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Scope and Contents Folder contains Bill H.R 4193 [Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies], as well as an accompnaying report. Also included are the interests of Congressman Packard for the Bill, including an interest in getting funding for the Natural Community Conservation Planning (NCCP), land requests, and animal restoration. Accompanying Congressman Packard's interests are reports to legislature released by the NCCP, and they indicate the goals of the NCCP, including ...

Scope and Contents Folder contains Bills H.R 4194 [Making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for the sundry independent agencies, boards, commissions, corperations, and offices for the FY 1999] and S. 2168. Accompanying reports breaking down the bills are also included. Congressman Packard's wishes and wants fromt the respective subcomittee, inlcuding his interests in local infrastructure--like wastewater, toll roads, etc.--as well as interests...

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Folder contains information regarding the creation of a dental office on Camp Pendelton. Included is small time-table of events, including the lifting of restrictions and limitations on products and services for the military, to the interest amongst members of Congressman Packard's district to create a dental office on base, to the revealed opening and operating information for the actual clinic.

Scope and Contents Folder contains information on a Navy scandal in 1998, in which they were found out to have been shipping napalm from California to Chicago. The folder includes news articles, both in support of the Navy, as well as against. This scandal resulted from the need to offload the napalm stockpile, however the transfer of it violated Federal Law. The stockpile of napalm was located in Fallbrook, CA, which lies within Congressman Packard's district. The transfer was subsuquently halted, much to the...

Scope and Contents Folder contains a Project Status Report, brief, and presentation for the Napalm Stockpile Removal and Disposal Project prepared for the House Appropriations Committee (HAC) Military Construction Subcommittee. This report offers a detailed description for the project and includes a project statement, plan for disposal, as well as the processing site for the Napalm after it is shipped. Also included are political letters and news clips that indicate the fight and push to get the napalm...

Scope and Contents Folder contains information on the Military Construction Line Item of 1997. President Bill Clinton used the line-veto authority to cancel 38 military construction projects that were both authorized and appropirated by Congress for the FY. The line-veto allows for the President to cancel out certain aspects of a bill, usually in relation to certain things for a budget. Congressman Packard helped to urge other politicians to support the whole bill against the line-veto, which helped result in...