DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES related term(s) Surgeon General

Amendments

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 2264), H5917, H5918 [28JY], H6027 [29JY], H6407 [30JY], H6668, H6669, H6708 [31JY], H6799 [3SE], H6866, H6885, H6887, H6919, H6920 [4SE], H6925, H6940, H6941, H6963 [5SE], H6986, H6998 [8SE], H7029, H7031, H7033, H7036, H7040, H7044, H7052, H7053, H7080, H7119 [9SE], H7129, H7130, H7134, H7146, H7168, H7178, H7179, H7200 [10SE], H7207, H7209, H7217, H7229, H7235, H7237, H7238, H7239 [11SE], H7324, H7347, H7365 [16SE], H7373, H7376, H7381, H7382, H7383, H7390 [17SE]

———making appropriations (S. 1061), S8646, S8670, S8671 [2SE], S8690, S8695, S8697, S8701, S8702, S8711, S8712, S8715, S8719, S8733, S8734, S8735, S8736 [3SE], S8785, S8786, S8788, S8789, S8805, S8833 [4SE], S8850, S8851, S8872, S8874 [5SE], S8898, S8899, S8900, S8901, S8902, S8903, S8904, S8905, S8908, S8910, S8911, S8912, S8913, S8914, S8915, S8916, S8917, S8918, S8919, S8920, S8921, S8923, S8927, S8928, S8929, S8930, S8931 [8SE], S8946, S8965, S9002, S9007, S9011, S9012, S9023, S9025 [9SE], S9044, S9047, S9053, S9058, S9067, S9075, S9078, S9088 [10SE], S9105 [11SE], S9505, S9507, S9508, S9509 [17SE], H7143 [10SE]

Analyses

Native American Programs Appropriations (S. 459), S2428 [18MR]

Appointments

Conferees: H.R. 2264, Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies appropriations, H7654 [23SE]

———S. 1061, Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies appropriations, S9510 [17SE]

Articles and editorials

Federal Foolishness and Marijuana, E194 [10FE]

HMO Fines Angering Physicans—State Regulators Examine Harris Prescription Policy, E2179 [4NO]

Life and Death With Dignity, S11456 [30OC]

Turning to a Specialist To Curb Rising Health Care Costs, E2069 [23OC]

Bills and resolutions

Alcoholic beverages: require Dept. of HHS reports on alcohol advertising practices (see H.R. 1976), H4085 [19JN]

Appropriations: making technical corrections to omnibus consolidated legislation (see H.J. Res. 25), H155 [9JA]

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment: carry out treatment programs for adolescents (see S. 793), S5001 [22MY]

Children and youth: provide health insurance for uninsured children (see S. 435, 525; H.R. 1363), S2274 [13MR], S2838 [8AP], H1703 [17AP]

Consumers: prohibit persons from charging for services or products that the SSA and Dept. of HHS provide without charge (see S. 868), S5444 [10JN]

Dept. of Defense: demonstration project to provide Medicare reimbursement to certain beneficiaries under the TRICARE program (see H.R. 1357), H1611 [16AP]

Dept. of HUD: establish procedures for requesting visa waivers on behalf of international health care professionals willing to practice in underserved areas (see S. 944), S6040 [20JN]

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (see S. 1061; H.R. 2264), S8091 [24JY], H5825 [25JY]

———making appropriations (H.R. 2264), consideration (see H. Res. 199), H5916 [28JY]

Drugs: establish program relative to exchange of sterile hypodermic needles (see H.R. 2212), H5569 [22JY]

———prepare and publish a consumer guide to prescription drug prices (see H.R. 183), H145 [9JA]

———revise and extend the grant program for services for children of substance abusers (see S. 794), S5001 [22MY]

Employment: opportunities for women scientists (see H.R. 304), H149 [9JA]

Families and domestic relations: county grants to carry out State programs to provide training to parents on early childhood development and child care (see H.R. 2452), H7199 [10SE]

———establish a system of assured minimum child support payments (see S. 1075), S8186 [28JY]

———reauthorize abstinence education and adolescent family life programs (see S. 934), S5927 [18JN]

