United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1977
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers a refundable income tax credit for 50 percent of the wages paid new employees during the taxable years for work done in the United States. Limits the credit taken to $80,000. Limits the number of employees for whom credit may be taken to ten new employees, or the maximum number of employees paid by the taxpayer during the calendar quarter ending the previous June 30th, whichever number is less. Directs the Secretary to submit reports to Congress, in 1978 and 1980 assessing the impact of this credit.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1977
Exempts courses which lead to a standard college degree from the "85-15" rule under which the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs is required to disapprove enrollment of any eligible veteran, not already enrolled, in any course where more than 85 percent of the students enrolled have their fees paid by either the Federal Government or the educational institution itself.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1977
Amends the Social Security Act to set forth standards. relating to the rights of patients, to be met by intermediate care facilities participating in programs under title XVIII (Medicare) and title XIX (Medicaid) of such Act. Provides that the statement of rights required to be adopted by such facilities shall include guarantees: (1) that the Patient's civil and religious liberties will not be infringed; (2) that the patient has the right to private communications with his physician, attorney, or any other person; and (3) that the patient has the right to have privacy in treatment and in caring for personal needs and confidentially in the treatment of personnel and medical records.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1977
Disapproves the recommendation of the President transmitted to Congress recommending rates of pay for the: (1) Speaker of the House; (2) President pro tempore of the Senate; (3) majority and minority leaders of the Senate and House of Representatives; (4) Members of Congress; (5) Delegates to the House of Representatives; and (6) the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1977
Expresses the disapproval of Congress with respect to the action taken by, or the determination of, the President (under the authority conferred by the Trade Act of 1974) to adjust customs duties to prevent serious injury to an industry) transmitted to the Congress on August 28, 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1977
Expresses the disapproval of Congress with respect to the action taken by, or the determination of, the President (under the authority conferred by the Trade Act of 1974) to adjust customs duties to prevent serious injury to an industry) transmitted to the Congress on August 28, 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1977
Amends the Rules of the House of Representatives to remove the 25-member limit to the number of sponsors of any House of Representatives bill. Permits the addition or deletion of any Member's name as the sponsor of any legislation by a request made by a Member to the Speaker on behalf of such Member.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1977
Natural Gas Temporary Purchase Act - Amends the Natural Gas Act to direct the Federal Power Commission to exempt from regulation sales of natural gas to interstate pipelines where such natural gas was not committed to interstate commerce prior to promulgation of such regulation and where the pipeline company is curtailing deliveries of natural gas supplies.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Empowers each State to choose electors for President and Vice President equal to the total number of Senators and Representatives the State is entitled to in Congress. Mandates the popular election of electors. Authorizes one elector to be chosen from each electoral district, and two electors to be chosen on a statewide basis. Requires that successor electors are bound to follow the declaration of voting intention that each elector must make. Stipulates that any vote cast by an elector contrary to the declaration made by the elector shall be counted as a vote cast in accordance with his declaration. States that in case of a tie the person having a majority of votes cast by electors from electoral districts shall be President. Directs that in a situation of none receiving such a majority, the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, each having one vote, shall choose the President and Vice President from the top three votegetters. Declares a person constitutionally ineligible to be President ineligible to be Vice President. Directs each State legislature to divide the State into electoral districts equal in size, with the number of districts equaling the State's delegation in the U.S. House of Representatives.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1977
Disapproves the recommendations of the President transmitted to Congress, pursuant to the Federal Salary Act of 1967, recommending rates of pay for: (1) the Vice President, Members of Congress and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico; (2) specified positions in the legislative branch; (3) specified judicial personnel; (4) specified positions under the Executive Schedule; and (5) the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1977
