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An amendment to permit legal service employees to strike under certain limited conditions. Employees would be permitted to strike when an impasse in collective bargaining occurs, but only after they have notified the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service...
An amendment to eliminate the authority of the LSC president to suspend local program employees. The rest of the enforcement sanctions are not changed by this amendment. Amendment Passed in Committee of the Whole by Voice Vote.
An amendment to strike the antilobby provisions of the bill and insert new language prohibiting lobbying. The amendment prohibits the use of corporation funds for paying for personal service, advertisement, telegram, telephone communication, letter, printed or...
An amendment to prohibit any class action suit from being brought against federal, state, or local governments. Amendment Passed in Committee of the Whole by Recorded Vote: 241 - 167 (Record Vote No: 83).
An amendment to provide that unless minimum access to legal assistance is available or provided in all parts of the country the field grants are to be allocated to insure that no part of the country has a greater level of access than another. Amendment Passed...
An amendment to require the corporation to report on providing legal assistance to persons in areas that are remote and where harsh climate and inadequate transportation systems are significant impediments to receiving such service. The amendment also requires...
A substitute amendment to the Stangeland amendment, to make technical changes in the text of the Stangeland amendment. Amendment Passed in Committee of the Whole by Voice Vote.
An amendment to eliminate the requirement that all recipient organizations which provide legal services be nonprofit and organized solely to provide legal services to eligible clients. It also provides that the bar association representing the majority of the...
An amendment to the Kastenmeier amendment to require that a majority of the governing body and not simply a majority of the attorney members of the governing body be appointed by the local bar association representing a majority of the attorneys in the area. A...
An amendment to add to the definition of a qualified recipient organization the provision that it provide an area which includes a political subdivision with a minimum population of 100,000 persons. This minimum population test does not apply to private attorn...
An amendment to strike the provision that limits funding terminations or suspensions to 30 days without providing the grant recipient or contractor reasonable notice and a fair hearing. Amendment Failed of Passage in Committee of Whole by Recorded Vote: 152 -...
An amendment to provide that 200,000 dollars shall be available for the study of existing or new naval petroleum reserves to determine the adequacy of naval petroleum reserves for the long term national security. The study is to especially consider the Elk Hil...
An amendment to require that the U.S. cannot sell crude from the Naval Petroleum Reserve of Elk Hills unless the oil in storage within the Strategic Petroleum Reserve exceeds 500,000,000 barrels or that the oil transferred to the Strategic Reserve is replaced...
An amendment to prohibit the use of funds of this act for enhanced radiation weapons. This ban applies to production and research of the weapons themselves or of the conversion of nonenhanced weapons to enhanced ones. Amendment Failed of Passage in Committee o...
An amendment to prohibit the expenditure of funds to fulfill any contract for security and protective functions at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The amendment requires that security at Los Alamos be performed by government personnel. Amendment Passed in...
An amendment to require that the staff of each field office of the Immigration and Naturalization Service be in proportion to the number of applicants to that office. Amendment Withdrawn in Committee of the Whole.
An amendment in the nature of a substitute to nominate Republican candidates for the officers of the House.
An amendment to reduce funds for the International Development Association from 540,000,000 dollars to 534,600,000 dollars. These funds constitute the U.S. contribution to the sixth replenishment.
An amendment on the previous legislative day in to decrease the limit on gross obligations for the principal amount of direct loans of the Export - Import Bank of the U.S. from $5,524,000,000 to $5,148,000,000 and to change the limit on total commitment to gua...
An amendment to strike the rescission of $108,000,000 of funds provided the Bureau of Land Management of the Department of the Interior to make payments in lieu of taxes.
Am amendment to decrease the funds provided for the operation of Indian programs under the Bureau of Indian Affairs from $8,960,000 dollars to $7,350,000 dollars and omit the requirement that $1,610,000 dollars of the funds provided shall be for the Navajo-Hop...
An amendment to strike $62,000 dollars for salaries and expenses provided for secretarial offices of the Office of the Solicitor of the Department of the Interior.
An amendment to strike the rescission of 1,900,000 dollars provided for rural water treatment and distribution system projects under the Department of the Interior.
An amendment to decrease the 1982 appropriation for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve from 3,883,408,000 dollars to 883,408,000 dollars. These funds fall under the agencies of the Department of Energy.
A substitute amendment to the Jones (OK) amendment on the previous legislative day. The amendment reinstates in full the $3,883,408,000 that the Jones (OK) amendment reduces, and specifies that it remain available until legislation is enacted to provide off bu...