SENATE PANEL CLEARS PAY RAISE PLAN

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The Federal Diary
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DATE 2501
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THE WASHINGTON POST Friday, June 29, Isra
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Senate Panel Clears Pay Raise Plan
By
Mike
Causey
Political executives, con-
gressmen and supergrade civil
servants would get healthy
pay raises this year under a
no-fault salary-fixing plan
cleared yesterday by the Sen-
ate Post Office-Civil Service
Committee.
It would insure catch-up raises
with industry every two years
for members of Congress, the
Supreme Court, Cabinet offi-
cers and top-graded federal
workers. And its would take
Congress off the politically
painful fence it must now
straddle every four - years
when faced with voting itself
big pay raises just before an
election.
Backed by the 'White House,
the bill from Committee
Chairman Sen. Gale McGee
(D-Wyo.) and ranking Republi-
can Sen. Hiram Fong (Hawaii)
would speed up the executive
pay raise machinery. Under.
the present system, it would
be sometime next year before
government executives got a by the White House, Congress
shot at a pay raise.
The timetable calls for Sen-
ate-House approval by August.
This would give Mr. Nixon
time to study, revise, and re-
commend executive-level pay
raises. A blue-ribbon salary
commission will have pro-
posed upward adjustments
ready for the President,, today
or Saturday.
Supergrade federal workers
(Grades 16, 17 and .18) are now
limited to a $36,000 pay ceil-
ing, although government sta-
tistics say long-service execu-
tives are now entitled to
around $41,000 just to put
them on par with industry
counterparts.
The last executive pay raise
came in 1969, giving members
of Congress $42,500, Cabinet
officers $60,000 and lesser po-
litical appointees $36,000. That
figure is also the ceiling for
career employees.
Government pay rates have
jumped 32 per cent in the pe-
riod, but top-level careerists
haven't moved up because of
the $36,000 ceiling.
Under the present system,
top executive pay In govern-
ment is revised every four
years. Proposals go to the
President from a 8-meter
non federal panel appointed
C, 4
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and Supreme Court.
Those recommendations are
transmitted to Congress by
the President in his annual
budget message. According to
that timetable, the raises
would go to Congress in late
January and go into effect in
30 days unless vetoed by ei-
ther the House or Senate.
Since 1974 is an election year,
Congress might kill a pay
raise for political reasons.
To avoid the election-year
embarrassment, and end the
big percentage jumps that ac-
company quadrennial raises,
the Senate committee plan
would have the study made
every two years, and imple-
mented in nonelection years.
Indications are that the House
Post Office-Civil Service Com-
mittee soon will produce a
similar legislative package.
If the bill should get
through Congress after the In-
dependence Day recess, it
could be on Mr. Nixon's desk
in late July or early August.
He would then take the recom-
mendations of the 9-member
salary panel, and after making
changes he thinks necessary,
pass them on to Congress. Un-
less either the House or Sen-
ate vetoed the salary plan," it
HWQuld go into effect 3,0 days
later.
Although most congressmen
wear out their vocal cords cry-
ing for economy in govern-
ment, very few have been
known to turn down a per-
sonal pay raise. The no-fault
provision of the pay bill would
allow them to get the raises
recommended by the Presi?
dent by doing nothing.
Two Republican "trouble-
makers" from Iowa, Reps. H.
R. Gross and Bill Scherle, are
planning to spoil the no-fault
aspects of the bill. They have
threatened to force a record
vote on any congressional pay :'
raise that is just what most..
members don't want.
Such a move could shoot
down the entire pay package. ?
The last congressional boost
was for 41 per cent, and
passed only because members
didn't have to go on record as
favoring it. If forced to vote
on any new raise, most con-
gressmen ?
would prefer to do
it in 1973, rather than next
year, to give voters time to
forgive and forget.
Retirement Contributions:
Rep. Jerome R. Waldie (D-
Calif.) has introduced a bill
that would reduce employee
contributions to the Civil
Service retirement fund from
17 per cent to 61V2 per cent,
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estimated fare of $1.35 even at times
when an automobile might be involved in
congested traffic conditions.
