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United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Authorizes to be appropriated for expenditure by the President $100,000,000 as an Emergency North Atlantic Treaty Organization Fund. Stipulates such fund is to be available only in order to strengthen the military capabilities of signatories of the North Alliance Treaty.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President and the Secretary of the State should take the necessary steps, including the renewal of negotiations between the parties, signatory to the Paris agreement and the agreement with the Lao Patriotic Front, to finally determine the fate of all United States servicemen and civilians missing in Southeast Asia. Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives to transmit a copy of this resolution to the President who is requested to report to the House in 90 days on steps taken to implement this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Directs the Joint Committee on the Library to procure a bronze bust or statue of Martin Luther King, Junior, and to cause such sculpture to be placed in a suitable location in the Capitol as determined by the Joint Committee on the Library.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1975
Removes the maximum limitation of sixty-five years of age for the application of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1975
Removes the maximum limitation of sixty-five years of age for the application of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1975
Authorizes the President to provide financial assistance to land- grant-type universities to enable such universities to assist and cooperate in developing and improving land-grant-type universitites in agriculturally developing nations. Lists programs designed to effectuate this assistance including: (1) cooperation in developing capacity in the university in the cooperating nation for classroom teaching, and (2) cooperation in agricultural research to promote efficiency in the production of food. Establishes an International Land-Grant University Advisory Board to assist in the administration of this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Stipulates that such sums shall not exceed $150,000,000 in a fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1975
Authorizes the President to provide financial assistance to land- grant-type universities to enable such universities to assist and cooperate in developing and improving land-grant-type universitites in agriculturally developing nations. Lists programs designed to effectuate this assistance including: (1) cooperation in developing capacity in the university in the cooperating nation for classroom teaching, and (2) cooperation in agricultural research to promote efficiency in the production of food. Establishes an International Land-Grant University Advisory Board to assist in the administration of this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Stipulates that such sums shall not exceed $150,000,000 in a fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1975
Authorizes the President to provide financial assistance to land- grant-type universities to enable such universities to assist and cooperate in developing and improving land-grant-type universitites in agriculturally developing nations. Lists programs designed to effectuate this assistance including: (1) cooperation in developing capacity in the university in the cooperating nation for classroom teaching, and (2) cooperation in agricultural research to promote efficiency in the production of food. Establishes an International Land-Grant University Advisory Board to assist in the administration of this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Stipulates that such sums shall not exceed $150,000,000 in a fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1975
Authorizes the President to provide financial assistance to land- grant-type universities to enable such universities to assist and cooperate in developing and improving land-grant-type universitites in agriculturally developing nations. Lists programs designed to effectuate this assistance including: (1) cooperation in developing capacity in the university in the cooperating nation for classroom teaching, and (2) cooperation in agricultural research to promote efficiency in the production of food. Establishes an International Land-Grant University Advisory Board to assist in the administration of this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Stipulates that such sums shall not exceed $150,000,000 in a fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1975
Authorizes all unmarried individuals to use the same tax tables when computing their tax as are presently applicable to married individuals filing joint returns and to surviving spouses. Authorizes married individuals filing separately to use such table so long as such individual reports all income earned by him or her on the return.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1975
Eliminates the outside earnings limitation of the Social Security Act which presently operates to reduce the benefits payable under the Federal Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance program in the case where the insured individual has outside earnings in excess of such limitation.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1975
Eliminates the outside earnings limitation of the Social Security Act which presently operates to reduce the benefits payable under the Federal Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance program in the case where the insured individual has outside earnings in excess of such limitation.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1975
Creates a select committee to be composed of eleven members of the House of Representatives to conduct a full and complete study of the constitutional basis of the January 22, 1973, United States Supreme Court decisions on abortion, the ramifications of such decisions on the power of the several states to enact abortion legislation, and the need for remedial action by Congress on the subject of abortions. States that for the purpose of carrying out this resolution the committee, or any subcommittee thereof authorized by the committee to hold hearings, is authorized to sit and act during the present Congress at such times and places within the United States, including any Commonwealth or possession thereof, whether the House is in session, has recessed, or had adjourned, to hold such hearings, and to require, by subpena or otherwise, the attendance and testimony of such witnesses and the production of such books, records, correspondence, memoranda, papers, and documents, as it deems necessary.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1975
Specifies that the provisions of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stocks Piling Act regarding the acquisition and development of strategic raw materials shall not apply to regulations or prohibitions pertaining to economic relations and/or communications with foreign nations or foreign nationals which are established under the authority of the United Nations Participation Act in response to sanctions imposed by the United Nations.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1975
Applies the exemption from lottery prohibitions granted to newspapers publish in a States which conducts a lottery to newpapers in adjacent States which conduct such a lottery. (Amends 18 U. S. C. 1307(a)(1))
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 1975
Arms Control and Disarmament Act Amendments - Title I: Amendments to Arms Control and Disarmament Act - Authorizes the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency to conduct the activities necessary to arms control and disarmament. Provides that the Director of such Agency shall be a member of the National Security Council. Directs the President to appoint a General Advisory Committee to consist of fifteen members to advise the President, the Secretary of State, appropriate committees of the Congress, and the Disarmament Director with respect to arms control, disarmament, and world peace. Requires an impact statement in advance of any program of research and development with respect to armament for which the total cost of the program is estimated to exceed $250,000,000 or $50,000,000 annually. Title II: Conforming Amendments To Other Acts - Makes conforming amendments to the Mutual Security Act of 1954, the Foreign Military Sales Act, and the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
United States · United States Congress · 26 November 1974
States that the House of Representatives commemorates the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Honorable Winston S. Churchilll.
