COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND COMMERCE (House)

Bills and resolutions

Budget: funding for investigations and studies (see H. Res. 77, H1079 [20FE])

Upton, Representative: election (see H. Res. 109, H1578 [11MR])

Hearings

Access to electric transmission services (H.R. 2224), D834 [26JN]

Advertising and labeling issues: (testimony), D1488 [21NO]

Advisory Committee on the FDA report: (testimony), D742 [12JN]

AIDS epidemic: (testimony), D708 [6JN]

Air toxins and Clean Air Act implementation: (testimony), D1412 [12NO]

Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration reauthorization: (testimony), D799 [20JN]

Amend the Telecommunications Technologies Act (H.R. 531): (testimony), D521 [2MY]

Audiotext regulation (H.R. 328): (testimony), D209 [28FE]

BASEL Convention on the Export of Waste: (testimony), D1237 [10OC]

Basic health benefits and the cost of health care: (testimony), D878 [10JY]

Blood supply: (testimony), D597 [15MY]

Blood supply safety level: (testimony), D439 [18AP]

Board based provider taxes and disproportionate share hospital limits in the medicaid program: (testimony), D1518 [25NO]

Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act: (testimony), D845 [27JN]

Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act (H.R. 1303), D774 [18JN]

———(testimony), D347 [20MR]

Centers for Disease Control guidelines for HIV-infected health care workers, D1163 [26SE]

———(testimony), D1121 [19SE]

Clean Air Act implementation: (testimony), D361 [21MR], D513 [1MY], D1432 [14NO]

Clean Air Act implementation of special rules for utilities: (testimony), D944 [22JY]

Collision Damage Waiver Act (H.R. 1293): (testimony), D281 [12MR]

Corp. for Public Broadcasting appropriations, D918 [17JY]

Develop, assist, and stabilize recycling markets (H.R. 2746), D834 [26JN]

———(testimony), D929 [18JY]

Development of broadband infrastructure and availability of emergency technologies (H.R. 2546): (testimony), D835 [26JN]

Development of recycling markets: (testimony), D754 [13JN], D786 [19JN]

Drinking water contamination: (testimony), D573 [13MY]

Emerging and advanced telecommunications technologies: (testimony), D1385 [6NO]

Emerging Telecommunications Technologies Act (H.R. 531): (testimony), D172 [21FE], D281 [12MR]

Emerging Telecommunications Technologies Act (H.R. 1407): (testimony), D1231 [9OC]

Energy implications of the Persian Gulf situation, D51 [9JA]

Enhance FDA enforcement authority (H.R. 2597): (testimony), D918 [17JY]

Environmental and consumer issues relative to the North American Free Trade Agreement: (testimony), D550 [8MY]

Establish service programs for emotionally-disturbed children and improve delivery of certain services (H.R. 2311): (testimony), D607 [16MY]

Fairness and regulatory treatment of limited partnership reorganizations, or ``roll-ups'': (testimony), D361 [21MR]

FCC appropriations authorization: (testimony), D383 [10AP]

FCC oversight, focusing on common carrier proceedings: (testimony), D786 [19JN]

FDA: (testimony), D294 [13MR]

FDA enforcement policies: (testimony), D1083 [12SE]

FDA regulation of bottled water: (testimony), D383 [10AP]

FDA's generic drug approval process: (testimony), D698 [5JN]

Federal Facilities Compliance Act (H.R. 2194): (testimony), D550 [8MY]

Federal Family Planning Program reauthorization and abortion counselling information restrictions: (testimony), D334 [19MR]

Federal Power Act amendment (H.R. 649): (testimony), D688 [4JN]

Financial Institutions Safety and Consumer Choice Act: (H.R. 6) (testimony), D1090 [13SE]

Financial Institutions Safety and Consumer Choice Act (H.R. 1505): (testimony), D878 [10JY]

Financial Institutions Safety and Consumer Choice Act (H.R. 6): (testimony), D1026 [31JY], D1039 [1AU]

Financial services industry: (testimony), D395 [11AP]

Financial wrongdoings by an official in the Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology at NIH: (testimony), D242 [6MR]

Foreign takeovers of U.S. firms relative to national security and the impact of foreign direct investment on the competitiveness of U.S. technology: (testimony), D742 [12JN]

Fraud and consumer abuse in the telemarketing industry: (testimony), D563 [9MY]

