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 CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS—MAY 21, 1981

95 STAT. 1759

economic activity as the cost-inducing regulations. The President should institute an exemption procedure to assure the promulgation of regulations necessary to avert any imminent threat to health and safety. (b) It is also the sense of Congress that the Director of the Concessional Budget Office should issue a periodic "inflation scorekeeping" report which shall contain an estimate of the positive or negative cost-of-living effects, wherever measurable, of legislation enacted to date in the current session of Congress. The report shall also indicate for each bill, promptly after it is reported by a committee of Congress, whether— (1) it is judged to have no significant positive or negative impact on cost of living; (2) it is judged to have a positive or negative costof-living impact on the amount specified in terms of both dollar amounts and change in the Consumer Price Index; or (3) it is judged likely to have a significant positive or negative impact on cost of living, but the amount cannot be deteimined immediately. Agreed to May 21, 1981.

AMERICAN RED CROSS—ONE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY Whereas in 1881 Clara Barton and her associates founded the American Red Cross to mitigate suffering from wars and disasters, in the spirit of the first Geneva Convention on humanitarian law which the United States ratified in 1882; and Whereas because of the importance of that work the Congress later chartered the American Red Cross with the mandate to help our Government meet commitments under that and subsequent humanitarian treaties; the mandate to serve as an independent medium of communication between the American people and their Armed Forces; and the mandate to maintain a system of local, national, and international disaster preparedness and relief; and Whereas the American Red Cross was thus established as an instrumentality of the United States to ensure the permanence of its work, public confidence in its integrity, and the support of the people; and Whereas the American Red Cross has faithfully carried out those mandates and for one hundred years has gained the confidence, respect, and involvement of our people and Government, and through its development of nationwide volunteer blood services and other vital health, safety, and volunteer services in communities across our country has improved the quality of human life by helping people avoid emergencies, prepare for emergencies, and cope with them when they occur: Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring). That the Congress of the United States, on behalf of the Government and its people, extends greetings to the American Red Cross upon its one hundredth anniversary, pays tribute for the century of services to

May21, 1981

[H. Con. Res. 120]

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