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

    DeGETTE, DIANA (a Representative from Colorado)
      Amendments
        Depts. of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related
            agencies:  making appropriations (H.R. 4276), H7143 [4AU]
      Bills and resolutions cosponsored
        Abortion:  protection of reproductive health services clinics, (see
            H. Res. 358), H446 [11FE]
        Agriculture:  prohibit transfer or marketing of nonambulatory
            cattle, sheep, swine, horses, mules, or goats, (see H.R. 453),
            H3105 [12MY]
        Anderson, Marian:  mint commemorative coins, (see H.R. 864), H3744
            [21MY]
        Armed Forces:  administration of certain drugs without informed
            consent, (see H.R. 4035), H6999 [3AU]
        ------ establish demonstration project relative to enrollment of
            certain beneficiaries in the Federal Employees Health Benefits
            Program, (see H.R. 1766), H2236 [22AP]
        Army:  close School of the Americas, (see H.R. 611), H578 [24FE]
        Census:  collection of demographic, social, and economic data for
            2000 decennial census, (see H. Con. Res. 246), H5957 [20JY]
        CERCLA:  clarify liability for certain recycling transactions, (see
            H.R. 2733), H1236 [17MR]
        ------ reauthorize, (see H.R. 3262), H630 [25FE], (see H.R. 3595),
            H1776 [30MR]
        Children and youth:  improve and extend child nutrition programs,
            (see H.R. 3666), H2053 [1AP]
        ------ provide greater access to child care services for Federal
            employees, (see H.R. 4280), H6069 [21JY]
        China, Republic of:  participation in the World Health Organization,
            (see H. Con. Res. 219), H497 [12FE]
        ------ participation in WHO, (see H.J. Res. 126), H6186 [22JY]
        Colleges and universities:  improve and strengthen recruitment and
            training of math and science teachers, (see H.R. 3338), H902
            [5MR]
        Community development:  provide grant funding for additional
            empowerment zones, (see H.R. 3622), H10077 [8OC]
        Computers:  encourage disclosure and exchange of information
            relative to the year 2000 problem, (see H.R. 4355), H6819 [30JY]
        Credit unions:  clarify laws relative to field of membership of
            Federal credit unions, (see H.R. 1151), H631 [25FE]
        Crime:  enhance Federal enforcement of hate crimes, (see H.R. 3081),
            H498 [12FE]
        ------ prevent violence against women, (see H.R. 3514), H1336 [19MR]
        Cuba:  exception to trade embargo for food, medicines and medical
            supplies, instruments, or equipment, (see H.R. 1951), H1699
            [27MR]
        Dept. of HHS:  provide additional exceptions to the imposition of
            civil money penalties in cases of payments to beneficiaries,
            (see H.R. 3511), H5297 [24JN]
        ------ revise and extend certain women's health research and
            prevention activities programs, (see H.R. 4683), H9537 [5OC]
        Dept. of Veterans Affairs:  establish certain presumptions of
            service connection for Persian Gulf Conflict veterans, (see H.R.
            4036), H7000 [3AU]
        Developing countries:  recognize the importance of providing access
            to microcredit, (see H. Res. 475), H7495 [9SE]
        Diseases:  treatments relative to the transmission of HIV, (see H.R.
            3072), H498 [12FE]
        Education:  establish a youth mentoring program, (see H.R. 2963),
            H678 [26FE]
        ------ provide for various capital investments in technology
            education, (see H.R. 2994), H1550 [25MR]
        ------ support the participation of low-income parents in
            postsecondary education through the provision of campus-based
            child care, (see H.R. 3296), H9345 [2OC]
        Families and domestic relations:  increase availability,
            affordability, and quality of child care, (see H.R. 4030), H4478
            [10JN]
        Federal employees:  computation system for Social Security benefits
            relative to spouses' and surviving spouses' Government pensions,
            (see H.R. 2273), H755 [3MR]
        Firearms:  regulation of transfers at gun shows, (see H.R. 3833),
            H3744 [21MY]
        Food:  improve safety of imported foods, (see H.R. 4080), H4834
            [18JN]
        Foreign trade:  eliminate disincentives to fair trade conditions,
            (see H.R. 2509), H2056 [1AP]
        ------ prohibit sale, importation, and exportation of products
            derived from rhinoceros or tiger, (see H.R. 2807), H65 [27JA]
        Government:  procurement access for women-owned businesses, (see H.
