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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 6, 1973
OFFICE OF THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY
THE WHITE HOUSE
PRESS CONFERENCE
FORD
OF
SENATOR HUGH SCOTT
AND
GERALD
LIBRARY
CONGRESSMAN GERALD R. FORD
THE BRIEFING ROOM
AT 10:10 A.M. EST
MR. ZIEGLER: The President met with the Leaders this
morning, Senator Scott and Congressman Ford, in his office.
The meeting began at 8:30 and just ended. They met for over
an hour and a half, and Congressman Ford and Senator Scott
are here to talk to you briefly about the meeting and take
some of your questions.
CONGRESSMAN The main purpose of the meeting
this morning with the President was to describe to the President
how the House and Senate, on the Republican side, were going
to continue their fight to hold the line on spending. When
we came out of the meeting, I was handed a news clipping which,
interestingly enough, indicates that the Democratic leaders are
launching a move in the House to force the President to spend
better than $14 billion of money that was appropriated by
the Congress, but that the President feels can be held in
reserve or not spent in order to save the taxpayers dollars.
And we, as Republicans, are delighted that the Democrats, in
their lust for spending, are now taking up the challenge
that we like to meet them head on, and I want you to know,
very categorically, that on the House side, we welcome the
Democratic admission that they are going to force, or try to
force the President to spend $14 billion in this fiscal year
that he, in his judgment, thinks ought not to be spent.
And I think, because the American people are on
his side, that we can win this battle in the House on the
various authorizations and appropriations that are coming
before us in the next several weeks.
I might add one other point. My Democratic friends
fail to tell the American people that even though the
President is saving in those programs that can no longer be
justified, and there is a long list, that the President's
budget for fiscal '74 opens up new opportunities for the
areas where you can justify additional spending, and let
me point out one or two things.
The President's budget increases, as I recollect,
about 20 percent in funding for heart and cancer. The
President's budget recommends about an eight percent increase
in law enforcement and drug abuse control. The President's
budget reommends an increase in energy research, and when you
get down to the problem of the OEO -- I was out home last
weekend and, of course, all the Democratic propaganda had
convinced a lot of people that OEO as such was going to be
totally eliminated.
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The facts are that the health programs under OEO
are going to be continued. The facts are that Head Start
is going to be continued and the facts are that if the Congress
approves legislation to establish a legal services organization,
that legal services will be continued.
It is only those parts of OEO that have failed to
meet the test of really providing necessary services where
GERALO FORD LIBRARY
the Federal Government is not going to spend.
Now, if the Democrats want to battle us on that
issue, we welcome the challenge in the House of Representatives.
SENATOR SCOTT: Senator Humphrey this morning has
characterized the Administration budget as an entry into
an era of domestic retreat, and I am afraid that Senator
Humphrey doesn't know the difference between advance and
retreat, and we will have to teach him his bugle calls all
over again.
The 1973 federal outlays are eight percent more
than '72. 1974 federal outlays are eight percent more than
'73. The 1973 human resource outlays are 13 percent over '72,
and 1974 human resource outlays are eight percent over '73,
and in fact, the 1974 human resources outlays will double
those of 1969. That is hardly a retreat.
In 1974 federal grants to State and local governments,
in view of what some of the Governors have said, will be
$10 billion greater than in 1972. In fact, the amounts
provided in the three fiscal years, 1972, 1973 and 1974, are
greater than the total amounts provided in the decade of the
'60s during the so-called Great Society Program.
General revenue sharing was and is incremental
money. Grants to State and local governments are increasing
even without it. And as to the four special revenue sharing
proposals, they provide in the aggregate more than the
categorical programs they supplant.
Maybe $250 billion is hard to comprehend, but the
federal budget comes to $100 a month for every man, woman
and child in this country and we are already paying $50,000
a minute, day and night, for interest on the national debt.
We are spending a greater sum of money than has heretofore
been spent, because the needs are greater.
