Mr. McWILLIAMS. The Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations has the responsibility

Mr. ROONEY. Not his responsibility. What does he do?

Mr. McWILLIAMS. He handles the legislative program for the Department. He gets together the comments on legislation, from the Bureau of the Budget to the Congress.

Mr. ROONEY. Do you have a statement of the workload in that office?

Mr. McWILLIAMS. I have Mr. Brown here who is Deputy Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations.

Mr. ROONEY. Why do you have 27 people in this office? Could you not conduct your business with Congress here on the Hill, on the House side, say with six or less people? Who is the Deputy Assistant Secretary?

Mr. McWILLIAMS. Mr. Brown is Deputy Assistant Secretary.
Mr. BROWN. Mr. Moreland—

Mr. ROONEY. I don't recall ever having met Mr. Moreland, who is supposed to be the liaison man with the House. We shall be glad to hear you, Mr. Brown.

LIAISON OFFICERS

Mr. BROWN. We have two liaison officers in this group-one for the House of Representatives and one for the Senate. Mr. Moreland is the House of Representatives liaison official.

Mr. ROONEY. I understand that. I have looked over this list. Tell us what he does, why you need 27 people, and why you cannot get along with 2 people?

Mr. BROWN. The function of the office is not merely congressional relations. The responsibility is divided into three sections. The first is the presentation of the Department's legislative program to the Congress, which involves all legislative matters except the budget request for appropriation. That involves

Mr. ROONEY. How many of the people listed here in the telephone directory of the Department of State, on page 64, entitled Assistant Secretary, Congressional Relations, are charged with what you are talking about?

Mr. BROWN. Mr. McFall-

Mr. ROONEY. I do not think that is accurate, but
Mr. BROWN. As the committee knows-

Mr. ROONEY. What does he do; what do they do? Mr. BROWN. Mr. McFall is the Assistant Secretary, as you know, and he is responsible, is the chief officer in the presentation

WORK DONE

Mr. ROONEY. I am not interested in what the responsibility is. I want to know what they do.

Mr. BROWN. Very well. Before the beginning of each session he compiles the legislative program of the Department; he arranges all the line up of the legislative program, all the requests for legislation of the Department, which the Department plans to support during the current session of Congress.

Mr. ROONEY. What does that mean in terms of work during the past calendar year?

Mr. BROWN. The legislative program last year consisted of 96 items. Actually during the course of the year 26 of those items were considered and passed by the Congress.

Mr. ROONEY. How many of the staff of 27 people were concerned with what you are talking about?

Mr. BROWN. Eight officers.

Mr. ROONEY. Eight officers? The batting average is not so good,

is it?

Mr. BROWN. I think it is good.

Mr. ROONEY. Very well, tell us about it.

Mr. BROWN. When you consider that some of these 96 items were contingent items, which depended upon developments during the course of the year, and actually were never presented, all of them, to the Congress, I think the batting average works out about 75 percent of all the items which actually went through the Bureau of the Budget and were presented to the Congress.

Mr. ROONEY. None of this staff of 27 people is concerned with the budget and the fiscal program of the Department of State?

Mr. BROWN. No; that is the responsibility of the Deputy Under Secretary for Administration. They are concerned with the legislative program.

Mr. ROONEY. You made mention of the Bureau of the Budget. Mr. BROWN. Every legislative proposal has to have the clearance of the Bureau of the Budget before it comes to the Hill.

Mr. ROONEY. Is that very involved?

Mr. BROWN. It depends upon the item. In some cases, yes.

Mr. ROONEY. Where is the list of the 26 pieces of legislation that resulted from your proposals?

Mr. BROWN. I can furnish that to you.

Mr. ROONEY. Will you please insert at this point in the record a statement showing the 26 items of legislation which you were successful in carrying through the legislative processes?

Mr. BROWN. Yes.

(The information requested follows:)

(It was later determined that the number of items was 39 instead of 26.)

LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS ON DEPARTMENT OF STATE LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM WHICH WERE ENACTED INTO LAW DURING THE SECOND SESSION OF THE EIGHTY-FIRST CONGRESS

I. ITEMS FOR WHICH DEPARTMENT OF STATE PRIMARILY RESPONSIBLE

A. Legislation

1. Renewal of the military defense assistance program, Public Law 621, signed July 26, 1950.

2. Point IV technical assistance, Public Law 535, signed June 5, 1950.

3. Korean aid, Public Law 447, signed February 14, 1950.

4. Assistance for Palestine refugees, Public Law 535, signed June 5, 1950.

5. Establishment of an International Claims Commission, Public Law 455, signed March 10, 1950.

6. Yogoslav Emergency Relief Assistance Act, Public Law 897, signed December

29, 1950.

