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| 1991-05-22 | Fiscal 1992 Budget Resolution [HCONRES121] | Agreed To (239-181) |
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| Adoption of the conference report on the resolution to set binding budget levels for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1992: budget authority, $1.59 trillion; outlays, $1.448 trillion; revenues, $1.169 trillion; deficit, $278.8 billion. The House report contained several budget-busting programs. | |||||
| 1991-06-05 | Civil Rights Act of 1991 [HR1] | Passed (273-158) |
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| Vote on passage of the bill to reverse or modify recent Supreme Court decisions that had reestablished more reasonable standards of proof in discrimination cases. The bill will shift the burden of proof onto the accused and effectively force businesses to adopt quota hiring policies to prevent endless litigation. | |||||
| 1991-06-05 | Fiscal 1992 Legislative Branch Appropriations [HR2506] | Rejected (198-227) |
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| Penny (D-MN) amendment to cut $21 million from the $80 million appropriation for House official mail costs (i.e., free mailing privileges for members of Congress and their staffs), bringing it to the fiscal 1991 level of $59 million. | |||||
| 1991-06-12 | Fiscal 1992-93 Foreign Aid Authorization [HR2508] | Agreed To (234-188) |
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| Kostmayer (D-PA) amendment to the Smith (R-NJ) amendment, to preserve the $20 million in funding for the United Nations population fund (UNFPA), which supports family-planning programs in many countries. The Smith amendment would have removed the funding on the grounds that the UNFPA operated in China, which uses forced abortions and involuntary sterilization as means of family planning; the UNFPA promotes those forced abortions in China. | |||||
| 1991-06-20 | Fiscal 1992-93 Foreign Aid Authorization [HR2508] | Agreed To (279-134) |
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| Walker (R-PA) substitute amendment to the Burton (R-IN) amendment, to prohibit aid to the South African Communist Party and to any organization or association affiliated with a Communist party and to require the President to ensure that recipients of such aid have democratic processes in place for selecting leaders and do not have a record of human rights abuses. | |||||
| 1991-06-25 | Fiscal 1992 Interior Appropriations [HR2686] | Rejected (66-361) |
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| Vote on a Crane (R-IL) amendment to eliminate the $178 million budget for the National Endowment for the Arts which in the past has funded "hate art" that is blasphemous and pornographic. | |||||
| 1991-07-17 | Striker Replacement [HR5] | Passed (247-182) |
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| Passage of the bill to prohibit employers from hiring permanent replacements for workers striking over economic issues, if the strike was by union-represented employees. | |||||
| 1991-09-17 | Unemployment Benefits Extension [HR3040] | Passed (283-125) |
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| Passage of the bill to permanently extend unemployment benefits to long-term unemployed workers for up to 20 additional weeks at an estimated cost of $6.3 billion through fiscal 1996. The bill automatically declares the benefits to be "emergency" spending and would not require a presidential declaration to be exempt from the spending requirements of the 1990 budget agreement. As such, it represents a further reduction of incentive for workers. | |||||
| 1991-10-16 | Omnibus Crime Bill [HR3371] | Agreed To (213-206) |
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| Gekas (R-PA) amendment to allow the jury in capital cases to impose the death penalty where there has been a reckless disregard for life. The amendment also removes the requirement that the jury be told that it does not have to impose the death penalty anytime before sentencing. | |||||
| 1991-10-17 | Omnibus Crime Bill [HR3371] | Rejected (208-218) |
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| Hyde (R-IL) amendment to prohibit habeas corpus appeals in cases that had a "full and fair" hearing at the state level; require all habeas corpus appeals to be filed within one year of exhausting state appeals; limit death row prisoners to one federal habeas corpus petition that must be filed within six months of exhausting appeals; and set time limits for consideration of habeas corpus petitions. | |||||
| 1991-10-22 | Omnibus Crime Bill [HR3371] | Agreed To (223-191) |
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| McCollum (R-FL) amendment to strike provisions in the Omnibus Crime Bill that would have effectively nullified all state and federal death penalty statutes. The Crime Bill provisions would have prohibited the execution of death row prisoners who claim that evidence demonstrates that the death penalty had been previously imposed in that jurisdiction in a racially disproportionate manner. This amendment would prohibit considering race in determining a defendant's sentence, and prohibit using statistics to invalidate a sentence. | |||||
| 1991-11-13 | Family and Medical Leave Act [HR2] | Passed (253-177) |
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| Vote on passage of the bill to force public and private employers to give employees up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave a year for serious illness, or to care for a new child or a sick child, parent, or spouse. On top of the onerous cost to small businesses, the unintended effect of the bill is to reduce employment opportunities for young married women. | |||||
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