INVESTMENTS

Addresses

New Imperialism—The Attack on World Tax Havens: Robert E. Bauman, E1868 [19OC]

Strategies Needed for Today's Economic Problems: Ken Lipper, Lipper & Co., S8192 [7SE]

Technology and the New Economy: Alan Greenspan, FRS, S272-S275 [2FE]

Advertisements

Trade and Development Act supporters, S3859 [11MY]

Amendments

Courts: improve procedures for Federal civil forfeitures (H.R. 1658), S1753 [27MR]

Federal employees: allow for the contribution of rollover distributions to accounts and eliminate waiting-period requirements for participation in the Thrift Savings Plan (H.R. 208), S7455 [21JY], H9519 [10OC]

SEC: limit collection of certain fees and adjust compensation for employees (S. 2107), S6867 [14JY]

Senate: return of certain treaties to the President (S. Res. 267), S10469, S10499 [12OC]

Taxation: phase-out and repeal estate and gift taxes (H.R. 8), S6586, S6610, S6627, S6631, S6634, S6636, S6640, S6656, S6660, S6662, S6692, S6694, S6695, S6697, S6699, S6700, S6701, S6703, S6706, S6708, S6710, S6737, S6739, S6741, S6753, S6761 [13JY], H4148, H4160 [9JN]

———phase-out and repeal estate and gift taxes (H.R. 8), consideration (H. Res. 519), H4085 [8JN]

———treatment of education individual retirement accounts relative to elementary and secondary school expenses (H.R. 7), H1478 [28MR]

———treatment of education individual retirement accounts relative to elementary and secondary school expenses (S. 1134), S826 [24FE], S860, S872, S873, S874, S879, S881, S883, S884, S885, S886, S888, S889, S890, S891 [28FE], S899, S922, S955, S956, S957 [29FE], S992, S996, S1001, S1005, S1009, S1013, S1014, S1018, S1032, S1033, S1034 [1MR], S1054, S1062, S1071, S1072, S1073, S1079, S1082, S1083, S1085, S1089, S1092, S1131, S1137, S1138, S1146, S1147, S1148 [2MR]

———treatment of tax-exempt financing for professional sports facilities (S. 224), S9257 [26SE]

Analyses

Commodity Futures Modernization Act (S. 2697), S4825-S4827 [8JN]

Financial Information Privacy Protection Act (S. 2513), S3535 [4MY]

Appointments

Conferees: H.R. 434, Trade and Development Act, H2469 [3MY]

Articles and editorials

American Companies Can Do More To Help Africa, E1064 [20JN]

Democrats' Estate Tax Plan Is Little Known, S6775 [14JY]

Despite Benefits, Democrats' Estate Tax Plan Gets Little Notice, S6587 [13JY]

Developer Hits Riverboat Jackpot—Stock Sale Windfall ``Steams'' Treasurer, S9872 [4OC]

Don't Punish Africa, E333 [16MR]

Estate Taxes Threaten Wildlife Habitats, H4137 [9JN]

Hy-Vee, Inc., S6778 [14JY]

Larger Legacy May Await Generations X, Y, and Z, H934 [14MR]

Real Rap on Death and Taxes, S6439 [11JY], S6604 [13JY]

School Choice for the Rich, S914 [29FE]

Section 529 College Savings Plans Rate an A, S923 [29FE]

Study Contradicts Foes of Estate Tax, H934 [14MR]

Time To Eliminate the Costly Death Tax, H4025 [7JN]

Unmaking of Americans, S3813 [10MY]

Bills and resolutions

Armed Forces: allow members to participate in the Thrift Savings Plan (see H.R. 4173), H1763 [4AP] (see H.R. 4363), H2410 [2MY]

Capital Construction Fund: provide for qualified withdrawals for fishermen leaving the industry and for the rollover to individual retirement plans (see H.R. 5395), H9010 [5OC]

Commodity Exchange Act: reauthorize and amend to promote legal certainty, enhance competition, and reduce systemic risk in markets for futures and over-the-counter derivatives (see S. 2697), S4820 [8JN] (see S. 3283), S11917 [15DE] (see H.R. 4541), H3867 [25MY] (see H.R. 5660), H12094 [14DE]

Community development: enhance availability of capital and credit for citizens and communities and ensure that community reinvestment keeps pace as financial service providers become affiliated (see H.R. 4893), H6599 [19JY]

———increase capital available to communities for economic and community development projects (see H.R. 4822), H5842 [11JY]

———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]

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]

Copyrights: preserve efficient low-cost commercial financing of enterprises based upon the security of their copyrights and assets (see H.R. 4351), H2410 [2MY]

Crime: expand civil asset forfeiture provisions relative to alien smuggling (see H.R. 3547), H49 [27JA]

Dept. of HHS: make grants to hospitals, with National Housing Act insured mortgages, for conversion and re-utilization of excess capacity (see H.R. 5255), H7991 [21SE]

FDIC: provide coverage for municipal deposits (see S. 3018), S8197 [7SE]

FHA: require partial rebates of mortgage insurance premiums to certain mortgagors upon payment of their FHA-insured mortgages (see S. 2914), S7542 [25JY] (see H.R. 4795), H5654 [29JN]

Financial institutions: encourage acceptance of environmentally sound processes for dry and wet cleaning as safe investments (see H. Con. Res. 383), H7210 [27JY]

———establish a program to promote access to financial services for low- and moderate-income individuals (see S. 2592), S4190 [18MY] (see H.R. 4490), H3412 [18MY]

———increase interaccount transfers from business accounts and require the FRS to pay interest on certain reserves (see H.R. 3611), H339 [10FE]

———prohibit use or sharing of medical health records or information (see S. 2863), S6677 [13JY]

———repeal the prohibition on the payment of interest on demand deposits (see H.R. 4067), H1404 [23MR]

———require payment of interest on reserves maintained at Federal reserve banks by insured depository institutions (see H.R. 4209), H1957 [6AP] (see H.R. 4427), H2966 [11MY]

———strengthen consumer control over use and disclosure of personal financial and health information (see S. 2513), S3514 [4MY] (see H.R. 4380), H2605 [4MY] (see H.R. 4585), H3924 [6JN]

Foreign investments: authorize transaction taxes on short-term cross-border foreign exchange transactions to deter speculation (see H. Con. Res. 301), H2122 [11AP]

Foreign policy: authorize trade and investment policy relative to sub-Saharan Africa (H.R. 434), consideration of conference report (see H. Res. 489), H2605 [4MY]

———authorize trade and investment policy relative to sub-Saharan Africa (H.R. 434), corrections in enrollment of conference report (see S. Con. Res. 112), S3916 [11MY]

Foreign trade: increase participation in employee stock purchase plans and individual retirement plans in periods of economic growth attributable to international trade (see S. 2244), S1392 [9MR]

House Rules: same-day consideration of certain resolutions (see H. Res. 488), H2511 [3MY]

Housing: provide for one percent FHA mortgage loan downpayments for teachers and public safety officers to purchase homes within employing jurisdictions (see H.R. 3884), H920 [9MR]

Income: establish Individual Development Accounts for certain individuals and families (see S. 2740), S5240 [15JN]

Native Americans: authorize tribes to coordinate and integrate Federal funding dedicated to the development of communities (see S. 2052), S612 [10FE]

