PICKLE, J.J. (a Representative from Texas)
Addresses
Build Bridges, Not Walls: Representative Wright, 539
Amendments offered by, to
Dept. of Transportation and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 3244), 23398 [11SE]
Appointments
Committee on Taxation (Joint), 2361 [19FE]
Conferee: H.J. Res. 372, increase statutory public debt limit, 27379 [11OC]
———H.R. 1869, repeal of contemporaneous recordkeeping requirements, 9257 [24AP]
———H.R. 2475, simplify imputed interest taxation rules, 22640 [1AU]
———H.R. 3128, changes in spending and revenue provisions in budget, 34512 [5DE]
Funeral Committee of the late Gillis W. Long, 868 [24JA]
Articles and editorials
Edward William Joseph, October 19, 1901, to December 12, 1985, 38676
Fools and Their Takeover Bonds, Senator Domenici, Wall Street Journal, 12418
Four San Marcos River Species, Endangered Species Technical Bulletin (publication), 9752
Great Society Remembered—Legacy's Builders Recall Government as Tool, Steve Reed, Austin (TX) American-Statesman, 8793
Texas Team Wins Nobel in Medicine—Research Illuminated Role of Cholesterol in Heart Disease, Cristine Russell, Washington (DC) Post, 27811 [17OC]
Trial Reflection—Johnson Not Deceived, Walt Rostow, 7732
Bills and resolutions introduced by
Chili: designate, without beans, as official food of U.S. (see H.J. Res. 256), 9296 [24AP]
Education: increase research and encourage contribution of scientific equipment to institutions (see H.R. 1188), 2938 [21FE]
Flora: increase use of native wildflowers in highway landscaping (see H.R. 2878), 17519 [26JN]
Social Security Administration: establish as independent agency (see H.R. 825), 1313 [30JA]
Taxation: repeal volume cap and restrictions applicable to veterans mortgage bonds (see H.R. 2627), 13436 [23MY]
———treatment of acquisition of junk bonds and greenmail (see H.R. 2476), 11760 [14MY]
———treatment of qualified dividend reinvestment plans (see H.R. 654), 899 [24JA]
Bills and resolutions introduced by, as cosponsor
Agriculture: establish task force to address long-range concerns (see H. Con. Res. 131), 9422 [25AP]
Anne Frank Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 293), 15216 [11JN]
Benign Essential Blepharospasm Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 308), 25051 [26SE]
Boy Scouts of America: anniversary (see H.J. Res. 159), 10521 [6MY]
Budget: constitutional amendment relative to Federal procedures (see H.J. Res. 27), 34789 [5DE]
Civil Rights Restoration Act: enact (see H.R. 700), 2293 [7FE]
Coins and coinage: provide for minting of gold (see H.R. 1123), 13437 [23MY]
Doubek, Robert W.: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 2591), 31887 [14NO]
Eugene Ormandy Appreciation Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 347), 31888 [14NO]
Federal Home Loan Bank Board: effective date of limitations on certain investments (see H. Con. Res. 34), 1387 [31JA]
GAO: investigate conditions of displaced Salvadoran persons (see H.R. 822), 1312 [30JA]
Gershwin, George: special gold medal honoring (see H.J. Res. 251), 13128 [22MY]
Gershwin, Ira: special gold medal honoring (see H.J. Res. 251), 13128 [22MY]
Handicapped Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 285), 11686 [13MY]
Humane Products Testing Act: enact (see H.R. 1877), 34789 [5DE]
Immigration and Nationality Act: waiver of visa requirement for nonimmigrant tourists (see H.R. 1021), 22685 [1AU]
Japan: Presidential action to reduce growing merchandise trade deficit (see H. Con. Res. 107), 7238 [2AP]
Job Corps Program: reaffirm commitment (see H. Res. 72), 5586 [19MR]
Jordan: prohibit sales of advanced weapons (see H.J. Res. 428), 28865 [24OC]
Lithuanian Independence Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 409), 34267 [4DE]
MIA's: sense of Congress (see H. Con. Res. 37), 1878 [6FE]
Mule Appreciation Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 76), 1387 [31JA]
