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...March 8, the health subcommittee of the Senate Finance Committee held its first set of hearings on Hale Champion's nomination as Undersecretary. Most of the questions were routine. But then Sen. Herman E. Talmadge (D-Ga.), chairman of the health subcommittee, asked Champion about the Souza case and Walsh's resignation. Champion replied that Walsh had simply been instructed to keep the General Counsel's Office informed of his activities, not to actually "clear his work" with the counsel. Champion also said that until the HEW Inspector General was installed in the then empty post--Congress had only created...
Other senators, sitting behind a table at the end of a hearing room packed with more than 100 spectators, chimed in with praise for Champion. Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan (D-N.Y.) said Champion was "transparently honest and impeccably honorable," and others praised him as "able" and "honorable." But Sen. Carl Curtis (R-Neb.) held the vote up until after the committee could hear from Califano in person, so word was sent down Capitol Hill that his testimony was needed...
...months, his nomination languished in the Senate Finance Committee. On March 8, the Health subcommittee, chaired by Sen. Herman E. Talmadge (D-Ga.), held a hearing on his nomination that committee staff members said was routine...
...Sen. Carl E. Curtis (R-Neb.) then asked that the committee not vote on Champion's nomination until after Califano appeared to answer a few questions...
...Finance Committee, a group studded with stars like Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan (D-N.Y.), Sen. Abraham Ribicoff (D-Conn.), Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kan.), Sen. John Tower (R-Tex.) and chaired by Sen. Russell Long (D-La.), then voted unanimously to send Champion's nomination to the full Senate with a recommendation to confirm...