BUSINESS see also Corporations; Industry; Small Business

Addresses

Advising Insurers To Learn From Mistakes: Paul J. Scheel, 4023 [24FE]

American Farm Bureau Federation Recommendations: Dean Kleckner, 31236 [6NO]

American Technological Leadership in Crisis: Fred L. Hartley, 36662-36665 [19DE]

Automotive Imports and Foreign Investment in U.S.: Marvin T. Runyon, 11722 [7MY]

Bloodless Pearl Harbor: Bosworth M. Todd, Jr., 14709 [4JN]

Challenges of Banking: John G. Medlin, Jr., 16984-16986 [23JN]

Chance at Greatness—America's Role in World Trade: Allen E. Murray, 5535-5537 [11MR]

Commercial Opportunities in Space: Senator Riegle, 3138 [5FE]

Computers and Education—Revolutionizing the Free Market of Ideas: Representative George Brown, 11266-11268 [5MY]

Global Economic Growth: Barber B. Conable, 19821 [14JY]

Goals for Namibia: Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, 22149 [3AU]

Historic Hangover, 21147 [24JY]

Importance of Agriculture: Harry Bell, 4177 [26FE]

Investing in a New America: Representative Levine, 24260 [16SE]

National Sugar Policy: Representative Stallings, 5278 [10MR]

On Competition: Olof Lundberg, 24453-24456 [17SE]

On Theories of Unemployment: Robert M. Solow, 31244 [6NO]

Petroleum Industry at Its Crossroads: Michel T. Halbouty, 4730 [4MR]

Reopening of Rose Laundry, Inc., in Huntington, WV: Representative Rahall, 31708 [10NO]

Space Exploration: James M. Beggs, 34105 [4DE]

Strengthening the U.S.-Mexico Relation—A Proposal for Establishing a Free-Trade and Coproduction Zone, 4688 [3MR]

Survival of General Aviation: James B. Taylor, 16589 [17JN]

Time of Turmoil and Time of Triumph: Ralph M. Baruch, 35436, 35437 [11DE]

True Sources of Competitiveness, 4111, 4112 [25FE]

U.S. Competitiveness in Global Economy: Lynn Williams, 36152 [17DE]

U.S. Industrial Competitiveness: John A. Luke, 4123, 4124 [25FE]

U.S. Trade Deficit: Henry Wendt, 18522 [1JY]

Advertisements

Sale of radio station, 16995 [23JN]

Agenda

Breakthrough in Superconductivity—The Race To Commercialize, 11599 [6MY]

Amendments

Airport and Airway Capacity Expansion Act: enact (S. 1184), 27126 [8OC], 29546, 29549, 29554, 29555, 29556, 29560, 29563, 29564, 29565, 29566, 29567, 29569, 29572, 29575, 29576, 29577, 29578, 29585, 29587, 29588, 29589, 29591, 29650-29656 [28OC]

Commercial Fishing Industry Vessel Anti-Reflagging Act: enact (H.R. 2598), 35996, 35997, 36053, 36054 [17DE]

Corporations: interlocking directors and officers (S. 1068), 21886, 21930 [31JY]

Dept. of Agriculture: Optional Acreage Diversion Program (H.R. 3093), 23037 [7AU]

EEC: anniversary of signing of Treaty of Rome (H. Res. 121), 8637 [9AP]

Fishermen's Protective Act: reauthorize (H.R. 2893), 27820, 27843, 27844 [14OC]

Foreign trade: negotiations of reciprocal agreements to strengthen laws (S. 490), 13604 [21MY], 14156 [29MY]

Government procurement: interest on overdue payments (S. 328), 20075 [15JY], 20581 [21JY], 21003 [23JY], 21143 [24JY], 21535 [29JY], 22035 [3AU], 23576 [9SE], 27197, 27201, 27206, 27221, 27224, 27315, 27316 [9OC]

Indians: funding for economic growth (S. 1360), 23330 [7AU], 30779 [4NO], 32026, 32050 [17NO]

Mines and mineral resources: reclamation of mill tailings at active uranium and thorium processing sites (S. 1100), 10148, 10151 [28AP]

Mining and mineral resources: viable domestic uranium industry (S. 1846), 37836 [21DE]

SBA: prepayment of loans made to State and local development companies (S. 437), 35806, 35810 [16DE], 36578, 36622, 36635 [19DE]

Securities Law Technical Act: amend (S. 1452), 30334, 30355-30361 [30OC], 33006-33011 [20NO]

Veterans: job training and counseling services (S. 999), 9447 [23AP]

Analyses

Child Care Public-Private Partnership Act (S. 1071), 9252 [22AP]

Consumer Rail Equity Act (H.R. 1393), 4773-4775 [4MR]

Copyright Law Regarding Work Made for Hire (S. 1223), 12958-12961 [19MY]

Corp. for Small Business Investment Charter Act (H.R. 3392), 26049-26053 [1OC]

Corporate Takeover and Insider Abuse Reform Act (S. 1324), 14691 [4JN]

Corporation for Small Business Charter Act (S. 1929): Committee on Small Business (House), 34330 [8DE]

Defense Industrial Base Preservation Act (S. 1892), 33162 [20NO]

Dept. of Commerce and Trade (H.R. 2716), 16804 [19JN]

Farm Credit Borrower Relief, System Reform and Local Control Act (S. 1156), 11534-11536 [6MY]

Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act (S. 572), 3792 [19FE]

Hecht Amendment to Commercial Fishing Industry Vessel Anti-Reflagging Act (H.R. 2598), 36056 [17DE]

Indian Development Finance Corp. Act (S. 721), 5362 [11MR]

International negotiations of reciprocal agreements to strengthen trade laws (S. 490), 14158 [29MY]

Merchant Marine Equity Act (H.R. 1008), 3305-3307 [11FE]

Minority Business Development Program Reform Act (S. 1993), 37823 [21DE]

Motor Fuel Sales Competition Improvement Act (S. 1111), 10352 [29AP]

National Training Incentives Act (H.R. 2725), 16552 [17JN]

NTL-5 Gas Royalty Act (S. 1814), 29161 [23OC]

Private Right of Action Amendment, 17541 [25JN]

Product Liability Uniform Standards and Reform Act, 1906-1908 [22JA]

Prompt Payment Act Amendments (S. 328), 1447-1449 [20JA]

Reciprocal Trade and Adjustment Act, 924 [7JA]

Rural Recovery and Revitalization Act (S. 1403), 17009-17011 [23JN]

Small Business International Trade and Competition Enhancement Act (S. 1344), 15080 [9JN]

Social Security Support for Hospitals in Meeting Indigent Care Costs (H.R. 3128), 22571 [5AU]

Trade, Employment, and Productivity Act (S. 539), 3595-3655 [19FE]

Trade Enforcement Act (S. 891), 7552 [31MR]

Trucking Productivity Improvement Act (S. 1710), 24790-24793 [22SE]

U.S. Support for Open International Trading System, 4738 [4MR]

Uranium Revitalization and Tailings Reclamation Act (S. 1100), 10114 [28AP]

Announcements

Withdrawal from South Africa: Eastman Kodak Co., 2026 [27JA]

Appointments

Conferees: H.R. 3030, Farm Credit Act amendments, 34268 [4DE]

———H.R. 3051, standards relative to air carrier passenger service, 32627 [18NO], 33030 [20NO]

Articles and editorials

A.M. Quattlebaum, 6303 [19MR]

Action, Please, 18411 [1JY]

Agency Proposes ANWR Land Trade, 22079 [3AU]

Agricultural Surpluses, 4665 [3MR]

Alternative Education, 23776 [10SE]

America's Most Admired Corporations, 1243 [13JA]

Amtrak Declares Commuter War Against Pan Am, Eastern, 30920 [4NO]

Arm Wrestling, as It Were, With White House, 6796 [25MR]

Association for North America?, 14507 [3JN]

Baby Bells Get Spanked, 35748 [15DE]

Back to the Basics—Businesses Are Moving to Close the ``Literacy'' Gap, 26213 [1OC]

Backers of Tough Antitrust Enforcement Hit Bork, 19594 [13JY]

Bad Idea Then, a Bad Idea Now, 17866 [26JN]

Banking and Commerce Belong Apart, 26992 [8OC]

Beating Up on Small Business, 14432 [2JN]

Benevolent Businessman Cleans Up City, 4019 [24FE]

Bigger Business Doesn't Always Mean Better Business, 8546 [8AP]

Bizarre Deal Diverts Vital Tools to Russians, 16981-16983 [23JN]

Black and in Business—Minority Entrepreneurs Strive for Piece of American Dream, 4465 [2MR]

Blacks Find Strength in Growing Network, 23678 [9SE]

Boom—Coming or Going?, 3885 [19FE]

Boosting America's Competitiveness—Investment Pressures for Short-Term Gains Must be Changed, 3304 [11FE]

Borg Won, but Victory Took Its Toll, 25351 [26SE]

Brave New World of Annual Reports?, 4117 [25FE]

Bring Back TV's Antismoking Ads, 14108 [28MY]

Business and the Public Policy Imperatives, 3479 [18FE]

Business Lobby Hit for ``Bring-Back-Bribery'' Bill, 34097 [4DE]

Business Myopia About Children, 34634 [9DE]

Businessman Frank Samford Dies, 1302 [14JA]

Buy-out Points to a Big Sale at Pathmark, 17600 [25JN]

Calling Their Bluff on Competitiveness?, 7087 [26MR]

Capital Gains, 30241 [29OC]

Case Against Deindustrialization, 903 [7JA]

Caucus & Co. Orients the East, 32559-32561 [17NO]

Chevron USA Mourns a Well-Loved President, 34637 [9DE]

Child Care Looms Large for Biz Firms, 3868 [19FE]

Chips at Stake—Japan Needs Some Shaking Up Over Trade, 8917 [9AP]

Colleges That Produce Tomorrow's Scientists, 11266 [5MY]

Colombian Cargo Sets Off Tremors in Pennsylvania, 14394 [2JN]

Colonel's Largest Eatery Has Opened in Peking, 32059 [17NO]

Community Leader A.C. Smith Dies, 10863 [30AP]

Company Chief Who Overcame Poverty Is Cobb YWCA's Woman of the Year, 34094 [4DE]

Competing in World Markets, 10225 [28AP]

Competition for Capital—Will Tax Blemish Handicap Us?, 24797 [22SE]

Conductor Technology Advances, 11895, 11896 [11MY]

Congress Aims at Minimum Benefit, 3820 [19FE]

Construction Market, 29826-29829 [29OC]

Controls on Which Exports?, 1936 [26JA]

Copyright Perks Up the Fun Industry, 22041 [3AU]

Court Orders FCC Review of Policy on Children's TV, 20249 [17JY]

Crain's All-Stars—Marc Skims Milk Prices Our Whey, 5642 [12MR]

Creeping Commercialism—Is the Toy Business Taking Over Kids' TV?, 20247 [17JY]

Crisis Is Over—But the Insurance Will Never Be the Same, 20167 [17JY]

Cure May Be Worse Than the Ill, 13298 [20MY]

Debt in America—A House of Cards, 7577 [31MR]

Debtor Nation Hysteria, 19805 [14JY]

Defense Industry Slims Down to Survive—Competitiveness Becomes Key in Lean Times, 28141 [15OC]

Defense Reform Big Flop, 25915 [30SE]

Demand for Pilots, 29863 [29OC]

Democrats' European Disease, 18716 [1JY], 18904, 18910 [8JY]

Democrats' Hold on Senate Banking Panel Augurs Tougher Stance With Banking, Securities Sectors, 1148 [12JA]

Diplomats Weak in Vital Languages, 4966 [5MR]

Discounting the Market, 36628 [19DE]

Disincentives Are Needed To Discourage Corporate Raiders, 19078 [8JY]

Distorting Corporate Investment, 25563 [29SE]

Don't Panic Over the U.S. Trade Deficit, 5506 [11MR]

Don't Raise Taxes, 28758 [21OC]

Economic Expansion in U.S. Continues Into a 59th Month, 26198 [1OC], 26596 [6OC]

Economy, '88—Wall Street's Lull Before the Big Storm, 38288 [22DE]

Economy Needs 15% Solution, 32617 [18NO]

Editors Should Worry About Censorship of Cigarette Ads, 8885 [9AP]

Engineer Heads for the Marketplace, 36006 [17DE]

Entrepreneur of the Year, 20118 [15JY]

Equal Access to Justice Act, 22976 [6AU]

Ethanol Producer Reaps 54% of U.S. Subsidy, 2718 [4FE]

Executives Urge a Rise in Aid for Poor Children, 23775 [10SE]

FCC Is Ordered To Reconsider Decision To Eliminate Ad Rules for Children's TV, 20249 [17JY]

FCC Ordered To Review Deregulation of Children's Television, 20248 [17JY]

Federal Reserve May Be Living Outside the Law, 18847 [7JY]

Federally Sponsored Enterprises Lack Oversight, 11281, 11282 [5MY]

Fighting Quotas—Independent Farmers Oppose Rules Letting Cartels Decide Output, 16871 [19JN]

Financial Guaranty Regulations Inadequate Corcoran, 32556 [17NO]

Financing for Exports Grows Harder to Find for All but Big Firms, 14096 [28MY]

First Practical Device Made of Ceramic Superconductor, 14045 [28MY]

Flight Delays Are Only Half of It, 16295 [16JN]

FmHA Should Be in for Its Comeuppance, 5980 [17MR]

For Sale—America, 23628-23631 [9SE], 24669-24673 [21SE]

Foreign Firms Build More U.S. Factories, Vex American Rivals, 24441 [17SE]

Foreign Greening of America—Outsider's Banking Moves Threaten Our Ability to Compete, Representative Coelho, 10845 [30AP]

Foreign Investors Deserve Same Treatment as Americans, 28546 [20OC]

Foreign Trade and Protectionism, 31582 [10NO]

Frank P. Samford, Jr., Business Community Leader, Dies at 65, 1303 [14JA]

Friend in Tokyo, 3406 [17FE]

Gene Squad—Japanese Now Target Another Field the U.S. Leads—Biotechnology, 35958, 35959 [17DE]

Get Ready for the Next Energy Crisis, 6943 [25MR]

GH Is Too High?—Defense Industry Has To Do Its Share as Defense Budgets Decline, 28142 [15OC]

Giantism Doesn't Equal Competitiveness, 13681 [21MY], 15391 [10JN]

Give 'em an Inch, They'll Take a Meter, 2272 [29JA]

Glum Outlook on Trade Gap, 28144 [15OC]

Great Insurance Crisis, 2658 [3FE]

Great Textile Robbery, 36235 [18DE]

Had Destroyed Secret Contracts—Whole Company's Involvement in Illegal Exports by Toshiba Machine Is Substantiated, 16829 [19JN]

Haiti—Challenge (and Opportunity) for U.S., 4784 [4MR]

Handgun Deaths—Last Year There Were 106 in D.C. Alone, 9677 [23AP]

Hard Hit CWA Members Tell Why We Need ``Jobs With Justice'', 24119, 24120 [16SE]

Heading Off Antitrust With Smart Research, 9278 [22AP]

Headline-Grabbing Foreign Investment, 23680 [9SE]

Health Insurance for All Workers, 3819 [19FE]

Heinz—Cut Penalty, 13564 [21MY]

Helping Workers To Work Smarter, 18377 [30JN]

Hidden Costs of Failed Mergers, 20598 [21JY]

History Lessons We Failed To Learn, 30977 [5NO]

Honda's Cash Goes a Long Way in the USA, 28168 [15OC]

How a Union Survives in Banking by Pushing Services Over Profits, 36232 [18DE]

How To Maintain Full Employment, 4384 [26FE]

How To Run a Successful Trade Center, 14794 [4JN]

If You Liked Junk Bonds, You'll Love Stock Loans, 28837 [22OC]

Illegal but Not Criminal—Business Crime in America, 29297 [27OC]

Imperfect Job Machine, 3878 [19FE]

India Urges Swift Bhopal Settlement, 30246 [29OC]

Indians in U.S. Prosper in Their New Country, and Not Just in Motels, 2181 [28JA]

Industrial Forecast—America's Future Is Bleak, 3180, 3181 [5FE]

Insurance Failures Predicted, 13839 [27MY]

Insurance Failures Pressure States' Bailout Funds, 7740 [1AP]

Is This Any Way to Sell a Railroad?, 13293, 13294 [20MY]

James Yancey—The Horatio Alger of Georgia Banking, 19828 [14JY]

Japan Could Win Superconductor Race With U.S., Scientists Warn, 11895 [11MY]

Japan Raids—Toshiba Charged—Firm Accused of Selling ``Silent Sub'' Machinery, 13185 [20MY]

Japan Roils the Markets, 30979 [5NO]

Japan Tightens Reins on Sensitive Goods After Unauthorized Exports to the Soviets, 13187 [20MY]

Japan's Smokestack Industries Pin Hopes on Research, 9669 [23AP]

Japan's Technopolis Program May Give Americans a Much-Needed High-Tech Jolt, 19062 [8JY]

Jerseyans in Vanguard of Efforts To Reform Federal Insurance Regulations, 19593 [13JY]

John Hancock—Industry's Black Sheep, 32686 [18NO]

Johnson Family Sticks Together, 17217 [24JN]

Kansai Shunning Foreign Firms—Phase-Two Airport Contracts To Be Handed to Japanese, 12434 [14MY]

Kentuckian Finds a Home Leading Realtor Lobbying Efforts, 20083 [15JY]

Labor Lending—As a Union Bank, Amalgamated Prospers by Pushing Service First and Shunning Risk, 36484 [18DE], 36669 [19DE]

Labor Lending—How a Union Survives in Banking by Pushing Services Over Profits, 36486 [18DE], 37888, 37889 [21DE], 38256, 38257, 38264 [22DE]

Lack of Flexibility Proves Expensive, 15097 [9JN]

Law That Boosts Insurance Costs, 17363 [24JN], 20810 [22JY]

Laws Must Treat U.S. and Foreign-Owned Banks Equally, Representative Florio, 8907 [9AP]

Lawyers Are Our Secret Weapon, 5992 [17MR]

Leading Citizen, 25182 [24SE]

Lessons of the Great Cranberry Crisis, 38263 [22DE]

Let's Not Torpedo the Growth of Jobs, 15486 [11JN]

Letter Imperfect, 35594 [14DE]

Liability Insurance, 31975 [16NO]

Lifelong Learning, 7661, 7668 [1AP]

Liquor Ads Are Targeting the Black Consumer, 16309 [16JN]

Low-Pay Jobs—The Big Lie, 7559 [31MR]

LR Banker To Receive Rector Award, 8049 [6AP]

Mail-Order Grinch, 27941 [14OC]

Major Problem With American Economy—Hypochondria, 4463 [2MR]

Making America Compete, 4793 [4MR]

Making American Industry Competitive Again, 22817, 22818 [6AU]

Man and His Mall, 20808 [22JY]

Managing Technology, 7660, 7667 [1AP]

Manufacturing Competitiveness, 5221 [10MR]

Many Foreigners Find Building Plants Is Easier Than Making Money in U.S., 24442 [17SE]

Marine Lapse Symptom of National Ills, 14797 [4JN]

Market Access Amendment, 10500 [29AP]

Market Forces and Discord Stymie Cartels, 16872 [19JN]

Mary Bianchini Makes a Difference, 4718 [3MR]

McDonald's Woos Older Workers, 3865 [19FE]

Mental Hazards of Exporting, 8535 [8AP]

Millions of Children Toil in Sweatshops of the Third World, 19089-19091 [8JY]

Miracle Company—Excellence in the Lab and Executive Suite Makes Merck a Powerhouse, 28439-28441 [20OC]

Modest Proposal for Japan, 23386 [7AU]

Moral Imperialism, 27422 [13OC]

More P/C Insurers Show Weaknesses in Test, 8275 [7AP]

Morning After, 26015-26025 [1OC]

Most National Priorities Dependent Upon U.S. Ability To Be Competitive, 7188 [27MR]

Mr. Perfect President, 21563 [29JY]

Mubarak Puts Emphasis on Private Investment, 23510 [20AU]

Myth of a Postindustrial Economy, 24799-24801 [22SE]

N.J. Declares Integrity $50 Million Insolvent, 7402 [31MR]

NAIB Urges Federal Solvency Standards, 31721 [10NO]

Nakasone Vows Swift Prosecution for Toshiba, John E. Peterson, Detroit (MI) News, 13186 [20MY]

Nation in Decline? The Author Fears a Deteriorating Ethic in the U.S. With Incompetence and Inefficiency Threatening Survival, 26932-26934 [7OC]

New Cutting Edge in Factories—Education, 9175-9177 [21AP]

New Superconductors Offer Chance To Do the Impossible, 8880 [9AP]

Only Decent Thing To Do, 31237 [6NO]

``Our Life Has Changed''—The Lightbulb, the Transistor—Now the Superconductor Revolution, 7855-7858 [2AP]

Out in Front—The 100 Fastest-Growing Companies, 32688 [18NO]

Out of the Pits—Phelps Dodge Proves Its Mettle, 10660-10662 [30AP]

Panama's Business Community Won't Take It Anymore, 19447 [10JY]

Pathmark's Parent Cutting Back, May Sell Some Stores, 11673 [7MY]

Phone Companies Ought to ``Bundle'', 29513 [27OC]

Plague of the Paper Pushers, 6935 [25MR]

Plan for Takeover Taxes Stirs Fears in Markets, 29009 [22OC]

Plant Closing Law Won't Help Workers, 17867 [26JN]

Pressure From CFC User Industry May Force U.S. to Reassess Cutback, 13008 [19MY]

Problem Farm Loans Still Rising, 20816 [22JY]

Product Liability (sundry), 20158-20165 [17JY]

Progress on the Trade Bill, 18925 [8JY]

Projectile-Shooting Guns Escape Toy Safety Standards, 36614 [19DE]

Protect Consumers From This Trade Bill, 19588 [13JY]

Protectionism Endangers California—Threatens Pacific Trade, Could Cut Jobs and Investment Here, 5734 [16MR]

Regrettable Retreat on Ozone Front, 13007 [19MY]

Regulation of Rates Is Opposed by Conrail, 30251 [29OC]

Retired Georgetown Businessman Alexander Quattlebaum Dies, 6304 [19MR]

Rice Plot, 1087-1089 [8JA]

Risky and Dubious—America's Research Budget Is Off Balance and Off Target, 34095 [4DE]

Risky Proposition, 31238 [6NO]

Russians Are Coming . . ., 16321 [16JN]

RX for Jobs Lost Through Mergers, 5099 [9MR]

Sale of Defense Secrets Merits U.S. Import Ban, 22695 [5AU]

Sanctions Backfire, 4398 [26FE]

Sanctions Only Add to Tragedy, 11954 [11MY]

Sanctions Snafu, 15112 [9JN]

Saving Airline Jobs, 29859 [29OC]

Savings and Loans Aren't in This Alone, 23382 [7AU]

Selling Child Care, 24049 [15SE]

Shell Game at the Docks, 16843 [19JN]

Shoving Match in the Travel Agency, 19587 [13JY]

Small Firms Brace for a Legislative Attack, 11869 [8MY]

Sneaky Supplemental for the World Bank, 9699 [24AP]

Sony Chief Says U.S. Firms Need To Take Longer View, 5497 [11MR]

Sorry, Wrong Policy—How Not To Compete in Telecommunications Markets Today, 36665 [19DE]

Soviet Market—Has Anything Changed?, 27415 [13OC]

Stock Market Plunge, 31433 [9NO]

Stop Discouraging Exporters, 35814 [16DE]

Stop Stretching the Davis Bacon Act, 24562 [18SE]

Stop the Trade Bill Hysteria, 36007 [17DE]

Study Warns of Economic Collapse—Trade Imbalances Seen as Big Danger, 35975 [17DE]

Sun Finally Setting on Garment Industry, 36236 [18DE]

Superconductor Breakthrough Reported Near, 14045 [28MY]

Superconductors, 7338 [31MR]

Swaps and Men, 10115 [28AP]

Taiwan's Dramatic Changes and Its Future, 5528 [11MR]

Tape Pirates Losing the War, 22041 [3AU]

Thank You, Tom Simons, 5380 [11MR]

That M&A Tax Scare Rattling the Markets, 29928 [29OC], 31157 [5NO]

``Thrift'' Called Key to Overcoming Trade Woes, 5728 [16MR]

Time To Stand Tight, 28499 [20OC]

Tom Peters—Invites Chaos for Survival, 34076 [3DE]

Too Many Chlorofluorocarbons, 13007 [19MY]

Top Court Upholds Severance Pay for Workers Whose Plants Close, 14395 [2JN]

Toshiba, Norway Unit Assailed in Soviet Sale, 13187 [20MY]

Toshiba Aided Soviets With Sub Technology, 13185 [20MY]

Toshiba Broke COCOM Rules in 1984 Also, 16828 [19JN]

Toshiba Faces Penalties for Technology Sale to USSR, John E. Peterson, Detroit (MI) News, 13187 [20MY]

Toshiba Machine Carried Out Illegal Exports in 1984, Too—Four ``Five-Axis'' Machine Tools to Soviet Union—MITI Checking Into Additional Sanctions, 16828 [19JN]

Toy Guns Proving To Be Too Realistic, 36613 [19DE]

Trade Gap Batters Markets, 27987 [15OC]

Trade Moves China Off the Sidelines, 14162 [29MY]

Trade Sapped by Idea U.S. Goods Inferior, 3883 [19FE]

Trade-Gap News Sends Stock Market Reeling Into a Record Tailspin, 27986 [15OC]

Travel Fraud—You Wanna $29 Trip to Hawaii?, 19589 [13JY]

True Cost of Trade Protection, 9351 [22AP]

True Story Behind 1930's Banking Collapse, 16302 [16JN]

Truth About Takeovers—And the Beauty of Junk Bonds, 19271 [9JY]

TV Toys—Debut and Debate, 20248 [17JY]

U.S.' Allies Urge Fresh Look at World Monetary System—Europe Seeks To Get off Currency Roller Coaster by Lessening Role of U.S. Dollar, 30978 [5NO]

U.S.' Allies Urge Fresh Look at World Monetary System—Japan Willing To Prop Up Dollar, but Says U.S. Must Tackle Its Own Deficits, 30978 [5NO]

U.S. Economy, 10506 [29AP]

U.S. Lifts Controls on Export of Drilling Gear to Soviets, 1379 [16JA]

U.S. Marshaling Free-Market Forces, 19395 [10JY]

U.S. Needs More Jobs, Another WPA, 1410 [16JA]

U.S. Pays High Price for IBM's Power, 6706 [24MR]

U.S. Regulators Move To Let Banks Enter Several New Businesses, 1370 [16JA]

U.S. Technology Is Overcontrolled, 23668 [9SE]

Upgrading of Factories Replaces the Concept of Total Automation, 33974-33976 [3DE]

USDA Contract Goes to Japanese Firm, 13284 [20MY]

