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

    CHENOWETH, HELEN (a Representative from Idaho)
      Addresses
        American Heritage Rivers Program--A Threat to Private Property
            Rights:  Carol LaGrasse, Property Rights Foundation of America,
            E2001<bullet>-E2004<bullet> [9OC]
      Amendments
        Forests:  establish a program of recovery and protection and to
            inventory, monitor, and analyze public and private forests and
            their resources (H.R. 2515), H1550 [25MR], H1551 [25MR]
      Appointments
        Sonny Bono funeral attendees, H18 [27JA]
      Bills and resolutions cosponsored
        Agriculture:  production flexibility contract payment options, (see
            H.R. 4265), H5858 [17JY]
        Arlington National Cemetery:  enact into law eligibility
            requirements for interment, (see H.R. 3211), H495 [12FE]
        Armed Forces:  administration of certain drugs without informed
            consent, (see H.R. 4035), H7428 [7AU]
        ------ establish demonstration project relative to enrollment of
            certain beneficiaries in the Federal Employees Health Benefits
            Program, (see H.R. 1766), H2706 [30AP]
        Arms Export Control Act:  exempt federally guaranteed agricultural
            commodities from the application of sanctions, (see H.R. 4022),
            H4835 [18JN], (see H.R. 4195), H5491 [14JY]
        Bounty hunters:  establish civil and criminal liability for bounty
            hunters and their employers and encourage State regulation of
            industry, (see H.R. 3168), H1337 [19MR]
        Byrd, James, Jr.:  condemn murder in Jasper, TX, and address issue
            of hate crimes, (see H. Res. 466), H4549 [11JN]
        Children and youth:  ensure parental access to educational
            information and curriculum, (see H.R. 3189), H445 [11FE]
        Citizenship:  restrict citizenship of individuals based solely on
            birth in the U.S., (see H.R. 7), H1112 [11MR]
        Credit unions:  clarify laws relative to field of membership of
            Federal credit unions, (see H.R. 1151), H578 [24FE], (see H.R.
            3265), H679 [26FE]
        Dept. of Defense:  allow military health care system beneficiaries
            the option to enroll in Federal Employees Health Benefits
            Program, (see H.R. 3613), H1854 [31MR]
        Dept. of Education:  abolish, (see H.R. 1812), H631 [25FE]
        Dept. of Justice:  establish standards of conduct for employees and
            establish a review board to monitor compliance, (see H.R. 3396),
            H2931 [6MY]
        Dept. of the Treasury:  include certain parts of the Constitution in
            the redesign of the one dollar bill, (see H.R. 3792), H3014
            [7MY]
        Dept. of Veterans Affairs:  establish certain presumptions of
            service connection for Persian Gulf Conflict veterans, (see H.R.
            4036), H7428 [7AU]
        ------ extend authority to treat illnesses of Persian Gulf Conflict
            veterans and illnesses due to future combat service, and revise
            research priorities relative to certain service-related health
            consequences, (see H.R. 3980), H5405 [25JN]
        ------ provide a cost-of-living adjustment in compensation rates
            paid to veterans with service-connected disabilities and make
            various improvements in education, housing, and cemetery
            programs, (see H.R. 4110), H5297 [24JN]
        Drugs:  conform penalties for methamphetamine to penalties involving
            similar amounts of cocaine base, (see H.R. 3898), H3488 [19MY]
        Edison, Thomas A.:  mint coins in commemoration of sesquicentennial
            of birth, (see H.R. 678), H2931 [6MY]
        Education:  spending of a greater percentage of Federal tax dollars
            on children's classrooms, (see H.R. 3248), H577 [24FE]
        Endangered species:  protection of the California spotted owl and
            its habitat, (see H.R. 3467), H1235 [17MR]
        Endangered Species Act:  transfer enforcement functions of the
            National Marine Fisheries Service to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
            Service, (see H.R. 4335), H6453 [24JY]
        Evans, Dale:  award Congressional Gold Medal, (see H.R. 2752), H241
            [3FE]
        FCC:  repeal authority to require contributions from telephone
            carriers for the connection of schools, health care providers,
            and libraries to the Internet, (see H.R. 4065), H4628 [16JN]
        Firearms:  prohibit imposition of a fee for criminal background
            checks before the transfer of a handgun and regulate retention
            of resulting information, (see H.R. 3949), H10011 [7OC]
        Food Quality Protection Act:  congressional oversight of
            implementation, (see H. Con. Res. 290), H9346 [2OC]
        Forest Service:  Recreational Fee Demonstration Program termination,
            (see H.R. 4447), H8035 [17SE]
        Freedom of religion:  protect religious liberty, (see H.R. 4154),
            H5403 [25JN]
        Germany:  discrimination against members of minority religious
            groups, (see H. Con. Res. 325), H7414 [6AU]
        Government:  limit Federal authority to impose regulations on State
            and local governments not provided under the Constitution, (see
            H. Con. Res. 299), H5737 [16JY], (see H.R. 4196), H5957 [20JY],
            (see H.R. 4232), H6070 [21JY]
        Idaho Admission Act:  amend relative to sale or lease of school
            land, (see H.R. 4166), H5403 [25JN]
        IMF:  U.S. withdrawal, (see H.R. 3090), H62 [27JA]
        Iraq:  congressional authorization of offensive military action,
            (see H. Con. Res. 226), H677 [26FE]
        ------ prohibit use of Dept. of Defense appropriations for offensive
            operations to force compliance with U.N. Security Council
            resolutions, (see H.R. 3208), H755 [3MR]
        Lake Powell:  water level, (see H. Res. 380), H904 [5MR]
        Law enforcement officers:  establish a matching grant program to
            assist local governments in purchasing armor vests, (see H.R.
