United States · United States Congress · 20 December 1974
Expresses the sense of Congress, including that: (1) because of the critical economic role that energy plays, a comprehensive domestic and international approach to meeting energy problems in a realistic manner is immediately needed; (2) such a comprehensive energy policy neccessitates a dramatic increase in domestic energy production coupled with a reasoned attack on wasteful energy consumption; (3) vital national actions to increase domestic energy production require that the United States - (a) rapidly expand Outer Continental Shelf exploration and development with approriate environmental safequards; (b) lift price constraints on exploration and production of natural gas and other fossil fuels; (c) adopt policies which will encourage the most rapid development of alternative energy sources; and (d) adopt policies which insure adequate opportunity to provide for the massive capital formation required to attain timely domestic energy self-sufficiency; and (4) the reasoned nationwide attack on wasteful energy consumption requires - (a) enactment of energy conservation authority capable of significantly reducing consumption; (b) expanded Federal programs related to increasing the efficiency of energy uses; and (c) a mandatory impact study on energy consumption of planned Federal programs prior to program implementations.
United States · United States Congress · 19 November 1974
Requires each agency of the United States Government to publish and distribute current indexes of matters issued, adopted or promulgated after July 4, 1967, which are required to be maintained by the Freedom of Information Act, or, if the agency determines publication to be unnecessary or impracticable, to make copies available on request at a cost not to exceed the direct cost of duplication. Directs each agency to promulgate regulations specifying a uniform schedule of fees for document search and duplication. Limits such fees to recovery of direct costs, except that the cost of reviewing and examining records may be charged when it is in excess of $100. Provides that documents shall be published without charge or at a reduced charge where the agency determines that such action is in the public interest. Authorizes the District Courts, on complaint, to enjoin an agency from withholding records and to order the production of records improperly withheld. Provides that the Court may examine the records in camera in determining whether they should be withheld under any of the exemptions set forth in the Act. Places the burden on the agency to sustain its action. Requires the agency-defendant to serve an answer to any complaint within 30 days of service of such complaint. Stipulates that proceedings under the Act take precedence over all other cases in the District Court and shall be expedited in every way. Allows the Court to assess reasonable attorney fees and other costs against the United States when the complainant has substantially prevailed. Directs the Civil Service Commission to initiate proceedings to determine whether disciplinary action is warranted against an employee primarily responsible for a withholding, when the District Court has found it to be improper, has assessed costs against the United States, and has issued a written finding that the circumstances raise questions as to whether agency personnel have acted arbitrarily or capriciously. Requires the agency to take whatever corrective action the Commission recommends. Allows the District Court to punish for contempt the responsible employee or officer in the event of non-compliance with the order of the Court. Requires each agency to notify a person making a request within 30 days whether it will comply and the reasons for its decision, and to inform such person of his right to appeal an adverse determination. Requires a decision with respect to an appeal within 20 days, and if denial of the request is upheld on appeal, notification to the requester of the provisions for judicial review under this Act. Provides for extension of these time limits under specified circumstances. States that any person making a request shall be deemed to have exhausted his administrative remedies if the agency fails to comply with the applicable time limits, but allows a court to extend them if the Government can show exceptional circumstance and that the agency is exercising due diligence in responding to the request. Provides that any denial of a request shall set forth the name and title of each person responsible for the denial. Exempts matters properly kept secret under Executive Order in the interest of national defense or foreign policy, but grants jurisdiction to the District Court to examine such records to determine if they have been properly classified. Exempts investigatory records compiled for law enforcement purposes under specified circumstances. Requires each agency to submit to the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate on or before March 1 of each year a report on requests made under the Freedom of Information Act during the previous year. Requires the Attorney General to submit a report on or before March 1, describing for the prior year the number and disposition of cases, as well as the efforts of the Department of Justice to encourage agency compliance with the Act. Provides that the amendments made by this Act shall take effect on the ninetieth day beginning after the date of enactment of this Act. (Amends 5 U.S.C. 552)
United States · United States Congress · 11 October 1974
Extends until December 1, 1975, the time for submission of two studies (on: (1) the interrelationship of benefit programs for the elderly; and (2) the impact of taxes on the elderly), with recommendations, to the Congress by the Federal Council on Aging, as required under the Older Americans Act. (Amends P. L. 93-29).
