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United States · United States Congress · 8 December 1980
Extends the commendation of the Senate to Eli E. Nobleman on his retirement as Counsel to the Committee on Governmental Affairs and names him "Counsel Emeritus" of such committee.
United States · United States Congress · 8 December 1980
Extends the commendations of the Senate to Richard A. Wegman, Chief Counsel and Staff Director to the Committee on Governmental Affairs, 1975-1980, for his loyal and faithful service.
United States · United States Congress · 2 December 1980
Designates the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health located in Montgomery County, Maryland, as the Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health. Directs the Committee on Rules and Administration to place appropriate markers or inscriptions at suitable locations within such center to commemorate and designate such building.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1980
Grants citizenship posthumously to Douglas Clyde Macintosh.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1980
International Trade and Investment Reorganization Act - Establishes the Department of International Trade and Investment to coordinate U.S. policies for international trade, negotiate trade agreements, protect U.S. industry, agriculture, and labor from foreign competition, promote international trade, administer the U.S. Customs Service, and participate in the development of friendly countries. Transfers to the Department all functions of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the U.S. Customs Service, the Export-Import Bank, and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC). Transfers to the Department specified functions of the Departments of Commerce and Treasury and the International Trade Commission. Sets forth the administrative provisions applicable to the Department. Requires the Secretary of International Trade and Investment to report annually to the President for submission to Congress concerning the Department's activities. Makes the Secretary Chairman of the Board of OPIC (currently the Administrator of the Agency for International Development) and of the Export-Import Bank (currently the Bank's President). Makes the Director of the U.S. International Development Cooperation Agency an ex officio member of the OPIC Board.
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1980
Extends the commendation of the Senate to the Honorable Elmer B. Staats, Fifth Comptroller General of the United States, on the conclusion of his long and distinguished public career.
United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1980
Grants, to a named estate, a credit against its obligation for Federal estate tax upon the transfer of specified valuables to the Smithsonian Institution.
United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1980
Directs the Comptroller General to settle a claim of a named newspaper for an advertisement published for the Department of the Army.
United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1980
Amends the District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act to authorize the Council of the District of Columbia to enact legislation which concerns the functions of the United States if such functions relating to the District are performed by Federal officers or employees pursuant to an Act of Congress. Makes this provision applicable to Acts passed by the Council on or after April 22, 1980. Provides that the limitations on the Council for enactment of legislation with respect to the organization and jurisdiction of District of Columbia Courts shall not be construed as restricting its authority to provide by law the extent of such courts' jurisdiction to review orders and decisions of the Mayor, the Council, or any District agency. Declares that, though the Council has no authority to tax non-residents of the District, such restriction shall not be construed as prohibiting it from imposing a tax on incorporated or unincorporated businesses trading in the District. Directs that the limitations on the legislative authority of the Council be strictly construed in a manner consistent with the congressional purposes of the District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 September 1980
Designates the week of October 6 through October 12, 1980, as "National Productivity Improvement Week."
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1980
Establishes the United States Holocaust Memorial Council which shall: (1) provide and encourage appropriate ways for the Nation to observe the Days of Remembrance to commemorate the holocaust; (2) plan, erect, and oversee the operation of a memorial museum to the victims of the holocaust; and (3) plan for carrying out the recommendations of the report submitted to the President on September 27, 1979, by the President's Commission on the Holocaust. Authorizes the Council to receive public land in the District of Columbia on which it may erect the memorial. Terminates the Council's authority to construct a memorial if the erection of the memorial has not commenced within five years of enactment of this Act and sufficient funds to ensure completion of the memorial have not been certified to be available. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1980
Disapproves the proposed export of low- enriched uranium to India pursuant to export license applications XSNM-1569 and XSNM-1379.
