Legislative Establishment Appropriation Bill for 1940: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Seventy-sixth Congress, First Session, on the Legislative Establishment Appropriation Bill for 1940

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Page 316 - 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 191 - CAPITOL BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS CAPITOL BUILDINGS For necessary expenditures for the Capitol Building and electrical substations of the Senate and House Office Buildings, under the jurisdiction of the Architect of the Capitol, including minor improvements, maintenance, repair, equipment, supplies, material, fuel, oil. waste, and appurtenances; furnishings and office equipment...
Page 73 - ... including expenses of attendance at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction of the Librarian in the interest of collections, and all other expenses...
Page 32 - Reserves, including the same objects, and without regard to limitations, specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1941...
Page 23 - I do not know that it contains any branch of science which Congress would wish to exclude from their collection ; there is, in fact, no subject to which a member of Congress may not have occasion to refer.
Page 154 - In addition to these maintenance and repair activities, the Architect of the Capitol is charged with the planning and construction of such buildings as may be committed to his care by Congress from time to time.
Page 118 - CONSTRUCTION AND MACHINERY: On account of hulls and outfits of vessels and machinery of vessels heretofore and herein authorized, to be available until expended, $17,647,617.
Page 100 - For the publication of the Catalogue of Title Entries of the Copyright Office and the decisions of the United States courts involving copyright, $20,000.
Page 196 - Capitol Grounds : For care and improvement of grounds surrounding the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings; Capitol Power Plant; personal and other services...
Page 158 - Board", a quasi corporation, with perpetual succession, and "all the usual powers of a trustee", including the power to "invest, reinvest, and retain investments...

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