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

    BOUCHER, RICK (a Representative from Virginia)
      Amendments
        Bankruptcy:  reform laws (H.R. 3150), H4398 [10JN]
      Appointments
        Conferee:  H.R. 3150, Bankruptcy Reform Act, H9150 [28SE]
      Bills and resolutions cosponsored
        Abortion:  protection of reproductive health services clinics, (see
            H. Res. 358), H446 [11FE]
        Antitrust policy:  treatment of video programming for multichannel
            distribution, (see H.R. 3559), H1642 [26MR]
        Appalachian Regional Development Act:  reauthorize and reform
            programs, (see H.R. 4275), H6454 [24JY]
        Armed Forces:  establish demonstration project relative to
            enrollment of certain beneficiaries in the Federal Employees
            Health Benefits Program, (see H.R. 1766), H578 [24FE]
        Bankruptcy:  reform laws, (see H.R. 3150), H240 [3FE]
        CERCLA:  clarify liability for certain recycling transactions, (see
            H.R. 2733), H101 [28JA]
        ------ reauthorize, (see H.R. 3595), H1776 [30MR]
        China, Republic of:  participation in WHO, (see H.J. Res. 126),
            H6186 [22JY]
        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), H2055 [1AP], (see H.R. 4136), H5297 [24JN]
        ------ provide 2-year period prior to statutory reclassification of
            areas that fail to attain clean air standards, (see H.R. 4136),
            H5297 [24JN]
        Computers:  encourage disclosure and exchange of information
            relative to the year 2000 problem, (see H.R. 4355), H6819
            [30JY], (see H.R. 4455), H7412 [6AU]
        Congressional Research Service:  make certain information available
            to the public on the Internet, (see H.R. 3131), H631 [25FE]
        Contracts:  allow choice of arbitration as a means of settling
            disputes, (see H.R. 2882), H8932 [25SE]
        Credit unions:  clarify laws relative to field of membership of
            Federal credit unions, (see H.R. 3265), H1159 [12MR]
        Crime:  enhance Federal enforcement of hate crimes, (see H.R. 3081),
            H9179 [28SE]
        ------ prevent violence against women, (see H.R. 3514), H1336 [19MR]
        Dept. of Agriculture:  expand School Breakfast Program and provide
            greater access to snacks in school-based childcare programs,
            (see H.R. 3086), H1777 [30MR]
        ------ make grants to establish additional rural enterprise
            communities, (see H.R. 4071), H4711 [17JN]
        Dept. of HHS:  ensure individuals who undertake federally funded
            research and development of drugs enter into pricing agreements,
            (see H.R. 3758), H2605 [29AP]
        Dept. of the Treasury:  include certain parts of the Constitution in
            the redesign of the one dollar bill, (see H.R. 3792), H2813
            [5MY]
        Dept. of Veterans Affairs:  payment of benefits for smoking-related
            illnesses caused by nicotine dependence developed during
            service, (see H.R. 4070), H5405 [25JN]
        Education:  increase Pell Grant awards to certain students, (see
            H.R. 3269), H755 [3MR]
        Electronic commerce:  require agencies to use digital signatures to
            enable persons to submit Federal forms electronically, (see H.R.
            2991), H678 [26FE]
        Families and domestic relations:  increase availability,
            affordability, and quality of child care, (see H.R. 3292), H1299
            [18MR], (see H.R. 4030), H4478 [10JN]
        FCC:  authority, (see H. Con. Res. 217), H446 [11FE]
        FDA:  uniform food safety warning notification requirements, (see
            H.R. 4383), H11696 [20OC]
        Firearms:  clarify standard required for the importation of sporting
            arms, (see H.R. 3954), H3970 [22MY]
        ------ 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), H3970 [22MY]
        Food:  improve safety of imported foods, (see H.R. 4080), H4834
            [18JN]
        Foreign policy:  establish framework for consideration of unilateral
            economic sanctions, (see H.R. 2708), H8528 [23SE]
        Foreign trade:  eliminate disincentives to fair trade conditions,
            (see H.R. 2509), H1236 [17MR]
        George Washington Birthplace National Monument:  revise boundaries,
            (see H.R. 3981), H4712 [17JN]
        Health:  awareness and use of federally-supported research findings
            on the social and economic costs of sleep deprivation and sleep
            disorders, (see H. Con. Res. 250), H1549 [25MR]
        ------ importance of mammograms and biopsies in the prevention of
            breast cancer, (see H. Res. 565), H9274 [1OC]
        ------ protection of enrollees in managed care plans and HMO's, (see
            H.R. 3605), H1853 [31MR]
        Health care facilities:  establish limits for imposition of fines
            relative to false health care claims, (see H.R. 3523), H1337
            [19MR]
        Health care professionals:  exempt physician office laboratories
            from clinical laboratory requirements, (see H.R. 2250), H5297
            [24JN]
        Housing:  access to affordable housing and expansion of
            homeownership opportunities, (see H. Con. Res. 208), H4056 [3JN]
        ------ expand homeownership, (see H.R. 3899), H10513 [10OC]
        Human rights:  expedite the declassification of certain documents
            relating to human rights abuses in Guatemala and Honduras, (see
            H.R. 2635), H3247 [13MY]
        Japan:  access of U.S. business to photographic film and paper
            markets, (see H. Con. Res. 233), H909 [9MR]
        Law enforcement:  establish matching grant program to help local
            governments purchase armor vests for officers, (see H.R. 2829),
            H498 [12FE]
        Library of Congress:  mint coins in commemoration of bicentennial,
            (see H.R. 3790), H5493 [14JY]
        ``Little Rock Nine'':  award Congressional Gold Medals, (see H.R.
