Bill· HRH.R. 17301 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 October 1974
Provides for a 10 percent pay reduction for Federal employees subject to the General Schedule pay rates, for employees of the Foreign Service of the United States, for employees whose pay is disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate or Clerk of the House of Representatives, for members of the uniformed services, and for officers and employees whose rates of pay are subject to review by the Commission on Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Salaries.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 1321 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 August 1974
Committee Reform Amendments - Title I: Legislative Jurisdiction of the Standing Committees - Provides, under the Rules of the House of Representatives, that there shall be the following standing committees: Committee on Agriculture and Forestry; Committee on Appropriations; Committee on Armed Services; Committee on Banking, Currency, and Housing; Committee on the Budget; Committee on Commerce and Health; Committee on the District of Columbia; Committee on Education; Committee on Energy and Environment; Committee on Foreign Affairs; Committee on Government Operations; Committee on House Administration; Committee on the Judiciary; Committee on Labor; Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries; Committee on Public Works; Committee on Rules; Committee on Science and Technology; Committee on Small Business; Committee on Standards of Official Conduct; Committee on Veterans' Affairs; and Committee on Ways and Means. Title II: Oversight Responsibilities, Legislative Review and Additional Committee Functions, Referral of Bills and Resolutions, and Election and Membership of Committees - Prescribes the general oversight responsibilities of each standing committee. Delegates special oversight functions to eight committees and enumerates additional functions of committees. Prescribes the procedures for referral of bills, resolutions, and other matters to committees. Enumerates legislative review functions. Prescribes the rules governing: (1) election and membership of committees; (2) chairmen; (3) limitations on committee services; (4) committee vacancies; and (5) select and conference committees. Title III: Rules of Procedure for Committees - Outlines the rules of procedure for committees, including rules for the broadcasting of committee hearings. Provides that whenever a committee hearing is open to the public, the committee may permit, by a majority vote, that hearing to be covered by television, radio, and still photography coverage, but only under such written rules as the committee may adopt. Limits coverage to four fixed television cameras in a hearing room. Enumerates the rules governing: (1) privileged reports and amendments; (2) committee expenses; and (3) committee staffs. Title IV: Miscellaneous and Conforming Provisions - Prescribes the rules governing the calling of a caucus or conference. Establishes in the House of Representatives the Legislative Classification Office to maintain a system linking Federal programs and expenditures to the authorizing statutes and showing the committee jurisdiction for each authorization. Outlines the functions of the Office. Establishes a Commission on Information and Facilities to conduct a study of the information and space problems of the House of Representatives. Elaborates the required content of such study. Provides for the establishment of the Office of the Law Revision Counsel to keep an official codification of the laws of the United States. Makes technical, conforming and transitional provisions.
Bill· HRH.R. 15245 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1974
Prohibits the importation of fresh, chilled, or frozen cattle meat for a six-month period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 1124 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1974
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that (1) it most strongly condemns all acts of terrorism in the Middle East; (2) the President and the Secretary of State should and are hereby urged and requested to (a) call upon all governments to condemn this inhuman act of violence against innocent victims; and (b) strongly urge the governments who harbor these groups and individuals to take appropriate action to rid their countries of those who subvert the peace through terrorism and senseless violence; and (3) the President should request the American Ambassador to the United Nations to take appropriate action before that body in order to have introduced a Security Council resolution condemning this brutal act of violence.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 1006 (93rd)passed
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1974
Authorizes the printing of 3,000 additional copies of the transcript of the proceedings in the Committee on Rules of October 25, 1973, relating to the presentation of a portrait of the Honorable Ray J. Madden to the Committee.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 669 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 October 1973
States that upon the adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to consider the conference report on the bill (S. 1081) to amend section 28 of the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920. Provides that it shall also be in order for a separate vote to be had upon demand on those individual parts of the Senate amendments now contained in the conference report and numbered as section 404, relating to Senate confirmation of the Director of the Energy Policy Office; section 405, relating to Senate confirmation of the head of the Mining Enforcement and Safety Administration; subsections (a) through (g) of section 408, relating to the enforcement powers of the Federal Trade Commission; and subsection (h) of section 408, relating to information for independent regulatory agencies.
Bill· HRH.R. 9497 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1973
Increases the monthly rates of Veteran's disability and death pensions and dependency and indemnity compensation.
Bill· HRH.R. 8522 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1973
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to transfer title to Mirage Flats irrigation project works to the landowners within the Mirage Flats Irrigation District, Nebraska.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 564 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1973
Provides that no individual may be seated as a Representative or as a Senator after attaining the age of sixty-eight.
Bill· HRH.R. 7720 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1973
Provides that the United States Postal Service may not require the installation of mailboxes at the curb line of residential property in specified localities.
Bill· HRH.R. 6053 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1973
National Forest Lands Planning and Investment Act - Provides for the protection and development of the national forest system and privately owned forest lands through the establishment of a forest lands planning and investment fund. States that any money credited to the fund and not authorized for expenditure within two fiscal years shall be transferred to miscellaneous receipts of the Treasury. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to allocate the fund moneys as appropriated for: (1) planning and inventories needed for the preservation, use, or development of national forest system resources, and (2) capital investments made for furthering sustained yield resource management programs or for enhancing long-term public use of national forest resources.
Bill· HRH.R. 4823 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1973
Prohibits the exportation of logs from the United States. States that any person who knowingly violates this Act shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
Bill· HRH.R. 2355 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
States that any license granted for the operation of a broadcasting station, under the Communications Act of 1924, shall be for a term of five years, and that no license granted for any other class of station shall be for a longer term than five years. Provides that, upon the expiration of any license, upon application therefor, a renewal of such license may be granted from time to time for a term of five years in the case of any broadcasting license, and not to exceed five years in the case of other licenses, if the Federal Communications Commission finds that public interest, convenience, and necessity would be served thereby. (Amends 47 U.S.C. 307(d))
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 132 (93rd)passed
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1973
Creates a select committee to be composed of ten Members of the House of Representatives to conduct a complete study with regard to the operation and implementation of rules X and XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives, including committee structure of the House, the number and optimum size of committees, their jurisdiction, the number of subcommittees, committee rules and procedures, media coverage of meetings, staffing, space, equipment, and other committee facilities. Authorizes the committee to employ investigators, attorneys, consultants, and clerical assistants. Provides that expenses not to exceed $1,500,000 shall be paid from the contingent fund of the House for the select committee's study.
Bill· HRH.R. 2052 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1973
Provides for the designation of the thirthieth day of May of each year as Memorial Day, and the eleventh day of November of each year as Veterans Day. (Amends 5 U.S.C. 6103(a))