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| 1983-03-22 | Jobs and Unemployment Bill [HR1718] | Agreed To (329-86) |
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| Adoption of the conference report on the pork-barrel bill to provide $15,589,034,000 in fiscal 1983 supplemental appropriations, including $4.6 billion for "emergency" jobs and recession relief. | |||||
| 1983-04-21 | Freeze Missile Deployment [HJR13] | Agreed To (221-195) |
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| Zablocki (D-WI) substitute for the Carney (R-NY) amendment, to provide that, unless a freeze agreement were negotiated, nothing in the resolution would impede U.S. compliance with the 1979 NATO decision to deploy new missiles in Europe. The Carney amendment provided that the freeze would not impede U.S. compliance with the 1979 agreement. This permits the U.S. to withdraw from its responsibilites under the 1979 NATO decision to deploy new missiles if the U.S. and Soviets reach a "freeze" agreement, and thus undermines confidence in American deterrence. | |||||
| 1983-05-04 | Nuclear Freeze [HJR13] | Passed (278-149) |
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| Passage of the joint resolution calling for a "mutual and verifiable" freeze on and reduction in nuclear weapons. | |||||
| 1983-05-11 | Homeowner Foreclosure Loans [HR1983] | Passed (216-196) |
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| Passage of the bill to authorize $760 million in fiscal 1983 for a temporary loan program to help unemployed homeowners make their mortgage payments, and $100 million in fiscal 1984 for emergency shelters for the homeless. | |||||
| 1983-06-08 | Federal Employee Abortions [HR3191] | Agreed To (226-182) |
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| Smith (R-NJ) amendment to prohibit the use of federal health benefit funds to pay for abortions unless the life of the mother is endangered. | |||||
| 1983-06-23 | 1984 Budget Resolution [HCON91] | Agreed To (239-186) |
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| Jones (D-OK) motion to approve the substitute resolution, agreed to by House-Senate conferees but reported in technical disagreement, to set budget targets for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1984 as follows (totals including reserve fund items in parentheses): budget authority, $919.5 billion ($928.725 billion); outlays, $849.5 billion ($858.925 billion); revenues, $679.6 billion; deficit, $169.9 billion ($179.325 billion). The resolution also set preliminary goals for fiscal 1985-86, revised budget levels for fiscal 1983, and included reconciliation instructions requiring House and Senate committees to recommend legislative savings to meet the budget targets. This resolution increased taxes and domestic spending while cutting the defense hikes proposed by the President. | |||||
| 1983-06-23 | Limit Reagan Tax Cuts [HR1183] | Passed (229-191) |
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| Passage of the bill to place a $720 per family "cap" on the 10 percent individual income tax cut on the third year of the Reagan tax cut scheduled for 1983. | |||||
| 1983-07-28 | "Contras" Support [HR2760] | Rejected (203-223) |
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| Bloomfield (R-MI) amendment to permit U.S. covert action in Nicaragua to continue if the President submitted to Congress a new plan for interdiction of arms being shipped from or through Nicaragua to anti-government forces in El Salvador. This would allow continued U.S. support for the Contras as long as the Sandinista regime continues sending arms to the Salvadoran guerrillas. | |||||
| 1983-08-02 | King Federal Holiday [HR3706] | Agreed To (338-90) |
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| Hall (D-IN) motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill to designate the third Monday of every January as a federal holiday in honor of the controversial civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. | |||||
| 1983-08-03 | Unemployed Health Insurance [HR3021] | Passed (252-174) |
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| Passage of the bill to authorize $4 billion in fiscal 1983-85 for block grants to states for health insurance plans for the unemployed, and for grants to hospitals caring for needy, uninsured people. The bill also required certain changes in employment-based private group health insurance plans to continue coverage for laid-off workers. The bill created, in effect, a brand new entitlement program. | |||||
| 1983-08-03 | Loans to Communist Dictatorships [HR2957] | Agreed To (242-185) |
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| Gramm (R-TX) amendment to instruct the U.S. representative to the International Money Fund to oppose loans to Communist dictatorships. | |||||
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