Pension Bills and Bills to Provide Additional Wartime Benefits for Veterans of the Vietnam Conflict: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Compensation and Pensions ... 90-1, March 2, 3, 6, 1967

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Page 42 - Be it enacted by the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Arms Control and Disarmament Act Amendments in 1975".
Page 287 - Be not the first by whom the new is tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Page 33 - EMPLOYMENT ACT OF 1946, AS AMENDED, WITH RELATED LAWS (60 Stat. 23) [PUBLIC LAW 304— 79TH CONGRESS] AN ACT To declare a national policy on employment, production, and purchasing power, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SHORT TITLE SECTION 1 . This Act may be cited as the "Employment Act of 1946".
Page 11 - Voting Rights Act of 1965 79 Stat. 437, 42 USC § 7973 AN ACT To enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act shall be known as the "Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Page 184 - Mr. Chairman : I wish to thank you and the members of this Subcommittee for the privilege of speaking in behalf of HR-1207 and urging your prompt consideration of this important proposal.
Page 277 - Central visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye, with corrective glasses, or central visual acuity of more than 20/200 if there is a field defect in which the peripheral field has contracted to such an extent...
Page 114 - Sec. 500. (a) Any person who shall have served in the active military or naval service of the United States at any time on or after September 16, 1940, and prior to the termination of the present war and who shall have been discharged or released therefrom under conditions other than dishonorable after active service of ninety days or more, or by reason of an injury or disability incurred in service in line of duty, shall be eligible for the benefits of this title.
Page 53 - II of chapter 7 of title 42; (6) 10 per centum of the amount of payments to an individual under public or private retirement, annuity, endowment, or similar plans or programs; (7) amounts equal to amounts paid by a widow or child of a deceased veteran for — (A) his just debts, (B) the expenses of his last illness, and (C) the expenses of his burial to the extent such expenses are not reimbursed under...
Page 102 - ... (g) Each eligible veteran who is pursuing an approved course of flight training shall be paid an education and training allowance to be computed at the rate of 75 per centum of the established charge which similarly circumstanced nonveterans enrolled in the same flight course are required to pay for tuition for the course.
Page 267 - The ratings shall be based, as far as practicable, upon the average impairments of earning capacity resulting from such injuries in civil occupations...

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