I am advised that members of Congress don’t need to be sworn in. So you can come and go as you like, but the public members will need to be sworn in.

Congressman GILMAN: Mr. Chairman, I just wanted to repeat something I said last night Ambassador Gene Douglas called. He is in California on a very important matter, and he wanted to express his regrets at not being able to be present, but wanted to assure us that he will be taking an active interest and an active role in the work of our Commission.

Congressman MICA: We thank you, and there will be, we hope, a couple of Senators coming in a little later, too, and maybe we can get the largest number here for the swearing in and for additional pictures.

What I’d like to do, without objection-and let me just tell you how I run my sub¬committee, and Bill and Ben know this—I run on a consensus basis. If we have an ob¬jection or a concern, raise your hand or express it, and we’ll try to work it out, but I will run it as the Chairman otherwise as I see fit and try to do it in a fair way.

Without objection, I’m going to try to change this agenda a little bit and hold the statements of individual members, and maybe move down to reading of the draft of the by-laws and the discussion and the budget. Those two items, I think, can be dis¬cussed. Most of the members here have all looked at that, but it can be discussed by the public members of the Commission, and we must approve them.

Then well come back up to the statement from individual members, and some¬where in there when we have enough members here, we’ll try to proceed with the swearing in.

But if each of you would take that out and take a look at it, it may take you a few minutes, and in the interim, I hate to do this, and I’ll be the first one to rush out and be back, but I should be back within a half hour. I’m going to ask Dr. Mace to take the chair as an advisor, and without objection, appoint Mr. Marchishin as the acting chairman to conduct the discussion and review of this budget and by-laws.

We are not in any way prejudiced toward changes. We want to have your com¬ments. We have tried to do what we hoped would be in the best interest of the entire Commission, both for the by-laws and for the budget, and we’d like to have your com¬ments.

So you may need to take a minute if you haven’t read it over and just read through it, and then if youth conduct a discussion and ask each member if they have any com¬ments or any changes or any concerns. Dr. Mace will sit here and advise and assist, and I will be back in about 30 minutes.

Then the next order of business I would suggest would be approval of the budget.

Mr. MARCHISHIN: Dr. Mace is going to read through the by-laws, the draft by¬laws, of the Commission slowly, and while he’s reading it, I would ask the members to follow it and consider if they have any questions or additions or changes that come to their mind regarding the by-laws.

Dr. MACE: First of all, you will notice in your folders a copy of Public Law 99-180. The by-laws do refer to P.L. 99-180 in a number of respects. So you may wish to refer to that