VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION see also Veterans

Amendments

Cost of living increases: eliminate for Federal programs in fiscal 1988 (S. 1859), 32050 [17NO]

Disability compensation: increase rates (S. 240), 1354 [14JA]

Housing: loans (S. 1691), 25944, 25945 [1OC]

———maximum home loan guaranty (S. 1801), 30324, 30353 [30OC]

Analyses

Chief Medical Director's Authority Over Disciplinary Action Against Certain Probationary Employees (S. 1062), 9141 [21AP]

Limit Types of Proposed Actions in Which VA Disciplinary Boards Function (S. 1136), 11107 [5MY]

On-Call Pay to Certain VA Medical Personnel (S. 1065), 9145 [21AP]

Tort Claims and Hospital Cost Collection (S. 1063), 9142 [21AP]

Articles and editorials

Add VA to Cabinet, 30242 [29OC]

Cabinet Post? Vets Really Need To Abolish Archaic VA Hospital Chain, 34430 [8DE]

Disabled Vietnam Vet Continues to Serve, 19276 [9JY]

Evidently the VA Is Different, 33886 [3DE]

Fellowship in the VA Hospitals, 23417 [7AU]

Is Cabinet-Level Status the Answer?, 19140 [9JY]

Mandatory Test for AIDS Virus Opposed by Doctors at VA, 33929 [3DE]

U.S. Drug ``Crusade'' Is Seen as Undermining Itself, 33904, 33905 [3DE]

Bills and resolutions

Administration: changes (see S. 1125)

Agent orange: review of National Academy of Sciences of scientific evidence, studies, and literature pertaining to human health effects of exposure (see S. 1510)

Assistance Chief Medical Director: appointment (see H.R. 2876)

Benefits: insurance installments and premiums (see H.R. 2008)

———job training and counseling services (see S. 999)

———liberalize disability evaluations for compensation purposes (see H.R. 2347)

———medical records relative to acquired immune deficiency syndrome (see H.R. 2774)

———per diem subsidies paid for care in State homes (see H.R. 2978)

———prescribe certain presumptions relative to service in Vietnam (see H.R. 3486)

———prescription drugs prescribed by private physicians in connection with the treatment of a service-connected disability (see H.R. 2346)

———presumption of service-connected disability for certain ex-POWs (see H.R. 1183), 3517 [19FE]

———protection from reduction for disability (see H.R. 3113)

———purchase up to $20,000 of National Service Life Insurance (see H.R. 2352)

———rates of compensation and of dependency and indemnity compensation (see H.R. 2945)

———repeal requirement that a chronic disease be at least 10 percent disabling (see H.R. 2349)

———service-connected total deafness a 100% disability (see H.R. 2350)

———special pension program for veterans of World War I (see H.R. 2448)

———standardize length of marriage criteria for receipt of dependency and indemnity compensation (see H.R. 2351)

———veteran health care deductibles and coinsurance amounts (see S. 603)

Bernalillo County, NM: transfer jurisdiction over certain lands from GSA (see H.R. 2408)

Budget: authority (see H.R. 890)

———opposition to reductions (see H. Con. Res. 27)

Buffalo, NY: designate Major Robert J. DiTommaso VA Medical Center (see H.R. 2301)

Canandaigua, NY: Sonnenberg Gardens' reverter interest in conveyed property (see H.R. 1110)

Cemeteries and funerals: headstone and plot allowances (see H.R. 2005)

Chief Medical Director: clarify authority over disciplinary action against certain probationary employees (see S. 1062; H.R. 2004)

Children: day care services to employees of medical centers (see H.R. 3409)

Education: medical school scholarship grants for those serving in certain VA facilities (see H.R. 415)

Executive department: establish (see S. 533; H.R. 1707, 3465, 3471)

Employees: limitation and deregulation of disciplinary actions (see S. 1136; H.R. 2009)

———structure of Office of Chief Medical Director, employee removal procedures, and use of director pay grade (see H.R. 2010)

Federal labor-management statute: exclusion of VA residents and interns (see H.R. 2014)

GSA: transfer jurisdiction over certain lands (see S. 1194)

