    [Congressional Record Index (1998)]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

    SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD related term(s) Department of
        Transportation
      Amendments
        Oceans:  reduce regulations on international transportation and
            eliminate the Federal Maritime Commission (S. 414), S1357 [4MR],
            S3199 [3AP], S3223 [3AP]
      Articles and editorials
        Ship Deregulation Promise, S3309 [21AP]
      Bills and resolutions
        Appropriations:  authorizing, (see S. 1802), S2296 [19MR]
        Oceans:  reduce regulations on international transportation and
            eliminate the Federal Maritime Commission (S. 414), technical
            corrections, (see S. Res. 215), S3535 [23AP]
        Railroads:  ensure effective competition by improving regulation of
            rates and abandoned lines, (see H.R. 4488), H7413 [6AU]
        ------ expand authority over rail service transportation industry,
            (see S. 2164), S6181 [11JN]
      Letters
        Allow non-vessel-operating common carriers to offer service
            contracts to shippers:  Louis Policastro, New York/New Jersey
            Foreign Freight Forwarders and Brokers Association, Inc., S3310
            [21AP]
        ----- several shipping industry organizations, S3310 [21AP]
        Ocean Shipping Reform Act:  Representative Hyde, Committee on the
            Judiciary (House), H7016 [4AU]
        ------ Representative Shuster, Committee on Transportation and
            Infrastructure (House), H7017 [4AU]
      Press releases
        Allow Non-Vessel-Operating Common Carriers To Offer Service
            Contracts to Shippers:  Transportation Intermediaries
            Association, S3310 [21AP]
      Remarks in House
        Oceans:  reduce regulations on international transportation and
            eliminate the Federal Maritime Commission (S. 414), H7011-H7020
            [4AU]
        ----- reduce regulations on international transportation and
            eliminate the Federal Maritime Commission (S. 414), technical
            corrections (S. Res. 215), H2937 [7MY]
        Railroads:  economic regulation of freight industry, E2049 [11OC]
        ------ ensure effective competition by improving regulation of rates
            and abandoned lines (H.R. 4488), E1571 [7AU]
        Transportation:  ability to adjudicate without quorum of statutorily
            designated membership, E1919 [6OC]
      Remarks in Senate
        Appropriations:  authorizing (S. 1802), S2302 [19MR], S12669 [16OC],
            S12731 [20OC], S12738 [20OC], S12910 [21OC]
        Oceans:  reduce regulations on international transportation and
            eliminate the Federal Maritime Commission (S. 414), S1067
            [26FE], S1068 [26FE], S3192-S3201 [3AP], S3214 [3AP],
            S3305-S3321 [21AP]
        ----- reduce regulations on international transportation and
            eliminate the Federal Maritime Commission (S. 414), technical
            corrections (S. Res. 215), S3559 [23AP]
        ------ reduce regulations on international transportation and
            eliminate the Federal Maritime Commission (S. 414),
            S11297-S11302 [1OC], S11359 [2OC]
        Railroads:  approval of CSX Corp. and Norfolk Southern Corp.
            acquisition of Consolidated Rail Corp., S9550 [31JY]
        ------ expand authority over rail service transportation industry
            (S. 2164), S6196 [11JN]
        ------ reform decision-making process for the conversion of
            abandoned rights-of-way to rail trails, S1730-S1732 [11MR]
        Shipping industry:  allow non-vessel-operating common carriers to
            offer service contracts to shippers, S3199-S3201 [3AP],
            S3306-S3311 [21AP]
      Reports filed
        Appropriations:  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
            (Senate) (S. 1802) (S. Rept. 105-315), S10118 [9SE]
        Nomination of William Clyburn, Jr., to the Surface Transportation
            Board:  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
            (Senate), S7881 [9JY]
      Statements
        Surface Transportation Board Approval of CSX Corp. and Norfolk
            Southern Corp. Acquisition of Consolidated Rail Corp., S9551
            [31JY]
      Texts of
        S. 414, Ocean Shipping Reform Act, S3192-S3198 [3AP], S3313-S3318
            [21AP], S11297-S11301 [1OC], H7011-H7015 [4AU]
        S. 1802, appropriations, S2302 [19MR]
        S. 2164, Surface Transportation Board authority over rail service
            transportation industry, S6197 [11JN]
        S. Res. 215, technical corrections to S. 414, Ocean Shipping Reform
            Act, S3545 [23AP], S3559 [23AP], H2937 [7MY]