HEALTH

Addresses

Aging: Senator Eagleton (1973), 28869 [6OC]

Agricultural Quarantine Enforcement Act (excerpt), 26391 [25SE]

America's Health Care Revolution: Joseph A. Califano, Jr., 25859-25862 [24SE]

Effects of First Concurrent Budget Resolution on Children and Families: Richard W. Riley, Governor of South Carolina, 10934 [15MY]

Funding for Veterans Programs: Senator DeConcini, 3876 [6MR]

Increasing Health Research Funds: Senator Weicker, 11195 [19MY]

Infant Mortality and What Needs To Be Done To Conquer the Threat in the U.S.: Senator Chiles, 7794 [16AP]

International Drug Trafficking and Abuse: Vernon A. Walters, 2981 [26FE]

Just Say No to Drugs Week: President and Mrs. Reagan, 11997 [22MY]

Legal and Civil Rights Implications of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome: Representative Waxman, 21427 [13AU]

Legalization of Abortion: Representative Kemp, 2055 [6FE]

Medical University of South Carolina Commencement: Otis R. Bowen, Sec. of HHS, 12769 [5JN]

Oral Rehydration Therapy Treatment: Peter McPherson, 2399 [19FE]

Preserving Quality in Health Care—America's Challenge for the '80s: Senator Heinz, 7211 [10AP]

Preventing and Treating Child Sexual Abuse—New Problems and Possible Solutions: Senator Dodd, 33513 [17OC]

Prospect for Children in the U.S.: Harold Howe II, 21996-21999 [15AU]

Shaping Tomorrow Today: Charles M. West, 7206-7207 [10AP]

Advertisements

Medicare Quality Protection Act—open letter to President Reagan: Pasco County (FL) Medical Society, 11980 [22MY]

Agenda

National Program To Conquer Alzheimer's Disease, 16638-16640 [16JY]

Amendments

Acid Deposition Control Act: enact (S. 283), 5175 [18MR]

Acid rain: reduction in sulfur dioxide emissions (S. 283), 5175 [18MR]

Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration: authorizing appropriations (S. 2443), 33860-33866 [18OC]

American Liver Foundation National Liver Awareness Month: designate (S.J. Res. 202), 24655 [18SE]

Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act: enact (H.R. 5073), 27481-27492 [1OC]

Atomic energy: improve method of compensation to victims of accidents involving federally licensed activities (S. 1225), 29040 [6OC]

Bankruptcy: clarify U.S. code relative to collective bargaining agreements by debtors (H.R. 5490), 28531, 28564, 28565 [3OC]

Children: extend program of vaccinations (H.R. 5230), 33866, 33870 [18OC]

Community and migrant health centers programs: extend (H.R. 2418), 3604, 3605, 3610, 3612, 3614 [5MR]

Community services programs appropriations authorization (H.R. 4421), 8874, 8880 [29AP]

Drug industry: establish conditions for exports (S. 1848), 2741-2744 [25FE], 4086 [7MR], 10302, 10333, 10336 [12MY], 10390, 10393, 10396, 10428 [13MY], 10571, 10574, 10576, 10629, 10630 [14MY]

Education of the Handicapped Act: amend and extend (S. 2294), 12919-12923 [6JN]

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act: amend (S. 2215), 12253 [3JN]

Gaucher's Disease Awareness Week: designate (S.J. Res. 352), 28550, 28654 [3OC]

Hawaii: improve health status of native Hawaiians (S. 2243), 32608 [16OC]

High Risk Occupational Disease Notification and Prevention Act: enact (H.R. 1309), 10733-10736 [14MY], 18228 [30JY], 19461 [6AU], 20744 [11AU], 21736 [14AU], 23016 [11SE], 23474 [16SE], 23670 [17SE], 27426 [30SE]

Indian Health Care Improvement Act: reauthorize and amend (H.R. 1426), 24118, 24120, 24123, 24124, 24125, 24129, 24132, 24133 [18SE]

———reauthorizing appropriations (S. 277), 18983-18993 [4AU]

———reauthorizing (H.R. 1426), 29551-29564 [8OC], 30172 [10OC], 33844 [18OC]

Insurance: prohibit certain companies filing for bankruptcy from discontinuing medical and life insurance benefits to retirees (S. 2690), 18099, 18127 [30JY]

Marlboro County General Hospital Charity: relief (H.R. 3896), 29195 [7OC]

Mentally Ill Individuals Act: enact (H.R. 4055), 705 [29JA], 1047, 1049, 1051, 1052, 1054 [30JA]

National Adult Day Care Center Week: designate (H.J. Res. 617), 24658 [18SE]

National Infection Control Week: designate (H.J. Res. 623), 16709 [16JY]

National Kidney Program Day: designate (S.J. Res. 367), 30192 [10OC]

National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act: enact (H.R. 2436), 15605 [25JN], 15711, 15712, 15716, 15720, 15722, 15725 [26JN]

9-1-1 Emergency Number Day: designate (S.J. Res. 405), 24655 [18SE]

Omnibus Drug Enforcement, Education, and Control Act: enact (H.R. 5484), 22913, 22915, 22921, 22923, 22925, 22927, 22937, 22941, 22943, 22945, 22952, 22953, 22955, 22961, 22963, 22964, 22976, 22980, 22982, 22984, 22986, 22988, 22989 [11SE], 26542, 26543 [26SE], 26694, 26695, 26699, 26701, 26703, 26706, 26712, 26714, 26715, 26718, 26720, 26721, 26722, 26726, 26728, 26731, 26732, 26735, 26736, 26739, 26745, 26752, 26754, 26757, 26759, 26763, 26764, 26772, 26773, 26778, 26796, 26797, 26804, 26807, 26808, 26810-26812, 26816, 26819, 26820, 26840-26849, 26852, 26860-26864, 26868 [27SE], 27168, 27170 [30SE], 29633-29659-29702 [8OC], 30280, 30318, 30322-30388 [10OC], 30508-30644 [14OC], 31408-31409, 31412, 31438-31447, 31459, 31462-31480 [15OC], 32728-32786 [17OC]

Parental and Medical Leave Act: enact (H.R. 4300), 25458 [23SE], 28180 [2OC]

President's Council on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: enact S. 2057, 32250 [16OC]

President's Council on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Act: enact (S. 2057), 13830, 13861 [16JN]

Product safety: uniform liability law (S. 1999), 10304-10310 [12MY]-10429 [13MY], 11334-11338 [20MY]

Protection and Advocacy for Mentally Ill Persons Act: enact (S. 974), 1705 [5FE]

Providence Hospital Commemorative Plaque Act: enact (H.R. 4382), 10441 [13MY]

Public Health Service Act: amend (H.R. 3010), 1461, 1462 [4FE]

Rehabilitation Act: amend and extend (S. 2515), 22269, 22302 [8SE]

States: reauthorizing program for dependent care grants (S. 2444), 16354, 16355, 16356, 16357, 16379-16380 [14JY]

Vaccination: assistance to foreign countries to promote immunization and oral rehydration (S. 1917), 26306, 26309 [25SE], 28546-28549, 28636-28642 [3OC], 28816-28819 [6OC]

Veterans' Benefits Improvement and Health Care Authorization Act: enact (H.R. 5299), 29200-29223 [7OC]

Veterans' Compensation and Benefits Improvements Act: enact (S. 1887), 22045 [15AU]

Analyses

Acid Rain and Sulfur Emissions Reduction Act (S. 2813), 23039-23041 [12SE]

Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, 29628 [8OC]

Civil Service Retirement—Capital Accumulation Plans for Federal Employees: Library of Congress, 11304-11310 [20MY]

End Stage Renal Disease Program Administration and Regulation Changes, 17509 [23JY]

Federal Health Care Auditing and Quality Control Improvement Act (S. 2625), 15885 [26JN]

Federal Hospital System Sharing Act (S. 2627), 15889 [26JN]

Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 2512), 12488-12491 [4JN]

Improvements in Method of Compensation to Victims of Nuclear Accidents Involving Federally Licensed Activities (S. 1225), 29043 [6OC]

Meat, Poultry, and Egg Products Inspection Improvement Act (S. 2622), 15882 [26JN]

Occupational Hazard Communication Act (H.R. 4793), 10252 [9MY]

Omnibus Drug Enforcement, Education, and Control Act (H.R. 5484), 22683, 22714-22717 [10SE]

Product Liability Reform Act amendments (S. 1999), 10311 [12MY]

Save the Family Farm Act, 26379 [25SE]

Social Security Disability Determination Act (H.R. 4936) (excerpt), 12538 [4JN]

Steps in Approving and Paying for Products and Procedure, 11328 [20MY]

Superfund Interim Financing Act (H.R. 4381), 4584 [12MR]

Superfund Interim Financing Act (S. 2120), 3182 [27FE]

Tort Action Procedure Reform Act (H.R. 4920), 12287 [3JN]

Appointments

Biomedical Ethics Board: members, 3165 [27FE]

Biomedical Ethics Board members, 8159 [21AP]

Conferees: H.R. 2005, Superfund reauthorization, 2705 [25FE]

———H.R. 4421, authorizing appropriations for human services programs, 17644 [24JY]

———S. 974, Protection and Advocacy for Mentally Ill Persons Act, 1705 [5FE], 1971 [6FE]

Articles and editorials

AAFP Honors Arkansas Physician as Family Doctor of the Year, 29172 [7OC]

Abortion, 7790 [16AP]

Abortion Battle Shifts To Aid for Family Planning, 2040 [6FE]

Abuses in the Drug Bill, 25716 [23SE]

Agent Orange—Let It Lie, 25375 [22SE]

Agreeing on Pesticides, 28933 [6OC]

Aid in Day-to-Day Life Seen as Hope for Schizophrenics, 7516 [15AP]

AIDS and Discrimination (sundry), 17037, 17040 [21JY], 17310-17313 [22JY]

AIDS Epidemic—Moving From Complacency to Action, 24692 [18SE]

AIDS Ruling Makes No Sense, 17037 [21JY]

AIDS—Conquering the Fear and Finding a Cure, 10119 [8MY]

AMA Opposes Justice Dept. on AIDS Bias, 17501 [23JY]

American Heart Month (excerpt), 3267 [27FE]

American Indians Found Three Times More Likely To Die Young, 9699 [6MY]

American Medical Maze Almost Cost Me My Life, 3207 [27FE]

Antismoking Guerrillas, 16862-16867 [17JY]

Arrests in Oregon Food Poisoning Incident (excerpt), 5896 [21MR]

Asbestos Dumping Charges Lodged, 6815 [8AP]

Asbestos Found in Abandoned City Property, 8837 [28AP]

Baby Calvin, 13589 [12JN]

Baby Update, 18224 [30JY]

Bad Riddance—Ripping Out Asbestos Endangers More Lives as Laws Are Ignored, 7403 [14AP]

Bargain-Basement Medicine, 2773 [25FE]

Battling the Enemy Within, 4412-4416 [12MR]

Biotechnology Industry (excerpt), 10330 [12MY]

Bitter Pill for Epileptics, 22852 [11SE]

``Breakthrough'' on Agent Orange, 27125 [29SE]

Bugged on Pesticides?, 28931 [6OC]

Building Named After Sanitary Engineer, 32631 [16OC]

Burdick—I'm Fit in Politics and Gym, 8255 [22AP]

Buried by a Tropical Snowstorm, 4417 [12MR]

Burkina Faso—Vaccination Commando, 10344 [12MY]

Business Starts Tailoring Itself To Suit Working Women, 27441 [30SE], 28694 [3OC]

Calls for Legislation on Asbestos, 3582 [4MR]

Canada Aims at Tourists in Acid Rain War, 21739 [14AU]

Canada Attracts U.S. Women Seeking IUDs, 25082 [19SE]

Cancer and the Pill, 27875-27879 [2OC]

Cancer Couldn't Whip Tampa Bay's J.D. Maarleveld; Now He's Making Sure That the NFL Gets the Message, 19333 [5AU]

Cancer Patients—Many Battle Job Discrimination, Too, 29836 [8OC]

Capitol Hill Persuader Nonpareil, 2770 [25FE]

Case Against the Broad-Based Tax, 33624 [17OC]

Changes I Have Seen, 26573 [26SE]

Chernobyl—Greatest Industrial Accident in Mankind's History, 16003 [26JN]

Children and Exposure to Television (excerpt), 7960 [17AP]

Cigarette Prices, 19490 [6AU]

City Renaming Municipal Building for Abel Wolman, 32632 [16OC]

Clamor To Make Punishment Fit the Crime, 4379 [11MR]

Clinkers in the Drug Crusade, 25710 [23SE]

Closing the Doors on Health Councils?, 12908 [6JN]

Cocaine Babies (excerpt), 26696 [27SE]

Combine Federal Regulation of Health and Safety Under One Authority, 22260 [8SE]

Confronting the Other Drug Problem, 29178 [7OC]

Congress Has a Plan for Administration, 17005 [17JY]

Copeland, Fame as Heart Surgeon Has Double Edge, 22180 [15AU]

Cost of Exporting Trouble, 10327 [12MY]

Crack and Crime, 13026 [9JN]

Curbs on Medicaid Being Considered, 22179 [15AU]

D.C. AIDS Bill, 18694 [1AU]

Deserved Applause for Public Service, 31225 [14OC]

Diary of Despair . . . And Rebounding Hope, 2647 [24FE]

Discrimination Against AIDS Victims (excerpt), 17037 [21JY]

Doctors You Can't See, 2422 [19FE]

Does Pregnancy Have to Hurt Your Career?, 14978 [23JN]

Don't Zap Pesticide Bills, 28933 [6OC]

``Door of Hope'', 23598 [16SE]

Dr. Branscomb Honored as Outstanding Woman in Mission, 8772 [28AP]

Dr. Harold G. Barker Memorial Chapel Dedicated at Cedar Crest, 33575 [17OC]

Dread Babies, 1401 [3FE]

Dreaded Complication, 7790-7793 [16AP]

Drug Bill Is ``Legislative Equivalent of Crack'', 25708 [23SE]

Drug Crazed, 26378 [25SE]

Drug Frenzy, 26378 [25SE]

Drug War, 25718 [23SE]

Drug War Should be Everyone's Concern, 27462 [1OC]

Drugs War Must Be Won, 28691 [3OC]

Dyslexics Learn College Skills, 12269 [3JN]

Employers, Applicants United at Job Fair for the Handicapped, 13671 [13JN]

Environmental Crossroads, 28930 [6OC]

Even the Elite Clinics Are Shopping for Patients, 6589 [27MR]

Every Wednesday, I Take a Vacation From Redtape, 19884 [7AU]

Ex-HEW Chief High on the Private Sector, 19877 [7AU]

Exporting Trouble, 10328 [12MY]

Family Had Three Sons, 12822 [5JN]

Family History and Oral Contraceptives, 27879-27882 [2OC]

Fast Fries Fried in What?, 16539 [16JY]

FDA Politicization Called Hazardous to Health, 605 [28JA]

Feds Should Chew on Fast-Food Standards, 13164 [10JN]

Fish Story—Why Are We Hearing So Much About Fish Oil, 5961 [21MR]

Fleming, Lady Amalia, 4344-4346 [11MR]

For a National Parental Leave Policy, 5089 [17MR]

For the Children's Sake, 23599 [16SE]

Found—Warm Heart Among the Bureaucrats, 521 [23JA]

Growing Toll of Alzheimer's Disease, 27507 [1OC]

Growth Hormone Proves To Be Tempting for Athletes, 30432 [10OC]

Handle This Package With Care, 22990 [11SE]

He Died in Debt Because the VA Didn't Have a Bed for Him, 11092 [15MY]

Health Agency Says Justice Department Memo on AIDS Ignores Evidence (excerpt), 17037 [21JY]

Health and Law Suits (excerpts), 20734, 20735 [11AU]

Health Care Has Changed, and Not All of It Is for the Better, 4608 [12MR]

Health Care—Quality and Constraint, 1287 [30JA]

Health Personnel May Have Gotten AIDS From Patients, 33639 [17OC]

Health Promotion (excerpt), 13831 [16JN]

Health Workers Got AIDS Virus From Needles, 33639 [17OC]

Health-Care Abuses That Cost $2 Billion, 16254 [26JN]

Healthy Baby Born to Brain-Dead Mother, 18224 [30JY]

High on Crusading, 25710 [23SE]

Highly Sensitive Test Can Detect Dioxin Years After Exposure, 31235 [14OC]

HMO's—Protecting Senior Citizens, 13408 [11JN]

How a Military Decision Spelled Family Tragedy, 30393 [10OC]

How Hospitals Hurt Old People, 4346 [11MR]

HRS' Pingree Says He's Resigning at End of Month, 4605 [12MR]

I Feel Like I Am Trapped Inside My Head, Banging Desperately Against Its Walls, 7516 [15AP]

If There's a Nuclear Disaster, Who Pays?, 5191 [18MR]

Indigent Health Care Issue Takes Spotlight, 217 [21JA]

Inferno of Craving, Dealing, and Despair, 13028 [9JN]

Inventing a Perfect Dumping Ground, the Town of ``Somewhere Else'', 16509 [15JY]

Inverse Relation Between Fish Consumption and 20-Year Mortality From Coronary Heart Disease, 22002-22004 [15AU]

It's Time for a Superfund Compromise, 10245 [9MY]

Jack McCarthy, Swansea's Citizen of the Year Receives Numerous Awards, Ovations, 8233 [21AP]

Job Deaths and Injuries Seem To Be Increasing After Years of Decline, 5546 [19MR]

Job Security for Mothers, 18244 [30JY]

Kelsey Orestis—Champion of Rights for the Mentally Ill, 15165 [24JN], 16634 [16JY]

Kids and Cocaine, 4418 [12MR]

Killing the Exemption, 2609 [24FE]

L.A. at Center of Massive Study of Chernobyl Victims, 17926 [29JY]

Laboratory Animal Research, 31342 [15OC]

Lady Fleming Dies in Athens; Foe of Nazis and Army Junta, 4344 [11MR]

Last Hurdle for Superfund, 32337 [16OC]

Last Push for Superfund, 32337 [16OC]

Laughable Acid-Rain Argument, 9952 [7MY]

Lautenberg Leads Way on Radonproofing, 11783 [21MY]

Leave for Parents, 16528 [15JY]

Let Business Cut Health Costs, 6387 [27MR]

Let People Know What They're Eating, 10424 [13MY]

Let's All Get Mad, Win War on Drugs, 25710 [23SE]

Let's Face It, We Goofed, 16004 [26JN]

Liability Insurance Rates Skyrocket—NGA Survey, 158 [21JA]

Liability Threat Slows Progress of Medical Technology, 23920 [18SE]

License To Hound AIDS Victims, 16301 [26JN], 17037 [21JY]

Life Above All, 23195 [12SE]

Life From Death, 12828 [5JN]

Local Family Physician Elected to National Family Physician Board, 29171 [7OC]

Malpractice Is Insurance Chasing Doctors Away, 6765 [8AP]

Meal Card Program—Use of Vouchers That Can Be Redeemed for Meals at Local Restaurant, 3765 [5MR]

Media Violence—Hazardous to Our Health, 22469 [9SE]

Medicare and Physicians' Services (excerpt), 8689 [24AP]

Medicare Prospective Payment System (excerpt), 8024 [17AP]

Minority Health ADAMHA Concern, 653 [28JA]

Mom—Help Might Have Prevented Sylvia's Rampage, 30403 [10OC]

Narc Goes Underground at Cherry Hill East High, 4421 [12MR]

Need Cited for U.S. Testing for Hospital Disinfectants, 28949 [6OC]

New Growth Industry in Human Growth Hormone?, 29391 [7OC]

New Mayo Clinic in Florida Is First Link in Nationwide Chain to Challenge HMO's, 29594 [8OC]

No Numbers on Hungry People, 517 [23JA]

Nurse Punctured by AIDS-Infected Needle Sues Med School—Student Called Negligent in Disposing of Syringe, 33639 [17OC]

Nurse to Senate—Ashamed of Profession, 8707 [24AP]

Nutrition, 13889 [16JN]

Nutritional Breakthrough of the 80's—Omega-3, 22004 [15AU]

Oasis of Hope in the Watts Community, 24696 [18SE]

Older Americans View of Themselves (excerpt), 9746 [7MY]

On the Congressional Agenda—Improved Pesticide Control Law, 28932 [6OC]

Once Again, W. 143d St. Battles Against Drug Plague, 18026 [29JY]

Other Plague, 4416 [12MR]

Our Indian Reservation System Has Failed To Help the Indians, 3238 [27FE]

Parent's Rights, 30142 [9OC]

Patient Gets $800,000 in Insurance Suit, 11094 [15MY]

Peace of Mind for $155, 5597 [19MR]

Peer Review Among Doctors Receives Boost, 30770 [14OC]

Pike—Justice Department Tells How To Discriminate Properly, 21746 [14AU]

Pioneering Psychiatrist Remains True to Beliefs, 17169 [22JY]

Pre-Empting California, 28932 [6OC]

Preventing Needless Deaths, 12832 [5JN]

Programmed To Kill, 7961 [17AP]

Promise of Animal Research Is Too Great To Abandon, 17542 [24JY]

Protection From Pesticides, 28931 [6OC]

Psychiatry Returns to Biology—Evidence Mounts for Physiological Basis of Mental Disorders, 19598 [6AU]

Putting Genes on a Map—World's Scientists Begin Planning a Detailed Description of Human DNA, 18601 [31JY]

Quiet Disease, 2772 [25FE]

Radonproof Homes To Be Built in Jersey, 11783 [21MY]

Reagans Lead on Drugs, 26377 [25SE]

Reason Fails With Qaddafi, Bombs May Get His Attention, 8837 [28AP]

Recognition for Medical Center, 3239 [27FE]

Recognizing Roper, 27429 [30SE]

Refusenik Cancer Ward—Phone Call to U.S. From Ailing Soviets Underscores Battle of Disease and Politics, 24722 [18SE]

Renew Superfund, 32337 [16OC]

Research Mystery—Use of Surgery, Hospitals Varies Greatly by Region, 4876 [14MR]

Researchers Report Finding Telltale Sign of Agent Orange, 27125 [29SE]

Retiring Hospital President Says the Industry Is Ailing, 22000 [15AU]

Rights and AIDS, 17037 [21JY]

Safety Net Misses Indigent Mentally Ill, 11791-11794 [21MY]

Sanctions Against South Africa, 30874 [14OC]

Saving Minds From Waste, 14867 [20JN]

Saving Social Security, 13891 [16JN]

Schizophrenia Focus Shifts to Dramatic Changes in Brain, 7514 [15AP]

Schizophrenia Puzzle—Toll Rises Amid Hope, 7510 [15AP]

Schizophrenia's Victims Include Strained Families, 7513 [15AP]

Sealing the Deal on Pesticide Reform, 28931 [6OC]

Secretary Pingree Resigns, 4605 [12MR]

Seegrist Offers Pointers, 30403 [10OC]

Should Liquor Have Warning Labels?, 17059 [21JY]

Should Nurses Be Told if a Patient Has AIDS?, 33639 [17OC]

Should the FDA Regulate the Rest of the World?, 10332 [12MY]

Simplest Way To Fight Drugs, 27744 [1OC]

Singin' in the Rain, 15652 [25JN]

Six Shots To Save Your Life, 24702 [18SE]

Some Insurers Stop Writing Health, Life Polices in DC, 28401 [3OC]

Some Veterans Deserve a Day in Court, 25375 [22SE]

Sorry, Your Policy Is Canceled, 5109-5113 [18MR]

State of Fear, 31227 [14OC]

States Asked To Increase Disability Caseloads, 30448 [10OC]

States' Rights and Pesticides, 28931, 28932 [6OC]

Strangling Superfund With Affection, 3222 [27FE]

Study Rates MH Care Quality by State, 7908 [17AP]

Superfund Insurance, 8576 [23AP]

Superfund Tax Liability, 33625 [17OC]

Superfund Up to Conferees Now, 3255 [27FE]

Superfund—A Hazardous Waste of Taxpayer Money, 19471-19474 [6AU], 29731-29734 [8OC]

Superfund—Congress Steps Up to an Environmental Problem, 31234 [14OC]

Support Continues for an Expanded Medicare Reimbursement Policy, 33632 [17OC]

Supt. McCarthy Honored for Stand on AIDS, 8234 [21AP]

Survivors of Abortion—Dreaded Complication, 8153-8155 [21AP]

Swallow the Toxic Smorgasbord, 33580 [17OC]

Tale of Three Addictions, 4420 [12MR]

Teen Pregnancy—Answers at Home, 3244 [27FE]

Television's Effect on Children (excerpt), 7960 [17AP]

Telltale Hair, 4416 [12MR]

Test on Pesticides, 28933 [6OC]

Testing Testing, 4416 [12MR]

There Is a Free Lunch—And It's Important, 15998 [26JN]

Tissue Research Wins Award, 523 [23JA]

Tobacco Wars, 16867-16872 [17JY]

Tort Liability Insurance (excerpt), 10983, 10984, 10986, 10987 [15MY]

Transmission of AIDS—Case Against Casual Contagion, 23264 [12SE]

Turbulent Story of Longest Survival Began on Brink of Death, 20569 [11AU]

Two Brands of Justice, 9157 [30AP]

2,784-Mile Trek, 11226 [19MY]

U.S. Apologizes to AIDS Researcher, 17530 [23JY]

UA Success at Heart of Transplant Story—100 Operations Later, Tucson Leads Way, 22180 [15AU]

UCLA-Occidental-Gorbachev Connection, 17924 [29JY]

Unsung Live-Aid Challenge, 28558 [3OC]

Urban Institute Debunks Harvard's Hunger Hype, 15930 [26JN]

VA Denies His Breast Cancer Claim, 17546 [24JY]

Vet's Inspirational Walk Brings Reagan to Tears, 11226 [19MY]

Violence on TV Spurs Increased Adult Supervision, 7960 [17AP]

Washington Wire—A Special Weekly Report, 23095 [12SE]

Washington's Solution to Drugs Smacks of a Political Stampede, 25708 [23SE]

We Can Save Those Children, 27443 [30SE]

We Just Can't Live With Death by Dope, 3991 [6MR]

What Parents Don't Know About Crack, New Cocaine Threat, Could Be Hazardous, 9681 [6MY]

What To Do If Your Son or Daughter Gets Hooked, 4421 [12MR]

What's at Stake—Immediate Case for Animal Research, 31340 [15OC]

What's the Beef?, 10424 [13MY]

When a Vaccine Injures a Child—No-Fault Way To Compensate, 30417 [10OC]

When Abortion Becomes Birth—A Dilemma of Medical Ethics Shaken by New Advances, 8325-8326 [22AP]

Where 911 Could Have Helped, 21968 [15AU]

Who Will Live, Who Will Die, 31336-31340 [15OC]

Who Would Sexually Abuse a Child?, 17164 [21JY]

Whose Rights Should Come First in the Fight Against Drug Abuse?, 16764 [17JY]

Why Are Kids Killing Themselves?, 8225 [21AP]

``Why Me? Why Anyone?'' Leukemia Victim Asks, 2648 [24FE]

William Schroeder Dies 620 Days After Receiving Artificial Heart, 20570 [11AU]

With Chernobyl's Victims, 17923 [29JY]

World Health Development—Encouraging Facts, 18245 [30JY]

Bills and resolutions

Abortion: informed consent (see S. 2791; H.R. 5303)

———informed consent from patients (see S. 2420)

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome: enactment of State laws (see H. Con. Res. 402)

———grants for services and demonstration projects (see H.R. 5305)

———improve counseling, education, and services (see S. 2345)

———prohibit transfer of body fluids by Federal officers, employees, or members of Armed Forces (see H.R. 5638)

Aged: development of alternative medical care facilities (see H.R. 5641)

———improve State long-term care ombudsman programs (see S. 2912)

Air transportation: prohibit smoking on certain passenger aircraft (see H.R. 4924)

Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration: authorize appropriations (see S. 2443)

———revise authorities (see S. 2595; H.R. 5259)

Alcoholism: allotment formula for block grants (see H.R. 4473)

———grants for prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation programs for certain youth (see S. 2800)

———grants to States for prevention, early detection, and treatment programs in schools (see H.R. 5336)

———State allotment of block grants (see S. 2087)

Alzheimer's disease: improve services (see S. 2183)

———promote family support groups for patients and their families (see H.R. 4055; H. Res. 360)

———research programs (see S. 2846, 2861; H.R. 5553)

Animal Drug Amendments and Patent Term Restoration Act: enact (see S. 2407)

Animals: enforcement of quarantine laws through inspection of certain mail parcels (see H.R. 5601)

Asbestos: EPA information clearinghouse (see H.R. 5078)

———EPA regulations on inspection of schools (see H.R. 5073)

———EPA standards for identification and abatement in schools (see S. 2083; H.R. 4311)

———EPA standards for public buildings (see S. 2300)

———information from manufacturers (see H.R. 5369)

———inspection and sample requirements for owners of buildings (see H.R. 5369)

———relief bill (H.R. 5551) referred to Claims Court (see H. Res. 555)

———relief for certain manufacturers or suppliers (see H.R. 5551)

———tax rules for accrual of, and carryback of losses from, deduction for product liabilities (see S. 2901)

Asbestos Information Clearinghouse: establish (see S. 2720)

Atomic energy: identify individuals exposed to radiation at Chernobyl, U.S.S.R., nuclear accident to monitor health status (see S. Con. Res. 156; H. Con. Res. 373)

Atomic power plants: international emergency response team (see H.R. 445)

———multilateral negotiations on safety standards (see H. Res. 438)

———notification of accidents to neighboring countries, International Atomic Energy Agency, and the U.N. (see H. Res. 441)

Atomic weapons tests: research on potential atmospheric, climatic, biological, and environmental consequences (see H.R. 5051)

Back injuries: establish commission (see H.R. 5681)

Bacteria: EPA standards for antimicrobial agents used to control pest microorganisms (see S. 2659; H.R. 5458)

Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act: exempt certain provisions relative to medical care (see H.R. 4035)

Bankruptcy: prevent rejection of contracts providing health benefits to current and former employees of debtor (see H.R. 5376)

———prevent rejection of contracts providing medical benefits to current or former employees of debtor (see H.R. 5298)

Biomedical information: promote dissemination to prevent duplication of experiments on live animals (see H.R. 5486)

Blood analyzers: duty (see H.R. 4733)

Blue Cross and Blue Shield: tax exemption (see S. Res. 419)

Bonner, Yelena: authorized treatment in the U.S. (see H. Con. Res. 269)

Boxing: health and safety standards (see H.R. 5715)

Butyl nitrite: prohibit sale and advertisement of certain inhalants (see S. 2831)

Cadet Nurse Corps: civil service retirement credit for World War II services (see S. 2953)

Child Nutrition Act: amend (see H.R. 4880)

———improve availability of benefits (see H.R. 4990)

Children: medical assistance to low-income families (see S. 2667; H.R. 4630)

———prevention of injuries (see S. 2648)

———programs of newborn genetic screening (see H.R. 5147)

Commercial Fishing Vessel Liability and Safety Act: enact (see S. 2546)

Commissioner of Food and Drugs: appointment (see S. 2025)

Community food and nutrition programs: authorize appropriations (see H.R. 4421)

———consideration of H.R. 4421, authorize appropriations (see H. Res. 428)

———waiving certain points of order against conference report on H.R. 4421, appropriations (see H. Res. 543)

Community services block grant: waiving certain points of order against conference report on H.R. 4421, appropriations (see H. Res. 543)

Congressional Medal of Honor: military medical care (see H.R. 4964)

Council on Environmental Quality: authorize appropriations (see H.R. 4353)

Crack/Cocaine Awareness Month: designate (see S. Res. 464; H.J. Res. 678)

Critical Care Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 349; H.J. Res. 526)

Cyclosporine: duty-free treatment (see H.R. 5034)

Deafness: compensation for service-connected disability (see H.R. 4989)

Deborah Heart and Lung Center: reimbursement (see H. Con. Res. 376)

Dept. of Defense: sharing of medical care resources with VA (see S. 2627; H.R. 5157)

Developmental Disabilities Training Assistance Act: enact (see S. 2688)

Disability evaluation: regulatory standards and procedures governing (see H.R. 4936)

Disaster Relief Act: increase assistance to emergency and disaster victims (see H.R. 4933)

District of Columbia: commemorative plaque at Providence Hospital (see H.R. 4382)

Donation of organs: protocols for hospitals participating in medicaid and medicare programs (see S. 2808; H.R. 5587)

———standards for procurement agencies (see S. 2808; H.R. 5587)

Donation of organs or tissues: hospital protocols for identifying potential donors (see H.R. 4697)

Drug abuse: allotment formula for block grants (see H.R. 4473)

———consideration of H.R. 5484, prevention, education, and rehabilitation programs (see H. Res. 541)

———detection and treatment of certain offenders (see H.R. 5076)

———education and prevention programs in schools (see H.R. 4155)

———Federal aid programs for prevention and treatment (see H.R. 5334)

———grants for prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation programs for certain youth (see S. 2800)

———grants to States for prevention, early detection, and treatment programs in schools (see S. 2740; H.R. 5336, 5378)

———prevention, education, and rehabilitation programs (see H.R. 5484)

———response to crack cocaine epidemic (see S. 2715; H.R. 5418)

———State allotment of block grants (see S. 2087)

Drug industry: 7-year exclusive marketing privilege for other companies due to simultaneous development (see S. 2772)

———ban reimportation of drugs produced in U.S. (see S. 2875; H.R. 4820)

———fees for review of applications for marketing approval (see S. 2739)

———restrictions on samples (see S. 2875; H.R. 4820)

Drug-Free America Act: enact (see S. 2849)

Drugs: penalties for intentional poisoning or adulteration (see H.R. 4481)

Education: grants for alcohol and drug abuse prevention, early intervention, and rehabilitation programs in schools and colleges (see H.R. 5297)

Emergency Medical Services Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 343; H.J. Res. 529)

Employment: consideration of H.R. 4300, parental leaves for birth, adoption, or disease of family members (see H. Res. 552)

———discrimination against individuals having history of cancer (see S. Con. Res. 165, 166)

———discrimination against persons with history of cancer (see H. Con. Res. 321)

———parental medical leave (see S. 2278)

End Stage Renal Disease Patient Rights Act: enact (see S. 2547)

EPA: authorize appropriations (see H.R. 4634)

———establish Asbestos Information Clearinghouse (see S. 2720)

———Superfund interim financing and borrowing authority (see S. 2120, 2211, 2212; H.R. 4381, 4445)

ERISA: employer-based health insurance coverage (see H.R. 5519)

———improve protection and delivery of benefits under private retirement health plan (see H.R. 5575)

Eskimos: prevention and control of diabetes (see H.R. 4282)

Farm produce: perishable commodity label requirement for commission merchants, dealers, and brokers (see H.R. 5088)

Fast food restaurants: labeling requirements for packaged foods (see S. 2446)

FDA: establish statute by law (see S. 2154)

———reclassification of transitional devices (see S. 2771)

Federal employees: expand the class of individuals eligible for refunds of overpayments to insurance plans (see S. 2017, 2020; H.R. 4061)

———insurance coverage of cleft lip and cleft palate (see H.R. 5589)

———open seasons before the start of any contract year in which there are changes in insurance program (see S. 2020)

———social and long-term health benefits (see H.R. 5723)

———voluntary contractual alternatives to prevailing tort basis for compensating persons for injuries or illness incurred during medical treatment (see S. 2941)

Federal Employees Health Benefits Rebate Act: enact (see S. 2018)

Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund: earmark revenues from 8 cent excise tax increase on cigarettes (see H.R. 5008)

Food: penalties for intentional poisoning or adulteration (see H.R. 4481)

Food Security Act: amend (see H.R. 5527)

———technical corrections of amendments under H.R. 2100 (see S. 2036; H.R. 4084)

Food Security Improvements Act: enact (see S. 2143)

Food stamp plan: improve availability (see H.R. 4880)

Foreign trade: enforcement of plant and animal quarantine laws (see H.R. 5684)

———international basic standards to prevent air and water pollution, soil erosion, and hazardous waste contamination (see H.R. 4681)

Fringe benefits: tax treatment of certain (see S. Res. 303)

Gaucher's Disease Awareness Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 352; H.J. Res. 615)

Genetic Disorder Awareness Month: designate (see S. Res. 342)

Geriatric Physicians Graduate Medical Education Act: enact (see S. 2489)

Handicapped: development of alternative medical care facilities (see H.R. 5641)

Hawaiians: improve health status (see S. 2243)

———prevention and control of diabetes (see H.R. 4282)

Hazardous substances: emergency response procedures (see H.R. 5396)

Health Equity and Incentives Reform Act: enact (see S. 2485)

Health insurance: access (see S. 2402, 2403; H.R. 4742)

Health Plan Promotion Act: enact (see S. 2486)

Homeless: medical care (see H.R. 5137)

Hormones: classification of certain, artificially produced (see H.R. 5653, 5695)

Hospital rates: limit rate of increase in inpatient deductible and revise extended care coinsurance amount (see H.R. 5008)

Hospitals: ban certain resales of drugs (see H.R. 4820)

———ban certain resales of drugs purchased by medical facilities (see S. 2875)

———collection and dissemination of information relative to payments in medical malpractice claims and certain adverse decisions (see H.R. 5540)

Humanities: set aside certain surplus vessels for assistance to developing countries (see H.R. 4046)

Hunger: commitment to domestic problem (see S. Res. 385)

Hunger Relief Act: enact (see S. 2495, 2533; H.R. 4990)

Illegal aliens: emergency hospital services (see H.R. 5263)

———medicaid benefits (see S. 2644)

———reimburse physicians and medical facilities for emergency treatment of certain (see H.R. 5216)

Immunosuppressive Drug Therapy Act: enact (see S. 2536)

Immunosuppressive drugs: provide for organ transplant centers (see S. 2540)

Indian Health Care Improvement Act: amend (see H.R. 5222)

———authorize appropriations (see H.R. 4600)

———consideration of H.R. 1426, amend (see H. Res. 528)

Indians: prevention and control of diabetes (see H.R. 4282)

Infant Mortality Prevention Act: enact (see S. 2288)

Inhalants: prohibit sale and advertisement of certain (see S. 2831)

Insurance: tax treatment of certain amounts received as settlement of claims for postretirement medical coverage (see S. 2254)

Just Say No to Drugs Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 337)

Juvenile Drug Prevention Act: enact (see S. 2699)

Lasker, Mary: gold medal (see H.R. 4153)

Liability insurance: collective purchasing groups (see S. 2129; H.R. 4301)

———limits in tort system (see S. 2742)

Liability law: establish arbitration panels for product, medical malpractice, and tort actions for personal injuries (see H.R. 4920)

Lite drink and food: labeling (see H.R. 4269)

Livestock: prohibit use of subtherapeutic doses of penicillin, chlortetracycline, and oxytetracycline in animal feed (see S. 2935)

LTV Corp.: resume health and life insurance benefits for retirees (see S. 2690; H.R. 5276, 5283)

Lupus Awareness Month: designate (see S.J. Res. 279; H.J. Res. 531)

Malpractice: collection and dissemination to hospitals of information concerning certain payments and adverse decisions (see S. 2677)

———good faith professional review activities of medical care entities and collection and dissemination to hospitals of certain information (see H.R. 5110)

Married people: clarify institutionalized spouse income resources (see H.R. 4902)

———protect welfare of spouses of institutionalized individuals (see H.R. 4903)

Meat packing industry: inspection (see H.R. 4683)

Medicaid: assistance to illegal aliens (see S. 2644)

———bed requirement for skilled nursing homes and intermediate care facilities (see H.R. 5344)

———change requirements for nursing homes based on recommendations of Institute of Medicine (see H.R. 5450)

———comprehensive assessment of medical needs before providing long-term nursing care (see H.R. 4901)

———cost reduction (see S. 2776)

———coverage of pregnant women (see H.R. 5235)

———home and community based services to low income individuals with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (see S. 2527)

———optional State coverage for poor elderly or disabled individuals (see H.R. 4882)

———prenatal and postpartum care to low-income pregnant women (see S. 2333; H.R. 4630)

———quality assurance system for homecare services (see H.R. 5680)

———quality control (see S. 2625; H.R. 5130)

———requests of hospital inpatients for reconsideration of determinations denying payment for continuing care (see H.R. 4275)

———services to children of low-income families (see S. 2649)

———services to pregnant women and infants (see S. 2650)

———standards for participating nursing homes (see S. 2604)

———standards for participation of skilled nursing homes (see H.R. 4485)

———States held harmless against a decrease in payment rates (see H.R. 4876)

———treatment in small rural hospitals (see S. 2410; H.R. 4788)

———uniform eligibility and benefit levels (see S. 2926; H.R. 5698)

Medical care: criminal penalty for damage to a licensed facility and for injury to a person seeking lawful treatment (see H.R. 5473)

———decennial survey on impact of Federal expenditures (see S. 2167)

———respite care demonstration program (see S. 2586)

Medical instruments and apparatus: improve regulations (see H.R. 5516)

Medical personnel: authority for direct payment or reimbursement of certain additional types (see H.R. 4825)

———collection and dissemination of information on certain adverse licensure decisions and payments for malpractice actions (see H.R. 4390)

Medical students: medicare reimbursement in ambulatory care settings (see S. 2670)

Medicare: additional insurance options for coverage of certain gaps (see H.R. 5320)

———additional members on Physician Payment Review Commission (see S. 2602; H.R. 5085)

———adult day care (see H.R. 4739)

———annual preventive health checkup (see S. 2400)

———annual recalibration of diagnosis-related groups (see S. 2474)

———auditing, medical review, and administration (see S. 2625; H.R. 5130)

———availability of new technologies and procedures not recognized by prospective payment system (see S. 2474)

———catastrophic, long-term, and preventive benefits through prepaid plans (see H.R. 4287)

———change requirements for skilled nursing facilities based on recommendations of Institute of Medicine (see H.R. 5712)

———community nursing and ambulatory care on prepaid, capitated basis (see H.R. 5457)

———complications and morbidity variations among discharges taken into account in making payments for inpatient hospital services under diagnosis-related group system (see H.R. 5647)

———contributions by individuals with physical or mental impairments (see H.R. 5090)

———cost effective review procedures and equity for beneficiaries (see H.R. 4419)

———cost reduction (see S. 2776)

———coverage for the disabled (see S. 2686)

———end stage renal disease program (see H.R. 5197)

———exemption of certain cancer research and treatment centers from prospective payment system (see S. 2786)

———funds for research into the outcomes of specific medical treatments and surgical procedures (see S. 2001)

———graduate medical education in ambulatory care settings (see S. 2670)

———home oxygen services on prospective basis (see H.R. 5206)

———improve access to, and quality of program (see S. 2655)

———inpatient hospital and posthospital services (see S. 2331, 2341; H.R. 4620, 4638, 4663)

———inpatient hospital services in certain rural hospitals (see S. 2432)

———limitations on payment for home care services (see H.R. 5207, 5214)

———long-term and acute care benefits (see H.R. 4330)

———method of payment to hospitals for capital-related costs (see S. 2121)

———notice of discharge rights at time of admission to a hospital (see H.R. 4272)

———optional catastrophic, long-term, and preventive benefits through prepaid plans (see S. 2358)

———optional catastrophic care (see H.R. 4349)

———optometrists' and occupational therapy services (see H.R. 4881)

———payment for extended services provided through home health agencies in underserved rural areas (see H.R. 5671)

———payment for physicians' services (see S. 2368)

———payments for physician services made on an assignment-related basis (see H.R. 5732)

———prohibit certain physician-hospital capitation demonstration projects (see H.R. 5741)

———prompt payment of claims (see S. Res. 420; H. Res. 468, 471)

———quality assurance system for homecare services (see H.R. 5680)

———quality of services furnished by health maintenance organizations and competitive medical plans (see H.R. 5360)

———research on outcomes of specific medical treatment and surgical procedures (see S. 2114)

———research relative to outcomes of specific treatments and surgical procedures (see H.R. 4797)

———services to VA beneficiaries (see S. 2174)

———standards for participating nursing homes (see S. 2604)

———standards for participation of skilled nursing homes (see H.R. 4485)

———treatment in small rural hospitals (see S. 2410; H.R. 4788)

———waiver of liability presumption for home health agencies and nursing homes (see H.R. 4065)

———waiver of liability presumption for home health agencies and skilled nursing homes (see S. 2122)

Medicare Home Health Care Improvement Act: enact (see S. 2494)

Medicare Information Act: enact (see S. 2554)

Mental Illness Awareness Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 298; H.J. Res. 552)

Mentally handicapped: services and benefits (see H.R. 4327)

———State health plans (see H.R. 4326)

Mentally ill: assist States to establish and operate protection and advocacy systems (see H.R. 4055; H. Res. 360)

Mexico: education and training in contiguous States (see S. 2089; H.R. 4179)

Military dependents: medical benefits for certain (see S. 2213)

Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 719)

Narcotic addiction: prevention and education programs (see H.R. 5664, 5729)

Narcotics: detection and treatment of drug-dependent offenders (see H.R. 4962)

National Academies of Practice: grant charter (see H.R. 4710)

National Adult Day Care Center Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 375; H.J. Res. 617)

National Adult Immunization Awareness Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 396; H.J. Res. 700)

National Alopecia Areata Awareness Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 299; H.J. Res. 550)

National Alzheimer's Disease Month: designate (see S.J. Res. 280; H.J. Res. 514)

National Aplastic Anemia Awareness Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 329; H.J. Res. 611)

National Back to School—Back Off Drugs Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 698)

National Burn Awareness Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 410, 432; H.J. Res. 737)

National Cancer Institute: grants for research on adoptive immunotherapy (see S. 2305)

National Commission on Health Care Reform: establish (see H.R. 5736)

National Congregate and Meals on Wheels Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 556)

National CPR Awareness Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 426; H.J. Res. 720)

National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 273)

National Diabetes Month: designate (see S.J. Res. 318; H.J. Res. 602)

National Digestive Diseases Awareness Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 324; H.J. Res. 554)

National Down's Syndrome Month: designate (see S.J. Res. 321; H.J. Res. 568)

National Drug Abuse Education and Prevention Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 354; H.J. Res. 619)

National Drug Abuse Education Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 386; H.J. Res. 701)

National Epidermolysis Bullosa Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 639)

National Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Awareness Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 373)

National Home Care Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 339)

National Home Health Care Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 718)

National Hospice Month: designate (see S.J. Res. 317; H.J. Res. 586)

National Infection Control Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 623)

National Kidney Program Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 367; H.J. Res. 618)

National Medical Laboratory Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 312)

National Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 525)

National Nuclear Medicine Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 314)

National Nursing Home Residents Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 264)

National Organ and Tissue Donor Act: enact (see S. 2455)

National Osteoporosis Awareness Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 285; H.J. Res. 510)

National Parkinson's Disease Awareness Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 539)

National Physical Fitness and Sports Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 548)

National Reye's Syndrome Awareness Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 345; H.J. Res. 638)

National School Lunch Act: amend (see H.R. 4880)

National Spina Bifida Month: designate (see S.J. Res. 368; H.J. Res. 655)

National Women's Health Awareness Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 571)

NIH: restriction on use of grants to obtain animals for research (see H.R. 4871)

NIH Centennial Year: designate (see S.J. Res. 395; H.J. Res. 709)

9-1-1 Emergency Number Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 405; H.J. Res. 708)

Nurse practitioners: authority to certify need for certain services (see S. 2920)

———Social Security coverage of certain items and services (see S. 2920)

Nursing homes: basic rights of residents (see S. 2119; H.R. 4279)

———protection of patients (see H.R. 5067)

Occupational health and safety: additional information to workers (see H.R. 4793)

———notification to workers (see S. 2050)

———providing for consideration of H.R. 1309 (see H. Res. 506)

Office of Environmental Quality: authorize appropriations (see H.R. 4353)

Office of Minority Health: establish (see H.R. 4297)

Older Americans Act: quality assurance system for homecare services (see H.R. 5680)

Older Americans Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 267; H.J. Res. 532)

OMB: voluntary contractual alternatives to prevailing tort basis for compensating persons for injuries or illness incurred during medical treatment (see S. 2941)

Organ procurement and transplantation network: strengthen (see S. 2841)

Organized camping: anniversary (see S. Res. 406)

Parkinson's Disease Amelioration Act: enact (see S. 2094)

Pediatric pulmonary medicine: funds for research, training, and patient service (see S. 2873)

Pesticides: eliminate duplicative research on effects of weed control (see S. 2705)

———protect public health and ecology (see S. 2215, 2346; H.R. 4364, 4513)

Physical fitness: encourage State and local governments to require quality daily school programs (see S. Con. Res. 145; H. Con. Res. 344)

Physician Payment Review Commission: additional members (see S. 2602; H.R. 5085)

Physicians: prohibit discrimination against graduates of foreign medical schools (see H.R. 4516)

Pittsburgh, PA: designate Charles E. Kelly VA Medical Center (see H.R. 5657)

———designate Commando Charles E. Kelly VA Medical Center (see S. 2866)

Plague: financial assistance to control (see H.R. 4392)

Plants: enforcement of quarantine laws through inspection of certain mail parcels (see H.R. 5601)

Poland: authorize shipment of dry milk (see S. Res. 394)

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB): disposal requirements (see H.R. 5141)

POWs: reimbursement for emergency medical expenses relative to service-connected disabilities (see H.R. 4988)

Pregnancy: prenatal and postpartum care to low-income women under medicaid (see S. 2333; H.R. 4630)

President's Council on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: establish (see S. 2057; H.R. 4723)

President's Media Commission on Drug Abuse: establish (see H.R. 5427)

Psychologists: special pay for commissioned corps of Public Health Service (see S. 2876)

Public buildings: restricted smoking areas (see H.R. 4546)

———smoking restrictions (see H.R. 4488)

Public Health Service Act: amend (see S. 2793; H. Res. 359)

———assist hospitals to establish protocols for identifying potential organ and tissue donors (see H.R. 4945)

———authorize research into acquired immune deficiency syndrome in foreign countries (see H.R. 4914)

———extend health planning authority (see H.R. 5413)

———extend program of childhood vaccinations (see H.R. 5230)

———specify method of determining State allotments (see H.R. 5007)

Queens County, NY: designate Joseph P. Addabbo VA Extended Care Center at St. Albans (see H.R. 5472)

Radioactive pollution: prohibit imports from countries contaminated by Soviet power plant accident (see H.J. Res. 622)

Radioactivity: State regulation of hazards of production and utilization facilities (see H.R. 5652)

Radon: EPA research program and technical assistance to States (see H.R. 5202)

———EPA technical assistance to States and dissemination of information to the public (see S. 2710; H.R. 5312)

Radon gas: tax deduction of expenses for home improvement to mitigate air contaminant (see S. 2577)

Rehabilitation Act: amend (see S. 2515)

Rural areas: payment for extended services provided through home health agencies (see H.R. 5671)

Safe Drinking Water Act: correct technical errors in enrollment of S. 124 (see H. Con. Res. 346)

Santa Monica Bay, CA: FDA study of toxic contamination of fish (see S. 2126; H.R. 4277)

School-based adolescent health services demonstration projects: establish (see S. 2757; H.R. 5377)

Selective Service System: registration of medical personnel (see H.R. 4346)

Shock wave lithotripters: duty (see S. 2597)

Smoking: Dept. of HHS television announcements on health risks for women (see S. 2434)

Social Security: clarify institutionalized spouse income resources (see H.R. 4902)

———comprehensive assessment of medical needs before providing long-term nursing care (see H.R. 4901)

———coverage of pregnant women (see H.R. 5235)

———investment of trust funds (see S. 2133; H.R. 4067)

———permit States to provide home and community-based services to low-income individuals with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (see H.R. 4915)

———prospective payment rates for outpatient maintenance dialysis services (see S. 2646)

———protect welfare of spouses of institutionalized individuals (see H.R. 4903)

Social Security Administration: establish as independent agency (see H.R. 5050)

Speedometers: duty on certain (see S. 2363)

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

Stratosphere: ozone depletion (see H.R. 5737)

Taxation: contributions to medical services savings accounts (see H.R. 4349)

———establish limited deduction on contributions to long-term care savings accounts (see H.R. 4904)

———itemized deductions for medical and dental expenses (see H. Con. Res. 355)

———treatment of certain fringe benefits (see S. Res. 303, 339)

Tax-exempt organizations: registration when providing medical care and prescription drugs (see H.R. 4482)

Television: evaluation of programs (see S. 2322)

Tobacco industry: ban promotion of products (see H.R. 4972)

Transplantation of organs: immunosuppressive drugs (see H.R. 5146)

———preference to U.S. citizens and permanent residents in hospitals participating in medicare program (see H.R. 5567)

———strengthen procurement and transplantation network (see S. 2841)

U.S. Health Act: enact (see H.R. 5070)

Uninsured Workers' Health Insurance Act: enact (see S. 2484)

University of Tennessee Center for Health Sciences: establish cancer research center (see H.R. 4587)

VA: contracts for medical care in geographically inaccessible areas (see H.R. 4660)

———designation of certain outpatient clinics as centers of geriatric research, education, and clinical activities (see H.R. 5731)

———efficiency and economy of health facilities (see H.R. 4839)

———exclude residents and interns from coverage under Federal Labor-Management Relations Statute (see S. 2173)

———extend period for submission of a report on special pay for physicians and dentists (see H.R. 4032)

———improve certain medical programs (see S. 2445)

———modification of structure of Office of the Chief Medical Director (see S. 2172)

———Office of Construction/Dept. of Medicine and Surgery consolidation (see H.R. 4193)

———parking at medical facilities (see S. 2422)

———sharing of medical care resources with Dept. of Defense (see S. 2627; H.R. 5157)

VA Readjustment Counseling Professional Fellowship Program: establish (see S. 2359)

Vaccination: development of preventive medicine and compensation for certain injuries (see H.R. 5184)

———supply for children (see H.R. 4777)

———U.S.-Soviet cooperation (see H. Res. 430)

Vaccines: compensation for victims of related injuries (see H.R. 5546)

———development and improvement of preventive medicine (see H.R. 5546)

Veterans: clothing allowance to certain veterans with skin disorders resulting from service-connected injuries (see H.R. 4968)

———eliminate means-test for non-service-connected disabilities (see H.R. 5579)

———improve various aspects of VA medical care programs (see S. 2388)

———life insurance for service-connected disabilities (see H.R. 4966)

———reimbursement for emergency medical expenses relative to service-connected disabilities (see H.R. 4988)

———tax credit for expenses incurred in care of elderly (see H.R. 4512)

Vietnam veterans: readjustment counseling (see H.R. 4623)

West Palm Beach VA Medical Center, FL: contract for medical care until completion (see H.R. 5585)

Wilderness areas: endurance and competitive trail rides and foot races (see H.R. 5428)

Women: prenatal, delivery, and postpartum care of low-income pregnant persons (see S. 2667)

Youth: ensure supply of childhood vaccines (see H.R. 5260)

———health demonstration projects (see H.R. 5108)

Youth Suicide Prevention Act: enact (see S. 2551)

Broadcasts

Crack down on crack: WABC-TV (New York, NY), 30150 [9OC]

DRG problem—call for hearings: WBZ-TV (Boston, MA), 16985 [17JY]

Cloture motions

Omnibus Drug Enforcement, Education, and Control Act: enact (H.R. 5484), 30319 [10OC]

Colloquies

Draft on retroactivity of changes to the judicial provisions of Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act: Chemical Manufacturers Association, 28409 [3OC]

Suits to force compliance with pollution control requirements: several Members of Congress, 28417 [3OC]

