THOMAS, CRAIG (a Representative from Wyoming)

Amendments offered by, to

California: designate certain desert lands as wilderness (H.R. 518), H3360 [16MY], H5668 [14JY]

———establish Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks and Mojave National Monument (H.R. 518), H3360 [16MY], H5668 [14JY]

Education: authorizing appropriations for certain programs (H.R. 6), H790 [23FE]

National Park Service: reform concessions policies (S. 208), H6427 [28JY]

Native Americans: clarify Federal relationships with Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians and the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians (S. 1357), H6720 [3AU]

Appointments

Conferee: H.R. 2333, Dept. of State, USIA, and related agencies appropriations, H2386 [18AP]

Articles and editorials

Buffalo Soldier at Fort Russell, Cornelius (Doc) Settles, H6431 [28JY]

You Can't Kill a Good Givaway—For Years Taxpayers Have Been Taken for a Ride in Appalachia—On What Might Be the ``Longest Gravy Train in History,'' Dale Van Atta, H3299 [12MY]

Bills and resolutions introduced by

BLM: transfer administration of lands to individual States (see H.R. 4157), H1995 [24MR]

Native Americans: recognition status of Indian tribes and Alaska Native groups (see H.R. 4180), H2218 [12AP]

Bills and resolutions introduced by, as cosponsor

Agriculture: enable producers, feeders, and importers of sheep to develop a nationally coordinated sheep information, research, and promotion (see H.R. 5183), H11000 [5OC]

Alcohol Awareness Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 335), H2220 [12AP]

Amateur Radio Service: facilitate utilization of volunteer resources (see H.R. 2623), H4343 [10JN]

Armed Forces: procedures for determination and classification of missing or deceased status (see H.R. 291), H4995 [24JN]

———procedures for determining status of certain missing members (see H.R. 5043), H9903 [27SE]

Budget: constitutional amendment to require balanced (see H.J. Res. 9), H1058 [3MR]

———deficit (see H.R. 4057), H1997 [24MR]

———establish a Federal regulatory budget (see H.R. 3005), H287 [3FE]

———establish Federal mandate budget and impose cost controls (see H.R. 3421), H288 [3FE]

CERCLA: amend relative to liability, State implementation, remedy selection, and funding (see H.R. 4161), H8755 [19AU]

Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (House): investigation of House Post Office activity relative to violations of House Rules or embezzlement of public funds by Members of Congress (see H. Res. 238), H411 [9FE]

Committees of the House: commence hearings into President and Hillary Rodham Clinton's involvement in Whitewater Estates development and Madison Guaranty (see H. Res. 437), H3964 [24MY]

Copyrights: fee exemptions for performance or broadcast of certain musical works and establishment of court-annexed arbitration process for fee disputes (see H.R. 4936), H9158 [13SE]

Crime: national policy to control crime and reform court procedures (see H.R. 5008), H9008 [21AU]

———restitution to victims (see H.R. 3367), H1440 [16MR]

———sentencing for Social Security fraud relative to illegal immigration (see H.R. 3795), H8755 [19AU]

Crime Prevention Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 363), H5463 [30JN]

Dept. of the Interior: transfer certain administrative functions relative to U.S. territories to the Dept. of Commerce (see H.R. 3797), H5316 [28JN]

EEOC: guidelines relative to religious harassment in employment (see H. Res. 446), H4391 [13JN]

Elections: campaign ethics reform and contribution limits (see H.R. 330), H1957 [23MR]

English language: declare as official language of U.S. (see H.R. 123), H3887 [23MY]

FBI: allow certain former agents to carry concealed firearms (see H.R. 3971), H9087 [12SE]

Federal-State relations: reduce State and local costs due to unfunded Federal mandates (see H.R. 4127), H1994 [24MR]

Financial institutions: regulatory capital guidelines for treatment of real estate assets sold with limited recourse (see H.R. 3642), H1058 [3MR]

Firearms: eliminate administrative authority to prohibit transfer or sale of assault weapons (see H.R. 5033), H9157 [13SE]

———repeal semi-automatic assault weapons and large capacity ammunition feeding devices ban (see H.R. 5100), H9761 [26SE]

