To amend title VII of the Social Security Act to place the Office of Rural Health Policy under the direction of a Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Health, and for other purpoes.

Vote results

No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).

Cosponsors

36 cosponsors — 18 Republicans, 18 Democrats

20 of 36 cosponsors (56%) are from the other party.

William Alexander (D-AR), Douglas Bereuter (R-NE), Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY), Glen Browder (D-AL), Larry Combest (R-TX), James Cooper (D-TN), Robert Davis (R-MI), Bill Emerson (R-MO), Glenn English (D-OK), Bill Grant (R-FL), Steve Gunderson (R-WI), Claude Harris (D-AL), Charles Hatcher (D-GA), Tim Johnson (D-SD), Jim Jontz (D-IN), Martin Lancaster (D-NC), Greg Laughlin (R-TX), Jim Lightfoot (R-IA), Ron Marlenee (R-MT), Lynn Martin (R-IL), Glenn Poshard (D-IL), Nick Rahall (D-WV), Bill Richardson (D-NM), Pat Roberts (R-KS), J. Rowland (D-GA), Bill Schuette (R-MI), James Slattery (D-KS), Lamar Smith (R-TX), Virginia Smith (R-NE), Arlan Stangeland (R-MN) and 6 more.

More from the sponsor

Other 101st Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Robert Whittaker.

• H.Con.Res. 220 (101st) Expressing the sense of the Congress that all railroad retirement benefits are exempt from sequestration under the Balanced Budget and…
• H.R. 1494 (101st) Tobacco and Nicotine Health and Safety Act of 1989
• H.R. 2315 (101st) Rural Rail Service Preservation Act of 1989
• H.R. 2339 (101st) Railroad User Fee Act of 1989
• H.R. 2434 (101st) To change the name of "Marion Lake", located northwest of Marion, Kansas, to "Marion Reservoir".
• H.R. 5853 (101st) Railroad Workers' Injury Compensation Act of 1990

Sponsor’s state and district

Kansas in Congress