Court decisions

Capital Broadcasting Co. v. Mitchell, 1330 [3FE]

Roe v. Maher—Equal Protection and the Equal Rights Amendment: Connecticut Superior Court (excerpt), 10217 [8MY]

Critiques

Proposed RMCL for arsenic: Edward J. Calabrese, 11670 [21MY]

Definitions

Clinical social work: National Association of Social Workers, 2756 [25FE]

Essays

Biggest Problem Teenagers Face Today: Heather L. Kimmel, 29121 [6OC]

———Katherine Shenasky, 29121 [6OC]

———Lauren Casey, 29121 [6OC]

———Stephanie Cyran, 29122 [6OC]

What I Would Do if Offered Drugs: Alexandra D. Greenberg, 27454 [30SE]

———Alyce Chazan, 27454 [30SE]

———Andrew Hoffman (excerpt), 25377 [22SE]

———Aubrey de Bordenare, 27454 [30SE]

———Chris Wimpey, 28685 [3OC]

———Christy L. Bogart, 28685 [3OC]

———Daniel Mabe, 28687 [3OC]

———Debra Kennedy, 27454 [30SE]

———Duc Pham (excerpt), 25377 [22SE]

———Eric Holloway, 28685 [3OC]

———Jacqueline Atoa, 27454 [30SE]

———Jason Gonzales (excerpt), 17856 [28JY]

———Jeanne Moroney, 27454 [30SE]

———Jennifer Romo (excerpt), 25377 [22SE]

———Karen MaWhinney, 28685 [3OC]

———Kristine Christian (excerpt), 17856 [28JY]

———Lori Gillespie, 28685 [3OC]

———Melissa Masinsin (excerpt), 25377 [22SE]

———Sharonda Whittle (excerpt), 17856 [28JY]

———Simone Mack (excerpt), 17856 [28JY]

———(sundry excerpts), 30416, 30427 [10OC], 31222 [14OC]

———Tamara Franklin (excerpt), 17856 [28JY]

———Tiffany Everett (excerpt), 25377 [22SE]

Examples

Calculations of tax subsidies for health insurance under current law, S. 2484, S. 2485, and S. 2486, 11728 [21MY]

Hospital capital payment under Fair Deal Capital Payment Act, 3184 [27FE]

Technologies inhibited by medicare, 11328 [20MY]

Explanations

Amendment to the drug control bill to assure access for eligible homeless persons to Government assistance programs, 26733 [27SE]

Importance of Aplastic Anemia Research: Aplastic Anemia Foundation, 8309 [22AP]

Veterans' Benefits Improvement and Health Care Authorization Act (H.R. 5299), 29451-29461 [8OC], 30128-30138 [9OC]

Factsheets

Bubonic Plague, 8161 [21AP]

Chiles Amendment to Appropriations Bill (H.J. Res. 738), on Infant Mortality, 28345 [3OC]

Medicare Payment for Therapeutic Shoes: American Diabetes Association, 4237 [11MR]

Proposed Amendment To Deny Federal Tax-Exempt Status to Organizations Performing Abortions, 12476 [4JN]

History

Providence Hospital, Washington, DC, 4610 [12MR]

Interviews

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome: Myron Essex with New York (NY) Times (excerpt), 4433 [12MR]

Reflections of an advocate for research and health promotion: Frederick A. King with Jacob K. Javits, 16444-16446 [15JY]

Letters

Abortion, 27292 [30SE]

———Lathryn A. Buschman, 23831 [17SE]

Abortion (sundry), 30285 [10OC]

Acid rain: American Lung Association, 15737 [26JN]

———Representative Dingell, 15737 [26JN]

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome: Aetna (company), 28402 [3OC]

———Great-West Life Assurance Co., 28402 [3OC]

———Mutual of Omaha (company), 28402 [3OC]

———Provident Life & Accident Insurance Co., 28401 [3OC]

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome research: Senator Cranston, 22536 [10SE]

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome testing for insurance purposes: Brett Fuller, 18696 [1AU]

———Cleveland B. Sparrow, Sr., 18694 [1AU]

———Federation of Citizens Associations of the District of Columbia, 18695 [1AU]

———John D. Bussey, 18695 [1AU]

———John G. Martin, 18695 [1AU]

———T. Burton Pierce, 18696 [1AU]

———several insurance underwriters, 18695 [1AU]

Asbestos in schools: Florida mother, 22623 [10SE]

Authority for States to set uniform tolerance levels for pesticides: Arch A. Moore, Jr., Governor of West Virginia, 28954 [6OC]

———Florida Dept. of Health and Rehabilitation, 28958 [6OC]

———George Deukmejian, Governor of California, 28955 [6OC]

———George R. Ariyoshi, Governor of Hawaii, 28953, 28954 [6OC]

———John Ashcroft, Governor of Missouri, 28964 [6OC]

———Madeleine M. Kunin, Governor of Vermont, 28954 [6OC]

———National Governors' Association, 28956, 28962 [6OC]

———Richard H. Bryan, Governor of Nevada, 28956 [6OC]

———Richard W. Riley, Governor of South Carolina, 28955 [6OC]

———Robert D. Orr, Governor of Indiana, 28964 [6OC]

———Robert Kerrey, Governor of Nebraska, 28956 [6OC]

———Texas Dept. of Health, 28960 [6OC]

———Thomas H. Kean, Governor of New Jersey, 28953 [6OC]

———Toney Anaya, Governor of New Mexico, 28955 [6OC]

———sundry, 28964-28970 [6OC]

Black Lung Trust Fund: William E. Brock III, Sec. of Labor, 5214 [18MR]

Civilian Radioactive Waste Management Program: Brian McKay, 9797 [7MY]

Cleanup of abandoned hazardous waste sites: coalition of sundry environmental groups, 17705 [24JY]

Commend article on new cocaine threat: Senator Chiles, 9680 [6MY]

Community and migrant health centers programs: Health Resources and Services Administration, 7314 [11AP]

Community health centers' and other programs' funding: CBO, 28346 [3OC]

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act administrative record provision: Chemical Manufacturers Association, 28409 [3OC]

Comprehensive Smokeless Tobacco and Health Education Act: Smokeless Tobacco Council, Inc., 1328 [3FE], 1858 [6FE]

Consent before abortions: Holly Trimble, 22857 [11SE]

Controlled Substances Import and Export Act: Committee on Ways and Means (1970), 22684 [10SE]

———Committee on Ways and Means (1986), 22684 [10SE]

Dependency tax exemption in certain abortion cases: IRS, 2610 [24FE]

———Senator Helms, 2610 [24FE]

Dept. of Justice statement about AIDS: Charles J. Cooper, 17041 [21JY]

EPA Superfund reauthorization—waste-end tax, 30421 [10OC]

Fair Housing Act amendments: American Council of the Blind, 1408 [3FE]

———Federal Administrative Law Judges Conference, 1409 [3FE]

———Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, 1408 [3FE]

———NAACP, 1409 [3FE]

———National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing, 1408 [3FE]

———Sterling Tucker, 1408 [3FE]

Fast Food Ingredient Information Act: American Diabetes Association, Inc., 13164 [10JN]

Food safety standards: AMA, 12483 [4JN]

Funding acquired immune deficiency syndrome research: Dept. of HHS, 18273 [31JY]

Handicapped Children's Protection Act: consortium of citizens with developmental disabilities (excerpt), 17610 [24JY]

Health effects of aspartame use: Epilepsy Institute, 14862 [20JN]

High Risk Occupational Disease Notification and Prevention Act: Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, 19610 [6AU]

———sundry, 29354 [7OC]

Homecare Quality Assurance Act: Otis R. Bowen, Sec. of HHS, 33610 [17OC]

———Patricia Knight for Dept. of HHS, 33610 [17OC]

Humanitarian assistance to the Philippines: Senator Melcher, 2186 [18FE]

Imitation of smokeless tobacco in certain children's product marketing: Smokeless Tobacco Council, Inc., 16970 [17JY]

Impact of tax reform on disabled: Consortium for Citizens With Developmental Disabilities, 14417 [18JN]

Indian health care: Robert L. Frank, 30173 [10OC]

———several members of Congress, 29444 [8OC]

Indian Health Care Improvement Act Reauthorization and Amendments: Ralph Forquera (excerpt), 24130 [18SE]

Infant formula: Formula (organization), 26776 [27SE]

Infant formula regulations: Senator Metzenbaum (excerpt), 10380 [13MY]

———(sundry excerpts), 10380 [13MY]

Informed consent: anonymous, 23930 [18SE]

———Cindy Case, 23344 [15SE]

———Edith Young, 25056 [19SE]

Informed consent in cases of abortion: anonymous, 25866 [24SE]

———Carrie Reichert, 33534 [17OC]

———Elaine Blakely, 19319 [5AU]

———Ellie Rought, 27740 [1OC]

———Gaye Webster, 28555 [3OC]

———Ila C. Ryan, 29579 [8OC]

———Karen J. Roderick, 32615 [16OC]

———Karen S. Ables, 19754 [7AU]

———Kathy Bucklew, 30708 [14OC]

———Lora L. Hoobler, 26183 [25SE]

———Mary Sue Guiseppi, 25702 [23SE]

———Rosemarie Gaston, 28024 [2OC]

———(sundry), 29177 [7OC]

———sundry, 18980 [4AU]

———Wanda Wilson, 31486 [15OC]

Interim funding of Superfund: National Governors' Association, 6799 [8AP]

———Representatives Fazio and Moody, 7216 [10AP]

Labeling of smokeless tobacco products: Coalition on Smoking OR Health, 1858 [6FE]

Laboratory animal research: Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, 31341 [15OC]

———Humane Society of the U.S., 31341 [15OC]

Legal and constitutional problems created by Health Care Quality Improvement Act: Committee on the Judiciary, 30769 [14OC]

Lexington-Bluegrass Army Depot and chemical munitions: Dept. of Defense, 19487, 19488 [6AU]

———Senator Ford, 19488 [6AU]

Medicaid eligibility: Senator Dole, 4898 [14MR]

Medical screening of U.S. tourists exposed to Soviet atomic power plant accident: Representative Fish, 9201 [1MY]

Medicare Beneficiary Protection Act: Representatives Stark and Roybal, 1314 [30JA]

Medicare capital payments: Senator Long, 12768 [5JN]

———Senator Packwood, 12768 [5JN]

Medicare enrollment requirements for State and local government employees: city of North Las Vegas, NV, 24813 [19SE]

Medicare funding: Cyril F. Brickfield, 8915 [29AP]

———Jack W. Owen, 8915 [29AP]

———National Governors' Association, 8916 [29AP]

———Senator Baucus, 8914 [29AP]

———several organizations, 8915 [29AP]

Medicare payments: Marguerite Henry, 24879 [19SE]

———Muriel Peterson, 24879 [19SE]

Medicare reimbursement rates of kidney dialysis clinics: Senator Heinz, 21907 [15AU]

Membership on Physician Payment Review Commission (sundry), 16019 [26JN]

Minerva, OH, VA Medical Center: Fred VonAlmen, 3994 [6MR]

Modify limitations of medicare payment for home health services to elderly: American Association of Retired Persons, 17164 [21JY]

Money laundering: Dept. of Justice, 33836 [18OC]

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration corporate average fuel economy standards: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, 32672 [16OC]

National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act: several Members of Congress, 33478 [17OC]

Neuronal receptors: Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, 26699 [27SE]

Notification of workers of health risk: Arthur C. Upton, 23011 [11SE]

Omnibus Drug Enforcement, Education, and Control Act: DEA, 22916 [11SE]

———Dept. of HHS, 22917 [11SE]

———National Association of State Controlled Substances Authorities, 22917 [11SE]

Open letter to Members of Congress: Committee Against D.C. Act 6-170 (AIDS Insurance Act), 24720-24722 [18SE]

Patient's informed consent: Lauren Platz, 23584 [16SE]

Permit emigration of certain cancer victims from Soviet Union for treatment: several Members of Congress, 29968 [9OC]

Permit emigration of Inna Meiman from Soviet Union for cancer treatment, 29968 [9OC]

Prevention and treatment of drug abuse: Barbara Rosenberg, 22990 [11SE]

Professional athletes' use of narcotics: Carl T. Rowan, 4710 [13MR]

Rate of pay for Public Health Service Corps psychologists: Dept. of HHS, 26179 [25SE]

Regulation of medical devices: Senator Hatch, 12087 [2JN]

Retiree benefits of bankrupt companies: Representative Clay, 28564 [3OC]

Safe Drinking Water Act amendments (sundry), 10473 [13MY]

Sherman doctors' compassion, generous response praised: Donald M. Hayes, 33664 [17OC]

Shoreham nuclear power plant: FEMA, 12797 [5JN]

———Senator D'Amato, 12796, 12797, 12798 [5JN]

Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity: Charles A. Rickett, 3565 [4MR]

Social policy: U.S. Mission to the U.N. Agencies for Food and Agriculture, 7580 [15AP]

Standards for safe drinking water: Dept. of Defense, 11670 [21MY]

Substance abuse: (sundry excerpts), 22721, 22728 [10SE]

Superfund Interim Financing Act: EPA, 3182 [27FE]

Superfund reauthorization: Ayer City Homeowners Association, Lowell, MA, 29763 [8OC]

———EPA, 29781 [8OC]

———Richard L. Thornburgh, Governor of Pennsylvania, 21436 [13AU]

Tax credit for clinical testing of orphan drugs: Dept. of HHS, 14362 [18JN]

Teenage pregnancy prevention program: Johns Hopkins Hospital, 4362 [11MR]

Tobacco prices in commissaries: C.D. Grady, 19494 [6AU]

———Caspar W. Weinberger, Sec. of Defense (excerpt), 19493 [6AU]

———Coalition on Smoking OR Health, 19490 [6AU]

Transmissibility of acquired immune deficiency syndrome: Alan M. Dershowitz, 17313 [22JY]

———William A. Haseltine, 17312, 17313 [22JY]

Tribute to John E. McCarthy: Michael S. Dukakis, Governor of Massachusetts, 8235 [21AP]

———Senator Kennedy, 8235 [21AP]

Tribute to Mammobile cancer detection van in the District of Columbia: Judith L. Bader, 22200 [15AU]

U.S. export of untested drugs: sundry, 10040-10046 [8MY]

VA's Readjustment Counseling Program: Senator Cranston, 29464 [8OC]

Veterans' health care benefits: several members of Congress, 29448 [8OC]

Views on the Air Carrier Access Act: Dept. of Justice, 21770 [15AU]

———Dept. of Transportation, 21771 [15AU]

Lists

Awards presented to John E. McCarthy, 8235 [21AP]

Changes for State examiners to follow in making disability determinations, 29932 [9OC]

Hearing aid compatible telephones, 28397 [3OC]

Major accomplishments at Northwest Hospital, Illinois, since 1980, 30200 [10OC]

Organizational endorsers of National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act, 33478 [17OC]

Organizational endorsers of the National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act, 15702 [26JN]

Organizations belonging to the Campaign for Pesticide Reform, 12259 [3JN]

Organizations endorsing the Air Carrier Access Act, 21770 [15AU]

Organizations supporting 911 emergency number, 21969 [15AU]

Organizations supporting efforts to protect handicapped children's rights, 17610 [24JY]

Organizations supporting the Access to Health Care Act (S. 2402), 9311 [1MY]

Organizations supporting the Hunger Relief Act, 11607 [21MY]

Problems with infant formulas since 1982: Formula (organization), 10334 [12MY]

Rare disease organizations supporting additional funding for Orphan Drug Act, 27929 [2OC]

References relative to effect of tobacco smoke on indoor atmospheres, 6921 [9AP]

Supporters of the Downey-Frenzel proposal for funding Superfund, 3484 [4MR]

Task force on long term health care policies members, 28668 [3OC]

Memorandums

Medicaid Eligibility: Health Care Financing Administration (excerpt), 4897 [14MR]

Protection of Institutional Confidential Sources: Richard Ehlke, 27191 [30SE]

Tax Credit for Clinical Testing of Orphan Drugs: Fairlea Sheehy, 14363 [18JN]

Memorials of legislature

California, 16373 [14JY], 17236 [22JY], 17819 [28JY], 25457 [23SE], 25837 [24SE], 27267, 27268 [30SE], 27551 [1OC]

Illinois, 12837 [5JN]

Maine, 11313 [20MY], 11713 [21MY]

Maryland, 13526 [12JN], 13834 [16JN]

Missouri, 10607 [14MY]

New Hampshire, 6638 [8AP], 7004 [9AP]

Utah, 10606 [14MY]

West Virginia, 4473 [12MR], 4703 [13MR]

Messages

Administration of Radiation Control for Health and Safety Act: President Reagan, 7320 [11AP]

Council on Environmental Quality Report: President Reagan, 2382 [19FE]

Federal Council on Aging: President Reagan, 10968 [15MY]

Federal Employees Benefits Improvement Act (H.R. 3384)—Veto: President Reagan, 2 [21JA]

Federal Mine Safety and Health Act: President Reagan, 28511 [3OC]

U.S.-Japan Cooperative Medical Science Program: President Reagan, 11711 [21MY]

Motion

Community and migrant health centers programs: extend (H.R. 2418), pass S. 1282 in lieu, 3614 [5MR]

Indian Youth Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention Act: enact (H.R. 1156), pass S. 1298 in lieu, 23386 [16SE]

Marlboro County General Hospital Charity: relief (H.R. 3896), pass S. 1895 in lieu, 29196 [7OC]

Newsletters

Health research—what's it worth?: Representative Obey, 9341 [1MY]

Obituaries

Hopkins' Helen Taussig, Noted Cardiologist, Dies, 11700 [21MY]

Opinions

Title to land occupied by Wadsworth VAMC: VA General Counsel, 3720 [5MR]

Pamphlets

Schizophrenia Research—40-Year Travesty: Thomas H. Hayes, Thelma I. Hayes, and Les Campbell, 33628 [17OC]

Papers

Handicapped Citizens in America: Anthony J. Norman, 6050 [25MR]

Transmission of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome: International Conference on AIDS (summary), 23265 [12SE]

What About Us? Staff Reactions to the Dilatation and Evacuation Procedure: Warren M. Hern and Billie Corrigan, 8828 [28AP]

Petitions

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome: Presbyterian Church, 19118 [5AU]

Diseases contracted by former POWs: Shasta County, CA, Board of Supervisors, 23016 [11SE]

Health care for veterans: Oakland, CA, City Council, 22246 [8SE], 22448 [9SE]

Medical nuclear preparedness: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, 16844 [17JY], 17819 [28JY]

National insurance crisis: Grover A. Perrigue III, 15288 [24JN]

Nonprofit rehabilitation facilities: Goodwill Industries of America, Inc., 18421 [31JY]

Omnibus Drug Enforcement, Education, and Control Act: Baptist Ministers' Conference of Greater New York and Vicinity, 28691 [3OC]

Prohibit donations of blood by persons with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (H.R. 3649): Concord, NH, citizen, 8787 [28AP]

Prohibit nuclear waste repositories on Penobscot lands: tribal council, 396 [23JA]

Rehabilitation Act: Goodwill Industries of America, Inc., 18421 [31JY]

Rehabilitation needs of Social Security beneficiaries: Goodwill Industries of America, Inc., 18421 [31JY]

Reject Education of the Handicapped Act relative to rights, procedures, attorney fees, and prohibition of discrimination (S. 415; H.R. 1523): Carlsbad, NM, Board of Education, 397 [23JA]

Supporting Emergency Medical Services Week: National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians, Inc., 22847 [11SE]

Transportation of radioactive material: New York, NY, City Council, 12365 [4JN]

Poems

``I Pray for a Better Tomorrow,'' David Gimbel, 15631 [25JN]

Press releases

Cooley's Anemia Foundation awards $150,000 for research, 20165 [8AU]

Proclamations

Just Say No to Drugs Week: President Reagan, 11997 [22MY]

National Sanctity of Human Life Day: President Reagan, 354 [22JA]

Tribute to John E. McCarthy: Swansea, MA, 8234 [21AP]

Questions and answers

Omnibus Drug Enforcement, Education, and Control Act (H.R. 5484), 22918 [11SE]

Superfund reauthorization, 29729 [8OC]

Quotations

Contracting AIDS: William Haseltine, 17038 [21JY]

Remarks in House

ABA Advisory Commission on Youth Alcohol and Drug Problems: release of ``Policy Recommendations'', 28687 [3OC]

Abortion: anniversary of Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision legalizing, 340, 353 [22JA], 1015 [29JA], 1799 [5FE], 2039, 2055 [6FE]

———reverse dependency taxation provisions (H.R. 4041), 528 [23JA]

———state responsibility in low-income abortions, 10217 [8MY]

Acid rain: clean coal technology program, 5851 [20MR]

———environmental effects, 9952 [7MY]

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome, 27325 [30SE]

———application of certain provisions of the Rehabilitation Act to victims, 17036 [21JY]

———Center for Disease Control data regarding transmission, 17530 [23JY]

———criminal penalties for conduct known to communicate virus, by Federal employees or in Federal buildings, 28683 [3OC]

———Dept. of Justice opinion regarding employees working on Federal contracts, 21746 [14AU]

———Dept. of Justice position regarding discrimination against victims, 18846 [1AU]

———discrimination against victims, 17036 [21JY]

———research funding, 8852 [29AP]

———research funds, 1944 [6FE]

———State measures discouraging transmission, 28683 [3OC]

———transmission, 23264 [12SE], 33638 [17OC]

Adam Benjamin, Jr., VA Outpatient Clinic: construction contract, 12307 [4JN]

Adult Foster Care Equity Act: enact (H.R. 4321), 4188 [10MR]

Aged: funding for health and social programs, 4381 [11MR]

———Government monitoring of health maintenance organizations, 13408 [11JN]

———home care, 18589 [31JY]

———home health care, 23013 [11SE]

———modify limitations of medicare payment for home health services (H.R. 5207), 17163 [21JY]

———tax deduction threshold for unreimbursed medical expenses, 27324 [30SE]

Agent Orange: study to detect evidence of dioxin in veterans, 27124 [29SE]

Agent orange: effects on veterans of Southeast Asia, 30393 [10OC]

———new test for dioxin exposure for Vietnam veterans, 31235 [14OC]

Agricultural Quarantine Enforcement Act: enact, 26391 [25SE]

Agriculture: experimental use of Frostban, 3838 [6MR]

———field sanitation standards, 30844 [14OC]

———regulate experimentation, 3838 [6MR]

———sanitation facilities for fieldworkers, 231 [22JA]

———working conditions for certain laborers, 7119 [10AP]

AIDS Service Coordination Act: enact (H.R. 5305), 18601 [31JY]

Air Carrier Access Act: enact (S. 2703), 23658 [17SE], 24070 [18SE]

Air pollution: EPA policy relative to ozone, 12009 [22MY]

Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration: revising authorities and authorizing appropriations (H.R. 5259), 23371 [16SE], 24695 [18SE], 25719 [23SE]

Alcoholics Anonymous: founding, 32823 [17OC]

Alcoholism: efforts to provide assistance, 22048 [15AU]

Aliens: reimbursement to medical facilities treating certain undocumented aliens in emergency situations (H.R. 5216), 17309 [22JY]

Alkyl nitrites: require to be treated as a drug (H.J. Res. 660), 14470 [18JN]

Alternate Care Facilities Assistance Act: enact, 28674 [3OC]

Alzheimer's disease: efforts to assist victims and families, 27463 [1OC]

———release of New York City Alzheimer's Resource Center publication, 25084 [19SE]

Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Research Act: enact (H.R. 5553), 25066 [19SE]

American Council for Drug Education: tribute, 2451 [19FE]

American Heart Month: observance, 2414 [19FE], 2790 [25FE], 3005 [26FE], 3267 [27FE]

American Liver Foundation National Liver Awareness Month: designate (S.J. Res. 202), 24654 [18SE]

American Physiologists Week: designate (H.J. Res. 677), 17016 [17JY]

Anabolic steroids: assure appropriate and safe use (H.R. 5695), 30432 [10OC]

Anti-Cocaine Amendments Act: enact (H.R. 5195), 18844 [1AU]

Appalachian Regional Commission: funding, 17482 [23JY]

Asbestos: litigation cases, 25407-25410 [23SE]

Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act: enact (H.R. 4311), 6815 [8AP], 8837 [28AP]

———enact (H.R. 5073), 20993-21001 [12AU], 22216 [15AU], 27481-27495 [1OC]

———enact (H.R. 5090), 15614, 15625 [25JN]

Asbestos Information Clearinghouse Act: enact, 15625 [25JN]

———enact (H.R. 5078), 20203 [8AU]

Asbestos Workers' Recovery Act: enact (H.R. 1626), 3582 [4MR]

Aspartame: health effects of use, 14862 [20JN]

Atomic power plants: international emergency response team (H. Res. 445), 9489 [6MY]

———notification of accidents (H. Res. 441), 9107 [30AP]

Atomic weapons: allow suits against U.S. for certain injuries or damages from testing (H.R. 1338), 10446-10454 [13MY]

Back Injury Commission Act: enact (H.R. 5681), 30409 [10OC]

Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act: exempt certain health, safety and law enforcement agencies from budget reductions (H.R. 4035), 484 [23JA]

———impact, 491 [23JA], 1449 [4FE], 1977 [6FE]

Baltimore, MD: tribute to Franklin Center Hospital, 32675 [16OC]

Bankruptcy: clarify U.S. code relative to collective bargaining agreements by debtors (H.R. 5490), 22484 [9SE], 26977 [29SE], 30425 [10OC]

———prevent rejection of health contracts for hospitalization and benefits to employees or former employees of debtor (H.R. 5298), 18258 [31JY]

———protection of retirees' benefits, 26977 [29SE]

Beaver County, PA: onsite cancer treatment center, 33564 [17OC]

Better Hearing and Speech Month: designate (S.J. Res. 284), 9108 [30AP]

Biological Weapons Act: enact (H.R. 5311), 18817 [1AU]

Black aged: status, 28201 [2OC]

Black Lung Disability Trust Fund: solvency, 3789 [6MR]

Blind persons: insurance coverage, 10655 [14MY]

Blue Cross and Blue Shield: court ruling on tax exempt status, 11093 [15MY]

Bovine growth hormone: prevent approval until certain information is made available to the Congress (H.R. 5122), 16312 [26JN]

Breast cancer: screening, 19641 [7AU]

Bubonic plague: Federal financial assistance to control (H.R. 4392), 8160 [21AP]

Burkina Faso: Operation Vaccination Commando child immunization program, 10344 [12MY]

Business: prohibit certain companies filing for bankruptcy from canceling retirees' life insurance and health benefits (H.R. 5283), 17993, 17995 [29JY], 18147, 18148, 18150 [30JY], 18258, 18413 [31JY], 18416 [4AU]-18417 [31JY], 19622 [6AU]

Canadian Coalition on Acid Rain: approach of organization, 21739 [14AU]

Cancer: prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of history, 29836 [8OC]

———research funding, 10172 [8MY]

Cancer Patients Employment Rights Act: enact (H.R. 1294), 1805 [5FE], 8042 [17AP]

Cary, Freeman H.: tribute, 32716 [17OC]

Charles McC. Mathias, Jr., National Study Center for Trauma and Emergency Medical Systems: designate (H.J. Res. 210), 27037 [29SE]

Child abuse: study results, 17164 [21JY]

Child care: effect of liability insurance crisis, 16303 [26JN]

Child Protection Act: enact (H.R. 5000), 12829 [5JN]

Child Survival Fund: foreign aid appropriations for childhood immunizations, 23599 [16SE]

Childhood Vaccine Protection Act: enact (H.R. 5260), 18030 [29JY]

Childhood Vaccine Supply Protection Act: enact (H.R. 4777), 9955 [7MY]

Children: development, 33918 [18OC]

———extend program of vaccinations (H.R. 5230), 23370 [16SE]