———right of U.S. citizens to bear and keep arms (see H.R. 1276), H2838 [26AP]

Golden Gate National Recreation Area: management of the Presidio military facility (see H.R. 4078), H1539 [17MR]

Government regulations: require regulatory impact analysis on rules (see H.R. 4949), H11201 [6OC]

Greek Independence Day—A National Day of Celebration of Greek and American Democracy: designate (see H.J. Res. 310), H156 [1FE]

Haiti: presence of U.S. Armed Forces (see H. Con. Res. 269; H. Res. 546), H5871 [19JY], H9600 [23SE]

Health: application of antitrust laws for certain activities of providers of health care services (see H.R. 3486), H1254 [10MR]

———budgetary treatment of national health care reform (see H. Con. Res. 201), H204 [2FE]

———employment impact of national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (see H.R. 3882), H3791 [20MY]

———national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (see H.R. 3955), H2583 [20AP]

Health care facilities: permit the issuance of tax-exempt bonds by certain organizations providing rescue and emergency medical services (see H.R. 1767), H3964 [24MY]

Health care professionals: incentives for service in rural areas (see H.R. 4555), H4292 [9JN]

Helium: prohibit Bureau of Mines from refining and selling of helium, and dispose of helium reserve (see H.R. 3967), H1898 [22MR]

House of Representatives: reform (see H.R. 3633), H2252 [13AP]

Immigration: moratorium on certain aliens (see H.R. 3862), H4721 [17JN]

———prevent Federal financial and unemployment benefits for aliens who are not legal permanent residents (see H.R. 1080), H5547 [12JY]

Immigration and Nationality Act: improve immigration laws (see H.R. 3860), H3345 [12MY]

Jewish War Veterans: issue commemorative postage stamp honoring anniversary (see H. Con. Res. 199), H1898 [22MR]

Let's Stop Kids Killing Kids Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 360), H2639 [21AP]

Lobbyists: regulations relative to grassroots organizations (see H. Res. 569), H11202 [6OC]

Medicare: extend issuance period for select policies (see H.R. 5082), H11429 [7OC]

Medicare and medicaid coverage data bank: repeal (see H.R. 4095), H4343 [10JN]

Members of Congress: establish a national advisory referendum on limiting of terms (see H.R. 3835), H1541 [17MR]

Mental Illness Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 349), H5463 [30JN]

Mitchell, John: relief (see H.R. 3017), H2252 [13AP]

National Agriculture Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 317), H1323 [11MR]

National Family Literacy Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 413), H11201 [6OC]

National Good Teen Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 326), H9569 [22SE]

National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 332), H9441 [21SE]

National Manufacturing Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 402), H11201 [6OC]

National Men's Health Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 209), H3056 [4MY]

National Random Acts of Kindness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 357), H2506 [19AP]

National Silver-Haired Congress: convene (see H. Con. Res. 176), H3345 [12MY]

National Trails Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 327), H679 [23FE]

National Walking Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 276), H2937 [2MY]

Native Americans: administrative procedures for recognition of Indian groups (see H.R. 4462), H3755 [19MY]

———clarify privileges and immunities of tribal governments (see H.R. 4231), H2367 [14AP]

———enforcement of certain solid waste laws relative to leaking underground storage tanks on Indian lands (see H.R. 4229), H2367 [14AP]

———specify certain contract terms between the U.S. and tribal governments (see H.R. 4842), H6380 [27JY]

———technical amendments to legislation relative to land and water claims (see H.R. 4709), H5462 [30JN]

Parents' Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 398), H9158 [13SE]

Peace Officers Memorial Day: display of U.S. flag on Federal buildings (see H.R. 302), H680 [23FE]

Pesticides: safety training programs (see H.R. 3969), H1440 [16MR]

Petroleum: delay imposition of taxes on diesel fuel and gasoline (see H.R. 3386), H411 [9FE]

Political campaigns: voluntary limitation on contributions from contributors other than individual district residents (see H.R. 87), H1157 [9MR]

Power resources: establish safety, development, and education programs for the propane gas industry (see H.R. 3546), H3888 [23MY]

Program on Social Ethics and Community Service: mint commemorative coins (see H.R. 4464), H4166 [26MY]

Real property: private property owner rights (see H.R. 3875), H1254 [10MR]

