RepublicanSenate · Maryland
Mathias, Charles McC., Jr.
1961 first electedLeft office 198722 years servedBorn 1922M
Issues
Based on bills Mathias, Charles McC., Jr. sponsored or cosponsored in Congress, grouped by policy area. This reflects legislative activity, not a survey of personal opinions.
Private Legislation
Sponsored 25Taxation
Sponsored 17 · Cosponsored 3- A bill to prevent the estate tax law from operating to encourage or to require the destruction of open lands by amending the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide that real property which is farmland, woodland, or open land and forms part of an estate may be valued, for estate tax purposes, at its value as farmland, woodland, or open land (rather than at its fair market value), and to provide for the revocation of such lower valuation and recapture of unpaid tax with interest in appropriate circumstances. ↗
- A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to permit the rollover of gain from the sale of farmland development rights to a State under a farmland preservation program, and for other purposes. ↗
International Affairs
Cosponsored 10Government Operations and Politics
Sponsored 5 · Cosponsored 2- A bill to amend the District of Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 1958 to provide for the same cost-of-living adjustments in the basic compensation of officers and members of the United States Secret Service Uniformed Division as are given to Federal employees under the General Schedule. ↗
- A bill for the relief of the City of Baltimore, Maryland. ↗
Congress
Cosponsored 6Armed Forces and National Security
Cosponsored 6- A resolution to express the sense of the Senate for a fitting tribute to the eight valiant American servicemen who died in an attempt to secure freedom for fellow Americans. ↗
- A resolution to request the President of the U.S. to award the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously to PFC William James Tsakanikas. ↗
Energy
Cosponsored 6- A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate with respect to the immediate need for energy emergency preparedness in the United States, in light of world oil supplies and the situation in Iran. ↗
- A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the United States, Mexico, and Canada should establish a common economic bond of energy cooperation. ↗
Transportation and Public Works
Sponsored 1 · Cosponsored 3Election History
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