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101 records in US in 1987
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1987
Congratulates the Filipino people on the ratification of a new constitution and reiterates the desire of the United States to help the Philippine Government.
United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits Government expenditures for any fiscal year from exceeding: (1) its revenues in such fiscal year; or (2) 19 percent of the gross national product for the last calendar year ending before such fiscal year. Permits the Congress to suspend such prohibition for any fiscal year in which a declaration of war is in effect or whenever three-fifths of the total membership of each House deem it necessary.
United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1987
Requires that the Congress convene in Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, on July 16, 1987, to commemorate the bicentennial of the Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention.
United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1987
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the States should ratify the proposed amendment to the Constitution which provides that no law varying the compensation for the services of Members of Congress shall take effect until an election of Representatives has intervened.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits total Government expenditures (excluding expenditures for the redemption of Government obligations) from exceeding projected revenue (excluding revenue derived from the issuance of Government obligations) for a fiscal year, unless the Congress projects that the real growth rate of the economy will be less than three percent for that year. Requires that any deficit resulting from expenditures exceeding revenue in such a year of low economic growth be extinguished within the five subsequent years. Provides for the suspension of this article in time of war or national emergency as declared by the Congress. Requires that any surplus revenue over expenditures for a fiscal year be considered revenue for the following fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Provides for a four-year term of office for Members of the House of Representatives. Requires Representatives who declare candidacy for election to the Senate to vacate their seats in the House at the time of such declaration.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Creates a commission to establish the annual rate of pay for Members of Congress on January 1 of each odd-numbered year. Makes March 1 of that calendar year the effective date for such annual rate of pay. Makes appropriations to the Commission for purposes of carrying out its duties.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Permits the President to disapprove any item of appropriation in any Act or joint resolution. Requires the President to return with his objections any disapproved item of appropriation to the House in which the bill originated. Subjects such bills to the same proceedings as other bills disapproved by the President.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that the Constitution does not secure a right to abortion.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that nothing in the Constitution shall be construed to prohibit individual or group silent prayer or reflection in public schools. Prohibits the United States or any State from requiring any person to participate in such prayer or encouraging any particular prayer.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Permits the President to disapprove any item of appropriation in any Act or joint resolution, except an item of appropriation for the legislative branch or the judicial branch. Requires the President to return with his objections any item of appropriation disapproved to the House in which the bill originated. Subjects such bills to the same proceedings as other bills disapproved by the President.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Allows the President an item veto of appropriations bills. Requires the President, in signing such a bill, to designate the provisions disapproved and return the bill to the House in which it originated. Subjects such bills to the same proceedings as other bills disapproved by the President.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that the right to employment opportunity shall be guaranteed to each person by the United States and that the Congress has the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that the right to life is the paramount and most fundamental right of a person. Defines "person" to include the unborn for the purpose of the right to life guarantee. States that nothing in this article shall prohibit a law allowing medical procedures required to prevent the death of either the pregnant woman or the unborn offspring.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that the right to life vests in a human being from the moment of fertilization.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Defines "person" to include the unborn for the purpose of the right to life guarantee. Exempts from applicability of this amendment laws permitting medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Defines "person" to include the unborn for the purpose of the right to life guarantee. Exempts from applicability of this amendment laws permitting medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that the right to life vests in a human being from the moment of fertilization.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that the right to life is the paramount and most fundamental right of a person. Defines "person" to include the unborn for the purpose of the right to life guarantee. States that nothing in this article shall prohibit a law allowing medical procedures required to prevent the death of either the pregnant woman or the unborn offspring.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Requires, before each fiscal year: (1) the President to submit to the Congress a proposed statement of revenues and appropriations for the upcoming fiscal year and measures necessary to assure that appropriations will not exceed revenues; and (2) the Congress to approve such a statement and adopt measures to assure that appropriations do not exceed revenues for that year. Prohibits any bill which causes appropriations to exceed revenues for a fiscal year from becoming law unless passed by two-thirds of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Authorizes the Congress to waive this Article in a national emergency.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits any increase in the public debt of the United States unless three-fifths of the whole number of each House of the Congress approves authorizing legislation and such legislation becomes law.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that the right to life is the paramount and most fundamental right of a person. Defines "person" to include the unborn for the purpose of the right to life guarantee. States that nothing in this article shall prohibit a law allowing medical procedures required to prevent the death of either the pregnant woman or the unborn offspring.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits a person who has been elected to: (1) the Senate two times from being eligible for election or appointment to the Senate; and (2) the House of Representatives six times from being eligible for election to the House.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Provides for staggered four-year terms for Members of the House of Representatives. Prohibits persons from being elected to the House more than four times or more than three times to four-year terms. Prohibits persons from being elected to the Senate more than twice.
