Date: October 18, 1967
Subject: Fiscal 1968 Budget Freeze/Cap
Description: Whitten (D-MS) amendment, as amended by Bow (R-OH), Passman (D-LA) and Broyhill (R-VA), providing that no government agency could spend more in fiscal 1968 than it spent in fiscal 1967, with a few exceptions including military expenditures and interest payments on the national debt; setting a $131.5 billion ceiling on total fiscal 1968 federal expenditures, excluding additional costs of the Viet Nam war; and setting limits on foreign aid and Office of Economic Opportunity expenditures.
Result: Agreed to, 238-164
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