Consolidating Federal Programs and Organizations: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information, and Technology of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, May 16 and May 23, 1995U.S. Government Printing Office, 1996 - 203 páginas |
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Palavras e frases frequentes
abolish achieve activities administration Admiral Watkins agencies American areas assistance believe billion block grants budget cabinet cation Chairman Chart clean cleanup collect committee communities Congress contractors cost default Department of Defense Department of Education Department of Energy Department's Direct Loan program downsizing efficiency eliminate employees environmental ergy facilities Federal Government federal role FINN functions funding goals going grams hearing HERRINGTON HODEL HORN improve issue KANJORSKI Lamar Alexander leadership legislation look MALONEY ment mission MUÑOZ national laboratories National Performance national security nuclear safety nuclear weapons O'LEARY opportunity oversight partment percent power marketing administrations President private sector problems proposals question reduce reform responsibility role in education savings Secretary of Energy SMITH spending staff student loan subcommittee taxpayers testimony Thank there's things tion U.S. Department WURTZ
Passagens conhecidas
Página 42 - Maloney follows:] PREPARED STATEMENT OF HON. CAROLYN B. MALONEY, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF NEW YORK Thank you Mr. Chairman. I would like first of all to thank you for holding this hearing on the 2000 Census.
Página 183 - Management, and the Fish and Wildlife Service within the Department of the Interior and the Forest Service within the Department of Agriculture.
Página 125 - Mr. Chairman, I appreciate the opportunity to appear before you and the members of your committee in support of the construction needs of the Department of Defense. With me are my deputies for properties and installations and for family housing.
Página 15 - Department's 10 National Laboratories. Under the leadership of Robert Galvin, Chairman of the Executive Board of Motorola, Inc., the Task Force on Alternative Futures for the Department of Energy Laboratories produced a landmark assessment of the laboratories. The Department now is aggressively implementing the report's recommendations in order to reduce the cost of doing business at the Department's labs while helping to sustain their long record of scientific discovery and technological innovation.
Página 183 - Energy's (DOE) laboratory network is comprised of 28 labs, with a budget of nearly $8 billion and employment at 63,000. Recent shifts in national priorities — principally, the dramatic reduction in the arms race and proposed cutbacks in energy and nuclear research funding — raise questions about the need for all these labs. In particular, DOE'S three large defense labs, costing about $1 billion annually, were created to design and test nuclear weapons, a role which has greatly diminished over...
Página 18 - Over the past 50 years, there has been a clear and distinct separation of the nuclear weapons-related roles and responsibilities of the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy (and its predecessor agencies). This dual-agency approach has served the nation well by creating institutional checks and balances that are vital for meeting the performance, safety, and reliability requirements of the nuclear arsenal. With the new technical challenges of providing stewardship of the stockpile in...
Página 60 - STATEMENT OF JOHN S. HERRINGTON MR. CHAIRMAN, IT IS A PRIVILEGE TO APPEAR BEFORE THIS COMMITTEE AND SUBMIT MY COMMENTS ON THE PROPOSAL TO ELIMINATE THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY. IN 1979 AND 1980, RONALD REAGAN CAMPAIGNED ON THE UNIQUE IDEA THAT THE DEPARTMENTS OF EDUCATION AND ENERGY SHOULD BE CLOSED. AT THAT TIME. IT WAS UNHEARD OF FOR A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO PROPOSE THE ELIMINATION OF WHOLE DEPARTMENTS OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. DURING HIS ADMINISTRATION. MANY ATTEMPTS AT CARRYING OUT THIS...
Página 49 - ERA should be abolished forthwith. I understand that some of the entitlement cases are still unresolved after 15 years! If that is true, it is outrageous and wasteful. It ought to be an embarrassment to anyone still connected with the process. If there are any matters of merit remaining after all these years of paying lawyers to pursue them, they should be transferred to the Department of Justice for final disposition. Policy, Internationa!
Página 63 - NOT THINK THERE HAS BEEN. THEN THE SOLUTION SHOULD BE TO PRIVATIZE THE LABORATORIES. IN THIS WAY THEY WILL BECOME MORE EFFICIENT. AND ONE OF THE TRADITIONAL SHORTCOMINGS OF THE EXISTING SYSTEM. TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER, WILL BE IMPROVED. I THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO TESTIFY AND WILL BE PLEASED TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
Página 15 - Department's labs while helping to sustain their long record of scientific discovery and technological innovation. • We launched an ambitious review of our $1.8 billion applied energy R&D program. Under the chairmanship of Daniel Yergin, President of Cambridge Energy Research Associates and author of the Pulitzer-prize winning history of the world oil industry, this Task Force...