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These documents were scanned from Box R33 of the Gerald R. Ford Congressional Papers at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MARCH 20, 1973
OFFICE OF THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY
THE WHITE HOUSE
PRESS CONFERENCE
OF
SENATOR HUGH SCOTT
AND
CONGRESSMAN LESLIE C. ARENDS
GERALD FORD LIBRARY
THE BRIEFING ROOM
AT 10:50 A.M. EST
MR. ZIEGLER: The Leadership Meeting this morning
lasted for close to two hours and Congressman Ford had to
go back to the Hill to attend to business he had committed
himself to there. Congressman Leslie Arends is here to
tell you a little about the meeting this morning and take
your questions, together with Senator Scott. We will begin
with Congressman Arends.
CONGRESSMAN ARENDS: We had a particularly interest-
ing part of the session this morning with a presentation
by Dr. Dunlop on food prices. I repeat it was rather lengthy
and in detail and very illuminating.
My understanding is that this release today will be
made available and something worthwhile studying and
presenting some facts to the American people, which I think
they particularly ought to know, that was given to us this
morning.
Q
Do you have any hope they will come down,
Congressman?
CONGRESSMAN ARENDS: No, not at this particular
time, but the battle is being waged, shall we say, and
being optimistic, I think as we look down the road, we
will eventually find we are moving in the right direction
without the freezing of certain elements of the economy
in order to bring this about.
I speak probably from the standpoint of one who
is terribly interested in agriculture out in our part
of the country and while we have these complaints about
the prices of meats, et cetera, I think the matter of
production that we will see following in the months ahead
will alleviate the condition that I would refer to in
a reasonable length of time.
SENATOR SCOTT: Mr. Stein also spoke on the
economy generally, and Mr. Ash on the budget, and the point
was made several times that busting the budget will have a
disastrous effect on the cost of living and on the tax
increase. And the President and his advisers pointed
out that his moves on dairy imports, meat imports, stockpiles
and the forthcoming Message to remove the three cent a pound
tariff on meat imports are all part of an all-out war to
reduce the cost of living, particularly the cost of food
and similar commodities, And the paper entitled "Food Prices"
which will be made available will make the point as to
how seriously this is being worked on, and will make the
further points as to the percentage of change in prices of
food in various countries. There will be a chart which
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will demonstrate that the international comparison of
food consumer price changes over a year, that it has been
higher in all the major countries of the world than in the
United States, ranging from 8.7 percent in France to
4.9 percent in Japan, as against 4.8 in the United States
from November, 1971 to 1972.
The further point is made that the restraint
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on the increase in the price of food will be expected to
be rather marked in the second half of the year and
that the food price outlook for that second half rests on
a pattern of expanding food supplies and the production
of food commodities in meat and dairy products, poultry
and eggs, food grains, vegetables, fruits and nuts, will
all be substantially improved for the year 1973.
Q
Do you think it will be a comfort. to the
housewife now?
SENATOR SCOTT: Nothing is a comfort to a housewife
who has to pay an increased cost for food, and this is
painful and difficult. It is transitory, as these food
price increases have been over the years. They go up and
they come down, if they are wisely handled. Many of them
are too high now and are very difficult for housewives, as
we know.
But I believe there is a definite improvement
coming and the figures available to the White House, through
the Department of Agriculture and elsewhere, would indicate
that this, in fact, is the case. For example, there will
be an increase in the production of pork products, which is
one illustration that will have an effect on beef. By
comparison with an earlier year, in the fourth quarter of
last year, it is anticipated that pork will be up 5-5/10
percent. Broilers and milk will be up, eggs about the
same, and beef will be up.
Q Was there any sentiment expressed at all
for putting controls on farm prices at the farm level?
SENATOR SCOTT: Well, it was discussed, but the
problem of a freeze at the farm level is that it would work
for about 60 days, maybe 90, and would be temporarily
greeted as popular and then the upward push and pressures
on it would probably defeat the original purpose.
It is tempting to consider price freezes on food
at the source, but the history of that type of freeze
is after 90 days it doesn't work.
Q
Did they make a comparison between February
of 1972 and February of 1973?
SENATOR SCOTT: The price comparisons in here are
in November, but the price comparisons as to the price of
food in this country as against other major countries is
February, 1973.
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0
Senator, Congressman Mills, on Sunday, said that
Phase III is not working and there should be a Phase IV
with tighter controls. Was there any discussion of that?
