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A substitute amendment for the Porter amendment (HA117) as amended by the Skelton amendment (HA114) retaining all of the conditions for the procurement and assembly of the binary chemical munitions but striking the funds authorized for use after 9/30/87 ( $2,3...
An amendment prohibiting the use of procurement funds in the bill for procurement of binary chemicals munitions, including advanced procurement of long lead components or for establishment of a production base for such munitions. The amendment reduces funds in...
An amendment to the Dickinson amendment setting the MX procurement fund level at 40 missiles and stating that it is the sense of Congress that not more than 40 missiles be deployed at any time. It sets funding for Air Force missiles at $7,842,700,000. Amendmen...
An amendment to the Mavroules substitute for the Dickinson amendment setting funding at $8,819,700,000. It strikes the language of the Mavroules amendment and substitutes a sense of Congress statement that 50 MX missiles should be deployed in existing Minuteme...
A substitute amendment to the Dickinson amendment reducing the MX procurement authorization to $921.0 million and decreasing the total deployment in Minuteman silos to 40. It permits acquisition of up to eight basing sets and allows DOD to maintain the program...
An amendment to reduce MX missile procurement from 21 missiles to 12 in FY'86, to reduce procurement funding from $2.1 billion to $1.9 billion, to limit deployment of MX missiles to 50 in existing silos in FY'86, and to express the sense of Congress that there...
A substitute amendment to the bill reducing funding levels in the bill to match those of the House passed Budget Resolution. It takes $4.4 billion from prior year appropriations and $5.6 billion in post FY'87 spending based on inflation rates lower than origin...
An amendment to the Mavroules substitute to the Dickinson amendment to eliminate all FY 1986 MX missile procurement funding and all unobligated prior-year MX appropriations, thereby terminating the program. It requires that the funds saved be used only for con...
An amendment providing additional authorization of appropriations for reception and placement services for refugees. The amendment authorizes such sums as are necessary for FY'86 and FY'87 to provide for reception and placement services in fulfillment of respo...
An amendment to eliminate the authorization of $50 million in each of FY'86 and '87 for targeted assistance to areas with large refugee populations. Amendment Failed of Passage in Committee of Whole by Recorded Vote: 104 - 307 (Record Vote No: 159).
An amendment reducing the authorization level for refugee social services from $100 million in each of FY'86 & FY'87 to $74.8 million in FY'86 and $77.9 million in FY'87; reduce the authorization level for health screening and initial treatment of refugees fro...
An amendment stating that it shall be the policy of the U.S. that the President, in consultation with the Attorney General and all appropriate Federal, State, and county officials shall place top priority on seeking the expeditious return to Cuba of certain Cu...
An amendment that seeks to continue the prohibition, until repealed by joint resolution, of any funding for the purpose of supporting, directly or indirectly, military or paramilitary operations in Nicaragua by any nation, group, organization, movement, or ind...
An amendment to the McDade amendment to delay implementation of the McDade amendment for six months in order to provide more time for the Contadora peace negotiations, and to extend by six months, to 9/30/86, the period during which funds authorized by the McD...
An amendment in the nature of a substitute to provide $27 million in humanitarian aid for Nicaraguan democratic resistance to be allocated in three equal installments by a U.S. agency other than the C.I.A. or the Defense Department. It also authorizes $2 milli...
An amendment authorizing $14 million in FY'85 for humanitarian assistance to Nicaraguan refugees outside Nicaragua to be distributed by the Red Cross or the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and whatever sums are necessary to cover expenses that arise from i...
An amendment which changes restrictions in law applying to the Arkansas-Red River Basin to read: "Construction shall not be initiated on any element of such project involving the Arkansas River (Basin) until such element has been approved by the Secretary of t...
An amendment to require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to exercise its authority within two years regarding California - Oregon Transmissions Project. The amendment also requires that of the energy generated by this project sufficient capacity is to...
An amendment to the Economic Support Fund under the Agency for International Development's Bilateral Economic Assistance to reduce the funding from $2,008,000,000 to $1,508,000,000 and to strike the provision that $500,000,000 be available to Egypt. The effect...
Amendments to delete funding for the Executive Office of the President and the Legislative Branch. Amendment Failed of Passage in Committee of Whole by Recorded Vote: 202 - 217 (Record Vote No: 150).
An amendment to strike funds for an additional amount for official mail costs of the Congress. The amendment strikes $11,853,000. Amendment Failed of Passage in Committee of Whole by Voice Vote.
An amendment to make changes in the Coast Guard funding provisions in the bill. It adds $15,000,000 to be made available from the Boat Safety Account and raises the ceiling from $782,200,000 to $785,000,000 for funds for FY'85 compensation and military benefit...
An amendment to the Studds amendment to add that the $15,000,000 added by the Studds amendment is to be available until expended. Amendment Passed in Committee of the Whole by Voice Vote.
An amendment to limit use of funds in the bill to the 1985 fiscal year. Amendment Withdrawn in Committee of the Whole.
An amendment stating that all amounts in the bill for payments not required to be paid by previously enacted law shall be reduced by 5 percent. Amendment Failed of Passage in Committee of Whole by Recorded Vote: 190 - 226 (Record Vote No: 152).