་ Amendment numbered 21: That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 21, and agree to the same with an amendment as follows: In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert $18,900,000; and the Senate agree to the same. Amendment numbered 22: That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 22, and agree to the same with an amendment as follows: In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert $6,000,000; and the Senate agree to the same. Amendment numbered 23: That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 23, and agree to the same with an amendment as follows: In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert $10,725,000; and the Senate agree to the same. Amendment numbered 24: That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 24, and agree to the same with an amendment as follows: In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert $5,350,000; and the Senate agree to the same. Amendment numbered 30: That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 30, and agree to the same with an amendment as follows: In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert $4,675,000; and the Senate agree to the same. Amendment numbered 31: That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 31, and agree to the same with an amendment as follows: In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert $1,575,000; and the Senate agree to the same. Amendment numbered 32: That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 32, and agree to the same with an amendment as follows: In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert $2,367,000: and the Senate agree to the same. Amendment numbered 33: That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 33, and agree to the same with an amendment as follows: In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert $325,000; and the Senate agree to the same. Amendment numbered 34: That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 34, and agree to the same with an amendment as follows: In lieu of the sum proposed by said amendment insert $996,800; and the Senate agree to the same. The committee of conference report in disagreement amendments numbered 25 and 39. STATEMENT OF THE MANAGERS ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE The managers on the part of the House at the conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. 3333) making appropriations for the Department of Labor, the Federal Security Agency, and related independent agencies, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1950, and for other purposes, submit the following statement in explanation of the effect of the action agreed upon and recommended in the accompanying conference report as to each of such amendments, namely: TITLE I-DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Amendment No. 1: Appropriates $1,154,000 for salaries and expenses, Office of the Secretary, as proposed by the Senate instead of $1,074,000 as proposed by the House. Amendment No. 2: Appropriates $1,093,900 for salaries and expenses, Office of the Solicitor, as proposed by the Senate instead of $1,064,200 as proposed by the House. Amendment No. 3: Appropriates $550,000 for salaries and expenses, Bureau of Labor Standards, as proposed by the Senate instead of $391,000 as proposed by the House. Amendment No. 4: Appropriates $5,506,500 for salaries and expenses, Bureau of Labor Statistics, as proposed by the Senate instead of $5,450,000 as proposed by the House. Amendments Nos. 5 and 6: Appropriate $5,252,000 for salaries and expenses, Wage and Hour Division, as proposed by the Senate instead of $5,361,000 as proposed by the House, and strike out, as proposed by the Senate, the language identifying the functions under the Fair Labor Standards Act relating to the recommended reduction below the amount in the House bill. The effect of this action and action recommended on amendment No. 3 is to transfer the youth employment and child labor research activities to the Bureau of Labor Standards. TITLE II-FEDERAL SECURITY AGENCY Amendment No. 7: Makes available, as proposed by the Senate, not to exceed $46,000 of the appropriation of the Bureau of Employees' Compensation for expenses of the compensation Board of Appeals, instead of not to exceed $41,000 proposed for that purpose by the House. Amendment No. 8: Adds clarifying language to the appropriation for certification and inspection services under the Food and Drug Administration. Amendments Nos. 9 and 10: Appropriate $19,842,760 for grants for further development of vocational education, as proposed by the House instead of $29,301,740 as proposed by the Senate, and restores the language of the House bill providing for apportionment to the states to be computed on the basis of not to exceed $19,842,760. Amendments Nos. 11 and 12: Appropriate $1,975,600 for salaries and expenses, Office of Education, instead of $1,860,000 as proposed by the House and $2,009,800 as proposed by the Senate, and restore the provision of the House providing that not less than $522,300 shall be available for the Division of Vocational Education. The amount recommended for this appropriation includes $75,600 for the surplus property donation program. Amendment No. 13: Appropriates $16,000,000 for venereal diseases, Public Health Service, as proposed by the House instead of $17,200,000 as proposed by the Senate. Amendment No. 14: Appropriates $16,600,000 for assistance to States (general), Public Health Service, instead of $13,600,000 