SENATOR SCOTT: There was discussion of the always
existing possibility of selected controls at any time on
something that might get out of hand which could be controlled
as distinguished from controlling the price of food at the
source.
Q Such as on what?
GERALD FORD LIBRARY
SENATOR SCOTT: Well, there was general discussion,
lumber was mentioned as an illustration.
Q Rents?
SENATOR SCOTT: Rents were mentioned, but no
decisive statement on policy.
Q
Is there concern that Phase III is not working?
SENATOR SCOTT: There is simply a concern shared
by all the American people that the cost of food is higher
and it should be brought lower.
Q
Sir, isn't there anything immediately that you
all can do to bring about relief? Are you not concerned
with the picket lines before the grocery stores, in say,
New York City and other places?
SENATOR SCOTT: The Administration is doing things
to bring about relief. The things I have mentioned, the
matters pertaining to milk imports, to beef imports, to
stockpiles, to the removal of the three cent tariff on
beef imports, all of these things are designed to increase
the supply, to ease the pressure and therefore, ultimately
to lower the prices.
Q
This three cents a pound on the meat, that
hasn't come off yet, has it?
SENATOR SCOTT: No, that is a forthcoming
recommendation of the President that we are authorized to
mention.
Q
I was checking on that yesterday at the
Department of Agriculture. They said they were still studying
to see if it could be done by Executive Order. Have you
decided yet?
SENATOR SCOTT: I believe there will be a message
to Congress on it.
Q
In other words, Congress will have to act
before that can be done?
SENATOR SCOTT: That is my understanding.
Q
It will take quite a while.
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SENATOR SCOTT: Not necessarily. If Congress is
worried, as we all are, about price increases, Congress
ought to act very promptly. They have shown they can in
the past when sufficiently concerned.
GERALD LIQUARY FORD
Q
Is it your anticipation that food prices
will go down in the second half of the year or just
that they won't go up so fast?
SENATOR SCOTT: It is my personal belief, based
on this briefing today, that prices in the second half of
the year should show a definite downward trend reducing
the total annual average by a substantial amount.
Q
Senator Scott, you said that the tariff was
one of the items you discussed that you were authorized
to mention. Did you talk about anything you are not authorized
to mention out here by chance?
SENATOR SCOTT: No, I did not. Nothing that the
President intends to submit.
Q How much concern is there over the rising
interest rates? Is that going to bring another recession?
SENATOR SCOTT: That wasn't discussed. I have
seen the discussions in the paper. I hope that interest
rates can be held down. We have seen that the Federal
Reserve Board is reported in the papers to have a concern
about it. I would anticipate that is true. I think that
has raised my interest rate at Riggs yesterday, so I have
a personal interest.
Q
Did you discuss further the Dean case and
the Ervin committee's activities in terms of trying to
get the White House counsel to testify?
SENATOR SCOTT: No, this was on the cost of living,
not on the cost of loving. (Laughter)
Q
Senator, did you discuss the infiltration
of troops into South Vietnam?
SENATOR SCOTT: Well, there was a brief discussion
-- no, not on that subject. There was a brief discussion
on the size of the armed forces, but not on Vietnam.
Q Could I ask you your personal opinion as to
when U.S. troops are finally out of South Vietnam and the
POWs are returned, at that point, do you consider the U.S.
involvement in Vietnam to have ended?
SENATOR SCOTT: Now you are asking me something
that was not covered today, so that obviously I am speaking
for nobody, nobody but myself, and that ain't too much
some days.
Q
We will take what we can get, Senator.
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SENATOR SCOTT: Thank you, Peter. Thank you so
much. That is what I do. (Laughter)
I do not think that that ends our involvement in
the sense that we have made an agreement of peace and our
involvement is contemplated in that agreement of peace, our
concerns of peace in the world. It does end our military
involvement insofar as the presence of troops are concerned.
Q After that point then, would it be your personal
opinion that the President should go to Congress to take
any further military action in Vietnam?
SENATOR SCOTT: Well, I will not face that
question happily unless and until it comes up. It depends
on the nature of any future action involved, which I
would hope will not be necessary under any circumstances.
Q
Do you think the President has a legal right
to go into Vietnam again if the troops are pulled out
and the POWs?
SENATOR SCOTT: Helen, that is a little too "iffy"
for me to field. I think that the President has certain
powers which have to be assessed by him as to what his
functions are. He has, of course, a commitment to see that
the terms of this peace are observed and he makes the
judgment as to whether they are observed and whether or
not he has any other plans if they are not, I am unable
to say.
