OPENING STATEMENT OF CHAIRMAN JAMES H. MORRISON, CIVIL SERVICE SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE POST OFFICE AND CIVIL SERVICE COMMITTEE, AT HEARINGS OF LEGISLATION TO MODERNIZE ALLOWANCES AND DIFFERENTIALS, AND TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE HEALTH AND

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OPENING S A EM rov T OF or lease 2004/05/ / . ORRISON91CIVILSSE VICEI SUBCOMMITTEE
OF THE HOUSE POST OFFICE AND CIVIL SERVICE COMMITTEE, AT HEARINGS ON
LEGISLATION TO MODERNIZE ALLOWANCES AND DIFFERENTIALS, AND TO PROVIDE
ADEQUATE HEALTH AND MEDICAL FACILITIES, FOR UNITED STATES CITIZENS
EMPLOYED BY THE GOVERNMENT IN OVERSEAS AREAS - JUNE 10, 1959
The Civil Service Subcommittee this morning begins hearings on H.R. 5007,
H. R. 5099, H. R. 5178, and H. R. 5238. H. R. 5007 and H. R. 5099 are bills
to improve the administration of overseas activities of the Government by
providing adequate allowances, differentials, and related benefits for
American citizens employed abroad by our Government. H. R. 5178 and
H. R. 5238 are bills to provide for health and medical services for civilian
employees in Government overseas and their dependents.
The Subcommittee first will consider the overseas differentials and
allowances legislation and, upon conclusion of the testimony on those bills,
will proceed with consideration of the bills to provide overseas medical and
health facilities.
This will complete the three-part overseas employee program of the
Civil Service Subcommittee which was initiated in the 84th Congress. The
first part of the program -- the establishment of an appropriate system of
pay and administration for our overseas dependents schools -- will be com-
pleted when the House approves S. 96, which our Committee reported on
May 14, 1959.
The bills before the Subcommittee today, as in the case of the overseas
teachers legislation, were developed through extensive hearings and con-
ferences and by the Subcommittee during the 84th Congress, as part of a
continuing cooperative study by the Subcommittee, the Department of
Defense, the State Department, and the Personnel Adviser to the President.
These bills, when approved, will place in effect virtually all of the
recommendations which were approved unanimously by the Post Office and Civil
Service Committee and printed in House Report No. 2109, 84th Congress.
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The report is at each Member's desk. With respect to the report, a letter
to the Committee from The White House dated August 24, 1956, had this to
say:
"I would like to say first that this was an excellent report,
carefully prepared and reflecting a comprehensive review of the
facts, both in the overseas hearings and in the staff research.
I believe that the liaison between your office and both my
White House office and the Civil Service Commission has been a
fine example of cooperative effort between Legislative and
Executive branches of Government, in developing sound legislation
in this field of personnel administration."
H. R. 5007 and H. R. 5099 will establish, for the first time, a reason-
ably uniform and modern system of differentials, allowances, and benefits
for United States citizens who are engaged in carrying out our critical
overseas programs. While most of the employees concerned are in the Depart-
ment of Defense and the Department of State, all other departments and
agencies are covered as well.
This legislation consolidates into one Act provisions now found in a
number of separate laws, in order to provide a single, continuing, and uniform
authority for allowances, differentials, and other benefits in foreign areas.
It will provide the basis for more effective and equitable administration of
these benefits. It will make available to employees of other departments
and agencies certain benefits now available to personnel of the Foreign
Service and of other agencies which follow the Foreign Service system.
This legislation is based upon, and will place in effect, an official
recommendation submitted by the Secretary of Defense as a part of the
President's legislative program for this Congress. In order to conserve
time, I will not go into the detailed provisions of the bills; the depart-
mental witnesses will develop these for the Subcommittee. I do want to
emphasize the fact that the legislation is extremely broad in scope and
necessarily involves considerable complexity of language in view of the
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ultimate purpose to provide a reasonably uniform and comprehensive system
for all overseas activities of the Government. Some indication of the
many problems that arise in the development and drafting of such legislation
will be found in the Committee Print of H. R. 5007, on each Member's desk
this morning. The language in italic print represents changes recommended,
and agreed to on a tentative basis subject to our Committee action, since
the introduction of the legislation. For convenience of reference.. I will
ask the witnesses to direct their remarks to H. R. 5007 and to the proposed
changes shown in the Committee Print,
We will now proceed with consideration of H. R. 5007 and H. R. 5099.
At the conclusion of the testimony on these bills, I will then present the
overseas health and medical program bills for Subcommittee consideration at
open hearings.
Our first witness will be the Honorable Stephen S. Jackson, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense, Manpower, Personnel and Reserve. Without
objection, there will be inserted in the record, immediately following the
testimony of Secretary Jackson, letters in support of this legislation from
the Department of State, The Librarian of Congress, and the Director,
Administrative Office of the United States Courts, as well as the report
of the Comptroller General of the United States.
Secretary Jackson.
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LIST OF WITNESSES AT HEARING ON H. R. 5007 AND H. R. 5099, BILLS TO IMPROVE
THE ADMINISTRATION OF OVERSEAS ACTIVITIES OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE
UNITED STATES
June 10, 1959
HONORABLE STEPHEN S. JACKSON, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense,
Manpower, Personnel and Reserve,
accompanied by
MR. EDWARD A. SOMPAYRAC, Office of Civilian Personnel Policy, Office
of the Assistant Secretary of Defense.
MR. WILLIAM L. ELLIS, Assistant Director, Administrative Office of the
United States Courts.
MR. RUTHERFORD D. ROGERS, Chief Assistant Librarian of Congress
MR. JOHN S. WARNER, Legislative Counsel, Central Intelligence Agency,
accompanied by
I Assistant General Counsel, Central
Intelligence Agency
Members of Subcommittee
Mr. Morrison, Chairman
Mr. Porter Mr. Broyhill
Mr. Foley Mr. Gross
Mr. Harmon Mr. Barry
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