A concurrent resolution to direct the Commissioner of Social Security and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop a plan outlining the steps which might be taken to correct the social security benefit disparity known as the notch problem.
1985-03-05: Referred to the Committee on Finance.
A joint resolution to designate May 7, 1985 as "Vietnam Veterans Recognition Day".
1985-05-14: Became Public Law No: 99-35.
A joint resolution to designate the week of December 15, 1985, through December 21, 1985, as "National Drunk and Drugged Driving Awareness Week".
1985-08-08: Became Public Law No: 99-84.
A resolution to express the sense of the Senate that Federal funding to States for Cooperative Extension Service programs for fiscal year 1987 be restored to at least the level approved in the 1986 budget resolution, except for reductions required in such programs by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
1986-03-18: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
National Security Protection Act of 1985
1985-06-26: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel (Arm Serv). Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 99-299.
A bill to provide for the use and distribution of funds awarded in Docket 363 to the Mdewakanton and Mahpekute Eastern or Mississippi Sioux before the United States Court of Claims and Claims Court.
1986-03-07: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 555.
A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that payments by the Veterans' Administration to veterans as compensation for service-connected disabilities should remain exempt from Federal income taxation.
1985-03-01: Committee on Finance requested executive comment from OMB, Treasury Department, VA.
A joint resolution to designate 1988 as the "Year of New Sweden" and to recognize the New Sweden '88 American Committee.
1986-05-15: Became Public Law No: 99-304.
A bill to grant a Federal charter to the Vietnam Veterans of America, Inc.
1986-05-23: Became Public Law No: 99-318.
Farm Emergency Credit Act of 1985
1985-04-15: Read the second time and placed on the Calendar. General Orders. Calendar No. 79.
A joint resolution to authorize and request the President to call a White House Conference on Library and Information Services to be held not later than 1989, and for other purposes.
1985-04-19: Referred to Subcommittee on Education.
A bill to grant a Federal charter to the Confederate Memorial Association.
1986-06-24: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Risk Retention Amendments of 1986
1986-10-27: Became Public Law No: 99-563.
A bill to recognize the organization known as the National Academies of Practice.
1985-01-03: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
A bill to limit to the national median family income the amount of farm loss which may be deducted against nonfarm income by high income taxpayers in competition with full-time, family-sized farm operators.
1985-01-25: Committee on Finance requested executive comment from OMB, Treasury Department, Agriculture Department.
A joint resolution to designate the week of February 10, 1985, through February 16, 1985, as "National DECA Week".
1985-02-11: Became Public Law No: 99-2.
A bill to deny most-favored-nation trading status to Afghanistan.
1985-07-23: Subcommittee on International Trade. Hearings held.
A joint resolution to proclaim October 23, 1985, as "A time of remembrance" for all victims of terrorism throughout the world.
1985-10-28: Became Public Law No: 99-132.