Agriculture--environmental and Consumer Protection Appropriations for 1973: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Ninety-second Congress, Second Session, Part 6U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972 |
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Page 520 - Mr. Chairman and members of the committee. I deeply appreciate the opportunity to appear before this committee on behalf of the Bureau of the Budget to urge favorable consideration of S.
Page 644 - Army is implacably opposed to any decrease in the size of the budget requested by the United States Army for the fiscal year 1959 ; and it was further Resolved, That the president of the chapter be, and he hereby is, directed to forward copies of these resolutions on behalf of the chapter to the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee ; the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee ; the Senators from the State of New York ; and the Senators from the State of New Jersey. OPPOSITION TO...
Page 517 - Department's requested appropriation for meat inspection is, as has generally been in the past, actually conservative. Our association wholeheartedly endorses the Department's request for additional meat inspection funds and strongly urges the subcommittee to approve the full amount of the requested appropriation. We would also like to go on record as expressing our enthusiastic support for the work being carried out by the Agricultural Research Service, USDA.
Page 184 - Congress, as a measure of national security, to safeguard the health and well-being of the Nation's children and to encourage the domestic consumption of nutritious agricultural commodities and other food, by assisting the States, through grants-in-aid and other means, in providing an adequate supply of foods and other facilities for the establishment, maintenance, operation, and expansion of nonprofit school lunch programs.
Page 568 - Generally, the activities include: — Advising cooperative leaders and others on problems and operations of specific co-ops; — Helping farmers get better prices for their products through reduced marketing expenses; -- Enabling dairy and other farmers to better meet growing competition; and — Providing a useful resource for general guidance, counsel and technical assistance in development and improvement of cooperative organizations.
Page 412 - What does this mean to the average Individual borrower? It means he will have to wait anywhere from four to five years from the time his application is submitted to REA until the actual funds are advanced and construction can begin. Further, the figures at the end of 1971 show that applications for 201 loans are dropping. This could be construed to mean that demand for REA services is dropping. Unfortunately, this is not the case.
Page 861 - Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee: It is a pleasure for me to appear before this committee and present an overview of the National Guard and Reserve Forces Military Construction Programs.
Page 438 - Having witnessed the successful experience of the REA electric program, the Congress in 1949, passed the telephone amendment to the Rural Electrification Act, stating "It is declared to be the policy of the Congress that adequate telephone service be made generally available in rural areas through the improvement and expansion of existing telephone facilities and the construction and operation of such additional facilities as are required to assure the availability of adequate telephone service to...
Page 516 - While we realize the monumental task for the Department to recruit and train — to the required degree of competence and efficiency — such large numbers of new inspectors, we must state in all candor that we will not remain silent should the lack of numbers or lack of competency of inspection personnel adversely affect the productivity and operations of our plants. The prospect that any plant might have to shut its doors and close...