Samuel L. Devine

HR 8165 — A bill for the relief of (present and former) employees of the (Defense Supply Agency) at the Defense Construction Supply Center in Columbus, Ohio.

HR 8120 — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide that certain rentals to members of the taxpayer's family will not be treated as personal use by the taxpayer for purposes of the disallowance of certain expenses in connection with the business use of homes, rental of vacation homes, etc.

HR 7706 — A bill to amend the Federal Claims Collection Act of 1966 to permit agencies to contract with commercial claims collection services for the collection of claims of the United States.

HR 6654 — A bill to further the objectives of national energy policy of conserving oil and natural gas through removing excessive burdens on production of coal.

HR 6342 — A bill to provide for the blocking of assets of any country which violates international law with respect to the arrest or detention of United States citizens, and to provide for the compensation of those citizens from those assets.

HR 6200 — A bill to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act.

HR 6125 — A bill to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act.

HR 6126 — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to exclude from gross income any commuter passes received by an employee from an employer.

HR 3517 — Taxpayers Attorney Fee Award Act of 1979

HR 3516 — A bill to provide for the recovery by the prevailing party of attorney's fees from the United States in civil actions where the United States is a party which does not prevail.

HR 3515 — A bill to provide that in civil actions where the United States is a plaintiff, a prevailing defendant may recover a reasonable attorney's fee and other reasonable litigation costs.

HR 3317 — An act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 with respect to excise tax refunds in the case of certain uses of tread rubber, and for other purposes.

HR 2625 — A bill to amend the Freedom of Information Act to improve the handling of classified information and investigatory records, to revise the deadlines for agency action, and for other purposes.

HR 2274 — Federal Constitution Convention Amendment Act

HR 2165 — A bill to repeal the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 and to amend the declaration of purposes of the Metric Education Act of 1978.

HJRES 525 — A joint resolution authorizing the President to impose on the Iranian Government a $25,000,000 fine, payable from blocked Iranian assets, for each day that United States citizens held hostage or otherwise illegally detained in Iran continue to be held hostage or so detained beyond a date designated by the President.

HJRES 296 — A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution relating to the continuance in office of judges of the Supreme Court and of inferior courts.

HR 17547 — A bill to prohibit any change in the status of any member of the uniformed services who is in a missing status under chapter 10 of title 37, United States Code, until the provisions of the Paris Peace Accord of January 27, 1973.

HR 17093 — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to exclude from gross income $500 of interest on savings in the case of an individual taxpayer.

HR 14763 — Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act

HR 13722 — A bill to amend the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966 to prohibit the Secretary of Transportation from imposing certain seatbelt standards.

HR 13066 — A bill to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit television networks from owning, operating, or having a controlling interest in a television station licensed under that act.

HR 12493 — A bill to require the execution of an oath or affirmation or declaration of allegiance before a passport is granted or issued.

HR 10206 — Dietary Supplement Amendment

HR 9873 — A bill to transfer the functions of the Passport Office to a new agency of the Department of State to be known as the U.S. Passport Service, to establish a Passport Service Fund to finance the operations of the U.S. Passport Service, and for other purposes.

HR 9473 — A bill to change the name of the Lockbourne Air Force Base, Ohio, to the Eddie Rickenbacker Air Force Base.

HR 9186 — A bill to transfer the functions of the Passport Office to a new agency of the Department of State to be known as the "U.S. Passport Service", to establish a Passport Service Fund to finance the operations of the U.S. Passport Service, and for other purposes.

HR 9150 — Amateur Athletic Act

HR 8631 — A bill to amend the Federal Claims Collection Act of 1966 to permit agencies to contract with commercial claims collection services for the collection of claims of the United States.

HR 8630 — A bill to amend section 4 of the Internal Security Act of 1950.'

HR 7700 — A bill to terminate the authorization of the Mill Creek Dam and Lake project, Ohio.

HR 7102 — A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to repeal the regulatory authority under that act respecting effectiveness of drugs.

