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| 1968-02-07 | Export-Import Bank Lending [HR6649] | Rejected (163-232) |
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| Gross (R-IA) motion to recommit the bill to the House Banking and Currency Committee with instructions to cut by $1 billion the increase in the limit on lending authority provided by the bill. (The bill provided a $4.5 billion [sic] increase in the limit, from $9.5 billion to $13.5 billion.) | |||||
| 1968-02-21 | Keep Gold Cover [HR14743] | Rejected (189-205) |
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| Fino (R-NY) motion to recommit (kill) the bill to remove the gold cover requirements for U.S. currency. Prior to the removal of the gold cover each Federal Reserve Bank was required to hold a gold certificate reserve of not less than 25% against its Federal Reserve note liability. | |||||
| 1968-02-27 | Arts and Humanities Foundation Funding [HR11308] | Agreed To (261-131) |
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| Ashbrook (R-OH) amendment to reduce the fiscal 1969 appropriation authorization for the Foundation to $11.2 million from $55 million and to drop the 1970 authorization of $80 million. | |||||
| 1968-03-06 | Arms Control Agency Funding [HR14940] | Agreed To (241-162) |
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| Derwinski (R-IL) motion to recommit the bill with instructions to reduce a three-year, $33 million authorization to a two-year, $20 million authorization. | |||||
| 1968-03-19 | Inter-American Bank Involvement [HR15364] | Rejected (127-270) |
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| Curtis (R-MO) motion to recommit (kill) the bill to provide for increased participation by the United States in the Inter-American Development Bank. | |||||
| 1968-04-10 | Open Housing/Civil Rights Expansions [HRES1100] | Agreed To (250-172) |
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| Adoption of the resolution to agree to the Senate amendments to the House-passed civil rights bill (HR 2516) and to send HR 2516 to the President. The Senate amendments -- which were the substance of HR 2516 -- prohibited interference with a person exercising specified federally protected rights, prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing, guaranteed constitutional rights of American Indians and prohibited travel in interstate commerce with the intent to incite or take part in a riot. | |||||
| 1968-04-23 | Funding of Public Broadcasting [HR15986] | Passed (242-133) |
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| Passage of the bill to carry forward from fiscal 1968 to fiscal 1969 the $9 million appropriations authorization for initial funding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. | |||||
| 1968-05-08 | Limit HUD Expenditures [HR17023] | Rejected (173-217) |
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| Bow (R-OH) motion to recommit the bill to the House Appropriations Committee with instructions to limit fiscal 1969 expenditures for the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development to $15,518,483,000 for agencies covered by the bill (with certain exceptions for payments required by law). | |||||
| 1968-05-21 | Interior Department Expenditures [HR17354] | Rejected (174-207) |
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| Rumsfield (R-IL) motion to recommit the bill with instructions to add language limiting expenditures by agencies covered by the bill to $1,383,432,068 in fiscal 1969. | |||||
| 1968-05-28 | Limit State-Justice-Commerce Expenditures [HR17522] | Agreed To (223-154) |
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| Jonas (R-NC) motion to recommit the bill with instructions to add language limiting fiscal 1969 expenditures by the agencies involved to $1,989,640,000. | |||||
| 1968-06-11 | Funds for "Impacted" School Districts [HR17734] | Agreed To (226-133) |
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| Michel (R-IL) amendment, as amended by Mink (D-HI), to provide $90,965,000 for school operation and maintenance in federally impacted school districts. | |||||
| 1968-06-12 | Export-Import Bank Loss Coverage [HR16162] | Agreed To (218-163) |
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| Brock (R-TN) amendment to limit to $100 million the amount of losses which the U.S. Treasury would be authorized to cover in excess of $100 million in losses incurred by the Export-Import Bank as a result of loans, guarantees and insurance extended under the act. | |||||
| 1968-06-13 | Peace Corps Funding [HR15087] | Rejected (179-187) |
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| Gross (R-IA) motion to recommit the bill with instructions to reduce the authorization for fiscal 1969 appropriations from $112,800,000 to $97 million. | |||||
| 1968-06-19 | Dickey-Lincoln Project [HR17903] | Agreed To (266-132) |
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| Giaimo (D-CT) amendment to delete $671,000 in planning funds for the Dickey-Lincoln power project in Maine. | |||||
| 1968-06-26 | Education Appropriations [HR18037] | Agreed To (228-172) |
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| Green (D-OR) amendment to increase appropriations for the education professions development program by $46.9 million. | |||||
| 1968-06-26 | Cut OEO Appropriations [HR18037] | Rejected (181-220) |
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| Scherle (R-IA) amendment to cut appropriations for the Office of Economic Opportunity by $100 million. | |||||
| 1968-07-10 | Public Housing Grants [HR17989] | Agreed To (217-193) |
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| TO RECOMMIT H.R. 17989, THE HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT ACT OF 1968, WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO DELETE UPGRADING MANAGEMENT AND SERVICES IN PUBLIC HOUSING PROJECTS SECTION AND INTERIM ASSISTANCE TO BLIGHTED AREAS SECTION. | |||||
| 1968-07-18 | Cut Foreign Aid Programs [HR15263] | Agreed To (268-150) |
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| TO RECOMMIT H.R. 15263, THE FOREIGN ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1968, TO THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS, WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO CUT AUTHORIZATIONS BY ABOUT $165 MILLION. | |||||
| 1968-07-18 | Foreign Aid [HR15263] | Passed (228-184) |
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| Passage of the bill authorizing $1,993,850,000 for foreign economic and military aid in fiscal 1969. | |||||
| 1968-07-26 | HUD Expansion [S3497] | Agreed To (228-135) |
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| Adoption of the conference report on the bill providing new programs of federal assistance for homeownership and rental housing for low-income families, federal reinsurance for insurance-industry riot losses, flood insurance for homeowners, federal assistance for developers of entire new towns and new communities, and extending and expanding a number of existing housing and urban development programs. | |||||
| 1968-07-26 | Highway Beautification [S3418] | Rejected (165-169) |
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| Stratton (D-NY) motion during debate on the conference report to recommit the bill to the conference committee and instruct House conferees to insist on the deletion of all program funds ($25 million) for highway beautification. | |||||
| 1968-07-30 | Remove Food Stamp Ceiling [HR18249] | Agreed To (227-172) |
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| Sullivan (D-MO) substitute amendment providing an open-ended (unspecified) appropriations authorization for the program for fiscal 1969-72, instead of a $245 million ceiling for fiscal 1969 funds. | |||||
| 1968-07-31 | Farm Subsidy Payments [HR17126] | Agreed To (230-160) |
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| Conte (R-MA) motion to recommit the bill with instructions to limit to $20,000, beginning with the 1970 crop years, total annual payments to any one farmer under the following programs: wool incentive payments, wheat marketing certificates, price support and diversion payments and the dollar value (as determined by the Agriculture Secretary) of any payments-in-kind made to a producer, but not including the amount of any price support loan. | |||||
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