United States · United States Congress · 25 November 1974
Grants to the Secretary of Agriculture the authority to make a determination under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act as to when the national interest or humanitarian objectives of such Act call for the use of a part of the exportable supply of this Nation's surplus agricultural commodities.
United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1974
Famine Prevention Act - Provides, under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act, that in order to guarantee that agricultural commodities may be made available for humanitarian purposes, the Commodity Credit Corporation is authorized to acquire agricultural commodities having a total cost of not to exceed $300,000,000 in any calendar year. Establishes in the Department of Agriculture an Office of International Agricultural Science and Education to be responsible for agricultural programs to assist developing countries. Prescribes the procedure whereby developing countries can establish eligibility for commodities. Authorizes such sums as required for carrying out the establishment of the Office and eligibility establishment provisions of this Act. (Amends 7 U.S.C. 1721).
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 1974
Authorizes the construction of lock and dam numbered 26, Mississippi River, Alton, Illinois and Missouri, by the Corps of Engineers.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1974
Prohibits the Federal Energy Administration from imposing any tax, fee, or charge on gasoline, unless approved by Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1974
United Nations Peacekeeping Forces in the Middle East Authorization Act - Authorizes to be appropriated for fiscal year 1975 funds for payment by the United States of its share of the expenses for: (1) the U.N. Disengagement Observor Force and the Emergency Force in the Middle East; and (2) the U.N. Force in Cyprus.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1974
Prohibits the interstate shipment of dogs trained for or intended to be used in dog fights for purposes of sport, wagering, or entertainment. Specifies punishments for persons involved in such commerce and for promoters of and participants in activities which include such dog fights if at least one of the dogs involved had been moved in such commerce.
United States · United States Congress · 22 August 1974
Removes the sixty-five years of age limitation presently operative upon the prohibitions in the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967.
United States · United States Congress · 14 August 1974
Removes the sixty-five years of age limitation presently operative upon the prohibitions in the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1974
States that President Richard M. Nixon is censured for moral insensitivity, negligence, and maladministration.
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1974
Provides for a penalty for the robbery or theft of any narcotic drug or controlled substance from any pharmacy or other licensed repository.
United States · United States Congress · 16 July 1974
Designates a Federal office building to be located in Carbondale, Illinois, the "Kenneth Gray Federal Building".
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1974
Eastern Wilderness Areas Act - Designates specified lands in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System. Provides for a study of specified additional lands in eighteen states and Puerto Rico for such inclusion. Authorizes appropriations of such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1974
Removes the sixty-five years of age limitation presently operative upon the prohibitions in the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967.
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1974
Provides that immediately upon the adoption of this resolution the House shall resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union for the consideration of the resolution (H. Res. 988), a resolution to reform the structure, jurisdiction, and procedures of the committees of the House of Representatives by amending rules X and XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives. States that after general debate, which shall be confined to the resolution and shall continue not to exceed three hours, to be equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the Select Committee on Committees, the resolution shall be read for amendment under the five-minute rule. Stipulates that, at the conclusion of the consideration of the resolution for amendment, the Committee shall rise and report the resolution to the House with such amendments as may have been adopted, and the previous question shall be considered as ordered on the resolution and amendments thereto to final passage without intervening motion except one motion to recommit.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1974
Provides that the majority of the membership (including the chairman) of the Committee on Government Operations of the Senate and House of Representatives, respectively, shall be composed of members of a major political party other than the political party of which the President of the United States is a member.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1974
Removes the limitation upon the amount of outside income that an individual may earn while receiving benefits under title II of the Social Security Act (Old-Age, Survivors', and Disability Insurance).
