[Congressional biography]
Born: April 16, 1921 in Hubert, NC
Died: January 13, 2004
in Wilmington, NC
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1967-03-01 | Exclude Adam Clayton Powell [HRES278] | Agreed To (248-176) |
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Curtis (R-MO) amendment to exclude representative-elect Adam C. Powell (D-NY) from the 99th Congress rather than censure and fine him. | |||||
1967-04-05 | "Justify" HUAC Funds [HRES221] | Rejected (92-304) |
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Edwards (D-CA) motion to recommit the resolution with instructions that the House Administration Committee hold public hearings on the justification for the funds pertaining to the House Un-American Activities Committee. | |||||
1967-05-17 | Extra Funds for Rent Supplements [HR9960] | Agreed To (233-171) |
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Davis (R-WI) amendment to delete language permitting the government to sign 40-year contracts with private non-profit housing sponsors to pay an additional $10 million a year in rent supplements for low-income families. | |||||
1967-05-17 | Model City Program [HR9960] | Rejected (193-213) |
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Michel (R-IL) motion to recommit the bill to the House Appropriations Committee with instructions to delete $75 million for urban renewal in model city project areas and $150 million in other model city grants (leaving for the program only $12 million in planning funds). | |||||
1967-06-27 | Eliminate the Teacher Corps [HR10943] | Rejected (146-257) |
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Gurney (R-FL) motion to recommit the Higher Education Act bill with instructions to delete the Teacher Corps provisions. | |||||
1967-07-17 | Impose Railway Strike Settlement [SJRES81] | Agreed To (244-148) |
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Friedel (D-MD) motion to agree to the Senate amendment to the House version of the bill, restoring imposition of the mediation board's recommendation as the final settlement in the labor dispute if no agreement were reached in 90 days. | |||||
1967-08-25 | Foreign Aid [HR12048] | Passed (202-194) |
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Passage of the bill authorizing $2,815,408,000 for foreign economic and military aid in fiscal 1968, and further amending the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. | |||||
1967-09-19 | Extend/Expand Food Stamp Program [S953] | Agreed To (196-155) |
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Poage (D-TX) motion to accept Senate amendments provding a two-year extension of the program and authorizing appropriations of $200 million for fiscal 1968 and $225 million for fiscal 1969. | |||||
1967-09-21 | Delete Public Broadcasting Funds [HR6736] | Rejected (167-193) |
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Devine (R-OH) motion to recommit the bill to the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee with instructions to delete provisions for a Public Broadcasting Corporation and to authorize $5 million for distribution among educational television stations. | |||||
1967-10-04 | Extra HEW Appropriations [HR10196] | Agreed To (226-174) |
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Bow (R-OH) motion to recommit the bill to conference with instructions to delete $20,661,000 in Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare appropriations which were not requested in the President's budget. | |||||
1967-10-18 | Fiscal 1968 Budget Freeze/Cap [HJR888] | Agreed To (238-164) |
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Whitten (D-MS) amendment, as amended by Bow (R-OH), Passman (D-LA) and Broyhill (R-VA), providing that no government agency could spend more in fiscal 1968 than it spent in fiscal 1967, with a few exceptions including military expenditures and interest payments on the national debt; setting a $131.5 billion ceiling on total fiscal 1968 federal expenditures, excluding additional costs of the Viet Nam war; and setting limits on foreign aid and Office of Economic Opportunity expenditures. | |||||
1967-11-08 | Trading with North Vietnam's Allies [S1872] | Rejected (196-200) |
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Gross (R-IA) motion to recommit the conference report with instructions that House conferees insist on House provisions terminating the President's authority to engage in the sale or purchase of defense equipment or services with nations trading with or shipping to North Vietnam and withholding "most favored nation" tariff privilege from Poland until it was determined that country was no longer sending war supplies to North Vietnam. | |||||
1967-11-15 | Cut "Anti-Poverty" Authorization [S2388] | Agreed To (221-190) |
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Ayres (R-OH) motion to recommit the bill with instructions that the Education and Labor Committee reduce the fiscal 1968 authorization for antipoverty programs by $460 million -- from the $2,060,000,000 provided in the bill to $1.6 billion. | |||||
1967-11-21 | Peace Corps Deferrals/Funding [S1031] | Rejected (141-204) |
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Gross (R-IA) motion to recommit the bill to the Foreign Affairs Committee with instructions to reduce the amount authorized from $115.7 million to $105 million and to add language prohibiting the use of funds in the bill to pay any Peace Corps official or employee who attempts to secure draft deferment for any Corps member because of service in the Corps. |
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