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1,015 ingested resolutions from United States in 1985. Walk years back as far as this source still publishes.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 2021
Provides for the sine die adjournment of the House of Representatives and the Senate for the first session of the 99th Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 2021
Commends the conduct of the Honorable Robert Dole, of Kansas, as Majority Leader and Senator Alan K. Simpson, of Wyoming, as Majority Whip.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 2021
Thanks the Honorable George H. W. Bush, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate, for the manner in which he has presided over the Senate during the first session of the 99th Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the aspirations of the Angolan people deserve U.S. support; (2) the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) and its leader, Dr. Jonas Malheiro Savimbi, have the right to play a role in the political life of Angola; and (3) the Marxist Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) has violated the rights of the Angolan people. Declares that the MPLA should agree to negotiations which will include UNITA, end the presence of Soviet and Cuban forces in Angola, and result in prompt and fair elections for a new government. Provides that if the MPLA continues to refuse to negotiate with UNITA or continues to prepare for a new military offensive, then the Senate would support the provision in early 1986 of material assistance to UNITA.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 2021
Authorizes the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, in its investigation of the handling of a labor fraud investigation by specified departments, to inspect certain tax-related material.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 2021
Authorizes the President of the Senate and the President pro tempore to make certain appointments after the sine die adjournment.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 2021
Appoints a committee to notify the President of the proposed adjournment of the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 2021
Thanks the following Senate staff for the courteous, dignified, and impartial manner in which they assisted Senate deliberations during the first session of the 99th Congress: the Sergeant at Arms, the Secretary of the Senate, the Secretary for the Majority, the Secretary for the Minority, and the floor staff of the two parties.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 2021
Amends S. Res. 86, agreed to February 28, 1985, to designate Senator Ted Stevens, of Alaska, as the Chairman of the Senate Observer Group (established to act as official observers at any formal arms reduction or control negotiations). Names additional Senators to the Observer Group and sets forth administrative provisions relating to official travel.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 2021
Pays the tribute of the Senate to the career of the Honorable John C. Stennis of Mississippi.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 2021
Provides a procedure for striking extraneous material from reconciliation conference reports in the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 2021
Directs the Senate Legal Counsel to intervene in the name of the Senate in the case of Representative Mike Synar v. United States of America. Authorizes the Senate Legal Counsel, during the congressional adjournment, to intervene or to appear as amicus curiae in the name of the Senate in other cases in which the constitutionality of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is placed in issue.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 2021
Commends the conduct of the Honorable Robert C. Byrd, of West Virginia, as Minority Leader and Senator Alan Cranston, of California, as Minority Whip.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 2021
Thanks the Honorable Strom Thurmond, President pro tempore, for the manner in which he presided over the Senate during the first session of the 99th Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 2021
Commends Michael Stern for his faithful and outstanding service to the Senate and the Nation.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 2021
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the effective date of any fundamental tax reform legislation should generally be January 1, 1987, while recognizing that appropriate transition rules may be necessary to avoid unintended adverse effects and recognizing further that retroactive effective dates may be necessary to extend certain provisions which expire before January 1, 1987.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
States that the Congress declares that the primary purpose of U.S. assistance to the Republic of Korea shall be to promote the return to democracy in that country and to that end it places highest priority on: (1) replacement of the current climate of intimidation and abuses of human rights with dialog between the Government of the Republic of Korea and the democratic opposition; (2) restoration of the political rights of Kim Dae Jung and others; and (3) the peaceful transfer of Presidential power in the Republic of Korea in the 1988 elections should be open to all who are committed to democracy.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should: (1) enter into discussions to secure the withdrawal of Soviet personnel and the release of political prisoners from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania; (2) instruct the U.S. delegation to present the illegal Soviet actions in such countries at the meeting of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe; and (3) gain the cooperation of other nations in achieving such objectives.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Declares the sense of the Congress that the President and the Secretary of State should take all necessary steps to: (1) bring the Baltic States question before the United Nations; (2) urge the United Nations to request the Soviet Union to withdraw all non-native troops, agents, colonists, and controls from the Republics of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia; and (3) return all Baltic exiles from Siberia, prisons, and labor camps in the Soviet Union. Requires the Secretary of State to do his utmost to bring the matter of the Baltic States to the attention of all nations by means of special radio programs and publications. Declares that the United States should not agree to the recognition of the Soviet Union's annexation of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. Directs the President to take steps to provide that all maps of Europe show the Republics of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia as independent states. Calls for a return of self-determination to Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia through free elections conducted under the auspices of the United Nations.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) the President should continue to express to the Soviet Union U.S. opposition with respect to the harassment and arrests of Hebrew teachers and Jewish activists in the Soviet Union; and (2) the Soviet Union should comply with its commitments under specified international human rights agreements and cease its persecution of individuals on the basis of their Jewish faith.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Sets forth the rule for the consideration of H.R. 3992 (tax provision extensions).