FDA: proposal to designate the use of chlorofluorocarbons in metered-dose inhalers as nonessential (see H.R. 2968), H10420 [8NO]

Federal aid programs: public participation in establishing locations of substance abuse treatment group homes (see H.R. 385), H151 [9JA]

Federal employees: use of certain trust funds to pay union activities of Social Security Administration and Dept. of HHS employees (see S. 139), S162 [21JA]

Government: make certain information available to the Dept. of the Treasury for the collection of debts owed to the Federal Government (see H.R. 2063), H4646 [25JN]

Health: adolescent health demonstration projects (see H.R. 357), H151 [9JA]

———clinical trial on digital mammography funding (see S. 1229), S10055 [26SE]

———establish a program for training in lifesaving first aid for individuals experiencing cardiac arrest (see H.R. 1679), H3069 [20MY]

———establish a schedule of preventive health care services under private insurance plans and programs (see H.R. 177), H144 [9JA]

———establish code of fair information practices (see H.R. 52), H68 [7JA], H140 [9JA]

———protection of enrollees in managed care plans (see H.R. 2967), H10420 [8NO]

———protection of enrollees in managed care plans and HMO's (see S. 353, 373; H.R. 337, 820, 1222, 1749), S1553 [25FE], S1734 [27FE], H150 [9JA], H628 [25FE], H1288 [21MR], H3203 [22MY]

———revise and extend Area Health Education Center Program (see S. 892), S5596 [12JN]

———revise and extend mammography quality standards programs (see S. 537; H.R. 1289), S2901 [9AP], H1438 [10AP]

Health care facilities: dissemination of information about nursing homes (see H.R. 2423), H6962 [5SE]

———waiver of prior hospitalization requirement for coverage of skilled nursing facility services for certain individuals (see H.R. 1692), H3169 [21MY]

Health Care Financing Administration: graduate medical education reimbursement for combined residencies producing primary care physicians (see S. 637; H.R. 689), S3550 [23AP], H452 [11FE]

Health care professionals: prohibit payments to hospitals for reducing the number of residents in graduate medical education programs (see H.R. 2600), H8299 [1OC]

Immigration: refugee and entrant assistance funding (see S. 1161), S9080 [10SE]

Medicaid: Federal funding of certain abortions relative to State law (see H.R. 137), H143 [9JA]

Medicare: contracting with certain hospitals to provide certain surgical procedures and related services (see H.R. 2726), H9501 [23OC]

———establish a continuous quality improvement program for providers that furnish services to individuals with end stage renal disease (see H.R. 2972), H10420 [8NO]

———reimbursement to Military Health Services System (see H.R. 192, 414), H145, H152 [9JA]

———secondary payer rules for individuals with end stage renal disease (see H.R. 2577), H8160 [29SE]

Medicare/Medicaid: expand and clarify requirements regarding advance directives to ensure that an individual's health care decisions are observed (see S. 1345), S11448 [30OC]

National Health Corps Loan Repayment Program: count fellowship training in geriatric medicine or psychiatry as obligated service (see S. 780), S5001 [22MY]

National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program: revise filing deadline for certain claims (see H.R. 307), H149 [9JA]

Native Americans: authorizing appropriations for certain programs (see S. 459), S2415 [18MR]

———enhance self-governance relative to direct operation, control, and redesign of Indian Health Service activities (see H.R. 1833), H3578 [7JN]

NIH: establish National Center for Integral Medicine (see H.R. 1055), H1017 [13MR]

———establish National Fund for Health Research (see S. 441), S2274 [13MR]

Nuclear weapons: conduct an ongoing study of the health consequences of nuclear weapons tests (see S. 1524), S12506 [12NO]

Older Americans Act: amend to provide for Federal-State performance partnerships, consolidate nutrition programs, and extend authorizations of appropriations (see H.R. 1671), H3069 [20MY]

Parks and recreation areas: require camps to report on incidents of injuries and illnesses to Dept. of HHS (see H.R. 298), H148 [9JA]

Pharmaceuticals: incentives for testing the safety of drugs for use by children (see S. 713), S4106 [7MY]

