United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1988
Supports the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should: (1) continue to provide a credible U.S. nuclear deterrent force based in Europe for the security of the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies; (2) provide leadership within NATO with respect to strengthening NATO conventional forces and modernizing its nuclear deterrent forces in Europe; (3) seek verifiable conventional arms agreements leading to Warsaw Pact arms reductions in Europe; (4) continue to discuss with our NATO allies a comprehensive strategy for arms control and nuclear and conventional defense modernization in the post-INF period; (5) continue to work for verifiable strategic nuclear reductions which contribute to stability; (6) take appropriate action, including withdrawing from the INF Treaty, if he determines that the Soviets have materially violated that Treaty; and (7) propose specific procedures to resolve existing and future Soviet arms control violations.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1988
Designates the Federal office building located at the corner of Locust Street and West Cumberland Avenue in Knoxville, Tennessee, as the John J. Duncan Federal Office Building.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1988
Provides that restrictions may be applied to information, counseling, or services provided by family planning entities abroad that receive U.S. assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 only to the extent that the same restrictions apply to domestic family planning entities receiving funds under the Public Health Service Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1988
Postal Reorganization Act of 1988 - Declares that the receipts and disbursements of the Postal Service Fund: (1) shall not be included in the totals of the Federal budget or the congressional budget; (2) shall be exempt from Federal budget limitations on expenditures and net lending; and (3) shall not be counted for purposes of calculating the Federal deficit. Repeals certain limitations on postal borrowing authority. Increases the limitations on postal borrowing authority.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1988
Supports U.S. assistance to the Afghan resistance. Declares that any settlement in Afghanistan must: (1) provide for Afghan self-determination; (2) outline a definite timetable of less than ten months for the complete withdrawal of Soviet troops; and (3) provide for the safe return of refugees. Supports Pakistan's efforts to achieve a settlement agreement in current negotiations in Geneva with Pakistan. Urges the President to support a solution acceptable to the Afghan resistance, insist on the withdrawal of Soviet advisers with the troops, require the Soviets to terminate all forms of military assistance to the Kabul regime, and ensure continued international assistance to the Afghan refugees until all Soviet bloc forces have been withdrawn. Expresses the House of Representatives': (1) support for increased U.S. humanitarian assistance to the Afghan people during and following a Soviet withdrawal; (2) support for an international observer force to monitor Soviet compliance with a withdrawal agreement; (3) belief that the U.S. Government should not restrict assistance to the Afghan resistance until the President has determined that the Soviets have ended their occupation and that the mujahadeen can maintain its integrity during the transition period leading to new elections; and (4) sense that U.S. obligations are contingent on Soviet compliance with any withdrawal agreement.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1988
Designates the week of June 26 through July 2, 1988, as National Safety Belt Use Week. Authorizes and requests the President to: (1) urge the people to wear safety belts and use child safety seats; and (2) encourage State and local governments and concerned organizations and officials to promote greater use of these safety devices.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1988
Authorizes the entry into force of the Compact of Free Association between the United States and the Government of Palau. Allows amounts payable by the United States to the Government of Palau to be paid to a party other than that Government under procedures established by the Compact and related agreements. (Current law prohibits such payments to parties other than that Government.)
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1988
Declares the sense of the Congress urging the President to use his emergency refugee authority to accommodate the admission of additional Armenians and others from the Soviet Union.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1988
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set 1988 through 1990 soybean support prices at $5.02 per bushel. (Currently such levels are a minimum of $4.50 per bushel for 1988 through 1990.) Requires (current law authorizes) soybean loan repayment at the lesser of prevailing world prices or the crop loan level. States that if producers of any crop are permitted to repay loans at less than the crop's loan level, cottonseed and sunflower seed prices shall be supported at traditional soybean-based levels.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1988
Designates March 29, 1988, the birthday of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, as Education Day, U.S.A. Calls on heads of state of the world to join the President of the United States in this tribute by signing an international scroll of honor.