Emergency Agricultural Relief Act - Title I: Loan Guarantees to Restock Foundation Herds - Authorizes and directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide financial assistance to qualified individuals, corporations, or partnerships to restock foundation livestock herds depleted as a result of a natural disaster or emergency. Directs the Secretary to guarantee up to 90 percent of the principal and interest on loans made by a legally organized lending agency for such purpose. Allows recipients of such guaranteed loans to receive reimbursement from the Secretary for one-half of the amount of interest payments made by such borrower during the first two years of the loan repayment period. Specifies the criteria which must be met in order to be eligible for such a guaranteed loan. Specifies that loan guarantees outstanding under this title shall not exceed $500,000,000 at any one time. Authorizes the Secretary to issue regulations to carry out the provisions of this title. Title II: Operational Loan Guarantees After Disaster Loss to Crops - Authorizes and directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide financial assistance for operational expenses in maintaining a farm to bona fide farmers whose farm operations are in areas designated as major disaster or emergency areas by the President or emergency areas by the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to guarantee loans and to reimburse borrowers for interest payments in a similar manner as set forth in Title I. Specifies that loan guarantees outstanding under this title shall not exceed $200,000,000 at any one time. Title III: Direct Loans to Farmers in Disaster Areas - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make loans to qualified farmers in areas which have been designated as major disaster or emergency areas on two or more separate occasions since January 1, 1971, if such funds are necessary to the continued existence of their agricultural units. Specifies the authorized uses of such loans. Stipulates that loans made under this title shall not exceed $30,000 and be at an interest rate of one percent per annum with a maximum repayment period of ten years. Authorizes the Secretary to utilize the fund created under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to carry out the purposes of this title and authorizes appropriations to such fund in such sums as the Congress deems necessary to carry out the purposes of this title.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Declares the term "person," with respect to due process and equal protection, applicable to human beings irrespective of age, health, function or condition of dependency, including the unborn. Prohibits the deprivation of life of an unborn person, except pursuant to laws permitting medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1977
Disapproves the recommendation of the President transmitted to Congress recommending rates of pay for the: (1) Speaker of the House; (2) President pro tempore of the Senate; (3) majority and minority leaders of the Senate and House of Representatives; (4) Members of Congress; (5) Delegates to the House of Representatives; and (6) the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1977
Expresses the disapproval of Congress with respect to the action taken by, or the determination of, the President (under the authority conferred by the Trade Act of 1974) to adjust customs duties to prevent serious injury to an industry) transmitted to the Congress on August 28, 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1977
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should not transmit to the Congress any budget or other recommendations with respect to rates of pay for Members of Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to enter into contracts to provide money to meet the general operating cost of public elementary and secondary schools which are located on or near Indian reservations and which are educating Indian children. Prohibits the Secretary from imposing an eligibility requirement that a number of Indian children in excess of 15 percent of the total enrollment must be enrolled in such school. States that the amount of money provided shall be equal to the amount needed by such school to provide education of good quality, taking into account the special costs associated with educating Indian children, and the funds available from other sources. Authorizes appropriations of sums necessary to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Elementary and Secondary Career Education Act - Establishes a career education program for elementary and secondary schools to increase the emphasis such institutions place upon career awareness, exploration, decisionmaking, and planning. Authorizes appropriations for carrying out provisions of this Act for the next five fiscal years. Directs the Commissioner of Education to allot to each State an amount which bears the same ratio to the appropriated sums as such State's population, aged five to eighteen, bears to the total population, aged five to eighteen, of all the States. Stipulates that no State shall be allotted from such sums less than $100,000. Directs the Commissioner to allocate for each fiscal year an amount equal to three percent of the sums appropriated for that year to make grants to local educational agencies located in Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Sets forth procedures for applying to the Commissioner for receiving such funds. Requires that an application contain specified assurances, including assurances that: (1) the State educational agency