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105th Congress Committee Hearings

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(Including Written Comments)

  1. Solvency of the Airport and Airway Trust Fund
  2. President's Fiscal Year 1998 Budget
  3. Education and Training Tax Provisions of the Administration's Fiscal Year 1998 Budget Proposal
  4. Revenue Raising Provisions in the Administration's Fiscal Year 1998 Budget Proposal
  5. Savings and Investment Provisions in the Administrations Fiscal Year 1998 Budget Proposal
  6. Replacing the Federal Income Tax--The Impact on Individuals and Families
  7. Replacing the Federal Income Tax--The Impact on Financial Services
  8. Internal Revenue Service's 1995 Earned Income Tax Credit Compliance Study
  9. Recommendations of the National Commission on Restructuring the IRS on Executive Branch Governance and Congressional Oversight of the IRS
  10. Reducing the Tax Burden
  11. Revenue Provisions in the President's Fiscal Year 1999 Budget
  12. Use of an Expert Panel to Design Long-Range Social Security Reform
  13. Managing the Pubic Debt in an Era of Surpluses
  14. Ideas for Advancing the Upcoming Debate on Saving the Social Security System

Trade Subcommittee

  1. WTO Singapore Ministerial Meeting
  2. Budget Authorizations for Fiscal Years 1998 and 1999 for the U.S. Customs Service, the U.S. International Trade Commission, and the Office of the United States Trade Representative
  3. Reviewing U.S. Trade Policy Objectives and Initiatives
  4. Expanding U.S. Trade with Sub-Saharan Africa
  5. Oversight of the U.S. Customs Service
  6. Written Comments on the Extension of Unconditional Most-Favored-Nation Treatment to Mongolia
  7. U.S.-China Trade Relations and Renewal of China's Most-Favored National Status
  8. Written Comments on the Extension of Unconditional Most-Favored-Nation Treatment to Laos
  9. Written Comments on Miscellaneous Corrections to Trade Legislation and Miscellaneous Duty Suspension Bills
  10. Free Trade Area of the Americas
  11. New Transatlantic Agenda
  12. President's Comprehensive Review of the NAFTA
  13. Implementation of Fast Track Trade Authority
  14. Use and Effect of Unilateral Trade Sanctions
  15. U.S. Customs Service Passenger and Merchandise Processing Issues
  16. The Future of United States-China Trade Relations and the Possible Accession of China to the World Trade Organization
  17. Written Comments on Additional Miscellaneous Trade and Tariff Legislation
  18. U.S. Efforts to Reduce Barriers to Trade in Agriculture
  19. Asia Trade Issues
  20. Free Trade Area of the Americas
  21. Written Comments on Additional Miscellaneous Trade and Tariff Legislation
  22. U.S. Customs Service Issues
  23. U.S. Economic and Trade Policy Toward Cuba
  24. U.S. China Trade Relations and Renewal of China's Most-Favored-Nation Status
  25. U.S.-Vietnam Trade Relations
  26. United States-Japan Trade Relations
  27. Trade Relations with Europe and the New Transatlantic Economic Partnership
  28. Written Comments on H.R. 4526, a Bill Which Would Change Customs Rules-of-Origin for Certain Textile Products
  29. Written Comments on the Extension of Normal Trade Relations to the Kyrgyz Republic

Oversight Subcommittee

  1. Annual Report of the Internal Revenue Service Taxpayer Advocate
  2. "High-Risk" Programs Within the Jurisdiction of the Committee on Ways and Means
  3. IRS Budget for Fiscal Year 1998 and the 1997 Tax Return Filing Season
  4. Electronic Federal Tax Payment System
  5. Low-Income Housing Tax Credit
  6. Report of the National Commission on Restructuring the Internal Revenue Service
  7. Recommendations of the National Commission on Restructuring the IRS to Expand Electronic Filing of Tax Returns
  8. Written Comments on Taxpayers Rights Proposals
  9. Recommendations of the National Commission on Restructuring the IRS on Taxpayer Protections and Rights
  10. Performance of the Empowerment Zone/Enterprise Community Program
  11. Annual Report of the Internal Revenue Service Taxpayer Advocate
  12. Treasury Department Report on Innocent Spouse Relief
  13. Oversight of Pension Issues
  14. 1998 Tax Return Filing Season and the IRS Budget for Fiscal Year 1999
  15. Oversight of Tax Law Related to Health Insurance
  16. Oversight of Pension Issues
  17. Year 2000 Computer Problem
  18. Year 2000 Problem and Telecommunication Systems
  19. Impact of Complexity in the Tax Code on Individual Taxpayers and Small Businesses
  20. Funding Mechanisms of the "E-Rate" Program

