COCHRAN, THAD (a Senator from Mississippi)

Addresses

Improvement of Education Programs: Buddy Roemer, Governor of Louisiana, S5447-S5449 [8MY]

Amendments offered by, to

Committees of the Senate: biennial expenditures (S. Res. 62), S2460, S2487, S2540, S2548 [28FE]

Crime: national policy to control crime and reform court procedures (S. 1241), S9191 [28JN], S9268 [8JY], S9290 [9JY]

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 2707), S12719, S12800 [11SE], S12874, S12876, S12877, S12888, S12927 [12SE]

Elections: campaign ethics reform and contribution limits (S. 3), S6282, S6423 [22MY]

Financial institutions: reform deposit insurance system (S. 543), S17024, S17080 [19NO]

Foreign aid: authorizing appropriations (S. 1435), S10901, S10973 [25JY]

Foreign operations, export financing, and related programs: making appropriations (H.R. 2621), S14227 [2OC]

Iraq: authorizing appropriations for humanitarian assistance and peacekeeping activities (H.R. 2251), S5677, S5697 [9MY]

Legislative branch: making appropriations (H.R. 2506), S10277, S10302 [17JY]

National defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities and personnel of the Depts. of Defense and Energy (S. 1507), S11959, S12320 [2AU]

Older Americans Act: revise and extend (S. 243), S16399, S16460 [12NO]

Power resources: comprehensive energy security policy (S. 1220), S15811 [1NO]

Surface Transportation Efficiency Act: enact (S. 1204), S7542, S7567, S7663 [12JN]

Women: counseling and information to pregnant women receiving certain public health assistance (S. 323), S10103, S10164 [16JY]

Appointments

Board of Visitors of the U.S. Air Force Academy, S5371 [7MY]

Committee To Escort the President, H776 [29JA]

Conferee: H.R. 707, CFTC appropriations, S5815 [14MY]

———H.R. 1281, supplemental appropriations for Dept. of Defense personnel expenditures relative to Operation Desert Shield and other urgent domestic programs, S3497 [19MR]

———H.R. 2251, making appropriations for humanitarian assistance and peacekeeping activities in Iraq, S5881 [15MY]

———H.R. 2427, making appropriations for energy and water development, S9457 [10JY]

———H.R. 2967, authorizing appropriations for the Older Americans Act and the Native Americans Programs Act and authorizing the National Conference on Aging, S16898 [18NO]

Articles and editorials

Federal Highway Aid Measure Ends—Congress Inaction Stalls Spending, Memphis (TN) Commercial Appeal, S14250 [3OC]

How We Almost Lost the Technological War, Norman R. Augustine, Wall Street Journal, S8481 [24JN]

Let the Clinics Be Clinics, Los Angeles (CA) News, S10112 [16JY]

Mississippi—Fordice Seized Anti-Incumbent Anger, Ronald Smithers, New York (NY) Times, S16163 [7NO]

Renew China's Trade Status, Li Xianglu and Lu Mai, New York (NY) Times, S10638 [23JY]

We Need ``Patriotism'', Detroit (MI) News, S8646 [26JN]

Bills and resolutions introduced by

Agriculture: disaster assistance to producers (see S. 1441, S9490 [10JY])

Education: authorize grant to the national writing project (see S. 264, S1159 [24JA])

Fair Labor Standards Act: exempt certain individuals involved in model garment programs (see S. 202, S439 [14JA])

Financial institutions: recordkeeping and reporting requirements for certain regulated institutions (see S. 1420, S9115 [28JN])

Hussein, Saddam: prosecution for war crimes (see S. Con. Res. 7, S1294 [30JA])

Margaret Walker Alexander National African-American Research Center: establish (see S. 714, S3712 [20MR])

Older Americans Act: reauthorization (see S. 1472, S10043 [15JY])

Senior Citizen Intern Program: update provisions (see S. Res. 96, S4230 [9AP])

Bills and resolutions introduced by, as cosponsor

Agriculture: crop acreage base shifting between farms in the case of natural disasters (see S. 1180, S6857 [24MY])

———limitation on Export Enhancement Program bonus awards (see S. Res. 57, S1907 [19FE])

———price supports for milk (see S. 1527, S10675 [23JY])