will be the agency responsible for planning the use and administering the expenditure of funds received under this Act; (2) the State educational agency or State Board of Education will adopt a statement of policy that career education is of prime importance in elementary and secondary schooling within the State; and (3) the State legislature and Governor have been notified of the State's application for such funds. Details the use of funds by the States which are permissible, including: (1) conducting inservice institutes for educational personnel; (2) training local career education coordinators; (3) collecting, evaluating, and disseminating career education materials; and (4) coordinating career education activities with other State and private agencies. Designates the Office of Career Education to be the administering agency within the Office of Education for the review of State plans, applications, and reports submitted pursuant to this Act. Provides that the Office of Career Education shall perform a national leadership role in furthering the purposes of career education. Directs the National Institute of Education to continue its complementary efforts in career education and calls for coordination between the Institute and the Office of Career Education in (1) identifying research and development priorities and (2) disseminating the products and findings of research and development undertaken by the Institute.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
National Agricultural Research Policy Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to coordinate and disseminate all agricultural research information affiliated with the Department of Agriculture, to keep abreast of developments in agricultural research and education and to represent the needs for such research and education within the executive branch of the United States Government. Establishes within the Department of Agriculture the National Agricultural Research Policy Advisory Board. States that the Board's responsibilities shall include: (1) establishing means for evaluating the economic, environmental and social impacts of research and extension programs; (2) reviewing programs, policies and goals of agricultural research agencies; (3) providing a forum for research-sponsoring agencies to exchange information on programs related to agriculture, food and nutrition; (4) recommending national policies, priorities and strategies for agricultural research and education; and (5) reviewing and making recommendations to the Secretary with regard to the allocation of funds for all programs of research and extension carried out by the Department. Directs the Department of Agriculture to establish a Clearinghouse for Federal Human Nutrition Research which shall collect from each Federal agency and report to Congress information pertaining to research with regard to human nutrition. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to land grant colleges and universities eligible for assistance under the First Morrill Act and the State agricultural experiment stations eligible for assistance under the Hatch Act to carry out mission-oriented basic research. Allows the Secretary to make grants on a competitive basis to Federal agencies, research institutions, organizations and individuals for agricultural research. Authorizes appropriations for the competitive grant program of $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1978 and such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 1979 and fiscal year 1980, the total amount for the three-year period not to exceed $150,000,000. Authorizes appropriations for human nutrition research of $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1978 and such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 1979 and fiscal year 1980. Authorizes appropriations of $600,000,000 for fiscal year 1978 for those agricultural research programs existing prior to the enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Expresses the sense of Congress that incentives toward the fulfillment of a national soil and water conservation policy should include tax credits and Federal grants to stimulate the development of shelterbelts.
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1976
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1970 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to purchase additional wheat, feed grains, and soybeans for the reserve inventories created under such Act for use in alleviating distress caused by a natural disaster if the reserve inventory of such commodities is less than $10,000,000 bushels. Prohibits the Secretary from acquiring such commodities through the price support program.
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1976
Approves, pursuant to the Trade Act of 1974, the United States International Trade Commission's June 29, 1976 action providing import relief to producers of honey.
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1976
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to provide increased disaster relief benefits to farmers who plant wheat, feed grains, cotton or rice in excess of their allotments with respect to the 1976 and 1977 crops of such commodities.
United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1976
Condemns the murders of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Karpen Moffitt and the serious injury of Michael Moffitt. Urges a complete and thorough investigation by federal authorities of the circumstances surrounding the bombing.
