Professional and clerical employees (standing committees).

Salaries and expenses..

Salaries and expenses.

Salaries and expenses.

Salaries and expenses.

Clerk hire..

Official expenses of Members.......

Postage stamps.

Furniture and furnishings.

Supplies, materials, administrative costs and Federal tort claims

Reemployed annuitants reimbursement

Government contributions..

Miscellaneous items..

Total, Allowances and Expenses..

Education of congressional pages and pages of the Supreme Court.

Collection and distribution of library materials (special foreign currency program).
Furniture and furnishings.

Total, Library of Congress (except Congressional Research Service).

ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL
LIBRARY BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS

Structural and mechanical care.

Printing and binding..

Office of Superintendent of Documents, salaries and expenses

Salaries and expenses..

Title I-Congressional operations.

Title II-Other agencies.

Title III-Capital improvements.

I am pleased to submit herewith the appropriations request of the Joint Economic Committee for fiscal year 1982.

The Committee is requesting the amount of $2,250,000 for fiscal
year 1982.
This is an increase of less than 5 percent for FY 1982 over
FY 1981. The Committee believes that continuing to operate in the same
fiscally responsible manner as has been its practice, this increase will
be sufficient to accomplish the goals envisioned during the period under

consideration.

For the fifth consecutive year, the Committee is not

requesting

an increase in staff, although there will be staffing adjustments made to

accommodate the incoming Majority in the Senate.

The Committee is hopeful

that it will be able to continue to serve both Houses of Congress as
tively as it has in years past.

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Council

1946.

The

is economic

to

The Joint Economic Committee, along with the President's
of Economic Advisers, was established by the Employment Act of
Committee is to the Congress what the Council of Economic Advisers
the President the body which advises on the broad spectrum of
issues. The Committee has a statutory responsibility to make
report to the Congress on the President's economic program.

-

an annual

Since March of 1979, the Committee's Annual and Mid-year reports
have been consensus reports, signed by all twenty Members of the Joint
Economic Committee Republicans and Democrats alike.
The Committee
released during calendar 1980 34 sets of hearings and 14 reports, studies,
and compendia, dealing with such subjects as tax policy and core inflation,
The Committee held 22

the crisis in the bond market, alcohol fuels policy, U.S. trade
ment policy, Federal Reserve policy, to name a few.

and invest

sets of hearings covering 47 days, focusing on a myriad of topics, some of which were energy, auto imports, housing, supply-side economics, capital

formation, state and local financing, and savings and growth.

It continued

its monthly review of employment and unemployment and of the consumer price index. I have attached a listing of the publications released by the ComImittee during the 96th Congress, which gives in greater detail the areas

to which the Committee devoted its attention.

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