Note

Found in Boxes 120 to 124.

Fact Sheets

1969

• Elementary and Secondary Education Act
• Amendments of 1969
• Proposal to Extend the Surtax
• Tax Reform Proposal (HR 13270)
• Electoral Reform
• Military Procurement, and Research and Development
• Coal Mine Health and Safety Act
• Economic Opportunity Act
• Supplement to OEO Fact Sheet
• Defense Appropriations
• Voting Rights
• “Philadelphia Plan” Rider to 1970
• Supplemental Appropriations
• Voting Rights Bill, Senate Amendments

1970

• Labor-HEW Appropriations Veto
• District of Columbia Court Reform and Criminal Procedures Act
• Four District Bills
• Washington, D.C., Freeway Controversy
• Occupational Health and Safety Act
• Food Stamp Reform: Poage Bill and Foley-Quie Substitute

1971

• Draft Extension
• Education appropriations for FY 1972
• FY 1972 Military Procurement, and Research and Development Authorization
• Proposed Welfare Changes
• CBS Contempt Citation
• Health and Rehabilitation Amendments to Labor-HEW Appropriations
• Lockheed/Big Business Loan Guarantee
• Equal Employment Opportunities Act
• Equal Rights Amendment
• Alaska Native Lands Claim
• Federal Pesticide Control Act
• Higher Education Act
• School Prayer Amendment
• Federal Election Reform
• Defense appropriations

1972

• “Most Corrupt Administration in History”
• Fair Labor Standards Amendments
• Revenue Sharing
• Higher Education Conference Report
• Morgan-Hamilton-Whalen Provision (Vietnam War)
• Federal-Aid Highway Act
• Housing and Urban Development Act

1973-1974

• Economic Stabilization Act
• Federal-Aid Highway Act
• Legal Services Corporation Act
• War Powers Resolution of 1973
• Alaska Pipeline
• Washington, D.C., Self-Government
• Budget and Impoundment Control Act
• Anticipated Amendments Budget and Impoundment Control Act
• Trade Reform Act
• Pension Reform
• Elementary and Secondary Education Act
• Amendments to Elementary and Secondary Education Act
• Bolling Committee Recommendations
• Hansen Committee Recommendations

1975-1976

• FY 1976 Military Procurement and Research and Development Authorization
• Energy Conservation and Conversion Act
• Energy Conservation and Oil Policy Act
• FY 1977 Military Procurement, and Research and Development Authorization
• Revenue Sharing Extensions

1977-1978

• Third FY 1977 Budget Resolution
• Financial Ethics
• First FY 1978 Budget Resolution
• International Security Assistance
• Department of Energy
• Obey Commission Proposals
• Tuition Tax Credits
• CETA Extension
• Department of Education
• Panama Canal Act
• Synthetic Fuel Development
• Gasoline Rationing/Energy Conservation
• First FY 1981 Budget Resolution
• Budget Resolution Amendments
• Coal Slurry Pipeline

1981-1982

• Budget Resolution Amendments
• Tax Bill-Part I
• Tax Cut-Part II
• First FY 1983 Budget Resolution
• Budget Resolution Amendments
• Conference Report on First Budget Resolution
• FY 1987 Budget Resolution
• Balanced Budget Constitutional Amendment
• Balanced Budget Act

1985

• Farm Bill
• Omnibus Budget Reconciliation
• Alternatives to Gramm-Rudman Tax Bill (HR 3838)
• Deficit Control Act
• Amendments to the Tax Bill (HR 3838) Reconciliation Agreement

1986

• Ronald Reagan's Budget
• Supplemental Appropriations
• FY 1987 Budget Resolution
• Trade Bill (HR 4800)
• Budget Agreement
• Textile Veto (HR 1562)
• Budget Reconciliation
• Summary of the Tax Agreement
• New Reconciliation Bill
• New Tax Law (HR 3838)
• Reconciliation Agreement

1987 (3 folders)

