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

    METCALF, JACK (a Representative from Washington)
      Amendments
        Depts. of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related
            agencies:  making appropriations (H.R. 4276), H6702 [29JY],
            H7146 [4AU]
        Financial institutions:  increase competition in the financial
            services sector (H.R. 10), H3218 [13MY], H3221 [13MY]
      Appointments
        Conferee:  H.R. 2400, Building Efficient Surface Transportation and
            Equity Act, H2034 [1AP]
      Bills and resolutions cosponsored
        Airlines:  provide protection for airline employees who provide
            certain air safety information, (see H.R. 915), H2055 [1AP]
        Appalachian Regional Development Act:  reauthorize and reform
            programs, (see H.R. 4275), H7415 [6AU]
        Arlington National Cemetery:  enact into law eligibility
            requirements for interment, (see H.R. 3211), H1021 [10MR]
        Armed Forces:  administration of certain drugs without informed
            consent, (see H.R. 4035), H4548 [11JN]
        ------ permit certain beneficiaries to enroll in the Federal
            Employees Health Program and improve health benefits under
            CHAMPUS and TRICARE standard, (see H.R. 1356), H578 [24FE]
        ------ revise rules on retirement payments to former spouses, (see
            H.R. 2537), H7690 [14SE]
        Arms Export Control Act:  exempt federally guaranteed agricultural
            commodities from the application of sanctions, (see H.R. 4022),
            H4835 [18JN]
        Aviation:  provide assistance and slots to air carriers providing
            service between high-density and underserved airports, (see H.R.
            2748), H1112 [11MR]
        Bankruptcy:  reform laws, (see H.R. 3150), H1699 [27MR]
        Bosnia and Herzegovina:  prohibit use of appropriated Federal funds
            for the deployment of Armed Forces after a certain date, (see
            H.R. 4056), H4549 [11JN]
        Children and youth:  parental notification and State criminal
            reporting requirements for minors who seek family planning
            services from federally-funded clinics, (see H.R. 3230), H3744
            [21MY]
        ------ State criminal reporting requirements for minors who seek
            family planning services from federally-funded clinics, (see
            H.R. 3229), H3744 [21MY]
        Citizenship:  restrict citizenship of individuals based solely on
            birth in the U.S., (see H.R. 7), H678 [26FE]
        Computers:  encourage disclosure and exchange of information
            relative to the year 2000 problem, (see H.R. 4455), H10833
            [13OC]
        ------ require persons who sell or transfer materials harmful to
            minors on the Internet to restrict access by minors, (see H.R.
            3783), H7915 [16SE]
        Congressional Office of Regulatory Analysis:  establish, (see H.R.
            1704), H678 [26FE]
        Credit:  repeal pending changes in the interest rates applicable to
            Federal family education loans, (see H.R. 3291), H692 [2MR]
        Credit unions:  clarify laws relative to field of membership of
            Federal credit unions, (see H.R. 1151), H1021 [10MR], (see H.R.
            3265), H1021 [10MR]
        Crime:  prohibit taking minors across State lines to avoid State
            laws requiring parental notification of abortions, (see H.R.
            3682), H2054 [1AP]
        Cuba:  extradition to U.S. of Joanne Chesimard and certain other
            individuals, (see H. Con. Res. 254), H2606 [29AP]
        Death and dying:  recognize suicide as a national problem, (see H.
            Res. 212), H4056 [3JN]
        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]
        ------ equitable retirement for military reserve technicians covered
            under FERS or CSRS, (see H.R. 4153), H6880 [31JY]
        Dept. of HHS:  delay effective date of the final rule relative to
            the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, (see H.R.
