JOSEPH W. BARR

Too often I have seen intelligent, experienced witnesses demolished before these [congressional] committees because they have not taken the trouble to do their homework.... [The witness] is confronted with an independent panel of specialized experts who usually possess vastly more experience than he.

We live in a world of specialists in every phase of our lives. While the congressional system with its high degree of specialization [the committee system] may appear fragmented and disorderly to those who admire the symmetry of the parliamentary system, I would submit that the congressional system is peculiarly adapted to the world in which we live today.

We live in a world of specialists in every phase of our lives. While the congressional system with its high degree of specialization [the committee system] may appear fragmented and disorderly to those who admire the symmetry of the parliamentary system, I would submit that the congressional system is peculiarly adapted to the world in which we live today.

Too often I have seen intelligent, experienced witnesses demolished before these [congressional] committees because they have not taken the trouble to do their homework.... [The witness] is confronted with an independent panel of specialized experts who usually possess vastly more experience than he.