Increase in Area Within which Postal Stations, Substations, and Branches May be Established: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Postal Affairs of the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, United States Senate, Eighty-eighth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 5778, an Act to Amend Title 39, United States Code, to Increase from 10 to 20 Miles the Area Within which the Postmaster General May Establish Stations, Substations, Or Branches of Post Offices, and for Other Purposes, November 6, 1963

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Considers (88) H.R. 5778, (88) S. 1370.

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Page 4 - CHANGES IN EXISTING LAW MADE BY THE BILL, AS REPORTED In compliance with clause 3 of rule XIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives, changes in existing law made by...
Page 5 - STATEMENT OF HON. FRANCES PERKINS, SECRETARY OF LABOR Senator LA FOLLETTE: We are very glad to have you here, in this series of hearings, and we will be pleased to have you proceed in your own way. MIGRATION OF WORKERS IN THE UNITED STATES Madam PERKINS. Thank you very much, Senator. First, I want to thank you for giving me this opportunity to appear before your committee and to say that three different sections in the Department of Labor which have worked upon this problem of the migration of...
Page 2 - States, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with amendments and recommend that the bill as amended do pass. The amendments are as follows : Page 2.
Page 3 - ... 406. Postal services at Armed Forces installations (a) The Postal Service may establish branch post offices at camps, posts, bases, or stations of the Armed Forces and at defense or other strategic installations. (b) The Secretaries of Defense and Transportation shall make arrangements with the Postal Service to perform postal services through personnel designated by them at or through branch post offices established under subsection (a) of this section.
Page 2 - The Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, to whom was referred the bill (HR...
Page 13 - ... that the public welfare is the first consideration which should motivate their decisions. I do not believe that enough weight has been given this in the case of American Airlines and TWA. I hope that the action of this committee might cause a reversal of these decisions. The reversal is surely needed. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Senator MONRONEY. Thank you very much for your very helpful statement, Congressman McDade. May I ask what the schedule of your service is today roughly, approximate times...
Page 2 - Judiciary, to whom was referred the bill (HR 5463) to establish rules of evidence for certain courts and proceedings, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment, and recommend that the bill as amended do pass. The amendment strikes out all after the enacting clause and inserts in lieu thereof a substitute text which appears in italic type in the reported bill.
Page 2 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That...
Page 2 - ... text of the bill strikes out all after the enacting clause and inserts in lieu thereof a substitute text which is contained in italic type in the reported bill. The explanation of the provisions of the substitute text is contained in the explanation of the bill set forth hereinafter in this report. AMENDMENT TO THE TITLE The amendment proposed by the committee to the title of the bill is intended to reflect more accurately the text of the bill as proposed to be amended by the committee. PURPOSE...
Page 3 - ... of title 39, a comma and the words "and at airports." COST The enactment of this legislation will involve no additional cost to the Government and some savings may result from better administration and more efficient service. ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT The official recommendation of the Postmaster General for the enactment of this legislation follows: OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL, Washington, DC, April 6, 1963.

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