Roads and highways: conversion of signs to metric units (see H.R. 3766), H3964 [24MY]

Russia: requirements relative to economic assistance (see H.R. 3992), H2838 [26AP]

Schneerson, Menachem Mendel: award a Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 4497), H5463 [30JN]

Securities: reform private enforcement of Federal securities laws (see H.R. 417), H3755 [19MY]

Service academies: imposition of additional charges or attendance fees (see H.R. 3293), H8696 [18AU]

Skelton, Richard (Red): award the Congressional Gold Medal (see H.R. 2012), H2218 [12AP]

Social Security: provision of disability insurance benefits for substance abuse treatment (see H.R. 4136), H4343 [10JN]

———taxation of benefits (see H.R. 2959), H3522 [17MY]

Special Olympics World Games: mint commemorative coins (see H.R. 3879), H2368 [14AP]

Taxation: business meal and entertainment expense deductions (see H.R. 3031), H2914 [28AP]

———home office expenses (see H.R. 2444), H3223 [10MY]

Time for the National Observance of the Fiftieth Anniversary of World War II: designate (see H.J. Res. 315), H2219 [12AP]

U.N.: placement of U.S. Armed Forces under control of foreign national (see H.R. 3334), H6763 [3AU]

Veterans: eliminate disparity between civilian and military retiree cost-of-living adjustments (see H.R. 3023), H2994 [3MY]

Water pollution: assistance to economically distressed rural communities (see H.R. 1980), H559 [22FE]

White House Conference on Tourism: convene (see H. Con. Res. 110), H1898 [22MR]

Women: illegalize practice of female genital mutilation or female circumcision (see H.R. 3247), H5547 [12JY]

Year of Gospel Music: designate (see H.J. Res. 297), H5548 [12JY]

Lists

Native Americans Federal recognition status, H6713, H6714 [3AU]

Motions offered by

Budget: constitutional amendment to require balanced (H.J. Res. 103), consideration (H. Res. 331), H862 [24FE]

Pledge of Allegiance

House of Representatives, H297 [8FE], H547 [22FE], H6985 [5AU], H8597 [18AU]

Remarks by, on

Appalachian Regional Commission: task force to study the commission's characteristics and apply to other regional commissions, H3298 [12MY]

Black Lung Benefits Act: improve (H.R. 2108), H3711, H3732 [19MY]

BLM: management of residual lands, H3378 [17MY]

———transfer administration of lands to individual States, H5668, H5669, H5670 [14JY]

———transfer administration of lands to individual States (H.R. 4157), H1960 [24MR]

Budget: consideration of budget authority rescission proposals (H.R. 4600), consideration (H. Res. 467), H5698 [14JY]

———constitutional amendment to require balanced, H1062 [7MR]

———constitutional amendment to require balanced (H.J. Res. 103), H1326 [15MR], H1371 [16MR]

———constitutional amendment to require balanced (S.J. Res. 41), H881 [28FE], H893 [1MR]

———deficit, H1206 [10MR]

———discretionary spending limits (H.R. 3266), H3018 [4MY]

———reform of baseline budgeting, consideration of rescissions, use of spending cuts for deficit reduction, and treatment of emergency designation in legislation (H.R. 4907), consideration (H. Res. 512), H7929 [11AU]

———setting forth the Federal budget for 1995-99 (H. Con. Res. 218), H1160, H1206 [10MR]

———setting forth the Federal budget for 1995-99 (H. Con. Res. 218), conference report, H2940 [3MY]

California: designate certain desert lands as wilderness (H.R. 518), H5505 [12JY], H5564 [13JY], H5668, H5669, H5670, H5685 [14JY]

———establish Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks and Mojave National Monument (H.R. 518), H5505 [12JY], H5564 [13JY], H5668, H5669, H5670, H5685 [14JY]

———hunting in the Mojave National Monument, H5505 [12JY]

———management of the Presidio military facility (H.R. 3433), consideration (H. Res. 516), H8636 [18AU]

Central Midwest Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact: congressional consent to amendments (H.R. 4814), H10625 [3OC]

Clinton, President: evaluation of administration, H8597 [18AU]

