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United States · United States Congress · 26 August 1980
Extends the congratulations of the Senate to Colonel Harland D. Sanders on the celebration of his 90th birthday.
United States · United States Congress · 25 August 1980
Authorizes and requests the President to designate March 16 of each year as "Freedom of Information Day."
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1980
Authorizes the President to negotiate agreements with foreign governments limiting exports of automobiles and trucks to the United States. Terminates such authority and any agreements pursuant to such authority on July 1, 1985. States that action taken pursuant to such agreements shall not be treated as violating U.S. laws.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1980
Authorizes and requests the President to designate September 21, 1980, as "National Ministers Day."
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1980
Amends the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 to extend specified cost-of-living increases for railroad employee annuitants. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the excise tax paid by employers on employees' compensation so as to generate funds to finance such increases. Directs the Railroad Retirement Board, not later than 30 days before the beginning of a calendar year, to determine the account balance-benefit ratio for such calendar year. Directs the Board to publish a notice in the Federal Register of such ratio and of the tax rate applicable under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1980
Disapproves of the action taken by Argentina to sell grain to the Soviet Union. Calls upon the President to formally protest such sales agreement.
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1980
Amends the Rural Development Act of 1972 to authorize appropriations for the small farm extension programs through fiscal year 1985. Sets forth the formula for the apportionment of such funds to the States.
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1980
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the total amount obligated by the executive branch of Government for fiscal year 1981 for (a) transportation and travel expenses of employees, or (b) the use of experts or consultants, should not exceed an amount which is $500,000,000 less than the amount appropriated therefor in the Federal Budget for fiscal year 1981; (2) the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) should allocate such reductions among the instrumentalities of the executive branch and report on such allocation to Congress; and (3) in allocating such reduction in travel and transportation costs, no funds for debt collection or loan supervision should be reduced and the funds of one instrumentality should not be reduced by more than 15 percent. Declares that it is further the sense of the Senate that: (1) Federal agencies should establish procedures to identify the causes of overpayments and delinquent payments of debts owed to the United States, establish better control over receivables, and take more aggressive collection action including the use of commercial collection agencies; (2) the Department of the Treasury should revise its fiscal requirements manual to require interest charges on delinquent accounts and more complete reporting on such accounts; (3) OMB should emphasize accounting system approval and collection efforts as part of the budget process; (4) the Internal Revenue Service should institute a debt collection system providing that debts owed to the United States will be retained out of any tax refunds payable to the debtor; and (5) the Congress should consider the extent to which requested new budget authority for an agency may be reduced as a result of the collection of debts and as an incentive to promote increased collection of debts. Directs the Secretary of the Senate to transmit a copy of this resolution to the Secretary of the Treasury, the head of each executive department and agency, and the Director of OMB.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1980
Provides for decreasing interest rate differentials between deposits or accounts in insured banks and those in savings and loan institutions. Prescribes maximum rates for savings and loan accounts in excess of 0.25 percent of the maximum rates for bank accounts decreasing to 0.05 percent until June 30, 1985.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income Federal grants for tuition and related expenses at institutions of higher education, even though the grant recipient is required to perform future service as a Federal employee. Deems service in a health manpower shortage area as Federal service. Amends the Revenue Act of 1978 to extend for one year the exclusion from gross income amounts received as National Research Service Awards.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1980
Directs the Senate Finance Committee to report to the Senate by September 3, 1980, a responsible, targeted anti- inflationary tax cut to take effect in 1981. Directs the Democratic Task Force on the Economy to recommend to the Senate a comprehensive economic policy at the earliest possible date.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1980
Urges the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to dismantle consumer credit controls and to discourage the provision of credit for speculative, nonproductive purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1980
Deplores the Soviet violations with respect to Afghanistan. Joins calls for the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. Supports the imposition of penalties on the Soviet Union for its aggression. Urges continued action to draw attention to the Soviet violations and to prevent further Soviet incursions.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1980
Amends the Social Security Act to allow interfund borrowing among old age and survivors, disability, and hospital insurance trust funds. Authorizes the Federal Old Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund to borrow from each other or from the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund. Authorizes the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund to borrow from either of the other funds. Limits such borrowing authority to fiscal years prior to 1986. Allows one fund to borrow from another if in any month the assets of the borrowing fund are less than 25 percent of the amount disbursed from that fund during the previous year. Limits the amount borrowed to the difference between the assets of the deficient fund and 25 percent of the amount disbursed during the previous year. Provides that the borrowing fund pay interest. Directs the borrowing fund in any month in which its assets exceed 30 percent of the amount disbursed from that fund during the previous year to transfer all income received to the lending fund until the loan is repaid. Requires the Board of Trustees to make a report to Congress on any amounts transferred.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1980
Expresses the sense of Congress regarding the domestic automotive and truck industry. Declares it to be a goal of the United States to achieve technological superiority in the world automobile and truck industry. Advocates changes in economic, fiscal, and import policies in order to create adequate capital and produce a more favorable climate for the domestic automobile and truck industry.
