REHABILITATION ACT OF 1972

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE HANDICAPPED

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON
LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE

UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-SECOND CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

H.R. 8395

TO AMEND THE VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION ACT TO
EXTEND AND REVISE THE AUTHORIZATION OF GRANTS
TO STATES FOR VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION SERV-
ICES, TO AUTHORIZE GRANTS FOR REHABILITATION
SERVICES TO THOSE WITH SEVERE DISABILITIES, AND

FOR OTHER PURPOSES

COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE

HARRISON A. WILLIAMS, JR., New Jersey, Chairman JENNINGS RANDOLPH, West Virginia JACOB K. JAVITS, New York CLAIBORNE PELL, Rhode Island

PETER H. DOMINICK, Colorado EDWARD M. KENNEDY, Massachusetts RICHARD S. SCHWEIKER, Pennsylvania GAYLORD NELSON, Wisconsin

BOB PACKWOOD, Oregon WALTER F. MONDALE, Minnesota

ROBERT TAFT, JR., Ohio THOMAS F. EAGLETON, Missouri

J. GLENN BEALL, JR., Maryland
ALAN CRANSTON, California

ROBERT T. STÁFFORD, Vermont
HAROLD E. HUGHES, Iowa
ADLAI E. STEVENSON III, Illinois

STEWART E. MCCLURE, Staf Director

ROBERT E. NAGLE, General Counsel
Roy H. MILLENSON, Minority staf Director

EUGENE MITTELMAN, Minority Counsel

SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE HANDICAPPED

JENNINGS RANDOLPH, West Virginia, Chairman ALAN CRANSTON, California

ROBERT T. STAFFORD, Vermont HARRISON A. WILLIAMS, New Jersey ROBERT TAFT, JR., Ohio CLAIBORNE PELL, Rhode Island

JACOB K. JAVITS, New York
EDWARD M. KENNEDY, Massachusetts RICHARD S. SCHWEIKER, Pennsylvania
WALTER F. MONDALE, Minnesota J. GLENN BEALL, JR., Maryland
ADLAI E. STEVENSON III, Illinois

GEORGE E. LAWLESS, Professional StaMember
Rox H. MILLENNON, Minority Professional staf Member

CONTENTS

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Text of:
8.R. 8395
Departmental reports :

Treasury Department----
Comptroller General of the United States..
Office of Management and Budget--

Department of Transportation -
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S. 1030.
Departmental reports :

Comptroller General of the United States.---
S. 2813.
S. 3158
S. 3368
Departmental reports :

Comptroller General of the United States.-

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CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES

MONDAY, MAY 15, 1972
Kurzman, Stephen, Assistant Secretary for Legislation, Department of

Health, Education, and Welfare, accompanied by John D. Twiname,
Administrator, Social and Rehabilitation Service; Edward Newman,
Commissioner, Rehabilitation Services Administration; and Richard E.
Verville, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Congressional Liaison ----

THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1972
Tower, Hon. John, a U.S. Senator from the State of Texas.-
Schreiner, George E., M.D., chairman, Legislative Committee, the National

Kidney Foundation, accompanied by E. Lovell Becker, M.D., professor
of medicine, Cornell Medical Center, and president, the National Kidney
Foundation, and Samuel Kountz, M.D., assistant professor of surgery,
University of California, San Francisco, Calif--
Coben, Milton, executive director, Federation of the Handicapped-
Whitten, E. B., National Rehabilitation Association---
Stearns, James, senior at Dartmouth College--
Goldstein, Dr. Robert, president, American Speech and Hearing Associa-

tion, accompanied by Frederick Spahr, deputy executive secretary -Rader, Dr. Dan, assistant commissioner for management analysis and

program development, North Carolina Department of Mental Health, representing the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors, accompanied by Harry Schnibbe, executive director, National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors, and Clarke Ross, assistant to the executive director for legislation---

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TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1972
Cannon, Hon. Howard W., a U.S. Senator from the State of Nevada----
Schloss, Irvin P., legislative analyst, American Foundation for the Blind;
also representing the Bli

terans sociation and Ar rican Asso-
ciation of Workers for the Blind..
Nagle, John P., chief of the Washington office, National Federation of
the Blind

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