4. Ar 5/2a: 979-8 4 a AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NINETY-SEVENTH CONGRESS AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NINETY-SEVENTH CONGRESS SUBCOMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND JAMIE L. WHITTEN, Mississippi, Chairman BOB TRAXLER, Michigan BILL ALEXANDER, Arkansas MATTHEW F. MCHUGH, New York WILLIAM H. NATCHER, Kentucky DANIEL K. AKAKA, Hawaii WES WATKINS, Oklahoma VIRGINIA SMITH, Nebraska J. KENNETH ROBINSON, Virginia JERRY LEWIS, California COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS JAMIE L. WHITTEN, Mississippi, Chairman EDWARD P. BOLAND, Massachusetts JOSEPH P. ADDABBO, New York TOM BEVILL, Alabama JOHN P. MURTHA, Pennsylvania JOSEPH D. EARLY, Massachusetts LINDY (MRS. HALE) BOGGS, Louisiana WILLIAM LEHMAN, Florida MARTIN OLAV SABO, Minnesota JULIAN C. DIXON, California VIC FAZIO, California W. G. (BILL) HEFNER, North Carolina LES AUCOIN, Oregon DANIEL K. AKAKA, Hawaii WES WATKINS, Oklahoma WILLIAM H. GRAY, III, Pennsylvania BERNARD J. DWYER, New Jersey SILVIO O. CONTE, Massachusetts JOHN T. MYERS, Indiana J. KENNETH ROBINSON, Virginia CLAIR W. BURGENER, California ELDON RUDD, Arizona JOHN EDWARD PORTER, Illinois KEITH F. MAINLAND, Clerk and Staff Director CHARLES MILLER, ACTING ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR HEALTH, PHS/ HHS MARK NOVITCH, M.D., ACTING COMMISSIONER OF FOOD AND DRUGS JEFFREY B. SPRINGER, ACTING CHIEF COUNSEL, FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION GERALD F. MEYER, ASSOCIATE COMMISSIONER FOR MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS, FDA FRANK P. CLAUNTS, DIRECTOR, DIVISION OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, FDA ELLEN F. WORMSER, DIRECTOR, DIVISION OF HEALTH BUDGET ANALYSIS, OS/HHS GERALD B. GUEST, D.V.M., ACTING DIRECTOR, BUREAU OF VETERINARY MEDICINE, FDA CALL TO ORDER Mr. WHITTEN. We have before us today Dr. Mark Novitch and his associates in the Food and Drug Administration, accompanied by Mr. Miller, the Acting Assistant Secretary for Health. We are glad to have all of you here, and to see that the former Deputy Commissioner still attends our hearings. We do not get into the habit of it, but now and then we are fortunate enough to give someone downtown a nickname-Mr. Zero Gardner. He changed the definition of zero. I never did understand it. I don't know how a zero can be changed. We are glad to have you with us. Dr. Novitch, we would be glad to have you present your associates who are new to the subcommittee, and we will put your biographical sketches in the record at this point. [The information follows:] DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES-BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Name: Charles Miller II. Position: Acting Assistant Secretary for Health. Birthplace and date: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 22, 1923. Education: BA, Princeton University 1947, Major, History; MA, University of Pennsylvania 1948, Major, Political Science. Honors: Graduated Cum Laude from Princeton, 1947; elected to National Social Science Honor Society (Pi Gamma Mu) 1948; Superior Service Award, DHEW, 1964; Quality Salary Increase, November 1968; Distinguished Service Award, April 1972; (1) |