Hawaii: construction of medical center (see S. 1568; H.R. 3072)

Health care programs: improve (see S. 6)

Insurance: higher installments payable to certain annuitants (see S. 1090)

Medical care: prohibit closure of readjustment counseling centers or change in mission of medical facilities (see H.R. 3488)

———prohibit sale of certain facilities in West Los Angeles and Sepulveda, CA (see H.R. 2428)

———waive license requirements for certain medical personnel not employed in patient care, or employed in a foreign country (see H.R. 2003)

———sharing facilities with Dept. of Defense (see H.R. 1355)

———tort claims and hospital cost collections (see S. 1063)

———transportation of claimants and beneficiaries (see S. 1059)

Medical personnel: on-call pay to certain (see S. 1065; H.R. 2002)

Members of Congress: assistance in informing constituents (see H.R. 2012)

———disclosure of certain information from the Administrator to assist Congress (see S. 916), 7948 [3AP]

Mentally handicapped: admission to hospitals for psychiatric evaluation (see H.R. 489)

National cemeteries: contributions for construction projects on adjacent land to facilitate safe ingress or egress (see S. 919; H.R. 1999)

National Service Life Insurance: extend (see H.R. 2348)

New Jersey: VA outpatient clinic (see H.R. 599)

Noncitizens: service-connected disabilities (see S. 894)

Positions: modify qualifications for certain (see S. 91)

Psychologists: incentive pay (see S. 105)

Readjustment counseling programs: extend transition period (see H.R. 2146)

Shreveport, LA: designate Overton Brooks VA Medical Center (see S. 1492)

State homes: increase per diem rates (see S. 216)

Travel costs: rescind certain regulations relative to payment of expenses for travel to VA facilities (see H. Res. 159), 11362 [6MY]

VA Assistant Inspector General for Health Care Quality Assurance Review Act: enact (see S. 1444)

VA Child Care Act: enact (see S. 1876)

VA Medical Inspector General Act: enact (see S. 1443)

Vet Center Program: postpone transition period (see S. 279)

Veterans' Administration Procurement Improvement Act: enact (see S. 631)

Women: study of phenoxy herbicides on those having served in USO and Red Cross in Vietnam (see H.R. 215)

Briefings

Random drug testing for VA personnel, 33889 [3DE]

Commentaries

Agent orange exposure study: Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 33818 [3DE]

Communications from

Accounting and administrative control system: report, 1070 (EC285) [8JA], 1149 (EC238) [12JA], 3224 (EC528) [9FE]

Activities: report, 18367 (EC1688) [30JN], 18948 (EC1538) [8JY]

Administration of veterans health care benefits: draft of legislation, 7779 (EC1081) [2AP]

Adult day medical care program: proposed legislation, 8758 (EC1006) [9AP], 7779 (EC1082) [2AP]

Advisory Committee on Former Prisoners of War: report, 23569 (EC1781) [9SE]

Age 65 presumption: report, 11945 (EC1382) [11MY], 12584 (EC1266) [15MY]

Authorize administrative actions: legislation, 9120 (EC1043) [21AP]

Board of Veterans Appeals: Hubbard, Mary A., 103 (EC199) [6JA]

Burial allowance: legislation, 5492 (EC846) [11MR]

Chief Medical Director: legislation, 5492 (EC847) [11MR], 7237 (EC1032) [30MR], 7778 (EC1078) [2AP], 9771 (EC1138) [27AP]

Civil service medical care personnel: proposed legislation, 8757 (EC1004) [9AP]

Competition advocacy: report, 3383 (EC464) [17FE]

Competition in Contracting Act: report, 2990 (EC508) [5FE]

Computer matching program: report, 7284 (EC889) [30MR]

Construction on land adjacent to national cemeteries to facilitate safe ingress or egress: report, 7285 (EC914) [30MR]

Educational assistance: legislation, 6283 (EC939) [19MR], 6658 (EC864) [24MR]

Equitable relief: report, 8017 (EC1102) [6AP], 8758 (EC1008) [9AP]

Federal Labor Management Relations: legislation, 5919 (EC799) [17MR]

Former POW: report, 23647 (EC2039) [9SE]

