that is not a revenue to the Government because you are acting as a trust agent; are you not? Mr. SHULTZ. It was the problem you bring up that led the President to the paragraph I read. The situation that we saw confronting us was that some of these agencies are out of the budget totals and some are in the budget totals. We do not have a policy for treating with that. So we said all right, let us let the Ex-Im Bank go out of the unified budget totals, but let us also develop a way of handling this set of agencies which have different purposes, but similar operations on a little more coordinated basis. Mr. PASSMAN. I am going to cooperate as fully as I can. I am trying to understand this full employment budget and the unified budget concept but it is about as hard as trying to walk in two directions at the same time. I can only try. KEEPING THE EXPORT-IMPORT BANK WITHIN THE UNIFIED BUDGET Mr. MAHON. I would like to commend to your consideration, Mr. Director, the statements which have been made by Mr. Passman. Those of us who know something about the farm have observed that if one sheep in a pen leaps over the pen the others tend to follow suit. If the Export-Import Bank leaps over the fence and is excluded from the budget and spending ceilings, other agencies may well be standing in line and seeking to follow. I think if we can hold the line it would be better, as Mr. Passman has stated. I think Mr. Kearns is doing a tremendous job and Congress is perfectly willing-I think I can say with confidence to raise the expenditure ceiling to whatever is necessary to accommodate the needs of the Export-Import Bank because it does a great job for American business and labor. I would like to see this problem met in some other way so we can emphatically hold the line against others who may want to get out from under the budget. The section you read from page 17 of the President's budget message indicated some items outside the budget are not under control. Yet you are advocating that you let the Export-Import Bank out from under the tent. I do not want to belabor this, but I wish you would try to work out some other approach to deal with the Export-Import Bank. We do not want to cripple them but we would very much prefer some other solution than the one being advanced. FREEZING OF FUNDS APPROPRIATED BY CONGRESS Mr. EVINS. Mr. Chairman, I would like to refer to another matter—the impoundment of appropriations passed by the Congress. Mr. Whitten, our colleague, yesterday touched on this matter of priorities Many Members of Congress are concerned because of the excessive impoundment of appropriated funds by the OMB. I have had calls and visits from people from throughout the Nation, about the freezing and impounding of appropriations passed by the Congress. Can you tell the committee the overall amount, the total amount, that the Budget Bureau-the Office of Management and Budget-has frozen and impounded that Congress appropriated last year? Can you give us the overall amount that Congress acted upon that you impounded and witheld? Mr. SHULTZ. I can look that up. I can put that in the record if you like. Mr. EVINS. Can you give us an estimated figure and correct it for the record? Mr. SHULTZ. As of January 27, 1971-and I have a table here we could put into the record the total comes to $8,923,000,000. Most of that is for obligations for highway programs, a little over $5 billion. (The following tables, based on later information, was supplied for the record.) NOTE. It should be noted that in most instances the funds here involved are not being "impounded", in the sense that they would be permanently withheld or used for other purposes. Actually, most of these actions involve deferrals, and the funds will be spent for the purpose for which they were appropriated whenever such action is dictated by consideration of all the circumstances involved. AMOUNTS WITHHELD FROM OBLIGATION BY AGENCY AND ACCOUNT (February, 1971) (In millions of dollars) Agency and account March 26, 1971 Amount Funds Appropriated to the President: Appalachian Regional Development program... Military Assistance: Foreign military credit sales.. Economic assistance: Supporting assistance.. Prototype desalting plant. Development loans... Foreign investment guaranty fund.. Inter-American Social Development Institute. Economic opportunity program.. Peace Corps: Salaries and expenses... Department of Agriculture: Agricultural Research Service: Salaries and expenses. Other.. Food and Nutritior Service: Special milk program. Salaries and expenses (special foreign currency program). Agricultural Stabilization and Conservatic Service: Agricultural conservation program. Revolving fund, Defense Production Act.. Rural Electrification Administration: Farmers Home Administration: Loans. Rural water and waste disposal grants.. Self-help housing land development fund. Forest Service: Forest protection and utilization. Forest roads and trails... Youth Conservation Corps.. Expenses, brush disposal (permanent) Other Agriculture. Department of Commerce: Bureau of the Census: 19th decennial census. 12 Regional 1 Inter-American 6 Military construction, Defense agencies.. Special foreign currency program. Department of Defense--Civil: 957 93 67 114 Flood control, Mississippi River and tributaries. Corps of Engineers: Construction, general. Canal Zone Government: Operating expenses. Wildlife conservation, Military reservations. Ryukyus Islands, Army: General fund.. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare: Health Services and Mental Health Administration: Regional medical programs. Buildings and facilities. Medical facilities construction. National Institutes of Health: Neurological Disease and Stroke. General Medical Sciences. National Eye Institute... Construction of health educational research and library facilities... Buildings and facilities. Other. Office of Education: Higher education... Community education. School assistance in Federally affected areas. Social and Rehabilitation Service: Programs for the aging..... Rehabilitation services and facilities.. Social Security Administration: Limitation on construction. Agency and account Department of Housing and Urban Development: Basic water and sewer facilities grants. Model cities programs.... Department of the Interior: Bureau of Land Management: Public lands development roads and trails... Bureau of Indian Affairs: Road construction.. Bureau of Mines: Drainage of anthracite mines(permanent).. Construction.... Federal aid to fish restoration (permanenc) Federal aid to wildlife restoration (permanent) Federal Prison System: Buildings and facilities. Department of Transportation: 9224 71 19 4 1 16 Grants-in-aid for airports (Airport and airway |