SWIFT, AL (a Representative from Washington)
Addresses
Buying and Selling Television Stations: Gene Jankowski, 14751
Analyses
Nuclear Waste Policy Act (H.R. 5423), 21743
Appointments
Conferee: H.R. 2005, Social Security Minor and Technical Changes Act, 1943 [6FE]
———H.R. 5300, Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, 26359 [25SE]
———S. 426, Electric Consumers Protection Act, 14703 [19JN]
Articles and editorials
Buying and Selling Television Stations, Channels (publication), 14750
Buying and Selling Television Stations, Electronic Media (publication), 14751
Bills and resolutions introduced by
Atomic energy: establish liability and indemnification of nuclear incidents (see H.R. 4394), 4577 [12MR]
Elections: improve law relative to absentee registration and voting for uniformed services and persons who reside overseas (see H.R. 4393), 4577 [12MR]
FCC: repromulgate regulations to prohibit trafficking in station licenses (see H.R. 5068), 14742 [19JN]
Federal Election Commission: authorizing appropriations (see H.R. 4758), 9774 [7MY]
Olympic National Forest, WA: revise boundaries (see H.R. 4704), 8887 [29AP]
Olympic National Park, WA: revise boundaries (see H.R. 4704), 8887 [29AP]
Radioactive waste disposal: suspend site characterization process for repository (see H.R. 5423), 21246 [13AU]
Telephones: availability of universal service in rural areas (see H. Con. Res. 308), 6638 [8AP]
Bills and resolutions introduced by, as cosponsor
Airlines: fair treatment of employees in mergers (see H.R. 4838), 19952 [8AU]
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty: defense programs should remain in conformance (see H. Con. Res. 336), 12365 [4JN]
Atomic power plants: establish international emergency response teams and inspection to assure safe operations (see H. Res. 445), 9211 [1MY]
Atomic weapons: limit deployment and maintenance of strategic with arms limitation agreements (see H.R. 4919), 12364 [4JN]
———mutual, simultaneous, verifiable cessation of testing (see H.R. 3442), 13268 [11JN]
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act: exempt cost of living adjustments (see H.R. 4075), 14297 [18JN]
Budget: rescission of authority for revenue sharing program (see H.J. Res. 528), 2678 [25FE]
CCC: excess cheese be made available to States (see H.R. 5145), 18420 [31JY]
Challenger (space shuttle): award members of crew Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously (see H. Res. 369), 1074 [30JA]
Civil service: cost of living adjustments in annuities payable shall be made in 1987 (see H.R. 4060), 10523 [13MY]
Columbia Gorge National Scenic Area: establish (see H.R. 4221), 3854 [6MR]
Communications Act: clarify policies to view satellite-transmitted television programming (see H.R. 1840), 10990 [15MY]
———expand availability of hearing-aid compatible telephones (see H.R. 3099), 12364 [4JN]
———promote increased availability of television programming (see H.R. 5058), 14741 [19JN]
Community Development Block Grant Program: deferral of budget authority (see H.J. Res. 541), 3107 [27FE]
Copyright: amend requirements of manufacturing clause (see H.R. 4696), 11625 [21MY]
———conveyance of right to perform publicly syndicated television programs without right to perform accompanying music (see H.R. 3521), 8762 [28AP]
———make permanent requirements of manufacturing clause (see H.R. 3465), 17693 [24JY]
Crime and criminals: make felonious sexual molestation of a minor an offense within Indian country (see H.R. 3826), 1779 [5FE]
Customs Service: eliminate certain user fees (see H.R. 5326), 20744 [11AU]
Disaster Relief Act: establish cost sharing formulas for assistance (see H.R. 4934), 18670 [1AU]
Drugs: prevent denial of employment by restricting use of tests (see H.R. 5530), 31219 [14OC]
EEOC: time limitation for review and action on charges under Civil Rights Act (see H. Con. Res. 359), 28824 [6OC]
Employment: prevent denial by restricting use of drug tests (see H.R. 5530), 31219 [14OC]
Energy Policy and Conservation Act: conservation standards for gas and electric appliances (see H.R. 5465), 22145 [15AU]
EPA: promulgate regulations requiring inspection for asbestos containing material (see H.R. 5073), 17693 [24JY]
———set standards for identification and abatement of asbestos in schools (see H.R. 4311), 15287 [24JN]
Executive departments: establish certain restrictions relative to drug testing (see H.R. 5531), 28824 [6OC]
Export Administration Act: place restrictions on exporting crude oil from Cook Inlet, AK (see H.R. 3817), 9465 [5MY]
Foreign Assistance Act: assistance to promote immunization and oral rehydration (see H.R. 3894), 2678 [25FE]
Hanford Reservation, WA: remove from consideration as repository for high-level radioactive waste (see H.R. 4937), 12363 [4JN]