Freedom of Information Act: report, 5918 (EC750) [17MR]

Headstone allowance, Wood, WI: authorizing, 5919 (EC797) [17MR]

Health care benefits: legislation draft, 7779 (EC1083) [2AP], 9771 (EC1137) [27AP]

Health care facilities: contractor performance, 338 (EC139) [6JA]

Housing loans, 7939 (EC944) [3AP]

Inspector General: report, 338 (EC120) [6JA], 14776 (EC1535) [4JN], 15137 (EC1388) [10JN], 34287 (EC2512) [7DE], 34460 (EC2258) [9DE]

Internal controls: report, 4259 (EC539) [26FE]

Limit disciplinary actions: legislation, 5919 (EC798) [17MR]

Los Angeles, CA, outpatient clinic lease prospectus, 10584 (EC1289) [29AP]

Medical resources programs: report, 339 (EC178) [6JA], 1070 (EC289) [8JA], 3460 (EC625) [18FE], 4259 (EC571) [26FE], 34287 (EC2517) [7DE], 34461 (EC2268) [9DE]

Members of Congress: benefit information, 7939 (EC945) [3AP]

Nurses: State licensing, 7938 (EC943) [3AP]

On-call pay to certain civil service medical personnel: draft of legislation, 7778 (EC1077) [2AP]

Privacy Act: amend, 6658 (EC859) [24MR]

Privacy Act system of records: report, 18367 (EC1686) [30JN], 18803 (EC1509) [7JY]

Procedures for removal for cause of employees: legislation, 5919 (EC800) [17MR]

Records system: report, 100 (EC119, EC120) [6JA], 1150 (EC253) [12JA], 1227 (EC319) [13JA], 6283 (EC936) [19MR], 6521 (EC956) [23MR], 27306 (EC1988) [9OC]

———transmittal, 27714 (EC2224) [13OC]

Report, 4915 (EC775) [5MR]

Research and development: report, 4158 (EC683) [26FE]

State taxation of insurance annuitants' monthly installments and serviceman's and veterans' group life insurance premiums: draft of legislation, 7778 (EC1080) [2AP]

State Veterans' Home Grant Program: draft of legislation, 8121 (EC1120) [7AP], 8758 (EC1012) [9AP]

Technology transfer functions: report, 5139 (EC636) [10MR]

Tort claims and hospital cost collections: proposed legislation, 8758 (EC1013) [9AP]

VA: legislation, 7237 (EC1031, EC1033, EC1034) [30MR]

VA Today: report, 24433 (EC1883) [17SE]

Veterans' disability compensation: proposed legislation, 8757 (EC1005) [9AP]

Veterans' disability compensation and surviving spouses' and children's dependency and indemnity compensation rates: draft of legislation, 7778 (EC1079) [2AP]

Veterans' medical care benefits: proposed legislation, 8758 (EC1007) [9AP]

Essays

Cabinet-Level Status for VA: Chuck Joeckel, 19070 [8JY]

Factsheets

Drugs in the Workplace: VA, 33887 [3DE]

Hearings

Committee on Appropriations (House): (testimony from Thomas K. Turnage), D79 [24FE], D84 [25FE]

Committee on Appropriations (Senate): (testimony from Thomas K. Turnage), D122 [6MR]

Committee on Environment and Public Works: budget (testimony from James K. Asselstine, Kenneth M. Carr, Charles H. Dean, Jr., John B. Waters, William F. Willis, Edward S. Christenbury, B.J. Bond, John T. Shields, Thomas M. Roberts, Fred Bernthal, and Lando W. Zech, Jr.), D64 [18FE]

———budget (testimony from Thomas K. Turnage and representatives of veterans' organizations, D47 [3FE]

———budget (testimony from Ralph Goldsmith, Howard H. Green, C.W. Hawkins, and Jane S. Halley), D53 [4FE]

———compliance with a discovery request of National Association of Radiation Survivors v. Turnage (testimony), D161 [17MR]

———Dept. of Medicine and Surgery computer systems activity (testimony), D249 [8AP]

———home loan guaranty program (testimony), D257 [9AP], D271 [22AP]

———medical construction budget (testimony form Members of Congress, Gerald Neumann, and representatives of veterans' organizations), D142 [11MR]