USRA Chairman Proud of Successes as Conrail Agency Ends Its Life, 3199 [5FE]

Vietnam To Make Honda Motorcycles, 22957 [6AU]

Vive Les Supply-Siders, 10859 [30AP]

W. Va. Could Learn From Korea, Japan, 2646 [3FE]

W.M. Hodge, Civic Leader, Dies at Age 70, 25182 [24SE]

Wages of Uncertainty—Pension Fund Changes Leave Workers Feeling Yanked Into Crisis, 18966

Waterfalls, Poolbeat Floor of Airport, 16299 [16JN]

Welcome Attack on Davis Bacon, 24561 [18SE]

Well Runs Dry for the Texas Thrift Industry, 17692 [26JN]

What About Shareowners' Responsibility?, 29776 [28OC]

What Is a Bank?, 3266 [10FE]

What Is Important to Community Bankers, 36013 [17DE]

What Windfall? Repeal the Tax, 26243 [1OC]

When Industry Gets a Defective Supply of Workers, 33540 [1DE], 33802 [2DE]

When Wages Fly Higher Than Airlines, 29859 [29OC]

Where Data Fall Short, 31975 [16NO]

Where It Comes From, 28545 [20OC]

Who Benefits From Sanctions?, 33938-33943 [3DE]

Who Pays for High Tech?, 25662 [29SE]

Why Privatization Is Stalled, 13294 [20MY]

Why Suburbs Beat the Boroughs in Gaining Tenants, 7442 [31MR]

Widely Acclaimed Pianos, Symbolize Old Massachusetts City's Resurgence, 7094 [26MR]

Wine Talk—Sorry, France, 15605 [11JN]

World Economy Is Running Out of Steam, 21557 [29JY]

Wounded by Patent Piracy, 12492 [14MY]

Bills and resolutions

Advanced Civilian Technology Agency: establish (see H.R. 2958)

Aeronautics: deduction for air transportation (see H.R. 490)

———establish commission on the effects of air travel deregulation (see S. 1752)

———high-buoyancy life vests aboard commercial aircraft (see H.R. 3616)

———standards relating to air carrier passenger services (see H.R. 3051)

Agricultural Adjustment Act: permit marketing orders and paid advertising for Florida-grown strawberries (see H.R. 462)

Agricultural Export Reserve: establish (see H.R. 1731)

Agricultural Protection Cost Recovery Act: enact (see S. 1816), 29156 [23OC]

Agriculture: correct inequity in Conservative Reserve Program (see S. 671)

———establish task force on competitiveness (see S. 1756)

———export enhancement program (see H. Con. Res. 163, 164)

———family farmers (see H.R. 1152)

———farm debt restructuring (see S. 1147)

———farm income protection through management of certain commodities (see S. 658)

———farm program benefits (see H.R. 3487)

———financial protection to poultry growers and sellers (see S. 1836)

———improve optional acreage diversion program (see H.R. 1644)

———job training for transition to other economic activities (see H.R. 1202)

———labeling of consumer commodities to indicate foreign and domestic content (see H.R. 1382)

———marketing loans for farm produce (see S. 662)

———preclude all corporations engaged in farm product processing with gross receipts in excess of $100,000,000 from using cash accounting (see S. 1531)

———prevent foreigners from receiving loans and payments from farm programs (see H.R. 2695)

———price support loan rates for the 1987 crop of corn and the 1988 crop of wheat (see H.R. 2610)

———production and food processing systems (see H.R. 3735)

———promote export of commodities (see S. 488)

———recovery of cost for establishment of standards for products (see S. 1192)

———reduction of surplus commodities (see S. 781)

———require milk handlers to make prompt payment to producers for fluid milk (see H.R. 188)

———sugar price support (see S. 1000)

———tax treatment of grain storage and similar structures for purposes of depreciation and investment tax credit (see H.R. 1465)

———tax treatment of payments under, and facilities idled by, the Milk Production Termination Program (see S. 882)

———tax treatment relative to cash method of accounting (see H.R. 2785)

———use of generic certificates under the Dairy Export Incentive Program (see H.R. 2986)

Airlines: seating of persons holding tickets from bankrupt companies (see H.R. 2491)

Airport and Airway Capacity Expansion Act: enact (see S. 1184)

Airport and Airway Improvement Act: minority business enterprises (see H.R. 327, 328)

———restrictions on foreign business participation in federally funded projects (S. 764) (see S. 764)

Alaska: conveyance and ownership of submerged lands (see H.R. 2629)

Alaska Natives: ownership of land and corporate shares (see S. 1145)

Alcoholic beverages: territorial limitations on distribution of trademarked malt beverages (see H.R. 1145)

American Trade, Growth, and Employment Promotion Act: enact (see S. 590)

Amusement parks: strengthen CPSC authority (see H.R. 165)

Animals: study effectiveness of regulations protecting dogs raised for sale to pet stores from inhumane treatment (see H.J. Res. 287)

Antitrust policy: consent decree judgments (see S. 772)

———enforcement (see S. 1407, 1962)

———mergers and corporate tender offers (see S. 432, 634)

———partnerships (see S. 431)

———repeal exemptions applicable to insurance industry (see H.R. 2727)

———trademarked malt beverage products distribution licenses (see S. 567)

Arms sales: requirements for export licenses for commercial transactions (see H.R. 2694)

Bankruptcy: extend certain protections (see H.R. 1914)

———protections under title 11 (see S. 1577)

———special revenue bonds (see S. 1863)

Bankruptcy Antifraud Act: enact (see S. 1017)

Banks and banking: ceiling on interest rates (see S. 242)

———conversions of nonqualified thrift lenders (see S. 650)

———disclosure of rates of interest on savings accounts (see S. 1507)

———enhance competitiveness (see H.R. 3063)

———establish system for regulating national banking associations (see H.R. 1172)

———extend authority for financing for cooperative exports and imports (see S. 1013)

———financial services holding companies (see H.R. 3360)

———home equity loan disclosure requirements (see H.R. 3468)

———mortgage on properties including day care centers (see S. 1300)

———prevent trustee from avoiding transfers to depositors made by uninsured industrial banks that are debtors (see H.R. 2688)

———prohibit ownership of U.S. banks by certain foreigners (see S. 786)

———reforms (see H.R. 2588)

———regulate establishment or acquisition of depository institutions by foreign nationals (see H.R. 2578)

———restructuring or cancellation of certain agricultural loans (see H.R. 1346)

———State pension investment units, secondary market for industrial mortgages, State venture capital, royalty finance corporations, and a national loan loss reserve fund (see H.R. 1464)

———time restriction for availability of funds from deposited checks (see H.R. 897)

———treatment of certain short-term loans (see S. 1239)

———withdrawal transactions made by depositors from certain financial institutions not be avoided as preferential transfers (see S. 1698)

Barter and Countertrade Act: enact (see S. 1116)

Beef Research and Information Act: definition of term producer (see S. 674)

Bell operating companies: authorize information services and manufacture of telecommunications equipment (see S. 209)

Bell System: reemployment rights for persons affected by divestiture (see H.R. 2828)

Bermuda: tax treatment of expenses of attending conventions (see H.R. 747)

Brazil: informatics policies and sanctions against certain products (see H. Res. 317)

Budget: require President to submit analysis of impact of U.S. business on international competitiveness (see H.R. 1307)

Buy American Act: amend (see H.R. 1750)

———amend to award preferences to U.S. businesses in Government procurement (see H.R. 2226)

Canada: promote expansion of trade (see H.R. 2602)

Capital gains: tax differential (see S. 444)

CCC: defer tax consequences of repayment of loans (see S. 1686)

Center on State and Local Initiatives on Productivity, Technology, and Innovation: establish (see H.R. 2219)

Chemicals: suspend duty on benzenoid dye intermediates (see S. 712)

Children: initiatives in private sector care services (see S. 1071)

Chile: sanctions (see S. 709; H.R. 1561)

Clean Air Act: sanctions (see S. 1941)

Clothing industry: include in small business set-aside programs (see H.R. 2703)

Coins and coinage: requirement for use of gold refined in the U.S. (see H.R. 2816)

Commercial Fishing Industry Vessel Anti-Reflagging Act: enact (see H.R. 2598)

Commission on U.S. Trade: establish (see S. 690)

Commodities: joint study of market volatility (see H.R. 3594), 30390 [2NO]

Commodity Exchange Act: insider trading (see H.R. 251)

———producer referendum as condition of designation of certain contract markets (see H.R. 249)

———public disclosure of certain information relating to sales of commodities for export (see H.R. 250)

Communications: enable local cable franchising authorities to specify the cable channel position of local stations (see H.R. 3321)

Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act: loans to farmers and ranchers (see H.R. 2576)

Construction industries: collective bargaining (see H.R. 1840)

Consumers: improve disclosure of terms of leases and lease-purchase agreements (see H.R. 2537)

———prohibition on sale of service contracts (see H.R. 2308)

Contracts: local defense construction obligations (see H.R. 1873)

———local Federal construction obligations (see H.R. 1874)

Copyright: amend law regarding work made for hire (see S. 1223)

———improve international copyright, patent, and trademark protection (see H.R. 1651)

———manufacturing clause (see H.R. 2956)

———trademark protection of industrial designs (see S. 791)

———protect industrial designs of useful articles (see H.R. 1179)

———protection of intellectual property rights (see S. 486)

Corp. for Small Business Investment: establish (see H.R. 3392)

Corporate Criminal Liability Act: enact (see H.R. 2664)

Corporate mergers: disclosure requirements for certain acquisitions of securities (see S. 336)

Corporate Raider Tax Act: enact (see H.R. 2995)

Corporate Takeover and Insider Abuse Reform Act: enact (see S. 1324)

Corporations: accounting methods for certain agricultural food processing companies (see S. 311)

———interlocking directors and officers (see S. 1068)

———moratorium on hostile takeovers financed by junk securities (see H.R. 685)

———prohibitions on certain foreign (see H.R. 2241)

———tender offers (see H.R. 2172)

Cotton: measures to defray costs of research and promotion program (see H.R. 1622)

Council on Trade Information: establish (see S. 186)

Credit cards: ceiling on interest rates (see S. 242)

———interest rates (see S. 647)

Crime and criminals: allow regulatory authorities that regulate parimutuel wagering to receive and share Federal Government criminal identification records (see H.R. 2611)

———penalties for early disclosure and use of certain time-sensitive official economic information (see H.R. 3012)

Data Protection Board: establish (see H.R. 638)

Deceptive Mailings Prevention Act: enact (see S. 1393)

Defense contracts: assistance and training for persons in localities affected by termination (see H.R. 2276)

Defense Industrial Base Preservation Act: enact (see S. 1892)

Dept. of Agriculture: facilitate exportation of commodities (see H.R. 1667)

———Optional Acreage Diversion Program (see H.R. 3093)

———recovering costs associated with cotton classing services (see H.R. 2971)

———wheat program (see S. Res. 237; H. Con. Res. 147)

Dept. of Commerce: Minority Business Development Administration (see S. 1848)

———prohibit from certain activities which feature or convey advantages of relocating U.S. businesses in a foreign country (see H.R. 3210)

Dept. of Commerce and Trade: establish (see H.R. 2716)

Dept. of Defense: ban sale of Toshiba products in military exchange stores (see S. 1677)

———give commanding officer of each military installation authority to contract out commercial activities (see H.R. 2250)

———moratorium on construction of franchise businesses on military installations (see S. 803)

———notification of withheld progress payment under certain contracts (see H.R. 2730)

———prohibit purchase of products manufactured by Toshiba Corp. or Kongsberg Vaapenfabrik Co. (see H.R. 3000)

———prohibit purchasing from Toshiba Corp. (see H.R. 2948)

———restrictions on overseas contracts (see H.R. 2873)

Dept. of Energy: indemnify civilian nuclear energy research and development contractors (see H.R. 2751)

Dept. of HHS: assume functions of CPSC (see H.R. 3443)

———fees for review of applications for marketing of drugs and medical products (see H.R. 3547), 29209 [26OC]

Dept. of Industry and Technology: establish (see H.R. 2958)

Dept. of International Trade and Industry: establish (see S. 180, 330; H.R. 2135)

Dept. of Trade: establish (see S. 259; H.R. 92, 646, 1271, 1407)

Developing countries: debts (see S. 1117)

Dislocated workers: delivery of services and information (see H.R. 728)

Diversification in Broadcast Ownership Act: enact (see S. 1095)

Drug abuse: restrictions on testing by Government and private employers (see H.R. 691)

———standards for testing (see H.R. 2951)

Drug industry: ban reimportation, restrict drug samples, and ban resales by hospitals (see S. 368)

Economic assistance: deny funds for projects using products or services of foreign countries that deny fair market opportunities (see H.R. 1974)

Economic conditions: collection of data regarding service sector (see H.R. 1511)

———improve (see H.R. 2870)

———protect and improve quality of life through capitalism (see H.R. 1398)

Economic Excellence Act: enact (see S. 1249)

Education: Federal financial assistance to establish alliances between agencies and private sector (see S. 8)

———improve elementary and secondary school education in mathematics and science (see H.R. 1958)

———improve foreign language skills to enhance economic competition (see S. Con. Res. 26)

———private sector cooperation with local agencies (see H.R. 627)

———programs to strengthen competitiveness of industry (see S. 406)

———public-private partnerships to improve quality of elementary and secondary instruction (see S. 986)

EEC: implement agreement on citrus and pasta (see H.R. 1165)

———U.S. countermeasures for proposed tax on vegetable and marine fats and oils (see H. Con. Res. 51)

Employee Ownership Week: designate (see S. Res. 295)

Employment: expansion of worker trade readjustment allowance (see H.R. 2162)

———payment of youth employment opportunity wages (see H.R. 2710)

———prohibit discrimination on basis of cancer history (see H.R. 1546), 5492 [11MR]

———waiver of Federal regulations to stimulate employment in trade-impacted sectors of industry (see H.R. 270)

———worker retraining assistance (see S. 785)

———worker training (see H.R. 2725)

EPA: asbestos regulations (see H.R. 2693)

Equity in Interstate Competition Act: enact (see H.R. 3521)

Ethanol: increase use as motor fuel (see H.R. 2052)

Executive departments: implementing certain recommendations of President's private sector survey on cost control (see H.R. 136)

Eximbank: estimates of allowances for loan losses and inclusion in financial reports (see H.R. 3608)

Export Administration Act: amend (see S. 547)

Exports: improve U.S. policy (see S. 489)

Fair Labor Standards Act: amend portion relative to industrial homework (see S. 637)

———require prenotification to affected employees and communities of dislocation business concerns (see H.R. 161)

Fair Trade in Auto Parts Act: enact (see S. 1280)

Farm Credit System: stockholder/borrowers multi-point program of relief and reform (see S. 1156)

Farmers: assistance for debt restructuring (see H.R. 2120)

———deductions for charitable contributions of agricultural products (see H.R. 2288)

———recovery of costs of services to cooperative and groups of producers (see S. 1190)

———taxation (see H.R. 2228)

Fast Food Ingredient Information Act: enact (see S. 1325)

FCC: prohibit trafficking in station licenses except when ownership is sought by minorities (see H.R. 2479)

———regulation of airline advertising (see S. 1088)

FDIC: amortization of agricultural loan losses (see H.R. 1268)

Federal Alternative Procedure for Dispute Resolution Act: enact (see H.R. 2721)

Federal Competitive Coal Leasing Amendments Act: enact (see S. 1185)

Federal Credit Program Revolving Fund: establish (see S. 218)

Federal Home Loan Bank Board: congressional oversight (see H.R. 2588)

Federal Unemployment Tax Act: additional limitation on reduction on credit applicable to certain employers (see S. 1254)

Financial Services Competitive Enhancement Act: enact (see S. 60)

Firearms: civil penalties for manufacturing or entering into commerce of certain imitations (see S. 1981)

Fish and fisheries: certain processing services are exempt from the definition of employee for Federal tax purposes (see S. 1821)

———licensing of vessel for employment in coastwise trade (see H.R. 3387)

———processing within U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (see S. 1590)

———temporarily extend agreement between the U.S. and the Republic of Korea (see H.R. 2480)

Fishermen's Protective Act: reauthorize (see H.R. 2893)

Food: cash method of accounting for certain processing concerns (see H.R. 466)

Food Security Act: amend relative to fair and equitable application of the maximum limitation on farm program payments (see H.R. 3042)

Foreign Assistance Act: amend (see S. 738)

———enhance private-public partnership (see H.R. 1675)

Foreign Commercial Service: enhance role in promoting U.S. exports (see H.R. 1306)

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: amend (see S. 651)

Foreign countries: restrictions on conduct of hostile takeovers of U.S. firms by foreign-based persons (see H.R. 3401)

Foreign Shipping Practices Act: enact (see S. 1183)

Foreign trade: authorize negotiation of a North American free trade area (see H.R. 1282)

———ban import of Soviet-made textiles or textile products (see H.R. 3416)

———competitiveness in trade relief decisions (see S. 482)

———control export of capital from U.S. and control exports supporting terrorists (see H.R. 3095)

———country-of-origin labeling on imported commodities (see H.R. 1176)

———definition of goods which may be exported as humanitarian donations (see H. Con. Res. 230)

———determination of the country of origin of certain articles (see H.R. 3636)

———development and use of U.S. vessels as mobile trade fairs (see H.R. 2192)

———enforcement of antidumping and countervailing duty laws (see S. 485)

———enhance competitiveness (see H.R. 531)

———enhance competitiveness (H.R. 3), consideration (see H. Res. 151)

———enhance competitiveness (see S. 1409)

———establish free trade zone with Mexico (see H.R. 1006)

———establish trade development investment trust fund (see H.R. 1650)

———expand authority of Trade and Development Program (see H.R. 1494)

———filing period for reliquidation of certain imports (see H.R. 3059)

———improve intellectual property protection (see H.R. 1328, 1603)

———improve U.S. competitiveness (see H.R. 1493)

———limit imported milk products (see H.R. 243)

———maritime transportation of imported automobiles (see H.R. 1397)

———market disruption caused by imports of products from nonmarket economy countries (see H.R. 1459)

———marketing loan program for agricultural commodities (see S. 1137)

———parallel imports (see S. 1097)

———penalties for violation of country-of-origin labeling provisions of customs laws (see H.R. 1177)

———people of U.S. should purchase products made in U.S. and services provided in U.S. instead of those made or performed elsewhere (see H.J. Res. 397)

———preserve U.S. support for open trading system (see H.R. 1308)

———Presidential authority on reciprocal nondiscriminatory treatment (see H.R. 647)

———private enforcement of unfair competition statutes (see S. 1396)

———private remedies for injury caused by unfair foreign competition (see H.R. 268)

———prohibit investments in U.S. by certain South African mining interests (see H.R. 3328)

———prohibition on export of defense articles by certain companies (see S. 1639, 1656)

———protect owners from importation of overseas goods made with U.S. patented process (see S. 568)

———reciprocal agreements (see S. 490)

———relief to persons injured by importation of articles at less than market value or wholesale price (see S. 1104)

———State taxation of domestic and foreign corporations (see S. 1843)

———strengthen U.S. competitive position (see H.R. 131)

———U.S. competitiveness (see S. 374; H.R. 717)

———uranium trade agreements (see S. Res. 341)

Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act: enact (see S. 572)

FSLIC: funding (see H.R. 2588)

FTC: authority for prevention of unfair or deceptive practices by air carriers (see H.R. 3415)

———impose certain requirements with respect to acquisition (see H.R. 1485)

Geothermal resources: commission to grant exclusive franchise for exploration (see H.R. 235)

Government: contracting requirements (see H.R. 2872)

———restrictions on procurement from firms that have jeopardized national security (see H.R. 2731)

Government contractors: competitive examination for selection of members of boards of contract appeals (see S. 345)

———liability (see H.R. 2378)

———requirements relative to scientific and technical information (see H.R. 1616)

———restriction on individuals who have violated certain judicial or NLRB orders (see H.R. 549)

Government procurement: contracts with private sector (see H.R. 1606)

Hazardous substances: disposal of polychlorinated biphenyls (see H.R. 2685)

Health insurance: require plans offered by employers to have catastrophic coverage (see H.R. 2300)

Hostile Foreign Takeover Moratorium Act: enact (see S. 1264)

ICC: approval of acquisition and operation of railroad lines (see H.R. 2204)

———reform process for filling vacancies (see H.R. 75)

Immigration Reform and Control Act: delay implementation of employer sanctions provisions (see S. 1083)

Indian Development Finance Corp. Act: enact (see S. 721)

Indians: assistance to Indian owned business enterprises (see H.R. 2455)

———funding for economic growth (see S. 1360)

Industry: definition, in antidumping and countervailing duty investigations relative to processed agricultural products (see H.R. 1469)

———establish commission to study means to revivify and strengthen national base (see H.J. Res. 221)

———limit product liability law (see S. 711)

———prohibit certain plant closings and layoffs (see H.R. 1753)

———training to assure competitiveness of U.S. workers (see H.R. 90)

Insider Trading Proscriptions Act: enact (see S. 1380)

Insurance: collection and analysis of certain data (see H.R. 3643)

———disclosure of certain data to SBA (see H.R. 3688)

———exemption (see H.R. 2277)

———liability (see S. 554)

———limit Federal antitrust exemption (see H.R. 3749)

———repeal limitation on use of losses from nonlife insurance companies against income of life insurance companies (see H.R. 1375)

Insurance Competition Act: enact (see S. 804)

Insurance Competition Improvement Act: enact (see S. 1299)

Intellectual property: international protection (see S. 335)

Interstate commerce: destruction or injury of property en route (see H.R. 2489)

———free flow of products unimpeded by product liability law (see H.R. 2861)

———regulate through uniform treatment of product liability problems (see H.R. 430)

———uniform product liability law (see S. 687, 688; H.R. 635)

Interstate Commerce Commission Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 96)

Investment tax credit: reinstate 5% for certain property (see H.R. 936)

———reinstatement and restrictions (see H.R. 943)

Investments: repeal Williams Act amendments to Securities Exchange Act (see H.R. 3618)

Ireland, Northern: adherence to McBride Principles by business entities (see S. 229)

———U.S. business guidelines for equal employment opportunity (see H.R. 722)

Ireland, Republic of: encourage development of international trade and financial center in Dublin (see H. Res. 285)

Iron and steel industry: expand coverage of bilateral steel arrangements (see S. 985)

———negotiation of bilateral arrangements regarding imported steel (see H.R. 3127)

———revitalize (see H.R. 2743)

———unfair trade practices (see H.R. 2062)

IRS: delay penalty on valid withholding certificates (see S. 388)

Japan: trade with Vietnam (see S. Res. 271)

Kongsberg Vaapenfabrik Co.: import ban (see H.R. 2698)

Korea, Republic of: impose quotas on certain tobacco products and deny benefits under generalized system of preference (see S. 969)

Labeling: country-of-origin marking on imported commodities (see H.R. 1176)

———penalties for violation of country-of-origin provisions of customs laws (see H.R. 1177)

Labor: establish system to identify, notify, and prevent illness among workers at occupational illness high risk (H.R. 162), consideration (see H. Res. 280), 26813 [7OC]

———workplace literacy programs (see H.R. 1342)

Labor Productivity Assistance Act: enact (see S. 617)

Labor unions: rights relative to membership (see H.R. 97)

Long Island Rail Road: settlement of labor-management dispute (see H.J. Res. 185)

Made in the U.S.A. Month: designate (see S.J. Res. 177)

Meat packing industry: eligibility of loans to small business (see H.R. 254)

———protection of small business (see H.R. 253)

Merchant marine: shipment of exported agricultural commodities on U.S.-flag vessels (see H.R. 2875)

Merchant Marine Act: amend (see H.R. 1725)

Merger Limitation Act: enact (see H.R. 3090)

Mergers: disclosure of stock purchases (see S. 521)

Metric system: affirm that national policy of conversion would benefit U.S. (see S.J. Res. 100)

Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act: mediation and conciliation actions (see H.R. 1722)

Mines and mineral resources: reclamation of mill tailings at active uranium and thorium processing sites (see S. 1100)

Mining and mineral resources: viable domestic uranium industry (see S. 1846)

Minority Business Development Administration: establish in Dept. of Commerce to clarify relationship between such Administration and the SBA (see H.R. 1769)

Minority Business Development Program Reform Act: enact (see S. 1993)

Money: controls on export of capital from U.S. (see S. 786)

Monopolies: liability (see H.R. 941)

———mergers (see S. 432)

———partnerships (see S. 431)

Motion pictures: distribution in Canada (see S. Res. 227)

Motor transportation: reduce regulations of carriers of property (see H.R. 2591)

Motor vehicles: bumper standards (see H.R. 2584)

———substantiation of business tax deduction (see H.R. 1525)

———warranty and repair information (see H.R. 2954)

Multilateral development banks: participation in activities (see H.R. 3740)

National Advisory Committee on Semiconductor Research and Development Act: enact (see S. 1275)

National Bureau of Standards and Industrial Competitiveness: establish (see H.R. 2068)

National Commission on Commercial and National Defense Applications of Superconductors: establish (see H.R. 2069)

National Commission on Economic Challenges: establish (see H.R. 2812)

National Commission on International Competitiveness: establish (see S. 877)

National Petroleum Security Act: enact (see S. 1355)

National Productivity Improvement Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 414)

National Quality First Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 365)

National Quality Improvement Award: establish (see H.R. 812)

National Tourism Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 56), 3723 [19FE]

National trade policy: establish (see H.R. 2137)

National Watermen's Recognition Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 303)

Natural gas: increase depletion allowance (see H.R. 1642)

———permit courts to enjoin, suspend, or restrain property taxes on interstate transmission property (see H.R. 2953)

———regulation of interstate pipelines (see S. 1998)

———repeal incremental pricing requirements (see H.R. 1496)

Natural Gas Policy Act: amend (see H.R. 2701)

NLRB: statutory authority relative to employees and labor unions engaged in violence (see H.R. 2375)

NTL-5 Gas Royalty Act: enact (see S. 1814), 29156 [23OC]

Patents: amend laws relative to processes and cooperation treaty (see H.R. 1508)

———amend laws relative to use of inventions in outer space (see H.R. 1510)

———extend agricultural and chemical products for period under regulatory review (see H.R. 1345)

———extend patent numbered 3,387,268, Quotation Monitoring Unit (see S. 1102)

———extend patent numbered 3,387,268, Quotation Monitoring Unit, for 10 years (see H.R. 1274)

———processes, misuse and licensee challenges to validity (see S. 1200)

———strengthen protection for processes (see H.R. 1718)

———trademark protection of industrial designs (see H.R. 379)

———U.S. manufacturing of products derived from inventions arising from federally supported research and development (see H.R. 2119)

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.: coverage of early retirement pension benefits (see H.R. 2987)

———priority in bankruptcy proceedings for unsettled claims (see H.R. 2863)

———security as condition for pension plan funding (see H.R. 2865)