———provide for business development and trade promotion (see S. 2719), S5027 [13JN]

———provide trust fund expenditures by the Zuni Pueblo Tribe (see H.R. 4725), H5036 [22JN]

Pensions: harmonize employer-sponsored retirement plan services requirements with other Federal and State laws (see H.R. 4749), H5168 [26JN]

———increase the availability of employer-sponsored retirement plan services to participants, beneficiaries, and plan fiduciaries (see H.R. 4748), H5168 [26JN]

———provide retirement investment advice to workers managing their retirement income assets (see S. 2969), S7839 [27JY] (see H.R. 4747), H5168 [26JN]

Political campaigns: require candidates for election for Federal office to report to the FEC information on the sale of personal assets (see H.R. 4989), H7205 [27JY]

Poverty: enhance flexibility in individual development account programs to encourage savings for poor working families (see S. 3214), S10716 [18OC]

Public utilities: grant investor owned utilities and other private entities the same rights to purchase electric energy generated at Federal facilities as public bodies and cooperatives (see H.R. 5113), H7280 [6SE]

SBA: establish a New Market Venture Capital Program (see H.R. 4530), H3812 [24MY]

SEC: limit collection of certain fees and adjust compensation for employees (see S. 2107), S867 [28FE]

Securities: establish regulatory framework for over-the-counter derivative instruments operating under Federal banking agencies and clarify legality of certain transactions involving such derivatives (see H.R. 4203), H1956 [6AP]

———improve delivery systems for dividends, interest, and other valuable property rights to lost security holders (see H.R. 3997), H1077 [15MR]

———provide for regulatory parity for single stock futures (see S. 2765), S5556 [21JN] (see S. 2772), S5662 [22JN]

Senate: return of certain treaties to the President (see S. Res. 267), S1392 [9MR]

Senior citizens: waive certain mortgage insurance premiums and use such proceeds to purchase long-term care insurance (see H.R. 3607), H278 [9FE]

Small business: establish the New Markets Venture Capital Program, America's Private Investment Company Program, and a new markets tax credit (see S. 2936), S7656 [26JY]

Small Business Investment Act: corrections (see H.R. 3845), H756 [8MR]

Social Security: open KidSave accounts for every child at birth and invest such accounts to build retirement savings (see S. 3200), S10412 [12OC]

———provide for personal Social Security accounts and extend solvency of Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Program (see H.R. 5659), H12094 [14DE]

———provide for personalized retirement security through personal retirement savings accounts and increase individual control over retirement income (see H.R. 4839), H5955 [12JY]

———provide retirement security through payroll deductions and extend solvency of Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Program (see S. 2774), S5663 [22JN]

———repeal tax increase on benefits, eliminate earnings test for retirement age individuals, and raise age for minimum distributions from pension plans (see S. 2180), S1118 [2MR]

Social Security Protection, Preservation, and Reform Commission: establish (see H.R. 4714), H4817 [21JN]

Taxation: allow a long-term capital gains deduction for individuals (see S. 3174), S9945 [5OC]

———allow an additional individual retirement account deduction based on unused amounts of deduction limitation in prior years (see H.R. 3620), H340 [10FE]

———allow an exclusion from gross income for certain amounts of capital gains distributions from regulated investment companies (see H.R. 4723), H5036 [22JN]

———allow an income tax credit to holders of bonds issued to finance land and water reclamation for the anthracite region of Pennsylvania (see H.R. 4314), H2338 [13AP]

———allow an investment credit by farmers for value-added agricultural property (see S. 2746), S5241 [15JN] (see H.R. 4497), H3412 [18MY]

———allow eligible individuals to elect to pay 15 percent tax on income with a tax return free filing system and reduce burdens of marriage penalty and alternative minimum tax (see S. 3087), S8941 [21SE]

———allow exclusion of tax-exempt bonds issued for health care or educational purposes in determination of interest expenses of financial institutions (see H.R. 4666), H4484 [14JN]

———allow the empowerment zone employment credit for additional empowerment zones and enterprise communities and increase funding for such zones and communities (see H.R. 4463), H3171 [16MY]

———clarify treatment under the tax-exempt bond rules of pre-payments for certain commodities (see S. 3145), S9606 [2OC]

———clarify treatment under the tax-exempt bond rules of pre-payments for certain commodities and mineral production payments (see H.R. 5259), H7991 [21SE]

———designate renewal communities, provide tax credits to investors seeking to provide capital to create new markets in low-income communities, and establish Individual Development Accounts (see S. 2779), S5663 [22JN]

———encourage investment in small companies (see H.R. 5455), H9899 [12OC]

———encourage the granting of employee stock options (see H.R. 4972), H7128 [26JY]

———establish individual development accounts to allow those with limited means to accumulate assets, access education, own homes and businesses, and achieve economic self-sufficiency (see H.R. 4106), H1476 [28MR]

———exclude from gross income gain from the sale of securities which are used to pay for higher education expenses (see H.R. 4993), H7205 [27JY]

———exclude U.S. savings bond income from gross income if used to pay long-term care expenses (see S. 2066), S613 [10FE] (see H.R. 4316), H2338 [13AP]

———extend time for payment of estate tax for estates with closely held businesses (see S. 3111), S9267 [26SE] (see H.R. 4512), H3522 [22MY]

———inclusion of estimated income-contingent costs to determine depreciation of property under the income forecast method (see H.R. 5343), H8468 [28SE]

———increase unified estate and gift tax credit (see H.R. 5138), H7365 [7SE]

———increase unified estate and gift tax credit and provide for inflation adjustment (see H.R. 4112), H1587 [29MR] (see H.R. 4324), H2339 [13AP] (see H.R. 5129), H7364 [7SE]

———inflation adjustment of the dollar limitation on the exclusion of gain on the sale of a principal residence (see H.R. 4024), H1119 [16MR]

———permit advanced refunding of private activity bonds with general obligation bonds if the governmental issuer takes over the private activity bond (see H.R. 4155), H1674 [3AP]

———permit certain individuals to make catch-up contributions under individual retirement plans (see H.R. 4546), H3867 [25MY]

———phase-out and repeal estate and gift taxes (H.R. 8), consideration (see H. Res. 519), H4034 [7JN]

———prevent the duplication of losses through the assumption of liabilities giving rise to a deduction (see S. 2354), S2107 [4AP]

———prevent unintended disqualification of trusts as electing small business trusts (see H.R. 4561), H3868 [25MY]

———provide a shorter recovery period for the depreciation of certain restaurant buildings (see S. 2250), S1461 [20MR]

———provide for a tax deferral on gain from the sale of certain telecommunications businesses or tax incentives to promote ownership diversity (see S. 3235), S10999 [25OC]

———provide for community revitalization and extension of medical savings accounts (see H.R. 5662), H12094 [14DE]

———provide for increased fairness to taxpayers (see H.R. 4163), H1762 [4AP]

———provide for tax relief for the conversion of cooperative housing corporations into condominiums (see S. 3004), S8019 [5SE] (see H.R. 5159), H7502 [12SE]

———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] (see H.R. 4923), H6776 [24JY]

———reduce estate and gift tax rates (see H.R. 5315), H8405 [27SE]

