'FEDERAL TORT CLAIMS ACT'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80S01268A000400020009-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 23, 2005
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: November 4, 1978
• Content Type: NOTES

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Spoke with Parks Stearns, of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation's Congressional Affairs Office. Mr. Stearns
and I, having worked on the Federal Tort Claims Act during
the 95th Congress, will meet for lunch on 9 November 1978
to discuss the bill's prospects in the 96th Congress.
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1. I spoke with Ms. Ricki Tigert, principal staffer on the Senate
Judiciary Committee concerned with the Federal Tort Claims bill.
2. She advised me that neither House nor Senate Committee will
consider (mark up) the bill until after recess, i.e., 6 September.
She added that, although most followers of the bill feel that it is dead--
principally due to lack of time and other pressing legislation--Attorney
General Bell is of a different mind and continues, with some hope of
success, to push the bill along.
Assistant Legislative Counsel
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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 4
Monday - 18 September 1978
14. (Unclassified - AMC) LEGISLATION Spoke with
Mr. Park Stearns, FBI Congressional Liaison.
It was agreed that we would work in tandem with the
Department of Justice in order to ensure that CIA-FBI
amendments to the Federal Tort Claims Act were incorporated
during mark-up - should the same occur this session.
15. (Unclassified - MDC) LEGISLATION Spoke
separately with Mr._ Ben Read and William Bacchus, Department
of State regarding CIA-State efforts to secure a broad.
Foreign Service exemption from the Senior Executive Service
of the Civil Service Reform bill. Both agreed that Civil
Service and White House agreement to push the CIA-State
amendment was sufficient. Mr. Read. thanked us for our efforts
on State's behalf which, he said, had. won the day.
16. (Unclassified - MDC) LEGISLATION Spoke with
Ms. Ricki Tigert, Senate Judiciary Counsel, who stated that
unless the Mouse undertook mark-up of their version of the
Federal Tort Claims Act this week and its efforts met the
approval of Senator Howard M. Metzenbaum (D., Ohio), the
Senate sponsor, the chances of passage this session were
grim.
17. (Unclassified - MDC) LEGISLATION Spoke with
and explained to Mr. Simon Lazarus, Associate Director,
Domestic Policy Staff, the White House, CIA's problems with
Foreign Service inclusion in the Senior Executive Service
provisions of the Civil Service bill. Mr. Lazarus agreed
to accept, on behalf of the Administration, CIA's position
in this area
18. (Unclassified - MDC) LEGISLATION Spoke with
Miss Cynthia D. Sprunger, Legislative Assistant to Representa-
tive James A. S. Leach (R., Iowa).
A meeting was Leach and
Miss Sprunger I uin order to STAT
discuss anew a remaining problematic provision contained in.
the house version of the Civil. Service bill which had been
originally introduced by Mr. Leach. The meeting is tentatively
scheduled for 20 September at 1330 hours in 1724 Longworth House
Office Building.
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