Rep. Martin, Lynn M. [R-IL-16]

An amendment to reduce by 10% the funds provided in the bill for anti-drug and law enforcement block grants to states who have not adopted laws requiring a defendant convicted of the crime of rape to be tested for the AIDS virus.

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Amendments to freeze at 2,400 the number of VISTA volunteers service years in Fiscal Years 1987, 1988, and 1989 that must be funded before other national volunteer anti-poverty programs are funded.

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An amendment to dedicate $600,000 of the Army Corps of Engineers General Construction appropriation to begin construction of a flood control project in Loves Park, Illinois.

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An amendment to strike all of the base closing provisions in the bill and replace them with provisions to provide the Secretary of Defense with expedited procedures for closing and realigning military bases. The amendment narrows the applicability of the National Environmental Policy Act to base closings and permanently delegates property disposal authority from the Administrator of General Services to the Secretary of Defense for these specific disposal actions. The amendment also includes a provision to require the Defense Department to formulate and implement a plan for closing overseas bases as soon as practicable after the bill's enactment.

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An amendment to increase the number of criminal and civil investigators at the new department; to establish a National Enforcement Training Institute (within the DEP Office of Enforcement) to train federal, state, and local lawyers, inspectors, investigators, and technical experts in enforcement of environmental laws; and to establish a dedicated fund within the Treasury, financed by environmental fines and penalties, to fund the hiring of new investigators and the operation of the training institute. The amendment authorizes $5 million in the first fiscal year after enactment to help meet the costs of hiring investigators and establishing the training institute.

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An amendment to delete funding for two Nimitz class aircraft carriers contained in the bill.

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A substitute amendment. The substitute transfers $1.5 billion from the synfuels program to be used for a jobs program for persons unemployed for at least six months. It allocates 50 percent of the funds for jobs for persons receiving unemployment benefits, 25 percent for those receiving AFDC benefits and 25 percent for those receiving neither of these. It also provides that job holders be paid the minimum wage, except that AFDC and unemployment benefit recipients will be paid at their benefit level if the level is above minimum wage.

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Budget Process Reform Act

United States · United States Congress · 27 October 1990

Budget Process Reform Act - Title I: Statement of Congressional Purpose - Declares that the purpose of this Act is to facilitate rational, informed, and timely decisions by the Congress. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Federal budget process should focus the attention of policymakers and the public on the aggregate impact of Federal spending on the economy, and on the tradeoffs that must be made among priorities in order to control overall levels of spending. Declares that the budget process should contain safeguards against delay and inaction, so that temporary shut-downs of the Government may be avoided. Title II: Binding Budget Law - Requires the Congress to enact a binding budget law, in the form of a joint resolution, by April 15 of the calendar year before that in which the fiscal period commences. Requires the budget law to fit on a single page, which sets forth specific budget ceilings in major functional categories. Makes it out of order in the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any spending bill affecting spending in a major functional category unless and until a joint resolution on the budget is enacted. Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to prohibit baseline budgeting. Requires the budget to include comparisons of current fiscal year and proposed subsequent fiscal year spending. Title III: Enforcement Mechanisms - Subtitle A: Super majority Required to Break Budget Law - Requires a two-thirds majority vote in the House and the Senate to consider any spending bill prior to the enactment of the budget law. Requires the Congressional Budget Office to provide to the Congress an estimate of the costs in each major functional category of any spending bill as soon as practicable after its introduction. Limits such estimates to those bills likely to result in costs of more than $10,000,000. Requires a two-thirds affirmative vote in the House and the Senate to consider over-budget spending bills. Requires a two-thirds affirmative vote in the House and the Senate to waive any provision of this Act. Subtitle B: Limited Enhanced Rescission Authority - Amends the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to limit the President's rescission authority to spending that is above the limits of the budget law. Subtitle C: "Blank Check" Appropriations Prohibited - Declares the intent of the Congress to end open-ended, "blank check" appropriations which typically authorize spending "such sums as may be necessary." Requires fixed-dollar appropriations for every account except social security and interest on the debt. Prohibits open-ended appropriations. Requires Executive agencies to adjust benefit levels to ensure that appropriations for entitlement programs are not exceeded. Subtitle D: "Pay As You Go" Requirement for New Spending - Prohibits the Congress from considering any legislation which exceeds the budget ceiling unless it offsets such increased spending with an equal amount of reductions. Requires a two-thirds affirmative vote in the House and the Senate to waive such prohibition. Title IV: Sustaining Mechanism - Makes appropriations to provide for an automatic continuing resolution if for any account an appropriation for a fiscal period does not become law before the beginning of such period. Restricts legislation providing funding to the Committees on Appropriations. Title V: Protection of Social Security - Provides that no reduction in benefits under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act shall be made as a consequence of this Act. Title VI: Timetable - Revises the timetable for the congressional budget process. Title VII: Conforming Amendments - Makes various technical and conforming amendments, including changing references to a concurrent resolution on the budget to references to a joint resolution on the budget. Title VIII: Definitions and Rules of Interpretation - Sets forth definitions for specified terms. Title IX: Effective Date - Declares the effective date of this Act to be January 1, 1991, applicable to fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1991.

