DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR AND HEALTH, EDUCATION,
AND WELFARE APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1970

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE
COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-FIRST CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

H.R. 13111

AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENTS
OF LABOR, AND HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE, AND
RELATED AGENCIES, FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30,
1970, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

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U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1969

SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

WARREN G. MAGNUSON, Washington, Chairman

RICHARD B. RUSSELL, Georgia
JOHN STENNIS, Mississippi
ALAN BIBLE, Nevada

ROBERT C. BYRD, West Virginia
SPESSARD L. HOLLAND, Florida

NORRIS COTTON, New Hampshire
CLIFFORD P. CASE, New Jersey
HIRAM L. FONG, Hawaii

J. CALEB BOGGS, Delaware
MILTON R. YOUNG, North Dakota,
ex officio

HERMAN E. DOWNEY, Clerk to Subcommittee
HARLEY M. DIRKS, Assistant Clerk
WM. J. KENNEDY, Minority Clerk

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DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, AND HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1970

MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1969

SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS,

U.S. SENATE,

Washington, D.C.

The subcommittee met at 10 a.m., in room S-126, the Capitol, Senator Warren G. Magnuson (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Magnuson and Cotton.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE

NONDEPARTMENTAL WITNESSES

NATIONAL HEART INSTITUTE

STATEMENT OF HON. WALLACE E. BENNETT, U.S. SENATOR FROM UTAH

ARTIFICIAL HEART PROGRAM

Senator MAGNUSON. The subcommittee will come to order.
We will hear from the distinguished Senator from Utah.

Senator BENNETT. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I am grateful for the opportunity which you have given me to testify before the Labor-HEW Subcommittee today.

I am appearing to make an appeal concerning the artificial heart program of the National Institute of Health's National Heart Institute. I have become extremely interested in this program during the past year and impressed by the progress and promise which it holds, largely because an important part of its program is being carried out at the University of Utah and I have had the privilege of observing it in action.

I am sure you are probably aware of some of the amazing developments which have taken place during the last decade in artificial heart research. Fifteen years ago, who would have dared suggest that manmade pacemakers and heart valves would be commonly implanted to keep individuals living a relatively rormal life instead of succumbing to heart disease?

Maybe you have some friends who are being maintained by these devices.

But these and similar discoveries are simply on the brink of the tremendous potential which we have in the development of artificial

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