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101 records in US in 2001
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 2001
Sets forth the rule (modified closed) for the consideration of H.J. Res. 41 (tax limitations).
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 2001
Constitutional Amendment - Requires a two-thirds vote of each House of Congress in order to pass any bill levying a new tax or increasing the rate or base of any tax. Allows Congress to waive that requirement during war or certain military conflict. Requires all votes under this Amendment to be by yeas and nays and the names of persons voting for and against to be entered in the Journal of each House.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 2001
Public Expression of Religion Act of 2001 - Amends provisions regarding civil actions for deprivation of rights to specify that where the deprivation consists of a violation of a prohibition in the Constitution against the establishment of religion, the remedy shall be limited to injunctive relief. Prohibits the award of attorney's fees with respect to such claims.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 2001
Municipal Solid Waste Flow Control Act of 2001 - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to authorize States and political subdivisions, under specified conditions, to exercise flow control authority for municipal solid waste and recyclable materials voluntarily relinquished by the owner or generator, directing such waste and materials to particular facilities. Imposes identification and volume restrictions on the exercise of flow control authority to the classes or categories of materials to which such authority was applicable on the suspension date. Sets dates for expiration of such authority. Defines "suspension date" as May 16, 1994; the date of an injunction or court order based on a ruling that a State or subdivision law or official act violated the Commerce Clause of the Constitution; or the date of a suspension or partial suspension of such law or act expressly because of the existence of such injunction or order. Imposes limitations on the use of revenues derived by a State or political subdivision from the exercise of flow control authority. Provides for the enforceability under State law of certain legally binding interim contracts. Allows a State to exercise flow control authority over solid waste if, on or before January 1, 1984, the State: (1) adopted regulations under a State law that required or directed the transportation, management, or disposal of such waste from residential, commercial, institutional, or industrial sources to specifically identified waste management facilities and applied those regulations to every political subdivision; and (2) subjected the facilities to the jurisdiction of a State public utilities commission. Lists additional conditions under which solid waste districts or political subdivisions may exercise flow control authority for 20 years after this Act's enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 2001
Constitutional Amendment - States that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 2001
Constitutional Amendment - States that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 2001
Constitutional Amendment - Requires that any bill, resolution, or other legislative measure changing the internal revenue laws shall require for final adoption in each House the concurrence of two-thirds of the Members of that House voting and present, unless the bill is determined at the time of adoption, in a reasonable manner prescribed by law, not to increase the internal revenue by more than a de minimis amount. States that for purposes of determining any increase, there shall be excluded any increase resulting from the lowering of an effective rate of any tax. Requires journal entry of any vote. Permits the waiver of such requirement, for up to two years, if there is a declaration of war or if the United States is engaged in a military conflict which causes an imminent and serious threat to national security and is so declared by a joint resolution which becomes law.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 2001
Provides that, when the legislatures of an additional three States ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, the House of Representatives shall take any legislative action necessary to verify the ratification of such Amendment as a part of the Constitution.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 2001
Constitutional Amendment - Repeals the 22d amendment to the Constitution (limitation on presidential terms).