Pension funds: procedure for waiver of minimum funding standards in hardship (see H.R. 129)

Pensions: employee stock ownership plans (see H.R. 41)

———payments to steel industry retirees (see S. 1811)

———private sector efforts to alleviate losses suffered by retirees and employees as a result of plan termination (see S. Con. Res. 58), 12300 [13MY]

———prohibit reversions to employers of residual assets upon termination of single-employer plans (see H.R. 1942)

———treatment of terminated plans (see H.R. 3067)

———welfare plans restrictions relative to mergers (see H.R. 3086)

Petroleum: allowance for detectable moisture and impurities in determining tare on imports of crude oil and petroleum products (see H.R. 2034)

———deduction and special net operating loss rules relative to certain losses on domestic crude oil (see H.R. 271)

———excise tax on gasoline and diesel fuel (see H. Res. 225)

———import fee (see H.R. 1751)

———increase depletion allowance (see H.R. 1642)

———regulation of pipelines (see H.R. 2734)

———repeal excess profits tax (see H.R. 924)

———tax incentive for domestic production (see S. 233)

Philippines: free trade area negotiations (see H. Con. Res. 25)

Plant shutdowns: notification (see H.R. 2016)

Postal Service: designate as nonmailable matter, solicitations for the purchase of services or products provided by the Government at lower price (see H.R. 3382)

———privatization (see H.R. 2233)

President's Commission on Industrial Competitiveness: report on implementation of recommendations (see H.J. Res. 2)

Prices: prohibit certain practices relative to marking of consumer products by retailers (see H.R. 547)

Product liability law: provide uniform (see H.R. 1936)

Product safety: limitation on bringing of product liability actions (see H.R. 3053)

Public finance: Federal assistance to establish alliances between educational agencies and private sector (see S. 8)

Railroads: enhance competition and assure reasonable rates (see H.R. 1393)

———restrictions on the sale of main transcontinental rail lines (see H.R. 1471)

———sale, acquisition, or abandonment of lines (see S. 1040)

———survivor's annuities for divorced wives (see H.R. 2825)

———workers with 25 years or more of service shall have a current connection for purposes of annuities (see H.R. 2827)

REA: promote economic vitality by directing resources to consumers (see S. 505)

Reagan, President: authority to stabilize prices, wages, interest rates, and corporate dividends (see H.R. 272)

Real estate agents: limit certain fees (see S. 1186)

Reconstruction Finance Corp.: establish (see H.R. 3707)

Restrictive trade practices: improve access to foreign markets by U.S. companies (see S. 335)

Retail Competition Enforcement Act: enact (see S. 430)

Roads and highways: access to Interstate System for commercial motor vehicles (see S. 1391; H.R. 2697)

Rolen-Rolen-Roberts International: relief (see S. 1434)

Romania: most favored nation status (see H.R. 2175)

Rukert Marine Corp.: relief (see S. 469)

Rural areas: economic development (see H.R. 2028)

Rural Enterprise Zone Act: enact (see S. 983)

Rural enterprise zones: establish to stimulate employment (see H.R. 1973)

Rural Recovery and Revitalization Act: enact (see S. 1403)

Sales personnel: regulate recruitment and treatment of door-to-door agents (see S. 989; H.R. 2092)

SBA: enhanced participation in Federal contracting (see H.R. 3380)

Science: develop applications of superconductivity (see H.R. 3048)

Sec. of Labor: notify of changes of operation (see H.R. 424)

Securities: additional restraints on tender offers (see S. 227)

———disclosures relative to accumulations of stock and tender offers (see S. 1323)

———extend waiting periods and expand applicability of notification requirement of Clayton Act (see H.R. 586)

———improve vitality of business (see S. 521)

———penalties for insider trading (see H.R. 1238)

———sale of obligations to issuer before public offering (see H.R. 2059)

———use of nonpublic information (see S. 230, 231)

Securities Exchange Act: amend (see S. 78; H.R. 1601)

———establish moratorium on hostile foreign takeovers (see H.R. 2514)

Securities Law Technical Act: amend (see S. 1452)

Service sector: collection of data (see H.R. 1511)

Shareholder Democracy Act: enact (see H.R. 2996)

Shipping industry: cargo preference laws (see S. 304)

———clearing impediments to the licensing of certain vessels (see H.R. 3642)

———unfair practices in marine transportation of import motor vehicles (see S. 1087)

Shoe industry: orderly trade in nonrubber footwear industry to reduce unemployment (see H.R. 653)

———trade relief (see H.R. 2326)

Small business: access to U.S. trade laws (see H. Con. Res. 76)

———disaster assistance loans (see S. 1957)

———encourage to extend retirement and fringe benefits (see H.R. 2793)

———fixed term participation period for socially and economically disadvantaged small business (see H.R. 2972)

———modify set-aside program (see S. 1559)

———private initiative to enhance access to U.S. trade laws (see S. Con. Res. 45)

Small Business Act: amend (see H.R. 1607, 1854, 2166, 2775)

———amend to enhance ability of small businesses to compete for international export markets (see S. 1344)

———authorize loans for economic injury caused by Federal action and establish criteria for economic injury (see H.R. 1804)

———program reform (see H.R. 2269)

———reform Capital Ownership Development Program (see H.R. 1807)

Small Business Export Innovation Program: establish to make competitive awards to small businesses for developing export trade strategies (see H.R. 1937)

Small Business Investment Act: amend (see H.R. 2166)

———prepayment of loans to State and local development companies (see H.R. 3835)

Small Business Retirement and Benefit Extension Act: enact (see S. 1426)

Social Security: exemption from coverage for employers and their employees where both are members of faiths opposed to participation (see H.R. 2259)

South Africa: deny foreign tax credit (see H.R. 1005)

———divestiture from oil industry unless certain conditions are met

———prohibit investments (see S. 556; H.R. 1153, 1580)

———prohibit U.S. importation of diamonds (see H.R. 1051)

———sanctions (see S. Res. 82)

Southeastern Power Administration: study transfer to private sector (see H.R. 2718)

Southern Industrial Banking Corp.: good faith transfers of property shall not be voidable (see H.R. 1351)

Space policy: facilitate commercial access (see H.R. 3765)

Sports: make antitrust laws applicable to certain baseball teams (see H.R. 2687)

———protect public interest relative to operation of professional teams and leagues (see S. 782)

State and local development companies: prepayment of loans (see S. 437)

Stock Market Investment Act: enact (see H.R. 3668)

Superconductivity Competition Act: enact (see S. 880)

Takeovers: protection of public interest and investors (see H.R. 2016)

Tariff: administrative procedure for certain noncontroversial suspensions (see H.R. 2430)

———alloy iron and steel pipes and tubes (see H.R. 2419)

———amiodarone (see H.R. 2421)

———Bendiocarb (see S. 1289)

———B-naphthol (see H.R. 2274)

———caffeine (see H.R. 2431)

———C-Amines (see H.R. 2280)

———canned tuna (see H.R. 1515)

———carbodiimides (see S. 1163)

———certain power-driven weaving machines (see S. 1224; H.R. 2483)

———chemical (see S. 1644)

———cultured pearls (see S. 1400)

———diamino imid sp (see H.R. 2289)

———diamond tool blanks (see H.R. 2033)

———disposable surgical gowns (see S. 1306)

———disposable surgical gowns and drapes (see H.R. 2425)

———4,4'Bis(a,a-dimethylbenzyl) diphenylamine (see H.R. 2418)

———glass inners for vacuum flasks (see H.R. 1159)

———graphite (see H.R. 2380)

———hovercraft skirts (see H.R. 2436)

———iron (see S. 783)

———kitchenware (see H.R. 2281)

———laser discs (see S. 1114; H.R. 2124)

———leather belts (see H.R. 2409)

———lithotripters (see H.R. 1160)

———menthol feedstocks (see H.R. 684)

———meta nitro-o-anisidine (see S. 1151)

———meta nitro-para-anisidine (see S. 1149)

———methyl and ethyl parathion (see S. 1895)

———natural graphite (see H.R. 2414)

———nitrogenous compounds (see H.R. 2755)

———nitro-ortho-toluidine (see S. 1152)

———N-methyl aniline (see H.R. 3426)

———O-Benzyl-p-chlorophenol (see H.R. 2424)

———para chloro-o-nitroaniline (see S. 1150)

———para nitro-o-anisidine (see S. 1154)

———phenyl-carbethoxy-pyrazolone (see S. 1153)

———plastic sheeting (see H.R. 1360)

———portable marine stoves (see H.R. 2757)

———positive displacement reciprocating machines and parts (see H.R. 3447)

———prohibit excessive customs fees for foreign trade zone services (see H.R. 2338)

———silicone materials (see H.R. 2442)

———small toys (see S. 1066)

———stainless steel (see H.R. 3589)

———stuffed toy figures (see S. 1050, 1051)

———sulfathiazole, sulfamethazine, and sodium sulfamethazine (see H.R. 2432)

———tetra amino biphenyl (see S. 1082)

———textile machines (see H.R. 1460)

———theobromine (see S. 1880)

———Triallate (see S. 1129)

———triethyleneglycol dichloride (see H.R. 2420)

———uncompounded allyl resins (see H.R. 2236)

———unstuffed dolls (see H.R. 1991)

Tariff Act: protection of intellectual property rights (see S. 486)

Tariff Schedules of the U.S.: amend (see H.R. 3211)

Tax Reform Act: amend (see S. 1197), 12300 [13MY]

———amend to clarify study of source rules for sales of inventory property (see H.R. 1654)

———repeal certain provisions requiring certain entities to adopt certain taxable years (see H.R. 666)

———repeal requirement of certain partnerships and S corporations to adopt certain taxable years (see H.R. 1329)

———treatment of certain technical personnel as self-employed (see H.R. 1240)

Taxation: accounting of loan losses by production credit associations and banks for cooperatives (see S. 1640)

———allow certain entities to elect not to make changes in their taxable years (see S. 1520)

———capital gains (see H.R. 3353, 3635)

———capital gains differential (see S. 1890)

———capital gains tax differential (see S. 1978)

———certification of employees relative to work incentive jobs credit (see S. 1610)

———clarify treatment of self-insured workers' compensation fund (see S. 1019)

———commodity collateral for CCC loans (see S. 1715)

———credit for employers providing onsite day care services for dependents of their employees (see H.R. 1254)

———credit for employers who provide on-site day care facilities for dependents of their employees (see S. 1535)

———day care center and dependent care services credit (see H.R. 3005)

———deduct expenses incurred in filing withholding certificates whether or not itemized (see H.R. 1347)

———deduction for certain indebtedness incurred to acquire 50% or more ownership interest in a corporation (see S. 1058)

———deduction for certain self-insurance reserves (see H.R. 746)

———deduction for certain shareholders of foreign sales corporations (see H.R. 1055)

———deductions for cost of health insurance coverage for self-employed (see S. 1370, 1386)

———delay changes in taxable years of certain entities (see S. 530), 3384 [17FE]

———delay employment determination for certain technical personnel (see S. 429)

———election of taxable year (see H.R. 2977)

———eliminate restrictions on State imposition, collection, and administration of State and local sales (see S. 639)

———eliminate retroactive certification of employees relative to work incentive jobs credit (see H.R. 2111)

———equity in treatment of domestic and foreign corporations (see H.R. 2940)

———excise tax on an employer's cost of providing medical benefits to his employees (see H.R. 3128)

———exemption for certain investment companies from disallowance of indirect deductions through passthrough entities (see S. 1489)

———exemption for noncommercial transportation provided by employers to employees (see H.R. 2122)

———group-term life insurance purchased for employees (see H.R. 745)

———improve administration of internal revenue laws (see H.R. 2190)

———incentive for urban enterprise zones and youth education and employment opportunity programs (see H.R. 1428)

———installment sales rules for small businesses (see S. 719)

———manufacturers excise tax on archery equipment (see H.R. 3245)

———meals furnished off premises as fringe benefits (see H.R. 622)

———minimum tax (see H.R. 1545), 5492 [11MR]

———minority owned communication entities (see H.R. 332)

———modify certain provisions regarding tax-exempt bonds (see S. 1864)

———nonelective deferred compensation (see H.R. 3312)

———passive loss limitation on deductions allowable for expenses relative to rental real estate in which the taxpayer materially participates (see H.R. 3224)

———permit rural telephone cooperatives to have qualified cash or deferred arrangements (see H.R. 3045)

———preclude certain farmers from using cash method accounting and provide exemptions for certain livestock breeding (see S. 1353)

———profits realized from corporate takeovers (see H.R. 1178)

———prohibit transfer of tax return information by preparers in conjunction with sale of their business (see H.R. 1196)

———reduce maximum capital gains rate to 15% (see H.R. 3552)

———reinstate 5% investment tax credit for productive property (see H.R. 246)

———repeal requirement for partnerships and corporations to adopt certain taxable years (see H.R. 2123)

———require retailers to collect sales and use taxes on interstate sales (see H.R. 1242)

———research and experimental expenditures (see S. 716)

———restoration of capital gains three-tiered rate differential (see S. 1825)

———simplify certain requirements regarding withholding and reporting at the source and correcting inequities relative to carryover of losses (see H.R. 265)

———substantiation for deductions for business use of a vehicle (see S. 1702)

———treatment of certain health and welfare benefit funds (see H.R. 2868)

———treatment of certain short-term loans (see H.R. 2323)

———treatment of dividends and allocation of corporate tax revenues for payments to qualified registered voters (see H.R. 2740)

———treatment of employer mass transit and van pool subsidies (see S. 1757; H.R. 3437)

———treatment of income of insurance companies (see H.R. 3438)

———treatment of research and development expenditures (see S. 1617)

———treatment of rural electric or telephone cooperatives (see S. 1622)

———treatment of rural telephone cooperatives (see S. 1623)

———treatment of self-insured workers' compensation funds (see H.R. 1489, 1709)

———use of consolidated tax returns by insurance companies (see S. 1404)

Technology: establish National Quality Award (see S. 1251)

———promote U.S. leadership (see H.R. 2916)

Telephone: domestic manufacturing (see H.R. 3333)

———information services and manufacture of telecommunications equipment by Bell operating companies (see H.R. 2030)

Television: local franchising for residential cable television (see H.R. 3624)

Temporary National Commission on Economic Concentration: establish (see H.R. 930)

Textile and Apparel Trade Act: enact (see S. 549; H.R. 1154)

Textile industry: include in small business set-aside programs (see H.R. 2703)

Textile industry and fabrics: remedy injury caused by imports (H.R. 1154), consideration (see H. Res. 256)

Tobacco industry: advertising expenses (see H.R. 1272)

———ban promotion of tobacco products (see H.R. 1532)

———regulate sale and distribution of certain products (see H.R. 3294)

———remove special treatment accorded products under the Consumer Product Safety Act (see H.R. 2376)

Toshiba Corp.: import ban (see S. 1399; H.R. 2698)

Toys: distinctive markings on replicas of firearms (see H.R. 3433)

Trade, Employment, and Productivity Act: enact (see S. 539; H.R. 1155)

Trade Act: amend (see H.R. 1514, 1981)

———appoint U.S. distributors of Japanese automobiles (see H.R. 1399)

———competitiveness factor in trade relief decisions (see S. 482)

———reciprocal agreements (see S. 484)

Trade agreements: reciprocity (see S. 481)

Trade and International Economic Policy Reform Act: enact (see H.R. 2150)

Trademarks: amend laws relative to customs and gray market goods (see S. 1671)

Trucking Productivity Improvement Act: enact (see S. 1710)

Truth in Lending Act: amend (see H.R. 2609)

U.S. Trade Data Bank: establish (see S. 186)

U.S. Trade Representative: investigation of Japanese trade barriers (see S. 1086)

Unemployment: demonstration program to allow compensation for purposes of self-employment (see S. 1624)

———treatment as national priority (see H. Con. Res. 111)

Unemployment compensation: limitations on reduction on credit applicable to employers in certain States (see H.R. 2801)

Unfair Competition Act: amend (see H.R. 139)

———private enforcement of statute in event of unfair foreign competition (see S. 361)

Veterans: job training and counseling services (see S. 999)

White House Conference on International Trade: convene (see H.R. 2136)

White House Conference on Small Business: permanent authorization (see H.R. 2690)

White Seal (vessel): authorizing certificate of documentation (see S. 1855)

Women: economic equity (see S. 1309; H.R. 2577)

Workplace Literacy Act: enact (see S. 1227)

Youth: prohibit the rental or transfer of obscene videotapes (see H.R. 2605)

Biographies

Minority businesspersons in Houston, 5103 [9MR]

Booklets

Because We Care: Smokeless Tobacco Council, 35609 [15DE]

Books

``Wealth of Nations'': Adam Smith, 33127 [20NO]

``What Should Banks Do?'': Robert E. Litan, 33125 [20NO]

Chronologies

Garlock Mechanical Packing Division's 100th Anniversary, 34408 [8DE]

Commentaries

Airline mergers: Alfred E. Kahn, PBS Nightly Business Report, 27821 [14OC]

Communiques

Preservation of an open and stable international environment for trade and investment: Business Roundtable and Roundtable of European Industrialists, 36229 [18DE]

Court decisions

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System v. Northeast Bancorp: Supreme Court, 6826 [25MR]

Citronelle-Mobile Gathering, Inc. v. O'Leary: Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals, 31871 [13NO]

Copiat v. U.S., 23573 [9SE]

Erickson Partnership v. Marvin L. and Charlotte M. Swenson (bankruptcy), 3769-3771 [19FE]

Furman v. Cirrito, 29295 [27OC]

Myths and fears about disability and disease: William J. Brennan, Jr., 9169 [21AP]

Descriptions

Economic Excellence Act (S. 1249), 13248 [20MY]

Enrichment Service Corp., 10151 [28AP]

Office of Productivity, Technology, and Innovation: Dept. of Commerce (excerpt), 20196 [17JY]

Reclamation of mill tailings at active uranium and thorium processing sites (S. 1100), 10151 [28AP]

Documents

Employee Polygraph Protection Act (excerpt), 30835 [4NO]

Information Return of Excess Profits Tax, 24912 [22SE]

Protocol: U.S.-U.S.S.R. Chamber of Commerce, 27408 [13OC]

Essays

Federal Support for Steel Product Technologies: Lennard G. Kruger, Library of Congress, 5500 [11MR]

Examples

Loan prepayment penalties, 35809 [16DE]

Excerpts

``Putting the U.S. Back on Top—The National for a National Interest Trade Policy,'' B. Bruce-Biggs, 19765-19768 [14JY]

``Rise of the Trading State,'' Richard Rosecrance, 11069 [5MY]

``Takeover Game'', John Brooks, 14616 [4JN]

Explanations

Insider trading legislation: proposal by ad hoc committee, 16391-16393 [17JN]

Modify Small Business Set-aside Program (S. 1559), 21266 [28JY]

National Training Incentives Act (H.R. 2725), 16581 [17JN]

Payment clause for subcontracts under construction contracts, 27203 [9OC]

Tender Offer Reform Act (H.R. 2172), 10031-10035 [27AP]

Factsheets

Competitiveness Initiative: President Reagan, 2094-2097 [28JA]

Dept. of International Trade and Industry (S. 330), 1501 [20JA]

Trade, Employment, and Productivity Act (H.R. 1155), 3884, 3885 [19FE]

What's Wrong With Our Export Control Laws?, 4012-4017 [24FE]

Hearings

Committee on Agriculture: forest products trade (testimony from Thomas O. Kay, George Leonard, and public witnesses), D139 [11MR]

Committee on Appropriations (House): Dept. of Commerce (testimony), D234 [6AP]

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Council on Industrial Competitiveness, Multilateral Insurance Guaranty Agency, and exchange rates (testimony from Representative Wise, Joan McEntee, and public witnesses), D132 [10MR]

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: corporate takeovers (testimony), D108 [4MR]

———economy, insider trading and hostile corporate takeovers (testimony), D33 [28JA]

———U.S. export controls and competitiveness (testimony), D144 [12MR], D155 [17MR]

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: challenge of competition for U.S. industry (testimony from Senators Baucus and Chafee, George Kozmetsky, Howard D. Samuel, and Richard Cyert), D19 [20JA]

Committee on Education and Labor: construction industry labor law amendments (H.R. 281)

———Education and Training for American Competitiveness Act (H.R. 90), D149 [12MR]

———Education and Training for American Competitiveness Act (H.R. 90) (testimony from public witnesses), D111 [4MR]

———Education and Training for American Competitiveness Act (H.R. 90) (testimony from public witnesses), D59 [11FE]

———High-Risk Occupational Disease Notification and Prevention Act (H.R. 162), D248 [8AP], D279 [23AP]

———High-Risk Occupational Disease Notification and Prevention Act (H.R. 162) (testimony), D159 [17MR]

Committee on Energy and Commerce: competitiveness and trade (testimony form Senator Murkowski, H.T. Goldfield, and public witnesses), D140 [11MR]

———Health Protection Act (H.R. 1532) (testimony), D233 [3AP]

———mergers, acquisitions, and changes in management, and their impact on the national television networks' news operations, D291 [28AP], D297 [29AP], D305 [30AP]

———SEC and ongoing commission activities (testimony from John S.R. Shad), D119 [5MR]

———Telecommunication Trade Act (testimony from Albert Halprin, Bruce Wilson, Alfred Sikes, and public witnesses), D133 [10MR]

———TRW Corp. (testimony from Ruben Mettler), D119 [5MR]

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: status of domestic uranium mining industry (testimony from Helmut A. Merklein, A. David Rossin, Edward M. Davis, Thomas Kuhn, Nolan Hancock, and Robert Luke), D124 [9MR]

Committee on Finance: impact of Latin American debt crisis on U.S. (testimony from James L. Adams, Donald V. Fites, John T. Plunket, Phil LaRocco, and Margaret D. Hayes), D125 [9MR]

———impact of Latin American debt crisis on U.S. (testimony from Joaquim dos Santo Andrade, Thomas Burns, Sally Shelton-Colby, Richard E. Feinberg, Steve Beckman, Leroy Watson, and Sam Brownback), D125 [9MR]

———Trade and International Economic Policy Reform Act (H.R. 3), Omnibus Trade Act (S. 490), and International Economic Environment Improvement Act (S. 636) (testimony), D226 [2AP]

———world economy and trade issues, focusing on U.S. response to international trade deficit (testimony from James A. Baker, III, Sec. of the Treasury and Clayton Yeutter), D68 [19FE]

———world economy and trade issues, focusing on U.S. response to international trade deficit (testimony from Lane Kirkland, Owen Bieber, and Lynn R. Williams), D19 [20JA]

Committee on Government Operations: Computer Security Act (H.R. 145) and Buy American Act amendments (H.R. 1750), D229 [2AP]

———IRS failure to implement a document matching program for income paid to business taxpayers

———IRS failure to implement a document matching program for income paid to business taxpayers (testimony), D160 [17MR]

———underreporting of occupational injuries and its impact on workers' safety (testimony), D176 [19MR]

Committee on Governmental Affairs: abuse and exploitation of young adults in door-to-door sales (testimony), D234 [6AP]

———economic competitiveness (testimony), D199 [26MR]

———Government's role in economic competitiveness (testimony), D212 [31MR]

Committee on Indian Affairs (Select): Indian Financing Act and Buy Indian Act (testimony), D295 [29AP]

———promote the economic development of Indian tribes (S. 721) (testimony), D302 [30AP]

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: High Risk Occupational Disease Notification and Prevention Act (S. 79), D253 [9AP]

———market oriented sector specific talks between the U.S. and Japan and their effect on U.S. employment in the auto parts industry (testimony), D207 [30MR]

Committee on Small Business (House): liability insurance crisis (testimony), D264 [21AP], D298 [29AP]

———SBA budget, D121 [5MR]

———SBA budget (testimony from John Moffitt), D150 [12MR]

———Small Business Act amendments (H.R. 1854) (testimony), D216 [31MR]

———trade and competitiveness issues confronting small and mid-sized businesses, D169 [18MR], D189 [24MR]

———trade and competitiveness issues confronting small and mid-sized businesses (testimony), D177 [19MR], D195 [25MR]

Committee on Small Business (Senate): enhance small business participation in export markets (testimony), D295 [29AP], D302 [30AP]

———review procedures of Federal contracts awarded to small businesses (testimony), D238 [7AP]

———rural and urban economies focusing on performance (testimony from Don Stringham and David E. Martin), D115 [5MR]

———rural and urban economies focusing on performance (testimony from Frank S. Swain, Kenneth L. Deavers, Pat Choate, Charles C. Cook, Glen C. Pulver, Mark Drabenstott, and Donald R. Peoples), D115 [5MR]

Committee on the Budget (Senate): preparation for reporting the concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1988 budget, focusing on international competitiveness and trade (testimony from Lester C. Thurow and Pat Choate), D91 [26FE]

———preparation for reporting the concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1988 budget, focusing on international competitiveness and trade (testimony from Robert C. Holland), D91 [26FE]

Committee on the Judiciary (House): antitrust procedure amendments (H.R. 586)

———Freedom From Vertical Price Fixing Act (H.R. 585), D230 [2AP]

Committee on the Judiciary (Senate): corporate takeovers (testimony), D227 [2AP]

———mergers and acquisitions (testimony from Charles F. Rule, Daniel Oliver, Robert Abrams, Anthony J. Celebrezze, Jr., Robert Pitofsky, Ernest Gellhorn, F.M. Scherer, and John D. Ong), D137 [11MR]

———pre-merger reporting requirements (testimony from Malcolm R. Pfunder), D92 [26FE]

———pre-merger reporting requirements (testimony from Patricia Bailey, Terry Calvani, Andrew Strenio, Leroy S. Zimmerman, Robert M. Langer, Mark Crane, and Frederick S. Myers), D92 [26FE]

———protect benefits under a collective bargaining agreement to include retired employees (S. 548) (testimony), D282 [24AP]

———protection of semiconductor chip designs (testimony from Norman R. Augustine, Robert Noyce, and Jonathan E. Cornell), D103 [3MR]

———repeal exemption of insurance business from Federal antitrust laws (S. 80) (testimony from Daniel Oliver, Charles F. Rule, James M. Shannon, Charles G. Brown, and Jeffrey J. Teitz), D64 [18FE]

———repeal exemption of insurance business from Federal antitrust laws (S. 80) (testimony from David Levinson, Donald Halperin, J. Robert Hunter, F.J. O'Neill, and Brad Mitchell), D64 [18FE]

———repeal exemption of insurance business from Federal antitrust laws (S. 80) (testimony from John Motley, John Satagaj, and Edward Muhl), D64 [18FE]

———repeal exemption of insurance business from Federal antitrust laws (S. 80) (testimony from Leslie W. Seldin, Mark F. Horning, Robert S. Seiler, John Washburn, and Mark N. Cooper), D64 [18FE]

Committee on Ways and Means: enhance U.S. trade competitiveness and reform trade laws (testimony from public witnesses), D76 [23FE]