This system would extend from the
main metro system just north of Falls
Church to the airport. Without this
method of transportation, the Federal
Government will be required to continue
large expenditures for the deficits incur-
red at Dulles.
Present plans provide for a rapid rail
to National Airport in the near future.
Without a corresponding facility for
Dulles, existing problems for the use of
both airports would be aggravated. Based
on information available, construction of
a rapid rail to Dulles would accomplish
several desirable objectives:
First. Assure the complete and ex-
panded use of the facilities at Dulles Air-
port, thereby reducing the annual deficit;
Second. Provide a fast, convenient, and
inexpensive link between our Capital and
all other areas of national and interna-
tional transportation.; and
Third. Minimize the existing noise and
air pollution problems and decrease traf-
fic congestion and safety hazards at
National Airport.
Mr. President, as I: have said on many
occasions on this floor and in commit-
tee, Dulles is badly underused and Na-
tional badly overused. I have even put
in a bill banning all but twin-engine jets
from using National. As a pilot for some
38 years, it is my opinion that Dulles is
the best jet airport in the country and
National is the worst. The present bill
may be the best method of changing this
relationship.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill
having been read the third time, the
question is, Shall it pass? On this ques-
tion, the yeas and nays have been or-
dered, and the clerk will call the roll.
The second assistant legislative clerk
called the roll.
Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. I announce
that the Senator from South Dakota (Mr.
ABOUREZK), the Senator from Alabama
(Mr. ALLEN), the Senator from Nevada
(Mr. BIBLE), the Senator from Florida
(Mr. CHILES), the Senator from Idaho
(Mr. CHURCH), the Senator from Califor-
nia (Mr. CRANSTON), the Senator from
Indiana (Mr. HARTKE), the Senator from
Coloradc (Mr. HASKELL), the Senator
from Minnesota (Mr. HUMPHREY) , the
Senator from Hawaii (Mr. INOUYE), the
Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. KEN-
NEDY), the Senator from Utah (Mr.
Moss), the Senator from Rhode Island
(Mr. PELL), the Senator from Illinois
(Mr. STEVENSON), the Senator from Cali-
fornia (Mr. TUNNEY), and the Senator
from Indiana (Mr. BAYH) are necessarily
absent.
I further announce that the Senator
from Mississippi (Mr.- EASTLAND), the
Senator from Louisiana (Mr. LONG), the
Senator from Washington (Mr. MAGNU-
soN), the Senator from Wyoming (Mr.
MCGEE), and the Senator from Alabama
(Mr. SPARKMAN) are absent on official
business.
I also announce that the Senator from
Mississippi (Mr. STENNIS) is absent be-
cause of illness.
I further announce that the Senator
from North Carolina (Mr. ERVIN) is ab-
sent because of a death in the family.
I further announce that, if present and
voting, the Senator from California (Mr.
TUNNEY), the Senator from Illinois (Mr.
STEVENSON), the Senator from Wash-
ington (Mr. MAGNUSON), the Senator
from Minnesota (Mr. HUMPHREY), and
the Senator from Florida (Mr. CHILES)
would each vote "yea."
Mr. SCOTT of Pennsylvania. I an-
nounce that the Senator from Kansas
(Mr. DOLE) and the Senator from Mich-
igan (Mr..GRIFFIN) are absent on official
business.
The Senator from Vermont (Mr.
AIKEN), the Senator from Tennessee
(Mr. BAKER), the Senator from Okla-
homa (Mr..BELLMON), the Senator from
Utah (Mr. BENNETT), the Senator from
Hawaii (Mr. FONG), the Senator from
Arizona (Mr. GOLDWATER), the Senator
from Wyoming (Mr. HANSEN), the Sena-
tor from Oregon (Mr.- HATFIELD), the
Senator from Nebraska (Mr. HRUSKA),
the Senator from New York (Mr. JAVITS),
and the Senator from Illinois (Mr.
PERCY) are necessarily absent.
If present and voting, the Senator
from Oregon (Mr. HATFIELD) would vote
"yea."
The result was announced-yeas 46,
nays 18, as follows:
[No. 270 Leg.]
