LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1979 HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS NINETY-FIFTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION SUBCOMMITTEE ON LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS GEORGE E. SHIPLEY, Illinois, Chairman ADAM BENJAMIN, JR., Indiana ROBERT N. GIAIMO, Connecticut JOHN P. MURTHA, Pennsylvania WILLIAM L. ARMSTRONG, Colorado EARL C. SILSBY and EDWARD E. LOMBARD, Staff Assistants 99-100 O Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1978 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS GEORGE H. MAHON, Texas, Chairman JAMIE L. WHITTEN, Mississippi ROBERT N. GIAIMO, Connecticut EDWARD R. ROYBAL, California LOUIS STOKES, Ohio ELFORD A. CEDERBERG, Michigan J. KENNETH ROBINSON, Virginia WILLIAM L. ARMSTRONG, Colorado CLAIR W. BURGENER, California GUNN MCKAY, Utah TOM BEVILL, Alabama BILL CHAPPELL, Florida BILL D. BURLISON, Missouri BILL ALEXANDER, Arkansas EDWARD I. KOCH, New York YVONNE BRATHWAITE BURKE, California JOHN P. MURTHA, Pennsylvania BOB TRAXLER, Michigan ROBERT B. DUNCAN, Oregon JOSEPH D. EARLY, Massachusetts MAX BAUCUS, Montana CHARLES WILSON, Texas LINDY (MRS. HALE) BOGGS, Louisiana ADAM BENJAMIN, JR., Indiana NORMAN D. DICKS, Washington MATTHEW F. MCHUGH, New York KEITH F. MAINLAND, Clerk and Staff Director LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1979 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1978. Mr. SHIPLEY. The committee will come to order. We commence hearings on the fiscal 1979 budget for the various Legislative Branch agencies under the jurisdiction of the Subcommittee. We have a new Member of the Subcommittee who is not here, but we want to welcome him officially-Mr. Bill Chappell, Jr. of Florida. The other Members of the committee who were here last year are with us again this year except for Bob Traxler of Michigan. We have a new staff member this year, Ed Lombard, and Ed, we welcome you aboard and know under the guidance of Earl you are going to make a terrific Clerk and staff member. Earl knows the budget inside out and back again, and we hate to see Earl leave, but I think, frankly, he has made a good judgment because I have made a decision to leave myself. Earl, I am going to join you someplace, I don't know where. The budget we are going to consider today totals $957,386,500 and excludes the Senate items traditionally left for insertion by that body. The Senate items total $195,130,000, for a total budget of $1,152,517,000. Of course, only a portion of this budget is for Congressional Operations, $738,020,300. The balance of the funds support statutory and administrative responsibilities of the Executive Branch and the public of such agencies as the Library of Congress, Architect of the Capitol, Copyright Royalty Tribunal, Botanic Garden, Government Printing Office, the General Accounting Office and the Cost-Accounting Standards Board. At this point in the record, we will insert the comparative statement appearing on pages II through VII of the Subcommittee Print. [The information follows:] |