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Status of Congressional Bills
WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 8, 1963
WASHINGTON(UPI) -Status
of major legislation:
Incime Taxes Administration
supported bill would reduce in
come taxes on individuals and
corporations by $11 billion with
$7 billion of relief effective on
1964 incomes and rest taking
effect in 1965. House passed.
Senate finance committee
holding hearings.
Stocks and Bond Taxes To
retard flow of American capital
abroad, Kennedy has proposed
that purchase taxes be levied
on Americans who buy foreign
stocks and bonds from foreign
ers. House ways and means
committee has started closed
door consideration. Senate
awaiting house action.
Fallout Shelters President
Kennedy wants authority to
make federal contributions to
ward construction of civil de
fense fallout shelters in schools,
hospitals and other non-profit
institutions. House passed one
year, $19 million bill. Senate
nothing scheduled.
Foreign Aid Administration
asking $4.5 billion. House- pas
sed authorization bill setting ap-
Sropriations ceiling of $3.5
illion. Senate foreign rela
tions committee recommended
$4.2 billion, which is now being
debated on the floor. Vote ex
pected this week, (actual ap
propriations to come later.)
Health Insurance President
wants hospitalization program
for persons 65 and older fin
anced through social security
taxes. House ways and means
committee to begin hearings
Nov. 18 but no chance for pas
.sage this year. Senate await
ing house action.
Colleges President asked
for new program of loans and
grants to build classrooms, li
braries and laboratories. Both
house and senate passed sepa
rate versions! Compromise
worked out by conference com
mittee would provide about $1.9
billion over three years for this
purpose. ' '
Vocational Education Ken
nedy sought increase in current
annual federal aid of $57 mil
lion for job training schools.
House passed bill that would
boost aid to $237 million a year.
Senate passed boost to $243
million, added extension and en
largement of national defense
education act; three-year exten
sion of "impacted areas" school
aid. A House-Senate conference
committee still must work out
a compromise version.
Libraries President wants
construction and operating aid
for city as well as country li
braries. House committee ap
proved. Senate committee
approved.
Package Civil Rights Bill
Kennedy wants new safeguards
for Negro voting rights, ban
on customer discrimination by
private businesses. Justice De
partment authority to start
school desegregation suits,
White House authority to cut off
federal aid to discriminatory
programs, creation of federal
agencies to fight government
related job bias and help me
diate local rac; disputes and
continuation of Civil Rights
Commission. Hous- Judiciary
Committee approved bipartisan
compromise which seeks to end
racial discrimination in voting,
education, employment, unions
and in use of privately owned
lodgings, eating establishments
and places of amusement;
would make Civil Right Com
mission permanent. Senate
Judiciary Committee hearings
on package bill in recess, no ac
tion expected.
Public Accommodations
Kennedy's proposal to ban dis
crimination in use of hotels,
restaurants, theaters, stores
and other public accommoda
tions. House included in om.
nibus bill. Senate Commerce !
Committee approved limited
version as separate legislation.
Employment Discrimination
Kennedy endorsed separate
FEPC covering private busi
ness and labor unions. House
Labor Committee approved
separate bill; Judiciary Sub
committee included it in omni
bus bill. Senate Labor Sub
committee approved; Com
merce Committee put labor un
ion bias ban into public accom
modations bill.
Cotton Administration back
ed subsidy plan would provide
cheaper cotton for U.S. tex
tile mills; includes lower sup
port prices for large - scale
growers and potential relaxation
of planting restrictions. House
bill approved by Agriculture
Committee, cleared by Rules
Committee, scheduled for floor
action in mid-November. Sen
ate hearings completed.
Mexican Farm Hands 12-year-old
law permitting impor
tation of Mexicans for tempo
rary work on American farms
expires Dec. 31; administration
requested one-year extension
with new safeguards to protect
domestic workers. Senate
passed such a measure. House
approved administration-opposed
simple one-year extension
without safeguard amendments.
A House - Senate Conference
Committee must now work out
compromise version.
Mass Transit Kennedy pro
posed $500 million in subsidies
to improve city rail, bus and
subway services. House Bank
ing committee approved bill,
pending in Rules committee.
Senate approved $375 million
program.
Wilderness President wants
to establish a national program
to preserve public lands in their
natural state. Senate passed,
with provision covering 8 mil
lion acres immediately and
possibly up to 35 million acres
eventually. House No com
mittee hearings set.
