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September 13, 1965 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE 22733
Frankly, I introduced these bills as a rela- tires are selected for new cars on the assump- capacity. His answer was that there is a
Live novice in this field. I was dumb- tion that they will carry approxisatI an nly three' gto proper reat dis g temp en t n but the i dustryoas
founded by the astonishing and shocking in- passengers and no luggage-t,
formation that deluged me once I stirred up when cars are bigger than ever, when they sensus is that 36 pounds would be too much
this issu :. Letters poured in from motor- have monstrous trunks, when a fantastic pressure, would cause excessive wear, and
ists, tir dealers, Government purchasing array of accessories is available, and when could cause a blowout. poring
autom lies,
over the
agents, octors, and attorneys representing toga temendouss rand station wagons are put ange of uses hardly known plustthe beautiful manuals andraccessory
The ac cider victims. brochures which they sent along, I became
Thproblem Is far worse than I ever a few years amp.
imagi :d. It seems clear that the concern The most t important question T asked the convinced, more than ever, that only the
for t public interest in automobile and auto makers was whether their tires could Federal Government can protect the public
tire d ign and manufacture is almost com- carry a full load in extended travel at mod- interest intautomob ile sknowafety that their tires
pletel, obliterated by the competitive pres- ern highway speeds.
sures these industries. American Motors replied that its cars are not adequate. If you read their manuals,
It I easy to hurl wild charges and to terrify could carry a full load provided the tires you will find this confirmed a hundred ways.
the iblic with grisly statistics. But no were specially inflated. "The front tires You are supposed to switch to a larger tire
char; by a politician, no statistics on high- should be inflated from 24 to 26 pounds and if you add an air conditioning unit with its
way t Jughter, no pictures of mangled bodies the rear tires to 30 pounds," American Mo- extra weight to some models, for instance.
in hi iiway collisions could be as shocking tors said. When the tires are specially in- If we are that close to the edge of safety,
as t' , facts brought out in the last few flated in this manner, they are "adequate why should not all of the cars of such models
man .s. for occasional full load service," the com- have the larger and safer tires?
palsy told me. At the same time, you are urged to load up
The pry begins with 3 days of hear- p
inga 1 ore the Federal Trade Commission This is a shocking admission, but almost your car with a fantastic array of accessories,
early ' is year to consider whether tires are the same information came from the other incl alluding a family ca mperetop large eno wh for a
adequ sly labeled at the present time. The manufacturers. s. man
Federa 'rade Commissioners were as stunned General Motors conceded that the "design cars loaded down with such accessories, or
as I ? s when the highest officials in the guide In selecting tires" was three passen- pulling heavy trailers, are speeding along
autom pile tire industry testified that: gers, but said that Its sedans could carry our, highways on tires overloaded by as much
Qua! y labels on tires, such as "deluxe," six passengers plus 200 pounds of luggage, as 500 to 1,000 pounds each?
"prem Am," and "first line," have no mean- provided the tires were specially inflated to If you believe the automakers, no one can
Ing wl ,tever and "there is no way to tell one 28 pounds in the front and 30 pounds in really answer such questions because no one
tire grade from another." the rear. Chrysler said simply that its tires knows what the maximum safe tire loads are.
Size labels on tires were never meant to were adequate "provided they are properly The May issue of Consumer Bulletin states
indicate the precise size. The notion that maintained," but it uses similar tires and that the full-size Ford, Chevrolet, and
sug-
these labels were meant to indicate the exact its cars have similar weights, apparently gest "have verloaded tires, as Dwe with
size is merely a recent misunderstanding the same principles apply as in General that the the next consumer
larger cider Paul Rand
on the part of the public. It is perfectly Motors' case.
possible for a 7.50 by 14 tire to be larger than Ford conceded that "it has been customary Dixon, Chairman of the Federal Trade Com-
to make tire selections on the basis of a mission, testified before the Senate Com-
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8.00 by 14.The ply or ply-rating labels on tires have
no understandable meaning anymore.
Tires supplied by the auto industry with
its new cars are not designed to carry the
full load for which these automobiles are
designed.
These are not charges made by a legisla-
tor trying to pass a bill. They are the official
explanations of standa?-d practices within a
great American industry which affects the
lives of almost every citizen and which is
trying to avoid Federal regulation.
After studying the 635-page manuscript of
the Federal Trade Commission hearings, I
stated publicly that I thought it documented
a national scandal in automobile tires. I
made my arguments on the Senate floor and
before the Senate Cc nmerce Committee.
They were given natioi 'ide press coverage
and yet, so far as I can tell, the responsible
officials in industry paid no attention, al-
though the Akron bureau oithe Cleveland
s r
g
three-passenger load," but said that its merce Committee that anyone in h
sedans could carry six passengers plus lug- mind" buying a new car would ask the dealer
gage (up to a maximum of 1,100 pounds) if to install the next larger tire.
the tires were specially inflated to 30 pounds These statements were based on comparing
in front and 32 pounds in the rear; If a official car weight figures with the tire load
Ford station wagon is expected to carry a ratings of the Tire & Rim Association. Yet
full load (which Ford considers to is six when these apparently irrefutable facts were
passengers and 400 pounds of luggage, or presented to the automakers, their answer
eight passengers and 100 pounds of luggage, was simply that these association figures are
totaling 1,300 pounds) then its tires must not intended to be maximum loads.
be specially inflated to 28 pounds in the front "The Tire & Rim Association yearbook
and 36 pounds in the rear. load inflation tables never have indicated
What more sweeping confirmation could maximum capacities," says Ford.
there be of the existence of a national tire Apparently, we must fit tires to cars so as
scandal? The very companies which are to carry certain maximum loads without
pouring out automobiles at the rate of 7 knowing the maximum carrying capacity of
million or more a year concede that their a tire. The automakers' position seems to be
cars cannot safely carry their full, designed that they test their cars carefully on proving
load unless the tires are constantly inflated grounds and elsewhere, and if the tires do
and deflated according to a set of tables not fail, they are considered adequate.
hidden somewhere in a driver's manual. Certainly that is not enough assurance for
I wonder if there is a motorist on any the American public. In this age of ad-
highway in America today who is calculating vanced science and technology, there is no
tire industry spokesman had )rushed off my the load of this car, his accessories, his pas- reason why we cannot develop sensible, rea-
remarks as "a politician r'..iiing a dull day sengers, and his luggage to within 100 sonable, understandable standards for auto-
in the Senate to read something into the pounds, then carefully adjusting his tire mobile tires to enable the automakers and
C NGRESSIONAL RECORD.' pressure in an attempt to stay alive. I doubt the individual motorists to make a safe and
or that reason, I wro, to the presidents that most motorists could tell you the intelligent selection.
of tie four major automobile manufacturing amount, within 5 pounds, of air pressure is the
firma and asked them direr. , about these they have in their tires. I doubt that many I field in dwell on which tires s have simply gathered because the hat isth
sensational disclosures. Thei; eplies, as ex- could till you the total loads they carry, evidence, but the same th smest problem pected, made a strong defers. )f their pres- either regularly or occasionally. Obviously evithe manufacture asale s tty
ent practices. Yet not a sire,e one of the it is ridiculous to expect American mortorists modern Athe n auto cture and
revelations from the FT' nearings was re- to carry out the daily-or even hourly-in- mobile.
not remain
automobile design Government t cannonotn a are
futed. In fact, the ref ies from the auto- flation and deflation ritual prescribed by the The indifferent Federal
mobile manufacturers a led up to complete auto makers. Do you think that the presi-
confirmation of the hearing disclosures. dent of the Ford Motor Co., for instance, killing more than 47,000 people and disabling
One might have thought that these auto- stops at a gasoline station on the way to 1,700,000 more a year. We have an elaborate
mobile manufacturers would write back and work to inflate his tires if he has five of his program of regulation and supervision in the
say, "Of course our tires are safe for any associates riding with him? Will he stop aircraft industry, yet 50 times as many people
reasonable use to which our cars may be again on the way home at night to deflate are killed in auto accidents as in airplane
put." if only two of them ride back? - accidents. Last year was the safest year in
But that is not what-they said. Almost In addition to being unrealistic, this spe- airline history and the worst year in highway
like lawyers drafting a contract, they worked cial inflation program, in my opinion, is traffic history.
in careful, qualifying language to protect downright dangerous. I asked a high official The Federal Aviation Agency will spend $40
themselves and to shift the responsibility of the Tire and Rim Association, the accepted million next year in research and develop-
to the motorist. spokesman for the tire industry, what he ment. The FAA is intimately connected
The simple fact brought out at the FTC thought of a suggestion that motorists should with every phase in the construction of an
hearings, and confirmed by the automobile inflate their rear tires from 24 to as much as airplane. As one commercial airline publi-
manufacturers in their letters to me, is that 36 pounds to increase their load-carrying cation put it:
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"From the time a designer first put pencil
to paper, FAA inspectors carefully followed
its development to make sure that design
and production methods and facilities met
rigid FAA standards. These inspectors lived
with the first models as they came down the
assembly line, and their aeronautical en-
gineers were present when the FAA produc-
tion teat pilots took the plane aloft for a very
thorough flight test program."
Think what we could do to reduce our ap-
palling highway death rate if we were sim-
ilarly concerned about safe automobile
design.
Much of the criticism of unsafe features
on automobiles runs the risk of sounding
somewhat petty. It Is true that a different
knob on an ashtray or the elimination of
reflections on the dashboard and windshield
wipers probably would not greatly affect our
national death toll.
But the real point is that basic principles
of safety are not the controlling factor in
automobile design. Cars today are de-
signed to sell. And what sells are glamour
and horsepower and a-strange form of status
which certainly have no connection with
safety and may actually run counter to
safety principles.
The money which the Industry Itself
spends on safety research is often wasted
when styling trends override sensible con-
clusions. There already is abundant expert
know-how available to show us how we can
Improve automobile design In such a way as
to sharply reduce highway fatalities.
The U.S. Public Health Service accident
prevention bureau estimates that 43 percent
of the people who die in auto accidents die
under survivable conditions. A number of
expert studies by university professors and
scientists have reached conclusions such as
these:
If cars were built so that heads would not
strike windshields and dashboards. one out
of five of those killed In accidents could be
saved.
When a person is thrown from a car, the
chance of being killed Is five times as great.
Occupants could probably survive any
crash up to 35 miles per hour If cars had
shoulder-harness seat belts, doors which did
not fly open, and steering wheels designed to
protect the driver.
The steering column and the steering
wheel are key factors. In many cars, the
bottom of the steering column projects close
to the front bumper. In a collision. It is
driven back with tremendous force. In some.
cases, the steering column "spears" the
driver. In other cases, the steering wheel
strikes the abdomen or chest with such
force as to cause fatal injuries.
Scientists have shown bow this problem
could be corrected by use of a flexible steer-
ing shaft Instead of a rigid column, and
through the redesign of the steering wheel
Itself. But this is a change which the in-
dustry resists very strongly.
The Federal General Services Administra-
tion has developed 17 safety features
which will be required on all federally pur-
chased cars beginning with the 1967 models.
I hope that the States will set similar re-
quirements for cars which they buy.
If we can set these safety standards for
publicly owned vehicles, surely we can extend
the same degree of safety to all automobile
purchasers. These specific 17 features are
not the perfect answers. The important
thing is to have a responsible government
agency with an official concern for auto-
minimum safety standards to protect
motoring public.
It has been my experience over the years
that all industries which deal with the pub-
lic will oppose any attempts to regulate them
in an effort to protect the public Interest.
They will say that we are destroying free en-
terprise, that we are substituting political
vote-gets ing for scientific expertise. But
while th-ty protest, they often begin to carry
out the eery reforms that they oppose. We
have just seen this happen in the field of
detergent pollution. Early in 1963, I In-
troduced legislation to require the soap and
detergent industry to convert, by July 1,
1965, to i. new form of detergent which would
decompose in the sewage treatment process-
es and would not pollute our water supplies.
The Ind istry howled in outrage and said
such a move was unnecessary and impossible.
Detergent pollution was good because it
warned of other pollution, the industry
argued. The bill has still not passed, but
on July 1, 1965, the soap and detergent in-
dustry p:'oudly announced that It had com-
pleted the changeover which it had said was
not needed and could not be achieved.
I hope that the same thing might happen
in the fields of automobile and tire safety.
It has been suggested that the automakera
equip their cars with the next larger size
tire than those now used, to end the over-
loading which they now concede. Two of
the four automakers have already an-
nounced that they will voluntarily Include,
on all their cars, some of the 17 safety fea-
tures req-sired on Federal cars by the General
Services Administration. These features are
required on all cars under the terms of my
auto safety bill.
If the manufacturers will move voluntarily,
it will certainly speed up some meaningful
action ts. reduce highway -deaths. But It
will not :,rovlde a final answer.
Someor a must speak for the public Inter-
est until safety is made an Integral and last-
Ing part of the design, manufacture, and sale
of sutorrobiles and tires. In a nation as
far-flung and as widely traveled as ours, only
a Federal agency, backed with enabling leg-
at [on, an provide an adequLte voice.
WE ARE BUYING naATH
'f,.-re are some typical letters from motor-
ists received recently by Senator Nat,sox:
R L. "'empleton, Wellington. Tex.: "My
only son was killed when a defective tire
blew out 3n a new car. These new cars with
2-ply tires are a fraud and a shame. We
think we are buying safety but we are buy-
Ing death."
Paul Worland, Cheyenne, Wyo.: "At
800 miles I had my Brat blowout (on a new
1964 Oldsmobile). At 1.500 miles I had my
second, and when the car was 3 months and
21 days o: d, I had another blowout-Just as
I was pawing another car. My wife was
painfully injured. I totally wrecked my new
car and damaged the other to the extent of
sever.dl hundred dollars."
Clifton D. Hill, Northville, Mich.: "In No-
vernher 1163, I purchased a Ford Thunder-
bird which had new 2-ply tires (Goodyear
tires ~. ? * ? When there was 6,000 miles on
the car. ore tire blew out and caused me to
cross over a median of a superhighway in
Canada and almost have a fatal accident.
At 7.200 miles another tire blew out at Gay-
lord. Mici:., causing me to go into a ditch."
Mrs. Rh-hard A. Williams, Hermosa Beach,
Calif.: "Ir November 1962, we bought a fac-
tory fresh new Mercury station wagon
equipped With ve brand new tires (Good-
rich tires summer we left Cali-
fornia for 2- k trip to the Midwest. Be-
fore we re ed we had blown out all five
tires. W traveling through Arizona, out
ip ci e of nowhere, we blew two tires
DJU8TIAENT IN CIVIL SERVICE
AND POST OF'F'ICE ANNUITIES
Mr. SPARKMAN. Mr. President, re-
cently It was my privilege to appear
before th,3 Subcommittee on Retirement
of the Senate Committee on Post Office
and Civil Service in suport of H.R. 8469.
At that time, it was made clear by my
testimony and now it has been made
clear by my vote that I supported H.R.
8469. However, as .. said at the hearing
and I say now after passage of H.R. 8469
that I do not feel that the provisions in
this bill in many aspects are sufficient to
correct the inequities now existing In the
present annuities paid to civil service
and post office retirees,
The responsibility to meet the explod-
ing costs of living by adjustments in civil
service and post office annuities belongs
to us, the Senate, and our fellow col-
leagues in the House of Representatives.
We are in agreement that necessary
adjustments must be made, but we must
go beyond H.R. 8469 and we must
Immediately begin considering future
legislation to balance the annuities of
retired employees and to compensate
survivors' annuities further.
As of June 30, 1964, approximately
75,000 survivor annuitants are drawing
less than $50 per month; 50,000 retiree
annuitants are drawing less than $50
per month; and a shocking combination
figure of 275,000 retiree annuitants and
survivor annuitants are drawing less
than $100 per month, and 475,000, less
than $200. As you can see, Mr. Presi-
dent, there are inequities involved in the
present civil service and post office
annuity program.
Certainly, H.R. 8469, will bring these
figures more in line, but still there is a
need for future legislation. The sooner
we act, the sooner the inequities will be
resolved. So last week I urged passage
of H.R. 8469, but today I ask Congress to
begin considering future, more compre-
hensive legislation in this field.
MEDICARE AND THE PSYCHIATRIST
Mrs. NEUBERGER. Mr. President,
in the recently enacted medical care
bill, I supported amendments aimed at
eliminating several discriminatory
clauses relating to the treatment of
mental illness, Though my own pro-
posal would have provided the elderly
with the same equal protection in psy-
chiatric hospitals as provided in general
hospitals, the final version retained a
discriminatory feature by imposing an
overall lifetime limitation of 190 days for
inpatient psychiatric treatment.
Dr. Robert W. Gibson, director of the
Sheppard & Enoch Pratt Hospital in
Towson, Md., and spokesman for the
American Psychiatric Association, noted
in the September 1965 issue of Mental
Hospitals the encouraging developments
taken by Congress in providing for treat-
ment of mental illness under the health
care bill. Dr. Gibson's editorial points
to the general trend of a more sympa-
thetic understanding of mental illness.
Congress, by passage of medicare, has
moved In this direction. Dr. Gibson ad-
monishes psychiatrists and private in-
surance to follow suit:
Medicare should serve as an example for
private insurance programs to handle the
mentally Ill as they do persons suffering
from other illnesses. It can even influence
the opinion of the general public about the
mentally ill. No longer will they he a group
that must be treated differently and denied
the benefits given to others.
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THE FEDERAL SPOTLIGHT
Committee Approves Salary Bill
Giving Lawmakers New Raise I,
By JOSEPH YOUNG I congressional pay raises last
members of Congress, who
received a $7,500 increase last
year, is provided for in the
government pay raise bill ap-
proved today by the House Civil
Service Committee.
The committee vote was 22 to
:1. The three dissenting vote were
cast by Republicans H. P. Gross
of Iowa, James Broyhill of North
Carolina and Edward Derwinski
of Illnois.
Salary increases would also
be provided for top government
executives such as Cabinet
officers and agency heads.
These congressional and
executive salary raises would
go into effect on Jan. 1, 1967
when the next Congress con-
venes.
The amount will not be deter-
mined until next year because it
is linked with whatever per-
centage increase grade 18
federal classified employes
pay raises, are hopeful that the
issue can be resolved without
jeopardizing the pay raise
chances of federal and postal
workers.
Some members of Congress
who fearfully voted for pay
raises for themselves last year
are wondering how they can
face their constituents back
RETIRE EMPLOYES -- Two,
government employe groups
have endorsed proposals before
the President's Committee on
Federal Staff Retirement Sys-
tems to allow the government to
arbitrarily retire employes past
their peak after 30 years'
service on full annuities. The
groups are the Federal Profes-
sional Association and the
National Association of Govern-
ment Employes. Other federal,
and postal employe unions!
object to giving the government]
such arbitrary retirement
powers.
NAVY OVERSEAS IWTA-!,
TION - Navy is following the
Air Force's lead in requiringi
rotation of its overseas civilian
personnel. Proposed regulations,
which are strongly opposed by
government employe unions,
gives Navy commanders over-i,
home in next year's election if
they vote themselves another
pay raise.
BASE CLOSINGS -- Although
House-Senate conferees elimi-
nated the provision to give
Congress veto power over
Defense installation closings,
they did adopt language stating
that any proposed base closing
in the future cannot be effected
until 120 days after the secre-
tary of defense reports the
details and fully justifies the
reasons for the proposed clos-
ing.
seas the right to reassign
employes to jobs in the conti-
nental United States.
* *
YARBOROUGH'S PLANS
There are reports from Texas
that Sen. Ralph Yarborough,
ranking majorit' member of the
Senate Civil Service Committee,
will run for governor next year
against incumbent Gov. John
Connolly.
* * * *
CAPITAL ROUNDUP - The
League of Federal Recreation,
Associations will present a film-,
lecture program on Hawaii,
Spain and Portugal at 7:45 p.m.
Tuesday in the Commerce
Department auditorium in I
connection with its forthcoming
trips in October to these places. 1
, , . Norman Sharpless of the'
Fairfax County government has
been elected president of the
National Capital Chapter of the
Public Personnel Association.
under the bill. The bill provides Defense Department from going
a 4.5 percent increase for all through with future closings,
classified and postal but it does give Congress the
federal
employes this year, including right to be heard on such ac
18. But next year's raise Lions and possibly use its power
grade
is to be on a formula basis over appropriations and author
to trim the lag be- izations to stop unpopular
designed
and industry closings of installations.
tween government
pay by one half, plus a cast-of * * *
living raise. I JOB APPLICANTS - The
Since grade 18 lags considers House Government Operations
bly behind comparable industry Committee has approved the
jobs, it vas been estimated that administration supported bill
in addition to this year's 4.5 to provide for payment of travel
percent pay raise, employes in costs of job applicants invited
this grade next year would be in by government departments and
line for at least a 10 or 11 agencies to visit them for
percent increase. interviews regarding placement
members of Congress in hard-to-fill federal jobs.
Thus,
political ap PUBLIC RELATIONS AP-
and government
pointees could expect a raise of PROACH - The AFL CIO
14 or 15 percent in 1967. In the Government Employes Council
case of members of Congrsss I has hired a public relations firm
who now make $30,000 a year, on a six-month trial basis to
this could amount to a raise of 1 help improve the public image
$4,500 a year or more. of government and postal
Some Republican members of I employes as well as to line up
the House committee are angry public support against excessive
government contracting-out of
about this provision and intend functions which the council feels
to make a fight of it on the should be retained by the
House 1 yee 'l rl~ Iu
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of a similar hassle over
star staff writer year which nearly killed federal
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Daniel Keenan, secretary. .
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The Ukrainians have been persecuted
and oppressed because they remember
their heritage and history-and their
dreams for self-determination as an in-
dependent nation. We are fighting in
South Vietnam today for this same prin-
ciple. While their Communist masters
prohibit the Ukrainians in the Soviet
Union from celebrating this anniversary,
we in A erica join with our fellow
Americar of Ukrainian descent in this
celebratli so that their history will not
be forgo n. We will pay tribute to
them in, , Halls of Congress. We who
are comAnitted to defend freedom
throughc'it the world will remember that
22d of January 1918.
The history of the Ukraine, studded
with stories of courage and valor on the
one hand, and of religion and culture on
the other, should be told and retold. We
join all Ukrainians and their descend-
ants here and abroad in marking this
anniversary during which we yafffirm
our prayers and hopes for the return of
freedom to the Ukraine and to captive
nations throughout the world.
Mr. MINISH. Mr. Speaker, In the
past 21 years, or since the end of World
War II, approximately 55 former colonies
of Western countries have become in-
dependent nations of the world commu-
nity. This group of newly independent
countries constitutes about one-third of
mankind now living, and this same group
occupies about 23 percent of the world's
inhabitable land mass.
For the past 21 years or so, as the
number of these colonies began to dwin-
dle and the number of free and inde-
pendent states increased, the Soviet
Union screamed its virulence at the
West, and the issue of colonialism and
Imperialism became an issue in the East-
West war of words, national prestige, and
international propaganda. During these
years the West worked to. ?ard the even-
tual independence of thee. countries, so
that today, Western state., nave few over-
seas territories. During its time as the
Russians tried to hang the albatross
around our necks, we in the West suf-
fered in quietude, righted a number of
wrongs, and generally did a decent job of
helping these countries prepare them-
selves for membership as responsible
states in the family of nations.
Mr. Speaker, the time has come to re-
mind our own people and the Soviet
Union that we have not been fooled by
the verbal trickery of the Marxist dialec-
tic, and that we realize that the largest
colonial master in the world today is the
Soviet Union, followed closely by her
alienated sister east of the Urals, Com-
munist Chins,. It is of the Soviet Union's
relationship to the Ukrainian people,
however, that I wish to speak today.
The age-old manifestations of coloni-
alism are apparent in what the Soviets
glibly refer to as the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics. That is to say, the
Russians have resorted to all possible
means to deny the Ukrainian peoples
their own distinct identity and culture.
I should like to mention a few of these
indicators.
The nourishment of any national iden-
tity is found in language, but today in
the Ukraine, there is the Russiflcation of
language that would make the old West-
ern colonialists dignified in comparison.
Russian is the official language, and is
mandatory in the educational system.
The arts speak of the glories of Russia,
and opera and.theater are overwhelm-
ingly presented in Russian. The life
spirit of the Ukrainian peoples and their
glorious past are placed second to Rus-
sia in the educational system. The
Ukrainian peoples see what is happen-
ing to their country and to their cultural
and national identity. Russians in the
Ukraine have the best jobs, hold most of
the administrative posts, and maintain a
better standard of living. The Ukrainian
peoples see Russian exploitation of their
natural resources, especially of the food
that leaves the country, and exploitation
of their human resources, as the Ukrain-
ians, not the Russians, hold the menial
jobs and in general have to struggle for
a higher living standard in this workers'
paradise. The classless society, indeed.
What we should do, Mr. Speaker, as
we celebrate the 48th annivesary of
Ukrainian Independence, is remind our-
selves and the Ukrainian people that we
have not been fooled. The lessons of the
past are clear: Russian colonialism shall
not succeed.
Mrs. DWYER. Mr. Speaker, by setting
aside a period today to commemorate
the 48th anniversary of the independ-
ence of Ukraine, the House honors itself
and its high principles just as it does the
bravery and continued devotion to free-
dom and national independence of
Ukrainians everywhere. It is a privi-
lege, therefore, to join with my col-
leagues in paying tribute to a people
whose love of freedom has withstood
generations of persecution.
The people of Ukraine have a special
claim A o our understanding and sup-
port. Not only do they seek for them-
selves what we have found and firmly
established in the United States-the
right to self-government, a right we hold
to be inalienable for all peoples-but
America has been the beneficiary of the
approximately 2 million people of
Ukrainian ancestry who have brought to
this country the spiritual qualities and
human values of an old, distinctive and
rich culture.
As the representative of a congres-
sional district whose residents include
thousands of persons of Ukrainian de-
scent, I have appreciated at close range
the important contributions they have
made to our way of life. Because of
their friendship, I have obtained a closer,
more personal understanding of the dedi-
cation of Ukrainians everywhere to the
goals of individual liberty and national
self-determination.
Mr. Speaker, Ukraine is the largest
and one of the oldest of the captive na-
tions of Eastern Europe. Yet, the period
of her independence as a nation in the
20th century is the shortest, the 2 years
from 1918 to 1920, during which Ukrain-
ians fought for and won their freedom
from the corrupt tsarist government of
Russia only to have it wrenched away by
the brutal forces of the new Soviet gov-
ernment. Thus it is that Ukrainians
know, perhaps better than most, the evils
of tyranny and imperialism In whatever
form they are manifested. To have
kept alight the ideal of freedom and
liberty, to have refused to succumb to
overwhelming oppression and virtually
permanent persecution, is worthy of our
deepest gratitude and admiration.
