You have our history a bit twister here, Marty E.  For example, you seem to be unaware that the commission (as formed by St. John XXIII) was originally intended to make recommendation to be discussed by the Council fathers.  It was +Paul VI who pulled it - upon extreme pressure from the Holy Office Prefect Cardinal Ottaviani - from the council agenda, stack the commission with clerics and conservative theologians with +Ottaviani as the commission Chair, and insist that the final report, WITH recommendations, be made solely to the pope.  If you are going to cite Church/Council history, please at least make certain your presentation of the facts is accurate.  Thanks!