• Aid to the Homeless
• Contra Aid Moratorium
• FY 1988 Budget Resolution
• FY 1988 Budget Amendments
• Supplemental Appropriations
• Trade Bill (HR 3)
• Trade Bill Amendments
• FY 1988 Defense Authorization
• Defense Amendments
• School Improvement Act
• Housing Authorization
• Construction Labor Law
• FY 1988 Budget Agreement
• Catastrophic Illness Act
• Equal Treatment of Refugees from El Salvador and Nicaragua
• Price-Anderson Amendments (HR 1414)
• Textile Bill (HR 1154)
• Farm Credit
• Gramm-Rudman Revisions
• Occupational Disease Prevention
• Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (HR 3545)
• Republican Rule and the Republican Substitute (HR 3545)
• Foreign Aid Authorization
• Welfare Reform
• Defense Conference Agreement
• Long-term Continuing Resolution
• Foreign Aid Amendments
• Continuing Resolution Conference Agreement
• Budget Reconciliation Agreement
• Health Reconciliation Provisions
• Reagan's New Contra Aid Request
• Democratic Contra Aid Alternative
• Grove City v. Bell

1988 (2 folders)

• FY 1989 Budget Resolution
• Nicaraguan Cease-fire Assistance
• Trade Conference Agreement (HR 3)
• Defense Amendments
• More Defense Amendments
• Catastrophic Illness Protection
• Long-term Home Health Care
• Fair Housing Amendments (HR 1158)
• Second Trade Bill (HR 4848)
• Plant Closing Bill (S 2527)
• Defense Conference Agreement
• Drought Relief
• Tax Extensions and Corrections
• South African Sanctions
• Omnibus Drug Initiative
• Drug Bill Amendments
• AIDS Federal Policy Act
• Defense Appropriations Agreement
• Welfare Reform Agreement
• Textile Veto (HR 1154)
• Miscellaneous Tax Act (HR 4333)
• Drug Bill Compromise
• 1988 Drug Bill

1989 (2 folders)

• Minimum Wage Increase
• Contra Aid Agreement
• FY 1990 Budget Amendments
• Savings and Loan Bill (HR 1278)
• S & L Amendments
• Foreign Aid Authorization
• Foreign Aid Amendments
• FY 1990 Defense Authorization
• S & L Conference Agreement
• Budget Reconciliation
• Reconciliation Amendments
• Medicare and Child Care Amendments
• Aid to Poland and Hungary
• Temporary Refuge for Chinese and Central Americans
• Minimum Wage II
• Transportation and Anti-Drug Appropriations
• Oil Spill Bill (HR 1465)
• Defense Conference Agreement
• Ethics Reform and Pay Increase
• Reconciliation Conference Report

1990 (2 folders)

• FY 1991 Budget Amendments
• Family and Medical Leave
• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
• ADA Amendments
• Supplemental Foreign Aid
• Clean Air Act (HR 3030)
• Flag Amendment
• Balanced Budget Amendment
• Farm Bill
• Housing Bill (HR 1180)
• Housing Amendments
• Civil Rights Act of 1990
• Oil Spill Agreement (HR 1465)
• Campaign Finance Reform (HR 5400)
• Defense Authorization
• Crime Bill (HR 5269)
• Textile Bill (HR 4328)
• Crime Bill Amendments
• Immigration Reform (HR 4300)
• Budget Summit Agreement
• Assault Weapons Ban (HR 4225)
• Farm Bill Agreement
• Budget Reconciliation Conference Report
• 102nd Congress Rules Changes

1991

• FY 1992 Budget Resolution
• Budget Amendments
• Brady Bill (HR 7)
• Budget Agreement
• “Fast Track” Resolutions
• Civil Rights Bill (HR 1)
• Foreign Aid Authorization
• Most Favored Nation for China
• Foreign Aid Authorization Agreement
• Crime Bill (HR 3371)
• Crime Bill Amendments
• Highway Bill (HR 2950)
• Banking Reform
• Banking Amendments
• Bank Legislation-Round II
• Bank Legislation-Round III
• Campaign Finance Reform (HR 3750)
• Crime Bill Agreement
• Highway Agreement
• Resolution Trust Corporation Bill

1992 (2 folders)

