FULL OPPORTUNITY AND NATIONAL GOALS AND PRIORITIES ACT HEARING BEFORE THE SPECIAL SUBCOMMITTEE ON EVALUATION AND PLANNING OF SOCIAL PROGRAMS OF THE COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE NINETY-SECOND CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON S. 5 TO PROMOTE THE PUBLIC WELFARE 66-425 JULY 13, 1971 Printed for the use of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1971 COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE HARRISON A. WILLIAMS, JR., New Jersey, Chairman JENNINGS RANDOLPH, West Virginia JACOB K. JAVITS, New York WINSTON PROUTY, Vermont ROBERT TAFT, JR., Ohio J. GLENN BEALL, JR., Maryland ADLAI E. STEVENSON III, Illinois STEWART E. MCCLURE, Staff Director ROBERT E. NAGLE, General Counsel ROY H. MILLENSON, Minority Staff Director SPECIAL SUBCOMMITTEE ON EVALUATION AND PLANNING OF SOCIAL PROGRAMS WALTER F. MONDALE, Minnesota, Chairman GAYLORD NELSON, Wisconsin JACOB K. JAVITS, New York HERBERT N. JASPER, Professional Staff Member (II) Proxmire, Hon. William, a U.S. Senator from the State of Wisconsin____ 25 36 Linowitz, Sol M., chairman, National Urban Coalition---. 65 65 Demerath, Nicholas J. III, executive officer, American Sociological Association, professor of sociology, University of Wisconsin....... 88 STATEMENTS Bauer, Raymond A., professor of business administration, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration___. Prepared statement.. Demerath, Nicholas J. III, executive officer, American Sociological Association, professor of sociology, University of Wisconsin__-- Prepared statement_- 94 Ink, Dwight A., Assistant Director, Office of Management and Budget; accompanied by Julius Shiskin, Director of Statistical Policy Staff, Office of Management and Budget_. 36 Prepared statement--- 44 Linowes, David F., partner, Laventhol, Krekstein, Horwath & Horwath, 102 Linowitz, Sol M., chairman, National Urban Coalition__ Proxmire, Hon. William, a U.S. Senator from the State of Wisconsin_-_ 56 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Articles, publications, etc. : "Congress Has Been Bypassed in Analysis Technology-the Separate 26 List of persons composing steering committee of the National Urban 64 Communications to: Mondale, Hon. Walter F., a U.S. Senator from the State of Minnesota, 40 APPENDIX "Social Science Policies: An Annotated List of Recent Literature." by Genevieve Johanna Knezo, Science Policy Research Division, Legislative Reference Service, Library of Congress, Revised July 8, 1971.. 113 FULL OPPORTUNITY AND NATIONAL GOALS AND PRIORITIES ACT TUESDAY, JULY 13, 1971 U.S. SENATE, SPECIAL SUBCOMMITTEE ON EVALUATION AND PLANNING OF SOCIAL PROGRAMS OF THE COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE, Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met at 9:30 a.m., pursuant to notice, in room 6202, New Senate Office Building, Senator Walter F. Mondale (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senator Mondale. Staff members present: Herbert Jasper, professional staff member; John K. Scales, minority counsel. Senator MONDALE. The subcommittee will come to order. This morning we will have hearings on the Full Opportunity and National Goals and Priorities Act, S. 5. I am delighted to have my colleague, the distinguished Senator from Wisconsin, present to open these hearings. The bill is intended to assist the Nation to reorder its priorities. Senator Proxmire has done perhaps as much as anyone in the Congress to start us down this road. This hearing, in a sense, continues extensive hearings which were conducted on S. 5 (91st Congress) by this subcommittee during 1969 and 1970. It also builds further upon the record of hearings in the 90th Congress on an earlier measure, S. 843, conducted by Senator Harris in the Government Operations Committee. I ask at this time. that the full text of the hearings in those Congresses be incorporated by reference in our hearing record. It is now 412 years since I first introduced legislation to create new institutions and procedures to improve the quantity, quality and visibility of information needed to make intelligent judgments in the human field. I was convinced then, and I am even more convinced today, that we legislate too much by intuition and hunch, particularly in the human field. It is time to systematize and rationalize our efforts to fashion programs involving the welfare of our people and billions of dollars of their hard-earned tax money. Both the present administration and the previous administration have endorsed the objectives of this legislation but believed that sufficient progress could be made toward achieving them without the new structures called for. |