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

    EHLERS, VERNON J. (a Representative from Michigan)
      Appointments
        Steven Schiff funeral attendees, H1721 [30MR]
      Bills and resolutions cosponsored
        Animals:  prohibit import, export, sale, or possession of bear
            viscera, (see H.R. 619), H4879 [19JN]
        Armed Forces:  establish demonstration project relative to
            enrollment of certain beneficiaries in the Federal Employees
            Health Benefits Program, (see H.R. 1766), H1550 [25MR]
        Automobile National Heritage Area:  authorize, (see H.R. 3910),
            H3624 [20MY]
        Birds:  establish a conservation program for neotropical migratory
            birds, (see H.R. 4302), H6186 [22JY]
        Carl D. Pursell Post Office, Plymouth, MI:  designate, (see H.R.
            3808), H3013 [7MY]
        CERCLA:  Superfund Program reauthorization and reform, (see H.R.
            2727), H2056 [1AP]
        Commission on the Advancement of Women in Science, Engineering, and
            Technology Development:  establish, (see H.R. 3007), H1112
            [11MR]
        Computers:  prohibit interference with interstate commerce on the
            Internet or interactive computer services, (see H.R. 1054),
            H3488 [19MY], (see H.R. 3849), H3489 [19MY]
        Crime:  expand prohibition on stalking, (see H.R. 3747), H2605
            [29AP]
        ------ prohibit taking minors across State lines to avoid State laws
            requiring parental notification of abortions, (see H.R. 3682),
            H2054 [1AP]
        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),
            H4962 [22JN]
        Dept. of Justice:  establish standards of conduct for employees and
            establish a review board to monitor compliance, (see H.R. 3396),
            H3247 [13MY]
        Disasters:  authorize predisaster mitigation programs, streamline
            the administration of disaster relief, and control the costs of
            disaster assistance, (see H.R. 3869), H5405 [25JN]
        Education:  allow a Hope Scholarship credit for certain expenses,
            (see H.R. 3282), H676 [26FE]
        Families and domestic relations:  provide equitable child care
            relief for stay at-home parents, (see H. Con. Res. 202), H448
            [11FE]
        FDA:  proposal to designate the use of chlorofluorocarbons in
            metered-dose inhalers as nonessential, (see H.R. 2968), H851
            [4MR]
        Foreign policy:  support broad-based agricultural and rural
            development in sub-Saharan Africa, (see H.R. 3636), H4056 [3JN],
            (see H.R. 4283), H6069 [21JY]
        Health:  importance of mammograms and biopsies in the prevention of
            breast cancer, (see H. Res. 565), H9274 [1OC]
        International Commission of Jurists:  report on the People's
            Republic of China and Tibet, (see H. Con. Res. 283), H5859
            [17JY]
        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), H8083 [18SE]
        Lewis and Clark expedition:  mint coins in commemoration of
            bicentennial, (see H.R. 1560), H3247 [13MY]
        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), H1643 [26MR]
        McVay, Charles B., III:  exonerate from responsibility in the
            sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, (see H.R. 3710), H8084
            [18SE]
        Medicaid:  allow fraud control units to investigate and prosecute
            fraud in Medicare and other Federal programs and elder abuse in
            residential facilities, (see H.R. 4155), H5403 [25JN]
        ------ allow fraud control units to investigate and prosecute fraud
            in Medicare and other Federal programs and elder abuse in
            residential facilities, (see H.R. 4650), H9178 [28SE]
        Medicare:  delay implementation of interim payment system to home
            health agencies for home health services, (see H.R. 3567), H3488
            [19MY]
        ------ payment for insulin pumps, (see H.R. 3814), H5297 [24JN]
        ------ respond to requests of skilled nursing facilities for private
            accreditation in the same manner as for other providers of
            services, (see H.R. 4075), H5405 [25JN]
        ------ revise certain payment limits for health services, (see H.R.
            4567), H8035 [17SE]
        National Environmental Education Act:  extend programs, (see H.R.
