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56 speeches never made
RICHMOND—Taxpayers spent $13,170 in the first six months of 1986 to print speeches which were never delivered by Virginia congressmen and senators.
The Virginia News Network reported Monday that the Virginia delegation shows up 56 times in the Congressional Record for speeches never given on the floor of Congress during the first half of the year.
Undelivered speeches are discemable from the others because they are printed in a different typeface.
A congressmen sometimes inserts a speech into the Congressional Record because he will be away when a particular issue is debated and he wants to make sure his position is recorded.
Marine studies lauded
GLOUCESTER POINT—Greater state funding is meaning more and ^ better service to the state from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, according to Frank 0. Perkins, institute director.
The institute was established to untake research for the state, but in its early years found itself tied up in projects for the federal government and private contracts, said Perkins last week.
The key to the institute’s return to its original goals was a decision in the early 1980s to cut VIMS’ reliance on outside grants and contracts while persuading the state to up its ante. As a result, the amount of research done for federal agencies and private businesses on a contract basis or to fulfill the requirements of grants has dropped dramatically.
94.8%