DN. THE ROLE OF LOBBYING IN REPRESENTATIVE DOCUMENT PART 1 OF HEARINGS BEFORE THE HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON LOBBYING HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES EIGHTY-FIRST CONGRESS HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON LOBBYING ACTIVITIES HENDERSON LANHAM, Georgia CHARLES A. HALLECK, Indiana LUCIEN HILMER, Staff Director 11 CONTENTS Monday, March 27, 1950, Public opinion as a phase of lobbying and a case Bailey, Prof. Stephen K., Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn____ Cantril, Hadley, director, office of public opinion research of the depart- ment of psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J‒‒‒‒‒ Galloway, George B., senior specialist in American Government for the Legislative Reference Service, Library of Congress‒‒‒‒ Graves, W. Brooke, member of the staff, Legislative Reference Service, Lane, Edgar, instructor in politics, Princeton University___. McPhail, Donald B., member, Legislative Reference Division, Bureau Wietzel. Frank H., assistant to the Comptroller General-- 151 58 Letters, statements, memorandums, etc., submitted for the record by- Agenda for opening series of public hearings in House lobbying Analysis of Forms A filed since the effective date of the Federal Regu- Bureau of the Budget action to disapprove informational activities of a propaganda nature, etc___ Buchanan, Hon. Frank, a United States Congressman from the State of Pennsylvania, chairman, House Select Committee on Lobbying California Legislature Assembly, letter of transmittal, report, and pro- 80 Galloway, George B., senior specialist in American government, Some definitions of lobbyists and lobbying. 124✓ Holstein, Charles B., research director, House Select Committee on Abstract of anticipated direction of testimony of Prof. Hadley Personal or financial interests of Members, March 28, 1950, excerpt སོ 123 Privileges of the floor for ex-Members, March 28, 1950, excerpt from House Rules_. 123 III Letters, statements, memorandums, etc.—Continued Page. New York Times, magazine section, extract from article by ex-Senator 125 Zeller, Prof. Belle, Brooklyn College, statement on the States and the 71 THE ROLE OF LOBBYING IN REPRESENTATIVE SELF-GOVERNMENT MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1950 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON LOBBYING ACTIVITIES, Washington, D. C. The committee met, pursuant to call, at 10: 05 a. m. in the Caucus Room, Old House Office Building, Hon. Frank Buchanan (chairman) presiding. Present: Representatives Buchanan, Lanham, Albert, Doyle, Halleck, Brown, and O'Hara. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order. The House Select Committee on Lobbying Activities, created pursuant to House Resolution 298 of the Eighty-first Congress, first session, has been assigned the task of investigating "all lobbying activities," including those of agencies of the Federal Government, "intended to influence, encourage, promote, or retard legislation." At this point in the record I would like to insert House Resolution 298, by which this committee was set up. (H. Res. 298 follows:) [H. Res. 298, 81st Cong., 1st sess.] RESOLUTION Resolved, That there is hereby created a Select Committee on Lobbying Activities to be composed of seven Members of the House of Representatives to be appointed by the Speaker, one of whom he shall designate as chairman. Any vacancy occurring in the membership of the committee shall be filled in the manner in which the original appointment was made. The committee is authorized and directed to conduct a study and investigation of (1) all lobbying activities intended to influence, encourage, promote, or retard legislation; and (2) all activities of agencies of the Federal Government intended to influence, encourage, promote, or retard legislation. The committee may from time to time submit to the House such preliminary reports as it deems advisable; and prior to the close of the present Congress shall submit to the House its final report on the results of its study and investigation, together with such recommendations as it deems advisable. Any report submitted when the House is not in session may be filed with the Clerk of the House. For the purposes of this resolution the committee, or any subcommittee thereof, is authorized to sit and act during the present Congress at such times and places, whether or not the House is sitting, has recessed, or has adjourned, to hold such hearings, to require the attendance of such witnesses and the production of such books, papers, and documents, and to take such testimony, as it deems necessary. Subpenas may be issued under the signature of the chairman of the committee or any member designated by him, and may be served by any person designated by such chairman or member. The chairman of the committee or any member thereof may administer oaths to witnesses. 1 |