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United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1974
Establishes a target of $297,000,000,000 for outlays under the budget of the United States Government for fiscal year 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1974
Prohibits the Federal Energy Administration from imposing any tax, fee, or charge on gasoline, unless approved by Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 18 September 1974
Authorizes the President to reduce Federal expenditures for fiscal year 1975 to $295,000,000,000. Provides that in making reductions in amounts appropriated in order to reduce budget outlays to such amount, the President shall not reduce the amount of an item of appropriation: (1) if that appropriation does not exceed an amount equal to 95 percent of the sum requested in the budget for that fiscal year, unless (A) the President transmits a special message to Congress stating that he proposes to reduce the amount appropriated for such item and the sum by which that appropriation is to be reduced, and (B) neither House of Congress passes a resolution, during thirty calendar days of continuous session occurring immediately after transmittal of the message, stating in substance that it disapproves the reduction; and (2) in the case of any other item of appropriation, by more than 15 percent of the amount appropriated.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1974
Controlled Substances Trafficking Act - Title I: Increased Penalties - Increases various criminal penalties under provisions of the comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970. Title II: Conditions of Release - Directs the judicial officer, in setting conditions of release for any person charged with an offense with respect to a controlled substance, to consider whether the person poses a danger to the safety of any other person, himself, or of the community, or to the property of others. States that where a person is charged with a violation with respect to a controlled substance, a special hearing shall be held by a judicial officer at the time of arraignment to determine whether the person may be released prior to trial. Sets forth criteria upon which the judicial officer shall deny release in the absence of compelling circumstances to justify the conclusion that the defendant, if released, will not become a fugitive or pose a danger to the safety of any other person or to the community. Permits the United States to appeal from orders granting pretrial release. Provides that a person denied release in connection with charges which subsequently result in a conviction for a violation with respect to a controlled substance shall not be released while awaiting sentence or after having filed a writ of certiorari in the absence of compelling circumstances.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1974
Limits the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and the district courts with respect to any case arising from a State law relating to assigning public school students to a particular school because of race, creed, color, or sex.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1974
Provides that specified sections of the Par Value Modification Act relating to dealing in gold shall take effect immediately upon passage of this Act (formerly to take effect when the President finds and reports to Congress that international monetary reform has proceeded to the point where elimination of regulations on private ownership of gold will not adversely affect the United States international monetary position).
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1974
Requires reports accompanying each bill or joint resolution in the House of Representatives of a public character (except revenue measures) reported by a committee to contain estimates of the costs, to both public and nonpublic sectors, of carrying out the measure reported.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1974
Allows a deduction from gross income under the Internal Revenue Code for social agency, legal, and related expenses incurred in connection with the adoption of a child by a taxpayer. Defines, for purposes of this Act, the term "adoption expense". (Adds 26 U.S.C. 219)
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1974
Directs the President to submit to Congress, within thirty days, a report which sets forth, for each calendar year during the period of 1965 through 1973: (1) the volume and value of all exports of critical resources to all countries from each foreign country which at any time during such period exported to the United States any critical minerals; (2) the volume and value of each critical mineral exported to the United States from each such foreign country; (3) the volume and value of each critical mineral exported in world trade from any foreign country which was subject, at any time during such period, to economic sanctions applied by the United States pursuant to the United Nations Participation Act of 1945; and (4) the exports by value and volume for each commodity by country of destination.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1974
Requires the execution of an oath or affirmation or declaration of allegiance before a passport is granted or issued. (Amends 22 U.S.C. 212, 213)
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1974
Provides that whoever, for the purpose of obtaining any official document or paper of the United States, involving an element of identification, knowlingly uses or supplies false information, documentation, or any document or paper evidencing the birth or identity or entry into the United States of any individual other than the individual officially intended to be documented thereby, shall be fined or imprisoned or both. Provides that whoever, for the purpose of obtaining any official document or paper of any State, involving an element of identification, knowingly utilizes any facility in interstate or foreign commerce, including the mail, to move in interstate or foreign commerce any false information, false or falsified documentation, or any document or paper evidencing the birth or identity or entry into the United States of any individual other than the individual officially intended to be documented thereby, shall be fined or imprisoned or both. Imposes criminal penalties on any individual who, for a monetary or other consideration: (1) falsely makes or alters, or makes improper use of, any official document or paper of the United States, involving an element of identification; (2) falsely makes, or alters, or makes improper use of, any official document or paper of any State involving an element of identification, knowing that such document is being used for obtaining any official document or paper of the United States, involving an element of identification; or (3) sells, transfers, or otherwise delivers any such document or paper of the United States or of any State knowing such document or paper to have been so made, forged, counterfeited, or altered or so used or intended to be used improperly or without authorization. (Adds 18 U.S.C. 1028, 1029)
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1974
Directs the Secretary of State to keep the appropriate committees of Congress fully and currently imformed of the ongoing status of any negotiations with any foreign government, regarding the cancellation, renegotiation, rescheduling, or settlement of any debt owed to the United States Government by such foreign governments under any program.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1974
Provides that, immediately upon the adoption of this resolution, the resolution (H. Res. 807) to disapprove the recommendations of the President with respect to the rates of pay of Federal officials transmitted to the Congress in the budget for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, hereby is taken from the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, and the same is hereby agreed to.