YEAS-46
Beall
Gurney
Randolph
Bentsen
Hart
Ribicoff
Brock
Hathaway
Saxbe
Brooke
Hughes
Schweiker
Buckley
Jackson
Scott, Pa.
Burdick
Mathias
Scott, Va.
Cannon
McClellan
Stafford
Case
McGovern
Stevens
Clark
McIntyre
Symington
Cook
Metcalf
Taft
Cotton
Mondale
Thurmond
Domenici
Montoya
Weicker
Dominick
Muskie
Williams
Eagleton
Nelson
Young
Fulbright
Packwood
Gravel
Pearson
NAYS-18
Bartlett
Helms
Pastore
Biden
Hollings
Proxmire
Byrd,
Huddleston
Roth
Harry F., Jr.
Johnston
Talmadge
Byrd, Robert C. Mansfield
Tower
Curtis
McClure
Fannin
Nunn
NOT VOTING-36
Abourezk
Eastland
Javits
Aiken
Ervin
Kennedy
Allen
Fong
Long
Baker
Goldwater
Magnuson
Bayh
Griffin
McGee
Bellmon
Hansen
Moss-
Bennett
Hartke
Pell
Bible
Haskell
Percy
Chiles
Hatfield
Sparkman
Church
Hruska
Stennis
Cranston
Humphrey
Stevenson
Dole
Inouye
Tunney
So the bill (S. 2047) was passed, as
follows:
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
National Capital Transportation Act of 1969,
approved December 9, 1969 (83 Stat. 320), is
hereby amended by adding at the end thereof
the following new sections:
"SEC. 9. (a) The Secretary of Transporta-
tion shall make payments to the Transit
Authority in such amounts as may be req-
uisitioned from time to time by the Transit
Authority sufficient, in the aggregate, to
finance the cost of designing and other nec-
essary planning for a rail rapid transit line
in the median of the Dulles Airport Road
from the vicinity of Virginia Highway Route
7 on the K Route of the Adopted Regional
System to the Dulles International Airport.
"(b) The transit line authorized to be
planned in subsection (a) of this section
shall include appropriate station facilities
at the Dulles Internatinal Airport and at the
point of intersection with the Adopted Re-
gional System.
"(c) Upon completion of the transit line
authorized to be planned in this section, all
transit facilities and the underlying real es-
tate interests appurtenant thereto shall be-
come the property of the Transit Authority
and shall be operated by such Authority.
"(d) It is the intent of the Congress in
enacting this section that the transit line
authorized to be planned in this section be
designed and constructed as soon as prac-
tioable following the date of the enactment
of this section.
"SEC. 10. (a) The Secretary of Transporta-
tion is authorized and directed to contract
with the Transit Authority for a comprehen-
sive study of the feasibility, including pre-
liminary engineering, of extending a rail
rapid transit line in the median of the
Baltimore-Washington Expressway from the
proposed Greenbelt Road Metro Station area
near the Baltimore-Washington Expressway
to the Friendship International Airport.
"(b) The study to be undertaken pursuant
to subsection (a) of this section shall be
completed within six months after execution
of the contract authorized therein.
"SEC. 11. There is authorized to be appro-
priated to the Secretary of Transportation,
without fiscal year limitation, not to exceed
$10,000,000 to carry out the purposes of sec-
tions 9 and 10. The appropriations author-
ized in this section shall be in addition to
the appropriations authorized by section
3(c) of this Act.".
Mr. BIDEN subsequently said, Mr.
President, I have today voted against a
bill, S. 2047, which would authorize
$10,000,000 to plan for a high speed rail
line to Dulles Airport and to study the
feasibility of a similar line to Friendship
International Airport. The planning will
cost $10 million and the construction of
just the Dulles line is expected to be $90
million. Knowing the way construction
costs escalate, it will probably be much
higher than that. While I have actively
supported other proposals before the
Senate for mass transit, I could not in
good conscience support this one.
This is a year in which the Senate
is going to have to make hard decisions
as to what the Nation's fiscal priorities
should be. With our limited financial re-
sources, we just are not going to be able
to do everything we would like to do. Un-
der the circumstances, I felt that this
was not a justifiable national priority.
