Senate Subcommittee facts

While investigating facts about Senate Subcommittees and Senate Subcommittee On Investigations, I found out little known, but curios details like:

In 1969, Mr. Rogers appeared before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications to argue against the cutting of Federal Funds for PBS. He was successful in preventing the cuts.

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In 1966, when asked by a Senate subcommittee member about the dangers of LSD, Timothy Leary stated: "Sir, the motor car is dangerous if used improperly...Human stupidity and ignorance is the only danger human beings face in this world." The Senator he was replying to was Ted Kennedy.

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In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 10 of the best facts about Senate Subcommittee On Intellectual Property and Senate Subcommittee Hearings I managed to collect.

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1. In 1965, a Senate subcommittee predicted that by 2000, Americans would only be working 20 hours a week with seven weeks vacation.

2. In 1969 Fred Rogers testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications who were looking to cut PBS' funding. In 6 Minutes he charmed the chairman, eventually increasing the funding to $22m (beautiful video in comments)

3. A 1965 Senate subcommittee predicted that Americans would be working only 14 hours a week by the year 2000, with at least seven weeks of vacation time every year.

4. In 1969, with a very passionate argument for the need for social and emotional education for children, Mr. Rogers spoke before the US Senate Subcommittee on Communications to support funding for PBS. Video link in comments.

5. To ensure the possibility of public debate about the content of the Pentagon Papers, US Senator Mike Gravel entered 4,100 pages of the Papers to the record of his Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Grounds.

6. In 1965, a Senate subcommittee predicted that by 2000, Americans would be working 20 hours a week and taking over seven weeks of vacation each year.

7. Langston Hughes, the poet and leader of the Harlem Renaissance, had a great interest in Communism as an alternative to segregation. This would ultimately lead him to visit the Soviet Union and be called before Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-Communism subcommittee.

8. In 1946 a doctor reported his successful cancer treatment to a senate subcommittee, the official record of which has been expunged. Later he was poisoned with arsenic twice, his book manuscript was stolen, and he was forbidden from practicing while facing a public smear campaign from the AMA