FTC oversight: (testimony), D383 [10AP]

GATT's dolphin decision implications on U.S. health and environmental laws: (testimony), D1169 [27SE]

Generic drug approval and related FDA enforcement issues: (testimony), D254 [7MR]

Global climate change: (testimony), D1039 [1AU]

Global climate change and atmospheric greenhouse emissions: (testimony), D172 [21FE]

Government Securities Act reauthorization: (testimony), D563 [9MY]

Graduation rates of student athletes: (testimony), D976 [25JY]

Hazardous materials packaging: (testimony), D607 [16MY]

Hazardous waste transport and disposal: (testimony), D540 [7MY]

Health benefits systems reform: (testimony), D999 [29JY]

Health care reform: (testimony), D1353 [31OC]

Health care waste, fraud, and abuse: (testimony), D1236 [10OC]

High-Speed Rail Transportation Policy and Development Act (H.R. 1087): (testimony), D1260 [16OC]

Humana, Inc. pricing of medical supplies: (testimony), D1270 [17OC]

Implementation of amendments to the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act: (testimony), D521 [2MY]

Indoor environment: (testimony), D383 [10AP]

Insurance matters: (testimony), D889 [11JY]

Insurance regulations and financial reporting by insurance companies: (testimony), D646 [22MY]

Insurance solvency: (testimony), D918 [17JY]

Intercollegiate athletics: (testimony), D785 [19JN]

Intercollegiate athletics and historically black colleges and universities: (testimony), D1083 [12SE]

Interstate transportation and disposal of solid and hazardous waste: testimony, D506 [30AP]

Iraqi efforts to acquire U.S. technology and the need for additional authority relative to the seizure of Iraqi assets in the U.S.: (testimony), D172 [21FE]

Labor union discrimination based on participation in disputes (H.R. 5): (testimony), D373 [9AP]

Lead contamination and the indoor environment: (testimony), D490 [25AP]

Life insurance guarantee funds: (testimony), D963 [24JY]

Long-term care insurance legislation: (testimony), D1307 [24OC]

McDonnell Douglas Corp.'s major weapons program: (testimony), D1207 [3OC]

Medicaid: (testimony), D799 [20JN], D930 [18JY]

Medicaid financing through provider taxes and intergovernmental transfers: (testimony), D1178 [30SE]

Medicaid provider taxes financing: (testimony), D1260 [16OC]

Medicare fee schedule: (testimony), D889 [11JY]

Medicare HMO risk-contractor program: (testimony), D1440 [15NO]

National Cancer Act: (testimony), D1143 [24SE]

National energy security policy: (testimony), D161 [20FE], D189 [26FE], D198 [27FE], D209 [28FE]

National energy strategy: (testimony), D254 [7MR], D294 [13MR], D347 [20MR], D428 [17AP], D513 [1MY], D521 [2MY], D550 [8MY]

National energy strategy, focusing on auto efficiency and alternative fuels: (testimony), D416 [16AP], D490 [25AP]

National energy strategy, focusing on energy policy and global warming: (testimony), D785 [19JN]

National energy strategy, focusing on natural gas issues: (testimony), D698 [5JN]

National energy strategy, focusing on pump labeling and octane cheating and H.R. 219, Petroleum Marketing Practices Act amendment: (testimony), D742 [12JN]

National energy strategy, focusing on the strategic petroleum reserve: (testimony), D607 [16MY]

National energy strategy focusing on hydro, and oil pipeline regulation issues (H.R. 1301, 1543): (testimony), D753 [13JN]

National energy strategy (H.R. 777, 778): (testimony), D667 [29MY]

National energy strategy (H.R. 1301, 1543, 2639): (testimony), D822 [25JN]

National Telecommunications and Information Administration authorization: (testimony), D708 [6JN]

Nationwide measles epidemic: (testimony), D273 [11MR]

NIH programs revision and extension (H.R. 1532): (testimony), D405 [15AP], D416 [16AP]

North American Free Trade Agreement: (testimony), D1352 [31OC]

North American Free-Trade Agreement: (testimony), D597 [15MY]

Office of Scientific Technology: (testimony), D1039 [1AU]

Oil and gas exploration production waste and mining and mineral waste: (testimony), D1083 [12SE]

Oregon medicaid rationing experiment: (testimony), D1100 [16SE]

