Editing Hubert Humphrey (section)

===Deputy President pro tempore of the Senate (1977–1978)===
In 1974, along with [[Augustus F. Hawkins|Rep. Augustus Hawkins]] of California, Humphrey authored the [[Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act]], the first attempt at full employment legislation. The original bill proposed to guarantee full employment to all citizens over 16 and set up a permanent system of public jobs to meet that goal. A watered-down version called the ''Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act'' passed the House and Senate in 1978. It set the goal of 4 percent unemployment and 3 percent inflation and instructed the [[Federal Reserve Board]] to try to produce those goals when making policy decisions.

Humphrey ran for [[Party leaders of the United States Senate|Majority Leader]] after the 1976 election but lost to [[Robert Byrd]] of [[West Virginia]]. The Senate honored Humphrey by creating the post of [[Deputy President pro tempore of the United States Senate|Deputy President pro tempore]] of the Senate for him. On August 16, 1977, Humphrey revealed he was suffering from terminal [[bladder cancer]]. On October 25 of that year, he addressed the Senate, and on November 3, Humphrey became the first person other than a member of the House or the President of the United States to address the [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] in session.<ref>Cohen, pp. 478–479.</ref> President Carter honored him by giving him command of [[Air Force One]] for his final trip to Washington on October 23. One of Humphrey's final speeches contained the lines "It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped",<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-09-03-vw-2284-story.html | title=Quotable Congress Gets Ideas from Single Source | website=[[Los Angeles Times]] | date=September 3, 1989 }}</ref> which is sometimes described as the "liberals' mantra".