POSTAL SERVICE see also Postmaster General

Amendments

Appropriations: making (H.R. 2907), 19565 [13JY], 19847, 19848, 19854, 19856, 19858, 19869 [15JY], 25217, 25229, 25326 [25SE]

Employees: procedural and appeal rights to certain personnel actions (H.R. 348), 21240, 21270 [28JY]

New York, NY: Oscar Garcia Rivera Post Office Building (H.R. 1948), 37676, 37883 [21DE]

St. Charles, IL: John E. Grotberg Post Office Building (H.R. 1403), 21737, 21769 [30JY]

Appointments

Conferees: H.R. 2907, appropriations, 27961 [15OC]

Articles and editorials

Believe It or Not, 28536 [20OC]

It's a Smoke Screen That Obscures the Real Corruption, 23560 [9SE]

Letter Carriers Deliver in More Ways Than One, 18717 [1JY]

Letter Imperfect, 35594 [14DE]

``Not a Hero'' Braves Fire To Find, Save Baby, 25906 [30SE]

Return of the Stamp Act, Senator Stevens, 23560 [9SE]

Stamp for Senator Chavez, 36019 [17DE]

We Appreciated Walter Furey's Help, 24906 [22SE]

What Now for Maryland Mail Fraud Defendants?, 31890 [13NO]

Bills and resolutions

Advertisements: authorize to approve those to which U.S. stamps are affixed (see H.R. 3536)

Aged: reduced rates for certain tax-exempt organizations (see H.R. 220)

Animals: strengthen enforcement of quarantine laws (see H.R. 1986)

Appropriations: making (see H.R. 2907)

Charities: disclosure of certain information relative to solicitation of contributions by mail (see H.R. 2130)

Children: rates for home delivery of certain publications (see H.R. 564)

Cleveland, OH: John O. Holly Station of U.S. Postal Service (see S. 1936; H.R. 3610)

Corpus Christi, TX: Dr. Hector Perez Garcia Post Office Building (see S. 384; H.R. 781)

Crime and criminals: prohibit mailing of certain locksmithing devices (see S. 1803; H.R. 2777)

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

Dept. of the Treasury: disclosure of addresses of certain persons to military departments or other agencies (see H.R. 2282)

Diseases: inspect certain mail parcels, excluding letters, to prevent introduction of destructive plant or animal diseases, pests, or noxious weeds (see H.R. 3223)

District of Columbia: Old City Post Office building acquisition by the Architect of the Capitol (see S. 1947)

Elections: change-of-address forms relative to voter registration (see S. 1405; H.R. 2750)

———protect employee rights to participation in political processes (see H.R. 21)

Employees: appeal rights for certain adverse personnel actions (see S. 523), 3384 [17FE]

———procedural and appeal rights for certain adverse personnel actions (see S. 541; H.R. 348)

Greer, SC: Edd A. Burch Post Office Building (see S. 520)

Gretna, LA: William W. Pares, Jr., Post Office Building (see H.R. 3029)

Handicapped: door delivery of mail (see H.R. 221)

Health Care Financing Administration: designate as nonmailable matter, solicitations of certain products and services (see H.R. 1550)

Income: pay rate for experts and consultants (see H.R. 3592)

Insurance: up to value of $100 on mail items (see H.R. 1690)

Kearny, NJ: Dominick V. Daniels Postal Facility (see S. 1853; H.R. 2985)

Local government: grant discretion to assign mailing addresses to sites within their jurisdictions (see H.R. 1742)

Local governments: permit municipal bodies to qualify for third-class mail (see H.R. 1017)

Los Angeles, CA: Augustus F. Hawkins Post Office Building (see H.R. 3613)

Mail service: improve (see H.R. 2207), 10585 [29AP]

Members of Congress: limit funding for postage stamps (see H.R. 479)

———limit funds for official mail (see H. Con. Res. 54)

———reduced postage rates for certain mail matter sent to (see S. 141; H.R. 1126)

Merchant marine: shipping of mail on U.S.-flag ships (see H.R. 298)

New York, NY: Oscar Garcia Rivera Post Office Building (see H.R. 1948)

Occupational Safety and Health Act: application of certain provisions (see H.R. 1954)

Office of Inspector General: establish (see H.R. 932)

Periodicals: limited circulation second-class rates for certain (see S. 700; H.R. 1413)

Plants: strengthen enforcement of quarantine laws (see H.R. 1986)

Privatization (see H.R. 2233)

Selective Service System: registration requirements for new employees (see H.R. 2900)

Shipping industry: require mail be carried on ships of U.S. registry (see S. 146)

