ROWLAND, J. ROY (a Representative from Georgia)

Appointments

Conferee: H.R. 2616, VA health care programs, 6356 [12AP]

———S. 1220, Public Health Service Act amendment relative to acquired immune deficiency syndrome, 25363 [26SE]

Delegation to attend funeral of Dan Daniel, 56 [25JA]

Delegation to attend funeral of James J. Howard, 5555 [29MR]

Bills and resolutions introduced by

Taxation: treatment of waiver of interest rate adjustment clause on small issue bond (see H.R. 4812), 14372 [14JN]

Bills and resolutions introduced by, as cosponsor

Agriculture: taxation of animals produced in a farming business (see H.R. 3907), 930 [3FE]

———tax-free purchase of farm fuels (see H.R. 3850), 1656 [17FE]

America Loves Its Kids Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 579), 21030 [8AU]

American Heritage Trust: establish (see H.R. 4127), 14373 [14JN]

Aviation Whistleblower Protection Act: enact (see H.R. 5073), 21409 [9AU]

Better Hearing and Speech Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 244), 1444 [16FE]

Budget: exclude receipts and disbursements of the Social Security Trust Fund from calculation of deficit (see H.R. 4396), 8306 [21AP]

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

Cajun Music Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 591), 15889 [23JN]

Central America: assistance and support for peace, democracy, and reconciliation (see H.J. Res. 482), 2997 [2MR]

Courts: Federal judge retirement (see H.R. 3726), 17433 [11JY]

Crime and criminals: child protection and obscenity enforcement (see H.R. 3889), 8842 [26AP]

Crime Victims Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 420), 3276 [3MR]

Decade of the Brain: designate (see H.J. Res. 260), 30599 [13OC]

Dept. of Defense: transferring unobligated balance of funds between accounts (see H.R. 3955), 1654 [17FE]

Drought Assistance Act: enact (see H.R. 5015), 18470 [14JY]

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

Education Day U.S.A.: designate (see H.J. Res. 470), 3675 [10MR]

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

FAA: assistance to law enforcement agencies in drug trafficking interdiction (see H.R. 4844), 15722 [22JN]

Federal aid programs: benefits based on population should use the most recent data (see H. Con. Res. 295), 9975 [5MY]

Federal employees: adjustment of wage schedules for prevailing rate employees relative to public policy (see H.R. 4145), 8092 [20AP]

———payment of interest on retirement benefits which are received late (see H.R. 4361), 9250 [28AP]

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

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), 4135 [16MR]

Harold T. (Bizz) Johnson Lake, CA: designate (see H.R. 5184), 21408 [9AU]

Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Act: authorizing appropriations (see H.R. 2266), 4135 [16MR]

Interagency Committee and Technical Study Group on Cigarette and Little Cigar Fire Safety: implement recommendations (see H.R. 4497), 21408 [9AU]

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

J. Strom Thurmond Reservoir: redesignate as Clarks Hill Lake (see H.R. 4053), 3675 [10MR]

Jackson, TN: designate Ed Jones Federal Building (see H.R. 5186), 25828 [27SE]

James J. Howard Interstate Highway: designate (see H.R. 4263), 5358 [28MR]

Lupus Awareness Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 537), 9674 [2MY]

Lyme Disease Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 569), 13868 [8JN]

Manassas National Battlefield Park, VA: increase acreage (see H.R. 4526), 10370 [10MY]

Mental Illness Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 464), 6344 [11AP]

Mining Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 445), 3547 [8MR]

Motion pictures: designate day to commemorate anniversary of ``It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World'' (see H.J. Res. 553), 14080 [10JN]

Motor vehicles: commercial vehicle safety regulations (see H.R. 5321), 26503 [28SE]

National Academies of Practice: recognition (see H.R. 3562), 3276 [3MR]

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

National Alzheimer's Disease Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 449), 19556 [28JY]

National Black American Inventors Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 377), 2998 [2MR]

National Burn Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 604), 21409 [9AU]

