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MARSH DECLARES—

(Continued from page 1] agencies have built specializec budget staffs, backed up bj computers and other technica aids, to project their estimates ol the future costs of programs ir being or advocated, “whereas t Congressional subcommittee dealing with millions, or ever billions, in proposec appropriations, often in listening to the budget testimony, anc trying to evaluate it, with nc more than one fully-qualifiec professional staff member in iti backup force.

“What we have here is i situation in which a member ol Congress must fall back on hi: own ingenuity in regard tc percentive questioning, which even for the most diligenl Congressional student, cannol result in more than a' hit-or piiss process.”

Marsh said he was concerned b> the fact that, “occasionally questioning developed thai programs of very doubtful value and even of adverse effect, wen covered by a line 6r two of typ< in the budget document whicl did not reflect their full scope and not much more than lucl brought the details to th< attention of the appropriation:

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