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paid out of the amount apportioned to the State from any subsequent appropriations
 made for Federal-aid highways.
(b) The approval of emergency projects for roads within a State shall be deemed
a contractural obligation of the Federal Government for the payment of its proportional
 contribution to the cost of the projects only to the extent of the amount
apportioned to the State and remaining unpaid of the public works emergency
appropriation made for the purpose and the subsequent appropriations made for
Federal-aid highways.
(¢) The provision of the Federal highway act in respect of the apportionemnt
of Federal-aid appropriations shall not apply to public works emergency appropriations,
 but the Secretary of Agriculture may apportion such appropriations
among all the States or in the State in the area or areas deisgnated by Congress
in scuh a way as may be fixed by Congress or shall in his judgment be best calculated
 to prevent unemployment.
(d) For the purpose of equalizing among the several States the amount of
Federal funds apportioned under the Federal highway act, as amended and supplemented,
 and this act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall deduct any payment
made to a State out of a public works emergency appropriation from the amount
apportioned to the State out of any subsequent appropriation for Federal-aid
ighways.
(e) The Secretary of Agriculture, after making the deductions authorized by
this section, shall within sixty days thereafter reapportion the amount so deducted
to all the States in the same manner and on the same basis, and certify to the
Secretary of the Treasury and the State highway departments in the same way
as if it were heing apportioned under the Federal highway act for the first time.
(f) In the event that the payment received by a State under the provisions
of a public works emergency appropriation for Federal-aid highways exceeds the
amount apportioned to that State out of the next succeeding appropriation for
Federal-aid highways, the whole amount apportioned to that State shall be reapportioned
 to all the States in the manner provided in subdivision (e), and the
difference between the payments so received and the amount so reapportioned
shall be deducted from the amount apportioned to the State out of the next
succeeding appropriation for Federal-aid highways and reapportioned in accordance
 with subdivision (e) and so on until the total amount so received has been
thus deducted and reapportioned.

PUBLIC BUILDINGS

Sec. 12. The provisions of the public buildings act, approved May 25, 1926,
shall apply to public buildings authorized under this act, except that the method
of allocation prescribed therein shall not apply; but the sums appropriated for
public buildings under this act shall be apportioned as Congress may provide
or, if there he no such provisions, by the Secretary of the Treasury in such way
as best to carry out the intent of this act and prevent unemployment in the
United States or the area prescribed bv Congress.

APPROPRIATIONS AUTHORIZED

Sec. 13. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as are
necessary for expenditure on public works to prevent unemployment during any
such period of business depression, not in excess of $150,000,000 in any one fiscal
year, and such further sums as are necessary for the administration of this act.
The CrairMaN. Senator Wagner is present. Are you in charge of
the proponents of the bills, Senator?
Senator WaGNER. I am the proponent of the bills under consideration
 and therefore I will take charge, if I may, and introduce the
speakers in favor of this legislation.
The CuairmanN. Verv well, Senator.

STATEMENT OF HON. ROBERT F. WAGNER, A ‘SENATOR FROM
THE STATE OF NEW YORK

Senator WaGNER. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee,
I want to express my gratitude to the committee for this opportunity
t0 present our views. 1 am not going to be so uneracious as to address