Rep. Roth, Toby [R-WI-8]

Amendment rescinds authority to spend foreign aid funds that have been obligated for three or more years without having been spent. It allows the President to waive provisions for construction projects which require longer than three years or for projects that have experienced unforseen delays.

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An amendment giving service secretaries authority to terminate the commission of an officer who signs a defense contract that results in excessive cost overrun.

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An amendment to eliminate provisions of the bill granting OPIC eligibility to Hungary and removing Romania from current eligibility.

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An amendment to the Wolpe amendment adding that restrictions contained in this subsection shall not apply in a particular case if foreign availability is determined to exist in accordance with specified procedures and criteria "unless the President determines that not applying such restrictions would prove detrimental to the national security of the United States.".

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An amendment to provide that U.S. troop participation in the U.N. led mission in Somalia be limited to not to continue past June 30, 1993.

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An amendment calling upon the government of Ethiopia to agree to an immediate ceasefire to begin to negotiate with the opposition, leading to the establishment of a government of national reconciliation. It further prohibits importation into the U.S. of goods and services to Ethiopia except for emergency relief assistance. The President is required to suspend all economic assistance to Ethiopia as well as security assistance. These restrictions may be waived if Congress, by joint resolution, agrees with the President that Ethiopia has ceased its deliberate policy of starvation of its people and has granted fundamental human rights to them.

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An amendment to strike the following export-related provisions; the requirement for re-export licenses; the requirement to decontrol 40 percent of the least military-significant goods and technologies from the current list of controlled goods and technologies; the requirement that a private industry representative serve on the Coordinating Committee on Multilateral Export Controls (COCOM); the requirement that prevents the Commerce Department from detaining any export good requiring only a general license on the docks for more than ten days; and the authorization of an additional $5 million for the Office of Export Administration over the Administration's request.

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Part One: An amendment to eliminate licensing requirements for low-technology exports (according to COCOM classifications) to all free world nations and providing for review of license applications for high-technology exports to COCOM members. Oct 18, 83 Amendment Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 239-171 (Record Vote No: 392). Part Two:Amendment Failed in House on Oct 27, 83 by Recorded Vote: 188-223.

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An amendment on a previous legislative day to add provisions for 1) agreements to coordinate the systems of export control documents of COCOM members in order to verify the movement of goods and technology subject to control, 2) agreements to establish uniform criminal and civil penalities for diversions of controlled items, and 3) agreement in increase on site inspections by a nation's enforcement authorities to insure that end users are using the imported items for their stated purpose and that the items are in fact in the control of the end users. The agreements would be among the COCOM members.

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An amendment stating that it is the Sense of Congress that the President should negotiate with other parties to GATT to revise GATT rules so that agricultural exports subsidies would be treated the same as tariffs and primary products the same as manufactured products.

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An amendment to clarify that housing vouchers could be used in connection with any private rental housing, and that the use of vouchers would not be limited to units which have been rehabilitated under the rental rehabilitation program.

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An amendment preventing the expenditure of any funds authorized in the Act to pay compensation for an additional Assistant Secretary of State position or to establish a new bureau within the Department of State.

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An amendment to prohibit the Coast Guard from assessing or collecting any fee or charge for the inspection of ferry vessels. The amendment would permit the Secretary of Transportation to reduce expenditures by a comparable amount to compensate for reduction in revenues caused by such prohibition.

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An amendment to reduce the amount authorized for the Bureau of Export Administration to carry out the bill's provision's in FY 1991 from $47 million to $29 million.

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An amendment to authorize USDA to take injunctive action against the operations of any handler of animals suspected of violating the Animal Welfare Act.

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An amendment to require a report on the causes and circumstances of all deaths of Navy personnel during Navy training since the beginning of 1986, and on the actions taken to prevent further deaths during training. Such a report would be due not later than December 31, 1988.

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An amendment to reauthorize various food aid programs, including Food for Peace and Food for Progress. The amendment would also reauthorize the Foreign Agricultural Service and, export credit guarantees, and public-private partnership program to increase the U.S. share of world agricultural markets. The amendment establishes specific goals for increasing exports that the USDA would be required to reach, and would make future program reauthorization contingent upon achieving those goals.

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An amendment to reduce limit the authorization of funding for the Multilateral Assistance Inititive to the Phillipines to $200 million in each of the fiscal years 1990 and 1991. The bill authorizes funding of $200 million in each of the next five fiscal years.

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An amendment which reduces by 10% the bill's funding levels in FY 1994 and FY 1995 for the State Department and AID "operating accounts". The amendment does not reduce funds for emergency repairs, the office of inspector general, or the security costs of overseas missions. The amendment also decreases the number of State Department and AID employees worldwide by 10% from the number employed on the date of the bill's enactment.

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An amendment to strike Title VII, the Bilingual Education authorization, from the bill.