On this occasion, however, we should
do more than salute a people's courage,
more than indicate our understanding
of their problems, more than pledge our
support in general terms. We owe them
action, effective action, even though we
recognize the limits of our own national
power. Among the concrete and posi-
tive steps this House can take, Mr.
Speaker, is the creation of a Special
Committee on the Captive Nations which
would bring into being an expert group
of legislators devoting continuing at-
tention to developments in those coun-
tries still dominated from Moscow.
This and related actions would help to
give new emphasis to policies affecting
Eastern Europe, new understanding of
the opportunities we have to sustain
hope and encourage freedom in this im-
portant area of the world, and renewed
effectiveness to the exposure of the ugly
record of Soviet colonialism in countries
which were born to be free.
PROPOSAL TO ADJUST THE RATE
OF BASIC COMPENSATION OF
.FEDERAL EMPLOYEES
(Mr. DANIELS asked and was given
permission to address the House for 1
minute, and to revise and extend his
remarks.)
Mr. DANIELS. Mr. Speaker, I have
introduced legislation to adjust the rates
of basic compensation of our Federal
employees in all branches of the service
who depend on congressional action for
appropriate attention. The bill I have
introduced provides an accross-the-
board 7-percent increase. Close stu-
dents of the matter agree that such an
increase at this time is fully justified.
In addition to adjusting the pay of
our Federal employees, the legislation I
have introduced corrects a number of
existing inequities in connection with
compensation for overtime, holiday, and
Sunday work, and in so doing provides
administrators in the Federal service,
particularly the Post Office Department,
with ample flexibility so that our govern-
mental functions can be performed in an
efficient manner.-
It is recognized that the mail moves in
all directions every day of the year, even
including Sundays and holidays. The
bill I have introduced recognizes this
fact, but provides justifiable compensa-
tion for those who are required to work
on such days.
In simple terms the bill provides time
and one-half for overtime and Sunday
work and double time for work on holi-
days.
I hope that hearings can be held on
this bill and others with a similar pur-
pose at an early date. I am sure the
testimony will support me in the action
I have taken.
CRIMINAL CONSPIRACIES CONTROL
ACT OF 1966
The SPEAKER. Under a previous or-
der of the House, the gentleman from
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for 30 minutes.
(Mr. WELTNER asked r nd was given
permission to revise and extend his re-
marks.)
Mr. WELTNER. Mr. Speaker, today
I propose a major revision of the internal
security laws of the Nation.
No one conversant with present secu-
rity statutes can deny that they are out-
moded, both as to the factual bases upon
which they were drawn and as to subse-
quent application of constitutionalprin-
ciples. A brief examination of the In-
ternal Security Act of 1950 should suffice
to establish these contentions.
First. In its legislative findings, Con-
gress set forth what was then the case-
that "the direction and control of the
world Communist movement is vested in
and exercised by the Communist dicta-
torship of a foreign country." That vas
the case, Mr. Speaker, before the as-
sumption by Communist China of Ideo-
logical independence. and before the
schism that exists today between China
and Russia. It is no longer the case,
and that change is clearly reflected by
the existence within the United States
of two contending Communist apparati-
the Communist Party and, the Progres-
sive Labor Party. The latter follows, not
Moscow, but Peiping. It is in no way
governed or controlled by the "foreign
country" described in the 1950 act. To
the contrary, the pronouncements of the
Progressive Labor Party are couched In
terms of scorn and derision for the re-
visionists and counter-revolutionaries of
the Kremlin.
This struggle for leadership of the
world Communist movement would be of
no great moment insofar as our laws are
concerned, except for one factor. the
Internal Security Act of 1950 specifically
defines both "Communist-action" and
"Communist-front" organizations as
groups which are "directed, dominated,
or controlled by the foreign power con-
trolling the world Communist move-
ment," meaning Soviet Russia. There-
fore, strict interpretation of the act
must, of necessity, exclude from Its scope,
except to limited degree, any action or
front group that is not Russian domi-
nated. The most militant and revolu-
tionary American Communist organiza-
tion, the Progressive Labor Party, is not
covered by the Internal Security Act of
1950.
Second. The act is outdated legally, as
well as factually. Since its passage, not
a single Communist has complied with
Its requirements, notwithstanding 15
years of administration by the Subver-
sive Activities Control Board and 15
years of litigation. One by one, its pro-
visions have been invalidated by the Su-
preme Court, which must apply the pro-
tections of the Constitution to Commu-
nists as well as patriots. The passport
restriction has been wiped out, as have
limitations on holding of office in labor
unions. Only last December the Court
struck down the registration require-
ments applicable to Communist orga-
nizations. thereby vitiating the central
scheme of the entire act.
As a result of these pilings, the Sub-
versive Activities Control Board is re-
duced to near meaningless ritual, What-
ever functions are left to It are clearly
incapable of controlling subversive
activiles.
The present state of the law Is indica-
tive of our general failure to revise and
renew concepts and procedures affecting
national security. For example, every
person entering his country's service,
civil or military, must subscribe to a
lengfty affidavit denying or explaining
any affiliation, past or present, with any
of several score organizations. Many of
these are relevant only to the distant
past. No names have been added to the
Attorney General's list since 1955, and
none has been stricken since Its incep-
tion in 1947. The Ku Klux Klan groups
Included in the list have long since faded
away, being replaced by new and more
dangei cue Klan organizations whose
names are not included.
The list was compiled when Japan.
Germany, and Italy-now among our
closest allies-were our recent enemies.
It contains the names of many military
and pf.trlotic societies of these present
friends -including a Russo-Japanese war
veteratne group, along with Shinto Tem-
ples. ;:t is strange that past association
with tie national religion of our strong-
est ally In the Far East is still proscribed
as subversive. The time has indeed
conic for thoughtful. Practical. and con-
stitutional revision of the internal se-
curity laws.
There are other serious shortcomings
In our laws. They apply to groups at-
tempting to subvert lawful procedures
only when those groups are pawn to one
specifier foreign power. Yet, Commu-
nists are not the only subversives within
the plain meaning of the term.
There exists in America today a num-
ber of organizations which show no more
regard for the Constitution and the
rights of American citizens than the
Communist Party. Like that party, they
operate in secrecy and through deceptive
fronts. Like the Communist Party, they
employ pious preachments to cover their
true intuit. Like the Communist Party,
their siembers are under discipline
higher than the law, and under compul-
sion to practice deceit and intrigue. I am
speaking of the Ku Klux Klan.
The Communist Party, Mr. Speaker, is
a criminal conspiracy whose purpose is
to deprive the people through forcible
overthrew of their collective right to a
republican form of government. Simi-
larly, the Klan is a criminal conspiracy,
whose purpose is to deprive the people
of their individual rights through force.
violence and intimidation. Differing in
memnbern;hip and pronouncement, they
are non(theless the same, each a crimi-
nal conspiracy, each acting In violation
of the Constitution and laws of the
United E Cates.
Then, there is a third element akin to
these tw>--a third force existing under
rigid disc tpline and complete secrecy. It,
too, is based upon force, violence, and in-
timidatic n. Like the Communist Party
and the Klan, It recognizes no fealty to
the Constitution, or to lawful authority.
It is a law unto Itself, binding Its mem-
bers by oath, on pain of death.
Here I speak of the vast criminal net-
work known varyingly as Cosa Nostra,
Mafia, or the Syndicate.
I need not review the magnitude or
scope of its activities. That. along with
the identity of its leaders, is common
knowledge. Its impetus is not political,
as the Communist Party, nor social, as
the Klan, but economic. The Cosa
Nostra exists solely for the criminal
gain of Its members. And because the
Constitution protects the guilty as well
tinue their careers of death and corrup-
tion, virtually beyond reach of the law.
These three, Mr. Speaker--Commu-
nists, Klan, and Cosa Nostra-are essen-
tially the same. All are secret bodies
acting beyond the law. All force upon
their members a rigid discipline. All
are engaged In planned and continued
violations of the criminal statutes of the
United States.
All jeopardize the internal security.
All are criminal conspiracies.
I am today introducing a bill to re-
vise the internal security laws, and to
extend them to include other criminal
conspiracies in addition to Communist
organizations.
My bill recognizes the constitutional
limitations enunciated by recent Su-
preme Court decisions on the subject,
and works fully within those principles.
Styled "The Criminal Conspiracies
Control Act of 1966," the bill defines
criminal conspiracies In three cate-
gories, as follows:
Sec. 3. (3) (a) Any organization In the
United States having for one of Its purposes
or objectives the establishment. control, con-
duct, seizure, or overthrow of the Govern-
ment of the United States, or the government
of any State or political subdivision thereof,
by the use of force or violence; or
(3) (b) Any organization In the United
States which advocates or employs acts of
violence or intimidation for the purpose of
depriving citizens of the United States of
the free exercise of rights guaranteed them
by the Constitution and laws of the United
States; or
(3) (c) Any organisation having as its pur-
pose the planned, continued, and consistent
execution of acts which violate the criminal
statutes of the United States.
it will be seen that this definition is
directly related to acts which are viola-
tions of existing criminal laws of the
united States. The first category in-
cludes conspiracies to violate the Smith
Act; the second, violations of the several
civil rights acts; the third covers viola-
tions of the general criminal statutes
of the United States. I suggest no new
political or social or economic crime, but
only define certain combinations as
?criminal conspiracies."
A Criminal Conspiracies Control Board
succeeds the present Subversive Activi-
ties Control Board, with all procedural
safeguards continued. The new Board
convicts of no crime, imposes no sanc-
tion, and administers no control. Its
sole function is a judicial determination,
upon petition of the Attorney . General,
that a named organization is, or is not,
a criminal conspiracy as defined in the
bill. Because communist organizations
come within the first category of con-
spiracies, the duties of the Board in that
area will be little changed. But those
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South Fork of the Cumberland River in
McCreary County, Ky. This project
would appear to be a most worthy one, in
terms of flood control, power, and recrea-
tion benefits.
While this project was not included
in the rivers and harbors omnibus bill
this session, Dr. CARTER has done a tre-
mendous amount of essential preliminary
work, informing Members of the great
advantages that will accrue to his State
and its people from this project, and its
feasibility. Eventually the Devils Jumps
Reservoir will be constructed-through
the outstanding efforts of our esteemed
colleague from Kentucky's Fifth District.
LOYAL AMERICAN SPEAKS
(Mrs. REID of Illinois (at the request
of Mr. BROYHILL of North Carolina) was
granted permission to extend her re-
marks at this point in the RECORD and to
include extraneous matter.)
Mrs. REID of Illinois. Mr. Speaker,
it is with great pride that I bring to the
attention of my colleagues a letter which
was written to me by a resident of my
congressional district, along with a letter
which he sent to his son. This is just
one loyal. American speaking up for
America, but I know his views are shared
by the overwhelming majority of Amer-
icans in the 15th District of Illinois and
throughout our great land. -
- ELGIN, ILL.,
October 19, 1965.
Congresswoman CHARLOTTE. T. REID,
Congressional Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR CONGRESSWOMAN REID: As a parent
of a young man in college, I'm more than
usually interested in the tragedy of last
weekend. I am disgusted with the fact that
publicity media has afforded such time to
this fraction of young America which has
been led down the garden path to rebellion-
ism without a causes--and the "fellow
travelers" who rejoice in their misguided
noise.
I thought perhaps you would be interested
in one dad's letters to his son at college on
the subject. I would hope the ground swell
of disapproval from other moms and dads
would echo throughout the land.
At the same time, we are veterans of World
War II-10 years in the Marine Corps. I
carry a piece of Japanese shrapnel and the
Purple Heart-and I wear two Presidential
Unit Citation Stars, four Combat Stars, in-
cluding Saipan and Iwo Jima.
Last November we had our chance to ex-
press our opinions in the only place we have
where our free America is perpetuated as a
result of World War II-the polling place.
The choice now is not "whether" but rather
"how" we can maintain our freedom and
contain communism. For my own, I would
rather draw the line in southeast Asia than
in Elgin, 1:11.
More than this, as Commander in Chief,
our President is attempting to end this -war
as quickly an possible with the minimum of
American lives lost.
Ours is now a commitment not a policy
to dispute--a combined commitment of both
Republican and -Democrat citizens alike-
Americans -all. When our Armed Forces are
involved, we must-all of us-back them up
with every fiber we possess.' To this end we
must all be dedicated.
Activities to "beat the draft" are treacher-
ous-truisims, cliches, etc., notwithstanding.
My son, and his fellows by the thousands,
No. 198-pt. 2-29
understands this-as do we who stand be-
hind as "veteran" parents.
Let's rent Soldier Field-fill it with 100,000
Americans and parade a pageant of college
bands, scholars, football teams, ROTC cadets,
just plain students who would be happy to
"volunteer" for Instead of against.
Let's not have another Korea-let's let the
world see the real young Americans who are
to inherit this. country from this genera-
tion. Let's show "objectivity"-not bearded
rebels without a cause. Let's put the "Red"
back In "Red-blooded"-let's debate on
issues-not immature idealism. No one, es-
pecially me, was in favor of World War II-
who was? Who wants to die? But in the
Marine Corps we have a motto "Semper
fidelis," always faithful, faithful to our flag,
our country, our democracy, even though we
would debate as to its domestic application,
at times.
Now is a time for unity. Now is a time to
stand behind the man with the gun-as my
letter to my son suggests-not because he is
a gunfighter, but because he is carrying out
our declaration of commitment, our country,
our flag, our future.
Let's get the VFW and the Legion on their
feet (I should say on our feet). Let's close
ranks, let's disavow these "T" shirted souls
with no purpose.
I hope the day never comes when it is un-
fashionable or improper to "rally 'round the
flag, boys."
Sincerely,
ROY PROTZMAN.
ELGIN, ILL.,
October 16, 1965.
ROBERT PROTZMAN, _
Theta Chi Fraternity,
Ripon College,
Ripon, Wis.
DEAR SoN: The attached front page story
in today's Chicago, Sun-Tines about the na-
tional organization set up to assist young
men "Beat the draft" must concern you and
your fellow students as much as it does those
of us who, as parents, sit in amazement at
what a tiny fraction of young unwashed,
misguided beatniks and their fellow travelers
are doing. to discredit the strong red, white,
and blue backbone that has been this Na-
tion's heritage since 1776 and has made pos-
sible the position prominence we hold in
the world today.
Usually, my letters to you are of your
progress in school, and what Mom and the
kids are doing, personal interest bits as you
would say. Today, I think I'm writing not
only to you, my son, but also to your brothers
at Theta Chi, your fellow students at Ripon
College, the young Republicans on campus
you have been elected to represent, and to
the 99.9 percent of young America who are
going about the process of education in what-
ever manner it is available to them to better
equip themselves for a life of contribution.
As has been documented at the Federal
and local level, much of this business tagged
as "student activity" is a highly organized
national-probably International-program
designed to undermine the genuine issues of
our commitment in Vietnam.
I think the idea of debates as this SDS
outfit suggests is good; not with the draft
board members, or R.O.T.C. officers, not with
recruiting personnel or others obviously
doing a job as professional soldiers or sup-
port activities, but with "guys" like you,
Larry, Bill and all equivalent inheritors of
whatever this Nation is going to be in the
next quarter century. I should like to see
such debates, and I'd be proud, not ashamed,
to see you "guys" in- shirts, jackets, and ties
as you represent your fellows, the status of
the bearded, unwashed, T-shirt boys might
just lose a little lustre in the bright light
of genuine exposure to you fellows, and
thousands like you, who are not too tired
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after 15-30 hours of regular work, and a
full week of studying to apply that which
you are learning in a manner which might
make at least a few of the discs in that red,
white, blue backbone show themselves to
the pride of all of us.
Next week Is homecoming at Ripon. I'm
sorry that Mom and I cannot be there, but
as you know we too have to portion our
money carefully as we both work our way
through the school of life.
May I suggest a couple of ideas for your
consideration at this time, nonetheless?
Why not add to your house outside decora-
tions, a big sign saying, "Theta Chi is mighty
high-on the good old U.S.A.". An inside
placard might say "Theta Chi has 36 ROTC
cadets active on campus, and we're proud
of every one of them." Why not ask your
ROTC company officer if those of you who
cared to could wear your uniform next Sat-
urday? There's a lot of alumni our age and
younger and older who would like to see
that the Nation is preparing young men for
the defense of the country if necessary with
some order, and hope, not as a growing ag-
gressive armed force, but a Reserve (that's -
what ROTC means, Reserve Officers Train-
ing Corps) and further that Ripon College
is proud to wave the flag a little.
How about a telegram to every Ripon alum-
ni in Vietnam right now to arrive next Sat-
urday "Sorry you can't be here today at
homecoming, but we're thinking of you, and
thanking you for holding the line over there.
The Redmen will hold the line against Law-
rence a little better today because of you."
These young people who are too agitated to
study, too sophisticated to sing "Fight team
fight", too spineless tq put on the pads of
life, and feel the impact of that tackle across
the way, are the same people who in the
next few years will bemoan the fact that
you fellows have taken all the good jobs.
What a pity. Theodore Roosevelt once said,
"Show me not the critic who sits in the
arena and denounces those upon the field,
but rather show me the man who has the dirt
of combat in the arena upon him, who at
best, knows the sweet smell of success but
for a second, and at worst rises only to be
smitten again in effort. To him will I listen."
You know your dad. You can take the boy
out of the Marine Corps, but not the Marine
Corps out of the boy. I hope I never fail to
tingle when the flag goes by, or never fail to
wipe a tear when the globe and anchor is
displayed.
It may be "corny", Semper fidelis, always
faithful, but can anyone aspire to more?
Let's go, Ripon, Let's win, Redmen.
Stand up, the flag is passing by.
Much love,
Dad,
ROY PROTZMAN.
PUBLIC HEARINGS ON NEW ROUTES
NORMAL PROCEDURE OF STATE
(Mr. GOODELL (at the request of Mr.
BROYHILL of North Carolina) was grant-
ed permission to extend his remarks at
this point in the RECORD and to include
extraneous matter.)
Mr. GOODELL. Mr. Speaker, the re-
ply of the New York.State Superintend-
ent of Public Works, Mr. J. Burch Mc-
Morran, to one of our colleagues should,
I believe, be a matter of public record.
I ask unanimous consent to place it in
the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. '
PUBLIC HEARINGS ON NEW ROUTES NORMAL
PROCEDURE OP STATE, SUPERINTENDENT
NOTES
The folio-ag statement was issued today
(October 15, 1965) by Superintendent of
Public Works J. Burch McMorran in response
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to an announcement by Representative Ricif-
Ann L. Orrrxcsa of Westchester (on October
12) that he had been "assured" by the U.S.
Secretary of Commerce no Federal funds will
be committed for the proposed new north-
south route in Westchester, Putnam and
Dutchess counties until studies are completed
and a public hearing held on the proposal:
"Mr. &ITINGEa's service In Washington ob-
viously has taught him nothing regarding
the State's procedures for planning and fin-
ancing construction of new highways on the
urban and primary systems such as that
authorized by the legislature last spring.
His announcement was not news in any
sense, since it is our standard practice to
hold public hearings on preliminary plane
and seek Federal funds for construction only
after final plans are completed--some time
after hearings have been conducted.
"Mr. OTTrxczR also was quoted as saying
the proposed highway would destroy settled
communities, bar access to the Hudson River
and create traffic problems on routes into or
in New York City. These are spurious argu-
ments. Rather than destroy local communi-
ties, the now route will assist them by re-
lieving existing roads of much of their heavy
traffic, promoting highway safety, and ena-
bling orderly growth and development of the
area. Access to the river already le barred--
and has been barred for years-by the exist-
ence of the railroad tracks along the shore.
The route as now proposed, with railroad
crossovers and attendant recreational de-
velopment is, in fact, the best guarantee that
the people will have increased and improved
access to their river. The riverside location
proposed for about 5 miles of the route in
Westchester would bypass such communities
as Philipse Manor, Scarborough and Sleepy
Hollow Manor, whose scenic areas Mr. Ot-
tinger claimed would be destroyed.
"As to the funneling of vehicles Into New
York City, I have previously pointed out that
greater capacity can and will be provided
along present major traffic corridors below
the Tappan Zee Bridge in Westchester. Ad-
ditional capacity In New York City is being
piovideti or planned to meet both current
and future needs, which will continue to
grow with or without the Hudson Valley
route.
"In maintaining that the proposed high-
way should be built along Route 9A, Mr.
OTriNGEa demonstrates his unawareness of
or his unwillingness to recognize the fact
this would not provide ready access to the
riverfront communities, their industry or
their shoreline, and would not solve the
really pressing traffic problems on Route 9,
particularly in Tarrytown. Traffic volumes
on much of Route 9 between Tarrytown and
Ossining have increased an average of 59
portent-21 percent above the Statewide ur-
ban area average-in the past dozen years'
proved route--where the need eidsts-the
communities of western Westchester will be-
come hopelessly strangled in their conges-
tion. This is a matter of such critical im-
CONTRIBUTION OF WOMEN TO OUR
WORLD
(Mrs. BOLTON (at the request of Mr.
BROYHILL of North Carolina) was
granted permission to extend her re-
marks at this point in the RECORD and to
include extraneous matter.)
Mrs. BOLTON. Mr. Speaker, today, I
want to say a word about the contribu-
tion women make to our world, But I do
not wish to discuss myself or the women
of this Congress, I want to talk about a
very young woman. Miss Linda Samples
of Brunswick Center, Ohio, is only 16
years of age. She Is a junior in high
school, an outstanding student, and even
while she learns her lessons well, she
does not wait for her working mother to
supply finds but she earns money cook-
ing and leaning.
Linda has the kind of loyalty to her
country that is an inherent quality, and
she has :he kind of love and understand-
ing of :ter fellowman that makes me
proud to say-"she is a woman"-though
she is a very young woman.
Like same of the rest of the women of
our country, Linda has been worried
about e'"idences of disloyal people who
have the freedom of America. But Linda
did something about It. She wrote a let-
ter "To the Men in Vietnam" and not
knowing just how to post It, she asked
the CIevaland Press to handle it. I know
how the editor must have felt when he
read it, for Linda's letter appeared on
the fror t page of my hometown paper
yesterday. The message is clear and I
want to share It with you:
To the Mfn in Vietnam:
Today is a beautiful fail day. The trees
are changing color, the sky is deep blue.
Many Americans are enjoying this Sunday.
Why:)
Because you are there In Vietnam, fighting,
being wounded, and even dying, for us-for
our freedom.
You hive said that you feel the people of
the United States do not think you are fight-
ing for a worthwhile cause. I can think of
no better' cause than freedom. Our God-
given freedom is our most precious earthly
possessio: i.
Arnerics could not be what she is without
the freecom you are preserving.
I know that I am not the only person in
the United States who prays for you daily
and givat thanks you are there protecting
with you, lives our freedom, our Nation and
our exist',nce.
Thank you, every one, and may God keep
and bless you all.
Sincerely yours,
(Mr. 13ERALD R. FORD (at the re-
quest of Mr. BROYHSLL of North Caro-
lina) wf,s granted permission to extend
his remitrks at this point in the RECORD
and to include extraneous matter.)
[Mr. GERALD R. FORD'S remarks
FEDERAL PAY RAISE BILL
(Mr. I INDSAY (at the request of Mr.
include rxtrancous matter.)
Mr. IDSAY. Mr_ Speaker, the
President of the United States said on
May 12:
We do not have two standards of what
makes a flood employer in the United-States:
One stan lard for private enterprise and an-
other for the Government. A double stand-
ard which puts the Government employee at
a comparative disadvantage Is shortsighted.
I fully agree. I believe that the Gov-
ernment employee pay increase passed
by the House of Representatives will help
to eliminate the double standard between
private and Government employment.
I regret that I was unable to return to
Washington for the vote on the salary
raise bill September 30. Had It not been
for prior commitments in New York, I
would have been able to vote for this
needed and equitable legislation.
The bill, in my judgment, translated
into action the very words of the Presi-
dent. It keeps faith with the principle
of comparability; that Federal employees
should receive the same salaries paid in
private employment for the same skills,
experience and responsibility.
The 41/2-percent general salary in-
crease will, perhaps, not achieve full
comparability. But it moves in the right
direction. Had the Increase been higher,
it would have had my wholehearted sup-
port.
Among the 1.7 million Federal em-
ployees who will benefit from the pay
raises are those In the Post Office De-
partment. Some of these workers walk
10 miles a day with a 35-pound bag, need
to memorize 900 pages of regulations and
know 3,000 names and addresses. For
this work, the typical postal employee
makes about $5,400 per year. The AFL-
CIO estimates that it requires an annual
salary of $6,400 for a family of four in
the Nation's major cities for a modest,
but adequate standard of living.
Accordingly, postal workers in New
York City, which have one of the high-
est cost-of-living Indexes in this country,
are most deserving of the increase pro-
vided in the bill.
In conclusion, then, my absence from
the floor when the vote on the salary
bill was taken September 30 did not re-
flect a disinterest In this legislation. I
would have returned to Washington if it
had been at all possible. I would have
argued in favor of this bill and cast my
vote for passage.
(Mr. KING of New York (at the re-
quest of Mr. BROYHILLL of North Caro-
lina) was granted permission to extend
his remarks at this point in the RECORD
and to include extraneous matter.)
[Mr. KING of New York's remarks will
appear hereafter in the Appendix.]
INTIMIDATION OF ITS BEST POTEN-
TIAL CUSTOMERS APPEARS TO BE
THE NEW POLICY OF OFFICIALS
OF KENNEDY ARTS CENTER;
WHITE HOUSE ARTS ADVISER
ENDORSES THREATS OF RE-
PRISALS AGAINST WASHINGTON'S
CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS
(Mr. WIDNALL (at the request of
Mr. BROYHILL of North Carolina) was
granted permission to extend his remarks
at this point in the RECORD and to in-
clude extraneous matter.)
Mr. WIDNALL. Mr. Speaker, I am
deeply concerned by a letter I have re-
ceived from Roger L. Stevens, the White
House Special Assistant on the Arts. Un-
der date of October 11, he refers to and
adopts as his own a statement which ap-
peared on October 7, 1965, in the CoN-
CRESSIONAL RECORD. This same state-
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of Alaska has altered the course of his-
tory-and it is scarcely arguable that it
has not been altered for the better.
Mr. MONRONEY. Mr. President, I
yield 1 minute to the senior Senator from
Ohio.
Mr. LAUSCHE. Mr. President, I sub-
scribe to the celebration of this impor-
tant event. However, I cannot approve
spending $1,200,000 to build an audito-
rium for convention purposes in Sitka,
with a population of 5,000 people. There
are hundreds of places throughout the
country which might ask for similar con-
tributions.
Why did the Senator not ask to build
something in Nome, further north, so
that we might put $1 or $2 million there?
Mr. GRUENING. Mr. President, I
should like to ask the distinguished Sen-
ator from Ohio what the population of
Cincinnati and Cleveland were 5 years
after the State was admitted to the
Union.
