Volume 50 · 8
Public Law 75–8
To create a joint congressional committee on Government organization.
Approved February 3, 1937
Statutory text
JOINT RESOLUTION
To create a joint congressional committee on Government organization.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That
there is hereby
Joint Committee on Government Organization, establishment.
established a joint congressional committee to be known as the Joint Committee on Government Organization (hereinafter referred to as the joint committee).
The joint committee shall be composed of nine Members of
Composition and appointment.
the Senate, appointed by the President of the Senate, and nine Members of the House of Representatives, appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Sec. 2.
It shall be the duty of the joint committee—
(a) Investigations.
To investigate the organization and activities of the departments, independent establishments, bureaus, boards, commissions, divisions, services, offices, and other agencies of the Government, with the view to determining whether, in the interest of simplification, efficiency, or economy, or in order to eliminate conflicting or overlapping activities, any of such organizations or units should be coordinated or consolidated with any other organization or unit, reorganized, or abolished, or the personnel thereof reduced; and
(b) Reports and recommendations.
To report, from time to time, to the Senate and the House of Representatives, the results of its investigations together with such recommendations as it deems advisable.
Sec. 3.
The joint committee, or any subcommittee thereof, shall have power to hold hearings and to sit and act at such places and times, to require by subpena or otherwise the attendance of such witnesses and the production of such books, papers, and documents, to administer such oaths, to take such testimony, and to make such
Subpenas.
expenditures, as it deems advisable. Subpenas shall lie issued under the signature of the chairman of said joint committee, and shall be
Expenses.
Post, p. 9.
served by any person designated by him. Amounts appropriated for the expenses of the joint committee shall be disbursed one-half by the Secretary of the Senate and one-half by the Clerk of the House.
Sec. 4.
The joint committee shall have power to employ and fix the compensation of such officers, experts, and employees as it deems necessary for the performance of its duties, but the compensation so fixed shall not exceed the compensation fixed under the
Classification Act of 1923, as amended, for comparable duties.
Details from Government offices; compensation.
Officers and employees of the Government shall be detailed to the service of the joint committee, on its request, without additional compensation, and such officers and employees shall be paid from the appropriations regularly available for their salaries.
Approved, February 3, 1937.