Chapter 7.
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CHAP. 7.— Joint Resolution To create a Joint Committee on the Reorganization of the Administrative Branch of the Government. December 29, 1920. [[S. J. Res. 191](/us/bill/66/sjres/191).] [[Pub. Res., No. 54](/us/bill/66/pubres/54).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Joint Committee on Reorganization.Composition. That a joint committee is created, to be known as the Joint Committee on Reorganization, which shall consist of three Members of the Senate to be appointed by the President thereof, and three Members of the House of Representatives to be appointed by the Speaker thereof.
Vacancies occurring in the membership of the committee shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointments. Sec. 2. That it shall be the duty of the Joint Committee onDuties conferred. Survey of duplication, etc., of Government administrative services. Reorganization to make a survey of the administrative services of the Government for the purpose of securing all pertinent facts concerning their powers and duties, their distribution among the several executive departments, and their overlapping and duplication of authority; also to determine what redistribution of activities shouldDetermining efficient regrouping, etc., of department activities. be made among the several services, with a view to the proper correlation of the same, and what departmental regrouping of services should be made, so that each executive department shall embrace only services having close working relation with each other and ministering directly to the primary purpose for which the same are maintained and operated, to the end that there shall be achieved the largest possible measure of efficiency and economy in the conduct of Government business.
Sec. 3. That the committee shall, from time to time, report toReports, etc., to be submitted. both the Senate and the House of Representatives the results of its inquiries, together with its recommendations, and shall prepare and submit bills or resolutions having for their purpose the coordination of Government functions and their most efficient and economical conduct, and the final report of said committee shall be submittedFinal report. not later than the second Monday in December, 1922.
The com-1084mittee is authorized to employ such assistance as it may require,Assistance, expenses, etc., authorized. at such compensation as the committee may determine to be just and reasonable, and to make such reasonable expenditures as may be necessary for the proper conduct of its work, such expendituresPayment from contingent funds of both Houses. to be paid in equal parts from the contingent funds of the House of Representatives and the Senate, as from time to time may be duly authorized by resolutions of those bodies.
Sec. 4. That the officers and employees of all administrativeInformation, etc., to be offered by Government officials. services of the Government shall furnish to the committee such information regarding powers, duties, activities, organization, and methods of business as the committee may from time to time require, and the committee or any of its employees, when duly authorizedRecords, etc., to be examined. by the committee, shall have access to and the right to examine any books, documents, papers, or records of any administrative service for the purpose of securing the information needed by the committee in the prosecution of its work.*Post*, p. 1641.
Received by the President, December 17, 1920. [Note by the Department of State.—The foregoing joint resolution having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.]