SERRANO, JOSE E.

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SERRANO, JOSE E.
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: Experience: House: District 15, 1989-Present; Home State: New York; Running: President, United States, 2016; Total Raised: $217,827Coverage End: Thursday, June 30, 2016; Winning: Won with 0.00%; Write a Review

Personal

Full Name: José E. Serrano

Gender: Male

Family: Wife: Mary; 5 Children

Birth Date: 10/24/1943

Birth Place: Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

Home City: Bronx, NY

Religion: Roman Catholic

Education

Attended, Lehman College, The City University of New York

Political Experience

Representative, United States House of Representatives, 1990-present

Senior Minority Whip, United States House of Representatives, present

Assembly Member, New York State Assembly, 1974-1990

Candidate, Democratic Primary for Bronx Borough President, 1985

Current Legislative Committees

Appropriations, Member

Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, Member

Caucuses/Non-Legislative Committees

Member, Civil Rights Task Force, Congressional Hispanic Caucus

Member, Congressional Black Caucus

Member, Congressional Children's Working Group

Member, Congressional Diabetes Caucus

Member, Congressional Fire Services Caucus

Member, Congressional Hispanic Caucus

Former Chair, Congressional Hispanic Caucus

Member, Congressional Human Rights Caucus

Member, Congressional Narcotics Abuse and Control Caucus

Member, Congressional Older Americans Caucus

Member, Congressional Progressive Caucus

Member, Congressional Urban Caucus

Vice Chair, Democratic Steering Committee

Member, Executive Board, Congressional Arts Caucus

Member, Executive Committee, Albanian Issues Caucus

Professional Experience

Employee, Community School District 7, District 7, 1969-1974

Employee, Manufacturers Hanover Bank, 1961-1969

Private, United States Army Medical Corps, 172nd Support Battalion, 1964-1966

General Survey

Issue Title	Candidate's Answers
1. Abortion is a woman's unrestricted right	Strongly Support Abortion should be decided by a woman herself. It is an important part of their health rights and reproductive freedom.
2. Stricter punishment reduces crime	Strongly Oppose The death penalty should be abolished. We should let judges and juries decide what penalties to apply in each case.
3. Marijuana is a gateway drug
4. Higher taxes on the wealthy	Support Flatter taxes benefit the wealthy more than the lower and middle class. We should focus tax relief on the majority of taxpayers instead of on the richest.
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	Oppose Expanding the military is not important and integrant for U.S. now. But when the country meets with defiance or agression, it is acceptable to continue expanding our military.
11. Support & expand free trade	Oppose Trade should be Fair, not Free. Free trade poses a risk to job security, causes humanitarian problems overseas, or results in environmental damage.
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	Strongly Support Immigration restrictions are racist because they keep out Hispanics and other non-whites. Social services should be offered to all residents of the United States regardless of immigration status.
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	Strongly Oppose Government should control the Social Security forever. The Trust Fund should not be invested in anything with risk.

