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| 1969-01-03 | Adam Clayton Powell Seating [HRES2] | Agreed To (249-171) |
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| Celler (D-NY) motion to move the previous question on the resolution to seat Adam C. Powell (D-NY), to fine him $25,000 and to strip him of seniority. The House had forced Powell into two-year "exile" in 1967. | |||||
| 1969-06-18 | Cigarette Advertising Restrictions [HR6543] | Rejected (139-252) |
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| Brotzman (R-CO) motion to recommit (kill) the bill strengthening cigarette warning labels and prohibiting for six years restrictions on cigarette advertising. | |||||
| 1969-06-30 | Surtax Extention/Spending Increases [HR12290] | Passed (210-205) |
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| Passage of the bill extending the surtax at 10 percent through Dec. 31 and at 5 percent through June 30, 1970, repealing the 7 percent investment credit, postponing reductions in certain excise taxes and providing a low-income allowance to ensure that poor families paid no income taxes. This was the Nixon administration's package of tax increases, designed to fight inflation and give tax relief to the poor. | |||||
| 1969-07-08 | Kennedy Center Funding [HR11249] | Rejected (163-217) |
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| Authorize additional funds for John F. Kennedy Cultural Center. Schadeberg (R-WI) motion to recommit (kill) the bill. | |||||
| 1969-07-31 | Increase Education Spending [HR13111] | Agreed To (294-119) |
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| Joelson (D-NJ) amendment to add $894,547,000 to the appropriations for elementary and secondary education, aid to federally impacted areas, higher education and vocational education. The total increase was over $1 billion more than the Nixon administration had requested, and destroyed efforts to hold the line on federal spending in order to help curb inflation. | |||||
| 1969-08-05 | Allow Demonstrations/Picketing at the Pentagon [HR13018] | Rejected (87-323) |
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| Whalen (R-OH) motion to recommit with instructions to strike the section on preventing demonstrations and picketing at the Pentagon. | |||||
| 1969-09-08 | Reduce Peace Corps Funding [HR11039] | Rejected (144-186) |
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| Gross (R-IA) motion to recommit with instructions to reduce funding by $11.1 million, from $101,100,000 to $90,000,000. | |||||
| 1969-09-18 | Electoral College Abolition [HJR681] | Passed (338-70) |
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| Passage of the bill to amend the Constitution by abolishing the electoral college and providing for the direct popular election of the President and Vice President. A two-thirds affirmative vote of those present and voting was required for passage. | |||||
| 1969-12-02 | Vietnam "Peace With Justice" Resolution [HRES613] | Agreed To (334-55) |
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| Passage of the resolution affirming the support of the House of Representatives for the President in his efforts to negotiate a "just peace" in Vietnam. | |||||
| 1969-12-09 | Military Assistance to South Korea and Taiwan [HR15149] | Agreed To (250-142) |
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| Broomfield (R-MI) substitute for the Conte (R-MA) amendment adding $50 million for military assistance to the Republic of Korea and retaining $54.5 million for a squadron of F4-D jet fighters for the Republic of China. | |||||
| 1969-12-09 | Foreign Aid Appropriations [HR15149] | Passed (200-195) |
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| Passage of the foreign aid appropriations bill, fiscal 1970, appropriating $1,649,380,000 for economic and military assistance; $275 million for the Foreign Military Credit Sales Program; and $683,640,000 for other related foreign aid programs. This was the "lowest appropriation in the history of foreign aid", but did include funds for military assistance to South Korea and Taiwan. | |||||
| 1969-12-11 | Weaken the Voting Rights Act [HR4249] | Agreed To (208-204) |
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| Ford (R-MI) amendment substituting the Administration bill to extend nationwide the provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in place of the Committee bill extending the law in its existing form. This substitute bill had the effect of weakening the Voting Rights Act, particularly by deleting a provision which required federal approval before state laws on voting could take effect. | |||||
| 1969-12-12 | Devolve Poverty Programs to the States [HR12321] | Rejected (163-231) |
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| Ayres (R-OH) motion to recommit the bill to committee with instructions to report a substitute bill turning control of the antipoverty program over to the states. | |||||
| 1969-12-16 | Federal Reserve's Housing Goals [HR15091] | Agreed To (231-172) |
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| Committee amendment striking provisions authorizing Federal Reserve Board to purchase federally guaranteed mortgages and stating intent of Congress that this authority be used to assist meeting national housing goals. | |||||
| 1969-12-23 | Minority Hiring Quotas [HR15209] | Rejected (156-208) |
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| Mahon (D-TX) motion to recede from disagreement to Senate amendment which had the effect of killing the Philadelphia Plan to eliminate job discrimination. The Comptroller General had ruled that the quota system violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Senate had added an amendment to allow the Comptroller General to refuse funding for any programs he considered illegal (and therefore effectively killing the Plan). | |||||
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