Rep. Tauke, Thomas Joseph [R-IA-2]

An amendment comprised of several amendments offered en bloc to cut the bill's authorizations for Older Americans programs by a total of $108.4 million in FY 1988, $76.8 million in FY 1989, $58.5 million in FY 1990, and $73.7 million in FY 1991. In addition, the amendment also cut the bill's authorization for supportive services by $69.6 million in FY 1988 and $186.1 million over four years; cut the authorization for congregate meals by $14.8 million in FY 1988, and $38.7 million over four years; cut research by $3.0 million in FY 1988, and $7.1 million over four years; and cut community service part-time jobs by $26.7 million in FY 1988 and $136.9 million over four years. Finally, the amendment would increase the bill's authorization for home-delivered meals by $5.6 million in FY 1988, and by $27.9 million over four years; and would authorize $25 million in FY 1988 for new in-home services for the elderly with an increase of $22.2 million over the following three years for such services.

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An amendment to the Energy and Commerce Committee amendment to prohibit the assigning of any frequency that is already in use by a nongovernmental broadcaster or is within 10 kilohertz of such a frequency.

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An amendment to strike the section of the bill providing for a study of caregiver referral and telephone listing services for the elderly, and to remove the stipulation that grants made by the Commissioner to eligible states to establish and carry out service credit demonstration projects be made annually.

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An amendment to create a Congressional Commission on Defense Planning. The Commission is to study the current system of formulating and implementing national security and national defense policy, with particular emphasis on the planning and command structure of DOD. It is to make recommendations for measures to promote efficiency in defense planning and economy as well as improved administration. The commission is to have 15 members, seven appointed by the President, four by the Speaker, and four appointed by the Senate majority leader. It is to have subpoena power for hearings. It has one year to submit its report to Congress, and then in 30 days the Commission expires.

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An amendment to authorize the Education Department to establish criteria to determine the eligibility of foreign medical schools to participate in the Guaranteed Student Loan program. These criteria may include a requirement that 90 percent of the school's American students score in the top quarter of an approved medical school admissions test, and that such students have at least a 50 percent pass rate on a test administered by the Education Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates.

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An amendment to strike the authorizations for the Follow Through program and to repeal the Follow Through Act.

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An amendment to provide for a demonstration program to study effects of advertising on public broadcasting.

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An amendment to require HUD to publish in the Federal Register a description of projects which receive preliminary approval under the Urban Development Action Grant (UDAG) program, and to prohibit funding for any UDAG or Community Development Grant (CDBG) project which would assist foreign businesses at the expense of U.S. domestic businesses.

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An amendment to strengthen the coordination between the Chapter 1 compensatory education program and the Follow Through program. The amendment provides that school districts which operate school-wide Chapter 1 programs using a Follow Through model approach would have priority in the awarding of grants under the Follow Through program. The amendment also makes certain changes in the Follow Through program, including eliminating the current 20% local match requirement for Follow Through grants.

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An amendment to freeze the authorizations for FY'87 and FY'88 at the FY'86 levels of $400 million for community health centers and $45.4 million for migrant health centers.

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An amendment to redefine that section of the bill regarding eligible entities and to clarify the applications and requirements regarding block grant funding.

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An amendment to decrease from $11,202,000 to $8,500,000 funds for radio broadcasting to Cuba.

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An amendment to direct the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct an investigation of certain trading in soybean futures.

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An amendment to add a new section reducing by 4.07% each amount not required to be appropriated by law.

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A substitute amendment to the Jones (OK) amendment to require that all regulations promulgated before or after enactment of this provision that deal with lead content of gasoline provide for leaded gasoline to be used on farms (at a level of .5 grams/gallon). This is not to affect permitted levels of lead in gasoline for nonfarm purposes. A study of the effect of unleaded fuel on farm equipment is to be submitted to Congress by 1/1/87. Four months after submission of the report regulations on lead content of gasoline that are generally applicable shall apply to farms unless the EPA Administrator sets exceptions.

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A substitute delaying the imposition of access charges on local residential and single line business telephone customers until 1/85. Maximum access charge permissible at that time would be $1 per month, permitting a rise to $4 per month in 1988. It prohibits the imposition of any access charge on low income, "lifeline" customers. It deletes the bill's provision that temporarily freezes the discount AT&T competitors now pay and instead permits them to pay a new discount rate. It eliminates provisions requiring establishment of state consumer organizations and language authorizing the FCC to pay for some of the costs incurred by consumers who participate in FCC proceedings.

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Amendments to set the FY 1987 authorization for each program at the FY 1986 appropriations level.

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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.

To require the President of the United States to use the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in the event of a domestic energy supply shortage, to amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act and the Export Administration Act of 1979 to prohibit the exportation of refined petroleum products except under certain circumstances, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 24 October 1990

Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to direct the President to use the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in the event of a domestic energy supply shortage. Amends the Export Administration Act of 1979 to prohibit the export of a refined petroleum product except pursuant to an export license specifically authorizing it. Precludes the issuance of such license without the approval of the Secretary of Energy. Requires the Secretary to notify certain congressional committees of the export license application, the name of the exporter, the destination, and the amount and price of the proposed export. Directs the Attorney General to report to specified congressional committees the findings of a special investigation to determine the extent to which domestic or foreign petroleum product suppliers may be charging excessive prices or manipulating the market in violation of antitrust laws. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should seek equitable payments from Saudi Arabia for the deployment and maintenance of troops in that country.

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 authorize States to regulate certain solid waste.

United States · United States Congress · 12 October 1990

Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to authorize a State to enforce laws collecting fees in connection with the treatment and disposal within such State of solid waste generated in another State. Permits a State, after the submission to the Administrator of a certification under this Act, to enforce laws regulating the treatment and disposal of solid waste within the State. Authorizes any State which has adopted a 20-year solid waste management plan to submit a certification to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency on the solid waste treatment and disposal capacity of the State. Sets forth minimum requirements of the plan. Permits the Governor of each State which has adopted a 20-year management plan to certify to the Administrator that the State has adequate capacity to manage all solid waste generated in the State or received from other States for the following 60-month period. Exempts specified types of waste from regulation under this Act. Grants congressional approval to agreements or compacts entered into by two or more States for cooperative efforts and mutual assistance for solid waste management. Authorizes the Administrator to promulgate regulations exempting waste types or recycling practices from the authority granted to States under this Act if such action promotes the development of an interstate market for recyclable materials or is necessary to promote environmentally sound waste disposal practices.

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.

To amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act and the Export Administration Act of 1979 to prohibit the exportation of refined petroleum products except under certain circumstances.

United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1990

Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to authorize the President to restrict exports of petroleum products, including refined petroleum products. Amends the Export Administration Act of 1979 to prohibit the export of a refined petroleum product except pursuant to an export license specifically authorizing it. Precludes the issuance of such license without the approval of the Secretary of Energy. Requires the Secretary to notify certain congressional committees of the export license application, the name of the exporter, the destination, and the amount and price of the proposed export.