Mr. LAUSCHE. Mr. President, we are
going to celebrate the 180th anniversary
of the establishment of six States in the
Northwest Territory. That will be in
1967.
I suppose that I ought to add an
amendment to the bill of the Senator
and provide that we should give $10 mil-
lion each to the States of Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio
for the purpose of building an auditor-
ium.
It would be the same principle. We
have sesqui-centennials, and centennials
every year. There would be no end to it.
Mr. GRUENING. Mr. President, by
the purchase of Alaska our country ac-
quired an area one-fifth the size of all the
existing and subsequently admitted 48
States of the United States.. It extended
the territory of the United States to the
northern-most and western-most parts of
America. it acquired an area of inesti-
mable strategic value, of vast resources,
of unparalleled scenic beauty. Attracted
to it have come a rugged pioneering and
friendly breed of our fellow Americans-
people who prize its freedoms and are
determined to make of Alaska a State as
great in quality as it is in area.
Mr. YARBOROUGH. Mr. President,
in answer to the inquiry of the distin-
guished Sector om Alaska as to the
population ojt thjS of Ohio on the
TheUJ PI.SIDING OFFIC;.s;t6,. '1'ne
Ig from Oklahoma has the floor.
FEDERAL EMPLOYEES SALARY ACT
OF 19Fr5
Mr. MONRONEY.. Mr. President, I
ask unanimous consent that the Senate
"Grade
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
GS-I___________________________________________
$3, 507
$3, 620
$3, 745
$3,864
$3, 083
4
330
$4,102
459
4
$4,221
4
588
$4, 340
4,717
$4, 459
4,846
$4, 578
4,975
GS_2___
3,814
4
149
3,043
4
289
4,072
4
429
4,201
4
569
,
4,709
,
4,849
,
4,989
5, 129
5, 269
6,400
GS-3-------------------------------------------
Gs-4 -------------------------------------------
,
4,641
,
4,797
,
4,953
,
6,109
4
5,265
5
866
6,421
6
036
6,577
207
6
5,733
6, 378
5,889
8,649
6,045
6,720
GS-5-------------------------------------------
5,181
5
702
5,352
6
894
6,523
6
086
5, 69
278
6
,
6,470
,
6,662
,
6,854
7, 046
7,238
7,430
GS-6 ------------------------------------------
GS-7-------------------------------------------
,
6,269
,
6,476
,
6,683
,
6, 890
7,097
7,304
009
8
7,511
237
8
7, 718?
8
465
7,025
8
693
8, 132
8, 921
GS-S-------------------------------------------
6, 860
479
7
7,097
733
7
7,325
987
7
7,553
241
8
7,781
8,495
,
8,749
,
9,003
,
9,257
,
9,511
9,785
GS-9-------------------------------------------
GS-10------------------------------------------
,
8,184
,
8,464
,
8,744
,
9,024
9,304
9,584
491
10
9,864
10
797
10,144
11
103
10,424
11
409
10,704
11,715
GS-11------------------------------------------
8,061
619
10
9,267
10
987
9,573
11
355
9,879
723
11
10,185
12,091
,
12, 459
,
12, 827
,
13, 105
,
13, 663
13, 931
G8-12------------------------------------------
GS-13------------------------------------------
,
12,510
,
12,945
,
13,380
,
13,815
14,250
14,685
220
17
15,120
728
17
15,655
230
18
15,990
744
18
18,425
19,252
GS-14------------------------------------------
-
14,680
055
17
15,188
17
645
15,696
235
18
16,204
18
825
16,712
19,415
,
20,005
,
20,595
,
21,185
,
21,775
2 2,365
GS
15 ------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------
GS-16-
,
19,610
,
20,207
,
20,975
,
21,653
22,331
23,009
23,687
24,365
25,043
__________
------
GS-17------------------------------------------
22,217
22,994
23,771
24,648
25,325
------------
------------
------------
------------
_
-------- --
-- -
GS-18-----------------------------------------
25,382
------------
------------
------------
------------
------------
------------
------------
------------
--------
(b) Except as provided in section 504(d)
of the Federal Salary Reform Act of 1962 (78
Stat. 412; 5 U.S.C. 1173(d)), the rates of
basic compensation of officers and employees
to whom the compensation schedule set forth
in subsection (a) of this section applies shall
be initially adjusted as of the effective date
of this section, as follows:
(1) If the officer or employee is receiving
basic compensation immediately prior to the
effective date of this section at one of the
rates of a grade in the General Schedule of
the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, he
shall receive a rate of basic compensation at
the corresponding rate in effect on and after
such date. .
(2) If the officer or employee is receiving
basic compensation immediately prior to the
effective date of this section at a rate be-
tween two rates of a grade in the General
Schedule of the Classification Act of 1949, as
amended, he shall receive a rate of basic com-
pensation at the higher of the two corre-
sponding rates in effect on and after such
date.
(3) If the officer or employee is receiving
basic compensation immediately prior to the
effective date of this section at a rate in ex-
cess of the maximum rate for his grade, he
shall receive (A) the maximum rate for his
grade in the new schedule, or (B) his exist-
ing rate of basic compensation if such ex-
isting rate is' higher.
(4) If the officer or employee, immediately
prior to the effective date of this section, is
receiving, pursuant to section 2(b) (4) of the
Federal Employees Salary Increase Act of
1955, an existing aggregate rate of compen-
sation determined under section 208(b) of
the Act of September 1, 1954 (68 Stat. 1111),
plus subsequent increases authorized by law,
he shall receive an aggregate rate of com-
pensation equal to the sum of his existing
aggregate rate of compensation, on the day
preceding the effective date of this section,
plus the amount of increase made by this
section in the maximum rate of his grade,
until (i) he leaves his position, or (ii) he is
entitled to receive aggregate compensation
at a higher rate by reason of the operation
of this Act or any other provision of law; but,
when such position becomes vacant, the ag-
gregate rate of compensation of any sub-
sequent appointee thereto shall be fixed in
accordance with applicable provisions of law.
Subject to clauses (i) and (ii) of the imme-
diately preceding sentence of this paragraph,
the amount of the increase provided by this
section shall be held and considered for the
purposes of section 208(b) of the Act of Sep-
proceed to the consideration of H.R. 10281, the Federal Employees Salary Act
of 1965.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill
will be stated by title for the information
of the Senate.
The LEGISLATIVE CLERK. A bill (H.R.
10281) to adjust the rates of basic com-
pensation of certain officers and employ-
ees in the Federal Government to estab-
lish the Federal Salary Review Commis-
sion, and for other purposes.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there
objection to the request of the Senator
from Oklahoma?
There being no objection the Senate
proceeded to consider the bill, which had
been reported from the Committee on
Post Office and Civil Service, with an
amendment, to strike out all after the.
enacting clause and insert:
That this Act may be cited as the "Federal
Employees Salary Act of 1965".
EMPLOYEESSUBJECT TO CLASSIFICATION ACT OF
1949
Ssc. 2. (a) Section 603(b) of the Classifi-
cation Act of 1949, as amended (78 Stat. 400;
5 U.S.C. 1113(b)), is amended to read as
follows:
"(b) The compensation schedule for the
General Schedule shall be as follows:
tember 1, 1954, to constitute a part of the
existing rate of compensation of the em-
ployee.
REDETERMINATIONS OF ACCEPTABLE
LEVELS OF COMPETENCE
SEC. 3. Section 701 of the Classification
Act of 1949, as amended (5 U.S.C. 1121), is
amended by adding the following new sub-
section at the end thereof:
"(c) Whenever a determination is made
under subsection (a) of this section that the
work of an officer or employee is not of an
acceptable level of competence, he shall be
given prompt written notice of that deter-
mination and an opporunity for reconsidera-
tion of the determination within his depart-
ment under uniform procedures established
by the Commission. If the determination is
affirmed upon reconsideration, the employee
shall have a right of appeal to the Commis-
sion. If the reconsideration or appeal results
in a reversal of the earlier determination, the
new determination shall supersede the earlier
determination and shall be deemed to have
been made as of the date of the earlier deter-
mination. The authority of the Commission
to establish procedures and the right of
appeal by the officer or employee to the Com-
mission shall not apply to determinations of
acceptable level of competence made by the ,
Librarian of Congress."
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE
POSTAL FIELD SERVICE SMPLOYLLS
SEC. 4. (a) Section 8642(a) of title 89,
United States Code, is amended to read as
follows:
October 2, 1965
"(a) T.lela in established a basic oompen- the symbol shall be PFS'. Except as pro-
sattoa aciedule for positions in the postal vided in sections 3543 and 8544 of this title,
field service which shall be known as the basic compensation shall be paid to all em-
Postal Field Service Schedule and for which ployeee in accordance with such schedule.
1_--------------------
2.--------------------
$4,098
4,424
4,5W
$4,7356
4
$4,C
4.81
3---------------------
4_-------------------
4,780
6,191
4, 941
6, 352
3,102
5.623
5,21
5,d
S---------------------
5,722
goo
6, 01
6---------------------
b 941
6,138
ti, U5
e.&
7---------------------
6,361
6, 678
0,786
0,91
---------------------
7,88$
7,116
7,344
7, W,
----------- --------
7, 697
'945
11, it
10--------------------
11---------------------
8,110
8 961
8,386
9,267
R,660 666600
8,9:
9, s:
12---------------------
9
10,261
K 638
10, 9.
13--------------------
14
I0,956
12
077
11,334
I2
447
11, 1,712
U
12,01
--------------------
1s---------------------
,
13,349
,
13,810
. 14,271
13,31
14,-7.
16---------------------
14
751
16
264
l6
7n
16
21
17---------------------
,
10, 320
,
10,890
,
17,460
,
1s, (5
is ------------------ -- -
18,078
16,710
10,842
19.9;
19---------------------
20.____________________
20.042
22,217
20,741
22, 994
21, 440
23,771
22,11
24.
(b) Section 3543(a) of title 39, United
States Code, is amended to read as follows::
"(a) There Is established a basic compen-
b71
031 9 $ b,258M 4 ~:7ao~ 1 15. 4 674 36 $ Q 6, 014
~5,4
Q
Q
6,561
a7$ 8, Q bib 06$ Q Q 720 224_ 891 390 7 002
Q808 7,024 7,210 Q , 096 7, , bet
7,820 7,617 7 714 7, 9]1
7,84b 9,067 $ 269 a 4$1 __--
~'1?a
Q , 940 _______.
8, 484 5,712 5,
91681 ?_ _
91 in
-- -------
____ _______3 9 10,b86 ------- _ ---------
IQ036 10,
..--___-__ -
tI,103 Il,#O9 11,716 _______-
_
12,273 12,614 12,947 .......................
Ia,602 I3, 980 1l, 368 _
15,017 15,437 16,957 _---__
IQb76 17,037 17,498 -------?-
___ _ _ __18,alo 20,8$0 21,400 -.............
842 15, 8b6 19, 368
.........
------ 2o,- ---
22, d112 23,13# 23,768 ----- --- -
24 986
y ----------- -----'-?---- -----.------- ------------
sation schedule which shall be known as the be paid to rural carriers in accordance with
Rural Carrier Schedule and for which the this schedule.
symbol shall be 'RCS'. Compensation shall
2
5
6
Carrier in rural delivery service: Flied com-
pensation per annum- ----------------------
12,301
$2,
412
$2, 6'16
$2,
634
$2,
745
$2,
$56
Compensation per mile per annum for each
mile up to 30 miles of routs -----___--------
99
90
92
04
96
For each mile of route over 30 miles _ _ --------
(
26
25
26
26
25
25
(c) Section 3544(a) of title 89, United
States Code, is amended to read as follows:
"(a) There is established a basic compen-
sation schedule which shell be known as the
9
10
11
12
$2, 967
*3, 078
$8,184
j3, 300
$a, 411
$3, 672
98
100
102
104
106
108
26
25
26
25
26
26".
Fourth C. ass Office Schedule and for which
the symbol Shell be 'P06', for postmasters In
post offices of the fourth class which is based
on the revenue units of the post office for the
"ltevenue units
30 but tower than 36.____-_-
24 but fewer than 80----- -
18 but few-,r than 24-------------- -
12 but fewer than 18-------- _____-..
6 but fewer than 1 2 --------- - - - - - -
F e w e r r than 0.------------------------------ -
$3,690D
2,978
1687
1, a59
(d) The basic compensation of each em-
ployee subject to the Postal Field Service
Schedule, the Rural Carrier Schedule, or the
Fourth Class Office Schedule immediately
prior to the effective date of this section
shall be determined as follows:
(1) Each employee shall be assigned to
the same numerical step for his position
which he had attained immediately prior to
such effective date. If changes in levels or
steps would otherwise occur on such effective
date without regard to enactment of this
Act, such changes shall be deemed to have
occurred prior to conversion.
(2) If the existing basic compensation to
greater than the rate to which the employee
Is converted under paragraph (1) of this
subsection, the employee shall be placed In
the lowest step which exceeds his basic com-
pensation. If the existing basic compensa-
tion exceeds the maximum step of his posi-
tion, his existing basic compensation shall
be established as his basic compensation.
84, 033 $4, IN
8 729 3, 848
a 079 3, 160
1,741 1,796
1,403 1,447
14 293
a 967
1
22111 1 ,8949
1, 491
$4, 551
4,205
483
710
?
1, 967
1, 679
I
9
10
11
I2
690
$4, 809
$4, 935
$6, 067
$5,196
$5, 325
324
4, 443
4, 562
4, 681
4, 800
4, 919
584
3, 695
3, 788
3, 887
3, 988
4, 089
795
2, 571
2, 947
8, 023
3, 099
3,176
011
2, 065
2,119
2,173
2, 227
2, 281
623
1, 667
1, 711
1, 756
1, 799
1.843".
,
$4 2 2
POSTAL SERVICE OVERU.UX AND HOLnIAT
COMPENSATION
Sec. 5. a) Section 3571 of title 39, United
States Cole, is amended to read as follows:
"4 3671. 3taxtmum hours of work
(a) A basic workweek is established for
all postal :field service employees consisting of
five eight. hour days. The work schedule of
employees shall be regulated so that the
eight boo's of service does not extend over a
longer period than ten consecutive hours.
'(b) Tr Postmaster General shall establish work schedules in advance for annual
rate regu ar employees consisting of five
eight-hou daysIn each week.
"(c) Except for emergencies as determined
by the Postmaster General, the hours of
service of my employee shall not extend over
a longer period than twelve consecutive
hours. anti no employee may be required to
work morthan twelve hours In one day.
"(d) Tc the maximum extent-practicable.
senior regular employees shall be assigned
to a basic workweek Monday through Friday,
inclusive, except for those who express a
preference for another basic workweek. "
(b) Section 3573 of title 39, United States
Code, is amended to read as follows:
"3 3573. Compensatory time, overtime, and
holidays
(a) In emergencies or if the needs of the
service require, the Postmaster General may
require employees to perform overtime work
or to work on holidays. Overtime work is
any work officially ordered or approved which
is performed by-
(1) an annual rate regular employee in
excess of his regular work schedule,
"(2) an hourly rate regular employee in
excess of eight hours in a day or forty hours
in a week, and
(8) a substitute employee In excess of
forty hours in a week.
The Postmaster General shall determine the
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7
8
9
10
11
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$4, 626
$4. 751
84, 846
8 b, OX
6,144
b, 204
8
5, N5
6
4 5,
66
Q 036
6, 207
4 Q 280
6, 466
7
2 Q 729
6, 926
,129
4 7, 209
7, 421
7, 633
2 7,800
8,028
8,268
6 8,441
8,684
8,987
6 9,210
9,485
,760
4
9
10,185
l9, 491
10, 797
11, 262
11, 644
11, 436
0 12,40$
12,646
13,224
7 13,757
14,177
14, 647
2 16,103
16,654
10,I16
0 16,803
17,316
17,824
15,600
19,170
19,740
4 20, 606
21, 238
21, 570
9 22, 538
28,537
21,236
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preceding fiscal year. Basic compensation
shall be paid to postmasters in post offices of
the fourth class in accordance with this
schedule.
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day and week used in computing overtime cedence prescribed in the first section of the "3106. Special compensation rules.".
work. Act of August 3, 1950 (5 U.S.C. 61f), and EMPLOYEES IN THE DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE
(b) For each hour of overtime. work the shall be a bar to recovery by any other per- AND SURGERY OF THE VETERANS' ADMINISTRA-
Postmaster General shall compensate an em- sons of amounts so paid. TION
ployee in the `PFS' Schedule as follows: "(g) Notwithstanding any provision of this SEC. 7. Section 4107 of title 38, United
"(1) He shall pay each employee in or be- section other than subsection (f), no em- States Code, relating to grades and pay scales
low salary level PFS-7 compensation at the ployee shall be paid overtime or extra com-
rate of 150 per centum of the hourly rate of for certain positions s within n the Department
P y pensation for a pay period which when added of Medicine and Surgery of the Veterans'
basic compensation for his level and step to his basic compensation for the pay period Administration, is amended to read as fol-
computed by dividing the scheduled annual exceeds one twenty-sixth of the annual rate lows:
rate of basic compensation by two thousand of basic compensation for the highest step
and eighty. of salary level PFS-17. "? 4107. Grades and pay scales
"(2) He shall grant each employee in or "(h) For the purposes of this section and "(a) The per annum full-pay scale or
above salary level PFS-8 compensatory time section 3571 of this title- ranges for positions provided in section 4103
equal to the overtime worked, or in his dis- "(1) 'Annual rate regular employee' means of this title, other than Chief Medical Di-
cretion in lieu thereof pay such employee an employee for whom the Postmaster Gen- rector and Deputy Chief Medical Director,
compensation at the rate of 150
er centum
l h
p
era
as established a regular work schedule shall be as follows:
of the hourly rate of basic compensation of consisting of five eight-hour days in accord-
basic compensation for the highest step of "(2) `Hourly rate regular employee' means `Assistant Chief Medical Director, $25,382.
salary level PFS-7, whichever is the lesser. an employee for whom the Postmaster Gen- `Medical Director, $22,217 minimum to
"(c) For officially ordered or approved eral has established a regular work schedule $25,325 maximum.
time worked on a day referred to as a holiday consisting of not more than forty hours a "Director of Nursing Service, $17,055 mini-
in the Act of December 26, 1941 (55 Stat. week. mum to $22,365 maximum.
862; 5 U.S.C. 87b), or on a day designated "(3) `Substitute employee' means an em- "Director of Chaplain Service, $17,055 min.
by Executive order as a holiday for Federal ployee for whom the Postmaster General has imum to $22,365 maximum.
employees, under regulations, prescribed by not established a regular work schedule." "Chief Pharmacist, $17,055 minimum to
the Postmaster General, an employee in the (c) Section 3575 of title 39, United States $22.365 maximum.
PFS schedule shall receive extra compensa- Code, is amended to read as follows: "Chief Dietitian, $17,055 minimum to $22,-
tion, in addition to any other compensa- 365 maximum.
tion provided for by law, as follows: "? 3575. Exemptions "(b) (1) The grades and per annum full-
"(1) Each regular employee in or below "(a) Sections 3571, 3573 and 3574 of this pay ranges for positions provided in para-
salary level PFS-7 shall be paid extra com- title do not apply to postmasters, rural car- graph (1) of section 4104 of this title shall
pensation at the rate of 100 per centum of riers, postal inspectors, and employees in be as follows:
the hourly rate of basic compensation for his salary level PFS-15 and above. "PHYSICIAN AND DENTIST SCHEDULE
level and step computed by dividing the "(b) Sections 3571 and 3573 of this title do "Director grade, $19,619 minimum to $25,-
scheduled annual rate of basic compensa- not apply to employees referred to in section 043 maximum.
tion by two thousand and eighty. 3581 of this title. "Executive grade, $18,291 minimum to
"(2) Each regular employee in or above "(c) Sections 3571 (a), (b), and (d), and $24,024 maximum.
salary level PFS-8 shall be granted compen- 3573(e) of this title do not apply to substi- "Chief grade, $17,055 minimum to $22,365
satory time in an amount equal to the time tute employees. maximum.
worked on such holiday. within thirty work- "(d) Section 3571(b) of this title does not - "Senior grade, $14,680 minimum to $19,252
ing days thereafter or, in the discretion of apply to hourly rate regular emto " maximum.
the Postmaster General, in lieu thereof shall Y g P Yees.
be paid extra compensation for the time so POSTAL EMPLOYEES RELOCATION EXPENSES "Intermediate grade, $12,510 minimum to
worked at the rate of 100 per centum of SEC. 6. (a) That part of chapter 41 of title $16,425 maximum.
the hourly rate of basic compensation for 39, United States Code, which precedes the "Full grade, $10,619 minimum to $13,931
his level and step computed by dividing the center heading "Special Classes of Em- maximum.
scheduled annual rate of basic compensation ployees" and section 3111 thereof, is amended "Associate grade, $8,961 minimum to $11,-
by two thousand and eighty. by inserting at the end thereof the following 715 maximum.
`(3) For work performed on Christmas new section: "NURSE SCHEDULE
Day (A) each regular employee shall be paid
sation for his level and step, computed by law, each employee in the postal field service "Chief grade, $12,510 minimum to $16,425
dividing the scheduled annual rate of basic who is transferred or relocated from one offi- maximum.
compensation by two thousand and eighty, cial station to another shall, under regula- "Senior grade, $10,619 minimum to $13,931
and (B) each substitute employee shall be tions promulgated by the Postmaster Gen- maximum.
paid extra compensation at the rate of 50 eral, be granted the following allowances and "Intermediate grade, $8,961 minimum to
per centum of the hourly rate of basic com- expenses: $11,715 maximum.
pensation for his level and step. "(1) Per diem allowance, in lieu of sub- "Full grade, $7,479 minimum to $9,765
"(d) The Postmaster General shall estab- sistence expenses, for each member of his maximum.
lish conditions for the use of compensatory immediate family while en route between his "Associate grade, $6,540 minimum to $8,502
time earned and the payment of compensa- old and new official stations, not in excess maximum.
tion for unused compensatory time. of the maximum per diem rates prescribed
"(e) Each regular employee whose regular by or pursuant to law for employees of the "Junior grade, $5,702 minimum to $7,430
work schedule includes an eight-hour period Federal Government. maximum.
of service any part of which is within the "(2) Subsistence expenses of the employee "(2) No person may hold the director grade
period commencing at midnight Saturday and each member of his immediate family unless he is serving as a director of a hos-
and ending at midnight Sunday shall be for a period of not to exceed thirty days while, pital, domiciliary, center, or outpatient clinic
paid extra compensation at the rate of 25 occupying temporary quarters at the place of (independent). No person may hold the
per centum of his hourly rate of basic com- his new official duty station, but not in ex- executive grade unless he holds the position
pensation for each hour of work performed cess of the maximum per diem rates pre- of chief of staff at a hospital, center, or out-
during that eight-hour period of service. scribed by or pursuant to law for employees patient clinic (independent), or the position
"(f) If an employee is entitled under this of the Federal Government. of clinic director at an outpatient clinic, or
section to unused compensatory time at the "(3) Five days of leave with pay which comparable position."
time of his death, the Postmaster General shall not be charged to any other leave to FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICERS: STAFF OFFICERS AND
shall pay at the rate prescribed in this sec- which he is entitled under existing law." EMPLOYEES
tion, but not less than a sum equal to the
employee's hourly basic compensation, for (b) That part the table of contents of o. 8. (a) The fourth sentence of section
as
each hour of such unused compensatory time psuch l ployoy chapter r 4l. under the nd heading "Em- 412 of the Foreign Service Act Act of 1946,
r as
to the ees Generally" Is is amended by inserting amended (22 U.S.C. he per annum is amended to f read
person or persons surviving at the as follows: "The per annum salaries of For-
date of such employee's death. Such pay- "3107. Postal employees relocation expenses." eign service officers within each of the other
ment shall be made in the order of pre- immediately below classes shall be as follows:
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$28,466
18,964
1124.984
19.612
125.=
20,270
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$'d0,978 421, 686
631
17
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ti22,244
066
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5911
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l
4
15,195
610
12
16, 929
12, 945
16.463
13.3611
,
1 997
13, 816 14, 960
,
14, 585
,
26,120
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694
8
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10,354
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7,262
7,658
,
7730
,
7,994 8,238
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8,369
4476
6683
6,
90
,
,
(b) The second sentence of subsection (a)
of section 415 of such Act (22 U.S.C. 870(a) )
is amended to read as follows: "The per
annuls salaries of such staff officers and
emplcyees within each class shall be as
fallouts:
or employee were living and shall be paid on
a pay period basis to the survivor or sur-
vivors of such officer or employee in accord-
ance with the first section of the Act of
August 3. 1960 (5 U.S.C. elf).
(h) Severance pay under this section shall
not be a basis for payment, nor be included
in the basis for computation, of any other
type of Federal or District of Columbia Gov-
ernment benefits and, any period covered by
severance pay shall ot be regarded as a
period of Federal or District of Columbia
Government service or employment.
"eta s T__________?__------.516,315
4115,929 14193 F
i16,997
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1'1,610
12,945
18,319
16,815
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10,31x6
8,694
10,661
8,09
11,019
9, VA
21,377
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7,749
8,013
8,277
8,641
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7,211
7,444
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('lass 7_
6,
640
6,852
7,004
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6,688
6.880
It, 072
e, 204
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4190
6,161
6,632
6,703
109
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4, 611
4,747
4.953
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.
(c) Foreign Service officers, Reserve of l- 46) an officer or employee who, at the time LECI3LATIVE BRANCH
cers, and Foreign Service staff officers and of ee;saration from the service. is entitled to
employees who are entitled to receive basic receive other severance pay from the Gov- Ssc. 11. (a) Except as otherwise provided
compensation immediately prior to the effect ernment, in this section, each officer or employee in
tive date of this section at one of the rates (7) officers and employees of the Tennes- or under the legislative branch of the Gov-
provided by section 412 or 415 of the Foreign see Valley Authority; and ernment, whose rate of compensation is in-
Service Act of 1946 shall receive basic corn- (8) such other officers or employees as creased by section 5 of the Federal Employ-
pensation, on and after such effective date. may be excluded by rules and regulations of ees Pay Act of 1946, shall be paid additional
at the rate of their class determined to be the ]'resident or of such officer or agency as compensation at the rate of 3.6 per centum
appropriate by the Secretary of State. he may designate. of his gross rate of compensation (basic
agVEe.ANCE PAT (c) An officer or employee to whom this compensation plus additional compensation
SEC. 9. (a) Except as provided in subsec- sectl,tn applies who to involuntarily sepa- authorized by law).
tion (b) of this section, this section applies rater from the service, on or after the effec- (b) The total annual compensation in ef-
to each civilian officer or employee in or tive late of this section, not by removal for fect immediately prior to the effective date
cars', on charges of misconduct, delinquency, of this section of each officer or employee of
under- or inefficiency, shall, under rules and regula- the House of Representatives, whose compen-
(I) the executive branch of the Govern- tions prescribed by the President or such sation is disbursed by the Clerk of the House
co pt of the Dolyed or controlled each officer or agency as he may designate, be paid and Is not increased by reason of any other
tUnited corporation wholly States; ly owned or controilod by severance pay in regular pay periods by the provision of this section, shall be increased
the United Sb department. independent establishment. OW- by an amount which is equal to the amount
(2) the Livern of Congress: poraaon. or other governmental unit, from of the increase provided by subsection (a)
(3) the Government nt ng O Office; which separated. of this section; except that this section shall
(5) he General al government goviles: or (d) Severance pay shall consist of two not apply to the compensation of student
{ 5) the m unteipa of the M_ elements, a basic severance allowance and congressional interns authorized by H. Res.