———permit State option for prenatal, delivery, and postpartum low-income care for pregnant women (H.R. 4630), 8031 [17AP], 8584 [23AP]

———prevention of injuries (S. 2648), 32251 [16OC]

———U.S. infant mortality rate, 29393 [7OC]

Chrysotile asbestos: EPA regulations, 6155 [25MR]

Coal: impose duty on imported (H.R. 1905), 8026 [17AP]

Cohen, Stanley: Nobel Prize in medicine recipient, 30717 [14OC]

Commercial Fishing Vessel Liability and Safety Act: enact (H.R. 5013), 21028 [12AU], 21037 [13AU]-21038 [12AU], 21140, 21141 [13AU]

Commercial Vessel Liability and Safety Act: enact (H.R. 5013), 18819 [1AU]

Community and migrant health centers programs: extend (H.R. 2418), 2110 [18FE], 2112, 2113 [19FE], 3595 [5MR], 3603 [6MR]-3610-3615 [5MR]

———extend (H.R. 2418), S. 1282 passed in lieu, 3615 [5MR]

———extend (S. 1282), title correction, 3615 [5MR]

Community food and nutrition programs: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 4421), appointment of conferees, 17644 [24JY]

———authorizing appropriations (H.R. 4421), conference report, 23421 [16SE], 23427 [23SE]-23428 [16SE]

Community Nursing and Ambulatory Care Act: enact (H.R. 5457), 22200 [15AU]

Comprehensive Alzheimer's Assistance, Research, and Education Act: enact (H.R. 2280), 205 [21JA]

Comprehensive Smokeless Tobacco and Health Education Act: enact (S. 1574), 1324, 1326 [3FE], 1337 [4FE]-1338 [3FE], 2439 [19FE]

Controlled Substances Act: amend (H.R. 5653), 29390 [7OC]

Cooley's anemia: prevention, 21750 [14AU]

Crack/Cocaine Awareness Month: designate (H.J. Res. 678), 17335 [22JY]

Crack/Cocaine Awareness Week: designate (H.J. Res. 678), 21227 [13AU]

Critical Care Week: designate (H.J. Res. 526), 9740 [7MY]

Cyclosporine: suspension of duty (H.R. 5034), 13894 [16JN]

Dade County, FL: Friendsday, 11473 [20MY]

Dairy products: health benefits, 3026 [27FE]

Davignon, Jessica: organ donor needed, 18254 [31JY]

DEA: ability to waive the non-Federal share matching requirement under the State and local drug enforcement grant program, 22952 [11SE]

Dept. of Defense: military medicine and justice, 9157 [30AP]

———U.S. wartime medical readiness, 12822 [5JN]

Designate (S.J. Res. 226), 5810 [20MR]

Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month: designate (H.J. Res. 741), 27509 [1OC]

Diabetes: research funding, 14219 [17JN]

Disability: clarify role of findings of medical severity in determination (H.R. 4753), 9706 [6MY]

Diseases: Alzheimer's workshops, 17007 [17JY]

———associated problems of Alzheimer's, 15634 [25JN]

———Crohn's disease research, 18854 [1AU]

———Epstein-Barr virus infection research, 1320 [30JA]

———Federal funding for Alzheimer's research, 13890 [16JN]

———neurofibromatosis: research, 11474 [20MY]

———promote establishment of family support groups for Alzheimer's patients, 1049 [30JA]

———third annual mayoral conference on Alzheimer's, 205 [21JA]

———workshop on Alzheimer's health services research, 3004 [26FE]

District of Columbia: acquired immune deficiency syndrome presence screening tests, 17641 [24JY]

———tribute to Mammobile cancer detection program, 22200 [15AU]

Drug abuse: efforts to combat, 32823, 32995 [17OC]

———increased incidence, 3991 [6MR]

———student essays, 27454 [30SE]

———tribute to Partners in Prevention, 30214 [10OC]

Drug Abuse Education Act: enact (H.R. 4155), 2046 [6FE]

Drug and alcohol abuse: student drug and alcohol abuse prevention and intervention demonstration partnership grants (H.R. 5297), 18820 [1AU]

Drug education program: implement, 23603 [17SE]

Drugs: require purchase disclosure information, 7833 [17AP]

Education of the Handicapped Act: amend (H.R. 5520), 25203 [29SE]

El Salvador: earthquake disaster relief, 32710 [17OC]

Elderly Feeding Program: Dept. of Agriculture nutrition data, 21452 [13AU]

Elderly Veterans Care Act: enact (H.R. 4512), 7835 [17AP]

Emergency Medical Services Week: designate (H.J. Res. 529), 16707 [16JY], 33600 [17OC]

Employment: criminal prosecution of business regarding health and safety laws, 4379 [11MR]

———discrimination against cancer history victims, 18815 [1AU]

———discrimination against persons with history of cancer (H. Con. Res. 321), 22328-22330 [9SE]

———parental leave, 14978 [23JN]

———prevent discrimination against cancer victims, 8042 [17AP]

End Stage Renal Disease Network Program: budget reductions, 15617 [25JN]

End Stage Renal Disease Program: administration and regulation changes, 17509 [23JY]

———funding, 19005 [4AU]

EPA: authority over cleanup of Superfund sites, 534 [27JA]

———standards for identification and abatement of asbestos in schools (H.R. 4311), 4238 [11MR]

———Superfund interim financing and borrowing authority (H.R. 4381), 4584 [12MR]

———Superfund reauthorization, 12038 [22MY]

———Superfund reauthorization (H.R. 2005), conference report, 28038 [2OC], 28710, 28713 [6OC], 29606, 29702, 29714 [8OC], 29788 [9OC], 29789 [10OC]-29790 [8OC], 30392, 30419, 30421, 30426 [10OC], 31234 [14OC], 33580, 33591, 33624, 33641 [17OC]

———Superfund reauthorization (H.R. 2005), veto, 29958 [9OC]

———Superfund reauthorization (H.R. 2817), 3222, 3255 [27FE], 3783 [6MR], 6799 [8AP], 7216 [10AP], 10245 [9MY], 17705 [24JY]

Epidermolysis Bullosa Awareness Week: designate (H.J. Res. 639), 12021 [22MY]

ERISA: improve protection and delivery of benefits under private retirement health plan (H.R. 5575), 25386 [23SE]

Fair Insurance Coverage Act: enact, 10655 [14MY]

Fairness in Competition Act: enact (H.R. 5304), 19622 [6AU]

Fall River, MA: tribute to Portuguese Community Health Care Task Force at St. Anne's Hospital, 26086 [24SE]

Family and Medical Leave Act: enact, 28694 [3OC]

FDA: approval of irradiation treatment, 8852 [29AP]

———Center for Devices and Radiological Health, 12019 [22MY]

Federal employees: drug-testing programs, 23255 [12SE], 23365, 23369 [16SE], 23614 [17SE]

———health insurance coverage for cleft lip and/or palate, 26382 [25SE]

Federal Employees Benefits Improvement Act: enact (H.R. 4061), 645 [28JA], 1338 [3FE], 1346 [4FE]

Federal Employee's Health Care Freedom of Choice Act: enact (H.R. 4825), 10713 [14MY], 18859 [4AU], 22205 [15AU]

Federal Employees Long-Term Care Act: enact, 33599, 33621 [17OC]

Federal Family Planning Program: Dept. of Health and Human Services guidelines, 33630 [17OC]

Federal Health Care Auditing and Quality Control Improvement Act: enact, 16305 [26JN]

Federal Health Planning Program: reauthorize (H.R. 5413), 21446 [13AU]

Federal Hospital System Sharing Act: enact, 16305 [26JN]

———enact (H.R. 5157), 16978 [17JY]

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act: amend (H.R. 5536), 28713, 28738 [6OC], 28740 [8OC]-28741 [6OC]

Federal Mine Safety and Health Act: amend, 28685 [3OC]

Federalism Act: enact, 33576 [17OC]

Federally funded facilities: community response to placement, 16509 [15JY]

Fish and fisheries: evaluation of health effects of fish containing certain levels of pesticides, 24748 [19SE]

Fishing industry: establish guidelines for damage awards for personal injury and require additional safety regulations (H.R. 5013), 21140, 21141 [13AU]

Florida Dept. of Citrus: promotion of National Diet Month, 22748 [10SE]

Food irradiation: curb expansion of program until safety is established, 11111 [15MY]

Food stamps: count money earned from selling blood as earned income for eligibility purposes, 9007 [29AP]

Foreign countries: provide assistance to promote global immunization and oral rehydration programs (H.R. 3894), 18245 [30JY]

Foreign trade: ban imports of food from countries affected by radioactive contamination from Soviet power plant accident (H.J. Res. 622), 9489 [6MY]

Gaucher's Disease Awareness Week: designate (S.J. Res. 352), 30190 [10OC]

———observance, 8852 [29AP]

Generic Animal Drug and Patent Term Restoration Act: enact (H.R. 5069), 14870 [20JN]

Handicapped: early intervention services for infants and toddlers, 30403 [10OC]

———research in restoring ambulation to paralytics, 7822 [16AP]

———services funding, 15651 [25JN]

Handicapped Children's Protection Act: enact (S. 415), conference report, 17607-17612 [24JY]

Hanford Nuclear Reservation: release of radioactive iodine, 4119 [10MR]

Hazardous substances: use of health studies as basis for determining individual rights, 18595 [31JY]

Health: formation of international team for DNA research, 18600 [31JY]

Health Care Financing Administration: coverage for home health care, 32978 [18OC]

———medicare disability claims procedure (H. Res. 468), 14201 [17JN]

Health Care Quality Improvement Act: enact (H.R. 5110), 16305 [26JN]

———enact (H.R. 5540), 30762-30773 [14OC]

Health insurance: availability of affordable, high quality long term, 28667 [3OC]

Health Protection Act: enact (H.R. 4972), 13173, 13184 [10JN]

Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation: preventive health care program, 12832 [5JN]

Hernando/Pasco Hospice: tribute, 2063 [6FE]

High Risk Occupational Disease Notification and Prevention Act: enact (H.R. 1309), 5545 [19MR], 10733 [14MY], 16246 [26JN], 16498 [15JY], 17035 [21JY], 19609 [6AU], 19641 [7AU], 21633 [14AU], 23009-23012 [11SE], 27402 [30SE], 29354-29358 [7OC], 29394 [7OC]

Homecare Quality Assurance Act: enact (H.R. 5680), 30448 [10OC], 33610 [17OC]

Homeless Persons Survival Act: enact (H.R. 5139), 16302 [26JN]

Hospitals: reimbursement for treating medicare patients, 10187 [8MY]

———transfer of noninsured indigent patients from private to public, 217 [21JA]

———transfer of patients from private to public, 4374 [11MR]

Houston, TX: tribute to Cyprus Creek emergency medical service system, 17006 [17JY]

Hughes, Jenna: heart transplant, 10444 [13MY]

Human services programs: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 4421), 5091 [17MR], 8864 [29AP], 8874 [30AP]-8883 [29AP]

———authorizing appropriations (H.R. 4421), appointment of conferees, 17644 [24JY]

———authorizing appropriations (H.R. 4421), conference report, 23421 [16SE], 23427 [23SE]-23428 [16SE]

———authorizing appropriations (H.R. 4421), technical corrections, 8883 [29AP]

Hunger: commodity distribution programs, 12292 [3JN]

Hunger Relief Act: enact, 18834 [1AU]

———enact (H.R. 4880), 11606 [21MY]

———enact (H.R. 4990), 13415 [11JN]

Indian Health Care Improvement Act: amend (H.R. 4600), 8747-8758 [28AP], 8851 [29AP], 9000 [29AP]

———reauthorize and amend (H.R. 1426), 24112-24143 [18SE]

———reauthorize and amend (H.R. 1426), provide for consideration (H. Res. 528), 24112 [18SE]

———reauthorize and amend (H.R. 4600), 7544 [15AP]

———reauthorizing (H.R. 1426), Senate amendment, 30172 [10OC]

Indian Juvenile Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention Act: enact (S. 1298), 23385 [16SE]

Indian Youth Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention Act: enact (H.R. 1156), 23375-23386 [16SE]

Infants: parental right to decide medical treatment for certain, 13048 [10JN]

Influenza vaccination: medicare coverage, 24702 [18SE]

Injury Control Act: enact (S. 2648), 33634 [17OC]

INSEARCH: tribute to organization to aid aged, 7056 [9AP]

Insurance: access (H.R. 4742), 9202 [1MY]

———catastrophic, 1752 [5FE]

———medical malpractice, 3385 [3MR]

———personal injury coverage, 9186 [1MY], 9706 [6MY]

———prohibit certain companies filing for bankruptcy from discontinuing medical and life insurance benefits to retirees (H.R. 5276), 18040 [29JY], 18416 [5AU]

———prohibit certain companies filing for bankruptcy from discontinuing medical and life insurance benefits to retirees (H.R. 5283), 18416 [1AU]

———prohibit certain companies filing for bankruptcy from discontinuing medical and life insurance benefits to retirees (H.R. 5298), 18814 [1AU]

———prohibit certain companies filing for bankruptcy from discontinuing medical and life insurance benefits to retirees (H.R. 5304), 19622 [6AU]

———prohibit certain companies filing for bankruptcy from discontinuing medical and life insurance benefits to retirees (H.R. 5490), 22484 [9SE]

———prohibit certain companies filing for bankruptcy from discontinuing medical and life insurance benefits to retirees (S. 2690), 18838 [1AU]

———share of reimbursement costs with medicare, 2890 [26FE]

———television advertisements, 15656 [26JN]

———tort litigation, 20733-20737 [11AU]

Insurance Availability Crisis Commission: establish (H.R. 4524), 6605 [8AP]

Iron and steel industry: require to use tax credits for employee insurance or retirement benefits, or reinvest them (H.R. 5327), 18844 [1AU]

Iron Overload Awareness Day: designate, 29398 [7OC]

Jaycees: Healthy American Fitness Leaders Award recipients, 30418 [10OC]

John F. Kennedy Medical Center, IL: dedication, 30200 [10OC]

Just Say No to Drugs Week: designate (H.J. Res. 629), 10967 [19MY], 11997 [22MY]

Kansas City, MO: Project STAR educational program about drug abuse, 33602 [17OC]

KHQA-TV, Hannibal, MO, and Quincy, IL: drunk and drugged driving awareness program, 9363 [1MY]

Kidney disease: improve administration of end stage, and clarify responsibilities of networks (H.R. 5197), 17001 [17JY]

Learning Disabilities Awareness Month: designate (H.J. Res. 716), 22485 [9SE]

Levi-Montalcini, Rita: Nobel Prize in medicine recipient, 30717 [14OC]

Liability: establish court arbitration panels for personal injury liability actions (H.R. 4920), 12103 [3JN], 12508 [4JN]

Liability insurance: crisis, 9186 [1MY], 18255 [31JY], 19017 [5AU], 20733-20737 [11AU], 23604 [17SE]

Lite Food Labeling Act: enact (H.R. 4269), 3071 [27FE]

Long-term care facilities: ensure protection of rights of residents (H.R. 4279), 11122 [15MY]

Long-Term Care Insurance for the Elderly Act: enact (H.R. 5255), 18151 [30JY]

Low Income Elderly and Disabled Medicaid Amendments: enact (H.R. 4882), 11833 [21MY]

LTV Corp.: medical and life insurance benefit payments to retirees, 22484 [9SE]

Lupus Awareness Month: designate (H.J. Res. 531), 2425 [19FE], 3751 [5MR]

Marlboro County General Hospital Charity, Bennettsville, SC: relief (H.R. 3896), 29195 [7OC]

———relief (H.R. 3896), S. 1895 passed in lieu, 29196 [7OC]

McDade, John P.: John P. Wiegenstein Leadership Award recipient, 27397 [30SE]

McDevitt, Hugh O.: tribute, 523 [23JA]

Meat: nutritional value, 5775, 5777 [20MR]

Medicaid: nursing facility quality care (H.R. 5450), 22232 [15AU]

Medicaid Community Spouse Protection Act: enact (H.R. 4901), 11994 [22MY]

———enact (H.R. 4902), 11994 [22MY]

———enact (H.R. 4903), 11994 [22MY]

———enact (H.R. 4904), 11994 [22MY]

Medicaid Improvement Act: enact (H.R. 5235), 17721 [24JY]

Medical Device Improvement Act: enact (H.R. 5516), 23282 [12SE]

Medical personnel: collection and dissemination of information on certain adverse licensure decisions and payments for malpractice actions (H.R. 4390), 4591 [12MR]

Medicare: breast cancer screening, 19641 [7AU]

———claims processing (H.R. 5054), 14709 [19JN]

———congressional approval relative to physician and hospital capitalization demonstration projects (H.R. 5741), 33621 [17OC]

———coverage for long-term care and disabled, 17016 [17JY]

———coverage of mentally handicapped (H.R. 5090), 15647 [25JN]

———deductible charges, 10125 [8MY]

———delay in reimbursement of claims, 18821 [1AU]

———disability benefits eligibility, 22178 [15AU]

———expand options, 19641 [7AU]

———financial reform, 3785-3790, 3793, 3797, 3799, 3802 [6MR]

———force Health Care Financing Administration to pay claims on a timely basis, 14872 [20JN]

———payment system, 2889 [26FE]

———payments for physician services made on an assignment-related basis (H.R. 5732), 32713 [17OC]

———physician fees, 2051 [6FE]

———physician payment system, 222 [22JA]

———prompt payment of claims (H. Res. 471), 15618 [25JN]

———prospective payment system, 8024 [17AP]

———provide coverage of cost for therapeutic shoes for diabetics (H.R. 2543), 4237 [11MR]

———research relative to outcome of specific treatments and surgical procedures (H.R. 4797), 10743 [14MY]

Medicare Beneficiary Protection Act: enact (H.R. 4065), 999 [29JA], 1314 [30JA]

Medicare Community Nursing and Ambulatory Care Act: enact (H.R. 5457), 22219 [15AU]

Medicare Continuing Care and Quality Assurance Act: enact (H.R. 4330), 3989 [6MR]

Medicare Discharge Appeals Opportunity Act: enact (H.R. 4275), 3272 [27FE], 5581 [19MR]

Medicare Fair Hospital Deductible Act: enact (H.R. 4620), 8049 [17AP], 33671 [17OC]

Medicare Home Maintenance Organization Quality Improvement Act: enact (H.R. 5360), 19726 [7AU]

Medicare Mandatory Assignment Act: enact (H.R. 5741), 33636 [17OC]

Medicare Part C—Catastrophic Health Insurance Act: enact (H.R. 4287), 9690 [6MY], 33631 [17OC]

Medicare Quality Protection Act: enact (H.R. 4638), 7879 [17AP], 11980 [22MY]

Medicare Skilled Nursing Home Quality Care amendments: enact (H.R. 5450), 32671 [16OC]

Medicare Timely Payment Amendments: enact (H.R. 5053), 14753 [19JN]

Medicare Vision and Occupational Therapy Benefit Improvement Act: enact, 11974 [22MY]

Meiman, Inna: permit emigration from Soviet Union (H. Con. Res. 404), 29967 [9OC]

Mental health: coverage under Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, 9705 [6MY]

Mental Illness Awareness Week: designate (H.J. Res. 552), 3743 [5MR], 22171 [15AU], 33627 [17OC]

———designate (S.J. Res. 298), 21231 [13AU]

———observance, 30403 [10OC]

Mentally handicapped: housing program (H.R. 4325), 3622 [5MR]

———implement State health plans (H.R. 4326), 3622 [5MR]

———Social Security services and benefits (H.R. 4327), 3622 [5MR]

———State followup care for discharged patients, 1051 [30JA]

Mentally Ill Individuals Act: enact (H.R. 4055), 1037-1058 [30JA]

Methyl isocyanate: toxicity, 30844 [14OC]

Michiana, IN, Community Hospital: participation in National Osteopathic Medicine Week, 22497 [9SE]

Michigan: health care for the elderly, 18248 [30JY]

Minerva, OH: tribute to the VA Medical Center, 3994 [6MR]

Minnesota Coalition on Health: study on prevention of premature births, 5318 [18MR]

Minorities: medical care, 653 [28JA]

Multiple sclerosis: establish eligibility rules for benefits (H.R. 5474), 22186 [15AU]

Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Week: designate (H.J. Res. 719), 22754 [10SE]

Narcotics: efforts to dissuade use, 29607 [8OC]

———funding programs to combat drug trafficking and abuse, 22945 [11SE]

———national program to combat abuse, 23365, 23366, 23369 [16SE], 23603 [17SE]

———programs to combat spread of crack, 30150 [9OC]

National Adult Day Care Center Week: designate (H.J. Res. 617), 24657 [18SE]

National Adult Immunization Awareness Week: designate (H.J. Res. 700), 21133 [12AU]

———designate (S.J. Res. 396), 30191 [10OC]

National Alopecia Areata Awareness Week: designate (S.J. Res. 299), 30193 [10OC]

National Alzheimer's Disease Month: designate (S.J. Res. 280), 27507 [1OC]

National Aplastic Anemia Awareness Week: designate (H.J. Res. 611), 24658 [18SE]

National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Week: designate (H.J. Res. 427), 9107 [30AP]

National Back to School—Back Off Drugs Month: designate (H.J. Res. 698), 20184 [8AU]

National Burn Awareness Week: designate (S.J. Res. 234), 1977 [6FE]

———designate (S.J. Res. 410), 30193 [10OC]

———enact (H.J. Res. 737), 25881 [24SE]

National Cancer Institute: Community Mobilization for Smoking Cessation Project, 585 [27JA]

National Center for Health Services Research and Health Care Technology Assessment: study of catastrophic medical costs, 23278 [12SE]

National Child Safety Month: designate (H.J. Res. 562), 4380 [11MR]

National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act: enact (H.R. 5184), 16994 [17JY]

———enact (H.R. 5546), 30120 [9OC], 30417 [10OC], 30751-30762 [14OC]

National Commission on Neurofibromatosis: establish, 17022 [17JY]

National Committee To Preserve Social Security and Medicare: commendation by mayor of New York, NY, 30152 [9OC]

National Conference of State Societies: student essay contest on drug abuse, 17856 [28JY]

National CPR Awareness Week: designate (H.J. Res. 720), 22753 [10SE]

National Crusade Against Drug Abuse: student essay contest, 17856 [28JY], 25377 [22SE], 28685, 28686 [3OC], 29121 [6OC], 30416, 30427 [10OC], 31222 [14OC]

National Diabetes Month: designate (H.J. Res. 602), 7799 [16AP]

———designate (S.J. Res. 318), 27506 [1OC]

National Digestive Diseases Awareness Week: designate (H.J. Res. 554), 3993 [6MR]

———designate (S.J. Res.324), 9739 [7MY]

National Drug Abuse Education and Prevention Week (S.J. Res. 354), 24657 [18SE]

National Drug Abuse Education Day: designate (S.J. Res. 386), 21232 [13AU]

National Drug Awareness Day: observance, 29232 [7OC]

National Drug Enforcement Policy Board: submission of report on drug-related arrests, 23856 [17SE]

National Epidermolysis Bullosa Awareness Week: designate (S.J. Res. 245), 27506 [1OC]

National Eye Donor Month: observance, 522 [23JA]

National Hemophilia Month: designate (S.J. Res. 150), 1973 [6FE]

National Home Care Week: designate (S.J. Res. 339), 30194 [10OC]

National Home Health Care Week: designate (H.J. Res. 718), 22361 [9SE]

National Hospice Month: designate, 7234 [10AP]

———designate (S.J. Res. 317), 24661 [18SE]

———observance, 33632 [17OC]

National Infection Control Week: designate (H.J. Res. 623), 16709 [16JY]

National Institutes of Health: research, 9467 [5MY]

National Kidney Program Day: designate (S.J. Res. 367), 30192 [10OC]

National Lupus Awareness Month: designate (S.J. Res. 279), 16707 [16JY]

National Multiple Sclerosis Society: anniversary, 12291 [3JN]

National Nuclear Medicine Week: designate (H.J. Res. 297), 9112 [30AP]

National Nursing Home Residents Day: designate (H.J. Res. 533), 2637 [24FE]

National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act: enact (H.R. 2436), 516 [23JA], 13888 [16JN], 15687, 15698, 15720-15722-15727 [26JN]

National objectives: congressional responsibility to improve, 21235 [13AU]

———legislative priorities, 492 [23JA]

National Organ and Tissue Donor Protocol Act: enact (H.R. 4945), 12828 [5JN]

National Organ Donor Protocol Act: enact (H.R. 4697), 8997 [29AP]

National Osteopathic Medicine Week: participation of Michiana, IN, Community Hospital in observance, 22497 [9SE]

National Osteoporosis Awareness Week: designate (H.J. Res. 510), 1432 [3FE], 2772 [25FE]

———designate (S.J. Res. 285), 9110 [30AP]

———observance, 10346 [12MY]

National Parkinson's Disease Awareness Month: designate (H.J. Res. 539), 3267 [27FE]

National Spina Bifida Month: designate (H.J. Res. 655), 13659 [12JN]

———designate (S.J. Res. 368), 27505 [1OC]

National Substance Abuse Education Act: enact (H.R. 3769), 1011 [29JA]

National Women's Health Awareness Month: designate (H.J. Res. 574), 5327 [18MR]

Native American Diabetes Prevention and Control Act: enact (H.R. 4282), 3257 [27FE]

New England: hazardous waste disposal, 2448 [19FE]

New Haven, CT: anniversary of Continuum of Care, Inc., 33593 [17OC]

New Jersey: creation of the Colleen Giblin Foundation, 8090 [18AP]

———task force on catastrophic and long-term health insurance for the elderly, 16974 [17JY]

New York, NY: anniversary of the Daughters of Jacob Geriatric Center in the Bronx, 33561 [17OC]

———designate the Joseph P. Addabbo VA Extended Care Center at St. Albans (H.R. 5472), 22220 [15AU]

———efforts of Rita Smith and Gertrude Russell to eradicate drug abuse, 18026 [29JY]

———research of Pesach Tikvah Mental Health Center in Brooklyn, 23598 [16SE]

———tribute to Lutheran Medical Center, Brooklyn, 27437 [30SE]

———tribute to the Emergency Medical Service, 7596 [15AP]

New York City Alzheimer's Resource Center: release of publication, ``Agendas for Action—Aging Network Responds to Alzheimer's Disease'', 25084 [19SE]

New-Born Genetic Screening Act: enact (H.R. 5147), 16303 [26JN]

News media: efforts in combating national drug abuse problem, 22993 [11SE]

NIH: ensure humane treatment in animal research (H. Con. Res. 351), 16277, 16286 [26JN]

———first fiscal year of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, 30406 [10OC]

———funding, 18289 [31JY]

NIH Centennial Year: designate (H.J. Res. 709), 21742 [14AU]

———designate (S.J. Res. 395), 30188 [10OC]

9-1-1 Emergency Number Day: designate (S.J. Res. 405), 24655 [18SE]

Nonsmokers' Protection Act: enact (H.R. 4488), 5875 [21MR]

Nursing Home Resident Protection Act: enact (H.R. 4485), 5977 [21MR]

Nursing homes: ensure protection of rights of residents (H.R. 4279), 3274 [27FE]

———require private to equal average percentage to medicare recipients of the State in order to receive benefits (H.R. 5344), 19622 [6AU]

Nutrition: program for monitoring and research (H.R. 4880), 11606 [21MY]

Nutritional Information Labeling Act: enact (H.R. 3751), 3267 [27FE]

Occupational Hazard Communication Act: enact (H.R. 4793), 10123 [8MY], 10251, 10259 [9MY]

Older American Act Nutrition Program: appropriations, 15241 [24JN]

Older Americans Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Week: designate (S.J. Res. 267), 9740 [7MY]

Older persons: health care, 9744 [7MY]

———health care costs, 10125 [8MY]

