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Richard Schultz Schweiker (June 1, 1926, Norristown, Pennsylvania – July 31, 2015, Pomona, New Jersey), Republican.
Richard S. Schweiker represented Pennsylvania's 13th District in the U.S. House (1961–1969) and the state at large in the U.S. Senate (1969–1981), then served as the 14th U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Reagan (1981–1983). He began his career as a moderate Rockefeller Republican and grew steadily more conservative after Reagan named him his preemptive running mate ahead of the 1976 Republican National Convention — an alliance told in full on the Deep Dives tab. The complete chronological record, including his Senate Intelligence Committee work reviewing the original JFK assassination investigation, is on the Timeline tab.
As Secretary, he spent much of his two years defending the department's budget against the administration's own proposed cuts, and his name went on the 1981 Social Security proposal Congress rejected. The more lasting record is quieter: the plan that became Medicare's prospective payment system for hospitals, the Medicaid waiver that let Katie Beckett be cared for at home and became a national option for disabled children, and the first federal tamper-resistant packaging rules after the Tylenol murders. The full account is the "Two Years at HHS" Deep Dive; the regulations he signed and the lawsuits brought against the department have their own pages, HHS Regulations and HHS Litigation.
Claire Schweiker
His wife, Claire Joan Coleman Schweiker, was a Philadelphia native and the valedictorian of her high school class. Before their 1955 marriage, she was the original "Miss Claire" on Romper Room, the pioneering children's educational program then broadcasting out of Philadelphia — one of the show's earliest hostesses, from 1954 to 1956 — and gave it up after she and Richard met and married six months later. Raised, like her husband, in what she called a "strictly Pennsylvania Dutch family that stressed values and service," she would later say the two of them "see our primary purpose in life as serving God."
A 1953 radio and television broadcasting graduate of Temple University — later the first recipient of the school's Alumni in the Media award and a member of its hall of fame — she moved to Washington after her husband's election to the House in 1960. She gave speeches on public service, health, and faith into the early 1990s, served as vice chairman of the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation Ball, and was a former president of the District's Republican Wives Club, alongside memberships in the International Club of Washington, the Senate Wives Club, and the Senate Ladies Red Cross Unit. In September 1981, The Washington Dossier put the couple on its cover for a profile titled "For a Healthy America."
Claire Schweiker died April 28, 2013, of respiratory failure at Inova Loudoun Hospital in Leesburg, Virginia, at age 81 — survived by her husband of 57 years, their five children, a sister, and 23 grandchildren.
Legacy: How His Story Gets Retold
His 1976 selection remains the standard historical reference point whenever a presidential candidate considers naming a running mate before securing the nomination. This is a representative sample of that recurring coverage, not an exhaustive news archive.
Contemporary coverage calling Reagan's move "one of the most astonishing and bizarre turnabouts in a campaign full of surprises" after it failed to swing the nomination.
Read it →When Ted Cruz named Carly Fiorina his running mate before the 2016 nomination was decided, outlets across the board cited the Reagan-Schweiker gambit as the direct historical precedent — and the cautionary tale, since it failed both times.
Read it →A Trump-era retrospective using the 1976 episode as the history lesson for modern speculation about unconventional running-mate strategy.
Read it →Authored Works
Three works he wrote or contributed to, drawn from Wikipedia's own bibliography for him.
An early, detailed case for shifting the United States to an all-volunteer military, later used as a blueprint for the actual transition.
Written the same year as the Church Committee's review of the original Kennedy assassination investigation.
A chapter-length statement of his health-policy views, published the year before he became HHS Secretary.
- Richard Schweiker — Wikipedia
- Congress.gov member record (S000159)
- U.S. House of Representatives, History, Art & Archives
- Miller Center — Richard Schweiker (1981–1983)
- GovTrack.us member profile
- Social Security Administration — History
- American Olean — "The AO Story" (Franklin Tile Company founding and history)
- Washington Post, Aug. 3 2015 — "Richard Schweiker, former congressman, senator and Reagan Cabinet secretary, dies at 89" (Emily Langer)
- Washington Post, May 21 2013 — "Claire J. Schweiker, 'Romper Room' hostess, wife of U.S. politician" (Megan McDonough)
- The Washington Dossier, September 1981 — "For a Healthy America" (cover) and "Looking After the Nation's Welfare: Richard and Claire Schweiker" (Don Oldenburg)
Home Life & Career
Timeline
His life and career year by year, from Norristown and the Navy through Congress, the 1976 campaign, HHS and after.
