DemocratHouse · Florida District 18
Pepper, Claude
1935 first electedLeft office 199144 years servedBorn 1900M
Issues
Based on bills Pepper, Claude sponsored or cosponsored in Congress, grouped by policy area. This reflects legislative activity, not a survey of personal opinions.
Health
Sponsored 20Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Sponsored 1 · Cosponsored 14Social Welfare
Sponsored 13 · Cosponsored 1- A bill to eliminate the benefit reduction which is provided for supplemental security income recipients in certain long-term care institutions when such institutions do not meet the standards established by States under section 1616(e) of the Social Security Act, to authorize payments to States to cover the cost of training and compensating personnel to inspect such institutions, and for other purposes. ↗
- A bill to promote the provision and availability of necessary health services for the elderly by requiring the inclusion of specified preventive and home health services under the medicaid program and making various improvements in the administration of such program, providing assistance to demonstration and pilot projects for home health and supportive services, and authorizing grants for annual health fairs and mobile geriatric health units, and for other purposes. ↗
Government Operations and Politics
Sponsored 6 · Cosponsored 3- A bill to provide that meetings of Government agencies shall be open to the public, and for other purposes. ↗
- A bill to provide for the issuance of a commemorative postage stamp in honor of older Americans in recognition of the 1981 White House Conference on Aging and the World Assembly on Aging to take place in 1982. ↗
Congress
Sponsored 1 · Cosponsored 6Animals
Cosponsored 6Energy
Cosponsored 6- A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that the Department of Energy must expedite its efforts to collect and verify energy information. ↗
- A bill to extend and strengthen Subsection (l) of Section 2403 of 50 U.S.C. App. (the McKinney Amendment to the Export Administration Amendments of 1977). ↗
Taxation
Sponsored 4Election History
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