Legislation

Cosponsored — National Oilheat Research Alliance Act of 1998

Cosponsored — Expressing the sense of Congress that the 65th anniversary of the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-1933 should serve as a reminder of the brutality of the government of the former Soviet Union’s repressive policies toward the Ukrainian people.

Cosponsored — Expressing support for U. S. government efforts to identify Holocaust-era assets, urging the restitution of individual and communal property, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — Expressing the sense of the Congress that the President should reassert the traditional opposition of the United States to the unilateral declaration of a Palestinian State.

Sponsored — To authorize the President to award a gold medal on behalf of the Congress to Mrs. Yaffa Eliach in recognition of her outstanding and enduring contributions toward scholarship about the Holocaust, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor Act of 1998

Cosponsored — To designate the United States Post Office located at 297 Larkfield Road in East Northport, New York, as the “Jerome Anthony Ambro, Jr. Post Office Building”.

Sponsored — To provide for adjustment of status for aliens who became eligible for such adjustment based on a diversity immigrant visa available for fiscal year 1997 or 1998, but whose eligibility expired due to paperwork processing delays.

Sponsored — Pension Plan Participant Protection Act of 1998

Sponsored — To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the rules for determining whether a corporation is a cooperative housing corporation for purposes of such Code.

Cosponsored — Iran Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Act of 1998

Sponsored — Budget Surplus Dividend Act of 1998

Cosponsored — Expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to self-determination for the people of Kosova, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — To amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to provide for equitable duty treatment for certain wool used in making suits.

Cosponsored — Immigration and Naturalization Service Restructuring Act of 1998

Cosponsored — To present a congressional gold medal to Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela.

Cosponsored — To amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to extend the authorizations of appropriations for that Act, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the nuclear weapons stockpile.

Cosponsored — VAWA Restoration Act