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3,401
1971
education
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to authorize the Commandant of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College to award the degree of master of military art and science
group_1
3,402
1971
racial_cultural
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To grant all minerals, including coal, oil, and gas, on certain lands on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, Mont, to certain Indians, and for other purposes
group_2
3,403
1975
racial_cultural
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to authorize the awarding of attorney's fees to prevailing plaintiffs in actions brought under certain civil rights laws, and for other purposes.
group_2
3,404
2011
racial_cultural
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To empower federally recognized Indian tribes to accept restricted fee tribal lands, and for other purposes.
group_2
3,405
1977
racial_cultural
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to make grants to assist the States to develop and implement State land resource programs and to assist Indian tribes to plan the use of tribal lands: to encourage expeditions energy facility siting decision; to coordinate Federal programs which significantly affect land use; to encourage research on and training in land resource planning and management; to establish an office of Land Resource Planning Assistance in the Department of the Interior.
group_2
3,406
1974
racial_cultural
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to establish land use policy; to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to make grants to assist the States to develop and implement land use planning; to coordinate Federal programs and policies which have a land use impact; to authorize a study of Indian reservation and other tribal lands in furtherance of the intent and purpose of this act; to provide land use planning directives for the public lands; and for other purposes.
group_2
3,407
1974
racial_cultural
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to amend the Social Security Act to provide for additional Federal financial participation in expenditure incurred, under State plans approved under part A of title IV of such Act, in providing aid to certain Indians and other aboriginal individuals.
group_2
3,408
1998
criminal_justice
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To clarify that bail bond sureties and bounty hunters are subject to both civil and criminal liability for violations of Federal rights under existing Federal civil rights law, and for other purposes.
group_1
3,409
1972
gender
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To extend the Commission on Civil Rights for 5 years, to expand the jurisdiction of the Commission to include discrimination because of sex, to authority appropriations for the Commission, and for other purposes
group_2
3,410
1974
racial_cultural
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to provide for the return to the former owners of certain former tribal lands acquired in connection with the Garrison Dam and Reservoir.
group_2
3,411
1997
religion
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To affirm the religious freedom of taxpayers who are conscientiously opposed to participation in war, to provide that the income, estate, or gift tax payments of such taxpayers be used for nonmilitary purposes, to create the Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund to receive such tax payments, to improve revenue collection, and for other purposes.
group_2
3,412
2011
religion
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To amend the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 to strengthen the promotion of religious freedom in United States foreign policy and to reauthorize the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, and for other purposes.
group_2
3,413
2006
religion
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To protect the religious freedom of providers of adoption or foster care services.
group_2
3,414
2014
religion
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To amend the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 to improve the ability of the United States to protect religious freedom globally through enhanced diplomacy, training, counterterrorism, and foreign assistance efforts, and through stronger and more timely and flexible political responses to religious freedom violations worldwide, and for other purposes.
group_2
3,415
1983
religion
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to deny most-favored-nation status to any country that in the judgment of the President denies religious freedom to its citizens.
group_2
3,416
2014
religion
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To amend the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 to include several additions to the many forms of violations of the right to religious freedom.
group_2
3,417
2012
religion
implicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To amend the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 to include the desecration of cemeteries among the many forms of violations of the right to religious freedom.
group_2
3,418
2016
religion
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Affirming the importance of religious freedom as a fundamental human right that is essential to a free society and is protected for all Americans by the text of the Constitution, and recognizing the 230th anniversary of the enactment of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom.
group_2
3,419
1997
religion
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To establish an Office of Religious Persecution Monitoring, to provide for the imposition of sanctions against countries engaged in a pattern of religious persecution, and for other purposes.
group_2
3,420
2014
religion
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To amend the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 to further express United States foreign policy with respect to, and to strengthen United States advocacy on behalf of, freedom of religion or belief abroad and individuals persecuted in foreign countries on account of religion or belief, and for other purposes.
group_2
3,421
1995
criminal_justice
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to prohibit the application of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, or any amendment made by such Act, to an individual who is incarcerated in a Federal, State, or local correctional, detention, or penal facility, and for other purposes.
