SENATE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS-CAMPAIGN OF REORGANIZATION PLANS ELEVATING THE FEDERAL SECURITY

PLAN NO. 1 OF 1953

1. Creates a Department of Health,
Education and Welfare, with Secretary of
Cabinet status, to be appointed by the
President and confirmed by the Senate.
Salary same as other Cabinet members
($22,500).

2. Creates an Under Secretary and two
assistant secretaries to be appointed by
the President, with the consent of the
Senate, to perform such functions as the
Secretary may prescribe. Salaries at rate
provided by law for similar positions ($17,-
500 and $15,000, respectively). The Under
Secretary (or, during the absence or dis-
ability of the Under Secretary, an assistant
secretary) shall act as Secretary during
the absence or disability of the Secretary.

3. Provides for the appointment by the
President, with the consent of the Senate,
of a special assistant to the Secretary
(health and medical affairs) from among
persons who are recognized leaders in the
medical field with wide nongovernmental
experience, who shall review health and
medical programs of the Department, and
advise the Secretary with respect to such
programs; and shall receive compensation
at rate now or hereafter provided by law
for assistant secretaries ($15,000).

4. Provides for the appointment of a

Provides for changing the name of the
Federal Security Agency to a Department
of Welfare, with a Secretary of Cabinet
status to be appointed by the President and
confirmed by the Senate. Salary, $15,000
per annum.

Provides for the appointment of an
Under Secretary and three assistant secre-
taries, to be appointed by the President
with the advice and consent of the Senate,
to perform such functions as the Secretary
shall direct. Compensation provided at
the rate of $10,330 per annum, or at such
other rates as may be prescribed for sim-
ilar positions in the executive department.

Authorizes appointment of an adminis-
trative assistant secretary of health, edu-
cation, and security, by the Secretary, with
the approval of the President, under the
classified civil service, with compensation
at the rate of $14,000 per annum. Estab-
lishes in the Department the offices of-
1. Surgeon General of the Public Health
Service.

2. Commissioner of Education.

3. Commissioner of Social Security.
Prescribes that the Surgeon General
shall be the head of the Public Health
Service, the Commissioner of Education
shall head the Office of Education, the
Commissioner of Social Security to head

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PLAN NO. 27 OF 1950

the Social Security Administration; each
of whom shall perform all functions con-
cerning health, education, and social secu-
rity and public welfare, respectively, as
may be required by law, or, as the Secre-
tary may prescribe pursuant to law. The
Surgeon General, the Commissioner of
Education, and the Commissioner of Social
Security shall each report directly to the
Secretary; have professional qualifica-
tions, experience, and training appropriate
to the duties of their office; be appointed
by the President with the consent of the
Senate, and receive compensation at the
rate of $14,000 per annum. (Permits ap-
pointment of Surgeon General from the
commissioned regular corps of the Public
Health Service).

All functions of the Federal Security Ad-
ministrator are transferred to the Secre-
tary. All functions existing in the Surgeon
General of the Public Health Service and
of the Commissioner of Education are
transferred to the Surgeon General and
the Commissioner of Education, respec-
tively.

The Secretary is authorized to make
such provisions as he shall deem appro-
priate to authorize performance by any
other officer, or by any agency employee
of the Department of any functions of the
Secretary.

7. Authorizes the Secretary to establish
central administrative services in the
fields of procurement, budgeting, account-
ing, personnel, library, legal, and other
services and activities common to the sev-
eral agencies of the Department; to effect
such transfers within the Department of
the personnel, property, records, and funds
available for use in connection with admin-
istrative service activities as the Secre-
tary may deem necessary; provided that
no professional or substantive function
vested by law in any officer shall be re-
moved from the jurisdiction of such officer.

delegated only to the Under Secretary or
an Assistant Secretary.
No comparable provision.

The offices of Federal Security Admin-
istrator, of Assistant Federal Security
Administrator, and the two offices of as-
sistant heads of the Federal Security
Agency are abolished.

The Federal Security Administrator in
office immediately prior to taking effect of
plan shall be designated as Acting Secre-
tary of Welfare, pending initial appoint-
ment of a Secretary, but not for a period

The Secretary is authorized to establish
central administrative services in the fields
of procurement, budgeting, accounting,
library, legal, and other services and ac-
tivities common to the several agencies
of the Department, and to transfer person-
nel, property, records, and funds available
for use in connection with such adminis-
trative service activities as he may deem
necessary. It is provided that no author-
ity is granted to the Secretary to transfer
or remove from the control of thhe Surgeon
General, the Commissioner of Education,
or the Commissioner of Social Security
any professional or substantive functions
vested in them, respectively, under the pro-
visions of the plan or of any law hereafter
enacted.

The Federal Security Agency (except
agencies transferred by other provisions of
the plan), the Office of Federal Security
Administrator, the Office of Assistant Fed-
eral Security Administrator, the two offices
of assistant heads of the Federal Security
Agency, and the existing offices of Surgeon
General of the Public Health Service and
Commissioner of Education, are abolished.

The President is authorized to designate
and empower any person who is an officer
of FSA immediately prior to taking effect
of the plan to perform for a period not
exceeding 60 days, the functions of any

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