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458 records where Sen. Curtis, Carl T. [R-NE] is listed as a sponsor, author, or other actor. Search with topics and years
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1974
Provides for the lifting of the suspension under Federal law setting quotas for the importation of fresh, chilled, or frozen cattle meat or goat and sheep meat. Sets limits upon the length of any such suspension imposed under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1974
Eastern Wilderness Areas Act - Designates specified lands in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System. Provides for a study of specified additional lands in 18 States and Puerto Rico for such inclusion. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1974
Provides a ten-year delimiting period for the pursuit of educational programs by veterans, and their wives, and widows. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1662)
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1974
Sets forth penalties for the theft or attempted theft of any narcotic substance, as set forth in the Controlled Substances Act, from any pharmacist.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1974
Provides, under title II (Old-Age, Survivors', and Disability Insurance) and title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, that individuals receiving aid under a State medical assistance plan approved under aid to the aged, blind, disabled and needy families with children provisions of the Social Security Act, or who meet the income and resources requirements of such a plan shall not pay an enrollment fee or premium or any deduction, cost sharing, or similar charge for specified medical services. Provides that deductions or cost sharing charges for other services for such individuals will be nominal.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1974
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States delegation to the European Security Conference should not agree to the recognition by the European Security Conference of the Soviet Union's annexation of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania and it should remain the policy of the United States not to recognize in any way the annexation of the Baltic nations by the Soviet Union.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1974
Provides for the relief of Ada Troncoso Boudon.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1974
Repeals the provisions of the Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act requiring the States to establish speed limits not in excess of fifty-five miles per hour on their public highways during the current fuel shortage.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1974
Declares it to be the sense of the Senate that: (1) the Government of the United States should maintain and protect its sovereign rights and jurisdiction over the canal zone, and should in no way cede, dilute, forfeit, negotiate, or transfer any of these sovereign rights, power, authority, jurisdiction, territory, or property that are indispensably necessary for the protection and security of the United States and the entire Western Hemisphere; (2) there be no relinquishment or surrender of any presently vested United States soverign right, power, or authority or property, tangible or intangible,except by treaty authorized by the Congress and duly ratified by the United States; and (3) there be no cession to Panama, or other divestiture of any United States-owned property, tangible or tangible, without prior authorization by the Congress (House and Senate), as provided in article IV, section 3, clause 2 of the United States Consitituion.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1974
Provides, under the Tariff Schedules of the United States, that specified wood strips used in the manufacture of containers for the food industry be admitted free of duty.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1974
States that the Secretary of the Interior is prohibited from publishing any orders with respect to any prohibition of the use of lead shot for the hunting of waterfowl, until the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs holds public hearings and issues legislative findings.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1974
Fiscal Accountability Salary Act - Provides that the rate of pay of United States Senators and Representatives shall be increased only in accord with this Act. Declares that these pay increases shall be equal to the yearly increase in cost of living, as certified by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and shall take effect on January 1 immediately following the fiscal year in which such cost-of-living increase was registered. Provides that such congressional pay increases shall be awarded only when the total Federal receipts for items in both the Administrative budget and the consolidated budget are equal to or greater than the total Federal outlays for such items during that preceding fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1974
Extends the use of tax-free industrial bonds under the Internal Revenue Code, without limit, to be used in the conversion from gas burning to oil burning equipment or oil burning equipment to other energy burning materials. Raises the limit of general industrial revenue bonds intended for small business.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1974
Foreign Dairy Quality Act - Provides that no dairy product shall be imported into the United States unless it has been inspected and found to be wholesome and unless the foreign farms and plants in which such products were produced, manufactured, or processed comply with all the inspection, grading, and other standards prescribed by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare pursuant to the provisions of this Act. Requires that such foreign standards shall be comparable to those standards prescribed by the Secretary for the kind of dairy product in the United States. States that the labeling of imported dairy products shall comply with the requirements of the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act and shall be otherwise marked as the Secretary may require. Directs the Secretary to cause to be inspected all dairy products imported into the United States. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe rules and regulations to carry out the purposes of this Act, and rules and regulations for the destruction of dairy products refused admission into the United States. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out the administration and supervision of the provisions of this Act. Imposes criminal penalties for violations of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1974
Provides that the value of a decedent's interest in a closely held business shall be determined by either of two methods, at the election of the executor, and within specified limitations. States that the election shall be exercised by the executor not later than the time prescribed for filing the return with respect to the estate tax (including extensions thereof). Defines the terms used in this Act, including "interest in a closely held business," "capitalization factor," and "operating return." (Adds 26 U.S.C. 2031(c))
