HEALTH BENEFITS PROGRAM FOR CERTAIN RETIRED GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES

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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -SENATE
Deparlnaents of Labor, arad Health, Education, and Welfare, and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, IJ6i (H.R. 7790)-Continued
[Figures in parentheses not added in totals]
Appropriations,
Budget esti-
House allow-
Senate allow-
Conference
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- 1960
mates, 1981
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ante
allowance
RELATED A~.ENCIE9
NationalLnborRe]ationsBoard_________________________________________________
$15,280,000
$17,300,000
$17,300,000
$17,300,000
$17,300,000
NatioualMedlatlanBoard_______________________________________________________
1,437,000
1,555,000
1,522,500
1,bb5,000
1,655,000
RailroadILetirementBoard(trustfunds)________________________________________
(9,480,000)
(9,485,000)
(fl, 485, 000)
(9,485,000)
(9,485,000)
Federal Mediation andConclliationEervice_____________________________________
3,905,400
4,093,000
3,905,400
4,093,000
3,906,400
IntorstatoCommissiononthoPotomacRivcrBasin_____________________________
U.S.Soldiers'IIomc(trustfunds)________________________________________________
5,000
(11,008,000)
5,000
(5;604,000)
b, 000
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5,000
(5,684,000)
6,000
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Total
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4,000,980,481
3,961,963,981
4,180,773,731
4,482,539,931
4,350,921,331
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Total,indeflniteappropriations,alltitlesofthebill________________________
04,302,000
88,288,000
3?249,000
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3,249,000
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3,249,000
(]rand total________________________________________________________________
4,085,282,481
4,020,221,9$1
4,184,022,731
4,485,788,931
4,354?170,331
MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE
A message from the House of Repre-
sentatives, by Mr. Bartlett, one of its
reading clerks, announced that the
House had agreed to the report of the
committee of conference on the disagree-
ing votes of the two Houses on. the
amendments of the Senate to the bill
(H.R. 12580) to extend and improve
coverage under the Federal old-age,
survivors, and disability insurance sys-
tem and to remove hardships and in-
equities, improve the financing of the
trust funds, and provide disability bene-
fits to additional individuals under such
system; to provide grants to States for
medical care for aged individuals of low
income; to amend the public assistance
and maternal and child welfare provi-
sions of the Social Security Act; to im-
prove the unemployment compensation
provisions of such act; and for other
purposes.
ENROLLED BILL SIGNED
The message also announced that the
Speaker had affixed his signature to the
enrolled bill (H.R. 7242) to amend sec-
''nns 1, 57j, 64a(5>, 67b, 67c, and 70c of
Bankruptcy Act, and for other
riEALT ~ BENEFITS PROGRAM FOR
CERTAIN RETIRED GOVERNMENT
EMPLOYEES
Mr. JOHNSTON of South Carolina.
Mr, President, I ask the Presiding Officer
to lay before the Senate theamendment
of the House of Representatives to S.
2575.
The Presiding Officer laid before -the
Senate the amendment of the House of
Representatives to the bill (S. 2575) to
provide a health benefits program for
certain retired employees of the Govern-
ment, which was to strike out all after
the enacting clause and insert:
That this Act may be cited as the "Retired
Federal Employees Health Benefits Act".
DEFINITIONS
SEC. 2. As used in this Act-
(1) The terms "employee", "Government",
"member of family", and "Commission" have
the same' meanings, when used in this Act
as such terms ?have when used in the Fed-
eral Employees Health Benefits Act of 1959.
(2) "Health benefits plan" means an in-
surance policy or contract, medical or hos-
pital service arrangement, membership or
subscription contract, ar similar agreement
provided by a carrier for a stated periodic
premium ar subscription charge for the pur-
pose of providing, paying for, or reimbursing
expenses for hospital care, surgical or medf-
ca1 diagnosis, care, and treatment, drugs
and medicines, remedial care, or other medi-
cal supplies and services, or slay combination
of these.
(3) "Retired employee" means any person
who would be an annuitant as that term is
defined in the Federal Employees Health
Benefits Act of 1969 if the contribution and
enrollment provisions oP that Act had been
in effect an the date the person became an
annuitant, but does not include any person
who was a nancitizen whose permanent-duty
station was outside a State of the United
States ar the District of Columbia on the day
before he became an annuitant.