But if the Democrats want to join issue on
whether or not they will soak the American people with a
$14 billion excess over and above the eight percent increases
in these two years, we will gladly join with them in that
issue.
I think personally to ask the Democrats to hold
down spending is like asking an alcoholic to be your
bartender.
0
Do you gentlemen agree with President Nixon's
apparent view that no matter what the Congress appropriates
funds for, the President can impound them and does not have
to spend them?
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SENATOR SCOTT: I believe that as Senator Harry
Truman of Missouri once said on the Floor of the Senate,
GERALD FORD LIBRARY
no one contends that the Congress expects the President
to spend all of the money that is sent to him.
I believe that the President is within his
constitutional authority when he decides that certain funds
do not have to be spent within a given period of time and
that others do not have to be spent at all.
I think actually most of the Members of Congress
realize that they are not going to prevail in the attempt to
prevent the President from saving money by reserving some of
these funds.
CONGRESSMAN FORD: May I add a comment to that?
In the fight we had last year over the spending
ceiling, in the House version, and I think in the final version --
the final version being really no effective control -- the
Democrats, who controlled it and wrote it, indicated clearly
that they anticipated impoundments and they asked the President
to itemize them. So they recognize that Presidents, going
back a long, long time, have exercised that authority in
order to not waste money, even though Congress had in the
first instance made the appropriation.
Now, let me take a specific example. Supposing
Congress appropriated, we will say, $100 million for the
construction of some hydroelectric power dam. Supposing the
Corps of Engineers were able to get a contract for $98 million.
Should the President spend the $2 million that the contract
saved? I don't think SO.
And in those circumstances, of course, the President
shouldn't spend the extra $2 million.
Q
Senator Scott, then does the Congress enact
appropriations as laws or as mere advisory?
SENATOR SCOTT: The Congress enacts appropriations
as laws, but as Senator Truman of Missouri said, it is not
expected and no one expects in the Congress that the President
will expend necessarily all of the money which the Congress
sends to him.
Q
How do you differentiate legally then between
appropriation of the law and any other law which an average
citizen may be expected to obey, such as a tax law?
SENATOR SCOTT: I would differentiate by an appeal,
first of all, to common sense. If we suppose that the need
for a program expires totally within the fiscal year, who in
this room would expect the President to be compelled to spend it.
It is a judgmental decision which he makes.
CONGRESSMAN FORD: I might add one specific on this.
The Congress appropriated funds last year for the
Selective Service on the anticipation and the record that we
would have a draft all though this fiscal year.
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Because of circumstances, we are not drafting
GERALD FORD LIBRARY
anybody in the last six months of fiscal year 1973.
Now the President shouldn't spend the money for
Selective Service that was predicated on having an active
draft all during fiscal year 1973. The President has to
have some flexibility, and I think it is historically true
that Presidents have used that flexibility and they are not,
in my judgment, obligated to spend every time that Congress
appropriates, because Congress, on many occasions, has
acted irresponsibly in the fiscal field and Congress, in many
instances, will appropriate money in anticipation of one
circumstance and those circumstances change and the President
shouldn't spend the money just because it was appropriated.
Q Mr. Ford, is there some way, you cite an
example of a program which is being abolished with the
good will of Congress, now if there is some program that
Congress, perhaps even the Republican Members of Congress,
want to see maintained and the President doesn't like it,
is there some way that Congress can say, "Our judgment
differs from you on this, please go ahead and spend it."
CONGRESSMAN FORD: I think we are engaged in a
struggle to some extent now. We have roughly 14 bills that
the President vetoed at the end of the last session. The
Democrats are now in the process of trying to force him
to spend money under those programs.
We will have a test as to whether or not the
President is right in trying to hold down expenditures for
programs that can't be justified and the Congress will exercise
or work its will.
I think the President is going to win in this battle,
because the public supports him and not the Congress.
Q All right, but if your political judgment should
be mistaken and the Congress can get the votes to keep on
passing these bills to override vetoes, would he then have
to spend it?
