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recommend and help in developing proposed policy in the
public information area. Its recommendations would, I
assume, go first to the officers of the Convention. If
these were ignored or discarded or avoided by the officers
then the Committee, of course, like any committee of
this Convention could come to the Convention with its
proposal with respect to a certain policy matter in the
public information area, and if the Convention approved
what the Committee did, then that would be the policy of
the Convention. A hypothetical example comes to mind,
for instance, perhaps when we got into the Committee of
the Whole, the question might arise as to whether live
television, whether the proceedings should be carried on
live TV or whether TV should be permitted on the floor.
Assume for the moment the officers rejected this idea.
We have this, I believe, in the Capitol, I think on the
House side, due to the precedent of the former Speaker
Sam Rayburn, they don't have live television in the
committee hearings. On the Senate side, you do. Suppose
this controversy came here, the officers of the Conven-
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