Overhead cost recovery practices at U.S. universities for Federal research contracts and grants: (testimony), D562 [9MY]

Overhead costs recovery practices at Stanford University for Federal research contracts and grants during the past decade: (testimony), D294 [13MR]

Penalties for illegal activities relative to the approval of abbreviated drug applications (H.R. 2454), D834 [26JN]

Pesticides in ground water: (testimony), D550 [8MY]

Phones outages: (testimony), D1185 [1OC]

Political advertising and campaign finance reform: (testimony), D753 [13JN]

Preventive health services programs reauthorization: (testimony), D1090 [13SE]

Private health insurance cost: testimony, D506 [30AP]

Proposed Government securities legislation: (testimony), D1313 [25OC]

Protect investors in limited partnerships in rollup transactions (H.R. 1885): (testimony), D466 [23AP]

Public Health Service Act: (testimony), D673 [30MY]

Public interest standard in broadcasting: (testimony), D573 [13MY], D597 [15MY]

Rail safety issues: (testimony), D395 [11AP]

Railroad safety programs reauthorization: (testimony), D742 [12JN]

Railroad strike: (testimony), D428 [17AP]

Reauthorize the SEC: (testimony), D521 [2MY]

Reduce human exposure to lead (H.R. 2840): (testimony), D986 [26JY]

Reduce levels of lead in the environment (H.R. 3554): (testimony), D1299 [23OC]

Restrictions preventing firms that manage accounts from executing trades using their floor brokers: (testimony), D584 [14MY]

Roll-up of real estate limited partnerships by the Bank Atlantic Financial Corp.: (testimony), D878 [10JY]

Safety of Pesticides in Food Act (H.R. 2342): (testimony), D785 [19JN]

Securities Investors Legal Rights Act (H.R. 3185): (testimony), D1488 [21NO]

Securities Regulatory Equality Act (H.R. 797): (testimony), D878 [10JY]

Securities Regulatory Equality Act (H.R. 797) and Financial Institutions Safety and Consumer Choice Act (H.R. 1505): (testimony), D799 [20JN]

State and local perspectives on medicaid: (testimony), D1196 [2OC]

State and local recycling programs: (testimony), D480 [24AP]

Strategic petroleum reserve: (testimony), D646 [22MY]

Technologies transfers from Government laboratories to U.S. industry: (testimony), D976 [25JY]

Telecommunications issues, D976 [25JY]

Telecommunications legislation: (testimony), D1299 [23OC], D1307 [24OC]

Telecommunications regulation legislation: (testimony), D889 [11JY]

Telephone consumer rights: (testimony), D480 [24AP]

U.S. Travel and Tourism Administration: (testimony), D1207 [3OC]

U.S.-Japan relations and the Fair Trade and Export Expansion Act (H.R. 787): (testimony), D480 [24AP]

U.S.-Mexico Free Trade Agreement: (testimony), D347 [20MR]

Underground storage tank program: (testimony), D347 [20MR]

Uranium enrichment: (testimony), D383 [10AP]

Withdraw lands for the waste isolation pilot plant (H.R. 2637): (testimony), D1393 [7NO]

Letters

Comprehensive Deposit Insurance Reform and Taxpayer Protection Act, H11811 [26NO]

Depts. of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies appropriations, H7325 [3OC]

Veterans' health care programs, H5035 [25JN]

Meetings

Abandoned Infants Assistance Act amendments (H.R. 2122), D1196 [2OC]

Alternative Fuels Initiative Act, D1236 [10OC]

Application of certain requirements and sanctions to Federal facilities (H.R. 2194), D688 [4JN]

Clarify and strengthen Defense Production Act provisions relative to national security takeovers (H.R. 2624), D1299 [23OC]

Coal Policy Act, D1026 [31JY]

Community Mental Health Services Improvement Act (H.R. 2311), D822 [25JN]

Construction or remodeling of certain mental health facilities (S. 1891), D1474 [20NO]

Consumer Protection Telemarketing Act (H.R. 3203), D1474 [20NO]

Drug Testing Quality Act (H.R. 33), D999 [29JY]

Enhance FDA enforcement authority (H.R. 2597), D1236 [10OC]

Environmental process for natural gas pipelines (H.R. 2809), D1011 [30JY]

Extend family planning services (H.R. 2585), D1011 [30JY]

