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Rep. Clawson, Del [R-CA-33]

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Bill· HRH.R. 14257 (95th)referred

American Tax Reduction Plan Act

United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1978

American Tax Reduction Plan Act - States as the purposes of this Act: (1) the reduction of the public debt; (2) the imposition of limits on Federal spending; (3) the inducement of Members of Congress to eliminate unneeded Federal programs; (4) the reduction of individual income taxes; (5) the reduction of corporate income taxes; (6) tax relief for homeowners; and (7) the indexation of tax rates to reflect inflation of income. Title I: Individual Income Tax Rate Reductions - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce individual and estate and trust income tax rates for 1979 and 1980, and to make a permanent reduction in such rates for years after 1981. Title II: Provisions Relating to Capital Gains - Reduces the alternative tax on capital gains to 25 percent of the net capital gain. Eliminates capital gains as an item of tax preference for purposes of the minimum and maximum tax. Allows a taxpayer to elect to offset against taxable income all capital losses not in excess of taxable income. Permits a one year carryover of losses in excess of taxable income. Title III: Corporate Income Tax Rate Reductions; Provisions Providing Tax Consistency - Reduces corporate tax rates to 16 percent of the first $25,000 of taxable income and 18 percent of so much of the taxable income that exceeds $25,000. Reduces the surtax to 22 percent of the amount that exceeds the surtax exemption. Establishes a permanent $50,000 surtax exemption for all corporations except certain controlled corporations. Repeals the investment tax credit. Eliminates the tax exemption for (1) interest earned on industrial development bonds issued to governmental units and tax-exempt organizations; (2) interest on bonds issued for the construction of specified facilities and for industrial parks; and (3) interest earned on certain small issues of industrial development bonds. Repeals the allowance for deductions with respect to the amortization of any certified pollution control facility based on a period of 60 months. Repeals the allowance for deductions of intangible drilling and development costs for oil and gas wells. States that the last taxable year in which financial institutions may use the percentage method of computing additions to bad debt reserves shall be the taxable year beginning before 1979 instead of 1988 as is currently provided. Repeals the existing percentages allowed for depletion of mines, wells, and specified natural deposits, and the percentages allowed for oil and gas wells. Specifies those treatment processes for mineral deposits which are considered mining, and those which are not so considered, for the purposes of the percentage depletion allowance. Repeals the allowance for special deductions for domestic corporations which do business in North, Central, or Sourth America, or in the West Indies, and derive a certain percentage of their gross income from outside the United States. Repeals provisions allowing special tax treatment for Domestic International Sales Corporations (DISC). Repeals provisions of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 which permit domestic shipping companies to exclude from gross income amounts deposited in the capital construction fund for the purpose of building new vessels. Establishes a tax credit for contributions to an employee stock ownership plan. Limits such credit to one half of one percent of the taxpayer's liability for the taxable year. Sets forth requirements for the establishment of such plans. Title IV: Provisions Relating to Indexing for Inflation - Requires inflation adjustments to income brackets for purposes of the individual income tax, the normal tax on corporate income, and the surtax exemption. Requires a similar adjustment to capital assets for purposes of determining gain or loss. Eliminates the declining balance and sum of the years-digit methods of computing allowable depreciation expense. Limits deductions for such depreciation to amounts determined by a replacement cost straight line method, or by any other consistent method which does not yield an amount which exceeds the total amount allowed under the replacement cost straight line method during the first two-thirds of the property's useful life. Title V: Limitation of Increases in Federal Spending - Limits the increase in Federal expenditures for any fiscal year to two percent of the expenditures for the previous year, after adjustments for inflation.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 737 (95th)referred

A resolution to oppose the implementation and enforcement by the President of a program of wage and price controls not specifically authorized by statute.

United States · United States Congress · 5 October 1978

Declares that the Congress opposes the President's promulgation of wage, price, or other economic stabilization standards enforced by a direct or implied threat that compliance with such standards by unions, industries, or other private economic groups will be materially considered in the exercise of administrative discretion by Federal agencies.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 693 (95th)referred

A resolution expressing the sense of Congress that all remaining proceedings with respect to the Seabrook Nuclear Station project should be expedited and that all licensing and permitting procedures for the construction and operation of nuclear generating stations should be reviewed and modified to improve the efficiency of such procedures.

