U.S. House - General Legislation

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Materials pertaining to legislation which Claude Pepper did not directly sponsor or co-sponsor; however, they covered areas of interest to him. They include constituent correspondence; colleague mail, copies of bills, acts, laws, resolutions., reports, transcripts of hearings, press releases, articles, newspapers and newspaper clippings, voting and attendance records; voting dockets; copies of speeches, statements, and testimony by Claude Pepper and others; Whip Advisories; lists; form letters; photographs; Congressional Records reprints and excerpts; magazines; flyers; research papers; fact sheets and other forms of information. Prominent topics include agriculture, appropriations, the armed services, the Committee on Banking and Currency, the Committee on the District of Columbia, the Education and Labor Committee, the minimum wage, Cuban refugees, civil rights, the Equal Pay Act, equal rights for women, the Fair Labor Standards Act, federal aid to education, federal employees, gun control, higher education, family planning, foreign affairs, the Health, Education, and Welfare Department, humane treatment of laboratory animals, interstate and foreign commerce, the Judiciary Committee, medical care for older people, Medicare, occupational health and safety, the Panama Canal, the Committee on the Post Office and Civil Service, retirement, school prayer, the older population, Social Security, the Taft-Hartley Act, tax reform, unemployment compensation, veterans, the Voting Rights Act, and the War on Poverty.

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