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1988
Condemns the bombing of Korean Air Lines (KAL) flight 858 as an act of state-sponsored terrorism by North Korea. Rejects the December 1987 North Korean proposal to the Congress to enter into a dialogue on bilateral issues. Expresses congressional support for the sanctions imposed by the executive branch, including the addition of North Korea to the list, maintained under the Export Administration Act of 1979, of states supporting international terrorism. Calls upon other countries to implement sanctions against North Korea. Expresses support for South Korea's efforts to bring North Korea to account for the bombing in appropriate multilateral fora and for its restrained response. Reaffirms support for holding the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul and for taking steps to prevent terrorist acts. Commends the Governments of Bahrain and Japan for their cooperation in the investigation of the KAL bombing.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1988
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from the required application of uniform inventory cost capitalization rules any animal produced in a farming business, regardless of the animal's preproductive period.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1988
Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act of 1988 - Title I: Child Pornography - Amends the Federal criminal code to make it illegal to use a computer to transport information in interstate or foreign commerce concerning the visual depiction of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct (child pornography). Establishes criminal penalties for buying, selling, or transferring the custody of a minor: (1) knowing that, as a consequence of the sale or transfer, the minor will be used in child pornography; or (2) with the intent to promote child pornography. States that such sale or transfer must involve: (1) the minor or other actor traveling in interstate or foreign commerce; (2) communications in interstate or foreign commerce; or (3) conduct in a territory or possession of the United States. Requires any person who produces a book, magazine, periodical, film, videotape, or other matter which contains any visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct (which is shipped or intended for shipment in interstate or foreign commerce, or contains material shipped in interstate or foreign commerce) to maintain certain records regarding the performers portrayed in such conduct. Directs the Attorney General to issue regulations regarding the maintenance and availability of such records. Includes the sexual exploitation of children as a predicate offense to the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute. Title II: Obscenity - Makes it a Federal criminal offense to receive or possess, with the intent to distribute, obscene matter which has been transported in interstate or foreign commerce. Makes it a Federal criminal offense to knowingly use a facility or means of commerce to sell or distribute obscene matter in interstate or foreign commerce. Establishes a rebuttable presumption, with respect to Federal criminal offenses involving obscene matter, that obscene matter produced in one State (or outside the United States) which is subsequently located in another State (or in the United States) was transported, shipped, or carried in interstate (or foreign) commerce. Establishes criminal and civil forfeiture procedures with respect to Federal offenses involving obscene material and child pornography. Includes communications by means of cable or subscription television within the prohibition against broadcasting obscene language. Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to modify the penalty provisions of such Act with respect to obscene telephone communications. Amends the Federal criminal code to establish criminal penalties for the possession or sale of obscene matter on Federal property. Adds obscenity offenses to the list of crimes for which the Government may obtain wiretaps.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1988
Air Travel Rights for Blind Individuals Act - Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to preclude an air carrier from establishing aircraft seating restrictions based upon a passenger's visual acuity or use of a white cane or dog guide or other such means of assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1988
Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to the excise tax on diesel and aviation fuels. Prohibits imposition of the tax on the sale of these fuels to any purchaser (or purchaser for resale to a second purchaser) for use on a farm for farming purposes or for any other use not as a fuel in a diesel-powered highway vehicle or train. (Although fuel sold for these purposes is tax-exempt under current law, provisions of the Revenue Act of 1987 require purchasers to pay the tax and subsequently apply for a refund based on nontaxable uses of the fuel.)
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1988
Farmer Fuel Tax Relief Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit imposition of the excise tax on the sale of diesel or aviation fuel to any purchaser (or purchaser for resale to a second purchaser) for use on a farm for farming purposes. (Although fuel sold for these purposes is tax-exempt under current law, provisions of the Revenue Act of 1987 require purchasers to pay the tax and subsequently apply for a refund based on nontaxable uses of the fuel.) Permits wholesale distributors of gasoline who have registered with the Secretary of the Treasury and posted the required bond to pay the gasoline tax (in lieu of the person otherwise liable for the tax.) Prohibits imposition of the gasoline tax on the sale or removal of gasoline by any person (or for resale to a second person) for use on a farm for farming purposes. Requires that the reduced gasoline tax rate (3.4 cents instead of 9.1 cents) be applied with respect to gasoline used to produce gasohol after the time of the relevant removal or sale.
United States · United States Congress · 11 December 1987
Calls upon the Western European nations that provide assistance to the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua to: (1) affirm their support for the Guatemala accord by withholding all direct assistance to the Sandinistas until they are in full compliance with that accord and democratic institutions are established in Nicaragua; (2) reaffirm their commitment to democratic values by directing their economic assistance to support the democratic governments in Central America and by giving political and financial assistance to non-Marxist groups; and (3) reaffirm their commitment to regional cooperation among democratic institutions by channeling financial assistance to the Central American Bank for Economic Integration and by funding the Central American Development Organization.
