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| 1972-08-10 | Rhodesian Chrome Imports [HR16029] | Agreed To (253-140) |
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| Dent (D-PA) amendment deleting a provision forbidding the implementation of an existing law forbidding the President to ban importation of strategic material from a non-Communist nation if the same material were imported from a Communist nation unless the President determined that implementation of the law was in the national interest. A "yes" vote on this amendment would permit the importation of Rhodesian chrome. | |||||
| 1972-08-16 | Labor/HEW Appropriations Veto [HR15417] | Veto Sustained (203-171) |
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| Reconsideration and passage of the bill, vetoed by the President Aug. 16, appropriating $30,538,919,500 for the Department of Labor, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and related agencies for fiscal 1973. | |||||
| 1972-08-17 | Reopen Desegregation Cases [HR13915] | Agreed To (245-141) |
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| Green (D-OR) amendment permitting the reopening of cases involving court desegregation orders to bring them into conformity with the provisions of the bill. | |||||
| 1972-08-18 | SALT Agreement [HJR1227] | Agreed To (330-7) |
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| Resolution authorizing the President to approve the interim agreement limiting offensive nuclear weapons between the United States and the Soviet Union, which was signed May 26, 1972, in Moscow by President Nixon and Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Leonid I. Brezhnev. | |||||
| 1972-09-14 | Indochina War Funding [HR16593] | Rejected (160-208) |
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| Addabbo (D-NY) amendment calling for a cutoff of all funds appropriated in the bill to support U.S. involvement in Indochina. The fund cutoff would take place four months after enactment of the bill pending the release of U.S. prisoners of war and an accounting for those missing in action. | |||||
| 1972-10-02 | Foreign Travel Restrictions [HR16742] | Failed (230-140) |
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| Ichord (D-MO) motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill authorizing the President to prohibit travel by U.S. citizens to countries engaged in armed conflict with the United States. This was known as the "Jane Fonda Bill". A two-thirds majority, in this case 248, was needed for passage under suspension of the rules. | |||||
| 1972-10-03 | Minimum Wage Increase [HR7130] | Failed (189-196) |
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| Perkins (D-KY) motion that the House disagree with the Senate version of the bill raising the minimum wage for workers covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and request a conference to resolve differences between the two versions. | |||||
| 1972-10-11 | OSHA Inspection Restrictions [HR16654] | Agreed To (197-167) |
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| Flood (D-PA) motion to table (kill) the Findley (R-IL) motion to instruct House conferees to insist on a House provision prohibiting funds in the bill from being used to inspect firms employing 15 or fewer persons for compliance with the Occupational Safety and Health Act. (The Senate set the exemption at three persons.) | |||||
| 1972-10-12 | Revenue Sharing [HR14370] | Agreed To (266-110) |
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| Adoption of the conference report on the bill establishing a five-year program to share $30,236,400,000 in federal revenues with state and local governments. | |||||
| 1972-10-18 | Water Pollution Control [S2770] | Veto Overridden (247-23) |
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| Passage of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, vetoed by the President Oct. 17, providing a comprehensive program to clean up the nation's waters by 1985 and authorizing $24.7 billion over three years, including $18 billion in federal grants to states for construction of waste treatment works. | |||||
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"No vote" means that this member did not cast a vote (or voted 'Present' instead of Yes or No). |