1.3. Congress.

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

1965

→JOINT COMMITTEE ON THE
ORGANIZATION OF THE) CONGRESS.

CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES

EIGHTY-NINTH CONGRESS

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING A JOINT
COMMITTEE ON THE ORGANIZATION OF THE CONGRESS

JOINT COMMITTEE ON THE ORGANIZATION OF THE CONGRESS

A. S. MIKE MONRONEY, Oklahoma, Cochairman RAY J. MADDEN, Indiana, Cochairman

W. DEVIER PIERSON, Chief Counsel
GEORGE MEADER, Associate Counsel
MELVIN W. SNEED, Staff Assistant
NICHOLAS A. MASTERS, Research Consultant

CONTENTS

Statement of Charles L. Schultze, Director, accompanied by Elmer B.

Staats, Deputy Director; Carl W. Tiller, Chief of Budget Methods;

Harold Seidman, Assistant Director for Management and Organization;

and Phillip S. Hughes, Assistant Director for Legislative Reference.

Bureau of the Budget_

Miscellaneous:

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Remarks of Lewis L. Strauss for Union Bag Camp lecture, University

of Virginia, May 5, 1965, on "Freedom's Need for Standards".

Chart No. 1: Planning, programing, budgeting system.

Chart No. 2: Defects in the present system..

Chart No. 3: The annual cycle..

Chart No. 4: Outline of a national transportation system...

Chart No. 5: Elements of a national transportation system.

Chart No. 6: USIA program system...

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Chart No. 7: Illustrative USIA activities in country X.

Chart No. 8: Defense program categories___

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Letter, dated July 28, 1965, from Representative Thomas B. Curtis,

Letter, dated August 11, 1965, from Secretary McNamara to Congress-

man Curtis._

of Missouri, to Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara relating

to Department of Defense cost-reduction program.

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Relation of authorizations to expenditures, from budget for fiscal

years 1965 and 1966 (tables) -

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Back-door financing-

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New obligational authority in the 1966 budget (table)

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Recapitulation__.

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Authority provided outside appropriation acts (excluding perma-

ment appropriations) –

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Authorizations not requiring current action by Congress (perma-

ment).

Programs which are generally mandatory under existing law-

Letter, dated September 1, 1965, to the research consultant of the joint

committee from Robert J. Mowitz, of Pennsylvania State Uni-

versity, regarding the budgetary process

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Questions submitted by Congressman Hechler to the Bureau of the

Budget, and replies thereto.

Letter, dated September 21, 1965, from Jesse Burkhead, Department

of Economics, Syracuse University, on congressional review of

budget authorizations.

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Correspondence between Nicholas A. Masters, research consultant of

the joint committee, and Dr. Lindley Stiles, dean, School of Ed-

ucation, University of Wisconsin.