SOCIAL SECURITY related term(s) Public Welfare Programs

Addresses

Contract With America Tax Relief Act: Dominic J. Perri, National Association of Graduate and Professional Students, E808 [6AP]

Making the Case for Not-for-Profit Healthcare: Joseph Bernardin, S3543-S3545 [6MR]

Public Welfare Programs Reform, S12363 [11AU]

Women's Health Care Issues: Hillary Rodham Clinton, H8551-H8553 [6SE]

Amendments

Benefits: increase earnings limit (S. 1372), S16581, S16630 [2NO]

Budget: treatment of Social Security under a constitutional amendment to require balanced (H. Con. Res. 17), consideration (H. Res. 44), H615 [25JA]

Medicare: permit select policies to be offered in all States (H.R. 483), S6795 [17MY], S6930 [18MY], H4386, H4387 [6AP]

———reform (H.R. 2425), H10147, H10208 [17OC], H10440 [19OC]

———reform (H.R. 2425), consideration (H. Res. 238), H10326 [19OC]

———reform (H.R. 2485), H10388 [19OC]

Public debt: enforce debt limit and protect obligated trust funds (H.R. 2621), consideration (H. Res. 293), H14883 [14DE]

Public welfare programs: reform (H.R. 4), S11575, S11640 [5AU], S11894 [8AU], S12428, S12511 [11AU], S12802, S12804, S12807, S12810, S12811, S12819, S12820, S12823, S12825, S12827, S12829, S12842, S12864, S12867, S12868, S12869, S12870 [7SE], S12874, S12875, S12876, S12877, S12878, S12883, S12885, S12886, S12887, S12889, S12890, S12891, S12892, S12893, S12895, S12896, S12897, S12898, S12899, S12900, S12901, S12902, S12903, S12904, S12905, S12906, S12907, S12908, S12910, S12911, S12914, S12915, S12916, S12917, S12918, S12920, S12925, S12926, S12927, S12928, S12929, S12931, S12932, S12933, S12937, S12938, S12939, S12940, S12941, S12942, S12944, S12945, S12946, S12947, S12948, S12949, S12950, S12951, S12952, S12953, S12954, S12955, S12956, S12957, S12958, S12968, S12969, S12970, S12971, S12972, S12973, S12976, S12977, S12978, S12984, S12985, S12986, S12987, S12988, S12995, S12996, S13031, S13032, S13033, S13034, S13035, S13036, S13037, S13038, S13040, S13044, S13045, S13048, S13049, S13050, S13051, S13054, S13055, S13056, S13057, S13058, S13059, S13060, S13061, S13064, S13066, S13070, S13071, S13120, S13121, S13123, S13126, S13128, S13129, S13130, S13133, S13139 [8SE], S13203 [11SE], S13495, S13547 [13SE], S13561, S13567, S13571, S13572, S13573 [14SE], S13628, S13629, S13632, S13634, S13636, S13637, S13642, S13645, S13646, S13652, S13667, S13670 [15SE], S13771, S13866 [19SE], H3276, H3277 [15MR], H3491, H3496, H3497, H3509, H3514, H3515, H3517, H3525, H3527 [22MR], H3582, H3586, H3592, H3595, H3600, H3603, H3605, H3609, H3617, H3622, H3628, H3634 [23MR], H3742 [24MR]

Taxation: rates (H.R. 1215), H3880 [28MR], H3975, H3977, H3978 [29MR], H4264, H4290 [5AP]

Analyses

Family Health Care Preservation Act (S. 121), S371 [4JA]

Health Care Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act (S. 1088), S10886 [28JY]

Impact of Republican Budget Cuts on Children in Texas, H11196 [26OC]

Medicare and Medicaid Coverage Data Bank: Coalition on Employer Health Coverage Reporting and the Medicare/Medicaid Data Bank, S10144 [17JY]

National Policy To Provide Health Care and Reform Insurance Procedures (H.R. 996), E402 [22FE]

National Policy To Provide Health Care and Reform Insurance Procedures (S. 1062), S10499 [21JY]

Public Welfare Programs Reform (S. 746), S6085 [3MY]

Appointments

Conferees: H.R. 4, Personal Responsibility Act, S15199 [17OC], H9710, H9735 [29SE], H10670 [24OC]

———H.R. 483, permit medicare select policies to be offered in all States, H5586 [25MY]

Articles and editorials

Addicts Squander Checks on Drugs, Alcohol—Your Cash Supports Abusers' Habits, S11772-S11774 [7AU]

AFDC Numbers—Bad Enough, But Not That Bad, S12681 [6SE]

Age Discrimination—Lift Earnings Cap, S15784 [26OC]

Another in the Senate, S4315 [22MR]

Baby Boomers' Retirement Could Be a Bust—Living Standards May Drop as Social Security Rolls Bulge, E1400 [10JY]

Back to the Dark Ages, S15656 [25OC]

Balanced Budget Amendment Must Not Exclude Social Security, S3349 [2MR]

Balanced Budget Bingo, E345 [14FE]

Balanced-Budget Myth, S17137 [16NO]

Borrowing From Soc Sec To Aid the Rich, S17137 [16NO]

Budget Sticking Point, S18693 [15DE]

Budgetary Bombast, H9865 [11OC]

Changes in Welfare Rules Fulfill Will of the People, S11765 [7AU]

Charting the State of Welfare, S12681 [6SE]

Clinton Recruits Campaign Team of ``Nasty Boys'' With Reputation as Tough, Savvy Hired Guns, S15624 [25OC]

Confronting the Myths, E2236 [28NO]

Confronting the Myths—The Truth About Poverty and Welfare, E2157 [10NO]

Congress Can Trim Medicare, H10372 [19OC]

Congressmen Warn Seniors of GOP Budget Cuts, H6378 [27JN]

Consumer Price Index—Measuring Inflation and Causing It, S15447-S15453 [23OC]

Cruelty to Patients—Nation's Health Care System Needs an Examination, S2275 [7FE]

Cuts May Affect Infant Mortality, S15720 [26OC]

Cutting Medicare, S11729 [7AU]

Debt Ceiling Humbled Prophet, H14894 [14DE]

Democrats Hope That Scaring Granny Will Bring Votes, H10376 [19OC]

Democrats Lie About Lunch, H2377 [28FE]

Doctors, Hospitals Sued on Monopoly Charges, S17324 [17NO]

Doctor's Group Says G.O.P. Agreed to Deal on Medicare, S15103 [12OC]

Dropping Federal Regs Is an Invitation to Tragedy, S15668 [25OC]

End Social Security Earning Curb, S15784 [26OC]

Federal Cuts Put Squeeze on Welfare, E1937 [12OC]

Firm Foundations—New Approach to Welfare Reform—Humility, S14562 [28SE]

Food Angel of 42d Street, H2971 [9MR]

Food-Stamp Racket, S13157 [11SE]

Frayed Lifeline—Hunger Among Elderly Surges—Meal Programs Just Can't Keep Up, S1569 [26JA]

Fugitive Used Real Name for Welfare, S4386 [22MR]

Fundraiser Already a Medicare Winner, S15520 [24OC]

Giant Leap Backward, E1946 [13OC]

Gingrich and the Copperheads, E1878 [29SE]

Gingrich Places Low Priority on Medicare Crooks, S15162 [13OC]

Gingrich Says Halt Monopoly, H11662 [1NO]

Gingrich Threatens U.S. Default If Clinton Won't Bend on Budget, H14907 [14DE]

Gingrich—Foes Lying About Kids, H2313 [28FE]

Give GOP Credit For Ideas, H10377 [19OC]

Going to School Hungry, H2969 [9MR]

GOP Gears Up To Grapple With Medicaid—States Could Design Own Programs, S15725 [26OC]

GOP Revolution in a Nutshell, E1916 [11OC]

Great Medi-Scare, S15417 [23OC]

Hard Hearts, Soft Heads, S19154 [22DE]

Health Care Is About People, E2044 [26OC]

Here's a Grand Little Story To Stir Your Blood on a Monday Morning, H2300 [27FE]

His Experiences Give Bishop Ideas on Welfare Reform, S5512 [6AP]

How Radical Is the GOP Budget?, H13350 [20NO]

If We Must Have a Tax Credit for Children, Do It This Way, S16057 [27OC]

Impact—Stop Playing Games With Social Security, S4178 [20MR]

It's Not Necessary To Cut Medicare Benefits, H10068 [13OC]

Keep Nursing Home Standards, S15668 [25OC]

Led Astray by the Poverty `Experts', E604 [15MR]

Medagogues, S15265 [18OC]

Medagogues, Continued, S15266 [18OC]

Medicaid Changes Frighten Families, H14227 [7DE]

Medicaid Cuts May Threaten Children, E1821 [21SE]

Medicaid System Handcuffs California, H15517 [21DE]

Medicaid's Safety Net for Children Could Be Imperiled, Reports Warn, S16809 [8NO]

Medicare and How It Grew—To Be Confused and Misjudged, S10787 [27JY]

Medicare and the Illusions of Protection, E2368 [14DE]

Medicare Debate, E1868 [28SE]

Medicare Recipient Says All Programs Need Examination, E1435 [13JY]

Medicare's Cutting Edge, H4919 [15MY]

Medipork, S16810 [8NO]

Mentor Projects a Good Idea, S11762 [7AU]

Missouri's Wise Shift To HMO's, S15726 [26OC]

Mother of Them All—Carol Porter Feeds Poor Kids in Houston—Without a Cent From the Government, S5028 [3AP]

Ounce of Prevention as Costly as the Cure, S17510 [20NO]

Paternalism and Welfare Reform, S19090-S19093 [21DE]

Polls Get In the Way of Washington's Work, S17050 [15NO]

Poverty in America—Causes, Cures..., S1635 [26JA]

Program Helps Iowans Get Off Welfare, S11765 [7AU]

Race to the Bottom, S16847 [9NO]

Real Default, S17109, S17173 [16NO], H13138 [16NO]

Real Talk About Medicare, E2291 [5DE]

Reality Check on Social Security and the Balanced Budget Amendment, S3813 [10MR]

Recalling a Man Who Stayed the Course, S1804 [31JA], S2427 [9FE]

Rehabilitation Needed, Not Surgery, H8666 [7SE]

Release Us From Federal Nonsense, S18694 [15DE]

Replace Social Security With a Stable Permanent Retirement System, H742 [26JA]

Republicans Aren't Out To Rob Us, E1204 [8JN]

Say No to This Welfare Reform, S16675 [3NO]

School Lunch Debate Serves Up Hot Rhetoric But Few Cold Facts—How Kids Would Fare Under Change Unclear, H2313 [28FE]

Schools Defend Decision Against Offering Breakfast, H2970 [9MR]

Seniors Fear Holes in Medicaid Net, S15093 [12OC]

Seniors' Security in the Balance, S2476 [10FE]

Seven Dollars of Separation, E2407 [19DE]

So You Want To Be a Doctor, E302 [8FE]

Social Security and the Balanced Budget, S2367 [9FE]

Social Security Funds Not Immune Forever, S4742 [28MR]

Social Security Trust Fund Whopper, S3825, S3827 [13MR]

Social Security `Trust Fund' Whopper, S15442 [23OC]

Social Security—If It Ain't Broke, Don't Tinker, S3013 [23FE]

Social Services Need Government Government Help, E1733 [7SE]

Stop Playing Games with Social Security, S3829 [13MR]

Storm Looming for Medicare, E1554 [28JY]

Super-Majority Simple-Mindedness, S2807 [16FE]

Take Good Ideas and Run With Them, S11763 [7AU]

Tell, Won't Tell—Balanced Budget Should Have No Deficit of Details, H782 [26JA]

TennCare Could Take Some Notes—Coventry Exec Compares Plans, S15726 [26OC]

This One's Different, S11765 [7AU]

Three-Fifths Rule—A Dangerous Game, S2808 [16FE]

Trust Fund Doesn't Need To Be ``Fixed'', E2256 [29NO]

Unfair Looting, S4123 [17MR], S15463 [23OC]

Welfare, End of—Events That Led to Its Demise in 1995, and the Striking Consequences in the Years Since, S18826 [18DE]

Welfare Contract a Worthwhile Idea, S11765 [7AU], S12910 [8SE]

Welfare Fade, S16676 [3NO]

Welfare On the Cheap Is Not Reform, E771 [4AP]

Welfare Reform Shows Promise, S11764 [7AU]

Welfare Shock, S12680 [6SE]

Welfare System Finally Works, S11765 [7AU]

Welfare Winner—Iowa's Family Investment Plan Could Be a National Model, S11763 [7AU]

Welfare—Two Kinds of Compromise, S12758 [7SE]

What Special Interest?, H3700 [23MR]

Who Pays If Medicare Is Cut?, H10312 [19OC]

Why Push Them Out of Work?, S15784 [26OC]

Women and Children First?, S13560 [14SE]

Work Not Welfare in the Mormon Church, S13136 [8SE]

Workfare Wimp-Out, E445 [27FE]

Working While on Welfare, S13507 [13SE]

Bills and resolutions

Account statements: improve information provided and distribute annually to beneficiaries (see H.R. 1319, 2312), H3807 [24MR], H8805 [12SE]

AFDC: deny benefits to children who have not received preventive health care or been immunized (see H.R. 191), H168 [9JA]

———establish demonstration projects to expand State administration (see S. 246), S1207 [19JA]

———provide grants for demonstration projects to coordinate the administration of services to needy families with children (see H.R. 710), H802 [26JA]

———reform (see H.R. 741, 886), H889 [30JA], H1555 [9FE]

———remove disincentives that prevent recipients from moving toward self-sufficiency (see H.R. 950), H1849 [15FE]

———replace the Job Opportunities Basic Skills Training Program with self-sufficiency programs (see H.R. 865), H1460 [8FE]

———replace with State block grant programs (see S. 842), S7244 [23MY]

———weekly benefits relative to employment or attendance at courses at educational institutions (see H.R. 220), H169 [9JA]

American Samoa: SSI benefits (see H.R. 1060), H2306 [27FE]

Armed Forces: repeal offset for annuities under the survivor benefit plan for surviving spouses of retired members (see H.R. 2214), H8534 [4AU]

Benefits: assistance to beneficiaries in the administration of employee benefit plans (see H.R. 420), H175 [9JA]

———computation rule application to workers attaining age 65 in or after 1982 (see H.R. 240, 573), H170 [9JA], H399 [19JA]

———earnings test for retirement age individuals (see S. 31, 252; H.R. 145, 201, 243, 374), S48 [4JA], S1271 [20JA], H167, H169, H170, H174 [9JA]

———earnings test on retirement annuities of Members of Congress (see S. 48), S48 [4JA]

———increase earnings limit (see S. 1372, 1432, 1440, 1466, 1470; H.R. 2668, 2684; H. Con. Res. 109), S16422 [31OC], S17666 [28NO], S17865 [30NO], S18363 [11DE], S18442 [12DE], H10848 [25OC], H13658 [20NO], H13803 [29NO]

———increase earnings limit, repeal increase of taxation of benefits, and provide incentives to purchase long-term care insurance (see H.R. 8), H160 [9JA]

———increase earnings limit (H. Con. Res. 109), consideration (see H. Res. 245), H10847 [25OC]

———level of payment in the month of the beneficiary's death (see S. 406), S2647 [14FE]

———maintain earnings test correlation between disability insurance benefits for the blind and retirement age benefits (see H. Con. Res. 23), H1208 [3FE]

———provide remedies for failure to report information on earnings test for retirement age individuals (see H.R. 1183), H2988 [9MR]

———revise effective dates for discontinuance of benefits after death (see H.R. 163), H168 [9JA]

———tax treatment (see S. 30, 50), S48, S49 [4JA]

Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare: establish (see H.R. 1739), H5608 [25MY]

Budget: evaluation of long-term impact on entitlement spending (see S. 823), S6912 [18MY]

———off-budget status of administrative costs (see H.R. 1676), H5366 [18MY]

