SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS UNITED STATES SENATE EIGHTY-THIRD CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON H. R. 4663 MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE EXECUTIVE LIB. APRIL 21, 23, 24 AND 25, 1953 Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations APPROPRIATIONS, 1954 32743 HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE EIGHTY-THIRD CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON H. R. 4663 MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE EXECUTIVE FIRST INDEPENDENT OFFICES APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1954 TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1953 UNITED STATES SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, D. C. The subcommittee met at 11 a. m., pursuant to call, in room 212, Senate Office Building, Hon. Leverett Saltonstall (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senators Saltonstall, Maybank, Robertson, and Kilgore. INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT BY THE CHAIRMAN Senator SALTONSTALL. The subcommittee will come to order. The Chair understands that Senator Maybank who is the senior member on the other side of the aisle is on his way here. The Chair has a statement which he will read to open the independent offices hearings. We are starting today hearings upon appropriations for independent offices for the fiscal year 1954. Last Friday, April 17, the House committee reported a bill designated as the first independent offices appropriation bill for 1954, to provide funds for the Executive Office and for 22 of the independent agencies. Deferred until a second bill, which may not be reported by the House until some time in June, will be funds for the Atomic Energy Commission, Selective Service System, Tennessee Valley Authority, and Veterans' Administration. The House report shows a total for original budget estimates of $1,172,444,190, on which they recommend appropriations of $451,020,493 for 1954, as compared to appropriations for 1953 of $993,536,843. The total for budget estimates includes $192,015,000 estimated as an indefinite appropriation to pay interest to the civilservice retirement and disability fund, denied by the House, and also includes $6 million in a recent supplemental estimate for the buildings management fund of General Services Administration. The budget estimates have been revised by the present administration, and our committee has been advised that the total revised estimates for the agencies in this first bill amount to $690,927,695. The revision has not been completed as yet for the large money items in the four agencies deferred by the House committee to the second bill; the original estimates totaled $6,455,758,664 for those agencies. We will also consider in this first bill administrative expense limitations for Government corporations under the Housing and Home |