OBEY, DAVID R. (a Representative from Wisconsin)
Amendments offered by, to
Appropriations: making continuing (H.J. Res. 165), H2586 [21MR]
———making continuing (H.R. 3019), H1808 [7MR]
Dept. of Defense: making appropriations (H.R. 3610), H6286 [12JN], H6345, H6349, H6351, H6361 [13JN]
Depts. of Commerce, Justice, and State and the Judiciary: making appropriations (H.R. 3814), H8031 [18JY]
Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 3755), H7234 [10JY], H7306, H7349 [11JY]
Energy and water development: making appropriations (H.R. 3816), H8356 [24JY]
Foreign operations, export financing, and related programs: making appropriations (H.R. 3540), H5818, H5819 [4JN], H5847, H5875, H5894, H5895, H5897, H5898, H5935 [5JN], H6142, H6145 [11JN]
Transportation: provide off-budget treatment for certain transportation trust funds (H.R. 842), H3489 [16AP]
Appointments
Committee To Escort Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Into the House Chamber, H7159 [10JY]
Conferee: H.R. 3019, continuing appropriations, H2654 [21MR]
———H.R. 3517, Dept. of Defense appropriations for military construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure, H8573 [26JY]
———H.R. 3540, foreign operations, export financing, and related programs appropriations, H8793 [30JY]
———H.R. 3603, agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs appropriations, H8671 [30JY]
———H.R. 3610, Dept. of Defense appropriations, H8793 [30JY]
———H.R. 3666, Depts. of Veterans Affairs and HUD, and sundry independent agencies appropriations, H10189 [11SE]
———H.R. 3675, Dept. of Transportation and related agencies appropriations, H10048 [5SE]
———H.R. 3754, legislative branch of the Government appropriations, H8794 [30JY]
———H.R. 3816, energy and water development appropriations, H10048 [5SE]
———H.R. 3845, District of Columbia appropriations, H8573 [26JY]
Bills and resolutions introduced by
Appropriations: making continuing (see H.J. Res. 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 157), H90 [3JA], H774 [23JA]
Education: provide financial aid grants for certain colleges and technical schools (see H.R. 3919), H8982 [30JY]
Elections: campaign ethics reform and contribution limits (see H.R. 3588), H5934 [5JN]
Public welfare programs: ensure States have sufficient funds to assure effectiveness of work requirements of certain programs (see H.R. 3999), H9923 [2AU]
Bills and resolutions introduced by, as cosponsor
American Revolution: mint coins in commemoration of black revolutionary war patriots (see H.R. 1776), H5380 [21MY]
Armenia: anniversary of genocide (see H. Con. Res. 47), H3731 [23AP]
Brown, Ronald H.: tribute (see H. Res. 406), H3649 [18AP]
Canada: eliminate tolls and encourage trade along the St. Lawrence Seaway (see H. Con. Res. 127), H973 [30JA]
CERCLA: clarify liability for certain recycling transactions (see H.R. 820), H1986 [7MR]
China, People's Republic of: increased tariffs relative to intellectual property rights (see H.R. 3421), H4646 [8MY]
Coast Guard: cost estimate for the engineering, design and retrofitting of the icebreaker Mackinaw (see H.R. 4081), H10523 [17SE]
Consumers: labeling system for apparel and sporting goods made without child labor (see H.R. 4125), H10721 [19SE]
Dept. of Commerce: tribute to employees and business leaders killed in plane crash while on trade mission in Croatia (see H. Res. 406), H3649 [18AP]
Education: funding levels for federally assisted education programs (see H. Con. Res. 144), H1225 [1FE]
Employment: provide for retirement savings and security (see H.R. 3520), H5569 [23MY]
Health: assure continued health insurance coverage of retired workers (see H.R. 4052), H11396 [26SE]
———national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (see H.R. 2893), H2558 [20MR]
Immigration: admission policies reform, treatment of criminal aliens, alien smuggling, documentation requirements, and border security (see H.R. 2202), H1507 [28FE]
National Environmental Education Act: extend programs (see H.R. 3645), H10108 [5SE]
Northeast Interstate Dairy Compact: repeal consent of Congress (see H.R. 3177, 4035), H2950 [27MR], H10107 [5SE]