Research: provide protections to human subjects of research (see S. 193), S633 [22JA]

Social Security: application for waiver of certain demonstration projects (see H.R. 1192), H1260 [20MR]

———provide free information on employee benefit plans to interested parties of such plans (see H.R. 1603), H2679 [14MY]

States: establish demonstration projects to develop kinship care programs and require notification of adult relative caregivers (see H.R. 1452), H1891 [24AP]

———require report on performance in protecting children placed for adoption in foster care, or with a guardian (see S. 920), S5790 [17JN]

Tobacco products: increase excise tax to fund a Public Health and Education Resource Trust Fund (see S. 1343; H.R. 2764), S11343 [29OC], H9729 [29OC]

———increase excise taxes to fund health insurance for uninsured children and deficit reduction (see S. 526; H.R. 1263, 1364), S2838 [8AP], H1391 [9AP], H1704 [17AP]

———prohibit regulation of tobacco-sponsored advertising used by professional motor sports associations (see H.R. 410), H152 [9JA]

Women: employment opportunities for women scientists (see S. 487), S2646 [20MR]

———establish offices of women's health within certain Federal agencies (see S. 91; H.R. 920), S161 [21JA], H724 [4MR]

Descriptions

Enhance Tribal Self-Governance Relative to Direct Operation, Control, and Redesign of Indian Health Service Activities (H.R. 1833), E1147 [7JN]

Factsheets

Public Health and Education Resource (PHAER) Act (S. 1343), S11363 [29OC]

Letters

Accurate guidelines for breast cancer screening for certain women: Senator Specter, S2226 [13MR]

Area Health Education Center Program Extension Act: Douglas L. Wood, American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, S5607 [12JN]

———Jordan J. Cohen, Association of American Medical Colleges, S5607 [12JN]

Centers for Disease Control notification of parents of newborns testing positive for HIV, H7376 [17SE]

FDA Modernization and Accountability Act: Donna E. Shalala, Sec. of HHS, S9817 [24SE]

Food and Drug Administration Modernization and Accountability Act, S12654-S12656 [13NO]

Geriatric health care training legislation: Daniel Perry, Alliance for Aging Research, S5003 [22MY]

———Dennis Jahnigen, American Geriatrics Society, S5003 [22MY]

Incentives for teaching hospitals to voluntarily reduce the number of medical residents relative to rural areas: Darin E. Johnson, National Rural Health Association, H7237 [11SE]

Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment: Donna E. Shalala, Sec. of HHS, E132 [4FE]

National Fund for Health Research: Albert H. Owens, Jr., National Coalition for Cancer Research, S6329 [25JN]

———Christopher Reeve, S2947 [9AP]

———Daniel Perry, Alliance for Aging Research, S6329 [25JN]

———Donald S. Coffey, American Association for Cancer Research, Inc., S6328 [25JN]

———Herbert Pardes, Columbia University, S6329 [25JN]

———Ivan Diamond, Research Society on Alcoholism, S6329 [25JN]

———Joan I. Samuelson, Parkinson's Action Network, S6328 [25JN]

———Lydia Lewis, Depressive and Manic-Depressive Association, S6330 [25JN]

———Robert L. Balster, College on Problems of Drug Dependence, Inc., S6329 [25JN]

———Sandra H. Kownacki, Autism Society of America, S6330 [25JN]

Nomination of David Satcher to be Surgeon General and Assistant Sec. of HHS: Harry R. Jacobson, Vanderbilt University, S9250 [12SE]

———R. Benton Adkins, Tennessee Medical Association, S9250 [12SE]

———Samuel H. Howard, Phoenix Healthcare Corp., S9250 [12SE]

Prohibit persons from charging for services or products that the SSA and Dept. of HHS provide without charge: Martha A. McSteen, National Committee To Preserve Social Security and Medicare, S5457 [10JN]

Public Health and Education Resource (PHAER) Act: Effective National Action To Control Tobacco Coalition, S11363 [29OC]

———Fran DuMelle, American Lung Association, S11364 [29OC]

———Randy Johnson, National Association of Counties, S11364 [29OC]

