TREASURY, POSTAL SERVICE, AND GEN- HEARINGS BEFORE A U.S. Congress, No SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE Houve. COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS. NINETY-THIRD CONGRESS FIRST SESSION SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE TREASURY, POSTAL SERVICE, AND TOM STEED, Oklahoma, Chairman AUBREY A. GUNNELS and JOHN G. OSTHAUS, Staff Assistants PART 4 INDEPENDENT AGENCIES TESTIMONY OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND OTHER 94-174 O Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1973 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONSF27 GEORGE H. MAHON, Texas, Chairman JAMIE L. WHITTEN, Mississippi EDWARD P. BOLAND, Massachusetts GEORGE E. SHIPLEY, Illinois ROBERT N. GIAIMO, Connecticut FRANK E. EVANS, Colorado EDWARD R. ROYBAL, California LOUIS STOKES, Ohio J. EDWARD ROUSH, Indiana TOM BEVILL, Alabama EDITH GREEN, Oregon ROBERT O. TIERNAN, Rhode Island GEORGE E. EVANS .A676. 1973 pt. ELFORD A. CEDERBERG, Michigan J. KENNETH ROBINSON, Virginia NOTE. This Surveys and Investigations supervisory staff is supplemented by selected personnel bo rowed on a reimbursable basis for varying lengths of time from various agencies to staff up specific studi and investigations. The current average annual full-time personnel equivalent is approximately 42. GERARD J. CHOUINARD PAUL V. FARMER SANDRA A. GILBERT EVA K. HARRIS VIRGINIA MAY KEYSER MARCIA L. MATTS ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT FRANCES MAY AUSTIN G. SMITH RANDOLPH THOMAS BETTY A. SWANSON SHARON K. TINSLEY GEMMA M. WEIBLINGER (II) THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1973. ADVISORY COMMISSION ON INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS WITNESSES ROBERT E. MERRIAM, CHAIRMAN WILLIAM R. MacDOUGALL, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FRANKLIN STEINKO, JR., ASSISTANT TO EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Mr. STEED. The committee will be in order. The committee now will take up the 1974 budget request for the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. The budget for 1973 was $794,000 and the budget request for 1974 is $901,000, an increase of $107,000, which provides for 2 additional positions for a total of 37. We are pleased to have our old friends here, Mr. Merriam and Mr. MacDougall. We extend a cordial welcome to you both. We are delighted to see you again. Mr. MERRIAM. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. STEED. We have been having some very fine reports from our colleagues who work with you. So we would be pleased to have whatever statement you would like to make. Mr. MERRIAM. Thank you very much. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I have a formal statement which, if I may, I would like to just submit for the record. Mr. STEED. All right. [The statement follows:] PREPARED STATEMENT OF ROBERT E. MERRIAM, CHAIRMAN, ADVISORY COMMISSION ON INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, my name is Robert E. Merriam. It has been my privilege to serve as Chairman of the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations since my appointment to that _post_in_1969. I am accompanied today, Mr. Chairman, by William R. MacDougall, the Commission's Executive Director, and Franklin A. Steinko, the assistant to the Executive Director. Mr. Chairman, the statement that we have submitted to the committee in support of our budget request for fiscal 1974 calls attention to the special place that the Commission occupies in the governmental structure of our Nation. The Commission is unique in its mission which, in effect, is to monitor the operation of the federal system. The Commission's permanence is also unique. Unlike temporary commissions that come and go, ACIR is a permanent agency. It has the opportunity to assist policymakers at all levels to initiate changes that will strengthen and improve the American federal system. Third, the Commission's financial support is unique. Although its basic operation is supported by congressional appropriations, the Commission also receives token contributions from State and local governments as well as contributions from nonprofit organizations and grants from private foundations and occasionally from other Federal agencies. (1) |