group_1
3,422
2016
religion
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A concurrent resolution affirming the importance of religious freedom as a fundamental human right that is essential to a free society and is protected for all Americans by the text of the Constitution, and recognizing the 230th anniversary of the enactment of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom.
group_2
3,423
2011
religion
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to provide for the establishment of the Special Envoy to Promote Religious Freedom of Religious Minorities in the Near East and South Central Asia.
group_2
3,424
2012
religion
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To amend section 5000A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an additional religious exemption from the individual health coverage mandate.
group_2
3,425
2009
religion
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To withdraw normal trade relations treatment from the products of foreign countries that do not maintain acceptable standards of religious freedom and worker rights.
group_2
3,426
2014
gender
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to preserve religious freedom and a womans access to contraception.
group_2
3,427
1978
religion
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to repeal section 781(c) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to permit facilities constructed with assistance under that Act to be used for sectarian activities or for religious worship.
group_2
3,428
1976
religion
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill for the relief of refugees fleeing Lebanon because of religious persecution.
group_2
3,429
2016
religion
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To require the Secretary of State to submit an annual report to Congress regarding efforts to restore or repair Christian property in the Arab Republic of Egypt that was burned, damaged, or otherwise destroyed during the sectarian violence in August 2013, and for other purposes.
group_2
3,430
2015
religion
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Protecting Religious Freedom in America.
group_2
3,431
1993
religion
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to assure religious freedom to Native Americans.
group_2
3,432
2011
religion
implicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to reauthorize the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998.
group_2
3,433
2016
religion
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To require continued and enhanced annual reporting to Congress in the Annual Report on International Religious Freedom on anti-Semitic incidents in Europe, the safety and security of European Jewish communities, and the efforts of the United States to partner with European governments, the European Union, and civil society groups, to combat anti-Semitism, and for other purposes.
group_2
3,434
1999
religion
implicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to amend the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 to provide additional administrative authorities to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, and to make technical corrections to that Act, and for other purposes.
group_2
3,435
2005
religion
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To establish the Commission on Religious Freedom and Respect in the Armed Forces to assess the freedom of religion and respect for the diversity of spiritual values in the Armed Forces.
group_2
3,436
1999
religion
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a religious exemption from providing identifying numbers for dependents to claim certain credits and deductions on a tax return.
group_2
3,437
2015
religion
implicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
An original bill to reauthorize the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, and for other purposes.
group_2
3,438
2015
religion
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To protect and promote international religious freedom.
group_2
3,439
2015
religion
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To amend the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 to improve the ability of the United States to advance religious freedom globally through enhanced diplomacy, training, counterterrorism, and foreign assistance efforts, and through stronger and more flexible political responses to religious freedom violations and violent extremism worldwide, and for other purposes.
group_2
3,440
1979
religion
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A Bill to amend the National Labor Relations Act and the Railway Labor Act to revise provisions relating to religious freedom.
group_2
3,441
1998
religion
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to express United States foreign policy with respect to, and to strengthen United States advocacy on behalf of, individuals persecuted for their faith worldwide; to authorize United States actions in response to religious persecution worldwide; to establish an Ambassador at Large on International Religious Freedom within the Department of State, a Commission on International Religious Persecution, and a Special Adviser on International Religious Freedom within the National Security Council; and for other purposes.
group_2
3,442
2005
religion
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To award a congressional gold medal to Rabbi Arthur Schneier in recognition of his pioneering role in promoting religious freedom and human rights throughout the world, for close to half a century.
group_2
3,443
1991
religion
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To protect religious freedom.
group_2
3,444
2014
religion
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to amend the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 to support religious freedom in foreign countries.
group_2
3,445
1998
religion
explicit
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A bill to ensure that Federal, State and local governments consider all nongovernmental organizations on an equal basis when choosing such organizations to provide assistance under certain government programs, without impairing the religious character of any of the organizations, and without diminishing the religious freedom of beneficiaries of assistance funded under such programs, and for other purposes.
group_2
3,446
1980
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Local government will be [p.14] invited to designate specific depressed areas as jobs and enterprise zones;
group_2
3,447
1980
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We support financing and tax incentives to encourage the construction of rental housing as an essential addition to our housing inventory.
