[U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual]
[Chapter 20 - Reports and hearings]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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                        20. REPORTS AND HEARINGS

  The data for these publications arrives at the GPO from many 
different sources. The congressional committee staff people are 
responsible for the gathering of the information printed in 
these publications.
  The report language is compiled from the meetings of the 
attorneys and congressional members and submitted along with 
the bill language to the clerks of the respective Houses. The 
clerks assign the report numbers, etc., and forward to the GPO 
for typesetting and printing. In many instances the reports are 
camera ready copy, needing only insertion of the assigned 
report number.
  Likewise, hearings are also compiled by committee staff 
members. The data or captured keystrokes as submitted by the 
various reporting services are forwarded to the GPO where the 
element identifier codes are programmatically inserted and 
galley or page output is accomplished without manual 
intervention. It is not cost effective to prepare the 
manuscript as per the GPO Style Manual as it is too time-
consuming to update and change the data once it is already in 
type form. Therefore, these publications are to be FIC & punc., 
unless specifically requested otherwise by the committee. It is 
not necessary to stamp the copy. However, style, as stated in 
the following rules, will be followed.

               STYLE AND FORMAT OF CONGRESSIONAL REPORTS

  [In either Senate or House reports, follow bill style in extracts 
from bills. Report numbers run consecutively from first to second 
session.]
  There are set forth below certain rules which the Government 
Printing Office has been authorized to follow in the makeup of 
congressional numbered reports:
  1. All excerpts to be set in 10-point type, cut in 2 ems on 
each side, except as noted in paragraph 3 below. For ellipses 
in cut-in matter, lines of five stars are used.
  2. Contempt proceedings to be considered as excerpts.
  3. The following are to be set in 10-point type, but not cut 
in:
      (a) Letters which are readily identified as such by 
    salutation and signature.
      (b) Appendixes and/or exhibits which have a heading 
    readily identifying them as such; and
      (c) Matter printed in compliance with the Ramseyer 
    rule.\1\
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  \1\ Ramseyer rule.--House: If report has ``Changes in Existing Law'' 
use caps and small caps for heads, except for breakdown within a cap 
and small cap head.

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  4. All leaderwork and lists of more than six items to be set 
in 8-point type.
  5. All tabular work to be set in 7-point gothic type.
  6. An amendment in the nature of a substitute to be set in 8-
point type, but quotations from such amendment later in the 
report to be treated as excerpts, but set full measure (see 10 
below).
  7. Any committee print having a report head indicated on 
original copy to be set in report type and style.
  8. Committee prints not having a report head indicated on 
original copy to be set in committee print style; that is, 
excerpts to be set in 8 point, full measure.
  9. If a committee print set as indicated in paragraph 8 is 
later submitted as a report or included in a report, and the 
type is available for pickup, such type shall be picked up and 
used as is in the report.
  10. On matter that is cut in on the left only for purposes of 
breakdown, no space is used above and below, but on all matter 
that is cut in on both sides, 4 points are used above and 
below. If a bill is submitted as an excerpt, it will not be 
squeezed because of the indentions and the limited number of 
element identifiers.
  11. On reports of immigration cases, set memorandums full 
measure unless preceded or followed directly by committee 
language. Memorandums are indented on both sides if followed by 
such language. Preparers should indicate the proper indention 
on copy.
  12. Order of printing (Senate reports only): (1) Report, (2) 
minority or additional views, (3) Cordon rule \2\ (last unless 
an appendix is used), (4) appendix (if any).
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  \2\ Cordon rule.--Senate: If report has ``Changes in Existing Law'' 
use small cap heads, except for breakdown within a cap and small cap 
head.
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  13. Minority or additional views will begin a new page with 
10-point cap heading. In Senate reports, ``Changes in Existing 
Law'' begins a new page if following ``views.'' In conference 
reports, ``Joint Explanatory Statement'' begins a new odd page.
  14. Minority or additional views are only printed if they 
have been signed by the authoring congressperson.

                              

                          [Sample of excerpt]

    In Palmer v. Mass., decided in 1939, which involved the 
reorganization of the New Haven Railroad, the Supreme Court 
said:

          The judicial processes in bankruptcy proceedings 
        under section 77 are, as it were, brigaded with the 
        administrative processes of the Commission.

