COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS (House)

Bills and resolutions

House of Representatives: require relief bill committee reports to include the sponsor and revenue cost (see H. Res. 108, H1474 [7MR])

Investigations and studies: expenses (see H. Res. 54, H891 [5FE])

Hearings

Administration's request for extension of fast track trade agreement implementing authority: (testimony), D283 [12MR]

American Jobs and Manufacturing Preservation Act (H.R. 2889): (testimony), D1208 [3OC]

Andean Trade Preference Act (H.R. 661): (testimony), D978 [25JY]

Bank insurance system recapitalization and depository institution regulations reform: (testimony), D668 [29MY]

Budget proposals for the IRS, U.S. Tax Court, and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms: (testimony), D348 [20MR]

Bulgaria's most-favored-nation trade status (H.J. Res. 282), D891 [11JY]

Child welfare services innovative programs: (testimony), D514 [1MY]

Child welfare system: (testimony), D335 [19MR]

Comprehensive health insurance (H.R. 3205): (testimony), D1232 [9OC], D1238 [10OC]

———testimony, D1227 [8OC]

Comprehensive health insurance (H.R. 3393, 3410): (testimony), D1291 [22OC], D1300 [23OC]

Comprehensive health insurance legislation: (testimony), D1308 [24OC]

Congressional oversight initiative: (testimony), D552 [8MY]

Conservatorship of Executive Life Insurance Co.: (testimony), D647 [22MY]

Customs Service abuse of overtime compensation: (testimony), D754 [13JN]

Customs Service investigations into allegations of wrongdoing within the agency: (testimony), D1027 [31JY]

Enterprise Zones (H.R. 11, 23): (testimony), D891 [11JY]

Enterprise zones (H.R. 11, 23): (testimony), D823 [25JN], D891 [11JY]

Factors affecting U.S. international competitiveness: (testimony), D775 [18JN], D800 [20JN]

Fair Trade in Financial Services Act: (testimony), D999 [29JY]

Family Preservation Act: (testimony), D729 [11JN], D743 [12JN]

Federal Adoption Program: testimony, D635 [21MY]

Federal budget: (testimony), D374 [9AP]

Federal child care regulations: (testimony), D1164 [26SE]

Foreign contributions to the costs of the Persian Gulf Conflict: (testimony), D1027 [31JY]

Foreign shipbuilding subsidies: (testimony), D362 [21MR]

Free trade negotiations with Mexico: testimony, D210 [28FE]

Government-sponsored enterprises: (testimony), D647 [22MY]

Grain import: (testimony), D944 [22JY]

Health care costs and health insurance coverage: (testimony), D417 [16AP]

Health insurance costs of large corporations: (testimony), D532 [6MY]

Health insurance options, D999 [29JY]

———(testimony), D522 [2MY], D847 [27JN], D891 [11JY]

Impact of substance abuse on State and local child welfare systems: testimony, D508 [30AP]

Intangibles Amortization Clarification Act (H.R. 1456): (testimony), D1197 [2OC]

Internal Revenue Code amendments (H.R. 563, 3035): (testimony), D1197 [2OC]

Internal Revenue Code amendments relative to amortization of goodwill: (testimony), D1331 [29OC]

Internal Revenue Code reforms to safeguard and protect rights of taxpayers: (testimony), D1154 [25SE]

International competitiveness: (testimony), D1084 [12SE]

Issuance of Federal benefit checks to deceased beneficiaries: (testimony), D140 [6FE]

Long-term strategies for health care: (testimony), D429 [17AP], D468 [23AP], D481 [24AP], D491 [25AP]

Long-term strategy, focusing on U.S. competitiveness: (testimony), D689 [4JN], D699 [5JN], D709 [6JN]

Medicare coverage for the near-elderly: (testimony), D335 [19MR]

Medicare coverage of individuals receiving unemployment benefits (H.R. 1492): (testimony), D362 [21MR]

Medicare fraud, waste and abuse: (testimony), D754 [13JN]

Medicare hospital payment: (testimony), D200 [27FE]

Medicare payments to physicians under the resource-based relative value scale: (testimony), D823 [25JN]

Medicare prescription drug benefits: (testimony), D729 [11JN]

Medicare Prevention Benefits Act (H.R. 2565): (testimony), D801 [20JN]

Medicare quality of care: testimony, D508 [30AP]

Medicare Volume Performance System: (testimony), D634 [21MY]

Medicare's skilled nursing facilities and home health benefits: (testimony), D223 [4MR]

Mistaken and unrecovered medicare payments: (testimony), D190 [26FE]

Mongolia's most-favored-nation trade status (H.J. Res. 281), D891 [11JY]

Most-favored-nation status for the Baltic States: (testimony), D1134 [23SE]

Oversight initiative hearings: (testimony), D564 [9MY]

Payment for hospitals costs under medicare: (testimony), D674 [30MY]

Pension access and simplification issues: (testimony), D978 [25JY]

Pension access simplification issues: (testimony), D1100 [16SE]