Airports: lift certain air carrier restrictions on the use of Dallas Love Field (see S. 377, S4638 [17AP])

Alaska: lease of public lands within North Slope for oil and gas exploration (see S. 109, S3595 [19MR])

Alcorn State University: establish the Hiram R. Revels Academic Science Complex (see S. 848, S4736 [18AP])

Antitrust policy: assure fairness in the allocation and award of damages (see S. 356, S1505 [5FE])

Armed Forces: tribute to Reserve components for serving during the Persian Gulf conflict (see S.J. Res. 97, S4250 [9AP])

———unemployment compensation for involuntarily separated individuals (see S. 160, S1323 [30JA])

Baltic Freedom Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 63, S1506 [5FE])

Bankruptcy: exclude from the estate of the debtor certain interests in liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons (see S. 580, S2771 [6MR])

Boy Scouts of America: anniversary (see S.J. Res. 111, S6068 [16MY])

Budget: research and experimental expenditures (see S. 752, S3929 [21MR])

———2-year cycle (see S. 1667, S18465 [26NO])

Capital punishment: establish constitutional procedures for imposition (see S. 147, S994 [17JA])

Chaco Culture Archaeological Protection Sites: designate (see S. 772, S4116 [22MR])

China, Republic of: GATT membership (see S. Res. 116, S5137 [25AP])

Coast Guard: user fees (see S. 403, S2844 [6MR])

Coins: mint and circulate $1 coin (see S. 844, S4612 [17AP])

———mint in commemoration of Operation Desert Shield (see S. 559, S3809 [20MR])

Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act: waive application to certain farm vehicles (see S. 715, S3712 [20MR])

Commission on Civil Rights: reauthorizing (see S. 617, S3020 [12MR])

Committee on POW/MIA Affairs (Senate, Select): establish (see S. Res. 82, S8353 [20JN])

Congressional Medal of Honor: pension for recipients (see S. 32, S4487 [16AP])

Corinth Battlefield: establish a national military park (see S. 80, S994 [17JA])

———study (see S. 17, S993 [17JA])

Country Music Month: designate (see S.J. Res. 189, S12676 [10SE])

Courts: judicial immunity (see S. 653, S3191 [13MR])

Crime: national policy to control crime and reform court procedures (see S. 635, S3190 [13MR])

Deaf Awareness Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 56, S1743 [6FE])

Disabled: strengthen education programs (see S. 1106, S6210 [21MY])

Diseases: reauthorizing research programs on Alzheimer's disease (see S. 1577, S15808 [1NO])

———research programs for osteoporosis and related bone disorders (see S. 488, S4249 [9AP])

Earth Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 116, S4337 [11AP]; S.J. Res. 119, S4337 [11AP]

Ecology and environment: establish a small community environmental compliance planning program (see S. 1226, S9137 [28JN])

Economic Recovery Tax Act: anniversary (see S.J. Res. 185, S11216 [29JY])

Education: encourage States to establish a Parents as Teachers Program (see S. 551, S2618 [5MR])

———improve (see S. 1141, S6653 [23MY])

———improve foreign instruction and promote equal access to opportunities to study abroad (see S. 511, S3293 [13MR])

———incentives for students to pursue teaching careers in areas of national significance (see S. 1063, S5753 [14MY])

———reauthorization of Star Schools Program Assistance Act (see S. 890, S4836 [23AP])

———strengthen the teaching profession (see S. 329, S1368 [31JA])

Elections: campaign ethics reform and contribution limits (see S. 143, S438 [14JA])

Emergency Medical Services Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 65, S1506 [5FE])

Executive departments: ensure use of appropriate Government procedures when taking private property (see S. 50, S1013 [22JA])

Fair Labor Standards Act: amend relative to exemption for small businesses from Federal minimum wage coverage (see S. 349, S1505 [5FE])

Family and domestic relations: assistance for improved adoption services (see S. 1301, S8353 [20JN])

———fund maternity home expenses and improve disclosure of adoption information (see S. 1215, S6997 [4JN])

FDIC: improve administration (see S. 651, S4249 [9AP])

Federal Prison Industries: govern participation in Federal procurement (see S. 1691, S14712 [15OC])

