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An amendment to require the President to present to Congress by January 15, 1982 a report on plans to rescind $8 billion of the funds provided in titles I (procurement), II (research, development, test, and evaluation), and III (operation and maintenance). The...
A substitute amendment to the Schroeder amendment to require the President to submit to Congress by January 14, 1982 a recommendation on improving the efficiency and management of and the elimination of waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in the Department...
An amendment to the Courter substitute amendment to add that the President shall be required to send a report on proposed rescissions to eliminate waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in the DOD authorizations. The amount to be rescinded is to equal 8 millio...
An amendment to provide that no gender based distinction may be made in the acceptance of individuals for original enlistment into the Armed Forces based upon attainment of a high school equivalency certificate. The Secretary of Defense is required to submit a...
An amendment to the Hyde amendment to make the non sex bias clause apply to all applicants not simply those with high school equivalency certificates. It adds that a gender based distinction may be used if the Secretary of Defense determines that it is necessa...
An amendment to prohibit the use of funds of this bill to research, development, test, evaluation, or procurement of any F/A-18 fighter/attack aircraft (the "Hornet"). The money from these programs is authorized for use in Navy and Marine Corps programs that h...
An amendment to prohibit use of funds for procurement of the A-7K aircraft and to specify that $2,615,800 is to be used for procurement of 173 F-16 aircraft, at least 53 of them to be assigned to the Air National Guard. Amendment Failed of Passage in Committee...
An amendment on the limitation of sales of silver from the national defense stockpile. Any authority of the President to dispose of silver now held in the national defense stockpile is terminated as of September 30, 1982, unless the President thirty days prior...
An amendment to require the GAO to conduct a study of the need for legislation to limit excess profits on defense contracts. Amendment Failed of Passage in Committee of Whole by Voice Vote.
An amendment to Presidential budget request reports to include projected total acquisition costs for individually authorized items that cost $1 billion dollars or more. Amendment Passed in Committee of the Whole by Voice Vote.
An amendment to specify that the thirty day period that is to transpire from the time the Congress is notified that a contract has a cancellation ceiling of 100,000,000 dollars and the date the contract is to take effect, shall be thirty legislative days. (The...
An amendment to the Glickman amendment to strike the language that requires a contract to wait thirty days before becoming effective. Amendment Failed of Passage in Committee of Whole by Voice Vote.
An amendment to require the Secretary of Defense to conduct a study on requiring the study of a foreign language by each student at the service academies and in the Senior ROTC program. Amendment Passed (Amended) in Committee of the Whole by Voice Vote.
An amendment to the Simon amendment to add that the study consider the desirability and feasibility of paying a bonus to each member of the Armed Forces stationed in a foreign country who is proficient in the native language other than English of such country....
An amendment to require that not later than 180 days after the enactment of the act a report be submitted to Congress on the effectiveness using the military in drug related cases. Amendment Passed in Committee of the Whole by Voice Vote.
An amendment to require the Secretary of Defense to submit to Congress plans to convert to civilian personnel military positions that are assigned solely to operate and maintain military morale, welfare, and recreation facilities. The report is to specify meth...
An amendment to state that it is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of the Army should strengthen his capability to verify the accuracy of large claims made by the Federal Republic of Germany against the U.S. for damage resulting from official maneuvers,...
An amendment to strike the section that provides assistance to the Yorktown Bicentennial Celebration. Amendment Failed of Passage in Committee of Whole by Division Vote: 33 - 60.
A perfecting amendment to the bill to reduce the funds for the Yorktown Bicentennial Celebration from 1,000,000 dollars to 750,000 dollars. Amendment Passed in Committee of the Whole by Voice Vote.
CLERK read a Judiciary Committee amendment on the previous legislative day to prohibit direct participation of armed forces personnel in seizures or arrests in drug related cases. Amendment Passed (Amended) in Committee of the Whole by Recorded Vote: 362 - 49...
An amendment to the Judiciary Committee amendment on the previous legislative day to add that members of the armed forces may be used in assisting drug enforcement officials in drug seizures and arrests outside the land areas of the U.S. or its territories and...
CLERK read a committee amendment to permit multiyear contracting to be done only through submission by DOD of specific multiyear contract proposals when it makes future requests for authorizations and to require competitive bidding for procurement of automatic...
An amendment to require competitive bidding for procurement of automatic data processing equipment or services. Amendment Failed of Passage in Committee of Whole by Recorded Vote: 118 - 299 (Record Vote No: 132).
An amendment to strike the provision that permits the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish the Director of Selective Service the address of individuals. Amendment Passed in Committee of the Whole by Voice Vote.
An amendment to add a new section on military base reuse studies and community planning assistance. The amendment provides $2,000,000 for assistance programs to communities who have bases which are expanded by more than 2,500 military and civilian DOD personne...