To provide for the adjustment in the rate of duty for tomatoes imported from Mexico to take into account changes in the value of Mexican currency with respect to the United States dollar, and for other purposes.
1995-05-26: Referred to the Subcommittee on Risk Management and Specialty Crops.
To provide a minimum survivor annuity for the unremarried surviving spouses of retired members of the Armed Forces who died before having an opportunity to participate in the Survivor Benefit Plan.
1995-03-13: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
To permanently increase the public debt limit.
1996-01-31: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H978)
To authorize minors who are under the child labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and who are under 18 years of age to load materials into balers and compacters that meet appropriate American National Standards Institute design safety standards.
1996-08-06: Became Public Law No: 104-174.
Temporary Duty Suspension Act
1996-01-02: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
To make a regulatory correction concerning methyl bromide to meet the obligations of the Montreal Protocol without placing the farmers of the United States at a competitive disadvantage versus foreign growers.
1995-08-14: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.
George Washington Commemorative Coin Act of 1996
1996-09-18: Received in the Senate.
Uniformed Services Medicare Subvention Demonstration Project Act
1996-09-25: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on National Security. H. Rept. 104-837, Part I.
Military Survivors Equity Act of 1995
1995-08-10: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
To provide that members of the Armed Forces performing services for the peacekeeping effort in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina shall be entitled to certain tax benefits in the same manner as if such services were performed in a combat zone.
1996-03-20: Became Public Law No: 104-117.
To designate a United States courthouse located in Tampa, Florida, as the "Sam M. Gibbons United States Courthouse".
1996-10-02: Became Public Law No: 104-230.
Textile and Apparel Global Competitiveness Act of 1996
1996-06-13: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an exemption from income taxation for qualified State tuition programs.
1996-07-17: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
To revise the effective date for military retiree cost-of-living adjustments for fiscal years 1996, 1997, and 1998.
1995-11-20: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2223-2224)
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that members of the Armed Forces performing service in a contingency operation declared by the President shall be entitled (if the President so designates that operation for such purpose) to exclude from gross income military compensation received for active service in the same manner as if such service was performed in a combat zone, and for other purposes.
1995-12-13: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
United States Commemorative Coins Act of 1995
1995-06-16: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy.
Health Insurance Reform Act of 1996
1996-02-09: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
To amend title 10, United States Code, to limit the collection and use by the Department of Defense of individual genetic identifying information to the purpose of identification of remains, other than when the consent of the individual concerned is obtained.
1996-04-12: Unfavorable Executive Comment Received from DOD.
Ballistic Missile Defense Act of 1996
1996-06-17: Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
Small Business Transport Correction Advancement Act of 1996
1996-09-24: Received in the Senate.