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Title: Congressional identification card for Jack Brooks, 1965-1966
Identifier: camh-dob-001470
Topic: United States. Congress. House
Dates: 1965
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Congressional identification card used by Jack Brooks during his seventh term.

Title: Congressional identification card for Jack Brooks, 1989-1990
Identifier: camh-dob-001471
Topic: United States. Congress. House
Dates: 1989
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Congressional identification card used by Jack Brooks during his nineteenth term.

Title: Congressional Record, House, June 14, 1984
Identifier: camh-dob-002577
Topic: Legislation, Law enforcement
Dates: 1984-06-14
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A copy of the June 14, 1984 House Congressional Record. Jack Brooks's introduction of the Law Enforcement Officers Protection Act of 1984 is circled. Brooks mailed copies of this and his new release regarding his new bill to be distributed to law enforcement officers throughout the Beaumont area.

Title: Congressional Record - House, May 1, 1973
Identifier: camh-dob-002129
Topic: Legislation, United States. Congress. House
Dates: 1973-05-01
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: The annotated page from the Congressional Record was used to calculate the amount votes needed to override the veto of a bill passed by the House on May 1, 1973. The bill would require Senate confirmation of appointees to the Office of Management and Budget.

Title: Congressional Record - Senate, May 22, 1973
Identifier: camh-dob-002131
Topic: Legislation, United States. Congress. House
Dates: 1973-05-22
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: The annotated page from the Congressional Record lists the breakdown of votes to override President Nixon's veto of a bill that would require Senate confirmation of appointees to the Office of Management and Budget.

Title: Congressional Reorganization: A suggestion for its fulfillment (draft), undated
Identifier: camh-dob-001709
Topic: United States. Congress. House, Legislation
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Draft remarks regarding the Legislative Reorganization Act. The remarks are unsigned and include handwritten emendations. Authorship unknown, but Brooks staff or Jack Brooks likely.

Title: Congressional Reorganization: A suggestion for its fulfillment, undated
Identifier: camh-dob-001711
Topic: United States. Congress. House, Legislation
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Remarks regarding the Legislative Reorganization Act. Later draft of camh-dob-001709. Authorship unknown, but Brooks staff or Jack Brooks likely.

Title: Congressional Research Service report regarding Brook's request for alternatives to the present method of selecting nominees for the Vice Presidency, undated
Identifier: camh-dob-001433
Topic: Watergate Affair (1972-1974)
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Research material used by Jack Brooks during the appointment of Gerald Ford as Vice President.

Title: Congressman Jack Brooks (D-Tex.), U.S. House of Representatives, January 19, 1977
Identifier: camh-dob-001532
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States. Congress, United States. Congress. House
Dates: 1977-01-19
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Brooks speaks before the House of Representatives about a Report on the Activities of the Joint Committee on Congressional Operations. He says, "Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks and insert extraneous material." Material attached [camh-dob-001533].

Title: Congressman Jack Brooks (D-Tex.), U.S. House of Representatives, January 19, 1977, Report on the Activities of the Joint Committee on Congressional Operations in the 94th Congress
Identifier: camh-dob-001533
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States. Congress, United States. Congress. House
Dates: 1977-01-19
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Jack Brooks, Chairman of the Joint Committee on Congressional Operations, reports on the Committee's activities. It includes highlights of what the Committee has accomplished in the past two years, summaries of its continuing activities, and descriptions of projected future activities.

Title: Congressman Jack Brooks, U.S. House of Representatives, March 17, 1976, Today in Congress
Identifier: camh-dob-002428
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States. Congress
Dates: 1976-03-17
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Jack Brooks's remarks as Chairman of the Joint Committee on Congressional Operations regarding a pilot program for booklets distributed to Capitol tourists titled "Today in Congress" containing information about the daily hearings and happenings of Congress.

Title: Congressman Peter W. Rodino announces the results of the January 24 meeting of the Judiciary Committee's Advisory Committee on its impeachment inquiry, January 24, 1974
Identifier: camh-dob-001014
Topic: Watergate Affair (1972-1974), United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Dates: 1974-01-24
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A summary of the January 24, 1974 meeting of the Judiciary Committee with its Advisory Committee to receive a progress report from Special Counsel John Doar. The Advisory Committee agreed it was necessary for the Judiciary Committee to introduce a resolution to the House of Representatives to explicitly confirm the Judiciary Committee's responsibility and jurisdiction to investigate the conduct of the President and whether or not the President had committed Constitutionally impeachable offenses.

Title: Constituent correspondence in favor of the Poor People's Campaign's March in Washington, D.C.
Identifier: camh-dob-004287
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers