Mr. WHITTEN. Didn't you make any notes so that you wouldn't get into any misunderstanding later, in case he thought you told him so and so? Don't you keep memoranda in such circumstances? Dr. SOMERS. I keep a lot of them but I do not have a memorandum of this one. Mr. WHITTEN. Do you have any memoranda concerning this subject matter around that time? Dr. SOMERS. I do not. Mr. WHITTEN. Is there any particular reason why not? Dr. SOMERS. No, sir. Mr. WHITTEN. Who else operates in this field? Just you, directly? Dr. SOMERS. I received my request from Mr. Leonard. He is not here today. Mr. WHITTEN. Where is he? Mr. FINNER. Mr. Leonard, sir, was scheduled to be here. Until late Saturday evening he thought he was going to have a meeting with the Governor of Mississippi and the Welfare Commissioner and he was not preparing himself to be here today. Mr. WHITTEN. Is he in town? Mr. FINNER. He is in town. Mr. WHITTEN. How much preparation would it take if he is running this thing? We will contact Mr. Leonard about this later. Mr. FINNER. All right, sir. Mr. WHITTEN. That is all. Thank you. PAY INCREASES (Details of new funds requested for pay increases are contained in H. Doc. 316:) A PROPOSAL FOR SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR CIVILIAN AND MILITARY PAY INCREASES IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1968 MAY 21, 1968.-Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed THE WHITE HOUSE, Washington, May 21, 1968. THE SPFAKer of the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. SIR: I am today proposing $791.6 million in supplemental appropriations for civilian and military pay increases in the Federal Government for fiscal year 1968. These funds were reflected in the budget I transmitted to the Congress last January. They will not increase the current year's budget totals shown at that time. Payment of these salary increases is mandatory. They are required under laws enacted by the Congress. Total increases will cost about $1.5 billion this fiscal year. But agencies will absorb about $500 million of that amount. The remaining $177 million was requested in a previous supplemental appropriation. The details of these proposals are contained in the enclosed letter. from the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, with whose comments I concur. I urge the Congress to give prompt and favorable consideration to this necessary and urgent request. Respectfully yours, LYNDON B. JOHNSON. THE PRESIDENT, EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT, BUREAU OF THE BUDGET, Washington, D.C., May 21, 1968. SIR: I have the honor to submit for your consideration proposed supplemental appropriations and provisions for all three branches of the Federal Government and for the District of Columbia. They include: -appropriations and provisions for the fiscal year 1968 required because of military and civilian pay increases provided subsequent to the transmission of the 1968 budget; and -provisions relating to military and civilian pay increases becoming effective on and after July 1, 1968. The pay increases were granted by recent laws and administrative actions pursuant to law, as follows: -The act of December 16, 1967 (Public Law 90-206), increased the rates of basic compensation of certain civilian officers and employees in the Federal Government, and permitted comparable pay increases to be granted by administrative action. The act of December 16, 1967 (Public Law 90-207), increased the basic pay for members of the uniformed services. -Actions by agency heads, pursuant to law (5 U.S.C. 1082 (7)), increased the pay of wage-board employees in line with prevailing rates for comparable jobs in private industry. -The Civil Service Commission under Executive Order 11073, pursuant to law (5 U.S.C. 5303), increased the pay of certain scientists and engineers to become effective in February 1968. The total estimated cost for the fiscal year 1968 of the pay increases authorized by the laws cited above is $1,468.1 million. This sum covers: -$680.2 million for civilian personnel under Public Law 90-206. -$635.6 million for military personnel under Public Law 90-207. -$135.9 million for wage-board employees. -$16.3 million for civilian personnel under the other laws and actions cited above. The above amounts include $93.6 million for related costs, such as the Government retirement contribution, employment taxes, and recently liberalized life insurance coverage. These costs are based on pay levels, and increase as the pay levels rise. Under the $1,468.1 million total cost, supplemental appropriations to the Federal budget of $969.2 million are being requested; $791.6 million is recommended herein; and $177.6 million has been previously transmitted to the Congress in requests for supplemental appropriations involving other requirements. Thus, $498.9 million or 34 percent of the total additional cost of the pay increases will be met from previously appropriated funds. Excluding military functions of the Department of Defense