RURAL AREAS related term(s) Agriculture; Suburban areas

Agreements

Digital empowerment by ensuring computer literacy for all children: Consortium for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching With Technology, S1398 [9MR]

Amendments

Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs: making appropriations (H.R. 4461), S7167 [18JY], S7193, S7195, S7218, S7246, S7247, S7248, S7249, S7250, S7259, S7260, S7263 [19JY], S7307, S7314, S7325, S7332, S7334, S7337, S7342, S7344, S7348, S7351, S7353, S7354, S7355, S7356, S7358, S7361, S7365, S7366, S7367, S7368, S7369, S7370, S7400, S7401, S7402, S7403, S7404, S7405, S7406, S7407 [20JY], S7456 [21JY], S7490 [24JY], H3413 [18MY], H3475 [19MY], H3523, H3524, H3526 [22MY], H3650 [23MY], H3814 [24MY], H3869, H3870 [25MY], H3927 [6JN], H4122 [8JN], H4221 [12JN], H4337 [13JN], H4593 [15JN], H4784 [20JN], H4818 [21JN], H5037 [22JN], H5085 [23JN], H5169 [26JN], H5241, H5242 [27JN], H5436, H5437 [28JN], H5534, H5536, H5538, H5540, H5541, H5549, H5552, H5556, H5562, H5574, H5577, H5581, H5585, H5588, H5591, H5593, H5594, H5657, H5658 [29JN], H5684, H5687, H5689, H5692, H5693, H5694, H5696, H5700, H5701, H5705, H5709, H5710, H5712, H5714, H5738 [10JY], H5773, H5775, H5776, H5777, H5779, H5787 [11JY]

———making appropriations (H.R. 4461), consideration of conference report (H. Res. 617), H9679 [11OC]

———making appropriations (S. 2536), S5364 [19JN]

North Dakota: increase authorization for water supplies, meet water quantity and quality needs, and enhance natural resources and habitats (S. 623), S10530, S10592 [13OC]

Power resources: authorize research to promote the conversion of biomass into biobased industrial products (S. 935), S962, S972 [29FE]

Public lands: restore stability to payments made to States and counties containing certain Federal lands used for the benefit of public schools, roads, and Federal land management projects (S. 1608), S8509 [13SE]

Television: authorize loan guarantees to facilitate access to local television broadcast signals in unserved and underserved areas (S. 2097), S1915 [29MR], S1927, S1934, S1935, S1940, S1951, S1955, S1957, S1963, S1964, S1965, S2000, S2001, S2002, S2003 [30MR]

———ensure local service to small, rural markets by satellite providers (H.R. 3615), H2283, H2292 [13AP]

Appointments

Conferees: H.R. 4461, agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs appropriations, H8431 [28SE]

Articles and editorials

Danforth Hatchery Closes After 64 Years, E714 [11MY]

Don't Be Down on the Farm—What We Can Do To Preserve a National Treasure, S483-S485 [8FE]

Let's Begin To Manage Our Forests, S6517 [12JY]

Stamford Centennial Celebration—The Saga of the Swensons, E1127 [27JN]

Bills and resolutions

Agriculture: authorize emergency loans to poultry producers to rebuild chicken houses destroyed by disasters (see S. 2039), S489 [8FE] (see H.R. 3653), H373 [14FE]

———enhance competition and protect family farms, ranches, and rural communities from unfair or deceptive agribusiness practices (see S. 2411), S2616 [12AP] (see S. 3243), S11131 [26OC]

———promote competition among wholesale purchasers and establish a commission to review large agriculture mergers, concentration, and market power (see H.R. 4321), H2338 [13AP]

———review agribusiness mergers, enhance competition, and protect family farms, ranches, and rural communities from unfair or deceptive agribusiness practices (see S. 2744), S5241 [15JN]

Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs: making appropriations (see S. 2536), S3831 [10MY] (see H.R. 4461), H3171 [16MY] (see H.R. 5426), H9504 [6OC]

———making appropriations (H.R. 4461), consideration (see H. Res. 513), H3812 [24MY] (see H. Res. 538), H5239 [27JN]

———making appropriations (H.R. 4461), consideration of conference report (see H. Res. 617), H9634 [10OC]

———making appropriations (H.R. 4461), corrections in enrollment (see H. Con. Res. 420), H9635 [10OC] (see H. Con. Res. 424), H9767 [11OC]

Bankruptcy: extend reenactment period for chapter 12 of the bankruptcy code relative to family farmers (see H.R. 4065), H1284 [22MR] (see H.R. 4718), H5036 [22JN] (see H.R. 5409), H9504 [6OC] (see H.R. 5475), H10036 [17OC] (see H.R. 5539, 5540), H11193 [25OC]

