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Divided into four broad ti­ tles, the 143 page bill aims (a) to improve the committee system, (b) establish orderly and more stringent fiscal con­ trols, (c) increase sources of information available to the Congress and (d) acknowledges benefits to be derived from computer technology and other ancillary Congressional ser­ vices. ^ Under the proposal, House and Senate Committees would be organized on a more democra­ tic basis with increased au­ thority in individual members and expanded prerogatives for minority members. The bill would require that most com­ mittee meetings be open to the public and would permit the tel­ evising and radio broadcasting of committee hearings, as well as proceedings in the Chamber of the House of Representa­ tives under appropriate control of the House leadership. The measure provides essen­ tial Congressional budgetary control to the end that mean­ ingful fiscal data and cost ef­ fectiveness analyses, as well as five-year cost projections would be available to the Con­ gress. The bill provides also that the federal fiscal year should coincide with the cal­ endar year, and would author­ ize the Comptroller General to serve as an effective agent of the Congress. ' The proposal would require periodic reviews of the pro life rating grant-in-aid programs with reports to be made to the Congress. Sources of vital information would be greatly increased un­ der the Reorganization bill. An­ alyses of all legislative pro­ posals would be available through the Library of Con­ gress. The measure would grant to Minority committee mem­ bers the inherent right to in- i dependent staff facilities. This part of the bill would also au­ thorize the employment of con­ sultants and research spec­ ialists by House committees, and provide special training programs for House Commit­ tee staffs. Under the general descrip­ tion of Congress as an Insti­ tution, the measure would au­ thorize establishment of a bi­ partisan committee on legis­ lative data processing to enable the Congress and its Commit­ tees to utilize the benefits of modern computer technology. This special service would cre­ ate a vast reservoir of infor­ mation so that Members of the House and Senate,,as the leg­ islative dec is ion-makers, might act with greater accur­ acy and on the basis of the most current information. Many other subjects, includ­ ing the installation of an elec­ tronic roll call device, the ab­ olition of the much-criticized "seniority system", and elim­ ination of other remnants of the 19th century may be proposed as further amendments. Indeed, many additional changes would be highly desirable. However, it should be stated with all can­ dor that the broad changes con­ tained in the proposed Legis­ lative Reorganization Act of 1970 will in themselves be dif­ ficult to achieve. The law-making process of the world's oldest deliberative body moves on -- slowly. POLITICAL CORNER NAMED TO BOARD Lewis Belshaw of Wonder Lake was named at the last township board meeting to All the vacancy, as auditor, created when William "Curly** Mar- tinec left the state. The snail's pace at which the Congress of the United States has handled the nation's legis­ lative business may be accel­ erated very little by the pro­ posed Legislative Reorgani­ zation Act of 1970. This legislative draft, de­ signed to modernize and up­ date operations of the United States House of Representatives and Senate, is the product of a Special Committee headed by Representative B.F. Sisk of Florida. While the Committee's rec­ ommendations are quite mod­ est, they undoubtedly reflect the fear that any radical and dramatic improvements would meet stiff resistance on Cap­ itol Hill. Veteran congressmen give tacit obeisance to pres­ ervation of the status quo and, revere such shibboleths as "tradition" and "parliamen­ tary precedents." In the light of these attitudes, the draft bill may be regarded as quite rev- PLAINDEALER PHOTOS