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United States · United States Congress · 10 December 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the national security policy should reflect a national strategy of peace through strength. Sets forth the principles and goals of such a policy.
United States · United States Congress · 8 December 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that Federal programs providing educational and rehabilitation services for disabled Americans should be maintained and funded at their current levels. States that changes in permanent regulations implementing Federal laws about the education and civil rights of handicapped individuals should not lessen the rights and protections provided under current regulations. States that reviews of social security eligiblity should be conducted in a manner ensuring fair treatment. States that the level of veterans disablity compensation benefits for service-connected conditions should be maintained.
United States · United States Congress · 7 December 1982
Establishes the United States Senate Productivity Award. Allows each Senator to select an award recipient under guidelines established by the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Directs the Committee to enter into a contract for the design and striking of suitable medallions for such award.
United States · United States Congress · 6 December 1982
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from the windfall profit tax economic interests in crude oil held by charitable organizations which provide medical care to patients with lengthly or terminal illnesses or which provide financial assistance to medical research.
United States · United States Congress · 30 November 1982
Declares that it is the sense of Congress that the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve and the Federal Open Market Committee should take actions to achieve a level of interest rates low enough to generate economic growth and reduce the current level of unemployment.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1982
Establishes a peacetime veterans' educational assistance program for persons who served on active duty or in the Selected Reserve after August 31, 1983. Sets forth the eligibility requirements for such assistance based on period and type of service. Creates a basic entitlement of 24 months of assistance for the first 24 months of service with an additional month of assistance for each additional month of service, up to a total of 36 months. Establishes a delimiting period for the use of such assistance of ten years after discharge. Excepts those suffering from a physical or mental disability which prevented their completing their education and persons held as prisoners of war. Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay a subsistence allowance to eligible veterans in specified amounts. Permits educational benefits to be transferred by the eligible person to a spouse or child. States that appropriations for this program be considered as made for the functions of the Department of Defense rather than for the functions of the Veterans Administration. Prohibits persons eligible for this program from participating in the Post-Vietnam Era Veterans' Educational Assistance Program. Directs the Secretary of Defense to report to Congress on whether the program should be expanded to attract and retain certain qualified persons. Permits the Secretary concerned to grant educational leave for up to 12 months if the person concerned agrees to serve two months for each month off. Sets forth other conditions of such leave, including pay and eligibility for retired pay. Permits such Secretary to cancel this leave in time of war or national emergency or if he determines the member is not pursuing his education satisfactorily. States that there shall be no increase in pay for members in pay grade E-1 in FY 1983 and 1984 unless an increase becomes unavoidable through the general pay increase requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1982
Designates March 13 through March 19, 1983, as National Children and Television Week.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1982
Designates 1983 as the "Tricentennial Anniversary Year of German Settlement in America". Expresses congressional support for the President's Youth Exchange Initiative, and especially the concept of a United States-German teenage exchange sponsored by the Congress and the West German Bundestag.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1982
Requests the President to designate 1983 as the National Year of Voluntarism.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1982
Designates October 24 through October 31, 1982, as National Housing Week.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1982
Declares that it should be U.S. policy to: (1) support the people of Afghanistan in their struggle to be free from foreign domination; (2) provide the Afghans, upon request, with material assistance; and (3) pursue a negotiated settlement of the war in Afghanistan based on the total withdrawal of Soviet troops and the recognition of the right of the Afghans to choose their own destiny.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1982
Declares that the United States holds certain lands in Nevada in trust for the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe, as part of the Las Vegas Paiute Reservation.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1982
Permits the use of specified appropriations to pay the claims of certain Indian tribes for expenses incurred by such tribes for community impact planning activities relating to the potential deployment of the MX missile system.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1982
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt vehicles which are used exclusively in the collection and transportation of blood (bloodmobiles) from the manufacturers excise tax on motor vehicles.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1982
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that in the case of accrual method taxpayers: (1) a debt owed to the taxpayer shall not be included in the income of such taxpayer and (2) a debt owed by the taxpayer shall not be deductible from the income of such taxpayer unless such debt is enforceable under the laws of the State in which it was incurred or unless such debt is paid.
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1982
Requests the President to designate December 1982 as National Closed-Captioned Television Month.
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1982
Designates November 1982 as National Diabetes Month.
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1982
Designates October 10 through October 16, 1982, as Freedom Week, USA.
United States · United States Congress · 23 September 1982
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to permit an individual who has been found to be no longer eligible for disability benefits and who has requested a hearing on such determination to elect to have the payment of such benefits continued during the period of appeal. Provides that if the decision upon appeal affirms the determination that the individual is not entitled to such benefits, any benefits paid pursuant to such election shall be considered overpayments. Provides that such benefit payments shall not be considered overpayments if the individual's appeal was made in good faith and if treating such payments as overpayments would work an undue financial hardship on the individual. Makes the requirement that disability determinations under title II be reviewed at least every three years applicable only to the extent necessary to insure that the appropriate number of cases are reviewed. Requires the Secretary to determine the appropriate number of cases to be reviewed in each State. Requires the Secretary to report annually to specified congressional committees with respect to the Secretary's determinations.
United States · United States Congress · 21 September 1982
Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the establishment of a means test for Medicare benefits would be a breach of faith with the American public; and (2) the Medicare program should not have a means test.
United States · United States Congress · 21 September 1982
Expresses the sense of the Senate that Congress should reject any proposal to impose a means test regarding eligibility for or benefits provided by Medicare.
United States · United States Congress · 20 September 1982
Designates October as National Spinal Cord Injury Month.
United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1982
Residential Mortgage Investment Act of 1982 - Exempts any qualified mortgage transaction at arms-length engaged in by an employee benefit plan from specified prohibited transaction provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code. Provides that such exemption shall supersede any and all State laws as they relate to qualified mortgage transactions to the extent engaged in by employee benefit plans.
United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1982
Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) national efforts to reduce hunger and malnutrition should continue; (2) a national commitment to vital nutrition programs should continue; and (3) the Federal Government should retain primary responsibility for child nutrition programs.
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