National Agriculture Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 137), 3379 [25FE]
National Association of State Directors of Veterans Affairs, Inc.: recognize (see H.R. 3024), 28701 [23OC]
National Bowling Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 359), 36766 [16DE]
National Diabetes Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 314), 26691 [8OC]
National Energy Education Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 160), 2940 [21FE]
National Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 375), 32642 [20NO]
National Flowers-by-Wire Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 271), 20138 [23JY]
National Guard: issue commemorative stamp (see H. Res. 245), 30914 [6NO]
National Head Injury Awareness Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 200), 23913 [17SE]
National High-Tech Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 128), 9746 [29AP]
National Hospice Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 288), 23913 [17SE]
National Independent Retail Grocer Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 74), 5048 [7MR]
National Neighborhood Crime Watch Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 312), 21938 [31JY]
National Osteopathic Medicine Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 175), 24179 [18SE]
National Osteoporosis Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 46), 7613 [4AP]
National POW/MIA Recognition Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 205), 13438 [23MY]
National Veterans' Health Care Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 216), 15500 [12JN]
Nexrad: sense of Congress to continue on schedule (see H. Con. Res. 167), 36211 [12DE]
Oil Heat Centennial Year: designate (see H.J. Res. 171), 19702 [18JY]
Railroads: enhance rail competition (see H.R. 1190), 2938 [21FE]
Rose: designate as national floral emblem (see H.J. Res. 385), 38734 [20DE]
Rural mail carriers: computing deductions for use of their automobiles (see H.R. 1884), 7236 [2AP]
Safe Drinking Water Act: amend (see H.R. 1650), 11292 [9MY]
———protection of aquifers for public water systems (see H.R. 1038), 2289 [7FE]
Save for the U.S.A. Year: designate (see H.J. Res. 436), 35288 [9DE]
Scruggs, Jan C.: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 2591), 31887 [14NO]
Social Security: benefits to individuals who work despite severe medical impairment (see H.R. 2030), 19229 [16JY]
———protect beneficiaries under health care programs (see H.R. 1868), 8473 [18AP]
Social Security Administration: establish as independent agency (see H.R. 3470), 25496 [1OC]
Social Security Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 300), 22686 [1AU]
Soviet Jewry: sense of House relative to Solidarity Sunday (see H. Res. 127), 10024 [1MY]
Superfund Excise Tax: enact (see H.R. 3030), 19525 [17JY]
Supplemental compensation program: phase out (see H.R. 1866), 7235 [2AP]
Tariff Act: apply countervailing duties to resource input subsidies (see H.R. 2451), 15500 [12JN]
Taxation: extend energy credit to solar (see H.R. 1272), 3568 [26FE]
———make permanent allocation of research and experimental expenditures (see H.R. 1359), 4229 [28FE]
———provide that employees may make certain contributions to provide cost-of-living protection under defined benefit plan (see H.R. 3179), 22682 [1AU]
———reform internal revenue laws (see H.R. 3838), 33842 [3DE]
———repeal contemporaneous recordkeeping (see H.R. 1869), 7235 [2AP]
———simplify imputed interest rules (see H.R. 2475), 11760 [14MY]
U.S. Savings Bonds Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 421), 29899 [31OC]
Unemployment: exempt wages paid to full-time students employed by summer camps from tax (see H.R. 3180), 24812 [24SE]
Very Special Arts U.S.A. Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 204), 10696 [7MY]
Wheeler, John P., III: award Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 2591), 31887 [14NO]