Fair Trade and Export Expansion Act (H.R. 787), D1474 [20NO]

FCC appropriations (H.R. 1674), D1011 [30JY]

Federal medicaid payments relative to State expenditures made from revenues derived from provider-specific taxes (H.R. 3595), D1299 [23OC]

Financial Institutions Safety and Consumer Choice Act (H.R. 6), D1100 [16SE]

Fraud and consumer abuse on telephone sales (H.R. 2829), D1039 [1AU]

Generic Drug Enforcement Act (H.R. 2454), D999 [29JY]

Health information and health promotion amendments (H.R. 3402), D1196 [2OC]

High-speed rail program (H.R. 1087), D1299 [23OC]

Lead contamination (H.R. 2840), D1330 [29OC]

Limited Partnership Rollup Reform Act (H.R. 1885), D646 [22MY], D1011 [30JY]

Mental health and substance abuse block grants (H.R. 3698), D1385 [6NO]

National Energy Efficiency Act, D918 [17JY], D929 [18JY]

National Energy Efficiency Act (H.R. 776), D1353 [31OC]

National Telecommunications and Information Administration appropriations (H.R. 3031), D1011 [30JY]

NIH programs revision and and extension (H.R. 2281), D688 [4JN]

NIH Revitalization Amendments, D540 [7MY]

Octane Display and Disclosure Act, D952 [23JY]

Organizational purposes, D147 [7FE]

Pipeline Safety Act (H.R. 1489), D878 [10JY], D1011 [30JY]

Preventive health block grant amendments, D1299 [23OC]

Programs for mentally ill individuals (S. 1475), D1299 [23OC]

Public Health Service response to shortage of health care providers as a result of the Persian Gulf conflict (H.J. Res. 128), D198 [27FE]

Public Telecommunications Act (H.R. 2977), D1011 [30JY]

Public Utilities Holding Act, D1231 [9OC]

Rail Safety Enforcement and Review Act (H.R. 2607): (testimony), D889 [11JY]

Railroad labor-management dispute settlement, D428 [17AP]

Railroad Safety Enforcement and Review Act (H.R. 2607), D1011 [30JY]

Reduce human exposure to lead (H.R. 2840), D1370 [4NO]

Revise environmental processes for natural gas pipelines (H.R. 2809), D878 [10JY]

Seizure of Iraqi Government assets in the U.S., D439 [18AP]

Sexually transmitted diseases amendments (H.R. 2441), D1196 [2OC]

Silvio O. Conte Disabilities Prevention Act (H.R. 3401), D1196 [2OC]

Site Characterization Permit Expediting Act, D1071 [11SE]

Strategic Petroleum Reserve Enhancement Act, D952 [23JY]

Strengthen and expand authority of the U.S. Trade Representative (H.R. 787), D1299 [23OC]

Technology Preservation Act (H.R. 2624), D1461 [19NO], D1474 [20NO]

Telemarketing, nonnavigable waters, tourism policy, and export promotion, D1353 [31OC]

Telephone Advertising Consumer Rights Act amendments (H.R. 1304), D1011 [30JY]

Telephone Consumer Privacy Act (H.R. 1305), D799 [20JN]

Telephone Consumer Privacy Rights Act (H.R. 1305), D1011 [30JY]

Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Land Withdrawal Act (H.R. 2637), D1432 [14NO], D1474 [20NO]

Remarks in House

Butler, Anne B.: tribute, E3386 [11OC]

Meetings: during sessions, H6769 [24SE]

Permission to file report, H9650 [12NO], H10253, H10254 [14NO]

Reports: permission to file, H5151 [26JN], H6506 [12SE]

Upton, Representative: election (H. Res. 109), H1572 [11MR]

Reports

101st Congress, 2d Session: Legislative Summaries (H. Rept. 101-1021), H53 [3JA]

Reports filed

Authorization of a High Speed Rail Transportation Development and Commercialization Program (H.R. 1087) (H. Rept. 102-297), H9614 [8NO]

Authorization of Activities Under Federal Railroad Safety Act (H.R. 2607) (H. Rept. 102-205), H6601 [16SE]

Clarification of Provisions Concerning Solid Waste Requirements Relative to Federal Facilities (H.R. 2194) (H. Rept. 102-111), H4549 [13JN]

Commencement of Site Characterization Activities at the Yucca Mountain Site in Nevada (S. 1138) (S. Rept. 102-87), S8309 [20JN]

