To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require common carriers to provide improved access for hearing-impaired and speech-impaired individuals to interstate and intrastate telecommunications.

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

21 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 19 Democrats

19 of 21 cosponsors (90%) are from the other party.

Chester Atkins (D-MA), Howard Berman (D-CA), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Cardiss Collins (D-IL), George Crockett (D-MI), E. De La Garza (D-TX), Ronald Dellums (D-CA), Bernard Dwyer (D-NJ), Vic Fazio (D-CA), Jamie Fuster (D-PR), Robert Garcia (D-NY), Nancy Johnson (R-CT), William Lehman (D-FL), Marilyn Lloyd (D-TN), Tom Petri (R-WI), Charles Rangel (D-NY), Robert Roe (D-NJ), Gerry Sikorski (D-MN), Louise Slaughter (D-NY), John Spratt (D-SC), Edolphus Towns (D-NY).

More from the sponsor

Other 101st Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Steve Gunderson.

• H.J.Res. 140 (101st) Designating March 7 through March 13, 1989, as "Deaf Awareness Week".
• H.Res. 220 (101st) Making the clerk hire allowance available for payment of merit pay.
• H.Res. 358 (101st) Providing for acquisition of telecommunications devices for the deaf for use in offices of Members of the House of Representatives.
• H.R. 4564 (101st) To delay the effective date of final regulations of the Secretary of Treasury implementing the labeling requirements of the Alcoholic…
• H.R. 3985 (101st) To require the Director of the Geological Survey to conduct a study of the water quality of the Mississippi River.
• H.R. 4046 (101st) Youth Service Act of 1990

Sponsor’s state and district

Wisconsin in Congress · WI-3 district