Social Security Administration: designate as nonmailable matter, solicitations of certain products and services (see H.R. 1550)

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

———purchase of products or services provided free of charge or at a lower price by the Government (see H.R. 939)

St. Charles, IL: John E. Grotberg Post Office Building (see S. 663; H.R. 1403)

Taxation: deductions allowed rural mail carriers for use of their automobiles (see S. 1340)

———deductions by rural mail carriers for use of private automobiles (see H.R. 2183)

Waterloo, IA: H.R. Gross Post Office Building (see S. 1909; H.R. 3689)

West Liberty, TX: designate M.P. Daniel and Thomas F. Calhoon, Sr., Post Office Building (see H.R. 1472)

Communications from

Alaska Dept. of Revenue: computer matching program, 15366 (EC1589) [10JN]

Board of Governors: report, 16141 (EC1416) [16JN]

Civil misrepresentation activities: report, 102 (EC186) [6JA], 338 (EC121) [6JA], 14917 (EC1553) [8JN], 35072 (EC2560) [11DE], 36191 (EC2303) [18DE]

Computer matching program: notice, 11945 (EC1378) [11MY], 12584 (EC1248) [15MY], 12826 (EC1436) [19MY], 13734 (EC1273) [27MY]

———report, 4258 (EC509) [26FE], 15068 (EC1350) [9JN], 15136 (EC1350) [10JN], 26154 (EC1953) [1OC]

Florida: computer matching program with Auditor General, 1470 (EC364) [20JA]

Government in the Sunshine Act: report, 1434 (EC359) [20JA]

Packaging: size limits, 335 (EC25) [6JA]

Parcel post rate complaint hearings: report, 339 (EC168) [6JA]

Privacy Act: report, 1227 (EC323) [13JA]

Records system: report, 102 (EC163) [6JA], 1150 (EC254) [12JA], 1434 (EC358, EC360) [20JA], 3300 (EC554) [11FE]

Report, 1227 (EC322) [13JA]

Sale of money orders: transmittal, 36192 (EC2310) [18DE]

System of records: report, 26061 (EC2185) [1OC]

Explanations

Limitations on the use of the frank by candidates for public office, 33044 [20NO]

Factsheets

Potential Actions Under Consideration to Reduce Capital Expenditures in Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989, 34922 [10DE]

Hearings

Committee on Aging (Select): direct mail solicitations to the elderly (testimony from Dorcas R. Hardy, J.E. Swaggerty, and David Ormstead), D53 [4FE]

Committee on Appropriations (House): budget, D228 [2AP]

———(testimony from Preston R. Tisch), D110 [4MR]

Committee on Governmental Affairs: extend adverse action appeal rights before the Merit Systems Protection Board to a large number of postal employees (S. 541) (testimony), D284 [27AP]

———nomination of Norma Pace to the Postal Service Board of Governors (testimony), D284 [27AP]

———Postal Service (testimony), D152 [16MR]

Committee on Post Office and Civil Service: events of August 20, 1986, in Edmond, OK (testimony), D168 [18MR]

———Federal Employees' Retirement System Act (testimony), D189 [24MR], D195 [25MR]

———extend to Postal Service employees same procedural rights as Federal employees with respect to certain adverse personnel actions (H.R. 348) (testimony from Joel S. Trofch), D87 [25FE]

Committee on Ways and Means: misleading and deceptive mailings to Social Security beneficiaries (testimony from Members of Congress, Dorcas R. Hardy, Donald D. Davis, James Roosevelt, and public witnesses), D134 [10MR]

Letters

Dennis Chavez commemorative stamp: Preston R. Tisch, 30790 [4NO]

Postal Service employees: Charles R. Clauson, 21239 [28JY]

———Senator Helms, 21239 [28JY]

Supplemental appropriations: Dennis E. Whitefield, Dept. of Labor, 18280 [30JN]

Meetings

Committee on Post Office and Civil Service: Dr. Hector Perez Garcia Post Office Building in Corpus Christi, TX (H.R. 781), D270 [22AP]

———John E. Grotberg Post Office Building in St. Charles, IL (H.R. 1403), D270 [22AP]

Memorials of legislature

Illinois, 23571 [9SE]

Louisiana, 22916 [6AU]

Massachusetts, 22019, 22020 [3AU]

Washington, 10274 [28AP]

Obituaries

William C. Doherty, 24264 [16SE]

Petitions

Olympia postmark preservation: Washington State Association of Letter Carriers, Olympia, WA, 16148 [16JN]

Remarks in House

Advertisements: authorize to approve those to which U.S. stamps are affixed (H.R. 3536), 29015 [22OC]

Aged: protection from deceptive mailing practices, 5983 [17MR], 10843 [30AP]

