reported it before the expiration of ten calendar days after its introduction, it shall then (but not before) be in order to move either to discharge the committee from further consideration of such resolution, or to discharge the committee from further consideration of any other resolution with respect to such reorganization plan which has been referred to the committee.

(b) Such motion may be made only by a person favoring the resolution, shall be highly privileged (except that it may not be made after the committee has reported a resolution with respect to the same reorganization plan), and debate thereon shall be limited to not to exceed one hour, to be equally divided between those favoring and those opposing the resolution. No amendment to such motion shall be in order, and it shall not be in order to move to reconsider the vote by which such motion is agreed to or disagreed to.

(c) If the motion to discharge is agreed to or disagreed to, such motion may not be renewed, nor may another motion to discharge the committee be made with respect to any other resolution with respect to the same reorganization plan.

SEC. 205. (a) When the committee has reported, or has been discharged from further consideration of, a resolution with respect to a reorganization plan, it shall at any time thereafter be in order (even though a previous motion to the same effect has been disagreed to) to move to proceed to the consideration of such resolution. Such motion shall be highly privileged and shall not be debatable. No amendment to such motion shall be in order and it shall not be in order to move to reconsider the vote by which such motion is agreed to or disagreed to.

(b) Debate on the resolution shall be limited to not to exceed ten hours, which shall be equally divided between those favoring and those opposing the resolution. A motion further to limit debate shall not be debatable. No amendment to, or motion to recommit, the resolution shall be in order, and it shall not be in order to move to reconsider the vote by which the resolution is agreed to or disagreed to.

SEC. 206. (a) All motions to postpone, made with respect to the discharge from committee, or the consideration of, a resolution with respect to a reorganization plan, and all motions to proceed to the consideration of other business, shall be decided without debate.

(b) All appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating to the application of the rules of the Senate or the House of Representatives as the case may be, to the procedure relating to a resolution with respect to a reorganization plan shall be decided without debate.

Approved June 20, 1949.

ADDENDA

The Committee on Government Operations unanimously voted to grant the request of the President of the United States to extend the Reorganization Act of 1949 for another year. Similar action has been recommended in each instance when succeeding Presidents have assumed office since 1949, in order to permit the incoming President to submit reorganization plans which he deemed necessary to effect desirable changes in the executive branch to conform to his own program.

There has been some hesitancy in granting further extensions of the act on the part of some members of the committee, since the committee has taken the position that such actions constitute a surrender of the legislative responsibility and jurisdiction over Federal reorganizations to the President.

In order to illustrate the extensive coverage of proposals for reorganization of the Federal Government during the 88th Congress, the chairman directed the staff of the Committee on Government Operations to compile a tabulation of all substantive reorganization proposals made from January 9, 1963, the date the present Congress convened, to April 7, 1964, when the extension of the act was approved unanimously by a poll of members of the committee.

The tables were prepared by the staff, with the assistance and cooperation of the Bureau of the Budget, the Legislative Reference Service of the Library of Congress, and the National Archives and Records Service of the General Services Administration. The tabulation sets forth the proposed organizational changes during the 88th Congress in five different categories, as follows:

(1) (a) Legislative recommendations of the President; (b) legislation involving reorganizations supported by the administration; and (c) legislation involving new organizations supported by the administration. This information was prepared and submitted to the committee by the Bureau of the Budget.

(2) Major reorganization proposals and actions taken thereon covering proposed establishment of new executive departments and/or the creation, extension, or abolition of major functions or operating units within existing departments of the executive branch.

(3) Reorganizations in the executive branch agencies, including proposals to establish new agencies and/or to abolish or expand existing agencies by the creation of new boards, councils, administrations, services, or other such components.

(4) Commissions created or proposed to be established, extended, or abolished in the executive branch, either by congressional or administrative action.

(5) Committees established, or proposed to be established or extended, within the executive and legislative branches of the Govern

The committee is submitting this data to the Senate in order to point up to Members of the Congress the tremendous expansion that has taken place, and the extensive reorganizations that have been proposed, involving the creation of new Federal agencies as well as additional operating units that have been submitted in the present Congress. The tables also emphasize the broad coverage of additional activities of the Federal Government which would result from the designated reorganizations or programs if approved.

The ever-increasing cost of operating the Federal Government now involves annual budgets in excess of $100 billion, or an increase of $56 billion over total budget expenditures for fiscal year 1951. These expenditures result in annual deficits of billions of dollars, adding to the national debt, now in excess of $300 billion, and rising at the rate of more than $8 billion annually. This pyramiding of the already astronomical national debt dictates the compelling necessity of reducing the cost of Government, where it is prudent to do so, in order to restore sound fiscal policies. The continuing increase in Government activities, and the addition of new Federal programs and operating units required to implement them, does not provide a solution to these problems, but results, instead, in increasing deficits. Unless proposed reorganizations are consolidations of existing agencies or coordination of activities already authorized, extensive Federal expansions compound these problems.