HR 5684 — A bill to limit U.S. contributions to the United Nations.

HR 4616 — Health Care Insurance Act

HR 3949 — A bill to provide for annual authorization of appropriations to the U.S. Postal Service.

HR 3389 — A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code so as to provide that monthly social security benefits payments and annuity and pension payments under the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937 shall not be included as income for the purpose of determining eligibility for a veteran's or widow's pension.

HR 2821 — A bill to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to provide for regulation of television networks to assure that their operations are in the public interest.

HJRES 529 — Joint resolution to provide for the settlement of the labor disputes between the trustees of the Penn Central Transportation Co., Debtor, in reorganization under section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act, and certain of its employees.

HRES 869 — Resolution disapproving the recommendations of the President with respect to the rates of pay of Federal officials transmitted to the Congress in the budget for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975.

HRES 755 — A resolution electing C. W. Bill Young, of Florida, to the Committee on Appropriations.

HRES 756 — Resolved, that pursuant to the Legislative Pay Act of 1929, as amended, effective immediately, Walter P. Kennedy is hereby designated floor assistant to the minority (Minority Sergeant at Arms) to receive gross compensation of $36,000 per annum until otherwise ordered by the House.

HCONRES 154 — A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to the method of assessment of the financial obligation of each member state of the United Nations.

HR 13996 — A bill to establish a Department of Health, a Department of Education, and a Department of Welfare, and to direct the President to prepare a reorganization plan providing for the transfer to such Departments of all functions of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

HR 13726 — A bill to amend chapter 49 of title 10, United States Code, to prohibit union organization in the Armed Forces.

HR 13224 — A bill to abolish the U.S. Postal Service, to repeal the Postal Reorganization Act, to reenact the former provisions of title 39, United States Code.

HR 13120 — Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

HR 12844 — Consumer Communications Reform Act

HR 12712 — Gasoline Dealers' Protection Act

HR 12243 — A bill to amend the Federal Energy Administration Act of 1974 to extend the expiration date of such until September 30, 1979.

HR 12242 — Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act Amendments

HR 12121 — A bill to provide for the recovery by the prevailing party of attorney's fees from the United States in civil actions where the United States is a party which does not prevail.

HR 11292 — A bill to amend the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973.

HR 10761 — A bill to reduce payments to the United Nations and its affiliated agencies.

HR 9972 — Natural Gas Supply Act

HR 9755 — Natural Gas Emergency Standby Act

HR 9463 — A bill to transfer the functions of the Passport Office to a new agency of the Department of State to be known as the U.S. Passport Service, to establish a Passport Service Fund to finance the operations of the U.S. Passport Service.

HR 8600 — A bill to terminate the authorization of the Mill Creek Dam and Lake project, Ohio.

HR 8463 — A bill to amend the Natural Gas Act.

HR 8126 — National Food Stamp Reform Act

HR 7814 — A bill to amend the Natural Gas Act.

HR 5221 — Rail Emergency Employment Act

HR 5006 — National Welfare Reform Act

HR 4666 — Railroad Right-of-Way Improvement Act

HR 3630 — A bill to give greater assurance that national and regional needs are satisfied in times of shortage of natural gas and petroleum and its products.

HR 3411 — A bill to repeal exemptions in the antitrust laws to fair trade laws.

HR 2429 — A bill to prohibit, except in cases in extreme emergency, assistance under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to any country which does not make reasonable and productive efforts, especially with regard to family planning, designed to alleviate the causes of the need for assistance provided under such act.

HR 1823 — A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to eliminate the 5-month waiting period for disability benefits, without regard to certain time requirements, to eliminate the reconsideration stage in benefit determinations, to provide for the issuance of duplicate benefit checks where the initial checks are lost or delayed, and to provide for expedited benefit payments to disability beneficiaries.

HR 1822 — A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide that the Commissioner of Education be granted authority to contract private collection agencies to collect claims due and owing under the Guaranteed Student Loan Program and related programs.

