Speech #810131094

Under the Legislative Reorganization Act. the chairman and the 12 members of the Judiciary Committee have the legislative burden which had previously been carried by four committees of the Senate. In addition to the usual Judiciary Committee workproposed legislation for improvements in the judicial machinery. the work of revision and codification of the laws. all proposed consitutional amendments and Federal charters. legislation relating to national penitentiaries. and the consideration of many executive nominationsthe Judiciary Committee now has the work of three Senate committees which were abolished by the Reorganization Act. It has the work of the old Committee on Patents. it has the work of the old Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. and perhaps most burdensome of all. it has the work of the old Committee on Claims. To date. In the present session of Congress. the Judiciary Committee has had referred to it more than 1.400 House and Senate bills.