DemocratHouse · Rhode Island District 2
Beard, Edward
1975 first electedLeft office 19816 years servedBorn 1940M
Issues
Based on bills Beard, Edward sponsored or cosponsored in Congress, grouped by policy area. This reflects legislative activity, not a survey of personal opinions.
Energy
Sponsored 6 · Cosponsored 7Armed Forces and National Security
Sponsored 8 · Cosponsored 4- A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the size of the estate permitted to incompetent institutionalized veterans who receive certain Federal benefits. ↗
- A bill to reduce the disability limitation and to eliminate the time limit imposed by the "Vietnam Era Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974" so that more disabled veterans may benefit from affirmative action programs. ↗
Health
Sponsored 4 · Cosponsored 5- A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to increase the personal needs allowance for institutionalized recipients to thirty dollars per individual and sixty dollars per couple. ↗
- A bill to amend the Social Security Amendments of 1972 to extend for an additional year the program of 100 percent reimbursement of States for sums expended for inspection of institutions providing long-term care to recipients of medical assistance. ↗
Social Welfare
Sponsored 6 · Cosponsored 3- A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to discontinue the payment of student benefits to children beyond the high school level. ↗
- A bill to amend title XVI of the Social Security Act to increase the amount of earnings to be disregarded in determining an individual's eligibility for supplemental security income benefits and in computing the amount of such benefits. ↗
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Sponsored 1 · Cosponsored 8- A concurrent resolution to express the sense of the Congress that children possess both fundamental human rights and rights attributable to their status as children, and to call for the enactment of Federal and State laws to implement such rights to the fullest extent possible and to grant children additional rights equivalent to the rights now possessed only by adults. ↗
- A concurrent resolution expressing the concern of Congress regarding the harassment of Soviet Jews and other minorities. ↗
International Affairs
Sponsored 1 · Cosponsored 7- A bill to condition U.S. membership in the International Criminal Police Organization upon such organization agreeing to comply with the provisions of the United States Code relating to the protection of individual privacy from misuse of Government records. ↗
- A concurrent resolution urging the Canadian Government to reassess its policy of permitting the commercial killing of newborn harp seals. ↗
Taxation
Sponsored 4 · Cosponsored 2- A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to exclude from gross income the interest on deposits in certain savings institutions. ↗
- A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide for cost-of-living adjustments in the individual tax rates, in the amount of the zero bracket amount, and in the amount of the personal exemptions. ↗
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