d. Enables development of flexible and new progams by state

and local sponsors.

S.3346, endorsed by the governors, provides the best solution to

manpower reform and deserves the careful consideration of this

subcommittee.

Thank you.

Governor WEST. I regret that my schedule will make it necessary for me to leave. I have enjoyed listening to the testimony of my fellow Governors, and their very effective aides. I hope the committee will

excuse me.

If there are any general questions that you might want to ask me, I will be delighted to try and answer them, but I am sure you can see, as I do, that any real questions can best be answered by these several experts that we have heard, and those that we will hear.

Senator NELSON. Governor West, considering the demands upon your time, we appreciate your taking the time to come this morning. If we have questions as we try to draft this bill, we will submit them to the Governors Conference.

Should they come to you, or your offices here in Washington? Governor WEST. Probably the office here in Washington will be appropriate.

Senator NELSON. Thank you so much.

Governor WEST. Thank you, gentlemen.

Senator NELSON. Our next witness is Miss Mary Newman, secretary, Executive Office of Manpower Affairs, on behalf of Hon. Francis W. Sargent, Governor of Massachusetts.

STATEMENT BY MISS MARY NEWMAN, SECRETARY, EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF MANPOWER AFFAIRS, APPEARING ON BEHALF OF HON. FRANCIS W. SARGENT, GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS

Miss NEWMAN. Thank you very much.

Senator NELSON. I would like to insert at this point a letter I received from Governor Sargent of Massachusetts.

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