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 2001
Liberty Bill Act - Amends Federal law to require that the design of the reverse side of all Federal reserve notes incorporate: (1) the preamble to the Constitution; (2) a list describing the Articles of the Constitution; and (3) a list describing the Articles of Amendment. Prescribes the design format. States that such requirements do not limit the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) include other inscriptions or material on the reverse side of such notes; or (2) adopt other design features to deter counterfeiting of currency.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 2001
Constitutional Amendment - Grants Congress power to prohibit the physical desecration of the U.S. flag.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 2001
Constitutional Amendment - Grants Congress power to prohibit the physical desecration of the U.S. flag.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 2001
Constitutional Amendment - Provides in an election for President and Vice President for: (1) each State to appoint two electors to vote for the candidates for President and Vice President who received the greatest number of popular votes cast in the State for such election; (2) each State to appoint one elector for each congressional district in that State represented by a member of the House of Representatives to vote for the candidates for President and Vice President who received the greatest number of popular votes in that district; and (3) procedures for electing the President and Vice President if no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 2001
Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 2001 - Declares it is U.S. policy to support the Zimbabwean people in their struggles to effect peaceful, democratic change, achieve broad-based and equitable economic growth, and restore the rule of law. Provides for certain bilateral and multilateral debt relief for Zimbabwe (including the establishment of a Southern Africa Finance Center for the development of commercial projects there and the Southern Africa region) upon the President's certification to the appropriate congressional committees that: (1) the rule of law has been restored in Zimbabwe; (2) certain election or pre-election conditions have been met; (3) the Government of Zimbabwe has demonstrated a commitment to an equitable, legal, and transparent land reform program; (4) such government is making a good faith effort to end the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo; and (5) the Zimbabwean Armed Forces, the National Police of Zimbabwe, and other state security forces have become subordinate to the elected civilian Zimbabwean government. Restricts multilateral assistance to Zimbabwe until such certification is made. Authorizes the President to waive such requirements if it is in the national interest of the United States. Authorizes the President to provide certain foreign assistance funds to Zimbabwe to support the establishment of democratic institutions, free press and independent media, and the rule of law. Urges the President to consult immediately with the governments of European Union member states, Canada, and other appropriate foreign countries on specified actions to be taken against individuals responsible for violence and the breakdown of the rule of law in Zimbabwe.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 2001
Swan Creek Black River Confederated Ojibwa Tribes of Michigan Act - Restores and reaffirms Federal recognition of the Swan Creek Black River Confederated Ojibwa Tribes of Michigan Indians as a distinct Indian tribe. Provides for the Tribe's tribal lands to be taken by the Secretary of Interior in trust for the benefit of the Tribe. Directs the Tribe to conduct by secret ballot an election to adopt a constitution and bylaws for the Tribe.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 2001
Separation of Powers Restoration Act - States that a presidential order, with specific exceptions, neither constitutes nor has the force of law and is limited in application and effect to the executive branch. Directs the President to provide with each presidential order a statement of the specific statutory or constitutional authority for such action. Authorizes both Houses of Congress, a Senator or Representative, certain State and local officials, and certain aggrieved persons to bring an action to challenge the validity of any presidential order which exceeds the power granted to the President by the relevant authorizing statute or the Constitution. States that, to the extent that any Act of Congress grants to the President or any other executive officer or employee the power to declare a national emergency, such power is divested to Congress alone. Terminates after 90 days all powers and authorities possessed by the President or any other Federal officer or employee or executive agency as a result of the existence of a declaration of national emergency in effect on the date of enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 2001
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that all U.S. citizens shall enjoy the right to a public education of equal high quality.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 2001
Constitutional Amendment - Requires Congress to tax all persons progressively in proportion to their income.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 2001
Constitutional Amendment - Proposes that: (1) equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of gender; and (2) reproductive rights for women under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 2001
Constitutional Amendment - States that all U.S. citizens shall have a right to decent, safe, sanitary, and affordable housing.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 2001
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that all citizens of the United States shall enjoy the right to health care of equal high quality.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 2001
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that all U.S. citizens shall have a right to a clean, safe, and sustainable environment.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 2001
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that every citizen has the right to: (1) work; (2) free choice of employment; (3) just and favorable conditions of work; (4) protection against unemployment; and (5) equal pay for equal work, without any discrimination. Provides that all citizens who work have the right to: (1) just and favorable remuneration ensuring for themselves and their family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection; and (2) form and join trade unions for the protection of their interests.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 2001
Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) no treaty that denies or abridges any constitutionally enumerated right or any powers reserved by the Constitution to the States or to the people shall be of any legal force or effect; (2) no treaty shall authorize any foreign power or international organization to oversee, supervise, monitor, control, or adjudicate citizens' legal rights, privileges, or immunities subject to the domestic jurisdiction of the United States or the States and that any decision of any international body to the contrary shall be disregarded by U.S. and State courts; (3) no treaty shall have any force or effect as law within the United States except as provided for by appropriate legislation duly enacted by Congress; and (4) no executive agreement or other agreement between the U.S. Government and the government of any other nation shall have any force or effect as law within the United States but shall be subject to the same procedures and limitations on treaties as set forth in the Constitution.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 2001
Constitutional Amendment - Authorizes the President, in the case of any bill, order, resolution, or vote, to decline to approve in whole any dollar amount of discretionary budget authority, any item of new direct spending, or any limited tax benefit.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 2001
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the receipts (including attributable interest) and outlays of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance, Disability Insurance, Hospital Insurance, and Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds, the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund, and the Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund from being counted as receipts or outlays of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 2001
Constitutional Amendment - Provides for the popular election of the President and Vice President under a new electoral system.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 2001
Education for Democracy Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to revise and reauthorize requirements for Civic Education. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to or contracts with: (1) the Center for Civic Education (CCE) to carry out civic education activities under the We the People... The Citizen and the Constitution program and The Project Citizen program, and under Cooperative Educational Exchange programs; and (2) the National Council on Economic Education (NCEE) to carry out economic education activities under Cooperative Educational Exchange programs. Revises requirements for CCE implementation of the We the People... The Citizen and the Constitution program and The Project Citizen program. Sets forth requirements for the Cooperative Educational Exchange programs of civic education by CCE and economic education by NCEE. Makes eligible for such programs Central and Eastern European counties, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and the independent states of the former Soviet Union. Allows program eligibility also for the Republic of Ireland, the province of Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom, and any developing country as defined under the Education for the Deaf Act. Amends the Goals 2000: Educate America Act to repeal provisions for an International Education Program.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 2001
Constitutional Amendment - Authorizes the President to disapprove any item of appropriation in any bill. Requires any item of appropriation contained in a bill approved by the President which is not disapproved to become law. Permits the Congress to reconsider any item so disapproved.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 2001
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the granting of presidential reprieves and pardons between October 1 of a year in which a presidential election occurs and January 21 of the following year. Permits a President, after Oct 1 of such year, to delay the execution of a death sentence until January 25 of the year following. Requires that all pardons and reprieves be publicly announced at the time they are granted.
United States · United States Congress · 14 February 2001
Education for Democracy Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to revise and reauthorize provisions for Civic Education. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to or contracts with: (1) the Center for Civic Education (CCE) to carry out civic education activities under the We the People... The Citizen and the Constitution program and The Project Citizen program, and under Cooperative Educational Exchange programs; and (2) the National Council on Economic Education (NCEE) to carry out economic education activities under Cooperative Educational Exchange programs. Revises requirements for CCE implementation of the We the People... The Citizen and the Constitution program and The Project Citizen program. Sets forth requirements for the Cooperative Educational Exchange programs of civic education by CCE and economic education by NCEE. Makes eligible for such programs Central European countries, an Eastern European country, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and the independent states of the former Soviet Union. Allows such program eligibility also for the Republic of Ireland, the province of Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom, and any developing country as defined under the Education for the Deaf Act. Amends the Goals 2000: Educate America Act to repeal provisions for an International Education Program.
United States · United States Congress · 14 February 2001
Constitutional Amendment - States that all U.S. citizens shall have a right to a home, which right shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State.
United States · United States Congress · 14 February 2001
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that the word "person," as used in this amendment and in the fifth and 14th amendments to the Constitution, applies to all human beings regardless of age, health, function, or condition of dependency, including unborn offspring at every stage of their biological development. Prohibits depriving any unborn person of life. Declares that this amendment does not prohibit a law permitting medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother.
United States · United States Congress · 13 February 2001
Constitutional Amendment - Establishes English as the official language of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 13 February 2001
Constitutional Amendment - Provides for a new procedure for appointment of electors for the election of the President and Vice President under which the number of Electors in each State appointed for each candidate shall bear the same ratio to the total number of Electors as each candidate's popular vote total bears to the overall popular vote total in the State.
