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REORGANIZATION PLAN NO. 2 OF 1953

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON

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REORGANIZATION OF THE COMMITTEE ON

GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

UNITED STATES SENATE

EIGHTY-THIRD CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

361/55

Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1953

(Department of Agriculture)

AND

S. Res. 100-Disapproving Reorganization
Plan No. 2 of 1953

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MAY 12, 13, AND 18, 1953

Printed for the use of the Committee on Government Operations

UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1953

SENATE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

JOSEPH R. MCCARTHY, Wisconsin, Chairman

KARL E. MUNDT, South Dakota

MARGARET CHASE SMITH, Maine
HENRY C. DWORSHAK, Idaho

EVERETT M. DIRKSEN, Illinois

JOHN MARSHALL BUTLER, Maryland
CHARLES E. POTTER, Michigan

JOHN L. MCCLELLAN, Arkansas
CLYDE R. HOEY, North Carolina
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY, Minnesota
HENRY M. JACKSON, Washington
JOHN F. KENNEDY, Massachusetts
STUART SYMINGTON, Missouri

WALTER L. REYNOLDS, Chief Clerk and Staff Director
ANN M. GRICKIS, Assistant Chief Clerk
RICHARD J. O'MELIA, General Counsel
GLENN K. SHRIVER, Professional Staff Member
ELI E. NOBLEMAN, Professional Staff Member

SUBCOMMITTEE ON REORGANIZATION

MARGARET CHASE SMITH, Maine, Chairman

HENRY C. DWORSHAK, Idaho
EVERETT M. DIRKSEN, Illinois
JOHN MARSHALL BUTLER, Maryland

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CLYDE R. HOEY, North Carolina
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY, Minnesota
JOHN F. KENNEDY, Massachusetts

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CONTENTS

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting Reorganiza-

tion Plan No. 2 of 1953, prepared in accordance with the Reorganization

Act of 1949, as amended, and providing for reorganizations in the De-

partment of Agriculture (H. Doc. No. 111, 83d Cong., 1st sess.)..

Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1953.

Senate Resolution 100, disapproving Plan No. 2 of 1953-

Senate Committee on Government Operations staff memorandum No.

83-1-10...

Hoover Commission recommendations_

Reorganization Plan No. 4 of 1950.

Reductions in expenditures

Reorganization Plan No. 4 of 1950.

Letter from Hon. Herbert Hoover, former President of the United States,

and former Chairman of the Commission on Organization of the Execu-

tive Branch of the Government, to Senator Margaret Chase Smith, May

9, 1953

Statement of Hon. Herbert Hoover, in compliance with the request of

Senate Committee on Government Operations, upon the President's

Plan No. 2 of 1953 for the Department of Agriculture.

Letter from Senator Lester C. Hunt to Senator Margaret Chase Smith,

April 22, 1953.

Letter from Senator A. Willis Robertson to Senator Margaret Chase Smith,

April 17, 1953.

Public Law 109 (81st Cong.), Reorganization Act of 1949-

Public Law 3 (83d Cong.), amendment to Reorganization Act of 1949..

Statement of-

Aiken, Hon. George D., a United States Senator from the State of

Vermont

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Anderson, Hon. Clinton P., a United States Senator from the State of

New Mexico.

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Benson, Hon. Ezra Taft, Secretary of Agriculture; accompanied by

Ralph S. Roberts, Director of Finance; Karl D. Loos, Solicitor;

Reed Frishknecht, Office of the Secretary; and John Thurston, Office

of the Secretary.

Brinkley, Homer L., executive vice president, National Council of
Farmer Cooperatives__

Dodge, Joseph M., Director, Bureau of the Budget (as read by William

F. Finan, Assistant Director for Management and Organization) __

Ellis, Clyde T., executive manager, National Rural Electric Cooper-
ative Association_

Holter, Edward F., member, agricultural committee of the Citizens

Committee for the Hoover Report, and lecturer, the National

Grange

Hope, Hon. Clifford R., a Representative in Congress from the State

of Kansas.

Johnston, Hon. Olin D., a United States Senator from the State of

South Carolina__

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Kline, Allan B., president, American Farm Bureau Federation; ac-

companied by Frank Woolley, legislative counsel, American Farm

Bureau Federation...

McKerrow, Gavin W., National Milk Producers Federation__

Meek, J. H., director, division of markets, Virginia Department of

Agriculture and Immigration, Richmond, Va..

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Murray, Hon. James E., a United States Senator from the State of
Montana

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