RepublicanHouse · Indiana District 5
Hillis, Elwood H.
1971 first electedLeft office 198716 years servedBorn 1926M
Issues
Based on bills Hillis, Elwood H. sponsored or cosponsored in Congress, grouped by policy area. This reflects legislative activity, not a survey of personal opinions.
Government Operations and Politics
Sponsored 10 · Cosponsored 3- A bill to require adjustments in census population figures for aliens in the United States illegally so as to prevent distortions in the reapportionment of the House of Representatives, the legislative apportionment and districting of the States, and the allocation of funds under Federal assistance programs. ↗
- A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide a six-year term for President and for Vice President and a three-year term for Representatives and to limit the total number of years for which Senators and Representatives may serve. ↗
International Affairs
Cosponsored 12- A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the President should announce that unless the U.S. hostages being held in Tehran are released unharmed by a date certain, the United States will initiate specified military operations against Iran. ↗
- A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the President, in the interests of national security, should immediately communicate to the government of the Soviet Union our insistence that it remove its military troops from Cuba and, until such time as the Soviet military presence is ended, that all proceedings with regard to the ratification of the proposed Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty be suspended. ↗
Economics and Public Finance
Cosponsored 10- A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide that appropriations made by the United States shall not exceed its revenues, except in time of war or national emergency; and to provide for the systematic paying back of the national debt. ↗
- A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to protect the people of the United States against excessive governmental burdens and unsound fiscal and monetary policies by limiting total outlays of the Government. ↗
Armed Forces and National Security
Sponsored 7 · Cosponsored 2- A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to establish a minimum pension of $600 for veterans of a period of war who have permanent and total non-service-connected disabilities and who are entitled to receive pension and for the surviving spouses of such veterans who are entitled to receive pension. ↗
- A bill to amend the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950 to allow Federal civil defense funds to be used by local civil defense agencies for natural disaster relief, and for other purposes. ↗
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Sponsored 2 · Cosponsored 7- A bill to amend the adjustment assistance programs under the Trade Act of 1974 in order to impose import fees on articles causing injury to domestic workers, firms, and communities sufficient in amount to reimburse the Federal Government for the cost of such programs. ↗
- Fair International Trade Act ↗
Social Welfare
Sponsored 3 · Cosponsored 5- A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to include dental care, eye care, dentures, eyeglasses, and hearing aids among the benefits provided by the insurance program established by part B of such title. ↗
- A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to permit the payment of benefits to a married couple on their combined earnings record where that of computation produces a higher combined benefit. ↗
Taxation
Sponsored 6 · Cosponsored 1- A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to allow members of the Armed Forces who are stationed overseas without their families a deduction for travel expenses back to the United States. ↗
- A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to repeal the changes made by the Tax Reform Act of 1976 in the sick pay exclusion. ↗
Crime and Law Enforcement
Sponsored 7- A bill to amend chapter 44 of title 18 of the United States Code (respecting firearms) to penalize the use of firearms in the commission of any felony and to increase the penalties in certain related existing provisions, to lower certain age limits from twenty-one years to eighteen, and to eliminate certain recordkeeping provisions with respect to ammunition. ↗
- A bill to provide for the appointment of a Special Prosecutor to investigate and prosecute any offense arising out of campaign activities with respect to the election in 1972 for the Office of President. ↗
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