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United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1979
Calls upon the government of Great Britain to end human rights violations and promote self-determination for Ireland.
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1979
Sets forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 1980. States that: (1) the recommended level of Federal revenues is $507,800,000,000, and the amount by which the aggregate level of Federal revenues should be decreased is zero; (2) the appropriate level of total new budget authority is $608,418,000,000; (3) the appropriate level of total budget outlays is $532,730,000,000; (4) the amount of the deficit in the budget which is appropriate in the light of economic conditions and all other relevant factors is $24,930,000,000; and (5) the appropriate level of the public debt is $888,800,000,000, and the amount by which the statutory limit on such debt should accordingly be increased is $58,800,000,000. Specifies the appropriate levels of new budget authority and the estimated budget outlays for each major functional category. Revises the second concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1979.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1979
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Department of Energy commission an independent audit of the crude oil and refined petroleum products held by or under the control of domestic oil companies and report the results of that audit to the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1979
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should instruct the U.S. delegation to the 1980 Madrid meeting of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe to seek free elections supervised by the United Nations in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, after the withdrawal of all Soviet military and civilian personnel. Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should inform and gain the support and cooperation of other nations in realizing independence for the Baltic States. Expresses the sense of Congress that the: (1) President should warn the Soviet Union against making citizenship claims on U.S. citizens; and (2) Secretary of State should inform U.S. citizens planning to visit the Soviet Union of the implications of the Soviet law on citizenship.
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1979
Declares it the sense of Congress that the Postmaster General and the Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee should give favorable consideration to the issuance of a commemorative postage stamp in honor of Americans of Italian descent and the 250th anniversary of the birth of Philip Mazzei on December 25, 1980, or as soon as possible thereafter. States that the Postmaster General and the Committee should honor other foreign-born contributors to the revolutionary cause, from countries which have not yet been commemorated, prior to the conclusion of the American Bicentennial celebration in 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1979
Sets forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 1980. Sets the recommended level of Federal revenues for such year at $519,500,000,000. Recommends an increase of $5,300,000,000 in the aggregate level of Federal revenues. States that the appropriate level of total new budget authority for fiscal year 1980 is $632,557,000,000. Sets the appropriate level of total budget outlays at $548,725,000,000. States that a budget deficit of $29,225,000,000 for fiscal year 1980 would be appropriate in light of economic conditions. Sets the appropriate level of the public debt at $886,125,000,000 in fiscal year 1980 with an increase in the statutory debt limit of $56,125,000,000. Reaffirms the commitment of Congress to find a way to relate accurately the outlays of off-budget Federal entities to the budget. Estimates such outlays to be $16,000,000,000 in fiscal year 1980. Sets forth the appropriate levels of new budget authority and estimated budget outlays for each major functional category of the budget in fiscal year 1980. Directs each standing committee of the House of Representatives which has jurisdiction over entitlement programs to include with its required March 15, 1980, report to the Budget Committee specific recommendations for funding mechanisms which would enable the Congress to exercise more fiscal control over such entitlements. Directs the Budget Committee to submit to the House such recommendations as it deems appropriate based on such reports.
United States · United States Congress · 13 November 1979
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should terminate all military training of Iranian personnel pursuant to sales under the Arms Export Control Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 November 1979
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should inform Iran that the United States will initiate military operations against Iran unless the hostages held in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran are released by a certain day. Declares that the President should order U.S. Armed Forces into areas adjacent to Iran for appropriate action.
