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| 1986-04-10 | Relax Some Gun Restrictions [HR4332] | Passed (292-130) |
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| Passage of the bill to revise the 1968 Gun Control Act to allow the interstate sales of rifles and shotguns and the interstate transportation of all types of firearms, to ease record-keeping requirements for firearms transactions and to limit federal agents to one unannounced inspection per year of a gun dealer's premises. | |||||
| 1986-04-17 | Compulsory Unionism [HR281] | Passed (229-173) |
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| Passage of the bill to bar companies from circumventing labor laws to hire non-union workers for construction projects. This bill would greatly expand the power of construction unions. | |||||
| 1986-04-29 | Block Grant Freeze [HR4421] | Rejected (140-267) |
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| Walker (R-PA) amendment to freeze the fiscal 1987 authorization for the Community Services Block Grant program at the fiscal 1986 outlay level of $370.3 million, instead of authorizing $390 million as provided in the bill. | |||||
| 1986-06-04 | Eliminate Urban Development Grants [HR1] | Rejected (93-289) |
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| Hiler (R-IN) amendment to eliminate the Urban Development Action Grant program. | |||||
| 1986-06-26 | Contra Aid [HR5052] | Agreed To (221-209) |
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| Edwards (R-OK) substitute to provide $70 million in military aid and $30 million in non-military aid to the Freedom Fighters in Nicaragua. Also included $300 million in economic aid to Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. | |||||
| 1986-07-17 | Legal Services Corporation [HR5161] | Rejected (103-278) |
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| Combest (R-TX) amendment to delete $305.5 million for the Legal Services Corporation. | |||||
| 1986-07-29 | Romanian Trade [HRES475] | Agreed To (216-190) |
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| Gibbons (D-FL) motion to table (kill) the Crane (R-IL) motion to discharge the Ways and Means Committee from consideration of the resolution to express the House's disapproval of President Reagan's decision to continue special trade privileges for Romania by renewing most-favored-nation status for that country. The effect of the Crane amendment would have been to place the House on record against President Reagan's decision to continue the special trade privileges for Communist Romania. | |||||
| 1986-07-29 | Elevator Operators [HR5203] | Rejected (168-238) |
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| Swindall (R-GA) amendment to cut funding for House office buildings by $91,450 to phase out the jobs of 14 automatic-elevator operators. | |||||
| 1986-08-06 | Import Quotas [HR1562] | Veto Sustained (276-149) |
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| Passage, over President Reagan's Dec. 17, 1985 veto, of the bill to place import restrictions on textile and apparel goods. | |||||
| 1986-08-11 | MX Missiles [HR4428] | Rejected (178-210) |
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| Bennett (D-FL) amendment to delete $1.1 billion for 12 MX missiles and add $250 million for various conventional weapons. | |||||
| 1986-08-12 | SDI Funding [HR4428] | Agreed To (239-176) |
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| Bennett (D-FL) amendment to decrease from $3.4 billion to $2.85 billion the amount authorized for research on the Strategic Defense Initiative, or "Star Wars". | |||||
| 1986-08-12 | SALT II Limits [HR4428] | Agreed To (225-186) |
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| Dicks (D-WA) amendment to prohibit the use of funds to deploy any weapons inconsistent with certain limits contained in the unratified SALT II arms control treaty, provided the Soviet Union continues to observe those limits. | |||||
| 1986-08-13 | ASAT Testing [HR4428] | Agreed To (222-197) |
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| Brown (D-CA) amendment to bar tests against an object in space of the anti-satellite (ASAT) missile provided the Soviet Union abstains from testing its own version of the weapon. | |||||
| 1986-08-13 | Chemical Weapons [HR4428] | Agreed To (210-209) |
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| Porter (R-IL) amendment to prohibit the production of binary chemical weapons before Oct. 1, 1987. | |||||
| 1986-08-14 | Minority Set-Asides [HR4428] | Agreed To (259-135) |
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| Savage (D-IL) amendment to increase from 5 percent to 10 percent the proportion of Pentagon contracts that must go to minority-controlled businesses. | |||||
| 1986-09-11 | Exclusionary Rule [HR5484] | Agreed To (259-153) |
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| Lungren (R-CA) amendment to permit the introduction of evidence obtained in a warrentless search if the search or seizure was undertaken in a reasonable, good-faith belief that it was in conformity with the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. | |||||
| 1986-09-11 | Death Penalty [HR5484] | Agreed To (296-112) |
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| Gekas (R-PA) amendment to authorize imposition of the death penalty on anyone who knowingly causes the death of another individual during the course of a continuing criminal enterprise. | |||||
| 1986-09-17 | UNITA Aid [HR4759] | Agreed To (229-186) |
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| Stump (R-AZ) amendment to strike a section of the bill restricting covert military aid to UNITA anti-Communist rebels in Angola. | |||||
| 1986-09-29 | South Africa Sanctions [HR4868] | Veto Overridden (313-83) |
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| Passage, over President Reagan's Sept. 26 veto, of the bill to impose economic sanctions against the Republic of South Africa. | |||||
| 1986-10-08 | Superfund [HR2005] | Agreed To (386-27) |
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| Adoption of the conference report on the bill to reauthorize the "Superfund" hazardous-waste cleanup program for fiscal 1987-91 at a funding level of $8.5 billion, and to establish a new program for cleanup of leaking underground storage tanks at $500,000. | |||||
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