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

    HOSTETTLER, JOHN N. (a Representative from Indiana)
      Bills and resolutions cosponsored
        Agriculture:  production flexibility contract payment options, (see
            H.R. 4265), H5858 [17JY]
        Armed Forces:  restrict awarding of Purple Heart to members, (see
            H.R. 1407), H5593 [15JY]
        Bankruptcy:  reform system to become a needs-based system, (see H.R.
            2500), H579 [24FE]
        Bilingual Education Act:  repeal, (see H.R. 3720), H10353 [9OC]
        Budget:  allow reductions in the discretionary spending limits to be
            used to offset tax cuts, (see H.R. 3707), H2932 [6MY]
        Children and youth:  ensure parental access to educational
            information and curriculum, (see H.R. 3189), H445 [11FE]
        ------ parental notification and State criminal reporting
            requirements for minors who seek family planning services from
            federally-funded clinics, (see H.R. 3230), H1168 [16MR]
        ------ State criminal reporting requirements for minors who seek
            family planning services from federally-funded clinics, (see
            H.R. 3229), H1168 [16MR]
        China, People's Republic of:  transfer of strategic nuclear missile
            technology, (see H. Res. 438), H3312 [14MY]
        China, Republic of:  affirm U.S. commitment to security and
            democracy, (see H. Con. Res. 301), H5859 [17JY]
        Clean Air Act:  proposed rulemaking relative to the transport, in
            the eastern U.S., of ozone pollution and oxides of nitrogen,
            (see H.R. 3690), H3014 [7MY], (see H.R. 4136), H5494 [14JY]
        ------ provide 2-year period prior to statutory reclassification of
            areas that fail to attain clean air standards, (see H.R. 4136),
            H5494 [14JY]
        Contraceptives:  establish restrictions on provision to minors
            through certain family planning projects, (see H.R. 4721),
            H10011 [7OC]
        Corporal Harold Gomez Post Office, East Chicago, IN:  designate,
            (see H.R. 4616), H8528 [23SE]
        Credit unions:  clarify laws relative to field of membership of
            Federal credit unions, (see H.R. 3265), H755 [3MR]
        Crime:  identity fraud, (see H.R. 3601), H1776 [30MR], (see H.R.
            4151), H5402 [25JN]
        ------ prohibit taking minors across State lines to avoid State laws
            requiring parental notification of abortions, (see H.R. 3682),
            H2054 [1AP]
        Death and dying:  clarify Federal laws relative to dispensing of
            drugs intended for use for assisted suicide or euthanasia, (see
            H.R. 4006), H7415 [6AU]
        Dept. of Justice:  establish standards of conduct for employees and
            establish a review board to monitor compliance, (see H.R. 3396),
            H4479 [10JN]
        Education:  ensure that the Government adheres to its commitment to
            State and local governments to share the expense of educating
            disabled children, (see H.R. 3930), H4550 [11JN]
        ------ spending of a greater percentage of Federal tax dollars on
            children's classrooms, (see H.R. 3248), H755 [3MR]
        Energy Policy Act:  take into account newly developed renewable
            energy-based fuels and equalize alternative fuel vehicle
            acquisition incentives, (see H.R. 2568), H2706 [30AP]
        European Union:  unfair restriction on the importation of U.S. beef,
            (see H. Con. Res. 212), H904 [5MR]
        Families and domestic relations:  provide equitable child care
            relief for stay at-home parents, (see H. Con. Res. 202), H386
            [5FE]
        Federal employees:  allow use of medical savings accounts under
            health benefits program, (see H.R. 3166), H3014 [7MY]
        Federal firefighters:  hourly and overtime pay rates and pay equity
            with other civil service employees and public sector
            firefighters, (see H.R. 1166), H904 [5MR]
        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), H4962 [22JN]
        ------ repeal prohibitions relative to semiautomatic firearms and
            large capacity ammunition feeding devices, (see H.R. 1147),
            H6186 [22JY]
        Food:  consumer access to information on the health benefits of
            foods and dietary supplements, (see H.R. 2868), H4629 [16JN]
        Food Quality Protection Act:  congressional oversight of
            implementation, (see H. Con. Res. 290), H4712 [17JN]
        Forest Service:  reduce overhead and other costs and improve fiscal
            accountability through improved financial accounting system,
            (see H.R. 4149), H5594 [15JY]
        Freedom of religion:  protect religious liberty, (see H.R. 4154),
            H5403 [25JN]
        George H.W. Bush Center for Central Intelligence, Langley, VA:
            designate, (see H.R. 3821), H4835 [18JN]
        Health care facilities:  establish limits for imposition of fines
            relative to false health care claims, (see H.R. 3523), H2319
            [23AP]
        Health care professionals:  exempt physician office laboratories
            from clinical laboratory requirements, (see H.R. 2250), H3247
            [13MY]
        Iran:  impose sanctions on efforts to acquire advance missile
            technology and expedite the development of a missile defense
            system for both U.S. and Israeli Armed Forces, (see H. Con. Res.