———extend reenactment period for chapter 12 of the bankruptcy code relative to family farmers and appoint additional bankruptcy judges (see H.R. 5530), H10808 [24OC]

Community development: provide community-based economic development assistance for trade-affected communities (see S. 2445), S2728 [13AP]

———provide for community renewal and new markets initiatives (see H.R. 5663), H12094 [14DE]

Computers: encourage broadband technology deployment to rural areas (see S. 2307), S1815 [28MR] (see H.R. 4122), H1588 [29MR] (see H.R. 5069), H7208 [27JY]

———provide for digital empowerment by ensuring computer literacy for all children (see S. 2229), S1391 [9MR] (see H.R. 3897), H921 [9MR]

Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act: encourage equity investment in rural cooperatives and other rural businesses (see S. 3242), S10999 [25OC]

———make communities with high levels of out-migration or population loss eligible for community facilities grants (see S. 2811), S6015 [28JN]

Dept. of Agriculture: discipline members of certain county and area committees who discriminate against farmers, ranchers, or others, on the basis of race, sex, national origin, marital status, religion, age, or handicap (see H.R. 4687), H4591 [15JN]

———make grants to assist low and moderate income individuals to finance construction, refurbishing, and servicing of household water well systems in rural areas (see S. 3207), S10590 [13OC] (see H.R. 3910), H996 [14MR]

———provide cost share assistance for construction of reservoir structures for the storage of water in rural areas (see H.R. 5297), H8199 [26SE]

———require review of agribusiness mergers and acquisitions and allow imposition of conditions relative to anticompetitive practices (see S. 2252), S1461 [20MR]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: improve inpatient medical care services to veterans in areas remote from VA medical facilities (see H.R. 4575), H3868 [25MY]

———motor vehicle reimbursement rates for veterans traveling to VA health care facilities (see H.R. 4716), H4817 [21JN]

Digital Bridge Trust Fund: establish (see H.R. 4477), H3308 [17MY]

Education: establish an alternative path to teaching in needy school districts (see H.R. 5583), H11207 [26OC]

———establish teacher recruitment and professional development programs for rural areas (see S. 2120), S929 [29FE]

———provide for a rural education development initiative (see S. 2009), S86 [26JA]

———provide for rural education assistance (see S. 2121), S930 [29FE]

EPA: establish Project SEARCH (special environmental assistance for the regulation of communities and habitat) to provide grants to assist small communities in meeting certain regulations (see S. 2296), S1747 [27MR]

FCC: fulfill support requirements for universal service for high cost areas (see H.R. 5294), H8199 [26SE]

Health: improve access to health care services for uninsured and low-income individuals in medically under served areas (see S. Res. 260), S799 [24FE]

———promote and improve access to health care services (see S. 2735), S5240 [15JN] (see H.R. 4677), H4591 [15JN]

———provide funds for automatic external defibrillators and the training of individuals in advanced cardiac life support (see S. 2528), S3831 [10MY] (see H.R. 4953), H7002 [25JY]

———sustain access to vital emergency medical services in rural areas (see S. 3125), S9381 [27SE]

Health care facilities: provide relief for essential hospitals in certain regions and assist in the long-range economic recovery of such hospitals (see H.R. 4622), H4173 [9JN] (see H.R. 5228), H7932 [20SE]

Health care professionals: establish a demonstration program to address physician shortage, recruitment, and retention problems in rural areas (see S. 3176), S10083 [6OC]

Housing: allow prepayment of loans for rural multifamily housing and preserve such housing as affordable for low-income families (see H.R. 5079), H7209 [27JY]

———promote the development of affordable, quality rental housing in rural areas for low-income households (see S. 3228), S10926 [24OC]

Housing Act: amend the rural housing loan guarantee program to provide loan guarantees for loans made to refinance existing guaranteed mortgage loans (see H.R. 3834), H646 [6MR]

———revise requirements for areas to be considered as rural areas (see H.R. 3706), H572 [29FE]

Katie Poirier Abduction Emergency Fund: establish (see S. 2055), S612 [10FE]

Medicaid: waive disproportionate share hospital designation for certain rural hospitals relative to obstetrician requirements (see H.R. 4793), H5654 [29JN]

Medicare: coverage of ambulance services to certain rural outpatient facilities (see H.R. 4549), H3867 [25MY]

———eliminate reduction in the market basket percentage under the prospective payment system for payments to small rural hospitals (see H.R. 4996), H7206 [27JY]

