
Joseph P. Kolter
Democrat · PE-4 · House of Representatives
43 years in office
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Sponsored Legislation (57)
HR 5657 — A bill to provide equitable treatment for certain hospitals in high wage areas.
Introduced 1984-05-15 · Referred to Subcommittee on Health.
HealthHR 4801 — A bill to improve worker training under the Trade Act of 1974, and for other purposes.
Introduced 1984-02-08 · Referred to Subcommittee on Trade.
Foreign Trade and International FinanceHR 4736 — A bill to provide for the continuation of certain rail freight service by Conrail, and for other purposes.
Introduced 1984-02-02 · Referred to Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation and Tourism.
Transportation and Public WorksHR 4308 — A bill granting the consent of the Congress to an interstate compact for the preparation of a feasibility study for the development of a system of high-speed intercity rail passenger service.
Introduced 1983-11-03 · Became Public Law No: 98-358.
Government Operations and PoliticsHR 3736 — A bill to permit Federal participation in the construction of certain new toll roads, and for other purposes.
Introduced 1983-08-02 · Executive Comment Requested from DOT, OMB.
Transportation and Public WorksHR 4258 — A bill to provide for a study relating to the development of high speed rail systems within the United States.
Introduced 1986-02-26 · Referred to Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation and Tourism.
Transportation and Public WorksHR 4110 — A bill to prohibit the importation of steel products manufactured in countries that have only marginal raw steel production capability.
Introduced 1986-02-04 · Referred to Subcommittee on Trade.
Foreign Trade and International FinanceHR 4071 — A bill to amend the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 to eliminate the COLA offset provisions, and restore amounts offset under those provisions after January 1984.
Introduced 1986-01-29 · Referred to Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation and Tourism.
Labor and EmploymentHR 4047 — A bill relating to the tariff treatment of silicon electrical steel.
Introduced 1986-01-23 · Executive Comment Received From ITC.
Foreign Trade and International FinanceHR 3343 — A bill to provide that procurement of the new United States weather radar system, NEXRAD, continue on schedule and according to the established minimum requirements agreed to by the National Weather Service, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the Department of Defense.
Introduced 1985-09-18 · Referred to Subcommittee on Transportation, Aviation and Materials.
Science, Technology, CommunicationsHR 3088 — Revitalized American Industrial Steel Effort Act
Introduced 1985-07-26 · Referred to Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization.
Labor and EmploymentHR 2939 — A bill to provide that certain individuals temporarily employed by reason of a major disaster shall not lose their eligibility under the phase out of Federal supplemental compensation.
Introduced 1985-07-09 · Referred to Subcommittee on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation.
Labor and EmploymentHR 1363 — A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide that a divorced spouse or surviving divorced spouse may qualify for benefits based on an insured individual's wage record in any case where they had been married for at least a year (rather than only if they had been married for 10 years as required under existing law), with the monthly amount of such benefits being proportionately reduced if the marriage lasted for less than 10 years.
Introduced 1985-02-28 · Referred to Subcommittee on Social Security.
Social WelfareHR 972 — A bill to terminate the authority of the Internal Revenue Service to issue regulations which require the inclusion in income of fringe benefits.
Introduced 1985-02-06 · Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
TaxationHR 881 — A bill to authorize construction of a highway project in Beaver County and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania.
Introduced 1985-01-31 · Unfavorable Executive Comment Received From DOT.
Transportation and Public WorksHR 4942 — A bill to extend the period in which a certain notification under subchapter A of chapter 2 of title II of the Trade Act of 1974 is in effect.
Introduced 1988-06-29 · Referred to Subcommittee on Trade.
Foreign Trade and International FinanceHR 4941 — A bill to provide that certain regulations not be used in administering the trade adjustment assistance program.
Introduced 1988-06-29 · Referred to Subcommittee on Trade.
Foreign Trade and International FinanceHR 4311 — Organ Transplant Assistance Act of 1988
Introduced 1988-03-30 · Referred to Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
TaxationHR 4088 — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to terminate the exclusion from gross income of Americans working abroad, and for other purposes.
Introduced 1988-03-03 · Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
TaxationHR 1301 — A bill to amend Public Law 99-591 to extend through 1987 the requirement that certain benefits be paid to retired former employees of debtors in bankruptcy.
Introduced 1987-02-26 · See S.903.
Finance and Financial SectorHR 931 — A bill to amend title 11 of the United States Code to clarify the current meaning of section 1113 relating to the rejection of collective bargaining agreements by debtors in bankruptcy.
Introduced 1987-02-03 · See H.R.2969.
Finance and Financial SectorHR 360 — A bill to require that the remaining $40,000,000 of United States assistance for the Nicaraguan democratic resistance be withheld until completion of the special congressional investigations of the arms sales to Iran and the alleged diversion of proceeds from those sales to assist the Nicaraguan democratic resistance.
Introduced 1987-01-06 · Referred to Subcommittee on Investigations.
International AffairsHRES 394 — A resolution expressing the opposition of the House of Representatives to the proposed World Bank loan to restructure Mexico's steel industry.
Introduced 1988-03-02 · Referred to Subcommittee on International Development Institutions and Finance.
Foreign Trade and International FinanceHCONRES 30 — A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that no major change in the payment methodology for physicians' services, including services furnished to hospital inpatients, under the medicare program should be made until reports required by the 99th Congress have been received and evaluated.
Introduced 1987-01-22 · Referred to Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
Social WelfareHR 5719 — To require generators of hazardous waste to treat or dispose of their waste at the site on which the waste was generated.
