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United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should ensure that small businesses and the agricultural industry are represented on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors by a person of demonstrable experience in small business and agricultural matters.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1985
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the United States should request, in accordance with the Customs Convention on the International Transport of Goods under Cover of TIR Carnets, that the Secretary General of the United Nations convene a review conference to determine what steps should be taken to end Bulgaria's abuses of that Convention in facilitating the transportation of illicit narcotics, arms, and terrorists; and (2) the President should encourage other parties to the TIR Convention to use procedures provided in the Convention to end such abuses by Bulgaria.
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.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1985
Declares that the Commissioner of Social Security and the Secretary of Health and Human Services should immediately study and report to the Congress on ways to change the benefit disparity caused by the 1977 changes in the social security benefit formula.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1985
Prohibits ending the voluntary restraint on imports of Japanese automobiles until U.S. exports to Japan are substantially increased and the U.S. trade deficit with Japan is substantially reduced.
United States · United States Congress · 26 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 and compensation for members of the Jewish, Miskito, and other communities who have been forced to leave because of interference with freedom of religion.
United States · United States Congress · 22 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.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1985
Congratulates the Society of Real Estate Appraisers on its Golden Anniversary for its service to the public interest with professional expertise.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1985
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should: (1) ensure that U.S. officials carry out the pledge to resolve the issue of the Americans still missing and unaccounted for in Indochina; (2) work for the immediate release of any Americans still held captive and the return of the remains of those who died in Southeast Asia; and (3) make every effort to secure the further cooperation of Laos and Vietnam in resolving this issue.
United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1985
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should form a National Commission on the Farm Credit System to recommend agricultural credit reform.
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1985
Commemorates the accomplishments of The Education of All Handicapped Children Act on its tenth anniversary.
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 1985
Expresses the sense of the Congress that no part of any tax reform legislation based on the President's tax reform proposal submitted to the Congress on May 29, 1985, shall: (1) take effect before its date of enactment, but in no case earlier than July 1, 1986; or (2) apply to transactions occurring pursuant to a binding contract in effect prior to its date of enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1986
Expresses the sense of the Congress that certain amounts appropriated for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention of the Department of Justice which have been proposed for rescission by the President shall be made available for obligation and expended as originally intended.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1986
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should take measures to encourage the Government of Indonesia to: (1) allow and maintain access into East Timor for humanitarian organizations, journalists, church delegations, and human rights groups; (2) guarantee freedom of expression for the Roman Catholic Church in East Timor; (3) allow an impartial international investigation of the conditions that exist in areas where East Timorese have been resettled by Indonesian authorities; (4) allow qualified international observers to be present at the trials of East Timorese political prisoners; and (5) work with the U.S. and Portuguese Governments to develop peace initiatives for East Timor.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1986
Expresses the sense of the Congress, and instructs its committees and conferees, that the Congress will not approve any provisions in H.R. 3838 or in similar legislation that would adversely affect the tax-exempt status of the bonds or other obligations of the States or their political subdivisions and instrumentalities which comply with current law and which are issued prior to: (1) January 1, 1987; or (2) any later date provided in enacted law.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1986
Designates February 28, 1986, as National TRIO Day.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1986
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Congress will consider, at the earliest opportunity, an amendment to the Internal Revenue Code excluding the discharge of qualified agricultural indebtedness from cancellation of indebtedness income in order to remove the disincentives to renegotiation of certain agricultural debts.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1986
Permits the 1986 Special Olympics Torch Relay to be run through the Capitol Grounds.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1986
Recognizes the Ireland Fund for its laudable charitable achievements, and its founder, Dr. Anthony J.F. O'Reilly, for the humane work he has inspired on behalf of the people of Ireland.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1986
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the administration should continue to oppose actions by the European Community to impose quotas on oilseeds in Portugal, to impose a grain purchase requirement quota on Portugal, and to place variable levies on corn and grain sorghum entering Spain before negotiating compensation; and (2) unless the European Community rescinds such trade restrictions or the United States receives compensation for resulting trade losses, the administration should impose trade restrictions on a sufficient value of exports of the European Community to the United States to reestablish the balance of concessions under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and other trade agreements.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1986
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Farm Credit System should take specified actions to assist borrowers, including: (1) participating to the maximum extent possible with the Farmers Home Administration and other Government guarantee programs to provide 1986 operating loans; (2) following policies of reasonable loan forbearance; (3) using loan restructuring; (4) emphasizing loan servicing approaches that help borrowers meet the conditions of their loan contracts; (5) resorting to foreclosure only when there is no alternative or when the associated costs would be less than loan restructuring; (6) providing defaulting borrowers with the opportunity to bid on foreclosed property; and (7) maintaining sound institutional credit policies.
United States · United States Congress · 13 December 1985
Recognizes and honors the Consumers Union for the contributions made in informing, protecting, and aiding consumers.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1986
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Essential Air Service Program should be maintained for the ten-year period for which it is authorized.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1986
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) dairy cattle designated for slaughter under the dairy buyout program should, instead of being slaughtered, be supplied to affected countries to replace stocks of cattle contaminated by the Chernobyl nuclear accident in the Soviet Union; and (2) feed grain from the Commodity Credit Corporation as well as dairy beef generated from the buyout program's slaughtering activities should be made available to the stricken countries.