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The Record of Congress in Committee Staffing*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Gladys M. Kammerer
Gladys M. Kammerer
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University of Kentucky
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American Political Science Review , Volume 45 , Issue 4 , December 1951 , pp. 1126 - 1136
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1951

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References

1 60 Stat. 834 (1946).

2 S. Res. 66, Congressional Record, Vol. 95, pt. 1, p. 1327 (Feb. 17, 1949)Google Scholar.

3 In 1949 an exchange of positions took place on the following House committees: District of Columbia, House Administration, Public Works, Rules, Veterans' Affairs, and Ways and Means. It also took place on the following Senate committees: Agriculture and Forestry, Banking and Currency, District of Columbia, Judiciary, Labor and Public Welfare, and Post Office and Civil Service.

4 Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry and House Committees on House Administration and on Rules.

5 Senate Agriculture and Forestry Committee, Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee, and the House Education and Labor Committee.

6 Senate Committees on Agriculture and Forestry; District of Columbia; Finance; Rules and Administration; and House Committees on Banking and Currency; Education and Labor; Expenditures in Executive Departments; Merchant Marine and Fisheries; Public Lands; Public Works; and Un-American Activities. The Republican chairman of the House Expenditures Committee refused to disclose any information about his staff to the author on the ground that it was the business of no one but himself, and he advised her to go to Drew Pearson or Walter Winchell for information.

7 However, the Houae Foreign Affairs Committee in 1951 inaugurated its own systematic application and records procedure.

8 In 1949, the woman professional staff member on the House Veterans' Affairs Committee was shifted to chief clerk, a position she had held for fourteen years prior to 1947. The House District of Columbia Committee moved its chief clerk, a practicing lawyer, to a professional staff position.

9 Select House Committee to Investigate Acts of Executive Agencies Which Exceed Their Authority, 79th Congress.

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