Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce

The available records identify this entity, but do not yet include a plain-English role description.

1. Mon, Jul 204 items
   1. Rail safety: Derailments in the Northeast Corridor: hearings before the Subcommittee on Transportation and Commerce of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, first session on H.R. 8361, H.R. 7022, H.R. 2908, H.R. 6095, H.R. 6957, and H.R. 8017 bills to amend the Federal Railroad Safety Act of 1970 to clarify and strengthen the role of the states in promoting safety on the nation's railroads; requiring railroad locomotives and cabooses to be equipped with bulletproof material; requiring light-reflecting markings on railroad locomotives and cars; requiring the locomotive of all trains to be equipped with strobe lights, and for other purposes, July 18 and 19, 1977.The parent committee overseeing the subcommittee.
   2. Moratorium on saccharin ban: hearing before the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, first session on H.R. 7753 (and all identical bills) bills 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 of 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 eighteen months, H.R. 8012 a bill respecting the continued use of saccharin as a food, food additive, drug, and cosmetic, and for other purposes, H.R. 5166 (and all identical bills) bills to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to authorize an evaluation of the risks and benefits of certain food additives and to permit the marketing of saccharin until such an evaluation can be made it (and all other similar or identical bills) June 27, 1977.
   3. Health manpower amendments of 1977: hearing the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, first session, on H.R. 9280 and H.R. 8519 bills to amend the Public Health Service Act to require increases in the enrollment of third-year medical students as a condition to medical schools' receiving capitation grants under such Act, September 29, 1977.
   4. Foreign payments disclosure: hearings before the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Finance of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, second session on H.R. 15481 and S. 3664, bills to amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require issuers of securities registered pursuant to Section 12 of such act to maintain accurate records, to prohibit certain bribes, and for other purposes, and H.R. 13870 and H.R. 13953, bills to amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require issuers of securities registered pursuant to Section 12 of such act to maintain accurate records and to furnish reports relating to certain foreign payments, and for other purposes. September 21 and 22, 1976.
2. Sun, Jul 191 item
   1. SEC authorization of appropriations: hearing before the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Finance of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, first session, on H.R. 3721 and H.R. 3722, bills to increase the amount authorized to be appropriated for the Securities and Exchange Commission for fiscal year 1977 and specified amounts for fiscal years 1978-1980, March 10, 1977.The parent committee overseeing the subcommittee.
3. Tue, Jul 143 items
   1. Guaranteed loans for railroads: hearings before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Eighty-seventh Congress, first session, on H.R. 1163, a bill to amend Section 510 of the Interstate Commerce Act so as to extend for one year the loan guaranty authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission. March 1 and 2, 1961.The congressional committee conducting the hearings.
   2. Tire recall: hearing before the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Finance of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, first session, on H.R. 3949 and H.R. 1744 ... May 24, 1979.
   3. Energy efficiency in motor carrier movements: hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy and Power of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, first session, on H.R. 1681 ... July 9, 1979.

POLISCOPE has no related bills, finance activity or mapped connections for this entity in the records it has processed. That is a gap in coverage, not a finding about the entity.