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

    LUCAS, FRANK D. (a Representative from Oklahoma)
      Bills and resolutions cosponsored
        Agricultural Market Transition Act:  provide supplemental payments
            to farm owners and producers who have entered into production
            flexibility contracts, (see H.R. 4580), H7914 [16SE]
        Agriculture:  Federal disaster assistance to livestock producers,
            (see H.R. 4417), H7410 [6AU]
        ------ production flexibility contract payment options, (see H.R.
            4265), H5858 [17JY], (see H.R. 4272), H5859 [17JY]
        ------ provide monetary disaster assistance to agricultural
            producers, (see H.R. 4508), H7414 [6AU]
        Appalachian Regional Development Act:  reauthorize and reform
            programs, (see H.R. 4275), H7415 [6AU]
        Armed Forces:  establish demonstration project relative to
            enrollment of certain beneficiaries in the Federal Employees
            Health Benefits Program, (see H.R. 1766), H578 [24FE]
        Arms Export Control Act:  exempt federally guaranteed agricultural
            commodities from the application of sanctions, (see H.R. 4195),
            H5491 [14JY]
        CERCLA:  clarify liability for certain recycling transactions, (see
            H.R. 2733), H7803 [15SE]
        Correctional institutions:  test incarcerated persons for serious
            transmissible diseases if their bodily fluids come into contact
            with corrections personnel, (see H.R. 2070), H4055 [3JN]
        Death and dying:  clarify Federal laws relative to dispensing of
            drugs intended for use for assisted suicide or euthanasia, (see
            H.R. 4006), H7428 [7AU]
        Dept. of Defense:  allow military health care system beneficiaries
            the option to enroll in Federal Employees Health Benefits
            Program, (see H.R. 3613), H3247 [13MY]
        Dept. of HHS:  delay effective date of the final rule relative to
            the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, (see H.R.
            3584), H4880 [19JN]
        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]
        Drug abuse:  national drug control policy, (see H. Res. 423), H3014
            [7MY]
        English language:  declare as official language of U.S., (see H.R.
            123), H497 [12FE]
        Federal Prison Industries:  eliminate Federal agency requirement to
            purchase products and require commercial competition for Federal
            contracts, (see H.R. 2758), H1337 [19MR]
        Firearms:  restore right to keep and bear arms, (see H.R. 2721),
            H6282 [23JY]
        ------ treatment of muzzle loading firearms as antique firearms,
            (see H.R. 3140), H1445 [24MR]
        Foreign trade:  require the President to report to Congress on any
            selective embargo on agricultural commodities, (see H.R. 3654),
            H4056 [3JN]
        ------ require the President to report to Congress on any selective
            embargo on agricultural commodities, (see H.R. 4647), H9179
            [28SE]
        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]
        Hazardous substances:  require one-call notification system to
            protect natural gas and hazardous liquid pipelines from
            excavation damage, (see H.R. 3318), H2056 [1AP]
        Health:  importance of mammograms and biopsies in the prevention of
            breast cancer, (see H. Res. 565), H9346 [2OC]
        Health care facilities:  establish limits for imposition of fines
            relative to false health care claims, (see H.R. 3523), H2931
            [6MY]
        Housing:  access to affordable housing and expansion of
            homeownership opportunities, (see H. Con. Res. 208), H4056 [3JN]
        Iraq:  congressional authorization of offensive military action,
            (see H. Con. Res. 226), H677 [26FE]
        IRS:  improve access and increase equity for taxpayers, (see H.R.
            2598), H4165 [4JN]
        Labor unions:  protect the free choice of individual employees
            relative to participation in labor organizations, (see H.R. 59),
            H497 [12FE]
        Lewis and Clark expedition:  mint coins in commemoration of
            bicentennial, (see H.R. 1560), H7178 [4AU]
        Library of Congress:  mint coins in commemoration of bicentennial,
            (see H.R. 3790), H6820 [30JY]
        Medicare:  delay implementation of changes in coverage of
            venipuncture services under home health services, (see H.R.
