The vote in the Senate took place on June 19, 1935. There were 77 votes for the bill, 6 against the bill, and 12 votes were not placed. It was a bipartisan piece of legislation, with the vast majority of both Democrats and Republicans voting in favor of it.
Most Republicans voted for both the Social Security Act of 1935 and Medicare in 1964.
In the House 284 Democrats voted Yea (out of 319)
Total House members in 1935 - 426
In the Senate 60 voted Yea (out of 69)
Total Senate members in 1935 - 95
In 1935 34 of the 35 republicans voted against it, fact is.
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The Tonkin Gulf Resolution passed unanimously in the House of Representatives and only two senators voted against it. They were senators Wayne Morse and Ernest Gruening.
4 senators voted against the bill and 19 voted in favor of it. The bill has since been signed into law.
When Congress voted to declare war on Germany in April 1917, the vote passed, with only 50 representatives (and 6 senators) voting against it. A few months later when Congress voted to declare war on Germany's ally Austria-Hungary, the vote passed with only one representative voting against it (and zero senators).
Medicare is not paid out of Social Security. The two are funded by different payroll taxes.
it was never transferred to the general fund.
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19 senators voted in favor of the bill and 4 senators against. The bill has since been signed into law.
They haven't voted for it yet. They (60 out of 100) just voted to debate it in the Senate.
Wayne Morse of Oregon and Ernest Gruening of Alaska provied the only opposition.
Senators Wayne Morse of Oregon & Ernest Gruening of Alaska voted against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
On every full moon, senators have to be relocated, and new senators have to be voted in. So, generally, about every month we have new senators.
Although many US senators were against the Vietnam War by 1968, only senators Morse, Gruening and Nelson were voting against appropriations. There seemed to be a consensus that voting money for the troops was not a test on one's position on the war. The belief was that the soldiers were entitled to government funding as long as the troops remained in Vietnam.