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1974
Authorizes the President to declare by proclamation Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn an honorary citizen of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1974
Expresses the sense of Congress that United States citizenship be extended to Alexander Solzhenitsyn and his family and that we condemn the reversion to Stalinistic repression of fundamental civil liberties in the Soviet Union.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1974
Repeals, under the Social Security Act, the provisions for the establishment of Professional Standards Review Organizations to review services covered under the medicare and medicaid programs.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1974
Declares that the Senate disapproves the recommendations of the President with respect to rates of pay transmitted to the Congress during February, 1974 pursuant to the Federal Salary Act of 1967.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1974
Declares that the Senate disapproves the recommendations of the President with respect to rates of pay transmitted to the Congress in the budget for the fiscal year 1975 pursuant to the Federal Salary Act of 1967.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1974
Provides, under the Immigration and Nationality Act, that whenever any person is born outside of the United States and its outlying possessions and is a citizen of the United States at birth, the birth of that person shall be registered with a consular officer in the country in which that person was born within such time and under such regulations as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of State. Provides that if such registration is not made within the time prescribed, it shall be presumed that such person is not a citizen of the United States by birth. Imposes criminal penalties on persons for failure to surrender a passport when requested to do so and for collusion with foreign governments to evade passport laws and regulations. Provides that no person who refuses to swear or affirm his allegiance to the United States shall be entitled to receive, hold, or use any passport or other credential issued by, or under authority of, the United States which identifies such person as one bearing allegiance to the United States. (Amends 8 U.S.C. 1401, 1548, 1547)
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1974
Terminates the emergency Daylight Saving Time Energy Conservation Act of 1973.
United States · United States Congress · 10 December 1973
Provides that no grant shall be made under the Clean Air Act for a State vehicle emission device testing program if such program provides a penalty for the removal or rendering inoperative of such device by or at the request of the purchaser of the vehicle.
United States · United States Congress · 7 December 1973
Increases the rates of educational assistance allowances to eligible veterans. Provides, in addition to such allowances, for the payment of tuition, the extension of educational assistance entitlement, acceleration of educational assistance allowances, and expansion of the work-study program. Establishes a Vietnam Era Veterans Communication Center to: (1) evaluate the effectiveness of veterans outreach services programs; (2) make recommendations to the President and Congress for establishing new, and improving existing, procedures for informing Vietnam era veterans of all benefits and services to which they may be entitled; (3) coordinate all Federal programs pertaining to veterans of the Vietnam era; and (4) promote efforts for job employment opportunities for veterans. Creates the Vietnam Era Veterans Advisory Committee to consult with the Communication Center regarding all matters pertaining to the duties of the Center.
United States · United States Congress · 18 October 1973
Provides that any unit of local government which received payments under the State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972 for the first three entitlement periods which were, in the aggregate, in excess of 500 per cent of the total amount of such payments, is relieved from liability for repayment to the United States of the amount which exceeds the amount of entitlement. Authorizes funds to be appropriated to the State and Local Government Fiscal Assistance Trust Fund, out of amounts in the general fund of the Treasury attributable to the collections of the Federal individual income taxes not otherwise appropriated. Specifies the amounts of such sums for fiscal years 1974 through 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 18 October 1973
Repeals the Economic Stabilization Act of 1970. States that whoever, prior to the date of enactment of this Act, willfully violates any provision of law repealed, shall be punished in accordance with such provision as in effect on the date such violation occurred. Provides that such repeal shall not affect any suit, action, or other proceeding lawfully commenced prior to the date of this Act, or any proceeding based upon any act committed prior to such date. States that no proceeding lawfully commenced by or against any agency or officer of the United States in relation to the discharge of official duties under any provision of law repealed shall abate, but the court, upon motion or supplemental petition filed at any time within twelve months after the date of enactment of this Act showing the necessity for the survival of such proceeding to obtain a settlement of the questions involved, may allow the same to be maintained.
United States · United States Congress · 13 October 1973
Randolph-Sheppard Act Amendments - Expresses the findings of Congress. Provides that blind persons licensed under the provisions of this Act shall be authorized to operate vending facilities on any Federal or other property. Gives preference to blind persons licensed by a State agency as provided in this Act. Requires the head of each department or agency in control of Federal property to prescribe regulations assuring such preference. Eliminates the requirement that licensees be 21 years of age. Eliminates the requirement that licensees shall have resided for at least one year in the State for which a license is requested. Requires that in the design, construction, or substantial alteration of each public building after June 30, 1974, there shall be a satisfactory site or sites suitable for the location and operation of a vending facility by a blind person or persons. Authorizes State licensing agencies or any blind licensee to file a complaint with the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare who shall convene an arbitration panel to hear appeals when the State licensing agency or licensee feels that any department or agency is failing to comply with the provisions of this Act. States that with specified exceptions, all vending machine income shall accrue to the blind licensee operating the facility. Sets forth the definitions of terms used in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 1973
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States Government, while engaged in a lessening of tensions with the People's Republic of China, do nothing to compromise the freedom of our friend and ally the Republic of China and its people.
