H.R.4169 - Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 198297th Congress (1981-1982)

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12/11/1981 Cloture not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 59-35. Record Vote No: 483.

12/09/1981 Cloture Motion presented in Senate.

12/09/1981 Considered by Senate.

11/18/1981 Considered by Senate.

11/18/1981 S.Amdt.633 Amendment agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 58-38. Record Vote No: 393.

11/18/1981 S.Amdt.634 Proposed by Senator Weicker. To express the sense of the Senate that academic exchange programs should not be reduced.

11/18/1981 S.Up.Amdt.650 Ordered to be printed. SP 634

11/17/1981 Considered by Senate.

11/17/1981 S.Up.Amdt.632 Amendment agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 93-0. Record Vote No: 380.

11/17/1981 S.Up.Amdt.632 Proposed by Senator Weicker. Adding to the House language dealing with school prayer: "except that nothing in this Act shall be interpreted as the establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof".

11/17/1981 S.Amdt.633 Proposed by Senator Helms. Stating that nothing in this provision shall be interpreted in derogation of the limitation on expenditures stated herein.

11/17/1981 S.Up.Amdt.633 Ordered to be printed. SP 633

11/16/1981 Considered by Senate.

11/16/1981 S.Up.Amdt.629 Motion to table agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 51-34. Record Vote No: 377.

11/16/1981 S.Up.Amdt.628 Amendment agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

11/16/1981 S.Up.Amdt.628 Proposed by Senator Thurmond. To delete $35,800.00 associated with the construction of the American Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

11/16/1981 S.Up.Amdt.629 Proposed by Senator Weicker. To provide that no funds appropriated under the Act may be used to prevent implementation of constitutional programs of voluntary school prayer and meditation in the public schools.

11/13/1981 Considered by Senate.

11/13/1981 The committee amendment beginning on page 32 line 23 ruled germane. By Yea-Nay Vote. 47-33. Record Vote No: 373.

11/13/1981 S.Amdt.629 Proposed amendment withdrawn in Senate.

11/13/1981 S.Up.Amdt.622 Motion to table agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 48-33. Record Vote No: 371.

11/13/1981 S.Up.Amdt.625 Amendment agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

11/13/1981 S.Up.Amdt.624 Amendment agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

11/13/1981 S.Up.Amdt.623 Amendment agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 54-23. Record Vote No: 375.

11/13/1981 S.Up.Amdt.627 Amendment agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

11/13/1981 S.Up.Amdt.626 Amendment agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

11/13/1981 S.Up.Amdt.621 Amendment not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 21-61. Record Vote No: 370.

11/13/1981 S.Up.Amdt.621 Proposed by Senator Denton. To strike the appropriation for the Legal Services Corporation.

11/13/1981 S.Up.Amdt.624 Proposed by Senator Wallop. To prevent the conversion of the Cheyenne, Wyoming Weather Service Forecasting Office to a Weather Service Office.

11/13/1981 S.Up.Amdt.623 Proposed by Senator Weicker. To provide funding of $473,557,000 for research related to immigration enforcement, of which not to exceed $400,000 shall remain available for such research until expended, and of which $36,821,000 shall remain available until expended for construction.

11/13/1981 S.Up.Amdt.625 Proposed by Senator Huddleston. To express the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of State and the Attorney General each should provide, upon request, certain written information to members of the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate.

11/13/1981 S.Up.Amdt.626 Proposed by Senator Dole. To prevent Federal judges from receiving again a pay raise notwithstanding the contrary intent of Congress.

11/13/1981 S.Up.Amdt.627 Proposed by Senator Pressler. To end chemical and biological warfare.

11/13/1981 S.Up.Amdt.622 Proposed by Senator Cochran. To reduce funding for Legal Services.

11/12/1981 Considered by Senate.

11/12/1981 Committee amendment on page 12, lines 1 through 3, was tabled. By Yea-Nay Vote. 84-0. Record Vote No: 366.

11/12/1981 S.Up.Amdt.609 Amendment agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

11/12/1981 S.Up.Amdt.613 Amendment agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

11/12/1981 S.Up.Amdt.608 Amendment agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

11/12/1981 S.Up.Amdt.612 Amendment agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

11/12/1981 S.Up.Amdt.620 Amendment agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

11/12/1981 S.Up.Amdt.607 Amendment agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

11/12/1981 S.Up.Amdt.611 Amendment agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 85-0. Record Vote No: 364.

11/12/1981 S.Up.Amdt.615 Amendment agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

11/12/1981 S.Up.Amdt.606 Amendment agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

11/12/1981 S.Up.Amdt.610 Amendment agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

11/12/1981 S.Up.Amdt.614 Amendment agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

11/12/1981 S.Up.Amdt.609 Proposed by Senator Hawkins. To authorize the Attorney General to acquire and exchange information regarding certain deceased individuals and missing children.

11/12/1981 S.Up.Amdt.608 Proposed by Senator Kasten. To reduce funding for the Federal Trade Commission.

11/12/1981 S.Up.Amdt.612 Proposed by Senator Thurmond for Senator Dole. To indicate an intent that funds shall be used for the preparation of recommendations for the exchange of computerized records.

11/12/1981 S.Up.Amdt.620 Proposed by Senator Hawkins. To prohibit the obligation or expenditure of funds for the detention or processing of certain aliens at facilities in the State of Florida.

11/12/1981 S.Up.Amdt.606 Proposed by Senator Stevens. Providing, for the payment of claims and expenses to carry out the provisions of Section 7 of the Fishermen's Protective Act of 1967 (P.L.90-482), as amended, there are appropriated not to exceed $1,800,000 from the fees collected from fishing vessel owners pursuant to Section 7 of that Act, to remain available until expended.

