DemocratHouse · Louisiana District 4
Leach, Claude (Buddy), Jr.
1979 first electedLeft office 19812 years servedBorn 1934M
Issues
Based on bills Leach, Claude (Buddy), Jr. sponsored or cosponsored in Congress, grouped by policy area. This reflects legislative activity, not a survey of personal opinions.
Economics and Public Finance
Cosponsored 8- A resolution expressing the sense of the House with respect to balancing the Federal budget in Fiscal Year 1981. ↗
- 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. ↗
Congress
Cosponsored 7International Affairs
Cosponsored 6- A concurrent resolution requesting that the President withdraw the instruments of ratification of the Panama Canal treaties. ↗
- A concurrent resolution urging the President to attempt to bring about the establishment of an international food cartel involving the major-food exporting countries which would use export prices for food commodities as a bargaining tool in negotiations with the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries for reasonable oil prices. ↗
Arts, Culture, Religion
Cosponsored 5Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Cosponsored 4- A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to the denouncement and internal exile of Nobel Laureate Andrei Sakharov. ↗
- 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. ↗
Sports and Recreation
Cosponsored 4- A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of Energy should not promulgate any Federal emergency energy conservation plan which would harm recreational boating. ↗
- A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that if the United States does not participate in the 1980 summer Olympic games, athletic games should be held in the United States for the participation of athletes from the United States and from other countries. ↗
Families
Cosponsored 3Election History
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