            2560), H8528 [23SE]
        Mandela, Nelson R.:  award Congressional Gold Medal, (see H.R.
            3156), H2056 [1AP]
        Medicaid:  prohibit transfers or discharges of residents of nursing
            facilities, (see H.R. 4046), H4549 [11JN]
        Medicare:  clarify that any restrictions on private contracts for
            beneficiaries do not apply to non-covered services, (see H.R.
            3259), H1021 [10MR]
        ------ delay implementation of changes in coverage of venipuncture
            services under home health services, (see H.R. 3137), H240 [3FE]
        ------ delay implementation of interim payment system to home health
            agencies for home health services, (see H.R. 3567), H5493 [14JY]
        ------ reimbursement for services provided to eligible veterans by
            certain Dept. of Veterans Affairs facilities, (see H.R. 1362),
            H3972 [22MY]
        ------ repeal the financial limitation on rehabilitation services,
            (see H.R. 3835), H7584 [10SE]
        Music and dance:  recognize the contributions of the cities of
            Bristol, TN, and Bristol, VA, and their people to the origins
            and development of country music, (see H. Con. Res. 214), H446
            [11FE]
        National Museum of Women's History Advisory Committee:  establish,
            (see H.R. 4722), H10011 [7OC]
        NIH:  biomedical research funding, (see H. Res. 363), H4712 [17JN]
        ------ expansion, intensification, and coordination of autism
            research activities, (see H.R. 4203), H5492 [14JY]
        Petroleum:  authorize oilheat industry research and consumer
            education programs, (see H.R. 3610), H3312 [14MY]
        Point Reyes National Seashore:  protect farmland, (see H.R. 1995),
            H4550 [11JN]
        Prescription Drug Price Monitoring Commission:  establish, (see H.R.
            3925), H3742 [21MY]
        Public Works and Economic Development Act:  reauthorize and reform
            programs, (see H.R. 4275), H6454 [24JY]
        SEC:  limit collection of certain fees, (see H.R. 4213), H7495 [9SE]
        Social Security:  provide a safe harbor under the anti-kickback
            statute for hospital restocking of certain ambulance drugs and
            supplies, (see H.R. 3247), H1777 [30MR]
        States:  require equal education funding throughout the State, (see
            H.R. 1234), H6070 [21JY]
        Tariff:  live plants and fresh cut flowers, (see H.R. 54), H2119
            [21AP]
        Taxation:  allow Farm and Ranch Risk Management Accounts, (see H.R.
            3659), H4165 [4JN]
        ------ applications for an exclusion of gain on certain sales of a
            principal residence by a surviving spouse, (see H.R. 3541),
            H2424 [28AP]
        ------ elimination of estate and gift taxes, (see H.R. 3879), H6186
            [22JY]
        ------ increase amount of low-income housing credits allocated in
            each State and index amounts for inflation, (see H.R. 2990),
            H1854 [31MR]
        ------ modify the low-income housing credit, (see H.R. 3290), H1854
            [31MR]
        ------ permit the issuance of tax-exempt bonds by certain
            organizations providing rescue and emergency medical services,
            (see H.R. 2613), H4325 [9JN]
        ------ 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), H755 [3MR]
        ------ tax credits relative to elementary and secondary school
            construction, (see H.R. 3320), H850 [4MR]
        ------ treatment of amounts received under State programs providing
            compensation for birth-related injuries, (see H.R. 4139), H5402
            [25JN]
        ------ treatment of estate taxes on family-owned farm businesses,
            (see H.R. 4587), H7914 [16SE]
        ------ treatment of printed wiring boards and printed wiring
            assembly equipment, (see H.R. 2817), H8461 [22SE]
        Telecommunications:  ensure the restoration and preservation of
            State authority over intrastate telecommunications, (see H.R.