(4) "Carrier" means a voluntary associa-
tion, corporation, partnership, or other non-
governmental organization which lawfully
oilers a health benefits plan.
GOVERNMENT-WIDE PLAN
SEC. 3. (a) The Commission shall, without
regard to section 3709 of the Revised Stat-
utes or any other provision of law requiring
competitive bidding, enter into a contract
with a qualified can?ier for one uniform
Government-wide health benefits plan for
retired employees. Such contract shall be
for a period of at least one year and shall
be automatically renewable in the absence
of notice o1' termination by either party. The
carrier shall, if the Commission so directs,
cede reinsurance to such other companies
which regularly issue group health insur-
anoe as may elect to participate or shall al-
locate its rights and obligations under the
contract among such of its affiliates as may
-elect to participate in aacardance with an
equitable formula to be determined by the
carrier and approved by the Commission.
The contracting carrier, 4P an insurance tom-
pony, shall be licensed to issue group health
insurance in all the States of the Untted
States and the District of Columbia and
shall, in the most recent year for which data
are available, have made at least 1 per
centunl of all group health insurance ben-
efit payments in the United States.
(b) The contract under this Act shall
contain a detailed statement of the benefits
oR'ered and shall include such maximums,
limitations, exclusions, and other deflni-
tions of benefits as the Commission may
deem necessary or desirable, No person may
be excluded because of race, sex, health
status, or age, and the contract may noi;
deny ar limit benefits because of any pre-
existing condition.
(c) The rates charged far the health ben-
efits plan described in subsection (a) of this
section shall reasonably and equitably re-
flect the cost of the benefits provided. Rates
determined for the first term shall be ad-
~usted for subsequent terms on the basis of
experience. The Commission shall prescribe
the extent to which reserves due to favorable
experience may be retained by the carrier.
Such reserves shall in any case be retained
far the benefit of retired employees enrolled
thereunder, and members of their families.
CONTAn3IITIONS
SEC. 4. (a) If a retired employee enrolls
in the health benefits plan provided for by
section 3 of this Act, the Government shall
contribute toward hfa subscription charge
such amounts as the Commission by regula-
tion may from time to time prescribe, The
amount so prescribed, if the employee is en-
rolled Por self only, shall not be less than
X3.00 monthly ar more than $4.00 monthly.
The amount to be prescribed for a retired
employee enrolled for self and family shall
be twice the contribution for one ensiled
for sell only. A retired employee ma,y not
receive a Government contribution for more
than one plan, nor may a retired employee
receive a Government contribution if he is
covered under the enrollment of another
employee or retired employee who is receiv-
ing aGovernment contribution toward his
enrollment.
(b) In addition, the Government shall
contribute an amount, as prescribed by the
Commission, up to 2 per centum of each
contribution authorized by subsection (a)
of this section to the Retired Employees
Health Benefits Fund, for payment ai ex-
penses incurred by the Commission in ad-
ministering this Act,
wrrHHOLDIN6
SEC. b. There shall be withheld ism the
annuity or? compensation of each retired em-
ployee enrolled in the health benefits plan
provided for under section 3 of this Act so
much as is necessary, after deducting the
contribution ai the Gaverrlxrlent, to pay the
fatal charge for his enrollment.
OTHER HEALTH BENEFITS PLANS
SEC. 6. (a) Sub,]ect to subsection (b) of
this section, a retired employee who elects
to obtain a health benefits plan, or to re-
tain an existing health benefits plan, other
than the plan provided for under section 3
of this Act, directly with a carrier, shall be
paid a Government contribution to the
cast of his health benefits plan which shall
be equal in amount to the appropriate Gov-
ernment contributions established by the
Commission pursuant to section 4(a) of this
Act, but may not exceed the cost to him of
the health benefits plan in which he is en-
rolled ar which he retains or, if the plan
combines health benefits with other benefits,
shall not exceed the cost to him of the
premium fixed by the carrier for the health
benefits portion of the plan in which he is
enrolled or which he retains. A retired em-
ployee may not receive a Government contri-
bution for.more than one plan, nor may a
retired employee receive a Government con-
tribution ff he ie covered under the enroll-
ment of another employee or retired em-
ployee who is receiving a Government
contribution toward hfa enrollment.
