HEARINGS BEFORE THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON CONGRESSIONAL OPERATIONS CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES NINETY-THIRD CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON THE LEGISLATIVE ROLE OF CONGRESS IN GATHERING AND DISCLOSING INFORMATION WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, TUESDAY, MARCH 27 AND WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1973 Printed for the use of the U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON : 1973 93-215 HEARINGS BEFORE THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON CONGRESSIONAL OPERATIONS CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES NINETY-THIRD CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON THE LEGISLATIVE ROLE OF CONGRESS IN GATHERING AND DISCLOSING INFORMATION WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, TUESDAY, MARCH 27 AND WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1973 Printed for the use of the U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON : 1973 93-215 JOINT COMMITTEE ON CONGRESSIONAL OPERATIONS CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE JACK BROOKS, Texas, Vice Chairman SENATE MIKE GRAVEL, Alaska JAMES G. O'HARA, Michigan LAWTON CHILES, Florida JESSE A. HELMS, North Carolina RAYMOND L. Gooch, Staff Counsel (II) CONTENTS Page ------------ Opening Statement of - Chairman Lee Metcalf, U.S. Senator from the State of Montana.. State of Texas -- State of New Hampshire --- Hon. Sam J. Ervin, Jr., U.S. Senator from the State of North Carolina Hon. William B. Saxbe, U.S. Senator from the State of Ohio.------ Material submitted for the record: Hon. Sam J. Ervin, Jr., U.S. Senator from the State of North Carolina; proposed legislation: Congressional Free Speech Act of 1973 and Resolution to Amend Rule XXX of the Standing Rules Testimony of- Hon. Arthur J. Goldberg, attorney, Washington, D.C., former As- sociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Hon, J.W. Fulbright, U.S. Senator from the State of Arkansas.---- Material submitted for the record: Brief Amicus Curiae for the Senate of the United States, in the case of United States v. Gravel, No. 71-1026, Supreme Court of the United States, October term, 1971.--. Hon. Mike Gravel, U.S. Senator from the State of Alaska --- Alexander J. Cella, associate professor of law, Suffolk University, Robert G. Dixon, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice; accompanied by Warren Grimes, Attorney-Advisor, Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice - paedia Britannica, Chicago, Ill., former Representative in Congress from the State of Missouri. --- Hon. Mike Gravel, U.S. Senator from the State of Alaska; proposed legislation: Public Information Act of 1973.--- Alexander J. Cella, associate professor of law, Suffolk University, Boston, Mass.; "The Doctrine of Legislative Privilege of Freedom of Speech and Debate: Its Past, Present and Future as a Bar to Criminal Prosecutions in the Courts,” 2 Suffolk L. Rev. 1 (1968) -- Robert G. Dixon, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice; memorandum, “Discussion of the Power of Congress to Modify the Scope of Congressional Immunity Hon. Bertram L. Podell, Representative in Congress from the State of New York, prepared statement.--- ----- 256 149 |