Sources are cited with each entry.
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Home Life & Career
Deep Dives
Long-form, sourced narratives on the chapters of his career that need more than a timeline entry.
Sources and notes follow each piece.
Home Life & Career
Connections
The presidents, senators and other public figures whose careers crossed his, and what the record shows they did together.
Sources: Congress.gov, Voteview.com (UCLA), and this archive's news collection.
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Home In Congress
Topics
Everything on the site about one subject, from bills and floor speeches to archive folders.
Congress.gov policy areas and Penn State's folder categories.
Legislation, floor-record mentions, and archive folders grouped by subject, drawn from Congress.gov's own policy-area tags and the archive's folder categories rather than a separately curated list. Select a topic to view everything on this site connected to it.
Home In Congress
Legislation
The bills he sponsored and cosponsored in the House and Senate, 1961–1980.
Sources: Congress.gov (Library of Congress), with House-years bills from the Congressional Record.
Congress.gov's bill database reliably covers 1973 (the 93rd Congress) onward; his House years (1961–1969) are represented unevenly as a result. Bills marked from the floor record were identified instead through the Congressional Record's bill-introduction announcements for that period — they carry no committee, cosponsor, or related-bill data, but supplement the earlier record. The Speeches page covers the remainder of that period. Select any bill to view its details.
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Home At HHS
HHS Regulations
The Federal Register documents he signed or approved as Secretary of Health and Human Services, 1981–1983.
Source: the Library of Congress's scans of the Federal Register.
Every Federal Register Document Bearing His Signature
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Home At HHS
HHS Litigation
Published court opinions captioned with his name, as every case against the department was while he was Secretary.
Source: the Caselaw Access Project, Harvard Law School Library.
Lawsuits against the department were captioned with his name, so this is HHS's court record as much as his own: the Secretary is the named defendant in every Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid appeal, and is substituted automatically when the office changes hands. Cases begun under Patricia Roberts Harris but decided after Jan. 22, 1981 carry his name; most still pending after Feb. 3, 1983 were re-captioned under Margaret Heckler.
How this list was compiled
Compiled from the Caselaw Access Project (Harvard Law School Library) by scanning every opinion published from 1981 through 1989 in the U.S. Reports, Federal Reporter (Second Series), and Federal Supplement for his name in the case caption — 765 opinions and orders. Unpublished dispositions aren't included. Supreme Court order-list entries covering many unrelated cases, and cases where he appeared only as amicus curiae, were excluded. Subjects are assigned from keyword matches in each opinion's text and are approximate: an opinion can have several or none. Influence is CAP's citation-network PageRank percentile across all U.S. case law.
Supreme Court Decisions
Upheld, against an equal-protection challenge, the Supplemental Security Income provision that paid a reduced benefit to residents of public institutions receiving Medicaid funds but nothing to residents of public mental institutions that did not. The Court read the line as one between Medicaid-funded and non-Medicaid-funded institutions, not a classification of the mentally ill, and applied rational-basis review.
Why it matters here: Argued in December 1980 under his predecessor, Patricia Roberts Harris; his name is on it because the Secretary is substituted automatically as a party when the office changes hands.
Schweiker v. Wilson, 450 U.S. 221 (official U.S. Reports, Library of Congress) · Full text (Caselaw Access Project)
A Social Security field representative wrongly told a woman she was not eligible for mother's insurance benefits and did not advise her to file a written application. The Court held this did not stop the government from denying her retroactive benefits for the months before she applied in writing: the representative's conduct fell short of "affirmative misconduct," and SSA's internal Claims Manual has no legal force.
Schweiker v. Hansen, 450 U.S. 785 (official U.S. Reports, Library of Congress) · Full text (Caselaw Access Project)
Upheld HHS regulations letting states "deem" part of a spouse's income available to a Medicaid applicant — including an institutionalized applicant — in states that had chosen not to extend Medicaid to all SSI recipients. Because Congress had expressly delegated to the Secretary the power to define what income is "available," his definition was entitled to "legislative effect."
Schweiker v. Gray Panthers, 453 U.S. 34 (official U.S. Reports, Library of Congress) · Full text (Caselaw Access Project)
Upheld Medicare Part B's claims-hearing procedure, in which disputes of $100 or more are heard by officers chosen by the private insurance carriers that administer the program, against a due-process challenge. Hearing officers are presumed impartial, and the carriers pay claims from federal funds, not their own.
