APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1952 HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE EIGHTY-SECOND CONGRESS FIRST SESSION MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES 81844 Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1951 LABOR-FEDERAL SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1952 TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1951 UNITED STATES SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, D. C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to the call of the chairman, at 10:55 a. m., in room 412, Senate Office Building, Hon. Dennis Chavez, chairman of the subcommittee, presiding. Present: Senators Chavez and Kilgore. STATEMENT BY CHAIRMAN CHAVEZ AMOUNTS REQUESTED BY DEPARTMENTS Senator CHAVEZ. The committee will come to order. We start today to hear testimony from the Department of Labor, from the Federal Security Agency and from the related independent agencies in support of requests for funds in the amount of $2,732,253,760 for fiscal year 1952, an increase of $342,776,008, or 14.35 percent over 1951 appropriations less section 1214 reserves. The major part of the increase is contained in the estimate for the Railroad Retirement Board, for which is requested $613,000,000, an increase of $174,995,076, or 39.95 percent, over the 1951 appropriation. The estimate for the Federal Security Agency in the amount of $1,874,887,260 is $164,381,492, or 9.58 percent, over the 1951 appropriation. This increase in large part is the result of the abandonment of contract authority in the construction programs and the estimate for new obligational authority in cash rather than contract authority. Without objection I shall have inserted at this point this comparative statement showing the 1951 appropriations, the 1952 estimates, and the changes. (The comparative statement is as follows:) 1 |