———U.S. trade competitiveness and laws (testimony from Representative Snowe and public witnesses), D65 [18FE]

Establish a National Quality Improvement Award and NTIS Privatization (H.R. 812): (testimony from D. Bruce Merrifield), D113 [4MR]

Interviews

Metric use in the U.S., with Representative George Brown, Metric Reporter (publication), 2170 [28JA]

Soviet trade status and human rights violations: C. William Verity, Jr., with Radio Moscow, 26319, 26320 [2OC]

Letters

Advanced notification in plant shutdowns: John L. Kelly, 18888 [8JY]

Airline mergers and acquisitions: R.L. Crandall, American Airlines, 30283 [30OC]

Airport and airway capacity expansion: Edward M. Gramlich, CBO, 29553 [28OC]

Amtrak privatization: W. Graham Claytor, Jr., 22451 [5AU]

Banking and the paper market: M. Douglas Ivester, 33124 [20NO]

Chlorofluorocarbons production: Senator Stafford, 13006 [19MY]

Citronelle-Mobile Gathering, Inc. v. O'Leary decision: George E. Palmer, 31872 [13NO]

———Peter D. Junger, 31872, 31873 [13NO]

Companies receiving licenses for exports to controlled countries: Bruce Smart, 27383 [13OC]

Consortium with Japan on telecommunications services: Clayton Yeutter, U.S. Trade Representative, 5973 [17MR]

———Dept. of Commerce, 5972 [17MR]

———Malcolm Baldrige, Sec. of Commerce, 5972 [17MR]

———Margaret Thatcher, 5972 [17MR]

———Senators Murkowski, Stevens, and Representative Don Young, 5973 [17MR]

Construction differential subsidy repayment: Everett Pyatt, 12024 [12MY]

Continental Airlines Corp.: R.F. Wheless, Jr., U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of Texas, 7321-7323 [30MR]

Conveyance and ownership of submerged lands in Alaska: Representative Walter B. Jones, 22081 [3AU]

DISC loans: Dept. of the Treasury, 20041 [15JY]

Domestic energy industry: Representative Archer, 5222 [10MR]

Economic Dislocation and Worker Adjustment Assistance Act: William E. Brock, Secretary of Labor, 18907 [8JY]

Eximbank diminished equity position: Eximbank, 30888 [4NO]

Extending cargo preference law to commercial purchases of U.S. goods and services made by cash transfer aid recipient countries: various U.S. agriculture interests, 32887 [19NO]

Farm Credit System banks authority to finance exports and imports: James W. Miller, National Association of Wheat Growers, 8973 [10AP]

———John C. Datt, American Farm Bureau Federation, 8973 [10AP]

FDA's regulation of contact lenses: Representative Bereuter, 38284 [22DE]

Foreign trade and excise taxes: Hamish Maxwell, Philip Morris Co., Inc., 15492 [11JN]

Foreign trade negotiations: Han Xu, People's Republic of China, 14158 [29MY]

FTC: Bob Butterworth, 26763 [7OC]

———Consumer Federation of America and Consumers Union, 26777 [7OC]

———FAA, 26778 [7OC]

FTC reauthorization: John J. Motley III, National Federation of Independent Business, 8040 [6AP]

Highway billboards: (sundry associations), 3151 [5FE]

Home labor, 1100 [8JA]

Impact of Soviet and Iranian textile imports on U.S. industry: Senator Thurmond, 23551 [9SE]

Insider trading: Harvey L. Pitt, 16390 [17JN]

Insurance price fixing: Leslie Cheek III, 20810 [22JY]

Interest on overdue Government payments: Rhode Island Subcontractors Association, 27228 [9OC]

Lawsuit crisis in the insurance industry: Insurance Information Institute, 31975 [16NO]

Look-alike firearms: Frederio P. Polk, Hobby Industry of America, 36614 [19DE]

Mandatory health insurance coverage: Senator Quayle, 3818 [19FE]

National Quality Improvement Award: Malcolm Baldrige, Sec. of Commerce, 14877 [8JN]

Occupational disease notification and prevention: Crum & Foster Insurance Cos., 25695 [30SE]

Organized crime: John R. Bolton, 29301 [27OC]

Patents: John R. Bolton, 12489 [14MY]

Plant closing legislation: Bud Ogden, 18923 [8JY]

———Business Roundtable and several other groups, 18898 [8JY]

———William E. Brock, Sec. of Labor, 18906 [8JY]

Plant shutdown provisions: William E. Brock, Sec. of Labor, 18889 [8JY]

Prompt Payment Act amendments: A. Kolbet Schrichte, American Logistics Association, 27194, 27200 [9OC]

———Charles E. Hawkins III, Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc., 27194 [9OC]

———Daniel G. Walter, Associated Specialty Contractors, Inc., 27204 [9OC]

———Don Fuqua, Aerospace Industries Association of America, Inc., 27194 [9OC]

———J.P. Hoar, Dept. of the Navy, 27199 [9OC]

———Jack Gardner, National Small Business United, 27192 [9OC]

———James C. Barr, National Milk Producers Federation, 27200 [9OC]

———James S. Hayes, Dept. of the Army, 27197, 27199 [9OC]

———John J. Beatty III, Kraft, Inc., 27198 [9OC]

———John Ruehlin, Defense Logistics Agency, 27197 [9OC]

———Kenton Pattie, Coalition for Prompt Pay, 27191 [9OC]

———M.R. (Mac) Sullivan, Jr., American Subcontractors Association, Inc., 27204 [9OC]

———R. Kenneth Misner, Association of Small Research, Engineering and Technical Services Companies, 27195 [9OC]

———R.F. Anderson, American Butter Institute and National Cheese Institute, Inc., 27200 [9OC]

———Virginia Littlejohn, Professional Services Council, 27193 [9OC]

Recovering the cost of carrying out the wholesale market development program: Peter C. Myers, 12009 [12MY]

Recovery of costs for animal and plant inspections: Dept. of Agriculture, 29166 [23OC]

Regulated investment companies: Dept. of the Treasury, 11354 [6MY]

Remodification of Continental Airlines Corp. order: R.F. Wheless, Jr., U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of Texas, 7323 [30MR]

Sale of technology to Soviet Union: Senator Helms, 29145 [23OC]

SEC budget: several Senators, 36233 [18DE]

Small Business Act: SBA, 13778 [27MY]

Small Business Investment Act: Edward M. Gramlich, CBO, 35810 [16DE]

———SBA, 13778 [27MY]

State and local initiatives on productivity, technology, and innovation: Arch A. Moore, Jr., Governor of West Virginia, 20195 [17JY]

———Bill Clinton, Governor of Arkansas, 20195 [17JY]

———Carroll A. Campbell, Governor of South Carolina, 20195 [17JY]

———Cecil D. Andrus, Governor of Idaho, 20195 [17JY]

———George A. Sinner, Governor of North Dakota, 20195 [17JY]

———Gerald L. Baliles, Governor of Virginia, 20195 [17JY]

———James A. Martin, Governor of North Carolina, 20195 [17JY]

———John A. Fedo, 20196 [17JY]

———John Waihee, Governor of Hawaii, 20195 [17JY]

———Michael S. Dukakis, Governor of Massachusetts, 20195 [17JY]

———Mike Hayden, Governor of Maryland, 20195 [17JY]

———Mike Sullivan, Governor of Wyoming, 20195 [17JY]

———National Association of Development Organizations, 20196 [17JY]

———National Center for Municipal Development, 20196 [17JY]

———National Governors' Association, 20196 [17JY]

———Ned Ray McWherter, Governor of Tennessee, 20195 [17JY]

———Robert P. Casey, Governor of Pennsylvania, 20195 [17JY]

———Rudy Perpich, Governor of Minnesota, 20195 [17JY]

———Southern Growth Policy Board, 20196 [17JY]

———Steve Cowper, Governor of Alaska, 20195 [17JY]

———Urban Institute, 20195 [17JY]

———William Donald Schaefer, Governor of Maryland, 20195 [17JY]

Tax consolidation of life insurance companies: William B. Harman, Jr. and John T. Adney, 10287 [28AP]

Tax Reform Act: J. Larry Stinson, 3230 [9FE]

Termination of Essential Air Service Program: Albert D. Bourland, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 29860 [29OC]

———Elizabeth Dole, 29864 [29OC]

———Rosemary G. Murray, Pan Am Corp., 29864 [29OC]

Textile and Apparel Trade Act: Bob Gilbert, Montana Wool Growers, 24085 [16SE]

———several national associations, 24086 [16SE]

Textile trade: Allan Gotlieb, 24264 [16SE]

Toshiba/Kongsberg propeller milling technology diversion case: several Senators and Representatives, 16829 [19JN]

Trade Adjustment Assistance Program: AFL-CIO, 3047 [5FE]

Treatment of airline employees in mergers: Albert D. Bourland, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 29860 [29OC]

U.S. financial leadership: Senator Byrd, 28397 [20OC]

U.S. policy toward Angola: J. Edward Fox, Dept. of State, 881 [7JA]

———Representative Hamilton, 881 [7JA]

Uniform product liability law: Malcolm Baldrige, Sec. of Commerce, 5052 [6MR]

Lists

Cosponsors of H. Res. 225, excise tax on gasoline and diesel fuel, 22151 [3AU], 24908 [22SE]

———H.R. 2328, Government contracts rules amendments, 11744 [7MY]

Employer-provided prerequisites for consideration of plant shutdowns, 18886 [8JY]

Food Marketing Institute Trade Show: donors, 10877, 10878 [1MY]

Members of the Copyright Justice Coalition, 12961 [19MY]

National Academy of Social Insurance Organizing Committee, 475 [6JA]

Organizations supporting billboard reform legislation, 2553 [3FE]

Section 457 Task Force, 24910 [22SE]

Security issuers located in New Mexico, 7114 [27MR]

Sponsors of Annual Hot Air Balloon Rally, 21710 [30JY]

Supporters of Prompt Payment Act amendments, 27191 [9OC]

Trucking industry deregulation supporters, 24784 [22SE]

Meetings

Committee on Finance: violations of U.S.-Japan agreement on semiconductors, D137 [11MR]

Committee on Governmental Affairs: nomination of Charles R. Gillum as Inspector General, SBA, D218 [1AP]

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: enhance marketability of domestic coal (H.R. 1065), D240 [7AP]

Committee on Rules: Congressional Budget Act amendment requiring an analysis of the budget impact on international competitiveness of U.S. business to be included in the report of the Committee on the Budget, D286 [27AP]

———require the President to submit with his budget an analysis of its impact on international competitiveness of U.S. business (H.R. 1307), D286 [27AP]

Committee on Small Business (House): organization, D87 [25FE]

Committee on the Judiciary (House): patent and trademark laws of the U.S. (H.R. 1509), D248 [8AP]

Committee on the Judiciary (Senate): pre-merger reporting requirements (S. 431), D173 [19MR], D245 [8AP], D294 [29AP]

Memorandums

Analysis of Budgetary Effect of Trigger Tax Amendment: CBO, 29557 [28OC]

Modification of the FTC Injury Test, 5623 [12MR]

Process Patent Law: World Intellectual Property Organization, 3774 [19FE]

Tax Code and Worker Training: Steve Hoffman and Becca Newquist, 16582 [17JN]

Memorials of legislature

California, 26707 [6OC], 30764 [4NO]

Colorado, 14952 [9JN], 17697 [26JN]

Hawaii, 14187 [1JN], 15368 [10JN]

Idaho, 9324 [22AP], 11617, 11619 [7MY]

Kansas, 12827 [19MY], 13739 [27MY]

Louisiana, 19383 [10JY]

Massachusetts, 22020 [3AU], 23080 [7AU]

Nevada, 16569 [17JN], 16641 [18JN]

Ohio, 25418 [28SE]

Texas, 16670 [18JN]

Virginia, 9736 [24AP]

Wyoming, 8669 [9AP], 9734 [24AP]

Messages

Developments in Emergency With Respect to Libya: President Reagan, 19380 [10JY]

International Natural Rubber Agreement: President Reagan, 28408 [20OC]

Quest for Excellence: President Reagan, 1955-1965 [27JA]

State of Small Business: President Reagan, 29881 [29OC]

State of the Union: President Reagan, 1952-1955 [27JA], 2000-2002 [27JA]

Trade, Employment, and Productivity Act: President Reagan, 3500 [19FE], 3719-3721 [19FE]

Motion

Securities Law Technical Act: amend (S. 1452), 23701 [10SE]

Newsletters

Financial services holding company, Association of Bank Holding Companies, 3266 [10FE]

Opinions

Rinehart Orchards, Washington County, MD: seasonal agricultural employment, 6945 [25MR]

Papers

Equal Access to Business Opportunity Act (H.R. 2269), 11272 [5MY]

How Do Private Firms Fare Under Federal Government Accounting Procedures? Michael J. Boskin, Stanford University, 20644 [22JY]

Japan Should Enter a Guilty Plea, 10590 [29AP]

Positive Approach to the American Farm Problem: Gerald W. Thomas, 26571 [6OC]

U.S. Trade Deficit: Made in America, 10589 [29AP]

U.S.S.R.-U.S. Trade and Economic Council: Library of Congress, 27408, 27409 [13OC]

Petitions

Business pension plans: Allegheny County, PA, Commissioners, 4262, 4263 [26FE]

Companies engaged in business in South Africa: Miami, FL, City Commission, 5143 [10MR]

Poems

``Made in the U.S.A.,'' Representative Conte, 33673 [2DE]

Polls of opinion

Results of questionnaire by Senator Pressler, 4574 [3MR]

Press releases

Commitment to international markets urged by leading entrepreneurial chief executive officers: American Business Conference, 32990 [19NO]

Sec. of Commerce hosts meeting to discuss formation of U.S.-U.S.S.R. Chamber of Commerce: Dept. of Commerce, 27408 [13OC]

Proclamations

Congratulating the Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants: Michael S. Dukakis, Governor of Massachusetts, 24251 [16SE]

Minority Business Development in Queens: Representative Ackerman, 25920 [30SE]

Questions and answers

Financial Services Holding Company Act, 26938 [7OC]

National Training Incentives Act (H.R. 2725), 16553 [17JN]

Quotations

Smoot-Hawley tariff: Frank Taussig, 19765 [14JY]

Recommendation

Prompt Payment Act implementation: White House Conference on Small Business, 27230 [9OC]

Remarks in House

Advertising: consumer information, 885 [7JA]

———tax treatment, 32971 [19NO]

Airlines: disadvantaged business enterprises, 25977, 25986 [1OC]

———flight delays, 16295, 16299 [16JN]

———standards relating to air carrier passenger services (H.R. 3051), 25952 [1OC], 26374 [5OC], 26386- 26388 [5OC], 26736 [6OC], 27676 [15OC]

———standards relative to air carrier passenger service (H.R. 3051), appointment of conferees, 32627 [18NO], 33005 [20NO]

Agricultural Export Reserve: establish (H.R. 1731), 6437 [19MR]

Agriculture: export enhancement program, 2654 [3FE]

———export enhancement program (H. Con. Res. 163), 20840 [22JY]

———export enhancement program (H. Con. Res. 164), 20864 [23JY]

———family farm finances, 4961 [5MR]

———Farm Credit System, 21790 [30JY], 34350 [8DE]

———foreign trade, 10193 [28AP]

———job training for transition to other economic activities (H.R. 1202), 4109 [25FE]

———labeling of consumer commodities to indicate foreign and domestic content (H.R. 1382), 4698 [3MR]

———prevent foreigners from receiving loans and payments from farm programs (H.R. 2695), 16280 [16JN]

———price support loan rates for the 1987 crop of corn and 1988 crop of wheat (H.R. 2610), 14720 [4JN]

———production and food processing systems (H.R. 3735), 35007 [10DE]

———U.S. cooperatives' trade financing, 4426 [26FE]

———U.S. sugar program, 5278 [10MR], 5984 [17MR], 20660 [22JY], 31283 [9NO], 31570, 31571, 31572, 31573 [10NO], 32872 [19NO], 36262 [18DE]

———use of generic certificates under the Dairy Export Incentive Program (H.R. 2986), 20844 [22JY]

Air pollution: control acid rain, 7759 [2AP], 8082 [7AP], 14208 [2JN], 15603 [11JN], 24319 [17SE]

Airline Computer Reservation Systems Arbitration Act: enact (H.R. 1217), 4017 [24FE]

Airlines: fair treatment of employees in mergers (H.R. 1101), 3321 [11FE]

———reservation systems, 19587 [13JY]

———seating of persons holding tickets from bankrupt air carriers (H.R. 2491), 13657, 13685 [21MY]

Alaska: conveyance and ownership of submerged lands (H.R. 2629), 14933 [8JN], 22078-22082 [3AU]

Alcoholic beverages: advertising, 16309 [16JN]

———Beer Institute position on tax increase, 19574 [13JY]

———New York State wines, 15605 [11JN]

Aliens: halt practice of illegal hire, 15112 [9JN]

Alliance for Education Act: enact (H.R. 627), 1895 [22JA]

American Arbitration Association: Arbitration Day conference in New York City, 11735 [7MY]

American Business Women's Association: tribute to Mill Creek Chapter, Youngstown, OH, 23685 [9SE]

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants: tribute, 16806 [19JN]

American workers: recognition, 17874 [26JN]

America's Living Standard Act: enact (H.R. 717), 1913 [22JA]

Analysis Group, Inc.: tribute, 9671 [23AP]

Angola: U.S. policy, 880 [7JA]

Antitrust actions: establish evidentiary standards for Federal claims based on resale price fixing (H.R. 585), 1080 [8JA]

———repeal exemptions applicable to insurance industry (H.R. 2727), 16807 [19JN], 17363 [24JN]

Antitrust policy: exemptions for independent producers (H.R. 310), 876 [7JA]

———extend period for evaluation of impact of mergers (H.R. 586), 1084, 1106 [8JA]

Arms sales: requirements for export licenses for commercial transactions (H.R. 2694), 16310 [16JN]

Association of Michigan School of Business Officials: anniversary, 28155 [15OC]

Axley, Robert: role in the Federal Asset Disposition Association's changes, 29303 [27OC]

Bankruptcy: protections under title 11 (S. 1577), 22711 [6AU]

———termination of company health benefits (H.R. 761), 2197, 2202 [29JA]

Banks and banking: 180-day notification prior to closing of branch, 2664 [3FE]

———Amalgamated Bank of New York, 36484, 36486 [18DE]

———collapse in 1930's, 16302 [16JN]

———financial services holding companies (H.R. 3360), 25936 [30SE], 26208 [1OC], 26411 [5OC], 26938 [7OC], 31723 [10NO]

———foreign investments in U.S. institutions, 10844 [30AP]

———home equity loans, 20659 [22JY]

———reform, 3265 [10FE]

———regulate establishment or acquisition of depository institutions by foreign nationals (H.R. 2578), 27676-27680 [13OC]

———restrictions on availability of deposited funds (H.R. 28), 11136, 11141-11148 [5MY]

———services for low-income families, 33786 [2DE]

Baton Rouge, LA: new Exxon Chemical Co. plant, 11734 [7MY]

Beggs, James M.: dismissal of charges by Dept. of Justice, 17049 [23JN]

Bell Holding Co.: relief, 35748 [15DE]

Bell System: reemployment rights for persons affected by divestiture (H.R. 2828), 19133 [9JY]

Bethesda-Chevy Chase Business and Professional Women: tribute, 11964 [11MY]

Bianchini, Mary: tribute, 4718 [3MR]

Brazil: informatics policies and sanctions against certain products (H. Res. 317), 32991 [19NO]

Bristol, PA: revitalization, 25664 [29SE]

Broadcasting stations: reinstitute antitrafficking rules, 3867 [19FE]

Budget: deficit, 32874 [19NO]

Business and Professional Women's Club of Saginaw, MI: tribute, 9362 [22AP]

Buy American Act: amend (H.R. 1750), 6604 [23MR]

———amend to award preferences to U.S. businesses in Government procurement (H.R. 2226), 11007 [4MY]

Buy American Program: support, 8108 [7AP]

Cable Systems, Inc.: tribute, 31726 [10NO]

California: impact of restrictive trade laws, 5734 [16MR]

Caloric Corp.: tribute, 33287 [30NO]

Canada: promote expansion of trade (H.R. 2602), 14803 [4JN]

Captive-Aire Systems: listed by Inc. magazine as excelling in growth, 34423 [8DE]

Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Improvement Act: enact, 23472 [7AU]

CCC: funding, 17670 [26JN]

Chadari, Praven: tribute, 11894 [11MY]

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Mayoral Scholarship Award Program: winners, 18104 [29JN]

Children: exploitation in developing countries, 19089 [8JY]

China, Republic of: economic progress, 5528 [11MR]

CIBA Geigy Pharmaceuticals Co.: tribute, 14097 [28MY]

Coal: impact of imports, 14394 [2JN]

Coast Guard: buy American requirement, 19004 [8JY]

Commercial Fishing Industry Vessel Anti-Reflagging Act: enact (H.R. 2598), 14805 [4JN], 21405 [28JY]

———enact (H.R. 2598), 31362-31368, 31397 [9NO], 31699 [10NO]

———enact (H.R. 2598), Senate amendments, 36747-36751 [21DE]

Committee on Small Business: hearings on Federal procurement, 25659, 25669 [29SE]

Communications: competing in telecommunications markets, 36665 [19DE]

———enable local cable franchising authorities to specify the cable channel position of local stations (H.R. 3321), 24895 [22SE]

Competition Enhancement and Tax Relief Act: enact (H.R. 246), 932 [7JA]

Computer Intelligence: listed by Inc. magazine as excelling in growth, 34423 [8DE]

Computer Security Act: enact (H.R. 145), 917 [7JA]

Congress: role in formulation of international trade policy and regulation, 7709 [1AP]

Congressional Award Program: presentations, 35936 [16DE]

Congressional investigation: Robert Watkins lobbying activity with Japan, 26607, 26609, 26611 [6OC]

Congressional Steel Caucus: anniversary, 25693 [30SE]

Conrail: transfer ownership, 3199 [5FE]

Consumer Rail Equity Act: enact (H.R. 1393), 4773 [4MR], 7703 [1AP], 30251 [29OC]

Consumers: growing problem of insolvencies, 13839 [27MY]

Continental Airlines Corp.: bankruptcy, 7321 [30MR]

Contracts: limitation on bids for certain ship maintenance contracts, 11907-11910 [11MY]

———local defense construction obligations (H.R. 1873), 14514 [3JN], 14591 [3JN], 18704 [1JY]

———local Federal construction obligations (H.R. 1874), 14514 [3JN], 14592 [3JN], 18704 [1JY]

———progress on minority and small business awards, 12677-12679 [18MY]

Cooper and Lybrand survey: critical domestic and international issues confronting U.S. manufacturers, 28354 [19OC]

Cornelio Roybal Construction Co., Las Vegas, NM: National Awards Program for Energy Innovation, 29765 [28OC]

Corp. for Small Business Investment: establish (H.R. 3392), 26048 [1OC]

Corporate Raider Tax Act: enact (H.R. 2995), 21040 [23JY]

Corporate takeovers: notification of plant closings and mass layoffs (H.R. 2016), 8384 [8AP]

———protection of public interest and investors, 19078 [8JY], 23689 [10SE]

Corporations: capital gains (H.R. 3635), 31704 [10NO]

———failed mergers, 25675 [29SE]

———hostile takeovers, 37630 [21DE]

———prohibitions on certain foreign (H.R. 2241), 16680 [18JN]

———restructuring, 5099 [9MR]

———tender offers (H.R. 2172), 10031 [27AP]

———utilize fiscal year for accounting purposes, 35939 [16DE]

Council on Industrial Competitiveness Act: enact (H.R. 531), 1064 [8JA]

Credit cards: interest rates, 25473 [29SE], 26044 [1OC]

Crime and criminals: allow regulatory authorities that regulate parimutuel wagering to receive and share Federal Government criminal identification records (H.R. 2611), 14719, 14721 [4JN]

Crown Point, IN: VA clinic construction relative to Davis-Bacon Act, 18598 [1JY]

Dartmouth College: Tuck School of Business' formation of School of International Management in Japan, 38292 [22DE]

Day care: tax credit for certain employers (H.R. 541), 3868 [19FE]

Defense contractors: assistance and training for persons in localities affected by termination of contracts (H.R. 2276), 11274 [5MY]

Defense Economic Adjustment Act: enact (H.R. 813), 2192 [28JA]

Democratic Party: views on the economy, 26947 [7OC]

Dept. of Agriculture: award of contract to Japanese firm, 13284 [20MY]

———Optional Acreage Diversion Program (H.R. 3093), 23034-23038 [7AU]

———recovering costs associated with cotton classing services (H.R. 2971), 21159 [27JY]

Dept. of Commerce: prohibit from certain activities which feature or convey advantages of relocating U.S. businesses in a foreign country (H.R. 3210), 23063, 23064 [7AU]

Dept. of Commerce and Trade: establish (H.R. 2716), 16804 [19JN]

Dept. of Defense: awarding of defense contracts, 11915 [11MY]

———contracts to foreign companies, 2710 [4FE]

———give commanding officer of each military installation authority to contract out commercial activities (H.R. 2250), 10820 [30AP]

———procurement reform, 25915 [30SE]

———prohibit purchasing from Toshiba Corp. (H.R. 2948), 21164 [27JY], 22695 [5AU]

———prohibit Toshiba Corp. and Kongsberg Vaapenfabrik Co. from obtaining Government contracts, 21562 [29JY]

———restrictions on overseas contracts (H.R. 2873), 28333 [19OC]

Dept. of HHS: assume functions of CPSC (H.R. 3443), 26954 [7OC]

———fees for review of applications for marketing of drugs and medical products (H.R. 3547), 29212 [26OC]

Dept. of Industry and Technology: establish (H.R. 2958), 19836 [15JY]

Dept. of Justice: policies relative to the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, 29294-29301 [27OC]

Dept. of the Interior: Mineral Management Service product valuation guidelines, 18388 [30JN]

Detroit College of Business: tribute, 9025 [10AP]

Diseases: prohibit discrimination on basis of cancer history (H.R. 1546), 5535 [11MR]

Drug abuse: commend coalition of Indiana schools and businesses for efforts to educate children, 16335 [16JN]

Economic conditions, 25700 [30SE]

———computerized futures trading in securities markets, 28798 [22OC]

———importance of job training, 23389 [7AU]

———improve (H.R. 2870), 18599, 18665 [1JY]

———monetary policy, 30975-30980 [5NO]

———private and public debts, 2968-2971 [5FE]

———protect and improve quality of life through capitalism (H.R. 1398), 8654-8658 [9AP]

———reliance on foreign trade, 29224 [27OC]

———stabilize, 28499-28502, 28514 [20OC]

———stock market crash, 28784 [21OC]

———transition and the need to adapt to changes, 24259 [16SE]

