Congressman Gejdenson Essay Research Paper CongressmanSam GejdensonI

Congressman Gejdenson Essay, Research Paper

Congressman

Sam Gejdenson

I feel that through my research that I will conclude that Congressman Sam Gejdenson supports the issues that affects his contributors.

Congressman Sam Gejdenson, who was the first child of holocaust survivors elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, was born in 1948 in an American displaced persons camp in Eschwege, Germany. He was raised on his parent.s diary farm in Bozrah, Connecticut. He attended public schools in Bozrah and in Norwich. He received his A.S. degree from Mithcell College in New London, Connecticut in 1968. And his B.A. from the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut in 1970. In 1974 Sam Gejdenson was elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives serving 2 years before accepting a position in the administration of Connecticut Governor Ella T. Grasso. In 1981 He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Now he is married to Betsy Henley-Cohn, and has 4 children with her. (Http://www.house .gov/gejdenson/bio.htm)

Congressman Sam Gejdenson is on the International relation committee, which deals with any type of foreign agreement or relations. Some of the legislation that has been passed through the International relation committee is H.R. 3244 trafficking victims protection act of 1999. Which is to fight trafficking of persons, especially into the sex trade, slavery, and slavery-like conditions in the United States and countries around the world through prevention, through prosecution and enforcement against traffickers, and through protection and assistance to victims of trafficking. (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z.d106:h.r.03244:) Or the Central American and Haitian adjustment act or bill number H.R. 2722. Which is to amend the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act to provide to certain nationals of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Haiti an opportunity to apply for adjustment of status under that Act, and for other purposes. ( http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z.d106:h.r.02722:) Although Gejdenson’s website says he.s on the resources committee his name wasn.t listed under the member ship list. So I wasn.t able to find out any more information on that subject. I also wasn.t able to find anything on the house oversight committee and what I did find that was similar to that committee Congressman Sam Gejdenson wasn.t listed as a member. I also looked in sub committees and congressman Gejdenson wasn.t found in any of the subcommittees. This tells me that he doesn.t seem to be to interested in being part of many committees. (Http://www.house.gov/gejdenson/bio.htm) But he has many thinks that strongly agree with such as the democratic task force on retirement security. Through this group he introduced the retirement security act which would expand access to individual retirement accounts, make it easier for small business owners to establish a 401(k) savings plans for their employees, and protect workers pension funds from corporate raids.

In 1998, he Introduced legislation designed to protect small pension plans from being looted by unqualified managers. During the prime of the Reagan military build up in the mid 80.s, representative Gejdenson was one of the first members of congress to call for a concerted national effort to diversify the economies of defense-dependent regions of the country.

In 1997 Gejdenson formed a coalition of businesses, citizens, elected officials, environmentalists, and chamber of commerce from the lower Connecticut River valley to develop a nomination package for the river because president Clinton proposed to designate ten rivers nation wide as American heritage rivers. (Http://www.house .gov/gejdenson/bio.htm)After looking at the records of contributions made by individuals I have come to the conclusion that Sam Gejdenson receives most of his votes from employees or owners of small business.s or retired people. In the contribution summaries they show that over half of the contributors were either retired or was involved in sum way in a small business. The contributors show that congressman Gejdenson fights for what the people want. Gejdneson is on the committee for retirement security where he has introduced the retirement security act, which helps people receive more money and benefits that they need to survive when they retire. (Http://www.house .gov/gejdenson/bio.htm)

Congressman Gejdenson also fights for their rights of small business employees. In 1998 Gejdenson introduced legislation that was designed to protect pension plans from being looted for small business.s. (Http://www.house .gov/gejdenson/bio.htm)

While looking through the contributions from committees I have noticed that Congressman Gejdenson has received allot of contributions from teachers, airline pilots, engineers, public help organizations, and many others. Most all of the committee contributions were from and organization that has to deal with many common hard working U.S. citizens. He.s not there for the people with money he.s out to serve the average hard working citizen. Witch matches up with how he votes on certain topics such as

Juvenile justice, school vouchers, welfare overhaul, Internet censorship, unfair sentencing, denial of benefits to immigrants. Most contributions that were made by individuals were mostly in amounts of $250 and $500. Most con