Q
Senator, pursuing that, do you think the
President has the power and the authority, without Congress
saying so in advance, to bomb North Vietnam again?
SENATOR SCOTT: Well, I think he had that power
and I think if he did it again, he would do it under the
conviction that he had the power again, but I am not
passing on it because I don't know.
Q
You are a supporter of Senator Javits. I
think you are the co-sponsor of the Warpower Resolution
which asks for Congress, after a 30-day period, to declare
whether or not the President should continue involvement
of this kind. Do you think that that kind of act, if it
were in effect, would come into play at the point of our
troops leaving South Vietnam?
SENATOR SCOTT: Well, I have said I myself do
not feel that this Warpower proposal has application to
the present situation in Southeast Asia, but to future
situations.
Q
When does the future start?
SENATOR SCOTT: Well, the future starts once
I believe that we are satisfied that all is going along
well in Southeast Asia. It refers to future military
situations. This is, as of today, a continuing military
situation.
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GERALD
Q
That may be never in terms of war in the area
as such.
SENATOR SCOTT: Well, I accept your metaphysical
approach to that. I don't believe it will be never. I
think this will be solved some day "on the 17th of ever,"
rather than the "17th of never," but I don't know when.
Q Do you have the impression that the President
still backs Mr. Gray as fully as ever?
SENATOR SCOTT: I have the impression that having
sent Mr. Gray's nomination up, the President's support
is exactly the same as when he sent it up, and that is full.
Q Have you noticed any dimunition of White House
lobbying in behalf of Mr. Gray as reported in the papers?
SENATOR SCOTT: No, I have not. The matter is
before the Judiciary Committee, which is meeting again this
morning, and the presence of people from the White House
continues, their interest continues.
Q
Sir, did you have any other Republican Members
of the House and Senate in with you today?
SENATOR SCOTT: Yes, Ron will give you the names.
We had four Senators and four Members of the House there.
The President likes to call the wild cards, respectfully,
Ron quickly tells me. (Laughter) And I think they enjoyed
it. In fact, Representative Talcott of California expressed
his very great pleasure on behalf of the eight Members
there and thought how useful it was. I think it is very
useful.
Q Could we get Mr. Arends views on the question
involving the President's authority to initiate additional
military actions in South Vietnam or against North Vietnam
in the future, after our troops are withdrawn?
CONGRESSMAN ARENDS: At this particular moment I
do not care to comment on that and that certainly was not
discussed this morning. One thing we did discuss at length
was the matter of the budget, which is of terrible
importance to us at this particular time. Those of
us who believe in the spending and limitation of spending
are concerned about the continuing propositions and programs
that come before us for additional spending efforts.
Now, those of us who feel strongly that we must
remain within these spending limitations are going to do
what we can to keep them there exactly, and I think you
will see some real effort being put forth on our side of
the House, as well as on the Senate side, to stay within
those limitations and it gets itself right down to one
bare fact of life. Either we are for or against it.
And when we say we are for the limitation, that means
we are against an increased tax bill. It is just that simple,
one, two.
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GERALD LINNARY FORD
So those of us who really feel this way about it
and do not again want to inflict upon the American people
a tax increase bill are continuing to continue the fight
to limit the spending, regardless of how meritorious some
people may feel about some sections of a bill, all sections
which are important, of course, but which we think, at the
present time, can be obviated for at least a period.
Q Did the President tell you he was going to
veto any more bills you are interested in?
CONGRESSMAN ARENDS: No, he didn't say what he was
going to be told or might be told. However, I want to be
frank, I rather anticipate we will have additional vetoes,
yes.
Q
Did you speak to Mr. Ash about the impoundment
of funds?
CONGRESSMAN ARENDS: Not about impoundment of funds,
no. But he expressed himself in terms somewhat like this:
the great importance and the one that will probably be
the first veto, if it comes, will be the vocational
rehabilitation bill which is now down here at the White
House and ready for Presidential action, one way or another.
Q
Do you go along with that veto?
CONGRESSMAN ARENDS: Yes, very emphatically.
SENATOR SCOTT: On this, the added cost is about
$600 million and a number of those programs, especially
categorical programs, are included in medical bills or in
other legislation and there is a $200 million increase in
vocational rehabilitation to be found in other legislation,
an increase in the '74 budget of $200 million, but the $600
million in a bill, which we are told by Mr. Ash is
incapable of being effectively administered, is apparently
a budget busting bill and under those circumstances would
be the first contribution to a tax increase.