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that any income received or accrued by a tax-exempt mutual or cooperative electric or telephone company from qualified pole rentals, or by a cooperative telephone company from the sale of display listings in a directory furnished to company members, shall not be treated as unrelated business income subject to tax. Defines qualified pole rental as any rental of a pole (or other structure used to support wires) if: (1) such pole or structure is used by the telephone or electric company in providing telephone or electric services to its members; and (2) the use of such pole or structure pursuant to the rental is in connection with the transmission by wire of electricity or of telephone or other communications.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1980
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President instruct the Attorney General to prosecute all persons who violate the Logan Act, thereby giving color of right to illegal actions by the Government of Iran.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1980
Authorizes and requests the President to designate November 14 of each year as "Operating Room Nurses Day."
United States · United States Congress · 30 May 1980
Underground Coal Gasification and Unconventional Gas Research, Development, and Demonstration Act - Directs the Secretary of Energy to prepare a comprehensive research, development, and demonstration plan for underground coal gasification and unconventional natural gas production. Requires the Secretary to transmit such plan to Congress not later than June 30, 1981. Requires the Secretary to establish immediately research, development, and demonstration programs for underground coal gasification and unconventional natural gas production. Requires the Secretary to solicit proposals and evaluate new or improved technology which would contribute to such production. Directs the Secretary to solicit proposals for the design of underground coal gasification and enhanced gas recovery facilities for the demonstration programs established pursuant to this Act. States that the goals of such programs shall include the demonstration of: (1) a minimum production capacity of 15,000,000 standard cubic feet per day of synthetic natural gas from underground coal gasification by the year 1987; (2) significant gas production on a continuous basis to provide system performance and reliability data; (3) increased gas production from unconventional gas formations through the use of advanced fracturing technology; and (4) unconventional gas production from geopressure reservoirs through multi-long-term high-volume flow tests. Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress a viable design and cost estimate of the demonstration program facilities. Directs the Secretary to prepare a comprehensive commercialization plan which shall include: (1) the identification of efforts necessary to establish a sufficient industrial infrastructure to meet national underground coal gasification and unconventional natural gas production goals; and (2) an analysis of the government actions needed to minimize and eliminate legal and institutional barriers to and economic uncertainties of such plan. Directs the Secretary to transmit such plan to Congress within two years after the enactment of this Act. Requires the Secretary to submit to Congress an annual report of the activities undertaken pursuant to this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 28 May 1980
Authorizes and requests the President to designate June 1 through June 7, 1980, as "National Management Week."
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1980
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should not admit more than 650,000 immigrants, including refugees, in fiscal year 1980, and that the President shall submit to the Congress an annual U.S. immigration goal.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1980
Disapproves the proposed rule under the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 relating to the incremental pricing of natural gas for other industrial uses.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1980
Declares that it is the sense of the Congress that the enactment of a withholding tax on interest and dividend payments would be detrimental to the economic well-being of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1980
Extends the condolences of the Senate to the families of the eight American servicemen who lost their lives during the mission to rescue the hostages in Iran. Declares the sense of the Senate that the President order the American flag to be flown at half-mast on all government grounds from May 4 through May 11, 1980, as a mark of respect for such servicemen.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1980
Paperwork Elimination and Control Act of 1980 - Includes independent regulatory agencies within the definition of the term "agency" for purposes of provisions of Federal law regarding the coordination of Federal reporting services. Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to provide for increased communication between the Government and the small business community with respect to Federal information collection activities. Directs the Director to require each agency to include on each of its information collection forms: (1) the expiration date of such form; (2) a registration number; (3) a statement as to whether the information collection is required by law, voluntary, or a requirement for obtaining a benefit administered by the agency; and (4) the name and toll-free telephone number of an agency representative who shall be designated by the agency head to provide assistance concerning the agency's information collection activities. Requires the Director to consult with the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administration and to establish guidelines which provide for: (1) differing information collection requirements that take into account the resources available to small businesses; (2) exemptions to small business from certain requirements; and (3) consolidated or simplified requirements for small businesses. Requires the Director to develop and maintain a Federal Business Requirements Locator System to serve as the