Year of Social Security: designate (see H.J. Res. 1), 458 [3JA]
Young Astronaut Program: striking of medals to commemorate (see H.R. 2578), 32628 [20NO]
Books
``Reflections of a Public Man'': Representative Wright, 8787
Elected to
Committee on Ways and Means, ***** [30JA], 1693 [4FE]
Letters
IRS collection enforcement programs: Roscoe Egger (sundry), 10945-10948 [8MY]
Soviet Jews: Alexander Balter, Leonid Umansky, and Zakhar and Tatiana Zunshein, 5694 [20MR]
Papers
What Is the Future of Job Corps? Margie Freeman, 4379 [5MR]
Petitions
Garcia v. San Antonio Mass Transit Authority Supreme Court case: West Lake Hills, TX, City Council, 14221
Prayers
In Memory of Ben Ramsey: Edward Clark (excerpt), 13708
Remarks by, on
African Famine Relief and Recovery Act: enact (H.R. 1239), 4128
American Conservation Corps Act: enact (H.R. 99), 18679 [11JY]
Appropriations: continuing (H.J. Res. 465), 34150 [4DE]
———making supplemental (H.R. 2577), 14622 [6JN], 15417 [12JN]
———making supplemental (H.R. 2577), conference report, 21815 [31JY]
Austin, TX: LBJ Library symposium on the Great Society, 8793
Brown, Michael S.: awarded Nobel Prize in medicine, 27811 [17OC]
Budget: changes in spending and revenue provisions (H.R. 3128), conference report, 38333 [19DE]
———deficit reduction proposals, 30155 [1NO]
———funding levels for executive departments, 21511 [30JY]
———revising for fiscal year 1985 and setting forth for 1986-88 (H. Con. Res. 152), 13377 [23MY]
Business: impact of tax reform proposals, 37186 [17DE]
Chili without beans: designate as national food (H.J. Res. 256), 9197 [24AP]
Cigarettes: emergency extension of excise tax (H.R. 3981), 37845 [18DE]
———extension of excise tax (H.R. 4006), 38355 [19DE], 38728, 38729, 38730 [20DE]
Colorado River: Boggy Creek flood control project, 30777
Committee on Hunger (Select): establish (H. Res. 20), 4972 [7MR]
Committee on Taxation (Joint): notice of hearings, 16058 [18JN]
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act: amend (H.R. 2817), 34667 [5DE], 34875
Congressional Record: revise and extend remarks, 13980 [4JN]
Corps of Engineers: supplemental appropriations, 14622 [6JN], 21815 [31JY]
Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 1872), 16508, 16553 [20JN], 17784 [27JN]
———funding levels, 17784 [27JN]
Dept. of the Treasury: conversion of trust fund reserves into cash, 29796 [31OC], 30169 [1NO], 30379 [4NO]
Dept. of the Treasury, Postal Service, Executive Office of the President, and certain independent agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 3036), 21511 [30JY]
———making appropriations (H.R. 3036), conference report, 30981 [7NO]
Dept. of Transportation and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 3244), 23398 [11SE]
Employment: American Conservation Corps, 18679 [11JY]
Executive departments: establish Social Security Administration as independent agency (H.R. 825), 22503 [1AU]
Food Security Act: enact (H.R. 2100), 24528, 24529 [20SE]
Foreign trade: textile industry, 27104
Goldstein, Joseph L.: awarded Nobel Prize in medicine, 27811 [17OC]
Hazardous waste disposal: superfund tax, 34667 [5DE], 34875
High Technology Research and Scientific Education Act: enact (H.R. 1188), 3095
House: legislative program, 1278 [30JA]
Interstate and defense highways: funding (H.R. 1251), 4155
IRS: funding, 21511 [30JY], 30981 [7NO], 34150 [4DE]
———tax refunds, 16058 [18JN]
Jews: efforts to emigrate from Soviet Union, 5694 [20MR]
———free emigration of Soviet, 2898 [21FE]
Job Corps: funding, 4379 [5MR]
Junk Bond and Greenmail Tax Act: enact (H.R. 2476), 11740, 11742 [14MY], 12418
McCloskey, Representative: seat in House of Representatives, 10384
McIntyre, Representative: seat as Member of House (H. Res. 52), 2222, 2223 [7FE]
McIntyre, Richard D. seat as Member of House, 10384
Medicare and Medicaid Patient and Program Protection Act: enact (H.R. 1868), 13976, 13980 [4JN]
