This was taken on in the subcommittee's final report which also referred to the need to consider the control of munition prices by a common contracts price policy.
It took the subcommittee about two years even to record in mainly qualitative form the cost-benefit practices in effect at the principal agencies.
Table 1 shows that two-thirds of bills were not considered by subcommittees.
Traditionally, the subcommittees served as the first forum the government consulted on a proposal.
Within the legislature, power is further divided between two houses, as well as among a host of committees and subcommittees.
The subcommittee for economic questions is the first committee to evaluate the product.
On average, the full committee conducts its budget review in just 12 days, while the subcommittee for adjusting budget figures does so in eight days.
The subcommittees met 77 times, co-opting 72 officials, and interviewing 87 witnesses.
