COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS (House)

Bills and resolutions

Investigations and studies: expenses (see H. Res. 332)

———funding (see H. Res. 343)

Mink, Representative: election (see H. Res. 499)

Hearings

Abuse, favoritism and mismanagement of Dept. of HUD programs: (testimony), D25 [5FE]

Abuses, mismanagement, and favoritism in Dept. of HUD programs: (testimony), D408 [21JN]

Abuses and mismanagement in public housing authorities: (testimony), D31 [6FE]

Abuses in ``M'' Account System and proposal for reform, D618 [20SE]

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome drug treatment: (testimony), D537 [1AU]

Agent orange studies: (testimony), D416 [26JN]

All-terrain vehicle safety: (testimony), D80 [28FE]

Appraisal reform of financial institutions: (testimony), D321 [17MY]

Army's hazardous waste reduction: (testimony), D438 [28JN]

ASCS Inventory Management System—Building Another Hubble?: (testimony), D606 [18SE]

BIA and Trust Fund review: (testimony), D631 [25SE]

Bringing information age to rural America: (testimony), D37 [7FE]

Budget process reform issues: (testimony), D208 [4AP]

Bureau of Prisons' halfway house contracts, D466 [17JY], D472 [18JY]

Children at risk in the workplace: (testimony), D137 [19MR]

Clean air in parks and wilderness areas: (testimony), D121 [9MR]

Columbia Hospital for Women land conveyance (H.R. 2031): (testimony), D669 [2OC]

Commercial Activities Contracting Procedures Act (H.R. 4015): (testimony), D245 [25AP], D253 [26AP]

Convey certain District of Columbia lands to the Columbia Hospital for Women (H.R. 2031): (testimony), D337 [23MY]

Critical software management of the submarine combat system: (testimony), D253 [26AP]

Data protection, computers, and changing information practices, D314 [16MY]

DEA management: (testimony), D669 [2OC]

DEA management's handling of informant allegations: (testimony), D614 [19SE]

Deposit insurance issues and deposit discipline: (testimony), D677 [3OC]

Dept. of Environmental Protection (H.R. 3847): (testimony), D38 [7FE]

Dept. of HUD abuses, mismanagement, and favoritism: (testimony), D260 [30AP], D272 [2MY]

Dept. of HUD programs abuse, mismanagement, and favoritism: (testimony), D337 [23MY]

Dept. of Justice's debt collection: (testimony), D527 [31JY]

Dept. of Justice's discretionary drug grants: (testimony), D220 [18AP]

Dept. of Justice's efforts on banking fraud: (testimony), D129 [14MR], D134 [15MR]

Dioxin water standards: (testimony), D508 [26JY]

Disinfectant products: (testimony), D669 [2OC]

EPA's safe drinking water program, D559 [3AU]

Exercise of prosecutorial authority in a changing legal environment: (testimony), D298 [10MY]

Failure to manage Indian Trust Fund: (testimony), D239 [24AP]

FDA regulations of residues of animal drugs in milk: (testimony), D31 [6FE]

Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act (S. 535): (testimony), D376 [13JN]

Federal Council on Women Act (H.R. 1187): (testimony), D494 [24JY]

Federal financial management reforms: (testimony), D606 [18SE]

———testimony, D600 [17SE]

Federal fire management policy: (testimony), D346 [24MY]

Federal tax amnesty program's feasibility and revenue impact: (testimony), D499 [25JY]

Federal Used Property for Domestic Use Act (H.R. 4026): (testimony), D362 [7JN]

FERC overview: (testimony), D716 [11OC]

Food and agriculture councils: (testimony), D80 [28FE]

Foreign government procurement discrimination against U.S. companies: (testimony), D266 [1MY]

Fraudulent customer acquisition practices in the long distance telephone industry: (testimony), D734 [17OC]

Government controls on sales to Iraq: (testimony), D647 [27SE]

Government Procurement Agreements Act (H.R. 5023) and Reciprocity in International Government Procurement Enforcement Act (H.R. 5439): (testimony), D591 [13SE]

