Sherwood Boehlert
Former U.S. Representative
U.S. Representative
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NY - District 24
Republican
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Service: 1983-2007
Biography
A Representative from New York. Born in Utica, Oneida County, N. Y. , September 28, 1936. B. A. , Utica College, Utica, N. Y. , 1961. United States Army, 1956-1958. Staff for United States Representative Alexander Pirnie of New York, 1964-1979. Elected, county executive, Oneida County, N. Y. , 1979-1982. Delegate, New York state Republican convention, 1980. Delegate, Republican National Convention, 1980. Elected as a Republican to the Ninety-eighth and to the eleven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1983-January 3, 2007). Chair, Committee on Science (One Hundred Seventh through One Hundred Ninth Congresses). Not a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Tenth Congress in 2006. Died on September 20, 2021, in New Hartford, N. Y. Interment at Mount Olivet Cemetery, Whitesboro, N. Y.
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Voting History
S 3546
On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass
Voted Yea on Dec 9, 2006
S 3718
On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass
Voted Yea on Dec 9, 2006
HR 5682
On Agreeing to the Conference Report
Voted Yea on Dec 8, 2006
HJRES 102
On Passage
Voted Yea on Dec 8, 2006
HR 6406
On Passage
Voted Aye on Dec 8, 2006
Sponsored Bills
HR 1674: Tsunami Warning and Education Act
Status: Became Public Law No: 109-424.
HCONRES 343: Recognizing the 50th anniversary of the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities.
Status: Received in the Senate.
HR 5787: Minimum Wage Competitiveness Act of 2006
Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
HR 4962: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 100 Pitcher Street in Utica, New York, as the "Captain George A. Wood Post Office Building".
Status: Became Public Law No: 109-275.
HR 5679: United States-Israel Energy Cooperation Act
Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
Cosponsored Bills
HR 6421: Stockholm and Rotterdam Toxics Treaty Act of 2006
Status: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
HR 5704: Access to Medicare Imaging Act of 2006
Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
HR 6193: EAT Healthy America Act
Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
HCONRES 484: Commending The New York Institute for Special Education for providing excellent education for students with blindness and visual disabilities for 175 years, and for broadening its mission to provide the same quality education to students with emotional and learning disabilities.
Status: Received in the Senate.
HR 6203: Alternative Energy Research and Development Act
Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Committee Memberships
No committee memberships found.
