JFK Assassination System Date: 10/13/20 Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY: HSCA RECORD NUMBER: 180-101 14-10183 RECORD SERIES: NUMBERED FILES AGENCY FILE NUMBER: UNNUMBERED Document Information ORIGINATOR: HSCA FROM: HSCA TO: TITLE: DATE: 03/23/1977 : PAGES: 73 HSCA, ADMINISTRATION DOCUMENT TYPE: TRANSCRIPT CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: Open in Full CURRENT STATUS: Redact DATEOF'LASTREVIEW: 08/13/1993 OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS: — Unnumbered document follows #014635; meeting re: reconstitution of HSCA. Box 265. v9.1 Doclda: 322765557 Page 1
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: : . g- . . ° . . : a EXECUTIVE SESSION 1 LaFrancé/dog 1 7 AFTER RECESS _Bultman (The committee reconvened 2:00 p.m., Hon. Louis Stokes, chairman of the eommittee, presiding.) | _ Present: “Representatives Stokes, Devine, Preyer, Burke, Pauntroy, Dodd, Pithian and Edgar, | Also Present: AL Lewis, Staff Member; Bob Tanenbaum, Staff Member ; Richard Sprague; ‘Staff Member; Jim Wolf, Staff Member ; Bob Lehner, Staff Member; ‘and Thomas Howarth, Staff Member. | _—The Chairman. The meeting will come to order. Fizst, I might advise the members of the committee that we have been in touch with the Rules Committee. We are advis that in all probability, we wilt go before Rules at 2:00 14 15 ° ‘clock on Monday and it will go to the. Floor Tuesday or 16 Wednesday. ; . a aes art The format at this’ point has been discussed and it was 7 -g | enssested enae-pertiaps we might just go in with the presenta- : 19  ttOR by myself and our Ranking Minority Member, Mr. Devine, . 0 with Mr. Preyer and Mr. Fauntroy ready if they fire any ques- n tions in regard to the investigation and with the other - 99 ‘members just in a. ‘supportine back-up. ‘position. The thinking 33 being that in Light of the briefing that > took place the other x day and the highly sensitive nature of the investigatory /material that was given to them in all probability they are 2s Docld: 322765557 Page 3
; _ . ; 2 ‘not going to want to get into very much questioning on that aspect. -So the less said about that in all probability is going to be, they think, the best approach. | Me. Devine. _ Mr. Chairman... . The Chairman. “ue. Devine. Mr. Devine. . I am not. sure it will be a- problem, but Me. Anderson of TiLinois 1 mentioned this morning that one of the 19 water projects that President Carter deferred or . eliminated happens to be in his district and there is a pub- ; ‘lic hearing in his district on Monday I wish it were possibl for Mr. Anderson to be at the Rules. ‘Committee when we appear weeny al because he is very articulate and on our side. tI don't know , whether we can persuade him to neglect his constituency or ‘not, but we might keep that in mind in scheduling. The’ young lady from Mr. . Anderson’ s office, do you know whether he. is scheduled in ‘TLlinois on Monday? Ms. Brown. r believe 50, yes. I ‘don't know how long [ese be there, eee | the coatcmsin. I agree with, yous. I think it is important to try, to. have Mrs. anderson be here. We will try ‘to work ~ that out. = ue . | : Do they have proxies in the Rules Committee? Mr. Devine. r don't, know, whether they have proxies in Tethe Rules Committee or not. Docld:322765557 Page 4
% tion? Mr. Dodd. Absolutely not. No proxies. The Chairman. The Chairman can't vote for Anderson, then? | | Mr. Dodd. No, he has to be there. Is there a problem? Mr. Devine. His water project has been eliminated by “the President and he is having a meeting ‘in his district. oe. Dodd. You can't use the proxy, I can tell you that. : ’ I would like to. see him there. Mr. Devine. I would, too. ‘The Chairman. We will have to try to work that out. ‘Let us get back to. the discussion of the report and other matters relating to the report. Is everyone provided with a copy of the draft report? We are open to discussion relative to this draft report. How. .fuch time do we have, Mr. Sprague, in terms of being able to cra revise and extend this report and prepare for final prepara- Mr. Sprague. Mr. Chairman, ir asked before we recessed “It for. lunch if r doula have that time to take up with. the | petnting office the matter of ‘the Printing of the transcripts that have been | turned over to you and the matter of the printing ‘of this report. - We have been, advised that if we get to the Printing office by 6:00 p.m. this evening, the transcripts, as corrected, \Docla:32265557 Page 5