as proposed by the House and $16,800,000 as proposed by the Senate. Amendment No. 15: Appropriates $7,350,000 for communicable diseases under the Public Health Service as proposed by the House instead of $7,450,000 as proposed by the Senate. The managers on the part of the House and the Senate are in agreement that only a portion of the reduction below the budget estimate should be applied to the malaria- and typhus-control programs. Amendment No. 16: Appropriates $1,200,000 for administrative expenses, assistance for hospital construction, as proposed by the Senate instead of $1,000,000 as proposed by the House. Amendments Nos. 17 and 18: Appropriate $11,612,000 for mentalhealth activities of the Public Health Service, as proposed by the Senate instead of $11,387,000 as proposed by the House, of which amount $2,888,000 is earmarked for operation of the Forth Worth and Lexington hospitals as proposed by the Senate instead of $2,663,000 as proposed by the House. Amendment No. 19: Appropriates $167,000 for expenses of the Public Health Service in connection with Federal employee health service programs as proposed by the House instead of $267,000 as proposed by the Senate. Amendment No. 20: Appropriates $12,075,000 for operating expenses of the National Institutes of Health as proposed by the Senate instead of $11,800,000 as proposed by the House. Of the increase allowed, $50,000 is to be used, as intended by the Senate, for direct research in gastroenterology and coordinated with research on carcinoma of the stomach under the National Cancer Institute. Amendments Nos. 21 and 22: Appropriate $18,900,000 for the National Cancer Institute, instead of $16,400,000 as proposed by the House and $21,650,000 as proposed by the Senate, and in addition provide $6,000,000 contractual authority for research and training grants instead of $5,000,000 as proposed by the House and $15,500,000 as proposed by the Senate. Amendments Nos. 23 and 24: Appropriate $10,725,000 for the National Heart Institute, instead of $7,725,000 as proposed by the House and $16,392,000 as proposed by the Senate, and in addition provide $5,350,000 contractual authority for research and training grants instead of $3,850,000 as proposed by the House and $12,725,000 as proposed by the Senate. Amendment No. 25, relating to the National Institute of Dental Research, is reported in disagreement. Amendment No. 26: Strikes out a new item of appropriation proposed by the Senate for special vital statistics projects. Amendment No. 27: Appropriates $1,200,000 for salaries and expenses, water-pollution control, as proposed by the Senate instead of $1,000,000 as proposed by the House. Amendment No. 28: Appropriates $1,820,000 for salaries and expenses, St. Elizabeths Hospital, as proposed by the Senate instead of $1,750,000 as proposed by the House. Amendment No. 29, relating to grants to States for unemployment compensation and employment service administration, authorizes apportionment and obligation of the appropriation during the first 9 months of fiscal year 1950 at an annual rate not in excess of $157,500,000 as proposed by the House instead of $160,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The managers on the part of the House and the Senate have discussed the facts and circumstances underlying the comments contained in the reports of the committees on this bill with respect to activities of the Interstate Conference, an organization of State employment security administrators. The conferees of both Houses desire to supplement those comments by stating that they were not intended to disturb the cooperative working relationship existing among the State agencies and between the conference and the Federal agencies concerned as regards problems of administration of this Federal-State program. It is agreed, also, that the status quo of the office of the secretary to the conference should be preserved until opportunity is available next year for further consideration of this aspect of the arrangement. The committees are, however, interested in assuring that the efforts of the conference are in the zone of dealing with common problems arising in administration of the program in the States, and therefore in the States' interest, and will wish to review periodically the practical application of the arrangement. Amendments Nos. 30 and 31: Appropriate $4,675,000 for salaries and expenses, Bureau of Employment Security, instead of $4,450,000 as proposed by the House and $4,900,000 as proposed by the Senate, of which $1,575,000 is allocated for carrying into effect title IV (except sec. 602) of the GI bill of 1944, instead of $1,350,000 as proposed by the House and $1,800,000 as proposed by the Senate. Amendments Nos. 32 and 33: Appropriate $2,367,000 for salaries for the Office of the Administrator instead of $2,292,000 as proposed by the House and $2,418,000 as proposed by the Senate, together with transfer from the Federal old-age and survivors insurance trust fund of not to exceed $325,000 instead of $300,000 as proposed by the House and $335,000 as proposed by the Senate. Amendment No. 34: Appropriates $996,800 for salaries and expenses for the Division of Service Operations instead of $944,800 as proposed by the House and $1,043,000 as proposed by the Senate. Amendment No. 35: Strikes out a section, proposed by the Senate, authorizing the Administrator to make transfers of funds related to administrative consolidations of functions in the Office of the Administrator. Amendments Nos. 36 and 37: Relate to section numbers. |