Second Supplemental Appropriation Bill, 1956: Hearings Before Subcommittees of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session |
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1955 Public Law 84th Congress activities additional amount agencies agricultural airglow amended Antarctic Appropriation Act approved authorized average bill building Bureau Chairman Commission committee commodities Commodity Credit Corporation Congress construction contract Department District of Columbia employees EVINS farm Federal financing fiscal year 1956 flood FOGARTY going Government House Document included increased pay costs International Geophysical JENSEN John Sevier July June 30 justification KIRWAN land limitation loans MAGNUSON ment million months MORSE National obligations oceanography Office operations Pay Act pay increase payment percent personal services personnel PHILLIPS plans poliomyelitis present PRESTON proposed Public Law 94 RABAUT record ROONEY Salaries and expenses satellite seismology SIEMINSKI statement stations supplemental appropriation supplemental estimate supplemental request TABER taxes Tennessee Valley Authority THOMAS tion Total United VOGEL WESSENAUER WHITTEN World Health Organization
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Page 626 - States at the end of each calendar year, save and except such part of such proceeds as in the opinion of the board shall be necessary for the Corporation in the operation of dams and reservoirs, in conducting its business in generating, transmitting, and distributing electric energy and in manufacturing, selling, and distributing fertilizer and fertilizer ingredients.
Page 529 - * * * whether or not on all the evidence there is a reasonable doubt as to the loyalty of the person involved to the Government of the United States.
Page 527 - Board shall have authority in cases referred to it under this order to inquire into the loyalty to the Government of the United States of United States citizens employed, or considered for employment, by international organizations of which the United States is a member, and...
Page 102 - There is hereby authorized to be appropriated annually to the Department of State, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary for the payment by the United States of its share of the expenses of the...
Page 651 - Congress assembled, .That for the purpose of maintaining and operating the properties now owned by the United States in the vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, in the interest of the national defense and for agricultural and industrial development, and to improve navigation in the Tennessee River and to control the destructive flood waters in the Tennessee River and Mississippi River Basins, there is hereby created a body corporate by the name of "The Tennessee Valley Authority...
Page 618 - Rapids section thereof, and that in the development of hydroelectric power therefrom the said project shall be considered primarily as for the benefit of the people of the State as a whole and particularly the domestic and rural consumers to whom the power can economically be made available...
Page 102 - ... payment by the United States of its share of the expenses of the Organization as apportioned by the Health Assembly in accordance with article 56 of the constitution of the Organization, except that payments by the United States for any fiscal year of the Organization after 1958 shall not exceed 33 Уз per centum of the total assessments of active members of the Organization for such fiscal year...
Page 13 - To the extent to which Congress shall approve of said estimates, Congress shall appropriate the amount of fifty per centum thereof; and the remaining fifty per centum of such approved estimates shall be levied and assessed upon the taxable property and privileges in said District other than the property of the United States and of the District of Columbia.
Page 305 - States for assistance and administration of four programs of public assistance — old-age assistance, aid to dependent children, aid to the blind, and aid to the permanently and totally disabled.
Page 11 - The object of the grant of exclusive legislation over the district was, therefore, national in the highest sense, and the city organized under the grant became the city, not of a state, not of a district, but of a nation.