———reduce estate and gift tax rates and increase the exclusion equivalent of the unified credit (see H.R. 5058), H7208 [27JY]

———reduce interest rate on installment payments of estate tax on closely held business interests (see H.R. 4515), H3648 [23MY]

———repeal modification of capital gains tax payments relative to small businesses sold on the installment sales method (see S. 2005), S86 [26JA] (see H.R. 3594), H254 [8FE]

———treatment of capital gains distributions from regulated investment companies (see H.R. 5471), H9900 [12OC]

———treatment of certain farmland sold with a principal residence (see H.R. 4421), H2905 [10MY]

———treatment of distributions from publicly traded partnerships (see S. 2949), S7839 [27JY]

———treatment of employee stock purchase plans (see S. 3265), S11423 [31OC]

———treatment of gold, silver, and platinum in the same manner as stocks and bonds for purposes of maximum capital gains rates (see S. 2678), S4564 [6JN] (see H.R. 4170), H1763 [4AP]

———treatment of gross income gain on the sale or exchange of certain property restricted to use as farmland (see H.R. 4100), H1476 [28MR]

———treatment of homeownership plans (see H.R. 4616), H4120 [8JN]

———treatment of net capital gain of closely held corporations (see H.R. 5569), H11206 [26OC]

———treatment of policyholder dividends of mutual life insurance companies and policyholder surplus accounts (see S. 2874), S6841 [14JY] (see H.R. 3905), H931 [13MR]

———use of median family income to determine purchase price limitation for mortgage subsidy bonds (see S. 2714), S5027 [13JN]

———waive income inclusion on a distribution from an individual retirement account or a section 401(k) plan if the distribution is contributed to charity (see H.R. 4433), H2966 [11MY]

Veterans: provide housing loan benefits for the purchase of residential cooperative apartment units (see H.R. 3571), H209 [2FE]

Cloture motions

Foreign policy: authorize trade and investment policy relative to sub-Saharan Africa (H.R. 434), conference report, S3788 [10MY], S3860 [11MY]

Taxation: phase-out and repeal estate and gift taxes (H.R. 8), S6296 [30JN]

———treatment of education individual retirement accounts relative to elementary and secondary school expenses (S. 1134), S775 [24FE]

Conference reports

Trade and Development Act (H.R. 434), H2514-H2552 [4MY]

Cost Estimates

Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act (H.R. 1658): CBO, H2047-H2049 [11AP]

Commodity Futures Modernization Act (H.R. 4541): CBO (Private Sector Mandates), H9867 [12OC]

Explanations

Commodity Futures Modernization Act: Committee on Taxation (Joint), H10442-H10444 [19OC]

Community Renewal and New Markets Act (H.R. 4923), H6816-H6820 [25JY]

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

Factsheets

Individual Development Accounts—Federal Policy, S5267 [15JN]

Privatizing Social Security—A Riverboast Gamble: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, S4248 [23MY]

Letters

Affordable Education Act: Michael A. Resnick, National School Boards Association, S905 [29FE]

Commodity Exchange Act reauthorization and amendments: Lawrence H. Summers, Arthur Levitt, Alan Greenspan, and William J. Rainer, President's Working Group on Financial Markets, S11897 [15DE], S11947 [2JA]

Commodity Futures Modernization Act: Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago Mercantile Exchange, E1940 [25OC]

———Kenneth L. Lay, Enron Corp., E1940 [25OC]

———Kenneth M. Raisler, E1940 [25OC]

———Marc E. Lackritz and Steve Judge, Securities Industry Association, E1940 [25OC]

———Matthew P. Fink, Investment Company Institute, E1941 [25OC]

———Representative Archer, Committee on Ways and Means (House), H10442 [19OC]

———Representative Hyde, Committee on the Judiciary (House), E1877 [23OC]

———Representative Leach, Committee on Banking and Financial Services (House), E1878 [23OC]

———several financial investment groups, E1940 [25OC]

———several organizations, E1940 [25OC]

———William J. Rainer, CFTC, H8437 [28SE]

Death Tax Elimination Act, H7719 [18SE]

———Alexander Leventhal, S6609 [13JY]

———Ayron Pickerill, S6424 [11JY]

———Todd M. Kolber, H4156 [9JN]

Dry Cleaning Environmental Tax Credit Act: Joseph C. Bonner, Bank of America Corp., E1370 [27JY]

Estate taxes: John M.J. Holliday, E2095 [14NO]

Federal Housing Finance Board allocation of authority to Federal Home Loan Banks to guarantee school construction bonds: Deborah F. Silberman and William W. Ginsberg, Federal Housing Finance Board, S1096 [2MR]

IRS enforcement of pension age discrimination laws relative to conversion of defined benefit plans to cash balance plans: Horace B. Deets, AARP, H6689 [20JY]

———Karen W. Ferguson and Karen Friedman, Pension Rights Center, H6689 [20JY]

Pension Benefits Protection and Preservation Act: several Representatives, H854-H856 [9MR]

Prohibit listing of Chinese companies on U.S. stock markets: Richard A. Grasso, New York Stock Exchange, Inc., S8325 [11SE]

School construction and renovation tax incentives: Wayne G. Sanstead, North Dakota Dept. of Public Instruction, S990 [1MR]

Social Security reform: Roger Zion, H3633 [23MY]

Tax treatment of employee stock purchase plans: John P. Palafoutas, American Electronics Association, S11424 [31OC]

———Roderic W. Lewis, Micron Technology, Inc., S11424 [31OC]

Trade and investment policy relative to sub-Saharan Africa and certain beneficiary countries in the Caribbean: John D. Podesta, Executive Office of the President, H2581 [4MY]

Lists

Amendments to H.R. 8, Death Tax Elimination Act, S6645 [13JY]

Family Business Estate Tax Coalition, S6437 [11JY]

Supporters of H.R. 4541, Commodity Futures Modernization Act, E1939 [25OC]

Messages

Encouragement and Reciprocal Protection of Investment Treaty With Bahrain: President Clinton, S4329 [23MY]

Encouragement and Reciprocal Protection of Investment Treaty With Bolivia: President Clinton, S4329 [23MY]

Encouragement and Reciprocal Protection of Investment Treaty With Croatia: President Clinton, S4330 [23MY]

Encouragement and Reciprocal Protection of Investment Treaty With El Salvador: President Clinton, S4329 [23MY]

Encouragement and Reciprocal Protection of Investment Treaty With Honduras: President Clinton, S4329 [23MY]

Encouragement and Reciprocal Protection of Investment Treaty With Jordan: President Clinton, S4330 [23MY]

Encouragement and Reciprocal Protection of Investment Treaty With Lithuania: President Clinton, S8030 [5SE]

Encouragement and Reciprocal Protection of Investment Treaty With Mozambique: President Clinton, S4330 [23MY]

Investment Treaty With Azerbaijan: President Clinton, S8426 [12SE]

Protocol Amending Investment Treaty With Panama: President Clinton, S8426 [12SE]

Veto of H.R. 8, Death Tax Elimination Act: President Clinton, H7240 [6SE]

Motions

Taxation: phase-out and repeal estate and gift taxes (H.R. 8), S6627, S6631, S6636, S6640, S6651, S6663 [13JY], S6768, S6769 [14JY], H4160 [9JN]