            3584), H4550 [11JN]
        ------ disapprove rule submitted on surety bond requirements for
            home health care providers under Medicare and Medicaid, (see
            H.J. Res. 123), H6487 [27JY]
        Dept. of HUD:  modernize requirements and establish consensus
            process for development, revision, and interpretation of safety
            standards for manufactured home construction, (see H.R. 3634),
            H3247 [13MY]
        Dept. of Justice:  establish standards of conduct for employees and
            establish a review board to monitor compliance, (see H.R. 3396),
            H4961 [22JN]
        Dept. of the Treasury:  include certain parts of the Constitution in
            the redesign of the one dollar bill, (see H.R. 3792), H5957
            [20JY]
        Dept. of Transportation:  prohibit from imposing regulations
            relative to the unloading of cargo tank vehicles in liquefied
            compressed gas service, (see H.R. 2936), H631 [25FE]
        Dept. of Veterans Affairs:  conduct Stand Down events and establish
            a pilot program that will provide for an annual Stand Down event
            in each State, (see H.R. 4362), H7415 [6AU]
        ------ determination of service connection for certain illnesses
            caused by exposure to chemical and biological warfare agents
            during the Persian Gulf Conflict, (see H.R. 3279), H2707 [30AP]
        ------ establish certain presumptions of service connection for
            Persian Gulf Conflict veterans, (see H.R. 4036), H4548 [11JN]
        Developing countries:  recognize the importance of providing access
            to microcredit, (see H. Res. 475), H9084 [26SE]
        Drugs:  sentencing of persons convicted of drug offenses while in
            the presence of a minor, (see H.R. 3919), H3624 [20MY]
        Edison, Thomas A.:  mint coins in commemoration of sesquicentennial
            of birth, (see H.R. 678), H2606 [29AP]
        Education:  allow local areas to develop elementary and secondary
            education programs that meet their needs, (see H.R. 2992), H1159
            [12MR]
        ------ dedicate day of learning to study and understanding of the
            Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the
            Federalist Papers, (see H. Con. Res. 316), H7178 [4AU]
        ------ spending of a greater percentage of Federal tax dollars on
            children's classrooms, (see H.R. 3248), H7494 [9SE]
        EPA:  require discharges from combined storm and sanitary sewers
            conform to the combined sewer overflow control policy, (see H.R.
            4242), H7415 [6AU]
        European Union:  unfair restriction on the importation of U.S. beef,
            (see H. Con. Res. 212), H1379 [23MR]
        Fair Debt Collection Practices Act:  reduce the cost of credit, (see
            H.R. 1059), H631 [25FE]
        Fair Housing Act:  amend, (see H.R. 589), H447 [11FE], (see H.R.
            3206), H678 [26FE]
        FDA:  proposal to designate the use of chlorofluorocarbons in
            metered-dose inhalers as nonessential, (see H.R. 2968), H1550
            [25MR]
        Federal employees:  allow use of medical savings accounts under
            health benefits program, (see H.R. 3166), H385 [5FE]
        Federal Employees Health Benefits Program:  coverage of bone mass
            measurements, (see H.R. 2699), H7415 [6AU]
        Federal Prison Industries:  eliminate Federal agency requirement to
            purchase products and require commercial competition for Federal
            contracts, (see H.R. 2758), H3972 [22MY]
        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), H5494 [14JY]
        Fish and fishing:  authorize assistance to the States for fish
            restoration and management projects, (see H.R. 2973), H678
            [26FE]
        Food Quality Protection Act:  congressional oversight of
            implementation, (see H. Con. Res. 290), H10077 [8OC]
        Foreign policy:  support broad-based agricultural and rural
            development in sub-Saharan Africa, (see H.R. 3636), H2707
            [30AP], (see H.R. 4283), H6069 [21JY]
        FRS:  reduction of Federal funds rate by Federal Open Market
            Committee, (see H. Con. Res. 329), H9179 [28SE]
        Germany:  discrimination against members of minority religious
            groups, (see H. Con. Res. 325), H7414 [6AU]
        Health:  importance of mammograms and biopsies in the prevention of
            breast cancer, (see H. Res. 565), H9274 [1OC]
        ------ prohibit discrimination or retaliation against health care
            workers who report unsafe conditions and practices, (see H.R.
            3342), H1643 [26MR]
        ------ protection of enrollees in managed care plans and HMO's, (see
            H.R. 4250), H5736 [16JY]
        Health care facilities:  establish limits for imposition of fines
            relative to false health care claims, (see H.R. 3523), H2120
            [21AP]
        House of Representatives:  authorize participation in State and
            local government transit programs, (see H. Res. 37), H3625
            [20MY]
        Housing:  access to affordable housing and expansion of
            homeownership opportunities, (see H. Con. Res. 208), H1159
            [12MR]
        ------ expand homeownership, (see H.R. 3899), H3488 [19MY]
        ------ remove barriers to the provision of affordable housing, (see
            H.R. 3435), H1111 [11MR]
        ------ use of project rental assistance contracts to finance housing
            conversions for elderly persons, (see H.R. 3635), H2052 [1AP]
        IMF:  eliminate policy of providing de facto tax-free salaries to
            certain employees, (see H.R. 3785), H2706 [30AP]
        Immigration:  admittance of temporary and seasonal agricultural
            workers, (see H.R. 2377), H2931 [6MY]
        ------ allow admittance of temporary or seasonal agricultural
            workers relative to reductions in certain workers' visas, (see
            H.R. 3410), H2931 [6MY]
        ------ arrival and departure requirements for Canadian citizens
            relative to automated entry and exit control systems, (see H.R.