Public lands: collection of fossils (see H.R. 2943), H3488 [16AP]
Trucking industry: alcohol and drug testing of operators transporting agricultural commodities and properties for small local governments (see H.R. 3182), H8248 [23JY]
Letters
Corporate leaders' advertisement on balanced budget: by, E1 [3JA]
Executive departments management and direction of appropriated funds, E34
Motions offered by
Appropriations: making continuing (H.J. Res. 165), H2586 [21MR]
———making continuing (H.R. 3019), H1956 [7MR], H2652 [21MR]
Bulgaria: most-favored-nation status (H.R. 1643), H206 [5JA]
———most-favored-nation status (H.R. 1643), consideration of motion to dispose of the Senate amendment (H. Res. 334), H203 [5JA]
Dept. of the Interior and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 3662), H6662 [20JN]
Dept. of Transportation and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 3675), H10048 [5SE]
Depts. of Commerce, Justice, and State and the Judiciary: making appropriations (H.R. 3814), H8293 [24JY]
Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 3755), H7373 [11JY]
Energy and water development: making appropriations (H.R. 3816), conference report, H10343 [12SE]
Remarks by, on
ACDA: anniversary, H12297 [4OC]
Agriculture: improve operation of certain programs (H.R. 2854), H1483 [28FE], H1534, H1536, H1537 [29FE]
———improve operation of certain programs (H.R. 2854), consideration (H. Res. 366), H1406 [28FE]
———price supports for dairy products, H1483 [28FE]
Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 3603), H6166 [11JN]
Appropriations: making continuing, H50 [3JA], H111, H120 [4JA], H207, H212, H315, H316, H320, H321 [5JA]
———making continuing (H.J. Res. 131), H216 [5JA]
———making continuing (H.J. Res. 163), H2230, H2231, H2232, H2234, H2235, H2236 [14MR]
———making continuing (H.J. Res. 165), H2580, H2581, H2582, H2583, H2584, H2586 [21MR]
———making continuing (H.J. Res. 165), motion to recommit, H2586 [21MR]
———making continuing (H.J. Res. 170), H3176, H3206 [29MR]
———making continuing (H.J. Res. 175), H3745, H3746 [24AP]
———making continuing (H.R. 2880), H879, H880, H882, H889, H890, H891, H893, H895, H896 [25JA]
———making continuing (H.R. 3019), H1808
———making continuing (H.R. 3019), conference report, H4083, H4086, H4092, H4093 [25AP]
———making continuing (H.R. 3019), consideration (H. Res. 372), H1801, H1806 [7MR]
———making omnibus consolidated (H.R. 4278), H12088, H12101 [28SE]
Bosnia and Herzegovina: U.S. military intervention, H1868 [7MR]
Brown, Sec. of Veterans Affairs: travel and office personnel funding, H1956 [7MR]
Budget: deficit, H2582 [21MR]
———discretionary spending levels, H7361 [11JY]
———establish a deficit reduction trust fund and reduce discretionary spending limits, H1954 [7MR]
———reconciliation of the concurrent resolution, H195, H207 [5JA]
———reconciliation of the concurrent resolution (H.R. 3734), H7806 [18JY]
———setting forth the Federal budget for 1997-2002 (H. Con. Res. 178), consideration of conference report (H. Res. 450), H6251 [12JN]
———setting forth the Federal budget for 1997-2002 (H. Con. Res. 178), motion to instruct conferees, H5727 [30MY]
Bulgaria: most-favored-nation status (H.R. 1643), H50 [3JA], H111, H120 [4JA], H207, H212 [5JA]
———most-favored-nation status (H.R. 1643), concur with Senate amendment (H. Res. 328), H3 [3JA]
Business and industry: prohibit payment of back pay to illegal immigrants, H7357, H7359 [11JY]
Buy American Act: compliance, H7331 [11JY]
Centers for Disease Control: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control funding, H7281, H7286 [11JY]
China, People's Republic of: most-favored-nation status, H5849, H5850 [5JN]
Committee on Appropriations (House): tribute to staff, H12088 [28SE]
Congress: adjournment, consideration (H. Res. 465), H7041, H7043, H7047, H7049 [27JN]
Congressional Record: permission to insert extraneous material, H320 [5JA]
Dept. of Commerce: convey to Massachusetts the National Marine Fisheries Service laboratory in Gloucester, MA (H.R. 1358), disposition of Senate amendment (H. Res. 338), H315, H316, H320, H321 [5JA]
Dept. of Defense: allow audits of businesses relative to contracts made directly with foreign governments, H5894, H5895 [5JN]
