HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIAT FOR 2000 HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIO HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE ONE HUNDRED SIXTH CONGRESS NOTE: Under Committee Rules, Mr. Young, as Chairman of the Full Committee, and Mr. Obey Minority Member of the Full Committee, are authorized to sit as Members of all Subcommitt FRANK M. CUSHING, TIMOTHY L. PETERSON, VALERIE L. BALDWIN, and DEN Staff Assistants PART 2 Consumer Product Safety Commission Consumer Information Center Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chemical Safety and Hazardous Investigation Board American Battle Monuments Commission Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation National Credit Union Administration Community Development Financial Institution Court of Veterans Appeals Selective Service System Office of Science and Technology Policy DOD-Civil, Cemeterial Expenses, Army HOUSING AND INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIA United HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATI ONE HUNDRED SIXTH CONGRESS NOTE: Under Committee Rules, Mr. Young, as Chairman of the Full Committee, and Mr. Ob Staff Assistants PART 2 Consumer Product Safety Commission Consumer Information Center Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chemical Safety and Hazardous Investigation Board American Battle Monuments Commission Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation National Credit Union Administration Community Development Financial Institution Court of Veterans Appeals Selective Service System Office of Science and Technology Policy DOD-Civil, Cemeterial Expenses, Army Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriation 57-519 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1999 For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office, Washington, DC 2040 ISBN 0-16-058676-3 A6466 1999 pt.2 Copy LL COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS RALPH REGULA, Ohio C. W. BILL YOUNG, Florida, Chairman JERRY LEWIS, California JOHN EDWARD PORTER, Illinois JOE SKEEN, New Mexico FRANK R. WOLF, Virginia RON PACKARD, California SONNY CALLAHAN, Alabama JAMES T. WALSH, New York CHARLES H. TAYLOR, North Carolina ERNEST J. ISTOOK, JR., Oklahoma JOE KNOLLENBERG, Michigan JAY DICKEY, Arkansas JACK KINGSTON, Georgia RODNEY P. FRELINGHUYSEN, New Jersey GEORGE R. NETHERCUTT, JR., Washington ZACH WAMP, Tennessee TOM LATHAM, Iowa ANNE M. NORTHUP, Kentucky ROBERT B. ADERHOLT, Alabama JO ANN EMERSON, Missouri JOHN E. SUNUNU, New Hampshire KAY GRANGER, Texas JOHN E. PETERSON, Pennsylvania DAVID R. OBEY, Wisconsin JULIAN C. DIXON, California ALAN B. MOLLOHAN, West Virginia MARCY KAPTUR, Ohio NANCY PELOSI, California PETER J. VISCLOSKY, Indiana NITA M. LOWEY, New York JOSE E. SERRANO, New York CARRIE P. MEEK, Florida DAVID E. PRICE, North Carolina CHET EDWARDS, Texas ROBERT E. "BUD" CRAMER, JR., Alabama JAMES E. CLYBURN, South Carolina JESSE L. JACKSON, JR., Illinois JAMES W. DYER, Clerk and Staff Director (II) DEPARTMENTS OF VETERANS AFFAIRS AND HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR 2000 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1999. U.S. CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION ANN BROWN, CHAIRMAN WITNESSES THOMAS H. MOORE, VICE CHAIRMAN MARY SHEILA GALL, COMMISSIONER PAMELA GILBERT, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Mr. WALSH. This is a bad precedent. I apologize. I said a late flight and the list goes on. OPENING STATEMENTS Good morning. What I would like to do is just a few pleasantries, if I may. We have a newly empaneled subcommittee, and I would like to take the opportunity to introduce people on my side, and then give the Ranking Member, Mr. Mollohan, the opportunity to introduce the folks on his side, even though we all have the same issues on the same side. I have had the pleasure in my brief stint in Washington to have had 10 years of chairing three separate subcommittees on appropriations. It has been a delightful experience. I have learned each time. Our responsibility has grown each time. The first was the District of Columbia; the second was the Legislative Branch; now we have VA, HUD and Independent Agencies. In each and every one of these areas I have had the pleasure of working with a Democrat; in the first instance Julian Dixon, then Mr. Serrano, and now Mr. Mollohan, who was very, very helpful to me as Chairman to get the work done and to do it in as bipartisan a way as we could possibly do that. I hope we can do the same thing with this subcommittee. I do not see why we can't. We all have real interests in these issues. They all affect our constituents equally, and I look forward to the next 2 years with great relish. These are great issues, terrific departments. It is a huge budget. We are going to keep it that way, because you are doing so well with the small amounts of money that you have. Maybe we will use you as a model for everyone else. (1) |