Explore the votes of Hattie Wyatt Caraway, the first woman elected to the Senate
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After reports that the USS Maddox had been attacked by North Vietnamese naval vessels, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 422-1 to authorize military action in Vietnam. Eugene Siler was the loan 'Nay' vote.
By a vote of 96-3, Ford was easily confirmed. Click to learn who the three dissenting votes were.
In 1965, Congress passed the Immigration and Nationality Act, which eliminated restrictions racial, ethnic, and national origin restrictions on immigration and established priority immigration procedures for family reunification.