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The PSI is sometimes thought of as the successor to the Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program, 1941-1948, also known as the "Truman Committee".  The Truman Committee under then Senator [[Harry S. Truman]] established a process and precedent whereby investigators could obtain copies of an individual or other entities tax return. When the Truman Committee was terminated in 1948, the Investigations Subcommittee of the Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departments continued that committee's investigation of war contracts and procurement of the F-11, the so-called "flying boat". The subcommittee also assumed responsibility for the records of the Truman Committee.

The PSI is sometimes thought of as the successor to the Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program, 1941-1948, also known as the "Truman Committee".  The Truman Committee under then Senator [[Harry S. Truman]] established a process and precedent whereby investigators could obtain copies of an individual or other entities tax return. When the Truman Committee was terminated in 1948, the Investigations Subcommittee of the Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departments continued that committee's investigation of war contracts and procurement of the F-11, the so-called "flying boat". The subcommittee also assumed responsibility for the records of the Truman Committee.

Under the chairmanship of [[Homer Ferguson]] of Michigan (1948) and [[Clyde Hoey]] of [[North Carolina]] (1949-1952), the Investigations Subcommittee of the Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departments held hearings on such matters as [[International Trade Administration|export control]] violations, for which Soviet spy [[William Remington]] was called in to testify; the trial of [[Nazism|Nazi]] [[war crime|war criminal]] [[Ilse Koch]]; and the [[Mississippi]] [[Democratic Party]]'s sale of postal jobs, which Mississippians from rural areas attested to purchasing.  A much larger scandal erupted with the "''5 percenters''," so-called because these men, including Presidential aide Gen. Harry Vaughan, were accused of charging a 5-percent commission for their influence in securing government contracts.  A legislative reform as a result of the hearings was a restriction of one year after leaving government employment before an attorney could practice law again before the government.

Under the chairmanship of [[Homer Ferguson]] of Michigan (1948) and [[Clyde Hoey]] of [[North Carolina]] (1949-1952), the Investigations Subcommittee of the Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departments held hearings on such matters as export control violations, for which Soviet spy [[William Remington]] was called in to testify; the trial of [[Nazism|Nazi]] [[war crime|war criminal]] [[Ilse Koch]]; and the [[Mississippi]] [[Democratic Party]]'s sale of postal jobs, which Mississippians from rural areas attested to purchasing.  A much larger scandal erupted with the "''5 percenters''," so-called because these men, including Presidential aide Gen. Harry Vaughan, were accused of charging a 5-percent commission for their influence in securing government contracts.  A legislative reform as a result of the hearings was a restriction of one year after leaving government employment before an attorney could practice law again before the government.

==McCarthy==

==McCarthy==