            342), H10833 [13OC]
        Iraq:  congressional authorization of offensive military action,
            (see H. Con. Res. 226), H677 [26FE]
        ------ material and unacceptable breach of international obligations
            relative to weapons inspections, (see H. Con. Res. 340), H10833
            [13OC]
        Iron and steel industry:  respond to the surge of steel imports
            resulting from the financial crises in Asia, Russia, and other
            regions, (see H. Con. Res. 328), H9723 [6OC]
        John T. Myers Federal Building, Terre Haute, IN:  designate, (see
            H.R. 4668), H9274 [1OC]
        Korea, Democratic People's Republic of:  U.S. commitment to arrange
            foreign assistance and construction of nuclear reactors relative
            to threat to international peace and security, (see H. Con. Res.
            341), H10833 [13OC]
        Law enforcement officers:  exemption from State laws prohibiting
            carrying of concealed handguns, (see H.R. 218), H7414 [6AU]
        Lewis and Clark expedition:  mint coins in commemoration of
            bicentennial, (see H.R. 1560), H3247 [13MY]
        ``Little Rock Nine'':  award Congressional Gold Medals, (see H.R.
            2560), H8932 [25SE]
        Medicare:  allocate savings from waste, fraud, and abuse enforcement
            programs to the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, (see H.
            Con. Res. 321), H7290 [5AU]
        ------ delay implementation of interim payment system to home health
            agencies for home health services, (see H.R. 3567), H2814 [5MY]
        ------ election of Medicare+Choice organizations to exclude payment
            for abortion services, (see H.R. 4228), H5738 [16JY]
        Members of Congress:  follow the examples of self-sacrifice and
            devotion to character displayed by Jacob J. Chestnut and John M.
            Gibson of the Capitol Police, (see H. Con. Res. 317), H7915
            [16SE]
        National Institute of Biomedical Imaging:  establish, (see H.R.
            1715), H2236 [22AP]
        Pensions:  exclude the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund
            from the Federal budget, (see H.R. 107), H3743 [21MY]
        Privacy:  protect the integrity and confidentiality of Social
            Security numbers and prohibit the establishment of any uniform
            national identifying number, (see H.R. 3261), H6697 [29JY]
        ------ repeal law creating a national identification card by
            establishing Federal standards for birth certificates and
            drivers' licenses, (see H.R. 4197), H5594 [15JY], (see H.R.
            4217), H6698 [29JY]
        ------ repeal law creating unique health care identifiers for all
            citizens in order to create national medical history database,
            (see H.R. 4281), H6698 [29JY]
        Science:  prohibit cloning of humans, (see H.R. 923), H2055 [1AP]
        ------ prohibit Federal funding for human cloning research, (see
            H.R. 922), H4835 [18JN]
        SEC:  limit collection of certain fees, (see H.R. 4213), H7178 [4AU]
        Securities:  limit the conduct of securities class actions under
            State law, (see H.R. 1689), H386 [5FE]
        Social Security:  increase earnings limit, (see H.R. 349), H1021
            [10MR], (see H.R. 326), H7428 [7AU]
        ------ payment for certain hospital discharges to post-acute care,
            (see H.R. 2908), H1021 [10MR]
        ------ prevent distribution of benefits to prisoners, (see H.R.