Financial institutions: recapitalize the Federal deposit insurance fund and reform the regulatory and service systems (see S. 280, S8033 [18JN])

Foreign trade: reciprocal responses to foreign practices that deny national treatment to U.S. investment (see S. 650, S3191 [13MR])

Forests: protection and management in Washington, Oregon, and California (see S. 1156, S10056 [15JY])

Freedoms Foundation: Bill of Responsibilities (see S.J. Res. 38, S4250 [9AP])

Gandhi, Rajiv: assassination (see S. Res. 131, S6210 [21MY])

Girl Scouts of the United States of America 80th Anniversary Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 210, S15259 [25OC])

Greek Independence Day—A National Day of Celebration of Greek and American Democracy: designate (see S.J. Res. 59, S1743 [6FE])

Health: improve services for pregnant women, infants, and children (see S. 493, S12924 [12SE])

———improve State systems for compensating individuals injured in the course of provision of health care services (see S. 489, S7221 [5JN])

———provide a refundable tax credit for qualified cancer screening tests (see S. 891, S18708 [27NO])

———reauthorize rural programs (see S. 1479, S10135 [16JY])

Health care facilities: fund to provide coverage for malpractice claims against community and migrant health centers (see S. 815, S5805 [14MY])

Health care professionals: tax treatment of student loan interest relative to practice of medicine in rural areas (see S. 1401, S8952 [27JN]; S. 1419, S8952 [27JN]

Heinz, John: tribute (see S. Res. 92, S4230 [9AP])

Helsinki Human Rights Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 154, S6997 [4JN])

Hunting and trapping: protect rights within national forests (see S. 1253, S7464 [11JN])

Income: treatment of Federal pay relative to garnishment and similar legal fees (see S. 316, S1367 [31JA])

Income tax: increase personal exemption to $4,000 (see S. 152, S2031 [20FE])

Indians: establish substance abuse program (see S. 290, S1293 [30JA])

INS: centennial anniversary (see S.J. Res. 67, S2032 [20FE])

Inter-American Foundation: authorizing appropriations (see S. 872, S4894 [23AP])

Iran: emancipation of the Bahai community (see S. Con. Res. 43, S18709 [27NO])

Iraq: continued economic sanctions pending release of illegally detained individuals (see S.J. Res. 94, S3191 [13MR])

IRS: time extension for certain acts for individuals performing services under Operation Desert Shield (see S. 8, S434 [14JA])

Israel: repeal U.N. condemnation of preemptive strike against Iraqi nuclear reactor in 1981 (see S. Con. Res. 53, S10135 [16JY])

Jewish Heritage Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 105, S4374 [11AP])

Korean War Veterans Remembrance Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 141, S6069 [16MY])

Kuwait: involvement of U.S. small businesses in rebuilding (see S. Res. 72, S4251 [9AP])

Magna Carta Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 150, S6655 [23MY])

Medicaid: determinations of denial of payment to States (see S. 1240, S8472 [21JN])

Medicare: claim sampling to deny claims or recover overpayments (see S. 1838, S18465 [26NO])

———exclude rural areas from payment reductions (see S. 717, S5354 [6MY])

———reform of payments to physicians (see S. 1810, S15809 [1NO])

———relief to physicians relative to excessive regulations (see S. 1332, S11228 [29JY])

Mental Illness Awareness Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 88, S2927 [7MR]; S.J. Res. 156, S7291 [6JN])

Middle East: Iraqi environmental terrorism in the Persian Gulf (see S. Con. Res. 23, S6069 [16MY])

———military action to enforce U.N. Security Council resolution against Iraq (see S.J. Res. 2, S321 [11JA])

———success of multinational military action against Iraq (see S. Con. Res. 13, S2508 [28FE])

Motion pictures: observe anniversary of moviemaking and the contributions of the American Film Institute (see S. Con. Res. 44, S6922 [3JN])

NASA: authorizing appropriations (see S. 98, S7043 [4JN])

National Adoption Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 207, S15865 [4NO])

National Alzheimer's Disease Month: designate (see S.J. Res. 36, S1608 [5FE]; S.J. Res. 158, S7464 [11JN])

National American Indian Heritage Month: designate (see S.J. Res. 172, S8953 [27JN])

National Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Awareness Month: designate (see S.J. Res. 174, S9266 [8JY])

