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The bill went to a conference committee at which Mills worked to eliminate practically all of the Senate amendments. The bill went through more than 5// amendments before being passed by majority vote in the House (307–116) on July 27 and in the Senate on July 28 (70–24). [5] The legislation made two amendments to the Social Security Act of
1956 - Social Security Amendments of 1956, Pub. L. 84–880; 1958 - Social Security Amendments of 1958, Pub. L. 85–840; 1960 - Social Security Amendments of 1960, Pub. L. 86–778; 1961 - Social Security Amendments of 1961, Pub. L. 87–64; 1965 - Social Security Amendments of 1965, Pub. L. 89–97; 1966 - Tax Adjustment Act of 1966, Pub. L ...
The Social Security Act's similarity with the Railroad Retirement Act caused Edwin Witte, the executive director of the President's Committee on Economic Security under Roosevelt who was credited as "the father of social security," [26] to question whether or not the bill would pass; [27] John Gall, an Associate Counsel for the National ...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The father of the social safety net, FDR signed the Social Security Bill into law on Aug. 14, 1935. He had called on Congress to craft a social insurance policy just 14 ...
President Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965. On August 31, 1964, an amendment to the proposed Social Security Amendments of 1964, which further increased the proposed level of Social Security benefits and added hospital insurance to the program, was passed in the Senate by a vote of 49 to 44.
The Social Security Fairness Act, which would increase benefits for 2.8 million retirees, has bipartisan support but time running out. ... Efforts to get the Senate to vote on a bill to expand ...
The Social Security Fairness Act, one of the most bipartisan bills in Congress this session, aims to repeal WEP and GPO. The House voted to pass the legislation Nov. 12, and the Senate approved it ...
April 11, 1965: Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Pub. L. 89–10 July 27, 1965: Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act, Pub. L. 89–92 July 30, 1965: Social Security Act of 1965, Pub. L. 89–97 (including Medicaid and Medicare)