105th Congress / Bills
See also: Most-voted-on bills in the 105th Congress.
| Bill | Title |
|---|---|
| Concerning the urgent need to improve the living standards of those South Asians living in the Ganges and the Brahmaputra River Basin. | |
| Congratulating the people of Guatemala on the success of the recent negotiations to establish a peace process for Guatemala. | |
| Congratulating the people of the Republic of Nicaragua on the success of their democratic elections held on October 20, 1996. | |
| Expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to the discrimination by the German Government against members of minority religious groups, particularly the continued and increasing discrimination by the German Government against performers, entertainers, and other artists from the United States associated with Scientology. | |
| Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the display of the Ten Commandments by Judge Roy S. Moore, a judge on the circuit court of the State of Alabama. | |
| Relating to the 30th anniversary of the reunification of the city of Jerusalem. | |
| Honoring the lifetime achievements of Jackie Robinson. | |
| Expressing the sense of the Congress that States should work more aggressively to attack the problem of violent crimes committed by repeat offenders and criminals serving abbreviated sentences. | |
| Calling for a United States initiative seeking a just and peaceful resolution of the situation on Cyprus. | |
| Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 1998 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002. | |
| Providing for an adjournment of the two Houses. | |
| Congratulating the Government and the people of the Republic of El Salvador on successfully completing free and democratic elections on March 16, 1997. | |
| Expressing concern over recent events in the Republic of Sierra Leone in the wake of the recent military coup d'etat of that country's first democratically elected president. | |
| Expressing the sense of the Congress that the cost of government spending and regulatory programs should be reduced so that American families will be able to keep more of what they earn. | |
| Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the ocean. | |
| Expressing the sense of the Congress regarding the terrorist bombing in the Jerusalem market on July 30, 1997. | |
| Authorizing the use of the rotunda of the Capitol to allow members of Congress to greet and receive His All Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew. | |
| Providing for an adjournment of the two Houses. | |
| Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives concerning the urgent need for an international criminal tribunal to try members of the Iraqi regime for crimes against humanity. | |
| Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States Government should fully participate in EXPO 2000 in the year 2000, in Hannover, Germany, and should encourage the academic community and the private sector in the United States to support this worthwhile undertaking. | |
| Expressing the sense of the Congress that all parties to the multiparty peace talks regarding Northern Ireland should condemn violence and fully integrate internationally recognized human rights standards and adequately address outstanding human rights violations as part of the peace process. | |
| Expressing the sense of the Congress on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and recommitting the United States to the principles expressed in the Universal Declaration. | |
| Expressing the sense of the Congress that the Federal Government should acknowledge the importance of at-home parents and should not discriminate against families who forego a second income in order for a mother or father to be at home with their children. | |
| Permitting the use of the rotunda of the Capitol for a ceremony as part of the commemoration of the days of remembrance of victims of the Holocaust. | |
| Expressing the sense of the Congress regarding access to affordable housing and expansion of homeownership opportunities. | |
| Expressing the sense of the Congress that the European Union is unfairly restricting the importation of United States agriculture products and the elimination of such restrictions should be a top priority in trade negotiations with the European Union. | |
| Concerning the urgent need to establish a cease fire in Afghanistan and begin the transition toward a broad-based multiethnic government that observes international norms of behavior. | |
| Regarding American victims of terrorism. | |
| Directing the President pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution to remove United States Armed Forces from the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. | |
| Calling for an end to the violent repression of the legitimate rights of the people of Kosova. | |
| Calling on the Government of Cuba to extradite to the United States convicted felon Joanne Chesimard and all other individuals who have fled the United States to avoid prosecution or confinement for criminal offenses and who are currently living freely in Cuba. | |
| Providing for an adjournment of the two Houses. | |
| Acknowledging the positive role of Taiwan in the current Asian financial crisis and affirming the support of the American people for peace and stability on the Taiwan Strait and security for Taiwan's democracy. | |
| Revising the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 1998, establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 1999, and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003. | |
| Expressing the sense of the Congress that the President of the United States should reconsider his decision to be formally received in Tiananmen Square by the Government of the People's Republic of China. | |
| Expressing the sense of the Congress that the United States should support the efforts of Federal law enforcement agents engaged in investigation and prosecution of money laundering associated with Mexican financial institutions. | |
| Affirming the United States commitment to Taiwan. | |
| Expressing the sense of the Congress regarding the culpability of Slobodan Milosevic for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide in the former Yugoslavia, and for other purposes. | |
| Honoring the memory of Detective John Michael Gibson and Private First Class Jacob Joseph Chestnut of the United States Capitol Police for their selfless acts of heroism at the United States Capitol on July 24, 1998. | |
| Expressing the sense of the Congress condemning the atrocities by Serbian police and military forces against Albanians in Kosova and urging that blocked assets of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) under control of the United States and other governments be used to compensate the Albanians in Kosova for losses suffered through Serbian police and military action. | |
| Supporting the Baltic people of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, and condemning the Nazi-Soviet Pact of Non-Aggression of August 23, 1939. | |
| Expressing the sense of Congress concerning the inadequacy of sewage infrastructure facilities in Tijuana, Mexico. | |
| Relating to Taiwan's participation in the World Health Organization. | |
| Calling on the President to take all necessary measures under existing law to respond to the significant increase of steel imports resulting from the financial crises in Asia, Russia, and other regions, and for other purposes. | |
| Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to the number of terms of office of Members of the Senate and the House of Representatives. | |
| Approving the Presidential finding that the limitation on obligations imposed by section 518A(a) of the Foreign Operations Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act of 1997, is having a negative impact on the proper functioning of the population planning program. | |
| Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States authorizing the Congress to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States. | |
| Celebrating the end of slavery in the United States. | |
| A joint resolution requiring the President to submit to Congress a report on the efforts of the United States and Mexico to achieve results in combating the production of and trafficking in illicit drugs. | |
| Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to tax limitations. | |
| Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States restoring religious freedom. | |
| Disapproving the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment (most-favored-nation treatment) to the products of the People's Republic of China. | |
| Making continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1998, and for other purposes. | |
| Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1998, and for other purposes. | |
| Expressing the sense of the Congress on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the modern State of Israel and reaffirming the bonds of friendship and cooperation between the United States and Israel. | |
| Expressing the sense of the Congress that the award of attorneys' fees, costs, and sanctions of $285,864.78 ordered by United States District Judge Royce C. Lamberth on December 18, 1997, should not be paid with taxpayer funds. | |
| Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to tax limitations. | |
| Expressing the sense of Congress that marijuana is a dangerous and addictive drug and should not be legalized for medicinal use. | |
| Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to limit campaign spending. | |
| Disapproving the extension of the waiver authority contained in section 402(c) of the Trade Act of 1974 with respect to Vietnam. | |
| Disapproving the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment (most-favored-nation treatment) to the products of the People's Republic of China. | |
| Making continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide compensatory time for employees in the private sector. | |
| To repeal the United States Housing Act of 1937, deregulate the public housing program and the program for rental housing assistance for low-income families, and increase community control over such programs, and for other purposes. | |
| To combat violent youth crime and increase accountability for juvenile criminal offenses. | |
| To amend the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, to reauthorize and make improvements to that Act, and for other purposes. | |
| To extend the authorization of programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965, and for other purposes. | |
| To enhance competition in the financial services industry by providing a prudential framework for the affiliation of banks, securities firms, and other financial service providers, and for other purposes. | |
| To amend the Housing Act of 1949 to extend the loan guarantee program for multifamily rental housing in rural areas. | |
| To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit individuals who are not citizens of the United States from making contributions or expenditures in connection with an election for Federal office. | |
| To amend title IV of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to consolidate the Federal programs for housing assistance for the homeless into a block grant program that ensures that States and communities are provided sufficient flexibility to use assistance amounts effectively. | |
