This page contains bill sponsorships in the Senate and House.
Bill sponsorships indicate the topics that legislators are most interested in, and spend the most time on.
Bill Sponsorship: the Peace Corps funding resolution:
Source: House Resolution Sponsorship
Title: Resolution expressing the sense of Congress that Federal funding of the Peace Corps should be doubled to $550,000,000 by 2007, and for other purposes. Summary: Recognizes: - the President's call to double the number of Peace Corps volunteers as an opportunity to improve understanding between the United States and the world; and
- the need to double Peace Corps funding by 2007.
Participating counts on VoteMatch question 17.
Question 17: Stay out of Iran
Scores: -2=Strongly oppose; -1=Oppose; 0=neutral; 1=Support; 2=Strongly support.
- Topic: Foreign Policy
- Headline: Double funding for the Peace Corps to $550M
(Score: 2)
Participating counts on AmericansElect question 5.
- Headline: Double funding for the Peace Corps to $550M
(Answer: D)
- AmericansElect Quiz Question 5 on
Foreign Policy:
When you think about the US pursuing its interests abroad, which of the following is closest to your opinion?
- A: The US should always act in its own interest regardless of what other countries think
- B: The US should rarely listen to other countries
- C: The US should listen to other countries more often than not
- D: The US should always listen to other countries before pursuing its own interests
- E: Unsure
- Key for participation codes:
- Sponsorships: p=sponsored; o=co-sponsored; s=signed
- Memberships: c=chair; m=member; e=endorsed; f=profiled; s=scored
- Resolutions: i=introduced; w=wrote; a=adopted
- Cases: w=wrote; j=joined; d=dissented; c=concurred
- Surveys: '+' supports; '-' opposes.
Republicans
participating in 02-HCR341 |
Tom Petri |
s1o | Wisconsin Republican | |
Jim Walsh |
s1o | New York Rep./Ind. (Retiring 2008) | |
Independents
participating in 02-HCR341 |
Harold Ford |
s1o | NY 2010 Democratic Primary Challenger; previously US Rep (TN) | |
Total recorded by OnTheIssues:
Democrats:
12
Republicans:
2
Independents:
1 |
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