BURNS, CONRAD (a Senator from Montana)

Addresses

Washington's Farewell Address: read by, S2251-S2256 [22FE]

Amendments offered by, to

Appropriations: technical and enrollment error corrections in acts (H.J. Res. 157), S17614, S17707, S17708 [22NO]

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

Crime: national policy to control crime and reform court procedures (S. 1241), S8853 [27JN]

Dept. of the Interior: making appropriations (H.R. 2686), S9137 [28JN]

Dept. of the Treasury, Postal Service, Executive Office of the President, and independent agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 2622), S9966, S10057 [15JY]

Executive departments: compliance with hazardous waste control laws (S. 596), S15016 [22OC], S15122, S15203 [24OC]

Financial institutions: reform deposit insurance system (S. 543), S17330, S17474 [21NO]

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

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

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

Surface Transportation Efficiency Act: enact (S. 1204), S7505, S7506, S7507 [11JN], S7542, S7563, S7564, S7565, S7566, S7567, S7568, S7663 [12JN], S7778, S7842 [13JN]

Telecommunications: research, design, and manufacturing of equipment (S. 173), S6981 [4JN]

Tourist trade: promote (S. 680), S15150, S15203 [24OC]

Analyses

Federal Rural Tourism and Recreational Development Act (S. 540), S2624 [5MR]

Appointments

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

George Washington's Farewell Address: reading, S1906 [19FE]

Interparliamentary Union, S1292 [30JA]

President's Export Council, S5372 [7MY]

Articles and editorials

Change Tax Code, Stop Hurting Farmers, Representative Sensenbrenner and Senator Kasten, Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel, S9413 [10JY]

Sprawling Montana Is an Academic Success Story, Jeff Kleinhuizen, USA Today (publication), S2589 [5MR]

State Struggles To Keep Graduates Close to Home, S2589 [5MR]

Tourism May Draw Employers To Stay, Economists Says, Billings (MT) Gazette, S15150 [24OC]

Tourists From Abroad Discover Mid-America, Edwin McDowell, New York (NY) Times, S15149 [24OC]

Bills and resolutions introduced by

Budget: limit spending increases (see S. 847, S4736 [18AP])

Buxbaum, Ron: relief (see S. 1403, S8952 [27JN])

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

Communications: development of broadband infrastructure and availability of emergency technologies (see S. 1200, S6996 [4JN])

Mining: establish a commission to study laws and procedures (see S. 785, S4229 [9AP])

Pick-Sloan Missouri River Basin Program: availability of pumping power to non-Federal irrigation projects in Montana (see S. 1370, S8592 [25JN])

Power resources: promote energy conservation and develop alternative sources (see S. 661, S3386 [14MR])

Reclamation Reform Act: amend (see S. 1501, S10442 [18JY])

Tongue River: repair and enlarge dam and settle Northern Cheyenne Tribe water rights claims (see S. 751, S3929 [21MR])

Tourist trade: assist development of public lands for travel and recreational purposes (see S. 540, S2618 [5MR])

———establish a rural tourism development foundation (see S. 1233, S7290 [6JN])

Travel: resume normal business and tourist travel (see S. Con. Res. 33, S5137 [25AP])

Bills and resolutions introduced by, as cosponsor

Aeronautics: accident liability standards (see S. 645, S3190 [13MR])

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

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

Amtrak: anniversary (see S.J. Res. 98, S3712 [20MR])

Appropriations: constitutional amendment on line-item veto (see S.J. Res. 11, S440 [14JA])

Armed Forces: telephone rates and procedures for Operation Desert Shield personnel (see S.J. Res. 77, S2146 [21FE])

———tribute to Reserve components for serving during the Persian Gulf conflict (see S.J. Res. 97, S4064 [21MR])

———unemployment compensation for involuntarily separated individuals (see S. 160, S2031 [20FE])

Baltic States: humanitarian assistance (see S. 816, S4337 [11AP])

Braille Literacy Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 226, S16855 [15NO])

Budget: constitutional amendment to require balanced (see S.J. Res. 9, S440 [14JA]; S.J. Res. 182, S10769 [24JY])

———evaluation of expenditures (see S. 20, S4248 [9AP])

———Presidential power to reduce authority (see S. 196, S960 [16JA])

Business and industry: limited partnership rollups (see S. 1423, S15808 [1NO])

Capital punishment: constitutional procedures for imposition (see S. 147, S438 [14JA])

