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Senator MONRONEY. Will the magnetic tape be made by the computer?

Mr. HARRISON. Yes, sir.

Senator MONRONEY. I see; so it does not have to have human hands touch it?

Mr. HARRISON. It can be made like that, or we can take paper tapes and by running it through a converter which we now have convert this paper tape to magnetic tape which we then put on these magnetic machines.

Senator MONRONEY. The tape would fit the typesetting machines so you could run it through any font of type you have?

Mr. HARRISON. Anything we have available on the machines.
Senator MONRONEY. What you require?

Mr. HARRISON. That is right.

Senator MONRONEY. In other words, you can put it in any kind of type?

Mr. HARRISON. That is right.

When you stop to consider that 10 pages a minute amounts to about 600 to 1,000 characters a second, it has to be from a high-speed magnetic tape operation.

USE OF ELECTRONIC PRINTING ON CONGRESSIONAL PRINTING

Senator MONRONEY. Is there any way you have found to improve handling of the records of congressional hearings?

Mr. HARRISON. The program on this is quite expensive. That is why I said earlier, the average job we do now will not lend itself to this type of composition.

The big savings that we see in the offing by using this equipment is the ability to take the byproduct of the computer, material which is now in the memory tank, by feeding directions into the computer it will then give us the information as a byproduct, which will eliminate the necessity for keyboarding and a lot of proofreading.

USE OF PUNCHCARDS

Senator MONRONEY. Punchcarding, too. Punchcarding does not relate to typesetting but I guess computers will produce what ordinarily would correspond to a punchcard?

Mr. HARRISON. Well, you register information in the computer by the use of punchcard. Somewhere along the line all this material will have to be keyboarded or card punched before it is composed by the computer.

Where this system will be of greatest value is in being able to use material that has already been keyboarded and fed into the computers as a byproduct of other uses.

Senator MONRONEY. Did you have any questions on this?

Senator PROXMIRE. No.

Senator MONRONEY. You may continue.

PATENT OFFICE PRINTING AND BINDING

Mr. HARRISON. Because of a 32-year backlog of work, the Patent Office on July 1, 1964, put into effect certain policy and procedural

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changes in the patent examining function in an effort to reduce the backlog.

This increase in patent work, about 33 percent, will require 12 new typesetting machines which we hope to install very soon.

Not only will these new machines enable us to meet the schedules imposed by the increased patent work but also they should help in producing economies through reduction in the need to work overtime.

STANDARD WORKWEEK AND WAGES

Executive Order 10988, which authorizes employee-management cooperation in the Federal service

Senator MONRONEY. While you are there, what is your standard workweek?

Mr. HARRISON. Forty hours.

Senator MONRONEY. And it is time and a half over 40 hours for all time; there is no penalty time beyond 48 or 60 hours?

Mr. HARRISON. No, all time and a half.

Senator MONRONEY. What portion of your time is straight time and what is the overtime, roughly?

Would you supply that for the record?

Mr. HARRISON. We can furnish that, Senator.

Senator MONRONEY. I would like to have the figure calculated on an annual basis if you could give it to us, what your overtime penalty has been.

Mr. HARRISON. For the first 11 months of fiscal year 1965 there were 1,111,962 overtime hours worked. This amounted to 9.75 percent of the total hours worked during this period.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10988, EMPLOYEE-MANAGEMENT COOPERATION

Executive Order 10988, which authorizes employee-management cooperation in the Federal service, is being implemented in the Government Printing Office. I am in the process of recognizing employee organizations represented at the Office and am making progress in the negotiation and establishment of labor-management agreements.

I believe I have strengthened employee-management relations by encouraging the participation of employees in the formulation and implementation of personnel policies and procedures and by maintaining orderly and constructive relationships with recognized employee organizations.

RELATIONSHIP WITH PRINTING INDUSTRY

We have endeavored to maintain the good relationships with the printing industry that we have enjoyed in the past. It is our policy to send representatives to the conventions of national graphic arts groups and to equipment displays and demonstrations.

I have met with various groups and have made numerous speeches throughout the country and abroad in an effort to inform the printing industry of our operations. I also endeavor to keep the industry abreast of the progress we are making in the electronic printing field.

WARREN REPORT

In addition to our regular work, the Office was called upon to produce several unusual jobs during the past year. One of these was the Warren report, a rush job of 27 volumes, comprising 19,172 pages. This was produced on time despite many unusual problems.

UNITED STATES CODE

We are also in the process of reprinting the entire United States Code, another large undertaking of approximately 18,000 pages, which

will make 15 volumes.

Senator MONRONEY. Are you the sole printer of the United States Code?

Mr. HARRISON. Yes, sir.

Senator MONRONEY. No commercial firms do that?

Mr. HARRISON. Not to my knowledge, Senator. I believe there is a firm which prints titles of the United States Code Annotated. Senator MONRONEY. Specializes in certain types?

Mr. HARRISON. Yes, sir.

Senator MONRONEY. But for the complete Code, they would have to come to the Government Printing Office? Mr. HARRISON. That is right, sir.

INCENTIVE AND HONORARY AWARDS

During the past year it was my pleasure to present to employees several hundred awards under the incentive awards program for suggestions which improved equipment and procedures and reduced our costs.

I also made 335 honorary awards to employees for outstanding work and accomplishment. This program continues to be a very rewarding one at the Office.

