HOUSE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS JACK BROOKS, Texas, Chairman L. H. FOUNTAIN, North Carolina WILLIAM S. MOORHEAD, Pennsylvania BENJAMIN S. ROSENTHAL, New York JIM WRIGHT, Texas FERNAND J. ST GERMAIN, Rhode Island FLOYD V. HICKS, Washington DON FUQUA, Florida JOHN CONYERS, JR., Michigan JAMES V. STANTON, Ohio LEO J. RYAN, California CARDISS COLLINS, Illinois JOHN L. BURTON, California RICHARDSON PREYER, North Carolina ROBERT F. DRINAN, Massachusetts BARBARA JORDAN, Texas GLENN ENGLISH, Oklahoma FRANK HORTON, New York GARRY BROWN, Michigan JOEL PRITCHARD, Washington EDWIN B. FORSYTHE, New Jersey ROBERT W. KASTEN, JR., Wisconsin WILLIS D. GRADISON, JR., Ohio PREFACE This compilation of materials relating to the legislative history of Public Law 94-409, the Government in the Sunshine Act, summarizes the four-year legislative activity behind the statute providing that meetings of certain Executive Branch agencies be open to public scrutiny. This sourcebook was prepared for the Senate Committee on Government Operations and the House Committee on Government Operations by Dr. Harold C. Relyea, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, at the direction of the staff of the Committees. (V) CONTENTS Page V Introduction of S. 260, 93d Congress (Congressional Record, v. 119, Text of S. 260___ Text of S. 5 as reported to Senate by Government Operations Com- Debate on adoption of S. 5 (Congressional Record, v. 121, November 6, Text of H.R. 11656, as reported by Government Operations Com- mittee, March 8, 1976, and as reported by the Judiciary Committee, (VII) |