2.1-USA-Politics

Question 1

JFK election(s)

Question 2

Medicare

JFK

Answer 2

Increase social security taxes by 0.25%
For poor and elderly
The House Ways and Means Committee, whose chairman was a southern Democrat, refused to give enough time to discuss in 1963

JFK policy area 1: major legislative initiatives

Question 3

C

JFK

Answer 3

Feb 1961
* $2.3 billion over three years(construct schools and salaries)
* USA’s first Catholic president, therefore denied money to private schools, including many Catholic schools, wanted to maintain credibility
* Roman Catholic bishops opposed the Bill and although passed Senate, defeated in the House of Representatives.

JFK policy area 1: major legislative initiatives

Question 4

Civil Rights Legislation

JFK

Answer 4

1963, violence
* Bill to end the Jim Crow laws (segregation)
* Stuck in Congress at the time of death, Nov 1963 it was referred to the House Rules Committee, whose Democrat chairman = keep
the bill bottled up

JFK policy area 1: major legislative initiatives

Question 5

Tax Reform

JFK

Answer 5

• lower taxes, due to 5 million Americans in unemployment, to ecourage spending
• August 1963, The House Ways and Means Committee voted bill out of committee