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States limiting the number of consecutive terms Members of the Senate and House may serve.

United States · United States Congress · 25 October 1990

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that no person shall serve more than two consecutive terms of office in the Senate or more than six consecutive terms in the House of Representatives.

Designating the room numbered H-235 in the House of Representatives wing of the Capitol as the "Lindy Claiborne Boggs Congressional Women's Reading Room".

United States · United States Congress · 23 October 1990

Designates the room numbered H-235 in the House of Representatives wing of the Capitol as the Lindy Claiborne Boggs Congressional Women's Reading Room.

To designate November 2, 1990, as a national day of prayer for members of American military forces and American citizens stationed or held in the Middle East, and for their families.

United States · United States Congress · 17 October 1990

Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should declare November 2, 1990, a national day of prayer for: (1) members of American military forces and American citizens stationed or held hostage in the Middle East, and for their families; and (2) American and Iraqi authorities to bring about a just resolution of the Persian Gulf crisis.

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a 100 percent tax on income from frozen Iraqi assets.

United States · United States Congress · 17 October 1990

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a 100 percent tax on income from frozen Iraqi assets. Authorizes the President to modify such tax if the armed forces of Iraq withdraw from Kuwait within the time and in the manner determined by the President.

To salute and congratulate the people of Poland as they commemorate the two-hundreth anniversary of the adoption of the Polish Constitution on May 3, 1991.

United States · United States Congress · 16 October 1990

Salutes and congratulates the people of Poland as they commemorate the 200th anniversary of the adoption of the Polish Constitution on May 3, 1991. Directs the Library of Congress to commemorate the anniversary with appropriate ceremonies.

To designate November 16, 1990, as "National Federation of the Blind Day".

United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1990

Designates November 16, 1990, as National Federation of the Blind Day.

To authorize the Secretary of the Army to provide shoreline projects to maintain certain flood control projects on the Mississippi and Iowa Rivers.

United States · United States Congress · 3 October 1990

Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to provide shoreline protection to maintain the integrity of flood control projects at specified points on the Mississippi and Iowa Rivers. Authorizes appropriations.