Cargo transportation: motor carrier tariff rates (see S. 1675, S12182 [2AU])

CBO: reform (see S. 1466, S11854 [1AU])

Civil Rights Act: restore and strengthen laws that ban discrimination in employment (see S. 611, S3596 [19MR])

Coast Guard: user fees (see S. 403, S2531 [28FE])

Coins: commemoration of James Madison and the Bill of Rights (see S. 1672, S12182 [2AU])

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

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

Committee on POW/MIA Affairs (Senate, Select): establish (see S. Res. 82, S10693 [23JY])

Committee on the Organization of Congress (Joint): establish (see S. Con. Res. 57, S16459 [12NO])

Common carriers: alcohol and drug testing for operators (see S. 676, S3386 [14MR])

Courts: division of the ninth judicial circuit (see S. 1686, S12182 [2AU])

———Federal justices and judges survivors' annuities program (see S. 1673, S14433 [4OC])

Daylight saving time: alter time period (see S. 1999, S17245 [20NO])

Dept. of Agriculture: lamb price and supply reporting services (see S. 1935, S16213 [7NO])

District of Columbia: disapproval of assault weapon manufacturing strict liability legislation (see S.J. Res. 46, S1324 [30JA])

Drug abuse: control of precursor chemicals (see S. 1406, S8952 [27JN])

Ecology and environment: establish a small community environmental compliance planning program (see S. 1226, S7169 [5JN])

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

Education: authorize grant to the national writing project (see S. 264, S2031 [20FE])

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

———financial assistance to urban areas (see S. 720, S12798 [11SE])

———lengthen special program grant cycles for disadvantaged students (see S. 882, S12313 [2AU])

Elections: campaign ethics reform and contribution limits (see S. 143, S1323 [30JA])

Employment: paid leave for attendance of parent-teacher conferences (see S. Con. Res. 68, S14602 [8OC])

Executive departments: ensure use of appropriate Government procedures when taking private property (see S. 50, S435 [14JA])

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, S14711 [15OC])

Farmers: repeal certain provisions of law relative to withholding income tax from wages paid for agricultural labor (see S. 254, S1918 [19FE])

FDIC: improve administration (see S. 651, S4063 [21MR])

Federal employees: availability of long-term care insurance for civilians (see S. 311, S3809 [20MR])

Financial institutions: recapitalize the Federal deposit insurance fund and reform the regulatory and service systems (see S. 280, S8213 [19JN])

Fishing: enforcement of international driftnet moratorium (see S. 884, S8353 [20JN])

Flag-Wavers Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 123, S4456 [16AP])

Food: domestic inspection of imported meat and poultry products (see S. 828, S4456 [16AP])

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, S6891 [24MY])

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

GAO: reform (see S. 1400, S8952 [27JN])

Geological Survey: production of geologic-map information (see S. 1179, S10964 [25JY])

German-American Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 151, S7390 [6JN])

Health: insurance coverage for mammography screening services (see S. Res. 184, S14602 [8OC])

———national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (see S. 1912, S16459 [12NO])

———provide a refundable tax credit for qualified cancer screening tests (see S. 891, S4836 [23AP])

———reauthorize rural programs (see S. 1479, S15711 [31OC])

———regulation of mammography services and radiological equipment (see S. 1777, S14712 [15OC])

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

Hunting and trapping: protect rights within national forests (see S. 1294, S7809 [13JN])

Income tax: increase personal exemption to $4,000 (see S. 152, S6067 [16MY])

———prohibit State imposition on the pension of individuals who are not residents of that State (see S. 267, S7221 [5JN])

Insurance: life insurance contracts of terminally ill individuals (see S. 284, S1293 [30JA])

Israel: recognition by Arab countries (see S. Con. Res. 16, S4138 [22MR])

Johns Hopkins School of Public Health: anniversary (see S.J. Res. 49, S5673 [9MY])

Kentucky Bicentennial Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 61, S7663 [12JN])

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, S2619 [5MR])

Languages: recognize English as official U.S. language (see S. 434, S2005 [20FE])

Local government: increase Federal payments in lieu of taxes (see S. 140, S1607 [5FE])

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

Medicaid: coverage for certain low-income medicare beneficiaries (see S. 1574, S14601 [8OC])

Medicare: standards to prevent abuse in the acquisition of durable medical equipment, devices, and supplies (see S. 1988, S17044 [19NO])