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              [Sample of an excerpt with an added excerpt]

    The Interstate Commerce Commission in its report dated 
February 29, 1956, which is attached hereto and made a part 
hereof, states that it has no objection to the enactment of S. 
3025, and states, in part, as follows:

          The proposed amendment, however, should be considered 
        together with the provisions of section 959(b), title 
        28, United States Code, which reads as follows:
          ``A trustee, receiver, or manager appointed in any 
        cause pending in any court of the United States,'' etc.

                              

                         [Sample of amendment]

    On page 6, line 3, strike the words ``and the service'', 
strike all of lines 4, 5, and 6, and insert in lieu thereof the 
following:

        and, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
        service credit authorized by this clause 3 of rule XIII 
        of the Rule of the House of Representatives, change 
        shall not--
          (A) be included in establishing eligibility for 
        voluntary or involuntary retirement or separation from 
        the service, under any provision of law;

                              

                         [Sample of amendment]

    The amendments are indicated in the bill as reported and 
are as follows:
    On page 2, line 15, change the period to a colon and add 
the following:

        Provided, That such approaches shall include only those 
        necessary portions of streets, avenues, and boulevards, 
        etc.

    On page 3, line 12, after ``operated'', insert ``free of 
tolls''.

                              

          [Sample of amendment in the nature of a substitute]

    The amendment is as follows:
    Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the 
following:

That the second paragraph under the heading ``National Park Service'' 
in the Act of July 31, 1953 (67 Stat. 261, 271), is amended to read as 
follows: ``The Secretary of the Interior shall hereafter report in 
detail all proposed awards of concessions leases and contracts 
involving a gross annual business of $100,000 or more, or of more than 
five years in duration, including renewals thereof, sixty days before 
such awards are made, to the President of the Senate and Speaker of the 
House of Representatives for transmission to the appropriate 
committees.''

                              

                 [Sample of letter inserted in report]

    The Department of Defense recommends enactment of the 
proposed legislation and the Office of Management and Budget 
interposes no objection as indicated by the following attached 
letter, which is hereby made a part of this report:

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                                                    March 21, 1999.
Hon. Dennis Hastert,
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
Washington, DC.
    My Dear Mr. Speaker: There is forwarded herewith a draft of 
legislation to amend section 303 of the Career Compensation 
Act.

           *       *       *       *       *       *       *

            Sincerely yours,
                               Deborah P. Christie,
                            Assistant Secretary of the Navy
                                            (Financial Management).

                              

[Sample of cut-in for purposes of breakdown; no spacing above or below]

    Under uniform regulations prescribed by the Secretaries 
concerned, a member of the uniformed services who--
          (1) is retired for physical disability or placed upon 
        the temporary disability retired list; or
          (2) is retired with pay for any other reason, or is 
        discharged with severance pay, immediately following at 
        least eight years of continuous active duty (no single 
        break therein of more than ninety days);
may select his home for the purposes of the travel and 
transportation allowances payable under this subsection, etc.

                              

                         [Sample of leaderwork]

    Among the 73 vessels mentioned above, 42 are classified as 
major combatant ships (aircraft carriers through escort 
vessels), in the following types:

Forrestal-class aircraft carriers.................................     4
Destroyers........................................................    10
     * * * * * * *
Guided-missile submarine..........................................     1
                                                                  ______
      Total.......................................................    42

                              

                     [Sample of sectional analysis]

                           sectional analysis

Section 1. Increase of 1 year in constructive service for promotion 
        purposes
    The principal purpose of the various subsections of section 
1 is to provide a 1-year increase for medical and dental 
officers in * * *

           *       *       *       *       *       *       *


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Subsection 101(a) is in effect a restatement of the existing law
    This subsection authorizes the President to make regular 
appointments in the grade of first lieutenant through * * *.

           *       *       *       *       *       *       *


                              

               [Sample of amendment under Ramseyer rule]

                        Changes in Existing Law

    In compliance with clause 3 of rule XII of the Rules of the 
House of Representatives, changes in existing law made by the 
bill, as introduced, are shown as follows (existing law 
proposed to be omitted is enclosed in black brackets, new 
matter is printed in italic, existing law in which no change is 
proposed is shown in roman):

Export Control Act of 1949

           *       *       *       *       *       *       *


                            termination date

    Sec. 12. The authority granted herein shall terminate on 
June 30, [1956] 1959, or upon any prior date which the Congress 
by concurrent resolution or the President may designate.

