Bruce Alger

[Congressional biography]

Born: June 12, 1918 in Dallas, TX
Died: April 13, 2015 in Palm Bay, FL

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Key House Vote Data for Bruce Alger in 1961

Date	Subject	Result	Conserv. Position	Alger Voted
1961-01-31	Enlarge Rules Committee [HRE127]	Agreed To (217-212)
Enlarge the House Rules Committee from 12 members to 15, increasing the Democratic membership by two and the Republican by one.
1961-03-24	Limit Minimum Wage Coverage [HR3935]	Agreed To (216-203)
Ayres (R-OH)-Kitchin (D-NC) amendment substituting a new text raising the minimum wage for the 23.9 million covered workers to $1.15 an hour, and extending minimum-wage coverage (at $1 an hour) but not overtime coverage to 1,300,000 additional workers. The committee version would raise the minimum wage for the 23.9 million workers already covered from $1 to $1.25 an hour in two steps, and extend minimum wage and overtime coverage to 4,311,000 additional workers.
1961-04-26	Bypass Congress for Redevelopment Funds [S1]	Agreed To (224-193)
Adoption of the conference report authorizing $394 million in federal loans and grants for redevelopment of economically depressed industrial and rural areas, financing $300 million in loan funds directly from the Treasury instead of by Congressional appropriations.
1961-06-08	Repeal Transportation Taxes [HR7446]	Rejected (189-196)
Alger (R-TX) motion to recommit the bill to the Ways and Means Committee with instructions to report it back to the House with an amendment repealing the 10 percent tax on railroad, air, water and bus travel.
1961-06-12	Weaken D.C. Crime Control Rules [HR7053]	Rejected (104-252)
Lindsay (R-NY) motion to recommit the bill to the District of Columbia Committee. The bill would qualify a 1957 Supreme Court decision in the Mallory case, dealing with unnecessary delay in arraignments to provide that, in District of Columbia courts, evidence should not be inadmissible solely because of a delay in arrignment.
1961-06-22	Kennedy Housing Bill [HR6028]	Rejected (197-215)
McDonough (R-CA) motion to recommit the bill with instructions that Banking and Currency Committee report out a substitute bill extending existing programs for one year, with a $1.1 billion authorization.
1961-06-26	Increase Debt Limit [HR7677]	Passed (231-148)
Passage of the bill to increase the national debt limit ceiling for one year from its permanent $285 billion level to $298 billion during fiscal 1962.
1961-08-31	Foreign Aid Bill [S1983]	Agreed To (260-132)
Adoption of the conference report authorizing $4,253,500,000 in fiscal 1962 for foreign aid and $1.5 billion in each of the following four years for development loans.
1961-09-06	Government Interference with Pensions [HR8723]	Rejected (245-161)		No Vote
Powell (D-NY) motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill to amend the Welfare and Pension Plans Disclosure Act of 1958 to provide for its more effective enforcement.
1961-09-13	Extend Civil Rights Commission [HR7371]	Agreed To (300-106)
Rooney (D-NY) motion to agree to a Senate amendment extending the Civil Rights Commission for two years.
1961-09-14	Create Peace Corps [HR7500]	Passed (288-97)		No Vote
Passage of the bill to create the Peace Corps.
1961-09-21	Establish Arts Council [HR4172]	Defeated (166-173)
Passage of the bill to establish a Federal Advisory Council on the Arts.
1961-09-22	Extra Funding for D.C. Schools [HR258]	Rejected (142-159)
Adoption of the conference report, which included a provision making Washington D.C. schools eligible for aid under the "impacted" areas program.
1961-09-23	Establish Arms Control Agency [HR9118]	Agreed To (253-50)		No Vote
Adoption of the conference report establishing a U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
1961-09-26	Presidential Withholding of Information [HR9033]	Agreed To (152-119)		No Vote
Senate amendment permitting the President to withhold foreign aid information requested for Congressional examination if he certifies his reason for doing so.

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