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Rep. Patman, Wright [D-TX-1]

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Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 60 (94th)referred

Concurrent resolution to express the sense of the Congress that the President should not impose any tariff or other import restriction on petroleum or petroleum products before April 1, 1975.

United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1975

Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should not impose any tariff or other import restriction on petroleum or petroleum products before April 1, 1975, so as to give the Congress a reasonable period of time in which to act legislatively on such matter if it determines such action is necessary.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 27 (94th)passed

Concurrent resolution to provide additional copies of housing compilation.

United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975

Provides for the reprinting for use by the House Committee on Banking and Currency of 2,000 copies of the Committee print entitled "Compilation of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974".

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 44 (94th)passed

Concurrent resolution providing for the printing of a revised edition of the House document, "Our American Government, What is it? How Does It Function?"

United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1975

Provides for the printing of a revised edition of the House document, "Our American Government. What Is It? How Does It Function?". Provides that 565,000 additional copies be printed for the use of the House of Representatives, Senate, and Joint Committee on Printing.

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 379 (94th)referred

Resolution establishing a select committee to study the problem of U.S. servicemen missing in action in Southeast Asia.

United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1975

Creates a select committee in the House of Representatives with authority to conduct a full and complete investigation of the problem of United States servicemen missing in action or known to be dead whose bodies have not been recovered, as a result of military operations in North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Provides that such investigation shall include an examination of the need for additional international inspection teams to determine whether there are servicemen still held as prisoner of war. Authorizes the Committee to hold hearings, issue subpenas, and maintain a staff as necessary to carry out its responsibilities under this resolution. Directs the committee to report to the House the results of its investigation no later than one year after adoption of this resolution. Provides that the committee's authority shall expire 30 days after the filing of such report. Directs that the expenses of the select committee shall be paid from the contingent fund of the House of Representatives upon vouchers signed by the Chairman.

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 746 (94th)referred

Resolution providing for the consideration of H.R. 7590, a bill to authorize and direct the General Accounting Office to audit the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Advisory Council, and Federal Open Market Committee, and Federal Reserve Banks and their branches.

United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1975

Provides that upon adoption of this resolution the House shall immediately resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 7590) to authorize and direct the General Accounting Office to audit the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Advisory Council, the Federal Open Market Committee, and Federal Reserve Banks and their branches. Directs that after general debate, which shall be confined to the bill and shall continue not to exceed one hour, to be equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on Banking, Currency and Housing, the bill shall be read for amendment under the five-minute rule. Provides that, at the conclusion of the consideration of the bill for amendment, the committee shall rise and report the bill to the House with such amendments as may have been adopted, and the previous question shall be considered as ordered on the bill and amendments thereto to final passage without intervening motion except one motion to recommit.

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 907 (94th)referred

Resolution in support of continued undiluted U.S. sovereignty and jurisdiction over the U.S.-owned Canal Zone on the Isthmus of Panama.

United States · United States Congress · 8 December 1975

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.

Bill· HRH.R. 799 (94th)referred

Food Supplement Amendment

United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975

Food Supplement Amendment - Defines the term "food supplement" for purposes of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act to mean food for special dietary uses, and defines the meaning of "special dietary uses" as particular uses of food for man which meets specified requirements. Provides that in administering such Act the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare: (1) shall not limit the potency, number, combination, amount, or variety of any synthetic or natural vitamin, mineral, substance, or ingredient of any food supplement unless such article is intrinsically injurious to health in the recommended dosage; and (2) shall not require a warning label on any food supplement unless such article is intrinsically injurious to health in the recommended dosage.

Bill· HRH.R. 797 (94th)referred

A bill to support the price of milk at 90 percent of the parity price for the period beginning on the date of enactment of this subsection and ending March 31, 1976.

