Rep. Courter, Jim [R-NJ-12]

An amendment to limit $3,705,275,000 the total amount of funds provided for Army research, development, test, and evaluation that can be obligated or spent. The amendment also limits to $359,000,000 the amount that can be used for the Ballistic Missile Defense System Technology program.

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An amendment to prohibit the use of funds for the procurement, leasing, bidding, exploration, or development of specified tracts of the Outer Continental Shelf. The tracts are off the east coast.

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An substitute amendment to the Zablocki amendment. It stipulates that none of the funds of the bill can be used to produce binary chemical weapons unless the President certifies to Congress that for each unit of chemical munitions produced an equal unit of chemical munitions already on hand has been "rendered permanently useless for military purposes".

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An amendment to specify that except where the President finds national security to require otherwise, all assistance to any government or international organization which aids or abets any individual or group which has committed an act of international terrorism is to be terminated. Also aid cannot be given for the five years following such termination. This restriction applies also for sales, credits, and guarantees.

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A substitute amendment to the Schroeder amendment to require the President to submit to Congress by January 14, 1982 a recommendation on improving the efficiency and management of and the elimination of waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in the Department of Defense. It also requires a report on the implementation of recommendations of the Comptroller General on elimination of waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in DOD showing what has been implemented, the savings, and what has not been implemented and why.

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An amendment to change a criterion for foreign availability from "sufficient" quality and quantity to "comparable" quality and quantity.

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An amendment in the bill to strike the provision in the bill that removes an item from the list of controlled goods or technologies, if after six months of being placed on the list the President has not been able to effect an agreement making similar proscriptions with other foreign sources.

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An amendment to define "detrimental to the national security of the United States" to mean "likely to result in a significant reduction in the military capabilities of the United States or likely to result in a significant advance in the military capabilities of countries to which the goods or technology involved are controlled".

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An amendment endorsing the report to Congress by the Secretary of Defense on improved strategic communications entitled "Direct Communications Links and Other Measures to Enhance Stability." The report deals with communications between the USSR and the US known as the hot line.

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An amendment to establish a Director of Operational Test Review and Evaluation appointed from civilian life by the President as the principal advisor to the Secretary on operational test and evaluation at DOD. He is to recommend policies for such tests. He is to report to Congress as to the adequateness of the tests and as to whether the weapons systems are suitable for combat. He is to have access to all DOD papers he finds necessary to fulfill his task. Financial decisions within DOD for major defense acquisitions may not be made until he has reported to the Secretary and Congress on such tests.

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An amendment to reduce for research, development, test, and evaluation for the Air Force from $9,730,141,000 to $9,690,141,000. The intent of the amendment is to delete funds for thrust, durability, and weight reduction research for the F-100 and F-110 jet engines.

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A substitute amendment to the Lungren amendment to substitute the following text: "Nothing in this resolution shall be construed to supercede the treaty-making powers of the President under the Constitution,and therefore nothing in this resolution shall be construed to be binding on the President or his negotiators in the formulation of strategy, instructions or positions in the conduct of Strategic Arms Reductions Talks (START)".

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An amendment to add that nothing in the resolution is to prevent during negotiations the modernization and deployment of U.S. dual capable delivery systems required to maintain the capability of the U.S. defense posture. Also, negotiators are not required to enter into agreements that would preclude such modernization and deployment.

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An amendment to require the U.S. to withdraw from any negotiations pursuant to the resolution if the President determines and a majority of both Houses of Congress concurs, within 30 days, that the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. are no longer in essential equivalence. Two grounds for such a determination are given 1) information which is the basis for the assumption of equivalence is found not to be accurate and or 2) the U.S.S.R. introduces new and unknown technologies and information systems destroying the equivalence.

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An amendment to require the DOD to initiate the development, testing, and deployment of SDI systems and components that are in compliance with the ABM Treaty.

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An amendment to earmark $100 million Defense Agency research and development funds for the SDI boost and tracking system.

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An amendment to the MAVROULES amendment to delete certification requirements concerning allowable indirect costs.