National Arbor Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 64, S1506 [5FE])

National Awareness Month for Children with Cancer: designate (see S.J. Res. 39, S12314 [2AU])

National Breast Cancer Awareness Month: designate (see S.J. Res. 95, S4064 [21MR])

National Child Abuse Prevention Month: designate (see S.J. Res. 52, S1609 [5FE])

National Correctional Officers Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 69, S3293 [13MR])

National Crime Victims' Rights Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 16, S3597 [19MR])

National D.A.R.E. Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 121, S5673 [9MY])

National Domestic Violence Awareness Month: designate (see S.J. Res. 73, S3597 [19MR])

National Down's Syndrome Awareness Month: designate (see S.J. Res. 131, S12676 [10SE])

National Employ the Older Worker Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 79, S3106 [12MR])

National Family Caregivers Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 99, S17695 [22NO])

National Family Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 8, S4373 [11AP])

National Forest System Month: designate (see S.J. Res. 159, S7464 [11JN])

National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 53, S1919 [19FE])

National Gymnastics Month: designate (see S.J. Res. 163, S10791 [24JY])

National Hero Remembrance Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 144, S7045 [4JN])

National Historically Black Colleges Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 40, S1608 [5FE])

National Hospice Month: designate (see S.J. Res. 78, S4373 [11AP])

National Huntington's Disease Awareness Month: designate (see S.J. Res. 127, S4837 [23AP])

National Invent America! Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 140, S5406 [7MY])

National Law Enforcement Memorial Dedication Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 107, S5428 [7MY])

National Literacy Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 146, S7223 [5JN])

National Manufacturing Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 228, S16948 [18NO])

National Neighborhood Crime Watch Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 138, S7223 [5JN])

National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 86, S4779 [18AP])

National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 117, S4337 [11AP])

National POW/MIA Recognition Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 170, S10584 [22JY])

National Radon Action Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 132, S5137 [25AP])

National Recycling Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 70, S1506 [5FE]; S. Res. 41, S1790 [7FE])

National Red Ribbon Month: designate (see S.J. Res. 188, S15015 [22OC])

National Red Ribbon Week for a Drug-Free America: designate (see S.J. Res. 212, S14426 [4OC])

National Rehabilitation Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 72, S2356 [26FE])

National Scleroderma Awareness Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 130, S4984 [24AP])

National Senior Nutrition Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 108, S3930 [21MR])

National Student-Athlete Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 50, S1743 [6FE])

National Tourism Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 102, S4373 [11AP])

National Trauma Awareness Month: designate (see S.J. Res. 229, S16449 [12NO])

National Visiting Nurse Associations Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 124, S5428 [7MY])

National Women and Girls in Sports Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 66, S1700 [6FE])

National Women in Agriculture Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 176, S10693 [23JY])

National Women Veterans Recognition Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 145, S5753 [14MY])

Native Americans: administrative procedures for Federal recognition (see S. 1315, S8014 [18JN])

———extend appreciation to veterans (see S. Con. Res. 22, S3387 [14MR])

Older Americans Act: revise and extend (see S. 243, S1052 [23JA])

Operation Homefront: support program supporting families of members of the Armed Forces (see S. Res. 17, S1053 [23JA])

Panama: encourage negotiations toward a military base rights agreement (see S. Con. Res. 24, S5519 [8MY])

Pesticides: regulation of use (see S. 2085, S18335 [26NO])

Powell, Colin L.: award Congressional Gold Medal (see S. 565, S3293 [13MR])

POW/MIA: display of flag at national cemeteries (see S.J. Res. 136, S6891 [24MY])

President's Committee on Mental Retardation: anniversary (see S.J. Res. 173, S10057 [15JY])

Pryor, Senator: illness (see S. Res. 108, S4737 [18AP])

Recycling: model construction standards to enhance collection and storage of recycled materials (see S. 988, S6925 [3JN])

Refuse disposal: inspection of garbage from Canada (see S. 1884, S16623 [13NO])

Research: protection of animal research facilities from criminal acts (see S. 544, S7502 [11JN])

Rural areas: provide incentives to health care providers and establish State health service corps demonstration projects (see S. 1125, S6925 [3JN])

Schools: offering of certain types of fluid milk by facilities participating in the school lunch program (see S. 499, S2309 [26FE])

