DemocratHouse · North Carolina District 2
Etheridge, Bob
1997 first electedLeft office 201114 years servedBorn 1941M
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Based on bills Etheridge, Bob sponsored or cosponsored in Congress, grouped by policy area. This reflects legislative activity, not a survey of personal opinions.
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Sponsored 18 · Cosponsored 1Health
Sponsored 1 · Cosponsored 14Commemorations
Sponsored 9 · Cosponsored 5Armed Forces and National Security
Sponsored 1 · Cosponsored 11- Honoring the 15th anniversary of the AbilityOne Base Supply Centers. ↗
- To extend the period during which members of the Armed Forces deployed in contingency operations may request and receive reimbursement for helmet pads, which are designed to better protect the wearer from bomb blasts than military-issued pads, that are purchased by or for the use of such members. ↗
Emergency Management
Sponsored 4 · Cosponsored 7- Expressing condolences to the families, friends, and loved ones of the victims of the catastrophic explosion at the ConAgra Foods plant in Garner, North Carolina, and for other purposes. ↗
- Expressing condolences to the families, friends, and loved ones of the victims of the catastrophic explosion at the ConAgra Foods plant in Garner, North Carolina, and for other purposes. ↗
Education
Sponsored 4 · Cosponsored 4Taxation
Sponsored 5 · Cosponsored 1Agriculture and Food
Sponsored 4 · Cosponsored 2- To require the Secretary of Agriculture to use section 32 of the Act of August 24, 1935, to provide compensation to certain poultry producers whose poultry production contracts were terminated or not renewed because of the closure of poultry processing plants and other cost cutting measures undertaken by a poultry processing company in bankruptcy protection. ↗
- To amend the commodity provisions of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to permit producers to aggregate base acres and reconstitute farms to avoid the prohibition on receiving direct payments, counter-cyclical payments, or average crop revenue election payments when the sum of the base acres of a farm is 10 acres or less, and for other purposes. ↗
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