Although the political factors that steered the bankruptcy debates away from an administrative, English-style system have never fully disappeared, serious movements to add a governmental overseer to bankruptcy emerged in both the 1930s and the 1970s. Of particular interest for present purposes is the earlier movement, which grew out of the Donovan and Thacher reports in the early 1930s. As we saw earlier, the Thacher report recommendations quickly found their way into Congress as the 1932 Hastings-Michener bill and were the subject of extensive hearings before the House and Senate Judiciary Committees. Although there was general agreement that bankruptcy practice in New York was corrupt, witnesses debated whether there were similar problems elsewhere and whether the administrative proposals were an appropriate solution.