Four Percent Solution Budget Act

United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1990

Four Percent Solution Budget Act - Title I: The Four Percent Solution - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to impose a a four-percent cap on increases in outlays from the preceding year. Extends certain provisions and the terminating date of such Act through FY 1997 (currently, FY 1993). Excludes receipts and disbursements of the Resolution Trust Corporation from the budget deficit or any other totals of the budget. Amends the Congressional Budget Act to adjust the allowable maximum deficit amounts until there is a zero deficit in FY 1997. Requires the President to issue a midyear sequester on March 15 necessary to meet deficit and outlay targets. Requires the Congressional Budget Office and the Office of Management and Budget to make specified preliminary reports to the President before the issuance of such sequester. Title II: Preparation of the Budget - Amends Federal law to revise required budget contents with respect to estimated expenditures and proposed appropriations for the current fiscal year and the next fiscal year. Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require the starting point for deliberations in the Committees on the Budget in the House of Representatives and in the Senate on the concurrent resolution on the budget for the next fiscal year to be the estimated level of outlays for the current year in each function and subfunction. Revises content requirements for the report accompanying such resolution. Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office to include in the report to the Budget Committees the estimated budget outlays in all functions and subfunctions for appropriated accounts for the current fiscal year and estimated budget outlays under current law for all entitlement programs for the next fiscal year. Title III: Pay-As-You-Go Budget - Prohibits the concurrent resolution on the budget from causing: (1) total budget outlays (excluding outlays of the Resolution Trust Corporation) to exceed the outlays target for that fiscal year; and (2) the recommended level of Federal revenues (excluding revenues of the Corporation) to be less than the recommended level of Federal revenues for the preceding fiscal year (excluding revenues of the Corporation). Prohibits a concurrent resolution on the budget from: (1) providing for an outlay excess in a functional category unless it provides for a decrease in budget outlays in another functional category; or (2) providing for a reduction in the recommended level of Federal revenues below that set forth in the most recently agreed to concurrent resolution on the budget for the preceding year, unless it provides for a reduction in budget outlays below the appropriate level established for the preceding year. Allows a waiver of such prohibitions by a three-fifths vote of each House of Congress. Makes it out of order in the Senate and in the House to consider a concurrent resolution under which the recommended level of revenues for a fiscal year exceeds the appropriate level of total budget outlays for that fiscal year unless the resolution specifies the purposes for which the excess revenues are to be allocated. Makes conforming amendments to Federal law with respect to the President's budget.

To provide for the temporary continuance of essential government services for Americans.

United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1990

Authorizes the President, in order to protect health and safety of human life, to decrease the sequester amounts specified in the order issued August 25, 1990, under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act). Requires an increase in the sequester amount in other accounts, programs, projects, or activities to the extent amounts were decreased in such order.

Urging the President to submit the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women to the Senate for its advice and consent to ratification.

United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1990

Declares that it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the full realization of the rights of women is vital and the President should seek the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women adopted by the United Nations.

To designate March 25, 1991, as "National Medal of Honor Day".

United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1990

Designates March 25, 1991, as National Medal of Honor Day.

Expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to Saddam Hussein and other Iraqi leaders.

United States · United States Congress · 19 September 1990

Expresses the sense of the Congress that, in the event of hostilities between the United States and Iraq, it shall be U.S. policy to pursue Saddam Hussein and others determined responsible for acts against foreign civilians and diplomats held against their will in Kuwait and Iraq in violation of international law by seeking their prosecution and punishment as war criminals under the auspices of an international tribunal.

To amend title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to require as a condition of receiving formula grants that States have in effect a law requiring certain sex offenders to be tested, at the request and for the benefit of the victim, for the presence of the etiologic agent for acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1990

Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to penalize a State ten percent of the amounts of its Justice System Improvement formula grants if it does not have in effect a law requiring sex offenders to be tested, at the request of the victim, for the presence of the etiologic agent for acquired immune deficiency syndrome and requiring disclosure of the test results to the defendant and the victim of the sexual act.

To amend part C of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to include the pay of Members of Congress and high-level officers of the executive branch within the coverage of the Act.

United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1990

Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to subject the pay of the Vice President, Members of Congress, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and heads of cabinet departments of the executive branch to sequestration. Expresses the sense of Congress that the President forgo pay equal to the percentage reduction in effect under an order relating to the budget account for the Office of the President.

To amend part C of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to include the pay of Members of Congress within the coverage of the Act.

United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1990

Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to subject the pay of Members of Congress to sequestration.

To provide free mailing privileges for members of the Armed Forces who are participants in a temporary overseas deployment for an operational contingency in arduous circumstances.

United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1990

Grants free mailing privileges to members of the armed forces who are temporarily deployed overseas for an operational contingency in arduous circumstances. Provides for reimbursement of the U.S. Postal Service for matter sent in the mails under such authority from legislative branch appropriations for franked mailings. Terminates such provisions on June 30, 1991.