11/12/1981 S.Up.Amdt.607 Proposed by Senator Hayakawa. To establish minimum levels for the Small Business Administration's Pollution Control Bond Guarantee program.

11/12/1981 S.Up.Amdt.611 Proposed by Senator Thurmond. In the nature of a substitute, providing that it is the Sense of the Senate that the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission seek actively and vigorously to enforce the antitrust laws.

11/12/1981 S.Up.Amdt.613 Proposed by Senator Weicker. Providing that it is the Sense of the Senate that the President, in consultation with the Congress, develop an effective foreign policy to address expansion of the economic and political influence of the Soviet Union in the Caribbean region generally and in Cuba specially; and that in developing such a policy, that the President shall consider the full range of economic and diplomatic options with the nations of the region in order to promote stability, human rights and economic development for the people of the region.

11/12/1981 S.Up.Amdt.615 Proposed by Senator Hollings. Providing for the development of recommendations to Congress by December 1, 1981, regarding the future of the Asia Foundation.

11/12/1981 S.Up.Amdt.610 Proposed by Senator Metzenbaum.

11/12/1981 S.Up.Amdt.614 Proposed by Senator Cohen. To prevent the conversion of the Portland, Maine, Weather Service Forecast Office.

11/12/1981 S.Amdt.629 Proposed by Senator Weicker.

11/12/1981 S.Up.Amdt.616 Ordered to be printed. SP 629

11/10/1981 Considered by Senate.

11/10/1981 S.Up.Amdt.605 Amendment agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

11/10/1981 S.Up.Amdt.604 Amendment agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

11/10/1981 S.Up.Amdt.604 Proposed by Senator Weicker. Technical amendment to change citation from the "Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended" to the "Foreign Service Act of 1980".

11/10/1981 S.Up.Amdt.605 Proposed by Senator Weicker. To provide $2,000,000 to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for Fingerprint Identification; $828,000 to the National Institute of Corrections for State and local training and to reduce the appropriation for the Department of State by $10,000,000.

10/30/1981 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Regular Orders. Calendar No. 365.

10/30/1981 Committee on Appropriations. Reported to Senate by Senator Baker for Senator Hatfield favorably with amendments. With written report No. 97-265.

10/28/1981 Committee on Appropriations. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.

09/11/1981 Subcommittee on State, Justice, Commerce. Measure with amendments to full committee.

09/10/1981 Referred to Subcommittee on State, Justice, Commerce.

09/10/1981 Received in the Senate, read twice, and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

09/09/1981 Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 246 - 145 (Record Vote No: 194).

09/09/1981 House Agreed to Amendments Adopted by the Committee of the Whole.

09/09/1981 H.Amdt.201 Amendment Passed in Committee of the Whole by Voice Vote.

09/09/1981 H.Amdt.200 Amendment Failed of Passage in Committee of Whole by Recorded Vote: 188 - 202 (Record Vote No: 191).

09/09/1981 H.Amdt.198 Amendment Failed of Passage in Committee of Whole by Voice Vote.

09/09/1981 H.Amdt.199 Amendment Failed of Passage in Committee of Whole by Voice Vote.

09/09/1981 H.Amdt.205 Amendment Passed in Committee of the Whole by Voice Vote.

09/09/1981 H.Amdt.202 Amendment Passed in Committee of the Whole by Recorded Vote: 333 - 54 (Record Vote No: 192).

09/09/1981 H.Amdt.203 Amendment Failed of Passage in Committee of Whole by Recorded Vote: 122 - 272 (Record Vote No: 193).

09/09/1981 H.Amdt.204 Amendment Withdrawn in Committee of the Whole.

09/09/1981 H.Amdt.201 Amendment Offered by Representative Fascell.

09/09/1981 H.Amdt.200 Amendment Offered by Representative Mottl.

09/09/1981 H.Amdt.198 Amendment Offered by Representative Breaux.

09/09/1981 H.Amdt.199 Amendment Offered by Representative Fary.

09/09/1981 H.Amdt.205 Amendment Offered by Representative McDonald.

09/09/1981 H.Amdt.204 Amendment Offered by Representative Collins, of TX.

09/09/1981 H.Amdt.202 Amendment Offered by Representative Walker.

09/09/1981 H.Amdt.203 Amendment Offered by Representative Sensenbrenner.

07/30/1981 Rule Passed House.

07/21/1981 Rules Committee Resolution H.Res.188 Reported to House.

07/21/1981 Committee on Rules Granted a Rule Waiving Clause 2 and Clause 6 of Rule XXI Against Specified Provisions of the Bill.

07/16/1981 Placed on Union Calendar No: 126.

07/16/1981 Reported to House by House Committee on Appropriations. Report No: 97-180.

07/16/1981 Ordered to be Reported (Amended).

07/16/1981 Final Day of Committee Mark-Up.

07/16/1981 First Day of Committee Mark-Up.

07/16/1981 Introduced in House

06/23/1981 First Day of Subcommittee Mark-Up.

06/23/1981 Final Day of Subcommittee Mark-Up.

05/07/1981 Final Day of Subcommittee Hearings.

05/07/1981 Final Day of Subcommittee Hearings.

02/03/1981 First Day of Subcommittee Hearings.

02/03/1981 First Day of Subcommittee Hearings.

01/15/1981 Referred to Subcommittee on Departments of Commerce, Justice, State, The Judiciary, and Related Agencies.

01/15/1981 Referred to Subcommittee on Departments of Commerce, Justice, State, The Judiciary, and Related Agencies.

01/15/1981 Referred to House Committee on Appropriations.

01/15/1981 Referred to House Committee on Appropriations.