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1 Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1950 Providing for Reorganizations in the Department of Justice 1 (1950)

handle is hein.congrec/roznpnnii0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 81ST CONG RESSS ENATE REPORT ?d Session jNo. 1683 REORGANIZATION PLAN NO. 2 OF 1950 PROVIDING FOR REORGANIZATIONS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE MAY 19 (legislative day, MARCH 29), 1950.-Ordered to be printed Mr. MCCLELLAN, from the Committee on Expenditures in the Execu- tive Departments, submitted the following REPORT By authority of the Reorganization Act of 1949 (Public Law 109, 81st Cong., 1st sess., June 20, 1949) the President of the United States has submitted to the Congress Reorganization Plan No. 2, providing for reorganizations in the Department of Justice. No disapproving resolution has been introduced in the Senate. The complete text of plan No. 2 is given in appendix A. This committee, although under no requirement to do so by that act, hereby reports favorbly on reorganization Plan No. 2, in order that the Senate may know the result of the committee's consideration thereof, and may have adequate information as to its provisions. PLANS NOS. 1 To 6 OF 1950 In a special message to Congress accompanying Reorganization Plans Nos. 1 to 13 of 1950, the President outlined the purpose of plans Nos. 1 to 6, inclusive, as follows: Reorganization Plans Nos. 1 to 6, inclusive, relate to the Departments of the Treasury, Justice, the Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, and Labor. With certain exceptions, these plans transfer to the respective Department heads the functions of other officers and agencies of the Departments. They permit each Department head to authorize the functions vested in himto bperformed byany officer; agency, or employee of the Department. In addition, Administrative Assistant Secretaries are provided for each of the six Departments, and additional Assistant Secretaries are authorized for the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture. * * * Through the years the Congress has repeatedly endorsed the policy of holding agency heads fully accountable for all the functions of their agencies. Last year this policy was pursued in the legislation authorizing reorganization of the De- partment of State and establishing the General Services Administration. A reorganization plan applying this principle to the Post Office Department was likewise approved. However, in the six departments covered by these plans, all functions are not now uniformly vested in the department heads. Some statutory authority is

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