Report of the Select Committee To Investigate Executive Agencies. Second Intermediate Report of the Select Committee To Investigate Executive Agencies, House of Representatives, Seventy-Eighth Congress First Session, Appointed Pursuant to H. Res. 102 ... November 15, 1943. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and Ordered to be Printed

This government document was produced in 1943 during the height of the Second World War. It represents the work of the Select Committee to Investigate Acts of Executive Agencies Beyond the Scope of Their Authority, a body formed by the House of Representatives to scrutinize the rapidly expanding bureaucratic reach of the Roosevelt administration. The report reflects a period of significant legislative tension, as Congress sought to reassert its oversight powers over the administrative state, which had grown exponentially through emergency executive orders and wartime regulations.

The publication is a product of the Government Printing Office, following standard federal documentation practices of the era. Its design is strictly utilitarian, featuring the formal typography and layout characteristic of congressional reports from the Seventy-Eighth Congress. As a public record, it was intended to inform members of the House and the interested public about the legal and jurisdictional findings regarding executive branch agency activities, serving as an primary source for researchers studying the constitutional friction between the legislative and executive branches during the mid-twentieth century.