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Richard Poff

[Congressional biography]

Born: October 19, 1923 in Radford, VA
Died: June 28, 2011 in Tullahoma, TN

Education:

  • University of Virginia, LL.B., 1948

Military Service:

  • World War II
  • Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross

Career:

  • Lawyer
  • VA Supreme Court justice, 1972-1988



Key House Vote Data for Richard Poff in 1972


Key vote data shown on this page comes from the American Conservative Union (ACU/CPAC) and Voteview.


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DateSubjectResultConserv.
Position
Poff
Voted
1972-08-10 Rhodesian Chrome Imports [HR16029] Agreed To
(253-140)
Dent (D-PA) amendment deleting a provision forbidding the implementation of an existing law forbidding the President to ban importation of strategic material from a non-Communist nation if the same material were imported from a Communist nation unless the President determined that implementation of the law was in the national interest. A "yes" vote on this amendment would permit the importation of Rhodesian chrome.

1972-08-16 Labor/HEW Appropriations Veto [HR15417] Veto Sustained
(203-171)
Reconsideration and passage of the bill, vetoed by the President Aug. 16, appropriating $30,538,919,500 for the Department of Labor, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and related agencies for fiscal 1973.

1972-08-17 Reopen Desegregation Cases [HR13915] Agreed To
(245-141)
Green (D-OR) amendment permitting the reopening of cases involving court desegregation orders to bring them into conformity with the provisions of the bill.

1972-08-18 SALT Agreement [HJR1227] Agreed To
(330-7)
Resolution authorizing the President to approve the interim agreement limiting offensive nuclear weapons between the United States and the Soviet Union, which was signed May 26, 1972, in Moscow by President Nixon and Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Leonid I. Brezhnev.



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"No vote" means that this member did not cast a vote (or voted 'Present' instead of Yes or No).