            2955), H65 [27JA]
        Independent Commission on Campaign Finance Reform:  establish, (see
            H.R. 3502), H1299 [18MR]
        Insurance:  Federal reinsurance contracts for eligible State
            insurance programs covering homeowners impacted by natural
            disasters, (see H.R. 219), H64 [27JA]
        International Atomic Energy Agency:  withhold voluntary proportional
            assistance relative to the development and completion of the
            Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran, (see H.R. 3743), H2605
            [29AP]
        Iraq:  congressional authorization of offensive military action,
            (see H. Con. Res. 226), H677 [26FE]
        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), H10513 [10OC]
        Law enforcement officers:  establish a matching grant program to
            assist local governments in purchasing armor vests, (see H.R.
            2829), H755 [3MR]
        Library of Congress:  mint coins in commemoration of bicentennial,
            (see H.R. 3790), H6820 [30JY]
        Lighthouses:  establish a national historic lighthouse preservation
            program, (see H.R. 2970), H447 [11FE]
        Mandela, Nelson R.:  award Congressional Gold Medal, (see H.R.
            3156), H678 [26FE]
        McVay, Charles B., III:  exonerate from responsibility in the
            sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, (see H.R. 3710), H3247
            [13MY]
        Medicaid:  allow States to use State Children's Health Insurance
            Program allotment to cover additional low-income children, (see
            H.R. 4583), H7914 [16SE]
        Medicare:  allow beneficiaries to enter into private contracts for
            services, (see H.R. 2497), H497 [12FE]
        ------ delay implementation of interim payment system to home health
            agencies for home health services, (see H.R. 3567), H6453 [24JY]
        ------ delay implementation of interim payment system to home health
            agencies for home health services, (see H.R. 4339), H9275 [1OC]
        ------ eliminate budget neutrality adjustment factor used in
            calculating blended capitation rate for Medicare+Choice
            organizations, (see H.R. 4492), H10353 [9OC]
        ------ reform payment system for home health services, (see H.R.
            4370), H7415 [6AU], (see H.R. 4404), H7429 [7AU]
        Medicare/Medicaid:  establish an Office of Inspector General, (see
            H.R. 251), H447 [11FE]
        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), H7585
            [10SE]
        Mexico:  disapprove foreign aid certification of drug enforcement
            efforts, but grant national interest waiver, (see H.J. Res.
            114), H1021 [10MR]
        Naval Armed Guard Service:  appreciation to veterans for service
            during World War I and World War II, (see H.J. Res. 99), H2814
            [5MY]
        Navy Combat Action Ribbon:  retroactive awarding to certain
            individuals, (see H.R. 543), H3743 [21MY]
        Nigeria:  efforts to combat advance fee fraud schemes, (see H.R.
            3916), H3624 [20MY]
        NIH:  expand programs to research osteoporosis and related bone
            diseases, (see H.R. 2697), H7690 [14SE]
        North American Wetlands Conservation Act:  reauthorizing, (see H.R.
            2556), H386 [5FE]
        Older Americans Act:  reauthorize, (see H.R. 4344), H6697 [29JY]
        Pensions:  waive limit on benefits from multiemployer plans, (see
            H.R. 3632), H4550 [11JN]
        Petroleum:  authorize oilheat industry research and consumer
            education programs, (see H.R. 3610), H3106 [12MY]
        Point Reyes National Seashore:  protect farmland, cosponsorship
            withdrawn, (see H.R. 1995), H8932 [25SE]
        Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the U.S.:
            establish, (see H.R. 3662), H4325 [9JN]
        Privacy:  repeal law creating a national identification card by
            establishing Federal standards for birth certificates and
            drivers' licenses, (see H.R. 4197), H6698 [29JY], (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], (see H.R. 4312), H6698 [29JY]
        Public welfare programs:  establish asset-based welfare policies,
            (see H.R. 2849), H1699 [27MR]
        Public Works and Economic Development Act:  reauthorize and reform
            programs, (see H.R. 4275), H7415 [6AU]
        Railroads:  modify the guaranteed minimum benefit for widows and
            widowers relative to conversion from spouse to widow or widower
            annuity, (see H. Con. Res. 52), H498 [12FE]
        Science:  prohibit Federal funding for human cloning research, (see
            H.R. 3133), H386 [5FE]
        Senior citizens:  improve financial and emotional security, (see
            H.R. 2333), H10513 [10OC]
        Small business:  provide grants to microenterprise organizations to
            assist disadvantaged entrepreneurs, (see H.R. 4179), H9346 [2OC]
        Social Security:  prevent distribution of benefits to prisoners,
            (see H.R. 530), H1643 [26MR]
        Taxation:  allow Farm and Ranch Risk Management Accounts, (see H.R.