CONGRESSMAN FORD: I think that will be a matter
that will be decided by the courts.
Q
Senator Scott, do you fully go along with the
President's priorities for spending? In other words, isn't
it possible to reduce the defense budget or other places
to get money to spend for the programs that apparently the
majority of the Congress wants to spend?
SENATOR SCOTT: Well, the new budget is about, nearly
$20 billion more than the last one, and only $4 billion of
that increase, as I recall it, is for defense. And most of
that is accounted for because Congress itself, by its own
action, increased the pay of the armed services and I think
we all voted for it.
The rest of it is either the fixed charges or
domestic needs, so it seems to me we have provided ample
leeway for the meeting of necessary domestic needs.
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GERALD FORD LIBRARY
Q
In other words, you are totally satisfied with
the budget as it is, and you give the President full power
to determine the priorities of spending and programs in this
country?
SENATOR SCOTT: No, I am making the distinction
that that is the President's right to make the judgment. It
doesn't mean I agree on every single one of those priorities.
I am from one of the 50 States. We have our own constituencies
and in those 50 States our view of the priorities differs
perhaps from the President in some of these issues, but the
main question is that the buck stops at the President.
Only one man can make that final decision, so it
doesn't matter that I might disagree on some given program
or not. I might want to see it continued, but the President
may feel that other programs, having more merit and which get
more for the taxpayer's dollar, are more desirable and
he alone, in my judgment, will be able to make that decision.
If the Democrats want to crusade for a 15 percent tax
increase, which is the effect of the $14 billion demand,
they can have that side of the issue.
Q
Senator, there has been a lot of criticism
by Mayors and Governors that the President's programs
so far to Congress, messages, have lacked specifics. For
example, you know, we passed the crisis in the cities and
so forth. Do you think that he has come forth yet with any
sound programs?
SENATOR SCOTT: These programs are being outlined.
The President has outlined a number of them already in radio
addresses. There is more money to be spent for the cities
through general and special revenue sharing and some
categorical grants than before.
I think the Mayors and the Governors, all of them,
or nearly all of them, are acting like Oliver Twist. It is
natural they would ask for more and more and more, because
if they can't get it from the Federal Government they will
have to exercise some local responsibilities and this is
a painful decision to make.
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GERALD LIBRARY FORD
CONGRESSMAN FORD: I might add a point on that. I
have talked to some Mayors in the last several days. The
Mayors recognize that special revenue sharing is preferable from
their point of view to these categorical grants that are a
real burden to them in their number of applications they have
to file, and if the Congress would follow the President's
recommendations, and come up with special revenue sharing,
it would cut out the red tape, they would actually get more
money, and they would have far greater flexibility to meet
the problems in their local communities.
I understand that the Mayor of Detroit, after taking
a look at the alternative proposed by the President, does feel
that special revenue sharing, if the Congress would move on it,
is preferable to these numerous categorical grant programs they
have been struggling with over the years.
I don't think Mayors do support the extension of
categorical grant programs, but they want the Congress to move
on special revenue sharing so that they will know to some extent
what they are going to get and how they are going to operate and
this is Congress's fault.
Q
How confident are you that Congress will pass
special revenue sharing?
CONGRESSMAN FORD: Well, the Democrats in the Congress
seem to be defending the status quo, which is categorical grant
programs. I think they are making a mistake. I hope they change
their minds and will move away from categorical grant programs.
It is my expectation we will have an opportunity to
pass some of these special revenue sharing proposals before the
end of this fiscal year, so the appropriation committees can
fund special revenue sharing in 1974 rather than -----
Q
But you are not confident?
CONGRESSMAN FORD: I think it is a 50-50 possibility.
We are certainly going to work on it and with the help of the
Mayors, and I hope the Governors, we can make this transition
from categorical to special revenue sharing.
