(GS-7), and three Clerk-Stenographers (GS-6). This will require an appropriation of $68,000 for the eight positions requested. This amount will permit salary payments and related benefits for eight months of the year.

During 1971 the Board plans to have eight Parole Hearing Examiners travel from their Washington-based office to the various Bureau of Prisons institutions to conduct parole and other hearings with inmates. They will also travel to other localities throughout the United States to conduct local revocation hearings where the parolee denies parole violation and has an attorney or witnesses to appear in his behalf at the hearing. The Members, thus, will be able to make decisions in Washington without delay after reviewing the written summaries of each case which will be prepared by the Examiners. In this manner, careful screening will take place before any prisoner is paroled or before any parolee is revoked or reinstated to supervision. The public will receive a greater measure of protection as a result of the more thorough and careful study of the case preliminary to the Board entering a decision.

The Members in Washington will conduct en banc appellate-type reviews where a parole was previously denied and where there is sufficient cause for reopening a case. Also, in exceptional cases, a determination will be made that a Member (rather than an Examiner) will conduct any hearings with a prisoner.

One of the Secretaries (GS-7) will be assigned to the Board's legal counsel and will assist in preparing legal opinions for the Board and will process material to be supplied to the United States Attorneys as they defend the Board against writs. The other Secretary (GS-7) will be assigned to the Office of the Chairman of the Board to help in preparing an ever-mounting volume of work associated with the administrative and other responsibilities of the Chairman's office.

The three Clerk-Stenographers (GS-6) will be assigned to the Examiners to be hired this year and to other professional staff who have no secretaries or clerical assistance. This concludes my statement. I shall be glad to answer any questions.

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SUBCOMMITTEE RECESS

Senator MCCLELLAN. The subcommittee will be in recess until 10

o'clock Thursday.

(Whereupon, at 4: 20 p.m., Tuesday, June 9, the subcommittee was recessed, to reconvene at 10 a.m. Thursday, June 11.)

DEPARTMENTS OF STATE, JUSTICE, AND COMMERCE, THE JUDICIARY, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1971

THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1970

U.S. SENATE,

SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS,

Washington, D.C.

The subcommittee met at 10:15 a.m., in room S-128, The Capitol, Hon. John L. McClellan (chairman) presiding.

Present: Senators McClellan, Ellender, Mansfield, Smith, Hruska, Case, Young, and Sparkman.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

STATEMENT OF HON. WILLIAM P. ROGERS, SECRETARY OF STATE

ACCOMPANIED BY:

WILLIAM B. MACOMBER, JR., DEPUTY UNDER SECRETARY FOR ADMINISTRATION

FRANK G. MEYER, ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR ADMINISTRATION

JOSEPH F. DONELAN, JR., DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR BUDGET AND FINANCE

RICHARD W. MURRAY, DIRECTOR, BUDGET PLANNING AND PRESENTATION

JOHN RICHARDSON, JR., ASSISTANT SECRETARY

SAMUEL DE PALMA, ASSISTANT SECRETARY

BUDGET REQUEST AND HOUSE ALLOWANCE

Senator MCCLELLAN. The subcommittee will come to order.

This morning the committee will consider the 1971 fund requirements for the Department of State.

The budget estimates total $452,534,000. The House allowed the sum of $447,381,800, a reduction of $5,152,200.

BUDGET AMENDMENT AND JUSTIFICATION

I understand the Department is satisfied with the House allowances. However, the President submitted to the Senate an amendment of $1.9 million in the salaries and expenses appropriation yesterday, June 10.

Let the amendment and the supporting justification be placed in the record, together with the Department's letter of May 18.

(The documents follow :)