———evaluation of foreign policy objectives, H3527 [18MY], H3694 [19MY], H4396 [14JN]

Clinton, President and Hillary Rodham: investigation of involvement in Whitewater Estates development and Madison Guaranty, H1349 [16MR], H3282 [12MY]

Coastal Heritage Trail Route: authorizing appropriations (S. 1574), H1617 [21MR]

Colorado River: Upper Colorado River Basin water entitlements, H5564 [13JY]

Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation: settlement of claims relative to tribal lands used to construct the Grand Coulee Dam (H.R. 4757), H10627 [3OC]

Consumers: fair credit reporting (S. 783), H9811 [27SE]

Corinth, MS: authorizing appropriations for Civil War battlefield interpretive center (S. 986), H10671 [3OC]

Courts: reform habeas corpus procedures, H2420 [19AP]

Crime: national policy to control crime and reform court procedures, H2178 [12AP], H2256 [14AP]

———national policy to control crime and reform court procedures (H.R. 3355), conference report, H8758 [20AU], H8947, H8974 [21AU]

———national policy to control crime and reform court procedures (H.R. 4092), H2370 [18AP], H2420 [19AP]

Crow Indian Reservation: boundary resolution (H.R. 5200), H11132 [6OC]

Dept. of Environmental Protection: establish (H.R. 3425), H161 [2FE]

Dept. of the Interior: establish an American Heritage Areas Partnership Program (H.R. 5044), H10874 [5OC]

Dept. of the Interior and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4602), H4802, H4815, H4824, H4836 [22JN], H4906 [23JN]

Dept. of the Treasury, Postal Service, Executive Office of the President, and independent agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4539), H4225 [9JN]

Depts. of Veterans Affairs, HUD, and sundry independent agencies: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 4624), H5396 [29JN]

Education: authorizing appropriations for certain programs (H.R. 6), H817 [24FE], H1037, H1038 [3MR], H1558 [21MR], H2052, H2147 [24MR]

———provide schoolwide funding to eligible school districts, H1037, H1038 [3MR]

———regulation of private schools and home-schooling parents, H817 [24FE]

Federal-State relations: increase payments to units of general local government for entitlement lands (S. 455), H11206, H11249, H11261, H11264 [7OC]

———increase payments to units of general local government for entitlement lands (S. 455), consideration (H. Res. 565), H10948 [5OC]

Financial institutions: interstate banking and branching (H.R. 3841), conference report, H6779 [4AU]

Firearms: gun control, H3195 [10MY]

———prohibit transfer or sale of assault weapons, H2708 [26AP]

———prohibit transfer or sale of assault weapons (H.R. 4296), consideration (H. Res. 416), H3071 [5MY]

Fish and Wildlife Service: resource management appropriations, H4815 [22JN]

Forests: restraints upon clearcutting, H3473 [17MY]

GAO: funding, H4134 [26MY]

Haiti: presence of U.S. Armed Forces (H.J. Res. 416), H11104 [6OC]

Health: CBO cost estimate of President's health care proposal, H893 [1MR]

———effect on small business of mandated benefits coverage, H4784 [22JN], H5182 [28JN]

———national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures, H89 [1FE], H298 [8FE], H549 [22FE], H1072 [8MR], H1902 [23MR], H2178 [12AP], H3375 [17MY], H3796 [23MY], H4727 [21JN], H5661 [14JY], H5877 [20JY], H6551 [2AU], H6986 [5AU], H7201 [9AU], H7995 [12AU], H9444 [22SE]

Indian Trust Funds: management reform (H.R. 4833), H10486 [3OC]

Legislative Branch of the Government: application of certain laws (H.R. 4822), consideration (H. Res. 514), H7336 [10AU]

———making appropriations (H.R. 4454), H4134 [26MY]

Members of Congress: establish a national advisory referendum on limiting of terms (H.R. 3835), H5466 [12JY]

Montana: designate lands as national forests and release certain national forest lands (H.R. 2473), H3455, H3473 [17MY]

Monuments and memorials: provide for a National Native American Veterans' Memorial (H.R. 2135), H10797 [4OC]

National Biological Survey: funding, H4824 [22JN]

National Historical Publications and Records Commission: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 2139), H3666 [18MY]

