BUDGET REQUEST OF THE HOUSE PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE (HPSCI)

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• Publication Date: May 8, 1985
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OLL 85-1389
8 May 1985
NOTE FOR: Director, Office of Legislative Liaison
Deputy Director, Office of Legislative Liaison
Chief, Liaison Division/OLL
Chief, Legislation Division/OLL
SUBJECT: "Budget Request" of the House Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI)
1. Attached is a copy of the "budget request" from HPSCI
which was submitted by Chairman Hamilton to the Committee on
House Administration.
2. I direct your attention to the last budget item on
page 268 and the legislative goals of the Committee as set
forth on page 269.
Attachments
as stated
Distribution:
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94TH CONGRESS
Ist Session
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I
REPORT
99-2]
PROVIDING AMOUNTS FROM THE CONTINGENT FUND OF THE HOUSE FOR
EXPENSES OF INVESTIGATIONS AND STUDIES BY STANDING AND
SELECT COMMITTEES OF THE HOUSE IN THE FIRST SESSION OF THE
NINETY-NINTH CONGRESS
MARCH 20, 1985.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed
Mr. GAYDOS, from the Committee on House Administration,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H. Res. 100]
The Committee on House Administration, to whom was referred
the resolution (H. Res. 100) providing amounts from the contingent
fund of the House for expenses of investigations and studies by
standing and select committees of the House in the first session of
the Ninety-ninth Congress, having considered the same, report fa-
vorable thereon with an amendment and recommend that the reso-
lution as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike out all after the resolving clause and insert in lieu thereof
the following:
That there shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the House in accordance with
this primary expense resolution not more than the amount specified in section 2 for
investigations and studies by each committee named in such section, including ex-
penses-
(1) in the case of a committee named in section 3, for procurement of consult-
ant services under section 202(i) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946;
and
(2) in the case of a committee named in section 4, for provision of assistance
for members of professional staff in obtaining specialized training under section
202(j) of such Act.
SEc. 2. The committees and amounts referred to in the first section are: Select
Committee on Aging, $1,454,308; Committee on Agriculture, $1,489,556; Committee
on Armed Services, $1,464,549; Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs,
$2,848,653; Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families, $721,000; Committee
on the District of Columbia, $305,354: Committee on Education and Labor,
$3,141,584; Committee on Energy and Commerce, $4,640,970; Committee on Foreign
Affairs, $2,589,086; Committee on Government Operations, $2,664,122; Committee on
House Administration, $995,000; Committee on House Administration-House Infor-
mation Systems, $8,120,578; Select Committee on Hunger, $616,970; Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence, $64,300; Committee on Interior and Insular Af-
fairs, $1,602,027; Committee on the Judiciary, $1,828,705; Committee on Merchant
Marine and Fisheries, $1,936,948; Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control,
$662,952; Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, $1,460,218; Committee on
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Through its field hearings, home visits, program site visits, staff
studies and Washington hearings the Committee laid the basis for
expanded work on domestic hunger issues.
Both in regard to hunger in the United States and hunger in the
developing world, the Committee worked to expand the involve-
ment of the private sector. A private sector advisory board was es-
tablished and the Chairman and Ranking Minority Member
worked successfully to. encourage the pharmaceutical industry to
donate supplies needed to combat malnutrition and its effects. The
Committee also co-sponsored an International Management and
Development Institute leadership conference on the corporate role
in ending hunger.
Originally several Members of the Committee opposed the cre-
ation of the Committee as unnecessary. By December however, all
Members of the Committee favored its reauthorization for the 99th
Congress.
JUSTIFICATION FOR FUNDING REQUEST SUBMITTED BY THE
PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE
In a budget, submitted to the Committee on House Administra-
tion, the Honorable Lee H. Hamilton, Chairman of the Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence, outlined the committee's need for
funds as follows:
The Committee's request for 1985 represents a reduction in the
amount approved for the Committee's operations in 1984. The re-
quest is for $64,300, a reduction of $19,100 for the amount approved
for 1984. Further, in all but one recurring category, that of publica-
tions, the Committee's request for each budget category is the same
or less than it was in 1984.
The Committee has budgeted $5,000 for Member and staff travel
in 1985. In 1984, the Committee expended $2.323.49 for travel.
However, in 1983, this amount was $5,872.63. The Committee be-
lieves that $5,000 is necessary because the Committee's ten new
Members likely will wish to avail themselves of the opportunity to
visit intelligence facilities. Moreover, there are now two more
Members on the Committee (16) than in the previous Congress (14).
Further, as in the past, a substantial amount of travel expenses are
attributable to staff travel. The Committee has always encouraged
travel by Members and staff for the purpose of budget and over-
sight review.
The Committee is requesting $1,000 for expenses of witnesses re-
lated to hearings. In 1984, the Committee spent $395.85 in this cat-
egory. In 1983, the Committee spent $580.72. Expenditures for wit-
ness travel will be used by the Committee both for hearings and
interviews of persons providing information to the Committee. The
Committee has reduced its request from 1984 in this category by 50
Percent and expects to use the requested sum of $1,000.
