United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should: (1) continue to express U.S. opposition to the exile of Igor Ogurtsov; and (2) urge the Soviet Union to provide Igor Ogurtsov with medical care, grant his release from exile, and accept his application for an exit visa and allow him to emigrate without forcing him to renounce his views (in accordance with a specified international treaty).
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should appoint a task force on agricultural credit to: (1) examine agricultural credit problems; (2) report to the President and Congress on the credit-related problems confronting agricultural producers and related businesses; and (3) make recommendations on how to resolve problems that might be identified. Directs the task force to: (1) identify and describe the components of the existing agricultural credit system; (2) identify and describe the credit needs of agricultural producers and related businesses; (3) identify and evaluate the current agricultural credit system's ability to meet producer credit needs; and (4) develop for the President and Congress specific recommendations for policies and legislation to ensure the availability of adequate agricultural credit at reasonable cost.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Directs the Senate legal counsel to bring civil action to enforce a specified subpoena of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations to Anthony J. Accardo.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 2025
Expresses the sense of the Senate that a National Commission on Entitlement Reform should be established to study the growth of entitlement programs and report to Congress after January 1, 1985, on steps to reform and curb such Federal spending. Directs that such Commission be composed of Government and private sector members.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 2021
Authorizes the President of the Senate and the President pro tempore to make appointments to commissions or committees during the sine die adjournment of Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 2021
Tenders the thanks of the Senate to the Honorable George Bush, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate, for the courteous, dignified, and impartial manner in which he presided over the first session of the 98th Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Amends rule XVI of the Standing Rules of the Senate to prohibit the offering of amendments to a bill or joint resolution making continuing appropriations except with the approval of two-thirds of the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 2021
Tenders the thanks of the Senate to the Honorable Strom Thurmond, President pro tempore, for the courteous, dignified, and impartial manner in which he has presided during the first session of the 98th Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Amends rule XVI of the Standing Rules of the Senate to prohibit the offering of amendments to a bill or joint resolution raising the public debt limit, unless: (1) the amendment changes the figure limiting the public debt; or (2) two-thirds of the Senate approves the consideration of such amendment.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Expresses the appreciation of the Senate to certain organizations for their efforts in carrying out an emergency food distribution and shelter program.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 2025
Directs the President to furnish to the House of Representatives, within ten days after adoption of this resolution, documents relating to: (1) the U.S. invasion of Grenada; (2) U.S. communications with international organizations with respect to Grenada; and (3) combat activities of and casualties incurred by the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that, upon confirmation, the new Secretary of the Interior should act to insure that the policies and programs of the Department of the Interior conform with the expressed will of the Congress and regain public support and confidence.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Expresses the sense of the House that: (1) U.S. negotiators, in negotiations with Japan, should insist that Japan dismantle all nontariff barriers to imports of beef; and (2) if progress is not made toward the dismantling of such nontariff barriers by a specified time, the U.S. Trade Representative should seek appropriate relief under U.S. and international trade law.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Veterans Administration should return to providing upright memorial markers at the graves of veterans buried in national cemeteries.