Tobacco product excise tax increase to fund health insurance for uninsured children and deficit reduction: Kenneth J. Kies, Committee on Taxation (Joint), S4789 [21MY]

Youth Anti-Smoking Initiative Enforcement and Outreach Program funding: Donna E. Shalala, Sec. of HHS, S7913, S7915 [23JY]

Lists

Objectionable programs in S. 1061, Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education appropriations, S8969-S8971 [9SE]

Questions relative to review of tobacco settlement: Senator Nickles, S12546 [13NO]

Witnesses testifying on abstinence education before the Committee on Appropriations' (Senate) Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, S5934 [18JN]

Memorandums

Health Insurance for Uninsured Children: Jean P. Hearn, Congressional Research Service, S8990 [9SE]

Messages

Dept. of HHS Report Relative to Radiation Control for Health and Safety Act: President Clinton, S2837 [8AP], H1305 [8AP]

Motions

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 2264), H7032 [9SE], H7141 [10SE], H7221 [11SE], H7653 [23SE]

———making appropriations (S. 1061), S8968 [9SE], S9063 [10SE]

Opinion polls

Tobacco product excise tax increase to fund health insurance for uninsured children: Wall Street Journal/NBC, S4105 [7MY], S4272 [9MY], S4784 [21MY]

Remarks in House

Appropriations: making technical corrections to omnibus consolidated legislation (H.J. Res. 25), H75, H76 [9JA]

Bushwick Geographic Targeting Task Force: tribute to substance abuse prevention programs, E469 [13MR]

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment: compliance with funding match requirements, H7179 [10SE]

Centers for Disease Control: food safety initiative funding, H7033 [9SE]

———notification of parents of newborns testing positive for HIV, H7376 [17SE]

Children and youth: provide health insurance for uninsured children, H3148 [21MY], H4557, H4564, H4566, H4570, H4572, H4575, H4576-H4581, H4603-H4605 [25JN], H4921 [9JY], H5038 [10JY], H5897, H5898 [28JY], H6323, H6339 [30JY], H6620 [31JY]

———provide health insurance for uninsured children (H.R. 1363), E1322 [25JN]

Dept. of Agriculture: Meals on Wheels Program funding, H5684, H5685, H5726 [24JY]

Dept. of HHS: Drug Needle Exchange Program funding, H7022 [9SE], H7205, H7218-H7229 [11SE], H7285 [16SE]

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 2264), H5897 [28JY], H6849-H6890 [4SE], H6924, H6925-H6948 [5SE], H6977-H6999 [8SE], H7016, H7021, H7022, H7023-H7084 [9SE], H7122, H7123, H7124, H7125, H7129-H7182 [10SE], H7202, H7203, H7204, H7205, H7206-H7247 [11SE], H7266-H7273 [15SE], H7324-H7351 [16SE], H7369, H7371, H7372-H7452 [17SE], H7611 [23SE], H7735, H7736, H7737, H7738 [24SE], E1677 [5SE], E1711, E1723, E1727 [10SE], E1773 [17SE], E1791, E1793, E1795, E1808, E1813 [18SE], E1870 [25SE], E2279 [9NO], E2380, E2392 [13NO]

———making appropriations (H.R. 2264), motion to instruct conferees, H7653 [23SE]

———making appropriations (H.R. 2264), unanimous-consent agreement, H6667, H6668, H6669 [31JY]

Drug Needle Exchange Program: funding, H7022 [9SE], H7205, H7218-H7229 [11SE], H7285 [16SE]

Education: national policy to improve system, H7266-H7273 [15SE]

FDA: approval of Leadcare in Office Test System, E1988 [9OC]

———proposal to designate the use of chlorofluorocarbons in metered-dose inhalers as nonessential (H.R. 2968), E2283 [9NO]

Food: funding to prevent E. coli in cattle, enhance safe food handling practices, and improve treatment for related diseases in humans, H7324 [16SE]

Health: establish a program for training in lifesaving first aid for individuals experiencing cardiac arrest (H.R. 1679), H2929 [20MY]

———establish a schedule of preventive health care services under private insurance plans and programs (H.R. 177), E20 [7JA]

———establish code of fair information practices (H.R. 52), E30 [7JA]

