Legislation

Sponsored — A bill to amend the Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Savings Act to require that the impact test velocity in the motor vehicle bumper standard established by the Secretary of Transportation shall be 5 miles per hour.

Cosponsored — A bill to limit the outside earned income of Senators.

Cosponsored — A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives opposing any increased expenses for the elderly or disabled as a result of budget or reconciliation reductions in outlays in the medicare program.

Cosponsored — A resolution to assure Israel’s security, to oppose advance arms sales to Jordan, and to further peace in the Middle East.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend section 235 of the National Housing Act.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to increase the amount allowed to be deducted each taxable year for expenses incurred in connection with the elimination of architectural and transportation barriers for the handicapped and elderly from $25,000 to $100,000, and to make permanent the allowance of such deduction.

Cosponsored — A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that funds should be appropriated during fiscal year 1983, and in subsequent fiscal years, for programs under the Older Americans Act of 1965 in such amounts as may be necessary to maintain or expand such programs as reauthorized under the Older Americans Act Amendments of 1981.

Cosponsored — Housing and Urban-Rural Recovery Act of 1982

Cosponsored — A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives concerning the Administration’s policy on unemployment.

Cosponsored — Housing and Automobile Industries Recovery Act of 1982

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title XVI of the Social Security Act to provide that reparations received by Holocaust survivors under the German Federal Compensation Law shall not be considered income for purposes of determining an individual’s eligibility for supplemental security income benefits or the amount of such benefits.

Cosponsored — A joint resolution to provide for United States ratification of the SALT II agreement.

Cosponsored — A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to ratification of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

Cosponsored — A bill to eliminate certain practices of the Department of Defense as they relate to meals served in the Secretary of Defense’s dining room, personal servants for senior officers, veterinary services for pets of military personnel and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A resolution to amend Rule XXII of the Rules of the House of Representatives to prevent consideration through the duration of the 97th Congress of legislation which would reduce benefits or cost of living adjustments under Social Security and other federally administered retirement programs.

Cosponsored — A bill to extend by five months (through September 1982) the period within which a child over age eighteen must have been already enrolled at the college level in order to qualify (after July 1982) for child’s insurance benefits under title II of the Social Security Act as a postsecondary student, and to require that such a child (in order to so qualify) must have graduated from high school by the close of such period.

Cosponsored — A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the President should take certain actions with respect to East Timor.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide that educational assistance provided by the Veterans’ Administration under the GI Bill shall be disregarded in determining the needs or qualifications of any person under any educational assistance program financed in whole or in part with Federal funds.

Cosponsored — A joint resolution to authorize and request the President to issue a proclamation designating April 25 through May 2, 1982, as “Jewish Heritage Week”.