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

    ROYCE, EDWARD R. (a Representative from California)
      Amendments
        Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs:
            making appropriations (H.R. 4101), H5085 [24JN]
        Depts. of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related
            agencies:  making appropriations (H.R. 4276), H6295 [23JY],
            H7169 [4AU], H7214 [5AU]
        Depts. of Veterans Affairs and HUD, and sundry independent agencies:
             making appropriations (H.R. 4194), H6536 [29JY]
        Foreign operations, export financing, and related programs:  making
            appropriations (H.R. 4569), H7921 [16SE]
      Appointments
        Sonny Bono funeral attendees, H18 [27JA]
      Bills and resolutions cosponsored
        Afghanistan:  establish cease fire and begin transition toward a
            broad-based multiethnic government that observes international
            norms of behavior, (see H. Con. Res. 218), H1550 [25MR]
        Agriculture:  treatment of certain payments under the Agricultural
            Market Transition Act, (see H.R. 502), H5404 [25JN]
        Algeria:  human rights violations, (see H. Res. 374), H2424 [28AP]
        Amtrak:  eliminate special support for, or burdens on, operations as
            a passenger rail carrier, (see H.R. 1666), H5404 [25JN]
        Armed Forces:  permit certain beneficiaries to enroll in the Federal
            Employees Health Program and improve health benefits under
            CHAMPUS and TRICARE standard, (see H.R. 1356), H329 [4FE]
        Bankruptcy:  reform laws, (see H.R. 3150), H2120 [21AP]
        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]
        Budget:  allow reductions in the discretionary spending limits to be
            used to offset tax cuts, (see H.R. 3707), H2932 [6MY]
        ------ provide for expedited consideration of certain proposed
            rescissions of budget authority, (see H.R. 4174), H6880 [31JY]
        ------ reform process relative to use of joint resolutions,
            emergency spending, spending accountability, Federal insurance
            programs, pay-go requirements, decision enforcement, and
            mitigation of bias, (see H.R. 4837), H11023 [15OC]
        ------ sequestration of all budgetary accounts except Social
            Security, Federal retirement, and interest on the debt, (see
            H.R. 593), H5404 [25JN]
        Committee on the Judiciary (House):  undertake an inquiry into
            whether grounds exist to impeach President Clinton, (see H. Res.
            304), H7495 [9SE]
        Computers:  encourage disclosure and exchange of information
            relative to the year 2000 problem, (see H.R. 4455), H7412 [6AU]
        ------ provide that actions, including ones to recover damages,
            resulting from a computer date failure shall be deemed to be
            based solely in contract when certain conditions have been met,
            (see H.R. 4240), H7415 [6AU]
        Congressional Office of Regulatory Analysis:  establish, (see H.R.
            1704), H3744 [21MY]
        Corp. for Public Broadcasting:  repeal statutory authority, (see
            H.R. 121), H5404 [25JN]
        Credit unions:  clarify laws relative to field of membership of
            Federal credit unions, (see H.R. 1151), H631 [25FE]
        Crime:  constitutional amendment to prevent early release of violent
            criminals, (see H.J. Res. 64), H2814 [5MY]
        ------ expand prohibition on stalking, (see H.R. 3747), H2605 [29AP]
        ------ prohibit convicted felons from collecting damages for
            injuries suffered during the commission of a crime, (see H.R.
            4446), H7411 [6AU]
        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 HUD:  modernize requirements and establish consensus
            process for development, revision, and interpretation of safety
            standards for manufactured home construction, (see H.R. 3634),
            H2052 [1AP]
        Dept. of the Treasury:  include certain parts of the Constitution in
            the redesign of the one dollar bill, (see H.R. 3792), H3014
            [7MY]
        Education:  ensure that funding is not used to promote the teaching
            or use of regional or group dialects, (see H.R. 1203), H3972
            [22MY]
        ------ spending of a greater percentage of Federal tax dollars on
            children's classrooms, (see H.R. 3248), H577 [24FE]
        Evans, Dale:  award Congressional Gold Medal, (see H.R. 2752), H2706
            [30AP]
        Executive departments:  promote financial management, (see H. Res.
            447), H3743 [21MY]
        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), H8084 [18SE]
        Federal employees:  reduce number of political appointees, (see H.R.
