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1 agency, board, commission, office, establishment, or instru2 mentality is authorized and directed to furnish such informa3 tion, suggestions, estimates, and statistics directly to the 4 Commission, upon request made by the Chairman.

5 (c) The Commission is authorized to hold seminars or 6 informal conferences as it deems appropriate to provide a 7 forum for discussion of the application of modern systems 8 analysis and management techniques to the solution of na9 tional community problems.

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TERMINATION

SEC. 11. On the sixtieth day after the date of its sub12 mission of its final report to the President, the Commission

13 shall terminate and all offices and employment therein shall

14 expire.

Senator NELSON. Our first witness this morning will be Congressman Bradford Morse.

STATEMENT OF HON. F. BRADFORD MORSE, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS

Mr. MORSE. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am indeed grateful to you for permitting me to appear before your subcommittee this morning.

I certainly want to commend you on the initiative which you have taken in introducing S. 430 and in scheduling these important hearings, which demonstrate your determination to find an effective solution to the intensifying national economic and social problems which face us.

I think there is great merit in your approach to the utilization of the scientific manpower which has been developed in our space and defense programs, for the solution of some of our nondefense, nonspace public problems.

Therefore, I am particularly grateful for this opportunity to discuss the approach we have taken in the House and that some of our colleagues in the Senate have taken to achieve the same goal, namely, the application of modern management techniques to the effective solution of these public problems.

Last August more than 40 of my Republican colleagues joined me in introducing legislation to create a National Commission on Public Management. Briefly, the Commission would be charged with the mandate to determine the applicability of modern management techniques, and to help develop specific recommendations and programs for individual problem areas.

Senator NELSON. That is the bill that was introduced on this side also and which is before this committee?

Mr. MORSE. It is slightly different. The bill which has been introduced in the Senate this year, Mr. Chairman, has a few modifications which I will discuss later on. It is essentially the same concept.

Designed to be a working, rather than a figurehead commission, the public management body would produce a report after 1 year on its progress to date and its work plan for the remaining 18 months of its life. There is a 22-year life contemplated by the bill. Among its specific tasks would be to assess the relative merits of various financing techniques.

Senator NELSON. Do you discuss the membership of that committee? Mr. MORSE. I do in a moment, Mr. Chairman.

Rather than take the time of the committee, I would ask to submit for your record a copy of my current bill, which was introduced in the 90th Congress, H.R. 20, and copies of the statements which I have made on the floor of the House discussing the Commission proposal in detail.

Senator NELSON. Your bill and your remarks will be printed in full in the record.

(The bill and remarks referred to follow :)

[H.R. 20, 90th Cong., 1st sess.]

A BILL To establish a National Commission on Public Management, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

CREATION OF COMMISSION

SECTION 1. In order to study and recommend the manner in which modern systems analysis and management techniques may be utilized to resolve national and community problems in the nondefense sector there is hereby established a National Commission on Public Management (hereafter in this Act referred to as the "Commission").

MEMBERSHIP OF THE COMMISSION

SEC. 2. The Commission shall be composed of a Chairman, a Vice Chairman, and eleven other members. The Chairman, Vice Chairman, and seven other members are to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Commission shall include two Members of the Senate to be appointed by the President of the Senate and two Members of the House of Representatives to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Members of the Commission shall be individuals concerned with the subject matter to be studied by the Commission, including individuals with experience derived from government, business, the labor movement, or from teaching and research.

DUTIES OF THE CHAIRMAN AND VICE CHAIRMAN

SEC. 3. (a) The Chairman shall be responsible for calling regular quarterly meetings of the Commission and other special meetings as he deems necessary. The Chairman shall determine the time, place, and agenda for each regular or special meeting.

(b) The Vice Chairman shall act in the Chairman's absence.

QUORUM

SEC. 4. Seven members of the Commission shall constitute a quorum.

COMPENSATION OF MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION

SEC. 5. (a) Members of the Commission, other than officers or employees of the Federal Government, shall receive compensation at the rate of $100 per diem while engaged in the actual performance of duties vested in the Commission, plus reimbursement for travel, subsistence, and other necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of such duties.

(b) Any members of the Commission who are officers or employees of the Federal Government shall serve on the Commission without compensation, but such members shall be reimbursed for travel, subsistence, and other necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of duties vested in the Commission.

STAFF

SEC. 6. (a) The Commission may appoint an Executive Director and such other personnel as it deems advisable. The Executive Director shall be the chief staff member of the Commission and shall be responsible to the Commission for the direction of its staff. The annual compensation for the Executive Director shall be $28,500.

(b) The Commission may procure, without regard to the civil service laws or the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, temporary and intermittent services to the same extent as is authorized by section 15 of the Administrative Expenses Act of 1946, but at rates not to exceed $75 per day.

EXPENSES OF THE COMMISSION

SEC. 7. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary, but not exceeding $200,000 in the aggregate, to carry out the provisions of this Act during the initial year of Commission operation.

DUTIES OF THE COMMISSION

SEC. 8. (a) The Commission shall concern itself with the management of the public business and shall give attention to the development, dissemination, and implementation of modern management technology and the analysis of the systems interrelationships involved in public business problems. The Commission, in the performance of its duties, shall:

(1) Develop information on the methodology of the systems approach and its applications.

(2) Analyze the possible application to public programs of such recognized management planning and control techniques as operations analysis and research, econometrics, mathematical programing and modeling, simulation, projects management, and the utilization of automatic data processing devices and procedures for program control and information systems.

(3) Determine and categorize the national and community problems to which the application of such techniques offers the greatest promise of solution.

