Mr. VALENTI. For that, Senator, I am greatly cheered. Senator GRIFFIN. No, thank you, Mr. Chairman. Senator MAGNUSON. All right, we will leave the record open for a few days so that any members of the Board that wish to add something will have the opportunity to place it in the record. The committee will act on the nominations as soon as possible. And then, of course, they will go to the floor of the Senate. And being engaged in a matter on the floor of the Senate that seems to supersede everything else, consequently, if you are not brought up for Senate confirmation as soon as you think you should be, do not think there is anything wrong, particularly with you individually as nominees. It is merely the legislative situation. But we will expedite this. And as I understand it, Dr. Killian, you expect to have some early, preliminary meetings of the Board. And as I pointed out to you, on the question of the appropriation, it will be handled in the manner I suggested earlier. So we thank you all for coming, and we appreciate your dedication to serve on this very, very important board. Thank you so much. (Whereupon, at 10:45 o'clock a.m., the committee adjourned.) TO AUTHORIZE THE SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION TO CONTENTS Opening statement by the chairman_ Report of the General Counsel of the Department of Defense, March 13, 1968.. Text of bill, S.J. Res. 129_ CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES MARCH 12, 1968 Hon. Alan S. Boyd, Secretary of Transportation; accompanied by M. Cecil MARCH 13, 1968 Senator Karl V. Herrmann, State of Washington Legislature, chairman, Orman L. Vertrees, staff reporter, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Sixth and The Honorable William T. Cahill, Representative in the Congress of the MARCH 14, 1968 Craig Spangenberg, chairman, National Committee on Public Affairs, Prof. Jeffrey O'Connell, University of Illinois Law School... T. Lawrence Jones, president, American Insurance Association, 85 John Fred H. Merrill, chairman of the board, Fireman's Fund American Insurance William O. Bailey, vice president, Aetna Life & Casualty Group, 151 Harold Scott Baile, senior deputy general manager, and general counsel, Bradford Smith, Jr., chairman of the board, Insurance Company of Vestal Lemmon, president, National Association of Independent Insurers, 30 West Monroe Street, Chicago, Ill Wallace M. Smith, Mid-Atlantic branch manager, American Mutual Insurance Alliance, 425 13th Street NW., Washington, D.C.. Mr. VALENTI. For that, Senator, I am greatly cheered. Senator GRIFFIN. No, thank you, Mr. Chairman. Senator MAGNUSON. All right, we will leave the record open for a few days so that any members of the Board that wish to add something will have the opportunity to place it in the record. The committee will act on the nominations as soon as possible. And then, of course, they will go to the floor of the Senate. And being engaged in a matter on the floor of the Senate that seems to supersede everything else, consequently, if you are not brought up for Senate confirmation as soon as you think you should be, do not think there is anything wrong, particularly with you individually as nominees. It is merely the legislative situation. But we will expedite this. And as I understand it, Dr. Killian, you expect to have some early, preliminary meetings of the Board. And as I pointed out to you, on the question of the appropriation, it will be handled in the manner I suggested earlier. So we thank you all for coming, and we appreciate your dedication to serve on this very, very important board. Thank you so much. (Whereupon, at 10:45 o'clock a.m., the committee adjourned.) |