———medical facility construction resolution, D195 [25MR]

———per diem rates for VA payments to States for domiciliary and nursing home care provided to veterans (H.R. 1659), D271 [22AP]

———reduce capacity of VA to provide health care to eligible veterans (H. Con. Res. 27), D72 [19FE]

———status of recruitment and retention of VA health care personnel (testimony), D271 [22AP]

Committee on Veterans' Affairs (Senate): compliance with a discovery request of National Association of Radiation Survivors v. Turnage (testimony), D161 [17MR]

History

Description, 27709 [13OC]

Letters

Administrative changes: Thomas K. Turnage, 10925 [1MY]

Allocations of VA health care to States: Senator Cranston, 33917 [3DE]

———Senator Graham, 33916 [3DE]

Civil service status of VA medical center personnel: Donald L. Custis, 20055 [15JY]

———John A. Gronvall, 20055 [15JY]

———Senator Cranston, 20055 [15JY]

Decentralized hospital computer system, 15385 [10JN]

———Al Washko, 22327 [4AU]

———Archie Bourret, 14800 [4JN]

———Charles T. Uyeda, 20825 [22JY]

———Clark C. Graninger, 22132 [3AU]

———Daniel M. Baer, 16335 [16JN], 24896 [22SE]

———David Korn, 19278 [9JY]

———DeWayne C. Robertson, 16805 [19JN], 23453 [7AU]

———E.A. Borrell, 21038 [23JY]

———Edward R. Lee, 16585 [17JN]

———Franklin G. Ebaugh, Jr., 22130 [3AU]

———Harold C. Sox, Jr., VA Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA, 17904 [26JN]

———Ira B. Tager, 17596 [25JN], 23397 [7AU]

———J.L. Warnock, 14592 [3JN]

———James A. Goff, 21558 [29JY]

———James A. Huff, 16092 [15JN], 24462 [17SE]

———John Kittel, 20792 [22JY]

———Mel A. Gores, 18101 [29JN]

———Peter V. Tishler, 24043 [15SE]

———Ralph S. Goldsmith, 20097 [15JY], 22684 [5AU]

———Sam A. Threefoot, 19576 [13JY]

———Smith Jenkins, Jr., 15637 [11JN]

———Stephanie Davis, 18721 [1JY], 23792 [10SE]

———Thomas L. Ayres, 15111 [9JN]

———Troy E. Page, 19816 [14JY]

———W.G. Wright, 23662 [9SE]

———W.T. Moore, 14924 [8JN]

Elevate VA to cabinet-level department: R. Jack Powell, 25042 [23SE], 25913 [30SE]

———Representatives Solomon and Montgomery, 27709 [13OC]

———Robert W. Spanogle, 36651 [19DE]

———31 Members of Congress, 16206 [16JN]

Excellence of VA health care: Carol Gallant, 26046 [1OC]

Facilitate safe ingress or egress of national cemeteries: Thomas K. Turnage, 7987 [3AP]

Flat grave markers: Fort Custer National Cemetery Advisory Committee, Inc., 33858 [3DE]

———Representative Studds, 33858 [3DE]

———Senators Kerry and Kennedy, 33858 [3DE]

———Senators Riegle, Levin, and Representative Wolpe, 33858 [3DE]

Impaired Health Professionals: AMA, 33872 [3DE]

Interest rates on veterans' housing loans: Thomas K. Turnage, 7988-7991 [3AP]

Limit types of proposed actions in which VA disciplinary boards function: Thomas K. Turnage, 11106 [5MY]

National Academy of Sciences review of evidence pertaining to effects of exposure to agent orange: Senators Kerry and Cranston, 20654 [22JY]

On-call pay to certain medical personnel: Thomas K. Turnage, 9144 [21AP]

Overton Brooks VA Medical Center: Alva Nash, VFW, 33860 [3DE]

———AMVETS, 33860 [3DE]

———Charles R. Cunningham, Military Order of the Purple Heart, 33860 [3DE]

———James G. Pirie, American Ex-Prisoners of War, 33859 [3DE]

———Joseph R. Monty, DAV, 33859 [3DE]

