Speech #780023570

In response to the gentlemanh question. may I say that the- bill: now. under: consider.ation is. confined to the Commissioner of Public Roads: in. the very nature of the case. because the committee that considered the pending bill has no jurisdiction. over the Cbmmissioner of Public Buildings. May Ialso say that I understana a. similar bill. with respect to. the Commissioner of Public Buildings is pending before the Cmmittee on Public Buildings and Otouncla? A similFar bil. in. another ease involving the Commissioner of Immigratfion and. Naturalization was passed by the House about. an hour ago. It. is because. two separate. administrations. are involved. over which two separate committees have jurisdiction. that the committee reporting the pending bill deals orly with the Commissioner of Pubic Roads. in this bill. May 1 make the further statement that. in the reorganization of 1939.. when. the Bureau of Public Roads in.the Department of Agriculture was. consolidatedwith other agencies in the Federal Works.