GEXERAL FARM PROGRAM 581 



Mr. Goss. It is the 12th of May. 



Mr. Hill. This committee has been working constantly and we 

 started work before we were legally organized and we have had no 

 legislation before this committee on amendments to the Aiken bill 

 t(j this date. In the interest of time and good order, if we are going 

 to do anything before the 31st of July, which is the day under the law 

 that the Congress should adjourn, I ask you how we are going to put 

 all those things through both the House and the Senate at this first 

 session of the Eighty-first Congress? We will forget the Eightieth 

 Congress. 



Mr. Goss. I do not think you are going to do it unless you adopt a 

 board and leave the details to the board. I think you can do that, but 

 I do not think you are going to be able to make all the amendments to 

 take care of all the basic crops and other crops in the condition the 

 legislation is right now. 



Mr. Hill. I will yield to Mr. Hoeven. 



Mr. Pace. Mr. Hoeven. 



Mr. HoEA-Ex. Mr. Goss, just a question about the mechanics of this 

 Board. I appreciate the fact that if and when a Board is set up a lot 

 of details have to be worked out. I notice in your recommendations 

 you make no reference to counsel for the Board. Is it your purpose to 

 have a counsel who should advise the Board and interpret the acts of 

 Congress, or, in case of a dispute, would that matter be referred back 

 to the respective committees? 



Mr. Goss. I think any operating board has to seek legal advice and 

 I would give them enough staff to carry on their work within the law 

 as they felt necessary. 



Mr. HoEVEx. But it would not be your purpose in setting up a 

 board, for instance, if a matter came into dispute, to have that board 

 conduct public hearings as to what the law meant or what should 

 be done? 



Mr. Goss. Xo, I would be very careful to safeguard that board so 

 that it could not be a legislative board in any way. It would be purely 

 administrative. 



Mr. Hill. If you set up a board, is there any reason in the world why 

 the Board could not work toward integration of the work or combining 

 of the work of the two committees in the House and Senate ? 



Mr. Goss. I do not know that I understand that, Mr. Hill. If I do, 

 I would say that the board would have available whatever Congress 

 gave them. It undoubtedly would want to come and make recom- 

 mendations for modifications from time to time to the committees in 

 the House and Senate if they felt the law was weak, if they did not 

 have enough power, or if they felt it did not work right. 



Mr. Hill. I will make myself plain by saying that so far as I know 

 there has been very little done in the other body in this session and 

 here we have been going full tilt since the 1st day of January. If we 

 are going to have a combination of our program worked out between 

 the House and the Senate, certainly we must cooperate with one an- 

 other if we are ging to get anything done by a given date. 



Mr. Goss. I could not give you any assurance of what the Senate 

 would do, but I have talked with a number of members of the Senate 

 committee who left me with the impression that they would look with 

 favor on a board properly chosen. I cannot tell you how they would 



