U.S. House - Pepper Sponsored Legislation
- Scope and content:
Constituent correspondence, colleague mail, copies of Pepper bills and resolutions, reports, lists of Pepper bills, rough drafts of bills, notes, voting records, statements and speeches by Claude Pepper and others, Congressional Record reprints, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, press releases, and transcriptions of hearings.
Prominent topics include age discrimination in employment, anti-hijacking, the Anti-Riot Act, the Bilingual Education Act, cancer, catastrophic care, civil service retirement, disability insurance, the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, elementary schools, federal employees, the Higher Education Act, the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, the International Travel Act, humane treatment of laboratory animals, long-term care, Medicaid, Medicare, the National Defense Education Act, nursing homes, the Older Americans Act, pensions, public health, railroad retirees, the savings and loan industry, Senior Citizens Act of 1963, Social Security amendments, and veterans.
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Access and use
- Parent restrictions:
- Collection is open to all researchers. Users may access this collection at the Claude Pepper Library.
- Parent terms of access:
- All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.
- Location of this collection:
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116 Honors WayTallahasseeFL32306-2047USA
