In a column in the Republican Congressional Committee Newsletter, Congressman Donald Rumsfeld (R-IL) wrote that the freedom of information bill was one of the most "critical" issues considered by Congress in 20 years.
On January 4, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson called on Congress to eliminate the nation’s forty-year-old national origins quota system as the basis for immigration and pass an immigration law “based on the work a man can do and not where he was…
Opinion Ballot from a constituent in Rockdale, Texas on the subject of whether Congress should pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965; The constituent writes that he is not opposed to literacy tests if they are adminstered fairly and without…
On January 11, 1964, the U.S. Surgeon General issued a detailed report concluding that cigarette smoking was a health hazard warranting “appropriate remedial action.” In June 1964, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that beginning January…
As the Senate floor debate entered its third week, Mansfield and Dirksen began to explore ways to end debate and bring the bill to a vote. As they quietly polled members, on May 21, 1965, Philip A. Hart (D-MI), the bill’s floor manager, initiated a…
After/before Presidential succession hearing in Old Senate Office Building committee room: Rep. William McCulloch (R-OH); Rep. Emmanuel Celler (D-NY); Sen. Birch Bayh (D-IN)
Members of the Congressional Delegation during a briefing at the Port of Madras, one of the principal unloading points for grain and fertilizer shipments from the United States.
Members of the Congressional Delegation participated in an exhaustive briefing on conditions in the drought affected areas of Bihar. The briefing was presided over by the Prime Minister's Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mr. J. P. Narayan.