Schwarzkopf, H. Norman, Jr.: award Congressional Gold Medal (see S. 534, S3105 [12MR])

Shepherd's Centers of America, Inc.: grant charter (see S. 1476, S10135 [16JY])

Ships and vessels: remedy injury to shipbuilding and repair industry (see S. 1361, S8592 [25JN])

Silvio Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge: establish (see S. 821, S4455 [16AP])

Social Security: budget treatment of trust funds (see S. 788, S4229 [9AP])

———earnings test for retirement age individuals (see S. 10, S434 [14JA]; S. 81, S439 [14JA]; S. 194, S4892 [23AP])

———exclude child care earnings from income under the earnings test with respect to retired individuals (see S. 519, S4249 [9AP])

Social Security Notch Fairness Investigatory Commission: establish (see S. 964, S7044 [4JN])

Soviet Union: agricultural export credit guarantees from the U.S. (see S. Res. 117, S5943 [15MY])

Student aid programs: impact of the value of a farm family's principal residence and farm on eligibility (see S. 712, S4488 [16AP])

Student loans: deferral during professional internships (see S. 102, S437 [14JA])

Taxation: allocation of deductions of State and local income and franchise taxes (see S. 1647, S15259 [25OC])

———allow deduction for adult home care relative to Alzheimer's disease (see S. 895, S8353 [20JN])

———allow student loan deductions for physicians relative to the practice of medicine in rural communities (see S. 104, S2217 [21FE])

———amend code to meet infrastructure needs (see S. 90, S2977 [7MR])

———capital gains for small and high-risk business stock (see S. 697, S3712 [20MR])

———charitable contributions relative to appreciated property (see S. 359, S1505 [5FE])

———clarify that customer based, market share, and any similar intangible items are amortizable (see S. 1245, S10791 [24JY])

———deductions for adoption expenses (see S. 709, S3712 [20MR])

———deductions for decommissioning costs of nuclear powerplants (see S. 1641, S12181 [2AU])

———employee benefit plans (see S. 1364, S8592 [25JN])

———establish enterprise zones (see S. 1032, S5614 [9MY])

———exclude imposition of employer Social Security taxes on cash tips (see S. 765, S4250 [9AP])

———exclude small transactions from broker reporting requirements (see S. 200, S439 [14JA])

———exclusion for employee educational assistance (see S. 24, S434 [14JA])

———exempt from luxury tax passenger vehicle parts or accessories for disabled individuals (see S. 401, S4249 [9AP])

———exemption for contributions in aid of construction (see S. 1398, S9373 [9JY])

———extend the low-income housing credit (see S. 308, S1367 [31JA])

———extension of the mortgage revenue bond provisions and the low-income housing credit (see S. 167, S438 [14JA])

———health insurance costs of self-employed individuals (see S. 88, S436 [14JA]; S. 315, S1367 [31JA])

———incentives for establishing enterprise zones on Indian reservations (see S. 383, S1699 [6FE])

———individual retirement accounts (see S. 612, S3020 [12MR])

———penalty-free withdrawals from individual retirement accounts for first-time homebuyers and for higher education expenses (see S. 1680, S12182 [2AU])

———permanent extension of the targeted jobs credit (see S. 581, S5672 [9MY])

———provide for employees of small employers a private retirement incentive matched by employers (see S. 318, S2844 [6MR])

———repeal recreational vessel fee (see S. 843, S16622 [13NO])

———rollover of gain from sale of farm assets into individual retirement account (see S. 1130, S7044 [4JN])

———treatment gains or losses from sale of assets by farmer cooperatives (see S. 1522, S10554 [22JY])

———treatment of certain deductions of members of the National Guard or Armed Forces Reserve units (see S. 246, S1052 [23JA])

———treatment of certain real estate activities under passive loss rules (see S. 1257, S12799 [11SE])

———treatment of church pension benefit plans (see S. 747, S3929 [21MR])

———treatment of payments made by utilities to customers for participating in certain energy conservation measures (see S. 1305, S14083 [1OC])

———treatment of student loans of health care professionals relative to practicing in a rural community (see S. 1419, S9115 [28JN])

Tax-exempt organizations: establish cash and deferred pension arrangements for their employees (see S. 448, S3809 [20MR])

