Reauthorization of the Defense Production Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, Second Session, July 24, 1986 |
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5-year extension administration ADMINISTRATION'S basic BECTON BLONG capability Chairman LAFALCE committee concern Congress CONTRACTORS coordinating DEFENSE CONTRACTS Defense Department defense industrial base DEFENSE NEEDS DEFENSE PREPAREDNESS DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT Department of Commerce Department of Defense DONNELLY DPA AUTHORITY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT FEMA fense FREEDENBERG going IMPLEMENTATION INDUSTRIAL COMPETITIVENESS industrial fasteners industrial mobilization INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES JULIUS W JULY 24 LONG-TERM machine tool industry Machine Tool Trigger manufacturing base materials MCKINNEY MEET DEFENSE military mobilization readiness NATIONAL DEFENSE NDER OAKAR offsets reporting OIRA percent planning policies PREPAREDNESS PROGRAMS problems PRODUCTION ACT AUTHORITIES PROVIDES purchase guarantee question reauthorization requirements resource management responsibility RIDGE Secretary SECTION 309 specific steel SUPPORT surge Synthetic Fuels Corporation Taiwan talking Thank things tion title III project TITLE VII Tool Trigger Order Trigger Order Program U.S. industry United VENTO VRA's weapons systems World War II
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Page 41 - ... (3) purchases, purchase commitments, or other action pursuant to this section are the most cost-effective, expedient, and practical alternative method for meeting the need; and (4) the United States national defense demand for the mineral, metal, or material is equal to, or greater than, the output of domestic industrial capability which the President reasonably determines to be available for national defense, including the output to be established through the purchase, purchase commitment, or...
Page 36 - He is a graduate of the Army Engineer School, the Command and General Staff College, the Armed Forces Staff College, and the Army War College. He also attended the Harvard Advanced Management Program at Harvard University in 1973. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas and the District of Columbia, a fellow...
Page 36 - Agency (FEMA) which is the central point of contact within the federal government for a wide range of emergency management activities in both - peace and war.
Page 36 - Silver Stars, two Legions of Merit, the Distinguished Flying Cross, and The Knight Commanders Cross (Badge and Star) of the Order of Merit awarded by the Federal Republic of Germany. - In January 1984, he became the Director of the Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance, Agency for International Development, which is charged with coordinating the provision of all US Goverrmmnt foreign disaster assistance.
Page 6 - President shall submit to the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate, a report on the impact of offsets on the defense preparedness, industrial competitiveness, employment, and trade of the United States.
Page 48 - Thank you Mr. Chairman. I would like to join you in welcoming our distinguished witnesses.
Page 29 - Agriculture and small business loan programs are authorized separately by committees with little or no interest in mainline emergency management programs. The result is a hodge-podge of statutory authorizations providing sometimes conflicting and outdated guidance which...
Page 43 - TESTIMONY OF PAUL FREEDENBERG ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR TRADE ADMINISTRATION US DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC STABILIZATION OF THE COMMITTEE ON BANKING...
Page 16 - I am not trying to put words in your mouth but I am trying to pin down your rather ambivalent position of three conflicting statements.
Page 40 - AS THE ECONOMY RECOVERS, COMPETITION FOR INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES MAY INCREASE. ALTHOUGH STRONGER DEFENSE DEMAND WILL ATTRACT NEW CONTRACTORS AND SUPPLIERS TO THE MARKETPLACE, THE CONGRESS AND EXECUTIVE BRANCH MUST ALSO ENSURE THAT BUSINESS DEALINGS WITH THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT ARE AS PREDICTABLE AS POSSIBLE. THIS INCLUDES EXTENDING THE DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT AUTHORITIES TO ENSURE CONTINUITY.