FOREWORD

The idea of compiling a documented Survey was conceived during the first session of the Eighty-first Congress, and met with the approval of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. At the close of the first session, the committee published its Survey of the Activities of the Committee on Foreign Affairs covering that session. The following Survey covers the activities of the committee during both sessions. It seeks to accomplish the following objectives:

(1) To provide the members of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the membership of the House with a record of the work of the House committee charged with the responsibility over legislative matters affecting the foreign relations of the United States;

(2) To indicate the increasing importance of the legislative process in shaping and implementing the foreign policy of the United States;

(3) To demonstrate by the record the enormous responsibilities and complexities involved in foreign affairs legislation and the broad content of the subject matter; and

(4) To make available to the Congress, the executive branch, the press, and the public a document which may be used as a handy guide and reference.

This Survey has been prepared, on my instructions, by Mr. Sheldon Z. Kaplan, consultant on the staff of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Mr. Kaplan was assisted by Mrs. Winifred Osborne, staff assistant.

Nothing contained in the Survey should be interpreted as indicating legislative intent with respect to the legislative matters discussed. This intent, where expressed, will be found in the appropriate statutes, committee reports, hearings and debate, referred to in the Survey. JOHN KEE, Chairman.

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