| To amend section 2118 of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to extend the Electric and Magnetic Fields Research and Public Information Dissemination Program. | |
| To amend title 35, United States Code, with respect to patents, and for other purposes. | |
| To amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to support the International Dolphin Conservation Program in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, and for other purposes. | |
| To approve a settlement agreement between the Bureau of Reclamation and the Oroville-Tonasket Irrigation District. | |
| To provide for increased mandatory minimum sentences for criminals possessing firearms, and for other purposes. | |
| To reauthorize the National Sea Grant College Program Act, and for other purposes. | |
| To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to improve the ability of individuals and local, State, and Federal agencies to comply with that Act in building, operating, maintaining, or repairing flood control projects, facilities, or structures. | |
| An Act to amend the Federal charter for Group Hospitalization and Medical Services, Inc., and for other purposes. | |
| To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service under construction at 7411 Barlite Boulevard in San Antonio, Texas, as the "Frank M. Tejeda Post Office Building". | |
| To exempt certain contracts entered into by the government of the District of Columbia from review by the Council of the District of Columbia. | |
| To amend title 38, United States Code, to add bronchiolo-alveolar carcinoma to the list of diseases presumed to be service-connected for certain radiation-exposed veterans. | |
| To amend Public Law 104-208 to provide that the President may make funds appropriated for population planning and other population assistance available on March 1, 1997, subject to restrictions on assistance to foreign organizations that perform or actively promote abortions. | |
| An Act to amend the National Housing Act to prevent the funding of unnecessary or excessive costs for obtaining a home equity conversion mortgage, to require automatic cancellation and notice of cancellation rights with respect to private mortgage insurance required as a condition for entering into a residential mortagage transaction, to abolish the Thrift Depositor Protection Oversight Board, and for other purposes. | |
| To amend the Armored Car Industry Reciprocity Act of 1993 to clarify certain requirements and to improve the flow of interstate commerce. | |
| To grant the consent of the Congress to the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact. | |
| To designate the United States courthouse to be constructed at the corner of Superior and Huron Roads, in Cleveland, Ohio, as the "Carl B. Stokes United States Courthouse". | |
| To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reinstate the Airport and Airway Trust Fund excise taxes, and for other purposes. | |
| To make technical amendments to certain provisions of title 17, United States Code. | |
| To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of the sesquicentennial of the birth of Thomas Alva Edison, to redesign the half dollar circulating coin for 1997 to commemorate Thomas Edison, and for other purposes. | |
| To amend the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to authorize the transfer to States of surplus personal property for donation to nonprofit providers of necessaries to impoverished families and individuals. | |
| To amend the prohibition of title 18, United States Code, against financial transactions with terrorists. | |
| To support the autonomous governance of Hong Kong after its reversion to the People's Republic of China. | |
| To ensure maintenance of a herd of wild horses in Cape Lookout National Seashore. | |
| To redesignate the Federal building located at 717 Madison Place, NW., in the District of Columbia, as the "Howard T. Markey National Courts Building". | |
| To prohibit an alien who is not lawfully present in the United States from receiving assistance under the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970. | |
| To amend chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code, popularly known as the Paperwork Reduction Act, to minimize the burden of Federal paperwork demands upon small businesses, educational and nonprofit institutions, Federal contractors, State and local governments, and other persons through the sponsorship and use of alternative information technologies. | |
| To provide a process leading to full self-government for Puerto Rico. | |
| To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a pilot project on designated lands within Plumas, Lassen, and Tahoe National Forests in the State of California to demonstrate the effectiveness of the resource management activities proposed by the Quincy Library Group and to amend current land and resource management plans for these national forests to consider the incorporation of these resource management activities. | |
| To promote the adoption of children in foster care. | |
| To preserve the sovereignty of the United States over public lands and acquired lands owned by the United States, and to preserve State sovereignty and private property rights in non-Federal lands surrounding those public lands and acquired lands. | |
| To encourage the States to enact legislation to grant immunity from personal civil liability, under certain circumstances, to volunteers working on behalf of nonprofit organizations and governmental entities. | |
| To amend title 18, United States Code, to give further assurance to the right of victims of crime to attend and observe the trials of those accused of the crime. | |
| To reaffirm and clarify the Federal relationship of the Burt Lake Band as a distinct federally recognized Indian Tribe, and for other purposes. | |
| To amend the National Narcotics Leadership Act of 1988 to establish a program to support and encourage local communities that first demonstrate a comprehensive, long-term commitment to reduce substance abuse among youth, and for other purposes. | |
| To prohibit the use of United States funds to provide for the participation of certain Chinese officials in international conferences, programs, and activities and to provide that certain Chinese officials shall be ineligible to receive visas and excluded from admission to the United States. | |
| To provide for the expansion of the Eagles Nest Wilderness within Arapaho and White River National Forests, Colorado, to include the lands known as the Slate Creek Addition upon the acquisition of the lands by the United States. | |
| To end the Tucker Act shuffle. | |
| To require States to establish a system to prevent prisoners from being considered part of any household for purposes of determining eligibility of the household for food stamp benefits and the amount of food stamp benefits to be provided to the household under the Food Stamp Act of 1977. | |
| To clarify Federal law with respect to restricting the use of Federal funds in support of assisted suicide. | |
| To designate the building in Indianapolis, Indiana, which houses the operations of the Circle City Station Post Office as the "Andrew Jacobs, Jr. Post Office Building". | |
| To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service under construction at 150 West Margaret Drive in Terre Haute, Indiana, as the "John T. Myers Post Office Building". | |
| An Act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1998 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to precribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes. | |
| To amend title 18, United States Code, to ban partial-birth abortions. | |
| To amend the Antiquities Act to require an Act of Congress and the concurrence of the Governor and State legislature for the establishment by the President of national monuments in excess of 5,000 acres. | |
| To establish a program to provide assistance for programs of credit and other assistance for microenterprises in developing countries, and for other purposes. | |
| To amend the Federal Credit Union Act to clarify existing law and ratify the longstanding policy of the National Credit Union Administration Board with regard to field of membership of Federal credit unions. | |
| To provide for administrative procedures to extend Federal recognition to certain Indian groups, and for other purposes. | |
| To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prevent the unauthorized inspection of tax returns or tax return information. | |
| To modify the procedures of the Federal courts in certain matters, and for other purposes. | |
| To authorize appropriations for the Securities and Exchange Commission for fiscal years 1998 and 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| To amend the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982. | |
| An Act to authorize the Federal Aviation Administration's research, engineering, and development programs for fiscal years 1998 and 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| To authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1998 and 1999 for the National Science Foundation, and for other purposes. | |
| To authorize appropriations for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for fiscal years 1998 and 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| To provide for a one-year enrollment in the conservation reserve of land covered by expiring conservation reserve program contracts. | |
| To amend title 18, United States Code, relating to war crimes. | |
| To reauthorize the Export-Import Bank of the United States. | |
| To consolidate, coordinate, and improve employment, training, literacy, and vocational rehabilitation programs in the United States, and for other purposes. | |
| To amend the National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 1966 to improve the management of the National Wildlife Refuge System, and for other purposes. | |
| To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish a system through which the Commissioner of Social Security and the Attorney General respond to inquiries made by election officials concerning the citizenship of voting registration applicants and to amend the Social Security Act to permit States to require individuals registering to vote in elections to provide the individual's Social Security number. | |
| To authorize a new trade and investment policy for sub-Saharan Africa. | |
| Making emergency supplemental appropriations for recovery from natural disasters, and for overseas peacekeeping efforts, including those in Bosnia, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1997, and for other purposes. | |
| To settle certain Miccosukee Indian land takings claims within the State of Florida. | |
| To designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 300 Northeast First Avenue in Miami, Florida, as the "David W. Dyer Federal Courthouse". | |
| To redesignate the Dublin Federal Courthouse building located in Dublin, Georgia, as the J. Roy Rowland Federal Courthouse. | |
