HASTERT, J. DENNIS (a Representative from Illinois)

Amendments offered by, to

National Conference on Aging: authorize (H.R. 2967), H6502 [12SE]

Native Americans Programs Act: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 2967), H6502 [12SE]

Older Americans Act: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 2967), H6502 [12SE]

Appointments

Committee on Children, Youth, and Families (Select), H1088 [21FE]

Committee on Hunger (Select), H6389 [15AU]

Bills and resolutions introduced by

House of Representatives: commend Architect of the Capitol for recycling program (see H. Res. 128, H2374 [17AP])

National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 72, H386 [11JA])

Roads and highways: motor carrier transportation (see H.R. 1064, H1136 [21FE])

Social Security: earnings test for retirement age individuals (see H.R. 967, H1023 [19FE])

Tariff: 3,4,4'-trichlorocarbanilide (see H.R. 3343, H6601 [16SE])

Taxation: method of rounding used in adjusting tax rates (see H.R. 768, H839 [31JA])

VietNow: grant charter (see H.R. 3849, H10841 [21NO])

Bills and resolutions introduced by, as cosponsor

Abortion: availability of services under federally funded programs (see H.R. 1490, H1848 [19MR])

———parental notification requirements (see H.R. 1397, H1669 [12MR])

Agriculture: prevention of crimes against farmers, researchers, and other livestock-related professions (see H.R. 2407, H3279 [20MY])

Appropriations: rescind certain unauthorized funds (see H.R. 2643, H4549 [13JN])

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: lease lands for oil and gas exploration and development (see H.R. 759, H824 [30JA])

Armed Forces: penalty-free withdrawals from retirement plans by members called to active duty during Operation Desert Shield (see H.R. 1016, H1326 [28FE])

———retention of certain information in personnel files on missing or deceased members (see H.R. 1730, H4867 [20JN])

Arts and humanities: recognition of ``An Artistic Discovery,'' the congressional high school art competition (see H. Res. 201, H5744 [23JY])

Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 173, H2376 [17AP])

Baltic Freedom Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 167, H1341 [4MR])

Baltic States: most-favored-nation status for Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania (see H.J. Res. 319, H6384 [2AU])

———provide special temporary protected status for certain nationals (see H.R. 637, H1080 [20FE])

———support independence of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia (see H.R. 1603, H2181 [11AP])

Basketball Centennial Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 372, H11115 [23NO])

Bicentennial of the District of Columbia Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 356, H11893 [26NO])

Boats: fees for recreational vessels (see H.R. 534, H5267 [27JN])

Boy Scouts of America: anniversary (see H.J. Res. 207, H2471 [23AP])

Budget: constitutional amendment to require balanced (see H.J. Res. 143, H2137 [10AP]; H.J. Res. 248, H2901 [8MY]; H.J. Res. 290, H5298 [9JY])

———establish and evaluate performance standards and goals for expenditures (see H.R. 1800, H5818 [24JY])

———Presidential power to reduce authority (see H.R. 78, H891 [5FE])

———reform process (see H.R. 298, H78 [4JA])

Capital punishment: impose on individuals convicted of certain crimes in the District of Columbia (see H.R. 596, H1475 [7MR])

Centennial of Concrete Paving in America Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 324, H7649 [8OC])

Children: avoid prolonged foster care for abandoned babies where adoption is available (see H.R. 2362, H3149 [15MY])

Civil Rights Act: restore and strengthen laws that ban discrimination in employment (see H.R. 1375, H1668 [12MR])

Civitan International Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 160, H2087 [22MR])

Coal: research and development of clean coal technology (see H.R. 2871, H5515 [16JY])

Coins: mint and circulate $1 coin (see H.R. 1245, H1671 [12MR])

———mint commemorative coin for 200th anniversary of White House (see H.R. 3337, H10932 [22NO])

———mint in commemoration of James Madison (see H.R. 2673, H4611 [18JN])

———mint in commemoration of Operation Desert Shield (see H.R. 1658, H2085 [22MR])

———mint in commemoration of the Bill of Rights (see H.R. 2673, H4611 [18JN])