———protection of enrollees in managed care plans and HMO's, H10774 [13NO], E2179 [4NO]

———protection of enrollees in managed care plans and HMO's (H.R. 1222), E564 [21MR]

———protection of enrollees in managed care plans and HMO's (H.R. 1749), E1036 [22MY]

———protection of enrollees in managed care plans and HMO's (H.R. 337), E46 [7JA], E89 [9JA], E1352 [27JN]

———protection of enrollees in managed care plans and HMO's (H.R. 820), E313 [25FE]

———revise and extend mammography quality standards programs (H.R. 1289), H1964, H1966 [29AP]

Health care facilities: dissemination of information about nursing homes (H.R. 2423), E1637 [3SE], E1677 [5SE]

Health Care Financing Administration: graduate medical education reimbursement for combined residencies producing primary care physicians (H.R. 689), E210 [11FE]

Heart disease: clinical practice guidelines, E494 [18MR]

Immigration: refugee and entrant assistance funding (S. 1161), H8061, H8062 [29SE], H8291 [1OC]

Medicare: contracting with certain hospitals to provide certain surgical procedures and related services (H.R. 2726), E2069 [23OC]

———ensure that incentives for teaching hospitals to voluntarily reduce the number of medical residents do not adversely affect rural areas, H7237 [11SE]

———payment of certain venipuncture services and prevention of potential fraud and abuse (H.R. 2912), E2216 [7NO]

Medicare/Medicaid: expand and clarify requirements regarding advance directives to ensure that an individual's health care decisions are observed (H.R. 2999), E2318 [10NO]

National Library of Medicine: funding, H7036 [9SE]

National Youth Sports Program: tribute, H4892 [8JY]

Native Americans: authorizing appropriations for certain programs (S. 459), H9780 [30OC]

———enhance self-governance relative to direct operation, control, and redesign of Indian Health Service activities (H.R. 1833), E1147 [7JN]

NIH: establish National Fund for Health Research, H4695 [26JN]

———funding, H6864 [4SE]

Older Americans Act: amend to provide for Federal-State performance partnerships, consolidate nutrition programs, and extend authorizations of appropriations (H.R. 1671), E986 [20MY]

Public welfare programs: approval of State plans reforming federally funded health and human services programs, H2772, H2773 [15MY]

Senior Citizen Meal Program: increase funding through rescissions in certain family planning programs, H7034, H7035 [9SE]

State AIDS drug assistance programs: funding, H7031, H7032, H7037, H7044-H7050 [9SE]

States: establish demonstration projects to develop kinship care programs and require notification of adult relative caregivers (H.R. 1452), E745 [24AP]

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: funding formula for States, H6986 [8SE]

Territories: participation in State Children's Health Insurance Program, H7238 [11SE]

Texas: Medicaid block grant process, H2599 [14MY]

———reform of public welfare programs, H1913 [29AP], H2491 [13MY]

Tobacco products: increase excise taxes to fund health insurance for uninsured children and deficit reduction, H5831 [28JY], H6340 [30JY]

———increase excise taxes to fund health insurance for uninsured children and deficit reduction (H.R. 1364), E1322 [25JN]

———settlement relative to health risks and marketing and manufacturing practices, H3892 [18JN]

———tobacco industry liability settlement relative to health risks and marketing and manufacturing practices, H6722 [3SE], H7533 [18SE], H8043-H8047 [26SE]

Trenton, NJ: tribute to Anchor Connection Program, E488 [17MR]

University of Mississippi: Dept. of HHS administration of GED Exam Program, H5408 [17JY]

Veterans: funding of certain medical research relative to illnesses suffered by veterans who served in the Persian Gulf Conflict, H7202 [11SE]

Women: establish offices of women's health within certain Federal agencies (H.R. 920), E365 [4MR]

Remarks in Senate

Appropriations: making technical corrections to omnibus consolidated legislation (H.J. Res. 25), S574 [21JA]

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment: carry out treatment programs for adolescents (S. 793), S5011 [22MY]

Centers for Disease Control: National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program funding, S9111 [11SE]

