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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... Department of Agriculture . The appropriation for the Department of Agriculture last year was $ 828,000,000 . What was its income . covered into the Treasury ? Forty - three million dollars . More analogous is the case of the Bureau of ...
... Department of Agriculture . The appropriation for the Department of Agriculture last year was $ 828,000,000 . What was its income . covered into the Treasury ? Forty - three million dollars . More analogous is the case of the Bureau of ...
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... department ? Mr. GILBERT . I don't know that I can say as to that . Mr. VANCE . I might say that Miss Kingsley has charge of the publication of the Index to State Publications . That is one of the valuable pieces of apparatus that is ...
... department ? Mr. GILBERT . I don't know that I can say as to that . Mr. VANCE . I might say that Miss Kingsley has charge of the publication of the Index to State Publications . That is one of the valuable pieces of apparatus that is ...
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... departments in the Library , and has had since 1832 special appropriations for the purchase of books for the Law Library . So it ... Department of Justice draws on us LEGISLATIVE ESTABLISHMENT APPROPRIATION BILL , 1940 77 LAW LIBRARY ...
... departments in the Library , and has had since 1832 special appropriations for the purchase of books for the Law Library . So it ... Department of Justice draws on us LEGISLATIVE ESTABLISHMENT APPROPRIATION BILL , 1940 77 LAW LIBRARY ...
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... Department ? Mr. VANCE . The State Department draws on our library contin- ually , because they are dealing with foreign relations and foreign laws , as the Department of Justice is , and the Veterans ' Administration . Also , the ...
... Department ? Mr. VANCE . The State Department draws on our library contin- ually , because they are dealing with foreign relations and foreign laws , as the Department of Justice is , and the Veterans ' Administration . Also , the ...
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... department about the use of the telephone . Mr. STEFAN . Members of Congress do not have the free privilege of using ... department through a departmental line , the cost is 1 cent . If you talk to the Department using a trunk line that ...
... department about the use of the telephone . Mr. STEFAN . Members of Congress do not have the free privilege of using ... department through a departmental line , the cost is 1 cent . If you talk to the Department using a trunk line that ...
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additional Admiral MOREELL Admiral STARK Admiral TOWERS air-conditioning amount Annex annual appropriated for 1939 asking assistant bill BOND break-down Budget Bureau Capitol power plant Captain ALLEN cards catalog Chairman CLAPP clerk Colonel BURNS committee construction cost deficiency Department DITTER Division elevator employees engineer equipment estimate for 1940 expenditure expenses facilities FERNANDEZ FIFE fiscal year 1941 funds GIEGENGACK going Government helper HINCKLEY Hispanic House Office Building increase installed June 30 Law Library Legislative Legislative Reference Service Librarian Library of Congress LUDLOW LYNN MACLEISH maintenance material mechanic Members ment miscellaneous months Naval Navy necessary old building operation percent personnel positions present purchase PUTNAM RABAUT record reference repairs and alterations requested RICH roof salaries Senate SHANKS SOMMER statement STEFAN submitted Subprofessional supplies TABER tion United States Capitol VANCE West Virginia WIGGLESWORTH WOODRUM
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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...