ENFORCED ‘BUSING’
House shows opposition
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WASHINGTON, March 9. The United States House of Representatives yesterday reaffirmed its opposition to enforced “busing”—sending white and black students to school by bus to integrate the nation’s classrooms racially. The issue once again emerged in Congress as the House voted 272 to 139 to "instruct” its 20 representatives on a House-Senate Conference Committee to stand firm against busing. The Senate last month, by a one-vote margin, turned back a similar tough antibusing amendment to a $U523,000 million education bill. Instead, it adopted a more conciliatory approach sponsored by the Senate’s two leaders. Senator Mike Mansfield (Democrat, Montana) and Senator Hugh Scott (Republican, Pennsylvania). Normally, such legislative differences are easily settled in a House-Senate Conference Committee. But the relatively rare House decision demanding that its representatives stick to its strong anti-busing position, was seen by members as possibly deadlocking the education legislation unless the Senate gives in.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32862, 10 March 1972, Page 9
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