104th Congress / Bills / S 908
Title
An original bill to authorize appropriations for the Department of State for fiscal years 1996 through 1999 and to abolish the United States Information Agency, the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and the Agency for International Development, and for other purposes.
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Categories (What are categories?)
Abortion | Administrative fees | Adopted children | Adoption | Advertising | Advice and consent of the Senate | Agriculture | Agriculture in foreign trade | Alien property | Aliens | Ambassadors | American economic assistance | American investments | American military assistance | Americans employed in foreign countries | Annexation (International law) | Appropriations | Arab refugees -- Iraq | Arab refugees -- Saudi Arabia | Arab refugees -- Turkey | Armed forces abroad | Armenians | Arms control | Arms control negotiations | Arms sales -- Indonesia | Arrest | Associations, institutions, etc. | Authorization -- Department of State | Balanced budgets | Bank accounts | Banks and banking | Black market | Boundaries | Bribery | Buddhism | Budgets | Business | Business education | Buy American | Capital investments | Charities | Children | Civil liberties | Civil rights | Civil service retirement | Claims | Collection of accounts | Colleges -- Pennsylvania | Commercial blacklisting -- Arab countries--Israel | Commodity agreements | Commodity control | Communicable diseases | Communications | Conferences | Congress | Congress and foreign policy | Congressional agencies | Congressional investigations | Congressional oversight | Congressional reporting requirements | Congressional-Presidential relations | Coral reefs | Corporate corruption | Cost effectiveness | Counterterrorism | Courts | Criminal aliens | Criminal investigation | Criminal justice | Cultural centers | Cultural relations | Customs unions -- North America | Day care | Defense budgets | Defense economics | Defense policy | Democracy | Democratic Party | Detention of persons | Developing countries | Diplomacy | Diplomatic privileges and immunities | Diplomats | Dismissal of employees | Dismissal wage | Dispute settlement | Economic development | Economic policy | Education | Educational exchanges | Educational policy | Elections | Embassies -- Germany | Embassies -- Serbia | Embezzlement | Employee health benefits | Employee rights | Employee training | Energy | Energy policy | Executive departments | Executive reorganization -- Arms Control and Disarmament Agency | Executive reorganization -- Department of Commerce | Executive reorganization -- Department of State | Executive reorganization -- International Dev. 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Agency | Executive reorganization -- United States Information Agency | Exhibitions | Expedited congressional procedure | Export controls | Exports | Expropriation | Extradition | Families | Federal advisory bodies | Federal officials | Federal receipts and expenditures | Finance | Fines (Penalties) | Forced labor | Foreign aid | Foreign banks and banking | Foreign exchange rates | Foreign policy -- Albania | Foreign policy -- Armenia | Foreign policy -- Asia | Foreign policy -- Azerbaijan | Foreign policy -- Bosnia and Herzegovina | Foreign policy -- Bulgaria | Foreign policy -- Central Asia | Foreign policy -- Croatia | Foreign policy -- Czech Republic | Foreign policy -- East Asia | Foreign policy -- Europe | Foreign policy -- Hong Kong | Foreign policy -- Hungary | Foreign policy -- Latin America | Foreign policy -- Macedonia | Foreign policy -- Middle East and North Africa | Foreign policy -- North Korea | Foreign policy -- Poland | Foreign policy -- Romania | Foreign policy -- Slovenia | Foreign policy -- Tibet | Foreign relations | Foreign service | Foreign trade | Foreign trade promotion | Foundations | Free enterprise | Free trade | Gangs | Government employees | Government employees' health insurance | Government information | Government liability (International law) | Government paperwork | Government service contracts | Government spending reductions | Government trust funds | Health policy | Higher education | House rules and procedure | Household workers | Housing | Human rights -- China | Humanities | Illegitimacy | Immigrants | Immigration | Import restrictions | Indians | Industrial relations | Industry | Inspection (Arms control) | Inspectors general | Intelligence activities | International affairs | International agencies | International broadcasting | International competitiveness | International courts | International finance | International labor activities | International law | International military forces | International monetary system | International organization | International relief | Job training | Journalism | Labor | Labor unions | Language and languages | Law | Layoffs | Leases | Legal education | Legislation | Librarians | Licenses | Lobbying | Lobbyists | Lumber trade | Medical care | Medical records | Medicine | Members of Congress | Military intelligence | Military occupation | Minorities | Misconduct in office | Mothers | Motion pictures | Murder | National policy | Natural resources | Nongovernmental organizations | Oaths | Palestinians | Pan American economic relations | Parliamentary government | Passports | Peace | Peace negotiations | Peace treaties | Pensions | Petroleum pipelines | Police | Political parties | Political persecution | Political refugees | Politics and government -- Taiwan | President and foreign policy | Presidential appointments | Presidents | Prisoners | Prisons | Promotions | Prosecution | Protection of foreign officials | Public contracts | Public debt | Racial violence | Racism | Radio broadcasting -- Cuba | Radio broadcasting -- Florida | Railroads | Recognition (International law) | Refugee policy | Refugees | Religion | Religious liberty | Rental housing | Repatriation | Reporters and reporting | Republican Party | Research centers -- Florida | Rights of women | Rubber | Rubber industry | Salaries | Sanctions (International law) | Scholarships | Science policy | Scientific exchanges | Senate rules and procedure | Sex | Sterilization (Birth control) | Strategic planning | Sustainable development | Technology | Technology transfer | Telecommunication | Television advertising | Television broadcasting -- Cuba | Terrorism | Terrorism -- Gaza Strip | Terrorism -- West Bank | Terrorists | Trade | Trade agreements -- Canada | Trade agreements -- Mexico | Trade fairs | Transfer of employees | Transportation | Travel costs | Treaties | Treaty-making power | Tropical forests | United Nations | United Nations finances | United Nations structure | User charges | Violence | Virus diseases | Visas | War and emergency powers | War crime trials | War crimes | Weapons | Weapons systems | Whistle blowing | Women | World health
Votes on this bill
| Date | Chamber | Result | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 344: On the Motion to Table motion to table kennedy amdt no. 1977, as modified; To express the sense of the Senate that the Senate should debate and vote on whether to raise the minimum wage before the end of the first session. | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 343: On the Amendment Helms Amendment No. 2026 as Modified; To cut $10,000,000 in funds for the United Nations if the U.N. Secretary General does not help resolve the overdue debts owned U.S. citizens by diplomats and missions accredited to the United Nations. |