———C-130 transport aircraft funding, H6349, H6350 [13JN]
———C-17 Airlifter program, H1808 [7MR]
———F-22 fighter aircraft funding, H6351 [13JN]
———international military education and training funding, H5897, H5898, H5899 [5JN]
———making appropriations (H.R. 3610), H6345, H6349, H6350, H6351, H6361, H6362, H6363, H6364 [13JN]
———making appropriations (H.R. 3610), consideration (H. Res. 453), H6329 [13JN]
———prohibit funding for acquisition programs with no documented military requirements, H6361, H6362, H6363, H6364 [13JN]
Dept. of Education: education and job retraining programs funding, H7306, H7307, H7308, H7310, H7317 [11JY]
———Education for the Disadvantaged Program funding, H7304 [11JY]
———Individuals With Disabilities Education Act funding, H7291 [11JY]
Dept. of HHS: Administration for Children and Families funding, H7289 [11JY]
———Battered Women's Shelter Program funding, H7236 [10JY]
———Black Lung Clinics Program funding, H7288 [11JY]
———family planning programs funding, H7349, H7353, H7362 [11JY]
———prohibit funding to promote legalization of currently listed illegal drugs, H7334 [11JY]
Dept. of Labor: Employment Standards Administration funding relative to garment industry working conditions, H7234 [10JY]
———Pension Benefits and Welfare Administration funding relative to genetic nondiscrimination enforcement activities, H7237 [10JY]
Dept. of the Interior and related agencies: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 1977), veto, H105 [4JA]
———making appropriations (H.R. 3662), H6640, H6662 [20JN]
Dept. of the Treasury, Postal Service, Executive Office of the President, and independent agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 3756), H7679, H7697 [17JY]
Dept. of Transportation and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 3675), H6970 [26JN], H7091 [27JN]
———making appropriations (H.R. 3675), conference report, H10565 [18SE]
———making appropriations (H.R. 3675), consideration (H. Res. 460), H6964 [26JN]
———making appropriations (H.R. 3675), motion to instruct conferees, H10048 [5SE]
———making appropriations (H.R. 3675), unanimous-consent agreement, H10336 [12SE]
Dept. of Veterans Affairs: making continuing appropriations (H.J. Res. 134), disposition of Senate amendment (H. Res. 336), H232, H233 [5JA]
Depts. of Commerce, Justice, and State and the Judiciary: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 2076), veto, H26 [3JA]
———making appropriations (H.R. 3814), H8263, H8293 [24JY]
Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 3755), H7232, H7234, H7236, H7237, H7240, H7241 [10JY], H7281, H7286, H7288, H7289, H7304, H7306, H7307, H7308, H7310, H7317, H7333, H7334, H7335, H7349, H7353, H7356, H7357, H7359, H7361, H7362 [11JY]
———making appropriations (H.R. 3755), consideration (H. Res. 472), H7217, H7221 [10JY]
Depts. of Veterans Affairs and HUD, and sundry independent agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 3666), H6906, H6907, H6908, H6910, H6912, H6932 [26JN]
District of Columbia: making appropriations (H.R. 2546), conference report, H1071 [31JA]
———making continuing appropriations (H.J. Res. 153), H48, H49 [3JA]
———voucher program to provide school choice, H1071 [31JA]
Education: deny public education to illegal aliens, H2492 [20MR]
———funding, H2230, H2231, H2232, H2234, H2235, H2236 [14MR], H2580, H2584 [21MR], H7221 [10JY]
———restrictions on the use of certain funds to local entities, H2586 [21MR]
———student financial aid programs, H7333 [11JY]
———student loan programs, H2234 [14MR]
Elections: campaign ethics reform and contribution limits (H.R. 3820), consideration (H. Res. 481), H8463 [25JY]
Energy and water development: making appropriations (H.R. 3816), H8310, H8356, H8357, H8358, H8359, H8361 [24JY]
———making appropriations (H.R. 3816), conference report, H10341 [12SE]
Executive Office of the President: acquisition of FBI background reports on former Republican officials, H8524 [25JY]
———White House Office of Administration funding, H7697 [17JY]
Eximbank: funding, H5847, H5848, H5849, H5850 [5JN]
Firearms: prohibit possession by convicted felons, H7679 [17JY]
