CONABLE, BARBER B., JR. (a Representative from New York)
Amendments offered by, to
Superfund Expansion and Protection Act: enact (H.R. 5640), 23139 [8AU], 24052, 24058 [10AU]
Appointments
Conferee: H.R. 2867, Hazardous Waste Control and Enforcement Act, 24061 [10AU]
———H.R. 3398, Omnibus Tariff and Trade Act, 29471 [3OC]
———H.R. 3755, Social Security Disability Benefits Reform Act, 15692 [11JN]
———H.R. 4325, Child Support Enforcement Act amendments, 15692 [11JN]
National Commission on Agricultural Trade and Export Policy, 31364 [10OC]
Articles and editorials
Conable Conscience, New York (NY) Times, 2279
Doodling Congressman Whose Departure Is a Loss, Otis Pike, Newsday, 24934 [11SE]
Modest Proposal for Efficient Charitable Giving, Robert L. Sproull, Wall Street Journal, 1394
Mr. Conable Retires, Washington (DC) Post, 29577 [3OC]
Representative Barber Conable to Retire, Joseph F. McCaffrey, Culpeper (VA) News, 4232 [1MR]
Bills and resolutions introduced by
Budget: to consider H.J. Res. 243, amend Constitution relating to Federal procedures (see H. Res. 512), 14344 [24MY]
Federal Election Campaign Act: regulate political advertising for Federal elective offices (see H.R. 5307), 7257 [30MR]
Federal employees: limitation on retirement credits for military service (see H.R. 6116), 23610 [9AU]
Medicare: establish a program of long-term care within (see H.R. 5726), 14343 [24MY]
Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Program: eliminate the 3-percent trigger for cost-of-living increases in benefits (see H.R. 6019), 21056 [25JY]
Tariff: provide duty-free treatment of articles previously imported (see H.R. 5448), 9538 [12AP]
———provide for fast-track treatment of injurious agricultural imports (see H.R. 5449), 9538 [12AP]
———reduction in duty on brussels sprouts (see H.R. 4825), 2449 [9FE]
Taxation: changes to real estate investment trusts (see H.R. 6236), 25272 [13SE]
———dividend by corporation shall be treated as charitable contribution (see H.R. 4708), 1237 [1FE]
———provide for coverage of railroad workers under unemployment compensation system (see H.R. 6068), 22280 [2AU]
———repeal capital gains on investments in real property by foreign citizens (see H.R. 5673), 12839 [17MY]
Bills and resolutions introduced by, as cosponsor
Blacks: honoring contribution to American independence (see H.J. Res. 454), 1494 [2FE]
Charitable Organization Pension Plan Act: amend (see H.R. 4713), 1237 [1FE]
Committee on Ways and Means: funds (see H. Res. 418), 1237 [1FE]
Congressional pay adjustments: defer until March 1, following beginning of Congress (see H.R. 4203), 1138 [31JA]
Cuba: authorize creation of record of admissions for permanent residence (see H.R. 4853), 9540 [12AP]
Education: prohibit institutions receiving Federal assistance relative to sex discrimination (see H.R. 5011), 5692 [15MR]
Education amendments, Rehabilitation Act, Age Discrimination Act, and Civil Rights Act: clarify applications of certain titles (see H.R. 5490), 9539 [12AP]
11th Airborne Division Association: erect a memorial in the District of Columbia (see H.R. 3508), 3290 [23FE]
———establish memorial in District of Columbia (see H.R. 5611), 11445 [8MY]
ERISA: clarify effective date provisions retroactively applying benefit guarantees to pension plans (see H.R. 6305), 26901 [25SE]
———clarify effective date provisions retroactively applying benefits to pension plans (see H.R. 6048), 21716 [31JY]
Family Reunion Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 272), 12323 [15MY]
Federal deficit: authorize President to impound funds (see H.R. 5000), 4046 [1MR]
Federal Power Act: provide protection to electric consumers (see H.R. 4402), 3021 [22FE]
Food for Peace Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 572), 18549 [25JN]
Foreign Assistance Act: reaffirm commitment to international population and family planning assistance (see H. Con. Res. 345), 26171 [19SE]
Gender-based distinctions: amend the laws to eliminate (see H.R. 5569), 12598 [16MY]
Haiti: authorize creation of record of admissions for permanent residence (see H.R. 4853), 9540 [12AP]
High Technology Research and Scientific Education Act: enact (see H.R. 4475), 2052 [7FE]
