DemocratHouse · Iowa District 6
Bedell, Berkley W.
1975 first electedLeft office 198712 years servedBorn 1921M
Issues
Based on bills Bedell, Berkley W. sponsored or cosponsored in Congress, grouped by policy area. This reflects legislative activity, not a survey of personal opinions.
Agriculture and Food
Sponsored 13- A bill to increase the levels of price support loans provided under the producer storage program for the 1979, 1980, and 1981 crops of wheat and feed grains, and for other purposes. ↗
- A bill to amend the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to increase the level of certain secured storage facility loans to growers of certain commodities, to amend the Agricultural Act of 1949 to increase the levels of loans and purchases for the 1979, 1980, and 1981 crops of feed grains, and for other purposes. ↗
International Affairs
Cosponsored 12Energy
Sponsored 6 · Cosponsored 5Foreign Trade and International Finance
Sponsored 5 · Cosponsored 6Congress
Sponsored 1 · Cosponsored 9- A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide four-year terms for Members of the House of Representatives and to limit the number of consecutive terms that Representatives and Senators may serve, and for other purposes. ↗
- A concurrent resolution establishing a Joint Select Committee to Investigate Oil and Gasoline Production and Pricing. ↗
Taxation
Sponsored 5 · Cosponsored 4- A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide a refundable tax credit to an employer who pays compensation to an employee for a period during which the employee is participating in armed forces training. ↗
- A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide that social security taxes and income tax withholding shall not apply to certain chore service performed under a State program designed to assist the elderly and the handicapped. ↗
Government Operations and Politics
Sponsored 6 · Cosponsored 2- Zero-Based Paperwork Act of 1979 ↗
- A bill to amend the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide that disability insurance benefits shall be financed from general revenues rather than through the imposition of employment and self-employment taxes as at present, to adjust the rates of such taxes for old-age and survivors insurance and hospital insurance purposes, to provide for reductions in the amount of such disability benefits to take account of the recipient's need as determined on the basis of his family income, to improve disability determination procedures, and for other purposes. ↗
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Cosponsored 7- A concurrent resolution to express the sense of the Congress that the leaders of the Communist nations in Eastern Europe should release certain Christian political prisoners who have committed no crimes against the state according to the provisions of Basket I of the Helsinki Accords. ↗
- A concurrent resolution urging the Soviet Union to allow Ida Nudel to emigrate to Israel, and for other purposes. ↗
Election History
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