Public Works Appropriations for 1963: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, Second Session, Volume 54, Parts 4-5

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Page 746 - No part of the money appropriated by any enactment of Congress shall, in the absence of express authorization by Congress, be used directly or indirectly to pay for any personal service, advertisement, telegram, telephone, letter, printed or written matter, or other device. intended or designed to influence in any manner a Member of Congress, to favor or oppose, by vote or otherwise, any legislation or appropriation by Congress, whether before or after the introduction of any bill or resolution proposing...
Page 23 - It is important to us that planning money be available to the Corps of Engineers, the Bureau of Reclamation, and the Soil Conservation Service, to proceed with the studies that are necessary to the success of the long-range Elkhorn Valley development.
Page 82 - Senate, That the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, created under Section 3 of the River and Harbor Act approved June 13, 1902, be, and is hereby requested to review the report...
Page 471 - I would therefore exhort one and all of you to look well to the East, to the West, to the North, and to the South...
Page 590 - The Joint Executive Committee for the Improvement and Development of the Philadelphia Port...
Page 8 - PL 99 is under the direction of the Secretary of the Army and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers.
Page 764 - That as part of the Glen Canyon unit the Secretary of the Interior shall take adequate protective measures to preclude impairment of the Rainbow Bridge...
Page 695 - WATERWAYS Substantial progress has been made during the past decade in the development of the water resources of the Sabine River Basin through the combined efforts and cooperation of Federal, State, and local agencies and interests. These development projects, encompassing water conservation and supply, flood control, navigation, power and recreation, cover the entire watershed from the headwaters in northeast Texas to the mouth at the Gulf of Mexico. Over the entire 550...
Page 792 - This basic objective can and must be achieved primarily by continued reliance on unsubsidized privately owned facilities, operating under the incentives of private profit and the checks of competition to the maximum extent practicable.
Page 792 - It means equality of opportunity for all forms of transportation and their users and undue preference to none. It means greater reliance on the forces of competition and less reliance on the restraints of regulation.

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