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One of the main reasons advanced for the two-week adjournment of the House of Representatives, which will last until August 4, was that select committees of the House should have time to consider their business.
It turns out there is now only sufficient work to occupy five of the 16 regular committees and the special committee considering the Decimal Currency Bill.
Of these, only the local bills committee will sit on four days. The rest will meet on three days or fewer. In all, only about half the members of the House are affected. The committee, which usually has the most exacting work, the Statutes Revision Committee for the consideration of bills of a technical legal character and the perusal of regulations, will not meet at all during the recess. Even if all the work of committees is brought up to date by the time the House resumes, the opportunity has . been lost of early and unhurried consideration of such
promised legislation as a consolidation of education legislation and a bill on take-over bids and monopolies which could reasonably be expected to deserve committee consideration and submissions from outside authorities.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30497, 20 July 1964, Page 10
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