———treatment of education individual retirement accounts relative to elementary and secondary school expenses (S. 1134), S919 [29FE], S991 [1MR], S1099 [2MR]

Papers

Death Tax Devastation—Horror Stories From Middle-Class America: William W. Beach, Heritage Foundation, S6772-S6774 [14JY]

Poems

``Tax His Cow'', H4153 [9JN]

Remarks in House

Asian Development Bank: encourage Japanese officials to improve management, institute banking reforms, and accept the U.S. nominee for a vice president's position, E826 [24MY]

Commodity Exchange Act: reauthorize and amend to promote legal certainty, enhance competition, and reduce systemic risk in markets for futures and over-the-counter derivatives, H12485, H12488, H12491, H12495, H12497, H12498, H12501 [15DE], E2181 [14DE]

———reauthorize and amend to promote legal certainty, enhance competition, and reduce systemic risk in markets for futures and over-the-counter derivatives (H.R. 4541), H8436 [28SE], H9867 [12OC], H10411-H10449 [19OC], E858 [25MY], E1858 [19OC], E1877, E1878-E1880 [23OC], E1930, E1939 [25OC]

———reauthorize and amend to promote legal certainty, enhance competition, and reduce systemic risk in markets for futures and over-the-counter derivatives (H.R. 4541), permission to file report, H10365 [19OC]

Community development: enhance availability of capital and credit for citizens and communities and ensure that community reinvestment keeps pace as financial service providers become affiliated (H.R. 4893), E1277 [19JY]

———license America's Private Investment Companies and provide enhanced credit to stimulate private investment in low-income communities, H6823 [25JY]

———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]

Copyrights: preserve efficient low-cost commercial financing of enterprises based upon the security of their copyrights and assets (H.R. 4351), E926 [9JN]

Courts: improve procedures for Federal civil forfeitures (H.R. 1658), H2040-H2054 [11AP]

Crime: expand civil asset forfeiture provisions relative to alien smuggling (H.R. 3547), E14 [27JA]

Development Fund for Africa: funding, H5948-H5950 [12JY]

Domestic policy: effect of political party objectives on the economy, H11866 [13NO]

Economy: impact of foreign policy on domestic economic conditions, H9866 [12OC]

Federal employees: allow for the contribution of rollover distributions to accounts and eliminate waiting-period requirements for participation in the Thrift Savings Plan (H.R. 208), H9519-H9521 [10OC]

———make percentage limitations on contributions to the Thrift Savings Plan comparable to dollar amount limitations on elective deferrals (H.R. 483), H6519 [19JY]

Financial institutions: encourage acceptance of environmentally sound processes for dry and wet cleaning as safe investments (H. Con. Res. 383), E1369 [27JY]

———ensure consumer privacy when establishing a framework for the affiliation of banks, securities firms, and other financial service providers (H.R. 3320), E1652 [3OC]

———ensure personal financial privacy and give customers notice and choice about how institutions share or sell personally identifiable sensitive financial information (S. 1924), H2661 [9MY]

———establish a program to promote access to financial services for low- and moderate-income individuals (H.R. 4490), E763 [18MY]

———repeal the prohibition on the payment of interest on demand deposits (H.R. 4067), H2076-H2079 [11AP], E543 [12AP], E581 [13AP], E621 [3MY]

———require payment of interest on reserves maintained at Federal reserve banks by insured depository institutions (H.R. 4427), E713 [11MY]

———strengthen consumer control over use and disclosure of personal financial and health information (H.R. 4380), E652, E653 [4MY]

———strengthen consumer control over use and disclosure of personal financial and health information (H.R. 4585), H6606 [20JY]

Foreign policy: authorize trade and investment policy relative to sub-Saharan Africa, E1064 [20JN]

———authorize trade and investment policy relative to sub-Saharan Africa (H.R. 434), E333 [16MR]

———authorize trade and investment policy relative to sub-Saharan Africa (H.R. 434), conference report, H2552, H2567-H2571, H2577-H2589 [4MY], E734 [16MY], E1011 [14JN]

———authorize trade and investment policy relative to sub-Saharan Africa (H.R. 434), consideration of conference report (H. Res. 489), H2572-H2577 [4MY]

———authorize trade and investment policy relative to sub-Saharan Africa (H.R. 434), corrections in enrollment of conference report (S. Con. Res. 112), H2973 [15MY]

Government: impact of economic prosperity on personal liberties, H187-H191 [2FE]

House Rules: same-day consideration of certain resolutions (H. Res. 488), H2567-H2572 [4MY]

Housing: provide for one percent FHA mortgage loan downpayments for teachers and public safety officers to purchase homes within employing jurisdictions (H.R. 3884), E274 [9MR]

———provide for one percent FHA mortgage loan downpayments for teachers and public safety officers to purchase homes within employing jurisdictions and allow adjustable-rate mortgages, H4754-H4759 [20JN]

———provide for one percent FHA mortgage loan downpayments to purchase homes within employing jurisdictions, H1862, H1865, H1902-H1908 [6AP]

Income: protect retirement security of individuals (H.R. 1590), E278 [9MR]

Interagency Group on Insular Affairs: provide guidance on Federal policies towards U.S. territories, H222 [8FE]

IRS: enforce pension age discrimination laws relative to conversion of defined benefit plans to cash balance plans, H6689-H6692 [20JY]

National parks and recreation areas: prohibit funding to enforce the payment of fines for violation of entrance fees, H4575, H4576 [15JN]

Native Americans: provide for business development and trade promotion (S. 2719), H10509-H10511 [23OC]

———provide trust fund expenditures by the Zuni Pueblo Tribe (H.R. 4725), E1082 [22JN]

———review Government regulations relative to economic development and investment on Indian lands (S. 614), H10508, H10509 [23OC]

New Market Venture Capital Program: establish, H6824, H6838 [25JY]

Nuclear energy: allow nuclear utilities to invest the Dept. of Energy surcharge fee and use the interest to fund onsite storage of spent nuclear fuel, H1195 [22MR]

Pensions: protect benefits of employees in defined benefit plans and enforce age discrimination requirements relative to tax legislation on defined benefit plans becoming cash balance plans (H.R. 2902), H853 [9MR]

———provide retirement investment advice to workers managing their retirement income assets (H.R. 4747), E1110 [26JN]

Public debt: reduce by declaring Federal Reserve notes to be official currency enabling return of Treasury bonds and reduction of interest payments, H6360 [18JY], H8040 [25SE], H8894 [5OC]

Real estate: anniversary of law establishing real estate investment trusts, E1491 [14SE], E1515 [18SE]

SEC: proposed rule affecting consulting affiliates of auditing firms, H10225 [18OC], E1852 [19OC]

———require improved disclosure of after-tax returns relative to mutual fund performance (H.R. 1089), H1648-H1651 [3AP]

Small Business Investment Act: corrections (H.R. 3845), H940-H942 [14MR]

Social Security: allow diversion of percentage of payroll tax payments into personal investment plans, H577 [1MR], H1128 [21MR], H3052, H3058 [16MY], H3402-H3410 [18MY], H3632-H3637 [23MY], H3754-H3756 [24MY], H4031-H4033 [7JN], H6758-H6764 [24JY], H8058 [25SE], H8787 [4OC], H11871-H11873 [13NO]