———require an operating and a capital budget to distinguish between Federal funds and trust funds (see H.R. 767, 1233), H1050 [1FE], H3156 [14MR]

———treatment of Social Security under a constitutional amendment to require balanced (see S. 290; H. Con. Res. 17), S1618 [26JA], H537 [23JA]

———treatment of Social Security under a constitutional amendment to require balanced (H. Con. Res. 17), consideration (see H. Res. 44), H592 [24JA]

Children and youth: child welfare services relative to foster care (see H.R. 586), H399 [19JA]

———treatment of abandoned infants relative to foster care (see H.R. 1044), H2223 [24FE]

———treatment of adult relatives willing to provide care (see H.R. 2387), H9452 [21SE]

Consumer Price Index: calculation of rate of inflation (see S. 821; S. Res. 63; H. Res. 99), S1070 [18JA], S6912 [18MY], H2224 [24FE]

Crime: penalties for health care fraud (see S. 1088; H.R. 2408), S10875 [28JY], H9591 [27SE]

Dept. of HHS: verification of employee Social Security information (see H.R. 502), H242 [13JA]

Disabled: repeal rule providing for the termination of benefits upon marriage (see S. 466), S3052 [23FE]

Diseases: prostate cancer screening and drug treatments and expansion of research and education programs (see S. 691), S5403 [6AP]

Economy: reduction of tax rates and discretionary spending (see H.R. 1327), H3878 [28MR]

Employment: establish a job placement voucher program (see S. 579), S4199 [20MR]

———increase normal and early retirement ages (see S. 818), S6912 [18MY]

Families and domestic relations: funding to States for certain child welfare and LSC programs relative to family reconciliation counseling programs (see S. 1207), S12715 [6SE]

———increase block grant funding for family planning and adolescent family life programs (see S. 1209), S12716 [6SE]

———reduction of teenage pregnancy rates and encouragement of parental responsibility (see S. 8; H.R. 1115), S47 [4JA], H2584 [2MR]

———require States to permit a chronically-ill parent to appoint a standby guardian for a minor without surrendering parental rights (see H.R. 709), H802 [26JA]

———State use of automated data retrieval system for child and spousal support enforcement (see H.R. 2288), H8725 [8SE]

Federal employees: amend status of erroneously covered Civil Service Retirement System employees (see S. 1287), S14710 [29SE]

———treatment of service performed under Federal-State cooperative programs relative to civil service retirement (see H.R. 2487), H10146 [17OC]

Francis J. Hagel Building, Richmond, CA: designate (see S. 1076; H.R. 2111), S10729 [26JY], H7699 [25JY]

Fraud: establish fingerprint identification system to deter multiple enrollment for certain benefits (see S. 249), S1207 [19JA]

Government: maintain and protect (see H. Con. Res. 75), H5983 [14JN]

Guam: SSI benefits (see H.R. 1069), H2306 [27FE]

Health: designate obstetrician-gynecologists as primary care providers for women under Federal health care regulations (see H. Res. 30), H177 [9JA]

———deter health care fraud and improve the administration of health benefit plans (see H.R. 1912), H6269 [22JN]

———establish a trust fund to reimburse Government health programs for expenses attributable to usage of tobacco products by individuals (see S. 597), S4365 [22MR]

———national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (see S. 7, 18, 121, 168, 294, 308, 609, 715, 933, 1028, 1062; S. Res. 144; H.R. 16, 996, 1200, 1234, 1424, 1798, 2071, 2220, 2756, 2836; H. Con. Res. 14), S47, S48, S50 [4JA], S480 [5JA], S1758 [30JA], S1920 [1FE], S4491 [23MR], S5547 [7AP], S8493 [15JN], S9422 [29JN], S9997 [14JY], S10490 [21JY], H163 [9JA], H296 [17JA], H1967 [21FE], H2989 [9MR], H3156 [14MR], H4413 [6AP], H5752 [8JN], H7256 [19JY], H8534 [4AU], H14253 [11DE], H15633 [22DE]

———national policy to provide health care coverage of mental illnesses (see H. Con. Res. 98), H8536 [4AU]

———national policy to provide health care coverage to individuals with severe mental illnesses (see S. 298), S1847 [31JA]

———permit coverage of outpatient physical therapy services under medicare and medicaid without a physician's referral (see H.R. 1746), H5622 [6JN]

———provide for home and community-based services for individuals with disabilities (see S. 85), S49 [4JA]

———strengthen State and local government capability of providing public health services (see S. 142), S51 [4JA]

———treatment of long-term health care insurance (see H.R. 1013, 2571), H2063 [22FE], H11686 [1NO]

Health care programs: combat waste, fraud and abuse (see H.R. 2326), H8903 [13SE]

Income: reduction in benefits relative to certain Government pensions (see H.R. 2167), H8308 [2AU]

———treatment of disability, old-age, and widow's or widower's insurance benefits (see H.R. 2469), H9897 [11OC]

Information services: establish a health information network for medicare and medicaid (see S. 872; H.R. 1766), S7615 [26MY], H5690 [7JN]

Insurance: prohibit health insurance premium rate increases based on age (see H.R. 1614), H4873 [11MY]

———provide tax incentives to encourage health insurance coverage continuity and portability and discourage preexisting condition exclusions (see H.R. 1604, 1610), H4795 [10MY], H4872 [11MY]

———provide that certain health insurance policies are not duplicative (see S. 1138), S12079 [9AU]

Management: maintenance and protection of system (see H. Con. Res. 78), H6200 [21JN]

Medicaid: alcoholism and drug dependency treatment services for pregnant women (see S. 171), S481 [5JA]

———continued enrollment of special-needs children in traditional fee-for-service plans in States with managed care programs (see H.R. 1502), H4431 [7AP]

———coverage of services of certain clinics operated by children's hospitals (see H.R. 1503), H4431 [7AP]

———coverage of services provided by nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists (see S. 972; H.R. 1339), S9174 [27JN], H3879 [28MR]

———coverage of services provided by nursing school clinics under State programs (see S. 61), S49 [4JA]

———eliminate State reimbursement requirements for hospitals, nursing facilities, and intermediate care facilities (see H.R. 2395), H9505 [25SE]

———enforcement of State guardianship laws relative to benefit eligibility proceedings (see S. 430), S2822 [16FE]

———Federal funding of abortions (see H.R. 222, 237), H169, H170 [9JA]

———flexibility for States to enroll beneficiaries in managed care plans (see S. 839), S7120 [22MY]

———improve Federal medical assistance percentage (see H.R. 818, 2226), H1207 [3FE], H8534 [4AU]

———improve the Federal medical assistance percentage (see H.R. 625), H468 [20JA]

———modify estate recovery provisions relative to recovery of home and community-based services costs for individuals over age 55 (see S. 86), S49 [4JA]

———nonemergency medical transportation services (see H.R. 975), H1907 [16FE]

———osteopathic services (see S. 896; H.R. 1791), S8034 [8JN], H5752 [8JN]

———prostate cancer screening (see H.R. 780), H1051 [1FE]

———provide State incentives for reduction of expenditures (see S. 634; H.R. 1334), S4717 [28MR], H3879 [28MR]

———reduce infant mortality through improvement of coverage of services to pregnant women and infants (see H.R. 180), H168 [9JA]

———replace with State block grant programs (see S. 844), S7244 [23MY]

———require HMOs and other managed care plans to make payments relative to assistance provided by school-based health centers (see H.R. 2420), H9670 [28SE]

———require States to provide photograph of beneficiary on enrollment card (see H.R. 2303), H8805 [12SE]

———screening mammography (see H.R. 777), H1051 [1FE]

———screening mammography and screening pap smears (see H.R. 173), H168 [9JA]

———waiver of anti-kickback statute for certain State demonstration projects and managed care programs (see S. 716), S5547 [7AP]

Medicare: amend certain provisions (see H.R. 25), H163 [9JA]

———assure fairness and choice to patients (see S. 1024, 1343), S9802 [12JY], S15338 [19OC]

———bone mass measurements (see H.R. 2185), H8360 [3AU]

———chiropractic services (see H.R. 997), H1967 [21FE]

———clarify scope of coverage and payment amounts for the use of medical devices approved for investigational use (see S. 955; H.R. 1744), S8945 [22JN], H5622 [6JN]

———clarify use of private contracts (see S. 1289), S14710 [29SE]

———colorectal screening (see S. 1178, 1385; H.R. 922, 1046), S12215 [10AU], S16621 [2NO], H1689 [13FE], H2223 [24FE]

———combat waste, fraud and abuse (see S. 569, 1193; H.R. 1668, 2389), S4094 [16MR], S12370 [11AU], H5366 [18MY], H9452 [21SE]

———coverage for emergency and related services by rural emergency access care facilities (see H.R. 859), H1460 [8FE]

———coverage of anesthesia services provided by certified registered nurse anesthetists (see S. 1263), S13972 [20SE]

———coverage of blood-testing strips for individuals with diabetes (see H.R. 1074), H2392 [28FE]

———coverage of bone mass measurements (see S. 1118), S11323 [3AU]

———coverage of drug treatments for multiple sclerosis (see H.R. 249), H170 [9JA]

———coverage of nursing facilities, in-home services, and outpatient prescription drugs (see H.R. 507), H242 [13JA]

———coverage of paramedic intercept ambulance support services (see H.R. 1757), H5690 [7JN]

———develop percentage increases to assure quality services in dependent hospitals and other beneficiary facilities (see S. 832; H.R. 1651), S7013 [19MY], H5071 [16MY]

———eliminate peer review system (see H.R. 1761), H5690 [7JN]

———equalize the labor and nonlabor portions of the standardized hospital payment amounts and improve rural health services (see H.R. 424), H177 [9JA]

———establish a disability review account for expenditures in reviewing cases (see H.R. 1586), H4618 [9MY]

———expand coverage of part B preventive care benefits (see H.R. 2777), H14764 [13DE]

———extend certain savings provisions (see H.R. 1134, 1217), H2716 [6MR], H3073 [13MR]

———extend period for issuance of select policies (see S. 717), S5547 [7AP]

———extend rural hospital payments (see S. 512), S3604 [7MR]

———hemodialysis standards for renal dialysis facilities (see H.R. 1067), H2306 [27FE]

———improve health services to rural areas (see S. 963), S8997 [23JN]

———improved reimbursement for clinical social worker services (see S. 63), S49 [4JA]

———incentives for reporting inaccurate claims (see S. 1325), S15227 [17OC]

———limit penalty for late enrollment (see H.R. 559), H325 [18JA]

———limit penalty for late enrollment and establish special enrollment for certain military retirees (see H.R. 2729), H14172 [6DE]

———medical nutrition therapy services (see H.R. 2247), H8535 [4AU]

———mental health and substance abuse treatment services (see H.R. 1456), H4414 [6AP]

———multiple sclerosis drug treatments (see H.R. 1078), H2392 [28FE]

———oral anticancer drugs (see H.R. 2489, 2600), H10146 [17OC], H11939 [8NO]

———outpatient self-management training services for individuals with diabetes (see S. 491; H.R. 1073), S3390 [2MR], H2392 [28FE]

———payment for dental services (see H.R. 166), H168 [9JA]

———payment for services furnished by a facility in which the referring physician has an ownership interest (see H.R. 2390), H9452 [21SE]

———permit a supplier of durable medical equipment to furnish an upgraded item of such equipment to medicare beneficiaries (see H.R. 1754), H5689 [7JN]

———permit direct payment of registered nurses for assistance services at surgery (see H.R. 188), H168 [9JA]

———permit select policies to be offered in all States (see H.R. 483, 1391), H229 [11JA], H4177 [4AP]

———permit select policies to be offered in all States (H.R. 483), consideration (see H. Res. 130), H4334 [5AP]

———permit select policies to be offered in all States (H.R. 483), consideration of conference report (see H. Res. 180), H6655 [29JN]

———permit select policies to be offered in all States (H.R. 483), corrections in enrollment (see S. Con. Res. 19), S9097 [26JN]

———positron emission tomography (see S. 1181; H.R. 2194), S12370 [11AU], H8533 [4AU]

———prostate cancer screening (see H.R. 779, 1496), H1051 [1FE], H4431 [7AP]

———protection of beneficiaries relative to enrollment in managed care plans and HMOs (see H.R. 2350), H9132 [18SE]

———protection of beneficiaries relative to enrollment in managed care plans and health maintenance organizations (see H.R. 1707, 2329), H5571 [24MY], H8993 [14SE]

———provide for certain payments under CHAMPUS to the extent that such expenses are not payable under medicare (see S. 69), S49 [4JA]

———provide greater flexibility and choice (see S. 1238), S13540 [13SE]

———reduce part A enrollment premium for individuals 80 years of age or older (see H.R. 2805), H15087 [18DE]

———reform (see S. 1255; H.R. 2152, 2173, 2422, 2425, 2476, 2485, 2486, 2839), S13728 [18SE], H8174 [1AU], H8308 [2AU], H9670 [28SE], H9737 [29SE], H10047 [12OC], H10146 [17OC], H15633 [22DE]

———reform (H.R. 2425), consideration (see H. Res. 238), H10306 [18OC]

———reimbursement for nurse practitioners in health professional shortage areas (see S. 864; H.R. 1750), S7497 [25MY], H5622 [6JN]

———reimbursement for physician assistants in health professional shortage areas (see S. 863; H.R. 1751), S7497 [25MY], H5622 [6JN]

———reimbursement for services provided to eligible individuals by military or veterans hospitals (see H.R. 861, 1767), H1460 [8FE], H5690 [7JN]

———renal disease management services (see H.R. 1068), H2306 [27FE]

———reporting requirement of trust fund trustees on projected financial imbalances (see S. 785; H.R. 1590), S6337 [9MY], H4618 [9MY]

———require health maintenance organizations to disclose certain information to enrollees (see H.R. 2249), H8535 [4AU]

———require health maintenance organizations to provided out-of-network services to enrollees (see H.R. 2757), H14310 [12DE]

———restrictions on services provided by clinical psychologists or social workers in outpatient rehabilitation facilities (see S. 62), S49 [4JA]

———screening mammography (see H.R. 778, 958), H1051 [1FE], H1849 [15FE]

———study effectiveness of rural telemedicine networks (see H.R. 851), H1371 [7FE]

———use of commercial software to detect payment error and billing abuse (see S. 762), S6202 [5MY]

———waive late enrollment penalty for certain military retirees who live near closed military installations (see H.R. 875), H1555 [9FE]

Medicare and Medicaid Coverage Data Bank: repeal (see S. 194; H.R. 952, 2685), S789 [11JA], H1849 [15FE], H13803 [29NO]

Medicare Select Program: extend (see S. 198), S789 [11JA]

Medicare/Medicaid: establish an Office of Inspector General (see H.R. 2480), H10076 [13OC]

———payment integrity (see H.R. 2280), H8684 [7SE]

———public examination of any changes in existing law relative to budget reconciliation (see H. Res. 221), H8904 [13SE]

Military Health Services System: medicare reimbursement (see S. 1487; H.R. 580), S18999 [20DE], H399 [19JA]

National Commission on the Long-Term Solvency of the Medicare Program: establish (see S. 760), S6169 [4MY]

Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Program: tribute (see H. Res. 209), H8309 [2AU]

Old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program: solvency (see S. 825), S6912 [18MY]

Pensions: cost-of-living adjustments for annuities of Members of Congress and Social Security benefits (see H. Con. Res. 2), H176 [9JA]

———limitations on cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security beneficiaries and Federal and military retirees (see S. 822), S6912 [18MY]

Personal investment plans: diversion of percentage of payroll tax payments (see S. 824), S6912 [18MY]

Public debt: enforce debt limit and protect obligated trust funds (see S. 1484; H.R. 2621), S18819 [18DE], H12190 [13NO]

———enforce debt limit and protect obligated trust funds (H.R. 2621), consideration (see H. Res. 293), H14237 [7DE]