• Tax Alternatives
• FY 1993 Budget Resolution
• Budget Amendments
• Budget “Firewalls”
• Higher Education Bill (HR 3553)
• Tax Veto
• Campaign Reform Agreement (S 3)
• House Administrative Reform
• Family Planning (HR 3090)
• Budget Agreement
• Balanced Budget Amendments
• Urban Aid Package (HR 11)
• Trade Expansion
• Higher Education Agreement
• Most Favored Nation for China
• Cable TV Regulation (HR 4850)
• Family Preservation and Childhood Hunger Relief
• Housing Authorization
• Cable TV Agreement
• Family Planning “Gag Rule” Veto
• Cable TV Veto
• Tax Agreement (HR 11)
• 103rd Congress Rules Changes
• Additional Rules Changes

1993

• FY 1994 Budget Resolution
• Stimulus and Investment Appropriations
• Budget Amendments
• FY 1004 Budget Agreement
• Budget Reconciliation
• Budget Enforcement and Reconciliation Amendment
• Reconciliation Agreement
• Anti-Crime Package
• Brady Bill
• North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
• Abortion Clinic Access (HR 796)
• Campaign Finance Reform (HR 3)
• Reform and Spending Cut Proposals (HR 3400)

1994 (2 folders)

• Elementary and Secondary Education (HR 6)
• FY 1995 Budget Resolution
• Budget Amendments
• Balanced Budget Amendments
• Crime Bill (HR 4092)
• Crime Bill Amendments
• Abortion Clinic Access Agreement
• Assault Weapons Ban (HR 4296)
• FY 1995 Budget Agreement
• Defense Authorization for FY 1995
• Defense Amendments
• Crime Bill Agreement
• Defense Conference Agreement
• New Crime Bill Agreement
• Superfund (HR 3800)
• Lobbying Reform and Gift Ban
• Education Conference Agreement (HR 6)
• GATT Implementation
• Haiti Resolutions
• Fiscal Responsibility Act
• Taking Back Our Streets Act
• Personal Responsibility Act
• Family Reinforcement Act
• American Dream Restoration Act
• National Security Restoration Act
• Job Creation and Wage Enhancement Act
• Common Sense Legal Reforms Act
• Citizen Legislature Act
• Democratic Caucus Rules Changes
• GOP House Rules Package

1995

• Unfunded Mandates reform (HR 5)
• Balanced Budget Amendments
• Line-item Veto Bill
• GOP “Contract” Crime Package I
• Law Enforcement Block Grants
• National Security Revitalization Act
• Risk Assessment (HR 1022)
• Private Property “Takings”
• Civil Litigation Limits
• Liability Limits
• Appropriations Recissions Package
• GOP Welfare Reform (HR 4)
• Welfare Amendments
• Term Limits
• Tax and Spending Cuts (HR 1215)
• Gephardt Substitute (HR1215)

Special Reports

1969

• Tax Reform: a DSG Fact Book

1970-1972

• Secrecy in the House of Representatives
• Health Crisis
• The Environment
• The Mississippi Challenge
• Democratic Vacancies on Committees
• First Session of the 92nd Congress
• School Desegregation and the Lent Amendment
• Nixon Anti-Busing Proposals
• The Economy
• Tax Reform
• Environmental Quality

1973-1974

• Presidential Impoundment of Fund Recommendations/Joint Study
• Committee on Budget Control
• Record Teller Votes in the 93rdCongress
• Nixon's Attack on Congress
• Committee Membership Provisions of Proposed Budget Control Bill
• Congress and the President's Energy Bills
• FY 1975 Budget
• The Economy
• 94th Congress Reform Proposals

1975-1976

• The First 10 Weeks
• The First 24 Weeks
• Interest Group Ratings and House Voting Blocs
• Oil Price Conflict
• President Ford's Tax Cut/Spending Proposals
• Real Impact of Ford's Tax Proposals on the Poor
• The First Session
• The 94th Congress
• Social Security Financing
• National Health Insurance
• Rationales for DSG Reform Proposals