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1974
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should instruct the Secretary of State to give favorable consideration to making use of the various chambers of the International Court of Justice, including chambers convened to resolve regional disputes, where such disputes cannot be resolved by negotiation. Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should take all appropriate measures to attempt to expand the range of international bodies eligible to request advisory opinions of the Court, giving special attention to attempting to extend eligibility to regional organizations as well as any two or more states jointly seeking an advisory opinion on any legal questions relating to a dispute between them. Makes it the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should undertake appropriate steps to improve, within the existing provisions of the statute, the process whereby persons are nominated and elected to serve as judges of the International Court of Justice, and that the President should undertake steps to encourage the International Court of Justice, from time to time, to sit and excercise its functions outside the Hague at places more convenient to the various parties to the statute of the International Court of Justice.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1974
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should direct the Secretary of State to encourage the maximum possible use of the procedures outlined in chapter VI of the Charter of the United Nations, relating to the pacific settlement of international disputes, whose continuance is likely to endanger the maintenance of international peace and security, particularly those procedures providing for the reference of legal disputes to the International Court of Justice.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1974
Makes it the sense of the House that the United States endeavor to include, in all future treaties and other international treaties and other international agreements to which the United States shall be a party or which shall be negotiated subsequent to the adoption of this resolution, operative clauses providing that any dispute arising from the interpretation or application of these treaties and international agreements which is not settled by agreement between or among the states concerned shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice or other appropriate body.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1974
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should direct the Secretary of State to undertake a study examining and appraising the various ways of granting direct and indirect access to the International Court of Justice to individuals, corporations, nongovernmental organizations, intergovernmental! organizations, regional organizations, and other natural or legal persons, in cases concerning questions of international law arising within the scope of activities directly pursued by such natural and legal persons. Makes it the sense of the House of Representatives that such a study should include an examination of the feasibility of establishing a special committee of the General Assembly of the United Nations, similar to the committee used for review of decisions of the Administrative Tribunal of the United Nations, with authority to request from the International Court of Justice advisory opinions on behalf of those natural and legal! persons concerning questions of international law arising within the scope of activities directly pursued by such persons.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1974
Expresses the sense of the House with respect to the submission of United States territorial disputes to the International Court of Justice. Makes it the sense of the House that the President is requested to direct the Secretary of State forthwith to seek to submit to the International Court of Justice for binding decisions as many as possible of the approximately 28 territorial disputes involving our country and a number of our close allies over desolate and largely uninhabited islands in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. Makes it the sense of the House that the President should direct the Secretary of State to make a full written report, to the Senate and to its Committee on Foreign Affairs within one year of the adoption of this resolution and a report for each of the five years thereafter, of actions taken and progress achieved in submitting such disputes to the Court.
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1974
Permits the transportation, mailing, and broadcasting of advertising, information and materials concerning lotteries authorized by law and conducted by a State, the District of Columbia, or any territory or possession of the United States. (Adds 18 U.S.C. 1307; Amends 18 U.S.C. 1953, 39 U.S.C. 3005)
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1974
Emergency Livestock Credit Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a guaranteed loan program for bona fide farmers and ranchers, including operators of feedlots, who are primarily engaged in agricultural production for the purpose of breeding, raising, fattening, or marketing livestock (meaning beef cattle, dairy cattle, swine, chickens, turkeys, and the products thereof.) States that no contract guaranteeing any such loan by an approved lender shall require the Secretary to participate in more than 90 percent of any loss sustained thereon. Provides that loans guaranteed under this Act shall bear interest at a rate to be agreed upon by the lender and borrower. Sets forth conditions for such loan guarantees, including that: (1) the farmer or rancher is primarily engaged in agricultural production, and the financing to be furnished the farmer or rancher is to be used for purposes related to the breeding, raising, fattening, or marketing of livestock or livestock products; (2) the total loans guaranteed under this Act for any farmer or rancher shall not exceed $350,000; and (3) in the case of any loan to refinance the livestock operations of a farmer or rancher, the loan and refinancing are absolutely essential in order for the farmer or rancher to remain in business. Limits such loan guarantees outstanding under this Act to a maximum of $3,000,000,000 at any one time. Terminates the authority to make new guarantees under this Act one year from the date of enactment, except that the Secretary of Agriculture may extend such authority for a period not to exceed six months if he determines a need and properly notifies Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1974
Interstate Compact - Declares it to be the national policy to encourage and recognize the performance of functions by the States with respect to the peaceful use of nuclear energy. States that the Congress consents to the Midwest Interstate Nuclear Compact. Describes such Compact, setting forth its policies and purposes. Creates the Midwest Nuclear Board and enumerates its administrative powers.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1974
Amendments Act to the Federal-Aid Highway Act - Declares it to be the intent of Congress to establish a national transportation policy recognizing the interdependence of the cities and the countryside, the interrelationships between various transportation modes, and the necessity to make use of the best available technology and transportation resources to meet the transportation needs of the Nation. Increases authorizations for primary and secondary highway systems, bridge replacement and reconstruction, and for projects to eliminate or reduce the hazards of high-accident sections of highways for fiscal years 1974, 1975, and 1976. Provides for a program to be administered at the county level with funds from the Highway Trust Fund to initiate an emergency bridge replacement program for non-Federal countryside roads and highways.
