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| 1988-08-11 | South Africa Sanctions [HR1580] | Passed (244-132) |
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| Passage of the bill to prohibit nearly all U.S. trade with South Africa, except for imports of strategic minerals; to prohibit U.S. investment in South Africa, except in businesses owned by persons disadvantaged by apartheid; to require the President to retaliate against foreign companies that take advantage of U.S. sanctions; and to authorize $40 million in U.S. aid to blacks and other non-whites in South Africa. | |||||
| 1988-09-08 | Omnibus Drug Bill [HR5210] | Agreed To (299-111) |
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| Gekas (R-PA) amendment which would allow the use of the death penalty for "drug kingpins" who commit murder or order others to murder. | |||||
| 1988-09-08 | Omnibus Drug Bill [HR5210] | Agreed To (259-134) |
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| Lungren (R-CA) amendment to provide an exception to the "exclusionary rule", which bars the use of illegally obtained evidence at a trial. The exception would apply to cases in which police had a reasonable good faith belief that they seized the evidence lawfully. | |||||
| 1988-09-15 | Omnibus Drug Bill [HR5210] | Agreed To (228-182) |
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| McCollum (R-FL) amendment to strike provisions that sought to establish a seven-day waiting period for handgun purchases and instead to require the Justice Department to develop and send to Congress a proposal for a system gun dealers could use to identify felons, who are ineligible to own handguns. | |||||
| 1988-09-22 | AIDS Federal Policy [HR5142] | Rejected (70-327) |
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| Dannemeyer (R-CA) amendment to require states, as a condition for receiving funds authorized by the bill, to ensure that information sufficient to locate individuals testing positive be reported to the state public health offices. | |||||
| 1988-09-29 | Equitable Pay Practices [HR387] | Passed (302-98) |
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| Passage of the bill to establish an 11-member commission to conduct a study to determine whether the current federal job classification and pay system are designed and administered in accordance with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which prohibit discrimination based on sex, race or national origin. | |||||
| 1988-09-30 | Fiscal 1989 District of Columbia Appropriations [HR4776] | Failed (134-201) |
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| Dixon (D-CA) motion to weaken an Armstrong (R-CO) Senate amendment which would prohibit the District of Columbia from forcing religiously affiliated educational institutions to provide funding, facilities, services or official recognition to homosexual groups. | |||||
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