Public health: establish standards for long-term care insurance policies (see H.R. 1221), H3155 [14MR]

Public welfare programs: assistance to able-bodied individuals relative to participation in workfare programs (see H.R. 161), H168 [9JA]

———direct that certain Federal benefits be provided only to U.S. citizens and nationals (see H.R. 482), H229 [11JA]

———eliminate benefits to fugitive felons and probation and parole violators (see S. 599), S4365 [22MR]

———funding for nutrition programs (see S. 904), S8097 [9JN]

———prohibit assistance to undocumented aliens (see H.R. 484, 637), H229 [11JA], H537 [23JA]

———reform (see S. 36, 140, 209, 707, 736, 746, 828, 834, 840, 1117, 1120; H.R. 4, 315, 759, 781, 819, 982, 1146, 1157, 1181, 1214, 1250, 1267), S48, S51 [4JA], S901 [12JA], S5404 [6AP], S5805 [27AP], S6082 [3MY], S6912 [18MY], S7014 [19MY], S7120 [22MY], S11323 [3AU], H159, H172 [9JA], H969 [31JA], H1051 [1FE], H1207 [3FE], H1907 [16FE], H2810 [7MR], H2891 [8MR], H2988 [9MR], H3072 [13MR], H3276 [15MR], H3415 [21MR]

———reform (H.R. 4), consideration (see H. Res. 117, 119), H3326 [16MR], H3415 [21MR]

———reform (H.R. 4), consideration of conference report (see H. Res. 319), H15237 [20DE]

Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act: reduce waiting period for benefits (see H.R. 2594), H11938 [8NO]

Retirement benefits: prohibit payment to persons who are not defined as retired under the Social Security Act (see H.R. 802), H1156 [2FE]

Rural areas: medicare coverage of rural emergency access care hospitals (see S. 210), S901 [12JA]

Senior citizens: expand the availability of qualified organizations for frail elderly community projects (see S. 990), S9421 [29JN]

Social Security Act: anniversary (see S. Res. 165), S12370 [11AU]

Social Security Disability Insurance Program: funding for SSI presumptive disability benefit programs (see H.R. 1665), H5190 [17MY]

SSI: deny disability benefits based on alcohol or drug addiction (see S. 498; H.R. 791), S3520 [6MR], H1156 [2FE]

———eliminate fraud in payment of disability benefits to children (see H.R. 224), H170 [9JA]

———financial incentives for nonprofit organizations to seek eligible recipients (see H.R. 1664), H5190 [17MY]

———reform eligibility requirements for children's programs (see S. 798), S6513 [11MY]

———replace with State block grant programs (see S. 845), S7244 [23MY]

———require benefits in the form of vouchers (see H.R. 612), H467 [20JA]

———require periodic reapplication and modify administrative criteria relative to mental impairments (see H.R. 1974), H6697 [30JN]

———restriction on benefits to prisoners (see S. 1418; H.R. 2320), S17336 [17NO], H8903 [13SE]

States: imposition of fees for initial certification and survey of health care facilities providing medicare and medicaid services (see H.R. 2790), H14963 [15DE]

Taxation: exclude Social Security tax from certain self-employment income received by insurance salesmen after retirement (see H.R. 2004), H6829 [11JY]

———rates (see H.R. 1215), H3072 [13MR]

———rates (H.R. 1215), consideration (see H. Res. 128), H4176 [4AP]

———restore prior law formula for the inclusion in gross income of Social Security and tier 1 railroad retirement benefits (see H.R. 1775), H5690 [7JN]

———treatment of Government pensions relative to Social Security benefits (see H.R. 2272), H8597 [6SE]

———treatment of long-term health care insurance (see S. 411, 423; H.R. 1457), S2647 [14FE], S2757 [15FE], H4414 [6AP]

———treatment of long-term health care services and insurance (see S. 1177), S12215 [10AU]

———treatment of operating expenses for school bus drivers (see S. 499), S3520 [6MR]

———treatment of tax-exempt interest relative to Social Security benefits and income determination (see H.R. 159), H168 [9JA]

Trust funds: budget treatment (see H.R. 2628), H12349 [14NO]

———ensure integrity (see H.R. 164, 491), H168 [9JA], H230 [11JA]

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Social Security Circuit: establish and define jurisdiction (see H.R. 1587), H4618 [9MY]

Veterans: conduct feasibility studies for inclusion of veterans health programs in certain State health programs (see S. 613), S4573 [24MR]

Virgin Islands: SSI benefits (see H.R. 1069), H2306 [27FE]

Cloture motions

Public welfare programs: reform (H.R. 4), S13199 [11SE]

Commentaries

Commentary on Time Magazine's Cover Story on the Social Security Program: Robert J. Myers, S5018-S5020 [31MR]

Medical savings accounts: several organizations, E1091 [22MY]

Conference reports

Permit Medicare Select Policies To Be Offered In All States (H.R. 483), H6256 [22JN]

Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act (H.R. 4), H15317-H15487 [21DE]

Cost Estimates

Medicare budget expenditure limiting tool: CBO, S16469 [1NO]

Definitions

`Raid': ``Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary'', S16581 [2NO]

`Reform': ``Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary'', S16581 [2NO]

Descriptions

Iowa Family Investment Program, S12883 [8SE]

Proposal To Increase Social Security Retirement Earning Limit, S18732 [15DE]

Documents

Rollcall Vote on Social Security Trust Funds Relative to Budget Enforcement Act (1990), S4178 [20MR]

Treatment of Social Security as Off-Budget (1990), S3317 [2MR]

U.S. Code Section on Budget Treatment of Social Security Trust Funds, S18326 [11DE]

Essays

Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in America From Becoming a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and For Making Them Beneficial To the Public: Jonathan Swift, E521 [6MR]

Excerpts

GOP Alternative—Deficit Reduction and Tax Relief, S2241 [7FE]

``Hurting Real People—The Human Impact of Medicaid Cuts'', S16645-S16647 [3NO]

Off-budget status of Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Trust Funds of the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990, S17123 [16NO]

Factsheets

Balanced Budget Amendment Exemption Would Imperil Social Security: Congressional Leaders United for a Balanced Budget, S3350 [2MR]

Budget Reconciliation: U.S. Chamber of Commerce, H11211 [26OC]

Examples of Families Who Would Get Smaller Family Tax Credit Under H.R. 1215 Than Under the Original Contract With America, E719 [29MR]

How the Balanced Budget Amendment Protects Social Security: Congressional Leaders United for a Balanced Budget, S3350 [2MR]

How the Medicaid Cuts Affect Virginia, H14925 [14DE]

Insurance Industry-Republican Alliance To Dismantle Medicare—A Question of Profits: Senator Kennedy, S11978 [9AU]

Mental Illness in America, S1849 [31JA]

Treatment of Social Security Under a Constitutional Amendment To Require Balanced Budget: Congressional Leaders United for a Balanced Budget (organization), S2476 [10FE]

Letters

Administration for Children and Families staff working on AFDC and Job Opportunities and Basic Skills programs: Mary Jo Bane, Dept. of HHS, S11757 [7AU]

Budget treatment of Social Security trust funds: John Rother, American Association of Retired Persons, S4427 [23MR]

Constitutional amendment to require a balanced budget relative to treatment of Social Security Trust funds: Kenneth R. Thomas, Congressional Research Service, S18327 [11DE]

———several Senators, S18328 [11DE]

Contract With America Tax Relief Act: Jere W. Glover, SBA, H4317 [5AP]

———Leslie B. Samuels, Dept. of the Treasury, H4318 [5AP]

———Representative Archer, H4247 [5AP]

———Representative Bliley, H4248 [5AP]

Equal welfare treatment for naturalized and native-born citizens: Andrew Fois, Dept. of Justice, S12826 [7SE], S13590 [14SE]

———Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mayor of New York, NY, S13591 [14SE]

———several State and local organizations, S13591 [14SE]

Expand coverage of medicare part B preventive care benefits: several health organizations, E2362 [14DE]

Expenditure of welfare funds in accordance with State laws and procedures: James J. Lack, National Conference of State Legislatures, S12803 [7SE]

Federal child care programs: Fred Kammer, Catholic Charities U.S.A., S13184 [11SE], S13534 [13SE], S13600 [14SE]

———several educational organizations, S13185 [11SE]

Federal funding of abortions: Rod L. Betit, Utah Department of Health, S4962 [31MR]

Federal nursing home standards: David Banks, Beverly Enterprises, Inc., S16944 [13NO]

———Elma L. Holder, National Citizens' Coalition for Nursing Home Reform, S16945 [13NO], S17281 [17NO]

———John J. Sweeney, Service Employees International Union, S17283 [17NO]

———National Association of State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program, S16945 [13NO]

———several health and union organizations, S15657 [25OC]

———Toby S. Edelman, National Senior Citizens Law Center, S16952 [13NO]

Food Stamp Block Grant Program: A. Wayne Lord, National Peanut Council, Inc., S13339 [12SE]

———David Beckmann, Bread for the World (organization), S13635 [15SE]

———Food Research and Action Center, S13635 [15SE]

———Kevin Burke, Food Distributors Association, S13339 [12SE]

———Marian Wright Edelman, Children's Defense Fund, S13635 [15SE]

———Sheri Spader, National Cattleman's Association, S13339 [12SE]

———Tim Hammonds, Food Marketing Institute, S13338 [12SE]

———Tommy G. Thompson, Governor of Wisconsin, S13338 [12SE]

Health care reform: Mary F. Daivs, S10434 [20JY]

Health insurance policies, E892 [1MY]

Managed health care system reform: Harley Schultz, E2240 [28NO]

Medicaid reform: Joe M. Sanders, Jr., and Lawrence A. McAndrews, S15730 [26OC]

———John A. Kitzhaber, Governor of Oregon, H10901 [26OC]

———Larry E. Naake, National Association of Counties, S15732 [26OC]

———several Democratic Senators, S19185 [22DE]

———several organizations, S15728, S15731 [26OC]

Medical savings accounts: Representative Stark, E1090 [22MY]

Medicare and Medicaid Coverage Data Bank: Anthony J. Knettel, Coalition on Employer Health Coverage Reporting and the Medicare/Medicaid Data Bank, S10143 [17JY]

———Donald A. Danner, National Federation of Independent Business, S10144 [17JY]

———Mark J. Ugoretz, ERISA Industry Committee, S10143 [17JY]

Medicare budget expenditure limiting tool: Arnold R. Thomas, North Dakota Hospital Association, S16468 [1NO]

———Daniel J. Schulder, National Council of Senior Citizens, S16468 [1NO]

———Howard B. Shapiro, American College of Physicians, S16469 [1NO]

———June E. O'Neill, CBO, S16469 [1NO]

———Martin Corry, American Association of Retired Persons, S16468 [1NO]

———Rick Pollack, American Hospital Association, S16468 [1NO]

———Steven Kroll, Healthcare Association of New York State, S16468 [1NO]

Medicare coverage of colorectal screening: Senators Mack and Lieberman, S12276 [10AU]

Medicare reform: Anne K. Bingaman, Dept. of Justice and Robert Pitofsky, FTC, S17323 [17NO]

———Bill Pound, National Conference of State Legislatures, and Lee Douglas, National Association of Insurance Commissioners, H10476 [19OC]

———Carolyn Scanlan, Hospital Association of Pennsylvania, E2239 [28NO]

———Clay Willis, Willis Publishing Co., H7556 [25JY]

———Cynthia Tinker, H10311 [19OC]

———Harlan M. Heald, Nebraska Association of Hospitals and Health Systems, S6904 [18MY], S7007 [19MY]

———Leonard T. Connors, Jr., Jeffrey W. Moran, and Christopher J. Connors, New Jersey State Legislature, H10333, H10472 [19OC]

———Marc A. Levina, H10299 [18OC]

———Martha A. McSteen, National Committee To Preserve Social Security and Medicare, S15520 [24OC]

———National Association of Attorneys General, S17326 [17NO]

———Paul G. Rogers and Robert D. Ray, National Leadership Coalition for Health Care Reform, S6136 [4MY]

———R. Bruce Josten, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, H10385 [19OC]

———several health and insurance providers, S17324 [17NO]

———several organizations, S17325, S17327 [17NO]

———U.S. Chamber of Commerce, S17326 [17NO]

Medicare reimbursement to Military Health Services System: Bruce Conover, Military Service Coalition of Austin, S19004 [20DE]

———Don Hess, U.S. Army Warrant Officers Association, S19005 [20DE]

———Eddie Oca, Naval Enlisted Reserve Association, S19006 [20DE]

———G. Michael Schlee, American Legion, S19004 [20DE]

———J.C. Pennington, National Association for Uniformed Services, S19003 [20DE]

———Jack N. Merritt, Association of the U.S. Army, S19004 [20DE]

———James D. Station, Air Force Sergeants Association, S19004 [20DE]

———James E. Forerest, Naval Research Association, S19006 [20DE]

———John M. Adams, Retired Enlisted Association, S19004 [20DE]

———Max B. Bralliar, Association of Military Surgeons of the U.S., S19006 [20DE]

———Michael A. Nelson, Retired Officers Association, S19003 [20DE]

———Michael F. Ouellette, Non-Commissioned Officers Association of the U.S.A., S19004 [20DE]

———Neil Goldman, Jewish War Veterans, S19005 [20DE]

———Paul A. Spera, VFW, S19003 [20DE]

———R.E. Smith, Air Force Association, S19003 [20DE]

———Robert L. Lewis, Chief Warrant and Warrant Officers Association, U.S. Coast Guard, S19005 [20DE]

———Roger E. Sandler, Reserve Officers Association of the U.S., S19005 [20DE]

———Sylvia E.J. Kidd, National Military Family Association, S19005 [20DE]

Medicare select policies: Senator Dole, S6788 [17MY]

———Senator Rockefeller, S6788 [17MY]

Medicare waste, fraud and abuse: June G. Brown, Dept. of HHS, S15158-S15160 [13OC], S15797-S15799 [26OC]

———Republican Governors' Association, S15162 [13OC]

Medicare Whistleblower Act: Jake Hansen, Seniors Coalition, S15234 [17OC]

———Martha A. McSteen, National Committee To Preserve Social Security and Medicare, S15234 [17OC]

Medicare/Medicaid reform: several hospital plans, S17286 [17NO]

Medicare/Medicaid Solvency Act: Scott D. Ballin, Fran DuMelle, Michael F. Heron, Coalition on Smoking or Health, S4381 [22MR]

Nutrition programs funding: Morton A. Madoff and George Comerci, Physicians Committee on Childhood Hunger, H2576 [2MR]

Permit medicare select policies to be offered in all States: Bruce C. Vladeck, Dept. of HHS, H4367 [6AP]

———Gail Shearer, Consumers Union, H4390 [6AP]

———Raymond C. Scheppach, Carl Tubbesing, and Kevin T. Cronin, H4386, H4388 [6AP]

Personal Responsibility Act: Benjamin J. Cayetano, Governor of Hawaii, H3691 [23MR]

———Gaston Caperton, Governor of West Virginia, H3694 [23MR]

———Howard Dean, Governor of Vermont, H3691 [23MR]

———John Sharp, H3548 [22MR]

———Mel Carnahan, Governor of Missouri, H3691 [23MR]

———Mike Lowry, Governor of Washington, H3693 [23MR]

———National Governors' Association, H3391 [21MR]

———President Clinton, H3365 [21MR]

———Representative Archer, H3353, H3354, H3355 [21MR]

———Representative Bliley, H3354 [21MR]

———Representative Spence, H3353 [21MR]

———Roy Romer, Governor of Colorado, H3694 [23MR]

———several Republican Governors, H3683 [23MR]

———Thomas R. Carper, Governor of Delaware, H3692 [23MR]

Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act: Gregory S. Lashutka, Douglas R. Bovin, and Norman B. Rice, S19106 [21DE]

———National League of Cities, National Association of Counties, and U.S. Conference of Mayors, H15508 [21DE]

———Stephen D. Minnich, Oregon Dept. of Human Resources, S19173 [22DE]