———health care expenses, 1750 [5FE]

Omnibus Drug Enforcement, Education, and Control Act: enact (H.R. 5484), 22320 [9SE], 22492 [9SE], 22641-22644, 22650 [10SE], 22656 [12SE], 22658 [11SE], 22670 [12SE]-22735 [10SE], 22740 [10SE], 22871, 22936 [11SE], 22950 [18SE], 23002 [12SE]-23004-23014 [11SE], 23272, 23279 [12SE], 23856 [17SE], 24710 [18SE], 25090 [19SE], 25708, 25710, 25716, 25718, 25727 [23SE], 26374, 26377 [25SE], 26561 [26SE], 27445 [30SE], 27744 [1OC], 28691 [3OC], 29608 [8OC], 29632 [10OC]-29633 [8OC], 32676 [16OC], 32712, 32717-32727, 32728 [17OC], 33598 [17OC], 33950 [6NO]

———enact (H.R. 5484), authorizing corrections in engrossment, 23005 [11SE]

———enact (H.R. 5484), debate procedure, 22735 [10SE]

———enact (H.R. 5484), technical corrections, 29702 [8OC]

———enforcement of provisions, 29231 [7OC]

Omnibus Veterans' Benefits Improvement and Health Care Authorization Act: enact (H.R. 5299), Senate amendments, 29200-29230 [7OC]

Orean County, NJ: Board of Freeholders organ donor education and registration program, 33944 [6NO]

Organ procurement: establish national standards and a national registry (H.R. 5587), 25881 [24SE]

Organ Transplantation Policy Act: enact (H.R. 5567), 25090 [19SE]

Organ transplants: provide immunosuppressive drugs to centers (H.R. 5146), 16306 [26JN]

Parental and Medical Leave Act: enact (H.R. 4300), 5089 [17MR], 16528 [15JY], 18244 [30JY], 22330 [9SE], 23365, 23368 [16SE], 25382, 25385 [23SE], 26373 [25SE], 27434, 27441 [30SE], 30142 [9OC], 30426 [10OC], 33620 [17OC]

Parkinson Support Groups of America: tribute, 18598 [31JY]

Pesticides: ban on dinoseb, 30844 [14OC]

———develop methods for testing to detect neurotoxic and behaviorial effects, 24730 [19SE]

———monitoring and responding to contamination in ground water, 24745 [19SE]

Philadelphia, PA: anniversary of CORA, the comprehensive child and family resource center, 26566 [26SE]

———tribute to Assistance Program for alcoholism and drug abuse, 16272 [26JN]

Pingree, David H.: tribute, 4604 [12MR]

Poole, Odette: born to brain-dead mother, 18256 [31JY]

Population Institute: international family planning assistance, 4855 [13MR]

Postal service: prohibit use of mail for transport of plant materials containing agricultural pests, 30396 [10OC]

Poverty: incidence of social diseases, 2003-2009 [6FE]

Prescription Drug Marketing Act: enact (H.R. 4820), 10722 [14MY]

Prescription drugs: implement diversion control program, 9103 [30AP]

President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped: essay contest, 13038 [9JN]

President's Council on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: enact S. 2057, 32248 [16OC]

Product Liability Risk Retention Act: amend (H.R. 4301), 3446 [4MR]

Projects: review feasibility of certain, 17444 [23JY]

``Protecting American Workers—An Assessment of Government Programs'': analysis, 16498 [15JY]

Protection and Advocacy for Mentally Ill Persons Act: enact (S. 974), 1056 [30JA]

———enact (S. 974), appointment of conferees, 1971 [6FE]

———enact (S. 974), conference report, 10478 [13MY]

Providence Hospital, Washington, DC: anniversary, 4610 [12MR]

Providence Hospital Commemorative Plaque Act: enact (H.R. 4382), 10440 [13MY]

Public buildings: designate certain smoking areas (H.R. 4546), 6833, 6920-6926 [9AP]

———establishment of smoking and nonsmoking areas, 18189 [30JY]

———nonsmokers' rights, 6833 [9AP]

Public Health Service Act: amend (H.R. 2418), 2110 [18FE], 2112, 2113 [19FE], 3595 [5MR], 3603 [6MR]-3610-3615 [5MR]

———amend (H.R. 2418), S. 1282 passed in lieu, 3615 [5MR]

———amend (H.R. 3010), 1457 [4FE], 1460 [5FE]

———amend (S. 1282), title correction, 3615 [5MR]

Queens County, NY: dedication of Ronald McDonald House, 26375 [25SE]

Radioactive pollution: ban food or drink imports from countries contaminated by Soviet power plant accident (H.J. Res. 622), 9489 [6MY]

Radon: establish research, information, and technical assistance program relative to effects of exposure (H.R. 5202), 16878 [17JY], 17024 [17JY], 17319 [22JY]

Reading and Berks County, PA: conference on health care and catastrophic insurance, 7823 [16AP]

Records: protection, 6629 [8AP]

Rehabilitation Act: inclusion of communicable diseases in definition of handicapped, 16275 [26JN]

Research: encourage on variations in medical practice, 10220 [8MY]

Retirement Health Plan Act: enact (H.R. 5575), 25386 [23SE]

Roper, William L.: tribute, 27429 [30SE]

Rural areas: Social Security reimbursement policies (H.R. 4788), 10204 [8MY]

Rural Health Care Improvement Act: enact (H.R. 4788), 10204 [8MY]

Safe Drinking Water Act: amend to extend authorization (S. 124), conference report, 10467, 10472-10478 [13MY], 10656 [14MY], 11104 [15MY]

———amend to extend authorization (S. 124), technical corrections, 12308 [4JN]

Santa Monica Bay, CA: study of effects of toxic contamination (H.R. 4277), 3027 [27FE]

School-Based Adolescent Health Amendments: enact (H.R. 5377), 20192, 20194-20196 [8AU]

Schools: EPA regulations requiring inspection for asbestos containing material (H.R. 5073), 20993-21001 [12AU], 22216 [15AU], 27481-27495 [1OC]

Senior Center Week: designate (H.J. Res. 538), 2888, 2890 [26FE]

Shimer, Andrea: liver transplant, 1034 [30JA]

Smoking: ban on all domestic airline flights, 29845 [8OC]

Social conditions: policy, 7580 [15AP]

Social Security: changes in SSI program regulations (H.R. 5595), 27333 [2OC]

———coverage of adult day care under medicare (H.R. 4739), 9549 [6MY]

———disability benefits eligibility reform, 4199 [11MR]

———Disability Insurance Program management, 30447 [10OC]

———medicare and medicaid maternal and child health programs budget reconciliation (H.R. 5287), 18031 [29JY]

———reform, 13890 [16JN]

Social Security Disability Determination Act: enact (H.R. 4936), 12538 [4JN]

Social Security Procedural Improvements Act: enact (H.R. 4419), 5327 [18MR]

Soviet Union: atomic power plant accident, 8856 [29AP]

———efforts of cancer patients to emigrate, 24722 [18SE]

———international cooperative effort to evaluate health effects of atomic power plant accident (H. Con. Res. 373), 18036 [29JY]

———medical screening of U.S. tourists exposed to atomic power plant accident, 9201 [1MY]

Sports: funding investigations into drug use by college athletes, 22989 [11SE]

Springfield, IL: anniversary of St. John's Hospital School of Nursing, 12835 [5JN]

St. Paul, MN: tribute to the Block Nurse Program, 31224 [14OC]

———tribute to the Strive Toward Excellence in Performance Program, 31224 [14OC]

States: establish uniform national drinking age, 3786, 3796 [6MR]

———recommend measures for medical cost and quality control (H. Res. 386), 9186 [1MY], 9706 [6MY]

———require development of State comprehensive mental health plans (S. 1744), 33116-33143 [17OC]

Substance abuse treatment: funding, 22988 [11SE]

Supplemental Medical Insurance Improvement Act: enact (H.R. 5320), 18852 [1AU]

Task Force on Elder Abuse Act: enact (H.R. 4494), 6157 [25MR]

Teenage pregnancy: prevention programs, 4362 [11MR]

Tel-Med Program: recorded health information service, 1320 [30JA]

Tobacco: impact on health, 2676 [25FE]

———proposed ban on advertising, 21440 [13AU]

Tobacco industry: ban smoking on all domestic airline flights, 29960 [9OC]

———imitation of smokeless products in certain children's marketing, 16969 [17JY]

———sale and advertisement of smokeless tobacco, 1324, 1326 [3FE], 1337 [4FE]-1338 [3FE]

Toledo, OH: tribute to the Visiting Nurse Service, 30151 [9OC]

Tort Action Procedure Reform Act: enact (H.R. 4920), 12286 [3JN], 12508 [4JN]

Tort law: reform, 10982-10988 [15MY]

U.N. Fund for Drug Abuse Control: international contributions, 8229 [21AP]

U.S. Fishery Conservation Zone: require that foreign vessels meet minimum health and safety standards (H.R. 4897), 12036 [22MY]

U.S. Health Act: enact (H.R. 5070), 25077 [19SE]

U.S. Health Program Act: enact (H.R. 5070), 14973 [23JN]

U.S.-Mexican border: health care, 4866 [13MR]

U.S.-Mexico Border Health Education and Training Act: enact (H.R. 4179), 2263 [19FE]

United Stroke Foundation: tribute, 214 [21JA]

University of Alabama: tribute to Birmingham Medical Center, 3239 [27FE], 4198 [11MR]

University of Arizona: heart transplants at the Medical Center, 22179 [15AU]

University of Notre Dame: tribute to the Students for Organ Transplants, 16984 [17JY]

University of Rochester: Organ Procurement Program, 17526 [23JY]

VA: designate medical center for Charles E. Kelly, 29338 [7OC]

———proposed budget, 10949 [15MY]

———require to contract with non-VA medical facilities under certain circumstances, 8552 [23AP]

Vaccination: assistance to foreign countries to promote immunization and oral rehydration (S. 1917), 26305 [25SE]

———assistance to foreign countries to promote immunization and oral rehydration (S. 1917), Senate amendments, 28816 [6OC]

Veterans: benefits, 3793, 3801 [6MR]

———establish pilot program for improvement of VA medical centers (H.R. 4839), 11107 [15MY]

———improve readjustment counseling for Vietnam era (H.R. 4623), 8044 [17AP]

———judicial review of disability claims, 25375 [22SE]

———medical care funding, 11092 [15MY]

———permit private contract health care services for certain (H.R. 4660), 8330 [22AP]

———salute to hospitalized, 1803 [5FE]

———tax credit for home-based health care (H.R. 4512), 7835 [17AP]

Veterans' Benefits Improvement and Health Care Authorization Act: enact (H.R. 5299), 30128 [9OC]

Veterans' Compensation and Benefits Improvements Act: enact (S. 1887), 22037 [15AU]

Vietnam veterans: improve readjustment counseling (H.R. 4623), 19635 [6AU]

Vietnam-era veterans: improve readjustment counseling (H.R. 4623), 18872-18878 [4AU], 19343 [6AU]

Walgren, Representative: American Psychological Association Presidential Award, 2778 [25FE]

Wendell Cross School, Waterbury, CT: pledge against drug use, 29232 [7OC]

West Virginia: liability insurance limit on recovery, 8593, 8594 [24AP]

Women: demonstrations at family planning clinics, 13748 [16JN]

World Health Week: designate (S.J. Res. 226), 5810 [20MR]

Yale University: establishment of the Cancer Control Research Unit, 10264 [9MY]

Youth: teenage suicide, 8225 [21AP]

Youth Drug Protection Act: enact (H.R. 5247), 17719 [24JY]

Youth Suicide Prevention Act: enact, 9006 [29AP]

Youth Suicide Prevention Month: designate (S.J. Res. 266), 10966 [15MY]

Remarks in Senate

Abortion: constitutional prohibition (S.J. Res. 19), 329 [22JA]

———guidelines for protection of survivors, 7790 [16AP], 8153 [21AP], 8324 [22AP], 8707 [24AP]

———informed consent, 18978 [4AU], 19319 [5AU], 19753 [7AU], 25702 [23SE], 25866 [24SE], 26183 [25SE], 27291 [30SE], 27740 [1OC], 28024 [2OC], 28555 [3OC], 29080 [6OC], 29177 [7OC], 29579 [8OC], 29944 [9OC], 30708 [14OC], 31486 [15OC], 32615 [16OC], 33534 [17OC]

———informed consent from patient, 23831 [17SE]

———informed consent from patient (S. 2791), 21966 [15AU], 23584 [16SE], 23930 [18SE], 25056 [19SE]

———informed consent from patients (S. 2420), 9905 [7MY]

———right to choose, 2208 [18FE], 4497 [12MR], 8828 [28AP], 22857 [11SE], 23344 [15SE]

———right to choose (S.J. Res. 291), 4067 [7MR]

———right to choose (S.J. Res. 292), 4067 [7MR]

Acid rain: control program (S. 2203), 5163-5167 [18MR], 6144 [25MR]

———reductions in sulfur dioxide emissions, 5434 [19MR]

Acid Rain and Sulfur Emissions Reduction Act: enact (S. 2813), 23038-23046 [12SE]

———enact (S. 2813), star print, 23492 [16SE]

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome: improve counseling, education, and services (S. 2345), 19602 [6AU]

———make grants for demonstration projects, 28399-28401 [3OC]

———repeal District of Columbia's insurance antidiscrimination, 28401-28403 [3OC]

ACTION Agency: evaluation of programs, 16344 [14JY]

Aeronautics: provide uniform standards of liability for harm arising from accidents, 24872-24876 [19SE]

Aesculapius International Medicine Foundation: commend for activities in El Salvador, 3123 [27FE]

Africa: famine relief, 16770 [17JY]

Aged: improve the training of physicians in geriatrics (S. 2489), 11731-11733 [21MY]

———nurses, 4346 [11MR]

———quality of care, 7211 [10AP]

Agriculture: sale and distribution of surplus commodities, 13669 [13JN]

Air Carrier Access Act: enact (S. 2703), 18120-18122 [30JY], 21770-21772 [15AU]

Albuquerque, NM: presentation of award to the Bernalillo County Office of Senior Affairs, 9327 [1MY]

Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration: authorizing appropriations (S. 2443), 10407 [13MY]

———require research on neuronal receptors, 26699-26701 [27SE]

———revise authorities (S. 2595), 15149 [24JN]

Alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health block grant: State allotments (S. 2087), 2597 [24FE]

Alcoholic beverages: warning labels on hazards of use, 17058 [21JY]

Alliance for Aging Research: goals, 30703 [14OC]

Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Services Research Act: enact (S. 2846), 25023 [19SE]

———enact (S. 2861), 25684 [23SE]

Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration, Research, Respite, and Assistance Act: enact (S. 1835), 4476 [12MR], 16638 [16JY]

Alzheimer's Disease Research and Assistance Act: enact (S. 2183), 16638 [16JY]

Alzheimer's Disease Research and Assistance Act (S. 2183), 4475 [12MR]

American Dental Association: tribute to auxiliary, 30712 [14OC]

American Heart Month: observance, 1938 [6FE], 2758 [25FE], 2819 [26FE], 3370 [28FE]

American Liver Foundation National Liver Awareness Month: designate, 26905 [29SE]

American Physiologists Week: designate (S.J. Res. 408), 22587 [10SE], 31281 [15OC]

Americans for Substance Abuse Prevention: tribute, 6026 [24MR]

Animal Drug Amendments and Patent Term Restoration Act: enact (S. 2407), 9652 [6MY]

Animals: use in research, 17542 [24JY]

Antibiotic Safety Act: enact (S. 2935), 32593 [16OC]

Appalachian States: establish low-level radioactive waste compact (S. 2679), 17393 [23JY]

Appropriations: permit planning agencies to operate until 1986 funds are spent, 12869, 12908 [6JN]

Asbestos: EPA standards for identification and abatement in schools (S. 2083), 2537, 2542 [20FE], 22618-22626 [10SE], 23051 [12SE]

———tax rules for accrual of, and carryback of losses from, deduction for product liabilities (S. 2901), 27689 [1OC]

Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act: enact (H.R. 5073), 28581 [3OC], 28583 [7OC]-28588 [3OC]

Asbestos Information Clearinghouse Act: enact (S. 2720), 19253 [5AU], 19255 [6AU]

Atomic energy: improve method of compensation to victims of accidents involving federally licensed activities (S. 1225), 5190 [18MR], 6136 [25MR], 29043, 29045 [6OC]

———restructure selection process for waste repositories (S. 2743), 21385 [13AU]

———Shoreham nuclear power plant in Long Island, NY, 12796 [5JN]

Atomic power plants: emphasize need for international followup on health consequences of Chernobyl nuclear disaster (S. Con. Res. 156), 17922 [29JY]

Atomic warfare: liability of defense contractors for losses from certain weapons testing (S. 2454), 26184 [25SE], 28019 [2OC]

Bacteria: EPA standards for antimicrobial agents used to control pest microorganisms (S. 2659), 17108 [21JY]

Bankruptcy: clarify U.S. code relative to collective bargaining agreements by debtors (H.R. 5490), 28564-28568 [3OC]

———provide additional protection to retirees of companies filing bankruptcy, 28564 [3OC]

Bennettsville, SC: relief for the Marlboro County General Hospital (S. 1895), 6594 [27MR], 29523 [8OC]

Better Hearing and Speech Month: designate (S.J. Res. 284), 3350 [28FE]

Billig, Donald M.: comprehensive credentials monitoring process of VA physicians, 7129 [10AP]

Biomedical Ethics Board: appointment of members, 3165 [27FE]

Birren, James E.: tribute, 11349 [20MY]

Blacks: teenage pregnancy, 4391 [12MR]

Blue Cross and Blue Shield: retention of tax exemption (S. Res. 419), 12371 [4JN]

———taxation, 27569 [1OC]

Bowen, Sec. of HHS: Medical University of South Carolina commencement address, 12769 [5JN]

Branscomb, Louise: tribute, 8772 [28AP]

Brooke Army Medical Center, Texas: funding, 19172 [5AU]

Budget: childhood immunization program funding, 8650-8656 [24AP]

———community health centers funding, 8650 [24AP]

———impact of reductions on domestic programs, 8484 [23AP]

———impact of reductions on human services, 7706 [16AP]

Business: rates for liability insurance coverage, 158 [21JA]

Butyl nitrite: prohibit sale and advertisement of certain inhalants (S. 2831), 23899 [18SE]

Califano, Joseph A., Jr.: author of ``America's Health Care Revolution'', 19877 [7AU]

Cancer Research Act: enact (S. 2305), 7786 [16AP]

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation: Senate training, 4494 [12MR]

Cary, Freeman H.: tribute, 18680 [1AU]

Casa Colina: tribute to rehabilitation program for the disabled, 9096 [30AP]

Chada, Kiran K.: award recipient, 20165 [8AU]

Charity Hospital of Louisiana at New Orleans: anniversary, 32380 [16OC]

Charles McC. Mathias, Jr., National Study Center for Trauma and Emergency Medical Systems: designate, 29074 [6OC]

———designate (H.J. Res. 210), 28561 [3OC]

Chemical warfare: place restrictions on storage and demilitarization of chemical agents (S. 662), 19487 [6AU]

———provide that no weapons be shipped into Lexington-Bluegrass Army Depot, KY, 19486-19489 [6AU]

Chicago, IL: Mary Thompson Hospital, 9335 [1MY]

Child Development Associate Scholarship Assistance Act: enact (S. 804), 25054 [19SE]

Child Nutrition Act: extend and improve, 27917-27922 [2OC]

Children: extend availability of funding for emergency medical services, 12762 [5JN]

———extend program of vaccinations (H.R. 5230), 33870-33871 [18OC]

———grant program for certain medical technology dependent (S. 1793), 4089 [7MR], 13744 [13JN]

———infant formula regulations, 10333-10336 [12MY], 10378-10382 [13MY]

———medical assistance to low-income families (S. 2667), 17124 [21JY]

———oral rehydration therapy treatment, 2399 [19FE]

———prevention of injuries (S. 2648), 16630 [16JY], 28560 [3OC]

———reauthorize nutrition programs, 27575 [1OC]

———treatment and prevention of sexual abuse, 33512 [17OC]

Chrysler Corp.: U.S. health care revolution, 25859 [24SE]

Cigarette Smoking Public Service Announcements Act: enact (S. 2434), 10289 [12MY], 10401 [13MY]

Colley, Ralph (Chad): tribute, 8144 [21AP]

Commission on Organized Crime: report on drug use, 3652 [5MR]

Committee on Families, Youth, and Children (Special): establish (S. Res. 330), 1412-1415 [3FE]

Community and migrant health centers programs: extend (S. 1282), House amendments, 7313, 7315 [11AP]

Community Economic Development Act: amend, 28345 [3OC]

Community food and nutrition programs: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 4421), conference report, 23887-23891 [18SE]

Comprehensive Smokeless Tobacco and Health Education Act: enact (S. 1574), 1855-1862 [6FE]

Congressional budget: setting forth for 1987-89 (S. Con. Res. 120), Education of the Handicapped Act funding, 9289 [1MY]

———setting forth for 1987-89 (S. Con. Res. 120), funding for EPA, 9038-9046 [30AP]

———setting forth for 1987-89 (S. Con. Res. 120), funding for Superfund, 9038-9046 [30AP]

———setting forth for 1987-89 (S. Con. Res. 120), funding for drug abuse prevention programs, 9239-9248 [1MY]

———setting forth for 1987-89 (S. Con. Res. 120), funding for education, 8918-8932 [29AP]

———setting forth for 1987-89 (S. Con. Res. 120), funding for education of handicapped infants and children, 9422 [5MY]

———setting forth for 1987-89 (S. Con. Res. 120), funding for health research, 9026-9030 [30AP]

———setting forth for 1987-89 (S. Con. Res. 120), medicare funding, 8908-8918 [29AP]

———setting forth for 1987-89 (S. Con. Res. 120), reduce funds for Senate mailing expenses and increase funds for AIDS and Alzheimer's disease research, 9340 [1MY]

Connecticut: National Council on Alcoholism's educational campaign, 30315 [10OC]

Connecticut Hospice: provide for waiver of certain requirements, 28347 [3OC]

Cook County Occupational Medical Program: anniversary, 13727 [13JN]

Crack/Cocaine Awareness Month: designate (S. Res. 464), 20559 [11AU]

Crack/Cocaine Awareness Week: designate (H.J. Res. 678), 28564 [3OC]

Critical Care Week: designate (H.J. Res. 526), 11810 [21MY]

———designate (S.J. Res. 349), 11218 [19MY]

DeLoach, John R.: tribute, 12506 [4JN]

Dept. of Agriculture: Golden Fleece of the Month recipient, 22249 [8SE]

Dept. of Defense: require extended benchmark testing acquisition strategy in procurement of Composite Health Care System, 19506-19508 [6AU]

———subsidies for tobacco products, 4820 [13MR]

———transfer strategic defense initiative funding to nutrition programs, 12897 [6JN]

Dept. of Energy: hazardous waste report, 9796 [7MY]

Dept. of HHS: establish fee for new drug applications (S. 2739), 20923 [12AU]

———funding for drug and alcohol abuse prevention programs, 26827 [27SE]

———prohibit use of funds to provide contraceptives to minors, 27873-27883 [2OC]

———provide for regional referral centers for States previously under waiver under the Social Security Act, 27910 [2OC]

———support for family caregivers information and education demonstration programs (S. 2949), 33502 [17OC]

Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month: designate (H.J. Res. 741), 28570 [3OC]

Developmental Services of Northwest Kansas: tribute, 27987 [2OC]

Disease: finding a cure for acquired immune deficiency syndrome, 10119 [8MY]

Diseases: acquired immune deficiency syndrome counseling, education, and services (S. 2345), 8124, 8125 [21AP]

———commend Hemophilia Diagnostic and Treatment Centers Program, 23289 [15SE]

———funding for acquired immune deficiency syndrome research, 7413 [14AP], 22536 [10SE]

———schizophrenia, 7510-7519 [15AP]

District of Columbia: amend the composition of the Commission on Mental Health, 28465 [3OC]

———repeal acquired immune deficiency syndrome insurance antidiscrimination law, 18692-18701 [1AU]

Donation of organs: protocols for hospitals participating in medicaid and medicare programs (S. 2808), 22585 [10SE]

———standards for procurement agencies (S. 2808), 22585 [10SE]

Drug abuse: crack (cocaine distillate), 13026 [9JN]

———education funding, 22774 [11SE]

———funds for prevention programs in schools (S. 1820), 174 [21JA]

———impact on youth, 9679 [6MY]

———rehabilitation facilities, 27784 [2OC]

———testing, 22503 [10SE]

Drug Abuse and Alcohol Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation for High-Risk Youth Act: enact (S. 2800), 22458 [9SE]

Drug Enforcement Act: enact (S. 2850), 25633, 25676-25679 [23SE]

Drug industry: establish conditions for exports (S. 1848), 2744 [25FE], 10028-10051, 10060 [8MY], 10326-10337 [12MY], 10376-10401 [13MY], 10571 [14MY]

———export of certain antibiotics, 10383 [13MY]

———export of drugs unapproved by FDA (S. 1848), 1933 [6FE]

———obtain information about the export of drugs, 10336 [12MY]

———prohibit shipment to U.S. if drug is found to be present in a country to which shipment is not authorized, 10395-10399 [13MY]

———reform certain regulatory procedures governing the export of banned and severely restricted substances, 10393-10395 [13MY]

———require that any unapproved drug must be subject to new drug application, 10391-10393 [13MY]

———requirements relative to exports to developing countries, 10576 [14MY]

———study of labeling for foreign produced drugs, 10571 [14MY]

Drug tests: constitutionality, 28026 [2OC]

Drug-Free America Act: enact (S. 2849), 25612 [23SE]

Drugs: effect of mandatory drug testing on epileptics, 22851 [11SE]

———establish fee for new drug applications (S. 2739), 20923 [12AU]

———export of biologics, 33887 [6NO]

———provide immunosuppressive drugs to organ transplant centers (S. 2540), 13137 [10JN]

DuBois, Ruth: tribute, 28557 [3OC]

Ecology: impact of environmental protection legislation, 17824 [28JY]

Education: grants for graduate training in care of developmentally disabled elderly (S. 2688), 17575 [24JY]

Education of the Handicapped Act: amend and extend (S. 2294), 7378-7383 [14AP], 12918-12925 [6JN], 25740-25742 [24SE]

———provide for special maintenance of effort rule, 22302 [8SE]

Emergency Crack Control Act: enact (S. 2715), 19240-19249 [5AU], 19757 [7AU]

Emergency Medical Services Week: designate (H.J. Res. 529), 20402 [9AU]

———designate (S.J. Res. 343), 10301 [12MY]

Employment: discrimination against individuals with history of cancer (S. Con. Res. 165), 26540 [26SE]

———express sense relative to discrimination against cancer victims (S. Con. Res. 166), 26465 [26SE]

Enver, Tariq: award recipient, 20165 [8AU]

EPA: conduct study with FDA on effects of DDT contamination of fish in Santa Monica Bay, CA, 28982 [6OC]

———enforcement agreement with Arkansas, 28463 [3OC]

———establish standards for asbestos abatement in public buildings (S. 2300), 7403-7408 [14AP]

———impact of veto of Superfund reauthorization (H.R. 2005), 32622 [16OC]

———reauthorize Superfund (H.R. 2005), appointment of conferees, 2705 [25FE]

———reauthorizing Superfund (H.R. 2005), conference report, 28406-28451, 28456 [3OC]

———restore Radon Research Program, 27825 [2OC]

———signing of Superfund reauthorization bill by President Reagan, 33179 [17OC]

———study distribution of cyanide, 26772 [27SE]

———Superfund funding, 3483 [4MR]

———Superfund interim funding, 5702, 5709 [20MR]

