ROBERTS, PAT (a Representative from Kansas)

Amendments offered by, to

Drought Assistance Act: enact (H.R. 5015), 19514 [28JY]

Bills and resolutions introduced by

Conservation Reserve Program: improvement (see H.R. 4137), 3674 [10MR]

Pesticide Food Safety Act: enact (see H.R. 4937), 16274 [28JN]

Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, KS: water service and repayment contracts (see H.R. 5297), 23853 [14SE]

Bills and resolutions introduced by, as cosponsor

Abortion: prohibit use of Federal funds unless life of mother is threatened (see H.R. 5020), 25597 [26SE]

Aged: retirement earnings test (see H.R. 3794), 6011 [31MR]

Agriculture: relief for U.S. soybean industry (see H. Con. Res. 282), 7098 [18AP]

———taxation of animals produced in a farming business (see H.R. 3907), 1444 [16FE]

———tax-free purchase of farm fuels (see H.R. 3844), 1250 [9FE]

America Loves Its Kids Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 579), 25597 [26SE]

American Heritage Trust: establish (see H.R. 4127), 18925 [26JY]

Banks and banking: prevent interagency disputes with Federal Financing Bank from disrupting Rural Electrification Administration loan guarantee programs (see H.R. 3723), 11339 [17MY]

Budget: treatment of Postal Service Fund (see H.R. 4150), 9156 [27AP]

CFTC: improve implementation of regulations (see H.R. 5265), 28243 [4OC]

Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act: amend relative to operation of certain farm and firefighting vehicles (see H.R. 4011), 2461 [24FE]

Committee on the Budget: amend Rules of the House of Representatives to abolish (see H. Res. 374), 1975 [23FE]

Congressional Budget Act: repeal title III (see H.R. 3939), 1974 [23FE]

Conservation Reserve Program: expand land eligibility (see H.R. 4377), 6785 [13AP]

Crime and criminals: child protection and obscenity enforcement (see H.R. 3889), 13867 [8JN]

Dept. of Agriculture: waive collection and refund of advance deficiency payments relative to natural disaster (see H.R. 4823), 14741 [15JN]

Drought Assistance Act: enact (see H.R. 5015), 17811 [12JY]

Drug abuse: encourage drug-free society (see H.R. 4446), 9250 [28AP]

Drunken driving: Surgeon General should declare a national crisis (see H. Con. Res. 276), 25171 [23SE]

EEC: actions affecting U.S. exports of corn gluten feed and corn byproducts (see H. Con. Res. 386), 28656 [5OC]

Egg Producers' Financial Protection Act: enact (see H.R. 5086), 18469 [14JY]

Emergency Medical Services Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 539), 9250 [28AP]

EPA: rules relative to certain plastic articles (see H.R. 5193), 30168 [12OC]

Federal Crop Insurance Program: establish a commission to review and make recommendations for improvement (see H.R. 5325), 24337 [16SE]

Federal employees: allow creditable service from Federal-State cooperative programs to civil service retirement (see H.R. 3585), 6011 [31MR]

Fire Safety at Home Day—Change Your Clock, Change Your Battery: designate (see H.J. Res. 660), 31223 [18OC]

Foreign trade: export of agricultural commodities (see H.R. 4692), 33324 [21OC]

Freedom of Information Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 408), 3606 [9MR]

Handicapped: anniversary of act providing for the Government to purchase goods and services from sheltered workshops (see H. Con. Res. 265), 11339 [17MY]

Hazardous substances: transportation of anhydrous ammonia (see H.R. 5376), 25170 [23SE]

House of Representatives: distortions in the reapportionment (see H.R. 3639), 931 [3FE]

———fair employment practices (see H. Res. 558), 26817 [29SE]

Insurance: improve system for resolving medical professional liability actions (see H.R. 1955), 3508 [7MR]

Iraq: condemn use of chemical weapons (see H. Res. 532), 23398 [9SE]

Japan: imports of U.S. beef (see H. Con. Res. 261), 4221 [17MR]

Lindelof, Jim: award Presidential Medal of Freedom (see H. Con. Res. 260), 11754 [19MY]

Lupus Awareness Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 537), 22753 [7SE]

Marine transportation: temporary trading engagement of U.S.-flag vessels within Great Lakes (see H.R. 4562), 10368 [10MY]

