DemocratHouse · Michigan District 8
Traxler, Bob
1973 first electedLeft office 199320 years servedBorn 1931M
Issues
Based on bills Traxler, Bob sponsored or cosponsored in Congress, grouped by policy area. This reflects legislative activity, not a survey of personal opinions.
Social Welfare
Sponsored 12 · Cosponsored 5- A bill to provide for the monthly publication of a Consumer Price Index for the Aged and Other Social Security Beneficiaries, which shall be used in the provision of the cost-of-living benefit increases authorized by title II of the Social Security Act. ↗
- A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide that the automatic cost-of-living increases in benefits which are authorized thereunder may be made on a semiannual basis (rather than only on an annual basis as at present). ↗
Agriculture and Food
Sponsored 9 · Cosponsored 3- A bill to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to make financial assistance available to agricultural producers who suffer losses as the result of having their agricultural commodities or livestock quarantined or condemned because such commodities or livestock have been found to contain toxic chemicals dangerous to the public health. ↗
- A bill to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to make financial assistance available to agricultural producers who suffer losses as the result of having their agricultural commodities or livestock quarantined or condemned because such commodities or livestock have been found to contain toxic chemicals dangerous to the public health. ↗
Government Operations and Politics
Sponsored 2 · Cosponsored 7Foreign Trade and International Finance
Sponsored 3 · Cosponsored 6Taxation
Sponsored 9- A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to exclude from gross income certain amounts received in connection with retirement as compensation for unused vacation and sick leave. ↗
- A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to allow individuals under age 55 to elect the one-time exclusion of gain from sale of principal residence. ↗
Transportation and Public Works
Sponsored 5 · Cosponsored 2International Affairs
Cosponsored 7- A resolution urging the government of the Federal Republic of Germany to abolish the statute of limitations governing the prosecution of war crimes, or to amend the present statute of limitations to allow a period of time sufficient for the prosecution of those responsible for the horrors of the Holocaust. ↗
- 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. ↗
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Cosponsored 6- 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 authorizing a bust or statue of Martin Luther King, Junior, to be placed in the Capitol. ↗
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