———budget treatment of Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Program (H.R. 167), H12504 [15DE]

———budget treatment of trust funds, H10464-H10468 [19OC]

———create personalized retirement accounts, H936 [14MR]

———ensure solvency, H5732-H5734 [10JY], H7220, H7221 [6SE], H8894 [5OC], H9512 [10OC], H10233-H10238 [18OC], H10528-H10532 [23OC], H11431-H11435 [27OC], H11835 [3NO], H11871-H11873 [13NO]

———provide for personalized retirement security through personal retirement savings accounts and increase individual control over retirement income (H.R. 4839), H5849 [12JY]

———provide for personalized retirement security through personal retirement savings accounts, increase individual control over retirement income, and protect surpluses (H.R. 3206), H5088 [26JN], H10528-H10532 [23OC], H11431-H11435 [27OC]

———reform, H2738 [9MY], H3402-H3410 [18MY], H3632-H3637 [23MY], H3754-H3756 [24MY], H3912 [6JN], E1861 [19OC]

———tie benefit increases to inflation and establish personal savings accounts, E2185 [14DE]

Social Security Protection, Preservation, and Reform Commission: establish (H.R. 4714), E1069 [21JN]

Taxation: allow an additional individual retirement account deduction based on unused amounts of deduction limitation in prior years (H.R. 3620), H334 [10FE], H6517 [19JY]

———allow an exclusion from gross income for certain amounts of capital gains distributions from regulated investment companies (H.R. 4723), E1090 [23JN]

———allow an income tax credit to holders of bonds issued to finance land and water reclamation for the anthracite region of Pennsylvania, H6825 [25JY]

———allow an income tax credit to holders of bonds issued to finance land and water reclamation for the anthracite region of Pennsylvania (H.R. 4314), E2001 [28OC]

———allow Farm and Ranch Risk Management Accounts (H.R. 957), H4153 [9JN]

———condition phase-out and repeal of estate and gift taxes on solvency of Social Security and Medicare and public debt reduction, H4078, H4081-H4085 [8JN], H4132, H4135, H4138, H4145 [9JN], E974 [12JN]

———creation of a new class of bonds for new school construction (H.R. 415), E1853 [19OC]

———designate renewal communities, H11248 [26OC], H12484, H12485, H12494 [15DE]

———eliminate capital gains on the sale of certain homes, H2107 [11AP]

———encourage the granting of employee stock options (H.R. 4972), E1339 [27JY]

———establish individual development accounts to allow those with limited means to accumulate assets, access education, own homes and businesses, and achieve economic self-sufficiency, H6826 [25JY]

———extend time for payment of estate tax for estates with closely held businesses (H.R. 4512), E805 [22MY]

———increase annual limitation on deductible contributions to individual retirement accounts, H6369 [18JY]

———increase annual limitation on deductible contributions to individual retirement accounts (H.R. 802), H864 [9MR]

———phase-out and repeal estate and gift taxes, H547-H552 [29FE], H846, H849, H859, H862, H864 [9MR], H933, H939 [14MR], H2105 [11AP], H5730-H5732 [10JY], H11593 [30OC]

———phase-out and repeal estate and gift taxes (H.R. 8), H362 [14FE], H3911 [6JN], H3931, H3932, H3933, H3934, H3935, H4024-H4031 [7JN], H4047, H4108-H4115 [8JN], H4123, H4124, H4125, H4126, H4127, H4128-H4164, H4169 [9JN], H5850 [12JY], H6474, H6588-H6593 [19JY], H6758-H6764 [24JY], E941 [9JN], E974, E975, E977 [12JN], E1008, E1009 [14JN], E1364 [27JY]

———phase-out and repeal estate and gift taxes (H.R. 8), consideration (H. Res. 519), H4077-H4087 [8JN]

———phase-out and repeal estate and gift taxes (H.R. 8), motion to recommit, H4161-H4163 [9JN]

———phase-out and repeal estate and gift taxes (H.R. 8), veto, H7220, H7241, H7247, H7259-H7264 [6SE], H7284, H7285, H7322-H7335, H7351-H7357 [7SE], H7719 [18SE], E1504 [18SE]

———promote job creation and expand small businesses in economically-distressed communities (H.R. 3247), H222 [8FE]

———provide a source of interest-free capital for school construction and renovation in States experiencing increased enrollment (H.R. 996), H969 [14MR], H1741 [4AP], H2553 [4MY], H6764-H6770 [24JY]

———provide additional retirement savings opportunities for small employers and self-employed individuals, H6510, H6524 [19JY], E1302 [21JY]

———provide for increased fairness to taxpayers (H.R. 4163), H2018, H2020, H2057-H2069 [11AP], E554, E559 [13AP], E614 [2MY]

———provide for tax relief for the conversion of cooperative housing corporations into condominiums (H.R. 5159), E1882 [23OC]

———provide incentives for renewal of distressed communities and empowerment zone development, increase the number of empowerment zones, and encourage investment in new markets (H.R. 4923), H6797-H6841 [25JY], E1311 [24JY], E1330, E1339, E1343 [27JY]

———rates, H6091-H6097 [17JY]

———reduce estate and gift tax rates, H8788 [4OC]

———reduce individual income tax rates, provide marriage penalty and estate and gift tax relief, reduce taxes on savings and investments, and establish incentives for education and health care (H.R. 2488), veto, H2501 [3MY], H7220 [6SE], H7379 [12SE]

———repeal estate and gift taxes, H3162-H3164 [16MY]

———repeal modification of capital gains tax payments relative to small businesses sold on the installment sales method (H.R. 3594), H239 [8FE], H12097-H12100 [15DE], E94 [8FE]

———repeal modification of capital gains tax payments relative to small businesses sold on the installment sales method (H.R. 3594), unanimous-consent agreement, H12082 [13DE]

———treatment of education individual retirement accounts relative to elementary and secondary school expenses (H.R. 7), H1419, H1420, H1455-H1461 [28MR], H1482, H1483, H1484 [29MR]

———treatment of education individual retirement accounts relative to elementary and secondary school expenses (S. 1134), E345 [16MR]

———treatment of medical savings accounts, H12485 [15DE]

———treatment of net capital gain of closely held corporations (H.R. 5569), E1955 [26OC]

———treatment of policyholder dividends of mutual life insurance companies and policyholder surplus accounts (H.R. 3905), E287 [13MR]

Textile industry and fabrics: establish special access program for apparel articles assembled in countries in sub-Saharan Africa solely from U.S. fabrics, yarns, and threads, E333 [16MR]

Remarks in Senate

Armed Forces: allow members to participate in the Thrift Savings Plan, S2321, S2336 [6AP], S2408 [7AP], S2692 [13AP]

Bush, George W.: economic plan, S11104, S11111-S11113 [26OC]

Committee on Finance (Senate): tribute to Members and staff for efforts on Trade and Development Act, S3787 [10MY]

Commodity Exchange Act: reauthorize and amend to promote legal certainty, enhance competition, and reduce systemic risk in markets for futures and over-the-counter derivatives, S11866, S11878, S11896 [15DE], S11946 [2JA]

