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    "ocrText": "-8-\nThis may annoy the administration at times but it also can.\nincrease public confidence in public policy, and this is important indeed.\nI suppose you could look at the situation of us Republicans and\njust say \"what's the use?\"\nThe administration does have us overwhelmed numerically in Congress.\nThe Democratic Party has been grosaly unfair in allocation of congressional\ncommittee staff members on many committees -- running as high as 53 staff\nmembers of one committee responsible to the Democratic chairman to only\nthree staff members responsible to the ranking minority members.\nAnd of course the administration has the whole apparatus of the\nExecutive Branch to support its push for enactment of ite programs.\nBut we Republicans are coming up with ideas and some of them are\nbeing listened to - even though the Denocrats can ignore us whenever they\nwant to insofar as actual votes available are concerned.\nWe are coming up with ideas on substantive issues and vo are coning\nup with fresh thought on the functioning of Congress itself.\nOne idea we are discussing right now is that of requiring when both\nthe executive and legislative branches are controlled by the same party that\nthe Committees on Government Operations of the House and Senate be under\ncontrol of the minority party.\nHere would be a genuine vehicle for assuring that the voice of\nthe minority would be heard, that the majority would be constantly on notice\nthat its actions were subject to effective and critical review, and that the\npublic would know that any cover-up of wrong-doing would be improbable if\nnot impossible."
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