Interstate and Foreign Commerce-Power Company Advertising., 1958

File — Box: LG 17, Folder: 71

Identifier: CAC_CC_040_4_17_71_0000

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Discussion of H.R.9663; "To amend the Federal Power Act so as to prohibit the federal Power Commission from treating propaganda advertising, lobbying, and other political expenditures as operating expenses in computing rates and charges by licensees and public utilities; to require licensees and public utilities to report such expenditures; and to require the Commission to investigate and report on such expenditures by licensees and public utilities" (Lester R. Johnson-Wisconsin), and S.3073; "To amend the Federal Power Act so as to prohibit the Federal Power Commission, in exercising their rate-making power with respect to the transmission and sale of electric energy subject to its jurisdiction, from treating as operating expenses those expenses incurred by electric utilities in propagandizing against Federal power policies and rural electric cooperatives" (William Langer-Wisconsin).

Dates

1958

Language of Materials

English

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