DAILY DIGEST

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• Publication Date: March 15, 1963
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Daily Digest
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HIGHLIGHTS
Senate cleared for White House bill to extend draft for 4 years.
See Congressional Program Ahead.
Senate
Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings,, pages 4069-4099
Bills Introduced: 14 bills and 4 resolutions were intro-
duced, as follows: S. 1102-1115; S. Con. Res. 32; and
S. Res. 113-115. - ? Page 4080
Bill Referred: One House-passed bill was referred to
appropriate committee. Page 4069
Draft Act Extension: Senate passed without amend-
ment and cleared for President H.R. 2438, to extend for
4 years the induction provisions of the Universal Mili-
tary Training and Service Act. Motion to reconsider
passage was tabled. Pages 4089-4091
Committee Authorizations?Corrections: DAILY
DIGEST of March 14, page D146, stated that further
action on S. Res. 68, to provide $55,400 for Committee
on the Judiciary to investigate Trading With the Enemy
Act, was deferred after committee amendments thereto
were adopted. The Senate did, however, adopt the
resolution as well as the amendments thereto.
Also, on page D147, the DIGEST showed as $310,880
the funds authorized under S. Res. 62, providing for
investigation of the Internal Security Act by the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary. This was the amount as shown
in the report accompanying the resolution when re-
ported March ii by the Committee on Rules and Ad-
ministration (S. Rept. 35). The correct amount, how-
ever, is $333,880.
Confirmations: The following nominations were con-
firmed: William J. Hartigan, of Massachusetts, to be an
Assistant Postmaster General; Edmund T. Pratt, Jr., of
New York, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Army;
John W. Douglas, of Maryland, to be an Assistant At-
torney General; Kenneth A. Cox, of Washington, to
be member of the FCC; Paul J. Tierney, of Maryland,
to be an Interstate Commerce Commissioner; 14 nomi-
nations, each to be an incorporator of the Communica-
tions Satellite Corporation, as follows: Edgar F. Kaiser,
of California, David M. Kennedy, of Illinois, Sidney J.
Weinberg, of New York, Bruce G. Sundlum, of Rhode
Island, A. Byrne Litschgi, of Florida, Beardsley Graham,
of Kentucky, Leonard Woodcock, of Michigan, Sam
Harris, of New York, George F?iian, of New York,
Leonard Marks, of the D.C., John T. Connor, of New
Jersey, George L. Killon, of California, Leo D. Welch,
of New _York, and Joseph V. Chary.VOf California;
6 judicial; -3 Coast Guard; 29 Colseand Geodetic Sur-
vey; and Brig. Gen. Robert F. Seedlock, U.S. Army, to
be a member of the Mississippi River Commission.
Pasms 4149-4150
Nominations: 529 Army nominations were received.
Pages 41484149
Program for Tuesday: Senate met at xi a.m. and
adjourned at 3:46 p.m. until noon Tuesday, March 19.
Its program for Tuesday has not been announced.
Pages 4099, 4148
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS?INTERIOR
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee con-
tinued its hearings on fiscal 1964 budget estimates for
the Department of the Interior, and related agencies,
with testimony in behalf of projects for their respective
States from Senators Moss and Church; Senator Prox-
mire, who testified on funds for the extension of the
forest products laboratories; and Senator Cooper, on
funds for research on strip-mined land in the Appa-
lachian coal region.
Hearings continue on Monday, March 18.
NEW HOPE DAM
Committee on Public Works: Subcommittee on Flood
Control?Rivers and Harbors held hearings in con-
nection with the flood control project New Hope Dam
on the Cape Fear River, N.C., receiving testimony from
Senator Jordan (North Carolina), who submitted
statement in behalf of himself, Senator Ervin,
Governor Sanford; Representatives Lennon Hen
son, Kornegay, and Cooley; Brig. Gen. jack.564,':
ham, and Col. Robert C. Marshall, both of the Co
Army Engineers; Carl Brown, Soil Conservati
ice, Department of Agriculture- and numerou
witnesses.