Children and youth: ensure mental health parity in block grants to States providing health insurance for uninsured children, S6150, S6151 [24JN]

———provide health insurance for uninsured children, S6165-S6167 [24JN], S6293, S6317, S6318, S6350 [25JN], S6434-S6437, S6455 [26JN], S7223 [10JY], S8329, S8341 [30JY], S8389, S8392, S8402, S8469 [31JY], S8923 [8SE], S8951, S8990-S8993 [9SE]

———provide health insurance for uninsured children (S. 435), S2223-S2225 [13MR]

———provide health insurance for uninsured children (S. 525), S2846-S2853 [8AP], S3063 [10AP], S3410 [22AP]

———set standards for benefits and deductibles/copayments for block grants to provide health insurance for uninsured children, S6149, S6150 [24JN]

Community Schools Program: funding, S9114 [11SE]

Consumers: prohibit persons from charging for services or products that the SSA and Dept. of HHS provide without charge (S. 868), S5456 [10JN]

Dept. of HUD: establish procedures for requesting visa waivers on behalf of international health care professionals willing to practice in underserved areas (S. 944), S6042 [20JN]

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 2264), S9781 [23SE], S10282 [1OC], S11246 [28OC], S11370 [29OC]

———making appropriations (H.R. 2264), conference report, S12082-S12095 [8NO], S12630 [13NO]

———making appropriations (H.R. 2264), conference report—unanimous-consent agreement, S12074 [8NO]

———making appropriations (S. 1061), S8632-S8640, S8643, S8646-S8648, S8650, S8655 [2SE], S8685 [3SE], S8772, S8785-S8790, S8792-S8819 [4SE], S8898-S8924 [8SE], S8942-S8952, S8958-S8971, S8989-S9013 [9SE], S9033-S9059, S9062-S9078 [10SE], S9097-S9133, S9195 [11SE], S9244 [12SE], S9450, S9503, S9529 [17SE], S10927-S10937 [22OC]

———making appropriations (S. 1061), unanimous-consent agreement, S8819 [4SE], S8850 [5SE], S9043, S9071, S9072 [10SE], S9507 [17SE]

Diseases: accurate guidelines for breast cancer screening for certain women, S2225, S2226 [13MR]

———radioactive iodine-133 related thyroid cancer study funding, S9110 [11SE]

———State AIDS drug assistance programs funding, S9109, S9114, S9115 [11SE]

Drugs: revise and extend the grant program for services for children of substance abusers (S. 794), S5011 [22MY]

Families and domestic relations: adoption opportunities programs funding, S8904 [8SE], S9011 [9SE]

———establish a National Voluntary Mutual Reunion Registry (S. 1487), S12202 [8NO]

———establish a system of assured minimum child support payments (S. 1075), S8187 [28JY]

———reauthorize abstinence education and adolescent family life programs (S. 934), S5932-S5935 [18JN]

Food: funding to prevent E. coli in cattle, enhance safe food handling practices, and improve treatment for related diseases in humans, S8908 [8SE], S9058, S9063, S9064 [10SE], S9109 [11SE]

Health: clinical trial on digital mammography funding (S. 1229), S10062 [26SE]

———protection of enrollees in managed care plans and HMO's (S. 353), S1559 [25FE]

———protection of enrollees in managed care plans and HMO's (S. 373), S1738 [27FE]

———revise and extend Area Health Education Center Program (S. 892), S5605-S5608 [12JN]

———revise and extend mammography quality standards programs (S. 537), S2925 [9AP], S5884 [17JN], S12484 [10NO], S12562, S12563 [13NO]

———water fluoridation funding, S9110 [11SE]

Health care facilities: improve organ and tissue donor policies, S8962 [9SE]

———survey of hospitals relative to organ donation and procurement programs, S8961, S8962 [9SE]

Health Care Financing Administration: competitive pricing demonstration program for Medicare, S4194 [8MY]

———graduate medical education reimbursement for combined residencies producing primary care physicians (S. 637), S3558 [23AP]

Immigration: refugee and entrant assistance funding, S8915, S8916 [8SE]

———refugee and entrant assistance funding (S. 1161), S9091 [10SE]

