RepublicanHouse · Washington District 1
Pritchard, Joel
1973 first electedLeft office 198512 years servedBorn 1925M
Issues
Based on bills Pritchard, Joel sponsored or cosponsored in Congress, grouped by policy area. This reflects legislative activity, not a survey of personal opinions.
International Affairs
Sponsored 1 · Cosponsored 21- Concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress concerning recognition by the European Security Conference of the Soviet Union's occupation of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. ↗
- A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to the disappearance of persons which is caused by the abduction and clandestine detention of those persons by the governments of foreign countries or by international or transnational terrorist organizations. ↗
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Sponsored 11 · Cosponsored 5Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Cosponsored 14- 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. ↗
- A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to the Baltic States and with respect to Soviet claims of citizenship over certain United States citizens. ↗
Private Legislation
Sponsored 11Taxation
Sponsored 5 · Cosponsored 3Congress
Sponsored 3 · Cosponsored 4- A resolution amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to prohibit Members of the House from using official congressional stationery to raise funds if such funds are to be used to influence governmental policy or affect governmental elections. ↗
- A bill to amend the Mutual Security Act of 1954 to require that information relating to foreign travel by Members of Congress be open to public inspection and published periodically in the Congressional Record. ↗
Government Operations and Politics
Sponsored 6- A resolution respecting the choice of a President of the United States by the House of Representatives in the event that no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes given in December 1980. ↗
- A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that appointments in the competitive service shall be made without regard to any political recommendation. ↗
Housing and Community Development
Sponsored 5- A bill to amend certain Federal housing laws for the purpose of assuring that no discrimination is made on the basis of the marital status of applicants for assistance under programs established by such laws. ↗
- A bill to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to undertake, on an experimental basis, programs providing neighborhood self-help development funds. ↗
Election History
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