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Title: Breakdown of voting on Brooks motion to strike Title II from the Public Works Conference report, January 29, 1976
Identifier: camh-dob-002028
Topic: Legislation, United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
Dates: 1976-01-29
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A breakdown of voting on Jack Brooks's motion to strike a section of the Public Works Conference report.

Title: Memorandum to Congressman Jack Brooks, December 14, 1972
Identifier: camh-dob-011169
Creator: United States. Congress
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Computers, Standardization
Dates: 1972-12-14, 1972-12-14
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Memorandum to Congressman Jack Brooks for a meeting request from House Appropriations Committee staff members, Keith Mainland and Hunter Spillan, regarding progress on standardized fiscal and budgetary systems in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the General Accounting Office (GAO). They advise Congressman Brooks that the OMB "has no intention of developing a [computer] informational system," and says "some other agency will have to," as they do not feel they are equipped to handle the task. They asked for leadership from Brooks on the matter to "straighten out the mess we are in."

Title: Memorandum to Congressman Jack Brooks, January 15, 1973
Identifier: camh-dob-011168
Creator: United States. Congress. House
Topic: Computers, Standardization
Dates: 1973-01-15, 1973-01-15
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A memorandum to Congressman Jack Brooks addressing issues with progress in computer technology.

Title: Memorandum to Subcommittee on Legislation and National Security from Jack Brooks, June 23, 1976
Identifier: camh-dob-001966
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Electronic data processing, United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
Dates: 1976-06-23
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Jack Brooks informs the members of the Subcommittee on Legislation and National Security within the Government Operations Committee that three days of hearings have been scheduled in order to review the procurement of automatic data processing (ADP) resources by the federal government.

Title: Suggested changes in revenue sharing, [1976]
Identifier: camh-dob-001984
Topic: Revenue sharing, United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
Dates: 1976
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: The annotated document lists nine ways to reform the federal revenue sharing system. Jack Brooks opposed revenue sharing, and as the chairman of the Government Operations Committee, was also tasked with reviewing the legislation regarding it. The document also features annotations analyzing the considerations listed.