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(b) A retired employee. wh.o enrolls. in a
plan shall be entitled to the Government
contribution provided by this section only
if the carrier of the plan (1) has been pro-
viding health benEfflts for at least one year
and (2), if an insurance company, is licensed
to issue individual or group health insur-
ance in all the States of the United States
and the District of Columbia. Clause (2)
of the imxnediatelir preceding sentence shall
not apply to enrollment in a plan sponsored
by an association ar other arganizatian more
thsan 50 per centum oP thcs members of
which are Federal employees or former Fed-
eral employees. ,
(e) In addition, the Government shall
contribute an amount, as prescribed by the
Commission, up to 2 per centum of each
contribution authorized by subsection (a)
eDf this section to the Retired Employees
Health. Benefits Fund, for payment of ex-
penses incurred by the Commission in ad-
ministering this Act.
E:LECTIODTS
;SEa. 7.-Each retired employee-shall, within
such time after March 1, 196]., as the Com-
mission shall prescribe, notify the Com-
mission of his election (1) to enroll in the
plan provided under section 3 of this Act,
(2j to enroll iri or retain another health
benefits plan and receive Government con-
tributions under se;etion 6 of this Act, or (3)
not to participate in the program offered
under this Act. If the retired employee
elects to enroll under clause (2) of this sec-
tion, his election shall be accompanied by a
cex?tificate of the carrier certifying the fact
of his enrolment and the cost to him oP the
health benefits plan, or of the health bene-
fits portion of the plan.
RE:CIRED EMPLOYEE:i HEALTH DENEFITS FUND
i3Ea. $. (&) The withholdings of retired
employees under section b of this Act and
the contxibutions of the Government under
sections 4 and 8 of this Act shall be de-
posited in the Retired EYnplayees Health
Benefits Fund, hereinafter referred to as the
"Fund", which is hereby created and which
shall be administered by the Commission.
(b) The Fund shall be available without
fiscal year limitation for all payments on ac-
count aP the health benefits plan negotiated
'under section 3 ai this Act, for payment of
the Government's contribution provided far
by section 6(a) of this Act 'to agencies of
the Government which administer a retire-
ment system for civilian employees of the
Government, and fox payment of expense's.,
not to exceed the Government's contribu-
tions authorized by sections si(b) and 6(b)
of this Act, incurred by the (:ommissian in
administering this Act.
(c) Any dividends or other refunds made
by the carrier under section 3 of this Act
shall be set aside in the Fund as a con-
tingency reserve for the Government-wide
plan. Such ~ contingency reserve may be
used to defray increases in Putul?e rates of or
to reduce the rei:ired employees' ahd the
Government's contributions to, or to in-
crease the health benefits provided by that
plan, as the Commission may from time to
time determine.
(d) The Secretary of the Treasury is au-
thorized to invest and reinvest any oP the
moneys in the Fund in interest-bearing
ob:tigations of the 1Jnited Statnas far the pur-
poses of the Fund. The .interest an-and the
proceeds from the sale of arnr such abliga-
tians shall became a part of the Fund.
A~IIM7:NISTRATION
':SEC. 9. (a) The Commissian?. shall admin-
ister this Act and ;prescribe such regulations
as are necessary to give lull effect to th?
purposes of this Act.
(b) Such regulations shall fix minimum
standards to be met by the carrier and the
plan under section 3 of this Act, including
extensions oP cov wage to Yie provided. The
Commission may request all carriers to fur-
nish such reasol.abie reports as the Com-
mission determin:s to be necessary to enable
St to carry out its functions under this Act.
The carrier shall Purnish such reports-when
requested and permit the Commission and
representatives o f the General Accounting
Office to exar.Iine such records of the carriers
as may be necessary to carry out the pur-
poses of this Ac' ~.
