DemocratHouse · Washington District 3
Bonker, Don
1975 first electedLeft office 198914 years servedBorn 1937M
Issues
Based on bills Bonker, Don sponsored or cosponsored in Congress, grouped by policy area. This reflects legislative activity, not a survey of personal opinions.
International Affairs
Sponsored 18 · Cosponsored 12- A concurrent resolution relating to improving and strengthening the peacekeeping capabilities of the United Nations. ↗
- A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to the disappearance of persons which is caused by the abduction and clandestine detention of those persons by the governments of foreign countries or by international or transnational terrorist organizations. ↗
Armed Forces and National Security
Cosponsored 11- A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the President should establish a commission to study and evaluate the Multiple Protective Structure System and the Air Mobile/Transportable Load System for protecting the land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles of the United States and to consider alternatives to such systems. ↗
- A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to make certain that recipients of veterans' pension and compensation will not have the amount of such pension or compensation reduced because of increases in monthly social security benefits. ↗
Government Operations and Politics
Sponsored 7 · Cosponsored 3Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Sponsored 2 · Cosponsored 8- A concurrent resolution urging the Government of South Korea to fulfill its stated commitments to the democratization of South Korea and to commute the death sentence of Kim Dae Jung. ↗
- A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that Andrei Sakharov should be released from internal exile, urging the President to protest the continued suppression of human rights in the Soviet Union, and for other purposes. ↗
Social Welfare
Sponsored 5 · Cosponsored 3- A bill to amend the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide assurance that social security recipients will receive the full benefit of cost-of-living increases to provide that the remarriage of a widow, widower, or parent shall not reduce entitlement to certain benefits, to further encourage senior citizen participation in the work force. ↗
- A bill to amend the Food Stamp Act of 1964 to assure that recipients of assistance under that act will not have the amount of such assistance reduced, or entitlement thereto discontinued, because of increases in monthly social security benefits. ↗
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Sponsored 7Foreign Trade and International Finance
Sponsored 1 · Cosponsored 3- A bill to repeal the provisions relating to Uganda of the Act entitled "An Act to amend the Bretton Woods Agreements Act to authorize the United States to participate in the Supplementary Financing Facility of the International Monetary Fund", approved October 10, 1978. ↗
- A concurrent resolution encouraging cooperation with Mexico in order to develop Mexico's potential as a major producer of oil and natural gas for export to the United States. ↗
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