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United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Tax Equalization Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require annual cost-of-living adjustments to personal income tax brackets and the personal exemption.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Authorizes the President to extend diplomatic privileges and immunities to members of all offices representing the Republic of China.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Spending Limitation Act - Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to limit the total Federal outlays agreed to in the second or any further concurrent resolution on the Budget to the following percentages of the gross national product: 21 percent in fiscal year 1980; 20 percent in fiscal year 1981; 19 percent in fiscal year 1982; and 18 percent in the fiscal year 1983. Authorizes the Congress to waive such limitations by a two-thirds vote of each House.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Expresses the sense of Congress that Senate approval is required to terminate any mutual defense treaty.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the United States: (1) does not condone the use of force to unify the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China; (2) should assist the Republic of China in ensuring its security; and (3) prevent the exclusion of the Republic of China from international organizations.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Expresses the sense of the Senate that in the event of military aggression by China against Taiwan, the United States: (1) terminate diplomatic and commercial relations with China; (2) provide military assistance to Taiwan; (3) bring the matter to the prompt attention of the United Nations; and (4) take other necessary actions to secure peace for Taiwan.
United States · United States Congress · 13 October 1978
Title I: Declaration of Policy - Establishes a comprehensive national civilian space and aeronautics policy to provide the basis for a world information system, an orbital civilization, exploration of the solar system and the development of other space and aeronautical activities. Title II: National Space and Aeronautics Policy - Sets forth national space and aeronautics principles in order to achieve the peaceful expansion of space and atmospheric environments for the benefit of mankind and the nation. Title III: Program - Directs the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA, in cooperation with private, governmental, and international groups, to pursue aggressive research and systems development in space and aeronautics science and technology. Specifies programs and target dates for the achievement of such research and systems development. Directs the Administrator of NASA, together with the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, in consultation with appropriate Federal agencies, to develop and submit to Congress a 30-year plan including proposed annual funding requirements and a detailed research and development schedule. Requires status reports and revisions to the plan to be submitted every year along with the budget request beginning the third year after the enactment of this Act. Authorizes funds necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 13 October 1978
Extends the best wishes of the Senate to Senator Dewey F. Bartlett upon his retirement from the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1978
Prohibits the President from taking any action that would affect the validity of any post-World War II security and mutual defense treaties without the advice and consent of the Senate, or the approval of both Houses of Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1978
Space Policy Act - Establishes a national space policy and program to enable the United States to maintain leadership in space science and technology. Declares such policy, including that the United States: (1) is committed to space exploration for peaceful purposes and the benefit of mankind; (2) rejects claims of sovereignty over outer space and celestial bodies; and (3) will continue to participate in cooperative international space activities. Directs the President to assure the space program proceeds toward enumerated goals in space and terrestrial application and in space science. Details the goals to be achieved within ten years, including: (1) design of prototype electric power generation transmission systems; (2) design of space technologies determining the feasibility of space-based manufacturing; (3) establishment of a remote-sensing system of earth's resources; and (4) the pursuit of planetary and lunar science and exploration. Requires the President to submit to Congress a five-year schedule, with annual revisions, identifying missions, projects, and programs to achieve the objectives of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1978
Directs the Architect of the Capitol to modify the design of the Hart Senate Office Building to provide for: (1) more office space; (2) a hearing room; and (3) a rooftop restaurant for use by the general public. Authorizes the elimination of certain items in the design of the building which are not cost effective or necessary.
United States · United States Congress · 8 September 1978
Establishes a procedure for either House of Congress to disapprove any rule or regulation which would impose additional burdens on recipients of: (1) water supply from Federal projects; or (2) Federal grant or loan assistance for the development of water supply or treatment works. Requires any department or agency issuing any rule or regulation subject to disapproval to transmit copies to: (1) each House within three days of its issuance; and (2) the affected States at least 60 days prior to its issuance. Forbids any department or agency from initiating legal action to quantify or establish Federal or Indian reserve water rights without first notifying the appropriate congressional committees and affected States.
United States · United States Congress · 6 September 1978
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey specified public lands in San Bernadino County, California, to the town of Red Mountain, California, within two years of the receipt of the application of an association of the residents of such lands. Specifies the conditions under which such conveyance shall be made.
United States · United States Congress · 25 August 1978
Inflation Reduction and Jobs Protection Act - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to postpone: (1) the minimum wage of $2.90; and (2) modification of the formula for determining the amount of wages which an employer is deemed to have paid to a tipped employee from the year beginning January 1, 1979, to the year beginning January 1, 1980. Postpones a subsequent increase in the minimum wage and further modification of such formula by one year.
United States · United States Congress · 24 August 1978
Expresses the strong interest and concern of the Senate in the preservation and restoration of Rhodes Tavern, in the District of Columbia, and urges national and local bodies to make every effort to preserve and restore this building to its original condition, or as near thereto as possible.