Schweiker v. McClure, 456 U.S. 188 (official U.S. Reports, Library of Congress) · Full text (Caselaw Access Project)
Upheld section 1903(f) of the Social Security Act as applied in Massachusetts, where it left self-supporting "medically needy" Social Security recipients with less income than SSI recipients before they qualified for Medicaid. The statute's plain language required that result, and the distinction did not violate equal protection.
Schweiker v. Hogan, 457 U.S. 569 (official U.S. Reports, Library of Congress) · Full text (Caselaw Access Project)
People whose Social Security disability benefits were terminated in 1981 and 1982 under the continuing disability review program, and later restored, sued the officials who ran it for money damages. The Court held no such damages remedy is available: Congress had built an elaborate remedial scheme into the Social Security Act, including 1983 and 1984 reforms that continued benefits through appeal.
Why it matters here: The one case here in which he was sued personally rather than only as the officeholder. The complaint named him in his individual capacity over review policies adopted on his watch — among them, the plaintiffs alleged, accelerating the program's start date and refusing to follow federal appeals-court rulings. Decided five years after he left office.
Schweiker v. Chilicky, 487 U.S. 412 (official U.S. Reports, Library of Congress) · Full text (Caselaw Access Project)
Published Court Opinions Naming Him as a Party
| Decided | Case | Court | Subjects | Influence |
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| 1981-03-04 | Schweiker v. Wilson 450 U.S. 221 |
Supreme Court | Supplemental Security Income, Medicaid | Top 1% |
| 1981-04-06 | Schweiker v. Hansen 450 U.S. 785 |
Supreme Court | Retirement & survivors benefits | Top 1% |
| 1981-06-25 | Schweiker v. Gray Panthers 453 U.S. 34 |
Supreme Court | Supplemental Security Income, Medicaid, AFDC & welfare | Top 1% |
| 1982-03-18 | Berry v. Schweiker 675 F.2d 464 |
2d Cir. | Disability benefits | Top 1% |
| 1982-06-21 | McCoy v. Schweiker 683 F.2d 1138 |
8th Cir. | Disability benefits | Top 1% |
| 1988-06-24 | Schweiker v. Chilicky 487 U.S. 412 |
Supreme Court | Disability benefits, Disability terminations, Medicare | Top 1% |
| 1982-04-20 | Schweiker v. McClure 456 U.S. 188 |
Supreme Court | Medicare | Top 1% |
| 1983-03-08 | Scott v. Schweiker 702 F.2d 13 |
1st Cir. | — | Top 1% |
| 1983-06-22 | Kent v. Schweiker 710 F.2d 110 |
3d Cir. | Disability benefits | Top 1% |
| 1981-11-30 | Cowart v. Schweiker 662 F.2d 731 |
11th Cir. | Disability benefits | Top 1% |
| 1983-06-22 | Dumas v. Schweiker 712 F.2d 1545 |
2d Cir. | Disability benefits | Top 1% |
| 1981-05-04 | Aubeuf v. Schweiker 649 F.2d 107 |
2d Cir. | Disability benefits, Supplemental Security Income | Top 1% |
| 1982-06-21 | Schweiker v. Hogan 457 U.S. 569 |
Supreme Court | Disability benefits, Supplemental Security Income, Retirement & survivors benefits, Medicare, Medicaid, AFDC & welfare | Top 1% |
| 1982-07-09 | Wiggins v. Schweiker 679 F.2d 1387 |
11th Cir. | Disability benefits | Top 1% |
| 1983-09-07 | Rivera v. Schweiker 717 F.2d 719 |
2d Cir. | Disability benefits, Disability terminations, Supplemental Security Income | Top 1% |
| 1983-09-19 | Guthrie v. Schweiker 718 F.2d 104 |
4th Cir. | — | Top 1% |
| 1984-12-07 | Green v. Schweiker 749 F.2d 1066 |
3d Cir. | Disability benefits | Top 1% |
| 1982-08-09 | Rutherford v. Schweiker 685 F.2d 60 |