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1974
Provides, under provisions of the Internal Revenue Code relating to scholarship and fellowship grants, that no amount shall be included in gross income by reason of the discharge of the indebtedness of an individual under a student loan if such discharge was pursuant to a provision of the loan under which the indebtedness would be discharged if the individual worked for a certain period of time in certain professions or certain geographical areas or for certain classes of employers. Defines "student loan" for purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 May 1974
Title I: Purpose and Definitions - States that the Congress of the United States recognizes the environmental and economic importance of efficient railroad transportation to interstate commerce. Declares that it is therefore the national policy of the United States to improve rail service and that such improvement requires public investment in and maintenance of railroad track and roadbed. Defines the terms used in this Act. Title II: Transfer of Rail Lines - Provides that title to all rail lines operated by rail carriers will be transferred to the Department of Transportation on a date designated by the Secretary of Transportation, such date to be no later than one year from the date this Act becomes law. States that at the time title to the rail lines owned by a rail carrier is conveyed to the Department, the Secretary shall convey, in consideration thereof, a Certificate of the Right to Carriage. Provides that such certificate shall entitle the holder to enter into contracts with other rail carriers to operate trains upon the rail line conveyed in consideration for such certificate. Makes it unlawful to operate a train upon any rail line so conveyed to the Department unless the operator is the holder of a Certificate of the Right to Carriage or has entered into a contract with such holder. Grants the Commission the authority to issue additional Certificates of the Right to Carriage in the event it finds that the issuance of such certificates is in the public convenience and necessity. Title III: Unified Surface Transportation Trust Fund - Requires that all moneys now in the Highway Trust Fund or which would be credited to that fund shall instead be paid into a fund hereby established in the Treasury of the United States to be known as the Unified Surface Transportation Fund. Provides that such transfers as are currently authorized to be made into the Highway Trust Fund shall be made into the Unified Surface Transportation Fund. Requires rail carriers which convey rail lines to the Department pursuant to title II of this Act to pay into the Unified Surface Transportation Fund such moneys as the Commission shall determine in accord with enumerated criteria. Title IV: Federal Railroad Maintenance and Improvement - Directs the Department of Transportation to maintain and improve the rail lines conveyed to it by the rail carriers. Directs the Secretary to designate an interstate railroad system composed of rail lines linking: (1) large metropolitan areas; and (2) major areas producing agricultural, commodity, and manufactured products with market areas for those products. Directs the Secretary to designate a regional railroad system composed of routes linking regional metropolitan areas with the Interstate Railroad System. Directs the Secretary to designate a local railroad system composed of routes linking small communities and sources of agricultural, commodity, and manufactured products with either the interstate or regional railroad system. Requires that the Secretary shall not abandon any rail line conveyed unless: (1) public hearings are held at least six months in advance of the proposed date of abandonment to consider the impact such abandonment would have; (2) it is determined that adequate alternative modes of transportation are in existence; (3) it is determined that there is inadequate potential freight volume to make the rail line profitable at current tariffs; and (4) that shippers or State and local governments are unwilling to subsidize the continued operation of that rail line. Title V: Maintenance and Improvement - Provides for the maintenance and improvement of rail lines conveyed under this Act. Requires that the construction of improvements shall be undertaken by privately owned construction companies who have engaged in a process of competitive bidding as specified by the Secretary in regulations he shall cause to be published in the Federal Register. Title VI: Rail Line Condition and Arbitration - Provides that in the event that a rail carrier receiving a Certificate of the Right to Carriage believes that the Department has failed to execute its responsibility under title IV of this Act, that carrier may request that the issue be submitted to compulsory arbitration. States that a report of findings and conclusions shall determine: (1) if the rail line meets the performance standards designated by the Secretary; (2) if the rail line has deteriorated from its condition at time of conveyance; (3) if the findings in (2) of this part is affirmative, the report shall conclude what steps should be taken to insure that the rail lines are adequately maintained; (4) and if the finding in (1) is negative, and if the schedule adopted by the Secretary pursuant to title VI of this Act requires that the rail line be maintained