Introduced 1990-09-26 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation and Hazardous Materials.
Environmental ProtectionHR 4772 — To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to repeal the requirement that all nonparticipating physicians file medicare claims on behalf of all of their patients who are medicare beneficiaries.
Introduced 1990-05-09 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
HealthHR 3862 — To extend nondiscriminatory treatment to the products of Czechoslovakia for 5 years.
Introduced 1990-01-23 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
Foreign Trade and International FinanceHR 3397 — To provide for a bonus to veterans of World War II.
Introduced 1989-10-03 · Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Armed Forces and National SecurityHR 2240 — Relating to the negotiation of voluntary restraint agreements covering imported stainless steel and alloy tool steel products.
Introduced 1989-05-04 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
Foreign Trade and International FinanceHR 2182 — Coal Miners' Unemployment Assistance Act of 1989
Introduced 1989-05-02 · Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Labor and EmploymentHR 1393 — To amend the goals of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act.
Introduced 1989-03-14 · See H.R.1465.
Environmental ProtectionHR 693 — To amend the Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Savings Act to require that passenger motor vehicle repair businesses supply customers with information respecting the origin of parts installed and the cost of available parts and for other purposes.
Introduced 1989-01-27 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation and Hazardous Materials.
Transportation and Public WorksHR 240 — To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require food and drug manufacturers to maintain a toll-free telephone line for inquiries respecting foods containing vitamins or minerals, herbal foods, foods for special dietary uses and over-the-counter drugs and to require the labels and advertising of such products to contain a reference to such line.
Introduced 1989-01-03 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
Agriculture and FoodHR 241 — To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to terminate the exclusion from gross income of Americans working abroad, and for other purposes.
Introduced 1989-01-03 · Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
TaxationHR 242 — Organ Transplant Assistance Act of 1989
Introduced 1989-01-03 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
TaxationHJRES 177 — Designating October 8 through 14, 1989, as "National School Lunch Week".
Introduced 1989-03-08 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Census and Population.
EducationHJRES 147 — To designate September 1, 1989, as "National Day of Recognition of the Polish Armed Forces of World War II".
Introduced 1989-02-22 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Census and Population.
Armed Forces and National Security—
Introduced 1991-06-19 · On agreeing to the Kolter amendment (A031) Agreed to by voice vote.
HR 4199 — To direct the Administrator of General Services to review existing House of Representatives motor vehicle leases and to require that future leasing be conducted through the General Services Administration.
Introduced 1992-02-07 · Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
CongressHR 4157 — Public Works and Economic Development Act Amendments of 1992
Introduced 1992-02-04 · Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Economics and Public FinanceHR 3293 — To direct the Secretary of Energy to enter into an arrangement with the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a study of the effects on human health of exposure to extremely low frequency electric and magnetic fields.
Introduced 1991-09-11 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
EnergyHR 2753 — To amend the Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Savings Act to require that passenger motor vehicle repair businesses supply customers with information respecting the origin of parts installed and the cost of available parts, and for other purposes.
Introduced 1991-06-25 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation and Hazardous Materials.
Transportation and Public WorksHR 2293 — To require the Secretary of Transportation to develop a Federal motor vehicle safety standard relating to the mandatory implementation of an audible reverse warning device for passenger motor vehicles and passenger vans.
Introduced 1991-05-09 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation and Hazardous Materials.
Transportation and Public WorksHR 2160 — Braille Designated Currency Act
Introduced 1991-05-01 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs and Coinage.
Finance and Financial SectorHR 2102 — Greater Pittsburgh Magnetic Levitation Transportation System Demonstration Act of 1991
Introduced 1991-04-25 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation and Hazardous Materials.
Transportation and Public WorksHR 1178 — Amending the Railway Labor Act to provide that a majority of valid votes cast by members of a craft or class of employees shall determine the representative of such craft or class for purposes of such Act.
Introduced 1991-02-28 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
Labor and EmploymentHR 900 — Omnibus Act of Veterans' Rights
Introduced 1991-02-06 · Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Armed Forces and National SecurityHR 510 — To require generators of hazardous waste to treat or dispose of their waste at the site on which the waste was generated.
Introduced 1991-01-11 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation and Hazardous Materials.
Environmental ProtectionHR 514 — Coal Miners' Unemployment Assistance Act of 1991
Introduced 1991-01-11 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
Labor and EmploymentHR 513 — To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to terminate the exclusion from gross income of Americans working abroad, and for other purposes.
Introduced 1991-01-11 · Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
TaxationHR 509 — To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require food and drug manufacturers to maintain a toll-free telephone line for inquiries respecting foods containing vitamins or minerals, herbal foods, foods for special dietary uses and over-the-counter drugs and to require the labels and advertising of such products to contain a reference to such line.
Introduced 1991-01-11 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
Agriculture and FoodHR 512 — To provide for a bonus to veterans of World War II.
Introduced 1991-01-11 · Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Armed Forces and National SecurityHR 511 — To amend the Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Savings Act to require that passenger motor vehicle repair businesses supply customers with information respecting the origin of parts installed and the cost of available parts and for other purposes.
Introduced 1991-01-11 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and Competitiveness.
Transportation and Public WorksHR 515 — Organ Transplant Assistance Act of 1991
Introduced 1991-01-11 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
TaxationHJRES 76 — Designating October 8 through 14, 1991, as "National School Lunch Week".
Introduced 1991-01-11 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Census and Population.
EducationHJRES 75 — To designate September 1, 1991, as "National Day of Recognition of the Polish Armed Forces of World War II".
Introduced 1991-01-11 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Census and Population.
International Affairs