United States · United States Congress · 13 February 1974
Provides that all assistance provided under the Foreign Assistance Act is terminated on the date this concurrent resolution is agreed to, except for assistance for the following: (1) population planning; (2) international organizations and programs; (3) contingencies payable out of the contingency fund; (4) international narcotics control; (5) famine and disaster relief to the African Sahel; and (6) administrative expenses related to matters referred to in clauses (1)-(5) of this concurrent resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 13 February 1974
Repeals the Emergency Daylight Saving Time Energy Conservation Act of 1973.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1974
Suspends emissions controls on motor vehicles and engines in the continental United States except vehicles registered to residents of designated air quality regions until June 30, 1977, or sixty days after the President determines there is no significant shortage of petroleum fuels, whichever is later. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to designate, subject to the limitations of the Act, geographic areas of the United States in which there is significant auto emissions related air pollution. Provides that each State shall, not later than sixty days following enactment of this Act, submit to the Administrator a plan for implementing the Act. Provides that if a State fails to submit a plan under the Act or if the Administrator determines (after notice and opportunity for hearing) that such State is not adequately enforcing such a plan, then such State shall lose its entitlement to, and may not thereafter receive, any Federal grant or loan assistance under this Act or under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. Declares that willful and deliberate violation of any provision of this Act shall be punishable by a fine of up to $1,000, or imprisonment for up to one year, or both.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1974
Declares it to be the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) the Government of the United States should maintain and protect its sovereign rights and jurisdiction over the canal and zone, and should in no way cede, dilute, forfeit, negotiate, or transfer any of these sovereign rights, power, authority, jurisdiction, territory, or property that are indispensably necessary for the protection and security of the United States and the entire Western Hemisphere; (2) that there be no relinquishment or surrender of any presently vested United States sovereign right, power, or authority or property, tangible or intangible, except by treaty authorized by the Congress and duly ratified by the United States; and (3) that there be no recession to Panama, or other divestiture of any United States-owned property, tangible or intangible, without prior authorization by the Congress (House and Senate), as provided in article IV, section 3, clause 2 of the United States Constitution.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1974
Makes it the sense of the House that, during the period pending consideration and action by the Senate upon the bill H.R. 10710, as introduced in the first session of the Congress, cited as the "Trade Reform Act of 1973" and as amended and passed by the House, no loan, guarantee, insurance, or credit shall be extended by the Export-Import Bank of the United States to any nonmarket economy country (other than any such country whose products are eligible for column 1 tariff treatment on the date of the enactment of this resolution), and no such country shall participate in any program of the Government of the United States which extends credits or credit guarantees or investment guarantees, directly or indirectly.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1974
States that the House of Representatives disapproves the recommendations of the President with respect to the rates of pay of Federal officials transmitted to the Congress in the budget for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 27 November 1973
Repeals the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.
United States · United States Congress · 29 October 1973
Provides that paper money of the United States shall carry a designation in braille indicating the denomination after January 1, 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 1973
Basic Commodities and Energy Resources Mass Transportation Assistance Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to provide mass transportation assistance essential for the movement of basic commodities and energy resources to and from production areas and major distribution and processing centers. Defines the terms used in this Act. Authorizes appropriations totalling $350,000,000 to carry out the assistance provisions of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to guarantee loans made to railroads under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1973
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to prescribe regulations within sixty days of the date of enactment of this Act prohibiting any motor vehicle from being equipped with any starter interlock system associated with seatbelts or upper torso restraints.
United States · United States Congress · 18 September 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that nothing contained in the U.S. Constitution shall abridge the right of persons lawfully assembled, in any public building which is supported in whole or in part through the expenditure of public funds, to participate in voluntary prayer.
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