SNOWE, OLYMPIA J. (a Representative from Maine)
Amendments offered by, to
Dept. of State: appropriations (H.R. 1487), 6290 [12AP]
Foreign assistance programs: enhance and authorize appropriations (H.R. 2655), 12940 [22JN]
Appointments
Committee on Aging (Select), 5878 [10AP]
Committee on Economics (Joint), 1726 [7FE]
———subcommittee assignment, D90 [7MR]
Conferee: H.R. 1487, Foreign Relations Authorization Act, 23402 [5OC]
Strategic arms reduction talks, 12168 [15JN]
Articles and editorials
In Search of Physicians, Rural Hospitals Round Up the Posse, Jeffrey Green, American Hospital Association News, 30078
Look Out for Lookalike Mail, Lauren Sinai, Money (magazine), 30052
Nursing Not a Women's Only Profession, Mary Plumer, Kennebec Valley (ME) Medical Center Newsletter, 7862
Penobscot Job Corps in 10th Year, Carroll Astbury, Bangor (ME) News, 19441
U.S.S. Samuel B. Roberts Leaves Portland, Kennebec (ME) Journal, 25804
VOA's Institute of Media Studies for the Developing World, Judith Lathan, Voice (magazine), 30045
Bills and resolutions introduced by
Aeronautics: improve international security (see H.R. 2488), 10160 [24MY]
American Victims of Terrorism Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 143), 2071 [9FE]
Bates College, ME: funds for Edmund S. Muskie Archives (see H.R. 2623), 11602 [13JN]
Board for International Broadcasting: limit obligation and expenditure of appropriated funds (see H.R. 1798), 5944 [11AP]
China, People's Republic of: commend President Bush for granting refuge to certain human rights activists (see H. Con. Res. 163), 13961 [29JN]
Congress: commission to study compensation and personnel practices (see H. Con. Res. 95), 6457 [13AP]
Dept. of State: study and report on sexual harassment of women (see H.R. 1797), 5944 [11AP]
Fish and fisheries: prohibit sale of certain lobsters (see H.R. 3328), 21407 [22SE]
FTC: study deceptive mail practices relative to the sale of products or services related to governmental functions (see H.R. 551), 267 [19JA]
Health: conduct study of health education center program (see H.R. 3725), 30034 [17NO]
———improved research, services, and training in dealing with Alzheimer's disease (see H.R. 2781), 13845 [28JN]
House of Representatives: require recorded vote on passage of legislation that adjusts pay of Members (see H. Res. 38), 212 [4JA]
Income: congressional, executive, and judicial salaries and pensions (see H. Res. 38), 212 [4JA]
Indians: Aroostook Band of Micmacs settlement claims (see H.R. 3049), 16818 [28JY]
INS: additional Border Patrol personnel and mobile sensor response systems for deployment in Maine (see H.R. 2621), 11602 [13JN]
Ireland, Richard W.: relief (see H.R. 757), 1206 [31JA]
Libraries: grants for literacy projects (see H.R. 957), 2068 [9FE]
Medicaid: adoption and enforcement of certain guardianship laws (see H.R. 372), 207 [4JA]
———financing of daytime habilitation services in certain States (see H.R. 2694), 12493 [20JN]
Medicare: drug utilization review system to prevent adverse drug reactions (see H.R. 2677), 12180 [15JN]
Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act: expand responsibilities of Advisory Committee on Medicare Home Health Claims and set fixed date for its termination (see H.R. 2622), 11602 [13JN]
———extend Advisory Committee on Medicare Home Health Claims (see H.R. 2195), 7754 [2MY]
National Endowment for Democracy: GAO study (see H.R. 1796), 5944 [11AP]
National Family Caregivers Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 282), 10050 [23MY]
National Osteoporosis Prevention Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 108), 1151 [27JA]
National Women and Girls in Sports Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 82), 268 [19JA]
News media: train personnel from certain developing countries at University of Maine and in Washington, D.C. (see H.R. 1800), 5944 [11AP]
Packaging: identification of the resin used in the production of plastic containers used in interstate commerce (see H.R. 2156), 7614 [27AP]
Postal Service: restrictions on solicitations for purchase of products or services provided free or at lower price by the Government (see H.R. 373), 207 [4JA]
Refuse and refuse disposal: reduction and recycling of municipal solid waste (see H.R. 3127), 18671 [3AU]
Research: authorizing funds for the construction of a mouse biomedical research laboratory (see H.R. 3091), 18188 [2AU]
Rural areas: improve conditions in health manpower shortage areas (see H.R. 3724), 30034 [17NO]
Taxation: credit for dependent care (see H.R. 994), 2068 [9FE]
———deductions relative to expenses for certain adult dependents requiring home care (see H.R. 550), 267 [19JA]
U.N.: reform budget decisionmaking procedures (see H.R. 1799), 5944 [11AP]
USIA: study and report on sexual harassment of women (see H.R. 1797), 5944 [11AP]
Volunteer workers: priority funding for certain programs (see H.R. 1272), 3243 [2MR]
Bills and resolutions introduced by, as cosponsor
ACDA: authorizing appropriations (see H.R. 1495), 4989 [20MR]
Aeronautics: Essential Air Service Program (see H. Con. Res. 3), 4034 [13MR]
Age Discrimination in Employment Act: amend (see H.R. 1432), 4199 [15MR]
Air pollution: clean air standards (see H.R. 3030), 16563 [27JY]
American Heritage Trust: establish (see H.R. 876), 1686 [6FE]
Armed Forces: Federal retirement credits for Cadet Nurse Corps trainees during World War II (see H.R. 3280), 23414 [5OC]
———prohibit user fees for outpatient at military facilities (see H.R. 1296), 6806 [17AP]
Arms control: export of chemical and biological weapons (see H.R. 3033), 16563 [27JY]
Banks and banking: extend period for issuing mortgage bonds and credit certificates (see H.R. 1200), 9483 [17MY]
Bastille Day: commemorate bicentennial (see H. Con. Res. 43), 9483 [17MY]
Birth control: extend family planning program (see H.R. 930), 10443 [31MY]
Bowdoin College: construction of an environmental assessment center (see H.R. 3698), 30033 [17NO]
Budget: constitutional amendment to require balanced (see H.J. Res. 268), 8915 [11MY]
Child care: improvement (see H.R. 30), 104 [3JA]
Children: eliminate preventable deaths and disabling illness through international collaboration (see H. Res. 120), 11302 [8JN]
China, People's Republic of: populace efforts toward democracy (see H.R. 2611), 13846 [28JN]
———readjust immigration status of certain nationals (see H.R. 2712), 15437 [20JY]
Civil liberties: equal rights for men and women (see H.J. Res. 1), 105 [3JA]
Clean Air Act: national air quality standards (see H.R. 2323), 8914 [11MY]
Coast Guard: bicentennial (see H.J. Res. 265), 14077 [11JY]
Coast Guard Auxiliary Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 111), 12936 [22JN]
Coastweeks '89: designate (see H. Res. 239), 20647 [18SE]
Committee on Children, Youth, and Families (Select): establish (see H. Res. 33), 2555 [22FE]
Committee on Hunger (House, Select): establish (see H. Res. 20), 107 [3JA]
Committee on Intelligence (Joint): establish (see H.J. Res. 8), 1748 [7FE]
Container industry: refund value for certain beverage containers (see H.R. 586), 326 [20JA]
Courts: immunity from personal civil liability relative to volunteers working on behalf of nonprofit organizations and Government entities (see H.R. 911), 10050 [23MY]
Crime and criminals: international narcotics production and trafficking (see H.R. 3611), 28336 [9NO]
Decade of the Brain: designate (see H.J. Res. 174), 6333 [12AP]
Dept. of State: authorizing appropriations (see H.R. 1487), 4988 [20MR]
Dept. of the Treasury: issuance of Drug War Bonds (see H.R. 2972), 25917 [25OC]
Dept. of Veterans Affairs: expansion of services to sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorder (see H.R. 3037), 26497 [30OC]
