_Policy Development_: A number of statutes contain provisions designed to satisfy congressional need for information as an aid in policy-making. A joint resolution of April 1934 directed the Federal Power Commission to investigate the rates charged by private and municipal corporations, prepare a compilation of the respective rate structures and submit the information requested to the Congress as quickly as possible. In making its compilation, the Commission was requested to submit any analysis it had made of the difference in rates charged between the privately owned and publicly owned utilities.[527] The Commission might require reports and testimony from private power officials and was given the right to examine and copy any documentary evidence relative to the sale of electrical energy or its service to consumers by any corporation engaged in the sale of electricity.[528] Collecting accurate and comprehensive information regarding the rates charged for electrical energy and its service to residential, rural, commercial and industrial consumers throughout the United States[529] was directed toward satisfying needs of both the agency and the Congress. Again in 1934, Congress established a Commission to make an immediate study and survey of aviation and its relation to the United States and to report to Congress its recommendations of a broad policy covering all phases of aviation and its significance to the United States.[530] The Railroad Retirement Board was directed to make specific recommendations for such changes in the retirement system created by the Railroad Retirement Act of 1934 as would assure the adequacy and permanency of the retirement system on the basis of its experience and all information and experience then available. For this purpose the Board was directed from time to time to make investigations and actuarial studies necessary to provide the fullest information practicable for the Board’s report and recommendation.[531] In the third year of World War II a Joint Committee on Organization of Congress was established. The Joint Committee was given the responsibility of preparing a full and complete study of the organization and operation of the Congress together with recommendations for improvement in its organization and operation. Congress sought from the study and report the means for strengthening the Legislative branch of the government by simplifying its operation, improving relations between the Congress and other branches of government, and enabling it to better meet its responsibilities under the Constitution.[532] While some of the more archaic rules under which the Congress operated, indeed to some extent still does operate, were long overdue for a complete overhaul, the more immediate stimulus to action arose from a candid and searching appraisal of Congress’ inability to stem the rising tide of government by the executive. The demands of emergency government of all kinds even before the Japanese