DemocratHouse · California District 17
Panetta, Leon
1977 first electedLeft office 199518 years servedBorn 1938M
Issues
Based on bills Panetta, Leon sponsored or cosponsored in Congress, grouped by policy area. This reflects legislative activity, not a survey of personal opinions.
Labor and Employment
Sponsored 10 · Cosponsored 5Armed Forces and National Security
Sponsored 6 · Cosponsored 7- A bill to amend the survivor benefit plan provided for in chapter 73 of title 10, United States Code, to permit a person who has elected to participate in such plan to suspend that election when such person has been rated as totally disabled for a specified period of time, and for other purposes. ↗
- Military Health Care System Reform Act of 1979 ↗
International Affairs
Sponsored 2 · Cosponsored 8- A bill to provide for payment by the Government of Iran of the claims for damages resulting from the personal injuries suffered by the United States citizens held hostage in the United States embassy in Tehran, and by their families. ↗
- A concurrent resolution to protest the President's use of waiver authority to expedite sale of weapons and military training personnel to the Arab Republic of Yemen and to request a 30-day delay in such sale for Congressional review. ↗
Taxation
Sponsored 6 · Cosponsored 3- A bill to extend for an additional 2 years certain provisions relating to controversies involving whether individuals are employees for purposes of the employment taxes. ↗
- A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide that agricultural labor which is subject to FICA tax withholding shall also be subject to withholding for income tax purposes. ↗
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Cosponsored 8Government Operations and Politics
Cosponsored 7- A concurrent resolution relative to issuing a commemorative stamp in honor of Philip Mazzei, and for other purposes. ↗
- A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that Richard M. Nixon should pay to the United States the sum of $66,614.03 for non-security-related improvements to his San Clemente estate and that the President and the Attorney General should attempt to recover such sum. ↗
Congress
Cosponsored 7Transportation and Public Works
Cosponsored 6- A concurrent resolution to authorize the President of the United States to present on behalf of the Congress a specially struck gold medal to Bryan Lewis Allen. ↗
- A bill to amend section 312(c) of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, relating to research and development, to require the Secretary of Transportation to assure the development of a collision avoidance system for use on all civil and military aircraft of the United States in the interest of air safety. ↗
Election History
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