———U.S. competitiveness, 6706 [24MR]

———world status, 21556 [29JY]

Education: Presidential Award for Private Sector Initiatives, 32871 [19NO]

———science, 11266 [5MY]

———training requirements in the workplace, 33200 [20NO]

———workplace literacy programs (H.R. 1342), 4690 [3MR], 4791 [4MR]

EEC: anniversary of signing of Treaty of Rome (H. Res. 121), 8637 [9AP]

———proposed tariff on certain U.S. products and commodities (H. Con. Res. 51), 34087 [3DE]

Employment: export of jobs, 31280 [9NO]

———foreign jobs from U.S. investment, 30812 [4NO]

———manufacturing and service sector, 13682 [21MY]

———prohibit discrimination on basis of cancer history (H.R. 1546), 5535 [11MR], 6603 [23MR], 9169 [21AP]

———worker training (H.R. 2725), 16551 [17JN], 16581 [17JN], 16800 [18JN], 18377 [30JN]

Equity in Interstate Competition Act: enact (H.R. 1891), 7704 [1AP]

Executive departments: procurement of goods and services from private sector (H.R. 136), 933 [7JA]

Eximbank: estimates of allowances for loan losses and inclusion in financial reports (H.R. 3608), 30886 [4NO]

Export Administration Act: establish western regional export licensing office (H.R. 1634), 6001 [17MR]

Family and Medical Leave Act: Enact, 11669 [7MY]

Family Farm Targeting and Marketing Act: enact (H.R. 923), 3212-3217 [9FE]

Farm Credit Banks: reconstitute finance committee (H.R. 2982), 20658 [22JY]

Farmers: assistance for debt restructuring (H.R. 2120), 20816 [22JY]

———taxation (H.R. 2228), 10869 [30AP]

Farmers Home Administration: loan policies, 5979 [17MR]

Faultless Starch/Bon Ami Co., Kansas City, MO: anniversary, 28794 [21OC]

FCC: access charge on enhanced service providers, 29214 [26OC]

FDA: inspection of imported food, 10220 [28AP]

Firearms: prohibitions against plastic guns (H.R. 1002), 4695 [3MR]

———stock divestiture in companies that manufacture handguns, 9677 [23AP]

Fish and fisheries: mandatory Federal inspection, 5102 [9MR]

———strengthen capabilities of U.S. commercial industry (H.R. 3381), 25674 [29SE]

———temporarily extend agreement between the U.S. and the Republic of Korea (H.R. 2480), 16891 [22JN]

Fishermen's Protective Act: reauthorize (H.R. 2893), 25456 [29SE], 28494 [20OC]

Ford Motor Co.: South African investments, 35749 [15DE]

Foreign Assistance Act: amend (S. 738), 10040 [27AP]

———amend section relative to private and voluntary organization and cooperatives (H.R. 1675), 6217 [18MR]

Foreign countries: control over banking and finance, 12334 [13MY]

———economic impact of foreign ownership of U.S. real estate, 23680 [9SE]

———restrictions on conduct of hostile takeovers of U.S. firms by foreign-based persons (H.R. 3401), 26230 [1OC]

Foreign Income Tax Equity Act: enact (H.R. 3365), 25938 [30SE]

Foreign investments: effect on domestic employment, 31708 [10NO]

Foreign Ownership Disclosure Act: enact (H.R. 312), 930 [7JA]

Foreign relations: international monetary policy, 28832-28838 [22OC]

Foreign trade: barriers, 32074 [17NO]

———competition between Airbus Industries and U.S. aircraft manufacturers, 18687 [1JY]

———competitiveness, 15391 [10JN]

———control export of capital from U.S. and control exports supporting terrorists (H.R. 3095), 22325 [4AU]

———cost of protecting U.S. jobs, 9351 [22AP]

———decline of U.S. currency, 9041 [21AP]

———deficit, 1113 [8JA], 2964-2967 [5FE], 4952 [5MR], 5497, 5506 [11MR], 7087 [26MR], 20302 [21JY], 20657 [22JY], 24059 [16SE], 35441 [11DE], 35454 [14DE], 36262 [18DE]

———definition of goods which may be exported as humanitarian donations (H. Con. Res. 230), 35455 [14DE]

———development and use of U.S. vessels as mobile trade fairs, 10288 [28AP]

———EEC tariff on certain U.S. products and commodities (H. Con. Res. 51), 34087 [3DE]

———establish free trade zone with Mexico (H.R. 1006), 4688 [3MR]

———expand the authority of the Trade and Development Program (H.R. 1494), 5219 [10MR]

———expand world trade centers in U.S., 14793 [4JN]

———export controls, 4121, 4129 [25FE]

———filing period for reliquidation of certain imports (H.R. 3059), 21805 [30JY]

———financing of export-related companies, 14096 [28MY]

———impact of education on U.S. competitiveness, 3206 [5FE]

———increase in productivity for 1986, 17884 [26JN]

———industrial design protection (H.R. 379), 907 [7JA]

———international competitiveness, 29776 [28OC]

———international economic coordination, 30923 [4NO]

———interpretation of export control, 8535 [8AP]

———Japanese bilateral trade relationship, 6957 [26MR]

———market disruption caused by imports of products from nonmarket economy countries (H.R. 1459), 4958 [5MR]

———nations that deny fair market opportunities, 25968 [1OC]

———petroleum import fee, 919 [7JA]

———policy, 4419 [26FE], 24060 [16SE]

———preserve U.S. support for open international trading system (H.R. 1308), 24463 [17SE]

———product quality, 3883 [19FE]

———protectionism, 2364 [29JA], 24668 [21SE]

———retaliation threats, 19101 [9JY]

———successes by small corporations, 32990 [19NO]

———U.S. competitiveness, 3274 [10FE], 3304 [11FE], 4123 [25FE], 4792 [4MR], 10279 [28AP], 36152 [17DE]

———U.S. export controls, 1936 [26JA]

———U.S. policy, 11866 [8MY], 12553 [14MY], 19088 [8JY]

———World Trade Center in Dublin, Ireland, 22346 [4AU], 22703 [5AU]

Free enterprise: commend spirit of entrepreneurship, 12240 [12MY]

Free Enterprise Trail, Bourne, MA: opening, 18721 [1JY]

FRS: overfinancing and higher interest rates, 17692 [26JN]

GAO: authorize audit of Federal Reserve Board, Federal Advisory Council, Federal Open Market Committee, and Federal Reserve banks (H.R. 96), 18847 [7JY]

———authorize audit of FRS, Federal Advisory Council, Federal Open Market Committee, and Federal Reserve banks (H.R. 96), 4094 [25FE]

Germany, Federal Republic of: economic cooperation with the U.S. and Japan, 31713 [10NO]

Gorton Heating Corp., Cranford, NJ: anniversary, 25345 [25SE]

Government: sponsored enterprises, 11281 [5MY]

Government contractors: deny contracts to companies violating Federal labor laws (H.R. 549), 1092 [8JA]

———liability (H.R. 2378), 12239 [12MY]

Government information: requirements relative to scientific and technical data used in performance of Federal contracts (H.R. 1616), 5735-5737 [16MR]

Government Information Agency: establish (H.R. 1615), 5735 [16MR]

Government National Mortgage Association: guarantee of mortgage-backed securities (H.R. 1056), 3964-3967 [24FE]

Government officials: time restriction for certain lobbying activities (H.R. 1231), 12225 [12MY]

———time restriction for lobbying activities (H.R. 1231), 26607 [6OC], 36261 [18DE]

Government procurement: competitive contracts with private sector (H.R. 1606), 5682 [12MR]

Government program support: Dept. of Agriculture, 4426 [26FE]

Government regulations: effects on corporate mergers, buyouts, acquisitions, privatization, and deregulation, 24116-24123 [16SE]

Governor's Three Star Award: recipient, 35441 [11DE]

Graphic International Contact Conference: tribute, 13317 [20MY]

Greater Detroit Chamber of Commerce: sister city relationship with Hiroshima Chamber of Commerce & Industry, 18841 [7JY]

Haiti: economic development, 4784 [4MR]

———OPIC mission, 2668 [3FE]

Handicapped: work incentives, 16322 [16JN]

Harrisburg, PA: minority business conference, 12241 [12MY]

Health: benefits for U.S. workers, 13682 [21MY]

———employee coverage, 18390 [30JN]

———high-risk occupational disease notification and prevention (H.R. 162), 13034 [19MY], 13298 [20MY], 23602, 23640-23643 [9SE], 23690 [10SE], 23894, 23930 [15SE], 24658-24668 [21SE], 24698 [21SE], 25432 [29SE], 25694, 25739 [30SE], 25908 [30SE], 26606, 26685, 26697-26703 [6OC], 26942 [7OC], 27845-27914 [14OC], 27965 [15OC], 27982 [19OC], 27983 [22OC], 27984, 27985, 28003-28007 [15OC], 28536, 28542 [20OC], 30242 [29OC], 33743-33746 [2DE]

———high-risk occupational disease notification and prevention (H.R. 162), consideration (H. Res. 280), 27858-27860 [14OC]

———hospital-based risk management programs, 21582 [30JY]

———minimum benefits for all workers (H.R. 2508), 13678 [21MY]

———regulation of medical devices (H.R. 2595), 14595 [3JN]

Health insurance: require plans offered by employers to have catastrophic illness coverage (H.R. 2300), 11590 [6MY]

Heller Industrial Park, Edison, NJ: child care, 20652 [22JY]

Hess' Department Stores, Inc.: tribute, 1098 [8JA]

High Technology Trade Promotion Act: enact (H.R. 1141), 4012 [24FE]

Home Employment Enterprise Act: enact (H.R. 535), 1099 [8JA]

Honda North America, Inc.: investment in Ohio, 28168 [15OC]

Humphreys County, TN: Governor's Three Star Award, 35441 [11DE]

ICC: approval of acquisition and operation of railroad lines (H.R. 2204), 10624 [29AP]

India: unfair trade practices, 16312, 16333 [16JN]

———Union Carbide Corp. settlement, 30246 [29OC]

Indians: assistance to Indian-owned business enterprises (H.R. 2455), 12743 [18MY]

Industry: commercial shipbuilding, 32687 [18NO]

———Cooper and Lybrand survey on critical domestic and international issues confronting U.S. manufacturers, 28354 [19OC]

———establish Commission to study means to strengthen national base (H.J. Res. 221), 7703 [1AP]

———prohibit certain plant closings and layoffs (H.R. 1753), 6605 [23MR]

Insider trading: controlling Federal employees from using advance knowledge of economic statistics for personal gain, 21042 [23JY]

Insurance: collection and analysis of certain data (H.R. 3643), 31975 [16NO]

———disclosure of certain data to SBA (H.R. 3688), 33769-33772 [2DE]

———diversity of industry leadership, 32686 [18NO]

———economic effects of liability crisis, 5776 [17MR]

———exemptions (H.R. 2277), 11134 [5MY]

———insurer solvency, 32556 [17NO]

———liability, 24046 [15SE]

———liability crisis, 4735 [4MR], 16316 [16JN]

———liability of companies that manufacture children's car seats, 29518 [27OC]

———limit Federal antitrust exemption (H.R. 3749), 35069, 35070 [11DE]

———minimum standards for regulation of company solvency, 31721 [10NO]

———repeal limitation on use of losses from nonlife insurance companies against income of life insurance companies (H.R. 1375), 4702 [3MR], 10287 [28AP]

Insurance industry: insolvencies, 7401 [31MR], 7740 [1AP]

International corporations: export of U.S. jobs, 10177 [28AP]

———export of U.S. jobs overseas, 30953 [5NO]

Interstate commerce: destruction or injury of property en route (H.R. 2489), 13325 [21MY], 13677 [21MY]

———regulate through uniform treatment of product liability problems (H.R. 430), 4481 [3MR]

Interstate Commerce Commission Day: designate (S.J. Res. 96), 7391 [31MR]

Investment tax credit: reinstate (H.R. 905), 3312 [11FE]

Investments: economic impact of foreign investments, 23628 [9SE]

———establish moratorium on hostile foreign takeovers (H.R. 2514), 13851 [27MY]

———require foreign persons to register securities (H.R. 312), 930 [7JA]

———stock market crash, 35755 [15DE]

Iran: most favored nation status, 24814 [22SE]

Ireland: World Trade Center project in Dublin, 23392, 23455 [7AU]

Ireland, Northern: U.S. corporate guidelines on equal employment (H.R. 722), 38254 [22DE]

Iron and steel industry: Federal support for research and technology, 5500 [11MR]

———imports, 9357 [22AP]

———negotiation of bilateral arrangements regarding imported steel (H.R. 3127), 22686 [5AU]

———revitalize (H.R. 2743), 17052 [23JN]

———unfair trade practices (H.R. 2062), 9688 [23AP]

IRS: delay of increase in current year liability test (H.R. 1581), 5677 [12MR]

J.T. Handy Co., Crisfield, MD: tribute, 25346 [25SE]

Japan: economic and trade issues, 13834 [27MY]

———economic cooperation with the U.S. and West Germany, 31713 [10NO]

———firms investing in U.S., 12230 [12MY]

———foreign trade, 9700 [24AP], 23386 [7AU]

———Greater Detroit Chamber of Commerce sister city relationship with Hiroshima Chamber of Commerce & Industry, 18841 [7JY]

———high technology cities, 19062 [8JY]

———iron and steel industry, 9669 [23AP]

———Kansai Airport project, 2499 [3FE]

———sale of technology to Soviet Union, 20319 [21JY]

———semiconductor trade agreement, 8917 [9AP]

———U.S. defense industry contracts, 5779 [17MR]

———U.S. relations, 27931 [14OC]

———U.S. trade imbalance, 2945 [4FE]

———U.S. trade sanctions, 7337 [31MR]

Job Training Partnership Act: reallocate unspent funds, 35433 [11DE]

Kastrin, Deborah: tribute, 9335 [22AP]

Kongsberg Vaapenfabrik Co.: import ban (H.R. 2698), 23451 [7AU]

———sale of technolgy to Soviet Union, 17053 [23JN]

Korea, Republic of: buying mission in U.S., 4698 [3MR]

———purchase of U.S. grain, 4130 [25FE]

———tariff on automobile imports, 31571 [10NO]

———trade mission visit to U.S., 4040 [24FE]

Labor: plant closing notification, 18716 [1JY]

———reform bills, 24883-24888 [22SE]

———workplace literacy programs (H.R. 1342), 6599 [23MR], 9175 [21AP], 26213 [1OC]

Labor Unions: noted success of union-owned Amalgamated Bank of New York, 38264 [22DE]

Labor unions: collective bargaining in building and construction industries (H.R. 281), 3204 [5FE]

———support, 38255 [22DE]

Lobbying: time restriction for certain former high-level Government officials (H.R. 1231), 36261 [18DE]

Lockheed Corp.: tribute, 25667 [29SE]

Long Island Railroad: settlement of labor-management dispute (H.J. Res. 185), 5468 [11MR]

LTV Corp.: bankruptcy, 5194 [10MR]

———health insurance benefits to employees, 2669 [3FE]

———payment of health and life insurance benefits, 3886 [19FE]

Made in U.S.A. Month: designate (H.J. Res. 318), 16210 [16JN], 33672 [2DE]

Manufacturing, 903 [7JA]

Maritime Administration: construction differential subsidy repayments, 21800 [30JY]

McDonald's Restaurants Corp.: recruitment of retirees and elderly, 3865 [19FE]

Memorial Day Nursery: anniversary, 24898 [22SE]

Merchant Marine Act: amend (H.R. 1725), 6435 [19MR]

Merck & Co.: tribute, 29514 [27OC]

Merger Limitation Act: enact (H.R. 3090), 22341 [4AU]

Metric system: U.S. policy, 2170 [28JA]

Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act: mediation and conciliation actions (H.R. 1722), 6945 [25MR]

Military bases: assistance in areas affected by closures and termination of contracts (H.R. 1303), 4955 [5MR]

Mill Creek, OH: tribute to chapter of the American Business Women's Association, 27152 [8OC]

Milwaukee Federated Trade Council: anniversary, 11298 [5MY]

Mining and mining resources: amend 1872 law, 35440 [11DE]

Minority business, 5102 [9MR]

Minority Business Development Administration: establish in Dept. of Commerce to clarify relationship between such Administration and the SBA (H.R. 1769), 6627 [24MR]

Minority Enterprise Development Week: Harrisburg, PA, observance, 25051 [23SE]

———observance, 24036 [15SE], 25683 [29SE], 26726 [6OC], 27155 [8OC]

Minority Enterprise Enhancement Act: enact, 20882 [23JY]

Mirwood/Pines Business and Professional Women's Organization: National Business Women's Week, 28152 [15OC]

Moonlight Mushrooms, Inc.: anniversary, 24917 [22SE]

Motor vehicles: bumper standards (H.R. 2584), 14600 [3JN]

———deduction of sales tax (H.R. 905), 3312 [11FE]

———tariff on import of Korean automobiles, 31571 [10NO]

Namibia: economic sanctions, 22149 [3AU]

National Bureau of Standards and Industrial Competitiveness: establish (H.R. 2068), 11934 [11MY]

National Business Women's Week: observance, 28175 [15OC]

National Commission on Commercial and National Defense Application of Superconductors: establish (H.R. 2069), 11598 [6MY], 20809 [22JY]

National defense: foreign contract awards, 14796 [4JN]

———limits on counterintelligence polygraph examinations, 11917 [11MY]

———use of counterintelligence polygraphs, 11915, 11916 [11MY]

National Development Investment Act: amend (H.R. 10), 873 [7JA]

National Education for Business Week: observance, 9026 [10AP]

National Foreign Language Week: observance, 4965, 4970 [5MR]

———observance (H. Con. Res. 65), 4968 [5MR]

National Productivity Improvement Week: designate (H.J. Res. 414), 33799 [2DE]

National Quality Improvement Award Act: enact (H.R. 812), 2175 [28JA], 4955 [5MR], 14875-14877 [8JN], 23067 [7AU], 23399 [7AU]

National Small Business Week: observance, 11593 [6MY], 12559 [14MY]

National Watermen's Recognition Week: designate (H.J. Res. 303), 30632 [3NO]

Natural gas: antitrust exemption for independent producers (H.R. 310), 876 [7JA]

———permit courts to enjoin, suspend, or restrain property taxes on interstate transmission (H.R. 2953), 20121 [15JY]

Network, Inc.: promotion of development of black business, 23678 [9SE]

New York, NY: collaboration with public schools, 1895 [22JA]

NLRB: statutory authority relative to employees and labor unions engaged in violence (H.R. 2375), 12227 [12MY]

Nuclear energy: fake industrial fastener problems, 22049 [3AU]

Oakland Business Development Corp.: tribute, 20845 [22JY]

Occupational health and safety: notification of hazards in workplace (H.R. 2278), 11288 [5MY]

———notify workers of risk (S. 79), 13034 [19MY]

Offshore Energy Security Act: enact (H.R. 1593), 5669 [12MR]

Ohio: investment by Honda North America, Inc, 28168 [15OC]

Pacific County, WA: economic conditions, 9801 [27AP]

Pacific Gas and Electric Co.: Group Load Curtailment Program, 33203 [20NO]

Patents: intellectual property rights, 5992 [17MR]

———strengthen protection for processes, 904 [7JA]

———U.S. manufacturing of products derived from inventions arising from federally supported research and development (H.R. 2119), 9639 [23AP]

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.: crisis, 16208 [16JN]

———priority in bankruptcy proceedings for unsettled claims (H.R. 2863), 18691, 18701 [1JY]

———safeguard, 25043 [23SE]

Pensions: employee stock ownership plans (H.R. 41), 941 [7JA]

———prohibit reversions to employers of residual assets upon termination of single-employer pension plans (H.R. 1942), 8289 [7AP]

———welfare plans restrictions relative to mergers (H.R. 3086), 22331 [4AU]

People Restoring an International Competitive Economy: establish, 4519-4525 [3MR]

Perrigo Co., Allegan County, MI: anniversary, 21063 [23JY]

Peters, Tom: ideas relative to competition in the business world, 34076 [3DE]

Petroleum: corporate auto fuel economy standard, 6943 [25MR]

———excess profits tax, 18597 [1JY], 27633 [13OC]

———excise tax on gasoline and diesel fuel (H. Res. 225), 20812 [22JY], 20849 [23JY], 21036 [23JY], 21386 [28JY], 22151 [3AU], 23468 [7AU], 24908 [22SE]

———import fee, 919 [7JA]

———import fee and repeal excess profits tax (H.R. 2198), 10613 [29AP]

———national security concern, 5222, 5233 [10MR]

———production, 17053 [23JN]

———regulation of pipelines (H.R. 2734), 16781 [18JN], 16803 [19JN]

———repeal excess profits tax, 2669 [3FE]

———repeal excess profits tax (H.R. 924), 5230 [10MR]

———U.S. policy, 7337 [31MR]

Physics: superconductivity, 7723-7726 [1AP]

Political process: participation of corporate leaders, 3479 [18FE]

Postal Service: privatization (H.R. 2233), 10860 [30AP], 35594 [14DE]

Poultry industry: occupational health and safety, 32692 [18NO]

Power resources: national policy, 20660 [22JY]

———protection of ethanol industry (H. Res. 74), 3205 [5FE]

President's Citation Program for Private Sector Initiatives: Kennedy Place public housing project in Houston, TX, 22322 [4AU]

President's Commission on Industrial Competitiveness: require report on implementation of recommendations (H.J. Res. 2), 932 [7JA]

President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control: reexamine (H.R. 136), 933 [7JA]

Product liability: reform tort laws (H.R. 1599), 5672 [12MR]

———standards and procedures, 2658 [3FE], 3242 [10FE]

Product liability law: provide uniform (H.R. 1936), 7878 [2AP]

Product Liability Uniform Standards and Reform Act: enact, 1905 [22JA]

Product safety: limitation on bringing of product liability actions (H.R. 3053), 21573 [29JY]

Professional Secretaries Day: observance, 9352 [22AP]

Prompt Payment Act: close loopholes, 10601 [29AP]

Queens County, NY: minority business development, 25920 [30SE]

Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act: amend (H.R. 3240), 23404 [7AU]

Railroads: antitrust policy, 2668 [3FE]

———preserving infrastructure, 29675 [28OC]

Raytheon Co.: tribute, 33287 [30NO]

Reagan, President: economic policies, 26053 [1OC]

Reciprocal Trade and Adjustment Act: enact, 923 [7JA]

Regulated investment companies: repeal 3-month holding period requirement (H.R. 2295), 11353, 11354 [6MY]

Research: funding levels, 5526 [11MR]

Romania: most favored nation status, 10186 [28AP]

Rural areas: economic assistance to venture capital corporations, 3207 [5FE]

Sacramento, CA, Black Chamber of Commerce: tribute, 3863 [19FE]

Saddleback, CA, Regional Chamber of Commerce: tribute, 3191 [5FE]

Sales personnel: regulate recruitment and treatment of door-to-door agents (H.R. 2092), 9008 [10AP]

San Rafael, CA: anniversary of chamber of commerce, 2493 [2FE]

Santa Ana, CA: development of downtown area, 23510 [20AU]

SBA: appropriations, 18650-18653 [1JY]

———implementation of Minority Business Set-Aside Program, 15496 [11JN]

Schanno Transportation, Inc.: safety award recipient, 4130 [25FE]

Science: develop applications of superconductivity (H.R. 3048), 21409 [29JY], 23493 [7AU]

SEC Authorization Act: enact (S. 1452), 33006-33013 [20NO]

Securities: corporate takeovers, 6935 [25MR]

———insider trading, 24248 [16SE]

———penalties for insider trading (H.R. 1238), 4125 [25FE]

———protecting shareholder's voting right (H. Con. Res. 42), 3205 [5FE]

———regulation of stock market, 31174 [5NO]

———require foreign persons to register investments (H.R. 312), 930 [7JA]

———sale of obligations to issuer before public offering (H.R. 2059), 9030 [10AP]

———stock market decline, 28526 [20OC]

———tax treatment of transactions, 24043 [15SE]

Securities Law Technical Act: amend (S. 1452), 23697, 23701, 23702 [10SE], 33006 [20NO]

———amend (S. 1452), insert H.R. 2600 language in lieu, 23701 [10SE]

Sematech (consortium): funding, 25661 [29SE]

Service Sector Data Collection Act: enact (H.R. 1511), 5277 [10MR]

Shareholder Democracy Act: enact (H.R. 2996), 21034 [23JY]

Shipbuilding: Government ships repaired in domestic shipyards (H.R. 1098), 3308 [11FE]

Shipping industry: clearing impediments to the licensing of certain vessels (H.R. 3642), 31699 [10NO]

———harbor maintenance fee (H.R. 2202), 11300 [6MY]

Shoe industry: trade relief (H.R. 2326), 11731 [7MY]

Small business: congressional support, 14431 [2JN]

———encourage to extend retirement and fringe benefits (H.R. 2793), 17624 [25JN]

———export opportunity task force, 3472 [18FE]

———Federal aid to rural areas, 3207 [5FE]

———fixed term participation period for socially and economically disadvantaged firms (H.R. 2972), 25933 [30SE]

———forced expansion of employees' benefits, 15498 [11JN]

———promotion of disadvantaged, 18721 [1JY]

Small Business Act: amend (H.R. 1854), 8068 [6AP]

———amend (H.R. 2166), 9690 [23AP], 13776 [27MY]

———authorize loans for economic injury caused by Federal action (H.R. 1804), 6928 [25MR]

———program reform (H.R. 2269), 11272 [5MY]

———reform Capital Ownership Development Program (H.R. 1807), 33308 [1DE], 33322 [2DE], 33323 [1DE]

Small Business Development Centers: appropriations, 18648-18650 [1JY]

Small Business Investment Act: amend (H.R. 2166), 9690 [23AP], 13776 [27MY]

Small Business Week: observance, 11598 [6MY]

Social Security: exemption from coverage for employers and their employees where both are members of faiths opposed to participation (H.R. 2259), 10855 [30AP]

South Africa: effects of economic sanctions, 4516 [3MR]

———foreign relations, 15393 [10JN]

———International Executive Service Corps, 23455 [7AU]

———prohibit investments (H.R. 1580), 16211 [16JN], 31724 [10NO]

———sanctions, 2026 [27JA], 11953 [11MY]

———sugar industry, 35590 [14DE]

Space policy: facilitate commercial access (H.R. 3765), 35927 [16DE]

Spanish Americans: tribute to Hispanic-owned businesses, 32688 [18NO]

Sporting goods manufacturers: excise tax filing and payment schedule (H.R. 3245), 23667 [9SE]

Sports: make antitrust laws applicable to certain baseball teams (H.R. 2687), 16089 [15JN]

St. Joseph County, IN: small business advocacy network, 11739 [7MY]

Stock market: change in price earning ratio after crash, 28621 [21OC]

———decline, 28447, 28470 [20OC]