The increasing cost of the Federal Government can be, to a large extent, traced to the following outlined extensions of Federal activities into all areas of public interest. When consideration is given to the many proposals for further extension of Federal activities affecting the lives of all our people, which have been proposed but not yet acted upon, the increasing cost involved is staggering to the imagination, and, if all of them were approved, would lead to national bankruptcy. The committee recognizes, of course, that some of these proposals do not involve expansion of Federal activities, but are attempts to coordinate or consolidate existing programs and operations, and to bring about more efficiency and economy in the operations of the Government. This is in accord with the objectives of the committee in recommending the extension of the Reorganization Act. In doing so, however, it was considered proper and desirable to point up the increasing tendency to propose further expansions, in the name of reorganizations, which actually add to the incessant growth and increasing cost of Federal programs through the resultant necessity of establishing supporting agencies required to administer them.

The following tabulations cover reorganizations effected and/or proposed during the 88th Congress, January 9, 1963, to the date the proposed extension of the Reorganization Act of 1949 was first approved by the committee on April 7, 1964.

LEGISLATIVE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT INVOLVING ORGANIZATIONAL MATTERS, 88TH CONG. SU--State of Union message

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Establish a National Academy of Foreign Affairs.

Extend life of Export-Import Bank for 5 years...
Renew and expand existing Peace Corps...

Provide for coordinated and comprehensive water resources planning by B-64.

Recreation Advisory Council.

Transfer existing railroad loan guarantee program from ICC to Department

Authorize Surgeon General, with approval of Secretary, HEW, to bring environmental health functions together in one bureau.

Bring all community health activities of Public Health Service together in one bureau.

Create a National Service Corps..

Enact Youth Employment Act; create a Youth Conservation Corps..

Give Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity permanent statutory basis.

Establish Commission on Automation..

Extend termination date of National Cultural Center Act; enlarge Board of
Trustees.

Establish a Department of Urban Affairs and Housing..

Create Department of Housing and Community Development..

Establish a Federal corporation to manage Dulles and Washington National
Airports.

Reorganize certain functions of F.D.R. Library..

Extend life of Federal Civil Rights Commission 4 years.

Establish a Community Relations Service.

Establish a 7-member Immigration Board.

Create tripartite industry committee to determine, industry by industry,
where higher overtime rate would create job opportunities.

Appalachian regional development..

Enact Senior Citizens Community Planning and Services Act..

Establish a bipartisan commission to study and appraise changes in mar

keting structure for distribution of food.

Extend Renegotiation Act beyond June 30, 1964.

Create the Office of Economic Opportunity (poverty program).

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House hearings.

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Public Law 88-152 (1 year).

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bate underway.

Senate hearings.

House hearings.

ADMINISTRATION SUPPORTED

BILLS INVOLVING NEW ORGANIZATIONS

(88TH CONGRESS, JANUARY 9, 1963, TO APRIL 7, 1964)

Administrative Conference of the United States. S. 1644; H.R. 7200.

Advisory Council on the Arts. S. 2379.

Public Land Law Review Commission. H.R. 8070 and others.

Roosevelt Campobello International Park Commission. S. 2464; H.R. 9740, 9741, 9742.

National Service Corps. S. 1321; H.R. 5625-5661, and others.

National Commission on Automation and Technological Progress. S. 2623; H.R. 10310.

Community Relations and Conciliation Service. H.R. 7152.

National Commission on Food Marketing (temporary study commission). S.J.

Res. 71.

Water Resources Council and authorize President to create river basin planning commissions. S. 1111; H.R. 3620.

Additional Assistant Secretaries:

Assistant Secretary of Agriculture. H.R. 3850.

Assistant Secretaries, HEW. S. 1560; H.R. 6360.
Assistant Secretary of Treasury.

Public Law 88-58.

Assistant Secretary of State. S. 1512.

ADMINISTRATION SUPPORTED

BILLS INVOLVING REORGANIZATION OF EXISTING FUNCTIONS

(88TH CONGRESS, JANUARY 9, 1963, To APRIL 7, 1964)

Authorize the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to delegate certain functions. Public Law 88-207.

Authorize civilian Coast and Geodetic Survey Director and Deputy Director. S. 1004; H.R. 4426.

District of Columbia Office of Civil Defense. S. 1649.

Food Reserve. S. 1254; H.R. 5121.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS PROPOSED AND CREATED, AND REORGANIZATIONS IN EXISTING DEPARTMENTS

Agriculture.

(88TH CONGRESS, JANUARY 9, 1963, TO APRIL 7, 1964)

Assistant Secretary of Agriculture. H.R. 3850. Commerce.

Bureau of International Commerce.

Revision of organization and functions,

Department Order 182, February 1, 1963. Inland Waterways Corporation. Liquidation of affairs and functions assigned to Secretary, Public Law 88-67, July 19, 1963.

Revision of authority and responsibilities of Assistant Secretary for Domestic and International Business, Department Order 83 (revised).

Drivers' licenses, State (register). S. 1589.

Trade Adjustment, Office of. Revision of organization, Department Order 184 (revised).

National Bureau of Standards. Reorganized to take in civilian industrial technology and Office of Technical Services functions, by revision of Department Order 90, January 30, 1964.

Consumers. To establish. H.R. 7879.

Defense.

Army. Abolishment of Beach Erosion Board under Chief of Engineers; transfer of certain functions to Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors; establishment of Coastal Engineering Research Center under Chief of Engineers, Public Law 88-172 (77 Stat. 304), November 7, 1963. DOD Directive 5160.50, Civil Defense Functions, March 31, 1964.

Navy. Revision of organization. General Order 5, July 1, 1963. Judge Advocate General Corps. H.R. 10091.