WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 (UPI)—The Senate approved today anti‐busing language that would prevent the Department of Health, Education and Welfare from using Federal funds to compel communities to bus pupils as a means of school desegregation.
The Senate voted 50 to 43 to attach an anti‐busing provision offered by Senator Joseph Biden, Democrat of Delaware, to a $36.2‐billion appropriations bill, after defeating a more sweeping version offered by Senator Jesse Helms, Republican of North Carolina.
The Senate voted 48 to 43 to table Helms amendment, which would have also prevented H.E.W. from keeping any “records, files, reports or statistics” needed to even identify segregated school systems.
The Helms amendment was killed on a motion by Senator Edward W. Brooke, Republican of Massachusetts, the Senate's only black.
The Biden amendment says: “None of the funds appropriated under this act shall be used to require any school. school system or other educational institution, as a condition for receiving funds, grants, or other benefits from the Federal Government, to assign students or teachers by race.”
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