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1976
Small Business Growth and Job Creation Act - Title I: Small Business Independence and Continuation - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish graduated corporate income tax rates. Changes the holding period for capital assets from six months to one year. Establishes a new alternative tax on capital gains. Increases the estate tax exemption from $60,000 to $180,000. Establishes a new rate schedule for the estate tax. Increases the gift tax exclusion from $3,000 to $9,000, and the gift tax exemption from $30,000 to $90,000. Replaces the present gift tax schedule with a flat rate of 75 percent of whatever the estate tax on such a sum would be. Provides that a distribution of property by a corporation in redemption of stock to pay death taxes shall be treated as a distribution in full payment in exchange for the stock if all of the stock of such corporation which is included in determining the value of the decedent's gross estate is either, (1) more than 20 percent (generally, 35 percent), of the value of the gross estate of such decedent, or (2) more than 40 percent (generally, 50 percent) of the taxable estate of such decedent. Provides that if stock in a corporation is sold by a shareholder owning stock representing more than 30 percent of the fair market value of all outstanding stock of the corporation whose stock is being sold, the gain from such sale shall be recognized only to the extent that the taxpayer's sale price exceeds the cost of replacement property purchased by the taxpayer within two years. Defines "replacement property" as property which is held for the production of income or which is held for investment. Allows the executor of an estate involving an interest in a closely held business to elect to include in the value of the gross estate the decedent's basis in such business rather than the fair market value of such interest. States that the basis of property acquired from a decedent as to which such an election was made shall be the decedent's basis in such property rather than the fair market value of such interest. Allows the marital deduction of the estate tax to exceed 50 percent of the value of the adjusted gross estate when an interest in a specially defined small business is included in the estate. Title II: Small Business Growth Incentives - Allows a taxpayer to choose the cash method of accounting in any case where inventory is an income determining factor and the ending inventory for the taxable year does not exceed $200,000. Provides a deferred tax credit against taxable income for unincorporated businesses. Establishes a graduated investment tax credit. Amends the definition of a small business corporation to allow domestic corporations with up to 20 shareholders (presently, ten) to qualify for subchapter S treatment. Allows a small business to make a subchapter S election at any time during the taxable year. Allows to a business a credit equal to 50 percent of the wages paid during the taxable year to new employees, up to two employees and $20,000 for the taxable year. Allows a similar credit for new disadvantaged employees up to a maximum of $60,000 per taxable year. Allows the practical cost recovery method to be used in computing depreciation. Title III: Small Business Tax Simplification - Allows a corporation to file an application for refund of overpayment of estimated income tax at any time during the taxable year. Provides a special rule for treatment of net operating loss adjustments in the case of new corporations. Increases the minimum credit on accumulated earnings from $150,000 to $500,000. Redefines "section 1244 stock" to mean common stock in a corporation if: (1) such corporation during its preceding taxable year derived more than 50 percent of its aggregate gross receipts from sources other than royalties, rents, dividends, interest, annuities, and sales or exchanges of stock or securities; and (2) the equity capital of such corporation does not exceed $1,000,000. Increases the losses on section 1244 stock which may be treated as ordinary losses (rather than capital losses) from $25,000 to $50,000.
United States · United States Congress · 1 September 1976
Calls for a combined effort by the Government and private sector, with the aid of economic incentives, to attain the objectives of land and water conservation. Specifies that efforts should be taken to conserve and expand the shelterbelts and windbreaks in the Great Plains and other areas of the Nation.