Committee on Children, Youth, and Families (Select): establish (see H. Res. 12, H62 [3JA])

Commodore John Barry Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 166, H5651 [18JY])

Communications: development of broadband infrastructure and availability of emergency technologies (see H.R. 2546, H4015 [5JN])

Constitution Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 223, H2374 [17AP])

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women: Presidential recommendations relative to ratification (see H. Res. 261, H8495 [24OC])

Courts: clarify remedial jurisdiction of inferior Federal courts (see H.R. 640, H1417 [5MR])

———standards for product liability actions (see H.R. 2700, H5908 [25JY]; H.R. 3030, H6387 [2AU])

———standards for professional liability actions (see H.R. 2701, H6387 [2AU])

Crime: monetary awards for persons providing information leading to the arrest of certain drug suspects (see H.R. 1356, H1473 [7MR])

Drug abuse: tax return designation of $1 for drug treatment and rehabilitation (see H.R. 942, H991 [6FE])

Dutch-American Heritage Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 177, H5665 [22JY])

Economic Recovery Tax Act: anniversary (see H.J. Res. 315, H5979 [29JY])

Economy: incentives for work, savings, and investments (see H.R. 3130, H6192 [31JY])

Education: postsecondary education assistance to disadvantaged children (see H.R. 2943, H10842 [21NO])

Education Day, U.S.A.: designate (see H.J. Res. 104, H1282 [27FE])

Elections: campaign ethics reform and contribution limits (see H.R. 3770, H11114 [23NO])

Emergency Medical Services Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 109, H2470 [23AP])

Ending Hunger Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 321, H8102 [17OC])

FAA: publish flight charts for visual flight routes (see H.R. 3243, H6382 [2AU])

FCC: prevent the loss of existing spectrum to the amateur radio service (see H.R. 73, H2261 [16AP])

Federal employees: allow time off from duty to serve as bone marrow donors (see H.R. 658, H825 [30JA])

Financial institutions: limit liability on holdings in violation of certain environmental laws (see H.R. 1450, H5267 [27JN])

Fire fighters: enact a fire service bill of rights (see H.R. 2448, H3622 [23MY])

Firearms: establish national hotline to check on prospective handgun buyers (see H.R. 1412, H2538 [24AP])

Flag—U.S.: constitutional amendment to prohibit desecration (see H.J. Res. 83, H5451 [15JY])

Food: remove certain pesticides from supply and establish EPA negligible risk standard (see H.R. 3216, H6381 [2AU])

Franklin, Benjamin: mint coins in commemoration (see H.R. 2448, H3622 [23MY])

Geological Survey: enhance geologic mapping (see H.R. 2763, H7381 [3OC])

Government: elimination of waste (see H.R. 3816, H10543 [19NO])

Greek Independence Day—A National Day of Celebration of Greek and American Democracy: designate (see H.J. Res. 58, H529 [16JA])

Health: maternal and child health State block grants (see H.R. 1968, H2398 [22AP])

Hussein, Saddam: prosecution for war crimes (see H. Con. Res. 81, H2400 [22AP])

Illinois and Michigan Canal Heritage Corridor: capital improvement projects (see H.R. 3538, H7725 [9OC])

Income: treatment of Federal pay relative to garnishment and similar legal fees (see H.R. 643, H994 [6FE])

Infant Mortality Awareness Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 194, H2376 [17AP])

Japan: operation and regulation of capital and securities markets (see H.R. 3283, H11892 [26NO])

Korean War Veterans Remembrance Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 255, H4945 [24JN])

Language and languages: recognize English as official U.S. language (see H.R. 123, H57 [3JA])

LSC: improve certain requirements relative to provided funds (see H.R. 1345, H5818 [24JY])

Marine mammals: detrimental impact due to purse seine fishing for tuna (see H.R. 261, H1417 [5MR])

Medicaid: Federal payments relative to State expenditures made from revenues derived from provider-specific taxes (see H. Con. Res. 208, H7314 [2OC])

Mental Illness Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 156, H6387 [2AU])

Middle East: congressional approval of military action to enforce U.N. Security Council resolution against Iraq (see H. Con. Res. 13, H84 [4JA])