———Thomas E. McGlinchy, School District of Philadelphia, PA, H15523 [21DE]

Proposal to increase Social Security retirement earning limit: John D. Hawke, Jr., Dept. of the Treasury, S18733 [15DE]

Public welfare programs reform, E720 [29MR]

———George V. Voinovich, Governor of Ohio, S13185 [11SE]

———Jane L. Campbell, National Conference of State Legislatures, S13184 [11SE]

———Senator Harkin, S12688 [6SE]

———Senator Moynihan, S18434 [12DE]

———several religious organizations, S12360 [11AU]

———Tommy G. Thompson, Governor of Wisconsin, and Robert J. Miller, Governor of Nevada, National Governors, Association, S13649 [15SE]

Require an operating and a capital budget to distinguish between Federal funds and trust funds: several Senators, S2749 [15FE]

Social Security earnings limit: Cheryll Schramm, National Association of Area Agencies on Aging, S15786 [26OC]

———Daniel A. Quirk, National Association of State Units on Aging, S15786 [26OC]

———Daniel Thursz, National Council on the Aging, Inc., S15785 [26OC]

———Dianna Morgan, Walt Disney World Co., S15785 [26OC]

———Harold Price, National Association of Retired Federal Employees, S15786 [26OC]

———Jake Hansen, Seniors Coalition, S15785 [26OC]

———James D. Staton, Air Force Sergeants Association, S15785 [26OC]

———John M. Adams, Retired Enlisted Association, S15786 [26OC]

———June E. O'Neill, CBO, S16586 [2NO]

———Lawrence T. Smedley, National Council of Senior Citizens, S15785 [26OC]

———Lou Glasse, Older Women's League, S15785 [26OC]

———Mark E. Talisman, Council of Jewish Federations, S15785 [26OC]

———Martha A. McSteen, National Committee To Preserve Social Security and Medicare, S15786 [26OC]

SSI children's programs eligibility requirements reform: several mental health and disability organizations, S6536 [11MY]

State corrective action plans relative to block grant funding penalties: A. Sidney Johnson III, American Public Welfare Association, S13778 [19SE]

Treatment of Social Security under a constitutional amendment to require balanced budget: Horace B. Deets, American Association of Retired Persons, S3237 [28FE]

———Jake Hansen, Seniors Coalition, S2475 [10FE]

———James L. Martin, 60 Plus (organization), S3348 [2MR]

———James L. Martin, Tax Fairness for Seniors (organization), S2474 [10FE]

———Kenneth R. Thomas, Congressional Research Service, S2364 [9FE], S3238 [28FE]

———Kimberly Schuld, Seniors Coalition, S3444 [3MR]

———Martha A. McSteen, National Committee To Preserve Social Security and Medicare, S1901 [1FE], S2551 [13FE], S3238 [28FE]

———Robert J. Myers, S2477 [10FE], S3346 [2MR]

———Robert M. Ball, S3012 [23FE]

———Senator Simon, S2477 [10FE]

———several Senators, S3316 [2MR]

Lists

Budget goals, S7169 [23MY]

Committee on Rules (House) rollcall votes on amendments to H. Res. 119, consideration of H.R. 4, Personal Responsibility Act, H3438 [22MR]

Committee on Rules (House) rollcall votes on amendments to H. Res. 238, consideration of H.R. 2425, medicare reform, H10317 [19OC]

Committee on the Budget (Senate) rollcall vote on Hollings motion to report the Social Security Preservation Act (1990), S15327 [19OC], S16960 [13NO], S18327 [11DE]

Congressional hearings and reports relative to enactment of Nursing Home Reform Act, S15667 [25OC]

Consumer Price Index accuracy witnesses, S15446 [23OC]

Minnesota delegates to the White House Conference on Aging, S7132 [22MY]

National Leadership Coalition for Health Care Reform members, S6137 [4MY]

Organizations opposed to child welfare services and foster care provisions of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, S19170-S19172 [22DE]

Organizations supporting medicare fairness and choice, S15346 [19OC]

Proposed reductions to entitlement spending, S1323-S1327 [23JA]

Ranking of Members of Congress on appropriations votes: National Taxpayers Union, H4194, H4196, H4197 [5AP]

Rollcall vote in the Committee on the Budget (Senate) on treatment of Social Security under a balanced budget requirement, S3011 [23FE]

Rollcall vote on concurrent budget resolution (H.R. 2491): Graham motion to instruct conferees (treatment of Social Security trust funds), S18327 [11DE]

Rollcall vote on Hollings/Heinz amendment on the Social Security Trust Fund (1990), S15328 [19OC]

Rollcall vote on the Hollings/Heinz amendment on the Social Security Trust Fund (1990), S16960 [13NO], S18327 [11DE]

Memorandums

Consumer Price Index Accuracy: Harry C. Ballantyne, S15462 [23OC]

Federal Nursing Home Standards: Toby S. Edelman, Nursing Home National Seniors Center, S17281-S17283 [17NO]

Rising Caseloads in the AFDC Program: CBO, S12774 [7SE]

Treatment of Social Security Under a Constitutional Amendment To Require Balanced Budget: David Keating, National Taxpayers Union, S3348 [2MR]

———Seniors Coalition, S3348 [2MR]

Messages

U.S.-Germany Supplementary Agreement on Social Security: President Clinton, S14882 [10OC], H9764 [10OC]

Veto of H.J. Res. 115, Continuing Appropriations: President Clinton, H12238 [14NO]

Motions

Benefits: increase earnings limit (S. 1372), S16587 [2NO]

Medicare: permit select policies to be offered in all States (H.R. 483), H5578 [25MY]

———reform (H.R. 2425), H10462 [19OC]

Public debt: enforce debt limit and protect obligated trust funds (H.R. 2621), H14897 [14DE]

Public welfare programs: reform (H.R. 4), S13195 [11SE], H3495, H3499 [22MR], H3785 [24MR], H14136 [6DE]

———reform (H.R. 4), conference report, H15531, H15532 [21DE]

Taxation: rates (H.R. 1215), H4311 [5AP]

Opinion polls

Medicare Fax poll results: U.S. Chamber of Commerce, H10385 [19OC]

Medicare fax poll results: U.S. Chamber of Commerce, S16074 [27OC]

National retirement security poll: National Committee To Preserve Social Security and Medicare, S12348-S12350 [11AU]

Pamphlets

Medicaid Reform, S15730 [26OC]

Papers

Bureaucracy Created by the GOP Medicaid Plan, S15732 [26OC]

Faces of Medicaid, S16647 [3NO]

Petitions

National agenda, E1206 [8JN]

Petitions and memorials

Personal Responsibility Act: Rhode Island House of Representatives, S6744 [16MY]

Poems

``Nation Needs Your Lunch,'' Representative Owens, E774 [4AP]

``Republican Notice to the Uncovered'', E1959 [17OC]

``The Bridge Builders,'' Will A. Dromgoole, H8181 [2AU]

Press conferences

Health Care Fraud: Janet Reno, Attorney General, S15799-S15801 [26OC]

Press releases

``Coalition To Save Medicare''—It's Really the Coalition To Raid Medicare: Citizen Action (organization), S11977 [9AU]

Medicare, Medicaid, and Nursing Home Provisions of the Budget Reconciliation: American Association of Retired Persons, S17281 [17NO]

Treatment of Social Security Under a Constitutional Amendment to Require Balanced Budget: Seniors Coalition, S2475 [10FE]

Questions and answers

Understanding the Consumer Price Index: BLS, S15453-S15456 [23OC]

Remarks in House

Abortion: State discretion in deciding on funding for victims of rape and incest, H8223 [2AU], H8371-H8378 [3AU]

———State discretion on public funding of abortions for victims of rape and incest, E1718 [7SE]

AFDC: provide grants for demonstration projects to coordinate the administration of services to needy families with children (H.R. 710), E186 [26JA]

———reform (H.R. 741), H847 [30JA]

———replace the Job Opportunities Basic Skills Training Program with self-sufficiency programs (H.R. 865), H2493 [2MR], E297 [8FE]

AFL-CIO: financing of political advertising campaign, H15211 [20DE]

Agency for Health Care Policy and Research: funding, H8413, H8414 [3AU]

American Samoa: SSI benefits (H.R. 1060), E452 [27FE]

Armed Forces: repeal offset for annuities under the survivor benefit plan for surviving spouses of retired members (H.R. 2214), E1663 [5AU]

Benefits: computation rule application to workers attaining age 65 in or after 1982 (H.R. 240), E55 [5JA]

———earnings test for retirement age individuals, H4188, H4191, H4249, H4251, H4258, H4263, H4264 [5AP], E778 [4AP]

———eliminate earnings test for retirement age individuals (H.R. 243), E37 [5JA]

———eliminate earnings test for retirement age individuals (H.R. 374), E23 [4JA]

———increase earnings limit, E2096 [2NO]

———increase earnings limit, repeal increase of taxation of benefits, and provide incentives to purchase long-term care insurance (H.R. 8), H128, H132 [5JA], H3984 [30MR], E200 [27JA]

———increase earnings limit (H. Con. Res. 109), H10868-H10872 [26OC], E2048 [26OC], E2068 [30OC]

———increase earnings limit (H. Con. Res. 109), consideration (H. Res. 245), H10853-H10868 [26OC]

———increase earnings limit (H.R. 2668), H13351 [20NO], E2219 [20NO]

———increase earnings limit (H.R. 2684), H13844 [30NO], H13872 [4DE], H13962-H13971 [5DE], H14144 [6DE], E2298 [6DE], E2346 [13DE], E2398, E2415 [19DE]

———maintain correlation of disability insurance benefits earnings levels of blind individuals with retirement age benefits earnings test (H. Con. Res. 23), H1193 [3FE]

Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare: establish (H.R. 1739), H5628 [7JN]

Budget: allocation of funds, H1285 [7FE], H3400-H3406 [21MR]

———balance, H5087 [17MY], H13140 [16NO], E1092 [22MY]

———comparison between congressional and Clinton administration proposals, H5591 [25MY], H8586 [6SE]

———constitutional amendment to require balanced (H. Con. Res. 17), H694, H697, H698 [26JA]

———constitutional amendment to require balanced (H. Con. Res. 17), consideration (H. Res. 44), H597 [25JA]

———constitutional amendment to require balanced (H.J. Res. 1), H596, H599, H671 [25JA]

———off-budget status of administrative costs (H.R. 1676), E1075 [18MY]

———require an operating and a capital budget to distinguish between Federal funds and trust funds (H.R. 767), E241 [1FE]

———treatment of Social Security under a constitutional amendment to require balanced, H248 [17JA], H596, H599, H600 [25JA], H696, H697, H698, H699, H781, H782 [26JA], H842 [30JA], H2490, H2491, H2492, H2493 [2MR], H2644 [3MR]

———treatment of Social Security under a constitutional amendment to require balanced (H. Con. Res. 17), H551 [24JA], H619-H628 [25JA]

———treatment of Social Security under a constitutional amendment to require balanced (H. Con. Res. 17), consideration (H. Res. 44), H605-H619 [25JA]

Children and youth: policies to cut assistance programs, H2315 [28FE]

———treatment of abandoned infants relative to foster care (H.R. 1044), E433 [24FE]

Congress: actions on agenda of the Congressional Caucus on Women's Issues, H9745 [10OC]

———national agenda, H9720 [29SE]

Congressional Black Caucus: agenda, H9568 [27SE]

Democratic Party: effect of political party objectives, H8544 [6SE]

———national agenda, H4966 [16MY], H5089, H5090 [17MY], H6704 [10JY], H13735 [29NO]

Disabled: maintain link between senior citizen and blind persons earnings test limit, H13965, H13966, H13969 [5DE]

Economy: national private savings rate, E1400 [10JY]

Families and domestic relations: State use of automated data retrieval system for child and spousal support enforcement (H.R. 2288), H9512 [27SE]

Federal-State relations: exempt certain legislation on oversight of State and local programs from unfunded Federal mandates reform, H940 [31JA]

———maintain certain low-income entitlement programs as Federal mandates, H934, H935 [31JA]

Food stamps: electronic transfer system relative to allowable food items and security, H3603-H3605 [23MR]

———electronic transfer system relative to photograph requirements, H3600-H3603 [23MR]

Francis J. Hagel Building, Richmond, CA: designate (H.R. 2111), H14978 [18DE], E1509 [25JY]

Government: shutdown relative to budget process, H15557 [21DE]

Guam: SSI benefits (H.R. 1069), H2228 [27FE]

Health: costs incurred by Task Force on National Health Care Reform, H12203 [14NO]

———designate obstetrician-gynecologists as primary care providers for women under Federal health care regulations (H. Res. 30), E401 [22FE]

———deter health care fraud and improve the administration of health benefit plans (H.R. 1912), E1309 [22JN]

———managed care system reform, E2240 [28NO]

———managed care system reform proposal, E311 [9FE]

———national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures, H2032 [22FE], H4556 [9MY], H13986 [5DE], E302 [8FE], E307 [9FE], E428 [24FE], E892 [1MY], E1090 [22MY], E1734 [7SE]

———national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (H.R. 16), E52 [5JA]

———national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (H.R. 2756), H14244 [11DE]

———national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (H.R. 996), E402 [22FE]

———treatment of long-term health care insurance (H.R. 2571), E2083 [1NO]

Health care professionals: tribute to home health care workers, E1796 [18SE]

House of Representatives: actions taken against senior citizens demonstrating against medicare reform, H9900-H9903 [12OC]

Information services: establish a health information network for medicare and medicaid (S. 872), E1176 [8JN]

Insurance: prohibit health insurance premium rate increases based on age (H.R. 1614), E1004 [11MY]

———provide tax incentives to encourage health insurance coverage continuity and portability and discourage preexisting condition exclusions (H.R. 1604), E1001 [11MY]

International Medical Centers, Inc.: alleged involvement with medicare fraud, E1709 [6SE]

Medicaid: continued enrollment of special-needs children in traditional fee-for-service plans in States with managed care programs (H.R. 1502), E864 [7AP]

———coverage of services of certain clinics operated by children's hospitals (H.R. 1503), E864 [7AP]

———coverage of services provided by nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists (H.R. 1339), E935 [3MY]

———Federal funding of abortions (H.R. 237), E29 [4JA], E56 [5JA]

———funding relative to unfunded Federal mandates reform, H867, H868 [30JA]

———home- and community-based services for the disabled, E2183 [15NO]

———improve the Federal medical assistance percentage (H.R. 625), H450 [20JA]

———prostate cancer screening (H.R. 780), H978 [1FE]

———provide State incentives for reduction of expenditures (H.R. 1334), E722 [29MR]

———reform, H5380 [23MY], H5699, H5701 [8JN], H8942 [14SE], H9143 [19SE], H9251, H9252, H9253 [20SE], H9596, H9660-H9666 [28SE], H9675, H9722-H9734 [29SE], H9776, H9777, H9779, H9780 [10OC], H9793, H9874-H9894 [11OC], H10032-H10039 [12OC], H10050, H10051, H10060 [13OC], H10127, H10134-H10142 [17OC], H10209, H10285, H10286 [18OC], H10468, H10471 [19OC], H10643, H10694, H10698, H10701 [24OC], H10751, H10799-H10801, H10829, H10832 [25OC], H10890, H10898, H10899, H10900, H11194, H11196, H11198, H11371, H11372 [26OC], H12158, H12162, H12170 [13NO], H12326, H12336 [14NO], H13194, H13199, H13203, H13296 [17NO], H13348, H13636-H13640 [20NO], H13724 [28NO], H13808, H13810 [30NO], H13938, H13987 [5DE], H14028 [6DE], H14178, H14208, H14227, H14229 [7DE], H14261, H14265 [12DE], H14371, H14373 [13DE], H14918-H14925 [14DE], H14935, H14936 [15DE], H14968-H14971, H15069, H15073 [18DE], H15093, H15094, H15098, H15122, H15138, H15143 [19DE], H15285 [20DE], H15488, H15567 [21DE], E1488 [21JY], E1588 [2AU], E1817 [20SE], E1821 [21SE], E1881 [29SE], E1959 [17OC], E2160 [10NO], E2239 [28NO], E2314 [7DE], E2342 [12DE], E2355, E2368 [14DE]

