Box 5
Container
Contains 37 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence, Transportation, Railroads, 1979
File — Box: 5, Folder: 11
Identifier: CAC_CC_016_1_5_11_0000
Scope and Contents
Topics include passenger trains, Lone Star route, Amtrak, and Mickey Edwards floor speech. Correspondents include George Nigh.
Correspondence, Transportation, Roads and Highways, 1979
File — Box: 5, Folder: 12
Identifier: CAC_CC_016_1_5_12_0000
Scope and Contents
Topics include Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) regulations, trucking industry deregulation, Ex Parte #MC-135, motor carriers, Central Expressway, and West Bypass.
Correspondence, Veterans, 1979
File — Box: 5, Folder: 13
Identifier: CAC_CC_016_1_5_13_0000
Scope and Contents
Topics include Roberts amendment to budget resolution, public access to Civil War pension files at the National Archives, benefits, disabled veterans, and widows' survivor benefits.
Correspondence, Veterans, VA Hospitals, 1979
File — Box: 5, Folder: 14
Identifier: CAC_CC_016_1_5_14_0000
Scope and Contents
Topics include reduction in funds, HEW control of VA hospitals, Hospital Cost Containment Act, and disability benefits.
Correspondence, Welfare and Social Programs, 1979
File — Box: 5, Folder: 15
Identifier: CAC_CC_016_1_5_15_0000
Scope and Contents
Topics include federal child care programs and Child Care Act (S. 4).
Correspondence, General, 1979
File — Box: 5, Folder: 16
Identifier: CAC_CC_016_1_5_16_0000
Scope and Contents
Topics include opinion ballots and multiple issue letters. Correspondents include Tom Steed, Joe Fitzgibbon, Marian P. Opala, and Joseph A. Califano Jr.
Correspondence, Aged, 1980
File — Box: 5, Folder: 17
Identifier: CAC_CC_016_1_5_17_0000
Scope and Contents
The Edwards Collections is approximately 126 linear feet, plus 8 maps and 50 photographs. The Correspondence and Legislative series represent the majority of the materials in the collection and include constituent correspondence, issue surveys and opinion ballots, voting records, issue folders, memos, notes, and legislation. Topics of note include cable and satellite television, the break-up of AT&T, civil rights legislation, foreign affairs, energy policy, Contra Aid, Tallgrass Prairie...
Correspondence, Aged, Social Security, 1980
File — Box: 5, Folder: 18
Identifier: CAC_CC_016_1_5_18_0000
Scope and Contents
Topics include payments to prisoners, Social Security government pension offset, disability payments, cost-of-living allowances (COLAs), and abolishing the Social Security system. Correspondents include George Nigh and William J. Driver.
Correspondence, Aged, Social Security, 1980
File — Box: 5, Folder: 19
Identifier: CAC_CC_016_1_5_19_0000
Scope and Contents
Topics include payments to prisoners, Social Security government pension offset, disability payments, cost-of-living allowances (COLAs), and abolishing the Social Security system. Correspondents include George Nigh and William J. Driver.
Correspondence, Aged, Social Security Income Taxes (HR 6012), 1980
File — Box: 5, Folder: 20
Identifier: CAC_CC_016_1_5_20_0000
Scope and Contents
The Edwards Collections is approximately 126 linear feet, plus 8 maps and 50 photographs. The Correspondence and Legislative series represent the majority of the materials in the collection and include constituent correspondence, issue surveys and opinion ballots, voting records, issue folders, memos, notes, and legislation. Topics of note include cable and satellite television, the break-up of AT&T, civil rights legislation, foreign affairs, energy policy, Contra Aid, Tallgrass Prairie...