This proposed mass transit project
benefits only a specific group of people
who use the airways as a means of travel.
There are many other mass transit proj-
ects throughout, the country which
would service a significantly larger seg-
ment of the population and are more
badly needed. In addition all of the other
federally assisted transit projects around
the country, the local governments bear
a portion of the cost. Even Maryland
and Virginia have paid for a portion of
the regular Metro system, but under this
bill would not pay for these proposed ex-
tensions of that system.
In the light of the crying need for
funds for mass transit throughout the
country, I cannot believe that it is right
for Congress to completely subsidize one
special project which will serve relative-
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ly few people. I would much rather see
this kind of money made available na-
tionally on a matching basis so that
Delaware and other ' States might have
some chance of securing additional funds
for mass transit.
I supported the opening of the high-
way trust fund for mass transit projects
and I hope that this provision of the
Highway Act will prevail. In fact, if this
proposed project were to go forward,
I would think it should be financed from
highway trust funds. But, frankly, I do
not believe it should go forward out of
any funds on the basis set forth in
S. 2047. -
Finally, I would point out that the
Highway Act as approved by the Senate
(S. 502) contains a provision for a high
speed bus demonstration project between
Washington and Dulles International
Airport. This seems to me to be a more
practical approach and one that should
be tried before moving to the costly capi-
tal improvements required by a rail sys-
tem.
THE CALENDAR
Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President,
I ask unanimous consent that the Senate
proceed to the consideration of Calendar
Nos. 275, 278, and 281.
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr.
COOK). ithout objection, it is so or-
dered
AMENDMENT OF THE FEDERAL
SALARY ACT OF 1967
The bill (S. 1989) to amend section
225 of the Federal Salary Act of 1967
with respect to certain executive, legisla-
tive, and judicial salaries was consid-
ered, ordered to be engrossed for a third
reading, read the third time, and passed,
as follows:
S. 1989
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That section
225 of the Federal Salary At of 1967 is
amended as follows:
(1) Strike out the first sentence of sub-
section (b) (3) and insert in lieu thereof
the following: "After the close of the 1969
fiscal year of the Federal Government, per-
sons shall be appointed as members of the
Commission with respect to the 1973 fiscal-
year and every second fiscal year thereafter."
(2) In subsection (f) (A), immediately be-
fore "and", insert the following: "Delegates
to the House of Representatives,".
(3) In subsection (f), strike out subpara-
graph (E) and insert in lieu thereof the
following:
"(E) the Vice President of the United
States, the Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives, the President pro tempore of the
Senate, and the majority and minority lead-
ers of the Senate and House of Representa-
tives, except that the review of rates of pay
of positions included in this subparagraph
shall be made commencing with fiscal year
1975."
(4) In subsection (g)-
(A) strike out "and (D)" and insert in
lieu thereof "(D) , and (E)' ; and
(B) strike out the last sentence and insert
in lieu thereof the following: "Commencing
with respect to fiscal year 1973, each such
report shall be submitted on such date as
the President may 'designate during the
period from January 1 through June 30 of
the fiscal year in which the review is con-
ducted by the Commission.,,
(5) Subsection (h) is amended to read as
follows:
"(h) RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT
WITH RESPECT TO PAY.-Commencing in 1973,
the President shall transmit to Congress, not
later than the August 31 first occurring
after the submission of the report and rec-
ommendations of the Commission under
subsection (g) of this section, his recommen-
dations with respect to the exact rates of
pay which he deems advisable, for those
offices and positions within the purview of
subparagraphs (A), (B), (C), (D), and (E)
of subsection (f) of this section (including
recommendations to be effective in fiscal
year 1974 in accordance with subsection (i)
of this section with respect to positions in-
cluded in such subparagraph (E) ).11
(6) Paragraph (1) of subsection (i) is
amended to read as follows:
"(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2)
of this subsection, all or part (as the case
may be) of the recommendations of the
President transmitted to the Congress under
subsection (h) of this section shall become
effective at the beginning of the first pay
period which begins after thirty calendar
days of continuous session of Congress fol-
lowing transmittal of such recommenda-
tions; but only to the extent that, between
the date of transmittal of such recommen-
dations and the beginning of such first pay
period-
"(A) there has not been enacted into law
a statute which establishes rates of pay
other than those proposed by all or. part of
such recommendations;
"(B) neither House of the Congress has
passed a resolution which specifically disap-
proves all or part of such recommendations;
or
"(C) both.
