DemocratHouse · Illinois District 21
Price, Melvin
1945 first electedLeft office 198944 years servedBorn 1905M
Issues
Based on bills Price, Melvin sponsored or cosponsored in Congress, grouped by policy area. This reflects legislative activity, not a survey of personal opinions.
Armed Forces and National Security
Sponsored 44 · Cosponsored 7- A bill to provide authority for additional nominations for consideration for appointment to the United States Military, Naval, and Air Force Academies. ↗
- A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to clarify the authority of the Armed Forces to conduct safety investigations of accidents involving aircraft of the Armed Forces and to protect from public disclosure certain parts of reports of such investigations. ↗
Congress
Sponsored 1 · Cosponsored 11Arts, Culture, Religion
Sponsored 1 · Cosponsored 9- A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to allow the military departments to accept voluntary, uncompensated services from persons desiring to provide such services for military department museums. ↗
- A resolution congratulating the Order of the Sons of Italy in America for their seventy-fifth anniversary and wishing the Order of the Sons of Italy in America success in future years. ↗
Taxation
Cosponsored 8- A concurrent resolution that Congress stands in opposition to the imposition of a 15 percent withholding tax, or any withholding tax, on interest bearing bank accounts and on the receipts from dividends. ↗
- A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to subject foreign investors to the capital gains tax on gain from the sale or exchange of certain farmland and other rural land located in the United States. ↗
Private Legislation
Sponsored 6Government Operations and Politics
Sponsored 1 · Cosponsored 4International Affairs
Sponsored 2 · Cosponsored 3Labor and Employment
Cosponsored 4- A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that the new regulations of the Department of Labor with respect to the health and safety training of miners places an undue burden on small operators. ↗
- A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that the new regulations of the Department of Labor with respect to the health and safety training of miners places an undue burden on small operators. ↗
Election History
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