the committee with specific suggestions in regard to rules governing investigations to be made by the committee or any of its subcommit tees. The Congress adjourned, however, before the subcommit completed its assignment. Only three other committees of the Senate followed the example the Labor Committee in adopting the majority policy committees suggestion. These committees were the Committee on Armed Ser ices, the Select Committee on Small Business, and the Committee the District of Columbia. MEMBERSHIP The membership of the committee, which is fixed at 13 Senators was as follows during the whole of the first session of the 83d Congres H. ALEXANDER SMITH, Chairman At the beginning of the 2d session of the 83d Congress, the member ship of the committee was as follows: Senator Dwight Griswold died on April 12, 1954. His successo the Honorable Eva Bowring took the oath of office as United State Senator from Nebraska on April 26, 1954. On May 3, 1954, Senate Bowring was assigned to service on the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Senator Bowring's service on the committee term nated on November 8, 1954, the date on which her successor, Honorable Roman L. Hruska, took the oath of office as United States Senator from Nebraska for the remainder of the unexpired term of the late Senator Griswold. On November 30, 1954, Senator Hruska was assigned to the Bowring vacancy on the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Senator Robert W. Upton's service on the committee terminated November 8, 1954, the date on which his successor, the Honorable Norris Cotton, took the oath of office as United States Senator fro New Hampshire to fill the remainder of the unexpired term of the late Senator Charles A. Tobey. On November 30, 1954, Senator Cotton was assigned to service on the Committee on Labor and Public Welfar On the following day, December 1, 1954, Senator Cotton was excused from service on the committee and was assigned to service on the Com mittee on Public Works. In the same order, Senator Brown, Nevada, was excused from service on the Committee on Public Works and assigned to service (vice Senator Cotton) on the Committee o Labor and Public Welfare. * Died July 31, 1953. of ORGANIZATION OF THE COMMITTEE To facilitate the committee's consideration on matters falling within s area of jurisdiction, the following standing and special subcomittees were established by the committee: tanding subcommittees Subcommittee on Civil Rights Subcommittee on Education Subcommittee on Health Subcommittee on Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Labor 'pecial subcommittees Subcommittee on Railroad Retirement Legislation Subcommittee To Investigate Employee Welfare Funds At the close of the second session the membership of the various tanding and special subcommittees of the committee was as follows: TANDING SUBCOMMITTEES OF THE COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE ♦ ECIAL SUBCOMMITTEES OF THE COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE The vacancy on the Subcommittee on Civil Rights which resulted from the death of Senator Griswold was never filled inasmuch as the activities of that subcommittee had largely been completed with the reporting of S. 692, a bill to prohibit discrimination in employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, or ancestry. The vacancies on the Subcommittees on Veterans' Affairs and Labe which occurred with the expiration of the term of Senator Eva Bowri during the special session of the Senate were not filled prior to the adjournment of the Senate. The vacancies on the Subcommittees Civil Rights and Education and the Special Subcommittee on Railro Retirement Legislation and Committee Rules and Procedures, which resulted from the termination of the term of Senator Robert W. Upte in the closing days of the special session of the Senate, also were not filled prior to adjournment. COMMITTEE STAFF The permanent staff of the committee, authorized by the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, as amended, is 10 employees (4 profes sional and 6 clerical). At the beginning of the 83d Congress special resolution (S. Res. 37) was adopted by the Senate whic authorized the committee to employ 4 additional clerical employees for the 1st session. A similar resolution (S. Res. 186) was adopted to extend this authority for the second session (actually through Januar 31, 1955). Thus, for the whole of the 83d Congress, the staff of the standing Committee on Labor and Public Welfare consisted of only 1 employees, i. e., a staff director, a minority staff director, 4 profes sional employees and 8 clerical employees. In addition to the minority staff director, 1 professional employee and 2 clerical employees were assigned for the use of the minority. A Special Subcommittee To Investigate Employee Welfare Funds was authorized late in the second session (S. Res. 225). A subsequent resolution (S. Res. 270) enlarged the authority of the subcommitte and increased its funds from $75,000 to $125,050. This subcon mittee's functions were kept separate from those of the standing committee. Its personnel fluctuated somewhat in regard to clerics employees as the workload required, but at no time were there mor than 12 clerical employees on the subcommittee payroll. Seven of these were temporary employees who were on the rolls for only three weeks. On the professional side, the Welfare Fund Subcommitte staff consisted of a chief counsel (staff director), an assistant chie counsel and, at the peak of its activities, seven investigators. COMMITTEE BUDGET The expenditures of the standing Committee on Labor and Pub Welfare for salaries and contingent items totaled $203,335.85 throug November 30, 1954. It is estimated that total expenditures for the standing committee, for the remainder of the 83d Congress, will e exceed $20,000. Expenditures of the Special Subcommittee To Investigate Employee Welfare Funds total $57.344.97 throug November 30, 1954. Approximately $30,000 additional will be expended by the Welfare Fund Subcommittee through January 1954, thereby bringing the total expenditures of the subcommittee to 31. proximately $87,344.97 for the whole of the 83d Congress. The erall total of expenditures by the committee