To maintain health care coverage for veterans by the Department of Veterans Affairs for tobacco related illnesses, and to provide for additional authorization of appropriations for the Department.

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

40 cosponsors — 5 Republicans, 35 Democrats

4 of 40 cosponsors (10%) are from the other party.

Robert Brady (D-PA), Julia Carson (D-IN), Robert Cramer (D-AL), Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Mike Doyle (D-PA), Jo Emerson (R-MO), Phil English (R-PA), Bob Etheridge (D-NC), Chaka Fattah (D-PA), Bob Filner (D-CA), Jon Fox (R-PA), Samuel Gejdenson (D-CT), Virgil Goode (R-VA), Gene Green (D-TX), Tony Hall (D-OH), Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), Tim Holden (D-PA), Paul Kanjorski (D-PA), Joseph Kennedy (D-MA), Gerald Kleczka (D-WI), Barbara Lee (D-CA), James Maloney (D-CT), Thomas Manton (D-NY), Frank Mascara (D-PA), Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY), Jim McDermott (D-WA), Mike McIntyre (D-NC), Patsy Mink (D-HI), John Murtha (D-PA), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and 10 more.

More from the sponsor

Other 105th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Ron Klink.

• H.R. 1984 (105th) To provide for a four-year moratorium on the establishment of new standards for ozone and fine particulate matter under the Clean Air Act…
• H.R. 213 (105th) Individual Training Account Act of 1997
• H.R. 2140 (105th) Federal Accountability and Institutional Reform in Education Act of 1997
• H.R. 4474 (105th) Telecommunications Trust Act of 1998
• H.R. 3062 (105th) Mine Subsidence Right To Know Act
• H.R. 4475 (105th) To authorize the Governors of States to limit the quantity of out-of-State municipal solid waste received for disposal at landfills and…

Sponsor’s state and district

Pennsylvania in Congress · PA-4 district