United States · United States Congress · 1 July 2021
Authorizes the President of the Senate, the President of the Senate pro tempore, the Majority Leader of the Senate, and the Minority Leader of the Senate to make appointments to commissions, committees, boards, conferences, or interparliamentary conferences authorized by law, by concurrent action of the two Houses, or by order of the Senate, during the adjournment sine die of the present Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 2021
Thanks the Honorable Dan Quayle, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate, for the manner in which he has presided over the Senate during the second session of the 101st Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 2021
Thanks the Honorable Robert C. Byrd, President pro tempore, for the manner in which he presided over the Senate during the second session of the 101st Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 2021
Amends Senate Resolution 105, 101st Congress (reconstituting and reauthorizing the Senate Arms Control Observer Group) to extend the Group through the 102d Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 2021
Amends Senate Resolution 106, 101st Congress (establishing the Senate Central American Negotiations Observer Group), to extend the Group through the 102d Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 2021
Amends Senate Resolution 144, 101st Congress (establishing a Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Senate), to extend the Commission through the 102d Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 2021
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should develop a petroleum product price plan which includes: (1) steps to prevent prices from rising beyond actual supply and demand levels; (2) ceiling prices based upon acquisition and production costs as well as reasonable profit margins; (3) measures to discourage speculative spot market price variations; (4) civil remedies and penalties for exceeding the established ceiling prices; and (5) use of the sums collected through civil remedies to reduce the Federal deficit. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Senate should enact legislation to implement such a plan if the President has not developed one by a specified deadline.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Expresses the Senate's support for: (1) an efficient, up-to-date Federal statistical system with the ability to provide reliable data on pertinent topics and to effectively set priorities to best use its resources; (2) adequate funding and qualified personnel for the Federal statistical agencies and offices; and (3) efforts to improve economic statistics so that both government and business users can make sound business and economic policy decisions. Expresses the Senate's belief that: (1) a sound statistical system is essential to the U.S. effort to compete in international markets; and (2) a sustained effort is necessary to bring the Federal statistical database up to the necessary level of performance.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 2021
Thanks the Honorable Thomas S. Foley, Speaker of the House of Representatives, for the manner in which he presided over the House during his tenure as Speaker.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Waives points of order against the consideration of the conference report on H.R. 5769 (Department of the Interior and related agencies appropriations).
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 2021
Expresses the gratitude of the Senate to Hugh C. Evans for his 36 years of faithful and exemplary service as a counsel in the Office of the Legislative Counsel (including more than 11 years as Deputy Legislative Counsel).
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 2021
Amends a certain Senate Resolution to authorize the payment of expenses incurred by the Campaign Finance Reform Panel for official reception, representation, and administrative functions.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 2021
Authorizes the Chairman and Ranking Minority Member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs to provide to the Office of the Auditor General of the State of California records of the Subcommittee's investigation of fraud allegations and other wrongdoing in Federal student loan programs.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 2021
Directs the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives to prepare and sign official duplicates of the official papers of H.R. 4487 (health services programs).
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Deems H. Con.Res. 394 to have been passed by the House. Waives points of order against the consideration of the conference report on S. 358 (immigration and aliens).
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Amends rule XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives to provide that committee funds shall not be used for travel unless its official nature is established by a specific travel resolution approved by majority vote of the committee involved. Requires such vote to be taken by a rollcall vote of the committee in public session. Gives the committee chairman, under an emergency, the power to approve travel proposals. Requires a complete travel report to be filed with the pertinent committee within ten working days of the completed travel. Defines the contents of such report. Requires that each committee keep on file and available for public inspection all approved travel resolutions and reports.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of the Interior should not award concessions at units of the National Park System to foreign-owned companies.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 2021
Makes a technical correction in the enrollment of S. 459 (inventions made or used in outer space on an aeronautical and space vehicle under the jurisdiction or control of the United States).
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Makes corrections in the enrollment of S. 358 (immigration amendments) with regard to: (1) a pilot program to use drivers' licenses as documents establishing employability and identity; and (2) excludability of Palestine Liberation Organization officials on the grounds of terrorist activity.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the 1981 Israeli preemptive strike against the Iraqi nuclear reactor at Osirak was` a legitimate and justifiable exercise of self-defense which also reduced the threat of Iraqi nuclear aggression against countries bordering Iraq; and (2) the United States should seek the repeal of United Nations Security Council Resolution 487 which condemned the strike.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Congratulates the Government and the people of New Zealand during the sesquicentennial of the Treaty of Waitangi (New Zealand's principal founding document), and pays tribute to the 151st anniversary of the United States-New Zealand relationship.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 2021
Recognizes the important part the Alaska Highway played in the defense of our Nation and the settling of Alaska and the ever-important role it will inevitably play in our future. States that this highway should be maintained in a condition that encourages people throughout the Nation to travel it.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Congratulates the Government and the people of New Zealand during the sesquicentennial of the Treaty of Waitangi (New Zealand's principal founding document) and pays tribute to the 151st anniversary of the United States-New Zealand relationship.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Waives, with respect to any resolution so reported to provide for the consideration or disposition of the conference report on S. 1630 (Clean Air Act amendments), provisions of rule XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives that require a two-thirds vote to consider a report from the Committee on Rules on the same day it is presented to the House.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Authorizes the Speaker of the House of Representatives to entertain motions to suspend the rules on Friday, October 26, 1990, and Saturday, October 27, 1990, subject to the requirement of an announcement on the floor of the House at least one hour before the consideration of any such motion.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the contract dispute involving Bucheit International, Inc., and Prince Mishaal Bin Abdulaziz al Saud of Saudi Arabia should be resolved through negotiation or submission of the matter to arbitration as required by contract; (2) Saudi Arabia should develop commercial laws and regulations that correspond more closely to recognized international norms that include more liberalized business practices and that encourage more comprehensive and expeditious resolutions of commercial disputes; and (3) Saudi Arabia should develop specific procedures and guarantees for the enforcement of foreign arbitration awards.