Proxmire's Priorities.

Focuses on the political career of U.S. Senator William Proxmire. Information that Proxmire is chairman of a subcommittee in Appropriations and ranks second on Banking and Currency; Complaint of Proxmire that the nation's budget is a systems analyst's nightmare, full of municipal bond write-offs and foreign aid bonanzas; Interests of Proxmire in comparing the rate of return on government investment with the rate of return on private investment.