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

Middle East: military action by Iraq against Israel (see S. Con. Res. 4, S1053 [23JA])

———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])

Montana: designate certain national forest lands as wilderness (see S. 1696, S18465 [26NO])

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, S6924 [3JN])

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

National Alzheimer's Disease Month: designate (see S.J. Res. 36, S1243 [29JA]; S.J. Res. 158, S7464 [11JN])

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

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

National Awareness Week for Life-Saving Techniques: designate (see S.J. Res. 214, S14588 [8OC])

National Breast Cancer Awareness Month: designate (see S.J. Res. 95, S6419 [22MY])

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

National Children's Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 126, S6115 [17MY])

National Crime Victims' Rights Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 16, S4895 [23AP])

National D.A.R.E. Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 121, S6744 [23MY])

National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving: designate (see S.J. Res. 83, S2507 [28FE])

National Desert Storm Reservists Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 134, S5428 [7MY])

National Domestic Violence Awareness Month: designate (see S.J. Res. 73, S2437 [27FE])

National Ellis Island Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 190, S14602 [8OC])

National Employ the Older Worker Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 79, S2531 [28FE])

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

National Family Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 8, S7044 [4JN])

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, S1609 [5FE])

National Historically Black Colleges Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 40, S6419 [22MY])

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

National Law Enforcement Memorial Dedication Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 107, S7045 [4JN])

National Law Enforcement Training Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 100, S14601 [8OC])

National Literacy Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 146, S6745 [23MY])

National Lock-In-Safety Month: designate (see S.J. Res. 139, S12925 [12SE])

National Manufacturing Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 228, S16855 [15NO])

National Military Families Recognition Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 197, S14602 [8OC])

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

National parks: regulation of management and ownership of concessions (see S. 1252, S7291 [6JN])

National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 117, S7222 [5JN])

National Police Officer and Firefighter Recognition Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 225, S17259 [20NO])

National Pornography Victims Awareness Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 200, S15086 [23OC])

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 Red Ribbon Month: designate (see S.J. Res. 188, S14084 [1OC])

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

National Scleroderma Awareness Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 130, S7045 [4JN])

National Senior Nutrition Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 108, S6068 [16MY])

National Student-Athlete Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 50, S1609 [5FE])

National Tax Freedom Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 122, S4456 [16AP])

National Tourism Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 102, S3930 [21MR])

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

National Visiting Nurse Associations Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 124, S17075 [19NO])

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, S9490 [10JY])

National Women Veterans Recognition Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 145, S8504 [24JN])

Nez Perce National Historical Park: designate (see S. 550, S2618 [5MR])

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

Pledge of Allegiance: mint coins to commemorate anniversary (see S. 1087, S14601 [8OC])

POW: treatment relative to violations of Geneva Convention (see S. Con. Res. 5, S1053 [23JA])

Powell, Colin L.: request President Bush to appoint as General of the Army (see S.J. Res. 85, S2845 [6MR])

Power resources: establish a replacement fuels and alternative fuels program (see S. 716, S3712 [20MR])

Product safety: establish uniform product liability laws (see S. 640, S3190 [13MR])

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

Public broadcasting: authorizing appropriations (see S. 1504, S10494 [19JY])

Public buildings: establish energy conservation and clean energy requirements (see S. 417, S3596 [19MR])

Public lands: authorize programs to study certain lands (see S. 929, S4984 [24AP])

Radio: prevent the loss of existing spectrum to amateur radio service (see S. 1372, S12675 [10SE])

Railroads: improve rural and short line services (see S. 641, S3435 [14MR])

———safety (see S. 1571, S11056 [26JY])

Reclamation of land: management of resources of Federal projects (see S. 1806, S17467 [21NO])

Recycling: degradable plastics (see S. 603, S2926 [7MR])

Research: protection of animal research facilities from criminal acts (see S. 544, S3293 [13MR])

Roads and highways: improvement of infrastructure (see S. 823, S4455 [16AP])

Rural areas: provide incentives to health care providers and establish State health service corps demonstration projects (see S. 1125, S6355 [22MY])

Schools: offering of certain types of fluid milk by facilities participating in the school lunch program (see S. 499, S6924 [3JN])

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

———request President Bush to appoint as General of the Army (see S.J. Res. 85, S2845 [6MR])

Senior citizens: music therapy services (see S. 1723, S14433 [4OC])

Small business: economic opportunities of startup and newly established concerns (see S. 1426, S15408 [29OC])