———enhance the critical access hospital program (see S. 2600), S4237 [22MY]

———ensure reimbursement for certain ambulance services, apply reasonable standard to determination of medical necessity for ambulance services, and recognize additional costs of ambulance services in rural areas (see S. 2858), S6677 [13JY] (see H.R. 5153), H7501 [12SE]

———extend the option to use rebased target amounts to all sole community hospitals (see S. 2037), S381 [7FE] (see H.R. 5011), H7206 [27JY]

———improve fee-for-services reimbursement rates in rural States (see S. 2610), S4297 [23MY]

———improve Medicare-dependent, small rural hospital program (see S. 2768), S5662 [22JN] (see H.R. 4997), H7206 [27JY]

———increase access to health care for beneficiaries through telemedicine (see S. 2505), S3513 [4MY] (see H.R. 4771), H5240 [27JN]

———increase payment rates to Medicare+Choice organizations to correct inequities in rural and urban areas (see H.R. 5288), H8061 [25SE]

———preserve essential rural hospitals (see H.R. 5220), H7932 [20SE]

———promote access to health care services in rural areas (see S. 2987), S7840 [27JY]

———provide for equity in the amount of disproportionate share payment adjustments between urban and rural hospitals (see H.R. 4995), H7206 [27JY]

———reimburse essential access home health providers for costs for services in rural areas (see S. 2992), S7840 [27JY]

National Center for Rural Law Enforcement: funding (see S. 3009), S8105 [6SE]

National Centers for Distance Working: establish (see S. 2447), S2728 [13AP]

National Community Antidrug Coalition Institute: establish (see S. 2473), S2940 [26AP]

National Rural Development Partnership: authorize (see S. 3175), S9945 [5OC]

National School Lunch Act: provide alternative reimbursement rates under the child and adult care food program for rural family or group day care homes (see H.R. 5383), H8799 [4OC]

Native Americans: provide loans for the improvement of telecommunications services on Indian reservations (see S. 3114), S9267 [26SE]

Taxation: credit for development costs of telecommunications facilities in rural areas (see S. 2321), S1884 [29MR]

———provide incentives for renewal of distressed communities and empowerment zone development, increase the number of empowerment zones, and encourage investment in new markets (see S. 3152), S9701 [3OC]

———treatment of certain expenses of rural letter carriers relative to the business use of a personal vehicle (see S. 2608), S4297 [23MY] (see H.R. 4715), H4817 [21JN]

———treatment of loans under the Rural Electrification Act (see H.R. 5295), H8199 [26SE]

Telecommunications: prohibit regulatory impediments to fulfilling the support mandates of the statutory policy of universal service (see S. 2476), S3023 [27AP]

Television: authorize loan guarantees to facilitate access to local television broadcast signals in unserved and underserved areas (see S. 2097), S799 [24FE]

———ensure local service to small, rural markets by satellite providers (see H.R. 3615), H339 [10FE]

———ensure local service to small, rural markets by satellite providers (H.R. 3615), consideration (see H. Res. 475), H2238 [12AP]

Conference reports

Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA, and Related Agencies Programs Appropriations (H.R. 4461), H9461-H9502 [6OC]

Essays

Little World All by Itself: Elizabeth Haugen, S3185 [1MY]

Explanations

Community Renewal and New Markets Act (S. 3152), S9729-S9746 [3OC]

Histories

Stamford, TX, E1127 [27JN]

Letters

Homeowners Financing Protection Act: Moises Loza, Housing Assistance Council, H7745 [19SE]

Native Americans rural development programs funding: JoAnn K. Chase, National Congress of American Indians, S7374 [20JY]

———Veronica N. Gonzales, American Indian Higher Education Consortium, S7374 [20JY]

Rural Access to Emergency Devices Act: Gayle Russell, American Heart Association, S3832 [10MY]

———Lynn A. Smaha, American Heart Association, S3833 [10MY]

Lists

Amendments to H.R. 4461, agriculture, rural development, and FDA appropriations, S7314 [20JY]

Memorandums

Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act (S. 1608): Janet A. Poling, Dept. of Agriculture, S8523 [13SE]

Motions

Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs: making appropriations (H.R. 4461), S7307, S7323, S7328, S7348 [20JY], H8426 [28SE]

Remarks in House

Agriculture: Federal farm policies, H8606 [2OC]

———Fund for Rural America and the Initiative for Future Agriculture and Food Systems funding, H1603 [30MR]

———impose a moratorium on large agribusiness mergers and establish a commission to review large agriculture mergers, H1070-H1072 [15MR]

———promote competition among wholesale purchasers and establish a commission to review large agriculture mergers, concentration, and market power, H5704 [10JY]