            2912), H386 [5FE]
        ------ delay implementation of interim payment system to home health
            agencies for home health services, (see H.R. 3162), H447 [11FE],
            (see H.R. 3205), H5859 [17JY], (see H.R. 4339), H6698 [29JY]
        Occupational Safety and Health Act:  establish peer review of
            standards, (see H.R. 2661), H6282 [23JY]
        Postal Service:  guidelines for renovation, relocation, closing, or
            consolidation of post offices, (see H.R. 1231), H5404 [25JN]
        ------ prevent increase in postage rates, (see H. Res. 452), H4165
            [4JN]
        Public Works and Economic Development Act:  reauthorize and reform
            programs, (see H.R. 4275), H7415 [6AU]
        Social Security:  earnings test for blind individuals, (see H.R.
            612), H904 [5MR]
        ------ payment for certain hospital discharges to post-acute care,
            (see H.R. 2908), H386 [5FE]
        Taxation:  allow married couples to file combined return under which
            each spouse is taxed using rates applicable to single filers,
            (see H.R. 3104), H2056 [1AP]
        ------ constitutional amendment relative to certain tax limitations,
            (see H.J. Res. 111), H677 [26FE]
        ------ designate renewal communities, (see H.R. 3865), H4712 [17JN]
        ------ elimination of estate and gift taxes, (see H.R. 3879), H4165
            [4JN]
        ------ increase amount of low-income housing credits allocated in
            each State and index amounts for inflation, (see H.R. 2990),
            H4055 [3JN]
        ------ increase State cap on private activity bonds, (see H.R. 979),
            H4055 [3JN]
        ------ modify the low-income housing credit, (see H.R. 3290), H4241
            [5JN]
        ------ provide a tax credit for marginal oil and natural gas well
            production, (see H.R. 3688), H3744 [21MY]
        ------ 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), H7915 [16SE]
        ------ reduce the per dose tax on vaccines, (see H.R. 3217), H4055
            [3JN]
        ------ terminate Internal Revenue Code, (see H.R. 3097), H101 [28JA]
        ------ treatment of estate taxes on family-owned farm businesses,
            (see H.R. 4587), H7914 [16SE]
        Television:  promote competition in the multichannel video
            marketplace, (see H.R. 2921), H447 [11FE]
        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]
      Bills and resolutions introduced
        Dept. of Agriculture:  provide assistance for the rehabilitation of
            watershed dams built for flood protection and water resource
            projects, (see H.R. 4409), H7289 [5AU]
      Letters
        Building Efficient Surface Transportation and Equity Act:  by, H1556
            [26MR]
      Remarks
        Agriculture:  ensure that federally funded research and education
            programs address high-priority concerns with national multistate
            significance (S. 1150), conference report, H4131 [4JN]
        ------ impact of the market price of crops and disasters on family
            farms, H7556 [10SE], H7928 [17SE]
        ------ production flexibility contract payment options (S. 2344),
            H6927 [3AU]
        ------ relief for agricultural producers, small businesses, and
            rural communities adversely affected by low commodity prices,
            H8079 [18SE]
        Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs:
            making appropriations (H.R. 4101), H5210 [24JN]
        Bipartisan Panel To Design Long-Range Social Security Reform:
            establish (H.R. 3546), H2496 [29AP]
        Credit:  furnishing and using consumer reports for employment
            purposes (S. 2561), H10220 [8OC]
        Dept. of Agriculture:  Export Enhancement Program funding, H9165
            [28SE]
        ------ limit funding for livestock protection from predatory
            wildlife, H5210 [24JN]
        ------ provide assistance for the rehabilitation of watershed dams
            built for flood protection and water resource projects (H.R.
            4409), E1555<bullet> [5AU]
        Dept. of Education:  prohibit funding of national testing proposals
            without explicit and specific legislation (H.R. 2846),
            E119<bullet> [5FE]
        ``Little Rock Nine'':  award Congressional Gold Medals (H.R. 2560),
            H10328 [9OC]
        Northwestern Oklahoma State University:  anniversary, E410<bullet>
            [18MR]
        Telecommunications:  promote competition and privatization in
            satellite communications (H.R. 1872), H2835<bullet> [6MY]
        Trucking industry:  obtain written consent of applicants before
            obtaining Federal Highway Authority driving records and
            accidents history, H10220 [8OC]
      Remarks in House relative to
        Special order:  granted, H626 [25FE], H674 [26FE], H5954 [20JY],
            H7582 [10SE], H9176 [28SE]
      Tributes
        Reagan, Ronald, H651 [26FE]