FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION

Amendments

Appropriations: authorizing (S. 677), 8037, 8046 [6AP], 8404-8406, 8502 [8AP]

Appointments

Conferees: S. 677, authorizing appropriations for the FTC, 27961 [15OC]

Articles and editorials

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

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

Recent Cigarette Advertising Seen as Targeting the Young—Congress Prepares To Consider Total Ban, 11584 [6MY]

Textile Shipment From U.S.S.R. Halted, 16345 [17JN]

Bills and resolutions

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

Aged: conduct a study and prepare reports relative to insurance sales to the elderly (see H.R. 2764)

Appropriations: authorizing (see S. 677)

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

Federal credit unions: immunity (see H.R. 1309)

Insurance: restriction over FTC authority (see H.R. 3833)

Monopolies: enforce antitrust provisions relative to airline mergers (see H.R. 1868)

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

Communications from

Accounting systems: report, 2735 (EC497) [4FE], 3384 (EC472) [17FE]

Activities for 1986: report, 8385 (EC1131) [8AP]

Clayton Act: premerger notification provision, 102 (EC176) [6JA]

Competition for contracts: report, 2517 (EC486) [3FE], 3383 (EC452) [17FE]

Comprehensive Smokeless Tobacco Health Education Act: report, 2116 (EC409) [28JA]

Current sales: report, 1835 (EC421) [22JA]

Fair Debt Collection Practices Act: report, 7236 (EC1001) [30MR], 7938 (EC918) [3AP]

Freedom of Information Act: report, 9120 (EC1037) [21AP]

Government in the Sunshine Act: report, 9079 (EC1182) [21AP], 9770 (EC1098) [27AP]

Internal accounting and administrative controls: report, 3384 (EC473) [17FE]

International Energy Program: report, 7237 (EC1010) [30MR], 7284 (EC878) [30MR]

Report, 337 (EC80) [6JA]

Hearings

Committee on Appropriations (House): budget (testimony), D187 [24MR]

Committee on Appropriations (Senate): budget (testimony), D266 [22AP]

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: budget (testimony from Daniel Oliver, Patricia P. Bailey, Terry Calvani, Mary L. Azcuenaga, Andrew J. Sternio, Jr., Kathleen E. McDermott and W.J. Michael Cody), D50 [4FE]

———budget (testimony from Mark Silbergeld, Donald A. Randall, William W. Suttle, John S. Satagaj, Glen Wagner, Gilbert H. Weil, David S. Versfelt, and David A. Rice), D55 [5FE]

Committee on Finance: U.S. trade (testimony), D237 [7AP]

Committee on the Judiciary (House): antitrust exemptions in insurance (testimony), D280 [23AP]

Committee on the Judiciary (Senate): 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]

———preserve competition in the retail pricing of consumer goods (S. 430) (testimony), D275 [23AP]

Letters

Air carrier advertising: Bob Butterworth, 26763 [7OC]

———Consumer Federation of America and Consumers Union, 26777 [7OC]

Appropriations: John M. Rector, 8178 [9AP]

Aviation safety: FAA, 26778 [7OC]

Exemption for advertisers from FTC rulemaking authority over unfair practices: Steve Lawrence, 19279 [9JY]

Rebate consumer protection breakdown: Craig S. Brightup, 24898 [22SE]

———Representative Florio, 24898 [22SE]

Meetings

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: authorizing appropriations, D129 [10MR]

Memorandums

Modification of the FTC Injury Test, 5623 [12MR]

Remarks in House

Advertising: control unfair practice, 19279 [9JY]

Aged: conduct a study and prepare reports relative to insurance sales to the elderly (H.R. 2764), 17604 [25JN]

Antitrust policy: extend period for evaluation of impact of mergers (H.R. 586), 1084 [8JA]

Appropriations: authorizing (H.R. 2897), 26764 [13OC]

———authorizing (S. 677), 26782 [7OC]

———authorizing (S. 677), appointment of conferees, 27961 [15OC]

Consumers: breakdown in protection relative to rebates, 24898 [22SE]

Federal Credit Unions: provide an immunity (H.R. 1309), 4719 [3MR]

Insurance: restriction over FTC authority (H.R. 3833), 37941 [21DE]

Tobacco industry: advertising, 11584 [6MY]

Remarks in Senate

Advertising: regulation of airline advertising (S. 1088), 9438 [23AP]

Agriculture: commodity marketing orders, 16871 [19JN]

Appropriations: authorizing (H.R. 2897), 19078 [8JY]

———authorizing (S. 677), 5038, 5042 [6MR], 7936 [3AP], 8035-8040 [6AP], 8178, 8179 [9AP], 8404-8415 [8AP], 35278 [11DE]

———authorizing (S. 677), unanimous-consent agreement, 8032 [6AP]

Federal Trade Commission Act: amend (S. 677), 8032-8034 [6AP]

Foreign trade: determination of material injury in countervailing duty cases, 5623 [12MR]

Insurance: exemption from antitrust laws (S. 80), 540-542 [6JA]

Trade Expansion Act: enact (S. 259), 721 [6JA]

Reports

Gray Market Policy Options Facing U.S. Customs Service, 9776-9782 [27AP]

Reports filed

Federal Trade Commission Act: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (S. 677) (S. Rept. 100-31), 7530 [31MR]

Statements

Air Carrier Advertising: Bob Butterworth, 26775 [7OC]

———Mark Silbergeld, 26771 [7OC]

Credit, 12493 [14MY]

Domestic Trade Laws: Robert Anderson, 5221 [10MR]

Government Regulation: Representative Florio, 26754, 26770 [7OC]

Summaries

Trade Expansion Act (S. 259), 721 [6JA]

Texts of

H.R. 2764, conduct study relative to insurance sales to the elderly, 17605 [25JN]

S. 80, repeal insurance exemption from antitrust laws, 542 [6JA]

S. 677, appropriations authorization, 5039-5042 [6MR], 8416 [8AP], 26782-26789 [7OC]

S. 1088, FTC regulation of airline advertising, 9439 [23AP]