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Box 43

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Box 43: Departmental, Labor, 1985, 1995, 1998-2001 - Legislative, Agriculture, Food and Agricultural Resources Act of 1990, June-July 1990

F 1:   Departmental, Labor, 1985, 1995, 1998-2001.

Folder contains correspondence. Topics include Stephen Schlossberg, minimum wage, management issues facing the department, ergonomics, and work place safety. Correspondents include William E. Brock, Robert B. Reich, and Elaine L. Chao.

F 2:   Departmental, Management and Budget, 1995, 1998-2002.

Folder contains correspondence and reports. Topics include strategic plans, Year 2000 conversion, performance reports, implementation of the Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act, management issues facing the agency, headquarters of the patent and trademark office, cost of ergonomics regulation, and energy budget. Correspondents include National Taxpayers Union, Jacob J. Lew, Edward R. Royce, George W. Bush, and Mitchell E. Daniels Jr.

F 3:   Departmental, Miscellaneous, n.d., 1990, 1995, 1998-1999.

Folder contains correspondence. Topics include McKinney Municipal Airport and management issues facing the Corporation for National Service. Correspondents include Sam Johnson, Ralph M. Hall, and Texas House delegation from Houston and Dallas.

F 4:   Departmental, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1985, 1995, 1998-1999.

Folder contains correspondence and reports. Topics include space station, space commercialization, and management issues facing the agency. Correspondents include James M. Beggs, Daniel S. Goldin, J. Dennis Hastert, Pete Sessions, and Texas congressional delegation.

F 5:   Departmental, National Science Foundation, 1998-1999.

Folder contains correspondence related to management issues facing the agency.

F 6:   Departmental, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 1998-1999.

Folder contains correspondence related to management issues facing the agency.

F 7:   Departmental, Personnel Management, 1998-1999, 2001.

Folder contains correspondence. Topics include management issues facing the agency, management controls, and assistance to federal workers in aftermath of attacks of September 11, 2001.

F 8:   Departmental, Postal Service, 1985, 2000-2001.

Folder contains correspondence. Topics include postal rate increases, postal surveillance program, and diabetes research stamp. Correspondents include Magazine Publishers of America, Dan Burton, Bob Barr, Vito Fossella, and Diana L. DeGette.

F 9:   Departmental, Postal Service, Federal Express, 2000-2001.

Folder contains correspondence, clippings, and report related to alliance between the postal service and FedEx to share both express and ground deliveries. Competitor express companies such as United Parcel Service and Express One challenged the arrangement because of anti-trust implications. Correspondents include John McHugh (news release), William J. Henderson (statement), Express One, and Ben Nighthorse Campbell.

F 10:   Departmental, Small Business Administration, 1985.

Folder contains correspondence, clippings, and statements regarding proposal to abolish the agency. Correspondents include David Dreier, National Federation of Independent Business, Associated General Contractors of America, David A. Stockman (statement), Republican National Committee, Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, Parren J. Mitchell, and the Heritage Foundation (newsletter).

F 11:    Departmental, Small Business Administration, 1998-1999.

Folder contains correspondence related to management issues facing the agency.

F 12:    Departmental, Social Security Administration, 1998-1999.

Folder contains correspondence related to management issues facing the agency.

F 13:    Departmental, State, 1985, 1993, 1996-2002.

Folder contains correspondence, clippings, printed material, and hearing. Topics include Angola, Germany, political asylum, African Nuclear Weapon Free Zone Treaty (Treaty of Pelindaba), counter narcotics policy in Colombia, cocaine, commitment of Palestinian Authority to combat terrorism, management issues facing the department, North Korea, United Nations Commission on Human Rights, IDB Systems, aviation negotiation with Hong Kong, trafficking of people, and human rights in Vietnam. Correspondents include Duncan Hunter, Barry R. McCaffrey, Madeleine K. Albright, Texas House delegation, Nancy Rubin, Barbara Larkin, Jay P. Urwitz, and Kay Bailey Hutchison.

F 14:    Departmental, Trade Representative, 1995, 1999-2002.

Folder contains correspondence and reports. Topics include trade with Japan, China’s accession to the World Trade Organization, lighting products, Yanbu desalination project in Saudi Arabia, tariffs on steel imports, and Steel Safeguard Program. Correspondents include Newt Gingrich, Charlene Barshefsky, Tom DeLay, Christopher H. Smith, Robert B. Zoellick, and miscellaneous companies and organizations involved in the steel industry.

F 15:    Departmental, Trade Representative, Celanese, 2001.

Folder contains correspondence related to antidumping case filed against Celanese by China.

F 16:    Departmental, Transportation, 1985, 1995, 1998-2002.

Folder contains correspondence and reports. Topics include bilateral airline service with Great Britain, international access from Texas, strategic plans, management issues facing the department, regulation on amount of time a commercial driver could drive in a 24-hour period, and computer reservation system. Correspondents include Richard A. Gephardt, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Phil Gramm, Rodney E. Slater, and Norman Y. Mineta.

