Changed dramatically over the years. We may nevertheless find instructive some of the experiences of the early staff. Beyond the first years of the staff, the Research Task was more difficult. For my paper today, i was helped with some Key Developments that took place during the summer of 1927 when congress was out of session, ways and means and the first jtc chairman green was in iowa, and the small staff was in d. C. As a result, important issues were discussed by correspondence that has been preserved in the archives. Once the staff is established, more communication seems to occur within the staff, rather than with outsiders. And preservation of that information is much more haphazard. Some internal memos have no names or dates on them, and their importance is very hard to determine. The paper trail gets harder as the size of the staff grows, and some information is not memorialized at all. An additional difficulty, unless Joe Thorndike has worked out a special arrangement with the
Attorneys, assists members with all aspects of tax legislation. This panel is about 45 minutes. So our first panel is going to examine portions of the history of the joint committee on taxation. And our first speaker is george yin and his paper deals with the joint committees role in the codification of the tax laws. George . Thank you very much, and thanks to the u. S. Capital and Historical Society for sponsoring the event and to the joint committee, tom and the rest of the staff per organizing it and inviting me to participate. Its wonderful to see so many familiar faces and join in celebrating the 90th anniversary of this great institution. I thought i would use my time to mention just a few of the surprises i have discovered in researching the history of the joint committee. Truth be told, virtually everything ive learned has been very interesting, if not surprising. In addition to satisfying our curiosities, the story of the joint committee is important because the staff of this
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