CREDIT

Amendments

Agriculture: good faith requirement relative to restructuring certain loans (S. 1894), 31271, 31607 [21NO]

———limit a previous owner's right of first refusal relative to certain resale of farm property (H.R. 2469), 31396, 31641 [21NO]

Analyses

Contracting on Indian Reservations, 17450 [1AU]

Farm Debt Tax Reform Act (S. 1041), 9837 [18MY]

Federal Credit Reform Act (S. 584), 4362-4367 [15MR]

Articles and editorials

Financial Credits To Soviet Bloc Countries, 8358 [4MY]

Is Nothing Private? Computers Hold Lots of Data on You—And There Are Few Limits on Its Use, 30712 [21NO]

Major Laws on Privacy, 30715 [21NO]

Nation's Housing—Government May Expand Down-Payment Programs, 11595 [13JN]

Never Mind Your Number—They've Got Your Name, 30716 [21NO]

Scoop on Snooping—It's a Cinch, 30715 [21NO]

Study Assails Plan To Raise FHA Limit—Bill Would Do Little To Aid Shut-Out Home Buyers, 11595 [13JN]

Bills and resolutions

Agriculture: good faith requirement relative to restructuring certain loans (see S. 1894)

———limit a previous owner's right of first refusal relative to certain resale of farm property (see H.R. 2469)

Armed Forces: prohibit discrimination by creditors (see H.R. 989)

Banks and banking: financial privacy relative to the amount and type of information required by creditors (see H.R. 1566)

Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act: health care loan rates (see H.R. 2411)

Consumers: disclosure of credit information (see H.R. 3740)

———prevent abuse by credit repair organizations (see H.R. 56)

Day care: mortgage financing for residential small centers (see H.R. 2330)

Dept. of Agriculture: making or enforcing loan rules relative to borrowers (see H.R. 3680)

———settlement of certain loans (see H.R. 2706)

Executive departments: improve management and credit transactions (see H.R. 1127)

Farm credit banks: tax treatment of bad debts (see S. 955; H.R. 1565)

Farm Debt Tax Reform Act: enact (see S. 1041)

Farmers Home Administration: subject certain borrowers to shared appreciation arrangements (see S. 1487)

Federal Credit Reform Act: enact (see S. 584)

Federal employees: authorizing repayment of student loans for recruiting and retaining purposes (see S. 1071)

Housing: accountability of lenders making mortgage loans (see H.R. 3559)

———increase affordability for first-time homebuyers (see H.R. 3278)

———limit eligibility for mortgage insurance based on borrower income (see H.R. 3372)

———refinancing certain mortgages and loans relative to the lower income homeownership program (see H.R. 2850)

———residential mortgage transactions (see H.R. 583)

———safety and soundness of federally insured mortgage lending operations (see H.R. 3391)

Merchant marine: loan guarantees for modernization of U.S. shipyards (see H.R. 1519)

Puerto Rico: low-interest loans for redevelopment of areas affected by natural disasters (see H.R. 3378)

Refugees: Dept. of State loan program for certain (see H.R. 1626)

————program of federally guaranteed loans (see H.R. 3726)

Rural Access to Capital Act: enact (see S. 863)

Rural Health Professionals Education Loan Interest Deduction Act: enact (see H.R. 1588)

Stafford Student Loan Default Prevention and Management Act: enact (see S. 568)

Student loans: reduce interest rate for entering teaching profession (see H.R. 3256)

Taxation: allocation of interest expense of affiliated groups of certain financial institutions (see H.R. 2534)

———deduction for educational loans (see H.R. 747)

———foreign loans (see H.R. 2697)

———repeal partial exclusion of interest on certain loans used to acquire securities (see H.R. 2572)

Truth in Lending Act: require lenders to post current interest rates (see H.R. 119)

Veterans: amend provisions relative to the home loan program (see H.R. 1415)

———low-interest loans for specially adapted housing assistance (see H.R. 2831)

Factsheets

Graduated Regulatory Approach to Default Reduction at Postsecondary Institutions: Dept. of Education, 10512, 10513 [1JN]

Guidelines

Primary loan servicing options for farmers: Dept. of Agriculture, 31273 [21NO]

Letters

Debt restructuring and loan servicing for farmers: Dept. of Agriculture, 31275 [21NO]

Farm Debt Tax Reform Act: Save the Family Farm Coalition, 9838 [18MY]

Primary loan servicing options for farmers: Dept. of Agriculture, 31273 [21NO]

Memorials of legislature

Hawaii, 14812 [17JY]

Nevada, 9996 [22MY]

Washington, 11901 [15JN]

Papers

Credit Marketing: James F. Huson, Arthur B. Laffer and Victor A. Canto, 12601 [20JN]

Questionnaires

Options in denial of requests for primary agriculture loan service programs, 31273 [21NO]

Remarks in House

Agriculture: limit a previous owner's right of first refusal relative to certain resale of farm property (H.R. 2469), 11567-11569 [13JN]

Armed Forces: credit discrimination by banks, 2170 [9FE]

Borrower Loan Prepayments—OMB Guidelines Need To Be Strengthened: GAO report, 2365 [21FE]