———reauthorize and amend to promote legal certainty, enhance competition, and reduce systemic risk in markets for futures and over-the-counter derivatives (S. 2697), S4823-S4827 [8JN]

———reauthorize and amend to promote legal certainty, enhance competition, and reduce systemic risk in markets for futures and over-the-counter derivatives (S. 3283), S11924-S11927, S11941 [15DE]

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

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]

Courts: improve procedures for Federal civil forfeitures, S10919 [24OC]

———improve procedures for Federal civil forfeitures (H.R. 1658), S1753-S1762 [27MR]

FDIC: provide coverage for municipal deposits (S. 3018), S8209 [7SE]

Federal employees: allow for the contribution of rollover distributions to accounts and eliminate waiting-period requirements for participation in the Thrift Savings Plan (H.R. 208), S7455, S7456 [21JY]

Federal Housing Finance Board: allocate authority to Federal Home Loan Banks to guarantee school construction bonds, S1096, S1097 [2MR]

Federal-State relations: investment of joint Federal and State funds from the civil settlement of damages from the Exxon Valdez (vessel) oil spill (S. 711), S2521 [11AP]

FHA: require partial rebates of mortgage insurance premiums to certain mortgagors upon payment of their FHA-insured mortgages (S. 2914), S7543 [25JY]

Financial institutions: ensure personal financial privacy and give customers notice and choice about how institutions share or sell personally identifiable sensitive financial information (S. 1924), S11778 [14DE]

———establish a program to promote access to financial services for low- and moderate-income individuals (S. 2592), S4201 [18MY]

———strengthen consumer control over use and disclosure of personal financial and health information (S. 2513), S3532-S3537 [4MY], S11779 [14DE]

Foreign policy: authorize trade and investment policy relative to sub-Saharan Africa (H.R. 434), S3037-S3039 [27AP]

———authorize trade and investment policy relative to sub-Saharan Africa (H.R. 434), conference report, S3471 [4MY], S3788-S3827, S3853 [10MY], S3858-S3880 [11MY]

———authorize trade and investment policy relative to sub-Saharan Africa (H.R. 434), conference report—motion to proceed, S3787 [10MY]

———authorize trade and investment policy relative to sub-Saharan Africa (H.R. 434), conference report—unanimous-consent agreement, S3661, S3662 [9MY]

———authorize trade and investment policy relative to sub-Saharan Africa (H.R. 434), corrections in enrollment of conference report (S. Con. Res. 112), S3928 [11MY]

Foreign trade: increase participation in employee stock purchase plans and individual retirement plans in periods of economic growth attributable to international trade (S. 2244), S1416 [9MR]

———strengthen provisions relative to transshipment of certain textile products, S3803, S3807, S3817, S3826 [10MY], S3867, S3872 [11MY]

Greenspan, Alan: nomination to be FRS Board of Governors Chairman, S258-S279 [2FE], S305-S308 [3FE]

———nomination to be FRS Board of Governors Chairman, unanimous-consent agreement, S223 [1FE]

Income: address problems of the wealth gap in the U.S. and barriers to wealth accumulation, S2660 [13AP]

———establish Individual Development Accounts for certain individuals and families (S. 2740), S5264-S5267 [15JN]

Investments: reauthorize and amend to promote legal certainty, enhance competition, and reduce systemic risk in markets for futures and over-the-counter derivatives-S11868 [15DE]

National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts: anniversary, S8635 [15SE]

Native Americans: authorize tribes to coordinate and integrate Federal funding dedicated to the development of communities (S. 2052), S614 [10FE]

———provide for business development and trade promotion (S. 2719), S6034 [28JN]

NIH: require proposal to ensure reasonable rate of return from drug manufacturers on drugs developed with Federal funding or research, S5832-S5834 [27JN]

Pensions: protection of workers whose employers convert from defined benefits to cash balance pension plans, S2415 [7AP], S2610 [12AP]

Poverty: enhance flexibility in individual development account programs to encourage savings for poor working families (S. 3214), S10718 [18OC]

Real estate: anniversary of law establishing real estate investment trusts, S8635 [15SE]

Senate: return of certain treaties to the President (S. Res. 267), S10499 [12OC]

Small business: establish the New Markets Venture Capital Program, America's Private Investment Company Program, and a new markets tax credit (S. 2936), S7676-S7678 [26JY]

Social Security: allow diversion of percentage of payroll tax payments into personal investment plans, S4243-S4253 [23MY], S4339 [24MY], S4978-S4980 [13JN], S5317 [19JN], S5773 [26JN]

———budget treatment of trust funds, S10903-S10906 [24OC]

———create personalized retirement accounts (S. 1103), S104 [26JA], S1196-S1201 [7MR], S4243-S4247 [23MY], S4515-S4518 [6JN]

———open KidSave accounts for every child at birth and invest such accounts to build retirement savings, S6638-S6640 [13JY]

———open KidSave accounts for every child at birth and invest such accounts to build retirement savings (S. 3200), S10420 [12OC]

———prohibit investment of trust funds in private financial markets, S2388, S2389 [7AP], S3684 [9MY], S4290 [23MY]

———provide retirement security through payroll deductions and extend solvency of Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Program (S. 1383), S2660 [13AP]

———provide retirement security through payroll deductions and extend solvency of Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Program (S. 2774), S5668 [22JN]

———reform, S3938-S3940 [15MY], S4243-S4253 [23MY], S4339 [24MY], S5317 [19JN]

———repeal tax increase on benefits, eliminate earnings test for retirement age individuals, and raise age for minimum distributions from pension plans (S. 2180), S1126 [2MR]

SSA: provide information on Social Security trust funds, personal earnings, and benefit estimates to eligible individuals (S. 1104), S1535 [22MR]

Taxation: allow a credit to holders of qualified bonds issued by Amtrak, S11827-S11832, S11860 [15DE]

———allow a credit to holders of qualified bonds issued by Amtrak (S. 1900), S9402 [27SE]

———allow an investment credit by farmers for value-added agricultural property (S. 2746), S5271 [15JN]

———allow eligible individuals to elect to pay 15 percent tax on income with a tax return free filing system and reduce burdens of marriage penalty and alternative minimum tax (S. 3087), S8936, S8949 [21SE]

———allow Farm and Ranch Risk Management Accounts, S11471 [1NO]

———designate renewal communities, provide tax credits to investors seeking to provide capital to create new markets in low-income communities, and establish Individual Development Accounts, S6649-S6651 [13JY], S6770-S6772 [14JY]

———designate renewal communities, provide tax credits to investors seeking to provide capital to create new markets in low-income communities, and establish Individual Development Accounts (S. 2779), S5684 [22JN]

———designate renewal communities (S. 463), S374 [7FE]

———eliminate marriage tax penalty by increasing income phaseout thresholds for education savings accounts, S1045-S1049, S1082 [2MR]

———eliminate use of education individual retirement accounts for elementary and secondary school expenses and expand school construction and renovation incentives, S922 [29FE], S983-S992 [1MR]

———exclude U.S. savings bond income from gross income if used to pay long-term care expenses, S6799 [14JY], S7050 [17JY]

———exclude U.S. savings bond income from gross income if used to pay long-term care expenses (S. 2066), S624 [10FE]

———extend time for payment of estate tax for estates with closely held businesses (S. 3111), S9269 [26SE]