2
The fiscal year doesn't have much time to go,
and the Administration hasn't sent these special revenue sharing
bills up. Have you found out when they are going to get it?
CONGRESSMAN FORD: It is my anticipation that those
proposals will be before the Congress within the next several
weeks. That gives Congress ample time between now and June 30th
to do something about it.
Q
Mr. Ford, what do you think the proper role of
Congress should be in all this? You seem to be suggesting that the
Congress should merely be a rubber stamp on what the President
wants and even if it isn't, he is going ahead and do it anyway,
so they have no function at all.
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GERALD LIBRARY FORD
CONGRESSMAN FORD: I don't think SO. The Congress
working with other Presidents, has built up a number of categorical
grant programs that looked, as we see it today, not the best
way to spend the money.
2
I am talking about overall.
CONGRESSMAN FORD: All right, now, the Congress ought
not to defend necessarily the status quo, and if the Congress
is going to do that, I think the President has to take some
drastic action and I support him, because I don't believe what
we did 20 years ago is necessarily the answer to what we ought
to do in the next ten years.
SENATOR SCOTT: The President's action in reserving
these funds isn't something new. I don't know why this furor
didn't build up over the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations
when it went as high as 8.7 percent, an average of six percent
reservation of funds. The President's reservations are about
three and one-half percent.
I don't know why the Democrats didn't object when
their own Presidents were reserving more funds and taking
20 percent in money, and now all of a sudden when a Republican
President does it, it is indicated that there is something
wrong about it.
I don't see the analogy at all. Where were you,
where were all of you when Johnson was doing it? I think it is
a fair question.
2
Senator, isn't there a difference there?
Wasn't the money eventually spent? It was impounded for a
period and then spent?
SENATOR SCOTT: I don't think it was all eventually
spent.
Q
A good portion of it?
SENATOR SCOTT: Some of it was spent. Some of this
may ultimately be spent. We have no way of knowing.
Q
Isn't there another difference in that it is
now being used to totally end programs, whereas in previous
Administrations it was not that way?
SENATOR SCOTT: In most cases, no. Some are being
ended. In most cases the programs are not being ended.
If you take OEO, the only major part that is being ended is
the community action agencies. All the rest are being
transferred, as Jerry said -- community development, migrants,
Indians, neighborhood health centers, Head Start, legal
services. So that most are not being ended. Some are being
ended because they are not working, some are being ended
because they don't have as much merit as the substitutes proposed
by the President. I think he has a right to propose alternatives.
2
The Democrats generally, and Senator Humphrey
specifically today said they want to stay within the spending
ceiling of $269 billion, or whatever it is, but they want to
transfer more of the money from the federal budget to a domestic
budget. How does this qualify as lustful and drunken conduct,
to use your combined phrases?
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SENATOR SCOTT: What is the difference between a
Federal and a domestic budget? I don't quite follow you.
You said they wanted to transfer from a Federal budget to
a domestic.
Q
I am sorry, from military to a domestic budget.
SENATOR SCOTT: That is the ancient scapegoat. It
isn't there. The Congress normally reduces the defense
budget by five percent or something of that sort, and then
they announce that they have reduced the totals of what the
President has asked for. Then they add three or four times
as much in the other departments. These claims that I have
heard on television by various Democratic Senators that they can
cut defense by ten percent, I don't think will hold water,
unless they want to actually, seriously pare down our defense
and our National security.
After all, the big item and by far the largest single
item in the defense budget is salary, pay and the support which
goes to the personnel, and I don't remember the figure, but it
comes close to being half of the whole. Where they are going
to save, I don't know, unless they are simply not going to
build ships, not going to build planes, and not going to
defend their country. One of the arguments goes to a
reduction in national defense.
The other argument goes toward an inevitable tax
increase and I think they are caught in a bind between the two.
Q
May we change the topic for a minute?
Do you have any comments on the Black September group,
the punishment for them?
SENATOR SCOTT: Well, I have not heard whether any
punishment has been meted out. I don't believe it has.
