Date: December 20, 1969
Subject: Block Aid to Taiwan
Description: Mansfield (D-MT) motion to table the conference report on foreign aid appropriations for fiscal 1970. Mansfield and other Senators objected to the fact that the appropriations bill contained an amount higher than authorized. The most objectionable item from the Mansfield group's standpoint was $54.5 million for Nationalist China to purchase fighter aircraft. The item had been included by the House although the Nixon administration had not requested it.
Result: Motion to Table Agreed to, 39-29
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