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| 1963-01-31 | Amend Cloture Rule | Agreed To (53-42) |
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| Motion to table the question as to whether the Senate could close debate by majority vote under the Constitution when considering a change in the rules at the beginning of a session, notwithstanding the existing Senate rules that require a vote of two-thirds of the Senators present to close debate. | |||||
| 1963-04-03 | Collective Bargaining [S6] | Rejected (41-56) |
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| Tower (R-TX) amendment prohibiting the government from encouraging "the continuation of collective bargaining rights" for transit workers (as a condition of aid) if such bargaining would be inconsistent with state or local law. | |||||
| 1963-04-03 | Mass Transit Grants [S6] | Rejected (41-57) |
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| Lausche (D-OH) amendment to delete all provisions authorizing grants for mass transit assistance. | |||||
| 1963-04-09 | Wilderness Areas [S4] | Rejected (35-49) |
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| Dominick (R-CO) amendment to require positive Congressional approval (instead of a veto power) before the President's recommendations respecting wilderness areas can take effect. | |||||
| 1963-04-10 | Youth Conservation Corps [S1] | Rejected (41-47) |
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| Prouty (R-VT) amendment to delete Title I, providing for establishment of a Youth Conservation Corps. | |||||
| 1963-06-11 | Ease Child Labor Restrictions [S523] | Rejected (36-53) |
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| Tower (R-TX) amendment to permit children of any age to be employed by persons related to them by blood or marriage, instead of only by parents or guardians. | |||||
| 1963-07-24 | Soviet Office Establishment [S646] | Agreed To (59-23) |
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| Mansfield (D-MT) motion to table the Curtis (R-NE) amendment to make the ban on chanceries (business offices) in residential areas of Washington retroactive to Jan. 31, 1963 instead of effective upon enactment of the bill. The amendment was directed at a pending Soviet Union request for a zoning permit for a chancery. | |||||
| 1963-08-07 | Reduce/Restrict Unemployment Grants [HR5888] | Rejected (33-49) |
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| Lausche (D-OH) amendment to reduce from $425 million to $400 million the funds to be transferred from the unemployment trust fund for grants to states for unemployment compensation payments and administration of the U.S. Employment Service, and prohibit use of the funds for advertising or publicity. | |||||
| 1963-08-14 | National Service Corps [S1321] | Agreed To (51-34) |
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| Proxmire (D-WI) amendment limiting the program of volunteer public service to two years an setting the fiscal 1965 authorization at $10 million (instead of $15 million). | |||||
| 1963-08-15 | Farm Worker Benefits [S1703] | Rejected (45-45) |
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| McCarthy (D-MN) amendment in the form of a substitute bill (1) extending the program through 1964; (2) requiring farmers to offer domestic farm workers workmen's compensation or occupational insurance coverage, housing, transportation and work period guarantees comparable to those offered foriegn workers before they could qualify to obtain Mexican farm workers under the program; and (3) directing the Secretary of Labor to insure that sufficient domestic workers would be available to replace Mexicans after December 1964. | |||||
| 1963-09-23 | Tie Treaty to Soviet Withdrawal from Cuba | Rejected (17-75) |
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| Goldwater (R-AZ) reservation of ratification of the Test Ban Treaty, to make United States ratification contingent upon a complete and U.N.-inspected withdrawal of Soviet nuclear weapons and military and technical personnel from Cuba. | |||||
| 1963-10-21 | Education Facilities Spending [HR6143] | Rejected (21-53) |
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| Goldwater (R-AZ) amendment to eliminate provisions for $900 million in academic facilites grants -- which comprise the bulk of the grant program. | |||||
| 1963-11-13 | Foreign Aid Cuts [HR7885] | Agreed To (51-41) |
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| Morse (D-OR) amendment to cut funds for supporting assistance from $400 million to $380 million. | |||||
| 1963-11-18 | District of Columbia / AFDC [HR7431] | Rejected (35-42) |
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| Ribicoff (D-CT) amendment to increase the welfare appropriation by $306,637 -- to $71,509,879 -- to permit Washington D.C. entry into a federal public assistance program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children of Unemployed Parents. | |||||
| 1963-11-21 | Increase Debt Limit [HR8969] | Passed (50-26) |
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| Passage of the bill to increase the temporary national debt limit to $315 billion through June 29, 1964. | |||||
| 1963-11-26 | Export Credits for Communists [S2310] | Agreed To (57-35) |
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| Mansfield (D-MT) motion to table (kill) the bill which would bar the Export-Import bank or any other government agency from guaranteeing private U.S. credit to Communist countries for any purchase. | |||||
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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). |