United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975

Provides price support for milk, under the Agricultural Act of 1949, at not less than 90 percent of the parity price therefor, beginning on the date of enactment and ending on March 31, 1976. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to adjust the parity price at the beginning of each quarter to reflect the changes in the prices paid by farmers for production items, interest, taxes and wages in the preceeding quarter. States that it is the sense of the Congress that the President shall take appropriate action to limit the quantity of meat imports to an amount equal to the adjusted base quantity estimate for the current calender year. States that it is further the sense of Congress that the President issue a proclamation stating that import quotas on butter, butter oil, cheddar cheese, and nonfat dry milk not be increased above the levels prevailing as of June 1, 1971.

Bill· HRH.R. 801 (94th)referred

A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code so as to entitle veterans of the Mexican border period and of World War I and their widows and children, to pension on the same basis as veterans of the Spanish-American War and their widows and children, respectively, and to increase pension rates.

United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975

Entitles specified veterans of the Mexican border period and of World War I and their widows and children to a veterans' pension benefit on the same basis as that accorded to veterans of the Spanish American War and their widows and children, respectively. Provides for an increase in pension rates applicable to such classes of veterans.

Bill· HRH.R. 798 (94th)referred

A bill to provide for the purchase of animals, poultry, and animal and poultry food products for use in foreign and domestic food relief programs.

United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975

Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, through the Commodity Credit Corporation, during calendar year 1976, to expend an additional $1,000,000,000 to $2,000,000,000 for (1) the purchase of cows, calves, hogs, sheep, poultry or other food animals and products, processing and packaging, or (2) the purchase of animal products already processed for contribution to domestic and foreign food programs for the relief of starvation and malnutrition. Directs that the containers of such products bear labels indicating the contents are donated by the people of the United States.

Bill· HRH.R. 1351 (94th)referred

Emergency Dairy Livestock and Poultry Act

United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975

Emergency Dairy, Livestock, and Poultry Act - Title I: Definitions - Defines the term "farm family unit" for purposes of entitlement to benefits under this Act. Defines the term "gross annual sales" as meaning the combined gross cash receipts first received for dairy, livestock, and poultry produced by a farm family unit as limited and defined in this Act, in any calendar year or for such other approved twelve-month accounting period. Defines the terms "cost-of-production payments," "carryback option," and "carryforward option". Title II: Cost-of-Production Payments - Provides that any farm family unit that markets milk, milk products, red meat, and poultry for human consumption shall receive cost-of-production payments directly from the Government not less often than semiannually. Sets forth the formula for determining such payment. Provides that any farm family unit may exercise the option of carrying forward sales of milk, milk products, red meat, and poultry for human consumption against the limits of gross annual sales for any next succeeding thirty-six-month period. Sets forth limitations to carry forward such sales. Title III: Adjustment Provisions Authorized - Directs the Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture to issue such regulations as shall be deemed essential and necessary to administer all titles of this emergency Act for the full calendar years of 1975 and 1976 as may be required in a fair, just, objective, and orderly manner as to protect, preserve, and project an essential source of food supply in the national interest.

Bill· HRH.R. 1353 (94th)referred

A bill to prohibit the importation into the United States of any dairy products for a period of 12 months unless and until the market price for milk reaches 100 percent of parity and then only if the Secretary of Agriculture certifies that the products equal or exceed all U.S. health and sanitary requirements.

United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975

Prohibits the importation of dairy products into the United States for 12 months, unless and until the market price of milk reaches 100 per cent of parity, and then only if the Secretary of Agriculture certifies that such products equal or exceed United States health and sanitary standards.

Bill· HRH.R. 1352 (94th)referred

A bill to prohibit the importation into the United States of any fresh, chilled, frozen, or canned cattle meat during a 180-day period.

United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975

Prohibits the importation into the United States of any fresh, chilled, frozen, or canned cattle meat for a six-month period. Allows the importation of cattle meat thereafter only if the President takes appropriate action to limit the quantity and if the Secretary of Agriculture certifies that such foreign meat equals or exceeds all United States health and sanitary requirements.