United States · United States Congress · 19 October 1979
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should instruct the U.S. delegation to the 1980 Madrid meeting of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe to seek free elections supervised by the United Nations in the Baltic States after the withdrawal of all Soviet military and civilian personnel. Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should inform and gain the support and cooperation of other nations in realizing independence for the Baltic States. Expresses the sense of Congress that the: (1) President should warn the Soviet Union against making citizenship claims on U.S. citizens; and (2) Secretary of State should inform U.S. citizens planning to visit the Soviet Union of the implications of the Soviet law on citizenship.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1980
Expresses the sense of Congress to condemn Soviet actions taken against Andrei Sakharov which further show the lack of the Soviet Union's fitness to host the Olympics.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1980
Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the International Olympic Committee should withdraw the 1980 summer Olympic games from the Soviet Union; and (2) there should be a boycott of such games, if they are not withdrawn and Soviet troops have not been withdrawn from Afghanistan.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1980
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Soviet Union should release Andrei Sakharov from internal exile immediately. Urges the President to: (1) protest Sakharov's exile and the continued suppression of human rights in the Soviet Union; (2) call upon other nations to join in such protests and impose sanctions against the Soviet Union; and (3) inform Helsinki signatory governments that the U.S. delegation intends to raise these violations at the 1980 Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe review meeting.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1980
Sets forth the first concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1981. Recommends a level of Federal revenues in fiscal year 1981 of $613,800,000,000 with an increase in aggregate revenues of $22,300,000,000. Provides for a targeted tax reduction of $10,300,000,000 (an amount equal to estimated receipts from oil import fees). States that the appropriate level of total budget authority for fiscal year 1981 is $694,600,000,000 and that the appropriate level of total budget outlays is $611,800,000,000. Sets forth a budget surplus of $2,000,000,000. Recommends a level of public debt at $926,800,000,000 with an increase of $30,100,000,000 in the statutory limit on the public debt. States that the appropriate level of total gross obligations for the principal amount of direct loans is $60,600,000,000. Sets the appropriate level of total commitments to guarantee loan principal at $79,600,000,000. Sets forth recommended levels of new budget authority and outlays under each major functional category of the budget for fiscal year 1981. Directs the following congressional committees to effectuate specified reductions in budget authority and outlays for fiscal year 1981 contained in legislation within their jurisdiction and to report recommendations for accomplishing such reductions by June 15, 1980: (1) the House Committee on Agriculture and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; (2) the House and Senate Committees on Armed Services; (3) the House Committee on Education and Labor; (4) the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce; (5) the House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service and the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs; (6) the House Committee on Public Works and Transportation and the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works; (7) the House and Senate Committees on Veterans' Affairs; (8) the House Committee on Ways and Means; (9) the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation; (10) the Senate Committee on Finance; and (11) the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Directs the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Senate Committee on Finance to increase revenues for fiscal year 1981 by $22,200,000,000 and to report recommendations for accomplishing such an increase by June 15, 1980. Sets forth the congressional budget for fiscal years 1982 and 1983. Recommends aggregate levels of Federal revenues of $694,800,000,000 in fiscal year 1982 and $804,100,000,000 in fiscal year 1983 with an increase in Federal revenues of $300,000,000 in 1982. States that the appropriate level of new budget authority for fiscal year 1982 is $767,300,000,000 and $864,500,000,000 for fiscal year 1983. Sets the appropriate level of total budget outlays at $683,100,000,000 in fiscal year 1982 and $775,400,000,000 in fiscal year 1983. Recommends budget surpluses of $11,700,000,000 and $28,700,000,000 in fiscal years 1982 and 1983 respectively. Sets the appropriate level of the public debt at $954,200,000,000 and $970,600,000,000 in fiscal years 1982 and 1983. Sets forth the corresponding levels of new budget authority and outlays for each major functional category of the budget in fiscal years 1981 and 1982. Revises the congressional budget for fiscal year 1980 (S. Con. Res. 53) by: (1) increasing the recommended level of Federal revenues to $528,800,000,000; (2) raising the increase in the aggregate level of revenues to $4,300,000,000; (3) increasing the appropriate level of total new budget authority to $657,200,000,000; (4) increasing the appropriate level of total budget outlays to $567,000,000,000; (5) increasing the budget deficit to $38,200,000,000; (6) increasing the level of the public debt to $896,700,000,000; (7) raising the statutory limit on the public debt to $17,700,000,000; and (8) revising the corresponding levels of new budget authority and outlays for each major functional category of the budget. Urges the President to review the current inflation measure for indexing Federal programs and to submit recommendations to the Congress on the most appropriate cost-of-living measure.