The Committee is requesting $5,000 for consultant fees. The Com-
mittee has only infrequently employed consultants, but anticipates
that the debate raised by the President's proposal for changes in
the income security and retirement benefits of Federal employees
will necessitate review of present and possible intelligence commu-
nity retirement and benefit systems. In this context, the Committee
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wishes to be able to consult with specialists in the area of retire_
ment programs and particularly to consider the comparability of
various proposals in this area. Based on the Committee's limited
previous experience with consultants which it has used, it believes
that $5,000 is a reasonable figure for this purpose.
For equipment, the Committee is requesting $36,300 for its word
processing, typewriting and xerox equipment. In 1984, the Commit-
tee spent $44,587.49 for the use of its equipment. This expenditure
is expected to decrease to $33,000 in 1985. In addition, the Commit.
tee contemplates the purchase of additional dictation and trap.
scription equipment and miscellaneous security-related equipment.
In the security area, the Committee is interested in purchasing
projection equipment (VCR, associated monitoring equipment and
projection screen) which will remain permanently on the Commit.
tee s premises and obviate the need for the use of executive branch
equipment for these purposes. The Committee feels that the best
security practice would be to purchase equipment which will
remain under the exclusive control of the Committee and which
will not leave its premises. The Committee also wishes to install se-
curity devices on each of its telephone lines. Those devices, called
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In 1985, the Committee requests $6,000 for stationery and sup-
plies. For 1984, the Committee expended $4,114.22 in this category.
The comparable figure in 1983 was $5,982.17. The Committee be.
lieves that in the first year of a new Congress, the figure of $6,000
is realistic, in light of its previous experience.
For telephone and telegraph expenses in 1985, the Committee re-
quests $2,500. In 1984, the Committee expended $1,679.05. The com-
parable figure for 1983 was $1,839.11. The Committee's request of
$2,500 is $500 less than it was in 1984 and represents an amount
the Committee could approach in telephone and telegraph costs.
For publications, the Committee is re guesting $5,500. In 1984, the
Committee requested $4,000 and spent $3,560.83. In 1983, the Com-
mittee spent $3,557.44. The Committee anticipates several new sub-
scription costs and a one-time purchase of several reference works
in the armaments and aerospace area for the use of the Program
and Budget Authorization Subcommittee.
In 1985, the Committee requests $2,000 for miscellaneous ex-
penses. In this category in 1984, the Committee spent $1,032.78. A
comparable figure in 1983 was $1,181.54. The Committee believes
that $2,000 remains an appropriate figure in this category.
The Committee is also requesting, for the first time, $1,000 in
representational funds for certain limited purposes. These funds
would be used to meet with foreign parliamentary delegations that
from time to time seek meetings with the Committee and for peri-
odic informal discussions in the Capitol with top national security
officials. The importance of the latter type of meeting cannot be
understated in light of the generally poor relationship between
Congress and certain elements of the intelligence community. One
way to improve such relations would be through informal, off-the
record meetings that offer non-confrontational opportunities to
build trust between the two branches. The large number of senior
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 House Members who sit on the Committee have many other assign-
ments which also occupy their attention. Holding such meetings in
the Capitol can also make the least demand of their time. I urge
the Subcommittee to consider carefully the need for these funds
and approve their use as I have proposed.
With the funds listed above, the Committee will conduct its
annual review of the intelligence and intelligence-related budget
proposals and report out a budget authorization bill reflecting its
deliberations on that request. 1985 will be a pivotal year for such a
review and will focus on the cost effectiveness of the vast amount
of intelligence which is collected by the intelligence community.
The Committee stated last year that the rates of increase provided
to the Intelligence Committee budget in recent years cannot be sus-
tained. 1985 will be a year in which this prediction must be taken
into full account.
In the area of oversight, the Committee will devote particular at-
tention to the process of developing and producing national intelli-
gence estimates, the premier art form of the U.S. intelligence com-
munity. The Committee will also address the usefulness and effect
that intelligence products has on those to whom it is provided. In
addition, a number of classified inquiries will look at new intelli-
gence requirements, the great expansion of U.S. technical collec-
tion capability, and the use of certain intelligence techniques in the
area of covert action.
In the area of legislation, the Committee will review and oversee
the implementation of intelligence statutes such as the Foreign In-
telligence Surveillance Act, the CIA Information Act, the Classified
Information Procedures Act, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,
and other intelligence authorities provided by FBI, DoD, and CIA
intelligence guidelines. The Committee expects to consider legisla-
tive proposals relating to the CIA Retirement and Disability
System, intelligence use of the polygraph and pre-publication
review, warrantless physical searches for foreign intelligence pur-
poses, and criminal law provisions having impact on intelligence
activities.
LEE H. HAMILTON, Chairman.
During 1985, all Members of the Committee and up to nine mem-
bers of the Committee staff are expected to travel abroad or in the
United States. Such trips will be for general oversight, program-
matic or budget review purposes. Only recently, two Members of
the Committee and two members of the Committee staff traveled to
Europe for a one-week period to visit a number of intelligence fa-
cilities. Other Members of the Committee recently have traveled to
Africa and Europe. Four separate staff groups traveled to Central
and South America, Europe and the Far East. Regular staff trips in
the United States occurred during 1984.
In addition to similar trips likely to occur in 1985, the Committee
anticipates that several Members of the Budget Subcommittee will
travel frequently in the United States to visit intelligence facilities
and will be accompanied by staff for this purpose. The large
number of new Members of the Committee suggest that there will
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