Housing: prevent displacement of low-income and elderly residents in certain rural subsidized projects due to prepayment of loans by Sec. of Agriculture (see H.R. 5463), 28179 [2OC]
IRS: regulations on substantiation of deductions for use of business vehicles, 8888 [29AP]
Japan: authorize Jpn. as abbreviation (see H. Con. Res. 290), 4269 [11MR]
Job Training Partnership Act: establishment of education component in summer youth employment programs (see H.R. 4054), 1503 [4FE]
Maine Central Railroad Co. and Portland Terminal Co.: provide for settlement of labor-management dispute (see H.J. Res. 728), 23473 [16SE]
Medicare: payment for therapeutic shoes for individuals with diabetic foot disease (see H.R. 2543), 4268 [11MR]
Meiman, Inna: Soviet Union should release and provide safe passage (see H. Con. Res. 317), 14079 [17JN]
Meiman, Naum: Soviet Union should release and provide safe passage (see H. Con. Res. 317), 14079 [17JN]
Merit Systems Protection Board: provide more expeditious granting of relief (see H.R. 2602), 15605 [25JN]
Milk: reductions in net expenditures for price support (see H.R. 4188), 2678 [25FE]
Most favored nation agreement: deny to country that supports terrorism (see H.R. 3661), 14078 [17JN]
National Andrei Sakharov Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 596), 8412 [22AP]
National methanol energy policy: develop and coordinate efforts to implement (see H.R. 3355), 1779 [5FE]
NIH: transfer research monkeys to custody of Primarily Primates, Inc. (see H. Con. Res. 351), 16967 [17JY]
NIH Centennial Year: designate (see H.J. Res. 709), 27552 [1OC]
Occupational disease: establish system for identifying, notifying, and preventing illness and death (see H.R. 1309), 13526 [12JN]
POWs: veterans' benefits (see H.R. 864), 7127 [10AP]
Product Liability Risk Act: include coverage lines of insurance (see H.R. 5225), 21131 [12AU]
Public Health Service Act: extend health planning authority (see H.R. 5413), 24687 [18SE]
Recreation: provide for ski areas on national forest lands (see H.R. 4489), 5898 [21MR]
Rose: designate as national floral emblem (see H.J. Res. 385), 10990 [15MY]
Saudi Arabia: prohibiting proposed sales of missiles (see H.J. Res. 589), 8412 [22AP]
Sec. of Agriculture: investigate identification procedures used in lieu of hot-iron branding of animals (see H. Res. 407), 7556 [15AP]
Securities Exchange Act: auditors report of fraudulent activities (see H.R. 5439), 22144 [15AU]
———audits performed to include reasonable procedures for financial fraud detection (see H.R. 4886), 12625 [5JN]
Social Security: make improvements to ensure work incentive provisions (see H.R. 4471), 25457 [23SE]
Social Security Administration: establish as independent agency (see H.R. 5050), 14297 [18JN]
Soviet Union: sense of Congress concerning nuclear disaster at Chernobyl (see H. Con. Res. 333), 12982 [9JN]
Square dance: designate as the national folk dance (see H.J. Res. 316), 13269 [11JN]
Taxation: allow deduction for State and local sales tax (see H.R. 5639), 28178 [2OC]
———modify deduction for adoption expenses (see H.R. 2793), 4268 [11MR]
Telecommunication: greater participation of women and minorities (see H.R. 5651), 28823 [6OC]
Territories (U.S.): accepting, ratifying, and confirming the cessions of islands of Samoan group (see H.R. 3555), 6930 [9AP]
Tobacco: ban promotion of products (see H.R. 4972), 13073 [10JN]
Trade adjustment assistance programs: extend (see H.R. 4109), 2132 [18FE]
U.S. Commission on Improving the Effectiveness of the U.N.: establish (see H.J. Res. 417), 16504 [15JY]
U.S.-Canada Days of Peace and Friendship: designate (see H.J. Res. 715), 22145 [15AU]
Urban Development Action Grant Program: deferral of budget authority, 2678 [25FE]
VA: improve benefits for ex-POWs (see H.R. 4333), 7127 [10AP]
Western regional export licensing office: establish (see H.R. 5443), 22144 [15AU]
White House Conference on Small Business: permanent authorization (see H.R. 5477), 22145 [15AU]
Year of New Sweden: designate (see H.J. Res. 560), 6057 [25MR]
Explanations
Telecommunications Equipment and Services Act (H.R. 3800), 22223
Letters
Port Townsend, WA, and sister city Jalapa, Nicaragua: Brent S. Shirley, 5341
Sale or transfer of facilities of Federal Power Marketing Administration: Ruth Caplan, Environmental Action, 10194
Superfund: Norine D. Brodeur and Cathy Hinds, 29763 [8OC]
Uniform poll closing times: by and Representative William M. Thomas, 686 [29JA]
———Edward M. Joyce, 687 [29JA]
———Lawrence K. Grossman, 686 [29JA]
———Roone Arledge, 687 [29JA]
Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act: Betty B. Brasch, 9008
Remarks by, on
Appropriations: making urgent supplemental (H.R. 4515), 10193
Atomic accidents: extend and improve procedures for liability and indemnification (H.R. 3653), 30456
