DemocratHouse · Illinois District 9
Yates, Sidney R.
1949 first electedLeft office 199948 years servedBorn 1909M
Issues
Based on bills Yates, Sidney R. sponsored or cosponsored in Congress, grouped by policy area. This reflects legislative activity, not a survey of personal opinions.
International Affairs
Cosponsored 23Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Cosponsored 17- A concurrent resolution concerning the fifth anniversary of the Helsinki Accords and calling for prominent attention to human rights concerns at the Madrid conference. ↗
- 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. ↗
Impeachments
Sponsored 16- Resolution providing for television and radio coverage of proceedings in the Chamber of the House of Representatives on any resolution to impeach the President of the United States. ↗
- Resolution providing for television and radio coverage of proceedings in the Chamber of the House of Representatives on any resolution to impeach the President of the United States. ↗
Government Operations and Politics
Sponsored 2 · Cosponsored 6Economics and Public Finance
Sponsored 7Social Welfare
Sponsored 3 · Cosponsored 4- A bill to amend title 42, United States Code, chapter 7, subchapter II to reduce from 20 to 5 years the length of time a divorced woman's marriage to an insured individual must have lasted in order for her to qualify for wife's or widow's benefits on his wage record. ↗
- A bill to require States to pass along to individuals who are recipients of aid or assistance under the Federal-State public assistance programs or under certain other Federal programs, and who are entitled to social security benefits, the full amount of the 1972 increase in such benefits, either by disregarding it in determining their need for assistance or otherwise. ↗
Taxation
Sponsored 5- A bill to encourage increased use of public transit systems by amending chapter 1 of title 26, United States Code, to allow a credit against individual income taxes for funds expended by a taxpayer for payment of public transit fares from his or her residence to his or her place of employment and from his or her place of employment to his or her residence. ↗
- A bill to amend chapter 1 of title 26, United States Code, to allow a deduction to tenants of houses or apartments for their proportionate share of the taxes and interest paid by their landlords. ↗
Arts, Culture, Religion
Sponsored 2 · Cosponsored 2Election History
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