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Remembering these experiences, the disposition of our committee is to recommend to the Senate a bill authorizing a temporary freeze of wages and prices if a new emergency threatens to start another wave of inflation. The danger is more acute since production and consumption already are at peak levels and each per cent of rise in prides now could cost consumers 2 billion dollars. Appropriations Committees have commenced hearings on the new budget with the task divided among ten sub-committees in the House and a similar number in the Senate. I serve on the sub-committees for Independent Offices, Army Civil Functions, Labor-Federal Security and Treasury Post Office. The Independent Offices. Sub-committee handles the largest money bill of any except that for Armed Services, which handles military funds amounting to about 60 per cent of the pending budget.
Last year the hearings before Senate sub-committees covered 12,300 pages of testimony. This year the hearings may be longer because of the determination of Congress to eliminate every doQar of unnecessary
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