Medicare: reductions in payments to hospitals (see H. Con. Res. 380), 31975 [19OC]

———wage index for payment of hospitals (see H.R. 5298), 31975 [19OC]

Mental Illness Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 464), 5655 [29MR]

National Adoption Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 575), 15471 [21JN]

National Agricultural Library: improve operations and authorize agricultural research programs (see H.R. 5056), 18468 [14JY]

National Agricultural Product Technology Institute: establish (see H.R. 4314), 10658 [12MY]

National Agriculture Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 466), 3709 [14MR]

National Auctioneers Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 483), 5655 [29MR]

National Chester F. Carlson Recognition Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 629), 22309 [11AU]

National Child Passenger Safety Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 402), 931 [3FE]

National China-Burma-India Veterans Appreciation Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 608), 21781 [10AU]

National Dairy Goat Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 423), 7098 [18AP]

National Day of Outreach to the Rural Disabled: designate (see H.J. Res. 607), 23854 [14SE]

National Day of Prayer: designate (see H.R. 4170), 7502 [19AP]

National Diabetes Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 501), 19227 [27JY]

National Digestive Disease Awareness Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 421), 6787 [13AP]

National Down's Syndrome Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 557), 27329 [30SE]

National Drive for Life Weekend: designate Labor Day Weekend (see H.J. Res. 592), 19862 [2AU]

National Drunk and Drugged Driving Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 651), 29163 [6OC]

National Family Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 522), 22308 [11AU]

National Farm Broadcasters Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 610), 18087 [13JY]

National Fishing Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 432), 4798 [22MR]

National Former POW Recognition Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 388), 1711 [18FE]

National Foster Care Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 289), 61 [25JA]

National Harness Horse Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 378), 6787 [13AP]

National Home Care Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 515), 25023 [22SE]

National Library Sign-Up Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 549), 12563 [26MY]

National Medical Research Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 603), 19556 [28JY]

National Neighborhood Crime Watch Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 441), 18925 [26JY]

National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 460), 1655 [17FE]

National POW/MIA Recognition Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 453), 16666 [6JY]

National Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Awareness Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 520), 23676 [13SE]

National Rural Health Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 461), 1655 [17FE]

National Safe Kids Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 481), 9673 [2MY]

National Safety Belt Use Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 485), 11339 [17MY]

National Senior Citizens Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 138), 19227 [27JY]

National Tuberous Sclerosis Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 398), 6787 [13AP]

National Week of Recognition and Remembrance for Those Who Served in the Korean War: designate (see H.J. Res. 568), 18088 [13JY]

Neurofibromatosis Awareness Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 417), 5063 [23MR]

Nicaragua: release all political prisoners in accordance with the Esquipulas II agreement (see H. Con. Res. 327), 16598 [30JN]

NIH: establish National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (see H.R. 3361), 4136 [16MR]

Older Americans Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 508), 5359 [28MR]

Pesticides: elimination of redundant data requirements (see H.R. 5129), 20522 [4AU]

Petroleum: tax-free purchase of fuels for farm or off-highway use (see H.R. 3865), 197 [27JA]

Radio: amateur frequency allocation (see H. Con. Res. 317), 21782 [10AU]

Retired Enlisted Association, Inc.: grant charter (see H.R. 732), 1206 [8FE]

Roads and highways: deny discretionary project funds to States that voluntarily reduced the period of availability of construction funds (see H.R. 4802), 14372 [14JN]

Run to Daylight Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 415), 605 [2FE]

Rural areas: offset economic losses of small business and agricultural cooperatives relative to certain reductions in farm cropland (see H.R. 3937), 1250 [9FE]

Shapiro, Lee: award Presidential Medal of Freedom (see H. Con. Res. 260), 11754 [19MY]

Small business: encourage to extend retirement and fringe benefits (see H.R. 2793), 5358 [28MR]

Social Security: payment of small rural hospitals on reasonable cost basis (see H.R. 5259), 31975 [19OC]

———tax on cash tips (see H.R. 4015), 11418 [18MY]

Soviet Union: amnesty for imprisoned Christians and freedom of worship in celebration of millennium of Christianization (see H. Con. Res. 223), 6788 [13AP]

Taxation: clarify special estate tax valuation rules (see H.R. 4548), 15722 [22JN]

