INFLATION related term(s) Economic Conditions

Amendments

Armed Forces: revise retirement system for new members and method for determining cost of living adjustments (S. 2395), 10779, 10781, 10784, 10789, 10790, 10794, 10856 [15MY]

Analyses

Federal Criminal Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act (S. 2558), 13854 [16JN]

Articles and editorials

Deficit? The True Danger May Be a Budget Surplus, 2076 [7FE]

Lowering Interest Rates: ``After You.'' ``No, After You'', 15776 [26JN]

Need for a Better Budget Process, 16415-16419 [15JY]

President's Ice Palaces, 1979 [6FE]

Wanted—Leadership From the Fed, 15775 [26JN]

Bills and resolutions

Armed Forces: revise retirement system for new members and method for determining cost of living adjustments (see S. 2395)

Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act: amend relative to cost of living adjustments for certain Federal retirement and disability programs (see H.R. 4017, 4025, 4057, 4075)

Cigarettes: make permanent the increase in tax and provide cost of living adjustments in such tax (see H.R. 4102)

Civil service retirement: cost of living adjustments (see S. 2238)

———cost of living adjustments for 1987 (see H.R. 4060)

Courts: adjust maximum level of various civil and criminal fines (see S. 2558, 2559)

Federal employees: cost of living adjustments for retirees (see H.R. 5104)

Handicapped: cost of living adjustments for certain Federal disability programs (see S. 2198)

Medical care: recommend measures to States for cost and quality control (see H. Res. 386)

Minimum wages: increase and index (see H.R. 4493)

Pensions: cost of living adjustments (see S. 2198)

Railroads: adjust rates (see S. 2369)

Social Security: cost of living adjustments (see S. Res. 375)

———eliminate 3% trigger for cost of living adjustments (see S. 2450; H.R. 4763, 4822)

Letters

Cost of living adjustments for Federal military and civilian retirees: Charles McShan, 2079 [7FE]

Dept. of Defense inflation dividends within budget: GAO, 22502 [10SE]

Economic effect of resumption of the gold standard: Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc., 10903 [15MY]

OASDI study of cost of living adjustments: Dept. of HHS, 10617-10622 [14MY]

Memorials of legislature

Illinois, 14742 [19JN], 16370 [14JY]

Remarks in House

Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act: amendments, 22049 [15AU]

Banks and banking: refinancing of homes, 14476 [18JN]

Budget: deficit, 8741 [28AP]

———refinance public debt through issuance of gold bonds, 9186 [1MY]

Dept. of the Treasury: stabilization of foreign exchange rates and dollar, 9711 [7MY]

Economic conditions: gold standard, 1034 [30JA]

———national policy, 4241 [11MR]

FRS: monetary policies, 2003-2009 [6FE], 2256 [19FE], 2590-2592 [24FE], 3379-3385 [3MR], 6036 [25MR], 7806 [16AP], 8028 [17AP], 12102 [3JN], 12305 [4JN], 12546 [5JN], 12968 [9JN], 13049 [10JN], 18654 [1AU]

Gold standard: resume, 6036 [25MR]

———resumption, 8741 [28AP]

Interest rates, 17808-17817 [28JY]

———impact of declining, 6036 [25MR]

———reduce, 9186 [1MY]

———status, 5197 [18MR]

Money: U.S. dollar valuation, 30158 [10OC]

Pensions: cost of living adjustments, 3810 [6MR]

Reagan, President: budget proposal, 4199 [11MR]

Supply-side economics, 9186 [1MY]

Remarks in Senate

Armed Forces: cost of living adjustments, 10781, 10788, 10790, 10794-10801 [15MY]

———revise retirement system for new members and method for determining cost of living adjustments (H.R. 4420), 10807 [15MY]

———revise retirement system for new members and method for determining cost of living adjustments (H.R. 4420), S. 2395 language passed in lieu, 10802 [15MY]

———revise retirement system for new members and method for determining cost of living adjustments (H.R. 4420), appointment of conferees, 13743 [13JN]

———revise retirement system for new members and method for determining cost of living adjustments (H.R. 4420), conference report, 15384-15388 [25JN]

———revise retirement system for new members and method for determining cost of living adjustments (H.R. 4420), unanimous-consent agreement, 15384 [25JN]

———revise retirement system for new members and method for determining cost of living adjustments (S. 2395), 10643 [14MY], 10771 [15MY]

Budget: reduce deficit, 2074 [7FE]

Business cycles: depression, 1674 [5FE]

Civil service retirement: cost of living adjustments (S. 2238), 6335 [26MR]

Cost of Living Adjustment Reform Act: enact (S. 2450), 10616-10623 [14MY]

Defense procurement: President's budget requirement relative to assumptions of inflation for major weapon system programs (S. 1921), 5041 [14MR]

Dept. of Defense: inflation dividends within budget, 22501 [10SE]

Economic conditions: forecasts, 7130 [10AP], 7376 [14AP]

———national policy, 9790 [7MY]

———predictions, 1672 [5FE], 2074 [7FE]

———recovery of economy, 13532 [12JN]

Federal Criminal Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act: enact (S. 2558), 13851 [16JN]

Federal Reserve Board: fiscal policies, 11238 [19MY]

FRS: interest rates, 13528 [12JN], 14892 [23JN], 15311 [25JN], 15775 [26JN]

———monetary policies, 20032 [8AU]

Government spending: reform present budget process, 16415 [15JY]

Handicapped: cost of living adjustments for certain Federal disability programs (S. 2198), 5159 [18MR], 13868 [16JN]

Pensions: cost of living adjustments for certain Federal retirement programs (S. 2198), 5159 [18MR], 13868 [16JN]

Railroads: adjust rates (S. 2369), 8691 [24AP]

Social Security: cost of living adjustments (S. Res. 375), 6563 [27MR], 6768 [8AP]

———eliminate 3% trigger for cost of living adjustments (S. 2450), 10871 [15MY]

Stock market: program trading, 23690 [17SE]

Reports filed

Federal and State Roles in Economic Stabilization: Committee on Government Operations (H. Rept. 99-460), 47 [21JA]

Monetary Policy: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (S. Rept. 99-289), 8788 [28AP]

———Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (S. Rept. 99-490), 26535 [26SE]

Overpricing of Defense Contracts Extensive, Expensive and Avoidable: Committee on Government Operations (H. Rept. 99-562), 8886 [29AP]

Statements

Currency Debasement: Lincoln O'Brien, 18654 [1AU]

Paper Money: Daniel Webster, 10902 [15MY]

U.S. Monetary Policy: Hugh McCulloch, 26976 [29SE]

Texts of

H.R. 4420, revise military retirement system for new members and method for determining cost of living adjustments, 10802-10807 [15MY]

S. 2198, cost of living adjustments in Federal retirement and disability programs, 5159 [18MR]

S. 2238, cost of living adjustments for civil service retirement and disability programs exempted from Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act's sequestration orders, 6335 [26MR]

S. 2450, Cost of Living Adjustment Reform Act, 10617 [14MY]

S. 2558, Federal Criminal Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act, 13852 [16JN]

S. Res. 375, Social Security cost of living adjustments, 6563 [27MR]