The health subcommittee may be the first to vote on any form of the Clinton bill.

In addition, the health subcommittee approved overall spending targets for physician payments, to take effect in 1991.

Mrs. Johnson is chairwoman of the panel's health subcommittee.

"If the Democrats take back the House, I'd be the chairman of the health subcommittee, and we'd do hearings," he vowed.

The study, for the health subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, compared 121 drugs.

Buchanan is also a member of the Health Subcommittee, which has jurisdiction over Medicare and employer-provided health insurance benefits.

Each committee has a monumental task, whether it's a health subcommittee studying decontamination procedures or transportation updating traffic studies or proposed construction.

In the editorial, you refer to a provision in the Ways and Means health subcommittee's bill on health reform regarding essential community providers.

The same panel, the Health Subcommittee of the Ways and Means Committee, also voted to impose a new payroll tax on all employers.

Representative Pete Stark, the California Democrat who heads the health subcommittee, said he thought perhaps seven Democrats would support it.