| Date | Subject | Result | Conserv. Position | MacDonald Voted | |
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| 1976-02-05 | Natural Gas Deregulation [HR9464] | Agreed To (205-201) |
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| Smith (D-IA) amendment to the Krueger (D-TX) substitute amendment, to deregulate natural gas sold by small producers with sales of less than 100 billion cubic feet a year, but continue Federal Power Commission regulation of major gas producers. The Smith amendment extended federal controls over major companies to cover gas sales in intrastate markets. The Krueger amendment would have removed regulation by the Federal Power Commission from all natural gas producers. | |||||
| 1976-03-03 | Vietnam Trade Embargo [HR11963] | Rejected (185-223) |
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No Vote | |
| Bauman (R-MD) amendment to delete language in the bill that would partially lift the U.S. trade embargo against North and South Vietnam if the Vietnamese provided an accounting of U.S. military personnel still missing in action. This would remove significant leverage from the U.S. in obtaining a full accounting of our MIA's. | |||||
| 1976-03-24 | Legal Services Corporation [HR10799] | Passed (256-143) |
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No Vote | |
| Passage of the bill to allow the Legal Services Corporation for the poor to make grants and contracts to outside research and training centers specializing in poverty law. The bill provides money to activist attorneys, most of whom are engaged in supporting left-wing causes, often political in nature. | |||||
| 1976-03-29 | Internal Security Funding [HRE1079] | Failed (158-193) |
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No Vote | |
| Ashbrook (R-OH) motion to recommit to the Committee on House Administration, with specific instructions that $300,000 be earmarked for internal security functions of the Judiciary Committee, the bill authorizing $1,276,767.32 for Judiciary Committee expenses. This was another attempt to activate dormant internal security functions which had been transferred from the now-defunct House Internal Security Committee to the Judiciary Committee. | |||||
| 1976-04-14 | Product Safety Prosecutions [S6448] | Failed (177-192) |
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No Vote | |
| Butler (R-VA) motion to recommit the conference report authorizing fiscal 1976-1978 funds for the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to conference with specific instructions to disagree to a provision authorizing the agency to represent itself in civil litigation if the Attorney General refused to accept a case within 45 days. This motion would remove the CPSC's exclusive power (not possessed by other regulatory agencies) to institute criminal proceedings against citizens. | |||||
| 1976-04-25 | Aid to Anti-Communists [S2662] | Failed (185-214) |
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No Vote | |
| Derwinski (R-IL) motion to recommit to the conference committee, and thus kill, the conference report on the bill to authorize $3,166,900,000 in foreign military assistance for fiscal 1976 and to provide new congressional controls on U.S. arms sales. The bill would ban sales to countries allegedly violating human rights. The bill's main purpose was aimed at cutting military aid to loyal and friendly anti-Communist governments such as South Korea, Chile and the Philippines. | |||||
| 1976-04-29 | Hatch Act Repeal Veto [HR8617] | Veto Sustained (243-160) |
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No Vote | |
| Passage, over the President's April 12 veto, of the bill to give federal employees the right to participate in partisan political campaigns and to run for local, state or federal office. The bill would allow federal employees to run for political office while on public payroll and to engage in other political activites, thus bringing about greater politicization of the federal bureaucracy and increasing the influence of federal and postal union bosses over Congress and the government. | |||||
| 1976-04-29 | Tax and Spending Cuts [HCR611] | Rejected (145-230) |
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No Vote | |
| Latta (R-OH) substitute amendment to the pending committee resolution, providing for overall budget authority of $420.7 billion, outlays of $400.8 billion, revenues of $352.1 billion and a deficit of $48.7 billion. This would reduce revenues by $10.9 billion, outlays by $13.7 billion and budget authority by $23.5 billion, thus reducing the deficit by $2.8 billion. | |||||
| 1976-04-29 | Balanced Budget / Spending Cuts [HCR611] | Rejected (105-272) |
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No Vote | |
| Rousselot (R-CA) substitute amendment for the pending committee resolution providing for a balanced budget containing budget authority of $394.2 billion, outlays of $363 billion and revenues of $363 billion. This represented a $50 billion reduction in spending. | |||||
| 1976-05-03 | Federal Election Campaign Act [S3065] | Agreed To (291-81) |
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No Vote | |
| Adoption of the conference report on the bill to reconstitute the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and revise the 1974 campaign finance law. This bill reconstituted the FEC even after the Supreme Court decreed that it and several portions of the campaign finance law were unconstitutional. The bill contained restrictive limitations on political contributions and contained provisions giving favored treatment to labor union political action committees. | |||||
| 1976-05-04 | Environmental Protection Agency [HR12704] | Agreed To (228-167) |
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No Vote | |
| Ketchum (R-CA) amendment to give Congress 60 days to veto any EPA rule or regulation dealing with research and development. Many EPA regulations have gone far beyond the intent of Congress by imposing exorbitant fines and high compliance costs. | |||||
| 1976-05-12 | Higher Education Act [HR12851] | Agreed To (222-174) |
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No Vote | |
| Conlan (R-AZ) amendment to prohibit funds authorized under the Foreign Studies and Language Development section to be used for activities involving any aspect of the "religion" known as secular humanism. | |||||
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