United States · United States Congress · 1 September 1976
Expresses the sense of the Congress that Georgi Vins should be released from imprisonment and that the Government of the Soviet Union should allow him and all other religious believers within its borders to worship God freely, as the Soviet Union is committed to do by the provisions of its constitution and by the provisions of the United Nations Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 1976
Prohibits economic coercion by business enterprises or their representatives based upon religion, race, national origin, sex, or lawful support or dealings with foreign countries. Authorizes any person aggrieved under this Act, or the Attorney General, to bring a civil action against the violator in a United States district court. (Amends 18 U.S.C. 246)
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 1976
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to enter into contracts to provide money to meet the general operating costs of public elementary and secondary schools which are located on or near Indian reservations and which are educating Indian children. Prohibits the Secretary from imposing an eligibility requirement that a number of Indian children in excess of 15 percent of the total enrollment must be enrolled in such school. States that the amount of money provided shall be equal to the amount needed by such school to provide education of good quality, taking into account the special costs associated with educating Indian children. Authorizes appropriations of sums necessary to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1976
Authorizes construction of bank stabilization works on the Missouri River between Fort Randall Dam and Sioux City, Iowa, subject to the concurrence of the Governors of Nebraska and South Dakota.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1976
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that no law varying the compensation for the services of Senators and Representatives shall take effect until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1976
Expresses the sense of the Congress that no individual whose social security or railroad retirement benefits are increased should suffer, by reason of such increase, a loss of or reduction in any pension which he or she (or any member of his or her family) is otherwise entitled to receive under laws administered by the Veterans' Administration. Stipulates that the House and Senate Committees on Veterans' Affairs should without delay consider and report legislation eliminating the possibility of any loss of or reduction in pensions payable under laws administered by the Veterans' Administration on account of increases in social security or railroad benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1976
Emergency Agricultural Relief Act - Title I: Loan Guarantees to Restock Foundation Herds - Authorizes and directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide financial assistance to qualified individuals, corporations, or partnerships to restock foundation livestock herds depleted as a result of a natural disaster or emergency. Directs the Secretary to guarantee up to 90 percent of the principal and interest on loans made by a legally organized lending agency for such purpose. Allows recipients of such guaranteed loans to receive reimbursement from the Secretary for one-half of the amount of interest payments made by such borrower during the first two years of the loan repayment period. Specifies the criteria which must be met in order to be eligible for such a guaranteed loan. Specifies that loan guarantees outstanding under this title shall not exceed $500,000,000 at any one time. Authorizes the Secretary to issue regulations to carry out the provisions of this title. Title II: Operational Loan Guarantees After Disaster Loss to Crops - Authorizes and directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide financial assistance for operational expenses in maintaining a farm to bona fide farmers whose farm operations are in areas designated as major disaster or emergency areas by the President or emergency areas by the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to guarantee loans and to reimburse borrowers for interest payments in a similar manner as set forth in title I. Specifies that loan guarantees outstanding under this title shall not exceed $200,000,000 at any one time. Title III: Direct Loans to Farmers in Disaster Areas - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make loans to qualified farmers in areas which have been designated as major disaster or emergency areas on two or more separate occasions since January 1, 1971, if such funds are necessary to the continued existence of their agricultural units. Specifies the authorized uses of such loans. Stipulates that loans made under this title shall not exceed $30,000 and be at an interest rate of one percent per annum with a maximum repayment period of ten years. Authorizes the Secretary to utilize the fund created under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to carry out the purposes of this title and authorizes appropriations to such fund in such sums as the Congress deems necessary to carry out the purposes of this title.
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1976
Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1977 of $150,000 under the Indian Elementary and Secondary School Assistance Act, $1,200,000 under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, and $632,000 under the Adult Education Act for the continuation of specified grants authorized under those Acts.
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1976
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow as a credit against the income tax an amount equal to the qualified land conservation expenditures paid or incurred by the taxpayer. Defines "qualified land conservation expenditures" as any amount paid or incurred by the taxpayer to establish a wind erosion control and wildlife habitat area on land which was previously used for the production of agricultural products or for the sustenance of livestock. Limits the amount of such credit to the tax due minus the amount of other specified credits.