            530), H3624 [20MY]
        Taxation:  allow Farm and Ranch Risk Management Accounts, (see H.R.
            3659), H2053 [1AP]
        ------ applications for an exclusion of gain on certain sales of a
            principal residence by a surviving spouse, (see H.R. 3541),
            H2424 [28AP]
        ------ capital gains rates, (see H.R. 4125), H5957 [20JY]
        ------ cost-of-living adjustment for unified estate and gift tax
            credit, (see H.R. 3945), H3970 [22MY]
        ------ elimination of estate and gift taxes, (see H.R. 3879), H3311
            [14MY]
        ------ establish medical innovation tax credits for clinical testing
            research expenses relative to academic medical centers and other
            qualified hospital research organizations, (see H.R. 3815),
            H5064 [23JN]
        ------ extend the research credit and modify the alternative
            incremental credit, (see H.R. 2819), H5859 [17JY]
        ------ increase child tax credit for certain children and allow such
            credit against the alternative minimum tax, (see H.R. 3583),
            H3106 [12MY]
        ------ increase maximum contribution to education savings accounts,
            (see H.R. 4147), H5957 [20JY]
        ------ prevent increase on variable annuities and other variable
            contracts, (see H. Con. Res. 211), H851 [4MR]
        ------ provide additional retirement savings opportunities for small
            employers and self-employed individuals, (see H.R. 3870), H6999
            [3AU]
        ------ 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]
        ------ repeal information reporting requirement imposed on
            educational institutions and certain other trades and businesses
            relative to the Hope Scholarship and Lifetime Learning Credits,
            (see H.R. 3127), H909 [9MR]
        ------ 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), H631 [25FE]
        ------ treatment of estate taxes on family-owned farm businesses,
            (see H.R. 4587), H7914 [16SE]
        ------ treatment of individual retirement accounts relative to
            charitable contributions, (see H.R. 2821), H6487 [27JY]
        ------ treatment of printed wiring boards and printed wiring
            assembly equipment, (see H.R. 2817), H5859 [17JY]
        Television:  implementation of ratings system for programming, (see
            H.R. 1760), H7290 [5AU]
        Treaties and agreements:  conditions for the U.S. becoming a
            signatory to any international agreement relative to Kyoto
            Protocol, (see H.R. 3807), H3744 [21MY]
        Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo:  determine validity of certain land
            claims involving the descendants of persons who were Mexican
            citizens, (see H.R. 2538), H2318 [23AP]
        Weapons:  ensure that any national missile defense program protects
            Alaska, Hawaii, and U.S. territories and commonwealths, (see H.
            Con. Res. 278), H3488 [19MY]
      Bills and resolutions introduced
        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]
      Remarks
        Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs:
            making appropriations (H.R. 4101), H5095 [24JN], H5096 [24JN]
        Armed Forces:  funding of abortions for military personnel and
            dependents at overseas military medical facilities, H3573 [20MY]
        Budget:  setting forth the Federal budget for 1999-2003 (H. Con.
            Res. 284), H4202 [5JN]
        Clinton, President:  impeachment (H. Res. 611), H12016<bullet>
            [19DE]
        Crime:  identity fraud (H.R. 4151), H9996 [7OC]
        Dept. of Defense:  authorizing appropriations for military
            activities and prescribing personnel strengths (H.R. 3616),
            H3573 [20MY]
        ------ funding, H4202 [5JN]
        Depts. of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related
            agencies:  making appropriations (H.R. 4276), H7171 [4AU]
        Elections:  constitutional amendment to limit campaign expenditures
            (H.J. Res. 119), H4449 [10JN]
        FDA:  prohibit funding for research, development, and approval of
            any drug for chemical inducement of abortion, H5095 [24JN],
            H5096 [24JN]
        Freedom of religion:  constitutional amendment on protection (H.J.
            Res. 78), H4085 [4JN], H4101<bullet> [4JN]
        Taxation:  eliminate marriage tax penalty, H2934 [7MY]
        U.N.:  payment of U.S. arrearages, H7171 [4AU]