0
Senator, if the spending were held to the
current level, would the bill be approved, would it be signed
by the President?
SENATOR SCOTT: It would be $600 million less
than the present bill.
CONGRESSMAN ARENDS: The fact is that the bill down
here does not have the reduction in it. And that is the
one he has to act on.
Q
What is the price tag on the bill?
MR. ZIEGLER: We will check that for you.
SENATOR SCOTT: I would like to say that the President
again assured Mr. Arends and me of the intention of the
White House to fully cooperate with the Congress in all
matters pertaining to their investigations, including the
current ones; that he and we support what Senator Ervin's
position was in the Gravel case before the Supreme Court
as to the separation of powers and the necessity for the
continuance of the separation.
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Senator Ervin was a very good lawyer when he
DERALD FORD LIBRARY
was arguing that side of the case in court. We agreed
with him.
If any of you feel that the White House is not
cooperating, the only thing to do is for the Congress to
test that by asking questions. They can submit any questions
they want, any interrogatories they want, to any person in
the White House and they will be answered. That does not
include a television spectacular on Capitol Hill, of
course, if it would violate the separation of powers.
The White House has nothing to conceal and that
is an authorized statement.
Q Would you extend this policy to newspaper
reporters, that we can ask any question we would like
of anybody on the White House staff and we will get an
answer?
SENATOR SCOTT: Well, Sarah, I wish you well. I
would like to be able to do that and as far as I am
concerned, I am for you.
Q
When you said any questions or interrogatories,
you mean to come back and follow up answers with more
questions?
SENATOR SCOTT: I would assume that, yes, if
the answers to the interrogatories do not seem to be
fully responsive, then other questions could be submitted.
Any information which the Congressional committees want,
in these two investigations, can be had, but it can be had
without being turned into a circus or spectacular
and it can be had as long as it doesn't violate the separation
of powers.
Q
Senator, what do you think about oral
interrogatories in closed sessions?
SENATOR SCOTT: Larry, I do not believe that that is
what the White House contemplates. We have them in connection
with other investigations, but it is not contemplated here
because of the separation of powers problem.
Q
You said that this was an authorized statement
you were making. Is the President concerned that if Mr.
Dean or other White House aides went to the Hill that it
would become a TV spectacular, a circus?
SENATOR SCOTT: Those are my words about TV
spectaculars. I was indulging in a little color here.
(Laughter)
There is nothing which the White House has
any wish to conceal. There is nothing to conceal. We must
maintain the separation of powers as Senator Ervin has
so ably argued before the Supreme Court.
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GERALD FORD LIBRARY
Q
How do you tell the truth of an answer on a
piece of paper?
SENATOR SCOTT: I don't know. How do you do it?
It is a question of how it is done anywhere in human
relations.
Q
Usually if I get a piece of paper I am
doubtful about the truth. I try to ask the author some
questions.
SENATOR SCOTT: That is what you would be permitted
to do here, if you were doing a Congressional investigation.
You would send a letter and say, "I want the truth."
Q
The President said he would provide information
to questions that were pertinent. Who will be the judge
of what is pertinent? Has that been discussed?
SENATOR SCOTT: You would apply the principle of
separation of powers, whether it applies in that instance,
whether it involves confidentiality. After all, you are
talking about the President's lawyer and I said to you
before that the President has the same right to have a
lawyer that I do, or you do, or anyone else and he has
the same right to confidentiality of sources that the
press are urging now on the Congress.
Q Senator, President Eisenhower made Sherman
Adams available under somewhat similar circumstances. What
distinction do you make between Mr. Adams and Mr. Dean?
SENATOR SCOTT: I don't accept the similarity. I
was in Congress at the time, a friend of Mr. Adams, I
still am, I have still a very high regard for Sherman Adams,
but I was being charged with matters that pertained to him
personally and what he had done personally, which was alleged
to be a conflict of interest.
There is no charge here of that kind against a counsel
to the President, for example.
Q
Isn't there a conflict of interest in the sense
that it is a question of Mr. Dean's relationship to Mr. Liddy?
SENATOR SCOTT: I think that has been answered a
number of times. I don't accept the conflict of interest
there. You can argue it, but I wouldn't accept it.