            2829), H1112 [11MR]
        Library of Congress:  mint coins in commemoration of bicentennial,
            (see H.R. 3790), H6820 [30JY]
        Mandela, Nelson R.:  award Congressional Gold Medal, (see H.R.
            3156), H3972 [22MY]
        Medicare:  reform payment system for home health services, (see H.R.
            4370), H7415 [6AU]
        ------ repeal the financial limitation on rehabilitation services,
            (see H.R. 3835), H3104 [12MY]
        National forests:  suspend development of a roadless area policy
            pending determinations that such a policy will not adversely
            affect forest health, (see H.R. 3297), H677 [26FE]
        National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System:  prevent lapses in
            permits, (see H.R. 3238), H496 [12FE]
        Native American Veterans' Memorial:  establish, (see H.R. 4064),
            H4628 [16JN]
        Occupational Safety and Health Act:  establish peer review of
            standards, (see H.R. 2661), H4479 [10JN]
        Privacy:  repeal law creating unique health care identifiers for all
            citizens in order to create national medical history database,
            (see H.R. 4281), H7415 [6AU]
        Religion:  eliminate the effect on the expression of religion by
            State and local officials that results from the threat that
            potential litigants may seek damages and attorney's fees, (see
            H.R. 3288), H676 [26FE]
        Rogers, Roy:  award Congressional Gold Medal, (see H.R. 2752), H241
            [3FE]
        Social Security:  provide prisoner information obtained by States to
            Federal benefit programs to prevent erroneous provision of
            benefits, (see H.R. 4172), H5403 [25JN]
        Taxation:  applications for an exclusion of gain on certain sales of
            a principal residence by a surviving spouse, (see H.R. 3541),
            H3014 [7MY]
        ------ constitutional amendment relative to certain tax limitations,
            (see H.J. Res. 111), H677 [26FE]
        ------ elimination of estate and gift taxes, (see H.R. 3879), H3744
            [21MY]
        ------ reduce the marriage penalty, encourage health coverage, allow
            certain credits against the alternative minimum tax, increase
            the Social Security earnings limitation, and extend certain
            expiring provisions, (see H.R. 4542), H7583 [10SE]
        ------ require congressional review of Federal agency rules that
            establish or raise taxes, (see H.R. 4096), H4879 [19JN]
        ------ terminate Internal Revenue Code, (see H.R. 3097), H62 [27JA]
        ------ treatment of forestry activities, (see H.R. 4126), H7428
            [7AU]
        Television:  promote competition in the multichannel video
            marketplace, (see H.R. 2921), H65 [27JA]
        Veterans:  determination of active military service for certain
            merchant mariners who served during World War II, (see H.R.
            1126), H7428 [7AU]
        ------ improve access to health care services for certain Medicare-
            eligible veterans, (see H.R. 3828), H3104 [12MY]
        ------ permit concurrent receipt of military retired pay with
            service-connected disability benefits, (see H.R. 303), H9275
            [1OC]
      Bills and resolutions introduced
        Federal Register:  specify consistent and informative format for
            notices of Federal agency rulemaking proposals, (see H.R. 4162),
            H5403 [25JN]
        Public lands:  use of alternative arrangements for windstorm-damaged
            national forests and grasslands in Texas, (see H.R. 4345), H6697
            [29JY]
      Letters
        Building Efficient Surface Transportation and Equity Act:  Dwight M.
            Bower, Idaho Dept. of Transportation, H1911 [1AP]
      Lists
        Organizations and individuals administering the American Heritage
            Rivers Initiative, E2352<bullet> [19DE]
      Papers
        Good Politics, Bad Policy--Clinton's American Heritage Rivers
            Initiative:  Alex Annett, Heritage Foundation,
            E2182<bullet>-E2185<bullet> [15OC]
      Remarks
        Abortion:  prohibit partial-birth abortions (H.R. 1122), motion to
            discharge Committee on the Judiciary (House) from consideration
            of veto, H6195 [23JY]
        American Heritage Rivers Initiative:  implementation, E2182<bullet>
            [15OC]
        ------ terminate further development and implementation,
            E2352<bullet> [19DE]
        ------ terminate further development and implementation (H.R. 1842),
            E2001<bullet> [9OC]
        Armed Forces:  funding of abortions for military personnel and
            dependents at overseas military medical facilities, H3570 [20MY]
        ------ prohibit funding for assignment of duty at the U.N. Rapidly
            Deployable Missions Headquarters, H3579 [20MY]
        Budget:  balance, H10522 [11OC]
        Clinton, President:  impeachment (H. Res. 611), H11938 [18DE]
        Committee on Government Reform and Oversight (House):  investigation
            of Federal election campaign fundraising and expenditure
            practices, H3031 [12MY]
        Contraceptives:  establish restrictions on provision to minors
            through certain family planning projects, H10144 [8OC]
        Dept. of Defense:  authorizing appropriations for military
            activities and prescribing personnel strengths (H.R. 3616),
            H3570 [20MY], H3579 [20MY]
        Dept. of the Interior:  convey title for Tunnison Lab Hagerman Field
            Station to the University of Idaho (S. 2505), H10338 [9OC]
        ------ Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project funding,
            H6155 [22JY]
        ------ transfer certain facilities of the Minidoka Project to the
            Burley Irrigation District (S. 538), H10602<bullet> [12OC]
        Dept. of the Interior and related agencies:  making appropriations
            (H.R. 4193), H6146 [22JY], H6147 [22JY], H6155 [22JY]
        ----- making appropriations (H.R. 4193), consideration (H. Res.
