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| 1995-01-26 | Balanced-Budget Amendment [HJRES1] | Agreed To (253-173) |
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| Barton (R-TX) substitute amendment (offered as the Judiciary Committee substitute) to propose a constitutional amendment to balance the budget by 2002 or two years after ratification, whichever is later. The amendment would require a three-fifths majority of the entire House and Senate to increase taxes, engage in deficit spending or raise the public debt limit. A simple majority may waive the requirement in times of war or in the face of a serious military threat. On a later vote, the Barton amendment was replaced by the Stenholm amendment as the final passage vehicle. | |||||
| 1995-02-06 | Line-Item Veto [HR2] | Passed (294-134) |
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| Passage of the bill to allow the President to rescind any budget authority or cancel certain targeted tax benefits in a bill within 10 days (not including Sundays) after enactment, with Congress having 20 session days to pass a bill restoring the spending or benefit. | |||||
| 1995-02-15 | National Security [HR7] | Agreed To (218-212) |
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| Spratt (D-SC) amendment to strike provisions that direct the Secretary of Defense to deploy, as soon as "practical", an anti-missile defense for U.S. territory, replacing it with a provision stipulating that combat-readiness, weapons modernization and deployment of a defense against short-range (or "theater") ballistic missiles should have a higher priority than deployment of missile defenses for U.S. territory. | |||||
| 1995-02-16 | National Security [HR7] | Passed (241-181) |
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| Passage of the bill to limit the President's ability to place U.S. troops under U.N. command; reduce the U.S. contribution to U.N. peacekeeping operations; establish a bipartisan commission on combat readiness; and establish a program to help former Communist countries in Europe join NATO. As amended, the bill stipulates that combat-readiness, wepaons modernization and deployment of a defense against short-range (or "theater") ballistic missiles should have a higher priority than the deployment of an anti-missile defense for U.S. territory. | |||||
| 1995-03-22 | Welfare Overhaul [HRES119] | Agreed To (217-211) |
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| Adoption of the rule to provide for House floor consideration of amendments to the bill to cut welfare eligibility, limit federal welfare spending and give states flexibility to operate an array of social services. | |||||
| 1995-03-29 | Term Limit Constitutional Amendment [HJRES73] | Defeated (227-204) |
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| Passage of the joint resolution to propose a constitutional amendment to impose a 12-year lifetime limit on congressional service in each chamber. A two-thirds majority of those present and voting is required to pass a constitutional amendment. | |||||
| 1995-04-05 | Tax and Spending Cuts [HRES128] | Agreed To (228-204) |
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| Adoption of the rule to provide for House floor consideration of the bill to cut taxes by $189 billion over five years through a variety of proposals, including a $500-per-child tax credit for families earning less than $200,000 a year, the elimination of the alternative minimum tax, and a lowering of the individual capital gains tax rate from 28 percent to 19.8 percent, and to offset the costs through various proposals, including cutting discretionary spending by $100 billion over five years and increasing federal employees' contributions to their pensions. | |||||
| 1995-05-18 | Fiscal 1996 Budget Resolution [HCONRES67] | Rejected (89-342) |
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| Neumann (R-WI) substitute amendment to balance the budget by 2000, rather than 2002, by cutting $612 billion more in outlays than the resolution (freezing all non-Social Security outlays at or below current levels and cutting $22.6 billion from Medicare). The substitute takes Social Security off-budget and provides for tax cuts similar to those in the resolution but does not provide for an adjustment in the Consumer Price Index that the resolution does. | |||||
| 1995-06-28 | Flag Desecration [HJRES79] | Passed (312-120) |
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| Passage of the joint resolution to propose a constitutional amendment to allow Congress and the states to prohibit desecration of the U.S. flag. | |||||
| 1995-06-28 | Fiscal 1996 Foreign Operations Appropriations [HR1868] | Agreed To (243-187) |
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| Smith (R-NJ) amendment to codify the Mexico City Policy, which prohibits U.S. funding of any public or private foreign entity that directly or indirectly performs abortions except in cases of rape, incest or when the life of the woman is endangered; to require foreign organizations receiving U.S. aid to certify that they do not violate or lobby to change abortion laws; and to withhold money from the United Nations Populaiton Fund unless the President certifies that the fund has terminated all activities in China or that for the past 12 months there have been no coercive abortions in China. | |||||
| 1995-07-12 | Fiscal 1996 Interior Appropriations [HRES185] | Defeated (192-238) |
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| Adoption of the rule to provide for House floor consideration of the bill to provide $11,962,675,000 in new budget authority for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for fiscal 1996. The rule waived a point of order against the money in the bill for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities because their authorizations had expired. | |||||