———Superfund reauthorization (H.R. 2005), conference report, 29533 [8OC], 29936, 29937 [9OC], 30478 [14OC], 32336 [16OC], 33474-33475, 33553 [17OC]

———Superfund reauthorization (H.R. 2817), 23579 [16SE]

———treatment of Indian drinking water systems, 27979 [2OC]

Ethiopia: Marxist Government's policies relative to famine relief, 16361 [14JY]

Exercise equipment: duty on certain speedometers (S. 2363), 8683 [24AP]

Ex-POWs: medical benefits (S. 2422), 29080 [6OC]

Fair Deal Capital Payment Act: enact (S. 2121), 3182-3185 [27FE]

Fast Food Ingredient Information Act: enact (S. 2446), 10420 [13MY], 13164 [10JN]

FDA: anniversary of legislation granting authority to regulate medical devices, 12086 [2JN]

———disclosure of ingredients in restaurant foods, 6588 [27MR]

———establish by law (S. 2154), 4044 [7MR]

———reclassification of transitional devices (S. 2771), 21932 [15AU]

Federal aid programs: access to benefits for homeless, 26732-26735 [27SE]

Federal employees: drug and alcohol education, prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation programs, 29178 [7OC]

———increase assistance to those who abusively use drugs or alcohol, 26709 [27SE]

———mandatory drug tests, 3565 [4MR]

———reform retirement system (H.R. 2672), conference report, 11300-11310 [20MY], 11802, 11803, 11807 [21MY]

———reform retirement system (H.R. 2672), conference report, technical corrections (S. Con. Res. 142), 11310 [20MY]

———refund of health insurance overpayments to retirees, 1927 [6FE]

Federal Employees Benefits Improvement Act: amend (S. 2020), 1741 [5FE]

———enact (H.R. 4061), 1704 [5FE], 3124 [27FE]

———enact (S. 2020), 562 [27JA]

Federal Health Care Auditing and Quality Control Improvement Act: enact (S. 2625), 15873-15898 [26JN]

Federal Hospital System Sharing Act: enact (S. 2627), 15873-15898 [26JN]

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act: amend (S. 2215), 5670-5680 [20MR], 5949 [21MR], 12257-12259 [3JN]

Fein, Rashi: tribute, 9682 [6MY]

Fishery products: beneficial diet, 22001 [15AU]

Fleming, Amalia: tribute, 4344 [11MR]

Food industry: labeling requirements for fast food restaurant items (S. 2446), 16538 [16JY]

———regulate manufacturing practices of infant formula, 26773-26778 [27SE]

Food Safety Modernization Act: enact (S. 2512), 12482 [4JN]

Fortina, Paolo: award recipient, 20165 [8AU]

Garn, Senator: donation of kidney to daughter, 22554 [10SE]

Gary, Loren, Jr.: tribute, 15944 [26JN]

Gaucher's Disease Awareness Week: designate (S.J. Res. 352), 11759 [21MY], 28654 [3OC]

———designate (S.J. Res. 352), change date of observance, 28654 [3OC]

Genetic Disorder Awareness Month: designate (S. Res. 342), 1926 [6FE]

Gintzig, Leon: annual forum on medical care, 7345 [11AP]

Gohlke, Mary: tribute, 10371 [13MY]

Gordeuk, Victor: award recipient, 20165 [8AU]

Government: expand class of individuals eligible for refunds from reserves in the Employee Health Benefits Fund (S. 2017), 405 [23JA]

Gray, Walter J.: award recipient, 20165 [8AU]

Handicapped: disability insurance program (S. Con. Res. 167), 29931 [9OC]

Hanford Reservation, Washington and Oregon: radioactive waste cleanup, 28471 [3OC]

Hawaii: improve health status of native Hawaiians (S. 2243), 32361 [16OC]

Hawaiians: improve health status (S. 2243), 6344 [26MR]

Hazardous substances: funding of Superfund, 29124 [7OC]

———increase funds for waste cleanup and make offsetting reductions in other accounts, 19548-19551 [6AU]

———reauthorize Superfund (S. 51), 23579 [16SE], 25018 [19SE]

———reauthorize superfund (S. 51), 19470 [6AU]

———transportation accident response system, 17341 [23JY]

Health care: medical practice pattern variations, 4875 [14MR]

———national expenditure survey (S. 2167), 4125-4129 [10MR]

Health Care Financing Administration: provide for prompt payment of claims (S. Res. 420), 12375-12378 [4JN]

Health Care Innovation Act: enact (S. 2474), 11325-11329 [20MY]

Health Care Quality Improvement Act: enact (2677), 17247 [22JY]

Health Equity and Incentives Reform Act: enact (S. 2485), 11723-11727 [21MY]

Health insurance: access (S. 2402), 9307 [1MY]

———access (S. 2403), 9312 [1MY]

Health Plan Promotion Act: enact (S. 2486), 11723-11727 [21MY]

High Risk Occupational Disease Notification and Prevention Act: enact (S. 2050), 1722 [5FE]

Hollings, Senator: leadership in school lunch program, 15998 [26JN]

Hong-Yuan Luo: award recipient, 20165 [8AU]

Hospitals: funding, 27930 [2OC]

———patients choice for nonemergency care, 27750 [2OC]

Housing: budget authority (S. Res. 344), 2201 [18FE], 2756 [25FE]

Human services programs: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 4421), conference report, 23887-23891 [18SE]

Human Services Reauthorization Act: enact (S. 2081), 2530-2532 [20FE]

Hunger: commitment to domestic problem (S. Con. Res. 385), 8143 [21AP]

———establish food distribution projects, 18685 [1AU]

———funding of nutrition programs, 4711 [13MR]

———prevalence in U.S., 15927-15933 [26JN]

Hunger Relief Act: enact (S. 2533), 13080 [10JN]

Immunosuppressive Drug Therapy Act: enact (S. 2536), 13130-13132 [10JN], 29424-29427 [8OC]

Indian Health Care Improvement Act: reauthorizing appropriations (H.R. 1426), 29429-29445 [8OC], 33713 [18OC]

———reauthorizing appropriations (S. 277), 18993 [4AU]

———reauthorizing (S. 277), 29443-29445 [8OC]

Indians: Federal health care programs, 9682 [6MY]

Indoor Radon Research and Assistance Act: enact (S. 2710), 18776 [1AU]

Industry: establish National Fisheries Marketing Council, 5960 [21MR]

———national health financing policy, 17948 [29JY]

Infant Mortality Prevention Act: enact (S. 2288), 7322-7323 [11AP], 7794 [16AP]

Inhalants: prohibit sale and advertisement of certain (S. 2831), 23899 [18SE]

Insurance: health care cost control, 6386 [27MR]

———health care coverage for adopted children, 30711 [14OC]

———liability costs, 22464 [9SE], 23920 [18SE]

———medical malpractice, 6764 [8AP], 7044 [9AP]

———prohibit certain companies filing for bankruptcy from discontinuing medical and life insurance benefits to retirees (S. 2690), 17822 [28JY], 18099-18102 [30JY]

———prohibit certain companies filing for bankruptcy from discontinuing medical and life insurance to retirees (S. 2690), 17755, 17758 [25JY]

———require certain companies filing for bankruptcy to use cashout from investment tax credits to pay for health insurance of retirees (S.J. Res. 380), 17833 [28JY], 18911 [4AU]

———tax treatment of certain amounts received as settlement of claims for postretirement medical coverage (S. 2254), 6541 [27MR]

International Cancer Patients Solidarity Committee: efforts to emigrate from Soviet Union, 28505 [3OC]

Johnson & Johnson Products, Inc.: efforts to ensure tamper resistancy of products, 2556 [20FE]

Kanter, Joseph H.: tribute, 7506 [15AP]

Kentucky: infant heart transplant recipient, 13589 [12JN], 13686 [13JN]

KIDS Hot Air Balloon Rally: thank you to volunteers, 20566 [11AU]

Laboratories: animal rights and need for research, 31336 [15OC]

Landmark College, VT: tribute, 12269 [3JN]

Learning Disabilities Awareness Month: designate (S.J. Res. 413), 23339 [15SE]

Lerner, Norma: award recipient, 20165 [8AU]

LTV Corp.: payment of health insurance for retirees, 17833 [28JY]

Lupus Awareness Month: designate (S.J. Res. 279), 2615 [24FE]

Malin, David H.: tribute, 7793 [16AP]

Malpractice Dispute Resolution Act: enact (S. 2941), 33495 [17OC]

Marquart, Clark: tribute, 9682 [6MY]

Mayo Clinic: expansion to new locations, 6589 [27MR]

———opening of satellite, 29594 [8OC]

McDonald's restaurants: opening of 100th Ronald McDonald House, 23104 [12SE]

Meat, Poultry, and Egg Products Inspection Improvement Act: enact (S. 2622), 15873-15898 [26JN]

Medicaid: amend waiver authority to allow States to offer certain health services to AIDS patients (S. 2527), 12947 [6JN]

———benefit equity, 360 [23JA]

———cost reduction (S. 2776), 21935 [15AU]

———coverage for illegal aliens, 16410 [15JY]

———coverage for illegal aliens (S. 2644), 16440 [15JY]

———eligibility, 60 [21JA]

———explanation of program costs, 251 [22JA]

———funding for long-term care of developmentally disabled persons, 27140 [30SE]

———lithotripter, 28506 [3OC]

———maintain health care to the poor and the elderly, 33301, 33306 [17OC]

———prenatal and postpartum care to low-income pregnant women (S. 2333), 7986-7991 [17AP], 8149 [21AP]

———provide coverage of low-income elderly and disabled poor (S. 2492), 11737 [21MY]

———quality control, 14559 [19JN]

———services to children of low-income families (S. 2649), 16630 [16JY]

———services to pregnant women and infants (S. 2650), 16631 [16JY]

———standards for participating nursing homes (S. 2604), 15961-15965 [26JN]

Medical care: respite care demonstration program (S. 2586), 14957 [23JN]

Medical Society of the State of New York: anniversary of auxiliary, 2217 [18FE]

Medical students: medicare reimbursement in ambulatory care settings (S. 2670), 17237 [22JY]

Medical University of South Carolina: provide waiver of certain medicaid requirements, 28376 [3OC]

Medicare: additional members on Physician Payment Review Commission, 15934, 16019, 16044, 16052 [26JN]

———additional members on Physician Payment Review Commission (S. 2602), 15952 [26JN]

———annual preventive health checkup (S. 2400), 9305 [1MY]

———assistance for disabled (S. 873), 11261 [20MY], 13670 [13JN], 15311 [25JN], 16538 [16JY], 31249 [15OC]

———beneficiaries and nursing home care, 29856 [9OC]

———capital payments, 12767 [5JN]

———catastrophic illness coverage, 24812 [19SE]

———certification and recertification of the need for certain services and coverage of these services (S. 2920), 30267 [10OC]

———congressional hearings on payment system, 10752 [15MY]

———cost reduction (S. 2776), 21935 [15AU]

———costs for nonemergency care, 5358 [19MR]

———coverage for disabled (S. 2686), 17574 [24JY]

———coverage for nursing home care, 710 [29JA]

———coverage of physician assistant services (S. 1640), 27293 [30SE]

———eligibility for prospective payment system, 28470 [3OC]

———enrollment requirements for State and local government employees, 24813, 24831, 24877-24879 [19SE]

———ensure quality hospital care for beneficiaries, 5438 [19MR]

———establish demonstration project for veterans (S. 2482), 11721 [21MY]

———exemption of certain cancer research and treatment centers from prospective payment system (S. 2786), 21963 [15AU]

———funding for research into medical treatments and surgical procedures (S. 2001), 162-164 [21JA]

———funding for research of medical treatments and surgical procedures (S. 2114), 3171 [27FE]

———graduate medical education in ambulatory care settings (S. 2670), 17237 [22JY]

———Harvard medicare project recommendations, 5698 [20MR]

———hospital capital costs, 12909 [6JN]

———improve access to, and quality of program (S. 2655), 16853-16855 [17JY]

———increase payment amount for inpatient hospital services (S. 2432), 10085 [8MY]

———inpatient hospital deductible (S. 2341), 8118 [21AP]

———maintain health care for the poor and the elderly, 33301, 33306 [17OC]

———optional catastrophic, long-term, and preventive benefits through prepaid plans (S. 2358), 8535 [23AP], 13081 [10JN]

———Participating Physician Program, 28336 [3OC]

———payment rate for elderly in health maintenance organizations, 9790 [7MY]

———payment system, 4709 [13MR]

———payments to rural hospitals serving disproportionate number of low-income patients, 24899 [19SE]

———physician payment reform, 11265 [20MY], 33305 [17OC]

———prompt payment of claims, 24895 [19SE]

———protect rights of kidney dialysis treatment patients (S. 2547), 13546 [12JN], 14191 [17JN]

———reduction in payments for cataract surgery, 25052 [19SE]

———reimbursement rates of kidney dialysis clinics, 21907 [15AU]

———services to VA beneficiaries (S. 2174), 4314 [11MR]

———standards for participating nursing homes (S. 2604), 15961-15965 [26JN]

———treatment of small rural hospitals (S. 2410), 26961 [29SE]

Medicare Beneficiary Protection Act: enact (S. 2122), 3185 [27FE]

Medicare Home Health Care Improvement Act: enact (S. 2494), 11741-11742 [21MY]

Medicare Information Act: enact (S. 2554), 13711-13717 [13JN]

Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act: enact (S. 2368), 8686-8691 [24AP], 17101 [21JY]

Medicare Quality Protection Act: enact (S. 2331), 7969-7978 [17AP], 16011 [26JN]

Menninger, Karl: tribute, 17169 [22JY]

Mental Illness Awareness Week: designate (S.J. Res. 298), 5171-5172 [18MR]

Military dependents: medical benefits for certain (S. 2213), 5667-5669 [20MR]

Milk: contamination of supplies with heptachlor, 5005 [14MR]

Mount Sinai Medical Center: symposium on aging, 12850 [6JN]

Nalepka, Joyce: tribute, 27737 [1OC]

Narcotics: antidrug campaign checkoff on tax returns, 22534 [10SE]

———cocaine abuse, 4412 [12MR]

———funds for treatment of drug abusers, 26720 [27SE]

———national program to combat abuse, 23283 [15SE], 23677, 23680 [17SE], 23865 [18SE], 26091 [25SE]

———program to control among professional athletes, 4709 [13MR]

———provide funds for programs which identify needs of drug-dependent offenders, 26701-26703 [27SE]

———target drug abuse prevention programs to high risk groups, 26829 [27SE]

National Academies of Practice: charter (S. 89), 16447 [15JY]

National Adult Day Care Center Week: designate (H.J. Res. 617), 28564 [3OC]

———designate (S.J. Res. 375), 16857 [17JY]

National Adult Immunization Awareness Week: designate (S.J. Res. 396), 21399 [13AU]

National Alopecia Areata Awareness Week: designate (S.J. Res. 299), 5428 [19MR], 23078 [12SE]

National Alzheimer's Disease Month: designate (S.J. Res. 280), 2737 [25FE]

National Aplastic Anemia Awareness Week: designate (H.J. Res. 611), 25870 [24SE]

———designate (S.J. Res. 329), 8308 [22AP]

National Asthma Allergy Awareness Week: designate (H.J. Res. 427), 10888 [15MY]

National Barrier Awareness Day: designate (S.J. Res. 330), 9347 [1MY]

National Basketball Association: program to combat drug abuse, 3293 [28FE]

National Burn Awareness Week: designate (S.J. Res. 410), 22850 [11SE]

———designate (S.J. Res. 432), 33492 [17OC]

National Cancer Institute: grants for research on adoptive immunotherapy (S. 2305), 7491 [15AP]

National Childhood Vaccine-Injury Compensation Act: enact (S. 827), 19317 [5AU]

National Commission To Prevent Infant Mortality: establish, 28343-28345 [3OC]

———establish (S. 1209), 29900 [9OC]

National Council of Compulsive Gambling, Inc.: symposium, 23104 [12SE]

National Council on Access to Health Care: establish (S. 1620), 3206 [27FE], 29419 [8OC]

National CPR Awareness Week: designate (S.J. Res. 426), 29930 [9OC], 31280 [15OC]

National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Week: designate (S.J. Res. 273), 2095 [7FE], 4175 [10MR], 4310 [11MR]

National Diabetes Month: designate (S.J. Res. 318), 7029 [9AP]

National Digestive Diseases Awareness Week: designate (S.J. Res. 324), 7501 [15AP], 8279 [22AP]

National Drug Abuse Education and Prevention Week: designate (S.J. Res. 354), 11760 [21MY]

National Drug Abuse Education Day: designate (S.J. Res. 386), 19255 [5AU], 20405 [9AU]

National Family Caregivers Week: designate (S.J. Res. 348), 11222 [19MY]

National Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Awareness Week: designate (S.J. Res. 373), 16856 [17JY], 23078 [12SE]

National Fisheries Marketing and Promotion Act: enact (S. 2138), 3715 [5MR]

National Fitness and Jogging Center: dedication, 8254, 8314 [22AP]

National Gaucher's Disease Awareness Week: designate (S.J. Res. 352), 28022 [2OC]

National Goodwill Week: observance, 9329 [1MY]

National Home Care Week: designate (S.J. Res. 339), 9667 [6MY]

National Hospice Month: designate (S.J. Res. 317), 7028 [9AP]

National Infection Control Week: designate (H.J. Res. 623), 17408 [23JY]

National Kidney Program Day: designate (S.J. Res. 367), 14960 [23JN], 17403 [23JY], 20404 [9AU], 31303 [15OC]

National Lupus Awareness Month: designate (S.J. Res. 279), 5969 [21MR]

National Medical Laboratory Week: designate (S.J. Res. 312), 6557 [27MR]

National Narcotics Act: enact (S. 2716), 19240-19249 [5AU]

National Nuclear Medicine Week: designate, 13723 [13JN]

———designate (H.J. Res. 297), 14818 [20JN]

———designate (S.J. Res. 314), 6558 [27MR]

National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act: enact (H.R. 2436), 33477 [17OC]

National Nutrition Month: observance, 5612 [20MR]

National Organ and Tissue Donor Act: enact (S. 2455), 10839 [15MY]

National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week: observance, 8152 [21AP], 8268 [22AP]

National Osteoporosis Awareness Week: designate (S.J. Res. 285), 3351 [28FE], 4310 [11MR]

National Reye's Syndrome Awareness Week: designate (S.J. Res. 345), 20404 [9AU]

National School Lunch Act: extend and improve, 27917-27922 [2OC]

National Spina Bifida Month: designate (S.J. Res. 368), 15308 [25JN], 20404 [9AU]

New Jersey: radon gas contamination in homes, 5440 [19MR]

———radon-proofing project, 11783 [21MY]

NIH: biomedical research funds, 11194 [19MY]

———equity in rate of pay for nurses, 12762 [5JN]

———findings on establishment of national registry of bone marrow donors, 11651 [21MY]

———reduce funding, 22543 [10SE]

———well-being of research animals, 16447 [15JY]

NIH Centennial Year: designate (S.J. Res. 395), 21398 [13AU]

9-1-1 Emergency Number Day: designate (S.J. Res. 405), 21968 [15AU], 22615 [10SE], 22856 [11SE]

Noland, Lloyd: tribute, 27143 [30SE]

Nursing homes: patients' rights in long-term facilities (S. 2119), 3180 [27FE]

Older Americans Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Week: designate (S.J. Res. 267), 1920 [6FE]

Omnibus Drug Enforcement, Education, and Control Act: amend freedom of information provisions, 31414 [15OC]

———conform certain provisions of H.R. 5484 to the Congressional Budget Act, 26820, 26837 [27SE]

———enact (H.R. 5484), 23033, 23034 [12SE], 23483, 23511 [16SE], 26473-26476 [26SE], 26694, 26709-26837 [27SE], 27134, 27159, 27160, 27161-27252 [30SE], 27683 [1OC], 30229, 30318 [10OC], 30475-30478, 30703 [14OC], 31248, 31395, 31408, 31421 [15OC], 32351, 32570 [16OC], 33245-33252 [17OC], 33836 [18OC]

———enact (H.R. 5484), substitute S. 2878 language in lieu, 26473 [26SE]

———enact (H.R. 5484), time-limitation agreement, 26885 [27SE]

———enact (H.R. 5484), uninamous-consent agreement, 26837 [27SE]

———funding, 28457 [3OC]

———modify provisions, 31408 [15OC]

———sense relative to appropriation of funds for implementation, 27164 [30SE]

———strike Anti-Drug Trust Fund, 31412 [15OC]

Orestis, Kelsey: tribute, 15165 [24JN], 16634 [16JY]

Organ procurement and transplantation network: establish (S. 2841), 24809 [19SE]

Organized camping: anniversary (S. Res. 406), 10427 [13MY]

Orphan Drug Act: funding, 27929 [2OC]

Owens, Jacqueline: tribute, 5697 [20MR]

Pan American Health Organization: exempt from deferral of U.S. contributions, 27805-27807 [2OC]

Parental and Medical Leave Act: enact (S. 2278), 7013-7018 [9AP]

Parkinson's Disease Amelioration Act: enact (S. 2094), 2712 [25FE]

Pediatric Pulmonary Research Act: enact (S. 2873), 25847 [24SE]

Pesticide Reform Act: enact (S. 2346), 8126 [21AP]

Pesticides: authority for States to set uniform tolerance levels, 28950 [6OC]

———permit Federal agencies to use registered products without duplicating research and analysis of health effects, 28983 [6OC]

———protection for consumers, 28974-28977 [6OC]

———require EPA to establish efficacy standards for antimicrobial control agents used to control pest micro-organism, 28948 [6OC]

Philippines: humanitarian assistance, 2186 [18FE]

Physical fitness: programs by State and local educational agencies (S. Con. Res. 145), 26973 [29SE]

Physician Payment Review Commission: additional members (S. 2602), 15952 [26JN]

Pittsburgh, PA: designate Commando Charles E. Kelly VA Medical Center (S. 2866), 25840 [24SE]

Poland: authorize shipment of dried milk (S. Res. 394), 9419 [5MY]

Pregnancy: prenatal and postpartum care to low-income women under medicaid (S. 2333), 7986-7991 [17AP]

Prescription Drug Marketing Act: enact (S. 2875), 25848-25851 [24SE]

President's Council on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: establish, 33511 [17OC]

———establish (S. 2057), 1897, 1898 [6FE], 3732 [5MR]

———funding, 22553 [10SE]

President's Council on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Act: enact (S. 2057), 13830-13833 [16JN]

Product safety: uniform liability law (S. 1999), 1422 [3FE], 10310 [12MY], 10437 [13MY]

Protection and Advocacy for Mentally Ill Persons Act: enact (S. 974), appointment of conferees, 1705 [5FE]

———enact (S. 974), conference report, 10588, 10637 [14MY]

Providence Hospital Commemorative Plaque Act: enact (H.R. 4382), 10643 [14MY]

Public health: provide funds for planning, 28386-28389 [3OC]

Public Health Service Corps: special pay for psychologists (S. 2876), 26179 [25SE]

Radon Mitigation Clarification Act: enact (S. 2577), 14614 [19JN]

Randolph, Jennings: tribute, 14832 [20JN]

Rehabilitation Act: amend and extend (S. 2515), 12631-12638 [5JN], 22291, 22298-22303 [8SE]

Reilly, Terry: tribute, 11231 [19MY]

Research: finding cures for illness, 9341 [1MY]

———mental disorders, 19598 [6AU]

Rhode Island: closing of Ladd School, 18049 [30JY]

Rixon, Mark W.: award recipient, 20165 [8AU]

Roper, William L.: recipient of Lloyd Noland Health Pioneer Award, 27143 [30SE], 27989 [2OC]

Rural areas: health care improvements, 33305 [17OC]

Rural Health Care Improvement Act: enact (S. 2410), 9661-9663 [6MY], 9922-9924 [7MY], 26961 [29SE]

Safe Drinking Water Act: amend to extend authorization (S. 124), conference report, 11655-11673 [21MY]

———amend to extend authorization (S. 124), enrollment correction (H. Con. Res. 346), 12928 [6JN]

Santa Monica Bay, CA: study health effects of toxic contamination of fish (S. 2126), 3188 [27FE]

Sarnoff, Stanley J.: tribute, 3872 [6MR]

Schools: EPA regulations requiring inspection for asbestos containing material (H.R. 5073), 28581 [3OC], 28583 [7OC]-28588 [3OC]

Schroeder, William J.: tribute, 20568 [11AU]

Seifert, Milton: NIH award recipient, 3203 [27FE]

Shock wave lithotripters: duty (S. 2597), 15434 [25JN]

Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity: tribute, 3565 [4MR]

Skaggs, Lara: tribute, 12506 [4JN]

Social Security: disability insurance program (S. Con. Res. 167), 29931 [9OC]

———prospective payment rates for outpatient maintenance dialysis services (S. 2646), 16618 [16JY]

Social work: tribute, 2756 [25FE]

Solomon, Arlene: award recipient, 20165 [8AU]

Soviet Union: nuclear reactor accident, 16002 [26JN]

———psychiatric abuse of dissidents, 978 [29JA]

Sports: drug testing, 16763 [17JY]

Springfield, MO: needs of indigent citizens, 11791 [21MY]

St. Christopher's Hospital, Philadelphia, PA: funding for demonstration project, 28482 [3OC]

State long-term care ombudsman programs: improve (S. 2912), 29165, 29168 [7OC]

States: efficiency of mental health care programs, 7908 [17AP]

———reauthorizing program for dependent care grants (H.R. 4421), S. 2444 language passed in lieu, 16361 [14JY]

———reauthorizing program for dependent care grants (S. 2444), 16348-16361 [14JY]

———require development of State comprehensive mental health plans (S. 1744), 20900 [12AU], 33831-33836 [18OC]

Stoeckert, Christian J., Jr.: award recipient, 20165 [8AU]

Superfund Interim Financing Act: enact (S. 2120), 3181 [27FE]

Tariff: amend schedule for extracorporeal shock wave lithotripters (S. 2338), 8066 [18AP]

Taussig, Helen B.: tribute, 11700 [21MY]

Taxation: credit for clinical testing of orphan drugs, 14362-14363 [18JN]

———deductions for medical expenses, 14503, 14517 [19JN]

———deny personal exemption for child living temporarily after an abortion (S. 2088), 2609-2612 [24FE]

———employee benefits (S. Res. 304), 4498 [12MR]

———employee fringe benefits (S. Res. 303), 799-801 [29JA], 2404 [19FE]

———employee fringe benefits (S. Res. 339), 1924 [6FE]

———retirement benefits (S. Res. 304), 801 [29JA]

———treatment of certain costs of private foundations in removing hazardous substances, 14565 [19JN]

———treatment of physician indemnity associations, 14563 [19JN]

Television: impact of violence, 22469 [9SE]

———program evaluation (S. 2322), 7960-7962 [17AP]

———program evaluation (S. 2323), 7960-7962 [17AP]

Television programs: evaluation (S. 2323), 28560 [3OC]

Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Act: funding, 32505 [16OC]

Thompson, Mary H.: tribute, 9335 [1MY]

Tobacco industry: antismoking campaigns, 16862 [17JY]

———hazards of smokeless tobacco use, 6137 [25MR]

———revise method for pricing tobacco products for sale in commissaries, 19489-19495, 19496 [6AU]

Trauma research: funding, 28471 [3OC]

U.S. Disabled Ski Team: tribute (S. Res. 298), 2622 [24FE]

U.S.-Mexico Border Health Education and Training Act: enact (S. 2089), 2613 [24FE]

Uninsured Workers' Health Insurance Act: enact (S. 2484), 11723-11727 [21MY]

University of Alabama: funding for Lister Hill Center for Health Policy, 33197 [17OC]

University of Georgia: plant complex carbohydrate research facility, 28482 [3OC]

VA: amend determination relative to certain radiogenic diseases, 17546 [24JY], 18585 [31JY]