———Linwood P. Liner, Marine Corps League, 33860 [3DE]

———Lynn F. Snoddy, Veterans of World War I, Inc., 33859 [3DE]

———Peter Tillman III, Paralyzed Veterans of America, 33860 [3DE]

———Roy Kirkham, American Legion, 33859 [3DE]

———Senator Johnston, 33859 [3DE]

———William F. Ryan, 33859 [3DE]

Random drug testing for VA personnel: Donald I. MacDonald, 33872 [3DE]

———Gene A. Murphy, DAV, 33831, 33847 [3DE]

———Gordon H. Mansfield, Paralyzed Veterans of America, 33848 [3DE]

———James C. Miller III, Edwin Meese III, and Constance J. Horner, 33886 [3DE]

———James H. Sammons, AMA, 33847 [3DE]

———Jeanette C. Hartshorn, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, 33847 [3DE]

———John H. Ferman, California Association of Hospitals and Health Systems, 33845 [3DE]

———Margretta M. Styles, American Nurses Association, Inc., 33846 [3DE]

———Paul S. Egan, Vietnam Veterans of America, Inc., 33848 [3DE]

———Paul W. Schafer, National Association of VA Physicians, 33846 [3DE]

———Thomas K. Turnage, 33887 [3DE]

VA adult day health care program and contract halfway house care: Thomas K. Turnage, 9143 [21AP]

VA Chief Medical Director's authority: Thomas K. Turnage, 9141 [21AP]

VA hospital parking facilities: C.R. Canfield, 22378 [5AU]

VA hospital provision of quality and compassionate care: Mary L. McGue, 23657 [9SE]

———Walter P. Kennedy, 23657 [9SE]

VA improvement of State Veterans' Home Grant Program: Thomas K. Turnage, 9440 [23AP]

VA insurance: Thomas K. Turnage, 9441-9443 [23AP]

VA medical care: Katy C. O'Harra, Los Angeles (CA) Times, 34430 [8DE]

VA medical centers: John A. Gronvall, 20048 [15JY]

———Senator Cranston, 20048 [15JY]

VA psychological counseling: Caspar W. Weinberger, Sec. of Defense, 28220 [16OC]

VA tort claims and hospital cost collection: Thomas K. Turnage, 9142 [21AP]

Lists

Cosponsors of H.R. 1707, establish VA as an executive department, 27331 [9OC]

Members of the VA Advisory Committee on Women Veterans, 7742 [1AP]

Supporters of name change for VA medical center in Buffalo, NY, 11580 [6MY]

VA medication classification system, 29404 [27OC]

Meetings

Committee on Veterans' Affairs (House): per diem rates for VA payments to States for domiciliary and nursing home care provided to veterans (H.R. 1659), D280 [23AP]

———VA home loan program (H. Con. Res. 78) and 1% fee charged by the VA to veterans obtaining a home loan guarantee (H. Con. Res. 79), D178 [19MR], D280 [23AP]

Memorandums

VA Implementation of President's Drug-Free Work Place Program, 33887 [3DE]

Memorials of legislature

California, 26062 [1OC]

Illinois, 22020 [3AU]

Minnesota, 14328 [2JN]

Pennsylvania, 36150 [17DE]

Questions and answers

Relocation of VA medical centers: John A. Gronvall, 20049 [15JY]

Remarks in House

Agent orange: claims settlement, 1820 [21JA]

Budget: opposition to reductions (H. Con. Res. 27), 4482-4487[3MR], 4488 [5MR]

Buffalo, NY: designate Major Robert J. DiTommaso VA Medical Center (H.R. 2301), 11580 [6MY]

California: land sale, 12560 [14MY]

Children: child day care services to employees of medical centers (H.R. 3409), 26610 [6OC]

Corregidor Island, Philippines: Pacific War Memorial maintenance, 16427 [17JN]

Decentralized Hospital Computer Program, 14592 [3JN], 14799 [4JN], 14924 [8JN], 15111 [9JN], 15385 [10JN], 15637 [11JN], 16092 [15JN], 16335 [16JN], 16585 [17JN], 16805 [19JN], 17596 [25JN], 17904 [26JN], 18101 [29JN], 18721 [1JY], 19067 [8JY], 19816 [14JY], 20825 [22JY], 21558 [29JY], 22130, 22132 [3AU], 23453 [7AU], 24042 [15SE], 24462 [17SE], 24896 [22SE]