| To require the Attorney General to establish a program in local prisons to identify, prior to arraignment, criminal aliens and aliens who are unlawfully present in the United States, and for other purposes. | |
| To simplify and expedite access to the Federal courts for injured parties whose rights and privileges, secured by the United States Constitution, have been deprived by final actions of Federal agencies, or other government officials or entities acting under color of State law; to prevent Federal courts from abstaining from exercising Federal jurisdiction in actions where no State law claim is alleged; to permit certification of unsettled State law questions that are essential to resolving Federal claims arising under the Constitution; and to clarify when government action is sufficiently final to ripen certain Federal claims arising under the Constitution. | |
| To prevent Federal agencies from pursuing policies of unjustifiable nonacquiescence in, and relitigation of, precedents established in the Federal judicial circuits. | |
| To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of the bicentennial of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and for other purposes. | |
| To allow postal patrons to contribute to funding for breast cancer research through the voluntary purchase of certain specially issued United States postage stamps. | |
| To establish within the United States National Park Service the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom program, and for other purposes. | |
| To reauthorize and amend the Atlantic Striped Bass Conservation Act and related laws. | |
| To implement the provisions of the Trademark Law Treaty. | |
| To clarify the intent of the Congress in Public Law 93-632 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to continue to provide for the maintenance of 18 concrete dams and weirs that were located in the Emigrant Wilderness at the time the wilderness area was designated as wilderness in that Public Law. | |
| To clarify the standards for State sex offender registration programs under the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act. | |
| To amend the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to limit the conduct of securities class actions under State law, and for other purposes. | |
| To consolidate international affairs agencies, to authorize appropriations for the Department of State and related agencies for fiscal years 1998 and 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1998 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes. | |
| To amend the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001, and for other purposes. | |
| To establish nationally uniform requirements regarding the titling and registration of salvage, nonrepairable, and rebuilt vehicles. | |
| To improve the criminal law relating to fraud against consumers. | |
| To amend the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act. | |
| Making emergency supplemental appropriations for recovery from natural disasters, and for overseas peacekeeping efforts, including those in Bosnia, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1997, and for other purposes. | |
| To amend the Communications Satellite Act of 1962 to promote competition and privatization in satellite communications, and for other purposes. | |
| To provide for a land exchange involving the Warner Canyon Ski Area and other land in the State of Oregon. | |
| To provide for the exchange of lands within Admiralty Island National Monument, and for other purposes. | |
| To provide for the appointment of a Chief Financial Officer and Deputy Chief Financial Officer in the Executive Office of the President. | |
| To reform the budget process and enforce the bipartisan balanced budget agreement of 1997. | |
| To amend the Act that authorized the Canadian River reclamation project, Texas, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to allow use of the project distribution system to transport water from sources other than the project. | |
| To provide for reconciliation pursuant to subsections (b)(2) and (d) of section 105 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1998. | |
| To provide for reconciliation pursuant to subsections (b)(1) and (c) of section 105 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1998. | |
| Making appropriations for military construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes. | |
| To provide for the revision of the requirements for a Canadian border boat landing permit pursuant to section 235 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, and to require the Attorney General to report to the Congress on the impact of such revision. | |
| To authorize the transfer of naval vessels to certain foreign countries. | |
| Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes. | |
| Making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes. | |
| Making appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes. | |
| Making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes. | |
| Making appropriations for the Department of Transportation and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes. | |
| To ensure the safety of witnesses and to promote notification of the interstate relocation of witnesses by States and localities engaging in that relocation, and for other purposes. | |
| To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reform the financing of campaigns for elections for Federal office, and for other purposes. | |
| To provide for certain measures to increase monitoring of products of the People's Republic of China that are made with forced labor. | |
| Making appropriations for energy and water development for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes. | |
| Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes. | |
| To provide for increased international broadcasting activities to China. | |
| To assist in the conservation of coral reefs. | |
| To reform the statutes relating to Amtrak, to authorize appropriations for Amtrak, and for other purposes. | |
| To reauthorize and amend the programs of the Small Business Act and the Small Business Investment Act, and for other purposes. | |
| Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes. | |
| Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes. | |
| Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes. | |
| To abolish the Thrift Depositor Protection Oversight Board, and for other purposes. | |
| To redesignate the Federal building located at 701 South Santa Fe Avenue in Compton, California, and known as the Compton Main Post Office, as the "Mervyn Dymally Post Office Building". | |
| To provide for improved monitoring of human rights violations in the People's Republic of China. | |
| To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to strengthen and clarify prohibitions on electronic eavesdropping, and for other purposes. | |
| Making appropriations for the Treasury Department, the United States Postal Service, the Executive Office of the President, and certain Independent Agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes. | |
| To implement the provisions of the Taiwan Relations Act concerning the stability and security of Taiwan and United States cooperation with Taiwan on the development and acquisition of defensive military articles. | |
| To authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes. | |
| To provide for a 10-year circulating commemorative coin program to commemorate each of the 50 States, and for other purposes. | |
| An act to express United States foreign policy with respect to, and to strengthen United States advocacy on behalf of, individuals persecuted in foreign countries on account of religion; to authorize United States actions in response to violations of religious freedom in foreign countries; to establish an Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom within the Department of State, a Commission on International Religious Freedom, and a Special Advisor on International Religious Freedom within the National Security Council; and for other purposes. | |
| To amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to scanning receivers and similar devices. | |
| To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to exempt internationally adopted children under age 10 from the immunization requirement. | |
| To extend certain programs under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act. | |
| To establish a mechanism by which the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior can provide for uniform management of livestock grazing on Federal lands. | |
| To address the declining health of forests on Federal lands in the United States through a program of recovery and protection consistent with the requirements of existing public land management and environmental laws, to establish a program to inventory, monitor, and analyze public and private forests and their resources, and for other purposes. | |
| To reform, extend, and repeal certain agricultural research, extension, and education programs, and for other purposes. | |
| To establish a Presidential commission to determine the validity of certain land claims arising out of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo of 1848 involving the descendants of persons who were Mexican citizens at the time of the Treaty. | |
| To condemn those officials of the Chinese Communist Party, the Government of the People's Republic of China, and other persons who are involved in the enforcement of forced abortions by preventing such persons from entering or remaining in the United States. | |
| To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend the visa waiver pilot program, and to provide for the collection of data with respect to the number of non-immigrants who remain in the United States after the expiration of the period of stay authorized by the Attorney General. | |
| To amend the provisions of title 17, United States Code, with respect to the duration of copyright, and for other purposes. | |
| To require the United States to oppose the making of concessional loans by international financial institutions to any entity in the People's Republic of China. | |
| An Act making omnibus consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes. | |
| To protect individuals from having money involuntarily collected and used for political activities by a corporation or labor organization. | |
| To amend titles VI and X of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to improve and expand charter schools. | |
| To extend trade authorities procedures with respect to reciprocal trade agreements, and for other purposes. | |
| To redesignate Washington National Airport as "Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport". | |
| Disapproving the cancellations transmitted by the President on October 6, 1997, regarding Public Law 105-45. | |
| To provide to beneficiary countries under the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act benefits equivalent to those provided under the North American Free Trade Agreement. | |
| To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow tax-free expenditures from education individual retirement accounts for elementary and secondary school expenses, to increase the maximum annual amount of contributions to such accounts, and for other purposes. | |