Health Subcommittee

  1. Medicare Provisions in the President's Budget
  2. Medicare HMO Payment Policies
  3. Medicare Home Health Care, Skilled Nursing Facility, and Other Post-Acute Care Payment Policies
  4. Medicare HMO Regulation and Quality
  5. Teaching Hospitals and Medicare Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments
  6. H.R. 15, the "Medicare Preventive Benefit Improvement Act of 1997"
  7. Recommendations Regarding Medicare Hospital and Physician Payment Policies
  8. Children's Access to Health Coverage
  9. Rehabilitation and Long-Term Care Hospitals Payments
  10. Issues Relating to Medicare's Coverage Policy
  11. Medicare Provider-Sponsored Organizations
  12. Coordinated Care Options for Seniors
  13. Inspector General Audit of Health Care Financing Administration Financial Statements
  14. Implementation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
  15. Health Care Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
  16. Preparing the Health Care Financing Administration for the 21st Century
  17. Assessing Health Care Quality
  18. Reports Regarding Medicare Payment Policies
  19. Patient Confidentiality
  20. Patient Appeals in Health Care
  21. Administration's Plan to Delay Implementation of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997
  22. Medicare's Home Health Benefit

Social Security Subcommittee

  1. The Future of Social Security for this Generation and the Next:
  2. Oversight of the Disability Appeals Process
  3. Social Security Administration's Website
  4. The Future of Social Security for this Generation and the Next:
  5. The Future of Social Security for this Generation and the Next:
  6. Barriers Preventing Social Security Disability Recipients from Returning to Work
  7. Oversight of the Social Security Administration's Continuing Disability Review Process
  8. The Future of Social Security for this Generation and the Next:
  9. Joint Hearing (with Subcommittee on Human Resources) to Review the Challenges Facing the New Commissioner of Social Security
  10. "Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Act of 1998"
  11. The Future of Social Security for this Generation and the Next:
  12. The Future of Social Security for this Generation and the Next:
  13. Oversight Hearing on Labor-Management Relations at the Social Security Administration

Human Resources Subcommittee

  1. President's Fiscal Year 1998 Budget
  2. Technical Corrections to Welfare Reform Legislation
  3. Encouraging Adoption
  4. Administration's Child Support Enforcement Incentive Payment Proposal
  5. H.R. 867, the "Adoption Promotion Act of 1997"
  6. Unemployment Insurance Issues
  7. Child Support System Improvements
  8. Protecting Children from the Impacts of Substance Abuse on Families Receiving Welfare
  9. Modifying Child Support Penalties for Automatic Data Processing
  10. Joint Hearing (with Subcommittee on Social Security) to Review the Challenges Facing the New Commissioner of Social Security
  11. Oversight of Welfare Reform
  12. Supplemental Security Income Fraud and Abuse
  13. Child Support Enforcement
  14. Adoption Reunion Registries and Screening of Adults Working with Children
  15. Field Hearing on Welfare Reform and Child Support Enforcement, Phoenix, Arizona
  16. H.R. 3684, the "Employment Security Financing Act of 1998"
  17. Reforms to Prevent Supplemental Security Income Fraud and Abuse
  18. Fatherhood and Welfare Reform
  19. Field Hearing on Welfare Reform and Child Support Impacts, Carson City, Nevada
  20. Implementation of the Interethnic Adoption Amendments
  21. Field Hearing on Child Protection, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

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