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me. It is vitally important to show,
the taxpayers and to our whole
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Congress assert its nghtful role Inc of Collegevil , le) RD2 ,
in supervising the programs Montgomery County. The other
it sets up. three-quarter interest in the
One of the most important
functions of the Congress is
to oversee or act as watchdog
over all of its legislative enact
ments to make sure they are
operating properly.
Actually, this might be said
to be a two-pronged lunction.
One part of it is to renew
the laws to refine their mean
ing and plug any loopholes.
The other is to ride herd and
supervise the programs admin
istered by the bureaucrats.
This function has taken on
a great deal of added import
ance recently. Many new pro
grams are showing signs of
mismanagement or are failing
to accomplish the results in
tended.
The Democratic Majority
Leader is the Senate Major
ity Leader in the Senate, Mike
Mansfield, appeared to see the
handwriting clearly on the
wall in a statement he made
late last December. He said,
‘T would hope to see in the
First Session cf the 90th Con
gress the beginning of a ma
jor re-examination of what we
have done in legislation during
the past few years.” He ex
pressed the hope that the
“rough edges and overlaps”
could be eliminated.
How, nearly nine months
later, this job remains serious
ly neglected. In fact, there is
a strong feeling in Washington
that the savings resulting
from a thorough review and
evaluation of the various pro
grams could have lifted the
threat of a tax increase that
we face today.
A prime example of Cong
ressional failure to follow
through on supervision of a
program, arose .just recently in
the House Banking and Cur
rency Committee Arms scales
to other countries, totaling $2
billion, were financed by Ex
port-Import Bank credits with
out the knowledge of members
of that committee, which has
jurisdiction over Export-Impoit
Bank affairs
Many oilier cases of waste
and extravagance have come
to light in recent times, par
ticularly in the poverty and
foreign air programs Yet
far too little has been done
to restore the proper degree of
Congressional control over
these programs and to revise
their opeiation and the ways
in which they are managed.
One problem is that the Ad
ministration too often keeps
the facts on the operations of
these programs from becoming
known to the Congress A rosy
hue is put on program activi
ties that actually ought to be
exposed to a bright light
This as a natural tendency, but
it is unfortunate All too fie
quently, it means that mis
management must become real
ly scandalous before the truth
outs
Several proposals for streng
thening the watchdog function
of the Congress have my sup
port.
One of those is to estab
lish a subcommittee within
each standing committee of the
House to investigate and re
port on the operations of the
programs over which it has
jurisdiction.
Another suggestion is to
designate at least two days
each month when committee
chairmen and ranking minor
ity members could report to
the full House on program
operations. A third proposal
is to inciease each committee’s
power to obtain full and cur
rent information from the
executive agencies.
I believe these and similar
steps are necessary if we are
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