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Vote Data for HR15119 (89th Congress)


Date: August 8, 1966

Subject: Unemployment Tax Increases

Description: Passage of the bill requiring states to meet minimum federal standards for the amount and duration of state unemployment compensation benefits, extending coverage of the federal-state unemployment compensation system to an additional 2.3 million workers, providing a new program of extended benefits for jobless workers during national or state recessions, and financing the expanded program by increasing the federal unemployment tax from 3.1 percent to 3.3 percent in 1967 and increasing the taxable wage base from $3,000 to $4,800 by 1972.

Result: Bill Passed, 53-31

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Voted in Favor:

George Aiken (R-VT)  
Clinton Anderson (D-NM)  
Birch Bayh (D-IN)  
Alan Bible (D-NV)  
Caleb Boggs (R-DE)  
Daniel Brewster (D-MD)  
Quentin Burdick (D-ND)  
Robert Byrd (D-WV)  
Howard Cannon (D-NV)  
Clifford Case (R-NJ)  
Frank Church (D-ID)  
Joseph Clark (D-PA)  
Thomas Dodd (D-CT)  
Paul Douglas (D-IL)  
Hiram Fong (R-HI)  
William Fulbright (D-AR)  
Ernest Gruening (D-AK)  
Fred Harris (D-OK)  
Vance Hartke (D-IN)  
Philip Hart (D-MI)  
Daniel Inouye (D-HI)  
Henry Jackson (D-WA)  
Jacob Javits (R-NY)  
Robert Kennedy (D-NY)  
Thomas Kuchel (R-CA)  
Edward Long (D-MO)  
Russell Long (D-LA)  
Warren Magnuson (D-WA)  
Eugene McCarthy (D-MN)  
Gale McGee (D-WY)  
George McGovern (D-SD)  
Thomas McIntyre (D-NH)  
Lee Metcalf (D-MT)  
Walter Mondale (D-MN)  
Mike Monroney (D-OK)  
Joseph Montoya (D-NM)  
Wayne Morse (D-OR)  
Frank Moss (D-UT)  
Edmund Muskie (D-ME)  
Gaylord Nelson (D-WI)  
Maurine Neuberger (D-OR)  
John Pastore (D-RI)  
Claiborne Pell (D-RI)  
Winston Prouty (R-VT)  
William Proxmire (D-WI)  
Jennings Randolph (D-WV)  
Abraham Ribicoff (D-CT)  
Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME)  
Stuart Symington (D-MO)  
Herman Talmadge (D-GA)  
Harrison Williams (D-NJ)  
Ralph Yarborough (D-TX)  
Stephen Young (D-OH)  

Voted Against:

Gordon Allott (R-CO)  
Harry Byrd, Jr. (D-VA)  
Frank Carlson (R-KS)  
John Sherman Cooper (R-KY)  
Norris Cotton (R-NH)  
Carl Curtis (R-NE)  
Everett Dirksen (R-IL)  
Peter Dominick (R-CO)  
James Eastland (D-MS)  
Sam Ervin (D-NC)  
Paul Fannin (R-AZ)  
Bourke Hickenlooper (R-IA)  
Spessard Holland (D-FL)  
Roman Hruska (R-NE)  
Everett Jordan (D-NC)  
Len Jordan (R-ID)  
Frank Lausche (D-OH)  
John McClellan (D-AR)  
Jack Miller (R-IA)  
Thruston Morton (R-KY)  
Karl Mundt (R-SD)  
James Pearson (R-KS)  
Willis Robertson (D-VA)  
Donald Russell (D-SC)  
Richard Russell (D-GA)  
Milward Simpson (R-WY)  
John Stennis (D-MS)  
Strom Thurmond (R-SC)  
John Tower (R-TX)  
John Williams (R-DE)  
Milton Young (R-ND)  

Did Not Vote:

Bob Bartlett (D-AK)  
Ross Bass (D-TN)  
Wallace Bennett (R-UT)  
Allen Ellender (D-LA)  
Albert Gore (D-TN)  
Robert Griffin (R-MI)  
Carl Hayden (D-AZ)  
Lister Hill (D-AL)  
Edward Kennedy (D-MA)  
Mike Mansfield (D-MT)  
George Murphy (R-CA)  
Leverett Saltonstall (R-MA)  
Hugh Scott (R-PA)  
George Smathers (D-FL)  
John Sparkman (D-AL)  
Joseph Tydings (D-MD)  

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