1977-1980

• Voting Records of Chairman Candidates
• Pay Raise Controversy
• The First Six Months
• Panama Canal Treaties
• Humphrey-Hawkins Bill
• Administration's Defense Budget
• Gasoline Shortage
• Oil Company Profits
• Key Votes of the 96th Congress
• Special Interest Money in the 1980 Congressional Election
• The 96th Congress

1981-1982

• Stockman Hit List
• The NFIB Vote Rating
• The Outside Income Issue
• Analysis-Initial Votes on First FY 1983 Budget Resolution
• Reagan's Deficit Disaster I and II
• Republicans and Women: Putting Them Back in Their Place
• Republicans and Social Security
• Reagan Breaks Another Record

1983-1984

• Party Campaign Funds: A Widening Gap
• Withholding Controversy
• Outside Income Issue II
• Reagan-Balanced Budget
• Who's the Biggest Spender?
• Grace Commission: No Answer to the Deficit
• Reagan's Farm Failures
• Who's Better Off?
• Omnibus Budget Process

1985

• Myths about House Reforms
• Reagan's FY 1986 Budget
• Gramm-Rudman Proposal
• Gramm-Rudman: Fixed Up or Papered Over?

1986

• Guide to Gramm-Rudman Process
• The Cutting Begins
• Reagan's FY 1987 Budget
• Reagan Housing Budget
• Outside Income Controversy
• Senate Budget Resolution
• Senate Tax Reform Plan
• Senate Tax Reform Myths
• Result of DSG Tax Reform Survey
• Gramm-Rudman “Fix”
• Budget Situation
• Tax Agreement: Pluses and Minuses
• Defense and Foreign Aid Issues in the Continuing Resolution
• 99th Congress Legislation
• Anticipated Committee Vacancies and Committee Assignments

1987 (2 folders)

• New Reagan Budget
• Another Setback for Arms Control
• Homeless: Myths versus Reality
• Crossroads for Arms Control
• Contra Aid: An Update
• Deficit Outlook
• Defense Cuts versus Domestic Cuts
• Revenue Raising Options
• Persian Gulf Controversy
• Persian Gulf Update
• Progressive Revenue Options
• Gramm-Rudman Fix Controversy
• House Legislative Action
• Central American Peace Plan
• No Change: Continue Contra Aid
• Impact of Sequestration
• Central American Peace Plan Continues to Move Ahead
• AIDS Legislative Issues
• Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
• Central American Peace Process: Phase Two Begins
• Peace Plan: Compliance to Date
• Bargaining Begins
• Budget Summit Agreement
• Politics in El Salvador; Negotiations in Nicaragua
• House Legislative Action

1988 (3 folders)

• House Legislative Action
• Contra Aid: Insurance or Poison
• FY 1989 Reagan Budget
• The Push for More Contra Aid
• Continuing Resolutions
• Nicaragua Peace Prospects
• Cost of Congress
• Nicaragua: An Update
• Budget Priorities Under Reagan
• House Legislative Action
• Key House Votes in 1988
• Votes on Education Issues
• Votes on Senior Citizen Issues
• Reagan Defense Spending
• Reagan Budget Deficits
• Votes on Drug Funding
• Comparison of House and Senate Drug Bills
• Key House Votes in September and October
• 100th Congress Legislation
• 1988 House Election Results and New Members
• Anticipated Committee Vacancies and Assignments
• Democratic Steering and Policy Committee Flexible Freeze Budget Plan
• The FY 1990 Budget Landscape
• 101st Congress Rules Changes

1989 (2 folders)

• Last Reagan Budget
• Some Facts on Congressional Pay
• Bush “Black Box” Budget
• Budget Speech versus Budget Plan
• Rebellion at Eastern
• Crisis in El Salvador
• The FSX Deal
• What's a “Super 301”?
• Fogging the Facts at the Wall Street Journal
• Catastrophic Coverage Controversy
• Cost of Congress
• House Legislative Action
• Budget Reconciliation
• Off-Budget Bailout: An Expensive Accounting Trick?
• Executive Shortfall
• “Just Say No” Anti-Drug Efforts
• Impact of Bush Drug Plan on Local Government
• Capital Gain Tax Cut
• Democratic Tax Alternative Coming Sequestration
• Short-handed at FEMA
• Highlights of 1st Session Legislation
• 1st Session Legislation