———require HMOs and other managed care plans to make payments relative to assistance provided by school-based health centers (H.R. 2420), E1868 [28SE]

———screening mammography (H.R. 777), H978 [1FE]

Medicare: anniversary, H7559 [25JY], H7807, H7808 [27JY], H8525-H8527 [4AU], E1513 [25JY], E1528 [27JY], E1576 [1AU]

———bone mass measurements (H.R. 2185), E1626 [4AU]

———clarify scope of coverage and payment amounts for the use of medical devices approved for investigational use (H.R. 1744), E1161 [6JN]

———colorectal screening (H.R. 922), E332 [13FE]

———colorectal screening (H.R. 1046), E1034 [15MY]

———combat waste, fraud and abuse, H10120-H10122, H10123 [17OC], H10332 [19OC]

———develop percentage increases to assure quality services in dependent hospitals and other beneficiary facilities (H.R. 1651), E1047 [16MY]

———establish a disability review account for expenditures in reviewing cases (H.R. 1586), E968 [9MY]

———expand coverage of part B preventive care benefits (H.R. 2777), E2361 [14DE]

———funding relative to unfunded Federal mandates reform, H871, H872 [30JA]

———hemodialysis standards for renal dialysis facilities (H.R. 1067), E446 [27FE]

———line-item veto authority, H1134 [2FE]

———mental health and substance abuse treatment services (H.R. 1456), E812 [6AP]

———multiple sclerosis drug treatments (H.R. 1078), E461 [28FE]

———oral anticancer drugs, H11993 [9NO]

———oral anticancer drugs (H.R. 2489), E1951 [17OC]

———permit a supplier of durable medical equipment to furnish an upgraded item of such equipment to medicare beneficiaries (H.R. 1754), E1181 [8JN]

———permit select policies to be offered in all States (H.R. 483), H4374, H4383-H4394 [6AP], E76 [11JA]

———permit select policies to be offered in all States (H.R. 483), conference report, H6666-H6675 [30JN]

———permit select policies to be offered in all States (H.R. 483), consideration (H. Res. 130), H4366-H4373 [6AP]

———permit select policies to be offered in all States (H.R. 483), consideration of conference report (H. Res. 180), H6661-H6666 [30JN]

———permit select policies to be offered in all States (H.R. 483), motion to instruct conferees, H5577-H5586 [25MY]

———positron emission tomography (H.R. 2194), E1981 [19OC]

———preservation of program, H810 [27JA], H894 [31JA]

———prostate cancer screening (H.R. 779), H978 [1FE]

———prostate cancer screening (H.R. 1496), H4339 [6AP]

———protection of beneficiaries relative to enrollment in managed care plans and HMOs (H.R. 2350), H9646 [28SE]

———protection of beneficiaries relative to enrollment in managed care plans and health maintenance organizations (H.R. 1707), E1113 [24MY]

———protection of beneficiaries relative to enrollment in managed care plans and health maintenance organizations (H.R. 2329), H8944-H8946 [14SE], H9143 [19SE], E1788 [14SE]

———reduce part A enrollment premium for individuals 80 years of age or older (H.R. 2805), E2389 [19DE]

———reform, H4513, H4514, H4515, H4516, H4517, H4519, H4520, H4526-H4529 [3MY], H4551, H4552, H4553, H4554, H4555, H4556, H4557, H4601-H4604 [9MY], H4673, H4674, H4675, H4677, H4678, H4679, H4790 [10MY], H4798, H4799, H4801, H4802, H4870 [11MY], H4901, H4903-H4914 [12MY], H4918, H4932, H4956 [15MY], H4963, H4964, H4965, H4966, H4968, H5054 [16MY], H5085, H5086, H5087, H5090, H5109-H5120, H5142-H5146, H5157-H5172, H5174-H5186 [17MY], H5236, H5237, H5286, H5298, H5299, H5301, H5303, H5304, H5305, H5306, H5307 [18MY], H5370 [22MY], H5383, H5387 [23MY], H5490, H5555, H5556 [24MY], H5590, H5591, H5605 [25MY], H5628, H5630 [7JN], H5696, H5697, H5699 [8JN], H5777, H5778, H5779, H5780, H5894 [13JN], H5908, H5909 [14JN], H5987, H5989, H5990, H6029, H6030, H6039, H6040 [15JN], H6048 [16JN], H6164 [21JN], H6208 [22JN], H6317, H6319, H6378 [27JN], H6402 [28JN], H6717, H6718 [10JY], H6740, H6743, H6744, H6745 [11JY], H6835, H6836, H6837, H6838, H6898, H6899, H6900-H6903, H6906-H6907 [12JY], H6917, H6918, H6919, H6920 [13JY], H7015 [17JY], H7076, H7077, H7078, H7080, H7081, H7082, H7158-H7162 [18JY], H7181, H7182, H7183, H7184, H7185 [19JY], H7261, H7262, H7263, H7264 [20JY], H7382, H7383, H7384 [21JY], H7465, H7466, H7467, H7468, H7469, H7542 [24JY], H7553, H7554, H7555, H7556, H7557, H7558, H7559, H7560, H7561, H7562, H7685-H7687, H7688, H7689, H7690 [25JY], H7705, H7706, H7707, H7708, H7793-H7796 [26JY], H7806, H7807, H7808, H7914 [27JY], H7919, H7920, H7921, H7974, H7975 [28JY], H7996, H8060 [31JY], H8072, H8073, H8075, H8076, H8141, H8143, H8144, H8145 [1AU], H8179, H8180, H8181, H8182 [2AU], H8312, H8313, H8314, H8332 [3AU], H8513 [4AU], H8543, H8544, H8583, H8587-H8591 [6SE], H8600, H8601, H8602, H8603, H8604, H8665, H8668, H8669 [7SE], H8728, H8731, H8732 [12SE], H8811, H8812, H8813, H8814, H8815, H8816 [13SE], H8912, H8913, H8914, H8937-H8940, H8942, H8950-H8954 [14SE], H9035, H9039, H9050, H9124-H9131 [18SE], H9138-H9143, H9223, H9224, H9231-H9232 [19SE], H9249, H9250, H9252, H9253, H9254, H9259-H9264, H9357-H9362 [20SE], H9365, H9366, H9367, H9368, H9405, H9408-H9415 [21SE], H9508, H9509, H9510, H9511, H9512, H9570-H9572, H9577 [27SE], H9594, H9595, H9596, H9598, H9599, H9648, H9650, H9651, H9652, H9654-H9656 [28SE], H9673, H9674, H9675, H9676, H9677, H9715, H9716, H9722-H9734 [29SE], H9746, H9748, H9749, H9765, H9766, H9769-H9777 [10OC], H9793, H9794, H9795, H9862, H9866, H9874-H9894 [11OC], H9900-H9904, H10031-H10046 [12OC], H10050, H10051, H10052, H10053-H10060-H10076 [13OC], H10081, H10082, H10083, H10084, H10086, H10087, H10088, H10089, H10122, H10124-H10143 [17OC], H10209, H10210, H10211, H10212, H10213, H10284, H10285, H10286, H10287, H10288, H10289, H10290, H10291, H10292, H10293, H10294, H10295, H10296, H10297, H10298, H10299, H10300, H10301, H10302, H10303, H10304, H10305 [18OC], H10637, H10643, H10696, H10698 [24OC], H10786, H10789, H10800, H10829 [25OC], H10851, H10852, H10898, H10899, H10901, H10906, H10912, H11194, H11198, H11371, H11372, H11376, H11377 [26OC], H11466, H11566 [31OC], H11590, H11591, H11592, H11661 [1NO], H11688, H11690, H11691 [2NO], H11789 [7NO], H11832, H11833, H11835, H11907, H11909, H11923 [8NO], H11978, H12016, H12068 [9NO], H12093, H12097 [10NO], H12138, H12158, H12162, H12163, H12165, H12169, H12170, H12171, H12179-H12184, H12187 [13NO], H12197, H12199, H12200, H12202, H12203, H12205, H12206, H12207-H12212, H12229-H12232, H12314, H12316, H12318, H12322, H12324, H12326, H12329-H12337, H12339-H12341, H12346-H12348 [14NO], H12352, H12496, H12500, H12502, H13034 [15NO], H13138, H13139 [16NO], H13143, H13180, H13181, H13184, H13189, H13194, H13199, H13202, H13203, H13279, H13280, H13292, H13294, H13296 [17NO], H13348, H13351, H13636-H13640 [20NO], H13710, H13711, H13724 [28NO], H13768, H13784 [29NO], H13808, H13851 [30NO], H13987 [5DE], H14027, H14028 [6DE], H14229 [7DE], H14265, H14266 [12DE], H14374 [13DE], H14875, H14878 [14DE], H14933, H14934, H14935, H14936 [15DE], H14968-H14971, H15073 [18DE], H15093, H15094, H15101, H15122, H15138, H15174, H15176 [19DE], H15277, H15278, H15283, H15284, H15285 [20DE], H15488, H15567 [21DE], H15579, H15581 [22DE], E1009, E1015 [11MY], E1049 [16MY], E1146 [26MY], E1160 [6JN], E1189 [8JN], E1430, E1435 [13JY], E1455 [18JY], E1488 [21JY], E1528 [27JY], E1553 [28JY], E1578 [1AU], E1588, E1596 [2AU], E1664, E1693 [5AU], E1709 [6SE], E1731 [7SE], E1826 [21SE], E1890 [29SE], E1958 [17OC], E2211 [17NO], E2239 [28NO], E2267 [30NO], E2291 [5DE], E2355 [14DE], E2407, E2411 [19DE]

———reform (H.R. 2173), E1595 [2AU]

———reform (H.R. 2422), E1919 [11OC]

———reform (H.R. 2425), H9865, H9867-H9874 [11OC], H10050 [13OC], H10209 [18OC], H10309, H10310, H10311, H10312, H10313, H10314, H10328-H10464, H10466-H10483 [19OC], H10647 [24OC], H10786 [25OC], E1951, E1961 [17OC], E1979, E1982 [19OC], E1987, E1995, E1998 [20OC], E2002 [24OC], E2037, E2046, E2053, E2060 [26OC], E2063, E2066, E2068 [30OC], E2104 [2NO], E2208 [17NO]

———reform (H.R. 2425), consideration (H. Res. 238), H10314-H10328 [19OC]

———reform (H.R. 2425), motion to recommit, H10462 [19OC]

———reform (H.R. 2476), E2046 [26OC]

———reform (H.R. 2839), E2443 [22DE]

———reform of part B prescription drug benefit programs relative to Federal employees and retirees, E2253 [29NO]

———reimbursement for services provided to eligible individuals by military or veterans hospitals (H.R. 861), E739 [30MR]

———renal disease management services (H.R. 1068), E441 [27FE]

———reporting requirement of trust fund trustees on projected financial imbalances (H.R. 1590), H4968-H4974 [16MY], E1073 [18MY]

———require health maintenance organizations to disclose certain information to enrollees (H.R. 2249), E1665 [5AU]

———screening mammography (H.R. 778), H978 [1FE]

———study effectiveness of rural telemedicine networks (H.R. 851), E285 [7FE]

Medicare/Medicaid: payment integrity (H.R. 2280), E1741 [8SE]

———public examination of any changes in existing law relative to budget reconciliation (H. Res. 221), H9250 [20SE]

MediGrant: reform, H11209 [26OC]

Military Health Services System: medicare reimbursement, H11356 [26OC]

———medicare reimbursement (H.R. 580), E739 [30MR]

Nursing homes: Federal standards, H10812, H10835 [25OC]

Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Program: tribute (H. Res. 209), H8180 [2AU]

Public debt: enforce debt limit and protect obligated trust funds (H.R. 2621), H12232-H12238, H12247, H12334 [14NO], H14885-H14900, H14906 [14DE], E2186 [15NO], E2415 [19DE]

———enforce debt limit and protect obligated trust funds (H.R. 2621), consideration (H. Res. 293), H14879-H14885 [14DE]

Public housing: preferential treatment relative to participation in State welfare work programs, H3595-H3600 [23MR]

Public welfare programs: benefits to legal immigrants, H2477-H2482 [1MR], H2569 [2MR]

———funding for nutrition programs, H664, H665, H671, H675 [25JA], H2180, H2181, H2182, H2214, H2215 [24FE], H2227, H2230, H2231, H2232, H2233 [27FE], H2312, H2316, H2317, H2318, H2319, H2320, H2321, H2376, H2377 [28FE], H2396, H2397, H2398, H2399, H2400, H2401, H2473 [1MR], H2567, H2577, H2578-H2582 [2MR], H2586, H2587, H2588, H2589 [3MR], H2657, H2658, H2659, H2661, H2707-H2709 [6MR], H2729, H2730, H2731, H2732, H2733, H2734, H2735, H2793, H2805-H2809 [7MR], H2814, H2815, H2816, H2817, H2889 [8MR], H2897, H2898, H2899, H2900, H2968, H2972, H2973, H2977 [9MR], H2992, H2993, H2994 [10MR], H3090, H3093, H3095, H3096, H3125-H3140 [14MR], H3158, H3159, H3162 [15MR], H3318-H3325 [16MR], H3330, H3332, H3335 [21MR], H3420, H3422, H3423, H3424, H3425, H3502, H3503, H3520, H3530-H3545, H3547-H3550, H3554-H3557 [22MR], H3576-H3719 [23MR], H3739-H3742, H3777-H3784 [24MR], H3870-H3874 [28MR], H4145 [4AP], H5547 [24MY], H5778 [13JN], H7246 [19JY], H7376 [20JY], H7444 [21JY], H9906 [12OC], H12069 [9NO], H12186 [13NO], H15182 [19DE], H15509 [21DE], E515 [3MR], E523 [6MR], E593 [14MR], E601 [15MR], E690 [24MR], E774 [4AP]

———funding for senior citizen nutrition programs, E1648 [5AU]

———reform, H415, H450 [20JA], H542 [24JA], H662, H664 [25JA], H836 [27JA], H895 [31JA], H1028, H1030 [1FE], H1439, H1445, H1451, H1454 [8FE], H1560, H1601-H1604 [10FE], H1682-H1687 [13FE], H1910, H1911 [21FE], H2071 [23FE], H2296 [27FE], H2318, H2320 [28FE], H2396, H2397, H2398, H2399, H2400 [1MR], H2491, H2492, H2493, H2582 [2MR], H2585, H2586, H2588, H2589, H2590, H2640 [3MR], H2659, H2660 [6MR], H2730, H2734, H2735 [7MR], H2814, H2815 [8MR], H2900, H2973, H2975 [9MR], H2991, H2992, H2993, H3031 [10MR], H3095, H3123, H3124, H3126 [14MR], H3159, H3160 [15MR], H3280 [16MR], H3816, H3864-H3870 [28MR], H3884 [29MR], H4145 [4AP], H5161 [17MY], H5605 [25MY], H6911 [12JY], H9661-H9666 [28SE], H10799, H10805 [25OC], H11582 [31OC], H12197 [14NO], H13039 [16NO], H13295 [17NO], H13808 [30NO], H14029 [6DE], H14265 [12DE], H14878 [14DE], H15273 [20DE], E217 [30JA], E293 [8FE], E445 [27FE], E521 [6MR], E603 [15MR], E720 [29MR], E771 [4AP], E1221 [9JN], E1733 [7SE], E1937 [12OC], E2157 [10NO], E2188 [15NO], E2236 [28NO]