United States · United States Congress · 3 December 1987
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to prohibit any country in South Asia which the President determines is producing weapons grade enriched uranium or separated plutonium in unsafeguarded facilities from receiving any U.S. assistance or obtaining an export license for the purchase of sophisticated U.S. equipment or technology with potential military application, until the President certifies to the Congress that the country has ceased producing such materials or has placed the facilities at which the materials are produced under international safeguards. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, during any period that U.S. bilateral assistance to such country has been terminated pursuant to this Act, to instruct the U.S. executive directors of specified multilateral financial organizations to oppose any assistance to that country using funds provided by the United States. Allows the President to waive such requirements if the President: (1) certifies to the Congress that a second country in South Asia is producing such materials, and the failure of that country to agree to cease production is a factor in the first country's continued production; and (2) determines that the waiver is in the national interest. Requires the President to submit any waiver or certification at specified intervals and to specified congressional committees. Allows the President to take appropriate action if he determines that the situation in South Asia has changed. Requires the President to: (1) submit reports, at specified intervals, to the intelligence committees and intelligence community, containing a description of the isotopic content and quantity of separated plutonium and uranium produced or imported by any such country; and (2) notify specified committees that each such report has been transmitted to the intelligence committees. Extends through FY 1993 the President's authority to waive, with respect to Pakistan, prohibitions against providing economic, military, or security supporting assistance to certain countries receiving or transporting nuclear enrichment equipment, materials, or technology. Requires the President, before issuing such a waiver, to submit to the Congress a report detailing: (1) the degree to which the Government of Pakistan has cooperated in the investigation of the Arshad Pervez case; (2) what legal action Pakistan has taken against any Pakistanis who are shown to have been involved in such case; (3) what actions Pakistan has taken to ensure that no such incident occurs again; and (4) the nature of any assurances which the Government of Pakistan has provided against any future illegal procurement of goods of U.S. origin which would contribute significantly to Pakistan's ability to manufacture a nuclear explosive device.
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1987
Urges the President to: (1) call to the attention of the Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, during the summit, the ongoing human rights abuses in the Soviet Union; and (2) inform the Soviet leader that Soviet compliance with the Helsinki Accords on human rights issues is an essential part of U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union. Requests the President to continue his efforts to achieve: (1) the release of all political prisoners in the Soviet Union; (2) significant increases in Soviet emigration; (3) the resolution of all family reunification cases; (4) the cessation of radio transmission jamming; and (5) full implementation of the human rights provisions of the Helsinki Accords by raising the issue of noncompliance at every opportunity and at all levels of official contacts by the Government with the Soviet Union.
United States · United States Congress · 3 November 1987
Securities Futures Market Credit Protection Act - Amends the Commodity Exchange Act to require the Federal Reserve Board to prescribe regulations for the minimum amount of margin which may be required to purchase or carry any contract, or any option on a contract, of the sale for future delivery of: (1) any group or index of securities; (2) any interest in any group or index of securities; or (3) any interest based on the value of any group or index of securities. Sets forth guidelines for such regulations. Makes unlawful the violation of any such regulations prescribed by the Federal Reserve Board. Makes unlawful the obtaining of a loan or other extension of credit in violation of such regulations. Sets forth enforcement provisions. Requires the Federal Reserve Board to report to specified committees of the Congress concerning such regulations. Specifies that any such regulations shall apply prospectively and shall not apply to contracts or options which were entered into before the effective date of such regulations.
United States · United States Congress · 29 October 1987
Designates the week beginning September 11, 1988, as Total Education Awareness Week, recognizing that the educational experience should address the total needs of children, including their intellectual, psychological, social, and physical needs.
United States · United States Congress · 13 October 1987
Commends Sri Lankan President Jayewardene and Indian Prime Minister Gandhi for successfully negotiating the July 29, 1987, accord aimed at achieving a peaceful solution to the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka. Calls upon parties to the accord to adhere to its terms. Urges Tamil militants to settle their differences peacefully. Calls upon the Sri Lankan authorities to fulfill their responsibilities to ensure the protection of the human rights of all Sri Lankans. Calls upon the President to work with other nations toward the establishment of an international fund or other multinational effort to provide resources for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of Sri Lanka.
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