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Budget Process Reform Act

United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1996

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Statement of Congressional Purpose Title II: Binding Budget Law Title III: Enforcement of Budget Discipline Subtitle A: Supermajority Required to Break Budget Law Subtitle B: Line Item Reduction Subtitle C: "Blank Check" Appropriations Prohibited Subtitle D: "Pay-as-You-Go" Requirement for New Spending Subtitle E: "Lock-Box" for Savings From Spending Reductions Title IV: Sustaining Mechanism Title V: Protection of Social Security Title VI: Technical Amendments to Federal Law to Carry Out This Act Title VII: Definitions and Rules of Interpretation Budget Process Reform Act - Title I: Statement of Congressional Purpose - 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. (Sec. 202) 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 (CBA) to require a two-thirds majority vote in the House and the Senate to consider any spending bill prior to the enactment of the budget law. Repeals authority for consideration of spending bills prior to adoption of the budget resolution. (Sec. 203) Prohibits baseline budgeting. Requires objective year- to-year comparisons under budget law, with the starting point for both Presidential and congressional budgets the levels of budget outlays for the current fiscal year. (Sec. 204) Amends the CBA to establish a rainy day fund for natural disasters. Requires budget law to include a major functional category for natural disasters, under specified conditions. (Sec. 205) Amends Federal law relating to the contents of the President's annual budget submission to the Congress to require the President to submit: (1) a budget of the U.S. Government for the following fiscal period on a single page, which sets forth specific budget ceilings in each major functional category, by the first Monday in February of each year before that in which a fiscal period commences; and (2) a detailed budget for that fiscal period, on or before the 15th day after a joint resolution on the budget for the following budget period is enacted. Title III: Enforcement of Budget Discipline - Subtitle A: Supermajority Required to Break Budget Law - Amends CBA to require the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to provide to the Congress an estimate of the costs in each major functional category of each spending bill before being voted on by the Senate or the House. (Sec. 301) Requires a two-thirds affirmative vote in the House and the Senate to consider over-budget spending bills. (Sec. 302) 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 authorize the President to exercise line-item reduction authority if the Congress exceeds the budget ceilings in the binding budget law or an automatic continuing resolution for a fiscal period. Declares that such authority shall permit the reduction of over-budget spending in a major functional category to the level established in the binding budget law or automatic continuing resolution. Sets forth procedures for congressional introductions of line-item bills after the President transmits a special message to rescind an item of budget authority. Prohibits amendments to such bills. 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." (Sec. 306) Amends CBA to require fixed-dollar appropriations for every account except Social Security and interest on the debt. Prohibits open-ended appropriations. (Sec. 307) Requires Executive agencies to adjust expenditures, including program eligibility requirements and benefit levels, to ensure that appropriations for entitlement programs are not exceeded. (Sec. 308) Restricts budget authority and entitlement authority to one fiscal period. Subtitle D: "Pay As You Go" Requirement for New Spending - Amends CBA to prohibit 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 or in the Senate to waive such prohibition. Sets forth special rules in the case of legislation that exceeds a budget ceiling for the natural disaster functional category. Repeals a CBA provision for an exemption in the House from pay-as- you-go rules. Subtitle E: "Lock-Box" for Savings From Spending Reductions - Amends CBA to: (1) establish "lock-box" procedures to ensure budget savings from House and Senate amendments to appropriations bills result in actual spending cuts; (2) require Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports on such procedures; and (3) mandate reduction of spending allocations to House and Senate committees and subcommittees to meet "lock-box" levels. 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. (Sec. 402) Provides for contingency regulations for automatic continuing resolutions. Grants each State the option of receiving an aggregate amount for the fiscal period for social safety net programs equal to the allocation to the State for such programs in the preceding fiscal period. (Sec. 403) Restricts consideration of legislation providing budget or spending authority to only that reported by the Committees on Appropriations. Makes such restriction inapplicable in the case of Social Security benefits. Title V: Protection of Social Security - Provides that nothing in this Act shall be construed to require or permit reductions in otherwise payable Social Security benefits. (Sec. 502) Provides that no reduction in benefits under title II of the Social Security Act (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) shall be made as a consequence of this Act. Title VI: Technical Amendments to Federal Law to Carry Out This Act - 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 VII: Definitions and Rules of Interpretation - Sets forth definitions for specified terms. Changes the definition of budget authority to exclude offsetting receipts.

To require approval of an application for compensation for the injuries of Eugene Hasenfus.

United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1996

Deems a named individual to have been a Federal employee in the performance of his duties at the time of his injury for purposes of determining eligibility for worker's compensation. Requires the individual's application to be approved and payments to be made as computed by the Secretary of Labor.

Export Programs Extension Act of 1996

United States · United States Congress · 18 September 1996

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Overseas Private Investment Corporation Title II: Trade and Development Agency Title III: Export Promotion Programs Export Programs Extension Act of 1996 - Title I: Overseas Private Investment Corporation - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to increase the ceilings on the maximum contingent liabilities outstanding at any one time for investment insurance and for the financing of investment guarantees issued by the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) as well as of direct U.S. investment loans. Extends OPIC's authority to issue such insurance and guarantees through FY 1997. Title II: Trade and Development Agency - Authorizes appropriations for the Trade and Development Agency for FY 1997. Title III: Export Promotion Program - Amends the Export Administration Amendments Act of 1985 to authorize appropriations for the Department of Commerce export promotion programs for FY 1997.

To rescind the consent of Congress to the Northeast Interstate Dairy Compact.

United States · United States Congress · 5 September 1996

Rescinds congressional consent to the Northeast Interstate Dairy Compact. Makes a conforming amendment to the Agricultural Market Transition Act.