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Calendar No. 855
81ST CONGRESS SENATE J REPT. 851
1st Session J Part 2
REORGANIZATION PLAN NO. 1 OF 1949-PROVIDING FOR
A DEPARTMENT OF WELFARE
AUGUST 9 (legislative day, JUNE 2), 1949.-Ordered to be prinfed
Mr. HUMPHREY, from the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive&
Departments, submitted the following
MINORITY REPORT
[To accompany S. Res. 147]
.Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1949 is the first plan submi tted by
the President to carry out the recommendations of the Commission
on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government, com-
monly known as the Hoover Commission.
Essentially, the plan does two very simple things:
1. It converts the Federal Security Agency into a Cabinet depart-
ment to be known as the Department of Welfare.
2. It gives the Department of Welfare an integrated type of
organization, as distinguished from the holding company structur~e
which characterizes the Federal Security Agency.
It is essential to a proper understanding of the issue involved in-
consideration of Reorganization Plan No. 1 to bear in mind the
relationship between this plan and the total problem of governmental
reorganization. To begin with, three major facts stand out clearly:
1. Every change effected by Reorganization Plan No. 1 is in full
accord with the Hoover Commission recommendations.
2. The plan does nothing contrary to any Hoover Commission.
recommendation.
3. The plan does not carry out all Hoover Commission recom-
mendations affecting the Federal Security Agency, particularly those
recommend ations_ which can be effectuated only by special legislation-
RECOMMENDATIONS CARRIED OUT
It should be borne in mind also that there was unanimous agreement
within the Hoover Commission Itself on only two points affecting thew
Federal Security Agency- that the time has come when there should.
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