Northern Forest Stewardship Act
1997-03-18: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry, Resource Conservation and Research.
To authorize the President to award a gold medal on behalf of the Congress to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in recognition of his outstanding and enduring contributions toward religious understanding and peace, and for other purposes.
1997-10-06: Became Public Law No: 105-51.
Accuracy in Campus Crime Reporting Act of 1997
1998-02-11: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H388)
Michael Gillick Childhood Cancer Research Act
1997-03-21: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.
Budget Process Reform Act
1997-04-17: Referred to House Appropriations
To provide for a gradual reduction in the loan rate for peanuts, to repeal peanut quotas for the 2002 and subsequent crops, and to make nonrecourse loans available for peanut producers.
1997-06-17: Referred to the Subcommittee on Risk Management and Specialty Crops.
To designate the post office located at 194 Ward Street, in Paterson, New Jersey, as the "Larry Doby Post Office.''
1997-07-11: Referred to the Subcommittee on Postal Service.
To amend the Agricultural Market Transition Act to convert the price support program for sugarcane and sugar beets into a system of solely recourse loans and to provide for the gradual elimination of the program.
1997-04-28: Referred to the Subcommittee on Risk Management and Specialty Crops.
America's Red Rock Wilderness Act of 1997
1997-06-24: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the taxable income of each spouse of a married couple to be taxed using either the rates applicable to single filers or the rates applicable to joint returns.
1997-09-11: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Property Rights bill
1998-07-08: By Senator Hatch from Committee on Judiciary filed written report. Report No. 105-242. Minority views filed.
Telephone Consumer Slamming Prevention Act of 1997
1997-07-18: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection.
Marriage Protection and Fairness Act of 1998
1998-01-27: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Firefighters Pay Fairness Act of 1997
1997-03-31: Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service.
To provide for greater equity in the allocation by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs of amounts appropriated for medical care programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs for the next two fiscal years and for other purposes related to the needs of veterans medical care.
1997-04-02: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Internal Revenue Service Accountability Act
1997-04-08: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
To amend the Webb-Kenyon Act to allow any State, territory, or possession of the United States to bring an action in Federal court to enjoin violations of that Act or to enforce the laws of such State, territory, or possession with respect to such violations.
1997-09-25: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
SAFE Act
1998-03-30: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1701-1702)
To end the use of steel jaw leghold traps on animals in the United States.
1997-04-04: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection.
Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1997
1997-08-01: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1605-1607)