The continuity of a session is broken only
by an, adjournment of the Congress sine die,
and the days on which either House is not
in session because of an adjournment of
more than three days to a day certain are
excluded in the computation of the thirty-
1973, preceded by two preparatory meetings
of the United Nations Seabed Committee;
Whereas it is in the national interest of
the United States that this conference should
speedily reach agreement on a just and ef-
fective ocean treaty: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the Senate endorses the
following objectives, envisioned in the Presi-
dent's ocean policy statement of May 23,
1970, and which are now being pursued by
the United States delegation to the Seabed
Committee preparing for the Law of the Sea
Conference-
(1) protection of-
(a) the freedoms of the high seas, beyond
a twelve-mile territorial sea, for navigation,
communication, and scientific research, and
(b) free transit through and over inter-
national straits;
(2) recognition of the following interna-
tional community rights:
(a) protection from ocean pollution,
(b) assurance of the integrity of invest-
ments,
(c) , substantial sharing of revenues de-
rived from exploitation of the seabeds par-
ticularly for the benefit of developing
countries,
(d) compulsory settlement of disputes,
and
(e) protection of other reasonable uses of
the oceans,
beyond the territorial sea including any
economic intermediate zone (if agreed up-
on);
(3) an effective International Seabed Au-
thority to regulate orderly and just devel-
opment of the mineral resources of the deep
seabed as the common heritage of mankind,
protecting the interests of both developing
and developed countries;
(4) conservation and protection of living
resources with fisheries regulated for maxi-
mum sustainable yield, with coastal "zone"
State management of coastal and anadromous
species, and international management of
such migratory species as tuna.
SEC. 2. The Senate commends the United
States delegation to the Seabed Committee
or its excellent work, and encourages the
OCEAN POLICY STATEME5NTT' delegation to continue to work diligently
for early agreement on an ocean treaty em-
The Senate proceeded to consider the bodying the goals stated in section 1.
resolution (S. Res. 82) endorsing the ob-
jectives of the President's ocean policy RESEARCH ON AGING ACT OF
statement which had been reported from 1973
the Commitee on Foreign Relations with The Senate proceeded to consider the
an amendment on page 3, line 8, after the
word "coastal", where it appears the bill (S. 775) to amend the Public Health
first time, strike out "zone" and insert Service Act to provide for the estab-
"State". lishment of a National Institute on Ag-
The amendment was agreed to. ing which had been reported from the
The resolution, as amended, was Committee on Labor- and Public Wel-
agreed to. fare with amendments on page 1, line 5,
The resolution, as amended, with its after the word "of", strike out "1972" and
preamble, reads as follows: insert "1973"; on page 3, line 10, after the
S. RES. 82 word "National", insert "Institute on Ag-
Whereas the oceans cover 70 per centum ing"; in line 11, strike out "On Aging"; at
of the earth's surface, and their proper use the beginning of line 13, insert "Institute
and development are essential to the United on Aging"; in the same line, after the
States and to the other countries of the word "Council", strike out "On Aging";
world; - in line 14, after the word "on", strike
Whereas Presidents Nixon and Johnson out "programs relating to the aged which
have recognized the inadequacy of existing are administered by him and on those"; -
ocean law to prevent conflict, and have urged on page 4, line 8, after the word "to",
its modernization to assure orderly and strike out "programs for the aged" and
peaceful development for the benefit of all
mankind; insert "functions of the Institute"; on
Whereas the United States Draft Seabed page 6, line 7, after the word "program",
Treaty of August 1970 offers a practical strike out "designed"; in line 10, after
method of implementing these goals; the word "be", insert "designed"; and, at
Whereas a Law of the Sea Conference is the beginning of line 13, insert "designed
scheduled to convene in November-December to be"; so as to make the bill read:
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