Multiple Issues, January-June, 1978

File — Box: LG 35, Folder: 5

Identifier: CAC_CC_109_7_35_5_0000

Staff Only

Letters to and responses from James R. Jones regarding child development programs; the Equal Right's Amendment; abortions; the Panama Canal; the Breeder Reactor Program; 1978 Issues of Concern: A Central Oklahoma Consensus; inflation; energy production and consumption; minimum government regulation; the Marston Affair; federal employees on the Social Security system; Federal pay raises; a bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to permit veteran to determine how certain drugs and medicines will be supplied to them (S 1553/HR 2861); Criminal Code Reform Act (S 1437); Prepaid Prescription Program Negotiation Act (HR 1230); a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for payment for out of hospital prescription drugs and eye glasses (S 176); Drug Benefits for the Aged Act (S 2144/HR 9846); a bill to amend titles II and XVIII of the Social Security Act to include eligible drugs, requiring a physician's prescription or certification and approved by a formulary committee, among the items and services covered under the hospital insurance program (HR 4367); Drug Regulation Reform Act (S 2755); Fair Representation of Small Business Act (S 1838); National Small Business Policy Act (S 2367); a joint resolution requiring each executive department and agency to designate a small business advocate (S J Res 69); Small Business Reduction and Stimulation Act (S 2669); a bill to amend the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide for Federal participation in costs of old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program and the medicare program, with appropriate reductions in social security taxes to reflect such participation, and with a substantial increase in the amount of an individual's annual earnings which may be (HR 10784); Product Liability Insurance Tax Equity Act (HR 7711); the federal budget deficit; air bag regulations and standards; government pensions; a bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide that any individual may elect (on an annual basis) to contribute to a private retirement plan rather than participating in the social security program (HR 10458); a bill to amend the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act in order to deny benefits under that Act to any State which does not extend certain reciprocal fishing privileges to nonresident individuals who have attained age 62 and hold valid fishing licenses issued by the State of their residency (HR 11529); registration of firearms; the new Labor Law; lobbying;

Dates

1978

Language of Materials

English

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