            3659), H3014 [7MY]
        ------ allow nonitemizers a deduction for a portion of their
            charitable contributions, (see H.R. 2499), H3366 [18MY]
        ------ capital gains rates, (see H.R. 4125), H5296 [24JN]
        ------ constitutional amendment relative to certain tax limitations,
            (see H.J. Res. 111), H677 [26FE]
        ------ designate renewal communities, (see H.R. 3865), H4712 [17JN]
        ------ eliminate marriage tax penalty by adjusting income tax rate
            brackets and standard deduction amounts, (see H.R. 3734), H7617
            [11SE]
        ------ elimination of estate and gift taxes, (see H.R. 3879), H4835
            [18JN]
        ------ extend research credit to expenses attributable to certain
            collaborative research consortia, (see H.R. 3857), H3246 [13MY]
        ------ increase State cap on private activity bonds, (see H.R. 979),
            H386 [5FE]
        ------ modify the low-income housing credit, (see H.R. 3290), H676
            [26FE]
        ------ partial exclusion from gross income for dividends and
            interest received by individuals, (see H.R. 3215), H7415 [6AU]
        ------ provide additional retirement savings opportunities for small
            employers and self-employed individuals, (see H.R. 3870), H6999
            [3AU]
        ------ provide incentives for investment in renewal communities,
            (see H.R. 1031), H447 [11FE]
        ------ terminate Internal Revenue Code, (see H.R. 3097), H62 [27JA]
        ------ treatment of cooperative housing corporations and their
            shareholders, (see H.R. 4386), H6999 [3AU]
        ------ treatment of forestry activities, (see H.R. 4126), H7428
            [7AU]
        ------ treatment of individual retirement accounts relative to
            charitable contributions, (see H.R. 2821), H7290 [5AU]
        Telephones:  reduce rates and provide advanced telecommunications
            services to schools, libraries, and certain health care
            facilities, (see H.R. 4324), H7585 [10SE]
        ------ strengthen and expand the procedures for preventing the
            slamming of interstate telephone service subscribers, (see H.R.
            3749), H2814 [5MY], (see H.R. 3888), H3625 [20MY]
        Television:  reform laws relative to satellite retransmissions of
            broadcast signals, (see H.R. 4449), H7495 [9SE]
        U.S. Navy Asiatic Fleet:  appreciation to veterans for service, (see
            H.J. Res. 100), H330 [4FE]
        Veterans:  eligibility for hospital care and services relative to
            awarding of Purple Heart, (see H.R. 2397), H9345 [2OC]
        ------ extend priority health care to individuals who served during
            the Persian Gulf Conflict, (see H.R. 3661), H4165 [4JN]
        ------ improve access to health care services for certain Medicare-
            eligible veterans, (see H.R. 3828), H3104 [12MY]
        Water pollution:  restore estuary habitats through more efficient
            financing of projects and the enhanced coordination of Federal
            and non-Federal programs, (see H.R. 4634), H9275 [1OC]
      Bills and resolutions introduced
        Dept. of Transportation:  conveyance of Mukilteo Light Station to
            Mukilteo, WA, (see H.R. 4207), H5492 [14JY]
        Education:  computation of Impact Aid Program payments to local
            educational agencies relative to certain children living in
            military housing constructed by private developers, (see H.R.
            4133), H5297 [24JN]
        Government:  status of Executive orders that infringe on the powers
            and duties of Congress or are not specifically funded, (see H.