| To ensure that commercial activities of the People's Liberation Army of China or any Communist Chinese military company in the United States are monitored and are subject to the authorities under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. | |
| To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restructure and reform the Internal Revenue Service, and for other purposes. | |
| To impose certain sanctions on foreign persons who transfer items contributing to Iran's efforts to acquire, develop, or produce ballistic missiles. | |
| To amend title VI of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to give parents with low-incomes the opportunity to choose the appropriate school for their children. | |
| To waive time limitations specified by law in order to allow the Medal of Honor to be awarded to Robert R. Ingram of Jacksonville, Florida, for acts of valor while a Navy Hospital Corpsman in the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam conflict. | |
| To establish a matching grant program to help State and local jurisdictions purchase armor vests for use by law enforcement departments. | |
| To prohibit spending Federal education funds on national testing without explicit and specific legislation. | |
| To amend the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to clarify restrictions under that Act on baiting, to facilitate acquisition of migratory bird habitat, and for other purposes. | |
| To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to facilitate protection of tropical forests through debt reduction with developing countries with tropical forests. | |
| To amend provisions of law enacted by the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 to improve Federal agency strategic plans and performance reports. | |
| To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt from the minimum wage recordkeeping and overtime compensation requirements certain specialized employees. | |
| To amend the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to modify the requirements for implementation of an entry-exit control system. | |
| To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to guarantee loans to provide multifamily transitional housing for homeless veterans, and for other purposes. | |
| To correct a provision relating to termination of benefits for convicted persons. | |
| To terminate the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. | |
| An Act to provide for an alternative penalty procedure for States that fail to meet Federal child support data processing requirements, to reform Federal incentive payments for effective child support performance, to provide for a more flexible penalty procedure for States that violate interjurisdictional adoption requirements, and for other purposes. | |
| To amend title 11 of the United States Code, and for other purposes. | |
| To amend title 38, United States Code, to enact into law eligibility requirements for burial in Arlington National Cemetery, and for other purposes. | |
| To assist small businesses and labor organizations in defending themselves against government bureaucracy; to ensure that employees entitled to reinstatement get their jobs back quickly; to protect the right of employers to have a hearing to present their case in certain representation cases; and, to prevent the use of the National Labor Relations Act for the purpose of disrupting or inflicting economic harm on employers. | |
| To provide dollars to the classroom. | |
| An Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Reclamation, to complete a feasibility study relating to the Salton Sea, and for other purposes. | |
| To amend chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code, for the purpose of facilitating compliance by small businesses with certain Federal paperwork requirements, and to establish a task force to examine the feasibility of streamlining paperwork requirements applicable to small businesses. | |
| An act to amend the Small Business Act and the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to provide for a pilot loan guarantee program to address Year 2000 problems of small business concerns and to improve the progrmans of the Small Business Administration, and for other purposes. | |
| To amend the Social Security Act to establish a Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program in the Social Security Administration to provide beneficiaries with disabilities meaningful opportunities to return to work and to extend Medicare coverage for such beneficiaries, and to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a tax credit for impairment-related work expenses. | |
| An act to amend title 18, United States Code, to protect children from sexual abusae and exploitation, and for other purposes. | |
| To amend title 28, United States Code, with respect to the use of alternative dispute resolution processes in United States district courts, and for other purposes. | |
| To improve congressional deliberation on proposed Federal private sector mandates, and for other purposes. | |
| To provide for a national dialogue on Social Security and to establish the Bipartisan Panel to Design Long-Range Social Security Reform. | |
| To amend Part L of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968. | |
| Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes. | |
| To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reform the financing of campaigns for election for Federal office, and for other purposes. | |
| To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to expedite the reporting of information to the Federal Election Commission, to expand the type of information required to be reported to the Commission, to promote the effective enforcement of campaign laws by the Commission, and for other purposes. | |
| To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1999 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for fiscal year 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| To redesignate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 9719 Candelaria Road NE. in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as the "Steven Schiff Post Office". | |
| To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit taking minors across State lines to avoid laws requiring the involvement of parents in abortion decisions. | |
| To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1999 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes. | |
| To prohibit the expenditure of Federal funds for the distribution of needles or syringes for the hypodermic injection of illegal drugs. | |
| To limit the jurisdiction of the Federal courts with respect to prison release orders. | |
| To designate the auditorium located within the Sandia Technology Transfer Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as the "Steve Schiff Auditorium". | |
| To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to make changes relating to H-1B nonimmigrants. | |
| To withhold voluntary proportional assistance for programs and projects of the International Atomic Energy Agency relating to the development and completion of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran, and for other purposes. | |
| To designate the United States Post Office located at 47526 Clipper Drive in Plymouth, Michigan, as the "Carl D. Pursell Post Office". | |
| An act to authorize appropriations for the United States Customs Service for fiscal years 2000 and 2001. | |
| To establish felony violations for the failure to pay legal child support obligations, and for other purposes. | |
| To promote drug-free workplace programs. | |
| To amend the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to make improvements to the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children and to extend the authority of that program through fiscal year 2003. | |
| To amend the Trademark Act of 1946 to prohibit the unauthorized destruction, modification, or alteration of product identification codes, and for other purposes. | |
| To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to establish a program to help children and youth learn English, and for other purposes. | |
| To establish terms and conditions under which the Secretary of the Interior shall convey leaseholds in certain properties around Canyon Ferry Reservoir, Montana. | |
| To provide for the enactment of user fees proposed by the President in his budget submission under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, for fiscal year 1999. | |
| To amend title 49, United States Code, to reauthorize programs of the Federal Aviation Administration, and for other purposes. | |
| Making appropriations for military construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| Making appropriations for energy and water development for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| Making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| Making appropriations for the Treasury Department, the United States Postal Service, the Executive Office of the President, and certain Independent Agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| Making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| To provide new patient protections under group health plans. | |
| To allow Haskell Indian Nations University and the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute each to conduct a demonstration project to test the feasibility and desirability of new personnel management policies and procedures, and for other purposes. | |
| Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| To support enhanced drug interdiction efforts in the major transit countries and support a comprehensive supply eradication and crop substitution program in source countries. | |
| Making omnibus consolidated and emergency appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against revenues of said District for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| To amend the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend the program for mammography quality standards. | |
| To provide for programs to facilitate a significant reduction in the incidence and prevalence of substance abuse through reducing the demand for illegal drugs and the inappropriate use of legal drugs. | |
| To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to make revisions in the per beneficiary and per visit payment limits on payment for health services under the Medicare Program. | |
| Making appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| To provide for certain boundary adjustments and conveyances involving public lands, to establish and improve the management of certain heritage areas, historic areas, National Parks, wild and scenic rivers, and national trails, to protect communities by reducing hazardous fuels levels on public lands, and for other purposes. | |
| To amend the Social Security Act to establish the Protect Social Security Account into which the Secretary of the Treasury shall deposit budget surpluses until a reform measure is enacted to ensure the long-term solvency of the OASDI trust funds. | |
| To provide tax relief for individuals, families, and farming and other small businesses, to provide tax incentives for education, to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes. | |
