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2. LINE-ITEM VETO. Passage of the bill to allow the president to rescind any budget authority or cancel certain targeted tax benefits in a bill within ten days after enactment, with Congress having 20 days to pass a bill restoring the spending or benefit.
3. MISSILE DEFENSES. Spratt 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 ballistic missiles should have a higher priority than deployment of missile defenses for U.S. territory.
4. NATIONAL SECURITY REVITALIZATION. 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. peace-keeping operations; and establish a program o help former communist countries in Europe join NATO.
5. WELFARE OVERHAUL. 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.
6. TERM LIMITS. Passage of the joint resolution to propose a constitutional amendment to impose a 12-year lifetime limit on congressional service in each chamber.
7. TAX AND SPENDING CUTS. 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, the elimination of the alternative minimum tax, and a lowering the individual capital gains tax rate from 28 percent to 19.8 percent, and to offset the costs through various proposals.
8. FY'96 BUDGET RESOLUTION. Neumann substitute amendment to balance the budget by 2000, rather than 2002, by cutting $612 billion more in outlays than the GOP-sponsored resolution through a freeze on all non-Social Security outlays at or below current levels and $22.6 billion in additional Medicare savings.
9. FLAG DESECRATION. Passage of the joint resolution to propose a constitutional amendment to allow Congress and the states to prohibit desecration of the U.S. flag.
10. MEXICO CITY ABORTION POLICY. Smith 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 mother 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 U.N. Population 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.
11. NEA/NEH CUTS. Adoption of the Rule to provide for House floor consideration of the Interior Appropriations bill. 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.
12. MEXICO BAILOUT. Sanders amendment to prohibit money from the Exchange Stabilization Fund from being used to support a foreign currency. The amendment would, as of October 1, 1995, effectively curtail the Clinton Administration's effort to support the Mexican peso.
13. ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION. Stokes 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.
14. FEDERAL FUNDING OF ABORTION. Greenwood amendment to provide $193 million for "family planning" projects under Title X of the Public Health Service Act, the bulk of which would be distributed to Planned Parenthood.
15. PUBLIC BROADCASTING. Hoekstra amendment to eliminate funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, thereby saving taxpayers $240 million in fiscal 1998.
16. WELFARE FOR LOBBYISTS. Skaggs amendment to strike the bill's provisions prohibiting recipients of federal grants who have spent five 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.
17. RAISING PENSION FUNDS. Passage of the bill to prohibit the Department of Labor from encouraging pension fund managers make investment decisions based on social criteria.
18. CUBAN LIBERTY ACT. Passage of the bill to tighten loopholes in the U.S. embargo on Cuba by urging the president to increase efforts to encourage foreign countries to restrict trade and credit relations with Cuba. The bill also would 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.
19. LATE-TERM ABORTIONS. 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.
20. NEA TAX EXEMPTION. Bonilla amendment to revoke the National Education Association's exemption from Washington, D.C., property taxes, beginning in fiscal 1996.
21. BALANCED BUDGET ACT. Passage of the bill to balance the budget over seven years, by reducing projected spending by $894 billion and cutting taxes by $245 billion.
22. LOBBYING RESTRICTIONS. Clinger amendment to prohibit federal agencies from using public funds on any activity intended to promote public support or opposition to any legislative proposal.
23. BOSNIA. 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 peace-keeping operation or implementation force.
