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COMMITTEE ON BANKING AND CURRENCY.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

EIGHTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

71967

JUNE 27 AND 28, 1961

Printed for the use of the Committee on Banking and Currency

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1961

H.R. 7787. A bill to provide increased Federal assistance to State and

local governments in planning new or improved transportation facilities

and services as a part of comprehensive planning for metropolitan and

other urban areas, and for other purposes...

Kennedy, President John F., letter dated June 19, 1961, to Hon. Sam

Rayburn.

Housing and Home Finance Agency, memorandum of Robert C. Weaver,

dated June 15, 1961.

H.R. 6588. A bill to authorize the Administrator of the Housing and Home

Finance Agency, through a system of guarantees of public transit au-

thority obligations, to assist State and local governments and their

public instrumentalities in providing mass transportation services in

urban and metropolitan areas.

List of identical bills to H.R. 7787.---

Statement of-

Alpert, George, president, New York, New Haven & Hartford Rail-

road Co., role of rail commuter services in metropolitan areas

Banner, Knox, executive director, National Capital Downtown Com-
mittee, Inc., on mass transportation..

Burke, Hon. James A., a Representative in Congress from the State

of Massachusetts, accompanied by Frank Leonardi, administrative

assistant of the mass transportation system, Commonwealth of

Massachusetts..

Byrne, Hon. James, a Representative in Congress from the State of

Pennsylvania..

163

Cahill, Hon. William T., a Representative in Congress from the State

of New Jersey..

157

Chalk, O. Roy, president, D.C. Transit System, Inc...

187

Dilworth, Richardson, mayor, city of Philadelphia; vice president,

American Municipal Association...

164

Dooley, Hon. Edwin B., a Representative in Congress from the State

of New York..

147

Dwyer, Hon. Florence P., a Representative in Congress from the

State of New Jersey.

77

Gilbert, Hon. Jacob H., a Representative in Congress from the State

of New York..........

169

Graham, John J., trustee, Metropolitan Transit Authority, Boston,

Mass..

154

Granahan, Hon. Kathryn, a Representative in Congress from the

State of Pennsylvania..

143

Green, Hon. William J., Jr., a Representative in Congress from the

State of Pennsylvania...

159

Halpern, Hon. Seymour, a Representative in Congress from the State
of New York...

167

Hartsfield, William B., mayor of the city of Atlanta, Ga., for the

American Municipal Association and the U.S. Conference of

Mayors...

70

Logue, Edward J., development administrator, city of Boston, Mass.-

McLernon, Thomas J., general manager, Metropolitan Transit Au-

thority, Boston, Mass..

153

155

Mailliard, Hon. William S., a Representative in Congress from the

State of California

141

Maloney, Dr. Joseph F., executive director of the Mass Transporta-
tion Commission of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts..

Mocine, Corwin, by Hon. Jeffery Cohelan, of California...

149

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