2d Cir. | Disability benefits, Disability terminations, Supplemental Security Income | Top 1% |
| 1982-12-21 | Whitney v. Schweiker 695 F.2d 784 |
7th Cir. | Disability benefits | Top 1% |
| 1983-01-05 | McMillian v. Schweiker 697 F.2d 215 |
8th Cir. | Disability benefits | Top 1% |
| 1983-06-30 | O'Leary v. Schweiker 710 F.2d 1334 |
8th Cir. | Disability benefits | Top 1% |
| 1984-04-24 | Garfield v. Schweiker 732 F.2d 605 |
7th Cir. | Disability benefits | Top 1% |
| 1982-02-18 | Patti v. Schweiker 669 F.2d 582 |
9th Cir. | Disability benefits, Disability terminations | Top 1% |
| 1982-04-05 | Walden v. Schweiker 672 F.2d 835 |
11th Cir. | Disability benefits | Top 1% |
| 1982-12-14 | Sample v. Schweiker 694 F.2d 639 |
9th Cir. | — | Top 1% |
| 1983-12-12 | McDonald v. Schweiker 726 F.2d 311 |
7th Cir. | — | Top 1% |
| 1984-01-11 | Gordon v. Schweiker 725 F.2d 231 |
4th Cir. | — | Top 1% |
| 1984-02-21 | Cornella v. Schweiker 728 F.2d 978 |
8th Cir. | Disability benefits, Disability terminations | Top 1% |
| 1981-03-30 | Ferguson v. Schweiker 641 F.2d 243 |
5th Cir. | Disability benefits | Top 1% |
| 1981-06-04 | Smith v. Schweiker 646 F.2d 1075 |
5th Cir. | Disability benefits, Disability terminations | Top 1% |
| 1985-06-11 | Ferguson v. Schweiker 765 F.2d 31 |
3d Cir. | Disability benefits, Supplemental Security Income | Top 1% |
| 1982-11-12 | Simpson v. Schweiker 691 F.2d 966 |
11th Cir. | Disability benefits, Disability terminations | Top 1% |
| 1984-04-11 | Zblewski v. Schweiker 732 F.2d 75 |
7th Cir. | Disability benefits | Top 1% |
| 1982-03-02 | Wolverton v. Schweiker 533 F. Supp. 420 |
D. Idaho | Disability benefits | Top 1% |
| 1982-04-08 | Santise v. Schweiker 676 F.2d 925 |
3d Cir. | Disability benefits, Supplemental Security Income | Top 1% |
| 1983-02-01 | Mitchell v. Schweiker 699 F.2d 185 |
4th Cir. | Disability benefits | Top 1% |
| 1982-01-11 | Thompson v. Schweiker 665 F.2d 936 |
9th Cir. | Disability benefits, Supplemental Security Income | Top 1% |
| 1982-02-02 | Cummins v. Schweiker 670 F.2d 81 |
7th Cir. | Disability benefits | Top 1% |
| 1982-05-17 | IMFC Professional Services of Florida, Inc. v. Latin American Home Health, Inc. 676 F.2d 152 |
5th Cir. | Medicare | Top 1% |
| 1982-06-07 | Broz v. Schweiker 677 F.2d 1351 |
11th Cir. | Disability benefits | Top 1% |
| 1982-06-30 | Tennant v. Schweiker 682 F.2d 707 |
8th Cir. | Disability benefits | Top 1% |
| 1982-09-16 | Cheshire Hospital v. New Hampshire-Vermont Hospitalization Service, Inc. 689 F.2d 1112 |
1st Cir. | Medicare, Medicaid, Provider reimbursement | Top 1% |
| 1983-09-28 | Van Horn v. Schweiker 717 F.2d 871 |
3d Cir. | Disability benefits | Top 2% |
| 1981-11-23 | Whaley v. Schweiker 663 F.2d 871 |
9th Cir. | Supplemental Security Income | Top 2% |
| 1981-10-21 | Chaney v. Schweiker 659 F.2d 676 |
5th Cir. | Disability benefits | Top 2% |
| 1982-02-16 | Berman v. Schweiker 531 F. Supp. 1149 |
N.D. Ill. | — | Top 2% |
| 1983-02-01 | Grant v. Schweiker 699 F.2d 189 |
4th Cir. | Disability benefits | Top 2% |
| 1983-02-01 | Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital Center v. Department of Health & Human Services 698 F.2d 1337 |
7th Cir. | Medicare, Provider reimbursement | Top 2% |
| 1983-02-14 | Dietsch v. Schweiker 700 F.2d 865 |
2d Cir. | Disability benefits | Top 2% |
| 1982-06-15 | Ocasio v. Schweiker 540 F. Supp. 1320 |
S.D.N.Y. | — | Top 2% |
| 1983-04-26 | Powderly v. Schweiker 704 F.2d 1092 |
9th Cir. | Retirement & survivors benefits, Overpayments | Top 2% |