United States · United States Congress · 4 October 1973
Expresses the gratitude and respect of the Congress to Vietnam veterans on Veterans Day 1973 for their gallant part in attaining peace in Vietnam and making it possible to observe Veterans Day 1973 in peace.
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 1973
Livestock Export Health and Safety Act - Expands the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to examine accommodations for export animals to include aircraft and other means of conveyance (formerly limited to an examination of vessesls only). States that the rules issued by the Secretary relating to such accommodations shall include: (1) minimum standards for the construction and maintenance of any container and system used for exporting any animal; and (2) designation of ports through which the export of any such animal must be made -- Specifies the requirements to be met by such ports of export prior to their designation as such. Makes it a misdemeanor for any exporter, or for any owner or principal operator of any means of conveyance, or the master, aircraft commander, or other agent knowingly to violate any rule issued under this Act." Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1973
Provides that any regulations published or promulgated by the Environmental Protection Agency for grants for the construction of treatment works under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, prior to the date of enactment of this joint resolution are hereby set aside and are declared to be of no legal effect and no moneys appropriated shall be distributed in accordance with such regulations. Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, within thirty days after enactment of this joint resolution, to publish and submit to the Congress regulations for grants for the construction of treatment works so as to effect an equitable allocation of appropriated funds among all qualified projects on which construction was initiated after June 20, 1966, but before July 1, 1972. Within thirty days of congressional session following the receipt of such regulations. Authorizes the Committee on Public Works of either House to report a resolution of disapproval of such regulations. Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, at the time such regulations are submitted to the Congress, to notify each State.
United States · United States Congress · 21 September 1973
Provides that the Secretary of Agriculture may loan specified Rural Loan Investment Companies up to five times their capital for a period of five years to allow them to purchase government guaranteed loans from qualified lenders in rural areas of less than fifty thousand population.
United States · United States Congress · 20 September 1973
Directs the President, under the Economic Stabilization Act, to permit all classes of marketers of petroleum products at all levels of distribution a dollar-for-dollar passthrough for increases in the cost of such products.
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1973
Corrects typographical and clerical errors in Public Law 93-86, the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973.
United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1973
Provides, under the Economic stabilization Act of 1970, that the President, in exercising authority with respect to retail pride levels, shall permit the passthrough of all increases in the cost of goods sold or services performed.
United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1973
Provides, under the Clean Air Act, that the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall prescribe standards applicable to the emission of any air pollutant from any class of new motor vehicles or new engines, which in his judgment contributes to, or is likely to contribute to, air pollution which endangers the public health or welfare. States that such regulations applicable to emissions of carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons from light duty vehicles and engines manufactured during or after model year 1975 shall contain standards which were established for the 1974 model year. Requires the Administrator to report annually to the Congress with respect to the development of systems necessary to implement the emission standards established pursuant to this Act. implement the emission standards established pursuant to this Act. Specifies the content of such reports. Provides that any manufacturer may file with the Administrator an application requesting the suspension, for one year only, of the effective date of any emission standard. Prescribes the procedures for granting or denial of such suspension. Directs the Administrator to undertake arrangements with the National Academy of Sciences and other concerned Government agencies to conduct a study of the entire vehicle emission problem. Directs the Academy to submit semiannual progress reports. Requires the Administrator, upon review of such reports, to recommend congressional action necessary to insure implementation of the optimal engine-fuel-hardware strategy for emission control.