Medicare: eliminate incentives for teaching hospitals to voluntarily reduce the number of medical residents, S8901, S8902 [8SE], S8950, S8951, S8959-S8961, S8965-S8968, S8994 [9SE]

Medicare/Medicaid: expand and clarify requirements regarding advance directives to ensure that an individual's health care decisions are observed (S. 1345), S11451-S11453, S11455 [30OC], S11627, S11628 [4NO]

National Health Corps Loan Repayment Program: count fellowship training in geriatric medicine or psychiatry as obligated service (S. 780), S5002, S5003 [22MY]

National Institute on Aging: Alzheimer's research funding, S9112 [11SE]

Native Americans: authorizing appropriations for certain programs (S. 459), S2428 [18MR]

———diabetes research funding, S12090, S12091 [8NO]

NIH: child abuse and neglect report, S8627 [31JY]

———conduct study relative to effects of perchlorate on humans, S8903, S8909 [8SE]

———establish National Fund for Health Research, S6153-S6155 [24JN], S6293, S6328 [25JN], S6687, S6688 [27JN]

———establish National Fund for Health Research (S. 441), S2282 [13MR], S2947 [9AP], S4964 [22MY]

———establish research and training programs for Parkinson's disease, S8711-S8720 [3SE], S9013 [9SE]

———funding, S8693 [3SE]

———infectious diseases research funding, S12093 [8NO]

———osteoporosis prevention and treatment programs funding, S9111, S9112 [11SE]

———require congressional report on research policies, S8715-S8717 [3SE]

Nuclear weapons: conduct an ongoing study of the health consequences of nuclear weapons tests (S. 1524), S12508 [12NO]

Pharmaceuticals: establish financial incentives for testing the safety of drugs on children, S9823 [24SE]

———incentives for testing the safety of drugs for use by children (S. 713), S4276, S4281 [9MY]

Presidential appointments: nominations considered and confirmed en bloc, S6787 [27JN], S11165 [23OC], S11901 [6NO], S12209 [8NO]

Public welfare programs: approval of State plans reforming federally funded health and human services programs, S6177-S6180 [24JN], S6308 [25JN]

Research: provide protections to human subjects of research (S. 193), S645-S648 [22JA]

Rural Health Transition Grant Program: funding, S9109 [11SE]

Satcher, David: nomination to be Surgeon General and Assistant Sec. of HHS, S9249-S9252 [12SE], S12635 [13NO]

States: require report on performance in protecting children placed for adoption in foster care, or with a guardian (S. 920), S5808 [17JN]

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: rural drug abuse prevention programs funding, S9110 [11SE]

Texas: reform of public welfare programs, S3781, S3783 [29AP], S4203 [8MY]

Tobacco products: increase excise tax to fund a Public Health and Education Resource Trust Fund (S. 1343), S11358-S11360 [29OC]

———increase excise taxes to fund health insurance for uninsured children and deficit reduction, S4782-S4828 [21MY], S5097 [23MY], S6428, S6432, S6435-S6437 [26JN], S6682, S6704 [27JN], S8447 [31JY]

———increase excise taxes to fund health insurance for uninsured children and deficit reduction (S. 526), S2846-S2853 [8AP], S3703 [25AP], S4104 [7MY], S4272 [9MY]

———settlement relative to health risks and marketing and manufacturing practices, S3703 [25AP]

———tobacco industry liability settlement relative to health risks and marketing and manufacturing practices, S8853, S8856, S8859 [5SE], S9246-S9248 [12SE], S12543-S12546 [13NO]

———tobacco industry liability settlement relative to health risks and marketing and manufacturing practices (S. 1414), S12209 [8NO]

Women: employment opportunities for women scientists (S. 487), S2651 [20MR]

———establish offices of women's health within certain Federal agencies (S. 91), S470 [21JA]

Reports

Accurate Guidelines for Breast Cancer Screening for Certain Women: Senator Specter, S2226-S2230 [13MR]

Centers of Excellence Demonstration, E2069 [23OC]

Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment, E132 [4FE]

Reports filed

Consideration of H.R. 2264, Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 199) (H. Rept. 105-214), H5916 [28JY]

