CONTENTS

OPENING STATEMENTS OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Grassley, Senator Charles E. (acting chairman)

Laxalt, Senator Paul..

Thurmond, Senator Strom (chairman)..

PROPOSED LEGISLATION

Text of Senate Joint Resolution 233-A joint resolution to authorize the

President's Commission on Organized Crime to compel the attendance and

testimony of witnesses and the production of information..

PANEL OF WITNESSES

Kaufman, Hon. Irving R., Chairman, President's Commission on Organized

Crime; accompanied by James Harmon, Executive Director and Chief Coun-

sel, and Rodney Smith, Deputy Executive Director

MATERIALS SUBMITTED

Responses to written questions submitted by Senator Charles McC. Mathias,

Jr...

Responses to written questions submitted by Senator Jeremiah Denton

Comparison of powers granted to selected national and State commissions........

APPENDIX

Letter to Chairman Strom Thurmond from Jerry S. Berman, chief legislative

counsel, American_Civil Liberties Union, dated May 11, 1984, suggesting

changes in Senate Joint Resolution 233.

Letter to Chairman Strom Thurmond from Robert A. McConnell, Assistant

Attorney General, dated May 17, 1984, expressing cooperation

Executive Order 12435 of July 28, 1983-establishing the President's Commis-

sion on Organized Crime

Letter to Chairman Strom Thurmond on access to title III wiretap material
and proposed amendment...

Resolution of Commission on Organized Crime on access to title III wire-
tap information......

House Joint Resolution 548 as passed by the House.
List and biography of Commission members.
Biographies of Commission staff members..

Department of Justice letter to Chairman Strom Thurmond dated May 8,
1984, concerning litigation authority to enforce Commission subpoenas..

Statement of Hon. William French Smith, Attorney General, before the

President's Commission on Organized Crime, Nov. 29, 1983

Statement of William H. Webster, Director, FBI, before the President's

Commission on Organized Crime, Nov. 29, 1983.

Statement of Francis M. Mullen, Jr., Administrator, Drug Enforcement

Administration, before the President's Commission on Organized

Crime, Nov. 29, 1983..

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