SERVICES, EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE OFER COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED FOURTH CONGRESS SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND JOHN EDWARD PORTER, Illinois, Chairman C. W. BILL YOUNG, Florida HENRY BONILLA, Texas ERNEST J. ISTOOK, JR., Oklahoma DAN MILLER, Florida DAVID R. OBEY, Wisconsin JAY DICKEY, Arkansas FRANK RIGGS, California ROGER F. WICKER, Mississippi NOTE: Under Committee Rules, Mr. Livingston, as Chairman of the Full Committee, and Mr. Obey, as Ranking S. ANTHONY MCCANN, ROBERT L. KNISELY, SUSAN E. QUANTIUS, MICHAEL K. MYERS, PART 7 TESTIMONY OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND OTHER INTERESTED INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations SERVICES, EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES United HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS ONE HUNDRED FOURTH CONGRESS SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND JOHN EDWARD PORTER, Illinois, Chairman C. W. BILL YOUNG, Florida HENRY BONILLA, Texas ERNEST J. ISTOOK, JR., Oklahoma DAN MILLER, Florida JAY DICKEY, Arkansas FRANK RIGGS, California ROGER F. WICKER, Mississippi DAVID R. OBEY, Wisconsin NOTE: Under Committee Rules, Mr. Livingston, as Chairman of the Full Committee, and Mr. Obey, as Ranking S. ANTHONY MCCANN, ROBERT L. KNISELY, SUSAN E. QUANTIUS, MICHAEL K. MYERS, PART 7 TESTIMONY OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND OTHER 24-311 0 Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1996 For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office, Washington, DC 20402 ISBN 0-16-052698-1 JOSEPH M. McDADE, Pennsylvania C. W. BILL YOUNG, Florida JOHN EDWARD PORTER, Illinois JIM KOLBE, Arizona BARBARA F. VUCANOVICH, Nevada JIM LIGHTFOOT, Iowa RON PACKARD, California CHARLES H. TAYLOR, North Carolina ERNEST J. ISTOOK, JR., Oklahoma JOE KNOLLENBERG, Michigan JAY DICKEY, Arkansas JACK KINGSTON, Georgia FRANK RIGGS, California MIKE PARKER, Mississippi RODNEY P. FRELINGHUYSEN, New Jersey ROGER F. WICKER, Mississippi MICHAEL P. FORBES, New York GEORGE R. NETHERCUTT, JR., Washington JIM BUNN, Oregon MARK W. NEUMANN, Wisconsin DAVID R. OBEY, Wisconsin JOHN P. MURTHA, Pennsylvania VIC FAZIO, California W. G. (BILL) HEFNER, North Carolina RICHARD J. DURBIN, Illinois ALAN B. MOLLOHAN, West Virginia MARCY KAPTUR, Ohio DAVID E. SKAGGS, Colorado NANCY PELOSI, California PETER J. VISCLOSKY, Indiana THOMAS M. FOGLIETTA, Pennsylvania ESTEBAN EDWARD TORRES, California JAMES W. DYER, Clerk and Staff Director DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, EDUCATION, AND RE LATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1997 TESTIMONY OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND OTHER TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 27, 1996. Mr. PORTER. The subcommittee will come to order. This morning the subcommittee begins its hearings on the fiscal year 1997 appropriations bill. These hearings again break new ground, as they are occurring both without a final fiscal year 1996 appropriations bill and also without a complete President's request for fiscal year 1997. Let me begin by thanking the members of the subcommittee for their patience during the lengthy consideration of the 1996 bill. As you know, much of the delay has been occasioned by the failure in the other body to take up the legislation and pass it. And as you're also aware, I've been working with Chairman Arlen Specter to reach accommodation on many issues in disagreement between the House-passed and the Senate reported versions of the bill. We have been conferring informally regarding those differences and made substantial progress in resolving many of them. While this work may not succeed in resurrecting the House bill H.R. 2127, most of the agreements will be incorporated into any omnibus bill that may be forthcoming to complete actions on the remaining appropriation bills that will then be available for consideration by the subcommittee and, of course, the full committee and the full House. We are, of course, under great pressure to complete our work on the fiscal year 1997 bill by the beginning of the fiscal year. As a result, we are beginning our work today in advance of the presentation of the President's budget with public witnesses. We will next hear from the smaller related agencies under our jurisdiction, and then we will hear from the larger departments-the Department of Health and Human Services first, then the Department of Labor, and then the Department of Education. As there has been significant interest in program duplication both in the departments within our jurisdiction and in departments and agencies outside our jurisdiction, I've scheduled a hearing on programs providing substance abuse prevention and treatment that will encompass both programs that we fund and programs funded by other subcommittees. I hope that this hearing will provide an overview of these multiple programs and allow us to get a better (1) |