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         [The following examples are for sample purposes only]

                    [Sample of ``Report'' Skeleton]

106th Congress                                              Rept. 106-8
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 1st Session                                                     Part 1

======================================================================



 
     SMALL BUSINESS PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT AMENDMENTS OF 1999 \1\

                                _______
                                

              February 5, 1999.--Ordered to be printed \2\

                                _______
                                

    Mr. Burton of Indiana, from the Committee on Government Reform, 
                        submitted the following

                              R E P O R T

                             together with

                             MINORITY VIEWS

                        [To accompany H.R. 391]

      [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]

    The Committee on Government Reform, to whom was referred 
the bill (H.R. 391) to amend chapter 35 of title 44, United 
States Code, for the purpose of facilitating compliance by 
small businesses with certain Federal paperwork requirements, 
to establish a task force to examine the feasibility of 
streamlining paperwork requirements applicable to small 
businesses, and for other purposes, having considered the same, 
report favorably thereon without amendment and recommend that 
the bill do pass.\3\
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    \1\ If title makes more than three lines in 10-point caps, set in 
8-point caps.
    \2\ Must be set as indicated in copy. If illustrations accompany 
copy and are not ordered to be printed, do not add with illustrations. 
Return copy to Production Manager.
    \3\ If the wording in this paragraph is prepared in the singular 
form, follow.
    \4\ For Senate Committee on Finance and House Committee on Ways and 
Means, heads are set in bold caps.
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                         general statement \4\

    The issue of whether or not * * *.

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                    [Sample of ``Report'' Skeleton]

                                         Calendar No. 13 \1\
106th Congress                                                   Report
                                 SENATE
 1st Session                                                      106-1

======================================================================



 
 THE SOLDIERS', SAILORS', AIRMEN'S AND MARINES' BILL OF RIGHTS ACT OF 
                                  1999

                                _______
                                

                February 2, 1999.--Ordered to be printed

    Filed under authority of the order of the Senate of February 2 
                (legislative day, February 1), 1999 \2\

                                _______
                                

    Mr. Warner, from the Committee on Armed Services, submitted the 
                               following

                              R E P O R T

                             together with

                            ADDITIONAL VIEWS

                          [To accompany S. 4]

    The Committee on Armed Services, to which was referred the 
bill (S. 4), having considered the same, reports favorably 
thereon with an amendment and recommends that the bill do pass.
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one calendar in the Senate.
    \2\ Style for filed line, if present.
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                          Purpose of the Bill

    S. 4 would authorize a 4.8 percent military pay raise, 
effective January 1, 2000, reform the military pay tables, 
revise * * *

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                    [Sample of ``Report'' Skeleton]

                                                        Calendar No. 28
106th Congress                                                   Report
                                 SENATE
 1st Session                                                      106-8

======================================================================


 MAKING \1\ EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS AND RESCISSIONS FOR 
RECOVERY FROM NATURAL DISASTERS AND FOREIGN ASSISTANCE, FOR THE FISCAL 
       YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1999, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES \2\

                                _______
                                

                 March 4, 1999.--Ordered to be printed

                                _______
                                

   Mr. Stevens, from the Committee on Appropriations, submitted the 
                               following

                              R E P O R T

                         [To accompany S. 544]

    The Committee on Appropriations reports the bill (S. 544) 
making emergency supplemental appropriations and rescissions 
for recovery from natural disasters and foreign assistance, for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other 
purposes, reports favorably thereon and recommends that the 
bill do pass.
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    \1\ If copy reads ``To make'' change to ``Making'', ``To provide'' 
change to ``Providing'', ``To amend'' change to ``Amending''.
    \2\ Sample of 8-point head.
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                         [Sample of amendments]

    The amendments are as follows:
    Strike all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu 
thereof the following language:

That the first sentence of section 80 of the Hawaiian Organic 
Act as amended (48 U.S.C. 546), is amended further by inserting 
immediately following * * *

    Amend the title so as to read:

    A bill to amend section 80 of the Hawaiian Organic Act, and 
for other purposes.

    The amendments are as follows:
    The amendment to the text strikes all after the enacting 
clause and inserts a complete new text which is printed in 
italic type in the reported bill.
    The amendment to the title is as follows:
    Amend the title so as to read:

          An Act to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control 
        Act to establish a Federal Water Pollution Control * * 
        *

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                    [Sample of ``Report'' Skeleton]

106th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 1st Session                                                     106-91

======================================================================




        CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2000

                                _______
                                

   April 14 (legislative day, April 13), 1999.--Ordered to be printed

                                _______
                                

 Mr. Kasich, from the committee of conference, submitted the following

                         CONFERENCE REPORT \1\

                     [To accompany H. Con. Res. 68]

      The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of 
the two Houses on the amendment of the Senate to the concurrent 
resolution (H. Con. Res. 68), establishing the congressional 
budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2000 
and * * *
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      That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
amendment of the Senate to the text of the resolution and agree 
to the same with an amendment as follows:
      In lieu of the matter proposed to be inserted by the 
Senate amendment, insert the following:

SECTION 1. CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2000.