Health insurance fraud: (testimony), D445 [11JY]

Impact of Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on U.S. energy and economic security (testimony), D566 [5SE]

Impact on consumers of State motor carrier regulations: (testimony), D186 [29MR]

Integration of meat packing industry—effects on farmer and consumer: (testimony), D727 [16OC]

Intergovernmental Cash Management Improvement Act (H.R. 4279): (testimony), D277 [3MY]

IRS employee misconduct and mismanagement: (testimony), D292 [9MY]

Jordan ranch exchange: (testimony), D479 [19JY]

Justice assistance programs: (testimony), D239 [24AP]

Land exchanges, Part I, the JY Ranch exchange: (testimony), D277 [3MY]

Minority farming in the U.S.: (testimony), D500 [25JY]

Mismanagement in programs for the homeless in the District of Columbia: (testimony), D370 [12JN]

Mismanagement of public housing authorities: (testimony), D121 [9MR]

National drug control enforcement strategy: (testimony), D272 [2MY]

National drug control strategy: (testimony), D201 [3AP], D220 [18AP]

National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities' minority employment practices: (testimony), D408 [21JN]

National Institute of Justice funding: (testimony), D346 [24MY]

National policy on use of preservation techniques for permanent papers (H.J. Res. 226): (testimony), D54 [21FE]

NLRB: (testimony), D677 [3OC]

Northrop Corp. Harrier jet and cruise missile testing improprieties: (testimony), D631 [25SE]

Northrop Corp.'s behavior and management: (testimony), D716 [11OC]

OSHA protection for chemical workers: (testimony), D487 [23JY]

Peace Corps: (testimony), D330 [22MY]

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.: (testimony), D163 [26MR]

Railroad Retirement Board insurance and retirement system: (testimony), D584 [12SE]

Significance for minority businesses of the Supreme Court decision in City of Richmond vs. J.A. Croson Co., D292 [9MY]

Slower 1st-class mail delivery standards: (testimony), D569 [6SE]

State of Federal ADP acquisition: (testimony), D591 [13SE]

Strategies in preventing HIV transmission among intravenous drug users: (testimony), D606 [18SE]

Surety Association Act (H.R. 4179): (testimony), D355 [6JN]

Telemarketing and boiler room frauds: (testimony), D448 [11JY], D454 [12JY]

Tongass National Forest: (testimony), D80 [28FE]

Toxic substances testing program: (testimony), D402 [20JN]

Transportation of hazardous materials by rail: (testimony), D80 [28FE]

U.S. insurance industry and foreign markets: (testimony), D337 [23MY]

Use of Alternate Fuels by the Postal Service—Neither Snow, Nor Rain, Nor Middle Eastern Dictators Will Stop Mail: (testimony), D647 [27SE]

Witness security program and protection of foreign nationals: (testimony), D89 [1MR]

Letters

Dept. of Environmental Protection: Representative Conyers, 5710, 5711, 5712 [28MR]

Meetings

Abuse and Mismanagement at Dept. of HUD—Hudlums, Scoundrels, HUD Alumni and Robin HUD, D768 [19OC]

Abuses and Mismanagement at HUD—Hudlums, Scoundrels, HUD Alumni and Robin HUD, D701 [10OC]

Acquisition of ADP Equipment—Questionable Practices by the Navy, Its Employees, GSA, and IBM Cost Taxpayers Millions of Dollars, D758 [18OC], D768 [19OC]

Agent Orange Coverup—A Case of Flawed Science and Political Manipulation, Stopping the Flood of Cocaine With Operations Snowcap—Is It Working?, D547 [2AU]

Alternative Fuel Use by Postal Service—Increase in Fleet Conversion Would Provide Benefits, D758 [18OC], D768 [19OC]

Appropriations reform procedures for closing accounts (H.R. 5645), D631 [25SE]

Bureau of Justice Assistance Discretionary Drug Treatment Programs—The Great Disappearing Act, D758 [18OC], D768 [19OC]

