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There are many ways to gain insights on the work of Congress and on congressional relations with the President, administrative agencies, communities and functional groups. This article takes one route to such an understanding: an analysis of the activity of Congress and its parts with relation to one subject-matter field, and for one Congress, through one type of research source. The field is civil aviation, the Congress is the Eighty-fifth and the source is the official documents of Congress.There are also a variety of reasons for studying congressional action. Congress is, in one sense, a system of internal allocation of power and influence and of partial coordination of working parts—a system of formal and informal organization. Its significance in society merits understanding of the peculiarities of the patterns of behavior within it. Congress is also a point of influence on external systems with which it deals, and one institution and one aggregation of groups within larger universes of social action. Its impact on external systems and its position in the behavior of universes of social action likewise merit attention. Especially significant is its function of direction and supervision of administrative agencies. This article aims to cast a glimmer of light on both the operation and the impact of Congress by analyzing its activity for a limited period with respect to one universe of action: the supply of civil aviation service to the public. |