Jewish War Veterans, U.S.A., Inc.: recognize (see H.R. 3775), 8522 [10AP]
Lebanon: U.S. policy (see H. Con. Res. 252), 1493 [2FE]
Mental Illness Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 631), 26902 [25SE]
National Adoption Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 542), 15195 [6JN]
National Adult Day Care Center Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 505), 19986 [28JN]
National Animal Health Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 526), 12599 [16MY]
National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 463), 9984 [25AP]
National Commission on Federal Budget Deficit Reductions: establish (see H.J. Res. 616), 19984 [28JN]
National Community Leadership Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 574), 22474 [6AU]
National Digestive Diseases Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 533), 12323 [15MY]
National Drug Abuse Education and Prevention Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 529), 18979 [26JN]
National Duck Stamp Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 418), 15751 [11JN]
National Education for Business Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 204), 4698 [6MR]
National Eye Donor Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 423), 317 [24JA]
National Family Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 500), 11447 [8MY]
National Hearing Impaired Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 407), 317 [24JA]
National Home Care Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 525), 6293 [21MR]
National Hospice Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 621), 23612 [9AU]
National Housing Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 606), 20334 [29JN]
National Inventors' Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 271), 1940 [6FE]
National Medical Transcriptionist Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 332), 12840 [17MY]
National Mental Health Counselors Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 415), 2452 [9FE]
National Neighborhood Housing Services Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 566), 16886 [18JN]
National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 392), 24534 [6SE]
National Quality Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 608), 21980 [1AU]
National School-Age Child Care Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 544), 15484 [7JN]
National Scuba Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 508), 24534 [6SE]
National Single Parent Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 200), 4047 [1MR]
National Social Work Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 337), 3940 [29FE]
National Week of the Ocean: designate (see H.J. Res. 478), 2355 [8FE]
Presidential primaries or caucuses: held only beginning on second Tuesday in March and ending second Tuesday in June (see H.R. 6054), 21717 [31JY]
Public debt: increase the statutory limit (see H.R. 5927, 5953), 18978 [26JN], 19984 [28JN]
———provide for a temporary increase (see H.R. 5692), 13446 [22MY]
———provide for temporary increase in the limit (see H.R. 5665), 12598 [16MY]
REA: insure continued financial integrity (see H.R. 4943), 3342 [27FE]
Small Business Act: increase participation in procurement process (see H.R. 4092), 2356 [8FE]
Smokey Bear Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 547), 21346 [26JY]
Social security: States establish, monitor, and enforce appropriate child care standards (see H.R. 6288), 26380 [20SE]
Solidarity Sunday for Soviet Jewry: sense of House (see H. Res. 450), 11014 [3MY]
Taxation: credit for expenses incurred for purposes of television subtitle equipment by hearing-impaired (see H.R. 6029), 21345 [26JY]
———expand and make permanent the purposes for which Indian tribal governments are treated as States (see H.R. 5450), 9538 [12AP]
———prevent insurance companies from taking undue advantage of fresh-start provisions of Tax Reform Act (see H.R. 6312), 27385 [26SE]
———provide a new tax on generation-skipping transfers (see H.R. 6260), 25923 [18SE]
———provide an election for parallel income and deduction treatment (see H.R. 4859), 3021 [22FE]