National Challenger Center Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 419), 62 [25JA]

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

National Children's Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 631), 23855 [14SE]

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

National Craniofacial Deformity Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 573), 23854 [14SE]

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), 9156 [27AP]

National Day of Remembrance for Political Prisoners in Iran: designate (see H.J. Res. 669), 28656 [5OC]

National Day of the Disabled: designate (see H.J. Res. 467), 9673 [2MY]

National Diabetes Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 501), 8307 [21AP]

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

National Disabled Americans Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 570), 21781 [10AU]

National Down's Syndrome Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 557), 9155 [27AP]

National Drive for Life Weekend: designate Labor Day Weekend (see H.J. Res. 592), 16666 [6JY]

National Family Caregivers Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 463), 1710 [18FE]

National Family Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 522), 20332 [3AU]

National Fishing Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 432), 1711 [18FE]

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

National Foster Care Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 289), 8843 [26AP]

National Harness Horse Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 378), 9901 [4MY]

National Historically Black Colleges Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 551), 18088 [13JY]

National Home Care Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 515), 17109 [7JY]

National Immunology Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 542), 9156 [27AP]

National Invent America! Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 516), 19227 [27JY]

National Jukebox Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 446), 18925 [26JY]

National Medical Research Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 603), 23677 [13SE]

National Military Families Recognition Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 543), 14743 [15JN]

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

National NHS—NeighborWorks Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 386), 1444 [16FE]

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

National Osteoporosis Prevention Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 442), 197 [27JA]

National Outpatient Ambulatory Surgery Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 583), 18471 [14JY]

National POW/MIA Recognition Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 453), 4136 [16MR]

National Productivity Improvement Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 414), 6011 [31MR]

National Rural Health Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 461), 5063 [23MR]

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

National Senior Citizens Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 138), 5655 [29MR]

National Sewing Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 580), 21409 [9AU]

National Silver-Haired Congress: tribute (see H. Con. Res. 258), 23036 [8SE]

National Tourism Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 581), 12562 [26MY]

National Trauma Awareness Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 373), 2998 [2MR]

Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act: authorizing appropriations (see H.R. 2266), 4135 [16MR]

Nicaragua: assistance to Contras (see H.J. Res. 514), 5062 [23MR]

———reforms (see H. Res. 290), 198 [27JA]

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

———U.S. policy regarding reforms made toward peace, pluralism, and democracy (see H.J. Res. 566), 22308 [11AU]

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

Omnibus Antidrug Abuse Act: enact (see H.R. 4230), 9673 [2MY]

Omnibus Taxpayers' Bill of Rights Act: enact (see H.R. 3470), 22307 [11AU]

Owens, Mrs. Jesse: Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 1270), 15287 [20JN]

Panama Canal: future security (see H. Res. 423), 5948 [30MR]

Petroleum: tax-free purchase of fuels for farm or off-highway use (see H.R. 3865), 4136 [16MR]

Polish American Heritage Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 475), 9250 [28AP]

Refuse and refuse disposal: liability insurance for underground storage tanks (see H.R. 4090), 3275 [3MR]

Religious Freedom Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 518), 18088 [13JY]

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), 2998 [2MR]

Social Security: assist severely disabled in attaining or maintaining their maximum potential for independence (see H.R. 3454), 8306 [21AP]

Soviet Union: amnesty for imprisoned Christians and freedom of worship in celebration of millennium of Christianization (see H. Con. Res. 223), 8843 [26AP]

Space station program: funding (see H. Con. Res. 374), 28656 [5OC]

Students for Child Survival Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 505), 9674 [2MY]

Take Pride in America Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 530), 8307 [21AP]

Taxation: capital gains (see H.R. 3635), 9901 [4MY]

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

———extend targeted jobs tax credit (see H.R. 3719), 15889 [23JN]

———make permanent the credit for increases in research expenses and for basic research payments (see H.R. 1957), 5121 [24MR]

———permit rural telephone cooperatives to have qualified cash or deferred arrangements (see H.R. 3045), 1444 [16FE]