            504), H5974 [21JY]
        Dept. of Veterans Affairs:  Veterans Health Administration medical
            care funding through offsets in FHA funding, H6550 [29JY]
        Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies:  making
            appropriations (H.R. 4274), H10144 [8OC]
        Depts. of Veterans Affairs and HUD, and sundry independent agencies:
             making appropriations (H.R. 4194), H5769 [17JY], H6550 [29JY]
        Education:  allocation of funds, H10519 [11OC]
        Elections:  constitutional amendment to limit campaign expenditures
            (H.J. Res. 119), H4451 [10JN], H4452 [10JN]
        Federal Register:  specify consistent and informative format for
            notices of Federal agency rulemaking proposals (H.R. 4162),
            E1501<bullet> [31JY]
        Forest Service:  road construction funding, H1676 [27MR], H1677
            [27MR]
        Forests:  establish a program of recovery and protection and to
            inventory, monitor, and analyze public and private forests and
            their resources (H.R. 2515), H1676 [27MR], H1677 [27MR]
        Freedom of religion:  constitutional amendment on protection (H.J.
            Res. 78), H4096 [4JN]
        Gallatin National Forest:  land exchange (H.R. 3381), H8470 [23SE],
            H8472 [23SE]
        Idaho Admission Act:  amend relative to sale or lease of school land
            (H.R. 4166), H7761 [15SE]
        IRS:  restructure and reform, H1025 [11MR]
        Lewis and Clark expedition:  bicentennial (H. Res. 144), H8474
            [23SE], H8475 [23SE], H8477 [23SE]
        Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument:  expeditious completion
            of acquisition of private mineral interests (H.R. 1659), H8473
            [23SE], H8474 [23SE]
        National Endowment for the Arts:  funding, H5974 [21JY]
        National parks and recreation areas:  Recreational Fee Demonstration
            Programs extension, H6146 [22JY], H6147 [22JY]
        National security:  national missile defense system, H7435 [9SE]
        Political campaigns:  application of term ``express advocacy''
            relative to communications providing voting records or positions
            taken by candidates for public office, H5456 [14JY]
        ------ ethics reform and contribution limits (H.R. 2183), H5456
            [14JY], H7308 [6AU]
        Public lands:  domestic livestock grazing allotments, H3019-H3021
            [11MY]
        Religion:  protect certain charitable contributions (H.R. 2604),
            H4003 [3JN]
        Rogue River National Forest:  convey administrative site and use
            proceeds for the construction or improvement of offices and
            support buildings (H.R. 3796), H4596<bullet> [16JN]
        Routt National Forest:  land exchange (H.R. 1021), H3033 [12MY],
            H3034 [12MY]
        Stanislaus National Forest, CA:  establish a demonstration project
            relative to private contractors performing multiple resource
            management activities (H.R. 2886), H3032 [12MY]
        Taxation:  rates, H10523 [11OC]
        ------ terminate Internal Revenue Code (H.R. 3097), H4663 [17JN]
        Transportation:  funding for Federal-aid highways, highway safety
            programs, and transit programs (H.R. 2400), H1911<bullet> [1AP]
        Votes:  correction, E348<bullet> [11MR], E949<bullet> [22MY],
            E1524<bullet> [3AU]
        ------ position on missed, H1409<bullet> [24MR]
        Wenatchee National Forest:  transfer certain lands of the Lake
            Chelan National Recreation Area (H.R. 3520), H4259 [9JN]
        ------ transfer certain lands of the Lake Chelan National Recreation
            Area (S. 1683), H7438 [9SE]
      Remarks in House relative to
        Leave of absence:  granted, H1443 [24MR]
        Political ethics:  disclosure of personal information about
            individuals associated with investigations of President Clinton,
            H7929 [17SE]
        Special order:  granted, H1334 [19MR], H4546 [11JN], H5062 [23JN],
            H10511 [10OC]
      Tributes
        Anderson, Jim, H3019-H3021 [11MY]
        LaGrasse, Carol, E2001<bullet> [9OC]
        Wilde, Kenneth G., H2933 [7MY]