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...most important provision of Javitt's bill calls for a decision by a committee majority on what it shall investigate, and a clear statement of the inquiry's purpose. Under this rule, publicity-seeking chairmen would be curbed by more temperate colleagues who are better able to discriminate between the country's and the committee's best interests...
Once the committee has stated its purpose, it cannot then, according to Javitt's proposals, tack in a fresh direction with each gust of public interest. The testimony of all witnesses called by the committees must be "germane to the subject so stated." This would end the race between committees to subpoena a person suddenly in the news...
...Javitt bill would protect those witnesses whom the committees do summon, for accusations based on secret testimony cannot be rebutted, as President Pusey pointed out in his replay to McCarty's charges against Wendell Furry. Under the reform bill no committee member could release any sort of report or statement about the proceedings of closed sessions without majority permission. If such permission is given, the committee must furnish the witness with a stenographic copy of the testimony at the executive session...
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