            614), H5493 [14JY]
        Federal Prison Industries:  eliminate Federal agency requirement to
            purchase products and require commercial competition for Federal
            contracts, (see H.R. 2758), H1337 [19MR]
        Food Quality Protection Act:  congressional oversight of
            implementation, (see H. Con. Res. 290), H8084 [18SE]
        Foreign policy:  establish framework for consideration of unilateral
            economic sanctions, (see H.R. 2708), H8528 [23SE]
        Government:  limit Federal authority to impose regulations on State
            and local governments not provided under the Constitution, (see
            H.R. 4196), H5738 [16JY], (see H.R. 4232), H5738 [16JY], (see H.
            Con. Res. 299), H6698 [29JY]
        Hazardous substances:  require one-call notification system to
            protect natural gas and hazardous liquid pipelines from
            excavation damage, (see H.R. 3318), H1445 [24MR]
        Housing:  access to affordable housing and expansion of
            homeownership opportunities, (see H. Con. Res. 208), H5859
            [17JY]
        Individuals With Disabilities Education Act:  clarify requirements
            relative to reducing or withholding payments to States, (see
            H.R. 3254), H6453 [24JY]
        Insurance:  provide consumers choice of auto insurance relative to
            compensation for economic and non-economic losses, (see H.R.
            2021), H5064 [23JN]
        Japan:  eliminate barriers to foreign trade and investment relative
            to resolution of the Asian financial crisis, (see H. Res. 392),
            H2932 [6MY]
        Korea, Republic of:  anniversary of relations with the U.S., (see H.
            Res. 459), H4241 [5JN]
        Labor unions:  protect the free choice of individual employees
            relative to participation in labor organizations, (see H.R. 59),
            H240 [3FE]
        Line Item Veto Act:  direct savings toward reducing the public debt
            when used during Federal budget surplus years, (see H.R. 3228),
            H2056 [1AP]
        Medicare:  coverage of medical nutrition therapy services, (see H.R.
            1375), H578 [24FE]
        ------ reimbursement to Military Health Services System, (see H.R.
            414), H5404 [25JN]
        Mexico:  renegotiation of extradition treaty so that the possibility
            of capital punishment will not interfere with the extradition of
            criminal suspects to the U.S., (see H. Res. 381), H904 [5MR]
        Motor vehicles:  treatment of foreign vehicles relative to State
            emission standards, (see H.R. 8), H4165 [4JN]
        National Service Trust Program:  repeal, (see H.R. 993), H5404
            [25JN]
        Nigeria:  efforts to combat advance fee fraud schemes, (see H.R.
            3916), H3624 [20MY]
        Philippines:  commemorate independence anniversary and U.S.
            relations, (see H. Res. 404), H3015 [7MY]
        Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the U.S.:
            establish, (see H.R. 3662), H4241 [5JN]
        President's Task Force on National Health Care Reform:  prohibit
            Federal funding of attorneys' fees, costs, and imposed
            sanctions, (see H.J. Res. 107), H240 [3FE]
        Public safety officers:  establish national medal for those who act
            with extraordinary valor above and beyond the call of duty, (see
            H.R. 4090), H6880 [31JY]
        Rogers, Roy:  award Congressional Gold Medal, (see H.R. 2752), H2706
            [30AP]
        Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport:  designate, (see H.R.
            2625), H101 [28JA]
        Sierra Leone:  human rights violations, (see H. Res. 559), H9178
            [28SE]
        Small business:  liability requirements for remediation of dry
            cleaning solvents, (see H.R. 1711), H904 [5MR]
        Social Security:  prevent distribution of benefits to prisoners,
            (see H.R. 530), H2318 [23AP]
        Taxation:  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), H7178 [4AU]
        ------ eliminate marriage tax penalty by adjusting income tax rate
            brackets and standard deduction amounts, (see H.R. 3734), H2932
            [6MY]
        ------ elimination of estate and gift taxes, (see H.R. 3879), H4880
            [19JN]
        ------ repeal excise tax on telephone use and other communications
            services, (see H.R. 3648), H2424 [28AP]
        ------ require CBO and the Committee on Taxation (Joint) to use
            dynamic in addition to static economic modeling in the
            preparation of budgetary estimates of proposed changes in
            Federal revenue law, (see H.R. 4452), H7412 [6AU]
        ------ require congressional review of Federal agency rules that
            establish or raise taxes, (see H.R. 4096), H5494 [14JY]
        ------ terminate Internal Revenue Code, (see H.R. 3097), H330 [4FE],
            (see H.R. 2490), H5405 [25JN], (see H.R. 3063), H5405 [25JN],
            (see H.R. 2483), H5593 [15JY]
        Turkey:  end restrictions on freedoms and human rights of enclaved
            people of Cyprus, (see H. Con. Res. 181), H2120 [21AP]
        TVA:  phase out Federal funding, (see H.R. 603), H5404 [25JN], (see
            H.R. 677), H5957 [20JY]
        Vietnam:  prohibit waivers of prohibitions on nondiscriminatory
            trade treatment, commercial agreements, and certain assistance
            programs, (see H.R. 3158), H329 [4FE]
      Bills and resolutions introduced
        Africa:  promote independent radio broadcasting, (see H. Res. 415),
            H2605 [29AP]
        Botswana:  democracy efforts, (see H. Res. 373), H678 [26FE]
        House Rules:  provide that certain bills to eliminate waste and
            provide reform of the executive branch are privileged, (see H.