group_2
3,448
1980
age
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To assist older homeowners, again without federal subsidy, we urge more extensive availability of the reverse annuity mortgage which allows older homeowners to withdraw the substantial equity they have built up in their homes and thus supplement their retirement income.
group_2
3,449
1980
economic
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We favor expansion of the Republican-sponsored urban homesteading program as a means of restoring abandoned housing.
group_2
3,450
1980
economic
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To assure a stable and continuous flow of funds for home mortgage financing, we pledge to allow responsible use of mortgage revenue bonds.
group_2
3,451
1980
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Specifically, we will support legislation to lower tax rates on savings in order to increase funds available for housing.
group_2
3,452
1980
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We oppose any attempts to end the income tax deductibility of mortgage interest and property taxes.
group_2
3,453
1980
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
In remaining programs, particular emphasis should be [p.15] given to rehabilitation and preservation of existing housing stock as a priority in federal housing policy.
group_2
3,454
1980
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Republicans are committed to ensuring that neighborhoods will be safe places in which families and individuals can live, and we support and encourage community crime fighting efforts such as neighborhood crime watch and court monitoring programs.
no_bias
3,455
1980
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
First, we believe that Republican economic proposals, more particularly those proposals which strengthen society and smaller communities discussed elsewhere in this document, will go a long way toward stabilizing American society.
no_bias
3,456
1980
criminal_justice
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Second, we support a vigorous and effective effort on the part of law enforcement agencies.
group_1
3,457
1980
criminal_justice
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Yet these disincentives will only be as strong as our court system's willingness to use them.
group_1
3,458
1980
criminal_justice
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We believe that the death penalty serves as an effective deterrent to capital crime and should be applied by the federal government and by states which approve it as an appropriate penalty for certain major crimes.
group_1
3,459
1980
age
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Republicans consider drug abuse an intolerable threat to our society, especially to the young.
group_2
3,460
1980
criminal_justice
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We pledge a government that will take seriously its responsibility to curb illegal drug traffic.
group_1
3,461
1980
economic
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Many urban centers of our nation need dependable and affordable mass transit systems.
group_2
3,462
1980
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
The role of the federal government should be one of giving financial and technical support to local authorities, through surface transportation block grants.
group_2
3,463
1980
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Shutting down our nation's factories and throwing millions of people out of work leads only to shortages and higher prices.
no_bias
3,464
1980
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We believe inflation can only be controlled by monetary and spending restraint, combined with sharp reductions in the tax and regulatory barriers to savings, investment, production, and jobs.
group_2
3,465
1980
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Since 1973, the U.S. economy has grown in real terms at a rate of only 1.9 percent a year.
group_2
3,466
1980
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Only that part of national income which goes into savings and which is not consumed by government deficits is available to finance real economic growth.
group_2
3,467
1980
economic
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
This has strangled economic growth, choked off private initiative, pushed up prices, and retarded productivity and job creation.
group_2
3,468
1980
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
The Carter Administration in particular has opposed every Republican effort to restore the health of the economy through lower taxes on work effort, savings, and the modernization of America's productive machinery.
group_2
3,469
1980
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We also oppose Carter proposals to impose withholding on dividend and interest income.
group_2
3,470
1980
economic
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To those individuals who have lost their jobs because of the Carter recession, we pledge to ensure that they receive their rightfully earned unemployment compensation benefits.
group_2
3,471
1980
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
The Republican Party recognizes the need to provide workers who have lost their jobs because of technological obsolescence or imports the opportunity to adjust to changing economic conditions.
no_bias
3,472
1980
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
In particular, we will seek ways to assist workers threatened by foreign competition.
no_bias
3,473
1980
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
The Democratic Administration's inability to ensure fairness and equity between our nation and some of our trading partners has resulted in massive unemployment in many core industries.
group_2
3,474
1980
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Toward this end, we will pursue specific tax and regulatory changes to revitalize America's troubled basic industries.
group_2
3,475
1980
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We will also seek the aid of private individuals, businesses, and non-profit organizations to formulate creative new self-supporting answers to training and placement problems as well as non-governmental sources of temporary financial support.
