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An amendment add $4,270,000 for distribution of surplus commodities under the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983. Amendment Offered by Representative Dorgan.
An amendment to delete a provision under the Maritime Administration barring use of funds for repayment of construction differential subsidy for the permanent release of vessels from the restrictions in Sec. 506 of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, except that...
A substitute amendment providing a freeze at 1985 levels plus additional spending reductions. It provides for a 2 percent COLA for Social Security recipients as originally proposed by the Senate Budget Committee. There are no new taxes required. Amendment Fail...
A substitute amendment to the Walker amendment striking the Walker text and substituting the following: No funds authorized by this Act may exceed the amounts appropriated for the programs and operations of the Maritime Administration and the Federal Maritime...
An amendment to reduce funds in the bill: from $949,639,000 to $922,286,000 (FY'86) and $1,138,177,000 to $962,866,000 (FY'87) - USIA; from $151,947,000 to $136,594,000 (FY'86) and $310,000,000 to $142,604,000 (FY'87) - modernization of VOA; from $136,677,000...
An amendment to provide for distribution within the U.S. of two USIA films relating to Afghanistan: "Afghanistan 1982: the Struggle for Freedom Continues" and "We Are Afghanistan". Amendment Passed in Committee of the Whole by Voice Vote.
An amendment to extend until 1987 current policy regarding notification of program grants in the Fulbright Act. Amendment Passed in Committee of the Whole by Voice Vote.
An amendment to reduce from $572,519,000 to $520,167,800 funds for International Organizations and Conferences for fiscal year 1987. Amendment Passed in Committee of the Whole by Voice Vote.
Amendments en bloc to 1) strike out the crop insurance requirement as a condition to obtaining a guaranteed loan, 2) add to the requirement that advance CCC loans be given only to those who cannot obtain credit elsewhere that no producer, who has received a co...
An amendment to the Bereuter amendment to strike from the Bereuter text the provision that banks with 25 percent or more of their outstanding loan portfolio in agricultural loans are to be automatically granted approved lending status under the bill. It substi...
An amendment to require the Secretary of Commerce to conduct a study of the impact on employment opportunities of federal laws and regulations promulgated or covered under this Act. The study is to identify those laws and regulations that have an adverse impac...
An amendment to require the Secretary of Commerce to conduct a study of the impact on employment opportunities of federal, state, and local laws and regulations. The study is to identify those laws and regulations which have an adverse impact on employment opp...
An amendment to provide that if public improvements are assisted by certain funds under the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (section 106(d)), and if the improvements are required to comply with federal or state standards regarding water, sewage,...
An amendment to permit cities of less than 50,000 to remain eligible for certain funds under the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 until the the Secretary of HUD revises the standards for eligibility. The cities may not be the central city of a met...
An amendment to prohibit the Secretary of HUD from selling any mortgage held by the Secretary as security for a loan made under certain provisions for housing for the elderly and handicapped under the Housing Act of 1959. Amendment Passed in Committee of the W...
An amendment to provide that sums provided for the Access Control Demonstration Project not lapse until September 30, 1985. Amendment Passed in Committee of the Whole by Voice Vote.
An amendment offered on a previous legislative day to delete all funding ( $19.4 million) for procurement of anti-satellite weapons. Amendment Failed of Passage in Committee of Whole by Recorded Vote: 177 - 243 (Record Vote No: 188).
An amendment to provide that "None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for administrative expenses in connection with the proposed redirection of the Equal Employment Opportunity Program" and that "None of the funds made available by this Act s...
An amendment to rescind any funds not obligated before May 26, 1983, of the $1 million appropriated to the Secretary of Transportation for transferral to the Motor Carrier Ratemaking Study Commission, in FY'83. Amendment Passed in Committee of the Whole by Voi...
An amendment on the previous legislative day to add that nothing in the resolution is intended to prevent the U.S. from carrying out its responsibilities under the December, 1979, NATO decision regarding deployment of intermediate range nuclear forces. Amendme...
An amendment to reduce from 191,000 acres to 38,000 lands in the Six Rivers, Klamath and Siskiyou National Forest; and from 60,000 acres lands in Eldorado, Stanislaus, and Toiyabe National Forests which was to be designated as wilderness in the National Wilder...
A substitute amendment to the Carney amendment to state that in the absence of a bilateral agreement embodying the objectives of this resolution, nothing in this resolution is to prevent the U.S. from carrying out its responsibilities under the December, 1979...