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    "ocrText": "- 12 -\nthat I de not usually regard structural tampering as the best way to solve this\nproblem - and often the changes bring even greater problems in their wake. For\nexample, liberals now loudly denounce the House Rules Committee; yet it was the\nliberals, when stripping Speaker Cannon of his power in 1910, who gave the\nRules Committee its autherity in the first place.\nBut I do wish to make one structural propesal. It strikes me that the\nGevernment Operations Committeesin in the House and Senate should never be\ncontrolled by the President's party. Since it is the function of these\nCongressional committees to investigate the conduct of the Executive Branch,\nit is enly preper that they be directed by the oppesition x party. This should\nbe the case whether the occupant of the White House is a Demecrat or a Repub-\nlican. It smacks of legalized colluiion when we find that the suspect and the\ndistrict atterney are brothers!\nThe Cengress has a noble heritage. Its 535 members occupy laces once\nheld by men like Webster, Clay, Calhoum, La Fellette, Taft and Vandenberg. I\nbelieve we can best restere Congressional preeminence by acting with the\nindependence, dignity and jealeus regard for our censtitutional role that such\nnames characterize. Speaker Rayburn was once asked how many presidents he had"
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