United States · United States Congress · 16 August 1978
Congressional Award Program Act - Establishes the Congressional Award Program in the United States and its territories to recognize and promote youth leadership and excellence in the areas of expedition fitness, personal creative development, and public service. Creates a Congressional Award Board with a Director to supervise such program. Authorizes the appointment of State award directors under this Act. Creates three Congressional Award Medals to be awarded under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 August 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to subject to capital gains taxation the gain from the sale or exchange of farming property and undeveloped real property by a nonresident alien.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1978
Minority Employment Opportunities in Transportation Act - Amends the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 to prohibit any assistance under such Act to a locality that enforces any restrictions on taxicabs other than those specifically allowed by this Act. Sets forth a list of allowable restrictions which does not include the requirement of a medallion. Provides for compensation to those who currently have invested in medallions which as a result of this Act are no longer necessary to carry on a taxi business.
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1978
Job Opportunity Bonus Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to make payments to both profit and nonprofit organizations, including commercial enterprises, for the employment of individuals for at least one year. Requires such organizations to be located in an area with a rate of unemployment equal to or in excess of 15 percent for 12 consecutive months. Sets the amount of such annual payment at not less than $2,500 nor more than $4,000 per individual hired. Allows such a payment to be made for an employee for up to three years.
United States · United States Congress · 26 July 1978
Authorizes the issuance of a visa to an individual and admission for permanent residence in the United States, under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1978
Designates July 18, 1979, as "National P.O.W.-M.I.A. Recognition Day."
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1978
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the United States Olympic Committee should immediately take such measures as necessary to have the International Olympic Committee select a site for the 1980 summer Olympic games outside the Soviet Union.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1978
Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to require the export, for sale, donation, or barter, of a minimum aggregate quantity of 7,000,000 metric tons of United States farm commodities each fiscal year from 1979 through 1982, unless: (1) the Secretary of Agriculture determines that export supplies are not available; or (2) the food needs of developing countries, as gaged by specified factors, do not merit such quantity. Requires the President to report to the appropriate committees of Congress the specific reasons for any shortfall should less than the minimum quantities required by this Act be exported.
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow, retroactively to August 15, 1971, the investment tax credit for the construction of agricultural structures used for single purpose food production.
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a deduction from the gross income of an employee who is a participant in a pension plan for cash contributions made by the employee to: (1) a qualified pension, profit sharing, or stock bonus plan; (2) a qualified annuity plan; (3) a qualified bond purchase plan; (4) an individual retirement plan; or (5) a group retirement trust maintained by a labor organization. Limits such deduction to ten percent of the employee's compensation for the taxable year or $1,000, whichever is less.
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1978
Expresses the support of the Senate for the nomination of the Public Groups to Promote Observance of the Helsinki Agreement in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1978
Expresses the sense of the Congress that (1) the trials of Antoly Shcharansky, Viktoras Petkus, and Aleksandr Ilyich Ginzburg are matters of deep concern to the American people that adversely affect Soviet-American relations; and (2) the U.S.S.R. Supreme Soviet should seek a humanitarian resolution to these cases and work toward improving such relations.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1978
Regulatory Cost Reduction Act - Requires the head of each executive department or independent agency to submit an annual report of the costs of compliance with the rules and regulations of that agency or department (hereinafter referred to as "compliance costs") to Congress, the President, and the Comptroller General. Stipulates that such report must include a list of the measures taken and to be taken to reduce compliance costs by five percent each year or an explanation of any failures to do so. Directs the President to formulate the criteria for determining compliance costs and to submit such criteria for review by the public and selected offices. Requires the President and the head of each independent agency to transmit to Congress and the Comptroller General recommendations for reducing compliance costs by five percent for each of the next five years, and to implement those recommendations 60 days after transmittal unless Congress passes a concurrent resolution stating disapproval of the recommendations.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1978
Authorizes a State to apply, as the State's share of the funds in a Federal matching fund program or maintenance of effort requirement, the amount by which Federal income tax collections from such State were increased by the passage of a real property tax limitation provision of the State constitution.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1978
Relocates a portion of the northerly boundary of the Angeles National Forest, Los Angeles, California.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1978
Expresses the sorrow of the Senate upon the death of the Honorable William M. Ketchum, a Representative from the State of California. Appoints a committee of the Senate to join a committee of the House to attend the funeral of the deceased Representative.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1978
Exempts white-water running boats from specified inspection and certification requirements for small passenger carrying vessels.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1978
Amends the Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1975 to extend specified payments to assist refugees in the United States from Cambodia, Vietnam or Laos. Increases from $25,000,000 to $40,000,000 the amount available for special projects administered wholly or in part by State, local, or private agencies for such refugees. Makes any such refugee paroled into the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act after March 31, 1975, eligible to have his status adjusted to that of a permanent resident.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1978
States that the President should, pending removal of Cuban military forces from Africa, (1) recall the United States Interests Section from Cuba and expel the Cuban Interests Section from the United States, (2) deny any license for commercial trade with or export to Cuba under the Export Administration Act of 1969, (3) reverse any other action toward the normalization of relations with Cuba, and (4) defer any further official actions toward normalization of United States relations with Cuba.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1978
Prohibits the Internal Revenue Service from issuing any regulation between July 1, 1978, and July 1, 1979, providing for the inclusion of any fringe benefit in gross income for purposes of taxation.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1978
Amends the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 to extend to September 30, 1984, the War Risk Insurance provisions of such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to direct the Secretary of Labor to report to the Secretary of the Treasury the average rate of increases in prices which occurred during the four previous quarters ending on September 30. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to increase the dollar amounts in each tax bracket for the following year by the percentage increase in the price levels as reported. Directs the Council on Wage and Price Stability to study the impact of indexing individual income tax brackets according to the rate of inflation and to report to Congress and the President with appropriate recommendations. Provides that this Act shall apply to taxable years 1979 through 1981.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1978
Requests the President and the Secretary of State to enter into discussions with General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet Ambassador to the United States, and other appropriate officials of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics regarding the issuance of emigration visas by such Government to U.S. citizens John and Lorraine Jodwalis Vaicekauskiene.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that an individual's allowable charitable contributions shall be deducted when determining the individual's adjusted gross income, thereby allowing the deduction to individuals who do not itemize.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1978
Extends the congratulations of the United States to the Republic of China on the occasion of the inauguration of its President, Chiang Ching-Kuo.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1978
Designates the weekend of or preceding April 29 of each year as "Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust."