———increase deduction for expensing of certain depreciable assets by small businesses, S6815 [14JY]

———phase-out and repeal estate and gift taxes, S2278, S2279, S2282 [6AP], S6323 [10JY]

———phase-out and repeal estate and gift taxes (H.R. 8), S6295, S6296 [30JN], S6329-S6334 [10JY], S6586-S6591, S6600-S6669 [13JY], S6767-S6781, S6817 [14JY], S7012-S7014 [17JY], S7084, S7085, S7150 [18JY], S7500-S7502 [25JY], S7608 [26JY]

———phase-out and repeal estate and gift taxes (H.R. 8), motion to proceed, S6296, S6297 [30JN], S6403-S6408, S6411, S6448 [11JY], S6485-S6497 [12JY]

———phase-out and repeal estate and gift taxes (H.R. 8), unanimous-consent agreement, S6497 [12JY], S6644, S6645 [13JY]

———phase-out and repeal estate and gift taxes (H.R. 8), unanimous-consent request, S6764 [13JY]

———phase-out and repeal estate and gift taxes (H.R. 8), veto, S7998 [5SE], S8099 [6SE], S8633 [15SE]

———prevent the duplication of losses through the assumption of liabilities giving rise to a deduction (S. 2354), S2116 [4AP]

———provide for a tax deferral on gain from the sale of certain telecommunications businesses or tax incentives to promote ownership diversity (S. 3235), S11003 [25OC]

———provide for tax relief for the conversion of cooperative housing corporations into condominiums (S. 3004), S8023 [5SE]

———provide incentives for renewal of distressed communities and empowerment zone development, increase the number of empowerment zones, and encourage investment in new markets, S11819 [15DE]

———provide incentives for renewal of distressed communities and empowerment zone development, increase the number of empowerment zones, and encourage investment in new markets (H.R. 4923), S7952 [27JY]

———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]

———provide tax relief for farmers, S6795 [14JY]

———rates, S7429-S7431 [21JY], S7587-S7589 [26JY]

———repeal estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes (S. 1128), S5101 [14JN]

———repeal modification of capital gains tax payments relative to small businesses sold on the installment sales method, S6811 [14JY], S7103 [18JY]

———repeal modification of capital gains tax payments relative to small businesses sold on the installment sales method (H.R. 3594), unanimous-consent agreement, S11940 [15DE]

———repeal modification of capital gains tax payments relative to small businesses sold on the installment sales method (S. 2005), S88 [26JA], S147 [31JA]

———treatment of education individual retirement accounts relative to elementary and secondary school expenses (S. 1134), S713-S736 [23FE], S758, S774, S775, S777, S778 [24FE], S847-S862 [28FE], S899-S924 [29FE], S983-S1003, S1005-S1018 [1MR], S1045-S1111 [2MR], S1170 [6MR], S1384 [9MR]

———treatment of education individual retirement accounts relative to elementary and secondary school expenses (S. 1134), technical corrections, S1111 [2MR]

———treatment of education individual retirement accounts relative to elementary and secondary school expenses (S. 1134), unanimous-consent agreement, S1056 [2MR]

———treatment of employee stock purchase plans (S. 3265), S11423 [31OC]

———treatment of individual retirement accounts, S6639, S6640, S6644, S6655 [13JY], S11320-S11322 [29OC]

———treatment of policyholder dividends of mutual life insurance companies and policyholder surplus accounts (S. 2874), S6843 [14JY]

———treatment of tax-exempt financing for professional sports facilities (S. 224), S9257 [26SE]

———use of median family income to determine purchase price limitation for mortgage subsidy bonds (S. 2714), S5027 [13JN]

———use of surplus or tax increases to fund expansion of education individual retirement accounts, S1049-S1054, S1068 [2MR]

Treaties and agreements: removal of injunction of secrecy, S4329 [23MY], S8426 [12SE]

University of Alaska-Fairbanks: tribute to School of Management Student Investment Fund, S505 [8FE]

Reports filed

Allow Federal Employees To Contribute Rollover Distributions to Thrift Savings Plan Accounts and Eliminate the Waiting-Period Requirements for Participation: Committee on Governmental Affairs (Senate) (H.R. 208) (S. Rept. 106-343), S6677 [13JY]

America's Private Investment Companies Act: Committee on Banking and Financial Services (House) (H.R. 2764) (H. Rept. 106-638), H3648 [23MY]

Bank Reserves Modernization Act: Committee on Banking and Financial Services (House) (H.R. 4209) (H. Rept. 106-983), H10035 [17OC]

Business Checking Modernization Act: Committee on Banking and Financial Services (House) (H.R. 4067) (H. Rept. 106-568), H2121 [11AP]

Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (H.R. 1658), S1671 [23MR]

Commodity Futures Modernization Act: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (Senate) (S. 2697) (S. Rept. 106-390), S8019 [5SE]

———Committee on Agriculture (House) (H.R. 4541) (H. Rept. 106-711), H5654 [29JN]

———Committee on Banking and Financial Services (House) (H.R. 4541) (H. Rept. 106-711), H7279 [6SE], H10472 [19OC]

———Committee on Commerce (House) (H.R. 4541) (H. Rept. 106-711), H7279 [6SE]

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

Competitive Market Supervision Act: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (Senate) (S. 2107) (S. Rept. 106-360), S7542 [25JY]

Consideration of Conference Report on H.R. 434, Trade and Development Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 489) (H. Rept. 106-607), H2605 [4MY]

Consideration of H.R. 8, Death Tax Elimination Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 519) (H. Rept. 106-658), H4034 [7JN]

Day Trading—Case Studies and Conclusions: Committee on Governmental Affairs (Senate) (S. Rept. 106-364), S7837 [27JY]

Death Tax Elimination Act: Committee on Ways and Means (House) (H.R. 8) (H. Rept. 106-651), H3924 [6JN]

Education Savings and School Excellence Act: Committee on Ways and Means (House) (H.R. 7) (H. Rept. 106-546), H1412 [27MR]

Extradition Treaty With Sri Lanka: Committee on Foreign Relations (Senate) (Exec. Rept. 106-26), S9860 [4OC]

Fairness in Securities Transactions Act: Committee on Commerce (House) (H.R. 2441) (H. Rept. 106-1034), H12534 [2JA]

Investment Treaty With Azerbaijan: Committee on Foreign Relations (Senate) (Exec. Rept. 106-23), S9855 [4OC]

Investment Treaty With Bahrain: Committee on Foreign Relations (Senate) (Exec. Rept. 106-23), S9855 [4OC]

Investment Treaty With Bolivia: Committee on Foreign Relations (Senate) (Exec. Rept. 106-23), S9855 [4OC]

Investment Treaty With Croatia: Committee on Foreign Relations (Senate) (Exec. Rept. 106-23), S9855 [4OC]

Investment Treaty With El Salvador: Committee on Foreign Relations (Senate) (Exec. Rept. 106-23), S9855 [4OC]

Investment Treaty With Honduras: Committee on Foreign Relations (Senate) (Exec. Rept. 106-23), S9856 [4OC]

Investment Treaty With Jordan: Committee on Foreign Relations (Senate) (Exec. Rept. 106-23), S9856 [4OC]