———promote competition among wholesale purchasers and establish a commission to review large agriculture mergers, concentration, and market power (H.R. 4321), E587 [13AP]

Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs: making appropriations (H.R. 4461), H5442-H5460, H5533-H5598 [29JN], H5683-H5723, H5724 [10JY], H5766-H5792 [11JY], H8426 [28SE], E1169 [30JN], E1198, E1206, E1209, E1211, E1212 [11JY], E1235 [14JY], E1305 [24JY]

———making appropriations (H.R. 4461), conference report, H9638, H9639, H9681-H9709 [11OC], E1760 [12OC], E1784 [13OC], E1866 [19OC], E1891 [24OC], E1903 [25OC]

———making appropriations (H.R. 4461), consideration (H. Res. 538), H5415-H5423 [28JN]

———making appropriations (H.R. 4461), consideration of conference report (H. Res. 617), H9670-H9680 [11OC]

———making appropriations (H.R. 4461), motion to instruct conferees, H8426-H8431 [28SE]

Akron, OH: Haven of Rest (nonprofit organization) staff participation in decennial census, E335 [16MR]

Atlanta, GA: tribute to livable communities initiatives, H936 [14MR]

Bankruptcy: extend reenactment period for chapter 12 of the bankruptcy code relative to family farmers (H.R. 4718), H5101-H5103 [26JN]

———extend reenactment period for chapter 12 of the bankruptcy code relative to family farmers (H.R. 5540), H11701-H11704 [31OC]

Census: importance of decennial census to rural areas, E321 [15MR]

Clark, Howard D.: Safe Care, Inc., National Country Doctor of the Year award recipient, E2182 [14DE]

Colleges and universities: historically black colleges and universities funding for agricultural and food sciences research, H5536, H5537 [29JN]

Colonias: tribute to students testifying on living conditions, H1082 [16MR]

Committee on Appropriations (House): appropriations allocation revisions to H.R. 4461, agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs, H3292 [17MY]

Community development: promote livable communities initiatives, H221 [8FE], H258 [9FE], H346 [14FE], H375 [15FE], H513 [29FE], H936 [14MR], H2015 [11AP], H2346 [2MY], H2618 [8MY], H3528 [23MY], H5172 [27JN], H5739 [11JY], H6056 [17JY], H7375 [12SE], H7923 [20SE], H8777, H8779 [4OC], H9871 [12OC]

———provide for community renewal and new markets initiatives, E2246 [2JA]

———provide grant funding for additional empowerment zones, enterprise communities, and strategic planning communities, E990 [13JN]

Computers: encourage broadband technology deployment to rural areas (H.R. 4122), E448 [30MR]

———encourage broadband technology deployment to rural areas (H.R. 5069), E1388 [27JY]

———provide for digital empowerment by ensuring computer literacy for all children, H2639 [8MY], H2970 [15MY]

Congressional Rural Caucus: reestablishment to address issues impacting rural areas, H954, H955, H956, H957, H959 [14MR], E306, E307, E309 [14MR]

Conservation and Reinvestment Act: restrict funding to incorporated cities and counties with certain population levels, H2926, H2927 [11MY]

Dept. of Agriculture: colonias initiatives funding, H5591-H5593, H5598 [29JN]

———make grants to assist low and moderate income individuals to finance construction, refurbishing, and servicing of household water well systems in rural areas (H.R. 3910), E301 [14MR]

———Rural Community Advancement Program agritourism funding, H5581-H5584 [29JN]

Dept. of HUD: empowerment zones funding, H4760, H4761, H4764, H4765 [20JN]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: improve inpatient medical care services to veterans in areas remote from VA medical facilities, H7962, H7963 [21SE]

———motor vehicle reimbursement rates for veterans traveling to VA health care facilities (H.R. 4716), E1072 [21JN]

Douglas, GA: Coffee Regional Medical Center recipient of the Georgia Rural Health Association Rural Hospital of the Year award, E2049 [1NO]

Droughts: rural water needs funding, H5537, H5538, H5541 [29JN]

Economy: national policy to improve education and economy, H1827 [5AP]

Education: provide for a rural education development initiative, H4062 [8JN]

———provide for a rural education development initiative (H.R. 2725), E294 [14MR]

FAA: use of Airport Improvement Program grants by small airports to fund certain projects which facilitate the transfer of cargo and passengers on airport property, H1017 [15MR]

Gagne, Len: tribute to efforts relative to delivery of prescription drugs to military retirees in Oregon, H928 [13MR]

