Federal Water Pollution Control Administration Water supply and water pollution control. drainage control measures, excluded from "Water supply and water pollution control," Appropriated under "Buildings and facilities, Public Health Service." 2 For comparability purposes, $2,476,000 appropriated for constructing acid mine included in "Buildings and facilities." American Printing House for the Blind: Education of the blind.. National Technical Institute for the Deaf. 2 Full amount of $4,019,000 was allowed with per proposal transfer of $677,000 from unobligated balance. 1 Includes proposed supplementals. General administration and other 2 Adjusted appropriation. Includes $188,000 transfer from Office of Economic Oppor tunity. COMMENTS ON SPECIFIC REDUCTIONS Mr. FOGARTY. I think one of the most important agencies in Government today is the Food and Drug Administration. I think you appointed a real good man to head that up, Dr. Goddard. They requested $80 million and the Bureau of the Budget cut it back to $63 million. That is a substantial cut. Then in education-this is your forte-for vocational education, you asked for $318 million and they cut you back to $251 million. That is a tremendous cutback. Elementary and secondary education, the original estimate was $3,256 million and you cut this one back. I could not understand this cut. You cut it back to $2,696 million and then the Bureau of the Budget cut it back to $1,342 million, a cut of $1,353 million from your estimate. That is a lot of money, $1,353 million, isn't it? Secretary GARDNER. It is. Mr. FOGARTY. Even you cut it back substantially, $500-some million; over half a billion dollars. For higher educational activities you asked for $728 million and the Bureau of the Budget cut you back to $475 million, a quarter of a billion dollar cut there. For the colleges of agriculture the budget allows zero. It cuts this back $12 million. Last time it was cut it was put back in on the floor by a unanimous vote a few years ago. Then, grants for libraries. This is one of the real popular programs in Congress, and throughout the country, one of the most popular. It goes hand in hand with education. You asked for $75 million and they cut you back to $57 million. They cut this program $1712 million. In payments to school districts, you asked for $250 million and they cut you back to $183 million. Defense education activities, you asked for $324 million and they cut you back to $239 million. Educational improvement for the handicapped-I thought everybody was for that you asked for $382 million, and they cut you down to $32,600,000. Research and training, I thought this was one of the most important programs in the whole field of education, you asked for $115 million and they cut you back to $80 million. When we take a look at some of these activities and then all of the Institutes of Health, there is no progress here at all. It shows cut after cut after cut all the way down the line. I am not going to take the time to read each of them into the record. We are going to put all these figures in the record anyway. When I take a look at some of these figures showing the cuts by the Bureau of the Budget, and some of the cuts that you made yourself, I think this is one of the most frugal budgets I have ever seen in 20 years on this committee. CONTEXT OF BUDGET PREPARATION Secretary GARDNER. It was a budget that was developed under very considerable constraints and it is exceedingly hard to pick out any one item and comment on it when in our present situation we are trying to weigh all of these things at once and ask ourselves how we can manage within these constraints so that we don't do serious injury to |