ORGANIZATION OF CONGRESS HEARINGS BEFORE THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON THE ORGANIZATION CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES SEVENTY-NINTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION PURSUANT TO H. Con. Res. 18 MAY BOCUMENT A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING A PART 1 MARCH 13, 15, 16, 19, 22, 26, AND 28, 1945 Printed for the use of the Joint Committee on the 70841 UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1945 702868 CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES JOINT COMMITTEE ON THE ORGANIZATION OF CONGRESS SENATE HOUSE ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE, JR., Wisconsin, A. S. MIKE MONRONEY, Oklahoma, Vice CONTENTS Bland, Schuyler Otis, Member of Congress from Virginia Cochran, John J., Member of Congress from Missouri.. Downey, Sheridan, United States Senator from California. Fulbright, William J., United States Senator from Arkansas- Hays, Brooks, Member of Congress from Arkansas. Herter, Christian A., Member of Congress from Massachusetts. - Kefauver, Estes, Member of Congress from Tennessee_ Keogh, Eugene J., Member of Congress from New York. La Follette, Charles M., Member of Congress from Indiana_ McCarran, Pat, United States Senator from Nevada. Priest, J. Percy, Member of Congress from Tennessee. Randolph, Jennings, Member of Congress from West Virginia. Smith, Howard W., Member of Congress from Virginia__ Sumners, Hatton W., Member of Congress from Texas- Voorhis, Jerry, Member of Congress from California__ ORGANIZATION OF CONGRESS TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1945 CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, JOINT COMMITTEE ON THE ORGANIZATION OF CONGRESS, Washington, D. C. The joint committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10 a. m. in the committee room of the Committee on Education and Labor, Capitol Building, Senator Robert M. La Follette, Jr. (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators La Follette (chairman), Pepper, Thomas, and White, and Representatives Monroney (vice chairman), Cox, Lane, and Plumley. Also present: George B. Galloway, staff director. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order. This joint committee is organized under House Concurrent Resolution 18, which I will ask to have inserted in the record at this point. (The concurrent resolution referred to is as follows:) [H. Con. Res. 18, 79th Cong., 1st sess.] CONCURRENT RESOLUTION Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That there is hereby established a Joint Committee on the Organization of the Congress (hereinafter referred to as the committee) to be composed of six Members of the Senate (not more than three of whom shall be members of the majority party) to be appointed by the President of the Senate, and six Members of the House of Representatives (not more than three of whom shall be members of the majority Party), to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. The committee shall select a chairman and a vice chairman from among its members. No recommendation shall be made by the committee except upon a majority vote of the Members representing each House, taken separately. tion and operation of the Congress of the United States and shall recommend SEC. 2. The committee shall make a full and complete study of the organizaing the Congress, simplifying its operations, improving its relationships with improvements in such organization and operation with a view toward strengthenother branches of the United States Government, and enabling it better to meet its responsibilities under the Constitution. This study shall include, but shall not be limited to, the organization and operation of each House of the Congress; the relationship between the two Houses; the relationships between the Congress and other branches of the Government; the employment and remuneration of between, the various standing, special, and select committees of the Congress: committees and Members of Congress; and the structure of, and the relationships officers and employees of the respective Houses and officers and employees of the Provided, That nothing in this concurrent resolution shall be construed to authorize the committee to make any recommendations with respect to the rules, parsideration of any matter on the floor of either House: Provided further, That the liamentary procedure, practices, and/or precedents of either House, or the conrecommending the consolidations and reorganization of committees. language employed herein shall not prohibit the committee from studying and authorized to sit and act at such places and times during the sessions, recesses, SEC. 3. (a) The committee, or any duly authorized subcommittee thereof, is and adjourned periods of the Seventy-ninth Congress, to require by subpena or otherwise the attendance of such witnesses and the production of such books, 1 |