[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]