Consumers: disclosure of credit information (H.R. 3740), 30712 [21NO]

———impact, 23658-23660 [6OC]

Credit cards: saturation of consumer market, 25063 [18OC]

Day care: mortgage financing for residential small centers (H.R. 2330), 9034 [11MY]

Executive departments: improve transactions and credit management (H.R. 1127), 2807 [27FE]

Farm credit banks: tax treatment of bad debts (H.R. 1565), 5177 [22MR]

Federal Home Loan Bank System: annual capital contribution, 12621 [20JN]

Federal Housing Administration: loan limits, 11594 [13JN]

Federal Housing Authority: mortgage finance limits, 25895-25897 [25OC]

Foreign trade: appropriations for foreign operations export financing and related programs, 30100 [19NO]

Housing: home loan situation relative to race of applicant, 342 [24JA]

———refinancing certain mortgages and loans relative to the lower income homeownership program (H.R. 2850), 14240 [11JY]

———residential mortgage transactions (H.R. 583), 330 [20JA]

Merchant marine: loan guarantees for modernization of U.S. shipyards (H.R. 1519), 5099 [21MR]

Puerto Rico: low-interest loans for redevelopment of areas affected by natural disasters (H.R. 3378), 22474 [28SE]

Rural Health Professionals Education Loan Interest Deduction Act: enact (H.R. 1588), 10067 [23MY]

Savings and loan associations: capital requirements, 9588 [17MY]

Taxation: deduction for interest on educational loans (H.R. 747), 1369 [31JA], 1632 [2FE]

———foreign loans (H.R. 2697), 12797 [21JN]

———repeal partial exclusion of interest on certain loans used to acquire securities (H.R. 2572), 11215 [7JN]

Thrift industry: mortgage holdings, 5265 [23MR]

Veterans: amend provisions relative to the home loan program (H.R. 1415), 10807-10814 [6JN]

Remarks in Senate

Agriculture: good faith requirement relative to restructuring certain loans (S. 1894), 29410 [16NO], 31271-31276 [21NO]

———limit a previous owner's right of first refusal relative to certain resale of farm property (H.R. 2469), 31396 [21NO]

AID: report on Microenterprise Loan Program, 31692 [21NO]

Banks and banking: competitiveness of small institutions, 7104 [19AP]

———lending and financial credits to the Soviet bloc countries (S. Res. 121), 8358-8361 [4MY]

———treatment of certain withdrawals by depositors (S. 209), 915 [25JA]

Developing countries: promote debt-for-nature exchanges, 15474-15476 [20JY]

Farm Credit System: tax deduction for bad debt reserves (S. 955), 8780 [10MY]

Farm Debt Tax Reform Act: enact (S. 1041), 9835 [18MY]

Federal Credit Reform Act: enact (S. 584), 4359 [15MR]

Federal employees: authorizing repayment of student loans for recruiting and retaining purposes (S. 1071), 9895, 9896 [18MY]

Rural Access to Capital Act: enact (S. 863), 7311 [19AP]

Sec. of Transportation: guarantee certain loans, 20288 [13SE]

Soviet Union: impact of financial activities on Western security, 14203 [11JY]

Stafford Student Loan Default Prevention and Management Act: enact (S. 568), 4311, 4322-4325 [15MR], 4939, 4952-4962 [17MR]

Reports

Federal Housing Administration—Raising the Mortgage Limit: B. Ellington Foote, Library of Congress, 20815-20819 [19SE]

Pushing the Federal Housing Administration Toward Insolvency: Ronald Utt and John M. Olin, Heritage Foundation, 20821-20822 [19SE]

Summaries

Farm Credit Administration Provisions of Gonzalez Amendment to H.R. 1278, 12043 [15JN]

Rural Health Professionals Education Loan Interest Deduction Act (H.R. 1588), 5208 [22MR]

Tables

Selected measures of thrift performance by home mortgage holdings, 5266 [23MR]

Texts of

H.R. 989, banks' credit discrimination to certain members of the Armed Forces, 2170 [9FE]

H.R. 1415, amend provisions relative to the veterans' home loan program, 10807 [6JN]

H.R. 2469, limit a previous owner's right of first refusal relative to certain resale of farm property, 11567 [13JN]

H.R. 2697, taxation on foreign loans, 12797 [21JN]

H.R. 2850, Lower Income Homeownership Refinancing Act, 14240 [11JY]

S. 209, treatment of certain withdrawals by bank depositors, 916 [25JA]

S. 568, Stafford Student Loan Default Prevention and Management Act, 4312-4321 [15MR], 4952-4961 [17MR]

S. 584, Federal Credit Reform Act, 4360-4362 [15MR]

S. 863, Rural Access to Capital Act, 7312-7314 [19AP]

S. 955, Farm Credit System tax deduction for bad debt reserves, 8781 [10MY]

S. 1041, Farm Debt Tax Reform Act, 9836 [18MY]

S. 1071, payment of Federal employees' student loans, 9896 [18MY]

S. 1894, good faith requirement relative to restructuring certain agricultural loans, 29411 [16NO], 31276 [21NO]

S. Res. 121, allow lending and financial credits to Soviet bloc countries, 8358 [4MY]