United States · United States Congress · 5 September 1973
Provides, under the Antidumping Act, for a substituted constructed value in the case of specified imported merchandise. States that such substituted value shall be the cost of similar merchandise at its place of manufacture in the United States, as determined by the Secretary of the Treasury. Sets forth circumstances under which such substituted value shall be used in lieu of the constructed value. (Amends 19 U.S.C. 160-171)
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1973
Permits specified units of local government to satisfy the publication requirements of the State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972 by publishing simplified statements of the information contained in reports submitted under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1973
Permits the use of the drug diethylstilbestrol (DES) for implants in beef cattle and sheep.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1973
Provides, under title II (Old-Age, Survivors', and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act, that persons who are blind and have at least six quarters of coverage shall be eligible for disability insurance benefits. Outlines those regulations which apply to the amount of benefits to be received. Defines blindness as used in this Act. Continues payment of such benefits as long as the blindness lasts, notwithstanding the amount of the individuals' earnings.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1973
Declares that the United States Senate does hereby congratulate and felicitate the distinguished Senator from Mississippi, the Honorable John C. Stennis, on his birthday and expresses the wish that he will enjoy many other such anniversaries in the future. Declares that members of the Senate greatly miss the distinguished Senator and wish for him an early return to the Senate Chamber and to his duties in the Senate. Directs that a copy of this Resolution be spread upon the Journal of the Senate and a copy furnished to Mr. Stennis.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1973
Directs a hearing of right with the Provider Reimbursement Review Board to any provider of service under titles XVIII and XIX (Medicare and State Medical Assistance Programs) who has filed a required cost report within the time specified and whose complaint falls within specified reviewable subject areas. Outlines the procedure to be used at a hearing and permits judicial review of any final decision of the Board. Outlines the composition of the Board and authorizes it to engage such technical assistance as may be required to carry out its functions . Makes conforming amendments to the Social Security Act concerning the rulemaking authority conferred upon the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1973
Constitutional Amendment - States that on or before the fifteenth day after the beginning of each regular session of the Congress the President shall transmit to the Congress a budget which shall set forth separately: (1) his estimate of the receipts of the Government, other than trust funds, during the ensuing fiscal year under the laws then existing; (2) his recommendations with respect to outlays to be made from funds other than trust funds during such ensuing fiscal year; and (3) if such recommendations exceed such estimate, a surtax rate which the President determines to be necessary to be applied with respect to the income tax of taxpayers to those portions of taxable years of taxpayers occurring during such fiscal year, so that such receipts will equal such outlays. Provides that during the first quarter of each fiscal year, and during the third quarter of each fiscal year, the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall: (1) estimate the receipts of the Government, other than trust funds, during such fiscal year; (2) estimate outlays to be made from funds other than trust funds during such fiscal year; and (3) (A) if such estimate of outlays exceeds such estimate of receipts, determine a surtax rate which the Speaker considers necessary to be applied, with respect to the income tax of taxpayers, to those portions of taxable years of taxpayers remaining in such fiscal year, so that such receipts will equal such outlays; or (B) if such estimate of outlays equals such estimate of receipts, determine that no surtax rate is necessary to be applied. Provides that, during the last month of each fiscal year, the President shall review whether the receipts of the Government, other than trust funds, for such year will be less than the outlays for that fiscal year. States that if he finds that such receipts are going to be less than such outlays, he shall determine a surtax rate which he considers necessary to be applied with respect to the income tax of taxpayers, so that taxes received by the Government from such surtax, when added to other receipts of the Government, will equal such outlays. Requires that such surtax shall be effective, and so applied, as determined by the President only during the next succeeding fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1973
Antitrust Law Labor Amendments - Removes statutory limitations upon the application of the Sherman Act to labor organizations and their activities. States that every contract or agreement between any labor organization and any employer whereby such employer undertakes to cease or to refrain from using, selling, handling, transporting, or otherwise dealing in any of the products of any producer, processor, or manufacturer which are distributed in trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is declared illegal. Provides that every person who enters into, attempts to enter into, or conspires with any other person to enter into any such contract or agreement shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $50,000 or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both.
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1973
States that income received by a farmowner for the use of land by a farm management concern shall not be treated under title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act or the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 as earnings from self-employment. (AMends 42 U.S.C. 411(a), 26 U.S.C. 1402(a))
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1973
Provides that no appropriation shall be made for any watershed protection and flood prevention plan involving an estimated Federal contribution to construction costs in excess of $500,000 (presently $250,000).
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1973
States that, with respect to the price level of beef, the President or his delegate shall permit the passthrough of increases in raw agricultural product costs incurred since June 8, 1973, on a dollar-for dollar basis in the same manner and to the same extent as a passthrough of such increases is permitted in the case of meat and food products other than beef.
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1973
Declares that the Senate disapproves the recommendations of the President with respect to rates of pay transmitted to the Congress during calendar year 1973, pursuant to the Federal Salary Act of 1967.
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1973
Emergency Anti-inflation Act - Provides that the President shall submit a budget pursuant to the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 in which nontrust fund expenditures do not exceed nontrust fund revenues for each fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1973
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to transfer title to the Mirage Flats irrigation project works, Nebraska, to the landowners within the Mirage Flats Irrigation District.