United States · United States Congress · 13 February 2001
Constitutional Amendment - Provides for a new procedure for appointment of electors for the election of the President and Vice President under which each State shall appoint: (1) two Electors to vote for the candidates for President and Vice President that received the greatest number of popular votes in the State; and (2) for each congressional district, one Elector to vote for the candidates for President and Vice President that received the greatest number of popular votes in that district.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 2001
Constitutional Amendment - Allows Congress and the several States to enact laws regulating the amounts of expenditures a candidate for elective public office may make from personal funds of the candidate or members of the candidate's immediate family, including personal loans.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 2001
Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the International Criminal Court Treaty undermines United States sovereignty and security, conflicts with the U.S. Constitution, contradicts customs of international law, and violates the inalienable rights of self-government, individual liberty, and popular sovereignty; and (2) President Bush should declare to all nations that the United States does not intend to assent to or ratify the treaty and that former President Clinton's signature to the treaty should not be construed otherwise.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2001
Constitutional Amendment - Grants authority to: (1) Congress to set reasonable limits on contributions and expenditures made by, in support of, or in opposition to, a candidate for nomination or election to Federal office; as well as (2) a State to set similar reasonable limits with regard to nomination or election to State or local office.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2001
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that: (1) nothing in the Constitution shall be construed to prohibit voluntary individual or group prayer in public schools or other public institutions; (2) no person shall be required by the United States or any State to participate in prayer; and (3) neither the United States nor any State shall compose the words of any prayer to be said in public schools.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2001
See summary of: H.R. 77
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2001
See summary of: H.R. 79
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2001
Constitutional Amendment - Requires Congress and the President, before each fiscal year, to agree on an estimate of total receipts (except those derived from borrowing) for that fiscal year by enactment of a single subject joint resolution. Prohibits outlays for that year (except those for repayment of debt principal) from exceeding this amount unless Congress, by a three-fifths roll call vote of each House, authorizes a specific excess of outlays over receipts. Requires Congress, whenever actual outlays exceed actual receipts for any fiscal year, to provide by law for the repayment of the excess in the ensuing fiscal year. Requires a three-fifths roll call vote of each House to increase the public debt. Directs the President to submit a balanced budget to Congress. Requires the approval of a majority of the total membership of each House by roll call vote before any bill to increase revenue may become law. Waives these provisions when a declaration of war is in effect.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 2001
Federal Election Standards Act of 2001- Establishes the National Advisory Commission on Federal Election Standards to: (1) examine and report to the President, the Congress, and the chief election official of each State regarding the accuracy, integrity, and efficiency of Federal election procedures in the States; (2) develop standards for the conduct of Federal elections and make recommendations with respect to the periodic review and updating of such standards; and (3) make additional recommendations to Congress with respect to procedural and administrative aspects of Federal elections over which Congress may exercise legislative authority under the Constitution. Directs the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to establish a program to make grants to qualifying States to improve the accuracy, integrity, and efficiency of Federal election procedures by carrying out programs, projects, and other activities to bring the conduct of Federal elections into conformity with such standards.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 2001
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits, except in time of war, Federal fiscal year expenditures from exceeding: (1) Federal revenues for that fiscal year, except revenue received from the issuance of bonds, notes, or other obligations of the United States; and (2) 20 percent of the gross national product for the preceding calendar year. Authorizes suspension of these prohibitions by concurrent resolution approved by a three-fifths vote of each House of Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 2001
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits Federal expenditures (except those for repayment of debt principal) from exceeding revenues (except those derived from borrowing) for any fiscal year unless three-fifths of the whole number of each House of Congress provides for a specific excess of expenditures over revenues by a rollcall vote. Authorizes Congress to waive such prohibition when a declaration of war is in effect or under other specified circumstances involving military conflict.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 2001
Constitutional Amendment - Provides for the popular election of the President and Vice President under a new electoral system.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 2001
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that: (1) nothing in the Constitution shall be construed to prohibit individual or group prayer in public schools or other public institutions; (2) no person shall be required by the United States or any State to participate in prayer; and (3) neither the United States nor any State shall compose the words of any prayer to be said in public schools.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 2001
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that the Congress and the States shall have power to prohibit desecration of the U.S. flag and to set criminal penalties for such act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 2001
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that the word "person," as used in this amendment and in the fifth and 14th amendments to the Constitution, applies to all human beings regardless of age, health, function, or condition of dependency, including unborn offspring at every stage of their biological development. Prohibits depriving any unborn person of life. Declares that this amendment does not: (1) prohibit a law permitting medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother of an unborn person; or (2) limit the liberty of a mother regarding the unborn offspring conceived as a result of rape or incest.