Legislation

Cosponsored — A concurrent resolution reaffirming that deposits, up to the statutorily prescribed amount, in federally insured depository institutions are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title XVI of the Social Security Act to exclude burial plots and niches and insurance policies and other burial plans and arrangements from the determination of an SSI applicant’s resources.

Cosponsored — First-time Homeowners Opportunity Act

Cosponsored — A bill to limit the applicability of the recently enacted restrictions on the lump-sum death payment under title II of the Social Security Act, in the event of previously executed written agreements with funeral homes, to cases in which there would be surviving beneficiaries.

Cosponsored — Federal Employees Voluntary Reduced Worktime Act

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the White House Authorization Act to freeze White House spending during fiscal year 1983.

Cosponsored — A resolution reaffirming that deposits, up to the statutorily prescribed amount, in federally insured depository institutions are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States.

Cosponsored — A concurrent resolution regarding membership in the United Nations General Assembly.

Sponsored — Rental Housing Production and Rehabilitation Act of 1982

Sponsored — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to permit the tax-free rollover of partial distributions from qualified employer plans by increasing the limitations on the deduction for retirement savings.

Sponsored — Social Security Benefit Restoration Act of 1982

Sponsored — A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to restore veterans’ burial benefits terminated by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981.

Sponsored — International Banking Facility Deposit Insurance Act

Sponsored — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 with respect to the treatment of certain payments under section 236 of the National Housing Act received by cooperative housing corporations.

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

Sponsored — A bill to reestablish the tenant rental payment and income review requirements which were in effect with respect to federally assisted housing programs before the Housing and Community Development Amendments of 1981.

Sponsored — A bill to repeal the provision added by the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 which treats investments by individual retirement plans in collectibles as distributions.

Sponsored — A bill to amend the United States Housing Act of 1937.

Sponsored — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide that taxable unemployment compensation will be treated as wages for purposes of the limitation on the deduction for individual retirement savings.