Speech #890001985

I am sure they will. particularly as to the Committee on the Judiciary. As I have stated on many occasions. the Committee on the Judiciary has more subcommittees than all the rest of the committees combined. I realize that much more work is done in that committee than in the average standing committee. for the reason that the Committee on the Judiciary deals with numerous claims and naturalization cases. I have often heard the chairman state that more than 50 percentsometimes as much as 52 percentof the bills enacted by Congress emanate from these two subcommittees. I can appreciate that because before reorganization. I was chairman of the Committee on Claims. Oftentimes 52 percent of the bills that were enacted by Congress came from the Committee on Claims. The subcommittees that handle claims and naturalization matters do a large amount of work. I realize that. Still. it seems to me that the staffs of those subcommittees could be trimmed down somewhat because. as I have said on many occasions. most of the preparatory work is done by the departments in which the requests are first made for the payments of the claims.