Legislation

Cosponsored — Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986

Cosponsored — A joint resolution to designate December 11, 1986, as “National SEEK and College Discovery Day”.

Sponsored — A bill to amend part A of title IV of the Social Security Act to reduce the need for emergency assistance payments to provide temporary housing for destitute families and homeless AFDC families, and the expense of such payments, by authorizing grants to States for the construction or rehabilitation of permanent housing that such families can afford with their regular AFDC payments.

Cosponsored — A joint resolution to designate the week beginning September 21, 1986, as “National Adult Day Care Center Week”.

Cosponsored — A joint resolution to designate August 12, 1986, as “National Civil Rights Day”.

Cosponsored — A joint resolution to designate October 1986 as “Crack/Cocaine Awareness Month”.

Cosponsored — A joint resolution commemorating January 28, 1987 as a National Day of Excellence in honor of the crew of the space shuttle Challenger.

Cosponsored — A joint resolution to designate the week beginning November 24, 1986, as “National Family Caregivers Week”.

Cosponsored — A bill to deny Most-Favored-Nation treatment to imports from Yugoslavia.

Cosponsored — A joint resolution to designate August 1986 as “Polish American Heritage Month”.

Cosponsored — A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should direct the Secretary of Education to form a National Task Force on the Problem of Functional Illiteracy.

Cosponsored — A joint resolution to designate the period of December 1, 1986, through December 7, 1986, as “National Aplastic Anemia Awareness Week”.

Cosponsored — Truth in Savings and Credit Card Applications Act

Cosponsored — A joint resolution designating March 16, 1987, as “Freedom of Information Day”.

Sponsored — A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York should deny any application from a Japanese security firm to become a primary dealer in United States Treasury securities until substantial progress is made in opening the Japanese securities market to United States securities dealers.

Cosponsored — A joint resolution to designate the week of October 19, 1986, through October 26, 1986, “National Housing Week”.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that annuities under chapter 83 or 84 of such title be treated, for Federal income tax purposes, as if the 3-year basis recovery rule had never been repealed; and to require that the Office of Personnel Management conduct a study relating to the consequences which retroactively repealing such rule would have with respect to Federal personnel management, morale within the Federal civilian workforce, and individual retirement planning.

Cosponsored — A joint resolution to designate February 4, 1987, as “National Women in Sports Day”.

Cosponsored — A joint resolution to designate the week commencing February 9, 1987 as “National Burn Awareness Week”.