Q
Do you favor the death penalty and do you think
it is the sense of the Congress to favor the death penalty?
SENATOR SCOTT: I hope they shoot them all and
the sooner the better.
CONGRESSMAN FORD: I share that and I think that it
is the only way to have any deterrent from subsequent actions
of this kind. The world at large is condemning this kind of
terriorist activity and the only way to stop it is to take the
most drastic action, which I think is to mete out a death
sentence by one form or another.
Q
Senator Scott, could I ask one more question?
A couple of weeks ago on the Hill, I believe you
were quoted as telling the reporters they should ask the
President again about his stand on amnesty. And he was asked
and it hasn't changed. Can you tell us why you thought there
might be reason to ask?
SENATOR SCOTT: No, I am not going to rehash it.
You played it up pretty well and I am not going to go into
it again.
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SERAID FORD LIBRARY
Q
Let me try again. Despite the flap over this,
what is the proper role for Congress in this? Simply to go
along with the President and do what he wants?
SENATOR SCOTT: Obviously, you know and I know that
you know that isn't the answer. The answer is for Congress to
meet its responsibility. The answer is for Congress to fix
its own spending ceilings, its own budget, to establish its
own priorities, to act responsibly, and to follow Scott's law.
Scott's law is if Congress can't add, the President will
subtract so that our taxes don't multiply.
THE PRESS: Thank you, gentlemen.
END
(AT 10:32 A.M. EST)
PROPOSED AGENDA FOR REPUBLICAN LEADERS' MEETING WITH THE PRESIDENT
MARCH 6, 1973
1. Need for greater public awareness that Administration is not
GERALD FORD LIBRARY
terminating but reshuffling and even expanding some worthy
domestic programs. Possibility of releasing some impoundments.
2. Increased Executive contacts with GOP members of House and Senate.
3. Prospects of sustaining vetoes on 14 selected bills.
4. Trip to Paris.
5. Trade Bill, Soviet Exis Visas and the Most Favored Nation problem.
6. Energy Message and others.
7. Legislative outlook for the coming week.
with the Prendent
PROPOSED AGENDA FOR REPUBLICAN LEADERS' MEETING MARCH 6 1973
1. Topics to discuss with the President on March 6.
FORD LIBRARY
3, # Prospects of sustaining vetoes on 14 selected bills.
of
$ Increased executive contacts with GOP members of House and Senate.
1.
of
Need for greater public avareness that Administration
is not terminating but reshuffling worthy domestic programs.
Possibility of releasing some impoundments.
and even
expanding some
4 / n. Trip to Paris.
T, rade Bill, andthe
5 of Soviet Exit Visa Bana and Most Favored Nation dause. problemy
6. Others? Energy message and others
2. How agreed topics are to be raised (who does what?)
3. CBS documentary on Executive-Legislative power struggle.
7. Legislative outlook for coming week.
CONGRESSIONAL PROSPECTS TO SUSTAIN OR OVERRIDE VETOED BILLS
SENATE
BILLS
HOUSE
S. 50 - Passed 2/20/73
Older Americans Act
H.R. 71 - On Whip Notice for Wed.
Y-82
(
or bal. of week. Sub-
N- 9=
ject to a rule.
S.
Research on Aging
H.R. 65 - Pending before Interstate
& For. Commerce Committee
S. 467 - Pending before
Public Works & EDA Amendments
H.R. 2246 - Pending before Public
Public Works
Works Committee
Committee
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
LIBRARY
H.R. 4082 - Committee on Interstate
Y-65
FORD
& Foreign Commerce begin
N-15
hearings 3/14/73
&
S. 39 - Passed 2/21/73
Anti-Hijacking
GERALD
H.R. 3858 - Committee on Interstate
Y-89
& Foreign Commerce began
hearings 2/28; hearings
will continue
S. 606 - Passed 2/1/73
Flood Control
H.R. 4904 & H.R. 4905 - Committee
Y-67
on Public Works hearings
N-14
scheduled for 3/8/73
Upgrading of Deputy U.S. Marshals
S. 49 - Coming up tomorrow
National Cemetery Act
H.R. 2828 - Pending before Committe
3/6/73
on Veterans Affairs
S. 59 - Coming up tomorrow
Veterans Health Care
H.R. 2900 - Pending before Committe
3/6/73
on Veterans Affairs
-2-
LIBRARY
FORD
SENATE
&
BILLS
GERALD
HOUSE
S. 7 - Passed 2/28/73
Vocational Rehabilitation
H.R. 17 - On Whip Notice for Wed.