———reduce motor fuels tax imposed on methanol (see H.R. 4975), 5250 [13MR]
———repeal existing generation-skipping transfers (see H.R. 6261), 25923 [18SE]
———require exempt organizations to make estimated payments (see H.R. 6388), 29611 [3OC]
Trade agreements: authorized acceleration of staged rate reductions (see H.R. 5228), 6365 [22MR]
Vietnam Veterans of America, Inc.: grant Federal charter (see H.R. 4772), 8523 [10AP]
Women: tax equity (see H.R. 4500), 10243 [26AP]
Women's History Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 422), 3343 [27FE]
Year of Excellence in Education: designate (see H.J. Res. 447), 9028 [11AP]
Year of the St. Lawrence Seaway: designate (see H.J. Res. 567), 14345 [24MY]
Youth of America Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 597), 22474 [6AU]
Essays
Voice of Democracy: Clarence A. Ingram, 7649
Letters
Barber, say it isn't so! Representative Kemp, 3308 [23FE]
Restrict use of private purpose industrial development bonds: by, and 1 other House Member, 8624 [10AP]
Motions offered by
Hansen, Representative George: financial disclosure form reprimand (H. Res. 558), 21663 [31JY]
Steel Import Stabilization Act: proposed (H.R. 6301), 29368 [3OC]
Wine Equity and Export Expansion Act: enact (H.R. 3795), 29383 [3OC]
Petitions
Social security cost-of-living increases: National Committee To Preserve Social Security and Medicare, 26639
Poems
Sonnet, William Shakespeare (excerpt), 28120 [1OC]
Questionnaires
New York: 30th District, 13136
Remarks by, on
Budget: balance, 12572 [16MY]
———reconciliation of first concurrent resolution for fiscal year 1985 (H.R. 5394), 9405, 9416 [12AP]
———requiring President to transmit balanced for each fiscal year (H.R. 6300), 28512 [2OC]
———setting forth for 1985-87 (H. Con. Res. 280), 7979, 7980 [5AP]
Child Support Enforcement Act: amend (H.R. 4325), conference report, 21929 [1AU], 23039-23046, 23048 [8AU]
Civil rights: women, 19017 [27JN]
Civil Rights Act: enact (H.R. 5490), 18864 [26JN]
Civil service: retirement, 28131-28132 [1OC], 28452 [2OC]
Committee of conference: filing report, 18012 [22JN]
Congressional Leaders United for a Balanced Budget: activities, 12572 [16MY]
Deficit Reduction Act: enact (H.R. 4170), conference report, 19020-19023, 19054, 19065 [27JN]
Educational institutions: extend antidiscrimination provisions of the Education Act, Rehabilitation Act, Age Discrimination Act, and Civil Rights Act, 18864 [26JN]
11th Airborne Division Association: establish memorial in District of Columbia (H.R. 5611), 25527 [17SE]
Export Administration Act: amend (H.R. 4230), 32152 [11OC]
Federal Election Campaign Act: regulate political advertising for Federal elective offices (H.R. 5307), 7261
Foreign commerce: provide for jurisdiction over common carriers by water (H.R. 1511), 25551 [17SE]
Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act: repeal (H.R. 5673), 12967
Generalized System of Preferences Renewal Act: enact (H.R. 6023), 29386, 29396, 29397, 29402 [3OC]
Hansen, Representative George: financial disclosure form reprimand (H. Res. 558), 21650, 21660, 21663 [31JY]
Hazardous substances: cleanup of waste sites, 23527-23528 [9AU], 24029, 24052, 24053, 24058 [10AU]
House: legislative program, 28143 [1OC]
Immigration Reform and Control Act: enact (H.R. 1510), 17266 [20JN]
Intelligence services: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 5399), 32250 [11OC]
Investment: real estate trusts, 25263
Israel: trade agreement for duty-free treatment and elimination of import restrictions, 29336, 29339, 29342, 29343 [3OC]
Legal services: correction of enrollment in H.R. 5361 (H. Con. Res. 378), 32308 [11OC]
———extension of tax exclusion for group plans (H.R. 5361), 32296, 32299, 32307 [11OC]
Lithuania: independence day, 2998
Medicare Long-Term Care Act: enact (H.R. 5726), 14354
NASA: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 5154), 19795 [28JN]
National Academy of Public Administration: charter (H.R. 3249), 9636
National Archives and Records Administration Act: enact (H.R. 3987), 21499 [30JY]
National Committee To Preserve Social Security and Medicare: COLA ripoff, 26638
Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance program: eliminate the 3-percent trigger for cost-of-living increases in benefits (H.R. 6019), 21369
