BILLS FILES, 1985-1994

Summary: Public and private bills and resolutions sponsored or cosponsored by Dean Gallo while a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, together with related documentation. Includes bill profiles and printed copies of bills. Some folders also include Congressional Record statements and extensions of remarks (some with annotations), press releases, speeches, news clippings and letters to colleagues asking for support. A few folders contain letters of support from individuals.

Among the subject categories included are: Clean Air/Fuels, Community Right-to-Know, Double Hulls, Locality Pay, Mandatory Death Penalty for Killing Police Officer, National Prevent-A-Litter Month, Poverty Data Correction Act and Superfund Sites.

A statement by the president of Clean Sites, a nonprofit environmental group, to the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight, Committee on Public Works and Transportation, is located in the "Superfund" folder. The folder labeled "Rickle, Maria Camargo" contains copies of a private bill introduced by Gallo to allow Rickle, a native of Brazil, to obtain United States citizenship, as well as related correspondence.

Photographs of Gallo in connection with his Double Hull amendment are located in PHOTOGRAPHS.