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.'s premium program: (testimony), D1041 [1AU]

Physician ownership/referral arrangements: (testimony), D1271 [17OC]

Private long-term health insurance and standards to provide for improved consumer protection: (testimony), D397 [11AP]

Railroad retirement system: (testimony), D1164 [26SE]

Reform of private health insurance: (testimony), D658 [23MY]

Retiree health benefits: (testimony), D1378 [5NO]

Safeguards and protection of taxpayers under the Internal Revenue Code: (testimony), D931 [18JY]

Shipbuilding Trade Reform Act (H.R. 2056): (testimony), D869 [9JY]

Social Security Administration: (testimony), D173 [21FE]

Social Security Administration disability determination and appeals process: (testimony), D522 [2MY]

Social Security disability insurance structural reform: (testimony), D823 [25JN]

Social Security retirement test: (testimony), D658 [23MY]

Social Security Trust Fund Integrity and Benefits Improvement Act (H.R. 2838): (testimony), D1111 [17SE]

State of the economy, budget policy, and administration's budget proposals: (testimony), D256 [7MR], D283 [12MR], D297 [13MR]

State of the economy, budget policy, and the administration's budget proposals: (testimony), D233 [5MR], D243 [6MR]

State of the U.S. economy, Federal budget policy, and the administration's budget proposals: (testimony), D385 [10AP], D397 [11AP]

Supplemental Federal unemployment compensation (H.R. 1367): (testimony), D362 [21MR], D367 [22MR]

Tax law simplifications: (testimony), D999 [29JY]

Tax simplification: (testimony), D953 [23JY], D965 [24JY]

Tax treatment of gross income limitation applicability to regulated investment companies (H.R. 2735): (testimony), D1110 [17SE]

Tax-exempt status of hospitals (H.R. 790, 1374): (testimony), D879 [10JY]

Trade Agreements Compliance Act (H.R. 1115): (testimony), D900 [15JY]

Treatment of consolidated tax savings: (testimony), D1071 [11SE]

U.S. export control programs: (testimony), D514 [1MY]

U.S. export control programs administration and enforcement: (testimony), D440 [18AP]

U.S. international competitiveness: (testimony), D787 [19JN], D909 [16JY], D920 [17JY], D931 [18JY]

U.S.-Mexico free trade agreement: (testimony), D162 [20FE]

U.S.-Mexico free trade agreement: (testimony), D173 [21FE]

U.S.-People's Republic of China trade relations: (testimony), D743 [12JN]

U.S-Canada Free Trade Agreement's rules-of-origin provisions: (testimony), D1261 [16OC]

Unemployment insurance, D190 [26FE]

———(testimony), D162 [20FE], D210 [28FE]

Unemployment insurance and the recession: (testimony), D140 [6FE]

Use of Social Security number as a national identifier: (testimony), D200 [27FE]

Violations in the marketing of government securities: (testimony), D1164 [26SE]

Worker adjustment assistance programs: (testimony), D1041 [1AU]

Letters

Dept. of Defense supplemental appropriations authorization for operational expenditures relative to Operation Desert Shield, H1686 [13MR]

Meetings

Amortization of goodwill and certain other intangibles (H. Res. 292), D1518 [25NO]

Approval of recommendations to Committee on the Budget (House), D283 [12MR]

Dept. of Defense voluntary separation incentives proposal, D1154 [25SE]

Erroneous medicare payments, D700 [5JN]

Extend certain expiring provisions of the Internal Revenue Code (H.R. 3909), D1518 [25NO]

Fast-track trade procedures (H. Res. 101), D585 [14MY]

Federal supplemental unemployment compensation (H.R. 1367), D836 [26JN]

Human Resources, D133 [5FE]

Improve child welfare, foster care, and adoption services (H.R. 2571), D1144 [24SE]

Intermodal Surface Transportation Infrastructure Act (H.R. 2950), D1260 [16OC]

IRS filing extension for certain individuals performing services under Operation Desert Storm (H.R. 4), D88 [23JA]

Most-favored-nation status for Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania (H.R. 3313), D1145 [24SE]

NOAA appropriations (H.R. 2130), D879 [10JY]

Omnibus Crime Control Act (H.R. 3371), D1232 [9OC]

Organizational issues, D564 [9MY]

Organizational meeting, D88 [23JA]

Organizational purposes, D105 [29JA], D111 [30JA], D133 [5FE]

Payment of Federal benefits to deceased individuals, D564 [9MY]

People's Republic of China's most-favored-nation trade status, D836 [26JN]

Presidential Election Campaign Fund Primary Fairness Act (H.R. 3644), D1476 [20NO]

Repeal prohibition on importation of gold coins from the Soviet Union (H.R. 3347), D1145 [24SE]

Semiautomatic assault weapons (H.R. 1559), D1501 [22NO]

Shipbuilding Trade Reform Act (H.R. 2056), D891 [11JY]

Special benefits for the Andean nations (H.R. 661), D1145 [24SE]

Taxpayer Bill of Rights Act, D1424 [13NO]