1990

• Executive Shortfall III
• Decade of Disinvestment
• New Bush Budget: A First Look
• Investment and the Bush Budget
• Great Base Closing Ploy
• Shifting Tax Burdens Leave All But the Wealthy Worse Off
• What's Changed Mr. President?
• Tough Decade for Families in the Middle
• Growing Dependence on Big Contributors
• President's “Deficit” Imperatives
• Increase Taxes On High Income Americans?
• Effective Tax Rates for Rich Plummet under Bush
• Capital Gains Plan
• Capital Gains and the “Bubble”
• Why Tax the Rich?
• Fogging the Facts on Budget Negotiations
• Republican Tax Ad
• Anticipated Committee Vacancies Democratic Steering and Policy Committee
• 101st Congress Legislation

1991

• Gingrich Allegation on Gulf Weapons
• U.S. in Retreat on Domestic Agenda
• The 1990-1991 Recession
• Why Conservatives Don't Talk about America's Health System
• In the Red to China
• Alternative Approaches to Health Care Reform
• Foot dragging on Foreign Base Closings?
• Bush to Set New Record for Slow Growth
• Bush Bust on Job Growth
• The “Kinder, Gentler” Jobless Benefit Veto
• New House “Compromise” for Jobless
• Prominent Economists Offer Views on Recession and Growth
• 1st Session Legislation

1992

• More View from Economists
• Bush Proposes another Decade of Disinvestment
• U.S. Continues as China's Cash Cow
• History of the Top Rate
• Bush Economic Forecast
• New Directions for Nation's Health System?
• Federal Reserve Banks Express Concern over Regional Economic Trends
• Triple Dip Economic Downturn?
• House Legislative Action
• Bush Tax Policy in Arkansas
• A Record of “Change”
• Bush Entitlement Cap Formula
• Finishing Up in the Cellar
• 102nd Congress Legislation
• Anticipated Committee Vacancies Democratic Steering and Policy Committee
• Democrat Caucus Strengthens House
• House Legislative Action
• Treasury Debt Management Policy
• Borrowing for Less? II Is it Fair?
• Various Campaign Finance Proposals
• Gramm-Armey Plan Means 33% Cuts by 2000
• Kasich Budget Gives Fat Cats Another Free Ride
• A Different Kind of “Recovery”
• Increasing Executive Power to Reduce the Deficit
• Is Clinton's Corporate Tax Rate Too High?
• Choice on Reconciliation: Borrow or Pay?
• Deficit Reduction and the Family Farm
• Looking at the Gas Tax
• Retroactive Taxes: Dole's Double Standard
• House Legislative Action
• Inhofe Discharge Proposal: A Threat to the Deliberative Process?
• A Health Care Plan We Cannot Afford: Status Quo
• Somalia: A Background
• All Too Real: Spending Cuts
• Resources and Reading Materials on NAFTA
• Making the Elderly Overpay for Medicare Part B
• First Session Legislation

1994

• Overview of Clinton's Health Security Act
• North Korea: A Background
• Nixon's Employer Mandate Health Reform Plan
• Reading the New Unemployment Numbers
• Clinton versus Cooper Health Reform Plans
• A Look at the Senate Filibuster
• A Look at UN Peacekeeping
• Benefits of the 1993 Economic/Budget Plan
• House Legislative Action
• Impact on Seniors of the Republican “Contract”
• Signers of the GOP “Contract”
• Highlights of the 103rd Congress
• National Taxpayers Union: Questionable Methods, Clear Motives
• 103rd Congress Legislation
• Capital Gains Cut: Who Gains?
• Republican Predictions versus Reality
• Clinton Outpaces Reagan and Bush
• Military Readiness is Now the Top Priority
• Signers of the GOP “Contract”
• Gingrich “Plan” Means 26% Spending Cuts by 2000
• Republican “Contract: Déjà Vu”
• First Session Legislation

1995

• Cheating Children
• Wealthy Get Big Tax Cuts: the Rest Get “Trickle-Down”
• “How Republicans Make Law: Let the Lobbyists Do It II”