Open House Amendments of 1979
1979-05-02: Referred to House Committee on Rules.
A concurrent resolution requesting that the President withdraw the instruments of ratification of the Panama Canal treaties.
1979-03-15: Referred to House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries.
A resolution congratulating the Order of the Sons of Italy in America for their seventy-fifth anniversary and wishing the Order of the Sons of Italy in America success in future years.
1980-06-04: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
A resolution to call on the President to declare a national emergency for the purpose of suspending the Davis-Bacon Act.
1980-06-25: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide that appropriations made by the United States shall not exceed its revenues, except in time of war or national emergency; and to provide for the systematic paying back of the national debt.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
A joint resolution designating November 4, 1979, as "Will Rogers Day".
1979-11-02: Public Law 96-99.
A concurrent resolution that the President should terminate U.S. sanctions against Zimbabwe-Rhodesia with the appointment of a British governor and his arrival in Salisbury.
1979-11-16: Referred to House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
A concurrent resolution calling upon the President to designate as refugees those Cubans who have arrived in the United States in the last sixty days.
1980-06-04: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
A joint resolution to authorize and request the President to issue a proclamation designating September 16 through September 22, 1979, as "Energy Conservation Week".
1979-06-20: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to the prompt deportation or removal from the United States of aliens who have engaged in unlawful or disorderly activities in the United States.
1980-08-20: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
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.
A concurrent resolution urging the Canadian Government to reassess its policy of permitting the commercial killing of newborn harp seals.
1979-02-26: Referred to House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide that appropriations made by the United States shall not exceed its revenues, except in time of war or national emergency; and to provide for the systematic paying back of the national debt.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
A resolution to express the sense of the House of Representatives that for the purpose of apportionment of Representatives in Congress among the several States, aliens not lawfully admitted into the United States should be excluded in the decennial census from the tabulation of total population by States; and that the Representatives in Congress should be apportioned among the several States on the basis of the number of persons in each State excluding such aliens.
1980-03-04: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
A concurrent resolution expressing the appreciation to the Government of Canada for its support and assistance in securing the safe release of American embassy personnel from Iran.
1980-01-31: Referred to Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress concerning the administrative proceeding brought by the Federal Trade Commission against the Kellogg Company, General Mills, Incorporated, and the General Foods Corporation.
1979-10-16: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the President should terminate immediately all participation by Iranian personnel in United States programs of military training.
1979-11-13: Referred to House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
A concurrent resolution to express the sense of the Congress in opposition to wage and price controls.
1980-03-11: Referred to House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs.
A concurrent resolution urging the President to take certain actions with respect to the flight of Cuban natives from Cuba.
1980-05-21: Referred to House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide that renewal commissions, received by a retired insurance agent from life insurance policies which were sold by him before his retirement, shall not be taken into account in determining his net earnings from self-employment for purposes of the earnings test.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.