Government regulations: impact of Federal public policy changes on economic expansion, H8599-H8605 [2OC], H8796 [4OC]

Health: improve access to health care services for uninsured and low-income individuals in medically under served areas, H4305 [13JN]

Health care facilities: provide relief for essential hospitals in certain regions and assist in the long-range economic recovery of such hospitals (H.R. 4622), H4171 [9JN]

———provide relief for essential hospitals in certain regions and assist in the long-range economic recovery of such hospitals (H.R. 5228), E1546 [20SE]

Housing Act: amend the rural housing loan guarantee program to provide loan guarantees for loans made to refinance existing guaranteed mortgage loans (H.R. 3834), H7745-H7747 [19SE]

Lewis and Clark Rural Water System, Inc.: authorize construction and assistance (H.R. 297), H3538-H3540 [23MY]

———authorize construction and assistance (H.R. 297), corrections in engrossment, H3583 [23MY]

Medicaid: establish a new prospective payment system for federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics (H.R. 2341), H7900 [20SE]

Medicare: improve fee-for-services reimbursement rates in rural States, H7875 [20SE]

———improve payments under the Medicare+Choice program, H6606 [20JY]

———preserve essential rural hospitals (H.R. 5220), E1536 [20SE]

———promote access to health care services in rural areas (S. 2987), H11513 [29OC]

Peirce College: support proposal to obtain a Dept. of Agriculture distant learning grant, E1972 [28OC]

Power resources: authorize research to promote the conversion of biomass into biobased industrial products, H5248 [27JN]

Railroads: grade crossing matching funds program funding, H3436, H3437 [19MY]

Southwire Co.: anniversary, E399 [23MR]

Stamford, TX: anniversary, E1126 [27JN]

Sullivan County, NY: transportation projects funding, H3429 [19MY]

Taxation: treatment of certain expenses of rural letter carriers relative to the business use of a personal vehicle (H.R. 4715), E1070 [21JN]

Technology: improve access to technological advancements, H8605 [2OC]

Telephones: improve cellular telephone service in certain rural areas and achieve equitable treatment of certain cellular license applicants, H2291 [13AP]

Television: authorize loan guarantees to facilitate access to local television broadcast signals in unserved and underserved areas, H11283, H11287-H11289, H11291, H11293 [26OC]

———ensure local service to small, rural markets by satellite providers, E2014 [28OC]

———ensure local service to small, rural markets by satellite providers (H.R. 3615), H2283-H2302 [13AP], E109 [10FE], E165 [16FE], E782 [19MY]

———ensure local service to small, rural markets by satellite providers (H.R. 3615), consideration (H. Res. 475), H2258 [13AP]

Remarks in Senate

Agriculture: authorize emergency loans to poultry producers to rebuild chicken houses destroyed by disasters (S. 2039), S491 [8FE]

———enhance competition and protect family farms, ranches, and rural communities from unfair or deceptive agribusiness practices (S. 2411), S2625 [12AP], S4421 [25MY]

———enhance competition and protect family farms, ranches, and rural communities from unfair or deceptive agribusiness practices (S. 3243), S11132 [26OC]

———Federal farm policies, S312-S314 [3FE], S346-S348 [7FE], S483 [8FE], S1626 [23MR], S1807-S1809 [28MR], S4219 [22MY], S10608-S10611 [17OC]

———improve financial situation of family farmers and ranchers, S1443-S1447 [20MR]

———review agribusiness mergers, enhance competition, and protect family farms, ranches, and rural communities from unfair or deceptive agribusiness practices (S. 2744), S5271 [15JN], S11385 [31OC]

———tribute to Rally for Rural America and response to agricultural crisis, S1567-S1570 [22MR], S1626, S1627 [23MR]

Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs: making appropriations (H.R. 4461), S6344 [10JY], S7143-S7145 [18JY], S7174, S7193-S7216, S7218 [19JY], S7303-S7308, S7310-S7349, S7351-S7379, S7387 [20JY], S7437-S7441, S7456 [21JY], S7490 [24JY], S9019, S9029, S9030 [22SE]

———making appropriations (H.R. 4461), conference report, S10063-S10065 [6OC], S10147 [10OC], S10518-S10526 [13OC], S10608-S10611 [17OC], S10648, S10669-S10701, S10732 [18OC], S10792 [19OC]

———making appropriations (H.R. 4461), conference report—unanimous-consent agreement, S10334 [12OC], S10614 [17OC]

———making appropriations (H.R. 4461), conference report—unanimous-consent request, S10229 [11OC]

———making appropriations (S. 2536), S3937 [15MY]