for the 83d Congress erefore will be in the neighborhood of $310,680.82. This compares Daith total committee expenditures of $476,309.91 in the 82d Congress od $335,178.64 in the 81st Congress. CHAPTER II. HEALTH LEGISLATION During the 83d Congress, 43 bills dealing with various aspects of he Nation's health problems, exclusive of measures relating to health oblems of veterans, were introduced and referred to this committee. nese bills were subsequently assigned to the Subcommittee on ealth for preliminary consideration and report. Among these bills, hich covered a great range of health subjects, were the following incipal measures upon which action was completed by the committee. ) Extension of the Hospital Survey and Construction Act During the 1st session of the 83d Congress, the committee condered and favorably reported S. 967, which had been introduced on ebruary 16, 1953, and which extends for 2 additional years, that is >June 30, 1957, the Hospital Survey and Construction Act. Experiace has demonstrated the value of this program and the soundness f its basic administrative provisions. Its survey and planning rovisions have promoted ordinary planning for hospital service in ll of the States. A total of 106,000 beds have been constructed or ave been approved for construction under this act. S. 967 became 'ublic Law 151 on July 27, 1953. b) Medical Facilities Survey and Construction Act of 1954 During the 2d session, the committee considered and favorably eported a bill (H. R. 8149) to broaden the base of the hospital construction program. This bill, which was a companion to S. 2758, vas designed to carry out this part of the program of the President is submitted to Congress in his health message of January 18, 1954. t authorized appropriations of $20 million annually for the construcion of diagnostic and treatment facilities, $20 million annually for he construction of hospitals for the chronically ill, $10 million annully for the construction of comprehensive rehabilitation facilities and $10 million annually for the construction of nursing or convalescent omes. The bill also authorized an appropriation of $2 million in rder to enable the States to survey their respective needs for these ategories of facilities and for revising State plans to provide an verall program for the construction of such facilities. Extensive hearings were held on the measure. It was passed by he Senate on June 22, 1954, and was signed into law by the President n July 12, 1954. It is now Public Law 482 of the 83d Congress. e) Vocational rehabilitation A bill (S. 2759) to amend the Vocational Rehabilitation Act was troduced on January 19, 1954, to implement another aspect of the resident's health program contained in his special health message January 18, 1954. After extensive hearings on this measure, the Il was reported to the Senate on June 22, 1954. The Senate passed e bill on July 7, 1954, and on August 3, 1954, it was signed into law y the President (Public Law 565). This bill is one of the most important pieces of welfare legislation enacted by the Congress in many years. In general, it provides for greatly increasing our efforts to rehabilitate the physically handi- pro capped. It authorizes annual appropriations for rehabilitation pu poses of $30 million for fiscal year 1955, $45 million for fiscal year 1956, $55 million for fiscal year 1957, $65 million for fiscal year 195 and for each year thereafter such sums as Congress may determine Among the innovations contained in this legislation is authorization r for the first time for the making of Federal grants for the purpose of å training the professional personnel required in rehabilitation work The rehabilitation of our physically handicapped has lagged for many years because of failure to train and utilize the necessary personnel Furthermore, new techniques in physical medicine have been devel oped in recent years which make possible the rehabilitation of much larger proportion of our handicapped people than was true in earlier years. This act seeks through demonstration and special project grants not only to encourage the training of personnel but also to make more widely applicable throughout the Nation these s new discoveries in physical medicine. The act also gave greater latitude to the States in the administration of the rehabilitation pro gram on the State and local level. It is expected that the number of handicapped persons rehabilitated each year will increase from the past level of 60,000 to a total of 200,000 per year by 1959. (d) Factory inspections On July 29, 1953, the committee favorably reported to the Senate with an amendment, H. R. 5740, enactment of which had been r quested by the President in order to more fully safeguard the public health. The bill was designed to provide clear and enforceable statutory authority for Federal Food and Drug Administration inspection of factory and other establishments in which food, drugs, devices, of cosmetics are manufactured. Legislation of this kind became neces sary as the result of a Supreme Court decision which indicated that existing law did not provide proper authority to make the necessary inspections. The measure was passed by the Senate on August 3, 1953. The House disagreed with the Senate amendment and thereafter the Senate receded from its amendment and passed the measure without amendment. On August 7, 1953, the President approved the bill and it became Public Law 217. (e) Food standards regulations On March 9, 1954, the committee favorably reported to the Senate with an amendment, H. R. 6434, which amended various sections of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act so as to simplify the pr cedure governing the establishment of food standards. The bi was passed by the Senate on April 5, 1954, and was signed into law by the President on April 15, 1954 (Public Law 335). This important measure was designed to facilitate the making of changes in food standards regulations, the old standard making proce dures having become slow and cumbersome. The old standards r quired formal hearings whether or not a proposed regulation was co troversial. These old procedures resulted in useless expenditure of time and money by both the Federal Government and the food indus T |