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A listing of the members of the Senate Committee on Appropriations and subcommittee assignments. Senator Maybank served on the Agriculture, Armed Services, Independent Offices (Chairman), and Treasury and Post Office subcommittees.

A letter from Senator Carl Hayden requesting Senator Maybank's views on a consolidated "single package" general appropriation bill and a letter from a constituent requesting support for the consolidated approach. Senator Maybank opposed the resolution because he felt it was not practical or feasible.

Correspondence concerning a reduction in appropriations for the Bureau of Customs.

Correspondence concerning appropriations for the construction of schools in federally affected areas. Included are reports of the need for additional appropriations to school facilities expecting increased enrollment as a result of the Atomic Energy Commission project along the Savannah River.

A letter from South Carolina State Senator E.W. Cantwell concerning a reduction in appropriations for loans through the Farmers Home Administration (FHA) and its effects on small farmers.

Correspondence concerning Federal Trade Commission appropriations.

Correspondence concerning appropriations for flood control projects including a survey of the Santee-Cooper watershed and flood relief legislation for people living and working in the Missouri Valley Area. In July of 1951 heavy rains resulted in widespread flooding and heavy damage in eastern Kansas and Missouri.

Staff reports from Senator Pat McCarran, Chairman of the Special Subcommittee on Foreign Economic Cooperation of the Committee on Appropriations, including Conditions in Europe in the Autumn of 1950, Analysis of the Gray Report, and Violation of United States Treaty Rights in French Morocco.

Correspondence written in support of a proposed reduction in public low-rent housing appropriations from 75,000 to 50,000 units for 1952.

Correspondence written in opposition to a proposed reduction in public low-rent housing appropriations from 75,000 to 50,000 units for 1952.