Buy American Act (H.R. 5439), D631 [25SE]

Chief Financial Officer Act (H.R. 5687), D641 [26SE]

Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Amendments (H.R. 5450): (testimony), D606 [18SE]

Computer matching and privacy protection amendments (H.R. 5450), D641 [26SE]

Computer Matching and Privacy Protection (H.R. 5450), D579 [11SE]

Consumer cost of continued State motor carrier regulation, D641 [26SE]

DEA management, D693 [5OC]

Demand Reduction and the National Drug Control Strategy, D758 [18OC], D768 [19OC]

Dept. of Justice Debt Collection—So Many Intentions So Little Money, D641 [26SE]

Draft report, D764 [23OC]

Effectiveness of Andean Initiative—Source Country Reduction in the National Drug Control Strategy, D758 [18OC], D768 [19OC]

Establish a chief financial officer within OMB and in each executive department (H.R. 5687), D631 [25SE]

Exercise of Prosecutorial Discretion in a Changing Legal Environment, D758 [18OC], D768 [19OC]

Expired Funds Control Act (H.R. 5645), D641 [26SE]

FDA's Continuing Failure To Prevent Deceptive Health Claims for Foods, D758 [18OC], D768 [19OC]

Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act (S. 534), D547 [2AU]

Federal employee privacy rights and standard form 86

Foreign Contracting Audit Equity Act (H.R. 4131), Intergovernmental Cash Management Improvement Act (H.R. 4279), and Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act (S. 535), D547 [2AU]

Government Procurement Agreements Act (H.R. 5023), D641 [26SE]

Government's War Against Fraud, Abuse and Misconduct in Financial Institutions—Winning Some Battles but Losing the War, D768 [19OC]

Immigration Limbo or the Plight of Foreign National Witnesses Used in Major Narcotics Prosecutions, D547 [2AU]

Impact of Harrier jet testing improprieties by Northrop Corp., D724 [12OC]

Individual Surety Association Act (H.R. 4179) and national policy on permanent papers (H.J. Res. 226), D547 [2AU]

International Procurements and Waivers of the Buy American Act—U.S. Business at a Disadvantage, D758 [18OC], D768 [19OC]

Issuance of subpoena to Leonard Briscoe, D384 [14JN]

Issuance of subpoenas to former Dept. of HUD officials, D18 [31JA]

Issuance of subpoenas to former officials of Passaic Public Housing Authority, D54 [21FE]

Minority Farmer—Disappearing American Resource—Has the Farmers Home Administration Been the Primary Catalyst?, D758 [18OC], D768 [19OC]

Miscellaneous measures, D125 [13MR]

Misconduct by senior managers in the IRS, D614 [19SE], D641 [26SE]

National policy on permanent papers (H.J. Res. 226), D313 [16MY]

Navy Seawolf Attack Submarine Is Proceeding Along Path of High Technical and Financial Risks, D758 [18OC], D768 [19OC]

Overview of FRRC, D724 [12OC]

Peace Corps—Entering Its Fourth Decade of Service

Pending draft report, D758 [18OC]

Pluralism in cultural institutions receiving Federal funds

Postal Service Realignment of First-Class Mail Delivery Standards—Just Say Slow, D758 [18OC], D768 [19OC]

Procurement agreements outside U.S. (H.R. 5023), D631 [25SE]

Programs Administered by the Bureau of Justice Assistance—Questionnaire Demonstrates Communication Breakdown, D547 [2AU]

Reciprocity in International Government Procurement Enforcement Act (H.R. 5439), D641 [26SE]

Relationship between State assistance programs and food stamp allocation—two case studies, D547 [2AU]

Status of the Implementation of Title XI, the Appraisal Reform Amendments of FIRREA, D758 [18OC], D768 [19OC]

Stopping the Flood of Cocaine With Operation Snow Cap—Is It Working? and Relationship Between State Assistance Programs and Federal Food Stamp Allocations, D408 [21JN]