(c) The Commission's regulations may in-
clude, but are not limited to, the following:
(1) exclusions of retired employees from
coverage;
(2) beginning x,nd ending dates of cover-
age, and conditions of eligibility;
(3) methods cf filing the elections re-
quired by section s 7 of .this Act and other
information;
(4) methods o:-making contributions au-
thorized by secti~ sn 6, and withholdings re-
quired by section 5 of this Act;
(5) crianges in enrollment;
(6) questions cf dependency;
(7) certificates and other information to
be furnished to retired employees;
(8) contributions and withholding during
periods of suspex.sion of annuity payments
and in other extx aordinary situations;
(9) when, and under what conditions, an
election not to participate in the programs
offered under the s Act may be withdrawn;
and
(10), under wh at conditions and to what
extent the cast o1 a plan shall be considered
a cost attributabl: to the retired employee.
(d) Each agen;y oP the United States or
District of Colux obis which administers a
retirement systexx. for annuitants shall keep
such records, mace such certifications, and
furnish the Comlission with such informa-
tion and reports >,s may be necessary to en-
able the Commis; pion to carry out its- func-
tions under this .1ct.
(e) There are asereby authorized to be ex-
pended from the Employees Life Insurance
Fund, without regard to ;imitations on ex-
penditures from that Fhxnd, for any fiscal
years from the date oP enactment through
the flscai .year ex ding June 30, 1982, inclu-
sive, such sums as may be necessary to pay
admintstrative ecpenses incurred by the
Commission in carrying out the health bene-
flts previsions of this Act. Reimbursements
to the Employees, Life Insurance Fund for
sums so expender., together with interest at
a rate to be deter mined by the Secretary of
the Treasury, shttl be made from the Retired
Employees Heart] s Benefits Fund which is
hereby made avai fable Por this purpose.
EXEMPTION ~F CERTAIN EMPLOYEE
OR 3ANIZATIONS
SEC. 10. Any enployee organization under
this Act or as deitned in section 2(i) of the
Federal Employee:s Health Benefits Act, of
1959 (73 Stat. 7]0; 6 U.S.C. 3003(3)) shall
be exempt from the provisions of the Fire
and Casualty Act (54 Stat. 1063; D.C. Code
35-1801 and the :'ollowing).
APl ~ROPRIATIONS
SEa 11. The ansounts authorized by this
Act to be contra' xuted by the Government
shall be paid Pr ~m annual appropriations
which are hereby authorized to be made for
such purpose.
AN VUAL REPORT
SEa. 12. The Co emission shall transmit to
the Congress anx.ually a report concerning
the operation of this Act.
EF:'ECTIVE DATE
SEC. 13. The health benefits program pro-
vided for by this Act shall take effect July
1, 1961. The rout^ibutions and withholdings
provided for by t xis Act shall take effect on
June 1, 1961, with respect to annuity or com-
pensation accruing for periods beginning on
,and after that date.
August ,2~.
Mr. JOHNSTON of South Carolina.
Mr. President, I move that the Senate
concur in the amendment of the House
to the bill (S. 2575), to provide a health
benefits program for certain retired em-
ployees of the Government, with the fol-
lowing amendments:
On page il, strike out lines 3 through
8 of the House amendment and renum-
ber sections 11 to 13, inclusive, as 10 to
12, respectively.
Mr. President, S. 2575, approved in the
Senate an May 5, 1960, was designed to
provide a health benefits program for
the 450,000 farmer employees then on
the retirement rolls. The Federal Em-
ployees Health Benefits Act of 1959 pro-
vided such. a program for active employ-
ees and employees who will retire in the
future, but it did not apply to former
employees already retired.
The committee was unanimous in its
belief that these former- employees were
entitled to the same sympathetic con-
sideration as present employees will
receive when they retire. However, be-
cause of the problems involved, it was
deemed advisable to provide a program
for retirees in a separate bill.
The bill as passed in the Senate and
as amended in the House does not differ
as to objective. The-language is differ-
ent and some of the technical aspects of
the program are handled differently, but
in general the differences are not of
major consequence. "
There is one exception that is worthy
of mention. The bill passed in the Sen-
ate would have become effective January
1, 1961. Because of opposition by the
administration this was changed in the
House to July 1, 1961. I regret that due
to the position of the administration this
delay was necessary. Far this reason, I
think the Senate would be well advised
to accept the bill as amended in the
House except for the amendment I have.,
offered.
