Rep. Neumann, Mark W. [R-WI-1]

An amendment to prohibit any funds to be used for researching methods to reduce methane emissions from cows, sheep, or any other ruminant livestock.

United States · United States Congress

An amendment in the nature of a substitute to replace the language of the resolution with the text of H. Con. Res. 66, which would provide for a balanced budget in 5 years, two years sooner than that provided for in the resolution, and provides for paying off the national debt by the year 2025. The amendment would spend $563 billion less over seven years than the resolution, while retaining the tax cut provisions of the resolution.

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An amendment to reduce funds appropriated in the bill for Members' Representational Allowances by $9.3 million.

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An amendment, printed as amendment No. 30 in the Congressional Record of July 12 to delete the $800,000 in funding for the African elephant, Rhinoceros, and Tiger Funds.

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An amendment, printed as amendment No. 6 in House Rpt. 105-97, to reduce funds appropriated in the bill for FEMA by $2.4 billion, rescind $3.6 billion in budget authority, and eliminates the provisions in the bill rescinding $3.8 billion in Section 8 assisted housing.

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An amendment to prohibit the use of funding to provide a peanut price support loan rate greater that $550 per ton for quota peanuts.

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An amendment preprinted in the Congressional Record of August 3 as amendment No. 77, to prohibit the use of funds to increase the number of United States troops in the territory of the former Yugoslavia.

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An amendment to eliminate $1.7 billion in advance funds appropriated in the bill for Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster relief.

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An amendment not preprinted in the Congressional Record, to strike 1.7 million for the Operation and Maintenance account of the Army; $20.6 million from the Operation and Maintenance Account of the Air Force; $16.5 million from the Operation and Maintenance Account of the Navy Reserve; 2.7 million from the Operation and Maintenance Account of the Marine Corps Reserve; and 9.5 million from the Operation and Maintenance account of the Air National Guard.

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An amendment, printed as amendment No. 5 in the Congressional Record of June 15, to reduce funding for the Air Force family housing by $6.9 million. The intent of the amendment is to eliminate funding for 33 new senior officer dwellings at an average cost of $208,000 per unit.

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An amendment, printed as amendment No. 17 in the Congressional Record of July 17, 1997, to reduce the price support for peanut crops from $610 per ton to $550 per ton.

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An amendment in the nature of a substitute to limit funding growth to less that the rate of inflation; to designate 50 percent of any additional revenues toward tax relief and 50 percent toward the national debt; and to increase defense spending over five years to keep pace with the rate of inflation.

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To correct the enrollment of H.R. 4328.

United States · United States Congress · 20 October 1998

Makes a correction in the enrollment of H.R. 4328 (Department of Transportation and related agencies appropriations).

Expressing the opposition of Congress to any deployment of United States ground forces in Kosovo, a province in southern Serbia, for peacemaking or peacekeeping purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 8 October 1998

Expresses Congress' opposition to any deployment of U.S. ground forces into the Serbian province of Kosovo for peacemaking or peacekeeping purposes.

Repeal the Social Security Tax Increase Act

United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1998

Repeal the Social Security Tax Increase Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the tax increase on Social Security benefits enacted by the Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1993. Sets forth related provisions concerning reductions in discretionary spending limits under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and authorizations of appropriations to the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund.

Expressing the sense of Congress that Members of Congress should follow the examples of self-sacrifice and devotion to character displayed by Jacob Chestnut and John Gibson of the United States Capitol Police.

United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1998

Declares that Members of Congress should: (1) follow the example of Jacob Chestnut and John Gibson of the U.S. Capitol Police by living lives of love, respect, and integrity every day at all times, including on the floor of the Senate and House of Representatives; and (2) deserve the title "Honorable" by setting an example so that such individuals did not die in vain.

To designate the national cemetary in Saratoga, New York, as the "Gerald B. H. Solomon Saratoga National Cemetary".

United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1998

Designates the national cemetery in Saratoga, New York, as the Gerald B. H. Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery.

No Second Chances for Murderers, Rapists, or Child Molesters Act of 1998

United States · United States Congress · 16 July 1998

No Second Chances for Murderers, Rapists, or Child Molesters Act of 1998 - Expresses the sense of the Congress that any individual convicted of: (1) murder should receive the death penalty or be imprisoned for life without the possibility of parole; and (2) rape or a dangerous sexual offense involving a child under age 14 should be imprisoned for life without the possibility of parole. Requires the Attorney General to transfer the following amounts from Federal law enforcement assistance funds for a State that convicted a person of a first offense of murder, rape, or a dangerous sexual offense to a State that convicts that person for a subsequent such offense: (1) up to $100,000 for transfer to each victim of the subsequent offense; and (2) the cost of incarceration, prosecution, and apprehension of such person. Sets forth provisions regarding situations where a person has a prior conviction in more than one State. Requires the United States Sentencing Commission to amend the Federal sentencing guidelines to provide that whoever is guilty of: (1) murder shall be punished by death or by life imprisonment; and (2) rape or a dangerous sexual offense shall be punished by life imprisonment. Directs the Attorney General to collect and distribute data to the President, Members of Congress, State governments, and officials of localities and penal and other institutions participating in the Uniform Crime Reports program which includes: (1) the number of murders, rapes, and dangerous sexual offenses committed by persons previously convicted of one of these offenses; and (2) the percentage of cases in which a person convicted of murder, rape, or a dangerous sexual offense in one State commits a second offense in another State.

