Commission on Civil Rights Resolution
1983-11-10: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
A concurrent resolution restating the clear intent of Congress to provide financial assistance to local school systems to educate alien children and to call upon the President to expend appropriated funds for such purpose.
1984-03-12: Referred to Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary and Vocational Education.
A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the President should take all steps necessary to bring the question of self-determination of the Baltic States before the United Nations, and for other purposes.
1984-02-07: For Further Action See S.Con.Res.80.
A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that the President should instruct the United States ambassador to the United Nations to introduce a resolution, promptly, that calls upon the Government of Iran to cease its persecution of Baha'is in Iran and allow Baha'is who desire to emigrate from Iran to do so.
1983-09-30: Referred to Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations.
A concurrent resolution calling for an impartial international tribunal to investigate the Aquino assassination and calling for democracy in the Philippines.
1983-10-06: Executive Comment Requested from State.
A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that it is not appropriate at this time to transfer ownership or management of any civil meteorological satellite system and associated ground system equipment to the private sector.
1984-08-06: Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent.
A concurrent resolution urging the Secretary of Education to postpone further action on reorganization of certain programs in the Department of Education until a study by the General Accounting Office determines that such reorganization would not reduce the ability of the Department of Education to achieve the goals intended by Congress when it authorized the affected programs.
1983-08-12: Referred to Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary and Vocational Education.
A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress regarding the persecution of members of the Baha'i religion in Iran by the Government of Iran.
1984-06-15: Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Voice Vote.
A concurrent resolution endorsing the recommendations of the Astronomy Survey Committee for astronomical and astrophysical exploration and understanding during the 1980's.
1983-11-17: Referred to Subcommittee on Space Science Applications.
A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress regarding the rate of fill for completing the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
1983-03-09: Referred to Subcommittee on Fossil and Synthetic Fuels.
A concurrent resolution declaring that the President's decision to commit United States military personnel to El Salvador requires that he comply with section 4(a) of the War Powers Resolution.
1983-03-03: Referred to Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs.
A concurrent resolution to express the sense of the Congress that activities designed to destabilize or overthrow the government of any nation in Central America are inappropriate, and that outstanding grievances between different nations of the region should be resolved through peaceful negotiations.
1983-04-20: Referred to Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs.
A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress concerning the compliance by the Soviet Union with certain international agreements on human rights.
1983-11-18: Received in the Senate and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
A concurrent resolution calling upon the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to end the current repressive policies of forced labor and expressing the sense of Congress that the exploitation of workers in forced labor camps by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is morally reprehensible.
1983-11-18: Received in the Senate and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the Republic of South Africa should cease its "blackspot" policy of removing black South Africans from their ancestral land and relocating them.
1984-10-03: Resolution agreed to in Senate in lieu of S.CON.RES. 65 with an amendment and an amendment to the Title and an amended preamble by Voice Vote.
A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the federal government should maintain current efforts in federal nutrition programs to prevent increases in domestic hunger.
1983-08-02: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
A concurrent resolution to provide that it is the sense of the Congress that the national policy of the United States be that the Federal Government contribute to the support of education in the United States.
1983-10-06: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to implementing the objectives of the United Nations Decade of Disabled Persons (1983-1992).
1983-07-27: Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Voice Vote.
A concurrent resolution urging the President to provide as expeditiously as possible for the burial of an unknown soldier from the Vietnam era at Arlington National Cemetery as directed by the National Cemeteries Act of 1973.
1983-03-16: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that annuities under chapter 83 or 84 of such title be treated, for Federal income tax purposes, as if the 3-year basis recovery rule had never been repealed; and to require that the Office of Personnel Management conduct a study relating to the consequences which retroactively repealing such rule would have with respect to Federal personnel management, morale within the Federal civilian workforce, and individual retirement planning.
1986-09-30: Subcommittee Hearings Held.