Total: 235

Introduced Date	Bill Number	Bill Title	Last Action
05/19/2017	H.R.2576	To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the tax treatment of small business start-up savings accounts.	05/19/2017 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. (All Actions)
05/17/2017	H.R.2508	To provide discretionary authority to an immigration judge to determine that an alien parent of a United States citizen child should not be ordered removed, deported, or excluded from the United States.	05/17/2017 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. (All Actions)
05/03/2017	H.R.2343	United States Library Trust Fund Act	05/03/2017 Referred to House Education and the Workforce (All Actions)
04/28/2017	H.R.2253	Clean Vehicles Incentive Act of 2017	04/28/2017 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. (All Actions)
04/07/2017	H.R.2064	Sewage Sludge in Food Production Consumer Notification Act	04/07/2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. (All Actions)
03/23/2017	H.R.1714	Expanding Small Business Opportunities to all Women Act of 2017	03/23/2017 Referred to the House Committee on Small Business. (All Actions)
03/17/2017	H.R.1586	Protecting Our Kids' Medicine Act of 2017	03/17/2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. (All Actions)
03/10/2017	H.R.1189	Anti-hunger Empowerment Act of 2017	03/10/2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition. (All Actions)
02/28/2017	H.R.1260	GRAND Act	02/28/2017 Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services. (All Actions)
02/21/2017	H.R.569	Reserve Retirement Deployment Credit Correction Act	02/21/2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel. (All Actions)
02/08/2017	H.R.574	Cuba Reconciliation Act	02/08/2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet. (All Actions)
02/08/2017	H.R.573	Baseball Diplomacy Act	02/08/2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security. (All Actions)
02/08/2017	H.R.572	Promoting American Agricultural and Medical Exports to Cuba Act of 2017	02/08/2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet. (All Actions)
01/13/2017	H.R.571	To permit members of the House of Representatives to donate used computer equipment to public elementary and secondary schools designated by the members.	01/13/2017 Referred to the House Committee on House Administration. (All Actions)
01/13/2017	H.R.570	Solar Villages Initiative Act	01/13/2017 Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. (All Actions)
01/05/2017	H.R.341	Support Our Startups Act of 2017	01/05/2017 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. (All Actions)
01/05/2017	H.R.340	Next Generation American Manufacturing Act of 2017	01/05/2017 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. (All Actions)
12/16/2016	H.R.6282	To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2024 Jerome Avenue, in Bronx, New York, as the "Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, Jr. Post Office Building".	12/16/2016 Became Public Law No: 114-310. (TXT \| PDF) (All Actions)
10/19/2016	H.R.5998	Reserve Retirement Deployment Credit Correction Act of 2016	10/19/2016 Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel. (All Actions)
09/30/2016	H.R.6097	Immigration Courts Bail Reform Act	09/30/2016 Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security. (All Actions)

Total: 5434

Date	Bill Number	Bill Title	Result	Vote
03/08/2000	H.R.3826	Global Health Act of 2000
03/06/2000	H.R.3710	Medicaid Safety Net Hospital Preservation Act of 2000
03/05/2000	H.R.3557	To authorize the President to award a gold medal on behalf of the Congress to John Cardinal O'Connor, Archbishop of New York, in recognition of his accomplishments as a priest, a chaplain, and a humanitarian.	Passed	Not Voting
02/29/2000	H.R.3700	High-Speed Rail Investment Act of 2000
02/24/2000	H.R.3608	Home Heating Oil Price Stability Act
02/16/2000	H.R.3688	Campaign Integrity Act of 2000
02/15/2000	H.R.3580	Hospital Preservation and Equity Act of 2000
12/17/1999	H.R.1180	Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999	Conference Report Agreed to (95-1)	Not Voting
12/09/1999	H.R.1932	Father Theodore M. Hesburgh Congressional Gold Medal Act
12/09/1999	H.J.Res.46	Conferring status as an honorary veteran of the United States Armed Forces on Zachary Fisher.
11/30/1999	H.R.3326	Cleaner Buses for Cleaner Cities Act
11/30/1999	H.R.3301	Children's Health Research and Prevention Amendments of 1999
11/19/1999	H.Con.Res.193	Expressing the support of Congress for activities to increase public participation in the decennial census.
11/17/1999	H.Res.370	Recognizing and honoring Walter Payton and expressing the condolences of the House of Representatives to his family on his death.
11/16/1999	H.Con.Res.209	Expressing condemnation of the use of children as soldiers and the belief that the United States should support and, where possible, lead efforts to establish and enforce international standards designed to end this abuse of human rights.
11/16/1999	H.R.3140	Food and Medicine for the World Act
11/16/1999	H.Res.325	Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the importance of increased support and funding to combat diabetes.	Passed	Not Voting
11/12/1999	H.R.3192	Hunger Relief Act of 2000
11/12/1999	H.R.2303	History of the House Awareness and Preservation Act	Passed	Not Voting
11/08/1999	H.R.3249	Artists' Contribution to American Heritage Act of 1999

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