RepublicanHouse · Minnesota District 7
Bergland, Bob
1971 first electedLeft office 19798 years servedBorn 1928M
Issues
Based on bills Bergland, Bob sponsored or cosponsored in Congress, grouped by policy area. This reflects legislative activity, not a survey of personal opinions.
Agriculture and Food
Sponsored 16 · Cosponsored 13Private Legislation
Sponsored 5 · Cosponsored 1International Affairs
Cosponsored 5- Concurrent resolution with respect to the freedom of the Republic of China and its people. ↗
- Concurrent resolution indicating the sense of Congress that every person throughout the world has the right to a nutritionally adequate diet; and that this country increase its assistance for self-help development among the world's poorest people until such assistance has reached the target of 1 percent of our total national production (GNP). ↗
Rural affairs legislation
Sponsored 4Social Welfare
Sponsored 2 · Cosponsored 2- A bill to provide for additional Federal financial participation in expenses incurred in providing benefits to Indians, Aleuts, native Hawaiians, and other aboriginal persons, under certain State public assistance programs established pursuant to the Social Security Act. ↗
- A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to authorize payment under the supplementary medical insurance program for optometric and medical vision care. ↗
Congress
Cosponsored 4- Resolution establishing a select committee to study the problem of U.S. servicemen missing in action in Southeast Asia. ↗
- Resolution to amend the Rules of the House of Representatives to provide that the Congressional Record shall contain a verbatim account of remarks actually delivered on the floor, and for other purposes. ↗
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Sponsored 3Government Operations and Politics
Sponsored 2 · Cosponsored 1- A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to correct certain inequities in the crediting of National Guard technician service in connection with civil service retirement, and for other purposes. ↗
- A bill to encourage earlier retirement by permitting Federal employees to purchase into the civil service retirement system benefits unduplicated in any other retirement system based on employment in Federal programs operated by State and local governments under Federal funding and supervision. ↗
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