7. Customs clearance of VOA records, Public Law 653, signed August 3, 1950. 8. Implementation of International Convention for the Regulation of WhalingPublic Law 676, signed August 9, 1950.

9. Implementation of Tuna Convention with Mexico, Public Law 764, signed September 7, 1950.

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10. Implementation of Tuna Convention with Costa Rica, Public Law 764, signed September 7, 1950.

11. Relief of Foreign Service personnel for loss of personal property, Private Law 355, signed February 10, 1950.

12. Inter-American Highway (in part), Public Law 769, signed September 7, 1950. 13. UN ceiling legislation (increasing ceiling on appropriations for ILO, WHO, FAO, South Pacific Commission, American International Institute for the Protection of Childhood), Public Law 806, signed September 21, 1950. 14. Acquisition of property of the Imperial irrigation district; organic legislation for the United States Mexican Boundary and Water Commission; CalexicoMexicali and Douglas, Agua Prieta sanitation projects, Public Law 786, signed September 13, 1950.

15. Separate publication of treaties and other international agreements, Public Law 821, signed September 23, 1950.

16. Implementation of Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Treaty, Public Law 845, signed September 27, 1950.

17. Conflicting claims to German enemy assets, Public Law 857, signed September 28, 1950.

18. Iranian Student Trust Fund, Public Law 861, signed September 29, 1950. 19. To authorize appointment of Colonel Byroade as Director of the Bureau of German Affairs without affecting his military status and perquisites, Private Law 973, signed September 22, 1950.

20. Portuguese claims bill, Public Law 886, signed December 21, 1950.

21. For the relief of the Pan American Union, Public Law 897, signed December 29, 1950.

B. Treaties and Conventions

22. Charter of Organization of American States, Executive A, Eighty-first Congress, first session. Senate consent to ratification August 28, 1950.

23. Convention of the Intergovernmental Maritime Consultative Organization, Executive L, Eightieth Congress, second session. Senate consent to ratification June 27, 1950.

24. Convention with Canada for extension of port privileges to halibut fishing vessels on the Pacific coasts, Executive M, Eighty-first Congress, second session. Senate consent to ratification June 27, 1950.

25. Protocol to the International Convention on Narcotic Drugs, Executive H, Eighty-first Congress, first session. Senate consent to ratification July 6, 1950.

26. Protocol to the International Agreement for the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic, Executive B, Eighty-first Congress, second session. Senate consent to ratification July 6, 1950.

27. Protocol of the Agreement for the Suppression of the Circulation of Obscene Publications, Executive C, Eighty-first Congress, second session Senate consent to ratification July 6, 1950.

28. Protocol prolonging the International Agreement on the Regulation of the Production and Marketing of Sugar, Executive G, Eighty-first Congress, second session. Senate consent to ratification July 6, 1950.

29. Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Economic Development with Ireland, Executive H, Eighty-first Congress, second session. Senate consent to ratification July 6, 1950.

30. Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation with Uruguay, Executive D, Eighty-first Congress, second session. Senate consent to ratification August 9, 1950.

31. Claims Convention with Panama, Executive I, Eighty-first Congress, second session. Senate consent to ratification August 9, 1950.

32. International Telegraph Regulations, Executive J, Eighty-first Congress, second session. Senate consent to ratification August 9, 1950.

33. Treaty for Diversion of Waters from Niagara River, Executive N, Eightyfirst Congress, second session. Senate consent to ratification August 9, 1950.

34. International Convention on Road Traffic, Executive O, Eighty-first Congress, second session. Senate consent to ratification August 9, 1950. 35. Convention with Panama regarding the Colon Corridor, Executive Q, Eightyfirst Congress, second session. Senate consent to ratification August 9, 1950. 36. Extradition Treaty with South Africa, Executive K, Eightieth Congress, second session. Senate consent to ratification August 15, 1950.