WAREHOUSES FOR PAPER STORAGE

Three additional warehouses at widely dispersed locations have been established and stocked with paper. This was done under authorization of the Joint Committee on Printing. The reserve of paper thus provided will aid the Office in commercial operations and will guarantee a supply in case of national emergency.

COST AND INCOME ANALYSIS

An intensive cost and income analysis has been launched by the Office as part of its continuing effort to produce printing for the Government at the lowest possible cost while providing the services required by Congress and the departments.

Every cost category and source of income is being examined with possible savings and fair recovery of costs as our goal. Supervisors make monthly reports on accomplishments in this field.

APPRENTICE TRAINING PROGRAM

Our apprentice training program continues to provide instruction in all branches of the printing and binding trades. In this way we

are able to train a portion of the needed replacements in our working force.

We do not train enough craftsmen for our needs, however, as we are restricted by law to a number in training which provides only about 40 graduates per year.

SAFETY PROGRAM

Our safety program at the Office resulted in an improvement on our already good record of safety achievement during the first 7 months of fiscal year 1965. There was a decrease of 17 injuries and 226 lost man-days of labor compared with the same period of the preceding year. This valued improvement was accomplished despite crowded working conditions.

Recently we received a letter from Secretary of Labor Wirtz stating that the Government Printing Office had received the award for the best safety record in departments of less than 10,000 employees.

CONGRESSIONAL PRINTING AND BINDING

When the committee has completed its decision of the congressional printing and binding requirements, I would be very pleased to furnish a statement of our building program and the requirements for its completion.

We have prepared justifications for congressional printing and binding for fiscal year 1966. I will be glad to submit them for the record, or, if you prefer, I will read them item by item.

Senator MONRONEY. The amount requested for printing and binding is $20,500,000, which is $22 million over the 1965 appropriations. Mr. HARRISON. Yes, sir.

Senator MONRONEY. The House has allowed the full estimate. I am inserting into the record a few pages from the justification and including pertinent tables relative to this estimate. I would like to have a brief summary of why this increase of over 10 percent in the cost of this amount has occurred.

Mr. HARRISON. $4 million is for prior years

Senator MONRONEY. This is a big increase-10 percent of the total cost, and this is one of your biggest items, is it not, the printing and binding item?

Mr. HARRISON. Yes, sir; $4 million of this, Mr. Chairman, is to be applied to prior years where there was not enough money appropriated to cover all the costs.

Senator MONRONEY. In other words, this is a deficit that you are picking up.

Mr. HARRISON. $4 million of this is.

Senator MONRONEY. That is $4 million of the $20 million?

ESTIMATE OF 1966 CONGRESSIONAL PRINTING

Mr. HARRISON. Yes, of the $20 million.

We are estimating that the congressional requirements for 1966 will be $16,500,000.

Senator MONRONEY. Is that congressional or is that Governmentwide?

Mr. HARRISON. No; that is just congressional, sir.

Senator MONRONEY. The other is on a cost basis, is it, that you bill the departments for the printing?

Mr. HARRISON. That is right, on a revolving fund basis.

Senator MONRONEY. The money we appropriate then, the $20 million goes primarily for the congressional printing?

Mr. HARRISON. Completely; yes, sir.

Senator MONRONEY. And of that amount, $4 million is a deficit carried over from prior years?

Mr. HARRISON. Yes, sir.

Senator MONRONEY. How do you handle that deficit?

Mr. HARRISON. Out of our revolving fund.

Senator MONRONEY. This would replace the revolving fund?
Mr. HARRISON. That is right, sir.

Senator MONRONEY. So the net cost to congressional printing, not counting the deficit from prior years or the amount that goes into the revolving fund would be $162 million?

Mr. HARRISON. That is what we estimate the printing cost will be for Congress next year.

CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE PRINTING

Senator MONRONEY. I understand from some of my friends in the House that some of the committees are extremely wasteful in their printing habits; that if they have a hearing such as this and some witness comes in with a voluminous text or documents that are related to but not vital to the business at hand, that they will accept that and have it all printed in the record, pyramiding costs way beyond any reasonable amount and stuffing the record with junk that would not ordinarily be read by hardly anyone excepting maybe a researcher that was bent on getting the last single fact out of a mass of statistics

or data or statements or comment.

Do you have any comment to make about the extravagance of some of the committees in the use of the Government Printing Office?

Let us put it another way: Do some committee's bills run with the Government Printing Office a good deal higher than others?

Mr. HARRISON. Mr. Chairman, this did come up in the hearing before the House subcommittee and we are in the process now of making an analysis of the printing cost of Congress to see how we can pin costs down to various committees.

As of this time we do not have this information.

Senator MONRONEY. It is the only part of your operation, as I understand it, you keep track of me and you keep track of Senator Proxmire and Senator Young down to the penny on the amount of money we use. When we get into a committee I can go wild, I can print the New York City telephone directory if I want to, and there is no charge to show what a wastrel I am.

Mr. HARRISON. At this time the printing of most reports and laws is being done on open jackets.

We are not in a position. Senator, as you know, to edit material that comes to us.

LIMITING COMMITTEE EXPENDITURES FOR PRINTING

Senator MONRONEY. It is Congress' job to control itself, I do not blame you, but I blame the Congress for our failure to put a limit on the amount that a committee can spend for printing.

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