            Con. Res. 236), H903 [5MR]
        International Whaling Commission:  U.S. policy, (see H. Res. 425),
            H3014 [7MY]
        Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act:
            technical corrections, (see H.R. 4482), H7413 [6AU]
        Northwest Straits Advisory Commission:  establish, (see H.R. 4585),
            H7914 [16SE]
        Schaffert, Richard W.:  relief, (see H.R. 3257), H578 [24FE]
      Letters
        Whale hunting y the Makah Indian tribe off the coast of Washington:
            Will Anderson, Progressive Animal Welfare Society,
            E2102<bullet>-E2104<bullet> [12OC]
      Remarks
        Bosnia and Herzegovina:  withdrawal of U.S. Armed Forces (H. Con.
            Res. 227), H1266 [18MR]
        Clinton, President:  impeachment (H. Res. 611), H11929 [18DE]
        Computers:  problem with differentiating years 2000 and 1900, H4968
            [23JN]
        Customs Service:  authorizing appropriations (H.R. 3809),
            H3414<bullet> [19MY]
        Depts. of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related
            agencies:  making appropriations (H.R. 4276), H7146 [4AU], H7147
            [4AU]
        Education:  direct funding and control to local educational
            agencies, H10887 [14OC]
        ------ national policy to improve system, H10677 [13OC], H10887
            [14OC]
        FEC:  eliminate background music in determining whether broadcast
            advertising is express advocacy, H6831 [30JY]
        Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act:  requirements relative to
            health claims on food labels, H509 [24FE]
        Financial institutions:  allow retention of ``Federal'' in name of
            depository institutions converted to a national or State bank,
            H3218 [13MY], H3219 [13MY]
        ------ increase competition in the financial services sector (H.R.
            10), H3218 [13MY], H3219 [13MY]
        ------ streamline the regulation of depository institutions and
            safeguard confidential banking and credit union supervisory
            information (H.R. 4364), H10216<bullet> [8OC], H10216 [8OC]
        Fish and fishing:  approve international fishery agreement with
            Poland (H.R. 3461), H10597<bullet> [12OC]
        Government:  shutdown relative to budget process, H10677 [13OC]
        Homeless:  consolidate Federal housing assistance programs (H.R.
            217), H716 [3MR], H883 [5MR]
        ------ housing programs for veterans (H.R. 1754), H883 [5MR]
        Housing:  access to affordable housing and expansion of
            homeownership opportunities (H. Con. Res. 208), H5875 [20JY]
        ------ expand homeownership (H.R. 3899), H10707 [13OC]
        Independent Commission on Campaign Finance Reform:  establish, H4858
            [19JN]
        INS:  repeal requirement to develop automated entry and exit control
            system, H7146 [4AU], H7147 [4AU]
        International Whaling Commission:  U.S. policy (H. Res. 425), H3118
            [13MY]
        IRS:  restructure and reform, H71 [28JA]
        Larson, Edward:  recipient of Pulitzer Prize for Best Work of
            History, H2062 [21AP]
        Mount Vernon, WA:  tribute to Youth in Action Program, H4575 [16JN]
        Northwest Straits Advisory Commission:  establish, H10597<bullet>
            [12OC]
        Political campaigns:  application of term ``express advocacy''
            relative to communications providing voting records or positions
            taken by candidates for public office, H5464 [14JY]
        ------ ethics reform and contribution limits (H.R. 2183), H3787
            [22MY], H4789 [18JN], H4858 [19JN], H5464 [14JY], H6831 [30JY]
        Taxation:  terminate Internal Revenue Code (H.R. 3097), H4660 [17JN]
        Transportation:  Fast Corridor Program funding, H1891 [1AP]
        ------ funding for Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs,
            and transit programs (H.R. 2400), H1706 [30MR], H1784 [31MR],
            H1891 [1AP]
        Votes:  position on missed, H1824 [31MR]
        Washington:  proposal to resume whale hunting by the Makah Indian
            tribe, H1692 [27MR]
        ------ proposal to resume whale hunting by the Makah Indian tribe,
            E2102<bullet> [12OC]
      Remarks in House relative to
        Special order:  granted, H493 [12FE], H753 [3MR], H900 [5MR], H1443
            [24MR], H1698 [27MR], H2314 [23AP], H3482 [19MY], H3739 [21MY],
            H4322 [9JN], H4832 [18JN], H8032 [17SE], H9176 [28SE]
      Tributes
        Colvin, Leroy, H4298 [9JN]
        Umanets, Valentina, E926<bullet> [20MY]