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| 1961-03-14 | Area Redevelopment Act [S1] | Rejected (45-49) |
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| Robertson (D-VA) amendment to require regular Congressional approval, rather than direct Treasury financing, for the three $100 million area redevelopment loan funds in the bill. | |||||
| 1961-03-16 | Unemployment Benefits [HR4806] | Agreed To (51-38) |
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| Committee amendment requiring the states to reduce the weekly temporary unemployment benefits paid to an unemployed worker by the amount that person was drawing in any public or private pension except disability pensions or pensions for veterans 65 years or older. | |||||
| 1961-04-18 | Minimum Wage Coverage [HR3935] | Rejected (34-63) |
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| Dirksen (R-IL) amendment to substitute for the coverage provisions of the committee bill those of the House-passed Ayres-Kitchin bill, extending minimum-wage but not overtime provisions to about 1.3 million additional persons (compared with the 4,086,000 in the committee bill), while retaining the minimum-wage raise from $1 an hour to $1.25 an hour provided by the committee bill. | |||||
| 1961-05-11 | Tie Communist Aid to U.N. Debts [S1215] | Rejected (28-54) |
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| Miller (R-IA) amendment to bar aid under the bill to any Communist-controlled country that was in arrears in its United Nations assessments. The bill would give the President discretionary authority to provide economic or financial aid to countries other than the Soviet Union or Communist-held areas in the Far East. | |||||
| 1961-06-08 | New Public Housing Units [S1922] | Rejected (34-58) |
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| Capehart (R-IN) amendment to reduce public housing units authorized by the bill from 100,000 to 37,000. | |||||
| 1961-06-26 | Social Security Tax Increases [HR6027] | Agreed To (59-30) |
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| Hartke (D-IN) amendment to retain the $1,200 earnings ceiling but increase the additional income from which one dollar of Social Security benefits is deducted for every two dollars earned from the current $1,201-$1,500 level to $1,201-$1,700. A pending Cotton (R-NH) amendment proposed increasing the earnings ceiling to $1,800. | |||||
| 1961-07-12 | Investigate Security Risks [S1154] | Agreed To (53-35) |
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| Mundt (R-SD) amendment to require specifically that not only loyalty questions but also possible security risks discovered in routine departmental personnel security investigations should be investigated fully by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. | |||||
| 1961-07-26 | Farm Co-op Monopolies [S1643] | Rejected (40-53) |
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| Kefauver (D-TN) amendment to apply the anti-trust laws to federations of cooperatives. | |||||
| 1961-07-27 | Robinson Civil Rights Nomination | Confirmed (73-17) |
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| Confirmation of President Kennedy's nomination of Spottswood Robinson III, dean of Howard University Law School, to the Civil Rights Commission. | |||||
| 1961-08-15 | United Nations/Congo Funding [S1983] | Rejected (44-51) |
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| Ellender (D-LA) amendment to limit U.S. contributions to United Nations operations in the Congo to 40 percent of the total contributions to the U.N. for the Congo. | |||||
| 1961-08-17 | Weaken Communist Aid Ban [S1983] | Agreed To (61-34) |
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| Bush (R-CT) amendment in the form of a substitute to a pending Dodd (D-CT) amendment barring aid to any country unless the President determined that it was not dominated or controlled by international Communism. The Dodd amendment would have prohibited the furnishing of aid to any of 14 listed members of the Sino-Soviet bloc. | |||||
| 1961-08-18 | Aid to Communist Allies [S1983] | Rejected (43-45) |
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| Bridges (R-NH) amendment barring assistance to countries exporting arms and strategic materials to Soviet-controlled nations. | |||||
| 1961-08-23 | Unemployment Training Funds [S1991] | Rejected (43-44) |
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| Prouty (R-VT) amendment to authorize $255 million for a two-year program. The bill called for $655 million for a four-year program to train unemployed workers. | |||||
| 1961-08-30 | Civil Rights Commission Extension [HR7371] | Agreed To (48-42) |
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| Mansfield (D-MT) motion to table (kill) the Clark (D-PA) amendment extending the Civil Rights Commission for four years. | |||||
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Indicates that this member voted against the conservative position on a particular vote.
"No vote" means that this member did not cast a vote (or voted 'Present' instead of Yes or No). |