            3441), H2319 [23AP]
        National Sea Grant College Program Act:  exclude Lake Champlain from
            the definition of the Great Lakes, (see H.R. 3260), H630 [25FE]
        Petroleum:  authorize oilheat industry research and consumer
            education programs, (see H.R. 3610), H4835 [18JN]
        Radio:  ensure the availability of spectrum to amateur radio
            operators, (see H.R. 3572), H5405 [25JN]
        Sandia National Laboratories:  designate the Steve Schiff Auditorium
            in the Technology Transfer Center, (see H.R. 3731), H5493 [14JY]
        St. Lawrence Seaway Corp.:  establish, (see H.R. 3147), H447 [11FE]
        Taxation:  allow credits to small businesses for certain expenses of
            long-term training of employees in highly skilled metalworking
            trades, (see H.R. 3110), H2120 [21AP]
        ------ collection and payment of State taxes imposed on motor fuel
            sold on Indian lands, (see H.R. 3966), H3971 [22MY]
        ------ designate renewal communities, (see H.R. 3865), H7178 [4AU]
        ------ increase amount of low-income housing credits allocated in
            each State and index amounts for inflation, (see H.R. 2990),
            H1237 [17MR]
        ------ increase child tax credit for certain children and allow such
            credit against the alternative minimum tax, (see H.R. 3583),
            H5594 [15JY]
        ------ permit the issuance of tax-exempt bonds by certain
            organizations providing rescue and emergency medical services,
            (see H.R. 2613), H4880 [19JN]
        ------ 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]
        ------ 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), H2120 [21AP]
        ------ treatment of benefits to retired coal miners, (see H.R.
            2231), H2056 [1AP]
        ------ treatment of certain bonds issued by local governments in
            connection with delinquent real property taxes, (see H.R. 4069),
            H4711 [17JN]
        ------ treatment of individual retirement accounts relative to
            charitable contributions, (see H.R. 2821), H755 [3MR]
        Telephones:  strengthen and expand the procedures for preventing the
            slamming of interstate telephone service subscribers, (see H.R.
            3050), H755 [3MR], (see H.R. 3888), H4056 [3JN]
        Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site:  establish, (see H.R. 4211),
            H6454 [24JY]
        Ukraine:  remember treatment by the former Soviet Union on
            anniversary of Ukrainian Famine, (see H. Con. Res. 295), H7495
            [9SE]
        ``Unlocking Our Future--Toward a New National Science Policy'':  use
            as framework for future deliberations on science policy funding,
            (see H. Res. 578), H10011 [7OC]
        Water pollution:  estuary conservation and management programs
            funding, (see H.R. 2670), H2706 [30AP]
      Bills and resolutions introduced
        Ford, Gerald R. and Betty:  award Congressional Gold Medal, (see
            H.R. 3506), H1335 [19MR]
        Sierra Leone:  human rights violations, (see H. Res. 559), H9178
            [28SE]
      Remarks
        Budget:  balance, H11027 [16OC]
        Christian Reformed World Relief Committee:  tribute, E1570<bullet>
            [7AU]
        Committee on House Oversight (House):  investigation of voter
            irregularities in California's 46th Congressional District (H.
            Res. 355), H453 [12FE], H454 [12FE]
        Congress:  accomplishments of the 105th Congress, H11027 [16OC]
        Depts. of Veterans Affairs and HUD, and sundry independent agencies:
             making appropriations (H.R. 4194), H6537 [29JY]
        Education:  national policy to improve system, H703 [3MR]
        FEC:  expedite availability of reports (H.R. 3582), H1759 [30MR]
        Fleischmann, Shirley:  Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
            Teaching Michigan Professor of the Year award recipient,
            E1965<bullet> [8OC]
        Ford, Gerald R. and Betty:  award Congressional Gold Medal, H10326
            [9OC]
        Great Lakes:  implementation of strategic plan for restoration of
            fisheries and other natural resources (H.R. 1481), H8468 [23SE]
        ``Little Rock Nine'':  award Congressional Gold Medals (H.R. 2560),
            H10326 [9OC]
        NSF:  funding, H6537 [29JY]
        Petroleum:  use of gasoline tax revenues transferred to
            transportation trust funds, H1899 [1AP]
        Political campaigns:  ethics reform and contribution limits (H.R.
            2183), H5940 [20JY]
        Schiff, Steven:  tribute (H. Res. 395), H1505 [25MR]
        Science:  prohibit Federal funding for human cloning research (H.R.
            922), H1383 [24MR]
        Sierra Leone:  human rights violations (H. Res. 559), H10434 [10OC]
        States:  minimum allocation formula for Federal-aid highway program
            projects, H1899 [1AP]
        Transportation:  funding for Federal-aid highways, highway safety
            programs, and transit programs (H.R. 2400), H1899 [1AP]
        ``Unlocking Our Future--Toward a New National Science Policy'':  use
            as framework for future deliberations on science policy funding
            (H. Res. 578), H10151 [8OC]
        Voting:  require proof of citizenship and Social Security number to
            register and repeal mandate that States provide mail voter
            registration, H5940 [20JY]
      Remarks in House relative to
        Special order:  granted, H9719 [6OC], H10349 [9OC], H11041 [16OC]