Advisory Committees

KF26 G634

1973a

COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
SAM J. ERVIN, JR., North Carolina, Chairman

JOHN L. MCCLELLAN, Arkansas
HENRY M. JACKSON, Washington
EDMUND S. MUSKIE, Maine

ABRAHAM RIBICOFF, Connecticut
LEE METCALF, Montana

JAMES B. ALLEN, Alabama

LAWTON CHILES, Florida

SAM NUNN, Georgia

WALTER D. HUDDLESTON, Kentucky

CHARLES H. PERCY, Illinois
JACOB K. JAVITS, New York
EDWARD J. GURNEY, Florida
WILLIAM B. SAXBE, Ohio 1
WILLIAM V. ROTH, JR., Delaware
BILL BROCK, Tennessee

ROBERT BLAND SMITH, Jr., Chief Counsel and Staff Director
ELI E. NOBLEMAN, Counsel

W. P. GOODWIN, Jr., Counsel
JANET GAY HOLLIDAY, Chief Clerk

J. ROBERT VASTINE, Jr., Minority Counsel
BRIAN CONBOY, Special Counsel for the Minority
W. THOMAS FOXWELL, Staff Editor

SUBCOMMITTEE ON BUDGETING, MANAGEMENT, AND EXPENDITURES

LEE METCALF, Montana, Chairman

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CONTENTS

Opening statement of Senator Metcalf__.

WITNESSES

NOVEMBER 29, 1973

Wolf, Prof. Richard, deputy director, Institute for Public Interest Rep-

resentation, Georgetown University School of Law, accompanied by

Mrs. Cathleen Douglas, staff attorney, and Harry Hull..-.

Obey, Hon. David R., a Representative in Congress from the State of

Wisconsin..

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DECEMBER 13, 1973

Plesser, onald L., staff attorney, Center for Study of Responsive Law..
Rodgers, William H., Jr., professor of law, Georgetown University Law
Center_.

FEBRUARY 5, 1974

Malek, Hon. Frederic V., Deputy Director, Office of Management and

Budget, accompanied by William Hawley, Committee Management

Secretariat, OMB; Roye Lowry, Statistical Policy Division, OMB; and

Robert Bedell, Assistant General Counsel, OMB..

ADDITIONAL MATERIAL

Order and Memorandum in the matter of Margaret Gates, et al. v. James R.
Schlesinger, et al., in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
seeking a preliminary injunction requiring Department of Defense to
open to the public a meeting of the Defense Advisory Committee on
Women in the Services_.

Memorandum Opinion and Order in the matter of Ralph Nader, et al. v.
John Dunlop, et al., seeking summary judgment in the issue of exclusion
of the public from the meetings of the advisory committees serving the
Cost of Living Council__.

Metcalf, Hon. Lee:

Letter from Senator Metcalf to Hon. Caspar W. Weinberger, Director

of OMB, dated December 26, 1972, re proposed guidelines for

implementation of the Federal Advisory Committee Act and

particularly that part dealing with closing of advisory committee

meetings.

Letter to Herbert Fishback, General Counsel, Federal Mediation and
Conciliation Service from Senator Metcalf, dated November 20,
1973, re rules on closing advisory committee meetings...

Letter to Doug Mitchell, chief counsel, National Oil Jobbers Council,

from Vic Reinemer, staff director, Subcommittee on Budgeting,

Management, and Expenditures, dated February 1, 1974, re compo-

sition of the Department of Interior's Advisory Committee on

Emergency Petroleum Supply.

Response to the above letter__

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List of executive branch elements that work with and assist the

Committee Management Secretariat--

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Office of Oil and Gas news release, January 4, 1974, "Secretary

Morton Names 11 Members to National Petroleum Council".

Establishment and purpose of the National Petroleum Council

(including membership).

Obey, Hon. David R.:
Prepared statement.
Press releases__

Plesser, Roland L.:

Prepared statement_.

Letter from Ronald L. Plesser and Peter J. Petkas to Director, Office
of Management and Budget, dated March 26, 1973, re proposed
circular A-63 and draft memorandum guidelines implementing Fed-
eral Advisory Committee Act_

Complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief in the matter of Avia-

tion Consumer Action Project v. Washburn, dated September 27,

1973, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Civil

Action No. 1838-73 re Violation of the Freedom of Information Act

and the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 by the Department

of Commerce et al__.

Complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief in the matter of

Aviation Consumer Action Project v. Jack Yohe, Director, Office of

Consumer Affairs, Civil Aeronautics Board, in the U.S. District

Court for the District of Columbia, Civil Action No. 707-73, re

airline overbooking and meaning of an advisory committee as the

term is defined in section 3 of the Federal Advisory Committee Act__