Olin Teague

[Congressional biography]

Born: April 6, 1910 in Woodward, OK
Died: January 23, 1981 in Bethesda, MD

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Key House Vote Data for Olin Teague in 1965

Date	Subject	Result	Conserv. Position	Teague Voted
1965-01-04	Seat Mississippi Congressional Delegation [HRES1]	Agreed To (276-149)
Authorize the Speaker to administer the oath of office to five Mississippi Congressmen-elect. Albert (D-OK) motion to order the previous question, cutting off debate and precluding amendments.
1965-02-25	"Justify" HUAC Funds [HRES188]	Rejected (58-333)
Authorize $370,000 for investigation expenses of the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1965. Edwards (D-CA) motion to recommit the resolution to the Committee on House Administration with instructions that it hold open hearings on the justification for the funds.
1965-03-15	Taxpayer Funding of the Arts [HR4714]	Rejected (217-113)
Amend the National Arts and Cultural Development Act of 1964 to provide that the $150,000 appropriations authorization for the National Council on the Arts -- provided in the Act -- be on an annual basis. Thompson (D-NJ) motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
1965-03-22	Toughen D.C. Criminal Laws [HR5688]	Passed (251-131)		No Vote
Passage of the bill amending the District of Columbia crime laws to nullify the Mallory and Durham rules of evidence, allow investigative arrests, establish robbery as a crime of violence, set mandatory minimum sentences for certain crimes and provide new controls over obscene materials.
1965-03-26	School Funding Increases [HR2362]	Passed (263-153)
Passage of the bill, providing: a three-year program of grants to states for allocation to school districts with large numbers of children from low-income families; grants for purchase of books and library materials; funds to improve educational research; and grants to strengthen state departments of education.
1965-04-08	Establish Medicare Program [HR6675]	Passed (313-115)
Passage of the bill to: provide a basic compulsory health insurance program for the aged, financed mainly by a payroll tax; a supplementary voluntary health insurance program financed by general revenue and contributions from participants; increases in Social Security cash benefits; and expansion of the Kerr-Mills program, child health-care program and other federal-state public assistance programs.
1965-05-25	Foreign Development Loan Fund [HR7750]	Rejected (178-219)
Adair (R-IN) motion to recommit the bill to the Foreign Affairs Committee with instructions to reduce funds for development loans by $130,958,000, and to stipulate that labor unions participating in Latin American housing projects be "non-Communist dominated" as well as "free".
1965-05-26	Food Sales to U.S. Enemies [HR8370]	Rejected (187-208)
Bow (R-OH) motion to recommit the bill to the Appropriations Committee with instructions to report it back with an amendment prohibiting use of any funds in the bill during fiscal 1966 to finance the export of any U.S. agricultural commodities to the United Arab Republic (Egypt) or Indonesia under Title I of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954.
1965-06-09	Increase Debt Limit [HR8464]	Passed (229-165)
Passage of the bill to increase the temporary national debt limit to $328 billion through June 30, 1966.
1965-06-16	Create Dept. of Housing & Urban Development [HR6927]	Passed (217-184)
Passage of the bill establishing a cabinet-level Department of Housing and Urban Development to be headed by a secretary appointed by the President with Senate confirmation; transferring to the Secretary all the functions, powers and duties of the Housing and Home Finance Agency, the Federal Housing Administration, the Public Housing Administration and the Federal National Mortgage Association; and specifying other functions, powers and duties of the Department.
1965-07-09	Penalties for Vote Fraud [HR6400]	Agreed To (253-165)
Cramer (R-FL) amendment to provide penalties up to $10,000 in fines and/or up to five years' imprisonment for falsifying voting or registration information or buying votes (applicable only to federal elections).
1965-07-09	Voter "Discrimination" Remedies [HR6400]	Rejected (171-248)
Collier (R-IL) motion to recommit the bill to the Judiciary Committee with instructions to report back a Republican substitute which provided remedies to voter discrimination on a county-by-county basis rather than statewide for "massive discrimination" areas as provided in HR 6400.
1965-07-28	Repeal Right-to-Work Laws [HR77]	Passed (221-203)
Passage of the bill to repeal Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act permitting state right-to-work laws under which the union shop is prohibited.
1965-08-25	Limit Immigration [HR2580]	Rejected (189-218)
MacGregor (R-MN) amendment to limit immigration from Western Hemisphere countries into the United States to 115,000 persons annually.
1965-09-29	Washington D.C. Home Rule [HR4644]	Agreed To (227-174)
Multer (D-NY) amendment, as amendmed by Sisk (D-CA) substitute, providing for election of a District of Columbia Charter Board, if D.C. voters favored home rule in a referendum, to draw up a charter which would be sumbitted to D.C. voters in another referendum and, if approved, would take effect in 90 days if not disapproved by either chamber of Congress. The original Multer amendment would have substituted for HR 4644 the provisions of a Senate bill modified to provide for annual Congressional appropriation of the federal payment, election of the Mayor and Council for four-year terms in non-Presidential election years, changes in D.C. voter requirements and authority for the President to use federal troops or take over local police.
1965-09-30	Automatic Congressional Pay Raises [HR10281]	Agreed To (238-140)
Broyhill (R-NC) motion to recommit the bill to the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee with instructions to delete a provision authorizing an automatic pay increase for members of Congress and federal executives and judges effective January 1967.
1965-10-01	Aid to North Vietnam Allies [HR10871]	Rejected (164-174)
Shriver (R-KS) motion to recommit the conference report with instructions that House conferees insist upon retention of a House provision prohibiting aid to nations that sold, furnished or shipped strategic goods to North Vietnam.

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