Legislation

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

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 bill to amend the Social Security Act to provide for the removal of the social security trust funds from the unified budget and to provide for crediting to the social security trust funds in the amount of unnegotiated social security checks.

Cosponsored — A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress concerning the proposed closure of certain National Weather Service offices.

Cosponsored — A joint resolution designating the week beginning March 6, 1983 as “Women’s History Week”.

Cosponsored — A concurrent resolution to congratulate Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, on the celebration of its seventieth anniversary.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to provide more adequate coverage of the services of mental health specialists under the medicare supplemental benefits program and under medicaid programs.

Cosponsored — A concurrent resolution expresses the sense of the Congress that any change to section 334 of the Social Security Act amendments of 1977 (P.L. 95-216) not require any beneficiaries to pay back spouses’ and survivors’ benefits already received.

Cosponsored — A joint resolution to authorize and request the President to issue a proclamation designating April 4, 1982, as the “National Day of Reflection”.

Sponsored — Tenant Credit Reporting Act

Cosponsored — A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to the issuance of mineral leases in wilderness areas, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — Voting Rights for the Handicapped and the Elderly Act

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Federal State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 to provide that extended benefits will be payable in any State in which the rate of regular unemployment equals or exceeds 7 percent.