Social Security: computation rule application to workers attaining age 65 in or after 1982 (see S. 567, S2771 [6MR])

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

———long-term care insurance policies (see S. 846, S16759 [14NO])

Social Security Notch Fairness Investigatory Commission: establish (see S. 964, S14711 [15OC])

Solid waste: State regulation of treatment, disposal, and other disposition (see S. 153, S438 [14JA])

Sound recording and reproducing: protections regarding digital audio recording (see S. 1623, S11807 [1AU])

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

Special days: establish a commission to advise the President on proposals for national commemorative events (see S. 1112, S6210 [21MY])

Sports: prohibit State-sanctioned gambling (see S. 474, S15808 [1NO])

States: taxation of mail order companies (see S. Res. 123, S7046 [4JN])

Student aid programs: impact of the value of a farm family's principal residence and farm on eligibility (see S. 712, S3712 [20MR])

Taxation: 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, S1842 [7FE])

———application of laws to employee benefit plans (see S. 1364, S15014 [22OC])

———capital gains (see S. 656, S3191 [13MR])

———capital gains tax differential for investments in start-up and other small enterprises (see S. 1932, S16213 [7NO])

———charitable deduction for certain contributions of business equipment (see S. 1604, S12675 [10SE])

———deductions for adoption expenses (see S. 709, S4250 [9AP])

———depreciable life of semiconductor manufacturing equipment (see S. 1786, S14042 [1OC])

———exclude imposition of employer Social Security taxes on cash tips (see S. 765, S3930 [21MR])

———exclude small transactions from broker reporting requirements (see S. 200, S5804 [14MY])

———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, S1920 [19FE])

———exemption for contributions in aid of construction (see S. 1398, S12924 [12SE])

———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, S2843 [6MR])

———Federal excise taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel (see S. Res. 166, S12925 [12SE])

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

———increase amount of the exemption for minors (see S. 1009, S6068 [16MY])

———increase exemption for dependent children under age 18 (see S. 701, S6067 [16MY])

———increase personal exemption for taxpayer dependents (see S. 642, S6067 [16MY])

———increase personal exemption for young dependent children (see S. 643, S6067 [16MY])

———increase research activity tax credits (see S. 416, S1790 [7FE])

———increase the earned income tax credit for individuals with young children (see S. 1013, S6890 [24MY])

———increase the personal exemption amount (see S. 1014, S6890 [24MY])

———indexing certain assets (see S. 1917, S15970 [5NO])

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

———nonrefundable tax credit for children and tax incentives for economic growth (see S. 1920, S16060 [6NO])

———permanent extension of the targeted jobs credit (see S. 581, S12313 [2AU])

———renewable energy production credit (see S. 466, S3434 [14MR])

———repeal excise tax on luxury items (see S. 1261, S11854 [1AU])

———repeal recreational vessel fee (see S. 843, S7918 [17JN])

———require a 60-vote Senate supermajority to pass any revenue enhancing legislation (see S. 809, S4337 [11AP])

———rollover of gain from sale of farm assets into individual retirement account (see S. 1130, S6355 [22MY])

———treatment by cooperatives of gains or losses from sale of assets (see S. 1522, S10693 [23JY])

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

———treatment of forestry activities (see S. 2009, S17433 [21NO])

———treatment of payments made by public utilities to customers to subsidize the cost of conservation (see S. 83, S9007 [27JN])

———treatment of telephone cooperatives (see S. 879, S4836 [23AP])

———treatment of travel on company aircraft (see S. 1346, S8310 [20JN])

Tax-exempt organizations: establish cash and deferred pension arrangements for their employees (see S. 448, S7918 [17JN])

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

Telephones: regulation of certain providers of 900 services (see S. 471, S10298 [17JY])

———regulation of pay-per-call technology (see S. 1579, S11216 [29JY])

Timber: stability of communities dependent on outputs from national forests and public lands (see S. 1363, S9896 [11JY])

Tourist trade: promote (see S. 680, S3386 [14MR])

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

Trails: maintain and improve (see S. 400, S1790 [7FE])

Transportation: establish a national electric vehicle research, demonstration, and commercialization program (see S. 768, S4116 [22MR])

U.N.: repeal General Assembly Resolution 3379 (see S.J. Res. 110, S14225 [2OC])

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

Unemployment: emergency compensation (see S. 1789, S14042 [1OC]; S. 1791, S14043 [1OC])

