User:Shamesia/sandbox

Hi Shamesia, here is a sandbox to play in. Enjoy!

History
On March 3, 1905, The Agriculture Appropriation Act was created under the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. Martin Dodge was the director of the OPRI (Office of Public Roads Inquiry) until 1905 when the act was passed. The Division of Tests of the Bureau of Chemistry joined with The Office of Public Roads Inquiry to form the Office of Public Roads(OPR). A scientist was needed to be in charge of all of the scientific and technical work. Logan Waller Page was appointed the head of the organization by the Agriculture Appropriation Act. The OPR has a yearly budget of 50,000 dollars. It is the first permanent federal road agency. The act required the OPR to fill ten full time positions. The act acquired farm and architectural functions of the Rural Engineering Investigations Division of the Office of Farm Management,while consolidating the Drainage and Irrigation divisions of the office of farm management to form the OPR and Rural engineering.A 12% increase in overall agriculture spending in one year is out of touch with our current reality. Many of these programs are important and should be funded at reasonable levels, but they simply do not warrant these huge spending increases paid for with borrowed money. In addition, many of these programs received enormous increases over their normal appropriation levels in supplemental appropriations in 2008. Many programs fall under these Act such as the Food and Nutrition Program, and Conservation Program. David OBey is now the Chairman over Appropritations.