Atomic energy: establish liability and indemnification of nuclear incidents (H.R. 4394), 4579
Bell telephone companies: provide information services and manufacture of telecommunications equipment (H.R. 3800), 22222
Blaine, WA: Border Patrol agents protection, 14481
Bonneville Power Administration: privatization, 3756
Budget: deficit reduction proposals, 4595
Commercial and Apartment Conservation Service Program: abolish, 4208 [11MR]
Communications: trafficking in broadcast licenses, 14750
Congressional Record: revise and extend remarks, 20979 [12AU]
Conservation Service Reform Act: enact (H.R. 969), 4208 [11MR]
Dept. of Defense: making appropriations for military construction (H.R. 5052), 15491, 15494, 15504 [25JN]
Dept. of Transportation and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 5205), 18172 [30JY]
Depts. of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 5161), 16945 [17JY]
District of Columbia: Washington metro rail construction funding, 18172 [30JY]
Elections: establish regional poll closing time in Presidential general (H.R. 3525), 662-664, 676, 677, 679, 681, 683, 684, 685, 688 [29JA]
———establish regional poll closing time in Presidential general (H.R. 3525), unanimous-consent agreement, 693 [29JA]
———improve law relative to absentee registration and voting for uniformed services and persons who reside overseas (H.R. 4393), 4583
Electric Consumers Protection Act: enact (H.R. 44), 8169 [21AP]
———enact (S. 426), conference report, 28102, 28114 [2OC]
Electric power: rate increase for federally marketed power, 5992
Energy and water development: making appropriations (H.R. 5162), 17457, 17461, 17464, 17468 [23JY]
FCC: broadcasting industry trafficking in licenses, 14750
Federal employees: resolution of cases before Merit Systems Protection Board (H.R. 2602), 14481
Federal Nuclear Waste Disposal Liability Act (H.R. 2524), 4579
Federal Power Marketing Administration: use of funds for sale or transfer of facilities, 10193
Federal Radioactive Waste Liability Act: enact (H.R. 4394), 4579
Flight attendants: dispute with Trans World Airlines, 32163
Foreign relations: Nicaragua, 5341
Foreign trade: lumber industry crisis, 3626 [5MR]
———textile industry, 19382
Government spending: reduce, 4595
Hazardous waste disposal: Federal liability and indemnification (H.R. 2524), 4579
Lumber trade: crisis, 3626 [5MR]
Merit Systems Protection Board: resolution of certain cases (H.R. 2602), 14481
Navy: strategic homeporting, 15491, 15494, 15504 [25JN]
Nicaragua: covert aid for military and paramilitary operations, 5341
———U.S. policy, 5341
Nuclear Waste Disposal Fund: appropriations, 17457, 17461, 17464, 17468 [23JY]
Nuclear Waste Policy Act: amend (H.R. 5423), 21743
Olympic National Forest, WA: revise boundaries (H.R. 4704), 8996
———revise boundaries (S. 2351), 31949 [15OC]
Olympic National Park, WA: revise boundaries (H.R. 4704), 8996
———revise boundaries (S. 2351), 31949 [15OC]
Pacific Northwest Power Planning and Conservation Act: implementation, 24697
Point of order, 682 [29JA]
Port Townsend, WA: sister city relationship with Jalapa, Nicaragua, 5341
Power resources: Bonneville Power Administration, privatization, 3756
———electric power rate increase for federally marketed power, 5992
Radioactive waste disposal: suspend site characterization process for repository (H.R. 5423), 21743
Residential Conservation Service Program: funding, 4208 [11MR]
Sakharov, Andrei: anniversary of exile in Soviet Union, 35
Social Security Minor and Technical Changes Act: enact (H.R. 2005), conference report, 29743, 29760-29763 [8OC]
Soviet Union: anniversary of exile of Andrei Sakharov, 35
Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act: enact (H.R. 2005), conference report, 29743, 29760-29763 [8OC]
Telecommunications Equipment and Services Act: enact (H.R. 3800), 22222
Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act: enact (H.R. 1562), veto, 19382
Trans World Airlines: dispute with flight attendants, 32163
Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act: enact (H.R. 4393), 4583
———enact (H.R. 4393), unanimous-consent agreement, 16456 [15JY]
Washington: privatization of Bonneville Power Administration, 4584
Remarks in House relative to
Congressional Record: revise and extend remarks, 662, 693 [29JA], 5306 [18MR], 8169 [21AP], 8885 [29AP], 10193 [8MY], 14076 [17JN], 14295 [18JN], 14740 [19JN], 16944 [17JY], 29743, 29760 [8OC], 31949 [15OC]
Reports
Committee on House Administration, 13525 [12JN], 19744 [7AU]
Statements
Bonneville Power Administration Privatization Plug Number: John S. Herrington, Sec. of Energy, 3756
Buying and Selling Television Stations: Thomas Leahy, 14750
Legislation on Repayment: John S. Herrington, Sec. of Energy, 5992