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

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

Veterans: concurrent receipt of disability and retirement benefits (see S. 190, S5517 [8MY])

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

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

———regulation by the Soil Conservation Service (see S. 2018, S18108 [25NO])

White House: mint coins in commemoration of bicentennial (see S. 1827, S16083 [6NO])

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

World Food Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 147, S14225 [2OC])

World Summit for Children: implement plan to improve lives (see S. 878, S14711 [15OC])

World War II: award the bronze star to personnel who served in defense of Corregidor Island, the Philippines (see S. 2015, S17433 [21NO])

———contributions of Federal civilian employees during the attack on Pearl Harbor (see S.J. Res. 198, S14084 [1OC])

Year of Public Health: designate (see S.J. Res. 49, S5673 [9MY])

Year of the American Craft—A Celebration of the Creative Work of the Hand: designate (see S.J. Res. 218, S15158 [24OC])

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

Year of the Gulf of Mexico: designate (see S.J. Res. 194, S16760 [14NO])

Year of the Wetlands: designate (see S.J. Res. 6, S7044 [4JN])

Letters

Surface Transportation Efficiency Act: E. James Bradley, Salt Lake County, UT, S18605 [27NO]

Meetings

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: subcommittee appointments, D145 [7FE]

Remarks by, on

Agriculture: price supports for milk, S17567 [22NO]

Appropriations: technical and enrollment error corrections in acts (H.J. Res. 157), S17567 [22NO]

Armed Forces: telephone rates and procedures for Operation Desert Shield personnel (S.J. Res. 77), S2216 [21FE]

Battle of Little Bighorn: anniversary, S8527 [25JN]

Budget: evaluation of expenditures (S. 20), S4297 [11AP]

———expenditures versus revenue, S2472 [28FE]

———limit spending increases (S. 847), S4737 [18AP]

Buxbaum, Ron: relief (S. 1403), S8962 [27JN]

Canada: highway border crossing study, S7568 [12JN]

Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act: waive application to certain farm vehicles (S. 715), S3803 [20MR], S7567 [12JN]

Committees of the Senate: biennial expenditures (S. Res. 62), S2472 [28FE]

Communications: development of broadband infrastructure and availability of emergency technologies (S. 1200), S7054-S7056 [5JN], S12743 [11SE]

Computers: coordinated Federal research program to ensure U.S. leadership in high-performance computing (S. 272), S12743 [11SE]

Congress: disclosure of organization sending prepared postcards to Members, S9966 [15JY]

Courts: division of the ninth judicial circuit (S. 1686), S12281 [2AU]

Crime: national policy to control crime and reform court procedures (S. 1241), S9241 [8JY]

Custer Battlefield National Monument: establish memorial to honor the Indians who fought in the Battle of the Little Bighorn (H.R. 848), S8527 [25JN]

Dept. of the Interior: making appropriations (H.R. 2686), S12963 [13SE]

Dept. of the Treasury, Postal Service, Executive Office of the President, and independent agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 2622), S9966 [15JY]

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 2707), S12732 [11SE]

Education: establish transportation, pavement, bridge, and safety management education and training program, S7888 [17JN]

———impact aid payments, S12732 [11SE]

———Parents as Partners in Learning Act (S. 546), S2589 [5MR]

Federal aid programs: drought assistance (H.R. 355), S15724 [31OC], S18643 [27NO]

———Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program funding, S12732 [11SE]

Food: domestic inspection of imported meat and poultry products (S. 828), S4481 [16AP]

Foreign trade: procedures for implementing trade agreements (S. Res. 78), S6795 [24MY]

Hunting and trapping: protect rights within national forests (S. 1294), S7821 [13JN]

Law enforcement: grants for State and local agencies, S9241 [8JY]

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

Middle East: community support for troops in the Persian Gulf, S2451 [28FE], S2589 [5MR]

———military action to enforce U.N. Security Council resolution against Iraq (S.J. Res. 2), S248 [11JA]

Mining: establish a commission to study laws and procedures (S. 785), S4236 [9AP]

———patenting of mining claims under general mining laws, S12963 [13SE]

Montana: community support for troops in the Persian Gulf, S2589 [5MR]

———tribute to educational system, S2588 [5MR]

National objectives: maintaining and improving infrastructure, S3834 [21MR]

National Tourism Week: designate (S.J. Res. 102), S4060 [21MR]

Operation Homefront: support program supporting families of members of the Armed Forces (S. Res. 17), S1288 [30JA]

