help and for promotions. It is our practice to appoint young attorneys and to give them promotions as they gain experience. Actually, I think we ought to have a reserve for two attorneys and that would mean an overall appropriation of about $355,000.

Mr. ANDREWS. Tell us something about your work.

Mr. CRAFT. As you know, our function is to assist committees and Members, when requested to do so, in drafting bills, resolutions, and amendments. I have a tabulation for the period since 1952. It is numerical. I don't know that it is too helpful but it does show statistically the number of requests we have had over the years.

Mr. ANDREWS. Yours is the office which a Member can call and ask that a bill be prepared for him?

Mr. CRAFT. Yes.

Mr. ANDREWS. Do you have a table showing the volume of work that you have done over the past few years?

Mr. CRAFT. Yes.

Mr. ANDREWS. Pass it around and insert one in the record at this point.

(The information follows:)

OFFICE OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

"Jobs" done for committees and members (in the drafting of bills and resolutions and amendments thereto, etc.) since 19521

1 In this work record, a request for assistance is counted as a single "job." whether the work took an ho or 2 or whether it took most of the time of 1 or 2 men for weeks (as often happens in the case of bills work on for committees).

No record is kept of many instances (running into the hundreds during each session) in which Membe or their secretaries request assistance on drafting or legal problems, but where no written material is prepon by the office.

Mr. ANDREWS. You have no way of determining the volume of wor your office will have?

Mr. CRAFT. No. It has been increasing steadily over the years, an of course as the legislation becomes more complex it takes mor time on the work that we do. These are rather large figures for office of our size.

Mr. ANDREWS. What do these figures indicate? During the S Congress from January 1965 to January 1967 you had for committe 813. What does that mean?

Mr. CRAFT. That means we did some work on 813 requests fro committees. Some of them of course would be very minor and so of them would be fairly extensive.

Mr. ANDREWS. Then for Members you show 5,300. Does that me you did work for 5,300 Members of Congress?

Mr. CRAFT. NO. That is requests. Many Members ask for quite few jobs to be done. Many of these of course are reintroductions

bills. So it is hard to tell how much time is spent on any particular

one.

Mr. ANDREWS. You have a total of 18 employees requested for 1968, which is the same number you had in 1967.

Mr. CRAFT. We have carried that figure forward. That is what we have now, except we have a vacancy on the clerical staff as of today. Mr. ANDREWS. How many people do you have on the payroll now? Mr. CRAFT. We have 17 plus the vacancy and then we have one temporary employee at the present time at an annual rate of $3,149. Mr. ANDREWS. You plan to have 18 on your payroll during fiscal

1968!

Mr. CRAFT. We hope to add an attorney. We have already selected another attorney. That would make 13 attorneys and six clerks, which has been our regular number. I think we will need to have clerical help too.

Mr. ANDREWS. How many?

Mr. CRAFT. One additional full time, I would think.

Mr. ANDREWS. That will give you a total of 20?

Mr. CRAFT. Yes.

Mr. ANDREWS. The chart shows your business is continuing to climb. Is that correct?

Mr. CRAFT. Yes, increase.

Mr. ANDREWS. What is the average length of service of your staff, of you know? Tell us something about your current setup and workad.

Mr. CRAFT. We have what we think is a career service.
Mr. ANDREWS. How long have you been with the service?

Mr. CRAFT. I came on December 5, 1941, 2 days before Pearl Harbor 1. except for about 2 years in the military service, have been here ce. Some of the senior attorneys have been here ranging up to 21 ars, and then it ranges down to the attorney we added last summer ho has been here not quite a year.

Mr. ANDREWS. How was this office created?

Mr. CRAFT. It was created in the Revenue Act of 1918 which became LT in February of 1919. Mr. Middleton Beaman came down from umbia University to demonstrate the value of bill drafting assistre, and as a result of that the office was created.

Mr. ANDREWS. In addition to your office, almost every committee has sel?

Mr. CRAFT. They have professional staff, yes.

Mr. ANDREWS. You are primarily interested in drafting legislation? Mr.CRAFT. Drafting legislation is our function.

Mr. ANDREWS. Are there any questions about this item?

Mr. WYMAN. I have one question.

Mr. Craft, do you operate the Office of Legislative Counsel on a tly nonpartisan basis?

Mr. CRAFT. Yes, sir.

Mr. WYMAN. You furnish the services to members of either party To request?

Mr. CRAFT. That is correct.