Florida: acquisition of land in Everglades Agricultural Area, H1534, H1536, H1537 [29FE]
Foreign operations, export financing, and related programs: making appropriations (H.R. 3540), H5839, H5840, H5847, H5848, H5849, H5850, H5875, H5894, H5895, H5896, H5897, H5898, H5899, H5900, H5911, H5917 [5JN], H5954 [6JN], H6142, H6146, H6147, H6148 [11JN]
Foreign policy: limit use of Foreign Military Financing Program funds for foreign-made defense articles or services, H5895, H5896 [5JN], H6142 [11JN]
Forests: emergency salvage timber sale program, H6662 [20JN]
Fox, Elizabeth: Girl Scouts of America Gold Award recipient, E457
Goals 2000—Educate America Act: funding, H7217 [10JY]
Government: shutdown relative to budget process, H26 [3JA], H195, H207 [5JA]
Hahn, Laura: Girl Scouts of America Gold Award recipient, E547
House of Representatives: legislative program, H5733, H5734 [30MY], H7638 [16JY], H8354 [24JY]
House Rules: authority of the Speaker to declare recess (H. Res. 330), H219 [5JA]
———question of privilege, H3 [3JA]
Housing: low-income weatherization assistance program funding, H6640 [20JN]
Immigration: admission policies reform, treatment of criminal aliens, alien smuggling, documentation requirements, and border security (H.R. 2202), H2492 [20MR]
———admission policies reform, treatment of criminal aliens, alien smuggling, documentation requirements, and border security (H.R. 2202), consideration (H. Res. 384), H2366 [19MR]
India: suspend developmental assistance relative to human rights violations, H5911, H5917 [5JN]
International Day of Cooperatives: observance, E1166
International War Crimes Tribunal: raise limit on noncash support, H5875 [5JN]
Kuwait: persecution of Christians, H6146 [11JN]
Legislative branch of the Government: making appropriations (H.R. 3754), H7193 [10JY]
LIHEAP: funding, H7217 [10JY]
Lobbyists: disclosure of lobbying activities by Federal grantees, H1949, H1950 [7MR]
National Weather Service: funding, H8263 [24JY]
Navy: nuclear attack submarine funding, H6345 [13JN]
NIH: require private industry to enter into price agreements relative to the sale of drugs developed in cooperative research programs, H7335 [11JY]
NSF: repeal certain limitations on procurement of supercomputing equipment relative to Dept. of Commerce antidumping determinations, H6906, H6907, H6908, H6910, H6912 [26JN]
NTSB: conduct study on mandatory retirement age for pilots, H7091 [27JN]
Nuclear energy: Advanced Light Water Reactor Program funding, H8356, H8357, H8358, H8359, H8361 [24JY]
OSHA: enforcement of regulatory requirements relative to workers wearing long pants, H7356 [11JY]
———use of funds to develop or issue any standards on ergonomic protection, H7240, H7241 [10JY]
Parliamentary inquiry, H107, H120 [4JA], H203, H217 [5JA]
Point of order, H1957 [7MR]
Public welfare programs: approval of waivers submitted by Wisconsin to conduct Wisconsin Works project, H7244 [10JY]
———approval of waivers submitted by Wisconsin to conduct Wisconsin Works project (H.R. 3562), H5955, H5956, H5957, H5961, H5962, H5963, H5973 [6JN], H6251 [12JN]
———reform, H5733, H5734, H5736 [30MY], H7244 [10JY]
———reform (H.R. 3734), H7806 [18JY]
Southeast Asia: international military education and training assistance to Cambodia and Thailand, H6146, H6147, H6148 [11JN]
Taxation: require use of dynamic economic modeling in the preparation of estimates of proposed changes in Federal revenue law, H7193 [10JY]
Tongass National Forest: changes in land management planning process relative to protection of timber jobs, H2583 [21MR]
Transportation: provide off-budget treatment for certain transportation trust funds (H.R. 842), H3514, H3523 [17AP]
Wisconsin: tribute to Girl Scouts of America Gold Award recipients, E1161
Remarks in House relative to
Special order: granted, H7257 [10JY]
Resignations
Committee on Economics (Joint), H1982 [7MR]
Tributes
Bevill, Representative, H8310 [24JY], H10341 [12SE], H10588 [18SE], H10671 [19SE]
Browder, Representative, H10588 [18SE], H10671 [19SE]
Durbin, Representative, H6166 [11JN]
Myers, Representative, H8310 [24JY], H10341 [12SE]
Peel, Terry, H896 [25JA]
Stephens, Mike, H1878 [7MR]