[Congressional Record Index (1998)]
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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]