Date: December 23, 1969
Subject: Minority Hiring Quotas
Description: Mahon (D-TX) motion to recede from disagreement to Senate amendment which had the effect of killing the Philadelphia Plan to eliminate job discrimination. The Comptroller General had ruled that the quota system violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Senate had added an amendment to allow the Comptroller General to refuse funding for any programs he considered illegal (and therefore effectively killing the Plan).
Result: Motion Rejected, 156-208
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