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Authorizes the Congress to enact laws regulating the amounts of contributions and expenditures intended to affect elections to Federal offices.
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the total appropriations of the Congress from exceeding estimated revenues. Authorizes the suspension of such prohibition in time of war or national emergency. Prohibits any increases in the national debt as it exists on the date this article is ratified. Sets forth a schedule for repayment of the national debt.
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Defines "person" to include the unborn for the purpose of the right to life guarantee. Exempts from applicability of this amendment laws permitting medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother.
United States · United States Congress · 8 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Proclaims the English language to be the official language of the United States. Grants the Congress the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
United States · United States Congress · 8 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the total appropriations of the Congress from exceeding estimated revenues. Authorizes the suspension of such prohibition in time of war or national emergency. Prohibits any increase in the national debt as it exists on the date this article is ratified. Sets forth a schedule for repayment of the national debt.
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the Government's expenditures from exceeding its revenues in any fiscal year, except in cases of national emergency as determined by a three-fifths vote of the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the Government's expenditures from exceeding its revenues in any fiscal year, except in cases of national emergency as determined by a three-fifths vote of the Congress. Prohibits total Government expenditures during a fiscal year from exceeding 20 percent of the gross national product for the preceding calendar year.
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Requires the Congress to assure that the total outlays of the Government do not exceed its total receipts during any fiscal year. Provides for the phased implementation of this requirement after the ratification of this amendment. Permits expenditures to exceed national revenues in time of national emergency, but never by more than ten percent. Provides that during the fourth fiscal year beginning after the ratification of this amendment and for the 39 succeeding fiscal years, the total receipts of the Government shall exceed outlays by an amount equal to two and a half percent of the Federal indebtedness at the beginning of the fourth fiscal year. Requires the elimination, within three fiscal years, of any indebtedness incurred as a result of a national emergency.
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Provides for a six-year term for the offices of President and Vice President and prohibits any person from being elected to such offices more than twice. Declares the term of office of a Representative to be three years. Prohibits a person from being a Senator if such person has been a Senator throughout the immediately preceding three terms, or from being a Representative if such person has been a Representative throughout the immediately preceding six terms. States that such prohibition does not prevent any person from filling a congressional vacancy during a term.
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Repeals congressional authority to declare war.
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Modifies the fifth amendment to the United States Constitution to: (1) state that no person shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself except in open court; and (2) provide that a person shall not be confronted with prior criminal convictions except where they are an element of the crime charged. Modifies the sixth amendment to entitle the accused in all criminal prosecutions to be informed of the evidence of the accusation (in addition to the nature and cause of the accusation as currently provided).
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits any person from serving: (1) as a Representative for more than ten years in a 12-year period; (2) as a Senator for more than 12 years during any 14-year period; or (3) as a judge of the Supreme Court or an inferior court for more than ten years in a 12-year period.
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Permits States to propose constitutional amendments if the President establishes that two-thirds of the States have approved proposals for substantially identical amendments. Makes such proposed constitutional amendment part of the U.S. Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the States.
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits a person from being eligible for election or appointment to the office of Senator for more than three full six-year terms. Prohibits a person from being eligible for election to the office of Representative for more than nine full two-year terms.
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Limits the President and the Vice President to a single six-year term of office.