            Res. 313), H6698 [29JY]
        Health:  establish standards to improve children's health quality in
            managed care plans and other health plans, (see H.R. 4118),
            H5405 [25JN]
        ------ protection of enrollees in managed care plans and HMO's, (see
            H.R. 3605), H1853 [31MR]
        ------ revise and extend mammography quality standards programs,
            (see H.R. 4382), H6999 [3AU]
        Homeless:  protection of voting rights, (see H.R. 74), H447 [11FE]
        House of Representatives:  authorize participation in State and
            local government transit programs, (see H. Res. 37), H3744
            [21MY]
        Human rights:  expedite the declassification of certain documents
            relating to human rights abuses in Guatemala and Honduras, (see
            H.R. 2635), H1236 [17MR]
        Immigration:  eliminate restrictions which render alien battered
            spouses and their children ineligible to apply for adjustments,
            suspensions, or cancellation of deportation, (see H.R. 4291),
            H10077 [8OC]
        Independent Commission on Campaign Finance Reform:  establish, (see
            H.R. 3502), H1299 [18MR]
        Insurance:  coverage and treatment of emergency services under
            health plans, (see H.R. 815), H2706 [30AP]
        Israel:  independence anniversary, (see H.J. Res. 102), H1700 [27MR]
        Kate Mullany National Historic Site:  establish, (see H.R. 4206),
            H7415 [6AU]
        Land and Water Conservation Fund Act:  Federal land acquisitions
            funding and provide matching grants for State, local, and urban
            conservation and recreation programs, (see H.R. 4467), H9537
            [5OC]
        Law enforcement:  establish matching grant program to help local
            governments purchase armor vests for officers, (see H.R. 2829),
            H498 [12FE]
        Lewis and Clark expedition:  mint coins in commemoration of
            bicentennial, (see H.R. 1560), H7494 [9SE]
        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), H1379 [23MR]
        Medicaid:  coverage of breast and cervical cancer treatment services
            for certain women screened under federally funded programs, (see
            H.R. 3779), H4325 [9JN]
        ------ coverage of community-based attendant services, (see H.R.
            2020), H1236 [17MR]
        ------ prohibit transfers or discharges of residents of nursing
            facilities, (see H.R. 4046), H5065 [23JN]
        Medicare:  delay implementation of interim payment system to home
            health agencies for home health services, (see H.R. 3205), H2423
            [28AP]
        ------ implement a budget-neutral payment system for outpatient
            rehabilitation services, (see H.R. 4534), H10917 [14OC]
        ------ payment for insulin pumps, (see H.R. 3814), H6070 [21JY]
        ------ payments to children's hospitals that operate graduate
            medical education programs, (see H.R. 3855), H4056 [3JN]
        ------ reductions in prescription drug prices, (see H.R. 4646),
            H9083 [26SE], (see H.R. 4627), H10012 [7OC]
        National Days of Dialogue:  support in association with the national
            celebration of the birth of Martin Luther King, Jr., (see H.
            Con. Res. 195), H679 [26FE]
        National Museum of Women's History Advisory Committee:  establish,
            (see H.R. 4722), H10011 [7OC]
        Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act:  provide
            certain nationals an opportunity to apply for adjustment of
            status, (see H.R. 3553), H10011 [7OC]
        NIH:  improve and expand clinical research programs, (see H.R.
            3001), H1445 [24MR]
        Pensions:  exclude the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund
            from the Federal budget, (see H.R. 107), H329 [4FE]
        Point Reyes National Seashore:  protect farmland, (see H.R. 1995),
            H904 [5MR]
        Public lands:  designate certain national parks, wild and scenic
            rivers, and wilderness areas in Idaho, Montana, Oregon,
            Washington, and Wyoming, (see H.R. 1425), H3488 [19MY]
        ------ require congressional approval before entering into certain
            agreements or arrangements, (see H.R. 4122), H5064 [23JN]
        San Isabel National Forest:  designate certain lands as Spanish
            Peaks Wilderness, (see H.R. 1865), H4479 [10JN]
        SBA:  women's business centers funding, (see H.R. 4086), H5594
            [15JY]
        Shepard, Matthew:  condemn murder in Laramie, WY, and address issue
            of hate crimes, (see H. Res. 597), H10917 [14OC]
        Small business:  provide grants to microenterprise organizations to
            assist disadvantaged entrepreneurs, (see H.R. 4179), H9346 [2OC]
        Social Security:  earnings test for blind individuals, (see H.R.
            464), H4550 [11JN]
        Taxation:  expand S corporation eligibility for banks, (see H.R.
