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An amendment to the Price amendment. The amendment lowers the Defense Agencies research, development, test, and evaluation authorizations from $6,305.732 to $4,787.67 and sets Strategic Defense Initiatives (SDI) program funds at $954.9 It adds that SDI program...
An amendment to the Price amendment to set Defense Agencies research, development, evaluation and test authorizations at $5,230,069,000 from $6,305,732,000. It limits SDI funds to the FY'85 level ( $1,397,299,000) and allocates them: 1) directed energy weapons...
An amendment to the Holt substitute amendment to the Price amendment. The amendment sets authorization for Defense Agencies research, development, test and evaluation at $7,545,732,000 and designates $3,712,962,000 of this for the Strategic Defense Initiatives...
An amendment to the Holt substitute amendment to the Price amendment to add that funds obligated for the SDI must be for projects consistent with the 1972 ABM Treaty. Amendment Passed in Committee of the Whole by Voice Vote.
An amendment to the Price amendment limit Strategic Defense Initiative funding at $2,100,000,000 and lowers the Defense Agencies research, development, evaluation, and test authorization accordingly to $5,932,770,000 from $6,305,732,000. It distributes the fun...
An amendment to add $50,000,000 for guaranteed operating loans of the Agriculture Credit Insurance Fund under the Farmers Home Administration. Amendment Passed in Committee of the Whole by Voice Vote.
An amendment to designate $2,000,000 of the funds provided for watershed and flood prevention under the Soil Conservation Service for improvement and rehabilitation of existing works for use on the Six-Mile Creek in Arkansas. The amendment also states that $15...
An amendment to reduce from $453,600,000 to $318,200,000 funds for Army missile procurement. The reduction is intended to reduce funds for Pershing II procurement. Amendment Failed of Passage in Committee of Whole by Division Vote: 9 - 18.
An amendment to strike all funds for the Pershing II missile. Amendment Failed of Passage in Committee of Whole by Voice Vote.
An amendment to prohibit the Corps of Engineers from using appropriations to condemn privately held land within the Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge in Louisiana. This prohibition shall not apply to any land owned by the Chicago Mill and Lumber Company. A...
An amendment to: (1) bar transfer of the responsibilities of an area office of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in operation on May 19, 1983 to an office of the Department which is located in another unit of general local government, or (2) the...
An amendment to provide the following funds for the Department of Health and Human Services: Center for Disease Control, Preventive Health Services $2,225,000; National Institute of Health, National Cancer Institute - $3,300,000; National Heart, Lung, and Bloo...
CLERK read a committee amendment to prohibit funds for the continuation or termination of the Clinch River Breeder Reactor project except when provided by legislation enacted after the date of enactment of this act. Amendment Passed in Committee of the Whole b...
An amendment to reduce from $20,900,000 to $15,900,000 funds for the National Center for Advanced Materials, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, California and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford, California. The amendment also provides, $5,00...
A substitute amendment to reduce overall funding by $310.7 million. Amendment Failed of Passage in Committee of Whole by Recorded Vote: 140 - 228 (Record Vote No: 114).
An amendment to transfer $5 million for a National Center for Chemical Research at Columbia University. The amendment transfers $1 million from each of the following programs: 1) Magnetic fusion, 2) General Science and Research, and 3) University of Washington...
A technical amendment. Amendment Passed in Committee of the Whole by Voice Vote.
An amendment on a previous legislative day to reduce funds for acquisition, construction, and maintenance of the Bureau of Land Management funds from $12,720,000 to $12,710,000. Amendment Withdrawn in Committee of the Whole.
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.