United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1974
Establishes $300,000,000,000 as the appropriate upper limit of Federal spending for fiscal year 1975, and requests the President to submit to the Congress within 30 days of the adoption of this resolution the proposed deferrals and rescissions necessary to adhere to this limit.
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 1974
Emergency Budget Control Act - Authorizes the President, under title X of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act, to reduce expenditures and net lending in fiscal year 1975 to not less than $295,000,000,000. Prohibits the reduction of more than 20 percent in the expenditures and net lending of any major department and agency.
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 1974
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Federal Energy Administration should withdraw its proposed price regulation change and maintain propane gas prices at or below the level established by existing regulation.
United States · United States Congress · 7 October 1974
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should take immediate steps to restrain the inflationary impact of Federal expenditures and to conserve the use of energy by ordering each department and agency of the Federal Government to reduce expenditures on the travel and transportation of persons by at least 25 percent.
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1974
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the well-being of the world and all of its people is gravely threatened by exorbitant or rigged foreign oil prices. States that it is further the sense of the Senate that Congress and the American people support President Ford and Secretary Kissinger in their call to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to lower the price of petroleum.
United States · United States Congress · 19 September 1974
Excludes from gross income, under the Internal Revenue Code, the interest or dividends on an amount of savings not in excess of $20,000 in a bank, savings institution, or credit union.
United States · United States Congress · 19 September 1974
Establishes within sixteen specified agencies of the United States an Office of Consumer Advocacy to represent consumer interests within the agency. Authorizes necessary appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 19 September 1974
Allows a tax deduction, under the Internal Revenue Code, of up to $400 (presently $100) for medical and dental insurance expenses. Allows a taxpayer to deduct all such expenses incurred (presently may deduct one half of such expenses).
United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1974
Provides that tax returns are confidential, and, therefore, are not open to inspection, and that information contained in them shall not be disclosed. Permits, under regulations established by the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, the inspection of tax returns by the taxpayer, the Internal Revenue Service, the Justice Department, State tax authorities, the President, and the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation. Requires a report to the Joint Committee of returns inspected and by whom inspected. Establishes criminal penalties for unauthorized disclosure or receipt of tax return information.
United States · United States Congress · 20 August 1974
States that, notwithstanding any other provision for funds, each Member of the Senate shall have made available from the contingent fund of the Senate, until otherwise provided by law, an amount not to exceed $3,600 to hire additional employees to be known as United States Senate Student Interns, during the period July 1 to June 30, inclusive, each fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 7 August 1974
Provides for releases from terms and conditions in the authorization for the approval by the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency of the exchange of a portion or real property conveyed to the city of Grand Junction, Colorado.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1974
Terminates, under the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966, those requirements pertaining to seatbelt standards which require the vehicle to be equipped with any starter interlock system, or any buzzer light, or other warning system.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1974
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency should, in the application of regulations pursuant to the Clean Air Act with respect to supplying, after July 1, 1974, unleaded gasoline for automobiles: (1) grant reasonable extensions of time for compliance to retailers who are unable to obtain such gasoline or delivery systems for such gasoline; and (2) consult with the Administrator of the Federal Energy Administration in order to obtain a fair allocation of such gasoline for all segments of the petroleum industry marketing structure.
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1974
Emergency Health Professions Educational Assistance Act - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1975 for Federal capital contributions into the student loan funds of health professions education schools.
