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Rep. Corcoran, Tom [R-IL-14]

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Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 46 (98th)referred

A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that studies should be undertaken immediately into methods of adequately financing the railroad retirement and railroad unemployment systems.

United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1983

Expresses the sense of Congress that the Railroad Retirement Board and representatives of railroad employees and carriers should jointly or independently study methods of financing the railroad retirement program, including a ton-mile tax. Requires a report to Congress by March 30, 1983, on the alternatives studied.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 52 (98th)referred

A concurrent resolution calling upon the Bulgarian Government and the Soviet Government to cooperate in the investigation of the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II.

United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1983

Commends the efforts of the Italian authorities to uncover the truth about the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II. Demands that the Bulgarian and Soviet Governments cooperate with Italian authorities in the investigation of the attempted assassination.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 85 (98th)referred

A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the provisions contained in section 1 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 relating to the adjustment of income tax brackets to prevent inflation-caused tax increases should not be repealed and the effective date of such provisions should not be postponed.

United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1983

Expresses the sense of the Congress that provisions of the Internal Revenue Code requiring cost-of-living adjustments for income tax rates should not be repealed and that the effective date of such provisions should not be postponed.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 115 (98th)referred

A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the tax reductions and indexing of individual income tax rates enacted by the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 remain fundamental ingredients to the prolonged economic recovery now underway and that any repeal or delay in those fundamental ingredients clearly jeopardize such recovery.

United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1983

Expresses the sense of the Congress that the income tax reductions scheduled for July 1, 1983, and the inflation adjustment of the income tax brackets scheduled for after 1984, should not be repealed or postponed.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 132 (98th)referred

A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the continuing possibility that the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 relating to withholding from interest and dividends will be repealed is creating, for all payors, an undue hardship within the meaning of section 308(b) of the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 and that the Secretary of the Treasury should exercise his authority under such section to delay the effective date of such provisions until December 31, 1983.

United States · United States Congress · 1 June 1983

Expresses the sense of the Congress that the continuing possibility that the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code relating to withholding of tax from interest and dividends will be repealed is creating, for all payors, an undue hardship within the meaning of the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982, and that the Secretary of the Treasury should exercise his authority under such Act to delay the effective date of such provisions until December 31, 1983.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 126 (98th)passed

A concurrent resolution providing for the commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Harry S Truman.

United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1983

Establishes the Special Joint Committee on Arrangements to provide for the congressional commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Harry S. Truman. Declares it the duty of such committee to: (1) arrange a joint meeting of the Congress in commemoration of such anniversary; (2) plan proceedings for such joint meeting; and (3) coordinate activities with the Truman Centennial Committee. Enumerates the powers of such joint committee. Provides that the expenses of such joint committee may not exceed a specified amount and shall be paid from the contingent fund of the House of Representatives.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 174 (98th)referred

A concurrent resolution expressing the disapproval of the Congress of any trade embargo imposed by the United States, for reasons other than national security, which applies only to the export of agricultural commodities to a country and which does not have adequate international support to assure significant results.

United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1983

Expresses the sense of the Congress that, except for national security reasons, the United States should not suspend or restrict agricultural commodity exports to any country unless such suspension or restriction is imposed in connection with a suspension or restriction of all U.S. exports to such country and there is adequate international support of such suspension or restriction.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 173 (98th)referred

A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that the President should instruct the United States ambassador to the United Nations to introduce a resolution, promptly, that calls upon the Government of Iran to cease its persecution of Baha'is in Iran and allow Baha'is who desire to emigrate from Iran to do so.

United States · United States Congress · 21 September 1983

Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should instruct the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations to introduce a resolution that calls upon Iran to cease its persecution of the Iranian Baha'is and allow them to emigrate from Iran.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 181 (98th)referred

A concurrent resolution requesting the President of the United States to convene a National Conference on Small Business in 1984.

United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1983

Urges the President to convene a national Conference on Small Business in 1984 to: (1) reaffirm the country's commitment to small business; (2) secure the continued leadership of small businesses with respect to the U.S. economic recovery; (3) assure that small businesses continue their leadership in maintaining the quality of life in the United States; and (4) ensure that the role that small businesses have played in the past growth and development of the United States will continue unimpeded by governmental restraints.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 98 (98th)open

A concurrent resolution calling for support for the President's efforts to develop strategic defensive systems to make nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1983

Declares that the Congress: (1) supports the President's call for a more humane and ethical strategic policy for the United States; (2) supports the President's efforts to develop strategic defensive systems to reduce dependence on the threat of nuclear retaliation; (3) commends the President for his initiative to develop new arms-control policies; and (4) supports the President's call for a technological and scientific effort to develop the means of rendering nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 212 (98th)referred

A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the Soviet Union should be the host country for the United Nations every other year.

United States · United States Congress · 9 November 1983

Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Soviet Union should: (1) be the host country for the United Nations during alternate years; and (2) be assessed the same percentage of the U.N. budget as the United States is assessed, with the U.S. contribution being reduced accordingly, in those years in which the Soviet Union hosts the United Nations.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 63 (98th)referred

A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress concerning the compliance by the Soviet Union with certain international agreements on human rights.

United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1983

Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the Soviet Union should comply with certain international agreements relating to human rights by pursuing a more humane emigration policy and by ceasing harassment of Jews and others seeking to emigrate; (2) Soviet compliance with internationally recognized emigration rights would significantly promote improved relations with the United States; (3) the President should convey these concerns of Congress to the Soviet Union at every appropriate opportunity; and (4) the President should also convey these concerns to U.S. allies.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 100 (98th)referred

A concurrent resolution calling upon the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to end the current repressive policies of forced labor and expressing the sense of Congress that the exploitation of workers in forced labor camps by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is morally reprehensible.

United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1983

Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should express U.S. opposition to the Soviet Union's policies of forced labor. Declares that the Soviet Union should cease such practices and honor their international commitments.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 223 (98th)open

A concurrent resolution to express the sense of the Congress that the United States should not recognize the illegitimate Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and should call for an immediate UN Security Council meeting to press for immediate action to remove the Turkish occupation forces from Northern Cyprus.

United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1983

Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the United States and other nations should not recognize the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and that a meeting of the United Nations Security Council should be held to condemn such act and to press for the withdrawal of forces from Northern Cyprus; and (2) the right of the people of Cyprus to self-determination should not be abridged by any nation.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 146 (98th)open

A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress with regard to the mutual security efforts of the United States and Japan.

United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1983

Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the United States and Japan should exert maximum efforts to resist the Soviet threat in the Western Pacific and Asia; (2) the President should seek an agreement with Japan that would increase Japan's defense spending over the next four years; and (3) if Japan does not take steps to meet its defense goals, the United States should relocate portions of its military forces currently in Japan to other areas of the Western Pacific and limit its expenditures for FY 1985 for U.S. forces stationed in Japan to no more than 75 percent of its FY 1984 expenditures for those forces.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 225 (98th)open

A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the President should instruct the United States delegation to the United Nations to introduce a resolution in the General Assembly calling for the immediate withdrawal of all Syrian and Syrian controlled forces from Lebanon.

United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1983

Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should instruct the U.S. delegation to the United Nations to introduce before the U.N. General Assembly a resolution calling for the withdrawal of Syrian and Syrian-controlled forces from Lebanon in order to facilitate the return of peace to the country.