DemocratHouse · Pennsylvania District 24
Vigorito, Joseph P.
1965 first electedLeft office 197712 years servedBorn 1918M
Issues
Based on bills Vigorito, Joseph P. sponsored or cosponsored in Congress, grouped by policy area. This reflects legislative activity, not a survey of personal opinions.
Agriculture and Food
Sponsored 10 · Cosponsored 9Commemorations
Cosponsored 9International Affairs
Cosponsored 8- Concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress concerning recognition by the European Security Conference of the Soviet Unions occupation of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. ↗
- Concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the signing in Helsinki of the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe did not change in any way the longstanding policy of the United States on nonrecognition of the Soviet Union's illegal seizure and annexation of the three Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. ↗
Taxation
Sponsored 3 · Cosponsored 3- A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide an additional itemized deduction for individuals who perform voluntary public service by working for certain organizations. ↗
- A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide reasonable and necessary income tax incentives to encourage the utilization of recycled solid waste materials and to offset existing income tax advantages which promote depletion of virgin natural resources. ↗
Environmental Protection
Sponsored 5- Clear Glass Container Act ↗
- A bill to reduce pollution which is caused by litter composed of soft drink and beer containers, and to eliminate the threat to the Nation's health, safety, and welfare which is caused by such litter by banning such containers when they are sold in interstate commerce on a no-deposit, no-return basis. ↗
Social Welfare
Sponsored 3 · Cosponsored 2- A bill to amend part A of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to reduce the inpatient hospital deductible under the medicare program to its 1975 level. ↗
- A bill to amend title XX of the Social Security Act to provide that no State shall be required to administer individual means tests for the provision of education, nutrition, transportation, recreation, socialization, or associated services provided thereunder to groups of low-income individuals aged 60 or older, and to limit the frequency of recertifications of eligibility for services under such title. ↗
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Sponsored 2 · Cosponsored 2- A bill to authorize the Corps of Engineers to cooperate with the States and subdivisions thereof in the enforcement of State and local laws and ordinances in lands owned by the United States and developed by the Corps of Engineers for public use. ↗
- A bill to provide for divestiture from the United States of ownership of the Mar-A-Lago National Historic Site, Florida. ↗
Health
Sponsored 1 · Cosponsored 3Election History
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