REORGANIZATION PLANS NOS. 1, 2, 3, AND 4 OF 1961
(Plan 1-Securities and Exchange Commission)

(Plan 2—Federal Communications Commission)
(Plan 3-Civil Aeronautics Board)

(Plan 4-Federal Trade Commission)

4.S. Congress. Ho is.

HEARINGS

BEFORE A

~ MAY 2

SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE
COMMITTEE ON

GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

EIGHTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS

R.V.3. 13 Je 61

.A 517
1961

CONTENTS

Message from the President of the United States transmitting Reorganiza-

tion Plan No. 1 of 1961, prepared in accordance with the Reorganization

Act of 1949, as amended, and providing for reorganization in the Securi-

ties and Exchange Commission (H. Doc. No. 146, 87th Cong., 1st sess.) –

Message from the President of the United States transmitting Reorganiza-

tion Plan No. 2 of 1961, prepared in accordance with the Reorganization

Act of 1949, as amended, and providing for reorganization in the Federal

Communications Commission (H. Doc. No. 147, 87th Cong., 1st sess.) -

Message from the President of the United States transmitting Reorganiza-

tion Plan No. 3 of 1961, prepared in accordance with the Reorganization

Act of 1949, as amended, and providing for reorganization in the Civil

Aeronautics Board (H. Doc. No. 152, 87th Cong., 1st sess.)

Message from the President of the United States transmitting Reorganiza-

tion Plan No. 4 of 1961, prepared in accordance with the Reorganization

Act of 1949, as amended, and providing for reorganization in the Federal

Trade Commission (H. Doc. No. 159, 87th Cong., 1st sess.).

Statement of—

Anderson, Sigurd, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission..

Avery, Hon. William H., a Representative in Congress from the State

of Kansas.

Bartley, Robert T., Commissioner, Federal Communications Com-
mission__

Booth, Robert M., Jr., president, Federal Communications Bar Asso-
ciation; accompanied by Percy Russell, chairman of the Committee
on Legislation..

Boyd, Alan S., Chairman, Civil Aeronautics Board; accompanied
by John Wanner, General Counsel; Ross I. Newmann, Associate
General Counsel; and John B. Russell, Chief, Office of Administra-
tion__.

Cary, William I., Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission;

accompanied by Commissioners Edward N. Gadsby, Byron D.

Woodside, and J. Allen Frear; Manuel F. Cohen, Director, Division

of Corporate Finance; Philip A. Loomis, Jr., Director, Division of

Trading and Exchange; and Walter F. North, General Counsel____

Craven, T. A. M., Commissioner, Federal Communications Commis-
mission_

Cross, John S., Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission_

Dixon, Paul Rand, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission; accom-

panied by John N. Wheelock, Executive Director; John Victor

Buffington, special legal assistant to the Chairman; and J. M.

Henderson, General Counsel...

Ford, Frederick W., Commissioner, Federal Communications Com-
mission__

Harris, Hon. Oren, a Representative in Congress from the State of

Arkansas

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Hoffman, Hon. Clare E., a Representative in Congress from the State

of Michigan

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Hyde, Rosel H., Commissioner, Federal Communications Commis-
sion_.

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Minow, Newton N., Chairman, Federal Communications Commis-

sion___

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Springer, Hon. William L., a Representative in Congress from the

State of Illinois__.

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