Bankruptcy: extend reenactment period for chapter 12 of the bankruptcy code relative to family farmers, S6249 [30JN], S10775 [19OC], S11632 [6DE], S11688, S11727 [7DE]

Butte, ND: effect of agribusiness and Federal agriculture policies on Butte Public School, S3185 [1MY]

China, People's Republic of: effects of permanent normal trade relations on U.S. agricultural interests, S8405 [12SE]

Clark, Howard D.: Safe Care, Inc., National Country Doctor of the Year award recipient, S11735 [7DE]

Community development: provide community-based economic development assistance for trade-affected communities (S. 2445), S2764 [13AP]

Computers: encourage broadband technology deployment to rural areas, S1949-S1951, S1963 [30MR]

———encourage broadband technology deployment to rural areas (S. 2307), S1822 [28MR], S9599 [2OC]

———provide for digital empowerment by ensuring computer literacy for all children, S2301-S2305 [6AP], S2389 [7AP], S5304 [16JN], S9370 [27SE]

———provide for digital empowerment by ensuring computer literacy for all children (S. 2229), S1397 [9MR]

Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act: encourage equity investment in rural cooperatives and other rural businesses (S. 3242), S11005 [25OC]

———make communities with high levels of out-migration or population loss eligible for community facilities grants (S. 2811), S6026 [28JN], S6104 [29JN], S10947 [24OC]

Dept. of Agriculture: make grants to assist low and moderate income individuals to finance construction, refurbishing, and servicing of household water well systems in rural areas (S. 3207), S10591 [13OC]

———Native Americans rural development programs funding, S7374 [20JY]

———Red River Trade Council Agriculture Diversity Project funding, S7373 [20JY]

———require review of agribusiness mergers and acquisitions and allow imposition of conditions relative to anticompetitive practices (S. 2252), S1463 [20MR]

———Rural Community Assistance Program funding, S10681 [18OC]

———Rural Utilities Service Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program funding, S7440 [21JY], S10679 [18OC]

Dept. of Education: Smaller Learning Communities Program funding, S6211 [30JN]

Dept. of Transportation: Small Communities Air Service Development Pilot Program funding, S5185, S5186 [15JN]

Disasters: fuel reduction programs in wildland-urban interface areas to reduce the risk of wildfires, S6220-S6223 [30JN], S6508-S6514, S6516, S6518, S6537 [12JY], S7036 [17JY], S9798 [4OC]

Education: establish teacher recruitment and professional development programs for rural areas (S. 2120), S935 [29FE]

———provide for a rural education development initiative (S. 2009), S91 [26JA]

———provide for rural education assistance (S. 2121), S935 [29FE]

———training and development of technology skills in rural communities, S9241 [26SE], S9362 [27SE]

Elementary and Secondary Education Act: encourage school districts to hire certain professionals without certification as teachers, S3651 [9MY]

EPA: establish Project SEARCH (special environmental assistance for the regulation of communities and habitat) to provide grants to assist small communities in meeting certain regulations (S. 2296), S1747 [27MR]

Financial institutions: authorize loan guarantees to cooperative lending entities to facilitate access to local television broadcast signals in unserved and underserved areas, S1934-S1939, S1965 [30MR]

Franklin County, VT: Communities Can! (organization) Community Excellence Award recipient, S7225 [19JY]

Health: improve access to health care services for uninsured and low-income individuals in medically under served areas (S. Res. 260), S824 [24FE], S840 [28FE]

———improve access to health care services for uninsured and low-income individuals in medically underserved areas, S2415, S2416 [7AP], S2462 [10AP]

———promote and improve access to health care services, S6211, S6212 [30JN], S9366 [27SE]

———promote and improve access to health care services (S. 2735), S5254, S5255 [15JN]

———provide funds for automatic external defibrillators and the training of individuals in advanced cardiac life support, S6188, S6189 [30JN]

———provide funds for automatic external defibrillators and the training of individuals in advanced cardiac life support (S. 2528), S3832-S3834 [10MY], S10160 [10OC]

———sustain access to vital emergency medical services in rural areas (S. 3125), S9390 [27SE]

Health care professionals: establish a demonstration program to address physician shortage, recruitment, and retention problems in rural areas (S. 3176), S10083 [6OC]

Housing: promote the development of affordable, quality rental housing in rural areas for low-income households (S. 3228), S10926-S10928 [24OC]

Katie Poirier Abduction Emergency Fund: establish (S. 2055), S616 [10FE]

Launching Our Communities' Access to Local Television Act: application of Administrative Procedure Act, S1967 [30MR]

———application of copyright and communications laws, S1967 [30MR]

