Note: This schedule summarizes the number of your employees by their salary ranges. This schedule will be consolidated in the annual Legislative Branch Subcommittee Print document. Include the number of active employees in the various pay levels for FY 93 for the time period that best indicates the activity level in your office. • Average salary equals the staffing divided by the personnel amount for each year on the FY 1995 budget worksheet. Number of positions reflects the September 1993 activity for FY '93, the number of positions funded for FY '94 and those positions you are requesting in FY 95. These numbers must agree with the personnel staffing for each year on the FY 1995 budget worksheet. • Number of positions authorized reflects number of positions provided in each fiscal year appropriation Mr. FAZIO. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. ROSTENKOWSKI. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. FAZIO. Let's see what we can do to keep you together. We might as well recess. We have a vote on the Floor. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1994. CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE WITNESSES ROBERT D. REISCHAUER, DIRECTOR JAMES L. BLUM, DEPUTY DIRECTOR GAIL DEL BALZO, GENERAL COUNSEL STANLEY L. GREIGG, DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS C. G. NUCKOLS, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR BUDGET ANALYSIS POLLY E. HODGES, BUDGET AND FINANCE OFFICER DAVID M. DELQUADRO, PERSONNEL OFFICER MARK G. DESAUTELS, ASSISTANT FOR INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS DANIEL F. ZIMMERMAN, CHIEF, SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH UNIT PHIL JOYCE, PRINCIPAL ANALYST, SPECIAL STUDIES DIVISION Mr. FAZIO. I apologize to everybody for their having to wait. There is more happening this week than we originally anticipated. Usually by getting our hearings up this week, we have a clear deck. The earthquake came along and destroyed the normal atmosphere under which we work. We will now take up the Congressional Budget Office budget. It is a request of $23.26 million and a staff ceiling of 221 full-time equivalent positions for fiscal year 1995, an increase of 4.2 percent or $944,000 over the enacted appropriation last year. That, as we all remember in this case, is a particularly tight one. There is a reduction of two full-time equivalents below the 1994 appropriation and nine under 1993. We want to welcome back Dr. Bob Reischauer, the Director of CBO, and Jim Blum, Deputy Director, who filled in admirably for a period of time as Acting Director. We are glad he is still with CBO. I see C. G. Nuckols, Assistant Director for Budget Analysis, the budgeteer for the budgeteers. We are hoping you will take the time to introduce those with you. Please proceed with whatever you want to deliver to the committee and put your statement in the record, if that is all right. Then we can go into some discussion. INTRODUCTION OF WITNESSES Mr. REISCHAUER. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It is a pleasure to be here again. Let me introduce those who have accompanied me, whom you did not point out, to begin with. Polly Hodges, our Budg et and Finance Officer; Stanley Greigg, Director of the Office of Intergovernmental Relations. Mr. FAZIO. Two familiar faces. Mr. REISCHAUER. Mark Desautels, Assistant for Intergovernmental Relations; David Delquadro, Personnel Officer; Gail Del Balzo, General Counsel; Nicky Goren, Assistant General Counsel; Daniel Zimmerman, Chief of the Systems Development and Research Unit, the computer operation at CBO; Phil Joyce, an Analyst in the Special Studies Unit, who has worked very closely with the Joint Committee on the Reorganization of Congress during the last year. I thought there might be some Mr. FAZIO. I hope he had a salutary effect on their deliberations. Mr. REISCHAUER. I think so. Whether we agree on that would be another question. And Jim Hearn, a Senior Staff Member in C.G. Nuckols' unit, who covers the activities of this subcommittee and works very closely with Ed Lombard and others dealing with the estimations that affect this subcommittee. 1993 REPROGRAMMING AND SEC. 307 BASE Before presenting CBO's budget request for fiscal year 1995, I want to take a moment to thank you and the subcommittee for your support on two recent matters. At the end of fiscal year 1993, you approved my request to reprogram unused resources that were in our printing budget to allow us to purchase some needed replacement equipment for our local area network. That computer system ties together all the computers at CBO and is actually a source of great efficiency and a reduction in paper, because we now send information to each other largely by electronic means as opposed to by memos and hard copy. In December, you approved my request to use fiscal year 1993 as the base year for calculating the 4 percent staff reduction that is required by the 1994 Legislative Appropriations Act. I want to thank you and Mr. Young for your help on these two matters. I would like to submit for the record of the hearing various pieces of correspondence that relate to these requests. Mr. FAZIO. That is a good suggestion. We will put that in the record. [The information follows:] As fiscal year 1993 comes to a close, I would like to transfer funds between spending categories. Our original estimate for equipment spending in fiscal year 1993 was $447,000 and we will spend most of these funds as planned. In addition, it has become clear that we need to replace our local area network (LAN) backbone with an infrastructure that is faster and more reliable, easier to manage, and that provides the capacity to support future information technologies coming from the CAPNET. This LAN upgrade will cost about $125,000 and will probably cause our total equipment spending to exceed the $100,000 reprogramming limit set by the subcommittee. Therefore, I am requesting your approval to use $125,000 from printing funds saved by taking advantage of the GPO 814 Program, for this project. I will be pleased to answer any questions you may have about this request. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Sincerely, Robert D. Reischauer |