———demonstrations of community support for troops in the Persian Gulf (see H.J. Res. 174, H1457 [6MR])

———success of multinational military action against Iraq (see H. Res. 95, H1326 [28FE])

Military Order of the World Wars: grant charter (see H.R. 3071, H6675 [17SE])

National Accessible Housing Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 326, H7107 [30SE])

National Adoption Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 364, H8495 [24OC])

National Agriculture Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 272, H10932 [22NO])

National American Indian Heritage Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 182, H3038 [14MY])

National Arbor Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 66, H892 [5FE])

National Breast Cancer Awareness Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 257, H6691 [19SE])

National Children's Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 183, H2565 [25AP])

National Convenience Store Appreciation Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 294, H6540 [12SE])

National Correctional Officers Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 232, H2536 [24AP])

National Crime Victims' Rights Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 171, H1850 [19MR])

National Desert Storm Reservists Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 231, H2770 [2MY])

National Down Syndrome Awareness Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 228, H2770 [2MY])

National Education First Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 197, H2181 [11AP])

National Ellis Island Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 130, H1024 [19FE])

National Family Caregivers Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 125, H992 [6FE])

National Family Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 23, H1671 [12MR])

National Firefighters Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 189, H6676 [17SE])

National forests: protect persons involved in a lawful hunt (see H.R. 371, H697 [24JA])

National Foster Care Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 154, H1280 [27FE])

National Gymnastics Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 273, H5597 [17JY])

National Hero Remembrance Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 185, H2603 [30AP])

National Hospice Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 153, H2953 [9MY])

National Hunting and Fishing Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 225, H2374 [17AP])

National Huntington's Disease Awareness Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 56, H2770 [2MY])

National Institute of Nursing Research: designate (see H.R. 2447, H3622 [23MY])

National Invent America Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 287, H6139 [30JY])

National Job Skills Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 291, H9581 [7NO])

National Juvenile Arthritis Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 252, H5818 [24JY])

National Law Enforcement Training Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 191, H2538 [24AP])

National Parks Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 276, H6194 [31JY])

National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 57, H685 [23JA])

National Philanthropy Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 140, H8662 [29OC])

National Physical Fitness and Sports Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 120, H2470 [23AP])

National POW/MIA Recognition Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 233, H6318 [1AU])

National Recycling Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 169, H2109 [9AP])

National Recycling Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 188, H2181 [11AP])

National Red Ribbon Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 312, H8189 [22OC])

National School Breakfast Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 98, H1162 [26FE])

National Senior Nutrition Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 141, H2686 [1MY])

National Sports Products Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 190, H2137 [10AP])

National Stay in School Awareness Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 362, H9044 [1NO])

National Tax Freedom Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 220, H2261 [16AP])

National Trauma Awareness Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 300, H8189 [22OC])

National Visiting Nurse Associations Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 212, H7200 [1OC])

National Walk For Health and Fitness Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 170, H2263 [16AP])

National Women in Agriculture Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 293, H5818 [24JY])

National Wrestling Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 196, H2263 [16AP])

Nuclear energy: standardize plant designs and improve the licensing and regulatory process (see H.R. 1184, H3150 [15MY])

Older Americans Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 51, H2181 [11AP])

Petroleum: recycling and management of used oil (see H.R. 3956, H11886 [26NO])

Pharmaceuticals: penalties for illegal activities relative to the approval of abbreviated drug applications (see H.R. 2454, H3622 [23MY])

Physicians: prohibit discrimination based on graduation from a foreign medical school (see H.R. 319, H2180 [11AP])

Polish American Heritage Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 227, H6139 [30JY])

Postal Service: establish commission to investigate (see H. Res. 194, H6195 [31JY])

Power resources: encourage cost effective energy conservation and efficiency (see H.R. 1543, H2013 [21MR])

POW/MIA: disclosure of information concerning U.S. personnel classified after 1940 (see H.R. 1147, H3805 [3JN])

Real property: tax treatment under the limitations on losses from passive activities (see H.R. 1414, H1757 [13MR])

Recycling: degradable plastics (see H.R. 1318, H4284 [11JN])

———improve collection of information that promotes the recycling of municipal solid waste (see H.R. 755, H994 [6FE])