group_2
3,476
1980
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
In addition to providing a growth climate for job creation, specific and targeted programs must be developed to alleviate these problems.
no_bias
3,477
1980
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
They have encouraged equal opportunity hiring practices within their own industries and have built nonprofit, self-supporting training centers where the products produced during training are sold to support the programs.
no_bias
3,478
1980
education
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Republicans support the creation of comprehensive programs for disadvantaged youth which would offer pre-employment training, education, instruction, and job placement and retention services.
group_1
3,479
1980
education
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We also support expansion of proven skill training practices, such as apprenticeship, as well as private schools and trade schools.
group_1
3,480
1980
education
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
These methods can provide quality training and point toward the acquisition of specific job skills leading to specific employment goals.
group_1
3,481
1980
age
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We urge a reduction of payroll tax rates, a youth differential for the minimum wage, and alleviation of other costs of employment until a young person can be a productive employee.
group_2
3,482
1980
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Small business is family business both in the sense that many of them are owned and operated by single families, and also because most American families rely not only on the goods and services, but on the jobs produced there for their livelihood and standard of living.
no_bias
3,483
1980
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We applaud the mutual efforts of labor and management to improve the quality of work life.
no_bias
3,484
1980
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We recognize the need for governmental oversight of the health and safety of the workplace, without interfering in the economic well-being of employers or the job security of workers.
no_bias
3,485
1980
economic
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
For example, safety and environmental standards, some of which are counterproductive, increase the average price of a new car by over $700.
group_2
3,486
1980
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Fairness to the consumer, like fairness to the employer and the worker, requires that government perform certain limited functions and enforce certain safeguards to ensure that equity, free competition, and safety exist in the free market economy.
no_bias
3,487
1980
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
The Republican Party recognizes the need for consumer protection but feels that such protection will not be enhanced by the creation of a new consumer protection bureaucracy.
no_bias
3,488
1980
political
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We pledge to cut down on federal paperwork, cut out excessive regulation, and cut back the bloated bureaucracy.
group_1
3,489
1980
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
While we recognize the role of the federal government in establishing certain minimum standards designed to improve the quality of life in America, we reaffirm our conviction that these standards can best be attained through innovative efforts of American business without the federal government mandating the methods of attainment.
no_bias
3,490
1980
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
The Republican Party takes pride in the ability of American farmers to provide abundant, high quality, and nutritious food and fiber for all our citizens including those most in need and to millions throughout the world, and at the same time to supply the largest single component in our export balance of trade.
no_bias
3,491
1980
economic
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Even the present Administration's own figures show a decrease in real net farm income of some 40 percent in the last year alonefrom $33 billion in 1979 to less than $22 billion projected for 1980.
group_2
3,492
1980
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Republicans pledge to make life in rural America prosperous again.
no_bias
3,493
1980
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Agriculture's contribution to the U.S. trade balance makes it especially fitting that an aggressive market development program to establish dependable new markets for farm exports will be a vital part of the policies to restore profitability to American agriculture.
group_2
3,494
1980
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
[p.21] We believe that agricultural embargoes are only symbolic and are ineffective tools of foreign policy.
no_bias
3,495
1980
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We pledge a sensible approach to reduce excessive federal regulation that is draining the profitability from farming, ranching, and commercial fishing.
group_2
3,496
1980
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Especially high on the agenda for changes in policy under Republican leadership are such regulatory issues as the Interior Department's ineffective predator control policies, EPA and FDA's excessive adherence to "zero risk" policies relative to the use of pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics, food additives, preservatives, and the like.
no_bias
3,497
1980
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Finally, we support legislation which would remove tax advantages foreign investors realize on the sale of U.S. forests, farmland, and other real estate.
group_2
3,498
1980
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Overall, we pledge to eliminate those rules and regulations which restrict the free flow of commerce and trade of agricultural products and encourage an environment that will enhance the private development and improvement of all modes of transportation to move agricultural production swiftly, safely, and economically.
group_2
3,499
1980
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
[p.22] We pledge an Administration dedicated to restoring profitability to agriculture.
group_2
3,500
1980
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We Republicans pledge ourselves to work with farmers, ranchers, and our friends and neighbors to make America great again.
no_bias