Like the farmer, the small businessman receives his full share of congressional consideration. For the sake of the nation and the small businessman, the Small Business Concerns Mobilization Act of June 1942 sought to integrate him into the war effort.[544] It created the Smaller War Plants Corporation and included among its functions that of making studies with respect to the means by which small business concerns may be supplied with essential raw materials and receive fair and reasonable treatment from all Government departments without interfering with the efficiency of the war-production program.[545] In liquidating the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in July 1953, Congress substituted for it the Small Business Administration, which, among other things, was to obtain information as to methods and practices which Government prime contractors utilize in letting subcontracts and to take action to encourage the letting of subcontracts by prime contractors to small-business concerns.[546] It was also to make a complete inventory of all productive facilities of small-business concerns which could be used for war or defense production, or to arrange for the inventory to be made by any other governmental agency which has the facilities.[547] Further, it could obtain from suppliers of materials information pertaining to the method of filling orders and the bases for allocating their supply, whenever it appeared that any small business is unable to obtain materials from its normal sources for war or defense production. And it was directed to make studies and recommendations to the appropriate federal agencies to insure a fair and equitable share of materials, supplies, and equipment to small-business concerns in order to effectuate war or defense programs.[548] On the other hand, as a condition to securing loans from the Administration, small business concerns must certify to it the names of any attorneys, agents, or other persons engaged by or on behalf of such business enterprise for the purpose of expediting applications made to the Administration for assistance of any sort, and the fees paid or to be paid to any such persons.[549] _Accusatory Action_: The two items of legislation involved here--one a joint resolution, the other a concurrent resolution--extended the statute of limitations as it affected “the possible prosecution of any person or persons, military or civilian, connected with the Pearl Harbor catastrophe of December 7, 1941”[550] and created a joint congressional committee to make a full and complete investigation of the facts relating to the events and circumstances leading up to or following the attack made by Japanese armed forces upon Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.[551]