Outdoor Recreation Ken
nedy wants a special land and
water conservation fund to fin
ance purchase of additional fed
eral and state park lands and
forests for outdoor recreation.
House Interior committee ap
proved bill. Senate hearings
completed, awaiting House ac
tion. Depressed Areas Kennedy
asked Congress to expand sharp
ly program of federal redevel
opment aid to local industries
designed to create jobs in areas
of chronically high unemploy
ment. Senate approved ad
ditional $455 million authoriza
tion. House rejected, but Bank
ing committee has approved a
"second-try" $355 million bill
which is pending before rules
committee.
Youth Employment Ken
nedy asked new $100 million
youth conservation corps for
outdoor work in forests and
parks; Home Town Youth Corps
for local civic projects. House
Education committee has ap
proved, pending in rules com
mittee. Senate passed.
Domestic Peace Corps
President asking for new or
ganization of 1,000 to 5,000 skill
ed volunteers to carry out work
in this country similar to peace
corps projects abroad. $5 mil
lion first year cost. House Ed
ucation and Labor subcommit
tee concluded hearings. Senate
passed.
Price-Culting Administra
tion opposed bill backed by
druggists and some other retail
groups is designed to stop re
tail price-cutting of brand-name
m e r c e committee approved,
pending before Rules committ
ee Senate Commerce sub
committee has not set date to
merchandise. House Com
esume hearings.
Military Pay President asked
$1.2 billion annual pay boost
for servicemen, reservists and
it requested to replace existing gress granted President's re-silver-backed
$1 bills with gold-1 quest to extend through Nov.
backed $1 bills.
Women Workers Starting
next June employers must pro-
Mine. Nhu's Father
Doubts Role by U, S.
FRESNO. Calif. (UPI) - Dr.
Tram Van Chuon, father of
South Viet Nam's Mme. Ngo
Dinh Nhu, said Monday he did
not feel the United States
played a direct part in the mil
itary coup that ousted President
Ngo Dinh Diem.
But, Chuong admitted, the
fact the United States cut eco
nomic aid in South Viet Nam
may have encouraged those
who staged the coup.
Dennis the Menace
retirees. Congress approved $1.2 j(j equal pay' fo. women work.
htllmn I n f r a a c o u'lth enmo P . r 7.
billion increase with some
changes including elimination
of, boosts for low-ranking en
listed men with less than two
years service.
Draft Congress granted Ken
nedy's request for four-year ex
tension of selective service and
doctor draft.
Feed Grains Congress ex
tended for two years tempor
ary program of paying farmers
to hold down surplus production
of corn and other feed grains.
Silver To combat shortage
of silver for coins, Congress
gave administration authority
ers who do the same work as
men; new law applies to jobs
covered by minimum wage-hour
law.
Taxes Congress in response
to administration request ex
tended for another year present
temporary tax rates on corpora
tion profits, liquor, cigarettes,
automobiles, ielephone calls and
airline tickets which had been
scheduled to drop to lower levels
July 1. (Corporation tax rates
would be permanently revised
downward, if Kennedy's tax. re
duction program is enacted.)
National ueot Limit ion-i
30 temporary ceiling of $309
billion on national debt. Ceiling
would have reverted to $285
billion Sept. 1 without the new
legislation. (New extension for
increased $315 billion debt limit
for last seven months of fiscal
year slated for house vote this
week.)
Rail Dispute Congress au
thorized creation of seven-man
board to arbitrate two key
work rules issues, thus avert
ing nationwide strike. Award to
remain in effect for two years,
other issues not subject to arbi
tration but strike over them
barred for at least 180 days.
Medical Schools Congress
granted Kennedy's request for
federal aid for construction of
medical-dental schools and loan
aid to medical and dental stu
dents. Three - year program
would cost about $236 million.
Treaty Senate ratified
treaty with Soviet Russia, Brit
ain and other nations which
bans nuclear tests in air, space
and underwater.
Civil Rights Commission
Stop-gap one year extension of
commission's authority; would
continue it beyond present cut
off date of Nov. 30.
Mental Retardation Second
part of President's mental
health program, will spend $355
million over five to seven year
period to combat mental re
tardation through improved
material and infant care.
Railroad Payroll Taxes Con
gress approved legislation re-i
quiring larger employer and
employee contributions to rail
road retirement fund increased
employer contributions only to
railroad unemployment insur
ance fund to avert long-range
shortage.
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Mental Health - Administra
tion's long-range program for
community treatment centers;
research on and treatment of
mental retardation. Plans calls
for spending $329 million over
first four years.
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