United States · United States Congress · 18 August 1980
Investment Tax Act of 1980 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individuals and corporations a deduction from gross income for a percentage of the cost of recovery property that is depreciable tangible property (equipment or machinery) used in a trade or business or held for the production of income, which is placed in service after December 31, 1980. Establishes four classes and recovery periods for such property: (1) Class 1, two years; (2) Class 2, four years; (3) Class 3, seven years; and (4) Class 4, ten years. Requires assignment of property to the class which has a recovery period at least 40 percent shorter than its present midpoint useful life under the Asset Depreciation Range (ADR). Permits the taxpayer to elect placement of any item of property in the class with the next longer recovery period than the class to which it would otherwise belong. Defines the recovery percentage as the percentage (100 percent, 150 percent, or 200 percent) selected by the taxpayer for a class of items, divided by the number of years in the corresponding recovery period. Requires a taxpayer to establish a recovery account for each class of recovery property. Sets forth formulae for additions to and reductions in such account. Limits the amount of a recovery deduction to the aggregate determined by applying the recovery percentage for each class of property to the balance in the recovery account for such class at the end of such year. Denies eligibility for such deduction to utility property, property subject to amortization, and property depreciable on a basis other than time. Increases from 20 percent to 30 percent the ADR variance from class life for public utility property. Revises the applicable percentage for determination of the investment tax credit to make eligible for such credit: (1) 25 percent of the basis of an asset if its useful life is between two and four years (currently, 33 1/3 percent if its useful life is between three and five years); (2) 60 percent of asset basis if its useful life is between four and seven years (currently, 66 2/3 percent if its useful life is between five and seven years); and (3) 100 percent of basis if its useful life is seven years or greater (currently, the same). Allows election of: (1) 20 year straight line depreciation, with Section 1250 recapture, for structures and structural components; and (2) 15 year straight line depreciation, with Section 1250 recapture, for low income housing. Disallows component depreciation for any taxpayer who elects either the 20 or 15 year straight line depreciation. Repeals provisions of the Code relating to: (1) amortization of real property construction period interest and taxes; and (2) additional first year depreciation allowances for small business. Allows an election to treat the first $50,000 (25,000 in the case of a married individual filing a separate return) of expenditures for depreciable equipment or machinery as currently deductible non-capital expenses. Provides for later recapture of such deductions. Limits such election to equipment or machinery placed in service after December 31, 1980. Increases from ten percent to 25 percent the rehabilitation tax credit for nonresidential structures.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1980
Approves the Protocol to the Agreement on Implementation of Article VII (Customs Valuation) of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the administrative action implementing such agreement. Authorizes the President to accept such Protocol if each major industrial country also accepts such Protocol. Makes such Protocol applicable only with regard to other countries which have accepted the obligations of such Protocol and are not otherwise denying adequate trade benefits to the United States. Specifies the relationship of such Protocol to U.S. law. Amends the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by the Trade Agreements Act of 1979, to repeal a provision for accepting the transaction value, for purposes of customs valuation, of imported merchandise in a sale between a related buyer and seller, if such value approximates the transaction value in sales to unrelated buyers of identical merchandise produced in a different country. Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to make technical revisions in the tariff classifications of various chemicals. Authorizes the President to proclaim tariffs on specified chemicals. Subjects specified chemicals to any staged rate reductions proclaimed by the President for other specified chemical classifications.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1980
Service Industries Development Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to establish in the Department of Commerce a service industries development program. Lists the purposes of such program which include: (1) promoting the competitiveness of U.S. service firms and U.S. employees through economic policies; (2) promoting the use and sale of U.S. services abroad; (3) analyzing the effect on the international competitiveness of U.S. service industries of Government regulation, taxes, and antitrust policies; (4) collecting statistical information concerning domestic service industries; and (5) conducting a program of research and analysis of service-related issues and problems. Authorizes the Secretary to establish a Service Sector Consultative Committee to promote the development and competitiveness of U.S. service firms. Sets forth the purposes of the Committee which include: (1) advising the Department on measures the Government may take to enhance the competitiveness of the private sector; (2) acting as a liaison between the Government and the private sector; (3) maintaining communications between other Government advisory committees on service-related issues; and (4) discussing and studying domestic service-related matters relating to economic policy. Directs the Committee to report to the Secretary annually on its findings. Requires the Secretary to submit to Congress an annual report on the activities of the Department directed to promoting U.S. service industries. Authorizes the President to establish an Interagency Committee to discuss and make recommendations on service sector issues. Declares that such Committee shall report to either the Economic Policy Group or another economic entity as designated by the President. Directs the Committee: (1) to develop strategies for promoting competitive U.S. service industries; (2) to coordinate the implementation of service-related policies within the Government; (3) to review the adequacy of financial and personnel resources of Government agencies allocated to service industries; and (4) to seek to eliminate disparate treatment between manufacturing and service industries.