———recruitment and retention of nurses (see H.R. 1199), 7544 [26AP]
Developing countries: encourage integration of women into development (see H.R. 951), 2067 [9FE]
———eradicate the worst aspects of poverty (see H.R. 594), 4033 [13MR]
District of Columbia: limit the time of incarceration for civil contempt in a child custody case (see H.R. 2136), 11819 [14JN]
Education: adult literacy (see H.R. 3123), 31245 [21NO]
———promoting excellence by recognizing and rewarding schools, teachers, and students (see H.R. 1675), 5513 [5AP]
Employment: elimination of discriminatory wage practices (see H.R. 41), 7544 [26AP]
———entitle family leave involving a birth, adoption, or serious health condition with protection of benefits (see H.R. 770), 1394 [2FE]
End to Hunger Education Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 341), 24814 [17OC]
Federal employees: allow periods of certain service under Federal-State cooperative programs to be creditable toward civil service retirement (see H.R. 3129), 31245 [21NO]
———early payment of benefit checks (see H.R. 523), 7436 [25AP]
———revise pay schedules and rates for Federal fire service personnel (see H.R. 645), 25239 [19OC]
Fish and fisheries: cease drift-net fishing in the South Pacific (see H. Con. Res. 214), 25239 [19OC]
———safety program to ensure quality of products intended for human consumption (see H.R. 2511), 19332 [4AU]
Flight Attendant Safety Professionals' Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 186), 7649 [1MY]
Foreign trade: extend provisions relative to export of domestically produced crude oil (see H.R. 567), 267 [19JA]
Freedom of Choice Act: enact (see H.R. 3700), 31245 [21NO]
Gaucher's Disease Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 224), 25146 [18OC]
Global Warming Prevention Act: enact (see H.R. 1078), 2552 [22FE]
Greek Independence Day—A National Day of Celebration of Greek and American Democracy: designate (see H.J. Res. 145), 3693 [8MR]
Handicapped: tax credits for small businesses for costs of public accommodations for the disabled (see H.R. 3500), 26345 [26OC]
———telecommunications system for hearing- and speech-impaired individuals to access 911 emergency service (see H.R. 1690), 20648 [18SE]
Health: birth control and infertility (see H.R. 2956; H. Con. Res. 173), 15436 [20JY]
———restrictions relative to family planning programs (see H.R. 720), 1203 [31JA]
———States to require insurance providers to supply mammography coverage (see H. Con. Res. 197), 20647 [18SE]
Honeybee: designate as national insect (see H.J. Res. 127), 16818 [28JY]
House of Representatives: amend rules relative to Members receiving honoraria (see H. Res. 25), 12810 [21JN]
Hungary: promote democracy (see H.R. 3300), 22744 [2OC]
Income: congressional, executive, and judicial salaries and pensions (see H.R. 401), 208 [4JA]
Insurance: private long-term care coverage (see H.R. 3621), 28846 [14NO]
Irradiated food: prohibit implementation of certain regulations (see H.R. 2405), 9649 [18MY]
Labeling: prescribe nutrition labeling for foods (see H.R. 3028), 25146 [18OC]
Lebanon: U.S. policy (see H. Res. 128), 9409 [16MY]
Libraries: national policy on use of preservation techniques for permanent papers (see H.J. Res. 226), 25615 [24OC]
Little League Baseball: anniversary (see H. Con. Res. 123), 19334 [4AU]
Lyme Disease Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 138), 9483 [17MY]
Maine: reimburse local law enforcement departments for expenses arising from Presidential security (see H.R. 2792), 19558 [6SE]
Medicaid: mammography coverage (see H.R. 3285), 20647 [18SE]
Medicare: mammography coverage (see H.R. 3286, 3701), 20647 [18SE], 30408 [20NO]
———permit small rural hospitals to elect to be paid on a reasonable cost basis (see H.R. 186), 20205 [12SE]
