These results could have been averted if judgment and leadership on the executive level had been exercised. Mr. Speaker. also enacted was legislation to improve our nationality and immigration laws. some of which I have already mentioned. to improve the Bankruptcy Act. to improve the efficiency of the judiciary. the strengthening of existing law relating to the mailing of obscene or crimeinciting matter. authorizing the making. amendment. and modification of contracts to facilitate the national defense. amend existing law to authorize grantsinaid to schools of public health and public health administration. to authorize loans for construction of hospitals and other facilities under title VI of the Public Health Act. granting consent of the Congress to the several States to enter into compacts for making traffic safety. Government guaranty of private loans to air carriers for the purchase of aircraft and equipment. established the Civil Aeronautics Board and a Federal Aviation Agency to regulate the use of airspace by both civilian and military aircraft. to authorize additional grants for the support of scientific research. extending the Public Health Service Act relating to health research facilities. authorized floodcontrol projects and acceleration of civil construction programs. FederalAid Highway Act of 1958. rivers and harbors and flood omnibus bill of 1958. to provide for an increase in the minimum interest rate permitted on United States savings bonds. to permit importation. free of duty. of religious vestments and regalia presented without charge to a church. or to certain religious. educational or charitable oragnizations. increased exemption to theaters. particularly helpful to small movingpicture theaters. removal of a number of tax inequities and the reduction of several burdensome excise taxes. to extend unemployment insurance system to exservicemen. to provide for improved methods of stating budget estimates and estimates for deficiency and supplemental appropriations. which carried out a major Hoover Commission recommendation. extension of the Reorganization Act of 1949. as amended. to amend section 161 of the Revised Statutes with respect to the authority of Federal officers and agencies to withhold information and limit the availability of records. increase rates of compensation for serviceconnected disabilities and for dependency allowances. consolidation into a single act and simplified laws governing compensation. pension. hospitalization and administration of the Veterans Administration. pensions increased for widows of Spanish.
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