Legislation

Cosponsored — Certified Nurse Midwifery Medicare Services Act of 1998

Cosponsored — Library of Congress Bicentennial Commemorative Coin Act of 1998

Cosponsored — To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from charging State and local government agencies for certain uses of the sand, gravel, and shell resources of the outer Continental Shelf.

Cosponsored — Telecommunications Competition and Consumer Protection Act of 1998

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