F 17:    Departmental, Treasury, 1995-2002.

Folder contains correspondence, memos, and reports. Topics include swap or loan to Mexico, public debt, debt ceiling, tax reform, management issues facing the department, International Monetary Fund and Russia, challenges facing the Internal Revenue Service, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, tax policy in other countries, and effect of terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. Correspondents include Robert E. Rubin, Jim Saxton, Lawrence H. Summers, and Paul H. O’Neill.

F 18:    Departmental, Veterans Affairs, 1998-2002.

Folder contains correspondence. Topics include management issues facing the department, fraud, Carrington Laboratories, and Dallas VA Medical Center. Correspondents include Terry Everett, Tom DeLay, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Pete Sessions, and Anthony J. Principi.

F 19:    Legislative, Abortion, 1989-1991, 1993-1995, 1997-2000.

Folder contains correspondence, clippings, and printed material. Topics include labor unions stance on abortion, freedom of access to clinic entrances, pre-natal brain development research, partial birth abortion ban, foreign aid funding for abortion lobbyists, Smith-Barcia Foreign Families Protection Amendment, trafficking of aborted baby body parts, and pro-life. Correspondents include Christopher H. Smith, United States Catholic Conference, James A. Barcia, Republican National Coalition, and Carol Everett.

F 20:    Legislative, Accomplishments and Issues, 104th Congress, 1994-1996.

Folder contains Congressional Research Service Reports, Reviewing the Revolution: Conservative Successes in the 104th Congress, and list of accomplishments related to values.

F 21:    Legislative, Accomplishments and Issues, 105th Congress, 1997-1998.

Folder contains lists of House members as well as printout from Armey’s web page on congressional accomplishments.

F 22:    Legislative, Agriculture, Background Material, 1937-1938, 1948, 1979, 1981-1982, 1985-1989.

Folder contains copies of bills, Congressional Record excerpts, data from journals, reports, and statements re agricultural policy. Topics include set-aside land, Farm Opportunity Plan, and farm subsidies. Correspondents include Pete DuPont (remarks) and Clayton Yeutter (remarks).

F 23:    Legislative, Agriculture, Clippings, 1988-1990.

Topics include farm subsidies, sugar program, elimination of subsidies to high-income farmers, free market farm program, perestroika in agriculture policy, Clayton Yeutter, Charles Schumer, Charles W. Stenholm, Food and Agricultural Resources Act of 1990, E (Kika) de la Garza, peanuts, and food price.

F 24:    Legislative, Agriculture, Dairy, 1989-1991, 1999.

Folder contains correspondence, Dear Colleague letters, clippings and copies of bills. Topics include price supports, milk price, Milk Inventory Management Act, and beef industry. Correspondents include Texas Cattle Feeders Association, Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, House Republican Conference (Legislative Digest), American Farm Bureau Association, Associated Milk Producers, National Farmers Union, AFL-CIO, Bernard Sanders, Bill Gradison, Collin Peterson, John B. Taylor, National Independent Dairy Foods Association, National Milk Producers Federation, National Cattlemen’s Association, International Dairy Foods Association, Jill Long, Richard Stallings, and Robin Hayes.

F 25:    Legislative, Agriculture, Food and Agricultural Resources Act of 1990, January-May 1990.

Folder contains clippings, correspondence, data, and Congressional Record excerpts. Topics include farm subsidies, vote indexes for congressional agricultural votes, world food demand, and agriculture policy. Correspondents include Dan Glickman, Charles W. Stenholm, Pat Roberts, and Reason Foundation (transcript of proceedings re forum “The 1990 Farm Bill: Farmers Challenge Current Farm Policy”). Folder also has a copy of Richard K. Armey’s Policy Review article “Moscow on the Mississippi” as well as his New York Times article “Perestroika on the Prairie.”

F 26:    Legislative, Agriculture, Food and Agricultural Resources Act of 1990, June- July 1990.

Folder contains clippings, correspondence, and data. Topics include food prices, farm subsidies, agriculture policy, set-aside, cost estimates for the bill, and family farm. Correspondents include Charles Schumer, Andrew Jacobs, Dennis T. Avery (remarks), United States Catholic Conference, U.S. Congressional Budget Office, National Grange, James Bovard of the Cato Institute, Bill Gradison, Jerry Huckaby, Silvio O. Conte, Council for Citizens Against Government Waste, Dan Glickman, Tim Penny, Richard G. Darman, Clayton Yeutter, House Republican Conference (Legislative Digest), AFL-CIO, Bread for the World, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Center for Rural Affairs, Jim Lightfoot, Richard H. Stallings, National Taxpayer Union, E (Kika) de la Garza, Robert C. Smith, and Office of the Republican Whip (Whipping Post).