This tries secColumbia, an -We adjustment allowance. The basic 416 of the Eighty-ninth Congress.
pur- eeve3unce allowance shall be Computed on (c) The rates of compensation of employ-
by the county to established person employed
suant to o section cty committees (b) oestablOra- the basis of one week's basic compensation ees of the House of Representatives whose
tion and scam D8(b) of the Soil Conserve- at the rate received Immediately before sep- compensation is fixed by the House Employ-
590h(b . and the Secretary Allotment Act (16 U.S.C. e is arat on for each year of civilian service up ees Schedule under the House Employees
authorized d and the e directed to tedttoy prescribe ribe and and is- to and Including ten years for which sev- Position Classification Act (78 Stat. 1079;
au and erance pay has not been received under this Public Law 88-852; 2 U.S.C. 291-303) shall
sue such regulations as may be necessary to any other authority and two weeks' basic be increased by amounts equal, as nearly as effecUng or and e a means of the provisions infth this s s sec- ee- compensation at such rate for each year of may be practicable, to the increases provided
and operations of the civilian service beyond ten years for which by subsection (a) of this section; except,
ilea with respect to such persons. severance pay has not been received under that this section shall not apply to the com-
(b) This section does not apply tar- this or any other authority. The age adjust- pensatlon of those empoyees whose compen-
rate rate of meat allowance shall be computed on the sation is fixed by the House Wage Schedule
( compensation p e a whose
basic c I lae Is Sized d at t a pro- bast t of 10 per centum of the total basic of such Act.
vided for one of the levels of the Federal severance allowance for each year by which (d) The additional compensation provided
the highest Salary o f g ade or of In eGene of the age of the recipient exceeds forty years by this section shall be considered a part of
Sc e highest rate C grade Classification Act of at the time of separation. Total severance basic compensation for the purposes of the
as amended; the lsesiHcaan Act o9. 1999. p- y received under this section shall not Civil Service Retirement Act (5 U.S.C. 2251
as amen exceed one year's pay at the rate received and the following).
(2) an officer or employees serving under immediately before separation. (e) Section 601 (a) of the Legislative Reor-
an appointment with a definite time limits- ((.) An officer or employee may be paid ganization Act of 1946. as amended (2 U.S.C.
tion,, except one so appointed for full-time severance pay only after having been em- 31), is amended to read as follows:
employment, without a break In service or plo,,ed currentsy for a continuous period of "(a) The compensation of Senators, Rep-
after a separation of three days or less. Sol` at boast twelve mantis. resentatives in Congress, and the Resident
lowing service under an appointment with- (_?) If an officer or employee Is reemployed Commissioner from Puerto Rico shall be at
out time limitation; by -he Federal Government or the municipal the rate of 180,000 per annum each. The
(3) an alien employee who occupies a government of the District of Columbia be- compensation of the Speaker of the House of
position outside the several States, the Dis- fore the expiration of the period covered by Representatives shall be at the rate of $43,000
tract of Columbia, and the Canal Zone, payments of severance pay, the payments per annum- The compensation of the Ma-
(4) an officer or employee who Is subject shall be discontinue and the service Pe Senate Leader and
Mathe ii Leader ader of the
to the Civil Service Retirement Act, as data of reemployment
amended, or any other retirement law or re- resented by the unexpired portion of the nority Leader of the House of Representatives
tirement system applicable to Federal officers period shall be recredited to the officer or shall be at the rate of $35,000 per annum
or employees or members of the uniformed employee for use In any subsequent compu- each."
services, and who. at em-
hereby
wht h ployee ne hesioffi office a Senator is each
subsection m(e)), reemplFor the oyment purposes
fulfilled the require- of at
from the service, has the
ments for immediate annuity under any such ca( sea severance pay to be discontinued shall adjusted, effective on the first day of the
law or system; be considered as employment continuous month following the date of enactment of
i the sev- this Act to the lowest multiple of $60 which
b
f
as e
uvith that serving as the or
time of separation from the service, is re-
ceiving compensation under the Federal Em-
ployees' Compensation Act, as amended, ex-
cept one receiving this compensation con-
currently with salary or on account of the
death of another person;
17,631 $18,065 14M 1$19,133 )10,667 $2D 201 TTON COUNTY COMMITTEE EMPLOYEES
114,250 14,686 15,120 15,565 15,490 16,425 Sac. 10. The rates of compensation of per-
11,735 12,093 1$461 12.M 18,167 13,525
14774 10,060 10, 864 10, 669 1%964 11.249 sons employed by the county committees es-
8, 606 %000 9.338 9.597 9,861 10.125 tablished pursuant to section 8(b) of the
7,980 8,163 .8,806 8,620 8,86-2 9,0911 f?oit Conservation and Domestic Allotment
7,776 ,488 7.700 7,912 8,124 8,336
6,456 648 6, 840 7, 032 7,224 7,416 Act (16 U.B.C. 590h (b)) shall be increased
6,874 6,045 6.216 6,387 6,668 6,729 by amounts equal, as nearly as may be prac-
6, 365 6,421 6,677 8, 788 6,869 6, 046" ticable, to the increases provided by section
2(a) of this Act for corresponding rates of
compensation
cranes pay. will provide a gross rate of compensation not
ig) If the officer or employee dies before less than the gross rate such eployee Was
cps
the expiration of the period covered by pay- receiving immediately prior
ments of severance pay, the payments of that the foregoing provisions of this sub-
se5 erance pay with respect to such officer or section shall not apply in the case of any
erployee shall be continued as if such officer employee if on or before the fifteenth day
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following the date of enactment of this Act,
the Senator by whom such employee is em-
ployed notifies the disbursing office of the
Senate in writing that he does not wish such
provisions to apply to such employee. No
employee whose basic compensation is ad-
justed under this subsection shall receive
any additional compensation under subsec-
tion (a) for any period prior to the effective
date of such adjustment during which such
employee was employed in the office of the
Senator by whom he is employed on the first
day of the month following the enactment
of this Act. No additional compensation
shall be paid to any person under subsec-
tion (a) for any period prior to the first day
of the month following the date of enact-
ment of this Act during which such person
was employed in the office of a Senator
(other than a Senator by whom he is em-
ployed on such day) unless on or before the
fifteenth day following the date of enact-
ment of this Act such Senator notifies the
disbursing office of the Senate in writing that
he wishes such employee to receive such ad-
ditional compensation for such period. In
any case in which, at the expiration of the
time within which a Senator may give no-
tice under this section, such Senator is de-
ceased, such notice shall be deemed to have
been given.
(g) Notwithstanding the provision re-
ferred to in subsection (h), the rates of gross
compensation of the Secretary for the Major-
ity of the Senate, the Secretary for the Mi-
nority of the Senate, the Chief Reporter of
Debates of the Senate, the Parliamentarian
of the Senate, the Senior Counsel in the Of-
flee of the Legislative Counsel of the Senate,
the Chief Clerk of the Senate, the Chaplain
of the Senate, and the Postmaster and Assist-
ant Postmaster of the Senate are hereby in-
creased by 3.6 per centum.
(h) The paragraph imposing limitations
on basic and gross compensation of officers
and employees of the Senate appearing
under the heading "SENATE" in the Legis-
lative Appropriation Act, 1956, as amended
(74 Stat. 304; Public Law 86-568), is amended
by striking out "$22,945" and inserting in
lieu thereof "$23,770".
(i) The limitation on gross rate per hour
per person provided by applicable law on the
effective date of this section with respect
to the folding of speeches and pamphlets
for the Senate is hereby increased by 3.6 per
centum. The amount of such Increase shall
be computed to the nearest cent, counting
one-half cent and over as a whole cent. The-
provisions of subsection (a) of this section
shall not apply to employees whose compen-
sation is subject to such limitation.
FEDERAL JUDICIAL SALARIES
SEC. 12. (a) The rates of basic compen-
sation of officers and employees in or under
the judicial branch of the Government whose
rates of compensation are fixed by or pur-
suant to paragraph (2) of subdivision a of
section 62 of the Bankruptcy Act (11 U.S.C.
102(a) (2) ), section 3658 of title 18, United
States Code, the third sentence of section
603, sections 671 to 675, inclusive, or section
604(a) (5), of title 28, United States Code,
insofar as the latter section applies to graded
positions, are hereby increased by amounts
reflecting the respective applicable increases
provided by section .2(a) of this Act in cor-
responding rates of compensation for officers
and employees subject to the Classification
Act of 1949, as amended. The rates of basic
compensation of officers and employees hold-
ing ungraded positions and whose salaries
are fixed pursuant to such section 804(a) (5)
may be increased by the amounts reflecting
the respective applicable increases provided
by section 2(a) of this Act in corresponding
rates of compensation for officers 4nd em-
ployees subject to the Classification Act of
1949, as amended.
(b) The limitations provided by applicable
law on the effective date of this section with
respect to the aggregate salaries payable to
secretaries and law clerks of circuit and
district judges are hereby increased by
amounts which reflect the respective appli-
cable increases provided by section 2(a) of
this Act in corresponding rates of compen-
sation for officers and employees subject to
the Classification Act of 1949, as amended.
(c) Section 753(e) of title 28, United States
Code (relating to the compensation of court
reporters for district courts), is amended by
striking out the existing salary limitation
contained therein and Inserting a new limi-
tation which reflects the respective appli-
cable increases provided by section 2(a) of
this Act in corresponding rates of compen-
sation for officers and employees subject to
the Classification Act of 1949, as amended.
INCREASED UNIFORM ALLOWANCE
_SEC. 13. The Federal Employees Uniform
Allowance Act, as amended (68 Stat. 1114; 5
U.S.C. 2131), is amended by striking out
"$100" wherever it appears therein and in-
serting in lieu thereof "$125".
MAXIMUM SALARY INCREASE LIMITATION
SEC. 14. Except as otherwise provided in
section 11(e), no rate of salary shall be in-
creased, by reason of the enactment of this
title, to an amount in excess of the salary
rate now or hereafter in effect for Level V of
the Federal Executive Salary Schedule.
ADJUSTMENT OF SALARY RATES FIXED BY
ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION
SEC. 15. (a) The rates of basic compensa-
tion of assistant United States attorneys
whose basic salaries are fixed pursuant to
section 508 of title 28, United States Code,
shall be increased by 3.6 per centum effective
on the first day of the first pay period which
begins on or after October 1, 1965.
(b) Notwithstanding section. 3879 of the
Revised Statutes, as amended (31 U.S.C.
666), the rates of compensation of officers and
employees of the Federal Government and of
the municipal government of the District of
Columbia whose rates of compensation are
fixed by administrative action pursuant to
law and are not otherwise increased by this
Act are hereby authorized to be increased
effective on or after the first day of the first
pay period which begins on or after October
1, 1965, by amounts not to exceed the in-
creases provided by this Act for correspond-
ing rates of compensation in the appropriate
schedule or scale of pay.
(c) Nothing contained in this section shall
be deemed to authorize any increase in the
rates of compensation of officers and em-
ployees whose rates of compensation are fixed
and adjusted from. time to time as nearly
as is consistent with the public interest in
accordance with prevailing rates or prac-
tices.
(d) Nothing contained in this section shall
affect the authority contained in any law
pursuant to which rates of compensation may
be fixed by administrative action.
SEC. 16. Section 204 of the Federal Em-
ployees Pay Act of 1945, as amended (88
Stat. 1110; 5 U.S.C. 912b), is amended by
adding at the end thereof the following sent-
ence: "To the. maximum extent practicable,
the head of any department, independent
establishment, or agency, including Govern-
ment-owned or controlled corporations, or of
the municipal government of the District of
Columbia, or the head of any legislative or
judicial agency to which this title applies,
shall schedule the time to be sent by an
office or employee in a travel status away
from his official duty station within the reg-
ularly scheduled workweek of such officer
or employee.".
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SEC. 17. This title shall become effective
as follows:
(1) This section and sections 1, 9, 13, 15,
18, and 18, and section 3107 (3) of title 39,
United States Code, as contained in the
amendment made by section 6(a) of this
Act, shall become effective on the date of
enactment of this Act.
(2) Section 5 shall become effective on
the first day of the first pay period which
begins on or after the date of enactment of
this Act.
(3) Sections 2, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, and 14
shall become effective on the first day of the
first pay period which begins on or after
October 1, 1965.
(4) Section 3 shall become effective on
the ninetieth day following the date of en-
actment of this Act.
(5) Section 6(b), and section 3107 (1)
and (2) of title 39, United States Code, as
contained in the amendment made by sec-
tion 6(a) of this Act, shall become effective
as of July 1, 1965.
(6) For the purpose of determining the
amount of insurance for which an individual
is eligible under 'the Federal Employees'
Group Life Insurance Act of 1954, all
changes in rates of compensation or salary
which result from the enactment of this
Act shall be held and considered to be effec-
tive as of the date of such enactment.
PAYMENT OF RETROACTIVE SALARY
SEC. 18. (a) Retroactive compensation or
salary shall be paid by reason of this Act
only in the case of an individual in the
service of the United States (including serv-
ice in the Armed Forces of the United States)
or the municipal government of the District
of Columbia on the date of enactment of
this Act, except that such retroactive com-
pensation or salary shall be paid (1) to an
officer or employee who retired during the
period beginning on the effective date pre-
scribed by section 17(3) and ending on the
date of enactment of this Act for services
rendered during such period and (2) in ac-
cordance with the provisions of the Act of
August 3, 1950 (Public Law 638, Eighty-first
Congress), as amended (5 U.S.C. 61f-61k),
for services rendered during the period be-
ginning on the effective date prescribed by
section 17(3) and ending on the date of en-
actment of this Act by an officer or employee
who dies during such period. Such retro-
active compensation or salary shall not be
considered as basic salary for the purpose of
the Civil Service Retirement Act in the case
of any such retired or deceased officer or
employee.
(b) For the purposes of this section, serv-
ice in the Armed Forces of the United States,
in the case of an individual relieved from
training and service in the Armed Forces of
the United States or discharged from hos-
pitalization following such training and
service, shall include the period provided by
law for the mandatory restoration of such
individual to a position in or under the Fed-
eral Government or the municipal govern-
ment of the District of Columbia.
Mr. MONRONEY. Mr. President, the
Senate Post Office and Civil Service Com-
mittee, after careful consideration of
the proposals originally submitted to the
Congress by the President on Federal
salary legislation and the House-passed
bill, H.R. 10281, has reported to the Sen-
ate and recommends enactment of its
amendment to H.R. 10281, which varies
considerably from the President's pro-
posals and the House-passed bill.
The committee amendment does not
grant to Federal employees all they de-
sire or deserve or will eventually get
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when it is possible to make the full com-
parability policy of the 1962 Federal
Salary Reform Act a reality. But it is a
bill which gives a 3.6-percent, across-
the-board increase to all Federal civilian
employees-thus making the salaries
paid to the lowest grades and levels of
Government employees comparable with
the salaries paid to their counterparts
In private enterprise based on the latest
available statistics and preventing the
gap in the higher levels from widening
further.
The amount of the increase-3.6 per-
cent-goes beyond what the President
originally recommended in salary and
fringe benefits, but it is carefully de-
signed to remain within the President's
wage-price guideposts which have been
so effective in maintaining price stability
in this country and which have been ac-
cepted voluntarily by the leaders of pri-
vate employee organizations as the basis
for settlement of wage negotiations.
The committee amendment does not
contain the procedural reforms recom-
mended by the President, nor the auto-
matic second-stage increases next year
contained In the House-passed bill and
implied in the President's original pro-
posals. But it does give to Federal em-
ployees this year a substantial pay in-
crease-certainly In terms of increase in
employee productivity--and it reserves
to the Congress and to the President the
right to consider additional salary legis-
lation next year with the latest figures
on private enterprise salaries in hand
and with the benefit of firm knowledge
of the state of our economy and the re-
quirements of our continuing struggle
in Vietnam.
Above all, Mr. President, the bill rec-
ommended by the committee Is a good
bill. It is a responsible bill. It is an
attainable bill. It is a noninflationary
bill that will not be vetoed.
Before discussing In greater detail the
committees reasons for eliminating the
second stage automatic increase con-
tained In the House-passed bill and re-
ducing the 4 percent raise to 3.6, I
want to point out the liberalizations in
fringe benefits for employees which, al-
though not as great as those in the
House-passed bill, represents a change in
the Government's official attitude to-
ward fringe benefits and will put into
the pockets of Government employees
benefits long overdue.
The committee amendment-
Liberalizes the overtime pay for postal
employees by paying them premium pay
for work in excess of 40 hours a week
at the rate of 150 percent of their basic
pay;
Provides premium pay for Sunday
work at the rate of 125 percent of basic
compensation where Sunday Is one of the
employee's 5 regular workdays;
Makes mandatory the payment of
premium pay for work on official holi-
days for postal employees in PFS-7 and
below ;
Provides special relocation expenses
for postal employees who have been
forced to move as a result of the modern-
ization of postal operations, such as the
introduction of the ZIP code and sec-
tional center concepts;
Increases the uniform allowance for
Fhde:a1 employees by 25 percent from
the current $100 a year to $125 a year;
Authorizes payment for the first time
of severance pay to Federal employees
who through no fault of their own and
because of the dislocations resulting
from technological Innovations and im-
proved governmental efficiency, have lost
their jobs;
Antends the Federal Salary Reform
Act of 1962 to give employees a right to
appeal to the Civil Service Commission
from adverse determinations of ac-
ceptt.ble levels of competence ;
Establishes a policy that to the rnaxi-
mcur extent practicable Government
employees' travel should be scheduled
during the regular workweek; and
Gives preference to senior postal em-
ployees for a Monday through Friday
work schedule.
Ore of the major differences between
the House-passed bill and the committee
amendment is the elimination of the
auto:vatic second-stage increase in Fed-
eral salaries in October 1966. The
amount of the increase In the House bill
would have depended upon evidence
available to the Bureau of Labor Sta-
tistics at that time, but it was indicated
that closing one-half of the compara-
bilit;F gap plus granting all of the antic-
ipated 1965--66 percentage increase in
private enterprise would have resulted
in increases from perhaps 3 percent In
the lower grades to as much as 8 percent
In the higher grades. The estimated cost
of the increase was $800 million.
The automatic increase had the ad-
vantages of being based on statistical
evidence of rates being paid In the pri-
vate sector and partially fulfilling the
policy of comparability enacted in 1962.
It had the disadvantages of anticipating
differences in private and public pay
which cannot be ascertained in advance
and might not be ascertainable In Oc-
tober, 1966, and committing public funds
in advance during a period when our
needs In Vietnam are uncertain and when
caution should be exercised In maintain-
ing he delicate balance required to keep
our economy from overheating or cooling
off.
The committee has not concluded that
Congress is unable to enact fair and
equitable salary legislation. Indeed, by
adhising to wage-price guide lines for
196., the committee Is deeply committed
to u zdcrtake consideration of salary leg-
islation early in the second session of
the 89th Congress. The committee will
make every effort to accelerate the
ach;evement of comparability and re-
duv: the 15 to 18-month lag which oc-
cur; between the date the Bureau of
Lab )r Statistics report is available and
the time Congress usually enacts salary
legi.dation.
Before the end of calendar year 1965,
the committee will have available the an-
nual report of the Bureau of Labor Sta-
tistics on salary rates paid in private en-
teri rise in the spring of 1965. The com-
mittee will give prompt consideration to
this report at the earliest possible time
vex; year. Congress has in the past few
yea 's enacted progressive and far-reach-
ing compensation legislation. Next year
and ifr the years to follow Congress will
strive to make the policy of the 1962 act a
reality in as short a time period as pos-
sible.
The other major difference between
the House-passed bill and the commit-
tee amendment is the reduction of the
increase from 4 to 3.6 percent. The re-
duction was based, not on the amount
of money entailed, but on the President's
strong recommendation and the com-
mittee's agreement that salary Increases
for Federal employees in 1965 should be
within the wage-price guideposts which
have been used in arriving at equitable
wage settlements in private enterprise
during the past few years.
The Federal Salary Reform Act of
1962, which established comparability
with private enterprise salaries as the
Government's basic compensation policy,
was a landmark in Federal salary legis-
lation. The 1962 salary increases, in
two stages which averaged more than 10
percent for all employees-and substan-
tially more In the upper grades where
the gap between private employment and
Federal employment was greatest-did
much to attain comparable rates. The
1964 salary legislation, which Increased
executive rates by about 30 percent and
provided further adjustments for all
employees averaging more than 4 per-
cent, was another significant step to-
ward attaining comparability.
No one believed that this goal would
be easily or quickly achieved. Presi-
dent John F. Kennedy, in his proposals
to the 87th Congress, suggested a three-
staged increase In an effort to ease the
budgetary implications of salary in-
creases. President Johnson In 1965
proposed a 3-percent increase in an ef-
fort to close the gap of comparability
at the lower levels of employment, and
to keep pace with rising costs In annual
salary increases at the upper levels.
Mr. JAVITS. Mr. President, will the
Senator yield?
Mr. MONRONEY. I shall be happy
to yield to the Senator from New York.
I should like first to take up the amend-
ments which I have sent to the desk, and
ask that they be considered and agreed
to en bloc.
On page 66, in respect to the maximum
increase limitation, the language should
be changed to read: "Act" Instead of
"title" and on page 68, where it sets out
the effective dates in this act, the word
should be "Act" rather than "title."
The second amendment Is also techni-
cal and clarifying. It would provide for
payment of retroactive compensation to
employees who have been promoted be-
tween the effective date of this act, Oc-
tober 1, 1965, and the date of enactment
of the act, which will probably be some
time in the next week. Any employee
who Is promoted to a higher grade dur-
ing that short period of time would be
paid retroactive compensation at the
rate of pay he was receiving during the
period from the effective date of the
act to the date of his promotion, and at
the rate of pay he received after promo-
tion from the date of his promotion until
the date of the enactment of this act.
In other words, this amendment recog-
nizes the rate of pay the employee re-
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ceived after promotion for this brief
period of time. Inclusion of this provi-
sion in the legislation may thus prevent
some employees, who have received pro-
motions in the interim, from losing some
of their pay to which they are entitled,
and which they should receive.
The PRESIDING OFFICER.
amendments will be stated.
The LEGISLATIVE CLERK. On page 66,
line 11, in the committee amendment,
strike out "title" and substitute "Act".
On page 68, line 5, strike! out "title" and
substitute "Act".
And on page 41, after line 23, insert
the following:
(5) If the officer or employee, at any time
during the period beginning on the effective
date of this section and ending on the date
of enactment of this Act, was promoted from
one grade under the Classification Act of
1949, as amended, to another such grade at
a rate which is above the minimum rate
thereof, his rate of basic compensation shall
be adjusted retroactively from the effective
date of this section to the date on which he
was so promoted,. on the basis of the rate
which he was receiving during the period
from such effective date to the date of such
promotion and, from the date of such pro-
rmotion, on the basis of the rate for that step
of the appropriate grade of the General
Schedule contained in this section which
corresponds numerically to the step of the
grade of the General Schedule for such officer
or employee which was in effect (without
regard to this Act) at the time of such
promotion. .
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
question is on agreeing, en bloc, to the
amendments of the Senator from Okla-
homa to the committee amendment in
the nature of a substitute.
The admendments to the amendment
were agreed to.
Mr. BASS. Mr. President, will the
Senator yield for the purpose of asking
for the yeas and nays on the pending
legislation?
Mr. MONRONEY. I yield.
Mr. BASS. Mr. President, I ask for
the yeas and nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered.
Mr. JAVITS. Mr. President, the
Senator probably knows that we operate
the biggest post office in the country in
New York, and that thousands of postal
workers are concerned. The Senator
knows, too, how hard they have fought
through the years for the idea of com-
parability, and how disappointed they
are now that the increase which is con-
templated being granted by Congress is
not. based, as the Senator has frankly
and typically stated, on complete com-
parability, but on the overall economic,
situation in the country.
I feel, notwithstanding my deep con-
cern and deep advocacy of what postal
workers wish and what the law promises
them in terms of its purposes, that un-
doubtedly considering the fact that this
is near the end of a session, the com-
mittee has done what it could legiti-
mately do, to consider that the national
economy should observe the benefit and
the impact of the guidelines. I feel
that there is a rather special case to be
made for justice to the postal workers,
and I am glad to see the statement in the
No. 198-8
committee report, on page 4, that next
year Congress will endeavor to make a
reality of the comparability concept.
Knowing the Senator as well as I do,
I am sure that he does not even have to
give me any assurance that he will-
Mr. MONRONEY. Let me say to the
Senator from New York that we-intend
to support the policy and to move closer
toward it. I am afraid, however, that
there will still be some gaps, because of
the wide disparity in the grades under
the comparability level. But it is our
goal to try to close those gaps as fast
as budgetarily possible.
Mr. JAVITS. I am grateful to the
Senator for that assurance. Let me em-
phasize the positive point that the sever=
ance-pay provision in section 9 of the bill
is a most extraordinarily important one,
especially in the closing of any govern-
mental installation. For example, Navy
yard workers in New York would natu-
rally hope for retroactivity. I believe
that retroactivity would have been just.
Again, I appreciate the need for em-
pirical judgment and the fact that there
is a provision for severance pay which
involves $50 million, which is itself, not-
withstanding that it falls short of the
mark in its effective date, an important
point, and I express my gratitude to the
committee for it. It will be of substan-
tial assistance to many workers affected
by installation closings.
Mr. MONRONEY. I thank the Sen-
at;or from New York.
