RepublicanHouse · Virginia District 9
Wampler, William C.
1953 first electedLeft office 198318 years servedBorn 1926M
Issues
Based on bills Wampler, William C. sponsored or cosponsored in Congress, grouped by policy area. This reflects legislative activity, not a survey of personal opinions.
International Affairs
Cosponsored 18- A bill concerning mutual defense treaties. ↗
- A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the President, in the interests of national security, should immediately communicate to the government of the Soviet Union our insistence that it remove its military troops from Cuba and, until such time as the Soviet military presence is ended, that all proceedings with regard to the ratification of the proposed Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty be suspended. ↗
Agriculture and Food
Sponsored 11 · Cosponsored 2- Biological Organisms Act of 1980 ↗
- A bill to provide grants to the 1890 land grant colleges, including Tuskegee Institute, in the purchase of equipment and land, and the planning, construction, alteration or renovation of buildings to strengthen their capacity to conduct food and agricultural research. ↗
Health
Sponsored 5 · Cosponsored 3- A bill to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to request the National Academy of Science to conduct a study concerning standardizing certain tests for determining potential carcinogenicity, and for other purposes. ↗
- A bill to amend title XI of the Social Security Act to repeal the recently added provision for the establishment of Professional Standards Review Organizations to review services covered under the medicare and medicaid programs. ↗
Social Welfare
Sponsored 4 · Cosponsored 3- A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act so as to remove the limitation upon the amount of outside income which an individual may earn while receiving benefits thereunder. ↗
- A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to eliminate the 5-month waiting period which is presently a prerequisite of eligibility for disability insurance benefits or the disability freeze. ↗
Energy
Sponsored 1 · Cosponsored 6- National Coal Policy Act ↗
- A resolution to express the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States of America should establish and actively and immediately pursue a national energy plan that emphasizes and demands the use of domestic coal as a means of displacing current foreign energy imports, and for other purposes. ↗
Transportation and Public Works
Sponsored 2 · Cosponsored 4Taxation
Sponsored 3 · Cosponsored 3- A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to exclude from gross income $1,000 of interest on savings in the case of an individual taxpayer. ↗
- A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to increase the exemption for purposes of the Federal estate tax, to increase the estate tax marital deduction, and to provide an alternate method of valuing certain real property for estate tax purposes. ↗
Environmental Protection
Cosponsored 6- A concurrent resolution extending to the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, the appreciation of the Congress on the 75th Anniversary of the founding of the Agency. ↗
- A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that April 22, 1980, should be celebrated as "Earth Day, 1980". ↗
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