Mental Illness Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 164), 15850 [24JY]
National Arab-American Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 241), 19558 [6SE]
National Auctioneers Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 78), 5275 [23MR]
National Check-Up Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 227), 10869 [6JN]
National Child Care Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 182), 5172 [22MR]
National Children's Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 132), 5275 [23MR]
National Day of Remembrance for Victims of the U.S.S. Iowa: designate (see H.J. Res. 247), 7755 [2MY]
National Day To Commemorate the Bastille Day Bicentennial: designate (see H.J. Res. 298), 12283 [19JN]
National Domestic Violence Awareness Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 320), 19783 [7SE]
National Employee Assistance Programs Recognition Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 223), 17335 [1AU]
National Former POW Recognition Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 94), 5516 [5AP]
National Historically Black Colleges Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 399), 20206 [12SE]
National Home Care Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 122), 21004 [20SE]
National Hospice Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 194), 8916 [11MY]
National Hostage Awareness Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 400), 20442 [14SE]
National Infertility Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 256), 26590 [31OC]
National Older Americans Abuse Prevention Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 197), 8846 [10MY]
National POW/MIA Recognition Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 178), 13962 [29JN]
National Quality Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 204), 11302 [8JN]
National Quarter Horse Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 345), 21590 [26SE]
National Red Ribbon Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 373), 22876 [3OC]
National Scleroderma Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 274), 11302 [8JN]
National Visiting Nurse Association Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 255), 30035 [17NO]
National Women Veterans Recognition Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 35), 5086 [21MR]
Older Americans Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 60), 1748 [7FE]
Panama: elections (see H. Con. Res. 122), 9407 [16MY]
Petroleum: excise taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel (see H. Res. 41), 4202 [15MR]
Poland: promote democracy (see H.R. 3300), 22744 [2OC]
Postal Service: prohibit as nonmailable certain solicitations for service provided free of charge or at lower price by the Government (see H.R. 2331), 14076 [11JY]
Potato Research and Promotion Act: amend (see H.R. 2257), 12181 [15JN]
Product safety: require hazardous liquid products to include denatonium benzoate (see H.R. 2715), 18673 [3AU]
Recycling of waste products: encourage scientific research and development of technologies (see H.R. 500), 10868 [6JN]
Religious Freedom Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 238), 20648 [18SE]
Research: dissemination of biomedical information and prevention of duplication of experiments on animals (see H.R. 560), 9408 [16MY]
Rural areas: improve development (see H.R. 3530), 26344 [26OC]
———mass transportation funding (see H.R. 368), 31244 [21NO]
Rushdie, Salman: denouncing death sentence by Ayatollah Khomeini (see H.J. Res. 154; H. Res. 102), 3102 [1MR], 3693 [8MR]
Securities: extend authority to issue tax-exempt small issue bonds (see H. Con. Res. 156), 15437 [20JY]
Social Security: improve quality of services to individuals with mental retardation (see H.R. 854), 12809 [21JN]
———work incentives relative to disability benefits (see H.R. 8), 103 [3JA]
