Laws of the 105th Congress
The 394 public laws in our saved record for the Congress that met from January 3, 1997 to January 3, 1999, with the House and Senate tallies from the official vote files.
40,222 individual votes saved for this Congress.
Laws with a recorded vote
Plain-language accounts for laws before January 3, 2025: Not started. A law's page shows the official title, the member votes we have saved and our saved files.
Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of said District for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo redesignate the United States courthouse located at 100 Franklin Street in Dublin, Georgia, as the “J. Roy Rowland United States Courthouse”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 300 Northeast First Avenue in Miami, Florida, as the “David W. Dyer Federal Building and United States Courthouse”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service under construction at 150 West Margaret Drive in Terre Haute, Indiana, as the “John T. Myers Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the building in Indianapolis, Indiana, which houses the operations of the Indianapolis Main Post Office as the “Andrew Jacobs, Jr. Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo promote the adoption of children in foster care.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1998 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo require the Secretary of the Interior to exchange certain lands located in Hinsdale County, Colorado.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to exempt internationally adopted children 10 years of age or younger from the immunization requirement in section 212(a)(1)(A)(ii) of such Act.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking appropriations for the Department of Transportation and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1998, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking appropriations for energy and water development for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking appropriations for the Treasury Department, the United States Postal Service, the Executive Office of the President, and certain Independent Agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide for the exchange of lands within Admiralty Island National Monument, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo establish the Oklahoma City National Memorial as a unit of the National Park System; to designate the Oklahoma City Memorial Trust, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 1966 to improve the management of the National Wildlife Refuge System, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide for the authorization of appropriations in each fiscal year for arbitration in United States district courts, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide permanent authority for the administration of au pair programs.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo authorize appropriations for carrying out the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 for fiscal years 1998 and 1999, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1998, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking appropriations for military construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo allow postal patrons to contribute to funding for breast cancer research through the voluntary purchase of certain specially issued United States postage stamps, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide for a land exchange involving the Warner Canyon Ski Area and other land in the State of Oregon.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prevent the unauthorized inspection of tax returns or tax return information.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide for reconciliation pursuant to subsections (b)(2) and (d) of section 105 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1998.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide for reconciliation pursuant to subsections (b)(1) and (c) of section 105 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1998.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo direct the Secretary of the Interior to design and construct a permanent addition to the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C., and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend section 2118 of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to extend the Electric and Magnetic Fields Research and Public Information Dissemination program.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the National Narcotics Leadership Act of 1988 to establish a program to support and encourage local communities that first demonstrate a comprehensive, long-term commitment to reduce substance abuse among youth, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking emergency supplemental appropriations for recovery from natural disasters, and for overseas peacekeeping efforts, including those in Bosnia, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1997, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, to reauthorize and make improvements to that Act, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo clarify Federal law with respect to restricting the use of Federal funds in support of assisted suicide.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend title 18, United States Code, to give further assurance to the right of victims of crime to attend and observe the trials of those accused of the crime.
Plain-language account: Not startedWaiving certain provisions of the Trade Act of 1974 relating to the appointment of the United States Trade Representative.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service under construction at 7411 Barlite Boulevard in San Antonio, Texas, as the “Frank M. Tejeda Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedApproving the Presidential finding that the limitation on obligations imposed by section 518A(a) of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1997, is having a negative impact on the proper functioning of the population planning program.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reinstate the Airport and Airway Trust Fund excise taxes, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not started