Mr. JAVITS. Postal workers, espe-
cially those with modest seniority rights,
are deeply concerned about section 3571
(b), which vests in the Postmaster Gen-
eral the power to establish work sched-
ules in advance for annual-rate regular
employees consisting of five 8-hour days Mr. JAVITS. I am aware of this gro-
in each week. They have feared that vision. This means with some system
this would result in the Postmaster Gen- on a seniority basis, generally speaking.
eral, possibly, in his own judgment- Mr. MONRONEY. It is written into
whatever that may be-imposing upon the bill "to the maximum extent
--
p
regular employees work on Sunday. ticable senior regular employees shall be
They came to me with the idea of an assigned to the basic workweek Monday
amendment which would exclude Sunday through Friday."
from this provision. Mr. JAVITS. If the Senator objects
I have discussed this matter with the to the way I phrase it, he is a good
distinguished chairman, especially in enough friend of mine to correct me-
view of the attitude of the committee, but is it the desire of the committee, when
which is set forth on pages 5 and 6 of the the Postmaster General or his subordi-
report, in which the committee states nates order a senior regular employee to
that it "has encouraged the Department work on a Saturday or a Sunday against
to give preference to the maximum ex- his wishes, that they should consider it
tent practicable to senior regular ' em- to be a situation which would have to be
ployees for a basic workweek of Monday justified. That does not mean the com-
through Friday." mittee will haul them up; but, prima
I ask the Senator this question: If we facie, the Senator expects the Depart-
left it solely at that, without any color, ment not to do it, unless it has some
without any feeling of emphasis on the particularly good reason for doing it,
part of the committee for the maximum and the committee expects the Depart-
extent practicable-and the chairman ment not to do it; is that not correct?
has been in the Senate a long time, and Mr. MONRONEY. We must have
he knows that the administrator can some regular employees.
forget about it and do what he pleases- Mr. JAVITS. I agree.
I do not say that he is going to do wrong, Mr. MONRONEY. And we must not
but he is going to do pretty much what leave a great institution like the Post
he pleases-I believe it would be ex- Office Department without the ability to
tremely helpful if the chairman of the have control over its clerical work on a
committee, as a part of the legislative Sunday. It would be unthinkable and
record, would give us some feeling as to an impediment to the efficient movement
two points: one, the basic feeling of the of the mail.
committee, which I understand from him Mr. JAVITS. I do not say that.
is that they will look with disfavor upon
the inclusion of Sundays, unless the em-
ployee himself wishes it, under the con-
tinuous workweek discretion given under
the bill to the Postmaster General; and
second, and equally important, it seems
to me, that the committee will exercise
its important oversight jurisdiction to
see that the spirit in which it has writ-
ten this provision, to give the Postmaster
General more flexibility than the worker,
is carried out in the way that the com-
mittee desires, consistent with its view
on pages 5 and 6 of the report.
Mr. MONRONEY. Let me refer the
Senator from New York to page 46 of the
bill, on line 4:
The language reads:
To the maximum extent practicable, sen-
ior regular employees shall be assigned to
a basic workweek Monday through Friday,
inclusive, except for those who express a
preference for another basic work week.
This is to emphasize that the assign-
ment of work as a matter of right will
go to those who have seniority rights
and will be entitled to those days which
generally are considered choice in selec-
tion. It was impossible, as we had hear-
ings and studied the situation, to make
Saturdays and Sundays volunteer days
on which only those regular clerks who
would offer to serve on those two im-
portant days would work. It is true that
only a small crew works on those days,
but their work is so important to the
efficient movement of the mail on a 7-day
basis that, if we left the Post Office De-
partment without the right to assign,
on an equitable basis, some regulars to
work with the substitutes, we could not
guarantee the regular movement of the
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Mr. MONRONEY. I am sure the highest grade--GS-48---of the Classif- be both reasonable and realistic at this
Senator does not want that. I wish to cation Act as amended, and two indi- period in the final hours of the 1st ses-
make myself clear as to exactly how the viduals at not to exceed the compensa- Sion of the 89th Congress.
committee felt on these requirements. tion received by a 08-17. Although there are differences in de-
Mr. JAVITS. Of course. I ask ml' friend the floor manager of gree between the House position.. and
Mr. MONRONEY. I do believe, how- the bill, thy; distinguished senior Senator Senate position in respect to certain pro-
ever, that all senior regular employees from Oklahoma, whether or not he visions, the discussions were weighed
should have preference in the choice of would accept the amendment. most carefully within the committee.
the workweek. Mr. MCNRONEY. I would have to I would like the RECORD to reflect that
Mr, JAVVITS. Good. decline, because the committee made a there Is no partisanship in this commit-
Mr. MONRONEY. Which is Monday preliminary study of the amendment tee. I make that statement very firmly.
through Friday, the distinguished Senator from Califor- I express, my appreciation not only to the
Mr. JAVITS. It Is the Senator's pref- nia outlini~d and found it would camPU- chairman of the committee, the to the
and he intends it to be a Cate greatly the entire salary structure guished senior Senator from Oklahoma
preference? of the Senate. For that reason it was [Mr. MoNRONEV], but I speak with equal
Mr. MONRONEY, Yes. the unanimous view of the committee commendation of the distinguished mi-
Mr. JAVITS. Good. That is the main that we sr. ould give study to this matter nority member of the committee, the
point: so that the Department will have next year, when we can have committee Senator from Kansas [Mr. CARLSON),
to bear In mind that it has to account chairmen and Members of Congress be- and I speak of the members of the Com-
for the fact that it may be going against fore us tc outline what they need and mittee, both Democrats and Republicans,
this preference if Department officials want. So I think that should be done who attempted very sincerely to draft
feel strongly that they must do so. and so that the salary schedule may be kept legislation which would receive the sig-
they must fully justify their action. consistent and well balanced throughout nature of the President of the United
Mr. MONRONEY. We feel that only the range of the Important positions In States.
the younger men who have less expert- the senate. Mr. President, I believe a motion which
ence, and less seniority rights, would be Mr. KIJCHEL. Under the eircum- I had the opportunity and responsibility
involved in the Saturday and Sunday stances. I ask my friend the floor man- to make within the committee has, the
work, but there must be some. ager of th. bill, If It Is contemplated that endorsement of every, Member of the
Mr. DAVITS. I understand. I un- in the beginning of the second session of Senate, regardless of party.
derstand also the concept of preference, this Congress exertions will be made with It is m belief that the distinguished
which is a good one. respect tc holding early hearings which majority my leader, thMIKE at the MANSFIELD, stin hd
I have one other question: Does the will be necessary to arrive at a just de- the ri stintinleg iaderd minority leader, EVBR-
committee contemplate that, generally cision on this matter which Is presently the DiRXSEN, or the men who may in the zTT speaking, the size of the staffs that have Inequitab' a between the Senate and the future hold these positions, should re-
to handle the weekend mail will con- House and between the Congress and the celve ;5 iftlil a year more than other
was
tinue, and Is this drawn up in light of executive branch of our Government? Senate. There was a
the fact that it is expected that the size Mr. MONRONEY. We would like to Members unanimous of agreement ththe Swith the motion
of the staff which has handled weekend have hea-ings as early as possible, be- that was s I it sure at in
mail will continue? Is that going to be cause considerable study will be required. doing what es edid and am incorporating a that in
about the same? We found that out in going into some the measure this provision, we acted In
Mr. MONRONEY. Perhaps a little of the legislative employee salaries. We a manner which not only these two men
less, because of the overtime provisions. will take another look at the differences would naturally be delighted to know
The overtime provisions will be expen- between the Senate and House in the about, but I believe we recognized In a
sive. I would think such work as has payment of top legislative employees, responsible fashion the increased pres-
been done on nonpriority mail on Sat- while sorie House staff position grades sure which is. upon these two leaders of
urdays and Sundays would be largely are higher than those of the Senate, the Senate. I speak of them not in any
dispensed with, because of the higher some of ;hese House employees are not political sense. They are men whose
cost of handling it. compensated at the highest rate. We initiative and industry meet at all times
Mr. JAVITS. But certainly the Sena- would like to go Into the whole matter. be uati for the Senate self, the times
tor does not expect an enlargement of It. Mr. K13CHEL. I thank my friend. as &s d for the of legislative the Senate
Mr. MONRONEY. I would think the The distinguished Senator from nit- feel that on leadership.
the explanation of the
course, explanation
reverse. nois, the Republican leader [Mr. Dmmx- I
capable
measure itself is, the
Mr. KUCHEL. Mr. President, will the ssxl. hat. not desired to press the amend- ha the chairman of our the Cap ble
Senator from Oklahoma yield? ment unless It were acceptable to the hands
not the to of our the mscus-
Mr. MONRONEY. I yield to the Sen- chairman. Under these circumstances, I It is I do feel, a to pro tat there u a
atvr from California. shall not offer the amendment on his and , is
as some me called quarters
inefaga aganeinst so-
Mr. KUCHEI,. There are discrepan- my beha f, but I am also grateful for this constant is cry known in
cies in the present law as between both colloquy as to what we may look forward what of our Federal workers.
Houses of the Congress in the manner to.
in which the chairman of each commit- Mr. MONRONEY. I thank the Sena- are ode because w he not these shag arges
tee in each House and Members of each tor.
House may exercise their authority with Mr. RINDOLPH. Mr. President, will terms of persons hr e Federal t publie
respect to the compensation received by the Senator yield. who their respective staffs. Mr, MONRONEY. I yield to the Sen- cans. By and large, those who are em-
The distinguished Republican Senate ator iron West Virginia, who has had ployed in the District of Columbia, and
leader [Mr. DIRxsExl and I have drafted such a great Interest In the postal and the metropolitan area of our Capital
a memorandum and amendment which classified workers over a period of many City, Including our effective and loyal
would provide that the chairmen of the years, both in the House and in the Sen- personal and committee staffs, those
committees in the Senate might appoint ate. and who has been Interested in get- who labor in our home districts and
whomo they ioconsidered qualified to re- those we kersiconsiste conscan be given States , are istent the Presi- many instances they are not only caP In
ble, but courageous.
ceive salaries at the top of the present dent's entiinfiauonary program.
Classification Act. This, generally Mr. RANDOLPH, Mr. President, the I think the action of Congress, reflected
speaking, is what the law is with respect Committee on Post Office and Civil Serv- In increases in wages and salaries, is an
to the chairmen of House committees ice has tried to bring to the Senate a action which is merited by these people,
today. meaesurf which would do justice and who not only work for themselves
In addition, our amendment would bring ec uity to Federal employees, keep- through the jobs they hold, but in a sense
provide that a Senator, If he so desired, Ing in mind the position of the Presi- are representatives of the Federal Gov-
realizing that we must United States.e communities all over the
might Individual to exceed the anounledQ and United
staff at compensation not
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Mr. President, I am grateful', for the
opportunity to join in the discussion of
this legislation, and I underscore the
desire of the Committee on Post Office
and Civil Service to bring to fruition leg-
islation at this time, so that in a degree,
if not in a complete and full degree, the
Senate recognizes the outstanding serv-
ices of the plendid men and women em-
ployed in our federal system.
I thank the Senator.
Mr. MONRONEY. I thank the dis-
tinguished Senator from West Virgina.
The committee amendment recog-
nizes the reality of budgetary problems,
the increased costs pertaining to the De-
fense Department, and the costs of other
programs of vital importance enacted in
the 89th Congress. The committee
amendment eliminates the gap in sal-
aries between private and public em-
ployment, based on the most recent evi-
dence available to Congress, for all em-
ployee's in the first five grades of the
Classification Act and the first four levels
of the postal field service schedule.
For those in higher levels of pay, the
3.6-percent increase will go a long way
to bridge the gap.
The dollar difference between 3.6 and
4 percent is small when compared to the
total Federal payroll. But the American
economy and the guideposts for main-
taining the purchase value of the dollar
and avoiding the serious threat of in-
flation in the coming years requires Con-
gress to take other factors into account.
The importance of the wage-price guide-
posts must be recognized.
In reducing the increase from 4 to 3.6
percent, the committee has paid par-
ticular attention to the overall package of
benefits included in H.R. 10281. Evidence
presented to the committee indicated
that the 4-percent salary increase-
costing $545 million-coupled with $210
million in fringe benefits and other
liberalizations would substantially exceed
the guideposts which private enterprise
employees and their elected union officials
have agreed to in various labor-manage-
ment negotiations in the past few years
and in recent months.
The committee does not believe it would
be In the best interests of the Govern-
ment, the economy, or the Federal service
to upset a policy which has resulted in
the observance of 3.2-percent wage-price
guideposts in the private sector of the
economy by enacting Federal salary legis-
lation amounting .to a total increase of
more than 5 percent. Nor does it be-
lieve that less stringent sacrifices should
be asked of Federal employees than are
asked of those in private enterprise.
The general guide for noninflationary
wage policy has been that the rate of in-
crease in wage rates-including fringe
benefits-in each industry be equal to the
trend rate of overall productivity in-
creases. If the trend of annual increases
in productivity for the whole economy
has been 3 percent, the wage rates should
rise on the average by 3 percent a year.
Under ideal conditions, the gain from
increases In employee productivity
throughout the economy would be shared
between wage and nonwage incomes by
allowing each to grow at the same per-
centage rate. Business and labor would
share in the gains of the advancing
economy and industrial productivity.
But at the same time the average of all
the unit labor costs in the economy would
remain stable.
From 1962 until the present time,
wage increases have stayed close to na-
tional productivity changes-about 3.2
percent each year. Most of the wage
settlements negotiated in collective bar-
gaining fell within the standards set by
the guideposts. This, combined with
satisfactory productivity gains, has led
to a stability of unit labor costs and to
the unusual degree of overall price stabil-
ity in 56 months of uninterrupted
progress that has brought many gains
to labor and to industry.
The direct role of wage-price guide-
posts in contributing to this stability has
been made clear in the recent contract
negotiations in the steel industry. The
Government surely must abide by those
guideposts itself if it expects private in-
dustry to abide by them. How else could
the Government request-and achieve-
compliance with such principles by the
leaders of labor and management?
The U.S. Government is not a business
enterprise, and the measurement of pro-
ductivity gains is difficult to ascertain. In
the postal service, which is the largest
Government agency in the world, it is
estimated that mail volume increases by
about 3 percent each year and that em-
ployee productivity and additional man-
power must absorb that 2-billion-piece
increase. Because public pay is fixed by
legislation rather, than collective bar-
gaining contracts of fixed duration, ad-
justments have to be made for the period
between pay increases.
When allowance is made for the full
15-month period since the last adjust-
ment of Federal salaries, the annual
average rate of increase of employees'
basic compensation is less than 3 per-
cent. But the additional costs of fringe
benefits and other cost items-which are
considered part of compensation in the
establishment of wage-price guideposts-
raises the total cost of the committee
amendment to a percentage compatible
with the wage-price guideposts. Federal
salaries should not exceed that point by
a greater margin In 1965.
Of vital importance, the committee
amendment of 3.6 percent can be en-
acted into law in 1965, while the House-
passed bill cannot. It will provide the
real gains in income which are, in the
final analysis, the only way by which the
living standards of 21/2 million Federal
employees and their families can im-
prove.
The decision which the Senate Post
Office and Civil Service Committee had
to make last week and which we must
make today Is whether or not Federal
civilian employees shall be granted a pay
increase and substantial fringe benefits
this year. The President has said that
he could not accept the House-passed
bill. The Senate committee has reported
a bill which it believes the President can
and will accept.
There are those on the committee, and
I am sure there are others in the Senate,
who are displeased that the President
expressed his opinion on this bill. There
are others who disagree with the com-
mittee's decision to adhere to the wage-
price guideposts.
I personally believe that the arguments
presented by the administration on the
necessity of complying with the wage-
price guideposts are wise, persuasive, and
compelling. I also believe that the Presi-
dent, just as we, has constitutional duties
and responsibilities among which are his
right to make recommendations to the
Congress, to take firm positions, and to
refuse to sign into law bills enacted by
the Congress which he does not believe
are in the public interest. The strong
expression of presidential opinion and in-
tention prior to final enactment of legis-
lation by Congress is certainly not
unique. In fact, it is a tradition respect-
ed and previously exercised by Presidents
of all parties.
I believe the President wants . to give
Federal employees a pay increase this
year, as does the Senate committee. But
it should be a pay raise in terms of real
dollars. It would be a cruel hoax to
pass a bill which could spark a wide-
spread inflationary spiral that would
erode the value.of the dollar and leave
Federal employees and other workers
with less real benefits than they had be-
fore.
Before closing I want to express my
profound gratitude and appreciation for
the understanding and cooperation of the
ranking minority members of the com-
mittee, the senior Senator from Kansas,
all of the Senators on that side of the
aisle, as well as Senators on my side of
the aisle for their determination and un-
derstanding, and to the other members of
the committee on both sides of the table.
We do nothing in this bill that would
instigate in this country a widespread
wage-price cycle that would destroy the
constantly rising economy we have expe-
rienced in the past few years.
I also wish to express my deep appre-
ciation and respect for the responsible
attitude taken by the leaders of the Fed-
eral employee.organizations.
I urge the Senate to approve the com-
mittee amendment as reported so that
Federal employees will receive the bene-
fits in their next paychecks.
Mr. FONG. Mr. President, will the
Senator yield?
Mr. MONRONEY. I yield.
Mr. FONG. I commend the distin-
guished Senator from Oklahoma, the
chairman of the Committee on Post Of-
fice and Civil Service for a fair state-
ment. The statement was very compre-
hensive and covered the subject in great
detail. He has set forth the many prob-
lems the members of the committee faced
in this bill and has shown where the
present bill differs from that which was
passed by the House of Representatives.
The distinguished Senator from Okla-
homa has said that not everyone is
pleased with the bill. I am not pleased
with the bill, but I will support it. I
would have preferred a 4-percent in-
crease in base pay rather than the 3.6-
percent increase contained in the bill be-
fore us. I feel certain that all Members
of the minority would prefer a 4-percent
increase rather than this 3.6-percent in-
crease. -
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Much valid testimony was presented
to the committee justifying the bill pro-
viding for a 4-percent increase, which
came to the Senate from the House.
The evidence presented in committee
justified an increase even as high as 11
percent in some grades. But we were
faced with the situation of either hav-
ing a 3.6-percent bill this session or hav-
ing no bill at all. We in the committee
were faced with a Presidential edict that
the President could not accept the House
bill providing for a 4-percent increase.
Therefore, the committee was forced to
reduce the amount to 3.6 percent, which
the President said he could accept.
We shall be back in session within
two and a half months, and as stated by
the chairman of the Committee on Post
Office and Civil Service, we shall surely
take up again the proposals of a new
pay bill, to bring the salaries of Federal
classified and postal employees into com-
parability with the pay of their counter-
parts in private industry. Therefore, at
this time, although reluctantly, I shall
support the chairman In the presentation
of this bill. I voice the sentiment of my
committee colleagues on this side of the
aisle-the distinguished Senator from
Kansas [Mr. CARLSON]. the distinguished
Senator from Delaware [Mr. Bocce], and
the distinguished Senator from Wyo-
ming [Mr. SIMPsox]-to go along with
this bill. We urge all Senators to sup-
port this measure so that at least at this
session we shall be able to provide a pay
increase for Federal classified and postal
employees. They deserve a salary in-
crease, although we believe the increase
should be more than 3.6 percent.
We are willing to go along with an in-
crease of 3.6 percent this year. We hope
that next year we shall be able to lessen
the gap between the pay of statutory-
salaried Federal employees and the pay
of employees in private industry.
Again, I commend the distinguished
Senator from Oklahoma for his fine
leadership, his painstaking study of the
bill, and for granting to every member
of the committee, especially those on this
side of the aisle, every consideration in
discussing the bill. He has done an ex-
cellent job and deserves the finest com-
mendation.
Mr. MONRONEY. I thank the dis-
tinguished Senator from Hawaii, who
has done so much to help In the formu-
lation of this legislation, as he has of
other legislation in the past.
Mr. President, I wish to return to a
discussion I had with the distinguished
Senator from New York [Mr. JAVrrs]
with respect to seniority preference on
a Monday-through-Friday workweek
and to make it absolutely clear In the
RECORD that in the bill the Postmaster
General retains the full and absolute
authority to base his scheduling of em-
ployees on what is necessary to move
the mail.
The preference contained in the lan-
guage on page 46 refers to the senior
regular employees' preference rights
over junior regular employees and sub-
stitutes. We would expect that even
though there preferences exist, they will
be administered compassionately and
with an understanding of the problems
of We various employees, and thus make
the act more just In its applicability.
If the mail volume requires many reg-
ular employees, senior or junior, to work
on Sunday, the bill authorizes the Post-
master General to so require it. But
that should be done, again, with a con-
sideration for the employees and for
their working period.
Mr. ELLENDER. Mr. President, I
have; always supported legislation to en-
sure an adequate salary and pay scale
for our civil service employees. Of the
various groups, including the postal
cleres and others, who have come to see
me about the pay raise, I have assured
theta of my interest in their welfare and
of any intention to support legislation
whie,h would assure them of a fair and
equitable salary.
I am very much opposed to section 11
of this bill, which increases the salaries
of employees of Congress. A large in-
creEse was granted last year both to
Meribers of Congress and their employ-
ees. I opposed the legislation then as
not being realistic with their responsi-
bilities and duties. It was passed over
my objections, even though there was no
justification for such large increases. I
am 7pposed to the increases for the legis-
latF,e branch again this year, not only
for the same reasons I expressed last
year, but also because the large increases
theta make this year's provision entirely
unconscionable. We cannot pretend to
exercise economy in Government on the
one hand and pass exorbitant pay in-
eremises on the other.
In spite of the fact that H.R. 10281 con-
tains section 11 covering the legislative
branch, I do support the bill and I wish
to g:o on record as being in favor of its
pas Sage.
Mr. YARBOROUGH. Mr. President, it
Is e great pleasure for me to be able to
join in support of the Federal employees
pay raise of 1965. Action on this bill this
year demonstrates that Congress Is
working toward Its obligation to provide
pas for the Federal worker comparable
to that received in similar jobs in private
industry. This desirable policy was writ-
ten into law in the Pay Act of 1962; by
our pay bills of 1964 and 1965 we have
shcwn that we are working to meet the
obligation that we incurred, but we have
not yet reached full comparability.
To get good competent employees the
Federal Government has to pay salaries
as good as people with comparable abili-
ties can get in private industry. We de-
mean our Government and the Federal
employees if we fail to negate any Idea
that we intend to run this great Govern-
me-it with anything less than the most
competent workers available. For a long
period, Federal pay did lag far behind
the salary raises being given by private
bu mess, but now we are catching up.
The "comparability gap" has been cut
dorm by these pay acts of 1962, 1964,
an i 1965, and we expect now to be able to
go far toward liquidating the gap next
yem tr.
These gains for the Federal employee
an-1 the dignity of the Federal Govern-
ment have been achieved through the
leadership of the two chairmen of the
Senate Post Office and Civil Service
Committee whom I have known. The
late beloved Olin Johnston was the man
who got this basic policy enacted into
law in 1962; the Federal Government
workers never had a more faithful friend.
However, the sad passing of Olin
Johnston this spring brought to the
chairmanship of our Committee another
man who is destined to write a great rec-
ord in his work on Federal employee
matters. The senior Senator from Okla-
homa [Mr. MONRONEY] has proved him-
self as an able and dedicated leader for
our Post Office and Civil Service Com-
mittee. In the very difficult and trying
circumstances that preceded the report-
ing of this bill from our committee, Sen-
ator MONRONEY used the utmost skill
and patience to bring about the final re-
sult. The aim to which he adhered
was to bring to the Senate floor the best
bill possible in the interests of Federal
employees. Although in the committee
we had sharp differences of opinion as to
the best means to obtain this end, there
was no doubt of the sincerity of the
Senator from Oklahoma, in using his
best judgment to attain the desired goal.
I salute him for his accomplishment.
I am hopeful that next year-1966-
we will be able to close this comparabil-
ity gap, and give the Federal workers
equal treatment with workers in private
employment.
Mr. TOWER. Mr. President, for a
private businessman the task of setting
wages for his employees is not a par-
ticularly difficult one. He is bound by
certain inexorable factors of the market-
place. including his balance sheet. He
must pay his workers on a par with em-
ployees of other companies who are do-
ing similar jobs to those done in his
plant. He has, of course, certain factors
to guide him.
But in the Federal Government, with
certain market rules suspended, we are
faced with a unique problem in de-
termining fair and adequate compensa-
tion for Federal employees. We do not
have the advantage of profit and loss to
guide our actions.
In such a situation, the best we can
do is to exercise discretion, study salary
decisions as they are currently being
made in private industry, and rely heav-
ily on this evidence in drafting legisla-
tion.
H.R. 10281 was suggested to remedy
the inequities which presently exist be-
tween the Federal salary structure and
salaries being paid in private industry.
We know that salaries paid Federal
workers do lag behind those paid their
counterparts who perform similar func-
tions in private industry. In private
industry, adjustments are more easily
determined, but, as the Senate knows,
we must enact special legislation for the
adjustment to take place in the Govern-
ment structure.
I believe, Mr. President, that wise dis-
cretion has been exercised by the Post
Office and Civil Service Committee in
reporting H.R. 10281. This legislation
goes a long way towardremedying the
present inequities, and I feel the wage
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creases suggested in this legislation are
Post reasonable.
I am indeed satisfied, on the basis of
.e committee's report, that careful
-tention was paid to the status of wages
-id salaries in private industry. The
.mmittee relied heavily-as it properly
could have-on the evidence of wage
ales in private employment.
Too often, neither deserved personal
-edit nor adequate salary compensation
accorded our many thousands of dedi-
. ted Federal employees. Their task of
inning our national machinery is awe-
.me, but seldom do they get the pat on
ae back which their meritorious service
=serves.
Mr. President, we can today help to
cognize at least in part such meritori-
is service. I support wholeheartedly
:e attempt which is being made to
.irly adjust the rates of compensation
-r Federal employees. It shall be my
easure to vote for H.R. 10281, doing so
_ the knowledge that it is a reasonable
-id just measure. -
Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. President, as a
-ember of the Post Office and Civil
arvice Committee I am very disap-
Dinted that the committee has recom-
_ended a pay increase of only 3.6 per-
Int. There is substantial evidence in-
eating the need for a larger increase.
we are to pursue a policy of compara-
lity in wages for Federal employees,
e must increase their wages more than
ae 3.6 percent the President has said
would allow.
I resent the White House pressures
at were applied on committee mem-
ers and, thus, voted in opposition to
=porting out a bill which I thought was
2adequate. -
It had been my intention to propose an
-nendment calling for the 4-percent in-
-ease which had been approved by the
-ouse of Representatives. Unfortu-
ately, President Johnson is unwilling-
- back up a policy of comparability in
ay for our civil servants at this time.
nnsequently, I am compelled to go
ong with the majority of the Senators
- voting for this bill so that we can
:sure our Federal employees, both clas-
lied and postal, some sort of pay raise.
ask for unanimous consent to have
Tinted in the RECORD, at,this point, the
_dividual views which I have prepared
-r the committee report on this bill,
-R. 10281.
There being no objection, the individ-
..l views were ordered to be printed in
:e RECORD, as follows:
INDIVIDUAL VIEWS OF MR. SIMPSON
= believe Government employees, both
assified and post office, should receive wages
near as possible to those earned by per-
ms working at comparable tasks in private
dustry. Both the House and Senate com-
3ttees have compiled a great deal of evi-
nce that indicates there is a real need
r a substantial pay raise to obtain this
jective. I believe that H.R. 10281, as passed
the House of Representatives, which
anted Federal employees a 4-percent in-
ease, across the board, was a good bill and
th a few minor changes was prepared to
pport it and did support it in the com-
_ttee. I plan to support, on the Senate
-or, an amendment increasing the pay
.se to the 4-percent level adopted by the
muse of Representatives.