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits abortion unless the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest, or such termination is necessary to prevent the death of the mother. States that for purposes of the fifth and 14th amendments to the Constitution, the word "person" applies to all human beings without regard to age, health, function, or condition of dependency.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits Federal outlays from exceeding Federal receipts in any fiscal year, unless the Congress provides for a specific excess by a three-fifths vote of both Houses. Prohibits a bill to increase revenue from becoming law unless approved by a majority of the whole number of both Houses of Congress by roll call vote. Authorizes the Congress to waive this article for any year in which a declaration of war is in effect.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Requires the Congress, before each fiscal year, to adopt a statement in which total outlays are not greater than total receipts for that year. Allows the Congress, by a three-fifths vote of each House, to provide for a specific excess of outlays over receipts. Requires the President and the Congress to ensure that actual outlays do not exceed the outlays set forth in such statement. Requires a three-fifths vote of each House to increase the public debt in order to fund any excess of outlays over receipts for any fiscal year. Requires the approval by a majority of the whole number of each House by rollcall vote before any bill to increase revenue may become law. Directs the President to submit to the Congress a proposed budget for each fiscal year in which total outlays do not exceed total receipts. Permits the President to also recommend an alternative budget in which outlays exceed receipts with an explanation of the need for such excess. Waives this article for any fiscal year in which a declaration of war is in effect. Authorizes the waiver of this article for any fiscal year in which the United States is engaged in military conflict threatening national security, if so declared by an enacted joint resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Requires the Congress, prior to each fiscal year, to adopt a statement of receipts and outlays for that year in which total outlays are not greater than total receipts. Permits the Congress, in such statement, to provide for a specific excess of outlays over receipts by a three-fifths vote. Requires the President and the Congress to ensure that actual outlays do not exceed the outlays set forth in such statement. Prohibits total receipts for any fiscal year set forth in such statement from increasing by a rate greater than the increase in national income in the last calendar year, unless a bill directed solely to approving specific additional receipts is enacted. Requires the President, prior to each fiscal year, to transmit to the Congress a proposed statement of receipts and outlays for that year consistent with the provisions of this article. Permits the Congress to waive the provisions of this Act with respect to any fiscal year in which a declaration of war is in effect. Declares that total receipts shall include all receipts of the United States, except those derived from borrowing, and total outlays shall include all outlays of the United States, except those for repayment of debt principal. Declares that the amount of Federal public debt as of the first day of the second fiscal year beginning after the ratification of this article shall become the permanent debt limit. Prohibits any increase in such limit unless three-fifths of the whole number of each House of the Congress pass a bill approving such increase and such bill becomes law.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Requires the Congress, prior to each fiscal year, to adopt a statement for that year in which total outlays are not greater than total receipts. Permits the Congress, by a three-fifths vote of each House, to provide for a specific excess of outlays over receipts in such statement. Prohibits actual outlays from exceeding the outlays set forth in such statement. Prohibits total receipts in such statement from increasing by a rate greater than the increase in national income in the previous year, unless a bill directed solely to approving specific additional receipts is enacted. Permits the Congress to waive the provisions of this Act for any fiscal year in which a declaration of war is in effect.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Permits the President to reduce or disapprove any item of appropriation in any Act or joint resolution, except an item of appropriation for the legislative branch. Requires the President to return with his objections any item of appropriation reduced or disapproved to the House in which the bill originated. Subjects such bills to the same proceedings as other bills disapproved by the President, except that only a majority vote of each House shall be required to approve an item which has been disapproved or to restore an item reduced by the President to its original amount.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Proclaims the English language to be the official language of the United States. Grants the Congress the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that nothing in the Constitution shall be construed to prohibit individual or group prayer in public schools or other public institutions. States that no person shall be required by the United States or any State to participate in prayer. Provides that neither the United States nor any State shall compose prayers to be said in public schools.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of sex.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Designates September 17, 1987, as Constitution Day. Requires such day to be treated as a legal public holiday.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Eliminates the jurisdiction of Federal courts established under article III of the Constitution to modify any State court order which is subject to review by the highest court of the State.