PRESIDENT’S FISCAL YEAR 1996 BUDGET HEARINGS COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED FOURTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION FEBRUARY 7, 8, AND 9, 1995 Serial 104-25 Printed for the use of the Committee on Ways and Means a U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 91-827 6c WASHINGTON : 1996 For sale by the US, Government Superintendent of Documents, ISBN 0-16-052173-4COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS BILL ARCHER, Texas, Chairman PHILIP M. CRANE, Minois SAM M. GIBBONS, Florida BILL THOMAS, California CHARLES B. RANGEL, New York E. CLAY SHAW, JR,, Florida FORTNEY PETE STARK, California NANCY L. JOHNSON, Connecticut ANDY JACOBS, JR, Indiana JIM BUNNING, Kentucky HAROLD E. FORD, Tennessee AMO HOUGHTON, New York ROBERT T. MATSUI, California WALLY HERGER, ifornia BARBARA B. KENNELLY, Connecticut JIM McCRERY, Louisia WILLIAM J. COYNE, Pennsylvania MEL HANCOCK, Missouri SANDER M. LEVIN, Michigan DAVE CAMP, Michigan BENJAMIN L. CARDIN, Maryland JIM RAMSTAD, Minnesota JIM McDERMOTT, Washington DICK ZIMMER, New Jersey GERALD D. KLECZKA, Wisconsin JIM NUSSLE, Iowa JOHN LEWIS, Georgi SAM JOHNSON, Texas LF. PAYNE, Virginia JENNIFER DUNN, Washington RICHARD E. NEAL, Massachusetts MAC COLLINS, Georgia ROB PORTMAN, Ohio PHILIP S. ENGLISH, Pennsylvania JOHN ENSIGN, Nevada JON CHRISTENSEN, Nebraska Pau D. Moseixy, Chief of Staff JANICE MAYS, Minority Chief Counsel anCONTENTS Advisories announcing the hearings .. WITNESSES US. Department of the Treasury, Hon. Robert E. Rubin, Secretary U'S. Department of Health and Human Services, Hon. Donna BE. Secretar Office of Manage: "tien: i i Congressional Budget Office, Robert D. Reischauer, Director .. A SUBMISSION FOR THE RECORD North Dakota Public Service Commission, Bruce Hagen, letter ... am 12 155 195