      (a) Declaration.--Congress determines and declares that 
this resolution is the concurrent resolution on the budget * * 
*

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     JOINT EXPLANATORY STATEMENT OF THE COMMITTEE OF CONFERENCE \1\

      The managers on the part of the Senate and the House at 
the conference on disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the 
amendments of the Senate to the concurrent resolution (House 
Concurrent Resolution 68), setting forth the congressional 
budget for the United States for the fiscal years * * *
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    \1\ Statement of managers begins new page; in a Conference Report 
it begins a new odd page.

                                   John R. Kasich,
                                   Saxby Chambliss,
                                   Christopher Shays,
                                 Managers on the Part of the House.

                                   Pete V. Domenici,
                                   Chuck Grassley,
                                   Don Nickles,
                                   Phil Gramm,
                                   Slade Gorton,
                                Managers on the Part of the Senate.

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              [House Appropriation Hearing, Cover sample]

                 DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN

               SERVICES, EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES

                        APPROPRIATIONS FOR 2000

_______________________________________________________________________

                                HEARINGS

                                BEFORE A

                           SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE

                       COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

                         HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                       ONE HUNDRED SIXTH CONGRESS
                              FIRST SESSION
                                ________
  SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, 
                    EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES
                 JOHN EDWARD PORTER, Illinois, Chairman
 C. W. BILL YOUNG, Florida           DAVID R. OBEY, Wisconsin
 HENRY BONILLA, Texas                STENY H. HOYER, Maryland
 ERNEST J. ISTOOK, Jr., Oklahoma     NANCY PELOSI, California
 DAN MILLER, Florida                 NITA M. LOWEY, New York
 JAY DICKEY, Arkansas                ROSA L. DeLAURO, Connecticut
 ROGER F. WICKER, Mississippi        JESSE L. JACKSON, Jr., Illinois
 ANNE M. NORTHUP, Kentucky
 RANDY ``DUKE'' CUNNINGHAM, California                          

 NOTE: Under Committee Rules, Mr. Young, as Chairman of the Full 
Committee, and Mr. Obey, as Ranking Minority Member of the Full 
Committee, are authorized to sit as Members of all Subcommittees.
  S. Anthony McCann, Robert L. Knisely, Carol Murphy, Susan Ross Firth,
                and Francine Salvador, Subcommittee Staff
                                ________

                                 PART 7A

                             (Pages 1-1658)

               TESTIMONY OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND OTHER
                INTERESTED INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS

                              

                                ________

         Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations

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            [House Appropriation Hearing, Title Page sample]

                 DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN

               SERVICES, EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES

                        APPROPRIATIONS FOR 2000

_______________________________________________________________________

                                HEARINGS

                                BEFORE A

                           SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE

                       COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

                         HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                       ONE HUNDRED SIXTH CONGRESS
                              FIRST SESSION
                                ________
  SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, 
                    EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES
                 JOHN EDWARD PORTER, Illinois, Chairman

 C. W. BILL YOUNG, Florida            DAVID R. OBEY, Wisconsin
 HENRY BONILLA, Texas                 STENY H. HOYER, Maryland
 ERNEST J. ISTOOK, Jr., Oklahoma      NANCY PELOSI, California
 DAN MILLER, Florida                  NITA M. LOWEY, New York
 JAY DICKEY, Arkansas                 ROSA L. DeLAURO, Connecticut
 ROGER F. WICKER, Mississippi         JESSE L. JACKSON, Jr., Illinois
 ANNE M. NORTHUP, Kentucky
 RANDY ``DUKE'' CUNNINGHAM, California                          

 NOTE: Under Committee Rules, Mr. Young, as Chairman of the Full 
Committee, and Mr. Obey, as Ranking Minority Member of the Full 
Committee, are authorized to sit as Members of all Subcommittees.
  S. Anthony McCann, Robert L. Knisely, Carol Murphy, Susan Ross Firth,
                and Francine Salvador, Subcommittee Staff
                                ________

