VISCLOSKY, PETER J.

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VISCLOSKY, PETER J.
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: Experience: House: District 1, 1985-Present; Home State: Indiana; Running: President, United States, 2016; Total Raised: $721,371Coverage End: Thursday, June 30, 2016; Winning: Won with 0.00%; Write a Review

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Full Name: Peter 'Pete' J. Visclosky

Gender: Male

Family: Wife: Joanne; 2 Children: John, Timothy

Birth Date: 08/13/1949

Birth Place: Gary, IN

Home City: Merrillville, IN

Religion: Roman Catholic

Education

ML, International and Comparative Law, Georgetown University Law Center, 1982

JD, University of Notre Dame Law School, 1973

BS, Accounting, Indiana University Northwest, 1970

Political Experience

Representative, United States House of Representatives, 1984-present

Current Legislative Committees

Appropriations, Member

Subcommittee on Defense, Ranking Member

Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies, Member

Caucuses/Non-Legislative Committees

Member, Congressional Buy American Caucus

Member, Congressional Caucus on Armenian Issues

Member, Congressional Caucus on Hellenic Issues

Member, Congressional Caucus on India and Indian Americans

Member, Congressional Dairy Farmers Caucus

Member, Congressional Diabetes Caucus

Member, Congressional Fire Caucus

Member, Congressional French Caucus

Member, Congressional Macedonian Caucus

Member, Congressional National Parks Caucus

Co-Chair, Congressional Serbian Caucus

Co-Chair, Congressional Slovak Caucus

Vice-Chair, Congressional Steel Caucus

Member, Congressional Wine Caucus

Member, Congressional Wire and Wire Products Caucus

Member, Friends of Switzerland Caucus

Member, Great Lakes Task Force

Member, Law Enforcement Caucus

Member, Missing, Exploited and Runaway Children Caucus

Professional Experience

Attorney, 1973-1976, 1983-1984

Congressional Aide, United States Representative Adam Benjamin, 1977-1982

Associate Staff, United States House of Representatives, 1977-1980

General Survey

Issue Title	Candidate's Answers
1. Abortion is a woman's unrestricted right	Support It is reasonable to restrict "Partial-Birth Abortions" for safe reasons, but clinic access should be unrestricted.
2. Stricter punishment reduces crime	Oppose Effective enforcement rather than strict enforcement shoud be considered. The death penalty should be used with extreme caution, if at all.
3. Marijuana is a gateway drug
4. Higher taxes on the wealthy	Strongly Support A progressive income tax is necessary in modern society. That is the right way to run our tax system.
5. Stimulus better than market-led recovery	Strongly Support The federal government should intervene in the economy and inject as much funding as needed to recover from the Great Recession, including direct federal job creation.
6. Vouchers for school choice	Strongly Oppose Public schools are an important component of American society. We should improve public schools rather than destroying them with vouchers.
7. Make voter registration easier	Support Voter ID laws just make it harder for people to vote, but what we should do is to make voting easier.
8. Prioritize green energy	Strongly Support Overuse of fossil fuels causes serious problems that we should deal with immediately. And green energy is absolutly a good option for us to Stop Global Warming.
9. Avoid foreign entanglements
10. Expand the military	Support It is necessary to expand military under financial budgets. Only our military are strong enough, our people can live freely enough.
11. Support & expand free trade	Strongly Oppose We should restrict trade with any country which costs us jobs or which creates a trade deficit. And International trade just ships jobs overseas.
12. Support American Exceptionalism
13. Absolute right to gun ownership	Strongly Oppose Availability of guns should be absolutely limited, because more guns mean more killing.
14. Expand ObamaCare	Strongly Support Very few Americans have adequate health insurance. The government should make funds available for all citizens.
15. Pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens	Support The government should make few restrictions on immigration but not treat illegal aliens as criminals.
16. EPA regulations are too restrictive	Strongly Oppose Animals have inherent rights, and nature has inherent value. It is necessary to support vegetarianism and protect environment.
17. Keep God in the public sphere	Oppose Faith-based origanizations and prayer in schools are inappropriate because they fail to recognize American pluralism and religious diversity.
18. Legally require hiring more women & minorities	Strongly Support Past discrimination should be corrected. Government should enforce Affirmative Action laws in companies.
19. Comfortable with same-sex marriage	Strongly Support In free country, people are free to choose their mate, whichever gender they like. Homosexual partners or marriages are equal with heterosexual ones.
20. Privatize Social Security	Oppose Social Security should remain under federal control, but you also want reforms on how the Trust Fund is handled.