The amendment deletes from the
a section that has nothing to do with
providing a health benefits program far
persons already retired. It relates to
another problem entirely. As a matter
of fact, the problem to which it relates is
within the jurisdiction of the District
Committee.
I have in my hand a Ietter from the
chairman of the District of Columbia
Committee in which he requests adop-
tion of the amendment dealing with the
District matter with respect to which
I have just made a motion. I should like
to have his letter printed in the RECORD
at this point in my remarks.
There being no objection, the letter
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
as follows: -
U.S~. SENATE,
OOMMITTEE ON THE DISTRICT
OF COLUMBIA,
August 25, 1960.
Hon. OLIN D. JOHNSTON,
Chairman, Senate Post OJ}ice and Civil Serv-
ice Committee, Senate Ojjice Building,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR OLIN: This is in further reference
to my letter of August 23 advising your com-
mittee of the unfavorable report filed by
this committee with reference to section 3
of H.R. 8289, concerning whether or not
certain Federal employee organizations
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should be exempt from the insurance laws
of the District of Columbia.
Since the identical language of section 8
of H.R. 8289, exempting certain Federal em-
ployee organizations from District of Co=
lumbia insurance laws, is likewise contained
in section 30 of S. 2575, as amended by the
House, and now before the Senate, please
be advised that this committee will be con-
strained to file an objection to the passage
of 8. 2575 with the inclusion of section 10.
This committee has consistently taken the
position on all similarly related legislation,
that insurance companies in the District of
Columbia should come within the purview
of the insurance laws of the District of
Columbia.
Please accept my best wishes.
Cordially,
ALdN $IBLL':.
Mr. CARLSON. Mr. President, will
the Senator yield?
Mr. JOHNSTON of South Carolina. I
should like to say for the information of
the Senate that the bill has been cleared
through the Democratic policy commit-
tee and also the Republican policy com-
mittee. The ranking Republican mem-
ber of the committee, the junior Senator
from Kansas CMr. CelaLSOrsI is in the
Chamber at this time and I think he
would like to say something. I yield to
him.
Mr. CARLSON. Mr. -President, I hope
the Senate will approve the motion of
the Senator from South Carolina to con-
cur in the House amendment with cer-
tain amendments, proposed by the chair-
man of the Committee on Post Office and
Civil Service. VJe discussed this mat-
ter in committee, and I believe the xetired
employees .last year were very greatly
disappointed that they were not included
in the Health Benefits Act of 1959. They
felt that they were discriminated against,
and I think rightly so.
The Federal Employees Health Bene-
fits Act of 1959 provided a worthwhile
and long-overdue program, oP prepaid
health benefits for persons on the roll
and employees with specified length of
service who retired after the effective
date of the bill.
The bill became effective in July of
this year. Employees who retired prior
to the effective date of the bill and for-
mer employees already on the retirement
rail were not covered. The pending
measure is designed to provide a health
benefit program along comparable lines
to these former retirees and? these for-
mer employees already retired.
I am happy to be able to support the
pending bill for I tI-link it is long over-
due. Furthermore, I think that theso
foraner retirees a,re entitled to the same
consideration from the Government as
present employees who will retire in the
future.
Mr. JOHNSTON of South Carolina.
I thank the Senator from Kansas for his
remarks.
Mr. JORDAN. Mr. President, will the
Senator yield?
Mr. JOHP3STON of South Carolina.
T yield to the Senator from North Caro-
lina.
Mr. JORDAN. Mr. President, the
measure under consideration will extend
to our 415,000 former employees. now
on the retirement roll a health bene-
fits program somewhat comparable to
the plan adopted last year for active
employees and employees who will retire
ixa the future.
Z`he original Senate bill and the bill as
amended in the House, while containing
somewhat different language, have the
same objective. This is not the time to
quibble over words. For this reason, I
am happy to support the bill as amended
in the House. The important thing to
me is the fact that we are on the verge
oP enacting along-overdue health bene-
fits plan for our retirees.
I am glad to support the measure at
this time.
Mr. JOHNSTON of South Carolina.
I thank the Senator. ,
Mr. YARBOROUGH. Mr. President,
will the Senator yield?
Mr. JOHNSTON of South Carolina.
