DemocratHouse · Illinois District 5
Rostenkowski, Dan
1959 first electedLeft office 199536 years servedBorn 1928M
Issues
Based on bills Rostenkowski, Dan sponsored or cosponsored in Congress, grouped by policy area. This reflects legislative activity, not a survey of personal opinions.
Taxation
Sponsored 25 · Cosponsored 5International Affairs
Cosponsored 12- A resolution relating to the immediate, safe and unconditional release of United States personnel in Iran. ↗
- A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the people of the Polish People's Republic should be permitted by other nations to settle their internal affairs by themselves without external intervention. ↗
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Sponsored 3 · Cosponsored 5Armed Forces and National Security
Cosponsored 6- A joint resolution to authorize the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Inc. to erect a memorial. ↗
- A bill to authorize the construction and maintenance of the General Draza Mihailovich Monument in Washington, District of Columbia, in recognition of the role he played in saving the lives of approximately five hundred United States airmen in Yugoslavia during World War II. ↗
Environmental Protection
Sponsored 3 · Cosponsored 2Water Resources Development
Sponsored 1 · Cosponsored 4- A bill to authorize the State of Illinois and the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago, under the direction of the Secretary of the Army, to increase the diversion of water from Lake Michigan into the Illinois Waterway in order to control and eliminate water erosion on the shoreline of Lake Michigan and to improve the quality of the water in the Illinois Waterway. ↗
- A joint resolution authorizing and requesting the President of the United States to issue a proclamation designating the seven calendar days beginning October 7, 1979, as "National Port Week". ↗
Government Operations and Politics
Cosponsored 5Health
Sponsored 1 · Cosponsored 3- A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide that enrollment increases made by schools of medicine to receive assistance from the Veterans' Administration shall not be considered in determining if the schools have met the first-year enrollment requirements for capitation grant assistance under title VII of such Act. ↗
- A joint resolution to authorize and request the President to issue a proclamation designating April 6 through 12, 1980, "National Medic Alert Week". ↗
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