F1-7: Correspondence, 1985, Taxes, Oil and Gas
Topics include percentage depletion allowance, intangible drilling costs, investment capital, independent oil and gas producers, dry hole costs, domestic oil and gas industry, and oil exploration.
F8: Correspondence, 1985, Taxes, Opinion Ballots
Topics include simplified tax reform bill and flat tax.
F9: Correspondence, 1985, Taxes, Real Estate
Topics include mortgage interest deduction, rental housing, and depreciation.
F10: Correspondence, 1985, Transportation
Topics include railroad retirement and mass transit.
Correspondents include James B. Townsend.
F11: Correspondence, 1985, Transportation, Amtrak
Topics include funding cuts.
F12: Correspondence, 1985, Transportation, Aviation
Topics include carryon luggage, safety, hijacking, Essential Air Carrier Service, Airport Radar Service Areas, and air traffic controllers.
F13: Correspondence, 1985, Transportation, Conrail
Topics include sale of Conrail to Norfolk Southern.
F14: Correspondence, 1985, Transportation, Highways
Topics include Interstate Cost Estimate, trucking industry, and 55mph speed limit.
Correspondents include R. A. Ward.
F15: Correspondence, 1985, Veterans
Topics include VA hospitals, Korean War memorial, and consolidation of Veterans Administration Regional Offices.
F16: Correspondence, 1985, Veterans, Benefits
Topics include taxing disability compensation, decrease in benefits, medical care, and retirement.
F17: Correspondence, 1985, Veterans, Prisoners of War and Missing in Action
Topics include Perot Commission on POW/MIAs Unaccounted for in Southeast Asia (HC Res. 129), benefits for ex-POWs, and accounting for missing American soldiers.
Correspondents include Richard L. Armitage.
F18: Correspondence, 1985, Welfare and Social Programs
Topics include Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and children and family services.
F19-21: Correspondence, 1985, General
Topics include ratification of the 16th Amendment to the Constitution.
Correspondents include Norris Price, Ed Metz, and George Nigh.
F22-23: Correspondence, 1985, Multiple Issue Letters
Topics include opinion ballots and ballots asking for suggestions of the year’s most important issues.
F24: Correspondence, 1986, Aged, Social Security
Topics include Social Security Trust Fund Safeguard Act (HR 4067), cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) (HR 4633), income limit, and Social Security reform.
F25: Correspondence, 1986 Aged, Social Security, Notch Years
Topics include reduced benefits for those born between 1917 and 1921.
F26: Correspondence, 1986, Agriculture
Topics include rural electric utilities, farm foreclosures, wheat, and Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) (HR 5440).
Correspondents include J. Frank James.
F27: Correspondence, 1986, Agriculture, Cattle and Dairy
Topics include dairies in the U.S. owned by foreign companies, meat inspection, cattle branding on the face, dairy cattle buy-out, and beef industry.
F28: Correspondence, 1986, Agriculture, Extension Services
Topics include 4-H programs, home economics programs, and food and nutrition education programs.
F29: Correspondence, 1986, Agriculture, Food Irradiation
Topics include Food Irradiation Safety and Labeling Act (HR 4762).
F30: Correspondence, 1986, Agriculture, Nutrition Programs
Topics include child nutrition (HR 7).
F31: Correspondence, 1986, Arts
Correspondents include Betty Price.
F32: Correspondence, 1986, Banking
Topics include taxing credit unions, interest rates, garnishment, and bank failures. |