In 1962 this committee adopted and the
Congress passed legislation establishing the
principle of comparability for salaries of
Federal employees.
In each succeeding year in which a salary
bill has been enacted, this committee has
been working toward full comparability for
our Federal employees.,
The bill that is now reported by this com-
mittee does not bring about this desired
comparability in pay.
In March of this year, President Johnson,
in a letter to Speaker of the House JOHN Mc-
CORMACK, said:
"It is false economy to offer salaries that
will attract the mediocre but repel the tal-
ented. * * * I need your help in my program
to get a dollar's worth of value for every
dollar's worth of pay * * * and the dollars
paid to attract brains and ability to the Fed-
eral service will come back to the American
people many times over in more economical
and effective government."
I support that statement fully and am
sorry that the President is not willing to
back it up.
The committee was forced by the threat of
a Presidential veto to report a bill that
doesn't begin to come close to enabling Fed-
eral employees to keep pace with their coun-
terparts in private industry.
I resent the Presidential coercion that was
used in the considerations of this needed pay
raise bill.
The White House laid down the terms and
we were told to take them or face a veto. I
refuse to yield to such pressures. I believe
our civil servants and postal employees de-
serve comparable pay and I will continue to
work for it.
Our Federal employees, both in the classi-
fied service and in the postal service, are the
backbone of our Government. Their talents,
their dedication, their devotion to duty are
responsible for bringing sound administra-
tion and effectiveness to the myriad of Gov-
ernment programs that aid our people.
They deserve more than they are getting
in this bill and I intend to do all in my power
to get early consideration of another pay bill
next session that Will carry out the princi-
ple of comparability enunciated time and
time again by this committee and subscribed
to by this administration.
MILWARD L. SIMPSON.
Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. President, the
distinguished senior Senator from Ken-
tucky [Mr. COOPER] had to leave for his
home State last night to keep a long-
standing speaking engagement. I do not
believe Senator COOPER will be able to be
back in time to vote on the Federal pay
raise bill today, but before he left for
Kentucky, he prepared a statement on
his position on the bill. I ask unanimous
consent that the following statement of
Senator JOHN SHERMAN COOPER be
printed at this point in the RECORD.
There being no objection, the state-
ment was ordered to be printed in the
RECORD, as follows: '
STATEMENT BY SENATOR COOPER
I will vote for H.R. 10281, as amended and
reported by the- Senate Committee on Post
Office and Civil Service. I do not serve on
this committee, but I have followed its hear-
ings, and I have read the report made on this
pay raise bill for postal and classified
employees.
The provisions of this bill are reasonable,
and they are in keeping with the guidelines
indicated as helping to maintain a non-
inflationary policy among employees of.the
Government and in private industry. In the
last Congress, I could not support the bill
which provided large increases for Members
of the Congress and for other high Federal
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officials, when so many people remained un-
employed across the Nation and when the
effect of the tax cut on the deficit was still
not known.
I am glad this bill before the Senate today,
which would provide increases averaging 3.6
percent, is basically limited to the Federal
employees who need to be-able to keep up
with advances in the cost of living. I am
for the bill, I will vote for it, and I hope it
will become law.
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. HART
in the chair). The question is on agree-
ing to the committee amendment in the
nature of a substitute, as amended.
The committee amendment in the na-
ture of a substitute, as amended, was
agreed to.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
question now is on the engrossment of
the amendment and the third reading of
the bill.
The amendment was ordered to be en-
grossed, and the bill to be read a third
time. -
The bill was read the third time.
Mr. MONRONEY. Mr. President, I
observe the absence of a quorum.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
clerk will call the roll.
The legislative clerk proceeded to call
the roll.
Mr. MONRONEY. Mr. President, I
ask unanimous consent that the order
for the quorum call be rescinded.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without
objection, it is so ordered.
The bill having been read the third -
time, the question is, Shall it pass? The
yeas and nays have been ordered, and
the clerk will call- the roll.
The legislative clerk proceeded to call
the roll. -
Mr. LAUSCHE (when his name was -
called). On this vote I have a pair with
the senior Senator from Rhode Island
[Mr. PASTORE]. If he were present and
voting he would vote "yea." If I were at
liberty to vote, I would vote "nay" I
withhold my vote. -
The rollcall was concluded.
Mr. LONG of Louisiana. I announce
that the Senator from Indiana [Mr.
BAYH], the Senator from Pennsylvania
LMr. CLARK], the Senator from Louisi-
ana [Mr. ELLENDER], the Senator from
Tennessee [Mr. GORE], the Senator from
Massachusetts [Mr. KENNEDY], the Sen-
ator from Missouri [Mr. LONG], the Sen-
ator from Washington [Mr. MAGNUSON],
the Senator from Arkansas [Mr. Mc-
CLELLAN], the Senator from Oregon [Mrs.
NEUBERGER], the Senator from Rhode
Island [Mr. PASTORE], - and the Senator
from Maryland [Mr. TYDINGS] are ab-
sent on official business.
I also announce that the Senator from
New Mexico [Mr. ANDERSON], the Sen-
ator from Virginia [Mr. BYRD], the Sen-
ator from Idaho [Mr. CHURCH], the Sen-
ator from Indiana [Mr. HARTKE], the
Senator from New York [Mr. KENNEDY],
the Senator South Dakota [Mr. Mc-
GOVERN], the Senator from Oregon [Mr.
MORSE], the Senator from Utah [Mr.
Moss], the Senator from Maine [Mr.
MUSKIE], the Senator from Wisconsin
[Mr. NELSON], the Senator from Ala-
bama [Mr. SPARKMAN], and the Senator
from Georgia [Mr. TALMADGE] are neces-
sarily absent.
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I further announce that, if present and
voting, the Senator from Indiana (Mr.
BAYH], the Senator from Idaho [Mr.
CHURCH], the Senator from Pennsyl-
vania [Mr. CLARK], the Senator from
Louisiana [Mr. ELLENDERI, the Senator
from Tennessee [Mr. GORE], the Sena-
tor from Indiana (Mr. HARTKE). the Sen-
ator from Massachusetts (Mr. KEN-
NEDY1, the Senator from New York [Mr.
KENNEDY], the Senator from Missouri
[Mr. LoNG], the Senator from Wash-
ington [Mr. MAG"NUSON], the Senator
from Arkansas [Mr. MCCLELLAN], the
Senator from South Dakota [Mr. Mc-
GOVERN], the Senator from Oregon [Mr.
MORSE], the Senator from Utah [Mr.
Moss], the Senator from Maine [Mr.
MUSKIE], the Senator from Wisconsin,
Mr. NELSON], the Senator from Ore-
gon [Mrs. NEUBERGERI, the Senator from
Alabama [Mr. SPARuMANl. the Senator
from Georgia [Mr. TALMADCEI, and the
Senator from Maryland [Mr. TYDINCS]
would each vote "yea."
Mr. KUCHEL. I announce that the
Senator from Delaware [Mr. BOGGS], the
Senator from Colorado [Mr. DouU4lcxl,
the Senator from Kentucky [Mr. MOR-
TON], the Senator from Kansas [Mr.
PEARSON], and the Senator from Wyo-
ming [Mr. SIMPSoN] are necessarily
absent.
The Senator from Kansas [Mr. CARL-
SON] and the Senator from Kentucky
[Mr. COOPER] are absent on official
business.
The Senator from Iowa [Mr. MILLER]
Is absent by leave of the Senate.
The Senator from Delaware [Mr.
WILLIAMS] is detained on official busi-
ness.
If present and voting, the Senator
from Delaware [Mr. BOGGS], the Sena-
tors from Kansas [Mr. CARLSON and Mr.
PEARSON], the Senators from Kentucky
[Mr. COOPER and Mr. MORTON]. the Sen-
ator from Colorado [Mr. DOMINICK], the
Senator from Iowa [Mr. MILI.Es], and
the Senator from Wyoming [Mr. Smxp-
soN] would each vote "yea."
The result was announced-yeas 67,
nays 0, as follows:
[No. 300 Leg.)
YEAS-67
Aiken
Hart Murphy
Allott
Hayden Pell
Bartlett
Hickeniooper Prouty
Bass
Hill Proxmire
Bennett
Holland Randolph
Bible
Hruaka Rlbicoff
Brewster
Inouye Robertson
Burdick
Jackson Russell, S.C.
Byrd. W. Va.
Javits Russell. Ga.
Cannon
Jordan. N.C. Saltonstall
Case
Jordan, Idaho
Se. tt
Cotton
Kuchel
Smothers
Curtis
Long. La.
Smith
Dirkeen
Mansfield
Stennis
Dodd
McCarthy
Symington
Douglas
McGee
Thurmond
F,,i. tland
McIntyre
Tower
Ervin
McNamara
Williams. N.J.
Fannin
Metcalf
Yarborough
Fang
Mondale
Young, N. Dak.
Fuibright
Monroney
Young, Ohio
Gruening
Montoya
Harris
Mundt
NAYS--O
NOT VOTING-33
Anderson
Clark
Kennedy. Mesa.
Bayh
Cooper
Kennedy,N.Y.
Boggs
Dominick
Lauscche
Byrd, Va.
Enender
Long, Mo.
Carlson
Gore
Magnuson
Church
Hartke
McClellan
October 22, 1965
McGovern
Muskie
Simpson
(1) The individual Income tax (l'impot des
Miller
Nelson
Sparkman
personnes physiques) ;
Morse
Neuberger
Talmadge
(ii) The corporate income tax (l'impot des
Morten
Moss
Pastore
Pearson
Tyd.inga
Williams. Del.
socldtes);
(Iii
Th
I
t
l
l
'
So the bill (H.R. 10281) was passed.
)
e
ncome
ax on
ega
entities I
im-
pot des personnes morales) ;
EXECUTIVE SESSION
Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I
move that the Senate proceed to the con-
sideration of executive business.
The motion was agreed to; and the
Senate proceeded to the consideration of
executive business.
SUPPLEMENTAL INCOME TAX
PROTOCOL WITH BELGIUM-TAX
PROTOCOL WITH THE FEDERAL
REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I
ask unanimous consent that the Senate
proceed to the consideration of Execu-
tive 0 and Executive I on the Executive
Calendar.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there
objection?
There being no objection, the Senate,
as In the Committee of the Whole, pro-
reeded to consider the protocol, Execu-
tive G (88th Cong., 1st less.), a supple-
mentary Income tax proposal with Bel-
gium; and Executive I (89th Cong., 1st
was.), a tax protocol with the Federal
Republic of Germany, which were read
the second time, as follows:
PROTOCOL
Modifying and supplementing the Conven-
tion between the United States of America
and Belgium for the avoidance of double
taxation and the prevention of fiscal eva-
sion with respect to taxes on income signed
at Washington on October 28, 1948, as
amended by the supplementary conven-
tions, signed at Washington on Septem-
ber 9, 1952, and on August 22, 1957
rUE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA ANO ISIS MAJESTY THE RING OP
THE BELGIANS.
Desiring to modify and supplement in cer-
tain respects the Convention for the avoid-
ance of double taxation and the prevention
of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on In-
come. signed at Washington on October 28,
1948, as amended by the supplementary con-
ventions, signed at Washington on Septem-
ber 9, 1952 and on August 22, 1957,
Have decided, primarily for the purpose of
permitting its application as soon as possible
to the taxes instituted by the Belgian law of
November 20. 1962, to conclude a protocol for
that purpose and have appointed as their
respective Plenlpotentlaries:
The President of the United States of
America:
John M. McSweeney.
Chargt+ d'Affaires at, of the United States
of America;
His Majesty the King of the Belgians:
Paul Henri Speak.
Minister for Foreign Affairs;
Who, having communicated to each other
their full powers, found in good and due
form, have agreed as follows:
Article I
The provisions of the Convention between
the United States of America and Belgium,
signed at Washington on October 28, 1948,
as previously amended, are hereby modified
and supplemented as follows:
(1) In article I. paragraph (1) (b) Is re-
placed by the following:
(o) In the case of Belgium:
(iv) The Income tax on nonresidents
(l'impOt des nonresidents);
(v) The prepayments (precomptes) and
additional prepayments (complements de
precomptes) relating to the taxes referred to
In (1) through (iv); and
(vi) The proportional taxes (centimes ad-
ditionnels) supplementing each of the taxes
referred to in (1) through (v) above includ-
ing the communal supplement to the indi-
vidual Income tax (taxe comunale additionale
l'impot des personnes physiques).
(2) In article 11(1) (a), the following words
are deleted: ", the Territories of Alaska and
of Hawaii,".
(3) In article VIII, paragraph (2) is re-
placed by the following:
(2) The rate of Belgian tax on dividends
derived from sources within Belgium by a
resident, corporation or other entity of the
United States not having a permanent estab-
lishment within Belgium with respect to
shares held In registered form for the period
of 12 months immediately preceding the date
on which such dividends become payable
(or for such portion of that period as the
paying corporation has been in existence)
shall not exceed 15 percent of the amount
actually distributed. In all other cases, the
rate of Belgian tax on dividends derived from
sources within Belgium by a resident, cor-
poration or other entity of the United States
not having a permanent establishment with-
in Belgium shall not exceed 15 percent of the
taxable amount of such dividends determined
in accordance with the Belgian law in force
on the date of signature of the protocol in-
serting this provision in the Convention. In
applying this paragraph, the term "divi-
dends" shall include income from Invested
capital taxable as such to members of Bel-
gian companies other than joint stock com-
panies.
(4) After article VIII A, the following new
Article is inserted:
Article VIII B.
(1) Dividends and interest paid to a resi-
dent, corporation or other entity of the
United States not having a permanent es-
tablishment within Belgium shall be exempt
from the Belgian additional personal prop-
erty prepayment (complement do prScompte
mobilier) provided for in the Belgian law in
force on the date of the signature of the
protocol Inserting this provision in the Con-
vention.
(2) Dividends and interest Paid by a Bel-
gian corporation to a person other than a
citizen, resident, corporation or other entity
of the United States shall be exempt from
United States tax.
(3) Dividends and interest paid by a
United States corporation to a person other
than a resident, corporation or other entity
of Belgium shall be exempt from Belgian tax
unless such income is collected in Belgium.
(5) In article IX (1) the words "on such
income" are InsertedIn the second sentence
after the word "tax" and before the word
?as,.
(6) In article XII. paragraphs (2) and (3)
are replaced by the following:
(21 The United States agrees to allow as
a credit against the Federal income taxes
payable by a citizen, resident or corporation
of the United States the appropriate amount
of the taxes mentioned in article I, para-
graph (1) (b) and paid to Belgium. Such
appropriate amount shall be based on the
total amount of such taxes paid to Belgium,
but it shall not exceed that proportion of
the United States taxes which net Income
from sources within Belgium bears to the
total net income of such citizen, resident
or corporation.
Appr-eved 7600
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27307
Emery L. Frazier of Kentucky as Secre-
tary of the Senate effective January 1,
1966.
Accordingly (at 2 o'clock and 26 min-
utes p.m.), the House stood in recess
subject to the call of the Chair.
AFTER RECESS
The recess having expired, the House
was called to order by the Speaker at 7
o'clock p.m.
FURTHER MESSAGE FROM THE
SENATE
A further message from the Senate by
Mr. Arrington, one of its clerks, an-
nounced that the Senate had passed
without amendment concurrent resolu-
tions of the House of the following ti-
tles:
If. Con. Res. 509. Concurrent resolution au-
thorizing the printing of additional copies
of hearings on crime in the District of Co-
lumbia and House Report No. 176, entitled
"District of Columbia Crime";
H. Con. Res. 512. Concurrent resolution au-
thorizing the printing of additional copies
of the hearing on home rule for the District
of Columbia;
H. Con. Res. 513. Concurrent resolution au-
thorizing the printing of hearings on "Lower
FEDERAL SALARY ADJUSTMENT
ACT OF 1965
Mr. MORRISON. Mr. Speaker, I ask
unanimous consent to take from the
Speaker's table the bill (H.R. 10281) to
adjust the rates of basic compensation
of certain officers and employees in the
Federal Government, to establish the
Federal Salary Review Commission, and
for other purposes, with Senate amend-
ments thereto, and concur in the Senate
amendments.
The Clerk read the title of the bill.
The Clerk read the Senate amend-
ments, which were to strike out all after
the enacting clause and insert:
That this Act may be cited as the "Federal
Employees Salary Act of 1965".
EMPLOYEES SUBJECT TO CLASSIFICATION ACT OF
1949
SEC. 2. (a) Section 603(b) of the Classifi-
cation Act of 1949, as amended (78 Stat. 400;
6 U.S.C. 1113(b)), is amended to read as
follows :
"(b) The compensation schedule for the
General Schedule shall be as follows:
Colorado River Basin Project," 89th Con-
gress, 1st session; and
H. Con. Res. 519. Concurrent resolution au-
thorizing the printing of additional copies
of the hearings on H.R. 2580 (89th Cong.,
1st seas.), to amend the Immigration and
Nationality Act, and for other purposes, be-
fore the Committee on the Judiciary of the
House of Representatives.
The message also announced that the
House had passed, with amendments in
which the concurrence of the House is re-
quested, a bill of the House of the fol-
lowing title:
H.R.10281. An act to adjust the rates of
basic compensation of certain officers and
employees in the Federal Government, to es-
tablish the Federal Salary Review Commis-
sion, and for other purposes.
The message also announced that the
Senate agrees to the report of the com-
mittee of conference on the disagreeing
votes of the two Houses on the amend-
ments of the Senate to the bill (7812) en-
titled "An act to authorize the loan of
naval vessels to friendly foreign coun-
tries, and for other purposes."
The message also announced that the
Senate has passed Senate Resolution 156
notifying the House of the election of
"Grade
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
-----------
$3, 814
$
,
$
$4, 201
$4,330
$4, 459
$4, 588
$4, 717
$4, 846
$44,,975
GS-1-------------------------------
GS-2-----------------------------------------
4
943
3
4 289
4, 072
,
569
,
4709
1
4849
5, 421
4989
5, 577
5 129
5, 733
5, 889
6,045
GS-3-------------------------------------------
GS-4-------------------------------------------
, 649
4
181
6
4
, 797
352
b
953
4
5,523
5
1
09
5
6,694
5
265
b, 865
6,036
6,207
854
6
6,378
046
7
6,549
7
238
6, 720
430
7
G5-5------------------------------------------
0
-----
--------------
5
,
5,181
,
5, 352
, 523
6
6
683
5, 694
6
890
6,470
007
7
6,662
7,304
,
7 511
,
7,718
,
7,925
,
8,132
-----------------------
-
-
G
GS-7-_------------------------------------------
6, 269
g
269
6, 476
7, 097
,
7,325
,
7,553
,
7, 781
8, 009
7 49
8
8 237
00 3
9
8, 465
257
9
8, 511 693
9
8 9, 921
,705
GS-8-------------------------------------------
GS-9-------------------------------------------
~
7, 479
8
184
7,733
464
8
7,987
8,744
8, 241
9, 024
8, 495
9,301
,
9, 584
,
9, 864
797
10
,
10,144
11
103
,
10, 424
409
11
, 704
10
715
11
(4s-10 ------------------------------------------
GS-11-------------------------------------------
,
8 961
10
619
,
g, 267
10
987
9,573
11
355
9,879
11, 723
10,185
12,091
10,491
12, 459
,
12, 827
,
13,195
555
15
,
13, 563
15
990
,
13, 931
425
16
_
GS-12 ------------------------------ - -
--- ------------------
13
,
12, 610
,
12,045
,
13,380
1
696
13, 815
204
16
14, 250
712
16
14, 685
17,220
15, 120
17 728
,
,
18, 236
,
18, 744
,
19, 252
GS-
---------------------
(s5-14----------------------------------------?
14, 680
015
17
15, 188
17,645
5,
18, 235
,
18, 825
,
19,415
20, 005
23
009
20, 595
687
23
,186
21
24
366
21, 775
25
043
22, 365
----------
-----
GS-15 ------------------------------------------
GS-16
----------------------------------------
,
19,619
217
20, 297
094
22
20,975
771
23
21, 653
24,-48
22, 331
25,326
,
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,
-
,
.
,
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GS-17----------------------------------------
22
5,382
,
------------
,
-
-
----
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------------
-----------
------------
--------:
(b) Except as provided in section 504(d) receiving, pursuant to section 2(b) (4) of the
of the Federal Salary Reform Act of 1962 Federal Employees Salary Increase Act of
(78 Stat. 412; 5 U.S.C. 1173(d)), the rates 1955, an existing aggregate rate of compensa-
of basic compensation of officers and em- tion determined under section 208(b) of the
ployees to whom the compensation schedule act of September 1, 1954 (68 Stat. 1111), plus
set forth in subsection (a) of this section subsequent increases authorized by law, he rate of applies shall be initially adjusted as of the shall equal receive to an aggregate
of his existing ensa-
effective date of this section, as follows: ion rate of co the
comsum pensation, on the day gre-
(i) If the raofcer or tio y is receiving gate ceding the effective date of this section, plus
the the amount of increase made by this section
eaec compensation immediately section at one prior of t
rates oof a e date grade in n the Gene this eneral a Schedule of in the maximum rate of his grade, until (1)
te Classification Act of c as amended, he leaves his position, or (ii) he is entitled
the ll receive a Ate basic oto receive aggregate compensation at a higher
at shall orrsp a rate rate basi in c compensation
effect o rate by reason of the operation of this Act
at the correspte. onding rate effect on and nd or any other provision of law; but, when
after such da such position becomes vacant, the aggregate
(2) If the officer or employee is receiving rate of compensation of any subsequent ap-
basic compensation immediately prior to the pointee thereto shall be fixed in accordance
effective date of this section at a rate between with applicable provisions of law. Subject
two rates of a grade in the General Schedule to clauses (I) and (ii) of the immediately
of the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, preceding sentence of this paragraph, the
he shall receive a rate of basic compensation amount of the increase provided by this
at the higher of the two corresponding rates section shall be held and considered for the
in effect on and after such date. purposes of section 208(b) of the Act of Sep-
(3) If the officer or employee is receiving tember 1, 1954, to constitute a part of the
basic compensation immediately prior to the existing rate of compensation of the
effective date of this section at a rate in employee.
excess of the maximum rate for his grade, REDETERMINATIONS OF ACCEPTABLE LEVELS OF
he shall receive (A) the maximum rate for
COMPETENCE
his grade in the new schedule, or (B) his
existing rate of basic compensation if such Act SEC. 3. Section tamended (5 the U.S.C. Classification 1121), Is
existing rate is higher.
(4) If the officer or employee, immediately amended by adding the following new sub-
prior to the effective date of this section, is section at the end thereof:
"(c) Whenever a determination is made
under subsection (a) of this section that
the work of an officer or employee is not of
an acceptable level of competence, he shall
be given prompt written notice of that .
determination and- an opportunity for re-
consideration of the determination within
his department under uniform procedures
established by the Commission. If the de-
termination is affirmed upon reconsidera-
tion, the employee shall have a right of
appeal to the Commission. If the recon,
sideration or appeal results in a reversal of
the earlier determination, the new deter-
mination shall supersede the earlier deter-
mination and shall be deemed to have been
made as of the date of the earlier -determina-
tion. The authority of the Commission to
establish procedures and the right of appeal
by the officer or employee to the Commis-
sion shall not apply to determinations of
acceptable level of competence made by the
Librarian of Congress."
POSTAL FIELD SERVICE EMPLOYEES
SEC. 4. (a) Section 3542(a) of title 39,
United States Code, is amended to read as
follows:
"(a) There is established a basic compen-
sation schedule for positions in the postal
field service which shall be known as, the
Postal Field Service Schedule and for which
the symbol shall be 'PFS'. Except as pro-
vided in sections 3543 and 3544 of this title,
basic compensation shall be paid to all em-
ployees in accordance with such schedule.
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Per annum rates and steps
I---------------------
2---------------------
$4, 6116
4,424
$4, 221
$4, 868
4,714
$4,491
4
869
$4,826
5
001
$4,761
5
149
$4,898
5
294
$5,031
$5,188
$5,301
$5,436
$5,671
`I--------------------
4------------------
6
4, 750
6,161
6,852
8,102
5,523
,
a, 263
894
,
5,424
6,865
,
6,586
6.038
,
5,746
8
2D7
5,439
5, 907
e
m
5,584
81 068
5,729
6,229
5,874
61390
6,019
8, 551
---------------------
6
5,722
6, ON
280
5
6
466
~
062
l
8,720
8,891
7,062
--------------------
5,041
6,138
6 836
6~ 532
,
6, 729
,
8
926
2
3
71
7 820
7,517
7,210
7,396
7,582
---------------------
9---------------------
8
7,449
6, 573
7,118
7, 697
7. 785
7
946
6,997
7,672
8
198
7,20D
$800
,
7,421
8,029
.
7,033
8.258
7,845
6,484
8,057
8,712
7,714
8,269
8,940
7,911
8,481
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8,108
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14-------------------
110
B
386
8
,
8
681)
,
D
& 937
9,185
9433
9
681
-
11-------------------
12
,
8, 901
914
9
,
9,267
10
251
,
10,8383
8,935
9,870
9,210
1% 185
,
485
10,
4
9,760
10,797
105
11,103
10,310
11,409
,
10,585
11
715
---------'
----------
13-------------------
14
,
10, 966
12,077
,
11,334
12,497
11.712
1$917
12,090
ta
337
11
262
12,488
11,
309
12,846
11,938
13,224
12,273
13,602
12,810
13,980
,
12,947
14,358
-----------
------------
_--.-_--_-_
----------
lb----- -----------
18,340
13,810
14, 271
l
193
I'l
15, 654
14,597
18
1
15, D17
15, 437
15,857
-----------
----------
16
17-----------------
14,761
16,320
15, 264
16
890
15,777
17
460
4 290
030
18,808
18
600
l
17,318
,1
5
17,829
16,576
18,342
17,437
18,855
17,408
19,388
------------
------
---
----------
18---------------------
19-------------------
18,073
20,042
,
1&710
20
741
,
10,342
21
440
10 97
4
139
1
,
20, 806
19,170
21,238
19,740
21,870
20,310
92,502
880
23,134
21,450
23,766
-
--
-------
--------
---------
----------
20
22, 2I7
,
22,094
,
23,771
:1
9, 648
22,637
24,236
-----------
24, 936
------------
------------
------------
---- I
---
(b) Section 3543(a) of title 39, United
States Code, is amended to read as follows:
"(a) There Is established a basic com-
penes lion schedule which shall be known as be paid to rural carriers in accordance with
the Riral Carrier Schedule and for which the this schedule.
symlx4 shall be 'RCS'. Compensation shall
Carrier in rural delivery service: Fixed com-
pensationperanmmn -------- ............