at that level, the report shall conclude what steps should be taken to insure that such standards will be met. Title VII: Impoundment - States that appropriations from the Unified Surface Transportation Fund shall not be subject to impoundment by the President, the Office of Management and Budget, or the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to not withhold or delay the expenditure of funds appropriated pursuant to this Act for any reason other than those necessary for the proper management of the functions assigned to him by this Act. Title VIII: Repeal Of Certain Sections Of Public Law 93-236 - Provides that this Act shall repeal any sections of Public Law 93-236 in conflict with it. Provides that all abandonment of rail lines shall be pursuant to the provisions of title IV of this Act. Title IX: The Property Tax Replacement - Establishes in the United States Treasury a fund known as the Property Tax Replacement Fund. Provides that those sums necessary to accomplish the payment of this title may be appropriated to this fund. Provides that the Governor of each State may certify to the Secretary of the Treasury one year after the conveyance of rail lines in his State, a report detailing the loss of property tax revenue resulting from such conveyance. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make payment to each Governor who certifies a report pursuant to this title in an amount provided for under a schedule set forth in this Act. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to establish such regulations as he deems necessary consistent with this Act for accomplishing the functions assigned to him in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 May 1974
Designates the premises occupied by the Chief of Naval Operations as the Official residence of the Vice President, effective upon the termination of service of the incumbent Chief of Naval Operations. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to provide for the care, maintenance, repair, improvement, alteration, and furnishing of the official residence and grounds. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary from time to time to carry out the foregoing purposes. Expresses the sense of Congress that living accommodations, generally equivalent to those available to the highest ranking officer on active duty in each of the other military services, should be provided for the Chief of Naval Operations. Repeals the Federal law authorizing the planning, design, construction, furnishing, and maintenance of an official residence for the Vice President of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1974
Provides a 10-year delimiting period for the pursuit of educational programs by veterans and their wives and widows.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1974
Tax Reform and Simplification Act - Increases the percentage standard deduction maximum amount under the Internal Revenue Code to $3,000 (presently $2,000) for taxable years 1973 and thereafter. Provides that no individual shall pay a tax of less than 20 percent by reason of a tax exemption. States that a tax is imposed on each individual's income equal to 20 percent of the amount by which the sum of the items of tax preference exceed $12,000. Repeals the provisions on tax carry over. Allows a taxpayer to waive a deduction from gross income which is tax preference. Provides that such waived amount shall not be taken into account in figuring the minimum tax for tax preferences.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1974
Suspends, until November 1, 1975, the provisions of the Merchant Marine Act relating to the transportation of anhydrous ammonia to the west coast of the United States from any port or terminal area in the State of Alaska whenever the Secretary of the Treasury, after notice and opportunity for hearing, determines that there is no domestic vessel reasonably available to serve between the west coast of the United States and any such port or terminal area for the transportation of anhydrous ammonia. (Suspends 46 U.S.C. 883)
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1974
Creates a select committee to be composed of eleven members of the House of Representatives to conduct a full and complete study of the constitutional basis of the January 22, 1973, United States Supreme Court decisions on abortion, the ramifications of such decisions on the power of the several states to enact abortion legislation, and the need for remedial action by Congress on the subject of abortions. States that for the purpose of carrying out this resolution the committee, or any subcommittee thereof authorized by the committee to hold hearings, is authorized to sit and act during the present Congress at such times and places within the United States, including any Commonwealth or possession thereof, whether the House is in session, has recessed, or had adjourned, to hold such hearings, and to require, by subpena or otherwise, the attendance and testimony of such witnesses and the production of such books, records, correspondence, memoranda, papers, and documents, as it deems necessary.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1974
Directs the Joint Committee on the Library to procure a bronze bust or statue of Martin Luther King, Junior, and to cause such sculpture to be placed in a suitable location in the Capitol as determined by the Joint Committee on the Library.