District of Columbia: VA Medical Center evaluation, 28546 [20OC]

Executive department: establish as (H.R. 3471), 27709, 27711 [13OC], 27736 [13OC], 30242 [29OC], 30384 [31OC], 31933 [16NO], 31941 [17NO], 31942, 31943 16NO, 31944 [16NO], 32072, 32079, 32139 [17NO], 32558 [17NO], 33003 [20NO], 33197, 33204 [20NO], 36651 [19DE]

———establish as (H.R. 1707), 6226 [18MR], 16206 [16JN], 19070 [8JY], 24036 [15SE], 25042 [23SE], 25660 [29SE], 25913, 25920 [30SE], 27330 [9OC]

Housing: fee charged for home loan guarantee (H. Con. Res. 79), 9810 [28AP]

———home loan assumption standards, 30324-30334 [30OC]

———home loan program (H. Con. Res. 78), 5725, 5730 [16MR], 9806 [27AP], 9808 [30AP]

———loans (S. 1691), 25944, 25945 [1OC]

Jackson, MS, VA Medical Center: tribute to volunteer workers, 10867 [30AP]

Louisiana: establish national cemetery (H.R. 2789), 17878 [26JN]

Medical care: excellence, 26045 [1OC]

———hospitals' high standards and compassionate care, 23657 [9SE]

———programs (H.R. 2616), 17968-17972 [29JN], 18235 [30JN], 18399 [30JN], 19828 [14JY]

———programs (H.R. 3449), 28306 [19OC], 28310 19OC-28319 [19OC]

———sharing of health care resources with Dept. of Defense (H.R. 1355), 4697 [3MR]

National cemeteries: anniversary, 19092 [8JY]

———improve system (H.R. 2957), 22059-22063 [3AU], 23681 [9SE]

Rochester, NY: Veterans' Outreach Center, Inc., 17972 [30JN]

Services academies: eligibility for benefits for certain cadets and midshipmen (H.R. 3485), 27943 [14OC]

Shreveport, LA: Overton Brooks VA Medical Center, 18399 [30JN]

Texas: establish new VA medical facility (H.R. 3752), 35448 [11DE]

VA Assistant Inspector General for Health Care Quality Assurance Review Act: enact (S. 1444), 21583-21590 [30JY]

Remarks in Senate

Administration: changes (S. 1125), 10924 [1MY]

Bondsteel, James L.: tribute, 9422 [23AP]

Cabinet-level status, 19140 [9JY], 31493 [10NO]

———(S. 533), 3390, 3391 [17FE], 21772 [30JY]

Chief Medical Director: clarify authority over disciplinary action against certain probationary employees (S. 1062), 9141 [21AP]

Claims: adjudication, 8954 [10AP]

Employees: limit types of proposed disciplinary actions in which disciplinary boards function (S. 1136), 11106 [5MY]

———modify qualifications for certain positions (S. 91), 555 [6JA]

GSA: land transfer in Albuquerque, NM, 12327 [13MY]

———transfer jurisdiction over certain lands (S. 1194), 12012 [12MY], 22378 [5AU]

Handicapped: national recreational activities for rehabilitation of disabled veterans (S. 1506), 20251 [17JY]

Hawaii: construction or acquisition of facilities for medical center (S. 1568), 21741 [30JY]

Homeless: VA acquired immunity deficiency syndrome patient care, 8721 [9AP]

———VA nurses, 8721 [9AP]

Hooper, Raymond E.: tribute, 18522 [1JY], 21824 [31JY]

Housing: increase maximum home loan guaranty (S. 1801), 28420 [20OC], 30324-30334 [30OC], 32057 [17NO]

———loan guarantee revolving fund, 13887 [28MY]

———loans (S. 1691), 24216 [16SE], 24424 [17SE], 26144 [1OC]

Insurance: higher installments payable to certain annuitants (S. 1090), 9441-9443 [23AP]

