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Senate Hearings

LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS

FOR FISCAL YEAR 1975

HEARINGS

BEFORE A

SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE
COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
UNITED STATES SENATE
NINETY-THIRD CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

H.R. 14012

SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

ERNEST F. HOLLINGS, South Carolina, Chairman BIRCH BAYH, Indiana

NORRIS COTTON, New Hampshire THOMAS F. EAGLETON, Missouri

RICHARD S, SCHWEIKER, Pennsylvania JOHN L. MCCLELLAN, Arkansas, ex officio MILTON R. YOUNG, North Dakota, ex officio WARREN W. KANE, NEILSON A. McGown, and JOEL E. BONNER (Minority)

Staff Assistants, Legislative Branch

LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL

YEAR 1975

TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1974

U.S. SENATE,
SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS,

Washington, D.C.
The subcommittee met at 10:10 a.m., in room S-146, The Capitol,
Hon. Ernest F. Hollings (chairman) presiding.
Present: Senators Hollings, Cotton, and Schweiker.

COST-ACCOUNTING STANDARDS BOARD

STATEMENT OF ELMER B. STAATS, COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF

THE UNITED STATES

ACCOMPANIED BY:

ARTHUR SCHOENHAUT, EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
HARRY R. VAN CLEVE, GENERAL COUNSEL

HOUSE ACTION Senator HOLLINGS. Today the subcommittee begins hearings on the Legislative Branch Appropriations Bill for 1975 (H.R. 14012). The bill was reported by the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives on April 4 and is expected to pass the House before the Easter recess begins later this week.

_The bill as reported to the House would appropriate $603,221,280. However, in accordance with the usual practice, the funds exclusively for the operations and activities of the Senate-including two items under the Architect of the Capitol-have been left for decision and insertion by the Senate. When the Senate-related items are added, the total of the budget estimates now before us is $712,664,275.

The House Appropriations Committee is recommending reductions amounting to $5,877,985 to the estimates reflecting :

(1) A slower rate of growth than proposed for the new Office of Technology assessment;

(2) A reduction in the number of new employees requested for the Library of Congress;

(3) Provision for 9-months funding rather than 12-months funding for most of the new positions throughout the bill.

(1)