| 1984-01-12 | Tome v. Schweiker 724 F.2d 711 |
8th Cir. | Disability benefits | Top 2% |
| 1981-04-15 | Allen v. Schweiker 642 F.2d 799 |
5th Cir. | Disability benefits, Supplemental Security Income | Top 2% |
| 1981-07-17 | Clark v. Schweiker 652 F.2d 399 |
5th Cir. | Disability benefits, Supplemental Security Income | Top 2% |
| 1983-02-08 | Simonson v. Schweiker 699 F.2d 426 |
8th Cir. | Disability benefits, Disability terminations, Supplemental Security Income | Top 2% |
| 1986-03-14 | Page v. Schweiker 786 F.2d 150 |
3d Cir. | Disability benefits, Supplemental Security Income, Retirement & survivors benefits, Overpayments | Top 2% |
| 1986-07-02 | Smith v. Schweiker 795 F.2d 343 |
4th Cir. | Disability benefits, Retirement & survivors benefits | Top 2% |
| 1981-11-12 | Oldham v. Schweiker 660 F.2d 1078 |
5th Cir. | Disability benefits | Top 2% |
| 1982-02-12 | Sitar v. Schweiker 671 F.2d 19 |
1st Cir. | Disability benefits | Top 2% |
| 1982-09-07 | Ward v. Schweiker 686 F.2d 762 |
9th Cir. | Disability benefits, Supplemental Security Income | Top 2% |
| 1983-06-03 | Kinsella v. Schweiker 708 F.2d 1058 |
6th Cir. | — | Top 2% |
| 1982-04-12 | Schauer v. Schweiker 675 F.2d 55 |
2d Cir. | Disability benefits, Disability terminations | Top 2% |
| 1982-06-25 | Viehman v. Schweiker 679 F.2d 223 |
11th Cir. | Disability benefits, Retirement & survivors benefits, Overpayments | Top 2% |
| 1983-06-27 | Chico v. Schweiker 710 F.2d 947 |
2d Cir. | Disability benefits, Supplemental Security Income | Top 2% |
| 1981-04-03 | White Memorial Medical Center v. Schweiker 640 F.2d 1126 |
9th Cir. | Medicare, Provider reimbursement | Top 3% |
| 1981-09-08 | Scharlow v. Schweiker 655 F.2d 645 |
5th Cir. | Disability benefits, Supplemental Security Income | Top 3% |
| 1983-07-27 | Berman v. Schweiker 713 F.2d 1290 |
7th Cir. | Civil rights | Top 3% |
| 1982-10-05 | Tucker v. Schweiker 689 F.2d 777 |
8th Cir. | Disability benefits, Supplemental Security Income | Top 3% |
| 1982-06-28 | Day v. Schweiker 685 F.2d 19 |
2d Cir. | Disability benefits, Retirement & survivors benefits | Top 3% |
| 1983-08-18 | Kuzmin v. Schweiker 714 F.2d 1233 |
3d Cir. | Disability benefits, Disability terminations | Top 3% |
| 1983-10-06 | Dotson v. Schweiker 719 F.2d 80 |
4th Cir. | Disability benefits | Top 3% |
| 1984-03-07 | Smith v. Schweiker 728 F.2d 1158 |
8th Cir. | Disability benefits, Disability terminations, Supplemental Security Income | Top 3% |
| 1984-04-25 | Ledoux v. Schweiker 732 F.2d 1385 |
8th Cir. | Disability benefits, Disability terminations, Supplemental Security Income | Top 3% |
| 1982-04-15 | Blankenship v. Schweiker 676 F.2d 116 |
4th Cir. | Black lung | Top 3% |
| 1983-02-28 | Penner v. Schweiker 701 F.2d 256 |
3d Cir. | Disability benefits, Retirement & survivors benefits | Top 3% |
| 1981-11-05 | Cassiday v. Schweiker 663 F.2d 745 |
7th Cir. | Disability benefits, Disability terminations | Top 3% |
| 1983-06-14 | Munsinger v. Schweiker 709 F.2d 1212 |
8th Cir. | Disability benefits, Overpayments | Top 3% |
| 1982-07-29 | Freeman v. Schweiker 681 F.2d 727 |
11th Cir. | Disability benefits | Top 4% |
| 1981-07-24 | Ware v. Schweiker 651 F.2d 408 |
5th Cir. | Disability benefits | Top 4% |
| 1981-07-21 | Northlake Community Hospital v. United States 654 F.2d 1234 |
7th Cir. | Medicare, Medicaid | Top 4% |
| 1982-07-08 | Burnam v. Schweiker 682 F.2d 456 |
3d Cir. | — | Top 4% |
| 1984-01-12 | Millner v. Schweiker 725 F.2d 243 |
4th Cir. | Disability benefits | Top 4% |
