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COMMITTEE REFORM AMENDMENTS OF 1974

OPEN BUSINESS MEETING

United States. Congress. House. OF THE

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SELECT COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES.(
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NINETY-THIRD CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

MARKUP OF HOUSE RESOLUTION,
COMMITTEE REFORM AMENDMENTS OF 1974

FEBRUARY 4, 6, 7, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 27, 28; MARCH 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,
AND 13, 1974

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COMMITTEE REFORM AMENDMENTS OF 1974

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1974

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
SELECT COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES,

Washington, D.C.

The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 2:10 p.m., in room 321, Cannon Office Building, Hon. Richard Bolling (chairman of the committee) presiding.

Present: Representatives Bolling (presiding), Stephens, Sarbanes, Martin, Frelinghuysen, Steiger, and Young.

Also present: Charles S. Sheldon II, chief of staff, Melvin M. Miller, deputy chief of staff, Gerald J. Grady, Spencer M. Beresford, Linda H. Kamm, Robert C. Ketcham, Walter J. Ôleszek, Roger H. Davidson, Terence T. Finn, Mary E. Zalar, Linda G. Stephenson, and Joan B. Bachula.

Chairman BOLLING. We do not yet have a quorum, but the committee will begin. We are only going to discuss one subject today. I would like to apologize to our guests because of the size of the room. We are limited very much in rooms that we can obtain. On the basis of the interest shown today, we will try to get a larger room. We are not sure that we will succeed. We will try.

Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. There may be less interest after they hear us perform, Mr. Chairman.

Chairman BOLLING. Very well taken.

The process that we are about to undertake I would like to describe. I would anticipate that if I misstate it, members of the committee will correct me.

We spent nearly a year in hearings and study, soliciting earnestly the views of anybody who would express an interest as to how we should approach this particular problem of reorganizing the way in which the House committees are organized and in which they do their work. We thought it would be wise to give all the people with an interest inside the Congress and outside the Congress an opportunity before we began to take final action to look at what our tentative proposals were.

The process by which we reached those tentative proposals was elaborate, and highly informal. and the proposals are tentative.

The process that we are about to begin is to lead to a more formal fashion of reaching a decision. We have a committee print, of which we think there are, at least in the beginning, an adequate number. It is the committee print No. 1 dated February 1, 1974, called a working draft.

We do not propose to deal with that in the fashion of reading it line by line. What we hope to do is to discuss in public, and argue in pub

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