Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government |
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... authority should assist in the solution of organization problems which will confront the Government during the next few years . A While reorganization is difficult under any method , progress toward it should not , in my judgment , be ...
... authority should assist in the solution of organization problems which will confront the Government during the next few years . A While reorganization is difficult under any method , progress toward it should not , in my judgment , be ...
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... authority and operating under this directive , the Committees on Expenditures , acting jointly , could themselves undertake the study contem- plated by S. 164. Such action would be justified by the definition of the jurisdic- tion and ...
... authority and operating under this directive , the Committees on Expenditures , acting jointly , could themselves undertake the study contem- plated by S. 164. Such action would be justified by the definition of the jurisdic- tion and ...
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... authority to create commissions . There is little doubt that Congress can engineer as broad an investigation as any royal commission . One difficulty with legislative commissions , however , is that in the United States they have ...
... authority to create commissions . There is little doubt that Congress can engineer as broad an investigation as any royal commission . One difficulty with legislative commissions , however , is that in the United States they have ...
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... authority on this question of economy and overlapping , stated recently , and I quote : The conclusion is inescapable that the cessation of hostilities has brought little reduction in the tremendous war expansion of the Government . It ...
... authority on this question of economy and overlapping , stated recently , and I quote : The conclusion is inescapable that the cessation of hostilities has brought little reduction in the tremendous war expansion of the Government . It ...
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... authority and say " yes " or " no . " That is the difficulty we are up against , and it is the policy of legislation and the type of legislative verbage that we use . Senator HOEY . I just want to make an observation . I agree ...
... authority and say " yes " or " no . " That is the difficulty we are up against , and it is the policy of legislation and the type of legislative verbage that we use . Senator HOEY . I just want to make an observation . I agree ...
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Accounting Office action agency appointed apportionment Appropriations Committee audit authority basis Brookings Institution Budget Bureau Byrd CHAIRMAN Civil Service Commission on Organization COMMISSION SEC committee of Congress Committees on Expenditures Comptroller General's confidential continuing course curtailing deficiency duplication effective enacted estimates executive agencies executive branch Executive Departments Federal field fiscal functions and activities funds going Government hearings HENRY CABOT LODGE House investigation LAWTON legislation legislative reorganization act Maritime Commission matter ment methods mittee Navy operation organizational studies Pay Act perform personnel present President's proposed purpose question recom recommendations record Reorganization Act responsibility Robert Heller royal commission Senator Aiken Senator FERGUSON interposing Senator HICKENLOOPER Senator HOEY Senator LODGE Senator O'CONOR Senator ROBERTSON Senator THYE specific spoils system staff statement submitted supervision survey Taft commission thing tion understand undertake veterans
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Page 4 - Commission, may conduct hearings. (f) Members of Congress who are members of the Commission shall serve without compensation in addition to that received for their services as Members of Congress ; but they shall be reimbursed for travel, subsistence, and other necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of the duties vested in the Commission.
Page 5 - POWERS OF THE COMMISSION SEC. 10. (a) HEARINGS AND SESSIONS. — The Commission or, on the authorization of the Commission, any subcommittee or member thereof, may, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act, hold such hearings and sit and act at such times and places...
Page 3 - ... (2) eliminating duplication and overlapping of services, activities, and functions; (3) consolidating services, activities, and functions of a similar nature; (4) abolishing services, activities, and functions not necessary to the efficient conduct of government...
Page 4 - Any vacancy in the Commission shall not affect its powers, but shall be filled in the same manner in which the original appointment was made.
Page 4 - The Commission shall have power to appoint and fix the compensation of such personnel as it deems advisable, in accordance with the provisions of the civil service laws and the Classification Act of 1949, as amended.
Page 59 - The Commission is authorized to secure directly from any executive department, bureau, agency, board, commission, office, independent establishment, or instrumentality information, suggestions, estimates, and statistics for the purpose of this Act; and each such department, bureau, agency, board, commission, office, establishment, or instrumentality is authorized and directed to furnish...
Page 4 - Congress who are members of the Commission shall serve without compensation in addition to that received for their services as Members of Congress; but they shall be reimbursed for travel, subsistence, and other necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of the duties vested in the Commission.
Page 5 - ... from any executive department, bureau, agency, board, commission, office, independent establishment, or instrumentality information suggestions, estimates, and statistics for the purpose of this Act; and each such department, bureau, agency, board, commission, office, establishment, or instrumentality is authorized and directed to furnish such information, suggestions, estimates, and statistics directly to the Commission, upon request made by the Chairman or Vice Chairman.
Page 4 - The members from private life shall each receive $100 per diem when engaged in the actual performance of duties vested in the Commission, plus reimbursement for travel, subsistence, and other necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of such duties.
Page 3 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, DECLARATION OF POLICY SECTION 1 . It is hereby declared to be the policy of...