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Questionnaire. Topics include: opinion on H.R. 2384 asking whether the government should pay hospital bills for old folks on social security; opinion on whether chain stores should absorb losses on net earnings after taxation; opinion on H.R. 567 requiring full disclosure of all discounts to all buyers; opinion on S. 50 asking tire makers to close all their company stores; and opinion on whether Congress should outlaw secondary boycotts used to organize business.

Questionnaire. Topics include: opinion on the H.R. 7997 on whether the government should help private insurance firms write policies against catastrophe damage; opinion on H.R. 8099 on limiting imports of foreign goods threatening welfare of domestic business; opinion on S. 2814 making it a criminal offense for tax collectors to threaten taxpayers illegally; opinion on whether Congress should act to secure square deal for smaller farmers on government farm programs.

Questionnaire. Topics include: opinion on H.R. 9067 cutting taxes on smaller corporations; opinion on H.R. 9082 on stopping auto makers from forcing cars on dealers; opinion on S. 3107 on protecting small firm franchise rights against unjust cancellations; opinion on putting the House Small Business Committee on permanent basis; opinion on H.R. 8642 on calling for sharper teeth for anti-trust laws.

Questionnaire. Topics include: opinion on H. R. 9514/S.3129 calling for a $2000 tax cut for small corporations; opinion on H.R. 9690 requiring employee secret vote before strikes; opinion on S. 2747 calling for a study of commissary and post exchange operations; opinion on S. J. Res. 1, the Treaty-Agreement Control Bill; and opinion on whether to grant foreign aid to only those nations lined up with the U.S. in the cold war against Communists.

Includes resolutions passed during the 1955 series of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association' regional meetings and resolutions adopted by the Association of State and Territorial Health Officers at the annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

Correspondence. Topics include: H.J. Res. 474, to establish a joint congressional committee to be known as the Joint Committee on United States International Exchange of Persons Programs.

H. Con. Res. 43: Concurrent Resolution Bill by Francis E. Walter - (Pennsylvania). 84th Congress, 1st Session (House).

Correspondence. Topics include: H. Res. 103 by Wickersham; interim report of the Committee on the Judiciary; urge Congress to continue to investigate and study the problem; National Probation and Parole Association receives $600,000 Ford Grant for 5-year program to improve treatment services; number of juvenile delinquents convicted each year of crimes in the United States; miscellaneous.

Including 2 cubic feet of material, the legislative series is arranged alphabetically by committee name and contains correspondence, bills, and reports. Prominent subjects in this series include agriculture legislation and federal aid to Oklahoma education.

Correspondence. Topics include: "rules" of procedure for the committee.