Telecommunications: research, design, and manufacturing of equipment (see S. 173, S438 [14JA])

Tower, John: tribute (see S. Res. 97, S4489 [16AP])

Transportation: authorize funding for highway construction, mass transit, and safety programs (see S. 1121, S7502 [11JN])

U.N.: repeal General Assembly Resolution 3379 (see S.J. Res. 110, S4251 [9AP])

U.S. Savings Bond Month: designate (see S.J. Res. 135, S5137 [25AP])

Up With People Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 208, S14043 [1OC])

Vermont Bicentennial Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 58, S1368 [31JA])

Veterans: disability compensation for service-connected disabilities (see S. 41, S435 [14JA])

———establish silver medal for service in a combat zone during the Persian Gulf Conflict (see S. 1774, S17466 [21NO])

———receipt of military retired pay concurrently with disability compensation for those with service-connected disabilities (see S. 1383, S9373 [9JY])

Volunteer workers: promote assistance to and activity by senior citizens (see S. 899, S4837 [23AP])

Walesa, Lech: U.S. visit (see S. Res. 90, S3930 [21MR])

Wetlands: conservation and management (see S. 1463, S9839 [11JY])

Women: protection from sexual harassment and violence and promote equal opportunity (see S. 472, S2146 [21FE])

Women's History Month: designate (see S.J. Res. 62, S1506 [5FE])

World Food Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 147, S8472 [21JN])

Year of the American Indian: designate (see S.J. Res. 217, S14976 [22OC])

Year of the Wetlands: designate (see S.J. Res. 6, S4137 [22MR])

Certificates of election

Senate, S2 [3JA]

Descriptions

Cochran amendment to S. 323—pregnancy counseling, S10101 [16JY]

Letters

Commendation to Eugene M. Lang for the ``I Have a Dream'' Program, S7518 [11JN]

El Salvador peace negotiations: several Central American ambassadors, S10897 [25JY]

Farmers Home Administration emergency loan program: Edward Madigan, Sec. of Agriculture, S5612 [9MY]

Older Americans Act reauthorization: Louis W. Sullivan, Sec. of HHS, S10045 [15JY]

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. compensation: Lynn Martin, Sec. of Labor, S16402 [12NO]

Prosecution of Saddam Hussein for war crimes: by, S1287 [30JA]

Lists

Mississippi Power & Light Co.'s educational programs and activities, S13997 [1OC]

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. estimate of active participants, S16402 [12NO]

Meetings

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: subcommittee assignments, D159 [20FE]

Oaths of office

Senate, S4 [3JA]

Petitions

Model garment programs: Lynne A. Setlak, Minnesota Fabrics Co., S12875 [12SE]

Poems

``I Used To Be a Letter,'' Alisha Burkett, S1182 [24JA]

Remarks by, on

Agriculture: disaster assistance (H.R. 2893), S17546 [22NO]

———disaster assistance to producers (S. 1441), S9490 [10JY]

———price supports for milk, S3508 [19MR]

Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 2698), S11205, S11206, S11207 [29JY]

Alexander, Lamar: nomination to be Sec. of Education, S3372 [14MR]

Appropriations: technical and enrollment error corrections in acts (H.J. Res. 157), S17546, S17592 [22NO], S18570 [27NO]

Budget: expenditures versus revenue, S2471, S2473 [28FE]

CFTC: authorizing appropriations (S. 207), S4443 [16AP]

China, People's Republic of: most-favored-nation status (H.R. 2212), S10638 [23JY]

Clothing industry: model garment programs, S12874, S12875, S12876 [12SE]

Coast Guard: search and seizure operations involving drug smuggling, S9291, S9292, S9293, S9294 [9JY]

Committees of the Senate: biennial expenditures (S. Res. 62), S2459, S2461, S2471, S2473 [28FE]

———provide State-by-State breakdown of disposition of funds, S2461 [28FE]

Confidential information: investigation of unauthorized disclosure of certain information (S. Res. 202), S15127, S15130 [24OC]

Conservation of natural resources: scientific management of resources, S1497 [5FE]

Construction industries: Dept. of Labor administration of apprenticeship programs, S3547 [19MR]

Copiah County, MS: anniversary of Copiah Bank, S15108 [24OC]

