Rep. Glickman, Dan [D-KS-4]

An amendment to make technical changes in the bill to make the bill consistent regarding the right to sue the Commission.

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An amendment to the Energy and Commerce Committee amendment to define options as including "options on commodities, options on contracts of sale of commodities for future deliveries, and options on securities, including options on exempted securities or any group or index of securities." The bill simply states "options". The amendment also adds "investors" to those who are to be studied, not only "speculators, arbitrageurs, and hedgers" as stated in the bill.

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A substitute amendment to the Schroeder amendment to set the maximum amount that may be obligated at 175,300,000,000 dollars (an increase over the Schroeder figure 168,250,000,000 dollars).

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An amendment to require a Strategic Alcohol Fuel Reserve Report from the Secretary of Energy to the Congress no later than December 31, 1982. The amendment specifies areas to be covered in the study.

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An amendment to authorize the establishment of a Commodity Credit Corporation Revolving Fund for Export Market Development and Expansion.

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An amendment to strikes funds for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Commission.

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An amendment to specify that the thirty day period that is to transpire from the time the Congress is notified that a contract has a cancellation ceiling of 100,000,000 dollars and the date the contract is to take effect, shall be thirty legislative days. (The bill specifies calendar days).

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An amendment to require that the U.S. cannot sell crude from the Naval Petroleum Reserve of Elk Hills unless the oil in storage within the Strategic Petroleum Reserve exceeds 500,000,000 barrels or that the oil transferred to the Strategic Reserve is replaced in equal amounts in the Naval reserve.

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An amendment to strike $62,000 dollars for salaries and expenses provided for secretarial offices of the Office of the Solicitor of the Department of the Interior.

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An amendment to require the Secretary of Transportation to report to Congress within 180 days the result of a study that compares the levels of investment by the railroad industry in track and roadbed maintenance and modernization and its impact on rail safety before and after the enactment of the Staggers Rail Act of 1980.

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An amendment to earmark 25 percent of funds provided for control technologies of Solid Waste Disposal to be used for research on control technologies which may serve as feasible alternatives to land disposal, storage, and containment.

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An amendment to add that in meeting the goal's of the State's plan for provision of adequate library services priority should be given when economically feasible to the acquisition and conversion of unused public school facilities.

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An amendment to add the following exemption from the ineligibility section of the bill: the provisions for ineligibility for production on highly erodible land shall not apply to any highly erodible land during any crop year if such land was planted in reliance on the determination by the Soil Conservation Service that such land was not highly erodible land. The exemption shall not apply to any crop which was planted on any land after the Soil Conservation Service determines such land to be highly erodible land.

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An amendment adding a subsection to the domestic content ratios for model year 1985 and thereafter, providing that ratios shall have no effect with regard to a nation in the event the President issues a proclamation not less than 90 days before the model year stating that that nation is not imposing unfair restrictions against an entry of U.S. products into its domestic market.

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An amendment to establish a demonstration project under the Departments of Commerce and Transportation to 1) initiate technical assistance programs with aviation authorities of other governments, and 2) initiate programs to assist U.S. firms in their efforts to export aerospace products and services. The Secretary of Commerce is to report to Congress by April 30, 1985 on the effect of the program, making recommendations for discontinuance, continuance, expansion, or other appropriate recommendations.

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An amendment to strike all the language in Section 314 of the bill which prohibits the Transportation Department from lowering the passenger ceiling at National Airport.

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An amendment to add a new section stating "it is the sense of the Congress that, in connection with assistance provided under this Act, law enforcement officials and personnel should be made aware of the critical shortage of human organs available for life-sustaining medical transplant operations and be fully advised of the means by which they can be of potential assistance toward alleviating that shortage when, in the course of their responsibilities, they are involved in activities resulting in fatalities.".

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An amendment to require EPA to monitor the effectiveness of hospital disinfectants.

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An amendment to require leverage contracts to be traded on federally licensed and regulated commodity exchanges, and to be subject to the same regulations as futures contracts.

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An amendment to alter the provision for persons to bring civil action against any person (including the U.S. government). The bill permitted suits in cases where release or threatened release of a hazardous substance that presented endangerment to the public health or environment was made from a "hazardous waste disposal site". The amendment would permit suits where release was made from a "facility". The amendment defines "release" as "discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, treating, storing, or placing".

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An amendment to require the Secretary of Agriculture to direct the Federal Grain Inspection Service and the Agricultural Research Service to cooperate in developing new means of establishing grain classification taking into account characteristics other than those visually evident. The Secretary is to report to Congress by 12/31/85 on the status of the efforts as it relates to more accurately classifying types of wheat and other grains now in use.

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An amendment to add to the requirement that the Secretary develop a model plan for comprehensive automation of data processing and computerization of information systems under the food stamp program the requirement that the plan thus developed take into account system security and privacy.

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An amendment to deny benefits to farmers who fail to remove highly errodible land from production by a certain date. It strikes the exemption provisions of the bill that exempted lands put in production between 1981 and 1985.

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An amendment making the marketing loan provisions mandatory, establishing a target price of $4.50/bushel for wheat for the first 15,000 bushels and at $4.00/bushel for an excess of that amount. For corn the price set in the amendment is $3.10/bushel for the first 30,000 bushels and $2.75 for amounts in excess of that quantity.