$2, 801
per mile. per annum for each
mile up to 30 miles of route-----------------
$6
For each mile of route over 30 in .
26
$2, 412
88
26
(c) Section 3544(a) of title 39, United Fourtk Clans OMce Schedule and for which
States Code, is amended to read is follows: the symbol ahnil be 'POS', for postmasters
"(a) There Is established a basic compeer- In pos; offices of the fourth class which is
cation schedule which shall be known as the based tm the revenue units of the post office
for the preceding fiscal year. Basic com-
pensation shall be paid to postmasters in
Post* offices of the fourth class In accord-
ance with this schedule.
Per annum rata; and steps
15 but fewer than 24. -
12 but fewer than 18___. -
6 but fewer than 1?__- _
Fewer than 6------ --
(d) The basic compensation of each em-
ployee subject to the Postal Field Service
Schedule, the Rural Carrier Schedule, or the
Fourth Class Office Schedule Immediately
prior to the effective date of this, section
shall be determined as follows:
(1) Each employee shall be assigned to the
same numerical step for his position which he
had attained immediately prior to such effec-
tive date. If changes in levels or steps
would otherwise occur on such effective date
without regard to enactment of this Act, such
changes shall be deemed to have occurred
prior to conversion.
(2) If the existing basic compensation is
greater than the rate to which the employee
Is converted under paragraph (1) of this
subsection, the employee shall be placed in
the lowest step which exceeds his basic com-
pensation. If the existing basic compensa-
tion exceeds the maximum step of his posi-
tion, his existing basic compensation shall
be established as his basic compensation.
POSTAL SERVICE OVERTIME AND HOLIDAY
COMPENSATION
SEc. 5. (a) Section 3571 of title 39, United
States Code, is amended to read as follows:
"1 3571. Maximum hours of work
"(a) A basic workweek is established for
all postal field service employees consisting of
$4,035
$4,164
729
3 848
3 0
79
4
2,415 2 1,741
1,403 1
.447
1
t
i
7
8
9
10
11
12
$2,528
$2, 684
$9, 746
$2, 856
$2, 967
$3, 078
$3,189
$3,300
$3,411
$3,522
90
26
02
26
94
25
96
26
98
25
too
26
102
104
100
108
25
25
24
26".
i
I
1
1
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
$4 203
8 967
04, 422
4
086
$4.551
4
206
$4, 680
4
824
$4, 809
4
443
$4,938
$5,007
$5,198
9
8.281 N?
,
3,382
,
7 4
,
3.584
,
3, 685
4,562
3,786
4,681
3,887
4,800
3,988
4,
,919
4
089
8.
1
8,
643
719
$ 796
2
011
2,871
2
065
2, 947
119
2
8,023
3, 099
,
3,175
1
, 401
1, 686
1, 579
,
I, 623
,
1,667
,
1, 711
2,173
1, 755
2,227
1,799
2,281
1,843".
five eight-hour days. The work schedule of
employees shall be regulated so that the eight
hours ol service does not extend over a longer
period than ten consecutive hours.
"(b) The Postmaster General shall es-
tablish work schedules in advance for an-
nual rc to regular employees consisting of
five-:eight-hour days in each week.
"(c) Except for emergencies as determined
by the Postmaster General. the hours of serv-
lco of any employee shall not extend over a
longer Period than twelve consecutive hours,
and no employee may be required to work
more that twelve hours in one day.
'?(d) 'ro the maximum extent practicable,
senior regular employees shall be assigned
to a has c workweek Monday through Friday,
inclusiv,:. except for those who express a
preference for another basic workweek."
(b) Section 3573 of title 39, United States
Code. is amended to read as follows:
"13373. Compensatory time, overtime, and
holidays.
"(a) In emergencies of if the needs of the
service rsquiro, the Postmaster General may
require employees to perform overtime work
or to wick on holidays. Overtime work Is
any work. officially ordered or approved which
is perfor-ned by-
"(1) an annual rate regular employee in
excess of his regular work schedule,
"(2) an hourly rate regular employee In
excess of eight hours in a day or forty hours
In a week, and
"(3) a substitute employee in excess of
forty hours in a week.
The Postmaster General shall determine the
day and week used In computing overtime
work.
"(b) For each hour of overtime work the
Postmaster General shall compensate an em-
ployee in the 'PPS' Schedule as follows:
"(1) He shall pay each employee in or be-
low salary level PFS-7 compensation at the
rate of 150 per centum of the hourly rate
of basic compensation for his level and step
computed by dividing the scheduled an-
nual rate of basic compensation by two
thousand and eighty.
"(2) He shall grant each employee in or
above salary level PFS-8 compensatory time
equal to the overtime worked, or In his dis-
cretion in lieu thereof pay such employee
compensation at the rate of 150 per centum
of the hourly rate of basic compensation of
the employee or of the hourly rate of the
basic compensation for the highest step of
salary level PFS-7, whichever Is the lesser.
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for and Deputy Chief Medical Director, shall
"(c) For officially ordered or approved time "? 3575. Exemptions be as follows:
worked on a day referred to as a holiday in "(a) Sections. 3571, 3573 and P574 of this
the Act of December 26, 1941 (55 Stat. 862; title do not apply to postmasters, rural car- "SECTION 4103 SCHEDULE
5 U.S.C. 8'b), or on a day designated by Exec- riers, postal inspectors, and employees in "Assistant Chief Medical Director, $25,382.
utive order as a holiday for Federal :em salary level PFS-15 and above. "Medical Director, $22,217 minimum to
ployees, under regulations prescribed by the "(b) Sections 3571 and 3573 of this title $25,325 maximum.
Postmaster General, an employee in the PPS do not apply to employees referred to in see'- "Director of Nursing Service, $17,055 mini-
schedule shall receive extra compensation, tion 3581 of this title. . mum to $22,365 maximum.
in addition to any other compensation pro- "(c) Sections 3571 (a), (b), and (d), and "Director of Chaplain Service, $17,055 min-
vided for bylaw, as follows: 3573(e) of this title do not apply to sub- imum to $22,365 maximum:
"(1) Each regular employee in or below stitute employees. `"Chief Pharmtaoist, $17,055 minimum to
salary level PFS-7 shall be paid extra com- "(d) Section 3571(b) of this title does not $22,365 maximum,
pensation at the rate of 100 per centum of apply to hourly rate regular employees. "Chief Dietitian, $17,055 minimum to $22,-
the hourly rate of basic compensation for POSTAL EMPLOYEES RELOCATION ExPENSES 365 maximum. his level and step computed by dividing the SEC. 6. (a) That part of chapter 41 of title (b)(1) The grades and per annum full
scheduled annual rate of basic compensation 39, United States Code, which precedes the pay ranges for positions provided in para-.
by two thousand and eighty. heading "Special Classes of Employees" graph (1) of section 4104 of this title shall
"(2) Each regular employee beee in a above center and section 3111 thereof, is amended by in- be as follows:
pensa level PFSn8 shall u granted come serting at the end thereof the following new "PHYSICIAN AND DENTIST SCHEDULE
- be o time inch hmont equal to thirty section: "Director grade, $19,619 minimum to $25,-
time
ed on such holiday within trt043 maximum.
time work
working days thereafter or, in the discretion ? $107. Postal employees relocation expenses "Executive grade, $18,291 minimum to $24,-
of the Postmaster General, in lieu thereof "Notwithstanding any other provision of 024 maximum.
shall be paid extra compensation for the time law, each employee in the postal field sere- "Chief grade, $17,055 minimum to $22,365
so worked at the rate of 100 per centurn of ice who is transferred or relocated from one maximum.
the hourly rate of basic compensation for official station to another shall, under regula- "Senior grade,.$14,680 minimum to $19,252
his level and step computed by dividing the tions promulgated by the Postmaster Gen- maximum.
scheduled annual. rate of basic compensa- eral, be granted the following allowances and "Intermediate grade, $12,510 minimum to
tion by two thousand and eighty. expenses
$16,425 maximum.
"(3) For work performed on Christmas "(1) Per diem allowance, in lieu of subsis- "Full grade, $10,619 minimum to $13,931
Day (A) each regular employee shall be paid tence expenses, for each member of his im- maximum.
extra compensation at the rate of 150 per mediate family while en route between his "Associate grade, $8,961 minimum to $11,
centum of the hourly rate of basic compensa- old and new official, stations, not in, excess 715 maximum.
tion far his level and step, computed by di- of the maximum per diem rates prescribed "NURSE SCHEDULE
viding the scheduled annual rate of basic
compensation by two thousand and eighty by or pursuant to law for employees of the
, Federal Government'. "Assistant Director grade, $14,680 mini-
and, (B)' each substitute employee shall be "(2) Subsistence, expenses of the em- mum to $19,252 maximum.
paid extra compensation at the rate of 50 per loyee and each member of his immediate "Chief grade, $12,510 minimum to $16,425
centum of the :hourly rate of basic come family for a period of not to exceed thirty maximum.
pensation for his level and step. days while occupying temporary quarters at "Senior grade, $10,619 minimum to $13,931
"(d) The Postmaster Genofap sstry the place of his new official duty station, but maximum.
lira conditions f for r the use of c corompe ensatoory not in excess of the maximum per diem ratee "Intermediate grade, $8,961 minimum. to
time earned and the payment of compensa- prescribed by or pursuant to law for em- $11,715 maximum.
tion for unused ed ular a employe time. ployees of. the Federal Government. "Full grade, $7,479 minimum to $9,765
"( Each regular whose regu- p(3) Five days of leave with pay which maximum.
lar work schedule includes s an eight-hour shall not be charged. to any other leave to "Associate grade, $6,540 minimum to $8,502
period of service any part of which is within which he is entitled under existing law." maximum.
the period commencing at midnight Satur-
day and ending at midnight Sunday shall be (b) That part of the table of contents of "Junior grade, $5,702 minimum to $7,430
paid extra compensation at the rate of 25 such chapter 41 under the heading "Employ- maximum.
per centum of his hourly rate of basic com- ees Generally" is amended by inserting "(2) No person may hold the director
pensatian for each hour,of work performed "3107. Postal employees relocation expenses." grade unless he is serving as a director of
during that eight-hour period of service. immediately below a hospital, domiciliary, center, or outpatient
"(f) If an employee, is entitled under this 113105 Special Compensation rules.". clinic (independent). No person may hold
section to unused compensatory time at the the executive grade unless he hold the post-
time of his death, the Postmaster General ' EMPLOYEES IN THE DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE tion of chief of staff at a hospital, center, or
shall pay at the' rate prescribed in this see- AND SURGERY OF THE VETERANS' ADMINISTRA- outpatient clinic (independent), or the posi-
tion, . but not less than a sum equal to the TION tion of clinic director at an outpatient clinic,
employee's hourly basic compensation, for SEC, 7. Section 4107 of title 38, United or comparable position."
each hour of such unused compensatory time States Code, relating to grades and pay scales FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICERS; STAFF OFFICERS AND
to the person or persons surviving at the date for certain positions within the Department EMPLOYEES
of such employee's death. Such payment of Medicine and Surgery of the Veterans' Ad- C. 8. (a) The fourth sentence of secction
shall be made in the order of precedence pre- ministration, is amended to read as follows: SEC. C. the Foreign Service Act of 1s as
scribed in the first section of the Act of
August 3, 1950 (5 U.S.C. 61f), and shall be a " 4107. Grades and pay scales amended (22 U.S.C. 867), is amended to read
bar to recovery by any other persons of "(a) The per annum full-pay scale or as follows: "The per annum salaries of For-
amounts so paid. ranges for positions provided in section 4103 eign Service officers within each of the other
"(g) Notwithstanding any provision of of this title, other than Chief Medical Direc- classes shall be as follows:
this section other than subsection (f), no
employee shall be paid overtime or extra
"Class l ------------------ $23,465 $24,284 $25,382 _--- ----
, ---$22,244 ---$22, 902
compensation for a pay period which when
added to his basic compensation for the pay Class 2 ------------------ 18, 954 .19,612 20,270 $20,928 $21, 586
395 13,929 16,.463 163,,997 17,531 18,065 18,599
Class4__________________ - 12,510 12,945 13,380 1815 14,250 14,685 15,120
period exceeds one twenty-sixth of the an- Class 3 - - -------- --- - ---- 15,
---- - ' - -
ual rate of basic compensation for the high- Class y - ------------- - 10,303 10,661 11,019 11,377 11,735 12,093 12,451
8,594 8,889 9,184 0,470 9, 774 10, 069 10,364
est step of salary level PFS-17. Class 6 - -----------------
"(h) For the purposes of this section and Class 7 - ----- ------- ---- . 7,262 7,506 7,750 7,994 8,238 8,482 8 726
, 6,269 6,476 6,683 6,890 7,097 7,304 7, 611".
section 3571 of this title Class 8 --------- --- ----- -
"(1) 'Annual rate regular employee' means
an employee for whom the Postmaster Gen- (b) The second sentence of subsection (a) annum within each class staff officers as fod em-
eral has established a regular work schedule of section 415 of such Act (22 U.S.C. 870(a)) ployees
consisting of five eight-hour days in accord- is amended to read as. follows: "The per
ance with section 3571 of this title.
, 201
"(2) 'Hourly rate regular employee' means
$15;929 $10,463 $16,997 $17, 230 131 $1" 14,685 063 15,120 599 15$19,,555 133 15$19,,990 667 16$20,425
an employee for whom the Postmaster Gen- "Class 1 ____ ___ ___________ $15,395
. ,. 12,451 12,809 13,167 13,525
eral has established a regular work schedule Class 2 ------------------- 72,510 12,945 13,380 13,815 14,
consisting of not more than forty hours a Class 3 ----------- - - - - ---- 10,303 10 661 11,019 11,377 11,735 12,093
Class4------------------- 8,604 8,889 9,184 0,479 9,774 10,06910;364. 10,659 10,954 11,249
8,396 8,507 , 9333 , 029 ' 9 8,861 ,862 10 9,,095
8, . . 7,930 8, , 069 _------7, 6,098 7,749 231 013 7,464 8, 277 78,541 ,667 8,805 163 9,333 125
week.. Class 5 ---- --
"(3). `Substitute employee' means an em- Class y-----------------------
Class 7__________ _____ 6,428 - 6, 840 6,852 7,064 7, 276 7, 488 7, 700 7, 912 8, 124 8, 336
Class 8 , 5, 088 5?880 8, 072 264 8, 456 6 848 6, 840 7, 032 7, 224 ,7, 416
ployee for whom the Postmaster General has 0 5 , 703 5 874 6,045 6,216 8,387 6 , 558 6,729
not established a regular work schedule.' ` Class 9 -_ - 5,190 b 361 5, 632
, 797 , 4,953 5,109 3; ,285 1;421 5,677 5,733 6, 589 `6,046'.
(c) Section 3575 of title 39, United States Class 10------------------ ` 4,641 4,
Code, is amended to read as follows:
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(c) Foreign Service officers, Reserve of- 4d) Severance pay shall consist of two
ficers, and Foreign Service staff officers and eleminata, a basic severance allowance and an
employees who are entitled to receive basic age adjustment allowance. The basic sey-
compensation Immediately prior to the effec- erance allowance shall be computed on the
tive date of this section at one of the rates basis of one week's basic compensation at
provided by section 412 or 416 of the For- the rate received immediately before separa-
eign Service Act of 1946 shall receive basic tion for each year of civilian service up to
compensation, on and after such effective and Including ten years for which severance
date, at the rate of their class determined pay has not been receivedunder this or any
to be appropriate by the Secretary of State. other authority and two weeks' basic com-
sacv#aANC# PAY pense Lion at such rate for each year of
SEC. 9 (a) Except as civilinn service beyond ten years for which
provided In subsec- severance pay has not been received under
tion (b) of this section, this section applies this cr any other authority. The age adjust
to each civilian officer or employee In or ment allowance shall be computed on the
under-
(1) the executive branch of the Govern-
ment of the United States, Including each
corporation wholly owned or controlled by
the United States;
(2) the Library of Congress;
(3) the Government Printing Office;
(4) the General Accounting Office; or
(5) the municipal government of the Dis-
trict of Columbia.
This section also applies to persons employed
by the county committees established pursu-
ant to section 8(b) of the Soil Conservation
and Domestic Allotment Act (18 U.S.C. 590h
(b)). and the Secreta;y of Agriculture is au-
thorized and directed to prescribe and issue
such regulations as may be necessary to pro-
vide a means of effecting the application
and operations of the provisions of this sec-
tion with respect to such persons.
(b) This section does not apply to-
(1) an officer or employee whose rate of
basic compensation is fixed at a rate pro-
vided for one of the levels of the Federal
Executive Salary Schedule or is in excess of
the highest rate of grade 18 of the General
Schedule of the Classification Act of 1949,
as amended:
(2) an officer or employee serving under an
appointment with a definite time limitation,
except one so appointed for full-time employ-
ment, without a break in service or after
a separation of three days or less, following
service under an appointment without time
limitation;
(3) an alien employee who occupies a posi-
tion outside the several States, the District
of Columbia, and the Canal Zone;
(4) an officer or employee who Is subject
to the Civil Service Retirement Act, as
amended, or any other retirement law or re-
tirement system applicable to Federal officers
or employees or members of the uniformed
services, and who, at the time of separation
from the service, has fulfilled the require-
ments for Immediate annuity under any such
law or system:
(5) an officer or employee who, at the time
of separation from the service, is receiving
compensation under the Federal Employees'
Compensation Act, as amended, except one
receiving this compensation concurrently
with salary or on account of the death of
another person;
(8) an officer or employee who, at the time
of separation from the service, Is entitled to
receive other severance pay from the Govern-
ment;
(7) officers and employees of the Tennessee
Valley Authority; and
(8) such other officers or employees as may
be excluded by rules and regulations of the
President or of such officer or agency as he
may designate.
(c) An officer or employee to whom this
section applies who Is involuntarily separated
of this section, not by removal for cause on (b) The total annual compensation in
charges of misconduct, delinquency, or In- effect Immediately prior to the effective date
efficiency, shall, under rules and regulations of this section of each officer or employee
prescribed by the President or such officer or the House of Representatives, whose com-
or agency as he may designate, be paid rev- ponsat on is disbursed by the Clerk of the
erance pay In regular pay periods by the House and is not increased by reason of any
department, independent establishment, cor- other provision of this section, shall be in-
poration, or other governmental unit, from creases by an amount which is equal to
which separated. the amount of the increase provided by sub-
eeveMnca allowance for each year by which
the Rile of the recipient exceeds forty years at
thetime of separation. Total severance pay
receiaed under this section shall not exceed
one year's pay at the rate received immedi-
ately before separation.
(a) An officer or employee may be paid
severance pay only after having been em-
ployed currently for a continuous period of
at leant twelve months.
(f) If an officer or employee is reemployed
by th i Federal Government or the municipal
gover,ment of the District of Columbia be-
fore the expiration of the period covered by
paym'mta of severance pay, the payments
shall be discontinued beginning with the
date of reemployment and the service repre-
sented by the unexpired portion of the period
shall se recredited to the officer or employee
for inc in any subsequent computations of
severance pay. For the purposes of sub-
section (e), reemployment which causes sev-
erance pay to be discontinued shall be con-
sidere3 as employmentcontinuous with that
serving as the basis for the severance pay.
(g) It the officer or employee dies before
the expiration of the period covered by pay-
ments of severance pay, the payments of sev-
eranca pay with respect to such officer or
employee shall be continued as If such officer
or cm )ioyee were living and shall be paid on
a pay period basis to the survivor or sur-
vivors of such officer or employee in accord-
ance with the first section of the Act of
August 3. 1950 (5 U.S.C. 61f).
(h) Severance pay under this section shall
not ba a basis for payment, nor be Included
In the basis for computation, of any other
type of Federal or District of Columbia Gov-
ernment benefits, andany period covered by
severance pay shall not be regarded as a
period of Federal or District of Columbia
Government service or employment.
AGRICULTURAL STABILIZATION AND CONSERVATION
COUNTY COMMtTTEE EMPLOYES
SEc. 10. The rates of compensation of per-
sons 'employed by the county committees
established pursuant to section 8(b) of the
Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment
Act (13 U.S.C. 590h(b)) shall be Increased by
amour.ts equal, as nearly as may be practi-
cable, to the increases provided by section
2(a) ct this Act for corresponding rates of
compensation.
LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
Srr. 11. (a) Except as otherwise provided
in this Section, each officer or employee in or
under the legislative branch of the Govern-
ment, whose rate of compensation to in-
creased by section 5 of the Federal Employees
Pay Act of 1948, shall be paid additional com-
pensation at the rate of 3.8 per centum of
his grass rate of compensation (basic com-
section (a) of this section; except that this
section shall not apply to the compensation
of student congressional interns authorized
by H. Roe. 416 of the Eighty-ninth Congress.
(c) The rates of compensation of em-
ployees of the House of Representatives
whose compensation Is fixed by the House
Employees Schedule under the House Em-
ployees Position Classification Act (78 Stat.
1079; Public Law 88-652; 2 U.S.C. 291-303)
shall be increased by amounts equal, as
nearly as may be practicable, to the Increases
provided by subsection (a) of this section;
except, that this section Shall not apply to
the compensation of those employees whose
compensation is fixed by the House Wage
Schedule of such Act.
(d) The additional compensation provided
by this section shall be considered a part
of basic compensation for the purposes of
the Civil Service Retirement Act (5 U.S.C.
2251 and the following).
(a) Section 601(x) of the Legislative Re-
organization Act of 1946, as amended (2
U.S.C. 31), is amended to read as follows:
"(a) The compensation of Senators, Rep-
resentatives in Congress, and the Resident
Commissioner from Puerto Rico shall be at
the rate of $30,000 per annum each. The
compensation of the Speaker of the House
of Representatives shall be at the rate of
$43,000 per annum. The compensation of
the Majority Leader and the Minority Leader
of the Senate and the Majority Leader and
the Minority Leader of the House of Repre-
sentatives shall be at the rate of $35,000
per annum each."
(f) The basic compensation of each em-
ployee In the office of a Senator is hereby
adjusted, effective on the first day of the
month following the date of enactment of
this Act, to the lowest multiple of $60 which
will provide a gross rate of compensation
not less than the gross rate such employee
was receiving Immediately prior thereto, ex-
cept that the foregoing provisions of this
subsection shall not apply in the case of any
employee if on or before the fifteenth day
following the date of enactment of this Act,
the Senator by whom such employee is em-
ployed notifies the disbursing office of the
Senate In writing that he does not wish such
provisions to apply to such employee. No
employee whose basic compensation is ad-
justed under this subsection shall receive
any additional compensation under subsec-
tion (a) for any period prior to the effective
date of such adjustment during which such
employee was employed in the office of the
Senator by whom he is employed on the first
day of the month following the enactment
of this Act, No additional compensation
shall be paid to any person under subsection
(a) for any period prior to the first day of
the month following the date of enactment
of this Act during which such person was
employed In the office of a Senator (other
than a Senator by whom he is employed on
such day) unless on or before the fifteenth
day following the date of enactment of this
Act such Senator notifies the disbursing
office of the Senate In writing that he wishes
such employee to receive such additional
compensation for such period. In any case
in which, at the expiration of the time with-
in which a Senator may give notice under
this subsection, such Senator is deceased,
such notice shall be deemed to have been
given.
(g) Notwithstanding the provision- referred
to in subsection (h), the rates of gross com-
pensation of the Secretary for the Majority
of the Senate, the Secretary for the Minority
of the Senate, the Chief Reporter of Debates
of the Senate, the Parliamentarian of the
Senate, the Senior Counsel in the Office of
the Legislative Counsel of the Senate, the
Chief Clerk of the Senate, the Chaplain of
the Senate, and the Postmaster and Assistant
Postmaster of the Senate are hereby in-
creased by 3.8 per centum.
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(h) The paragraph imposing limitations
oh basic and gross compensation of officers
and employees of the Senate appearing
under the heading "SENATE" in the Legis-
lative Appropriation Act, 1956, as amended
(74 Stat. 304; Public Law 86-568), is amended
by striking out "$22,945" and inserting in
lieu thereof "$23,770".
(1) The limitation on gross rate per hour
per person provided by applicable law on
the effective date of this section with respect
to the folding of speeches and pamphlets
for the Senate is hereby increased by 3.6 per
centum. The amount of such increase shall
be computed to the nearest cent, counting
one-half cent and over as a whole cent.
The provisions of subsection (a) of this
section shall not apply to employees whose
compensation Is subject to such limitation.
FEDERAL JUDICIAL SALARIES
SEC. 12. (a) The rates of basic compensa-
tion of officers and employees in or under
the judicial branch of the Government whose
rates of compensation are fixed by or pur-
suant to paragraph (2) of subdivision a
of section' 62 of the Bankruptcy Act (11
U.S.C. 102(a) (2) ), section 3856 of title 18,
United States Code, the third sentence of
section 603, sections 671 to 875, Inclusive, or
section 604(a) (5), of title 28, United States
Code, insofar as the latter section applies
to graded positions, are hereby increased by
amounts reflecting the respective applicable
increases provided by section 2(a) of this
Act in corresponding rates of compensation
for officers and employees subject to the
Classification Act of 1949, as amended. The
rates of basic compensation of officers and
employees holding ungraded positions and
whose salaries are fixed pursuant to such
section 604(a) (5) may be increased by the
amounts reflecting the respective applicable
Increases provided by section 2(a) of this
Act in corresponding rates of compensation
for officers and employees subject to the
Classification Act of 1949, as amended.
(b) The limitations provided by applicable
law on the effective date of this section
with respect to the aggregate salaries payable
to secretaries and ,law clerks of circuit and
district judges are hereby Increased by
amounts which reflect the respective appli-
cable increases provided by section 2(a) of
this Act in corresponding rates of compen-
sation for officers and employees subject to
the Classification Act of 1949, as amended.
(c) Section 753(e) of title 28, United
States Code (relating to the compensation of
court reporters for district courts), is
amended by striking out the existing salary
limitation contained therein and Inserting
a new limitation which reflects the respective
applicable increases provided by section 2(a)
of this Act in corresponding rates of com-
pensation for officers and employees subject
to the Classification Act of 1949, as amended.
INCREASED UNIFORM ALLOWANCE
SEC. 13. The Federal Employees Uniform
Alllowanee Act, as amended (68 Stat. 1114;
5 U.S.C. 2131), Is amended by striking out
"$100" wherever it appears therein and in-
serting In lieu thereof "$125'x.
MAXIMUM SALARY INCREASE LIMITATION
SEC. 14. Except as otherwise provided in
section 11(e), no rate of salary shall be in-
creased, by reason of the enactment of this
title, to an amount in excess of the salary
rate now or hereafter in effect for Level V
of the Federal Executive Salary Schedule.