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1976
Expresses the sense of the Congress that no individual whose social security or railroad retirement benefits are increased should suffer, by reason of such increase, a loss of or reduction in any pension which he or she (or any member of his or her family) is otherwise entitled to receive under laws administered by the Veterans' Administration. Stipulates that the House and Senate Committees on Veterans' Affairs should without delay consider and report legislation eliminating the possibility of any loss of or reduction in pensions payable under laws administered by the Veterans' Administration on account of increases in social security or railroad benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1976
Provides that no Member of the House of Representatives shall expend or draw funds against the stationery allowance except by presentation of a receipt of purchase of stationery or office supplies. Requires that any amount of the stationery allowance of a Member of the House of Representatives which is unexpended shall be paid from the revolving fund for stationery allowances into the contingent fund of the House. Provides that stationery funds allocated to a Member of the House who ceases to serve as a Member shall be paid from the stationery fund into the contingent fund of the House.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1976
Requires any Member of the House of Representatives who uses any official allowance available to Members for the mailing of congressional newsletters to include the following information in at least one such newsletter mailed during each term: (1) the name of each individual permanently employed on the Member's staff; (2) the position of such individual; and (3) the annual rate of compensation of such individual.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1976
Requires the appointment of an optometrist to the National Professional Standards Review Council and the participation by optometrists in the activities of local professional standards review organizations pursuant to the requirements of Title XI of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1976
Expresses the sense of the Congress that students pursuing education in vocational schools or technical schools be treated on an equal basis with students in other institutions of higher education by the Congress, the Office of Education in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and any other agency of the Federal Government administering education programs.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1976
Extends the delimiting period in the case of any eligible veteran who is pursuing, during his or her tenth year of eligibility, a program of education. Terminates such extension on whichever of the following dates first occurs: (1) the date on which the veteran completes, or ceases to pursue, the program he was pursuing in his tenth year of eligibility; or (2) the last day of the 11-year period beginning on the date of his discharge from active duty. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 1662(e))
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1976
Authorizes payment under the supplementary medical insurance program of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act for optometric and medical vision care.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1976
Title I: Citizens' Oversight Panel - Establishes the Citizens' Oversight Panel to accept written, sworn complaints against any Member, officer, or employee of the House of Representatives alleging the violation by such person of the Code of Official Conduct of the House of Representatives or any other standard of conduct applicable to such person. Empowers the Panel to direct the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct of the House of Representatives to undertake a study of such allegations. States that the Panel shall be composed of six members who are not Members of Congress or employees or officers of any government. Provides that the terms of such members will be six years with the terms of two members expiring every two years and with no person being appointable for more than one term. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this title. Title II: Amendment to the Rules of the House of Representatives - Makes technical and conforming amendments to the rules of the House of Representatives. Title III: Effective Date - Declares this Act effective on January 1, 1977.
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1976
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to formulate five-year goals in specified areas of rural development and to include a detailed accounting of the progress made and anticipated in meeting such goals in an annual report to Congress. Requires in such report an analysis of the legislative, financial, institutional and other capabilities and constraints which are relevant to meeting such goals. Requires the appointment of a new Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development within 60 days if a vacancy should occur in such position.
United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1976
Amends the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 1974 to make individuals attending or teaching at vocational schools eligible to serve as congressional interns in the House of Representatives. Defines "vocational school" as a business or trade school in any State which admits only individuals who have completed or left elementary or secondary school, and is legally authorized to provide a program of postsecondary vocational or technical education.
United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1976
Provides that funds shall not be expended from the contingent fund of the House of Representatives for allowances to Members, officers, or standing committees of the House except through the adoption of a resolution by the House of Representatives.
United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1976
Expresses the sense of Congress that vocational education should be treated equally with other forms of education by the Congress, and executive agencies administering educational and Veterans' programs.
United States · United States Congress · 2 June 1976
Extends the delimiting period in the case of any eligible veteran who is pursuing, during his or her tenth year of eligibility, a program of education. Terminates such extension on whichever of the following dates first occurs: (1) the date on which the veteran completes, or ceases to pursue, the program he was pursuing in his tenth year of eligibility; or (2) the last day of the 11-year period beginning on the date of his discharge from active duty. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 1662(e))
United States · United States Congress · 2 June 1976
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States Postal Service shall not close or suspend the operation of any post offices, unless there is a clear and compelling need to do so. Encourages the service to continue cost-cutting programs which do not affect levels of service.
United States · United States Congress · 1 June 1976
Authorizes payment under the supplementary medical insurance program of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act for optometric and medical vision care.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1976
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President shall seek the elimination of surety deposit requirements on vegetable protein products imposed by the European Economic Community. Provides that if the President shall fail to eliminate such requirements, he shall obtain full compensation for such actions under article XXIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
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