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    This page contains bill sponsorships in the Senate and House. Bill sponsorships indicate the topics that legislators are most interested in, and spend the most time on.

95-S39 on Jan 4, 1995

    Amends the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act to:
  • Prohibit individual fishing quota programs unless approved before January 4,
  • Mandates guidelines regarding fish habitat conservation and enhancement.
  • Modifies requirements regarding emergency actions (including concerning oil spills) and adds to the emergency action provisions references to interim measures needed to reduce overfishing.
  • Provides for an information collection program specific to the needs of a fishery.
  • Requires a comprehensive program of fishery research to carry out this Act;
  • Requires developing technological changes to minimize bycatch and evaluate related ecological impacts, benefits, and costs, and assess the use of unavoidable bycatch; and
  • Establishes of a fishery conservation and management ecosystem advisory panel.
Corresponding House bill is H.R.39. Became Public Law No: 104-297.


  • Topic: Environment
  • Headline: Fund studies of sustainable fisheries
  • Key for participation codes:
  • Sponsorships: p=sponsored; o=co-sponsored; s=signed
  • Memberships: c=chair; m=member; e=endorsed; f=profiled; s=scored
  • Resolutions: i=introduced; w=wrote; a=adopted
  • Cases: w=wrote; j=joined; d=dissented; c=concurred



Democrats participating in 95-S39

Fritz Hollings s1oSC Former Democratic Sr Senator; retired 2004
Daniel Inouye s1oHI Democratic incumbent
John Kerry s1oMA Democrat Jr Senator
Claiborne Pell s1oRI Democrat Senator (Former)



Republicans participating in 95-S39

Trent Lott s1oMS Former Republican Senator (MS, 1989-2007)
Frank Murkowski s1oAK Former Republican
Larry Pressler s1oSD Republican Senator (Former)
Alan Simpson s1oWY Republican Senator (Former)
Ted Stevens s1iAK Republican Sr Senator
Don Young s1iAlaska Republican



Independents participating in 95-S39



Total recorded by OnTheIssues:

Democrats: 4
Republicans: 6
Independents: 0

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