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 2021
Provides for notifying the President that the Congress has completed its business and is ready to adjourn.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Provides, with respect to the consideration of H.R. 3128 (spending and revenue provisions), that the House shall be considered to have: (1) rejected the conference report on such bill; (2) receded from its amendment to the Senate amendment; and (3) concurred in the Senate amendment with an amendment.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 2024
Expresses the sense of the Congress that executive agencies should preferentially appoint veterans to positions in the Federal Government as provided by law.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 2021
Provides for the sine die adjournment of the House of Representatives and the Senate for the first session of the 99th Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 2021
Makes corrections in the enrollment of H.R. 2100 (Food Security Act of 1985).
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 2021
Rescinds the approval of H. Con. Res. 262 (correcting the enrollment of H.J. Res. 187) and makes corrections in the enrollment of H.J. Res. 187 (Compact of Free Association approval between the United States, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Marshall Islands).
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 2026
Expresses the disapproval of the Senate with the current informal freeze on the funds of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Expresses the sense of the Senate that under the Constitution any right, title, or interest of the United States in any territory, outer continental shelf, exclusive economic zone, or fishery conservation zone, including the islands of Wrangell, Herald, Bennett, Henrietta, and Jeannette, may only be transferred to another country by treaty and enactment of the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 2025
Expresses congressional recognition of the historical significance of the former presidential yacht Sequoia and support for the plans of the Presidential Yacht Trust to donate the Sequoia to the U.S. Navy for service as the presidential yacht.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Declares that the Congress supports expanded cultural exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union and pledges to work with the President to strengthen such exchange.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Waives points of order against the consideration of H.J. Res. 465 (continuing appropriations).
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Amends rule XV of the Rules of the House of Representatives to prohibit the House from passing or adopting any bill or joint resolution making appropriations or providing revenue except by a rollcall vote.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 2021
Makes corrections in the enrollment of H. J. Res. 187 (Compact of Free Association approval between the United States, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Marshall Islands).
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 2026
Refers S. 1962, a bill for the relief of a named individual, to the chief judge of the United States Claims Court.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the executive branch should: (1) employ the quickest, most cost efficient means to return the air traffic control system to prestrike experience levels; and (2) rehire those experienced air traffic controllers fired from the Federal Aviation Administration in 1981, who meet the Federal employment standards, necessary to return the air traffic control system to such prestrike experience levels.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should negotiate a North American treaty on air pollution with Canada and Mexico.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 2021
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should grant pardons to Rabbis Leonard Cahan, David Oler, Bruce Kahn, Mark Levine, and H. Steven Bayar, who were sentenced to prison for demonstrating at the Embassy of the Soviet Union.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 2025
States that the Congress declares that the primary purpose of U.S. assistance to the Republic of Korea shall be to promote the return to democracy in that country and to that end it places the highest priority on: (1) the replacement of the current climate of intimidation and abuses of human rights with dialog between the Government of the Republic of Korea and the democratic opposition; (2) restoration of the political rights of Kim Dae Jung and others; and (3) the peaceful democratic transfer of the Presidency of the Republic of Korea in 1988 elections that will be open to all who are committed to democracy.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Requests the President to establish a cooperative international research program concerning the greenhouse effect of increased concentration of carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere. Requires any such program established by the President to be started during or before 1991, which shall be known as the International Year of the Greenhouse Effect.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Provides for the consideration of a resolution reported by the Committee on Rules providing for the consideration of the conference report on H.R. 3128 (spending and revenue provisions).
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 2025
Expresses the sympathy and sentiment of the House of Representatives regarding the deaths of members of the 101st Air Assault Division in the airplane crash at Gander, Newfoundland, Canada.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Sets forth the rule for the consideration of H.J. Res. 491 (continuing appropriations).
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Sets forth the rule for the consideration of H.R. 3838 (tax law revisions).
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 2024
Recognizes and honors the Consumers Union for the contributions made in informing, protecting, and aiding consumers.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Declares that the Senate encourages the Government of the People's Republic of China to abandon its coercive practices under the "one-child" program and urges that Government to punish any violators.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 2021
Extends the condolences of the Senate to the family members of soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division who died in service to their country.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Recognizes and honors the Consumers Union for the contributions made in informing, protecting, and aiding consumers.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should: (1) declare a national emergency with respect to acts of terrorism directed against U.S. nationals and property; (2) investigate and determine the extent of assets held in the United States by organizations responsible for such terrorism; and (3) prohibit transactions involving such assets in accordance with the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the October 15, 1985, election in the Republic of Liberia does not meet specified requirements of the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1985; (2) the President should channel future economic assistance to Liberia through nongovernmental organizations; and (3) the President should suspend military assistance to Liberia until that country releases all political prisoners, provides free elections, and establishes a civil government. Declares that the Senate expresses U.S. friendship to the people of Liberia and the desire of the United States for the establishment of democracy in that country.