This PDF file is a one-page memo to Treasury Secretary George Humphrey from Dan Throop Smith, head of tax analysis at Treasury, dated November 4, 1955, about a meeting the previous day where Commerce Secretary…
This PDF file contains documents relating to the October 28, 1955 Cabinet meeting. This was another meeting conducted in the absence of President Eisenhower due to his September 24, 1955 heart attack.
This PDF file is an exchange of letters between Senator Albert Gore (D-TN) and President Eisenhower in the fall of 1959.
This is a document prepared by Under Secretary of Commerce for Transportation Robert Murray dated November 19, 1953 entitled “Federal Highway Policy” and transmitted by Murray to the White House with a cover letter on…
This is a letter marked “CONFIDENTIAL” from Treasury Secretary Ogden L. Mills to Acting House Ways and Means chairman Charles L. Crisp dated February 16, 1932 recommending that Congress enact a new excise tax on…
This is a February 1942 analysis by the Treasury Department’s Office of Tax Analysis of the pros and cons of a variety of potential excise tax increases on gasoline, fuel oil, lubricating oil, and other…
This is a May 16, 1933 letter to the U.S. Treasury Secretary from the head of the Farm Products Chemical Company of America (and its lawyers/lobbyists) advocating federal legislation to levy an additional surtax on…
This PDF file contains a July 15, 1977 memo from Transportation Secretary Brock Adams to President Carter saying that “the transportation and energy problems cannot be pulled apart. Responsible sentiment is rising for a marriage…
White House Statement of Administration Policy on H.R. 3566 (102nd Congress). H.R. 3566 was a revised version of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Infrastructure Act (H.R. 2950) without the 5 cent per gallon gas tax increase…
Statement of Administration Policy from the White House detailing a veto threat against the initial House Public Works and Transportation Committee version of the 1991 surface transportation legislation (H.R. 2950).
Table showing actual apportionments of federal-aid highway contract authority to states for fiscal year 2017 via FHWA Notice 4510.807 (September 30, 2016), compared to the state totals that were estimated in December 15 when the…
PDF file containing three memos relating to the Johnson Administration’s quest for more transportation user charges, from May 1966.
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