———purchase of diesel fuel tax free (see H.R. 4192), 5358 [28MR]

———State and local government right to purchase gasoline without payment of Federal excise tax (see H.R. 3892), 3547 [8MR]

U.S.-Canada Days of Peace and Friendship: designate (see H.J. Res. 587), 13865 [8JN]

VA: authorizing appropriations for State veterans' cemeteries (see H.R. 4861), 17108 [7JY]

———health care personnel (see H.R. 5114), 23035 [8SE]

———review of claims for benefits (see H.R. 5288), 23853 [14SE]

Veterans: GI bill (see H.R. 4213), 6011 [31MR]

———increasing dependency and indemnity compensation rates to those with service-connected disabilities (see H.R. 4741), 17108 [7JY]

Vietnam Women's Memorial Project, Inc.: commemorative statue (see H.R. 3628), 9156 [27AP]

World War II: maintain the Pacific War Memorial and other sites on Corregidor Island in the Philippines (see H.R. 4948), 16517 [29JN]

———memorial and museum (see H.R. 3742), 8842 [26AP]

Wyeth, Andrew: gold medal (see H.R. 593), 13518 [7JN]

Essays

Care for Our Children, Care for Our Future: Bridget Reid, 25030 [22SE]

Letters

Health care providers: Martha D. Dickens, 19249 [27JY]

Remarks by, on

Central America: support peace, democracy, and reconciliation (H.J. Res. 523), 5894 [30MR]

Civil liberties: clarify antidiscrimination provisions (S. 557), veto, 4783 [22MR]

Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 4264), 9722 [3MY]

Dept. of HUD and independent agencies: appropriations (H.R. 4800), 15609 [22JN]

Dept. of the Interior: making appropriations (H.R. 4867), 16462 [29JN]

Diseases: acquired immune deficiency syndrome epidemic, 3318 [3MR]

District of Columbia: dedication of Children's Hospital National Medical Center's neonatal intensive care unit, 29173 [6OC]

Drought Assistance Act: enact (H.R. 5015), conference report, 21378 [9AU]

Health: award grants for purchase of drugs used in treatment of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (S. 2846), 27198 [30SE]

Hospitals: effects of certificate-of-need laws, 28120 [4OC]

Idaho: prohibit licensing of certain facilities on portions of the Salmon and Snake Rivers (S. 2102), 32289 [20OC]

Medicare Catastrophic Protection Act: enact (H.R. 2470), conference report, 13249 [2JN]

National Commission To Prevent Infant Mortality: report, 22324 [10AU]

Nicaragua: assistance to Contras (H.J. Res. 484), 3230 [3MR]

———condemn antidemocratic actions (H. Res. 497), 18444 [14JY]

Putnam County, GA: hospital construction, 28120 [4OC]

Soviet Union: amnesty for imprisoned Christians and freedom of worship in celebration of millennium of Christianization (H. Con. Res. 223), 11328 [17MY]

Tax Reform Act: technical corrections (H.R. 4333), 20392 [4AU]

Textile industry and fabrics: remedy injury caused by imports (H.R. 1154), veto, 28159 [4OC]

VA: establish as executive department (H.R. 3471), conference report, 28998 [6OC]

———health care programs (H.R. 2616), 5604 [29MR]

Veterans: establish benefits for disease victims of ionizing radiation (H.R. 1811), 9627, 9632 [2MY]

———job training and counseling services (S. 999), 9130 [27AP]

Remarks in House relative to

Congressional Record: revise and extend remarks, 3272 [3MR], 19225 [27JY], 21779 [10AU], 25020 [22SE], 28654 [5OC]

House of Representatives: congressional catfish dinner, 22362 [11AU]

Reports

National Commission To Prevent Infant Mortality, 22324 [10AU]

Tributes

Daniel, Dan, 42 [25JA]

Harris, Rufus C., 25039 [22SE]

Howard, James J., 8836 [26AP]

Reid, Bridget, 25030 [22SE]