Technical Corrections Act amendment (H.R. 1555), D1518 [25NO]

Termination of application of certain provisions of the Trade Act to Czechoslovakia and Hungary (H.R. 1724), D891 [11JY]

Trade agreement negotiations (H. Res. 146), D585 [14MY]

Trade Agreements Compliance Act (H.R. 1115): (testimony), D978 [25JY]

Unemployment compensation, D1361 [1NO]

Unemployment Insurance Reform Act (H.R. 3040), D1012 [30JY]

Remarks in House

House of Representatives: require relief bill committee reports to include the sponsor and revenue cost (H. Res. 108), E832 [7MR]

Reports

101st Congress, 2d Session: Legislative Summaries (H. Rept. 101-1013), H52 [3JA]

Reports filed

Amortization of Goodwill and Certain Other Intangibles (H. Res. 292) (H. Rept. 102-376), H11287 [25NO]

Development of a National Intermodal Surface Transportation System (H.R. 2950) (H. Rept. 102-171), H6380 [2AU]

Disapproval of Extension of Most-Favored-Nation Status to the People's Republic of China (H.J. Res. 263) (H. Rept. 102-140), H5298 [9JY]

Emergency Unemployment Compensation (H.R. 3040) (H. Rept. 102-185), H6380 [2AU]

Emergency Unemployment Compensation (H.R. 3201) (H. Rept. 102-184), H6380 [2AU]

Emergency Unemployment Compensation (H.R. 3575) (H. Rept. 102-273), H8494 [24OC]

Extension of Certain Expiring Provisions of the Internal Revenue Code (H.R. 3909) (H. Rept. 102-377), H11287 [25NO]

Extension of Most-Favored-Nation Status for Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania (H.R. 3313) (H. Rept. 102-339), H10543 [19NO]

Extension of Most-Favored-Nation Status to the People's Republic of China (H. Con. Res. 174) (H. Rept. 102-142), H5298 [9JY]

Extension of Most-Favored-Nation Status to the People's Republic of China (H.R. 2212) (H. Rept. 102-141), H5298 [9JY]

Extension of Time for Performing Certain Acts Under IRS Laws for Individuals Under Operation Desert Shield (H.R. 4) (H. Rept. 102-2), H683 [23JA]

Fast-Track Procedures for Implementing Trade Agreements (H. Res. 101) (H. Rept. 102-63), H3159 [16MY]

Fees for Recreational Vessels (H.R. 534) (H. Rept. 102-182), H8187 [22OC]

Improvement of Milk Price Support Program and Establishment of Milk Inventory Management Program (H.R. 2837) (H. Rept. 102-173), H8101 [17OC]

Most-Favored-Nation Status for Bulgaria (H.J. Res. 282) (H. Rept. 102-264), H8187 [22OC]

Most-Favored-Nation Status for Mongolia (H.J. Res. 281) (H. Rept. 102-263), H8187 [22OC]

National Policy To Control Crime and Reform Court Procedures (H.R. 3371) (H. Res. 102-242), H7725 [9OC]

NOAA Appropriations (H.R. 2130) (H. Rept. 102-133), H5431 [11JY]

Objectives To Be Achieved in Negotiation of Future Trade Agreements (H. Res. 146) (H. Rept. 102-64), H3159 [16MY]

Payment Procedures for the Presidential Election Campaign Fund and Presidential Matching Payment Account (H.R. 3644) (H. Rept. 102-329), H10722 [20NO]

Prevention of the Proliferation of Biological and Chemical Weapons (H.R. 3409) (H. Rept. 102-235), H10542 [19NO]

Procedures for the Appointment of the Chairman of the ITC (H.R. 3624) (H. Rept. 102-279), H8786 [30OC]

Provision for Special Benefits for the Andean Nations (H.R. 661) (H.R. 661) (H. Rept. 102-337), H10543 [19NO]

Recapitalization of the Federal Deposit Insurance Fund and Reform the Regulatory and Service Systems (H.R. 6) (H. Rept. 102-157), H6939 [26SE]

Repeal of Prohibition on Importation of Gold Coins from the Soviet Union (H.R. 3347) (H. Rept. 102-336), H10543 [19NO]

Requirement of Subsidy Information and Trade Remedies Against Certain Foreign-Built Ships (H.R. 2056) (H. Rept. 102-284), H9143 [4NO]

Restriction of the Authority of Newly Established Government Related Corporations To Borrow From the Treasury (H.R. 3365) (H. Rept. 102-224), H6939 [26SE]

Soviet Union Most-Favored-Nation Status (H.J. Res. 346) (H. Rept. 102-338), H10543 [19NO]

Technical Corrections Relative to the Revenue Reconciliation Act (H.R. 1555) (H. Rept. 102-381), H11287 [25NO]

Termination of Application of Certain Provisions of the Trade Act to Czechoslovakia and Hungary (H.R. 1724) (H. Rept. 102-223), H6939 [26SE]

Rules

Procedure, H973-H977 [6FE]