Abstract :
The long session of the 70th Congress convenes on Monday, December 5th. A survey of important legislative matters which will come before this Congress, according to the leaders, shows that there are many items of interest to the engineer. These include flood control, railway consolidation, provisions for the public building program, the assembling of public works functions in the Department of the Interior, the important engineering projects such as Boulder Dam, Columbia River Basin projects, Muscle Shoals, and River and Harbor improvements.