———State opportunities for citizens' participation (see H.R. 945, H2016 [21MR])

Refuse disposal: protect the used oil recycling system and establish used oil management standards (see H.R. 1411, H1670 [12MR])

Religious Freedom Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 325, H6799 [24SE])

Retired Enlisted Association, Inc.: grant charter (see H.R. 1509, H7380 [3OC])

Schwarzkopf, H. Norman, Jr.: award a Congressional Gold Medal and produce bronze duplicates for public sale (see H.R. 1296, H2180 [11AP])

Securities: require disclosure of short positions of major short position holders (see H.R. 3317, H6538 [12SE])

Social Security: administration of the Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance Program (see H.R. 2898, H5513 [16JY])

———earnings test for retirement age individuals (see H.R. 344, H3036 [14MY])

Soviet Union: revoke U.S. taxpayer subsidies relative to military action in Baltic States (see H.J. Res. 80, H605 [18JA])

Sports: authorize minting of coins commemorating 1994 World Cup and provide a financial legacy to youth and amateur soccer (see H.R. 2801, H5515 [16JY])

Taxation: application of employer Social Security taxes to employees' cash tips (see H.R. 1472, H3710 [29MY])

———capital gains (see H.R. 3128, H6192 [31JY])

———cash or deferred arrangements for employees of tax-exempt organizations (see H.R. 2327, H10365 [18NO])

———computing of deductions allowable to home day care providers for the business use of their homes (see H.R. 2008, H5341 [10JY])

———contribution of individual income tax refunds to a trust fund for hunger relief (see H.R. 81, H11891 [26NO])

———credits for increasing research activities (see H.R. 1618, H8188 [22OC])

———deduction for contributions to education savings accounts (see H.R. 3493, H9581 [7NO])

———deduction for interest on educational loans (see H.R. 747, H3624 [23MY])

———deductions for adoption expenses (see H.R. 1515, H5341 [10JY])

———deductions for business use of a dwelling unit (see H.R. 3599, H11289 [25NO])

———deductions for decommissioning costs of nuclear powerplants (see H.R. 2012, H2468 [23AP])

———exclude price of certain transit passes from income (see H.R. 572, H2016 [21MR])

———exclusion for employee educational assistance (see H.R. 127, H1281 [27FE])

———fuel tax (see H. Res. 212, H6384 [2AU])

———gains and losses of non-exempt farmer cooperatives (see H.R. 2361, H3149 [15MY])

———health insurance costs of self-employed individuals (see H.R. 784, H1025 [19FE])

———incentives for coverage of senior citizens by private long-term care insurance (see H.R. 2528, H6879 [25SE])

———increase amount of exemption for children under age 18 (see H.R. 1277, H1415 [5MR])

———indexing of certain assets (see H.R. 246, H1670 [12MR])

———individual retirement accounts (see H.R. 77, H1280 [27FE]; H.R. 1406, H4284 [11JN])

———low-income housing credit (see H.R. 413, H4186 [7JN])

———permanently extend qualified mortgage bonds (see H.R. 1067, H6138 [30JY])

———reduce social security and capital gains taxes (see H.R. 960, H1475 [7MR])

———reinstate investment tax credit and reduce capital gains taxes (see H.R. 2359, H3149 [15MY])

———relief for families and incentives for economic growth (see H.R. 3744, H10843 [21NO])

———relief to utilities installing acid rain reduction equipment (see H.R. 1054, H2470 [23AP])

———repeal the luxury tax on boats (see H.R. 951, H6385 [2AU])

———treatment of a charitable organization operating an amateur athletic event (see H.R. 2464, H6386 [2AU])

———treatment of church pension benefit plans (see H.R. 1570, H6386 [2AU])

———treatment of contributions to education savings accounts (see H.R. 34, H2374 [17AP])

———treatment of long-term care (see H.R. 415, H697 [24JA])

———treatment of long-term real property relative to eminent domain laws (see H.R. 2811, H10932 [22NO])

———withholding of income tax from wages paid for agricultural labor (see H.R. 924, H1670 [12MR])

