To authorize qualified organizations to provide technical assistance and capacity building services to microenterprise development organizations and programs and to disadvantaged entrepreneurs using funds from the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, and for other purposes.

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

25 cosponsors — 5 Republicans, 20 Democrats

4 of 25 cosponsors (16%) are from the other party.

Neil Abercrombie (D-HI), Ken Bentsen (D-TX), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Julia Carson (D-IN), Merrill Cook (R-UT), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Bob Filner (D-CA), Barney Frank (D-MA), Martin Frost (D-TX), Samuel Gejdenson (D-CT), Eddie Johnson (D-TX), Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-MI), William Luther (D-MN), Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Matthew Martinez (R-CA), Carrie Meek (D-FL), Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Jack Metcalf (R-WA), David Price (D-NC), Bill Redmond (R-NM), Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA), Louise Slaughter (D-NY), Robert Underwood (D-GU), Fred Upton (R-MI), Bruce Vento (D-MN).

More from the sponsor

Other 105th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Bobby Rush.

• H.R. 2759 (105th) Health Professional Shortage Area Nursing Relief Act of 1998
• H.Res. 118 (105th) Designating minority membership on certain standing committees of the House.
• H.R. 3627 (105th) Brownfield Community Empowerment Act
• H.R. 1455 (105th) Disabled Children's Federal Assistance Protection Act
• H.R. 3897 (105th) Urban Asthma Reduction Act of 1998
• H.R. 4787 (105th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service at 7748 South Cottage Grove Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, as the "John H.…

Sponsor’s state and district

Illinois in Congress · IL-1 district