———reform (H.R. 4), H189 [11JA], H663, H671, H672-H674, H675 [25JA], H1896, H1904-H1906 [16FE], H1911, H1912 [21FE], H2073, H2157 [23FE], H2319 [28FE], H2567, H2576 [2MR], H2973 [9MR], H3134 [14MR], H3280, H3315, H3318-H3325 [16MR], H3330, H3331, H3332, H3333, H3336, H3337, H3338, H3339, H3340, H3341, H3352-H3398, H3406-H3414 [21MR], H3419-H3435, H3449-H3552, H3554-H3557 [22MR], H3576-H3731 [23MR], H3736-H3790, H3793-H3796 [24MR], H3813, H3815, H3820, H3870-H3874 [28MR], H9223 [19SE], H9501-H9504 [25SE], H10783, H10808 [25OC], H12069 [9NO], H14136 [6DE], E693, E694, E696 [24MR], E704, E706, E707, E708 [28MR], E714, E718 [29MR], E755 [3AP], E832 [7AP]

———reform (H.R. 4), conference report, H15491-H15533 [21DE], E2444, E2452, E2453 [22DE]

———reform (H.R. 4), consideration (H. Res. 117), H3343-H3351 [21MR]

———reform (H.R. 4), consideration (H. Res. 119), H3424, H3436-H3449 [22MR]

———reform (H.R. 4), consideration of conference report (H. Res. 319), H15501 [21DE]

———reform (H.R. 759), H1468, H1469, H1471 [9FE], E232, E233 [31JA]

———reform (H.R. 1146), E538 [7MR]

———reform (H.R. 1214), H3334 [21MR]

———restrict collection of welfare payments, H3502 [22MR]

———status of legal immigrants, H3591, H3592 [23MR]

Republican Party: national agenda, H2492 [2MR], H4956 [15MY], H5061-H5066 [16MY], H5603 [25MY], H6093 [20JN], H6316, H6389, H6392 [27JN], H6824 [11JY], H6906 [12JY], H7168-H7174 [18JY], H7250 [19JY], H7452-H7454 [21JY], H7465, H7468 [24JY], H7920 [28JY], H8166-H8169 [1AU], H8182 [2AU], H8312 [3AU], H8542, H8543, H8544, H8546, H8549 [6SE], H8600, H8602, H8603, H8676-H8682 [7SE], H8731 [12SE], H8812, H8813, H8815, H8895-H8902 [13SE], H8950 [14SE], H9143, H9231 [19SE], H9498-H9501 [25SE], H9508, H9511, H9578-H9585 [27SE], H9598 [28SE], H10062 [13OC], H10849, H10850 [26OC], H11385 [30OC], H11464, H11465 [31OC], H11669-H11677 [1NO], H11747-H11754 [2NO], H11814-H11820 [7NO], H11832, H11833, H11835, H11908 [8NO], H11978, H11980 [9NO], H12088, H12089 [10NO], H12160, H12162 [13NO], H12195, H12322 [14NO], H13295 [17NO], H13348, H13635 [20NO], H13712 [28NO], H13736 [29NO], H14140 [6DE], H15213, H15272, H15275 [20DE], H15550 [21DE], E307 [9FE], E1158 [6JN], E1204, E1205 [8JN], E1406 [11JY], E1466 [19JY], E1916 [11OC], E1933 [12OC]

Social Security Day: observance, E1658 [5AU]

Social Security Disability Insurance Program: funding for SSI presumptive disability benefit programs (H.R. 1665), E1061 [17MY]

SSI: deny disability benefits based on alcohol or drug addiction (H.R. 791), E689 [24MR]

———financial incentives for nonprofit organizations to seek eligible recipients (H.R. 1664), E1063 [17MY]

———reform, E170 [24JA]

———require benefits in the form of vouchers (H.R. 612), E141 [20JA]

———restriction on benefits to prisoners (H.R. 2320), H8912 [14SE]

Taxation: rates, H5089 [17MY], H5702-H5709 [8JN]

———rates (H.R. 1215), H3980, H3981, H3982, H3983, H3984, H3985, H4004, H4014, H4029 [30MR], H4034, H4035, H4036, H4039, H4041, H4042, H4043, H4074, H4077, H4081, H4086-H4091 [3AP], H4107, H4109, H4110, H4112, H4113, H4114, H4115, H4116, H4117, H4118, H4119, H4143, H4144, H4145, H4146, H4147, H4148, H4149, H4150, H4151, H4152, H4153, H4154, H4155, H4156, H4157, H4158, H4159, H4160, H4161, H4163, H4164, H4167-H4171 [4AP], H4180, H4181, H4182, H4183, H4184, H4185, H4186, H4187, H4188, H4189, H4190, H4191, H4192, H4213-H4319, H4329-H4334 [5AP], H4338, H4340, H4341, H4342, H4343, H4399, H4400, H4407-H4410 [6AP], H10866 [26OC], E716, E719, E725 [29MR], E744 [30MR], E761 [3AP], E776 [4AP], E808, E811, E814 [6AP], E825, E827, E835, E840, E869, E872 [7AP], E918, E919 [2MY]

———rates (H.R. 1215), consideration (H. Res. 128), H4190, H4191, H4192-H4212 [5AP]

———rates relative to SSI, H3886 [29MR]

———treatment of Government pensions relative to Social Security benefits (H.R. 2272), E1721 [7SE]

———treatment of long-term health care insurance (H.R. 1457), E846 [7AP]

Trust funds: budget treatment, H4114, H4115, H4116, H4119, H4159, H4161, H4163 [4AP], H5555 [24MY], H12333, H12334 [14NO], H13707 [28NO], H13767, H13770, H13772, H13773 [29NO], E594 [14MR], E2194 [16NO], E2256 [29NO]

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Social Security Circuit: establish and define jurisdiction (H.R. 1587), E963 [9MY]

Veterans: elimination of public welfare benefits to legal immigrants, H1766 [15FE]

Virgin Islands: SSI benefits (H.R. 1069), H2228 [27FE]

Wilkes-Barre, PA: anniversary of Social Security Center for Data Operations, E136 [19JA]

Remarks in Senate

AFDC: establish demonstration projects to expand State adminstration (S. 246), S1223-S1226 [19JA]

———funding, S13558-S13561 [14SE]

———replace with State block grant programs (S. 842), S7237-S7239, S7245-S7247 [23MY]

———require recipients to enter into a personal responsibility contract, S12908-S12910 [8SE]

———work requirement for food stamp recipients, S13152-S13158, S13196-S13198 [11SE], S13377 [12SE]

Benefits: earnings test for retirement age individuals (S. 252), S1271 [20JA]

———earnings test for retirement age individuals (S. 31), S225, S226 [4JA]

———increase earnings limit, S15783, S15786 [26OC]

———increase earnings limit (S. 1372), S16442 [31OC], S16575, S16577-S16589, S16620 [2NO]

———increase earnings limit (S. 1432), S17674 [28NO]

———increase earnings limit (S. 1440), S17869 [30NO]

———increase earnings limit (S. 1470), S18443 [12DE], S18553 [13DE], S18732 [15DE]

———level of payment in the month of the beneficiary's death (S. 406), S2654 [14FE]

———reduce waiting period for disability benefits, S17928 [4DE]

———tax treatment (S. 50), S273-S275 [4JA]

Bipartisan Commission on Entitlements and Tax Reform: report, S1690-S1695 [27JA]

Budget: allocation of funds, S4676 [28MR]

———balance, S6839-S6844 [18MY]

———comparison between congressional and Clinton administration proposals, S7240-S7242 [23MY], S7937 [7JN], S8124 [9JN], S8289-S8292 [13JN]

———deficit, S5530 [7AP]

———evaluation of long-term impact on entitlement spending (S. 823), S6913-S6916 [18MY]

———reconciliation process, S15181-S15183, S15188 [17OC]

———reduction of tax cut and application of savings to medicare and medicaid, S6966-S6982 [19MY], S7027-S7078 [22MY]

———reduction of tax cut and application of savings to public welfare programs, S7353 [24MY]

———require an operating and a capital budget to distinguish between Federal funds and trust funds, S2737-S2749 [15FE]

———setting forth the Federal budget for 1996-2002 (H. Con. Res. 67), conference report, S8996 [23JN]

———treatment of Social Security under a constitutional amendment to require balanced, S1336 [23JA], S1583-S1598 [26JA], S1900-S1910, S1914-S1919, S1963 [1FE], S2308-S2324, S2326 [8FE], S2355-S2392, S2394-S2397 [9FE], S2449-S2453, S2457-S2462, S2465-S2480 [10FE], S2538-S2564 [13FE], S2583-S2595 [14FE], S2794, S2795 [16FE], S2995, S3009-S3014, S3022, S3028-S3033 [23FE], S3179-S3185, S3203, S3209 [27FE], S3236-S3240, S3301, S3302 [28FE], S3316 [2MR], S3443-S3445, S3449-S3451, S3453, S3456-S3459 [3MR], S3485-S3489 [6MR], S3573-S3575 [7MR], S3825, S3826, S3827-S3829 [13MR], S4562-S4564 [24MR]

———treatment of Social Security under a constitutional amendment to require balanced (S. 290), S1638 [26JA], S1730 [30JA]

Business and industry: tax deductibility of compensation paid to employees relative to Social Security earnings penalty, S15795, S15796 [26OC]

Child and Adult Care Food Program: participation, S12828 [7SE]

Consumer Price Index: calculation of rate of inflation, S15445-S15447 [23OC]

———calculation of rate of inflation (S. 821), S6913-S6916 [18MY]

———calculation of rate of inflation (S. Res. 63), S1125 [18JA]

Crime: penalties for health care fraud (S. 1088), S10878 [28JY]

Dept. of Defense: medicare reimbursement, S19270 [22DE]

Disabled: repeal rule providing for the termination of benefits upon marriage (S. 466), S3056 [23FE]

Diseases: prostate cancer screening and drug treatments and expansion of research and education programs (S. 691), S5426 [6AP]

Employment: displaced homemaker training, S14863-S14865, S14875 [10OC]

———establish a job placement voucher program (S. 579), S4201 [20MR]

———increase normal and early retirement ages (S. 818), S6913-S6916 [18MY]

Families and domestic relations: reduction of teenage pregnancy rates and encouragement of parental responsibility (S. 8), S15, S24, S123, S129 [4JA]

———State use of automated data retrieval system for child and spousal support enforcement (H.R. 2288), S14798 [29SE]

Federal employees: amend status of erroneously covered Civil Service Retirement System employees (S. 1287), S14740 [29SE]

Fleming, Margaret: appointment to be a delegate to the White House Conference on Aging, S960 [17JA]

Francis J. Hagel Building, Richmond, CA: designate (S. 1076), S10734 [26JY], S12110 [9AU]

Health: establish a trust fund to reimburse Government health programs for expenses attributable to usage of tobacco products by individuals (S. 597), S4380 [22MR]

———managed care system reform proposal, S323 [4JA]

———national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures, S516 [5JA], S1267 [20JA], S1728 [30JA], S2275 [7FE], S3074, S3075 [24FE], S3543 [6MR], S3928, S3940, S3941 [15MR], S5873 [1MY], S6473 [11MY], S7411 [25MY], S10434 [20JY], S17510 [20NO]

———national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (S. 1028), S9905-S9908 [13JY]

———national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (S. 1062), S10498-S10501 [21JY]

———national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (S. 168), S503 [5JA]

———national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (S. 18), S189-S195 [4JA], S6457 [10MY]

———national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (S. 294), S1760-S1762 [30JA]

———national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (S. 308), S1920-S1945 [1FE]

———national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (S. 609), S4509 [23MR]

———national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (S. 7), S15, S24, S109, S121-S123 [4JA], S3694 [9MR]

———national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (S. 715), S5549 [7AP]

———national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (S. 933), S8503, S8516 [15JN]

———national policy to provide health care coverage to individuals with severe mental illnesses (S. 298), S1848, S1849 [31JA]

———provide for home and community-based services for individuals with disabilities (S. 85), S294-S297 [4JA], S16090-S16093 [27OC]

———strengthen State and local government capability of providing public health services (S. 142), S398 [4JA]

Information services: establish a health information network for medicare and medicaid (S. 872), S7621-S7624 [26MY]

Insurance: provide that certain health insurance policies are not duplicative (S. 1138), S12086 [9AU]

Iowa: Family Investment Program implementation, S12883 [8SE]

Medicaid: alcoholism and drug dependency treatment services for pregnant women (S. 171), S504 [5JA]

———coverage of services provided by nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists (S. 972), S9178 [27JN]

———coverage of services provided by nursing school clinics under State programs (S. 61), S281 [4JA]

———eligibility for SSI recipients, S15805-S15807 [26OC]

———Federal funding of abortions, S4961, S4962, S4963 [31MR], S16020, S16022 [27OC]

———flexibility for States to enroll beneficiaries in managed care plans (S. 839), S7121 [22MY]

———modify estate recovery provisions relative to recovery of home and community-based services costs for individuals over age 55 (S. 86), S306-S308 [4JA]

———osteopathic services (S. 896), S8037 [8JN]

———provide State incentives for reduction of expenditures (S. 634), S4722 [28MR]

———reform, S9297-S9300 [28JN], S9356 [29JN], S11980 [9AU], S12339-S12342 [11AU], S14346 [27SE], S15023-S15025 [11OC], S15091, S15093 [12OC], S15271 [18OC], S15486 [23OC], S15610, S15653-S15656 [25OC], S15713-S15733, S15763, S15778 [26OC], S16011-S16013, S16039-S16044, S16067, S16090-S16094 [27OC], S16434 [31OC], S16568, S16570 [2NO], S16643-S16648 [3NO], S16717-S16720 [7NO], S16807-S16809 [8NO], S16845-S16848 [9NO], S16984 [13NO], S17174 [16NO], S17506 [20NO], S18692 [15DE], S19183-S19185, S19234 [22DE]

———replace with State block grant programs (S. 844), S7237-S7239, S7245-S7247 [23MY]

———State flexibility in providing benefits, S15816, S15817 [26OC], S15980 [27OC]

———waiver of anti-kickback statute for certain State demonstration projects and managed care programs (S. 716), S5549 [7AP]

Medicare: anniversary, S10536 [24JY], S10652-S10654 [25JY], S10776, S10785 [27JY], S10864, S10872, S10873, S10902, S10903, S10904, S10908 [28JY]

———assure fairness and choice to patients (S. 1024), S9802 [12JY]

———assure fairness and choice to patients (S. 1343), S15345 [19OC]

———budget expenditure limiting tool price caps, S16467 [1NO]

———choice of health care professionals, S15786-S15788 [26OC]

———clarify scope of coverage and payment amounts for the use of medical devices approved for investigational use (S. 955), S8945-S8948 [22JN], S9005 [23JN]

———colorectal screening (S. 1178), S12275-S12277 [10AU]

———colorectal screening (S. 1385), S16627 [2NO]

———combat waste, fraud and abuse, S7079-S7081 [22MY], S15359 [19OC], S15653, S15657-S15661, S15666, S15669-S15675 [25OC], S15777, S15796, S15797 [26OC]

———combat waste, fraud and abuse (H.R. 2389), S15157-S15162 [13OC]

———combat waste, fraud and abuse (S. 569), S4100 [16MR]

———combat waste, fraud and abuse (S. 1193), S12395 [11AU]

———coverage of anesthesia services provided by certified registered nurse anesthetists (S. 1263), S13975 [20SE]

———coverage of bone mass measurements (S. 1118), S11328 [3AU]

———determination of part B premium, S16886-S16892 [9NO]

———develop percentage increases to assure quality services in dependent hospitals and other beneficiary facilities (S. 832), S7015 [19MY]

———disproportionate share hospital payments, S15990 [27OC]

———eligibility age, S15999 [27OC]

———extend period for issuance of select policies (S. 717), S5550 [7AP]

———extend rural hospital payments (S. 512), S3612 [7MR]

———improve health services to rural areas (S. 963), S8846 [22JN], S8998, S9006 [23JN]

———improved reimbursement for clinical social worker services (S. 63), S282 [4JA]