Social Security Administration: independent status (see H.R. 791), 2902 [28FE]
Take Pride in the Flag Day: designate (see H. Res. 189), 13622 [27JN]
Tariff: tamoxifen citrate (see H.R. 731), 20205 [12SE]
Taxation: deductions relative to interest paid on debt secured by a home (see H. Con. Res. 37), 6806 [17AP]
———delay implementation of certain reforms relative to employer benefit plans (see H.R. 518), 2554 [22FE]
———permanent exclusion of funding for employee educational assistance (see H.R. 2037), 25498 [23OC]
———repeal nondiscrimination rules relative to employee benefit plans (see H.R. 634), 11603 [13JN]
Terrorism: prohibit export of military equipment to certain countries (see H.R. 91), 22875 [3OC]
U.S. flag: constitutional amendment to prohibit desecration (see H.J. Res. 350), 14077 [11JY]
———Supreme Court ruling on desecration (see H. Res. 186), 13622 [27JN]
United Airlines: tribute to volunteers assisting in rescue operations for flight 232 (see H.J. Res. 379), 16564 [27JY]
VA: medical school scholarship grants with the condition that such recipients will work in VA facilities (see H.R. 343), 8710 [9MY]
Veterans: dire emergency appropriations for medical care (see H.J. Res. 272), 10243 [25MY]
———early payment of benefit checks (see H.R. 520), 7436 [25AP]
———educational assistance for survivors and dependents (see H.R. 2192), 15850 [24JY]
———exclude agent orange settlement payments from countable income under Federal means-tested programs (see H.R. 1129), 5516 [5AP]
———presumption of service connection for the occurrence of post-traumatic stress disorders (see H.R. 794), 9483 [17MY]
———prorating compensation and pension benefits for month in which death of veteran occurs (see H.R. 250), 9140 [15MY]
———receive compensation concurrently with retired pay and without deductions from either (see H.R. 303), 205 [4JA]
Women: economic equity (see H.R. 3085), 18188 [2AU]
Women's History Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 148), 2552 [22FE]
World Population Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 248), 10503 [1JN]
Essays: Voice of Democracy
Bankston, Allison H., 5467
Letters
Drug utilization review: by, 19046 [4AU]
Lists
Organizations supporting National Osteoporosis Prevention Week, 1189
Remarks by, on
Abortion: Federal funding for victims of rape and incest, 25817 [25OC]
Advertising: deceptive names, terms or seals, 30052
Airports: improving security (H.R. 1659), 20961 [20SE]
Alzheimer's disease: tax deductions for home health care and adult day care, 277
Appropriations: emergency supplemental (H.R. 2072), 7537
Bates College, ME: funds for Edmund S. Muskie Archives (H.R. 2623), 11609
Bath Iron Works, Portland, ME: repair of U.S.S. Samuel B. Roberts, 25804
Budget: reconciliation (H.R. 3299), 23226
Central America: bipartisan accord (H.R. 1750), 6415
Commission on Base Realignment and Closure: disapprove recommendations (H.J. Res. 165), 6867
Commission on Employment Discrimination in the Legislative Branch: establish (H. Con. Res. 95), 6646
Congressional budget: setting forth for 1990-92 (H. Con. Res. 106), 8126
Day care: tax credit, 23369 [5OC]
Deceptive Mailings Prevention Act: enact (H.R. 373), 119
Dept. of State: appropriations (H.R. 1487), 6248, 6263, 6265-6267, 6269, 6272, 6283, 6284, 6286, 6290 [12AP]
———appropriations (H.R. 1487), conference report, 29040 [15NO]
Dept. of the Interior: appropriations (H.R. 2788), 14408
Depts. of Labor, HHS, Education, and related agencies: appropriations (H.R. 2990), 18098, 18099 [2AU]
———appropriations (H.R. 2990), veto, 25817 [25OC]
Domestic Volunteer Service Act: extend programs (H.R. 1312), 14245
Eastern Airlines: Presidential emergency board to investigate dispute with collective bargaining units (H.R. 1231), 4181
Fish and fisheries: prohibit sale of certain lobsters (H.R. 3328), 21509