Superconducting supercollider: international cooperation, 27151 [8OC]

Superconductivity: application of new technology, 18377 [30JN]

Supreme Court: organized labor decisions, 14395 [2JN]

Tariff: administrative procedure for certain noncontroversial suspensions (H.R. 2430), 12756 [18MY]

———classification of certain plastic sheeting (H.R. 1360), 4719 [3MR]

———diamond tool blanks (H.R. 2033), 9333 [22AP]

———leather belts (H.R. 2409), 12411 [13MY]

———Maquiladora program, 27158 [8OC]

———prohibit imposition of excessive customs fees for foreign trade zone services (H.R. 2338), 11872 [8MY]

———telescopes and riflescopes, 4122 [25FE]

———uncompounded allyl resins (H.R. 2236), 10868 [30AP]

Tax Fairness for Farmers, Ranchers, and Small Business Act: enact (H.R. 809), 2031 [28JA]

Tax Reform Act: amend to clarify study of source rules for sales of inventory property (H.R. 1654), 5977 [17MR]

———employee stock ownership plan tax credits, 21405 [28JY]

———impact, 13666 [21MY]

———repeal, relative to corporate rate reduction on deferred tax reserves (H.R. 1049), 7763 [2AP]

Taxation: allocation of research and experimental expenditures (H.R. 1116), 3466 [18FE]

———capital gains (H.R. 3635), 31618 [10NO]

———day care center and dependent care services credit (H.R. 3005), 22686 [5AU]

———deduct expenses incurred in filing withholding certificates whether or not itemized (H.R. 1347), 21287 [28JY]

———election of taxable year (H.R. 2977), 20601 [21JY]

———eliminate retroactive certification of employees relative to work incentive jobs credit (H.R. 2111), 9296 [22AP]

———equity in treatment of domestic and foreign corporations (H.R. 2940), 19897 [15JY]

———excess profits tax, 24911 [22SE]

———excise tax on an employer's cost of providing medical benefits to his employees (H.R. 3128), 22571 [5AU]

———excise tax on profits realized from corporate takeovers (H.R. 1178), 3893 [19FE]

———Federal tax amnesty, 29225 [27OC]

———investment tax credit and accelerated depreciation, 2663 [3FE]

———nonelective deferred compensation (H.R. 3312), 24700 [21SE], 24910 [22SE]

———permit rural telephone cooperatives to have qualified cash or deferred arrangements (H.R. 3045), 21568 [29JY]

———public transportation incentives, 26252 [1OC]

———reduce maximum capital gains rate to 15% (H.R. 3552), 29515 [27OC]

———reinstate 5% investment tax credit for certain property (H.R. 936), 2501 [3FE]

———require retailers to collect sales and use taxes on interstate sales (H.R. 1242), 9164 [21AP], 27941 [14OC]

———treatment of certain short-term loans (H.R. 2323), 11875 [8MY]

———treatment of reserves of long-term care insurance policies (H.R. 3438), 26739 [6OC]

———treatment of securities transactions, 24043 [15SE]

———treatment of self-insured workers' compensation funds (H.R. 1709), 6240 [18MR]

Taylor, James B.: address on aviation industry, 16589 [17JN]

Technology: development of superconductors, 11894 [11MY]

———small business access to trade laws (H. Con. Res. 76), 5502 [11MR]

———superconductors, 7338 [31MR], 12764 [19MY], 14045 [28MY]

Technology Innovation Act: establish Center on State and Local Initiatives on Productivity, Technology, and Innovation (H.R. 2219), 10868 [30AP]

Telecommunication: information services to residential and business customers, 29513 [27OC]

Telecommunications: industry competition, 22688 [5AU]

Telecommunications Policy Act: enact (H.R. 2030), 8912 [9AP], 9011, 9036 [10AP]

Telephone: domestic manufacturing (H.R. 3333), 24915 [22SE]

———information services and manufacture of telecommunications equipment by Bell operating companies (H.R. 2030), 8912 [9AP], 9036 [10AP]

Television: Asia Business News project, 14553 [3JN]

———local franchising for residential consumers (H.R. 3624), 31446 [9NO]

Textile industry and fabrics: plant shutdowns, 3497 [19FE]

———remedy injury caused by imports (H.R. 1154), 4945 [5MR], 14512 [3JN], 15496 [11JN], 19674 [14JY], 22692 [5AU], 23895 [15SE], 24053 [15SE], 24058, 24061 [16SE], 24092 [22SE], 24106 [23SE]-24113 [16SE], 24264, 24269 [16SE], 31971 [16NO]

———U.S. competitiveness, 8468 [8AP]

Tire industry: impact of imports, 5220 [10MR]

Tobacco industry: advertising tobacco products (H.R. 1272), removal from cosponsorship, 5197 [10MR]

———remove special treatment accorded products under the Consumer Product Safety Act (H.R. 2376), 18977 [8JY], 23683 [9SE]

Tohatchi, NM: Indian enterprise and private sector support, 21421 [29JY]

Toshiba Corp.: import ban, 22223 [4AU]

———import ban (H.R. 2698), 19834 [15JY], 23451 [7AU]

———sale of technology to Soviet Union, 17053 [23JN], 18356 [30JN], 19100 [9JY]

Trade, Employment, and Productivity Act: enact (H.R. 1155), 4467 [2MR], 4724 [3MR]

Trade Act: amend (H.R. 1514), 5266, 5268 [10MR]

Trade and development: importance of global economic growth, 19821 [14JY]

Trade and Development Program Enhancement Act: enact (H.R. 1494), 5219 [10MR]

Trade Employment Productivity Act: enact (H.R. 3), 3493, 3496 [19FE]

Transportation: tax incentives for public forms, 26252 [1OC]

Truth in Lending Act: amend (H.R. 2609), 14802 [4JN], 17888 [26JN]

U.S. currency: devaluation, 4049 [25FE], 11278 [5MY]

Unemployment: assistance and training for persons in localities affected by termination of defense contracts (H.R. 2276), 11274 [5MY]

———retraining, 6514 [23MR]

Unemployment compensation: limitations on reduction on credit applicable to employers in certain States (H.R. 2801), 18709 [1JY]

Valley Stream, NY: Jules Rabin Associates anniversary, 33802 [2DE]

Van Brunt & Son, Inc.: anniversary of founding, 9672 [23AP]

Verity, C. William, Jr.: nomination as Sec. of Commerce, 26941 [7OC]

Volunteer workers: President's Citation Program for Private Sector Initiatives, 24471 [17SE]

White House Conference on Small Business: permanent authorization (H.R. 2690), 16810 [19JN]

Women: changing image, 3174 [5FE]

———economic equity (H.R. 2577), 14207, 14210 [2JN], 24049 [15SE]

Worker Readjustment and Placement Act: enact (H.R. 728), 2022 [27JA]

World Trade Week: observance, 13296 [20MY]

Youngstown, OH: closing of LTV Steel's Warren mill, 32076 [17NO]

Zenith Electronics Corp.: television-computer monitor, 12757 [18MY]

Remarks in Senate

Abdnor, James: nomination as SBA Administrator, 6509 [20MR]

Acid rain: reduction in sulfur dioxide emissions (S. 321), 7966 [3AP]

Aeronautics: airline deregulation, 21277 [28JY]

———establish commission on effects of air travel deregulation (S. 1752), 26337 [2OC]

———fair treatment of employees of airlines involved in mergers (S. 943), 15492 [11JN]

———merger of Piedmont Aviation and USAir, 25018 [23SE]

———standards relative to air carrier passenger services (H.R. 3051), 30291 [30OC]

———standards relative to air carrier passenger services (H.R. 3051), conference requested, 30296 [30OC]

Agricultural Producer and Farm Credit System Borrower Act: enact (S. 1486), 19419, 19423-19425 [10JY], 19905 [15JY], 22965 [6AU]

Agricultural productivity: interest on overdue payments, 27206-27211 [9OC]

Agricultural Protection Cost Recovery Act: enact (S. 1816), 29164 [23OC]

Agriculture: accounting methods for certain food processing companies (S. 311), 1307 [14JA]

———economic outlook, 31236 [6NO]

———emergency compensation for feed grains, 13872-13880 [28MY]

———establish task force on competitiveness (S. 1756), 26570 [6OC]

———farm debt restructuring (S. 1147), 11527 [6MY]

———financial condition of Farm Credit System, 6797, 6798 [25MR]

———financial protection to poultry growers and sellers (S. 1836), 30349 [30OC]

———funding, 11065-11067 [5MY]

———importance to economy, 4177 [26FE]

———international policy, 4665 [3MR]

———migrant labor, 18472 [1JY]

———preclude all corporations engaged in farm product processing with gross receipts in excess of $100,000,000 from using cash accounting (S. 1531), 20989 [23JY]

———prohibit payment of farm benefits to foreign nationals (S. 55), 507 [6JA]

———prompt payment for dairy products, 27197, 27200 [9OC]

———protect Farm Credit System (S. Res. 185), 8420 [8AP]

———recovery of cost for establishment of standards for products (S. 1192), 12010 [12MY]

———tax treatment of business assets in farm cooperatives, 37956 [22DE]

Airlines: merger of USAir and Piedmont, 27821 [14OC]

Airport and Airway Capacity Expansion Act: enact (S. 1184), 12003 [12MY], 14374 [2JN], 25771 [30SE], 29538-29604 [28OC]

Airport and Airway Improvement Act: restrictions on foreign business participation in federally funded projects (S. 764), 6030 [18MR], 8899 [9AP]

Alaska: petroleum resources in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 23352 [7AU]

Alaska Natives: ownership of land and corporate shares (S. 1145), 11525, 11526 [6MY]

Amalgamated Bank of New York: tribute, 37887 [21DE]

American Trade, Growth, and Employment Promotion Act: enact (S. 590), 4288-4290 [26FE]

America's Living Standard Act: enact (S. 374), 1843 [22JA]

Amtrak: arguments for privatization, 22451 [5AU]

Anti-Piracy and Market Access Act: enact (S. 335), 1504 [20JA]

Antitrust actions: enforcement (S. 1407), 17015 [23JN]

Antitrust policies: mergers and corporate tender offers (S. 634), 4603-4606 [3MR]

Antitrust policy: enforcement (S. 1962), 36201 [18DE]

———mergers (S. 432), 2451 [2FE]

———partnerships (S. 431), 2450 [2FE]

Arms sales: role of Congress, 6796 [25MR]

AT&T: waiver requests filed by Bell regional operating companies as mandated by divestiture, 35243 [11DE]

Bankruptcy: protection of certain pension and health insurance (S. 903), 8951 [10AP]

———protections under title 11 (S. 1577), 21925 [31JY], 22013 [3AU]

———special revenue bonds (S. 1863), 31820 [12NO]

Bankruptcy transfer provisions: clarify (S. 1358), 15454 [11JN]

Banks and banking: branching, holding company acquisitions, and nonbank banks, 2524 [3FE]

———challenges, 16984 [23JN]

———deregulation, 26991 [8OC]

———deter acquisitions of thrift institutions, 7109, 7124, 7125 [27MR]

———disclosure of rates of interest on savings accounts (S. 1507), 20519 [21JY]

———effects of failures, 2461 [2FE]

———effects of mergers, 2074 [28JA]

———extend authority for financing for cooperative exports and imports (S. 1013), 8972 [10AP]

———FDIC discretionary authority, 7117 [27MR]

———junk securities held by federally insured institutions, 7110-7114, 7120 [27MR]

———mortgages on properties including day care centers (S. 1300), 14149 [29MY], 14350 [2JN]

———prohibit ownership of U.S. banks by certain countries (S. 786), 6370, 6374 [19MR]

———recapitalization of thrift industry, 29489 [27OC]

———services, 36232 [18DE]

———soundness of system, 7246 [30MR]

Barter and Countertrade Act: enact (S. 1116), 10647 [30AP]

Beggs, James M.: dismissal of charges by Dept. of Justice, 17003 [24JN], 17004 [23JN]

Biehl, Francis: tribute, 4664 [3MR]

Boeing Co.: hostile takeover attempt, 21810 [31JY]

Boulder, CO: tribute to Roltorq, Inc., 13012 [19MY]

Canada: selling Hyundai cars below cost, 33943 [3DE]

Capital gains: differential (S. 444), 24797 [22SE], 27824 [14OC]

———treatment, 10167 [28AP]

Capital gains tax: restore preferential treatment (S. 418), 2323 [29JA]

CCC: defer tax consequences of repayment of loans (S. 1686), 24002 [15SE]

———percentage share or metric tonnage of commodities, 13915 [28MY]

Center on State and Local Initiatives on Productivity, Technology, and Innovation: establish (S. 930), 20194 [17JY]

Chemicals: 3-nitrophenyl-4-beta-hydroxyethyl sulfone (S. 871), 7184 [27MR]

———4-chloro-2-nitro aniline (S. 872), 7184 [27MR]

———chlor amino base (S. 870), 7184 [27MR]

———chlorofluorocarbons production, 13006 [19MY]

———temporarily suspend duty on acet quinone base (S. 874), 7184 [27MR]

———temporarily suspend duty on amino sulfon br (S. 873), 7184 [27MR]

———temporarily suspend duty on diamino phenetole sulfate (S. 875), 7184 [27MR]

Child Care Public-Private Partnership Act: enact (S. 1071), 9251 [22AP]

Children: initiatives in private sector care services (S. 1071), 9251 [22AP]

China, People's Republic of: Bilateral Textile and Apparel Agreement negotiations, 36521 [19DE]

———Kentucky Fried Chicken opening, 32059 [17NO]

Clean Air Act: sanctions (S. 1941), 35289 [11DE]

Commercial Fishing Industry Vessel Anti-Reflagging Act: enact (H.R. 2598), 32597 [18NO], 36053-36059 [17DE], 37953-37955 [22DE]

Commission on U.S. Trade: establish (S. 690), 5057 [6MR]

Construction industry: stability of collective bargaining (S. 492), 9118 [21AP]

Contracts: subcontractor payment clause under construction contracts, 27201 [9OC]

Copyrights: amend copyright law regarding work made for hire (S. 1223), 6381, 6385 [19MR], 12957 [19MY]

Corporate Takeover and Insider Abuse Reform Act: enact (S. 1324), 14685 [4JN]

Corporate takeovers: protection of public interest and investors, 19271 [9JY]

Corporation for small business investment: establish (S. 1929), 34329-34332 [8DE]

Corporations: consent decree proceeding in case of divestiture (S. 772), 6111 [18MR]

———failed mergers, 20598 [21JY]

———hostile takeovers, 12581 [15MY]

———hostile takeovers and insider trading, 9755 [27AP]

———interlocking directors and officers (S. 1068), 9245 [22AP], 21885-21888 [31JY]

———mergers, 6288 [19MR]

———restrictions on corporate tender offers (S. 227), 668-674 [6JA]

Countdown 2001 (organization): goals for implementing betterment of individuals and organizations, 23579 [9SE]

Courts: civil penalties for manufacturing or entering into commerce of certain imitation firearms (S. 1981), 36613 [19DE]

———increase civil monetary penalties (S. 1014), 8973 [10AP]

———jurisdiction over actions involving U.S. citizens and foreign persons (S. 1996), 37831 [21DE]

Credit: future of system, 5560 [12MR]

Credit cards: interest rates (S. 647), 4619 [3MR]

Crime and criminals: copyright and trademark fraud, 32616 [18NO]

Cuba: trade with Japan, 3405 [17FE]

Dartmouth College: international management MBA Program in Japan, 34549 [9DE]

Deceptive Mailings Prevention Act: enact (S. 1393), 16663-16666 [18JN], 17214 [24JN]

Defense Industrial Base Preservation Act: enact (S. 1892), 33158 [20NO]

Dept. of Agriculture: Optional Acreage Diversion Program (H.R. 3093), 24562 [18SE]

———recovering costs associated with cotton classing services (H.R. 2971), 22425 [5AU]

Dept. of Commerce: Minority Business Development Administration (S. 1848), 30771 [4NO]

Dept. of Defense: ban sale of Toshiba products in military exchange stores (S. 1677), 23843 [11SE]

———moratorium on construction of franchise businesses on military installations (S. 803), 6490 [20MR]

DISC: tax treatment of loans (S. 1495), 20041 [15JY]

Diversification in Broadcast Ownership Act: enact (S. 1095), 9744 [24AP]

Drug industry: ban reimportation, restrict drug samples, and ban certain resales by hospitals (S. 368), 1640-1642 [21JA]

Dumping: artificial pricing of articles produced by nonmarket economy countries (S. 307), 3051-3059 [5FE]

Economic conditions: competitiveness, 14507 [3JN]

———continued growth, 26596 [6OC]

———job creation, 7559 [31MR]

———potential for recession, 30677 [4NO]

———public debt, 33559 [2DE]

———stock market crash, 28365, 28404, 28436 [20OC]

———trade-offs for efficiency, 8686 [9AP]

———U.S. outlook, 31249 [6NO]

———U.S. policy, 26071 [1OC]

———value of U.S. dollar, 9154 [21AP]

Economic Dislocation and Worker Adjustment Assistance Act: enact (S. 538), 3725-3727 [19FE]

Economic Excellence Act: enact (S. 1249), 13248 [20MY]

Economic Policy Institute: tribute, 17043 [23JN]

Education: goals for U.S. competitiveness, 6968 [26MR]

———improve foreign language skills to enhance economic competition (S. Con. Res. 26), 4573 [3MR], 5081 [6MR]

———public-private partnerships to improve quality of elementary and secondary instruction (S. 986), 8791 [9AP]

———status in the U.S., 33539 [1DE]

———strengthen links between private sector and public schools (S. 8), 393 [6JA]

Education for Competitive America Act: enact (S. 406), 2127, 2132 [28JA]

Employee Ownership Week: designate (S. Res. 295), 26577 [6OC], 26891 [7OC]

Employment: European experience, 15486 [11JN]

———maintain full, 4384 [26FE]

———worker retraining assistance (S. 785), 6363 [19MR]

Equal Access to Justice Act: enact, 22976 [6AU]

ERA: constitutional amendment (S.J. Res. 1), 751-753 [6JA]

Excess profits tax: repeal (S. 255), 711 [6JA]

Executive departments: payment to contractors, 1452 [20JA]

Export Administration Act: amend (S. 547), 3672-3681 [19FE]

Export Trading Company Act: review of provisions, 4662 [3MR]

Fair Deposit Availability Act: enact (S. 344), 1516, 1521 [20JA], 1681 [21JA]

Fair Labor Standards Act: amend portion relative to industrial homework (S. 637), 4608 [3MR]

Fair Trade in Auto Parts Act: enact (S. 1280), 13747 [27MY]

Farm Credit System: stockholder/borrowers multi-point program of relief and reform (S. 1156), 11530, 11537, 11539 [6MY]

Farmers: economic conditions, 16976 [23JN]

———recovery of costs of services to cooperative and groups of producers (S. 1190), 12008 [12MY]

Fast Food Ingredient Information Act: enact (S. 1325), 14692 [4JN]

Federal Aviation Act: fair treatment of employees in mergers, 29851, 29865 [29OC]

Federal Competitive Coal Leasing Act: amend (S. 1185), 12005 [12MY]

Federal Unemployment Tax Act: additional limitation on reduction on credit applicable to certain employers (S. 1254), 13564 [21MY]

Fish and fisheries: certain processing services are exempt from the definition of employee for Federal tax purposes (S. 1821), 29447 [27OC]

———processing within U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (S. 1590), 22208 [4AU]

———temporarily extend agreement between the U.S. and the Republic of Korea (H.R. 2480), 17819 [26JN]

Fishermen's Protective Act: reauthorize (H.R. 2893), 27843 [14OC]

Food Marketing Institute Trade Show: tribute, 10877 [1MY]

Foreign countries: reciprocal agreement relating to construction, engineering, or architectural services, 29826-29830 [29OC]

Foreign relations: Venice summit (S. Res. 225), 14669 [4JN]

Foreign Shipping Practices Act: enact (S. 1183), 11999 [12MY]

Foreign trade: actions against certain U.S. trading partners, 10632 [30AP]

———antidumping and countervailing duty statutes, 18449 [1JY]

———competitiveness, 6137 [18MR]

———customs fraud, 28294 [16OC], 29145 [23OC]

———deficit, 1380, 1381, 1409 [16JA], 4462 [2MR], 5728 [16MR], 18522 [1JY], 19805 [14JY], 22124 [3AU], 23774 [10SE], 23805 [11SE], 24706 [22SE], 25032 [23SE], 28143 [15OC], 33183 [20NO], 35974 [17DE]

———duty-free sales enterprise relative to personal use merchandise, 19932 [15JY]

———enforcement of unfair competition statutes, 800 [6JA]

———enhance U.S. competitiveness (S. 1409), 27811 [14OC]

———fair practices in telecommunications industry, 12298 [13MY]

———intellectual property rights, 22040 [3AU]

———Japan, 14708 [4JN]

———negotiations of reciprocal agreements to strengthen laws (S. 490), 11750 [8MY], 13604 [21MY], 14157 [29MY], 20924 [23JY], 36692 [20DE]

———negotiations of reciprocal agreements to strengthen laws (S. 490), unanimous-consent agreement, 16380 [17JN]

———negotiations with Canada (S. Res. 50), 798 [6JA]

———negotiations with Japan (S. Res. 51), 799 [6JA]

———parallel imports (S. 1097), 9775 [27AP]

———preservation of an open and stable international environment for trade and investment, 36229 [18DE]

———private enforcement of unfair competition statutes (S. 1396), 16848 [19JN]

———prohibition on export of defense articles by certain companies (S. 1639), 23226-23228 [7AU]

———reciprocal agreements (S. 490), 3010, 3039-3059 [5FE]

———relief to persons injured by importation of articles at less than market value or wholesale price (S. 1104), 10119 [28AP]

———State taxation of domestic and foreign corporations (S. 1843), 30767 [4NO]

———strengthen enforcement of U.S. laws (S. 583), 4267 [26FE]

———tariffs on Japanese products, 7104 [27MR]

———U.S. competitiveness, 1564 [21JA], 13692 [27MY]

———U.S. plant closings, 17866 [26JN]

———U.S. policy, 16843 [19JN], 36007 [17DE]

———uranium trade agreements (S. Res. 341), 34962 [10DE]

Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act: enact (S. 572), 3789 [19FE]

Forster Manufacturing Co.: anniversary, 21774 [30JY]

Free enterprise: period during which tender offers must remain open, 25849 [30SE]

———U.S. manufacturing's ability to compete in the world marketplace, 33974 [3DE]

FTC: commodity marketing orders, 16871 [19JN]

———determination of material injury in countervailing duty cases, 5623 [12MR]

———regulation of airline advertising (S. 1088), 9438 [23AP]

Garlock Packing Co., Rochester, NY: anniversary, 26199 [1OC]

Genetic engineering: national policy, 35954 [17DE]

Geothermal Steam Act: amend (S. 1006), 9402 [23AP]

Government contractors: competitive examination for selection of members of boards of contract appeals (S. 345), 13539, 13550 [21MY]

Government procurement: interest on overdue payments (S. 328), 20075 [15JY], 22418 [5AU], 22829, 22841, 22979 [6AU], 26602 [6OC], 27187-27211, 27219-27241 [9OC], 27451 [13OC]

Grace, Lila: tribute, 33069 [20NO]

Grace, W.R.: tribute, 33069 [20NO]

GSA: sale of certain real estate, 35240 [11DE]

Health insurance: proposed mandatory coverage by employers, 3818 [19FE]

Hostile Foreign Takeover Moratorium Act: enact (S. 1264), 13575 [21MY]

Hostile takeovers: statement by chairman of Kansas utility, 5131 [10MR]

Housing and Community Development Act: use of urban development action grants to facilitate business relocation, 7441-7443 [31MR]

Immigration Reform and Control Act: delay implementation of employer sanctions provisions (S. 1083), 9430 [23AP], 11126 [5MY]

Increased Market Access Promotion Act: enact (S. 31), 462 [6JA]

Indian Development Finance Corp. Act: enact (S. 721), 5362 [11MR]

Indians: corporations with defense contracts, 20584 [21JY]

———creation of enterprise zones on reservations, 6019 [18MR]

———funding for economic growth (S. 1360), 15464 [11JN], 31167 [5NO], 32025-32027 [17NO]

Industry: adjustment plans and commitments, 18767-18769 [7JY]

———corporate takeovers, 25350 [26SE]

———hostile corporate takeovers, 26255 [2OC]

———impact of hiring of part-time workers, 9277 [22AP]

———plant closings, 18516 [1JY]

———U.S. competitiveness, 11119 [5MY]

Insider Trading Proscriptions Act: enact (S. 1380), 16387, 16393 [17JN]

Insurance: exemption from antitrust laws (S. 80), 540-542 [6JA]

Insurance Competition Act: enact (S. 804), 6491, 6492 [20MR]

Insurance Competition Improvement Act: enact (S. 1299), 14146 [29MY]

International Natural Rubber Agreement: removal of injunction of secrecy removal, 28408 [20OC]

Interstate commerce: uniform product liability law (S. 687), 5051 [6MR]

Investments: employee stock ownership plans, 20035 [15JY]

Iron and steel industry: expand coverage of bilateral steel arrangements (S. 985), 8791 [9AP]

———gains in productivity, 21779 [30JY]

———steel import restraint program, 6408 [19MR]

IRS: delay penalty on valid withholding certificates (S. 388), 2119 [28JA]

Japan: construction of Kansai International Airport, 1561 [21JA], 2236 [29JA]

———insure 33% equity participation by foreign firms in construction of fiber optic cable across Pacific Ocean, 6352 [19MR]

———sale of U.S. vehicles, 18451 [1JY]

———Toshiba Corp. sales to Soviet Union, 13184 [20MY]

———trade agreements, 10872, 10873, 10878, 10882 [1MY]

———trade barriers and high tariffs placed on agricultural exports from U.S., 18407, 18409-18412 [1JY]

———trade with Cuba, 3405 [17FE]

———trade with Vietnam (S. Res. 271), 22957 [6AU]

———U.S. Trade Representative investigation relative to Kansai Airport procurement, 17594 [25JN]

Johnson family, Racine, WI: tribute, 17216 [24JN]

Joint and Several Liability Reform Act: enact (S. 217), 651, 652 [6JA]

Knogo Corp.: tribute, 37903 [21DE]

Kongsberg Vaapenfabrik Co.: sale of technology to Soviet Union, 16981 [23JN], 29145 [23OC]

Korea, Republic of: foreign trade, 37643 [21DE]

———impose quotas on certain tobacco products and deny benefits under generalized system of preference (S. 969), 8766-8768 [9AP]

Labeling: artificial cheese content in frozen pizzas, 35252 [11DE]

Labor law and legislation: administration's regulatory changes, 24561 [18SE]

Labor Productivity Assistance Act: enact (S. 617), 4342 [26FE], 4662 [3MR]

Liability Insurance Reform Act: enact (S. 426), 2332 [29JA]