American workers: recognition, 17874 [26JN]

Appropriations: making (H.R. 2907), 19653 [14JY], 19654 [15JY]-19661 [14JY], 19836, 19841-19875 [15JY]

———making (H.R. 2907), appointment of conferees, 27961 [15OC]

———making (H.R. 2907), consideration (H. Res. 223), 19647-19651 [14JY]

Cleveland, OH: designate John O. Holly Station of U.S. Postal Service (H.R. 3610), 30913 [4NO]

Congress: limitations on use of frank by candidates for public office, 33044 [20NO]

Corpus Christi, TX: Dr. Hector Perez Garcia Post Office Building (H.R. 781), 2028 [27JA], 9811 [27AP], 10040 [27AP]

Crime and criminals: phantom direct mail operations, 35652 [15DE]

———prohibit mailing of certain locksmithing devices (H.R. 2777), 19087 [8JY]

Deceptive Mailings Prevention Act: enact (H.R. 939), 2673 [3FE]

Elections: change-of-address forms relative to voter registration (H.R. 2750), 17125 [23JN]

———protect employee rights to participate in political process (H.R. 21), 10041 [27AP]

Employees: procedural and appeal rights to certain personnel actions (H.R. 348), 897 [7JA], 4490-4491 [3MR], 22117 [3AU]

Equity in Interstate Competition Act: enact (H.R. 1891), 7704 [1AP]

Executive departments: management of operations, 38277 [22DE]

Foreign trade: strengthen enforcement of quarantine laws (H.R. 1986), 8552 [8AP]

FTC Act: deceptive mailings, 26768 [7OC]

Income: pay rate for experts and consultants (H.R. 3592), 30257 [29OC]

Jordan, John: tribute, 15629 [11JN]

Kearny, NJ: Dominick V. Daniels Postal Facility (H.R. 2985), 27702 [13OC]

Labor unions: contract settlement, 20843 [22JY]

Lansing, MI: Charles E. Chamberlain Federal Building and U.S. Post Office (H.R. 307), 15656 [15JN]

Los Angeles, CA: designate Augustus F. Hawkins Post Office Building (H.R. 3613), 31444 [9NO]

Mail delivery, 27962 [15OC]

Members of Congress: official mail costs (H. Con. Res. 54), 3862 [19FE]

Montgomery County, MD: carrier alert program, 18717 [1JY]

New York, NY: designate Oscar Garcia Rivera Post Office Building (H.R. 1948), 22077 [3AU]

Norfleet, Janet, 8535 [8AP]

Occupational Safety and Health Act: subject certain provisions (H.R. 1954), 8072 [6AP]

Office of Inspector General: create, 2663 [3FE]

Periodicals: restore limited circulation of second-class postage rates for certain publications (H.R. 1413), 5530 [11MR]

Plants: strengthen enforcement of quarantine laws (H.R. 1986), 8552 [8AP]

Privatization (H.R. 2233), 10860 [30AP], 35594 [14DE]

Quality of system, 28536 [20OC]

Rural Letter Carriers Tax Simplification Act: enact, 9652 [23AP]

Rural Newspaper Preservation Act: enact (H.R. 1423), 4793 [4MR]

Selective Service System: registration, 23888 [14SE]

Shirlow, William: tribute, 4427 [26FE]

Soviet Union: mail delivery, 27962 [15OC]

St. Charles, IL: designate John E. Grotberg Post Office Building (H.R. 1403), 9811 [27AP], 22118 [3AU]

Strange, Jackie A.: tribute, 23 [6JA], 932 , 973 [7JA]

Taxation: deductions by rural mail carriers for use of personal automobiles (H.R. 2183), 11871 [8MY]

Remarks in Senate

Appropriations: making (H.R. 2907), 25213-25231 [25SE]

———making (H.R. 2907), unanimous-consent agreement, 25179 [24SE]

Civil liberties: extension to officers and employees of procedural and appeal rights relative to certain adverse personnel actions (S. 541), 4575 [3MR]

Cleveland, Ohio: designate John O. Holly Station of U.S. Postal Service (S. 1936), 34462 [9DE]

Corpus Christi, TX: Dr. Hector Perez Garcia Post Office Building (S. 384), 1967 [27JA]

Courts: definition of fraud for Federal laws relative to intangible rights (S. 1898), 33253 [30NO]

Crimes and criminals: prohibit mailing of certain locksmithing devices (S. 1803), 28430 [20OC]

Deceptive Mailings Prevention Act: enact (S. 1393), 16663-16666 [18JN], 17214 [24JN]

Elections: change-of-address forms relative to voter registration (S. 1405), 17013-17015 [23JN]

