APPENDIX B EXECUTIVE REORGANIZATION SINCE 1929 BY REORGANIZATION PLAN PROCEDURE A STUDY OF THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE PREPARED BY THE LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SERVICE OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 2 1 See pp. 107-114 for analytical index of Executive orders (1929-38), and all reorganization plans submitted, 1939-63, affecting departments, agencies, and functions. Originally prepared in 1961 by W. Brooke Graves, specialist in American Government and public administration; and Mark H. Freeman, now professional staff member, Senate Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations of the Senate Committee on Government Operations, for use of the House Committee on the Judiciary. Material has been updated to conform to other sections of this report. 57 I. Developments prior to 1939. 71st Congress, 1st session, 1929: Accomplishments under this legislation.. Further attempts at legislative action.. 71st Congress, 2d session, 1930: Accomplishments under this legislation_ 72d Congress, 1st session, 1931: Further attempts at legislation.. 72d Congress, 2d session, 1932: Changes proposed by Executive order.. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.. III. Reorganization Act of 1945. 79th Congress, 1st session, 1946: Changes proposed by reorganization plan 80th Congress, 1st session, 1947: Changes proposed by reorganization plan. IV. Reorganization Act of 1949. 81st Congress, 1st session, 1949: Changes proposed by reorganization plan. 81st Congress, 2d session, 1950: Changes proposed by reorganization plan... 82d Congress, 1st session, 1951: Changes proposed by reorganization plan... VI. Reorganization Act of 1955. 84th Congress, 1st session, 1955: 84th Congress, 2d session, 1956: Changes proposed by reorganization plan.... VII. Reorganization Act of 1957.. President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Changes proposed by reorganization plan....... Changes proposed by reorganization plan.... 86th Congress, 1st session, 1959: Changes proposed by reorganization plan VIII. Reorganization Act of 1961.. President John F. Kennedy. 87th Congress, 1st session, 1961: 101 88th Congress, 1st session, 1963: Changes proposed by reorganization plan. 102 IX. Reorganization plan procedure.. Summary, analysis, and evaluation.... Number of plans and number of agencies affected. Elements of strength and weakness. Exhibit No. 1 of appendix B.. 102 102 103 103 104 107 I. DEVELOPMENTS PRIOR TO 1939 President Herbert Hoover, 1929, 71st Congress, 1st session LEGISLATIVE BACKGROUND Act of June 15, 19291 (46 Stat. 11, ch. 24; Public Law 10, Ct. R. 1), an act to establish a Federal Farm Board to promote the effective merchandising of agricultural commodities in interstate and foreign commerce, and to place agriculture on a basis of economic equality with other industries.—Agricultural Marketing Act. Section 13 (e) of this act (46 Stat. 18) authorizes the President, "by Executive order, to transfer to or retransfer from the jurisdiction and control of the [Federal Farm] Board the whole or any part of (1) any office, bunreau, service, division, commission, or board in the executive branch of the Government engaged in scientific or extension work, or furnishing of services, with respect to the marketing of agricultural commodities, (2) its functions pertaining to such work or services, and (3) the records, property, including office equipment, personnel, and unexpended balances of appropriations pertaining to the such services." This provision of section 13 (e) of the 1929 act was significant in the history of the movement for Executive reorganization. The first legislation of this character to be enacted by the Congress, it was unique in that it told the President specifically what he might reorganize, allowing him only such discretion as might be afforded him in the planning and drafting of the Executive orders by which the changes were to be effected. ACCOMPLISHMENTS UNDER THIS LEGISLATION By Executive Order No. 5200, October 1, 1929, the President transferred "from the Department of Agriculture to the jurisdiction and control of the Federal Farm Bureau the whole of the Division of Cooperative Marketing in the Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the Department of Agriculture, all functions pertaining to the work 1 Introduced by Mr. Haugen, H.R. 1, was referred to the Committee on Agriculture, 71st Congressional Record 27. Copy of bill, 49. Reported back (H. Rept. 1), 75. Made special order (H. Res. 21), 124. Agreed to, 131. Debated, 131-148, 157-180, 188, 193243, 280-323, 326, 381-416, 418, 419, 420, 451-484, 501, 541, 576, 577, 578, 579, 580, 581, 582, 583, 584, 586, 1112, 2604, 2628, 3307. Amended and passed House, 573. In Senate, read twice and ordered to lie on the table, May 29. Debated 774, 1269. Amended and passed Senate, 1269. Senate insists upon its amendment and asks conference, 1269. Conferees appointed, 1269, 1455. House disagrees to Senate amendment and agrees to conference (H. Res. 45), 1455. Conference report submitted in House (H. Rept. 18), 2517, 2888. Debated, 2517, 2543, 2545, 2547, 2584, 2625, 2753, 2806, 2810, 2848, 2849, 2850. Agreed to, 2531. Conference report submitted in Senate (S. Doc. 17), 2409. Debated, 2512, 2556, 2591, 2642, 2728. Disagreed to, 2661. Senate insists upon its amendment and asks further conference, 2661. Conferees appointed, 2661. House insists upon its amendment and agrees to conference, 2788. Conference report submitted in House (H. Rept. 21), 2887. Debated, 2547, 2850, 2852, 2853, 2856, 2887, 3215. Agreed to, 2894. Conference report submitted in Senate, 2870. Debated, 2870, 2938. Agreed to, 2886. Examined and signed, 2886, 2935. Presented to President, 2977. Approved (Public Law 10), 2978. 32-913-64- -5 |