authoritative register of all Government information collection and recordkeeping requirements. Directs the Director to: (1) promulgate rules requiring each agency head to submit a data profile of each existing and proposed information collection and recordkeeping requirement; (2) compare submitted data profiles to profiles in the System and notify agency officials and members of the public, upon request, of the results; and (3) provide any person, upon request, with a list of requirements applicable to a certain type of business. Requires the use of data profiles to: (1) identify duplicative requirements; (2) locate existing information and promote agency sharing of information; (3) provide a central coordination mechanism for information collection activities; (4) catalog requirements by types of industries; and (5) monitor the total requirements imposed on the public by Government so that such paperwork may be reduced. Directs the head of each agency to submit, annually, an analysis of the agency's information collection activities to the Director with the agency's request for appropriations submitted under the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921. Requires the Director to publish in the Federal Register: (1) a summary of such analysis with a notice soliciting public comments; (2) a summary of comments received; and (3) a statement explaining the Director's determination regarding any issue raised by a comment disagreeing with data or conclusions of the analysis.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1980
Grants a Federal charter to the United States Submarine Veterans of World War II. Declares that the purpose of such corporation is to establish memorials to those who served aboard United States submarines and gave their lives during World War II.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1980
Designates July 18, 1980, as "National P.O.W.-M.I.A. Recognition Day."
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1980
Expresses the gratitude and commendation of the Senate to the military personnel who participated in the rescue attempt of the American hostages in Iran. Extends the condolences of the Senate to the families of those who sacrificed their lives in such attempt.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1980
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the week beginning with the Sunday preceding the fourth Thursday in November of each year as "National Family Week."
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1980
Establishes the Falls of the Ohio National Monument in order to provide for the preservation and protection of, and for public outdoor recreation use and enjoyment of, the Falls of the Ohio located in Jefferson County, Kentucky. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire land or interests in lands within the boundaries of the monument by donation, purchase with donated or appropriated funds, or exchange. Specifies that the owner or owners of any improved residential property or agricultural property acquired by the Secretary may retain a right of use and occupancy of the property for noncommercial residential or for agricultural purposes, as the case may be, for: (1) a definite term of not more than 25 years; or (2) a term ending at the death of the owner or owners. Allows the Secretary to lease land owned by the United States which has been acquired by the Secretary under this Act and which was agricultural land immediately before such acquisition. Subjects such lease to such conditions and restrictions as the Secretary deems necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1980
Proclaims the week of April 1 through 7 as National Mime Week.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1980
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System should immediately take steps to reduce interest rates.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1980
Congratulates the University of Louisville basketball team for its championship season.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1980
Powerplants Fuel Conservation Act of 1980 - Title I: Statement of Purposes - States the purpose of this Act. Title II: Accelerated Fuels Conversions of Certain Powerplants - Amends the Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act of 1978 to prohibit the use of petroleum or natural gas as a primary energy source in certain identified electric powerplants, without express exemption by the Secretary of Energy. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants, which shall not be considered income for Federal income tax purposes, to any eligible utility to assist it in meeting qualifying capital costs of converting such powerplants to the use of coal or another alternate fuel as a primary energy source. Specifies grant application requirements. Limits the amount of any grant to the lesser of: (1) 50 percent of the utility's qualifying capital costs; or (2) $4 per barrel of oil displaced on the utility's system by the converting facility. Authorizes appropriations for such grants for fiscal year 1982. Authorizes the Secretary to make a grant to an eligible utility to pay all or a portion of the capital costs of the design and installation of advanced sulfur removal systems for existing electric powerplants. Specifies general requirements for application for such grant and general criteria for approval. Requires the Secretary to submit every such application to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for his recommendation and certification that the powerplant in question is in compliance with applicable air quality standards. Authorizes appropriations for such grants for fiscal year 1982. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to any eligible person for the purpose of paying up to 20 percent of the qualifying capital costs for the construction of coal preparation facilities for reducing the sulfur content of coal. Specifies general requirements for application for such grant and general criteria for approval. Requires submission of every such application to the Administrator for his evaluation and recommendation. Directs the Secretary to give priority in approving grants to those applications which the Administrator determines are likely to result in a significant reduction in emissions from coal combustion. Authorizes appropriations for such grants for fiscal year 1982. Prohibits recovery after December 31, 1985, of any fuel costs by any utility for petroleum or natural gas used in a powerplant by use of an automatic adjustment clause in its rate schedule, without express exemption by the Secretary. Title III: Voluntary Fuels Displacement Program - Amends the Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act of 1978 to authorize the Secretary to provide financial assistance to any qualifying electric utility to achieve reductions in the use of petroleum and natural gas as the primary energy source in electric powerplants. Requires such assistance to be in a manner commensurate with a utility's percentage share of a total 1990 petroleum and natural gas fuel displacement target of 600,000 barrels per day, not to exceed $10,000 per barrel per day of fuel displacement. Requires any electric utility seeking financial assistance to petition the Secretary for determination of its base period usage of petroleum and natural gas. Specifies general contents of any fuel displacement plan. Conditions approval of any such plan by the Secretary upon prior approval by the Governor of the State where the powerplant involved is located. States that inclusion of all or part of a new facility in a fuel displacement plan that is approved by the Secretary shall satisfy any requirement for a determination of need for power otherwise required for the purposes of any State or local law. Provides for recapture by the United States of any financial assistance to any utility failing to achieve or maintain its 1990 fuel displacement target. Requires annual reports to the Secretary by assisted utilities. Authorizes the Secretary to provide $10,000,000 for the establishment and operation of offices of consumer services to assist consumers in their presentations before State agencies in matters directly related to the development and review of fuel displacement plans. Requires the Secretary to make an annual report to Congress on progress toward reducing consumption of petroleum and natural gas by electric utilities. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1982 to carry out the provisions of this Title. Title IV: Mandatory Study - Amends the Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act of 1978 to require every electric utility which consumed 250,000 barrels or more of petroleum or natural gas equivalent on annual average during the calendar years 1974 through 1978 to submit to the Secretary and the appropriate State regulatory authorities a fuel displacement study containing a 15-year forecast of: (1) the estimated cost of continued use of petroleum and natural gas; and (2) the total estimated cost of converting existing powerplants to coal or other alternate fuel use, constructing new plants using coal or other alternate fuel as a primary energy source, or implementing energy conservation programs to eliminate or reduce the use of petroleum and natural gas. Requires the Secretary to submit a comprehensive report to Congress before April 1, 1982, with respect to the results of such fuel displacement studies. Title V: Other Funding Provisions - Sets fiscal year ceilings on appropriations authorized by this Act. Allocates portions of such authorizations to fiscal years 1980 and 1981. Title VI: Other Conforming Amendments - Amends the Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act of 1978 to make conforming amendments consistent with this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1980
Expresses the sense of Congress that the 1980 automatic cost-of-living increases in social security benefits should be allowed to occur as scheduled in accordance with the recommendations of the President.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1980
Rescinds $229,000,000 in appropriations provided for the purchase of furniture by Federal agencies and departments in fiscal year 1980. Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to allocate such rescission among the agencies and departments and to report to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate concerning the allocation. Rescinds $15,000,000 in appropriations made to the Federal Buildings Fund for the rental of space in fiscal year 1980.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1980
Designates the week of September 21 through 27, 1980, as "National Cystic Fibrosis Week."
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1980
Declares a certain individual to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence, under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1980
Energy Transportation Improvement Act of 1980 - Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to apportion funds for the repair of toll free public roads which have incurred a substantial increase in use and deterioration as a result of the transportation of coal, other energy resources, or related equipment, to meet national energy requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to apportion funds for the elimination of hazards at rail-highway intersections where there is a substantial increase in rail or highway traffic as a result of the transportation of coal, other energy resources, or related equipment, to meet national energy requirements. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes for fiscal years 1981 through 1990 out of the Highway Trust Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1980
Energy Independence Grain Reserve Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program designed to assist persons engaged in the business of processing grain into alcohol for use as fuel so as to utilize those quantities of grain owned by the Commodity Credit Corporation that are surplus to domestic and export needs. Sets forth requirements relating to the price and amount of such grain. Directs the Secretary to establish a program of loans to alcohol fuel processors to allow them to purchase and store grain so as to provide them with a dependable supply of grain at a reasonable price. Establishes an alcohol processor grain reserve program, under which the Secretary shall assist such processors in the costs of storing grain for use in alcohol production. Directs the Secretary to use the Commodity Credit Corporation to carry out the purposes of the alcohol processor grain reserve program. Authorizes the Secretary to make loans to any processors eligible for a loan under this Act to assist in the construction or remodeling of a grain storage facility for grain intended for alcohol production. Terminates the Secretary's authority to make such loans five years after enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1980