and the Post Office Department, 68 percent of the total costs for the executive branch will be absorbed. The Department of Defense is absorbing $280.5 million of a total cost of $941.3 million. But Southeast Asia requirements prevent a higher proportion of absorption. The Post Office Department is unable to absorb a significant amount. because of costs of handling a rapidly rising mail volume. The requests for both Defense-military and the Post Office Department total $721.5 million or 91 percent of the total requested in this document. The absorption of $498.9 million in pay costs is proposed to be accomplished in three ways: -$221.5 million through administrative action; -$259.5 million through action by the Congress to make available funds reserved pursuant to Public Law 90-218, which established limits on obligations in fiscal year 1968 for each agency. Section 206 of that law provides that reserved funds which would otherwise not be available for use after June 30, 1968, shall be used only for such purposes and in such manner and amount as may be prescribed by law in the second session of the 90th Congress; and -$17.9 million through other actions by the Congress. Where necessary to meet increased pay costs, the appropriations of the agencies in the executive branch have been apportioned, pursuant to section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (31 U.S.C. 665), so as to indicate the necessity for supplemental estimates. These actions were reported to the Congress by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget on March 11 and on various other dates on which apportionment actions were taken during the fiscal year. The details of these proposed supplemental appropriations and provisions and a tabular statement summarizing the details by departments and agencies are set forth in the enclosure to this letter. These requests do not increase the totals for the fiscal year 1968 shown in the budget transmitted to the Congress on January 29 of this year. The proposed provisions relating to pay increases becoming effective on and after July 1, 1968, would serve two purposes: -they would permit funds to be apportioned on a deficiency basis in the fiscal years 1969 and 1970 to the extent necessary to permit payment of such pay increases. This apportionment authority would be exactly analogous to that contained in existing lawit is needed solely because the pay increases were authorized by statutes enacted prior to submission of the 1969 budget; -they would permit funds to be made available for these pay increases in fiscal years 1969 and 1970 should any Department or agency be operating after July 1 of those years under a resolution providing continuing appropriations, pending enactment of their regular appropriation bills. This authority is needed because it would not be provided under the customary terms of the continuing resolutions enacted in recent years. I recommend that these proposed supplemental appropriations and provisions be transmitted to the Congress. Respectfully yours, CHARLES J. ZWICK, Director of the Bureau of the Budget. SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR VARIOUS AGENCIES AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INCREASED PAY COSTS For additional amounts for appropriations for the fiscal year 1968, for increased pay costs authorized by or pursuant to law, as follows: Senate: LEGISLATIVE BRANCH "Compensation of the Vice President and Senators", $1,305; "Office of the Legislative Counsel of the Senate”, $10,955; "Senate policy committees", $13,240; "Inquiries and investigations", $174,990; including $6,020 "Folding documents", $1,105; "Miscellaneous items", $38,090; including $6,000 for payment to the Architect of the Capitol in accordance with section 4 of Public Law 87-82, approved July 6, 1961; House: "Office of the Speaker", $4,485; "Office of the Parliamentarian", $3,930; "Compilation of precedents", $405; "Office of the Chaplain", $540; "Office of the Clerk", $63, 180; "Office of the Sergeant at Arms", $53,885; "Office of the Doorkeeper", $65,515; "Office of the Postmaster", $18,570; "Committee employees", $231,340; "Minority employees", $4,230; "Democratic steering committee", $1,615; Special and minority employees: "Republican conference", $1,615; "Majority leader", $3,465; "Minority leader", $3,145; "Majority whip", $2,330; "Minority whip", $2,330; "Printing clerks", $575; and "Technical assistant in the office of the attending physician", $510; "Official reporters of debates", $9,355; "Official reporters to committees", $9,250; "Appropriations committee", $25,315; "Legislative counsel", $11,815; "Members' clerk hire", $1,217,700; Contingent expenses of the House: "Special and select committees", $131,625; "Revision of the laws", $945; "Speaker's automobile", $440; "Majority leader's automobile", $440; "Minority leader's automobile", $440; Joint items: "Joint Committee on Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures", $1,310, to remain available until expended; |