———authorize modification of structure of the Office of the Chief Medical Director (S. 2172), 4313 [11MR]

———exclude residents and interns from coverage under Federal labor-management relations statute (S. 2173), 4314 [11MR]

———funding for alcohol and drug abuse treatment, 30703 [14OC]

———funding for health care, 27980 [2OC]

———funding for services, benefits, and facilities, 33200 [17OC]

———need to replace Allen Park, MI, hospital facility, 27979 [2OC]

———need to replace Aspinwall, PA, hospital facility, 27979 [2OC]

———prohibitions against certain real estate transactions (S. 2141), 3719 [5MR], 3972 [6MR]

———quality assurance programs, 9978 [8MY]

VA Readjustment Counseling Professional Fellowship Program: establish (S. 2359), 8536 [23AP]

Vaccination: assistance to foreign countries to promote immunization and oral rehydration (S. 1917), 21765 [15AU], 28549, 28636-28642 [3OC]

———assistance to promote immunization and oral rehydration (S. 1917), 4503 [12MR]

Veterans: improve benefits for POWs (S. 2168), 4163 [10MR]

———improve various aspects of VA medical care programs (S. 2388), 9072-9076 [30AP]

———rate of Vietnam Conflict draftees' suicide, 4347 [11MR]

Veterans' Benefits Improvement and Health Care Authorization Act: enact (H.R. 5299), 29446-29472 [8OC]

———enact (H.R. 5299): correction of explanatory statement, ***** [10OC]

Veterans' Compensation and Benefits Improvement Act: enact (H.R. 5299), 27318 [30SE]

———enact (S. 2422), 27298-27318 [30SE]

Veterans' Compensation and Benefits Improvements Act: enact (S. 2422), 9978-9981 [8MY]

Veterans' Health Care Programs Improvements Act: enact (S. 2445), 10416-10418 [13MY]

Volunteer workers: tribute to recipient organizations, 9329 [1MY]

White House Conference on Illicit Drug Use and Control: call on President to convene (S.J. Res. 381), 17873 [29JY]

WIC: funding, 8645-8650 [24AP]

Wieland, Bob: tribute, 11225 [19MY]

Wolman, Abel: tribute, 32631 [16OC]

Women: prenatal, delivery, and postpartum care of low-income pregnant persons (S. 2667), 17124 [21JY]

World Health Week: observance (S.J. Res. 226), 7349 [11AP]

Year of Workers With Disabilities: designate (S.J. Res. 431), 33492 [17OC]

Youth: establish school-based health care demonstration projects (S. 2757), 21604 [14AU]

Youth Suicide Prevention Act: enact (S. 2551), 13622 [12JN]

Youth Suicide Prevention Month: designate (S.J. Res. 266), 1918 [6FE], 3165 [27FE]

Reports

Accomplishments of the John J. Sparkman Center for International Public Health Education, 3657 [5MR]

America's Uninsured and Underinsured—A Nation at Risk of Inadequate Health Care and Catastrophic Costs: Select Committee on Aging, 25077-25080 [19SE]

Caring for the Older Veteran: VA (excerpt), 9073 [30AP]

Civilian Radioactive Waste Management Program: Dept. of Energy, 9797-9799 [7MY]

Competitive Assessment of the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry: Dept. of Commerce (excerpt), 10329 [12MY]

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (excerpt), 28410 [3OC]

Disability and Independence—Hand in Hand: Lara Skaggs, 12506 [4JN]

Drug Use: Commission on Organized Crime (excerpt), 3652 [5MR]

Economic and Educational Benefits of Preschool Programs for Handicapped Children: Dept. of Education (excerpt), 9289 [1MY]

Effects of Legislative Changes in 1981 and 1982 Food Stamp Program: Dept. of Agriculture (excerpt), 15930 [26JN]

EPA Superfund Reauthorization Conference Report—Regional Analysis of Tax Provisions: Northeast-Midwest Congressional Coalition, 30392 [10OC]

Ethiopia—One Year Later—The True Story: Yonas Deressa, 16362-16365 [14JY]

Export of Unapproved Antibiotics: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (excerpt), 10386 [13MY]

Federal Response to the Homeless Crisis: Committee on Government Operations (excerpt), 26733 [27SE]

Food Stamp Authorization: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (excerpt), 15928 [26JN]

Food Stamp Program: President's Task Force on Food Assistance (excerpt), 15929 [26JN]

Future of Medicare: Harvard medicare project, 5698-5702 [20MR]

Government Regulation of Nursing Homes: Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Science (excerpt), 8742 [28AP]

Health Effects of Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Indian Council of Medical Research (excerpt), 9940 [7MY]

Health Initiatives: American Heart Association (excerpt), 2758 [25FE]

High Risk Occupational Disease Notification and Prevention Act: John Higginson, 29394 [7OC]

Hunger Counties—Methodological Review of a Report by the Physician Task Force on Hunger: GAO (excerpt), 15931, 15932 [26JN]

Hunger Teleconference Report—Executive Summary, 8029 [17AP]

Impact of Child Survival Fund and Other Forms of Aid to Third World Countries: Ruth DuBois, 28557 [3OC]

Infant Formula Regulations: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (excerpt), 10379 [13MY]

Interim Report on Caring for the Older Veteran: VA, 9074 [30AP]

Maintenance and Expansion of Family Planning Programs—Public Policy Advisory Committee, Population Institute, 4855 [13MR]

Medicaid: Center for Social Policy (excerpt), 60 [21JA], 361 [23JA]

Medicare Costs: OTA (excerpt), 5359 [19MR]

Medicare Skilled Nursing Home Quality Care Amendments (excerpt), 32671 [16OC]

National Medical Expenditure Survey and Its Policy Applications, 4127 [10MR]

National Uniformity for Pesticide Residue Tolerances: Library of Congress, 28928 [6OC]

Omnibus Drug Enforcement, Education, and Control Act (H.R. 5484): sundry (excerpt), 27168 [30SE]

Ozone Pollution: Josh Hassol, 12010 [22MY]

Payment Rates for Renal Services and Improvements in Administration of End Stage Renal Disease Networks and Program: Committee on Ways and Means, 19005 [4AU]

Pharmaceutical Export Amendments: sundry, 10386 [13MY]

Prenatal Services Offered Under Medicaid: Institute of Medicine, 7989 [17AP]

Protection of Confidential Sources: Senate Judiciary Committee (excerpt), 27189 [30SE]

Radon Task Force, Sweden and New Jersey: Senator Lautenberg, 5440-5443 [19MR]

Resistance of Bacteria to Antibacterial Agents: sundry, 10387 [13MY]

Tort Liability Insurance: President's Tort Policy Working Group (excerpts), 10984-10987 [15MY]

Reports by conference committees

S. 124, Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments, 9441-9455 [5MY]

S. 974, Protection and Advocacy for Mentally Ill Persons Act, 9458-9464 [5MY]

Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (H.R. 5635), 28212-28315 [3OC]

Superfund Reauthorization (H.R. 2005) (excerpt), 33475 [17OC]

Reports filed

Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration Authorities: Committee on Energy and Commerce (H.R. 5259) (S. Rept. 99-802), 22143 [15AU]

Animal Drug Amendments and Patent Term Restoration Act: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (S. 2407) (S. Rept. 99-448), 23819 [17SE]

Clarify U.S. Code Relative to Rejection of Collective Bargaining Agreements by Debtors in Bankruptcy: Committee on the Judiciary (H.R. 5490) (H. Rept. 99-917), 27116 [29SE]

Compensation of Public in Event of Accident From Activities Undertaken Under Contract With Dept. of Energy and NRC Involving Nuclear Materials: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (S. 1225) (S. Rept. 99-310), 11713 [21MY]

Compensation to Victims of Nuclear Accidents Involving Federally Licensed Activities: Committee on Environment and Public Works (S. 1225), 21918 [15AU]

Depts. of HHS, Labor, and Education Appropriations: Committee on Appropriations (H.R. 5233) (H. Rept. 99-711), 17691 [24JY]

———Committee on Appropriations (H.R. 5233) (S. Rept. 99-408), 21917 [15AU]

Designate Better Hearing and Speech Month: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 284), 7185 [10AP]

Designate Emergency Medical Services Week: Committee on the Judiciary (H.J. Res. 529), 18570 [31JY]

Designate Lupus Awareness Month: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 279), 5664 [20MR]

Designate Mental Illness Awareness Week: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 298), 7956 [17AP]

Designate Month of Developmentally Disabled Persons: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 389), 22847 [11SE]

Designate National Adult Immunization Awareness Week: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 396), 24968 [19SE]

Designate National Alopecia Areata Awareness Week: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 299), 22847 [11SE]

Designate National Alzheimer's Disease Month: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 280), 7956 [17AP]

Designate National Aplastic Anemia Awareness Week: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 329), 24968 [19SE]

Designate National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Week: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 241), 9299 [1MY]

Designate National Burn Awareness Week: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 234), 1221 [30JA]

———Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 410), 27994 [2OC]

Designate National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Week: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 273), 3957 [6MR]

Designate National Diabetes Month: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 318), 7956 [17AP]

Designate National Digestive Diseases Awareness Week: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 324), 7956 [17AP]

Designate National Down's Syndrome Month: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 321), 7956 [17AP]

Designate National Epidermolysis Bullosa Awareness Week: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 245), 9299 [1MY]

Designate National Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Awareness Week: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 373), 22847 [11SE]

Designate National Hospice Month: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 317), 7956 [17AP]

Designate National Kidney Program Day: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 367), 19849 [7AU]

Designate National Maternal and Child Health Week: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 239), 1221 [30JA]

Designate National Medical Laboratory Week: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 312), 7956 [17AP]

Designate National Nuclear Medicine Week: Committee on the Judiciary (H.J. Res. 297), 14595 [19JN]

Designate National Nursing Home Residents Day: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 264), 5664 [20MR]

Designate National Osteoporosis Awareness Week: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 285), 3957 [6MR]

Designate National Outreach to the Rural Disabled Day: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 406), 22848 [11SE]

Designate National Reye's Syndrome Awareness Week: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 345), 19849 [7AU]

Designate National Spina Bifida Month: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 368), 19849 [7AU]

Designate NIH Centennial Year: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 395), 24968 [19SE]

Designate Older Americans Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Week: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 267), 5664 [20MR]

Designate World Health Day and Week: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 226), 1221 [30JA]

Designate Youth Suicide Prevention Month: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 266), 2529 [20FE]

Developments in Aging: Committee on Rules and Administration (S. Res. 305) (S. Rept. 99-239), 3170 [27FE]

Direct Payment of Certain Health Care Professionals and Coordination With State and Local Law: Committee on Post Office and Civil Service (H.R. 4825) (H. Rept. 99-710), 17691 [24JY]

Education of the Handicapped Act Reauthorization: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (S. 2294) (S. Rept. 99-315), 12076 [2JN]

Encouragement of Professional Review Activities of Health Care Entities and Hospital Distribution of Malpractice Claims Payment Information: Committee on Energy and Commerce (H.R. 5540) (H. Rept. 99-903), 26427 [26SE]

EPA Standards for Asbestos Identification and Abatement in Schools: Committee on Environment and Public Works (S. 2083) (S. Rept. 99-427), 22264 [8SE]

Establish National Commission To Prevent Infant Mortality: Committee on Governmental Affairs (S. 1209) (S. Rept. 99-506), 27269 [30SE]

Establish National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Program: Committee on Science and Technology (H.R. 2436) (H. Rept. 99-481), 3480 [4MR]

Establishment of National Center on Youth Suicide: Committee on Governmental Affairs (S. 2551), 26179 [25SE]

Establishment of National Council on Access to Health Care: Committee on Governmental Affairs (S. 1620) (S. Rept. 99-489), 26179 [25SE]

Exempt Certain Activities From Provisions of Antitrust Laws: Committee on the Judiciary (S. 2323), 25838 [24SE]

———Committee on the Judiciary (S. 2323) (S. Rept. 99-535), 29548 [8OC]

Extend Health Planning Authority: Committee on Energy and Commerce (H.R. 3010) (H. Rept. 99-464), 498 [23JA]

———Committee on Rules (H.R. 3010; H. Res. 359) (H. Rept. 99-465), 600 [28JA]

Extend Procedures for Liability and Indemnification for Nuclear Accidents: Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (H.R. 3653) (H. Rept. 99-636), 13525 [12JN]

Extend Program of Assistance for Health Maintenance Organizations: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (S. 1762; H.R. 2417) (S. Rept. 99-229), 301 [22JA]

Extension of Program of Childhood Vaccinations: committee of conference (H.R. 5230) (S. Rept. 99-805), 22143 [15AU]

———Committee on Energy and Commerce (H.R. 5230) (S. Rept. 99-801), 22143 [15AU]

Federal Efforts To Encourage Foreign Cooperation in Eradicating Illicit Drug Crops and Prevention of International Drug Traffic: Committee on Rules (H.R. 5484; H. Res. 541) (H. Rept. 99-810, 22366 [9SE]

Federal Financial Assistance for Control of Plague: Committee on Energy and Commerce (H.R. 4392) (H. Rept. 99-972), 29386 [7OC]

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act: Committee on the Judiciary (H.R. 5536) (H. Rept. 99-895), 28178 [2OC]

Federal Programs for the Prevention and Treatment of Drug Abuse: Committee on Energy and Commerce (H.R. 5334) (H. Rept. 99-792), 21734 [14AU]

Grant Program for Medical Technology for Dependent Children in Home: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (S. 1793) (S. Rept. 99-306), 11713 [21MY]

Grants to States for Drugs for Organ Transplant Patients: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (S. 2536) (S. Rept. 99-389), 20551 [11AU]

Guidelines for Safety and for Damage Awards for Personal Injury Incurred by Seamen on Fishing Vessels (H.R. 5013) (H. Rept. 99-767), 19744 [7AU]

Head Start, Follow Through, Community Services Block Grant, Dependent Care, and Community Food and Nutrition Programs Appropriations: committee of conference (H.R. 4421), 23244 [12SE]

Head Start, Follow Through, Dependent Care, Community Services Grant, and Community Food and Nutrition Programs Appropriations: Committee on Education and Labor (H.R. 4421) (H. Rept. 99-545), 7890 [17AP]

———Committee on Rules (H.R. 4421) (H. Rept. 99-549), 8410 [22AP]

Head Start Act, Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act, Community Services Block Grant Act, Dependent Care State Grant Program Reauthorization: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (S. 2444) (S. Rept. 99-327), 15104 [24JN]

Improve Method of Compensation to Victims of Nuclear Accidents Involving Federally Licensed Activities: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (S. 1225), 8683 [24AP]

Improved Health Status of Native Hawaiians: Committee on Indian Affairs (Select) (S. 2243) (S. Rept. 99-532), 29026 [6OC]

Improved Readjustment Counseling for Vietnam-era Veterans (H.R. 4623) (H. Rept. 99-729), 18419 [31JY]

Improvement of Counseling, Education, and Services Relating to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (S. 2345) (S. Rept. 99-337), 17389 [23JY]

Indian Health Care Improvement Act: Committee on Rules (H.R. 1426; H. Res. 528) (H. Rept. 99-741), 19116 [5AU]

Medicare and Medicaid Patient and Program Protection Act: Committee on Finance (H.R. 1868) (S. Rept. 99-520), 27994 [2OC]

National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act: Committee on Governmental Affairs (H.R. 2436) (S. Rept. 99-521), 27994 [2OC], 28511 [3OC]

National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Program: Committee on Agriculture (H.R. 2436) (H. Rept. 99-481), 14741 [19JN]

———Committee on Rules (H.R. 2436; H. Res. 484) (H. Rept. 99-656), 15286 [24JN]

Native American Diabetes Prevention and Control: Committee on Indian Affairs (Select) (S. 1988) (S. Rept. 99-311), 12076 [2JN]

Neurotoxins at Home and the Workplace: Committee on Science and Technology (H. Rept. 99-827), 23472 [16SE]

Occupational Health Hazard Surveillance: Committee on Government Operations (H. Rept. 99-979), 29833 [8OC]

Omnibus Drug Enforcement, Education, and Control Act: Committee on Rules (H.R. 5484; H. Res. 576) (H. Rept. 99-974), 29386 [7OC]

———Committee on Rules (H.R. 5484; H. Res. 597) (H. Rept. 99-1010), 32329 [16OC]

Parental Leave in Cases Involving Birth, Adoption, or Serious Health Condition of Children: Committee on Education and Labor (H.R. 4300) (H. Rept. 99-699), 19950 [8AU]

———Committee on Post Office and Civil Service (H.R. 4300) (H. Rept. 99-699), 17054 [21JY]

———Committee on Rules (H.R. 4300; H. Res. 552) (H. Rept. 99-838), 24686 [18SE]

President's Council on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (S. 2057) (S. Rept. 99-307), 11713 [21MY]

Prevention of Childhood Injuries: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (S. 2648) (S. Rept. 99-434), 22264 [8SE]

Prohibition of Discrimination Against Handicapped on Air Carriers: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (S. 2703) (S. Rept. 99-400), 21378 [13AU]

Protection and Advocacy for Mentally Ill Persons Act: committee of conference (S. 974) (H. Rept. 99-576), 9465 [5MY]

Protection and Advocacy Systems for Mentally Ill and Family Support Groups for Alzheimer Patients: Committee on Rules (H.R. 4055; H. Res. 360) (H. Rept. 99-466), 600 [28JA]

Provision for Compensation for Children Who Have Sustained Vaccine-Related Injuries: Committee on Energy and Commerce (H.R. 5546) (H. Rept. 99-908), 26427 [26SE]

———Committee on Labor and Human Resources (S. 827) (S. Rept. 99-483), 25838 [24SE]

Public Health Service Act: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (S. 2793), 22264 [8SE]

Public Health Service Act Extension: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (S. 881) (S. Rept. 99-297), 10404 [13MY]

Quality Education Programs for Deaf Individuals: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (S. 1874) (S. Rept. 99-290), 8939 [29AP]

Reauthorization of Indian Health Care Improvement Act: Committee on Indian Affairs (Select) (H.R. 1426), 26179 [25SE]

Rehabilitation Act Reauthorization: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (S. 2515) (S. Rept. 99-388), 20147 [8AU]

Revise Authorities of Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (S. 2595) (S. Rept. 99-333), 16376 [14JY]

Safe Drinking Water Act Extension: committee of conference (S. 124) (H. Rept. 99-575), 9465 [5MY]

Sense of Congress in Opposition To Employment Discrimination Against Persons Who Have Cancer: Committee on Education and Labor (H. Con. Res. 321) (H. Rept. 99-774), 19951 [8AU]

State Development of Comprehensive Mental Health Plans: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (S. 1744) (S. Rept. 99-380), 19575 [6AU]

Surplus Vessels To Provide Health and Humanitarian Services in Developing Countries: Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (H.R. 4046) (H. Rept. 99-984), 30116 [9OC]

System for Preventing Illness Among High Risk Workers of Occupational Disease: Committee on Education and Labor (H.R. 1309) (H. Rept. 99-691), 16965 [17JY]

———Committee on Rules (H.R. 1309; H. Res. 506) (H. Rept. 99-703), 17317 [22JY]

VA Benefits Based on Service-Connected Disability or Death of Veteran: Committee on Veterans Affairs (S. 2885) (S. Rept. 99-494), 26838 [27SE]

Veterans' Compensation and Benefit Programs: Committee on Veterans' Affairs (S. 2422) (S. Rept. 99-444), 23572 [16SE]

Reports to constituents

Hamilton, Lee H.: Catastrophic Illness, 6801 [8AP]

Resolutions by organizations

John F. Kennedy Medical Center, IL: Board of Trustees of the Northwest Hospital, 30200 [10OC]

Ruling

Eligibility of Milton A. Densford for death benefits under Public Safety Officers' Benefits Act: Dept. of Justice (excerpt), 27928 [2OC]

Rulings

Dependency definition: IRS (73-156), 2611 [24FE]

Rulings of the Chair

Community and migrant health centers programs: extend (H.R. 2418), 3604, 3612 [5MR]

Mentally Ill Individuals Act: enact (H.R. 4055), 1051, 1053 [30JA]

Omnibus Drug Enforcement, Education, and Control Act: enact (H.R. 5484), 22871 [11SE]

Sermons

Word of Judgment, Word of Grace: John Marshall, 2208-2211 [18FE]

Songs

``Memorial to Zephyr,'' Beverly Rush, 4497 [12MR]

Statements

American Psychological Association's Presidential Commendation Presentated to Representative Walgren: Robert Perloff, 2778 [25FE]

Biotechnology Industry: Harvey Price, 10330 [12MY]

Catastrophic Health Care for the Elderly: Paul Willging, 13081 [10JN]

Comprehensive Smokeless Tobacco and Health Education Act: Coalition on Smoking OR Health, 1328 [3FE]

———NIH, 1333 [3FE]

Contracting AIDS: Myron Essex, 17039 [21JY]

Dilemma on the Horn—The U.N. in Ethiopia: Joseph V. Reed, 16365 [14JY]

Drug Education: drug educator, 22774 [11SE]

EPA Superfund Reauthorization: National Governors' Association, 6799 [8AP]

———sundry excerpts, 29745 [8OC], 30419 [10OC]

Exposure of Children to Television: American Academy of Pediatrics (excerpt), 7960 [17AP]

Financing Care for Patients With Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias: Karen Davis, 25024 [19SE]

Food Poisoning in Oregon: sundry excerpts, 5895 [21MR]

Food Safety Standards: AMA, 12483-12486 [4JN]

Food Stamp Program: Representative Bedell, 15928 [26JN]

———Representative Foley, 15928 [26JN]

———Representative Shumway, 15928 [26JN]

Foreign Shipments of Unauthorized Drugs: FDA, 10397 [13MY]

Health and Longterm Care Concerns of Older Black Americans: American Association of Retired Persons, 28201 [2OC]

Health Care: Dorothea Dix, 20902 [12AU]

Health Care for the Elderly—Central Michigan District Health Dept.: Judy Parrott, 18248 [30JY]

Health Care Needs of U.S.-Mexico Border Residents: Jose Laguna Garcia, 2613 [24FE]

Health Implications of Smokeless Tobacco Use: NIH, 1334 [3FE], 1859-1861 [6FE]

Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Dentistry: American Dental Association, 13831 [16JN]

Health Protection Act (excerpts), 13174 [10JN]

High Risk Occupational Disease Notification and Prevention Act: L.T. Kurland, 27403 [30SE]

Homecare Quality Assurance Act: Robert B. Helms, 33611 [17OC]

Impact of Deficit Reduction Plans on Human Services: Human Services Providers of Warwick, RI, 7706 [16AP]

Impact of Prospective Payment System on Small and Rural Hospitals: Montana Hospital Association, 9662 [6MY]

Indian Health Care Improvement Act Reauthorization and Amendments: Acoma NM, pueblo (excerpt), 24129 [18SE]

———Apache Tribe of Oklahoma (excerpt), 24129 [18SE]

Indiscriminate Use of Antimicrobial Drugs: WHO, 10384 [13MY]

Infant Formula Regulations: FDA, 10379 [13MY]

———sundry, 10379 [13MY]

Maternal and Child Health Press Conference: Senator Durenberger, 7988 [17AP]

Medicaid Nursing Facility Quality Care Amendment: National Academy of Sciences (excerpt), 22232 [15AU]

Medical Malpractice Liability Insurance for Emergency Physicians—Need for Reform: Spectrum Emergency Care, Inc., 22464 [9SE]

Medicare Costs: Carolyne Davis, 5359 [19MR]

Medicare Coverage: Otis R. Bowen, 24812 [19SE]

———Robert Butler, 24812 [19SE]

Medicare Program: Committee on Ways and Means, 6165 [25MR]

Nation's Number One Health Problem: Hazelden Foundation, 26711 [27SE]

NIH National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases: Ralph Snyderman, 30406 [10OC]

Nutritional Information Labeling Act: Virgil Brown (excerpts), 3267 [27FE]

Peer Review, Patient Safety and Risk Management—Current Initiatives: American Society of Anesthesiology, 2417 [19FE]

Philadelphia, PA, Assistance Program for Alcoholism and Drug Abuse: James J. Mahoney, Greater Philadelphia Council, AFL-CIO (excerpts), 16272 [26JN]

Presentation of Research Fellowship to Stanley J. Sarnoff: American Heart Association, 3872 [6MR]

Proposed Budget Reductions in the End Stage Renal Disease Network Program (sundry excerpts), 15617 [25JN]

Report of Surgeon General's Advisory Committee on the Health Consequences of Using Smokeless Tobacco: C. Everett Koop, 6138 [25MR]

———Senator Lugar, 6138 [25MR]

School Asbestos: sundry members of Congress, 28581 [3OC]

State Narrative Reports on Major Unmet Drug Abuse Needs: National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors, 9241-9245 [1MY]

Substance Abuse: President Reagan, 22714 [10SE], 23865 [18SE]

———(sundry excerpts), 22660, 22697 [10SE], 22916 [11SE]

Support for Fast Food Labeling: American College of Allergists, 10422 [13MY]

———American Heart Association, 10422 [13MY]

———Center for Science in the Public Interest, 10421 [13MY]

Teenage Pregnancy: Janice Anderson, 4391 [12MR]

U.S. Export of Untested Drugs: Alexander M. Schmidt (excerpt), 10385 [13MY]

———Australian Conference for Overseas Aid, 10040 [8MY]

———Australian Ministry, 10037 [8MY]

———Chinese Dominican General Vicariate, 10040 [8MY]

———Coordinating Committee for Primary Health Care of Thai NGOs, 10040 [8MY]

———David B. Sharrock, 10330 [12MY]

———European Economic Community Commission, 10037 [8MY]

———FDA, 10383, 10391 [13MY]

———Federation of Malaysian Consumers Association, 10037 [8MY]

———Frank E. Young, 10391 [13MY]

———Health Action International, 10039, 10040 [8MY]

———Histadrut Consumers Protection Authority, Israel, 10038 [8MY]

———International Chemical Workers Union, 10329 [12MY]

———International Organization of Consumer Unions, Netherlands, 10038 [8MY]

———Israeli Consumers Association, 10039 [8MY]

———Kalpavriksh Environmental Action Group, India, 10038 [8MY]

———Kimidi Multi-Sectoral Development Society, 10039 [8MY]

———Member of Australian Parliament, 10037 [8MY]

———Richard M. Furland, 10330 [12MY]

———sundry, 10377, 10378 [13MY]

———U.N., 10385 [13MY]

———University College of London, 10037 [8MY]

———Voluntary Health Association of India, 10038, 10040 [8MY]

U.S. Pharmaceutical Companies Committed To Carrying Out Research Toward Developing Tropical Disease Drugs: OTA, 10034 [8MY]

University of Alabama Birmingham Medical Center: Herbert J. Dietrich, Jr. and Virginia Biddle (excerpt), 3239 [27FE]

Use of Antibiotics in the Third World: NIH (excerpt), 10387 [13MY]

Variations in Medical Practice: John Bunker (excerpt), 10221 [8MY]

What Does a Support Group Have To Offer?: Parkinson Support Groups of America, 18599 [31JY]

What Others Say About the Waste-End Tax, 30420 [10OC]

What PAHO Offers to U.S., 27806 [2OC]

Wyeth Laboratories' Production of Infant Formula Without Vitamin B6: FDA, 26776 [27SE]

Studies

National Insurance for the Vaccine Industry (excerpts), 20736, 20737 [11AU]

Oral Contraceptives, Chlamydia Trachomatis Infection, and Pelvic Inflammatory Disease—A Word of Caution About Protection: A. Eugene Washington (excerpt), 27874 [2OC]

Sick Tort System Endangers U.S. Health Care: Heritage Foundation (excerpts), 20734-20737 [11AU]

Summaries

Access to Health Care Act (S. 2402), 9310 [1MY]

Access to Health Care Act (S. 2403), 9317 [1MY]

