Legislative Branch Appropriation Bill, 1945: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Seventy-eighth Congress, Second Session, on the Legislative Branch Appropriation Bill, 1945

Front Cover
U.S. Government Printing Office, 1944 - 181 pages

From inside the book

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 192 - The food ration of prisoners of war shall be equal in quantity and quality to that of troops at base camps.
Page 38 - Senate, the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives, and the Architect of the Capitol...
Page 65 - Building, together with arrangements in cooperation with the proper authorities, for ceremonies and ceremonials held in the building and on the grounds ; is responsible for the care, maintenance, and improvement of the Capitol grounds, comprising...
Page 148 - December 2, 1943, by the Joint Committee of the American Library Association and the Library Binding Institute...
Page 32 - No part of any appropriation contained in this act shall be paid as compensation to any person appointed after June 30, 1935, as an officer or member of the Capitol Police who does not meet the standards to be prescribed for such appointees by the Capitol Police Board : Provided, That the Capitol Police Board is hereby authorized to detail police from the House Office, Senate Office, and Capitol buildings for police duty on the Capitol Grounds and on the Library of Congress grounds.
Page 223 - STATEMENT OF HON. BRENT SPENCE, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF KENTUCKY Mr.
Page 29 - Amounts appropriated for the expenses of the joint committee shall be disbursed one-half by the Secretary of the Senate and one-half by the Clerk of the House.
Page 110 - Garden site from 1850 to 1933, when the Garden was relocated to its present site. Although the Botanic Garden began functioning as a Government-owned institution in 1842, the records indicate that it was not until 1856 that the maintenance of the Garden was specifically placed under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library and a regular, annual appropriation was provided by Congress (1 1 Stat.
Page 48 - I should like to place in the record at this point a letter from the...
Page 180 - Salaries, Sunday opening: For extra services of employees and additional employees under the Architect of the Capitol to provide for the opening of the Library Buildings on Sundays and on holidays, at rates to be fixed by such Architect, $7,000.

Bibliographic information