
Richard F. Vander Veen
Democrat · MI-5 · House of Representatives
53 years in office
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Sponsored Legislation (58)
HR 16581 — A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide that the automatic cost-of-living increases under section 215(i) of such act (and the corresponding increases under the supplemental security income program) shall be made in advance, on the basis of projected increases in the Consumer Price Index.
Introduced 1974-08-22 · Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Social WelfareHR 16417 — Public Service Employment Act
Introduced 1974-08-13 · Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
Labor and EmploymentHR 16288 — A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code in order to increase the rates of educational assistance allowances; to provide for the payment of tuition, the extension of educational assistance entitlement, acceleration of payment of educational assistance allowances, and expansion of the work-study program; to establish a Vietnam-Era Veterans Communication Center and a Vietnam-Era Advisory Committee; and to otherwise improve the educational and training assistance program for veterans.
Introduced 1974-08-06 · Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Armed Forces and National SecurityHR 16260 — Comprehensive Child Development Act
Introduced 1974-08-05 · Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
Child welfareHR 16289 — A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code in order to improve the business loan program for veterans and to make veterans who served after January 31, 1955, eligible for such program.
Introduced 1974-08-06 · Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Armed Forces and National SecurityHR 16285 — National Nutrition Education Act
Introduced 1974-08-06 · Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
Agriculture and FoodHR 16269 — A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide a 10-year delimiting period for the pursuit of educational programs by veterans, wives, and widows.
Introduced 1974-08-05 · Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Armed Forces and National SecurityHR 16265 — A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 in order to provide authority to assist training of disadvantaged students for the legal profession.
Introduced 1974-08-05 · Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
EducationHR 16261 — Bilingual Education Act
Introduced 1974-08-05 · Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
EducationHR 16290 — A bill to allow a credit against Federal income taxes or a payment from the U.S. Treasury for State and local real property taxes or an equivalent portion of rent paid on their residences by individuals who have attained age 65.
Introduced 1974-08-06 · Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Social WelfareHR 16284 — A bill to amend the Truth in Lending Act to prohibit discrimination on account of age in credit card transactions.
Introduced 1974-08-06 · Referred to House Committee on Banking and Currency.
Credit cardsHR 16268 — Community Mental Health Centers Amendments Act
Introduced 1974-08-05 · Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
HealthHR 16264 — A bill to amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to protect the employment rights of the elderly.
Introduced 1974-08-05 · Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
HR 16270 — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 and the Social Security Act to provide income and payroll tax relief to low-income and moderate-income taxpayers.
Introduced 1974-08-05 · Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
TaxationHR 16266 — Elderly and Handicapped Americans Transportation Services Act
Introduced 1974-08-05 · Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Social WelfareHR 16287 — A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to make certain that recipients of veterans' pension and compensation will not have the amount of such pension or compensation reduced, or entitlement thereto discontinued, because of certain increases in monthly benefits under the Social Security Act and other Federal retirement programs.
Introduced 1974-08-06 · Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Armed Forces and National SecurityHR 16262 — A bill to amend section 428 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to better assure that students will have reasonable access to loans to meet their postsecondary education costs.
Introduced 1974-08-05 · Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
EducationHR 16263 — A bill to provide that local educational agencies shall not receive Federal financial assistance unless they provide educational services to all handicapped children at levels of expenditure at least equal to expenditures for other children.
Introduced 1974-08-05 · Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
DisabledHR 16267 — National Health Services Manpower Act
Introduced 1974-08-05 · Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
HealthHR 16286 — Education for Exceptional Children Act
Introduced 1974-08-06 · Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
EducationHR 16150 — Public Service Employment Act
Introduced 1974-07-29 · Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
Labor and EmploymentHR 16151 — Public Service Employment Act
Introduced 1974-07-29 · Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
HR 15481 — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to include certain joint hospital laundry ventures among the cooperative hospital service organizations entitled to tax exemption thereunder.
Introduced 1974-06-19 · Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
TaxationHR 14658 — Mobile Teachers' Retirement Assistance Act
Introduced 1974-05-07 · Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
TeachersHR 14606 — Clean Elections Act
Introduced 1974-05-06 · Referred to House Committee on House Administration.
Government Operations and PoliticsHR 13597 — A bill to reimburse the States for all unemployment compensation paid to individuals whose unemployment is attributable to the oil crisis.
Introduced 1974-03-19 · Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Labor and EmploymentHR 13598 — A bill to amend the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970.
Introduced 1974-03-19 · Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Labor and EmploymentHR 13599 — A bill to provide for a temporary program of special unemployment compensation in areas of high unemployment and to amend the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970.
Introduced 1974-03-19 · Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Labor and EmploymentHJRES 1043 — Joint resolution asking the President of the United States to declare the month of January as "National Polka Month".
Introduced 1974-05-30 · Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
CommemorationsHR 14835 — Historic Preservation Tax Act
Introduced 1976-07-22 · Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
TaxationHR 14834 — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to increase the standard deduction.
Introduced 1976-07-22 · Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
TaxationHR 13247 — A bill to name a certain Federal building in Grand Rapids, Mich., the Arthur H. Vandenberg Building.
Introduced 1976-04-13 · Reported to House from the Committee on Public Works and Transportation, H. Rept. 94-1589.
Government Operations and PoliticsHR 13060 — High Unemployment Area Tax Relief Act
Introduced 1976-04-06 · Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
TaxationHR 13061 — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to increase the standard deduction.