Medical care: eligibility for certain travel beneficiary payments (S. 1464), 18533-18538 [1JY]

———recruitment of registered nurses (S. 713), 5318 [11MR]

———revise and clarify health care benefits (S. 914), 7980 [3AP]

———tort claims and hospital cost collections (S. 1063), 9141 [21AP]

———transportation of claimants and beneficiaries (S. 1059), 9139 [21AP]

———use of per diem subsidies (S. 1517), 20569 [21JY]

Medical personnel: on-call pay to certain (S. 1065), 9144 [21AP]

Members of Congress: disclosure of certain information from the Administrator to assist Congress (S. 916), 7982 [3AP]

Mentally handicapped: psychiatric treatment for certain veterans, 2305, 2306 [29JA]

Michigan: construction projects for veterans, 28066 [15OC]

National Academy of Sciences: review of evidence pertaining to effects of exposure to agent orange (S. 1510), 20524 [21JY], 20654 [22JY]

National Association of State Directors of Veterans' Affairs, Inc.: grant charter (S. 1897), 33166 [20NO]

National cemeteries: safe ingress and egress (S. 919), 7987 [3AP]

———veterans' burial benefits (S. 917), 7984 [3AP]

National Women Veterans Recognition Week: designate (S.J. Res. 171), 18809 [7JY]

New Jersey: establish outpatient clinic in central or southern (S. 246), 693 [6JA]

Noncitizens: coverage of U.S. service-connected disabilities (S. 894), 7642 [1AP]

POW: benefits for servicemen held in Soviet Union during World War II (S. 1874), 32044 [17NO]

———presumption of service connection for certain diseases (S. 1365), 16158 [16JN], 34555 [9DE]

———veterans' benefits (S. 1451), 18187 [30JN]

Psychologists: incentive special pay for certain (S. 105), 568 [6JA]

Service-Disabled Veterans' Benefits Improvement Act: enact (S. 9), 396-398 [6JA]

Shreveport, LA: designate Overton Brooks VA Medical Center, 19783 [14JY]

State Veterans Home Grant Program: improve (S. 1089), 9439 [23AP]

States: increase per diem rates for payments for domiciliary care and nursing home care provided to veterans in State homes (H.R. 1659), 14141 [29MY]

VA Adjudication Procedure and Judicial Review Act: enact (S. 11), 416, 423 [6JA]

VA Assistant Inspector General for Health Care Quality Assurance Review Act: enact (S. 1444), 17853-17856 [26JN]

VA Child Care Act: enact (S. 1876), 32045 [17NO]

VA Medical Inspector General Act: enact (S. 1443), 17849-17853 [26JN]

VA Procurement Improvement Act: enact (S. 631), 4565 [3MR]

Washington: Walla Walla medical center appropriations, 11652 [7MY]

Reports

Nurse Recruitment and Retention in the VA, 33856 [3DE]

POW Service-Connected Diseases, 16160 [16JN]

Readjustment Counseling Service (excerpts), 28214 [16OC]

VA Implementation of the Decentralized Hospital Computer Program: Committee on Appropriations (House) (sundry), 13511 [21MY]

VA Mission and Accomplishments Relative to Atomic Veterans, 2523 [3FE]

Vet Center Program (excerpts), 28214 [16OC]

Reports filed

Allocation of Budget Totals: Committee on Veterans' Affairs (S. Rept. 100-205), 28974 [22OC]

Budgetary Impact Upon VA Capacity to Provide Medical Care: Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 4159 [26FE]

Disability: Committee on Veterans' Affairs (S. Rept. 95-468), 398 [6JA]

Establish VA as Executive Department: Committee on Government Operations (H.R. 3471) (H. Rept. 100-435), 31963 [16NO]

GI Bill Educational Assistance Programs (H.R. 1085): Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 5492 [11MR]

GSA Transfer of Jurisdiction Over Certain Lands: Committee on Governmental Affairs (S. 1194), 22208 [4AU]

Health Care Programs: Committee on Veterans' Affairs (H.R. 2616) (H. Rept. 100-191), 17436 [25JN]

———Committee on Veterans' Affairs (H.R. 3449) (H. Rept. 100-373), 28009 [15OC]

