Box 170

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Contains various materials pertaining to railroad anti-trust legislation and the Railroad Anti-monopoly Act of 1986 (H.R. 1140). Includes talking points, memorandums, handwritten notes, and numerous testimonies on a bill to amend the Sherman Act (H.R. 4559) prepared for a hearing before the Subcommittee on Monopolies and Commercial Law of the House Committee on the Judiciary held on September 19, 1984.

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Contains two publications by the Select Committee on Aging, one for the Task Force on the Rural Elderly titled "Health Care Costs and the Rural Elderly: Controlling Costs and Improving Services" (Comm. Pub. No. 98-436) and the other for the Subcommittee on Retirement Income and Employment titled "Problems in Health Care for the Elderly in Rural Areas" (Comm. Pub. No. 100-628).

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Contains various materials pertaining to the Tender Offer Reform Act (H.R. 2172).

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Contains letter, reports, press kits, and other documents compiled by the Congressional Research Service pertaining to NASA programs including the space shuttle program, the Challenger space shuttle, the space station, and the National Aero Space Plane program.

Scope and Contents Contains various materials on the proposed Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in Osage County, Oklahoma (H.R. 3803, S. 1967) and the severely opposing viewpoints surrounding the proposal, particularly by the Osage Nation, and local ranchers. Includes numerous constituent letters from the Osage Tribal Council, National Audubon Society, Sierra Club, and others, as well as numerous photocopies of news clippings. Also contains a piece of inter-office correspondence urging Synar to stay out of...

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Contains various documents pertaining to a farm bill and the agricultural crisis in 1985.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

By far the largest series in the Synar collection, Legislative contains some 82,809 items that cover a wide range of materials and the congressman's full tenure in office.

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Contains various materials pertaining to the authorization of the Corps of Engineers to build lakes solely for the purpose of recreation, hydroelectric power, flood control, and municipal and industrial uses. The proposed amendment to the Public Works Project Authorization Bill (H.R. 6) would expand "municipal and industrial" to include irrigation.

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Contains materials pertaining to H.R. 935, the Synthetic Fuels Fiscal Responsibility Act, which was introduced by Synar to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.

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Contains materials pertaining to H.R. 935, the Synthetic Fuels Fiscal Responsibility Act, which was introduced by Synar to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. Also s materials pertaining to H.R. 3011, the Interior and Related Agencies Fiscal 1986 Appropriations Act.