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Excerpt from Civil Rights Commission: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Second Congress, Second Session, June 16, 1972
Congress has extended the life of the Commission five times since its inception in 1957. Its permanent staff has grown from 87 In 1959 to 176 In 197 2 An additional 40 permanent positions have been requested for fiscal year 197 3 and no one knows how many employees it will have by 1978. Amounts appropriated for the work of the Commission have swelled from an original appropriation of $777, 000 in 1959 to almost $4 million In fiscal year 197 2 It Is interesting to Observe that when the Commission was subject to 1 or 2 - year extensions, as they were prior to 1964, increases In appropriations and staff were kept under control. But, as the extensions have become longer, the appropriations and staff have risen in dramatic proportion. The whole experience illustrates the proposition that the longer an agency stays in existence, and the further it gets from congressional review, the more deeply entrenched it becomes and the more extravagant with money. There is nothing more permanent than a temporary Government agency.
We are now being asked to extend the Commission for another 5 years which, if done, means that an agency whose demise was expected by 1959 will live to be over 20 years old and presumably even longer.
I do not say that there 18 no problem with constitutional rights or that it is no longer necessary to insure that such rights receive the safe guards of the law. On the contrary, there will always be such a need. I am saying that this should not necessitate the indefinite existence of the Commission at even greater sums of money.
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