ADJUSTMENT OF SALARY RATES FIXED BY
ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION
SEC. 15. (a) The rates of basic compensa-
tion of assistant United States attorneys
whose basic salaries are fixed pursuant to
section 508 of title 28, United States Code,
shall be increased by 3.6 per centum effective
on the first day of the first pay period which
begins on or after October 1, 1965.
(b) Notwithstanding section 3679 of the
Revised Statutes, as amended (31 U.S.C.
665), the rates of compensation. of officers
and employees of the Federal Government
and of the municipal government of the District of Columbia whose rates of compen-
sation are fixed by administrative action
pursuant to law and are not otherwise in-
creased by this Act are hereby authorized to
be increased effective on or after the first
day of the first pay period which begins on
or after October 1, 1965, by amounts not to
exceed the increases provided by this Act for
corresponding rates of compensation in the
appropriate schedule or scale of pay.
(c) Nothing contained in this section
shall be deemed to authorize any increase in
the rates of compensation of officers and
employees whose rates of compensation are
fixed and adjusted from time to time as
nearly as is consistent with the public In-
terest in accordance with prevailing rates or
practices.
(d) Nothing contained in this section
shall affect the authority contained in any
law pursuant to which rates of compensa-
tion may be fixed by administrative action.
TRAVEL ON OFFICIAL DUTY TIME
SEC. 16. Section 204 of the Federal Em-
ployees Pay Act of 1945, as amended (68
Stat. 1110; 5 U.S.C. 912b), is amended by
adding at the end thereof the following sen-
tence: "To the maximum extent practicable,
the head of any department, independent
establishment, or agency, including Gov-
ernment-owned or controlled corporations;
or of the municipal government of the Dis-
trict of Columbia, or the head of any legis-
lative or judicial agency to which this title
applies, shall schedule the time to be spent
by an officer or employee in a travel status
away from his official duty station within
the regularly scheduled workweek of such
officer or employee.".
EFFECTIVE DATES
SEC. 17. This title shall become effective as
follows:
(1) This section and sections 1, 9_13, 15,
16, and 18, and section 3107(3) of title 39,
United States Code, as contained In the
amendment made by section 6(a) of this
Act, shall become effective on the date of
enactment of this Act.
(2) Section 6 shall become effective on the
first day of the first pay period which begins
on or after the date of enactment of this
Act.
(3) Sections 2, 4, 7, 8,,10, 11, 12, and 14
shall become effective on the first day of
the first pay period which begins on or after
October 1, 1965.
(4) Section 3 shall become effective on the
ninetieth day following the date of enact-
ment of this Act.
(5) Section 6(b), and section 3107 (1)
and (2) of title 39, United States Code, as
contained in the amendment made by sec-
tion 6(a) of this Act, shall become effective
as of July 1, 1965.
(8) For the purpose of determining the
amount of insurance for which an individ-
ual is eligible under the Federal Employees'
Group Life Insurance Act of 1954, all
changes in rates of compensation or salary
which result from the enactment of this Act
shall be held and considered to be, effective
as of the date of such enactment..
PAYMENT OF RETROACTIVESALARY
SEC. 18. (a) Retroactive compensation or
salary shall be paid by reason of this Act
only in the case of an individual in the.serv-
ice of the United States (including service in
the Armed Forces of the United States) or
the municipal government of the District of
Columbia on the date of enactment of this
Act, except that such retroactive compen-
sation or salary shall be paid (1) to an officer
or employee who retiredduring the period
beginning on the effective date prescribed by
section 17(3) and ending on the date of en-
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actment of this Act for services rendered
during such period and (2) in accordance
with the provisions of the Act of August 3,
1950 (Public Law 636, Eighty-first Congress),
as amended (5 U.S.C. 61f-61k), for services
rendered during the period beginning on the
effective date prescribed by section 17(3)
and ending. on the date of enactment of this
Act by an officer or employee who dies dur-
ing such period. Such retroactive compen-
sation or salary shall not be considered as
basic salary for the purpose of the Civil
Service Retirement Act in the case of any
such retired or deceased officer or employee.
(b) For the purposes of this section,
service in the Armed Forces of the United
States, in the case of an individual relieved
from training and service in the Armed
Forces of the United States or discharged
from hospitalization following such training
and service, shall include the period provided
by law for the mandatory restoration of such
individual to a position in or under the
Federal Government or the municipal gov-
ernment of the District of Columbia.
CALL OF THE HOUSE
Mr. HALL (interrupting the reading
of the Senate amendments). Mr.
Speaker, I make the point of order that
a quorum is not present.
The SPEAKER. Evidently a quorum
is not present.
Mr. BOGGS. Mr. Speaker, I move a
call of the House.
A call of the House was ordered.
The Clerk called the roll, and the fol-
lowing Members failed to answer to their
names:,
[Roll No. 382]
Abbitt Frelinghuysen
O'Neal, Ga.
Albert Frieder
Passman
Anderson, Tenn Fulton, Pa.
Poage
Andrews, Fulton, Tenn.
Pool
George W. Fuqua
Powell
Andrews, G1ennGriMths
Purcell
Annunzio
Hagen, Calif.
Quie
Aspinall
Halleck
Reifel
Ayres
Hansen, Wash.
Reinecke
Bates
Hardy
Resnick
Battin
Harris
Reuss
Bell
Hawkins
Rivers, S.C.
Berry
Hays
Rogers, Tex.
Bingham
Hebert
Roncalio
Blatnik
Henderson
Rooney, Pa.
Bolling
Holifield
Roudebush
Bonner
Hosmer
Roybal
Bray
Howard
Saylor
Brock
Hull
Schisler
Broomfield
Hungate
Schmidhauser
Burton, Calif.
Jacobs
Schweiker
Cahill
Jarman
Scott
Callaway
Jennings
Shriver
Cameron
Johnson, Pa.
Sikes
Cederberg
Jones, Ala.
Sisk
Celler
Keith
Slack
Chelf -
Keogh
Smith, N.Y.
Clausen,
Kluczynski
Springer
Don H.
Kunkel
Staggers
Conte
Landrum
Stratton
Conyers.
Leggett
Sullivan
Corman
Lennon
Sweeney
Cramer
Lindsay
Talcott
Culver
Long, La.
Tenzer
Curtis
McCarthy
Thomas
de la Garza
McDade
Thompson, N.J.
Devine
McMillan
Thompson, Tex.
Dickinson
Macdonald
Thomson, Wis.
Diggs
MacGregor
Toll
Dingell
Madden
Tuck
Dorn
Martin, Ala.
Tunney
Edwards, Ala.
Martin, Mass.
Van Deerlin
Edwards, Calif.
Martin, Nebr.
Vanik
Edwards, La.
Matthews
Vivian
Erienborn
Michel .
Watson
Evans, Colo.
Miller
Widnall
Evans, Tenn.
M?'e
Williams
Fallon
Mcliagan
Wilson, Bob
Farnum
Mosher
Wilson,
Feighan
Nix
Charles H.
Fino
O'Konski
Wright
Fogarty
Olson, Minn.
Wyatt
The SPEAKER. On this rollcall 279
Members have answered to their names,
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By unanimous consent, further pro-
ceedings under the call were dispensed
with.
The SPEAKER. The Clerk will pro-
ceed with the reading of the amendment.
The Clerk resumed the reading of the
Senate amendment.
Mr. MORRISON (interrupting the
reading). Mr. Speaker, I ask unani-
mous consent that further reading of
the Senate amendment be dispensed with
and that it be printed in the RECORD.
The SPEAKER. Is there objection to
the request of the gentleman from
Louisiana?
There was no objection.
The SPEAKER. Is there objection to
the request of the gentleman from
Louisiana?
Mr. CORBETT. Mr. Speaker, I re-
serve the right to object. Mr. Speaker, I
would feel that the bill should be ex-
plained, at least In the important dif-
ferences between the Senate bill as sent
to us here and the House bill as pre-
viously passed sometime last Sumer, since
this is a new bill that very few Members
of the House have had an opportunity to
see or read.
Mr. MORRISON. Mr. Speaker, will
the gentleman yield?
Mr. CORBETT. I yield to the gentle-
man.
Mr. MORRISON. Mr. Speaker, the
House bill provided for a 4 percent pay
increase. The 4 percent pay increase
in the House bill has been reduced by the
Senate amendment to 3.6 percent. The
second pay raise provision has been
omitted. This second year pay raise was
in the House bill. The overtime pay for
postal workers on Sundays and holidays
has been replaced so that instead of time
and a half it is time and a quarter dif-
ferential. The overtime pay for postal
substitutes in excess of 8 hours a day has
been omitted. The $150 uniform allow-
ance has been cut to $125. The commis-
sion to review the salaries of Federal of-
ficials, executives, judges, and Members
of Congress has been eliminated.
Mr. CORBETT. Mr. Speaker, may I
ask the gentleman further, since all these
items were considered to be so good when
the House passed the bill nearly 370 to 7
and when we felt they were necessary to
maintain the principle of comparability
and when we felt that certain cost-of-
living increases must be met, what has
happened in the intervening period of
time to show that these things are no
longer necessary or desirable?
Mr. MORRISON. I am sure the
gentleman takes the position that they
are necessary, and I likewise do, also.
However. the Senate saw fit to do other-
wise and we are faced with the situation
here at this time where we have to take
the Senate amendments. The Senate
did not see fit to go along with the House.
Mr_ CORBETT. I recall, and I know
that the gentleman does. also, that we
have been in disagreement with the
Senate before and we have insisted on our
position. We even made so bold, when
Mr. Eisenhower was President of these
United States, to override his veto on the
pay raise. Now it seems the mere hint
from the other end of the avenue causes
the Senate to cut our bill and causes us
to come in here and say, well, we will
recede and concur in the Senate pro-
visions. If comparability was a good
thing before. It is-a good thing now. If
the coat of living has gone up, It is still
up. I1 the pay raises were necessary and
desirable In August, why are they not
todays
Mr. MORRISON. The gentleman is
crrtainly taking a very logical position as
fns as I see his position, and I am in ac-
cord with it, but the Senate did not
decide to go along with our position.
Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, will the
gentleman yield?
Mr. CORBETT. I yield to the gentle-
man f ram Iowa.
Mr. GROSS. The cold fact of life is
that the President sent word to the Con-
gress that he would veto anything above
3.6 pe?cent.
I join the gentleman from Pennsyl-
vania [Mr. Coasarv] in. asking what has
happened to the pay provision of the
bill, other than the threat of a veto, to
cause the abdication of the House posi-
tion that was taken by an almost unani-
mous rote on September 30. What has
happened to change the situation?
Mr. MORRISON. The Senate delayed
taking up the bill until today. That is
the reason why it Is before us now. I
think this: Had the Senate taken it up
earlier, we would not be quite the posi-
tion we are in tonight.
Mr. GROSS. So we are commanded
here tonight, in the closing hours of this
sesslor, to bend the knee to the White
House and cut back on this bill simply
because the President wants it that way.
I wouiI remind the House that when the
mllita:7 pay bill was passed the word
came down from the White House that
there would be a veto of anything above
5 percent. The House passed a bill call-
ing for 10 percent. It was not vetoed,
because Lyndon Johnson knew It would
be passed over his veto.
I oily wish there was the time here
and now: that the other body had moved
to dispose of this bill as it should have
done, (lays and days ago, so that we could
have stint this bill to the White House to
learn whether Congress was going to
cringe and bend the knee to the Presi-
dent o- whether we are still In possession
of oui? independence and freedom of
action.-whether we still have any in-
dependence of mind and body. I regret
that this bill comes to the House under
the circumstances that It does here
tonight.
Mr. MORRISON. There has been a
great deal of discussion about whether
the President would sign the bill or
whether he would veto the bill and all
that I think is a matter of opinion. I
think that the House acted in plenty of
time la passing this bill. I think our
committee performed a long, hard Job In
going .ever this bill to the fullest possible
degree We acted on it In time. The
Senate did not see fit to take action on
it until today. That is the reason we
are in our present position.
Mr. CUNNINGHAM. Mr. Speaker,
will the gentleman yield to me?
Mr. DORBEIT. Mr. Speaker, I yield
to the gentleman from Nebraska, a
member of the committee.
Mr. CUNNINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, I
wanted to follow up what was said by
the gentleman from Louisiana. The
House Post Office and Civil Service Com-
mittee has worked long and hard on this
bill. I have been a member of this com-
mittee for 9 years. I have seen some
pay bills go through haphazardly. But
this bill was very carefully worked out,
primarily under the direction and super-
vision of the gentleman from Arizona
[Mr. UDALL].
I have not known of a bill in the 9
years that I have been here that has
been so carefully worked out. I am very
disappointed that the other body has
emasculated this bill so that we have to
start all over again, so to speak.
Mr. Speaker, I do want to congratulate
the gentleman from Arizona for his lead-
ership. I want to congratulate the gen-
tleman from Louisiana for his leader-
ship, and the gentleman from Montana
[Mr. OLSEN], for his leadership, as well
as many other Members who worked
months and months and months on this
bill.
And while we have worked months
and months on this bill the other body
has worked days. I certainly am disap-
pointed that we are confronted with this
situation at this time.
Mr. CORBETT. Mr. Speaker, I rec-
ognize that the gentleman from Loui-
siana may be performing a rather un-
pleasant task here, and I would like to
ask him just this question, and then I
shall yield further.
Mr. CORBETT. Does the gentleman
from Louisiana believe that in accept-
ing the Senate bill we have for the pre-
dictable future repudiated the principle
of comparability?
Mr. MORRISON. Well, I believe that
is certainly a debatable question and I
think it could be debated for a long time.
I believe the Senate certainly cut out a
lot of comparability features of the bill
on which we worked so hard and long to
try to incorporate in our bill that we
sent over to the other body.
Mr. CORBEIT. Well, there have been
many famous retreats in history.
Mr. HALL. Mr. Speaker, will the gen-
tleman yield?
Mr. COR.BEIT. I yield to the gentle-
man from Missouri.
Mr. HALL. I appreciate the gentle-
man yielding and I would like to com-
pliment the gentleman from Pennsyl-
vania and other members of the com-
mittee for bringing this back to us. I
believe the question before the House
here tonight, on the eve of adjournment,
is whether we are going to capitulate and
whether we will accept the Senate ver-
sion being rammed down our throats.
Mr. Speaker, I would like to make
simply two inquiries:
First, do I understand from the state-
ment of the gentleman from Louisiana
[Mr. MORRISON] in opening this discus-
sion and colloquy here tonight that the
congressional pay raise, Including auto-
matics, future considerations clause or
otherwise, is out of the bill as passed by
the other body?
Mr. MORRISON. That is correct.
Mr. HALL. Secondly, has there been
a promise on the part of the other body
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or the potential conferees, or the leader- This is a bill that was written by the crease, although he is entitled to 'a mini-
ship, or any others, that there will. be Bureau of the Budget and the White mum of $700 a year. As I. stated, I am
consideration of an additional pay raise House. It was passed under pressure and not going to object. Maybe I ought to,
next year in the 2d session of the 89th under the threat of veto. but in light of the realities of the situa-
Congress? - Mr. Speaker when we accept this tion we ought to know what we are do-
Mr. MORRISON. Mr. Speaker, if the monstrosity tonight we have abrogated lug tonight.
gentleman will yield, I believe the chair- our function in formulating pay legisla- I think we all will agree with the.
man of the committee of the other body tion for some 2 million Federal em- thoughtful comment of a great states-
in his speech today on the floor of the ployees. man that the key to successful legisla-
other body said that next year the other In this bill, as the gentleman stated a tion is the art of compromise. To be per-
body would have ample time in which moment ago, in my judgment this great, fectly blunt, what we have done here is
to go into all comparability features of glorious principle of comparability is substitute capitulation for compromise
the problem. dead. Four years ago we said to the in accepting the amendment written in
Mr. HALL. Mr. Speaker, I thank the Federal employees "This is what we are the other body that masquerades under
gentleman and I appreciate the gentle- going to do. Now we have a standard of the guise of a reasonable Federal Salary
man's yielding to me, and I compliment pay. It is equality with private enter- Act.
the gentleman. prise."' By this bill we postpone any I hasten to say that all the blame
Mr. CORBETT. Mr. Speaker, I would action. The second phase we had for should not be placed on that body. There
like to, ask the gentleman from Arizona next year would go about one-half the is plenty to go around among the bureau-
[Mr. UDALL], before I do yield to him, if way toward comparability. We say now crats, advisers, and self-styled experts
the gentleman would not agree that the "Wait until next year. Maybe we will who helped shape the aborted form of
other body really had ample time in begin to move." I do not think we will H.R. 10281 that was laid before this
which to act on these features? Was not then if the actions of this year are any House-on a take-this-or-nothing ba-
this bill finally reported and passed here indication. sis-in the dying hours of this session of
in the House of Representatives about The next thing we ought to keep in the 89th Congress. The one bright ray in
September 13? mind is the point about passing a pay bill an otherwise dismal prospect is the wise
Mr. UDALL. Mr. Speaker, if the gen- in an election year. For 10 years we judgment of the House of Representa-
tleman will yield, September 30 was the have had a Federal pay bill in every elec- tives in passing H.R. 10281 by an over-
day of its passage. tion year. We could have avoided this whelming vote on September 30.
Mr. CORBETT. But we had been situation. Now this too goes down the Our House bill was a good bill, a states-
working on, the bill practically all year; drain. Next year we will be back here men like bill-indeed, a bill that exem-
is that not true? with a good old election year bill. I can plified the art of legislative compromise
Mr. UDALL. Mr. Speaker, if the gen- say to the people in the Budget Bureau in its best sense. It was the refined prod-
tleman will yield further, this is correct. they will not save any money, because uct of careful and extensive considera-
Mr. CORBETT. Mr. Speaker, now I it is going to cost more, it will be a bigger tion in the Post Office and Civil Service
would be very happy to yield to the bill, and I will probably support it in light Committee and thorough debate in the
gentleman from Arizona [Mr. UDALL]. of what has occurred. House., No one gained everything asked
Mr. UDALL. Mr. Speaker, I thank One more point. The attempt to make or wanted, and everyone had to yield
the gentleman for yielding to me and some sense out of keeping the judicial something in a spirit of give and take to
let me say, before we take final action and congressional and executive pay in work the will of the House. The result
on this, we may not be fair to the Federal line with the other pay in the four Fed- was an act that was meaningful and en-
employees and honest with the Federal eral pay systems has gone down the couraging to 1.8 million employees and
employees, and we are not In this bill drain. We did do It in the House when promised even greater value in the man-
but we ought to be fair and honest with we knocked out the automatic feature agement of the vast affairs of our Na-
ourselves, to keep it in line with the GS-18 scales. tional Government.
Mr. Speaker, before we take action But we did say every 4 years we would The bill was reported to the House
on this matter we ought to know what take a look at the military pay and other only after careful and exhaustive hear
we are doing. pay systems, and attempt to make some ings before our standing Subcommittee
Mr. Speaker, this bill left the House recommendations and keep them in line. on Compensation. The subcommittee
of Representatives as one of the best pay The administration wanted this. But the members applied themselves with utmost
bills that has ever been carefully drafted 'Senate threw this overboard, too.
and sent to diligence and attention to develop all of
the other body.
Mr. Speaker, I was the "father" We tried to adjust some overtime the information 'and evidence needed by
of Inequities among the classified. This the committee and the House to make
it, because it had my name on it, al- went overboard also. The things we sound decisions. The subcommittee met
though it should have carried the names carefully put together over the weeks of in a number of executive sessions, as well
of many other sponsors of this legisla- study and hearings have been thrown
tion. as in informal conferences and meetings
overboard also.
Then, with both administration and employee
Mr. Speaker, I was the proud So tonight, if we approve this, we bow representatives, and the committee it-
parent. But this bill comes back to- to the guidelines. The guidelines are self deliberated extensively over a period
night, as a watered down, toothless, apparently sacred and all important, of 8 days before reporting the bill on a
illegitimate, emaciated, outrage. That is The guidelines didn't mean anything, vote of 20 to 3.
about all I can say about it. however, when we passed the military Mr. Speaker, Federal salary policy is
Mr. Speaker, I do not believe I am pay bill. It was a half billion dollars not only complex, it is critically import-
going to deny paternity but perhaps I more than the administration recom- ant to the success of our defense effort
ought to do so. mended, but tonight the Federal em- and other domestic and worldwide com-
But, Mr. Speaker, let me tell the Mem- ployees have to make way for the guide- mitments of the Government. it is a
bers of the House another thing about lines. matter-like marriage vows-not to be
this bill and what the other body has So I am not at all happy about the entered Into lightly. The determination
done to us. They have deliberately put bill. I am somewhat like the small-town of a sound and useful salary policy is a
us in a situation here tonight where we editor who was asked if he had any opin- think you have got to give your whole
have to take it or leave it. ion on a burning issue and he said, "Well, mind to.
First, Mr. Speaker, this is not a com- I have not made up my mind, but when Our House bill was a sincere, moderate,
promise. It is a total capitulation. The I do I will be bitter." and wholly reasonable attempt to move
House of Representatives has been had. I have made' up my mind about this toward comparability between Federal
We have not had an opportunity to work thing. I am bitter, I guess, but I am not and private enterprise salaries, in ac-
on it. They have sent it back to us in going to object. However, when you go cordance with the congressional policy
a situation where we have no choice but home tonight or tomorrow, and meet laid down in Public Law. 87-793; and to
to accept it. with your postal employees, do not brag remedy certain long-standing inequities
Second, Mr. Speaker, this is not a bill about this bill. The average letter car- In the pay statutes. I will not say the
that has been written by the Congress, rier is going to get about $3 a week In- path was easy or deny that a good deal
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of courage was required in the face of a 4 percent general increase this month, for the officials on an orderly and
pressures that were just as heavy here and a second-phase increase a year later timely basis. Our bill, as reported from
as in the other body. It is to the eternal that would have averaged out at ap- the committee, modified the administra-
credit of our Members that the House proximately 4114 percent. with the latter tion's proposal but did establish a re-
produced a bill that at least met the covering only three-fourths of the fiscal sponsible method of dealing with this
minimum standards we were in honor year 1967. With that second-phase problem. It was a well-considered pro-
bound to observe. We kept the trust im- raise removed from our bill, and in the cedure that we are confident would have
posed on us when we committed our- light cf past experience, it is a foregone eliminated the chaos we confront ap-
selves to the comparability principle 3 conclusion that next year will see a pay proximately every 20 years when it be-
short years ago. raise of 6 percent or more taking effect comes necessary to jump the salaries of
Now, I ask, where does our magnifi- for thc. full 1967 fiscal year. The meager Members of Congress, executives, and
cent comparability policy stand in the four-tinths of 1 percent saving which judges in a high percentage amount.
bill forced on us today? Were all of the the :.enate amendment purports to last year the Congress was forced to
great principles of Public Law 87-793 achieve will be far outweighed by next face this dilemma because of the com-
mere platitudes, to lull postal and other year's handsome increase. pression that existed in the statutory
Federal employees-to say nothing of But. however, those practical aspects salary systems and the Congress was
Members of Congress-into a false hope may b=, the most damaging loss from the forced to raise the salaries of its own
that we had finally laid the foundation strikirg of the second-phase increase is Members, Federal executives, and judges
for a sensible and workable salary sys- that i : may be the death-knoll of Fed- by $7,500. The Congress. simply had no
tem? Is Federal salary comparability, oral s3iary comparability in our time. choice in the matter.
after all, only a myth? One of the great values of the second- However, the other body saw fit to re-
We were happy and proud when our phase increase was its movement of ject any proposal in its bill that would
1962 and 1964 salary bills were hailed middle- and upper-level Federal salaries attempt to solve the agonizing problem
as great advances in public administra- toward reasonably current comparability of keeping the salaries of Members of
tion. Should we take equal shame when with private enterprise salary rates for Congress in an orderly relationship with
we hear,this measure described, on all positions of equal levels of responsibility, all other salary systems.
sides, as at best as woefully inadequate The Senate's 3.6 percent increase leaves Mr. Speaker, it was my earnest hope,
and at worst a breach of trust and a the lower salary grades and levels rough- and one that I am sure most Members
miserable abomination? ly comparable with private enterprise of the House shared with me, that here
In the House, public hearings were rates ::or February-March 1964, but rele- in the closing days of this session of
conducted on 11 separate days extending gates the middle and upper grades to Congress, we would be implementing and
over a period from June 1 to June 29. 1963 F.nd 1962 comparability, respective- enunciating ahew the cherished promise
The subcommittee met in executive ses- ly. I:' we are unable to correct even a of comparability. The nearly 2 million
sion three times over a 7-day period, and part of these glaring deficiencies in the citizens of this country who have chosen
the committee met in executive session middle and upper grades as part of a bill a career of service to their Government
on July 29, August 3, August 4, and Aug- grantng but a 3.6-percent general in- have been looking to us for further as-
ust 5, to perfect the bill finally reported crease. how in the name of logic can we surances that they would not be treated
to the House. There were, as I have hope to improve the situation next year as second-class citizens and that they
noted, many other informal meetings along with a far more costly general per- would not have to suffer economically
between our Members and representa- centale Increase? simply because they chose to work for
tives of the administration and employee Mr. Speaker, to this point I have dealt the Federal Government rather than for
groups. I think it is fair to add that the only with the impact of our Federal stat- private enterprise.
vast majority of my personal time and utory salary systems of the toothless Unfortunately, no other conclusion can
attention throughout this session has and watered down version of our pay bill be reached today than that we have for-
been devoted to this Federal salary legis- that came back to us today. The crown- saken the promise of comparability and
lation. ing irony of the Senate amendment is that we have bowed to the expediency
The committee in the other body, in that. In Its blunderbuss efforts to pacify of simply granting another across-the-
sharp contrast, held only 2 days of pub- administration objectors, it has not only board pay raise.
lie hearings on the House bill. Into which destroyed comparability, but for all in- If we cannot be fair and honest with
all of the testimony and the views of tents and purposes, it has knocked out our Federal employees, we have simply
interested parties were crammed. With even those things the administration got to be fair and honest with ourselves.
this attenuated public exposure the Sen- agrees to or most dearly desires. We have got to admit our complicity in
ate-under harsh threat of veto and un- Th: first of these is the Federal Salary the collapse of comparability.
relenting pressures-struck out all of the Review Commission. John W. Macy, Jr., Mr. O'NEILL of Massachusetts. Mr.
carefully prepared House bill and in Its Chairman of the Civil Service Comis- Speaker. will the gentleman yield?
place wrote an amendment that leaves sion. appearing before our Compensa- Mr. CORBETT. I yield to the gentle-
the whole subject of Federal salary policy tion Subcommittee. stated: man from Massachusetts.
in utter chaos. I forecast, with no hesi- The quadrennial reviews by a Federal Sal- Mr. O'NEILL of Massachusettts. I
tancy, that it will work out more to the ary Review commission should result In re- would like to ask the gentleman from
detriment of the Government-and the ducti