_The Legislative Veto_: The Reorganization Acts of 1939, 1945 and 1949[624] are also illustrations of the use of the simple and concurrent resolution to effect approval or disapproval of administrative action. All three Acts were designed to foster reorganization to enable the government to cope with emergency conditions, and the 1945 Act had the expressed purpose of facilitating orderly transition from war to peace.[625] The 1939 Act stipulated that the President’s reorganization plans were to take effect sixty calendar days after the date on which the plan was transmitted to the Congress, but only if during the sixty-day period the two Houses of Congress had not passed a concurrent resolution stating in substance that the Congress did not favor the reorganization plan. A similar provision was contained in the 1945 Act, and on July 15, 1946 Congress, by concurrent resolution, disapproved the President’s Reorganization Plan No. 1.[626] The 1949 Act provided for a veto of Reorganization Plans by one house. Under the latter, a reorganization plan becomes operative “upon the expiration of the first period of sixty calendar days, of continuous session of the Congress, following the date on which the plan is transmitted to it; but only if, between the date of transmittal and the expiration of such sixty-day period there has not been passed by either of the two Houses, by the affirmative vote of a majority of the authorized membership of that House, a resolution stating in substance that the House does not favor the reorganization plan.”[627] In a class by itself is the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950, by the terms of which the concurrent resolution may be employed to veto interstate civil defense compacts.[628] The consent of the Congress would be granted to each compact, after the termination of sixty calendar days of continuous session of the Congress from the time Congress first received notice of the compact. But Congressional consent could be denied anytime during the sixty day period if Congress passed a concurrent resolution stating that it did not approve the compact.