            4553), H11023 [15OC]
        ------ extend incentives for alcohol used as a fuel as part of any
            extension of fuel tax rates, (see H.R. 2489), H2056 [1AP]
        ------ extension of the credit for producing electricity from wind,
            (see H.R. 1401), H4165 [4JN]
        ------ increase amount of low-income housing credits allocated in
            each State and index amounts for inflation, (see H.R. 2990),
            H1021 [10MR]
        ------ tax credits relative to elementary and secondary school
            construction, (see H.R. 3320), H850 [4MR]
        Telephones:  strengthen and expand the procedures for preventing the
            slamming of interstate telephone service subscribers, (see H.R.
            3050), H4055 [3JN]
        Tobacco products:  establish a responsible U.S. international
            tobacco policy, prevent tobacco companies from targeting tobacco
            products to children, and establish the American Center on
            Global Health and Tobacco, (see H.R. 3738), H2423 [28AP]
        ------ limit access to minors, (see H.R. 3474), H1236 [17MR], (see
            H.R. 3474), H1378 [23MR]
        ------ reduce youth smoking, increase tobacco-related research, and
            develop safer tobacco products, (see H.R. 3868), H3311 [14MY]
        Women:  ensure a woman's right to breastfeed her child on Federal
            property under certain conditions, (see H.R. 4628), H8931 [25SE]
        ------ promote research and disseminate information on the health
            effects of silicone breast implants, (see H.R. 4028), H7584
            [10SE]
      Bills and resolutions introduced
        Firearms:  ban importation and transfer of large capacity ammunition
            feeding devices, (see H.R. 3609), H1854 [31MR], (see H.R. 3646),
            H2053 [1AP]
        Social Security:  improve coverage of low-income children under
            State Children's Health Insurance Program and Medicaid, (see
            H.R. 4767), H10352 [9OC]
      Remarks
        Abortion:  prohibit partial-birth abortions (H.R. 1122), motion to
            discharge Committee on the Judiciary (House) from consideration
            of veto, H6195 [23JY]
        Appropriations:  making omnibus consolidated and emergency
            supplemental appropriations, H11659<bullet> [20OC]
        Armed Forces:  ensure continuation of gender-integrated training,
            H3711<bullet> [21MY]
        ------ funding of abortions for military personnel and dependents at
            overseas military medical facilities, H3569 [20MY],
            H3711<bullet> [21MY]
        Children and youth:  provide greater access to child care services
            for Federal employees (H.R. 4280), H9359 [5OC]
        Clinton, President:  Committee on the Judiciary (House) inquiry into
            whether grounds exist to impeach (H. Res. 581), H10083 [8OC]
        ------ impeachment (H. Res. 611), H11795 [18DE]
        Correctional institutions:  prohibit Federal funding for abortions
            except in cases of life endangering conditions or rape, H7143
            [4AU], H7145 [4AU]
        Courts:  mandatory minimum sentencing relative to criminal use of
            guns (H.R. 424), E228<bullet> [25FE]
        Crime:  notification of interstate relocation of witnesses by State
            engaging in that relocation (H.R. 2181), H603<bullet> [25FE]
        ------ penalties for certain sex offenses against children (H.R.
