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Robert Bauman

[Congressional biography]

Born: April 4, 1937 in Bryn Mawr, PA

Education:

  • Georgetown University, B.S., 1955, J.D., 1964

Career:

  • Lawyer

Elected Office:

  • MD Senate, 1971-1973
  • Candidate for U.S. House, 1982 (withdrew)



Key House Vote Data for Robert Bauman in 1973


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


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DateSubjectResultConserv.
Position
Bauman
Voted
1973-09-12 Emergency Health Systems [S504] Veto Sustained
(274-143)
Passage of the bill, over President Nixon's Aug. 1 veto, to authorize $185 million in fiscal 1974-1976 for federal assistance to area emergency medical care systems and to prohibit the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare from closing eight Public Health Service hospitals without specific authorization from Congress.

1973-11-12 Alaska Pipeline [S1081] Failed
(162-213)
Steiger (R-AZ) motion to recommit to conference the Alaskan pipeline bill with instructions to House conferees to insist on deleting the following provisions: to authorize the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to take certain court actions on its own; to transfer from the Office of Management and Budget to the General Accounting Office authority to review regulatory agency requests for business information; and to require Senate confirmation of the incumbent and future directors of the White House Office of Energy Policy and Administration of the Interior Department Mining Enforcement and Safety Administration. The proposed new FTC powers previously rested with the Justice Department.

1973-12-05 Budget Reform / Program Evaluation [HR7130] Rejected
(185-218)
Bennett (D-FL) amendment to prohibit congressional consideration of bills to create or extend a major federal program with anticipated costs of more than $100 million in the first three fiscal years of the program's existence unless the bill or existing law provides for pilot testing of the program, requires that an evaluation of the program be made within three years, or is accompanied by a statement in the committee report giving reason for waiving both pilot testing and evaluation.

1973-12-11 Trade With Communist Nations [HR10710] Agreed To
(319-80)
Vanik (D-OH) amendment to forbid extension of credits or guarantees by any federal government agency for trade with a Communist nation if the President found that its government denied the right to emigrate or imposed more than nominal fees or taxes on citizens who wished to emigrate.

1973-12-11 Foreign Operations Appropriations [HR11771] Rejected
(102-304)
Tiernan (D-RI) amendment to delete from the bill $1 million in military training funds for Chile and to bar use of any of the bill's funds for military credit sales to Chile. The amendement was offered because Chile's government at this time was anti-Marxist.

1973-12-13 Petroleum Allocation for Busing [HR11450] Agreed To
(221-191)
Dingell (D-MI) amendment to the pending Staggers (D-WV) amendment to ban the allocation of petroleum for busing of students to schools farther than the school nearest to their homes.

1973-12-13 "Windfall" Profits Hearings [HR11450] Rejected
(188-213)
Broyhill (R-NC) amendment to the pending Staggers (D-WV) amendment, to delete the following provisions: provide for hearings by the Renegotiation Board with judicial review to protect against windfall profits; to permit the President to restrict unreasonable profits in the oil and coal industries; and to require him to propose legislation to further regulate excess profits and provide incentive to industry to invest profits in fuel research and exploration.



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