Investment Treaty With Lithuania: Committee on Foreign Relations (Senate) (Exec. Rept. 106-23), S9856 [4OC]

Investment Treaty With Mozambique: Committee on Foreign Relations (Senate) (Exec. Rept. 106-23), S9856 [4OC]

Investment Treaty With Uzbekistan: Committee on Foreign Relations (Senate) (Exec. Rept. 106-23), S9856 [4OC]

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]

Medical Financial Privacy Protection Act: Committee on Banking and Financial Services (House) (H.R. 4585) (H. Rept. 106-773), H6717 [20JY]

Mutual Fund Tax Awareness Act: Committee on Commerce (House) (H.R. 1089) (H. Rept. 106-547), H1412 [27MR]

Native American Business Development, Trade Promotion, and Tourism Act: Committee on Indian Affairs (Senate) (S. 2719), S5790 [26JN]

New Markets Initiative Act: Committee on Banking and Financial Services (House) (H.R. 2848) (H. Rept. 106-706), H5435 [28JN]

New Markets Venture Capital Program Act: Committee on Small Business (House) (H.R. 4530) (H. Rept. 106-785), H7092 [26JY]

Nomination of Alan Greenspan To Be FRS Board of Governors Chairman: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (Senate), S213 [1FE]

Nomination of Gary A. Barron to OPIC: Committee on Foreign Relations (Senate), S2727 [13AP]

Protocol Amending Bilateral Investment Treaty With Panama: Committee on Foreign Relations (Senate) (Exec. Rept. 106-23), S9856 [4OC]

Same-Day Consideration of Certain Resolutions: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 488) (H. Rept. 106-605), H2511 [3MY]

Senate Return of Certain Treaties to the President: Committee on Foreign Relations (Senate) (S. Res. 267), S1391 [9MR]

Small Business Investment Corrections Act: Committee on Small Business (House) (H.R. 3845) (H. Rept. 106-520), H996 [14MR]

Taxpayer Bill of Rights: Committee on Ways and Means (House) (H.R. 4163) (H. Rept. 106-566), H2012 [10AP]

Trade and Development Act: Committee of Conference (H.R. 434) (H. Rept. 106-606), H2605 [4MY]

Zuni Pueblo Tribe Trust Fund Expenditures: Committee on Resources (House) (H.R. 4725) (H. Rept. 106-993), H10472 [19OC]

Resolutions by organizations

Tribute to Miles Lerman: Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the U.S., E351 [20MR]

Resolutions of ratification

Extradition Treaty With Paraguay, S9860 [4OC], S10666 [18OC]

Investment Treaty With Azerbaijan, S9855 [4OC], S10660 [18OC]

Investment Treaty With Bahrain, S9855 [4OC], S10660 [18OC]

Investment Treaty With Bolivia, S9855 [4OC], S10660 [18OC]

Investment Treaty With Croatia, S9855 [4OC], S10660 [18OC]

Investment Treaty With El Salvador, S9855 [4OC], S10660 [18OC]

Investment Treaty With Honduras, S9856 [4OC], S10661 [18OC]

Investment Treaty With Jordan, S10661 [18OC]

Investment Treaty With Lithuania, S9856 [4OC], S10661 [18OC]

Investment Treaty With Mozambique, S9856 [4OC], S10661 [18OC]

Investment Treaty With Uzbekistan, S9856 [4OC], S10661 [18OC]

Protocol Amending Bilateral Investment Treaty With Panama, S9856 [4OC], S10662 [18OC]

Statements

Commodity Futures Modernization Act: Executive Office of the President, H10441 [19OC], E1939 [25OC]

Education Savings Accounts: Vice President Gore, S735 [23FE]

School Construction and Renovation Tax Incentives: Dennis Zimmerman, Congressional Research Service, S986-S988 [1MR]

———William E. Manning, Red Clay, DE, Consolidated School District, S988 [1MR]

Studies

Estate Tax Repeal—A Windfall for the Wealthiest Americans: Iris J. Lav and James Sly, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, S6417-S6419 [11JY]

Summaries

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

Enhance Flexibility in Individual Development Account Programs To Encourage Savings for Poor Working Families (S. 3214), S10719 [18OC]

Tables

Estate tax comparison on $2 million estate, H4139 [9JN]

Estimated revenue effects on H.R. 4923, Community Renewal and New Markets Act, H6820 [25JY]

Money income of families—distribution by family characteristics and income level (1997), S1047 [2MR]

Ratios of product imports to U.S. consumption, S3811 [10MY]

Share of aggregate income received by each fifth and top 5 percent of families (1970-1997), S1047 [2MR]

U.S. trade in advanced technology products, S3812 [10MY]

Texts of

H. Res. 488, same-day consideration of certain resolutions, H2567 [4MY]

H. Res. 489, consideration of conference report on H.R. 434, Trade and Development Act, H2572 [4MY]

H.R. 8, Death Tax Elimination Act, H4128-H4131 [9JN]

H.R. 208, allow for the contribution of rollover distributions to accounts of Federal employees and eliminate waiting-period requirements for participation in the Thrift Savings Plan, S7455 [21JY]

H.R. 1089, Mutual Fund Tax Awareness Act, H1649 [3AP]

H.R. 1658, Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act, H2040-H2046 [11AP]

H.R. 3594, Installment Tax Correction Act, H12097 [15DE]

H.R. 3620, Second Chance IRA Act, H334 [10FE]

H.R. 3845, Small Business Investment Corrections Act, H940 [14MR]

H.R. 4067, Business Checking Modernization Act, H2076 [11AP]

H.R. 4163, Taxpayer Bill of Rights, H2057-H2062 [11AP]

H.R. 4541, Commodity Futures Modernization Act, H10416-H10440 [19OC]

H.R. 4923, Community Renewal and New Markets Act, H6797-H6816 [25JY]

S. 614, Indian Tribal Regulatory Reform and Business Development Act, H10508 [23OC]

S. 1134, Affordable Education Act, S1104-S1111 [2MR]

S. 2052, Indian Tribal Development Consolidated Funding Act, S614-S616 [10FE]

S. 2066, exclude U.S. savings bond income from gross income taxation if used to pay long-term care expenses, S625 [10FE]

S. 2244, Working Families Trade Bonus Act, S1417-S1419 [9MR]

S. 2513, Financial Information Privacy Protection Act, S3532-S3535 [4MY]

S. 2714, use of median family income to determine purchase price limitation for mortgage subsidy bonds, S5028 [13JN]

S. 2719, Native American Business Development, Trade Promotion, and Tourism Act, S6034 [28JN], H10509-H10511 [23OC]

S. 2774, Bipartisan Social Security Reform Act, S5669-S5676 [22JN]

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. 2874, Life Insurance Tax Simplification Act, S6843 [14JY]

S. 2914, Homeowners Rebate Act, S7543 [25JY]

S. 3004, provide for tax relief for the conversion of cooperative housing corporations into condominiums, S8023 [5SE]

S. 3111, extend time for payment of estate tax for estates with closely held businesses, S9270 [26SE]

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

S. Con. Res. 112, corrections in enrollment of conference report on H.R. 434, Trade and Development Act, S3924, S3928 [11MY], H2973 [15MY]

S. Res. 267, Senate return of certain treaties to the President, S1423 [9MR]