Older Americans Act: authorizing appropriations (S. 2603), conference report, 27343 [26SE]
Olympic games: permit free entry of personal effects, equipment, and related articles of foreign participants and members of delegations (H.J. Res. 290), 1414, 1415 [2FE]
Omnibus Tariff and Trade Act: enact (H.R. 3398), conference report, 31006
Parliamentary inquiry, 32304 [11OC]
Pensions: double credit for military time, 24131
Public debt: increase statutory limit (H.R. 5927), 19077 [27JN], 19781 [28JN]
———increase statutory limit (H.R. 5953), 20195, 20196 [29JN]
———provide for temporary increase in the limit (H.R. 5665), 13371, 13374, 13376 [22MY]
———provide for temporary increase in the limit (H.R. 5692), 13417 [22MY], 14228, 14229, 14300 [24MY]
Quadrennial political party Presidential national nominating conventions: increase Federal contribution (H.R. 5950), 20192 [29JN]
Railroads: cover workers under Federal-State unemployment insurance system, 22301
Reagan, President: social security policy, 7578 [3AP]
REIT Tax Provisions Revision Act: proposed (H.R. 6236), 25263
Retirement Equity Act: enact (H.R. 4280), 13326, 13340 [22MY], 23490
Social security: benefits adjustment, 32550
———cost-of-living increase, 26521 [24SE]
———cost-of-living increase (H.R. 6019), 21230 [26JY]
———guaranteed cost-of-living increase (H.R. 6299), 28454-28455 [2OC]
———payment rates for hospice home care (H.R. 5386), 32304, 32305 [11OC]
———Reagan administration policy, 7578 [3AP]
Social Security Disability Benefits Reform Act: enact (H.R. 3755), 6583, 6621 [27MR]
———enact (H.R. 3755), conference report, 26141 [19SE]
Steel Import Stabilization Act: proposed (H.R. 6301), 29352, 29355, 29368 [3OC]
Superfund Expansion and Protection Act: enact (H.R. 5640), 23527-23528 [9AU], 24029, 24052, 24053, 24058 [10AU]
Tax Reform Act: enact (H.R. 4170), 8833-8836, 8856, 8868, 8985 [11AP], 13895 [23MY]
———enact (H.R. 4170), filing conference report, 16841 [18JN], 18012 [22JN]
———enact (H.R. 4170), Senate amendment, 20267 [29JN]
Taxation: extension of exclusion for group legal services plans, 32296, 32299, 32307 [11OC]
———generation-skipping transfers, 25921
———institute withholding on dispositions of U.S. real property interests by non-U.S. persons (H.R. 5326), 12967
———repeal capital gains on investments in real property by foreign citizens (H.R. 5673), 12967
———treatment of dividends paid by corporations to charitable organizations (H.R. 4708), 1393
Trade Remedies Reform Act: enact (H.R. 4784), 21320
U.S.-Israel Free Trade Area Act: enact (H.R. 5377), 29336, 29339, 29342, 29343 [3OC]
Ukraine: 66th independence anniversary, 2157
Water Resources Conservation, Development, and Infrastructure Improvement and Rehabilitation Act: enact (H.R. 3678), 20298 [29JN]
Wine Equity and Export Expansion Act: enact (H.R. 3795), 29371, 29383 [3OC]
Women: discrimination, 19017 [27JN]
———retirement benefits, 13326, 13340 [22MY]
Remarks in House relative to
Congressional Record: revise and extend remarks, 1235 [1FE], 6583 [27MR], 7256 [30MR], 7583 [3AP], 7979 [5AP], 8833 [11AP], 9405, 9536 [12AP], 12838 [17MY], 13326, 13340, 13371 [22MY], 13895 [23MY], 14228, 14338 [24MY], 17266 [20JN], 19017, 19020 [27JN], 19781 [28JN], 20192, 20194 [29JN], 21230, 21344 [26JY], 21500 [30JY], 22273 [2AU], 23039 [8AU], 23527, 23609 [9AU], 25559 [17SE], 26141 [19SE], 26521, 26588 [24SE], 28452, 28454, 28512 [2OC], 29336, 29352, 29371 [3OC]
Special order: granted, 25271 [13SE], 28141 [1OC]
Tributes, 1892, 1894 [6FE], 1976 [7FE], 2760 [21FE], 4231 [1MR], 24934 [11SE], 28816 [2OC], 29567-29584, 29587 [3OC], 30160 [4OC], 30232, 30235, 30237, 30238, 30241, 30243 [4OC], 30719, 30765 [5OC], 31097, 31100 [9OC], 31719, 31757, 31773 [10OC], 32555, 32557, 32591 [12OC]
Remarks in Senate relative to
Tributes, 2056 [7FE], 2273, 2279 [8FE]
Reports
Committee on Ways and Means, 2041 [7FE], 4817 [7MR]
Foreign Travel Expenditures, 2041 [7FE], 4817 [7MR]
Summaries
Medicare Long-Term Care Act (H.R. 5726), 14355
REIT Tax Provisions Revision Act (H.R. 6236), 25264
Tributes
Edwards, Representative Jack, 32556
Erlenborn, Representative, 28119 [1OC]
Peartree, Marie M., 30762