Improve National Cemeteries: Committee on Veterans' Affairs (H.R. 2957) (H. Rept. 100-246), 21376 [28JY]

Increase Per Diem Rates for VA Payments for Domiciliary Care and Nursing Home Care in State Homes: Committee on Veterans' Affairs (H.R. 1659) (H. Rept. 100-86), 11719 [7MY]

Rates of Compensation and Dependency and Indemnity Compensation: Committee on Veterans' Affairs (H.R. 2945) (H. Rept. 100-236), 20905 [23JY]

Study of Deficiencies in the VA Medical Quality Assurance Program: Committee on Government Operations (H. Rept. 100-74), 10836 [30AP]

Resolutions by organizations

Tribute to Raymond E. Hooper: Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 21824 [31JY]

Statements

Assistance of Veteran's Service Officers to Attorneys, 8954 [10AP]

Drug Testing: David Axelrod, 33886 [3DE]

———Senator DeConcini, 33869 [3DE]

Establish VA as an Executive department: Cooper T. Holt, 30384 [31OC]

National Cemetery System: Thomas K. Turnage, 33864 [3DE]

Personnel On-Call Pay, 33844 [3DE]

Utilization of Health Care Services: Chief Medical Director's task force, 21742 [30JY]

———VA, 28241 [16OC]

Studies

Psychoactive Drug Use Among Practicing Physicians and Medical Students: William E. McAuliffe, Mary Rohman, Susan Santangelo, Barry Feldman, and Arthur Sobol, New England Journal of Medicine, 33872 [3DE]

Summaries

Administrative Changes (S. 1125), 10925 [1MY]

Supplemental Appropriations Act's Drug Testing Amendment: Senator Deconcini, 33870 [3DE]

VA Medical Inspector General Act (S. 1443), 17849 [26JN]

Tables

Cost analysis of VA drug testing program, 33870 [3DE]

Testimonies

Disciplinary Boards Actions: Peter Hawley, National Association of VA Physicians, 33839 [3DE]

Funding for VA Medical Center, Decatur GA: Representative Swindall, 5529 [11MR]

Texts of

H. Con. Res. 27, opposition to budget reductions, 4482 [3MR]

H.R. 1355, VA and Dept. of Defense sharing of health care resources, 4697 [3MR]

H.R. 2957, improve national cemeteries, 22059 [3AU]

H.R. 3460, veterans employment and training, 29228 [27OC]

H.R. 3471, establish VA as executive department, 31933 [16NO]

S. 11, VA Adjudication Procedure and Judicial Review Act, 419 [6JA]

S. 91, modify qualifications for certain positions, 555 [6JA]

S. 105, incentive special pay for psychologists, 568 [6JA]

S. 246, establish VA outpatient clinic in central or southern New Jersey, 694 [6JA]

S. 495, remove certain gender references relative to veterans benefits, 3083 [5FE]

S. 533, establish VA as executive department, 3390 [17FE]

S. 631, VA Procurement Improvement Act, 4566 [3MR]

S. 713, recruitment of registered nurses, 5318 [11MR]

S. 1063, tort claims and hospital cost collections, 9141 [21AP]

S. 1065, on-call pay to certain VA medical personnel, 9144 [21AP]

S. 1089, VA improvement of State Veterans' Home Grant Program, 9439 [23AP]

S. 1125, administrative changes, 10924 [1MY]

S. 1136, limit types of proposed actions in which disciplinary boards function, 11106 [5MY]

S. 1194, transfer jurisdiction over certain lands, 12012 [12MY], 22379 [5AU]

S. 1443, VA Medical Inspector General Act, 17852 [26JN]

S. 1444, VA Assistant Inspector General for Health Care Quality Assurance Review Act, 17855 [26JN]

S. 1467, veterans' mileage allowances for travel to VA medical centers, 18808 [7JY]

S. 1568, construction or acquisition of facilities for VA medical center in Hawaii, 21741 [30JY]

S. 1859, eliminate cost of living increases for Federal programs in fiscal 1988, 31529 [10NO]

S. 1874, redefining the term ``former prisoner of war'', 32044 [17NO]