To amend the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to provide for the expedited consideration of certain proposed rescissions of budget authority.

United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1998

Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to replace provisions regarding the rescission of budget authority with those authorizing the President to propose the rescission of any budget authority provided in an appropriation Act or repeal of any targeted tax benefit provided in any revenue Act. Authorizes the President to transmit a draft bill to the Congress with such a proposal that clearly identifies the budget authority proposed to be rescinded or the targeted tax benefit to be repealed. Includes within such bill a Deficit Reduction Account. Permits the President to place in the Account an amount not to exceed total rescissions in the bill. Establishes expedited procedures in the Senate and the House of Representatives for consideration of such bill. Makes any amount of budget authority proposed to be rescinded available for obligation on the day after the date either House rejects such bill. Deems any targeted tax benefit proposed for repeal to be repealed unless either House rejects such bill during a prescribed time frame.

Taxpayer's Defense Act

United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1998

Taxpayer's Defense Act - Amends Federal law provisions concerning discretionary congressional review of agency rules to set forth provisions mandating that a rule that establishes or increases a tax, however denominated, shall not take effect before the enactment of a bill the text of which has been submitted to each House of the Congress by the agency promulgating the rule in a report that contains the bill's text and an explanation of the bill. Exempts a rule promulgated under the Internal Revenue Code. Outlines introduction, referral, and consideration procedures for approval of the bill.

Tax Dollars Accountability Act

United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1998

Tax Dollars Accountability Act - Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to: (1) reserve from obligation and expenditure five percent of the discretionary appropriations for a fiscal year for an agency (or component thereof) that does not receive an unqualified opinion on its annual financial statements for the previous fiscal year as part of the agency audit; and (2) make available to such agency the amounts reserved upon the receipt of an unqualified opinion. Requires the Director and the head of an agency, for each audit that does not result in an unqualified or qualified opinion on the agency's financial statements, to jointly submit to the Appropriations Committees, the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, and the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs a statement that identifies the agency's officers and employees responsible for: (1) financial management; and (2) the preparation and production of the financial statements. Requires the President (in the case of an officer appointed by the President) or agency head (in the case of any other officer or employee) to remove from office or employment each officer or employee identified for two consecutive years in such a statement. Extends from 1997 to 1999 the deadline for the submission of the first of such annual financial statements. Requires the submission of such statements to the Congress (currently, they are submitted only to the Director).

E-Rate Tax Moratorium Act of 1998

United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1998

E-Rate Tax Moratorium Act of 1998 - Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to suspend specified requirements under the Communications Act of 1934 (CA) for telecommunications carriers to contribute to support mechanisms to provide Internet services to schools, libraries, and certain health care providers. Prohibits any telecommunications carrier from including any charges for such contributions in any telephone service bill transmitted after 60 days after this Act's enactment. Prohibits requiring any telecommunications carrier to provide discounted rates for telecommunications services pursuant to such CA requirements, except to the extent such carrier is reimbursed from collections permitted to be distributed under this Act. Authorizes the FCC, or an FCC-designated administering entity, to distribute amounts collected before this Act's enactment (or collected as charges for contributions during the authorized period), to provide such Internet services to schools, libraries, and health care providers under CA and FCC regulations in effect before this Act's enactment.

To amend title II of the Social Security Act to require investment of the Social Security trust funds in marketable securities, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1998

Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act with respect to investment of the social security trust funds. Repeals authorization for the issuance of public-debt obligations for purchase by the trust funds. Declares that nothing in Federal law shall be construed to authorize the Federal Government to issue such obligations solely for purchase by the trust funds. Requires the Managing Trustee of the trust funds to: (1) ensure that obligations in which investments are made bear interest at a rate at least equal (currently, equal) to the average market yield on all marketable interest-bearing U.S. bonds (thus allowing the interest rate to exceed the average market yield); and (2) compute the average market yield on the basis of market quotations as of the end of the calendar month next preceding the date of purchase (currently, date of issuance). Provides that any description of, or reference to, surplus or deficit totals for the Government in any document or other material prepared by the Office of Management and Budget or by the Congressional Budget Office shall not include the outlays and revenue totals of the social security trust funds.

Anti-FCC Phone Tax Act of 1998

United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1998

Anti-FCC Phone Tax Act of 1998 - Repeals provisions of the Communications Act of 1934 requiring telecommunication carriers to provide discounted telecommunication connections to schools, health care providers, and libraries.