DemocratHouse · California District 13
Stark, Fortney Pete
1973 first electedLeft office 201340 years servedBorn 1931M
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Based on bills Stark, Fortney Pete sponsored or cosponsored in Congress, grouped by policy area. This reflects legislative activity, not a survey of personal opinions.
Taxation
Sponsored 15International Affairs
Sponsored 1 · Cosponsored 13- A resolution requesting the President to furnish certain information to the House of Representatives concerning U.S. involvement in Iran. ↗
- A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the Ambassador of the United States to the United Nations should take such steps as are necessary to bring the matter of the seizure of the United States Embassy in Tehran before either the Security Council, as a threat to the maintenance of international peace and security, or the General Assembly, in order that the community of nations may take any and all action which is necessary to bring this breach of international law to an immediate end. ↗
Health
Sponsored 13Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Sponsored 1 · Cosponsored 10- A resolution urging closer attention to the human rights situation in Taiwan before further military sales or assistance is provided to the Taiwanese authorities. ↗
- A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to the denouncement and internal exile of Nobel Laureate Andrei Sakharov. ↗
Social Welfare
Sponsored 9- A bill to amend title XVI of the Social Security Act with respect to the negotiability of supplemental security income checks and for other purposes. ↗
- A bill to amend title XVI of the Social Security Act to provide that an individual who applies for supplemental security income benefits on the basis of disability shall be considered presumptively disabled if he has received social security or supplemental security income benefits as a disabled individual within the preceding five years. ↗
Armed Forces and National Security
Sponsored 1 · Cosponsored 7Government Operations and Politics
Sponsored 4 · Cosponsored 3- A bill to extend the period for congressional review of the act passed by the Council of the District of Columbia entitled "The Location of Chanceries Amendment Act of 1979". ↗
- A bill to redesignate the Federal building known and designated as the "J. Edgar Hoover F.B.I. Building" as the "F.B.I. Building". ↗
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