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enter any conflict between or among Federal Government agencies. He could
enter any conflict in private business.
There is a feeling by the Administration that this consumer advocacy would do
two harmful things: (1) It would intrude into the orderly process of Government,
and (2) It would intrude into the orderly process of private business. It is im-
portant for this Administration to develop alternatives to this bill and there are
two proposals currently being thought about: (1) Beef-up Virginia Knauer's
consumer office, giving it much more strength to get involved in consumer affairs,
or (2) by Executive Order, create a Consumer Department in each Cabinet office
and agency and make it strong. It is the feeling of this Administration that an all
powerful agency for consumer advocacy of the type indicated in the bill would be
very harmful to the process of Government and private industry.
The President: The President stated that he had asked Jim Cannon to speak with
each person during the next two weeks and to get recommendations in regard to
the consumer problem. "I want you to be prepared to discuss this at the next
Cabinet Meeting."
The President indicated that he had seen an article in Saturday's or Sunday's
paper saying that someone was testifying before a Congressional committee and
said that the economic impact statement had not been prepared by his Department.
"I think that they were talking about Commerce, John Tabor, and I was wondering
what you know about that."
Fred Dent: "Mr. President, I can answer that for you. I was testifying before
the House Government Operations Committee at the time of the question. The
question was relative to whether or not guidelines for economic impact statements
had been developed for all of the agencies and departments in the Federal
Government and I testified to the fact that I could not categorically say that was
the case. Perhaps Jim Lynn has some comment on that."
Jim Lynn: He indicated that this was a logical sequence of discussion because
the OMB was concerned about getting on top of the economic impact statement.
It is important that the public and the Congress know what the economic impact
of any given piece of legislation which this Administration sends to Congress is.
OMB sent out a circular in January indicating that the departments and agencies were
given until March 3 to decide on their guidelines. Some departments are better
equipped to handle economic' analysis than are others. Some have that economic
capacity within their departments while others, historically, have not had that
particular influence or discipline.
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