United States · United States Congress · 28 July 1980
Lee Metcalf Fair Employment Relations Resolution - Title I: Fair Employment Relations Board - Establishes as an office of the Senate, the Senate Fair Employment Relations Board to: (1) establish and publish policies and guidelines for the implementation and enforcement of rule XLII of the Standing Rules of the Senate; (2) supervise the actions of the Director and the operations of the Senate Fair Employment Relations Office; and (3) hear and determine complaints. Title II: Senate Fair Employment Relations Office - Establishes as an office of the Senate, the Senate Fair Employment Relations Office which shall develop procedures to implement the policies of the Board, gather information relating to Senate employment practices, and review procedures for the hearing and settling of complaints. Title III: Complaints of Violations of Equal Employment Opportunity - Provides for counseling and assistance through the Office, to any individual who believes that he or she has been discriminated against in violation of rule XLII. Sets forth the procedure for filing informal complaints based on employment discrimination, and for the informal settlement of such claims. Sets forth the procedure for filing formal complaints, and for conducting hearings on such claims. Provides for an appeal to the Senate Select Committee on Ethics of an adverse decision or order of the Board. Sets forth remedies available to individuals who have been discriminated against in violation of rule XLII. Title IV: Amendments to Standing Rules of the Senate - Amends rule XLII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, relating to employment practices, to provide that any complaint of violation of such rule be heard and settled by the Senate Fair Employment Relations Board in accordance with provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1980
Disapproves the proposed export of low- enriched uranium to India pursuant to export license applications XSNM-1569 and XSNM-1379.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an income tax credit of 25 percent of the qualified research and experimental expenditures paid or incurred by a taxpayer in connection with his trade or business. Defines "qualified research and experimental expenditures" as those business-related expenditures which are currently deductible under provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, but limits the scope of such expenditures to technological research designed to develop or improve products or services. Excludes expenditures for research or experimentation in the social sciences or humanities, government-funded research, or research carried on in the taxpayer's behalf. Limits the amount of expenditures eligible for the credit to those which exceed 100 percent of the annual average of such expenditures for the immediately preceding three years. Provides for a three-year carryback and seven-year carryover of unused credits.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1980
Commission on Presidential Nominations Resolution - Establishes the Commission on Presidential Nominations to make an investigation regarding the presidential nominating process. Directs the Commission to report to the President and Congress respecting such investigation, including recommendations for the 1984 presidential elections. States that the Commission shall cease to exist 60 days after submitting such report. Sets forth the powers of such Commission, and related administrative provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1980
Designates the United States Federal Building in New Haven, Connecticut, as the Robert N. Giaimo Federal Building.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1980
Statistical Policy Act of 1980 - Establishes an Office of Statistical Policy within the Executive Office of the President. Specifies the duties of the Director of the Office which include: (1) providing overall planning and policy for the statistical programs of Federal agencies; (2) issuing guidelines to improve the gathering, analysis, and dissemination of statistical information by agencies; (3) coordinating Federal statistical functions; (4) evaluating the performance of Federal statistical agencies or programs; and (5) providing for the exchange of information among the statistical programs of Federal agencies. Requires the Director, in consultation with the appropriate agency head and the Secretary of State, to determine: (1) what statistical information to provide in response to official requests received by the Government from any international organization of which the United States is a member; and (2) which agency shall prepare such information. Establishes a Federal Council on Statistical Policy to advise and assist the President with respect to the improvement, development, and coordination of Federal statistical services.
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 · 26 June 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend from June 15, 1981, to January 1, 1986, the termination date for certain provisions of the Tax Reform Act of 1976 relating to the allowance of a deduction for the amortization of certain rehabilitation expenditures for certified historic structures.
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.
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