                                 PART 7A

                             (Pages 1-1658)

               TESTIMONY OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND OTHER
                INTERESTED INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS

                              

                                ________

         Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations
                                ________

                     U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
 57-710                     WASHINGTON : 1999

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                        [Back Title Page sample]

                       COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

                   C. W. BILL YOUNG, Florida, Chairman

 RALPH REGULA, Ohio                     DAVID R. OBEY, Wisconsin
 JERRY LEWIS, California                JOHN P. MURTHA, Pennsylvania
 JOHN EDWARD PORTER, Illinois           NORMAN D. DICKS, Washington
 HAROLD ROGERS, Kentucky                MARTIN OLAV SABO, Minnesota
 JOE SKEEN, New Mexico                  JULIAN C. DIXON, California
 FRANK R. WOLF, Virginia                STENY H. HOYER, Maryland
 TOM DeLAY, Texas                       ALAN B. MOLLOHAN, West Virginia
 JIM KOLBE, Arizona                     MARCY KAPTUR, Ohio
 RON PACKARD, California                NANCY PELOSI, California
 SONNY CALLAHAN, Alabama                PETER J. VISCLOSKY, Indiana
 JAMES T. WALSH, New York               NITA M. LOWEY, New York
 CHARLES H. TAYLOR, North Carolina      JOSE E. SERRANO, New York
 DAVID L. HOBSON, Ohio                  ROSA L. DeLAURO, Connecticut
 ERNEST J. ISTOOK, Jr., Oklahoma        JAMES P. MORAN, Virginia
 HENRY BONILLA, Texas                   JOHN W. OLVER, Massachusetts
 JOE KNOLLENBERG, Michigan              ED PASTOR, Arizona
 DAN MILLER, Florida                    CARRIE P. MEEK, Florida
 JAY DICKEY, Arkansas                   DAVID E. PRICE, North Carolina
 JACK KINGSTON, Georgia                 CHET EDWARDS, Texas
 RODNEY P. FRELINGHUYSEN, New Jersey    ROBERT E. ``BUD'' CRAMER, Jr., 
 ROGER F. WICKER, Mississippi             Alabama
 MICHAEL P. FORBES, New York            JAMES E. CLYBURN, South Carolina
 GEORGE R. NETHERCUTT, Jr.,             MAURICE D. HINCHEY, New York
Washington                              LUCILLE ROYBAL-ALLARD, California
 RANDY ``DUKE'' CUNNINGHAM,             SAM FARR, California
California                              JESSE L. JACKSON, Jr., Illinois
 TODD TIAHRT, Kansas                    CAROLYN C. KILPATRICK, Michigan
 ZACH WAMP, Tennessee                   ALLEN BOYD, Florida
 TOM LATHAM, Iowa
 ANNE M. NORTHUP, Kentucky
 ROBERT B. ADERHOLT, Alabama
 JO ANN EMERSON, Missouri
 JOHN E. SUNUNU, New Hampshire
 KAY GRANGER, Texas
 JOHN E. PETERSON, Pennsylvania     
                                   
                 James W. Dyer, Clerk and Staff Director

                                  (ii)

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                  [House Appropriation Hearing sample]



DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, EDUCATION, AND RELATED 
                    AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR 2000

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 TESTIMONY OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND OTHER INTERESTED INDIVIDUALS AND 
                             ORGANIZATIONS

                              ----------                              

                                           Tuesday, April 13, 1999.

                         EHLERS-DANLOS SYNDROME

                                WITNESS

MEG HARMON, CITIZEN
    Mr. Porter [presiding]. The subcommittee will come to 
order.
    We begin today 10 sessions of public witnesses. We have 
largely completed the hearings with the three departments and 
the 14 agencies under the * * *

                [Note styles for questions and answers]

                        Questions From Mr. * * *

               Impact of Fiscal Year 2000 Pay Raise Costs

    Question. What are the costs associated with the October 1, 
1999 4.8 percent general pay raise and the raising of the 
executive pay cap on January 1, 2000 for fiscal year 2000?
    Answer. The pay raise for the general scale employees 
increased the budgeted amount by $4,826 for fiscal year 2000.