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 2025
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that U.S. Government officials should honor and uphold the protections of the press provided by the first amendment of the U.S. Constitution and insure the right of the press to provide uncensored reports of all future nonconfidential military activities of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 2025
Declares that it should be U.S. policy to: (1) support the people of Afghanistan in their struggle to be free from foreign domination; (2) provide the Afghans, upon request, with material assistance; and (3) pursue a negotiated settlement of the war in Afghanistan based on the total withdrawal of Soviet troops and the recognition of the right of the Afghans to choose their own destiny.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Declares that the London Dumping Convention: (1) is the appropriate vehicle for the regulation and control of subseabed emplacement of high-level radioactive materials; and (2) should continue to prohibit the subseabed emplacement of high-level radioactive wastes until scientific research demonstrates that such activity will not pose a threat to the marine environment.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Expresses the support of Congress with respect to the right of Soviet peace groups to freely express their views and to organize within the Soviet Union. Calls upon the Soviet Union to: (1) honor its obligations under the World Disarmament Campaign Resolution by allowing the flow of information on peace and disarmament; (2) cease its harassment of peace groups in its country; and (3) honor its obligations under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Helsinki Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 2025
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should: (1) enter into negotiations with Nicaragua to consider that country's October 1983 treaty proposals; (2) encourage Honduras to enter into negotiations with Nicaragua to consider Nicaragua's treaty proposal to Honduras; and (3) encourage other Central American countries to enter into negotiations with Nicaragua to consider Nicaragua's treaty proposal to them.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 2024
Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the Federal Railroad Administration, in conjunction with the Association of American Railroads, should be commended for its efforts to address the alcohol and drug abuse problems of railroad employees; (2) Congress and the Administration should continue to promote voluntary efforts by the railroads and rail labor organizations to implement working employee assistance programs and to enter into specified agreements; and (3) the Administration should continue to study the necessity of a Federal rulemaking to control such drug and alcohol abuse problem.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 2025
Expresses the sense of Congress that the public and private sectors should establish programs to assist low-income individuals in meeting heating fuel and weatherization costs.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should: (1) be commended for his efforts to negotiate a multilateral agreement banning chemical weapons; and (2) propose the resumption of negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union to achieve a verifiable ban on chemical weapons.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 2025
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) reimbursement rates for hospices not be lowered below those published August 22, 1983, in the Federal Register; (2) the Health Care Financing Administration should begin to collect reliable data on cost experiences of hospices participating in the Medicare program (title XVIII of the Social Security Act) so that future rate changes will reflect the accurate cost of service which terminally ill patients require; and (3) no further delay in publishing the final regulations implementing the Medicare hospice benefit will be tolerated.
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 2026
States the finding of the Senate that the bankruptcy laws are used for purposes for which they were not intended. Resolves that the Congress should act immediately to enact legislation to remedy defects in the Bankruptcy Code that have encouraged abuses of the bankruptcy laws.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 2021
Establishes the Special Committee on Security and Cooperation in Europe to monitor the acts of signatories to the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, with particular regard to cooperation in humanitarian fields. Directs the Special Committee to encourage the Federal government and private organizations to take advantage of provisions of the Final Act to expand East-West economic cooperation.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 2021
Authorizes named congressional employees to appear, testify, and produce documents in the cases of Republicbank, Lubbock, etc., et al. v. United States of America, and the Travelers Insurance Corp. v. United States of America, except concerning matters determined privileged from disclosure.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 2021
Elects the following Members to the specified House committees: George (Buddy) Darden, of the Georgia, to the Committee on Armed Services and Frank McCloskey, of Indiana, to the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 2024
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should designate Lebanon as an overseas area from which mail from a member of the armed forces of the United States or a friendly foreign nation may be sent postage free to a place within the delivery limits of a U.S. post office.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the American Broadcasting Company, the Department of State, and the U.S. Information Agency should work to have the television movie "The Day After" aired to the Soviet public.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Directs the Architect of the Capitol to enclose the galleries of the House of Representatives with a transparent and substantial material and to install equipment so that the proceedings on the floor of the House will be clearly audible in the galleries.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
States that the Congress: (1) holds Iran responsible for upholding the rights of the Baha'is; (2) condemns Iran's decision to destroy the Baha'i faith; and (3) calls upon the President to work with appropriate foreign governments to form an appeal to Iran concerning the Baha'is, to cooperate with the United Nations in its efforts on behalf of the Baha'is, and to provide humanitarian assistance for Baha'is who flee Iran.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should instruct the U.S. delegation to the United Nations to introduce before the U.N. General Assembly a resolution calling for the withdrawal of Syrian and Syrian-controlled forces from Lebanon in order to facilitate the return of peace to the country.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the news media should voluntarily refrain from projecting election results before the polls close; and (2) the news media and industry, trade and professional organizations should voluntarily adopt guidelines to assure that exit interview data is not used to project election results before the polls close.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Expresses the sense of the Congress that military assistance to Turkey should be suspended until Turkey has taken steps to reverse the action declaring the independent Turkish Republic of North Cyprus and to promote the unity of the Republic of Cyprus.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the United States and other nations should not recognize the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and that a meeting of the United Nations Security Council should be held to condemn such act and to press for the withdrawal of forces from Northern Cyprus; and (2) the right of the people of Cyprus to self-determination should not be abridged by any nation.
United States · United States Congress · 29 August 2025
"Let's Lick Them Before They Stick Us" Postal User Protection Resolution - Expresses congressional disapproval of the general rate increase proposed by the United States Postal Service on November 10, 1983. Urges the Postal Service to identify and adopt alternative cost effective measures which would prevent the need for such an increase.