(4) Assess the proper relationship between governmental and private investment to obtain the most effective application of the techniques involved. (5) Make recommendations to the executive and legislative branches of the Federal Government regarding data requirements, management techniques and systems interrelationships in the formulation of legislation.

(6) Conduct studies into specific problem areas and make recommendations.

(7) Schedule seminars, symposia and prepare publications to expand public knowledge of and stimulate the use of modern management technology. (8) Encourage the Nation's best talent in government, labor, university and private enterprise to study public management problems and to participate in the improvement and extension of modern management technologies and their application to public problems.

(9) Analyze alternative methods and make recommendations of Federal, State, and local governmental support and encouragement of the application of modern management technology to public problems through the use of various contracting procedures, grants, loans, cost allowances, and tax incentives.

REPORTS

SEC. 9. (a) Within one year after the first meeting of the Commission it shall submit to the President and the Congress a preliminary report on its activities with particular emphasis on the plan for the study and investigation provided for in section 8 and any activities undertaken to carry out such plan, including an estimated budget for the remainder of the life of the Commission. (b) Within thirty months after such first meeting the Commission shall submit to the President and the Congress a final report on its study and investigation which shall include its recommendations and such proposals for legislation and administrative action as may be necessary to carry out its recommendations. (c) In addition to the preliminary report and final report required by this section, the Commission may publish such interim reports as it may determine, including but not limited to consultants' reports, transcripts of testimony, seminar reports, and other Commission findings.

POWERS OF THE COMMISSION

SEC. 10. (a) The Commission or, on the authorization of the Commission, any subcommittee or member thereof, may, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act, hold such hearings and sit and act at such times and places, administer such oaths, and require, by subpena or otherwise, the attendance and testimony of such witnesses and the production of such books, records, correspondence, memorandums, papers, and documents as the Commission or such subcommittee or member may deem advisable. Subpena may be

issued under the signature of the Chairman of the Commission, of such subcommittee, or any duly designated member, and may be served by any person designated by such Chairman or member. The provisions of sections 102 to

104, inclusive, of the Revised Statutes (2 U.S.C. 192-194), shall apply in the case of any failure of any witness to comply with any subpena or to testify when summoned under authority of this section.

(b) The Commission is authorized to secure directly from any executive department, bureau, agency, board, commission, office, independent establishment, or instrumentality information, suggestions, estimates, and statistics for the purpose of this Act; and each such department, bureau, agency, board, commission, office, establishment, or instrumentality is authorized and directed to furnish such information, suggestions, estimates, and statistics directly to the Commission, upon request made by the Chairman.

(c) The Commission is authorized to hold seminars or informal conferences as it deems appropriate to provide a forum for discussion of the application of modern systems analysis and management techniques to the solution of national community problems.

TERMINATION

SEC. 11. On the sixtieth day after the date of its submission of its final report to the President, the Commission shall terminate and all offices and employment therein shall expire.

[From the Congressional Record, Aug. 25, 1966]

MANAGING THE PUBLIC BUSINESS

The SPEAKER. Under previous order of the House the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. Morse] is recognized for 30 minutes.

(Mr. Morse asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks and to include extraneous matter.)

Mr. MORSE. Mr. Speaker, today over 40 Members of the miniority of this House have introduced legislation which would create, if enacted by the Congress of the United States, a Commission on Public Management.

Mr. Speaker, among the Members who filed this legislation are the following: F. Bradford Morse, of Massachusetts; John B. Anderson, of Illinois; Mark Andrews, of North Dakota; William H. Bates, of Massachusetts; Alphonzo Bell, of California; William S. Broomfield, of Michigan; Clarence Brown, Jr., of Ohio; Howard H. Callaway, of Georgia; Elford A. Cederberg, of Michigan; Don H. Clausen, of California; James C. Cleveland, of New Hampshire.

William C. Cramer, of Flomida; Glenn Cunningham, of Nebraska; Thomas B. Curtis, of Missiouri; Edward J. Derwinski, of Illinois; Robert Dole, of Kansas; John J. Duncan, of Tennessee; Florence P. Dwyer, of New Jersey; Robert F. Ellsworth, of Kansas; John Erlenborn, of Illinois; Paul Findley, of Illinois; Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey; Seymour Halpern, of New York.

Frank J. Horton, of New York; Craig Hosmer, of California; Theodore Kupferman, of New York; Odin Langen, of Minnesota; Robert McClory, of Illinois; Joseph M. McDade, of Pennsylvania; Charles McC. Mathias, Jr., of Maryland; Chester L. Mize, of Kansas; Charles A. Mosher, of Ohio; Albert H. Quie, of Minnesota; Charlotte T. Reid, of Illinois.

Ogden R. Reid, of New York; Ed Reinecke, of California; Howard W. Robison, of New York; Donald Rumsfeld, of Illinois; Herman T. Schneebeli, of Pennsylvania; Richard S. Schweiker, of Pennsylvania; Garner E. Shriver, of Kansas; Henry P. Smith III, of New York; J. William Stanton, of Ohio; Bob Wilson, of California; and John W. Wydler, of New York.

Mr. Speaker, Congress has over the past decade enacted a host of creative programs designed to solve our public, social, and economic problems. We have made important strides forward in education, health care, pollution, control and urban development, but the dimensions of our remaining problems are staggering: 10,000 of our Nation's communities will face serious problems of air pollution; the demand for water consumption may exceed the available supply before the end of this century; there are 9 million substandard housing units in the United States, most of them in urban areas; traffic jams cost the Nation over $5 billion each year; and scientific and technical information is doubling every 15 years. It is clear that problems of this magnitude are not susceptible to the traditional solutions. We must reach beyond our history for few ways to manage the public business effectively and economically.

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