Surety Association Act (H.R. 4179), D508 [26JY]

Taking a Byte Out of History—The Archival Preservation of Federal Computer Records, D758 [18OC], D768 [19OC]

Tax Administration Problems Involving Independent Contractors, D768 [19OC]

Tax administration problems involving independent contractors, D701 [10OC]

Two Case Studies, Programs Administered by the Bureau of Justice Assistance—Questionnaire Demonstrates Communication Breakdown, D547 [2AU]

U.S. Government War Against Fraud, Abuse, and Misconduct on Financial Instiutions—Winning Some Battles but Losing War, D701 [10OC]

U.S. Marshal Service, D102 [6MR]

Use immunity grant to DuBois Gilliam, D125 [13MR]

Remarks in House

Meetings: during sessions, 21419 [1AU], 24749 [17SE], 24910 [18SE], 30162 [17OC]

Mink, Representative: election (H. Res. 499), 28247 [10OC]

Reports: permission to file, 36864 [27OC]

Reports

Foreign Travel Expenditures, 3664, 3665 [7MR], 13664 [12JN], 24626 [14SE]

Reports filed

Agent Orange Coverup—Case of Flawed Science and Political Manipulation (H. Rept. 101-672), 23477 [5SE]

AIDS Treatment and Care—Who Cares? (H. Rept. 101-674), 23477 [5SE]

Are Scientific Misconduct and Conflicts of Interest Hazardous to Our Health (H. Rept. 101-688), 23677 [10SE]

Consumer Costs of Continued State Motor Carrier Regulations (H. Rept. 101-813), 27772 [5OC]

Dept. of HUD Abuse and Mismanagement: (H. Rept. 101-977), 37085 [2NO]

Dept. of Justice Debt Collection (H. Rept. 101-825), 28447 [10OC]

Establish a Chief Financial Officer of the U.S. Within the OMB (H.R. 5687) (H. Rept. 101-818), 27938 [6OC]

Establish Dept. of Environmental Protection (H.R. 3847) (H. Rept. 101-428), 5031 [22MR]

Executive Department Review of Performance of Foreign Contractors Under Certain Procurement Contracts (H.R. 4131) (H. Rept. 101-729), 25275 [21SE]

Immigration Limbo or the Plight of the Foreign National Witnesses Used in Major Narcotics Prosecutions (H. Rept. 101-676), 23477 [5SE]

Management of Funds Transferred Between the Federal and State Governments (H.R. 4279) (H. Rept. 101-696), 24327 [13SE]

Misconduct by Senior Managers in the IRS (H. Rept. 101-800), 27668 [4OC]

National Policy on Permanent Papers (H.J. Res. 226) (H. Rept. 101-680), 23477 [5SE]

Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Reauthorization (H.R. 3695) (H. Rept. 101-927), 33167 [23OC]

Peace Corps (H. Rept. 101-824), 28447 [10OC]

Pluralism in Cultural Institutions Receiving Federal Fund (H. Rept. 101-678), 23477 [5SE]

Programs Administered by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (H. Rept. 101-679), 23477 [5SE]

Reform of Procedures for Closing Appropriation Accounts (H.R. 5645) (H. Rept. 101-898), 31068 [18OC]

Relationship Between State Assistance Programs and Federal Food Stamp Allocations—Two Case Studies (H. Rept. 101-675), 23477 [5SE]

Stop the Flood of Cocaine With Operation Snowcap—Is It Working (H. Rept. 101-673), 23477 [5SE]

U.S. Marshals Service—Don't Arrest Oversight (H. Rept. 101-420), 4459 [15MR]

Verification of Computer Matching Information Affecting Individuals' Eligibility for Federal Benefits (H.R. 5450) (H. Rept. 101-768), 26311 [27SE]

Resignations

Kolter, Representative, 1176 [5FE]

Spratt, Representative, 14032 [14JN]

Texts of

H. Res. 499, election of Representative Mink, 28247 [10OC]