Page images
PDF
EPUB

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
FIRST SESSION

[blocks in formation]

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
Council on Environmental Quality

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

[graphic][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed]

HOUSING AND
AND URBAN DEVELOPMEN

INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIA
FOR 2000

United

HEARINGS

BEFORE A

SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATI
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIV

ONE HUNDRED SIXTH CONGRESS
FIRST SESSION

[blocks in formation]

NOTE: Under Committee Rules, Mr. Young, as Chairman of the Full Committee, and Mr. Ob
Minority Member of the Full Committee, are authorized to sit as Members of all Subcommi
FRANK M. CUSHING, TIMOTHY L. PETERSON, VALERIE L. BALDWIN, and DE

Staff Assistants

PART 2

Consumer Product Safety Commission

Consumer Information Center

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Chemical Safety and Hazardous Investigation Board
Council on Environmental Quality

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
HAROLD ROGERS, Kentucky

JOE SKEEN, New Mexico

FRANK R. WOLF, Virginia
TOM DELAY, Texas
JIM KOLBE, Arizona

RON PACKARD, California

SONNY CALLAHAN, Alabama

JAMES T. WALSH, New York

CHARLES H. TAYLOR, North Carolina
DAVID L. HOBSON, Ohio

ERNEST J. ISTOOK, JR., Oklahoma
HENRY BONILLA, Texas

JOE KNOLLENBERG, Michigan
DAN MILLER, Florida

JAY DICKEY, Arkansas

JACK KINGSTON, Georgia

RODNEY P. FRELINGHUYSEN, New Jersey
ROGER F. WICKER, Mississippi
MICHAEL P. FORBES, New York

GEORGE R. NETHERCUTT, JR., Washington
RANDY "DUKE” CUNNINGHAM, California
TODD TIAHRT, Kansas

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
JOHN P. MURTHA, Pennsylvania
NORMAN D. DICKS, Washington
MARTIN OLAV SABO, Minnesota

JULIAN C. DIXON, California
STENY H. HOYER, Maryland

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
ROSA L. DELAURO, Connecticut
JAMES P. MORAN, Virginia
JOHN W. OLVER, Massachusetts
ED PASTOR, Arizona

CARRIE P. MEEK, Florida

DAVID E. PRICE, North Carolina

CHET EDWARDS, Texas

ROBERT E. "BUD" CRAMER, JR., Alabama

JAMES E. CLYBURN, South Carolina
MAURICE D. HINCHEY, New York
LUCILLE ROYBAL-ALLARD, California
SAM FARR, California

JESSE L. JACKSON, JR., Illinois
CAROLYN C. KILPATRICK, Michigan
ALLEN BOYD, Florida

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)

« PreviousContinue »