United States · United States Congress · 13 November 1980
Sets forth the second concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1981. Recommends a level of Federal revenues in fiscal year 1981 of $606,700,000,000 with a decrease in aggregate revenues of $400,000,000. States that the appropriate level of total budget authority for fiscal year 1981 is $689,500,000,000 and that the appropriate level of total budget outlays is $631,750,000,000. Sets forth a budget deficit of $25,050,000,000. Recommends a level of public debt at $971,000,000,000 with an increase of $46,000,000,000 in the statutory limit on the public debt. States that the appropriate level of total gross obligations for the principal amount of direct loans is $75,550,000,000. Sets the appropriate level of total commitments to guarantee loan principal at $76,400,000,000. Sets forth recommended levels of new budget authority and outlays under each major fuctional category of the budget for fiscal year 1981. Sets forth the congressional budget for fiscal years 1982 and 1983. Recommends aggregate levels of Federal revenues of $682,100,000,000 in fiscal year 1982 and $778,300,000,000 in fiscal year 1983 with no increase in Federal revenues. States that the appropriate level of new budget authority for fiscal year 1982 is $754,450,000,000 and $821,800,000,000 for fiscal year 1983. Sets the appropriate level of total budget outlays at $695,950,000,000 in fiscal year 1982 and $755,300,000,000 in fiscal year 1983. Recommends a budget deficit of $13,850,000,000 in fiscal year 1982 and a budget surplus of $23,000,000,000 in fiscal year 1983. Sets the appropriate level of the public debt at $1,017,850,000,000 and $1,031,850,000,000 in fiscal years 1982 and 1983 respectively. Recommends an increase in the statutory limit on such debt by $46,850,000,000 in fiscal year 1982 and $24,000,000,000 in fiscal year 1983. Sets forth the corresponding levels of new budget authority and outlays for each major functional category of the budget in fiscal years 1982 and 1983. Expresses the sense of the Congress that a full-scale review of the Budget Act and the Congressional budget process shall be undertaken without delay.
United States · United States Congress · 15 February 1979
Expresses the disapproval of the House of Representatives to the President's proposed deferral D 79-48 withholding funds appropriated for uranium enrichment services of the Department of Energy.
United States · United States Congress · 15 February 1979
Expresses the disapproval of the House of Representatives to the President's proposed deferral D 79-50 withholding funds appropriated for summer youth employment assistance by the Department of Labor.
United States · United States Congress · 15 February 1979
Expresses the disapproval of the House of Representatives to the President's proposed deferral D 79-51 withholding funds appropriated for interstate transfer grants by the Department of Transportation.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1979
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States Olympic Committee take the necessary measures to have the International Olympic Committee transfer the 1980 summer Olympics to a site outside the Soviet Union, and that the United States should consider withdrawal from such Olympics and establishing an alternate competition if such transfer does not occur.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1979
Directs the printing, for use by the House Committee on the Budget, of 1,000 additional copies of the House Report entitled, "Toward a Balanced Budget: Report Pursuant to Public Law 96-5."
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1979
Directs the printing, for the use of the House Committee on the Budget, of 1,000 additional copies of the House Report entitled, "First Concurrent Resolution on the Budget - Fiscal Year 1980."
United States · United States Congress · 16 July 1979
Directs the printing, for the use of the House Committee on the Budget, of 1,000 additional copies of the House Report entitled, "Second Concurrent Resolution on the Budget - Fiscal Year 1980".
United States · United States Congress · 12 September 1979
Amends rule XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives to prohibit specified House committees and subcommittees from holding regular or additional meetings on days when the House is in session, other than for the purpose of taking testimony or receiving evidence, on Thursdays or on Wednesday afternoons, and other specified committees on Tuesdays or Wednesday mornings. Prohibits any subcommittee from meeting in the District of Columbia, except for the purpose of taking testimony or receiving evidence, unless the chairman of the committee has specifically authorized in writing the subcommittee meeting. Requires the Committee on House Administration, through the House Information Systems, to provide a scheduling service which shall be used by all the committees and subcommittees of the House to eliminate any meeting and scheduling conflicts. Requires any announcement made by a House committee concerning the date, place, and subject of any committee hearing to be promptly entered into the committee scheduling service of the House Information Systems.
United States · United States Congress · 20 September 1979
Welcomes Pope John Paul II to the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1980
Directs the printing, for the use of the House Committee on the Budget, of 1,000 additional copies of the House Report entitled, "First Concurrent Resolution on the Budget-Fiscal Year 1981."