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Committee Meetings, -
RESERVE fRAINING
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee No. .3
continued hearings on FLR. 2421, regarding, .the
6-month Reserve training program. Heard testimony
from Lt. Gen. Lewis R. Hershey, Director, Selective
Service System; other departmental, and public wit-
nesses.
EQUAL PAY
Committee on Education and Labor: Special Subcom-
mittee on Labor heard testimony from W. Willard
Wirtz, Secretary of Labor, Esther Peterson, Assistant
Secretary of Labor; and public witnesses, on equal pay
RECLAMATION
Committee on Interior and Insular Allairs: Subcom-
mittee on Irrigation and Reclamation ordered reported
favorably to die full committee H.R..4zp3, to permit the
Secretary of the Interior to continue to deliver water to
-nutlet on ati n ar e e-
sent**, Marsh 'and dep es.
; -to authbrize the': Seci 'etari: Of dii riortoco-
operate with the State of Wisconsin in the'designation
. and administratiOn of the Ice%lige, Nati-mar Scientific
Reserve in the State,of-Wutonisiii.
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BROADCAST RATINGS
Committee on interstate and-Toreign CeMitnerCe: Spe,-
cial Subcommittee on. Investigations continued hearings
on broadcast rating Services,,anct heard testi:Many from
public witnesses.
NEWS MEDIA
Committer on the Judiciary: Subcommitten No. 5
(Antitrust) continued hearings on concentration of
ownership of news media. Heard testimony from pub-
lic witnesses.
TAXES
Committee on Ways and Means: Continued hearings
on the President's tax recommendations, and heard
testimony from public witnecges
CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD
Week of March 18-23
Committee rneettngs are open unless otherunse indicated)
Senate Chamber
Senate will meet rIext on Tuesday, March 19, but no
program has been announced tor Tuesday or for the
balance of the week.
Senate Committees
Committee on Aeronauticai and Space Sciences: March i9.? to .
hold hearings on 1,4, nominations to? be incorporators of the Com-
Murtinations Satellite System, to a.m., -235 Old Senate Office
BuiMing:
Committee on Agricohnwe esnd Forestry: March i8-2r, on S.
19*, S:19ort, and 9.5.3?pending dairy legislation, io a.na., 324
Senate Office
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Committee on Appropriations: March 18, 19, and 20,. StibCGM-
Mine; an fiscal x964 budget estimates for the Department of the
and related agencies, ra 1223 New Senate Office
Tinalding; 40
March. as ana 22, 31111303finniltbre? Oft fiscal r964 budget esti,
mates for the Department of Agriculture, Thursday to heat Sec-
retary Freeman. x0 a.m., r1r4 New Senate Office Building. -
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Committee on Commerce: March xg, executive, on committee
business, so a.m., 51 to, New Senate Office Building.
Committee on the District of Colimaiva: March r8, excentive,
iarganizationak meeting, 9:30 sari, 6a28 New Senate Office
Building. -
Committee on Finance: March 2i, to hold hearings on I I.R.
25x3, to require certain new packages of imported articles to be
marked to indicate the country of origin, to a.m., 2221 New
Senate Office Building.
Committee as Government Operations: March 59 and 20, to
hold hearings on S. 537, to create a Joint Committee on the ,
Bud et, a.m., 3302 New Senate Office Building;
arch it,' Pernianent -Subcommittee on Investigations, to
rentnie, in execntive session, its ilit.a.tingS dti procurement prat,
fiats of the Air Force and Navy, and the awarding of the TFX
type aircraft contract to General Dynamics Corps of Fort Worth,
t a:3o, 2,02-,33oa. New Senate Office Building;
March 22,. Subcommittee on. National Security Staffing and
Operations, to resume its *rings on the administration 01.
,national Qecurity in. the IL& and abroad, to hear Assistant Sec
!entry of State W. A.vereft Harriman; so 33o2 New Senate
OffieeBuilding.
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