Depressed Area Funds Approved: 65-30 Senate Vote Returns Measure To Hostile House
The Senate handed President Kennedy a partial comeback victory today by approving 65-to-30 a bill to expand his program of Federal aid for communities suffering chronic unemployment.</br></br>The bill now goes back to the hostile House, which defeated it two weeks ago, 209 to 204, in the biggest leglisla-tive upset for the President at this session of Congress.</br></br>House Democratic leaders were not expected to call it up again until they felt they had a better chance for pas-age.</br></br>The measure would authorize an additional $455 million for the Area Redevelopment Agency, created 20 months ago to channel Federal loans and grants to depressed areas.</br></br>The 65 Senate votes on behalf of extending the program were two more than were cast for creating it at President KennedyÛªs behest two years ago.