Show r A I r rr With the tax reduction and labor bill bills out of the way bit bit- bitter bitter ter controversy was touched off offIn offin In the house hOUM when Co Con At Al- Al Albert bert Gore Of Tennessee charged that GOP reductions reduction In appropriations totaled only 1876 1478 in contrast to the th house goal of six billion dollars and the senate goal of The Gore denunciation of the GOP promised appropriations reduction brought forth fora a vigorous orous Taber b denial of New ro b by York nd and a John o de- de defense tense of what Gore termed phony budget cuts The truth is Congressman Gore the purely phony cuts or c claims alms of reductions reductions exceed the real cuts in the budget budget by nearly a billion dol- dol dollars dollars lars The then pro to post the scoreboard The first chart showed what W at athe he termed were real cuts In ap- ap appropriations appropriations made by the GOP leadership and ir included eluded trea- trea treasury treasury sury and postoffice labor and federal security 28 government corpora corpora- corporations corporations agriculture department war department navy department state commerce and judiciary depart depart- departments departments ments interior de- de department department inde- inde independent independent I pendent offices Total The second se ond chart presented I IThe by Representative Gore showed what he termed were phony cuts amounting to and including postponement of tax refunds additional ad- ad additional revenue from ship sales downward revision ot of budget by the President President dent treasury can can- cancellation of notes abolishing maritime commission revolving f tun u n d atomic energy commission part year appropriation contract authorization instead of appropriations appropriations for veterans hospitals substitution of con con- contract contract tract authorizations for money already appropriated deferral of appropriations I for veterans pensions contract authorization SUb SUb- substitute for appropriation for Hill Burton hospital program I The asked fori for tax refunds will have to be re- re repaid repaid paid if tax refunds amount to that sum If appropriated and not needed It would have remained re- re remained in the treasury and could not be counted as an ex- ex expenditure expenditure The for shin sales claimed as a saving is additional money expected from the sale of maritime com com- commission commission mission ships If paid Into the Ule treasury It could not be Spent Treasury cancellation of notes amounting to Is money already spent and does not affect expenditures In inthis this budget It is merel a book book- bookkeeping keeping transaction The In maritime commission revolving fund is already In the govern ment and the Ule committee merely tt it from from the marl mad I time commission to the trea sury and In InI inthe I the budget The claimed reduction n o 75 75 on the atomic en energy commission apPropriation is an o bookkeeping transaction and a deficiency lc n a 5 will have a to be made SOPI for the commission probably In Janu- Janu January January ary of the next session The question of contract au- au authorization authorization Is B a new neap phrase in appropriation parlance What the committee did was to ap prove of 15 n new w veterans at an estt esti- esti estimated mated cost of but I Instead of making an outright appropriation they the VA to make contracts contract It Ithe does not save money monet and the money will wUl have to b forth forth- forthcoming coming in a ture l de clen Y true J with f regard arn to same a rd thing Is claimed reduction for f o r money already appropriated What the house committee did was to say the committee has inserted In the bill bID a provision rescinding with the understanding that funds will wUl be made available If and when reo re- re required in order orner that the follow follow- followIng ing program may go forward without delay So actually there Is no reduction since the must be provided later On the Hill Burton bill or the national hospital act the com com- committee committee struck out another 50 but authorized the pub pub- lice health agency to enter Into contract authorization for f o r amounts necessary under the act So again this is not a reduction reduction tion since the money must be ming when the contracts are made The Item of Is an amount which the President re- re revised re- re revised certain budget Items d down down- downward Wn ward in a supplemental budget message made to the house on May 14 1947 The committee took advantage of the requested I revision and claimed It as part of their reduction |