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An amendment to the Nichols amendment to waive certain reporting, notification, and study requirements that must be made to Congress.

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An amendment to the MAVROULES amendment to delete requirements dealing with allowable costs and competitive prototypes. It deletes language in the "should cost" provisions on labor and material costs. It eliminates the specification of what information must be submitted to meet the requirement for work measurement standards. It limits judicial review of whistleblower cases. It eliminates provisions creating a defense acquisition corps and instead requires a report on improving career opportunities for acquisition personnel.

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An amendment stating that the U.S. Information Agency shall explicitly recommend to each student receiving a scholarship under the bill for study at a college or university, that the student enroll in and pass a course which studies the classics of American political thought or which otherwise emphasizes the ideas, principles, and documents upon which the U.S. was founded.

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An amendment to require by 12/1/85 and then by 12/1 each year thereafter a report from the President to Congress with an update of the President's findings on the Soviet compliance with its arms control commitments. Classified and unclassified versions are to be submitted.

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A substitute amendment to the Boxer amendment (HA191) requiring the General Accounting Office to provide a report to the congressional Armed Services committees on the feasibility of requiring that bills of labor and bills of material be furnished to the government on development and production contracts for purposes of reviewing such information to determine changes in measured work progress and material under the contract to which the information relates.

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An amendment to Title VIII (Procurement Reform) adding a new section, Requirement of Minimum Percentage of Competitive Procurements. The amendment requires that a certain percentage of the DOD contracts be made by competitive bidding. The percentage is to increase by 5 percent a year until it reaches a minimum level of 70 percent. It also prohibits obligation of funds for any fiscal year where the minimum percentage of competitive contracts is not met.

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An amendment requiring a study of point defense for land based strategic forces. The study is to examine the application of research conducted under the Strategic Defense Initiative program reducing the vulnerability of land based strategic forces. The report is to be submitted to Congress by 4/30/86.

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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. (The Holt amendment had set the two figures at $6,795,732,000 and $2,962,962,000 respectively.).

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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 Minutemen silos.

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An amendment prohibiting the employment of Soviet citizens as a foreign national employee at U.S. diplomatic or consular missions in the U.S.S.R. The amendment also expresses the willingness of the Congress to provide additional funds for the expenses of employing U.S. citizens to replace the Soviet citizens.

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An amendment to limit the time of an independent counsel investigation to one year.

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An amendment to require that the uncompleted chancery building of the U.S. embassy complex in Moscow should never be accepted for use by the United States diplomatic personnel, and should never be completed, improved, or prepared for such purposes. The amendment also requires that if and when a new U.S. chancery is constructed in Moscow, it shall be built under American supervision and exclusively with American plans, materials, and labor.

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An amendment to provide that $300 million of the amount appropriated for SDI be available for the deployment of a missile defense system against accidental and partial attacks, and to require that the Defense Department establish a plan and request necessary funds to deploy such a system by 1992.

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To designate November 2, 1990, as a national day of prayer for members of American military forces and American citizens stationed or held in the Middle East, and for their families.

United States · United States Congress · 17 October 1990

Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should declare November 2, 1990, a national day of prayer for: (1) members of American military forces and American citizens stationed or held hostage in the Middle East, and for their families; and (2) American and Iraqi authorities to bring about a just resolution of the Persian Gulf crisis.

To designate November 16, 1990, as "National Federation of the Blind Day".

United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1990

Designates November 16, 1990, as National Federation of the Blind Day.

Designating October 31, 1990, as "Pediatric AIDS Awareness Day".

United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1990

Designates October 31, 1990, as Pediatric AIDS Awareness Day.

To provide for the temporary continuance of essential government services for Americans.

United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1990

Authorizes the President, in order to protect health and safety of human life, to decrease the sequester amounts specified in the order issued August 25, 1990, under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act). Requires an increase in the sequester amount in other accounts, programs, projects, or activities to the extent amounts were decreased in such order.

To designate March 25, 1991, as "National Medal of Honor Day".