| To provide for the conveyance of Federal land in New Castle, New Hampshire, to the town of New Castle, New Hampshire, and to require the release of certain restrictions with respect to land in such town. | |
| To designate the United States Post Office located at 3813 Main Street in East Chicago, Indiana, as the "Corporal Harold Gomez Post Office". | |
| To establish a program to support a transition to democracy in Iraq. | |
| To ensure that the United States is prepared to meet the Year 2000 computer problem. | |
| Adopting the Rules of the House for the One Hundred Fifth Congress. | |
| In the matter of Representative Newt Gingrich. | |
| Stating the sense of the House of Representatives that the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security Between the United States of America and Japan is essential for furthering the security interests of the United States, Japan, and the nations of the Asia-Pacific region, and that the people of Okinawa deserve recognition for their contributions toward ensuring the Treaty's implementation. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 852) to amend chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code, popularly known as the Paperwork Reduction Act, to minimize the burden of Federal paperwork demands upon small businesses, educational and nonprofit institutions, Federal contractors, State and local governments, and other persons through the sponsorship and use of alternative information technologies. | |
| Requesting the President to submit a budget for fiscal year 1998 that would balance the Federal budget by fiscal year 2002 without relying on budgetary contingencies. | |
| Providing for consideration of the resolution (H. Res. 89) requesting the President to submit a budget for fiscal year 1998 that would balance the Federal budget by fiscal year 2002 without relying on budgetary contingencies. | |
| Providing amounts for the expenses of certain committees of the House of Representatives in the One Hundred Fifth Congress. | |
| Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Bureau of Labor Statistics alone should make any adjustments, if any are needed, to the methodology used to determine the Consumer Price Index. | |
| Providing for consideration of the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 58) disapproving the certification of the President under section 490(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 regarding foreign assistance for Mexico during fiscal year 1997. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1) to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide compensatory time for employees in the private sector. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1122) to amend title 18, United States Code, to ban partial-birth abortions. | |
| Providing for consideration of the resolution (H. Res. 91) providing amounts for the expenses of certain committees of the House of Representatives in the One Hundred Fifth Congress. | |
| Providing for consideration of the resolution (H. Res. 91) providing amounts for the expenses of certain committees of the House of Representatives in the One Hundred Fifth Congress. | |
| Providing for consideration of motions to suspend the rules. | |
| Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that American families deserve tax relief. | |
| Providing for consideration of motions to suspend the rules. | |
| Providing amounts for the expenses of certain committees of the House of Representatives in the One Hundred Fifth Congress. | |
| Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Department of Education, States, and local education agencies should spend a greater percentage of Federal education tax dollars in our children's classrooms. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 478) to amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to improve the ability of individuals and local, State, and Federal agencies to comply with that Act in building, operating, maintaining, or repairing flood control projects, facilities, or structures. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3) to combat violent youth crime and increase accountability for juvenile criminal offenses. | |
| To express support for the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1469) making emergency supplemental appropriations for recovery from natural disasters, and for overseas peacekeeping efforts, including those in Bosnia, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1997, and for other purposes. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1469) making emergency supplemental appropriations for recovery from natural disasters, and for overseas peacekeeping efforts, including those in Bosnia, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1997, and for other purposes. | |
| Providing for consideration of the concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 84) establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 1998 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 408) to amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to support the International Dolphin Conservation Program in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, and for other purposes. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1757) to consolidate international affairs agencies, to authorize appropriations for the Department of State and related agencies for fiscal years 1998 and 1999 and for other purposes, and for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1758) to ensure that the enlargement of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) proceeds in a manner consistent with the United States interests, to strengthen relations between the United States and Russia, to preserve the prerogatives of the Congress with respect to certain arms control agreements, and for other purposes. | |
| Waiving points of order against the conference report to accompany the concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 84) establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 1998 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002. | |
| Providing special investigative authorities for the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. | |
| To implement the recommendations of the bipartisan House Ethics Reform Task Force. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1119) to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1998 and 1999 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for fiscal years 1998 and 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2015) to provide for reconciliation pursuant to subsections (b)(1) and (c) of section 105 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1998, and for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2014) to provide for reconciliation pursuant to subsections (b)(2) and (d) of section 105 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1998. | |
| Expressing concern over the outbreak of violence in the Republic of Congo and the resulting threat to scheduled elections and constitutional government in that country. | |
| Providing for consideration of a concurrent resolution providing for adjournment of the House and Senate for the Independence Day district work period. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1775) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1998 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2107) making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes. | |
| Urging the executive branch to take action regarding the acquisition by Iran of C-802 cruise missiles. | |
| Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the interference of the European Commission in the merger of the Boeing Company and McDonnell Douglas. | |
| Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 2160) making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2209) making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes. | |
| Waiving a requirement of clause 4(b) of rule XI with respect to consideration of certain resolutions reported from the Committee on Rules. | |
| Waiving points of order against the conference report to accompany the bill (H.R. 2015) to provide for reconciliation pursuant to subsections (b)(1) and (c) of section 105 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1998. | |
| Waiving points of order against the conference report to accompany the bill (H.R. 2016) making appropriations for military construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes. | |
| Providing for consideration of the resolution (H. Res. 168) to implement the recommendations of the bipartisan House Ethics Reform Task Force. | |
| Waiving points of order against the conference report to accompany the bill (H.R. 2160) making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes. | |
| Relating to a question of the privileges of the House. | |
| Waiving points of order against the conference report to accompany the bill (H.R. 2209) making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes. | |
| Waiving points of order against the conference report to accompany the bill (H.R. 2266) making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes. | |
| Demanding that the Office of the United States Attorney for the Central District of California file criminal charges against Hermandad Mexicana Nacional for failure to comply with a valid subpoena under the Federal Contested Elections Act. | |
| Providing for consideration of the resolution (H. Res. 244) demanding that the Office of the United States Attorney for the Central District of California file criminal charges against Hermandad Mexicana Nacional for failure to comply with a valid subpoena under the Federal Contested Elections Act. | |
| Waiving points of order against the conference report to accompany the bill (H.R. 2203) making appropriations for energy and water development for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1370) to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank of the United States. | |
| Providing for the consideration of the Senate amendments to the bill (H.R. 1122) to amend title 18, United States Code, to ban partial-birth abortions. | |
| Waiving points of order against the conference report to accompany the bill (H.R. 2169) making appropriations for the Department of Transportation and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2607) making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of said District for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2204) to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1998 and 1999 for the Coast Guard, and for other purposes. | |
| Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the citizens of the United States must remain committed to combat the distribution, sale, and use of illegal drugs by the Nation's youth. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2247) to reform the statutes relating to Amtrak, to authorize appropriations for Amtrak, and for other purposes. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2646) to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow tax-free expenditures from education individual retirement accounts for elementary and secondary school expenses, to increase the maximum annual amount of contributions to such accounts, and for other purposes. | |
| Relating to a question of the privileges of the House. | |