Aesculapius International Medicine Foundation's El Salvador Medical Project, 3123 [27FE]

Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Services Research Act (S. 2861), 25688 [23SE]

Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (S. 2083), 22623 [10SE]

Asbestos Information Clearinghouse Act (S. 2720), 19255 [5AU]

Drug Enforcement Act (S. 2850), 25672-25676 [23SE]

EPA Standards for Asbestos Identification and Abatement in Schools (S. 2083), 2542 [20FE]

Fair Deal Capital Payment Act (S. 2121), 3184 [27FE]

Federal Building Asbestos Hazard Abatement Act (S. 2300), 7407 [14AP]

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act amendments (S. 2215), 5678 [20MR]

Health Care Innovation Act (S. 2474), 11328 [20MY]

Homecare Quality Assurance Act (H.R. 5680), 30449 [10OC]

Hunger Relief Act (H.R. 4880), 11607 [21MY]

Hunger Relief Act (H.R. 4990), 13415 [11JN]

Indian Youth Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention Act (H.R. 1156), 23380 [16SE]

Medicaid Nursing Facility Quality Care Amendment (H.R. 5450), 22232 [15AU]

Medicare Continuing Care and Quality Assurance Act (H.R. 4330), 3990 [6MR]

Medicare Coverage for the Mentally Handicapped (H.R. 5090), 15648 [25JN]

Medicare Quality Protection Act (H.R. 4638), 7879 [17AP]

Medicare Quality Protection Act (S. 2331), 7970-7972 [17AP]

National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (H.R. 5184), 16995 [17JY]

New Drug Application Fee Amendments (S. 2739), 20924 [12AU]

Nursing Home Resident Protection Act (H.R. 4485), 5978 [21MR]

Omnibus Drug Enforcement, Education, and Control Act (H.R. 5484), 32351 [16OC]

Pesticide Reform Act (S. 2346), 8140 [21AP]

Rural Health Care Improvement Act (H.R. 4788), 10204 [8MY]

U.S. Health Program Act (H.R. 5070), 14973-14976 [23JN]

Tables

Black lung disability fund, 5215 [18MR]

Breakdown of cost of osteoporosis: Columbia University, 1433 [3FE]

Cancer consequences of doses reported following Soviet Union's Chernobyl accident, 16004 [26JN]

Cost comparisons for birth weight infants: Southern Regional Task Force on Infant Mortality, 7990 [17AP]

Funding for the drug-free America initiative, 26821-26822 [27SE]

High Risk Occupational Disease Notification and Prevention Act (H.R. 1309), 16501 [15JY]

House continuing resolution antidrug versus Senate continuing resolution antidrug—fiscal year 1987 (compared to Senate appropriation level), 28462 [3OC]

Nutrition program for the elderly—1985 payments: Dept. of Agriculture, 21453 [13AU]

Omega-3 in fish, 22005 [15AU]

Omnibus Drug Supplemental Appropriations Act, 28462 [3OC]

Preventing low birthweight: Institute of Medicine, 7990 [17AP]

Senate appropriations plus drug bill versus 302(b) allocation—fiscal year 1987, 26822 [27SE]

Tobacco products in the military resale system (sundry), 19491, 19492 [6AU]

U.N. Fund for Drug Abuse Control—status of cash contributions pledged or received as of Dec. 31, 1985, 8229 [21AP]

Telegrams

Drug abuse prevention: NCAA, 22990 [11SE]

Testimonies

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Testing for Insurance Purposes: Donald Chambers (excerpt), 18693 [1AU]

Alzheimer's Disease: Janet Walsh, 15634 [25JN]

Antibiotic Therapy for Arthritis: E. Douglas Reddan, National Hospital for Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, 19334 [5AU]

Authority for States To Set Uniform Tolerance Levels for Pesticides: Joseph Brennan, Governor of Maine, 28956 [6OC]

———Michael S. Dukakis, Governor of Massachusetts, 28957 [6OC]

———New York State Department of Health, 28954 [6OC]

———Orlo Ehart, 28958 [6OC]

———Richard W. Lowerre, 28959 [6OC]

Childhood Vaccine Protection Act: Representative Bill Young, 18030 [29JY]

Chrysotile Asbestos: Alvin Gerhardt, 6155 [25MR]

———Mike Wood, 6156 [25MR]

Comprehensive Alzheimer's Assistance, Research, and Education Act: Gladys H. Caregiver, 207 [21JA]

———Jack M. Pollock, 206 [21JA]

———Marion Roach, 205 [21JA]

———Roberta Goodman, 206 [21JA]

Comprehensive Smokeless Tobacco and Health Education Act: Elbert Glover, 1334 [3FE]

———Ron Freeman, 1334 [3FE]

FDA Appropriations for Fast Food Labeling, 10423 [13MY]

Food Safety Standards: Arthur H. Haves, 12482 [4JN]

———Donald Kennedy, 12482 [4JN]

———Fred Robbins, 12482 [4JN]

———Gerald Wogan, 12482 [4JN]

———Jere Govan, 12482 [4JN]

———Kenneth D. Fisher, 12482 [4JN]

———Paul Newberne, 12482 [4JN]

———Vincent DeVita, 12482 [4JN]

Food Stamp Program: John C. Weicher, 15930 [26JN]

———Robert Greenstein, 15930 [26JN]

Funding of Nutrition Programs: J. Larry Brown, 15933 [26JN]

Impose Duty on Imported Coal: Donald McCamey, 8026 [17AP]

———Mike Browning, 8026 [17AP]

Indian Health Care Improvement Act Reauthorization and Amendments: Frank Billingsley (excerpt), 24115 [18SE]

Indian Health Problems: Gilbert Pena (excerpt), 26729 [27SE]

———Larry Miike (excerpt), 26729 [27SE]

Long-Term Care of Developmentally Disabled Persons: Mental Retardation Association of America, 27140 [30SE]

Medicare Claims Processing: GAO, 14709 [19JN]

———Luther Carter, 14709 [19JN]

———William R. Felts, 14709 [19JN]

Television Advertising of Cigarettes: Philip Morris Tobacco Co. (1969), 1330 [3FE]

Texts of

H. Con. Res. 321, employment discrimination against persons with history of cancer, 22328 [9SE]

H. Con. Res. 404, sense of Congress that the Soviet Union should approve certain exit visa applications, 29970 [9OC]

H. Con. Res. 415, enrollment corrections in the Omnibus Drug Enforcement, Education, and Control Act, 32786 [17OC]

H. Res. 528, provide for consideration, to reauthorize and amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (H.R. 1426), 24112 [18SE]

H. Res. 541, consideration of Omnibus Drug Enforcement, Education, and Control Act (H.R. 5484), 22650 [10SE]

H.J. Res. 210, designate the National Study Center for Trauma and Emergency Medical Systems, 27037 [29SE]

H.J. Res. 297, National Nuclear Medicine Week, 9112 [30AP], 14818 [20JN]

H.J. Res. 367, National Kidney Program Day, 14961 [23JN]

H.J. Res. 427, National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Week, 9108 [30AP]

H.J. Res. 510, National Osteoporosis Awareness Week, 1433 [3FE]

H.J. Res. 526, Critical Care Week, 9740 [7MY]

H.J. Res. 529, Emergency Medical Services Week, 16708 [16JY]

H.J. Res. 531, Lupus Awareness Month, 2425 [19FE]

H.J. Res. 533, National Nursing Home Residents Day, 2637 [24FE]

H.J. Res. 552, Mental Illness Awareness Week, 3743 [5MR]

H.J. Res. 554, National Digestive Diseases Awareness Week, 3994 [6MR]

H.J. Res. 574, National Women's Health Awareness Month, 5328 [18MR]

H.J. Res. 602, National Diabetes Month, 7800 [16AP]

H.J. Res. 611, National Aplastic Anemia Awareness Week, 24658 [18SE]

H.J. Res. 617, National Adult Day Care Center Week, 24657 [18SE]

H.J. Res. 623, National Infection Control Week, 16709 [16JY], 17408 [23JY]

H.J. Res. 660, require alkyl nitrites to be treated as a drug, 14471 [18JN]

H.J. Res. 678, Crack/Cocaine Awareness Week, 21228 [13AU]

H.J. Res. 698, National Back to School—Back Off Drugs Month, 20184 [8AU]

H.J. Res. 709, NIH Centennial Year, 21742 [14AU]

H.J. Res. 716, Learning Disabilities Awareness Month, 22485 [9SE]

H.J. Res. 718, National Home Health Care Week, 22361 [9SE]

H.J. Res. 741, Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month, 27510 [1OC]

H.R. 1156, Indian Youth Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention Act, 23375-23379 [16SE]

H.R. 1294, Cancer Patients Employment Rights Act, 8042 [17AP]

H.R. 1309, High Risk Occupational Disease Notification and Prevention Act, 16246-16249 [26JN]

H.R. 1338, allow suits against U.S. for certain injuries or damages in carrying out the atomic weapons testing program, 10446 [13MY]

H.R. 1426, Indian Health Care Improvement Act, 29429-29442 [8OC], 33713 [18OC]

H.R. 2418, extend community and migrant health centers programs, 2110 [18FE], 3603 [5MR]

H.R. 2436, National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act, 15687, 15709 [26JN]

H.R. 3010, Public Health Service Act amendments, 1460 [4FE]

H.R. 3896, relief of Marlboro County General Hospital Charity, 29195 [7OC]

H.R. 4055, Mentally Ill Individuals Act, 1045 [30JA]

H.R. 4061, Federal Employees Benefits Improvement Act, 1338 [3FE], 1704 [5FE]

H.R. 4065, Medicare Beneficiary Protection Act, 1314 [30JA]

H.R. 4282, Native American Diabetes Prevention and Control Act, 3258 [27FE]

H.R. 4382, Architect of the Capitol to place plaque at original site of Providence Hospital, Washington, DC, 4610 [12MR]

H.R. 4382, Providence Hospital Commemorative Plaque Act, 10441 [13MY]

H.R. 4392, provide Federal financial assistance for control of bubonic plague, 8160 [21AP]

H.R. 4494, Task Force on Elder Abuse Act, 6157 [25MR]

H.R. 4546, Non-Smokers' Rights Act, 6922 [9AP]

H.R. 4600, Indian Health Care Improvement Act amendments, 8747-8755 [28AP]

H.R. 4620, Medicare Fair Hospital Deductible Act, 8049 [17AP]

H.R. 4623, improve readjustment counseling for Vietnam-era veterans, 18872 [4AU]

H.R. 4739, coverage of adult day care under medicare, 9549 [6MY]

H.R. 4793, Occupational Hazard Communication Act, 10252 [9MY]

H.R. 4820, Prescription Drug Marketing Act, 10722 [14MY]

H.R. 4825, Federal Employee's Health Care Freedom of Choice Act, 18859 [4AU]

H.R. 4839, establish pilot program for improvement of VA medical centers, 11108 [15MY]

H.R. 4920, Tort Action Procedure Reform Act, 12508-12510 [4JN]

H.R. 4990, Hunger Relief Act, 13416-13420 [11JN]

H.R. 5000, Child Protection Act, 12829 [5JN]

H.R. 5013, Commercial Fishing Vessel Liability and Safety Act, 21028 [12AU]

H.R. 5053, Medicare Timely Payment Amendments, 14753 [19JN]

H.R. 5073, Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act, 20993-20998 [12AU]

H.R. 5157, Federal Hospital System Sharing Act, 16979 [17JY]

H.R. 5202, establish research, information, and technical assistance program relative to effects of exposure, 17319 [22JY]

H.R. 5205, AIDS Service Coordination Act, 18602 [31JY]

H.R. 5230, extend program of childhood vaccinations, 23370 [16SE]

H.R. 5259, revising authorities of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, and authorizing appropriations for drug and alcohol abuse research, 23371 [16SE]

H.R. 5298, prevent certain companies filing for bankruptcy from discontinuing medical and life insurance benefits for current or former employees, 18814 [1AU]

H.R. 5474, establish eligibility rules for benefits for multiple sclerosis victims, 22188 [15AU]

H.R. 5484, Omnibus Drug Enforcement, Education, and Control Act, 22871-22913 [11SE], 27194-27251 [6OC]

H.R. 5536, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act amendments, 28713-28738 [6OC]

H.R. 5540, Health Care Quality Improvement Act, 30762-30765 [14OC]

H.R. 5546, National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, 30751-30760 [14OC]

H.R. 5653, Controlled Substances Act amendments, 29391 [7OC]

H.R. 5680, Homecare Quality Assurance Act, 33611-33614 [17OC]

H.R. 5681, Back Injury Commission Act, 30410 [10OC]

S. 662, place restrictions on storage and demilitarization of chemical agents used in munitions, 19487 [6AU]

S. 1209, establish National Commission To Prevent Infant Mortality, 29900 [9OC]

S. 1282, community and migrant health centers programs, 7312 [11AP]

S. 1298, Indian Juvenile Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention Act, 23385 [16SE]

S. 1574, Comprehensive Smokeless Tobacco and Health Education Act, 1326 [3FE], 1855-1857 [6FE]

S. 1620, National Council on Access to Health Care, 29418 [8OC]

S. 1744, require development of State comprehensive mental health plans, 20900 [12AU], 33121-33143 [17OC]

S. 1835, Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration, Research, Respite, and Assistance Act, 4477-4481 [12MR]

S. 1848, establish conditions for drug exports, 10583 [14MY]

S. 1848, establish conditions for drug industry exports, 10028-10031 [8MY]

S. 1887, Veterans' Compensation and Benefits Improvements Act, 22037-22043 [15AU]

S. 1895, relief for the Marlboro County General Hospital, Bennettsville, SC, 29196 [7OC], 29523 [8OC]

S. 1895, relief for the Marlboro County General Hospital of Bennettsville, SC, 6594 [27MR]

S. 1917, assistance to foreign countries to promote immunization and oral rehydration, 21765, 21767 [15AU]

S. 1917, assistance to promote immunization and oral rehydration, 26305 [25SE]

S. 2001, funding for research into medical treatments and surgical procedures, 163 [21JA]

S. 2020, Federal Employees Benefits Improvement Act, 562-567 [27JA]

S. 2050, High Risk Occupational Disease Notification and Prevention Act, 1723-1725 [5FE]

S. 2057, President's Council on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, 32250 [16OC]

S. 2057, President's Council on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Act, 13832 [16JN]

S. 2083, Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act, 22618-22623 [10SE]

S. 2083, EPA standards for asbestos identification and abatement in schools, 2538-2542 [20FE]

S. 2087, alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health block grant allotments, 2598 [24FE]

S. 2088, denial of personal tax exemption for child living temporarily after abortion, 2612 [24FE]

S. 2089, U.S.-Mexico Border Health Education and Training Act, 2614 [24FE]

S. 2094, Parkinson's Disease Amelioration Act, 2712 [25FE]

S. 2114, medicare funding for research of medical treatments and surgical procedures, 3172 [27FE]

S. 2120, Superfund Interim Financing Act, 3181 [27FE]

S. 2121, Fair Deal Capital Payment Act, 3183 [27FE]

S. 2138, National Fisheries Marketing and Promotion Act, 3716-3717 [5MR]

S. 2141, prohibitions against certain VA real estate transactions, 3720 [5MR]

S. 2154, establish FDA by law, 4045 [7MR]

S. 2167, national health care expenditure survey, 4128 [10MR]

S. 2172, authorize modification of structure of the VA Office of the Chief Medical Director, 4313 [11MR]

S. 2173, exclude VA residents and interns from coverage under Federal labor-management relations statute, 4314 [11MR]

S. 2174, medicare services to VA beneficiaries, 4314 [11MR]

S. 2183, Alzheimer's Disease Research and Assistance Act, 4475 [12MR]

S. 2213, certain military dependents' transportation and medical benefits, 5668 [20MR]

S. 2215, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act amendments, 5670-5678 [20MR]

S. 2243, improve health status of Hawaiians, 6344-6347 [26MR]

S. 2243, improve status of native Hawaiians, 32361-32365 [16OC]

S. 2254, tax treatment of certain amounts received as settlement of claims for postretirement medical coverage, 6542 [27MR]

S. 2278, Parental and Medical Leave Act, 7014-7018 [9AP]

S. 2294, amend and extend the Education of the Handicapped Act, 7379-7382 [14AP]

S. 2294, Education of the Handicapped Act, 25204-25208 [22SE]

S. 2300, Federal Building Asbestos Hazard Abatement Act, 7405-7407 [14AP]

S. 2305, Cancer Research Act, 7787 [16AP]

S. 2322, evaluation of violence on television programs, 7962 [17AP]

S. 2331, Medicare Quality Protection Act, 7972-7976 [17AP]

S. 2333, prenatal and postpartum care to low-income pregnant women under medicaid, 7987 [17AP]

S. 2338, amend tariff schedule for extracorporeal shock wave lithotripters, 8067 [18AP]

S. 2341, medicare inpatient hospital deductible, 8119 [21AP]

S. 2346, Pesticide Reform Act, 8126-8140 [21AP]

S. 2368, Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act, 8687 [24AP]

S. 2400, medicare coverage of annual preventive health checkup, 9306 [1MY]

S. 2402, Access to Health Care Act, 9308-9310 [1MY]

S. 2403, Access to Health Care Act, 9314-9317 [1MY]

S. 2407, Animal Drug Amendments and Patent Term Restoration Act, 9652-9656 [6MY]

S. 2410, Rural Health Care Improvement Act, 9661 [6MY]

S. 2422, Veterans' Compensation and Benefits Improvement Act, 27298-27305 [30SE]

S. 2422, Veterans' Compensation and Benefits Improvements Act, 9979-9981 [8MY]

S. 2434, Cigarette Smoking Public Service Announcements Act, 10290 [12MY]

S. 2445, Veterans' Health Care Programs Improvements Act, 10418-10419 [13MY]

S. 2446, Fast Food Ingredient Information Act, 10421 [13MY]

S. 2474, Health Care Innovation Act, 11326-11327 [20MY]

S. 2482, medicare demonstration project for veterans, 11722 [21MY]

S. 2485, Health Equity and Incentives Reform Act, 11729 [21MY]

S. 2486, Health Plan Promotion Act, 11730 [21MY]

S. 2492, medicaid coverage of low-income elderly and disabled poor, 11739 [21MY]

S. 2494, Medicare Home Health Care Improvement Act, 11742 [21MY]

S. 2512, Food Safety Modernization Act, 12487 [4JN]

S. 2515, amend and extend the Rehabilitation Act, 12631-12637 [5JN], 22291-22298 [8SE]

S. 2527, medicaid-waiver authority to allow States to offer certain health services to AIDS patients, 12948 [6JN]

S. 2533, Hunger Relief Act, 13080 [10JN]

S. 2536, Immunosuppressive Drug Therapy Act, 13130 [10JN], 29424 [8OC]

S. 2547, protect rights of medicare kidney dialysis treatment patients, 13547 [12JN], 14191 [17JN]

S. 2551, Youth Suicide Prevention Act, 13623 [12JN]

S. 2554, Medicare Information Act, 13714 [13JN]

S. 2577, Radon Mitigation Clarification Act, 14614 [19JN]

S. 2586, respite care demonstration program, 14957 [23JN]

S. 2595, revise authorities of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, 15149-15153 [24JN]

S. 2597, suspend duty on shock wave lithotripters, 15434 [25JN]

S. 2604, Nursing Home Quality Reform Act, 15962-15965 [26JN]

S. 2622, Meat, Poultry, and Egg Products Inspection Improvement Act, 15881 [26JN]

S. 2625, Federal Health Care Auditing and Quality Control Improvement Act, 15885 [26JN]

S. 2627, Federal Hospital System Sharing Act, 15889 [26JN]

S. 2644, medicaid coverage for illegal aliens, 16441 [15JY]

S. 2646, make no change in prospective payment rates for outpatient maintenance dialysis services, 16618 [16JY]

S. 2648, prevention of childhood injuries, 28559 [3OC], 32252 [16OC]

S. 2667, Infant Mortality Reduction and Child Health Act, 17125 [21JY]

S. 2677, Health Care Quality Improvement Act, 17247-17249 [22JY]

S. 2690, prohibit certain companies filing for bankruptcy from discontinuing medical and life insurance benefits to retirees, 18102 [30JY]

S. 2703, Air Carrier Access Act, 18120 [30JY], 21772 [15AU], 24071 [18SE]

S. 2710, Indoor Radon Research and Assistance Act, 18777 [1AU]

S. 2715, Emergency Crack Control Act, 19241-19244 [5AU]

S. 2716, National Narcotics Act, 19244 [5AU]

S. 2720, Asbestos Information Clearinghouse Act, 19254 [5AU]

S. 2739, establish fee for new drug applications to the Dept. of HHS, 20923 [12AU]

S. 2743, restructure selection process for nuclear waste repositories, 21386 [13AU]

S. 2771, reclassification of transitional devices, 21933 [15AU]

S. 2776, Health Care Financing Reform Act amendments, 21935-21942 [15AU]

S. 2791, Informed Consent Act, 21967 [15AU]

S. 2800, Drug Abuse and Alcohol Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation for High-Risk Youth Act, 22459 [9SE]

S. 2813, Acid Rain and Sulfur Emissions Reduction Act, 23041-23044 [12SE]

S. 2846, Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Services Research Act, 25024-25026 [19SE]

S. 2849, Drug-Free America Act, 25612-25633 [23SE]

S. 2850, Drug Enforcement Act, 25633-25672 [23SE]

S. 2861, Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Services Research Act, 25685-25688 [23SE]

S. 2866, designate Commando Charles E. Kelly VA Medical Center, 25840 [24SE]

S. 2873, Pediatric Pulmonary Research Act, 25848 [24SE]

S. 2875, Prescription Drug Marketing Act, 25849 [24SE]

S. 2876, special pay for Public Health Service Corps psychologists, 26179 [25SE]

S. 2912, State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Advocacy Improvement Act, 29166-29168 [7OC]

S. 2920, medicare certification and recertification of the need for certain services and coverage of these services, 30268 [10OC]

S. 2935, Antibiotic Safety Act, 32594 [16OC]

S. 2941, Malpractice Dispute Resolution Act, 33496-33497 [17OC]

S. Con. Res. 118, acid rain, 5174 [18MR]

S. Con. Res. 145, physical fitness programs by State and local educational agencies, 26973 [29SE]

S. Con. Res. 156, emphasize need for an international followup on the health consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, 17921 [29JY]

S. Con. Res. 165, employment discrimination against individuals with history of cancer, 26540 [26SE]

S. Con. Res. 166, employment discrimination against individuals with history of cancer, 26466, 26541 [26SE]

S. Con. Res. 167, Social Security disability insurance program, 29931 [9OC]

S. Con. Res. 385, commitment to constructive measures on domestic crisis of hunger, 8142 [21AP]

S. Res. 298, recognizing U.S. Disabled Ski Team, 6128 [25MR]

S. Res. 303, taxation of employee fringe benefits, 799 [29JA]

S. Res. 304, taxation of retirement benefits, 801 [29JA]

S. Res. 330, establish Special Committee on Families, Youth, and Children, 1411 [3FE]

S. Res. 344, housing programs budget authority, 2200 [18FE]

S. Res. 394, authorize shipment of dried milk to Poland, 9419 [5MY]

S. Res. 406, anniversary of organized camping, 10427 [13MY]

S. Res. 406, honor anniversary of organized camping, 13743 [13JN]

S. Res. 419, retain tax exemption for Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans, 12371, 12495 [4JN]

S. Res. 420, prompt payment of medicare claims, 12376, 12496 [4JN]

S. Res. 464, Crack/Cocaine Awareness Month, 20559 [11AU]

S.J. Res. 19, constitutional prohibition against abortion, 329 [22JA]

S.J. Res. 150, National Hemophilia Month, 1974 [6FE]

S.J. Res. 202, American Liver Foundation National Liver Awareness Month, 24655 [18SE]

S.J. Res. 226, World Health Day and Week, 1571 [4FE]

S.J. Res. 234, National Burn Awareness Week, 1572 [4FE], 1977 [6FE]

S.J. Res. 239, National Maternal and Child Health Week, 1572 [4FE]

S.J. Res. 241, National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Week, 9414 [5MY]

S.J. Res. 245, National Epidermolysis Bullosa Awareness Week, 9415 [5MY], 27506 [1OC]

S.J. Res. 264, National Nursing Home Residents Day, 8742 [28AP]

S.J. Res. 266, Youth Suicide Prevention Month, 1919 [6FE], 3166 [27FE], 10967 [15MY]

S.J. Res. 267, Older Americans Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Week, 5969 [21MR], 9740 [7MY]

S.J. Res. 273, National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Week, 4310 [11MR]

S.J. Res. 279, National Lupus Awareness Month, 5969 [21MR], 16707 [16JY]

S.J. Res. 280, National Alzheimer's Disease Month, 2738 [25FE], 8276 [22AP], 27509 [1OC]

S.J. Res. 284, Better Hearing and Speech Month, 3351 [28FE], 7307 [11AP], 9109 [30AP]

S.J. Res. 285, National Osteoporosis Awareness Week, 3351 [28FE], 4310 [11MR], 9111 [30AP]

S.J. Res. 298, Mental Illness Awareness Week, 5171 [18MR], 8277 [22AP], 21231 [13AU]

S.J. Res. 299, National Alopecia Areata Awareness Week, 23078 [12SE], 30193 [10OC]

S.J. Res. 312, National Medical Laboratory Week, 8278 [22AP]

S.J. Res. 314, National Nuclear Medicine Week, 6558 [27MR]

S.J. Res. 317, National Hospice Month, 7028 [9AP], 8278 [22AP], 24661 [18SE]

S.J. Res. 318, National Diabetes Month, 7029 [9AP], 8278 [22AP], 27507 [1OC]

S.J. Res. 324, National Digestive Diseases Awareness Week, 8279 [22AP], 9739 [7MY]

S.J. Res. 339, National Home Care Week, 25868 [24SE], 30194 [10OC]

S.J. Res. 343, Emergency Medical Services Week, 10301 [12MY]

S.J. Res. 345, National Reye's Syndrome Awareness Week, 20404 [9AU]

S.J. Res. 352, Gaucher's Disease Awareness Week, 11759 [21MY], 30190 [10OC]

S.J. Res. 354, National Drug Abuse Education and Prevention Week, 16435 [15JY], 24657 [18SE]

S.J. Res. 367, National Kidney Program Day, 20404 [9AU], 30192 [10OC]

S.J. Res. 368, National Spina Bifida Month, 15308 [25JN], 20404 [9AU], 27506 [1OC]

S.J. Res. 373, National Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Awareness Week, 16857 [17JY], 23078 [12SE]

S.J. Res. 380, require companies filing bankruptcy petitions to continue payments for retirees health insurance, 17834 [28JY]

S.J. Res. 381, call on President to convene a White House Conference on Illicit Drug Use and Control, 17874 [29JY]

S.J. Res. 386, National Drug Abuse Education Day, 19256 [5AU], 20405 [9AU], 21232 [13AU]

S.J. Res. 395, NIH Centennial Year, 25869 [24SE], 30188 [10OC]

S.J. Res. 396, National Adult Immunization Awareness Week, 25869 [24SE], 30192 [10OC]

S.J. Res. 405, 9-1-1 Emergency Number Day, 22615 [10SE], 24655 [18SE]

S.J. Res. 408, American Physiologists Week, 22588 [10SE], 31281 [15OC]

S.J. Res. 410, National Burn Awareness Week, 22850 [11SE], 28562 [3OC], 30193 [10OC]

S.J. Res. 413, Learning Disabilities Awareness Month, 23340 [15SE], 25869 [24SE]

S.J. Res. 426, National CPR Awareness Week, 31280 [15OC]

S.J. Res. 431, Year of Workers With Disabilities, 33492 [17OC]

S.J. Res. 432, National Burn Awareness Week, 33492 [17OC]

Social Security Disability Insurance Program management, 30448 [10OC]