National objectives: priority assignments, H47 [26JA]

National Park Service: reform concessions policies (S. 208), H6415, H6416, H6427, H6428 [28JY]

———reform entrepreneurial management (H.R. 4533), H10670 [3OC], H10804 [4OC]

National parks and recreation areas: highway relocation assistance relative to the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park in Georgia (H.R. 3516), H1618 [21MR]

Native Americans: administrative procedures for recognition of Indian groups (H.R. 4462), H10482 [3OC], E988 [19MY]

———clarify Federal relationships with Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians and the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians (S. 1357), H6709, H6716, H6717, H6718, H6719, H6720 [3AU]

———clean up of open dumps on Indian lands (S. 720), H10800 [4OC]

———establish tribal self-governance (H.R. 3508), H8455 [16AU]

———Federal recognition of the United Auburn Indian Community in California (H.R. 4228), H6175 [25JY]

———maintenance of dams on Indian lands (H.R. 1426), H6177 [25JY]

———recognition status of Indian tribes and Alaska Native groups (H.R. 4180), H10490 [3OC], E628 [12AP]

———restore Federal services to the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians (S. 1066), H6722, H6727, H6728, H6729, H6730 [3AU]

———settlement of land claims in Connecticut (H.R. 4653), H10802 [4OC]

———specify certain contract terms between the U.S. and tribal governments (H.R. 4842), H11146 [6OC]

———technical amendments to legislation relative to land and water claims (H.R. 4709), H8452 [16AU], H11140 [6OC]

———technical amendments to legislation relative to land and water claims (S. 1654), H3803 [23MY]

Parks and recreation areas: expansion of recreation opportunities for at-risk youth in high crime areas (H.R. 4034), H1622, H1623 [21MR]

Pascua Yaqui Indians: Federal benefits, services, and assistance (H.R. 734), H10477 [3OC]

Power resources: funding for coal research in fossil energy research and development programs, H4906 [23JN]

Public lands: domestic livestock grazing fees, H5773 [19JY]

———index payments for entitlement lands to inflation rate, H11264 [7OC]

Public Works and Economic Development Act: reauthorizing appropriations (H.R. 2442), H3298 [12MY]

Real property: compensation to property owners relative to Federal decisions, H5685 [14JY]

———private property owner rights (H.R. 3875), H3794 [23MY]

Republican Party: national agenda, H10252 [29SE], H10376 [30SE]

Rio Puerco watershed: improve water quality and management practices (S. 1919), H10666 [3OC]

Saguaro National Monument: protection (S. 316), H10667 [3OC]

San Francisco, CA: funding for the Presidio military facility, H4836 [22JN]

Schools: low-interest loans for the construction of facilities, H2052 [24MR]

Social Security: ensure viability of system (H.R. 4245), H2587 [21AP]

Space policy: space station program funding, H5396 [29JN]

States: transfer ownership of lands currently administered by the BLM, H1787 [22MR]

Votes: position on missed, H2033 [24MR], H2414 [19AP], E1164 [9JN], E1497 [19JY]

Water: assure the safety of public water systems (H.R. 3392), H9830 [27SE]

———desalinization research and development (H.R. 4944), H10629 [3OC]

Wyoming: tribute to buffalo soldiers, H6431 [28JY]

Yakima River: authorize certain elements of the basin water enhancement project (H.R. 5148), H10648 [3OC]

Yavapai County, AZ: water rights of Yavapai-Prescott Indian tribe (S. 1146), H10642 [3OC]

Remarks in House relative to

Congressional Record: revise and extend remarks, H2214 [12AP], H3753 [19MY], H4290 [9JN], H5869 [19JY]

Schedules

Committee on Rules (House): legislative branch appropriations, D616 [25MY]

Committee on the Judiciary (House): Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and Judicial Administration: licensing practices of Performing Rights Society, D143 [23FE]

Committee on Ways and Means (House): Subcommittee on Health: health care reform relative to inner-cities and rural communities, D87 [7FE]

Statements

Indian Trust Funds Management Reform (H.R. 4833): by, H10487 [3OC]

Prohibit Transfer or Sale of Assault Weapons: Joel Carlston, Americans Against Gun Control (organization), H3071 [5MY]