Q Senator, is it your view, and this does not
refer to Mr. Dean at all, that if the Congressional committee
wanted to question a White House staffer about a matter of
personal impropriety or wrongdoing, that it could, that
Executive privilege could not be invoked in that kind of
situation?
SENATOR SCOTT: That would depend. You would
have to state an exact situation, and then the White House
would have to determine whether or not it does or does not
involve the question of separation of powers.
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Q
Is it entirely up to the White House to
determine that?
SENATOR SCOTT: It is entirely up to the White
House, up to the President to determine what is within the
confidentiality of communications, what is within the
separation of powers. He must make that decision just as the
Congress did ,through Senator Ervin, make the same decision
in the Gravel case pertaining to a member of his staff.
MR. ZIEGLER: Thank you very much, gentlemen.
THE PRESS: Thank you.
END
(AT 11:15 A.M. EST)
HIGHLIGHTS OF HOUSE ACTION, MARCH 13, 1973 THROUGH MARCH 19, 1973
FORD
Tuesday, March 13, 1973
OLDER AMERICANS
SERALD
LIBRARY
RULE
By a voice vote, the House adopted H. Res. 273, providing for one
hour of open debate.
PASSAGE
By a record vote of 329 yeas to 69 nays, the House passed H.R. 71,
to strengthen and improve the Older Americans Act of 1965. (GRF - Nay
Speaker - NV)
Yea
Nay
NV
Total
Rep.
111
66
14
191
Demo.
218
3
19
240
329
69
33
431
Subsequently, this passage was vacated, and S. 50, a similar Senate-
passed bill was passed in lieu after being amended to contain the
language of the House bill as passed.
Prior to final passage of H.R. 71, by a record teller vote of 168 ayes
to 229 noes, the House rejected an amendment by Mr. Landgrebe in the
form of a substitute to the committee substitute that embodied the
text of H.R. 4318. (GRF - Yea; Speaker - NV)
Yea
Nay
NV
Total
Rep.
130
48
13
191
Demo.
38
181
21
240
168
229
34
431
Wednesday, March 14, 1973
RULES OF EVIDENCE
RULE
By a voice vote, the House adopted H. Res. 294, providing for one
hour of open debate.
PASSAGE
By a record vote of 399 yeas to 1 nay (Froehlich - Wis.), the House
passed S. 583, to promote the separation of constitutional powers
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Wednesday, March 14, 1973 (cont'd)
FORD LIBRARY & CERALO
RULES OF EVIDENCE (cont'd)
PASSAGE (repeat)
By a record vote of 399 yeas to 1 nay (Froehlich - Wis:), the House
passed S. 583, to promote the separation of constitutional powers
by securing the Rules of Evidence for U.S. Courts and Magistrates,
the Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the
Amendments to the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure which the
Supreme Court on November 20, 1972, ordered the Chief Justice to
transmit to the Congress. (GRF - Yea; Speaker - NV)
Yea
Nay
NV
Total
Rep.
177
1
14
192
Demo.
222
0
18
240
399
1
32
432
SCHOOL LUNCH ACT
The House disagreed to the amendment of the Senate to H.R. 4278, to
amend the National School Lunch Act to assure that Federal financial
assistance to the child nutrition programs is maintained at the
level budgeted for fiscal year 1973, and asked a conference with
the Senate. Appointed as conferees: Representatives Perkins, Meeds,
Mink, Hawkins, Lehman, Andrews of North Carolina, Quie, Bell, Ashbrook,
and Forsythe.
Thursday, March 15, 1973
SCHOOL LUNCH ACT
The House agreed to the conference report on H.R. 4278, to amend the
National School Lunch Act to assure that Federal financial assistance
to the child nutrition programs is maintained at the level budgeted
for fiscal year 1973, clearing the measure for the White House.
CAMPAIGN EXPENDITURES
The House agreed to H. Res. 279, to create a special committee to
investigate campaign expenditures. Subsequently, the Speaker ap-
pointed Representatives Smith of Iowa, Leggett, Long of Louisiana,
Dickinson, and Devine to serve as members of the committee.
PUBLIC WORKS--ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
RULE
By a voice vote, the House adopted H. Res. 295, providing for one
hour of open debate.
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FORO
is
Thursday, March 15, 1973 (continued)
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LIBRARY
PUBLIC WORKS--ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (cont'd)
PASSAGE
By a record vote of 278 yeas to 108 nays, the House passed H.R. 2246,
to amend the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 to
extend the authorizations for a 1-year period. (GRF - Nay; Speaker - NV)
Yea
Nay
NV
Total
Rep.
