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| 1980-01-31 | Davis-Bacon Exemptions [HR5980] | Rejected (130-266) |
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| Walker (R-PA) amendment to delete from the bill language requiring the payment of prevailing wages under the Davis-Bacon Act with countercyclical and targeted fiscal assistance funds. | |||||
| 1980-02-27 | Central American Aid [HR6081] | Passed (202-197) |
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| Passage of the bill to authorize $80 million in supplemental economic assistance in fiscal 1980 to the Central American countries of Nicaragua ($75 million) and Honduras ($5 million). | |||||
| 1980-03-06 | International Development Banks [HR3829] | Passed (219-166) |
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| Passage of the bill to authorize an increase totaling $2.5 billion in the United States commitment to the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the African Development Fund. | |||||
| 1980-03-12 | Windfall Profits Tax [HR3919] | Failed (185-227) |
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| Archer (R-TX) motion to recommit the conference report with instructions to the conferees to exempt from the tax the first 1,000 barrels a day produced by independent oil companies. | |||||
| 1980-04-16 | Central Idaho Wilderness [S2009] | Passed (301-93) |
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| Passage of the bill to authorize $16.2 million for fiscal 1981 and set aside 2.2 million acres of land in central Idaho as the River of No Return Wilderness and to designate 178 miles of the Salmon River as a component of the Wild and Scenic Rivers System. | |||||
| 1980-04-30 | Increase Domestic Spending [HCR307] | Rejected (201-213) |
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| Obey (D-WI) substitute to the resolution, to increase total budget authority by $1.1 billion, outlays by $700 million and revenues by $800 million, reflecting increases in domestic programs and foreign oil tax credit reform. | |||||
| 1980-05-06 | Fiscal 1981 Budget Targets [HCR307] | Rejected (175-242) |
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| Latta (R-OH) substitute amendment to reduce fiscal 1981 revenues to $599.9 billion, budget authority to $681.3 billion and outlays to $597.8 billion and provide a $32 billion tax cut, and also to increase outlays by $4.5 billion and budget authority by $13.4 billion for defense programs. | |||||
| 1980-05-08 | Food Stamps [S1309] | Passed (320-56) |
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| Passage of the bill to raise the statutory ceiling on food stamp spending to $9.2 billion in fiscal 1980 and $9.7 billion in fiscal 1981. | |||||
| 1980-05-14 | MX Missile [HR6974] | Rejected (152-250) |
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| Simon (D-IL) amendment to delete $500 million of the $1.6 billion in the bill for continued development of the MX intercontinental missile system. If enacted, the amendment would have blocked further development of the MX based system, but allowed studies of the best system to continue. | |||||
| 1980-07-23 | Soviet Trade [HR7584] | Rejected (124-284) |
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| McDonald (D-GA) amendment to prohibit use of appropriated funds in fiscal 1981 to administer or promote any trade between the United States and the Soviet Union. | |||||
| 1980-07-23 | Legal Services Corporation [HR7584] | Rejected (197-215) |
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| Conable (R-NY) amendment to cut the Legal Services Corporation appropriation by $21,300,000. | |||||
| 1980-07-24 | Urban Development Grants [HR7631] | Rejected (136-262) |
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| Coughlin (R-PA) amendment to reduce to $500 million, from $675 million, the amount appropriated for the Urban Development Action Grant Program. | |||||
| 1980-09-18 | India Nuclear Fuel [HCR367] | Agreed To (298-97) |
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| Adoption of the resolution disapproving the shipment to India by the United States of enriched nuclear fuel. | |||||
| 1980-09-18 | International Money Fund [HR7244] | Passed (199-151) |
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| Passage of the bill to authorize a U.S. quota of 4.202 billion special drawing rights (approximately $5.5 billion) for the International Monetary Fund. | |||||
| 1980-12-03 | Nuclear Waste Policy [HR8378] | Rejected (161-218) |
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| Kostmayer (D-PA) amendment to permit states to veto federally selected nuclear waste sites within their borders unless both houses of Congress voted to override the veto. | |||||
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"No vote" means that this member did not cast a vote (or voted 'Present' instead of Yes or No). |