Congressional Reference Bureau: Hearings...February 26 and 27, 1912 |
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administration amendment appointed assistance BEAMAN bill drafting BRUNCKEN BRYCE called CHAIRMAN clerk CLEVELAND collect committee congressional consideration course courts deal desire digest draft bills draftsmen EVANS executive government experience GARDNER gather gentlemen give Government head hear HERBERT PUTNAM House of Commons House of Lords idea important instance interested introduced kind lative law school lawyer legis legislative reference bureau legislature LESTER LEWIS librarian Library of Congress MANN material matter MCCARTHY McKIRDY Members of Congress ment minister mittee NELSON nonpartisan opinion organization Parliament parliamentary counsel particular partisan passed Pennsylvania person PICKETT political practical prepared present President private bills private members proposed proposition public bills PUTNAM question rules salary scientific Senate session SHERLEY side Slayden Speaker CLARK STATEMENT statutes submitted suggest thing tion TOWNSEND Wiscon Wisconsin words
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68 페이지 - ... to gather, classify, analyze, and make available, in translations, indexes, digests, compilations and bulletins, and otherwise, data for a bearing upon legislation, and to render such data serviceable to Congress, and committees and Members thereof...
31 페이지 - ... those persons who are responsible for the duties of the office the information needed for the most intelligent discharge of their responsibilities; that with the many and increasing intricate questions presented this is the only solution which comports with the attainments of highest efficiency. * * * It is the German idea of having a scientifIc staff back of the line; and to my mind it is the one thing that has made Germany more proficient than any other nation in its governmental processes...
23 페이지 - ... the organization of these to respond to the legislative need, and the aid to their use; or in addition to this, (2) the preparation of indexes, digests, and compilations of law not having directly such ends in view; or in addition to both the above, (3) the drafting and revision of bills. In any case it must be emphasized — 1. That the organization must be elaborate beyond that provided by any State, since the subjects to be dealt with are far wider in scope, the material more remote, more...
58 페이지 - But, bear this in mind, gentlemen: We are the legislative bodies; we are responsible for our legislation. With a membership that has been constantly enlarged for many years, the tendency in our own legislative body as now constituted is to shift responsibility, is to escape the burdens of legislation, is to let some one else do the legislative work. I would not want to see any movement which would make committees feel less responsibility for the work that they do, so that a committee would be able...
84 페이지 - ... shall be referred to the same committee) by the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of Representatives, as the case may be.
2 페이지 - I was very glad to hear from you, and I want to assure you that I entirely approve of such legislation as is proposed by bill HR 31356. * * * I can only say that it seems to me highly important that a legislative reference department should be established in the Congressional Library. The experience of several of our States in this matter is conclusive as to the great usefulness of such a department. Indeed, I think if once established, everyone who had any knowledge of it would deem it indispensable.
22 페이지 - It clips from newspapers; and it classifies the extracts, the compilations, the articles, and the clippings in scrapbook, or portfolio, or vertical file, in such a way that all material relating to that topic is kept together and can be drawn forth at a moment's notice. To printed literature it often adds written memoranda as to fact and even opinion as to merit, which it secures by correspondence with experts. The above work, which organizes and concentrates all the data pertinent to a question...
22 페이지 - A legislative reference bureau goes further [than the Division of Bibliography], It undertakes not merely to classify and to catalog. but to draw off from a general collection the literature, that is the data, bearing upon a particular legislative project. It indexes, extracts, compiles." It breaks up existing forms in which information is contained and classifies the resulting parts, and often "adds to printed literature written memoranda as to facts and even opinions as to merit.
91 페이지 - ... committee of either House of Congress or five Members of the Senate or fifteen Members of the House of Representatives or the President of the United States shall make a request and shall furnish to the chief of the bureau written instructions setting forth the substance of the provisions desired. And in all cases such instructions shall be considered confidential until the bill shall have been presented to Congress.
23 페이지 - The first appropriation should be, therefore, a "lump sum." 3. That for the work to be scientific (ie having only truth as its object) it must be strictly nonpartisan; and that, therefore, whatever the appointing or administrative authority, the selection of the experts and the direction of the work should by law and in fact be assuredly nonpartisan.