United States · United States Congress · 9 July 1974
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain a second 100-megawatt hydroelectric unit at the Mount Elbert pumped storage powerplant site of the Fryingpan-Arkansas project, Colorado. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1974
Allows a tax deduction, under the Internal Revenue Code, for expenses of purchasing and installing solar heating and cooling equipment in residences. Limits such tax deduction to $5,000, and allows such deduction to be taken over a 60 month period.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1974
Authorizes Congress under the Atomic Energy Act, to concur in or disapprove international agreements for cooperation in regard to certain nuclear technology.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1974
States that, under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act, no part of any application for a grant or loan under such Act may be made available to any person (other than an individual who is an officer or employee of the United States) after its submission to the Secretary of Agriculture unless: (1) in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary, public comment is solicited with respect to that application or part thereof; or (2) the name of such person was furnished by the applicant as a source of information concerning the applicant or the application.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1974
Authorizes the Senate Committee on Commerce to make a full and complete investigation and study for the purpose of determining a policy and role for the Federal Government on tourism in the United States which will most effectively enable the industry to realize fully its potential to contribute to the social well-being, the cultural understanding, and the economic prosperity of the United States. Provides that the chairman and ranking minority member of each of the Senate Committees on Appropriations, Agriculture and Forestry, Interior and Insular Affairs, Public Works, Foreign Relations, Government Operations, Labor and Public Welfare, Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, and Judiciary, and the Select Committee on Small Business, or a member of such committees designated by each such chairman or ranking minority member to serve in his place, shall serve as ex officio members of the Committee on Commerce for purposes of this study. Directs the Committee on Commerce to report its findings, together with its recommendations for such legislation as it deems advisable, to the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1974
Provides, under provisions of the Internal Revenue Code relating to scholarship and fellowship grants, that no amount shall be included in gross income by reason of the discharge of the indebtedness of an individual under a student loan if such discharge was pursuant to a provision of the loan under which the indebtedness would be discharged if the individual worked for a certain period of time in certain professions or certain geographical areas or for certain classes of employers. Defines "student loan" for purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1974
Authorizes and directs the Joint Committee on the Library to procure a bronze bust or statue of Martin Luther King, Junior, and to cause such sculpture to be placed in a suitable location in the Capitol as determined by the Joint Committee on the Library. Provides that expenses incurred by the Joint Committee on the Library in carrying out this concurrent resolution, which shall not exceed $2,500, shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the Senate on vouchers approved by the chairman of the joint committee.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1974
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should immediately terminate the suspension of any Presidential proclamation limiting the total quantity of imports, or withdrawals from warehouses for consumption, of fresh, chilled, or frozen cattle, sheep and other specified meat.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1974
Declares that Dr. Kissinger be commended on his outstanding contributions to the cause of world peace and that deep gratitude to Dr. Kissinger for his services is hereby expressed by the Senate. Declares that the United States Senate holds in high regard Dr. Kissinger, and regards him as an outstanding member of this Administration, as a patriotic Amercian in whom it has complete confidence, and whose integrity, and veracity are above reproach, and that the U.S. Senate wishes for him success in his continuing efforts to achieve a permanent peace in the world.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1974
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to transfer specified lands in the State of Colorado to the Secretary of Agriculture for inclusion in the boundaries of the Arapaho National Forest, Colorado.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1974
Removes the requirement that all directors of a corporation seeking an operating-differential subsidy for shipping involved in foreign commerce be citizens of the United States. (Amends 46 U.S.C. 1244(c)).
United States · United States Congress · 30 May 1974
Harry S. Truman Memorial Scholarship Act - Expresses the findings of Congress and declares that it is especially appropriate to honor former President Harry S. Truman through the creation of a perpetual educational scholarship program to develop increased opportunities for young Americans to prepare and pursue careers in public service. Establishes, as an independent establishment of the executive branch of the United States Government, the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, to be subject to the supervision and direction of the Board of Trustees. Authorizes the Foundation to award fifty-one scholarships in any fiscal year beginning after June 30, 1973, for undergraduate study for persons who plan to pursue a career in public service. States that each recipient shall be known as a Truman scholar. Sets forth provisions governing: (1) the scholarship requirements; (2) the procedure for selection of Truman scholars; (3) stipends and institutional allowances; and (4) the scholarship conditions. Establishes in the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known as the Harry S. Truman Memorial Scholarship Trust Fund. Prescribes the procedure for expenditures from the fund. Directs that there shall be an Executive Secretary of the Foundation, appointed by the Board, who shall be the chief executive officer and shall carry out the functions of the Foundation subject to the supervision and direction of the Board. Authorizes to be appropriated $30,000,000 to the fund. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for administrative expenses incident to carrying out the provisions of this Act.