United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1990

Designates March 25, 1991, as National Medal of Honor Day.

To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide enhanced authority for members of the Armed Forces in drug interdiction activities.

United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1990

Authorizes the Secretary of Defense (upon request from the head of a Federal agency with jurisdiction to enforce the Controlled Substances Act or the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act) to assign members of the armed forces to assist drug enforcement officials in drug searches, seizures, or arrests outside the land area of the United States. Allows such assistance only if: (1) the Attorney General certifies that there are insufficient law enforcement resources available to ensure the success of the operation; (2) the assistance is approved by the Secretary with the concurrence of the Secretary of State; and (3) Federal drug enforcement officials maintain ultimate control over the activities and direction of any drug enforcement operation.

Designating November 4 through 10, 1990, as "National Key Club Week".

United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1990

Designates November 4 through 10, 1990, as National Key Club Week.

To designate September 15, 1990 to October 15, 1990, as "Community Center Month".

United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1990

Designates September 15 to October 15, 1990, as Community Center Month.

Expressing the House of Representatives' opposition to restriction or elimination of the Federal tax deduction for State and local income and property taxes.

United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1990

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Congress should retain the current Federal tax deduction for State and local income and property taxes.

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that October 1990 should be designated as "National Ellis Island Month".

United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1990

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that October 1990 should be designated as National Ellis Island Month, in recognition of Ellis Island's upcoming centennial.

Safe Senior Citizens Housing Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1990

Safe Senior Citizens Housing Act of 1990 - Amends the Housing Act of 1959 to prohibit cost containment limitations that prevent the inclusion of fire safety features (including automatic smoke detectors and sprinkler systems) under the housing for the elderly or handicapped program. Encourages the inclusion of such features under the program.

Independent Counsel Sunset Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1990

Independent Counsel Sunset Act of 1990 - Provides for the automatic termination of an office of independent counsel two years after appointment. Provides for extensions of such appointments for periods of up to one year.

To provide for the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a study of the feasibility of an umbrella research arm to support research on a variety of environmental issues.

United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1990

Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for a study and report to the Congress on: (1) mechanisms for supporting training in the environmental sciences and environmental research through an umbrella research arm, the National Institutes of the Environment, considering research in a wide variety of disciplines; (2) the current state of extramural research support and undergraduate and graduate training relevant to tropical deforestation, species extinction, ecosystem degradation, biological restoration, use of underutilized resources and sustainable resource use, economic consequences of environmental change, and the impacts of humans and the environment on one another; and (3) mechanisms that can be used to advance environmental research and training, their relationship to existing research programs, and appropriate levels and resources of funding. Authorizes appropriations.

Designating Labor Day weekend, September 1 through September 3, 1990, as "National Drive for Life Weekend".

United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1990

Designates the Labor Day Weekend beginning on September 1, 1990, as National Drive for Life Weekend.

Designating August 6, 1990, as "Voting Rights Celebration Day".

United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1990

Designates August 6, 1990, as Voting Rights Celebration Day.

Designating August 13 through 19, 1990, as "Home Health Aide Week".

United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1990

Designates the week of August 13 through 19, 1990, as Home Health Aide Week.

To designate the week of September 16, 1990, through September 22, 1990, as "National Rehabilitation Week".

United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1990

Designates September 16 through 22, 1990, as National Rehabilitation Week. Urges each State Governor and local government chief executive to issue proclamations calling upon their citizens to observe such week with appropriate ceremonies and activities.

Senior Citizens Fire Safety Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1990

Senior Citizens Fire Safety Act of 1990 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow senior citizens a tax credit for half of any qualified fire safety device expenses. Limits such credit to $500.

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the memory of Walt Disney should be honored on the 35th anniversary of his contribution to the American dream.

United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1990

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the memory of Walt Disney should be honored on the 35th anniversary of his contribution to the American dream (the opening of Disneyland).

Designating October 1990 as "Ending Hunger Month".

United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1990

Designates October 1990 as Ending Hunger Month.