Mr. WYMAN. Is this also true in respect to the time assignments of embers of your staff of the Legislative Counsel? If a Member calls for a bill.equal time is given as the job requires?

For six minority employees, $125,200, this is the same as appropriated for 1967.

These are the special and minority employees of officers of the House.

Mr. STEED. The difference of approximately $4,000 is the automatic pay?

Mr. JENNINGS. The automatic increases in the classification and the health benefits.

Mr. STEED. Any questions on this item?

(No response.)

HOUSE DEMOCRATIC STEERING COMMITTEE

Mr. STEED. We will go to the next item on page 25 of the bill. Mr. JENNINGS. The next is the House Democratic Steering Committee.

For the House Democratic Steering Committee, $47,800, compared with $42,660 appropriated for 1967, or an increase of $5,140. This estimate was submitted as requested.

Mr. STEED. Who made the request for the $5,140 increase? Mr. JENNINGS. Mr. Madden is chairman of that committee, and would assume it was made by Mr. Madden.

Mr. STEED. According to page 25 of our print, the increase is as signed to their lump-sum allocation.

Mr. JENNINGS. Yes, sir, that is correct.

Mr. STEED. Any questions on this item? (No response.)

HOUSE REPUBLICAN CONFERENCE

Mr. STEED. We will take up the next item.

Mr. JENNINGS. The next is the House Republican Conference Con mittee, on page 26 of the committee print.

This reflects the same increase as the Democratic Steering Con mittee, and for exactly the same reason, $47,800, compared with $42,6€

appropriated for 1967, or an increase of $5,140. This estimate was submitted as requested.

Mr. STEED. Will this be for the same situation as applied to the other item?

Mr. JENNINGS. Yes, sir. Melvin Laird is the chairman of that group, and we have letters signed by Mr. Laird and signed by Mr. Madden.

Mr. STEED. Any questions on this item?

(No response.)

OFFICE OF THE MAJORITY FLOOR LEADER

Mr. STEED. We shall go to the next item appearing on page 27 of the print.

Mr. JENNINGS. The next item is the "Office of the Majority Floor Leader."

For the Office of the Majority Floor Leader including $3,000 for the official expenses of the majority floor leader, $102,500; this is the same as appropriated for 1967.

Mr. STEED. The justifications show that in the 1966 budget there was item of $10,417.60 unused, and as of February 28 there was $37,22 still available for this year. Is the present rate about the same as ast year?

Mr. JENNINGS. Yes, sir, it is, except for the ordinary increases. Mr. STEED. Traditionally, the majority floor leader's office does not se the full amount.

Mr. JENNINGS. Very seldom do they use it, but we have no way of howing when the majority or minority leader will use the full amount, So we request the full amount.

Mr. STEED. The increase in the amount is the automatic pay
Mr. JENNINGS. That is correct.

OFFICE OF THE MINORITY FLOOR LEADER

Mr. STEED. We shall go to the next item on page 28.

increase?

Mr. JENNINGS. That is the "Office of the Minority Floor Leader."

For the Office of the Minority Floor Leader, including $3,000 for the official expenses of the minority floor leader, $93,100, compared with $93,050 appropriated for 1967, or an increase of $50.

We will show in a few places an increase of $50, but it represents no monetary increase. It is just an increase adjusting to the even figure. Last year it happened to fall down and this year it comes up closer to the even figure. In fairness, it is not an increase to the minority floor leader of $50. It is an increase that shows up in the bookkeeping. We have this in a few other instances as well.

Mr. STEED. The tabulation in the justification on page 25 indicates that this item has been drawn on even less up to this point than in the majority leader's office. This would indicate sufficient remains to finish the year.

Mr. JENNINGS. I would think so; yes, sir. I do not think there is any doubt that there will be sufficient funds to finish the year. Mr. STEED. Any questions on this item?

(No response.)

OFFICE OF THE MAJORITY AND MINORITY WHIPS

Mr. STEED. The next item appears on page 29 of the committee print.

Mr. JENNINGS. The next item is the Office of the Majority Whip. For the Office of the Majority Whip, $69,000, compared with $68,950 appropriated for 1967, or an increase of $50.

For the Office of the Minority Whip, $69,000, compared with $68,950 appropriated for 1967, or an increase of $50.

This is the same as requested last year, although, as in the previous item, it shows a $50 increase. This is a bookkeeping increase rather than a dollar increase.