Crime: national policy to control crime and reform court procedures, S6829 [24MY]

———national policy to control crime and reform court procedures (S. 1241), S8279 [20JN], S9237 [8JY], S9290, S9291, S9292, S9293, S9294 [9JY]

Dept. of Defense: making supplemental appropriations for operational expenditures relative to Operation Desert Shield (H.R. 1282), conference report, S4105 [22MR]

———making supplemental appropriations for personnel expenditures relative to Operation Desert Shield and other urgent domestic programs (H.R. 1281), S3508, S3513, S3547, S3557, S3558 [19MR], S3662 [20MR]

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 2707), S12719 [11SE], S12853, S12854, S12855, S12873, S12874, S12875, S12876, S12877, S12878, S12882, S12883, S12885, S12888, S12889 [12SE]

———making appropriations (H.R. 2707), conference report, S16121 [7NO]

Disabled: orthotic and prosthetic services, S12873 [12SE]

Diseases: AIDS epidemic, S12877 [12SE]

Education: authorize grant to the national writing project (S. 264), S1181 [24JA]

———business involvement, S6008 [16MY]

———impact aid regulations, S12877, S12883 [12SE]

———improve (S. 1141), S6468 [23MY]

———improve system (S. 2), S6158 [21MY]

———national policy to improve home education for early childhood and preschool youngsters, S8881 [27JN]

———national policy to reduce illiteracy and improve mathematics and science skills, S5443, S5447, S5449 [8MY], S7712 [13JN], S8383 [21JN], S13996 [1OC]

———promote parent-child relationship, S2584 [5MR]

———reauthorization of Star Schools Program Assistance Act (S. 890), S4851 [23AP]

———strengthen the teaching profession (S. 329), S1431 [31JA]

El Salvador: withhold military assistance, S10897 [25JY]

Elections: campaign ethics reform and contribution limits (S. 3), S6190 [21MY], S6278, S6279, S6282, S6284 [22MY]

———limit Senate terms, S6278, S6279 [22MY]

———results relative to national voter trends, S16161-S16163 [7NO]

———spending limits and public funding of campaigns, S6190 [21MY], S6282, S6284 [22MY]

Enterprise for the Americas Initiative: foreign assistance provisions, S3557, S3558 [19MR]

Fair Labor Standards Act: exempt certain individuals involved in model garment programs (S. 202), S905 [14JA]

Farmers Home Administration: emergency loan program, S5612 [9MY]

Federal and County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service: funding, S3513 [19MR]

Financial institutions: impact on costs relating to Government imposition of consumer legislation, S17021, S17022, S17024 [19NO]

———recordkeeping and reporting requirements for certain regulated institutions (S. 1420), S9116 [28JN]

———reform deposit insurance system (S. 543), S17021, S17022, S17024 [19NO]

Foreign aid: authorizing appropriations (S. 1435), S10897 [25JY]

Foreign countries: missile proliferation, S8646 [26JN]

Foreign trade: procedures for implementing trade agreements (S. Res. 78), S6630 [23MY]

———reciprocal responses to foreign practices that deny national treatment to U.S. investment (S. 650), S3278 [13MR]

Gates, Robert M.: nomination to be Director of CIA, S15919 [5NO]

Government: require certain sums be used for a training for professional and service providers program, S16434 [12NO]

Health: access to care (S. 1936), S16161 [7NO]

———addicted infants and pregnant women demonstration projects, S12885 [12SE]

Health care professionals: information to patients on legal option concerning pregnancy, S10103, S10105, S10112 [16JY]

Hussein, Saddam: prosecution for war crimes (S. Con. Res. 7), S1286 [30JA]

Income: pension plan benefits guarantees, S16411, S16412, S16422 [12NO]

Iraq: making appropriations for humanitarian assistance and peacekeeping activities (H.R. 2251), conference report, S6345 [22MY]

Jews: efforts to emigrate from Soviet Union, S9917 [15JY]

Law enforcement: grants for State and local agencies, S9237 [8JY]

Madigan, Edward R.: nomination to be Sec. of Agriculture, S2892 [7MR]

Managed health care services: funding, S12877 [12SE]

Margaret Walker Alexander National African-American Research Center: establish (S. 714), S3802 [20MR]