HR 13729 — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to reduce by 2 percentage points the existing excise taxes on transportation of persons and property by air.

HR 13452 — A bill to amend the Freedom of Information Act to improve the handling of classified information and investigatory records, to revise the deadlines for agency action and for other purposes.

HR 13272 — A bill to amend the Freedom of Information Act to improve the handling of classified information and investigatory records, to revise the deadlines for agency action, and for other purposes.

HR 13119 — A bill to defer from income certain amounts deferred pursuant to State or local public employee deferred compensation plans.

HR 13137 — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to suspend the imposition of interest on underpayments of tax resulting from erroneous advice given in writing by the Internal Revenue Service.

HR 13064 — Federal Spending Discipline Act

HR 13040 — A bill to amend the Freedom of Information Act to improve the handling of classified information and investigatory records, to revise the deadlines for agency action, and for other purposes.

HR 12519 — A bill to amend the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide that disability insurance benefits shall be financed from general revenues rather than through the imposition of employment and self-employment taxes as at present, to adjust the rates of such taxes for old-age and survivors insurance and hospital insurance purposes, to provide for reductions in the amount of such disability benefits to take account of the recipient's need as determined on the basis of his family income, to improve disability determination procedures, and for other purposes.

HR 12414 — A bill to prohibit fuel adjustment clauses in electric utility rate schedules.

HR 10376 — A bill to provide a rule for the consideration of constitutional amendments proposed to the States that would allow the States to rescind ratifications in certain circumstances.

HR 9328 — A bill to amend the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 and the Department of Transportation Act to provide financial assistance, in connection with rail service assistance programs, to any State which accepts an offer of settlement from a railroad in reorganization with respect to real property tax obligations owned by such railroad to such State.

HR 8260 — Taxpayers Attorney Fee Award Act

HR 7663 — A bill to direct the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a one-year review and evaluation of all available information respecting the toxicity and carcinogenicity of food additives, including information respecting the ability to predict the effect on humans of food additives found to cause cancer in animals and whether there should be a weighing or risks and benefits in making regulatory decisions respecting such additives, and to direct the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare to permit the continued use of saccharin as a food, food additive, drug, and cosmetic for 18 months.

HR 7199 — A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to make certain that recipients of veterans' pension and compensation will not have the amount of such pension or compensation reduced because of increases in monthly social security benefits.

HR 5577 — A bill to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to provide that the Federal Communications Commission, in granting or renewing any radio or television broadcast license, may not take into account whether the applicant involved owns a daily newspaper which is circulated in the area to be served by the radio or television broadcast station.

HR 4903 — A bill to provide for the recovery by the prevailing party of attorney's fees from the United States in civil actions where the United States is a party which does not prevail.

HR 4617 — Fair Marketing of Petroleum Products Act

HR 351 — Regulatory Cost Impact Act

HJRES 1105 — A resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution relating to the continuance in office of judges of the Supreme Court and of inferior courts.

HJRES 1086 — A resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution relating to the continuance in office of judges of the Supreme Court and of inferior courts.

HJRES 943 — A resolution proposing and amendment to the Constitution of the United States to give citizens of the United States the right to enact and repeal laws by voting on legislation in a national election.

HJRES 893 — A resolution disapproving proposed regulations of the Department of the Treasury requiring centralized governmental registration of firearms.

HJRES 57 — Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide that appropriations made by the United States shall not exceed its revenues, except in time of war or national emergency; and to provide for the systematic paying back of the national debt.

HRES 190 — Resolution to make the FBI Director nonpolitical.

HRES 96 — A resolution providing for the election of Republican Members of the Committee on the Budget.

HCONRES 103 — Concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress in favor of eliminating the reduction in veterans' pensions which results when cost-of-living increases in social security or railroad retirement benefits occur.

HCONRES 81 — Concurrent resolution requesting the President to develop and submit to the Congress an alternate program, to any federally funded program for the reduction in the level of unemployment, which would reduce the level of unemployment through incentives to private employers to employ unemployed individuals.