Total: 123

Introduced Date	Bill Number	Bill Title	Last Action
12/17/2003	H.R.3699	Keeping America's Promise to Steel Act	12/17/2003 Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade. (All Actions)
06/24/2003	H.R.2389	Physician Availability Act of 2003	06/24/2003 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. (All Actions)
06/23/2003	H.R.2486	To provide for the geographic reclassification of a county for purposes of equitable hospital payment rates under the Medicare Program.	06/23/2003 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. (All Actions)
05/07/2003	H.R.1999	Health Care Tax Credit Enhancement for Workers and Steel Security Act of 2003	05/07/2003 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. (All Actions)
05/05/2003	H.R.1708	Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Act of 2003	05/05/2003 Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. (All Actions)
02/21/2003	H.R.323	To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to provide for joint trusteeship of single-employer pension plans.	02/21/2003 Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations. (All Actions)
11/25/2002	H.R.5529	To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to provide for joint trusteeship of single-employer pension plans.	11/25/2002 Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations. (All Actions)
05/15/2002	H.R.4745	To provide for the geographic reclassification of a county for purposes of equitable hospital payment rates under the Medicare Program.	05/15/2002 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. (All Actions)
03/06/2002	H.R.3817	Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Corrections Act	03/06/2002 Executive Comment Requested from Interior. (All Actions)
01/14/2002	H.R.3559	To amend the Emergency Steel Loan Guarantee Act of 1999 to revise eligibility and other requirements for loan guarantees under that Act, and for other purposes.	01/14/2002 Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy, Technology and Economic Growth. (All Actions)
04/20/2001	H.R.808	Steel Revitalization Act of 2001	04/20/2001 Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations. (All Actions)
04/16/2001	H.R.1399	Physician Availability Act of 2001	04/16/2001 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. (All Actions)
09/05/2000	H.R.4033	Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Act of 2000	09/05/2000 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 777. (All Actions)
07/19/2000	H.R.1814	To provide incentives for Indian tribes to collect and pay lawfully imposed State sales taxes on goods sold on tribal lands and to provide for penalties against Indian tribes that do not collect and pay such State sales taxes.	07/19/2000 Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held. (All Actions)
10/19/1999	H.Res.298	Calling on the President to abstain from renegotiating international agreements governing antidumping and countervailing measures.	10/19/1999 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (All Actions)
09/30/1999	H.R.2358	To designate the United States Post Office located at 3813 Main Street in East Chicago, Indiana, as the "Lance Corporal Harold Gomez Post Office".	09/30/1999 Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote. (All Actions)
06/29/1999	H.R.2329	Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Corrections Act	06/29/1999 Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands. (All Actions)
06/22/1999	H.R.975	To provide for a reduction in the volume of steel imports, and to establish a steel import notification and monitoring program.	06/22/1999 Cloture on the motion to proceed not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 42-57. Record Vote No: 178. (All Actions)
04/30/1999	H.R.1470	Corporate Responsibility Act of 1999	04/30/1999 Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy. (All Actions)
04/23/1999	H.R.1549	National Clean Water Trust Fund Act of 1999	04/23/1999 Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment. (All Actions)

Total: 2015

Date	Bill Number	Bill Title
05/18/2017	H.Res.260	Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives in support of the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) nuclear security role.
05/18/2017	H.R.1677	Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2017
05/17/2017	H.R.2477	To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide for the refinancing of certain Federal student loans, and for other purposes.
05/17/2017	H.R.356	Protecting Our Democracy Act
05/16/2017	H.R.2428	Accurate Workplace Injury and Illness Records Restoration Act
05/11/2017	H.R.2412	Keep Our Pension Promises Act
05/02/2017	H.R.2282	Equality Act
04/28/2017	H.R.2119	Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act of 2017
04/27/2017	H.R.613	Lieutenant Osvaldo Albarati Correctional Officer Self-Protection Act of 2017
04/26/2017	H.R.1960	Supreme Court Ethics Act of 2017
04/06/2017	H.R.1346	To repeal the rule issued by the Federal Highway Administration and the Federal Transit Administration entitled "Metropolitan Planning Organization Coordination and Planning Area Reform".
04/05/2017	H.R.1928	Families of Fallen Servicemembers First Act
04/04/2017	H.R.1869	Paycheck Fairness Act
04/03/2017	H.Res.54	Reaffirming the United States-Argentina partnership and recognizing Argentina's economic reforms.
03/31/2017	H.R.1503	SOLVE Act 2.0 of 2017
03/29/2017	H.R.1772	AIM HIGH Act
03/28/2017	H.R.24	Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2017
03/21/2017	H.R.1494	PACT Act
03/17/2017	H.R.1563	Mary Jo Lawyer Spano Mesothelioma Patient Registry Act of 2017
03/17/2017	H.R.1322	Women's Health Protection Act of 2017

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