| 1995-07-19 | Fiscal 1996 Treasury-Postal Service Appropriations [HR2020] | Agreed To (245-183) |
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| Sanders (I-VT) amendment to prohibit money from the Exchange Stabilization Fund from being used to support a foreign currency. The amendment would, as of Oct. 1, 1995, effectively curtail the Clinton administration's effort to support the Mexican peso. | |||||
| 1995-07-28 | Fiscal 1996 VA, HUD Appropriations [HR2099] | Agreed To (212-206) |
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| Stokes (D-OH) amendment to strike the bill's provisions prohibiting the Environmental Protection Agency from enforcing environmental laws, including sections of the Clean Water Act and the Clean Air Act and the Delaney Clause of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act regarding pesticides on food. | |||||
| 1995-08-02 | Fiscal 1996 Labor, HHS, Education Appropriations [HR2127] | Agreed To (224-204) |
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| Greenwood (R-PA) amendment to provide $193 million for family planning projects under Title X of the Public Health Service Act and to prohibit funding under Title X for abortions, directed pregnancy counseling, lobbying or political activity. The bulk of the money in the bill would be distributed to Planned Parenthood. | |||||
| 1995-08-03 | Fiscal 1996 Labor, HHS, Education Appropriations [HR2127] | Rejected (136-286) |
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| Hoekstra (R-MI) amendment to eliminate funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, for which the bill provides $240 million in fiscal 1996. | |||||
| 1995-08-03 | Fiscal 1996 Labor, HHS, Education Appropriations [HR2127] | Rejected (187-232) |
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| Skaggs (D-CO) amendment to strike the bill's provisions prohibiting recipients of federal grants who have spent more than 5 percent of their annual expenditures in any of the previous five fiscal years from using grant funds to participate in political campaigns or litigation in which a government entity is a party, or lobby, or receive federal grants if they do so. The bill requires grantees to disclose their level of political advocacy annually to the federal entity providing the grant and directs the Bureau of the Census to make a database of registration and annual disclosure reports available via the internet. | |||||
| 1995-09-12 | Pension Fund Targeted Investments [HR1594] | Passed (239-179) |
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| Passage of the bill to prohibit the Department of Labor from helping pension fund managers make investments based on social criteria. | |||||
| 1995-09-21 | Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity [HR927] | Passed (294-130) |
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| Passage of the bill to tighten loopholes in the U.S. embargo against Cuba by urging the President to increase efforts to encourage foreign countries to restrict trade and credit relations with Cuba. The bill would also allow U.S. nationals whose properties have been confiscated by the Cuban government to file suit in U.S. court against foreign entities that purchase or lease the properties. | |||||
| 1995-11-01 | Abortion Procedures [HR1833] | Passed (288-139) |
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| Adoption of the rule to provide for House floor consideration of the bill to ban partial birth abortions, in which the person performing the abortion partially delivers the fetus before performing the abortion. | |||||
| 1995-11-01 | Fiscal 1996 District of Columbia Appropriations [HR2546] | Rejected (210-213) |
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| Bonilla (R-TX) amendment to revoke the National Education Association's exemption from District property taxes beginning in fiscal 1996. | |||||
| 1995-11-20 | Fiscal 1996 Budget Reconciliation [HR2491] | Agreed To (235-192) |
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| Hobson (R-OH) motion to concur in the Senate amendment to the conference agreement to the bill eliminating provisions that would have relaxed antitrust rules for provider services networks and exempted physician office laboratories from the 1988 amendments to the Clinical Lab Improvement Act, and to adopt the revised conference report agreement. The conference agreement would reduce projected spending by $894 billion and taxes by $245 billion over seven years to provide for a balnced budget by fiscal 2002. Over seven years the conference report would reduce projected spending on Medicare by $270 billion, Medicaid by $163 billion, welfare programs by $82 billion, the earned-income tax credit by $32 billion, agriculture programs by $12 billion and federal employee retirement programs by $10 billion. The bill would grant a $500 per-child tax credit for families with incomes up to $110,000, reduce taxes on capital gains income, and expand eligibility for Individual Retirement Accounts. The bill would allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska; impose royalties for hard-rock mining on federal lands; cap the federal direct student loan program; and increase the federal debt limit from $4.9 trillion to $5.5 trillion. |
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| 1995-11-28 | Lobby Restrictions [HR2564] | Rejected (190-238) |
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| Clinger (R-PA) amendment to prohibit federal agencies from using public funds on any activity intended to promote public support or opposition to any legislative proposal. | |||||
| 1995-12-13 | Bosnia Troop Deployment [HR2770] | Defeated (210-218) |
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| Passage of the bill to prohibit the use of federal funds for the deployment of U.S. ground troops to Bosnia as part of any peacekeeping operation or implementation force. | |||||
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