            4801), H10513 [10OC]
        Telephones:  strengthen and expand the procedures for preventing the
            slamming of interstate telephone service subscribers, (see H.R.
            3050), H6697 [29JY]
        Television:  eliminate the sunset of consumer price protections on
            cable programming services, (see H.R. 3258), H630 [25FE]
        ------ promote competition in the multichannel video marketplace,
            (see H.R. 4352), H7585 [10SE]
        ------ reform laws relative to satellite retransmissions of
            broadcast signals, (see H.R. 4675), H9274 [1OC]
        Tobacco products:  provide market transition assistance for quota
            owners, tobacco producers, and their communities, and stabilize
            tobacco quota fluctuations, (see H.R. 3437), H1111 [11MR]
        Treaties and agreements:  conditions for the U.S. becoming a
            signatory to any international agreement relative to Kyoto
            Protocol, (see H.R. 3807), H4712 [17JN]
        Veterans:  determination of active military service for certain
            merchant mariners who served during World War II, (see H.R.
            1126), H6999 [3AU]
        ------ improve access to health care services for certain Medicare-
            eligible veterans, (see H.R. 3828), H5297 [24JN]
        ------ permit concurrent receipt of military retired pay with
            service-connected disability benefits, (see H.R. 303), H7414
            [6AU]
        Washington, George:  issue commemorative postage stamp, (see H. Con.
            Res. 251), H1643 [26MR]
      Letters
        Digital Millennium Copyright Act:  Representative Coble, Committee
            on the Judiciary (House), H7096-H7098 [4AU]
      Motions
        Clinton, President:  Committee on the Judiciary (House) inquiry into
            whether grounds exist to impeach (H. Res. 581), H10116 [8OC]
        ------ impeachment (H. Res. 611), H12031 [19DE]
      Remarks
        Bankruptcy:  reform laws (H.R. 3150), H4363 [10JN], H4399 [10JN],
            H4433 [10JN]
        ------ reform laws (H.R. 3150), conference report, H10232 [9OC]
        ------ treatment of child support and alimony payments, H4399
            [10JN], H4433 [10JN]
        Clinton, President:  censure, H11781 [18DE], H12031 [19DE], H12037
            [19DE]
        ------ Committee on the Judiciary (House) inquiry into whether
            grounds exist to impeach (H. Res. 581), H10017 [8OC],
            H10104<bullet> [8OC] Committee on the Judiciary (House)
            inquiry into whether grounds exist to impeach (H. Res. 581),
            motion to recommit, H10117 [8OC] Committee on the Judiciary
            (House) inquiry into whether grounds exist to impeach (H. Res.
            581), mtion to recommit, H10116 [8OC]
        ------ impeachment (H. Res. 611), H11781 [18DE], H12031 [19DE],
            H12037 [19DE]
        Daniel Boone Heritage Trail:  funding to purchase land containing a
            segment of the trail, E1010<bullet> [3JN]
        Music and dance:  recognize the contributions of the cities of
            Bristol, TN, and Bristol, VA, and their people to the origins
            and development of country music (H. Con. Res. 214), H10276
            [9OC]
        Television:  promote competition in the multichannel video
            marketplace (H.R. 2921), H9934 [7OC]
        Transportation:  funding for Federal-aid highways, highway safety
            programs, and transit programs (H.R. 2400), technical
            corrections (H.R. 3978), E1010<bullet> [3JN]
        Vietnam:  make trade relations with the U.S. contingent upon free
            emigration (H.J. Res. 120), H6770 [30JY]
        World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty:
            implementation (H.R. 2281), H7096 [4AU]
        ------ implementation (H.R. 2281), conference report, E2166<bullet>
            [14OC]
        World Intellectual Property Organization Performances and Phonograms
            Treaty:  implementation (H.R. 2281), H7096 [4AU]
        ------ implementation (H.R. 2281), conference report, E2166<bullet>
            [14OC]
      Remarks in House relative to
        Special order:  granted, H327 [4FE]