Employees: appeal rights for certain adverse personnel actions (S. 523), 3385 [17FE]

———procedural and appeal rights relative to certain adverse personnel actions (S. 541), 3728 [19FE]

———procedural and appeal rights to certain personnel actions (H.R. 348), 21233, 21237-21244 [28JY]

Galivants Ferry, SC: tribute to Holliday family stewardship of post office, 18521 [1JY]

Greer, SC: Edd A. Burch Post Office Building (S. 520), 3128 [5FE]

Kearny, NJ: Dominick V. Daniels Postal Facility (S. 1853), 31142 [5NO]

Mailing addresses: discretion to assign (S. 1764), 26908 [7OC]

McKean, John: administration failure to ensure ethical standards, 3695 [19FE]

Members of Congress: reduced rates for certain mail matter (S. 141), 582 [6JA]

Merchant marine: require certain mail be carried on U.S.-flag ships (S. 146), 595 [6JA]

New York, NY: Oscar Garcia Rivera Post Office Building (H.R. 1948), 37676 [21DE]

Performance, 24419 [17SE]

Periodicals: restore limited circulation second-class rates (S. 700), 5117, 5118 [10MR]

Senate: mass mailing registration, 1923 [26JA]

St. Charles, IL: designate John E. Grotberg Post Office Building (H.R. 1403), 21737 [30JY]

———designate John E. Grotberg Post Office Building (S. 663), 5015 [6MR]

Strange, Jackie: tribute, 2463 [2FE]

Taxation: deductions allowed rural mail carriers for use of their automobiles (S. 1340), 15075 [9JN]

Waterloo, IA: designate H.R. Gross Post Office Building (S. 1909), 33635 [2DE]

Reports

John McKean's Conflict of Interests: Postal Inspector General, 3695 [19FE]

Reports filed

Appropriations: Committee on Appropriations (H.R. 2907) (H. Rept. 100-211), 19136 [9JY]

———Committee on Appropriations (Senate) (H.R. 2907) (S. Rept. 100-160), 24434 [17SE]

———Committee on Rules (H.R. 2907) (H. Res. 223) (H. Rept. 100-218), 19558, 19562 [13JY]

Charles E. Chamberlain Federal Building and U.S. Post Office, Lansing, MI: Committee on Public Works and Transportation (H.R. 307) (H. Rept. 100-128), 14777 [4JN]

John E. Grotberg Post Office Building, St. Charles, IL,: Committee on Governmental Affairs (H.R. 1403), 21518 [29JY]

Nomination: Committee on Governmental Affairs, 12956 [19MY]

Nomination of Ira D. Hall, Jr., 32810 [19NO]

Ruling

Rural mail carrier mileage factors: IRS, 9553 [23AP]

Statements

Postal Service Budget Reduction, 34922 [10DE]

Strange, Jackie A.: tribute, 23 [6JA]

Tables

Appropriations, 37775 [21DE]

Committee on the Budget scoring of H.R. 2907, 25230 [25SE]

Implication of outlay reductions on Postal Service facility program, 34922 [10DE]

Texts of

H. Res. 223, consideration of H.R. 2907, appropriations, 19647 [14JY]

H.R. 307, Charles E. Chamberlain Federal Building and U.S. Post Office, Lansing, MI, 15656 [15JN]

H.R. 348, appeal rights relative to certain personnel actions, 4490 [3MR]

H.R. 781, Dr. Hector Perez Garcia Post Office Building, Corpus Christi, TX, 9811 [27AP]

H.R. 939, Deceptive Mailings Prevention Act, 2674 [3FE]

H.R. 1403, John E. Grotberg Post Office Building in St. Charles, IL, 9811 [27AP]

H.R. 2777, prohibit mailing of certain locksmithing devices, 19087 [8JY]

H.R. 2907, making appropriations, 19841-19847, 19850-19854 [15JY]

H.R. 2985, Dominick V. Daniels Postal Facility, Kearny, NJ, 27703 [13OC]

S. 141, reduced postage rates for certain mail matter, 582 [6JA]

S. 663, John E. Grotberg Post Office Building, St. Charles, IL, 5016 [6MR]

S. 1340, Rural Letter Carriers Automobile Expense Act, 9653 [23AP], 15075 [9JN]

S. 1393, Deceptive Mailings Prevention Act, 16663 [18JN]

S. 1803, Mail Order Lock Pick Prohibition Act, 28431 [20OC]

S. 1853, Dominick V. Daniels Postal Facility, Kearny, NJ, 31143 [5NO]

S. 2405, election change-of-address forms relative to voter registration, 17014 [23JN]