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Title: Amendment to H.R. 6219, undated
Identifier: camh-dob-002395
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation, Elections
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Jack Brooks enclosed the proposed amendment with a letter he wrote to Peter Rodino. The amendment was intended to avoid penalizing states like Texas that had already ratified bilingual ballots.

Title: Brooks' architect and engineer bill gains House committee approval, June 14, 1972
Identifier: camh-dob-002025
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation, Contracts--Government
Dates: 1972-06-14
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: News release from Jack Brooks announcing that his proposed legislation allowing the government to select the most qualified architects and engineers for federal projects was approved by the Government Operations Committee.

Title: Brooks architect/engineer selection bill approved by Congress, news release, October 14, 1972
Identifier: camh-dob-002238
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation, Contracts--Government
Dates: 1972-10-14
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: News release announcing the approval of Jack Brooks's legislation on the bidding process for architect/engineer contracts.

Title: Brooks bill extends historical document preservation program, June 29, 1972
Identifier: camh-dob-002232
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation, Historic preservation--Law and legislation
Dates: 1972-06-29
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: News release announcing legislation introduced by Jack Brooks extending a national program to collect and preserve historically significant materials.

Title: Brooks bill would reauthorize Independent Counsel statute, February 4, 1993
Identifier: camh-dob-001004
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation, Governmental Investigations
Dates: 1993-02-04
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: News release about Jack Brooks introducing legislation, H.R. 811, to reauthorize the Independent Counsel provisions of the Ethics in Government Act for five years, allowing the Attorney General to appoint prosecutors outside of the Justice Department to handle criminal cases involving high-level Federal officials. The original legislation was inspired by the "Saturday Night Massacre" during the Watergate scandal, and was reauthorized twice during the Reagan Administration, but expired due to filibuster threat by Senate Republicans. Brooks criticizes former Attorney General [Barr] for his refusal to use Independent Counsel in the past, including during the INSLAW investigation, when there were allegations of criminal conspiracy by Justice officials documented by two Federal Courts.

Title: Brooks introduces legislation to improve federal policymaking regarding computers, February 17, 1972
Identifier: camh-dob-002236
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Computers, Legislation
Dates: 1972-02-17
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A news release from Jack Brooks announcing his legislation to improve Federal policy making regarding computers and to expand basic research in computer technology.

Title: Brooks proposes Department of Health, March 29, 1972
Identifier: camh-dob-002241
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation, United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
Dates: 1972-03-29
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: News release announcing legislation introduced by Jack Brooks to establish a Department of Health separate from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

Title: Brooks unit probes distribution of federal surplus property, February 9, 1972
Identifier: camh-dob-002235
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
Dates: 1972-02-09
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Remarks of Jack Brooks following hearings about inequities in the distribution of surplus Federal property to schools and health programs throughout the country.

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: Copy of a House of Representatives resolution regarding peace in Vietnam, November 3, 1969
Identifier: camh-dob-001216
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012, Wright, Jim, 1922-2015
Topic: Vietnam War (1961-1975), United States. Congress. House
Dates: 1969-11-03
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A copy of the House of Representatives resolution supporting President Nixon and his efforts to negotiate a just peace in Vietnam. This resolution copy was attached to Jim Wright's November 3, 1969 letter to Jack Brooks [camh-dob-00138], in addition to a list of fifty Democratic co-sponsors [camh-dob-001217].

Title: Countercyclical section in public works bill, undated
Identifier: camh-dob-002027
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation, Revenue sharing
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Statement released by Jack Brooks discussing his reservations with a $1.5 billion program in the Local Public Works Capital Development and Investment Act.

Title: The efficacy of state rescission of ratification of a Federal Constitutional Amendment, March 15, 1977
Identifier: camh-dob-002153
Topic: Joint Resolution Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Relative to Equal Rights for Men and Women (United States), Legislation
Dates: 1977-03-15
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: The report from the Congressional Research Service discusses the legal implications of including an amendment allowing recission to H.R. 638, a bill that would extend the ratification period for the Equal Rights Amendment. Recission would allow states that had already passed the ERA to retract their ratification of the amendment.

Title: Executive Office of the President, Bureau of the Budget, Report Summary, February 23, 1967
Identifier: camh-dob-002069
Topic: Legislation, Computers
Dates: 1967-02-23
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Summary of a report released by the Executive Office of the President, Bureau of the Budget, highlighting the savings to taxpayers resulting from Jack Brooks's legislation authorizing government agencies to purchase or lease computers.

Title: For immediate release, August 5, 1969, post office unit considers Brooks anti-obscenity bill
Identifier: camh-dob-002403
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation
Dates: 1969-08-05
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: News release regarding legislation to curb obscenity in the mail. Jack Brooks testified in favor of the legislation before the House Post Office Subcommittee.

Title: For immediate release, May 14, 1969, Brooks plan for computer use in Congress moves ahead
Identifier: camh-dob-002255
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation, Computers
Dates: 1969-05-14
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: News release announcing that the Government Operations Committee approved legislation introduced by Jack Brooks to allow the purchase of computers for use in Congress.

Title: Form letter from Jack Brooks to constituents, July 15, 1968
Identifier: camh-dob-001728
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Gun control, Legislation
Dates: 1968-07-15
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Form letter regarding gun control legislation sent to constituents by Jack Brooks.

Title: Gallup Poll regarding Richard Nixon's Vietnam policies speech, November 5, 1969
Identifier: camh-dob-001200
Topic: Vietnam War (1961-1975), Speeches
Dates: 1969-11-05
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A two-page Gallup Poll detailing public approval ratings of President Nixon after his November 3, 1969 Vietnam policies speech. It reports that Nixon won a vote of confidence of seventy-seven percent of Americans on his Vietnam policies. The report says that although the public had a "highly favorable" initial reaction, public opinion in the coming weeks would largely depend on the actual withdrawal rate of U.S. troops from Vietnam. This Gallup Poll was attached to a November 5, 1969 letter from Special Assistant Bryce Harlow to Congressman Jack Brooks regarding President Nixon's public approval ratings [camh-dob-001141].

Title: Handwritten notes, [May 1978]
Identifier: camh-dob-002142
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Joint Resolution Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Relative to Equal Rights for Men and Women (United States), United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Dates: 1978-05
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Jack Brooks's notes from hearings regarding H.R. 638, which would extend the ratification period for the Equal Rights Amendment. The notes list Judiciary Committee members who support including a clause regarding recission to H.R. 638.

Title: Handwritten statement, undated
Identifier: camh-dob-002016
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A handwritten statement expressing Jack Brooks's support for an amendment proposed by Congressman Olin Teague adding VA funding to an appropriations bill.

Title: House approves legislation to combat hate crimes
Identifier: camh-dob-000999
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: News release detailing Jack Brooks's proposed bill, H.R. 1152, which would direct the U.S. Sentencing Commission to adopt sentencing guidelines to increase, by three offense levels, the sentence imposed on those convicted of hate crimes.

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