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations: Committee on Appropriations (House) (H.R. 2264) (H. Rept. 105-205), H5825 [25JY]

———Committee on Appropriations (Senate) (S. 1061) (S. Rept. 105-58), S8090 [24JY]

Native American Programs Appropriations: Committee on Indian Affairs (Senate) (S. 459) (S. Rept. 105-20), S4878 [21MY]

Nomination of David Satcher To Be Assistant Sec. of HHS and Surgeon General: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (Senate), S10949 [22OC]

Nomination of Jeanette C. Takamura To Be Assistant Sec. of HHS for Aging: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (Senate), S10949 [22OC]

Nomination of Kevin L. Thurm To Be Deputy Sec. of HHS: Committee on Finance (Senate), S5926 [18JN]

Nomination of Margaret A. Hamburg To Be Assistant Sec. of HHS: Committee on Finance (Senate), S11341 [29OC]

Nomination of Nancy-Ann M. Deparle To Be Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration: Committee on Finance (Senate), S9197 [11SE]

Nomination of Olivia A. Golden To Be Assistant Sec. of HHS: Committee on Finance (Senate), S9197 [11SE]

Nomination of Richard J. Tarplin To Be Assistant Sec. of HHS: Committee on Finance (Senate), S5926 [18JN]

Nominations: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (Senate), S2414, S2415 [18MR]

Public Health Service Nominations: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (Senate), S9880 [24SE]

Rulings of the Chair

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 2264), H7040, H7043 [9SE], H7390 [17SE]

Summaries

Advance Planning and Compassionate Care Act (S. 1345), S11454 [30OC]

Clinical Practice Guidelines for Cardiac Rehabilitation, E494 [18MR]

Health Insurance Bill of Rights Act (S. 353), S1568 [25FE]

Importance of Substance Abuse Treatment: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, S8824 [4SE]

Increase Tobacco Excise Taxes To Fund Health Insurance for Uninsured Children, S8448 [31JY]

Managed Care Consumer Protection Act (H.R. 337), E47 [7JA]

Tables

Adjustments to H.R. 2264, Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies appropriations, H5897 [28JY]

Comparison of benefits offered under Medicaid and Blue Cross, S6149 [24JN]

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies appropriations (H.R. 2264), H7391-H7451 [17SE]

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies appropriations (S. 1061): spending comparisons, S8639 [2SE], S8794 [4SE]

Reduction in youth smoking and increase in lives saved under S. 1343, Public Health and Education Resource (PHAER) Act, S11364 [29OC]

Texts of

H.J. Res. 25, technical corrections to omnibus consolidated appropriations legislation, H76 [9JA]

H.R. 2423, Nursing Home Public Information Act, E1637 [3SE]

S. 353, Health Insurance Bill of Rights Act, S1560-S1568 [25FE]

S. 373, Health Insurance Bill of Rights Act, S1738-S1747 [27FE]

S. 459, Native American programs appropriations, S2428 [18MR], S10183 [29SE]

S. 793, Substance Abuse Treatment for Adolescents Act, S5012 [22MY]

S. 794, revise and extend the grant program for services for children of substance abusers, S5012 [22MY]

S. 892, Area Health Education Center Program Extension Act, S5606 [12JN]

S. 920, Adoption Report Card Act, S5808 [17JN]

S. 934, Adolescent Family Life and Abstinence Education Act, S5934 [18JN]

S. 944, Community Health Care Access Act, S6043 [20JN]

S. 1061, Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies appropriations, S9116-S9132 [11SE]

S. 1075, Child Support Assurance Act, S8189 [28JY]

S. 1161, refugee and entrant assistance funding, S9091 [10SE], H8061 [29SE]

S. 1343, Public Health and Education Resource (PHAER) Act, S11360-S11363 [29OC]

S. 1345, Advance Planning and Compassionate Care Act, S11453 [30OC]

S. 1487, National Voluntary Mutual Reunion Registry, S12202 [8NO]

S. 1524, require the Dept. of HHS to conduct an ongoing study of the health consequences of nuclear weapons tests, S12508 [12NO]