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IV. Congressional Responsibilities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Clarence Cannon
Clarence Cannon
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United States Congress
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Formulating the Federal Government's Economic Program: A Symposium
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American Political Science Review , Volume 42 , Issue 2 , April 1948 , pp. 307 - 316
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1948

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1 Sect. 2 of the act.

2 Sect. 3.

3 Sect. 5.

4 For a discussion of the original Senate bill, see SenatorMurray, James E., “A Practical Approach,” in this Review, Vol. 39 (1945), pp. 1119 ff.Google Scholar

5 For a review of the Legislative Reorganization Act and its background, see Follette, Robert M. La Jr., “Systematizing Congressional Control,” in this Review, Vol. 41 (1947), pp. 58 ff.Google Scholar

6 Report of the Joint Committee on the Economic Report, 80th Cong., 1st Sess., House of Representatives, No. 12 (Feb. 3, 1947).

7 SenatorFlanders, Ralph E., “Administering the Employment Act—The First Year,” Public Administration Review, Vol. 7 (1947), p. 225.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

8 Ibid., p. 226.

9 Report of the Joint Committee on the Legislative Budget, 80th Cong., 1st Sess., House of Representatives, No. 35 (Feb. 15, 1947).

10 Ibid., pp. 6–7.

11 Cong. Record, Vol. 93, p. 1207 (Feb. 20, 1947).

12 Cong. Record, Vol. 93, pp. 10543–10544 (July 26, 1947).

13 This point of view has also been expressed to me by Marcellus C. Sheild, for many years clerk of the House Appropriations Committee, now retired—and he is one of the most competent judges on the subject I can think of. Mr. Sheild has set forth his own ideas in a paper entitled “Improvement in the Federal Budget Function from the Congressional Viewpoint,” presented April 22, 1947, to the Round Table on Budgetary Control of the Federal Program, sponsored by the Washington Chapter of the Society for the Advancement of Management. See also Wheildon, L. B., “Legislative Budget-Making,” Editorial Research Reports, Vol. I, No. 1 (Jan. 6, 1948).Google Scholar

14 Report of the Joint Committee on the Legislative Budget, 80th Cong., 2nd Sess., House of Representatives, No. 1361 (Feb. 9, 1948).

15 It should perhaps be said in passing that its deficiencies by no means reduce themselves to the problem of building up a congressional staff adequate to the purposes of the Joint Committee on the Legislative Budget. This is the main remedy proposed, for instance, in Maxwell, James A., “Fiscal Program of the 80th Congress,” Harvard Business Review, Vol. 26 (1948), p. 72.Google Scholar Staff assistance, certainly, is necessary; but one can also make too much of this requirement.

16 Loc cit. supra in note 14, p. 6 ff.

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