———incentives for reporting inaccurate claims (S. 1325), S15232 [17OC]

———oral anticancer drugs, S15813, S15814 [26OC], S16060 [27OC]

———outpatient self-management training services for individuals with diabetes (S. 491), S3422 [2MR]

———permit select policies to be offered in all States (H.R. 483), S5538 [7AP], S5614 [24AP], S6784-S6792, S6794-S6797 [17MY], S7696 [5JN]

———permit select policies to be offered in all States (H.R. 483), conference report, S9087-S9089 [26JN]

———permit select policies to be offered in all States (H.R. 483), corrections in enrollment (S. Con. Res. 19), S9089 [26JN]

———positron emission tomography (S. 1181), S12370 [11AU]

———preservation of hospital insurance trust fund, S5187-S5189 [5AP]

———preservation of program, S1796 [31JA]

———prohibit balance billing by providers participating in choice plans, S15998 [27OC]

———provide for certain payments under CHAMPUS to the extent that such expenses are not payable under medicare (S. 69), S285 [4JA]

———reform, S5686 [26AP], S5744 [27AP], S5871-S5873 [1MY], S5976-S5980, S5993 [2MY], S6020 [3MY], S6136-S6138, S6139-S6141, S6159, S6162-S6167 [4MY], S6291, S6299, S6300, S6317 [9MY], S6440, S6441 [10MY], S6471-S6477, S6506 [11MY], S6580, S6587-S6589 [12MY], S6647 [15MY], S6735 [16MY], S6768 [17MY], S6844, S6860, S6870-S6877, S6884-S6886 [18MY], S6966-S6982, S6996-S7001, S7003-S7010 [19MY], S7027, S7033-S7045 [22MY], S7176, S7178, S7226 [23MY], S7366 [24MY], S7425, S7431-S7433, S7440-S7442, S7465, S7468 [25MY], S7653 [5JN], S8654, S8655 [20JN], S8846, S8847 [22JN], S8981-S8989 [23JN], S9232, S9297-S9300 [28JN], S10474 [21JY], S10536, S10540 [24JY], S10776, S10785 [27JY], S10864, S10868-S10871, S10872, S10873, S10902, S10903, S10904, S10908 [28JY], S11321 [3AU], S11715-S11727, S11729 [7AU], S11831 [8AU], S11976 [9AU], S13178-S13181 [11SE], S13575 [14SE], S13674-S13676 [15SE], S13712, S13713, S13715 [18SE], S14125, S14126, S14137-S14144 [22SE], S14392, S14393, S14402-S14404 [27SE], S14771 [29SE], S14943 [10OC], S14959, S15001, S15023-S15025 [11OC], S15084, S15087, S15102, S15105 [12OC], S15183, S15185, S15187, S15188, S15190 [17OC], S15265-S15267, S15270, S15271, S15273 [18OC], S15313, S15314 [19OC], S15483-S15487, S15491-S15493 [23OC], S15512, S15517-S15520, S15568-S15570 [24OC], S15609, S15612-S15614, S15615, S15617-S15651, S15653-S15656 [25OC], S15741, S15748, S15763, S15792 [26OC], S16007, S16023, S16039-S16044, S16067-S16074, S16076-S16086, S16090-S16094 [27OC], S16434 [31OC], S16453, S16455-S16461 [1NO], S16570, S16572, S16579, S16581, S16582 [2NO], S16849-S16851 [9NO], S16953-S16959, S16981-S16987, S16989, S16990, S16995, S16996-S16999 [13NO], S17029, S17030, S17037 [14NO], S17049, S17051, S17053 [15NO], S17106, S17171-S17178 [16NO], S17231, S17233, S17234-S17245, S17285, S17323 [17NO], S17451-S17454, S17455 [18NO], S17506 [20NO], S17831, S17840, S17845 [30NO], S18118 [7DE], S18927 [19DE], S19183-S19185, S19234 [22DE]

———reform (S. 1255), S13740 [18SE]

———reimbursement for nurse practitioners in health professional shortage areas (S. 864), S7523 [25MY]

———reimbursement for physician assistants in health professional shortage areas (S. 863), S7523 [25MY]

———reporting requirement of trust fund trustees on projected financial imbalances (S. 785), S6356 [9MY]

———restrictions on services provided by clinical psychologists or social workers in outpatient rehabilitation facilities (S. 62), S282 [4JA]

———study effectiveness of rural telemedicine networks, S8473 [15JN]

———use of commercial software to detect payment error and billing abuse (S. 762), S6216 [5MY]

Medicare and Medicaid Coverage Data Bank: repeal, S9925 [13JY], S10142-S10144 [17JY]

———repeal (S. 194), S793 [11JA]

Medicare Select Program: extend (S. 198), S798 [11JA]

Military Health Services System: medicare reimbursement (S. 1487), S19002-S19007 [20DE]

National Committee To Preserve Social Security and Medicare: actions relative to fundraising letter, S12347 [11AU]

National School Lunch Week: observance, S15365 [19OC]

Native Americans: effects of public welfare program reforms and block grants on resources available to tribes, S3683 [8MR]

Nursing homes: Federal standards, S15000-S15005 [11OC], S15656, S15657, S15666-S15669 [25OC], S15714, S15717, S15720, S15722, S15823-S15825 [26OC], S15987, S16041, S16044, S16046, S16056 [27OC], S16591, S16592 [2NO], S16944-S16953 [13NO], S17280-S17284 [17NO], S17673 [28NO]

Old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program: solvency (S. 825), S6913-S6916 [18MY]

Pensions: limitations on cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security beneficiaries and Federal and military retirees (S. 822), S6913-S6916 [18MY]

Personal investment plans: diversion of percentage of payroll tax payments (S. 824), S6913-S6916 [18MY]

Public debt: enforce debt limit and protect obligated trust funds (S. 1484), S18819-S18822 [18DE]

Public welfare programs: assignment of block grant programs to county governments, S12827 [7SE]

———calculation of family participation rates in States, S13374 [12SE], S13491 [13SE]

———deny assistance for out-of-wedlock births to minors, S13507-S13516, S13527-S13529 [13SE], S13562, S13578 [14SE]

———development of tamper-resistant Social Security card, S12915 [8SE]

———eliminate benefits to fugitive felons and probation and parole violators (S. 599), S4383 [22MR], S5182 [5AP]

———equal treatment of naturalized and native-born citizens, S12826, S12827 [7SE], S13590-S13594, S13604 [14SE]

———establish State contingency fund, S13373 [12SE], S13780 [19SE]

———exempt victims of domestic violence from certain eligibility requirements, S13525-S13527 [13SE], S13561, S13562 [14SE]

———expenditure of funds in accordance with State laws and procedures, S12802-S12804 [7SE], S12875 [8SE]

———funding for nutrition programs, S3139, S3140, S3142 [27FE], S4004 [16MR], S4559-S4562 [24MR], S5091-S5094 [4AP], S5237 [5AP], S6473 [11MY], S7323 [24MY], S13690, S13692 [18SE], S15087 [12OC], S15360 [19OC]

———funding for nutrition programs (S. 904), S8098 [9JN]

———reform, S1568-S1571, S1635 [26JA], S1796-S1798 [31JA], S2993 [23FE], S4677-S4682 [28MR], S5028 [3AP], S5087, S5089 [4AP], S5512 [6AP], S5687-S5689 [26AP], S6846-S6848, S6881 [18MY], S7172, S7222, S7225-S7227 [23MY], S8129 [12JN], S8994 [23JN], S10070 [14JY], S10768, S10771 [27JY], S10860-S10864 [28JY], S10911, S10937, S10955 [31JY], S11099-S11101 [1AU], S11190 [2AU], S16050-S16051 [27OC], S16675 [3NO], S16940 [9NO], S17006 [13NO], S18433-S18437 [12DE], S18826 [18DE]

———reform (H.R. 4), S958 [17JA], S6744 [16MY], S9493, S9596 [30JN], S10333-S10335 [20JY], S11556, S11575-S11602, S11711-S11713 [5AU], S11735-S11784, S11800-S11802 [7AU], S11803-S11845, S11888-S11890 [8AU], S12360, S12363, S12428, S12510-S12513 [11AU], S12622 [5SE], S12680-S12715 [6SE], S12757-S12796, S12802-S12830 [7SE], S12873-S12958, S13136, S13139 [8SE], S13147-S13150, S13152-S13207 [11SE], S13315-S13378 [12SE], S13481-S13539 [13SE], S13558-S13575, S13578-S13617 [14SE], S13627-S13653, S13673 [15SE], S13746 [18SE], S13749, S13751, S13752, S13770-S13804 [19SE], S13885 [20SE], S14097 [21SE], S14562 [28SE], S14772-S14777 [29SE], S15360 [19OC], S18262-S18264 [8DE]

———reform (H.R. 4), conference report, S19086-S19107, S19140-S19143 [21DE], S19154-S19181, S19225-S19228 [22DE]

———reform (H.R. 4), conference report—unanimous-consent agreement, S19081 [21DE]

———reform (H.R. 4), unanimous-consent agreement, S11736, S11782 [7AU], S12910, S13138 [8SE], S13497, S13524 [13SE], S13606 [14SE], S13640, S13653 [15SE]

———reform (S. 36), S228 [4JA]

———reform (S. 140), S394-S397 [4JA]

———reform (S. 209), S902 [12JA]

———reform (S. 707), S5448 [6AP]

———reform (S. 736), S5838-S5841 [27AP]

———reform (S. 746), S6083-S6085 [3MY]

———reform (S. 828), S6917-S6920 [18MY]

———reform (S. 834), S7016 [19MY]

———reform (S. 840), S7127 [22MY]

———reform (S. 1117), S11325, S11326, S11327, S11328 [3AU]

———reform (S. 1120), S11840 [8AU], S12201 [10AU]

———State determination of benefits relative to children born to current welfare recipients, S13368-S13372 [12SE], S13487-S13489 [13SE]

Republican Party: national agenda, S8419 [15JN], S9031 [26JN], S15156 [13OC], S15191 [17OC], S16568, S16570 [2NO], S18983 [20DE]

Rural areas: medicare coverage of rural emergency access care hospitals (S. 210), S905 [12JA]

Senior citizens: expand the availability of qualified organizations for frail elderly community projects (S. 990), S9434 [29JN]

———Insurance Information Counseling and Assistance Grant Program funding, S5338 [6AP]

Senior Community Service Employment Program: funding, S13491-S13495 [13SE]

Social Security Act: anniversary (S. Res. 165), S12518 [11AU]

Social Security Administration: establish as an independent agency, S5018 [31MR]

SSI: deny disability benefits based on alcohol or drug addiction (S. 498), S3521 [6MR]

———reform eligibility requirements for children's programs (S. 798), S6534-S6537 [11MY]

———replace with State block grant programs, S12924 [8SE]

———replace with State block grant programs (S. 845), S7237-S7239, S7245-S7247 [23MY]

———restriction on benefits to prisoners (S. 1418), S17336 [17NO]

Taxation: rates, S15483-S15486, S15491-S15493 [23OC]

———rates (H.R. 1215), S5294-S5298 [6AP]

———treatment of long-term health care insurance, S15811 [26OC]

———treatment of long-term health care insurance (S. 411), S2655 [14FE]

———treatment of long-term health care insurance (S. 423), S2759 [15FE], S3065 [23FE]

———treatment of long-term health care services and insurance (S. 1177), S12273-S12275 [10AU]

———treatment of operating expenses for school bus drivers (S. 499), S3521 [6MR]

Trust funds: budget treatment, S3769 [10MR], S4123-S4129 [17MR], S4178 [20MR], S4427 [23MR], S4741 [28MR], S5209 [5AP], S5733 [26AP], S5873 [1MY], S7207, S7208 [23MY], S7327 [24MY], S7454 [25MY], S15436, S15440, S15441, S15463, S15490 [23OC], S15508, S15510 [24OC], S16047, S16049 [27OC], S16959-S16967, S16986, S16987, S16990 [13NO], S17121-S17123, S17129-S17138, S17144 [16NO]

Trustee's report, S5165 [5AP]

Veterans: conduct feasibility studies for inclusion of veterans health programs in certain State health programs (S. 613), S4577 [24MR]

Reports

Clinton Administration's Debt Limit Charade: Committee on Economics (Joint), H14893 [14DE]

———Committee on Economics (Joint) (Part II), H14894 [14DE]

Cost Estimate of Increase of the Earning Limit on Social Security: CBO, S16586 [2NO]

Expert Group Recommends Steps To Restructure Supplemental Security Disability Program for Children, Adolescents: National Academy of Social Insurance, S6535 [11MY]

Medicare Crisis—The Tax Solution Is No Solution: U.S. Chamber of Commerce, S16071-S16073 [27OC]

Medicare Myths vs. Facts: U.S. Chamber of Commerce, S16074 [27OC]

Medicare Reform: Georgia Medicare Advisory Group and Senior Citizens Task Force, E2411 [19DE]

Nutrition, Health, and Economic Consequences of Block Grants for Federal Food Assistance Programs: Dept. of Agriculture, S958 [17JA]

Reasons Why Nursing Home Reform Provisions Should Be Repealed, S16953 [13NO]

Toward a More Accurate Measure of the Cost of Living: Advisory Commission To Study the Consumer Price Index, S15456-S15462 [23OC]

Treatment of Social Security Under a Constitutional Amendment To Require Balanced Budget: David Koitz, Congressional Research Service, S2477-S2480 [10FE]

Reports filed

Consideration of Conference Report on H.R. 4, Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 319) (H. Rept. 104-431), H15237 [20DE]

Consideration of Conference Report on H.R. 483, Permit Medicare Select Policies To Be Offered in All States: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 180) (H. Rept. 104-169), H6655 [29JN]

Consideration of H. Con. Res. 17, Treatment of Social Security Under a Constitutional Amendment To Require a Balanced Budget: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 44) (H. Rept. 104-4), H592 [24JA]

Consideration of H. Con. Res. 109, Increase Social Security Earnings Limit: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 245) (H. Rept. 104-292), H10847 [25OC]

Consideration of H.R. 4, Personal Responsibility Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 117) (H. Rept. 104-83), H3326 [16MR]

———Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 119) (H. Rept. 104-85), H3415 [21MR]

Consideration of H.R. 483, Permit Medicare Select Policies To Be Offered in All States: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 130) (H. Rept. 104-103), H4334 [5AP]

Consideration of H.R. 1215, Contract With America Tax Relief Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 128) (H. Rept. 104-100), H4176 [4AP]

Consideration of H.R. 2425, Medicare Reform: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 238) (H. Rept. 104-282), H10306 [18OC]

Consideration of H.R. 2621, Public Debt Limit Enforcement and Protection of Obligated Trust Funds: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 293) (H. Rept. 104-388), H14237 [7DE]

Contract With America Tax Relief Act: Committee on Ways and Means (House) (H.R. 1215) (H. Rept. 104-84), H3415 [21MR]

Francis J. Hagel Building, Richmond, CA: Committee on Environment and Public Works (Senate) (S. 1076), S11785 [7AU]

———Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (House) (H.R. 2111) (H. Rept. 104-411), H15135 [19DE]

Medicare and Medicaid Coverage Data Bank Repeal: Committee on Ways and Means (House) (H.R. 2685) (H. Rept. 104-394), H14252 [11DE]

Medicare Reform: Committee on Commerce (House) (H.R. 2425) (H. Rept. 104-276), H10145 [17OC]

———Committee on Ways and Means (House) (H.R. 2425) (H. Rept. 104-276), H10145 [17OC]

Medicare Savings Provisions: Committee on Commerce (House) (H.R. 1217) (H. Rept. 104-87), H3732 [23MR]

———Committee on Ways and Means (House) (H.R. 1134) (H. Rept. 104-80), H3275 [15MR]

National Policy To Provide Health Care and Reform Insurance Procedures: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (Senate) (S. 1028) (S. Rept. 104-156), S15118 [12OC]

