This is a March 31, 1966 memo from the staff of the House Government Operations Committee to subcommittee chairman Chet Holifield (D-CA), the original House sponsor of the Johnson Administration’s Department of Transportation Act (H.R….
This is an undated document that summarizes and organizes the questions raised about H.R. 13200 during the House Government Operations Committee’s hearings on the bill in April, May and June 1966. The questions are grouped…
Summary prepared by the House Government Operations Committee staff summarizing the “clean bill “version of the Department of Transportation Act introduced that day as H.R. 15963 and explaining the changes made from the original Johnson…
Transcript of the subcommittee markup session of H.R. 13200 (the Department of Transportation Act proposed by the Johnson Administration) held by a subcommittee of the House Government Operations Committee on June 22, 1966, at which…
April 5, 1966 memo from Senate Public Works staff director Ron Linton to Senate Government Operations staff director Jim Calloway transmitting the Public Works staff analysis of the negative effects that the proposed Department of…
March 28, 1966 memo from Senate Public Works Committee staff director Ron Linton to Senate Government Operations Committee staff director Jim Calloway transmitting the Public Works staff analysis of section 7 of the proposed Department…
March 28, 1966 memo from Senate Appropriations Committee professional staff member Kenneth Bousquet to Senate Government Operations chairman Kenneth McClellan (D-AR) describing how certain Corps of Engineers water projects in Arkansas could be negatively affected…
1966 committee print of the bill S. 3010 produced by the Senate Committee on Government Operations showing the text of the bill as introduced on March 2, 1966 together with section-by-section comments and suggested amendments…
1961 report of the Senate Commerce Committee’s Special Study Group on Transportation Policies in the United States (commonly referred to as the “Doyle Report” for its principal author, Maj. Gen. John P. Doyle). Chapter 4…
1949 final report of the first Hoover Commission recommending that federal transportation agencies be consolidated within a new Transportation Service of the Department of Commerce, headed by an Under Secretary for Transportation. (The full Commission…
Report No. 12 of the Senate Select Committee to Investigate the Executive Agencies of the Government (prepared by the Brookings Institution). This report recommended that federal agencies responsible for the promotion of transportation be consolidated,…
Message from President Johnson to Congress on March 2, 1966 that recommended the following: creation of a new Department of Transportation, the establishment of a new federal program of highway and vehicle safety, and the…