PUBLIC WORKS APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1957 HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS EIGHTY-FOURTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION SUBCOMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS APPROPRIATIONS CLARENCE CANNON, Missouri, Chairman LOUIS C. RABAUT, Michigan JOE L. EVINS, Tennessee EDWARD P. BOLAND, Massachusetts DON MAGNUSON, Washington GLENN R. DAVIS, Wisconsin CARSON CULP, Staff Assistant to the Subcommittee TESTIMONY OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, INTERESTED PUBLIC WORKS APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1957 U.S. Congress House. HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES EIGHTY-FOURTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION SUBCOMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS APPROPRIATIONS CLARENCE CANNON, LOUIS C. RABAUT, Michigan LDWARD P. BOLAND, Massachusetts DON MAGNUSON, Washington Missouri, Chairman GLENN R. DAVIS, Wisconsin CARSON CULP, Staff Assistant to the Subcommittee 75562 TESTIMONY OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, INTERESTED UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1956 HD3881 .A5115 сору 2 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS CLARENCE CANNON, Missouri, Chairman GEORGE H. MAHON, Texas ANTONIO M. FERNANDEZ, New Mexico OTTO E. PASSMAN, Louisiana LOUIS C. RABAUT, Michigan WILLIAM H. NATCHER, Kentucky JOHN TABER, New York RICHARD B. WIGGLESWORTH, Massachusetts H. CARL ANDERSEN, Minnesota JOHN PHILLIPS, California ERRETT P. SCRIVNER, Kansas FREDERIC R. COUDERT, JR., New York EARL WILSON, Indiana GLENN R. DAVIS, Wisconsin BENJAMIN F. JAMES, Pennsylvania GERALD R. FORD, JR., Michigan EDWARD T. MILLER, Maryland KENNETH SPRANKLE, Clerk and Staff Director (11) ? PUBLIC WORKS APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1957 106 31 BEFORE THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON CLARENCE CANNON, Missouri, Chairman LOUIS C. RABAUT, Michigan H. CARL ANDERSEN, Minnesota CONNECTICUT FLOOD CONTROL WITNESS MARCH 19, 1956. H. V. THOMAS J. DODD, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM Er. RABAUT. The committee will come to order. Our first witness colleague, Congressman Dodd, of Connecticut. We will be glad to hear from you at this time, Mr. Dodd. is Mr. DODD. Mr. Chairman, I am grateful for this opportunity to appear before your committee, and I thank you for allowing me to appear at this time. I know you are scheduling our witnesses this afternoon but, as I tried to explain, I have a conflict in time. Mr. RABAUT. We will be pleased to hear you now. Mr. DODD. Thank you, sir. I am not going to take very much of your time,-except to appear and say that I want to urge the committee to give, and I know that it will, its full and sympathetic consideration to these flood-control programs for New England, particularly for Connecticut. I am not going to go over the ground that you know better than I, as to what happened to us up there in August and in October. I am afraid of what may happen as a result of these heavy snowstorms of the last 2 or 3 days. We do need some help up there. The committee has always been considerate, I think, of our area, and I hope it will continue to be so. With your permission, I would like to make a brief statement, explaining my attitude with respect to this problem. Mr. Chairman. I know that you and the other members of the committee are familiar with the terrible human suffering and destruction of property caused by floods in Connecticut during the past year. Nature being what it is, Connecticut and other New England States are certainly destined to suffer floods of this type again in the future if something is not done to prevent them. Even as I speak to you today, Connecticut and other New England States are covered with a blanket of over 10 inches of snow. Prior (1) 1956 |