71
97
24
192
Demo.
207
11
22
240
278
108
46
432
RECOMMIT
By a voice vote, the House rejected a motion by Mr. Grover to re-
commit the bill to the Committee on Public Works.
VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION ACT
The House agreed to the Senate amendment to the House amendment to
S. 7, to amend the Vocational Rehabilitation Act to extend and
revise the authorization of grants to States for vocational rehabili-
tation services, to authorize grants for rehabilitation services to
those with severe disabilities, clearing the measure for the President.
Monday, March 19, 1972
NO LEGISLATIVE BUSINESS
PROGRAM AHEAD
Tuesday, March 20, 1973
PRIVATE CALENDAR (No Bills)
SUSPENSIONS (No Bills)
Nineteen Committee Funding Resolutions from the House Administration
Committee
Wednesday, March 21, 1973
H.R. 5446 - Solid Waste Disposal Act
(SUBJECT TO A RULE BEING GRANTED)
Thursday, March 22, 1973
Five Committee Funding Resolutions from the House Administration Committee
H.R. 5445 - Clean Air Act
(SUBJECT TO A RULE BEING GRANTED)
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GERALD
CONGRESSIONAL STATUS OF VETO-BAIT BILLS
SENATE
BILLS
HOUSE
S. 50 - Passed 2/20/73
Older Americans Act
H.R. 71 - Passed 3/13/73
Y-82
Y-329
N-9
N- 69
(S. 50 passed in lieu of H.R. 71)
S.
Research on Aging
H.R. 65 - Hearings concluded by Sub-
committee on Public Health &
Environment (Interstate &
Foreign Commerce) 3 days
of mark-up scheduled this week.
S. 467 - Pending before
Public Works & EDA Amendments
H.R. 2246 - Passed 3/15/73
Public Works
Y-278
Committee
N-108
S. 263 - Pending before
Amendments to Mining & Mineral Policy
H.R. 5079 - (Saylor) - Pending before
Interior Committee
Interior Committee
S. 38 - Passed 2/5/73
Airport Development
H.R. 4082 - Committee on Interstate
Y-65
& Foreign Commerce continue
N-15
hearings March 20.
S. 39 - Passed 2/21/73
Anti-Hijacking
H.R. 3858 - Hearings concluded by
Y-89
Committee on Interstate
& Foreign Commerce
S. 606 - Passed 2/1/73
Flood Control
H.R. 4904 & H.R. 4905 - Committee on
Y-67
Public Works. Briefing by
N-14
Gen. Clark on 3/8/73.
Hearings postponed until
after recess.
S. 49 - Passed 3/6/73
National Cemetery Act
H.R. 2828 - Pending before Committee
Y-85
on Veterans Affairs.
N-4
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S. 59 - Passed 3/6/73
Veterans Health Care
H.R. 2900 - Pending before Committee
Y-86
on Veterans Affairs.
N- 2
Subcommittee hearings
scheduled to begin 3/22.
S. 7 - Passed 2/28/73
Vocational Rehabilitation
H.R. 71 - Passed 3/8/73
Y-86
Y-318
N- 2
N- 57
(Landgrebe Substitute: Y-166; N-213)
3/15/73 - Senate
S. 7 - Passed 3/15/73
agreed to House amend-
House agreed to Senate amend-
ment with an amendment.
ment to House amendment.
H.R. 2107 - Passed 3/1/73
REAP
H.R. 2107 - Passed 2/7/73
Y-71
Y-251
N-10
N-142
S. 394 - Passed 2/21/73
REA Extension
H.R. 2276 - Committee on Agriculture
Y-69
rejected (23-12) Adminis-
N-20
tration version of compro-
mise bill. Will consider
Denholm bill on 3/20/73.
H.R. 3298 - Committee on
Rural Water and Sewer
H.R. 3298 - Passed 3/1/73
Agriculture -
Y-297
ordered reported.
N- 54
S. 14 (Kennedy Bill) Before
Health Maintenance Organizations
H.R. 4871 (Staggers & Devine) &
Labor & Public Welfare
H.R. 51 (Dr. Roy) Subcommittee hearings
Committee
concluded - Interstate & For-
eign Commerce Committee. 3 day
markup scheduled for this week
S. 502 - Passed 3/15/73
Highway Act Amendments
H.R.
- Hearings began March 19
Y-77
by Committee on Public
N-5
Works - to continue all
week. No bill number yet.
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