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1978
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the seizure and forfeiture of vessels, vehicles, and aircraft used to illegally transport aliens into the United States. Sets forth exceptions to such authority, including a vessel, vehicle, or aircraft used as a common carrier unless the owner or other person in charge was at the time of the alleged illegal act a consenting party or privy thereto. Provides for such seizure without a warrant if incident to an arrest, or if the Attorney General has probable cause to believe such illegal transport occurred.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1978
Investment Incentive Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to restore part of the pre-1969 tax treatment of capital gains by repealing the capital gains item of tax preference for the minimum tax; lowering the corporate alternative tax to 25 percent of net capital gain; and lowering the alternative individual tax to 25 percent of net capital gain.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1978
Urges the Attorney General to seek dismissal of the indictments of three former high-level officials of the Federal Bureau of Investigation: L. Patrick Gray III, W. Mark Felt, and Edward S. Miller.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1978
Directs the Internal Revenue Service not to adopt a position which is inconsistent with previous general audit procedure or regulations in determining whether an individual is an employee for purposes of social security taxation, unemployment taxation, and income tax withholding until a law amending the definition of "employee" is enacted.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1978
Commends Lee Williams for his long, faithful, and exemplary service to the United States Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1978
Sugar Stabilization Act - Sets forth the policy of the Congress with respect to foreign trade in sugar. Title I: International Sugar Agreement - Authorizes the President to prohibit the importation of sugar from any country not a member of the International Sugar Organization, and to otherwise regulate foreign trade in sugar to implement the International Sugar Agreement. Establishes civil penalties for the violation of such regulations. Requires the President to submit to Congress an annual report on the Agreement. Title II: Domestic Sugar Program - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make an annual estimate of the sugar consumption needs of the United States. Establishes a formula for determining the price objectives of domestic sugar. Authorizes the Secretary to establish a quota for the importation of sugar, and to adjust such quota. Authorizes the Secretary to impose an import fee in order to attain the price objective for sugar. Prohibits the established quota from being filled by direct-consumption sugar, except in specified circumstances. Permits the Secretary to suspend such quota and fees under specified circumstances. Authorizes the Secretary to impose a quota on the importation of "sugar-containing products. Prohibits the importation of sugar, liquid sugar, or "sugar-containing products" after the import quotas have been filled. Prohibits the importation of certain sugar or liquid sugar into the Virgin Islands in excess of 100 pounds annually. Prohibits the exportation of certain sugar from the United States. Regulates the exportation of sugar. Sets forth items to which the sugar quota shall not apply. Title III: General Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to issue regulations to carry out this Act. Establishes penalties for the violation of such regulations. Requires certain information to be furnished to the Secretary by persons engaged in the manufacture, marketing, transport, or industrial use, of sugar. Prohibits officials engaged in the administration of this Act to invest in sugar. Establishes penalties for the violation of such prohibition. Authorizes the President to suspend the operation of Title II of this Act in a national emergency. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (1) to conduct surveys and investigations to carry out this Act, and (2) to announce a "daily spot price" for raw sugar in specified circumstances. Terminates the authority of the Secretary under this Act on December 31, 1982.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1978
Directs the Architect of the Capitol to halt construction of the extension to the Dirksen Office Building and provides for the conversion of the site of such extension into a public park to be known as the Philip A. Hart Park and an underground parking garage for tourists and visitors to the Capitol.
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1978
Declares that certain proposed regulations of the Department of the Treasury regarding centralized firearms sales recordkeeping and other firearms control measures exceed the Department's authority, and directs that the regulations be withdrawn.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1978
Gold Medallion Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to offer gold for sale to the public in the form of gold medallions. Provides for the Statue of Freedom and the words "Human Rights" to be on such medallions. Provides for the issuance of such medallions. States that arrangements for the sale of medallions shall be made so as to encourage broad public participation.