The Government Regulation, Competition, and Small Manufacturing Department material is arranged into three subseries: Committees and subcommittees, Internal files, and Subject files.

The Committees and subcommittees subseries contains mailings, meeting material, member lists, minutes, and agendas from various committees and subcommittees. The material is arranged by committee or subcommittee and then chronologically.

The Corporate Governance Subcommittee concerned itself with the Securities and Exchange Commission, legislation seeking to federalize corporate laws, imposing of federal chartering or minimum standards of corporate organization and structure, and legislation increasing levels of corporate exposure to criminal liabilities.

The Corporate Finance and Management Committee dealt primarily with corporate governance and issues affecting manufacturers, including activities of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), leveraged buyout and tender offer activities, reform of the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Commission Act (RICO), and the U.S. Sentencing Commission.

The FTC/Antitrust Subcommittee focused on the Federal Trade Commission activity in its promulgation of trade regulation rules and its antitrust activity, as well as the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division and antitrust legislation.

The Regulatory Reform Subcommittee examined ways to reduce the increasing burden of federal regulation of business. It sought to develop initiatives to reduce duplication, lower costs, and increase productivity through regulation reform, as well as develop a program to make the public aware of the problems associated with increased government regulation and the benefits of an open, competitive market place and to ease the compliance burden of existing regulatory agencies and procedures.

The Regulation and Competition Committee was responsible for legislation and regulations affecting antitrust laws, transportation, telecommunications policy, and the broad scope of regulatory issues. Under this committee were subcommittees dealing with competition, transportation, and telecommunications.

The Internal files subseries is composed predominately of correspondence from Government Regulation, Competition, and Small Manufacturing Department staff members. Also included in this subseries is material related to small and medium manufacturers leadership conferences held annually. The items document the planning, attendance, minutes, and meeting materials.

The Subject files subseries consists of files that were maintained by the Government Regulation, Competition, and Small Manufacturing Department on a variety of topics of interest to the department and likely used as reference. Materials include legislation, statements, testimony transcripts, correspondence, news clippings, and booklets. Several subjects are included, however, main issues are hostile takeovers, regulation reform, RICO, and U.S. Sentencing Commission.