I yield to the Senator from Texas,
who is a member of the subcoanmittee.
Mr. YARBOROUGH. Mr. President,
I rise in support of the pending motion,
having been a member of the subcommit-.
tee which held the original hearings. I
wish to pay tribute particularly to the
distinguished senior Senator from South
Carolina and to the late Richard Neu-
berger, of Oregon. Their leadership was
vital in the final completion of the meas-
ure before the Senate Post Office and
Civil Service Committee.
At the time the general health and re-
tirem.ent bill for Federal employees was
passed, the retired employees felt very
keenly that they ha.d been excluded from
the law. Actually, Congress and the com-
mittee were sympathetic to their claims,
but actuarily, due to their age, it was not
feasible to_iaiclude them in the same type
of hospitalization plan that was available
for Federal officials and employees gen-
erally.
Additional hearings had to be held.
Additional actuarial statistics were pre-
pared, on the basis of the age of the re-
tired employees, and a different plan was
devised. It 'is not quite as favorable as
-the plan for Federal employees, because
the retired employees are not young
enough to receive the benefits of the
more favorable terms that younger peo-
ple could obtain.. We were forced to de-
fer consideration of this measure.
Though the general Federal Employees
Retirement Act was effective on July 1
of this year, the effective date of the
present measure was deferred until 1961
because of the problem of first setting
up the fund and getting the plan into
operation to cover the more than 400,000
retired Federal employees, who by de-
ductions from their retirement pay, will
themselves contribute to the fund. It
will be a type of medical care insurance
sianilar to that the Federal employees
have. Money will be deducted from the
checks of retired employees every -month
in order to Pay their part.
I am grateful for the privilege of serv-
ing on this committee under the leader-
ship of the distinguished Senator from
South Carolina, whose drive has meant
so much in carrying this plan forward,
to see that these elderly people receive
ahe measure of 3ustice to which they are
entitled,
i again wish to pay tribute to him and
to the late Senator Neuberger, who did.
so much on the bill to see that it was
brought to the stage that it had reached
before he was untimely taken away from
us.
Mr. DAVITS. Mr. President, I am
gratified that this problean is being re-
solved. We have a very large popula-
tion of both civil service employees and
retired employees in New York State.
Many of them have been interested in
the subject, and we have had a deal deal
of correspondence on it. The Senator's
initiative in ta?ying to resolve the prob-
lem will be very widely appreciated, and
I thank the Senator.
Mr. JOH_ATSTON of South Carolina.
I thank the Senator from New York, and
also the Senator from Texas [Mr. Yeil-
BOF,OUGH1, who has spoken. He worked
tirelessly on the bill in committee. lie
should be given a great deal of the credit
for the passage of the bill.
I wish to thank also every member
of the committee, both Democrat and
Republican. They were unanimous in
this matter. It was not an easy task,
when we consider -the great number of
people who are involved, to determine
haw to draw up a health benefits pro-
gram. -That is why it will take a great
deal of study from the administrative
end in order to put it into effect, and
that is why it is necessary to have it
go into effect on July 1 of next year.
Mr. CARLSON. Mr. President, the
Senator from South Carolina has com-
plimented the members of the commit-
tee, both majority and minority mem-
bers. I wish to compliment him for his
outstanding leadership. I wish also to
compliment the stall for Its excellent
staff work. We have also had support
from the Civil Service Committee. It
was a difficult bill to write. We should
.be proud of the fact that we have been
able to get to a resolution of the prob-
lem.
Mr. JOHNSTON of South Carolina.
I thank the Senator, the ranking minor-
ity member of the committee, for his re-
marks. I, too, agree thoroughly that
the staff work has been excellent. After
we adjourned last year the staff con-
tinued their work. They should be com-
mended for their work. Sometimes we
have a tendency to forget those laborers
who are not Senators or Representa-
tives. They do faithful work behind
closed doors in the committee. I, too,
therefore, wish to camnaend the staff for
its work on this matter.
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr.
HoLieNn ia1 the chair) . The question
fs on agreeing to the amendment of-
fered by the senior Senator from South
Carolina to the amendment of the House
of Representatives.
The amendment was agreed to.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
question now is on concurring in the
amendment of the House, as amended
by the amendment of the Senator from
South Carolina.
