Liz Holtzman

[Congressional biography]

Born: August 11, 1941 in Brooklyn, NY

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Key House Vote Data for Liz Holtzman in 1973

Date	Subject	Result	Conserv. Position	Holtzman Voted
1973-03-08	Vocational Rehabilitation [HR17]	Rejected (165-213)
Landgrebe (R-IN) amendment in the form of a substitute bill restricting HR 17 to a three-year extension of the existing grants program to the states for vocational rehabilitation services. This would have continued present programs rather than liberal-backed expansion.
1973-03-22	Internal Security Committee [HRES308]	Agreed To (288-101)
Adoption of the resolution providing $475,000 in expenses for the Internal Security Committee for the first session of the 93rd Congress. This is the only standing committee in the House which monitors subversion on a full-time basis.
1973-04-30	Wage and Price Controls [S398]	Agreed To (267-115)
Adoption of the conference report on the bill to extend the President's authority to impose wage and price controls for one year to April 30, 1974.
1973-05-29	Private Ownership of Gold [HR6912]	Rejected (162-162)
Crane (R-IL) amendment to allow private purchase, sale and ownership of gold by U.S. citizens after Dec. 31, 1973, instead of at a date to be determined by the President.
1973-06-06	Minimum Wage [HR7935]	Rejected (199-215)
Anderson (R-IL) amendment to permit employers to hire youths under 18 or full-time students at $1.60 an hour ($1.30 for agricultural labor) or 80 percent of the applicable adult minimum wage, whichever is higher, for a period not to exceed 20 work weeks.
1973-06-21	Poverty Lawyer Lobbying [HR7824]	Agreed To (200-181)
Quie (R-MN) amendment extending restrictions on lobbying by poverty lawyers working in the federal legal services program to include efforts to influence administrative decisions by federal, state or local government agencies.
1973-06-26	Combat Activities in Indochina [HJR636]	Agreed To (240-172)
Addabbo (D-NY) amendment, as amended by the Mahon (D-TX) substitute, amended by the Long (D-LA) amendment. The Addabbo amendment, before being amended, would have barred funds from being used to support U.S. combat activities in or over Cambodia, Laos, South Vietnam and North Vietnam without the expressed consent of Congress.
1973-06-26	HEW Appropriations [HR8877]	Failed (186-219)
Michel (R-IL) motion to recommit the bill with instructions to report it back with an amendment deleting a total of $631,624,000 from 26 programs covered in the Labor / Health, Education and Welfare Appropriations bill.
1973-07-10	Grain Sales to Communists [HR8860]	Rejected (139-264)
Symms (R-ID) amendment to prohibit the use of Commodity Credit Corporation funds to finance or guarantee the sale of wheat or feed grains to the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China.
1973-07-11	Farm Income Supplements [HR8860]	Rejected (186-220)
Michel (R-IL) amendment to provide a three-year phaseout of "income supplement" payments for farmers and to eliminate crop-by-crop acreage allotments.
1973-07-31	B-1 Bomber [HR9286]	Rejected (96-313)
Pike (D-NY) amendment to delete $473.5 million for research and development of the B-1 bomber.
1973-07-31	Defense Spending [HR9286]	Agreed To (242-163)
Aspin (D-WI) amendment to reduce the funds authorized in the bill by $949.7 million by establishing a defense procurement spending ceiling of $20.45 billion - equal to the fiscal 1973 appropriation of $19.5 billion modified by a 4.5 percent inflation adjustment.
1973-08-03	Striker Food Stamps [S1888]	Agreed To (252-151)
Poage (D-TX) motion to accept, with an amendment, the Senate amendment (deleting language banning the issuance of food stamps to strikers and their families) to the House amendments to the Senate version of the bill.
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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