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 · 15 May 1974
Declares it to be the sense of the Senate that it most strongly condemns all acts of terrorism; and that the President and the Secretary of State should and are hereby urged and requested to call upon all governments to condemn inhuman acts of violence against innocent victims and to strongly urge the countries where these groups and individuals are found to take appropriate action to rid their countries of those who subvert the peace through terroism and senseless violence.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1974
Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code, that the initial tax on failure to distribute income shall not apply to the undistributed income of a private foundation for any taxable year for which it is an organization operating long-term care facilities. Defines the term "organization operating long-term care facilities" as a private foundation: (1) whose principal purpose is the long-term care, comfort or maintenance of resident permanently and totally disabled persons, elderly persons, needy widows, or children; and (2) which normally makes qualifying distributions.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1974
Provides that the Secretary of Labor shall not apply the Federal regulations governing permanent housing for agricultural workers to the nonwintering, mobile housing facilities (commonly known as "camp wagons") used in the range sheep industry.
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 · 9 April 1974
Requires motor common carriers of household goods to keep specified records, including late shipments, damaged shipments, and claims settlements, and to file such records quarterly with the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC). Requires carriers to submit such information on all carriers, to be compiled by the ICC to prospective shippers and to retain a receipt thereof.
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
National Huntington's Disease Control Act - States that it is the purpose of this Act to establish a national program for the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of, and research in, Huntington's disease. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants for projects for the establishment and operation of Huntington's disease screening, treatment, and counseling programs. Authorizes the appropriation of $500,00 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and for each of the next two fiscal years for such grants. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for research in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of Huntington's disease. Authorizes the appropriation of $1,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30l 1975 and for each of the next two fiscal years for use for such grants. Directs the Secretary to carry out a program to develop information and educational materials relating to Huntington's disease and to ddisseminate such information and materials to persons providing health care and to the public in general. Authorizes the appropriation of $150,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1085, and for each of the next two fiscal years to carry out this information program. Sets forth the requirements for applications for grants under this Act and the administration of such grants. Directs the Secretary to establish a program within the Public Health Service to provide for voluntary Huntington's disease screening, counseling, and treatment. National Huntington's Disease Control Act - States that it is the purpose of this Act to establish a national program for the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of, and research in, Huntington's disease. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants for projects for the establishment and operation of Huntington's disease screeening, treatment, and counseling programs. Authorizes the appropriation of $500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and for each of the next two fiscal years for such grants. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for research in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of Huntington's disease. Authorizes the appropriation of $1,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975 and for each of the next two fiscal years for use for such grants. Directs the Secretary to carry out a program to develop information and educational materials relating to Huntington's disease and to disseminate such information and materials to persons providing health care and to the public in general. Authorizes the appropriation of $150,000 for the fiscal year ednding June 30, 1975, and for each of the next two fiscal years to carry out this information program. Sets forth the requirements for applications for grants under this Act and the administration of such grants. Directs the Secretary to establish a program within the Public Health Service to provide for voluntary Huntington's disease screening, counseling, and treatment.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1974
Includes organizations which maintain facilities for long-term care, comfort, maintenance, or education of residents permanently and totally disabled persons, elderly persons, needy widows, or children within the category of institutions to which tax deductible charitable contributions may be made under the Internal Revenue Code.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1974
Declares that the Congress hereby calls upon the Secretary of the Interior and the Administrator of General Services to cause to be conducted on or about August 10, 1974, appropriate ceremonies in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States, in the town of West Branch, Iowa.
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 · 22 March 1974
Soviet Energy Investment Prohibition Act - Prohibits any agency of the Federal Government from assisting in the export of any commodity, product, or service from the United States if the intended use involves energy research, development, or exploration in the Soviet Union.
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