Date: June 26, 1961
Subject: Social Security Tax Increases
Description: Hartke (D-IN) amendment to retain the $1,200 earnings ceiling but increase the additional income from which one dollar of Social Security benefits is deducted for every two dollars earned from the current $1,201-$1,500 level to $1,201-$1,700. A pending Cotton (R-NH) amendment proposed increasing the earnings ceiling to $1,800.
Result: Agreed to, 59-30
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