CARD DIVISION U.S. Congress, Hour HEARINGS. BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON OF THE COMMITTEE ON VETERANS' AFFAIRS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES EIGHTY-FIFTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON H. R. 65, 69, 330, 405, 411, 413, 415, 420, 924, 929, BILLS ON SERVICE-CONNECTED COMPENSATION JUNE 16 AND 17, 1958 Printed for the use of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs Pages of all hearings are numbered cumulatively to permit a 3816, 3818, 3833, 3835, 3837, 3845, 3847, 3848, 3850, 3852, 3855, 3873, 3876-3878, 3883, 3884, 3887, 3892-3894, 3896, 3898-3901. William J. Driver, Chief Benefits Director. Donald C. Knapp, Office, Associate General Counsel for Legis- SERVICE-CONNECTED COMPENSATION MONDAY, JUNE 16, 1958 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE OF COMMITTEE ON VETERANS' AFFAIRS, Washington, D. C. The subcommittee met at 10 a. m., pursuant to call, in room 356, Old House Office Building, Washington, D. C., Hon. W. J. Bryan Dorn (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Mr. DORN. The subcommittee will come to order. We are meeting this morning to consider 50 bills relating to the general subject of service-connected compensation. These bills follow the general categories of extending the presumptive periods for service connection; prohibiting severance of service connection after 10 years; the freezing of the 1945 rating schedule; increasing burial benefits, and a group of miscellaneous bills having to do with such items as furnishing an allowance for clothing which is damaged due to prosthetic appliances. All of the authors of these bills have been invited to testify. Following completion of this group of witnesses we will hear from representatives of the veterans' organizations and the hearings will be closed with testimony from the Veterans' Administration. Without objection, I will insert at this point in the record the text of all of the bills pending before us as well as the reports thereon from the Veterans' Administration and a summary of the various proposals. (The bills referred to follow :) [H. R. 65, 85th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To provide certain allowances and benefits to personnel of the Veterans' Administration who are United States citizens and are assigned to the Veterans' Administration office in the Republic of the Philippines Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs may, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the President or his designee, provide to personnel of the Veterans' Administration who are United States citizens and are assigned by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to the Veterans' Administration office in the Republic of the Philippines, allowances and benefits similar to those provided by the following sections of the Foreign Service Act of 1946: Section 901 (1) (relating to allowances for temporary and permanent living quarters, heat, light, fuel, gas, and electricity). Section 901 (3) (relating to allowances to provide for the proper representation of the United States). Section 902 (relating to an allotment for official residence of chief American representative). Section 903 (relating to accounting for allowances). Section 911 (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (7), and (9) (relating to travel expenses). Section 913 (relating to transportation of automobiles). |