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| 1971-03-09 | Reduce Cloture Requirement [SRES9] | Rejected (55-39) |
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| Church (D-ID) motion to invoke cloture (limit debate) on a motion to proceed to consideration of S Res 9. The resolution amended Senate Rule 22 to reduce the proportion of affirmative votes required to invoke cloture from the existing two-thirds to three-fifths of Senators present and voting. This would have been a severe limitation of the right of the Senate minority to filibuster. A two-thirds vote was required for adoption of this motion. | |||||
| 1971-03-09 | Filibuster Rule | Agreed To (55-37) |
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| Mansfield (D-MT) motion to table (kill) Javits (R-NY) challenge of Vice-Presient Agnew's ruling requiring an affirmative vote of two-thirds of Senators present and voting (instead of a simple majority) to invoke cloture. The challenge of Vice President Agnew's ruling, if upheld, would have been to ignore Rule 22 in order to abolish it without invoking two-thirds cloture. A "yes" vote was a vote to uphold the filibuster rule. | |||||
| 1971-04-26 | Involuntary School Busing [S1557] | Rejected (35-46) |
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| Ervin (D-NC) amendment barring federal action to require busing of school children to affect the composition of elementary and secondary schools. | |||||
| 1971-08-03 | Subversive Activities Board [HR9272] | Agreed To (46-44) |
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| Adoption of the conference report on the bill appropriating $4,067,116,000 for fiscal 1972. The bill contained a provision to expand the powers of the Subversive Activities Control Board that had earlier been rejected by the Senate. | |||||
| 1971-08-04 | Political Usage of Union Dues [S382] | Agreed To (56-38) |
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| Pastore (D-RI) motion to table (kill) the Dominick (R-CO) amendment prohibiting use of dues, assessments or other money collected by any organization from its members to be used for the benefit of any candidate for federal office. Adoption of this motion would allow the use of compulsory union dues for political purposes. | |||||
| 1971-09-09 | "Child Development" Programs [S2007] | Rejected (17-46) |
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| Taft (R-OH) motion recommitting the bill to the Labor and Public Welfare Committee with instructions to delete provisions authorizing certain child development programs. | |||||
| 1971-09-09 | Legal Services Corporation [S2007] | Rejected (28-34) |
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| Cook (R-KY) amendment providing substitute language to prohibit the National Legal Services Corporation from using funds to provide legal assistance for criminal proceedings. | |||||
| 1971-09-23 | Cut Defense Spending [HR8687] | Rejected (26-58) |
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| McGovern (D-SD) amendment requesting the President to submit to Congress an alternate defense budget for fiscal 1973 based on a hypothetical $60 billion ceiling, with accompanying report making recommendations for congressional action on programs to stimulate defense conversion planning as a consequence of declining defense expenditures. The administration's budget had requested $79 billion in defense expenditures. | |||||
| 1971-09-30 | Indochina Withdrawal [HR8687] | Agreed To (57-38) |
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| Mansfield (D-MT) amendment declaring it the policy of the United States that a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Indochina would be completed within six months after enactment of the bill, with the withdrawal to be dependent only on the release of U.S. prisoners of war by North Vietnam and North Vietnamese allies. | |||||
| 1971-10-05 | Missile Accuracy Study [HR8687] | Rejected (17-66) |
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| Buckley (C-NY) amendment authorizing $5 million to conduct preliminary studies directed toward the moderization and improved accuracy of the Minuteman III missile force. | |||||
| 1971-10-06 | Rhodesian Chrome [HR8687] | Rejected (38-44) |
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| Fulbright (D-AR) amendment giving the President discretionary power in removing import restrictions on chromium ore from Rhodesia. The Senate committee version of the bill lifted all Rhodesian import restrictions in violation of a 1966 U.S.-supported United Nations embargo. | |||||
| 1971-10-28 | Defending Taiwan [HR9910] | Agreed To (43-40) |
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| Brock (R-TN) amendment deleting a provision repealing the 1955 Formosa Resolution as of April 15, 1972. Adoption of this amendment would assure the continued U.S. defense of Nationalist China. | |||||
| 1971-10-28 | Limit Indochina Funding [HR9910] | Failed (44-48) |
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| Fulbright (D-AR) motion to reconsider the vote by which the Scott amendment deleting the Cooper-Church provision was adopted. The Cooper-Church provision would have barred the spending of U.S. funds in Indochina for any purposes other than unilateral withdrawal. A "no" vote on the Fulbright motion would kill the Cooper-Church provision. | |||||
| 1971-10-28 | U.N. Contributions [HR9910] | Rejected (28-55) |
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| Buckley (C-NY) amendment deleting $101,500,000 for contributions to international agencies and prohibiting such contributions to the U.N. Development Fund or the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization food program without specific authorization by Congress. | |||||
| 1971-11-22 | Election Financing [HR10947] | Agreed To (52-47) |
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| Pastore (D-RI) amendment (Title X) to allow each taxpayer to designate $1 of his annual tax payment for a contribution to the campaign of an eligible presidential candidate or to a public campaign fund to be shared by eligible candidates. | |||||
| 1971-12-10 | OEO Veto Override [S2007] | Veto Sustained (51-36) |
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| An attempt to override the President's Dec. 9 veto of the bill extending the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) for two years through fiscal 1974, authorizing $6.3 billion for OEO programs, establishing a comprehensive child development program and creating a National Legal Services Corporation. | |||||
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