THE 1984 AGENDA FOR THE HOUSE POST OFFICE/CIVIL SERVICE COMMITTEE AS SEEN FROM THE MINORITY STAFF VIEWPOINT

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86B00338R000400510008-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2008
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: January 17, 1984
• Content Type: MEMO

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? ? 1 7 JAN 1984
SUBJECT: The 1984 Agenda for the House Post Office/Civil
Service Committee as Seen from the Minority
Staff Viewpoint
1. Based upon several, and continuing, discussions with
a member of the minority staff of the House Post Office and
Civil Service Committee, an anticipated 1984 minority
legislative agenda has begun to emerge. Please be mindful
that this is how the 1984 Committee agenda is beginning to
take shape, but only from the minority viewpoint.
Additional meetings have been or are being set up with
various of the majority Committee and relevant Sub-committee
staff over the next two or so weeks. Majority viewpoints
will be reported separately, and, to the extent that I think
the minority can impact the majority agenda, I will attempt
to identify the issues on which they can do so.
2. The Minority Staff has currently developed four
issues that its members will pursue in early 1984. They are:
i.a two-tier cost of living allowance (COLA) for
federal employees;
ii.a compromise with Ms Oakar on H.R.656, which
proposes changes to the Federal Employee Health
Benefits Program (FEHBP);
iii.a series of hearings (4 or 5 days) on
supplemental retirement planning (the Hay
Associates effort which, by the way, the minority
is not happy with); and
iiii.a concerted attempt, following up on the hearings
cited above, to influence the course of the Hay
Assoc effort.
3. The first issue above, that of a two-tier COLA for
federal employee retirement entitlements, will be a near
mirror-image of the COLA provisions proposed by Congressman
Erlenborn (R,IL) in H.R.3751, the first of three bills in
his Federal Annuity and Investment Reform Program (FAIR)
package introduced in early August 1983. The Office of
Personnel Management (OPM) is. authoring this legislation and
will request that it be introduced on its behalf. It will be
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sponsored either by Rep Taylor (R, MO), the ranking
minority member of the Committee, or by Rep.
Dannemeyer(R,CA). The bill will call for:
full COLA on the first $9,600 of retirement pay,
which is what Social Security annuitants are entitled to,
and;
only 55$ or 60$ of the full COLA increase for
all retirement pay in excess of $10,000.
3. The second issue above, H.R.656,'is a Federal
Employee Health Benefits Program (FEHBP)-related bill
introduced by Ms. Oakar (D, OH). The Minority Staff will
try to negotiate with Ms. Oakar's subcommittee staff
director those changes to H.R. 656 that OPDi insists upon,
that is, those provisions contained in H.R. 3798. At this
point, this is an internal House Post Office/Civil Service
Committee matter, the outcome of which we are probably not
in any position to influence.
4. The third item represents the first of many
Committee hearings on supplemental retirement legislation.
These hearings, over a three or four day period in late
February, will be designed strictly for the edification and
education of Committee members Some twenty or so
individuals or groups will be invited to testify. Hay
Associates, performing under contract to the Committee, will
utilize the data gathered in this and other such hearings to
facilitate its effort.
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6. Based upon the late February hearings on
supplemental retirement, the Committee minority is planning
to develop a strategy to influence the directions of the Hay
Associates effort that they oppose. They will implement
this strategy as quickly and as often as they can.
7. I will follow up this meeting with similar sessions
with the Committee majority staff and with the majority
staff director of the subcommittee with jurisdiction
(Compensation and Employee Benefits) in order that we obtain
as balanced a view. as possible
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Distribution:
Original - Deputy Director of Personnel
1 - Deputy Director of Personnel for Special
Programs
1 - C/LD/OLL
1 - C/H/LD/OLL
1 - LEG/OL
1 - TBC Ch
1 - TBC Subject
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