Medicaid: drug rebates, S4260 [9AP]

Medicare: telephone access services for senior citizens, S16431 [12NO]

Middle East: congressional approval of military action to enforce U.N. Security Council resolution against Iraq pending failure of economic sanctions (S.J. Res. 1), S148 [10JA]

———success of multinational military action against Iraq, S2870 [7MR]

Monopolies: consumer protection from price-fixing (S. 429), S5482 [8MY]

National Board for Professional Teaching Standards: funding, S3662 [20MR]

National Collegiate Athletic Association: student-athlete reforms, S2584 [5MR]

National Commission on a Longer School Year: establish (S. 64), S4653 [17AP]

Native Americans: grant program for elder rights protection activities, S16433 [12NO]

Nuclear weapons: strategic defense initiative, S7253 [6JN]

Older Americans Act: reauthorization (S. 1472), S10043 [15JY]

———revise and extend (S. 243), S16398, S16399, S16400, S16401, S16402, S16404, S16410, S16411, S16412, S16422, S16423, S16431, S16433, S16434, S16436, S16438, S16441, S16447 [12NO]

Older Workers Benefit Protection Act: uniform compliance for certain benefits, S16434, S16436 [12NO]

Parliamentary inquiry, S16399 [12NO]

Power resources: health effects of electric and magnetic fields, S9429 [10JY]

———making appropriations for energy and water development (H.R. 2427), S9429 [10JY]

Reagan, Ronald: birthday observance, S1675 [6FE]

Senate: legislative program, S2063, S2064 [21FE], S10103 [16JY]

Senate Rules: investigation of violation relative to Clarence Thomas nomination to Supreme Court, S15127, S15130 [24OC]

Senior citizens: professional and service providers program funding, S16433 [12NO]

———promote financial management services for individuals at risk of conservatorship, S16436 [12NO]

———White House Conference on Aging funding, S12719 [11SE]

State Legalization Impact Assistance Grants Program: funding, S12888 [12SE]

Surface Transportation Efficiency Act: enact (S. 1204), S7805 [13JN], S14250 [3OC]

Taxation: treatment of certain real estate activities under passive loss rules (S. 1257), S10431 [18JY]

Telecommunications: research, design, and manufacturing of equipment (S. 173), S7098 [5JN]

Textile industry: practices concerning clothing articles made at home by employees, S12888, S12889 [12SE]

Thomas, Clarence: nomination to Supreme Court, S14465 [7OC], S14658 [15OC]

Treaties: Antiballistic Missile Treaty compliance, S7253 [6JN]

Volunteer workers: promote assistance to and activity by senior citizens (S. 899), S4869 [23AP]

Weapons: application of high-technology electronic and computer systems, S8481 [24JN]

Women: counseling and information to pregnant women receiving certain public health assistance (S. 323), S10101, S10102, S10103, S10105, S10112 [16JY]

Year of the Gulf of Mexico: designate (S.J. Res. 194), S16966 [18NO]

Remarks in Senate relative to

Dept. of Defense: making supplemental appropriations for operational expenditures relative to Operation Desert Shield (H.R. 1282), tribute to conferee, S4151 [22MR]

Statements

Conservation—Into the Second Century: R. Neil Sampson, S1498 [5FE]

National Writing Project: National Endowment for the Humanities, S4653 [17AP]

Summaries

Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act (S. 1441), S9496 [10JY]

Older Americans Act Reauthorization (S. 1472), S10046 [15JY]

State of Mathematical Achievement: Emerson J. Elliott and Gary W. Phillips, S8384 [21JN]

Working With Families—Promising Programs to Help Parents Support Young Children's Learning: Dept. of Education, S8881-S8884 [27JN]

Tables

Value of U.S. agricultural exports to People's Republic of China, S10638 [23JY]

Texts of

S. 264, authorizing grant to the national writing project, S1182 [24JA]

S. 1420, Small Bank Paperwork Reduction Act, S9117-S9119 [28JN]

S. 1441, Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act, S9491-S9496 [10JY]

S. 1472, Older Americans Act reauthorization, S10043-S10045 [15JY]

Tributes

Coleman, James P., S14448 [7OC]

Cranston, Senator, S2584 [5MR]