Foreign Service Act Amendments of 1956: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session, on S. 3481, a Bill to Amend the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as Amended, and for Other Purposes. March 21, 1956Considers legislation to increase Foreign Service officers salaries, benefits, and positions. |
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Act is amended additional classes amended by striking appointed Assistant Secretary bassador career ambassador career minister career officers Chairman chiefs of mission Civil Service class of career classes of Foreign commissary and mess Committee on Foreign Congress cost counselor Department dependents deputy chiefs embassy executive pay bill expenses Foreign Affairs Committee Foreign Service Act Foreign Service officers Foreign Service Reserve Foreign Service salaries Government HENDERSON House Committee House Foreign Affairs inserting in lieu KNOWLAND legislation lieu thereof mess services MIKE MANSFIELD officers of class pay increases pay raise percent personnel post allowance posts abroad private means promotion Public Law 22 question receive recreation facilities representation allowance salaries of chiefs salary adjustments SALARY INCREASES section 412 Senator GREEN Senator MANSFIELD Senator WILEY Service Act Amendments Service Officer Corps Service Reserve officers serving staff corps striking the words USIA WAYNE MORSE WILLIAM LANGER WILSON words class
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Page 4 - SEC. 942. (a) In the event an officer or employee of the Service who is a citizen of the United States or...
Page 4 - Service who is stationed abroad, incurs an illness or injury while such dependent is located abroad, which requires hospitalization or similar treatment, and which is not the result of vicious habits, intemperance, or misconduct on his part, the Secretary may, in accordance with such regulations as he may prescribe, pay for...
Page 5 - Act shall be made effective as of the first day of the first pay period which begins after the date of enactment of this Act or on the first day of the first pay period which begins after July 1, 1956, whichever shall be later.
Page 3 - ... and the transportation of mails, troops, munitions of war, supplies and public stores for the Government of the United States. And said section is further amended by striking out the word " forty," and inserting in lieu thereof the words " on each and every section of not less than twenty.
Page 6 - Administration and the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate and the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives.
Page 3 - Act is amended by striking out the word "six'' and inserting the word "eight" in lieu thereof; and by striking out the number "G" and inserting in lieu thereof the number "8". SEC. 5. Section 516 of such Act and the heading thereto is amended by striking the words "class 6...
Page 15 - March 17, 1950. Hon. EDWIN C. JOHNSON, Chairman, Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, United States Senate. DEAR SENATOR JOHNSON: Further reference is made to your letter of February 6, 1950, requesting a report of the Commission's views on S.
Page 2 - An explanation of ench of the proposed amendments is enclosed (tab II), together with an estimate of the cost involved in implementing the proposed legislation (tab III).
Page 2 - Legal limitations on the number of appointments Under section 517 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended, a total of not more than 175 persons may be appointed who were not employed on March 1, 1955, in the Department of State, including Foreign Service Reserve and Foreign Service staff personnel, and who have not completed the required period of prior service in the Department or the Service, or both. This means that the number of persons appointed from other agencies of the Government,...
Page 6 - CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF NEW YORK Mr. KEMP. Mr. Chairman, I am very grateful to you and to the other members of this committee for the opportunity to testify in...