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Charles A., a Representative in Congress from the 370 400 379 WOC'S AND GOVERNMENT ADVISORY GROUPS MONDAY, JULY 25, 1955 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:30 a. m., in room 346, Old House Office Building, Hon. Emanuel Celler (chairman) presiding. Present: Representatives Celler (chairman), Rodino, Rogers, Fine, McCulloch, and Scott. Also present: Charles F. Honeywell, Administrator, Business and Defense Services Administration; Philip A. Ray, General Counsel, Department of Commerce; H. B. McCoy, Deputy Administrator, BDSA; Burt W. Roper, Office of General Counsel, Department of Commerce; Herbert N. Maletz, chief counsel; Kenneth R. Harkins, cocounsel; and Jerrold Walden, associate counsel. The CHAIRMAN. The meeting will come to order and the Chair wishes to make a statement. The subcommittee is today opening hearings on a very important and far-reaching subject. By means of these hearings it is our intention to explore fully present policies in Government relating to the utilization of advisory groups and the employment of WOC personnel by administrative agencies. The matters under consideration are not new for they have troubled this and preceding Congresses for many years. The Truman committee, for example, in probing the use of WOC's in World War II, emerged from its study in total opposition to the use of such personnel whom it characterized as "persons with axes to grind" and "lobbyists." This very subcommittee in the 82d Congress studied the problem and recommended that the employment of WOC's be kept to a minimum. Now, having had the benefit of experience with WOC's not only in World War I and World War II, but also in the Korean crisis and in the present cold-war period, we should be able to assess impartially and objectively the value as well as the danger of the WOC. Our concern arises not only from the continuing jurisdiction of the Committee on the Judiciary over the conflict-of-interest statutes but also from our interest in assuring that Government policies are not directed for the benefit of special groups in derogation of open competition. We must recognize, I believe, that the skill of men trained in industry may be of inestimable value to the Government in carrying out its proper and legitimate functions, whether in peacetime or at war. It is fair to say that maximum utilization of the Nation's resources 1 |