Y it. Ap6/1: Ag 8/988/pt. 5 RURAL DEVELOPMENT, AGRICULTURE, AND Office of the Secretary and Departmental Administration..... RURAL DEVELOPMENT, AGRICULTURE, AND HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDREDTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION SUBCOMMITTEE ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT, AGRICULTURE, AND ROBERT B. FOSTER and TIMOTHY K. SANDERS, Staff Assistants PART 5 AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS Page Office of the Secretary and Departmental Administration..... 1 141 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS JAMIE L. WHITTEN, Mississippi, Chairman EDWARD P. BOLAND, Massachusetts SIDNEY R. YATES, Illinois BILL CHAPPELL, JR., Florida BILL ALEXANDER, Arkansas JOHN P. MURTHA, Pennsylvania BOB TRAXLER, Michigan JOSEPH D. EARLY, Massachusetts LINDY (MRS. HALE) BOGGS, Louisiana MARTIN OLAV SABO, Minnesota JULIAN C. DIXON, California VIC FAZIO, California W. G. (BILL) HEFNER, North Carolina LES AUCOIN, Oregon DANIEL K. AKAKA, Hawaii WES WATKINS, Oklahoma WILLIAM H. GRAY III, Pennsylvania BERNARD J. DWYER, New Jersey STENY H. HOYER, Maryland BOB CARR, Michigan SILVIO O. CONTE, Massachusetts JOHN EDWARD PORTER, Illinois JIM KOLBE, Arizona ROBERT J. MRAZEK, New York RICHARD J. DURBIN, Illinois RONALD D. COLEMAN, Texas ALLAN B. MOLLOHAN, West Virginia FREDERICK G. MOHRMAN, Clerk and Staff Director (II) RURAL DEVELOPMENT, AGRICULTURE, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1988 FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1987. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY/DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION WITNESSES JOHN J. FRANKE., JR., ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR ADMINISTRATION JOHN E. CARSON, DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT CONSTANCE D. GILLAM, BUDGET OFFICER, OFFICE OF FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT STEPHEN B. DEWHURST, BUDGET OFFICER, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Mr. WHITTEN. The committee will come to order. We have with us Mr. Franke, Mr. Carson, Ms. Gillam, and Mr. Dewhurst. We will be glad to hear from you. First we would like to put biographical sketches in the record for those who may be new to us, and then proceed in the way you would like. [The biographical sketch of Constance D. Gillam appears on page 63.] Mr. FRANKE. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate it. We have the items before you again, for the record, voluminous materials certainly, and with your permission I will simply highlight my prepared statement. Mr. WHITTEN. The full statement will appear in the record. Do as you like. [CLERK'S NOTE.-Mr. Franke's statement appears on pages 53 through 62. The explanatory notes appear on pages 64 through 139.] OPENING REMARKS Mr. FRANKE. Thank you very much, sir. It is truly a pleasure when I do appear here. You know the folks within the Department accompanying me. This is the culmination of a series of events over a year or more, and staff appreciates sitting in and hearing of their accomplishments, as I state them, hearing the questions, responding to the questions that the Committee certainly has. We are here to discuss both activities and our budget proposals for fiscal year 1988 in several areas: the Office of the Secretary, Departmental Administration, our Advisory Committees, our GSA |