    [Note the following style for questions and answers when a person 
is either asking or answering:]

    Question. How are you financing these costs?
    Mr. Name. The general scale increase costing $4,826 was 
absorbed by a turnover in one secretarial position, a position 
which was budgeted at the GS-6 level but filled by a GS-4 level 
employee who was hired to replace the former * * *
    Mr. Name. In what program areas are you absorbing these 
costs?
    Answer. Because of the BIB's ability to absorb these fiscal 
year 2000 costs in a manner described in the foregoing answer, 
it has not been necessary to absorb them in program areas.
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                                        Tuesday, April 13, 1999.{time} 

 MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY AND NATIONAL HEALTH SCIENCES CONSORTIUM

                                WITNESS

DAVID R. MOSENA, PRESIDENT, MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY, CHICAGO, 
    ILLINOIS

    Mr. Porter. Next, we would like to welcome to the witness 
table, Dr. David R. Mosena, this one is mine--the president of 
the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. One of not only 
our city's great treasures, but one of the great treasures of 
the United States.

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                 [Senate Appropriation Hearing sample]



AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR 
                            FISCAL YEAR 2000

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                       WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1999

                        U.S. Senate,{time} {time} {time} {time} {time} 
  Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations,{time} {time} {time} 
                                                 Washington, DC.{time} 
    The subcommittee met at 9:40 a.m., in room 1224, Everett 
McKinley Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Ted Stevens 
(chairman) presiding.
    Present: Senators Cochran and Inouye.

                       DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

                    Office of the Inspector General

STATEMENT OF ROGER C. VIADERO, INSPECTOR GENERAL
ACCOMPANIED BY:
        SALLY THOMPSON, CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
        IRWIN T. DAVID, DEPUTY CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

                       GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE

STATEMENT OF GENE L. DODARO, ASSISTANT COMPTROLLER 
            GENERAL, ACCOUNTING AND INFORMATION 
            MANAGEMENT DIVISION
ACCOMPANIED BY:
        NAME, TITLE
        NAME, TITLE

                       introduction of witnesses

    Senator Stevens. The hearing will come to order.
    This morning we are happy to have representatives of the 
Office of Inspector General and the General Accounting Office 
with us, and I would like to ask that all of you who are here 
to testify come forward. Let's all of you act as one panel, and 
the questions that we have will be directed to both.

                    success of american agriculture

    With a great deal of hard work, ingenuity and technology, 
the United States has become the most productive agricultural 
nation in the world. Modern agriculture, as practiced in the 
United States, has become a technological marvel, soundly based 
on advanced science and finely tuned to economic conditions.

[[Page 312]]

                       [Standard Hearing sample]



         IMPACT OF BUDGET CUTS ON FEDERAL STATISTICAL PROGRAMS 

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                             MARCH 16, 1999

                                                              House of 
      Representatives,{time} {time} {time} {time} {time} {time} {time} 
                                            Subcommittee on Census and 
                         Population,{time} {time} {time} {time} {time} 
       Committee on Post Office and Civil Service,{time} {time} {time} 
                                                 Washington, DC.{time} 

{time} {time} House of Representatives, Committee on Science 
and{time} {time} {time} 

{time} {time} {time} Technology, Subcommittee on Science, 
Research{time} {time} {time} 

{time} {time} {time} and Technology and the Subcommittee on 
Investi-{time} {time} {time} 

{time} {time} {time} gations and Oversight, \1\
                                                 Washington, DC.{time} 

    The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 9:35 a.m., in 
room 304, Cannon House Office Building, Hon. Name (chairman of 
the subcommittee) presiding.
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    Mr. Name. Today the House Census and Population 
Subcommittee continues its series of hearings on the impact of 
the President's budget cuts on the information this Nation will 
have today, tomorrow, and in the future.
    With that we will call up our first panel: Dr. James T. 
Bonnen, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State 
University, and the director of the President's Reorganization 
Project for the Federal Statistical System; and Dr. Stephen E. 
Fienberg, Department of Statistics, the Carnegie-Mellon 
University, and the Chairman of the Committee on National 
Statistics in the National Academy of Sciences.

   STATEMENTS OF JAMES T. BONNEN, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL 
 ECONOMICS, MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY AND STEPHEN E. FIENBERG, 
      DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS, CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY

    Mr. Bonnen. Thank you, Mr. Garcia. It is a pleasure and a 
privilege to be here.
    I have been asked to comment primarily on the central 
coordination of statistical planning and policy which was the 
focus of the study that I directed, as you mentioned.
    Ours is an increasingly complex economy and society. If we 
do not have objective, accurate and relevant information in 
making decisions, our comprehension of the world will forever 
run behind events.