Date: September 29, 1965
Subject: Washington D.C. Home Rule
Description: Multer (D-NY) amendment, as amendmed by Sisk (D-CA) substitute, providing for election of a District of Columbia Charter Board, if D.C. voters favored home rule in a referendum, to draw up a charter which would be sumbitted to D.C. voters in another referendum and, if approved, would take effect in 90 days if not disapproved by either chamber of Congress. The original Multer amendment would have substituted for HR 4644 the provisions of a Senate bill modified to provide for annual Congressional appropriation of the federal payment, election of the Mayor and Council for four-year terms in non-Presidential election years, changes in D.C. voter requirements and authority for the President to use federal troops or take over local police.
Result: Agreed to, 227-174
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