COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

SAM J. ERVIN, JR., North Carolina, Chairman

CONTENTS

Opening statement of Senator Lawton Chiles

Statement of Hon. Charles H. Percy, a U.S. Senator from the State of

Illinois_

WITNESSES

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1974

McCloskey, Peter F., president, Computer and Business Equipment Manu-
facturers Association; accompanied by Ernest Baynard...
Creedon, Michael, president, Computer Lessors Association, accompanied
by Lawrence Boes..

Meeker, M. S., Commissioner, Automated Data and Telecommunications
Service, General Services Administration; accompanied by Ms. Allie
Latimer, Assistant General Counsel for Automated Data and Telecom-
munications; George W. Dodson, Assistant_Commissioner, Office of
Automated Data Management Services; and Dennis Bracy, Special As-
sistant to the Commissioner.

Meeker, M. S.:

ADDITIONAL MATERIAL

Letter from Mr. Meeker to Lester A. Fettig, Staff Director of Ad Hoc
Subcommittee on Federal Procurement supplying additional com-
ments concerning S. 2785, dated April 1, 1974__

APPENDIX

Introductory remarks of Senator Charles H. Percy on S. 2785 (from the

Congressional Record-Senate, Dec. 6, 1973) -

S. 2785 (as introduced).

Letter to Hon. Spiro T. Agnew, President of the Senate, from Hon.

Arthur Sampson, Administrator of GSA, dated August 20, 1973,

transmitting a draft of proposed legislation to be referred to the

appropriate committee__

Agency comments:

Office of Management and Budget..

Comptroller General of the United States (with enclosures)
Letter to Senator Ervin from Hon. Elmer Staats, Comptroller
General of the United States, dated March 26, 1974, re S. 2785-

Comptroller General's report to the Congress "Multiyear Leasing

and Government-Wide Purchasing of Automatic Data Proc-

essing Equipment Should Result in Significant Savings,"

April 30, 1971, B-115369__

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