Telecommunications: research, design, and manufacturing of equipment (see H.R. 1523, H2087 [22MR])

Transportation: collection of payments for shipments via motor common carriers of property and nonhousehold goods freight forwarders (see H.R. 3705, H11892 [26NO])

Up With People Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 345, H7815 [11OC])

Veterans: allow disability compensation concurrently with retirement pay (see H.R. 303, H892 [5FE])

———disability compensation for service-connected disabilities (see H.R. 3, H53 [3JA])

Volunteer workers: immunity from civil liability for certain individuals working for nonprofit organizations and governmental entities (see H.R. 911, H6138 [30JY])

Water: protection of sole source aquifers (see H.R. 688, H1281 [27FE])

Wetlands: conservation and management (see H.R. 1330, H2902 [8MY])

Women's History Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 149, H1916 [20MR])

World AIDS Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 376, H10843 [21NO])

World War II: contributions of the people of Guam and Hawaii (see H. Res. 293, H11115 [23NO])

———establish in the District of Columbia a memorial to veterans (see H.R. 1624, H4187 [7JN])

———issue 50th anniversary commemorative coin (see H.R. 1623, H4186 [7JN])

Remarks by, on

Budget: revising 1991 and setting forth the Federal budget for 1992-96 (H. Con. Res. 121), E1339 [18AP]

Congressional Record: revise and extend remarks, H10717 [20NO]

Economy: national objectives priority assignments, H10609 [20NO]

Elections: campaign ethics reform and contribution limits (H.R. 3750), H11161 [25NO]

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory: funding, E1339 [18AP]

Health: national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures, H7984 [17OC]

Information services: competitiveness and access to markets, H6202 [1AU]

Middle East: congressional approval of military action to enforce U.N. Security Council resolution against Iraq (H. Con. Res. 32), H397 [12JA]

———success of multinational military action against Iraq (H. Res. 95), H1382 [5MR]

National Conference on Aging: authorize (H.R. 2967), H6502 [12SE]

———impact of the Social Security earnings test on employed older Americans, H6502 [12SE]

National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day: designate (H.J. Res. 72), H3694 [29MY]

National Tax Freedom Day: observance, H2808 [7MY]

NIH: revise and extend programs (H.R. 2507), H5836 [25JY]

Pharmaceuticals: penalties for illegal activities relative to the approval of abbreviated drug applications (H.R. 2454), H8556 [28OC]

Powell, Colin L.: award Congressional Gold Medal (S. 565), E1255 [16AP]

Public Health Service Act: establish program for prevention of disabilities (H.R. 3401), H8558 [28OC]

Republican Party: congressional leadership, H9496 [7NO]

Schwarzkopf, H. Norman, Jr.: award Congressional Gold Medal (S. 534), E1255 [16AP]

Social Security: earnings limit, H9705 [13NO]

———earnings test for retirement age individuals, H10709, H10710, H10711, H10712, H10713, H10714, H10715 [20NO], H11293 [26NO]

———earnings test for retirement age individuals (H.R. 967), H3454, H3455, H3456, H3457, H3461, H3468 [22MY]

Transportation: establish a national comprehensive surface transportation system (H.R. 2950), conference report, H11673 [26NO]

Remarks in House relative to

Congressional Record: revise and extend remarks, H2258 [16AP], H2391 [18AP], H3621 [23MY]

House of Representatives: Republican objectors for consent and private calendars, H7110 [1OC]

Leave of absence: granted, H7646 [8OC]

Special order: exchanged, H10708 [20NO]

———granted, H2186 [15AP], H10267 [14NO], H10363 [18NO]

Resignations

Committee on Children, Youth and Families (Select), H7637 [8OC]

Resolutions by organizations

Research, design, and manufacturing of telecommunications equipment by the Bell Telephone Cos.: American Legislative Exchange Council, E1922 [24MY]

Statements

Domestic Priorities: President Bush, H10609 [20NO]

Testimonies

Committee on House Administration: Campaign Finance Reform, D439 [18AP]

Committee on Ways and Means: Social Security Retirement Test, D658 [23MY]

Tributes

McLoughlin, James W., E1258 [16AP]