Made in the U.S.A. Month: designate (S.J. Res. 177), 20647 [22JY]

McAdams, Herbert H.: tribute, 8049 [6AP]

Merck & Co., Rahway, NJ: tribute, 28439 [20OC]

Mergers and acquisitions: USAir and Piedmont, 27821 [14OC]

Metric system: affirm that national policy of conversion would benefit U.S. (S.J. Res. 100), 6402 [19MR]

———U.S. policy, 2272 [29JA]

Mexico: maquila industrial assembly plants, 5119 [10MR]

Mines and mineral resources: impact of imports of potash, 4567 [3MR]

———reclamation of mill tailings at active uranium and thorium processing sites (S. 1100), 10108, 10116 [28AP]

Minimum wages: maintain salary difference, 24564 [18SE]

Mining and mineral resources: viable domestic uranium industry (S. 1846), 34549 [9DE], 37836 [21DE]

Minority Business Development Program Reform Act: enact (S. 1993), 37814 [21DE]

Minority Enterprise Development Week: observance, 23778 [10SE], 26345 [2OC]

Money: controls on export of capital from U.S. (S. 786), 6370, 6374 [19MR]

Motion pictures: distribution in Canada (S. Res. 227), 14864 [5JN]

Motor Fuel Sales Competition Improvement Act: enact (S. 1111), 10351 [29AP]

Motor vehicles: Japanese imported passenger vans, 17042 [23JN]

Multilateral Export Control Sanctions Act: enact, 26591 [6OC]

National Academy of Social Insurance: charter (S. 35), 474 [6JA]

National Advisory Committee on Semiconductor Research and Development Act: enact (S. 1275), 13740 [27MY]

National Commission on International Competitiveness: establish (S. 877), 7187 [27MR]

National Petroleum Security Act: enact (S. 1355), 15457, 15462 [11JN]

National Productivity Improvement Week: designate (S.J. Res. 223), 33263 [30NO], 33513 [1DE]

National Quality Improvement Award: establish (H.R. 812), 22429-22431 [5AU]

National Rural Electric Cooperative Association: economic development with TVA, 17350 [24JN]

National Tourism Week: designate (S.J. Res. 56), 3798-3800 [19FE]

Natural gas: policies, 18415-18446 [1JY]

Nevada: mergers by out-of-State concerns, 27342 [13OC]

New Jersey: Fortune magazine tribute to leading companies, 1243 [13JA]

———tribute to small business individuals, 13004 [19MY]

Northern Ireland Fair Employment Practices Act: enact (S. 229), 674 [6JA]

NSF: supercomputing centers, 28070 [15OC]

NTL-5 Gas Royalty Act: enact (S. 1814), 29160 [23OC]

Occupational health and safety: notify workers of risk (S. 79), 6123 [18MR], 11625 [7MY], 12317-12321 [13MY], 31237 [6NO], 31542 [10NO]

Ogden, UT: anniversary of chamber of commerce, 24213 [16SE]

OPEC: impact of price strategy on U.S. petroleum industry, 8686 [9AP]

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development: European labor market reforms, 17044 [23JN]

Panama: national policy, 19447 [10JY]

Parental and Temporary Medical Leave Act: enact, 23774 [10SE]

Patents: extend patent numbered 3,387,268, Quotation Monitoring Unit (S. 1102), 10119 [28AP]

———processes, misuse and licensee challenges to validity (S. 1200), 12487-12492 [14MY]

———protect owners from importation of goods made with U.S. patent process (S. 568), 3773-3778 [19FE], 12487, 12491, 12492 [14MY]

———protect owners from importation of overseas goods made with U.S. patent process (S. 573), 12491, 12492 [14MY]

Pensions: payments to steel industry retirees (S. 1811), 28981 [22OC], 29184 [23OC]

———payments to steel industry retirees (S. 1811), 33611 [2DE]

———portability, 28144 [15OC]

———private sector efforts to alleviate losses suffered by retirees and employees as a result of plan termination (S. Con. Res. 58), 12309 [13MY]

Petroleum: impact of OPEC price strategy on U.S. petroleum industry, 8685, 8686 [9AP]

———moratorium on patenting of outstanding oil shale mining claims on public land (S. 597), 4320 [26FE]

———policies, 18415-18446 [1JY]

———repeal excess profits tax, 20027 [15JY], 21028 [23JY]

Phelps Dodge Corp.: tribute, 10660 [30AP]

Plant shutdowns: advanced notification, 18876 [8JY]

Poland: trade sanctions, 3820 [19FE]

President's Commission on Industrial Competitiveness: tribute, 5066 [6MR]

Product liability law: limit (S. 711), 5335 [11MR]

———reform, 5184 [10MR]

Product Liability Reform Act: enact (S. 666), 5017 [6MR]

Prompt Payment Act: amend (S. 328), 1456 [20JA], 1668 [21JA], 1887 [22JA]

Pueblo Diversified Industries: tribute, 10099 [28AP]

R. Hirt, Jr., Co.: anniversary, 21147 [24JY]

Railroads: sale, acquisition, or abandonment of lines (S. 1040), 8988 [10AP]

Real estate agents: limit certain fees (S. 1186), 12007 [12MY]

Research and Development Incentive Act: enact (S. 58), 519, 520 [6JA]

Retail Competition Enforcement Act: enact (S. 430), 2450 [2FE], 36628 [19DE]

Roads and highways: outdoor signs, displays, and devices (S. 387), 3151 [5FE]

———weight and length restrictions on Interstate System for commercial motor vehicles (S. 1391), 16651 [18JN]

Rolen-Rolen-Roberts International: relief (S. 1434), 17826 [26JN]

ROLTORQ Technology, Inc.: tribute, 12541 [14MY]

Rural Recovery and Revitalization Act: enact (S. 1403), 17008-17012 [23JN]

Russell Corp., Alexander City, AL: safety and health award, 18585 [1JY]

Sales agents: movement of stolen goods, securities, moneys, fraudulent State tax stamps, or articles used in counterfeiting (S. 988, 989), 8800 [9AP]

SBA: disaster loans, 13888 [28MY]

———prepayment of loans made to State and local development companies (S. 437), 35809 [16DE], 36578, 36579, 36635 [19DE]

SEC: budget, 36233 [18DE]

Securities: disclosures relative to accumulations of stock and tender offers (S. 1323), 14611-14627 [4JN], 15098 [9JN], 20137 [17JY], 24532 [18SE]

———Government regulations, 2936 [4FE]

———limit banks powers, 30484-30490 [3NO]

Securities Exchange Act: amend (S. 78), 535 [6JA]

Securities Law Technical Act: amend (S. 1452), 18187 [30JN], 19455 [10JY], 30334 [30OC], 36233 [18DE]

Service industries: dependence on manufacturing linkages, 24798 [22SE]

Service Sector Data Collection Act: enact (S. 21), 1239 [13JA]

Shipping industry: unfair practices in marine transportation of imported motor vehicles (S. 1087), 9437 [23AP]

Small business: annual report findings, 37885 [21DE]

———economic improving status as world leader, 7093 [26MR]

———modify set-aside program (S. 1559), 21265 [28JY]

———private initiative to enhance access to U.S. trade laws (S. Con. Res. 45), 8502 [8AP]

Small Business: disaster assistance loans (S. 1957), 35991 [17DE]

Small Business Act: amend (H.R. 2166), 17332 [24JN], 17442 [25JN]

———amend to enhance ability of small businesses to compete for international export markets (S. 1344), 15076 [9JN]

Small Business International Trade and Competition Enhancement Act: enact (S. 1344), 15415 [11JN]

Small Business Investment Act: amend (H.R. 2166), 17332 [24JN], 17442 [25JN]

Small Business Retirement and Benefit Extension Act: enact (S. 1426), 17575 [25JN]

Small Business Week: observance, 11996 [12MY]

South Africa: ban loans and investments by U.S. corporations, 33938 [3DE], 37640-37642 [21DE]

———prohibit investments (S. 556), 3743 [19FE]

———sanctions (S. Res. 82), 1927 [26JA]

Soviet Union: economic conditions, 19138 [9JY]

———loans by Western banks, 14276 [2JN]

Space program: commercial opportunities, 3138 [5FE]

Spain: unemployment, 15096 [9JN]

Sports: expansion of Major League Baseball, 30789 [4NO]

———protect public interest relative to operation of professional teams and leagues (S. 782), 6358 [19MR]

State and local development companies: prepayment of loans (S. 437), 2605 [3FE]

States: legislatures to protect in-State corporations from takeovers, 22963 [6AU]

Steel industry: make competitive, 12927 [19MY]

Stock market: recovery, 28624 [21OC]

Stocks: notice of purchases (S. 78), 535 [6JA]

Superconductivity: coordinate research in technology of superconductors, 8880 [9AP]

Superconductivity Competition Act: enact (S. 880), 7855 [2AP], 8879 [9AP]

Synthetic fuel: methanol and alternative fuels, 21144 [24JY]

Tariff: 3-nitrophenyl-4-beta-hydroxyethyl sulfone (S. 871), 7184 [27MR]

———Bendiocarb (S. 1289), 13950 [28MY]

———bicycle parts (S. 584), 4267 [26FE]

———canned tuna (S. 1131), 11099 [5MY]

———certain power-driven weaving machines (S. 1224), 12961 [19MY]

———chlor amino base (S. 870), 7184 [27MR]

———chlorhexanone (S. 1881), 32607 [18NO]

———cultured pearls (S. 1400), 16853 [19JN]

———disposable surgical gowns (S. 1306), 14341 [2JN]

———iron (S. 783), 6362 [19MR]

———laser discs (S. 1114), 10645 [30AP]

———meta nitro-o-anisidine (S. 1151), 11529 [6MY]

———meta nitro-para-anisidine (S. 1149), 11529 [6MY]

———nitro-ortho-toluidine (S. 1152), 11529 [6MY]

———para chloro-o-nitroaniline (S. 1150), 11529 [6MY]

———para nitro-o-anisidine (S. 1154), 11529 [6MY]

———phenyl-carbethoxy-pyrazolone (S. 1153), 11529 [6MY]

———protection of intellectual property rights (S. 486), 3049 [5FE]

———small toys (S. 1066), 9244 [22AP]

———Smoot-Hawley myth, 19765 [14JY]

———stuffed toy figures (S. 1050), 9136 [21AP]

———stuffed toy figures (S. 1051), 9136 [21AP]

———theobromine (S. 1880), 32607 [18NO]

———Triallate (S. 1129), 11094 [5MY]

Tax Reform Act: amend (S. 1197), 12304 [13MY]

———calendar year conformity requirement, 36172 [18DE]

———taxable years of certain entities (S. 530), 3387 [17FE]

Taxation: accounting of loan losses by production credit associations and banks for cooperatives (S. 1640), 23228 [7AU]

———allow certain entities to elect not to make changes in their taxable years (S. 1520), 20576 [21JY]

———calculation of limitation on foreign tax credits (S. 1547), 21129 [24JY]

———calendar year as tax year, 2763 [4FE]

———capital gains differential (S. 1890), 33137 [20NO]

———certain entities' election of taxable year other than required taxable year (S. 1520), 20576 [21JY], 27324 [9OC]

———certification of employees relative to work incentive jobs credit (S. 1610), 22934 [6AU]

———clarify tax-exempt treatment of self-insured workers' compensation fund (S. 1019), 8978 [10AP]

———commodity collateral for CCC loans (S. 1715), 25185 [24SE]

———corporate mergers and acquisitions, 29659 [28OC]

———credit for employers who provide on-site day care facilities for dependents of their employees (S. 1535), 20990 [23JY]

———deduction for certain indebtedness incurred to acquire 50% or more ownership interest in a corporation (S. 1058), 9138 [21AP]

———deductions for cost of health insurance coverage for self-employed (S. 1370), 16167 [16JN]

———deductions for cost of health insurance coverage for self-employed (S. 1386), 16643 [18JN]

———delay employment determination for certain technical personnel (S. 429), 2449 [2FE]

———exclusion of certain cash distributions from profit-sharing plans (S. 932), 27091 [8OC], 35324 [11DE]

———exemption for certain investment companies from disallowance of indirect deductions through passthrough entities (S. 1489), 19782 [14JY]

———installment sales rules for small businesses (S. 719), 5351 [11MR]

———modify certain provisions regarding tax-exempt bonds (S. 1864), 31825 [12NO]

———preclude certain farmers from using cash method accounting and provide exemptions for certain livestock breeding (S. 1353), 15452, 15453 [11JN]

———repeal transition rule relative to Tax Reform Act (S. 67), 528-531 [6JA]

———research and experimental expenditures (S. 716), 5344, 5345 [11MR]

———restoration of capital gains three-tiered rate differential (S. 1825), 29536 [28OC]

———sale of personal property by nonresidents (S. 1099), 10108 [28AP]

———substantiation for deductions for business use of a vehicle (S. 1702), 24542 [18SE]

———treatment of employer mass transit and van pool subsidies (S. 1757), 26573-26575 [6OC]

———treatment of research and development expenditures (S. 1617), 22947, 22948 [6AU]

———use of consolidated tax returns by insurance companies (S. 1404), 17013 [23JN]

Technological competitiveness: achievement, 7660, 7667 [1AP]

Technology: Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, OH, 36006 [17DE]

———establish National Quality Award (S. 1251), 13556 [21MY]

———mobile communications, 24453 [17SE]

Telecommunication: Japanese barriers to services, 5972 [17MR]

Tender Offer Improvement Act: enact (S. 521), 3129 [5FE]

Textile industry and fabrics: competition in world market, 10100 [28AP]

———impact of Soviet and Iranian imports, 23551 [9SE]

———profitability, 36235 [18DE]

Tobacco industry: exports to Japan, 10933 [1MY]

———public awareness campaign in the smokeless industry, 35609 [15DE]

Toshiba Corp.: ban imports (S. 1399), 16827, 16852 [19JN]

———sale of technology to Soviet Union, 16981 [23JN], 29145 [23OC]

Trade, Employment and Productivity Act: enact (S. 539), 4563 [3MR], 3592, 3595, 3656 [19FE]

Trade Adjustment Assistance Program: extend and reform, 3045-3047 [5FE]

Trade agreements: reciprocal (S. 484), 3054 [5FE]

Trade Enforcement Act: enact (S. 891), 7538-7540 [31MR]

Trade Expansion Act: amend (S. 284), 1215 [13JA]

Trade Procedures Reform Act: enact (S. 219), 654 [6JA]

Trademarks: amend laws relative to customs and gray market goods (S. 1671), 23573 [9SE]

Trucking Productivity Improvement Act: enact (S. 1710), 24784 [22SE]

U.S. dollar: declining value, 9154 [21AP]

Unemployment: rate, 26329 [2OC]

Veterans: job training and counseling services (S. 999), 8804, 8805 [9AP], 9449 [23AP], 22182, 22186-22197 [4AU], 36572 [19DE]

———job training and counseling services (S. 999), H.R. 1504 passed in lieu, 22197 [4AU]

Veterans' Job Training Act: amend (H.R. 1504), 22197 [4AU]

Western Regional Export Licensing Office Act: enact (S. 13), 427 [6JA]

White Seal (vessel): authorizing certificate of documentation (S. 1855), 31144 [5NO]

Wisconsin: mergers by out-of-State concerns, 27342 [13OC]

Women: economic equity (S. 1309), 14348-14363 [2JN]

Women Business Ownership Education Conference Day: observation in New Jersey, 5951 [17MR]

Work Plan Might Work, 10933 [1MY]

Worker Adjustment Improvement Act: enact (S. 524), 3351, 3356, 3359 [17FE]

Workplace Literacy Act: enact (S. 1227), 12967 [19MY]

Reports

Agricultural Biotechnology, Strategies for National Competitiveness: National Research Council, 35956 [17DE]

Agricultural Marketing Orders: Representative Hamilton, 35932 [16DE]

Biotechnology: OTA, 7951 [3AP]

Boards of Contract Appeals: GAO (sundry), 13550 [21MY]

Cost Estimate of Small Business Investment Act (S. 437): CBO, 35810 [16DE]

Economic Adjustment and Worker Dislocation: Dept. of Labor, 18881, 18882, 18890, 18900 [8JY]

Economic Competitiveness Promoting America's Living Standard: Senate Democratic Working Group on Economic Competitiveness, 1853 [22JA]

Eighth Session of the Joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. Commercial Commission: Nikolai S. Patolichev and Malcolm Baldrige, 27414 [13OC]

Establishing an Economic Security Council: President's Task Force on International Private Enterprise, 27406 [13OC]

Federal Response to Criminal Misconduct and Insider Abuse in the Nation's Financial Institutions: Committee on Government Operations, 29296 [27OC]

Foreign Penetration Into U.S. Automobile Market: Senate, 33943 [3DE]

Foreign Trade Estimate: U.S. Trade Representative, 10214 [28AP]

Foreign Trade—Material Injury and Threat of Material Injury: Committee on Ways and Means, 3052 [5FE]

Gray Market Policy Options Facing U.S. Customs Service: FTC, 9776-9782 [27AP]

Import Barriers—U.S. Cigarette Exports to Korea, 8767 [9AP]

Insurance and Antitrust Laws: National Commission for the Review of Antitrust Laws and Procedures (1979), 14146 [29MY]

Interest on Overdue Government Payments (S. 328): Committees on Governmental Affairs and the District of Columbia, 27226 [9OC]

Investigation of the Transfer of Technology From Kongsberg Vaapenfabrik Co.: Norwegian Police, 29146-29155 [23OC]

Liability Insurance: Dept. of Commerce, 31975 [16NO]

Long-Term Financing for North Dakota Businesses—A Planning Conference for Public and Private Officials: Columbia Institute, 34638-34640 [9DE]

National Day of Excellence: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 35), 29882 [29OC]

Pharmaceutical Industry: Library of Congress, 25043 [23SE]

Premium/Investment Policies: National Association of Insurance Brokers, 31975 [16NO]

Product Liability—Corporate Response: Nathan Weber, 20168-20176 [17JY]

Reform of Microeconomic Policies: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 17045 [23JN]

Restrictive Trade Practices: U.S. Trade Representative, 799 [6JA]

Sale of U.S. Auto Parts to Japan: Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Inc., 799 [6JA]

Sanctions Counterproductive: South African Catholic Bishops' Conference, 4398 [26FE]

Special Envoys on Acid Rain: Drew Lewis and William Davis, 7970-7977 [3AP]

Towards a New Era in U.S. Manufacturing: National Academies of Sciences and Engineering, 7951 [3AP]

U.S. Steel Industry—Factors Influencing Gains in Productivity: David Cantor, 21779-21781 [30JY]

U.S.-U.S.S.R. Trade and Economic Council: C. William Verity, Jr., 27411 [13OC]

Reports filed

Antitrust Policy on Mergers: Committee on the Judiciary (S. 432) (S. Rept. 100-115), 20240 [17JY]

Buy American Act Amendment (H.R. 1750), Committee on Government Operations (H. Rept. 100-50), 8665 [9AP]

Capital Ownership Development Program Reform (H.R. 1807) (H. Rept. 100-460), 33230 [30NO]

Consideration of H.R. 3, Enhance Competitiveness in Industry: Committee on Rules (H. Res. 151) (H. Rept. 100-67), 10023 [27AP]

Copyright Protective Orders for Semiconductor Chip Products: Committee on the Judiciary (H.R. 1951) (H. Rept. 100-388), 28619 [21OC]

Cotton Producers Participation in Measures To Defray Costs of Cotton Research and Promotion Program: Committee on Agriculture (H.R. 1622) (H. Rept. 100-339), 26400 [5OC]

Credit Card Interest Rate Information: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (H.R. 515) (S. Rept. 100-259), 35795 [16DE]

Dept. of Agriculture Recovery of Costs Associated With Cotton Classing Services: Committee on Agriculture (H.R. 2971) (H. Rept. 100-242), 21185 [27JY]

Dept. of Defense Restrictions on Overseas Contracts: Committee on Armed Services (H.R. 2873) (H. Rept. 100-380), 28346 [19OC]

Disclosure of Accumulations of Stock and Conduct of Tender Offers: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (S. 1323) (S. Rept. 100-265), 35990 [17DE]

Enhancing U.S. Competitiveness (H.R. 3): Committee on Agriculture (H. Rept. 100-40), 8121 [7AP]

Establishing National Quality Improvement Award: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (H.R. 812) (S. Rept. 100-143), 22208 [4AU]

Examination for Selection of Members of Boards of Contract Appeal: Committee on Governmental Affairs (S. 345) (S. Rept. 100-124), 21118 [24JY]

Examination Process for Selection of Members of Boards of Contract Appeals: Committee on Governmental Affairs (S. 345), 12955 [19MY]

Federal On-Shore Oil and Gas Leasing Act: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (S. 1730) (S. Rept. 100-188), 25862 [30SE]

Federal Trade Commission Act: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (S. 677) (S. Rept. 100-31), 7530 [31MR]

Fishermen's Protective Act: Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (H.R. 2893) (H. Rept. 100-299), 23876 [14SE]

Fishing Treaty Between the U.S. and Republic of Korea: Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (H.R. 2480) (H. Rept. 100-161), 16567 [17JN]

Implementation of the Regulatory Flexibility Act: Committee on Small Business (H. Rept. 100-273), 22312 [4AU]

Interest on Overdue Payments: Committee on Governmental Affairs (S. 328), 13236 [20MY]

Interlocking Directorates and Officers: Committee on the Judiciary (S. 1068) (S. Rept. 100-89), 17570 [25JN]

International Tourism and Small Business (H. Rept. 100-141), 15366 [10JN]

Interstate Commerce Commission Day: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 96), 6357 [19MR]

Measures To Defray Costs of Cotton Research and Promotion Program: Committee on Ways and Means (H.R. 1622) (H. Rept. 100-339, Pt. 2), 34287 [7DE]

Monopolies: Committee on Energy and Commerce (H.R. 1941) (H. Rept. 100-78), 11004 [4MY]

Negotiations on Reciprocal Trade Agreements: Committee on Finance (S. 490) (S. Rept. 100-71), 16149 [16JN]

Partnerships Antitrust Policy: Committee on the Judiciary (S. 431) (S. Rept. 100-88), 17570 [25JN]

Prepayment of Loans Made to State and Local Development Companies: Committee on Small Business (S. 437), 35795 [16DE]

Presidential Analysis of Impact of U.S. Business on International Competitiveness: Committee on Rules (H.R. 1307) (H. Rept. 100-71), 10272 [28AP]

Prohibit Department of Defense Purchasing from Toshiba Corp.: Committee on Armed Services (H.R. 2948) (H. Rept. 100-229), 20779 [22JY]

Remedying Injury to Textile Industry and Fabrics Caused by Imports: Committee on Ways and Means (H.R. 1154) (H. Rept. 100-276), 22795 [6AU]

Restrictions on Availability of Deposited Funds: Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs (H.R. 28) (H. Rept. 100-52), 9081 [21AP]

Securities Law Technical Act: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (S. 1452) (S. Rept. 100-105), 19247 [9JY]

Small Business Act Amendment: Committee on Small Business (H.R. 2166), 17007 [23JN]

———Committee on Small Business (H.R. 2166) (H. Rept. 100-94), 12423 [14MY]

———Committee on Small Business (H.R. 1854) (H. Rept. 100-38), 8017 [6AP]

Small Business International Trade and Competition Enhancement Act: Committee on Small Business (S. 1344) (S. Rept. 100-84), 17007 [23JN]

Small Business Investment Act Amendment: Committee on Small Business (H.R. 2166), 17007 [23JN]

———Committee on Small Business (H.R. 2166) (H. Rept. 100-94), 12423 [14MY]

Standards Relative to Air Carrier Passenger Services: Committee on Public Works and Transportation (H.R. 3051) (H. Rept. 100-293), 23076 [7AU]

Technology To Promote U.S. Leadership: Committee on Science, Space, and Technology (H.R. 2916) (H. Rept. 100-266), 22312 [4AU]

U.S. Competitiveness (H.R. 3): Committee on Ways and Means (H. Rept. 100-40), 8018 [6AP]

Uranium Industry: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (S. 1846) (S. Rept. 100-214), 30765 [4NO]

Veterans' Job Training Act: Committee on Veterans' Affairs (S. 999) (S. Rept. 100-128), 21249 [28JY]

Reports to constituents

Hamilton, Lee H.: Small Business in America, 13299 [20MY]

———Trade and Competitiveness Legislation, 6239 [18MR]

Resolutions by organizations

Bankruptcy code loopholes: National Association of Attorneys General, 8976 [10AP]

Prompt Payment Act implementation: Small Business Committee's National Advisory Council, 27230 [9OC]

Rosters

Ad hoc committee on insider trading legislation, 16390 [17JN]

Coalition for Prompt Pay, 1450 [20JA], 27192 [9OC]

Free Trade Coalition, 17539 [25JN], 17542 [25JN]

Trade Reform Action Coalition, 29902 [29OC]

Rulings of the Chair

Employment: payment of youth employment opportunity wages (H.R. 2710), 17655 [26JN]

Statements

Acid rain: U.S. Shamrock Summit envoy, 7966 [3AP]

Advanced Notification in Plant Shutdowns: Tom Donohue, 18884 [8JY]

Another OSHA Looms in Washington: John Sloan, National Federation of Independent Business, 13034 [19MY]

Automobile Industry: Robert C. Stempel, 29498-29500 [27OC]

Ban of U.S. Loans and Investments in South Africa, 33938 [3DE]

———Senator Helms, 33938 [3DE]

Bankruptcy Code Amendments, 3768 [19FE]

Breakthrough in Superconductivity—The Race To Commercialize: Representative Ritter, 11598 [6MY]

C. William Verity, Jr.: Frederick B. Dent, 27416 [13OC]

Communications Industry, 34911 [10DE]

Competitiveness and U.S. Management: Myron Tribus, 10279 [28AP]

Competitiveness in Foreign Trade: John F. Akers, 6137 [18MR]

Corporate Takeovers: Alan Greenspan, 14614 [4JN]

———Clayton C. Oster, 14618 [4JN]

———Fred Hartley, Unocal Corp., 14616 [4JN]

———Greg A. Smith, Prudential Bache Co., 14617 [4JN]

———James E. Hatfield, Glass, Pottery, Plastics & Allied Workers, 14617 [4JN]

———John Shad, SEC, 14617 [4JN]

———Pat Choate, 3893 [19FE]

———Paul A. Volcker, 14616 [4JN]

———Peter Drucker, 14617 [4JN]

———Robert B. Luciano, Schering-Plough Corp., 14617 [4JN]

———Robert Mercer, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., 14617 [4JN]

———Thomas Donahue, AFL-CIO, 14617 [4JN]

———William E. Wall, Kansas Power & Light Co., 14615 [4JN]

Costs and Equities of Health Care for Employees: Robert L. Crandall, American Airlines, Inc., 13832 [27MY]

Credit: FTC, 12493 [14MY]

