Records
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 69 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1985
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) veterans' disability compensation payments should remain exempt from Federal income taxation; and (2) the President should reject any proposals to tax such payments.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 13 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Constitution provides that all citizens have the right to keep and bear arms and that such right supersedes the power and authority of any government.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 74 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1985
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should express to the Soviet Union the U.S. opposition to the Soviet Union's slave labor policies by all possible means, including refusing to permit imports of products made by such labor. Requests the President to end the delay in enforcing the restriction against importing goods produced by forced labor.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 90 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1985
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code relating to installment sales and the regulations relating to such sales should not be modified or amended in any way that will alter the manner in which mortgage-backed builder bond transactions are currently taxed.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 34 (99th)open
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1985
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Federal Home Loan Bank Board should delay until June 30, 1985, the effective date of its proposed regulations regarding limitations on direct investment in real estate, service corporations, and equity securities by federally insured savings and loan associations. Directs the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs of the House of Representatives to examine alternatives to the proposed regulations which will ensure safety and sound investment activities.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 117 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1985
Expresses the sense of the Congress that no limitation should be placed on the Federal income tax deduction for interest paid on a residential mortgage.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 122 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1985
States that the Congress condemns: (1) Nicaraguan actions that hinder freedom of religion; and (2) the association of the Nicaraguan Government with international terrorist organizations, including the Palestine Liberation Organization. Calls upon the President, in communications with Nicaragua, to raise the issues of religious persecution of and compensation for members of the Jewish, Miskito, and other communities who have been forced to leave because of interference with freedom of religion.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 127 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1985
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the English language is the official language of the United States; and (2) no language other than the English language is recognized as the official language of the United States.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 145 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1985
Recognizes the achievements and commemorates the centennial of the University of Arizona.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 150 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1985
Expresses the sense of the Congress that U.S. national security policy should reflect a national strategy of peace through strength. Sets forth the principles and goals of such policy.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 180 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1985
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Internal Revenue Code provisions dealing with the Puerto Rico and possession tax credit (allowing domestic corporations a tax credit if certain percentages of gross income are derived from sources within a possession or from the active conduct of a trade or business within a possession) should not be revised and should be allowed to continue to operate in their present form.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 200 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1985
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the current Government of Guatemala is to be commended for its perseverance and determination to return to civilian rule.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 212 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1985
Declares that the Congress: (1) condemns the Government of the Soviet Union for the killing of Charles Thornton (an American journalist in Afghanistan) in violation of Protocol I (a treaty relating to the protection of victims of international armed conflict); and (2) calls upon such government to abide by the terms of such treaty, including provisions that protect journalists working in areas subject to armed conflict.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 201 (99th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1985
Commemorates the accomplishments of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act on its tenth anniversary.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 219 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 October 1985
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should: (1) declare a national emergency with respect to acts of terrorism directed against U.S. citizens and property; (2) investigate and determine the extent of assets held in the United States by organizations responsible for such terrorism; and (3) prohibit transactions involving such assets in accordance with the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 35 (99th)open
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1985
States that the Congress supports the President's commitment to arms control policies that provide for substantial reductions in strategic nuclear weapons and their delivery systems; the elimination of such weapons; and the development and deployment of nonnuclear defensive technologies that would ensure the safety of the United States and its allies and that would neutralize a terrorist nuclear missile attack. States that the Congress supports the President in the negotiation of new arms control agreements with the Soviet Union under which compliance is verifiable, which offset reductions in offensive weapons with sufficient defensive weapons, and which eliminate nuclear weapons from the arsenals of all nations.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 129 (99th)open
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1985
Establishes in the legislative branch of the Government the Perot Commission on Americans Missing in Southeast Asia to conduct an investigation and report to the Congress its findings with respect to the existence and the release of prisoners of war in Southeast Asia. Sets forth specified administrative procedures and powers of the Commission. Requires the Commission to terminate 30 days after the filing of its report to the Congress or on January 3, 1987, whichever occurs first.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 24 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Requires each House of Representatives committee (except the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct) and subcommittee to be constituted in a ratio proportionate to the membership of the two political parties in the House. Requires, where practicable, the committee staffs to reflect such ratio.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 60 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1985
Amends rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives to require each standing committee to review, on a continuing basis and when considering public bills or resolutions, those portions of the President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control (Grace Commission report) pertaining to such committee's jurisdiction. Amends rule XI to require each committee report on a public bill or resolution to contain: (1) an identification of each recommendation of the Survey to be implemented and the resulting estimated program cost savings or revenue enhancement; and (2) a statement setting forth the disposition of each recommendation pertaining to such bill or resolution.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 40 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1985
Amends rule XLIX of the Rules of the House of Representatives to require a two-thirds vote on legislation that increases the statutory limit on the public debt.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 313 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1986
Expresses the sense of the Congress that Libya should be expelled from the United Nations.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 91 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1985
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Congress should: (1) preserve current provisions of the Federal tax code which provide tax incentives for charitable contributions; and (2) withhold its support from any tax proposal which undermines the structure of deductions on which contributors to tax-exempt, nonprofit charities now rely.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 126 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1985
Urges the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund to work for the abolition of the compensatory financing facility.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 134 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1985
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the administration should comply with the automatic appropriation and earmarking provisions of the Wallop/Breaux Sport Fish Restoration Trust Fund and support adequate appropriation for the Boating Safety Account in such Fund. States that funds owed to the States from such Fund should not be withheld or delayed.