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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/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Title: Brooks bill extends historical document preservation program, June 29, 1972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 introduces President's Immigration Initiative to speed up deportation proceedings, August 3, 1993
Identifier: camh-dob-000998
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation, Emigration and immigration--Government policy
Dates: 1993-08-03
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: News release detailing Jack Brooks's introduction of legislation reflecting President Bill Clinton's proposal to combat illegal immigration in the United States. The bill would expedite asylum hearings, toughen criminal penalties against alien smugglers, and provide law enforcement with additional tools to combat smuggling.

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 Votes For Rights Bill
Identifier: camh-dob-002407
Topic: African Americans--Civil Rights, Legislation
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A newspaper clipping attached to a constituent note regarding the vote on the Civil Rights Bill of 1966. The clipping does not indicate the date or the newspaper.

Title: Carbon copy of a letter from a Texas state legislator to Jack Brooks, March 5, 1953
Identifier: camh-dob-001034
Topic: Elections, Legislation
Dates: 1953-03-05
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter from Texas State Representative Jep S. Fuller. Part of a series of communications from Texas House of Representatives members regarding redistricting in the state that are bundled together.

Title: Comments made by Jack Brooks about gun control during interview with Jack Williams, March 12, 1975
Identifier: camh-dob-001119
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Gun control, Legislation
Dates: 1975-03-12
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Jack Brooks speaks about his stance on gun control as it relates to the Subcommittee on Crime's briefing on "The Federal Firearms Act of 1975."

Title: Committee print, "Federal Firearms Act of 1975," undated
Identifier: camh-dob-001437
Topic: Gun control, Legislation
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Related to the proposed "Federal Firearms Act of 1975," which was intended to impose more gun control restraints.

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 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: Copy of draft legislation, undated
Identifier: camh-dob-001757
Topic: Legislation, United States. Congress
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Typewritten copy of legislation to reorganize certain Congressional operations proposed by the Joint Committee on the Organization of the Congress. List of sponsors attached.

Title: Copy of draft legislation, undated
Identifier: camh-dob-001756
Topic: Legislation, United States. Congress
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Copy of draft legislation to reorganize certain Congressional operations proposed by the Joint Committee on the Organization of the Congress. Includes handwritten notes.

Title: Dissenting views Honorable Jack Brooks, undated
Identifier: camh-dob-002158
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), Legislation
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Document explaining Jack Brooks's stance on both the Equal Rights Amendment and H.R. 638 that Brooks enclosed in correspondence to the Galveston chapter of the National Organization for Women.

Title: Draft bill, undated
Identifier: camh-dob-002588
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation, National parks and reserves -- Management
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Typewritten draft of a bill introducing multiple use land management in National Forests.

Title: Draft - May 15, 1973, (To be used if President signs OMB bill into law)
Identifier: camh-dob-002081
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation
Dates: 1973-05-15
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Carbon copy of a draft statement to be released if the President signs into law the bill, introduced in the House by Jack Brooks, to make the director of the Office of Management and Budget a position requiring Senate approval.

Title: Draft - May 15, 1973 (To be used if President vetoes OMB bill)
Identifier: camh-dob-002082
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation
Dates: 1973-05-15
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Carbon copy of a draft statement to be released if the President vetoes the bill, introduced in the House by Jack Brooks, to make the director of the Office of Management and Budget a position requiring Senate approval.

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