Y-86
or balance of week.
N-2
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 Agricult
Y-69
will meet in Executive
N-20
3/6/73
H.R. 3298 - Committee on
Rural Water and Sewer
H.R. 3298 - Passed 3/1/73
Agriculture to take
V-297
up in Executive Session
N- 54
3/7/73
LIBRARY
FORD
CONGRESSIONAL PROSPECTS TO SUSTAIN OR OVERRIDE VETOED BILLS
is
GERALD
SENATE
BILLS
HOUSE
Override Sustain
(Edt xith)
Override Sustain
2/20/73
(5.50)
Scheduled House for eved or
X siw-83
HR 21 Older Americans Act later, subj to a rute
X
HSR 65 Research on Aging (Interstate)
?
IHR2246 (5.467) Public Works and EDA Amendments (Rub. work)
?
VHR (5.263) 5079 Amendments to Mining & Mineral Policy (Interior)
2/5/73
X
3:4-65;N-15
(saylor) (5,38) Airport Development ( interstate) thearing H com to scheduledy high
2/21/73
X siy-89
HR4082 (5,39) Anti-Hijacking (Interstate) H com. will Regan hearing 2/28
2/1/73
X 511-67 N-14
(HR 4904
HR3858 (5,606) Flood Control (Rus washe) hearing H 3/8/73 come scheduled hearings
HR 4905)
X
Upgrading of Deputy U.S. Marshalls (Indiciary)
(5.49)
X coming up
HR2828
National Cemetary Act (John Holden) Veh. affairs
?
an Senate terms
(3.59)
HR 2900) Veterans Health Care (
) Ver. office
?
X
2/28,
X 514-86 N-2
HR17 (5.7) Vocational Rehabilitation scheduled House for wed. or
X
X 5: 3/1/2521 11-10
2/7/73
balance of week
/HR 2107 - REAP Hi
N-142
X
siy-69
2/21/73
(5.394)
NV- 38
REA Extension
-f Executive 3/6/73
HR2226
X
N-30
X
Com. on
HR 3298- Rural Water and Sewer H:4-297 H: 3/1/73 297
N- 54
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NV. 80
in axe
2 - 3/7/73
FORD : LIBRARY 074830
CONGRESSIONAL PROSPECTS TO SUSTAIN OR OVERRIDE VETOED BILLS
SENATE
BILLS
HOUSE
Override Sustain
Override Sustain
(5.50)
X
HR71 Older Americans Act
Sch for Her Wed or bad
?
?
X
Research on Aging
|
?
Public Works and EDA Amendments
X
?
me
?
?
Amendments to Mining & Mineral Policy Int
Airport Development
?
internate
X
Anti-Hijacking
X
Flood Control
1
pure
x
X
Upgrading of Deputy U.S. Marshalls - Jud
X
X
National Cemetary Act
sko
?
X
Veterans Health Care
(5. (5.7) 7)
7
X
HR17
Vocational Rehabilitation Hose
senate
X
714-10N
HR2107 REAP 2/7/73 placed 251 X
HS - vote
3/1/73
142
38 NV.
X
X
REA Extension
x
X
HR3298 Rural Water and Sewer
Has passed 3/1/73
X
SY- 297
(NV - 80
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FROM: RTH
Proposed Agenda for Republican Leaders' Meeting March 5, 1973
1. Topics to discuss with the President on March 6.
a. Prospects of sustaining vetoes on 14 selected bills.