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An amendment adding that it is the sense of Congress that nominations to the board of directors for the U.S. Institute of Peace should be submitted to the Senate without delay to permit implementation of the Congressional mandate.

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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 substitutes the following: the reviewing of the lender's application should include a determination for purposes of the approved lender program that the federal land banks and production credit associations chartered under the Farm Credit Act of 1971 are eligible lenders if the Governor of the Farm Credit Administration informs the Secretary that they have adequate reserves against losses.

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An amendment to increase the appropriation for the National Transportation Safety Board by $1.36 million to $25,400,000 in order to allow for 347 full time employees rather than the 324 currently provided for.

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An amendment to increase funding for the Federal Aviation Administration's research, engineering, and development account by $13.5 million to $175,000,000.

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An amendment to provide $6,563,189,000 for reimbursement for net realized losses of the Commodity Credit Corporation.

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An amendment to prohibit deficiency payments to any producer whose total income from the sale of program crops (wheat, feed grains, cotton, and rice) exceeds $1 million annually.

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An amendment to prohibit credit guarantees or any other commercial exports to any country which, as a result of review by the Commodity Credit Corporation, is determined to have demostrated a lack of respect for human rights; is acquiring chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons and has not foreworn the first use of such weapons or demonstrated a lack of commitment to abide by the Geneva Protocol prohibiting the use of such weapons; or provides support for international terrorism.

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Amendment in the nature of a substitute.

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An amendment to require the Government Accounting Office to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of establishing commodity market user-fees for funding the enforcement activities of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

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Amendment sought to repeal Section 29 of the International Air Transportation Competition Act (P.L. 96-192) which restricts access to the Love Field Airport in Texas to a limited number of private air carriers. \ A point of order was sustained against the amendment on the grounds that it was not germane to the bill and thus was in violation of clause 7 of rule XVI.

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Amendment sought to delete $33,000 appropriated for the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Commission.

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An amendment to reduce the appropriations in the bill for debt restructuring for the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative by $34,531,000.

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Amendment sought to reduce the appropriation for salaries and expenses of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service by $20 million.

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An amendment to provide that the Senate and the Executive Branch are included with the House with regard to requirements for taking an oath of secrecy when classified documents are being handled.

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An amendment to require public disclosure of the complete amount appropriated and spent on intelligence activities.

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An amendment to repeal section 29 of the International Air Transportation Competition Act, which prohibits commercial airlines from providing service between Love Field in Dallas, Texas and points located outside Texas and its four surrounding states.

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An amendment to add a new section which details an oath of secrecy applicable to Members of Congress and the Executive Branch Officers and its employees with regard to disclosing classified information.

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An amendment to delete the provisions of the bill which raise foreign language incentive pay scales for reservists to a level equal to that of active duty personnel.

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Designating October 19, 1994, as "National Mammography Day".

United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1994

Designates October 19, 1994, as National Mammography Day.

Designating November 1, 1994, as "National Family Literacy Day".

United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1994

Designates November 1, 1994, as National Family Literacy Day.

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the limited deduction of health insurance costs of self-employed individuals.

United States · United States Congress · 20 September 1994

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the limited deduction for the health insurance costs of self-employed individuals.

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve Act of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 19 August 1994

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve Act of 1994 - Establishes the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve to provide for the preservation, restoration, and interpretation of the Spring Hill Ranch area of the Flint Hills of Kansas. Considers the Preserve a designated unit of the National Park System, including for purposes of charging entrance and admission fees under specified provisions of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to prepare and submit to specified congressional committees a general management plan for the Preserve. Authorizes the acquisition of real property and improvements thereon, and rights-of-way on roads that are not owned by Kansas, within the boundaries of the Preserve. Prohibits: (1) such property from being acquired without the owner's consent; and (2) U.S. acquisition of fee ownership of any lands within the Preserve other than these lands. Establishes the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve Advisory Committee to advise the Secretary and the Director of the National Park Service on the development, management, and interpretation of the Preserve. Authorizes appropriations.

To require the specific identification of intelligence construction projects in annual budget submissions and the authorization by law of such projects.

United States · United States Congress · 11 August 1994

Prohibits any intelligence community construction project in excess of $250,000 from being undertaken in a fiscal year unless such project is specifically: (1) identified as a separate item in the President's annual budget submission to the Congress; and (2) authorized by the Congress.

Designating the months of March 1995 and March 1996 as "Irish-American Heritage Month".

United States · United States Congress · 11 August 1994

Designates the months of March 1995 and March 1996 as Irish-American Heritage Month.

To establish the fourth Sunday of July as "Parents' Day".

United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1994

Establishes the fourth Sunday of every July as Parents' Day.

Concerning deployment of United States Armed Forces in Haiti.

United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1994

Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President is: (1) required to obtain the prior approval of the Congress before U.S. armed forces may undertake offensive military action against the military leadership of Haiti in accordance with United Nations Security Council Resolution 940; and (2) recognized as having the inherent authority to use such forces to protect or evacuate U.S. citizens from imminent danger or for humanitarian purposes.