            3494), H4500 [11JN]
        ------ prohibit taking minors across State lines to avoid State laws
            requiring parental notification of abortions (H.R. 3682), H5525
            [15JY]
        ------ provide State grants for sex offender registration programs,
            H4500<bullet> [11JN]
        Denver, CO:  tribute to National Jewish Medical and Research Center,
            E1628<bullet> [7AU]
        Denver International Airport:  environmental impact of additional
            runway construction, H7034 [4AU]
        Dept. of Defense:  authorizing appropriations for military
            activities and prescribing personnel strengths (H.R. 3616),
            H3569 [20MY], H3711<bullet> [21MY]
        Dept. of State and related agencies:  authorizing appropriations and
            consolidating certain agencies (H.R. 1757), conference report,
            H1592 [26MR]
        Dept. of the Interior and related agencies:  making appropriations
            (H.R. 4193), consideration (H. Res. 504), H5978 [21JY]
        Dept. of the Treasury, Postal Service, Executive Office of the
            President, and independent agencies:  making appropriations
            (H.R. 4104), H5715<bullet> [16JY]
        ------ making appropriations (H.R. 4104), conference report, H9929
            [7OC]
        Dept. of Transportation:  Congestion Mitigation Air Quality
            Improvement Program funding, H1912<bullet> [1AP]
        Dept. of Transportation and related agencies:  making appropriations
            (H.R. 4328), conference report, H11659<bullet> [20OC]
        Dept. of Veterans Affairs:  authorize medical facility projects and
            leases (H.R. 3603), H3396 [19MY]
        Depts. of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related
            agencies:  making appropriations (H.R. 4276), H7143 [4AU], H7145
            [4AU], H7173<bullet> [4AU], H7261<bullet> [5AU], E1537<bullet>
            [4AU]
        Depts. of Veterans Affairs and HUD, and sundry independent agencies:
             making appropriations (H.R. 4194), H5757 [17JY], H5825 [17JY],
            H5826 [17JY]
        District of Columbia:  scholarship vouchers to provide school choice
            (S. 1502), H2659 [30AP]
        Ecology and environment:  cleanup and redevelopment of brownfield
            sites, H5757 [17JY]
        EPA:  remove restrictions on use of brownfield funds, H5825 [17JY],
            H5826 [17JY]
        Executive Office of the President:  repeal Executive Order on equal
            employment opportunity relative to sexual orientation,
            H7261<bullet> [5AU]
        FAA:  reauthorizing programs (H.R. 4057), H7034 [4AU]
        Families and domestic relations:  provide equitable child care
            relief for stay at-home parents (H. Con. Res. 202), E169<bullet>
            [12FE]
        Federal Employees Health Benefits Program:  coverage of
            contraceptives under any plan providing prescription drug
            coverage, H9929 [7OC]
        Financial institutions:  increase competition in the financial
            services sector (H.R. 10), H3137 [13MY], H3181 [13MY]
        ------ strengthen investor and consumer protections, H3181 [13MY]
        Foreign aid:  international family planning programs restrictions
            relative to abortion, H1592 [26MR]
        Foreign trade:  establish negotiating objectives and fast-track
            procedures for future trade agreements (H.R. 2621),
            H8796<bullet> [25SE]
        Forests:  establish a program of recovery and protection and to
            inventory, monitor, and analyze public and private forests and
            their resources (H.R. 2515), H1655 [27MR]
        Health:  improve the distribution of health care professionals to
            underserved areas and consolidate and reauthorize health
            education programs for minority and disadvantaged individuals
            (S. 1754), H10770<bullet> [13OC]
        ------ protection of enrollees in managed care plans and HMO's (H.R.
            4250), H6396 [24JY]
        ------ revise and extend mammography quality standards programs
            (H.R. 4382), H7748 [15SE]
        Holliday, Gloria E.:  Colorado Black Women for Political Action
            (organization) Politics Award recipient, E2286<bullet> [21OC]
        Israel:  independence anniversary (H.J. Res. 102), H2369<bullet>
            [28AP]
        LSC:  funding, E1537<bullet> [4AU]
        National Endowment for the Arts:  funding, H5978 [21JY]
        National Women's History Month:  observance, H918 [10MR]
        OPM:  allow agencies to use appropriated funds to provide child care
            services for Federal employees, H5715 [16JY]
        Public lands:  protect and improve certain heritage areas, historic
            areas, national parks, wild and scenic rivers, and national
            trails (H.R. 4570), H9752 [7OC]
        Salton Sea:  feasibility study relative to reclamation project (H.R.
            3267), H5550 [15JY]
        SBA:  National Women's Business Council funding, H7173<bullet> [4AU]
        Securities:  limit the conduct of securities class actions under
            State law (H.R. 1689), H6058 [21JY]
        ------ limit the conduct of securities class actions under State law
            (S. 1260), conference report, H10785 [13OC]
        Shepard, Matthew:  condemn murder in Laramie, WY, and address issue
            of hate crimes (H. Res. 597), H10929 [15OC]
        Taxation:  terminate Internal Revenue Code (H.R. 3097),
            H4672<bullet> [17JN]
        Tobacco products:  raise uniform national age for purchase, H2822
            [6MY]
        ------ tobacco industry liability settlement relative to health
            risks and marketing and manufacturing practices, H4727 [18JN],
            H5301 [25JN]
        Transportation:  funding for Federal-aid highways, highway safety
            programs, and transit programs (H.R. 2400), H1912<bullet> [1AP]
        Votes:  correction, E1274<bullet> [26JN]
      Remarks in House relative to
        Leave of absence:  granted, H98 [28JA]
      Statements
        Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act:  by, H10778 [13OC]
      Tributes
        Kelly, John, E932<bullet> [21MY]
        Martin, Paul M., E1612<bullet> [7AU]