A bill to amend title XVI of the Social Security Act to provide that an individual who applies for supplemental security income benefits on the basis of disability shall be considered presumptively disabled if he has received social security or supplemental security income benefits as a disabled individual within the preceding five years.
1979-04-02: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress with respect to employment practices in South Africa of United States companies doing business in that country.
1979-10-18: Referred to House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
A concurrent resolution that Congress stands in opposition to the imposition of a 15 percent withholding tax, or any withholding tax, on interest bearing bank accounts and on the receipts from dividends.
1980-05-21: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that Andrei Sakharov should be released from internal exile, urging the President to protest the continued suppression of human rights in the Soviet Union, and for other purposes.
1980-02-19: Measure passed Senate, roll call #42 (91-0).
A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the people of the Polish People's Republic should be permitted by other nations to settle their internal affairs by themselves without external intervention.
1980-08-20: Referred to House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
A resolution to express the sense of the House of Representatives concerning the operations at Washington National Airport.
1980-06-10: Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.
A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that the President should express to the Government of the Soviet Union the disapproval of the American people concerning that Government's systematic nondelivery of international mail addressed to certain persons residing within the Soviet Union and that the United States should bring to the attention of the next Congress of the Universal Postal Union the failure of the Soviet Union to comply with certain articles of the Universal Postal Union.
1979-02-26: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the President should exercise his authority to restore the peaceful and orderly processing under the immigration laws of Cuban nationals who recently arrived in the United States and to remove, in accordance with law, from the United States those Cuban nationals who participate in acts of destruction or violence at the sites of such processing.
1980-06-04: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that the President should communicate immediately to the Government of the Soviet Union that the United States insists that the Soviet Union remove its military combat troops from Cuba, with all deliberate speed.
1979-09-11: Referred to House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to the policy of the Standing Committee on Federal Judiciary of the American Bar Association and the United States Department of Justice pertaining to potential nominees for lifetime Federal judgeships who, but for their age, might otherwise be found qualified.
1980-11-17: Measure passed House, roll call #637 (341-19).
A bill to amend the Social Security Act to make certain that recipients of supplemental security income benefits, recipients of aid to families with dependent children, and recipients of assistance or benefits under certain other Federal and federally assisted programs will not have the amount of such benefits, aid, or assistance reduced because of post-1974 increases in monthly social security benefits.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Senior Citizens Health Insurance Reform Act of 1979
1979-03-05: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A resolution to direct the Office of Technology Assessment to conduct a study of unutilized consumer energy conservation devices and to report its recommendations concerning legislative executive measures which would promote the utilization of such devices.
1979-08-02: Referred to House Committee on Science and Technology.
A joint resolution to proclaim March 21, 1980, "National Energy Education Day".
1979-02-22: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
A joint resolution to authorize and request the President to issue annually a proclamation designating the first Sunday of September following Labor Day of each year as "National Grandparents Day".
1979-09-06: Public Law 96-62.
A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the President take all appropriate steps to negotiate with all other industrial nations an agreement for the creation of a Peace Development Fund whose purpose would be to underwrite the costs of implementing a Middle East peace.
1979-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Agricultural Parity Equity Act of 1979
1979-01-22: Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
A resolution to amend Rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives to permit the House, by appropriate resolution, to direct the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct to undertake an investigation of alleged misconduct on the part of any Member, officer, or employee of the House, and to require the committee to file a written report on its findings and recommendations whenever it has undertaken an investigation.
1979-05-02: Referred to House Committee on Rules.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to suspend the imposition of interest and to prohibit the imposition of a penalty for failure to pay tax on underpayments of tax resulting from erroneous advice given in writing by the Internal Revenue Service.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to allow certain married individuals who file separate returns to be taxed as unmarried individuals.
1979-04-10: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.