Box 26

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A letter containing Representative Rivers' voting and attendance record for the First Session of the Eighty-fifth Congress.

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Correspondence concerning agricultural legislation including the Farm Surplus Reduction Act, tobacco tariff increase, the National Grange, a soil and water research facility in Florence, South Carolina, Soil Conservation Reserve Program, and cotton acreage allotments.

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Correspondence concerning defense appropriations including army modernization and the use of government owned facilities as opposed to transfer by contract to private contractors.

Scope and Contents Correspondence concerning appropriations including a reduction in the District of Columbia's budget for public services, sewage treatment funds, cuts in the Veterans Administration budget, the Eau Galle River project, an additional building for the Library of Congress, survey of the navigation potential of the Wateree and Congaree Rivers, Federal Medical-Health Appropriations, more funding for the United States Vegetable Breeding Laboratory in Charleston, South Carolina, vocational...

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Correspondence and copies of the Supplemental Appropriations Bill for 1960.

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Correspondence and a copy of a statement made by Representative Rivers in support of a Joint Resolution establishing a George Washington Carver Centennial Commission.

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Correspondence, newspaper clippings, statements, and speeches concerning Representative Rivers campaign against Civil Rights legislation and his efforts to abolish the Civil Rights Commission.