Medicare: enhance the critical access hospital program (S. 2600), S4237 [22MY]

———extend the option to use rebased target amounts to all sole community hospitals (S. 2037), S381 [7FE]

———improve fee-for-services reimbursement rates in rural States (S. 2610), S4315, S4316 [23MY]

———improve Medicare-dependent, small rural hospital program (S. 2768), S5666 [22JN]

———increase access to health care for beneficiaries through telemedicine (S. 2505), S3519, S3520 [4MY]

———promote access to health care services in rural areas (S. 2987), S7895, S7900 [27JY]

National Centers for Distance Working: establish (S. 2447), S2765 [13AP], S7440 [21JY]

National Community Antidrug Coalition Institute: establish (S. 2473), S2944 [26AP]

National Grange Week: observance, S3017 [27AP]

National Rural Development Partnership: authorize (S. 3175), S9960 [5OC], S10076 [6OC]

———funding, S10680 [18OC]

Native Americans: provide loans for the improvement of telecommunications services on Indian reservations (S. 3114), S9270 [26SE]

North Dakota: increase authorization for water supplies, meet water quantity and quality needs, and enhance natural resources and habitats (S. 623), S10530-S10538 [13OC]

———increase authorization for water supplies, meet water quantity and quality needs, and enhance natural resources and habitats (S. 623), unanimous-consent agreement, S10530 [13OC]

Power resources: authorize research to promote the conversion of biomass into biobased industrial products, S7368 [20JY]

———authorize research to promote the conversion of biomass into biobased industrial products (S. 935), S972-S975 [29FE], S5875 [27JN]

Public lands: restore stability to payments made to States and counties containing certain Federal lands used for the benefit of public schools, roads, and Federal land management projects (S. 1608), S8126 [6SE], S8256 [8SE], S8514-S8526 [13SE], S10118 [6OC]

———restore stability to payments made to States and counties containing certain Federal lands used for the benefit of public schools, roads, and Federal land managements projects (S. 1608), unanimous-consent agreement, S7953 [27JY]

SBA: Federal and State Technology Partnership program funding, S11230, S11231 [27OC]

———Small Business Innovation Research Rural Outreach Program funding, S11121 [26OC], S11230, S11231 [27OC]

Taxation: credit for development costs of telecommunications facilities in rural areas (S. 2321), S1904 [29MR]

———provide incentives for renewal of distressed communities and empowerment zone development, increase the number of empowerment zones, and encourage investment in new markets (S. 3152), S9703, S9704, S9773 [3OC]

———treatment of certain expenses of rural letter carriers relative to the business use of a personal vehicle (S. 2608), S4313 [23MY]

Telecommunications: national policy to improve rural areas, S10242 [11OC]

———prohibit regulatory impediments to fulfilling the support mandates of the statutory policy of universal service (S. 2476), S3023 [27AP]

Television: authorize loan guarantees for broadcast satellite launch vehicles relative to access to local broadcast signals in unserved and underserved areas, S1952 [30MR]

———authorize loan guarantees to facilitate access to local television broadcast signals in unserved and underserved areas, S4937 [12JN], S10074 [6OC], S11233, S11234 [27OC]

———authorize loan guarantees to facilitate access to local television broadcast signals in unserved and underserved areas (S. 2097), S1926-S1941, S1946-S1958, S1961-S1968 [30MR], S10242 [11OC]

———ensure local service to small, rural markets by satellite providers, S603-S605 [10FE]

———ensure local service to small, rural markets by satellite providers (H.R. 3615), S8271 [8SE]

———ensure local service to small, rural markets by satellite providers (H.R. 3615), unanimous-consent request, S8293 [8SE]

———require any entity receiving full amount of loan guarantees to provide all local broadcast signals of that State, S1940 [30MR]

Reports filed

Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA, and Related Agencies Programs Appropriations: Committee of Conference (H.R. 4461) (H. Rept. 106-948), H9504 [6OC]

———Committee on Appropriations (Senate) (S. 2536) (S. Rept. 106-288), S3831 [10MY]

Community Development and Venture Capital Act: Committee on Small Business (Senate) (S. 1594) (S. Rept. 106-383), S8019 [5SE]

Consideration of Conference Report on H.R. 4461, Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA, and Related Agencies Programs Appropriations: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 617) (H. Rept. 106-953), H9634 [10OC]

Consideration of H.R. 3615, Rural Local Broadcast Signal Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 475) (H. Rept. 106-579), H2238 [12AP]

Consideration of H.R. 4461, Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA, and Related Agencies Programs Appropriations: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 513) (H. Rept. 106-641), H3812 [24MY]

———Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 538) (H. Rept. 106-704), H5239 [27JN]

Launching Our Communities' Access to Local Television Act: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (Senate) (S. 2097) (S. Rept. 106-243), S1461 [20MR]

Lewis and Clark Rural Water System Act: Committee on Resources (House) (H.R. 297) (H. Rept. 106-633), H3648 [23MY]

Make Communities With High Levels of Out-Migration or Population Loss Eligible for Community Facilities Grants: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (Senate) (S. 2811), S8941 [21SE]

Nomination of Christopher R. McLean To Be Rural Utilities Service Administrator: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (Senate), S5460 [20JN]

Rural Local Broadcast Signal Act: Committee on Agriculture (House) (H.R. 3615) (H. Rept. 106-508), H630 [1MR]

———Committee on Commerce (House) (H.R. 3615) (H. Rept. 106-508), H1956 [6AP]

Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (Senate) (S. 1608) (S. Rept. 106-275), S2865 [25AP]

Rulings of the Chair

Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs: making appropriations (H.R. 4461), H5540, H5565 [29JN], H5689, H5690, H5692, H5711 [10JY]

Television: authorize loan guarantees to facilitate access to local television broadcast signals in unserved and underserved areas (S. 2097), S1956 [30MR]

Statements

Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA, and Related Agencies Programs Appropriations: OMB, S7363 [20JY]

Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA, and Related Agencies Programs Appropriations Conference Report (H.R. 4461): OMB, H9695 [11OC]

Summaries

Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA, and Related Agencies Programs Appropriations Conference Report (H.R. 4461): Provisions Exempting Agricultural Products, Medicines, and Medical Products From U.S. Economic Sanctions, H9705 [11OC]

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations (H.R. 4577): Community Renewal and New Markets Initiatives Development, E2247-E2249 [2JA]

Promote Competition Among Wholesale Purchasers and Establish a Commission To Review Large Agriculture Mergers, Concentration, and Market Power (H.R. 4321), E587 [13AP]

Tables

Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs appropriations (H.R. 4461), H5444-H5449 [29JN]

———conference report, H9682-H9689 [11OC]

Committee on the Budget (Senate) scoring of H.R. 4461, agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs appropriations, S7376 [20JY]

Testimonies

Environmental Initiatives and Their Impact on Local Communities: Diana W.H. Capp, E240 [8MR]

Texts of

H. Res. 538, consideration of H.R. 4461, agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs appropriations, H5415 [28JN]

H. Res. 617, consideration of conference report on H.R. 4461, agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs appropriations, H9670 [11OC]

H.R. 297, Lewis and Clark Rural Water System Act, H3538 [23MY]

H.R. 3615, Rural Local Broadcast Signal Act, H2285-H2289 [13AP]

H.R. 3834, Homeowners Financing Protection Act, H7745 [19SE]

H.R. 4461, agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs appropriations, S7556-S7573 [25JY]

H.R. 4718, extend reenactment period for chapter 12 of the bankruptcy code relative to family farmers, H5101 [26JN]

H.R. 5540, Chapter 12 Extension and Bankruptcy Judgeship Act, H11701 [31OC]

S. 623, Dakota Water Resources Act, S10535-S10538 [13OC]

S. 935, National Sustainable Fuels and Chemicals Act, S972-S974 [29FE], S1039-S1042 [1MR]

S. 1608, Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act, S8514-S8518 [13SE], S8596-S8600 [14SE]

S. 2321, Rural Telecommunications Modernization Act, S1905 [29MR]

S. 2411, Farmers and Ranchers Fair Competition Act, S2625-S2628 [12AP]

S. 2447, Rural Telework Act, S2766 [13AP]

S. 2528, Rural Access to Emergency Devices Act, S10160 [10OC]

S. 2610, Medicare Fairness in Reimbursement Act, S4316 [23MY]

S. 2811, make communities with high levels of out-migration or population loss eligible for community facilities grants, S6026 [28JN]

S. 2811, make communities with high levels of out-migration or population loss eligible for community facilities grants under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act, S10947 [24OC]

S. 2987, Rural Health Care in the 21st Century Act, S7901-S7905 [27JY]

S. 3152, Community Renewal and New Markets Act, S9704-S9729 [3OC]

S. 3175, National Rural Development Partnership Act, S9961-S9963 [5OC]

S. 3176, Rural States Physician Recruitment and Retention Demonstration Act, S10084 [6OC]

S. 3228, Rural Rental Housing Act, S10927 [24OC]

S. Res. 260, improve access to health care services for uninsured and low-income individuals in medically under served areas, S824 [24FE]