II. ITEMS FOR WHICH OTHER

DEPARTMENTS

OR AGENCIES WERE PRIMARILY RESPONSIBLE BUT IN WHICH THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE HAD A SUBSTANTIAL INTEREST

1. Amendment and continuation of the Economic Cooperation Act, Public Law 535, signed June 5, 1950.

2. Amendment to the Displaced Persons Act, Public Law 555, signed June 16, 1950.

3. Extension of authority for the United States Coast Guard to waive compliance with navigation and vessel inspection laws, Public Law 591, signed June 30,

1950.

Mr. ROONEY. Do you have anything else to say about the request for this item? We shall be glad to have you go into it right now, because I have certain and definite ideas with respect to this office.

Mr. BROWN. There are three principal functions of the office. The first one I have mentioned, the management of the Department's legislative program.

SERVICING REQUESTS OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS

The second function is the performance of service by the Department on requests of Members of Congress. That involves furnishing of information to Members of Congress; answering letters from Members of Congress; complying with requests from Members of Congress for information and assistance for their constituents.

Mr. ROONEY. Do you have any indication of the workload in regard to this?

Mr. BROWN. Yes. During one year, the past year, there were 6,300 letters for Members of Congress answered through our office. Telephone inquires, approximately the same number.

Mr. ROONEY. What kind of inquires are they?

Mr. BROWN. They involve questions as to what our policy is with respect to certain areas, what we propose to do in Korea; why we are still in Korea; as to Europe

Mr. ROONEY. 6,300 inquiries of that type?

Mr. BROWN. No; the type varies; some of them are requests for information that can be readily given. Others involve policy considerations which are much more complicated.

Mr. ROONEY. This is all new to me, I must confess.

(Off record discussion.)

Mr. BROWN. This contact we refer to (Mr. Moreland) is principally with the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House, and with individual Members of Congress, who call the office and ask for someone to come in and see them about problems. I can certainly say that he spends a full day at the job.

Mr. PRESTON. Did anyone in the State Department ever advise Members of Congress that an office such as this existed to assist Members of Congress?

Mr. BROWN. Yes. At the beginning of the second session of the Eighty-first Congress Mr. McFall wrote a letter to every Member of Congress in which he advised them not only of Mr. Moreland's availability but the availability of the entire office.

Then on the second of January of this year all newly elected Members of Congress were given a similar notice.

ATTITUDE OF OTHER GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS

Mr. ROONEY. I have heard comments by other legislative liaison groups that they just do not understand what this is all about. Mr. BROWN. The liaison office that I am talking about?

Mr. ROONEY. Yes, exactly. Do you want to say anything further about this?

Mr. BROWN. About the whole works?

Mr. ROONEY. Yes, why there should be anything like 27 employees and why you cannot get along with 5, 2 officers and 3 clerks?

Mr. BROWN. They could not answer the telephone calls from the Hill in a day.

DETAIL OF INDIVIDUAL WORKLOAD

May I break down the estimate and show exactly what each one does?

Mr. ROONEY. Certainly.

Mr. BROWN. Mr. McFall, of course, is the director of the office. He manages the presentation and development of the Department's legislative program; he manages the problems of service for Members of Congress and he manages the consultation between the officers of the Department and Members of Congress who are responsible for the legislation, carrying out of those responsibilities.

I act as Mr. McFall's deputy and do approximately the same kind of work that he does, except that I spend most of my time in the office where the largest part of his time is spent on the Hill.

The two liaison officers I have just mentioned.

We have three legislative management specialists who work with the respective bureaus of the Department.

Mr. ROONEY. Where did you get the title "Legislative Management Specialists?" You have three in that group?

Mr. BROWN. That was dreamed up we had a function and we gave it that name.

Mr. ROONEY. They are called special assistants here, Mr. Gray, Mr. Claxton and Miss Kirlin.

Mr. BROWN. Those are the official titles, according to the job classifications. They are special assistants, those three.

Mr. ROONEY. And for this the taxpayers are taxed $171,747?

Mr. BROWN. Yes.

Mr. ROONEY. Is that correct?

Mr. BROWN. That is correct.

TRAVEL EXPENSE

Mr. ROONEY. Were there any travel expenses during the past fiscal year, in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations?

Mr. BROWN. Yes.

Mr. ROONEY. How much?

Mr. BROWN. I will have to get that figure for you, but we furnished one officer to a congressional group to travel throughout Europe and the Near East.

Mr. ROONEY. That was a Subcommittee on Foreign Affairs?

Mr. BROWN. Yes; Subcommittee from Foreign Affairs and Armed Services; three members of each.