Declaration That Certain Portions of Pelican Island, TX, Are Nonnavigable (H.R. 1104) (H. Rept. 102-325), H10364 [18NO]

Declare Portions of Wappinger Creek In Dutchess County, NY, as Nonnavigable Waters (H.R. 3495) (H. Rept. 102-326), H10364 [18NO]

Delay in Federal Payments Under the Medicaid Program Relative to State Expenditures Made From Revenues Derived From Voluntary Contributions and Provider-Specific Taxes (H.R. 3595) (H. Rept. 102-310), H9700 [12NO]

Establishment of a Program for Prevention of Disabilities (H.R. 3401) (H. Rept. 102-271), H8494 [24OC]

Establishment of Standards for Certification of Laboratories Engaged in Urine Drug Testing (H.R. 33) (H. Rept. 102-302), H9699 [12NO]

Extend Programs Relating to the Education of Individuals as Health Care Professionals (H.R. 3508) (H. Rept. 102-275), H8577 [28OC]

Extension of Health Information and Health Promotion Programs (H.R. 3402) (H. Rept. 102-271), H8494 [24OC]

Extension of Program of Assistance for Family Planning Services (H.R. 3090) (H. Rept. 102-204), H6601 [16SE]

Extension of Program of Block Grants for Preventive Health and Health Services (H.R. 3635) (H. Rept. 102-318), H10280 [15NO]

Granting of Charter and Authorization of Appropriations for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (H.R. 3031) (H. Rept. 102-335), H10543 [19NO]

Improvement of Allocation and Assignment to the Electromagnetic Spectrum (H.R. 531) (H. Rept. 102-113), H4610 [18JN]

Increase of Safety to Humans and Environment From the Transportation by Pipeline of Natural Gas and Hazardous Liquids (H.R. 1489) (H. Rept. 102-247), H7647 [8OC]

NIH Programs (H.R. 2507) (H. Rept. 102-136), H5298 [9JY]

Penalties for Illegal Activities Relative to the Approval of Abbreviated Drug Applications (H.R. 2454) (H. Rept. 102-272), H8494 [24OC]

Prevention and Control of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (H.R. 2441) (H. Rept. 102-269), H8494 [24OC]

Prevention of Discrimination Based on Participation in Labor Disputes (H.R. 5) (H. Rept. 102-57), H3803 [3JN]

Procedures for Entry Onto Stock Raising Homestead Act Lands (S. 1187) (S. Rept. 102-218), S16847 [15NO]

Production of Geologic-Map Information in the U.S. Through Cooperation of Federal, State and Academic Participants (S. 1179) (S. Rept. 102-217), S16847 [15NO]

Promotion of Growth of International Travel and Tourism in the U.S. (H.R. 3645) (H. Rept. 102-355), H10929 [22NO]

Protection of Investors in Limited Partnerships in Rollup Transactions (H.R. 1885) (H. Rept. 102-254), H7980 [16OC]

Protection of Privacy Rights of Telephone Subscribers (H.R. 1305) (H. Rept. 102-324), H10364 [18NO]

Public Broadcasting Appropriations (H.R. 2977) (H. Rept. 102-363), H11114 [23NO]

Reauthorization of Programs for Mentally Ill Individuals (S. 1475) (S. Rept. 102-319), H10280 [15NO]

Recapitalization of the Federal Deposit Insurance Fund and Reform the Regulatory and Service Systems (H.R. 6) (H. Rept. 102-157), H7550, H7551 [7OC]

Regulate Use of Telephones in Making Commercial Solicitations (H.R. 1304) (H. Rept. 102-317), H10280 [15NO]

Revise and Extend Programs Under the Abandoned Infants Assistance Act (H.R. 2722) (H. Rept. 102-209), H9579 [7NO]

Strengthening and Expansion of the Authority of the U.S. Trade Representative (H.R. 787) (H. Rept. 102-400), H11885 [26NO]

Waiver of Certain Federal Recovery Requirements Relative To Construction or Remodeling of Certain Health Facilities (S. 1891) (H. Rept. 102-359), H11114 [23NO]

Withdrawal of Lands for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (H.R. 2637) (H. Rept. 102-241), H11885 [26NO]

Rules

Procedure, H1063-H1066 [20FE], H1320-H1322 [28FE]