MAY 10, 1968 Statement of Hon. Jack Miller, a U.S. Senator from the State of Iowa----- Statement of Hon. John Connally, Governor of Texas, vice chairman of the MAY 14, 1968 Page 133 134 175 192 Mrs. Gladys Spellman, county commissioner, Prince Georges County, Md__ 195 208 Edward Potthoff, city manager, Saginaw, Mich., representing the Interna- 220 226 MAY 15, 1968 John G. Reutter, president, National Society of Professional Engineers, Matt Triggs, assistant legislative director, American Farm Bureau Joseph L. Miller, legislative representative, National Parking Association__ Miss Jo Bingham, assistant to the vice president of the Government Relations Division of the National Association of Manufacturers_ MAY 16, 1968 237 254 257 259 265 William L. Rafsky, president, National Association of Housing and Redevel- 275 283 292 Harold F. Wise, legislative chairman, American Institute of Planners__ MAY 21, 1968 Statement by the chairman_. 297 The Reverend Canon Donald A. Griesmann, director of the Episcopal Community Center, Camden, N.J___ 298 Charles Sharp, chairman, Black Peoples' Union Movement_ 306 Miss Marian Wright, of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, MAY 22, 1968 Wendell G. Freeland, member of the board of trustees, National Urban Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr., director, Washington Bureau, National Asso- 321 337 356 Hon. Joseph D. Tydings, a U.S. Senator from the State of Maryland__ Berkeley G. Burrell, president, National Business League, accompanied by Charles T. Williams, vice president, Schenley Distillers Co.; and Bux- ton Cook, associate director of research, National Business League____ Hon. Frank E. Moss, a U.S. Senator from the State of Utah____ Hon. Chester L. Mize, Representative from the Second Congressional Dis- Hon. Robert C. Weaver, Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, accompanied by H. Ralph Taylor, Assistant Secre- tary for Demonstrations and Intergovernmental Relations, Ashley A. Foard, Deputy General Counsel, and John Frantz, Budget Officer____ William L. Taylor, Staff Director, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, ac- companied by Martin E. Sloane, Special Assistant to the Staff Director__ Lowell K. Bridwell, Federal Highway Administrator, accompanied by Francis C. Turner, Director of the Bureau of Public Roads_-_. Loney W. Hart, Chief, Legislative Services Office, Directorate of Real Estate Office, Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army, accompanied by Roy Markon, Chief, Acquisition Division; Henry V. Saunders, Assist- ant Chief, Management and Disposal Division; Mark S. Gurnee, Chief, Operations Division; and Theron C. Riley, Planning Division___. Bettin Stalling, chairman, Council on Community Affairs, FBA, District of Columbia Chapter of the Federal Bar Association__-. Harry L. Graham, legislative representative of the National Grange. Statement of Hon. Wilbur J. Cohen, Secretary of Health, Education, and Hon. Stuart Symington, a U.S. Senator from the State of Missouri; amendment intended to be proposed to S. 698 by Mr. Symington (for himself and Mr. Long of Missouri), and correspondence related Hon. Edward V. Long, a U.S. Senator from the State of Missouri___ Hon. Milton R. Young, a U.S. Senator from the State of North Dakota National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials_-. Angus McDonald, director of research, National Farmers Union. Hon. Philip H. Hoff, Governor of the State of Vermont---- Washington Urban League, Neighborhood Development Center and INTERGOVERNMENTAL COOPERATION ACT OF 1967 AND RELATED LEGISLATION THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1968 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON INTERGOVERMENTAL RELATIONS Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:30 a.m., in room 3302, New Senate Office Building, Senator Edmund S. Muskie (chairman) presiding. Present: Senator Edmund S. Muskie, Democrat, Maine. Staff members present: Charles M. Smith, staff director; Robert E. Berry, minority counsel; E. Winslow Turner, general counsel; Lucinda T. Dennis, administrative secretary. OPENING STATEMENT OF THE CHAIRMAN Senator MUSKIE. The committee will be in order. I have an opening statement. Today we open hearings on S. 698, the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act and related legislation, S. 735, S. 458, and S. 2981. S. 698 is a comprehensive bill devoted to improving the administration of Federal assistance programs at State and local levels. It provides for uniform Federal policies of coordination and cooperation with those levels of government which must carry out national goals, and meet national needs at the local level. Last year, President Johnson sent a special message to Congress on the "Quality of American Government." The President in his conclusion said in part: Because of the social and economic legislation passed by the 88th and 89th Congresses-legislation unmatched in all the annals of our history-this Nation now has programs which can lift the quality of American life higher than any before us have known. What remains for us now is to improve the quality of government itselfits machinery, its manpower, its methods-so that those programs will touch and transform the lives of the people for whom they were intended. Governor Terry Sanford, in his book, "Storm Over the States" sees the need for modernizing our federal system in the light of the impact of our future technological revolution. He says: The shadowy outlines of the future are sharpened day by day, and with emerging clarity we begin to see the forms of dome-covered cities, agriculture without soil, commercial rocket travel, drugs which alter personality, control of the weather, and containment of the population explosion. With a nese perplexing influences on man's life, it is predictable that our system of Government will adjust and readjust. Where weaknesses and inequities show, they will be corrected or overcome. The forms of our Government will remain, in deference to history, but their role in the technological tomorrow will be set by our concern of today. These statements are symbolic of the increasing concern being expressed by administrative officials at all Government levels, by academicians, by legislators, by industry and labor, and the public at large. It is the concern for an integrated federal system, a cooperative venture, a modern machine to meet the increasing needs and services of tomorrow. It has been the responsibility of this committee over the past 6 years to investigate the workings of our federal system. In most areas we have found a far greater degree of individual freedom and decisionmaking at the local level of government than exists in any other major country in the world. This makes possible the greatest extent of popular participation and consent envisioned by our Founding Fathers. Increased grassroots citizen participation is essential to the vitality of our democratic system. At the same time, it does contribute to problems of intergovernmental coordination and cooperation, inequitable applications of collecting and distributing fiscal resources, and a tremendous demand for more qualified administrative personnel. We have over 82,000 local units of government, most with their own taxing, planning and operating authorities. We have 50 States with thousands of relatively automous agencies, departments, and authorities carrying on additional operating and planning responsibilities. And at the Federal level we have over 21 Federal agencies and hundreds of regional and subregional offices administering over 500 separate grant-in-aid authorizations. The needs for cooperation, not competition, for closing the information gap between levels, for developing a partnership in the interests of economy and efficiency in our federal system were never more serious than they are today. Testifying before this subcommittee during the first phase of our creative federalism hearings, Secretary John Gardner, scholar and firsthand observer of federalism in action at every level, said this: In almost every domestic program we are encountering crises of organization. Coordination among Federal agencies leaves much to be desired. Communications between the various levels of government-Federal, State and localis casual and ineffective. State and local government is in most areas seriously inadequate. We will never get more than a fraction of the full yield from the taxpayer's dollar until local, State and Federal governments-and the American people generally-decide that action is needed. The time has come to correct these deficiencies. And the American people are capable of correcting them. We have a President who is keenly interested in the problem. We can improve coordination at all levels. We can revitalize State and local government. We have it in our power to create a healthier Federal-State-local partnership than has ever before existed-and healthier partnerships between the governmental and non-governmental worlds than ever before existed-partnerships that will ensure the integrity and vitality of the non-Federal partner. The challenge Secretary Gardner was making was to this Congress, recognizing at the same time that there are some things that only State and local governments can do for themselves. But it is the Congress which must take the lead in helping the States and localities solve their problems of management, money, manpower, and modernization. |