To Provide for Reorganizing Agencies of the Government, and for Other Purposes: Hearings Before the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, House of Representatives, Seventy-ninth Congress, First Session, on H. R. 3325, a Bill to Provide for Reorganizing Agencies of the Government, and for Other Purposes. September 4 and 5, 1945 ... |
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... Accounting Office , Interstate Commerce Com- mission , Securities and Exchange Commission , The Tax Court of the United States , United States Employees ' Compensation Commission , United States Maritime Commission , United States ...
... Accounting Office , Interstate Commerce Com- mission , Securities and Exchange Commission , The Tax Court of the United States , United States Employees ' Compensation Commission , United States Maritime Commission , United States ...
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... office , officer , authority , administration , or other establishment in the executive branch of the Government , except the General Accounting Office , and means also the municipal government of the District of Columbia . ( b ) The ...
... office , officer , authority , administration , or other establishment in the executive branch of the Government , except the General Accounting Office , and means also the municipal government of the District of Columbia . ( b ) The ...
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... Accounting Office is named as one of the agencies which would be excepted from the provisions of the bill . As the bill applies only to the executive branch of the Government this is inconsistent with the many and unanimous ...
... Accounting Office is named as one of the agencies which would be excepted from the provisions of the bill . As the bill applies only to the executive branch of the Government this is inconsistent with the many and unanimous ...
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... Accounting Office an arm of the Congress and not of the exe- cutive department ? Mr. SMITH . Yes . I assume that is the case . The CHAIRMAN . What about the quasi - judicial and quasi - legislative agencies that have been created by the ...
... Accounting Office an arm of the Congress and not of the exe- cutive department ? Mr. SMITH . Yes . I assume that is the case . The CHAIRMAN . What about the quasi - judicial and quasi - legislative agencies that have been created by the ...
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... Accounting Office . That is exempt under S. 1120 . The CHAIRMAN . That is right . I do not have any further ques- tions at this time . Mr. COCHRAN . Would you favor the President's being given the power to create a department if he so ...
... Accounting Office . That is exempt under S. 1120 . The CHAIRMAN . That is right . I do not have any further ques- tions at this time . Mr. COCHRAN . Would you favor the President's being given the power to create a department if he so ...
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abolish functions abolition of functions Accounting Office action administration amended authority believe BENDER Budget Bureau CARTER MANASCO CHAIRMAN changes Chief Executive CHURCH Civil Aeronautics Board Civil Service cloture COCHRAN Committee on Expenditures congressional consolidation created disapproval duties economy effect efficiency eliminate ELLIS enactment ERVIN executive branch executive department Executive Order exemptions expiration favor Federal Federal Security Agency Federal Trade Commission going GOSSETT Government hearings House bill House of Congress Interstate Commerce Commission JUDD language legislation Manasco bill Maritime Commission matter ment National necessary number of agencies opinion organization personnel Powers Act President's proposed provide for reorganizing purposes quasi-judicial quasi-judicial bodies question RANDOLPH reason recommendations reorganiza Reorganization Act reorganization plan reorganizing agencies repeal RESA respect RICH Secretary Senate bill SMITH statement submit things tion transfer United vote War Powers Act WARREN Washington WHITTINGTON
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Page 30 - Government; (3 ) to increase the efficiency of the operations of the Government to the fullest extent practicable...
Page 58 - Government agency" means any executive department, commission, independent establishment, corporation wholly or partly owned by the United States which is an instrumentality of the United States, board, bureau, division, service, office, officer, authority, administration, or other establishment, in the executive branch of the Government. (c) The term "person...
Page 128 - The commission is to be non-partisan; and it must, from the very nature of its duties, act with entire impartiality. It is charged with the enforcement of no policy except the policy of the law.
Page 7 - ... effect, showing a necessity for a survival of such suit, action, or other proceeding to obtain a settlement of the questions involved, allow the same to be maintained by or against the...
Page 86 - President is hereby authorized to make such redistribution of functions among executive agencies as he may deem necessary, including any functions, duties, and powers hitherto by law conferred upon any executive department, commission, bureau, agency, office, or officer, in such manner as in his judgment shall seem best fitted to carry out the purposes of this Act...
Page 22 - Now THEREFORE, By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, and Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy...
Page 133 - ... organization, activities, and methods of business of such departments or establishments, (2) the appropriations therefor, (3) the assignment of particular activities to particular services, or (4) the regrouping of services. The results of such study shall be embodied in a report or reports to the President, who may transmit to Congress such report or reports or any part thereof with his recommendations on the matters covered thereby.
Page 125 - ... to exercise its judgment without the leave or hindrance of any other official or any department of the government.
Page 5 - Government; and (6) to eliminate overlapping and duplication of effort. (b) The Congress declares that the public interest demands the carrying out of the purposes specified in subsection (a) and that such purposes may be accomplished in great measure by proceeding under the provisions of this Act, and can be accomplished more speedily thereby than by the enactment of specific legislation.
Page 86 - Act, and to this end is authorized to make such regulations and to issue such orders as he may deem necessary...