Introduced 1976-04-06 · Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
TaxationHR 11787 — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to increase the standard deduction.
Introduced 1976-02-09 · Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
TaxationHR 11321 — An Act to suspend until July 1, 1978, the duty on certain elbow prostheses if imported for charitable therapeutic use, or for free distribution, by certain public or private nonprofit institutions.
Introduced 1975-12-19 · Public law 94-451.
Foreign Trade and International FinanceHR 10155 — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 with respect to the exempt function income of a political organization.
Introduced 1975-10-09 · Measure failed of passage in House under suspension of the rules, roll call #648 (134-261).
TaxationHR 9821 — A bill to amend part A of title IV of the Social Security Act to eliminate the present prohibition against payment of aid to families with dependent children in cases where there is an unemployed father receiving unemployment compensation under State or Federal law.
Introduced 1975-09-24 · Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Social WelfareHR 9587 — A bill to amend the Social Security Act to expedite Federal payments to States under the Aid to Families with Dependent Children, medicaid, and social services programs (and under the other Federal-State public assistance programs where those programs are in effect).
Introduced 1975-09-11 · Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Social WelfareHR 9588 — A bill to amend the Social Security Act to expedite Federal payments to States under the Aid to Families with Dependent Children, medicaid, and social services programs (and under the other Federal-State public assistance programs where those programs are in effect).
Introduced 1975-09-11 · Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Social WelfareHR 9589 — A bill to amend the Social Security Act to expedite Federal payments to States under the Aid to Families with Dependent Children, medicaid, and social services programs (and under the other Federal-State public assistance programs where those programs are in effect).
Introduced 1975-09-11 · Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Social WelfareHR 9060 — A bill to amend the Social Security Act to expedite Federal payments to States under the aid to families with dependent child, medicaid, and social services programs (and under the other Federal-State public assistance programs where those programs are in effect).
Introduced 1975-07-30 · Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Social WelfareHR 9059 — A bill to amend the Social Security Act to expedite Federal payments to States under the aid to families with dependent children, medicaid and social services programs (and under the other Federal-State public assistance programs where those programs are in effect).
Introduced 1975-07-30 · Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Social WelfareHR 8677 — A bill to amend part A of title IV of the Social Security Act to eliminate the present prohibition against payment of aid to families with dependent children in cases where there is an unemployed father receiving unemployment compensation under State or Federal law.
Introduced 1975-07-16 · Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Labor and EmploymentHR 8548 — A bill to amend the Social Security Act to expedite Federal payments to States under the Aid to Families with Dependent Children, medicaid, and social services programs (and under the other Federal-State public assistance programs where those programs are in effect), and for other purposes.
Introduced 1975-07-10 · Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Social WelfareHR 6983 — A bill to suspend until July 1, 1976, the duty on certain elbow prostheses if imported for use, or for free distribution, by certain public or private nonprofit institutions.
Introduced 1975-05-14 · Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Medical suppliesHR 4884 — A bill to amend Public Law 89-651 with regard to any prosthetic or orthotic device.
Introduced 1975-03-13 · Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Foreign Trade and International FinanceHR 4883 — Motor Vehicle Tax Repeal Act
Introduced 1975-03-13 · Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Motor vehiclesHR 4464 — A bill to amend the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 1974 so as to increase from 13 to 26 the maximum number of weeks for which an individual may receive emergency compensation thereunder.
Introduced 1975-03-06 · Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Labor and EmploymentHR 4465 — A bill to amend the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 1974 so as to increase from 13 to 26 the maximum number of weeks for which an individual may receive emergency compensation thereunder.
Introduced 1975-03-06 · Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Labor and EmploymentHR 4463 — A bill to amend the Emergency Jobs and Unemployment Assistance Act of 1974 so as to increase from 26 to 39 the maximum number of weeks for which an individual may receive unemployment assistance under the special unemployment assistance program established by title II of such act.
Introduced 1975-03-06 · Rereferred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
HR 4462 — A bill to amend the Emergency Jobs and Unemployment Assistance Act of 1974 so as to increase from 26 to 39 the maximum number of weeks for which an individual may receive unemployment assistance under the special unemployment assistance program established by title II of such act.
Introduced 1975-03-06 · Rereferred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
HR 4020 — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to include certain joint hospital laundry ventures among the cooperative hospital service organizations entitled to tax exemption thereunder.
Introduced 1975-02-27 · Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
TaxationHR 3089 — A bill for the relief of Conception Orozco DeRivas and Gloria Garcia.
Introduced 1975-02-06 · Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
Private LegislationHR 2286 — A bill for the relief of Conception Orozco De Rivas and Gloria Garcia.
Introduced 1975-01-28 · Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
Private LegislationHJRES 320 — Joint resolution asking the President of the United States to declare the month of January as National Polka Month.
Introduced 1975-03-13 · Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
CommemorationsHJRES 260 — Joint resolution asking the President of the United States to declare the month of January as "National Polka Month".
Introduced 1975-02-27 · Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
CommemorationsHCONRES 281 — Concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that during the Nation's present economic crisis, and so long as the national unemployment rate remains at 6 percent or more, the emergency unemployment program established by the Emergency Jobs and Unemployment Assistance Act of 1974 should be extended to continue benefits for involuntarily unemployed individuals when 25-percent or more of workers entitled to compensation thereunder are unable to find jobs during the period for which they are eligible for benefits.
Introduced 1975-05-14 · Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
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