United States · United States Congress · 14 August 1978

Expresses the sense of Congress that the Environmental Protection Agency, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the Federal courts should expedite all remaining administrative and judicial proceedings with respect to the Seabrook Nuclear Station project (New Hampshire), and that all licensing and permitting procedures for the construction and operation of nuclear generating stations should be reviewed and modified to improve the efficiency of such procedures.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 987 (95th)referred

A resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide that appropriations made by the United States shall not exceed its revenues, except in time of war or national emergency; and to provide for the systematic paying back of the national debt.

United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1978

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that total appropriations shall not exceed estimated revenues. Authorizes the suspension of such prohibition in time of war or national emergency. Prohibits any increase in the national debt as it exists on the date this article is ratified. Sets forth a schedule for repayment of the national debt.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 964 (95th)referred

A resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide that total taxation by the Federal Government of the people of the United States shall not exceed 15 percent of the gross national product, and to provide that appropriations made by the United States shall not exceed its revenues, except in time of war or national emergency.

United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1978

Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits Congress from causing Federal taxation to exceed 15 percent of the gross national product. Prohibits the making of appropriations in excess of the total estimated revenues of the United States in any fiscal year except in time of war or national emergency.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 947 (95th)referred

A resolution requesting the President and Ambassador Andrew Young to Counter Cambodian Atrocities.

United States · United States Congress · 31 May 1978

Requests the President to (1) instruct the Department of State to report to Congress on the violations of human rights in Cambodia, (2) instruct the International Communications Agency to disseminate such information, and (3) instruct the Ambassador to the United Nations to introduce a resolution in the General Assembly condemning these atrocities.

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 1184 (95th)referred

A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to an exchange of instruments of ratification of the Panama Canal Treaties and with regard to the disposition by the United States of any right to, title to, or interest in the property of Canal Zone agencies and any real property located in the Canal Zone.

United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1978

Expresses the sense of the House that the exchange of the Panama Canal Treaty instruments of ratification should not occur earlier than March 31, 1979, unless implementing legislation has been enacted prior to such exchange. Requires specific Congressional authorization by an Act of Congress prior to any conveyance, relinquishment, or disposition of U.S. property in the Panama Canal Zone to any foreign government.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 872 (95th)referred

A resolution disapproving proposed regulations of the Department of the Treasury requiring centralized governmental registration of firearms.

United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1978

Declares (1) that the Department of the Treasury does not possess authority to implement certain proposed firearms transaction reporting regulations, (2) that such proposed additional recordkeeping requirements serve no useful purpose and are wasteful, and (3) that the Department must seek explicit congressional authorization before proposing any rules or regulations for centralizing records required under existing firearms law.

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 1091 (95th)referred

A resolution expressing condemnation of the recent terrorist kidnapping of Aldo Moro.

United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1978

Expresses the condemnation of the House of Representatives of the kidnapping of Aldo Moro. Declares it the sense of the House of Representatives that (1) Italy deserves the support of the United States, and (2) the President should instruct the Permanent Representative to the United Nations to press for consideration of solutions to the problem of terrorism in all appropriate forums.

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 1079 (95th)referred

A resolution to amend the Rules of the House of Representatives to require that reports accompanying certain bills and joint resolutions reported by committees contain computations of the potential tax impact of such bills and resolutions on the individual taxpayer.

United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1978

Amends rule XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives to require that all committee reports accompanying public bills or joint resolutions which authorize or appropriate specific sums for any fiscal year contain a computation of the annual tax impact of such legislation on the individual taxpayer.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 511 (95th)referred

A resolution condemning terrorist activities of the PLO.

United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1978

Expresses the condemnation by the Congress of the March 11, 1978, attack on Israel by the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the expressed intention of the PLO to continue such attacks and to disrupt the peace efforts between Israel and Egypt. Requests the President to make the disapproval of the Congress known to governments approving the PLO attack. Expresses Congressional approval of the peace efforts between Israel and Egypt. Urges other Middle East countries to join such efforts. Declares negotiation to be the best way to bring peace to the Middle East.

Bill· HRH.R. 11252 (95th)referred

A bill to amend section 6(d)(1) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1978

Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to deny eligibility for food stamps to any household including a person participating in a strike or labor dispute which the President determines is causing or substantially contributing to: (1) a critical shortage of any essential resource or strategic material; or (2) unemployment in an industry not directly involved in such strike or labor dispute.

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