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A letter from the United States Comptroller General containing a copy of the Fourth Annual Progress Report issued under the Joint Program to Improve Accounting in the Federal Government.

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A letter from a South Carolina constituent written in opposition to an appropriation to purchase golf courses in the District of Columbia.

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Correspondence concerning housing appropriations including reductions in units to be built and the screening of Communists and other "subversive" tenants living in public housing.

Scope and Contents Correspondence, reports, hearings, and committee files, concerning appropriations for Independent Offices including the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), the Council of Economic Advisers, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Selective Service System, the Renegotiation Board, the Tariff Commission, the Housing and Home Finance Agency (HHFA), the National Gallery of Art, the National Science Foundation, the...

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Correspondence concerning appropriations for the Interior Department including the impounding of Taw Caw Creek as a fish and game sanctuary, the Southeastern Power Company, the land reclamation program in the Western States, Missouri River development, and the Central Electric Power Cooperative.

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Correspondence concerning appropriations for the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) including railroads, the salary for the administrator of the Defense Transport Administration, and the government reorganization plan.

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Correspondence concerning a "rider" on the Independent Offices Budget Bill proposing to cut annual leave for federal employees.

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Correspondence concerning funds to be earmarked for libraries in designated critical areas. The correspondence especially addresses the need for additional funds to public libraries affected by the Savannah River Atomic Energy Project.

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Correspondence concerning maritime appropriations including pay for Reserve Midshipmen at State Colleges, the United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, New York, and subsidized voyages.

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Correspondence concerning appropriations for the National Institute of Neurological Disease and Blindness for the Children's Rehabilitation Institute and the construction of an animal quarter's section at the South Carolina Medical College in Charleston for the purpose of research on the medical aspects of atomic energy.