| Waiving points of order against the conference report to accompany the bill (H.R. 2107) making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes. | |
| Waiving points of order against the conference report to accompany the bill (H.R. 1119) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1998 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1270) to amend the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2493) to establish a mechanism by which the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior can provide for uniform management of livestock grazing on Federal lands. | |
| Relating to a question of the privileges of the House. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2746) to amend title VI of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to give parents with low-incomes the opportunity to choose the appropriate school for their children and for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2616) to amend titles VI and X of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to improve and expand charter schools. | |
| Relating to a question of the privileges of the House. | |
| Relating to a question of the privileges of the House. | |
| Relating to a question of the privileges of the House. | |
| Relating to a question of the privileges of the House. | |
| Relating to a question of the privileges of the House. | |
| Relating to a question of the privileges of the House. | |
| Relating to a question of the privileges of the House. | |
| Relating to a question of the privileges of the House. | |
| Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to repeal the exception to the requirement that public committee proceedings be open to all media. | |
| Providing for consideration of nine measures relating to the policy of the United States with respect to the People's Republic of China. | |
| Waiving a requirement of clause 4(b) of rule XI with respect to consideration of certain resolutions reported from the Committee on Rules, and for other purposes. | |
| Relating to a question of the privileges of the House. | |
| Providing for consideration of certain resolutions in preparation for the adjournment of the first session sine die. | |
| Waiving a requirement of clause 4(b) of rule XI with respect to consideration of certain resolutions reported from the Committee on Rules, and for other purposes. | |
| Relating to a question of the privileges of the House. | |
| Relating to a question of the privileges of the House. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (S. 738) to reform the statutes relating to Amtrak, and for other purposes. | |
| Providing for an exception from the limitation of clause 6(d) of rule X for the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. | |
| Providing for the consideration of the bill H.R. 867 and the Senate amendment thereto. | |
| Waiving points of order against the conference report to accompany the bill (H.R. 2267) making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes. | |
| Relating to a question of the privileges of the House. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2625) to redesignate Washington National Airport as "Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport". | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2846) to prohibit spending Federal education funds on national testing without explicit and specific legislation. | |
| Providing for consideration of motions to suspend the rules. | |
| Dismissing the election contest against Loretta Sanchez. | |
| Calling for free and impartial elections in Cambodia. | |
| Urging the introduction and passage of a resolution on the human rights situation in the People's Republic of China at the 54th Session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 856) to provide a process leading to full self-government for Puerto Rico. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1432) to authorize a new trade and investment policy for sub-Saharan Africa. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2883) to amend provisions of law enacted by the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 to improve Federal agency strategic plans and performance reports. | |
| Waiving points of order against the conference report to accompany the bill (H.R. 1757) to consolidate international affairs agencies, to authorize appropriations for the Department of State and related agencies for fiscal years 1998 and 1999, and to ensure that the enlargement of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) proceeds in a manner consistent with United States interests, to strengthen relations between the United States and Russia, to preserve the prerogatives of the Congress with respect to certain arms control agreements, and for other purposes. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2870) to amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to facilitate protection of tropical forests through debt reduction with developing countries with tropical forests. | |
| Relating to the importance of Japanese-American relations and the urgent need for Japan to more effectively address its economic and financial problems and open its markets by eliminating informal barriers to trade and investment, thereby making a more effective contribution to leading the Asian region out of its current financial crisis, insuring against a global recession, and reinforcing regional stability and security. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3246) to assist small businesses and labor organizations in defending themselves against government bureaucracy; to ensure that employees entitled to reinstatement get their jobs back quickly; to protect the right of employers to have a hearing to present their case in certain representation cases; and to prevent the use of the National Labor Relations Act for the purpose of disrupting or inflicting economic harm on employers. | |
| Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that social promotion in America's schools should be ended and can be ended through the use of high-quality, proven programs and practices. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3579) making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2400) to authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (S. 1502) entitled the "District of Columbia Student Opportunity Scholarship Act of 1997". | |
| Waiving a requirement of clause 4(b) of rule XI with respect to consideration of certain resolutions reported from the Committee on Rules. | |
| Regarding the importance of fathers in the raising and development of their children. | |
| Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that law enforcement officers who have died in the line of duty should be honored, recognized, and remembered for their great sacrifice. | |
| Expressing the sense of the House with respect to winning the war on drugs to protect our children. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 10) to enhance competition in the financial services industry by providing a prudential framework for the affiliation of banks, securities firms, and other financial service providers, and for other purposes. | |
| Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives concerning the President's assertions of executive privilege. | |
| Calling upon the President of the United States to urge full cooperation by his former political appointees and friends and their associates with congressional investigations. | |
| Expressing the sense of the Congress that the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight should confer immunity from prosecution for information and testimony concerning illegal foreign fundraising activities. | |
| Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 3616) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1999 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for fiscal year 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| Providing for the consideration of the joint resolution (H.J.Res. 119) proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to limit campaign spending, and for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2183) to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reform the financing of campaigns for elections for Federal office, and for other purposes. | |
| Disposing of the conference report to accompany the bill (S. 1150) to ensure that federally funded agricultural research, extension, and education address high-priority concerns with national or multistate significance, to reform, extend, and eliminate certain agricultural research programs, and for other purposes. | |
| Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding financial management by Federal agencies. | |
| Waiving points of order against the conference report to accompany the bill (H.R. 2400) to authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes. | |
| Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service should reject the recommended decision issued by the Postal Rate Commission on May 11, 1998, to the extent that it provides for any increase in postage rates. | |
| Providing for consideration of the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 78) proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States restoring religious freedom. | |
| Providing for consideration of the concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 284) revising the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 1998, establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 1999, and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003. | |
| Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 2183) to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reform the financing of campaigns for elections for Federal office, and for other purposes. | |
| Commemorating 50 years of relations between the United States and the Republic of Korea. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3150) to amend title 11 of the United States Code, and for other purposes. | |
| To establish the Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns With the People's Republic of China. | |
| Condemning the brutal killing of Mr. James Byrd, Jr. | |
| Waiving points of order against the conference report to accompany the bill (H.R. 2646) to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow tax-free expenditures from education individual retirement accounts for elementary and secondary school expenses, to increase the maximum annual amount of contributions to such accounts, and for other purposes. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3097) to terminate the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. | |
| Providing for consideration of the resolution (H. Res. 463) to establish the Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns With the People's Republic of China. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4059) making appropriations for military construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4103) making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4104) making appropriations for the Treasury Department, the United States Postal Service, the Executive Office of the President, and certain Independent Agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4112) making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| Providing for consideration of a concurrent resolution providing for adjournment of the House and Senate for the Independence Day district work period. | |
| Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States has enjoyed the loyalty of the United States citizens of Guam, and that the United States recognizes the centennial anniversary of the Spanish-American War as an opportune time for Congress to reaffirm its commitment to increase self-government consistent with self-determination for the people of Guam. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4104) making appropriations for the Treasury Department, the United States Postal Service, the Executive Office of the President, and certain Independent Agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3682) to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit taking minors across State lines to avoid laws requiring the involvement of parents in abortion decisions. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4194) making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4193) making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to the importance of diplomatic relations with the Pacific Island nations. | |
| Providing special investigative authority for the Committee on Education and the Workforce. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4250) to provide new patient protections under group health plans. | |
| Waiving points of order against the conference report to accompany the bill (H.R. 629) to grant the consent of the Congress to the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4380) making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against revenues of said District for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| Providing for a deliberative review by the Committee on the Judiciary of a communication from an independent counsel, and for the release thereof, and for other purposes. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4569) making appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| Impeaching Kenneth W. Starr, an independent counsel of the United States appointed pursuant to 28 United States Code section 593(b), of high crimes and misdemeanors. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4578) to amend the Social Security Act to establish the Protect Social Security Account into which the Secretary of the Treasury shall deposit budget surpluses until a reform measure is enacted to ensure the long-term solvency of the OASDI trust funds, and for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4579) to provide tax relief for individuals, families, and farming and other small businesses, to provide tax incentives for education, to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2621) to extend trade authorities procedures with respect to reciprocal trade agreements, and for other purposes. | |
| Expressing support for U. S. government efforts to identify Holocaust-era assets, urging the restitution of individual and communal property, and for other purposes. | |
| Waiving points of order against the conference report to accompany the bill (H.R. 4104) making appropriations for the Treasury Department, the United States Postal Service, the Executive Office of the President, and certain Independent Agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4274) making appropriations for the Department of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the importance of mammograms and biopsies in the fight against breast cancer. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4570) to provide for certain boundary adjustments and conveyances involving public lands, to establish and improve the management of certain heritage areas, historic areas, National Parks, wild and scenic rivers, and national trails, to protect communities by reducing hazardous fuels levels on public lands, and for other purposes. | |
| Waiving a requirement of clause 4(b) of rule XI with respect to consideration of certain resolutions reported from the Committee on Rules, and for other purposes. | |
| Waiving points of order against the conference report to accompany the bill (H.R. 4104) making appropriations for the Treasury Department, the United States Postal Service, the Executive Office of the President, and certain Independent Agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| Authorizing and directing the Committee on the Judiciary to investigate whether sufficient grounds exist for the impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton, President of the United States. | |
| Further providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4274) making appropriations for the Department of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4761) to require the United States Trade Representative to take certain actions in response to the failure of the European Union to comply with the rulings of the World Trade Organization. | |
| Waiving a requirement of clause 4(b) of rule XI with respect to consideration of certain resolutions reported from the Committee on Rules, and for other purposes. | |
| Providing for the concurrence by the House with amendments in the Senate amendment to H.R. 4110. | |
| Calling on the President to take all necessary measures to respond to the surge of steel imports resulting from the financial crises in Asia, Russia, and other regions, and for other purposes. | |
| Providing for consideration of the bill (S. 1132) to modify the boundaries of the Bandelier National Monument to include the lands within the headwaters of the Upper Alamo Watershed which drain into the Monument and which are not currently within the jurisdiction of a Federal land management agency, to authorize purchase or donation of those lands, and for other purposes, and for consideration of the bill (S. 2133) an act to preserve the cultural resources of the Route 66 corridor and to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide assistance. | |
| Waiving points of order against the conference report to accompany the bill (H.R. 4328) making appropriations for the Department of Transportation and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| Impeaching William Jefferson Clinton, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors. | |
| Expressing unequivocal support for the men and women of our Armed Forces who are currently carrying out missions in and around the Persian Gulf region. | |
| Appointing and authorizing managers for the impeachment trial of William Jefferson Clinton, President of the United States. | |
| A bill to amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to support the International Dolphin Conservation Program in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, and for other purposes. | |
| A bill to amend the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982. | |
| An Act to amend the Shipping Act of 1984 to encourage competition in international shipping and growth of United States exports, and for other purposes. | |
| A bill to provide surveillance, research, and services aimed at prevention of birth defects, and for other purposes. | |
| A bill to establish a national policy against State and local government interference with interstate commerce on the Internet or interactive computer services, and to exercise Congressional jurisdiction over interstate commerce by establishing a moratorium on the imposition of exactions that would interfere with the free flow of commerce via the Internet, and for other purposes. | |
| A bill to provide criminal and civil penalties for the unlawful acquisition, transfer, or use of any chemical weapon or biological weapon, and to reduce the threat of acts of terrorism or armed aggression involving the use of any such weapon against the United States, its citizens, or Armed Forces, or those of any allied country, and for other purposes. | |
| A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose civil and criminal penalties for the unauthorized access of tax returns and tax return information by Federal employees and other persons, and for other purposes. | |
| A bill to provide certain protections to volunteers, nonprofit organizations, and governmental entities in lawsuits based on the activities of volunteers. | |
| A bill to amend section 255 of the National Housing Act to prevent the funding of unnecessary or excessive costs for obtaining a home equity conversion mortgage. | |
| A bill to require the Secretary of the Interior to exchange certain lands located in Hinsdale County, Colorado. | |
| An original bill making supplemental appropriations and rescissions for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1997, and for other purposes. | |
| A bill to amend the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, to reauthorize and make improvements to that Act, and for other purposes. | |
| A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the Public Health Service Act to improve the regulation of food, drugs, devices, and biological products, and for other purposes. | |
| A bill to establish nationally uniform requirements regarding the titling and registration of salvage, nonrepairable, and rebuilt vehicles. | |
| An original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1998 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes. | |
| A bill to establish the Oklahoma City National Memorial as a unit of the National Park System; to designate the Oklahoma City Memorial Trust, and for other purposes. | |
| An original bill to consolidate the foreign affairs agencies of the United States, to authorize appropriations for the Department of State for fiscal years 1998 and 1999, and to provide for reform of the United Nations, and for other purposes. | |
| A bill to authorize appropriations for carrying out the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 for fiscal years 1998 and 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| An Act to amend title 38, United States Code, to prohibit interment or memorialization in certain cemeteries of persons committing Federal or State capital crimes. | |
| An original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1998 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes. | |
| An original bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 104(a) of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1998. | |
| An original bill to provide revenue reconciliation pursuant to section 104(b) of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1998. | |
| An original bill making appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes. | |
| A bill to provide for the authorization of appropriations in each fiscal year for arbitration in United States district courts. | |
| An original bill making appropriations for energy and water development for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes. | |
| An original bill making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes. | |
| An original bill making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes. | |
| An original bill making appropriations for the Treasury Department, the United States Postal Service, the Executive Office of the President, and certain Independent Agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes. | |