| 1982-05-03 | Buschmann v. Schweiker 676 F.2d 352 |
9th Cir. | Supplemental Security Income | Top 4% |
| 1982-11-30 | Hornal v. Schweiker 551 F. Supp. 612 |
M.D. Tenn. | — | Top 4% |
| 1983-02-18 | McShea v. Schweiker 700 F.2d 117 |
3d Cir. | Disability benefits, Supplemental Security Income | Top 4% |
| 1986-01-15 | Ellender v. Schweiker 781 F.2d 314 |
2d Cir. | — | Top 4% |
| 1983-05-06 | State of Illinois, Department of Public Aid v. Schweiker 707 F.2d 273 |
7th Cir. | Medicaid | Top 4% |
| 1983-06-10 | Hoang Ha v. Schweiker 707 F.2d 1104 |
9th Cir. | — | Top 4% |
| 1981-07-17 | Anderson v. Schweiker 651 F.2d 306 |
5th Cir. | Disability benefits | Top 4% |
| 1983-09-01 | McLain v. Schweiker 715 F.2d 866 |
4th Cir. | — | Top 4% |
| 1983-01-26 | McDonald v. Schweiker 698 F.2d 361 |
8th Cir. | Disability benefits | Top 5% |
| 1982-01-15 | Philadelphia Citizens in Action v. Schweiker 669 F.2d 877 |
3d Cir. | Disability terminations, AFDC & welfare | Top 5% |
| 1982-08-18 | Americana Healthcare Corp. v. Schweiker 688 F.2d 1072 |
7th Cir. | Medicare, Medicaid | Top 5% |
| 1982-06-04 | Smith v. Schweiker 677 F.2d 826 |
11th Cir. | — | Top 5% |
| 1983-08-18 | Nettles v. Schweiker 714 F.2d 833 |
8th Cir. | Disability benefits | Top 5% |
| 1984-01-24 | Smith v. Schweiker 719 F.2d 723 |
4th Cir. | Disability benefits | Top 5% |
| 1984-03-09 | Strittmatter v. Schweiker 729 F.2d 507 |
7th Cir. | Disability benefits | Top 5% |
| 1981-03-25 | Rodriguez v. Schweiker 640 F.2d 682 |
5th Cir. | Disability benefits | Top 5% |
| 1984-05-09 | Palmiter v. Action, Inc. 733 F.2d 1244 |
7th Cir. | — | Top 5% |
| 1981-08-10 | Lofton v. Schweiker 653 F.2d 215 |
5th Cir. | Disability benefits, Supplemental Security Income | Top 6% |
Home In Congress
Voting Record
Every recorded roll-call vote he cast: House 1961–1969, Senate 1969–1981.
Source: Voteview.com (UCLA).
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Speeches & Floor Record
His floor statements and other appearances in the Congressional Record, 1961–1983, with full transcripts where available.
Source: GovInfo.gov's digitized Congressional Record.
Full Floor Record
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Home Coverage & Media
In the News
Newspaper coverage that names him, 1955–1995.
Sources: The New York Times, Penn State's Pennsylvania Newspaper Archive, and the Library of Congress.
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Photographs
Public-domain photographs, and a guide to the photograph collection in his papers.
Sources: the U.S. Senate, the Library of Congress, the National Library of Medicine, and Penn State.
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Home Coverage & Media
Video & Audio
Footage of him from C-SPAN, the Reagan Library and documentaries about the Church Committee.
Sources: C-SPAN and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
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Home For Researchers
Archive Finder
A searchable guide to the boxes and folders of his papers at Penn State.
Source: Penn State's finding aid for the Richard S. Schweiker papers.
This site covers what is digitized and publicly searchable. For personal correspondence, internal drafts, press statements, and other material not represented elsewhere here, the primary source is the physical collection below. Search a topic to identify the box and folder that hold it, so a research visit can begin with a precise list rather than an open-ended search.
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