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| 1994-06-09 | Fiscal 1995 Defense Authorization [HR4301] | Failed (185-237) |
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| Michel (R-IL) motion to recommit the bill to the Armed Services Committee with instructions to report it back with an amendment to limit the use of more than 100 U.S. troops under the command of a United Nations foreign national unless the President certifies it is necessary for national security, an emergency exists, or the U.S. troops maintain the right to decline orders judged to be illegal, military imprudent or beyond the mandate of the mission. | |||||
| 1994-06-22 | Fiscal 1995 Interior Appropriations [HR4602] | Rejected (113-309) |
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| Crane (R-IL) amendment to eliminate the $171.1 million appropriation for the National Endowment for the Arts. | |||||
| 1994-07-19 | Fiscal 1995 Intelligence Authorization [HR4299] | Rejected (192-220) |
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| Glickman (D-KS) amendment to require public disclosure of total budgetary authorizations and appropriations for intelligence agencies. | |||||
| 1994-07-27 | California Desert Protection [HR518] | Passed (298-128) |
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| Passage of the bill to designate nearly 8 million acres in southeastern California as wilderness and establish the Death Valley, Joshua Tree and Mojave National Parks. This designation of desert as "wilderness" makes the land off-limits to future development and deprives property owners of their rights. | |||||
| 1994-08-21 | Omnibus Crime Bill [HRES526] | Agreed To (239-189) |
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| Adoption of the rule to waive points of order and provide for House floor consideration of the conference report making a series of changes in the original conference report, including a cut in the overall authorization level from $33.5 billion to $30.2 billion over six years, a requirement that all spending authorized by the bill come from a six-year, $30.2 billion crime trust fund realized from eliminating 270,000 federal jobs, a reduction from $8.9 billion to $6.9 billion in the amount for crime prevention programs, a provision to notify communities about violent sex offenders, and a provision to allow prior sex offenses to be admitted in federal trials. Previously the House had rejected a rule providing for consideration of the original conference report. This "compromise" bill is still a social welfare bill masquerading as anti-crime legislation. | |||||
| 1994-08-21 | Omnibus Crime Bill [HR3355] | Agreed To (235-195) |
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| Adoption of the conference report to authorize $30.2 billion over six years and to require that all spending authorized by the bill come from a six-year, $30.2 billion trust fund realized from eliminating 270,000 federal jobs. The bill would authorize $6.9 billion for crime prevention programs, such as after-school sports leagues and job training programs, $8.8 billion for community policing programs and the hiring of 100,000 new police officers, and a $7.9 billion grant program to build state and local prisons. The bill would also ban 19 specific "assault" weapons, expand the death penalty to dozens of new federal crimes, mandate life imprisonment without parole for three-time violent felons, provide for community notification of violent sex offenders, allow prior sex offenses to be considered at federal trials and require HIV testing when requested in federal rape trials. | |||||
| 1994-09-29 | Lobbying Disclosure [S349] | Agreed To (306-112) |
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| Adoption of the conference report to expand the disclosure of lobbying activities and impose new restrictions on gifts to members of Congress and their staffs. This bill would place constitutionally-dubious restrictions on the rights of grass-roots advocacy organizations to mobilize their members on behalf of their legislative interests. | |||||
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