Permit Medicare Select Policies To Be Offered in All States: Committee of Conference (H.R. 483) (H. Rept. 104-157), H6269 [22JN]

———Committee on Commerce (House) (H.R. 483) (H. Rept. 104-79), H4413 [6AP]

Permit Select Medicare Policies To Be Offered in All States: Committee on Ways and Means (House) (H.R. 483) (H. Rept. 104-79), H3275 [15MR]

Personal Responsibility Act: Committee on Finance (Senate) (H.R. 4) (S. Rept. 104-96), S8177 [12JN]

Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act: Committee of Conference (H.R. 4) (H. Rept. 104-430), H15237 [20DE]

Public Welfare Programs Reform: Committee on Ways and Means (House) (H.R. 1157) (H. Rept. 104-81), H3275 [15MR]

Reporting Requirements of Medicare Trust Fund Trustees on Projected Financial Imbalances: Committee on Ways and Means (House) (H.R. 1590) (H. Rept. 104-119), H4957 [15MY]

Social Security Earnings Limit Increase: Committee on Finance (Senate) (S. 1470), S18737 [15DE]

———Committee on Ways and Means (House) (H.R. 2684) (H. Rept. 104-379), H13929 [4DE]

State Use of Automated Data Retrieval System for Child and Spousal Support Enforcement: Committee on Finance (Senate) (H.R. 2288), S14710 [29SE]

———Committee on Ways and Means (House) (H.R. 2288) (H. Rept. 104-250), H9244 [19SE]

Reports to constituents

Hamilton, Representative: Balanced Budget Plans, E1188 [8JN]

———Coalition Budget, E2358 [14DE]

———Medicare—Past Successes, Future Challenges, E1591 [2AU]

———Reforming Welfare, E1718 [7SE]

———Social Security—Questions and Answers, E1194 [8JN]

———Welfare Reform, E726 [29MR]

———What's Wrong With the Gingrich Medicare Plan, E2036 [26OC]

Resolutions by organizations

Francis J. Hagel Building: Richmond, CA, City Council, S10734 [26JY]

Republican Party national agenda: Carmel, NY, Republican Committee, E1158 [6JN]

State control of Federal welfare block grant funds: American Legislative Exchange Council, S12803 [7SE]

———National Speakers Conference, S12803 [7SE]

Rulings of the Chair

Medicare: reform, H5697 [8JN], H10304 [18OC], H13035 [15NO]

———reform (H.R. 2425), consideration (H. Res. 238), H10318, H10319 [19OC]

Public welfare programs: reform (H.R. 4), H3496 [22MR]

———reform (H.R. 4), conference report, H15531 [21DE]

Taxation: rates (H.R. 1215), H4317 [5AP]

Statements

Colorectal Cancer Screening: American College of Physicians, S16628 [2NO]

Family Support Act (1986): Ronald Reagan, S6925 [18MY]

Federal Child Care Programs: John Neff, E1821 [21SE]

———Mary Anderson Cooper, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., S13183 [11SE]

Federal Nursing Home Standards: Stewart Bainum, Jr., S15657 [25OC], S16944 [13NO]

Medicaid Reform: Bruce C. Vladeck, Health Care Financing Administration, S16847 [9NO]

———Consortium for Citizens With Disabilities, S15730 [26OC]

Medicare Coverage of Colorectal Screening, S12276 [10AU]

National Women's Pledge on Welfare Reform, Principles for Eliminating Poverty: Council of Presidents (organization), H1684 [13FE]

Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act: American School Food Service Association, H15523 [21DE]

———Charles Miller, Fred Kammer, Kenneth L. Hodder, and Preme Mathai-Davis, S19106 [21DE]

Will Congress Produce More Hungry Children?: Physicians Committee on Childhood Hunger, H2576 [2MR]

Summaries

Access to Affordable Health Care Act (S. 294), S1786 [30JA]

Consideration of H. Con. Res. 109, Social Security Earnings Limit (H. Res. 245), H10854 [26OC]

Health Care Assurance Act (S. 18), S209 [4JA]

Health Care Reform (S. 933), S8505 [15JN]

Health Information Network for Medicare and Medicaid (S. 872), S7622 [26MY]

Health Partnership Act (S. 308), S1943 [1FE]

Long-Term Care Reform and Deficit Reduction Act (S. 85), S306 [4JA]

Medicare Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment Services (H.R. 1456), E812 [6AP]

Medicare Patient Choice Act (H.R. 2329), E1788 [14SE]

Medicare Reform, S16008 [27OC]

Medicare Reform Plan, E1961 [17OC]

Medicare/Medicaid Solvency Act (S. 597), S4381 [22MR]

Nutrition Assistance Reform Act (S. 904), S8109 [9JN]

Off-Budget Status of Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Trust Funds, S4319 [22MR]

Prevent Duplicative Social Security Health Insurance Policies (S. 1138), S12086 [9AU]

Private Long-Term Care Protection Act (S. 423), S2760 [15FE]

Protection of Medicare Beneficiaries Relative to Enrollment in Managed Care Plans and Health Maintenance Organizations (H.R. 1707), E1113-E1115 [24MY]

Public Health Enhancement Act (S. 142), S401 [4JA]

Public Welfare Program Reform (S. 828), S6920-S6925 [18MY]

Public Welfare Programs Reform, S12510, S12511 [11AU]

Public Welfare Programs Reform (S. 736), S5840 [27AP]

Public Welfare Programs Reform (S. 746), S6085 [3MY]

Status of the Social Security and Medicare Programs, S11722-S11725 [7AU]

Treatment of Long-Term Health Care Insurance (H.R. 1457), E847 [7AP]

Welfare Bill Modifications: Senator Dole, S12913 [8SE]

Welfare Reform (H.R. 1250), H3760 [24MR]

Welfare Reforms That Work Act (S. 246), S1231 [19JA]

Surveys

Medicare Reform, E1694 [5AU]

Tables

Budget reconciliation: extraneous provisions, S16052 [27OC]

———medicaid and welfare extraneous provisions, S16049 [27OC]

Change in deficit if adjustment made for Consumer Price Index overstatment, S15462 [23OC]

Comparison of premiums of attained-age medigap plan versus standard medigap community-rated plan, E1113 [24MY]

Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. group medical conversion quotes—quarterly premiums, E892 [1MY]

Distribution of total time on welfare: Urban Institute, S12705 [6SE]

Health plan contribution levels by county under H.R. 2425, medicare reform, E2054 [26OC]

Impact of congressional proposals on poverty: under the pre-tax money income definition used for official poverty statistics, S17007 [13NO]

———using a comprehensive post-tax, post-transfer definition of income, S17006 [13NO]

Medicare select policies, H4390 [6AP]

Medicare spending comparisons, S15642 [25OC], S17252 [17NO]

Medicare tax rates and wages for a sample self-employed individual from 1966 through 1995, S15642 [25OC]

Number of families affected by a 60-month time limit on welfare: Urban Institute, S12705 [6SE]

Number of medicare recipients, H8513 [4AU]

Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act: proposed provisions comparison, S19156 [22DE]

Preliminary analysis of the House and Senate medicare reform proposals on New York State, H10376 [19OC]

Preliminary estimate of amendment providing state flexibility to participate in the TAP or WAGE programs, S13162 [11SE]

Preliminary estimate of the number of children denied AFDC due to the 60 month time limit—under the House and Senate welfare bills, S17006 [13NO]

Proportion of children receiving AFDC, S12682 [6SE]

Public and private sector health care expenditures, S6160 [4MY]

Public welfare programs costs, S12777 [7SE]

Ranking of Members of Congress on appropriations votes: National Taxpayers Union, H4194-H4196, H4197-H4201 [5AP]

Testimonies

Medicaid Reform: Malika S. Saar, Family Rights and Dignity (organization), H9880 [11OC]

———Mary Fitzpatrick, S15721 [26OC]

———Paul Di Donato, San Francisco, CA, AIDS Foundation, H9885 [11OC]

Medical Savings Accounts: Consortium for Citizens With Disabilities, E1160 [6JN]

Medicare and Medicaid Reform: Anthony Wagner, Laguna Honda Hospital, H9884 [11OC]

———Bruce Livingston, H9880 [11OC]

———Bruce U. Wintroub, H9883 [11OC]

———David Bergman, Packard Children's Hospital, H9883 [11OC]

———Larry Gage, E1588 [2AU]

———Richard Cordova, San Francisco, CA, General Hospital, H9881 [11OC]

———Thomas Peters, Martin County, CA, Dept. of Social Services, H9882 [11OC]

———Timothy McMurdo, San Mateo County, CA, General Hospital, H9882 [11OC]

Medicare Reform: Del Martin, H9880 [11OC]

———Marvin Johnson, H10363 [19OC]

———Senator Baucus, S6301 [9MY]

———U.S. Chamber of Commerce, H10385-H10388 [19OC]

Medicare Select Policies: Consumers Union (organization), H6672 [30JN]

Role of Pharmaceutical Companies in Health Care Reform: Gerald J. Mossinghoff, Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, S6063 [3MY]

Treatment of Social Security Under a Constitutional Amendment To Require Balanced Budget: Jake Hansen, Seniors Coalition, S2475 [10FE], S3347 [2MR]

Texts of

H. Con. Res. 17, treatment of Social Security under a constitutional amendment to require balanced budget, H619 [25JA]

H. Res. 44, consideration of H. Con. Res. 17, treatment of Social Security under a constitutional amendment to require a balanced budget, and H.J. Res. 1, constitutional amendment to require a balanced budget, H605 [25JA]

H. Res. 117, consideration of H.R. 4, Personal Responsibility Act, H3343 [21MR]

H. Res. 128, consideration of H.R. 1215, Contract With America Tax Relief Act, H4192 [5AP]

H. Res. 130, consideration of H.R. 483, permit select medicare policies to be offered in all States, H4366 [6AP]

H. Res. 180, consideration of conference report on H.R. 483, permit medicare select policies to be offered in all States, H6661 [30JN]

H. Res. 238, consideration of H.R. 2425, medicare reform, H10314 [19OC]

H. Res. 245, consideration of H. Con. Res. 109, Social Security earnings limit, H10853 [26OC]

H. Res. 293, consideration of H.R. 2621, public debt limit enforcement and protection of obligated trust funds, H14879 [14DE]

H. Res. 319, consideration of conference report on H.R. 4, Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, H15501 [21DE]

H.R. 4, Family Self-Sufficiency Act, S11576-S11601 [5AU]

H.R. 4, Personal Responsibility Act, H3449-H3491 [22MR]

H.R. 483, permit medicare select policies to be offered in all States, S6797 [17MY]

H.R. 1060, SSI benefits for American Samoa, E453 [27FE]

H.R. 1590, reporting requirement of medicare trust fund trustees on projected financial imbalances, H4968 [16MY]

H.R. 1604, Working Families Health Access Act, E1001 [11MY]

H.R. 1651, Medicare Dependent Hospital Relief Act, E1048 [16MY]

H.R. 1912, deter health care fraud and improve the administration of health benefit plans, E1309 [22JN]

H.R. 2111, Francis J. Hagel Building, Richmond, CA, H14978 [18DE]

H.R. 2249, Medicare Managed Health Care Sunshine Act, E1665 [5AU]

H.R. 2288, State use of automated data retrieval system for child and spousal support enforcement, H9513 [27SE]

H.R. 2425, medicare reform, H10388-H10440 [19OC]

H.R. 2621, enforce debt limit and protect obligated funds, H12232 [14NO]

H.R. 2621, public debt limit enforcement and protection of obligated trust funds, H14885 [14DE]

H.R. 2684, Senior Citizens' Right to Work Act, H13962-H13965 [5DE]

S. 7, Family Health Insurance Protection Act, S109-S121 [4JA]

S. 8, Teen Pregnancy Prevention and Parental Responsibility Act, S123-S129 [4JA]

S. 18, Health Care Assurance Act, S195-S209 [4JA]

S. 36, Welfare to Work Act, S229-S231 [4JA]

S. 61, coverage of medicaid services provided by nursing school clinics under State programs, S282 [4JA]

S. 62, restrictions on services provided by clinical psychologists or social workers in outpatient rehabilitation facilities under medicare, S282 [4JA]

S. 63, improved medicare reimbursement for clinical social worker services, S283 [4JA]

S. 69, provide for certain payments under CHAMPUS to the extent that such expenses are not payable under medicare, S286 [4JA]

S. 85, Long-Term Care Reform and Deficit Reduction Act, S298-S306 [4JA]

S. 86, modify estate recovery provisions relative to recovery of home and community-based services costs for individuals over age 55, S308 [4JA]

S. 140, Welfare and Medicaid Responsibility Exchange Act, S395 [4JA]

S. 142, Public Health Enhancement Act, S398-S401 [4JA]

S. 171, Medicaid Substance Abuse Treatment Act, S506-S508 [5JA]

S. 246, Welfare Reforms That Work Act, S1226-S1231 [19JA]

S. 252, Older Americans' Freedom To Work Act, S1272 [20JA]

S. 294, Access to Affordable Health Care Act, S1762-S1786 [30JA]

S. 308, Health Partnership Act, S1923-S1943 [1FE]

S. 466, repeal rule of providing for the termination of Social Security benefits to the disabled upon marriage, S3057 [23FE]

S. 491, Medicare Diabetes Outpatient Self-Management Training Act, S3423 [2MR]

S. 569, Medicare Protection Act, S4101 [16MR]

S. 579, Job Placement Act, S4202 [20MR]

S. 597, Medicare/Medicaid Solvency Act, S4380 [22MR]

S. 599, eliminate public welfare program benefits to fugitive felons and probation and parole violators, S4384-S4386 [22MR]

S. 609, Health Care Quality and Fairness Act, S4509-S4515 [23MR]

S. 613, VA State Health Care Reform Pilot Program Act, S4578-S4580 [24MR]

S. 634, State Medicaid Savings Incentive Act, S4723 [28MR]

S. 716, waiver of anti-kickback statute for certain State medicaid demonstration projects and managed care programs, S5550 [7AP]

S. 717, extend period for issuance of select medicare policies, S5551 [7AP]

S. 760, Medicare Commission Act, S6180 [4MY]

S. 785, reporting requirement of medicare trust fund trustees on projected financial imbalances, S6356 [9MY]

S. 832, Medicare Dependent Hospital Relief Act, S7015 [19MY]

S. 839, Medicaid Managed Care Act, S7122-S7127 [22MY]

S. 904, Nutrition Assistance Reform Act, S8099-S8109 [9JN]

S. 933, national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures, S8506 [15JN]

S. 963, Rural Health Improvement Act, S8999-S9001 [23JN]

S. 972, medicaid coverage of services provided by nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists, S9178 [27JN]

S. 990, PACE Provider Act, S9434-S9436 [29JN]

S. 1024, Medicare Health Care Quality Act, S9802-S9805 [12JY]

S. 1076, Francis J. Hagel Building, Richmond, CA, S10734 [26JY], S12111 [9AU]

S. 1088, Health Care Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act, S10879-S10886 [28JY]

S. 1181, Medicare PET Coverage Act, S12371 [11AU]

S. 1207, Family Reconciliation Act, S12722 [6SE]

S. 1209, Responsible Parenthood Act, S12724 [6SE]

S. 1255, Medicare Contractor Reform Act, S13740-S13742 [18SE]

S. 1287, amend status of erroneously covered Civil Service Retirement System employees, S14740 [29SE]

S. 1325, Medicare Whistleblower Act, S15233 [17OC]

S. 1385, Colorectal Cancer Screening Act, S16627 [2NO]

S. 1418, Prisoner Fraud Prevention Act, S17337 [17NO]

S. Con. Res. 19, corrections in enrollment of H.R. 483, permit medicare select policies to be offered in all States, S9089, S9101 [26JN]

S. Res. 63, calculation of Consumer Price Index, S1125 [18JA]

S. Res. 144, national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures, S9466 [29JN]

S. Res. 165, Social Security Act anniversary, S12412, S12518 [11AU]