The Un-American Activities Committee

Abstract

HE PROGRAMS of most standing committees of Congress are largely determined for them by the number, kind and importance of bills referred to them for consideration. This has never been true of the Un-American Activities Committee. Its change in 1945 from a special investigating committee to a standing committee gave it a certain measure of substantive jurisdiction over a particular legislative area," but it has never functioned primarily as a "legislative" committee. Instead, it has been a curious congressional phenomenon-a permanent"investigating" committee. In its own legislative area, it has had little work to perform. 2 Rather, the Committee has had to devise a program of its

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