To amend title XVI and II of the Social Security Act to promote the rehabilitation of blind beneficiaries under the SSI and OASDI programs, and to assure that they receive the most appropriate employment and training services which are available, by permitting them to select the agencies to which they will be referred for such services.

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

70 cosponsors — 24 Republicans, 46 Democrats

21 of 70 cosponsors (30%) are from the other party.

Douglas Applegate (D-OH), Chester Atkins (D-MA), Douglas Bereuter (R-NE), Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY), David Bonior (D-MI), Robert Borski (D-PA), Dan Burton (R-IN), Ben Campbell (R-CO), Ben Cardin (D-MD), William Clay (D-MO), Cardiss Collins (D-IL), Gary Condit (D-CA), Jerry Costello (D-IL), R. Coughlin (R-PA), William Coyne (D-PA), Ron De Lugo (D-VI), Richard Durbin (D-IL), Bernard Dwyer (D-NJ), Mervyn Dymally (D-CA), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Walter Fauntroy (D-DC), Vic Fazio (D-CA), Hamilton Fish (R-NY), Thomas Foglietta (D-PA), Samuel Gejdenson (D-CT), Benjamin Gilman (R-NY), Fred Grandy (R-IA), Lee Hamilton (D-IN), Charles Hayes (D-IL), Jimmy Hayes (R-LA) and 40 more.

More from the sponsor

Other 101st Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Harold Ford.

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Sponsor’s state and district

Tennessee in Congress · TN-9 district