IN HR0050

Indiana House Resolution memorializing former U.S. Congressman Andrew Jacobs, Jr., who died December 28, 2013 at age 81

Jacobs served 30 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, including 8 years on the Judiciary Committee and 22 years on the Ways and Means Committee

Helped write the 1965 Voting Rights Act and was an early critic of the Vietnam War, coining the phrase "war wimp"

Refused congressional pay raises after 1969 and introduced the Payment Book Amendment in 1976 to require balanced federal budgets

Resolution expresses sympathy to his family and directs copies be transmitted to his wife Kim Hood Jacobs and sons Andy and Steven