SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS ONE HUNDRED SIXTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON H.R. 4516, 4577, and 5657/S. 2603 AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 2001, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES For sale by the U.S. Government Printing OEPOSITORY Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office, Washington, DC 20402 FEB 1 3 2001 STANFORD UNIVERSITY JONSSON LIBRARY LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2001 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2000 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 9:36 a.m., in room SD-116, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Robert F. Bennett (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Bennett and Feinstein. JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE STATEMENT OF JIM SAXTON, VICE CHAIRMAN OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR ROBERT BENNETT Senator BENNETT. The hearing will come to order. This is the first in a series of four hearings that the subcommittee will hold on fiscal year 2001 budget requests. We are doing our best to comply with the desire of the leadership here in the Senate, both the committee leadership in the form of Senator Stevens and the Senate leadership in the form of Senator Lott, to see to it that we get the appropriations process done as rapidly as possible this year, and more rapidly than we have done in the years gone past. So our next hearings will be February 22 and February 29. And our final hearing, we hope, will be on the 7th of March. And today we will hear testimony from two agency budgets, the Joint Economic Committee and the Congressional Budget Office. And our first witness, whom we welcome very warmly, Congressman Jim Saxton, who is the vice chairman of the Joint Economic Committee and, all going well, the chairman during the time this particular budget will be in place. So I am a member of that committee and appreciated working with Mr. Saxton. He has been chairman of that committee and now is the vice chairman. From that perspective, Mr. Saxton, I look forward to your testimony. We understand you have requested $3,315,000, which is a 3.6-percent increase over last year. That is to cover staff COLAS. And before we hear from you, I want to extend formal congratulations to the JEC on being designated one of the top three House websites by the nonpartisan congressional management fund. I pay attention to things like that. I wish I could get my website up to that standard. But we will be having conversations with my staff. Thank you for coming, and we look forward to your testimony. |