DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR AND HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1964 SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS EIGHTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION SUBCOMMITTEE ON DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR AND HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND JOHN E. FOGARTY, Rhode Island, Chairman WINFIELD K. DENTON, Indiana JOHN LESINSKI, Michigan MELVIN R. LAIRD, Wisconsin ROBERT M. MOYER, Staff Assistant to Subcommittee TESTIMONY OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, 97203 Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1963 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS CLARENCE CANNON, Missouri, Chairman GEORGE H. MAHON, Texas JOSEPH M. MONTOYA, New Mexico JOHN J. FLYNT, Georgia NEAL SMITH, Iowa ROBERT N. GIAIMO, Connecticut JULIA BUTLER HANSEN, Washington CHARLES S. JOELSON, New Jersey BEN F. JENSEN, Iowa WALT HORAN, Washington HAROLD C. OSTERTAG, New York FRANK T. BOW, Ohio CHARLES RAPER JONAS, North Carolina MELVIN R. LAIRD, Wisconsin ELFORD A. CEDERBERG, Michigan GLENARD P. LIPSCOMB, California JOHN R. PILLION, New York WILLIAM E. MINSHALL, Ohio ROBERT H. MICHEL, Illinois SILVIO O. CONTE, Massachusetts WILLIAM H. MILLIKEN, JR., Pennsylvania EARL WILSON, Indiana ODIN LANGEN, Minnesota WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, Wyoming BEN REIFEL, South Dakota LOUIS C. WYMAN, New Hampshire II KENNETH SPRANKLE, Clerk and Staff Director LC Control Number 2007 HV85 .Az DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR AND HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1964 TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1963. WELFARE ADMINISTRATION WITNESS RUDOLPH T. DANSTEDT, DIRECTOR, WASHINGTON BRANCH, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS Mr. FOGARTY. The committee will come to order. We have before us this morning Mr. Rudolph Danstedt, director of the Washington branch of the National Association of Social Workers. We are glad to see you back again, Mr. Danstedt. GENERAL STATEMENT Mr. DANSTEDT. Thank you very much, Mr. Congressman. I have a full statement here. Mr. FOGARTY. We shall put it in the record. (The statement follows:) STATEMENT BY RUDOLPH T. DANSTEDT, FOR THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I am Rudolph T. Danstedt, director of the Washington branch office of the National Association of Social Workers. The association has 37,000 members throughout the 50 States, who are employed in governmental and voluntary, Catholic, Jewish, Protestant, and nonsectarian health and welfare agencies. The fact that these members are employed in a wide range of health and welfare services, including mental health programs, public health services, vocational rehabilitation, public welfare, and child welfare provides us as an association with background and knowledge that enables us to examine constructively many facets of the program of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. My concentration today, however, will be largely in the field of public welfare, and specifically with respect to the implementation of the Public Welfare Amendments of 1962. PUBLIC WELFARE AMENDMENTS OF 1962 I would like to remind the members of this committee that these Public Welfare Amendments represented in part a response to criticism of public welfare, particularly aid to dependent childreen, now called aid to families with dependent children, that seems to recur at regular intervals. In 1961 the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, with the aid of an advisory committee, on which a large number of our members were represented, conducted a thoroughgoing examination of issues in the field of public welfare. What should be done about the situation existing in many jurisdictions where needy children were denied assistance when the primary cause of need was the unemployment of the father? What should be done where the ADC payee handles funds irresponsibly (1) |