Congratulates the members of the 1980 U.S. Winter Olympic team, its coaches and officials for a job well done. Recognizes the International Olympic Committee, the U.S. Olympic Committee, the Lake Placid Olympic Organizing Committee and the people of the Lake Placid area for their successful efforts in organizing and producing the XIII Winter Olympic Games.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1980
Trade Suspension Commodity Reserves Act of 1980 - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to establish trade suspension reserves of wheat, corn, grain sorghums, oats, barley, rye, and such other grains as the Secretary deems appropriate, whenever: (1) the President or other member of the executive branch causes the commercial sales of such commodities to any country or area of the world to be suspended for reasons of national security or foreign policy under any provision of law; and (2) the prices producers receive for such commodities are, or will be, adversely affected by such action. Directs the Secretary to announce, within 30 days after such suspension: (1) whether trade suspension grain reserves under this Act will be established; and (2) the amount of the commodity to be placed in such reserves. Requires that such amount be that portion of the suspended commercial exports which should be removed from the market to maintain producer prices at the levels immediately prior to the suspension. Authorizes the Secretary to establish reserves necessary to stabilize prices under this Act by: (1) purchasing, through the Commodity Credit Corporation, commodities suitable for use in the production of alcohol for fuel and paying reserve maintenance and disposition costs; and (2) increasing the stocks held under the producer storage program of the Agricultural Act of 1949 by making additional nonrecourse loans available to producers under such program, if the export sales of wheat or feed grains are suspended. Permits the Secretary to dispose of such commodities, acquired by the Corporation under this Act, only through sale, at not less than the fuel conversion price for the commodity involved, for use in the production of alcohol as motor fuel at facilities which: (1) begin operation after January 4, 1980; and (2) can produce alcohol from agricultural or forestry biomass feedstocks other than the commodity involved. Authorizes the Secretary to facilitate the use for fuel production purposes of commodities held in reserve under this Act by producers under the producer storage program by requiring such producers to repay nonrecourse loans under such program whenever the then current market price for the commodity involved is not less than the fuel conversion price. Directs the Secretary to announce such fuel conversion prices, whenever nonrecourse loans are announced available under this Act and every three months thereafter while such loans are available or outstanding. Requires that such fuel conversion price: (1) be determined by the Secretary according to specified considerations; and (2) permit gasoline-alcohol mixtures using alcohol produced from the commodity to be competitive in price with nonlead gasoline priced at the point it leaves the refinery, adjusted for differences in octane rating. Directs the Secretary to establish safeguards to assure that commodities held in trade suspension grain reserves under this Act shall not be used in any manner to unduly depress, manipulate, or curtail the free market. Requires that all producers of a commodity be eligible for nonrecourse loans under the producer storage program made available under this Act. Declares this Act to be effective only with respect to suspensions implemented after December 31, 1979.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1980
Amends the Clayton Act to prohibit the direct or indirect restriction by any person engaged in commerce on the use of credit instruments in any transaction concerning the sale, resale, or transfer of gasohol or other synthetic motor fuel, where there is no similar restriction on transactions concerning conventional motor fuel. Prohibits any other condition, restriction, agreement, or understanding which otherwise discriminates against or unreasonably limits the sale, resale, or transfer of gasohol or other synthetic motor fuel.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1980
Designates February 19, 1980, as "Iwo Jima Commemoration Day."
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1980
Designates March 1980 as "Gospel Music Month."
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1980
Expresses the gratitude of the Senate for the forceful action of Colonel Ishmail Kahn and Mr. Bill Hamidullah in repelling the attackers of the International School of Islamabad in Pakistan.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1980
Requests the President to designate February 10, 1980, as "Energy Awareness Day."
United States · United States Congress · 20 December 1979
Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to provide coverage under the Medicare and Medicaid programs for the services of a clinical social worker.
United States · United States Congress · 20 December 1979
Expresses the Senate's support for efforts to win the freedom of the hostages in Iran. Calls upon all nations to join in cooperative efforts to restrict relations with Iran. Declares that: (1) any trial or public exploitation of the hostages would be viewed as added provocation; and (2) the American people will not be diverted from their determination that the hostages be freed.
United States · United States Congress · 15 December 1979
Calls upon all followers of Islam to prevail upon their brethren to: (1) release the American hostages held in Iran; and (2) until they are released, permit them to worship regularly in accordance with their religious faiths and meet with clergy of their faiths.