F1-2: Correspondence, 1985, Agriculture
Topics include subsidies to the timber industry, farm subsidies, clear title amendment (HR 1591), farm loans, Dairy Diversion program (HR 111), farm bill (HR 1420), wheat, sugar, Commodity Credit Corporation, tobacco, crop insurance, Rural Electrification Administration (REA), importation of foreign birds, and farm-loss limitation.
Correspondents include Jack D. Craig.
F3: Correspondence, 1985, Agriculture, School Lunch Programs
Topics include child nutrition.
F4: Correspondence, 1985, Arts
Topics include arts funding.
F5: Correspondence, 1985, Banking
Topics include Financial Institutions Equity Act (HR 20), Penn Square Bank failure, bank bailouts, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), bank definition, and Federal Reserve Board.
F6: Correspondence, 1985, Budget
Topics include Ronald Reagan budget proposals, Grace Commission recommendations, Davis-Bacon reform (HR 472), budget freeze, and budget cuts.
Correspondents include Ed Metz.
F7: Correspondence, 1985, Budget, Balanced Budget Amendment
Topics include Federal Tax Limitation/Balanced Budget Amendment (HJ Res. 27), Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, and constitutional convention.
Correspondents include William S. Myers Jr.
F8-9: Correspondence, 1985, Budget, Deficit and Federal Spending
Topics include Grace Commission recommendations, wasteful spending, deficit reduction, entitlement programs, spending cuts, interest rates, debt ceiling, and Ronald Reagan deficit reduction plan.
F10: Correspondence, 1985, Commemoratives
Topics include making the rose the national flower (HJ Res. 385), Dental Hygiene Week (HJ Res. 218), National Skin Cancer Prevention and Detection Week (HJ Res. 85), and commemorative stamp for the National Extension Homemakers Council.
F11: Correspondence, 1985, Commerce
Topics include domestic content labeling, United States Travel and Tourism Administration (USTTA) funding, and Small Business Administration (SBA).
F12: Correspondence, 1985, Commerce, Footwear and Textile Imports
Topics include import quotas, tariffs, and Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act (HR 1562).
F13: Correspondence, 1985, Commerce, Hostile Corporate Takeovers
Topics include Mesa takeover attempt of Phillips Petroleum, moratorium on hostile takeovers (HR 998), HR 1100, T. Boone Pickens, Carl Icahn takeover attempt of Phillips Petroleum, greenmail, and Carl Icahn takeover attempt of TWA.
Correspondents include Stephen P. Matthews.
F14: Correspondence, 1985, Commerce, Trade
Topics include trade deficit, protectionism, automobile imports, agricultural exports, oil import tax, trade policy, fair trade, Bliley-Collins amendment (HR 2248), and trade with Japan.
F15: Correspondence, 1985, Communications
Topics include taxes on blank tapes, Home Audio Recording Act (HR 2911), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), music performing rights on syndicated television programming (HR 3521), religious programming, and Fairness in Alcohol Advertising Act (HR 2526).
Correspondents include James B. Townsend.
F16: Correspondence, 1985, Communications, Satellite Television
Topics include scrambling TV satellite signals (HR 1769), Satellite TV Viewing Rights Act (HR 1840), and home satellite earth stations.
F17: Correspondence, 1985, Communications, Telephones
Topics include AT&T separate subsidiary requirements, breakup of the Bell System, service costs, private line tariffs, and library telephone line use.
Correspondents include Robert L. Clark Jr.
F18: Correspondence, 1985, Congress
Topics include refusal to seat Rep. Rick McIntyre of Indiana and congressional travel and junkets.
Correspondents include Don Nickles.
F19: Correspondence, 1985, Defense
Topics include funding for reconstruction at Tinker Air Force Base, wasteful spending, national defense, National Guard technicians, defense spending, contract with Beretta, defense procurement (HR 1552), and civil defense.
Correspondents include Norris Price.
F20: Correspondence, 1985, Defense, Arms Control and Nuclear Weapons
Topics include weapons freeze and nuclear test ban (HJ Res. 3).
F21: Correspondence, 1985, Defense, Military Retirees
Topics include widows, comments of David Stockman, pensions, and cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs).
F22: Correspondence, 1985, Defense, MX Missile
F23: Correspondence, 1985, Defense, Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
Topics include Star Wars program, High Frontier program, and HJ Res. 11.
F24: Correspondence, 1985, Education
Topics include dismantling the Department of Education, impact aid, TRIO programs, tuition tax credit, and Social Studies Text Book Reviews (report).
Correspondents include Jerald C. Walker, John M. Folks, and Francis Tuttle.
F25: Correspondence, 1985, Education, Close Up Program
F26: Correspondence, 1985, Education, Libraries
Topics include Oklahoma Department of Libraries.
F27: Correspondence, 1985, Education, Oklahoma Association of Independent Colleges and Universities
Correspondents include Jim Reid.
F28: Correspondence, 1985, Education, School Prayer
Topics include HJ Res. 279.
F29-30: Correspondence, 1985, Education, Student Financial Aid
Topics include ceiling on total federal financial aid, income cap for Guaranteed Student Loan program, State Student Incentive Grant, Pell grants, medical students, National Fire Academy, and law students.
Correspondents include M. M. Chouteau, J. A. Leone, Edwin E. Vineyard, and Jerald C. Walker. |