| An original bill making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes. | |
| An original bill making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, commissions, corporations, and offices for fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes. | |
| An original bill making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes. | |
| A bill to provide for a transfer of land interests in order to facilitate surface transportation between the cities of Cold Bay, Alaska, and King Cove, Alaska, and for other purposes. | |
| A bill to modify the boundaries of the Bandelier National Monument to include the lands within the headwaters of the Upper Alamo Watershed which drain into the Monument and which are not currently within the jurisdiction of a Federal land management agency, to authorize purchase or donation of those lands, and for other purposes. | |
| An original bill to ensure that federally funded agricultural research, extension, and education address high-priority concerns with national or multistate significance, to reform, extend, and eliminate certain agricultural research programs, and for other purposes. | |
| An original bill making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of said District for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes. | |
| A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize appropriations for refugee and entrant assistance for fiscal years 1998 and 1999. | |
| A bill to authorize funds for construction of highways, for highway safety programs, and for mass transit programs, and for other purposes. | |
| An original bill to provide permanent authority for the administration of au pair programs. | |
| A bill to amend title 11, United States Code, to protect certain charitable contributions, and for other purposes. | |
| A bill to amend the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to limit the conduct of securities class actions under State law, and for other purposes. | |
| A bill disapproving the cancellations transmitted by the President on October 6, 1997, regarding Public Law 105-45. | |
| A bill to amend title 11, United States Code, to provide for consumer bankruptcy protection, and for other purposes. | |
| A bill to eliminate unnecessary and wasteful Federal reports. | |
| A bill to reform and restructure the processes by which tobacco products are manufactured, marketed, and distributed, to prevent the use of tobacco products by minors, to redress the adverse health effects of tobacco use, and for other purposes. | |
| A bill entitled the "District of Columbia Student Opportunity Scholarship Act of 1997". | |
| A bill to rename the Washington National Airport located in the District of Columbia and Virginia as the "Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport". | |
| A bill to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to improve the protection of consumers against "slamming" by telecommunications carriers, and for other purposes. | |
| A bill to protect individuals from having their money involuntarily collected and used for politics by a corporation or labor organization. | |
| An original bill to encourage the disclosure to Congress of certain classified and related information. | |
| A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend certain programs with respect to women's health research and prevention activities at the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. | |
| A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to assist the United States to remain competitive by increasing the access of the United States firms and institutions of higher education to skilled personnel and by expanding educational and training opportunities for American students and workers. | |
| An Act to amend the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to require food stamp State agencies to take certain actions to ensure that food stamp coupons are not issued for deceased individuals, to require the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a study of options for the design, development, implementation, and operation of a national database to track participation in Federal means-tested public assistance programs, and for other purposes. | |
| A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to consolidate and reauthorize health professions and minority and disadvantaged health professions and disadvantaged health education programs, and for other purposes. | |
| An original bill making emergency supplemental appropriations for recovery from natural disasters, and for overseas peacekeeping efforts, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes. | |
| A bill to reauthorize the Higher Education Act of 1965, and for other purposes. | |
| An original bill to amend title 17, United States Code, to implement the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty, to provide limitations on copyright liability relating to material online, and for other purposes. | |
| An original bill to authorize appropriations for the fiscal year 1999 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes. | |
| A bill to authorize appropriations for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. | |
| A bill to reauthorize and amend the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Establishment Act. | |
| An original bill making appropriations for the Department of Defense for fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| An Act to preserve the cultural resources of the Route 66 corridor and to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide assistance. | |
| An original bill making appropriations for energy and water development for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| An original bill making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| An original bill making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| A bill to amend the Head Start Act, the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981, and the Community Services Block Grant Act to reauthorize and make improvements to those Acts, to establish demonstration projects that provide an opportunity for persons with limited means to accumulate assets, and for other purposes. | |
| An original bill making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| An original bill making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| A bill to amend title 49, United States Code, to authorize the programs of the Federal Aviation Administration for fiscal years 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002, and for other purposes. | |
| A bill to amend the Arms Export Control Act, and for other purposes. | |
| An original bill making appropriations for the Department of Transportation and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| An original bill making appropriations for the Treasury Department, the United States Postal Service, the Executive Office of the President, and certain Independent Agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| An original bill making appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes. | |
| A concurrent resolution providing for a recess or adjournment of the Senate from January 9, 1997 to January 21, 1997, and an adjournment of the House from January 9, 1997 to January 20, 1997, from January 20, 1997 to January 21, 1997, and from January 21, 1997 to February 4, 1997. | |
| A concurrent resolution to permit the use of the rotunda of the Capitol for a congressional ceremony honoring Mother Teresa. | |
| An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal years 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002. | |
| A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that Little League Baseball Incorporated was established to support and develop Little League baseball worldwide and that its international character and activities should be recognized. | |
| A concurrent resolution to adjourn sine die the first session of the One Hundred Fifth Congress. | |
| A concurrent resolution relating to the indictment and prosecution of Saddam Hussein for war crimes and other crimes against humanity. | |
| A concurrent resolution calling for an end to the violent repression of the people of Kosovo. | |
| An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal years 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003 and revising the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1998. | |
| A concurrent resolution to acknowledge the Historic Northern Ireland Peace Agreement. | |
| A concurrent resolution affirming U.S. commitments under the Taiwan Relations Act. | |
| A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to require a balanced budget. | |
| A joint resolution waiving certain provisions of the Trade Act of 1974 relating to the appointment of the United States Trade Representative. | |
| A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to contributions and expenditures intended to affect elections. | |
| A joint resolution to express the sense of the Congress concerning the application by the Attorney General for the appointment of an independent counsel to investigate allegations of illegal fundraising in the 1996 Presidential election campaign. | |
| A joint resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the Attorney General should exercise her best professional judgement, without regard to political pressures, on whether to invoke the independent counsel process to investigate alleged criminal misconduct relating to any election campaign. | |
| A joint resolution to direct the Secretary of the Interior to design and construct a permanent addition to the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C., and for other purposes. | |
| A joint resolution to disapprove the certification of the President under section 490(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 regarding foreign assistance for Mexico during fiscal year 1998. | |
| A joint resolution finding the Government of Iraq in unacceptable and material breach of its international obligations. | |
| An original resolution authorizing expenditures by the Committee on Governmental Affairs. | |
| A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate concerning the need for accurate guidelines for breast cancer screening for women between the ages of 40 and 49. | |
| A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the need to address immediately the decline in milk prices. | |
| An executive resolution to advise and consent to the ratification of the Chemical Weapons Convention, subject to certain conditions. | |
| A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the conditions for the United States becoming a signatory to any international agreement on greenhouse gas emissions under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. | |
| A resolution condemning the Government of Canada for its failure to accept responsibility for the illegal blockade of a U.S. vessel in Canada, and calling on the President to take appropriate action. | |
| A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate on the occasion of the death of Mother Teresa of Calcutta. | |
| A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the human rights situation in the People's Republic of China. |
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