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| 1965-01-04 | Seat Mississippi Congressional Delegation [HRES1] | Agreed To (276-149) |
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| 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. | |||||
| 1965-06-16 | Create Dept. of Housing & Urban Development [HR6927] | Passed (217-184) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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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