Domestic Trade Laws: Robert Anderson, 5221 [10MR]

Economic Interests and Foreign Trade: C. William Verity, Jr., 27413 [13OC]

———Senator Danforth, 27413 [13OC]

Economic Sanctions Against South Africa: former Kodak employee, 4516 [3MR]

Establishing U.S.S.R.-U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Frederick B. Dent, 27408 [13OC]

Excise Taxes: Darwin G. Johnson, 21036 [23JY]

Exemption of Insurance Business From Antitrust Laws, 541 [6JA]

Export Control Program: Malcolm Baldrige, Sec. of Commerce, 3313 [11FE]

Foreign Investment: Paul A. Volcker, 20187, 20188 [17JY]

Foreign Manufacturers' Trade Practices: Representative Gaydos, 7709 [1AP]

FTC: Bob Butterworth, 26775 [7OC]

———Mark Silbergeld, 26771 [7OC]

———Representative Florio, 26754, 26770 [7OC]

Global Economics and U.S. Competitiveness: Frank P. Doyle, 23389 [7AU]

Impact of Hiring of Part-Time Workers: Gordon Burgess, 9277 [22AP]

Impact of Imports on Bicycle Tire Industry: Jack Hollis, 5220 [10MR]

Inclusion of Copy-Code Scanners in Digital Audio Recording Devices: White House, 4697 [3MR]

Insider Trading: ABA, 16387 [17JN]

———Harvey L. Pitt and John F. Olson, 16388 [17JN]

———John Shad, 28504 [20OC]

———Richard M. Phillips and Robert J. Zutz, 16388 [17JN]

———Sam Zell, 28504 [20OC]

———Time (magazine), 28504 [20OC]

Insurance and Antitrust Laws: Franklin D. Roosevelt, 14146 [29MY]

Investment Tax Credit: John F. Kennedy, 2501 [3FE]

Involvement in Realty Development Corp.: Robert Axley, 29303 [27OC]

Kennedy Health Plan Prescription for Less Jobs, Higher Prices: John Sloan, 18390 [30JN]

Labor Recommendations: Task Force on Economic Adjustment and Worker Dislocation, 3727 [19FE]

London Stock Market: David Neeson, 33123 [20NO]

Minimum Wage Hike Would Hurt Marginal Employees, Employers, National Federation of Independent Business, 11245 [5MY]

National Quality Improvement Award: Malcolm Baldrige, 23069 [7AU]

Organized Crime: Roman L. Hruska, 29299 [27OC]

Patents: International Bureau of World Intellectual Property Organization, 12489 [14MY]

Prompt Payment of Subcontractors by Prime Contractor: General Contractors of America, American Subcontractor Association, and Associated Specialty Contractors, 27204 [9OC]

Purpose of the Trademark: Guy Blynn, 23573 [9SE]

Registration of Foreign Interests in U.S. Property: Federal Reserve Board, 20186 [17JY]

Restructuring of Oil Industry: Felix Rohatyn, 24534 [18SE]

Salute to Small Business: President Reagan, 11740 [7MY]

Science Education and Research in the U.S.: Eric Block, 30678 [4NO]

Stock Market Decline: Representative Kemp, 28526 [20OC]

Superconductivity: Bertram Batlogg, Bell Laboratories, 12764 [19MY]

———Frank Y. Fradin, 12764 [19MY]

———John J.M. Rowell, 12764 [19MY]

———Representative Ritter, 20809 [22JY]

Technology: Commission on Industrial Competitiveness, 7951 [3AP]

Textile and Apparel Trade Act: Representative Frenzel, 24066 [16SE]

Trade Adjustment Assistance Eligibility Benefits for Certain Workers: Senator Dole, 20212 [17JY]

———Senator Metzenbaum, 20212 [17JY]

———Senator Weicker, 20212 [17JY]

U.S. Agriculture Advancement Through International Cooperation and Development: Representative Akaka, 20807 [22JY]

U.S. Competition: Donald S. Beilman, Microelectronics Center of North Carolina, 13692-13694 [27MY]

U.S. Economic Growth and Opportunity: Paul C. Roberts, 31250 [6NO]

———Ravi Batra, 31257 [6NO]

———Richard W. Rahn, 31252 [6NO]

———Senator Kasten, 31250 [6NO]

———William B. Johnston, 31255 [6NO]

U.S. Employment Service: Wacker Siltronic Corp., 5281 [10MR]

U.S. Trade Policy in the 1940's: Hugh Dalton, 10194 [28AP]

U.S.-Japan Relations From the Viewpoint of Japanese Multinational Corporations Doing Business in the U.S.: Kazuo Inamori, 27931-27933 [14OC]

U.S.-Soviet Trade: Abel Aganbegyan, 35597 [15DE]

Workplace Literacy Programs: Barbara Bush, 6599 [23MR]

———Jonathan Kozol, 6599 [23MR]

———President Reagan, 6599 [23MR]

———(sundry), 6599 [23MR]

———Terrel H. Bell, 6599 [23MR]

Studies

Advanced Notification in Plant Closings: Industrial Relations Adjustment Service, 18899 [8JY]

Comparable Worth: American Federation of State, Municipal, and County Employees, 18906 [8JY]

Flexible Manufacturing Systems, Jaikumar, Harvard Business School, 7953 [3AP]

International Trade, 3672 [19FE]

International Trade Accounts: Dept. of the Treasury, 10224 [28AP]

Organized Labor's Menu for the 100th Congress: U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 18907 [8JY]

Technology Transfer to People's Republic of China: OTA, 21148-21153 [24JY]

Summaries

Agricultural Producer and Farm Credit System Borrower Act (S. 1486), 19421-19423 [10JY]

American Trade, Growth, and Employment Promotion Act (S. 590), 4291 [26FE]

America's Living Standard Act (H.R. 717), 1914 [22JA]

Convention on the Grant of European Patents, 3775 [19FE]

Facing Global Realities—Conference on Trade, Competitiveness and U.S. Living Standards: Economic Policy Institute, 17043 [23JN]

Financial Modernization Act (S. 1886) (draft), 30484 [3NO]

Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act (S. 572), 3790 [19FE]

Foreign Trade Negotiations: Committee for Fair Trade With China, 14159-14162 [29MY]

Government Contracts Rules Amendments (H.R. 2328), 11743 [7MY]

Inclusion of Copy-Code Scanners in Digital Audio Recording Devices (H.R. 1384), 4696 [3MR]

Insider Trading Legislation: proposal by ad hoc committee, 16390 [17JN]

Location Decisions Regarding Maquiladora/In-Bond Plants Operating in Baja California, Mexico, 5119 [10MR]

Minority Enterprise Enhancement Act, 20883 [23JY]

National Petroleum Security Act (S. 1355), 15457 [11JN]

Omnibus Trade Act (S. 490), 3034-3039 [5FE]

Restoration of Capital Gains Tax Three-Tiered Rate Differential (S. 1825), 29536 [28OC]

Rural Enterprise Zone Act (S. 983), 8788 [9AP]

Rural Recovery and Revitalization Act (S. 1403), 17011 [23JN]

Tax Incentives for Cash Profit Sharing Plans: various business groups and individuals, 35325 [11DE]

Tender Offer Disclosure and Fairness Act (S. 1323), 14620, 14623-14625 [4JN]

Worker Adjustment Improvement Act: enact (S. 524), 3352-3355 [17FE]

Surveys

Implementation of Federal Minority Business Programs: Committee on Small Business, 37822 [21DE]

Mining Law, 35440 [11DE]

Prompt Payment Act Implementation: American Subcontracting Association, 27232 [9OC]

Tables

Effect of U.S. steel import quotas, 3278 [10FE]

Employment growth in the major industrial economies, 31255 [6NO]

Fishermen's guaranty fund agreement holders for fiscal year 1987, 25456 [29SE]

Japanese 13-inch color television imports, 9154 [21AP]

Japanese import quotas, 18410 [1JY]

Pension eligibility, 28145 [15OC]

Petroleum consumption and imports, 18422 [1JY]

Plan timetables and status of State action, 13009 [19MY]

Process patent protection in group B countries, 3775 [19FE]

Steel imports from Sweden (sundry), 2617 [3FE]

Taxes paid and tax share under ERTA, 31255 [6NO]

Total deficits as a percentage of GNP, 31255 [6NO]

Telegrams

U.S.-Japan trade negotiations: Dept. of State, 10215 [28AP]

Testimonies

Amend Prompt Payment Act: Christopher R. Brewster, 1453 [20JA]

Are We Playing Chess on the Titanic? John Young, Hewlett-Packard Co., 5067 [6MR]

Artificial Pricing of Articles Produced by Nonmarket Economy Countries: Lionel Olmer, 3053 [5FE]

Biotechnology: Lewis Thomas, 35955 [17DE]

Civil Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations: Representative Conyers, 30265 [29OC]

Commercial Banks: George D. Gould, 33123 [20NO]

Employee Stock Ownership Plans: Russell B. Long, 20035-20037 [15JY]

Funding for Research: Representative Walgren, 5526 [11MR]

Hostile Takeovers, William E. Wall, 5131 [10MR]

Inclusion of Copy-Code Scanners in Digital Audio Recording Devices: Stevland (Stevie Wonder) Morris, 16319 [16JN]

Insurance Industry: National Federation of Independent Business, 31975 [16NO]

———Thomas O'Day, 31975 [16NO]

———Washington State Insurance Commissioner, 31975 [16NO]

National Quality Improvement Award: Joseph Juron, 4955 [5MR]

Nonbank Subsidiary of Bank Holding Company: Donald T. Regan, Sec. of the Treasury, 30484 [3NO]

Organized Crime: Stephen S. Trott, 29300 [27OC]

Protecting Our Pensions: Representative Ritter, 11295 [5MY]

Restoring the U.S.'s Competitive Edge: Donald R. Hughes, 8468 [8AP]

Textile and Apparel Industries: Arnold Delin, 19675 [14JY]

Trade Adjustment Assistance: American International Automobile Dealers Association, 10225 [28AP]

Trade and Development Program: Christian Holmes, 5616-5619 [12MR]

U.S. Trade Policy: John Young, Hewlett-Packard Co., 5066 [6MR]

Texts of

H. Con. Res. 65, National Foreign Language Week, 4969 [5MR]

H. Con. Res. 164, agriculture export enhancement program, 20865 [23JY]

H. Res. 225, excise tax on gasoline and diesel fuel, 23468 [7AU]

H.J. Res. 221, establish Commission to study means to strengthen industrial base, 7703 [1AP]

H.J. Res. 303, National Watermen's Recognition Week, 30633 [3NO]

H.J. Res. 318, Made in U.S.A. Month, 33673 [2DE]

H.R. 10, National Development Investment Act amendment, 874 [7JA]

H.R. 162, High Risk Occupational Disease Notification and Prevention Act, 3251-3253 [10FE]

H.R. 812, establish National Quality Improvement Award, 14875 [8JN]

H.R. 923, Family Farm Targeting and Marketing Act, 2671-2673 [3FE]

H.R. 1056, Government National Mortgage Association guarantee of mortgage-backed securities, 3964 [24FE]

H.R. 1342, workplace literacy programs, 4690 [3MR]

H.R. 1398, protect and improve quality of life through capitalism, 8655 [9AP]

H.R. 1511, Service Sector Data Collection Act, 5277 [10MR]

H.R. 1593, Offshore Energy Security Act, 5670 [12MR]

H.R. 1675, amend Foreign Assistance Act relative to private and voluntary organization and cooperatives, 6217 [18MR]

H.R. 2059, sale of securities obligations to issuer before public offering, 9031 [10AP]

H.R. 2069, establish National Commission on Commercial and National Defense Application of Superconductors, 11599 [6MY]

H.R. 2166, amend Small Business Act and Small Business Investment Act, 13776 [27MY]

H.R. 2200, petroleum import fee, 10588 [29AP]

H.R. 2226, amend Buy American Act to award preferences to U.S. businesses in Government procurement, 11007 [4MY]

H.R. 2250, give commanding officer of each military installation authority to contract out commercial activities, 10820 [30AP]

H.R. 2338, Foreign Trade Zone Fee Structure Act, 11873 [8MY]

H.R. 2480, temporarily extend fishing agreement between the U.S. and the Republic of Korea, 16892 [22JN]

H.R. 2489, destruction or injury of property moving in interstate or foreign commerce, 13677 [21MY]

H.R. 2578, regulate establishment or acquisition of depository institutions by foreign nationals, 27676 [13OC]

H.R. 2598, Commercial Fishing Industry Vessel Anti-Reflagging Act, 31362 [9NO], 36747-36750 [21DE], 37953-37955 [22DE]

H.R. 2687, make antitrust laws applicable to certain baseball teams, 16089 [15JN]

H.R. 2694, requirements for export licenses for commercial arms sales, 16311 [16JN]

H.R. 2695, prevent foreigners from receiving loans and payments from farm programs, 16280 [16JN]

H.R. 2801, amend Federal Unemployment Tax Act, 18710 [1JY]

H.R. 2870, improve economic conditions, 18666 [1JY]

H.R. 2873, Dept. of Defense restrictions on overseas contracts, 28333 [19OC]

H.R. 2971, recovering costs associated with cotton classing services, 21159 [27JY]

H.R. 2973, relief of Junior Achievement, Sacramento, CA, 4801 [4MR]

H.R. 2995, Corporate Raider Tax Act, 21040 [23JY]

H.R. 2996, Shareholder Democracy Act, 21034 [23JY]

H.R. 3051, standards relative to air carrier passenger services, 26374-26378 [5OC], 30292-30295 [30OC]

H.R. 3090, Merger Limitation Act, 22341 [4AU]

H.R. 3093, Dept. of Agriculture Optional Acreage Diversion Program, 23037 [7AU]

H.R. 3134, Defense Contractor Profits Review Act, 23008 [6AU]

H.R. 3240, Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act amendment, 23405 [7AU]

H.R. 3360, establish financial services holding companies, 26208-26210 [1OC]

H.R. 3365, Foreign Income Tax Equity Act, 25938-25940 [30SE]

H.R. 3381, strengthen capabilities of U.S. commercial fishing industry, 25674 [29SE]

H.R. 3608, Eximbank estimates of allowances for loan losses and inclusion in financial reports, 30887 [4NO]

H.R. 3735, Agricultural Production and Food Processing Systems Research Act, 35008 [10DE]

S. 8, Alliance for Education Act, 395 [6JA]

S. 13, Western Regional Export Licensing Office Act, 429 [6JA]

S. 31, Increased Market Access Promotion Act, 463

S. 35, charter National Academy of Social Insurance, 475 [6JA]

S. 58, Research and Development Incentive Act, 519 [6JA]

S. 67, repeal transition rule relative to Tax Reform Act, 531 [6JA]

S. 78, notice of stock purchases, 536 [6JA]

S. 80, repeal insurance exemption from antitrust laws, 542 [6JA]

S. 217, Joint and Several Liability Reform Act, 652 [6JA]

S. 219, Trade Procedures Reform Act, 654, 656 [6JA]

S. 229, Northern Ireland Fair Employment Practices Act, 675 [6JA]

S. 311, accounting methods for certain agricultural food processing companies, 1307 [14JA]

S. 328, Government interest on overdue payments, 1445 [20JA], 27187, 27238-27241 [9OC]

S. 335, Anti-Piracy and Market Access Act, 1506 [20JA]

S. 344, Fair Deposit Availability Act, 1517-1520 [20JA]

S. 345, Government contracts competitive examination process for selection of members of boards of contract appeals, 13539 [21MY]

S. 368, ban reimportation of drugs, restrict drug samples, and ban certain resales by hospitals, 1641 [21JA]

S. 374, America's Living Standard Act, 1844-1853 [22JA]

S. 406, Education for Competitive America Act, 2128-2131 [28JA]

S. 418, preferential tax treatment for capital gains, 2324 [29JA]

S. 426, Liability Insurance Reform Act, 2333 [29JA]

S. 430, Retail Competition Enforcement Act, 2450 [2FE]

S. 431, application of antitrust policy to partnerships, 2451 [2FE]

S. 432, antitrust policy relative to mergers, 2452 [2FE]

S. 437, prepayment of small business loans made to State and local development companies, 36636 [19DE]

S. 490, Omnibus Trade At, 3011-3034 [5FE]

S. 524, Worker Adjustment Improvement Act, 3356-3359 [17FE]

S. 547, amend Export Administration Act, 3681 [19FE]

S. 572, Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act, 3789 [19FE]

S. 583, strengthen enforcement of U.S. trade laws, 4267 [26FE]

S. 584, extend suspension of duty on bicycle parts, 4268 [26FE]

S. 590, American Trade, Growth, and Employment Promotion Act, 4290-4291 [26FE]

S. 634, antitrust policies relative to mergers and corporate tender offers, 4606-4608 [3MR]

S. 637, amend Fair Labor Standards Act relative to industrial homework, 4608 [3MR]

S. 666, Product Liability Reform Act, 5018-5021 [6MR]

S. 687, uniform product liability law, 5053

S. 688, uniform product liability law, 5055, 5056 [6MR]

S. 711, limit product liability law, 5335-5343 [11MR]

S. 716, taxation of research and experimental expenditures, 5345 [11MR]

S. 719, small business installment sales rules, 5351 [11MR]

S. 764, amend Airport and Airway Improvement Act to restrict foreign business participation in federally funded projects, 6031 [18MR]

S. 782, protect public interest relative to operation of professional sports teams and leagues, 6359-6361 [19MR]

S. 785, worker retraining assistance, 6364 [19MR]

S. 786, Financial Export Control Act, 6370 [19MR]

S. 791, copyright protection of industrial designs, 6381 [19MR]

S. 870, temporarily suspend duty on chlor amino base, 7184 [27MR]

S. 871, temporarily suspend duty on 3-nitrophenyl-4-beta-hydroxyethyl sulfone, 7185 [27MR]

S. 872, temporarily suspend duty on 4-chloro-2-nitro aniline, 7185 [27MR]

S. 873, temporarily suspend duty on amino sulfon br, 7185 [27MR]

S. 874, temporarily suspend duty on acet quinone base, 7185 [27MR]

S. 875, temporarily suspend duty on diamino phenetole sulfate, 7185 [27MR]

S. 877, National Commission on International Competitiveness, 7187 [27MR]

S. 891, Trade Enforcement Act, 7540-7552 [31MR]

S. 969, impose quotas on certain tobacco products of the Republic of Korea, 8768 [9AP]

S. 983, Rural Enterprise Zone Act, 8783-8788 [9AP]

S. 999, veterans' job training and counseling services, 8807-8809 [9AP], 22182-22186 [4AU], 36572-36576 [19DE]

S. 1013, Farm Credit System banks authority to finance exports and imports, 8973 [10AP]

S. 1014, increase civil monetary penalties, 8974 [10AP]

S. 1017, Bankruptcy Antifraud Act, 8977 [10AP]

S. 1019, Self-Insured Workers' Compensation Funds Tax Exempt Status Clarification Act, 8978 [10AP]

S. 1050, tariff on stuffed toy figures, 9136 [21AP]

S. 1051, tariff on stuffed toy figures, 9136 [21AP]

S. 1058, tax deduction for certain indebtedness incurred to acquire 50% or more ownership interest in a corporation, 9139 [21AP]

S. 1066, tariff on small toys, 9244 [22AP]

S. 1068, interlocking corporate directors and officers, 9245 [22AP], 21887 [31JY]

S. 1071, Child Care Public-Private Partnership Act, 9252 [22AP]

S. 1083, delay implementation of employer sanctions provisions of Immigration Reform and Control Act, 9430 [23AP]

S. 1086, U.S. Trade Representative investigation of Japanese restrictive trade practices, 9437 [23AP]

S. 1087, unfair foreign practices in marine transportation of imported motor vehicles, 9438 [23AP]

S. 1088, FTC regulation of airline advertising, 9439 [23AP]

S. 1095, Diversification in Broadcast Ownership Act, 9745 [24AP]

S. 1097, Price Competitive Products Act, 9776 [27AP]

S. 1100, Uranium Revitalization and Tailings Reclamation Act, 10109-10114 [28AP]

S. 1102, extend patent numbered 3,387,268, Quotation Monitoring Unit, 10119 [28AP]

S. 1104, relief to persons injured by importation of articles at less than market value or wholesale price, 10121 [28AP]

S. 1111, Motor Fuel Sales Competition Improvement Act, 10352 [29AP]

S. 1116, Barter and Countertrade Act, 10648 [30AP]

S. 1129, duty on triallate, 11094 [5MY]

S. 1131, equalize duties on canned tuna, 11099 [5MY]

S. 1137, marketing loan program for agricultural commodities, 11108 [5MY]

S. 1156, Farm Credit Borrower Relief, System Reform and Local Control Act, 11531-11534 [6MY]

S. 1183, Foreign Shipping Practices Act, 12000 [12MY]

S. 1184, Airport and Airway Capacity Expansion Act, 29538-29540 [28OC]

S. 1190, farmers recovery of costs of services to cooperatives, 12009 [12MY]

S. 1197, Tax Reform Act, 12304 [13MY]

S. 1200, processes, misuse and licensee challenges to validity, 12487, 12489 [14MY]

S. 1224, duty on certain power-driven weaving machines, 12961 [19MY]

S. 1227, Workplace Literacy Act, 12968 [19MY]

S. 1254, additional limitation on reduction on credit applicable to certain employers under Federal Unemployment Tax Act, 13564 [21MY]

S. 1264, Hostile Foreign Takeover Moratorium Act, 13576 [21MY]

S. 1275, National Advisory Committee on Semiconductor Research and Development Act, 13740 [27MY]

S. 1280, Fair Trade in Auto Parts Act, 13748 [27MY]

S. 1299, Insurance Competition Improvement Act, 14148 [29MY]

S. 1300, mortgages on properties including day care centers, 14149 [29MY]

S. 1309, Economic Equity Act, 14350-14362 [2JN]

S. 1323, Tender Offer Disclosure and Fairness Act, 14618-14620 [4JN]

S. 1324, Corporate Takeover and Insider Abuse Reform Act, 14687-14691 [4JN]

S. 1325, Fast Food Ingredient Information Act, 14692 [4JN]

S. 1344, amend Small Business Act to enhance ability of small businesses to compete for international export markets, 15078-15080 [9JN]

S. 1353, preclude certain farmers from using cash method accounting and provide exemptions for certain livestock breeding, 15453 [11JN]

S. 1355, National Petroleum Security Act, 15457-15462 [11JN]

S. 1360, funding for economic growth of Indians, 15464 [11JN], 32026 [17NO]

S. 1370, tax deductions for cost of health insurance coverage for self-employed, 16167 [16JN]

S. 1380, Insider Trading Proscriptions Act, 16389 [17JN]

S. 1393, Deceptive Mailings Prevention Act, 16663 [18JN]

S. 1396, private enforcement of unfair foreign competition statutes, 16848

S. 1400, suspend duty on cultured pearls, 16853 [19JN]

S. 1404, use of consolidated tax returns by insurance companies, 17013 [23JN]

S. 1434, relief for Rolen-Rolen-Roberts International, 17826 [26JN]

S. 1452, amend Securities Law Technical Act, 18188-18191 [30JN], 19456-19460 [10JY], 23697-23701 [10SE]

S. 1507, disclosure of rates of interest on savings accounts, 20520 [21JY]

S. 1520, certain entities' election of taxable year other than required taxable year, 20576 [21JY]

S. 1531, preclude all corporations engaged in farm product processing with gross receipts in excess of $100,000,000 from using cash accounting, 20989 [23JY]

S. 1535, tax credit for employers who provide on-site day care facilities for dependents of their employees, 20994 [23JY]

S. 1547, calculation of limitation on foreign tax credits, 21129 [24JY]

S. 1559, modify small business set-aside program, 21266 [28JY]

S. 1577, protection under bankruptcy title 11, 22712 [6AU]

S. 1617, taxation of research and development expenditures, 22948 [6AU]

S. 1639, prohibition on export of defense articles by certain companies, 23228 [7AU]

S. 1677, ban sale of Toshiba products in military exchange stores, 23844 [11SE]

S. 1715, tax treatment of commodity collateral for CCC loans, 25186 [24SE]

S. 1752, establish commission on effects of air travel deregulation, 26338 [2OC]

S. 1756, establish agricultural task force on competitiveness, 26571 [6OC]

S. 1757, tax treatment of employer mass transit and van pool subsidies, 26573 [6OC]

S. 1811, pension payments to steel industry retirees, 28982 [22OC]

S. 1814, NTL-5 Gas Royalty Act, 29160 [23OC]

S. 1816, Agricultural Protection Cost Recovery Act, 29164-29166 [23OC]

S. 1821, certain fish and fisheries processing services are exempt from the definition of employee for Federal tax purposes, 29448 [27OC]

S. 1836, financial protection to poultry growers and sellers, 30349 [30OC]

S. 1843, State taxation of domestic and foreign corporations, 30768 [4NO]

S. 1863, special revenue bonds relative to bankruptcy, 31824 [12NO]

S. 1880, suspend duty on theobromine, 32607 [18NO]

S. 1881, suspend duty on chlorhexanone, 32607 [18NO]

S. 1886, Financial Modernization Act, 33127-33130 [20NO], 30485-30490 [3NO]

S. 1890, capital gains tax differential, 33138 [20NO]

S. 1892, Defense Industrial Base Preservation Act, 33159-33162 [20NO]

S. 1962, enforcement of antitrust policy, 36201 [18DE]

S. 1981, civil penalties for manufacturing or entering into commerce of certain imitation firearms, 36613 [19DE]

S. 1993, Minority Business Development Program Reform Act, 37815-37821 [21DE]

S. 1996, court jurisdiction over actions involving U.S. citizens and foreign persons, 37832 [21DE]

S. Con. Res. 26, improve foreign language skills to enhance economic competition, 5081 [6MR]

S. Con. Res. 58, private sector efforts to alleviate losses suffered by retirees and employees as a result of pension plan termination, 12309 [13MY]

S. Con Res. 45, initiative to enhance small business access to trade laws, 8502 [8AP]

S. Res. 50, trade negotiations with Canada, 798 [6JA]

S. Res. 51, trade negotiations with Japan, 799 [6JA]

S. Res. 185, protect the Farm Credit System, 8420 [8AP]

S. Res. 227, distribution of motion pictures in Canada, 14864 [5JN]

S. Res. 237, Dept. of Agriculture wheat program, 16862 [19JN]

S. Res. 295, Employee Ownership Week, 26577 [6OC], 26891 [7OC]

S.J. Res. 1, amend Constitution to affirm equal rights, 751 [6JA]

S.J. Res. 96, Interstate Commerce Commission Day, 7393 [31MR]

S.J. Res. 223, National Productivity Improvement Week, 33514 [1DE]

Transcripts

Behave or Be Damned: Paul Harvey, 24248 [16SE]

C. William Verity, Jr., on Radio Moscow, 27421 [13OC]