GOP
b. Increased contacts with/members of House and Senate.
C. Need for greater public awareness that Administration
is not terminating but reshuffling worthy domestic
programs. Possibility of releasing some impoundments.
d. Trip to Paris.
e. Soviet Others? Exit Visa fees and Most Favored nation clause
2. How agreed topics are to be raised (who does what?)
3. CBS documentary on Executive-Legislative power struggle.
4. Legislative outlook for coming week.
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LIBRARY
FORD
CONGRESSIONAL PROSPECTS TO SUSTAIN OR OVERRIDE VETOED BILLS
&
GERALD
SENATE
BILLS
HOUSE
Question Override Sustain
Question Override Sustain
X
Older Americans Act
?
X
Research on Aging
?
?
Public Works and EDA Amendments
X
?
Amendments to Mining & Mineral Policy
?
X
Airport Development
?
X
Anti-Hijacking
X
X
Flood Control
X
X
Upgrading of Deputy U.S. Marshals
X
X
National Cemetary Act
?
X
Veterans Health Care
?
X
Vocational Rehabilitation
X
X
REAP
X
X
REA Extension
X
X
Rural Water and Sewer
X
CONGRESSIONAL PROSPECTS TO SUSTAIN OR OVERRIDE VETOED BILLS
SENATE
BILLS
HOUSE
S. 50 - Passed 2/20/73
Older Americans Act
Y-82
FORD LIBRARY & GERALD
H.R. 71 - On Whip Notice for Wed.
or bal. of week. Sub-
N-9
ject to a rule.
S.
Research on Aging
H.R. 65 - Pending before Interstate
& For. Commerce Committee
S. 467 - Pending before
Public Works & EDA Amendments
H.R. 2246 - Pending before Public
Public Works
Works Committee
Committee
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 begin
N-15
hearings 3/14/73
S. 39 - Passed 2/21/73
Anti-Hijacking
H.R. 3858 - Committee on Interstate
Y-89
& Foreign Commerce began
hearings 2/28; hearings
will continue
S. 606 - Passed 2/1/73
Flood Control
H.R. 4904 & H.R. 4905 - Committee
Y-67
on Public Works hearings
N-14
scheduled for 3/8/73
Upgrading of Deputy U.S. Marshals
S. 49 - Coming up tomorrow
National Cemetery Act
H.R. 2828 - Pending before Committee
3/6/73
on Veterans Affairs
S. 59 - Coming up tomorrow
Veterans Health Care
H.R. 2900 - Pending before Committee
3/6/73
on Veterans Affairs
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SENATE
BILLS
FORD & LIBRARY GERALD
HOUSE
S. 7 - Passed 2/28/73
Vocational Rehabilitation
H.R. 17 - On Whip Notice for Wed.
Y-86
or balance of week.
N-2
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
will meet in Executive
N-20
3/6/73
H.R. 3298 - Committee on
Rural Water and Sewer
H.R. 3298 - Passed 3/1/73
Agriculture to take
Y-297
up in Executive Session
N- 54
3/7/73
FORD is LIBRARY GERALD
CONGRESSIONAL PROSPECTS TO SUSTAIN OR OVERRIDE VETOED BILLS
SENATE
BILLS
HOUSE
Question Override Sustain
Question Override Sustain
X
Older Americans Act
?
X
Research on Aging
?
?
Public Works and EDA Amendments
X
?
Amendments to Mining & Mineral Policy
?
X
Airport Development
?
X
Anti-Hijacking natural federal police frace
X
X
Flood Control
X
X
Upgrading of Deputy U.S. Marshals
X
X
National Cemetary Act
?
X
Veterans Health Care
?
X
Vocational Rehabilitation
X
X
REAP
X
X
REA Extension
X
X
Rural Water and Sewer
X