Foreign assistance programs: enhance and authorize appropriations (H.R. 2655), 13900 [29JN]
Foreign operations, export financing, and related programs: appropriations (H.R. 2939), conference report, 28758 [14NO]
Foreign trade: U.S. competitivenes, 6286 [12AP]
Government: ethics standards (H.R. 3660), 29504
Greece: independence anniversary, 5049
Health: conduct study of health education center program (H.R. 3725), 30078
———improved research, services, and training in dealing with Alzheimer's disease (H.R. 2781), 13856
———increasing number of men entering the nursing profession, 7862
Income: congressional, executive, and judicial salaries and pensions, 29504
———disapproving increases in executive, legislative, and judicial salaries (H.J. Res. 129), 1724
Indians: Aroostook Band of Micmacs claims settlement (H.R. 3049), 16827
INS: additional Border Patrol personnel and mobile sensor response systems for deployment in Maine (H.R. 2621), 11616
Libraries: grants for literacy projects (H.R. 957), 2188
Library Services and Construction Act: amend and extend (H.R. 2742), 20137
Medicaid: adopt and enforce adult guardianship laws (H.R. 372), 138
———freestanding day habilitation programs, 12621
Medicare: catastrophic illness coverage, 23226
———drug utilization review system to prevent adverse drug reactions (H.R. 2677), 12206
Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act: extend Advisory Committee on Medicare Home Health Claims (H.R. 2195), 7856
Minimum wage: adjust (H.R. 2), 5255
———adjust (H.R. 2710), 26820
National Endowment for Democracy: authorizing appropriations, 6272 [12AP]
National Family Caregivers Week: designate (H.J. Res. 282), 10078
National Osteoporosis Prevention Week: designate, 1189
———designate (S.J. Res. 37), 8687
National parks: funding, 14408
NOAA: appropriations (H.R. 1668), 30344 [20NO]
Oil pollution: limitations on liability (H.R. 1465), 27968
Packaging: identification of the resin used in the production of plastic containers used in interstate commerce (H.R. 2156), 7633
Postal Service: FTC deceptive mailings study, 284
———prohibit as nonmailable certain solicitations for service provided free of charge or at lower price by the Government (H.R. 2331), 17008
Refuse and refuse disposal: reduction and recycling of municipal solid waste (H.R. 3127), 18691
Research: authorizing funds for the construction of a mouse biomedical research laboratory (S. 1390), 28551 [13NO]
Rural areas: improve conditions in health manpower shortage areas (H.R. 3724), 30078
Taxation: credit for dependent care (H.R. 994), 2179
U.N.: prohibit U.S. contributions relative to internationally recognized statehood of members (H.R. 2145), 9346
———U.S. contributions, 6284 [12AP]
———voting record analysis, 6283 [12AP]
U.S. flag: prohibit desecration (H.R. 2978), 20117
VOA: International Training Center, 30045
Volunteer workers: priority funding for certain programs (H.R. 1272), 3398
Women in Development Act: enact (H.R. 951), 2166
Women's History Month: designate (H.J. Res. 148), 3565
Workers Memorial Day: designate (H.J. Res. 235), 7581
Remarks in House relative to
Congressional Record: revise and extend remarks, 95 [3JA], 2061 [9FE], 2266 [21FE], 6879 [18AP], 7542 [26AP], 7606 [27AP], 7752 [2MY], 10048 [23MY], 11600 [13JN], 12179 [15JN], 12492 [20JN], 13840 [28JN], 14074 [11JY], 16817 [28JY], 18669 [3AU], 19320 [4AU], 21498 [25SE], 25613 [24OC], 26875 [1NO], 30031 [17NO]
Testimonies
Committee on Rules: Foreign Relations Authorization Act (H.R. 1487), D174 [11AP]
Texts of
H.R. 372, Guardianship Rights and Responsibilities Act, 139
H.R. 373, Deceptive Mailings Prevention Act, 120
H.R. 957, Intergenerational Library Literacy Act, 2188
H.R. 1272, priority funding for certain volunteer workers' programs, 3398
Tributes
Archbishop Iakovos, 7088
Nadeau, Roger, 2368