———credit for dependent children and repeal of credit for child care expenses (see H.R. 3944), 12563 [26MY]

———deductions for contributions of agricultural property for victims of natural disasters (see H.R. 2776), 15722 [22JN]

———diesel and aviation fuel at wholesale level (see H.R. 4275), 5653 [29MR]

———discount rules relating to short-term obligations shall not apply to certain obligations of small banks (see H.R. 4514), 11754 [19MY]

———extend period of issuance for qualified mortgage bonds (see H.R. 2640), 8091 [20AP]

———State and local government bonds (see H. Res. 487), 23855 [14SE]

———treatment of sales of certain assets by cooperatives (see H.R. 4542), 9975 [5MY]

Telephone: protect certain subscribers from changes in regulation of interstate service rates (see H.R. 5019), 22308 [11AU]

Thornton, Charles E.: award Presidential Medal of Freedom (see H. Con. Res. 260), 11754 [19MY]

Total Education Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 396), 23398 [9SE]

Toxic Substances Control Act: submission of asbestos management plans (see H.R. 3893), 1206 [8FE]

Trade Act: relief for U.S. citrus industry (see H. Con. Res. 298), 10369 [10MY]

University of Kansas: commend National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball champions (see H. Res. 425), 6343 [11AP]

U.S. Grain Standards Act: amend to charge and collect inspection and weighing fees (see H.R. 4345), 6010 [31MR]

Vietnam Women's Memorial Project, Inc.: commemorative statue (see H.R. 4870), 25022 [22SE]

Water pollution: ocean dumping of municipal sludge (see H.R. 3938), 3675 [10MR]

World Population Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 148), 6787 [13AP]

Year of the Young Reader: designate (see H.J. Res. 565), 12563 [26MY]

Essays

Voice of Democracy: Heather J. Easterday, 19839 [2AU]

Memorandums

Reformulation and Operation of the Cedar Bluff Unit: Dept. of the Interior, Kansas, and the Cedar Bluff Irrigation District, KS, 23783-23786 [14SE]

Remarks by, on

Agricultural Act: amend (S. 2151), 3854-3856, 3859 [15MR]

Agriculture: economic assistance and trade missions (S. 659), 24660 [20SE]

———education, 32835 [21OC]

———effect of drought on market prices, 22601 [7SE]

Capitol Police: upgrade certain positions (H. Res. 541), 29070 [6OC]

Committees of the House: funds for investigations and studies (H. Res. 388), 4093 [16MR]

Conservation Reserve Program: improvement (H.R. 4137), 3639 [10MR]

Consumer organizations: complaints concerning scarcity of grain products, 23296 [9SE]

Dept. of Transportation and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4794), 16415, 16420, 16421 [29JN]

Drought Assistance Act: enact (H.R. 5015), 19481, 19514, 19516, 19520, 19521 [28JY]

Eisenhower, Dwight D.: $1 coins to commemorate 100th anniversary of birth (H.R. 3654), 24253 [16SE]

Endangered Species Act: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 1467), conference report, 25482 [26SE]

Energy and water development: appropriations (H.R. 4567), 11295, 11296 [17MY]

Federal Crop Insurance Program: establish a commission to review and make recommendations for improvement (H.R. 5325), 25462 [26SE]

House of Representatives: fair employment practices (H. Res. 558), 27842, 27844 [3OC]

National Agricultural Library: improve operations and authorize agricultural research programs (H.R. 5056), 25454 [26SE]

Pesticide Food Safety Act: enact (H.R. 4937), 16513 [29JN]

Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program: water service and repayment contracts (H.R. 5297), 23783 [14SE]

U.S. Grain Standards Act: amend to charge and collect inspection and weighing fees (H.R. 4345), concurring in Senate amendent (H. Res. 564), 27932 [3OC]

Remarks in House relative to

Congressional Record: revise and extend remarks, 24712 [20SE]

Testimonies

Committee on Agriculture: Implementation of Soil and Water Conservation Provisions of the Food Security Act, D202 [13AP]

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Regulate Pesticides in Food (H.R. 4739), D456 [30JN]

Tributes

Houston, Donald L., 3865 [15MR]

Lott, Representative, 32818 [21OC]

Tributes to retiring Members

Taylor, Representative, 26788 [29SE]