GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS.

UNITED STATES SENATE

EIGHTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

S. 2114

A BILL TO PROVIDE FOR PERIODIC CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW
OF FEDERAL GRANTS-IN-AID TO STATES AND TO
LOCAL UNITS OF GOVERNMENT

JANUARY 14, 15, AND 16, 1964

Printed for the use of the Committee on Government Operations

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U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1964

Opening statement of the chairman__

Text of S. 2114, a bill to provide for periodic congressional review of

Federal grants-in-aid to States and to local units of government..

Text of Mundt amendment__

Departmental views:

General Accounting Office-

Bureau of the Budget..

Office of Emergency Planning..

Department of State..

Department of the Army.

Department of Justice...

Department of the Interior..

Department of Agriculture_.

Department of Labor..

Federal Aviation Agency-

General Service Administration.

Veterans' Administration...

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Hon. Karl E. Mundt, U.S. Senator from South Dakota

Hon. Florence P. Dwyer, U.S. Representative from New Jersey.

Hon. Sam J. Ervin, Jr., U.S. Senator from North Carolina_.

Hon. James B. Pearson, U.S. Senator from Kansas..

William G. Colman, Executive Director, Advisory Commission on Inter-

govern ntal Relations, accompanied by Melvin W. Sneed, Assistant

Directo

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Arthur Schoenhaut, Deputy Director, Civil Accounting and Auditing

Division, General Accounting Office, accompanied by Louis Hunter and

Edward Stepnick, Assistant Directors.

Robert A. Wallace, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, accompanied by R.

Duane Saunders, Director, Office of Debt Analysis..

JANUARY 15, 1964

Dr. Theodore C. Byerly, Administrator, Cooperative State Research

Service, Department of Agriculture..

John H. Prince, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Administra-

tion, accompanied by Victor Roterus, Economic Adviser to the Admini-

strator; Ross Kruser, Deputy Director of Administration, Bureau of

Public Roads; and Thomas Fay, Chief of the Office of Personnel, Mari-

time Administration_

Wilbur J. Cohen, Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare,

accompanied by Irvin Walker, staff, HEW_

Milton P. Semer, General Counsel, Housing and Home Finance Agency.

JANUARY 16, 1964

Hon. Frank E. Moss, U.S. Senator from Utah..

Hon. J. Caleb Boggs, U.S. Senator from Delaware__

Ben Haigh, chairman, Welfare Committee, National Association of Coun-

ties, accompanied by J. Alexander McMahon, general counsel, North Car-

olina Association of County Commissioners, and Bernard F. Hillenbrand,

executive director, National Association of Counties

William Murtha, director, government operations and expenditures

program, U.S. Chamber of Commerce..

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Edward Staples, executive director, Missouri Public Expenditures Survey,

Jefferson City, Mo.---

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