DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HENRY A. NEIL, Jr., FREDERICK F. PFLUGER, ROBERT L. KNISELY, MICHAEL A. STEPHENS, and United Strics SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HENRY A. NEIL, JR., FREDERICK F. PFLUger, Robert L. KNISELY, MICHAEL A. STEPHENS, and KF27 •A653 17840 pt.. COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS JAMIE L. WHITTEN, Mississippi, Chairman EDWARD P. BOLAND, Massachusetts NEAL SMITH, Iowa JOSEPH P. ADDABBO, New York BILL CHAPPELL, JR., Florida BILL ALEXANDER, Arkansas JOHN P. MURTHA, Pennsylvania JOSEPH D. EARLY, Massachusetts LINDY (MRS. HALE) BOGGS, Louisiana MARTIN OLAV SABO, Minnesota VIC FAZIO, California W. G. (BILL) HEFNER, North Carolina LES AUCOIN, Oregon DANIEL K. AKAKA, Hawaii WES WATKINS, Oklahoma WILLIAM H. GRAY III, Pennsylvania BERNARD J. DWYER, New Jersey WILLIAM R. RATCHFORD, Connecticut BILL BONER, Tennessee STENY H. HOYER, Maryland BOB CARR, Michigan ROBERT J. MRAZEK, New York SILVIO O. CONTE, Massachusetts J. KENNETH ROBINSON, Virginia KEITH F. MAINLAND, Clerk and Staff Director 84-622014 DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1985 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1984. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR TESTIMONY OF THE SECRETARY OF LABOR WITNESSES HON. RAYMOND J. DONOVAN, SECRETARY OF LABOR THOMAS C. KOMAREK, ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT MARY ANN WYRSCH, DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF BUDGET OPENING STATEMENTS Mr. NATCHER. The committee will be in order. At this time, we take up the budget request for the Department of Labor for the fiscal year 1985, and we have before the committee our Secretary of Labor, Raymond J. Donovan. Mr. Donovan, it is a pleasure to have you back before the committee this morning. It has always been a pleasure to have you come before our committee to justify your budget request. As you know, on October 31 of last year, the President signed our appropriation bill for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, for the fiscal year 1984. This was the first time, Mr. Secretary, in five years that this appropriation bill had been enacted into law, and this in spite of the fact that the appropriation bill exceeded the President's budget request by several billion dollars. 1984 At the time that the President had to make a decision on this matter, Mr. Conte, the ranking minority member on this subcommittee and on the full Committee on Appropriations, and I, together with other members of the subcommittee, talked to the people downtown, explaining to them where the increases were, saying to them that these increases were in programs that mean so much to the people. We had stayed under the budget resolution, and the President signed the bill. Mr. Secretary, we appreciated it. We believe on this subcommittee that this bill is too important to put under a continuing resolution. It ought to stay in the appropriation process and not under a continuing resolution. It makes it difficult for you as Secretary of your Department, and for all the other people that are in the government that are under a continu (1) |