MX missile: authorizing release of funds for procurement (H.J. Res. 180), 6318 [26MR]
National Wildflower Landscaping Act: enact (H.R. 2878), 17986
Nicaragua: humanitarian assistance for Contras, 15417 [12JN]
———providing for humanitarian assistance (H.J. Res. 247), 9244 [24AP]
Nobel Prize: award in medicine to Joseph L. Goldstein and Michael S. Brown, 27811 [17OC]
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act: enact (H.R. 3500), 28620 [23OC]
Parliamentary inquiry, 38368 [19DE]
Personal explanation, 34829 [6DE]
Public debt: increase statutory limit (H.J. Res. 372), conference report, 30155 [1NO]
———increase statutory limit (H.J. Res. 372), instructions to conferees, 27368 [11OC]
REA: anniversary, 10644, 10653-10657 [7MY]
Roads and highways: interstate cost estimate, 4155
Safe Drinking Water Act: amend (H.R. 1650), 16163
San Marcos River, TX: endangered species, 9752
Social Security: conversion of trust fund reserves into cash, 29796 [31OC], 30169 [1NO], 30379 [4NO]
———Disability Program regulations, 9982 [1MY]
———prevent disinvestment of trust fund (H.R. 3669), 30187 [1NO]
Social Security Act: amend (H.R. 1868), 13976, 13980 [4JN]
Social Security Administration: establish as independent agency, 1277 [30JA]
———establish as independent agency (H.R. 825), 22503 [1AU]
Soviet Union: free emigration of Jews, 2898 [21FE], 5694 [20MR]
Strategic defense initiative: research and development, 16508, 16553 [20JN]
Tax Reform Act: enact (H.R. 3838), 36962
———enact (H.R. 3838), sense of House relative to effective date of certain provisions, 37475 [17DE]
Taxation: treatment of acquisition of junk bonds and greenmail, 11740, 11742 [14MY], 12418
———vehicle mileage documentation (H.R. 1869), 7735
———vehicle mileage documentation (H.R. 1869), conference report, 11081
Taxpayer Relief Act: enact (H.R. 600), 7735
Texas: San Jacinto Day, 8787
Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act: enact (H.R. 1562), 27104
Umansky, Leonid: efforts to emigrate from Soviet Union, 5694 [20MR]
Urban Mass Transit Authority: use of allocated funds by States, 23398 [11SE]
Votes: position on missed, 34829 [6DE]
Water quality: contamination, 16163
Water Resources, Conservation, Development, and Infrastructure Improvement and Rehabilitation Act: enact (H.R. 6), 30777
Year of Social Security: designate (H.J. Res. 1), 514
Remarks in House relative to
Congressional Record: revise and extend remarks, 1277, 1288 [30JA], 2898 [21FE], 3244 [19NO], 4379 [5MR], 5042 [7MR], 6318 [26MR], 7609 [4AP], 9197, 9244 [24AP], 9982 [1MY], 11740 [14MY], 13377 [23MY], 14622 [6JN], 15417 [12JN], 16058 [18JN], 16508 [20JN], 17784 [27JN], 18679 [11JY], 21815 [31JY], 22503 [1AU], 23398 [11SE], 27104 [10OC], 27368 [11OC], 27811 [17OC], 30155, 30169 [1NO], 30777 [6NO], 30981 [7NO], 32509 [20NO], 33731 [3DE], 34150 [4DE], 34667 [5DE], 34875 [6DE], 36962, 37186 [17DE], 38333 [19DE]
Federal Unemployment Compensation Tax Act: amend relative to summer camp employees (H.R. 3180), 24886 [24SE]
Special order: granted, 5984 [21MR], 7234 [2AP], 11759 [14MY], 14967 [10JN]
Reports
Committee on Ways and Means, 10518 [6MY], 30999 [7NO]
Foreign Travel Expenditures, 10518 [6MY], 30999 [7NO]
Songs
``Land Beyond the River'' (excerpt), 32509 [20NO]
Statements
Dewey Bradford: Cactus Pryor, 9373
Summaries
Handicapped American Named, 10185
High Technology Research and Scientific Education Act (H.R. 1188), 3095
Independent Social Security Administration, 1277 [30JA]
Junk Bond and Greenmail Tax Act (H.R. 2476), 11740, 11743 [14MY]
Texts of
H.R. 2476, Junk Bond and Greenmail Tax Act, 11744 [14MY]
Tributes
Bradford, Dewey, 9373
Caldwell, James L., 10185
Driver, Bill, 17992
Hall, Representative Sam B., Jr., 13430
Houston, Sam, 8787
Joseph, Edward W. (Sir Knight), 38676
Long, Gillis W., 1288 [30JA]
Mahon, George H., 32509 [20NO]
Ramsey, Ben, 13708
———William P. Hobby, Jr., 13708
Swanner, Joe B., 8100