Sub-Series I: Bills,, 1959-1974 and 1979 - 1982.
Dates
- 1959-1974 and 1979 - 1982.
Scope and Contents
Bills include the files maintained by HAW's office on proposed legislation. These files primarily included bills and resolutions introduced or co-sponsored by HAW. They also included "bills of interest" which were proposed legislation not introduced or co-sponsored by HAW but relevant in some way to his interests (e.g., bills referred to his committee, competing bills, appropriations bills, etc.).
Bills includes what could be considered private bills to the extent they concern individual companies, municipalities, universities, and other institutions. Files of legislation introduced on behalf of individuals are in the sub-series Private Bills.
The bill files typically include at least a printed bill, usually the version as introduced. Many files include only the bill. Most files include at least one other document as well, including Congressional Record pages, Committee Reports, printed versions of the bill subsequent to introduction, Dear Colleague correspondence requesting support for the bill, executive branch commentary on the legislation, press releases, and/or reference material such as commentary by the American Enterprise Institute, Congressional Research Service, or Democratic Policy Committee. Some files also contain working documents including staff notes, correspondence, and drafts of bills and floor remarks.
Because of the wide range in content of the individual files, the thematic strengths of the sub-series are uneven. Nevertheless, rich material focused on particular bills can be found on several topics. Well-represented national issues include:
· civil rights, including voting rights for African-Americans, equal rights for women, equal access to credit for women, and constitutional protections for military and civil personnel;
· consumer and commercial protections, including truth in lending, interstate land sales fraud, patent and copyright infringement, small business franchising, corporate takeovers, candy additives, drug disclosures, and interstate lottery advertising;
· education, including financial assistance to students and community school center development;
· conservation, including wildlife (e.g., marine mammals, endangered species) and land (e.g., Great Swamp, Ellis Island, ocean dumping);
· flood insurance;
· health, including Preventicare adult health program, professional education, drug abuse treatment, and cancer research (the sub-series includes correspondence from President Nixon to HAW on this last subject);
· labor, including migratory labor (the sub-series includes HAW's proposal to Senator Lister Hill creating the Subcommittee on Migratory Labor), minimum wage, and Hatch Act restrictions; and
· other matters, including housing, Woodrow Wilson Memorial, National Community Senior Service Corps, mass transportation, investigation of Senator Christopher Dodd, reorganization of VISTA/ACTION, regulatory reform, JFK Performing Arts Center funding, and TV/radio coverage of Senate proceedings.
New Jersey-specific material, some in the form of private bills, concerns General Aniline & Film Co, Delaware River, Passaic Guidance Guild Nursery School, Chemirad Corp, Perth Amboy News lock-out of typographers, Beverly National Cemetery, Sandy Hook, Garden State Parkway, Cuban refugees, and cargo theft experienced by NY/NJ Waterfront and Airport Commissions.
Bills includes relatively little material on foreign affairs, but substantive documentation can be found concerning Vietnam (e.g., military draft, proposed resolutions, care of injured Vietnamese children), the Bangladesh crisis of 1971-72, and the Middle East (i.e., Arab embargo of Israel, arms sales to Saudi Arabia).
Bills holds little material on some of HAW's major legislative achievements, including OSHA, ERISA, and mine safety. Also, no bill files were found for the 94th and 95th Congresses (1975-1978) and few were found for the 96th Congress (1979-1980).
Language of Materials
Undetermined .
Physical Description
(47.75 cubic feet)
Arrangement
Generally, Bills is arranged in original order. Overall, arrangement is by Congressional term, but within terms HAW's office used different arrangements over time, as described below:
· 86th Congress, 1st session (1959): In this session only, HAW's office arranged the bills according to a coding structure: bills coded "2" were initiated in the House, bills coded "3" were Senate bills of interest, "3-1" were bills introduced by HAW, and "3-2" were co-sponsored by HAW. Code "3-3" apparently referred to potential bills under consideration by HAW.
· 86th Congress, 2nd session - 87th Congress (1960 - 1962): House bills of interest, followed by Senate bills of interest, followed by intermingled HAW introduced and co-sponsored in bill number order. Bills of interest were marked with yellow labels on the original folders, HAW-introduced with red-lined labels, and HAW co-sponsored with blue-lined labels HAW's office split the bill files by session only in the 86th Congress.
· 88th - 89th Congress (1963 - 1966): Senate bills and resolutions, followed by House bills, each set in bill number order. Color-coded labeling on original folders same as above.
· 90th - 91st Congress (1967 - 1970): Original folders in some disorder; arranged by processing archivist to be consistent with arrangement used by HAW office in 88th and 89th Congress. Color-coded labeling on original folders no longer used by HAW office, replaced with cut-out portions of bill glued to folder.
· 92nd Congress (1971 - 1972): Arranged by Committee with jurisdiction over the bill (some Banking and some Labor Committee files are further arranged by subcommittee or subject). Bill number order (Senate bills, followed by House) within each Committee set.
· 93rd Congress (1973 - 1974): HAW-introduced bills, followed by HAW co-sponsored bills. Each set further arranged by Committee with jurisdiction over the bill (some Banking and some Labor Committee files are further arranged by subcommittee or subject). A third set consisting of a few Labor Committee-related bills, mostly bills of interest and found apart from the bill files, closes the term.
· 97th Congress (1981 - 1982): These bill files were obtained from HAW's office in 1982 in relatively unfinished and unorganized condition. Following the rough arrangement identified by the processing archivist, these files are arranged in two sets: the first by Committee and the second by bill number. A small number of bill files from the 96th Congress (1979 - 1980) were found intermingled with those of the 97th; these were left in place, but identified in the folder description and date range as 96th Congress bills.
Some bill files from one Congress were found filed with those of a subsequent Congress, typically because of a subject relationship. These were left as found, with a reference added to the Inventory container list's folder description or in the folder index terms to indicate the fact that the folder related to a prior Congress.
Some folders of material related to legislation, though not bill files, were found in the boxes of bill files. If this material could be linked through its placement or content to specific bills, the additional material was included in the arrangement at the point of the associated bill file. If the material could not be linked to a specific bill, it was placed after all bill files for the Congressional term associated with the material or, depending on the material, moved to an appropriate series or sub-series.
Except in the case of folders with severe preservation issues, the original folders were retained for the bill files of the 86th - 89th Congresses because of their color-coded labeling schemes. Original folders were retained for other years as well to the extent preservation considerations made this possible. Where original folders are used, any notations made by the processing archivist on the folder label are indicated by [brackets].
For the Inventory container list, the date range of the Congressional term of the subject bill was used to establish the date range of the folder descriptions.
In the Inventory container list, the processing archivist annotated the folder descriptions to reflect certain conditions. For bills introduced by HAW, the notation "HAW" was added to the folder description. For bills co-sponsored by HAW, the notation "HAWco" was added. For folders that hold only the printed bill and no other documents, the notation "b" was added.
Appraisal and Discard Information
All files associated with a bill introduced or co-sponsored by HAW were retained. Bills of interest were discarded if their folder contained only the bill, Committee Report, and/or Congressional Record; bills of interest were retained if their folder included documents other than these, such as a Dear Colleague letter.
Some files included loose newspaper clippings; generally, these were discarded if newsprint.
Generally, Congressional Record pages (i.e., newsprint paper) were discarded unless they included HAW remarks.
General
Index Terms
Index terms were used to indicate specific NJ institutions, locales, etc. relevant to a bill whenever that relationship is not clear from the folder description.
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