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<br />0025o~ <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Executive Departments for examination and comments. Special <br />reports are required under laws already on the books from the <br />Interior and Agricultural Departments and the Bureau of the Bud- <br />get. The House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee will not <br />consider irrigation bills unless the Bureau of the Budget approves. <br />This procedure frequently requires many months but it cannot be <br />evaded. <br />If and when said bill gets by the Executive Departments, the <br />House Committee holds public hearings to examine and explore all <br />of its provisions. Committee members cross-examine supporting <br />and opposing witnesses until they are satisfied that all of the <br />facts are disclosed. A complete record is made of this hearing, <br />plus the comments and the direct testimony of the witnesses from <br />the Executive Departments. The House Committee then votes on <br />whether or not to send the bill to the House Rules Committee for <br />transmission to the House Calendar. The Rules Committee consid- <br />ers the measure and holds further hearings if it desires. Should <br />it take favorable action, it stipulates in its order of trans- <br />mission the length of House debate, whether or not the said bill <br />can be amended by the House and to what extent. The bill then <br />goes to the House Calendar and when called up is ready for House <br />consideration under such terms as the House Rules Committee may <br />have laid down. If the House votes favorably, the bill then goes <br />to the Senate where it passes through the same routine except <br />that the Senate has no Rules Committee and favorable action by <br />the Bureau of the Budget is not an absolute requirement. <br /> <br />4 <br />