APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1967 HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE EIGHTY-NINTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON H.R. 14745 MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, AND HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE, AND RELATED AGENCIES, FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1967, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES PART 1 (Pages 1 through 1385) (Wednesday, March 2, 1966, through Monday, March 28, 1966) 60-302 Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1966 DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, AND HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1967 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1966 SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, U.S. SENATE, Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met at 10 a.m., in room 1318, New Senate Office Building, Hon. Lister Hill, chairman, presiding. Present: Senators Hill, Stennis, Pastore, Bartlett, Cotton, and Allott. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE STATEMENTS OF JOHN W. GARDNER, SECRETARY; WILBUR J. COHEN, UNDER SECRETARY; RALPH K. HUITT, ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR LEGISLATION; JAMES F. KELLY, DEPARTMENT COMPTROLLER; AND JAMES B. CARDWELL, DEPARTMENT BUDGET OFFICER IMPACT ON BUDGET REQUEST OF COMMITMENTS IN SOUTH VIETNAM Senator HILL. The subcommittee will kindly come to order. We are very happy to welcome Mr. Gardner this morning. We are very happy to have you here, Mr. Secretary. We will be pleased to have you proceed in your own way. Mr. GARDNER. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I welcome this opportunity to come before you for the first time to discuss the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's programs and plans for the coming year. I am aware of the genuine interest that this committee has always shown in the programs of our Department, and I am deeply appreciative of that interest. It is now quite clear that our Nation's military commitments in Vietam will have a significant impact on the national budget for 1967. It is also clear that the 1967 budget for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare reflects this impact. You will find as we go through the budget that there are a number of areas where the amounts requested for 1967 are below those which might have been proposed if it were not for the pressures of Vietnam. On the other hand, you will find that the budget provides significant forward movenent in all areas of our responsibility. Last year was marked by some of the most important legislation wer enacted by the Congress: legislation affecting health care for the 877 1 aged; elementary, secondary, and higher education; vocational habilitation; and other major areas for which this Department is sponsible. Since 1967 will be the first full year for many of the new and expanded programs, we feel that it will be a historic ye for health, education, and welfare. Mr. Chairman, our Department has a tremendous job to do in she management and organization if it is to achieve results under recent enacted legislation. In 1967, I consider it my most important sponsibility to assure that the new and expanded programs are fur tioning smoothly and effectively. 1967 BUDGET REQUEST Before discussing the exact dollar amounts proposed in the budg for 1967, I would like to point out some areas to which the budg will give special emphasis. First, it provides for full funding of the program of health insu ance for the aged authorized under last year's social security amen ments. Second, there is emphasis throughout the budget on the training a development of additional manpower-the training of new physician nurses, teachers, and others needed to meet the growing demand f professional services. Closely related to this manpower emphasis is the support provid within the budget for the construction and modernization of faci ties that are used to train manpower and to provide medical, educ tional, and social services. The budget also provides additional support for health resear programs and for environmental health and consumer protecti activities with particular emphasis given to water and air polluti control. It also provides funds to carry out title VI of the Ci Rights Act, and the Older Americans Act of 1965. Further, funds are included to staff and organize our two new operating agencies-the Federal Water Pollution Control Admin tration and the Administration on Aging. 1967 BUDGET REQUEST In summary, the 1967 budget for the Department of Health, Ed cation, and Welfare requests a total of $11.7 billion in new oblig tional authority, an increase of $1.4 billion over appropriatio already approved or to be proposed in the form of supplementa for the current fiscal year. Of the total appropriation request for 1967, $11,654 million is quested to continue currently authorized programs-including exte sion of programs on which the authorization is scheduled to expi at the end of this year, and a net amount of $60 million is request to finance new programs requiring new legislation. I will return that subject a little later on. (Clerk's Note: The total request referred to by the Secretary, $11,654 millio includes $233 million sought for the Federal Water Pollution Control Admi istration which is being transferred to the Interior Department, and a total $171 million for sundry accounts not considered in the Labor-HEW bill. T proper figure for the budget estimates being considered by this subcommitt for inclusion in the Labor-HEW bill is $11.250 million.) |