The amendment of the. House, as
mended, was concurred in.
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16,72 CONGRESSIONAL: RECORD.-SENATE Aat,gust 2~t
VI:iIT TO THE SENATE BY HON.
ELLEN STRANGE PETER.SEN, MEM-
EER OF PARLIAMENT OF DEN-
142ARK
Mr. MORSE. Mr. President, as a
member of the Foreign Relations Com-
lnit;tee, it is my privilege and honor to
present to the Senate this afternoon a
visiting parliamentarian fr. om a very
friendly nation and. great :illy of ours,
]3enmark. Our visitor this afternoon
is 1 of 19 women in the Denmark Parlia-
ment of 179 Members. She has been in
the Parliament since 1958. It is my
pleasure to present to the Senate-Miss
Ellen Strange Petersen, of the Denmark
Parliament. [Applause, Senators rising.]
PROPOSED AMENDMENT' OF RULE
III AND RULE VII OF THE STAND-
ING RULES OF THE SENATE
Mr. CLARK. Dlir. President, I send to
the desk for appropriate referral two res-
olutions, one amending paragraph 1 of
rule III of the Standing Rules of the
Senate, and the other amending rule VIi
of 'the Standing Rules of the Senate, by
adding an additional paragraph. I ask
that the resolutions may be appro-
priately referred.
7['he first resolution would- eliminate
the requirement that the Journal of the
preceding day be read if one Senator
requests it, and the second would reg-
ulate the transaction of morning busi-
ness to provide a regular morning hour
for such business each day and limit
individual speeches during the morning
hour to 3 rniriutes each.
'Che rule that the Journal of the pre-
ceclirig day be read if one Senator re-
quf;sts it is a complete anachronism.
The rule was established long before the
Government Printing Office perfected the
art of printing each day's proceedings
within a few hours of adjournment.
There is absolutely no reason why any
Senator should demand the reading of
the previous day's Journal under existing
circumstances.
All Senators will recall occasions on
which the reading of the Journal has
berm used to delay for several hours the
Senate's consideration of urgent legis-
lative matters. All Senato:s will recall
other occasions on which tYle leadership
has been forced to recess the Senate at
the-end of a day rather than adjourn it
so that it will :not be passible for a
dissident Member to ask for the Journal
reading the following morning and delay
the debate on an important measure.
Th.e gresent Journal reading rule serves
no valid purpose and should be amended.
'Phe other rule change I am suggest-
in?>' today-to regulate the transaction
of morning business-is also intended
to speed Senate business. The term
"rriorning hour" is a misnomer under
our present practice. It is well known
that 2 hours, from noon to 2 p.m., are
frequently used- for morning; business on
new legislative days. I suggest that we
limit morning business to :L hour daily,
unless a majority of Senators vote to
extend the period, and-that the 3-min-
ut+) limit on individual speeches which
is a custom now honored as much in
the breach as in the observance, be writ-
ten into the Senate rules. The morn-
ing hour is a valuable and appropriate
time for the deli~~esy of remarks by Sen-
ators on current events and other mis-
cellaneous basin ass. My proposed rule
would make it iinpossibie-for one Sena-
tor to block the holding of a morning
hour daily even f the Senate is meeting
in recessed or c antinuaus session, and
yet it would cl irtail the ovei~ail time
spent an matters nongermane to the
pending bill or r~esolutian.
I ask unanimo~ is consent that the reso-
lutions Ihave in ;roduced may lie on the
table until the cic se of Senate business on
Monday of next ~ peek, in order that addi-
tional Senators `rho may desire to do so
may have the ol~partunity to cosponsor
the resolutions.
The PRESIL ING OFFICER. The
resolution will 1 ~e received and appro-
priately referred and, without objection,
the resolution u ill lie on the desk, as
requested by the Senator from Pennsyl-
vania.
