Presidential Statement Upon Signing Executive Order Establishing the Committee on Government Activities Affecting Prices and Costs
ALTHOUGH the Government has many programs that affect prices and costs including, of course, procurement--there is now no central mechanism for following their current operations to see whether they are being conducted, insofar as possible, in line with the need for reasonable stability of prices and costs. This newly established Committee will provide such a mechanism.
Each of the programs covered by this order operates under its own law and regulations, and each was set up for a specific purpose. What is needed today is a fresh look at how they are operating in the fight of modern-day economic problems. We need to make sure that we are not contributing to the Nation's inflationary problems by the way in which we run our own Government business.
Note: Executive Order 10802, establishing the Committee, is published in the Federal Register (24 F.R. 557).
A list of the members of the Committee, as announced by Chairman Raymond J. Saulnier and released by the White House on February 18, follows: Elmer B. Staats, Assistant Director, Bureau of the Budget; Perkins McGuire, Assistant Secretary of Defense (Supply and Logistics); John M. McKibbin, Assistant Postmaster General; Royce Hardy, Assistant Secretary of the Interior; True D. Morse, Under Secretary of Agriculture; George T. Moore, Assistant Secretary of Commerce; John F. Floberg, member, Atomic Energy Commission; James T. Pyle, Deputy Administrator, Federal Aviation Agency; Franklin Floete, Administrator of General Services; John S. Patterson, Deputy Director, Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization; Henry O. Talle, Assistant Administrator for Program Policy, Housing and Home Finance Agency.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Presidential Statement Upon Signing Executive Order Establishing the Committee on Government Activities Affecting Prices and Costs Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/235213