Pick-Sloan Missouri River Basin Program: availability of pumping power to non-Federal irrigation projects in Montana (S. 1370), S8614 [25JN]

Power resources: comprehensive energy security policy (S. 1220), S15620 [31OC]

———making appropriations for energy and water development (H.R. 2427), S9417 [10JY]

———promote energy conservation and develop alternative sources (S. 661), S3387 [14MR]

Roads and highways: bonus State apportionments, S7974 [18JN]

———improvement of infrastructure (S. 823), S4471 [16AP]

Rural Technical Assistance Program: establish, S7565 [12JN]

Senate: closed captioning of sessions, S4665 [18AP]

———legislative program, S14034 [1OC]

Soviet Union: agricultural export credit guarantees from the U.S. (S. Res. 117), S5369 [7MY]

Surface Transportation Efficiency Act: enact (S. 1204), S7557, S7562, S7564, S7565, S7566, S7567, S7568 [12JN], S7888 [17JN], S7974 [18JN], S8079 [19JN]

Taxation: depreciable life of semiconductor manufacturing equipment (S. 1786), S14051 [1OC]

———require a 60-vote Senate supermajority to pass any revenue enhancing legislation (S. 809), S4358 [11AP]

———rollover of gain from sale of farm assets into individual retirement account (S. 1130), S9412 [10JY]

Telecommunications: lift restrictions on information services for telephone companies, S11041 [26JY]

———national objectives, S5057 [25AP]

———research, design, and manufacturing of equipment (S. 173), S6982 [4JN]

Thomas, Clarence: nomination to Supreme Court, S14034 [1OC], S14673 [15OC]

Timber: stability of communities dependent on outputs from national forests and public lands (S. 1363), S8596 [25JN]

Tongue River: repair and enlarge dam and settle Northern Cheyenne Tribe water rights claims (S. 751), S4032 [21MR]

Tourist trade: assist development of public lands for travel and recreational purposes (S. 540), S2622 [5MR], S7564, S7565 [12JN]

———establish a rural tourism development foundation (S. 1233), S7311 [6JN]

———highway planning, S7564 [12JN]

———promote (S. 680), S3432 [14MR], S15148 [24OC]

Transportation: establish a national comprehensive surface transportation system (H.R. 2950), S18210 [26NO]

———establish a national comprehensive surface transportation system (H.R. 2950), conference report, S18604, S18605 [27NO]

Travel: resume normal business and tourist travel (S. Con. Res. 33), S5310 [25AP]

Unemployment: emergency compensation (S. 1789), S14063 [1OC]

Wetlands: conservation and management (S. 1463), S10819, S10820 [25JY]

Women: protection from sexual harassment and violence and promote equal opportunity (S. 472), S2213 [21FE]

Reports

Confirmation of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate), S14673 [15OC]

Statements

Community Support for Troops in the Persian Gulf: Michelle Simpson, S2590 [5MR]

Summaries

Communications Competitiveness and Infrastructure Modernization Act (S. 1200), S7056 [5JN]

Testimonies

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Highway Improvement, D572 [13MY]

Committee on Indian Affairs (Select): Northern Cheyenne Tribe Water Rights Claims in Montana (S. 1607), D1439 [15NO]

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Appropriations for BLM and Provision for Certain Fees for Grazing of Livestock (H.R. 481, 944, 1096, 1292), D282 [12MR]

Texts of

S. 540, Federal Rural Tourism and Recreational Development Act, S2623 [5MR]

S. 847, limiting Federal spending increases, S4738-S4741 [18AP]

S. 1200, Communications Competitiveness and Infrastructure Modernization Act, S7057-S7060 [5JN]

S. 1233, Rural Tourism Development Foundation Act, S7312 [6JN]

S. 1370, availability of Pick-Sloan Missouri River Basin Program pumping power to non-Federal irrigation projects in Montana, S8614 [25JN]

S. 1403, relief of Ron Buxbaum, S8962 [27JN]

Tributes

Burns, Russell and Mary F., S10996 [26JY]

Bush, President, S2451 [28FE]

Cheney, Sec. of Defense, S2451 [28FE]

Heinz, John, S4297 [11AP]

Parsons, James A., S7936 [18JN]

Powell, Colin L., S2451 [28FE]

Schwensen, Margaret M., S18160 [26NO]

Tower, John, S4297 [11AP]