The resolution (S. Res: 377) was re-
ferred to the Committee on Rules and
Administration, as follows:
Resolved, That paragraph numbered 1 of
rule III of the Standing Rules of the Senate
(relating to the commencement of daily ses-
sions) is amendec to read as follows: "The
Presiding Offtcer h zving taken the chair, and
a quorum being F resent, motions to correct
any mistakes made rn the entrles of the Jour-
nal of the preceding day shall be in order,
and any such mots zn shall be deemed a privi-
leged question, ant proceeded with until dis-
posed of. Unless a motion to read the Journal
of the preceding d ay, which is nondebatable,
is made and passed by majority vote, the
Journal shall be c teemed to have been read
without actual re~:itation and approved."
The PRESIL SING OFFICER. The
resolution will lie received and appro-
priately referred; and, without objec-
tion, the resolution will lie on the-desk,
as requested by ;he Senator from Penn-
sylvania.
The resolutiol~ (S. Res. 378) was re-
ferred to the C~>mmittee on Rules and
Administration, : c,s follows:
Resolved, That rule VII of the Standing
Rules of the Sex ate (relating to morning
business) is amen ded by adding at the end
thereof the follov ing new paragraph:
`B. One hour, if that much time be
needed, shall be set aside for the trans-
action of mornin;; business on each calen-
dar day at the opening of proceedings or,
if the Senate is 1: z continuous, around-the-
clock session, at n >on. The period for morn-
ing business may be extended upon motion,
which shall be r, ondebatabie, approved by
majority action. No Senator may address
the Senate for xrore than three minutes
during the period for morning business, un-
less he has obta: ned leave by unanimous
consent to addrees the Senate for a longer
time."
AREA REDEVELOPMENT HEARINGS
Mr. DOUGLAS. Mr. President, the
Republican administration, through its
spokesman, Secretary of Commerce
Mueller, has again vetoed our efforts to
enact an effect: ve area redevelopment
law.
in testimony before the Senate Sub-
committee on Production and Stabiliza-
tion on August 18, the administration
closed the door on any chances we may
have had to salvage a good bill in this
Congress:
First. Secretary of Commerce Mueller
took stake-it-or-leave-it attitude towar~
the administration's veto earlier this
year.
Second. -Tile ranking Republican
member of the committee, Senator CePE-
HART, stated in reference to the adminis-
tration's-own legislative proposals, "I am
opposed to the legislation."
Third. The Republican Party is obvi-
ously playing politics with the issue by
releasing incorrect information and half
truths through political candidates.
At the hearings held recently, I
stated:
I am still willing to negotiate with ad-
ministration representatives who are au-
thorized to speak for the administration. If
there is an administration spokesman who
can tell us (1) whether the President would
sign stn effective bill into law at this time,
and (2) whether the administration would
lend active and timely assistance in lining
up Republican congressional support, such
as on the House Rules Committee, to ensure
passage of the bill, then we might succeed
in an 11th-hour effort to pass a bill this year.
Otherwise, it would be unfair to hold out
hope at this time to the thousands of
Americans in areas of substantial and per-
sistent unemployment who have been wait-
ing for us to -find some meaningful and
responsible way of overcozning Presidential
vetoes of area redevelopment bills.
The hearings proved conclusively that
the administration would rather have no
-bill at all than to give an inch on the
following important features of the area
redevelopment bill:
First. The administration refuses any
kind of assistance to distressed rural
areas.
Second. The administration was op-
posed to any loan program for public
facilities such as industrial water and
industrial parks. The only program
they would back is the one now being ad-
ministered by the Housing and Home
Finance Agency, which is a high interest
rate program that was never intended to
promote industrial redevelopment.
Third. The administration opposed
any grants far public facilities for com-
munities that are too distressed to fi-
nanue a loan program in whole or in
part.
Fourth.. The administration is opposed
to-any Government loan in excess of 35
percent of the value of land and build-
ings, even though it must know that this
limitation makes its loan program an
empty gesture iri many, communities.
Fifth. -The administration refuses to
include machinery and equipment in
planning for industrial redevelopment,
even though, according to the adminis-
tration's awn figures, the cost of equip-
ment is 60 percent of the total.
Sixth. The administration is blind to
the realities of the retraining problem
by refusing to authorize subsistence pay-
ments far the unemployed while under-
goingretraining.
Moreover, in addition to the substance
of the bill, the Secretary of Commerce
refused to pledge any cooperation in
seeking the support of the Republican
members of the House Rules Comrnit-
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