            Res. 600), H10917 [14OC]
        IMF:  eliminate policy of providing de facto tax-free salaries to
            certain employees, (see H.R. 3785), H2706 [30AP]
        ------ ensure interest rates on loans are comparable to other
            financial markets, (see H. Con. Res. 273), H3013 [7MY]
        Vietnam:  prohibit assistance by OPIC or Eximbank, (see H.R. 3159),
            H329 [4FE]
      Remarks
        Afghanistan:  establish cease fire and begin transition toward a
            broad-based multiethnic government that observes international
            norms of behavior (H. Con. Res. 218), H2355 [28AP]
        Africa:  determinations relative to countries cooperating with
            efforts to eliminate slavery, H1064 [11MR]
        ------ promote independent radio broadcasting (H. Res. 415), H7656
            [14SE]
        Agriculture:  price supports for peanuts, H5020 [23JN]
        Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs:
            making appropriations (H.R. 4101), H5020 [23JN], H5077 [24JN],
            H5085 [24JN], H5087 [24JN]
        Algeria:  human rights violations (H. Res. 374), H2357 [28AP], H2359
            [28AP]
        Aviation:  donation of obsolete air traffic control equipment to
            eligible African countries, H1072 [11MR]
        Bankruptcy:  reform laws (H.R. 3150), H4432 [10JN]
        ------ treatment of child support and alimony payments, H4432 [10JN]
        Botswana:  democracy efforts (H. Res. 373), H1192 [17MR], H1193
            [17MR]
        Clinton, President:  impeachment (H. Res. 611), H11964<bullet>
            [18DE]
        Credit unions:  clarify laws relative to field of membership of
            Federal credit unions (H.R. 1151), H1884<bullet> [1AP]
        Dept. of Agriculture:  Market Access Program funding, H5085 [24JN],
            H5087 [24JN]
        ------ regulate loans to certain processors of sugarcane and sugar
            beets, H5077 [24JN]
        Depts. of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related
            agencies:  making appropriations (H.R. 4276), H7169 [4AU], H7170
            [4AU]
        Depts. of Veterans Affairs and HUD, and sundry independent agencies:
             making appropriations (H.R. 4194), H6536 [29JY]
        Development Fund for Africa:  funding, H1070 [11MR]
        Foreign policy:  authorize trade and investment policy relative to
            sub-Saharan Africa (H.R. 1432), H1038 [11MR], H1045 [11MR],
            H1064 [11MR], H1066 [11MR], H1067 [11MR], H1070 [11MR], H1071
            [11MR], H1072 [11MR]
        Gabon:  elections (H. Res. 518), H10729 [13OC]
        La Habra Heights, CA:  anniversary, E2258<bullet> [20OC]
        NIST:  Advanced Technology Program funding, H7169 [4AU], H7170 [4AU]
        NSF:  funding, H6536 [29JY]
        Taxation:  eliminate marriage tax penalty by adjusting income tax
            rate brackets and standard deduction amounts (H.R. 3734), H2990
            [7MY]
        U.S.-Sub-Saharan Africa Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum:
            encourage joint ventures between small and large businesses,
            H1071 [11MR]
        Vietnam:  make trade relations with the U.S. contingent upon free
            emigration (H.J. Res. 120), H6774 [30JY]
        ------ prohibit assistance by OPIC or Eximbank (H.R. 3159), H1332
            [19MR]
      Remarks in House relative to
        Leave of absence:  granted, H1443 [24MR]