaranteed Loan Program: SBA (excerpt), 3819, 3821 [29FE]

Illinois Conference on Small Business, 20769-20772 [25JY]

Improvement of Small Business Development Center Program: Committee on Small Business (H.R. 5334) (H. Rept. 98-739), 11910 [10MY]

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]

National Fisheries Marketing Council Establishment: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (S. 2160) (S. Rept. 98-577), 22512 [6AU]

Promote Trade and Development: committee of conference (S. 1841) (S. Rept. 98-1044), 26589 [24SE]

Report in Selected Independent Regulatory Agencies: Advisory Council on Executive Organizations (excerpt), 29279 [3OC]

SBA Guaranteed Loan Program: GAO (excerpt), 3819, 3821 [29FE]

SBA Pollution Control Bond Program: Library of Congress, 25670-25680 [17SE]

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 Act Amendment To Enhance Competition in Government Procurement (S. 2489): Committee on Armed Services, 15613 [11JN]

———Committee on Small Business (S. 2489), 11979 [11MY]

———Committee on Small Business (S. 2489) (S. Rept. 98-523), 16559 [14JN]

Small Business Act Amendment To Implement Creation of Market for Loans Guaranteed by SBA: Committee on Small Business (H.R. 4773) (H. Rept. 98-853), 17728 [21JN]

Small Business Act Amendment To Improve Secondary Market for Loans Guaranteed by SBA: Committee on Small Business (S. 2375), 17575 [20JN]

Small Business Act Amendments: Committee on Rules (H. Rept. 98-614), 4696 [6MR]

Soviet Acquisition of U.S. Technology: CIA (1982 excerpt), 5031 [8MR]

Spare Parts Procurement: Dept. of Defense (excerpt), 22574 [7AU]

Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act Amendment Regarding Federal Unemployment Tax Rate Increase in State Unemployment Compensation Laws: Committee on Ways and Means (H.R. 6112) (H. Rept. 98-1043), 26379 [20SE]

Tenure of Key Procurement Managers in the Military Services: Committee on Armed Services, 22587 [7AU]

White House Conference on Small Business: Committee on Small Business (H. Rept. 98-652), 8005 [5AP]

———Committee on Small Business (S. Rept. 98-380), 8425 [9AP]

Resolutions by organizations

Federal procurement: National Advisory Council on Small Business, 5943 [20MR]

Payment of unemployment premiums: National Advisory Council on Small Business, 5943 [20MR]

Reconvene White House Conference on Small Business: National Advisory Council on Small Business, 5943 [20MR]

Resumes

David P. Ransburg—Illinois Small Business Person of the Year award recipient, 11220 [8MY]

Statements

Adjudicatory and Rulemaking Proceedings of Regulatory Agencies: Franklin D. Roosevelt, 29278 [3OC]

Award of Expenses of Certain Agencies and Court Proceedings: Elihu Root, 29278 [3OC]

Corporations Cannot Commit Treason: Edward Coke, 5031 [8MR]

Discrimination: Wednesday Group (House), 19017 [27JN]

Drop in Minority Business Share of Federal Procurement Funds: Representative Mitchell, 4549 [5MR]

Federal Reserve Board of Governors Membership: sundry, 4108 [1MR]

Reagan Administration Policy on Competitive Procurement, 22584 [7AU]

Small Business Representation on the Federal Reserve System (H.R. 2566): Representative Nowak, 638 [26JA]

White House Conference on Small Business: SBA, 8730 [11AP]

Studies

Changes in the Work Force: Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service, 1234 [1FE]

Summaries

Increase Small Business Involvement in Federal Contracts (H.R. 2133), 4548 [5MR]

Small Business and Federal Procurement Competition Enhancement Act (H.R. 4209), 29972 [4OC]

Tables

Comparison of average earnings between slow-growth and fast-growth industries, 1234 [1FE]

Prompt pay statutes (sundry), 15863-15864 [12JN]

SBA program levels and authorizations, 5210 [13MR]

Testimonies

Guaranteed Loan Program: SBA Administrator Sanders (excerpt), 3821 [29FE]

Texts of

H. Res. 599, amending Senate amendment to text of H.R. 4209, Small Business and Federal Procurement Reform Competition Enhancement Act, 28620-28626 [2OC]

H.R. 3020, Small Business Act amendments, 5217 [13MR], 5613 [15MR]

H.R. 3075, Small Business Computer Crime Prevention Act, 14184 [24MY]

H.R. 4209, Small Business and Federal Procurement Competition Enhancement Act, 12983 [21MY], 22615-22622 [7AU], 32326-32330 [11OC]

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. 5070, estate tax provisions regarding family farms and businesses, 5082 [8MR]

H.R. 5298, White House Conference on Small Business Authorization Act, 8314 [9AP]

H.R. 5334, Small Business Development Center Improvement Act, 12043 [14MY]

H.R. 5374, Corporate Community Investment and Jobs Preservation Act, 7999 [5AP]

H.R. 5479, Equal Access to Justice Act, 24825 [11SE], 29276 [3OC]

H.R. 6112, impact of the effect of the 1985 increase in Federal unemployment tax rate on small business, 28030 [1OC]

S. 1429, Small Business Development Center Improvement Act, 12045 [14MY]

S. 2069, increase ceiling on SBA business and development companies combined loans, 14194 [24MY]

S. 2375, improve SBA guaranteed loan program, 3820 [29FE], 18483 [25JN], 17900 [26JN]

S. 2487, convene White House Conference on Small Business, 6853 [28MR]

S. 2489, Small Business Competition Enhancement Act, 7078-7080 [29MR], 22566-22572 [7AU]

S. 2530, Labor Productivity Assistance Act, 7729-7731 [4AP]

S. 2686, establish Corp. for Small Business Investment, 12725-12729 [17MY]

S. 2724, increase competition for Corps of Engineers construction contracts, 14947 [5JN]

S. 3090, Small Business Consumed Income Tax Act, 32029 [11OC]

S. Con. Res. 140, authorize printing of Handbook for Small Business, 30315 [5OC]

Small Business Investment Act (excerpt), 25670 [17SE]