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Correspondence, bills, reports, and other documents on legislation and Carl Albert's leadership roles as majority whip, majority leader, and speaker of the House. Topics include education, labor, civil rights, busing, gun control, the Vietnam War, revenue sharing, executive impoundment, school prayer, the energy crisis, Watergate, and the administration of the House. An important subseries are memos from John Barriere, executive director of the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee.

Correspondence: re: H. R. 3260: "To amend the Servicemen`s and Veterans' Survivor Benefits Act to provide that all retired members of the uniformed services who served no less that twenty-five years on active duty and who thereafter die shall be considered to have died service-connected deaths" (James B. Utt -California).

Correspondence, bills, reports, and other documents on legislation and Carl Albert's leadership roles as majority whip, majority leader, and speaker of the House. Topics include education, labor, civil rights, busing, gun control, the Vietnam War, revenue sharing, executive impoundment, school prayer, the energy crisis, Watergate, and the administration of the House. An important subseries are memos from John Barriere, executive director of the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee.

"To amend section 315(m) of the Veterans' Benefits Act of 1957 to provide a special rate of compensation for certain blind veterans" (Olin E. Teague -Texas).

Correspondence, bills, reports, and other documents on legislation and Carl Albert's leadership roles as majority whip, majority leader, and speaker of the House. Topics include education, labor, civil rights, busing, gun control, the Vietnam War, revenue sharing, executive impoundment, school prayer, the energy crisis, Watergate, and the administration of the House. An important subseries are memos from John Barriere, executive director of the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee.

Correspondence: re: legislation which would reduce compensation to veterans; legislation for benefits of disabled veterans; exclusion of non-service-connected veterans to bills on veterans pension raise; foreign aid.

Correspondence, bills, reports, and other documents on legislation and Carl Albert's leadership roles as majority whip, majority leader, and speaker of the House. Topics include education, labor, civil rights, busing, gun control, the Vietnam War, revenue sharing, executive impoundment, school prayer, the energy crisis, Watergate, and the administration of the House. An important subseries are memos from John Barriere, executive director of the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee.

H. R. 11801: "To amend sections 802 and 803 of the Veterans' Benefits Act of 1957 to increase the burial allowance for deceased veterans from $150 to $250" (Paul A. Fino -New York).

Correspondence: re: Summary and resume of action taken by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs during the Eighty-fifth Congress.

Correspondence, bills, reports, and other documents on legislation and Carl Albert's leadership roles as majority whip, majority leader, and speaker of the House. Topics include education, labor, civil rights, busing, gun control, the Vietnam War, revenue sharing, executive impoundment, school prayer, the energy crisis, Watergate, and the administration of the House. An important subseries are memos from John Barriere, executive director of the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee.